Early Failure Period
| Staring | Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri |
| With | Hyalmánúra Melehtë, Saffron Cade |
| And | Saoriko Süß |
| Previous Episode | S02E07 – Nightlight |
| Next Episode | S02E09 – Breakthrough |
Session 1 - 2025/05/08
Find a way to "unplug" Greens. Blues, and Whites from the System.
Get the girls either on the way out of the Arcology or at least out of the front lines.
Izzie doesn't want to leave until she knows the fate of her mother. Siri won't leave without her girlfriend. Nian won't leave without her twin. - They'll "be assigned" to Swim Team.
Anne will be left in the care of Low Garden.
Test/Use Dervish Toxin to see if it works on those with the Pain Editor. Getting a tactical delivery method for Toxin.
Capture a Dervish to look at Weapon Mechanism. (Low Garden is going after Dervish)
Gather information on any additional System operations on the lower floors.
Inquire with the cells if there are any in the resistance with skills involving cybernetics and cybersurgery.
Gallardo can confirm that Saffron is still the mostly highly trained medical person the Resistance has. Almost everybody they have rescued from the Web and other mazes have been basic sarariman types: no technical people, no scientific people, nobody combat capable.
Investigate the Thaumaturgical levels for magic supplies and information.
TRAINING MONTAGE!
Cell Status Bullet Town - Operating in the low 200s, monitoring the lower exit of The Web for survivors.
The Brady Bunch - Operating in the high 100s, monitoring multiple exits of the Glass Maze.
Medical Corps and Communications Hub - Staying hidden and doing their assigned jobs.
Swim Team - Main source of food, primarily from the aquaculture sections.
Low Garden - Secondary source of food.
Five Runners - No communication.
Divorced Court - Compromised.
Action Plan - Thaumaturgical Section First checking if stairs down to lower levels are unguarded and available. 213 to 212 the doors are sealed. It is lightly patrolled, some elevator shafts are passable but when we get to Elevator the doors are sealed but no reason given. Third option Mezzanines on the side. Closes to the edge of archology the residences seem to be occupied, random single green is out for a walk and came from a residence.
Some of the residences, but not all are warded. More than would be expected in Corporate type area.
Fraulein Assenses the random Green.
Healthy, Mundane, Frustrated. Lots of headware, little bit of bodywhere.
The area is sealed, like others but Shirayuri works on picking the lock. Fraulein notices a chemical like smell, it smells like death and decayed bodies. like a long time ago. The doors to most rooms are open and as we are moving through all the doors are open. On the astral, it is faint but it is not the evil vibe of some places but it must have happened a while ago, a lot of death. Clinical Mass murder vibes. As we poke around what currently residential area, everything here is stripped bare. Further in and in working areas, there is nothing here. Same thing as residences, this whole place has been stripped bare. 210-212 is stripped bare, in the Paracritter lab on 212 there paracritters are still in their cages and dead for a while.
Gas would possibly damage magic reagents and stuff, so not likely how they did it so they sucked all the air out instead.
The group will check Floor 209 below.
Session 2 - 2025/05/15
| Who | deepColour, SANKAI Ikito, URUSAI Mimi, YASUDA Keirin |
| When | Saturday, May 1, 2060 (Day 135) |
| Where |
The scene changes to the Low garden group.
A note is delivered from "resistance leadership" After translations, its a request to find a way to use the Dervish toxin "tactically"
PLAN:
make enough of a scene to cause the dervishes to be sent out (Ideally without us getting in a fight!)
"Totally solid plan" tm
Ideas: get the blues away from elevators (flashbangs on blues) , Disable elevators (all but specific ones), ambush?
Adhesive trap - sticky so easier for us than them, they cant use weapons
Close elevator door - closed door stops more dervishes.
Grab dervish bits for testing
Shopping Expedition (We are on floor 21)
Mall is overrun with paranoid people and animals of normal and para varieties
Mimi- 9 sucesses to mechanic up something that will be sufficiently adhesive
Assembly glue from trid screens = best bet. 1 Floor up.
SOOOOO we need -
Workshop room not to far from ambush spot (out of the way) {Bowling Alley}
Ambush spot - large enough to trap the dervishes, we will need to cut/block other elavators except selected one(s) {Scire 28-Retail}
Do a robbery - steal glue materials, floor 22
Session 3 - 2025/05/22
| Who | deepColour, SANKAI Ikito, URUSAI Mimi, YASUDA Keirin |
| When | Saturday, May 1, 2060 (Day 135) |
| Where |
First part of plan gone off without a problem. 4 blues got stuck in glue trap, shot up and then hit with a stun grenade.
Session 4 - 2025/05/29
When thinking of places that are well insulated, as long as wireless repeaters are down, Shirayuri knows of a few places. The biggest/best bet is Aquarium down in the mall.
Message to Medical Corps:
Research deprograming the banded. Looking to meet up. - Fräulein Message to Swim Team:
Trusted hands need work. Introduction meeting request. - Liam No new message for Low Garden at this time.
Bullet Town shares a message drop point that Communications Hub monitors, down in the 30s. They will use a different point to deliver the messages for Medical Corps and Swim Team, and let the Hub know that the point they shared with Leadership is no longer theirs.
The group starts way down, makes it down to about floor 122 before luck runs out. Group has to shift from one set of stairs to another set going down and end
Session 4 - 2025/06/05
Group plans to pass on information about the Greens using the ducts and the fact that Emily's group is compromised.
From around 120 we make it down to near the drop point on floor 30. 30 was Floor for Corps that were not Renraku, AA, A and some UCAS national corps. Meeting point is in a textiles manufacturer's office space and when we arrive, we scope it out and do not see anyone watching it. Message is "No mother fish at spawning point. Will check at -date two days ago-."
In German" Em's Team is compromised." & in Lakota "The ducts are not safe."
Inside the mall we come across multi Afane in a former ice rink
Session 5 - 2025/06/12
Anne is able to outrun Izzie and Izzie wanders back to the group. Fräulein heals up Garbo using both First Aid and Heal. The group plans to stick together to try and track down Izzie and Anne. Fräulein hears and Garbo sees and warns group about a very faint buzzing noise, Garbo sees something very warm but can not make out what it is. It turns out to be a beehive and Nian gets stung, between Liam and Fräulein they blow it up and Fräulein tells people to tase Nian, Fräulein had to have her do it twice.
We are able to carry her off and get out of the area, Fräulein heals up Nian and Izzie is able to find us. Then does first aid on Siri for her stun healing some back. Shirayuri does in the end find Anne and comes back to group. We go on move again to find a safe location to really rest.
In the Zoo entrance two Elephants were going at it, the drones end up hosing them down to knock them out. We wait it out and move on. We find a part of aquarium that has a tunnel running under/through one of the tanks. The position is weird in that is wide out in the open but hard to get to and defensible.
Session 6 - 2025/06/19
A couple days later a reply to our message, it is a message from Saffron "It is where to meet and be." After those days of waiting, we meet up at Restaurant. Fräulein assensing the three can tell all three are fine. Group goes in to meet her and she ius happy to see us but called us Idiots for coming back. Saffron has a concern because Nura missed her last checkup.
Saffron does not feel comfortable trying to do what we are proposing, no objections to it though. To find Nura group has to go up to 51. At 50 forced to go into elevators cause regular stairs are all closed with those same big containment doors.
The area smells like dead fish, a lot of nasty dead fish. Garbo closed the door behind us into this section. The clouds are reason the fish are probably dead, no equipment is on inside here and the clouds probably killed the equipment. Looking through all the tanks, it is rather difficult to find because of dead fish, but we do find the survival bubbles at bottom of the tanks.
Fräulein makes it down into the bubbles, Nura is in there, she is having a problem, unconscious, under nourished, looks unwell, there is something gray close to her and maybe plugged into medkit but Fräulein can not really tell.
Using some rope and other mechanical knowledge bubble hab is brought up but
Fräulein goes and runs to low Garden in Astral. Fräulein recognizes Amethyst is with them and she has a bunch of 'ware she did not have before. Fräulein can stick around long enough to talk to someone in Low garden, deepColour. A showroom on floor 29 is agreed upon.
Fräulein figures it is somebody watching Ami, must have caught it between shift changes, Fräulein sees someone on the Astral and it is Loki and his aura is very wrong. When he was with us he was a powerful Mage, now he is Essence 1 magic 4
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