Once More Without Feeling - Prog2 - Dunkin Frogs Legs

A Judge Dredd RPG session using my homebrew version of the Savage Dredd playset for Savage Worlds.

Dunkin Frogs Legs 

It's 1am on a rainy Friday night as Judges Mint and Cross observe a trickle of late night revellers returning to Thatcher Towers from the nearby Super Doopy Hyper Loopy station.  One character catches their eye as he surfs the crowd before ducking into an alley.  The Judges dismount and follow their intuition and their suspect into the darkness.

The dark alley is short and opens into a large square dominated by a wall of trash piled up at the far end.  A manhole cover partially covers a drain in the center of the square.  They investigate, but the smell is overpowering and they decide to try other avenues first.  

Pulling out their Lawgivers they scan the area with their IR sights and find a heat bloom at the bottom of the trash pile.  Further close investigation reveals a secret door leading into what looks like a short tunnel carved out of the trash.  traversing the tunnel they enter into a small room with a table and chairs looking like a kitchen.  Sitting at the table is a middle aged citizen who offers them a cup of sythi joe. 

He identifies as Bernie "Fast Fingers" Hilliard, a recidivist dunker with a long arrest record.  Bernie explains that he wasn't pick pocketing he was just acquiring lost property in advance of returning it to their grateful owners who in many cases are so grateful that they will gladly offer him a few creds as a finders fee.  He then proceeds to give the Judges a sob story about how his wife left him during his last 5 stretch in the iso-cubes and he decided to build himself this hovel in the trash rather than return to his apartment which holds too many bad memories for him.  Cross and Mint tell him that there is no excuse for lawlessness and escort him to a holding post in the street.

The radio crackles 

++DISTURBANCE AT THATCHER TOWERS PLAZA NORTH LVL 300 - MULTIPLE CASUALTIES REPORTED - PRIORITY 1 ++ 

Cross and Mint are the closest units and gun their bikes down the pedway towards the plaza.

A grim sight meets them on arrival.  Approximately 30 or so citizens with varying degrees of injuries litter the Plaza entrance.  Most suffering from critical injuries to their extremities, dismemberments and fatalities due to severe blood loss.  The Judges immediately confront the nearest citizen who they recognise as local celebrity Two Ton Tony Tubbs voraciously consuming a human leg.  A man dressed in a mime costume is crawling away from Tony leaving a bloody trail behind him.  

"Pass me another of that frog's legs they're bloomin delicious"

says Tony.  

The Judges call in the incident and request immediate Medical Support and a Resyk Meat Wagon.

Another citizen is sitting on a plaza bench gnawing off the fingers of her left hand.  When interviewed she explains that there was a flash of blue light and this fattie appeared he commanded them all to eat and then with another blue flash disappeared.  She couldn't resist and started to eat her own fingers which is most troubling because she has a successfull career as a left hand model.  She begins to cry whilst still nibbling at the bloody stumps that used to be the cornerstone of her career.

The Judges report this new information and Despatch retorts 

++PSI SQUAD INBOUND - CASE TRANSFERRED TO PSI JUDGE ELDRITCH++ 

The Judges cuff the living and give what first aid they can until the MedTeks and PSi Squad arrive.

Eldritch is visibly shaken as she emerges from an H-Wagon, her team of scanners and precogs set to work surveying the scene.  As she approaches the Judges she updates despatch.

"Eldritch on scene and confirmed, it's a Level 7 Psychic Event with trans-dimensional hallmarks alright, get me a clean up crew stat!!"

She looks at Cross and Mint's badges 

"Cross, Mint, good work boys.  I'll take it from here, this is a Level 7 Psychic Event and my team will need some space to work.  We've got a crowd gathering and I don't want them disturbing any evidence"

As she turns to consult a member of her team, Cross and Mint proceed towards the onlookers.  

    "Nothing to See here! Return to your homes!!"   

After a hard shift Cross and Mint return to the sector house.  Heading to the Booking Hall their path is blocked by a Burrito Vending Machine.  It greets the Judges in a jovial if anxious tone explaining that his name is Call Me Manuel, a vending machine stationed near Amundsen & Abba Apts and it has taken him two days to trundle here to hand himself in as a murderer!!

A cursory examination of the machine shows that a twisted and contorted corpse still resides inside the vending machine.

At this point Judge Plisken arrives and shouts at the pair

"Get that vending machine out of my Sector House and get that body to RESYK"

The pair extricate the body of the male citizen and discover that his cred stick is still in the machine's cash slot which confirms the identity of the body as Spunge Wortle a 26 year old male citizen from Amundsen & Abba Apts.  His rap sheet shows no arrests for criminal damage or tampering and his cred stick shows sufficient balance to purchase a burrito.

The machine explains that he had a software update a coupe of days ago and when he rebooted his internal sensors detected a foreign body in his mechanism.  Without any other data his programming must assume that he has in some way killed this poor unfortunate hungry citizen.

"Would you like a burrito?"

The pair are at the end of their shift so decide to grab a lift pallet and take it down to the Motor Pool, they will deal with the mess in the morning.

 "Are you sure you wouldn't like a burrito? They're really good"