The Red Menace
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You wait for the death ray to self-destruct, then run in slow-motion in front of the explosion, because you've always wanted to do that. Then you set out to explore deeper into the ship.
You enter a tall, narrow, cylindrical chamber that at first appears to be empty. Then a voice from overhead says "ah, yes. I thought you would show up here eventually."
You look up and see the shoulders, neck, and head of a reindeer, suspended from the ceiling by a nest of tubes and wires. The quarter-reindeer descends slowly until it's eye level with you. You study it by the light of its glowing red nose...
"Holy crap," you say, "Rudolph? Rudolph the Red? What have they done to you? We have to get you out of here!"
"I've never felt better," Rudolph says. "And my name is Rudolphus now. Don't worry about me, I'm fine, and soon you'll be fine too. Give in and get assimilated and we can all work together like I've always wanted: from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Ho, ho, ho."
"That doesn't sound like you, Rudolph," you say, "well, the Marxist crap does, but not that last bit. Who's behind all this?"
Rudolphus smiles blissfully (well, as blissfully as a reindeer can smile) and ascends toward the ceiling again. "All will be well in time," he says, "he's back, you see. I always knew he would come back." And with that, he vanishes into a hidden chamber in the room's ceiling.
"Who? Who's back? Whose idea was all of this?" you shout, but there's no answer. Oh well, at least you got an impromptu grammar lesson just then.
You see Rudolphus' host body sitting in the corner, which is more than a little disconcerting, what with it being a human body from the chest down, and nothing from the chest up. Since it looks pretty inert, though, you figure this is as good a time as any to practice your pants-stealing skills.
 | You acquire an item: hi-density nylocite leg armor |
Occurred in A Sinister Dodecahedron
References
- This entire adventure references the scene from Star Trek: First Contact depicting the Borg Queen's interactions with Captain Picard and Data in the Borg-converted engineering section of the Enterprise.
- The "impromptu grammar lesson" serves to illustrate the difference between "who's" and "whose", as the inability to distinguish them is one of Jick's pet peeves.
- The adventure name and the marxist comment both refer to communism.
