# Issue 06 - The Big Boom Affair - Part 1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Atomic Robo\ **Tags:** recap\ **Created:** [February 11, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/issue-06-the-big-boom-affair-part-1/1088 "2022-02-11T06:10:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dave](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/dave/32/6344_2.png) [@Dave](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/Dave)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/issue-06-the-big-boom-affair-part-1/1088/1 "2022-02-11T06:10:56Z")
# A Peaceful Beginning Everything is more or less normal back at Tesladyne. Unofficially got a scrubbed thanks from a government servant. Obviously Majestic-13. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/e/e1b5d0f52ced2fc561f610fa4eb0821e99ba42a7.jpeg) But the Director is very, very proud of it. [We investigate the plaque carefully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)). A few weeks of inventory (yay!) and monotony. Director Sinclair has a new assignment from the Home Office. Because of our experience with Odic Entities … we will be overseeing construction of a … Zorth Directional Tower. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/e/edf63cd40a8518596879ca83fcdafe8743c22ae9.jpeg) To control Ley Lines. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/0/00c21e2755dd3ec85740ca0326f8aec99aa17a63.jpeg) _Odic_ Ley Lines. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/8/8574e9db08879ebf1957a5e44ccdf52251deb5bc.jpeg) # Off to … Kansas! ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/6/65231079ba30ffd47a9ef467036dcd17678b61b4.jpeg) Off to Lindborg, Kansas, an hour north of Wichita, about 20 miles south of Salina / I-70. Construction site. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/5/5383cab7300f5299b7c850c84df57465675ba2c8.jpeg) ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/d/d70eac1ee8c2cb22602afe8add5cabbc8732e8a5.jpeg) Old stone castle, Coronado Heights Castle, where supposedly Coronado abandoned his quest for El Dorado. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/1/1241298a8582a2c7295fa10e55fdadda7ef558aa.jpeg) Occasional college students from Bethany College stop by to marvel at the construction. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/8/8e9ea8cb0dad7974e1b987703890de513a0cbc7f.jpeg) # How do we pass the time? **Benedict** - Obsessing over the castle. That myth of Coronado and a castle he built (?!) must be a fake. Libraries. County records. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/9/9a1102b4499d2a18d930bb295068e8136607b99b.jpeg) Wait, a WPA project? Damn, surely some hidden history! What are they covering up? Perhaps connected, underground, with the Hoglund Dugout! Or the Stonehouse! We need deep ground-penetrating radar … **Dr. A** - language courses? Classic literature places? Bethany College. Biological sciences. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/3/35da2894034111109d4ce7b1839ccdf6f88cb41e.jpeg) (Actually a photo from Bethany College!) **Hope** is visiting all the local clubs and neighborhood functions. Hanging at the Local Gym (to bump up Physique). Matinee of a local play group. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/4/4554c7dc5628b81ee61e4dd4367c7dd4fb8052bd.jpeg) **Kane** - community library. Reading … all the books. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/d/d0379e1eeade5427f95018fb4347c7e02fe8a672.jpeg) # Lowering the Boom! The foreman is explaining to Hope that they need to change some angles due to the slope and the curvature of the Earth … need to consult the scientists. But then she notes the workers are starting to get woozy … and then she starts feeling woozy. Everyone rolls Physique. **Dr A** is the first to recover. He touts the free coffee. The taste of dust. ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/e/e8e721b3603f95e176fe6863ded23eb3784c2a89.jpeg) Oh, hey, the crane that was being used for the construction is listing and in a slow spin, and seems to have knocked over part of the tower. ![](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/2/20dfbd48648955dc9166548294b5ba7a45a2853e.gif) And there are people under the tower. Leaps onto something high – exhorts them to clear the area! But they’re unconscious … head that way. ==\> Mediocre. Still overcome, but inner ear damage. Patting them out of it. Kane and Hope come to. Splitting headache. **Kane** … go join Dr A, getting folk moving, including bodily moving them. There are people trapped under parts of the tower. Physique vs 2 Fair ==\> 1 Average. Yeet! 3! ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/c/c6de5bfaea14e04fba5cce76498225dcdf199ebb.jpeg) **Hope** … the crane? Looks like the operator is passed out, leaning forward on the controls. Get to driver seat? Athletics +1 vs 4 Great ==\> 7 Epic. Style! Grapple plus exploiting the movement of the turning crane. Looks beyond easy. Vehicles. **Benedict**. Dazed. Head hurts. Only slumped onto the bench. What about looking elsewhere? Notice vs 3 Good. ==\> 6 Fantastic! Not a lot of traffic on the outskirts of Lindsborg … a truck in a ditch … in the distance, something burning. So … widespread. Call 911 How big does it go? Reaching Out of Contacts … on a Phone … Contacts + Old School Ties + Notice boost vs 4 Great ==\> 0 Mediocre … reroll from Notice boost. 4 Great … tie! Boost instead, invokable once. Picture of the affected area. Best guess … several miles of distance. Need some Science to tell the center point. So the folk here are mildly wounded – first aid can help, some sprains, things like that. Locally hired crew. Everyone’s panicky and chaotic. Call family! **Hope** wrangles them. Everything’s okay. Secure the site. Maybe … an OSHA report. Centering them. Deceive vs 2 Fair ==\> 2 Fair! So get them wrangled, but she has to supervise them. Dr A, Kane, Benedict **Benedict** – triangulate. Time to get together and determine to a certain level of confidence. Bar-and-a-half of data. **Kane** – Calls the director. Get an expert? Indra Galladi from CERN … out to keep our adventure on the Amazo from recurring. Hey, remember how nice it was to get a plaque of recognition? This will stop that from happening again. We need a specialist - Great skill - burning a Tesladyne COS resource points. **Dr A** – Put into words what happened. Science vs 4 Great ==\> 4 Great. + Neurolinguistics ==\> 6 Fantastic! ![](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/b/b01f20d3eb9562bcad89ed1447d866d6cb7844fb.gif "Nerd Science GIF - Nerd Science Excited - Discover & Share GIFs") Might require a CAT scan to determine, but pretty certain brain has been damaged throughout. High frequency, low pressure burst in the area that would have affected everyone. Fascinating … and time to go to the hospital. The rented mini-van! Updates the rest of the team. ![](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/a/a76f4b7af9a516a24d28644b22e2a22295b956ba.gif) Ooops. # Off to the Hospital ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/a/a91122453c42da7eb4a0aefbc17ff733a9e4bfde.jpeg) ![image](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/c/c21fd5e74723f462037781b6b3f818f3014ffa5f.png) Hospital – is jammed. We probably need to take control. ![](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/8/84b91c805d7f830b214631536b690cd0e88959ac.gif)