Player Character List
- Tucloc Hedat - The Spooky. Town weirdo with premonitions and a secret dark bargain.
- Felix Fraunhofer - The Expert. Town Librarian with a secret haven in the backroom.
- Marty Mikaelsverd - The Divine. Neurotic pothead with his weird ass dog.
- Jack Dalton - The Mundane. DJ Qualls with a broken bicycle.
- Juniper Jones - The Monstrous. Party girl who doesn't know she's a faerie.
- Peter Lowell - The Wronged. Hunter with a bloodthirst for devils.
Mystery
"Special Snowflake" by Sean Clancy from the Tome of Mysteries.
An alien satellite has crashed near a snow machine at at a remote ski resort. Hijacking the snow machine system, the satellite has created the Squall, a killer snowstorm. The Squall acts like the classic horror icon the Blob, but it thrives in the cold and avoids heat.
- We all decided we need a vacation, so we went skiing!
- There’s a weird loud bang and snow and rock goes up in the air. Felix skied toward it but runs into some blond girl, knocking her over. Turns out it’s Victoria Price, and she starts heading to look for her cameraman. Juniper takes out her phone and sends a message to the group chat to make sure everyone starts heading toward it and gets on the quad chairlift. Reg and Marty jump onto a different chairlift heading that way. Tucloc was on the beginner chairlift and he gets off to investigate. We all meet up at the snowmaking center.
- We apparently feel a very special kind of cold. Snow falls and vision diminishes to about 5 feet, and Juniper is worried about everyone getting separated. Luckily, Felix finds some 550 cord that we use to hold onto each other. Before we go off, Tucloc makes a call to his handler. Handler isn’t very happy with his previous performance, he didn’t get any truly useful information.
- Marching Order: Diamond with Felix in front, Juniper on the left, Marty on the right, and Tucloc in the back.
- All of us but Marty see some WEIRD creatures in the edge of our vision. They’re the same color of the snow but in odd shapes and moving in very strange ways
- Marty gets hit with something because he didn’t want to wear his armor, “AHHHH The gremlins got me!!” Tucloc turns and sees a crystalline creature made of ice and snow with pieces of twigs sharpened to a point at the end of what looks like it might be limbs?
- It’s only a lil guy tho, just a lil dude (3-4 ft tall). Tucloc raptor screams in our general directions, and then telekinesis’d the one that attacked Marty.
- Juniper tries to hit the thing that attacked Marty with her knife, but force pushes it instead. (oops)
- Felix asks for Marty’s lighter - Marty goes to find it and Felix tells him that he doesn’t need it but that Marty should start setting things on fire.
- The reason Felix didn’t need it is because he just so happened to have an acetylene torch in his bag, NEAT. Marty tries to set the things on fire and loses his lighter in the process. However, one creature goes down.
- Editorial Note: To recap, there are 3 monsters left - one with 2 Legz, one that moves like a weird snow-snail, and one we’ll just call Crab Olaf.
- 2 Legz charges Marty and Tucloc. It opens its maw and has jagged icicle-like teeth, which it uses to bite Tucloc.
- Snail comes after Juniper, slashing at her with it’s twig-like limbs.
- Crab Olaf takes on Felix with his very pointy icicle thing, because it doesn’t have limbs like the others.
- Marty starts shooing away 2 Legz and it works pretty well.
- 2 Legz dies and its teeth dissolved into a puddle, that we somehow notice even in the snow.
- Tucloc goes after slug, burning its limbs. Felix melts the hell out of Crab Olaf with his torch. Juniper takes a big chunk out of slug, prompting it to attempt an escape. Tucloc takes care of that though.
- Meanwhile, back at the lodge… lots of screams
- Juniper turns to run toward the screams. Marty locates his lighter and makes a new, stinky flaming weapon. Everyone else follows.
- More weird snowmen, doing weird things. A couple building something, one chasing a family around the slopes.
- Tucloc tells Felix and Juniper to go after the snowmen, while he and Marty save the family.
- Felix tries to set Juniper’s knife on fire with EVOO he found in his bag, and somehow it works?? She uses it to melt one of the creatures building a snowman, causing the other one to retaliate in fear.
- Marty and Tucloc run toward the creature terrorizing the family. Marty gives Tucloc a healing shoulder massage.Tucloc kills the creature while Marty protects him, and the family just keeps screaming.
- Juniper goes to attack the remaining creature. There was still a little flame on her big knife, but instead of doing much real damage she loses her knife. Felix runs in wildly waving his torch, narrowly missing Juniper and killing the creature.
- Juniper pees just a little
- Marty and Tucloc tell the family to follow them back toward the lodge, and they meet up with the other 2 party members on the way. Marty notices that a giant wall of snow was breaking through the treeline.
- This isn’t a regular snow, this is advanced snow.
- Marty gives Tucloc another massage.
- Time to head toward the snowmaking center. Juniper stays on the perimeter keeping an eye out, noticing that there are lots of random trails that look suspiciously like they came from snow creatures.
- How do we feel about arson? Great!!
- Tucloc herds the family toward the lodge. Marty says he has a plan (oh god), we just need his sword and the rope. There’s a montage where he reaches into his chest and pulls out his sword, and we can see that his extra ribs kinda form into the handle (drama queen). He asks Juniper and Felix to wrap the rope around one side of a tree while he smacks at it until it falls onto the metal building.
- Promising.
- As Tucloc and the family get close to the lodge, they see a woman and a cameraman. The woman introduces herself as Victoria Price and shoves a mic in his face asking what’s going on. He pretends not to speak english but eventually caves - he keeps trying to blow her off but she calls him on his buillshit.
- He essentially directs her to the snowmaking area, continuing to play dumb, and she turns to head off in that direction. Tragically, she is unable to be stalled by Tucloc’s podcast discussion because she doesn’t truly believe. She sends Bob (the cameraman) to keep going and ignores Tucloc’s further attempts at stopping her.
- SNOWMAKING CENTER - trees fall down and burn buildings, so Juniper preps her knife and a defensive stance.
- 4 new creatures enter the play, plus that weird bad snow is still coming.
- Everyone is surprised Marty’s plan worked, but Marty (and Chris, if we’re being honest here) is jubilant that his montage plan worked.
- 2 of the 4 beings moved in our direction, a Roly Poly, which attacks Juniper, and a Tripod, which attacks Felix. The other 2 beings head toward the Bad Snow:™:.
- Marty bumps theRoly Poly into the Tripod.
- Felix, FINISH HIM (roly poly down).
- Victoria finally arrives with Bob and Tucloc is trailing behind.
- Juniper sees that the building fire is mostly put out and the scary snow is destabilized. Lucky for us, the Tripod is slowly melting. She decides to check out the building.
- She finds some weird cone shaped objects sticking out of the top of charred remains of artificial snowmakers. It seems...other worldly, so she keeps it for further study.
- Marty gazes proudly at his burnt tree, even pointing out to Victoria that we were the ones that burned down the building. She keeps looking at his sword because it’s just out. Marty’s famous magic tricks...he shoved it in his own back this time.
- Victoria asks the group if they know anything about what’s going on. Juniper says that Victoria’s guess is good as hers. Felix puts some of the melted snow in a vial to take back to the haven.
- Juniper plays dumb and asks Victoria about what the monsters looked like. Juniper gets her phone number on a business card.
- Tucloc is winking at Juniper but she flat out ignores that.
- Juniper grabs some more of the weird metal, and everyone goes back to the condos.
End of Mystery Questions
- Did we conclude the mystery? Kinda
- Did we save someone? Yes
- Did we learn something new? Yes
- Did we learn something about the hunters? Yes. (Felix carries a lot of weird shit in his bag.)