The Adventure

You don't find a phone, or anything useful, on the corpse.

The manuals are mostly filled with irritating corporate-speak ("The Five Pillars of Efficiency are...."), but you do see some references to your current location. Apparently you're at Rehabilitation Center #75, in a place called Malkengard. Besides admonitions not to go outside the now-disabled force-field, or interact with any creatures or entities besides OmniCorp staff, little is said about this place.

Perhaps there are other materials, such as orientation pamphlets, that say more. Or perhaps OmniCorp wanted its employees kept ignorant....

You descend the stairwell without incident, and you can continue down to the first floor if you want.

On the second floor landing, there are two doors on opposite sides. One door has been partially melted, letting you slip through. A sign by the door is now missing a few letters, but you can determine it once said "Research, Development, & Compliance." You see shadowy corpses inside, and the now-standard destruction. Although the outer wall has been slashed open, there's less light than the floor above.

The other door is shut tight, and can't be opened by the keycard, since there's no power. Again, you can determine the sign once said "Commissary." The door has a window at eye-height; peering in, you can barely make out more corpses, and all sorts of supplies in disarray. And even though the door and glass are thick, you hear faint noises from within...chomping? Squeals? Cackling?

Round Three

20: Echo – down to Technopath (2), Genius Gadgeteer +2 pump this round
8: Chillmera – down to Cryokinesis (1), Former Athlete (1)
8: OmniCorp Shock Troops – down to (0)
5: Bulwark – down to (4), Armored
2: Fei-fei – down to Lunar Twelve (3)

Updated. See OOC chat.

The R&D&C room is a shattered relic of corporate ambition gone wrong. Dim light filters through a jagged tear in the outer wall, casting long, broken shadows across the scorched floor. Desks lie overturned, monitors are smashed, and paperwork is strewn about like confetti. The scent of ozone lingers, mingled with the coppery tang of blood.

Half-melted lab equipment clings to charred counters, and bodies—some in lab coats, others in troop gear—are slumped in grotesque positions, their faces frozen in final expressions of horror or agony. A cracked whiteboard in the back still bears ghostly marker scrawls: diagrams and formulas mingle with soulless corporate jargon.

In the center of the room, there's what can be called a "sphere of destruction." That is, whatever exploded, blasted or otherwise went haywire annihilated everything around it in a sphere about 30 feet in diameter. You can both imagine the intense energy erupting, like a miniature sun. Now, though, whatever caused this isn't immediately visible, and the sphere is just dark, empty space.

Luckily, you both are able to find your respective gear after stumbling around for a few minutes. Wires and cables are attached to Rocketeer's armor, indicating the OmniCorp techs were examining it. Tomo's gear is found in a cabinet.

Well, you're partially lucky: Rocketeer's armor got banged up even more in the explosion. Tomo's clothes are torn, and the shrimp are now a gooey mess.

Examining the corpses, Tomo sees death-by-shrapnel; death-by-partial-disintegration; one older man who possibly suffered cardiac arrest or a stroke, as you can see no obvious cause of death; and a few piles of ash, possibly all that's left of several other people.

There isn't much for Rocketeer to scan; only a few "blobs" of residual energy absorbed into the floor. But that energy is very familiar to you: it matches the energy signature generated by Lightningfang and Ragnar.

As you both investigate, you hear a banging coming from the commissary door across the stairwell. Someone or something inside wants out....

Round Three

20: Echo – down to Technopath (2), Genius Gadgeteer +2 pump this round
8: Chillmera – down to Cryokinesis (1), Former Athlete (1)
8: OmniCorp Shock Troops – down to (0)
5: Bulwark – down to (3), Armored
2: Fei-fei – down to Lunar Twelve (3), Prodigal Kicks +2 pump this round

Fei-fei, you're up!

Like the second floor, the first floor stairwell has two doors on opposite sides. Both doors are damaged enough that you can either squeeze past them, or blast/knock them out of the way.

One door opens into a small room, where you see three different doors for bathrooms: one men's, one women's, and one unisex handicap-accessible. The women's bathroom door has been shredded; inside you see a female corpse on the floor, apparently having been caught on the toilet when the catastrophe happened.

The other door has an "Administration" sign on the nearby wall, and peering in you'll see offices in the still-dim light. Most of the offices had glass walls and doors, and the resulting shrapnel has done a number on the staff. You don't see or hear any signs of life.

There's something alive on the second floor, of course. Now you hear crashing glass, likely from the glass on the commissary room door. But that's followed by an eerie silence, then what sounds like whispering....