Task Force Midvale School for the Gifted

There's a new(ish) TF available on Striga, which is a) shorter than most (OMG YAY) and b) involves fighting Nazi robots. What's not to love? So we did that tonight, and stormed most of it without breaking a sweat, til we got to the S3Kr1t volcano crater base. The minor problem involved various team members getting blown off the narrow catwalks by incoming grenades, which recurring party split led to several deaths. But that was okay and we managed to keep going forward.

No, the fun came after we beat up the bad men. This set the self-destruct sequence going and we had 30 seconds to escape. That was okay, too, though, because we'd heard about that and were ready for it. The fly in our victory wine was that, just before we charged into melee with the archvillain, a certain party who shall remain nameless said "OK, see this door here? This is the one we need to escape through."

Picture, therefore, a team of very experienced heroes clustered around a small steel door in a volcanic Nazi base as a timer ticks down overhead, frantically trying to pull it open, which they utterly failed to do. Because that wasn't the villain escape tunnel. It was the broom closet. The exit was some 250 feet away, straight down at the bottom of the crater. My, that was quite some explosion to be at ground zero for. We needed more debt anyways.

Rest peacefully, citizens! The Short Bus Squadron Defenders of Liberty are protecting YOU!