Location:
Hidden Tomb on Easter Island
Black Orchid followed CX as he followed
Adamas leading the team into the hallway. When Red Hawk stepped out of line,
she continued to follow the others. She knew he couldn’t follow Red Hawk if he
vibrated through the wall. She couldn’t see Adamas and CX when they turned down
the corridor but she knew she would catch up to them soon enough.
When Black Orchid entered the corridor she
saw it was lined with ancient hieroglyphics. The walls, ceiling and floor were
all entirely covered. She could not read them and Black Orchid thought if she
spent time on it she might be able to figure them out.
{GM
Note: Would require an inventing point and a successful inventing roll}
Across the Amulet CX said, "There are heiroglyphics all over these
walls. I'm recording them for later
review. Thunderhead, do you think you
can read them?"
CX had heard the Elementals speaking of
Thunderhead’s role as an archeologist. "Not wanting to make assumptions. I can figure them out with time, but you
might be a little quicker at it."
The Black Orchid sends over the amulet, "I'm not seeing anything yet, but give me a
few moments to look at these hieroglyphs."
Via the telepathic amulet, Thunderhead
replied to CX, "Come quick! We need
you. Supay is here!"
Jack Frost did a double take. "That's not Supay," he said
via the amulet. "That's Pietor, the
craven sorcerer who summoned me back to the World of Men! Unless my eyes are betrayed by some
spell!"
Thunderhead entered the hallway where the
other Guardians were.
Over
the Amulet CX thought, 'Somebody watch my
back. I think these hieroglyphics have something to do with whatever you
guys are seeing. I'm trying to figure them out now. Orchid, are you
seeing the glyphs? They may be hieroglyphics but it’s just a code.
We can break it down and get to the bottom of this.'
Jack Frost followed Thunderhead into the
corridor.
Red Hawk
tried to stay focused on the mission at hand. "Forget the glyphs. Find Jacco and the Gate. Everything else is a
distraction to delay us from the task we are here for." Chris analyzed
his sensor data and mumbled something about ancient tombs and CyberDoom being a
mummy. "This place is cursed. Just
like in that old movie I watched last week."
Black Orchid heard Redhawk’s dual vibe blasts
smashing stone.
While everybody else seemed confused as to what's
going on, The Black Orchid tried to decipher them but failed.
{GM
Note: I lowered her inventing percentage to 90% since this is out of her area
of expertise and didn’t have time to study and learn about it. Black Orchid
failed her Invention Roll.}
Focusing his thoughts through the amulet,
Starbolt communicated. "Hawk, I am
protecting our six, and as CX is occupied with the Hyroglyphics, I won't be
going ahead until he is ready to go. C.X. I'll watch your back as long as
needed."
Thunderhead read the hieroglyphs.
Ten
thousand years ago a race of men journeyed here from a faraway planet. The trip
took many generations. There was a colony here on Easter Island, but when the
travelers arrived they found that it had been destroyed by Earthly creatures.
The new people erected the great stone heads in honor of the previous colony,
and they built their own magnificent city around them. For hundreds of years
they prospered, and grew proficient in the occult arts. Their king in those
days was named Cor, and he begged the wizards to stop their dealings with the
demons from beyond. But they did not, and finally they called forth a great
demon which consumed their whole city. Then King Cor fought the demon and slew
it, saving a handful of his subjects. He himself did not survive the battle. A
secret tomb was build for him, guarded by undead spirits and cursed by the
vengeful demons.
Adamas said out loud, not
using the amulet, "I see figures up ahead, but I can't tell if they are
alive or statues...”
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Battle Conditions:
Adamas Hit Points: 41 Power
Points: 78 Invulnerability: 24
Black
Orchid Hit Points: 30 Power Points:
87 Willpower Defense active and invisible
Centurion
X Hit
Points: 138 Power Points: 99 Magnetic
Defense active
Jack
Frost Hit Points: 24 Power Points:
72 Ice
Defense active, Controlling Weather - Snowfall
Red
Hawk Hit Points: 74 Power
Points: 33 Invulnerability: 10; Vib Def active; Willpower Def active
Starbolt Hit
Points: 34 Power Points: 75 Creation
Points: 45, Used: 0
Thunderhead Hit Points: 28 Power
Points: 77 Height: 6ft, Invulnerability 20
