Rolled 1 (1d3)
>>59829643,2,2
The realm is finally complete! The veil of energy is weaker here. However, The Hive Mind learns more about the potential of this psionic neighbourhood in the meantime. It discovers that it can transplant pieces of this lair throughout Japan, allowing it to grow and subsume neighborhoods and towns. It doesn’t work on a mass scale, for there are 125 million living minds to contest with, but it’ll make it easier to gain new minions. Instead of having to enthrall populations, it can seed locations with this new lair, and induct its occupants over time.
However, choosing particularly well-traveled places will increase awareness of its actions, as it’ll be impossible to hide this strange realm from too many people at once.
>Lair Progress (Labryinth, E18): 100%Labryinth (E18)
>Size: F>Strength: F>Stamina: F>Speed: F>Special: E>Dreamsphere: The Labryinth is a dreamland that naturally inducts victims into it. This lair eliminates the Energy requirement to increase the members of The Hive Mind’s Cult (Thralls). The Hive Mind is under attack by jetplanes, which are performing strafing attacks on it at high altitude. It attempts to directly control those pilots, and gain firepower via the weapons that humanity uses. The attempts to attack it this turn are foiled by the fact that their own pilots are turning on them. There’s a period of confusion at first, as planes are shot out of the air. Eventually, a strong enough response is mustered up to gun down the rogue pilots.
The JSDF is highly rattled by this event, and keeps it a secret from the public. Engaging the creature like this is deemed dangerous, and they pull back.
>Special (E>D) vs Stamina (F)>The Hive Mind has consumed 1 energy > 2/4 EnergyThis, combined with the creature’s escape into the sky, makes it immune to detection and attack for this turn.
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The Japanese Intelligence Industries have taken drastic measures. Several members of the cult have been tortured in an attempt to see if they can obtain any info. Other members of the various agencies have pooled together information, and have just barely begun to discover the presence of an American facility on their soil that allegedly looked into mind control tech a while ago.
>>5982967The maelstrom grows and swirls, taking in nuclear power and growing larger. It’ll now have an easier time directly avoiding attacks by spending actions. While it’s sitting still and metabolising this energy, however, the army begins a secondary strike. The previous one has done damage to it, emboldening them.
>Typhon has consumed all energy > 0/4>Typhon’s Speed: F>E<span class="mu-s">Reaction:</span>
Another attack on Typhon! This time, they use guided missiles, seeing if they can dispel this storm and force the creature away from Berlin. Much of the city is evacuating, and Germany is in chaos. If they can strike it again, they might have a chance after all.
>Strength (E) vs Stamina (E)1d3. Hits on 2 and 3.