Session 35 - The Flood

• Returning with a containment unit, the expedition leader (Ban) began to load up the sealed and deadly virus.
• AUW provided the correct instructions and methods to do so after he and Crow had been convinced that Horst was a trustworthy source - a Deader who believed in the betterment of intelligent life.
• Allei believed that a guardian was lurking by. Call it a...sixth sense.
• Crow opted to take the lead; checking down one of the nearby hallways.
• He saw there was an increase in humidity, floors and walls slicked with blood, and saw the movement of something humanoid.
• Crow experienced a hallucination - observing his deceased parents and his estranged sister as mutated corpses who blamed him for their deaths.
• Vela, upon hearing noise from the other hallway, moved to cover that one.
• Upon opening it, she found a Cragman. A Cragman that had been horribly mutated and changed into an abomination - boiled flesh, mawed tendrils, and bone spikes. The creature only knew pain and rage - it charged for Vela!
• The creature was not alone - dozens of them emerging from both hallways. The creatures were super strong and could easily kill or maim - luckily the crew was able to avoid being severely damaged by any of them. 
• Vela held one hallway down with her vibroblades while Crow fired down the other way. 
• Tamit would alternate her support between the hallways while Nikki focused on finishing the data collection of her PDD to ensure that they would have all the data stored here. 
• Allei kept a level head and picked her shots off carefully with her plasma pistols while Remek focused on getting one of the doors closed. He'd later support the team with his robotics; dual Yumi's! 
• AUW supported Crow when he took a wound and otherwise kept Ban safe as he began to escort the 'package' out.
• Crow was not alone in his visions...
• Both Vela and Remek experienced various hallucinations that preyed on their weaknesses. For Vela, it was the idea that she lacked strength and was overwhelmed while being helpless. Remek on the other hand saw a vision his new 'girlfriend' mutating and turning on him.
• While the team began to retreat, they were confronted by a new type of monster. A large mass of flesh and limbs that seemed to absorb its kindred to increase its strength. This blob creature easily dispatched one of the Yumi's Remek had sent out. The other one managed to hold the ground long enough for Crow to provide some support with a grenade.
• Through some quick thinking, the crew made it into an adjacent hallway where Vela was able to psionically hold the door shut. The crew then escaped from the monsters - hoping they wouldn't be followed.
• Remek was physically and mentally sick after the experience - seeking solace in some tinkering and trinkets. Vela had a conversation with him about fear and soldiers - to which they had differing opinions. AUW gave Remek some medication to help calm him.
• Nikki got the vehicles ready and would lead the group out - giving the data she collected over to the scientists for examination.
• Crow used his scope to note a strange alien creature on the ridge watching him. It was pale white, its skin stretched across its skeleton with little to no muscle or fat. With a flat head, "gill" like appendages on its neck, and a single eye... the creature was a strange observer who wore an obsidian 'space suit'. 
• He asked AUW what it was to which AUW replied that the description befit the Voidsmen. However, there are dozens of other theories as to what Voidsmen looked like and no concrete proof either way. 
• Allei also observed the  creature.
• Allei kept Remek company, but she briefly shared her insights into theories for what was going on.
• Allei suggested that the creatures they ran into were Cragmen that had gone under experimentation or possible exposure to the virus.
• Allei believed that the virus they brought were possibly 'The Gods' aka the Primordials. 
• Allei pondered a potential connection between the virus and the Deaders since R and Horst have both been interested in it. The Deaders possibly being 'descendants' of the primordials or having some connection to the monsters inside who re-purposed "meat" and the idea that there was a psionic force or hivemind behind them all.
• One theory was that the Voidsmen = Deaders.
• Allei is pondering the idea of blackmailing Ban for his behavior during the recent events.