When last we left our adventurers they were facing down a mechanical army. Lots of things happened with the deranged individual known as D'Arlene.
After an assault on the robot factory went wrong and Butch was captured, D'Arlene spent time 'enhancing' Butch and grafted his signature weapon onto his arm.
A Ley Line Walker named Quill showed up in time to aide everyone with a rescue mission and Wraith dropped from the sky belly flopping into the soft earth to disable D'Arlene and that is when things went more sideways.
With D'Arlene captured and not able to control her robot minions, they went a bit crazy and assaulted Bean town. With the help of Lord Grevicus, a cyber knight with an attitude, they manged to defend bean town without any serious injuries. Amaoreyla took D'Arlene into the woods and no one ever saw either one of them again.
With the healing red fungus in hand, they headed back to Dinotours, with Ray staying at Ft. Hawkins to enter into wilderness scout training.
When they arrived back, there was a meeting with some shady people of the CS who wanted to help Dinotours wipe its bad record clean by offering them a mission to capture an dangerous person named Toombs.
With two new companions the whole crew headed south to go find this Toombs person. There was a crawl through the MARTA tunnels involving metal crustaceans and rat men. One of the new companions, a some what sociopathic weird scientist, ended up killing a rat companion after there was a run in with some barbarians that Florida man punked in a most epic way. This drew the Ire of Quill the Ley line walker, but no one worried too much about that.
Later they headed further south chasing slavers and encountered a place that looked like teeth where they set up a holographic projection of Florida Man doing his best swamp thing impersonation to try and scare some spluggorth slavers away. They ended up having to fight the slavers and Grevicus showed us how well a cyber knight can kill ALL the things.
After that they headed further south and ran into some kind of unmanned Golden Age delivery service which robbed them of everything they held dear and then tried to install them onto an island where they would be customers. There was a group of CS scouts and a boat and bad things happened. Long story short, they left the place a smoldering ruin and continued south with a pile of odd ball new gear.
They found themselves next at 'The Wal' where there were barbarians and ghosts galore along with some kind of sentient cactus. As is custom with our adventurers a fight ensued and Butch and Florida man got a chance to show us what good gardeners they are (or at least hedge trimmers) while Grevicus learned that smashing through a load bearing wall can have consequences up to and including being buried in the piece of the roof that the wall was holding up.
They continued south and found them selves in the ruins of old Orlando. Slavers and pirates had taken the walled city and were having a field day. There was some kind of arena where gladiatorial fighting took place and once again long story short, we gained a Burster named Jayden and old Orlando lost a slave pen. Also Florida man became convinced that he was neigh indestructible and champion of the world as he managed to walk his way right into the middle of a fight and proceeded to show us that he is called a crazy for a reason.
They followed some leads on Toombs to an old Disney building after Quill spent some time agitating tentacle faced monstrosities and flying around Ley lines. Here is where we learned that D'Arlene was from this area, or was just using tech from the area, as Butch was identified as Samantha Brownstone due to his cybernetic implants.
Samantha was given clearance to go through the building but Toombs had been through ahead of them with plenty of time to play a good rousing game of Death Trap dungeon. Lots of once again dead bodies and more flaming debris later, they were trying to make their way into one of the lower city domes. Jayden proved that with enough fire, even a fire blast door has limits.
When they found their way into a mall of some kind there was another protracted fight with flaming monsters previously dead things and a giant graboid monster that burrowed up swallowed Florida man and then had an exceptionally bad day as he cut his way back out.
Everyone was forced to dive into the dead worm and then make their way into a subway since they were about to be suffocated by a fire suppression system, because well our adventurers just can't help themselves from blowing everything up.
They found their way into another death trap dungeon, this time with little gobliny monsters, a haunted house and some kind of were wolves. Death destruction ensued and they went further down.
Eventually they found themselves in the belly of the old Disney dome where there were some kind of monsters and demons, dudes who were super inbred and throwing safety foam everywhere and of course Toombs.
They apparently just walked through the front door and just as Toombs decided to start to monologue and attempt to turn into a dragon, they punched him in the face and put a magic sucking worm up his butt.
When Jayde, Jarred, Errol and Grevicus arrived, Jarred and Jayden proceeded to mutilate the unconscious Toomb's legs and then they took an escape pod to the surface while the dome appeared to become seriously riddled with untamed and unchained monsters.
When they hit the surface, Errol took Toombs off to an island while the other waited to be captured by pirates who wanted to trade them to slavers to stop some kind of war.
In the belly of a boat, all tied up, Grevicus provided a distraction while Quill, Jarred, and Florida man un-cuffed themselves and then they made all the bad people regret their life choices. Florida man went up on deck and killed everything that moved while Jarred, with Quill's help went through the wall and disabled the boat. Then with some meeseeks took control of the boat. Quill provided a target and they all teleported out into the walls of Old Orlando while the Meeseeks continued on the path the boat was going and instead of stopping a war, started one.
Eventually they headed back to mainland, collected Ray and headed 'home'. They traded Toombs and then things went on as normal for a few months.
Kage and Lexington, now having a stable and established settlement, adopted three of the children that were recovered from the village to the north west forma long time ago. Meanwhile, Jayden joined Florida man to become the local entertainment while Quill and Grevicus found ways that they could help out.
One day there was a meeting called by Kage to explain a situation. Apparently the adopted children were being claimed by a norther tribe call the Thurmondites and in order to avoid war, peace needed to be discussed with the Kopar acting as a mediator. Kage was going alone with the children and a Kopar envoy so as to avoid having to shut the park down and also because they did not want to start out with a threatening posture. Plus, the Thurmondites, though assertive, were not openly hostile.
Kage headed out, and Lexington wanted to immediately follow. Ray and Butch talked him out of it, with Butch reminding him that leaving Dinotours unprotected would be a bad idea and Ray reminding him that they should trust Kage.
The next couple of days, with Lexington out of sorts, Grevicus had to start running some safari hunts which lead to Butch having to explain that it is OK to let some tourists not come back. Grevicus was not having any of this which lead to the establishment gaining another pet named danger noodle.
Quill became increasingly agitated over the first day and a half while staring at the sky until he eventually had a hunch and just booked it off north to try and hit the Ley lines to follow something East.
Quill eventually observed some kind of large floating thing that the flying thing he was tracking rendezvoused with and then flew off further East toward where Kage was supposed to be having his meeting. Then Quill saw a HUGE forest fire and decided it was time to head home and sound the alarm.
When he returned to Dinotours, he alerted everyone before collapsing from exhaustion. Lexington apparently ready for this, grabbed a bag ans started to stop out into the woods. Everyone made some hasty preparations and followed with Butch paying Aaron the runner from the CS to drive him West. They picked up mounts at Kopar and continued to the meeting site with a bit of tired a day and a half later.
Butch had been there for about a day an spent a lot of time examining the dead and the burned clearing. Everyone took a stab at trying to figure out what had happened and unfortunately no one could figure out any more than there was a fight a fire and that Kage and the kids were not among the dead.
A little upset and with determination, they rested and prepared to head West into the Steel Tree Forest.
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