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The White Cloaks: Toledo finale

The final chapter of the Terror in Toledo campaign.  The Templar had isolated the city of Toldeo, where a renegade group of Arken worshippers had summoned the archangel Hekat in some misguided attempt to cleanse the area of unbelievers.
The angel was lured back through the summoning gate, however, it left behind it's minions and mechanical devices that were turning the citizens of Toledo into a half human-half mechanical cyber men which the cultists could control.
While the main Templar force dealt with containing the cybermen within the city, newly promoted Grand Knight Hiffin and his trusty companions, Father Vonnegut and Squire Mugabe, was tasked with destroying one of these cybermen generators in the southwestern part of the city.  They were givin a 20 pound keg of gunpowder for the task, although none of the party had any skill with the rock that burns, so using it was going to be iffy.

The party is forced with a decision.  The cybermen are now on alert and the generator is sure to be well guarded now.  They decide to split their force, sending Sergeant Herbert and their 2 men at arms out of the neighborhood to lure the cybermen patrols away. The primary mission is accomplished, but the citizens of the neighborhood are still being held captive in the church (awaiting conversion to cybermen).  Besides being locked in by a complicated device, the church is also booby trapped by a toxic gas that will release if any rescue is attempted.  While communicating with one of the citizens inside (an alchemist, who has worked out an antidote for the poison, but no access to his lab) one of the renegade cultists shows up and starts manipulating the gas device to stop the alchemist from revealing more information.

Deprived of their director, the cybermen in the area wander off, seeking new orders.  The mission is a success.  If the rest of the Templar are successful the city will be saved.  But that remains to be seen in the epilogue...

The people in the church still needed to be rescued.  Armed with the alchemest's list and directions the group scoured the neighborhood in search of the needed ingredients.  Through a series of puzzles and one embarrassing episode where the group struggled with a series of riddles that the game master's 9 year old daughter did better at than us, the antidote was finally prepared and the citizens safely released from the church.  No photos!

Posted by saltflats1929 at 11:31 AM