Vat:16 Episodes 1

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Starring: Amiri, Pauline, Joseph
Guest Starring: Bucky, Connie (not the one from VAT)
Challenge: players fill this in
Location: Millvale, Larimer, Polish Hill
Date Played: 13-Feb-2013

Millvale Minotaur

Prologue: Joseph gets Lost

Joseph: While I was a'walkin' 'round the town o' Millvale, I seemed to git myself all turned around. I was dead sure that I had a handle on where I were, but then it turns out that I didn't. Usually these things only happen when I've bin drinkin', but I hadn't had a drop of the stuff.

Gettin' near a gas station I try to use the telephone when I hear the breathin' o' some critter that sounds the size of a bull. Lookin' to make myself scarce take cover behind a metal bin. I hell obscenities at it, as whatever it is is now followin' me. Then all of a sudden it lifts up the metal bin—the size of a small carriage, mind ya—and I see a (formerly mythical) minotaur.

I hightail it outta there just as quick as my legs'll take me. I spy a good tree to hide in, an my lucks turns swell, a (formerly mythical) elf pulls me up inna tree! The elf doesn't care to chat, havin' done its good deed fer the day...

Might as well check it out…

Pauline: It's not that we didn't believe Joseph, but he has been a little crazy lately. So when he told us about a minotaur roaming Millvale, we weren't exactly champing at the bit n'at. But we went anyway, and we went with a plan. We were going to get lost.

We had the hardest time finding bad directions, which was shocking. Eventually, with enough booze and weed, we got ourselves lost and encountered the minotaur. It was fairly harmless, so we didn't hurt it. It socked Joseph, but he had it coming. I gave it some candy and it was pretty happy with that.

Joseph: As I regained my wits and consciousness, I kin now confirm that the minotaur understands English and is sensitive to colored remarks.

The Bucky Ball

Pauline: In the meantime, my dealer, Bucky, was using Joseph for favors. That's bad enough, and as soon as I heard about it, I started planning to bawl Bucky out a good one. But it gets worse- he wanted to find his girlfriend so that he could beat her. Now the poor girl has taken hostages and is demanding that Bucky be arrested. It's a situation that we absolutely have to defuse, so before our afternoon Vat work, I lead the team over to where Bucky probably is.

We scare him out of hiding, he tries to run like the little rat he is. I pop him a good one- well, I pop him one anyway, and Amiri makes sure he gets escorted out in cuffs.

Joseph: So the residual effects of the headless horseman still have me seein' faces melting and tentacles. Introduce some Chinese medicine into that mix and violá, a clear head. Well, I reckon a mostly clear head. Turns out that Pauline's fella kin supply me wit it, so I trade him some favors. Nothing disastrous, at least, my themselves...

Polish Festival

Joseph: My head isn't in the right place, so the events of the polish festival are a mystery to me.

Diabetic Minotaur

Joseph: We gather and reckon ourselves a plan. We're gonna put a collection of maze puzzles and wax crayons into a wagon and trap the minotaur inside. Then we're a gonna move it to a new location.

I'm flabbergasted. The plan worked.