Event:1925/06/06 Assault on the Purple Dome Room
The base is on high alert and in chaos after the explosion. Kakakatak leads the group back through Huston's headquarters and then takes them along the SE path, which leads to the purple dome room. They point out paths along the way not to go (the red plaza has a titan horror, and south from Hustan's is the nursery).
Entering the purple dome room, we see it is a perfect hemisphere with a gray metallic floor. There's a second smaller hemisphere in the center pulsing with a purple light. There are some small piles of sand, one with some bones, where the dome has slightly cracked over time. There's a 3' high stone block block on one side of the purple pulsing hemisphere. Behind that is a 20' tall statues of a black bat winged creature made of branches and bones held together by cloth and rope with blood as glue, clearly roughly fashioned. Around it are other statues, forms we've seen before but are difficult recognize. Father Quinn recognizes them[1] as Cthulhu, Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Cthugha, Shub-Niggurath. There are also smaller statues of obsidian that look like some alien hybrid of a frog and bat with scorpion tails as wingtips. They are the Father of all Bats' foot soldiers according to legend[1]. The group of statues gives off an uneasy feeling. Kakakatak notes that they are essentially batteries of magical energy. Father Quinn says that it's the devil's energy[1]. Jack Brady and the Firmies set up around the inner purple hemisphere for the ritual. Isoge Taro and the submariners set up on the north entrance with Chun Li. The rest of us set up on the south entrance. From the north, Kakakatak hears[2] the sounds of a flying polyp approaching and repositions there to deal with it. Chun Li shoots the flying polyp, causing it to scream in pain. Two of the frogbat statues come to life, and Victor moves to engage them. Jack attacks one, but misses. The flying polyp accordions, generating a blast of wind that injures most of the group to the north. Kakakatak responds with a blast of lightning, tossing the expended gun aside afterward. Huston calls from the south that we've meddled in his plans long enough. Charles shoots down the south corridor, hitting a cultist. Chun Li shoots at the flying polyp and misses. Father Quinn tosses a stick of dynamite down the south hall, but it falls short of hitting anything. Victor hits a frogbat with a blessed axe, hurting it. Isoge Taro hits the flying polyp. Huston shoots Charles with a lightning gun. Charles returns fire and hits him with a rifle blast. Chun Li lines up an expert shot and explodes the flying polyp. Father Quinn chucks another stick of dynamite down the hall, exploding Huston and 4 of the cultists in the ensuing blast. Another flying polyp appears from the north and then turns invisible. Chun Li and some of the submariners manage to hit it still. Charles and Father Quinn team up to take out another cultist. Victor and Jack finally manage to take one of the frogbats out. The flying polyp attempts to pull things toward it, but everyone resists. Kakakatak, not being able to locate the flying polyp, turns and blasts at a frogbat, but misses. Charles and Father Quinn miss a cultist. Chun Li lands another amazing shot, popping the second flying polyp. Victor and Jack both get a critical hit against the remaining frogbat, badly damaging it. Another flying polyp appears, and Kakakatak blasts it with lightning. Charles and Father Quinn miss again. Chun Li reloads her rifle. The submariners open fire and pop the flying polyp. The frogbat attacks Jack, but he skillfully dodges and then punches the statue, killing it. Chun Li begins offering first aid. Father Quinn punches and kills another cultist, leaving only 2 of them. The cultists look like they're about to flee. Kakakatak moves toward the south and blasts one with a lightning gun, completely incinerating him. Charles cuts the last one with his sword, and as the cultist attempts to run, Father Quinn clocks him, killing him. In the aftermath, the group tends to wounds and completes the ritual! Only one of the Firmies died. It seems a great deal of cultists in the area were directed to deal with the flying polyps.
After the ritual, the party regroups back in the workshop. Kakakatak modifies a Yithian status cube to naturally heal a single person by making weeks of time pass in an instant for them. Charles is elected to use it and emerges completely healed of his major injury. As the rest of the group waits and recovers, Father Quinn asks Brady about Hypatia Masters. Jack Brady is concerned about her most of all. He says Nyarlathotep was granting dreams. Roger thought his life would be a failure and wanted to be successful. Huston wanted to be a god. Penhew wanted to be Pharoah. Patty wanted a baby after her and Raoul's baby was "taken care of." Anastasia was a priestess of the Bloody Tongue. It was her influence and ideas that corrupted all of them.
Kakakatak sends Jack Brady, the Firmies, Isoge Taro, the submariners, and Chun Li back to Shanghai on 6/21/1925. They send the other 3 members of the group to Cairo, also on 6/21/1925. They return themselves to their proper location and place in time, leaving the device drained of power reserves and inoperable after their transportation.
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