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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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But Miguel straightens his back and turns vaguely in the same direction, picking up on a more indistinct form of the noise once Clark pointed it out. He refocuses on the data scrolling up the screen, and the eye-marks narrow.
The spiderbot summoned from the silvery body of his watch crawls into the panel where all the input plugs were to find a place to attach.
"It's encrypted data on a large mainframe. I'll need time to download it all."
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The first to arrive, a particularly pissed off one who'd run ahead instead of sticking with the rest of his squad, only has enough time to register a very disappointed Superman grabbing the barrel of his rifle and crushing it before having it bent around him as a makeshift binding.
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The sentence stops when he hears the screech of metal, and he turns around. He's seen Clark in action enough to not expect a single guard to be a problem, but when he looks around the guy is wrapped in his own weapon.
With an incredulous look, Miguel decides that he quite likes Clark as his back-up.
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"You all know me, and I'm pretty sure you have a good idea of what I can do." Clark gently tosses the tied up guard towards them. "So I'm giving you a chance to walk away."
One of the guards at the back looks right at Clark, considers, and throws down his gun. "Yeah, you guys are are your own." he says right before he bolts back down the hallway.
"What the fuck Bill?!" One of the others shouts.
Bill's voice, fainting away as he runs but still audible, comes back down the hallway. "I didn't sign up to fight Superman, asshole!"
"He's not Superman you idiot, he's just a tulpa! Look!" The other guard fires his gun right at Clark's chest and then watches in horror as the bullet. Bounces. Off.
(It takes a lot of effort for Clark not to react. He was still bulletproof even with his powers weakened, but that had really, really, hurt.)
"Oh, we are so fucked." he has just enough time to say before Clark bowls him over.
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Clark looked okay at first glance, but that was only one bullet fired off at him. They don't seem to get a second chance to test their guns, as Miguel catches him disappearing out of sight of the doorframe. Then come the sounds of the rather one-sided brawl. The bot beeps about four minutes into it, hopping off its position on the mainframe and skittering back to his watch.
"How's the merry band doing?" he asks.
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"Ugh. Getting shot for the intimidation factor was not a good plan." There's a slight pause as he realizes how that sounds.
"Don't worry, I'm bulletproof. Just not quite as much as I'm normally used to. How's the download going?"