GM
As Medea descends, Warden touches the key at his neck and mutters something. A shimmering portal opens up beneath the falling body, and then opens back up again under the cushion with Medea hitting it back first. For several seconds, Warden stands silent.
To Aeon, Seven states, somewhat sourly, "Sallah should know how to secure it in the house... of course, Sallah should have known better than to not have it under lock and key. If he is unavailable, I can given you some instructions to keep it under the protection of the house... for as long as the house's protections last."
Back at the scene of the cushion, Warden draws in a breath with a harsh sound, and then releases it. He looks up at DC, his back ramrod straight.
"There was a time when people felt justice was served by hamstringing or lobotomizing a criminal," he says to DeeCee, his words sharply articulated, "Society has moved past that, as have I. You may want to jump," he says, and a large shimmering portal opens up at ground level, with a large stone room visible below, the floor perhaps a dozen feet down. The ship and cushion, along with Medea, Warden, and Tom Cyprus, obeys the law of gravity and drops, with the portal closing as soon as all of the people are clear. Where the portal had opened, the floor appears as bare rock in a rough oval, all of the grass sheared away.
"What was
that?" Seven's voice says from the mirror, "Were the wards breached again?"
OOC wrote:There was originally a scene where Warden negotiated with the heroes to hold onto the villains and wouldn't take them by force. I recognize that, from DeeCee's point of view, his is the humane solution, but I felt Warden would like see the parallel to the judicial practices like lobotomies (including the Doc Savage books for that matter) or hamstringing potentially dangerous criminals, and it would hit his buttons, so he triggers his Portal ability.
Aeon, Libra, and the Alternity Atlas are outside of the field of effect. DeeCee can succeed automatically to jump clear of the portal and not fall through before it closes, or he can decide to enter it.