First Adventures of Rolls for Initiative

 We just completed our second adventure of the campaign so it seems about right to do a little write up on what shenanigans my players have been getting up to!

In our first adventure our intrepid band of chucklefucks met up in the town of Scoville on the north eastern tip of Stahlfeld, hoping to cash in on the great Lunch Rush as ancient preserved foodstuffs and industrial grade cooking equipment was dug up from ancient Gleysian ruins.

Our band includes Breadbot, the biomechanoid factotum who desires only one thing: to make bread. Marshmallow “Marsh” Fluff, the very hungry Raineko Raider and inventor who manages to turn everything he attempts to invent into a weapon or armor of some sort. Vix Cane, the Tenebrate Murder Princess who experienced a terrible and undefined wheat related tragedy who takes great joy in the reaping of said accursed grains. Grog, the Gruun Battle Princess and the biggest and bestest of boys. Flurp, the Goblin Sage who . . . y’know, nobody’s quite sure where he came from, but he seems to live in Breadbot’s backpack!

Their first quest was to prove themselves to Ma Boulder in order to inherit the “sweet” old woman’s bakery as she retired from the riches of the great Lunch Rush! To do this they were forced to go into the ruins the town was built upon to retrieve ash bronze heating coils for her broken Gleysian oven. After battling delicious sugar goops, and fending off irate Gleysian robots, the party found the coils in the claws of a robotic drone. Luckily, Grog was able to convince it to part with the coils on the promise of not telling its “manager” that they were out of place.

The episode closed out on Marsh and Flurp working hard to install the coils in their new oven, creating a huge burst of fire and smoke billowing out the windows as Ma Boulder left in floral shirt and large sunglasses cackling all the way to the beach. Thus was the Rolls for Initiative bakery opened!

Over the next week the bakers spent their downtime bonding and making friends. That is to say, Vix and Grog became close friends, while Flurp and Marsh were only able to achieve the power of friendship due to Flurp’s skill at making the repugnant palatable. Meanwhile Breadbot managed to make a friend. Literally. A terrible baking accident generated a talking “Pure-Bread” dog, which now serves as the bakery’s mascot.

 
After a week of business, getting by turning the remains of those sugar goops into delicious jelly donuts while their oven was repaired, the bakers suffered the indignity of thieves attempting to run off with their rolls! These thieves turned out to be part of a concerted effort by the Salty Dogs, a band of mundymutt pirates who had come to ransack the town of its delicious food.

After Vix managed to stare two of them down, they convinced their captured pirates to lead them to their ship. Motivated as much by personal insult at petty theft, as by the 100 coin reward promised by Sheriff Clif Mesa.

They fight their way onto the ship making use of Flurp’s mana bomb, then take out a sniper in the crow’s nest on the way up! Once there they, with a few mishaps, lower Flurp down to a port hole after Bredbot detected more lifeforms below them. Flurp blasts half the pirates below the deck, then the party uses the choke point as the pirates come up to fight, in order to take them out two at a time. This opens up the way to confront the captain, the Great Bane! Sadly the captain goes down easily even with his attempted ambush and soon the party is looking to cash in their reward, find a use for the stolen food, and find a seller for the old pirate ship.

The Great Bane!

 
After having it appraised the party sends Vix and Grog to sell the ship to the nearby Meowsular Butcher’s shop, the buff Raineko accepting the ship as a way to get more fish. Vix is sufficiently enamored with the quiet muscle-neko to spend the next week off time becoming ‘Bros’! Meanwhile Marsh attempts to make oven mitts for their industrial grade oven, instead creating a full body hazmat suit allowing him to walk in. Flurp attempts to form a friendship with the local sheriff but is met only with “Who are you again?” Meanwhile Breadbot attempts and fails to make bread, it’s attempts thwarted as Grog performs acts of unilateral friendship ensuring their closeness for all of time whether Breadbot wants it or not. Which is to say Grog succeeded in a socializing roll, defeating Breadbot’s chances of spending the off time doing baking, much to the biomechanoid's chagrin and the player’s amusement.

Shared by Grog's player after the game!