i use the time that Baker is using on the furnace to explore the last two crates for anything useful
crate #1
crate # 3
Let's see what Hammer Industries has for security measures on this furnace.
Baker plugs his PDS into the terminal.
Are you saying that this Murderer D.Mask is up there right now just trotting around willy nilly around all those innocents around Madelyn.
Emits begins pacing around mumbling to himself.
I could go back and stop this all but who knows what could happen...no no I cant not after last time but I have to do something but what!!! God this is so frustrating I could just teleport around the entire museum until i track this rat down and port him right into a maximum security prison....but that might take to long,what do i do come on what would Jason do he always knew what to do oh Brother where are you when I need that incredibly obnoxious demeaning insulting advice because Im dumb compared to you speech!!
oh what you want me to try to hack that quad-harmonic quark fluctator shouldn't be to hard.
Emit pushes Baker aside gently.
Sorry kid i know your good with this tech stuff but let an expert handle this.
Yea, I must be a bit shaken up after that whole dino ordeal still...
Baker stands back to try and settle his mind.
Its ok kid maybe I can teach you a thing or two but later, now we make haste its up to us to figure this out, and whether you are super or not your a part of this now and to be honest Ive worked with worse if it means anything.
Baker, the system is frustratingly dense and repetitive. Just as you think you've gotten in, the warning light turns on and extra security protocols are activated to reset the system and undo all of your progress.
Emit, seeing your chances of flushing the villain out about to evaporate, you take over the controls. After some intial difficulty with the out-dated mainframe configuration, you manage to not only halt the securtiy protocols, but reverse it back to it's source. The light blinks green indicating you have control of the system.
Two virtual gauges appear on the screen alongside a highlighted view of the entire museum vent system. One gauge is for temperature and the other is for fan speed. There is an abnormal hot spot in vent PR-0017. That particular vent provides air to the museum's walk-in vault.
Joe, as you are searching through SE-0012 you find a tiny dart underneath a full-set of plastic human bones. This was apparently the short-running Skeletal Exhibit.
The next crate over, CE-0024, contains nothing interesting that you can find other than some carboard cutouts of a caveman and some felt loincloths from the Caveman Exhibit.
Lets heat things up!!
Emit increases the heat as the plan dictated to force the villain out. Also if I increase the fan speed as well it may cut the time to get the heat to the spot it needs to be. So I shall.
hmm, there is an abnormal heat spot in the ducts over the vault, if only there were some way for one of us to get to the vault quickly and check up into the air-vent as to what that is. if only timeline were here he could probably do that, cough cough cough.
The treatment plant is understandably a good distance from the main city but you manage to arrive on time. A large billboard above the brick and cement building is emblazoned with the name of the owners: Wayste & CO. The plant manager comes out to meet you at the front door. The balding man practically reeks of chemicals.
Hello there, gal. You'n must be the geogramer that's gunna fix our prublem? Well you'nt come a moment too soon. Only Vats 1-3 are runnin' and if'n I don't get the back-up cleared Ol' Mr. Wayste is gunna waste me if'n ya catch ma drift. Now don't git that skeered look in yur eye. I ain't asking ya to clean da vats or nuthin'. The main sewage line is all stupped up somewurs and we can't seem to get enough flow. You need to git up tru the access tunnel into the sewer proper and radio me when you is get to tha prublem. Job pays only if we can get the flow to start again. Names Bill by n' by. He hands you an old-style walkie talkie.
You can tell from the flow of the sewage that it is really low.
Emit cranks the fan speed and heat up to 11. You quickly begin to read temperatures in the 100 degree Farenheit range. The abnormal temperature reading now becomes practically undetectable against the background of heat.
You can hear a rattling sound coming from the Vent Shaft.
That doesn't sound good.
I go to check that out. Carefully.
Well Its good theres no cameras down here.
Emit it looks to his two partners.
well I can go check out the vault.
But first Emit that still has bakers pds pulls up the vault camera and puts it to a loop.
Emit then turns to Baker handing back his pds
Here you may need this. Ok boys heres the plan Baker you will stay here in case they manage to come back through the vents you will be here. Joe Suit up cause you and me are going in I may need back up and I know you can handle this. I put the cameras on a loop in the vault so we should be good to port in there take care of business without anyone knowing.
Emit then steps back a bit and transforms into Timeline.
Timeline appears Standing there looking at the two.
You ready for this.
Timeline walks over to Joe waiting to teleport him.
Timeline Teleports into the sphynxonium main vault.
will do! I use my thousand faces to transform in a hurry into the good reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
I'm ready when you are. Baker, you good with monitoring the current camera feeds?
I'll be fine here. Before you go, I'm going to assume you have cell phones? Put my number in there so you can contact me if needed. Baker gives his number.
Get going, i'll stay in the area here at least.
I really hope I can trust these guys. They seem like they're good, but i still should keep an eye on them, just in case. And once we seal this place off, we shouldn't let them have all the fun, should we Ithran? Baker mentally smirks.
Timeline looks to Baker Before we port away.
Hey kid you think you could check for alarms in the vault and shut them down if there is so we don't set them off by porting in.
The rattling sound gets louder as Joe begins to change his form and Emit is attempting to loop the vault's camera feeds.
a small metal capsule rolls out of the vent and sprays a green and purple mist into the air!
The cloud fills this corner of the cramped basement including around the furnace controls.
i make the two fort saves, yay
I look down the airshaft for someone coming out
Baker, you you feel your facial muscles contracting and twitching on their own. Your face feels kinda numb.
Joe, you cannot crane your neck to see very far up the shaft. You'd need to climb inside or have some sort fo remote sense to see up the shaft.
Til end of this scene, Death mask gains a +5 luck bonus to toughness saves from synergetic effect between his immune system and residue from the poison bomb.
cough cough...Hold on. Hurry with that hack kid and Joe prepare for the teleport after the alarm is down.
Timeline realizing Baker needs time to hack the alarm teleports Baker and Joe with him outside the gas to give him enough time.
Once clear of the gas, Baker taps into his PDS again.
Through the stiff, macabre grin that is creeping into his facial muscles, Baker attempts to turn off any potential alarms in the system.
What the heck, was that some sort of nerve gas?!
Not Clear at the moment kid but first things first bring the alarm down.
I just hope it doesn't have the same affect on us as the dead guy over there.
Now outside the gas, Baker switches to a view of the vault...only to find the camera disconnected. He is also able to get into the alarm system only to find that it has been disconnected as well. A basic schematic of the museum is available for viewing however. There are no other basement entrances other than the stairs and the large vent shaft (although only a very agile person could consider that an entrance).
Emit, you feel your outer extremities begin to go numb.
=> 18 + 1 = 19
Baker beware, we might soon have a visitor. this gas could have been rigged to go off when we removed the obstruction in hte vent or D. mask is coming back and will be here soon.
contact us if he appears again.
COUGH
COUGH
Yea,
cough cough
Sure thing.
Baker, you seem to shake off the effects of the gas as the last of the cloud disperses.
Emit, you can't feel your left hand any more.
I...I.. Cant feel my hand, we must hurry before this gets any worse.
Emit looks to Joe looking weak from the gas.
My friend you look to be immune to the effects to the gas you might need to take point on this at least until I can make my move. I fear close combat is out of the picture for me in this condition.
If nerve gas is going to continue to be a thing, I think we might benefit from "borrowing" a set of gas masks from the WWII exhibit...
Give me a sec gotta grab some gear.
Timeline Goes back in time to grab full plate armor and a gas mask.
Timeline appears back in Full plate Knight armor wearing a gas mask.
Joe you ready?Lets go.
Timeline grabs Joe and teleports into the vault.
Once Emit and Joe teleport out, i'm going to head back to the basement stairs to get out of the nerve-gassed basement so I can figure out what to do.
You be too late mon...enjoy your tomb...
The vault door closes and the tumblers fall into place locking you in!
Inside the vault you can see a pedestal and velvet pillow that is conspicuously empty. There are a number of smaller vault doors lining the inside of the vault. None of them are open.
Initiative Order:
- Baker
- Timeline
- Death Mask
- Martin Luther King Jr.
No!!!
I don't think so I cant let you hurt anyone else im going to stop you now.
Timelines Eyes begin to glow with temporal Energy as he ports into the hallway outside the main vault of the sphixonium.
You can hear Madelyn giving her speech to the tour group.
And this is the final resting place of Em-Shakaroath a previously unknown Pharoah from the First Dynasty. It was unearthed with full cooperation of the Egyptian government and is graciously on loan for the month. It should be noted...