X-Champions Issues

Issue #9 - Strange Brew

...but as Sammy and Jonas Hell are jumped, Sammy's speed-dial is slightly off and instead of Laughton he gets a dazed Eliot Sihn - Eliot has just got over a day that began with him thinking Namor would kill him to claim Aela and has turned out such that rather they've discovered Namor is his father-in-law.

Confused, Eliot replies to Hell's plea for help distractedly and is escorted in Bob Buick's jet-fast car, traveling perilously through the city streets at nearly 120 miles an hour.  Fortunately for Hell and Sammy, though, the newly-dubbed Spectrum (Suzanne Palmer) is nearby and heads towards the disturbance.

Sammy, feeling "stuck" and realizing he's unable to change forms or powers, begins to flee from the strange men in containment suits with fanciful backpacks and hose-like appendages they're aiming towards he and Hell.  Hell immediately begins firing at full force, hitting one of the men as two get out of the car that's pulled in front of them.   Two other men get out of a van that's just stopped as well.  One of the men fires a gooey entangling substance that encompasses and stops Sammy while the other two fire flares, one of which misses Sammy but the other blinds Jonas Hell.  Jonas continues to fire, guessing at where the agents are.  Sammy struggles with the substance, exhausting himself.  Spectrum flies in, noticing Sammy as well as the more dubious Hell.  However, she's certainly more suspicious of the unusual operatives and picks up the car, smashing one of the men and breaking his backpack.  Hell manages to fire at the groaning man and hits him, partially shattering his skull, possibly killing him.  One of the men fires at and hits Spectrum, bringing her down, then he and the other remaining man grab Sammy and attempt to get him to the van; their gloves allow them to handle the substance.  Spectrum gets up, though, and mentally seizes one of the men, knocking him out.  The remaining agent drops Sammy, warning her that this is a federal operation.  She doesn't buy it and his shot misses her.  She then nails him with two stunning mental attacks.   

The battle over, Spectrum angrily yanks Hell's gun out of his hands with her telekinesis, despite his angry objection.  She notes that the man under the car has been killed at least partially due to the damaged backpack which has discharged a shocking current into him.  One of the other men down has a damaged backpack which is doing the same thing to him; her attempt to disengage it to save his life is met by its sudden release of energy, killing him.   Stunned, Suzanne drops Hell's gun and in a daze helps Sammy out of the goo.

Just then Bob "Buick" Rogers and the Troll (Eliot Sihn) arrive, Eliot having listened into Hell's open cell phone throughout the struggle.  He finds Hell sitting on the curb of the sidewalk, rubbing his eyes back to sight, and Palmer and Sammy reviewing the carnage, still shocked at the self-destructing backpacks.  Before the police arrive the two live operatives are stuck with their own entanglement, their van having been searched for more familiar duct-tape.  Inside the van a small vault, large enough to hold a person, is discovered as well as surveillance and communication equipment.  The Troll realizes he cannot dismount the backpacks with his own skill and contacts Gere-luce (whose wife, as always, angrily grumbles at his imminent departure).  

The police arrive and question the heroes.  They allow Gere-luce, who arrives almost the same time, to dismount the backpacks successfully, and find their story believable despite initial skepticism re Jonas, given Suzanne Palmer's credibility and the evidence at the scene.  Meanwhile, the police are concerned with Sammy's lack of registration or appropriate identification, but a call to Laughton clear up the matter - Sammy is a human ward who has mental challenges, explaining his wide-eyed innocence and lack of understanding of official rules.  

The two operatives remain close-mouthed.  The police captain, unaware of proper protocol, allows Palmer, as she is from the DA's office, to question the two men.  While they don't answer her, she doesn't need them to - she probes their minds, finding their true names and that they're employed by an organization named Omega to find and capture Sammy, then bring him to the Detroit federal mutant holding jail.  

Sammy slips away during this time - and the Troll accuses the police of allowing him to be abducted.  Playfully, Sammy reappears as a reporter, attempting to interview Spectrum and the Troll.  The police instruct the heroes to say nothing to the press (which arrives en masse shortly) and they gladly oblige.  

As most people are resting after Thanksgiving dinner, our group retreats to home base to review the evidence.  Hell persuades Suzanne to join him for a drink or two at O'Malley's Neon Toxic Bar, his favored spot near the Blue Moon.  Sihn, Rogers, and Sammy go on to the Blue Moon (only a block-and-a-half away) so that Sihn can work in his lab - he's interested in samples of the strange goo that captured Sammy.

The bar is inhabited by a few gray souls paying attention only to their drinks as a paid ad drones away on the television.  O'Malley is serving drinks - he never takes a break.  He's appreciative of Jonas Hell's having opened up a Blue Moon account and Hell treats Palmer to the Blue Moon/Laughton and Davis expense account.  

In the lab, preliminary analysis demonstrates a highly engineered, highly expensive, but otherwise "ordinary" (i.e., nothing so exotic) substance.  Only Stark, ABC, MIT, or the federal government (and then most likely through SI or ABC) could engineer this compound.  They assume it must be ABC.  Sihn wishes they had been able to grab a backpack for study.  A smash in the window upstairs brings their attention and they see a few youth fleeing up the street, having apparently thrown a regular rock into the Blue Moon.

The same youth, 19 or 20 years old, come into O'Malley's for drinks.  O'Malley is particularly lax on a Thanksgiving night and doesn't ask for their IDs but doesn't have much of a chance as one of them grabs his tie and mocks him for serving the mutants of the Blue Moon.  As Hell pulls out his gun (perhaps better described as a mini-cannon), Spectrum grabs the hoodlum and holds him up to the ceiling, warning the others to leave.  They quickly scramble, their leader-like guy flung out literally behind them by Palmer.  O'Malley is particularly thankful, especially as the bar was not damaged this time (as it was in issue #5) and mentions in passing that the recent fame/notoriety of the Justice Squad and its association with the Blue Moon (via Laughton) has brought others in, one of them asking a lot of questions.

Just then Sammy and Sihn stop by, Sammy having been curious in the young troublemakers.  He overheard them threaten a "bitch" and vow to get even, just as they did to the Justice Squad.  They round up the info with Suzanne and Hell just as Caruthers irately enters, accusing Hell of being mixed up with the broken pane of glass which forced him to come out, only to find the building unattended while Hell's at the bar.  He backs down when they explain what happened but clearly grumbles about being left with all of the responsibility and none of the authority.

The next morning Suzanne, in her official capacity, feigns an excuse of having done some research on a military case to tell the police the real names of the two captured operatives (they gave fake names), as the last record she found of them under their given names were military ones, after which all traces of them disappeared.  She also drops by the Blue Moon to hand off the information, finding only Hell readily available.  He takes it and runs with it, despite her misgivings.

Back at the office, Suzanne is disturbed by four "men in black", federal agents headed by one Samuel Johnson from the Office of Mutant Services.  They take her aside, mentioning they know her mutant status, quickly disabling some "inferior state bugs" they find in the conference room, and press her for more details on the men, attempting to determine if she told the police everything.  One gets in her face, acting hostile, then is backed off by Johnson who stresses this isn't some sort of dramatic threatening attempt, they're not their to threaten her or her friends (which he calls by name, letting her know that in fact they do know a lot about her).  Johnson expresses some surprise that she's associated with an unregistered mutant (Sammy).  Satisfied, they move on without revealing their interest in the case.

Later on that Friday after Thanksgiving, Suzanne regroups with Eliot and Sammy, discussing registration for Sammy and she resolves to get that process moving.  The only major risk is that mutants with no known history must submit to some significant testing, though there is some leeway in how they go about it.  Sammy hopes that he can have Sihn do the studies.  Sihn contracts Terwilliger for advice but Terwilliger is about to board a plane for vacation and isn't sure it's a good idea, though given that ABC likely are after Sammy and knows where he is, Terwilliger sees the sense in Sammy essentially becoming a citizen with rights.

Thanksgiving day and the Friday after find Laughton hard at work.  In particular he's following up as requested by an anonymous client on Joy Richards of Stark Industries and Michael Boulliard of ABC Corporation.  By Saturday morning he's determined that Richards has a lesbian lover which her husband may or may not know about (though certainly the world at large does not) and that Boulliard is employing some people for unofficial, possibly illegal purposes.  And that Boulliard is a jerk of some major magnitude, doodling violent and derogatory remarks about his family and acquaintances.

By Saturday Jonas Hell has found that the two operatives that Suzanne tipped him off about were at least being enlisted somehow by a company now defunct and with no traces known as Sequester. 

Saturday morning, after some narrowing down further of Bud Girl's location, Sammy, the Troll, and Spectrum go out to locate and capture the dangerous mentalist - the Troll knowing they need Spectrum's help as perhaps only she can resist Bud Girl's presumably feminine pheromone/mentalist wiles.  They look for her home, Sammy posing as a dog being walked by Eliot and Suzanne.  As they look around what must be Bud Girl's house, a woman nearing 50 comes out, speaking in a sort of Minnesota-inflected voice, asking if they need anything and chatting them up, taken with the cute dog.  She assumes Suzanne and Eliot are a young couple and they play along, indicating they're house-hunting after she asks about the "big day", simply presuming they're going to be wed.  As they talk, she waxes proudly on her daughter (no doubt Bud Girl), who she believes to be an important buyer for a retail chain.  

They walk on down the street to find Bud Girl, checking out a sandwich shop the traces point to.  She is not there and the apparent owner freaks out as Sammy/the dog enters, bellowing for them to take the dog out.  After taking the dog out (who gets many snacks from sympathetic customers) they grab some lunch - it's quite good.  They then decide to stake out Bud Girl's family's house.  However, walking only a block away, they can feel the sway of Bud Girl's charms.  Sammy and Eliot "realize" that they don't want to harm her after all and capturing her might harm her so they should just call the whole thing off.  As Eliot says, "This whole thing is stupid, we should just leave the nice girl alone," Suzanne, unaffected with her mighty mental resistance, grabs Eliot's Bud Girl antidote and doses him and Sammy.  Sammy is nevertheless concerned for Bud Girl's welfare though he cautiously goes along as he sees Spectrum head towards Bud Girl, just having spotted her window-shopping across the street.  Eliot certainly doesn't want to harm her personally but has enough control of his senses to want her capture.  Spectrum grabs Bud Girl with her telekinetic strength and flies her away as Bud Girl makes a desperate measure by mind controlling a nearby policeman to shoot at Spectrum - he badly misses, firing into the air.  Sammy almost leaps to Bud Girl's defense (fortunately she doesn't know the dog is Sammy) but they're out of range so quickly that the charm wears off.

Back at the lab they realize Bud Girl must be encapsulated so that her pheromonal mind control cannot work, Spectrum occasionally reminding Eliot of the task at hand and keeping Sammy out of range.  Once she's restrained they contact the federal government via a vacationing and clearly distracted (massage-receiving) Terwilliger, who gives a number through which special federal agents can arrange to pick up and control Bud Girl.   

Meanwhile that Saturday Laughton has also contacted Buffy Summers - because she's the actual target of his vampire's search.  Apparently the vampire wants to set her up for someone else to stake or for himself to find.  Laughton warns her.  She warns him this isn't a game and she should let her at the vampire.  He demurs, given the client relationship - as well as no doubt his general paranoia and desire to control the situation.

As Laughton comes in from the cold, so to speak, into the Laughton and Davis Agency on Saturday, he meets up with Sammy, Eliot, and Suzanne.  The Captain is off doing charity work.  Laughton arrives as federal agents are carefully holding the area and containing and taking Bud Girl.  His conversation with Sihn in the lab quickly turns to Slayer's fate.  They toy with the notion of killing Slayer and pull Sammy into the conversation.  Sammy dispassionately believes they should turn Slayer in.  As the conversation continues to hover around Slayer's extinction, the strange voice in Suzanne Palmer's head tells her, "The cannibal and the paranoid detective are going to tear apart Slayer, kill him." She tries to shrug off the voice, which responds, "Go ahead, but remember that time when you were 8 and I was right and you didn't listen."  She relents and comes downstairs to see Laughton throwing darts at a semi-frozen Slayer, marveling at his regenerative skills, and overhearing their dastardly considerations.  She puts her foot down and turns the conversation with how to more productively deal with Slayer.  Finally they determine that they should "accidentally" reveal they have Slayer to the feds, in order that Laughton can plausibly deny to the city government that he handed over Slayer against their wishes to the feds.  

The plan works as Laughton "objects" to them taking Bud Girl and is flatly ignored by the team lead of the federal agents, then Sammy carries Slayer in a suspicious large bag in front of them.  As Sihn "accidentally" and fairly obviously reveals more the agents are unsure of exactly what this is about but do come to realize it's Slayer and he's wanted.  They consult with their superiors (since mission changes require authorization); meanwhile Laughton goes into his office and calls Lucy Coe on the phone, alluding to Bud Girl's detention by federal agents and "maybe" Slayer's.  She abruptly hangs up and rushes the city police to the scene.  Knowing that discretion is the better part of valor, our heroes move on to O'Malley's and silently stay out of the ruckus.

While at the bar, Suzanne, Eliot, Hamlet, and Sammy are joined by Jonas, just as Laughton hears how happy O'Malley is about the Blue Moon expense account!  His words to Hell fall on deaf ears as Hell prattles on about what a good source of leads O'Malley's is and alludes to his work that morning, indicating the only liquor he's had has been out of his flask.  When Laughton asks if this case is for billable hours, Hell seizes on the notion that Palmer is paying for the research on the operatives and reveals what he's found.  Laughton's cell phone rings - it's Lucy, who merely says, "I hate you" and hangs up.  He tries to call her back to explain and while attempting to do so hears her screaming at someone "Wait, you can't leave with them, STOP!" and as far as he can tell her phone drops or is hung up.  Then Laughton notices in the back of a bar a familiar reporter attempting to look inconspicuous.  

So Hamlet heads back as if to go to the bathroom, which is near the reporter, and suddenly moves into the booth next to the reporter, who turns out to be Fritz Cunningham with the Detroit Free Press.  After messing with the initially scared reporter for a bit (each of the heroes joins the table), Hamlet gets serious as the reporter gets a call and stresses he must leave (to cover the nearby federal-municipal stand-off).  He tells the reporter, who talks about "the truth", that the reporter might be lucky and be in the "right place at the right time" and get a scoop on the heating up will-be war between Fisk and the Toccis.  That gets the reporter's attention, who agrees to Hamlet's request that he not be in the "wrong place [i.e., O'Malley's or otherwise watching the heroes] at the right time".  

By this time it's 3 PM - our heroes, a couple of whom are tipsy, grab a bite at O'Malley's and wait out what turns out to be a three-hour stand-off in mid-town between the federal and municipal jurisdictions.  Laughton knows he'll hear a lot about this one... [but check out those rep points below]

On Sunday,  Hamlet Laughton visits martial mediator Loo Kwan, who isn't of any assistance in the case of the evil shaman but whose advice eventually leads him to Chiang Li, a self-described occult detective who works out of an odd little storefront (but not actually a store) in the tiny Chinese part of town.  Chiang offers to take on the case for Laughton and Davis and give 20% back to them.  They haggle, Laughton pushing to join Chiang in order to learn more on this occult front.  Chiang pushes back, indicating the danger, to which Laughton indicates he can handle himself.  Then he finds himself on a desert island surrounded by sharks!  Chiang's hand reaches from the sky and pulls him out.  Laughton agrees to let him take the case on his own.

Sunday late afternoon/early evening James Daniels, long-time District Attorney, to whom Lucy Coe like everyone else in the office reports to, and who is the most senior African-American active in city politics, drops by Suzanne's apartment.  He's known to do this with employees; it's not politically (or even ethically) correct but he's of old world manners, besides which he's way too powerful to be bothered.  He knows all the skeletons in Detroit's closet, from the mayor down.  He warns Suzanne that it's not seemly for someone in his office to be associated with crime scenes directly and he frankly encourages her, if she's going to go out adventuring, to wear a mask as so many vigilantes do, and keep her identity generally secret.  He doesn't like seeing her name on police reports.  He goes on to say how he cares for her and has always thought highly of her, even with her sudden inability to continue as a trial lawyer.  She doesn't take him as threatening - he's quite honest about protecting himself and the office and simultaneously encouraging her to do as she must.  Eventually he dawdles and talks with her about dinner plans, not-so-subtly inviting himself to join her for Chinese take-out.  They enjoy each other's company through the early evening, talking about family histories and such.

Aela is out with Namor discussing his parentage (see the notes after issue 8), so Eliot, completing some Christmas shopping for Aela, invites an otherwise lonely Sammy to dinner.  Sammy works on restraining himself and avoids eating too much of Eliot's refrigerator.  He's in rare form, formally dressed, and is "treated" to a rare visit by Eliot's mother.  She knocks on the door before simply letting herself in - and demands $500 from Eliot.  He isn't sure if he has the cash but she insists, "Check okay, need $500 now."  So he writes her a check and looks out the window to see a regular cab waiting on her.  Eliot attempts some small-talk, asking her how she is.  She says, "Okay - how are you?"  He responds the same and she adds, after an awkward pause, "Good talking to you like this. Now I must go.  Unless you want to pay for cab and I stay"  For what must be the thousandth time Eliot asks again about his father.  She bitterly rebukes him, "So now you stab me in the heart again.  We just have nice talk but you must hurt me."  He stresses he will find his natural father, to which she retorts, "I hope you do, then he hurt you like me and you feel the pain like I do every time you ask me."  Sammy comes out, hearing her refer to him in passing, and says hello in his innocent and giddy way.  He thinks how great it must be to have family like Eliot does!  She takes him to be a drunk friend and accuses Eliot of having drunken parties, then goes off to the cab.   Eliot chews on the beef for dinner sullenly.  Loo Kwan's advice doesn't seem to be quite working still, though he does acknowledge mentally that he hasn't tortured anyone recently.  

Later in the evening Laughton gets a call from an unusually upset Caruthers - the Blue Moon's been firebombed.  He grumbles and gets ready to head down as Caruthers has insisted.  The phone rings again and Laughton answers it, "Caruthers, what is it, can't you take care of anything!?"  To which Suzanne Palmer pauses for a second before saying "Uh - hello?"  She wants to talk with Laughton but, recent events scaring her a bit, not on the cell.  They arrange to meet at the Blue Moon as Laughton is headed there in any case.

Upon arrival Laughton notes the scrawl of the NME (No Mutants Exist) upon the Blue Moon walls, where it wasn't firebombed.  He calls Sihn to "whip up" something to cover it before the press arrives while Palmer, having just arrived, scouts the sub-basement for some paint, which she finds.  Caruthers pulls the security camera record and they review.  A Cutlass Supreme, no plates, pulled up and some men in stocking masks came out and fired the bombs at the building while a couple spray-painted the building on the sides.  The damage isn't so great, though, other than one burst that got through the reinforced second set of glass and hit the receptionist's desk, knocking out a chunk but sparing the picture of Elvis.  

Sihn's concoction somewhat damages the building as it obscures the graffiti so they take the approach of simply splashing paint on the markings.  As the press arrives one of the reporters indicates the NME has taken credit and another wonders aloud if the fresh paint splashings obscure their markings - of course Laughton denies this.  

Maddie Hayes, the owner of the Blue Moon chain, calls Hamlet and asks him "what the hell" he's doing, noting the unwanted publicity, particularly the federal-municipal stand-off.  She's skeptical of Jonas Hell's continued employment, noting he called her to update her on the NEA case.  Thus she's coming out on Wednesday to spend two full days with Laughton, not leaving until Friday mid-day, to go over budgets, personnel, and municipal relations - the last of the three which renders Hamlet unusually silent.  He hears a man call for her in an intimate manner in the background and she's off the phone.

Overhearing this, Suzanne decides to forego the reason she called Hamlet - to find out if she might get a job with Blue Moon if things don't work out in the DA's office, given her earlier conversation.

Wide awake, his rest disrupted, Laughton reflects on his vampire case and decides to get a hold of Buffy, who in their last conversation attempted to get him to join her at some sort of rave/club, guilting him by mentioning that she had to deal with Jonas Hell.  Of course he tried to impress on her that no one, including him, can control Hell.  Laughton tries to persuade the others to come with him.  Sihn resists, nervous about the youth who previously came on to him.  Laughton attempts to call her but when she realizes he's not just asking directions she pretends the connection is bad (after moving to the bathroom so she can hear over the music) and hangs up, successfully forcing Laughton to come to her.  Sihn caves in and they all end up joining him, though they wait outside while he goes in, Suzanne afraid of the crowds, Eliot feeling he doesn't fit in, and Sammy merely staying with the two out of three.  As they pull up to the overly-trendy club with its would-be goths and would-be ravers, they hear a radio distress call from the authorities indicating Belle Isle must be evacuated of all non-essential people due to a chemical accident.  The announcer speaks Detroit code by indicating that "all police and auxiliary forces" must respond - "auxiliary" meaning the unsanctioned vigilante contingent.  Laughton explains this to Buffy and they're off.  Buffy's pleased to see Sammy and Eliot but initially is dismissive of the noticeably prettier Suzanne.

Buffy prattles on in the car on the way to the island, partly in response to Hamlet's vampire questions which she considers mostly "duh" in nature.  As they get to the bridge, a police officer peering in notes Hamlet and the Troll in particular and waves them through the blockade, telling the gate-keepers, "It's weirdoes, let 'em through," in reference to what he presumes to be a mutant presence in the car.

Once on the island, where Aela is already hard at work setting up containment fields in the aquarium, Buffy notes the first place they should head is a lover's lane she's aware of.  Vampires will be there and besides which they won't have heard the announcement - the often asocial Laughton is a bit at a loss in this department, as is the similarly inclined Sihn and the inexperienced Sammy.  They follow her lead.  She runs off into the woods, telling the others to warn the couples in the cars.  The Troll is quite effective at getting attention, frightening several.  Others get the word from Suzanne and Hamlet and beep their horns, getting attention and warning others as they all begin to drive off.  Buffy emerges from the forest at that point (as it gets noisy), having already bagged two vamps.

As they get back on the main road Laughton and Summers continue the conversation on how to catch the vampire who's commissioned Laughton.  She broaches a couple plans:  either following the vampire after it meets with Laughton and she goes until it attempts to feed, cuts off an arm, and they follow it to the nest where it and others probably are; or she "lets" its plan work and Laughton delivers her, then the rest follow and help her clean up the nest.  The Troll likes the former idea; Hamlet doesn't much like either, not enough flare or subtlety, though he's more inclined to the latter idea.  Their conversation is cut short as they witness and drive towards a giant glowing blob.  

Eliot and Sammy recognize the blob as the same one they encountered a couple weeks before on the island, but much larger and now glowing.  Spectrum reaches out with her mind as they approach and reads its thoughts, primitive ones, which tell a jumbled tale of not knowing how it came to be, knowing only the swamps/lakes of Belle Isle, being the protector of the lake (in pictures rather than words), being hunted, and now being in great pain and needing to strike out.  Spectrum notes that some of those hunting this thing look like the same agents she saw on Thanksgiving night.  Looking for a link, with Sammy's permission she searches his mind.  She finds a similarity in their tale of uncertainty around their origin though nothing quite so certain.  They speculate that perhaps this blob was an experiment by the same people who held Sammy, perhaps mistakenly or unknowingly flushed.  Meanwhile, The Captain approaches, responding to the distress call and speaking to Hamlet on the phone.  Aela is also not far away and is on the phone with her husband.  The heroes converge on this mighty strange creation...

 

[Game Mechanics - Points Awarded...

Winning against a marginally inferior opponent for stopping the presumed ABC operatives - +1.875 RPs for Sammy, Spectrum, Troll, +.125 XPs for Sammy, Spectrum, Troll

Thoroughly defeating a marginally inferior opponent for capturing Bud Girl so effectively - +3.75 RPs for Sammy, Spectrum, Troll, +.25 XPs for Sammy, Spectrum, Troll

Winning against an inferior opponent for investigative work of Hamlet on the cases - +.375 RPs for Rodin, +.025 XPs for Rodin

Winning against an inferior opponent for the dispelling of the gang from O'Malley's bar - +.375 RPs for Spectrum, +.025 XPs for Spectrum

Winning against an inferior opponent for handling the reporter - +.375 RPs for Rodin, +.025 XPs for Rodin

Thoroughly defeating a roughly equal opponent for the handling of the Slayer/Bud Girl hand-over - +11.25 RPs for Rodin, Sammy, Spectrum, Troll, +.75 XPs for Rodin, Sammy, Spectrum, Troll

Acts of great publicity - for the US Government VS the City of Detroit - this was national news and there will be legal repercussions for time to come - +22.5 RPs for Rodin, Sammy, Spectrum, Troll

Session play - +4.5 RPs for Sammy, Spectrum, Troll, +1.5 XPs for  Sammy, Spectrum, Troll; +2.25 RPs for Rodin, +.75 XPs for Rodin

Totals:

Rodin +36.75 RPs, +1.55 XPs
Sammy the Slime +43.875 RPs, +2.625 XPs
Spectrum +44.25 RPs, +2.65 XPs
Troll +43.875 RPs, +2.625 XPs

Totals to Date:

The Captain 243.75 RPs, 22.425 XPs
Mermaid 200.625 RPs, 18.2425 XPs
Rodin 295.5 RPs, 25.425 XPs
Sammy the Slime 288 RPs, 24.2125 XPs
Spectrum 112.875 RPs, 7.625 XPs
Troll 301.5 RPs, 29.4 XPs]