Chapter 3 - Borneo

It's all work, no play

### Episode 01

The investigators are briefed at HQ. The North Borneo Chartered Company has directly contacted Cadeuceus about an infectious disease that generally proves fatal in a few days.

* Cadeuceus believes this to be due to activities by the Inner Night.
* The investigators bring with them an alien device that is supposed to analyse whatever is causing the disease.
* Hubert Smith imitates a golf fanatic.
* As they make their approach into the clouds surrounding the main mountain peak, they are attacked whilst still in the air by strange flying monsters.
* There is a scramble for the stored parachutes during the melee.
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson spent a lot of luck to land the plane safely.
* They successfully arrive, with the alien device starting to noticeably count down. They have 24 hours before it opens a gate and in doing so destroys its surroundings by unclear means.

### Episode 02

The investigators have a limited amount of time to work out what's going on, before ??

* The team travels to the military camp under Captain Lancaster, who apprises them of the situation.
* Dr. Samuel inspects the infected soldiers quarantined at the camp and notes the disease spreads before symptoms show, implying the sickness might already circulate amongst all the soldiers.
* The team's handler, Shapiro, after a disagreement with Lt. Carter, is forced into helping Minnie with assessing the bomb.
* The team has a standoff with a sick woman trying to breach the quarantine area. After attempts to reason with her fail, Carter shoots her dead.
* All then head into the quarantine zone upon jeeps.
* The episode ends with all the investigators making CON rolls.

### Episode 03

Will our heroes find out what they need inside the quarantine zone before the end of time and space occurs?

* They discover traces of Serpent People having come through the area recently.
* The party splits in two
	+ Ares Carter and Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson head towards the Farm along with Mr Shapiro to gather samples from the sick workers.
	+ Hubert Smith and Minnie head towards the demonstrators at the Survey Camp.
		- The protesters are concerned with the spirits of the mountain being upset by the survey work.
* The group head into the forest, with Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson flying above them

### Episode 04

Rat Boys and Danger Noodles: Will the party survive being killed in the most embarrassing way possible?

* We open with the fight against the cute clothed rat monsters.
* Minnie gets bitten by the rat things.
* This is the start of the Old-Time Radio Announcer trope.
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson manages to evade the 4-armed "George" and successfully land by the rest of the team, who have in the meanwhile decided to blow up the forest.
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson treats Minnie's wounds whilst Ares Carter and Hubert Smith set off for the ravine in the distance, where they discover a cave system emitting a cyan light and a lot of Night Gaunts.
* Wilhelmina St. Clare sneaks into the cave revealing an alien content, with a large map showing the Earth as it was ages ago. Lots of Narcal inscriptions. Further in is a room with lots of monitors surrounding some kind of metallic pool. The blue light appears to be drawing in the energy of the sickened humans. There's also the skin of a human.

### Episode 05

* Minnie untethers herself from the rope and heads deeper into the caves
* Hubert Smith gets worried after 20 or so minutes, and tries to go down after her, but is not as stealthy. As the Nightgaunts begin to stir, H climbs back up out of the way
* Minnie sees a rabbit/cat creature through the portal.
* Minnie climbs up and runs off along with Hubert Smith
* Ares Carter gets into the plane just as it takes off
* Hubert Smith collects a net of entangled gaunts
* Ares Carter yeets the device into the cave. Massive explosion, in the midst they see something that drives them indefinitively insane, apparently gaining a protective mania of S, shooting various gaunts as they continue to escape the explosion.
* Ares Carter and Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson ride the expanding edge of the fireball.
* Hubert Smith miraculously dodges out of the way of the expanding flames
* Hubert Smith went to fastball special Minnie,but fumbled. She makes the climb to get down the mountain side just in time. The flames engulfed Hubert Smith, but he's way too solid to let it stop him.
* The investigators regroup back at the Farm.

### Episode 06

Why are you not sweating?

* Encounter with Shapiro, who is busy setting up the analytics engine (aka the "Machine Who Goes Ping!").
* Ares Carter shoots Shhhhhhhhhhhhh-apiro dead.
* They find the remains of actual Shapiro, exposing Shhhhhhhhh-apiro's infiltration.
* Ares Carter goes Red Mist, takes out Hubert, then turns towards Minnie as Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson keeps trying to sedate them (eventually succeeding)
* Minnie finds the recipe for the cure in Shapiro's mouth, and Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson creates it using his Pharmacy (one of Jackson Heenan's Extreme rolls on Roll20).
* The group returns to New York, New York, USA and head to Cadduceus HQ for a debrief.
* Hubert Smith finds out that s actually a Mr Hosch.
* Everyone's living quarters have been searched. Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson finds a wedding band with the name Brezziano engraved upon it.

#### Trivia

* Art Hunter is a spooky dictionary in a different life
* The player's pet cats are the real enactors of the story
* Everyone fails their SAN check on the upcoming timezone changes
* James Coquillat's rendition of Hubert Smith leaning into the "Big Jim" meme was acknowledged on-stream by David Naylor
* Callback to the car/bathtub at the center of the Earth
* Dr Samuel Taylor-Thompson's aeroplane is rebuilt using an allen key, making it likely the "Moln" IKEA model.
* Overwatch is a favourite of the group
* Episode 5 saw both a fumble turned to an extreme with a bonus die, and a double extreme with a penalty die. Ares Carter also double-extremes (one with max damage) whilst insane with their gun.
* After 8 episodes, Art Hunter reveals that Ares Carter's name is certainly anything but accidental.
* Ares Carter is scary, even when they're charming.