Mission:Common - Track down the Pantheon and rescue the mystics
Merit Rewards: This activity awards 5 Reward Merits through Flashback only.
Track down the Pantheon and rescue the mystics (25-30)
Briefing
Several mystical and occult researchers have recently disappeared while attending a conference on early human religions. The surviving security guard's description points to the culprits being the Banished Pantheon. Fortunately, I have a lead on where they may be holding the kidnap victims. Someone has to track down the Pantheon and rescue those mystics. There won't be much time, maybe 75 minutes at most before the Pantheon completes their sacrifices. Can you do it?
Mission Acceptance
You'll need to find all of the occult researchers and rescue all of them from the Banished Pantheon. I fear the only way to preserve their safety in the long term will be to defeat all of the Pantheon's creatures who took part in the researcher's abductions. Move fast. No one survives in the Pantheon's clutches for long.
Here's something to help you out. This Undead Slaying Axe has served the city's defenders before. Use it to save those mystics.
Temporary Power:
You will gain the Undead Slaying Axe temporary power upon mission acceptance.
Melee, Moderate damage (Lethal), Bonus vs True Undead
This massive weapon was specifically crafted by MAGI to slay the undead. The Undead Slaying Axe can be used 75 times before MAGI will recall it magically.
Unnecessary Solicitation
You've got to save those occultists! Time is running out!
Mission Objective(s)
You feel like you're being watched, and not by a human being. It feels like an otherworldly presence, one that watches with an unspeakable hunger.
- Defeat all Pantheon cultists - 1:15 timed
You have defeated the Banished Pantheon and rescued the mystics.
Enemies
Notable NPCs
- Irene Isabo (Hostage)
- Cassandra Anderson (Hostage)
- Sol Goldstein (Hostage)
- Professor Anna Harker (Hostage)
Badge
You saved a cabal of mystics from being used by the Banished Pantheon.
Debriefing
If you hadn't been there, I doubt any of those people would have been seen again. One of the occult researchers you saved, Professor Harker, thinks they were abducted because of their knowledge. The Pantheon may have been trying to feed its masters more magical skill and learning. If that's the case, then the whole city owes you for this one.