london underground ♔ the worms will live in every host

[recycling]

WHO || Davin, Clint, Natasha, Peggy, Derek  [closed]
WHAT ||The Knights  investigate  a derailed subway car
WHERE || Victoria Station, London
WHEN || Late Feb (backdated)
HOW || Actionspam

[ The Knights head down with their police liason Peggy Carter to the roped off scene in the London Underground.   They're allowed within to the platform, which is unremarkable in and of itself.  The floors and walls are done in tile laid over concrete, and the ceiling is about 40 feet high.  Passengers can board trains all along the north side.  The main power to the platform has been shut off, but emergency lighting illuminates the chamber dimly.  They can see normally but there are plenty of deep shadows, where almost anything could hide.  

The main access to the platform is via two escalators on the west side.  The more southern escalator goes down, and the more northern one generally carries people up.  Both are currently shut down, but they can simply walk down either one.   The station lies about 70 feet below the surface, so a trip up a stationary escalator is quite a hike.  Elevators are currently shut down.    ]

Comments

[recycling]

Too well.

What do you guys know about mind flayers?

[grumpypuppy]

[Derek looked at the group, and then back at Davin] Never heard of them.

[recycling]

Consider yourself lucky. They're psions - powerful psions with faces like a ... a squid.

They eat brains, when they're not dominating them.

[grumpypuppy]

So they would be able to control us before we ever saw them?

[he looked back at the group]

Is there anyone here that is immune to that kind of power?

[recycling]

It'd be handy right about now.

[thehawksnest]

[Clint speaks to the ogre, raising his bow to augment the threat.]

Ok, but, Squid-face isn't here right now, yeah? So your options are come with us, give us answers, and find a safe place to live, or die right here, a hero to your calamari pal and not much else. What's your choice?

[krasnayapautina]

Zombie mind controlling squids, great. [That's said more quietly, to herself more than anyone else.]

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[ the ogre's eyes flick between them, and then he turns his face away, closing them.

"There's no hiding from him. Do it."

davin looks back and forth between the others as well, his expression tight. ]

Clint, you don't have to do this.

[grumpypuppy]

No, and it won't matter. These tunnels echo and the thing probably knows we are here at this point.

[thehawksnest]

[Frustrated, Clint lowers his bow, puffing out the breath he had been holding. He mumbles quietly.]

I wasn't *actually* going to shoot him...

[Clint, when your bluff is so bad that you don't even roll a bluff check, its a bad bluff, bro.]

[recycling]

We should tie him up or something at least.

[krasnayapautina]

Kinky. Whose bondage gear are we using? [Look who thinks she's funny. That is her incredibly creative way of asking: Who brought the rope?]

[grumpypuppy]

[he was tempted to just punch the ogre and knock him out. Did anyone even bring rope?]

Do you have something that can hold him?

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[ realizing they don't exactly have the supplies for such a thing, davin looks around and then... reaches down and literally rips off a piece of metal from the railroad track. i'm sure it's fine. with his nat 20 vampire strength he bends it around the ogre's wrists. ] This should do.

[grumpypuppy]

[Derek's eyebrows raise and then he just nods. Impressive.]

Let's go then. Sooner we get this done, the sooner we can get back.

[recycling]

Agreed. [ tying the ogre to a nearby rail, he nods up the length of the tunnel. ] Just... keep an eye on each other. Anyone starts acting weird, he might be in their heads. [ with those comforting words, they head forward, moving along the track to the site of the wreck.

the derailed subway train has three cars, with several doors and broken windows that appear to give access to its interior. all three cars lie well off the tracks, and look badly crumpled. ]