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[Beirus]

((He hasn't actually pulled the fragment out, since he's charging a bonus.))

[sambojin]

((I'm back. Will do reading and post Sambo's action soon. Thanks Gorat.))

[Harry Baldman]

((He hasn't actually pulled the fragment out, since he's charging a bonus.))

((That's just an example of the polite warning she'll give when you do.))

[Beirus]

((Yay for hypothetical responses. But you should totally do an intuition roll. Then when it ends up like BEEES we have precedent to ignore it. Or it might provide useful info to either encourage or deter me.))

"It'll probably be easier on all of us to just remove the shroud and mask if that happens. The effect should stop once they are removed. Dubley could probably do it. And this is as good a place as any to try something. We're far from the Eater, and it might give us useful intel. Or at least valuable info to bring back to Steve once this mission is inevitably fucked like M15 was."

[sambojin]

"Just wondering.... How many of these bloody things are there? We heard there was one a while back that pissed off into space. Now we've got this one. There's enough of 'em that there's entirely fucked up confusing tales about 'em all throughout these poor prick's history. You reckon that that hole could be a fuck-off-into-space launching hole? Or a hot-shit-coming-through hatching hole? Could be a tiny-bit-of-Daddy-Eater's-love-juice meteor hole. Or just a keep-your-dick-cool-in-the-desert hole? Are these things just little bits of not-cold when they're not-Dern? Are there fuck-tonnes of them under the ground? Might be something we should look pretty closely into. Wonder what'll happen when I fire a laser rifle down there?"

Sambo intuitively ponders the purpose behind the hole while keeping an eye on the Eater for any reaction.

[Corsair]

"We need to wait for the others to catch up"
have a rest in the shade while waiting for rest of team, if alcohol is available partake optimally in the form of a margarita walk

[Nunzillor]

Stay away from the hut.  Shine light lamps on the interior and examine it closely.

[Knight Otu]

"We need to wait for the others to catch up"
have a rest in the shade while waiting for rest of team, if alcohol is available partake optimally in the form of a margarita

"No matter how tempting, don't enter the shade. We can take a bit of a break, but we can't afford to wait for the others to catch up. We are slower than them anyways, so they will."

Gorat nods at Sambo's observations. "There are several strange things going on. I'm assuming at least one anomaly is involved. Steve told me there is an asteroid cloud that the planet periodically touches, every 67 years or so, which is a likely origin point of the eater's meteorite. I don't know how long ago the planet was colonized, but assuming 700 years, that would allow for ten visits by an Eater."

Spoiler: Gorat 'Chin' Ivanos; Discussion Morning (click to show/hide)

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.

[Harry Baldman]

((Yay for hypothetical responses. But you should totally do an intuition roll. Then when it ends up like BEEES we have precedent to ignore it. Or it might provide useful info to either encourage or deter me.))

"It'll probably be easier on all of us to just remove the shroud and mask if that happens. The effect should stop once they are removed. Dubley could probably do it. And this is as good a place as any to try something. We're far from the Eater, and it might give us useful intel. Or at least valuable info to bring back to Steve once this mission is inevitably fucked like M15 was."

((Technically, if you're not keeping the crystals under the shroud, they should be in your hands in the first place.))

"I advise you to hold on for now. We examine pit first, you help with digging if needed, then we set up observation of you while you do this ill-advised thing you are doing if you are not willing to stop entirely. Anything can happen, this you must remember. Controlled observation is key. As is basic sense. Do not be stupid."

[Corsair]

"We need to wait for the others to catch up"
have a rest in the shade while waiting for rest of team, if alcohol is available partake optimally in the form of a margarita

"No matter how tempting, don't enter the shade. We can take a bit of a break, but we can't afford to wait for the others to catch up. We are slower than them anyways, so they will."

"fine"

[Hapah]

"I vote that we see if there is a way around this, taking the "eater of cold" somewhere very cold, sounds like a bad plan"

It's just cooler than the sun beating down on our heads as we walk beside our magical space heater, nothing sinister about it. Best to keep the Eater out of it all the same, though.

"We need to wait for the others to catch up"
have a rest in the shade while waiting for rest of team, if alcohol is available partake optimally in the form of a margarita

"No matter how tempting, don't enter the shade. We can take a bit of a break, but we can't afford to wait for the others to catch up. We are slower than them anyways, so they will."

Gorat's got the right of it, we can't stop. I don't know that our supplies will last us to the destination if we make good time; and if they give out it'll be the failure of the mission more like than not, and good odds we'll all lose our lives to boot. The ones who went out to investigate sand in a desert made their choice.

Examine the horizon for the next marker, or the path of the walkway if it's obvious enough. Keep the Eater out of the shadows as much as possible and go around shadows if it's not much out of the way, and keep on marchin' after our very quick break.

[sambojin]

"Supplies? I've got a mk1 mate. I'll drink my own piss and eat my own shit for a week or two in this thing. I even had a feed right before we got to this dump. Still got my bottles of grog too. If you're talking about the Raduga, the heat-gun, my laser rifle or the fucken chem-logs, I reckon we've got that shit covered for now. Tell ya what, you want to run off? No worries. I'll catch up with ya soon. But you'll be down one marksman with the right weapon for the job until I do.

Run along skippy. We've got shit to do."

[kisame12794]

Continue guarding the host, and keep an eye out on the horizon for anything moving, or unusual. Keep the Eater out of the shade, and don't enter the shade myself.

[sambojin]

"Oi! Cunt! Don't be taking Dern anywhere 'till we're coming with you. It'll be a fuck-load easier for me to laser off your legs than it is to deal with that prick if he gets cold. We've got to look into this dick-cooling hole first."

[sambojin]

((Just gotta ask. Where is Sambo right now? Near the pillars, etc? Near the hole? Near the Eater? Does the dick-cooling hole even exist? Or is it just a shaft in the desert? Just need a placing (or an unintended teleport by knight_otuka). Because it might be friendly-fire time, so I need to know.  Because.))