Xan takes a look out of the windshield.
Well? What is it?
Use dynamic Will bonus to enhance my eyes - make them organic CamEyes, basically. Examine the object using various vision modes once I'm done. Stay IN the comfy APC while I do this in case I overshoot.
The object is...metal by the look of it. Nothing special you can see, quite mundane. But it does extend beneath the ice, for quite a while in fact. You can't see too far, even with the eyes, but whatever the object is, it is very large.
"Not sure, I don't have anything like a scope or binocs on me. Looks like we'll have to get out and go see on foot!" As soon as the APC is parked, head out with the others to examine the dig site. Remember to grab my gauss rifle!
The dig site isn't a dig site yet, but the object you're going to dig looks, well, surprisingly human in design. It appears to be the ragged edge of a larger cylindrically shaped object from what you can see through the ice. It also appears as though it is hollow, even though the ice has covered over the hole.
"Not sure, I don't have anything like a scope or binocs on me. Looks like we'll have to get out and go see on foot!" As soon as the APC is parked, head out with the others to examine the dig site. Remember to grab my guass rifle!
"Just don't get ahead of the group."
Unload from the APC and examine the artifact with the various cameye modes.
Same as Xan's results, really.
Start excavating the thing with my pick.
You start twacking the ice with your pick, tearing up small chunks and spraying ice chips everywhere. It's effective, but not exactly fast. Or easy.
Vincent hops out of the APC grabs his gun and looks around.
"So! What's the plan?"
Name: Vincent Klart
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Appearance: Average build, Brown Hair, Green Eyes
Personal information: Flirtatious personality
Reason assigned to HMRC: (Caught in bed with a magister's daughter)
Stats:
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 4
Endurance: 3
Charisma: 5
Intelligence: 3
Willpower: 2
Skills:
Speech: 2
Intuition: 2 (except when it comes to flirting... then it is 0)
Handiwork: 0
Conventional Weapons: 0
Unconventional Weapons: 1
Exotic weapons: 0
Auxiliary systems: 0
Medical tech: 0
Profession:Mercenary (Unconventional Weapons Spec)
Equipment:
Long Coat
Laser Rifle
There's not much to see beyond the object in the ice. The ice sheet is very smooth and unremarkable, and the stones in the distance are imposing, but no different from the ones you've already passed through. You can see a boiling mass of dark clouds on the horizon, moving with the wind toward the site. It's some distance off for now, but it will be here soon enough.
"Well, I'm assuming some of us keeps watch however much watch we can keep in this blizzard, anyways while the others man the dig equipment...wait, what were we given again?" Inventory the dig equipment we were provided. Is it powered, or does it use sweat equity?
The digging equipment consists of a few things: Enormous heat guns, basically souped up hair dryers the size of bazookas with a battery pack backpack. There's also a large, flat metal blade, like an elongated shovel, which can be heated through the use of a battery pack and used to cut ice away. Finally there's a great big pneumatic pile driver, basically an unscaled icepick.
"I don't much like the idea of driving this thing across that ice," Jobasio muttered, stopping the APC a short distance from the smooth surface and peering ahead through the windshield, "And yet I also do not like the idea of us all moving in on foot, with no idea what lies ahead." He glanced back as people started piling out, staying in the driver's seat.
"How about I, ah, we stay here whilst the rest of you scout ahead? I'll keep this thing ready to move incase you wake up something unpleasant and need to get away in a hurry. Inspecting unusual rock-and-ice formations is not my area of expertise, anyway. Try and determine whether the ice can take the weight of the APC."
Stay in the driver's seat, keeping the APC idling and ready to go.
Check its fuel gauge or equivalent and open radio channels to the rest of the squad, so they can keep me updated on what they find.
Edit: See if the APC has any sort of music player in the driver's compartment. Play some soft music to drone out the sounds of fleshwarping behind me if necessary. Failing that, just familiarize myself with the controls.
The APC is at about 85% full on fuel. It has a radio, but all it picks up is static, unsurprisingly.
The controls are...well they're just standard car controls really, with the addition of a few buttons to do things like open the back and control the armored blinds on the windshield.
Dance around the area. Take a closer look at the Stonehenge thing they got going around here. The standing stones, that is.
Thats no stone. Thats a...hmm. Hard to say. It's no stone though.
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