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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7567238" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 215, Part Two - Employees Only</strong></p><p></p><p>With Leon’s help they passed easily through the gate to the eastern district.</p><p></p><p>The Triunfo sat at the highest tier of its hill, and a path weaved through broad gardens around the campus walls. The flowers were all withered, but the cloying scent of the cerebral mesh, which covered the area in profusion, created an oddly floral tone. Several archways led through this wall to the inner garden, though wooden barricades blocked off all of them.</p><p></p><p>Amielle passed invisibly though the wall. Beyond, a simple farming garden took up a large swath of the campus, with limestone walkways and the occasional tasteful topiary. The college hall sat in the centre of the campus, a two-story building with a pair of single-story wings. There were no lights on in the building. The whisper of silken banners fluttering lightly in the breeze disturbed the stillness.</p><p></p><p>Leon opened a dimension door next to the main entrance and they all stepped through. Orchestral string music was faintly audible coming from the second story window. Doors entered from multiple directions, but the most obvious approach was the front door, flanked by statues of bears playing a cello and a tuba. Strange sights beset them while they stood in the grounds: creaking trees coming from thin air, angry figures with bloody blades just barely visible at the edge of their vision, and false archways in the wall that shuddered with morbid moans if anyone came close, then faded away. Like the barricades, these were clearly intended to deter casual intrusion.</p><p></p><p>Korrigan flew up to look in through a window, but could see no sign of occupancy – only the upper foyer and tiered seating of a performance area . They entered through the main door. Inside, doors led to the north and south wings, and back to the headmaster’s salon. Stairs led up to the second floor foyer outside the theatre. The music was louder, and affected some of the party with a creeping sense of dread. Korrigan used his crown to relieve Quratulain.</p><p></p><p>In the foyer, a section of wooden floor has been and was now covered with a tarp. Korrigan used his clairvoyant eye to look beneath this and saw that it was the entrance to the Ancient archaeological site they had been told about. Beneath the tarp (which Wolfgang tried to remove with his sampler before they resorted to using their hands) a thirty-foot wide stone shaft descended, painted with ornate orcish figures. Forty feet down they could see a metallic floor. Korrigan flew down there. Leon opened a wormhole and he and Quratulain stepped through. The floor undulated like a muscle - formed from the same living steel as the tools the gidim used. It was centred on a sphincter-like aperture. Quratulain analysed it from a distance and declared it to be a sort of door.</p><p></p><p>From up top, Wolfgang wondered if they could think it open. Sceptically, Korrigan tried, extending his thoughts out as he had recently learned to do, and found to his surprise that he formed some sort of connection – albeit an alien, incomprehensible one. He focused and realised that the sphincter demanded a specific thought in order to open it: a mental image of some kind. Brakken scanned it from above but could not tell exactly what image was needed. So he focused a moment, before he unleashed an overwhelming barrage of mental images, in a stream of subconsciousness.</p><p></p><p>After a moment’s pause, the sphincter opened!</p><p></p><p>At once, Korrigan flew through it. The chamber beneath was organic and repulsive, as if formed from some behemoth’s innards. An overwhelming floral scent failed to obscure the lingering odor of rot and blood within this circular chamber. Spherical niches along the floors, walls, and ceiling held ragged bits of flesh. Grotesque remnants of humanoid bodies were fused to the walls, and an inch-deep layer of unknown effluvia swirled in slow eddies along the floor. Directly beneath Korrigan lay a deep acid bath that stung his eyes with acrid fumes. Then he saw movement: crouched in the recesses and responding to his presence were more than a dozen blue-furred shock troopers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7567238, member: 79141"] [b]Session 215, Part Two - Employees Only[/b] With Leon’s help they passed easily through the gate to the eastern district. The Triunfo sat at the highest tier of its hill, and a path weaved through broad gardens around the campus walls. The flowers were all withered, but the cloying scent of the cerebral mesh, which covered the area in profusion, created an oddly floral tone. Several archways led through this wall to the inner garden, though wooden barricades blocked off all of them. Amielle passed invisibly though the wall. Beyond, a simple farming garden took up a large swath of the campus, with limestone walkways and the occasional tasteful topiary. The college hall sat in the centre of the campus, a two-story building with a pair of single-story wings. There were no lights on in the building. The whisper of silken banners fluttering lightly in the breeze disturbed the stillness. Leon opened a dimension door next to the main entrance and they all stepped through. Orchestral string music was faintly audible coming from the second story window. Doors entered from multiple directions, but the most obvious approach was the front door, flanked by statues of bears playing a cello and a tuba. Strange sights beset them while they stood in the grounds: creaking trees coming from thin air, angry figures with bloody blades just barely visible at the edge of their vision, and false archways in the wall that shuddered with morbid moans if anyone came close, then faded away. Like the barricades, these were clearly intended to deter casual intrusion. Korrigan flew up to look in through a window, but could see no sign of occupancy – only the upper foyer and tiered seating of a performance area . They entered through the main door. Inside, doors led to the north and south wings, and back to the headmaster’s salon. Stairs led up to the second floor foyer outside the theatre. The music was louder, and affected some of the party with a creeping sense of dread. Korrigan used his crown to relieve Quratulain. In the foyer, a section of wooden floor has been and was now covered with a tarp. Korrigan used his clairvoyant eye to look beneath this and saw that it was the entrance to the Ancient archaeological site they had been told about. Beneath the tarp (which Wolfgang tried to remove with his sampler before they resorted to using their hands) a thirty-foot wide stone shaft descended, painted with ornate orcish figures. Forty feet down they could see a metallic floor. Korrigan flew down there. Leon opened a wormhole and he and Quratulain stepped through. The floor undulated like a muscle - formed from the same living steel as the tools the gidim used. It was centred on a sphincter-like aperture. Quratulain analysed it from a distance and declared it to be a sort of door. From up top, Wolfgang wondered if they could think it open. Sceptically, Korrigan tried, extending his thoughts out as he had recently learned to do, and found to his surprise that he formed some sort of connection – albeit an alien, incomprehensible one. He focused and realised that the sphincter demanded a specific thought in order to open it: a mental image of some kind. Brakken scanned it from above but could not tell exactly what image was needed. So he focused a moment, before he unleashed an overwhelming barrage of mental images, in a stream of subconsciousness. After a moment’s pause, the sphincter opened! At once, Korrigan flew through it. The chamber beneath was organic and repulsive, as if formed from some behemoth’s innards. An overwhelming floral scent failed to obscure the lingering odor of rot and blood within this circular chamber. Spherical niches along the floors, walls, and ceiling held ragged bits of flesh. Grotesque remnants of humanoid bodies were fused to the walls, and an inch-deep layer of unknown effluvia swirled in slow eddies along the floor. Directly beneath Korrigan lay a deep acid bath that stung his eyes with acrid fumes. Then he saw movement: crouched in the recesses and responding to his presence were more than a dozen blue-furred shock troopers. [/QUOTE]
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