RB 3-9: The Nigerian Lab
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Mission Report
Saturday, Dec 30, 2017 ((Jun 16, 2019))
Team: Jane Irwin (Cael), Proud Flame (Aunne), Cadeos (DragoN), Haelra Vayn (Basil)
Absent: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene) working a case as a detective; Cyrus Riggs (Sielic) doing Cryos-related things
At the Fort
- Timing
- Op to Tessera was Thursday
- Long rest
- Friday was quiet
- Now it's Saturday
- Some internal superstructure will be upgraded to handle the increased weight of Bron
- Bron parked in airfield outside of Chicago
- Haelra's bodies: Thursday night
- Bodies brought to the Fort
- Any assistance? Yes, Proud
- Basics
- Two adult men, black, found dead in a warehouse
- Warehouse owned by the Daedalus Concord, a R3M ally
- Were working as guards
- Haelra's autopsies
- Both injured by cold energy [Cone of Cold]
- Both have several bullet holes
- One killed by blood loss due to gunshots
- One killed by necrotic energy [Chill Touch]
Briefing
- Max runs briefing
- Absences of Lyndi and Cyrus explained
- Talarin specialists have been analyzing clockwork injector
- Definitely similar tech to the mechadead specimens and parts in Fortune's Edge
- Circus Divergia
- Very little intel
- Some signs that some magic or higher power obscures its nature, history, and location
- There are some reports that materials written down about the Circus were lost, or destroyed in curious accidents
- Possibly a traveling circus sometimes seen in Sigil
- Possibly connected with the shadar-kai of the Shadowfell
- While you're on op, will try to identify more leads for the Circus Divergia
- Very little intel
- Journal Fragments from Fortune's Edge
- Caterina and her cult were using Earth animals
- Using the intel team gathered, tracking the sourcing of the animals, and possible black market sales
- Then we cross-tabulated that with the coordinates left in the jumpgate in Fortune's Edge
- In collaboration with Farwatch, used a satellite to pinpoint a location in Nigeria
- Rainforest
- Canopy obscures the ground
- Local guide: Nomusa Yenga, druid warrior (Order of One Terra)
- Mother: Israeli, Father: Nigerian
- Proud gears up, and stocks Bron extra
- During the flight, Proud and Cadeos work with Bron and Draco to manage the absence of the two regular pilots (Lyndi and Cyrus)
Jungle Lab
- Bronislav
- Nigeria Lab
- Night
- Dark jungle
- Team approaches target location
- Warning signs in English, Hausa, and Yoruba: biohazard; skull and crossbones: Private Property. Government-Approved Advanced Research. No Trespassing. Lethal force will be used.
- Fence was electrified
- Tree fallen across fence
- Nomusa arrives
- Jane talks with Brown Wing the bat, who says the lab is bad
- Lab is fabric domes; Proud climbs up and in
- Inside: derelict building, holes in the roof
- Training Room: martial arts; firearms; archery
- Mechadead ape beyond door
- Jane opens the door with Mage Hand
- Jane summons Bear totem and wolves
- Team slays ape
- Noise attracts two clockwork abominations, one of which launches a gnarljak from its back
- A gnarljak looks like a bear trap springs sprung to clacking life and ready to tear flesh apart.
- Team slays abominations
- Cadeos gets killing shot on the gnarljak
