Necra’s Group falls onto the third floor after the weak flooring of the second floor gave way
Pods broke as they fell along with tons of metal scraps, Oceane begins slicing large metal objects in half.
Helia: So we just took that like champions?
Necra: I can still hear the pained screaming…it’s driving me insane….
Myrtle: You ok Nec?
Necra: I’m fine…but…
The Beating continues growing louder and louder as more Blood Creatures appear
Helia: How many experiments did Department X do down here?
Oceane: Enough to give us a decent challenge I’ll give you that
Fight The Creatures
When you win
Necra: So, I believe the heart causes the creatures to get more violent and enhances their attacking capabilities
Helia: Yeah that certainly makes sense
Myrtle: So what are we gonna do about it?
Iehn: Guys?
Helia: I believe maybe we should may-
Iehn: GUYS, THERE’S A MAN UNDER THERE
Iehn points to the body of what looks like a long deceased man crushed a massive metal bar
Necra: He’s probably dead, why waste time helping him?
Iehn: Uhm…you can change that
Necra: Oh right…I can…
Myrtle: Did you actually forget you were a necromancer?
Necra: Well we do have more pressing issues
Necra tries to revive the body but it doesn’t work
Helia: It didn’t work??
Necra: The only situation in which my Necromancy doesn’t work is when…the subject in question is still alive…..
Iehn: HUH!!
Oceane: That body looks like it’s decomposed. How is it still alive??
Myrtle: Hey Iehn guess you gotta help him out
Iehn: Guess I do?
Iehn begins healing the body of the trapped man, as they do that, the sound of a heart beating grows ever louder
Oceane: Oh lemme help you out Iehn
Oceane cuts the metal bar the body is under, and begins to help Iehn pull it up. The body is that of an old man with a pale white beard with a massive beating heart and no arms.
Myrtle: I’m gonna be sick
Necra: It’s ok Myrtle, you can vomit directly into my mouth
Helia: Are you joking?
Necra: Yes! How is that not obvious!!
Helia: OK! Jeez!
Oceane: Iehn can you get that guy to speak so this moment is over quicker?
Iehn: I’m repairing his vocal cords, hopefully h-
Old Man: (Begins the loudest and longest coughing fit they’ve ever heard)
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Iehn: Oh hey!
Old Man: Oh it appears I’ve been woken up, hey that’s neat…
Iehn: You’ve been in a coma for who knows how long
Old Man: Potato, Tomato
Iehn: Those are diff-
Old Man: My name is Al, Member of The Century Corps how ca-
Everyone except Myrtle looks at Al funny
Al: Did I say something wrong?? And hey wait a minute-
Necra: The Century Corps records never showed anyone named Al who was in their employ?
Al: Huh?
Necra: Also where’s your armor if you’re a member?
Al: Oh for the experiment they made me do before my nap they told me to strip completely nak-
Iehn: Ok that’s enough, also your arms are still missing
Al: They are?
Al looks and sees he has no arms…
Al: Ok…I got an easy fix for this
His massive protruding heart begins beating and blood begins to completely reconstitute both of his arms, giving him blood arms
Helia: That’s extremely gross
Blood from his new blood arms begin trickling down to the floor
Necra: Hey Myrt are you o-
Necra sees that the floor around Myrtle is now covered in what she ate that morning
Helia: Huh she actually hurled
Myrtle: Y’all aren’t wilding out over a man reconstituting his arm from his own blood?
Al: I don’t see what’s so strange about it, it’s part of the reality you now face, accept what you saw as reality.
Myrtle: Fair enough, so uh why are you like this?
Al: Well Department X needed Guinea Pigs for their special project and The Century Corps volunteered as human subjects.
Necra: You did?
Al: Well yeah..but it seems I slept down here for a long time because of it, I appear to now be unable to die..
Necra: So the Century Corps and Department X were friends at one point?
Al: They’re enemies now?
Oceane: It appears so
Al: Huh
The beating of The Heart then got louder
Al: That thing that’s beating as is Project Tell Tale, an experiment developed by Department X that ended disastrously when it rebelled out of control.
Iehn: How do we stop it?
Al: No clue, but it’s on Floor 11 so let’s just take the elevator
Necra: Ok
The Party loaded themselves into The Elevator and tried to press Floor 11 but it didn’t work
Necra: Why won’t this DARN THING WORK!!
Al: You have to go to each individual floor first, it was a weird bug with the system.
Iehn: Oh Vendil recreated the elevator as it was so of course it didn’t work…
Al: Vendil?
Oceane: New member, you’ll see him if we don’t die
Al: Ah…seems I got much to learn
The Elevator goes to Floor 4
It stalls
Oceane: Hunk of junk
Myrtle: More like…hunk of gunk
A small pile of green goo stops the elevator
Lark2n: I’ve got an appointment with Project Tell Tale, can’t keep it waiting and don’t want you interfering so see ya
Lark2n tries moving The Elevator back up the shaft
Necra: No, we’re going
Fight The Lark2n Growth
When you win
Lark2n: DARN!!
The Elevator door finally opens as the elevator has stopped stalling
Al: We’re here
Necra: Nice, now let-
Helia: I gotta know if there’s anything interesting on this floor?
Al: Just more experiments that have long since died
Necra: They DIED you say?
Necra tries resurrecting them but all that emerge are horrifying masses of muscle and tissue
Necra: The hell…my necromancy isn’t working?
Al: Necromancy doesn’t work on things that were never alive in the first place
Necra: Then how did they die?
Al: Sometimes even dead things die
Fight The Tube Monsters
When you win
Iehn: Is this part of Project Tell Tale?
Al: Yes, you can’t save these horrifying creatures
Necra: So, these labgrown freaks of nature, are dead things turned to deader things?
Al: Department X employed death experts in their quest for immortality, they of course knew how to turn things that died into things that we’re deader
Necra: Their goal is immortality, right?
Myrtle: That’s what I know?
Al: I believe so…
Helia: Department X wants immortality, and this part of their goals…
Al: I believe
Iehn: Then let’s go down and down, we don’t got much time
The Party goes into Elevator and the press the button that makes the Elevator goes down to Floor 5
The Door opens to a small glass terrarium filled with small Larkin Clones, asleep in the grass
Lark2n: Hey, it’s all my old buddies, why don’t they say hi
Oceane: Don-
Green Goo falls onto the glass, melting and shattering the glass, The Larkin clones emerge and rush the party
Necra: I know what to do in this situation, follow me
Fight The Larkin Clones
When you win
Iehn: What’s your plan?
Necra: You
Necra throws Iehn into the clones, their healing abilities overcharge The Larkin clones making them explode
Iehn: W-h….
Myrtle: You scared her for life…
Oceane: Necra..what the hell
Necra: It was my plan…
Iehn: My hands..are covered in blood..
Helia: Necra…apologize…
Necra: I’m…sorry…it’s just…I can’t…stop hearing them scream
Al: Ah….
And The Party gets back in the elevator and descends down to Floor 6
The Door opens, revealing a room full of empty medical beds and bloodstains
Iehn: So many people…maybe…I could have helped them?
Necra: Well..there’s no one too help, not anymore
Al: I do not know your name Necromancer, but it appears the beating heart is driving you mad.
Blood Creatures drip down from the ceiling but Helia incinerates them in a flash
Helia: The sooner we leave…the better
Necra: I’m sorry…Iehn….I’m not…accountable for my actions…
The party gets back in the elevator and all the keypads start blinking
Necra: What the hell is happening!!
Lark2n: I think…I’ll just send you all down to the bottom and kill you myself…
Suddenly…The Elevator falls all the way down
