[Phantasm]

Mini-Session 2: Hydra in Harlem

Winston was in NYC, specifically the mean streets of Harlem, during a heavy steady downpour to pick up some "problem solvers" from a dealer. Once he got the deal site, in an alleyway, he finds the dealer he was due to meet shot up on the hood of the dealer's International Scout II (a ten to twenty year old SUV back when SUVs were still classified as "station wagons"), and the cargo missing.

As Winston (or "Doc" as the dealer knows him) tried to stop the bleeding after discovering that none of the bullets hit anything major, though the bone in the upper right arm was shattered, Chelsea walked up carrying a Hydra goon who is spouting the usual Hydra rhetoric and allegiance bit. Well, okay, "carrying" is a fairly loose term as she was using magic to float him by his belt loop. Chel and Winston know each other from Chel's time in Death Valley, but until now he was unaware of her magic aptitude.

Chel first asked the goon where the cargo was taken, but the goon just spouted more "Hail Hydra"s. He changed his tune, however, when Chel threatened to burn the Hydra goon's nuts off, mentioning that fire stopped the hydra of myth. (During this time, Winston continued to do first aid on his dealer contact.) The goon finally broke down and gave Chel an address; she followed through by putting the goon to sleep.

Winston then asked Chel to help patch up the dealer. She did so, using magic to turn the shot arm's flesh and muscle transparent, enabling them to see the bone. Winston held the arm in place as Chel's magic regenerated the bone, and then stopped the bleeding on the other gunshot wounds.

Chel agreed to help Winston retrieve the goods he'd come for. The address the goon gave was a warehouse in the south end of the Bronx. We screen-wiped to the warehouse (indicating that Winston geared up off-camera). Inside, a number of men were stacking crates, overseen by a man in a green Hydra uniform.

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Unfortunately, the players had to head to bed at this point, before we could do any real combat. We may leave the resolution a noodle incident, or follow through at a later time. Also, we started late, so it was only an hour and a half time.

The main reason for this mini-session was so that Winston's player could hammer out the personality, which has been described as a cross between Frank Castle and Burt Gummer. Whether this really was Hydra or someone posing as Hydra has been debated. Word of GM is that the two seen dressed as Hydra were Hydra, though the warehouse workers not in uniform could go either way.