Team Blue"Alright, but only since this seems to be one of the safer anomalies out there. I'll send out a mapping drone or two as well to help map it out and we can take a break here before moving back to base."
Send out two mapping drones into the flat zone to map the thing out and send all map data back to base. Watch what happens to the guy who touches the flat zone closely.
The mapping drones fly a good distance straight up an then out toward the flat zone. They don't get far before the signal suddenly cuts off. Hmph.
((Okay, that's fine then. It's a lot better to when you know why your action was ignored.))
"Well, now that's that done with, what now? We could skate that flat plane to get back to our base if anything. Probably not the best idea, but not the worst one either. Say, I heard from before that it's heat absorbing. Those suits are insulated against anything, so I wouldn't be too worried about that, but just in case, how about I check the safety of touching it with a suit? And then we could determine where we're going next."
If Bishop is fine with it, place a finger on the flat plane. If it's fine, then place a palm, then a foot (while keeping solid footing on the other side) and stand there for half a minute. If at any point my appendages feel like they're freezing, pull away. And follow anything Bishop says.
((For playing a cautious character, I'm being pretty risky. On the other hand, Vich has not yet encountered anything that shook him in such a way as to not do this experience. Would be embarrasing to end up without a finger, would be very annoying to lose an arm, but hey, science. You know what would be great here? Mice.))
You cautiously stick a finger into the flat plane. Nothing. Suit seems to be handling the cold without any problems. You stick your hand down on the surface. It's extremely slick, like lubricated ice sort of slick. It almost feels frictionless, but not quite. You stick one foot in and then try to step the rest of the way in but end up just slipping and falling flat, half in the zone, half out.
"Oh, I get it. This is the slapstick dimension."
Stand back behind Vich, watch his experiments. Drag him away from the flat zone should the need arise.
You help Vich back onto his feet and only laugh at him a little bit.
Help Anton build the thing.
((I'll be updating the notes and posting some OOC stuff tomorrow. No time now.))
[handi:1+1-1]
[anton handi:2+1+1]
Anton tries his best to get this thing made but you spend the entire time slapping tools out of his hand, drawing dicks on his blueprints and rearranging his parts. In the end, nothing gets done, but luckily nothing gets damaged either.
Team GreenFollow lars unless it is not a good idea.
follow lars until its a bad idea then make a witty remark and trip him for his own safety.
"Brothers, I believe we have done what we can for this zone. I will report our progress, then we shall return. May Algis shield our journey home."
He then switched to Morul's comm, specifically. "Morul, this is Brother Lars. If you are in the area, could you please tell me how high this heat goes?"
Lars then changed over to command comm. "Glorious Leader, this is Brother Lars of Team Green. We have completed what we can of mapping this zone without straying out of bounds of the inner areas. We are returning to base. I will send a mapping drone to scout the rest if we are able to get it to fly over the heat. Please advise of any further orders."
Return to base.
Team Green heads back to base, meeting up with Morul half way there. Lars grabs him by the shoulders, spins him around, and walks him back, shouting something about prophecy and the goodness of the great lord steve the entire time. He occasionally has to pause and check his in-suit thesaurus for new synonyms for "Good" or "large" or "Sexual Tyrannosaurus."
Team RedFollow the team, and observe the terrain/area in general for anything out of the (relative) ordinary.
Carefully keep going, chuckin' rocks all the way. Also cycle through vision modes while looking around to see if I notice anything out of the ordinary.
Carefully keep going, chuckin' rocks all the way. Also cycle through vision modes while looking around to see if I notice anything out of the ordinary.
((hehe, anything out of the ordinary? How should we interpret that in our current environment?))
Keep distance from creepy things and keep throwing rocks around. Look around for things that seem to have life in them.
continue mapping
The team keeps mapping but it becomes immediately obvious that further movement in this direction may prove impossible. The gravity seep chasms are linking up around here and becoming exponentially stronger. It's becoming difficult to remain standing without leaning against the pull and, judging from the fact that the horizon seems to be noticeably distorted toward a single point in the distance, it only gets more powerful further on.
Team BaseCheck the morgue for this alleged cut wire.
Well, from ALVIN's directions the Wire appears to be behind a metal panel. Fixing it would mean cutting the panel and then resealing it afterwards. Probably not too hard to someone with technical knowledge...but to someone without that knowledge they might end up cutting the backup wires that have taken over for this one.
Not that losing refrigeration in here would really matter, at least right now.
Map:
http://i.imgur.com/nIaUfLQ.png
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