Bite of the Cornered Rat

## 11-6 session

* Shadow impersonates the Arasaka grunt and goes to scout out the area beyond the soldier break room. She tries to head in the general direction of the communication tower via the servant tunnels. She emerges into the scientist cafe break hall where she grabs a free coffee and eavesdrops on some conversations.
	+ One group (human, tabaxi, and half-elf) is whispering about how to get out of there.
	+ A group of elvish scientists are discussing the challenge of replacing the Etherium in Arasaka weapons with stormcells. The elves then begin marveling at the work Dr. Perry is doing on the Spirit of Fire and how she's already cracked and completed the first phase of Operation Lazarus. Shadow is able to intuit that Saburo is now effectively immortal, but there's a phase 2 that everyone is now focusing their efforts on. They also mention how quickly Dr. Perry perfected the work that Aegnor did on Red Sun.
* The comms room turns out to be right next to the cafe. Shadow takes a peek and sees some Tyger Claw fighters and some magic users in prison cells made out of walls of force. In the center of the room is the comms unit headed by an Arasaka captain
	+ Shadow changes into her elf scientist identity and goes back to the cafe to try and get information from the elf scientists. The elvish scientists are still talking about the Lazarus Project, and Shadow hears the elvish word for god when they're talking about phase 2.
	+ Shadow sits down and starts complaining about the vibes in the comms room. The elvish scientists agree and also mention Akkar Qiro, "Maze of bureacrats" manager and Captain Theodas Keyna
* The rest of the group dons the guards uniforms and escorts Shadow disguised as an elvish scientist to the comms room where she pretends like she has an urgent message for the shift captain Theodas Keyna. Once they get to his office in the middle of the room, Shadow throws a Midas shard at the captain (which bounces off his armor and does nothing) and Vig walks up to the controls and opens all of the cells. Emerys, the magic caster, casts a fireball.
* Shadow investigates the controls and notices that the wall of force at the far end of the room separating the comms room from the front door is controlled by a separate panel and requires a dragon-shaped key. Shadow also recognizes that one thing Arasaka technology has in common with Sigil technology is fail-safes. Therefore, odds are that if they destroy the controls, it would send out a distress call.
* Emerys finds an arcane key on the corpse of a head scientist.

## 11-14 session

* Starfall leads her unit into the front yard of the Arasaka lab via an opening in the wall that they blew open. Starfall immediately clobbers the Arasaka soldiers stationed there. They get a surprise round and do decent damage. The two spies tag-teamed an Arasaka soldier.
* The real defensive force is by the door and Free Ferret steps around a corner and gets shredded by arcane turrets. The Arasaka commando mans a rail gun and shoots it at Starfall, who deflects it into one of the turrets. Unfortunately, Swift River gets incinerated by the rail gun. One of the rangers turns invisible and dashes towards the front door.
* Arasaka gets out two wheeled constructs who rain terror onto the N'Komo forces, killing many Tyger Claw Fighters and both spies. The blast knocks Starfall back into the wall, and she cries out for reinforcements. They also see that the front door is slowly closing.
* N'Komo lost 9 people and 7 CR. Arasaka lost 23 CR.

## 11-20 session

### N'Komo frontal assault

* The invisible ranger manages to slide under the descending door before it fully closes. Right behind the door are a set of controls where the ranger pushes a button to open the front doors again. He can also tell that somewhere deeper in the base are a set of controls that can control the turrets.
* The Tyger Claw fighter carrying the rocket launcher runs to the battlefield and successfully fires a rocket on the soldiers stationed by the front door, incinerating most of the soldiers and wounding the captains.
* The Commandos shout that they're losing the entrance and run towards the now open door.
* Glint and the other master thieves deal major damage on the oaken bolter constructs.
* Tyger Claws have lost about 15.5 CR and 16 people while Arasaka have lost about 40 CR and 13 people.

### Comms Unit

* Shadow activates the Raiju's bolt and kills the captain and blinds Lycel.
* One of the elvish scientists throws a potion at Meows with Fury, turning her braids into snakes.
* The freed Tyger Claw fighters kill one of the soldiers and take their weapons so that they are all armed.
* They hear reinforcements coming down the hallways.

## 11/21 session

* Zhu Li and Jaque reunite. They catch up a little before Jaque tells Zhu Li to meet him at Mufusu's birthday banquet that night. He will talk to Zhu Li after talking to Mufusu.
* The party heads to the bakery Flour Power to help Betty Wheat with Mufusu's birthday cake. The bakery is a gingerbread house and they pass by giant cookies and sweets, which Neko takes a bite of.
* They knock on the gingerbread but no one answers. Zhu Li breaks in (the door gives easily because it's made of gingerbread and therefore not very sturdy) and they see a giant cake monster.
* The party attacks the cake monster. Levi creates a silent image of a fork, hoping to scare the cake with its natural enemy. Neko takes a bite off the cake and turns invisible. Dave burrows into the cake. The magic in the cake that he consumes causes him to grow in size, becoming regular humanoid size for two days.
* The cake regenerates. Betty Wheat yells at them to blow out the candles.
* Levi recasts Silent Image and creates an angel food cake that attempts to use its divine angel-ness to convince the cake monster to stop its rampage.
* They eventually defeat the cake monster. Betty Wheat thanks them and gives them Fidough and tells them to come to the banquet where the real birthday cake will be unveiled.

## 12/12 session

* We did 3 comms unit rounds for suspense
* Lycel got downed and wrapped in an electric bolo but something possessing him managed to get him out and he succeeded his death saves so he's at 1hp and up but lost 23 hp permanently
* Sunspot wildshaped into an elephant 2 times and is downed
* Vig and Meow have been down all 3 rounds
* Shadow and Emerys were basically the only ones doing damage (Shadow with Haste and the Naginata, Emerys with his fireballs). Necromancer also pulling his weight with the cloudkill and some zombies
* We managed to take down the head of security and the warden, getting rid of the anti life shell and anti magic field.
* before dying, the head of security tried to counterspell emerys's fireball. Emerys counterspelled and the unicorn child of bombyx mori was summoned
* the stormtroopers saw the unicorn and panicked and are rushing towards the outside alarm because they think things are going badly for them. Two of them are already at the alarm, but they seem to be low health and Emerys is prob gonna fireball them