Post by Adminenkainen on Dec 4, 2017 4:26:25 GMT
Session 7
February 5, 1942
Batman and the Outsiders had just saved four of the missing ten women in the hideout, but not without sustaining injuries and running low on stamina. It was suggested that The Spook take his seriously injured apprentice back to Mount Prospect along with the rescued women; though they were not far from the exits, it seemed a poor idea to send them out into the Southland alone.
Their numbers reduced back to five, the Outsiders searched to the east, hoping for another lucky break. They found a chemistry lab with a mysterious reel of film inside it. On some stairs leading out of the lab they found a switch that they left alone, and at the top of the stairs were storm doors being pressed in by some heavy weight from above – another way out, if they could solve the puzzle of what was on top of the doors. But that too would wait. Even a neighboring room covered in sand was tabled until after more rooms could be searched.
Further east, they found a kitchen. While they were leaving the kitchen, they almost bumped into two drunks coming back to the kitchen. The Outsiders invited the drunks in and then took them prisoner before they knew what was going on. Upon questioning, the drunks didn’t know where the women were – but they knew where they were hoping the women weren’t – with a particularly bloodthirsty crew quartered to the south.
Heading south (after telling the prisoners to stay put), the Outsiders found a large, long hall guarded by four men. The men wanted to chase the Outsiders away at first, but then welcomed them to check their room for the missing women. Behind a pair of double doors to the north was a giant chamber with an Asian motif and nine men of mixed nationalities watching a film that was inciting them to violence. The object of their violence was soon going to be the three women chained up in shackles in the middle of the room.
And that was when the four men attacked from behind the Outsiders.
Batman, White Knight, and Gracie Heart turned to deal with the four from behind, while Blaze and Dark Lash waded into the chamber. And things went spectacularly well, at first. Right away, they decked four bad guys in all and dropped their opponents to single digits. But then Batman went down from a gunshot (again), and White Knight leaped up onto a high dais overlooking the chamber with Gracie in tow. This left Blaze and Dark Lash swarmed by eight bloodthirsty hoodlums, and Dark Lash was soon pulled down by them. Blaze was just really lucky, as he was busy melting the chains that held the women and not even fighting back at first.
But the tide turned again once Gracie started picking off hoodlums with her shotgun. Batman had thrown down a tear gas canister into the room earlier before losing consciousness and the tear gas cloud was blinding the hoodlums without affecting Gracie’s super-sniper-skills. Blaze and White Knight punched out all but two bad guys, winning the fight. One of them surrendered, and one got away. Batman and Dark Lash were revived with first aid and asked to walk the rescued women back to town. As much as they all wanted rest, the remaining three felt it imperative to keep searching.
The three Outsiders kept going, striking off to the south again from the long east-west hall (and leaving the pit filled with water for investigating later). They soon found a room with three doors, then an L-shaped barracks, and finally a fine bedroom that was guarded. They took out the guard fast when they heard a woman cry for help from the bed. Woman #8 of the missing group was tied there and was quickly released. Searching the bedroom more thoroughly than any room since the chemistry lab, they found a notebook under the bed. The rescued woman came with as they explored the next room to the east, which was a movie screening room, and then to the north, which turned out to be the office of “Lt.” Herschel, one of the main bad guys under the Big Boss.
Herschel was on a working phone with someone, taking orders, when White Knight tried to creep up on the Lt. and take him prisoner. Unfortunately, that didn’t work and Herschel got his hands on a particularly nasty automatic rifle. Spraying bullets, Herschel took down Blaze before Gracie bent his gun barrel. Gracie was stunned by Herschel’s silver shield, but White Knight took Herschel down with one of his trademark roundhouse punches. Herschel was handcuffed to his desk and left behind. Gracie recovered, but they still had to get Blaze out of there. White Knight noticed that Blaze’s blood wasn’t human blood, though it was so close to the real thing that no one else noticed. White Knight also claimed Herschel’s ring and shield as his own, while carrying the man’s flak jacket for Batman.
Backtracking out proved more challenging than they had hoped. Upon returning to the L-shaped barracks, they found two hoodlums had returned to the barracks for some rest. The Outsiders, as hurt as they were, were willing to wait outside the room for 30 minutes while the hoodlums fell asleep, then just snuck through past them.
Back on their way to town, their non-drunk captive tried to escape and Black Lash had to take him down with brass knuckles to the back of the head. Batman dragged him to the police station, where two deputies were there. Yes, four of the missing women had turned up not long ago and filled out incident reports before being returned to their loved ones. Yes, the three women who just returned were more than happy to file a complaint against the two prisoners! Yes, the deputies would like the vigilantes to fill out some paperwork too, but seeing how beat up they were, were going to allow them to see the local doctor first.
And that’s where Batman and Black Lash were when the others came back looking for them. White Knight knew something of Blaze’s secret and tried to tell everyone, but no one else thought it didn’t look like real blood and thought White Knight was still a little loopy from taking a hit earlier. Everyone also knew that the Mount Prospect Police Chief and the Des Plaines Police Captain had called a meeting of the Tri-Village Militia together to discuss the hideout – which they now finally knew all about from the retrieved women.
The Outsiders burst in on the meeting and, although Captain Becker wanted them out, he was shouted down by those who wanted to hear what they had to say. The Outsiders heard that the militia wanted to send only 10 men into the hideout to clean it out, but the Outsiders made a strong case that the hideout was a giant maze of death and sending 10 men was suicide. After some doing, they talked the militia into sending a full 43 members with them -- about 2/3 of the entire force.
So, later that afternoon, a fighting force of 49 (counting The Spook) returned to the House. The Spook, who was not happy about working with the police and was only along because he had promised to help, gladly took upstairs duty and would check the house itself for the missing ladies. Everyone else took the secret ramp down to the basement level.
The Heroes were following in the rear, so their reports of what was going on up front were sketchy. Apparently, someone had seen a door shut at the east side of the lounge, and soon the giant column of fighting men was heading east, and then south, deeper into the hideout. They found some new rooms that were nests for large ferrets, but left those rooms alone. They found some parallel halls with tile floors and noted that the middle hallway’s tiles were decorated with the suites from playing cards.
Every time they passed an intersection they had shed 5-7 men to go investigate other ways, so now the Heroes were down to just six deputies with them. Somewhere behind them, a firefight broke out. Two things stopped the Outsiders from going back and helping. One was that they were practically coasting on fumes, with no spells or powers left prepared between them. And two was that finding the missing women still had to take top priority. And so they pressed on…
February 5, 1942
Batman and the Outsiders had just saved four of the missing ten women in the hideout, but not without sustaining injuries and running low on stamina. It was suggested that The Spook take his seriously injured apprentice back to Mount Prospect along with the rescued women; though they were not far from the exits, it seemed a poor idea to send them out into the Southland alone.
Their numbers reduced back to five, the Outsiders searched to the east, hoping for another lucky break. They found a chemistry lab with a mysterious reel of film inside it. On some stairs leading out of the lab they found a switch that they left alone, and at the top of the stairs were storm doors being pressed in by some heavy weight from above – another way out, if they could solve the puzzle of what was on top of the doors. But that too would wait. Even a neighboring room covered in sand was tabled until after more rooms could be searched.
Further east, they found a kitchen. While they were leaving the kitchen, they almost bumped into two drunks coming back to the kitchen. The Outsiders invited the drunks in and then took them prisoner before they knew what was going on. Upon questioning, the drunks didn’t know where the women were – but they knew where they were hoping the women weren’t – with a particularly bloodthirsty crew quartered to the south.
Heading south (after telling the prisoners to stay put), the Outsiders found a large, long hall guarded by four men. The men wanted to chase the Outsiders away at first, but then welcomed them to check their room for the missing women. Behind a pair of double doors to the north was a giant chamber with an Asian motif and nine men of mixed nationalities watching a film that was inciting them to violence. The object of their violence was soon going to be the three women chained up in shackles in the middle of the room.
And that was when the four men attacked from behind the Outsiders.
Batman, White Knight, and Gracie Heart turned to deal with the four from behind, while Blaze and Dark Lash waded into the chamber. And things went spectacularly well, at first. Right away, they decked four bad guys in all and dropped their opponents to single digits. But then Batman went down from a gunshot (again), and White Knight leaped up onto a high dais overlooking the chamber with Gracie in tow. This left Blaze and Dark Lash swarmed by eight bloodthirsty hoodlums, and Dark Lash was soon pulled down by them. Blaze was just really lucky, as he was busy melting the chains that held the women and not even fighting back at first.
But the tide turned again once Gracie started picking off hoodlums with her shotgun. Batman had thrown down a tear gas canister into the room earlier before losing consciousness and the tear gas cloud was blinding the hoodlums without affecting Gracie’s super-sniper-skills. Blaze and White Knight punched out all but two bad guys, winning the fight. One of them surrendered, and one got away. Batman and Dark Lash were revived with first aid and asked to walk the rescued women back to town. As much as they all wanted rest, the remaining three felt it imperative to keep searching.
The three Outsiders kept going, striking off to the south again from the long east-west hall (and leaving the pit filled with water for investigating later). They soon found a room with three doors, then an L-shaped barracks, and finally a fine bedroom that was guarded. They took out the guard fast when they heard a woman cry for help from the bed. Woman #8 of the missing group was tied there and was quickly released. Searching the bedroom more thoroughly than any room since the chemistry lab, they found a notebook under the bed. The rescued woman came with as they explored the next room to the east, which was a movie screening room, and then to the north, which turned out to be the office of “Lt.” Herschel, one of the main bad guys under the Big Boss.
Herschel was on a working phone with someone, taking orders, when White Knight tried to creep up on the Lt. and take him prisoner. Unfortunately, that didn’t work and Herschel got his hands on a particularly nasty automatic rifle. Spraying bullets, Herschel took down Blaze before Gracie bent his gun barrel. Gracie was stunned by Herschel’s silver shield, but White Knight took Herschel down with one of his trademark roundhouse punches. Herschel was handcuffed to his desk and left behind. Gracie recovered, but they still had to get Blaze out of there. White Knight noticed that Blaze’s blood wasn’t human blood, though it was so close to the real thing that no one else noticed. White Knight also claimed Herschel’s ring and shield as his own, while carrying the man’s flak jacket for Batman.
Backtracking out proved more challenging than they had hoped. Upon returning to the L-shaped barracks, they found two hoodlums had returned to the barracks for some rest. The Outsiders, as hurt as they were, were willing to wait outside the room for 30 minutes while the hoodlums fell asleep, then just snuck through past them.
Back on their way to town, their non-drunk captive tried to escape and Black Lash had to take him down with brass knuckles to the back of the head. Batman dragged him to the police station, where two deputies were there. Yes, four of the missing women had turned up not long ago and filled out incident reports before being returned to their loved ones. Yes, the three women who just returned were more than happy to file a complaint against the two prisoners! Yes, the deputies would like the vigilantes to fill out some paperwork too, but seeing how beat up they were, were going to allow them to see the local doctor first.
And that’s where Batman and Black Lash were when the others came back looking for them. White Knight knew something of Blaze’s secret and tried to tell everyone, but no one else thought it didn’t look like real blood and thought White Knight was still a little loopy from taking a hit earlier. Everyone also knew that the Mount Prospect Police Chief and the Des Plaines Police Captain had called a meeting of the Tri-Village Militia together to discuss the hideout – which they now finally knew all about from the retrieved women.
The Outsiders burst in on the meeting and, although Captain Becker wanted them out, he was shouted down by those who wanted to hear what they had to say. The Outsiders heard that the militia wanted to send only 10 men into the hideout to clean it out, but the Outsiders made a strong case that the hideout was a giant maze of death and sending 10 men was suicide. After some doing, they talked the militia into sending a full 43 members with them -- about 2/3 of the entire force.
So, later that afternoon, a fighting force of 49 (counting The Spook) returned to the House. The Spook, who was not happy about working with the police and was only along because he had promised to help, gladly took upstairs duty and would check the house itself for the missing ladies. Everyone else took the secret ramp down to the basement level.
The Heroes were following in the rear, so their reports of what was going on up front were sketchy. Apparently, someone had seen a door shut at the east side of the lounge, and soon the giant column of fighting men was heading east, and then south, deeper into the hideout. They found some new rooms that were nests for large ferrets, but left those rooms alone. They found some parallel halls with tile floors and noted that the middle hallway’s tiles were decorated with the suites from playing cards.
Every time they passed an intersection they had shed 5-7 men to go investigate other ways, so now the Heroes were down to just six deputies with them. Somewhere behind them, a firefight broke out. Two things stopped the Outsiders from going back and helping. One was that they were practically coasting on fumes, with no spells or powers left prepared between them. And two was that finding the missing women still had to take top priority. And so they pressed on…