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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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Gwen hangs there for a moment longer as she process what he's saying, then dismounts the ceiling with a neat and tidy landing just out of his way.
"What, like— the nature of reality itself kinda stuff?"
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"Yeah." he adds, with very Un-Spider-like grimness.
"It's crude. I'd be surprised if we see anything like a Collider in here, but it's not from lack of trying."
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Even Gwen's mask twists with an expression of alarm, at the idea—for all their arguments about the canon, the danger of messing with reality in and of itself isn't lost on her. She saw the damage done by the colliders.
"—okay, yeah, that's not great." To put it, you know, lightly. "Is it just this facility? Does it say?"
See, Miguel, she can be serious when the situation calls for it.
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"Unclear. There's a lot of data on this mainframe - I'd be surprised if this is the only machine they have."
A half dollar-sized spiderbot hops from his watch and burrows into the machinery to get to work. Time to take what they can get and worry about decryption later. He presses a control on the console to shut the door they came in from.
"I'm going to need time to download it."
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Gwen groans dramatically and rolls her shoulders, watching the door shut and scanning the rest of the room.
"Then we really better hope they don't have another way in here, because waiting on a download timer is like catnip to every villain and goon literally ever. Literally, every damn time."
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"Trying to break into secret computers does tend to kick the wasp's nest."
As if on cue, he perks up with the sound of movement a few rooms down. Gwen probably had him beat on telling whether or not it was hostile with her Spider-Sense. He's betting they aren't about to get more friends trying to bust through the door, though.
"Lucky for us, there's only one door."
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Miguel should definitely recognise the way her posture shifts subtly at the tickle of danger in the back of her mind.
"Then let's hope they don't have an override or something to bust down the door." Yeah, like they're that lucky. She laces her fingers to crack her knuckles, a second before yanking herself back up onto the ceiling with her webs. Better to be ready to get the jump on any incursion. "What is it with these shady scientific orgs and their endless supply of goons? They always find more somehow."
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Miguel stays in front of the console: he was a big, glowy target for the Goon Squad to focus on while Gwen went the stealth route. So a dozen footsteps scuttle by the door. Two voices argue, one yelling at the other to Hurry it up and Get IN there before the tulpas make a mess of the Experiment!
Then, a brief pause realizing the door lock was beeping in error in response to the override code. It was time for the brute force option.
Miguel hears the click of an unlocked safety and drops on all fours as a brief spray of bullets is unloaded into the room. The screen of the computer cracks, sparks fly, and a stray ricochets around in a manner concerning enough without the experimental matter floating precariously on the opposite end. Metal grinds as the door is jammed open.
At the sight of a muzzle poking its away through, he shoots a lightweb to grab the gun and topple the first guy onto his face. More are on his heels. Well, at least that caught their attention.