Log:The Ghost of Dr. Furmano, Scene 2

The Ghost of Dr. Furmano 2009/10/23 	 Dr. Laurence Furmano Halcyon Imaginary Girl Jade Jennifer Jessica Michelle Regan Sable Titan 2

The interior of the underground facility here is industrial and eerily quiet. At a glance, the halls look like passageways taken from a submarine. Pipes and cables line the walls and ceiling. The floor is a steel mech that lets you see the crawlspace beneath, with more pipe and cables. It clanks and shifts slightly underfoot. The layout is like a wagon wheel the corridor bends, forming a circular hallway, consisting of straight segments separated by door-less hatchways and joined at an angle. There are doors on both sides of the hall, with the larger doors seeming to leading to the spokes of the wheel.

The heroes are in a secret underground lab, accompanied by the ghostly form of scientist Louis Furmano. They've just defeated a group of robots are now in the lab's central control room.

Furmano says, "Quickly now, you'll have to restore my form fully to this dimension before more of the robots arrive. Then, after you've escorted me out, I'll begin to plot my revenge on the person who trapped me down here." He begins to look around at the heroes, seeming to try and appraise each one with a glance. "I suppose it would be too much to ask if any of you have any scientific training?"

Jennifer asks with dangerous quietness, "You need this equipment intact to come back into phase?" as Jessica moves to stand closer to a rack of electronics and tosses her energy whip from hand to hand.

Jade shrugs. "I-dabble now-if-we're-going-to-do-this-someone-should-do-as-he-says-and-shut-the-door."

Jade has changed which circuits she's looking at since getting Michelle's description of how Furmano is out of phase.

"Yes," Furmano says to Jennifer, "Of course." He double-takes, realizing just what Jennifer is hinting at.

Regan's lips purse slightly at Furmano's words, her hands clasping in front of her. "So let's initiate a quid pro quo, who is responsible for your current predicament?" Her gaze sweeps across the entry-ways, checking that the arrival of more robots is not imminent.

Jennifer says, "So who brought the alternative twins in from another dimension to make the hit on Jon Masters?"

The blackened shape of Halcyon finally reveals herself, arms folded as she appears before Furmano, glaring at the doctor. "You're lucky I'm not spiteful," she tells him in stage-whisper volume.

Regan positions herself on the outer edge of the room to guard two of the entrances and exchanges a glance Jenn and Jess before switching smoothly to German, a language she suspects the twins share.

Furmano folds his arms and shrugs his shoulders. He says to Jennifer, "I don't know, but I can offer a guess. He calls himself the The Outsider, and he's the one responsible for sending those robots after me here."

Michelle shrugs and decides to make herself useful by going and finding how to close/lock the doors so no more robots get in

Furmano's expression lights up as he sees Halcyon. "Ah! I was hoping to run into you again, but I didn't imagine it would be so soon."

Jade says, "What-does-he-he-have-against-you? What's-your-connection-to-the-company-that-owns-this-facility? What's-his?"

Regan turns to look at Eleanor and offers the diminutive heroine a broad smile. "Hey."

Regan says [in German]: "We should guard the access tunnels to make sure no robots get in or scientists out."

Halcyon flits to check on the tunnels, serving as a kind of early warning system for the heroes while they work on other things.

Regan pauses a beat then makes some military style hand gestures to Jenn and Jess, assigning each of them a pair of access tunnels to patrol but also advising eyes on the doctor.

Jennifer nods, "Yah." and goes to help with closing the doors.

Furmano says, "Up until recently, I was in charge of dimensional research for Hypersite. In one of our early attempts to reach another dimension we came across the Outsider's universe. Apparently dimensional travel technology on his world is more advanced. He offered to help Hypersite improved their science, and soon I was cut out of the loop."

Jessica says, "So this is a Hypersite facility?"

Jade says, "I'd-guessed-as-much."

"This facility," Furmano adds, "Was something I'd set up to do some, ah, deniable research. I let Hypersite have use of it for a while, which was a mistake, in retrospect."

Jade says, "Well-you're-certainly-out-of-the-loop let's-see-if-we-can-get-you-back-into-it."

Regan glances to Michelle. "Can you keep an eye on this machinery and make sure it's doing what our host suggests it should be?"

Michelle hrms at Regan and shrugs "Sure I can... I'm not entirely sure what it's supposed to do specifically though"

Furmano says, "They used their access to the systems to send a robotic death squad into the facility. But thanks to my own genius, and the sacrifice of some of my lab assistants, I was able to phase shift myself. In this form, I'm invisible to the robots' life-sign scanners."

Jessica asks as she tosses the energy whip back to her right hand, "... and the motive for us bringing you back is..? I see a couple of benefits for leaving you like this and no down side. If I'm missing something, you might want to speak up quickly."

Jade smiles, "So-if-we-bring-you-back-they'll-be-able-to-kill-you-again? How-does-that-suit-you-Jenn?"

Halcyon reappears, less annoyed-seeming at Furmano directly now. She approaches him, stage-whispering again: "Are we gonna meet again under the same conditions as before?"

Jennifer smiles coldly, "Yeah. That works for me."

Michelle hrms and looks around since everyone's so angry at this guy and decides to ask "So since everyone seems to want to leave the guy like this more or less... what'd I miss for him to deserve it?" the skunk lady asks the others out of curiousity.

Furmano glances over at Halcyon. "I've got bigger fish to fry." He turns to Michelle and Jade. "You and you. Both of you seem to have an inkling about how this equipment might work. I'll talk you through the steps of firing up the dimensional interface."

Regan says, "If I understand correctly, he is implicated in transporting some of Jenn and Jess's duplicates from an alternate dimension and then killing them."

Jessica says, "Furmano, where do I find this Outsider?"

Imaginary Girl, having actually been quiet the whole time (for a change), floats her way over to Furmano... and pokes a finger at (and into) him. "Wow... I guess you know, better even than I do, what it's like to be 'imaginary', huh?", she comments, quietly.

Jennifer nods to Reagn and Michelle, "Yes."

Michelle blinks at Furmano "uhh I'm not good with equipment... everything I do works on instinct and innate ability but I can see some of its effects more or less"

Regan's head tilts slightly. "So just to reiterate Doctor, you're denying all responsibility for transporting the copies of the twins. Not your idea and you weren't even peripherally involved?"

Jade says while examinging the machine, "He's-abducted-and-experimented-on-metas-in-the-past hm-another-option-might-be-to-shunt-him-into-a-*different*-dimension...."

Regan says, "I suggest we render him corporeal and bring him with us, his desire to avenge himself will mesh nicely with ours and we can keep him out of future mischief."

Imaginary Girl looks over at Jade, frowning as she puts her hands on her hips. "That woudln't be /right/", she says. "Even if he's done bad stuff, we can't act like bad guys ourselves, just 'cause we don't like him or what he did."

Furmano begins talking Jade through the power-up sequence. To Regan, he says, "I suppose I have some responsibility -- I summoned the genie, so to speak. And it's up to me to put him back into the bottle."

Regan's gaze cuts to IG and she nods slightly in approval, then more firmly at Furmano's statement. "Then we're all on the same page. Jess you should stand guard on the doctor and swap tunnel-watching duty with IG."

Imaginary Girl floats over to watch over the tunnel in place of Jessica at Regan's words, still pouty about the suggestion to just toss the doctor out a dimensional window.

[To Imaginary Girl] Jade says, "You-don't-know-that-might-be-better-for-everyone anyway-I-was-only-mentioning-it-as-a-theoretical-possibility and-now-I-look-closer-not-very-practical some-of-the-circuits-have-been-cannabalised-to-to-the-phase-shift."

Regan turns her back to the good doctor to look at Eleanor, making a small hand gesture to catch the young lady's attention before mouthing silently. "Watch the doctor, he'll try to escape once he's solid."

Furmano says to Jennifer. "He travels between his home dimension and this one, with some sort of portal generator built into his armor. But if he's here, he's likely at Hypersite's offices in Buenos Aires."

Jade says, "Oh-before-we-bring-you-back-into-phase-you-might-want-to-tell-us where-do-the-robots-come-from and-how-long-is-it-likely-to-be-before-they-arrive and-in-what-numbers?"

"Magnificent piece of equipment, really," Furmano says, wistfully. He smirks to Jennifer, "I wouldn't recommend dropping by. The Outsider will only be defeated by a man of amazing intellect."

Jade says, "Oh. I'll-look-into-that-when-I'm-done-here-then."

To Jade, Furmano says, "There are thirty more of them, and they should be converging here soon, now that you've destroyed their friends."

Halcyon flits over to examine the robots, trying to find a functional head.

Regan says, "A man of ammazing intellect? Isn't that equivalent to a moderately bright woman?"

Jennifer says, "I remember a demon one time that was undefeatable, Furmano. I broke him. Can't see any reason the Outsider shouldn't end up broken."

At roughly the same time, a group of five robots appears and the end of each of the halls leading out of the control room. Six groups in all.

"We got company!", calls out Imaginary Girl when she spots the bots.

Halcyon vanishes from sight rather quickly, moving toward one set of robots.

Jade asks Furmano, "Would-you-prefer-to-remain-phased-till-the-robots-are-handled?"

Regan announces over her shoulder. "I'm taking mine in the cooridor."

Furmano says, "No. I trust that you and your friends will keep me safe."

Jennifer and Jessica move into one of the corridors, "I'll take these. Shout out if anyone needs a hand."

Jade says, "Odd-under-the-circumstances."

Imaginary Girl turns to one corridor, too. "I got /these/", she says.

The interior of the underground facility here is industrial and eerily quiet. At a glance, the halls look like passageways taken from a submarine. Pipes and cables line the walls and ceiling. The floor is a steel mech that lets you see the crawlspace beneath, with more pipe and cables. It clanks and shifts slightly underfoot. The layout is like a wagon wheel the corridor bends, forming a circular hallway, consisting of straight segments separated by door-less hatchways and joined at an angle. There are doors on both sides of the hall, with the larger doors seeming to leading to the spokes of the wheel.

Jade continues with the initiation sequences.

Jennifer says, "Jade, let Furmano wait. No reason to let him escape while we're busy with these robots."

Jade says, "But-if-we-get-him-out-now-then-we-can-put-the-robot's-*in*-there."

Imaginary Girl is off like a shot, flying down her chosen hallway. Leading with her fists, she slams into the lead robot of her group, sending it flying backwards into a wall, where it collapses into a legitemate hunk of junk.

Jade says, "Or-would-people-prefer-just-to-smash-them? It-might-be-easier."

Jennifer says, "More satisfying too."

Regan turns and moves sharply down the corridor, trying to use it as a bottle neck to keep the robots from the central control room. Once halfway down the hall she drops into a defensive stance to see what the bots will do, her knees bent slightly to bring her weight onto the balls of her feet.

Jennifer and Jessica draw Hyundi katanas and move into the corridor so no robots can get past her. Then she waits for the robots to advance into slicing and dicing range.

Michelle remains near the middle waiting for anyone else who might need a little extra help. Although she does activate her defenses since you know she's an easy target without them.

The robots move forward quickly, firing as they advance.

The robots that're left of her group open up on Imaginary Girl. She ducks one laser blast, and gets nailed in the face with another, tumbling backwards through the air as another bolt burns through the air where she'd just been. The fourth robot holds its fire until she's righted herself, facing the robots, and hits her square on - but she takes it squarely on the chest and stands firm, not driven back at all by that shot.

Despite her best efforts at evasion Sable is hit pretty darn solid square centre of mass and thrown violently backward to smash into the wall of the tunnel, arms and legs flailing awkwardly as she tries to take some sort of defensive action but is clearly hurt by the second impact. As soon as she hits the ground however, her knees curl into her chest and she kicks out smoothly to get back to her feet before closing the distance back to the robots.

Jennifer slams the robots together. The robots prove to be tough enough to survive that, but bendable.

Jade darts down the nearest corridor into the group of five robots. She sighs, "This-could-take-a-while," as she brings a foot round into the first of them.

With the momentum from the run, Jade's kick is sufficient to smash the first robot!

Halcyon sends a field of blackness to confuse and bewilder the nearest robot friends down the corridor she selected, her plan involving adding silence to it in order to remove the two most common methods of detection she has encountered.

Sable returns to the throng of robots, at the last instant side-stepping of her right foot with asmall jump that brings her against the wall. Kicking off with her left fott she swings said appendage in a viciously scything arc aimed ath the nearest target.

Jade awaits the robots' counterattack.

Jade thinks. o O (Ok, four more robots to yourself. Stay calm. Can't be worse than basketball back at school.)

Imaginary Girl darts forward at her group of robots, lashing out with one fist at the nearest. The punch lands with a CLANG and makes the robot slide back a ways, a fist-sized dent in its front plating. On the floor, the robot stirs - its down, but not out!

Jennifer and Jessica switch back to katanas while advancing on the front row of robots and cut at them.

Sable's kick swings well wide of the mark, the entire maneuver seeming elegant but foolishly over-elaborate. With a look of more than mild annoyance, she prepares for the next whithering barrage, this time from point-blank range

Jennifer drops one robot slicing through the torso while another loses a hand but unfortunately not the hand that is blaster equipped.

Imaginary Girl gets nailed, point-blank, all over again. Sent tumbling backwards through the air by two shots that hit her at about the same moment, she rights herself and says, "Hey...! I actually /felt/ that!" - she's /smiling/, as if she's having fun!

The robots by Halycon begin trying to feel their way around for a target.

The group of five robots who have reached the control room continue through to the corridor where Jennifer and Jessica are fighting.

To help further disorient her robotic friends, Halcyon silences the same area as the blackness, while she remains up near the ceiling to avoid being blastered.

Sable rocks backward slightly, her shoulders rotating tightly as she coils her torso. With a sharp leap she unleashes her right foot int a scything arc, trying to smash as many of the robots as she can with the one hit.

Jade twists to avoid all the fires of the robots and then brings her foot round into the next one. "You-know-people-should-program-combat-robots-with-witty-banter it's-not-like-fighting-actual-people."

Jade can't bring as much force to bear, though, following all the dodging.

Sable's foot smashes the first 'bot to one side, crumpling it accordion like against a wall before it scythes into its neighbour, knocking it's head off at the neck to clang against the wall and back again. Though her last attack misses she lands smoothly and focuses on the remaining robot in the first row.

Darting back into her robots, Imaginary Girl grabs one and hurls it at the one that's just gotten to its feet. She misses her target, but the thrown robot ends up twitching on the floor, damaged but not shut down, after slamming into the wall!

Jennifer and Jessica, noe they are right in among the robots, switch to ranger staff and lay about them with violence intended, taking out frustration.

The twins are in the center of a twirling spinning strom of stave strikes as they take out anger, worry and frustration on the robots, slamming one into a wall, another being driven into a crumpled heap on the floor, and two others bend at various places although not disabled as yet.

Michelle looks around the room for someone who's in danger of being overrun by the robots and begins to rip through dimensional barriers, sending electrical energy through to and well she just picks the closet one for simplicity

The interior of the underground facility here is industrial and eerily quiet. At a glance, the halls look like passageways taken from a submarine. Pipes and cables line the walls and ceiling. The floor is a steel mech that lets you see the crawlspace beneath, with more pipe and cables. It clanks and shifts slightly underfoot. The layout is like a wagon wheel the corridor bends, forming a circular hallway, consisting of straight segments separated by door-less hatchways and joined at an angle. There are doors on both sides of the hall, with the larger doors seeming to leading to the spokes of the wheel.

Titan steps forward, and takes a swing at the robot closest to him...making sure that there's nothing behind it which is sensitive...like a computer. Just in case.

Michelle unloads some transdimensional electrical energies through a rift, shorting out the robot that Jade just hit, causing it to just shut down and maybe topple over in the process.

Jade prepares to dodge the counterattack again. "I-mean you-could-at-least-be-chanting-'Eviscerate'-in-chorus-or-something.

Sable recovers her balance for an instant after the dramatic flying, spinning kick and reverts to a more basic side kick aimed at the centre of the chest of the robot she narrowly missed just moments before.

Sable's more measured attack again strikes wide of the mark and her frustration builds though she is at least in a better defensive posture

Titan drives his fist into the robot, causing it to teeter...but not fall over.

Michelle wastes no time in unloading a second blast, this time to finish off the one that Titan just pummeled with another blast of electricity... Hey it works good on robots usually

Michelle 's electrical shock zaps through the robot, rendering it useless as the smell of fried circuit boards starts to permeate the room... from both of the ones she finished off.

Four laser blasts drive Imaginary Girl back again, leaving her with black scorch marks up and down her costume and even over her face. Her hair's smoking where a laser bolt went through it, even! As she rights herself in the air again, so that she's hovering facing her opponents, she grabs at her side, where one laser blast left a black and red spot - that one HURT, clearly.

Five robots continue to fumble around in the darkness looking for Halcyon.

Jennifer and Jessica get caught by blaster fire as expected, but they care little for that through the fogging mist of red rage in their vision. The only reaction is cursing as they are knocked away from their targets.

Titan is thrown back by the numerous blasts...having been hit a good nine times now. He's still conscious, but getting up slowly from where he's on the ground.

As a finale for the others, Halcyon creates a message near her disoriented group of robots: 'GROUP OF ROBOTS HERE' with an arrow pointed toward them and everything, drawing a line to each robot's location.

Jade chances kicking at two robots now their numbers are reduced.

Jade gets a solid kick in the first robot, knocking it to the ground but doesn't have the balance to strike the second.

Sable turns in a sharp pirhouette, her fist balling up to lash in a powerful backhand strike at the junction of her current target's neck and shoulder.

Sable's fist thumps solidly into its intended target rocking the bot and staggering it into the wall next to it. "She turns to yell over her shoulder. "Eleanor, shut the door on Titan's bots, isolate them!"

Jennifer rolls to her feet and returns to the two damaged robots swinging the ranger staff with lethal aim at them.

Sable should perhaps be paying more attention to what's going on

Jessica also rolls to her feet and then delays a moment to make sure Jennifer takes down the two remaining from her original bunch. Seeing the two damaged robots fall under Jennifer's staff she uses the distance she's been knocked back as a starting bonus towards moving to the next closest set of targets.

Titan gets to his feet, wincing a bit. He looks pretty banged up, but he tries to grab one of the robots next to him....intending to use the grabbed robot as a shield from the blasts of the others.

Titan fails to actually grab the robot, being just a bit too slow.

Jade again dodges robot attacks and awaits an opening for another kick.

Titan attempts again to grab the robot, knowing he won't get through another volley of blasts.

Titan misses again, clearly still pretty rattled from getting battered about.

Imaginary Girl looks up at the robots aiming her way, and darts and spins and bends and twists in the hallway as they shoot at her, managing to evade all the laser blasts coming her way. Her little red cape ends up with a black-edged hole shot into it in the process, but that's the worst of it.

Halcyon simply makes sure the robots are kept in the dark.

Sable's boots scuff slightly at the floor as she steps and spins, her arms folding as she scythes her elbows in w whirling flurry at the remaining robots as she glides into their midst, her weight shifting skilfully to lend full force to each punishing blow.

Titan is knocked back against the wall, and slumps tot he floor unconscious.

Sable's first elbow swingst satisfyingly into the head of her first target which was the one she had previously dented and she smashes it to the ground though the impact seems to throw off her rhythm and her subsequent strikes go awry.

With no robot in Jennifer's reach she takes a much needed breath.

Jessica spins into the midst of the four robots swinging ranger stave at all in reach.

Michelle finished off one of Jade's damaged bots with a bolt of electricity.

Jessica plants the butt end of the stave into a robot midrif and folds it up with a tearing of metal. Another robot is dented and then other two escape with scapes on the paintwork.

Jade tries to kick both remaining bots near her.

Jade connects both times, but doesn't do all that much damage.

Jade tries to finish the robots off!

Imaginary Girl, dodging blaster fire, seems to be taking the moment to 'catch her breath'. In fact, she /does/ look better for the moment, at that - there's a black-singed hole in her outfit, where that one blaster shot nailed her, but there's normal-looking skin visible there, now, instead of the charred, reddish mess from before. Even her hair, earlier singed by an errant shot, is looking 'normal'.

Jade however only manages to break the one robot. She looks worried as she realises she's overreached herself.

Seeing Jade having a spot of trouble, Halcyon sends a field of blackness around her location too.

Suddenly, Imaginary Girl darts forward, slamming into one of the robots in a (literal) flying shoulder-tackle, flattening it even before it flies backwards to fall in a broken heap of robotics against a wall!

Sable again decides to simplify her approach, maneuvering in between her two remaining opponents, her favoured right fist balling tightly before arcing powerfully for the middle of her target's sensor array.

Sable's punch smashes its intended target back against the wall of the tunnel before it crumples inert to the floor.

Jennifer makes towards Jade's location. Jessica puts away stave and reverts to hands and feet, leaping to kick at the three of the robots in her reach in a spinning high kick.

Michelle polishes off one of the robots that Jessica damaged.

Jessica returns to her feet breathing hard, having smashed two and damaged a third.

Jade, finding herself in sudden darkness, clicks her tongue and attempts to locate the robot by the echo, to deliver a hopefully-final blow.

Imaginary Girl ends up with a nasty scorch-mark on her back, and another on one of her legs as she gets cross-fired after taking down another of her robots.

Jade feels the robot give under her foot.

Eleanor releases the blackness around Jade, revealing what's happened.

In her hallway, Regan finishes off the last of her robots.

Jade moves back into the conrol chamber cautiously

Jade goes to pick off the robot in darkness - though taking the cautious approach, now it appears there's no need to rush.

Imaginary Girl, apparently still reeling from having been shot again, spins around and swings her fist at one of the robots - but spun the wrong way. "Ooops!", she says, turning around to face the way she'd MEANT to punch.

Jennifer runs back to the control room on the way to assit Imaginary Girl.

Jessica runs into the darkness field, and realizes that was a mistake when her acute hearing cuts out leaving her unable to locate the robots by sound as she planned.

Jennifer says, "So next stop Buenos Aires."

The intangible doctor says, "Bravo, bravo... Now if you're ready, we can proceed..."

Sable turns back to the doctor and continues in her German.

Jessica says, "Anyone hurt?"

Sable says [in German]: "Not very gracious is he"

Titan gets to his feet, already looking quite a bit better.

Jade says, "I'm-fine."

Jade goes back to see about rescuing the good - well, bad actually - doctor.

Imaginary Girl comes out of the fight a bit worse for the wear, singed and shot multiple times. Still, once she looks down at her singed and burned outfit... the holes in it just fade away, and it's whole once again. "Those guns of theirs really /hurt/ when more than one was hitting me at the same time!", she comments. Floating over to where Titan's at, she lands and reaches over to help him to his feet. "You okay? You got shot lots more than I did, I think!"

Jennifer nods, ""Personally I'd just as soon leave him like this. It would be better for several people."

Titan nods to Imaginary Girl, and smiles. "I'll be fine in a little bit."

Jade pauses in her work. "Just-how-dangerous-is-he?"

"We had a deal..." Furmano says.

Sable moves through the room checkin on her colleagues and removing robot heads to hand to Titan and IG so they can crush them flat. "In case they want to rebuild themselves let's not let them have sensors"

Sable says, "He can help us, and he will. We can't renege."

Jennifer says, "Dangerous. In himself not very. But he doesn't worry about anyone else except himself. I can't say I like a person that kidnaps a handicapped young boy to put pressure on a friend of mine."

Halcyon moves to Jade's side, responding in stage-whisper, "He trapped me several times remotely."

"Lets give him to the cops and let them put him in jail, then. That's where bad guys are supposed to go, right?", suggests Imaginary Girl, between robot-head squishings.

Jade says, "Well as-long-as-we're-clear-on-the-terms-of-this-'deal'...."

Jade resumes her work.

Titan blinks, and says while destroying robot parts, "What 'deal', exactly? I missed that detail."

Furmano looks around at the heroes, not exactly liking where this conversation is going. He edges over towards a wall.

Sable says, "We restore his corporality and he tells us all he knows about the Outsider and how we can stop him and catch him"

Jennifer brushes off her jacket where it's smoldering after a blaster bolt licked at it. "Okay. I'm feeling a bit less stressed after the robots anyway. They were a welcome stress reliever."

Jade smiles a bit as she works, glad to hear that.

Sable says, "Is that what everyone understood the terms to be?"

Jessica nods.

Sable looks to Furmano

"And then we take him to the cops for the bad things he's done", Imaginary Girl says, with a nod of her head as she scrunches another robot-head flat, like a tin can underfoot.

Sable says, "Well yes, but in return for him going quietly he doesn't get hurt and he gets access to a lawyer."

"No!" Furmano says, "My work is too important for me to waste any time in jail." He turns and tries to bolt through the wall.

Sable looks to Jenn, Jess, and El

Imaginary Girl, forgetting that he's not solid, darts after the professor to give chase!

Jade sighs. "Brilliant Imaginary-Girl."

Titan raises a brow. "He's a moron. He's not corporeal. How is he going to do ANY work?"

Jennifer and Jessica grab for phase nets. Jennifer's is a ripped tangle on the floor, but Jessica throws hers at Furmano.

Halcyon flits in front of Furmano, arms folded again. "Serve your time, and then you get to play the way you want to."

Jade keeps on working on getting the machine running.

Jade thinks. o O (Now he won't be as helpful. Why couldn't we hold of on the detail of his going to jail till after he'd helped us?)

Imaginary Girl swoops in to grab her arms around the no-longer-fleeing bad guy, and ends up just scooping up the ends of the net with him inside it, like a sack full of grain. "Gotcha! Now you'll go to jail like bad guys are /supposed/ to do!", she says to him. Waggling a finger at him, she adds, "Now don't try to get away, or I'll hafta thump ya!"

Angstrom struggles feebly to get out of the net. "No! You must let me go... if you don't, you will live to regret it. I promise you that!"

Furmano struggles feebly to get out of the net. "No! You must let me go... if you don't, you will live to regret it. I promise you that!"

Jade says, "Ok... let's-see-if-this-works!"

"How about you tell us all the stuff you /said/ you'd tell us, or you'll live to regret being imaginary", Imaginary Girl says to Furmano, darkly, as she holds him up in the net. "I'll put you with Rumbles. I betcha he could use the company!", she adds, sounding angry.

Jade finishes the sequence.

Jennifer goes over to Furmano. "You are indirectly responsible for me alters being killed. I was mind linked to them when they died. Do you have *any* idea what that was like? Give us any trouble or try to hold anything back and you won't live to regret it. Have I made myself clear."

Jade says, "Furmano it's-up-to-you come-back-or-drift-out-of-phase-forever."

Furmano seems to give up. He begins talking to himself.

Jade says, "He-needs-to-be-at-the-gate there."

Imaginary Girl flits over there with her net-sack full of Furmano. "Do I just hold him here or toss him in or what?", she asks of Jade.

Halcyon fades from view again, resuming her earlier scouting activity.

Furmano asks Jade: "Is there any point in answering? The matter seems decided for me."

Imaginary Girl swats at the net, where it's touching Furmano... a light swat, just to see if she can affect him while he's incorporeal - long as the net's there, too.

Jade says to Furmano, "Well-if-you-insist-it-is,"; to Imaginary Girl she says, "Tossing-him-through-should-work preferably-removing-the-net-as-you-throw-him I-don't-know-if-that-will-interfere."

Jennifer remarks to Jade, "Next time I see him I'll have to remember to tell Timmy his ghost-web works fine."

Jade says, "I'm-sure-Timmy-will-like-to-know-that!"

Imaginary Girl shrugs... and just tosses the doc through, net and all. "If it don't work with the net, then I'll try tossing him out of it... for now, better he stay caught up in it", she says, as she flits around to try and catch him at the end of the toss.

Jade smiles as Furmano resoldifies and shuts the machine off again. "Now-Dr-Furmano-you-were-going-to-tell-us-all-about-your-adversary or-else-we-might-have-to-give-your-*new*-address-to-him."

Furmano says, "I'm not afraid of him. In fact, it's the opposite -- he feels threatened by me. Why else would he try to kill me. If anything he's afraid of me."

Jade says, "Maybe-he-just-finds-you-annoying he-doesn't-seem-to-be-the-only-one."