Khorboth Khronicles

So, an hour or so into the 10 hour session, we got down to the actual meat of the game. I started everybody off in the theater (I brought popcorn). I told them that they did this every Wednesday evening and rotated through the group for who got to pick the movie. I had them roll and Mitzie was the winner. They were watching the recent Pride & Prejudice. The power flickered. The backup generator kicked on, but they got the DvD startup screen. There was a distant rumble.

Zeth got up to go check on things. He knew that this was extremely rare, and wanted to make sure he wasn’t needed. The power then went out, and the battery-powered floodlights came on dimly lighting the room. Mitzey grabbed Zeth in fear. There was another distant rumble. Then there were explosions directly above them followed by the ceiling caving in.

I paused the action and told everybody to draw papers out of a box. This determined what happened to them at this moment, and therefore, their super-powers. I had the sheets color-coded and matching slips so that I could give them information on their powers as they discovered them. Each sheet had a description of what happened to them including a brief lapse of consciousness. We determined who woke up first, and moved on…

First up was Bray, who had the Recovery advantage. He had been slammed to the floor near a wall and hit very hard on the head. He woke up in a puddle of the polymer from the lab above with an I-beam crushing one of his legs. His mind was moving much faster, and he quickly put together what happened. When he tried to find out if everyone else was ok, he discovered that he couldn’t talk. His efforts to attract attention were fruitless until he actually threw something at one of them. For some reason, they couldn’t hear him pounding on things or see the light from his lighter.

Then we had Zeth. He’d been sprayed with goo, buried in “frozen core samples,” and then had the breath crushed out of him. He woke, unable to free himself, but still tried to shift the “frozen core samples” to get free or draw attention.

Next was Bill. He had been thrown through a wall and actually out into the bedrock outside. He was pinned upside down to the wall, covered in strange goo, and then hit hard by a large chunk of reinforced concrete. When he came out, he found himself to be made of marble and nearly unscathed by the impact of the large object. He also noted that the rubble he moved to free himself was much heavier than any five people should have been able to move. He noted Michael hanging from the ceiling, and went to try to help. Then Bray was finally able to get his attention. He easily lifted the I-beam off and got Bray out from under it. Bray’s leg was clearly broken.

Mitzey recovered after that. One of the falling objects had broken the floor and sent her sliding down to the subfloor. In the process, it covered her in hot goo. She went sliding and spinning across the concrete subfloor before hitting her head and passing out. When she came to, she could see everything very clearly. This soon struck her as odd, particularly in view of the only light source being her glowing hand. The hand was giving off about as much light as a flashlight, yet she could see perfectly. She could, from here forward, feel a large flow of energy just under her skin. She crawled over toward the holes in the floor to find a way up.

Last to recover was Michael. She had been sprayed with goo and catapulted upwards to be caught by electrical wires. Lucky for her, every lab has a battery backup. She was shocked and went unconscious twitching and convulsing. When she came to, she was easily able to see a place to land and dropped lightly 15 feet to the floor.

Mitzey crawled up onto the theater floor, noted Zeth’s absence and figured that he must be the one making noise under the freezer. Bill quickly freed him. Zeth found that he could see all the air currents everywhere in the room. It was kinda eerie. people then noticed that the “frozen core samples” were actually dead rats being stored cold waiting for the biology department to do autopsies. Mitzey was kind freaked by this.

As Mitzey turns to make sure the others are ok, she finds that Bray is actually floating off the ground. Apparently, he can fly. He starts cussing (mutely), and some of that is actually heard by his friends. He figures out that he can actually project his voice into the minds of others. He tries searching for minds and fails. He tries to project an image and succeeds in taking over Mitzey’s senses completely. Mitzey freaks out, and he lets it go. He then tries Telekinesis (TK) and is successful in lifting Michael off the ground. She freaks and her skin crackles with electricity. He sets her down, and she turns off the electrical field.

Zeth goes for the first aid kit in the hallway and discovers that the damage is pretty widespread. The other approaches to the elevator were cut off. Mitzey notices that she can see quite clearly that the two floors above were both blown. She seems to have no problems with detail at distance.

The gunk on Bray’s skin pulls his leg and sets the bone and then forms a splint around it. If his vocal cords worked, he’d have screamed. This makes the first aid kit unnecessary.

So, having discovered a few powers, our intrepid adventurers head for the stairs to work their way up looking for survivors.

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