So Flash Gordon and the Sphere of Doom, Part Four "Underground and Under Foot" happened. Frankly, our groups' habit of wanting to play the bad guys just took over. You see it's taken three sessions over about as many months to get Flash Gordon crashland-ed on Mongo. But during these sessions, the machinations of Ming and minions among themselves have been way too fascinating for any of us to ignore.
So while working on a little aside about Mingo City with Kal, Peryton, and JerryTel, Renee (Trey Renee) showed up wanting to play not watch. Not wanting to disappoint her, we worked her in as Princess Aurora. In our setting that is Ming's female clone that has equal parts of himself and King Kala of the Shark-Men. She would, of course, be up to nothing but trouble.
Meanwhile, the vast expanse of Mingo City was almost in a civil war in terms of unrest. General Kala (played by Kal, no less) at the same time began his cyber assault on the city's TAO network. He succeeded in launching a metropolis-wide, and beyond, re-boot, even King Vultan's Sky City was affected. The power going out meant that the denizens therein had some things to say to their vastly outnumbered overlords.
High Priest Zogi, is not one to be underestimated. His ties to the true TAO provided him and his citadel complex with all the power that they needed. His priests, armed with Holo-Projecting Staffs, broadcasted calming words reminding everyone that they were children of TAO. As an an afterthought, he mentioned that Ming was TAO's divine voice in the material world.
Meanwhile, Kala, a little worried that the reboot might take a little while to take affect, decided that investigating the notice that an off-world ship had arrived was a worthy endeavor. Princess Aurora was right there behind him. She doesn't like him. but she knows he has instincts that cannot be denied. They ended up as an elevator going to the Out-World Ports. King Vultan, after slowing his Sky City's descent into the Realms of Fire via TEV-COM, would show up to crowd the elevator with his wings because he knew that Baylin had taken the same route a few minutes before.
Ming showed up at the Catherdal-Complex of TAO. Zogi could not help himself any longer. He confessed his sins, having saved the Earth from Ming's plans, and offered himself, and anybody else nearby, as a sacrifice to the will of Ming, Son of TAO, and TAOS. Ming only killed a cardinal, maybe three, while accepting the apology. It was not a pretty scene but it rocked.
Flash Gordon, Professor Zarkov, and Dale Arden felt their elevator jolt as it derailed. As the doors opened they realized they were prisoners of the Brown Dwarves of Mongo. A few meters away, Vultan, Princess Aurora, and Kala would find themselves in the same predicament.
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