Chapter 6 - Iceland

* There is believed to be a troll settlement created by serpent people / Inner Night in an underground chamber in/near the volcano
* Their Caduceus pilot is Gunhilda Johannsdottír, she is not aware of the supernatural events behind the group's trip
* Upon arrival there is no immediate response from the ground team
* There is something large silhouetted briefly as they come in to land. As they taxi around it chucks a piece of building at them
* Minnie looses her sanity, but gets some kind of insane ability, hides under the seat
* Ares Carter opens up the cargo hatch, whilst Gunhilda also goes insane and tries to leave the plane
* Hubert Smith pulls a net from around some crates and gives it to Ares Carter
* Ares Carter throws the net over the troll which is completely entangled as Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson rotates
* Gunhilda jumps from the plane just as it has taken off. Meanwhile Hubert Smith has deployed his chute inside and jumped with her
* Ares Carter and Minnie hold onto Hubert Smith's chute as Hubert Smith tries to drag Gunhilda back along the wing before they are sucked into the propeller
* Ares Carter and Minnie pull them back in and the side door is closed behind them
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson is trying to get the plane to Stykkisholmar where there is a manned aerodrome. He also mentions that they were attacked
* They quickly assemble Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson's plane and jump out of the plane along with it, leaving Gunhilda to continue on to Stykkisholmar
* Ares Carter and Minnie sees a shooting star heading towards the volcano, where it slows down and starts to descend into it
* All three parachutists mis-time their release, so everyone is completely scattered

#### Iceland Fit The Second

* The three jumpers land, Ares Carter keeping track of Minnie. Minnie and Hubert Smith are stuck in trees several meters up
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson lands on a rural road, and goes collecting the rest of the group starting with Minnie
* Lots of wild animals stampede past
* Ares Carter catches up with Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson and Minnie
* Hubert Smith manages to wrestle a raindeer to the ground and get on its back, riding it
* The group meets up and head closer to the volcano, which is probably only hours from erupting (which is ahead of schedule)
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson locates where the flying thing entered the volcano on the map
* A glowing (glass?) sphere rises out of the volcano, and sets down in a clearing that appears to be the source of a large hum some distance away
* Short fur-covered beings with wings are in the clearing where the orb is setting down
* Having landed, the orb lets out a short, thick-set, fair humanoid that hisses naacal
* Minnie heads off with Ares Carter to try to shoot the control device on the back on one of the voormi
* As the sphere is closing back up again Ares Carter shoots the fair humanoid, straight between its eyes
* Minnie runs out into the clearing attempting to communicate "Friend" in naacal, but she can't work out the word. The Voormi back away
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson tries to persuade the voormi to let him take their control devices, but they run away scared
* One of the voormi fell into a crevice, and it comes back out with a malfunctioning controller. Ares Carter slams it, breaking it whilst getting shocked
* As the sphere starts to lift off, Hubert Smith runs out and makes a grab for it, noticing that the creature is quite slimy inside, akin to Flubber
* Sam and Minnie clamber into the sphere, and Minnie works out how to mind-control it

#### Iceland Fit The Third

* There is much discussion about how to get into the vulcano now that they have the flying sphre.
* Minnie and Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson will go down in the sphere, Ares Carter and Hubert Smith will look for a walk-in entrance.
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson notices a hole into the vulcano that looks like where a sphere could have come from. They enter and come into what appears to be a hangar with another 7 spheres.
* There are clamps / parking spots for upwards of 50 spheres.
* There are 2 sepent people in the landing room, that Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson open fire upon through a hole that Minnie has managed to open up
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson helps stabilize the sphere as Minnie rams the two serpeent people, but one of them manages to dodge
* The squished snake person manages to get a claw into the sphere through the opening that was opened up.
* Minnie bifurcates the squished being with the edge of the open sphere, whereas the remaining snake person seems to be raising the alarm
* The pair of them gang up on the remaining snake person.
* The snake person takes a large bite out of Minnie
* Since this is a particularly stressful point for the narrative to shift track, that's exactly what the narrative now does.
* Hubert Smith and Ares Carter make their way up to one of the spherical openings that open into a near-vertical chimney.
* Hubert Smith lowers Ares Carter down on a rope
* Meanwhile back in the Landing Chamber Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson is trying to shoot the snake person that has practically enveloped Minnie
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson goes to modify one of the docking clamps to catch the snake person, whilst Minnie plays the cheese in the mouse trap, evading just in time for the clamp to snap closed onto the snake person
* [Wilhelmina St. Clare|Minnie]] then shoots it in the head, just as Ares Carter jumps in through the ceiling ust in time to hear "Don't tell Carter".
* Hubert Smith falls off the rope attempting to come down.
* Ares Carter takes up a defensive position by the corridor opening
* Minnie attempts to get the computer to show a map, but cannot make the screens work to her will
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson sees that most of the clemps are essentially mothballed, with just a few re-activated. In total there is probably one more sphere out there somewhere
* It's at this point that Minnie realises that the person they saw on the screen was somewhere remote, that was not hot as say the inside of a vulcano
* They exit the Landing Room, and take a look through the first door they find, whene they see a number of forms in a number of strange and twisted positions.
* Hubert Smith realises that the forms were alive when they were petrified. This brings Hubert Smith past the brink of insanity, causing Hubert Smith to become convinced that he has to cure the statues. An insight tells him the solution lies deeper in the caves to the South.
* Everyone trails Hubert Smith as he jogs deeper into the installation. Most of the doors won't open, but Hubert Smith wrenches one open.
* In the room are strange bubbling vats with pipes running along the ceiling pumping a viscous liquid into the ceiling, glowing with the same light that they saw around the flying globes earlier.
* In the fluid are several reptilian beings, some severely injured, apparently floating in a state of regeneration
* Hubert Smith plunges his hand into the fluid, and he heals a small amount. The torn skin on his right hand from the rope burns is now partially serpentine
* As Hubert Smith does this, one of hte serpent creatures reaches out over several feet and attack...

#### Iceland Fit The Fourth

* We start with one of the large Lizard creatures in the vats reaching out to slap someone.
* Ares Carter blows it away
* [[Wilhelmina St. Clare|Minnie] takes aim
* Hubert Smith pulls one completely out of its tube
* Ares Carter blows away the third
* Hubert Smith slaps his opponent with his cane slamming it against the wall
* Having rid themselves of the lizards, they start cutting the cables that were attached to them.
* Hubert Smith starts coming out of his bout
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson goes scavenging
* The group realises the incredible healing / resurrecting properties of the goo filled tubes
* The general group decision is to continue downwards to get to the core of the vulcano before it's too late
* They head dowqn a set of stairs towards a loud thumping noise. They enter a circular room with a huge machine being tended to by two snake beings
* The operators go down in a hail of gunfire
* Ares Carter and Hubert Smith head down the second stairway, whilst Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson and [[Wilhelmina St. Clare|Minnie] take a look at the machine
* Ares Carter and Hubert Smith spot two Serpent people with ray guns guarding about half a dozen of the troll like creatures being moved in a distant tunnel.
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson recognizes the machine as some kind of generator that's probably power the entire facility. It's also pumping several canisters of the silver liquid from the petrifying room\*
* In the other room are a number of bloating membranes the size of large water balloons. Hubert Smith wonders if they are eggs. There is also a further passage but the party regroups in the machine room
* More discussions about which way to go - down or further in
* They head back into the facility in the direction to which the Serpent People were taking the Voormi
* They come across the Serpent people in ambust, and [[Wilhelmina St. Clare|Minnie] sneaks forward and overhears them talking about their Inner Night "Queen", also "The sleeper awakens" The Serpent people are guarding an opening into the outside.
* Ares Carter and [[Wilhelmina St. Clare|Minnie] loop around the guards, whilst the other two loop back to head back in
* [[Wilhelmina St. Clare|Minnie] and Ares Carter discover a number of doors and a dogleg leading over a lava river. 6 Voormi are re-enforcing the bridge under the watchful eye of two Inner Night Overseers.
* They open fire. [[Wilhelmina St. Clare|Minnie] takes one of the Inner Night out. Ares Carter takes out the other. They do hear the guards at the door starting to should in Naacal
* Meanwhile, Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson and Hubert Smith are attempting to open a door. The door is latched with a fingerprint / tentacle print lock.
* The Inner Night guards come under fire from Ares Carter.
* [[Wilhelmina St. Clare|Minnie] slips and her foot falls into the magma flow as one of the Voormi goes to stomp on her hands that are holding her over the magma river
* Ares Carter takes a hit from one of the guards glowing ray guns.
* The party starts to come under serious attack from the guards and Voormi. Hubert Smith valiants fights off three Voormi as [[Wilhelmina St. Clare|Minnie] gets out of the way of a rock weilding one.
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson attempts to put on a Mad Doctor act to scare the Inner Night and Voormi, but injects Hubert Smith in doing so with the contents of the tick bag
* Hubert Smith gains SIZ and STR , looses INT and APP as he turns more serpentine. This drives him yet again past the brink as he goes berserk

#### Iceland Fit The Fifth

* Ares Carter pulls on the power of Yig to incapacitate the Voormi around Minnie.
* Hubert Smith, being caught in the Red Mist, attacks the Order of Night Snake People that surround him
* Minnie makes it across the bridge to the other side
* Hubert Smith riposts another snake being
* Ares Carter falls and scrambles on the side of the bridge, but does not touch lava
* Hubert Smith finishes off the members of the Order of the Night.
* Ares Carter pulls themselves together and makes it across the bridge, and then opens the touchpad controlled door.
* In the next room are lots of screens surrounding a number of beings held suspended with cables running into them from a covered hole in the floor
* On most of the screens is the woman they saw earlier seemingly giving orders in Naacal.
* Hubert Smith retreats back the way he came (into the "spa" room)
* Dr Sam Thompson-Taylor tries to geek up an insulator salve to help the Voormi against their shock collars. This is not well received by the already skittish little beings.
* Ares Carter and Minnie open fire into the suspended Snake People.
* As the female image on the screen is shot into shards, her voice comes over the speakers calling the investigators "slaves of her Father". "Does Solothan command you?"
* Minnie looks at a remaining monitor seeing a massive Voormi lying sleeping under the peninsula. It's miles across. As it twists due to the pain of the drilling that's occurring into it, there is a huge earthquake
* Hubert Smith catches his breath now that he's out of combat
* Ares Carter yet again calls on Yig to help them remove the creatures around them from existance
* As the snake people are dispatched, another huge quake is felt.
* Hubert Smith at that point reaches the bridge, but is unsure that he can make it across. He's told to get to the hangar
* Ares Carter gives Minnie 90 seconds to quiet the Jörmungandr creature before they pull all the cables. This as Minnie has by now plugged herself into the Matrix.
* Hubert Smith tries to make it across the lava river, but it splashes over its banks
* Dr Sam Thompson-Taylor injects Minnie's spine with the connector that the snake people were hooked up into
* Underneath the large manhole cover are 50+ silver canisters, all connected.
* Minnie manages to break through to the collective of ancient beings that are being mined for their energy across the millenia.
* At the end there are but two spirits left. The confused fisherman that Minnie encountered, and the hostile spirit of one of the snake people that Minnie and Ares Carter killed but a moment ago. This causes a number of the canisters to dim.
* The fisherman tries to overcome Minnie to use her to exit the facility but Minnie holds it back, sending it off to rest.
* Ares Carter tries to destroy the remaining active canisters. Even if that means killing Minnie.
* With two seconds left, Minnie snaps her eyes open as the final canisters go dark and Hubert Smith hauls Ares Carter out from the chamber.
* The vulcano is still errupting, but at least the Mega Quake has abated.
* The investigators run back into the hangar, and Hubert Smith, Minnie, and Dr Sam Thompson-Taylor manage to control a flying sphere each (Ares Carter going along for the ride with Minnie).
* Dr Sam Thompson-Taylor heads back to his flying machine and takes off
* The rest of the group get to Keflavik, grabs a cargo plane, and the group fly off into the sunset heading back towards the US and their secret hideout.
* The plan is starting to be formed of how to infiltrate Caduceus and bring it down.

### Trivia

* Dave has a cool house mechanic that randomises the D10 what-bout-did-I-get roll by adding a base D10 to it before the game.
* Hubertir Hreindýraknapi (Raindeer-rider) is Hubert Smith's latest nom-de-plume

### Statistics

#### Luck Spent

 Iceland, #2
 Iceland, #3
 Iceland, #4
 Iceland, #5