((PW, why you up so late? Also, I overshot that intuition roll, didn't I?))
Busy busy busy
See if I can detach the wristpad along with its power source from my suit and use that to hook up a camera. Failing that, try scavenging some of the video recording hardware in my own suit - surely the camera and its supporting elements ought to be pretty small there. Try elongating the power supply with other suit electrical components if all else fails. That dang camera rope (or camerope) needs to be made. Have a smoke beforehand.
We can do the wristpad thing, sure. Though you'll need to lower it down and then get it back to review the footage; think of it like lowering down a camera phone or something.
So try not to get it destroyed down there.
I'm carrying tons of duct tape. Duct tape the sand in place then excavate.
You're gonna need a lot more explanation about how exactly you want to do that before I consider it. Because right now we're at the "Slap upside the head" level of acceptance.
Consider the hole. Is there any way we could use the weapons we have to hold the sand in place while we excavate- melt it or whatnot? If I can do so with my tesla saber, prepare a dynamic uncon bonus.
"Maybe we should melt the sand to hold it in place?"
Consider the hole, one of nature's most deadly predators...
Anyways, yeah, applying heat to the sand would definitely fuse it. Not sure if electricity would...lemme check. I mean, I know fulgurites exist, I'm just not sure about large scale. Ah whatever, we'll say it works.
Give laser rifle and backpack generator to someone on second shift and get some sleep for the night.
"Remember to keep some damn lights on the bastard, as well as the laser."
Done
Sleep. Have prophetic dreams.
Hmm.
...On the Nature of Daylight...
...Manufactured Minds...
...Painless Steel...
((Totally forgot I was in this.))
I'll take the next shift.
Get the laser+backpack from sambojin and take the shift.
So you're up.
Take Tek's laser, keep the Eater toasty for my watch. Make sure the fires stay lit; return the gun when my shift is over.
And you.
sleep peacefully and oblivious
Sleep when not my shift. Be very awake and keeping the eater warm with my heat gun when it is my shift
You two are asleep.
Be on guard for my shift. Also, think - why would the host follow commands, and only those given in the language the host speaks?
Str 3; Dex 3; End 3; Cha 10; Int 6; Wil 15//Spe 0; Int 1; Han 0 (-1); Con 4; Unc 0; Exo 12; Aux 3 (+1); Med 0
Mk II Suit; Microwave PK Amp; Mass manip PK Amp; laser rifle (fired once); 0 tokens: normal cigarettes; blue smokes; datapad (with platformer shooter); nanoghosts; shock trigger (with Morul); white skin-tight node-covered black-shell stasis suit worn under Mk II.
Appearance: 5'11'', 170 pounds in a rather unmuscular frame, shoulder-long brown hair, short goatee, brown eyes, a rather long chin that earned him his nickname. Age 32
Half a robot foot. Robot right arm. Wears basic clothes when not in the Mk II.
And you're up. And asking questions..
Hmm. Well the host might be following commands because maybe the thing inside it isn't "awake" most of the time. It might be running on autopilot, basic brain stem functions with bits and pieces of higher functions knocking around and being activated by external stimuli. It would explain why it spends the majority of time standing around in a daze, doing nothing. The eater itself only really seems to wake up at certain times.
Speaking of which, the temperature is starting to drop dangerously. The fire and heating is keeping it hot but the sand around the creature is cooling and sucking heat from the area, and the night is getting colder as it goes on. You'll have to compensate.
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