Season 8: Session 3: Erebus Holds NYC Hostage

 

Cast: The Nomads

• Amie-Belle T. W. Lee aka Whisper (Played by Curtis): Cold War era super-soldier/spy that got put in the Freezer, because she got poisoned. After getting thawed out and cured she tried to back to work, and was given an “adjustment period”. Uncle Sam called 2 years later, with work… because once you’re in, you’re in for life. Tagline: “In and out without a whisper.” Absent
• Beauregard K. “Bo” Ratnam aka Wirerat (Played by Brice): Technopath, inventor, and hacker. He specializes in co-opting enemy systems and tech assets. Tagline: “Nice tech – I’ll borrow that.
• Stainless Steel Rat aka “Sir” (NPC Ally): Bo’s best friend and assistant. A sentient drone in the shape of a stylized shiny metal rat mindlinked to Bo. Specialties are rapid repair construction and modifications. Imagine if K-9 and R2D2 made a baby and it looks a bit like a rodent. Tagline: “Repairs and upgrades in progress”
• Derrick K. Ratnam aka Ledgerdemain (NPC Ally): Spin doctor and media liaison for Project VANGUARD. Twin to Bo. Tagline: “Well, actually that’s not how it happened.
• MIA Sentient AI made from recovered tech on a prior mission.
• Rafe Hanlon aka Nyx (played by Chris D.): An umbrakinetic petty thief still on work release several years later, on his way to becoming a true agent and hero. Tagline: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
• Layla A. de Blackburn aka Nox (NPC): CIA-trained child assassin all grown up to be Daddy’s Little Monster. Maybe a little mad. Argues with her shadow often. Tagline: “No, we shouldn’t do that…should we?”
• June B. O'Neill aka Prodigy (NPC): Savant with hyper-intelligence that may have cracked the universal power-dampening conundrum. Fresh out of the Meraki Institute for the advanced and gifted. Extremely intelligent, but young (she's 16).
• Vincenzo L. dePrezzo aka Threshold (Played by Rory): Doctor, Mathematician, and Scientist (yes, capitals) and Spatial Manipulator. Threshold can bend space like a pretzel, teleport, obliterate things, and has extraordinary senses. He’d rather be in a research lab than fight. Better known for his work with Doctors Without Borders, the United Nations, and disaster relief than famous battles. Tagline: “I can be there in a snap!”
• Nawang Sonam aka Wan Shi Tong (NPC): Martial Artist with a mysterious past. Thresholds mentor, experienced and highly capable, indeterminate age.
• Eleanor C. Bulli aka "Bubbles (NPC): Manipulates bubbles of energy, short range teleportation, can fly on the bubbles, use them for shields or attack and even see through them.
• Grant L. Wojcik aka Fridge Boy (NPC): Can control ice/cold, but mostly the ability to create ice that explodes. 16 year old emancipated orphan, Our janitor. 
• Rudy A. Coldwater aka Gimmick (NPC): Mildly hyper-intelligent savant. Stutters. Makes very accurate guesses. Typical nerd, not yet 20. Wants to make a difference, assigned to support duties.
• Summer Stratos aka Chain Jacket (NPC): Ferrokinetic
• Vargas Manwell Tilium aka "Impulse" (NPC): Speedster.

The Coming Darkness

The team is going about its routine when a cloud of darkness permeates the building. Looking around the darkness appears to cover most of NYC and it affects all senses, not just light. Most senses are reduced to 1/10 range, though Nyx is largely unaffected.

Communications become spotty as well and the group figures out its a powerful darkness manipulator named Erebus, His power can cover such a large area and feels about right for what is going on, he also can summon beings from another dimension and if the power lasts long enough he can drain other peoples powers - adding them to his own.

Threshold teleports about a thousand feet up to get a view of things but is still in darkness so teleports even further up until he can see that the dome of darkness appears to be centered in Manhattan. He then teleports back to base, shedding momentum from the fall as he does.

He reports his findings to the rest of the group and MAPS HQ.

Please Stand By

MAPS HQ informs the team that they need to stand down and remain on call for if they are needed. Another team will handle Erubus.

Nyx heads out to check on Flushing and get residents safely home.

Wirerat and Threshold try working on communications or sensors that will work better. Wirerat comes up with a brain induction helmet that can tap into Thresholds brain and sees what he sees as he tries various scans. He also has MIA build up an interactive digital map we can use to move around and update it in real time.

Nox is somehow terrified of the darkness and hides in Wirerats lab. Possibly she fears losing her powers.

Search and Rescue

Nyx has been finding people and teleporting them back home, trying to keep them from panicking.

Threshold, after giving the information he can to Wirerat heads out to help Nyx with getting people off the streets. He finds a woman being attacked by some fanged creature, orders it to leave her alone but it attacks him. He tries to obliterate it but only manages to destroy an arm and part of its torso and it keeps coming. He dodges and Nyx appears and grabs it with his shadow whips trying to keep it off Threshold. Threshold uses his powers again adn this time obliterates enough of the creature that it dies. As it turns into shadow goo they both briefly examine it and feel its one of Erebus extradimensional creatures.

Threshold radios the find to MAPS HQ who inform him they have ben popping up all over.

Threshold portals the woman to Mt. Sinai (not the closest hospital but the one he works at) and the ER is packed and shrouded. He puts the woman on a gurney, calls for aid and using his powers preforms emergency surgery to save her life.

While doing so he sees that a meta is glowing and seending out little balls of light throught the room to help people see.

After the surgery he goes and talks to the meta and tries to analyze the powers since they seem to be helpful and penetrate the darkness better than ordinary light. He gives the details to Wirerat back at Nomad base. Threshold then heads to the admin desk to get a list of medical people on call and goes looking for them to bring them to the hospital. After finding everyone he can, around an an hour later he heads over to Prysbertian Hospital in Flushing and does the same for them before going back out to help Nyx with search and rescue.

OOC Notes

Short game due to the storms but it felt like we kept very active and got stuff done.