January 5th

It is mid day, Monday July 2nd. We send the mercenaries away after we paid them. The leader says that he should look him up again if we have any other jobs for him. (Blaze heroically swishes a bug on Joe’s paper with her bare hand.) Hikari joins Blaze, Xestro, Joe, and Allison at the cave mouth. Allison send ectoplasm toward the cave after a few inches into the cave, it collapse and goes back to Allison. Xestro throws a rock into the cave and it bounces around. We look into the cave some more. All we can see is a wall opposite the opening from the rock cliff face that has electronics along it. It is obviously man made and the corridor goes in both directions about 8 feet wide. Xestro holds his hand in to see if it becomes unbearable. It just keeps tingling. He walks all the way in and is now tingling all over but nothing more. Xestro throws his rock down the corridor. Blaze watches Xestro for a while and then she goes in after he seems ok. Blaze just walks in without any effects at all. Allison decides that it must be ok so she walks in and feels the world start spinning. She quickly gets back out of the cave and the world stops spinning. Hikari goes in without any problems. The floor is covered in dust and their newly made footprints. Davis goes walking in and starts swaying around and thinks it is the coolest thing. The party inside the cave except for the swaying Davis goes down the hallway after Xestro’s rock. The hallway turns to the right and they see a room that has a lot of tables with lab equipment on it. They hear whimpering on the far side of the room in a corner. There are no footprints in the dust other than theirs. Hikari can see the far side of the room but cannot see anything. Blaze does not sense magic and Xestro does not sense evil but when using that power he tingles more. Hikari turns on the lights by using a light switch. The whimpering does not change. The far wall is lined with plexy glass walled in offices. Blaze steps into the room toward the whimpering and Hikari notices big guns in the far corners moving toward them. (Nick drops food once again. Scott mentions that it is not a good omen and that he should just leave now. Little does he know how true that is.) Hikari yells duck and drops to the floor. Two bright beams of light flash out of the corners toward Blaze and she dives forward and hits the ground. The beams fly over her. She lies as still as she can. Xestro sees out of the corner of his eye in the corner close to him a laser pointing at him. He dodges by going under a table just in the nick of time. Hikari gets tagged by the other gun in the near left corner. Xestro yells to turn off the lights. Hikari turns off the lights and exalts in his success while dodging another blast while the one from the near right corner tags him. Blaze casts Armor of Ithan. Hikari dodges back into the hallway. Blaze crawls under the table and avoids another blast. Xestro is rolling under the tables toward the gun. He throws his rock up and it gets blasted. Blaze pops up to cast a fire blast at the gun in the near left gun. All two lasers blast her in the back of the head and she hits the one gun with her blast while it also blasts her. She also gets hit with the final gun. Hikari gets ready to shoot an arrow into the cave. Meanwhile, outside, Joe and Allison watch as Davis stops swaying, saying, “It was good while it lasted” and heads off in the opposite direction. Allison and Joe decide that if it goes away for him it will work for them as well and both walk into the cave. Allison feels a little queezy but it is nothing that she can’t handle. Joe has a bit of a harder time and hurls all over Allison. After a minute Allison recovers from the vertigo and just has tingling all over. Joe is still recovering and Allison takes advantage of the moment by putting makeup all over his face. Joe then recovers and they go after the rest of the group and leave Davis on his own. They need light and Allison can’t be close while he is flamed on so Joe turns into a flaming, flying parrot and goes down the hallway with Allison trailing at a safe distance behind him. As Hikari prepares to fire his arrow into the lab he sees a light coming behind him. He fires his arrow into the room, hears the arrow get destroyed and turns to look behind him and sees a flaming bird of death flying toward him then realizes that it is Joe. Joe noticed that Hikari looks startled and says, “Don’t shoot, it’s me.” Hikari replies, “A parrot? You picked a parrot of all things?” Allison yells, “Joe, you can flame off now!” Hikari fills Allison and Joe in on what is going on. Blaze’s globe of daylight flickered and went out, so she casts it once again then she manipulates objects and turns the light on without anyone getting shot. Blaze casts cloud of smoke around one of the guns then Hikari shoots an arrow to see if the gun still fires at it and all guns fired at it. Xestro rolls under the next table while the guns are busy. Blaze looks to see if there are cables that are powering the lasers, and narrowly misses getting hit and doesn’t see any cables. Blaze wants to get something done so she tries to pop up and blast the gun again and just take the shots, but she catches her shoulder on the table, preventing her from getting off her shot but gets tagged by three of the guns in the head. Then she gets back under the table to cast armor of ithan again. Hikari shoots an arrow while Blaze goes for a gun. One shot gets the arrow and two get Blaze. Then Allison asks Joe, “Can’t you go invisible?” Joe says, “Oh, yah.” He goes invisible as a parrot into the room and nothing happens. He sees that nothing happens so he flutters over to the gun that Xestro is only one table away from. He then turns into a dragon, but the walls are too close so he falls onto the tables that Xestro is currently under. Xestro sees the table in front of him and the table behind him collapse. Debris goes everywhere. Xestro shoots the gun around Joe. Joe puts his head under the gun and does a fire blast. He destroyed the gun and the flame goes into the ceiling. Joes sees the fire still burning after he stops flaming. Everyone else sees this flame go into the ceiling. The smoke comes into the room and Blaze puts her gas mask on. The fire alarm starts going off. We hear a really loud hissing sound at the same time fire doors seal off the room that Joe, Blaze and Xestro is in. The fire alarm is very loud in the room, even louder in the hallway and still a very loud hissing sound. Hikari tells Allison that he is going to shoot an arrow that does a lot of damage so Allison backs up around the bend in the hallway. In the room, Joe rips one of the guns off of the wall and they are all feeling a little tired. They go explore the offices to see if there is a way out. Hikari shoots his arrow and there is a very big boom. The door goes flying off the door frame and goes flying across the room. The door slams into the office wall right next to Blaze and then goes through the office wall and into the wall behind it. Both Allison and Hikari are temporarily deafened. There is now a clear path through the middle of the room. Blaze goes to try and find the whimpering sound. She finds a person curled up under one of the tables. She is wearing a white lab coat. She goes toward her and asks if she is ok. She jerks up and says, “There is no escape. There’s no way out! We’re trapped!” Blaze says, “We got in we can get out.” She says, “Take me with you!” Blaze reaches for her and her arms go through her. Blaze finds a fire extinguisher. She gets on Xestro’s shoulders, closes her eyes, and shoots the fire extinguisher up into the ceiling until it goes out. A giant white cloud covers both of them. Xestro is coughing a lot. Blaze opens her eyes and can’t see anything but white. She gets off of Xestro’s shoulders and eventually get out of the white cloud. Joe sees two white objects moving around and then sees the white drop away as Blaze cleanses herself and Xestro. Joe puts his head above the ceiling tiles and doesn’t see any fire. We all go back to the mouth of the cave. Flea is there and says that Davis hasn’t returned yet. Allison says that she doesn’t have any weapons so Flea lets her borrow his gun that he got from Jack. We go back to the room and they talk to the ghost. We don’t get anywhere. There are no fire escape maps on the wall. We turn on a computer but we don’t have a password. We decide to go back to find Davis. The hallway goes for a ways and then turns left. Then we come to three elevator doors. We can see Davis’ footprint going into the middle elevator so we go in that one. We are on level three and we go up to level two. We see a straight halway going forward. There is no dust on the floor. Level one has lots of footprints. They are recent footprints but we can’t tell if they are Davis’ and they may be made by the same person. Level four has a big huge room. No foot prints. We send a globe of daylight into the room. All we see is a wide open space. The last level, five doesn’t want to open, so Joe helps them to open and rocks and rubble come in. We get out and climb up to the next floor. Joe goes into the room invisible. Joe runs in and sees how far he can go. Allison gets tired of waiting for Joe so she walks into the room and pushes the button for the next elevator and the elevator comes like normal. There are no guns apparently. We go up to level one. We can’t tell which way Davis went. We look for an angled footprint to see which way he stepped off the elevator, but he wasn’t on this elevator. As we are trying to figure out what to do, we hear footsteps coming from the left. It sounds like more than one person. We decide to get up on the ceiling and hide hanging to the cables there. The elevator door closes and we are plunged in darkness hanging to the door. Joe just turns invisible. Joe doesn’t see anything even with thermal vision. The footsteps are coming closer. Joe opens the elevator to get light back into the corridor. Into the light of the elevator walks four robots holding laser rifles. One walks into the elevator, walks out and then they all just stand there. Joe moves his foot to close the elevator door and a little bit of dust shifts and instantly all four robots fire on the dust. Joe gets a lot of damage to his foot and screams out in pain. We can’t see what the robots are doing because the door is closed again. We can hear movement, but they aren’t firing. Joe holds completely still. It is completely silent in the corridor. We then hear steps going off into the corridor. Allison uses her other foot to get her shoe off and it drops to the floor. Allison yells to Joe to open the door. Allison jumps into the elevator after retrieving her shoe and says let’s go. The guys are sitting there discussing things while Allison and Blaze say we’re going, you better get in now. We’re closing the door. We are all in the elevator and trying to decide what we are doing. We hear steps going by and we all are quiet while the steps get closer and closer. Just when the feet are almost to the door the elevator jolts and we start going down. The door opens at level four. Davis is standing there saying the place is so cool. Allison and Davis stand there talking about all the great things they could do with this place. Everyone else gets back on the elevator and go back up. Allison and Davis join them. They walk down further on level three. There is a big security door at the end of the hall. Joe tries to open the door and just leaves long scratches in the door. They go back to the door and try to find a security badge. Blaze finds a personal pass that has a guy’s name on it and a magnetic strip. She tried the card in the keypad and tried random numbers on the door. After two tries we stopped. Hikari then tries to shoot the door and doesn’t charge it enough. It only leaves a scorch mark on the door. Alarms start blazing and we decide that it is time to go. We run out and see that the elevators are coming down to that level. We all go out of the cave and wait for the robots to come. We wait for ten minutes and no one is coming. Allison goes back to the behemoth to rest and get some ISP back. As everyone else keeps talking, smoke comes out of the opening. Allison says that she can’t put the fire out until after an hour of resting. We send Flea in to get some computers. Xestro goes in as well and Joe goes with him and feels dizzy again for about three minutes. They turn the corner to the room where the computers are an the whole room is blazing. Xestro finds another fire extinguisher and shoots it in there. It doesn’t do anything so he throws the bottle in the room and it explodes. Xestro wants to go to the other side where the elevators are and see if the robots are there. They get to the corner and Xestro sticks his head around to see if the robots are there. He sees several lasers coming toward him and that is the last thing he ever saw. So ends the life of our heroic Samari. Joe sees him look around and sees his body fall. Joe grabs his body and starts running toward the corridor. Laser blasts start flying out toward him since the body isn’t invisible. He d rops the body and makes his way to the opening. He doesn’t take too much damage.