Harrowed Halls

Dr. Stone and Walter White take up positions on the outside of the door leading into the Raiders’ base. The remaining crew (Lars, Jack, Hitler, and DeSanta) head through the door after it gets cracked. The stairs lead into an underground cavern that has a force field up where it leads into a well-built underground base. Lars disables one of the force field generators enough to let the crew slide through, upon which, the entire base goes into lockdown.

They are quickly attacked by the Raider guards, and again, one slips away. They soon hear machinery and generators, as the temperature in the ice-cold base starts to rise dramatically.

The crew quickly subdue the remaining Raiders in their area only to find a generator room with some strange pods, that quickly turn in to face huggers! The crew manages to fight off the huggers with no “impregnations” and begin to search the rest of the facility, when they hear someone struggling and making noises. Turns out it their intrepid pilot Wash was captured on the way back to the ARC base and was being held in the Raider base. They quickly release him, only to find they are faced with a full-size Hunter-Warrior that had been released from its icy prison by the generators.

After a quick search of the facility to clear out any additional Raiders, the computer releases the locks, and they call ARC for pickup. When the ARC team arrives and sees what was really in the base, they decide to throw in $60,000 worth of Cyber-Tech for the Crew to compensate for the extra danger.

The crew eagerly departs the ship to greet the friendly aliens. They are immediately yelled at in a different language. These aliens look like they have guns pointed at our crew! Quick thinking by Dr. Stone who tests to see if these aliens understand the language he has programmed. They do. They seem hostile and demand everyone get on their knees. The crew obliges and are soon manacled with restraints that cover their hands like metal mittens!

Suddenly the aliens are talking animatedly and Jack Shift realizes there are some other figures on a distant hill. The all hell breaks loose as the two alien groups begin a fire fight! Hitler quickly wild attacks his guard while Lars steals the keys with his mouth off of one of the dead aliens and frees himself and DeSanta who immediately attempts to shoot an alien rather than free his comrades. He does not kill the alien. The aliens decide to ignore the other group and all shoot at DeSanta…and they all miss.  :(

The new group finishes off the group they call “Raiders” who live out in the desert causing trouble. The new group is from the ARC Alliance and they are the ones our heroes originally contacted. Turns out their understanding of English was a bit less accurate than Dr. Simon’s understanding of their language!

The ARC team offers a deal, they will fix up the crews’ ship for galactic travel, if the crew will find the Raiders’ base and shut it down. The crew quickly agrees. They scavenge equipment from the dead Raiders and head off into the desert.

They identify the entrance to the underground base thanks so some great Battle rolls from Hitler. A quick plan is developed where DeSanta and Lars stealthily infiltrate and make a distraction, so the others can move in without attempting to stealth. The plan works…sort of. The distraction comes a little early as Lars critically fails and sets off a blade trap. Now with the Raider guards aware of their presence, another trap is triggered by the raider to collapse a wall on Dr. Stone. Stone weathers the rock fall and soon the crew have finished off the Raider guards…but did one slip away…?