Awakening

You awaken to a loud crack of a gun and find yourselves on a cold stone floor. There are two others here with you, both of them have awakened to the sound. Looking around the room is plain stone, hexagonal in shape. A number of hospital beds line the walls of the room, two of them containing men strapped down, both sleeping. A metal barred gate blocks the only entrance and exit.

Upon awakening to what sounded like a gunshot and seeing hospital beds around me, my first thought is why am I on the floor and not strapped down. Was I just shoved in here when the shooting started? Why do I see a bar on the door? Is it to keep people from entering? Who barred the door? I don't see anyone else in the room and I don't recall doing it.

You are all fully dressed (as you were when abducted) but any obvious weapons have been taken.

The third man is dressed in military uniform and appears a little more battered than Freddy and Solomon.

The man on the bed that Solomon approaches does not react. Half his face is horribly scarred, some kind of fire or chemical burn, but not recent. The second, younger man begins to stir and instantly flinches, trying to break from the leather straps holding him down.

The man relaxes somewhat and nods slowly.

"The Mi-Go! They carried me off," says the man quietly, "I was part of a group from Arkham U, investigating these...Aliens. They're not from here." He looks over at the soldier, "You're FOC. How did you get here? Were you part of the backup?"

He sits up on the bed, rubbing his wrists where the straps cut into his flesh, he looks at the other bed and the still unconscious man, "His name's Eugene. Is he still alive?"

"I'm Clive, Clive Woolfe, studying Matallurgy. I thought I'd recognised you. Gunshots? Perhaps FOC staging a rescue? Or Mathis?" he looks at the soldier again, hoping for more information.

Fredrick checks the gate and finds it swings open. It's not locked. There is a strong smell in the corridor beyond, like...mushrooms.

Eugene comes round as Solomon examines him, though is very disoriented. He allows Antony to guide him off the bed and the 5 of you head out the door with Frederick leading the way.

Beyond the door is a corridor of perfectly smooth stone walls, covered in patches of greenish-yellow luminescent fungus that provide enough light to see by. At the end of the corridor, it opens into a wider corridor running both left and right. To the right, the corridor leads to a chamber. In the other direction. the corridor stretches further though there seems to be a large square pit in the ground that may be hard to navigate.

A passage leads out of the room to the left side of the chamber.

Sanity loss

Frederick leads the way out of the brain cylinder room and into a corridor where more of the strange fungus covers the walls, lighting the way. This soon branches off to the right, with the main corridor running straight ahead.

The corridor keeps running straight before splitting off again left and right. To you left, the corridor opens to another circular chamber with more brain jars. The right side leads to a square chamber.

Moving down the corridor, you enter a large rectangular room, somewhat like a warehouse. Deep shelves hold crates stacked to the ceiling. Other shelves hold loose items, human clothing of various types, neatly packaged in plastic bags, various items like flashlights, tools, wigs and weird things you've never seen before, something like machine parts with biological components, jars filled with organs, some you don't recognise. Stacks of books fill one shelf, another holds trays of what looks like raw ore, gold and silver.

Your eyes are then drawn to a movement. A figure at the far end of the room, some kind of huge winged insect standing upright like a man. It doesn't appear to have seen or heard you and emits some kind of clicking sound, the same sound you recall from when you were first taken.

Freddie and Solomon grab their belongings and the thing doesn't seem to have noticed you. It moves along, seemingly cataloguing items. There's an exit off to the left that you could sneak to and avoid it, you could make a run for it or face the thing.

As you try to creep through the room to the doorway on the left, Solomon manages to kick the base of one of the shelves as he passes, the clang of the metal echoes round the room. The creature hears and begins to approach. It doesn't appear to have seen you yet and you can make it out of the room before it reaches you, but it may pursue.

Do you run or face it?

Hustling everyone through the exit Freddie manages to get out of site before the clicking sound and the enemy comes around the shelving to see you. The short corridor leads into another storage room, identical to the last. A corridor leads off in each direction. Also just to the right of the corridor is a round hole in the ground, covered by a metal grate. The sound of rushing water can be heard below.

The water seems to be flowing from your right to left , away from the way you came. (flowing northwest, if the hole is on the north wall, for example)

Without light, it’s hard to tell how far down it goes, you just see the general flow of water.

You are suddenly startled by the crack of a revolver, echoing from the right passage

Solomon takes the lead following the sound of the gunshot. The others follow, hearing the sound of the enemy's footsteps close behind. The corridor ends in corridors running to the left and right.

As you enter this corridor you notice the walls are covered in a strange fungus like substance that illuminates the corridors in a sickly yellow-green light.

As Solomon is deciding which way to go, hears more noises from the left passage. The chittering sound, sounding panicked along with very human shouts.

Your decision is ultimately made for you when you make out more of the insect like creatures appearing in the corridor to your right. They are still some distance away, but are heading your in your direction, the chittering sounds feel like they're in the back of your head.. Quickly you head to the left, in search of the sounds.

Following the corridor quickly, a passage veers off to the right, where the noise is coming from. Heading down it you meet a hexagonal chamber with a bizarre sight. An old man with some kind of gun, is shooting a cone of frost enveloping one of the creatures along with a larger version suspended from pipes and wires. Two men with hand weapons stand to the side, covered in some kind of slime and another young man in an FOC soldier uniform, his gun aimed into the cone of frost. They seem to have the situation under control but you can’t help but remember a swarm of the things is not far behind.

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