Message:Was a nice conclusion, nearly continuous combat rolling. No need (for me) to over think the motives. Still hazy on event order, but here goes:
Babbajeaan is of course the hero and narrator of the story.
We fought a vampire blonde, causing her to vanish. She ended up riding invisible on the roof of our car to the coast. I tried to welcome her to the group. She attacked first. We fought her again. She spellbound me for one second then died by double barrel fury
Boris orders scrambled eggs in a place serving nada but raw fish. No one needs to eat with vampyres about!
We met a boy who lost his girlfriend. We fought two Russian agents posing as Joe and John from Texas. Two more dead by shotgun. One guy's ocean barnacle covered gun exploded. Old Scholar with sword-cane refuses to use the many pistols we hand him. Hotel clerk accepted my credentials as an agent of Belgium Monarch.
We fought minions and frog demons at docks. Yes, frog demons. I saw them as unkind Manatee. A few minor wounds. We could not save the kid's girl. She drown and eaten.
Old woman that spits started gnawing on dead bodies. No can do, Scarlet. Then we fought her, a daywalker vampire, who power punched me from twenty feet away for a couple of bruised ribs. No can do, Scarlet. Eat raw fish not corpses. She vanishes after a pounding of shotgun blasts.
Back again at docks we fought first a half dozen men trying to destroy the boats we need to get to the river ritual. More dead by shotgun. I think I got a dozen men notched. rest need to just cower in car. Never saw more knives thrown and stuck in ceilings in my life.
(Great rolls by everyone. Team kills, actually.)
Then out to the Russian Yacht. I get hit with bottle and KO. Trotsky and Stalin must die. Onboard is Ann, a lady we all love. She's a witch. Mike's Scholar tried to slay her. Something he mumbled about being a hater of all women, and she was going to raise the Winter God for endless night. He needs to stop mumbling and learn to fire a pistol. No, Mike's Scholar is dead. Henri took offense that the scholar's first act was misogyny. Henri kills Scholar.
Stalin killed Trotsky. Did us a favor, even as Henri says he was to protect the man. Twice failed warmed over borscht. Boris killed Henri. Winter god rises. God eats Stalin. Ann races to River God. I make Con roll up from KO and shotgun girl. I loved her too, but as a papist I can't abide pagan gods. First commandment and all. A second river goddess rises. Come on now, why that? What one was not enough. Ann died for nothing as the River God already had a wife. It's just cruel to tease her that way. She dead; god all live.
What's a highly decorated servant of the Belgium monarch to do, except regret he can't go off to serve in the Congo. I ready for death.
Boris has magic shield spell. Really, only now you tell us? I escape in rowboat with the Georgian. Looks like Winter is eternal now. All the life most likely gonna die. My last act may be shoot the Georgia, except he says he hates commies as much as I do. We'll need to work on his Eastern Orthodox thingy. Roman Catholic just makes more sense in a world of Vamps and Pagan Gods and fish men, endless winter and people who favor a sword-cane over a FN Model 1910.
Now, I get to have a final drink and celebrate the harvest festival with a real living demigod.
Ref can correct me all she wants. I remember the parts as I remember.
Yours,
IronRed
06-May-2021