Rybaer
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Thurman Biological Sciences Building - Rooftop
CC State Campus, Coast City
Apr 17
23:21
Fifth floor stairwell...
Granite claps his hands together, creating a powerful concussion that radiates out from him with explosive, nearly deafening force. Granite can hear it echo through the concrete stairwell...as well as the clattering of dislodged fragments of masonry and the tinkling of broken glass falling from the door down on the fifth floor landing. (Thunderclap - Ref save DC18 for half - roll 22, success; Dmg save DC19-protection, injured for 1 stun hit)
"Ow," the Green Fungus groans. "Stop doing that!"
Two meaty fists pound into Granite in quick succession. In the darkness, Granite never sees them coming. The first only grazes his arm, but the second connects squarely in the chest and sends Granite flying down the stairs. His stone body crashes into the concrete wall with the force of a car wreck and he lays there stunned in the rubble. (Multi-attack rolls vs Def 14, 15 and 20, hit and hit; Dmg save rolls 20+7+prot-2=25, no dmg, and 1+7+prot <hero pt re-roll is 8, increased to 10 minimum> 10+7+prot-2=15, stunned and 1 stun hit and knockback)
Through the ringing in his head, Granite vaguely hears the heavy footfalls of the Green Fungus fading away up the stairwell.
*****
Rooftop...
"Well, yeah, I guess," Dr. Linderman says. "But it's just not like him to do something dangerous or selfish. You've already said that you've seen what this fungus can do to people. If that guy in there really is Paul...well, I just hope that he didn't do any of this intentionally." The professor looks weary and casts one last resigned look at the stairs before accepting Jorgi's offer to shuttle him across the street.
(The satellite dish on the Biological Sciences building is still intact. However...)
With the rapid progression of the fungal growth, Jorgi decides to utilize the equipment mounted on the roof of the neighboring building. Looking at what he has to work with, he tells Fate that it'll probably take him half a minute to get the hard drives wired up to the ad hoc system.
*****
Twelfth floor...
Tarentula relies on a mixture of emergency lighting and his own short-ranged blind-sight to navigate quickly through down the hallway. He hears glass shatter from behind a door.
"No, no!" the female voice yells out again - from behind the same door. "Stop it, Greg! Just leave me alone!"
The clearance under the door is sufficient that Tarentula doesn't even have to slow down. The swarm of spiders slides underneath and into a laboratory. The room is poorly lit by a pair of bunsen burners on one of the lab benches. One of the windows has been shattered and tendrils of the fungal growth dangle a few feet into the room. Tarentula notes that there are a couple of the bulbous spore pods on it as well.
On the far side of the room, a man in a lab coat appears to have cornered a woman behind a lab bench. She has nothing but wild terror in her eyes. She is threatening the man with a flask full of some dark liquid. Neither have noted Tarentula's arrival.
CC State Campus, Coast City
Apr 17
23:21
Fifth floor stairwell...
Granite claps his hands together, creating a powerful concussion that radiates out from him with explosive, nearly deafening force. Granite can hear it echo through the concrete stairwell...as well as the clattering of dislodged fragments of masonry and the tinkling of broken glass falling from the door down on the fifth floor landing. (Thunderclap - Ref save DC18 for half - roll 22, success; Dmg save DC19-protection, injured for 1 stun hit)
"Ow," the Green Fungus groans. "Stop doing that!"
Two meaty fists pound into Granite in quick succession. In the darkness, Granite never sees them coming. The first only grazes his arm, but the second connects squarely in the chest and sends Granite flying down the stairs. His stone body crashes into the concrete wall with the force of a car wreck and he lays there stunned in the rubble. (Multi-attack rolls vs Def 14, 15 and 20, hit and hit; Dmg save rolls 20+7+prot-2=25, no dmg, and 1+7+prot <hero pt re-roll is 8, increased to 10 minimum> 10+7+prot-2=15, stunned and 1 stun hit and knockback)
Through the ringing in his head, Granite vaguely hears the heavy footfalls of the Green Fungus fading away up the stairwell.
*****
Rooftop...
Fate said:
"Well, yeah, I guess," Dr. Linderman says. "But it's just not like him to do something dangerous or selfish. You've already said that you've seen what this fungus can do to people. If that guy in there really is Paul...well, I just hope that he didn't do any of this intentionally." The professor looks weary and casts one last resigned look at the stairs before accepting Jorgi's offer to shuttle him across the street.
(The satellite dish on the Biological Sciences building is still intact. However...)
With the rapid progression of the fungal growth, Jorgi decides to utilize the equipment mounted on the roof of the neighboring building. Looking at what he has to work with, he tells Fate that it'll probably take him half a minute to get the hard drives wired up to the ad hoc system.
*****
Twelfth floor...
Tarentula relies on a mixture of emergency lighting and his own short-ranged blind-sight to navigate quickly through down the hallway. He hears glass shatter from behind a door.
"No, no!" the female voice yells out again - from behind the same door. "Stop it, Greg! Just leave me alone!"
The clearance under the door is sufficient that Tarentula doesn't even have to slow down. The swarm of spiders slides underneath and into a laboratory. The room is poorly lit by a pair of bunsen burners on one of the lab benches. One of the windows has been shattered and tendrils of the fungal growth dangle a few feet into the room. Tarentula notes that there are a couple of the bulbous spore pods on it as well.
On the far side of the room, a man in a lab coat appears to have cornered a woman behind a lab bench. She has nothing but wild terror in her eyes. She is threatening the man with a flask full of some dark liquid. Neither have noted Tarentula's arrival.
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