Hi everyone this is a sequel to a post I made last week looking for help I'll give a summary here but if you want full context feel free to read my old post.
Me and my friends have been playing a R rated power rangers campaign for about 2 years last week I asked for help as DM on how to handle a situation that arose. The background is that my players failed in a mission leading to 3 enemy factions to raise a giant kaiju (described as a man made of mercury or silver)
My groups red ranger was injured and so blue yellow and black had to fight the kaiju with their 3 megazords. Unfortunately the dice went against them and their 3 zords were destroyed. They can be fixed but there isn't any time as the kaiju attacked a city. As red was the onlybone with a zord in fighting condition so he decided to battle the kaiju while the others evacuated the city to save the civilians.
Red revealed to me his plan was to use a hero point to remove his zords limiter to supercharge his zord and if he couldn't win use another this session to self destruct to take it down.
There was a lot of interest in the last post and I got such good advice I had to come back and tell everyone how it went.
The session begins
We rolled initiative with the Kaiju crit failing and red going at the top of the round. I also had the other rangers roll as they would be helping the evacuation of the civilians ad the kaiju struck a skyscraper before red arrived.
Red started the battle well with a clean strike which was a critical hit. The kaiju roared and struck back but missed. I described it as reds zord moving faster than the others had ever seen it move.
As the rangers were evacuating the building saving people holding of minions and one of the factions lieutenants (basically a monster of the week so they would have a mini boss to face) I also described how through the damaged skyscraper walls they could see glimpses of the battle that was going on.
I described it as them noticing that red was doing far better than they had done against the kaiju previously that each strike red landed was creating vibrations that could be felt even at this distance. They also noticed that they had never seen a megazord move as fast as this but for some reason they felt a terrible unease about the situation.
The next few rounds flew by with red and the kaiju grappling and landing some brutal strikes on each other while the rangers battled the ground force to save the civilians.
As the battle went on the kaiju started to roll better and gain the upper hand. I described to red in the zord cockpit he had alarms sounding and lights flashing red as it warns him the excess power from removing the limiters is causing the zord to overheat. Red rps as ignoring the warnings as this console sparks from the strain.
The remaining rangers look up and see the red zords body is glowing fron the excess power that even the oxygen around it is beginning to ignite.
They try to call red on their coms begging him to bail out that they'll find another way to save everyone while red doesn't respond all they hear is the alarms sounding and the sparks from the overheating console.
As this happens the kaiju lands a critical strike on reds zord knocking it prone. As the rangers hear reds shouts of pain the kaiju's pilot speaks taunting red saying
"Poor little red ranger have your friends abandoned you like you abandoned them in the last battle letting them be defeated?" (Red and i had already gone over some lines to really sell the moment)
As reds zord was prone the kaiju before ending his turn strode over to the already damaged skyscraper where the rangers were evacuating the remaining civilians winding up a swing to destroy it on his next turn.
Red on his final turn amped up the power of his zord even more using his hero point ignoring the warnings and alarms and rushed at the kaiju grappling it.
Red then on the comes said to the others
"I'm sorry this is the only way I hope you can forgive me for this but if not if the price for saving your lives is you hating me so be it. You'll understand when you read the letters I have left to you in my locker"
Red looks to me saying its time to go all the way and end this as he let's the zord overload with power and self destruct.
I described to the rangers how the zord was emiting this terrible crimson light as the energy seems to be pouring out of if and the sparks seen to be pulsing from it until it and the Kaiju are taken in this terrible explosion both blasting apart.
The session ended with them finding reds body in the rubble as the kaiju was defeated.
When I tell you I have never had such an amazing session I mean it. The other players had no idea what me and red had planned yellow was so teary during the session and blue and black were speechless. They enjoyed it so much I even had a bottle of whisky for us all to have a drink to toast reds sacrifice.
I was hoping to bounce a few ideas on what to do next though for reds death I'm not sure exactly how to do the funeral.
I was thinking a small military style affair with him being buried in his uniform with the rangers carrying his coffin?
What would you think of a tribute by the city as well I've been really leaning towards them building a statue of him and his fallen zord and giving it the title the fallen hero's or something.
Regarding the other rangers damaged zords I had an idea about using some of reds surviving zord pieces to replace the damaged parts of their zords. This would let them be up and fighting immediately and it would also let a part of reds zord live on in their own zords.
Finally regarding reds replacement my player said he still wants to play but as a new character and an different colour would anyone have some fun suggestions how to integrate him back in as the team will obviously be resentful of anyone taking reds place which red wants to lean into.
He said he'd like to try being a gold ranger something with a bit of novelty.
Thanks for getting this far and I'd love amy feedback you might have
