The mission began with the agents standing on the street in a warehouse district of The City. Down the street was a nightclub with a neon sign that read Club Thelema. The club was only admitting people wearing masks, but luckily each agent had a mask in their hands: Agent Romanov had a devil mask, Agent Warbler had a cardinal mask, Agent Burgundy had a mask resembling Munch's The Scream, and Agent Television had a Nixon mask. The agents got in line and were admitted to the club.
Agent Romanov made his way to the bar and ordered a martini. He learned from the bartender that the club was owned by the enigmatic "Baron," and that Lady Tetragrammaton, an extremely famous pop star, was holding court in the VIP area. He also learned that there were some high-stakes poker tables in the basement.
Agent Television got on the dance floor; pretty soon, two sweaty women were dancing all up on him. He declined the opportunity to find out what they knew.
The agents discovered that one of the waitresses at Club Thelema was actually Agent Vanguard undercover. She told them that her three partners were killed in the club; they were trying to trace some sort of secret product that was coming into the club and never appeared to leave the premises.
She also pointed out "the Laughing Man," the club's feared enforcer.
Speaking of the Laughing Man, he joined Agent Romanov and Agent Warbler in the elevator as they went down to the basement to scope out the gambling area.
Agent Television and Burgundy went around to the back of the club, where they hid and watched what was going on at the loading dock. They saw a truck pull up; three coffins were unloaded out of the back and placed on gurneys to be wheeled inside. The agents followed the porters in, then ducked into what appeared to be a morgue to avoid detection.
After confronting the porters, the agents were able to take them hostage. Opening the coffins revealed interior compartments holding jars of powder. The porters explained that the powder was a drug called Sandman. Agent Television tried Sandman and promptly had an out of body experience. The porters were left tied up in the morgue; the agents then swapped the Sandman for an innocuous powder and the drug was hidden in the dumpsters out back.
Back down in the gambling area, Agent Romanov ended up playing head-to-head against Doctor Sloan, the Baron's personal physician. Agent Romanov won. Agent Romanov was able to convince Doctor Sloan that he was looking to get high; the Doctor led Agents Romanov and Warbler into his basement office. Disturbingly, the Doctor's office featured a woman chained up within a human-sized cage. The agents indulged in some Sandman. Deciding that the woman needed to be freed, Agent Warbler attacked Doctor Sloan, but was injured in the process. Ultimately, Argent Warbler was able to kill the doctor and saw off his hand to use to open the doors to the restricted areas on this level.
Up top, Agents Burgundy and Television got into a firefight with the Baron's men. After eliminating them, the agents fled the scene--effectively taking themselves out of the game for the rest of the session.
Back in Sloan's office, the agents unchained Rosa, the woman from the cage. They saw that she had a bladed Ouija planchette chained to her wrist. She told them she couldn't leave Club Thelema until an "implant" was removed from her body. Luckily, she knew where the operating theater was, and offered to lead them to it.
Unfortunately, on the way they were confronted by the Laughing Man. The Laughing Man proved to be too much for them to handle. Even worse--it was clear that the Laughing Man and Rosa were in cahoots. A wrong turn brought them into a corridor where the walls were made of flesh--they realized that proceeding further down the corridor would result in them being consumed.
It was at this point that part of the mystery became clear: that corridor led down the Baron's gullet; he was being fed Sandman, hidden inside human corpses in the operating theater, to keep him "asleep."
The agents attempted to run, but Agent Warbler was killed before she could reach the elevators. Agent Romanov escaped and made his way to Agents Television and Burgundy. The agents ejected from the dream, the goals unfulfilled and their understanding of the situation incomplete.
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