Magical History Tour

OOC - I've only tagged the people in team two for this post.

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“The first command node, if that’s what it is...” Artie frowned down at the readings “Hold that damn antenna still. The first node seems to be...” he lowered his scanner and pointed off, cross country “About three kilometres, that way!”
“Can you tell where the others are?” Cass asked, twisting to look at where he was pointing
“There’s only one other” Artie pointed away in a different direction “Eight kilometres over there!”
“Excellent!” Jay reined the horse in to come to a halt, and turned in his seat to regard everyone “Well done guys
“Now, I hate to get all Scooby Doo on you” he continued, to blank looks from the non-time travellers “but given that these things seem to be psychic, what do you reckon to splitting the team up and doing a coordinated attack to take both nodes out at once?”
“Yeah, that would make sense” Cass nodded “Otherwise the second one we move against will be much better defended, and I don’t know about you, but I’ve only got a few clips of ammo left”
“So...” Jay looked between their faces “What do you reckon?”
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Artemis raised his hand.
"Does anyone have an idea?" Jay asked again.
Artemis kept himself in sight ask Jay looked around. "Anybody?" He asked again. "For fucks sake man I'm not suggesting we Quke* England!" Artemis shouted. "Okay, what's your idea" Jay asked warily.
"Let's indeed split up, but I have an idea for camouflage" Artemis dragged Jacky to the front of the group. "Mr. Kong is recognized as a host because of the lingering spider DNA in his body and for the mark on his skull. If we were to stick close to him we could mask our own identities, but only if we were careful. Now..."
Artemis pulled the ziplocked parasite from his bag. "If one of you in the other group were to carry this on your person, it should have the same effect"
"Should?" asked a Dwarfer. "Look man, I'm doing my best" Artie replied. Jay mulled it over. "Alright, good plan Artemis. I'll take the bug and lead team one. Plisken, you take team two"
Plisken looked through the crowd. "Okay...Jacky obviously comes with me since we don't have another bug. Hmm...Alex, Jamie, Artie, and Boyd, let's go"
Plisken's group gathered around him.

"Wait..." Artemis pulled syringes from his bag. "Just in case you get cornered, each of you take a vial of catrantuala venom. And yes, that means you too Mr. Solvay. One quick jab anywhere in the body and BOOM, down for the foreseeable future. Be it host or civilian" Everyone took a vial, and the groups went their seperate ways.

Later

Plisken lead the group down the dark alley. It was dead silent, save for the rhythmic beeping of Artie's MS-Psi scanner as it zeroed in on the node. "So....anything yet?" Asked Jamie. "Nothing yet Mr. Eastlick, it's still locking it in" Replied Artemis. "Hmm" muttered Alex. "What? Is there a corporate commando?!" Whisphered Boyd. "No mate. I was just picking at the irony. We finally get back to Earth and it's in a paradoxed, alien riddled 18th century. What luck" The others scoffed and laughed at the irony. "I haven't been back to the big blue since I was thirty two" Artemis whispered. "It was to claim my crazy Uncle Toby's body after he was shot down flying a stolen Starbug over West Point" "Ouch, that sucks" Plisken added. "Yeah. My father wouldn't claim his body because he refused to acknowledge that he and Toby were related, even though it was his own brother and they shared the same last name. Since I was in the same boat, being shamed by the 'great' Artemis K. Pritchard V, I decided to recover him. I spent six days being processed by the US Army before they gave him up. Me and my cousin Quinten, Uncle Toby's son, buried him in the backyard of the Pritchard estate. Ol' Toby had gotten the estate from my grandfather when he died, and he gave dual ownership to me and Quinten. Quinten sold me his rights to the estate because he wanted to distance himself from New York, and moved to Titan" "Wow, the Pritchard estate? I remember seeing it on homes of the rich and wasteful!" Jacky added. "Its a truly remarkable place, biggest house in the Hudson River Valley. I grew up there until my father and Uncle Toby had a falling out and we moved to New York City. The house is still in my name, my mechanoid Jeffery tended to it while I was away at Charon and subsequently on Blue Dwarf. That house is probably still standing today, well, in our today. Poor Jeffery still waiting on my return. I would give anything to go back home"

<everyone else sharing Earth stories, post one if you want>

"Wait!" Artemis interrupted a Dwarfer as he reminisced. "I've got a positive! It's coming from....there!" He pointed at a spooky old mansion sitting alone in a clearing. "Like hell!" Boyd shouted. "Simmer down Boyd. Alright, let's get inside. Stay close and keep your eyes peeled, there's bound to be some solid resistance" Plisken ordered.

The front door to the stereotypical mansion slid open. A light swept across the open doorway. Plisken stepped in first, rifle drawn. He was followed by Alex and Jamie, then Boyd, Artemis, and Jacky. Flashlights swept across the large atrium, footsteps echoed throughout the empty halls. "Fascinating" muttered Artie. "Yeah, what makes you say that?" Asked Alex. "It's too creepy, too quiet in here, they couldn't have made it more obvious that they're hiding in the shadows, the infected that is. Yet, I feel as if something is wrong....like....I don't know....something feels very off" Jamie checked the corners of the room, pistol drawn. "Yeah, I feel it too. I know they're here but something feels so...disturbing" "Boyd feels funny!" Added Boyd.

"Well, we have to find that node. We'll just have to be more careful" Plisken whispered. "Artemis, see if you can further refine that signal. Alex, Jamie, give him a hand, I'm going to update Jay." Plisken dialed in the communicator. "Plisken dude, what's up?" Jaxx's gritty mechanic voice caused feedback on the communicator. The others grabbed their ears and protested. "Jaxx....put Jay on" Plisken groaned, rubbing his ears. "Plisken, what's up?" Asked Jay. "We've located the first node in a mansion, we're going to close in and try to...." There was a loud bang. Flashlights swept over the room trying to search for the source. A door flew across the room, landing near Plisken. A group of infected waltzed into the room toting melee weapons ranging from razors to giant wooden clubs with nails driven through them. "Oh...my..." a Dwarfer muttered. "Open fire!" Ordered Plisken. Shots rang out, a hail of bullets and syringes flew across the room and into the group of infected. A few fell, and were quickly replaced. "Run!" Jamie shouted.

The dwarfers took off leading the various infected hosts on a scooby doo esq chase.

(here's your chase song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4_TXuU9ars&list=HL1382658931

Artemis ran down the hall, a muscular man carrying an axe chased after him. Artemis screamed as he charged down the halls, turning and firing syringes at the man, missing each shot. "Son of a bitch! I'm not dying like this!" Artie shouted. "Come back! I love you!" The man shouted. "I've got a wife pal!" Artie shouted back, holding up his ring finger. "She'll understand! Please stop running!" the psycho host returned. Artie saw an intersection coming up. Boyd and Jamie passed by, being chased by a group of sword wielding children, Jacky came from the same direction casually skulking through the hallway, enjoying his immunity. Artemis took off in the opposite direction, lover boy keeping close on his heels.

Artemis kept running down the hall trying to distance himself from the maniac behind him, however, the axe wielding beast kept growing closer and closer "I'm going to die and the last scientific argument I had is whether the smurfs are mammals or not!" Artie shouted woefully. "Wait....mammal!" Artemis shouted, spotting a stuffed moose head in an upcoming room. Colossal antlers, male, likely shot somewhere in Canada Artemis' brain chugged out as he sprinted into the room. He grabbed the moose head and held the antlers towards the axe wielding maniac as he closed in. Artemis charged into him, stabbing him with the antlers. "Ha Ha! Suck on that lover boy!" Artemis shouted.

After reloading the syringe gun, Artie took off to find the others and help them fight off the psychos.

<tag/Alex, Jacky, Plisken, Jamie, or Boyd>

So how's your chase going? Who's chasing you and how do you get rid of them?
and as it turns out, only the individual possessing the spider-in-a-bag (or in Jacky's case, residual spider DNA) is invisible. How does Team 1 work this? (Team one: Jay, Katrina, Jaxx, Evelina, Cass, Jade).

Sidenote
*Quke I guess would be the slang term for q-bombing, much like how nuke refers to nuclear bombing.