Psychedelic - February 23, 2018

- Top surgery coming up! Same day as Mark Hamill's star
- Gâteau de chocolat
- Scar comparisons

- A week and a half later once everyone is recovered from their injuries, the team is sent to the forward operating base, "Wild Fury"
- There have been more attacks than usual and that's not usual
- The base is acting as / protecting a supply depot with a train line about three hours away
- Commander Dawkins recommends a heavier loadout than the last mission
- Loadout is collected the team heads out.
- The base is an octagonal walled campus with a lookout tower at each corner
- N calls their contact, Lt Felix Collins, who grumpily gets the gates open for them.
- He tells them that manticores, minotaurs, and ogres, oh my.
- He calls over Sgt Gallagher. to brief us in full
- She says they come several times a day from the surrounding forest from various directions. There is no pattern to the times or direction.
- N leads & follows some minotaur tracks into the deep, dark woods.
- At some point, the tracks just disappear
- There is a hissing sound behind the team. It is a pair of manticores,
- Anders manages to launch a grenade and mess one up
- Noän throws up a bubble shield around the team
- Grim throws a fireball at the injured manticore killing it
- N calls to Wild Fury for reinforcements, but they are being attacked by ogres
- A reloads the grenade launch
- G throws a bolt of energy in the manticore's face stunning it for a few seconds
- N drops the shield and they run as far as possible while the A shots another grenade right into the thing's maw
- It explodes, and A takes some shrapnel in the armor and some chem from the poison
- N puts out the fire with ice/water magic, but there are a few smoldering bits they have to stamp out
- On the way back they run into the team coming to rescue them, N falls out from exhaustion, their shield took quite a pounding from that manticore
- They get back to the base and are met by Sgt Gallagher
- In the infirmary, Anders gets an anti-anesthetic for his face, which pretty quickly starts to get feeling back
- While A is in medical and N is resting, Grim goes to one of the watchtowers and focuses some magical energy to examine the residual tracks of the attacks, and there were some inside the base
- G's vision is now being affected because everything is basically glowing psychedelically
- They take N to the place in the base where they saw tracks, and N detects that something small (like a goblin or a knocker) has been inside the base