Turn 4: Decay
I will start using character sheets this turn.Investigate the crates, and collect scraps.
(2) You fail to open any of the crates - they are sealed - and also fail to find scraps.
Juni investigates the destroyed segments of the wall for larger shards of metal that may be re-purposed as weapons.
(5) You select a nice shard of metal, about a foot long and tapering at one end. It is deadly sharp, except for the thicker end where the sides of the shard have curled slightly. That end functions as a nice handle.
>Check Pockets
>Head for the Stairs
(Free) You find bits of electronic scrap. Erin examines them with interest.
(2) You head for the stairs, and trip over Juni's foot. She looks annoyed.
Investigate the computer terminal. Check my pockets for anything of value.
(5) The terminal's display is covered in small white text. It appears to be already logged in on a privileged account.
(Free) In your pocket is the thermal pocketknife, undamaged. A grimy label on the case notes that it can reach temperatures of 3000 degrees Fahrenheit without melting itself.
Head to the stairwell, try to smell the air for anything...off.
(3) You head to the stairwell, avoiding Bob, who is on the ground.
(1) You try to smell, but sense nothing.
Nix, male
Abilities: Human Bloodhound |
Untrained Telekinesis (conferred by non-conventional electronic, or NCE)
Inventory: NCE telekinetic extension | Damaged LED Flashlight | Vial labeled "COMPATH" | Antipsychotics(?) | Medkit | Dazzler
Currently: Near stairwell
Health: Normal
Juni, female
Ability: Biological night vision
Inventory:
Wrist-mounted Diagnostics Device | Repurposed Metal Weapon
Currently: Near stairwell, by collapsed corner and Bob
Health:
Mildly Annoyed
Erin Quill, male
Ability: McGyvering
Inventory: NCE ward/warning coin
Currently: Kneeling by a sealed crate
Health: Normal
Dustan Hache, male
Ability: Quick Reflexes
Inventory: Thermoblade
Currently: Operating computer terminal
Health: Focused
Bob, male
Ability: Poison Resistance
Inventory: Electronic scrap
Currently: On Ground
Health: Normal
The lights glare excruciatingly bright, then dim for three seconds. All five of you are flung up into the air, feeling drained of energy. Erin nearly slams into the ceiling, but his NCE coin creates a high-pressure barrier around him, and he drifts away unharmed. The light dims further, but the room does not seem darker; instead it seems simply to have acquired a yellowish haze. Then the world becomes silent, and you all seem to be moving in several times at once. A wealth of contradictory masses of qualia mix around you as all their millions of messages happen in the same space. You remain that way, paralyzed, for ten minutes, listening to the images drift around you. Then the air turns freezing and your minds violently clear themselves.
Nix is released first and instantly regains his presence of mind. He attempts to halt his fall using telekinesis but (6) propels himself sideways instead, landing by the collapsed corner.
Juni falls directly downwards, tries to brace her fall, and (4) succeeds without injury, retaining her grip on the metal scrap.
Erin falls, nearly cracking his head on a crate, but his coin narrowly forces him away.
Bob (4) plummets and catches himself on the door's handle. Hey, he's standing now.
Dustan falls next to Bob, attempts to catch himself, and (1) sprains his left wrist.
The first thing you all notice is a feeling that, as Nix searched for earlier, something is...
off. It is as if you have different memories hovering into your minds. Then you see that the walls are spotted with rust, and the lights are flickering.
An alarm - a hateful sound to you now - goes off in the silence. But it comes from Juni's diagnostic device, and the device projects a screen of information onto her eye.
Heavy genetic damage. Regenerating from stored genome sample. The device pricks her, and injects something into her bloodstream.
The five of you try to glean information from these new hidden memories, but they elude you.
A scrap of cloth lies on the floor. It bears the insignia of what you recognize - how? - as a high-level researcher of the facility. A researcher who likely has high security clearance.
The rust spreads further, then all is still.
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