3. Ukraine in the Neck

After being debriefed by a quietly incredulous Dr. Destruction, the group was flown from the Punjabi region to southern Ukraine, where they were instructed to retrieve the Crystals of Tectonic Rhapsody from a secret V'sori shipping and distribution center.

Upon arriving in the designated location, they were met by the Alienist, who joined their ranks and led them into warehouse, where he phased through a steam vent and scouted out the warehouse, discovering a hirsute local man doing paperwork and several drones that had modified for lifting duty.

The Alienist was able to open the door from the inside and the group was able to file into the warehouse, and the General accidentally kicked a loose crowbar down the entryway stairs, alerting the dwellers of the compound.

A rough-and-tumble brawl ensued with the loading drones and the warehouse's other resident, who turned out to be a werewolf of significant potence. The first cluster of crates was utterly annihilated between metahuman strength, prototype radioactive micromissiles and the General's deployment of grenades to break a grapple.

Eventually, after regenerating several wounds that would have slaughtered most other metahumans, the werewolf opted to fight on a different battlefield and a different point of time, and retreated out the door.

In the remaining crates, the party found the following.


 * Exactly 200 shrunken heads of various ethnicities, which were powering the wards on the front door. Tossed about and used as puppets by the alienist.
 * The Crystals of Tectonic Rhapsody, which were miraculously unharmed.
 * Several larges crates of supplies such as field rations, herokiller rounds in various calibers, and so fourth.
 * A shipping computer in the upper office.
 * Several cans of borscht and other unknown supplies that were obliterated in the struggle.
 * A set of crates containing V'Sori weapon fuel canisters.
 * The Demon Binding Seal of Ud-shalur, a terra-cotta scultpure of a harbor seal that ensnared the Alienist while he was searching for the Crystals.