Sorry about the lack of posts. These Gateway errors make it very hard to do large posts. We're gonna try and do two posts a day, one in the morning/early afternoon an one in the evening (for me at least) This way everyone should be able to do things and not be horribly left behind.
((Is their blood coming from the doors?))
No.
[Team B Sniper=Thomas, following Milno]
"So, guys? We're done in the bathroom, right?"
Stand out in the hall, stand guard. Once Milno leaves, follow him.
You walk out into the hall and wait around for Milno, still scanning the dark halls, just in case.
[Team B Leader=Milno]
"Bathroom. Very exciting"
Leave the room, then enter and carefully examine one of the unchecked rooms. Use the gauss rifle to push the door open and check for traps.
A
Jim
Simus
Bruce
Mesk
Ashley
B
Milno
Lars
May
Thomas
Kyle
You enter the room with a 6 beside the door. The inside is a mess, the bed as been flipped and the dresser torn apart, drawers pulled out and clothing scattered. There's a pool of blood beside the dresser and a smear to the door.
[Team A Medic - Mesk ]
"Clear here. Looks like the inhabitants were shot in the night."
Check the room one north of me.
You walk up into the same room as milno.
"Fancy meeting you here."
"Bishop here, I think this ship is clear. Keep moving."
Approach the man and check him out in more detail. See what he's holding.
You climb slowly over the cargo boxes and up to the man. He's definitely not moving. You move around him to get a better look at what he's holding. He's holding...what is that? It's a giant piece of machinery, clearly cut out of something much larger judging by all the severed supports and lose wires dangling off it. The only indication of what it is comes from the exposed focusing chamber and lens near the front.
"Mining laser." You mutter, craning your neck to look behind the thing. A heavy electrical cable runs from the laser to the man's backpack.
Sambo=Team D= with Faith.
Check everything in the storage rooms except the dead body. See if there's any notes, anything unusual, or anything to steal.
"Looks like he was stuffed already."
((Sambo's successful police actions One: dead citizens Zero.
Sort of. 
))
You start going over
everything, through the hundreds of smashed open crates, a task that will no doubt take hours. First crate: Empty. Second crate, empty. Third crate, small amount of plastic wrap, two pallets. Fourth crate: discarded pry bar. Fifth crate...
[Team B Albino = May, With Thomas]
Guard the hallway, swing head and MFM around like a spy with a revolver. Make occasional 'pew-pew-pew' sounds.
You strike your best charlie's angel's pose.
Name:Flint - Team C - Control booth
"Well, it was worth a shot." At least it didn't explode.
"Looks like Bishop's handling himself well enough anyway." I should move on.
"Hey, if anyone who knows how to operate these damn machines want to use it, the control booth in loading and unloading has been unlocked. Looks like it was used to control most of the cradles and cranes in this place."
Try to determine if the Control booth can view any cameras, and if it can be used to control cranes in temporary storage. (Just doing this out of curiosity. It's not like curiosity ever killed anyone.)
Then move on with the rest of the team to temp storage.
[aux:5-1]
Looks like the control panel does control which ship is in the loading and unloading area but only to the extent that it can move ships in and out on the cradle track. If it has cameras or a way to control the other arms out in the hanger, you don't see it.
You shrug and head back down stairs, joining up with Miyamoto.
[Team A Leader Jim - Temporary Quarantine Housing]
Jim checked the papers to see what was on them.
The papers are just bits and pieces, ripped out of a book and torn up. There are a few large pieces left that you can read though.
"...n here for much longer then usual and they won't te...
"...ames us for it. But we've been in here the whole time! How could we have brou..."
"...ot out last week. He said he'd come back to talk to us but he hasn't....
Take a look through room 2 to see if there's anything interesting, if not then check out room 3.
"Not much in room 1, just an ordinary bedroom. I'll check the next couple to see if they have anything different."
Take a look through room 2 to see if there's anything interesting, if not then check out room 3.
"Not much in room 1, just an ordinary bedroom. I'll check the next couple to see if they have anything different."
Room two is much the same as room one, empty and clean and room 3 is completely empty. Hmm, how boring.
Team D Leader Faith, Hallway
Faith let out a long sigh.
"False alarm everyone, he was dead already. Didn't think we'd find anyone alive this early on."
She then turned to Sambo.
"And no, we're not going to react with paranoid terror every time someone doesn't answer us. We're here to help them, supposedly, not give them three seconds to get their asses out of our way. And I don't think we're going to be able to avoid getting contaminated- if this thing wasn't airborne, it probably wouldn't have spread so quickly or thoroughly. Unless it was in the food or something, but either way, not touching things really isn't an option down here."
Continue on into Temporary Storage, start examining bodies for cause of death.
You head through the door to temporary storage and take a look at the bodies, running our hands over it. It doesn't take a medical genius to see the problem: His arm is broken, as are several of his ribs, if the crunching noise when you press on his chest is any indication. You try and move his head and a similar crunching noise is the result. Beaten to death.
"Bishop here, I think this ship is clear. Keep moving."
"Alright, then." Jobasio gave the damaged ship one last, wary glance before turning and making his way back towards the rest of the team, gauss rifle held ready at hip-level. Over comms to the others: "You found anything of note? I will join back up with you lot for now; Bishop's checking the inside of a ship."
>Leave Bishop to his fun, join back up with Faith and the rest of the team.
>Keep watch for hostiles on the way, naturally. Also try and keep an eye out incase those ship-bearing arms start moving. Infact just keep a distance from them where possible.
You join up with faith and stand over her as she examines one of the bodies, keeping an eye out for anything hostile.
Brother Lars considered the sage advice his father gave him- Never pass a chance to piss.
He then remembered the... convenience tube... built into the suit, and headed out of the restroom.
Check the room above the one Jim went in- almost directly across the hall from the bathroom.
You join milno and mesk in the increasingly cramped room.
Stacy, Team C - Hallway to Temporary Storage.
"More dead people. Seems like they were awfully keen on massacring each other."
Proceed to Temporary Storage. Keep out a watchful eye for traps, threats and threatening traps.
You link up with Miyamoto and follow him while keeping an eye open.
Miyamoto, Team C leader, Temporary storage
C
Miyamoto
Stacy
Feyri
Pancaek
Flint
D
Faith
Jackinthebox
Bishop
lukas
sambo
'Miyamoto here, just entered Temp storage, more bodies here. They're different from the previous though, be cautious when you check them. Team C, regroup at Temp storage and check these bodies, I'll recon the room.'
Look out for a good vantage point, and fly up there. Examine temp storage again from there, both normal and heat vision. Draw a small map of the room and share it with the rest of the team, if necessary.
You can't see any good vantage points, at least none you could land on: Most of the crates are piled to the ceiling and those that aren't are just loose piles that would collapse if you stood on them and wouldn't give you much of a vantage point either. You also don't have anything you could draw a map with in here. By looking around a bit you do get an idea. It seems like the room is rectangular, longer then it is wide, and separated by 4 rows of containers which form ad-hoc walls because they're stacked till they reach the ceiling. However, some of these containers have been toppled over into the "aisles" between the walls and broken into. Loose piles of these containers dot the room.
Team D, Lukas, in hallway
Lukas taps his right foot impatiently, making dents in the floor. "C'mon, he's dead and team C is already way ahead of us. Let's go, let's go!"
Lukas doesn't wait for the others and makes his way to the temporary storage room. When he sees the bodies he inspects the one nearest to him in more detail.
You pick up the nearest body in your unforgiving metal hands and examine it with as much care as you can, concentrating hard on not tearing off limbs by accident. Even with just a cursory glance you can tell this guy got beaten pretty hard, his left knee is bent backwards and his helmet has a deep dent in it.
((No, I was actually being serious about everything else I said and didn't want to emphasize it by another post.))
In the Temporary Storage...
Team C - Feyri Nirel ; Mercenary.
"Huh. Very, very strange. Examination reveals no superficial scarring or wounding. I'll see if these cameras can...zoom."
Check if suit cameras can zoom in on those bodies - if not, scope them out and examine them more.
"Will try if vocalization affects anything - whistling, that is."
If nothing found strange. Whistle in a high-pitched tone. Modify suit as to amplify the tone. Check for any change in surroundings.
Miyamoto ; Radio Controlled
Stacy ; Harry Baldman
Feyri Nirel ; Tiruin
Pancaek ; Pancaek
Flint ; Parisbre56
Faith Valentine ; IronyOwl
Jackinthebox (?)
Bishop ; Zako
lukas ; Prosperus
sambo ; sambojin
You stare at the bodies, squinting. You ignore Faith and Lukas as they just walk up and start poking at the corpses and slowly sneak up on your own until you're looking down at the body with eyes wide and lips pursed with intent curiosity. The body's neck is twisted at a very awkward angle.
You whistle at it, using the suit to amplify the sound. It doesn't respond.
Faith stops her examination just long enough to look up at you, shake her head and look back down.
[Team A - Demolitions - Simus]
Go and see what's in the room next to the Mess.
When You say "next" I'm not sure which you mean since there are lots of rooms next to the mess. Um, But pretty much all of them have been explored at this point too so, eh.
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