Post by Kagi on Mar 24, 2006 1:02:04 GMT -5
*****Recap of Last Session*****
Pele's recon of the tennement has payed off. Upon anilysing the thermographic photo's 10 has pointed out that a slight spike in the tempreture is showing in the north side of the basement, this is the likely spot the team will find what ever the Gestault has been doing here.
Butterfly has finshed the charges needed to destroy the BTL lab without a moment to spare; the team is tunning out of time. A lunar eclipse is scheduled to happen at around midnight in Seattle and it seems likely that what ever the Gestault has planned will happen then.
The team has jumped into action, their personal diffrences put aside and has made the trip through the stinking sewers. Butterfly is poised to set the mini remote charges at the electrical junction box that will cut power to the Tenement when the runners need it.
The entrance to the southern side of the sewer is further down the tunnel another ten meters or less. It is a large storm drain, but even so it will be a snug fit that only one runner can use at a time.
Local time is 10:40pm in Seattle.
*****End Recap*****
[8:36:28 PM] GM_Kagi *As Butterfly opens the electrical junction box it becomes immediatly apparent that the billing meters have been bypassed so the electrical company has no idea that the Tenement is being supplied power. The inside of the box is a disaster of wires and fragile home made connectors. Who ever did the work was a drunken half-blind hack. It will be much simpler then expected to frag-up the power.
[8:37:49 PM] Pele "Time. We don't have much. Done yet?"
[8:37:59 PM] * DC asks her spirit to appear from the meta planes to her side
[8:39:28 PM] Cherub "What you're doing is dangerous, ghouls only allowed 8 of us to pass. They could consider as a provocation that we call for "someone " else."
[8:39:47 PM] * Manzazzuu , with Rick by his side, watches down the direction they're headed in case any of the Tenement members decide to come down - unlikely, perhaps, but he's little better to do at the moment.
[8:40:22 PM] Doc " I can become 1 less and hide in Butterfly's pocket till we pass there territory."
[8:40:37 PM] DC "we are at the building... and they are not neer the here"
[8:41:19 PM] DC "not near here" I mean
[8:47:00 PM] * Butterfly sprays a touch of c4 foam on some of the wires, and wires it to a remote detonation cap.
[8:48:40 PM] Butterfly "OK.. That should do it."
[8:48:50 PM] * DC is still astrally preceving from the last seassion
[8:49:20 PM] Pele "Can we go through the grate now? I wil lgo first."
[8:50:02 PM] Ten "Thank fraggin' god! I can't stand these sewers another minute" ::he says from behind his breathing mask::
[8:50:36 PM] * Manzazzuu rolls his eyes at Ten's declaration.
[8:51:28 PM] Butterfly Looks at Ten, "There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death"
[8:52:13 PM] Ten ::Looks to Butterfly with confusion on his face, but says nothing::
[8:52:23 PM] DC "it is too bad you cannot see the other demention Ten the life in this place gives it a nice glow... it is too bad that it is actually roally gross"
[8:52:26 PM] * Cherub take a look around in case anything could be spying on them.
[8:54:39 PM] Pele "Yea. No time for philosophy. Time for getting trough the grates."
[8:55:19 PM] Butterfly "Maybe I should check the grate before we open it?"
[8:55:24 PM] * DC gives a quick nod
[8:56:19 PM] * Manzazzuu waits nearby, with the everpresent Rick.
[8:57:26 PM] * Butterfly approaches the grate carefully and checks it and the surrounding area over for bombs, as she did the tunnel.
[8:58:33 PM] Doc "Butterfly could you put my clothes and stuff in you pack, or any of you for that matter? I gonna scout a little and need less restriction."
[8:59:22 PM] * Butterfly shoots Doc a glare, then focuses back on the grate.
[8:59:39 PM] Manzazzuu "Are you sure that's wise, Doc? We're about to head into the lion's den." He speaks in quiet tones, unsure of what kinds of sentries the Geshtault has posted, or where.
[9:00:27 PM] Doc " Just wanna be sure when we go in we know what we have to deal with before it is too late."
[9:01:04 PM] Pele "Well, we need to hurry. I don't think we have time to dwell on the matter.
[9:01:05 PM] Pele "
[9:01:08 PM] GM_Kagi * It is barely perceptable, but the air shimmers next to Cherub
[9:01:43 PM] * DC looks over at cherub
[9:02:03 PM] Butterfly "Hm....I don't see anything but grime....and Doc it's hard for me to shoot things with my arms full of your laundry."
[9:03:35 PM] Doc "Is just my jumpsuit and medkit shouldn't take long."
[9:03:59 PM] DC "I'll hold on to it
[9:04:18 PM] Doc " Can dump the suit anyway if needed."
[9:04:35 PM] * Pele pops his neck with anxiety
[9:04:39 PM] Doc "thank you."
[9:04:43 PM] DC "are you sure you want to I mean the if any of the ghouls see you. your as lunch
[9:05:17 PM] * Manzazzuu takes a quick look at the grate they're supposed to go through, to see if there's any easy way to get it open.
[9:05:50 PM] * Doc takes off all but his boxers and hands it to DC and starts to shimmer growing smaller and thinner while scales till he turns into a water snake
[9:05:57 PM] Butterfly "Want me to blow it?"
[9:06:46 PM] GM_Kagi *The grate seems to be screwed into the concrete floor. It would be very hard to unscrew it from this side even if you had a screwdriver small enough to fit through the grate
[9:07:05 PM] Pele "Once Doc gets back, we should decide. I would say go one at a time. This close they might hear it. I wouldn't want to lose the element of surprise."
[9:08:18 PM] Butterfly "I have thermite. It doesn't go boom." she smiles.
[9:08:26 PM] Manzazzuu "It looks like it's either blow it, or have you and Rick break it open, Pele. I think explosives, if done right, might actually be the quieter method. Unless anyone here can dissolve metal grates?"
[9:09:16 PM] Pele "We can fit through one at a time..."
[9:09:44 PM] Cherub "we might sumon a spirit of fire and use it to melt the metal"
[9:11:04 PM] Pele "Why, though? We just all walk through... it is a storm drain."
[9:14:24 PM] Cherub "My tradition forbid me such kind of magic anyway. But i'm sure that some of you might be able to do such a thing."
[9:15:09 PM] Manzazzuu "The thermite sounds like a good plan to me."
[9:15:27 PM] Manzazzuu "Though I suggest we blow the power first to take care of alarm systems."
[9:16:10 PM] Cherub "heh...whatever..."
[9:17:13 PM] Butterfly "Thermite is pretty bright with the lights off. What's the bigger gamble?"
[9:18:16 PM] Manzazzuu "If someone sees the thermite, we've got a chance of dealing with them before they alert the rest of the place. If an alarm goes off, security knows."
[9:19:45 PM] Pele "I agree. Should we cover our eyes and what not?"
[9:20:10 PM] DC "same here"
[9:20:34 PM] DC "I agree thermite sounds like the best plan"
[9:23:01 PM] * Doc slither partway along the wall at the grate trying to reach the holes and sways side to side
[9:23:47 PM] Ten ::Looks to butterfly and stands back to give her room to work::
[9:24:23 PM] Ten "Butterfly, wait...."
[9:24:28 PM] * Butterfly digs a thermite bar out of one of her pockets.
[9:24:32 PM] Butterfly "ya?"
[9:24:41 PM] Manzazzuu "Do we have any way to cushion the fall of the grate when she's done?"
[9:24:59 PM] DC "I'll levitate it"
[9:25:21 PM] * Cherub watch butterfly working with a bored face.
[9:25:29 PM] Ten ::Moves over and picks Doc, now in his snake form, up and holds him high enough to slither through the grate and into the basement::
[9:25:39 PM] Manzazzuu "Sounds like a plan." He makes his way away from the drain.
[9:25:59 PM] Butterfly "We need Doc, right?" she asks Ten
[9:26:01 PM] * Doc moves down and into the water away from Butterfly
[9:26:16 PM] GM_Kagi *The grate will fall into a sewage stream directly below it
[9:26:35 PM] * DC moves away from the great but to were she can still see it
[9:27:34 PM] Ten ::Gives Butterfly the thumbs up and moves away again::
[9:28:01 PM] * DC casts levitate on the great
[9:28:13 PM] Butterfly "Step back and guns out. I'll hit the power first. Then the thermite, and everyone in the basement will probably see it."
[9:28:14 PM] * Pele steps back
[9:29:22 PM] * Cherub steps back as well
[9:31:21 PM] * DC tries not to look directly at it but keep it in sight
[9:31:59 PM] * Pele makes sure flare protection is on
[9:32:01 PM] * Manzazzuu and Rick wait. Manny takes out his gun.
[9:32:02 PM] Ten "If you hit the power the whole building will go out."
[9:32:25 PM] Ten "Wont they suspect something and come down to the basement to try to fix it?"
[9:32:55 PM] Butterfly "We just went through this. They think it's better than an alarm."
[9:33:06 PM] Butterfly "I don't care either way"
[9:33:22 PM] Cherub "what a pain..." Slowly close his eyes.
[9:33:43 PM] Pele "We might be able to bottleneck them if they come to the basement."
[9:34:05 PM] Pele "And they weill just be wondering what happened, not coming full force, or so I think."
[9:34:23 PM] Pele "But, if the alarm goes off the will come down ready for trouble."
[9:35:18 PM] Ten ::Shrugs:: "Let's get to it then, we are short on time."
[9:35:25 PM] Pele "That is how I see it, at least."
[9:35:56 PM] Cherub "Just do it already. Decision is taken , waiting is just a waste of time..."
[9:36:10 PM] Butterfly "I didn't see an alarm on the grate. Did you, Pele?"
[9:36:27 PM] Pele "I didn't look."
[9:36:51 PM] Pele "You can blow the power remotely right?
[9:37:01 PM] Butterfly "yes"
[9:37:22 PM] Pele "We could blow the grate, get up there, get in good positions, then blow the power and be ready."
[9:37:22 PM] GM_Kagi *Local time is now 11pm. T-minus 60minutes until the eclipse is full.
[9:37:38 PM] Manzazzuu "If you don't think there's an alarm, don't bother with the power. I don't know a lot about alarms so I thought it was better to assume there was one than that there wasn't."
[9:37:41 PM] DC "great, blow the power later
[9:39:11 PM] DC "butterfly just hit the grate"
[9:39:16 PM] Butterfly "OK. Lights on. Here we go."
[9:40:01 PM] * DC gets ready for the added strain to the spell and the flash
[9:40:35 PM] * Butterfly slips the thermite bar between the holes in the grate and ignites it.
[9:41:56 PM] GM_Kagi *The thermite dissolves the grate like butter and drops into the sewage stream below, continuing to burn as it is washed away. The grate can be pried open the rest of the way. Only one person at a time can fit through and into the basement.
[9:42:26 PM] * DC drops the spell
[9:42:44 PM] * Manzazzuu gets Rick to pry the grate out of the hole the rest of the way.
[9:45:10 PM] Pele "I'll go first..."
[9:45:10 PM] * Butterfly looks at Pele and motions to the hole in the ceiling with a wicked grin.
[9:45:15 PM] Butterfly "Ladies first"
[9:45:17 PM] GM_Kagi *Rick easily prys open the grate
[9:45:41 PM] * DC fallows butterflies lead
[9:45:49 PM] Butterfly "I'll take the rear."
[9:45:55 PM] * Pele jumps and climbs up, missing Butterfly's comment
[9:46:18 PM] GM_Kagi *The basement is a long corridor that extends off into darkness both left and right. You know from the plans that 10 provided that wrap around and meet, forming a square. It is perhaps 9 or 10 feet wide and as tall as wide; the interiour is dimly lit and humid; the smell of mold and rot is everywhere. Except for the occasional drip of water it is as quiet as a tomb. Rubbish, boxes, and the occasional spare construction material clog the floor, but provide little in the way of cover. The walls are covered in grime, dust, and ancient graffite decades old.
[9:46:44 PM] GM_Kagi * One by one the runners climb up and into the tenements basement
[9:46:53 PM] * Butterfly slips the flashlight into her pocket, adjusts her glasses, draws her gun, and waits till everyone else is up to follow"
[9:47:08 PM] * Manzazzuu gets Rick to help him up, Rick follows after.
[9:48:57 PM] Cherub "Better and better..."Climb up too, following manzazzuu.
[9:50:54 PM] Ten ::Removes his breather mask and begins slipping out of the disposable jumpsuit::
[9:51:01 PM] DC "I think I prefer the sewer..." she says in a conserned tone
[9:52:35 PM] * DC mentaly asks her spirit if it is doing alright
[9:56:13 PM] Pele "Shall we cut the power and make them bottleneck, or procedd cautiously into the abyss?"
[9:56:47 PM] Manzazzuu "We'll leave the power on for now, I think." He whispers.
[9:56:50 PM] Ten ::Checks his Comm. on his wrist:: "The heat source Pele found is in North/East corner of the basement."
[9:57:08 PM] * Pele turns on his thermographic vision
[9:57:56 PM] Ten "The Gestault quarters are on the north side, three floors up. Finally the BTL lab is on the east side, two floors up. We are in the south corridor of the basement."
[9:58:14 PM] Pele "What do you guys want to hit firs?"
[9:58:32 PM] Manzazzuu "We're in the basement, we should do our investigating here first."
[9:58:39 PM] Pele "I am scanning around in thermographic mode for people... I will give a heads up."
[10:00:45 PM] * Pele heads forward. "I am going towards the heat first."
[10:01:05 PM] Manzazzuu "Sounds like a good idea."
[10:02:13 PM] * GM_Kagi *Doc, in his snake form, shimmers and turns back to an elf. No one even knew he was around. Suddenly a naked elf stands at the rear of the party
[10:02:32 PM] Pele @@i am heading down the eastern corridor... Someone rela this to Cherub, since he doesn't have a radio. Or anyone who doesn't have a radio. I am subvocalizing the rest of the way.@@
[10:02:53 PM] Manzazzuu "Watch for alarms, Pele." He whispers to the man.
[10:03:17 PM] Doc "can I have my stuff and and we may wanna put on our mask the polloution here is very bad."
[10:04:02 PM] * DC hands his cloths back to Doc avoiding a downward gaze
[10:04:14 PM] * Butterfly exhibits no sign of modesty while she watches Doc.
[10:04:55 PM] * Doc dresses quickly unable to hide his grin
[10:05:00 PM] Pele @@got it... I will keep an eye out for alarms.@@
[10:05:04 PM] Ten "Must be cold in here, huh Doc?" ::he says with a snicker::
[10:06:14 PM] Doc "Ya can you say your snake is 5 feet long *grins*"
[10:06:34 PM] * Pele switches between thermographic and regular, looking for anything out of the ordinary
[10:07:35 PM] Doc "Do the rest of you how corrupt the astral is in this place?"
[10:08:06 PM] Manzazzuu "I guessed that was part of the reason the last group went insane, Doc, and so I haven't been percieving astrally."
[10:08:51 PM] DC "it is getting really bad"
[10:09:03 PM] Doc "Not sure what it is but we should be aware of it anyone useing any magic."
[10:10:43 PM] * Cherub turn to astral perception and looks around him.
[10:12:51 PM] * Cherub whispers: Leïr thekal jik'loïs reth.A light stream of energy flows around him.
[10:15:03 PM] Pele @@something hotter is ahead... Ten, we nearing the source?@@
[10:15:21 PM] * Butterfly keeps her gun up and ready to fire. She watches the group's tail.
[10:16:09 PM] DC "I just hope you are wrong Manzazzuu"
[10:16:51 PM] Manzazzuu "So do I."
[10:17:14 PM] Pele "I just hope we can get done before 12."
[10:17:48 PM] * Cherub whispers: "I'd rather prefer that he was right. Better knowing the danger than not seing it coming."
[10:18:02 PM] Ten ::Nods to Pele:: "It seems it's in the North East corner at the end of this corridor."
[10:18:27 PM] Pele @@i can't make it ou... anyone else have thermogrphic vishion?@@
[10:19:51 PM] GM_Kagi *Local time is now 11:20pm. T-Minus 40 minutes until the eclipse is full.
[10:20:10 PM] Pele @@guess not. I am goign ahead.@@
[10:20:16 PM] * Pele heads forward
[10:21:07 PM] GM_Kagi You near the North East corner of the basement. The scene you see before you is one of utter revulsion and horror. Blood and viscera cover the entire place from floor to ceiling. Bodies lay heaped in a pile and strewn across the floor in haphazard fashion, some whole, most not; It is impossible to say how many. The dead carcases are left to rot, while newer and fresher bodies lay on top. The smell of this place is undescribably foul. The whole mass seems to be connected, one body heaped onto the next, and fleshy red tenticles thread through the bodies like monsterously large veins. Some of the newer bodies seem to be alive, somewhat; bodies twitch here and there among the pile and a low moan escapes. The whole mass is perhaps 20 ft. around and fills the chamber with an ocassional bodiy farther out than that.
[10:22:30 PM] Manzazzuu "...." Blink.
[10:22:42 PM] Cherub "I guess that we have something else to blow..."
[10:22:51 PM] * Pele is taken aback a moment, but regains is composure
[10:23:13 PM] * DC tryes not to gag
[10:23:18 PM] * Butterfly grins in amazement.
[10:23:38 PM] Pele @@well, does that look like a god?@@
[10:23:47 PM] Pele @@i've never seen one.@@
[10:23:55 PM] DC "ten take the pictures..."
[10:24:17 PM] * Pele snaps a few in all modes
[10:24:30 PM] Manzazzuu "Whatever it is, I think we want to keep our distance." He whispers.
[10:24:34 PM] Butterfly Looks to Cherub, "Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you."
[10:25:31 PM] Cherub "this things seems to be like a very big trouble and some precautions to erase the trouble may be nice i believe, but it's up to you..."
[10:25:37 PM] Ten ::Stands frozen, his face is a mask of horror::
[10:30:29 PM] * Doc goes white with utter terror and starts to shake violently
[10:31:10 PM] Ten ::In Spenthrial (elvish):: "No,no,no, it is too soon. May the furies save us..."
[10:31:54 PM] Cherub "Shit....we need to bring them away from this thing..."
[10:32:04 PM] Butterfly In elvish, "too soon for what?"
[10:32:35 PM] * DC grabs ten and tries to move him away from the horror
[10:33:29 PM] * Butterfly tries to see where the tentacles come from without getting near the thing!
[10:33:29 PM] * Cherub run to doc . Grab him under his arms and begin to pull him baxck in the corridor."
[10:34:05 PM] Pele @@we have no time for cowardice. We must be quick and decisive. Now, Manny, do you recognize this? If so, how do we destroy it?"
[10:34:07 PM] Pele @@
[10:34:39 PM] * DC turns off astral
[10:36:59 PM] GM_Kagi *Four spirits materialize in the corridor behind you and three cling to the ceiling over the mass of bodies. The spirits that materialize is like nothing you've ever seen. It seems to be cobbled together from pieces of various metahumans, but it is hard to say as it is twisted and rotted in the extreme. It's head resembles a flesh covered skull, it has no lips to cover it's teeth, no nose just two slitted holes that leak mucus, and no eyes or even eye sockets, just a smooth patch of skin where eyes should be. It crouches, it's movements lithe and fast like a snake, and it's limbs moving in ways that would be painful for a human. A burbling growl comes from it's throat.
[10:41:12 PM] Butterfly "Incoming" she says as she take aim at the nearest of the 4.
[10:50:27 PM] GM_Kagi *One of the four rear creatures jumps at Butterfly, raking at her with vicious claws on it's feet and hands
[10:57:44 PM] GM_Kagi *The creature knocks her back into the wall, her head bounces off the plastecrete
[11:02:32 PM] GM_Kagi *Another creature jumps at DC, but the nimble elf dodges it, and it lands next to him with a growl of frustration
[11:11:34 PM] GM_Kagi *The next creature leaps into the air and lands squarely on Doc. It's claws on it's hands and feet rake him badly, cutting through his armor like butter spilling his blood to the hard plastecrete
[11:15:48 PM] GM_Kagi * The next beast takes a running leap onto Ten. It crashes into him and begins raking him. An audible crunch can be heard assome of Ten's ribs break. The beast rips through his armor and his blood begins to flow,he is not dead though he is very badly wounded.
[11:22:27 PM] GM_Kagi *One of the beasts clinging to the ceiling opens it's mouth and green noxious liquid spits forth at Pele, but one of the other creatures moves into the way at the last moment and is hit instead. The one hit, screams in pain and falls from the ceiling, thrashing about on the floor
[11:30:46 PM] GM_Kagi *Another of the beasts on the ceiling spit at Rick, this time it connects and immediatly noxtious vapors pour off the man as his cloths and armor begin to melt. The spit seems to be a powerful acid. Rick does not even cry out or flinch
[11:36:08 PM] Manzazzuu Rick moves over to the spirit attacking Doc, and performs a maneuver known as the "Double axehandle".
[11:40:12 PM] GM_Kagi *Rick ignores the burning acid and attacks with blinding speed, but the spirit moves faster then possible for living things. It is quicksilver incarnate, and it twists and leaps away from Rick's brute attack
[11:50:47 PM] GM_Kagi *Pele moves confidently in on the creature Rick just missed with a blinding series of kicks, but again the beast moves like lightning and dodges them all
[11:51:18 PM] Pele "AHHH!!"
[11:58:30 PM] * Cherub turns and suddenly runs away to some cover in the opposite direction from spirits, mentaly tell to his spirit to attack the closest evil spirit. He takes a look around him, still perceiving astral, for anything useful.
[12:17:10 AM] GM_Kagi *****End session*****
Pele's recon of the tennement has payed off. Upon anilysing the thermographic photo's 10 has pointed out that a slight spike in the tempreture is showing in the north side of the basement, this is the likely spot the team will find what ever the Gestault has been doing here.
Butterfly has finshed the charges needed to destroy the BTL lab without a moment to spare; the team is tunning out of time. A lunar eclipse is scheduled to happen at around midnight in Seattle and it seems likely that what ever the Gestault has planned will happen then.
The team has jumped into action, their personal diffrences put aside and has made the trip through the stinking sewers. Butterfly is poised to set the mini remote charges at the electrical junction box that will cut power to the Tenement when the runners need it.
The entrance to the southern side of the sewer is further down the tunnel another ten meters or less. It is a large storm drain, but even so it will be a snug fit that only one runner can use at a time.
Local time is 10:40pm in Seattle.
*****End Recap*****
[8:36:28 PM] GM_Kagi *As Butterfly opens the electrical junction box it becomes immediatly apparent that the billing meters have been bypassed so the electrical company has no idea that the Tenement is being supplied power. The inside of the box is a disaster of wires and fragile home made connectors. Who ever did the work was a drunken half-blind hack. It will be much simpler then expected to frag-up the power.
[8:37:49 PM] Pele "Time. We don't have much. Done yet?"
[8:37:59 PM] * DC asks her spirit to appear from the meta planes to her side
[8:39:28 PM] Cherub "What you're doing is dangerous, ghouls only allowed 8 of us to pass. They could consider as a provocation that we call for "someone " else."
[8:39:47 PM] * Manzazzuu , with Rick by his side, watches down the direction they're headed in case any of the Tenement members decide to come down - unlikely, perhaps, but he's little better to do at the moment.
[8:40:22 PM] Doc " I can become 1 less and hide in Butterfly's pocket till we pass there territory."
[8:40:37 PM] DC "we are at the building... and they are not neer the here"
[8:41:19 PM] DC "not near here" I mean
[8:47:00 PM] * Butterfly sprays a touch of c4 foam on some of the wires, and wires it to a remote detonation cap.
[8:48:40 PM] Butterfly "OK.. That should do it."
[8:48:50 PM] * DC is still astrally preceving from the last seassion
[8:49:20 PM] Pele "Can we go through the grate now? I wil lgo first."
[8:50:02 PM] Ten "Thank fraggin' god! I can't stand these sewers another minute" ::he says from behind his breathing mask::
[8:50:36 PM] * Manzazzuu rolls his eyes at Ten's declaration.
[8:51:28 PM] Butterfly Looks at Ten, "There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death"
[8:52:13 PM] Ten ::Looks to Butterfly with confusion on his face, but says nothing::
[8:52:23 PM] DC "it is too bad you cannot see the other demention Ten the life in this place gives it a nice glow... it is too bad that it is actually roally gross"
[8:52:26 PM] * Cherub take a look around in case anything could be spying on them.
[8:54:39 PM] Pele "Yea. No time for philosophy. Time for getting trough the grates."
[8:55:19 PM] Butterfly "Maybe I should check the grate before we open it?"
[8:55:24 PM] * DC gives a quick nod
[8:56:19 PM] * Manzazzuu waits nearby, with the everpresent Rick.
[8:57:26 PM] * Butterfly approaches the grate carefully and checks it and the surrounding area over for bombs, as she did the tunnel.
[8:58:33 PM] Doc "Butterfly could you put my clothes and stuff in you pack, or any of you for that matter? I gonna scout a little and need less restriction."
[8:59:22 PM] * Butterfly shoots Doc a glare, then focuses back on the grate.
[8:59:39 PM] Manzazzuu "Are you sure that's wise, Doc? We're about to head into the lion's den." He speaks in quiet tones, unsure of what kinds of sentries the Geshtault has posted, or where.
[9:00:27 PM] Doc " Just wanna be sure when we go in we know what we have to deal with before it is too late."
[9:01:04 PM] Pele "Well, we need to hurry. I don't think we have time to dwell on the matter.
[9:01:05 PM] Pele "
[9:01:08 PM] GM_Kagi * It is barely perceptable, but the air shimmers next to Cherub
[9:01:43 PM] * DC looks over at cherub
[9:02:03 PM] Butterfly "Hm....I don't see anything but grime....and Doc it's hard for me to shoot things with my arms full of your laundry."
[9:03:35 PM] Doc "Is just my jumpsuit and medkit shouldn't take long."
[9:03:59 PM] DC "I'll hold on to it
[9:04:18 PM] Doc " Can dump the suit anyway if needed."
[9:04:35 PM] * Pele pops his neck with anxiety
[9:04:39 PM] Doc "thank you."
[9:04:43 PM] DC "are you sure you want to I mean the if any of the ghouls see you. your as lunch
[9:05:17 PM] * Manzazzuu takes a quick look at the grate they're supposed to go through, to see if there's any easy way to get it open.
[9:05:50 PM] * Doc takes off all but his boxers and hands it to DC and starts to shimmer growing smaller and thinner while scales till he turns into a water snake
[9:05:57 PM] Butterfly "Want me to blow it?"
[9:06:46 PM] GM_Kagi *The grate seems to be screwed into the concrete floor. It would be very hard to unscrew it from this side even if you had a screwdriver small enough to fit through the grate
[9:07:05 PM] Pele "Once Doc gets back, we should decide. I would say go one at a time. This close they might hear it. I wouldn't want to lose the element of surprise."
[9:08:18 PM] Butterfly "I have thermite. It doesn't go boom." she smiles.
[9:08:26 PM] Manzazzuu "It looks like it's either blow it, or have you and Rick break it open, Pele. I think explosives, if done right, might actually be the quieter method. Unless anyone here can dissolve metal grates?"
[9:09:16 PM] Pele "We can fit through one at a time..."
[9:09:44 PM] Cherub "we might sumon a spirit of fire and use it to melt the metal"
[9:11:04 PM] Pele "Why, though? We just all walk through... it is a storm drain."
[9:14:24 PM] Cherub "My tradition forbid me such kind of magic anyway. But i'm sure that some of you might be able to do such a thing."
[9:15:09 PM] Manzazzuu "The thermite sounds like a good plan to me."
[9:15:27 PM] Manzazzuu "Though I suggest we blow the power first to take care of alarm systems."
[9:16:10 PM] Cherub "heh...whatever..."
[9:17:13 PM] Butterfly "Thermite is pretty bright with the lights off. What's the bigger gamble?"
[9:18:16 PM] Manzazzuu "If someone sees the thermite, we've got a chance of dealing with them before they alert the rest of the place. If an alarm goes off, security knows."
[9:19:45 PM] Pele "I agree. Should we cover our eyes and what not?"
[9:20:10 PM] DC "same here"
[9:20:34 PM] DC "I agree thermite sounds like the best plan"
[9:23:01 PM] * Doc slither partway along the wall at the grate trying to reach the holes and sways side to side
[9:23:47 PM] Ten ::Looks to butterfly and stands back to give her room to work::
[9:24:23 PM] Ten "Butterfly, wait...."
[9:24:28 PM] * Butterfly digs a thermite bar out of one of her pockets.
[9:24:32 PM] Butterfly "ya?"
[9:24:41 PM] Manzazzuu "Do we have any way to cushion the fall of the grate when she's done?"
[9:24:59 PM] DC "I'll levitate it"
[9:25:21 PM] * Cherub watch butterfly working with a bored face.
[9:25:29 PM] Ten ::Moves over and picks Doc, now in his snake form, up and holds him high enough to slither through the grate and into the basement::
[9:25:39 PM] Manzazzuu "Sounds like a plan." He makes his way away from the drain.
[9:25:59 PM] Butterfly "We need Doc, right?" she asks Ten
[9:26:01 PM] * Doc moves down and into the water away from Butterfly
[9:26:16 PM] GM_Kagi *The grate will fall into a sewage stream directly below it
[9:26:35 PM] * DC moves away from the great but to were she can still see it
[9:27:34 PM] Ten ::Gives Butterfly the thumbs up and moves away again::
[9:28:01 PM] * DC casts levitate on the great
[9:28:13 PM] Butterfly "Step back and guns out. I'll hit the power first. Then the thermite, and everyone in the basement will probably see it."
[9:28:14 PM] * Pele steps back
[9:29:22 PM] * Cherub steps back as well
[9:31:21 PM] * DC tries not to look directly at it but keep it in sight
[9:31:59 PM] * Pele makes sure flare protection is on
[9:32:01 PM] * Manzazzuu and Rick wait. Manny takes out his gun.
[9:32:02 PM] Ten "If you hit the power the whole building will go out."
[9:32:25 PM] Ten "Wont they suspect something and come down to the basement to try to fix it?"
[9:32:55 PM] Butterfly "We just went through this. They think it's better than an alarm."
[9:33:06 PM] Butterfly "I don't care either way"
[9:33:22 PM] Cherub "what a pain..." Slowly close his eyes.
[9:33:43 PM] Pele "We might be able to bottleneck them if they come to the basement."
[9:34:05 PM] Pele "And they weill just be wondering what happened, not coming full force, or so I think."
[9:34:23 PM] Pele "But, if the alarm goes off the will come down ready for trouble."
[9:35:18 PM] Ten ::Shrugs:: "Let's get to it then, we are short on time."
[9:35:25 PM] Pele "That is how I see it, at least."
[9:35:56 PM] Cherub "Just do it already. Decision is taken , waiting is just a waste of time..."
[9:36:10 PM] Butterfly "I didn't see an alarm on the grate. Did you, Pele?"
[9:36:27 PM] Pele "I didn't look."
[9:36:51 PM] Pele "You can blow the power remotely right?
[9:37:01 PM] Butterfly "yes"
[9:37:22 PM] Pele "We could blow the grate, get up there, get in good positions, then blow the power and be ready."
[9:37:22 PM] GM_Kagi *Local time is now 11pm. T-minus 60minutes until the eclipse is full.
[9:37:38 PM] Manzazzuu "If you don't think there's an alarm, don't bother with the power. I don't know a lot about alarms so I thought it was better to assume there was one than that there wasn't."
[9:37:41 PM] DC "great, blow the power later
[9:39:11 PM] DC "butterfly just hit the grate"
[9:39:16 PM] Butterfly "OK. Lights on. Here we go."
[9:40:01 PM] * DC gets ready for the added strain to the spell and the flash
[9:40:35 PM] * Butterfly slips the thermite bar between the holes in the grate and ignites it.
[9:41:56 PM] GM_Kagi *The thermite dissolves the grate like butter and drops into the sewage stream below, continuing to burn as it is washed away. The grate can be pried open the rest of the way. Only one person at a time can fit through and into the basement.
[9:42:26 PM] * DC drops the spell
[9:42:44 PM] * Manzazzuu gets Rick to pry the grate out of the hole the rest of the way.
[9:45:10 PM] Pele "I'll go first..."
[9:45:10 PM] * Butterfly looks at Pele and motions to the hole in the ceiling with a wicked grin.
[9:45:15 PM] Butterfly "Ladies first"
[9:45:17 PM] GM_Kagi *Rick easily prys open the grate
[9:45:41 PM] * DC fallows butterflies lead
[9:45:49 PM] Butterfly "I'll take the rear."
[9:45:55 PM] * Pele jumps and climbs up, missing Butterfly's comment
[9:46:18 PM] GM_Kagi *The basement is a long corridor that extends off into darkness both left and right. You know from the plans that 10 provided that wrap around and meet, forming a square. It is perhaps 9 or 10 feet wide and as tall as wide; the interiour is dimly lit and humid; the smell of mold and rot is everywhere. Except for the occasional drip of water it is as quiet as a tomb. Rubbish, boxes, and the occasional spare construction material clog the floor, but provide little in the way of cover. The walls are covered in grime, dust, and ancient graffite decades old.
[9:46:44 PM] GM_Kagi * One by one the runners climb up and into the tenements basement
[9:46:53 PM] * Butterfly slips the flashlight into her pocket, adjusts her glasses, draws her gun, and waits till everyone else is up to follow"
[9:47:08 PM] * Manzazzuu gets Rick to help him up, Rick follows after.
[9:48:57 PM] Cherub "Better and better..."Climb up too, following manzazzuu.
[9:50:54 PM] Ten ::Removes his breather mask and begins slipping out of the disposable jumpsuit::
[9:51:01 PM] DC "I think I prefer the sewer..." she says in a conserned tone
[9:52:35 PM] * DC mentaly asks her spirit if it is doing alright
[9:56:13 PM] Pele "Shall we cut the power and make them bottleneck, or procedd cautiously into the abyss?"
[9:56:47 PM] Manzazzuu "We'll leave the power on for now, I think." He whispers.
[9:56:50 PM] Ten ::Checks his Comm. on his wrist:: "The heat source Pele found is in North/East corner of the basement."
[9:57:08 PM] * Pele turns on his thermographic vision
[9:57:56 PM] Ten "The Gestault quarters are on the north side, three floors up. Finally the BTL lab is on the east side, two floors up. We are in the south corridor of the basement."
[9:58:14 PM] Pele "What do you guys want to hit firs?"
[9:58:32 PM] Manzazzuu "We're in the basement, we should do our investigating here first."
[9:58:39 PM] Pele "I am scanning around in thermographic mode for people... I will give a heads up."
[10:00:45 PM] * Pele heads forward. "I am going towards the heat first."
[10:01:05 PM] Manzazzuu "Sounds like a good idea."
[10:02:13 PM] * GM_Kagi *Doc, in his snake form, shimmers and turns back to an elf. No one even knew he was around. Suddenly a naked elf stands at the rear of the party
[10:02:32 PM] Pele @@i am heading down the eastern corridor... Someone rela this to Cherub, since he doesn't have a radio. Or anyone who doesn't have a radio. I am subvocalizing the rest of the way.@@
[10:02:53 PM] Manzazzuu "Watch for alarms, Pele." He whispers to the man.
[10:03:17 PM] Doc "can I have my stuff and and we may wanna put on our mask the polloution here is very bad."
[10:04:02 PM] * DC hands his cloths back to Doc avoiding a downward gaze
[10:04:14 PM] * Butterfly exhibits no sign of modesty while she watches Doc.
[10:04:55 PM] * Doc dresses quickly unable to hide his grin
[10:05:00 PM] Pele @@got it... I will keep an eye out for alarms.@@
[10:05:04 PM] Ten "Must be cold in here, huh Doc?" ::he says with a snicker::
[10:06:14 PM] Doc "Ya can you say your snake is 5 feet long *grins*"
[10:06:34 PM] * Pele switches between thermographic and regular, looking for anything out of the ordinary
[10:07:35 PM] Doc "Do the rest of you how corrupt the astral is in this place?"
[10:08:06 PM] Manzazzuu "I guessed that was part of the reason the last group went insane, Doc, and so I haven't been percieving astrally."
[10:08:51 PM] DC "it is getting really bad"
[10:09:03 PM] Doc "Not sure what it is but we should be aware of it anyone useing any magic."
[10:10:43 PM] * Cherub turn to astral perception and looks around him.
[10:12:51 PM] * Cherub whispers: Leïr thekal jik'loïs reth.A light stream of energy flows around him.
[10:15:03 PM] Pele @@something hotter is ahead... Ten, we nearing the source?@@
[10:15:21 PM] * Butterfly keeps her gun up and ready to fire. She watches the group's tail.
[10:16:09 PM] DC "I just hope you are wrong Manzazzuu"
[10:16:51 PM] Manzazzuu "So do I."
[10:17:14 PM] Pele "I just hope we can get done before 12."
[10:17:48 PM] * Cherub whispers: "I'd rather prefer that he was right. Better knowing the danger than not seing it coming."
[10:18:02 PM] Ten ::Nods to Pele:: "It seems it's in the North East corner at the end of this corridor."
[10:18:27 PM] Pele @@i can't make it ou... anyone else have thermogrphic vishion?@@
[10:19:51 PM] GM_Kagi *Local time is now 11:20pm. T-Minus 40 minutes until the eclipse is full.
[10:20:10 PM] Pele @@guess not. I am goign ahead.@@
[10:20:16 PM] * Pele heads forward
[10:21:07 PM] GM_Kagi You near the North East corner of the basement. The scene you see before you is one of utter revulsion and horror. Blood and viscera cover the entire place from floor to ceiling. Bodies lay heaped in a pile and strewn across the floor in haphazard fashion, some whole, most not; It is impossible to say how many. The dead carcases are left to rot, while newer and fresher bodies lay on top. The smell of this place is undescribably foul. The whole mass seems to be connected, one body heaped onto the next, and fleshy red tenticles thread through the bodies like monsterously large veins. Some of the newer bodies seem to be alive, somewhat; bodies twitch here and there among the pile and a low moan escapes. The whole mass is perhaps 20 ft. around and fills the chamber with an ocassional bodiy farther out than that.
[10:22:30 PM] Manzazzuu "...." Blink.
[10:22:42 PM] Cherub "I guess that we have something else to blow..."
[10:22:51 PM] * Pele is taken aback a moment, but regains is composure
[10:23:13 PM] * DC tryes not to gag
[10:23:18 PM] * Butterfly grins in amazement.
[10:23:38 PM] Pele @@well, does that look like a god?@@
[10:23:47 PM] Pele @@i've never seen one.@@
[10:23:55 PM] DC "ten take the pictures..."
[10:24:17 PM] * Pele snaps a few in all modes
[10:24:30 PM] Manzazzuu "Whatever it is, I think we want to keep our distance." He whispers.
[10:24:34 PM] Butterfly Looks to Cherub, "Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you."
[10:25:31 PM] Cherub "this things seems to be like a very big trouble and some precautions to erase the trouble may be nice i believe, but it's up to you..."
[10:25:37 PM] Ten ::Stands frozen, his face is a mask of horror::
[10:30:29 PM] * Doc goes white with utter terror and starts to shake violently
[10:31:10 PM] Ten ::In Spenthrial (elvish):: "No,no,no, it is too soon. May the furies save us..."
[10:31:54 PM] Cherub "Shit....we need to bring them away from this thing..."
[10:32:04 PM] Butterfly In elvish, "too soon for what?"
[10:32:35 PM] * DC grabs ten and tries to move him away from the horror
[10:33:29 PM] * Butterfly tries to see where the tentacles come from without getting near the thing!
[10:33:29 PM] * Cherub run to doc . Grab him under his arms and begin to pull him baxck in the corridor."
[10:34:05 PM] Pele @@we have no time for cowardice. We must be quick and decisive. Now, Manny, do you recognize this? If so, how do we destroy it?"
[10:34:07 PM] Pele @@
[10:34:39 PM] * DC turns off astral
[10:36:59 PM] GM_Kagi *Four spirits materialize in the corridor behind you and three cling to the ceiling over the mass of bodies. The spirits that materialize is like nothing you've ever seen. It seems to be cobbled together from pieces of various metahumans, but it is hard to say as it is twisted and rotted in the extreme. It's head resembles a flesh covered skull, it has no lips to cover it's teeth, no nose just two slitted holes that leak mucus, and no eyes or even eye sockets, just a smooth patch of skin where eyes should be. It crouches, it's movements lithe and fast like a snake, and it's limbs moving in ways that would be painful for a human. A burbling growl comes from it's throat.
[10:41:12 PM] Butterfly "Incoming" she says as she take aim at the nearest of the 4.
[10:50:27 PM] GM_Kagi *One of the four rear creatures jumps at Butterfly, raking at her with vicious claws on it's feet and hands
[10:57:44 PM] GM_Kagi *The creature knocks her back into the wall, her head bounces off the plastecrete
[11:02:32 PM] GM_Kagi *Another creature jumps at DC, but the nimble elf dodges it, and it lands next to him with a growl of frustration
[11:11:34 PM] GM_Kagi *The next creature leaps into the air and lands squarely on Doc. It's claws on it's hands and feet rake him badly, cutting through his armor like butter spilling his blood to the hard plastecrete
[11:15:48 PM] GM_Kagi * The next beast takes a running leap onto Ten. It crashes into him and begins raking him. An audible crunch can be heard assome of Ten's ribs break. The beast rips through his armor and his blood begins to flow,he is not dead though he is very badly wounded.
[11:22:27 PM] GM_Kagi *One of the beasts clinging to the ceiling opens it's mouth and green noxious liquid spits forth at Pele, but one of the other creatures moves into the way at the last moment and is hit instead. The one hit, screams in pain and falls from the ceiling, thrashing about on the floor
[11:30:46 PM] GM_Kagi *Another of the beasts on the ceiling spit at Rick, this time it connects and immediatly noxtious vapors pour off the man as his cloths and armor begin to melt. The spit seems to be a powerful acid. Rick does not even cry out or flinch
[11:36:08 PM] Manzazzuu Rick moves over to the spirit attacking Doc, and performs a maneuver known as the "Double axehandle".
[11:40:12 PM] GM_Kagi *Rick ignores the burning acid and attacks with blinding speed, but the spirit moves faster then possible for living things. It is quicksilver incarnate, and it twists and leaps away from Rick's brute attack
[11:50:47 PM] GM_Kagi *Pele moves confidently in on the creature Rick just missed with a blinding series of kicks, but again the beast moves like lightning and dodges them all
[11:51:18 PM] Pele "AHHH!!"
[11:58:30 PM] * Cherub turns and suddenly runs away to some cover in the opposite direction from spirits, mentaly tell to his spirit to attack the closest evil spirit. He takes a look around him, still perceiving astral, for anything useful.
[12:17:10 AM] GM_Kagi *****End session*****