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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 209955" data-attributes="member: 4144">Session 2: Puppet Shows and Shadowplays, part twoThe PCs: Lawrence Martin, lvl 3 offense option Secret Service agentSgt. Neal Coburn, lvl 3 offense option ex-Navy SEAL* Both are level 3.The NPCs:Lt. Kelly Flynn, NRO Systems Engineer (Agent Darwin)SAC Patrick Hobson, Phoenix Field Office, FBI (“Chief Wiggum”)Maj. Frank Garrett, Arizona State PoliceSheriff Mangas Colorados, San Carlos Reservation PoliceDr. Rebecca Owens (“Scully”)8.30 PM.  With an injured Daniel being carted off by Dr. Owens, David checks the information on the CD-ROM he received last time.  The package is apparently from Darwin.  The information on the disk consists of a series of newspaper articles, beginning with a piece from late 2001 detailing a meteor shower in West Virginia.  Following the meteor shower, the area was plagued by a rash of disappearances and cattle mutilations, similar to the phenomenon occurring in Arizona.  A homeless man was eventually shot and killed while breaking into a home, and was later found through forensics to have traces of human blood and tissue in his digestive system.The homeowner, however, moved to Nashville, Tennessee.  He was found dead in his apartment, a massive gash in his chest.  This set in motion a bizarre chain of events - murders would happen, the prime suspect would move or commit suicide, the murders would begin anew in a new location - all of which suggested a link from the West Virginia meteor shower to the current Arizona murders.10.00 AM, next day.  Daniel gives Dr. Owens a task - to attempt to create an antibiotic that counteracts the anesthetizing venom of the creature.  Meanwhile, the two agents travel to the spot where they encountered Santana, and attempt to retrace his steps.  They track him to a secluded cave, in which they find the dead body of an old Indian man.  As David uses his rudimentary forensic skills to examine the body, Daniel finds a rocky shelf in the back of the cave, on which lies a black glassy sphere.  Lights blink on and off in a rhythmic pattern from inside the sphere.  They return the body of the old man to Sheriff Colorados and the Apaches, and return to FBI headquarters with the sphere.11.45 AM.  Daniel retains the black glassy sphere, as he believes it will be stolen from the FBI’s evidence room.  Dr. Owens tells the agents that an experimental vaccine has been created using remnants of the toxin drawn from Daniel’s bloodstream - and also that the body of Emanuel Santana has vanished.  Receiving a shot of the antibiotic, the agents book a flight to West Virginia to investigate the initial impact site, but the earliest flight does not leave until the next day.  1.15 PM.  Darwin phones the agents to report a helicopter incoming to their position.  Daniel comes up with a plan to stash the sphere in one of the morgue drawers.  Three armed agents enter the FBI building, entering from a helicopter landed on the roof’s helipad.  The agents are accompanied by another man, dressed in a casual suit and flaunting several gold teeth.  He speaks in a heavy Southern accent.  David is questioned by the new arrivals - apparently the CIA - and tells them the truth about Santana’s case, leaving out conveniently the part where they found the cave.  The CIA men reluctantly accept this story, and leave to go back to their helicopter and search for Santana themselves.Daniel runs back downstairs and retrieves the sphere from its hiding place, and dashes back up the stairs to the main entryway.  At the top of the stairs, he narrowly misses being smashed by a huge forearm blow - Santana’s corpse has returned.  Its other arm tightly grips Dr. Owens’.  David and Daniel both empty several rounds into the corpse, quickly dispatching it.  Daniel empties his Colt Python into the corpse’s gut, which promptly caves in.  With a disgustingly wet sound, a large sluglike creature exits the wound and promptly makes for Daniel, whose hand still holds the black sphere.  The agents likewise empty a number of bullets into the creature, killing it.  ADDENDA:  The agents finally deduced, correctly, that the black sphere was the alien monster’s spacecraft.  After the adventure, Daniel retained possession of the sphere.</blockquote>

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