Home team
"Nothing like trying to climb on an empty stomach."
Help get the supplies out to take a rest.
Cromwell pulled his comms device up to his ear as he got things ready.
"Red Team to Green Team. This is Jackson. How are you guys holding up?"
He knew Mark was with them, so he was trusting they were alright.
He was a little less sure of someone else, though...
"Security to Base. This is Jackson. You guys still alive over there? No rampant mutants?"
Wake up, look around, give report.
Your short nap ends with call from your superior. Beyond storm raging outside there's nothing new so you report situation as such.
Flop on the bed. Bored. Bored, bored, bored, bored, BORED. Boooooooooooooored.
Well then, maybe you should do something exciting? Dave's puppies are ready for their artificial birth so you might go and assist him and play with them. Surely those adorable little abominations will melt your heart.
Red team
"Nothing like trying to climb on an empty stomach."
Help get the supplies out to take a rest.
Cromwell pulled his comms device up to his ear as he got things ready.
"Red Team to Green Team. This is Jackson. How are you guys holding up?"
He knew Mark was with them, so he was trusting they were alright.
He was a little less sure of someone else, though...
"Security to Base. This is Jackson. You guys still alive over there? No rampant mutants?"
"I hear some mutant puppies are scheduled to be born soon, but nothing else noteworthy. Besides that one raging rain storm." Adam answers.
Yawn.
Bored too much? Your jaw dislodges itself as you yawn, but you manage to get it back into proper position.
The team takes a break to fill their rumbling stomachs. Eating without taking helmet off is not the most easiest way to eat. You basically press a bag of liquid food against small port in your helmet and suck its contents through a straw. Tastes like fish soup.
Once everybody has eaten enough and trash you managed to create is gathered Cole
explains everyone how climbing tools work. He then spends few minutes staring at the wall, plotting easiest climbing route, and starts climbing. He places nuts and other anchors on wall and paints spots where you can grab a hold or place your foot for support. Once he's safely up others follow his example and manage to climb up without major accidents.
The stone here is different even to unprofessional eyes. It's much smoother and organic looking, as if it were dissolved.
"It actually did dissolve." Cole comments. It's common cave formation method.
And long walk commences again. As clock nears midday they notice increase in signs of life. The small river they are following contains increasing amounts of those blue half spheres and other creatures. Soon they arrive into large cave. Light of your headlamps pierce the darkness and reveals it is much bigger than previous one (map is not really in correct scale) and is teeming with life. It contains a small lake, source of the river you were following. Here's also tunnels to north and east and single stone pillar on northern side. The cave is not terribly tall, about four meters at the pillar and nearing six above the lake. Few stalagmites rise from ground up towards stalactites on ceiling. And some boulders scattered around, apparently fallen from ceiling.
Nobody says a single word.
Creatures:
Length: 11cm
Length: 7 cm
Length: 15 cm
Length: 14 cm
Length: 20 - 30 cm
Length: 18 cm
Green team
On Comms
"Hey Cromwell, we're good and we found some crystals that vibrate and heat up when light is shone on them in an odd gas pocket"
To team
"So shall we take a few samples in non light allowing boxes and continue down the cave"
Mark the wall and if needed place a boaster before continuing through the tunnel
 | "Absolutely! I only have transparent sample containers, but if we wrap the box into a something and bury it deep into backpack we might be able to bring it safely to lab." |
 | "But first lets see how much heat these things can take!" |
Erick cracks single crystal out of wall and takes it few meters into tunnel. He then places it on ground and sets a flashlight pointing at it. Then he and everyone else run deeper into tunnel and turn to watch results of this experiment. Thermal overlay lets you see how it warms up at stable speed. Once it reach 60°C you can hear audible hum its vibration causes. At 80°C you see how its vibration makes it move towards small dent in ground. At 90°C it begins jumping off the ground and moment later it explodes sending sharp pieces in every direction, breaking the flashligh and even few hitting you, but enviro-suit shields you from danger.
| "Haha, that was cool!" |
| "Absolutely interesting phenomena! But lets not do it again. I want to find out why it reacts so violently to light. It's gonna be fantastic research subject!" |
Briana puts the piece doctor Helios is holding into one of her sample boxes and puts it into her backpack. It will be fine as long as she stays in darkness of cave.
Figuring they wont learn much anything else here the team then leaves the cave and continues to north. The tunnel gets gradually thinner and thinner until it is only one meter wide. At this point Briana decides this is gonna be a dead end and no point continuing any further.
Where now? Thanks to the few turns you spent studying cystals you are out of sync with other team so you can travel faster in single turn.
You left from outpost at 9:00. Time is now ~12:00.
White grid in the map divides area into manageable chunks. Crossing each white line means walking for half hour, so time flies fast here.
Red team:Geo 2: Cole Schultz
Geo 2: Micah Mays
Geo 2: Nevaeh Brock
Bio 2: Doctor Jonathan Pendle
Bio 2: Cromwell Jackson
Bio 2: György Géza
Green team:Geo 2: Briana Molina
Geo 2: Erick Gordon
Bio 2: Doctor A. Helios
Bio 2: Mark Redtail
Bio 2: Alex Raman
Currently we have following samples on ship:
* Large four eyed birds. (7 dead) (Studied)
*
Aquatic creature. (1 dead) (Studied)
*
Biggus Dickus (2 dead). (One studied)
** Possibly contaminated blood samples.
** Additional set of blood and tissue samples from female Biggus Dickus.
* Grasshopper-type insect (1 alive). (Studied)
*
Green/pink flashing insects. (3 dead) (Studied)
*
Assholium Rectumas. (4/6 alive) (Studied)
* Red headed birds (2/3 alive) (Not studied)
* Flying bone plated snakes (1/3 alive) (Not studied)
* Rat? (1 alive) (Not studied)
Experiments in progress:
* 5
Attack dog hybrid mutants (Puppy: Now)
* 5
Attack dog hybrid mutants, mark 2 (Puppy: -2)
*
WerewolfCompleted:
* Various vaccines.
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