Zahak (Aspirant)'s Missions

Agents arrived outside the abandoned estate and encountered Ava, the client, clearly distressed. She told the agents that her friends had recently gone missing, and gave them her phone, which had the suspicious "Two Roads" app installed. As the agents approached the building, they found they all had phones appear in their pockets, with the mysterious app installed, of course. It prompted them to choose between two doors, the "Easy Way" and the "True Way." Agents dawdled for a bit before the app decided to choose for them while playing an unskippable ad.

Morgan and Skjaldmaer were assigned to the left path, where they noticed they were being followed by a shadowy figure. They went into a room that had a buzzing noise, and were greeted with illusions, the battle where her mother gave birth for Skjaldmaer and a casino with debt collectors for Morgan. Meanwhile, Zahak and Magpie went in the other door and were also followed. They took a more head-on approach, attacking and defeating the shady spirit. Upon doing so, Morgan and Skjaldmaer's illusions faded, and the agents coalesced in the room beyond.

There they encountered facsimiles of themselves who claimed to be the "real" agents, calling the PCs "NPCs." They moved in to attack but were dealt with handily, with all slain save for the false Magpie who the agents allowed to escape further into the compound.

Beyond that, the agents found two mysterious beings, one a child and the other slightly larger, both offering their hands. The agents split in a similar fashion to before and went into their respective illusions. Zahak encountered a false storm god and Magpie a scarecrow that she'd had trouble with previously. Morgan and Skjaldmaer were together in the casino and Morgan distracted the debt collectors while Skjaldmaer engaged in combat with the warriors from her battlefield. In the end, all agents made it through. (At some time around this point, Zahak located one of the hostages, mostly unconscious.)

In the final room, the agents stepped out into a grand arena, with more mysterious shadowy beings in the audience. Magpie put on a big distraction while Morgan attempted unsuccessfully to blend into the crowd, instead slamming into an invisible barrier. Skjaldmaer found some computers and employed her "computer hacking" skills, specifically the variety involving a very large axe. She then uncovered a core behind them including tech and a massive heart. Spurred on by fellow agents, she threw her spear and destroyed the foul construction.

Immediately the reality around the agents came crashing down. Zahak had the hostage in tow, Morgan tried a slapdash plan to make phones that would protect them, and Magpie used her map to find the way out. They only barely made it before the whole thing went kablooie and all that was left was a perfectly normal abandoned compound. The hostage awoke and reunited with Ava, along with two other mysterious figures that emerged from the building. Morgan, suspicious, investigated these new beings and found them to be inhuman and operating on some sort of code. It was too late however, and Ava drove off with her friend and her two "friends"

Mission Success?