Daily Logs 2006 - Present
5/14/13: ONE MAN'S SEARCH FOR BANE
PARTICIPANTS: LOUP GAROU, IRONIC (NPC), ZEPHYR (KIBBITZER), SCOTSMAN (KIBBITZER)
Loup received the following game data via email:
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Loup, when last seen, you were with Bane and Ironic, exploring that cave complex in Sweden to search for Triad. Here is what occurs next:
As you finish off the Construct you, Ironic and Bane were battling, you hear a sudden deep cracking sound from somewhere deep within the cave. It is followed by a rumble and you suddenly feel sick to your stomach as you realize the floor is vibrating and beginning to tilt. You look quickly to Ironic, who is pusing his force field out around himself and bracing for the worst. You then look to Bane, who has a look of sheer terror in her eyes. Tiles from the ceiling begin popping out of their placements and you can hear the deep rumble of rock cracking below and above you.
You grab Bane and bound back up the hallway, desperate to get to the entrance before the entire complex falls in and the three of you are buried under ten million tons of rock. Above the rumbling beneath your feet you hear the clank, clank, clank of Ironic following you.
Suddenly you feel an intense pain at the base of your skull. Is it a rock smashing down on you or the entire mountainside slamming you into the earth? You cannot tell, but you black out quickly, your vision tunnelling and all sight and sound leaving you for a moment...
Your eyelids flutter. You are in total blackness. You smell your own sweat, and feel your hand -- it is skin, not fur. You quickly go into wolf form and let your ultravision kick in. You see you are in a tiny triangular chamber, about 5 feet by 3 feet, lying flat on your back. Crouching above you is Ironic, and you hear his breathing is heavy and labored. As your eyes adjust to your wolf form, you see (and feel) a slight blue glow that you recognize as Ironic's force field all around you. You can see he is at his breaking point, as if he is holding back the entire mountain from crushing the two of you. As you struggle into a crouching position, your head still throbbing, Ironic gives out. He collapses down to all fours and his blue force field flutters and dies.
You brace to be crushed, but nothing happens. You reach up and tentatively touch the rock face above you. It hasn't moved. It looks as if this flat rock surface above you wedged against some other stone surfaces, creating this small fissure you are in, as the mountain crumbled around you. You are safe, for the moment, unless the mountain shifts again. You hear Ironic moan a bit, and ask
"Are we still alive?"
You just look at him. You know he cannot see you in the pitch blackness which surrounds you.
His voice penetrates the still air.
"I managed to get you into my force field as things smashed down. But Bane... Loup, I couldn't get to her in time. I only had an instant after you took that boulder in the head. Only an instant. I couldn't move fast enough. I couldn't get you both into my range. I... I couldn't... She..."
He stops, seeming to struggle with emotion at the thought of Bane somewhere under the mountainside, nearby, but for all practical purposes unreachable.
"I think with my force field up the rocks fell around us, creating this little space. But Bane..." Again, he falters, and falls silent.
You know the implications of what he is saying. You know that outside the protective field, Bane was likely smashed flat under hundreds of feet and millions of pounds of stone. Hoping beyond hope, you take a deep breath, searching for her familiar scent.
Nothing.
Struggling to make sense of things, you turn to Ironic.
"How far back up toward the entrance did we get before the rock came down on us?" You ask.
"I don't know. 500 feet? 600? I couldn't tell. That would still leave more rock above us than we can ever move. I have no idea how we are going to get out of here."
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When Loup and Ironic regained their senses, Loup began digging towards the surface, with Ironic using his force field power to strengthen the walls so Loup didn't cause another cave-in. After several grueling hours of clawing at the rocky earth, Loup and Ironic re-emerged into the Swedish sunlight. Because of the remoteness of the mountainside hideout of UMI, no one was there to witness the cave-in or mount a rescue attempt.
Loup immediately went about excavating the mountainside in order to find Bane. Ironic, seemingly overcome by his affliction and the exhertion of the day, told Loup he thought Bane might not have made it, as he sat down on the grass to rest. Loup spent several days digging out larger and larger portions of the mountain in increasingly frantic attempts to find his lost colleague. Despite his strength, his will, and his sense of smell, he was able to find no trace of Bane, scent or otherwise. Ironic's condition deteriorated, but Loup was driven, and refused to give up the search.
When Ironic appeared to be on the verge of collapse, Loup consented to leave the scene, and chartered a plane to return to Los Angeles. Ironic left him at the airport, and Loup immediately bought another plane ticket to South Carolina, home of the Anderson Institute of Advanced Study in Action, home of the most sophisticated team of cave-in and catastrophic structure collapse rescuers in the world. They have equipment and a team trained to find people in cave ins and building collapses. It took all his persuasive powers, and a promise of large amounts of cash, but Loup convinced them to bring their team to Sweden and try to find Bane.
Three days later (now five days since the cave in) the Anderson team reported that their efforts had been fruitless (other than finding parts of an android in the rubble). They handed him a bag containing what appeared to be the remains of the Phoenix android, along with their condolences that they had found no trace of his friend. Loup reluctantly returned to LA in a state of shock.
On his return to the mansion, he handed the bag of Phoenix parts to Joe, and said "fix it." Zephyr and the Scotsman confronted Loup for an explanation as to where everyone was, and he told them the story. All agreed they refused to believe Bane was dead. At that moment, the phone rang, and a Doctor Marshall from UCLA asked if someone could come down and tell him what had happened to Rex Razor, his patient who had appeared and collapsed into a catatonic state. He was carrying a journal indicating that AlertForce might know what he had been through. Loup Garou went to speak to Dr. Marshall.
On his way out of the hospital, Loup saw a police car speed by, chasing a van. As he gave chase, he saw the police car pass through a green cloud of smoke, then crash into a parked car. Loup went and helped the officer, by calling for help, and found that the gas cloud was noxious, and had poisoned the officer. He went after the van, and eventually caught it on the highway. He pulled open the door and jumped in the passenger side.
As he did, he saw a muscular man in a black outfit, with white goggles and a white stripe down his back from head to toe. As Loup menaced, the man cried "Hey baby! You don't want to tangle with the POLECAT!" He pointed at Loup and squirted him in the face point blank with another green cloud of noxious gas and liquid, then leapt out of the car onto a passing pickup truck.
Loup recovered his wits, grabbed the wheel, and pulled the van to the side of the highway. He jumped out and gave chase to the pickup with POLECAT on top. POLECAT was pointing into the cab, indicating that if Loup approached, he would squirt the innocents. Loup stayed back a bit, but when the pickup started pulling off an exit ramp, POLECAT squirted them anyway, and leapt onto yet another car.
Loup ran up to the car, and saw two passengers dying from the noxious fumes. His choice was to follow the villain or get the innocents to medical help. He chose the latter. In the process, two innocents were saved, but the POLECAT made a getaway.
Hero points - 4
Loup received the following game data via email:
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Loup, when last seen, you were with Bane and Ironic, exploring that cave complex in Sweden to search for Triad. Here is what occurs next:
As you finish off the Construct you, Ironic and Bane were battling, you hear a sudden deep cracking sound from somewhere deep within the cave. It is followed by a rumble and you suddenly feel sick to your stomach as you realize the floor is vibrating and beginning to tilt. You look quickly to Ironic, who is pusing his force field out around himself and bracing for the worst. You then look to Bane, who has a look of sheer terror in her eyes. Tiles from the ceiling begin popping out of their placements and you can hear the deep rumble of rock cracking below and above you.
You grab Bane and bound back up the hallway, desperate to get to the entrance before the entire complex falls in and the three of you are buried under ten million tons of rock. Above the rumbling beneath your feet you hear the clank, clank, clank of Ironic following you.
Suddenly you feel an intense pain at the base of your skull. Is it a rock smashing down on you or the entire mountainside slamming you into the earth? You cannot tell, but you black out quickly, your vision tunnelling and all sight and sound leaving you for a moment...
Your eyelids flutter. You are in total blackness. You smell your own sweat, and feel your hand -- it is skin, not fur. You quickly go into wolf form and let your ultravision kick in. You see you are in a tiny triangular chamber, about 5 feet by 3 feet, lying flat on your back. Crouching above you is Ironic, and you hear his breathing is heavy and labored. As your eyes adjust to your wolf form, you see (and feel) a slight blue glow that you recognize as Ironic's force field all around you. You can see he is at his breaking point, as if he is holding back the entire mountain from crushing the two of you. As you struggle into a crouching position, your head still throbbing, Ironic gives out. He collapses down to all fours and his blue force field flutters and dies.
You brace to be crushed, but nothing happens. You reach up and tentatively touch the rock face above you. It hasn't moved. It looks as if this flat rock surface above you wedged against some other stone surfaces, creating this small fissure you are in, as the mountain crumbled around you. You are safe, for the moment, unless the mountain shifts again. You hear Ironic moan a bit, and ask
"Are we still alive?"
You just look at him. You know he cannot see you in the pitch blackness which surrounds you.
His voice penetrates the still air.
"I managed to get you into my force field as things smashed down. But Bane... Loup, I couldn't get to her in time. I only had an instant after you took that boulder in the head. Only an instant. I couldn't move fast enough. I couldn't get you both into my range. I... I couldn't... She..."
He stops, seeming to struggle with emotion at the thought of Bane somewhere under the mountainside, nearby, but for all practical purposes unreachable.
"I think with my force field up the rocks fell around us, creating this little space. But Bane..." Again, he falters, and falls silent.
You know the implications of what he is saying. You know that outside the protective field, Bane was likely smashed flat under hundreds of feet and millions of pounds of stone. Hoping beyond hope, you take a deep breath, searching for her familiar scent.
Nothing.
Struggling to make sense of things, you turn to Ironic.
"How far back up toward the entrance did we get before the rock came down on us?" You ask.
"I don't know. 500 feet? 600? I couldn't tell. That would still leave more rock above us than we can ever move. I have no idea how we are going to get out of here."
-----------------------------------------------------
When Loup and Ironic regained their senses, Loup began digging towards the surface, with Ironic using his force field power to strengthen the walls so Loup didn't cause another cave-in. After several grueling hours of clawing at the rocky earth, Loup and Ironic re-emerged into the Swedish sunlight. Because of the remoteness of the mountainside hideout of UMI, no one was there to witness the cave-in or mount a rescue attempt.
Loup immediately went about excavating the mountainside in order to find Bane. Ironic, seemingly overcome by his affliction and the exhertion of the day, told Loup he thought Bane might not have made it, as he sat down on the grass to rest. Loup spent several days digging out larger and larger portions of the mountain in increasingly frantic attempts to find his lost colleague. Despite his strength, his will, and his sense of smell, he was able to find no trace of Bane, scent or otherwise. Ironic's condition deteriorated, but Loup was driven, and refused to give up the search.
When Ironic appeared to be on the verge of collapse, Loup consented to leave the scene, and chartered a plane to return to Los Angeles. Ironic left him at the airport, and Loup immediately bought another plane ticket to South Carolina, home of the Anderson Institute of Advanced Study in Action, home of the most sophisticated team of cave-in and catastrophic structure collapse rescuers in the world. They have equipment and a team trained to find people in cave ins and building collapses. It took all his persuasive powers, and a promise of large amounts of cash, but Loup convinced them to bring their team to Sweden and try to find Bane.
Three days later (now five days since the cave in) the Anderson team reported that their efforts had been fruitless (other than finding parts of an android in the rubble). They handed him a bag containing what appeared to be the remains of the Phoenix android, along with their condolences that they had found no trace of his friend. Loup reluctantly returned to LA in a state of shock.
On his return to the mansion, he handed the bag of Phoenix parts to Joe, and said "fix it." Zephyr and the Scotsman confronted Loup for an explanation as to where everyone was, and he told them the story. All agreed they refused to believe Bane was dead. At that moment, the phone rang, and a Doctor Marshall from UCLA asked if someone could come down and tell him what had happened to Rex Razor, his patient who had appeared and collapsed into a catatonic state. He was carrying a journal indicating that AlertForce might know what he had been through. Loup Garou went to speak to Dr. Marshall.
On his way out of the hospital, Loup saw a police car speed by, chasing a van. As he gave chase, he saw the police car pass through a green cloud of smoke, then crash into a parked car. Loup went and helped the officer, by calling for help, and found that the gas cloud was noxious, and had poisoned the officer. He went after the van, and eventually caught it on the highway. He pulled open the door and jumped in the passenger side.
As he did, he saw a muscular man in a black outfit, with white goggles and a white stripe down his back from head to toe. As Loup menaced, the man cried "Hey baby! You don't want to tangle with the POLECAT!" He pointed at Loup and squirted him in the face point blank with another green cloud of noxious gas and liquid, then leapt out of the car onto a passing pickup truck.
Loup recovered his wits, grabbed the wheel, and pulled the van to the side of the highway. He jumped out and gave chase to the pickup with POLECAT on top. POLECAT was pointing into the cab, indicating that if Loup approached, he would squirt the innocents. Loup stayed back a bit, but when the pickup started pulling off an exit ramp, POLECAT squirted them anyway, and leapt onto yet another car.
Loup ran up to the car, and saw two passengers dying from the noxious fumes. His choice was to follow the villain or get the innocents to medical help. He chose the latter. In the process, two innocents were saved, but the POLECAT made a getaway.
Hero points - 4
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