The UNIT team members are split up and must flee from Dunwich for their lives. Elliot is captured by the Sea Devils and their hybrid offspring, and Brigadier Crichton organizes a raid to deal with the threat in Dunwich.
Tobias watches some of the team troop out to see the creature, he'll catch up with Private Noyes shortly but first he wants to get his kit sorted; he pulls off a leaf from his notebook of the kit he lost in the helicopter crash and heads to the quartermaster's stores.
kit list,skeleton keys, Glock 17 and plenty of ammo. Torch and spare batteries. (Head torch if possible). Knife, 10 yards para cord, matches, small firstaid kit. walkie talkie, compass. Small rucksack. (if available)
Newton was well assured of U.N.I.T's security measures to guard sea devil at base, but was got unconfortable being in a room with sea devil, watching at sea devil thinking 'That thing is alive', Newton felt something or someone near him just falling on floor..he turn to his side on floor and freezes on ground for a moment..looking over to Dr. Kirby and squad he gets more confused..Newton tries to gather his thougt together and starts moving backword towards door, with his back to wall he tries to find door, to get out ..
Leonek helplessly crawled back, the wall blocking any movement, and screamed at the creature's alien familiarity. His mind reeling as all the different pieces of the hybrids he had seen came together in this culmination before him.
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"He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it."
"Oh, not this again," muttered one of the UNIT soldiers guarding the Sea Devil.
"It's all right," Valerie Kirby said, trying to reassure Leonek and Newton. "I know they're terrifying, but try to stay calm. This one can't hurt anyone in its current state."
Newton now started to hear screams from the floor, Dr. Kirby also starts screaming, it just doesn't add up, he should understand what Dr. Kirby is talking, even though she is turning into that creature, or all of squad team behind that thing for that matter are turning in...
Suddenly door open behind him, guards at door must have heard screaming, without looking at them Newton actually tries to push them back with hands and gets past them, outside lab, now the screams are getting louder behind him as he almost run across building.. to get out..
Newton burst into the hall. Two more UNIT soldiers were running towards the lab with their rifles in hand, apparently having heard Leonek's screams. "What's going on in there?" asked one. "Is it escaping again?"
Newton Noyes,These two soldiers also had large bulging eyes and scaly skin, just like the ones in the lab.
Newton stops at place he still unable to make any sense of their screams, Newton then looks back towards guards they are approaching fast. Soldiers not captured or attacked him.
'Ask them, I need to go to Quartermaster'; newton blurs to U.N.I.T soldiers and points at guards behind him.
OOC,can I get general Idea of my sanity rolls or type of insanity
The soldiers rushed past Newton and into the lab. "It's all right," said Dr. Kirby. raising her voice to be heard over Leonek's screams. "They just had a bad reaction to seeing the...prisoner. He's not going anywhere."
Newton Noyes,You've lost 5 Sanity points from your starting level of 50, leaving you with 45. Your character doesn't actually know that he is insane, just that something very weird is happening. It will wear off before too long, but even at that point I might not be able to let you know exactly what it was. Just keep acting as you normally would based on your perceptions. You're doing great so far!
Leonek keeps screaming and crawling away until his throat is hoarse, and then he just keeps shaking his head vigorously, as if denying the creature's presence would actually make it disappear.
OOC:,Well that was a fun start to this adventure :)
"He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it."
Newton ran outside of containment building, heavily breathing open air, while he gets his posture back, Newton slows down and starts walking towards Quartermaster,
Only thing he is thinking of is what have caused this change to everyone around him, Newton tries to check any changes to him by looking at his hands and touching his face for any scales or changes to eyes, teeth, also checks neck for any gills.
Newton at one point thinks about hitting library to find more about sea Devils, if they got any magical powers.. But not before an important visit to the Quartermaster.
Newton ran to the Quartermaster's office. By the time he got there, nobody else was showing any of the bizarre features he had seen earlier.
OOC,Both of you are sane again.
If you want to do some research in UNIT's archives, you'll need to roll against Library Use on 1d100. Each attempt takes four hours, so there is enough time to try it twice.
Newton reaches at Quartermaster, he slips in one of page from his journal, Newton looks over the place, everything seems normal. Newton greets Quartermaster.
"None of that should be a problem, Private," said the sergeant in the Quartermaster's office. "It'll be ready late this afternoon. You can pick it all up after 1600 hours."
Newton all stressed out from morning drill, tries to remember all the events, he needs to get ready for next briefing, collect equipment from Quartermaster,... And some thing some thing about sea Devils.. probably forgot to note down that bit, Newton then decides to go back to his quarters to take some rest.
OOC,do postponing actions cost anything, like one with library visit, or using phobias /disorder as excuses.
OOC,Just tell me how long you're going to rest first, and I'll assume that the time passes before you do whatever it is you want to do next. It's now about 8:30 AM for you, so you have nine and a half hours left. Each Library Use attempt will cost you four hours, so if you spend more than an hour and a half doing other things, you won't have time for both rolls.
Sergeant Ecarg returns to the Quartermaster," Oh, actually, make that 5 disposable rockets and 12 units of plastic explosive."
She heads to her quarters afterwards.
OOC,well I was thinking of skipping the library use at base and finding library at Dunwich, but since I should check mythos here at base [considered last rolls], before going to Dunwich.
# rest till 10
# first library use
# visit Quartermaster at 12noon to check equipment
# second library use
# collect equipment from Quartermaster at 16
# briefing at 18
I would like go to library then..
OOC,Okay. It's better to do your research here. Once you get to Dunwich, there likely won't be time to visit a public library - if Dunwich even has one. Even if it does, it won't have any of the secret information that's in the UNIT archives.
Go ahead and make your first Library Use roll now. If you fail, you may then make your second roll. If your first roll succeeds, I'll tell you what you learn. Then you may think of a different topic to research with your second roll (what you discover from the first roll may lead to additional topics for research), or you can do something else instead with that time.
"UNIT did have an encounter with the Sea Devils years ago," the archivist said, "but I'm not familiar with it. You're welcome to look through the files." She passd Newton the catalog.
Eventually, he found what he was seeking. The file detailed an incident that had happened back when Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart had been in charge of UNIT UK and Dr. John Smith had been UNIT's Scientific Advisor. He and his assistant Josephine Grant had gone to visit the Master, an archcriminal with hypnotic abilities that UNIT had captured and locked in an island prison run by a Colonel Trenchard. He was the only prisoner there and was watched constantly by cameras and by guards trained to resist his hypnosis. There were even minefields. He acted like he was being rehabilitated, but he hadn't changed. As Dr. Smith had been leaving the prison, Trenchard told him about ships disappearing in the area recently, and he and Miss Grant investigated.
They were exploring a sea fort that had been attacked when they met a half-mad survivor from the fort's crew who dubbed their attackers as "Sea Devils," large aquatic humanoids that could apparently also breathe air. Dr. Smith had noted that the Sea Devils resembled other creatures he had previously met called Silurians, which were land-dwellers. There was a notation referencing another file about them. They fled the fort and arrived at a naval base commanded by a Captain John Hart, who had been using the fort for sonar tests. This was the same Captain Hart that Brigadier Crichton had said would be joining the mission.
Dr. Smith discovered that the Master was secretly controlling his prison and had tricked Trenchard into helping him. They had been stealing equipment from the naval base so the Master could build a device that would summon a large army of Sea Devils, with which he intended to conquer the Earth. He then started calling them forth from the sea, and they attacked the prison when Dr. Smith and Miss Grant were there to confront the Master. Trenchard was killed, and Dr. Smith and his assistant escaped and returned to the base. When they arrived, Captain Hart told them that a submersible had gone missing. Dr. Smith went down in a diving bell to look for it, and he had been captured by the Sea Devils and taken to their undersea base to meet their leader, where Dr. Smith tried to negotiate peace.
In the meantime, a politician named Robert Walker had arrived at the base and taken charge, and he had ordered a depth charge attack on the Sea Devil colony over the objections of Captain Hart and Jo Grant, thus scuppering any chance at peace. He had even been planning to use nuclear weapons against the Sea Devils. In the confusion of the attack, Dr. Smith managed to escape from the Sea Devils and returned to the naval base, where he convinced Walker to let him try negotiating one more time, but before he could do so the Sea Devils attacked the base and captured it, having been sent by the Master. The archcriminal then forced Dr. Smith to help him build a machine in the Sea Devils' base to awaken all of the Sea Devils in hibernation all over the world. Apparently most of them had gone into a form of suspended animation in the distant past in fear of a cataclysm that never happened. When the Master turned on the device, the Sea Devils decided they didn't need him any more and locked up both him and Dr. Smith, but luckily Dr. Smith had first sabotaged the machine. The two of them had to work together to escape, using equipment from the stolen submersible.
They were rescued as the machine overloaded and destroyed the Sea Devils' base, but the Master faked a heart attack and stole a hovercraft to escape. There was mention that he had two hearts, and he was able to stop one while the other kept him alive.
OOC,You have enough time to make a second Library Use roll to research another topic if you wish.
