Avalon® said:
Surge will spend a hero point on his toughness save.
Surge uses an HP, he rolls a 19 Toughness save and is unscathed.
Surge shields himself with some cover and avoids the worst of the damage, receiving only superficial scrapes and injuries. Nothing that would impede him as everyone makes a run for the basement…
The Basement
The stairs leading down are crafted in the Victorian style, the exterior of the door is solid wood, but it slides away to reveal a white clean room with stark white walls and a large monitor with various views of the Estate, though most of the images alternate between static and stable images.
Inside standing before the monitor is a woman in a black dress suit, with thin black rimmed glasses and pigtails. Her blond hair is neatly arrayed and she turns as the group enters, haggard, injured, and smelling of smoke and fire. Those that can remember, instantly recognize the face of that of Mira, the wayward girl from the
day before.
The door closes behind the last of you, sealing the basement. Arjuna and Krishna pace back and forth but stay quiet in this strangely white room. Mira speaks, “Good morning, obviously you must have questions; I can answer the more obvious ones for you though you may not fully understand them. Though I will caution you that our time here is short as some of you have hypothesized the Mental Construct reacts to certain actions with safety protocols, but this current state of instability is from an external security breach.”
“External?” Dee questions while helping Alan with Vanessa.
“Yes in the event of an external security breach the Mental Construct purges the system of all information. Although you didn’t realize it your brains were being deprived of oxygen, a security protocol to prevent an information breach. This room is separate to the Estate, as you may have surmised this is not the actual basement of the Estate. Given that, by retreating here you will survive the purge and auxiliary systems should be kicking in to prevent you suffocating, which would mean brain death. I have not isolated the source,” she turns back to a holographic keyboard looking object floating in front of the monitor, “which means that they must have control of the security network. I would not worry about Vanessa, she is just a facilitator program designed to keep you at ease and under control.”