Feng Shui Notes – 4/11/98

Introducing: Michelle (Angie’s character). Ex-special forces (Hong Kong), currently working as a bouncer in SF. After having her apartment trashed one night, after bouncing some people who didn’t really like being bounced, she runs down a street blindly, and suddenly… jungle. The sound of explosions, an incoming black mist that removes all vision and sound, and it clears and she sees… a group of PC’s in a very singed clearing.

Enter Sha-King and The Monkey King, who come in on a flying cloud?!

And then there was a scene of exposition: The Monkey King tells all. Half a million years ago, the reptiles ruled. And right now there’s an army of them in Teotihuacan from before the impact of that one epic comet which changed both what life could be supported, and how magic worked. Time to make it so they can’t change things back.

And, just to make life a little more interesting, there that man in an Armani suit who walks on over and has the aura of the greatest swordsman the world will ever know. A couple bows to the gentleman, who some of the party might just know as Draco. Douglas informs his people that Draco’s orders supercede his own.

The group separates into 3 sections: The intrusion team, the property damage team, and the hitter team.

On the intrusion team, the ninja disappears. How surprising. Michelle is rather, ahem, noticeable.

Ultimately, after the BIG fight, a bunch of bad guys are dead, one temple is brought down to its foundations and burned, the world is minus one hellishly major Feng Shui site, thanks to the efforts of Jeff and Bob Hack. Douglas gets carried out by Alex before the place blows. He is not a happy camper, and nor is Gary. Many death-checks are made. Some, are failed. Some folks were really unhappy about life.

Some folks go on a recon mission back to the city, wherein they see a number of poles that seem to be of a sorcerous nature. Walking by, coming to the temple site, there’s about half the male population carting the rubble off well outside the city where it all gets dumped. Nothing much comes of it. Everyone gets dragged back (sans Douglas and Gary) via this sorcery trick, compliments of breaking that one stick the sorcerer gave us.

Most people get really sick during the course of that trip. Even those mooks who didn’t toss their cookies, managed to (thanks to Blue Phoenix), becomes suitably irritated with life as well. Blue Phoenix, having this thing against smug mooks…

Everyone makes it back to the Netherworld portal after some doing. The Dragon folks head down to go and see the Prof. They find out about the critical shift (see below)

(The polyester alligator has been seered onto his nipple. – referring to Douglas and his state of problems with his totally trashed designer camo outfit)

Critical shift – Mexico is much larger now, Teotihuacan survives instead of being destroyed in the 5^th century. Their religion fallen, the Aztecs went conquerors. The Spanish came, and given the guns, they made peace with them. Once they took the guns, they ousted the Spanish entirely. Net result: Mexico much more powerful, Southern California and Texas were part of Mexico. They had sufficient chi leftover even after the temple smashed to make it so that neither disease nor the Spanish were able to defeat them. They don’t speak Spanish, even. They still speak Aztec, even. In an effort to catch up with western civilization, they sold California and Texas to the United States, leaving borders then as they should be.