Now, this door is stronger than the outer one, being rated to actually survive the ship's screaming descent, but you still manage to put a few rather sizable dents in it. Not much more, though.
- Well, let's blow it up then.
Go check if i can remove some explosives from kick-off charges.
You approach the closest charge and inspect it. It's little more than a box with two thick wires trailing from it. You surmise that the wires pass through a detonator box, heating up when enough current is applied to them. They do not seem as affected by whatever fried the circuitry in the door panels: they're much thicker.
You shrug and rip the charge off the wall with a grunt. Now what?
Search the room for a.control panel to bring up the ship's log to see what happened.
You circle around the central section, but don't find anything. By rights, the computer controlling the landing process should be inside, on the second floor, if you remember correctly.
Markus gets up, dusting off his parka and getting his stuff in order.
"Bigger than that, actually. Think killer whales. Then again, I did have a family of little buggers to help me take the beasts down. This is good, though; should suffice for now until we can get something larger to transport our findings in. Good work, that was top-notch shooting. Not that I've really used a rifle though, I prefer a blade myself."
Carry the smaller of the fishes, with Moshe carrying the larger one, and head back to the camp.
"And I thought being an IDF soldier was tough and macho. I think my self-esteem just shrunk by several inches."You shoulder the semi-croc - it's warm-blooded, by the way: you should know that best of all, seeing as a large volume of said blood is now decorating your coat - while Moshe struggles with dragging the dolphin out of the hole. [5(+1)] The large Israeli drags the creature out on the ice with some effort: all in all, it's almost five meters long. He grabs it by the tail and starts dragging it along, grunting with exertion. It seems that he will be able to move it, though it won't be fast.
Begin digging a mine near the encampment
You shoulder your laser and march off happily, humming a tune about how prospecting is for pussies and all a real man needs is a big enough gun. Soon, you come upon a low hill: it's about a hundred and fifty meters from the camp proper.
[3] You raise the laser to your hip like a thousand-megawatt phallus of death, and depress the trigger. It buzzes low, almost in infra-sound, and the hillside erupts in steam, then the steam billows away, and the soil below starts to run and melt like hot plasticine. When you're done establishing your dominance over the landscape, you're standing before a hole several meters wide and about five meters deep. The walls of the hole glow softly, and your laser's cooling tubes hiss and sputter when snow falls on them.
((Right, Dwarmin. Hope to have you back soon. Also guize, how do I changed thread title? And sorry about taking so long: felt like crap the whole day.))