Port Townsend Labs Raid

Immediately following the opening of the Vortex Portal, scientists from the Republic of Port Townsend established an extensive forward base in order to monitor it's effects. The data they gathered was sent back to a laboratory complex built inside of a skyscraper in downtown Capital City. After recuperating at Marrowstone Island, Forrest launched a surprise raid against the laboratory skyscraper in order to recover the precious information on the portal.

Under the cover of a thunderstorm, teams of cultists, led by Forrest himself airdropped onto the roof of the skyscraper. Entering through the windows, the team began to search the building for any information on the portal. With the news of the raid, a response team led by TiburcioSoccer64 was scrambled to stop the incursion. Rappelling up the side of the building, the GDF troopers attempted to drive of the invaders and reclaim the building for the RPT.

The strike team was able to seize control of the building, and as the GDF response force attempted to retake it, they took heavy casualties. TiburcioSoccer64 was pinned down, under attack from both Forrest and Occultist Spunky. Facing two guardians, TiburcioSoccer64 would not have stood a chance were it not for the timely intervention of Cadger Calloused appearing from a portal to assist the defense. With the tides turned, the two were able to fight back the cultists, and had Forrest on a back footing. Spunky and Forrest fled the scene via commandeered Ford Raptor trucks with crates of looted data cores, hotly pursued by GDF reinforcements. But just as it seemed Forrest would be stopped, he activated his experimental portal device and jumped into the Underworld. TiburcioSoccer64, hanging from the back of Forrest's truck, was hurled into the Shadow Realm.

With the data cores missing, and stranded in the Shadow Realm, TiburcioSoccer64 attempted to find a way out. Drawn to a mysterious light on the horizon, he approached a crumbling, Victorian style building. Within, he found a number of prisoners, each kept inside the Asylum not by chains or bars, but by a mental tether keeping them from escaping. Among them was the missing Pummelboy, Zache126. TiburcioSoccer64 first attempted to convince Zache to escape, but almost became trapped within the mind prison himself.

TiburcioSoccer64 challenged the warden of the Asylum to a game of pencil fighting, and although the warden attempted to cheat and imprison TiburcioSoccer64 forever, the Purple Guardian saw through the ruse. Losing the game, the warden granted Tiburcio his wish of returning to the material plane.

Meanwhile on Marrowstone Island, Forrest examined the data cores recovered from the raid. The cores had been randomly grabbed in the hasty attack, and many contained worthless information. Just as he was about to have the entire collection incinerated, one core in particular caught his eye. The Orange Tyrant laughed as he regarded it, for contained within was the location of a weapon that would surely change the course of the Pummel Wars forever...