Play@YSDC

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2020 10:37 am**

After a quick journey, you see the mountains and what is the city; you have to land. Outside the confortable plane, the cold is nearly paralyzing. It stiffens your muscles, cracks your lips, and penetrates your protective clothing. Each breath you take freezes your throat and makes you feel as if your lungs are filled with ice. Behind you all is barren, trackless land, with no discernable landmarks to distinguish one flattened hill or icy plane from another. But in front of you it's a diferent vision: it is a city which could not possibly exist on this scale in this location, and yet it now stands before you. Huge, broken spires tower over jagged fissures, and steep precipices arc out from icy cliffs. Sheer ice walls form an enormous gateway, the yawning black gulf within seems to both draw you in and repulse you at the same time. Huge carvings on either side of the entrance appear to have once represented something humanoid, but have been worn into grotesque shapes by hundreds of years of wind and ice. Soaring over 100 feet tall, their melted features and eroded limbs leave nothing by which to understand the city’s builders or how it came to be abandoned.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2020 10:54 pm**

Crowley:

Crowley disembarks, patting the aircraft affectionately. "Well done, girl." He turns towards the city and regards it with suspicion. "Good Lord," he mutters.

Crowley racks his cold brain, trying to recall any history regarding legends of Antarctic settlements or prehistoric races.

OOC: Can Crowley make a History or Anthropology roll to recall anything about legends of people residing in Antarctica?

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:37 pm**

Father Malone staggers from the plane, 'Infernal machines!' he splutters and takes a surreptitious drink from his hip flask.

He gazes at the impossible city in wonder. 'I...but...is...'. He lapses into silence for a minute. 'Takes your breath away.'

OOC: Alex also tries to recall anything he might have heard, legends or myths - Occult or Cthulhu Mythos?

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2020 4:06 am**

Butch looks in awe at the architecture laid out before him before the cold snaps him back to reality.

"And this is why we needed the mechanical transportation. We need to find an inside to go to and fast or we'll freeze to death even bundled up."

Butch will start walking to whatever appears to offer the best bet of shelter in these alien surroundings.

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2020 5:49 am**

"Yeah," says Harry, gazing at the city after he disembarks. "That gateway looks like the way in. Let's go."

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2020 11:32 am**

Crowley: make a history roll.

Malone: a cthulhu mythos roll.

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:12 pm**

Alex shudders, something about this city reminds him of his time in the jungle, but he can't put his finger on what it is.

OOC: Fail

Posted: **Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:27 am**

Crowley:

"Hmmm..."

OOC: Fail. Good grief.

Posted: **Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:34 am**

There is no recorded history about a city build in such a place. TIt could be humans... or something else. Only by exploring the city you may discover.

As you move deeper into the entrance, the smooth ice walls glisten, your lights reflecting off its crystalline surface. All sound, even the echoes of your feet, seems muffled, as if the walls drink in the noise. You are taking your first steps into another world.
The passage narrows and the frozen walls close in around you. The air is bitingly cold and there is a hint of a whisper echoing softly through the gloom. By your light, you can see a large tunnel that curves away in both directions. It is cylindrical, almost like a large pipe. The walls are smooth and curve up over your head to form the ceiling. There is a slight curvature to the walls and, although the floor is flat, you feel like you are leaning slightly to one side.
Smooth patterns snake along the walls, suggesting that they were once illustrations or hieroglyphs. One design stands out repeatedly: three concentric circles, each one connected to the next by a small line; in the center circle is what appears to be a single eye staring out at you.
You find yourselves in a large cylindrical tunnel.

Please make a spot hidden roll.

Posted: **Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:43 am**

OOC: Fail

Posted: **Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:33 pm**

Harry notices something.

Posted: **Mon Nov 16, 2020 8:52 pm**

As they move in, Butch looks around. He's interested in the mechanics of this place.

Posted: **Wed Nov 18, 2020 2:22 am**

Crowley:

OOC: Fail. Dice gods using me it seems.

Posted: **Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:45 am**

You walk, and understand that in this cylinder tunnel, there are several passages to what must must be an outer ring. But several of them are blocked, by ice and debris, until Harry finds a side tunnel. After a while, you find that it is leading to the remnants of an abandoned bivouac.

Posted: **Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:22 am**

'Is this where the expedition camped?' asks Malone.

Posted: **Thu Nov 19, 2020 3:49 am**

"It must be," says Harry. "Let's check it out."

Posted: **Thu Nov 19, 2020 2:40 pm**

You quickly discover that this was a nazi camp: there are some swasticas. Near, you also find a tunnel where there are signs of heating equipment that was used to cut through the ice, leading to a passage that has a number of open vents emitting hot air, causing the ambient temperature of this tunnel to be significantly higher than the entrance.

You can continue to explore the corridors that are colder or go to the ones that are warmer.

Posted: **Thu Nov 19, 2020 10:11 pm**

'Seems to me that we've already learned warm means Nazis and strange infections' says Alex. 'I vote cold.'

Posted: **Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:37 pm**

"I guess I'm always of the opinion that we need to make sure we know where we can survive the night or another storm before we worry about anything else." Butch replies. "And I'm not sure we can survive out here."

Posted: **Fri Nov 20, 2020 4:22 am**

"The Nazis are here ahead of us, so we need to stop them before they do whatever it is they came here to do," says Harry. "We have the advantage of surprise. We also need the warmth ourselves, so I think we should go that way."

Posted: **Fri Nov 20, 2020 4:48 am**

Crowley:

Crowley nods. "I will feel slightly more comfortable knowing that the threat from Nazis is resolved. I hate Nazis. I believe we need to pursue them first."

Posted: **Fri Nov 20, 2020 10:32 am**

OOC: Butch, your vote ir for warm or cold?

Posted: **Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:27 pm**

"Warm it is then." Butch says to the others.

Posted: **Sat Nov 21, 2020 8:32 am**

Crowley:

Crowley unslings his shotgun, checks that it is loaded, then slings it again. Drawing the big Webley and his flashlight instead, he heads forward towards the warm tunnels, senses alert.

"No time like the present..."

Posted: **Sat Nov 21, 2020 10:51 am**

Checking the shotgun he's carrying Malone makes a huffing noise, lights a cigarillo, and draws his revolver and flashlight. 'Pah, democracy' he spits.

Posted: **Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:45 am**

Butch will adjust his tool belt and pull out his revolver.

"It's time to do some investigating." He says as he heads into the warmth.

Posted: **Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:03 am**

"Onward," says Harry, revolver in hand, heading off with the others.

Posted: **Mon Nov 23, 2020 4:49 pm**

Malone stops, raises his revolver, and peers around him. 'Anyone else hear something?'

Posted: **Mon Nov 23, 2020 4:59 pm**

You start walking and stop feeling the cold in your bones. You may die, but at least you will have some confort!
You find what may have been rooms and even houses, but they are empty, except for debris of rock and ice so it's impossible to be sure. They have a strange architecture and some glyphs. Maybe the owners left the city with everything, or time itself has consume the objects. You hear ocasionally some noises, but it' impossible to be certain what that means.

Make a spot hiden roll.

Posted: **Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:03 pm**

OOC: Success

Posted: **Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:22 pm**

Malone stops, raises his revolver, and peers around him. 'Anyone else hear something?'

Butch stops suddenly and looks around.

"I did hear something. I think they said to bring fuel which is probably a good idea."

Butch will quickly head back and get a can of gasoline. He will also put away his revolver and take out his gasoline blowtorch and keep that handy instead.

OOC: Spot hidden success

Posted: **Tue Nov 24, 2020 3:50 am**

Harry sees something.

Posted: **Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:14 am**

You all see a figure that seems following you. He tries to hide as soon as you start looking at him, but with not much success.

Posted: **Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:02 pm**

Father Malone levels his revolver at the figure, 'Come out with your hands up, why are you following us, and what have you been saying?'

Posted: **Wed Nov 25, 2020 3:56 am**

Harry also takes aim.

Posted: **Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:59 am**

Crowley:

"Who said that? Frozen death to those who do not serve?" Crowley looks around, puzzled.

Posted: **Wed Nov 25, 2020 12:24 pm**

You see a man all dressed with very old cloths appearing and saying very afraid:
"Don't shoot me! I was just following you. I want some company, but I was afraid that you were like the others".
He

Posted: **Wed Nov 25, 2020 10:35 pm**

Keeping his revolver trained on the man Alex asks him 'And who the hell are you? How did you get out here?'

Posted: **Thu Nov 26, 2020 2:19 am**

"We're not like the Nazis," says Harry. "If we had been, you'd already be dead."

Posted: **Thu Nov 26, 2020 2:32 am**

Crowley:

As the man does not obviously seem to be a threat, Crowley keeps his revolver safely pointed at the ceiling. He whispers as an aside, "For a man of the cloth, Malone, your language..."

Crowley focuses on the fellow's clothes, intrigued.

OOC: Can Crowley make a History roll or anything to identify the type of clothing?

Posted: **Thu Nov 26, 2020 10:39 am**

Crowley:
The cloths seems recent, from after the war.

"No, I'm not talking about the germans, I'm talking about the others, the weirdos. Look, do you have anything that I can eat that as been cooked? I have only been eating raw meat for some time, and I really want to eat something different."

Posted: **Thu Nov 26, 2020 7:35 pm**

"The name's Harry Smith," says Harry, lowering his revolver. "We haven't run into these weirdos yet, but we'd appreciate anything you can tell us about them. We don't have any cooked food on us, but we can get a fire going. Hope you like pemmican."

Posted: **Thu Nov 26, 2020 7:42 pm**

Malone does not lower his revolver, 'Too long in the jungle Crowley, and the Lord doesn't mind, he has bigger things to worry about.'

Alex is perturbed by this man appearing in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. 'I will ask you again sir, who are you? What are you doing wandering about in the freezing tunnels, how did you get here? And how have you survived?' He doesn't articulate out loud but Alex is worried about exactly what kind of 'uncooked meat' this man has been chewing on.

Posted: **Fri Nov 27, 2020 7:26 am**

"Is there some reason you haven't gone into the warmth?" Butch says to the man. "Do you know why a man would rather freeze to death than start a fire?"

Posted: **Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:05 am**

"Don't make a fire, it will bring the others here!"- he says in panic. Then:
"Well, after spending all this time eating raw fish and penguins, it's not so bad. My name is Olaf, I came to America with 3 years old, with my family from Norway and I was raised in Boston; my father was a fisherman and I followed his steps. Latter I joined a whaler. Well, in the last expeditioon, the weather was very hot. So we had to travell to the south at a much bigger distances than the usual. And suddenly we found that the much of the ice of the coast of Antarctica had melted and there was actually a river. My captain said it was an unique oportunity and we sailed to the interior of the continent. But he started to act more and more strange, like if he was actually knowing where we were going; the crew was getting unrestead by this time. We finally arrived at this ruins. The captain said this place would be full of treasures and convince us to go. There was an entrance big enouth to allow the ship to enter and we did; We docked in a lake inside the city and the captain left with most of the crew to explore it. We waited for several days and we were starting to think to leave this place when we finally saw them. Most of us left the boat to join them, but I notice that something was wrong even if I couldn't understand what exactly. Well, they attacked our companions and captured them. We were just 3 in the ship and we try to resist but we were unable; I jumped to the waters when I saw my last friend being captured. I managed to escape and have been living in this tunnels since. I saw some days ago a group of americans and another of germans. They were discussing and were angry, but I don't know what they were talking about. Suddenly my former companions appeared and both groups started to shoot themselves; When they understood the mistake part was dead and still suspicious so they run to diferent tunnels. So the weirdos captured the people that was wounded and I escaped too. Now the food please?"

Posted: **Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:53 am**

Crowley:

Crowley searches his pockets for some rations to share.

"So, there are three groups? Americans, Germans and your former shipmates, who are now acting strangely. Is that right? And the Americans and Germans seemed to be cooperating? At least for a while."

OOC: Does Crowley remember anything about a Boston whaler going missing three years earlier?

Posted: **Sat Nov 28, 2020 2:12 am**

"What did the weirdos look like?" asks Harry.

Posted: **Sat Nov 28, 2020 11:08 am**

Alex narrows his eyes and glares at the man. Something about this story sounds off.

OOC: Damn it!

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2020 6:55 am**

"Okay, we won't start a fire." Butch will fish around in his pack for some beef jerky and will hand the man some. "How were you able to dry off and not freeze to death without a fire when you jumped in the water?"

Posted: **Thu Dec 03, 2020 5:31 pm**

You all see his eyes shine when he sees the beef. He is eating with his eyes closed with a big smile, like if it was the best meal in the world. Then he answers.

"I almost did, with a cold. But latter I returned to the ship, to see if they were still there. Well, they weren't. They had rob the weapons and fuel, but had left cloths. I changed my cloths, make a nice warm fire to get warm, and then I heard some noise: a group of them had appeared and entered the ship, I managed to escape without getting weat, because they aren't very inteligent and didn't leave guards at the exit of the ship. Anyway, in another place I decide to make a fire and watch from some distance and they appeared some time latter. Don't ask me how they do that."

Posted: **Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:58 am**

"They must be able to sense heat somehow," says Harry.

Posted: **Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:44 am**

"You asked me how they look. They look as if they had some kind of skin disease and they walk like if they were drunk. And their personality change: they don't seem to recognize anyone like if they had the rabid. It's dificult to explain."

Posted: **Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:33 pm**

Crowley:

Crowley grunts at this unpleasant description. "Rabid lepers. Wonderful."

"Do you know where the three groups are? Particularly the American party who arrived very recently."

Posted: **Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:05 pm**

"I don't know about the americans. I only know where one of the germans is, but the kid is half crazy, he shoots everything on sight,"

Posted: **Wed Dec 09, 2020 4:28 am**

"Then it's best we avoid him, if we can," says Harry. "Where is he, so we know where not to go?"

Posted: **Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:47 am**

"It is in a hall that gives acess to a tunnel that everyone wanted to explore. That's why they started to figth, each group wanted to get there first."

Posted: **Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:59 am**

'This German, he's a bit crazy but not one of the weirdos? Is that right? Perhaps we could talk to him, I speak a little German' says Alex.

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2020 3:55 am**

"It won't be easy to get close enough without him opening fire," says Harry, "but we may have to go that way anyhow to get to what everyone wants to see."

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:56 am**

Crowley:

"All in all, we might actually learn something from this lone Boche. And it sounds like the right path to follow."

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:46 pm**

"It's settled. Let's be off." Butch chimes in. Then looking at the Olaf, he continues, "So what are you going to do now?"

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2020 3:14 am**

"All right, but let's take care not to let him see or hear us," says Harry, readying his revolver. "If he sees us, he's likely to open fire."

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2020 7:24 pm**

OOC: Please all roll stealth.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2020 12:00 am**

Alex finds the trek through the ice tunnels hard going with his injuries. He stumbles against the walls, causing his pack to rattle and echo down the tunnel.

OOC: Fail

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2020 12:57 am**

Harry is not quiet at all.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2020 4:23 am**

Crowley:
Crowley stalks ahead but his natural impatience does not lend itself to stealthiness...

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:44 am**

It's hard to be quiet when you're wearing a tool belt and Butch doesn't disappoint. But it doesn't appear anyone else is particularly quiet either.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2020 3:00 pm**

Olaf asks you to stop doing so much noise with gestures, but after a while he seems to resign himself,
You come across the entrance to the middle ring. As you approach, you hear the voice of the lone Nazi soldier inside a gatehouse just inside the entrance.
He immediatly screams "Halt" and then says something in german.

Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2020 5:39 pm**

'Nicht schießen. Wir kommen in Frieden' shouts Alex as he tries to make out what the German is saying.

OOC: 'Don't shoot. We come in peace.'

OOC: Alex got a hard success on his German roll

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:48 am**

Harry stops and slowly puts his hands up in the air.

Posted: **Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:28 am**

Crowley:

Crowley sniffs. "Of all the languages to learn, Malone," he mutters.

Posted: **Wed Dec 16, 2020 11:57 am**

The soldier seems to relax a bit and answers something in german to Malone...

Posted: **Wed Dec 16, 2020 11:48 pm**

Alex gives Crowley a dirty look and continues shouting in German. 'Wir sind eine Expedition der Miskatonic University. Wir untersuchen, was mit einer früheren Expedition der Universität passiert ist. Ich heiße Pater Alex Malone'
He turns to the others, 'He wants to know who we are and where we are from.'

Alex shouts a question, 'Wer bist du? Woher kommen Sie?'

Posted: **Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:30 am**

"Professor Harry Smith from Miskatonic University," says Harry, pointing to himself.

Posted: **Thu Dec 17, 2020 4:26 pm**

Posted: **Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:13 pm**

'He says he has orders to stop people coming close and that the place is full of 'insane enemies' explains Alex.

'Wo sind deine anderen Kollegen jetzt?' he asks. 'I'm asking him where the others are.'

Posted: **Sat Dec 19, 2020 9:48 pm**

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:23 am**

Crowley:

Crowley looks at Malone impatiently. "So is the Boche letting us past or will this end badly?"

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2020 11:11 am**

'Wir sind hier, um herauszufinden, was mit den anderen passiert ist. Machen Sie mit und wir helfen Ihnen bei der Suche nach Ihren Kameraden. Sicherheit in Zahlen!' shouts Alex.
'I'm telling the German we're trying to find out what happened to the others and we can help him find his friends.'

OOC: Fail on a 75%, oh seriously!

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2020 8:33 pm**

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2020 8:44 pm**

Posted: **Sun Dec 20, 2020 8:51 pm**

Posted: **Mon Dec 21, 2020 11:23 am**

Posted: **Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:45 pm**

OOC: In for a penny...

'Wish me luck' whispers Alex as he walks towards the German guard, his arms open wide in a gesture of friendship, 'Sie müssen Ihre Freunde nicht anrufen. Wir werden sie zusammen suchen.'

OOC: Extreme success!

Posted: **Mon Dec 21, 2020 5:25 pm**

He hesitates for what seems an eternity... but then nods. He takes some equipement with him: a rifle, some grenades... and a flame-thrower.

Posted: **Mon Dec 21, 2020 5:33 pm**

Alex looks at the flamethrower and shudders, he mutters under his breath, '...cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.'

He gestures to the others to join them, 'We're looking for my German friend's colleagues'. 'Erwarten Sie Ärger?' he asks the German, pointing to the flamethrower.

Posted: **Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:26 am**

"It takes a special kind of crazy to carry a flamethrower," says Harry softly.

Posted: **Tue Dec 22, 2020 10:47 am**

You all enter the tunnel. You start hearing some noises, but it's dificult to understand from where they are coming. The soldier seems more and more nervous and he is speaking alone.

OOC: Listen roll please.

Posted: **Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:35 pm**

Crowley:

OOC: Fail.

Crowley decides more firepower is called for. He holsters his Webley and unslings the shotgun.

Turning to Malone, he says, "Ask your young Boche friend about the zombie lepers the other lad mentioned."

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:15 am**

Noticing his agitation, Alex whispers to the German, trying to calm him down, 'Beruhige dich, entspanne dich, wir sind hier, um dich zu unterstützen.' To Crowley he says 'I don't think he'd respond well to that sort of question at the moment.'

OOC: Fail Listen, pass Psychoanalysis

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:03 am**

Harry doesn't hear anything either.

Posted: **Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:03 am**

Butch stays behind the german soldier, always aware of where he's pointing the flamethrower.

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2020 7:45 pm**

The soldier seems more calm. After passing a corner, you find suddenly a group of... 10 somethings. They are vaguely humanoid, some have nazi uniforms, others cloths similar to yours but they have all several have mutations: extra limbs, half bodies, limbs in impossible positions, strange scars.
Please roll all 1d100. If you fail, loose 1d10. If you pass, loose 1d4.

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2020 11:52 pm**

Turning the corner Alex catches sight of the abominations. 'Dear God. What are these fiends?'

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2020 11:54 pm**

Harry raises his revolver and takes aim at one of the abominations.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2020 2:51 am**

Crowley:

OOC: Crowley uses his Resilient talent to trade SAN loss for Luck loss.

Crowley gives a characteristic grunt and raises the shotgun.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2020 8:30 am**

Butch will pull out his rifle and shoot at one of the monstrosities.

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2020 8:33 pm**

Several of the things start screaming in voices that are not human, but seems some moquery of language... and suddenly you all see the flames burning them and there is a grotesque show of those creatures making screams with their voices with pain and terror. The german soldier seems to feel a huge relieve and continues to burn them all.
Roll a 1d4. of sanity loss.
You are all distracted when you hear a sound behind you... and it's another group of those creatures, who are about 2 meters from you....

Posted: **Mon Dec 28, 2020 11:11 pm**

Recoiling from the flames, Alex crosses himself and says to the German 'Schnelles Denken!'
Turning at the sound from behind he brings the shotgun up to bear and fires both barrels.

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2020 3:20 am**

Crowley:

OOC: I had the impression Point Blank didn't work for shotguns in 7th Ed? May be wrong.

Crowley fires the first barrel of his shotgun at an attacking zombie thing.

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2020 4:08 am**

Butch quickly notes that the flame thrower has got that side under control and wheels to face the new threat.

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2020 4:35 am**

Harry whirls around and opens fire on the monsters coming up behind them.

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:29 am**

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2020 3:06 pm**

Mephistophilis wrote:
Snapper,There's an optional rule to prevent point blank working for any long barreled guns, shotguns, rifles etc

OOC: Ta!

OOC: Previous post amended accordingly.

Posted: **Fri Jan 01, 2021 9:48 pm**

You hit several monsters... but there is something weird in them, like if the bodies were made of severak independent parts. So, you destroy the chest, legs (or the arms) continue to walk.. Some without the heads are just walking without direction.There is gore in everywhere and they stoped to have any resemblance to humans.
But the worst is that the creature are all attacking the german who is concentrated in the fire. 6 creatures are still intact and are near him when you can shoot again.

OOC: To shoot against them without hitting the german you need a hard sucess... or you can use any other idea.
OOC2 Roll san. If you pass you loose 1 point, if you fail, you loose 1d4.

Posted: **Fri Jan 01, 2021 10:06 pm**

Posted: **Sat Jan 02, 2021 1:03 am**

Crowley:

Posted: **Sat Jan 02, 2021 8:49 pm**

'Lauf zurück zu uns, lass den Flammenwerfer fallen, lauf jetzt!' shouts Alex.
Having emptied his shotgun Alex draws his revolver and aims it towards the monsters. He holds fire until he can get a shot that won't hit the German.

Posted: **Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:13 am**

Crowley:

"They're attracted to the heat, surely! Ditch the flamethrower. Have we got anything else for that could distract them?"

Posted: **Sun Jan 03, 2021 3:07 am**

OOC: You can hit the enemies normaly, but to hit them without hitting the german, you need a hard sucess.

The german soldier hear you and is droping the flamethrower... just in time. He sees several mutants grabing the flamethrower (and a couple burning part of their bodies in the process).

Posted: **Sun Jan 03, 2021 3:12 am**

Posted: **Sun Jan 03, 2021 11:53 pm**

Butch slowly backs away from the oncoming mutants as he fires his rifle at the closest one.

Posted: **Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:14 am**

Butch shoos a mutant near the german soldier, allowing him to escape. The creatures seem to get more energetic with the heat, but are now carefully avoiding to be burned.
You are still about 3 meters near the flamethrower.

Posted: **Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:52 pm**

Crowley:

"Time to withdraw, gentlemen!" Crowley yells. He looks around for a direction the party could withdraw to or shoot their way through to.

Posted: **Tue Jan 05, 2021 3:14 am**

"Everyone get clear of the flamethrower!" calls Harry, already retreating as fast as he can.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:17 pm**

You get away from the flamethrower (with the german); the creatures are now coming in your direction, they seem they are interested in you.

You can now shoot at the flamethrower. But it is a hard sucess, because several of the creatures are on the way.

Posted: **Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:28 pm**

Having scrambled back from the creatures Alex turns and levels his revolver, taking aim at the fuel tank as best he can. He looses three rounds in quick succession, hoping to hit the tank and ignite the fuel, but the bullets disappear into the press of creatures.

OOC: Nope, one regular success only

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 2:30 am**

Harry empties his revolver at the flamethrower's fuel tank, but the creatures get in the way.

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 10:28 am**

Crowley:

OOC: Fail.

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:04 pm**

Suddenly you see that Alex shot hit the gas... and you hear a huge explosion. Pieces of ice, bodies, stone are flying everywhere, you cannot hear or see anything, you only react to the instinct of preservation and try to avoid the debris.

OOC: Please make a dodge roll. if you fail, loose 1d4 of damage. If you pass, you just loose 1.

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:06 pm**

Along with the others, Butch falls back before the mutants. He attempts to take cover as the fuel tank explodes.

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:15 pm**

At the initial crack of the bullet hitting the tank, Alex lets out a cheer, 'Thank God, I think I...', as the explosion erupts in flames and a concussive blast he throws himself back, blood and fragments splattering against his face...

Posted: **Fri Jan 08, 2021 3:42 am**

Harry easily leaps behind cover to avoid the worst of the blast.

Posted: **Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:50 am**

Crowley:
Cursing in Latin, Crowley dives for cover then staggers away coughing and gagging.

Posted: **Sat Jan 09, 2021 5:02 pm**

The place is full of smoke and you see pieces of the ceiling falling. The path you want to follow seems that will be crumbling in any minute and unless you start running in that direction, it may close to you.
Alex and the german are dizzy with lot's of scratches, but seem fine,

Posted: **Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:10 pm**

Harry tries to bandage his injuries, but his hands are shaking too much.

Posted: **Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:15 pm**

Alex wipes the blood from his face, 'The time for licking our wounds is when the building stops falling down. Time for us to run.'

He runs in the direction of the tunnel, 'Mach weiter so mein deutscher Freund.'

Posted: **Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:06 pm**

Harry immediately stops trying to treat his injuries and runs down the tunnel with the others.

Posted: **Sun Jan 10, 2021 2:48 am**

Crowley:

Uttering vile oaths in Latin, Crowley races with the others through the tunnel before it collapses.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:57 am**

"We need to hurry!" Butch bellows as he runs down the corridor.

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:55 am**

With a loud crash, the ceiling of the tunnel collapses. A large block of ice crushes one of the mutants, and green ooze splatters the floor in front of it. The shaking stops. As the air clears, you see that the entrance is now a mass of fallen rock and shattered ice. You are trapped inside the tunnels.
The tunnel is dim, but there is a faint glow in the ice; not enough to see clearly, but enough to make out your surroundings. The temperature in the tunnel has risen a few degrees.

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:46 pm**

Alex sinks to the ground and leans back against the icy walls of the tunnel. 'I'm too old for this.' He takes out the first aid kit and starts to clean his wounds. When he's finished he reloads his revolver and the shotgun.

Posted: **Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:08 am**

Harry also sits down, reloads his revolver, and resumes trying unsuccessfully to bind his injuries.

Posted: **Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:46 pm**

'Let me take a look at that' says Alex, trying his best to tend to Harry's wounds.

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:52 am**

Crowley:

Crowley grunts at this turn of events, breaks open his shotgun and reloads it.

OOC: Do we have flashlights or lanterns?

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:01 pm**

Snapper wrote:Crowley:

Crowley grunts at this turn of events, breaks open his shotgun and reloads it.

OOC: Do we have flashlights or lanterns?

OOC: Yes, you have lanterns.

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:12 pm**

Crowley:

Deciding the need to see outweighs the need to sneak, Crowley lights a lantern, dimming it as much as he can.

"I wonder if the heat from the flame will attract more of these things? Perhaps we should keep moving?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:28 pm**

The german soldier seems worried and says something to Alex.

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:34 am**

"I sure hope there's another way out of here," says Harry.

Posted: **Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:56 am**

Butch will check his wounds, thankful that he didn't take much damage.

Posted: **Sat Jan 16, 2021 6:22 am**

Crowley:

Crowley holds up the lantern and looks about. He pulls out a pocket compass and tries to get a fix on what direction the team is facing.

OOC: Does the tunnel continue on somewhere?

Posted: **Sat Jan 16, 2021 12:53 pm**

'Mach dir keine Sorgen, mein Freund, wir haben Sicherheit in Zahlen,' Alex says to the German, placing his hand on his shoulder reassuringly.

Posted: **Sat Jan 16, 2021 6:57 pm**

"I guess we have no choice but to go forward," says Harry.

Posted: **Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:21 am**

You start walking in the tunnel. Where the tunnel ends is a dark chasm that drops off into the darkness. You cannot see the bottom, but across the other side, you can see another entrance. A bridge spans the gap over the darkness. The only way forward is across the bridge.

Posted: **Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:38 pm**

Harry examines the bridge to see how steady it looks. "We should rope ourselves together," he says. "That way we'll be safe if anyone slips off. We should also cross one at a time, in case it can't bear all of our weight together."

Posted: **Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:44 pm**

'That makes sense' agrees Alex. 'Anyone want to volunteer to go first?'

Posted: **Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:13 pm**

"I'll do it," says Harry. "I'm the most agile."

Posted: **Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:17 pm**

"Good luck. Just take it slow and easy." Butch says as he ties himself and his tool harness as the anchor on the rope.

Posted: **Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:41 am**

Crowley:

Crowley keeps his shotgun handy. He tries to keep a watch for anything coming out of the chasm below and anything coming from behind the party.

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:27 am**

Each person make a dex test please.

Posted: **Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:28 pm**

Peering nervously over the edge, Alex puts his foot on the bridge and starts to cross.

OOC: Woo woo, hard success

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:58 am**

Harry crosses the bridge without difficulty.

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:24 am**

Crowley:

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:46 pm**

Butch is the last one across and like the others before him doesn't have any problems.

Posted: **Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:30 am**

You find yourselves in another tunnel, similar to the outer ring, but bigger and ends in a wall. There are 3 smaller side tunnels: to north, east and west.

Posted: **Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:37 am**

OOC: Can a Navigate roll be made to try to assess where the three tunnels might lead? Deeper into the city, towards the edge, that sort if thing?

Posted: **Sat Jan 23, 2021 4:59 pm**

OOC: yes it can.

Posted: **Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:09 pm**

Harry has a pretty good idea which way is which.

Posted: **Sun Jan 24, 2021 1:36 am**

Crowley:
Crowley has a pencil and notepad out and is drawing some basic tunnel mapping.

Posted: **Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:44 am**

The one at north seems the correct path.

Posted: **Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:17 pm**

Crowley:

Crowley studies his notepad for a few seconds with a thoughtful "Hmmmm," before announcing, "I believe we should go north."

Posted: **Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:42 pm**

"Okay, let's head north then. We need to find a safe place."

Posted: **Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:36 am**

"I agree," says Harry. "Let's go."

Posted: **Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:55 pm**

This tunnel is much colder. You don't see any sign of the mutants, After a whie you can hear voices. As you continue to listen, you can hear more clearly
After a dozen meters, this tunnel opens out to reveal a white-haired man surrounded by an assortment of equipment, both scientific and military. There are boxes piled up to block the smaller tunnels, so there is only one way in or out of the room. To one side, there are two bundles of blankets and three other people lying there. One you recognize as a member of the Miskatonik team. The others are Nazi troopers.
The white-haired man turns around, a long syringe in his hand and a startled look on his face...

Posted: **Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:02 pm**

'Schön dich hier zu treffen' says Alex to the white haired man.

Posted: **Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:54 am**

"Friends of yours?" Harry asks the German who accompanied them. He's not sure if the man can understand, but he hopes Alex will translate when he has a chance.

Posted: **Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:31 pm**

Crowley:

Crowley calls out to the Miskatonic chap, "Great Scott! Are you alright?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:40 pm**

'Freunde von dir?', Alex translates for Harry.

Posted: **Fri Jan 29, 2021 1:26 pm**

Snapper wrote:Crowley:

Crowley calls out to the Miskatonic chap, "Great Scott! Are you alright?"

He looks relieved at you.
"Yes! But's it's great to finally someone speak with someone without an horrible accent! INot that I have anything to complain about any bad treatment" - he says quickly. "I'm Chuck Janson a graduate from the Miskatonik University. We were cutting to theouter ring when the germans attacked us, but then a group of strange infected guys attacked us and they dragged the nazi leader. Professor Stein ordered that the nazis stopped shooting at us and help us for a change"-he nods to the old man "After we defeated those creatures, the rest of my companions who are scientists continued to the tunnel to discover the reason for the disease. The germans have stay because thet have military training and are here to defend this tunnel." . In a low tone: "Most of them have been biten as I have and are showing signs of infection; the professor isn«t bitten but we need him to control the soldiers for now."

The german soldiers seem to be happy to see you companion, and they are also happy and embrace him

The white haired man is waiting that you finish your dialogues and then asks:
"Who are you? Are you members of a rescue team? - He says hopefully.

Posted: **Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:32 am**

"Yes, we were sent to assist the Miskatonic expedition," says Harry.

Posted: **Sat Jan 30, 2021 2:38 pm**

Crowley:

Crowley looks back at the Miskatonic student. "Good Lord! What do you mean 'bitten and showing signs of infection?' Like rabies?" Crowley looks at the men lying down, wondering what signs of rabies might look like. Foaming at the mouth?

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2021 4:05 pm**

HArry:
"Good! We were needing reinforcements! Tell your troops that they can come here if they want and start cleaning the tunnels after I explain them severel things. I'm professor Stein by the way"

Crowley:
"I was bitten, but for now I don't have any signs. Those german soldies were bitten and hve signs, so maybe I'm lucky. About the disease, I don't know how to explain, they seem to loose their minds, but they work in a very coordinated manner. They don't speak, their bodies change, "

Posted: **Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:01 pm**

'Professor Stein, I am Alexander Malone, from the Miskatonic University. I am afraid that we are only a civilian operation. Tell me, what do you think is going on here with this disease?' Alex decides it might be better not to make it clear that he is a priest at this point. He racks his brain, trying to think of any infections that might meet the Professor's description.

OOC: Successful Medicine roll

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:56 am**

"How did you find out about this site, Professor?" asks Harry. "What do you know about it?"

Posted: **Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:06 pm**

OOC: Wow, a successful Cthulhu Mythos roll!

Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2021 1:27 am**

"And what is it about fire or heat that attracts these mutated people? How have you been able to survive down here? Butch adds.

Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2021 7:17 pm**

He starts answering to Malone:
"I don't know, I never saw anything lke this. If it was just a disease in the brain, I suppose they would attack anything, including thmselves, but somehow they seem to recognize themselves as part of the same group, and concentrate their hate against normal people. like if the disease was trying to expand. But of course it is impossible, simple bacteria cannot have such inteligence."
Then to Harry:
"I am a professor in Munich, one day at the end of a class, I had group of Waffen SS waiting for me and I cannot give you more informations, those are state secret. But I guess I can tell you some other details. We were attacked when still coming to this place by those creatures, we didn't knw what they were. When we arrived, as soon as we found the americans we supposed they were part of the attackers and we started to fight each other; when the mutants appeared, it was obvious to me that we were figthing the wrong enemy but our commander refused to stop to figth against your compatriots. Luckily, fate helped us, the commander was grabed and I assumed the leadership and managed to make a truce.Most of the americans, some of our soldiers and our linguistic, went further. The leader of your expedition said the solution was near"
Then to Blutch:
"This tunnel is much colder so they avoid it for now. But I have excelent news. I have managed to create a serum that stops the progression of the disease. I don't know how long it works: it is very painful, but my soldiers didn't get worst and actually improved. That's why they didn turn in those creatures and are still loyal."

Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2021 11:41 pm**

Answering the Professor, Alex says 'Agreed, I've never seen anything like this. But...' He frowns. 'When I was in the Amazon, some of the tribes would talk about the 'blessing' of some obscure god, Druaga I think. The legend goes that he rewarded his followers by turning them into a lesser version of him. His worshipers would keep their free will and be stronger than ordinary men, but those that were transformed against their will became blind minions. Perhaps there was some kernel of truth in the legends?'

Posted: **Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:26 am**

"Let's hope the serum lasts a long time," says Harry."We can't stay here forever, though. We'll have to go forward if we're going to survive, following the others."

Posted: **Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:24 pm**

"What do you mean with true? That there is a god controlling them?"- he looks incredulously at Malone.
"But this city is ancient, we don't know what kind of bacteria existed here that we released unknowing. The geologist from your expedition and our linguist said this was incredible ancient, more ancient that humans, and the ice could have keep it."
He turns to Harry:
"I'm giving you 10 doses from our serum, it's all I have; I'l make more to help our people here. Good luck then".

Posted: **Thu Feb 04, 2021 10:31 pm**

Laughing Alex says, 'Not gods, but maybe the followers knew something that could prevent this infection affecting their minds. Perhaps related to your serum, what is in that? How did you come to formulate it?'

Posted: **Thu Feb 04, 2021 10:49 pm**

"I tried several formulae actually, and none worked. This was a control test that I left in a cold place to preserve it, and guess what, it is the only to work when I used it. The cold left the pathogen weak, and the human body can figth it. So, I cannot claim much credit about it, it was mere chance."- he says a bit sad.

Posted: **Thu Feb 04, 2021 10:54 pm**

'Ah, so it is like a vaccination, the pathogen is weakened by the cold so the body can learn to fight it off. Still, it is risky, if the pathogen were to reactivate...' Alex leaves that thought unfinished.

Posted: **Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:16 am**

"That is why I only tried with my comrades that were already infected. There were doomed anyway."

Posted: **Fri Feb 05, 2021 4:57 am**

"Thank you, Professor," says Harry. "If any of the others have been bitten, we'll put these to good use."

Posted: **Fri Feb 05, 2021 12:27 pm**

Crowley:

Crowley calls out to the Miskatonic student. "What do you think, Janson? Will you come with us or do you need to stay here to be treated?"

Posted: **Fri Feb 05, 2021 1:27 pm**

"I'm going with you sir. The good doctor was helpful, but I prefer to be with americans, We don't know how this will finish".

OOC: Anything else or can we move?

Posted: **Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:21 pm**

'You have a weapon Janson?' asks Alex, taking the opportunity to have a closer look at his wounds and rebandage them.

Posted: **Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:49 am**

Posted: **Sat Feb 06, 2021 8:54 am**

Crowley:

"Good man," Crowley says to Janson.

Posted: **Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:56 am**

"No time like the present to keep moving along. We won't solve this mystery until we know what we are dealing with." Butch says to the others. "Besides, I don't want to wait around the infected people."

Posted: **Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:36 pm**

"Yes, I have, thank you", he says taking a pistol from his pocket.
You wave goodbye to the nazis (and the german that have come with you) and they wish you good luck.
You leave the Nazis to their own devices, pressing on the tunnel. Soon your light falls upon a large arch built into a stone wall that appears to be a dead end. In the middle of the arch is a carving consisting of three horizontal wavy lines with a teardrop shape above them.
Surrounding the arch are channels carved into the wall. Their intricate patterns across the stone start at the top, swirl around on either side, and terminate in holes in the ground.
"What is this?" - asks Janson.

OOC: Each of you can do ONE roll of: archaeology, occult, appraise, mechanical repair. Your choice.

Posted: **Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:42 pm**

Alex studies the strange carvings.

Posted: **Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:24 pm**

Butch examines it to see if there are any mechanical workings to the arch.

Posted: **Tue Feb 09, 2021 5:01 am**

Harry ponders the meanings of the symbols and wonders who built the arch.

Posted: **Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:19 am**

Crowley:

OOC: Fail.

Posted: **Fri Feb 12, 2021 12:30 am**

Alex decyphers some glyphs that mean "water" and "motion"; Butch understands that in the 4 channels it is possible to pour liquid.

Posted: **Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:12 am**

Crowley:

Crowley peers down at the water channels. "Fascinating. There have been instances in history where water is used in mechanisms. Water clocks come to mind."

"Shall we pour a small amount of water into one of the channels to see what happens?"

OOC: Is there any sign that the earlier party poured water down any of the channels?

Posted: **Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:02 pm**

OOC Therei is some ice, so yes.

Make a spot hidden roll

Posted: **Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:07 pm**

'I think those glyphs say something about 'water' and 'motion' so perhaps the water channels trigger some kind of mechanism' says Alex.

Posted: **Sat Feb 13, 2021 4:19 am**

"One channel may not be enough to activate it," says Harry, "but we can try that first before trying multiple channels at once."

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