Rbz4: The Cure
General Summary
Even with Director Cassidy Khosla knocked out in the armored car, the action wasn't over! Something larger was plowing through the row of identical prefab houses, directly for the intersection!
Fire rages through the wreck of the ambulance and a damaged tank of pressured gas fires off in an errant direction. Bennesh, Quinn and Echo make a run for the armored car. Despite one of the wheels having been hacked through by Reinhard's sword, Saskia decides the car was still drivable -- albeit wobbly and no longer able to turn left.
But a wobbly car was better than being trampled by a raging crab monster! So the crew takes off down the road with the Parasect hot in pursuit.
"It's after the babies!" Saskia yells into the back as she careens the three-wheeled car down the road.
The crew grab a few of the jars and hurl them out the side door. But the jars turn out to be made of ballistic glass, and they merely bounce off the pavement, entirely ignored by the slowly closing Parasect.
"Help me open them!" Bennesh yells at Reinhard who grabs one of the jars and begins to twist it open... only to find no give in the lid at all. He braces himself and then with all of his might attempts to twist the cap off, til he is red in the face with exertion. Nothing! In frustration he threw the jar at the side of the car, the ballistic-glass jar promptly bounces off and hits him square in the face. Reinhard falls to the ground out cold.
Desperately looking for a way to open the jars, Echo and Bennesh find a widget that fits into the child-proof lock and pries them open. A distinctly wet market odor fills the cabin as they frantically pull and open the jars from the shelves. Finally, they kick open the rear door and push all of the opened jars out the back -- all but one that Bennesh has kept still-sealed.
The Parasect is sated by this offering. Or at least it stops chasing after the armored car as the crew make their get away.
Hours later, the crew call in Wynne, giving her the good news: They've apprehended the person responsible. And more than that, they have a cure! They test this first on Reinhard after he comes to, who insists on getting the jab in the other butt cheek. Moments past and he does not drop dead. And soon thereafter, the grey patch on his forearm begins to shrink. Wynne manages to gather some of the colonists in the central market, and everyone gets a shot of the antidote. The locals are visibly relieved. "What of the 'zombies'?" Someone asks. To this, Bennesh produces a few tranquilizer pistols from his kit, for remote delivery of the antidote. Wynne looks doubtful, but at least it was a start. And if that wasn't enough, somewhere in the station, there was still a rampaging genetically engineered nightamre.
Hours later, the crew call in Wynne, giving her the good news: They've apprehended the person responsible. And more than that, they have a cure! They test this first on Reinhard after he comes to, who insists on getting the jab in the other butt cheek. Moments past and he does not drop dead. And soon thereafter, the grey patch on his forearm begins to shrink. Wynne manages to gather some of the colonists in the central market, and everyone gets a shot of the antidote. The locals are visibly relieved. "What of the 'zombies'?" Someone asks. To this, Bennesh produces a few tranquilizer pistols from his kit, for remote delivery of the antidote. Wynne looks doubtful, but at least it was a start. And if that wasn't enough, somewhere in the station, there was still a rampaging genetically engineered nightamre.
Missions/Quests Completed
Vow Completed: Investigate the Cerberus Fungus (Dangerous)
Report Date
26 Jun 2021
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