Session 23 - The Reactor (Part 6)

Key Points:

• The fighting continued...
• Managirl used her new form to add extra oomph into her attacks. She wounds the Oni and the Intellect Devourer.
• The dolgaunts miss Kembu, but one bites into Managirl.
• Roan stuns the Oni with a well placed shot, but he misses the Intellect Devourer with his action point.
• Klein informs Del on how to shut down the reactor. Due to the dangers, though, it is on a time, and the group must hold out a little longer before the shut down can be completed. Del in the mean times has her team of spirit animals kill some wretches and dolgaunts.
• Manu-Nui finds the Oni's fortitude too tough to pierce.
• More wretches arrive onto the scene...
• The Intellect Devourer attacks Roan, but it proves ineffective.
• The Oni breathes its hypnotic fog upon Kembu, Del, and the team of animals. He then wounds Kembu with his sword.

• Another round...
• Kembu refuses to back down and he bloodies the oni with an attack. The oni in retaliation attacks everything nearby it--wounding just about everyone nearby with a festering, rotting attack.
• Managirl misses the Oni, but blows up two wretches with her magic.
• Kiki and Del tag-team the Oni quite effectively, but Del succumbs to the hypnotic breath and passes out.
• Manu-Nui heals Kembu with a strange rain, then throws the Intellect Devourer away from Roan.
• Klein, startled by the Intellect Devourer being thrown her way, kills the beast with The Claw.
• Roan unfortunately finds his gun jamming this round.
• The wretches look for their own targets. Some are effective; others not so much.
• The Oni nearly kills Kembu and finishes off Kiki. This leaves Del only with Jergo left.

• Fighting remix, unt, unt, unt, unt, dubstep.
• Kembu and Managirl both land powerful hits against the struggling Oni.
• Jergo is the one to finish the Oni off-lunging at the monster's throat.
• Manu-Nui, Klein, and Roan help dispatch a few of the remaining wretches.
• An army of wretches soon threaten to overwhelm the group and the Oni seems to be awakening--but thankfully, the shutdown protocol takes effect, and the group leaves the Shadowfell.

• With the power out, the group seeks to complete their mission.
• Roan copies the information on the hard drives, then wipes the hard drives for the facility clean.
• Most of the group struggle to heal and recover.
• Managirl and Manu-Nui open up the reactor core to find Klein's protege, Elias Kincaid, still intact.
• Del discovers that the Owlbear Cub Ghost has moved onto the other side.
• Through some difficulty, the group manually climbs up the anti-grav lifts, traverse through the artificial jungles, and winds up back on the first floor with the MED-BAY.
• During this time, Manu-Nui is officially accepted into the group and is encouraged to leave the facility with the Runners.
• Klein ensures that Kincaid is properly taken care of and treated.

• Deciding that it was too risky to traverse the mountain while wounded, the group decides to take an extended rest in the medical facility of the Quiet Mountain Reactor. During the extended rest, the group recovers from all wounds, diseases, and mutations.
• The group reached level 5. YAY, YAY, YAY!

Items Found:

• **ONI HEADBAND (LEVEL 7 UNCOMMON, HEAD SLOT, MANU-NUI)**
  Power (Illusion) Encounter (Minor Action)
  You assume the appearance of a member of any humanoid race of the same size category as you. Your clothing and equipment alter appearance as you desire. The illusion doesn't alter sound or texture, so a creature listening to you or touching you might detect the illusion.
   
• **SECRET OF LIFE'S PERSISTENCE (LEVEL 6 UNCOMMON, BOON, PARTY)**
  Property: You gain a +1 item bonus to Fortitude.
  Power Daily (Free Action):
  Trigger: You make an Endurance check or Nature check and dislike the result.
  Effect: You reroll the check and use either result.
• **GREAT HUNGER ENCHANTMENT (LEVEL 3 UNCOMMON, WEAPON, KEMBU)**
  Property: When you score a critical hit using this weapon, the damage of the next critical hit you score with this weapon scores increases by 1[W]. This effect is cumulative until the end of the encounter.

Current Objectives:

• Return to Babylon.
• Complete the Middleman's Third Job: ???
• Receive the Middleman's Answers.

Session 22 - The Reactor (Part 5)

Key Points:

• While being guided by a group of shambling mounds, the Runners used their various skills and abilities to help navigate the artificial jungles of the Quiet Mountain Mana Reactor. Eventually, they came upon a river...
• Who knew a river could be so challenging? Kembu leaped across impressively; Managirl not so much. However, the young girl was able to carry across the majority of the group--leaving only Manu-Nui behind.
• Too bad for Managirl that she landed in the river and not the other side. Kembu and Del helped fish her out.
• Manu-Nui (and Managirl) were nearly attacked by something under the water. Roan drove it off with a (nat 20) hit from his sniper rifle.

• Upon arriving at the end of the jungle, the group parted ways from the shambling mound.
• Instead of taking the (potentially dangerous) anti-grav lift (which lead to a laser grid security entrance), the group used the secret lift they saw in the security video. This was accomplished through using one of their acquired keycards and Managirl hacking the terminal.
• While waiting, Del discovered the tracks of an animal. Later, it was determined that the tracks belonged to the intellect devourer (brain-lion).
• Upon taking the lift down to the core of the mana reactor, the group witnessed the onslaught and carnage caused by the oni. The remnants of the security team nearly made some members sick.
• While in the secret holding cells, the group came upon an owlbear cub ghost (seen only with the use of a cell phone camera). Jergo (Del's blink dog) seemed either familiar with the spirit or with the facility.
• Despite wanting to help it, the group seemed at a lost, and decided to deal with it after shutting down the reactor.

• When everyone was ready, the group entered the mana reactor's core. There, they discovered that Dr. Abel (self-named Dr. Nightmare) was performing experiments within the safety of the control room.
• Kembu attempted to shatter the glass, but it held up long enough for Dr. Abel to turn on his nightmare machine--bringing the entire facility into the nightmare world of the Shadowfell.

• Swearing their deaths for their interference, Dr. Abel and the Runners came into conflict with each other. At Abel's command were numerous nightmare creatures they had seen from the security videos. Most of these monsters simply wanted to feast upon the group. At Abel's side was his faithful 'pet', the intellect devourer.
• Kembu shattered the glass keeping Dr. Abel safe in the control room. He hesitated entering though upon seeing the intellect devourer.
• Managirl's obsession with the reactor's energy startled her into an evolution of sorts (taking on a mana-raditation form).
• Del busted out her wall of fur (Jergo, Graal, and Kiki) along her best friend: Toad.
• Monsters attacked; either effectively or ineffectively, depending on how awesome or sucky they were.
• Manu-Nui blasted some of the monsters, but accidentally destroyed Graal in the process. Whoops.
• Roan shot a bitch. Because that's how he rolls. Klein gave him a lot of combat drugs too.

•  The fighting advanced...
• Down the hall, out of sight, the group could hear the oni approaching. Wow. Much fear. So scare.
• Dr. Abel attempted to escape!
• I said attempted because Roan blew his brains out with a well-aimed sniper shot.
• Abel is dead! WHY! I HAD SUCH PLANS FOR HIM!
• Only half true.
• Ahem.
• Kembu had to action point to finish off one of the monsters because he learned they had this bullshit mechanic that lets them survive being killed if they roll a 15 or higher on a d20.
• Managirl fried some minions. TOASTY! She then whiffed against the intellect devourer.
• The intellect devourer stunned Del and attempted to infiltrate her body. Lucky for her, it didn't succeed.
• The monsters kind of just sucked this round.
• Manu-Nui wiped out a minion and wounded a couple of other monsters.
• Klein tried to get into the control room, but there was this huge problem of a giant combat going on and blocking her way.

• The oni showed up in the battle (still supported by a few of the surviving monsters.)
• Everyone pooped themselves.
• Not literally, I mean like figuratively.
• The oni attacked Kembu and he luckily managed to block the first strike. He attacked back, but found it to not be very effective.
• We finish the battle next time...

Current Objectives:

• Complete the Middleman's Second Job: Dr. Klein.
• Recover Klein's research data.
• Delete the files at the Quiet Mountain Facility.
• Discover the condition of Elias.
• Put an end to Dr. Abel.[He's Dead, Jim.]
• Complete the Middleman's Third Job: ???
• Receive the Middleman's Answers.