Assassin Attack! - Warriors of the Red Planet/ Hyperborea rpg Session Report Six

 Tonight's game was a major incident at the trade post with us fighting the assassin Jal Hardos & his hirelings. This assassin destroyed our vehicle with a couple of well placed grenades timed to go off by remote detonation killing our cleric. And tonight's game picks right up from this session on the blog. 
His 5 hirelings were of at least 3rd level and he gave radiation poisoning to another of our fighters with a radium pistol blast! This guy wasn't kidding and with a well placed poisoned dagger took out our Green warrior ally! 

During tonight's game we played cat & mouse with him throughout the trade depot until we dropped a very large stone block on him and one of his hirelings. And then it was cutting down the rest of the hirelings lest they report back to his patron. Whomever that might be. We had to get our fighter stablized and this meant a super science healer whom was down in the lower part of the dead sea basin. So we rented a flier from our Green allies and dashed off after they radioed introductions. Raz Thrals is a healer scientist who studied under the scientists of Helium. 
He did a good job drawing out the radiation but Helm's Charisma took a hit with him losing two points from the hidious scars that he's now got. We were able to pay Raz 500 gold pieces but now we're down some coin. And so the healer provided us with a map of the ruined cities some 2 miles from his place.I'm going wayback to the Best of Dragon Magazine volume #1 James Ward's "Deserted Cities of Mars," as a sort of homage to the roots of Mars old school rpging. 

 

So I'm already rolling up the deserted city and already White Apes have come up as an encounter. I might or might not use them. The party is staying at Raz's place while Helm the fighter 3rd level is in healing tank. The rest of the party is looking to aquire some healing potions and draw up a second flier from Raz. His place is guarded by mercenary Red warriors of 3rd level. So he's expensive but well worth the expense. The party can off set some of this expense by getting him several herbal and dangerous fungal ingrediants. These are from Martian Shrieker and Violent Fungus varieties. The healer warned the party about these horrors! Tune in next week!