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[Sean Mirrsen]

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Spoiler: Map Update (click to show/hide)

●- Red Team
●- Green Team
●- Blue Team
●- Home Team

█- Unexplored Area
█- Home base
█- Bare rock
█- Crater
█- Gravity Anomaly
█- Temporal Anomaly/Vector Anomaly? (+/- and arrows denote direction and rate)
█- Flat energy-absorbent zone
█- Odd shadows/Optical anomaly
█- Radioactive/EM anomaly

))

"Oh. Well, just splendid. Nothing to it then, I guess."

Activate suit lamps. Briefly contemplate if anything in the garage can be adversely affected by the radiation - like the mapping drones. If they could be, run to grab as many can be easily carried (likely no more than a few), and get down to Life Support.

[Radio Controlled]

Keep going, mapping the edge of the anomalous zone as we go. Start throwing rocks around, and also switch between my various vision modes continuously.

"Is literally every square meter of this rock filled with physics-defying nonsense? It seems we'll have our hands quite full this year."

((Very nice map Sean, I'm sure it'll come in handy.))

[MutzelRX]

Moar Mapping

[Doomblade187]

Follow the group.

[piecewise]

Team Blue

Moar Mapping

Bishop stands still and quiet for a bit as he looks at the weird shit going on before speaking.

"Well... That's unexpected. Never seen something like that before... Well, let's keep moving around the edge of it. We got lost time to make up for."

Keep mapping in this direction and make adjustments to the map as we go, with notes on what seems to be the current effect of the anomalies.

Flint Westwood - Blue squad - Sector 3

Keep on mapping the anomaly towards sector 2.

"I'll follow the anomaly a bit inside the other zone. I bet it ends soon. Just want to see where."

((Oh well, looks like I overreacted. I thought the anomaly was much larger. Too bad nobody will be there to watch it sink in the crater. Would be a beautiful (and interesting) sight.

EDIT: Oh, and I propose the symbols -↑ and -↓ for the newly explored zones in Sean's map.))

"What. The. Pancakes. I... can get the time, but now THIS?! Okay, this officially beats that time we had to face the HMRC over one funky mountain. Guess it shows how new I am here. We'd better plan really well how we're going to investigate this when we get back.

How is the base doing? Not obliterated yet? Do we have any cameras that will be filming the event?"

Continue mapping, I suppose, over the other side of the curve.

The team continues mapping, following the curve of the distortion until it finally intersects with the flatzone that Red team was mapping earlier. To follow it further in this direction means heading into the flat lands. It's that, or trudging back along the edge of the fluctuations and mapping the other way.

Everyone is feeling quite tired, even bishop and flint and their exoskeletons. The team has been mapping for going on 12 hours and has walked almost twice that many miles.




Team Green

continue following lars

Keep following Lars.

"Wonder if this have a hollow core or something. Especially if sole of this is artifical."

"Fuck it good enough. It'll give the labcoats something to do when we get back."

Follow Lars, scan, don't die to anomaly.

"May Algis fold his hands over those at the base.  Pathmas be in their favor."

Continue on with the mapping.

Team green continues doing what team green does best: walk in a straight line and get mildly irradiated. They map out a whole other side of the anomaly, almost completely mapping it's exterior edge.  But they're feeling tired, and mildly ill. All this time being exposed, even to minor radiation is having an effect. 



Team Red

Keep going, mapping the edge of the anomalous zone as we go. Start throwing rocks around, and also switch between my various vision modes continuously.

"Is literally every square meter of this rock filled with physics-defying nonsense? It seems we'll have our hands quite full this year."

((Very nice map Sean, I'm sure it'll come in handy.))

"Bah silly illusions obviously... well hopefully"
Stride forwards using my multi-coloured-rock thrower as guidance

Follow the group.

The team continues forward, unfazed by the strange sights around them. They make it beyond whatever is causing the mirror blindness, but something else comes to pass. what starts a strange spots of white in the edges of their vision swells quickly into a blinding white haze that blots out all sight. The entire team is now blinded.





Team Irradiated

((

Spoiler: Map Update (click to show/hide)

●- Red Team
●- Green Team
●- Blue Team
●- Home Team

█- Unexplored Area
█- Home base
█- Bare rock
█- Crater
█- Gravity Anomaly
█- Temporal Anomaly/Vector Anomaly? (+/- and arrows denote direction and rate)
█- Flat energy-absorbent zone
█- Odd shadows/Optical anomaly
█- Radioactive/EM anomaly

))

"Oh. Well, just splendid. Nothing to it then, I guess."

Activate suit lamps. Briefly contemplate if anything in the garage can be adversely affected by the radiation - like the mapping drones. If they could be, run to grab as many can be easily carried (likely no more than a few), and get down to Life Support.

Anton, get down here before you're fried. ALVIN's shut down the stuff that'd be effected and tells me that nothing terrible will happen to the base, now get down here where you're shielded from the radiation.

Text ALVIN:

Is this chamber is proof against the radiation levels from the anomaly, and can you tell us when the radiation levels die down to acceptable standards?

Anton slides down the ladder all the way to the AI core and watches as the lights lining the shaft turn off one at a time.

ABOVE GROUND SYSTEM SHUTDOWN COMPLETE. TIME TILL ANOMALY FLY BY: 3 MINUTES, 48 SECONDS.

Anton, Simus and mesk sit quietly in the tomb of the AI core, waiting as the timer counts down. At 30 seconds a very faint blue glow is visible up at the top of the shaft. At 15, saint elmo's fire begins crackling across the upper rungs of the ladder and the Geiger counter spikes intermittently. At zero the Geiger counter is releasing nothing but a saturated hum and electrical discharge is playing down the length of the later and raising the hair on everone's necks-except for simus, of course.  Somewhere high above them there is a loud crushing noise and violent suction that get cut off with a pneumatic hiss. 

HULL BREACH. SEALING.

And the it is quiet and the effects subside. The Geiger counter returns to normal background levels and everyone breathes a sigh of relief.


Map:
http://i.imgur.com/AAqHz5N.png

[PyroDesu]

ALVIN, reactivate the base and give me a damage report.

Head up and see what may or may not have been broken. When communications are back online, radio to all team members:

This is Canary Base, the anomaly has passed.

[Parisbre56]

Flint Westwood - Blue squad - Sector 3

Upon hearing the transmission from the base, Flint made a sigh of relief. "Base team, everything OK back there? You need help?" He looked towards the direction of the base nervously. I hope they're all OK.

Help Vich with my slingshot. If the experiment reveals that the zones are exclusive, send a mapping drone to map the edge of the flat zone (by that I mean reveal every hex that should be labeled edge of flat zone while flying safely inside the edge of the flat zone). If it can't go that far, the zones aren't exclusive or if there's any other problem with the previous action simply send the automapping drone two hexes to the left (one hex left of the edge) and back. Rest and eat while waiting for the drone to return.

((Notes updated. If you look at the mapping statistics, you will now see that we have mapped approximately 5% of our assigned area in a single day. Good job everybody. Keep this up and we'll get a lot of tokens.))

[Thearpox]

"Good to know you're all right. I trust you'll share the details with us later."

"Flint, I wouldn't send that drone if I were you. I already got yelled at from pretty much everyone in the command chain for proposing further experimentation. I would at least discuss it with Bishop, and explain what exactly you're trying to accomplish before doing something like that. From my side, I would first like to understand is if these anomalies encroach upon one another, or if they are exclusive. If the flat land, and the temporal (or whatever the heck it is) anomalies can coexist, it makes our jobs that much harder.

Bishop, should we take a rest? And where should we head next?"

Try to determine if the anomalies are exclusive or not by throwing rocks. If Bishop agrees, take a rest. Eat.

[PyroDesu]

The base's hull got breached somehow, but ALVIN got that sealed off rather fast, and all of the electronics were shut down, so they aren't too badly damaged by the object's charged nature, one would hope. No idea about physical damage apart from the fact that something broke an outer wall. Also, the other two here probably got a decent dose of radiation despite the fact that we were so far underground, but it's probably no worse than Team Green.

[Unholy_Pariah]

map the last few hexes then head back to where lars is at, once there have a snack and hit the sack

[kisame12794]

"Right. I vote we head back, or move onto another zone, because I don't want to start glowing in the dark."

Follow Lars, scan, don't die.

[Toaster]

Lars nodded.  "We've been exposed enough, but it's too far to head back now.  Let's head east and get out of the radiation.  We'll stop and back up if we hit anything weird.  May Algis shield our travels."

Head east to bighex boundary or a bit over to get out of minor radiation.  Camp for the night.

[Remalle]

"I think I'll be ok, but I'm not sure about Anton.  I'll check up on you once everything's back up, alright?"
Suit up, then head back up slowly while checking radiation levels.

[Zako]

"Yeah, everyone take a load off. I'll talk with Simus and Miya and see what we should do next." Bishop says while looking for a comfortable spot. Eventually he sits down and radios both Simus and Miyamoto.

"Hey guys, we've followed our anomalies and they seem to intersect with the flat lands that red team found earlier. It's some pretty weird shit, I can tell you that, but we need to figure out where we are going next and about something else too. Since we are taking a break, I was wondering if it's alright with you guys to send out a drone into the flat zone, and when it comes back and our break is over, we'll head back the way we came and map the other end of the anomalies.

What do you guys think?"

[PyroDesu]

Here's my baseline for it: If your team is on the move, don't be dallying about doing in-depth study. If you are all on break, then go ahead and send a drone or two if you want. In other words, I approve of what you intend to do.