Buckle up, fans. The weekend’s Masks RPG session was off-the-chain. Torq (The Nova) was unconscious, lost in his own psyche. His teammates would have to go into his mind to save him. Fortunately, Ed Zeppelin has a ship to lend them.
Panic (The Doomed) was elected to take point on the rescue. Guess my new art for her came just in time! She would find Torq inside Torq’s mind and convince him to come back. First, though, the team would have to sail through three layers of Torq’s mental landscape.
Captaining the ship was Ed Zeppelin’s apprentice, special guest star Compass Rose (The Protégé). Rose warned the Salvatores to stay tethered to the ship, no matter what, as they sail it through Torq’s perceptions, into his hopes, and finally into his darkest fears.
And that’s where General Bowmaster (The Beacon) was swept off the ship and came untethered. He encountered a grown-up, traumatized version of his friend Kevin, living as a survivalist in a dystopian Capstone City…ruled by Salvatores who went bad!
The team ends up fighting their nightmare selves, of course. Sonia (The Soldier) tackles evil!Panic, then gets snagged and mind-controlled by evil!Sonia. Bowmaster faces down his dark self, a smooth, tuxedo-clad sniper.
Halfpenny (The Transformed) empathizes with, then fights, his dark self, a blind brawler named Cent-urion with two penny eyepatches. Panic reaches Torq and risks her own doom to shake him from hopelessness.
The darkness dissipates, the team regroups, and they all sail out of Torq into the real world. It was an epic, mind-bending start to Season Two of the Salvatores’ adventures!
