Team blueFlint 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.))
From some experimental tossing you and Vich figure out that the zones don't intersect, so you send your drone in to mark the edge of the flatlands as far as it can go. After it's off, you go sit down with Bishop and take a rest.
"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.
"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?"
Red team huddles down on the edge of the distortion zone and takes a load off, doing their best to rub tired feet through the boots of their suit.
Team Green:map the last few hexes then head back to where lars is at, once there have a snack and hit the sack
Follow lars. do anything important.
"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.
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.
Lars and his merry band of slightly radiation poisoned men finish marking the edge of the zone and then wearily make it just back into the base area, nursing nausea and mild headaches along with exhaustion. But at least the edge of the area is now safely marked.
Team Red:Team Red - Lukas
"Uhm, I preferred the mirror view over this, cap. Does any of us have a way of walking straight back without having to rely on eyesight?"
"Dammit I hate this planet!"
Use rock thrower and giger counter to guide me around essentially make sure not to fall into any holes craters or crevasses and avoid any giant rocks of doom
Well, the rock thrower will help you not accidentally wander into gulleys, but the problem is that you don't know where you're going or how far it is.
Base team:
((I feel like I need to point out - the thread title no longer needs to say "Missions 9", since the other mission got its own thread.))
"Hull breach, huh? I wonder which room got renovated. With our luck, it'll be the planning one. Hm. I wonder what happened? I have a suspicion, but I hope I'm wrong."
See if the suit gives radiation warnings (it's a space suit, it's supposed to be shielded against radiation), and climb up into CCR if it's safe. Search for the damaged area - carefully, feeling for changes in gravity. Wait for all systems to come back online, and check on the teams' progress.
"Wait, what sort of base AI says 'Hull Breach'?"
You seem to be safe, the radiation was fairly strong outside the suit but the suit blocked all of it. You climb back upstairs and head to the CCR as lights, monitors and machines kick back on. The CCR monitors show that the damage is minor, concentrated entirely on the hallway linking the Infirmary to the rest of the base. There are readings of higher then normal radiation as well.
"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.
( just assumed you had your suit on)
You head upstairs and check around using Simus' Geiger counter. Background radiation levels are slightly elevated, but nothing dangerous unless you and team intend to stay here for the next 20 years.
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.
You join up with Anton and review the damage to the base while also radioing in the all clear to the men in the field.
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