Project: Last Hope
With no mafia to harass (at the moment), the group turns to internal projects. A while back Ryan, Amelia and Atanaska took a South American jungle excursion to find a cure for initial vampire infection. For several levels an infected host isn't lost to the night and can still travel in the day time. During this brief window, there is hope.
While no cure was discovered in the ancient temple, a message was discovered. It wasn't clear, but modern interpretation seemed to indicate an alien space station in orbit around Earth were the cure was kept. But of course, there is no ancient alien space station floating around at last check... or at least the public doesn't know about it. Other parts of the temple talk about a cure called “the Hope.” It depicted the gods coming down with the Hope to cure the people, but there wasn’t enough and the people fell and then the gods fell. A single artifact was recovered at the temple--a smooth steel rod with a sphere at one end. In the murals of the temple it is depicted as an icon of power wielded by the high priest. It summoned the "gods".
Christian went to work trying to decipher the strange device. After a few weeks he's tapped into it's power channels and found a way to power the device. Theorizing that it must be some type of communicator he funnels all the power he can must off the power grid in to it. He predicts the signal radius will be something like 100 light-years. While this would be pointless with any known transmitter (taking a 100 years to reach it's maximum range), he hopes the technology has some means to overcome the speed of light.
Christian summons the team and powers up the device. At full power he triggers what he hopes is the "transmit" function. There is a loud snap with sparks then the room goes black. Russell was ready with a digital camera and snaps a picture in the darkness blinding about everyone. The room has changed. In fact, it's not the same room at all.
A quick search reveals this room to be part of a series of chambers it what appears to be a space ship of some kind. The entire team has be transported somewhere in space. Worse, the team discovers the ship is abandoned, but not empty. Large insectoid creatures with devastating speed and attacks lurk in the barely functioning ship. Some rooms have lost air integrity... some passages are prone to collapse or gas leaks. And know no one knows how to get back. The "transmitter" did not arrive with the team. All they have is the gear they were holding and each other... will they make it back? Is the cure here? How long can they survive on the dying station?
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