REVISED
Thursday
November 15, 2018
The
biggest hurdle in trying to recruit Doom is that he is not
particularly pleased that his son decide to become a pastry chef
instead of helping his family conquer the world.
Paladin
tells Sophita to remind Supremacy and his father that it is in their
best interested to stop this contagious spell before it ensnared Doom
himself.
She
promises that she will but her boyfriend is very stubborn and does
not know if it will do any good. In the meantime she will try to
reach Heliopolis, the dimension the Egyptian Gods have retreated to,
in order to consort with Bast.
Game
Resumes:
3AM
(Countdown Clock 27:46)
Paladin
continues to monitor the EMS system.
Kismet,
Network, and Revenant have finishing investigating the Weeks house
and decide to go and get some rest. Kismet heads to the Bunker. I
assume Revenant and Network head back to the Bunker as well.
Big
Tuna heads to his apartment where he falls into a deep sleep [his
player is missing]
Meanwhile
across town (from Queens to Brooklyn) Marvel Girl comes to the base
and breezes in like she owned the place surprising Barbra Satin
(Babes) while she was doing maintenance on one of more of the motor
pool vehicles. Babes was working in the nude.
Embarrassed
Babes steps behind an open car door shielding herself from MG's
curious gaze. Babes sputters that late at night when she is all alone
she likes to be 'comfortable' when she tinkers with the cars.
Marvel
Girl asks where Paladin is and Babes directs her to the basement
portion of the base.
7AM
(Countdown Clock 23:46)
Kismet,
Network, and Revenant wake up and prepare to go to St. John's
hospital wanting to be there at 8AM. Kismet has the guys load
Constable's Psychic Defibrillator into one of the vans. Kismet is
taking no chances, she wants to be able to pierce the chaos swarming
in Elliot Weeks mind.
Babes,
properly dressed this time, has prepared the van for weather
emergencies in case the weather goes to hell. She makes sure that
there are road flares, jumper cables, extra blankets, bottled water,
and nutrition bars on board. She is slighting embarrassed at her over
preparation when she learns they are only going as far as Rockaway
Beach to St. John's Hospital.
[Section
of Rockaway Beach of clothing optional but as cold as it currently is
those areas are closed.]
8AM
(Countdown Clock 22:46)
Kismet,
Network, and Revenant head to the hospital to see Edmund Dietrich
(chief administrator) who befriended Kismet during Operation Helping
Hands.
(Resume
Here)
Kismet
wants to see Elliot Weeks, she knows he is connected to DEMON and has
seen the book (Livre d'Eibon). They need to book to avoid the Curse
of Oblivion and find a way to undo what the Exodus wrought.
Kismet
knows that Weeks is a raving paranoid that will attack anyone who
approaches him. Doctor Dietrich lets her know that Weeks is kept
moderately to heavily sedated. When he isn't sedated he is heavily
restrained. Dietrich and an orderly escort the Brigade trio to the
patient. Elliot is in white hospital clothes in a white padded room
currently restrained to a hospital bed.
Kismet
and Network set up the Psychic Defibrillator and she prepares to
enter Elliot's mind. Doing a deep probe in order to find the memory
of where he saw the book, peeling away the layers of madness, she
suffers mental trauma from the journey. (Game Effects she takes a one
EGO transformation in her descent into madness, she has 20 EGO so
there are 39 points to go.)
While
Kismet is dealing with the Elliot's shattered psyche Revenant and
Network go to the cafe for donuts. They discover that of the 30 long
term care units 20 of them are occupied. Many of them were filled in
the same time frame that Elliot Weeks became a patient here.
She
finds a memory of the building where he saw the book last. Kismet is
able to make out the plaque on the door; 'Smiley and Sons Circus
Museum'.
After
getting the information about the book's location she wants to try to
help Elliot regain his sanity. In order to protect her own sanity she
takes an extra half hour in preparation for the journey of healing.
She also has Network use his ability to boost the power of machines
(Red Line) to amplify the power of the Defibrillator the she plunges
back into Elliot's mind. She is able to guide him onto a path where
he might eventually be able to heal.
Doctor
Dietrich is very encouraged by the change in Elliot's demeanor,
Elliot is much calmer than he was.
Kismet
sees several spirits congregating around one of the other occupied
mental health rooms. The room belongs to one Alec McPherson. By
listening to the wails of the spirits she discovers that McPherson
was a DEMON agent who was at least partially for the torturous death
of each of the haunts.
Kismet
makes it known to the spirits that she can see (and hear) them. They
start to swarm her. Some want her to kill McPherson so he can face
his eternal judgment, others want her to carry messages to family and
friends left behind, others still want her to lead the police to
where their undiscovered remains are.
With
the swarm of spirits harassing her she finds it hard to concentrate
and even clearly see through their spectral bodies. She does her best
to get the ghosts to listen to reason, to form in a line where each
of their needs can be addressed.
Kismet
also tells Alec McPherson that she sees dead people, letting him know
that the vengeful spirits have an ally in the land of the living. It
has its desired effect, the mad DEMON member has his terror increased
ten-fold.
10AM
(Countdown Clock 20:46)
Kismet,
Network, and Revenant are finished at the hospital.
10AM
(Countdown Clock 20:46)
A
visitor arrives at the base. Marvel Girl answers the door and the
exchange is somewhat awkward. The dark skinned woman at the door
eventually identifies herself as Khata, priestess of Bast. Marvel
Girl does verbal sparring with Khata until Paladin rushes to the door
to rescue the initial contacts with a potential ally.
According
to Khata Ra has forbidden Bast form directly intervening but she will
be watching and will help if it is direly needed. Paladin nudges for
more details or some idea on how she will help but Khata simply says
that if the goddess lends aid it will be obvious but Khata says if
the goddess performs a miracle on their behalf there will be a price
to be paid. The goddess will want a temple in her honor to be built
near to where the Brooklyn Brigade's headquarters.
If
the goddess intervenes Khata will return and provide the plans for
the temple.
With
that she left.
Revision
Begins:
Before
heading off to the Smily and Sons Circus Museum Kismet calls the
Brooklyn Brigade's police contact; Lt. Joe Nardini of Special Crimes
(organized crime division). She gives Nardini a thumbdrive containing
the compiled information that she gleaned from the ghosts that haunt
Alec McPherson.
On
the thumbdrive is a spreadsheet and a readme text file. The beginning
of the spreadsheet is a message for the police: 'Now you'll say how
did I get this information? The answer is that I am psychic. Check
these leads and if they don't pan out then I am a fraud too but if
they do pan out I don't need to be psychic to know this data will
create an absolute mess. You're welcome.'
The
rest of the spreadsheet contains more than just the ghost's names. It
also contains information to their remains and the location of
evidence of their murders. The time and date of their deaths and
other critical information. This evidence will link them to the Alec
McPherson and through him to DEMON.
Kismet
will mention that McPherson is now 'nuttier than a fruitcake'. She
also details where he is and that many others came in at the same
time with similar symptoms. She posits that other care centers will
have similar events and that they can be linked as acquaintances.
Additionally she will posits that there is a very dangerous common
event of trauma. She suggests that said trauma was reading from The
Book.
Kismet
will also include a brief summary of DEMON, a cult that knows actual
magic who are very dangerous. That they are likely responsible The
Exodus and the disappearance of many heroes and villains during the
Rumble last October 24.
It
is important that someone else knows in case the Brooklyn Brigade
fails to stop DEMON and get Cthulhued away like their previous
victims.
On
a personal note Kismet was not trying to drive McPherson deeper into
his madness, she was trying to get him to talk about the spell,
DEMON, or other crimes he'd done. She feels she failed since
McPherson just got worse. She feels she owes the doctors and staff at
St. John's Episcopal Hospital, maybe even Alec McPherson himself, an
apology for what she did to him.
Revision
Ends:
12
PM Noon (Countdown Clock 18:46)
The
group rendezvous at the museum. They each pay the 10 dollar admission
fee and enter. Paladin's sixth sense for danger is quiet, the museum
is no threat to any of them.
Exhibits
in the museum displays numerous oddities from the circus’ colorful
past including a so-called mermaid, Celia the Bearded Ladies fake
beard, a framed suit formerly owned by Jake the world’s heaviest
man, film footage of the circus back in its heyday and more.
Including, but not limited to, a stuffed hippopotamus that was owned
by a Italian Grand Duke, anatomic waxes replicas that were a treasure
for art students who are learning anatomy, and much more highlighting
in the the preserved bodies of Jebediah and Obediah Jefferson,
conjoined twins at the back of their heads who worked at and
eventually bought the circus. They are the founders of the museum.
While
Kismet and Paladin explore the museum in the conventional manner
Revenant turns invisible and probes areas of the museum the public
does not get to see. Network questions one of the tour guides about
the location of 'the book' (Livre d'Eibon). She politely informs him
that there are no books in the collection but if he were to go to the
gift shot there are books about the museum, circus, and the Jefferson
brothers there.
He
continues to grill her on the location of the book until she loses
her cool and pointedly tells him there are no books on display in the
museum. She suggests he try the library instead.
Network
then goes to the gift shop and buys one copy of each of the books
there. He gets the history of the circus including it being bought by
the conjoined twin Jefferson brothers (whose preserved bodies are on
display in the basement), the history of the museum, the biographies
of Jebediah and Obediah Jefferson, and more. He also buys a coffee
mug with a drawing of the museum's exterior on it.
Revenant
explores the employee break room and a few storage rooms. In the
security room there are two men watching the monitors. In the
security room he also finds a metal cabinet where the security video
tapes are kept. Revenant is very stealthy and is able to examine the
tape labels, they are dated. There are only about a weeks worth in
the cabinet. Looking around he locates a binder that shows that the
tapes are sent offsite for long term storage.
On
the security guards desk there are more binders one of which is
labeled 'Telephone'. Distracting the guards he moves the binder to
another desk and examine it. He finds the name of ABC Security, the
company that takes tapes.
He
calls ABC Security pretending to be 'Russ' (the name of the tag of
one of the guards monitoring the security screens, the other one is
'Cary'). He tells the lady who answered the phone that he needs the
tapes from June 27, 2017 (the date of the Exodus).
The
lady checks the tape library and informs him that they only hold on
to tapes for a year. The tapes requested are not available. When
'Russ' asks if she is sure she checks the contract to see if there is
a overflow facility that takes tapes older than 12 months. Several
minutes later she tells him that there are no accommodation for tapes
older than a year so they were sent to be destroyed.
After
the tapes are slated for disposal they are no longer tracked. There
is an extremely slight chance that they have not been incinerated yet
but there is no way for her to locate them even if they still
survive.
Revenant
tries to use the Mind Link to let the rest of the group know what he
has learned and discovers that the link is down. Unable to reach
Kismet (or anyone) via the Mind Link he uses his cell phone. That
works!
Being
made aware that the mind links are down makes Kismet think that
whatever is blinding her links might also be blocking Paladin's
Danger Sense. She believes that they are all in terrible peril.
Paladin
and Marvel Girl have explored enough of the museum that the have
reached the final room, the founders room. It is here that the
preserved bodies of Jebediah and Obediah Jefferson are on display.
Seeing
nothing suspicious Paladin begins to move away when a orange cat with
the largest, more beautiful green eyes rubs against Paladin's leg and
darts behind the glass founder enclosure. He follows the cat and
finds a concealed stairway leading down. The cat however is no where
to be seen.
Summoning
Marvel Girl he sends a message to the rest of the group (via phone)
and moves to head down. Before they step foot on the uppermost stair
the 'preserved' bodies of the founders lash out with mental assaults.
The
attack on Paladin is ineffectual (he was missed) while Marvel Girl is
paralyzed in a Def 3 Body 4 Mental Paralysis.
Paladin
makes a PRE attack to clear the patrons from the museum. The museum
patrons flee with all haste towards the exits. The rest of the team
is moving towards the basement to reinforce Paladin and Marvel Girl
but they are moving in opposition against the normals who are fleeing
as Paladin instructed them too.
