Curtains#2 - It Came From Below!

[Keia]

Professor Fate - HPs: 2

"Sounds good Fate, no way I am going to fit through there without help." Granite responds as he grabs his shoulder. "We better hurrry though, no telling how much trouble Lawerence is in."

"Well, then, we should go with all haste. You coming with us in the express lane, Jorgi?" Fate said. "Are we taking the tank? I gather that we aren't." Concentrating for a few seconds he had Granite (and Jorgi) take his hand, said a few words, and turned intangible with them. He then proceeded through the floor to the destination.

 

[Radiant]

Jorgi

"Well, then, we should go with all haste. You coming with us in the express lane, Jorgi?" Fate said. "Are we taking the tank? I gather that we aren't." Concentrating for a few seconds he had Granite (and Jorgi) take his hand, said a few words, and turned intangible with them. He then proceeded through the floor to the destination.

"Ifyoucanhandlethejuice.I'manexplosivepackage."
With an effort of will Jorgi draws the sparks of electricity back into himself so Fate doesn't get zapped.

 

[Rybaer]

Utility tunnels, Coast City
Apr 18
00:42

Fate takes Granite's stony hand, gets a small shock from Jorgi's, and then turns all three of them insubstantial. Guided by Fate's will, they float through the access tunnel and into a low-ceilinged service area full of pipes and fungal tendrils. With no obvious sign of Lawrence to clue them, Fate decides to follow the direction from which the majority of the tendrils seem to be growing.

A few twists and turns later, the group arrives in a relatively clear hallway lit by a single, grime-covered bulb at the end of the passage. A heavy metal door halfway down the length of the hall is slightly ajar. "Pumping Station 6" can just barely be made out on a dirty, rusty sign on the door.

*****

Pumping Station 6

"I'll go find some help, but tell me, before I go, do you know any way to stop or slow that thing. You are the one who studied it the most."

The fungal man's body is quivering and his eyes blaze searing green. The tendrils throughout the station are writhing in sympathy, making Lawrence painfully aware of how completely surrounded he is.

Tendrils on either side of Lawrence lash forward and grasp onto the metal stairway and platform that led to the door in (or out). With distressing ease, the tendrils rip the structure down in a tortured scream of twisting steel. The tendrils lift it high and bring it casually down on Lawrence.

Lawrence's reflexes are more than a match for the slow moving strike and he rolls clear.

"Bases!" the fungal man yells. "It hates bases. Now run, you fool!"

*****

In the hall outside, Fate, Granite, and Jorgi, can only hear the squealing of metal - just on the other side of that door ahead.

 

[Velmont]

"Bases... what, I need a military base now?" Lawrence said, dodging the blow. He quickly looks around, not liking his situation. Than stop a quick moment. "Bases... chemistry... stupid me. Lucky I wasn't sleeping that day. Now, what is a base. Tums, but I don't know any pharmacy in the sewer... let's get out of here first. No stairs... like it would stop me."

Lawrence moves toward the door. In his run, he became darker and starts to fall in many small spiders that make there way between the tendril and try to climb the wall.

OOC: Try to make his way out, using escape artist if needed.

 

[Keia]

Professor Fate - Unhurt, HPs: 1

Utility tunnels, Coast City
Apr 18
00:42

In the hall outside, Fate, Granite, and Jorgi, can only hear the squealing of metal - just on the other side of that door ahead.

"That, I think, is not a normal sound for a pumping station," Fate commented. "Gentleman, I believe it's showtime, hold on!"

Staying intangible, Fate flew through the door with Granite and Jorgi in tow. Once in the room, he would re-assess the situation.

 

[Rybaer]

Pumping Station #6, Coast City
Apr 18
00:43


Fate, pulling Granite with one hand and Jorgi with the other, floats intangibly through the grimy metal door and into the large chamber beyond. The room is over a hundred feet wide and about eighty across. The ceiling is some twenty-five high, and the group is floating closer to the ceiling than the floor. What might have once been a metal landing and stairway from the access hallway into this room is now a tangled heap in the center of the chamber.

Along the far wall, several enormous pipes run the length of the room and terminate in a squat building-shaped structure in the far, right-hand corner of the room. A few scattered doors lead out of the room, though all are closed. Under the pipes is a recessed area filled with foul, stagnant water.

The room is poorly lit by a half dozen undersized and dust covered service lights. Dozens of fungal tendrils, each easily the diameter of a mature tree, writhe about the floor and walls, throwing about chaotic shadows. Near the center of the room, not far from the tangled mass of metal, stands the fungal man - tall, powerful, and blazing green eyes staring right at the group.

Underneath them, they spot Lawrence making a mad dash toward the doorway. As he runs, his body crumbles into a swarm of spiders that easily makes the fifteen foot climb up the wall to the partially open doorway.

"More of you now?" the fungal man says, his voice rumbling through the concrete and rusted iron chamber. "Come to play? Let's start with catch."

The fungal man stands motionless, but half a dozen tendrils wrap themselves around the former staircase and hurl it with the force of a speeding SUV at the doorway. It passes harmlessly through the intagible group and Lawrence is able to crawl through the doorway into the relative safety of the hall beyond before it crashes into the wall and door.

 

[Velmont]

What are they doing here...

Lawrence revert to his human form and shout at his companion.

"Granite, where is teh tank. We need soem basis to kill those fungus."

 

[Mimic]

Granite will let go of Fate's hand, hopefully solidifying as he drops to floor below, once he lands he will gesture to the Fungus man.

"Hey, we aren't done our dance yet. Get ready for some pain."

 

[Keia]

Professor Fate - Unhurt, HPs: 1

Fate's plan went out the window as Granite released Fate's hand and materialized. He looked to Jorgi and asked, "You jumping out, too?"

Fate thought about what Tarantula had asked Granite and tried to think of some large quantity of base that could be nearby to help . . .

 

[Radiant]

Jorgi Vadislav

Fate's plan went out the window as Granite released Fate's hand and materialized. He looked to Jorgi and asked, "You jumping out, too?"

Fate thought about what Tarantula had asked Granite and tried to think of some large quantity of base that could be nearby to help . . .

"HeyI'mahardwareguy.Isuckatchemistry.YougetthestuffwhilestoneheadandIplayheros."
He lets go of Fate, his own power catches him before he even touches the ground. Then Jorgi flies it looks more like a zombie held up by strings than the elegant flying of most heros but it does its job anyway. Without even moving the energy cercles around him and ligtning bolt detaches itself from the corona of power around him to fly towards the fungus-guy.
"Sureandthere'snochickheretoseeit.That'sjustmyluck."