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| The group contacts their handler to clean up the artifact, which they do with sledgehammers. Garrison is taken to an asylum and the group is able to get a flight back to DC. | The group contacts their handler to clean up the artifact, which they do with sledgehammers. Garrison is taken to an asylum and the group is able to get a flight back to DC. | ||
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| + | ===== 03 Montana Madness ===== | ||
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| + | |Game Date|09/ | ||
| + | |Campaign Dates |Fall 2014| | ||
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| + | Summoned back for a briefing at the Holiday Inn, the team meets with Agent Simmons for the next mission. All four agents have been working on honing their skills. This time, The EPA and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) are working with the local Sheriff’s Office to investigate a death outside Helena, Montana of Deputy Fred Jacobs (white male, age 37, married, no children). He died 6 days ago form high levels of heavy metal poisoning, cadmium, arsenic, and zinc. This was odd because it was sudden, and usually this sort of thing happens over time. The contamination was widespread. His digestive system showed concentrations of the metals, but so did his other organs. There were no reports of an industrial event or area that would lead to such a sudden increase of metals in the body. His gut bacteria were of an unknown variety that is still alive. The understanding of the contamination is inconclusive. | ||
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| + | Agent Simmons also wants the team to explore the local Green Box and see what is there. The team decides a cover story to keep the EPA and DEQ off their backs and out of the way is in order. They opt for a cover story Deputy Jacobs was a secret witness and that DHS expects this was a murder to stop him from testifying. | ||
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| + | Once in Montana, they go straight to the local Sheriff Potter to check in. He believes the story and assigns Deputy Hayes to assist them. They decide to check on the wife, Christina. They follow Hayes in their car, with James riding with Hayes to talk shop and ask about fishing. Once they arrive, they are starteld to be meet by a pale, gaunt, and very much not 7 month pregnant Christina. She says the baby is sleeping. Sgt. Lewis and Dr. Wagner go upstairs to check on the child, while Agent Hanson and James stay with the mother. The two upstairs notice a strong musty smell in the home. Upstairs, they look into the room, and Lewis sees an odd human form with a partially fungal head. Dr. Wagner, now under the influence of spores in the air, only sees a normal baby. Lewis sends her down to switch out with Hansen, knowing that one of them has been compromised. Wagner talks to the mother, but in her current state, cannot tell the woman is at all crazy, even as she starts talking about going away with the “Star People”. She tells Hanson to head up stairs and follows him to the baby area. Hanson notices the filters are clogged with a fungus and covers his face. As the three talk about that child, James gets the deputy and Christina outside the house. James notices that Hayes is just standing there, dazed as he shrugs off an odd feeling from the strange woman. For her part, Christina walks with determination towards the deputy’s car, keys in hand. James tries to stop her, but she punches him and he dodges but falls to the ground. As she goes to open the trunk, James yells for the others and pulls his weapon, demanding she stop. When she reaches in, James fires, but is still prone and his shot goes wide. The crazed mother now has a shotgun in her hands and goes to shoot at James. | ||
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| + | As the others race down from the house, the Doctor stops to examine the stunned Hayes, while Hanson and Lewis take aim at the woman, telling her to put the gun down. Lewis catches her with a great shot, but somehow the woman does not fall, but her shot at James is wild and goes wide. Hanson takes aim and finishes her off. The thing that was Christina Jacobs explodes into a mess of fungal remains. Hanson is somewhat shaken by his taking of a life and adopts a hard demeanor. James stands and is pale at the full realization that she had tried to mind control him. | ||
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| + | The group manages to get Hayes back to normal and says that there was a terrorist attack using Ricin and that the area needs to be decontaminated. They head up to deal with the creature in the bedroom, and James suggests shotguns. Once that is delt with and called in, the team wants to check out the dash cam footage for Jacobs. While Hayes says he encountered a drifter, he notes Jacobs was a bit odd about the call in around the incident. | ||
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| + | Before hitting the dash cam footage, the team checks out the Green Box. After finding it and getting in, the team finds | ||
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| + | *A cardboard box full of loose mousetraps with 25% already armed. | ||
| + | *One fully-operational M72A2 LAW rocket. | ||
| + | *Six thermite grenades that can be used underwater. | ||
| + | *Chunk of sandstone with an embedded dog tag with IDGE ATHAN ##THEW 5-42 N-I | ||
| + | *3 glass bottles with corrosive warning labels on them. They are identical in use to Molotov cocktails, but with a powerful acid in them so no wick. | ||
| + | *Set of Combat Body Armor in desert camouflage. In the pockets which would hold strike plates (but have two hardback copies of Peter F. Hamilton’s 1997 novel The Neutronium Alchemist. | ||
| + | *1980s tape deck containing a tape labeled “Star People.” | ||
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| + | The tape has a recording with an unnamed Cree man talking about the “Star-People Song.” The chant is meant to be sung to the Pleiades He claims that his people came down to Earth from that lodge as spirits, and then took human form. In the past the Start People came down to share wisdom or to | ||
| + | take people with them up to the stars. He suggests to sing it high up, like at “The Ghost Mountain”. When asked to describe them, he has no good description and says it has been so long they might look like anything. He then sings the chant, which sounds like a Native American chant. | ||
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| + | The dog tag appears to be US Navy from WWII. James suggests that maybe it was from a sailor on the //USS Eldritch// the ship in the so called Philadelphia Experiment, where the ship phases and people came back embedded in it. As usual, James knows the bit of mysterious pop culture while his teammates to not. Agent Hanson says they can have the Navy try to match the ID. Searching for ships which may or may not have vanished is not in the scope of their mission. | ||
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| + | The next day the team goes to watch the video footage from Jacobs’ dash cam. It is not hard to find. It ic clear that Jacobs saw a man on the side of the road, in the cold without a coat and wet from the rain. Despite Jacobs saying this looked like a drifter, this man clearly was not such. The man had no ID and was confused, so Jacobs put him in the car, but did not handcuff him. The man got out and vomited on Jacobs, who then went to call for paramedics. The man appeared to mind control Jacobs in the same way his wife would later control Deputy Hays. Jacobs stands there as the man leaves, telling Jacob to forget everything, After a few minutes, the Jacobs got back in the car, said it was nothing on the radio and drove off. | ||
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| + | The team decides to run the face of the “drifter” and go back to check out the Jacobs home. They find the soiled clothes in the laundry room and figure out that the vector for the infection can come from vomit and the contaminated clothes must have infected Christina Jacobs, as well has her unborn child. Checking on the bodies, Dr. Wagner is able to see they are not decomposing as expected and she goes to make sure the bodies are taken care of by teams. | ||
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| + | The team is able to get a match on the face of the “drifter” and it is Dr. Brent McCaslan, a local scientist working for Benthic, which appears to be a clear cover for some sort of DARPA like organization. There is a local lab. The team hits his home, which smells fungal, but he is not there. There is reference to the Devil’s Tower, and again, James has to patiently explain to the rest of the group his cultural reference as he checks the living room for a giant mound of dirt. James takes his computer and hacks it, but it does not have much other than his log ins are remote into a secure location. It does show on his calendar however, that he was visiting the Oakland Pit, a source of heavy metals, regularly for the last two months. While they are there, they get a call their hotel was broken into and nothing was stolen. The team goes back to find the Star People Tape has been played. It appears McCalan needed the song. The group is not even surprised he knew about it. | ||
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| + | After checking on their hotel room, the group heads off for the Oakland Pit, a stinking lake in a limestone hole 1000 meters wide and, nearly 300m deep. The water is poisoned with copper, arsenic, and cadmium heavy metals. Strangely, it has a gift shop and a bridge to provide fore viewing. It sells crystals and other trinkets. The caretaker is friendly enough and talks with his accent about people interested in “extromo-fillies” for extremophiles, | ||
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| + | Now feeling the urgency to get at whatever the company has been doing, Hanson leads the team to Benthic corporation. It is well guarded and patrolled. Hanson, in his best form, bullies the head of security to let them talk to Dr. Ghent. She seems reluctant to go into too many details and is mostly mad that Dr. McCaslan is not doing his work. However, as the group questions her, she is unable to stop herself from talking about “Star People”, even if she then tries to brush it under the rug. Her speech revels that she is not in control of her faculties, and the agents place her under arrest. Everyone is sure to stay clear of her mouth, to good effect, because when she is tazed she vomits contamination. The Doctor | ||
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| + | James grabs papers from her desk, including a file marked “Do Not Open” and copies her computer files from the unlocked computer. The group secures the room and marches the security chief at gun point to see Dr. Nguyen. The man refuses to give over any information, | ||
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| + | It is now clear that there was an Air Force project, code named DANCER, that was looking at extremophiles. It appears that the group here had taken over the project and was running samples on the fungus. Dr. Wagner examines the research and it looks like what they have thought was a fungus is an alien life form, fungus like, but does not actually fit any Earth biological category. In addition to thriving in heavy metals, it, sometimes, appears to have an extradimensional transfer of energy. Alarmingly, even before the two doctors were infected, they were talking about using this alien spore in trials with humans. | ||
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| + | The team orders a Be On the Lookout for Dr. McCaslan, with strict orders to not apprehend. They move to Devil’s tower, and James brings along speakers to play music from a certain movie to drown out a chant. There, they follow the doctor’s progress and when he arrives and begins to chant, Hanson and Lewis shoot him dead as the music of John Williams echoes off “The Dark Side of the Moon”. The group sees that some stars in the distance might have moved. Maybe not. Agent Hanson notes he may be moving into the “burn it all” camp. | ||
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| + | That night, James solves the mathematical formula in the “Do Not Read” folder and Lewis wakes up to see James madly typing into his computer. Shaking James awake, James has no memory of what he did. He is sure he could go over the math again and understand it better, but James is really shaken by the events and asks to talk to Dr. Wagner. James makes the comment that “Math should not make you go crazy,” and the seasoned Agent Hanson sighs as if to say Welcome to the dark reality, kid. James sends a warning to HQ about the math problem. | ||
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| + | With a final bit of research on Benthic, James says that they are linked to the March Corporation. James announces he is going to follow the leads on the connection to the March Corporation and Dr. Wagner asks him to also look and see if there is a Hunt connection. What is clear at the moment is that alien technology and devices are being used. Still upset with his experience over Math, James agrees with Hanson that maybe burn it all makes sense. | ||
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| + | ===== 04 Reverb Revelations ===== | ||
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| + | |Game Date|09/ | ||
| + | |Campaign Dates |Fall 2014| | ||
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| + | While Agent Hanson is otherwise deployed, the rest of the team is asked to look into a problem going on in Chicago. A 1990s rave drug called Reverb is back on the streets of Chicago. The agency thinks there is something unnatural about this drug and wants the team to find out, and if so, put a stop to it. James suggests to Dr. Wagner that she carry a full kit, including medications that can be sued to help sedate people and she agrees. | ||
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| + | In Chicago, the team checks in with the local PD and looks at cases. James does a search of the cases on one pops up, where a man vanished from a room that was destroyed, but there were no traces of blood. Dr. Wagner uses the time to search federal records for the Reverb drug, but finds the files are missing. James suggests paper records at the local hospital, and Dr. Wagner is able to get them in and they spend the day searching the records for paper files. Reverb, it seems, was sugar with a trace element alkaloid that has some psychedelic properties that acted on the hypothalamus. It was derived from a plant, but no one was sure which. Records show it was linked to Vietnamese religious refugees, the Tcho-Tcho and their gang. | ||
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| + | They search the crime scene and Dr. Wagner finds an unusual crystal that they take for evidence. As they go to leave, James and Sgt. Lewis hear a body collapse on the third floor. They go up to see a man having a seizure. James calls for back up as Sgt. Lewis goes to to bust the door down, but Dr. Wagner just opens it as it was unlocked. While she stabilizes the man, the men secure the apartment and find a bottle of unused pills. They take one to analyze and will send the rest with the odd crystal back to HQ. They also find some other drugs to warrant an arrest. The man babbles about a vision of Aztek like people killing others in his vision. He seems still somewhat out of it. By now, first responders have arrived to take the man into custody. | ||
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| + | Using part of the crime lab, Dr. Wagner is able to identity the pill as having reverb in it, this time enhanced with MDMA. It is clear this substance is back. Wanting to approach the local Tcho-Tcho respectfully, | ||
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| + | Once in the car, Lewis dressed down James for breach of secure information. James is aghast at the further implications of his actions, including that this innocent women might be killed for such a thing by cultists. His is subdued and quiet thereafter. At the station, the group interviews the man they caught, Damian Lucis, who is quite the minor criminal. Lewis hits him with all the federal charges and Lucas is more than willing to sell out his supplier, “Spider J” and how he defends himself. The man is really, : Jacob Silas Simmons, former Army Vet who then worked for Blackwater. He had multiple tours in Afghanistan, | ||
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| + | The team tracks him down to the Excelsior Hotel, where the man has put up cameras to wifi as cheep security. James easily hacks the system and is startled to find nothing but the cameras on the wifi. There is no monitoring going on. They see his room window is open and James flies his drone up to check the window, and Simmons is lying in bed. The team grabs guns and hits the room via the fire escape. As the men secure the room, noting his laptop is clearly missing. Dr. Wagner brings the dealer around. The first thing he says is that “she” told him all the Liao, but he can’t remember who “she” was other than a Hispanic looking lady, with clear amerindian features. When pressed for where he got the drug, he stays Afghanistan where he used American strikes to kill the elders of the tribe since the youth were happy to trade. | ||
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| + | Before he can answer any more questions, he has a fit and visions. James starts to record the conversation. Simmons is acting out what appear to be scenes from the past, including a Nazi base in Antarctica, though that part is in German, the HQ translation shows it to be a base taken out in the 1950s. Once event even reminds James of Hunt, whom they suspected of being reptilian, as a serpent man in a lab linking to dinosaurs. It is in this mindset that James first sees things shift. | ||
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| + | Simmons screams about it being in his brain and geometric shapes, like crystals appear in space. They form into a bizarre “Hound” and it goes for Simmons. Sgt. Lewis tries shooting it with the automatic gun taken from Simmons with no effect. Both James and Dr. Wagner, not concentrating on gun fire, leap to the conclusion that Simmons’ mind is bouncing through time and this is the “preta”. Already in a poor frame of mind from his security error and believing this to begin with, James utters a cry and falls to the ground in a fetal position. He mutters about the math and geometry coming to life out of his brain. Dr. Wagner grabs the young man to start hauling him out, followed in moments by Lewis, who is an expert at bugging out when it is appropriate. Behind them, there is nothing left of Simmons or the creature. | ||
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| + | Making their way back to the van, James trips over Simmons missing laptop, lying broken on the ground. He grabs it and clutches it like a talisman to his chest, still worried about geometry coming to life. | ||
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| + | James recovers and the next day is able to get images from the hard drive and they get hotel security as well. The woman on the images is unknown to the databases, but now is on file. They agency can be on the look out for her in the future. When they go back to contact Lucis, they find there was screaming and he vanished. It would appear that he, too, was taken by one of the hounds. | ||
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| + | That night, James burns the copy of the math treatise and asks Dr. Wagner if they can talk. Returning home. Sgt. Lewis reaches out to his old comrades to see what information he might find. | ||
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