Adventure Logs - RIFTS

Played our first RIFTS game.  Steve, thank you for a great game.  I had fun for sure.  Adding this spot for logs...

20201030  Goblin Highwaymen and Robert the Doll   
Ross - Human Cyber Knight; Stuart - Human Special Ops; Tena - Fairy Priestess of Light; Art - Dragon Rebel Scholar; Arthur - Silhouette Temporal Wizard; Tom - Star Child

20201127  Rescue of Mayor`s Daughter
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tena fairy priestess of light, Tom star child, Art dragon rebel scholar, Arthur silhouette temporal wizard, Chris super martial artist
Daughter kidnapped right out of the mayor's guarded home.  Deputized heroes track down the bad guy cultists and rescue mayor's daughter.

20201211  Jail Break and Old Fort Raid 
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tena fairy priestess, Tom star child, Art dragon rebel scholar, Chris super martial artist, Vic guy w big gun
** Captured a ton of HW from the cultists and faced a little less than a dozen of them.  Came back w an ATV, six motor cycles, a Jeep and a ton of weapons and other gear.

20210219  Revealing Sarah's Imposter and Battling the Gate Demon 
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tena fairy priestess, Tom star child, Art dragon rebel scholar, Chris super martial artist, Arthur silhouette temporal wizard
Rescued the real Sarah and mayor.  Put the corrupt city politicians to justice.  Fought off a powerful witch posing as Sarah and a demon.  Avoided fighting wizards from Harry Potter.  Asked to form a special team of heroes to battle evil.

20210604  Discovering the Underground Computer Center - at 2nd Level
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tena fairy priestess, Tom star child, Art dragon rebel scholar, Chris super martial artist, Arthur silhouette temporal wizard
Our special team of local heroes establish their base, hiring some local help and fixing up the place.  Cut a hole into the metal plate into the shaft in the basement.  Discover a large underground data center and after some research determine it was a government research center.  Determine there are many more levels below the first one but not what caused the facility to become abandoned.

20210702  Discovering the Underground Hospital and the Bug Invasion - 2nd Level
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tena fairy priestess, Tom star child, Art dragon rebel scholar, Chris super martial artist, Arthur silhouette temporal wizard
Our special team of local heroes explore their base more and discover a functional hospital.  The group also discovers that there is a potential hive of large dimensional bugs northwest of a nearby village.  

20220225  Assault on the Hive - 2nd Level
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tom star child, Art dragon rebel scholar, Chris super martial artist
After rallying all the people of the closest three towns in proximity to the hive, the heroes speak with old Charlie, a survivor of a decades old battle with the same bugs.  Reinforced by a half dozen of the toughest towns people, the small force sets out to blow up the queen using a small back hoe and two bombs made from industrial explosives.  The heroes are also armed with fire bombs and perfume bombs.  Using a distracting thumper, the squad attacks the main tower.  Fighting through a small patrol of five bugs, the back hoe is abandoned and they climb up to the entrace instead of trying to break through the wall.  On villager is slightly injured in this initial attack.  In the tunnles they meet a second group of bugs, this time there are two large bugs instead of one.  This group of bugs is also smashed and one additional villager is injured.  Deeper in the tunnels, they meet a third group.  This group tries a feint to the front and then a portion of them drop in behind the heroes.  Using flame throwers and energy pistols, dragon breath, energy swords and an energy rifle as well as blinding key bugs, these bugs are also defeated.  After searching around a hole down is discovered and six much more powerful bugs defend the landing area.  These bugs have ranged spear like weapons and acid for blood.  After a tough fight, the bugs are all blasted or burned, but one villager is very seriously injured.  The groups catches thier breath after killing more than twenty bugs.  Using his quantum powers, the martial artist speeds the seriouly injured Vasques back to town and returns to the squad to continue the fight.  To Be Continued.  


Looking very much forward to the next adventure.

20220909  Assault on the Hive Conclusion - 2nd Level
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tom star child, Chris super martial artist, Tena fairy pristess, Kobe genetically enhanced human
When the deputy martial artist returns, a huge hole opens up in the cave floor and the group loses track of the little dragon, but are joined by the fairy priestess .  Pushing forward the group comes across a side tunnel that the star child checks out and finds a crying human who wants to know what time it is.  There are a lot of dead bugs.   The human turns out to be an ally who is only powerful during daylight hours and he's sad cause his watch is broken.  Melissa Lewis fixes his watch and he perks up a bit and feels well enough to ride in the cart with the bomb.  After moving ahead, deeper into the caves, the group ambushes a couple of bugs and takes them down quickly.  Then the group hears battle and come across a robotic bug killing machine and follow it deeper into the hive.  The heroes engage with the bug killer robot during one particullary intense battle.  With the star child scouting, the group determines that the queen is not too far ahead so plant the bomb into a deep recess with a psionic presence.  After making sure all allies are at minimum safe distance, the star child and the martial artist set the timer and explode the hive, effectively putting an end to the bug treat in this area.

After regrouping at the towns, the heros scout the area and mop up some stray bugs and track four tribal psy-hunters.  After the radioactive area of the former hive is marked and the larger area is secured, the heros, now the Terminex, or should it be the Termi-Knights, return to thier base.  Once there, they explore the next level and find it is an ammory, complete with a shooting range, lots of firearms, body armor, and ammunition.  There's even a training track.  The group teleports the five dune buggies out to the garage where they will be repaired and added to the fleet.  They also arm all the workers at the complex, provide them basic training, and emergency use body armor.  The group also draws up emergency action plans (with alarms) and starts advertising shooting classes, cooking classes, and other classes in order for the group to generate income.

I really like the campaign setting. Great mythology and history.
Character Creation was a huge headache, though.
It could be run using DnD5e and UltraModern5 with similar Race/Class options, and just use the campaign setting.
Would make things much easier for people to get into.

I just started designing a Character Builder for Rifts.  Figure if I keep it within our group it shouldn’t break any copyright rules.

I created a Roll20 game for Rifts.
Steve, once you join I will promote you to GM for that game.

https://app.roll20.net/join/8924215/QIcvbA

Chris what is your guy?

I am a super human created by the US Military who were doing experiments on Airmen just as the rifts broke out everywhere. Due to the circumstances happening at the time of the rifts the base was abandoned in a hurry and mostly destroyed and forgotten. I woke up recently because my animation tank broke and released the chemicals keeping me in suspended animation.

Powers are Super Martial Arts Warrior (actual name of power), Teleportation, Vibration, and Extraordinary Speed and I can also take a punch.

So you're the Winter soldier?

Pretty close except for the teleport. No extra strength but the other powers add on to damage.

@ Chris, got it. Glad to have you on the team. Per our text, I've got the perfect figure for you with twin Tonfa.

Steve, great adventure - again look forward to the next one!

@ Steven or Vic, what is Vic's guy?

Advance to 2nd Level 19 Feb.

Steven, great background and detail. Continue to clean up and fix up the place.

Looking forward to finishing the fight against the bugs, summary above.

....after the last adventure, Melissa will clean a couple of weapons a day and creat a log of the weapons in the armory. She will check for reloading tools, shell casings, powder and similar supplies. She will make sure all the ammo lockers are secure, with ammo sorted by type and create a log and inventory list. Will put priority on cleaning the shotguns and grenade launchers, making sure there are at least three of each ready for use before moving on to other weapons. As a lower priority task, will sort all the body armor by size and note any that require repair.

20221216 Assault on the Coral Dungeon
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tom star child, Tena fairy pristess, Vic Techno Wizard, Arthur Gun Slinger

While clearing and marking the perimeter of the nuclear blast used to destroy the insect hive, the heros come across a radiation dead zone. Investigating, they find an underground complex and begin investigating. They blow up the eight or so "Shark Crab" creatures that emerge and some find a maze of tunnles and a not so helpful hermit crab man. They blow up a huge spider like creature who is suddenly supported by three cyborgs. Then the group regroups and pause to plan thier next move.

You forgot the part about us capturing one of the Shark Crabs.

Teramotos wrote:20221216  Assault on the Coral Dungeon
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tom star child, Tena fairy pristess, Vic Techno Wizard, Arthur Gun Slinger

While clearing and marking the perimeter of the nuclear blast used to destroy the insect hive, the heros come across a radiation dead zone.  Investigating, they find an underground complex and begin investigating.  They blow up the eight or so "Shark Crab" creatures that emerge and some find a maze of tunnles and a not so helpful hermit crab man.  They blow up a huge spider like creature who is suddenly supported by three cyborgs.  Then the group regroups and pause to plan thier next move.

20230120 Assault on the Coral Dungeon Part 2
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tom Techno Geek, Brendon - Arco MARS Scout, Jim - Huge Combat Cyborg

A sudden cave in separates the heroes. The Cyber Knight, Spec Ops and Star Child now a Techno Geek, hear some voices nearby. They investigate and find a MARS Scout and Combat Cyborg. The five continue deeper into the complex and find some doors with strange symbols on them. They also determine that at least a portion of the complex is a living, breathing creature of some sort. The Cyber Knight manages to heal some sort of growth on one of the walls. The Spec Ops agent finds that many of the tunnels in the rifts they are exploring are all large living tubes of some sort.

Eventually they stumble across a strange underground church with a number of dead bodies and three strange glowing orbs. Touching the orbs suddenly resulted in the bodies coming to life and despite downing them, they seemed to get right back up. After a chaotic struggle, the heroes finally down all the zombie like foes. Discovering they cannot move the evil orbs out of the temple, they destroy one only to have it reassembly by itself. They end up leaving the three orbs there.

The group finds a strange set of books and a song book. The MARS Scout is nearly swallowed by a giant Yellow Worm. The group finds it's way back to the surface.

20230203 Discovery of the Juicer Complex
Ross human cyber Knight, Stuart spec ops, Tom Techno Geek MARS Scout, Jim - Huge Combat Cyborg, Chris super martial artist, Tena fairy pristess, Vic Techno Wizard, Steve T - MARS Engineer

Picking up a couple new team members, the group opens up the next basement level of the military complex and discover a "Juicer" lab and firing range. The central room has a weird mirroring aspect that warps space. After dealing with the armed security cameras, the group witnesses a strange repeating video message. There are administrative rooms and the group is able to 3D print security badges to allow entry to most of the areas on the floor. The group also discover a large locker room and shower area.

20230310 Vampires Are Real
Stuart spec ops, Tom Techno Geek MARS Scout, Jim - Huge Combat Cyborg, Tena fairy pristess, Vic Techno Wizard, Steve T - MARS Engineer

Our heroes travel east to explore the town of Duskton. After five days, they come across a Psi-Stalker scout who warns them away. The group diverts south and after sighting some smoke, find the wreckage of a battle. They salvage a pickup truck and a cycle. While leaving the area, they are attacked by a group of vampires. Although they down some of them, they get back up. A group of Psi Stalkers tells the heroes to flee as we're fighting the weak vampires and the stonger ones are on the way. The group wisely heads back to thier base.

My pet CrabShark named Sharby.

20230407
Ross: Rom Artour - Novice Male Human, Cyber-Knight
Chris: Aster - Carter Holt - Novice Male Human, Military Pilot
Stuart: Melissa Lewis - Human MARS Special Ops
Jim: WeGo - Huge Combat Cyborg
Vic: Rheostat - Techno Wizard

Our heroes travel West to explore the area near Wilks. After several days, they see a large school of bats.  The next day they locate and investigate the cave where the bats came from and find a strange blob like creature that reacts to heat, but not much else. The group finds the city of Wilks and takes on a job to scout and possibly clear a swamp/ forest area of the evil that seems to be there.  They meet progressively larger rats and finally a huge tree where the fruit are spawning evil monsters.  At the heart of the tree is the skeleton of an evil witch of which all that is left is her evil bracelet.  The heros blast and burn the tree and bring back evidence of thier mission, along with the skeleton and the bracelet and collect a huge reward.

Adding a By Name List:

22  Stuart  MARS Spec Ops, Melissa Lewis
18  Ross  Cyber Knight, Rom Artour (+2 GM)
20  Tom Star Child or Kyra - MARS Techno Geek
19  Tena  Fairy Priestess of Light

14  Chris MARS Genetic Soldier, Aster
11  Vic  Techno Wizard, Rheostat
8  Jim Combat Cyborg Artillery, WeeGo
7  Art Dragon Rebel Scholar

6  Arthur Temporal Wizard
5  Kobe Unnas - Combat Crazy Cyborg
4  Mickey  MARS Scout Quickflex
4  Steve T  MARS Engineer

3  Fred Wilderness MARS Scout
1  Steve L - Female Gunslinger Scout
1 Rob - Herm - Pyro Wizard
1  Brendon  Arco MARS Scout
1  Felice - Cat Person Techno Geek

20230506
Ross: Rom Artour - Novice Male Human, Cyber-Knight
Stuart: Melissa Lewis - Human MARS Special Ops
Vic: Rheostat - Techno Wizard
Tom: MARS Techno Geek
Tena: Fairy Princess of Light
Mick: MARS Scout Quickflex Gunslinger

Our heroes explore the 5th level of the basement. They find stairs that lead underwater to a tunnle. Rheostat converts his drone to a submarine and with the fairy inside. The rest of the heroes discover dive gear and then procure spearguns. They make other underwater preparations. They find a few chambers full of mushrooms, behind a vault door. They find an entrance to an underwater tunnel and with the drone sub scouting ahead, They find a series of ladders that go up to decompression chambers and the first one leads to something similar to a trio of small ocean drill platforms. The group opens the door of the decompression chamber in the center platform and the other two are in opposite directions. The grated walkway to one of the other platforms is broken. It is dark and the seas are rough. The group makes it to the other platform and restart the power and the antenna starts working again.

Checking another segment, the area is on "Lockdown". Checking a third ladder, the area seems to be infested w zombies. The group fights back a trio of them, two small ones and one very large one. They find twelve pristine full medical kits. With two of the team affected by the mushroom spores, the whole group heads back upstairs to the surface.

20230602
Ross: Rom Artour - Novice Male Human, Cyber-Knight
Stuart: Melissa Lewis - Human MARS Special Ops
Vic: Rheostat - Techno Wizard
Tom: MARS Techno Geek
Tena: Fairy Princess of Light
Mick: MARS Scout Quickflex Gunslinger
Jim: Wee Go - Combat Cyborg

Our heroes prep the vehicles the go off to an abandoned town where they find a bank and figure out how to open the vault.  They clean out the safety deposit boxes and find firearms, jewels, and other valuables.  They fought a number of black ether rats and ignored them after it was confirmed they were not a threat.  After staying overnight at the bank, the heroes leave the next morning and on the way out of town, explore a super market and auto repair shop, taking a large number of spare auto parts.

The group also found a number of rusted cars which were blocking the road.  After a complete search, the group recovered a number of usable components.   The group returns to town and leaving Reostat to fiddle with the loot, move back out to a larger town where they accept a job to investigate a rift.

They accept and find an inhabitable area but with a giant stone tower walking around the country side.   They fairly explores inside the tower and escapes.  When the tower starts moving in their direction, the group heads back into the portal and back to town to collect on the bounty.


20230721 (Ross GM) - Exploring Rift W204
Stuart: Melissa Lewis - Human MARS Special Ops
Mickey: MARS Scout Quickflex
Tom: Techno Geek
Kobe: Crazy Combat Cyborg Warrior

Hired by Wilks to explore a nearby Rift near a small, deserted town, they travel there in a pair of Jeeps and stop at a small farm along the way. Just before the farm the group trades with a lone traveler, a wizard of sorts. The farm turns out to be inhabited by a huge worm of some kind. The gain silo is full of corn of questionable quality. It is dry, but old.

Approaching the target Rift, the heroes go in on foot and after a time, sight a large caravan. There are four huge mastodons each with a platform with four hobgoblins, a number of guards on foot in the front and back. There are a half dozen wolves with handlers. They pass by and manage to discover the hidden jeeps, which they hook to two of the mastodons and then proceed to return to the Rift. The group tries to negotiate via radio and are are rebuffed. The group attacks, taking over one of the mastodons and then a second when a pair of dragons (drakes) fly out of the Rift in a counter attack. The heroes flee to the next street over and manage to slay one of the dragons. The heroes then manage to start both the jeeps and outrun the remaining dragon and finally return to Wilks to report their findings.

20230804
Ross: Rom Artour - Novice Male Human, Cyber-Knight
Stuart: Melissa Lewis - Human MARS Special Ops
Vic: Rheostat - Techno Wizard
Tom: MARS Techno Geek
Tena: Fairy Princess of Light
Mick: MARS Scout Quickflex Gunslinger
Steve T: MARS Engineer
Felice: Catperson Techno Geek
Fred: MARS Wilderness Scout

The heroes are hired to organize and escort a large caravan of converters and weapons to a far off city in the west where some rare power cubes are available for trade. Commanding a train of one jeep, three large trucks with ten Wilks sales people and three drivers for twenty two total people, they head west. A couple weeks go by with only minor issues. The group successfully trade one converter at a small town they stop at for supplies.

The group pulls into a small town where a powerful baron on the outskirts of town has not been heard from for some time. Taking one truck and the jeep, the heroes investigate the baron's estate. Hacking past the security perimeter, the group enters the main house and splits up into three teams. In short order they find the house abandoned. They eventually are able to hack the security cameras and determine that the dead body in the main library / security area is not the baron and that the baron appears to have staged her own death due to being chased by a powerful wizard.

The heroes take all items that might be "evidence" including three expensive cars. The group returns to the nearby town and make a report and then continue west.

20230825

Stuart: Melissa Lewis - Human MARS Special Ops
Tom: MARS Techno Geek
Tena: Fairy Princess of Light
Fred: MARS Wilderness Scout
Kobe: Crazy Cyborg
Chris: Genetic Soldier Aster
Jim: Cyborg Warrior
Steve L: Female MARS Scout

The heroes are hired to organize and escort a large caravan of converters and weapons to a far off city in the west where some rare power cubes are available for trade. Commanding a train of one jeep, three large trucks with ten Wilks sales people and three drivers for twenty two total people, they head west. The heroes pick up some additional guards while a few others take the cycles and are patrolling ahead.

They encounter a large flying reptile which the Techno Geek and Crazy try to ride. Later that night, four baby Kyju attack the camp. They down a couple of them right away but they reenergize themselves by touching the trucks. The heroes down them again and continue their journey in the morning.

20231006

Stuart: Melissa Lewis - Human MARS Special Ops
Tom: MARS Techno Geek
Tena: Fairy Princess of Light
Fred: MARS Wilderness Scout
Chris: Genetic Soldier Aster
Jim: Cyborg Warrior
Ross: Cyber-Knight

The heroes continue to escort their caravan westward. They stop at the town of Riverfront and eat at Pop's diner. They then check in at city hall w mayor Betty and hear of some strange disappearances. They investigate and meet Veronica at her fine house outside of town and then track the ghost of Jughead and Hotdog. They figure out that Sabrina had cast a protective spell on the town and that indirectly led to the people vanishing.

20231215

Stuart: Melissa Lewis - Human MARS Special Ops
Tom: Kyra - MARS Techno Geek
Tena: Vidia - Fairy Princess of Light
Chris: Aster - Carter Holt - Genetic Soldier Aster
Ross: Rom Artour - Cyber-Knight
Vic: Rheostat - Techno Geek
Kobe: Unas - Crazy

The caravan arrives safely at the western city with the energy cubes and the sales people begin negotiations.  A mysterious person makes contact w the heroes and has them investigate the energy cube factory.  Vidia and Rheostat combine to recon the factory back room and confirm the cubes are coming through and going to an area beyond a rift.  The next day, Vidia and the drone go through the rift and discover a large modern, alien city with blue skinned people with smooth features.

The group relays the info to the mysterious person and then start heading back toward home.  They pick up four hunters, the sole survivors of an ambushed group.  Unas that night hears thunder in the distance and a huge vine monster attacks the camp.  The creature spews out minons and whenever the creature is hit in hand to hand combat or with spells, something strange happens.  After a time, the group uses mainly direct fire weapons to finally down it.  The techno geek working on their rifle decides to scavenge the body and causes more minions to appear.  After a second fight, they are also defeated.  The group tends to the wounded and resumes the trip homeward.

20240315 - Back Again
Ross: Rom Artour - Novice Male Human, Cyber-Knight
Stuart: Melissa Lewis - Human MARS Special Ops
Vic: Rheostat - Techno Wizard
Tena: Fairy Princess of Light
Steve T: MARS Engineer
Chris: Aster - Carter Holt - Genetic Soldier

Still with the merchant caravan and on the way back to Wilks. Sold all the weapons and now have energon cubes to bring back. So far no merchant or driver casualties. Taking the main route, come across a village that was fine when we passed by on our way west but now shows signs of a battle. All the people are missing so leaving four of the heroes to guard the caravan, a party of six investigate the town. It's determined that the towns people were captured by primitive natives and dragged through a nearby RIFT to a tropical Aztec like realm.

The party fight off several parties of cats/ natives and locate the temple where the towns people are. After several battles the heroes rescue the towns people and retreat. The heroes see the temple take off into the sky as it is some kind of space ship. The heroes return the people through the RIFT and back to the town. The scouting party rejoins the caravan and the caravan makes it all the way back to Wilks safely. The Cyber Knight falls in love with some sort of Crystal Skull.

20240419 - Haunted Mansion

Stuart: Melissa Lewis - Human MARS Special Ops
Vic: Rheostat - Techno Wizard
Tena: Fairy Princess of Light
Chris: Aster - Carter Holt - Genetic Soldier
Tom: Kyra - MARS Techno Geek
Kobe: Unnas - Crazy Cyborg
Rob: Herm - Pyro Wizard

The heroes are nearly back to home base when they hear of a haunted mansion and decide to check it out. Lots of creepy stuff.