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[vkiNm]

Everything packed and ready, the squad waste no daylight in heading back. The travel back were cautious and you were sure to not speed, going at a comfortable cruising speed on your overloaded Snowmobiles.

By the time the sun begins to dip and your stomach begin to ask for Dinner as snacking on energy bars for lunch wasn't sufficient, you can already see on your HUD that the gate location is near. You can already see the cave entrance, and your screen detects light and warmth coming from the cave. As well as the lazy smoke coming from it.

[Bill Chompski]

"Finally." Danh groans.
"Let's fucking go home.
...
Wait, did we make a fire in there before we left?"

[Cynicalwhovian]

"Let us hope that moths were not attracted to the gate's light."

[zomara0292]

“It. . . They shouldn’t be. Did we set up a turret at the cave entrance? Anybody remember?” Vigil said as he got off the bike and ran up to a nearby rock, sword out and already started on the scanning.

[LordPorkins]

"Oh. Oh boy."

Frazz, instead of running towards  the cavern, takes time to survey the surrounding landscape

[Bill Chompski]

Danh draws his gun, uselessly wiping at his visor for a moment.

[zomara0292]

“Yah, guys. Remember when a I said there was something living in those caves? They are back. I am going to see if I can sneak some clear shots of them, before we scare them out. Cover me. And try not to kill any of them. That would cause issues.”

[Cynicalwhovian]

"If we come into contact with them, shall we attempt diplomacy?"

[Bill Chompski]

Danh nods, and moves along with Vigil, not close to him, but so he can keep him in sight should something attack him.

[vkiNm]

They look furry white-furred bigfoots, or a Yeti, if you want to connect them to Earth. You see them living huddled close together for warmth near campfires that they made, the circular rock formation keeping the fire from spreading too far. And they seems to have gathered a stock of firewood, there are like, three dozens of them in here in total, one third of which are youngs clutching the smaller Yetis that makes up another one third of the group, with the remaining one third being noticeably larger and more muscular.

Looks kind of like this.

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It certainly seems like they came home, Vigil's glowing Visor betrayed his position, and the natives starts making horrified primeval noises.

The smaller two-thirds of the group quickly huddle together for protection as the larger ones grab stones from the firepit or sticks or anything they can get their hands on, really, and start flailing their arms at the direction of the cave's entrance where Vigil is at, making loud noises and floofing their fur up to look larger and more intimidating than they actually are.

[Bill Chompski]

"Fucks sake, get back, Vigil!" Danh hisses over comms, rapidly crouch-moving to sneakily get into a position where he could shoot at the beasts, should the need arise.

[Cynicalwhovian]

"Pehaps we can entice them with our remaining rations."

[zomara0292]

Vigil stays quite still, just watching them, and sending a video feed to everyone.
“Dahn, back up, slowly. I will back up if I have to. Turn off your visor light, as well. Good idea as well, Stella.One of you guys near the bikes, get the best smelling MRE that we have, and throw it into the cave. If someone can get more firewood, that would be nice, as well, but that’s asking for a bit much.”

[Bill Chompski]

Cautiously moves to head back with Vigil, to everyone else, frowning behind his helmet.

[JaxtalMK2]

"Yeah, I'd prefer not kill them. Aside from the possible moral quandry, there's more to be gained scientifically from being able to study their activities while alive. It might be better to draw them out somehow... or camp a bit away and see if they leave again." Kaito said calmly. He'd look for the best MRE they had, stripping off the non edible parts to be sure they didn't eat anything bad, then would try to slip forward and toss it near the cave.