Mortal Coil - With Apologies to Mr. Gaiman
We finished the current storyline in our Mortal Coil campaign yesterday. Two sessions ago our heroes had found Lucy Blackthorn (agent of the Infernal) half-dead learned that Lucifer had left hell closed and unattended, leaving the recently dead to haunt the living. Lucy wanted them to find the Morningstar and get him to take up his duties again.
While Birte and Ben talked this over with Lucy at Ben's apartment, Theodor and Robert were contacted by Mr. Bishop (agent of the Heavens) and met him outside of St. Paul's. He also wanted them to find Lucifer - but then to kill him. For this he supplied them with a specially prepared gun, supposedly able to finish the Devil himself.
With Lucy's help the heroes traced from Lucifer from the where he entered the mortal world - at the "Hellfire Club" in London, one of Lucy and Lucius Balckthorne's chain of nightclubs around the world - to a travel agency where he had booked a flight to Aspen, Colorado. Already following the Lord of Hell proved dangerous, as freak accidents started to occur around them. The journey to Aspen was fraught with bad weather, demon attacks on the plane, broken down rental cars and avalanches. But eventually our heroes managed to find and confront Lucifer after his day skiing on the slopes around Aspen. In a tense situation, Theodor would have shot the Devil, if Birte hadn't pleaded him not to, and Ben took the Key to Hell when the Devil offered it to him. Lucifer could obviously not be bothered to care about the damned souls anymore - he was done with his job.
Now stuck with the Key to Hell, but unwilling to take up responsibility of running the actual business, the heroes decided to auction it off. Interested parties soon began making calls to the London office, from one Ms. Helga Lokesdottir, a Mr. Ahmed Nubis from Egypt to Legion, a representative of all the demons of hell, more than three dozen claimants appeared on the scene and were invited to a conference in Aspen. The greatest complication proved to be Mr. Bishop, who didn't want to claim hell, but tried to kill the owner of the Key instead, to start the Apocalypse.
In the end, the heroes survived an attack by an agent of Mr. Bishop, who had taken the Gun from Theodor with a command from the "Voice of God" , Ben realized he could multiply the Key to Hell (introducing a magical fact for this). and they decided to sell everyone an equal share of Hell. With Hell being of course infinite, each share would still be infinite and enough to satisfy the needs and claims of the interested parties. Overall "Spiritual & Health Consulting", the heroes' company, made a three-digit millions deal in the process.
For the moment everybody - except for Mr. Bishop - is satisfied, but for how long? What will all the new Lords of Hell do, if they learn that Ben kept the master key for himself? And where will his now initimate relationship with Lucy Blackthorne lead?
While Birte and Ben talked this over with Lucy at Ben's apartment, Theodor and Robert were contacted by Mr. Bishop (agent of the Heavens) and met him outside of St. Paul's. He also wanted them to find Lucifer - but then to kill him. For this he supplied them with a specially prepared gun, supposedly able to finish the Devil himself.
With Lucy's help the heroes traced from Lucifer from the where he entered the mortal world - at the "Hellfire Club" in London, one of Lucy and Lucius Balckthorne's chain of nightclubs around the world - to a travel agency where he had booked a flight to Aspen, Colorado. Already following the Lord of Hell proved dangerous, as freak accidents started to occur around them. The journey to Aspen was fraught with bad weather, demon attacks on the plane, broken down rental cars and avalanches. But eventually our heroes managed to find and confront Lucifer after his day skiing on the slopes around Aspen. In a tense situation, Theodor would have shot the Devil, if Birte hadn't pleaded him not to, and Ben took the Key to Hell when the Devil offered it to him. Lucifer could obviously not be bothered to care about the damned souls anymore - he was done with his job.
Now stuck with the Key to Hell, but unwilling to take up responsibility of running the actual business, the heroes decided to auction it off. Interested parties soon began making calls to the London office, from one Ms. Helga Lokesdottir, a Mr. Ahmed Nubis from Egypt to Legion, a representative of all the demons of hell, more than three dozen claimants appeared on the scene and were invited to a conference in Aspen. The greatest complication proved to be Mr. Bishop, who didn't want to claim hell, but tried to kill the owner of the Key instead, to start the Apocalypse.
In the end, the heroes survived an attack by an agent of Mr. Bishop, who had taken the Gun from Theodor with a command from the "Voice of God" , Ben realized he could multiply the Key to Hell (introducing a magical fact for this). and they decided to sell everyone an equal share of Hell. With Hell being of course infinite, each share would still be infinite and enough to satisfy the needs and claims of the interested parties. Overall "Spiritual & Health Consulting", the heroes' company, made a three-digit millions deal in the process.
For the moment everybody - except for Mr. Bishop - is satisfied, but for how long? What will all the new Lords of Hell do, if they learn that Ben kept the master key for himself? And where will his now initimate relationship with Lucy Blackthorne lead?