Open the shuttle door if I can do so from the pilot controls. Otherwise, wait for someone to open the door.
Once out, find some terminal I can use. Start by searching local command and communication history to see why the doors were left open and any other interesting comings or goings from this docking station.
Name: Pathos
Physical Description: A literal crash test dummy.
Background: Delusions of grandeur. Took this job as a way to rapidly advance the ranks and see cool things. And because it would give him plenty of opportunities to set things on fire without his superiors being close enough to yell at him. Lost his original body in a freak shuttle accident.
Class: Senior Emergency Technician (+100 OMNI per mission)
Life: d4: crash test dummy
Attack: d2: unarmed
Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d4
Endurance: d8
Will: d4
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d4
Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d8
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d12
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Status: Blank stare
Inventory:
nothing
Money: -270
[10]
Pathos searches the controls and does manage to find a button to open the rear hatch. He presses it and the hatch slowly lowers until it hits the ground with a dull clang. A smell immediately permeates the shuttle, a sour smell like vomit mixed with expired milk.
[12]
Next he gets into the computer system of the base. Well, at least the surface layers: the deeper stuff is encrypted and locked away under 64 character alphanumeric constant cycle passcodes. The com logs are also heavily encrypted and though he eventually manages to get some data out of it, the system then locks him out after failing too many attempts.
From what he gets, the base doesn't seem like an ordinary mining base. The messages look perfectly normal on the outset but as he reads through invoices for drilling equipment and shipments of ore he sees both patterns that shouldn't exist and a lack of patterns where they should be. The amount of ore shipped sometimes varies by several orders of magnitude and they've apparently been ordering in 3-10 forklifts with every monthly shipment, which means this place should be littered in the things but there isn't a single one in sight.
Everyone elseAs soon as the doors are open some people disembark from the shuttle and start sweeping the dock, looking for anything that could provide answers to the current state of the outpost. For the most part the dock is rather uninteresting: everything is carefully stored away or strapped down or otherwise secured. The only things out of place are the following:
1. The doors into the base are sealed shut and someone has painted symbols onto them. What those symbols are no one knows, though they appear occult in nature. They are not hastily applied and in fact look like they may have been stenciled on. They are applied with black paint, not blood or anything so melodramatic.
2. There are several bodies in the room. They have been flash frozen and preserved by the vacuum and none show signs of life threatening injuries. A few are injured but they have been patched up. None are in space suits. They are scattered about, generally alone, and generally in sitting or laying positions that seem intentional.
3. Everyone looking around the room feels a sense of not being alone. Things glimpsed out of the corners of their eyes or a feeling of being watched are common.
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