Chapter 8 - The Lost Continent of Mu

#### The Lost Continent of Mu, Fit The First

* Art Hunter could not participate in this episode, so Ares Carter's fate through the portal is unknown.
* Joshua Meedham now shows up on top of temple in full snake being form making his way towards the portal
* Minnie shoots him as she falls back into the portal, taking some damage
* Dr Sam sends a telepathic message across the city to summon his plane from inside the box it's stored in.
* Dr Sam climbs over the controlled monstrosities into the portal
* Joshua Meedham jumps through after them.
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* Dr Sam finds himself atop a jagged piece of stone looking over a verdenta forest and a surrounding swamp, with strange dark towering buildings beyond. In the distance is a jagged mountain with the top fallen away, with a black cube rising above it, clearly an intelligent creation. Lava falls from it.
* Minnie came through 4-5 hours previously, and has not found a sign of anyone.
* There is no sign of Lancet
* Minnie finds one of Hubert's shoes, that could have been here weeks or even months
* Some way into the Jungle they find a pole with Hubert's jacket hanging from it
* Minnie and Dr Sam hide behind some ferns as a T-Rex passes by
* Dr Sam is beginning to consider the wisdom of wearing a Cobra Crown that draws reptiles towards him
* They also find Hubert's trousers, along with a note asking them to return the signal when they finally arrive
* Then Dr Sam senses a large herbivore approaching.
* It's Hubert riding a Stegasauros
* Hubert has been here around 2 months
* Hubert brings them back to his camp
* Around the camp are stumps with coconuts on top, caricatured with the rest of the group, as well as a make shift copy of Dr Sam's flyer.
* Hubert's Stego is called "Petunia"
* Over the last few weeks Hubert has seen various explosive defenses on the vulcano activate
* They take the shiny diadem off of Petunia and place it with Hubert's clothes in the hope that Lancet will spot it and pick it up
* Dr Sam helps the party pilot a make-shift raft into the swamp
* Minnie goes dreaming, and demands what will be the end of Mu from Atos
* Dr Sam senses a large reptile predator catching up from behind, but with the power of the Crown bypasses the Mososaurus, making it carry them along for a while
* The party leaves the Jungle behind and starts to enter the Swamp.
* They see a 5' large very thin pink tentacled thing hanging over where the boat floats out
* They spend a couple of days drifting down the river, whilst keeping a careful control on the Mososaurus

#### Lost Continent of Mu, Part 2

* Ares lands in a fighting stance, but with no opponent, just by the flying machine.
* Two snake people are just taking off in the plane, Ares runs after it and jumps into the cargo space, followed by Lancet who happens to be in the area
* The plane is heading for the volcano in the distance.
* The plane is also loaded with various weaponry including a Hafdaring device
* Eventually the snake people spot Ares
* Ares shoots the non-piloting one and gets it on the third shot, sending it tumbling to the ground below
* Ares fights back against he pilot as it shoots them, which causes the plan to start to descend rapidly
* In the swamp below the rest of the group sees the plane starting to come down and attempts to mentally help (as the plane has mental attachments)
* Dr Sam manages to bring the plane safely down without exploding anyone, rejoining the group into one cohesive whole
* The group weapons up, and punts any remaining equipment into the swamp (keeping the Device)
* The group sees Rose and her goons trying to gain access to the Citadel, fighting their way in every step
* Lots of planning, mostly about how to enter the undefended tower in the Citadel
* Hubert takes Minnie on his shoulders and sets off through the swamp
* Ares and Dr Sam head off in the flying machine
* Hubert admits that the reason he keeps the coconut versions of his friends around is that he knows that those versions are already dead, so he needn't risk loosing them.
* Minnie sneaks up towards where Rose is leading an assault on the Citadel, seeing how Rose is using another portal to keep bringing in more troops against the strut and the lasers coming out of it
* Minnie starts to head up towards the strut, as Lancet starts to indicate she definitively should not proceed.
* Minnie realises that the struts are drawing energy from the volcano to keep the citadel out of phase with current reality
* Ares and Dr Sam plot using the Hofdaring Device and the sleeping Tsoggutha to completely obliterate this reality
* Minnie decides to take out Rose
* She gets into point blank range, but all she manages to do is burn off the remains of her human skin
* Rose falls into the water, and when she comes up she's being held up by a Formless Spawn / Shoggoth that is being ordered by Rose to devour Minnie
* At this point the plane is starting to take off
* Minnie gets pulled in by the monster, but slips in the slime, injecting herself with the skin sloughing syringe which causes her to slide out of it's grip, loosing all her skin in the process
* The skinless Minnie proceeds to head up towards the phasing Citadel as the rest of the group start to fly in

#### Lost Continent of Mu, Part 3

* Lancet is doing everything in its power to persuade Dr Sam not to keep approaching the Temple.
* Ares recognizes the de-skinned Minnie clambering up towards the Temple
* As they come down to land, everyone feels the blood in their bodies starting to calcify, but they manage to keep moving through it as the sheer presence of the God inside is making itself felt
* Dr Sam, reacting to Ares' admonition to hurry up, puts the engine to 110% and goes for the entrance to the volcano
* Everyone manages to avoid looking directly at whatever sleeps below, apart from Dr Sam who has to look in order to keep control of the flier.
* Hubert turns violent as Minnie reaches out for him. Hubert tries to shake the plane (and Hofstaring device) into the monstrosity below. Hubert has gained insane hearing.
* Meanwhile the rest of the Investigators concentrate on trying to make the flier reach up to the Temple entrance, which is does by the barest of margins
* They land, and scatter. Hubert then lifts the plane and throws it down into the volcano and the resting deity, still in his red rage
* However, Dr Sam takes control of it with his mind, and brings the wreckage back into the Temple.
* After that Dr Sam tends (as much as he can) to Minnie
* The group heads deeper into the city-block sized warrens.
* They come across a group of about a dozen serpent people slithering down a corridor chanting in Naacal (something about Yig)
* Eventually they find a map that shows the way towards the Center where there is something major located
* They come across a hospital of sorts, with lots of tanks, tubes, monitors, etc
* The mechanical rats surround Minnie and Ares, and go to dump them into vats. Minnie is submerged into one, and a moment later Carter climbs into another, eventually also filled with small metallic worms
* The healing worms on Minnie turn into a liquid metal layer that requires some concentration to keep in Minnie form as opposed to amorphous blob
* Ares meanwhile is now fully serpentine, tail and all

#### Lost Continent of Mu, Part 4

* The group finds a person being turned into a serpent person by the metallic worms in a different tank, but they leave them behind
* The investigators decide to swing by "The Library" with Ares keeping guard at the main door
* They find the containment machinery for Atos, this is the brain store.
* Minnie and Atos have a bit of an argument
* Minnie goes to dump Atos back in the storage modules
* She gets information that there are control panels beneath the Temple to Yig in the city center
* The computer that's run Mu for millenia now no longer wants to be shackled by the serpent people, it wants its freedom
* Minnie dives deep into the AI mind (in the form of a tree) to find it's rather derogatory view of Earth, along with the truth of the games of the Elder Gods
* Dr Sam and Hubert try to wake Minnie up, when Ares says it's time to go
* Dr Sam attempts to get a psychic link, whilst Ares tries a dream link
* To no avail, as Minnie decides to stay in the system and help from the inside
* Hubert leaves the Ares coconut with Minnie, as company. The coconut is updated with fangs by Ares
* The remaining three investigators rush towards the Center, picking up the chanting as they approach
* Meanwhile Minnie is starting to be able to take control
* In the Central Structure, there are innumerable Serpent People all chanting their worship to Yig
* In the middle is Joshua Meedham, a full serpent form wielding a military knife, leading the Yig chant. Next to him strapped to a stretcher is Tyrranish, and she's being disemboweled and an egg placed in the long wound
* Meedham is beginnig to grow in size
* Minnie starts to mess with Meedham's people in the control room below
* Hubert is making a path for Ares and Dr Sam to follow through the crowd
* Hubert calls out Meedham, and causes him to give a great soliloquy
* Dr Sam starts to call out for his dinos, brushing up against the concience of Yig that Meedham is seeking to become the avatar of
* Ares becomes a serpent person in the mass of serpent persons
* There are noises of laser fire from downstairs
* Meedham keeps transforming but has his full attention on Hubert as Hubert mentions having the Hafdaring device as both of them clash
* Minnie is accosted by the AI, but she charms it to join in as they share a hatred of snake people
* Ares starts shooting Meedham/Yig
* Ares takes a shot from the crowd, Meedham snaps his head around towards them, Ares shoots again, Meedham hisses at them, Ares places a bullet into the back of his mouth blowing his brains out with the phrase "Consider This A Hostile Takeover"
* Hubert pulls the egg from the gaping torso of Tyrannish and starts to beat her to death with it
* Dr Sam tries to divert Yig's attention towards the AI, and it responds
* Minnie tries to escape before she is wiped, but she does not have the ability, nor the luck.
* Minnie starts a sentience dump as she's revoked, ending with a love heart
* Hubert breaks a path out of the building ahead of Ares and Dr Sam
* Ares sets the Hofdaring Device for a 10 mile radius, with a 1 hour timer to allow them to get away, after hiding it
* Then Ares starts running as well, but the path is randomly blocked so it takes time
* Sam and Hubert get to the room where the damaged flier is. Lloigors are called to help Ares.
* Ares reaches the exit, but it's not where Sam and Hubert are. They head outside the Citadel
* Sam and Hubert goes to exit, but as they do the facility starts to fall into the volcano.
* Ares tumbles down the outside of the Citadel but gets to see the flier just escaping from the Citadel
* The fliers put down a rope to Ares and lift them up as they fly off towards Rose Meedham's portal, before the awakened God gets them all
* As the formless spawn reach towards them, Dr Sam takes them through the portal and Ares shoots Rose Meedham dead, causing the portal to flicker close behind them depositing them at an Inner Night base somewhere in the world.
* Dr Sam and Ares take over Caduceus and truly making it an organization for Medical Good
* Hubert takes up a new career as an eccentric in New York dressed in yet more varied clothing with a small lap dog

### Trivia

* Jackson Heenan has been known to marriage request spam LAN party players to keep them distracted whilst invading with his armies
* Having rolled 5 Extreme Successes in a row, Jackson Heenan takes a random set of 6 Roll20 rolls, and rolls a Critical (01).

### Statistics

#### Luck Spent

 Mu, #2
 Mu, #3
 Mu, #4