In a Snowbound Land - Part 1

(11:30:40 AM) Gara: "We could go for a walk."
(11:30:49 AM) Gara: "You know in the cold."
(11:31:45 AM) NachtRuine is now known as TF2Ruine
(11:32:59 AM) KensIsGayAndSoAreYou is now known as Paranoidman
(11:33:16 AM) Positronium: "Who doesn't love the cold?"  He smiles.
(11:33:24 AM) Paranoidman is now known as Dr_Kens
(11:34:51 AM) Gara: "Of course we love the cold!"
(11:35:00 AM) Dr_Kens is now known as Richard_Trickle
(11:35:18 AM) Positronium: "It would take a special kind of crazy not to."
(11:35:35 AM) ShockwaveLover: "And we're nothing if not crazy."
(11:36:13 AM) Richard_Trickle is now known as Dr_Kens
(11:36:27 AM) Positronium: "Hey Duncan.  I didn't see you there."
(11:37:07 AM) Gara: A slight click could be heard from Loren's general area as she turns around.
(11:37:11 AM) Gara: "Huh?"
(11:37:20 AM) ShockwaveLover: Duncan shakes off a light dusting of ice as he walks over.
(11:37:34 AM) Gara: Loren quickly puts her knife away.
(11:37:50 AM) Denied_Existence [Mibbit@synIRC-FA577D16.dsl.aus2tx.sbcglobal.net] entered the room.
(11:38:09 AM) ShockwaveLover: "You can barely see anything out there. Snow's blowin' everywhere."
(11:38:23 AM) Gara: "Fun."
(11:38:46 AM) ShockwaveLover: He snorts.
(11:39:09 AM) ShockwaveLover: "What's the news?"
(11:39:17 AM) Gara: "Nothing."
(11:39:35 AM) Positronium: "A combination of boredom and weird mandatory psych evals."
(11:40:04 AM) ShockwaveLover: "Psych evals? Those are always fun. Managed to convince the shrink he was going crazy last time."
(11:40:12 AM) ShockwaveLover: Duncan looks happy at the news.
(11:40:17 AM) Gara: "What."
(11:40:33 AM) Gara: "How?"
(11:40:41 AM) Positronium: "How'd you.. yeah."
(11:40:41 AM) ShockwaveLover: "So what're you doing her?"
(11:40:43 AM) ShockwaveLover: *here
(11:40:53 AM) Gara: "Nothin much."
(11:41:06 AM) Positronium: "We were going to watch something, but nothing seems to be on."
(11:41:26 AM) Gara: "So we are going for a walk. Or something."
(11:41:51 AM) ShockwaveLover: "Yeah, the wind's knocked something loose from the comm tower. They're gonna have to wait until morning to get someone up there."
(11:42:04 AM) Gara: "Oh fun."
(11:42:16 AM) Gara: "Poor guy who has to go up there."
(11:42:49 AM) ShockwaveLover: "I think it's a girl, last time I heard."
(11:43:06 AM) Gara: "Or girl."
(11:43:08 AM) Positronium: "Comms are down?"
(11:43:10 AM) ShockwaveLover: He shrugs. Clearly, as long as it isn't him, he doesn't really care.
(11:43:13 AM) Positronium: He frowns.
(11:44:05 AM) ShockwaveLover: "Just the satcom link. Shortwave, UHF and Microwave are all still up, plus the fibre."
(11:44:26 AM) Positronium: "That's good."
(11:44:46 AM) Positronium: "Anyway... see you around?"
(11:45:40 AM) Magnobile [Mibbit@synIRC-BC586B86.cinci.res.rr.com] entered the room.
(11:45:48 AM) ShockwaveLover: "If I don't turn into an icicle."
(11:46:03 AM) Magnolia left the room (quit: Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client).
(11:46:10 AM) Magnobile is now known as Magnolia
(11:46:20 AM) Positronium: "Try to avoid that if possible."  He grins and walks out into the cold/
(11:46:38 AM) Gara: Loren follows.
(11:47:35 AM) Gara: "Jesus god it is cold."
(11:48:08 AM) Positronium: He shivers once.  "Maybe a walk isn't the /best/ idea."
(11:48:26 AM) Gara: "Well, where do you want to go?"
(11:49:34 AM) Positronium: "I don't know, where do you want to go?"  He flashes her a grin.
(11:49:47 AM) Gara: "You are a bastard, you know that."
(11:49:56 AM) Gara: She smiles though
(11:50:25 AM) Positronium: He grins again.  "Whatever you say."
(11:50:44 AM) Gara: "Then we will wander around, how about that."
(11:50:48 AM) Gara: "Outside."
(11:50:55 AM) Gara: "In the frigid cold."
(11:51:29 AM) Positronium: "Sure, death by exposure sure beats death by boredom."
(11:51:43 AM) Gara: "Then that is what we do."
(11:52:32 AM) Positronium: And... he starts walking in the direction of the comms relay.
(11:52:37 AM) ShockwaveLover: Inside, Duncan start stripping of his outer layers, glad to be somewhere warm.
(11:52:50 AM) Gara: Loren follows.
(11:55:20 AM) Gara: "Everett, if you kill us with the cold, I will never forgive you."
(11:55:43 AM) Positronium: "If I get us killed, I won't forgive me either."
(11:55:59 AM) Gara: "Good."
(11:56:06 AM) ShockwaveLover: It's ridiculously cold. The wind pierces your coats and whips loose snow around your bodies.
(11:56:28 AM) ShockwaveLover: Any unshielded skin starts to sting.
(11:56:50 AM) Gara: "Why are we doing this again?"
(11:57:04 AM) Positronium: "I... have no idea."
(11:58:14 AM) Positronium: "Where to?"  He shivers slightly.
(11:58:37 AM) Gara: "Someplace warm. Where is closest."
(11:59:11 AM) Positronium: "I guess containment's not that far, but I don't know if you want to go there."
(11:59:24 AM) Gara: "Probably not."
(12:00:27 PM) MonkeyBomb [~MonkeyBom@synIRC-4B9691B4.dsl.tulsok.swbell.net] entered the room.
(12:00:37 PM) Positronium: "Aside from that, there's the mess and the dorms."
(12:00:53 PM) ShockwaveLover: You can hear the low, mournful howl of the wind through the struts on the water tower. Ice cracks every so often.
(12:01:31 PM) ShockwaveLover: Nobody else seems to be daft enough to be out this evening, and the snow covered camp is eerily quiet.
(12:01:36 PM) MonkeyBomb left the room (quit: Quit: MonkeyBomb).
(12:01:55 PM) Gara: "It is eerie out here."
(12:02:15 PM) Positronium: "Yeah.  Fun, isn't it?"
(12:02:15 PM) MonkeyBomb [~MonkeyBom@synIRC-4B9691B4.dsl.tulsok.swbell.net] entered the room.
(12:02:26 PM) Gara: "A blast."
(12:04:06 PM) Gara: "What is closest? I vote there."
(12:04:38 PM) Positronium: "I guess the dorms are closest, unless you want to hang around command."
(12:04:59 PM) Gara: "Dorms it is."
(12:06:21 PM) Gara: She walks towards the dorms?
(12:06:23 PM) Gara: .
(12:06:32 PM) Positronium: If so he follows?
(12:06:49 PM) Gara: She does walk toward the dorms.
(12:08:07 PM) ShockwaveLover: The door on a prefab to Loren's left creaks rhythmically open and shut in the wind, two shattered windows secured with plastic and flapping emergency tape.
(12:08:28 PM) Positronium: Is that new?
(12:08:59 PM) ShockwaveLover: Not something they've seen before. But then again, they don't take this path often.
(12:09:14 PM) Gara: "...Hmm..."
(12:09:21 PM) Gara: "Shall we check it out?"
(12:09:22 PM) Positronium: "Huh.  I don't remember that."
(12:09:26 PM) Positronium: "Sure."
(12:09:28 PM) Faminepulse left the room (quit: Quit: Faminepulse).
(12:09:47 PM) Gara: Loren pushes to door open, looking inside.
(12:10:04 PM) Positronium: Everett stands beside her, also looking.
(12:12:26 PM) Faminepulse [~Tremulant@synIRC-1CB23561.albq.qwest.net] entered the room.
(12:13:17 PM) ShockwaveLover: Flurries of snow have entered the damaged building, gathering in piles on the floor. The place seems deserted, sitting in total darkness.
(12:13:34 PM) ShockwaveLover: You can't see far in at all.
(12:13:48 PM) Gara: "Do you have a flashlight?"
(12:15:33 PM) ShockwaveLover: Everett is devoid of flashlights.
(12:15:45 PM) Positronium: "Not on me, but I have a camera."
(12:16:14 PM) Gara: "Why does noone carry a flashlight..."
(12:16:29 PM) Positronium: "I really need to pick one up."
(12:16:51 PM) Scantron is now known as Skankwhroes
(12:16:55 PM) Skankwhroes is now known as Skankwhores
(12:17:33 PM) MonkeyBomb: Locke's relaxing in the rec area. Well, trying to.
(12:18:01 PM) Gara: Loren steps inside and searches for a lightswitch
(12:18:31 PM) Positronium: Everett follows her in.
(12:18:36 PM) thedeadlymoose [~chatzilla@synIRC-DC626B58.pixelpushers.com] entered the room.
(12:20:05 PM) Mr_Wilt left the room (quit: Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client).
(12:20:55 PM) ShockwaveLover: The floor crunches with every step. A light coating of permafrost seems to have formed.
(12:21:03 PM) TheRaven [~Ravinoff@synIRC-A939C737.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nl.bellaliant.net] entered the room.
(12:21:33 PM) ShockwaveLover: The lightswitch is in its usual spot.
(12:22:25 PM) Gara: She turns it out.
(12:22:55 PM) Gara: on
(12:23:59 PM) ShockwaveLover: The door to the prefab swings shut with a startling bang, sending icy flakes drifting on to your heads.
(12:24:21 PM) Positronium: Everett jumps.
(12:24:26 PM) Positronium: And turns around.
(12:24:31 PM) Gara: "Welcome to cliche town, Everett."
(12:24:41 PM) ShockwaveLover: The lights flicker on a second later.
(12:24:52 PM) Positronium: "I'll bet it locked behind us.":
(12:25:08 PM) Gara: "This is where I say it was probably just the wind."
(12:25:23 PM) Positronium: "And where we split up?"
(12:25:35 PM) TheRaven: Taggart is on patrol somewhere, freezing.
(12:25:39 PM) ShockwaveLover: The wind ebbs, and the door creaks back open.
(12:26:03 PM) Gara: "Of course."
(12:26:16 PM) Gara: She walks deeper into the prefab.
(12:27:51 PM) ShockwaveLover: The flickering light exposes a grisly scene to Loren.
(12:28:19 PM) Positronium: Everett is examining the permafrost.
(12:28:33 PM) ShockwaveLover: It's not your usual frost, Everett.
(12:28:37 PM) ShockwaveLover: Seeing as it is blood red.
(12:28:49 PM) Positronium: "What the..."  He walks after Loren.
(12:29:06 PM) ShockwaveLover: Loren can see that practically every exposed surface in the prefab is coated in it.
(12:29:19 PM) Gara: "Oh my dear god."
(12:29:36 PM) Gara: "Okay."
(12:29:42 PM) Positronium: "That... shit.  We need to call this in."
(12:29:52 PM) Gara: "Yes."
(12:30:01 PM) ShockwaveLover: The flickering light reveals that the entire back portion of the prefab is gone.
(12:30:12 PM) Gara: "What the fuck happened..."
(12:30:23 PM) Gara: "Call it in, I am investigating."
(12:30:29 PM) Positronium: "I have no idea.  I don't even remember this place."
(12:30:48 PM) ShockwaveLover: Snow has formed a large drift, partly covering the twisted remains of a bench bolted to the frame of the building.
(12:31:27 PM) Gara: Loren walks forward, careful not to slip. She looks for a source of the blood.
(12:31:27 PM) Positronium: Everett takes out his radio and walks over to the bench.
(12:32:16 PM) ShockwaveLover: Perception, Loren.
(12:33:57 PM) Gara: 6df+4 Please not a corpse...
(12:33:57 PM) Glacon: Gara: Please not a corpse...: 7 (6df+4=+, +, 0, +, 0, 0)
(12:34:16 PM) Positronium: He takes a closer look at the bench.
(12:35:38 PM) ShockwaveLover: The distribution seems fairly even. However, there's a somewhat darker patch right in the middle of the room, where a table would normally sit.
(12:36:07 PM) ShockwaveLover: It's nowhere in evidence.
(12:36:43 PM) Positronium: ~Why is the bench bolted down?~
(12:37:08 PM) ShockwaveLover: Everett, it's a metal bench. Still attached to the wall in several places, but the wall isn't attached to the rest of the building.
(12:37:35 PM) PresidentEvil [Mibbit@B4C5A007.FFA34654.2C18E844.IP] entered the room.
(12:37:35 PM) Positronium: ~ /How/ did it get attached like that.  It's not standard.~  (Redact if it is)
(12:38:25 PM) ShockwaveLover: You haven't seen them before, but then again you haven't seen everything either.
(12:38:38 PM) Positronium: He continues to look around.
(12:39:04 PM) Gara: Loren looks at the back of prefab... or whats left of it.
(12:40:00 PM) ShockwaveLover: Everett is obscuring your view of most of the hole at the moment.
(12:41:11 PM) Gara: "Hm..." She looks closer at the middle of the blood
(12:42:02 PM) Positronium: Everett examines the hole.  ~What happened?~
(12:42:07 PM) ShockwaveLover: Looks fairly soaked in to the wooden floor. Several different shades. Perception if you want to look further.
(12:42:42 PM) Gara: 6df+4 Sure why not
(12:42:43 PM) Glacon: Gara: Sure why not: 5 (6df+4=-, -, +, 0, +, +)
(12:42:56 PM) ShockwaveLover: The hole takes up the entire rear-right corner, roughly two metres wide. Fairly jagged edges.
(12:44:19 PM) ShockwaveLover: The dark patch seems to have a few different sections to it. And a lot of splatters around it, as if the liquid fell from a height...
(12:44:32 PM) Positronium: He looks at the corners.  How was the hole made?  "It's a good thing you're here.  They might have called you in anyway."
(12:44:44 PM) Gara: Loren looks up. "Probably."
(12:45:03 PM) ShockwaveLover: Loren discovers where the table went.
(12:45:24 PM) ShockwaveLover: It's in jagged pieces, pinning a frozen corpse to the ceiling.
(12:45:38 PM) Gara: "Oh my dear god."
(12:45:44 PM) Gara: "Everett, come look."
(12:46:04 PM) Positronium: He turns away and walks over.
(12:46:11 PM) ShockwaveLover: A frozen expression of pain and fear is locked on its face - or what remains of it.
(12:46:18 PM) Gara: She points at the roof.
(12:46:37 PM) Positronium: He looks up.  "...I think I know what this place was."
(12:46:53 PM) Gara: "What?"
(12:47:36 PM) ShockwaveLover: The door slams again, as the wind picks up.
(12:48:20 PM) ShockwaveLover: It seems colder than before, somehow.
(12:48:28 PM) Positronium: "I don't know exactly, but it wasn't made like a normal residential prefab.  And there's this guy stuck to the ceiling.  What do you think?"  He turns to look at the door.
(12:48:43 PM) Gara: "How did this even happen..."
(12:49:49 PM) ShockwaveLover: The lights dim even lower before, throwing the grisly scene into a soft twilight.
(12:49:53 PM) Positronium: "You'd have to be incredibly strong to do that.  Unless SLJ needs to be contained, it's some kind of anomalous creature or force."
(12:49:59 PM) ShockwaveLover: *even lower than before
(12:50:32 PM) Gara: "Okay, so some thing put this man in the ceiling. We need to report this."
(12:50:53 PM) Positronium: "Right."
(12:51:26 PM) Gara: She takes one last prowl around the room, looking for anything she missed.
(12:51:34 PM) ShockwaveLover: Perception for that.
(12:51:50 PM) Positronium: Everett pulls out his radio.  <<Command?  We've found a body in one of the dorms.>>
(12:52:07 PM) Positronium: Everett walks around the prefab.
(12:52:10 PM) Gara: 6df+8 Tagging Curiosity
(12:52:11 PM) Glacon: Gara: Tagging Curiosity: 7 (6df+8=+, -, +, 0, -, -)
(12:52:34 PM) Positronium: <<Well, in a prefab near them.>>
(12:54:31 PM) ShockwaveLover: It's practically bare, aside from the the coating of blood. Nothing else seems to have been attached like the bench was; at least on the intact walls. Something does catch your attention though - but it's from above.
(12:54:49 PM) ShockwaveLover: <<...>>
(12:55:19 PM) ShockwaveLover: Dead air, Everett.
(12:55:32 PM) Positronium: "I'm not getting anything."
(12:55:50 PM) Positronium: Everett takes out his camera and starts taking pictures.
(12:56:01 PM) Gara: "Then once I conclude here, we will hunt down security."
(12:57:05 PM) Positronium: "Right."  He tries to cover the entire area.
(12:57:18 PM) ShockwaveLover: Loren, it looked like a flash...
(12:57:52 PM) Gara: She tries to find where it came from. Another percep roll?
(12:59:06 PM) ShockwaveLover: Sure,.
(12:59:19 PM) Gara: 6df+8 Tagging Curiosity... Again
(12:59:20 PM) Glacon: Gara: Tagging Curiosity... Again: 8 (6df+8=0, +, -, +, 0, -)
(12:59:38 PM) ShockwaveLover: Everett takes a picture, and it happens again. There's something reflecting light attached to the body.
(1:00:25 PM) Gara: Can Loren reach it?
(1:01:01 PM) Positronium: He takes several pictures of the central stain from different angles.
(1:01:24 PM) ShockwaveLover: She's too short. Whatever force got that body up there, it slammed hard enough that it bowed the roof out.
(1:01:43 PM) Gara: "I need to be higher up."
(1:02:04 PM) Positronium: He looks up from the stain. "Need a boost?"
(1:02:26 PM) Gara: "Yes."
(1:02:39 PM) ShockwaveLover: Strength for that, Everett.
(1:03:24 PM) Positronium: 6df+2 Why didn't I work out more?
(1:03:25 PM) Glacon: Positronium: Why didn't I work out more?: 2 (6df+2=0, 0, 0, 0, +, -)
(1:04:51 PM) ShockwaveLover: Loren is boosted a few feet up, right below the corpse's sternum.
(1:05:07 PM) Gara: Can she reach it now?
(1:05:23 PM) Positronium: "What do you see?"
(1:05:41 PM) Gara: "Hold on."
(1:06:01 PM) ShockwaveLover: Christ, the chest has pretty much been ripped open. Ribs are forced apart, and you can't even tell what gender they were.
(1:06:44 PM) ShockwaveLover: The object you spotted flashes again as it catches the rising moon. It's a plastic rectangle.
(1:07:25 PM) Gara: "I think I see dog tags." She tries to grab them.
(1:07:54 PM) ShockwaveLover: The prefab's light dies without warning, throwing you into darkness.
(1:08:05 PM) Positronium: "Crap..."
(1:08:07 PM) ShockwaveLover: Everett, Strength to maintain this lift.
(1:08:20 PM) Positronium: 6df+2 The power of L-Science!
(1:08:21 PM) Glacon: Positronium: The power of L-Science!: 4 (6df+2=+, -, 0, +, +, 0)
(1:08:39 PM) ShockwaveLover: You actually manage to give Loren a boost, making the grab much easier.
(1:11:32 PM) Gara: She tries to grab the plastic rectangle.
(1:12:29 PM) ShockwaveLover: It's a simple operation. Something snaps she pulls, and it comes away easily, trailing a string of some sort.
(1:12:47 PM) Gara: "Got it."
(1:13:08 PM) Positronium: He lowers her down.
(1:13:17 PM) Positronium: And takes out his camera.
(1:13:47 PM) Gara: "Lets go outside, first."
(1:13:56 PM) Positronium: "Yeah."
(1:14:22 PM) ShockwaveLover: Which way are they leaving?
(1:14:23 PM) Gara: She tries to head out of the prefab
(1:14:27 PM) Gara: The door
(1:14:28 PM) Positronium: He uses the spotting(actual name here?) light from the camera to dimly illuminate the way out.
(1:15:50 PM) ShockwaveLover: The door opens easily, putting them both back into the wind.
(1:16:10 PM) Positronium: "Well... that was exciting."  He frowns.
(1:16:23 PM) Positronium: "We need to get to security."
(1:16:37 PM) Gara: She takes a look at that thing
(1:16:41 PM) Gara: That she grabbed
(1:16:45 PM) Positronium: As does he.
(1:16:59 PM) ShockwaveLover: It's too dark to make out, and seems to be encrusted with blood.
(1:17:13 PM) Positronium: Everett reaches down and grabs a trace of snow.
(1:17:38 PM) Positronium: If she allows him, he uses the snow to clean it off.
(1:17:45 PM) Gara: She does!
(1:18:37 PM) ShockwaveLover: It's caked on solid.
(1:18:45 PM) ShockwaveLover: Snow ain't gonna be taking that off.
(1:18:58 PM) MonkeyBomb is now known as Monkey|Running
(1:19:29 PM) Gara: "Water?"
(1:19:47 PM) Positronium: "Maybe.  Bleach might work better."
(1:20:07 PM) Gara: "Where can we find bleach?"
(1:21:04 PM) Positronium: "Either the kitchen or maintenance.  I'm not sure how serious the cooks are about that, though."
(1:21:27 PM) Gara: "What is closer?"
(1:21:59 PM) Positronium: "Probably the mess."
(1:22:06 PM) Gara: "We check there."
(1:22:18 PM) Positronium: "Alright."
(1:22:27 PM) Positronium: He starts walking.
(1:22:34 PM) Gara: Loren follows.
(1:23:35 PM) Positronium: And they walk through the icy night!
(1:23:59 PM) ShockwaveLover: The darkness seem almost enveloping. Weak moonlight filters through the clouds overhead.
(1:24:32 PM) Positronium: "After we clear this up, the first thing I'm doing is getting a flashlight."
(1:24:33 PM) ShockwaveLover: There's no sound, save for the whistle of the wind and the crunch of boots on snow.
(1:24:55 PM) Gara: "me too."
(1:27:27 PM) ShockwaveLover: Perception, you two. At -4 due to snow and darkness.
(1:27:40 PM) Positronium: 6df+1 SHAZBOT!
(1:27:41 PM) Glacon: Positronium: SHAZBOT!: 2 (6df+1=+, +, +, 0, -, -)
(1:27:50 PM) Gara: 6df So then 0.
(1:27:51 PM) Glacon: Gara: So then 0.: -1 (6df=0, -, 0, -, +, 0)
(1:28:04 PM) ShockwaveLover: Okay, PDef for both.
(1:28:20 PM) Gara: 6df+5 Oh no.
(1:28:21 PM) Glacon: Gara: Oh no.: 3 (6df+5=+, -, 0, -, 0, -)
(1:28:32 PM) Positronium: 6df+6 Just strooollen along.
(1:28:33 PM) Glacon: Positronium: Just strooollen along.: 8 (6df+6=0, +, +, 0, -, +)
(1:30:10 PM) ShockwaveLover: Loren walks face first into something that looms up out of the enveloping night. Her nose makes a worrying *crunch* noise. Body -1
(1:30:28 PM) ShockwaveLover: You'll be at -4 for smell perception tests.
(1:30:52 PM) Gara: "OW! Goddamn it!"
(1:31:03 PM) ShockwaveLover: Everett hits it as well, but his shoulder is all that's affected. A slight bruise.
(1:31:14 PM) Positronium: "What?  Crap.  What happened?"
(1:31:29 PM) Gara: "My nose."
(1:31:39 PM) Gara: Is it bleeding?
(1:31:44 PM) ShockwaveLover: It is.
(1:32:05 PM) Gara: "That is annoying. I need a flashlight."
(1:32:15 PM) Gara: "Lets keep moving."
(1:32:27 PM) ShockwaveLover: Whatever you hit doesn't seem to be affected by the intrusion.
(1:32:45 PM) Positronium: He looks around while looking concerned. "We should get you to medical.  They can probably clean the blood off."
(1:33:09 PM) Gara: "No! I am fine Everett."
(1:33:38 PM) Gara: "Lets just keep moving."
(1:33:45 PM) Positronium: "That sounded like a break, we can accomplish both at the same time.."
(1:33:58 PM) Gara: "Fine..."