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Operation #22: Afraid of the Dark

• Description: An old crumbling castle in Germany has had suspicious activity reported recently. People that have gone to investigate have not returned.
  
• Rank: C
  
• Genre: Action/Horror
  
• Location: Brennenburg Castle, Germany
  
• Client: Karin
  
• Status: Closed

• Participants:
  
  • Aku
    
  • David
    
  • Hien
    
  • Letty
    
  • Luca
    
  • Tonic
    
  • Vaelgir
    
  • Yoshino
    

Synopsis:

PARADIGM was contacted by a mysterious woman known as [Karin]. She requested people visit a castle in Germany, known as Brennenburg Castle. After a brief meeting with the woman, the team learned they were to find out what is exactly going on in the castle, recover some mysterious [Orbs] that Karin wishes to have, and possibly rescue the previous excavation team, though they have been missing for months now. Upon entering the castle, the group noticed a mysterious tarnish on the walls of the keep. Upon Luca touching part of it, the tarnish sprung to life, turning into a weird type of 'meat on the wall' that began to grow and spread, closing off their exit behind them. Upon trying to look around the castle, Yoshino saw some [disturbing things].

Venturing further into the castle, they came upon a big room with stairs leading down into a Refinery. When they attempted to pass through the doorway, Letty was almost snatched up by a giant [spider]. The team fought off two of the giant abominations before moving to work their way further in. Not long after, they encountered what looked like a giant tunnel in the wall that was too nicely dug out. They climbed through it, intending to carefully tread through, but due to Tonic's clumsiness, they ended up falling and sliding down the tunnel until landing in a prison block, in water up to their waist. Everyone tried throwing some form of attack at it, including Letty, Luca and David, but something seemed to be wrong. Upon discovering some mysterious otherwordly monster that could not be killed, Tonic began throwing maces into the ground, trying to attack the thing uselessly. Midway through her attack, Vaelgir blessed her with increased strength and she... broke the floor. The water drained into a giant chamber below as most of the floor they were trying to stand on disappeared into the darkness. Hien found them a doorway to pass through, using his ninja skills. Through team effort they continued along to continue their adventure.

Nearing the end of the prison block, they ran into a [man], who seemed to be telling them to leave, but attacked them before they could do anything. David, Aku and Luca quickly reduced this troubled man into a pile of meat on the floor. Next they ran into another man, looking like the one they faced previously, fighting off some sort of [other deformed man]. The dueling duo did not notice the group simply pass them by as the group continued and discovered a set of spiraling stairs, continuing down. At the bottom of the stairs, they found a headless body strung up against a wall. The body still seemed to be alive, despite looking withered and rotted and.. missing a head. After Lucas failed attempts of communicating with it, they went into the next room.. the chamber that was below the prison block. The watery beast stalked the group as they made their way trhough the chamber.

The group reached a final door, which was blocked by some magical barrier. After another fight, in which some of the monsters they saw before re-appeared, along with a newer, [bigger one], the team had another fight on their hands. The big monster went to choke Yoshino, but Vaelgir slammed it off balanced as Luca ran it through. Still moving, David and Luca proceeded to de-face the beast, but that did not slow it down, as it went to drop onto all four legs, like some sort of four legged beast, and tried to bear down on the team. David hopped on its back, stabbing into it repeatedly as Aku lit it on fire. After struggling for a few moments, it collapsed in a heap. Luca threw the body out into the water, where the lurking beast consumed it hungrily. Luca commented he wanted a steak.

The last door unsealed, a voice reaching through to the group. They called themselves the Tuurngait, claiming they will not fight with the group as they are clearly outmatched. They explained they were an ancient civilization once and were attempting to use the magical orbs to leave this world, but the power of the orbs were not for them to use. The magic orb has a guardian known as the shadow, as well as various guardians of the castle, which impeeded the Tuurngait from leaving, and spelled their doom, as they laid their hands upon the orbs. Pleading with the group to leave, they handed over a diary to Luca, and used an oversized worm to dig an escape tunnel for the group that lead all the way back up to the surface. The team left, with the diary, back up to the surface, where they explained to Karin what had transpired. Not looking satisfied with the outcome at all, Karin left the team, but did forward full pay for their services. The castle also caved in as they left, the Tuurngait apparently wishing for no one to ever come back.

Also.... Hien and Yoshino recorded some footage and took some pictures, but [something] showed up in all of their recorded evidence of the castle that they did not anticipate.