RB 4-2: The RA Building Hive

Mission Report

Friday, Jan 5, 2018 ((Sep 29, 2019))
Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Cadeos (DragoN), Haelra Vayn (Basil)
Absent: Proud Flame (Aunne) (on a separate mission for Nails)

A Drone and Its Prisoner

• DM: > Cadeos is still under the exchange with Bahamut's angel, Emyla, and cannot receive healing
• Draco: > Traveling with Haelra in machine spirit form
• Draco: > Haelra has rogue assemblers on her, which Draco can use to create their combat form
• DM: > Jane: "Raptor Blue: Extraordinary things are our normal bullshit."
• DM: > Wasp-like drone enters, carrying a semi-conscious humanoid
• Jane Irwin: Jane grips the staff, eyes narrowing.
• Raptors fight the drone
• DM: > Ryu suggests Draco try to reach themself in this time
• DM: > Jane has noted that this alien biome is threaded with pheromones, suggesting that may be how the bugs communicate, in addition or instead of sound
• DM: > Everything around you seems to alive and connected (except the victims, and even them a little...)
• Dr. Tanesha Kennet and Ryu kill the drone
• DM: > Dead bug crumples remarkably fast
• DM: > Phobos offers to transport the unconscious teenager
• Ryu: *I'll pass the extra insperation to jane*
• DM: > Cyrus peers into the destroyed restaurant, with the winter storm blowing in

Horus Dining Room

• Patio windows destroyed
• Snow blowing in
• DM: > Ractor wants to hunt something in the south end of the 5th floor, where the Raptors are
• DM: > Raptors sense that human is Fighter type, L6-8
• Draco: > tries to reach themself, reports that far fewer satellites are in orbit now
• Draco: > I'm not finding any wireless networks or cell networks. It's... disorienting... to not feel the thick EM of our Chicago
• Max: > Why are we here? I thought we ended the threat to True Order when we took down Mr. Smith. Motherf*cker.
• Danana (Cadeos): *tries to read what symbol his class is*
• DM: > The hive breaks down the pieces of the wasp monster
• Horus Dining Room
  • DM: > The salad bar and buffet line have food debris that suggests that something happened here fast
  • DM: > Cy sees drones in the kitchen, which is hive-built, with suspended sacs, and two drones
• DM: > H takes samples of the hive creep
• DM: > Jane summons giant wasps to throw up a mimic of the pheromone calmness
• Jane casts Lesser Restoration on the human, purging the drone's venom
• DM: > Human identifies himself as Jerry Artino
• Draco: > I think I put a cybernetic implant in his head
• Jane Irwin: JAne, in the chain: Wait, holy shit, Draco can UNBIND peopl?
• DM: > Jerry is wearing Vince's armor, which he took off a body
• Draco links to Jerry's mind, taps into his memories of the Fall of Chicago: see Jerry Artino's Story
• Phobos: As the memories start flooding - Lyndi instructs Lincoln and Hunter to keep watch for anything sneaking up - and instructs Max to try and connect to any security system that may still be intact in the room - since the lock reacted to Cyrus' PDA.
• Jane Irwin: Jane's mouth is very, very, very grim. Someone sold out the city, taking all that stuff.
• DM: > The sword Jerry looted the sword from Vince(?)'s body, and it slays chromatic dragons
• Raptors discover that their P3s activate wireless security nodes
• Max: > The general security network is down, because the power grid is down. The building does have substantial emergency power, but it's magitec, and I extrapolate that the, uh, bugs may have cannibalized it.
• Max: > Local systems have backup power sources. Some of them are on trickle power, and if they're not damaged, they'll power up at a short-range ping from a P3 with the right signature code
• Draco: > Gets some tutoring from Ryu, rethinks how to connect to the remnants of the Chicago network, to reach themself as Father D
• DM: > Non-Cryos VIPs are looking cold
• DM: > Jane and a wasp sneak through the conference room and lock the service door
• DM: > the storm is worsening
• DM: > Ryu gives warmth to the VIPs

The Collapsed Lobby

• DM: > Lobby is a crypt of fallen troopers, killed by bugs. Then eggs, then baby bugs fed on the corpses. Sometime later, an explosion, bringing down parts of the ceiling
• DM: > The doors are jammed in the blast-skewed frame
• DM: > Cadeos casts Silence to cover Ryu's activities
• DM: > Ryu and Phobos get the door far enough open
• DM: > Ryu enters the lobby
• DM: > Ryu goes to the roof, observes the perimeter (including on the water), the gun emplacements to the south
• DM: > Some skyscrapers fallen, some still stand but with hive pods on them
• DM: > Ryu returns, collects a PDA from a fallen trooper
• DM: > Dr. Kennet looks much happier in a winter coat
• Team forms up to rush the kitchen/nursery, rushes in
• DM: > Lyndi, Jane, Ryu, and Cyrus are familiar with the aura of a reaver cloaker, and recognize multiple such auras as they enter the kitchen