Downtime 2

## Lobetful Combination Mission (Research Facility & Subway Station)

* Glitch
* Erin
* Dallas
* Dante
* Cooper
* Nadia
* Lily
* Ella
* Ekim

### Lobetful Research Facility:

Ella recognises the deceased body of Pine, another Chosen operative sent into the city, who lies in the morgue.  His augmentations have been removed and sit on a nearby table. It was his shock lance that was taken from a Beacon operative by Niko Conven back in the Beacon School for the Elite.

There are blueprints for shock lance design that have been devised by Beacon from studying the Chosen lance.

There are study notes on the Mother. https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fopen%3Fid%3D10ZZzeY8tWWpNzIKB6YhcbaGBOkm7waYw%26fbclid%3DIwAR1W75HirVnqEe4Yaq0dpMIFy2y0Cx1B1gF4V1MR8BXBIrcmKRhqdkKQKMI&h=AT14kLK2GLxZqM2V9flh1jFUC2CIzoUy9NNZk8KiQm7aZilv45fM0kDylDySu8Ltb3UkzwPhNZQF35BKkMKnD0kWb80u8OObeDnsER1OI7MMPPiiAzHvzH59qbo1-c9x9w

There are study notes on Shadowfox.  Primarily the medication schedules and exposure schedules used to train him and cause his transformation.  It looks like there were 30 test subjects. The only two survivors were himself and Variks -- though he fared much better than Variks did.  There's a lot of notes here -- most of it gibberish unless you're a scientist. They lost track of Shadowfox when he was 12 during Incident 96 -- they managed to capture \*something\* at the location but the files are garbled.  Apparently every time they try to write or type about Incident 96, the files garble. It's believed to be somewhat connected to the Mother "coma one."

There's information on the three coma ones who were transferred to Triway Facility (old news, really, as they are well dead), as well as the assistance rendered by Triway facility staff while they were occupied by Beacon.  The Facility Staff assistance included:

* Nadia, at the age of 12, was killed by lethal injection by Dr. Rory Ekim.  (could excuse why she was off on her own). This was to test a new serum and as a punishment to her parents (also Nadia's parents) for insubordination.
* Katya completed Server Maintenance at Triway Facility.  She was sent to New Yuvon at the age of sixteen to infiltrate the Artificer's Union and liberate some technology.  This was as a punishment to her parents for insubordination.
* Dr. Rory Ekim visited Beacon Research Facility on multiple locations and was often in the company of various researches.  He also had his own studies on the Zed strains at Triway Facility.
* Circuit and Glitch were both known to have borderline tendencies due to significant variations in MRI readings (Ekim knows this is because their brains are actually of an alien species) and general temperature (they run 2 degrees cooler).  Circuit's kinetic capabilities were also known -- however usage of the twins as test subjects was contraindicated by their importance to key Triway personnel. (It appears that Dr. Jaxon Adelaide didn't want to upset Ekim, one of the few men he thought of as an equal).
* It was assumed that proximity to the alien engine within Triway Facility was responsible for the twins' unusual brain scans.
* Circuit's role was examining atmospheric research data but he was also sometimes employed to use his kinetic talents on Southampton's to identify possible psychic emission suppression.  Anti-psykers were proven effective against kineticist force suggesting that some of the effects of shock out are internally driven (the body's own electrical signals are forced to misfire, causing what is essentially a minor seizure).  Circuit was forced to use his powers on several captured prisoners.
* Glitch's role was reprogramming captured killer bots to be either repurposed to unleashed into the valley to keep the locals distracted, and examining data from captured devices for infohazards.  Steady investigation suggested some form of psychic talent but none could be identified.
* Greene went out on capture missions with Jenny's and Southampton's to seek out new zed specimens and occasionally uninfected wastelanders for research purposes.
* Merriweather did assorted repairs in both facilities though typically he primarily worked in Triway Facility.
* Dr. Sopotonia assisted Ekim and Jaxon Adelaide with a variety of different experimental procedures.  Both Ekim and Sopotonia were involved more deeply in investigations of Shadowfox and were occasionally brought to the subway station where testing occurred.  Primarily, however, they examined samples sent from mutagenic exposures to check the effects on the genome. Sometimes this involved using a tissue printer to create duplicate organs, implanting this into a healthy live test subject and then charting the results to see if the mutagenic effects would spread.

There are study notes on baby Lily.  She appears normal but when exposed to psykers under controlled conditions, the psykers did not attempt to harm her and would suddenly shy away as though in a panic.  It didn't appear that Lily was the cause of the threat -- psi-rig scans found no abnormal brain activity -- but the Mother's brain wave activity would go off the charts.  It was found that from the age of 2 she was able to prevent Emerson Fairfield from entering her room via astral projection. This is unheard of age for such instinctive behaviour!  Banisher abilities require time, training and a great deal of effort to hone.

There is the Mother's corpse.  Samples have been collected.

### Dante Subway Station

There's one body that is strangely untouched by bugs, insects or decay.  Its eyes have been melted out of its skull long ago. The air around it wavers slightly -- Erin senses the dangerous anomaly.  It doesn't seem infohazardous but it seems to speed decay on those who enter a certain range from it judging by some half-disintegrated rat bones near it.  It also has a strange puncture through one leg but it seems to have principally suffered from a powerful blow that broke multiple bones in its body, judging by the angle of its limbs.  Parts of its skin have lifted up like flaps. This isn't a mutation, though. It's part of the injury.

The remnants of an psi-fence can be seen around the subway station.  Clearly it was set up to protect those within from automatically drawing the attention of nearby psykers.  Of course, nothing could protect them from the occasional monster meandering inside.

The platform itself is covered in forgotten gear, tents that were once pitched to give some semblance of privacy, and rope + peg + sheet dividers.  The men's toilets had been retro-fitted into some kind of surgery with quite a good amount of gear.

There are cameras installed throughout the subway station.  A few of them are broken, crumpled up like tin cans. Some of the ones that remain have had their hard drives removed -- but the strange thing is that Beacon Research Facility didn't have them!  Where on Earth did they go? They appear to have been roughly removed, too, by tools not designed for the job.

There's a few human skeletons among the gear.  It looks like they were running from something and trying to head down the tunnels in the opposite direction.  There's evidence of a sharp double-bladed object having scraped bone in a few places, typically in the leg. However in one case the markings are through the ribcage.  It's hard to be 100% sure but it appears to be more akin to a harpoon or a spear than a sword. It's certainly no axe.

* There were likely around 20 - 30 individuals living here at any one time.  Only 9 skeletons have been found, suggesting at least most of them made it into the tunnels.
* There's a collection of untouched MRE packs stacked up in the corner.  It seems that this place must have become the subject of myth and legend as no one has collected them.
* There's a polaroid photo of a ten-year-old Dante with a shaven head, sitting on an older girl's lap, with Dr. Jaxon Adelaide smirking beside them.  Dante looks very happy here, as does the older girl.
* There are several other polaroids around, showing the people as they lived their lives.  It seems like these polaroids were quite dear to the people who lived here, but they've largely been discovered.
* Someone has hacked apart bedding in a little partitioned area, right where the polaroid of Dante was found.  All the furnishings in this little compartment have been hacked apart, likely by an axe. The rest of the place is fairly untouched.  There were two sleeping bags in this little area. There's a folded up letter tucked into one of the hacked up sleeping bags … but it's too waterlogged to read.
* Engraved into a wooden cabinet in one of the rooms are the words: *She Calls.  She Calls. Her Daughter Will Be Found.  She Calls. I Feel Her Scratching Within.*  These phrases are repeated at a variety of angles.  There is a jar containing two eyes, poorly preserved in a liquid that has barely managed to do the job.  The nerves attached to those eyes appear to have been snipped with the scissors that sit by the jar. Judging by the clothes neatly folded in this section, namely coveralls, the person was reasonably tall and quite muscular.  The boots are Size 12s. Everything in this little partitioned area is incredibly neat and tidy.

### Psychometry Effects

These cost the user Faith from the upcoming session.  The PCs may, or may not, discuss and make public the results from what they find but these are the items known they performed Psychometry on.

#### Lily's Psychometry

* The notes on incident 96
* The mother’s corpse (if she was allowed to touch it)
* The cameras in the subway station
* The bottle
* The book
* The wooden cabinet about The Daughter

#### Dante's Psychometry

* soggy letter
* happy photo
* torn up bedding
* scary gurney

## Creating the Kingfisher Underwater Drone

* Bear (Construction)
* Santiago (Design)
* Kenzie (General Labour & Assistance)

The device is constructed quickly but there are definitely still some bugs in its design.  At least you know about them. The camera feed is likely to get a bit on the fritz at certain pressures but you should be able to maintain enough of a connection to obtain most of what it sees.  It has a little working arm that can be used to operate other devices -- push buttons, pull levers etc. -- but the arm is fragile and prone to breakage. The final issue is its battery life -- it won't last a significant amount of time but it should be able to reach the base.  Shame you can't pinpoint precisely where the base is -- you may need to do a little searching. Thankfully you have the information on the thermal vents -- presuming the base is set up on one of those should help narrow your field substantially.

## Investigate Lobetful Military Base's clone printing labs

* Dr. Ezra York
* Cali

Dr. Ezra York and Cali find their own files in the military base.  Dr. Ezra York is a physician with experience in psychic phenomenon while Cali is a programmer with a history in satellite launch scripts.  Both of whom were engaged to work in a top-secret program called Bishop that involved transfer to an underwater research facility and launch platform called Upsilon.  They were also assigned to help the research and investigation of a device held on the Upsilon underwater station.

In-depth investigation revealed the early files sent to their originals show images of what is clearly the Life Support System from the Sentinel space-craft.  It was collected around a decade ago from a dig site in the north-west and seemed to possess only rudimentary capabilities until moved to its current location where it made remote connection to the life support systems of Upsilon and improved its efficiency tenfold.

They also identify that there is an SLS screensaver, complete with a symbol, which was recently downloaded onto the systems shortly before Dr. Ezra York was printed.  The signal that downloaded the file and launched the print was relayed through a location in Tukrohan to the south-east of the main settled continent.

Within the screensaver was a smaller encoded file that contained both visual and auditory elements -- viewing this file provokes a terrible sense of dread and longing, mixed with capillaries bursting in the tear ducts which caused bloody tears to be produced.  Those who simply heard it identified a single song and appeared to suffer no ill effects. No one can remember what the visual or auditory components of the file are.

Perhaps with time (or an Analyst), someone could force themselves to remember?

## Create targeted Hashin Venom for Gala Suspects

* Circuit

Circuit uses his hologrammatic matrix to get close enough to the targets to taste their blood.  He can only make three doses himself, though. The Gala PCs will select which three to obtain doses for in the planning section of next session.

## Improved Battery Design

* Dallas
* Kairee

Unsurprisingly, considering her lifelong experience with technology that predates 19th century Earth tech, Dallas had some difficulties.  However the assistance of Kairee with her more modern understanding of how tech works guided her through providing some progress on this matter.  Plus side is Dallas has learned a lot about the technologies of this world and can provide much better engineering support in future.

## Political Action In New Yuvon

* Patty

Patty targeted several influencers in New Yuvon as well as attending a few formal functions on behalf of both the rangers and the Lighthouse Mission.  She's been spotted at a few trendy locations with Commander Matthew Illinois as well. For the lion's share of her time, though, she has been providing medical support to those who have been taking down some of the surviving hordes of zeds from Beacon's assault on the Nexus Region -- and counselling those who have recently become omegas.