Dark*Matter: Discovery, The Delphi Paradox

[Falkus]

The ladder was sturdy, though there were a few rungs missing.

The corridor at the bottom of the freight elevator was empty, except for the corpses of three scientist types, frozen in the cold like all the others. The large doors were open into the UFO lab, which was also empty. Unlike the rest of the base, it was clean and sterile, suggesting that it was emptied long before the disaster that occurred here.

The radiation levels were above normal, but within human tolerances. There were no toxins present, not this deep into the base.

Suddenly, an indistinct shape appeared in front of the team, faint and translucent, and almost humanoid. Diego and Larry suddenly developed blinding headaches. It disappeared an instant later.

 

[Shayuri]

Meredith reflexively puts her hand on her sword hilt...but before she can do anything more, if she was going to, the thing is gone.

"Anyone else see a green ghost pop in and out just now?" she asks, looking around nervously.

 

[Friadoc]

"I saw it," says Cade as he lowers his assault rifle to point slightly more downward. "Anyone else?"

While waiting word, Cade will look more cautiously at the team's surroundings, against his rifle is slightly lowered, although it can be brought up at a moment's notice.

OOC

Search or Spot, Dms choice.

 

[industrygothica]

"Yep," Nick says stoically.

 

[iwatt]

"See it? Whatever it was, it gave me a worse headache than the hangover trying to match Kyznetsov's drinking gave me." Shaking his head, Larry begins nervously switching his safety on and off, a nervous trick he'd started developing lately. "At least we know we aren't alone."

Turning to Cade he says. "There's something we can try. The old man back at the institute was trying to get me to learn how to detect psychic auras. Seemed like a lot of new age BS to me at the time, but it might be useful now. Give me a minute."

With those words, Larry examines the area were the apparition had apeared, invoking his inner eye. Simialr to other times, powers he couldn't summon in the boring confines of the training room, lept unbidden to him when under stress. "What's the saying Doc? The prospect of dying concentrates the mind? something like that?"

 

[Falkus]

Larry tried to focus on the residual psionic energy, but the presence weighing in on his mind caused him to lose his focus (failed concentration check).

A cursory pat down of the scientists bodies by Cade revealed a clipboard of his daily tasks on that fateful day. Most of it seemed semi-routine, but it did mention that a test was going to be run on some of the artifacts recovered from the Delphi site. It also noted that the shield recovered from the Delphi site was going to be moved back to storage after another failure to acquire a material sample from it.

 

[kinem]

Diego motions as if to rub his eyes, but just lowers his hands back down.

"That ghost gave me a headache. Well, where to now?"

He looks around for more doors, storage areas, or other features that could be explored.

 

[industrygothica]

"I guess we need to find those artifact, wherever they are."

 

[Friadoc]

"Definitely, Doc," says Cade with a nod toward Nick. Cade quickly flips through the clipboard, as well as checking the rudimentary map, to see if he can find the storage area on either of them. "Seems they moved it or were going to move the shield back to storage."

OOC

Sorry, folks, life had me in its grip for a bit, but all is well.

 

[Falkus]

According to the map, the artifact storage area was at the southern part of the this level, and a scientific storage area was just outside the hallway the team was currently standing in.