After arriving back at the Dinotours facility, our adventurers were debriefed. Kage was made aware of the young man who may end up needing permanent sanctuary in the form of a full time position in Dinotours and Lexington introduced the 12 full time Kopar employees.
Butch continued to try and catch the Trysia faerie that he noticed a few days before. He found out from the Kopar that the faeries are somewhat universally disliked and half of the Kopar were willing to take shifts to help him catch the creature with a trap of Kopar engineering.
Kage made mention of some damage to the Pachycephalosaurus enclosure and was hoping that the adventurers would be able to go and make necessary repairs since he and Lexington were getting things ready for the next group of tourists. Kage also mentioned that a herd of Stegosaurus were much closer to the Dinotours facility than usual and that they were acting odd according to reports from the Kopar. Of course Ray, Florida Man and Butch agreed to look into the odd occurrences and after Ray made sure that his raptors were cared for, he headed off to the Stegosaurus' while Butch and Florida Man made arrangements to go south and fix the enclosure.
Ray discovered that the Stegosaurus' were sick with something that was causing a strange fuzzy mold to grow on their poo and was careful to harvest some so that he could have it investigated. After returning to the Dinotours facility, Ray, Butch and Florida Man headed south with material to fix the fence.
When Ray, Butch and Florida Man arrived at the Pachycephalosaurus enclosure, they quickly noticed that there was some kind of metallic material that looked like human remains lying in two blast areas and there was a lot of damage to the structure there from energy weapons. Obviously a fight had taken place here. They continued to investigate and found a man hiding in the structure but he seemed in very bad shape. Ray tried to administer first aide and was doing a decent job but the man, who called himself Kevin, became more and more agitated.
After passing them a data pad with a map on it that indicated a Golden Age facility location, he explained that they had to go and destroy the facility because ARCHIE was after it and for the sake of the known world, this could not be allowed to happen. Kevin proceeded to hack up some kind of nasty fuzzy phlegm and then before anyone could properly react, Kevin blurted that he would draw off the ARCHIE robots while punching something into a wrist computer and proceeded to rocket off into the forest at great speed with a personal jet-pack.
Butch wanted to talk to Kevin some more and so attempted to ground him the only way he knew how, by shooting him. This ended the way most people would think it would with Kevin landing in a bloody crash after taking a large caliber round through the chest cavity. Ray went to try and administer first aide again not thinking for a moment that the man would not have been able to live through the shot only to find out that he was very dead. Further investigation of the structure where Kevin was hiding revealed that he must have been sick with whatever the Stegosaurus to the north west were suffering from. Ray proceeded to burn all the remains he could find in fear that this thing would spread. They headed back to the facility so Ray could begin to try and analyze the disease and so Butch and Florida Man could get ready to head south and east to the facility indicated on the map on the data-pad.
Ray made his way to the Kopar village to work with the herbalist he met there hoping she had heard of the disease before or could help him come up with a cure for it. She agree to help and they headed back to Dinotours together. Meanwhile Butch and Florida Man had headed to the facility Kevin mentioned.
Butch and Florida Man discovered a well built blast door nestled in the bank of a swollen stream. It was well hidden and they felt like they had moved through here numerous times before. The facility was surrounded by gnarled black barked trees which were oozing a thick red sap. Florida Man, egged on by Butch, decided to taste the sap and as he did, the tree itself moved around and slammed him to the ground. The rest of the trees in the area proceeded to try and flatten the two men and were quickly dispatched by Florida Man's plasma thrower. Ray arrived just as the fight was ending and Butch was trying to figure out how to get the door open.
Ray approached the door with the data-pad and they found it was the key as the door began to slowly open. Once open, Butch decided to wait outside while Florida Man and Ray entered to investigate. Ray walked up to a terminal of sorts as described by Kevin and found the 'big red button' that Kevin said was to be used to initiate the destruction of the facility. Ray ignored the button and the directive given them by Kevin and proceeded to use the VR interface to check out the purpose of the facility.
Florida Man was checking the numerous corpses on the floor of the facility and one of them began to move, then attacked. a quick firefight later and the reanimated fuzzy mold corpses were all lying on the floor again.
Butch and Ray began to examine the computer together and Ray was getting very excited. Butch remembered what they were supposed to do and then pressed the button 'by accident'. A warning began to blare and Ray refused to believe that the place was going to be blown to pieces. Butch and Florida Man ran clear while Ray berated Butch and slowly followed. They all made it out just in time because the facility then imploded causing a large area of forest around it to sink a few feet.
Ray continued to be upset about the fact the Butch took away his shiny facility as they all headed home, kind of together. as they made their way home they noticed and were overtaken by some humanoid robots that appeared to not be too concerned with them.
When they arrived back at the facility, they found out that the SEEGA had poached the handful of Kopar who were watching the Lankton's knot plant in the compound. This perturbed Butch greatly and he and Florida Man headed off south after them. When Butch and Florida Man caught up with the SEEGA raiders, Butch wasted no time showing them the error of their ways and proceeded to kill the first two in command. He recovered the new 'employees' and they headed home.
Ray and Florida Man headed north after that to try and get a sample of what was causing the nasty fungal infection. They discovered a campsite where Kevin and some of his friends had obviously been and noticed some vials with red residue in them smashed on the ground. The trees immediately surrounding the campsite were starting to turn black and ooze red sap. Ray collected a sample tree and then they burned the entire area fairly certain that the sap was the vector for infection.
With a good sample in hand, they headed back to the D.E. facility and provided the sample to the herbalist who began work on a cure.
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