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Message: <blockquote data-quote="writernextdoor" data-source="post: 5997233" data-attributes="member: 6689303">[Mechanical Notes are in braces]((Director Notes are in double parentheses))((This is what happens when the players ask about how far reaching the Conspiracy can be))They didn't go to a police station. They didn't even stay within the city limits. The team was all [captured] and taken to a warehouse just near the old abandoned airport. They were tied and chained to chairs, with only cubicle dividers between them. They couldn't see each other, but could hear each other fine.Which is just what the badguys wanted.They came to Rossini first, in the form of Desdemona, offering him sex and an ease of his mental burdens [a 4-point Stability test that he spent his way past]. He turned them down just before they began breaking his fingers and beating him with a baseball in a sock. To Nick, they said nothing, pouring dirty water all over him and hooking a car battery to the chair. [a 2-point Stability test but a 6 point Health loss].To Mace, they threatened, and tried to get him drunk. When he resisted ((quipping all the way)), they broke his arm with a pipe wrench. MikeSmith was untouched. At least not physically. For MikeSmith they brought out the most devious of tricks - projections into his mind, perversions of his very thoughts, so that he would slowly unhinge. [a 3 point Stability test HE FAILED]((This set of experiences repeated twice))With only hours until sunrise, the team was split up, and locked in separate "rooms" -- small square cells where the walls didn't reach the ceiling. More isolation, though still able to hear the screams. Most of the team was left alone to hear each other sob, ache and attempt to verbally fight back.But it was to MikeSmith they came, with about three hours until sunrise. One of them, he called himself "Wally", sat down in a chair next to MikeSmith and said, "You can make this all stop. Or don't, and we'll shoot you just before sunrise." Then came the screams.They weren't real screams, but rather recordings of the earlier screams played back. But MikeSmith couldn't tell the difference. Or maybe he didn't want to. He was starting not to know. They made the offer again, only this time they added a secret -- "It's not about the children, not really, they're just food." And they played the screams again.[Another 3 point Stability loss, and MikeSmith broke]((I have a "breaking rule" -- whenever you drop below 4 Stability or lose more than 6 Stability in a single night, you "break" and need at least night's rest and urgent care from a Solace or Symbol or Stability]He begged them to release the team. He even said the magic phrase, "I'll do anything." And what they whispered in his ear next....oh, it was unbelievable. But MikeSmith, begging to make the pain stop, believed, and agreed to it.And so, the team was taken to the ER of the local hospital and left there to navigate everything. Only MikeSmith knew the real reason. He had to live with it.</blockquote>

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