Milno:
Contact Steve:
"Uh....It just ocurred to me, Steve. How about the alien elevators? We can not leave this place without them unless we go around blowing holes everywhere and dropping from very high places."
Carefully check if the alien lift is still working. By means of poking its surface with the tip of my feet.
You walk to the lift. It looks quite dead from a distance but as you step near it wisps of the glowing mist that enshrouds the power source leap forward and onto the platform. The cube, missing a minute ago, rises up to meet you.
"No, I... think I'm ready to leave."
((We inspected all the rooms that could have engravings in them, right?))
EDIT: Actually, why not:
Examine crystal tanks.
((There are lots of rooms left down stairs, but they're pretty much all the same as the ones you saw already. The bottom floor has 4-way symmetry.))
You walk to the edge of the room and then take a short ramp up to the first level of tanks. Each tank is about 7 feet tall and 3 wide. The crystals inside all are different looking but of about the same proportions, 5-6 feet tall and about 2 feet wide. You lean closer and notice that there is a small control panel embedded in the wall near each tank. [Intuition roll: 3] You squint at the panel and notice that it includes several tiny monitors. It reminds you of the sort of thing you'd see on a piece of equipment in a hospital.
Woo! This means I'm up.
Wait... No one died. Damn, nevermind.
Oh, jim will be out for the next mission, Milno too. In reality what I'll probably do is just take volunteers from the active team first (if they're fit to fight) and then from the standby squad. It will give people who want to fight the chance to.
(Welp, part of that is going on the OOC thread.)
Theres an ooc thread?