The Front session 4: Weird War!

Session 4 of the Mini-campaign for The Front RPG finds our stalwart squad hot on the tail of the German forces as they head north from the flaming wreckage of the moathouse.

Dawkins is driving the stolen German truck with Stone riding shotgun. Both men are wearing enemy helmets to help avert any unwanted attention. Corp. Murphy readies weapons and restocks ammo in the back of the

truck along with Sterling, Fynn, and Honeycut.

Eventually they come upon a enemy sentry post and slow down to not arouse suspicion. The guards motion them to stop and the lads cut loose with a hail of gunfire!

Murphy opens up on a motorcylce parked nearby causing it to explode.

Some time later the group crosses the border of France into Belgium and can see the road will lead them to a castle perched on the edge of a waterfall in the distance. The full moon gives the area a strange dreamlike quality, and a heavy fog begins to set in.

Crossing the drawbridge the Squad finds the German vehicles all parked in the remains of the ancient gatehouse (Area 1). Making quick and silent work of the two sentries, they start to cross the bridge (2) towards the block house. A voice calls out from the parapet above and Murphy calls back in german. The senty is not swayed and opens fire! The men retreat back to the ruined gatehouse and hot wire a 1/2 track which they then drive back across the bridge and smash through the blockhouse doors with!

Blockhouse battle

Storming the Block house our guys get in a small firefight with a squad of guards! Grenades are tossed, and Honeycut's shotgun makes short work of any survivors! Private Fynn takes a position in the upper floor of the Blockhouse facing the castle proper, while the rest of the squad remounts the 1/2 track and uses it to assault the main castle.

They take heavy fire from a machine gun on the third floor of the castle as they approach, and Fynn takes them out with well placed shots!

Bursting into the castle proper, the lads make short work of the half dozen guards that attempt to repel their assault. The men decide to bring along the Flamethrower and the Panzershrek they got from the Moathouse, since they are not sure what they may be up against here as they search the castle. The group quickly discovers a hidden stairwell in a desecrated chapel and descend underground.

Honeycut captures a sentry and they get him to guide them through the lower levels. However he leads them into an old crypt where the group is set upon by horrid flesh-eating ghouls! Upon defeating the "ghouls" they see that they are actually some of the missing POW's as well as germans!!

The squad follows the sounds of chanting to a large chamber that opens up directly behind the waterfall. The

roaring of the water and the chanting of the collected enemy soldiers covers the movement of our Heroes as they move into position.

The germans are in the midst of performing some sort of ceremony in front of a large ornately decorated gateway when weird energies begin to form! The men know they need to do something quickly so they start to move up behind the unsuspecting enemy soldiers.

The Black Sun commander whips his followers into a frenzy as the Nazi scientist looks on. The fusion of

The ceremony!

occult power and his dreaded experiments are about to come to fruition and allow the Third Reich to rule the world for a thousand years!!

The squad finally in position preps hand grenades and weapons with full clips. Suddenly an unseen sentry steps out from behind a pillar and Prvt. Sterling gets into a physical struggle to take him out!

A soldier in the back row seems to notice something is going on and Corporal Murphy gives the order to open fire!

The bullets and grenades seem to make short work of the soldiers at first, however the Squad quickly realize something unnatural is happening as the ragged bleeding bodies seem to get back up and return fire!!

Honeycut and Dawkins witness a female Nazi Officer actually command a soldier to transform into a hulking Wolfman and it rushes to attack them!

Sterling and Stone continue to unleash hails of gunfire into the remaining enemy soldiers until they are just bloody clumps of meat that cannot fight back!

Honeycut goes one-on-one against the werewolf with the flamethower as Dawkins unleashes a hail of thompsons rounds into the Female officer killing her!

The Black Sun commandant uses the energy from the strange sphere he clutches in his hand to transform the

Power of the Loc Nar!

Gestapo agent into a horrible winged beast that he directs to attack the Americans!

As this battle is raging, Prvt. Sterling begins to feel very strange urges wash over him. He is able to keep it together and keep fighting, but he knows something is very wrong!

Honeycut keeps narrowly avoiding the rending claws of the werewolf, and is able to keep the beast constantly engulfed in searing flame!

Dawkins makes a rush towards the Commandant and opens fire upon the occult leader only to watch in stupor as his bullets are transformed into small fish that flop to the floor harmlessly at the man's feet!

"Ha ha ha! The ancient power is our to wield American. You will fall to the power of the Thousand year reich!!

Murphy sets down his thompson and loads the Panzershrek. "Let's see how your ancient power likes this!" FWOOSH!! The rocket screams across the chamber and explodes in a shower of cold water all around the wielder of the Loc nar!!  "Oh crap!" utters Murphy.

The winged terror swoops down at Stone who dodges it's slahing claws and opens up on the creature with his BAR to little effect! Unable to hold back the urges any longer Prvt. Sterling lets out a terrible howl of rage as he transforms into a werewolf!!

"You've got to be kidding me!" gripes Stone, reloading his BAR.

Mystical purple tentacles reach up out of the floor and attempt to restrain Dawkins, but he escapes thier grasp and makes desperate charge towards the Commandant!

Murphy is able to use his command ability to keep Sterling under control and orders him to attack the winged terror!

Stone and Honeycut  acting together are able to constantly hammer attack the Nazi werewolf to the point where it just can't get a successful attack off!

The Black Sun Commandant screams in a rage as both the winged terror and the werewolf seem to be faltering under the attacks of the Americans! His regular troops shredded beyond use he holds up the Loc Nar and begins to call upon its power opening a portal in the gateway when....

Duke Dawkins leaps up the steps of the gateway and uses the but of his thompson to knock the green-orb from the Nazi's hand!

"Nien!! You must not!!"

"Sorry bub, but your weird shit ain't happening on my watch!"

Everyone watches as the Orb seems to float in the air for long seconds, then Dawkins swipes it from the grasp of the German officer. Upon touching the Org Dawkins realizes this "thing" is PURE EVIL!!! He looks over his shoulder at his fellow squad members and then tucking the Loc-nar like a football in his arm he shoulder tackles the Black Sun officer back through the pulsing energies of the gateway!

"Kraka-Boom!" a shockwave rolls through the cavern and the ancient gateway begins to collapse upon itself. With no more occult energies to empower them the Nazi werewolf and winged terror succumb to the wounds inflicted upon them!

Sterling also reverts to human form, and seems to be okay!

Murphy leads the remaining squad members out of the castle where they link back up with Fynn awaiting them in a fancy black car!

"I figured we could ride back to Hommlet in style!" grins Fynn as his fellows jump in the car. "Hey where's Dawkins?"

Corp. Murphy slumps into the passenger seat, "We made it because of him, you won't believe what we found in there! Now get going, I can't put this place behind us fast enough!"

THE END......