Keep spacesuit on. Enter pyramid unless anything near the door catches my eye.
Inventory:
Chrome Perforater
Extra Mags (2)
CS Space Suit
Flashlight
Tool Box
Cutting Torch
Knife
Luminous Marking Pen (2)
Datapad w/ Adapter set
Backpack
Cigs + Lighter
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Jury-Rigged Beacon (in shuttle)
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26:Rationalist
29:Death Rage
Flaw
25: Dangerous Honor
Credit:180
Pain:1
Sanity:2
Weight:4
You enter the pyramid; the entrances aren't much more then open tunnels cut or formed into the unidentifiable black substance that the pyramid is made of. They're lit by some sort of greenish light, the source of which you can't see. The passage seems to diverge up ahead, but before that there's something else. Something is leaning up against the wall halfway down the tunnel, seemingly just sitting there. It looks bipedal, at least as far as you can see, but larger then a man and covered in some sort of carapace or thick, angular gray skin. It's laying perfectly still, back against the wall and legs splayed out in front of it.
"Seems safe enough," Ben called out to his teammates, "and there's a control panel and some sort of outlet-slash-keyhole here. Bigger than my hand."
Well, this looks like a job for Not-Me. Commence waiting. Turn off flashlight to save battery power, since there's light here.
EDIT: Try the door, just to confirm that it is, in fact, locked.
EDIT2: Wait a sec, we're scavengers. Use combat knife to poke at one of the lights. If they aren't extremely hot or something, try to put one in my backpack.
Ben lived on a small colony, specialized in mining. Crime was rampant, so Ben took a few self-defense classes. Then he starting buffing up. Like, really buffing up. More than once, he was accused of steroid abuse. His muscles were put to good use in the mines, helping to pay for his family's apartment and food costs, until one day a family member won the Corporate lottery. Ben seemed like the most likely family member to survive whatever dangerous scenarios the Corporation would put him through, so he quit his job in the mines, claimed the "prize", and was soon on his way to the Crossroads.
50 Credits
Boons:
- Buff (+2 to rolls involving physical strength)
- CQC Basics (+1 to melee combat rolls)
Flaw:
- Distracted (-1 to rolls involving understanding or examining things)
Inventory:
Mercenary Suit
Backpack
- Rocket Launcher
- Box of Glowsticks [29]
- Synthetic Rope
- Grappling Hook
- Cutting Torch
- Bottle of Painkillers
- Bottle of Tranquilizers
- Radio Headset
Flashlight
Luminous Marking Pen
Combat Knife
Stun Club
Pain: 1
Sanity: 1
Weight: 6/7
You walk up to the door and try to push it. It doesn't budge. There's no handle on this side, and in fact it looks like a sliding door. You try again, this time trying to slide it, but without success.
You pull out your knife and carefully nudge one of the glowing lamps. It bobs up and down, the light inside it swirling like you've disturbed some sort of luminous inner liquid, but it doesn't break or explode or try and kill you. You press the blade up against it for a few seconds then touch the blade with your finger tip. It's slightly warm, about body temp. You touch the ball. It's got a definite warmth to it, but nothing that would burn you. You grab the lamp and try to take it. It resists for a second, then comes free and lets you put it into your backpack. Despite its texture- like that of dry seaweed stretched over thin rods, it seems pretty sturdy.
"Vhat if the outlet is for a power cable or something equivalent?"
Search area for anything that might fit the socket.
You search around the building. You do find something, around to one side and off a bit, down on some jagged rocks near the shore. It's an exoskeleon, or something like it, a mechanical device designed to be worn on the body. It's pretty badly damaged but you can tell that's what it is; mostly because there's still a body in it. Or at least whats left of a body. It's not much more then a skeleton now, and even that is heavily degraded and stained greenish by the sea. It looks something like a human skeleton, but the skull is wrong, and the bones are all a bit off: The large, spike toothed jaw, the ribcage which lacks any hanging ribs, all of them now fused into a more secure bony structure, the extra shards of bone laying scattered around the hands, all similar, but different. Half the body is missing, and the lower half of the exoskeleton is much more damaged then the upper part. It looks like this thing got torn in half and hurled on the rocks by something.
(+1 Sanity)
You notice, trying to push the thoughts of exactly what in that dark, subterranean sea might of done this out of your head, that the hands of the exoskeleton have three long fingers and the grooves resemble those of the socket.
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