Day 2 Summary
(I basically put in an 8 hour shift running this event today lmao. But it's been fun! Lots of love and appreciation to everyone participating or even just following along. I think we can wrap it up with tomorrow's session and move on to followups)
Forest Team
Malina teleported off to cause some chaos. After shooting the outside lab guards from a few different angles, she caused a lot of chaos in their ranks. While this happens, Ava uses her powers to create cover for the team from incoming small-caliber sniper fire or laser fire. Leloo managed to take out a man who was making a beeline for the fence, presumably meaning to cut his way out with one of those plasma katanas.
Nion was fixated on finding the blonde catgirl spotted on the roof, whom he suspected to be the sniper who nonlethally hit Ava in the head with a .22LR round, He split off from the group and spent most of his time during this day's session focused on trying to find her, including pretending to call for sniper support over the radio, with some acting that led to that was followed by that radio channel going silent. He eventually did find the suspected sniper, learning that she was Maple, and knocking her on her ass with some kind of lightning punch when she tried to kill him. While she was trying to get her senses back, He continued to try to sell her on the idea that their meeting was
prophesied. He is very much fixated on keeping her alive through this. In recognition of this, she decided to stop trying to kill him, specifically, and later ran off towards the lab.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team - mainly Kurumi, Ava, and Leloo - heard from Malina over the radio that there was a squad of lab guards headed to an odd structure - a model house of some sort to the southeast of the main lab building. They head over there and find someone from inside the building shooting at the approaching guards with one of the lasers. they take some hits in the process of eliminating the guards outside, with kurumi losing some feeling in her arms, ava taking some laser hits to her wings, and leloo getting slashed on the leg with one of those plasma katanas.
Inside the model house, Kurumi and Ava find more dead lab staff, and three scared catgirl maids who seemingly took advantage of the chaos to kill their trainers. Kurumi and Ava convince the catgirls not to run off to town on their own, and promise to protect them. Another squad of lab guards come to the model house and get wrecked by this trio.
One of the Olcans, Oscar, was left guarding the gate with his partner Astrid at this time. He reports via radio that two people jumped the fence, one of them had some kind of anti-bullet shield and the other was a green oni who could seemingly teleport. they have swords, they stabbed Astrid, and they were headed for the lab. The group was getting back together and meeting these two outside the lab when the session ended.
Lab Team
The gang notices people coming down the stairs towards them near the front entrance. Shara shouts at them in Japanese to surrender. One of them actually agrees, while the other(s?) run back upstairs, wanting no part of that, calling him an idiot who will definitely just get killed. The guard who surrenders is secured with zip-ties and interrogated (tbh i lost track of him during the scene after, maybe we just say he is left with his arms and legs zip tied on the first floor). Shara also cracks into the intercom at this time, allowing Artemis to announce an ultimatum throughout the facility to nek0 staff - surrender or die.
Anyway Shara comes up with a plan - she'll beat on the now-barricaded door at the top of the front entrance stairwell, pretending they're all trying to break through, while everyone else goes up the other stairwell to get the drop on them. This more or less works. After spotting three guards taking cover down that corridor getting ready for them to break through, Artemis and Suzy open fire on them, killing all three.
They shoot back. One laser hits Artemis, stopping his heart. Sylvi actually sees a glimpse of one of her valkyrie cousins taking his soul to valhalla.
All hell breaks loose for a little while. Sylvi and Suzy are distraught. Sylvi tries to defibrillate Artemis with her lightning powers several times, while Hadley and Rhett keep them safe from the other lab guards trying to capitalize on this distraction. Shara completely loses her shit and detonates her nonfunctional cannon arm, breaking through the barricade and sprinting, battered by her own actions, over to where Artemis is being revived. A guard manages to cut her in half at the waist with a plasma katana before she dispatches him, and uses her mouth tentacles to john carpenter herself the rest of the way down the hall.
Sylvi manages to revive Artemis. As he regains his bearings, he mentions having been in valhalla. Shara tells him this is not allowed, and he agrees to these terms. He seems to be well enough to keep going. There was a weird glow behind his eyes for a little while, there.
Sylvi notices some nek0s chattering among themselves, terrified, in one of their dorms. She kicks the door down. Later after assessing the situation, she and Hadley tell the group to hide and stay put.
The gang head down towards the basement. on the way, one of the nek0 dorm doors opens, and takeo commands the nek0s inside to stop the intruders. They proceed to attempt to do their best to do so, while three scientists rush the gang. All three of them learn at the same time as Sylvi that these plasma katanas can cut clean through Sylvi's clothes, but can do exactly jack shit to a daughter of Thor. She kills two of them, with some help from Rhett shooting one of their legs out.
Shara shot two nek0s with a stun laser, set to stun, in her mouth, before John Carpentering herself onto the last remaining scientist's back. Quote:
"Good. You are my arms and legs now. Thank you for your service."
Suzy, Hadley, and Artemis manage to handle the remaining nek0s nonlethally. One of these is special guest, Penelope, who asked them nicely to surrender because she's really scared. Artemis manages to just convince her that she did everything she could and could just go back to her room now, and she does that, going and hiding, entirely unscathed. She didn't have to get kicked or stun lasered - lucky her.
Now all that's left for them is to get to the basement and clear that out.