S01E12 - Second Time's the Charm

General Summary

Our Heroes, having discovered their quarry isn't hiding in the warehouse they assaulted first, quickly make their way to Prometheus Labs in the Hawking Science Park.  Unbeknownst to the team, an alert has already been sent from teh warehouse, alerting their enemies that an attack may be imminent.
Prometheus Laboratories sits on a small plot of land.  It ios three storeys, with a car park off to one side.  As our group Terraports in, they become aware of several vehicles beating a hasty retreat from the scene, coming from a car park under the building.  These vehicles asre SUVs, with tinted windows and no plates.  The Heroes also realise that the building is being evacuated (though they can hear no alarms).
Lady Liberty flies Úlfhéðnar to the doors of the building, where the staff are streaming out towards the car park.  As this is happening, Djinn heads into the building through the roof and Crusader starts scanning the vehicles in the four car convoy., where he finds that the first car has four people (2 in the front and 2 in the back), the second car has 2 people in teh front and one in the back, the third vehicle has two in the front and three in the back. 
In the building, Lady Liberty realises that, although she can see warning lights, there are no klaxons that would otherwise be sounding for a fire alarm.  Inside, Djinn searches for the fire he believes is the cause of the evacuation and Úlfhéðnar tries to hack into the security desk computer, but fails.  Crusader starts to track the vehicles, with Lady Liberty in hot pursuit.  As they are following, the second vehicle disappears in that now-familiar heat haze effect.
Inside the building, Úlfhéðnar checks where the lift is and finds that it is currently on the 2nd floor and Djinn reports that the top floor is clear, heading down the stairs to join Úlfhéðnar who has ascended, using the stairs to the 2nd floor.

Back outside, Lady Liberty and Crusader decide that they need to do something about the vehicles and try to grab the middle car (there's now only three cars after one of them disappeared).  Lady Liberty gets shot in teh face by a bullet that seemsd very effective at bypassing her tough nature.  The other guard in the rear of the car shoots Crusader.  As this is happening, Lady Liberty realises that the third person in teh back of the vehicle is Rochelle Carter and tries to grab the nearest guard, but misses.  In response to this, the other man in teh front turns his gun on Rochelle, with the words, "put us down and go away or she's gone!".  Lady Liberty's response is to grab the gun from the man and drop it out of the window.  Realising that there are three other guns in the vehicle, however, Lady Liberty gives her word that they can go, as long as the woman is returned to them on teh ground.  The guards let Rochelle out of the car and they drive off as soon as they are able.

Meanwhile, in the building, Úlfhéðnar and Djinn have checked the second floor and have retreated to teh stairs, venturing down into the parking garage under the building.  It is at the bottom of the stairsd where Úlfhéðnar realises that there is a hidden door.  After investigating, they discover it has a biometric lock.  Djinn puts his hand on Úlfhéðnar and takes him through the door, where they step out into a dark corridor, which, after a short distance, turns ninety degrees, the end of the corridor is another metal door.  They get through the door and step into a chamber some thirty feet across.  In the middle of the room appears to be some form of mystical circle, at the centre of which is a table roughly two feet to a side which has an indent into which the PRISM could sit quite snugly.  As they are looking at it, Djinn, with his recent exposure to a mystical summoning circle, points out that he doesn't believe this is for summoning.  Úlfhéðnar takes pictures of the room and notices a second door in the room.  This one is not locked and contains a table, on which is the banner of teh Red Guard of the Ways and leaflets, seeming to be teh same as the ones they found at the warehouse.  
As the duo investigate, they hear a beeping noise.  All too late, they realise what the beeping means and they are engulfed in an explosion.  Despite his form, Djinn panicks, running out of the building, ironically passing through the walls to 'safety'.  It's a few seconds later that he realises he's unharmed and returns for Úlfhéðnar, who has transofrmed into his Wolf form after the explosion.
Seeing the explosion, Lady Liberty hands her mother to Crusader.  Úlfhéðnar exits out the front of teh building, all but ripping teh computer for the security desk out the wall on his way past (in his defense, the building was collapsinig around him).  This gets passed to Lady Liberty and finally on to Crusader.   He scans for trackers and so on in the computer, but doesn't find any.
Once everyone is out and safe, the group Terraport away to The Lake District, where Úlfhéðnar sends teh pictures he's gained to his grandfather.  Whilst this is happening,  Crusader, still at the site, gets a beatd on the temporal energy as the cars vanish.  He follws it a short way but the energy seems to decay very quickly.
The computer provides some interesting data:

People logged in through the main doors: Katsaros, K, Wilson, K

Alex  calls Kenji, asking about the club.  She is given answers that he's been there all day.  Everything about the background and their investigations points at him being where he says he is.

Report Date

08 Jan 2021