2. Liquid Gold or getting liquidated
Pre session questions:
- Can we talk to people who kept everything quiet for Jeremiah Maine's activity in downtown detroit? Myabe Vivian Brooke?
- What is in the metro and why does Foxcorp/Jeremiah Maine want/need it?
- Oil?
- What happened in Jeremiah Maine schedule gap?
The Underground
After the loud feeding of Ethan Hunt I try to use my heightened senses to hear if anyone is near, but I only hear some sewage and some rats.
The corpse, that Ethan Hunt just desecrated, is a young man, early 30's, wearing overalls like a worker of janitor. The overall says Deafcorps steel waterworks on the logo. I cannot find an ID or wallet, only a flashlight, some cigs. His wrist has a tanline of a watch that's now gone, it might have been a mugging gone wrong? He could have been dumped here but there is a toolbox down here which is his.
I sneak through the grate into the underground until it bends right. I see an old half build metro tunnel, in a nice european style, but its filthy. There is animal filth. There is one barred staircase going up but there is a staircase going down that is open. I sign that i go around the corned and look for human tracks in the filth, but i dont find any. I do notice that one of the rats stares at me, for a weirdly long time, but i don't give it another tought. I update the others without telling em of the rat. We decide to head down and find the lowest point.
Everything is well build and stable. We encounter another big open space without a clear purpose. There aren't any tracks but there is a V shape crack at one end with a dug tunnel behind it. There are some pillars but the floor is even and paved all throughout the room. There are old lamps on the ceiling, maybe this was a bunker? But there is a frame for a door.
We move towards the crack and it looks like it been made with violence. There is rebar sticking out of the reinforced concrete walls. We can't see the end of the crude tunnel. This tunnel certainly goes straight towards the apartment complex that's property of Telmar company. Based on the rubble and dirt someone started digging here and dug towards the apartment.
The Tunnel
We decide to investigate the tunnel, Ethan Hunt in front, Frederick Aldarice in the middle with his flashlight down and Lily Smith at the end. Its a tight squeeze and we have to go sideways in parts. After about 15 to 20 minutes Ethan finds some metal keys on the ground. Its quite a lot of keys and there is a plastic fob key in there. They don't smell like the corpse of the guy we found.
After 5 more minutes we feel a light breeze from the front and a horrible stench. I manage to turn off my heightened senses in time but its still a horrible rotten, oily, rusting steel smell. We use the flashlight to move further. It appears that at the top the crack widens and it kinda forms a natural cave thats filled with a black thick liquid, it seems to be oil. I say aloud that oil burns quite well and we dont like being burned so we shimmy along faster, hoping its not a trap.
The tunnel narrows so we have to really shimmy through. I help Fredrick so he doenst gets too covered in oil but sadly i am quite covered in oil and it took quite some time.
I suddenly notice that we are going slightly down.
Suddenly the tunnel slightly opens up into a small cave. The walls are covered in drawings made of dried oil in prehistoric fashion. In one corner is a pool of liquid oil. The stench is at its strongest here and seems to come from the puddle.
Frederick Aldarice investigates the drawings. They seem to be here for hundreds of years, but not from actual prehistoric times. Its unclear what they actually represent. Ethan Hunt goes and sticks his hand in the puddle, saying he bets there is a corpse in it. He looks really disgusted while he does it, but uses his willpower to power through it.
I look for trails and i see some random oily shoeprints on the stairs up.
Unexpected goops
Ethan Hunt cant find the bottom. He uses his already broken shotgun to prod in it but still no bottom. It seems that the shotgun quickly starts corroding. In seconds the whole thing dissapeared and a trail of oil went up. Suddenly we hear a weird sissing noise. I back into a corner and Frederick Aldarice shouts 'Ethan, behind!', after which Ethan quickly punches behind him with a spinning fist.
The goop shoots the shotgun at Ethan Hunt and hits him hard. Ethan takes a beating but then he hits back. Frederick shoots it and hits it. I try to distract it with Awe but the skull shaped blob ignores it. It shoots back at Fredrick and Ethan, who dodge it. Ethan tries to rip it with all its might but the blob just holds it. Fredrick shoots it again and the blob explodes in oil.
I take some of the oil into a shellcasing to take with us for later examination. We take the stairs up, following the footprints, hoping its a quick way out. We enter another room that seems to be made into a makeshift storage unit. There is a diving suit, a footlocker and a table. There is some oil dripping from the diving suit. Ethan Hunt tries the keys on the footlocker but it doesnt work, but the keychain does have a comcast employee card you can use to get into a parking garage.
Ethan Hunt stuffs his nose with some cloth and tries to pick the lock but it doesnt work.
There is still some oxygen in the tank. The depth gauge shows that they went about a kilometer down the oil well, impossibly deep for a human because of the pressure.
The diving suit seems to be of someone from Ethan Hunt size and is form the brand Blacklaw.
We decide to take the footlocker with us because we only have a pass for the night.
Frederick Aldarice goes in front with his gun and the light, then Ethan Hunt drags the footlocker while i push it. Getting out from the crack seems to be easier. Suddenly it seems like the oil is shifting around on me, but it seems like nothing, maybe my undead mind is playing tricks on me.
It about 4:30 when we arrive at the tracks again. its about 2 hours until daylight.
We decide to end the night and crawl out of the empty pizza place.
Frederick takes the footlocker with him home for later.
Feeding gone wrong
I help Ethan to feed some. I call around and find some afterparty. We arrive and there's about 25 people. Luckily there is a groupie, named Heather, who recognizes me and starts flirting with me. I insinuate that I fuck Ethan and he's a fun fuck. The groupie is interested and touches Ethan Hunt's chest, and as soon as that happens he loses all control and just starts feeding there. About 20 people notice and start running and someone shoots Ethan Hunt, which just bounces off. Ethan quickly finishes feeding, drops the girl and also runs. I cloud memory the girl and wake DJ Maddog. I tell him that someone who was tweaking thought someone was a vampire and bit someone else and started shooting. I tell Maddog that I don't know about the vampire shit, I didn't see it but i did see the shooting and that's the important part.
Maddog takes the girl to some doctor to patch her up and i go home, hoping that the breach wont be too bad and that nobody ties this back to me.
End of session
Everyone gets 2 exp
Lily Smith has 3 superficial willpower damage, and needs a gun