Then as we were planning our assault, all hell broke loose.
Stone showed up behind us and shot Ziggy, which also alerted the aliens to our presence. Jackie ran into the room, but she cant fire her spirit fucker rounds near the rift and so can't break through the glass encasing it. This prompted Smoke to curse her out saying "Take my gun you dumb bitch" (Which considering the ... tension between them was rather reasonable of him) and she began to shoot the glass. At this point Coleen was terrified so I ran to protect her while shooting at stone.
When the glass was broken, almost all noise was drowned out by screams of the damned and a vicious wind. Smoke pulls out another bomb causing the aliens to attempt to flee, although I am still not sure which of the catastrophes was the true cause of that. The high tech priest zapped Ziggy with his gun, nearly flooring him, but well it didn't hit his head. Cassanova grabs colleen and takes her away from stone while I shot stone with my ray guns, but moments before they could impact he reached out and CAUGHT the energy. Smoke gives Jackie the stone and tells her to run through the portal to get rid of it.
When she did so, stone became furious emitting waves of hatred that were practically immobilizing. To this day I still recall his words "I'm gonna kill all of you." with a cold fury that dwarfed the hatred rolling off of him. And none of us doubted we would die that day, but we wouldn't make it easy for him. Suddenly the metal plate blocking the portal flew off and slammed into Stone and a figure emerged from the portal saying revealing none other than the ringmaster himself.
"It takes more than that to kill Bull Moose*!" he proclaimed before stone began to fire at him with his guns that we later discovered could "hit anything and everything even if it doesn't exist" although since the ringmaster was able to dodge them all I assume that means it can hit, but does not automatically hit. Then the ringmaster began to fire what appeared to be a laser chain gun shooting glowing green rays (which he called a spirit broom).
Apparently the ringmaster was able to survive the explosion (as was stone), but it took him some time to crawl out of the Grand Canyon. The ringmaster tells us to "Get out, get to Gemora" and that we were the ones who start the organization Jackie is a part of that combines the agency and the Texas rangers (We clearly had a lot of work to do on that though). We will need to flee down through the maze and into the caverns since we can no longer escape through the roof. Kacie puts the heart in a machine while stone grabs Ziggy by the throat (at a distance) and heals back up while growing larger.
Stone and the ringmaster begin trying to kill each other in full, which we take as our cue to leave. Smoke takes the high tech-priest's staff and we blow a hole in the side wall to my strenuous objections(4 powercells detonated) to escape the fight by going to the floor below.
The tower began flooding from the water being pumped through the walls now having an outlet and the ramp down is collapsed, we went down a hole where there is less flooding and past the training maze into the cavers where we encountered 4 alien creatures (different ones that were more insectoid with strange bodies, biting and stinging). We fight them off, but they were vicious and stealthy so we were limping out of the tower. Once we are outside we learn that the staff Smoke claimed allowed the user to teleport to various places in the tower. so we use it to teleport to free the child, loot the armory and the hospital and rescue the trapped aliens (as well as giving them supplies). It was then that I hooked myself up to the main interface, while aware of the risk since that level was close to flooding (on a delicate electric chair inerface), but I needed to know what my dreams wanted me to remember.
It turns out. I remembered ... everything ... I will write more on that when I am more composed, it is too much to deal with at the moment.
The interface also gave me the ability to see every inch of the tower and fully granted me the knowledge of the Alien language.
Ziggy also wanted the knowledge of the language so insisted despite the rising water level that he be able to use the machine, and managed to do so in time to escape before the water began damage the interface.
After we got everything we needed from the tower we began to fly back to the town using the flight belts we ... salvaged.
*It would appear that Teddy Roosevelt is also a harrowed and was in disguise as the ringmaster setting events (us) in motion to stop stone,
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