Creatiotron Revised

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Revised... to be stupidly huge.

Contents 1 Part 0 2 Part 1 3 Part 2 4 Part 3 5 Part 4 6 Part 5 7 Part 6 8 Part 7 9 Part 8 10 Part 9 11 Part X 11.1 Room 1 11.2 Room 2 11.3 Room 3 12 Part Y 13 Part Z

Part 0

Rescue someone from a MAGIC Crey Lab... as the Creatiotron tries to go live.

The Rescued will Recur.

Part 1

Luddite Extremists on a tip begin kidnappings to try to ascertain who needs some lethal hazing. Unknown the the Extremists, an Ex-Cop was put on the list only because he saw the Wrong Thing at the right time. It Drove Him Off the Force, but apparently that's not enough. Whipping butt and taking evidence he gets a hold of The Mark, and The Mark is now drawn into the web of intrigue.

The mark stomps Luddites and gets More Evidence. As the loot is taken Assailants should try to off The Mark. When minions start dropping the Assailants should just up and flee.

Alex Freeman Ex-cop, soon becomes further embroiled themselves as the only other point of contact about this. The loot examined reveals treachery against the Luddites.

Part 2

Checking up on another name leads, The Mark and Alex to the Circle of Thorns. While nothing seems to move anything forward, the Last Room is empty of assailants and a Strange Demon Woman is seen leaving the crime scene.

Part 3

With nothing else to go by both the Demon Girl and the list of Names are priority. A demon girl matching the description was seen in Atlas Park... another name -Alt the Enthralling- is in Atlas Park so... Of to Atlas.

Which is in shambles. Demon girls... She Devils... everywhere, some sweet enough to showcase to one's parents and others -who might even look identical!- more likely to eat one's parents, but ALL causing havoc currently. Then a scream is heard. Smashing through The Mark finds a lone She Devil in the clutches of other She Devils and frees them. In gratitude this she devil quickly reveals that the smash'em up started when some of the girls were decidedly put out that City Hall had a standing evacuation order. There's No One inside. They were going to force a local Mystical Type to Identify a few things.

1. ) These coordinates the Sweet Love should be at... which the Mark notes is where they're standing RIGHT NOW at the time index indicated. (Somehow motion should be indicated nearby as Spies flee the scene with that knowledge)
2. ) What this skin thing is that the circle of thorns had in their possession during a summoning interception.

The She Devil divested of evidence and while giggling leaves the scene.

Alt the Enthralling is found gunned down... by Musket?

Part 4

The Skin has a different list of names... some match up. More magical types. So since it's magical... Alex suggests Galaxy City's Gregor Richardson. HE suggests him only because Azuria who'd normally be in City Hall has no known whereabouts. Gregor is intensely Jealous of Azuria so it's advised not to mention he's the second banana. Afterall even the She Devils sought her out. Well and The Mark.

Attacked on the Train by Luddites after List Members and The Mark the train is derailed. After an intense battle with would be captors, the Mark is free to try to track down the other victims. One in particular -a Crey Cyborg... with... Runes? Sticks out in The Mark's brain. Also after looking over the wreck for trails... is most likely the only other saved victim.

A warehouse away the cyborg is found... in a body bag well locked. The keymaster of said lock having dashed off after a brief encounter with The Mark, while mumbling about Demons taking his soul. A trip to King's Row's 'PWN SHOP' has the lock open, finding a data disk with a well charred cyborg.

Part 5

Bringing the disk back to Freeman is slightly delayed as he's on the phone. The Mark down to only the data disk at this point is crestfallen, but the disk is soon in Alex's laptop and some choice spoken words activates the disk.

"The mic was on"

The Final Draft of the plans is now seen. Heavily beefed up with Crey Copyrights everywhere. Alex sees something he doesn't reveal to The Mark, but instead goes over Arc Server and Creatiotron similarities... and then jumps to the conclusion to need the Midnighter Club! He returns to his phone conversation, where the person on the other end... Mulligan... has all the evidence and with some careful wordplay with Alex reveals he already knew it was stuff for the Midnighters, That Mulligan themself is a Midnighter (or an Agent There of), and that he's already in the Midnight Club.

Right as Mulligan is handing the phone to a "Meredith" for Alex to speak to her, the line goes dead.

Alex sends The Mark to the University with an Entry phrase for the Midnighter Club... in the Latin studies building. Alex wants to explain why it's there but stifles themself and sends The Mark on to Rescueland.

Mulligan is found dead little more than bones in some tattered remains of PPD powered armor; Meredith is a prisoner of the Ubiquitous She Devils - who will not listen to Meredith spouting about Nemesis any more than they did Mulligan, but have not killed her for some reason; and the Evidence is somewhere on the premises.

A lament and a rescue later Meredith is instrumental in safeguarding the Evidence, and her friend is a tad late to help with anything. Her friend being a Lesser Daemon named Marna. She looks suspiciously to the Mark like a She Devil, but is corrected.

All that aside the evidence is brought out from the recesses of the Midnighter Club -where it apparently isn't safe from the She Devils, just everything else.

Alex basically washes his hands of the situation as Meredith and Marna study the 'nasty stuff'.

Part 6

Meredith finds that the dimension the disk is from is alternate to our own, and posits that there Crey is steeped in Magitech not Biotech, and dares not think about Aeon. But if this thing is running it must be shut down. Marna will send The MArk there.

While the place is crawling with Crey, the device is dormant. Its logs indicate it's own sapience(!!) and subsequent shutdown when it noticed it was flawed.

AND THEN NEMESIS SHOWS UP IN FORCE.

Intense battles later (The Mark can't just click exit either) leave a few more questions unanswered. The Creatiotron is a smouldering ruin - Not the Nemesis Soldier's aim at all apparently. However a pen is found. The Mark can't shake that it's important.

Part 7

The Pen was used to forge the list for the Extremists, to carve names into the skin... to stab the Crey Magic Cyborg in the neck so it could be slagged by the Extremists...

And reveals where the Nemesis Agent is likely hiding even now.

One boss Fight Later with a Nemesis Comet, the circle is closed. All this fabrication and lying is finished.

Only when The Mark gets back, Marna is complaining about Kidnappings! To find out more about THE MARK! Well and the Creatiotron.... but mostly The Mark.

Part 8

Basically fabricating coordinates from memory and object readings of victim belongings Marna tries to send the Mark after the kidnappers. However the suspicion that it's straight on to Milicent's lair is false.

Instead an ABANDONED location in the Rogue Isles that should never BE abandoned is found. Ghost. Widow's. Tower. (ZOMG.)

She Devils are holding a rave in it. The Kidnappings while peripherally for information was also for dance partners... well and worse. (As this isn't Slaanesh Online... you'll just have to GUESS.)

After much stomping; the destruction of a Demonic Phonograph that was like a beacon to the She Devil kidnappers; and rescuing even some Luddites that were kidnapped the day is won. Fragments of the record are brought for analysis, and reveal another dimension. But not how to get to it. The Dimensional Sheath is too thick.

Part 9

Alex feeling left out all this time stomped some pavement and found a hideout used by the Nemesis Agent -he has yet to know they're already toast, but even when informed thinks it's worth a perusal. He's stunned Ms Meredith and Marna haven't breathed a peep about this. Of course a lead is a lead.

Whatever this place was before (likely a Council/Column 3 floor reactor facility) it is now a Hot Tub complex. With lines like "I'll freeze you with my love! <3" and "Feel the Storm of my Passion!" it's almost hard to believe ANYTHING constructive to the planning of such an operation could be conducted.

And then the desk is found. Tucked in a nook and loaded with notes. At this point emptying the briefcase into the desk and taking the desk itself might be more efficient.

While excavating the desk from the zone something brushes up against The Mark. With nothing seen, life marches on.

Part X

Combing through the documents one thing is clear, the exact coordinates to Milicent's Lair are missing. No vision quite reveals everything so there's nothing to transport via. Heads turn to Alex who shakes his head. And then Marna notices something sticking out of The Mark's costume.

It's a small note to The Mark, distressing over the coordinates being destroyed and so here's a fresh copy... with some slight detour notes in case Milicent is too much for the Mark and maybe The Mark wants to aim a tad more approachable. It's passed around and when Meredith holds it... it is quickly apparent that the writer of the note is destroyed. Marna speaks of Milicent's raging jealousy, but quickly glosses over "Milly's" past. "Some people have like... baggage... Milicent is like Co-owner of Samp... Samp... A Retail Luggage Manufactorum."

In any event plans are put in motion to stop the Apocalytrix before The Mark is Married with Smouldering Home Plane.

Room 1

A massive TV viewing room with lesser ranked members serving common rank and higher members snacks. Transformers the Movie is playing... and the She Devils are mostly cheering for Unicron, Galvatron, The Decepticons, and Rodimus Prime (cause apparently he's dreamy even if he's an Autobot) in that order. The Film seems on continuous loop. She Devils come and go from the Gateway, to the Snack Bar, or flag 'Hostesses' without paying much attention to The Mark.

At least until The Mark tries to proceed deeper in. Then the Snack Bar girl chimes out a warning and all heck breaks loose.

Pacifying the room is a chore, but in the end Honey Popcorn -the Snack Bar Girl- reveals a secret to beating Milicent that's hidden in Milicent's stash. She then makes for the Gateway out.

Room 2

Is where Milicent's "Generals" are meeting around a vast round table. They are locked in discussion about Milicent's mission to get The Sweet Love, Destroying The Sweet Love's Home Dimension, And a Ramble of Other Topics.

Seeing a Mess in the Making The Mark chooses to fight or Flee... Flight of course likely to continue all the way to Milicent's Stash, and the Special Object there.

Room 3

Milicent's Stash and Bedchamber.

Milicent is ready for The Mark's arrival and instantly launches into subjugation tactics. Milicent being basically on par with a Giant Monster means The Mark's best tactic is to run for that Special Object.

(No Idea what it should be... Giant Squeaky Hammer that can one Shot her -and only her?; Just an object pickup that 'something'; even lazier 'just a pick this up and mission is over'; or I dunno `-`;)

Soon after the Mission is over, and The Mark can head back to their Non-Smouldering Home Dimension.

Part Y

While Assaulting Milicent's Dimension, Meredith comes across the location of something odd dealing with The She Devils.

Thus when The Mark gets back... it's Mission time.

A large assortment of She Devils are having their hand at a contest of sweetness. Pie vs Donut vs Cake... and awful medals.

The Mark deals with it.

Part Z

The Mark getting back to normalcy gets a page stating that 'yur mish was awesomez d00d. I plaid 5x.' And begins a back and forth with someone with an AMAZING PHONE.

Because they are NOT in this Dimension, and when The Mark asks what arc id they liked so much, they quickly realize that this individual played some cobbling of The Mark's recent antics ON A CREATIOTRON. And this 'd00d' on the other end even has a new bff from the game playing with them right now at their apartment.

And then (The Mission Contact you're already clicking), Honey Popcorn, shows up with a nice gentle,"I take it you already know..." topping the cake with pie frosting, donut bites, and a fresh Belgian waffle.

(Ideally there would be a minor fight to get some coordinates, but then it would be off to She Devil Shenanigans)