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Last Week…
8th of May 110 P.A. to the 9th of May 110 P.A.
As the drone approached, Gobi fumbled with the ladder, trying to tear off a rung in order to use as a projectile weapon, failing with every attempt. As the drone neared, it revealed a slender arm with an affixed drill and prepared to strike, although the attack was easily deflected by Gobi who was now giving up on his efforts with the ladder. Viktor struck the Drone with his vibro spear, inspiring it to turn and return to its usual flight path. Capitalizing on its defenseless state, Gobi pounced on its back and began kicking it beneath him. Acknowledging that Gobi now had the Drone under control, Viktor ascended the ladder once more in order to retrieve his grappling hook. Eventually, Gobi pummeled the Drone into scrap and one strange eyeball, sending its body toppling atop the mine below. A series of spikes accompanied an explosion and shrouded the room with metal that quickly melted, seemingly into nothingness. Luckily, none of the spikes impaled Gobi and he landed safely below in a spherical recession left by the exploded mine.
After reclaiming his grappling hook, Viktor returned to the room, this time accompanied by both Rob and Larz. After Gobi explained the nature of the mines, it was agreed that both Larz and Viktor would leave the danger until Rob dealt to the issue at hand. After retracting his armor, Gobi hid in the spherical indentation, using it as cover to protect himself from the explosion and Rob threw his new-found boomerang and the first of the remaining mines. It exploded in a manner similar to the previous but this time with far greater accuracy, with one of its spikes impaling Rob’s armor in the process. After removing the spike, Rob learned that it was animate and trying to spread its contact by growing bladed spines, first within his armor and now within his hand. Unphased, the Slayer used it as a weapon of his own, throwing it at the final mine and triggering a third explosion – this time he was able to avoid the spikes which threatened him.
The mines all now dealt with, Viktor and Larz returned.
Noticing the end of the room was missing the usual ladder, the group realized they needed to bring their own. Rob tore off both the immediate ladder and the previous one. Deciding that a single 24 foot ladder was more useful than a pair of 12 foot ladders, Viktor opted to tie them together with his spare rope. However after a quick test of the now extended ladder, it seemed Viktor’s skills were insufficient and the ladder broke back into two, sending the damaged half and the affixed rope into the spikes below.
The group used the remaining 12 foot ladder to cross the spikes with Rob and Gobi holding and end each to cover the 15 foot spike pit, then the group proceeded to traverse the room. Gobi and Rob crawled across the ice slope without difficulty but both Viktor and Larz showed great difficulty, slipping and impaling themselves on the spikes. After regaining control, Viktor regained his footing and managed to crawl up, joining Rob and Gobi at the top. Larz however, chose the easier route and used his hover disk to avoid the slope altogether. His frowning face “Cheater” icon began pulsing and due to repeated infringements, he found himself becoming pixelated and disappearing piece by piece. Before the group could react, he was gone and replaced by Travis who had now finished his stint in the penalty box.
Travis explained to the remaining group what he had experienced while trapped, most notably that the people we had encountered used to be morally good people but whoever ran this operation took great pride in breaking their wills and corrupting them to the ends of insanity and evil. Also worth noting was a significant time differential within the time-out zone and the prison itself. Although Travis had only been gone for a number of minutes, he perceived himself gone for many hours.
Although the group scaled the next ledge with ease, they found themselves having to wait for Travis to regain his breath as he was unusually and unexpectedly fatigued after being teleported back to the group. After taking the time to recover, they ascended to a flat surface and the sight of a man with a buzz-saw axe that bore a striking resemblance to the one they had encountered prior. There was also a white mound of fleshy mass in front of him. After a brief conversation, it was agreed that the group and this buzz-saw wielding clone would align together in the hopes of escaping their torment, he just felt compelled to put an end to that fleshy mound first.
Using the distraction of the fleshy mound and the stranger’s seemingly false sense of security to his advantage, Travis withdrew his guns and murdered the unsuspecting potential ally before he or any other could react. At that moment, the fleshy mound finished its transformation into a winged albino beast, a beast none would recognize as Larz.
Although Larz reappeared only moments after his departure, much like Travis he had been gone for what seemed to him to be hours. His time-out was spent watching himself dying repeatedly through various plausible but non-existent means. After witnessing his death multiple times, Larz had had enough and changed his form to remove his eyes, ears and all sensory inputs. Although their enigmatic captor attempted to install a Headjack to continue the torment, but the creatures alien physiology rejected the implant leaving his deranged captor with no choice but to sentence him to death – a death sentence that would be carried out by teleporting him back to the dungeon without possessions and in front of a hostile buzz-saw wielding clone. It was a death sentence that was avoided by the actions of Travis.
Noticing spikes too far removed from the ice to be of any natural threat, Rob used his ladder to climb next tot hem to the vent above, revealing the prize of an E-Clip before continuing the long crawl to salvation with his comrades. Atop the next ledge, a brown crate became obvious, sitting untouched on a ledge beyond the group’s grasp. Concerned about the strange platform the crate stood upon and the spikes on the opposite wall being used as some kind of projectile, Gobi climbed to the ledge below, issuing a word of caution to his companions. Perhaps heeding Gobi’s advice, Larz gracefully glided down to the next room and beyond, out of sight. Rob and Viktor cautiously used Viktor’s grappling hook to pull the crate to the ground below while both Travis and Gobi waited patiently, anticipating a trap that would never spring. Inside the crate was a number of cans marked “Soylent Green”. After claiming as many cans as they could carry, both Rob and Viktor joined Travis and Gobi on the platform ahead.
Witnessing mines on the platforms in front of them, Gobi used Rob’s crate lid to hit the first mine, with it exploding in the usual fashion. Although he tried his best to be covered from the explosion, several spikes still impaled him, which he immediately removed in a manner similar to Rob before. Larz returned to the group, telling them of the crates ahead which removed the need for destroying the remaining two mines. Heeding his advice, the group descended between the platforms, atop the crates below. Unwilling to show those mines any mercy, Rob used the crates to trigger their self-destruct mechanisms while the group was safely below. He then proceeded to destroy each and every crate, revealing another ladder beneath.
Descending the ladder, the group encountered a heavily-armed Cyborg known as Big Jim with a strange blue key image floating above his head. After a brief conversation, the majority of the group began climbing the ladder once again, agreeing to part ways with the Cyborg for now after he expressed his resentment and his willingness to kill rather than share his toilet with anyone. The majority of the group being, everyone except for Travis.
His Gunslinger pride on the line, Travis refused to flee from the Cyborg, not even for a moment. Instead he relentlessly taunted the Borg until there was no option but to fight.
Hearing the sounds of combat below, the group hurried to descend the ladder, only to be met by a series of missiles. Although Travis skillfully blasted the first from the air, the others made it through his hail of bullets, exploding in the middle of the party. Through searing heat and incredible concussive force, the unarmored Travis quickly fell, never to stand again. Although also damaged, the rest of the group had no choice but to continue this battle none of them asked for.
After blasting away a significant chunk of the Cyborg’s head, Gobi was quickly identified as a threat. In response to the vision-impairing attack, the Borg skated across the ice behind Gobi, easily snatching him in a full-nelson with a degree of grace and speed none of the party had ever thought possible amidst this ever-frustrating ice. Although Gobi found himself defenseless to the attacks of the Borg, the Borg too found himself equally defenseless and that was a state which Viktor was all too pleased to exploit. Tripping the Borg’s defenseless legs with his grappling hook, Viktor sent both the Borg and Gobi sprawling to the floor below. with the incredible weight of Gobi’s Bio-Armor being too much for the Borg to shift, he found himself helplessly pinned beneath the Lemurian behemoth with no choice but to try and use Gobi as a shield until he could blast him apart with his unibeam. After blasting twice into Gobi’s back and causing tremendous damage, the fearful politician had had enough and placed both of his hands on each side of what remained of the Borg’s head and blasted one final coral burst, ending the Borg’s life.
After trying in vain to save the fallen Travis, it was eventually agreed for him to be put out of his misery and he was executed and his body cremated amidst the crates in the room above. While the group waited for the 11 hour countdown to run dry so the group could proceed to the Borg’s “toilet”, they set up camp, burning Travis’s body and the crates from the previous room to secure some warmth among the frozen barrens. They also looted Travis’s remaining possessions and the strange blue key, the latter of which inspired a holographic image of that same blue key to appear above Gobi’s head akin to what the Cyborg had before. With time to kill, the group spent the night talking and resting with the most notable conversation being Rob relaying what Alabac had told him about the Children of Iméra project to Gobi and revealing to both Larz and Viktor than both Rob and Gobi were acquaintances prior to being sucked into this deadly game.
After resting from what could possibly be the most trying day of their lives, the group watched the clock to the toilet room finally finish counting down. Using the blue Key, Gobi secured entry to the room for the group but not before Rob found himself being stunned into unconsciousness by contacting the room as the key had not been attributed to him, preventing safe entry into the Blue Room.
Within the room, the group witnessed a congratulatory video which also included images of the captives, all of which were sickly after having organs removed. It was upon seeing the now one-eyed Eli that Gobi had finally realized the true nature of the evil which had befallen them. The psychopath had been integrating organs from the captives into all of the automated defenses of this surreal prison. After realizing the horror, the group agreed to never destroy another automated defense unit, at least not if they had a choice.
Inside the room was the groups first real moment of normalcy within the dungeon. It seemed to be a well-stocked, relatively pleasant waiting point with a bed, toilet, fridge and library. Excited by the books, Gobi spent the next 12 hours reading, often giving the toilet irate looks whenever he came to a blemished or torn page, realizing people had been using the books as the only source of toilet paper. While Gobi read, the rest of the group relaxed and together joined in their ration of “Soylent Green” while an unread book of the same name glistened in the background.
After their 12 hour limit expired, the group returned to the outside with a choice of doors ahead of them.

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Experience Points

Character	Experience	Bonus Experience	Log Experience	Level	Total Experience
Aya Bach	2,150	100	0	1	3,700/1,875
Gobi	2,025	100	0	6	28,825/31,200
Larz	1,875	100	0	1	3,150/2,210
Robert Castell	1,625	100	0	5	19,645/25,000
Viktor	2,000	100	0	2	4,850/3,800

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