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[Toaster]

((The music link is broken.  I want my money back!))

[Radio Controlled]

Tap against the various walls, do any of them sound hollow (meaning the wall isn't very thick)? Cameyes teach me anything?

Send a drone through that one hallway we could fit through and scout ahead.

"Pan and Lars, move out through that hallway, once you find a bigger room I can catch up using a portal. I'll send a scout drone ahead to help, and check for an alternative way through here just in case."

[Toaster]

Brother Lars nodded.  "Yes, Blessed General."

Take that one pathway.  Carefully.

[Pancaek]

"I think my internal music system is acting up. What a drag."

Go with Lars into the Pathway. Use his robot butt as cover and have Comrade be on the lookout for bad guys

[Caellath]

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

Flint not thinking things through while using that cannon and putting people in danger? What a novel concept.

"The drone has to go ahead of them just in case there are more murder-cutter robots."

Wait.

[piecewise]

Tap against the various walls, do any of them sound hollow (meaning the wall isn't very thick)? Cameyes teach me anything?

Send a drone through that one hallway we could fit through and scout ahead.

"Pan and Lars, move out through that hallway, once you find a bigger room I can catch up using a portal. I'll send a scout drone ahead to help, and check for an alternative way through here just in case."

You tap the walls, probing for a hollow point. You find one, but, judging from a few more taps, it's only about a foot across.

You send a drone down the hall and have it look around. This room is luckily not the domain of an angry slapchop, but there are things here. Tiny mechanical things, about an inch or two across, with square bodies and 1 leg on each corner. They move in an odd fashion, always moving forward but sometimes switching sides or even walking while spinning. They seem to be able to move equally well in all directions and have no true forward face. On top of each of the little square things is an object, something that they are carrying. The objects vary in size. One carries a single bolt. A dozen band together to carry a larger piece of machinery. These little workers course through the room like a line of ants through the door to the right and out the door to the left.

The room itself is fairly uninteresting. Just a long, square tube with doors to the left, right and in the ceiling.

Spoiler: OOC (click to show/hide)

Flint not thinking things through while using that cannon and putting people in danger? What a novel concept.

"The drone has to go ahead of them just in case there are more murder-cutter robots."

Wait.

You sit down and wait, idly flicking at chunks of rusted out metal.

"I think my internal music system is acting up. What a drag."

Go with Lars into the Pathway. Use his robot butt as cover and have Comrade be on the lookout for bad guys

Brother Lars nodded.  "Yes, Blessed General."

Take that one pathway.  Carefully.

You guys basically see what the drone saw. However, the good thing is that these bots seem completely apathetic about your existence; they just keep walking along like nothing has changed.

[Radio Controlled]

"Kay then Pan, create me a portal so I can catch up.

It could be interesting to grab one of these bots to send back for analysis, but honestly we might wanna leave things as undisturbed as possible to avoid attracting any attention. Lest we fare like back in hunterbot robodrome, where Bishop cut up one of the builders and it attracted the attention of a hunter. Unless any of you think otherwise, I'd say we follow these little robots and see where they're going, seems as good a lead as any. All in favor?"

Step through portal if one is opened. Send drone through the door to the left, if no problems noticed start moving through it (stay well behind the drone). Be sure not to crush or touch the antbots if possible, if that wouldn't be possible wait with moving forward for now.

Again offer 1 portal remote to somebody on the other team.

"By the way, team 2, there was a hollow point inside that room, in case you want to take an alternative way. If not, I'd suggest you go through the door where the antbots are coming from and follow them upstream, so to speak, to see what you can learn."

[Parisbre56]

I'll take the portal. Could have some fun with it. Oh, and keep charging.

[Toaster]

"The feeling I got earlier indicated vaguely up.  It is still your call, Blessed General."

[Radio Controlled]

"The feeling I got earlier indicated vaguely up.  It is still your call, Blessed General."

"While I won't dismiss your gut feeling, this is the only real physical clue we've found in here. Plus, right now there were no easy ways to go up for people of our girth short of starting to demolish the place, and the path we're on might still curve upward later on. Still, if we get at a crossroads or don't know how to proceed, we'll be going up if possible."

I'll take the portal. Could have some fun with it. Oh, and keep charging.

"Ok then, I'll be relying on you to keep us connected."

[Pancaek]

"They're kinda cute though. I say we just follow the little blighters."

Create a portal for our robot general, if possible in a place where his fat ass won't crush a bunch of the little robots. Then start following the little robots, with Comrade on the defence.

[Toaster]

"Okay.  May the light of Steve shine on our path."

Follow some robots.  Do not disturb the robots.

[Caellath]

Follow mode.

[ZBridges]

Erm, nevermind....

[piecewise]

Miya gets ported in and everyone follows the robots, being extra careful to not smash them into little pieces. The little ant trail of robots leads into the next room, which is empty and boring but contains several doors and large piles of scrap metal. The little robots deposit some things, take a few others, and the trail of them splits off into several smaller trials that go through different doors. The team follows the biggest trail, which is through a large hole in the ceiling. This leads to a nondescript metal shaft, followed by several rooms of machinery. A few ants often break from the group and deposit parts next to the machines like some sort of offering. The line of them as a whole continues up for a while until they enter a rather dangerous looking room. It's big, and there is a definite heat/radiation signal that looks promising in it, but motion sensors are also picking up lots of movement in the room. And not the movement of little ants. The kind of movement that stirs all the air in the room and makes sharp metallic noises.