The Crab Pots of Dr. Kraken or Sky High Beach Party

Seeking a nemesis for Roy, schedule an event on the beaches of the great lake

either the groups has decided to invade the beach on a early summer weekend, or there is a class trip of some sort.  End of year trip?

Meanwhile, Dr. Kraken is building his crypto-krabs deep in the lake,

Opening, crabby intro, something getting eaten?

School scenes, gym - softball
mad science - invasive species
hero support -
history -

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Dr Kraken
and the Crab Pots of Doom!

at the beach, crabs start coming out of the sea, larger and larger they get, until a giant crab ridden by Dr Kraken emerges!  They attack the beach, sending bathers running in all directions.

play up secret id's - they have to find a safe way to change (behind an umbrella, in the surf, etc)

squid head man - extra limbs
jelly fish man - all long reach attacks the NND stun
seahorse guy - movement
moray - spitter
crabs - grabby - pinchy


Maybe some/all get napped, wake up in the crab pots?
if only the hero's get kidnapped, then they won't have to hide their secrets anymore, maybe fun if one or two normals get napped?

possible classes
ms - microbial creatures in water / ocean - see the diff?
hero support - secret id's
history - end of the ancients - move to mideval - Roman times?  Egyptian?
modern history - little s -
gym - movement in other media, swim, fly, walk, walk in dark, swim while flashed


scene, start on beach?
play for a while, crabs sighted

then flash back to school day
 what foreshadowing??
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Crab Pots of Dr Kraken

draft scene list

Act 1 on the Beach

scene 1

backdrop is the damaged ship  The Snail?
 damaged in a seas/hero battle, it's been turned into a snack shop/shower house

light surf, big lake

City Skyline is the background

Open with students on the beach, enjoying the summer day.

--What are you doing on the beach?

Scene 2a the attack

minor monsters begin to come out of the light surf, threatening the normals

PC's must hide their secret identities

Scene 2b hide your face!
each pc must do a quick change, even rajive needs to find a place to get out of view

then try to save each normal that has been grabbed or threatened

Scene 2c Dr Kraken
 finally the giant uber-crab appears, with a bubble holding the Infamous Dr Kraken!!
   Presence attack!

some will be stunned (do the math ahead of time for each!)

crabs us that time to grab some of them, others probably too.

Act 2
FLASHBACK?!

to earlier in the week, so they get some school time in.



Act 3
FLASHBACK ... FORWARD!

Into the Crab Pots!

wake up captured
escape from pods (you are supers after all)
sneak around underground lair of Dr Kraken
   what stuff should they encounter?

follow trail to where one (or more) of them are being transformed into crabs!)

Dr Kraken gloats
  minons surround him

Fight!

Red Star Sept 2012 - Siege of Whitewater

There is an ongoing party as the group returns the dwarven children to the dwarves, they are joined by an elf army, then a dwarf army.  There is a lot of paryting.  Soon the PC"s realise they have been away a whole month and they need to get back to their County.

As the two armies travel west they start to irritate each other, and the party ends around the swamp mine site, as the two groups remember how close they were to war and how deep their differences are.

The PC's struggel to keep the armies moving together and at any good pace, but eventually leave Eberk and Loughlan as guides and move faster.  two elves keep up with them, and 4 dwarves try to keep up, but end up as a middle force ahead of the main party, but not as fast as those elves and the driven PC's.

The Castle is beseiged by a large Red Star army.

.... no flashback.

Army estimates, thousands of zombies, 1/2 that of gobilns, hundreds of humans/dwarves/elves, and dozens of trolls.

The trolls want to attack now, best fighting that way.  The Goblins want to starve out the castle, since they are doing most of the front line fighting.  The zombies are useless until the walls are breached since they don't climb ladders well.  The humans will follow their leaders and just want it over and to get their share of the loot.  The zombies .... "brains"

Safira wearing the hat of disguise and Thayer as Alterself both appearing as Goblins are dropped just outside the town walls, were they find other goblins looting the corpses.  After a breif confrontation with 3 other golibns, Safira animates 10 goblin corpses to zombies, and after a short delay sends them to wandering in the to main goblin camp.

Chris leads two npc (level 4th +1 cha) clerics, Jaden, Stephan, Zav and Ken.  They are teleported to the far side of the Zombie wedge.  They find a single guard, actually a lone necromancer with a staff standing guard.  Ken dispatches him, and takes his skull helmt and large cloak.  Assuming the staff is magical, he attempts to use magic item to aid control of the zombies.  32 zomibies are turned in the first turning ... the crowd starts moving torward the rest of the army, and the castle walls.

Leeflo is given a large black cloak and teleported to the center of the ReD Star camp, just outside the Leaders tent.  Inside he hears a very deep voice say, "We should already be attacking, just let me get my paws on the Goblin King"

And the man in the black armor with the black tabard with the Red Star, and a helm with antlers says,
"There is but one King, and he is I"