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Madame Macabre sees two directions with corpses. The first seems to be in the direction Zyzzak indicated where the people are running. The other area is off to the side but in that general direction. There seem to be more corpses in the second direction.

Bulwark knows that one thing the teleporter can't teleport is itself. So they either have to physically take it with them or completely destroy it. More than a few Shadow bases were found and eliminated through examining the partially destroyed remains of a teleporter.
Since your Penetrates Concealment only applies to Corpses, you aren't going to get more details than that.
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Madame Macabre

HP: 1
Cnd: Normal

Elizabeth raises her voice to insure that Bulwark and the others hear her over the excitement.

"Be careful! There could be more of those Zombie-borgs up ahead. There is a concentration of dead people in the direction that Zyzzak is heading, and another group of them in the same direction, but off to the side of the passageway."
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Evelyn "Bulwark" Gracen
HP: 2
Cnd: Healthy


Evelyn's eyes narrow in a thoughtful manner after Madame Macabre shares her warning about the cybernetic corpses.

"Is one of the groups mostly stationary, or larger than the other?"

She waits for a response, the speaks over the coms to their forward scout.

"Zyzzak, redirect to investigate the less mobile of the two groups of cyborgs. They may be guarding or escorting the transport of the teleportation device Shield, rejoin the group. We're going to need to move fast and forego more cautious subtle scouting after all."

Once she had called the Canadian hero back to them Evelyn looked to the others.

"Go ahead if you want. I'll wait for Shield. Be sure to leave a trail of breadcrumbs."

One uttering the last comment her metal covered eyes focused on Luke, implying the ice he could leave behind. Evelyn herself waited for the Canadian Shield to return, then gathered up enough metal to form a platform for him or anyone else who needed transport. THen she ferried them off into the maze towards Zyzzak and the hostiles.

OOC wrote:I'll use Create for fashion a surface for teammates to stand on, then Move Object to carry the team with Evelyn as she flies down the corridors.
Metal Control wrote: [20] - Protection 10 [Flaws: Sustained Duration (+0/r), Quirk "Requires Adequate Quantity of Metal to Act As Armor" (-1 pp) ; Extras: Impervious 11]
[13] - Move Objects 11 [Flaws: Limited to "Metal" (-1/r) ; Extras: Precise (+1 pp), Subtle (+1 pp)]
[07] - Flight 8 [Flaws: Platform (-1/r), Quirk "Requires Metal" (-1 pp)]
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They are both equally stationary, as neither of them appear to be moving.
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"Cool" Luke
HP: 3
CND: Ice Cold


With the course of action seemingly decided, Luke takes off towards the group closest following his alien teammates lead. "Lets go see what sort of deadmans party we have waiting for us huh? This might even be fun.", remarks Luke. As he tosses slides of ice along his path, he makes sure to leave blocks of it behind him. It's ice, so he knew it would melt. So long as it lasted long enough for the others to follow that was all that mattered.

Part of him wondered if he wasn't going to the body cold storage, but base hunting wasn't his bag. The others had a better grasp on it, so he'd need to rely on them. "You wouldn't be able to tell what is waiting for us would you?", inquires Luke of the alien.
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Side Group

Those of you headed to the closer group find what looks to be a lab. You see two corpses on tables, part way through the conversion process.

Off to the side, you also see two bodies in tube like structures with machinery on the ends. The bodies are very old, one is a man and the other a woman. The woman bares a resemblance to Czarina.

Zyzzak notes the tubes look like crude life support systems. They may retard aging, but not by very much.

Main Path
Those of you headed toward the main path pass many personnel on your way. Upon seeing heroes, they surrender immediately, putting themselves against the wall with their hands behind their heads.
Are you going to take the time to secure any of them? There is little chance they will stay there otherwise. They will, in all likelihood, head for the entrance you came in.
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"Cool" Luke
HP: 3
CND: Ice Cold


I think we found where they keep the bodies of some of the founders of the Horde. Found two tubes of them and no resistance, so I can't imagine they care about them very much., says Luke over the comms. To him, it was all some super science stuff.

"So, if the powers out are these two going to just die? I'm no expert on this science stuff, but unless whatever is in the tubes is keeping the bodies going they'd need power right?", inquired Luke of Zyzzak.
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Evelyn "Bulwark" Gracen
HP: 2
Cnd: Healthy

OOC wrote:We went as group to the closest group of corpses Madame Macabre found.

To save time, I'll assume Madame Macabre informs us of the tube-people being dead, or that it can be deduced without critical study of the bodies.
Riding her metal platform Evelyn comes to a stop outside the detoured operating, or storage room with the aged corpses. She quietly takes in the scene while Luke voices his thoughts on the matter. After a moment she frowned and looked to Elizabeth.

"See what you can learn from them."

A tilt of her head is given towards the collection of corpse, encouraging the necromancer to ply her trade. Afterwards she turned to look at the rest of the team.

"The rest of you proceed to the other group. The direction everyone was moving in. Zyzzak, take point as scout. I'll transport Madame Macabre when she is finished here."
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Metal Control wrote: [20] - Protection 10 [Flaws: Sustained Duration (+0/r), Quirk "Requires Adequate Quantity of Metal to Act As Armor" (-1 pp) ; Extras: Impervious 11]
[13] - Move Objects 11 [Flaws: Limited to "Metal" (-1/r) ; Extras: Precise (+1 pp), Subtle (+1 pp)]
[07] - Flight 8 [Flaws: Platform (-1/r), Quirk "Requires Metal" (-1 pp)]
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Zyzzak
HP:2 LP:0 CND: Presumably Rested and Healed
Scanners: Senses; Detect electronics, Ranged, Acute, Analytical (tell what they do), Accurate, (quirk: Blocked by lead)
Pattern Array: Computer integration
Defensive: Repulsion field
Wrist Emitters: Concealment, except radio


[If it's okay] Zyzzak had a little time before others got there; he would have pulled hard drives from computers and stowed them before the magnetic controller came around, if only to belie any chance that an errant field might damage the data. These could be examined later for data on this organization.

He would let them know what was done, then proceed to scout as directed.
"Something pithy this way comes."
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Zyzzak

All of the equipment are networked dumb terminals and have no internal storage.

Madame Macabre

The two corpses in the tubes are Dr Jeste and Czarina. They went into the tubes during World War II with the intention of conquering the future.

They died about a month ago when the life support failed.
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Then he'll scout as directed.
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"Cool" Luke
HP: 3
CND: Ice Cold


"Creepy place.", remarks Luke upon hearing the bodies were dead. "If there is nothing to hold them here, I figure they are taking off with the teleporter and blowing the base. These people seem to love blowing up their stuff in their wake.", says Luke. He quickly follows Zyzzak to the next main group with a trail of ice slides.
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Madame Macabre

HP: 1
Cnd: Normal

Elizabeth walks slowly towards the tubes contianing the corpses. She places her hand up to her commlink earpiece. "Team, unless I'm mistaken these two bodies belong to Dr. Jeste and Czarina. They have been dead for nearly a month, but the residue of their life is strong and still allows me to gleen this information."

She pauses for a moment, looking around at the rest of the room before addressing a question to no one inparticular. "How can this be?"
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The Shield

The Shield recalls that Dr Jeste was into cloning.
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Evelyn "Bulwark" Gracen
HP: 2
Cnd: Healthy


Evelyn cut in after Madame Macabre's question.

"If you are done, then we need to get going. Talk on the move."

She gave the other woman enough time to acknowledge that she had done all that she intended to with the corpses. Then Bulwark formed a sheet of metal under Macabre's feet, and carried the both of them off after the rest of their teammates. When they came across the unarmed people who surrendered, Evelyn only paused to be certain they were not a threat, then moved on.

"Let them go. Detaining them would take time, and put their lives at risk if the Horde does intend to enact a self destruct protocol for their base."
OOC wrote:
Metal Control wrote: [20] - Protection 10 [Flaws: Sustained Duration (+0/r), Quirk "Requires Adequate Quantity of Metal to Act As Armor" (-1 pp) ; Extras: Impervious 11]
[13] - Move Objects 11 [Flaws: Limited to "Metal" (-1/r) ; Extras: Precise (+1 pp), Subtle (+1 pp)]
[07] - Flight 8 [Flaws: Platform (-1/r), Quirk "Requires Metal" (-1 pp)]
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