In reply to Spectre (E) (msg # 97):

"I want you and Advocate to infiltrate, but only after I check what security devices are running. I need to know if we are being watched while we enter." Zero replied, still using his energy vision to find various power flows and to see through the solid wall itself.

OOC: The facility seems to be surprisingly light on security. Power usage seems to run mainly off in one direction towards what you suspect might be the entrance and as far as Zero can discern cameras and other security measures are quite light otherwise - any stealth specialist would have little trouble evading the measures. One thing which does catch Zero's attention specifically is what seems to be something using a huge amount of power much deeper within the complex. What is particularly interesting is that this doesn't seem to be connected the main power of the complex at all.

In reply to GM (msg # 99):

Zero proceeds to tell the others what he has learned. He had no doubt Demi or the others had some way to get inside rather than risk him destroying one of the walls and possibly setting off any security measure that might be in place.

Advocate, fully in cyborg mode, turned to the others.  "Do you want to go in separately, or will you come along quietly, like good prisoners?"  Advocate's manor goes cold, clinical, and adversarial.  They have done their best to take the pose of the servant-mechanical.

"Maybe our man Exploogian prefers non-technological security. Lemme give things a look-see." Demi puts out feelers for otherdimensional telltales, projecting her extrasensory awareness into the structure below.

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12:45, Today: Demiurge (E) rolled 1,8,3 using d8,d10,d8.  Principle Of Whispers  (Awareness, Otherwordly Mythos, Status; Use Max die). Overcome is completely successful and nets us +1 Hero Point. If there are otherworldly energies involved here, she can tell the others what's what

Intangibly, the Spectre glides to where the others are located.  He is silent as he does so.

OOC: Nope, nothing magical or extra-dimensional at all. Whatever might be within is pure science.

Demi shrugs. "Seems to be a total science nerd, our Exploogian. Anything anyone wants to do before I open a gaping hole in spacetime for us to hop through?"

"I am ready to assault whatever this dastardly person has for us."

"Sounds fine to me." Zero says, ready for the portal.

"I will return to the doctor's service." it says in the flat monotone of the cyborgs.  It moved to prepare for portalling in.
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Demi twirls her staff overhead like some kind of bizarro drum majorette, and a glittering hoop of energy descends over the heroes. When it rises up again, they find themselves in the corridor immediately below where they were standing a second before. Demi bows with a flourish.

As the glittering loop fades away you find yourselves in a drab corridor; white painted walls line a corridor which runs in both directions lit by fluorescent lighting tubes set along the roof. As soon as you appear Doc Zero's Geiger counter starts to screech in protest as the levels spike. Not quite enough to pose a risk to people (in the short term at least) but the radiation here is significantly higher than the normal background.

Just as you start to think that the quality of evil lairs has really taken a downturn of late something catches your eye; a notice board tucked away further down the corridor. The notices thumbtacked to the cork are the standard dull office fare but most are prominently marked 'United States Department of Energy'. You're in a government facility!

Though the eerie quiet and complete lack of people make you think it's either been mothballed or something much, much worse has happened...

The corridor heads in two directions. One towards what Doc Zero identified as the entrance and the other deeper into the heart of the complex.

Advocate began to walk towards the deeper heart of the complex.  They kept up a regular pace, but added a slight limp, as if damaged, to imply a lack of correct function.  As they moved forward they kept an eye open for trouble.

Zero focuses his energy sight on the infra-red spectrum. Excesses radiation should also show up to his sight, as he can adjust his vision from ether energy output. The Giger counter should direct his searches, allowing him to look in the right spot-and then start tracking the source. Ether a heat trail or a path of radiation.

Spectre goes invisible and intangible and begins following partly within the walls, that way if there are wall mounted defenses hopefully he'll know.

The ionized particles are like fireflies to Demi's hyperawareness. She collects them all via cosmic-energy control, deposits them in a leyden jar/faraday cage hybrid she conveniently had in her pocket, and shoves the whole kit and caboodle into the portable hole she used as a purse. "Never know when you may need a burst of ionizing radiation, am I right or what?"

As you progress through the complex the general feeling of 'not a great evil lair' continues. There are no traps of any kind, virtually no security cameras or other measures and barely the merest hint of chrome. Between your various skills you have no trouble following the draw of radiation to the centre of the complex and as you do it becomes increasingly clear where you are - you seem to be in a federal nuclear waste storage facility.

Various side passages lead off to storage areas which seem to have been stripped, leaving only residual readings, but as you get closer to the centre of the building and the room clearly marked "Central Storage Chamber" the readings are of extremely harmful (to 'normal' people at least) levels of radiation. It is also clear that the draw of almost all of the complex's power is to the room which is now the other side of the two foot thick lead lined door sitting locked in front of you!

In reply to GM (msg # 115):

"We need to bypass this door without harming it. If it is a safety precaution, we want it intact lest any radiation leak. I suppose Specter or Demi could open it. However, are any of you concerned about the radiation levels? Needless to say, Ice does not get cancer-so I should be fine." Zero pointed out. He does use his advanced energy vision to see if there is massive doses of radiation just waiting for them on the other side of the door. While radiation could not move through the lead, neutrinos could, and he could use that to see.

Demi giggles after Doctor Zero's remarks. "Doc, I can hoover up all the radiation in this place and store it in a mason jar. As for doors, I don't so much open 'em as open holes in spacetime. Earned a merit badge for this on Earth-π. Or was it Earth-e. No, Earth-i. Earth-8675309? One of those. Anyhoo, lemme give it the ol' Girl Scout try." A globe of energy, glowing a cheerful Cherenkov blue, appears in mid-air and grows for a bit before a mason jar like the prior one she used appears and the blue glow gets sucked into it. "There! Hard radiation will no longer make you do strange things!"

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09:35, Today: Demiurge (E) rolled 3,7,3 using d8,d8,d8.  Principle Of Whispers  (Cosmic Energy, Exemplar Extempore, Status; Use Max die). Will spend 1 hero point to make that a complete success.

Advocate/Cyborg cocks its head, and then tests the door.  And, should it open, they proceed into the room, to look for what might be hidden beyond.

"Oh, almost forgot." Demi gestures vaguely, and a portal appears. It doesn't open the door so much as open into the room beyond it. "Never let it be said that I'm not all about building bridges... interdimensional bridges. Take that, Einstein, Rosen, and the rest of you lot. All your multiverse are belong to us!"

"The Doctor will see you now." Advocate says, venturing into the previous no-man's land that moments ago was a monstrous nuclear hot spot.

"I can phase through the door, however, if the doctor is correct, then I'd be walking literally into my death.  If you ask this of me, I'll perform it, but I would rather not."

Demi hands the leyden/faraday/mason jar she just filled with the base's radiation to Spectre. "Not like you need to, but if you're really jonesing to croak you can just phase into this. Best sit down first, though. If you die and drop it, you'll release all the radiation back into the complex and I'll have to find another jar."