The game’s not over, I’m just lazy and haven’t updated. That said, we did take 2 weeks off to prep for the next game.
When last we met our fateful heroes, they were Russian soldiers in Nazi occupied Poland. They were sent on a mission to find out why the Nazis were so hell bent on defending this small town. They ventured into the mountains and found soldiers pulling dismembered bodies out of an old mine.
The PCs made their plan and started to take position. Unfortunately, the scholar slipped and fell down the hillside – right into the middle of the soldiers. The other PCs opened fire while the scholar leapt into a mine cart and sped off into the mine (followed by 2 workers).
The battle was bloody, and of the 5 men the PCs had with them, only 2 survived (and one was unconscious). Even the PCs were badly injured.
Meanwhile, in the mine, the scholar follows the tracks to a cavern filled with people partially encased in the walls, floor, and ceiling. In the center was an ancient step pyramid.
The people appeared to be in pain, though only vaguely aware of their surroundings. The workers here were chipping away at the stone and then cutting the bodies up. Much resolve was lost hearing their cries, seeing the carnage, and crossing the sometimes hard, sometimes soft cavern to the pyramid.
Inside the pyramid were painting that seemed to predate known history. They showed priests of some kind creating strange amorphous creatures. These creatures heralded the arrival of some horrible, tentacled deity. When the deity arrived, the people in the walls would be sacrificed to it.
The scholar snuck out of the pyramid and the cavern and rigged it to blow, just as the other PCs were coming to his rescue. They made it out and back to their company to report. The Germans stuck with preternatural strength that night, pushing the Russians back and inflicting heavy losses.
On the 3rd night after the attack, the PCs woke to find themselves in a white room. A man speaking English asked them several questions about themselves and the mission. A stern woman in a blue uniform asked many more questions and the PCs provided what information they could.
The PCs learned that the year was not 1945, but in fact 2015. They were soldiers fighting a war against horrible creatures, and they were losing. Several major cities had fallen – London, D.C., Moscow, Paris. Humanity was on the brink of annihilation.
Their mission was to be attached to a machine that would send their minds back in time to observe the past and hopefully learn about what their enemies were planning. While attached to the machine, they couldn’t change anything – they were merely watching.
An unfortunate side effect of the machine is that people often got confused as to who they were when they got out. Being in another person’s mind, with access to all of their memories, overpowered their own sense of identity. They were assured that their memories would come back. But there were suspicions that too much exposure to the machine could kill you.
