I should have seen that coming, of course Rex's posse wouldn't just ignore us after snooping around. Last night Rex and his posse surrounded the inn we were staying at, the first found Smoke who was downstairs drinking, and began interrogating him, like smokes would ever give in, he of course tossed a flash grenade and dove for cover instead. Rex had brought a decidedly ugly woman with him and she was using the stolen launching knife as one of her weapons, as well as several other hidden knives. After the Maxis incident I had decided to get myself a lethal weapon, especially considering the possibility of needing to deal with the undead, so I had bought myself a .50 Caliber Bullard express, which I have used in the past if the familiarity is any indication. I shot Rex in the head then with a perfect shot, or I would have if he hadn't managed to dodge using some unnatural speed at the last second.
While this was happening Ziggy jumped out of a window to engage Casper Zed who was guarding the side of the buildings. Casper pulled out a deck of cards and reached out in the direction of Ziggy's chest, presumably in an attempt to stop his heart (which may have explained why some of the guards of factory 13 died of seemingly natural causes), but given that Ziggy was already dead that was not successful. Ziggy then tossed a knife at Caspers head nearly killing him, Casper reponded by making a massive cloud of explosive gas (which smelled like swamp gases similar to what we observed at warehouse 13) , which promptly detonated and shook the building we were in.
The ugly woman engaged in combat with Cassanova and Malady, while Colleen began taunting Rex to break his concentration. I tried to eliminate the ugly woman so we could focus on taking down Rex but shooting in a melee is not as easy as it sounds and my rifle was deflected away before I could shoot.
Ziggy snuck around to the window and threatened Rex with a flask full of Nitroglycerine, which he apparently pulled out of his hat, apparently I underestimated him as a magician. This works about as well as it could be expected to when threatening someone with explosives you are holding. Rex panicked and shot the flask of Nitro. causing a massive explosion shaking the foundations of the inn. I am honestly amazed it was still standing, which was sufficient to take Rex down, causing the ugly woman to Rush to him. I shot her in the back of her head, never turn your back on an enemy you are fighting.
After that the entire police department showed up with tanks and steam-wagons and enough firepower to level the city block, apparently the explosions drew some attention.
As we were recovering and licking our wound we discovered unsurprisingly the Ziggy was dead (re-dead?) and that there was a corroded bullet in his heart. Vuduladi offered to use her magic to return the body to the state it was at the point of death (the first one), which was sucessful and repaired all of his wounds except a single wound to his chest. Ziggy demanded a mirror, and I cracked a joke to alleviate some of the tension in the air (something to the effect of "I'm right here" , since my name is Mirrors). However curious to find out what is going on we got him a mirror.
Looking into the mirror, Ziggy begins to berate himself and tells himself to take better care of himself and to get his body pickled (with alcohol) so it doesn't rot as much. Smoke at this point was impatiently demanding to know what was going on, in between cursing. Ziggy just stared into his eyes and Smoke went dead silent and retreated.
When questioned on who he was the second person responded that he was Ziggy's 'roommate' amd gave Ziggy back control. I am starting to think this is not just a case of multiple personality, there is something off with his roommate, I have never seen Smoke cowed that easily by anyone.
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