LOG 2 – Finding out where we were - 05/02/2022

So, now I’ve covered how we got here, now I can talk about where the hell we are. Our entire group woke up in some crummy basement in a slum area – based on the German advertising, Star City skyline but with Nazi symbols everywhere, and what we found out at Professor Echo’s base, it didn’t take us too long to put together that we must be in Erde, the world where Germany won the war… which sucks.
 
With the sound of rumbling tracks and small jet engines approaching I panicked a bit and disguised our clothes and teleported us into one of the nearby apartments, where we met Lilith.
 
Unsurprisingly when we teleported in she was a bit … startled, but we started bombarding her with crazy questions (from her perspective), and were at least able to confirm that we hadn’t moved in time, and that the “Ubermench” (I guess supers?) all worked in the German Army.
 
Lilith got a bit more canny here, figuring that we were keen on not being questioned by the Nazi troops outside (bought here by the energy signal from whatever teleported us here). The Doll yelled at her and threw the couch across the room, busting a hole through the wall and into a stash of machine guns and explosives. She dived for the kitchen, but realising that now neither of us wanted to get caught Velocity suggested a truce, with us hiding behind an illusion of the wall that I would create.
 
She agreed and we hid, hearing hard voices and in fact the voice of the fake AJ who was yelling about a “Shtermdreider” (guess who) and that others may have come thorugh with him. They’d also tracked someone else down who was escaping on foot to the northwest (Apparently the description looked like the Doll, so guess it’s either that weird kid, or the Dark Doll), so pretty quickly they all disappeared off and it all got a bit quiet.
 
We popped out of our illusionary hideout to have a bit of a chat with Lilith. She asked if my skin colour was actually real, and at first I didn’t even really thing of what she was asking. When she figured I must have been an Atlantean I’ll admit my blood ran cold. I couldn’t help ask what had happened to them… but in hindsight it was pretty obvious, given how they were so focused on their ideal Aryan. When I asked if there were any left she couldn’t even confirm there were… meaning for a while though they were pretty much all wiped out.
 
I lost focus on the conversation then – thinking about my parents (apparently the others might have a german version of their parents, but I definitely won’t), my friends, our entire society and culture wiped from the map as though we never existed. I mean, I grew up in Atlantis, where most of the population is Atlantean (even if apparently the superhero population is not). I’d never understood the phrase “like a fish out of water” so well…
 
I know that there was some mention of Australia being a bit of a haven, Glorious Japan taking over the lands to the east while the Reich had Russia, America, Europe and a bit of Africa, and being at war, and whether we try and find Dr Null and see if he has a lab in this version of Star City too. I did create some illusions at one point of some of the superheroes we knew, but only the Dandy rang bells, apparently called “Eitler Mann”. Apparently their leader is Dr Vielhelm Volf, and there’s a number of other ones, like White Knight and The Overman.
 
Lilith jumped in at this point and asked if we would be willing to help – apparently they didn’t have any supers on their side and the last one they had was killed a few weeks ago. I did suggest that our focus was on getting home but we did all conclude that we were willing to help out, especially if they would help with getting us around providing information – this is such a nightmare place that if we could change that even in some small way it would be worth it, even if it’s not our own world. I guess normally I’d be bit more suspicious, but I just didn’t know what to do… I still don’t.