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BEYOND THE SHADOW YOU SETTLE FOR ❅ PART 2
BEYOND THE SHADOW YOU SETTLE FOR
Alarms blare and red alert lights flash and illuminate hallways. The intruders have either escaped the traps or avoided them altogether and are invading.
It still won't be easy for the Guardians. There are armed checkpoints to overcome and giant security doors to figure out how to unlock or break through.
Once they're past the initial security checkpoints, the place is a maze of hallways that contain cells with captured myths that need to be freed (some friendly and some unfriendly), offices with computers and tablets that can be hacked or stolen, science labs with myths being experimented on and technomagical devices of unknown purpose, archival rooms with useful (and potentially cursed) tomes and artifacts, and storage rooms with the plundered belongings of many myths captured over time.
Some of the magical artifacts and Prometheus devices can be used against their forces and used to help the captured myths.
For those that would like to be extra helpful and let others know where security forces are congregating (or to cause a little chaos) several redundant security rooms have screens showing video from closed circuit monitoring. Provided they knock out the guards in each room, they can potentially maneuver them to consoles for the fingerprint panels and retinal scanners that would allow them to unlock cell doors on many of the cell blocks.
Given that the the master unlock for all cells requires the base's Director's security bypass, it'll be useful if several groups do this if they want to mass unlock all the cell blocks.
Some captured myths will also have to be comforted. Others may need to be chased as they escape their cells, rush past, and go on a rampage.
And of course the myths will have to figure out what to do with the escaping staff that isn't security, all of them running for exit stairways and elevators to the outside world or to escape magical portals, whatever's closest and ensures the best chance of survival. Some of these staff members are simple office drones, handling the minutiae and bureaucracy of a large organization like this. Others are even lower on the organizational ladder, like the janitorial staff. But some like the base leadership, scientists, and guards, have a much more active hand in the treatment of the captured myths.
The more aggressive escaped myths will make a beeline for the base staff, to go after them in revenge. The Guardians will have to figure out what they want to do in response.
In any case, there are myths to be freed, artifacts to be pilfered, intel to be gathered, and decisions to be made.
This base of Project Prometheus is going down.
OOC PLOTTING POST
❅ Format: Use prose or actionspam as desired.
❅ Environment: Please feel free to use the plot as an open and flexible environment, and simply ask for anything the requires specifics or might affect the full facility so the mod can provide accurate intel and keep track of the evolving situation during the plot. Players should feel free to largely do what they want. If they want to access and manipulate certain aspects of security, question Prometheus npcs, information gather from captured myth PCs, etc, they can request to do so.
❅ NPCing: This part of the plot will have limited mod npcing, for moments people decide to do in the plot, like getting info from Prometheus npcs or breaking into and messing with security. There will be a thread to request either npcing or information to use in self-npcing from the mod. The mod will decide whether to npc or if players can just self-npc with provided info. The mod will automatically comment in after each round of PC tags unless asked to pause for more PC tags. The mod will use prose for npcing but players don't have to match.
❅ Powers: Now that they've escaped the trap rooms, everyone's powers will work as normal and all their devices and artifacts like the globes will work.
❅ Myths: You can assume rescued myths match their RL myth counterparts. If I need to use a myth later on and make them different from what's been established, we can handwave there are just variations within the same type of myths sometimes. The only thing I'd like to limit is two things:
1) Using some of the big individual myths in mythology in case they need to be used later or I have plans for them. Specific gods and named folk figures, etc. But myths that are just general, like general nymphs, brownies, fae, etc, you can kinda go ham with.
2) Try to be respectful and avoid using myths that still feature heavily into IRL belief systems and cultures like wendigo. Please be thoughtful and maybe do a quick google about whether something would be offensive. There are plenty of other myths from ancient societies to use with less baggage, like creatures from Greek mythology.
❅ Collars: Rescued myths will have power blocking collars that need to be broken or the rune design on them must be scratched when they're freed, to give their powers back.
❅ Resources: Elle will be their man in the chair acting as a coordinator for the mission on the games. Players can handwave that important information was conveyed to or from Elle.
Mini-globes: Mini snow globes the size of marbles will have been given to everyone to use to transport myths out as well as emergency transport to the Pole. For those who don't carry storage with their normal outfits, they'll have been given fanny packs to carry them.
Devices: Courtesy of Miguel, there are mini bombs; spy bots that can fly and scout ahead, transmitting video to their comms; and elemental handheld devices can use to cause localized effects of extreme freeze or extreme heat. The latter is hot enough to melt the door looks to the thick cell doors.
Magic crystals: These can float over the hand to guide the Guardians towards other myths, as well as provide the location of their home habitats so Guardians can tell the snowglobes to right location to transport them home.
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The man gulps and stammers. "I-I-I- there's one a floor down, three hallways that way?" He waves to the right.
Loki, however, frowns. "I have already been there and taken care of it." The man blanches white. Loki looks over his head at Skitter, inviting her to ask her own questions, or maybe turn up the intimidation.
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Skitter, putting a hand on the man's shoulder, squeezes a little. Red ants crawl from a compartment on the back of her suit to her arm, threatening to let them walk on the man's neck. The mandibles on those ants look pretty unpleasant.
"I'm on my way to finding out how accurate that info was. If you...misremembered, this would be a good time to make a correction."
True, if it turns out that one floor down three hallways to the right doesn't have the control room, it doesn't necessarily mean they were intentionally deceived, it might have been an honest mistake...but if it turns out this was a lie and this person tried to send in a wild goose chase or tried to save himself by blurting random information, this should be a good incentive to get him to speak.
In her head she's busy multitasking, keeping the swarm going in the agreed direction and trying to analyze the surroundings the best she can in a hurry. Although Skitter has a lot of practice multitasking like this, her guard, more cautious than usual. A single mistake could mean their collective undoing.
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The man shudders and closes his eyes. "I-I'm sorry! That's where I work, it's the only one I've been to! There's p-p-probably one at the entrance? Where they check us in? It's ground level that way-" he waves behind him, then whitens again. "At-at least that's where the entrance is, I don't know where the control room is, it could be somewhere different."
Loki, still scowling, raises a finger to cut off his babbling. "If you work in that room, why were you not there when I visited?"
The hostage hangs his head. "I-I- excused myself when the alarms went off."
Loki shakes his head and pulls a mini-globe out of his coat, rolling it between his fingers. "Well then. You have not been particularly helpful, but points for trying, I suppose. You may take your leave shortly- unless you have anything you wish to ask?" He directs that at Skitter.
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"No complaints from me."
This person can be let go. The swarm she had sent disbands, the smallest bugs crawling into power sockets to target communication lines while the bigger ones return to flittering throughout the complex, for security reasons. Having a heads-up for anything that might happen, pretty much.
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"That was mostly a waste of time, though thankfully not of resources," he remarks with a sigh. "I suppose I could try searching for the other room he mentioned, but with the vagueness of his directions and his own uncertainty, I would likely have more luck continuing as I have been. What of you?"
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Obviously, really. She could sit down and scout the entire building with insects, but even with everything that exists in the building it'd take way too long. They don't have all the time in the world, focusing on the right areas to plunder and destroy is a must.
"There has to be a faster way of pinpointing all that matters. They also probably have some myths separate from the others, kept away due to how dangerous they are..."
It'd be extremely embarrassing if they failed to liberate everyone because some myths' cells weren't grouped with the others.
"If you were in charge of a complex like this one where would you place the myths you feel more cautious of?"
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He takes a couple deep breaths to calm himself and considers her question. "Asgard would put those prisoners in the deepest dungeons, unless it somehow empowered them. I do not think these mortals would do differently. So I would expect to find something if you keep looking downwards. But where they would put the master control room, or their full records of all they have captured... that I still cannot guess at."
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"I knew of someone who was kept in a special vault deep within some asshole's base. There wasn't much of a control room, the one in charge had the controls right in his pocket, and a physical key somewhere else. No records kept within the rank-and-file's reach.
If there are special cells somewhere separate from the rest it probably is going to be something like that."
This all depends on how paranoid the Prometheus people are, and in her opinion, they'll be pretty paranoid. Who knows how much of a magic component there'll be, too.
"Do we have someone to hack things open if we need to?"
Are we lucky enough to have technology experts?
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"We do indeed. If you find Robin- or Tim Drake, whichever he prefers to go by- tell him that Loki would like his help in hacking the records. I am certain he would also help you, should you present him with something to be hacked."