The Omega Contingency
A week late, but better than nuthin’, right?
We left off last week, jumping ahead a year into the future,
when Dr. Destruction left the team a prerecorded message, telling them how to
find The Overmind, to launch one final assault against him. This led directly
into the team reuniting, with Steve the Atlantean in tow, to plan their attack.
Talos got right to work on repairing an Atlantean Teleport
Tube to transport them to the V’Sori homeworld, and Bully marched through
first, with Mindstorm right behind him. As the team entered one by one, they
emerged in the bizarre mediation room of the Overmind, who sneered that he had
planned for this eventuality, before unleashing three V’Sori/K’tharen hybrid
bodyguards on the team, as well as drawing forth manifestations of the team
from their own subconscious minds to torment them.
Socks wasted little time in shredding the demons of his
teammates. In fact, the Twisted Talos was the only one who really did much of
note, as the team made short work of their duplicates. The bodyguards, on the
other hand, inflicted a lot of damage. The Overmind’s force field shorted out
quickly (due to an Adventure Deck card), and Steve kept opening fire on him,
but couldn’t see for sure that it was having an effect. Bully went into a rage
and killed one of the bodyguards, but Kale was badly wounded in the fight.
Talos also suffered injuries at the hands of the hybrid bodyguards, but the
combined might of the team took the remaining bodyguards down and Bully marched
to the Overmind, hurtling him from his stand and splattering him against the
wall. The team thought they had won.
The roof tore open and the Omega Contingency revealed itself:
A 50’ Drone body with the Overmind’s face on it! The Overmind had been
transferring his consciousness into the body and was attacking wildly! Talos
tried to hold it in place magnetically and failed, so Mindstorm tried Telekinesis
instead!
Socks had Bully throw him at the face of the Overmind, and
he began to hack and tear, trying to claw inside of its head! Talos sprang up
to join him, but had less success! Talos and Mindstorm also tried to literally
disarm the Overmind, but had no luck with that, either, and it repeatedly
smashed at Socks with a massive vibrosword. Steve fired multiple deadshots at
the Overmind, with minimal effect. Socks burrowed into the head of the Overmind
and began looking for something to destroy inside…when a new plan emerged: Kale
ran ahead of Bully and began casting a spell…as Bully charged in a rage…and
Kale grabbed him, teleporting the two of them eye to eye with the Overmind…sending
Bully crashing right through the head of the Overmind, disabling his robot body
and destroying his transferred mind!
As V’Sori entered the meditation chamber to see what had
happened, the team was surprised at what happened next: The revelation that the
V’Sori had been being influenced by the Overmind for untold years…and that many
of them were now shaking that influence, though there were plenty of others who
bought into the V’Sori way fully and completely. The team saw what was coming…a
V’Sori Civil War…and they immediately made a decision: They would stay and help
the peaceful and repentant V’Sori fight for their lives and their culture.
Talos pointed out that they could lay low and escape back to Earth with the V’Sori
neutralized, but Mindstorm and Socks both agreed that this just one more
necessary step in finishing the war that they had been fighting…but that they
needed to send communications back to Earth to direct their organization regarding
what would happen next.
NOTES: I shouldn’t have waited a week to type this up. It
was fun, and satisfying, but after the deeply personal moments in the Battle of
Star City and the previous conflict against Leviathan, we may have set the bar
too high. That said, I was honestly kind of surprised at how willing the team
was to help the “good” V’Sori. Heroes indeed.
If real life weren’t ending this group, we could EASILY have
continued on from the end of the Plot Point Campaign (for starters, I would
have stretched out the Leviathan plot), despite entering Legendary.
I gave each member of the crew a unique Legendary Edge that
I wrote up for that character, taking an element of each and amping it up just
a bit. I want to do more Legendary.
And lastly…I lied again. The current plan is that when
Mindstorm’s player returns to visit (first scheduled visit is in November), we
will pick up the campaign in shorter mega-adventures, the first of which will
be The V’Sori Civil War.
Best campaign ever indeed.
Best campaign ever indeed.
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