Session 20 - The Nightmare is Real

Key Points:

• The group watched the Geiger Delivery video...
• A team of Genesis security escorted a prisoner to the Quiet Mountain facility six months ago at the request of Dr. Abel. The members of the team featured...
• Wisk, a female wind genasi. Pilot.
• Kazz, a male storm genasi. Engineer.
• Dr. Franklin Richards, a male human. Science officer.
• Scratch, a warforged. Heavy weapons expert.
• Tom, a male human. Alcoholic gunslinger.
• Rock, a male human. Trustworthy soldier.

• After a security check point, the Genesis team noted that the facility was having power fluxes.
• The group ran into a familiar face... Leonhardt Nacht.
• Nacht looked in better condition then than he does in modern times.
• He seemed to be on friendly terms with the Genesis security.
• Nacht mentioned having to deliver one of the usual Cartel shipments to this facility.
• He expressed regret that he had been unable to exit his profession yet as a result of the 'Queen Bitch'.
• Klein knew nothing of Nacht's involvement with Genesis and there are no data records of Nacht working for Genesis.
• Klein also mentioned that before she operated this facility, Quiet Mountain had its records closed and classified as a result of some incident. She handled the research side of things while ROGUE took care of the day-to-day operations.

• After the security team left Nacht (who exited the building), they escorted the prisoner through the anti-grav lift and into the specimen area.
• The specimen area seemed to be the recreation of a rain forest with numerous species (animal and plant) that were thought to be extinct. Some of them were tame like monkeys while others were more vicious like raptors, umber hulks, and assassin vines.
• After making it through the specimen exhibit, a security guard allowed the team to use Dr. Abel's secret lift.
• The lift lead through a hallway which contained strange, secret specimens that included the following:
• A mindflayer.
• A gnoll.
• An intellect devourer.
• A doppelganger.
• A grue.
• An old man. [Later revealed to be an Oni in disguise.]
• Klein noted that these creatures might be original samples. They were determined to be off limits for recreation / cloning, so it is likely that Dr. Abel is working behind the company's back.

• Dr. Abel was testy with the group when they arrived in the reactor core room where he was waiting for them. At his orders, the team threw their prisoner into the reactor core where a machine placed and restrained him in the heart of it.
• As the prisoner was unmasked, Klein seemed shaken and angry upon learning that it was her protege, Elias.
• Abel mentioned that Elias was the 'apex'. Surprisingly, the man was able to survive the intense radioactive conditions of the core.

• As the security team tried to leave, they found themselves being shunt into a different overlapping world. The runners watching the video had experience with this--it was the nightmare world they had already faced.
• Dr. Abel revealed that this was his intention all along. With the new power supply, the facility had enough energy to bring over the overlapping plane that Abel referred to as the Shadowfell.
• The facility's sirens started up and power fluxes occurred.
• Monsters that were resident to this nightmare world began to pour out of the hallways. Terrible aberrations that wanted nothing but death.

• The captive monsters took advantage of the situation...
• The mindflayer took the intellect devourer and doppelganger with him--using the secret lift to take them upwards. Wisk fired at the mindflayer, severing a tentacle.
• The grue took advantage of the chaos, gnashing its teeth and claws at anything it could get its hands on. Tom ultimately was killed by one of these grues.
• The gnoll tried to attack the old man, but the old man somehow overpowered him...

• One by one, the group began to fall even as they tried to fight back...
• Rock and Scratch were torn apart by aberrations of the nightmare world.

• The old man revealed himself to be an oni--claiming to be the lord of this domain and that the security team were all trespassers. He ultimately cut down Dr. Franklin Richards with a giant bastard sword, then stole the man's fallen soul.
• Despite insistence by the security team, Dr. Abel would not turn off the reactor core. He later broadcasted a message that the deaths of those in the facility were not in vain--that they were the hallmark of a monumental scientific breakthrough.
• Kazz and Wisk were the only survivors of their team at this point. They escaped through the carnage of the facility--trying to reach their chopper. They made it to the first floor only to find themselves confronted with the oni they had been fleeing. The video cut out there, leaving the fates of Kazz and Wisk unknown.