Jim opened a comm channel. "I've confirmed this is indeed a morgue. No need to investigate further." He left the room and tried the door slightl south and across the hall from the mess.
(It's all good, PW. Stuff like that happens now and then.)
You walk through the door marked "4" and check inside. The room inside is a thin cubicle of a room with not much more in it then a bed and a metal dresser of sorts. The bed is neatly made and the dresser is clean and closed; the entire room is neat, save for the puddle of blood beside the bed and the drag stains leading out into the hall.
Lars looked into the room of bodies. Grim work, but divine will must be obeyed.
Check the bodies in the room Jim opened for clues.
You start looking over the bodies, one by one, carefully trying to determine how they died. Most are laying face down with their hands tied, dressed in generic white clothing, with a quarter sized hole in the back of their head. Shot. Executed. Those that aren't tied have a variety of wounds, though they all seem to have died of gun fire as far as you can tell. They're beginning to decompose, but the sterility of the colony has slowed the process considerably.
"Oh. H-Hi May. What're you doin?"
Help out team B. Examine corpses. Try to intuit whether they were actuallyinfected.
Well, they certainly didn't die of sickness, but you can't tell if they were sick when they were shot, they're far too long gone for that.
[Team B=May]
"PRECIOUS CARGO IS SECURED."
Continue doing whatever Team B is doin.
You just hang around near Thomas. It is a strategy that has served you well so far.
[Team B = Kyle]
"The first door on the right is just a storage room, nothing important in here.", he messaged squads A and B. "Moving out to check out the next door."
That finished, Kyle moved out to check the first door at the corner. (So basically the next door after the storage room one)
You check the door marked "1". Inside is a small room, with two beds, a dresser and a chair pushed up against one wall. One of the beds is unmade but over all the room looks neat and there are no signs of violence or struggle. It's all eerily ordinary.
Back on the ship...pre-mission...
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"Nothing hurts anymore."
He looked sad for a bit and then glanced back at Feyri, noticing something.
"Your helmet is broken, or damaged at least. Looks like something with the faceplate. I could fix it later if you want."
"I put it that way, you silly man. Now let's go before we're too late!" Feyri said, using the hand she grabbed earlier to pull on it and drag Bishop to the pods!
Then, without letting him say anything else, liftoff.
((Guys, please add a title to your posts stating from which team you are. It is not necessary, but appreciated. I'll quote a spoiler with the composition with the A-B teams and one of the leaders from the C-D teams could do the same.))
((I commend your bravery!))
Team C, Lead - Feyri
"Are we going to the Temporary Storage already? Whatever the choice, I'm taking the front."
Lead the warpath to the Temporary Storage, stay awaaaay from that derelict ship and dead bodies.
Examine the blood smears as we pass the ship. What direction was it facing?
Feyri Nirel ; Tiruin
Stacy ; Harry Baldman
Miyamoto ; Radio Controlled
Pancaek(?) ; Pancaek
Flint [?]
Which blood smear? There are dozens of bodies all around the ship, on the ground and on the catwalks. And most of them don't have smearing, most of them are just pooling or splattering. The smearing is in quarantine housing with Jim and Milno and their team.
You join Faith in the hall between loading and unloading and Temporary storage.
((@GM: Is the extra 30% fuel I purchased included in your notes? I think the armored pods were in the cheat sheet, but I don't remember the extra fuel.))
[Team B Leader = Milno]
Milno looked around as he got to the end of the hallway. No one trying to kill them yet? Seemed pretty tame then. Corpses of men, women and children? No problem in the end.
Turn off buzz mode and follow Jim carefully in the exploration of the next room.
A
Jim
Simus
Bruce
Mesk
Ashley
B
Milno
Lars
May
Thomas
Kyle
(it is. or it is now at least. I had it in my head but I made sure to note it down now)
You turn off your rockets and follow Jim into the cramped room where you seriously menace the furniture.
"Holy crap," Faith said, surprised at finding someone potentially alive so early. "We might have a live one, don't bother running over though."
Faith switched to her speakers, assuming they weren't active normally.
"Excuse me," she said, trying to speak loudly and clearly. "You there, huddled against the wall. Are you alright?"
Slowly approach and examine man while talking.
The man doesn't move or respond in any way as you get close, but seems to resist your attempts to pull his hand away from his legs.
[Team A Medic - Mesk]
"Ew... give me a moment here."
Examine the bodies. Take a picture of the scene if I can (can't remember whether I can take photos with the suit or not) and grab a blood and tissue sample from one of the bodies before moving on.
You move to take a sample when you're shocked to your knees.
"You were not told to take samples. Move and clear." Command orders. He seems angry.
((Damn this thread updates fast!))
Bishop walked over to the hatch to the cargo bay and promptly knocked hard on it.
"IF ANYONE'S IN THERE, COME OUT SLOWLY WITH YOUR HANDS UP! THIS IS THE RESCUE EFFORT!"
Knock on the hatch and wait a bit for anyone to come out, weapon ready. If noone answers after a few minutes, head down cautiously with the lamps on.
You knock on the hatch and get no reply. You swallow hard and open the hatch, dropping in with your lamps on. Most of the cargo compartment has been sliced open, as you could tell from the outside, but a few containers have stayed stuck in the hold, as well as something else. A man, or what you think is a man, coated in splattered blood is crouched-or is he just slumped against the wall?-in the corner. He's completely cocooned in what looks like the exoskeleton of a MKIII but significantly heavier, larger and all around more solid looking, like the exoskeleton's industrial cousin. He's wearing a large square backpack and holding something in his hand, though you can't tell what, his body is blocking your view.
Sambo=Team D
Follow Faith, on the other side of the hallway/room in a covering-fire position, rifle at the ready to shoot the figure if he tries to attack.
"Don't try anything. We're going to get you out of here safely. But do anything hasty and I'll cut you in half.
What the fuck happened here mate? Who killed all those poor SOBs?", to the figure.
Sambo will react with deadly force if the figure attacks, or does anything weird like grin, or say something along the lines of "They had it coming". 3 second cut across the chest with my laser rifle as a reaction fire thingo.
((Big edit: reaction fire to hostilities or weirdness. ))
You keep the laser pointed directly at the man as faith tries to talk to him. You're not in the mood for silliness. Or compassion. Same thing really.
((Goddamn you timezones, it seems this thing updates multiple times while I'm asleep.
Oh, and my suspicion right now is that PW will start killing us of en masse any minute now to keep the thread more... manageable.))
((@ Cael: Really, seeing as how I couldn't fit inside that ship, nor the briefing room, I figured I had the most armor. That avatar cloak is better than I expected.))
((@ Feyri: So, are we going to roll with you as team leader? Fine by me, but since I kinda had a vote from that one guy, I don't really know what my character would do in this situation. Should we vote for it? Although you do seem to be online at the right time more than me, which would certainly help. Hmm.))
'Hey Bishop, if you could spare a moment, would you help me activate the kinetic amps in my arms? 'Cause I think those will help tremendously when the mission goes south eventually.'
Check hallway that leads to temporary storage. Use thermal vision to check ahead.
C
Miyamoto
Stacy
Feyri
Pancaek
Flint
D
Faith
Jackinthebox
Bishop
lukas
sambo
You have to basically get on your hands and knees and crawl to get into the hall, forcing you to look straight at the ground through your camera, which makes looking at anything difficult.
[Stacy: Team C]
To Teams C and D: "Big trouble. Whoever did all this massacring either had or still has an extremely powerful laser in their possession. Stay on the lookout for any laser weaponry. Even the police force wouldn't have stuff like this. So it must be either a mining or cutting laser, or perhaps something even worse."
Go down the hallway to Temp Storage after Miyamoto.
((If it's necessary, my auto action is to stick with Miyamoto.))
You stick with/use as cover miyamoto's giant robotic ass, walking slowly after him as he crawls through the hall.
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