So, it was confirmed. The subbasements? Probably the place where Bad Things happened to Mei (Sorry Mei!). Ren is disturbed by this.
What’s worse? The Hunter was lairing down there, we found out. We uncovered some files in the computer systems that hadn’t been totally gutted in the complex that gave us some information on the D.E.A.M.O.N. project. As previously stated: Ren is disturbed.
On top of that, the Hunter set traps for us. We made our way through the first sub-basement and didn’t find nearly as much as we’d hoped. From there, the only way down was an elevator shaft that we had to climb down the service ladder of. It was probably a trap, we knew it was probably a trap, but damn Ren’s medical ethics and her desire to be a do-gooder (she keeps thinking if she can understand what was going on, she can reverse it, or at least mitigate its effects). We went down. Down to what was probably the seventh subbasement, where we found a mainframe (at least I think it was pretty close to the mainframe) and found out even more disturbing information.
And then we busted through a wall and found a room with ceilings about thirty feet high and twenty to twenty-five foot tall propane tanks (they weren’t actually propane tanks, they just looked like propane tanks standing on end. In the middle was a Mad Science device like two we’d seen in Egypt–one in the place where we rescued the Mystery Men, the other when we stopped a sacrifice outside of Cairo. Of course..the Hunter was waiting for us. So while Mei tried to taunt it out into the open and the others tried to help her kill it, Ren and Grace headed for said mad science device–hopefully to decipher what it’s all about.
Enter the Sorrow, Grace’s nemesis, a Church Executioner. But not. Suspicisions have been confirmed: it was The Wrath all along. Ahh, Alexander, what are we going to do with your sorry arse? He baited a trap for us, and not a bad one–but one that might work out to our advantage. Grace’s symbiote, “Rosebud” is in the Mad Science device. Ren decided that Grace was more than capable of handling Wraith and headed toward the sounds of violence to help the rest of her cohorts.
Not that they really needed her help. At best, she distracted the Hunter so it could ultimately be killed. At worst, she was useless.
But the effect of Mei’s Playing for the Moment was epic.
In the past, I’ve been the only one who’s played for the moment–I’ve done it twice, once when I called my first reality storm (Frog God, grrr, frog god) and then a second time while we were in what was left of the United States. It was almost the end of the chapter, so it was a good time for Mei to try her luck.
So, epic pwning of the Hunter. Ren started shooting at it, which distracted it. Mable got the beast with a molotov cocktail. Christian and Fred rushed in and got a couple of solid blade hits on the beast. Grant knocks its helmet off. And Mei leaps out of her armor suit, kneels on its shoulders, and unloads her gun arm into its head as it flailed around on fire.
I think it’s pretty cooked, now. I’m okay with this.
And that’s pretty much how it ended, since by that time it was 11 and poor Liz had to be to work before the crack of dawn today. Mike’s new character still hasn’t appeared. Çest la vie. We’ll see what happens. The resolution on Grace, the Wraith, and Rosebud is going to be first thing next week, probably followed by destroying the installation. But we shall see. Sometimes, things just end up getting in the way.
