RB 4-4: Fire in the Nursery

Mission Report

Friday, Jan 5, 2024 ((Oct 13, 2019))
Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Ryu (ShadowRyuu), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Cadeos (DragoN), Haelra Vayn (Basil)
Absent: Proud Flame (Aunne) (on a separate mission for Nails)

The Raptors make final preparations and then assault the nursery in the kitchen. The defeat the drones and two cloakers. Fire begins to consume the nursery. One cloaker remains out of sight. The Raptors smash into a conversation between a cloaker prime and something like an illithid.

Into the Nursery

• Before entering the kitchen/nursery...
  • DM: > H raises some zombies
  • DM: > Team attaches napalm bombs to J's giant wasps

• Kitchen / Nursery
  • Hot and steamy
  • Mucus-covered pods hanging from the ceiling (egg sacs)
• Drones and cloakers
• Wasps enter first and attack the cloakers
• Zombies follow
• Raptors follow
• Cloakers retaliate
• Drones also fight, with more coming in as reinforcements
• DM: > Wasps that are unsummoned take their undetonated bombs with them
• DM: > Remaining wasps detonate, with Trickery poison as part of the blast
• Max chatters to stay calm: It's a pretty big deal that RA is moving their, I mean, our headquarters to Chicago. It puts them farther away from Farwatch HQ, which emphasizes that Farwatch isn't synonymous with RA.
• Jerry Artino demonstrates skill with his glaive
• J casts Wall of Fire
• Cloakers break through the outer wall to avoid the fire
• DM: > Nursery is starting to burn, including eggs
• Max: Moving RA HQ to Chicago puts them closer to the HQs for Primex, Talarin, and R3M. Well, some of their HQs.
• Cloakers smash in through a window, then grapple Cadeos and try to throw him outside
• J summons two giant octopuses; one counter-grapple Cadeos
• Zach Hunter and Max get some shots in
• Ryu get killstrike on a cloaker
• DM: > Cloaker shoots at Ryu, Ryu catches the bullet, tosses it to Lyndi
• Lyndi 3.0: Lyndi catches the spent bullet, still hot, and slides it into one of her multitude of pockets, her attention sliding southward.
• DM: > Flames and smoke are consuming the kitchen/nursery
• A cloaker smashes in through a window and attacks Cyrus
• Cryus gets killstrike on a cloaker
• Max: (after accidentally stepping on an insectoid egg): Of course, the increased Council focus on Chicago will come with higher security overall.
• Lyndi 3.0: Lyndi asks Max to take a sample of the egg goo from her leg and put it in a sealed biohazard sample kit.
• Jane Irwin: Jane gives a reassuring smile to the VIPs. "You guys doing good?"
• Max: > Takes a sample of egg ooze. She mutters about her advanced degrees in military science and international affairs.
• Cyrus hears voices in the manager's office and moves closer
• The rest of the team moves into a better position
• Cyrus polymorphs into a giant ape and smashes open the office wall
• An insectoid cloaker prime is talking with a humanoid projected in (semi-transparent)
• The humanoid seems to be a combination of dragonborn and illithid