Spandex and Leather: Domain or Lair it all just full of Rats

Wednesday morning at Team Pilates warehouse.

The team wake up Sheriff Alberto, Gregor and Lynx look after him while the rest go to work.

Lynx spends the time becoming a precise replica of Sheriff Alberto right down to his dna and even his personality, then phones in from in town to say he is taking a few personal days owed to him.

Right stage is set for the Mind Games Inc meeting, but wait what, its only Wednesday , bugger....

Christian asks Reece and Chuck about that tunnel they found, maybe they can sort that while Dot baby sit's Sheriff Alberto.

The team gear up with night vision, bandages, proximity detector, well basically everything but the kitchen sink!.

With a bit of natural ninjary despite Lynx crashing about like a cat on a hot tinned roof, the team avoid the site security guards and make it down the elevator shaft.

As they head through the tight narrow tunnel it opens out slightly to wider and taller tunnels, that the team can crouch stand in.

The team head through the labyrinth of tunnels fighting swarms of rats along the way, finding several dead ends till they find a tunnel that heads downwards.

At multiple times almost every member of the team got bitten and poisoned by the rabid rats.

This then opens up into an old forgotten tunnel designed by a long forgotten now defunct company, more than likely without approval of the proper powers that be.

There is even stagnant water fountains and art deco designs about the tunnels, but the team did not manage to spend much time contemplating the artistry as they were constantly attacked by rat swarms as they headed deeper into the tunnel system.

Well apart from Lynx who decided to take a different trip around the tunnels inspecting all the art work and adding his tag to previously un-graffitied walls.

The team finally stumble upon the lair of The Rat King


The lair has dripping stagnant water, the buzzing antique light fixtures, crackling electricity from severed ancient power lines, broken tiles, pools of fetid water, scavenged and salvaged items from aboveground.

The Rat King is a humanoid rat-human hybrid, the necklace has embedded itself into his skin.

As the team are held at bay by swarms of rats, The Rat King announces
"I don't want to attack anybody, we just want to be left alone, my kingdom intact.
But the construction going on above is destroying our home, our kingdom.
I killed Arthur Leahy the Executive Director of the Ibidan Metropolitan Transportation Authority. but the destruction continued.
I killed Don Knabe, the chair of the Board of Directors, but still the destruction continues.
Now you are here on their bidding, so unless you leave, we must kill you all"

This sends Renegado into a rage.

Bonedido, does not take much to get into a fury.

Syvaz mind crushes the Rat King

Blowout also joins the fray, forgetting he has zero skill in brawling and miraculously gets off a lucky punch, that allows Renegado the chance to maneuver and snap The Rat Kings neck, also ripping the necklace from the dead Rat Kings corpse.

Holding the necklace Renegado starts to feel "funny", so gets Blowout to quickly disintegrate it before Bonedido bags it for treasure.

It disintegrates with a strange hue, and an odd aura emanates from its dust particles as it disintegrates to nothing.

The team scan and search the lair, find a few old newspaper clippings.

"Several years ago, Russell Marks was scuba diving off the coast of Ibidan searching for the Spanish Galleons that sank there almost 500 years ago, reportedly carrying a significant amount of treasure.
Much of the gold had been found by other treasure-hunters prior to his arrival, but he did unearth a barnacle-encrusted necklace that seemed like it might be of some interest. How little he knew."

Bonedido cries out "Shit" at the loss of what could have been valuable treasure, but then his cries and rants of foul play are put to a stop when a handful of Gold Galleons are found, and Renegado inspects the Rat Kings crown and thinks there may be some real jewels and gold in it.

Bonedido placated the team head back out of the tunnels, sneak back out of the site and head back to the warehouse.


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