Log:Tranquility Lost, Scene 4

Tranquility Lost 2021/10/08

Blok Breach Dialydd Engelicus Golden Girl Griffin Grimm Magda Samuel Helen Armstrong 4

The triceratops have been taken into the Dream, and arrangements are being made to ship the plesiosaur to Scotland. But meanwhile, things at Tranquility seem if anything to be worse than originally thought. Contact with the prison has been intermittent - their systems seem to be failing almost at random. Starguard wants to send a team of metas up to troubleshoot as soon as possible! 

Golden Girl volunteers.

Blok volunteers

Grimm gets the call on the issues with Tranquility. It's one of the few times she's been on this dimension for a while, so she answers the call, even if she feels uncomfortable with being on the moon. Or in space.

Golden Girl says, "While I can fly to the moon it would take me several days to get there. Maybe everyone else can get there fast by themselves but if not should I see if SG can provide a shuttle?"

Griffin Freeman is freefalling towards Colonial Bay when he picks up the call for metahuman assistance.

He twists in the air and calls in his approach to Starguard Sky Command Central (or maybe just dispatch).

As soon as he's cleared he flies straight towards the landing field to see if he can assist anyone getting Moonside since he can get there under his own power.

Engelicus nods. "A shuttle would be good."

"I'll fly alongside and make sure you guys have a clear approach." Griffin offers shortly after landing. "Doesn't sound like we've got a lot of intel to go on so far."

Blok can't jump quite that far.

Golden Girl contacts SGG comms and asks if a shuttle is available to take the heroes answering the call to Tranquility.

"And space suits for those who need it," Grimm says. She looks toward the moon. "I could probably get there easily enough."

A shuttle is already being prepped, it turns out.

Blok just needs air.

Grimm heads to the shuttle as her casual clothes shift and mold into a black version of a Starguard uniform.

Golden Girl has changed into her hero costume. Something that's become rare for her. But in her costume she has SGG insigna visible.

Starguard hasn't heard any more from Tranquility since they last contacted Golden Girl. Tranquility's external communications seem to be completely down.

"Do we know if they have breached the walls?" asks Magda. "Are we likely to be fighting in vacuum?"

"It's possible. Be prepared for the worst."

Griffin walks along side with Grimm and the others but stops just outside the ramp into the shuttle. "Safe landings. I'll meet you guys above Tranquility." He says with a serious nod before relaying his intentions to dispatch.

Engelicus nods. "I will be fine in a vacuum. So if some of you have powers to help others breath, choose others first."

Grimm looks to Griffin. "I thought you were giving us escort," she smirks. "Do you think separating the team before the mission's even started is a good strategy?"

Grimm radios SGG command for a roster of the worst criminals in Tranquility currently.

"I'll be flying right alongside, Ms Grimm- don't you worry about that." Griffin says after turning back to Grimm.

A complete list of Tranquility inmates is provided.

Grimm's smirk falls into a more natural smile at Griffin's assurances. "Just remember, there's a lot of criminals from the Moon extortion incident. According to the reports, there's another you up there. And Victory. Titan. And a few others we haven't been able to ID for certain."

"That precisely why I thought we might need an escort- that and since we're going in blind." Griffin admits.

Grimm looks to the others gathered. Most she knows. Engelicus, she doesn't. "Uhh, so what's your deal, big guy?" she grins up at the handsome Godflora.

Engelicus looks down at Grimm, "I am...well, was a Law Bringer of the Origen. One of the Bloodlit. What is your 'deal', miss?"

Samuel has had a working relationship with Starguard for a long time, this is the first time he's done anything with them in suit. He listens quietly to the conversation. "I can make the trip in apporximately one hour sixteen minutes. I'm not sure what our transports ETA is, I'll fly myself if possible." He doesn't say to much on the strategy, though he does ask. "Will we be given schematics for the security system? I assume we'll have countermeasures available to us where vaccuum is concerned?"

Grimm's eyebrows raise at the mention of Bloodlit. There's been so many problem reports with those kind. "Oh boy. Well. This is going to be...interesting." She sizes him up with an appraising eye. "You can call me Grimm. I'm the Mistress of Tenebration and magic. I'm part of Starguard Gamma. So...my deal is all things dimensional, planar, magical, and bizarre." She read up that his kind has a thing for titles.

Magda generates her atmospheric aupport, and goes on ahead to see what she can see from a safe distance.

Schematics for the security systems are not available. For security reasons. However, you are given sufficient passwords, etc, for the staff to let you in. Assuming they're still alive.

"I think you might need to get there a bit faster than that, Sam." Griffin says to Samuel quietly. "Every minute counts- maybe second. Everyone that passes is a chance for them to let out another highly dangerous metahuman that will pose a significant danger if we let them get Earthside."

Grimm climbs aboard the shuttle. "Everyone who's coming, pile in. We're getting ready to take off," she calls and then goes in to talk to the pilots to prep for take off soon.

Blok boards the shuttle

Dialydd quietly arrives at the landing field, a large medical rucksack over one shoulder. He's no longer dressed as the Dreamer and is back in his normal attire. He silently gets on the shuttle.

Golden Girl heads into the shuttle. Gicven the absence of Victiry and Spirit, Grimm is the ranking SGG team member.

Engelicus gets into the shuttle as well, and straps himself in. He seems pretty comfortable with such, like he's done this kind of thing before.

The shuttle blasts off practically as soon as the heroes are strapped in.

Grimm sits down and buckles up, without a space suit. She'll just have to make sure to patch any hull breaches if it comes to that.

Dialydd murmurs softly, "I am familiar with the technology of starships, sera Grimm, should assistnace be needed. Sensors, life systems, and some engineering."

Grimm looks to Dialydd and nods. "It seems Tranquility's security and systems are compromised. We may need you to take a look. It's going to be dangerous, Dee. The worst of Earth's villains are kept there, and they're probably on the loose," she takes a breath.

Griffin waits for the shuttle to get out on the tarmac before he begins jogging up behind it, getting up to a fairly high speed before pushing off and taking ot the air right behind the shuttle.

Once they clear Gamma Base airspace he accelerates so he can fly alongside like a proper wingman.

Tranquility proves, once the heroes approach, not to be entirely dark. The landing lights are on, even if the navigation beacon is down. But those who have seen it before will know there should be more lights.

"Should we land now? Or do you want to scout first?" asks the pilot.

Golden Girl has claimed a window seat if there's one free. She's enthralled by the voyage. First time in space for her.

Grimm radios to Griffin outside. "We're going to need to land. Can you do a quick sweep for traps or bombs?"

Blok looks out the ports, nervously checking the horizons. He hasn't been to the Moon since he escaped the Forum Malvanum.

"Yes ma'am. Standby. Flying ahead now." Griffin replies over the radio, then he's gone- accelerating beyond lightspeed to try and get past any sensors unnoticed, and then on to the landing area.

Grimm has been in space a few times. She closes her eyes and extends her supernatural senses to sweep the landing area.

The main prison is in the shape of a ring, with three levels, one below the ground. There are also some outbuildings connected by tubes, such as that that leads to the landing pad. It quickly becomes clear that your senses are blocked by whatever the outer surface is made of - doubtless part of the security. The radio-sensitive would expect more radio from inside than they get, however. Only one bit if radio is clear, "-- repear, mayday! They've coming through -- no, keep back! AAARGHH!"

Visually, the outer walls of the prison appear to be unbreached, though Grimm can sense one point on the ground-floor ring at which the wall seems to be thinner and weaker.

There is no sign of life outside.

Grimm tilts her head at the irregularity. "Something's weakened the outer walls on the ground floor ring," she says as her eyes open, also radioing to Griffin. "No breaches, though."

Breach sits in the back of the shuttle, waiting for the contingent of heroes (and himself) to be given directions for deployment. Tilting his helmet up at Grimm's intel report, he gruffly replies, "Just the one here in the shuttle."

Eleanora says, "Am I ok to land?" radios the pilot."

Griffin leaps up, away from teh surface and then jumps to lightspeed- reappearing next to the shuttle. "Confirmed. Everything seemed on the up and up outside too, but quieter. Too quiet until that mayday. Lets get boots on the ground." Griffin says before turning towards the moon again, getting ready to fly along with the shuttle.

Magda links up with the shuttle, taking up a flanking position opposite where Griffin is.

Dialydd gets up, settles his rucksack over one shoulder, and waits to disembark with the others.

Grimm shoots a smirk at Breach. "Man, your name is going to be trouble up here," she chuckles. She hears something over the space suit comm. "That sounds really bad. They must be getting in somewhere I can't sense. Maybe in that weak point beyond where I can sense it." She waits for them to land and prepares to unbuckle herself.

Samuel eventually decided to travel with the shuttle, he strapped in, looking somewhat out of place taking a seat in his suit. His face plate for now raised, he frowns as they near their destination, his faceplate sliding back into place. "So, what's the approach? Sounds like the inmates may have control of the facility." He sounds far too calm talking about that, analysing a problem that needs solving.

Griffin flies and lands at a point between the shuttle and the first airlock while the others disembark from teh shuttle- just in case. His continues holding his breath patiently.

The pilot brings the shuttle down, smoothly. "We're down, folks. Been a long time since I had to land on manual, though."

Dialydd looks over at Grimm. "I suggest the pilot lift off again and head away from the prison once we are disembarked. It will deny any prisoners who cannot survive in space an escape route."

"Imagine what it was like in the EOD with that callsign," replies Breach. As the shuttle comes in for a landing, Breach stands up and moves toward the exit. One hand draws his Particle Revolver from its holster at his hip. Looking over his shoulder at Grimm, Breach adds, "Can you get me to the weak point? We can standby until the rest of the team have determined if they can bypass security on the airlocks."

Grimm unbuckles herself and nods to Dialydd. "Sounds good." She looks to Samuel. "We load in, let the space shuttle take off to safety, and secure the area. Try to get the systems online, and deal with the inmates while helping staff, most likely."

Engelicus nods in agreement with Dialydd, "This sounds wise." He unstraps himself and stands up to debark.

"I can get you -outside- of the weak point. But this is a secure facility. I can't teleport you through their security. The forcefields are at least still up," Grimm replies to Breach. "You good with being outside? You'd be alone."

Golden Girl prepares to follow Grimm until she's given specific orders.

"Roger that," says the pilot. "I'll take her to Luna 1 to get refuelled. Whistle if you need us."

Grimm asks the pilot, "Do we know if we have atmosphere outside?" She still puts on her space helmet and locks it into place for now.

"Hardsuit," is Breach's only response to Grimm's question. He gestures at his armored spacesuit with his free hand and shrugs. "A weak point is a weak point. If we need an emergency way in, I can make it."

Grimm nods to Breach. "I'm going to have to open a gate for you on the moon's surface. Don't want to be opening a teleportation gate and suck everyone out into a vacuum."

"None till the airlock. Looks like the extending connecting passage isn't functional, so you have to go outside unless someone can fix it. The lights show there's air inside the lock.

Grimm thinks for a moment. "I think I can cast a spell without opening a gate, actually. If you're willing to risk it," she recommends to Breach.

Dialydd raises a hand. "I can likely fix the passage. I am certain others here," he gustures at Samuel and Breach, "have the requistie skill sets as well."

"Those who don't need suits and are tough, take lead down the tunnel. Techs, try and check if there's any systems you can repair," Grimm suggests.

Golden Girl nods, "That's me," she says and takes lead as directed.

Grimm steps into the shuttle airlock to prepare to disembark.

Blok follows those without suits.

Dialydd follows the others out into the not actually cold vacuum on the lunar surface. He looks around carefully as he moves.

Grimm radios SGG command for any codes they need to get inside, once they get things working.

Golden Girl thinks - if the mountain won'r come to Mohammad I'll see if I can make it.

Sam nods slowly as he heads to the airlock. "I'm going to see if I can find out what's wrong with the airlock. It may be damage or it may be we've been locked out... I still fear the inmates may be in control."

Grimm steps out onto the moon's surface. She feels lighter than usual when she's not being as light as a shadow. She nods to Sam. "You and Dialydd can work together on that and get us in without damaging the hull if possible." She turns to Breach. "I can get you a gate to the weakened part of the wall now if you're prepared. You may want backup."

Griffin offers Breach his outstretched fist and says over radio, "Just ring the bell, Mason. I'll come runnin'."

Engelicus steps out onto the moon as well, and then manifests his wings for flight. Thankfully they're not actual elemental fire, bur soulfire, and do not burn out due to the vacuum.

Samuel finds nothing at all wrong with the airlock connection mechanism. Then realises there's something wrong with the sensor! It's not registering that the ship has arrived. But there doesn't seem to be anything physically wrong with it...

Breach steps out of the shuttle with a hiss of pressurization from his suit. He nods to Grimm and offers a thumbs up before answering on comms, <&lt;I'm your huckleberry for your magic. Just put me in place and let me know if I should make us a door.>>

It just doesn't seem to have any power. Despite being wired up correctly.

Grimm weaves her magic to open a portal gate to where she feels the weakening of the walls.

Golden Girl takes hold of the movable airlock assembly. And tries to physically move it out to link with the shuttle airlock.

Once the portal opens, Breach goes bounding through to the other side. He promptly posts up alongside the wall with his Particle Revolver in hand and at the ready.

<>

Golden Girl's brute force approach works. The airlocks can be connected then manually.

Above, Magda watches Breach go from here to there, and deduces mostly what he might be there for; she flies over there to back him up and provide for reconstruction and atmospheric control.

Sam looks at the airlock mechanisms, moving over the system a piece at the time, then he looks to Dialydd. "There's not damage, just a lack of power." He considers that for a moment. <&lt;I may be able to give it the necessary power, but I'm more worried as to why there's no power.>>

Blok says, "Line cut further in?"

Griffin nods witha grim look on his face. <> Griffin says.

"It may be being denied power from a command in the prison. Or the power may be being drained by one of the prisoners. Both are troubling options. As it is, we can connect it manually. I think we should /not/ connect the power or communications links from shuttle to prison. A prisoner may yse then to compromise the shuttle. Just a hard closure to let us access the airlock." replies Dee to Samuel.

Once past the airlock, things seem much more like they should be. The interior lights are on, and the automated message instructs you to follow the passage and then press the buzzer to announce your presence.

<> inquires Breach. He offers a thumbs up to Magda when he notices the force bubble she's erected to contain pressure.

<> Griffin replies to Breach as he throws a thumb towards the buzzer for the technical sorts to work past.

Sam nods, looking over to Dee. "I suspect we heard the inmates taking control of the facility. I suspect any way of entering will be turned against us." He sighs quietly. "I had hoped we'd be able to use their support to make this easy."

Engelicus follows Griffin through the airlock, "We should not hit hte buzzer, then?"

Blok follows through the airlock.

Grimm hurries in a jog down the airlock to the next door. "It'd announce us to the bad guys. It could be a trap," she says to Engelicus. That may just be tempting a Godflora to push it.

The alternative to pressing the buzzer would seem to be breaking into the next airlock. Which looks rather less standard and more heavy-duty.

Golden Girl says, "I can probably open it by hand if you like."

Otherwise, what's here is a coupe of seats, a table and as security camera.

<> inquires Breach. He looks over at the weak wall. . o O ( Soon... Soon I'll take my revenge on another one of you walls. )

Engelicus blinks. "Well, we should announce ourselves, then. It seems only proper to do so." He starts to go to push the button...and then give a full announcement and introduction.

Grimm thinks on it. "Of all the doors to smash, the airlocks are the worst ones," she comments to Golden Girl."

The alien youth puts a hand over the buzzer.

"Let us explore other options first, Godflora Engelicus," murmurs Dialydd. "Can any of us breach the barrier? Reduce it to dust? Bypass it dimensionally and open it from the other side?"

Grimm sighs in relief as Dialydd blocks Engelicus' hand. She thinks a moment. "Maybe it can be opened on the other side. Now that we're in the air lock, maybe some of the defenses are weaker. Let me try ...something?" Grimm calls upon her eldritch power to teleport her through forcefully. There are few walls that can stop or hold her, but this may be one of them. Black energy coalesces around her feet and begin to rise as she makes an attempt to teleport through.

Now in a globe of air, Magda can talk normally. "Tell them that the electronics suppression is from a meta named Blackout. Energy suppression and darkness powers; he can shut down both electronics and people."

<> intones Breach over the comms, <>

Grimm successfully teleports - *into* this second airlock, just shy of the second door.

Unlike most airlocks, this one doesn't have any manual overrides inside!

Grimm fades out of sight rapidly, then tries teleporting again to find the controls.

Magda waits patiently. "Any success?" she asks, then adds, "By the way, I'm Korkoro -- Magda Gutzu. You're Breach, correct?"

Grimm teleports into, excitingly, a corridor. Behind a glassteel wall is a room with a woman in it. She seems to be talking to someone on a video screen - to be precise, the other heroes, whom she has finally noticed waiting outside. "Help! They've sent help at last!" she says, sounding decidedly rattle. But not so rattled as to forget to ask you for passwords to make sure you are who you say.

Engelicus paces as he waits by the door.

Dialydd watches the woman on the screen. "I wonder how may shapeshifters are held in thie prison? Or those capable of illuion?" His tone is analytical as he watches the screen with the prison governors image on it.

"I relayed the message," replies Breach, "But I got no confirmation. They could be busy or comms could be jammed over there."

Pausing a moment, Breach looks at Korkoro for several seconds of silence. With that mirrored orange faceplate in the way, it's difficult to tell what kind of expression he's got. Or if he has a face. Breach pops open one of the containers on his armor, pulling out a mine that he holds in hand.

"Yeah. I'm Breach."

Grimm reappears on the inside of the door. "Grimm with Starguard Gamma. Are you going to let us in, then?" she asks, prepared to be attacked.

Armstrong jumps at Grimm's sudden appearance, then collects herself. "If you give the passwords."

Over the comms, Dialydd murmurs <> His tone is dry and surprisingly calm for so youthful looking a figure.

Griffin watches he screen apprehensively.

Grimm studies the Governor. "In a moment. I have to make sure you're who you say you are, too, if you'll allow me to scan you with magic."

Dialydd looks around at those in the airlock. "Can any of you get this door open with brute force if necessary?" He looks at the airlock door to try to ascertain it's strengths and weaknesses.

Griffin nods to Dialydd.

Armstrong raises a weapon at Grimm. Can it fire through a glassteel wall? Who knows? "Password."

Blok says, "I think we can."

Grimm is in a standoff with Armstrong, whom seems...mostly in control. It's still a gamble. "Well, not like I can't undo it if you prove to be a fake," she says enigmatically and then gives the password.

Engelicus says, "The human in the room there is speaking hte truth."

Armstrong gives the countersign.

Grimm nods slowly, still suspicious. She knows the roster up here. They're some clever shapeshifters who might even deceive her senses. "Alright. So open the doors for the rest of the team and let us help."

Armstrong lowers her weapon, and looks much relieved. "Thank god you're here - for all I know it's just me and the prisoners! I haven't heard from any of the guards since - " She buzzes the heroes through the first door.

Engelicus nods as the door opens...and he steps further inside the facility.

Blok doesn't pass through the door until she finishes that sentence.

"... there was a horrible scream - I think Muller was killed..."

Dialydd follows along after the others if there is room. If not, he waits for the next cycle.

<> inquires Breach over the comms.

"Into the airlock, you too, so I don't have to cycle twice." says Armstrong.

Blok says, "Blok will wait."

Grimm winces. "Shick. I'm sorry about Muller. If he's still alive, we'll try and get him help. We have some expert medics with us. What can you tell us about who's free? Who's in charge? Timekeeper attacked Colonial Bay according to reports, then we heard about a situation here."

Magda whistles softly as she waits, possibly some cello piece.

<> says Dialydd over the comm.

Grimm looks to the Governor. "Can I use some magic to make sure you aren't being spied upon or compromised by the villains here?"

Armstrong shakes her head, but lets Blok stay outside. With the others in the airlock she closes the first door, and presses a button to pressurise the airlock.

<> replies Breach. He turns and slaps the mine onto the weakened wall section. Looking to Magda, Breach intones, "They're entering the facility now. Standing by for second confirmation."

Armstrong says to Grimm, "By all means. If you can do that."

The airlock pressurises. The gas doesn't immediately eat through your suits, anyway. :) Then Armstrong opens the inner door too.

Magda nods in acknowledgement, merely floating there in the light Lunar gravity. And whistling.

Grimm walks over to Armstrong and nods. "I can try and make sure things are clear. It'll take a few moments probably," she says as she makes a gesture toward Armstrong. There's a faint dark aura that eminates from her hand and envelopes Armstrong.

Grimm tries to dispel shapeshifting... and, nothing happens.

<> states Dialydd over the comm.

Grimm lowers her hand and the magic fades. "Okay, I think we're safe. As for if they're hacking the surveillance to watch us, I would have to leave that up to the techs amongst us to determine." She's speaking truthfully now.

The second airlock door opens.

Dialydd waits for other to exit then enters the other room. He nods to Grimm and inquires, "Shall Samuel and I check the systems, sera Grimm?"

Grimm nods to Dialydd.

<<Confirmed. Moving to entry,>> replies Breach to Dialydd. He removes the mine and stows it again, looking to Magda. "They're in. Our turn now." Breach promptly starts bouncing across the lunar surface toward Blok and the airlocks.

Armstrong turns back to Blok. "Your turn."

Blok says, "One moment, please. There are more to come."

Engelicus gets through the airlock, and positions himself as a guard while hte others work and get he remaining heroes inside.

Magda opens her mouth, then closes it, eyeing the wall that has been weakened before she shrugs and follows.

Eleanora frowns. "More?" She checks this with Grimm, who gave the password.

Armstring frowns. "More?" She checks this with Grimm, who gave the password.

Golden Girl advances to where Engelicus is. To also stand guard.

Grimm nods to Eleanora. "The rest of our team went to investigate a potential entry point that might've been compromised."

Armstrong nods. "I hope the delay is not at the cost of any other survivors." She glances toward the onward door.

Blok says, "Blok holds door. Is custom, yes?"

Dialydd moves to any available console. He looks at it for a moment, then reaches out into the air, and then plucks the tools he needs out of Dream. He begins to examine it for tampering.

Grimm frowns at Armstrong's implication. "We got here as quick as we could considering the compromised systems and the lack of intel on what went down. We could've smashed our way in, but then you'd be dealign with other problems. If you can give us a sitrep as soon as possible, we can figure out how to save lives and deal with the prisoners."

Breach nods to Blok. He may or may not be unaware of Magda's discontent about not causing more damage to a government facility. Only once the airlock door starts opening does Breach holster his Particle Revolver again.

Grimm wonders who she even is at the moment. She must be hanging out with the wrong (or right) crowd too much.

Dialydd observes the console on the other side of the partition. "May I have access to the console, Governor Armstrong? Given the abilities of the prisoners here, we must make certain the systems are secure?"

Griffin is duely impressed with Grimm's professionalism and tactical mind working under pressure. He listens carefully, but has nothing to add so lets the peices fall into place.

Once Breach and Magda enter the airlock, Blok will as well.

Armstrong buzzes Dialydd (and any other heres who wish) through, whille starting to cycle thoose outside through the airlock.

Dialydd begins his work.

Magda floats in, entirely unaware of Breach's interpretation of her hesitancy. "How are we doing in here?" she asks the others once the atmosphere is normalized.

Engelicus heads through as the second door is also opened.

Golden Girl dpes also.

"I'm fine and dandy," replies Breach to Magda. He looks over at Blok for a moment, wondering what sort of answer will come from the alien.

"We're moving along. We're about to get a sitrep from Helen Armstrong- Prison Governor. Which we can get underway now that we're all ehre." Griffin says, indicating Armstron when he mentions her title.

"You're right, of course," says Armstrong. collecting herself. "And I wish I could give a better account. But the cameras and communications went down -well, off and on - so early! Things started at Auntie Rotter's cell. Someone her power suppressors must have failed -she rotted her way out of her cell! Then before we caught her she'd headed straight for Blackout's cell and broke him out. After that, we lost them in blackness and we lost reliable communications...."

Magda's eyebrows lift slightly at Breach's rejoiner, but nods to Griffin and attends on Armstrong's words. "That sounds like the cause of the weak point in the wall ... hmm."

The first two guards on the scene we foound dead, later, rotting away, just outside Blackout's cell. She must have taken them out while she was breaking him out.

"Is Rotter's cell in that direction?" inquires Breach, pointing toward where the weakened wall was.

Dialydd murmurs, "Over two thirds of the systems are damaged. No obvious tampering. Energy suppressions and fluctuations are causing semi-random shifts from system to system. Some systems are down. Life support seems secure for now," murmurs Dialydd into a pause in the conversation.

Armstrong takes a second to orient herself, then answers Breach, "Yes."

"Exterior wall's going to need repairs," notes Breach. He moves away from the group a few paces to help Golden Girl and Engelicus maintain a secure perimeter.

Grimm regrets the news of the guard's deaths. "It's a dangerous job. It sounds like if we take Blackout down, we can have a chance of regaining control of Tranquility."

Grimm looks over to Breach and asks with some suspicion, "What'd you do to the walls...?"

"At least two other prisoners are known to be out of their cells. Timekeeper was outside his at the start of the event - he has some measure of liberty for good behaviour- and hasn't been seen since. Plasma's cell was also found rotted open. Reports of others were interrupted...."

Engelicus nods. "So, we are going to head further inside?"

Blok says, "We must. There may be survivors who need assistance."

Armstrong nods. "If you're ready, I'll let you through now. There's not much more certain that I can tell you."

"Nothing," Magda says about the wall. "The thin spot you found, which we were at, was Auntie Rotter's cell. It will need repair."

Grimm nods. "Well, Timekeeper's been behaving badly. One of him was responsible for incidents planetside." She looks to Engelicus and nods. "We go in and save who we can. Stop the bad guys. Blackout is our top priority, as is Timekeeper."

"Doesn't sound like there's a whole lot that we can do from here," replies Breach, nodding. He looks around at the group and then nods to Armstrong as he turns toward the indicated entrance deeper into the Mines of Moria.

...

I mean Tranquility.

Golden Girl says, "I read about Auntie Rotter in SGG files. Don't let her touch you. That's how she kills."