Nocturnal Academy 11 - Tunguska

For many years the old Siberian Nocturnal Academy was thought to have been destroyed during the great Tunguska explosion of 1908. However, recently the principal of the new Russian Academy, Professor Bukarev, discovered it was actually dragged into the Immaterium by the dark realm’s self-styled king, the Demon Lord Abraxas, and languishes there still.

Bukarev wishes to undertake a mission to recover the school, its resources, and most importantly, the supernaturals who were taken with it. But in order to complete this mission, the Demon King must be confronted and destroyed.

Professor Abbacus believes Bukarev’s mission is doomed to fail unless he accompanies him and his crew. He also decides to bring along his best students; Alice Dibble, Toby Thompson and Carla Hightower.

The Siberian Academy lies in the grimmest depths of the Immaterium, and the journey to reach it is long and fraught with dangers. The school is very old and run-down, filled with defeated survivors who have grown old before their time, and one enormous, completely delusional Demon Lord lording over the squalor like it’s the grandest empire in the world.

Defeating Abraxas will not be easy, even for experienced mages like Professor Bukarev and Professor Abbacus, and the dedicated students accompanying them. The Demon Lord has scores of followers, including one very familiar supernatural who will do anything to stop his master from being destroyed.

For he alone has discovered the deadly secret that Abraxas is protecting.

Important Characters

 * Professor Abbacus
 * Alice Dibble
 * Toby Thompson
 * Carla Hightower
 * Principal Bukarev
 * Danika and Boris Cherenko
 * Andre Sauvage

Chapter-by-Chapter
"This section contains spoilers."

Chapter 1

 * Professor Abbacus uses the Immortality Machine on Principal Bukarev.

Chapter 2

 * Dinner
 * Alice reflects on everything that has happened; in particular, her growing fears of the future.
 * Alice, Carla, and Toby talk about how they might as well be adults
 * Professor Longenfang is drunk.
 * Professor Abbacus is instated as vice principal. He mentions that he will be starting work experience programs.
 * Work experience presentation (9PM).
 * Professor Abbacus provides an overview of what jobs may be a part of work experience. They will last for two weeks.
 * Includes groundskeeper, kitchen attendant, animal handler, security guard, Astral scout, assistant to Professor Vixen, McDingley, Darkchilde, or Abbacus.
 * Alice selects assistant to Professor Abbacus.
 * Toby and Carla also do, albeit reluctantly.
 * Delilah mocks Alice for doing so.
 * Alice asks Harley about work experience. He points out that he already has a job running the mainframe.
 * They take a short VR trip to the TARDIS, from the show Doctor Who.

Chapter 3

 * Alice, Toby, and Carla are informed that they will be working with Professor Abbacus for their work experience.
 * Alice is suspicious about something else happening.
 * During dinner, Madam Nocturna gives a short speech about work experience. She notes that it will start on Monday, last for two weeks, and that normal classes will resume after that.
 * Professor Abbacus also tells Alice, Toby, and Carla to meet him in his office after dinner.
 * Professor Abbacus' office
 * He explains that the tunnels were rearranged for a simpler path to his office, as he is now the VP.
 * He also says that he had to dismantle his laser to have the position of VP. Unbeknownst to everybody else, the laser is in a compression cube and ready to work in an emergency.
 * Finally, he explains that work experience will be an adventure to the lost Siberian Academy, which was dragged to the Immaterium in 1908. Occupants have survived.
 * Him and Bukarev will destroy Abraxas, the 'god' of the Immaterium.
 * The students, as well as other students and celestials from the current Russian Academy, will help combat other creatures.
 * Though Professor Abbacus offers to let them take on other work experience, they all accept his offer.
 * Carla asks why the Nocturnal Council isn't directly involved in this mission. While they support the mission, they have no interest in getting their feet dirty and believe Professor Abbacus to be the most suited for this mission.
 * Alice telepathically tells him that she knows another reason for Bukarev to be here. The professor tells her to stay behind while the others leave.
 * She says that he turned him immortal; he affirms.
 * Alice points out that turning all of them has an advantage. However, he points out that being alive has its own advantages, primarily because undead are easily influenced by the Immaterium.

Chapter 4

 * Alice, Toby, and Carla return to Professor Abbacus' office in the morning.
 * They meet Professor Bukarev, who is drinking vodka. They also meet Boris and Danika Cherenko.
 * Danika has an immediate distaste for Alice.
 * Professor Bukarev gives a presentation on the fate of the Academy. Abraxas had dragged it into the Immaterium, and currently takes up the entire school.
 * Professor Abbacus begins loading his (many) compression cubes into a trolley. His techniques worry Professor Bukarev.
 * After everybody leaves, Alice mentions Danika to Professor Abbacus, who noticed nothing. He presumes it will disappear.
 * Alice spends the weekend with her mother, stepfather, stepbrother, and half-sister, Flo Flo.
 * Nick mentions the new commune at the Old Cider Factory, led by Stanley. He visited, but it creeped him out.
 * The Stigmata church has also re-opened, led by Father Lost.

Chapter 5

 * Everybody is packed to leave. They use the Omniportallis and go through the Astral Academy.
 * In Astral Appleton, Toby exclaims that they had seen the 'Lost Priest' the last time they went through here.
 * Professor Florana thanks Professor Abbacus for what happened in the Nightmare Games. Professor Abbacus cries.
 * Professor Florana takes them through the old forest, which is much faster than traveling through the town.
 * They learn that Danika and Boris are also undead.
 * Toby talks about the Lost Priest, and Alice talks about the commune and the church.
 * Professor Florana tells Professor Abbacus to make sure Kelly doesn't take root to join him. //self

Chapter 6

 * Outer Inner Plane //self
 * Professor Abbacus leads the jumps. Alice is the only one to fall; she casts a levitation spell to resolve her problem
 * When they reach the edge of the Middle Plane, Toby's stomach growls, startling Professor Abbacus. It is 3 AM
 * Professor Abbacus is not happy that the living people require sustenance.
 * Boris and Danika have not been meditating. Professor Abbacus is not happy.
 * Travel
 * Alice talks to Professor Abbacus about the paths. She can see them, with some work.
 * House out of a compression cube. Toby regularly makes smart-alec comments. Professor Abbacus threatens/gives scullery duty.

Chapter 7

 * Travel continues.
 * Toby and Carla discuss their relationship.
 * Boris and Danika discuss the fact that Danika is salty because Alice is Malcolm's little sister. He broke up with her. They argue, lose the group, and have to take a few minutes to find the paths.
 * Alice continues to bug Professor Abbacus.
 * He has a link to Boris and Danika from a spell he cast when they went through the Immortality machine.
 * Discuss the planes. Can visit solar systems, but it's dangerous. The Professor wants to visit Eridon.
 * Alice is a friend.
 * Snack. More travel - the air is getting colder. Eventually, a break to sleep.

Chapter 8

 * Travel continues to the Outer Plane.
 * Toby and Carla experience problems.
 * Boris and Alice talk about creatures in the Immaterium. He also explains about Malcolm.
 * They reach the Great Cosmic Mirror.

Chapter 9

 * Food and sleep before the Immaterium. Get there via Omniportallis. Reach the Siberian Academy.
 * Note that there are human skeletons outside.
 * Also see an imp that spooks Alice.
 * They enter the school.

Chapter 10

 * They wander around the school. Eventually, the professors leave to see Abraxas, while the rest of them go to find the Cherenko's aunt.
 * They meet Professor Kerchek, an old werewolf. The Cherenko's aunt is an imp. They talk about what's going to happen.
 * Professor Kerchek goes and informs people that Abraxas should soon be destroyed. They all need to leave the building.

Chapter 11

 * The professors confront Abraxas.
 * Andre says that they can't kill him.
 * Meanwhile, everybody else continues to evacuate the school. Others, including Alice, Carla, and Toby, return to the battle.
 * Professor Abbacus begins a Banefire Scourge.
 * Vladrakov shows up.

Chapter 12

 * Oradhur also shows up.
 * Abraxas is destroyed. However, The Unmaker begins to tear through the sky.
 * Alice, Carla, and Toby rescue Andre and Professor Abbacus (who has passed out).
 * Everybody is running from the Academy.
 * Professor Bukarev and the Cherenkos become Necronites.

Chapter 13

 * The celestials have to stay at the breach until it is closed.
 * A large group of supernaturals, including Alice and co., leave. Alice gets the house back out.
 * Andre and Alice talk. He explains how he survived. They kiss.

Chapter 14

 * Professor Abbacus telepathically contacts Alice and Andre.
 * Alice helps him replace his electrothaumaturgic generator.
 * He reveals that he is now highly susceptible to the calls of the Immaterium.
 * When he learns that the Cherenkos and Bukarev were now Necronites, he snaps his fingers, disintegrating them.
 * If he has the Mark of Singularity, Andre must use the Banefire gun on him.

Chapter 15

 * They use Magick to avoid the crowd of imps that has gathered.
 * They put the house back up. Professor Abbacus awakes, shocked that they aren't at the Omniportallis yet. He gives Alice a handful of cubes that contain different spells to distract imps at the Omniportallis.
 * They rest and eat.

Chapter 16

 * They arrive at the Omniportallis.
 * Alice wakes up Professor Abbacus.
 * Necronis tempts him, saying that he knows where Del is. However, he is a Necronite.
 * They get through the Omniportallis, back to Madam Nocturna's office.
 * A lot of explaining needs to be done.
 * Unbeknownst to everybody else, Professor Darkchilde is a Necronite.