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<blockquote data-quote="Nebulous" data-source="post: 3987737" data-attributes="member: 31465"><p><strong>PROJECT PI - d20 Cthulhu Adventure</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Part 2 of 3</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Navy SEALS aboard the Roger Revelle have determined that Vice</p><p>Admiral Bucci has it in for them. They're probably on board the ship to</p><p>contract the lethal virus, and then be quarantined before they die for</p><p>"research purposes." They contemplate several courses of action:</p><p>sending the other SEALS back, sinking the ship by detonating the fuel</p><p>drums, broadcasting an email to someone, but ultimately they make their</p><p>way to the bridge where Doc downloads the crew list. There are supposed</p><p>to be 59 people on board, including 2 Norwegians. Dr. Honor Clark</p><p>Spenser is in charge of the entire expedition.</p><p></p><p>They make their way down to the ruined labs, unsure of what to do next.</p><p>It looks like a ferocious firefight took place here. Bullet holes riddle</p><p>shiny aluminum walls and pristine white operating tables. Tables and</p><p>chairs and cabinets are strewn everywhere. The airlock is ruptured. The</p><p>SEALS are immediately under duress as to whether they are infected or</p><p>not. There are some biohazard suits that a few of them slip into just in</p><p>case. Captain "Mojo" has lost all sense of command. He's muttering and</p><p>cursing and sweating profusely, useless to anyone. Doc coughs a wad of</p><p>green phlegm inside his face mask. He's obviously contaminated.</p><p></p><p>Doc, Hicks, and Jackson enter what looks like an Animal Lab. Two huge</p><p>cages are empty, but plaques read "Kong" and "Moses". Smaller cages for</p><p>rhesus monkeys have been pulped into bloody, crumpled wrecks.</p><p></p><p>A third ape cage - for "Samson" - holds something still alive. A</p><p>quivering black mass inside the cage doesn't react to the SEALS, but</p><p>when they spot vestigial gills on the gorilla's neck, they shoot first</p><p>and ask questions later. The four other SEALS waiting on board the</p><p>dropship can hear everything through the team's headsets.</p><p></p><p>Then Doc finds the blood stains. A lot of blood. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/The Cooler.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The Cold Room is code locked, but they eventually figure out the code </p><p>is the numerical value of Pi: 31415. Inside are dozens of bodies. The entire crew. </p><p>Cooling off quickly now that the power is back on. Sanity checks are rolled for</p><p>everyone as the sight is horrific, then they try to open some of the</p><p>closed steel storage bays. Inside #4 is a ghastly thing: a dissected</p><p>fish man of some kind, larger than a human, sliced open to reveal its</p><p>internal organs. The party isn't sure if it's a mutated human or the</p><p>Real Deal.</p><p></p><p>Just then a resounding BOOM! shakes the ship! Those closest run topside</p><p>first. The dropship is turned over, bubbles raging from where the</p><p>submersible was formerly anchored. DevNull is treading water and</p><p>screaming for help. Boom-Boom is clinging desperately to a plank of</p><p>wood, having salvaged only his LAW rocket launcher. The other two are</p><p>gone, probably dragged to the bottom by the weight of their gear.</p><p>DevNull says the radar picked up a torpedo blip mere seconds before</p><p>impact, then something toppled the surface vessel.</p><p></p><p>Everyone is dragged on board the Roger Revelle, and the group descends</p><p>ever deeper into the hold, until they find the Dive Pool. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/DIVE POOL.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>An empty crane hangs over the pool. They're about to continue their sweep of the ship</p><p>when a foreign voice interrupts over their Navy frequency, introducing</p><p>himself in a thick Russian accent as Admiral Dochormov of the Russian</p><p>nuclear submarine The Potemkin.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/RussianCaptain_Ochmorov.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Here's what Dochormov tells them: </p><p></p><p>The Russians had discovered the presence of real Fishmen in the Barents</p><p>Sea. R&D wanted to capture them and try to create some sort of</p><p>amphibious supersolider from their DNA. Admiral Vladimir Dochmorov and</p><p>a small cadre of soldiers feared the implications of what their country</p><p>was doing. So, they stole the submarine Potemkin (a la Red October) sunk</p><p>the research vessel Kursk, and headed for the high seas. </p><p></p><p>Enter the US military. </p><p></p><p>They find out about the Fishmen and the experiments. They hire</p><p>two of the surviving Norwegians rescue divers from the Kursk. The Roger</p><p>Revelle was given permission to find new Fishmen and conduct similar</p><p>experiments, in hopes to find a formula for superhuman aquatic</p><p>soldiers. The renegade Russians caught wind of this and set off to</p><p>destroy the Roger Revelle before any more harm was done. But when they</p><p>arrived, the ship was strangely quiet and deserted. They snuck aboard to</p><p>investigate, which is EXACTLY when the party arrived...</p><p></p><p>BEGINNING OF THE END:</p><p></p><p>Admiral Dochmorov is relentless. He has a nuclear missile primed and</p><p>aimed at the Roger Revelle and he's ready to use it. He demands for the</p><p>PC's to trade any information they have discovered, and to come with him</p><p>or die. There is no escape. After conferring among themselves, and</p><p>comparing the crew list to the bodies in the Cold Room, and finding</p><p>several crewman with suspicious Phoenix tattoos, the party tells the</p><p>Admiral they have reason to believe that Dr. Honor Clark Spencer is not</p><p>on board. This troubles the Admiral, as Spencer is the mastermind behind</p><p>all this madness, and is up to a good deal more than just fishman DNA.</p><p></p><p>Furthermore, DevNull uses her computer skills to determine that a</p><p>submersible has already launched from the pool room many hours ago and</p><p>is currently 2000 FEET STRAIGHT DOWN.</p><p></p><p>The Admiral offers the group one chance and one chance ONLY to defect to</p><p>his ship. They can't return home, they can't return to the waiting Third</p><p>Fleet, and if they stay they'll be blown to smithereens.</p><p></p><p>But before they leave, Lt. Reynolds (Leo) slits Doc's throat and makes</p><p>up a story about how he went crazy. [GM Note: this was part of his secret malady; serial killer]. No one suspects otherwise.</p><p></p><p>Everyone crowds aboard the Potemkin, a sweaty, stinky, cramped sub of</p><p>garish red lights and hairy Russian soldiers, all pointing SK40's at the</p><p>SEALS. They descend straight down, and it's not long before the</p><p>exterior lights reveal something hauntingly impossible...</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/R'yleh.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>There is a city beneath the waves. Coral encrusted spires.</p><p>Non-euclidean arches and undecipherable glyphs. A towering black</p><p>mountain. The sub enters a cave and emerges in a cavern with a</p><p>breathable atmosphere. The group dispatches, heavily armed, along with</p><p>a few Russian soldiers, inside a huge cavern supported by incredibly</p><p>huge pillars.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/cavern.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The first SEAL sets foot on the landing dock and TAATA! TAT! RAATTAA!</p><p>TAT! Automatic gunfire whistles around him, tearing out chunks of</p><p>ancient stone. The assailant is soon eliminated, a scientist from the</p><p>Revelle, and on his person is a Walkie-Talkie, a rough translation of</p><p>some of the hieroglyphics, and a bizarre, pointless poem. </p><p></p><p>Eager to finish this mission once and for all, the group haphazardly begins to</p><p>wander around.</p><p></p><p>A glowing red eye seems to be watching from an above a massive archway,</p><p>and Lt. Hicks fires on it, but the bullet is reflected. In the next chamber</p><p>is another room of jagged stalagmites and three staircases, a whistling</p><p>deep pit, and a placid pool. But the pool isn't placid for long!</p><p>Gibbering fishmen erupt from it once the group is closer, and they open</p><p>fire. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/6_13_02_07_2_32_45.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/6_13_02_07_2_33_15.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Bullets easily tear through the advancing monsters, splattering</p><p>brains and viscera in a wide berth on the cavern floor. The battle</p><p>favors them until something HUGE and writhing and slimy surges out of</p><p>the pool, an octopus-like beast with one red eye. It seizes a Russian</p><p>and throws him to his death down the pit. Captain Mojo can't take the</p><p>horror and runs screaming from the chamber, but the slimy thing can't</p><p>stand the combined onslaught of machine guns, shot guns, grenades, and</p><p>finally a humming Gatling gun that mows it down under a hail of lead.</p><p>The thing's corpse sinks back into the pool, coloring it a shade of</p><p>endless black...</p><p></p><p>And that's where we stopped. Dr. Spencer is somewhere in this strange</p><p>place (Is it Atlantis? Who knows???) and he holds the key to future</p><p>experimentation with lethal genetics. He holds a virus in his possession</p><p>that could potentially contaminate the entire world. And he clings to</p><p>the secret goal of Project Phoenix, that not even Vice Admiral Bucci was</p><p>aware...</p><p></p><p>Whispers beckon in the darkness as they grimly reload their guns...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nebulous, post: 3987737, member: 31465"] [b]PROJECT PI - d20 Cthulhu Adventure[/b] [SIZE=3]Part 2 of 3[/SIZE] The Navy SEALS aboard the Roger Revelle have determined that Vice Admiral Bucci has it in for them. They're probably on board the ship to contract the lethal virus, and then be quarantined before they die for "research purposes." They contemplate several courses of action: sending the other SEALS back, sinking the ship by detonating the fuel drums, broadcasting an email to someone, but ultimately they make their way to the bridge where Doc downloads the crew list. There are supposed to be 59 people on board, including 2 Norwegians. Dr. Honor Clark Spenser is in charge of the entire expedition. They make their way down to the ruined labs, unsure of what to do next. It looks like a ferocious firefight took place here. Bullet holes riddle shiny aluminum walls and pristine white operating tables. Tables and chairs and cabinets are strewn everywhere. The airlock is ruptured. The SEALS are immediately under duress as to whether they are infected or not. There are some biohazard suits that a few of them slip into just in case. Captain "Mojo" has lost all sense of command. He's muttering and cursing and sweating profusely, useless to anyone. Doc coughs a wad of green phlegm inside his face mask. He's obviously contaminated. Doc, Hicks, and Jackson enter what looks like an Animal Lab. Two huge cages are empty, but plaques read "Kong" and "Moses". Smaller cages for rhesus monkeys have been pulped into bloody, crumpled wrecks. A third ape cage - for "Samson" - holds something still alive. A quivering black mass inside the cage doesn't react to the SEALS, but when they spot vestigial gills on the gorilla's neck, they shoot first and ask questions later. The four other SEALS waiting on board the dropship can hear everything through the team's headsets. Then Doc finds the blood stains. A lot of blood. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/The Cooler.jpg[/img] The Cold Room is code locked, but they eventually figure out the code is the numerical value of Pi: 31415. Inside are dozens of bodies. The entire crew. Cooling off quickly now that the power is back on. Sanity checks are rolled for everyone as the sight is horrific, then they try to open some of the closed steel storage bays. Inside #4 is a ghastly thing: a dissected fish man of some kind, larger than a human, sliced open to reveal its internal organs. The party isn't sure if it's a mutated human or the Real Deal. Just then a resounding BOOM! shakes the ship! Those closest run topside first. The dropship is turned over, bubbles raging from where the submersible was formerly anchored. DevNull is treading water and screaming for help. Boom-Boom is clinging desperately to a plank of wood, having salvaged only his LAW rocket launcher. The other two are gone, probably dragged to the bottom by the weight of their gear. DevNull says the radar picked up a torpedo blip mere seconds before impact, then something toppled the surface vessel. Everyone is dragged on board the Roger Revelle, and the group descends ever deeper into the hold, until they find the Dive Pool. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/DIVE POOL.jpg[/img] An empty crane hangs over the pool. They're about to continue their sweep of the ship when a foreign voice interrupts over their Navy frequency, introducing himself in a thick Russian accent as Admiral Dochormov of the Russian nuclear submarine The Potemkin. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/RussianCaptain_Ochmorov.jpg[/img] Here's what Dochormov tells them: The Russians had discovered the presence of real Fishmen in the Barents Sea. R&D wanted to capture them and try to create some sort of amphibious supersolider from their DNA. Admiral Vladimir Dochmorov and a small cadre of soldiers feared the implications of what their country was doing. So, they stole the submarine Potemkin (a la Red October) sunk the research vessel Kursk, and headed for the high seas. Enter the US military. They find out about the Fishmen and the experiments. They hire two of the surviving Norwegians rescue divers from the Kursk. The Roger Revelle was given permission to find new Fishmen and conduct similar experiments, in hopes to find a formula for superhuman aquatic soldiers. The renegade Russians caught wind of this and set off to destroy the Roger Revelle before any more harm was done. But when they arrived, the ship was strangely quiet and deserted. They snuck aboard to investigate, which is EXACTLY when the party arrived... BEGINNING OF THE END: Admiral Dochmorov is relentless. He has a nuclear missile primed and aimed at the Roger Revelle and he's ready to use it. He demands for the PC's to trade any information they have discovered, and to come with him or die. There is no escape. After conferring among themselves, and comparing the crew list to the bodies in the Cold Room, and finding several crewman with suspicious Phoenix tattoos, the party tells the Admiral they have reason to believe that Dr. Honor Clark Spencer is not on board. This troubles the Admiral, as Spencer is the mastermind behind all this madness, and is up to a good deal more than just fishman DNA. Furthermore, DevNull uses her computer skills to determine that a submersible has already launched from the pool room many hours ago and is currently 2000 FEET STRAIGHT DOWN. The Admiral offers the group one chance and one chance ONLY to defect to his ship. They can't return home, they can't return to the waiting Third Fleet, and if they stay they'll be blown to smithereens. But before they leave, Lt. Reynolds (Leo) slits Doc's throat and makes up a story about how he went crazy. [GM Note: this was part of his secret malady; serial killer]. No one suspects otherwise. Everyone crowds aboard the Potemkin, a sweaty, stinky, cramped sub of garish red lights and hairy Russian soldiers, all pointing SK40's at the SEALS. They descend straight down, and it's not long before the exterior lights reveal something hauntingly impossible... [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/R'yleh.jpg[/img] There is a city beneath the waves. Coral encrusted spires. Non-euclidean arches and undecipherable glyphs. A towering black mountain. The sub enters a cave and emerges in a cavern with a breathable atmosphere. The group dispatches, heavily armed, along with a few Russian soldiers, inside a huge cavern supported by incredibly huge pillars. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/cavern.jpg[/img] The first SEAL sets foot on the landing dock and TAATA! TAT! RAATTAA! TAT! Automatic gunfire whistles around him, tearing out chunks of ancient stone. The assailant is soon eliminated, a scientist from the Revelle, and on his person is a Walkie-Talkie, a rough translation of some of the hieroglyphics, and a bizarre, pointless poem. Eager to finish this mission once and for all, the group haphazardly begins to wander around. A glowing red eye seems to be watching from an above a massive archway, and Lt. Hicks fires on it, but the bullet is reflected. In the next chamber is another room of jagged stalagmites and three staircases, a whistling deep pit, and a placid pool. But the pool isn't placid for long! Gibbering fishmen erupt from it once the group is closer, and they open fire. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/6_13_02_07_2_32_45.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/pi/6_13_02_07_2_33_15.JPG[/img] Bullets easily tear through the advancing monsters, splattering brains and viscera in a wide berth on the cavern floor. The battle favors them until something HUGE and writhing and slimy surges out of the pool, an octopus-like beast with one red eye. It seizes a Russian and throws him to his death down the pit. Captain Mojo can't take the horror and runs screaming from the chamber, but the slimy thing can't stand the combined onslaught of machine guns, shot guns, grenades, and finally a humming Gatling gun that mows it down under a hail of lead. The thing's corpse sinks back into the pool, coloring it a shade of endless black... And that's where we stopped. Dr. Spencer is somewhere in this strange place (Is it Atlantis? Who knows???) and he holds the key to future experimentation with lethal genetics. He holds a virus in his possession that could potentially contaminate the entire world. And he clings to the secret goal of Project Phoenix, that not even Vice Admiral Bucci was aware... Whispers beckon in the darkness as they grimly reload their guns... [/QUOTE]
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