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Wed 19th May 2021 05:30

Doused

by Cypher

So there we were... Prisoners rescued, brought back into the "Space Between Worlds", Socrates asks me to re-open the portal and as I prepare to do so we hear...
 
"Surrender or Die" Spoken from a large Armoured Individual. <Sounds a little amusing coming across as a digital voice, but I digress>.
 
So of course not wanting to die, we all surrendered...
 
Ok - not quite... That was just the front cover...
 
Wildthing jumps forward and growls something, seriously that girl needs a throat lozenge. The effect vs the bad guys is... negligible. Stevie however is totally impressed and doesn't do anything on his turn. Really Stevie?? <Bebop-boop-dingle> <Oh - you were suitably impressed by the lion mane? - ok fair enough> Everyone else only hears the static.
 
Ghost comes in and attacks, hitting a dampener that I hadn't even noticed before... I wonder what that does?
 
I reach out telepathically and it says "#$@&&*!(" <Whoa there little fella, Language !! We're gonna have to give you a Fundamental Attitude Readjustment Talk>
 
Faust surrounds the group of villains in darkness (vs Sight) Stevie curses at him but it comes out as static.
 
The Mutant Hunter villain runs out of the darkness, trailed by what we learn is a dampener. Sandcrab grabs the dampener and tries to crush it, but it is tough. Nemesis helps by attacking the widget and cuts it in half.
 
The Mutant Hunter attacks Faust, but Faust blocks.
 
The team starts working together to take down the armoured agents. The Hunter goes down at Ghosts hands, Faust activates and grabs and throws the Hunter far away. Cypher grabs Julie's unconscious body and teleports away with her. I send John & Lindsay to keep an eye on the downed agents.
 
Sandcrab uses one of the dampeners as a battering ram against the other one destroying it!
 
Wildthing cuts the remaining cyber-soldiers gun in half, telling him to surrender. Cypher asks Sandcrab not to destroy the remaining dampener, he agrees if I can get to it quickly.
 
I take the remaining device and transform it into a friendly target.
 
The soldier eventually gives in to us.
 
There is some drama going on over by the room that appeared in the hallway. I look for and retrieve a couple hard drives from the system to look at in the future.
 
We reconnect the gate, Socrates & I. And when everyone comes through - we are in the reworked Demon Lair.
 
Cypher is pleased with his new acquisition. The L'il Robot Army is growing!