Campaign History Sessions 1-5

## Session 1: Introductions, Training

The New Guardians were introduced to their new home: a penthouse apartment in an upper-middle-class district of New Unity. Marlowe and Clarke bonded quickly over their love of each other's aesthetic. David was introduced to the two, reluctant of his new role as "team leader." David specifically objected to Marlowe's inclusion, as Marlowe and he had fought in the past. However, Pat (Quickshot II) encouraged David to put the past behind him and move on. David reluctantly agreed.

Beacon brought Sarah in, who was happy to see Marlowe again. Everyone seemed to be at least shakily getting along, with David arguing about music with the clueless Sarah and Marlowe, until Clarke decided to show off her ability to create plasma weapons. This started Sarah, who instinctively took an aggressive and hostile stance. In response, David drew his own weapons and prepared for a fight. This put David and Sarah at odds: Sarah felt David saw her as a threat, and David felt he needed to be ready for everything. It seemed the two might come to blows, until Marlowe and Clarke were able to diffuse the situation, with Marlowe and David leaving the apartment to get dinner and Sarah and Clark staying.

Marlowe drove David around to "pick up dinner," politely warning him that if anything happened to Sarah, "bad things will happen." David was made ill by Marlowe's reckless driving. Meanwhile, Sarah fumed in the apartment, but was calmed down by Clarke asking questions about earth culture and the English language (she was confused by the lack of distinction between "living" and "residing" somewhere). Marlowe and David returned, and David and Sarah swapped apologies. The team enjoyed their first dinner together.

The team's first real mission was against a rogue demon that had been summoned from another dimension. The demon was summoned by a thief who lost control of it? (cant remember exactly). The New Guardians managed to impress Quickshot II, who was happy to see his son taking up a leadership role again. However, during the fight, they accidentally caused collateral damage to a shopping center, displacing several people. They also caught the ire of a local city alderman, who felt threatened by the team. However, the team ultimately ended up growing closer together in this fight: once they get into the thick of combat, something just seemed to "click" in all of them.

After the battle, Sarah was briefly removed from the team to recuperate and to be studied more by Bastion. The rest of the team began training with Balefire. Balefire's training was harsh and repetitive, and he had Marlowe, David and Clarke run a drill for hours on end. The drill involved a rampaging robotic dinosaur that needed to be disabled. After four hours of this individual drill, the team was understandably frustrated with this. Although Clarke was designated the leader, David had his own ideas, and instead of participating in the exercise, he cursed Balefire for making them run these phoney drills over and over. Marlowe agreed, not being able to draw power from holograms and feeling the exercise was meaningless. After Clarke was attacked by the robotic dinosaur, David rescued her and flew right into the robot's mouth. Meanwhile, Marlowe and Clarke used a fire hydrant to spray the robot with water, causing it to malfunction. This in turn caused the bot to fire missiles at a group of civilians, which Clarke neutralized. After dismantling the robot, David found an explosive in it, and gave it to Marlowe to create a shield around. However, Marlowe instead ran into a sewer alone with it. David ran after them, and the bomb exploded, harming both of them and ending the simulation.

Balefire wanted to speak to David alone, but Clarke and Marlowe insisted they be included and David agreed. Then Balefire chastised them for not taking training seriously, saying their group was important because their success proved The Guard's philosophy correct. David objected to being used as an experiment, and the rest of the team agreed. They rebuked Balefire and left frustrated with their treatment.

Balefire was called into duty with Quickshot, and ordered the team to stay put. However, soon after Balefire left, the team was alerted to a break in at a local museum. Emboldened by a rebellious spirit and eager to prove themselves, they agreed to investigate. Clarke took both Marlowe and David by the hands, and the three of them left.

## Session 2: Called Shots

Clarke, David, and Marlowe were leaving just as Sarah returned. The three of them told Sarah about their plan to investigate the museum break in, and Sarah agreed to come with. The four of them travelled to the New Unity Museum of History, where police were stationed outside. Officer Brendan O'Connor recognized Dave as Kid Quick, and reminded Dave how he and his father saved him years ago. Brendan got a selfie with Dave. Sergeant Timothy Wallace came up to the heroes, and said incredibly rudely that he expected the Guard, not a bunch of kids. However, Clarke convinced him that they could help.

Dave did a quick sweep around the museum and discovered four people inside, three wearing animal masks and one dressed as a ringleader. Sarah charged through the front door, acting as a distraction while Marlowe and David looked for an back way in and Clarke went in through the roof for aerial superiority.

When Sarah burst into the room, the ringleader turned around and mocked her, before declaring "the circus" is in town and cracking a whip, which caused the three animal-masked people to start advancing on Sarah. Meanwhile, Clarke spotted a fourth animal mask (the four being Lion, Octopus, Crocodile, and Eagle), along with a tied-up Duncan who was being held captive.

Dave dashed into the ringleader, taking away the only weapon he had: the whip. This caused all the masked people to begin staring at David. Meanwhile, Marlowe snuck up behind The Ringleader and drained some of his energy, and Clarke confronted Eagle, only to discover that behind Eagle's mask, someone was quietly sobbing and begging for help.

   Crocodile attacked Dave while Octopus managed to corner and capture Sarah. Eagle lashed out at Clarke, who was able to dodge the attack; Duncan chose to make his escape at that point, which sent him tumbling towards the floor. Clarke attempted a rescue, although she failed, and flew on to take the whip from Dave, turning all the masked people's attention to her. Meanwhile, Duncan broke free of his bonds and began to attack Octopus, freeing Sarah. Marlowe decided to take The Ringleader's memories, and in doing so found out that the ringleader lost a loved one before finding the special masks that allowed him to dominate the body of whoever was wearing them. Dave realized this too, being attacked by Croc, and both of them yelled out "The Masks!" Marlowe tried to take the mask off The Ringleader, but it was magically stuck on, and doing so caused the animals to go berserk. Marlowe made The Ringleader pass out.

   Clarke, wanting to end the conflict, unleashed the power of the sun and destroyed the whip. Once this happened, all the masked people seemingly went catatonic. The masks were easily removed from all of them, including the ringleader, who now had severe scarring from the other attempt at removing the mask. The civilians began to sob, horrified at what they had been made to do. Sarah empathized with them, and Duncan suggested they give the ringleader a taste of his own medicine. However, Dave resisted this, not wanting to punish an already defeated enemy.

Dave also expressed a deep anger with Marlowe for draining the memories of the ringleader. Dave thought this power was dangerous. Sarah defended Marlowe, but Dave told Marlowe that this power was dangerous, which made Marlowe feel guilty. Duncan attempted to take one of the masks, but Dave refused to let him do so, and the two quickly began to fight, not trusting each other. Sarah and Clarke broke it up.

Finally, Marvel, Balefire, and Quickshot II showed up to clean up and get the New Guardians home.

Balefire met with Duncan, and revealed that the Guard had been keeping an eye on him. Balefire said that normally they would turn him over to AEGIS, which frightened Duncan, but Balefire offered an alternative: Join the New Guardians and use his powers to help. Not really having a choice, Duncan agreed.

Meanwhile, Quickshot II grilled Dave about the events of the night, saying he could have been hurt and shouldn't have gone out without being authorized. Dave argued back, and eventually Quickshot II let slip that he didn't want to lose Dave like he lost Mac. He left after this, and David, furious, stormed off. Sarah tried to comfort Dave, and while she was only moderately successful, the two came away from each other with a greater appreciation for their struggles.

Balefire met with the group to introduce them to Duncan. He also commended them for a job well done. He however did say that they would need to be "punished" for disobeying orders, and suggested that each of them go on patrol one night with him.

After everything cooled down, the team settled in. Duncan tried to fall asleep on the couch, but couldn't sleep. Sarah, similarly, couldn't sleep, and went to the couch to watch TV. They channel surfed and chatted briefly, but Sarah turned off the TV when John Johnberg (conservative pundit, host of The Final John) came on, and Duncan suggested they watch a movie on netflix. They accidentally fell asleep on each other while watching 50 First Dates.

Meanwhile, Dave was on the roof, hitting golf balls off it. Marlowe had a bad dream that Taunt was draining their life force, so they went outside to smoke. Seeing Dave hitting golf balls, Marlowe decided to join him. Dave asked Marlowe to call the next shot, so Marlowe did. Then Dave started talking about being good at something, and Marlowe responded the only thing they are good at is hurting people (by draining them, stealing memories). Dave asked if Marlowe wanted to help people, to be a hero. Marlowe said yes, so Dave said "then save me" and jumped off the roof. Marlowe used an energy projection to save Dave, who said Marlowe was getting the hang of it. Dave then tried to teach Marlowe how to golf. (read more here)

Finally, Clarke waited until everyone else was asleep, and then (with the aid of her mentor, Marvel) dragged her atmospheric entry shuttle back to the penthouse. She worked on it all night, and in the morning nervously showed her friends the project. She did it as a way to feel closer to them - she was frustrated by how different Earth was to the Osci, and how different the people were. David immediately took the craft supersonic, zipping around the city, and then flying straight into the air, nearly into space. Clarke stopped the ship for a moment to show everyone the view, the view she fell in love with, and then let the ship fall back down to Earth.

But little did they know, unseen eyes were watching. Someone was studying pictures of Clarke in action, and watching her ship streak through the city - watching the video over and over again, and then stating "They're finally back."

## Session 3:

Marlowe gathered the team, including their new member Duncan, around the kitchen to discuss the chore wheel. Marlowe explained the chore wheel, but Duncan kept trying to get out of chores, or said that he would actively ignore them. Duncan also suggested hiring a personal maid, but the rest of the team did not want outsiders in their home. Duncan remained obstinate even amid threads from David, Marlowe, and Sarah. It was only when Dave threatened to tell Balefire that Duncan relented.

Clarke saw this as a great opportunity to teach the rest of the team Osci conflict resolution. Using Dave and Duncan as test subjects, Clarke tried to get them to resolve their conflict using Osci methods. While explaining, she tied Duncan and Dave's hands together with Her technorganic material. However, they immediately broke out into a fight which Clarke and Marlowe struggled to break up. Clarke continued to try and teach her methods of resolution, but the two wouldn't stop fighting. Frustrated, Clarke left.

Soon after, Balefire called the the team with a mission. The New Unity convention center was hosting a fighting game tournament, and it seems the participants had been taken hostage by a metahuman and the convention center was frozen solid. The team suited up and went via Clarke's ship to the convention center. after debating taking the sewers (a plan marlowe was all for). When they got there, Clarke was stopped by Ollie Munson, a journalist with Out There! Online, which is a geek culture and UFO enthusiast blog. They asked Clarke leading questions about the osci and her role on the team. Clarke made some remarks that were very hostile, and accidentally revealed Marlowe and Sarah's names, which Ollie took down.

The team spoke with the police chief, who was trying to break through the ice with drills, to no avail. Clarke used her solar power to melt the ice, allowing the new guardians in, but the ice quickly closed behind them. They snuck to the main hall of the convetion center and peered in to see all the contestants and audiance frozen in their seats, with a young man dressed in a hoodie and winter gloves playing street fighter and winning (over and over) against a captive pro gamer. The new guardians realized that this was being live-streamed online, and the online viewers had dubbed this metahuman "freezeout." Sarah recklessly charged in, shouting at Freezeout to stop it, and taunting him with a potential fight. Dave tried to charge Freezeout but was frozen in place. Meanwhile, Clarke attempted to power down the convention center using her Osci technology and was briefly successful, and noticed that there was a huge amount of strange power signatures coming from somewhere else in the center. Clarke took Duncan to investigate while Sarah and Marlowe contended with Freezeout.

Clarke and Duncan found an electrical room that should have been turned off with the rest of the place, but was still running. Upon investigation, electricity began pouring out of the machines, forming into a feminine humanoid shape wearing a unique one-piece suit. The woman introduced herself as Arclight, and told Clarke that she was here for her. Clarke and Arclight began to fight, but Arclight quickly overpowered Clarke and attempted to tear off her technorganic material gloves. Duncan attempted to distract Arclight, but when his illusions proved fruitless, he ran, much to Clarke's dismay. Clarke, desperate, headbutted Arclight, which caused her brain to overload with electricity, giving her a siezure. She could no longer control her Osci solar powers, and essentially "went supernova" causing a large flash of light and destroying a small potion of the convention center. Although this did significant damage to Arclight, Clarke was exhausted and basically incapacitated after this.

Meanwhile, Freezeout froze himself solid as a defense against Sarah's attacks. Marlowe used their powers to bind Freezeout's hands and charged him. He broke his ice barrier and attacked Sarah with a kick, knocking her away. Marlowe tried to grab onto Freezeout to drain him, but he broke free of Marlowe's bonds and attacked with a huge punch. Duncan arrived, telling them about Arclight, and with a huge display of powers, was able to incapacitate Freezeout by causing him to feel depressed and dejected. That, along with the bright light from Clarke's supernova, caused Marlowe to run for Clarke, ordering Duncan and Sarah to take care of the hostages and Dave, who was only beginning to thaw.

Marlowe arrived at the room (now a crater) where Clarke and Arclight were in, to see Arclight stealing one of Clarke's armbands (which stored a mixture of human and osci tools). Marlowe attacked Arclight, trying to drain her and learned (via memory absorbtion) that she had been given her suit, at least, from a group of people wearing fine suits. Arclight said that she "didn't sign up for this" and escaped, turning into pure electricity and leaving trhough the wiring. Marlowe was also weakened from sucking in so much energy.

The ice thawed with Freezeout no longer actively controlling it, and the police came to take care of the remaining civilians, and agents of AEGIS came to apprehend Freezeout. They asked about the explosion from Clarke's nova, and the new guardians lied and said it was due to Arclight. Clarke had recovered enough to move, but could not speak english and could only speak in osci. Marlowe suggested the team "go out for pizza" and took them to their secret lair, which had a medical pod to heal their wounded teammates (Dave, who had been frozen, Clarke who had a siezure, and Marlowe who had sucked up too much juice). However, they were surprised to find Taunt there, who teased Marlowe and had some fun playing with a very friendly Duncan. They also mentioned Dave, remembering that they had made out at the party. Clarke finally regained the ability to speak, and yelled at Duncan for abandoning her. She broke down, and surprisingly it was Sarah who comforted her, hugging her. The team licked their wounds and went home for a debriefing with Balefire personally.

Balefire commended them on a job well done, mentioning that The Guard was able to stop a Kaiju in australia and that The Vanguard had saved the brooklyn bridge from being destroyed. Balefire then told Sarah to stay behind, and began interrogating her about how she felt. Sarah was frightened that Balefire wanted her to be locked away again, but Balefire revealed his hand, black and red mottled and partially scaled with occult symbols drawn in, and suggested that he too "hears voices in his head" and that Sarah was not alone.

Arclight returned to her mysterious benefactor, giving them the stolen osci technology. The benefactor suggested this was adequate, although they wanted more, but Arclight revealed she also had several drops of Clarke's blood, which the benefactor suggested "could be used to start the process."

Meanwhile, a newspaper advertised "Museum Reopening - Centerpiece Exhibit Genuine Swan Maiden Cloak" the reader of the newspaper grins wryly.

## Session 4: Family Ties

The New Unity Museum of History was re-opening after being
repaired, and in thanks for saving them from the Ringleader, the New Guardians
were invited to attend the opening event gala and mixer. Marvel visited the
team in order to brief them on the upcoming party. Duncan wore a nice dress
with golden heels, Sarah wore the dress Marlowe and Clarke made for her. Marlowe also wore a dress, although a retro style with gloves. David wore a
suit, but with 12 tie clips and 2 pairs of cufflinks on each arm, which were of
course actually weapons. Clarke wore traditional Osci garb, while turning her skin pure black and her hair ash grey.

The team took Clarke’s ship to the party, and were immediately
swarmed by reporters, most of them aimed at Dave. Salma Jenson of the New Unity
Times asked Dave about the team’s destructive tendencies, but Dave deflected
these questions. Duncan told the reporters to ask about their personal lives
instead, which excited Travis Valdez, the tabloid reporter. However, Dave convinced him to back off with a well-timed comment about his boss.

Just then, a shout from the crowd got everyone’s attention. Sarah’s
13 year old sister, Erika, was here, and was shouting at her, seemingly
recognizing her. Marvel quickly pulled Sarah inside to the party, while her sibling Kate got Erika out, and the
reporters swarmed the rest of the New Guardians. Sarah asked Marvel what was
happening and why her sister was there, and Marvel said that Kate would take
care of it.

The rest of the New Guardians entered the party, and Marlowe immediately took
three flutes of champagne and drank them for liquid courage. Duncan also
started drinking and quickly got drunk. Dave grabbed a flute of champagne and
was very tempted to drink it, but Sarah threw it out, saying that she needed
Dave now, and after all he was underage. The team examined the swan maiden cloak, and
learned that legends say these cloaks belonged to shifters, witches who turned into animals.

Kate came back and said that they let Erika get away, since she was crying and said she had someone nearby. Sarah chastised
both them and Marvel for leaving Erika unsupervised, not knowing who she was
with. Marlowe used their powers to have a vision of Erika riding in a car, and
after some coaxing, the team decided to track her down. Sarah just wanted to
know Erika was safe, and eventually Dave, along with Duncan, found Erika in a
car with Cristina and Aiden. Dave tried to calm Erika down, but Erika aimed a
taser at Dave, and demanded to know where Sarah was and why they had “kidnapped”
her. Erika started to cry, especially when a drunk Duncan said something
threatening.

Meanwhile, Marlowe was told to hold down the fort while Clarke flew Sarah to
Erika. They arrived and, upon seeing Sarah, Erika scrambled out of the car and
gave her a big hug, sobbing. But Sarah, afraid of her sister seeing what
happened to her, asked Erika why she thought Sarah was her sister. Erika said
she just knew, but Sarah told Erika that her sister was dead. Aiden tried to
tell Erika it was over, that Sarah was dead and she had to accept it. They
drove off.

Dave was furious with Sarah for squandering this chance to be with her family,
but Sarah rebuffed Dave, saying that it was better for them to assume she was
dead. This upset Dave even more, but an increasingly angry Sarah slammed Dave
against the wall and started walking back to the party. Duncan left with Sarah,
and Clarke hung back to make sure things were ok.

Meanwhile, Marlowe had gotten pretty drunk and was very nervous
about the party. The rest of the team returned. Something hit Marvel and Clarke, immediately putting them to sleep.
Sarah felt it, but was able to resist it. Near-simultaneously, the lights turned out, then back on after a crashing sound, and
three young women (ages 16-20, named Robin, Owl, and Lark) wearing masquerade masks appeared, seeming
confused that the lights went back on. One of them grabbed the cloak and started sewing a loop into it.

David sped right past them, grabbing the feather cloak from them. Robin grew wings and took to the air, but a
furious Sarah jumped up at her and dragged her back down to earth; Lark responded by dive-bombing her, knocking her straight into the floor. Marlowe
tried to box in one, but she used magic to break free. They tried to put Marlowe and
Dave to sleep as well, but both were able to resist.

Sarah grabbed Robin and Lark and threw them against the
walls as hard as she could. Owl responsed by using magic to blast Sarah into a wall, who got
knocked out. When she got back up, Dactyla was in control.

Dave quickly noticed this and got ready to fight Dactyla, in
order to prevent them from doing any major damage to people or property.
Marlowe gave Dave a little bit of juice to help him fight, and Dave tackled
Dactyla out of a window. Meanwhile, Marlow and Duncan squared off against Owl, who
was rapidly changing and ready to protect Robin and Lark. Duncan, theorizing
that their transformations were kept in check by their emotions, caused an
intense hysteria in Owl, which caused her to morph wildly and uncontrollably.
Robin begged Duncan to stop it, and Duncan threatened to keep doing
it unless they surrendered. Once they did, Marlowe asked them who they were and
what they wanted. They said that their mother was dying, and had
her feathers stolen from her by a human. They planned to use the swan maiden's cloak to keep her alive long enough to find her feathers.

Outside, Dave and Dactyla fought each other. They traded blows, with Dactyla threatening to kill Dave and the rest of
humanity. Dave was able to prevail, although not without a huge amount of
damage. Sarah woke up, herself again and fully aware of what had happened. Sarah
told Dave that this was exactly why she couldn’t be trusted with her family,
but Dave said that Sarah was an idiot if she thought they would let her face it
alone. Sarah responded by confessing that she fights against Dactyla
constantly, and she worries what will happen if she didn’t.

Sarah and Dave drag each other inside, where Marlowe is in the
process of promising to help the girls, suggesting that her mother use their sanctuary’s healing powers in order to keep her alive. Suddenly, the lights
go dark again, and when they go back on, the Phantom Fox has appeared. The Phantom Fox
taunts the heroes, talking about how she stole everything the museum had, while
the heroes were busy beating up children. The Phantom Fox said she manipulated
the girls into trying to steal the cloak as a distraction. Marlowe responded
that it was sick to use children in that way. Dave tried to attack her, but she revealed that she wasn't stupid enough to monologue in front of a group of superheroes; she was just a hologram.

Marlowe called Taunt and begged them to be gone before they got to their sanctuary, and Taunt agreed, but said Marlowe owed them, and also got Duncan’s number. Dave went into their healing coffin, and then the girls' mother.

Their mother, Isabelle, was healed at least a little, and they said they were
going to continue searching for the person who stole her feathers. Marlowe
suggested they ask the Guard for help, but Isabelle said the only interaction their people ever had with humans was humans stealing their feathers, pelts and skins to enslave them; they refused to trust humans. Meanwhile, with Dave recovered, Sarah asked Dave if he meant
what he said about them being there for her. Dave doubled down, so Sarah called
Erika and told her that her sister was alive. Erika said she knew all along,
and she was glad Sarah would confess. Sarah said that she *was* still dangerous, and that she was learning to be better, and to
be a hero. Erika said it was super cool that her sister was a superhero.

The team went home, where they were debriefed by Marvel. Dave got
frustrated with Marvel, who was knocked out during the events, and was suggesting they
had done something wrong, so he left. Marvel, thinking that their training was lacking, suggested that the team train
with her instead of Balefire for a while. The team agreed, although a bit reluctantly. (Not Clarke. She was thrilled.)

Meanwhile, deep in the sewers, in the undercity, the ruins of Old Unity, the Phantom Fox displayed all her wares from the heist. She also had a bathtub full of money. An unseen person was seen browsing the wares, and held up a mirror in particular, saying
that they were interested.

## Session 5a: Team Building

Balefire, after hearing Marvel's thoughts that the team needed more training, decided to take the New Guardians on a trip. They were told they would be going camping, which annoyed most of them, and made Clarke start taking immune boosters. Clarke also engaged in the noble human tradition of asking if they were there yet immediately. Duncan in particular didn't want to go, thinking it beneath him, but Balefire made it clear they didn't really have a choice. They weren't allowed to take the ship, and were packed into a school bus with Daz as a driver and Ayi as a tagalong.

After hours of driving, they arrived at the abandoned theme park called Orbit World, in the New Unity suburbs. This part had never been rebuilt after the millenium incident, and Balefire explained that this was a place that the team could cause as much destruction as they wanted without anyone caring. Balefire also told them their true mission: they were going to do some ghost hunting. Apparently, several spirits were haunting the theme park, and it was up to the New Guardians to work together to capture them. They were given three area-based ghost sensors, two portable sensors, and ten "ghost balls" which would force the ghost to stay within a certain range of it, and they were tasks with either convincing the spirits to leave, or destroying the anchor holding them to the physical world. Sarah expressed skepticism that ghosts actually existed, although Marlowe pointed out that they and Balefire actively use magic, so it wasn't much of a stretch.

After this, Balefire disappeared, and told them they had camping supplies for three days, and that there would be another catch: every day they would have to accomplish team building excercises, starting with the first one. The team was trapped in a magic barrier until they stood on a box, said one nice thing about their team and one nice thing about themselves, and did a trust fall.

Marlowe was the first to go, generally saying that the team was wonderful and it would be nice to have them carry on after Marlowe died, and that they were glad they were not dead. Marlowe's trust fall was face-first, and David caught them. Next, Clarke went up, and said that she had the coolest powers of anyone, and that she thought every one of the team was really cool. She fell face-first because she didn't understand how trust falls worked. Next was Sarah, who said that she was lucky to have such supportive friends and family, and that despite being a scary monster, having super powers was pretty cool (she *guesses*). She also said it was cool that the team was accepting of her. David prepared to catch Sarah, who was nervous about the fall, and wouldn't go until David kicked the box and she slipped off. Duncan was next, who easily said that he was great and awesome, but kept insulting the team, until he finally relented and said that they were ok. He fell, and no one went to grab him until Clarke did at the last second. Finally, Dave went up, and said that the team was doing their best and was getting better. Dave wouldn't say something nice about himself, until egged on by the rest of the team and the barrier preventing them from continuing. Sarah caught him.

Finally, the barrier went down and they were able to explore Orbit World. Dave went for a walk to find a bunch of carnival games, which were mysteriously still operational. He won them easily, and was awarded a stuffed alien teddy bear from an unknown operator. Duncan and Clarke went to the hall of mirrors, and when Clarke smashed a mirror, it repaired itself. Sarah and Marlowe went to the tunnel of love, which was drained. They talked about how weird it was that Romeo and Juliet were included, when they died at the end of the story, and Marlowe said they were scared of a statue of Juliet, which Sarah tried to destroy, but the projectile Sarah threw to destroy it was caught in mid-air, and the two left screaming about how they had seen a ghost.

During the night, they decided to go try to catch the ghosts. Sarah and Clarke went to the tunnel of love while Duncan and Dave went to the control room to help search the cameras for the other ghost. Marlowe stayed behind, monitoring everything. Sarah and Clarke went to the tunnel of love, which was now operational, with the ghost of a girl sitting in a swan boat. The girl, named Bella, asked what they were doing and where Marnie was. When pressured, Bella informed them that she was waiting for her date. Sarah tried to convince Bella to leave with them, but she insisted on waiting for Marnie, and Sarah got frustrated, throwing a ghost ball but missing. Bella charged Sarah, shooting through her and paralyzing her, and then went to Clarke. Bella tried to possess Clarke, ending up in her arm, which caused Clarke to lose control of her powers briefly. Meanwhile, on the video monitors, Duncan and Dave could see that their teammates were under attack. Duncan suggested they stay where it was safe, which made Dave angry, and Dave gave Duncan a stern speech about their duties to protect their team mates. They came to blows, and it was super hot.

Dave and Duncan raced to help Sarah and Clarke, who were still fighting Bella. Dave was able to trap Bella in a ghost ball, preventing her from harming anyone, except with her words. The team then went to go find Marlowe, who was incommunicado. They found Marlowe, seemingly out of themself, and looking around, saying "Oh, this is cute!" It is theorized, but not confirmed, that Marlowe's link to Taunt had made Taunt temporarily take over Marlowe's body. Then the team talked to Bella, and Clarke convinced her that she and Marnie had to move on. They learned more about her situation: She and Marnie died during the Millennium Incident, and they started to haunt the amusement park and go on dates. She said that Marnie was hiding, and then the team saw Marnie in a mirror, at which point Dave tried to talk to her, but Marnie fled. Bella said they would have to wait until tomorrow, so the team camped out.

During the night, Marlowe continued to ask Bella questions; specifically, they asked her about being dead. Meanwhile, Dave went for a walk by himself, and came across Sarah, who had left her tent while sleeping, and was unconsciously feasting on a squirrel she had apparently caught and killed. Dave snapped her out of the daze, and she confessed this had happened before. She begged Dave not to tell the team, but Dave said it wasn't a good idea, and she accepted that. The two of them returned to the tent to get some sleep. The next day, the team realized they would still have to wait until nightfall for another chance to catch Marnie, and that they would have to face more team-building excercises along the way.

## Session 5b: Team Building

The team had to endure another team-building exercise. This time, it was two truths and a lie. Frankly I can't remember what everyone said, but the highlights were: David admitting that he had dossiers on the rest of the team, Duncan confessing the devil might be his dad, Marlowe saying they didn't know their own name, and Clarke confessed that she missed her family a lot.

The team completed the exercise and prepared for the following night's ghost hunting. They discussed options with Bella, and eventually came to the conclusion that the best idea would be to take her with them, in order to coax out the skittish Marnie. The team also took some selfies with Bella, which showed up as either nothing (for Duncan) or a scary monster (for Sarah).

Night fell, and the team entered the hall of mirrors, where they knew Marnie was likely to be. The ghost sensors started going haywire, and the team started seeing bizarre shapes in the mirrors. Sarah broke a mirror, claiming to have solved the problem, but other mirrors started shattering on their own, and the shards began to spin around them, tearing up everything in their path and separating the team, each of them being isolated and taunted by their own reflection and by the reflections of their teammates, allies and loved ones. Bella was kept with Clarke, and told her that this didn't feel like Marnie at all.

Duncan, terrified, sent out a wave of depression trying to get whatever entity was attacking them to stop. It didn't work, but it did affect Sarah, who began smashing her way through the mirrors to Duncan, who was terrified of her, and yelled at her. Images of Duncan appeared around her, calling her a freak.

Meanwhile, David saw his mother in an image, and tried to reach for her, to get to her, but instead just cut his hand. In a moment of ingenuity, he used the shards of glass in his arm to pierce the whirlwind of glass, breaking through Marlowe's barrier as well. Meanwhile, Clarke modified one of their ghost capture devices to shut down ghostly powers, which made the glass whirlwinds fall, and then a darkness began to creep in. Clarke flew up out of the house of mirrors, taking Bella with her.

Sarah, furious with Duncan, began smashing any image of him she could see, stomping a mirror with his reflection on it over and over. Duncan, terrified, ran away in fear, out of the house of mirrors, leaving Sarah with an image of Duncan grinning at her. The mirrors began floating around Sarah, saying she wasn't a freak, but a "scared little girl." Sarah cowered in fear, not sure what to do, until Dactyla called out to her, offering to take over. And Sarah agreed.

Dave and Marlowe were able to escape the glass shards, but Marlowe stumbled, and began acting strangely. Marlowe suggested to Dave that they travel further into the house of mirrors. The mirrors began to surround them, and Marlowe, clearly being possessed somewhat, pulled Dave into a mirror. Dave and Marlowe found themselves in the Guard Station, with Marlowe passed out and Taunt standing over them, holding a mirror.

Meanwhile, Clarke got to safety and called Balefire, who suggested getting a better view of the situation. Clarke went to the guard station and routed all the park's electronics through there, including the cameras; she saw Dave, Marlowe, and Taunt in the offices. She used the communicator to inform Duncan and Dactyla, who both rushed to the scene. Dave dashed towards Taunt, stealing the mirror from them, but Marnie, who seemed to be under Taunt's control due to a glass mask, attempted to possess Dave, forcing him to lose control of his powers and leaving him dizzy and feeling drunk. The mirror also started calling to Dave, suggesting he use his powers for selfish gain.

Dactyla burst through the wall with Duncan and immediately began to pummel Taunt, who teleported the two of them back to the hall of mirrors. Duncan tried to use his powers on the ghost, but was unable to affect the deceased.

In the hall of mirrors, Dactyla and Dave attacked Taunt with everything they had, doing some major damage to them before Taunt escaped using a portal. When Dave tried to talk to Sarah, he realized that Dactyla was still in control. Dactyla and Dave agreed that they did not want or need to fight right now, and Dactyla left.

The ghosts, reunited, held each other, and admitted that what was anchoring them to the world was their initials carved into a tree. Clarke burned the anchor away, allowing them to pass on to the next life. Afterwards, the team had a whole day to kill, so they decided to wreck as much of the place as possible as a reward.

Balefire returned to the team, and was pleased that they succeeded, although concerned about Taunt. He asked about Sarah, and Dave told the truth. Balefire was able to capture Dactyla, but Dactyla refused to allow Sarah to return. They took Dactyla into Guard custody and the team was sent home one member short.