• Arvak 46 XP  (combat, planar portal use, and role playing largest components)
• Phallon 36 XP  (proportionally less from combat – shroom 1 was tortured by you for many many low points of damage, good bonus from time distortion use)
• Ragnor 40 XP  (larger combat proportion due to wiping out some shrooms single-handedly or doing the majority of damage)
• Zeebo 43 XP  (most from research or deduction, bonus for role playing during private posts)

I’ll update your XP totals on your character sheets.  You may be able to spend them unless its for a skill that needs training, etc.

You are all currently in the security monitoring room.  Warm air is being sucked out due to the open front door, yet a heating vent is starting to pump warm air in.  The door panel will allow you to close and lock the door to the room.  Story-time is now over, and the kids seem to be feeling better.  Meyer starts to snore.  No sounds come from the outside.

What would you like to do?

Arvak and Zeebo are inside the dim-lit room.  Phallon has just walked up to the entrance.  Ragnor is just behind, checking his equipment.

Arvak can now see that the true man is a programmer wearing a set of olive drab fatigues, with a Newbie rank patch (single chevron), and a set of sheath armor over that.  The helmet to the armor is sitting on the floor next to Arvak, and a combat shotgun (same model as Ragnor’s) is on the floor next to the man.  He is now turning slowly around in an office chair to see who is coming into the room.  He is dirty, pale, and thin.    He looks at Arvak and weakly says “Any others make it?”  A child starts to cry from a crate/bed in the northwest corner.

Middex Armory: Klos 4th, 350AC, 0942

Phallon and Ragnor (with weapons fully loaded) cautiously move up to the bloody door, and peer through.  Inside is the room of horror which Phallon knows a little too well.  Ragnor realizes this is the source of the horrible death-like smell, which is now overpowering.  The description again from scene 24, err, I mean turn 3:

A 5 x 4 meter room that reeks of rotten decaying bodies.  There is a boot-high layer of shredded ooze of what used to be living beings.  It looks like a pulpy red, brown, gray and black mass of tissue braising in fluids and clotted blood.  The walls and ceiling are splattered with streaks of blood and dried chunks of tissue.  Blood is even coating the overhead glow panels, so the room is lit by an evil red light.  The goo overflows a little into the ex-office room, but is held in check by the general clot.  Streaks of blood on the floor show that the shrooms regularly moved in and out of this room.

Ragnor needs to make a MS save to not be in horror/feel overwhelming nausea (he’s used to fresh blood, but this is just putrid!)  Rank 7 +1MS = column 8:  80 6 = green.  Ok, he can deal.  Phallon previously made the save as well.  Doesn’t mean either of them want to swim in it, though.

Arvak hits the open button on the door.  Whoosh it slides to the side revealing a triangular room about 5 meters across.  There are several metal crates right up against the doorway, although they are only a meter high, so he can look over them.  The room is dimly lit from computer moniters and soft glow panels along a counter on the far wall.  Arvak can see what looks like a human sitting in a chair with his back to him, who is facing Dr. Zeebo.  Zeebo is searching through his own pockets and talking to him.  Arvak can see some other crates and dirty mattresses on the floor.  Some human children are lying on one, but are starting to fidget and wake up.

What would you like to do?

Phallon moves back to the south wall.  While moving, Arvak gets to make his melee attack first.

He brings the hammer down (16): 9 9 = red.  BD14-4ac = 10×5 =50 points of damage.  Squish.  Its very dead.

Phallon and Ragnor get into position, but see that the shroom is gone and are able to hold their fire.

Combat over.  Besides the dead shrooms, there is a lot of wrecked furniture and debris strewn around the room (which you haven’t looked at closely yet).  No sign of Dr. Zeebo.

What would you like to do now?

Arvak steps down from the desk, strides over towards Shroom 3 and swings his massive hammer at it (16): 2 3 = white.

Phallon backpedals as Shroom 2 advances on him.  He fires his pistol (8): 50 1 = white.

Shroom 2 attacks Phallon with his blades(11): 60 6 = blue +1RF = green.  BD 10-4ac = 6×2 = 12 points of damage.  He is down to 117 hp.

Shroom 3 attacks Zeebo (11): 90 9 = red.  Zeebo’s displacement (9): 9 1 = yellow.  He vanishes in a poof of in-rushing air.  (Todd, see Zeebo’s Turn 28 post)

Ragnor fires his shotgun at Shroom 2 (20): 80 8 = orange.  BD 18-4ac = 14×4 = 56 points of damage.  Shroom 2 is slaughtered, bits of mushroom are splattered all over the desk.

Initiatives:

• Phallon: 0 = automatic win
• Arvak: 9 +1 = 10
• Shroom: 2
• Ragnor: 1 = automatic loss

What now?

Ragnor and Arvak advance into the room, and head to the left of the door.  Phallon follows them slowly, pistol at the ready.  Zeebo stands at the east side of the doorway, bow ready.  The shrooms have not shown themselves, yet.

Next move?

Middex Armory: Klos 4th, 350AC, 0940.

Ragnor reloads a shell into his shotgun (clack), and aims at the doorway.

Arvak moves up next to him, hefting a metal spike.

Phallon hops over the desk, and moves up into the doorway.  The two shrooms are no longer in view (must be behind all the desks and garbage).  None of them are spinning their blades, so the room is now fairly quiet.  Most of the heros hear the ringing sound that remains after being close to gunfire.

Zeebo (no action declared) continues to aim his bow at the doorway.

What now?