After a tentative agreement to allow Athorna to come along, the party heads back to AK to investigate. The building is quiet and there are signs of intense combat littering the abandoned building. A massive hole melted in a metal wall, a laser weapon (with arm still attached) upturned desks and blood stains on the floor suggest whatever happened here, it was very violent.

The group search the offices and after a while Athorna locates a document which gives the required information to look for readings in the Magnometer. Maurice tunes in the machine and they set off. They follow it through the streets heading towards the city centre but keeping to back alleys, the trail looks like it€™s been chosen to minimise being observed. Eventually, they locate a small abandoned looking warehouse where the trail seems to lead. On the count of three, they crash through the front door.

Three beings are inside - one, a golem made of graphite is in the middle of setting up a complicated spell, but even mid sentence Athorna raises his gauntlet and activates it somehow. A bolt of energy leaps from his palm and shatters the creations left arm into powder. The golem shrieks in pain and collapses to the floor clutching it€™s stump. The other two are decidedly different, one is a being that looks part lemur and part squirrel the size of a collie, it is wielding a high tech looking spear. The second is Obsidian. The latter is holding the Ultimate Rift Phaser. Athorna seems surprised momentarily and then lunges into combat.

The two prove to be far the most formidable opponents so far even outnumbers three to one. The squirrel tosses a crystal at Phil which explodes into an orb of intense sound that drowns out all musical effects coming from him and causes him to clutch his head and scream. Obsidian catches a downward swipe from Maurice€™ sword with his own gauntleted hands and snaps the blade clean off before propelling Maurice across across the room, albeit for him to land in a dramatic bow. He catches Blotters thrown club in one hand and redirects it to damage Patricia€™s shield generation gauntlet.

Patricia shakes her hand to try and get the device working but tries casting a newly learnt spell of binding on the squirrel which twists a section of its staff and causes a selection of metal edges to flip out and reflect the spell back at the dinosaur, trapping her.

Athorna seems now mainly engaged in fighting Obsidian, and neither gains an edge on the other, their fighting technique actually intriguingly similar. Blows are traded but nothing lands. Meanwhile Taranis manages to catch a powerful shock on the squirrel and a mighty kick from Maurice knocks it down for the count.

No one notices however that suddenly the Golem has managed to move€¦ the fingers on its remaining hand twist and suddenly a portal opens amidst the chalk markings on the floor. It makes an unintelligible sound which means something to Obsidian, and he jumps through the portal with a slight flash of light.

With just enough time to shout €œAfter him!€ and free Phil and Patricia with a wave of his hand before plunging through the portal. The party follows. They are blind for a second, but as their vision comes back, they find themselves back in the throne room of the castle. Even before they understand what is happening, Athorna raises his gauntlet towards the fleeing Obsidian and fires several automatic rounds into his back. The crimefighter drops to the ground bleeding profusely and the Ultimate Rift Phaser bounces across the tiled floor.

Athorna picks it up and holds it next to his gauntlet. It is absorbed inwards in moments. Athorna laughs.

€œFinally, and you even bought me here too. How thoughtful of you, now let me see€¦€He clicks a button on the gauntlet and mutters a spell under his breath - the five of you are frozen in place, unable to move. €œNow, with my non-decoy Mass Manipulation Matrix and my improvements to the design of the quantum turbine - the quantum turbine disc, lets see, that means my gauntlet now contains my completed MDU device. Which means I, Athorna King, have won!€

He spins on spot and with his outstretched gauntlet, grabs the staff. It sizzles for a moment, and then inky black energy seeps from it. Over the gauntlet and around his body. Within seconds the distinctive shape of the Mechanists armour has formed around him.

A figure steps out of the shadows in the corner. He is human and looks vaguely south-east asian and getting on in years. He seems very weary.

€œAh Panginoon, so good of you to join us€
Panginoon€™s eyes darken.
€œAh, so it was you all along. I should have thought your death was too easy.€
€œWell now, I couldn€™t actually go dying to give myself an alibi could I€
€œApparently not. But enough of this, if this is to happen, let it happen€
Even as they raise their hands a huge shape crashes through the roof, a huge raven€¦
€œYou as well? You are too later€
Despite his claims, there is a slight note of uncertainty at this. A voice which sounds both like a young woman and the deep cawing of thousands of ravens speaks in return.
€œYou will be stopped King€

Energy erupts around all three figures, and the group can see nothing except whirling powers in wild shapes and forms. Power crackles through the room, making everyone€™s hair stand on end. Waves of power shatterAfter a while though, the Raven is thrown out of the vortex and swoops down besides them. We must retreat, we cannot win this fight, and if we do not we shall lose any hope of any victory.

A vortex opens, and the five and the raven fall through it tumbling down, but even as the vision of where they came from fades, the figure of Panginoon is thrown down before the dark armoured figure. His neck broken. Then laughing, and then the view zooms out and the island rises from the river€¦ Then everything is dark.

END OF DAY 6 AND PART 1 of the ODDESTSEY

Epilogue to Part 1:

The group arises in a room they€™ve seen before - the insides of Phil€™s airship. They are in bed resting and in the room are Atoom and a woman they haven€™t seen before - with pale skin and black eyes and hair.
Atoom turns to them. €œAh you are awake, welcome to the resistance€