Boy Blunder opens the lock to the pipe and jumps down into the unknown. Wade Wilson and a small horde of Kommies go down with him.

After some fancy maneuvering, Pax, Space Jawa and CharlesX are all on a single Lakitu cloud car. It's a tight fit, but doable.

JKLantern realizes that trying to hold up this airship with a beanstalk is like holding up the Hindenburg with a firehouse pole. It ain't happening.

The airship picks up speed and is falling ever faster. You guys probably have one more action before it hits.

Everyone gets an XP

Since Wade and Boy Blunder are somewhere elese at the moment, I'm just going to need what Pax, JK, Jawa and CharlesX are doing. (since some of our folks are indisposed, this is indeed a transitory scene)

Zog it, pipe time!

What, you don't think we can fly fast enough on the cloud to go to conduct our Bowser operation?

I'm not on the cloud. Therefore, PIPE TIME FOR ME!

I'm pretty sure we're being forced into the pipe by the DM.

Though, shouldn't we be safe up on this here cloud?

If we move fast enough, yeah, I'd think.

You guys follow the wreck of the ship. We'll do the pipe thing.

Charles, Jawa, you wanna hang around out here and see what loot we might get?

You guys follow the ship, see where it crashes, see if you can find any clues as to what was going on with the army, and salvage weapons up there.

Us of the Pipe Brigade will see what they were after down there, and if we can discover anything on this end.

We meet when the GM completely loses his sanity.

You guys are meeting already?

I was under the impression JackA didn't have any sanity, I mean look at who he is play testing this with...

I'm thinking more along the lines of get out of dodge, watch the crash from a safe distance, then see what loot we might get.

And then we go find Mushroom Kingdom regulars so we can find out what happened to Bowser and restore things to the way they're suppose to be.

But yeah, you've got the jist of the immediate course of action.

Yuppers.

Hold on, boys, and pretend that you're in the Great Glass Elevator.

Jack, I use the Lakitu cloud controls to soar up above the blast radius and watch from a safe distance as the airship strikes the ground.

Ok, everybody's in the pipe but you three.

The airship hits the ground with a tremendous explosion.

KRAKADOOM!

You float on your cloud, eying the destruction. Everything is twisted metal and debris except for one thing: a stringed instrument with a deep round back that somehow survived the cataclysm.

I swoop down in the cloud, hop out, and grab the stringed instrument.

Using my brains and Ability (encyclopedic knowledge of trivial/useless information), I try to determine what this is.

My roll...

2d6 = 5. Argh.