"Be careful. They're really good in those. Damn near silent. Nick! Watch out for metal tubes! They're really old armor. Shoot first, ask questions later."
Thomas gestures that he and Empryean should go down back to back. He engages the light amps, shuts down the lamps and carefully heads down the stairs, shooting at movement other than him, Empryean or anything he recognizes with the laser rifle.
You activate your light amps while standing outside in day light and promptly blind your stupid self. After the spots finally fade from your vision you start down the stairs. You go down one flight and then half of the next. There's a floor here within the dam to get off at or you can continue on down. The floor here is nothing more then a nondescript hall, square and studded with caged lights-the old halogen type- and a handful of thin pipes running along the ceiling. It extends maybe 10 feet before splitting off right and left.
You rather suddenly catch a lungful of the outside air and have to struggle not to cough. It's like wrapping your lips around a exhaust pipe and breathing deep of the delicious carbony, carcinogenic vapor.
Sky mode
Action for Empyrean: Follow carefully after Thomas.
You follow after Thomas, walking very carefully backwards down the stairs as you cover the rear. You stop when he does and glace over your shoulder at the room up ahead before turning back.
Milno starts smiling slightly. Tricky bastards. Their own suits' lamps were probably the things pointing their position, but he still wondered how the hell they had discovered they were coming.
"You should turn off your lamps and turn on the light amps. For a moment, to check the ambient luminosity."
Turn off lamps and turn on light amps to check for ambient luminosity. If it is not enough for the amps to amplify, turn lamps back on and keep advancing, paying attention to traps, other devices or any movement.
((Perhaps it's because you have your headlamps on and they are using light amps instead?))
((Ninja'ed. Yes, I discovered that.))
You turn off your lamps and turn on your light amps. Yeah, they work, thanks to the fact that several other people behind you have their lamps on. They also work great to blind you when said idiots decide to swing their lamps around and catch you straight in the face with them.
"Cut the damn lamps." You grumble over the coms as your eyes water. They do so and, after a few seconds of blinking and getting your vision back, you look out into the hall again. The hall itself is very very barely illuminated. It looks like the light is coming from the door you just opened, specifically from a window in the room beyond it. Without that it would be truly pitch black in here.
Shoot? With what? I'll melt the armor around them, but shoot? Anyways, I doubt any will be poking their heads out of the side of the dam. Ya'll need any help, or can you handle it?
Keep on down the dam. If I see anything heading towards me, stop and try to get a better look.
You continue slowly down the dam. Luckily your gray suit is pretty much the same color as the supercrete of the dam so you're blending in alright. The big shiny chrome limbs don't really help though. You take a look out at the nearest installation as you head down. There are a few dots out there, milling around near the base of the machine, and you assume there must be others inside and a top the base structure. Luckily they don't seem to have noticed you yet. You reach about 1/3 of the way down.
Turn off lamps on turn on light amp.
"Except we're in an unlit building at the bottom of the sea, how much light could there be, and if that was the case our lights would blind them. However they're seeing us, it's not light amps. Maybe sonar or motion trackers?
And someone should really be keeping an eye on our rear."
Deactivate lamps for this experiment anyway. Reactivate unless it proves successful, in which case activate amps instead.
You turn off your lamps at Milno's request and activate your amps along with him. The hallway is almost completely dark, even with the amplification turned up to the point that everything gets blurry. If not for the light coming from the room ahead you would be completely blind.
Dream of my heavily-industrial highly patriotic xeno- and morphophobic world, of its purple skies and pure-white and green-black (toxic) clouds, of the unswaying crop fields, which endure the harsh weather no matter what.
[will:1+1] You dream of...Ham sandwiches. Just normal Ham Sandwiches. It is not a very interesting dream.
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