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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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It hadn't been easy, her disappearing, but Jack had assured him one of the yetis saw her briefly blip back to a world that almost certainly had to be Krulmuth-B.
On the one hand, he'd been glad she'd gotten home safely. On the other, he missed his best friend, and knew how much better their odds against Kuk would be if she were in the Guardians' world.
"Mariner!" He runs over and grabs her by the shoulders, shaking her a little. "Oohh, you have no idea how glad I am to see you! It's been a month, I didn't think the magic would bring you back."
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Then she playfully punches him in the shoulder. "Can't get rid of me that easy." She's trying to hide it, but there'd been a bit of alarm on her face when Boimler had told her it had been a month. She feels terrible that he's been here without her, especially after everything that's happened to him. It's almost like she got off light.
Speaking of alarms: "What is happening? Where are we? This doesn't look like the North Pole unless you did some remodeling while I was gone."
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"First of all, you'll need some of these. Miniature snowglobes. Be careful not to waste any, it takes the yetis ages to make them."
Boy, that's a combination of words he never thought he'd say.
When he's sure she's got them safely in hand, he starts to lead her through the halls, body language and the way he holds his phaser making it clear they're in a conflict. The tension on his face is obvious. He's always hated the fighting part of the job.
"Stay on alert. If you see any security guards in dark uniforms, consider them hostile," he says. "This is some kind of facility belonging to a secret organization that hunts, imprisons, and experiment on myths. We got a distress call from what we think are new myths, just like us. They were being held captive, and managed to steal tech and cobble together a communication device while imprisoned, then hack the magical network at the Pole."
He edges up to a corner, peeking around it.
"We managed a trace; this is a rescue mission. We've been portaling myths to the Pole, or their home habitats. We've also been collecting as much data as we can from the org's systems to find out more about them. They call themselves Project Prometheus." He adds, "We've almost got all the cell blocks clear and have scraped as much intel as we think we can get away with. Once we do, Jack's going to destroy the place."
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"Lethal or nonlethal?" she asks. She can do disabling strikes with the bat'leth, and hit people with the flat of the blade, but Klingon weapons aren't really meant for anything but killing or maiming blows. If need be, she can switch to her phaser.
Personally? After hearing what Boimler just said about what this place does to myths? She wouldn't lose any sleep over fatal injuries.
Her lip curls. "That's...disgusting." Experimentation on sentient beings is forbidden by Federation law for very good reasons. Myths aren't any different - okay, they can't die from injuries, probably. There are definitely some unscrupulous scientists back home who'd be dying to get their hands on myths. Because myths aren't part of the humanities as people understand them, or maybe how they'd like to think of them. Because myths aren't real, there's no harm done when experimenting on them. They're simply a curiosity. Like that phrase that had persisted for hundreds of years - a 'lab rat', not valued beyond what it can be used for. She didn't like the idea that that's what people thought of her and Boimler and the rest of the myths.
Prometheus. She vaguely remembered an ancient myth she'd heard a long, long time ago, from an old Earth culture. The one who stole fire and brought technology to humanity. A twisted way to use the name. Just what 'fire' did they think they were stealing?
She nodded. "Good. This place needs to be wiped out." Orbital strike with photon torpedoes, if possible.
cw: light mention of child imprisonment/harm
He might opt for nonfatal force as often as he can, but even he knows he may have to escalate here, depending on what they're armed with, and especially with potential victims that can be taken as hostages or human shields.
It's a situation where desperation does have a small part to play and legally, morally, and by their training, there are some allowances in levels of force in the face of a group this deadly trying this hard to kill them.
It just needs to be a very conscious decision to remain an ethical one.
"As for how hard it'll weight on your conscience if you have to -" He briefly looks over at her with a hard expression. "One of the ones that made the distress call was a kid. I don't know if he was one, but he'd pass for a juvenile Caitian back home."
His face twitches with even more disgust and he works his jaw for a second, as if the next words are so ugly he doesn't want them passing over his tongue. "He's not the only one. We found a few others."
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That look on Boimler's face is something she doesn't like to see. It's wrong, somehow, a hardened edge on someone who usually doesn't have one. Mariner's not naive enough to say he wouldn't hurt a fly - they've both had to fight in their Starfleet careers. But that look of disgust, accompanied by the words he was saying, made the hair stand up on the back of her neck. And then she got angrier.
"Okay, yeah. Not going to lose sleep over this at all."
You don't mess with kids. Universal rule, or at least it should be. Mariner's known too many people who died too young, seen the aftermath of Wolf 359, seen Borg babies, robbed of the person they were going to become.
"Boims? Let's get 'em."