Head Back Into Roswell

Check out what happened last time during A Huge Detour...

Seeing themselves back on the outside of the Roswell base, the group heads back inside and finds that Van Pelt has been waiting for the group for about two weeks real time. He has made a point of clearing the main area, and has managed to find a hidden door, and a set of spooky stairs leading into the dark. So, the Group rallies, and makes a run into the scary, quiet dark. They end up in a room with no other doors, but find a hidden passage leading to a hallway with an energy field. They can see through the energy field, but cant pass through it without suffering some sort of damage. They also discover that there is a stasis effect inside of the room. So, after much experimentation, they finally use an untested gun they acquired from a patent scientist. The gun fires a huge ray of energy, piercing the barrier, and damaging the large black stone box inside the room. So, the field shuts off, and the now open box begins to vent gas.

Again, after some argument, the party decides to see what is inside of the box, instead of just smashing it to atoms. This is in a large part due to Specter's feelings about what is inside of the box. He describes it like he has come home. They pry it open, and find "Bob", the alien who had trapped their mind-linked companions in the 1880's. It seems he had been a prisoner of the Texas Rangers for a very long time.

Back in 1850, an exploratory craft was commissioned by Bob's people, the ???. This three man team was commissioned to land in the uninhabited Western United States, and begin assessing the dominant life-form on the planet, Humans. But, something went horribly wrong. A powerful, but unseen force changed the ship's trajectory into the atmosphere, and caused a crash that was soon seen by the locals. The Texas Rangers are soon brought in to investigate the situation and stumble upon the remains of a flying vessel. four of the five men are stricken with terrible headaches as they sift through the wreckage, and the fifth finds a survivor, concentrating hard. He quickly knocks out the being, saving his four companions. The following is an insert from one of the Ranger files.

The survivor is removed from the "suit", which seems to be a tough living organism grown around the creature, and with some cutting and prying, opens a "hatch" in the back. looking inside of the suit, it is not just organic, but also mechanical in nature, as the joints seem to be reinforced with metal, wires run through the length of the thing, and strategic plates are found which could be some sort of protection against projectiles.

The space man, named "Bob" by one of our funnier companions, is quite injured, and we are uncertain if he will recover from his injuries. We have brought in a specialist to treat his various visible wounds, and to attempt to restrain his formidable power. We have not encountered anything as potent as Bob's powers before. We intend to try to learn as much about this being as possible, through his technology and powers.

The Rangers hire a voodoo practitioner to put the whammy on Bob, which works for awhile. Between Bob's reluctant help and the scientists' round the clock efforts at the Roswell Facility, a psychic trap is created, which imprisons the mind of the wearer, and forces them to obey all commands given by a key authority figure. The first test subject is Bob. And, unfortunately for Bob, it works. Bob becomes a willing participant in experiments, and teaching about his technology. This goes on for years, and when this new tech is used with mad science, the effects are limitless.

As the north and south go to war, many scientists defect to the Union, taking a number of secrets with them. Bob becomes a highly prized figure in both countries. The north even raids the Roswell base, destroying most of it in an effort to capture Bob. This clever sneak attack fails due to a fluke. the night of the attack is the first time a prototype flying machine is being tested by Bob and other members of the facility. With Bob's help, they escape detection and return with a large enough force to route the union army from gaining too many secrets.

Bob and the surviving agents then begin to build a new Roswell base, deep beneath the surface. Bob's knowledge of terraforming comes into play and he is the first to suggest that a larger, more trustworthy workforce is needed.

An idea is kicked around by the top brass. A Major Jaichem proposes reenlisting the aid of the same voodoo practitioner who ensorcelled Bob, to help figure out a way to utilize law breakers as free labor. This works well for a number of years, and the Rangers decide to take a step further, making these convicts work in the field to help clean up the weirdness that has happened. This is when the Rangers discover the drawback to magic. There are ways to undo it. and all it takes is one do-gooder, freeing one. This happened with a group out of the Waco Specter facility. The group hooked up with a practitioner from the Whateley family, and managed to get themselves in a inter-family feud. The result was a mass murder of some of the best Rangers that the organization had, and the prisoners heading west to California. They slipped the spells there, and were involved in the Great Flood of California, which destroyed most of the West Coast for a second time.

So, all Specter prisoners were rounded back up, and brought to Roswell. A suggestion from Bob convinced the right folk to utilize his tech to control the prisoners instead of the unreliable magic. And, what was thought to be an unbreakable system, was cracked, and led to a slaughter of good Rangers, and the escape of 50 prisoners aboard one of the biggest derrigibles in the Confederacy's fleet. Worse, Bob was one of those escapees. Though the ship was never recovered, some of the prisoners were, and confirmed that Bob had left the derrigible early after to mutany. The Space man had a natural shapeshifting ability, and blended into the populace. He headed north, hoping to infiltrate Hellstromme Industries for some new tech. He managed to disguise himself as a mad scientist for 4 months before Hellstromme himself began to take an interest in the work he was doing. Bob barely fled with his life, but had managed to collect some upgraded tech that he despareatly needed. His next stop was the Smith and Robards facility. Again, he posed for some months as scientist in need of work, and used his mental powers to blend in. When he was found out, he had plenty of warning to leave.

He finally made his way East to New Jersey where he worked for Edison for a time. It was during this time that Bob was able to relax in his "work". He finally figured out how to produce a minimum of work without getting fired. During a ten year span, he came to know Edison quite well, and eventually slipped with his disguise in front of the inventor. At the time, this mistake was innocent enough. Edison had heard rumors about other worldly creatures, and now had met one from the stars. Thomas proceeds to welcome Bob into his home, and once he understands bob's mental capabilities, he comes up with a means to prevent Bob from reading his mind. Edison then secretly contacts the Union Government, and Bob is forced to flee.

Bob is finally, truly frustrated with human-kind. Using all of the gear he has collected, he heads into Florida, and begins to set up a large machine in the Everglades, away from the human populace. He still needs parts and gear to finish his communication device. And rumors of lights and strange figures finally bring the rangers back to him. He fails to complete the device y himself, and is taken to a lab under New Orleans. It is here that the scientists of the Confederacy extract Bob's DNA, and begin implanting it in test subjects. This is the beginning of humans with psychic abilities.

A scientist, after years of experimentation, develops a theory about the nature of psychic ability, and its origin in the brain. After discecting a number of augmented humans, he convinces some brass to let him work with the source of this power, and gets a chance to open up Bob's skull. As the operation starts, the skull is opened, and the doctor begins to use an electrical probe hooked to new, state of the art equipment, to probe the area where the source of the psychic power is controlled.

Something goes terribly wrong.

A psychic scream knocks most of the staff in the facility out cold, and the powerful psychic energy gains sentience, then splits into multiple parts. the psychic ability no longer resides in Bob, but is in four different entities loose in the world. These entities rampage through the surrounding area before gaining self control and fleeing the area. The alien known as Bob is then transported back to Roswell, where one of the psychic entities follows and nearly destroys the base and everyone in it. the entity takes control of many of the folk in the building, forcing them to construct a prison for Bob, to eliminate the possibility of a joining.