Arc 4: Shadows in Dugway

## Session 1 (3/7/2020)

* About 6 days after the events of the Black Hat attack
	+ During the break, Choc disabled the explosives in the Combine cars, takes out the explosives
	+ Victor gets excited about the prospect of repurposed Combine vehicles and uses for the explosives
	+ Atom gives Gregg a pink palmcorder
* The party heads out to Dugway, about a 4 hour drive, get there by about 2 o’clock
	+ We spot smoke on the base, looks like campfire smoke
	+ Everything feels a bit off, more shadows than there should be
* We sneak around the parking lot where the smoke is coming from
	+ Gregg skates up, notices someone apart from the main group of strangers sneaking in the shadows
	+ The person in the shadows spots Gregg, comes to meet up with her and Atom
	+ They take the guy to meet Jenny nearby, the guy’s wearing military gear
		- He says he’s under orders from his superior to protect Dugway
			* He doesn’t think he can take the invaders alone, more cars had headed toward the other side of the base, they have cybernetic enhancements
		- He discloses that the base was used to test new weapons, gases and chemicals
			* Commander Keen was the ranking officer at the base, hasn’t talked to him in years
		- He tells us his name’s Mac
* At a distance, keeping a lookout, Addie and Choc spot movement in the shadows by the posse
	+ Addie draws her sword, approaches, and intercepts a moving shadow with her blade before it can harm Gregg, slicing off its head
	+ We are ambushed by fucked up creatures, look like large featherless birds, hunched over, covered in goo, look sick, plague doctor-esk masks
	+ Jenny and Addie take hits from them, but we eventually cut the creatures down
		- During the fight, Jenny peeks into one’s mind, senses agony
		- Those hits turn out to be pretty fuckin’ serious, as the creatures spread the disease that turned them into what they are through wounds, but we are able to heal the infection (text-rp)
* After being confronted by Choc, Mac admits he’s not human, orders he received weren’t his, but are now, woke up one day, found sergeant Mac’s armor, and took the name
	+ He doesn’t know much about the creatures, dubbed “bio-freaks”, likely made from people that had previously snuck into the base

## Session 2 (3/22/2020)

* We pick up back at the base, slightly later
* Team is resting at the gas station at the base
* We notice a few people approaching us, taking up cover and pointing rifles at us
	+ We trade some communications with each other, through radio and mind links via Jenny
		- Jenny mentions to the opposing group that the infected shouldn’t get fluids on anyone else, the cure might be inside the facility
	+ At mention of a cure, they stand down, and 4 people approach us
		- 2 of their people have familiar black claw marks on them
		- Addie and Choc heal their wounds
	+ They mention Frank, the “current leader” of their group, charged into the complex through an opening in the side of the building
	+ The only reason they haven’t fled the base is because the bio-freaks cornered them
* We test a theory of how the bio-freaks react to sound, find loud sounds make them flee
	+ Choc cobbles together some bullhorns
* The acting leader of the gang group is Uno
	+ Says they came here for ammo, Frank and another boss found info on this place that it was used as a breeding ground for some kind of weaponized disease
* The gang comes with us as we get closer to the facility
* We split into two teams, one infiltrating team, and one that will keep watch outside
	+ Atom, Jenny, and Mac enter the building
		- Mac emits a loud sound to chase some bio-freaks out
			* Jenny is able to infiltrate the mind of one, gets an image of their leader: man in power armor, Commander Keen, looks emaciated: he’s harrowed and has been making the creatures
		- They head to the admin office
			* Keen threatens them through the loud speakers
			* They find Frank, cowering in a corner, send him out with Atom, he’s been injured by a bio-freak, Addie heals the wound
			* Atom then hacks into the base’s computer, gets the files they need and downloads them to a data slug, activates the elevator, reprograms the outside turrets to target bio-freaks
		- They take out a few ambushing bio-freaks
		- They find a terminal with info on soul-tethering, automatons, reanimation, like what was used with Mac
		- They find some stored military weapons and armor and take them
		- They set the explosives, and after Keen refuses to back down, blow up the facility
* Atom uses his metal manipulation powers to make Frank use his metal arm to slap Uno’s ass, gets a motherfucking 45 on that faith roll, like, fuck, I’m writing this after 24 sessions and I think that’s still the highest explosion we’ve gotten on any single die
	+ Uno beats his ass, and the rest of the gang leave
* This is where Gregg gets her pickup