Built from Pain Part 4

## Story

On what should be the third floor is an open space with no walls sectioning off separate rooms. In the room is several tables that have beakers with various fluids in them along with several sets of tools. There's also a machinery workbench similar to Nikki and Raven's workbenches with associated tinkering tools. Additionally there appears to be two embalming tables stained with blood and other fluids. On the other side of the room are three large cages with their doors open. There's also a glass vat with a metal base that has several generators hooked up to it. The tank is filled with yellowish brown fluid that smells like formaldehyde. Seline finds several more journals and a recording phonograph and some records. Seline plays one of the records that was dated just before Victoria disappeared the first time. Victoria's voice comes out of the phonograph.

> **Victoria Greshan**Experiment 523, Subject: Male, Human, Theory 426 still seems to hold water though not much can be said for the retaining of cognitive functions. Though still feasible I believe that long-term this method will not suffice for the final project.[Footsteps.]**Victoria Greshan**Attempting initiation.[Electricity snapping through the air then a growling that becomes a roar like an engine.When the record stops the growling roar of the engine does not. The noise unfortunately is coming from a hole behind them in the floor that they didn't notice.]**DM Molly**Climbing out of the hole in the floorboards, it looks humanoid, it smells humanoid, it also smells like burning oil and the faint scent of formaldehyde, and the way it moves is anything but humanoid. You see what looks to be a human corpse crawl its way out of the hole on all fours. The upper part of its head is gone and is replaced with the steel metal cap that is bolted to its head. It has several moving pieces on top various rods pistoning up and down as it makes this horrible engine growling sound and a single glass eye glowing red affixed to the front of the metal cap.

When it moves, its arms and legs piston up and down to move across the ground. Talia takes three shots, two hit in the chest where it seeps out a reddish-brown fluid. Seline tries to Toll the Dead on it seemingly without effect. It seems the crab walk over to Talia and misses both of strikes. Talia activates her boots puts her hex on it. The mechanozombie strikes misses Talia again. Talia's responding shots are a miss and a jam. The zombies shoulder seizes and black necrosis runs down its face as it falls dead. Seline checks the body determines that it was human at one point but all of its fluids were replaced with blood oil. It is still wearing what used to be clothing (super tattered jeans, part of a sleeve on its arm) and chest is branded 523. Now leaving from the study the door immediately to the left is a lavatory. Next door down is a bedroom painted pink. A number of dolls and stuffed animals lion the shelves and bed. The bed itself has gauzy white curtains. Dust coats everything in the room except for a spot in the floor next to the bed where someone might have been kneeling in prayer and supplication. Seline and Talia begin to suspect Victoria is attempting to bring back her daughter Elise who died several years earlier. All exploring the guest bedroom they notice movement an engine sound in the wall and then to the ceiling. They follow it out into the hallway until they hear it break through into another room. After putting two shells into the ceiling with Antoinette, the one in the ceiling moves and one in the wall moves. Talia puts a few shells in the wall. Through the holes in the wall they see something scamper downward. Talia quickly runs and shuts the two sets of front doors on the first floor. As Seline watches from the balcony on the second, she hears something try the door 20 ft to Talia's left. Talia's reluctant to open the door but through her need, black smokey tendrils reach out from her arm forming a hand (Talia’s first Mage Hand) and opens the door. Smell of wet leaves comes at them as they enter, Talia reloads. It's a greenhouse built on the side of the house. In the room are two, one on the lattice work on the ceiling, and the other by a fountain further into the room. Talia unleashes both barrels of Negotiations and the mechanozombie falls from the latticework dead into a bed of flowers. Talia reloads as Seline's Toll the Dead rings out, black necrosis seeping out from underneath the zombie's metal cap. Zombie lands a slam attack for her trouble. Hex is recalled onto the zombie while Talia swaps Negotiations for Death's Whisper. Death's Whisper shot goes right through the cap, spraying wires gears and gray matter behind the zombie. They enter a small library, most of the books are missing off the shelves but there are diagrams strewn about.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent
* Talia Grey