2014-10-23 Heading to Underwater Lab

Summary:

From: 9/21 8PM Near Kyoto

To: 9/28 5PM Near Hawaii

Goal: Get to an underwater experimental base

Outcome: Delayed but on track

Who was there: The Arachnid, Hive Mind, The Flea, Sloth, Solar Flare, El Gordo

Missing: Dark One (was kinda there but fell asleep!), Ray Dan, John Doe

NPCs There: Captain Vadim, Heisenberg

Setup:

Sloth was going to have some big troubles if he couldn't get some needed secretions from Heisenberg.  Members of "The Seven Deadly Sins" that weren't in Kyoto took a ship journey with him to meet up with Sloth.  Luckily for them their buddy ship Captain Vadim ? (last name forgotten) the smuggler, just happened to be transporting medical supplies to Hawaii.  (? Really, a smuggler just transporting medical supplies, yeah must be what was going on), so they hitched a ride with him.

Start:

They finally caught up with the transport ship just before it reached Hawaii.  As the pilot, John Doe stayed in the sub, as the rest were climbing up out of the sub onto the transport ship, Bam! Attacked by 4 supers who must have been pretty darn confident because they jumped out of a helicopter which sped off without them.  A battle ensued but they eventually triumphed against the attackers.  Vadim was grateful that they saved his ship from the pirates and was able to dig up some healing packs for the injured to heal.  The Arachnid decided that they would not kill the pirates and recruited a couple of them into Omega, but one of them (Jester) wouldn't agree to it.  Luckily Vadim offered to take him off of their hands.

Conclusion:

They are now ready to go to the underwater lab and try to determine the fate of the team that went there before them.

Questions:

What will happen to the Jester?

Will the other pirates end up in Omega?

Does it matter what Vadim is doing near Hawaii?

Next?:

2014-10-16 Aftermath in Japan

Summary

Date: 9/20 3PM to 9/21 8 PM (local time near Japan)

Location: From mountains near Kyoto, to in a Sub just off the coast

Goal: Get to an underwater experimental base

Outcome: Amazingly: On track

Review

They failed to recruit Monolith, pissed him off, pretty much have no way to salvage their relationship with him, and even worse, Sloth is near dead, unconscious, and incapacitated somewhere underground. 

The Start

The "Seven Deadly Sins" messed up pretty badly in recruiting Monolith.

Destruction realizing how poorly they have been performing send in "John Doe" and "The Arachnid" steer them onto a more productive path.  He was considering sending the kid, but thinks he is better placed elsewhere for now.

Cleanup

The new guys arrived just too late to help with Monolith.

John Doe rigged up something from junk found in the ruins of the Buddhist monastery (Monolith had some high tech comforts) and located Sloths body.

They dug him up and with healing pack, got him down to 2 wounds.

They got a text from destruction telling them to cease their pursuit of Monolith, but they tried to come up with a way to get him anyway - which starting with Sloth tracking Monoliths underground path for a bit.

Apparently someone called the police around when the battle occurred, but the earthquake trashed the roads up to the mountains and it took hours for the police to get there.

John Doe learned Japanese and looked like a monk for a while to try to gather intel, he didn't really have success.

They hiked back to where the plane was to spend the night, but the earthquake had destroyed the plane and killed the pilot.

A nearby building was in good enough shape for them to spend the night.

Moving On

The next morning Destruction told them that they had alienated Monolith and abort that mission, then  directed them to find out what happened to a team he sent to an underwater base the aliens were doing experiments at.  He gave them the location of a high tech mini sub they would need to get there.

John Doe was able to get the normal looking guys onto work teams as helpful Americans to aid in the cleanup after the earthquake that had greatly damaged Kyoto.  The Arachnid sweet talked someone he was working with and got some great intel on the sub base.

They planned their attack out and at dusk made a 2 pronged attack on the base.

They took out 6 guard drones before the drones could get an attack off.

The Arachnid sealed the "office" building some V'sori were in, and was able to keep them bottled up until they finished their mission.

And I cannot stress it enough, the mission went as smooth as velvet (a baby's bottom? - whatever)

John Doe jacked into the minisubs computer and piloted out of the dock, making an illusion to make it look submerged as they speed away.

The V'sori finally blasted through the wall of the building but by they it was too late the Sins were already gone.

Questions

Is Monolith lost to Destruction?

Why did the police show up at the monastery?

What happened to the team in the underwater base?

How will Sloth feed his secretion dependency? (he only has a weeks supply and they are now about three and half days out, also a sub isn't going to get them back as quick as a plane)

What sort of resistance might they get from the aliens - keep in mind outside of Star city they leveled most big cities, and applied great force elsewhere, only in Star City to they use kid gloves.

Next

2014-10-08 Recruiting in Japan

Summary

Date: 9/18 9 AM ET to 9/20 3PM Japan time - Note: ET is Eastern Time - and screw Daylights Savings shifts
Location: From Star City to Kyoto Japan
Goal: Get an Earthquake making super out of retirement to help save the world
Outcome: Failed

The Start

The "Seven Deadly Sins" used a healing pack on Shifter to heal him.
Destruction let them know they needed to get Monolith to help him defeat the invaders.
He told them Monolith retired to a Buddhist temple in Kyoto.
Apparently Monolith was some sort of Earthquake making super, but none of them knew any details about him, and no one tried to gather any additional information about him.

The Journey

Then they safely made it to NJ to where Destruction had a DC-10 waiting to bring them to Kyoto.
It was a long trip with a couple of stop overs and went uneventfully.
They made it to mountains outside of Kyoto and the plane was cancelled in a place that was prepared for it.
They  walked up to the temple insisted on going in and getting to Monolith.
Only one monk spoke English, and he told them Monolith would not see them and that they should go.

The Battle

They decided to just walk past the monk and enter the temple.

Monks blocked them, but Hive Mind flew past them as bees and they started defending themselves.

There where ten monks there and it seems all 10 of them were quite brutally murdered (or do any of them still live?)

Monolith saw them massacring his protectors and was pissed, and after an 11(?) year vow to never use his powers again he activated them and attacked.

Sadly he doesn't have good control over his powers, they caused an earth quake several miles across, it destroyed the temple and no doubt did great damage to Kyoto.

Monolith was unable to defeat the Seven Deadly Sins, but was able to burrow underground.

Sloth followed him caught up to him and fought him deep under ground.

Sloth lost, Monolith escaped.

Questions

Where is Sloth?

Where is Monolith?

Can they get Monolith to work for Destruction now?