[Team B Sniper=Thomas=Temporary Quarantine Housing]
Go and chill with May on lookout duty. Continue switching through the lens types, watch for anything suspicious.
You and may continue to be on "Look out duty" ie standing around trying to look busy.
((XD What an anticlimax-- I was half expecting to lose another character! *Phew*))
Team D, Jobasio; Temporary Storage
"Oh, erm. Thankyou."
Jobasio peered at the pry bar, nodded uncertainly to Sambo, and then slid it into the pack on his back to free up his hands for his gauss rifle. "I'm sure it shall come in handy before long. For... Opening doors, presumably. If there are skulls in need of breaking I might leave that bit up to you."
He glanced at Faith. "Anything else you think we should check here, or should we head for the ever-so-mysterious Sterilization area?"
>Continue Bodyguard Protocol.
You stick close to faith, following her as she heads for the sterilization room.
[Team A - Demolitions - Simus - Temporary Quarantine Housing]
Message Command: I do think it is important, if we come up against armed personnel, I want to know what they're armed with.
Go into the marked room, seeing if the new suit permits movement through walls doing so:
[will:3]You walk to the wall of the mess hall and cautiously try to pass through, all the while thinking about being..uh...transparent.
"I am the wind. I am...uh..a pane of glass. I am..um..water based, clear personal lubricant!"
You Tentatively poke the wall and your finger goes through it up to the second knuckle and then stops. You blink, pull your finger back and try again, but this time it doesn't go in at all. Hmm.
You decide to just walk around into the bathroom. It's clear and uninteresting, just as Milno, Lars and Thomas all found it.
[Team A Medic - Mesk]
"Ok, well, it doesn't look like there's anything interesting here. Let's clear the rest of the rooms quickly and move on."
Check the room carefully for people or signs of people. Then get ready to move down the corridor.
You walk into the room and check it more carefully. You tear off the bed sheets, look under the bed, rummage through the drawers of the dresser and generally toss the place. You still find nothing of any interest.
The next room is the same, just bed and dresser with nothing special anywhere.
(ALL THE ROOMS IN QUARANTINE HOUSING HAVE BEEN OPENED)
"At the risk of sounding A: completely effeminate and B: like I know what I'm talking about, I feel compelled to note that whoever they hired to decorate these rooms is even worse at his - or her - job than we are," Jim grumbled. "That and something feels off, but I'm not sure what. Other than the God-awful design, I mean." Tapping his fingers against his leg in irritation, he tried the door on the south wall.
The room room on the south wall appears to be full of rampaging mesks who are tearing up the place. He shoulders past you and into the next room. How rude.
Miyamoto, Team C leader, Temporary storage
C
Miyamoto
Stacy
Feyri
Pancaek
Flint
D
Faith
Jackinthebox
Bishop
lukas
sambo
On squad channel: 'Don't enter Long range Coms yet, that was A and B's objective. And I do believe command doesn't like it when we deviate from the plan, and remember, they've got access to our spinal shockers. Let's check sterilization and the elevator first, then we can do LRC if A and B aren't there yet. In fact, could any of you give me some backup here?'
Think about what the contents of that crate could mean, why would this colony ask for this kind of stuff? Keep moving to the back of the Temp Storage, watch for traps etc.
It's hard to say what they mean exactly, but their implications are confusing. Shipping things through space is already massively expensive let alone when you do it out to the middle of nowhere, so most colonies are mostly self-sufficient and only ship in things they really really need. Plus it takes so long that it's practically meaningless to ship in goods like this: Who wants to order chocolate and wait 15 years for it to get here when they could just grow and manufacture their own.
If they're getting stuff like this sent here then there must be something special about this colony. Either they're much richer then you ever imagined or they've got connections to something or someone big.
You move to the back of the storage room without issue.
"Hmmm... There must be a latch or button somewhere..."
Examine the suit closely for ways of getting it off, try the most logical solution. If the guy is dead inside, use my razor to slice his fingers off my new laser.
[int:4]
Lets see he had to get in through the front here so this part must open up somehow. Like this maybe?
The suit's front opens with a mechanical whir, bits sliding and folding in to allow someone to get into the suit. Inside the heavy metal is a normal civilian spacesuit and one very dead man by the look of it, though it's not obvious how he died. His body and suit are still intact as far as you can see. You yank is arm out of the exoskeleton's sleeve and open the hand yourself, releasing the laser.
"I don't think we are going to find a-anything here, this was just where they put the i-infected before...before."
Look down the hall to the main elevator.
The door out of the quarantine area seems just as locked as the one in. Problematic.
[TEAM D - Lukas - Temporary Storage]
Lukas walks to the entrance to the sterilization area, shotgun ready. "What do you say Faith? Check out this next room?"
You thud over to the exit towards the sterilization room, knocking boxes and teammates out of the way if they're in your path.
Name:Flint - Team C - Temp storage, west entry
"Just going to check the hallway. Don't want anything get the jump on us from behind."
Open the door, peek inside and then close the door. See if I can place something in front of it to block it. (Not necessarily something heavy. Maybe just something that will make a lot of noise when moved.)
Then join the rest of the team going to sterilization.
The door is a blast door, one that doesn't open in or out but retracts into the walls around it. Makes barricading it hard. You open the door for a second just to see whats down the hall. The hall itself is empty but you can tell from here that the door to the long range coms at the other end has been physically welded shut. You close the door and join up with faith and the others heading towards sterilization.
Team D Leader Faith, Temporary Storage
"Well... I'm not positive we've completely cleared every inch of this room, but it certainly looks like there's nothing of interest here.
Command, what level of detail you want for this? Every corner checked or is a vague once-over good enough?"
Go ahead and open the door to Sterilization.
"From your compiled search footage it appears that the room is clear. Move on."
You head over to the exit and open the door to sterilization, or at least the hallway there. The hallway has a few more transport platforms and a opened box or two, but it's most obvious feature is the half dozen spinning red warning lights down it's length and the very heavy, sturdy door at the end. It looks even bigger and tougher then the other blast doors you've seen so far. You half expect it to have a facial tattoo and be holding a lead pipe.
[Team B Leader=Milno=Temporary Quarantine Housing]
"Hey people. Just realized that there aren't enough in these rooms for all the bodies in the Mess hall to have been just from the quarantine housing. There were probably fifteen to twenty people around here, and the double in the mess 'hell'."
Enter the mess hall once more, carefully. Examine all the bodies, checking for signs of wounds in all of them and how many exactly had differing types of deaths and if all are dead, then if nothing noteworthy is found, enter the next unchecked room in the hallway.
A
Jim
Simus
Bruce
Mesk
Ashley
B
Milno
Lars
May
Thomas
Kyle
You head back to the mess hall and check over the bodies once more, keeping a tally of deaths and causes in your head. They all went down by gunfire by the look of it, but most were executed. The others, all of them adults, had been gunned down much less cleanly, but there are only a handful of them that are like that. What seems even stranger is the fact that they're all dressed the same: if only a few were from the Quarantine housing, why are they all dressed in the same disposable clothing?
Team B: Brother Lars, Priest - Quarantine Hallway
Just keep checking.
Check whatever room here is unsearched. If they're all checked, see if the exit door is unlocked. Don't go through without backup.
All the rooms have been searched. And the end door is locked. You feel fantastically impotent.
"I-I....really don't know why. Intuition, I suppose?"
Based on what our teams have seen recently, intuit on the possible type of killer at hand, and relate to current knowledge of what Command knows.
[intuition:4+1]
Hard to say for sure what the killer was, but the thing that makes the most sense in terms of strictly mundane happenings is that other people killed these men. Beat them to death with things like the pry bars they used to open the containers. Who knows why, maybe they were fighting over the contents.
[Team D = May, Thomas]
Guard duty with Thomas.
You hum the pink panther theme and sidle along the walls.
((Too... tired... to... dialogue.))
>Follow Faith!
>Look out for hostiles!
>Be a team player!
You stick to faith, following her to the hall toward Sterilization.
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