Vanguard held a
team vote to determine their next move in their
desperate Quest against the coming of Cthulhu and the ending of the world.
They voted to ally with the SSS
in order to improve their chance of success, to use scientific or
magical means to expand Menagerie and Sentinel’s senses to locate the
artifacts, and to study the artifacts of power and use them in the field.
Vanguard used the next two days to heal, gather intel, and attempt to expand Sentinel
and Menagerie's sensory ranges to locate all the artifacts. Then they would
re-engage the quest, teleporting quicker (and at a lower Power cost) to the
artifacts.
These decisions dramatically altered their plan. The power
levels of the Magi would be taxed much less, and they would no longer be the
“bottleneck” of the quest.
Decided on their new course, Vanguard sprang into action!
The Mystic,
Archimedes, Oracle, Avatar, Menagerie and Slingshot studied the fragment of
the True Cross in the Special
Projects room. In two days, they could not begin to understand its powers, nor
detect any link between it and the other artifacts, nor the individual members
of Vanguard.
Menagerie and Slingshot were desperate to find a way to use
the Cross in the quest, to help the team, miraculously heal them, anything.
Clone's
body-language immediately betrays his once concealed dislike for the way the
'Objects of Power' were being handled. His head moved back and forth slowly as
he made eye contact with each of the other members of Vanguard and said,
"This is wrong . . ." His tone became deeper and more assertive as he
continued, ". . . the objects we are being led to are sacred and holy
relics; they were never meant to be in the hands of ordinary men, so please do
not treat them as if they're mere baubles or trinkets. These sacred relics are
beyond our understanding and comprehension, and should be treated with care and
respect."
(OOC: Replies if any?)
After two days of study, the Mystic, Archimedes and
Menagerie cast a ritual spell of “activation.” They, Oracle, Avatar and
Slingshot focused their energies (Power Points) at the Cross and called upon
it, and what it represented, for help.
Suddenly, white energy erupted from the cruciform reliquary,
rocking through the very walls of Vanguard Vault!
VRAM! When the massive shockwave had dissipated, Vanguard
had been healed!
The True Cross was silent.
Slate secretly monitored his personal computer to check its progress decoding the hieroglyphs found in the Lost Lands. Before the two days ended, it had found something. The creature engraved in the Lost Land temple that resembled his father, Slingshot, was identified in the hieroglyphics as a “Spawn of Nyarlhotep.”
Via the internet, Slate found an image of Nyarlhotep, a black shapeshifting deity, a twisted image of his father.
Nyarlhotep, the crawling chaos, was said to be an evil, mad god of the Cthulhu pantheon. He told his father what he had found.
(OOC: Reply Slingshot?)
Lightning Strike, Slate, Symbiote, Doc Rocket, Shelley and a legion of Clone lab assistants, attempted to invent an amplifier for the sensory powers of Menagerie and Sentinel. It was called the Janus Matrix.
It took three days.
On the third morning, Slate opened his eyes, 7:00 flashed on the alarm clock beside his bed. He rolled over looking up at the ceiling, playing back the dreams that had haunted his sleep… Vampires with glowing red eyes, Nyarlhotep morphing into his father, calling him to join them, human sacrifices he’d seen on the news and internet… Analytically, he played the dreams back, but it was like they were mist, fading away when he focused on them. He could not understand how he dreamed, and why he couldn’t recall the dreams with the clarity he could remember every waking moment since his birth.
He got dressed, wearing his uniform under some sweat pants and a hoodie. He thought about the sunglasses on his night stand, but he didn’t feel like he needed them anymore. They had been a way to hide who/what he was, and that didn’t seem to matter here. Everyone seemed to have accepted him. His thoughts retuned to the Janus Machine, and how they could tap into Menagerie and Sentinel’s senses… Their senses had to be based in the Parietal or Temporal lobes. He’d recommend doing CT scans on each of them while using their detection powers… if they could identify where the powers were located in the brain, perhaps they could augment the signal they “felt” with, like a bat using echolocation, they could boost the active signal they produced, and tie it in to the satellite system. Slate began to get excited and ran for the door, almost running right into Nanite who was standing in the hallway, as if waiting for him.
“And just where are you off to,” she asked. “Down to the labs, I think I’ve got an idea that can help.” He replied. “Let’s get you something to eat first,” Nanite smiled at her son, taking his shoulders, turning him back toward the kitchen. Slate was torn; He needed to go; They needed his help, but he could not deny her. His shoulders slumped a little, and he agreed, nodding his head.
Nanite sat across from Slate watching his every move, her feet tucked under her, nursing a cup of coffee she hadn’t even tasted…
“So, tell me about these trips; are you being careful?” She looked into her cup.
Slate flashed back to the battle. Rats, vampires, Slingshot staring at him with eyes that didn’t know him… these he could not/would not share with her. “Yes, I’m being careful… and dad is there.”
“It’s been lonely here without you and your father,” she began.
“I know mom, I miss you too, but have you seen the news? Someone has to do something. We have to do something. This could be the end of the world!”
“I know, I know, Scott said the same thing. I just wish you didn’t both have to go,” she sighed. She came around the table and wrapped her arms around his shoulders; he felt warmth emanating from her. He felt at ease, everything would be OK… maybe he should stay… he shook his head… he needed to go, she was in danger. Everyone was in danger, and he could help. He gave her hand a quick pat. “I’ve really got to go,” he said.
“I know," she frowned, reaching around and taking his bowl… “Go. Shoo,” she said with a grin, and he was off, pulling on his sneakers as he headed out, never looking back to see the tear in his mother’s worried eye.
On the third day in the Vanguard Vault electronics lab, their incredible invention, the Janus Matrix, was finished. Gigantic twin chairs sat back to back. Over them hung helmets arrayed with webs of neuron sensors.
“Now to test it,” Doc Rocket said gravely.
Sentinel and Menagerie were seated within the technological behemoth, one facing east, the other west.
Doc Rocket advised, “Prepare yourselves, gentlemen.”
Symbiote threw the switch.
The twin chairs roared with electrical power and Menagerie and Sentinel felt their consciousness expand violently! Their minds reeled from the hammering overload of the infinite!
Sentinel could see every extranormal on earth. Via his telepathy, he could hear their thoughts. All at once.
Menagerie’s mind drank in the impossible scope of every living thing, of nature itself, on a planetary scale.
It was all they could do to keep from being swallowed up in the psychic tidal wave that threatened to bury them alive.
Vanguard helplessly watched the two heroes convulse in the psionic amplifier chairs.
Menagerie and Sentinel struggled to stave off madness (via their Willpower defenses and high Charismas) and focus on what they were looking for. Each hero’s mind’s eye frantically searched half a globe for the answers they sought, before they were overwhelmed.
Shelley yelled to her brother, “Look at their EEG readings! We’re going to damage their brain function!”
Lightning Strike cursed, “The damned fool! I told him!”
Symbiote shouted, “Everyone get back!” and pulled the emergency override!
KA-BOOM! The control panels
exploded!
Menagerie and Sentinel were pulled
out of the flames. The halon systems extinguished the destroyed controls.
Doc and Symbiote roused the two
heroes.
“We’ve got it,” rasped
Menagerie.
‘We know where they are,” murmured
Sentinel.
“The middle of the Atlantic
Ocean. Northern France. The Lost Lands in Antarctica. Moscow,” said Menagerie
who had faced East.
“Northern New Jersey. Nevada
desert. Northern California. China,” said Sentinel who had faced West.
They had precise coordinates for each of the eight remaining artifacts of power.
Sentinel slowly
regained his composure and said, “Now that we have the locations we need intel
on them to decide.
“With Slate and I on the
computer skills, and other team members assisting, and Ajay and our trusted
Chess tech team, let’s get the current satellite scope on these locations,
along with known usage, owners, etc as well as any possibly associations of the
locations being used for illegal activity.
It shouldn't take that long to glean all available intel on these
locations. Once we have this we can determine which might be in more friendly
vs less friendly hands.
“If we are going to ally with SSS, let's give them the
location of the hardest to secure, that would cause incident. At this point before getting the other intel
I'd say let them go for China. They can
cause the international incident with the Chinese government instead of
Vanguard....
“We will also make sure that our searches are secure so
enemies can't get discover the locations.
With Slate and Strike here, I'd think we should be good on that front.
“Once get the intel on the locations, we’ll know how to
proceed.”
Slate built a
quick model into his communicator to track the coordinates of the items
locations. Per Sentinel’s direction, he
will change the search program on his computer that had been researching the
Hieroglyphs to identify facts, and rumors around these locations. He will carefully code the search so that it
cannot be hijacked or piggybacked by anyone outside the Vault, and tether his
communicator to the base computer. He’ll
also inspect the firewalls and other hardware in their internal systems to
ensure Vanguards systems are secure.
As to contacting the SSS, Slate will recommend, “We should
share locations with the SSS as items are retrieved. Moscow is the already
identified Spear of Destiny. I agree
that China would probably be best for them next, then Northern France.”
He'll again look to
the team to see if there is anyone else they can enlist to assist them, surely
there are other heroes out there. He'll
recommend reaching out to Mother Russia to break the ice and begin
communication.
For Vanguard, he’d recommend New Jersey, then maybe the
mystics could transport them to Nevada, and then to Northern California. That should give Vanguard four items, and the
SSS two or three. At that point, they
could determine who would be going after the Mid Atlantic/Antarctic items. For selfish reasons, Slate wants their team
to go to Antarctica to hopefully gather some additional information/data on the
book he’d found, and relatedly anything that might be related to his father.
As Vanguard prepares for the next encounter, he’ll be back
in his Indiana Jones attire, including the backpack of equipment he’s prepared
to face the supernatural, and his fedora..
CHESS had
contacted other superheroes to support Vanguard in the quest. Because of the global crisis ( world storm,
power outages, riots, fires, occultic murders, etc) they are all active, in the
field in their respective cities and regions, supporting emergency personnel to
help civilians. And have been doing so, without rest, for days now. The situation is escalating, so there's no
chance this duty will slow down. CHESS Director Grey isn't ready to pull them
from this critical duty to support Vanguard yet. But that could change.
Vanguard was
sitting in the War room. On the screen was a world map with each of the
locations with an item of power.
Slingshot spoke,
"We need to be methodical and efficient about this. We need to do a bunch
of hit and runs. We cannot waste time, effort fighting our way through all
these items. We will not be able to survive eight encounters like we had with
Black Bat."
Slingshot mused, "These items of powers seem to be in
the possession of powerful people. We need to expect opposition of one sort or
another." He looked at Mystic and the owl, "Now that we have exact
coordinates, can you teleport us in and then back out in short
succession?"
“I can,” replied the Mystic.
The malleable man of might continued the thought, "I
think that if we focus on being stealthy, fast and agile, we should be able to
get in, grab the item and 'port out of there, before we need to engage into too
much of a fight. I can take a hit and as long as there are enough material, I
can regenerate most damage. I think we should be in a position to be able to do
most locations without involving SSS. The only issue with that, is that I would
wait until the last item before hitting SSS. They are a large group and with
serious firepower. I would leave them for last.”
On the subject of research, Slingshot gave his input,
"Let’s research most locations. Let's focus on the New Jersey location for
now, that should leave CHESS enough time to gather intel on the other locations.
"Some fast information on the New Jersey
location?"
Clone listened as
his friends begin to discuss the information gained through the use of the Janus
Device, Then he mumbled back to himself the locations of the remaining
artifacts, " . . . The middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Northern France, The
Lost Lands in Antarctica, Moscow, Northern New Jersey, the Nevada Desert,
Northern California, and China."
After pondering the possibilities for a few moments, Clones
started to 'think out loud', "Moscow is of course the location of the
Super Soldiers and the artifacts they've collected, but what about the others?
The middle of the Atlantic Ocean, possibly a ship or perhaps the mythical
Atlantis? Northern France, a cathedral with a hidden secret maybe? The Nevada
Desert, Las Vegas, Area 51? China, the ancient burial mounds maybe or another
Super-team perhaps? The Lost Lands in Antarctica, could that ancient temple be
our 'end game' location? And then there's Northern New Jersey and Northern
California, more collectors of rare antiquities?" Clone shook his head
slightly; snapped himself out of his own deep thoughts, and then looks towards
the other members of the team, "Perhaps we can start off with the one
closest to home, Northern New Jersey."
Slingshot mused,
looking at the map. “Middle of Atlantic Ocean?... How much are you willing to
bet we are talking about the Starfish?” Then: “I vote that we not join with the
SSS.”
Clone's face
betrayed his concern as he voiced his opinion on the subject, "I think
deciding at this time to exclude the possibility of joining up with them at
this time is a bit premature. If we want to try and get the artifacts on our
own first and then consider whether or not to join forces with them - fine, but
to absolutely rule out the possibility with three days still remaining sounds
short sighted to me. That's just my opinion though - I don't like to 'burn
bridges' or limit my options."
Menagerie suggested
that CHESS Director Grey use the channels he used to liberate Clone’s family in
order to communicate with the SSS and inform them that China has an artifact.
Menagerie agreed with the hit and run tactics. No time for
prolonged fights.
Menagerie doesn't converse much other than what is
necessary. His experience with the Janus Machine almost overwhelmed him. He was
focusing his willpower and contemplating all that he had experienced.
Menagerie would use what little time remained before they
leave to meet privately with Archimedes. He would ask for any words of wisdom
or advice he would have for him.
“Time’s against ye lad,” said Menagerie’s spirit guide.
“Pride is a luxury we canna afford.
“I’ll repeat the advice I already gave ye, thick as ye are:
If ye and the Soviets could put petty politics aside and join forces, our odds
would be greater to save the whole of the World. Yer governments are drops in
an ocean, compared against the timeline of Life… of Nature itself. It is that which ye and I are sworn to
defend.
These mads gods, against which we are pit, care less about
the differences between the US and the Soviets than ye do about the difference
between red and black ants.”
In the war room,
it was becoming clear that CHESS intel on all eight
locations would not be coming soon. Normally it would but given the
global crisis, CHESS was overwhelmed. Vanguard's task is critical
but will still take longer than normal. (World storm obscures satellite
imagery. Power outages. Rioting, etc) Perhaps a day.
Sentinel was frustrated, “Never thought gathering the info
on the locations would take that long.
We CANNOT spend a day. Ajay, you
and your team work on it, and as we get pieces we can adjust plans accordingly.
“We move out now to the next location. At first I was thinking NJ since it was close
and we can do it on our own power, but for that reason, unless intel tells us
otherwise, we should save it for last.
“Since our mystic guys are fully powered up, let's
teleport. And my choice at this point is
Antarctica. We know at least
particularly what to expect there and seemingly if any of these locations were
a 'place of power' that we know about with the lost temple there this one is
it. Its presence puts it as the best
likely spot that we know about that could be used for a summoning. I say we go there.
Slingshot voted
for New Jersey as the next mission. “I propose we do one hour of research on
that location. Ajay and his team can start to research the other locations
while we are gone.”
Symbiote said, “I
vote for the Lost Lands next.”
Menagerie said, “I
agree on Lost Lands being next. I am willing to investigate for 6 hours but no
more.”
Vanguard voted
once more.
Clone, Slate, Slingshot and Strike voted for North Jersey.
Menagerie, Sentinel and Symbiote voted for the Lost Lands in
Antarctica.
North Jersey was next!
One hour of intel on the location was all they needed to
learn almost everything about it.
The North Jersey location was a large, exurb, public storage
rental facility called “U Stor.”
Avatar and Symbiote
knew the location immediately. It was where Avatar’s collection of antiquities
had been stored by the mysterious unknown buyer who had purchased it from the
Sotheby’s auction.
Symbiote created a GPS tracking device and hid it deep among
the books, crates and packages that were Jon’s collection. It had been at the
storage facility since the auction.
The owner was a Philippino immigrant with no criminal record.
He was a franchisee owner, and had run five locations in the tri state area
since 2005.
It was after midnight. The owner did not answer his phone.
A map of the facility was available online, as well as
interior photos:
The CHESS warrant arrived.
2 days and 23 hours until the end of the world.
Vanguard manifested
their powers. Slate was carrying exploration gear and wearing an Indiana Jones
fedora.
Teleporting there would not exhaust the Mystic, and would
save over an hour of jet prep, flight time, and return. The three magi, Soldier,
Doc Rocket, Sgt. Stone, Shelley, saw them off.
The Mystic cast a
magic spell. Egyptian hieroglyphic equations of otherworldly geometry formed in
midair in bright lines of gold and blue. An all-seeing eye, not unlike that
which emblazoned Sentinel’s chest, grew within an expanding circle that then
cut into physical space itself. The circle glowed bright as the sun and the air
shifted as static electricity built up within the room.
“Fare well Vanguard! May the higher powers watch over you
all!” called the Mystic over the wind and white light that blasted from the
gate!
Vanguard advanced
into the light.
Suddenly all went dark! The light, the wind and the noise
were gone!
Vanguard stood near
the storage facility, adjacent to a large wooded area. “U Stor” was a two story
warehouse surrounded by an empty parking lot, whose perimeter was lined by a
chain link fence with barbed wire. It was 1:00am and a steady rain fell from
the overcast sky of the world storm.
Symbiote’s
tracker placed Avatar’s collection within the two-story warehouse-like
facility. The left center of the first floor.
Menagerie and
Sentinel could detect the third artifact of power within, near the center
of the building’s first floor. The two heroes also detected many other sources
of magical power inside, near the third artifact. They were all less powerful
than the artifact they sought. Neither hero detected anyone inside.
Lightning Strike detected
electrical systems that weren’t out of the ordinary, including computers, alarm
systems, and internal and external security cameras. The telltale systems of an
office were near unit 3032, across from the building’s main entrance, in its
southwest corner.
Vanguard was not currently in view of any external security
camera.
Vanguard shared
what info they had just learned and prepared to take action!
To be continued!
OOC:
Actions please?
You have a warrant. How do you want to proceed?
Thanks.
Viva Vanguard,
Jeff
Current Conditions:
Avatar: Hit Points: 58, Power Points: 69, Manifestation: Hermes, Duration: 24 minutes remaining
Clone: Bodies: 1, Hit Points: 23, Power Points: 67, Hit
Point Pool: 23
Lightning Strike: Hit Points: 48, Power Points: 79,
Lightning defense activated
Menagerie: Hit Points: 26, Power Points: 64, Form: Man
Sentinel: Hit Points: 30, Power Points: 61, Creation Points:
122, Shields: 100
Slate: Hit Points: 35, Power Points: 73, carrying
exploration gear
Slingshot: Hit Points: 79, Power Points: 92,
Invulnerability: 8
Symbiote: Hit Points: 43, Power Points: 82, Charges: 13,
Copied: Accelerator:
1) Heightened Speed: +500”, as per the rules. +17 to
initiative.
2) Absorption: Velocity: Accelerator can absorb velocity,
store it temporarily, and transfer it to the target of his choosing, including
himself.
Range=0”.
Accelerator must touch what he is absorbing velocity from, and transferring it
to.
PR = 1
PP per 100” of movement absorbed/transferred. Costs movement (1/4 of total) to
absorb or transfer velocity.
Maximum
amount of velocity he can store = 1000”. Velocity beyond that is lost. His stored
velocity dissipates at a rate of 50” per turn.
When
Accelerator absorbs velocity, the item he absorbs it from loses that amount of
velocity. If the target has more basic hits than Accelerator (for example, he’s
stealing velocity from a moving car) the target’s lost velocity is a fraction
proportionate to Accelerator’s basic hits/ the target’s basic hits. Likewise if
he transfers it to a target with more basic hits.
3) Weakness: Reduced Charisma/Will: -10
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Slingshot:
OOC: I'll reply to the other stuff, later, but with regards
to getting in, We have the warrant, let's get going. I expect this one to be a
booby trapped one. so I suggest we go in through an unconventional way. (the
wall?). What say you?
Stephane
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Slate:
OOC: I was thinking if Lightning Strike could get into the
security system, he could get in via one of the camera's and shut it down, he'd
also be able to see if there was anything else connected, as far as technical
surprises.
Having said that, as most of the encounters we've had so far
have been more "magical/supernatural", perhaps having Menagerie do a
once over might be beneficial before we just go busting in.
Jon
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Slingshot:
OOC:
I've got an idea…
Why don't we go through the floor below. Get into the
storage below, Have Sentinel or Menagerie pinpoint the exact location where the
item is and Slate uses his ray to punch
a hole through the concrete ceiling and hopefully drop the item to the floor
below?
I would have some people stay in front of the actual storage
door (with either Sentinel or Menagerie keeping watch, whichever isn't
downstairs) in case something happens.
IC:
“Slate secretly monitored his personal computer to check its
progress decoding the hieroglyphs found in the
Lost Lands. Before
the two days ended, it had found something. The creature engraved in the Lost
Land
temple that resembled his father, Slingshot, was identified
in the hieroglyphics as a “Spawn of Nyarlhotep.”
Via the internet, Slate found an image of Nyarlhotep, a
black shapeshifting deity, a twisted image of his father.
Nyarlhotep, the crawling chaos, was said to be an evil, mad
god of the Cthulhu pantheon. He told his father
what he had found.
(OOC: Reply Slingshot?)”
Scott looked at Slate and at the image of the mad god. He
looks back at Ethan with such love. He noticed that his father's facial
expressions tended to become slightly exagerated, borderline cartoony, when he
was highly emotional. He smiled at his son."I feel like I need to tell you
at story. There was this man who became more than a man due to a freak
accident. He decided he needed to do something with himself. Something good. He
tried his best but he was a rookie and imprisonned. During his ordeal, he met
this incredible woman. She was as shy as she was beautiful. They took it slow.
Fate had other plans. They were separated by their enemy. She was pronounced
dead, but the man persevered and found a way back to her. Their reunion wasn't
without hardship. Unbeknownst to any of them, she was the child of one of
mankind's greatest enemy. He didn't give up. He was able to find a way around
this prophecy. Then they were with child themselves and that child was to be
the fulfillment of that prophecy. At this point, even their most loyal friends
were doubtful. That this child would bring us all ruin. The man never doubted
for a minute. His belief in their union, his love for his unborn child, his
faith in that goodness will conquer all, kept him going against all odds. That
child not only didn't bring destruction, but was an integral part of the
solution to saving mankind." Scott hugged Ethan.
When he let go, his eyes watery, Scott continued, "You
know our story. Your story. This" he points at the image, "Is yet
another twist and turn of our story. I'm not sure what to make of it. We need
to understand what this means and take the precautions that we must. Forewarned
is forearmed, after all. But here", Slingshot points to his son's
heart," you cannot give up."
[OOC: If there's any time left for further research, Scott
will do some with Slate.If not, we will continue with what's at hand]
[OOC: After rereading the description, the artifact is on
the first floor, not the third as I assumed from the numbering on the map - My
bad. So Scott will articulate the same plan, but coming from the second floor.
Slate would desintegrate the floor and
then, possibly Slingshot would extend an
arm and snatch the artifact without triggering any boobytraps.]
Stephane
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GM:
OOC: Great stuff Stephane!
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Sentinel:
OOC: I agree. Nice
post Stephane.
Nothing like insomnia at 3:00am to get you caught up on the
game after not reading the new issue for two weeks or any posts...
I say all of us that can scan do so as we approach
(Strike-Sentinel-Menagerie) and if nothing suspicious we proceed into the
facility. Maybe a storage facility is
just a storage facility... but we still have to be extra cautious. Slingshot's approach sounds fine. Perhaps with Slingshot's architectural skill
he might spot an area in the structure via the roof or walls that seems an
ideal entry point for super-powered beings to make an entry that normal beings
wouldn't easily use (although that could be a trap too if the storage facility
isn't a normal storage facility...)
Maybe Slate can just vaporize part of an entry wall or roof area with little
damage and if off ground level shouldn't make easy access for anyone else to
take advantage after we leave.
Just wondering, I'm guessing that the warrant gives us
all-access here so if things go smoothly with retrieving the artifact (it could
happen) if according to Sentinel or Menagerie reads if there are other magical
artifacts that seem to be of a level that perhaps they could be of use, perhaps
we can retrieve them too. If nothing
crazy is going no a door isn't going take but a moment for any of us to get
open. If electrical in nature Strike
could just open the room(s) up. Just a
thought.
Seth
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Slingshot:
[OOC]
Thanks. I know that I haven't been elaborating on my stuff.
There are a bunch of things that I need to address. I'll see if I can do so
more often. Life is just so darn busy.
Seth, that's a good catch. Jeff, Let's include Scott's
Engineering skills to review the blueprint and see if there are any hidden
access/corridors, or alternate empty spaces. Or maybe someway for slate to do a
surgical entrance, minimize damage and effort.
[/ooc]
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Slate:
OOC: Sorry for the limited response, was on vacation last
week, just getting back to things.
IC: Slate agreed with Scott regarding the need to continue
his research, and mentioned the item of power in the Lost Lands. "Maybe
we'll find something when we go there," he added enthusiastically.
OC: Slate will go along with the plans of Slingshot and
Menagerie, he'll remove any walls/supports they feel will give the group the
best access to the item they are looking for.
He agreed that having Lightning Strike check out the security systems
would be a good idea before they go busting in...
OOC: I've been watching some of the original Star Trek
Episodes, and the other day came across Charlie X, which is about a boy who was
abandoned on a planet raised by another race that had substantial mental
abilities, which they gave to Charlie to keep him alive... in one scene, Kirk
and Spock attempt to lock Charlie in a room by putting him in a room with a
force field blocking the door. Charlie
basically disintegrates the entire wall the door is in and warns them not to try
that again... I thought it was pretty cool, I had expected him just to walk
through the force field, but the disappearing wall was surprising. :) as
hopefully will be whatever direction we come in, ceiling, wall or floor.
Jon
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Avatar:
OOC: Heightened Speed activated. Avatar will back up Sentinel for now in
whatever he does.
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Menagerie:
Menagerie stood with his team as a loss as to what to do
next. "If they are smart enough to set a trap at the door why wouldn't
they extend the trap to the walls, floor, and roof"?
"I like the idea of Lightning Strike scouting ahead.
Maybe Sentinel can carrying Slate above the warehouse. Slate make a double hand
size hole in the roof and Slingshot stretch into the hole to see what it looks
like"
Menagerie uses his senses to see if he can learn anything
more about the contents of the warehouse area where the artifact is located.
"Anyway we can get the night guard to open it up using
our warrant"?
Menagerie will support whatever is the team's decision is on
how to enter the warehouse. Unfortunately he is unsure of the best way to do
that himself.
Viva Vanguard
Tom
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Lightning Strike:
OOC:
Hi all,
I guess the consensus is that I scout ahead and look for
electronic traps, extra security, etc.
That sounds good to me and I will zoom off when the group tells me
to. I assume there will be much more to
this place than meets the eye.
That’s all for now.
Tony
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Clone:
OOC:
I hate to say it, but I'm at a bit of a lose for a lengthy
reply this issue - not much for Clone to do here other than to follow the group
on its search.
Clone will split-up into four duplicates just in case
something 'unexpected' should pop-up. When Vanguard does finally locate the
correct storage unit, Clone will use his knowledge of Folklore and Occult
Studies to help search the collection of artifacts for the next Object of
Power.
-Kev
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Symbiote:
OOC: Symbiote will wait for Sentinel's lead. Since we've more or less agreed on "hit
and run" tactics, he's definitely ready to provide the "run"
half of the equation--he'll dash in and grab the artifact once identified and
get out just as quickly, if at all possible.
Viva Vanguard,
Greg
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