SS3 Campaign!!!!

[Legionnaire]

My mate Matt and I have started our SS3 campaign, I run the Merc team Threshold (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=62290.0) and my mate runs a Lovecraft inspired one (The Magus, Shoggoth, Dimensional Shambler, Mi-Go and Deep One). Apologies for no pictures but forgot the camera!!!   

                                     THE STARS ARE RIGHT!!!

As the alarms in Crow City’s National Museum was wailing and the foolish guards lay in the remnants of the building, five shapes were striding forth from the smoke and fire. In the front was a stern human, dressed in a crimson robe with mystical signs, The Magus, hovering above was an insectoid monstrosity with a huge beam cannon, Mi-Go, a hulking giant protoplasmic entity, Shoggoth was sliding along by unknown means on the ground alongside a distinctly amphibian humanoid, Deep One and last but not least, flickering in and out between the depths of time and space a clawed horror, Dimensional Shambler. In their various appendixes they clutch the treasure that they came for, six ancient crystals of unimaginable powers, but only one is the true one that they seek, it won’t be revealed which one until they can examine them all in The Magus’ sanctuary.

From some distance away the monstrous group is observed by five resolute individuals, but they are distinctly human, despite their colourful outfits. Ghost Face is shimmering in his half-life half-dead body, Sabrecat fingers on the hunting knives, Senor Fortuno is flipping his coin again and again, Dust Devil is eager to get going and Monsoon is crackling her knuckles. They have been contracted to stop these extra-dimensional beings from achieving their goal to open up a portal to their home in the cold spaces and enslave Earth!!! The mission is simple, either take out the opposition OR take possession of all crystals.

A blur in the night is the only thing that can be seen of the Dimensional Shambler as it rushes across the town in the blink of an eye, too fast for even Dust Devil to catch up with him, he’s already in the next county. Sabrecat sets off at a breakneck speed, almost running on all fours at times, he runs up a wall, springs to a convenient flagpole, swings around a lamp post as an Olympic acrobat and lands light as a feather on a roof top closer to the enemy. Mi-Go flaps his (?) wings and soars into the air, aiming his beam cannon towards the group. Senor Fortuno flips his coin at the top of the cabin to a large truck and grins, without even looking he fires his signature pistol “The Hand of Fate” and Mi-Go is having chunks of its flesh blown away. Shoggoth makes some disturbing noises and increase its size several times, until it’s just a bubbling mass of goo about 40 feet high and then it rolls forward like an unstoppable tidal wave!!! Dust Devil spins in a cloud of debris eager to show his worth, he bounds up into the air and tries to rearrange Mi-Go’s molecules but the physiognomy is so different from humans that he is shocked at what he finds and tumble towards the hard Mother Earth! Dust Devil makes a human sized impression in the concrete and groans “ouch”. The Magus marches forward purposefully, Monsoon activates her protecting field of rain and winds and runs forward, as do Deep One and Ghost Face.

A pitched battle is taking place, where the freelance agents of Threshold tries to stop the monstrosities of Nameless Cults, Dimensional Shambler is already in the secret hideout waiting for the others. The monstrosities are more focused on making as quick an escape as possible, while the mercenaries use extreme violence, or try to. Dust Devil, being young and inexperienced but his heart is in the right place tries to take out Mi-Go a second time but only manage to hurt it a little bit before falling down to Earth again and being knocked unconscious by her!!! In a spectacular display of martial prowess and ferocity, Sabrecat leaps off the roof of a three story building, cutting an impressive figure against the backdrop of the full moon as he unsheathes his hunting knives, rolls across the ground and slam into The Magus!!! The Magus should by all rights be but a puddle of blood, but Eldritch Powers are at work and Sabrecat can only growl in frustration when all he achieves is to draw a thin line of blood across The Magus face!!! Ghost Face engages Deep One and sends out his “Death Shriek” that shakes the muscular amphibian violently but not hard enough.

Senor Fortuno sees Dust Devil’s predicament and fires his handgun at Mi-Go again and this time the winged monstrosity tumbles to ground, incapacitated as far as anyone can judge. Monsoon gathers momentum and runs in to strike The Magus, the blow is so hard that she sends him crashing into the front of a parked taxi two blocks down the road, but unbelievably enough The Magus is still stirring!!! The Magus takes revenge and unleashes his powerful mind on Sabrecat, he has forged his willpower in countless battles but The Magus goes through his defences like a warm knife through butter and Sabrecat is no longer Master over his own actions!!! Deep One is smart enough to realise that he can’t inflict any damage on Ghost Face in his half-existence so he makes a run for it, but Ghost Face catches up with him with ease.
“Look into my eyes, this is what Death looks like!” Ghost Face says in a grating voice like falling tombstones and Deep One collapses in a heap, being scared out of his wits!!! The gigantic Shoggoth moves unhindered forward as fast as he possibly can, seeing two of his comrades being taking out.

Senor Fortuno takes no chances but shoots one bullet at The Magus, who is just climbing out from the smashed taxi, barely able to stand, the target is half a mile away but it might just have been in front of the gun barrel. The Magus drops to the ground with his knee cap shot out from underneath him. Shoggoth is making his escape and Sabrecat runs off into the distance as the mental command from The Magus is still taking effect.

When the forces of Law and Order arrive on the scene there is a trussed up Deep One hanging from a lamp post, but nothing else remains to be seen of the others involved.

Back in the secret hideout of Nameless Cults there is a maniacal cackling of triumph!!! The Magus holds one of the crystals aloft, the sanctum is bathing in strange colours and impossible angles lurk at the edge of your vision.
“Muahahahaha!!! We have the Prism of Al-Cathain!!!”

“Verdamnt!!! It’s none of these!!!” Ghost Face smashes the crystals in frustration, or tries to but his hand just disappears into the console. He is one of the world’s leading experts on things occult and mystical and the team has no reason to dispute his assessment. They had hoped that three would’ve been enough, but now that the crazed The Magus is in possession of it, they have to find alternative means to stop the End of The World!!!
“There is a man at Miscatonic University that might be able to help us though, his name is Charles Dexter Ward.”