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  1. *** Snowshoe [~cgiirc@69B7C5E7.8471B608.7EBC6036.IP] has joined #redpool
  2. *** Topic is: Pool Status: THUNDERBIRDS ARE GOOOOOOOO
  3. *** Topic set by Roget [Fri Jul 5 03:20:29 2013]
  4. *** Snowshoe Strife Magnobile Puppetmaster Nioki TheRaven Aphex_ ~Roget AgentFrost @PresidentEvil %Soulless PaulS_laptop +Glacon Sophos
  5. *** mode/#redpool [+o Snowshoe] by ChanServ
  6. *** Channel created on Mon Nov 28 10:21:16 2011
  7. <PetraCore> Brigit rushes to the prefab, bag slung over shoulder, mouth still working at a piece of garlic bread.
  8. <TheRaven> Taggart arrives at prefab 12 with his usual gear.
  9. <PresidentEvil> Greg arrives at a businesslike but less harried pace than Brigit. He's lit a cigarette on the way.
  10. <Alivi> Eriko arrives at prefab 12 her bag strapped across her shoulder.
  11. <Snowshoe> There are a few bored security agents standing around the entrance to the prefab and one serious looking researcher in a lab coat.
  12. <Snowshoe> He's clearly waiting for the group.
  13. <TheRaven> Taggart preemptively puts on his gas mask.
  14. <PresidentEvil> Greg waves to Taggart.
  15. <PetraCore> "Hey."
  16. <PetraCore> "Er, sir."
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  19. <TheRaven> "So what's the situation?"
  20. <Snowshoe> The man eyes Taggart, looking somewhat less than impressed. "Following the recent... incident, with the substances from inside this prefab, we've decided to send a group back in. We don't know enough about what's in there."
  21. <PetraCore> "Incident?"
  22. <PetraCore> She glances over at the others.
  23. <Snowshoe> He nods towards Eriko.
  24. <PresidentEvil> "You didn't hear about... were you anywhere near here?"
  25. <Alivi> Eriko sighs.
  26. <Roget> Ralph walks with Eriko
  27. <PetraCore> "I'm new."
  28. <PresidentEvil> "They had to blow up an entire containment wing a few days ago."
  29. <Alivi> "It happened last week I think..."
  30. <Alivi> Eriko rubs her eyes. "Anyways…."
  31. <Alivi> "I agree, luckily we have a good group here…."
  32. <Alivi> "Anything in particularly we should look for?"
  33. <PresidentEvil> Greg begins attaching his taclight to the barrel of his machine gun.
  34. <Snowshoe> The man nods. "We need to know more about what's inside there, what sort of anomalies we're going to be seeing, if it's going to be an issue. We know very little for the number of people we've sent inside. We need you to identify the major parts of the structure and its function, rather than completely exploring each individual segment."
  35. <PetraCore> Brigit gulps and nods.
  36. <PetraCore> "So an overview, not a blueprint."
  37. <Alivi> "Alright…so probably going into the main room then and exploring the rooms breifly."
  38. <Roget> "Do we get like, hardhats? Or flashlights?"
  39. <TheRaven> "Any surveillance gear to plant?"
  40. <Alivi> "…I have flashlight."
  41. <PresidentEvil> "You don't have a flashlight, Ralph?"
  42. <PetraCore> "I... should probably have included a flashlight in my kit."
  43. <PetraCore> "What was I thinking?"
  44. <Roget> "... No."
  45. <Snowshoe> The man shakes his head at Taggart. "We can't establish a reliable means of communication between anything inside and anything out here. Radios don't work, wireless doesn't work, and we don't want to weigh you down with wired equipment that might not last."
  46. <Alivi> "…..It is okay"
  47. <PresidentEvil> "So go in, get an overview, try not to die."
  48. <Alivi> "Sounds normal enough…."
  49. <TheRaven> "Safety lines?"
  50. <Snowshoe> "We don't know what you'll be seeing, and we don't want to include equipment you're not familiar with. We want you to go in, get meaningful information, and get out. If you can handle the pool, this shouldn't be a problem."
  51. <Alivi> "Understood…shall we go in?"
  52. <PresidentEvil> "Of course it shouldn't. Eri, anything we should know after that experiment of yours?"
  53. <PetraCore> 'May I have a flash light?"
  54. <Roget> "Do you have a flashlight I could borrow? "
  55. <Alivi> "It affects humans extremely differently than anticipated. Like before. Do not touch the hooks, or anything really."
  56. <PresidentEvil> "If you say so."
  57. <TheRaven> "Good plan."
  58. <Snowshoe> He waves to two nearby security personnel, who both hand him flashlights that he hands to you. "That seems like something you should fix as soon as possible."
  59. <Alivi> "There is a high amount of ash in there. It shouldnt touch you really. If you get an open wound be careful, if it gets rubbed into you. You can get infected. However it takes a lot for that."
  60. <Alivi> "Ralph, if people get hurt, we need to cover the wound immediately."
  61. <Roget> "I have abndages and two tourniquets, and some alchohol for infected wounds."
  62. <Roget> *bandages
  63. <TheRaven> Taggart draws his sidearm and flicks on the attached light. "Shall we?"
  64. <PresidentEvil> Greg chambers a round. "Yes. Let's."
  65. <Alivi> "I dont know if Alcohol will do anything..."
  66. <Alivi> "Anyways…let's go..."
  67. <PresidentEvil> Greg takes point.
  68. <PetraCore> She takes it.
  69. <PetraCore> "I shall."
  70. <Snowshoe> The prefab door awaits.
  71. <PresidentEvil> Greg eases it open and peers inside.
  72. <TheRaven> Taggart brings up the rear. More distance to the horrors in front of you is always good.
  73. <PetraCore> Brigit takes the penultimate position.
  74. <Alivi> Eriko is near Greg.
  75. <Roget> Ralph is near Eriko
  76. <Snowshoe> The same hallway that's always been there sits in front of you, silent and grey. Ash hangs in the air. Two doors sit in the wall to your left, and two more in the wall to your right. One larger door sits partially ajar in the opposite end of the hall.
  77. <Alivi> "…The end one is open…that is different…"
  78. <PresidentEvil> "...Corridor is clear, move in."
  79. <Alivi> Eriko nods.
  80. <Snowshoe> Everything is absolutely silent except for the sound of your footsteps as you enter.
  81. <TheRaven> "Take the open one?"
  82. <Roget> Ralph draws his sidearm. "Are you taking point?"
  83. <PresidentEvil> Greg heads to the open door. "Any ideas what's inside it?"
  84. <PetraCore> "How would I know?"
  85. <Alivi> "It is a giant amount of labs…I think. There was a computer lab and many vats."
  86. <PetraCore> She covers her mouth with a cleaning cloth.
  87. <Alivi> "There should be a big drop in the center."
  88. <PresidentEvil> Greg peers through the gap in the door.
  89. <PetraCore> Brigit focuses her light where people might want to see.
  90. <Snowshoe> The giant cylindrical hub sits on the other side, silent and dark. Entering will place you on a metal catwalk. The room appears to be extremely tall, with you positioned near the top. You can only see down about one or two hundred feet before your vision is obscured by ash floating in the air.
  91. <PresidentEvil> "Same shaft, same catwalk. Nothing looks out of the ordinary."
  92. <Snowshoe> A ladder stretches down from the catwalk into the ash below, the same ladder you lowered on a previous cisit
  93. <Snowshoe> *visit.
  94. <Alivi> "Okay…."
  95. <Snowshoe> The lights you turned on are out.
  96. <Roget> Can Ralph look around for anything.... unusual or extra spooky looking
  97. <PetraCore> "Guh."
  98. <Alivi> "What is it Brigit?"
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  101. <PetraCore> Did the flashlights turn off?
  102. <Snowshoe> No, flashlights are still on. The lights on the lower level that were turned on on a previous visit are out.
  103. <PresidentEvil> Greg twiddles his headset, leaning over and shining his taclight over the edge. Can he see anything?
  104. <PetraCore> "It's just creepy, going down where you can't see."
  105. <Alivi> "…We do it all the time..."
  106. <Snowshoe> Ralph, you see a room as long as a football field sitting absolutely silently. You notice that a section of the catwalk has been punched through, a neat cylinder taken right out of it.
  107. <Alivi> "Do not worry."
  108. <Snowshoe> Greg notices this as well.
  109. <Snowshoe> It's only on one side, going the other way around would avoid it completely.
  110. <PresidentEvil> "Eeesh. Wonder what did that..."
  111. <Alivi> "Did what?"
  112. <PresidentEvil> "That" he says, pointing to the catwalk.
  113. <PetraCore> "I'll get used to it."
  114. <Alivi> Eriko looks, "Want me….to check it out?"
  115. <PetraCore> "Do we go down, or...?"
  116. <Alivi> "Well the lower levels are what we haven't explored. I know the layout up here..."
  117. <Roget> "Probably something big and ugly, Greg."
  118. <PresidentEvil> "Hang on a moment" Greg says, adjusting his earpiece.
  119. <Alivi> "Alright."
  120. <PresidentEvil> <<Okay, radio check people.>>
  121. <Snowshoe> Everyone else's radios crackle.
  122. <Snowshoe> Greg's words are audible, if slightly distorted. You can understand him.
  123. <Roget> <<Check.>>
  124. <Alivi> <<Check~>>
  125. <TheRaven> <<Roger, bit of interference.>>
  126. <PetraCore> <<Check!>>
  127. <PresidentEvil> <<Good, here's the plan. I'm taking one or two people with me and heading down that ladder. Taggart will stay with the rest to secure the top. Once we call clear, everyone else comes down.>>
  128. <Alivi> Eriko looks at Ralph.
  129. <PresidentEvil> <<If we go out of radio contact or you hear any horrible crunching noises, exfil and bring as much backup as possible. Objections?>>
  130. <PetraCore> <<Want me to come?>>
  131. <Alivi> <<Greg, should I go with you since I know the area?>>
  132. <Roget> Ralph is looking around, sidearm in hand.
  133. <Alivi> <<You still have the thermite i made you right Greg?>>
  134. <PresidentEvil> <<If you and Ralph are okay with that. Otherwise, you're with me New Meat.>> he says, looking over at Brigit.
  135. <PresidentEvil> He pats one of his pouches and nods.
  136. <Alivi> Eriko looks at Ralph.
  137. <TheRaven> Taggart starts scanning the area, flashlight on.
  138. <Alivi> Wondering if she should go or stay
  139. <Roget> <<If Eriko goes with you. Greg, can I accompany you? Since I am a medic and all.>>
  140. <Snowshoe> Ralph, the room sits silently around you. You don't notice anything out of place.
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  142. <PresidentEvil> <<I want to keep it as light as possible. Minimal risk of personnel.>>
  143. <Alivi> <<It's okay if you say no>>
  144. <PresidentEvil> <<You'll be joining us as soon as we've secured the landing.>>
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  146. <Roget> <<You're lowering the risk by bringing a medic along.>>
  147. <PresidentEvil> <<And raising the risk of detection. I want to only take one.>>
  148. <Alivi> <<Ralph, you go…I'll stay here with Taggart.>>
  149. <PresidentEvil> Is there any debris on the catwalks? Pebbles, loose bolts?
  150. <Roget> "Eri, you know the area. Go with Greg.... I'm sure you'll be okay."
  151. <Snowshoe> Nothing. There's no debris or bending around that weird hole either, just a perfectly circular slice.
  152. <Alivi> Eriko nods.
  153. <Alivi> <<Greg, I am coming with you.>>
  154. <Roget> <<Keep her safe, Greg.>>
  155. <PresidentEvil> <<I will.>> Greg says, slinging his gun and getting ready to descend the ladder.
  156. <Alivi> Eriko Secures her bag and follows Greg
  157. <TheRaven> "Okay, eyes on. Ralph, newbie, try to keep as much as possible illuminated."
  158. <PresidentEvil> <<Keep that flashlight pointed down...>>
  159. <PetraCore> "Alright."
  160. <Snowshoe> Nothing untoward happens. The ladder sits, looking surprisingly sturdy for a thin flimsy piece of metal that's going to support your whole weight.
  161. <Alivi> <<Alright>>
  162. <PetraCore> Brigit goes near the edge on her hands and knees, then flops on her belly.
  163. <PresidentEvil> Greg begins descending the ladder.
  164. <PetraCore> She points the light down.
  165. <Roget> Ralph points down too.
  166. <Roget> Double down
  167. <Alivi> Eriko waits a bit but then follows.
  168. <Snowshoe> Brigit, the light doesn't illuminate much further than you could already see. It's not that it's dark, it's that the ash is too thick to see through from this far away.
  169. <PresidentEvil> Greg is looking down and descending at a steady pace. His taclight is screwed on to the NG7, so he's relying on Eriko to keep the area below them lit.
  170. <PetraCore> "So do I go?"
  171. <TheRaven> "Christ, remind me to get some night optics sometime."
  172. <Alivi> Eriko is also illuminating the area as she slowly descends
  173. <Roget> "Would that help with all the ash?"
  174. <Snowshoe> Greg, you feel the air temperature drop slightly as you descend. You feel the occasional light brush of cold wind, but nothing follows those feelings, so you'd guess it's just because the space is so large.
  175. <PresidentEvil> <<Getting slightly colder... bit drafty. Nothing unusual.>>
  176. <Alivi> Eriko relies on Greg to relay their status.
  177. <TheRaven> "I have no idea, but it couldn't be a bad idea."
  178. <Snowshoe> Eventually, you arrive at the bottom. The ash is thicker down here, you can only see about thirty feet away from yourself. Nothing like the ash in the room Eriko and Elif got attacked in on the floor above, but still thick.
  179. <Alivi> Eriko shines her flashlight around, looking.
  180. <PresidentEvil> <<Jesus, this shit is thick. Eriko, wait here for a moment.>>
  181. <Alivi> <<Stopping.>> She is hanging onto the ladder. Waiting for furthur instruction.
  182. <PresidentEvil> Greg hops off, unslings his MG, and drops into a crouch. Flicking the taclight back on, he briefly sweeps the room with the beam.
  183. <PetraCore> "So I /don't/ go down?"
  184. <Roget> "Not yet."
  185. <Snowshoe> You can see the catwalk extending about thirty feet away from you in both directions around the edge of the cylinder, and you can see that the cylinder continues to drop. Maybe another floor? You can't see a way down, though. From where you are you can't see any identifying features.
  186. <Roget> <<See anything, Greg?>>
  187. <Snowshoe> No doors, nothing but catwalk and ladder.
  188. <Alivi> Eriko just hands onto the ladder waiting for the all clear.
  189. <PresidentEvil> <<Another catwalk, then the pit keeps on going.>>
  190. <PresidentEvil> <<Nothing else, you can start climbing down now.>>
  191. <Alivi> Eriko climbs down the rest of the way.
  192. <Alivi> "Greg. Should we explore the other floor?"
  193. <Snowshoe> The catwalk is much larger than you can see from where you are now. Might be something in places you can't see.
  194. <PresidentEvil> "Just sweep the immediate area while the others are climbing."
  195. <Roget> Ralph holsters his sidearm and climbs down the ladder.
  196. <TheRaven> "You two go down first."
  197. <Alivi> Eriko nods. She shines her flashlight around, trying to see around.
  198. <PresidentEvil> Greg decides to poke around in some of those places.
  199. <Alivi> Eriko follows Greg
  200. <Alivi> With her flashlight.
  201. <PetraCore> Brigit follows.
  202. <PresidentEvil> "Any of this looking notable to you?"
  203. <Snowshoe> Greg, as you walk the catwalk you identify two doors. One is a large garage-style door, looks like it lifts up, the handle is padlocked to the ground. The other door is more normal-sized and has a soft, slowly blinking red light above it. You know from previous experience this means it's locked.
  204. <Alivi> "Strange...."
  205. <TheRaven> Taggart heads down once everyone else is clear, but places a few empty shell casings at the top of the ladder as an early warning system.
  206. <Alivi> "We might wanna see what is in the larger one.../"
  207. <PresidentEvil> <<We got two locked doors down here, people. One's big and padlocked, one's small with an electronic lock.>>
  208. <PetraCore> She keeps focused on the wall in front of her as she descends.
  209. <PresidentEvil> <<Anyone bring bolt cutters?>>
  210. <PetraCore> <<I can take care of the locked one.>>
  211. <PetraCore> <<Of course I did!>>
  212. <Alivi> Eriko giggles.
  213. <PetraCore> <<Well, wire cutters, and some saws.>>
  214. <PetraCore> <<If all else fails, attack what the lock is attached to.>>
  215. <Alivi> <<You can get through is important thing.>>
  216. <Snowshoe> That would definitely be enough to get through the chain on the larger door.
  217. <PetraCore> <<Never fails.>>
  218. <TheRaven> "Anyone hears falling brass, tell me. Laid some shells at the top of the ladder, if anything comes down we'll know."
  219. <Roget> Does Ralph get to the place where Greg and Eriko are yet or is he still climbing
  220. <Snowshoe> Everyone arrives alright.
  221. <Roget> <<That ladder takes too long to climb>>
  222. <Snowshoe> It's about fifteen or twenty degrees colder down here than it was at the top, and it's absolutely black except for where you shine your lights.
  223. <Alivi> Eriko shivers
  224. <Snowshoe> It's quiet. Those two doors stay where they are.
  225. <PetraCore> She arrives.
  226. <TheRaven> "...that's a bad sign."
  227. <PetraCore> <<Alright, lemme get my multitool.>>
  228. <Roget> "This is creepy as fuck."
  229. <PresidentEvil> "No shit. Let's get that door open fast."
  230. <PetraCore> She grabs the Multitool and heads over to the door.
  231. <PetraCore> "Someone give me light to work."
  232. <Alivi> "Brigit, don't open it, just cut it, let the security open it."
  233. <Alivi> Eriko shines her light.
  234. <Roget> Ralph tries to shine his light in a helpful way
  235. <PetraCore> "Of course."
  236. <PetraCore> "But I can get it openable."
  237. <PetraCore> She grins and she gets to work.
  238. <Alivi> "Good."
  239. <PresidentEvil> Greg shines his light on the door. This also means he's pointing his gun at it.
  240. <Alivi> Eriko sighs.
  241. <Snowshoe> With a little effort, the padlock is severed from the door. It looks like it slides up to open, with a large handle in the bottom center that /was/ locked to the ground but is now free.
  242. <Roget> Ralph re-draws his gun.
  243. <PetraCore> she backs u quickly, turning on her own light.
  244. <TheRaven> "I'll get it. Greg, cover me."
  245. <PresidentEvil> Greg does so. "Whenever you're ready."
  246. <PetraCore> Er, taking it out of the pouch of her bag, that is.
  247. <Snowshoe> It's still absolutely silent, aside from the clink of the padlock hitting the ground.
  248. <PetraCore> "It's nice to get a job I can do down here, at least."
  249. <PetraCore> She grins at Eriko.
  250. <TheRaven> Taggart steps up and grabs the handle. He throws the door open and immediately gets clear of the door.
  251. <PresidentEvil> Greg peers inside. Can he see anything?
  252. <Alivi> Eriko shines her light inside.
  253. <Snowshoe> There's a /tremendously loud/ rattling of metal on metal as Taggart throws the door up. If there was any question about your being here before... well, they know where you are now. On the other side of the door is a long hallway, about fifteen feet wide and ten feet high, with concrete flooring. The walls are smoother concrete.
  254. <PresidentEvil> Any doors?
  255. <Roget> Ralph looks around to make sure nothing spooky is sneaking up on them
  256. <Alivi> "…Wow..."
  257. <Roget> perception or someting else more tricky
  258. <Snowshoe> The ash is still thick here, so you can't see that far. You see one door sitting in the wall near the main door, a light aluminum thing.
  259. <Snowshoe> Ralph, ain't shit there.
  260. <Alivi> "We should check that door..."
  261. <PresidentEvil> "Cover me."
  262. <PresidentEvil> Greg proceeds to yonder door.
  263. <Snowshoe> It's unlocked.
  264. <Alivi> Eriko shines her light.
  265. <Roget> "Be careful... we're basically sitting ducks now."
  266. <Alivi> "Yea..."
  267. <Alivi> Eriko follows Greg, With her light.
  268. <PresidentEvil> "It's unlocked. Come here."
  269. <PetraCore> Brigit follows, wrench and flashlight out.
  270. <Alivi> "Ready?"
  271. <PresidentEvil> "When you guys are."
  272. <Alivi> Eriko nods.
  273. <Roget> "Who's taking point?"
  274. <Alivi> "Greg is I think..."
  275. <Alivi> "Taggart?"
  276. <PresidentEvil> "I got this. Cover me?"
  277. <TheRaven> "Greg's the one with the MG, he gets point."
  278. <Alivi> "Okay."
  279. <Roget> "Cool beans."
  280. <PresidentEvil> Greg opens the door and slips into the room, sweeping back and forth with his flashlight.
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  282. <Alivi> Eriko shines her flashlight behind Greg.
  283. <Roget> Ralph shines his flashlight in as well
  284. <PetraCore> So does Brigit.
  285. <Snowshoe> Greg, you see a fairly spartan office. A desk with no drawers, a seat, no filing cabinets. or anything else. Anybody inside, perception.
  286. <PresidentEvil> 6df+5 welp
  287. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: welp: 4 (6df+5=-, +, 0, -, +, -)
  288. <Alivi> 6df+8
  289. <Glacon> Alivi: 10 (6df+8=0, +, +, +, -, 0)
  290. <Roget> 6df+7 I HAVE VERY HIGH PERCEPAN
  291. <Glacon> Roget: I HAVE VERY HIGH PERCEPAN: 6 (6df+7=-, +, 0, -, +, -)
  292. <TheRaven> Taggart is at the back of the line, so he presumably doesn't roll
  293. <PetraCore> Same with Brigit.
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  296. <Snowshoe> Eriko, as people's lights pan over the interior of the room, you notice that a shadow in the back corner seems to be shifting very oddly. It takes a few seconds to move after people's lights move. Nobody else notices this.
  297. <PresidentEvil> "Looks clear."
  298. <Alivi> "…Guys, the back corner, shadow was shifting."
  299. <TheRaven> "Light it up!" Taggart flicks on his sidearm light and points at it.
  300. <Roget> Ralph points his light at it
  301. <Alivi> Eriko is pointing her flashlight at it
  302. <PresidentEvil> Greg points his light and gun at it.
  303. <PetraCore> Brigit does the same.
  304. <Snowshoe> You catch a faint glimpse of what looks like a flat sheet of black cloth flinging itself towards a vent in the roof. A shadowy edge of the thing rips the grate off the vent and prepares to dive inside. You have time for one action, if you choose to take it.
  305. <PetraCore> Brigit throws her wrench at it.
  306. <Snowshoe> Roll thrown.
  307. <Alivi> Eriko just shines her light.
  308. <PresidentEvil> If Greg were to try and Melee it, would he have to avoid said wrench?
  309. <PetraCore> 6ds+8 (Tagging Spanner in the Works)
  310. <PetraCore> 6df+6
  311. <Glacon> PetraCore: 5 (6df+6=0, -, -, +, -, +)
  312. <Snowshoe> It's in the opposite corner of the room, and it's moving incredibly quickly. You don't have time to close the gap for a melee.
  313. <Roget> Can Ralph roll perception to get a better look at it?
  314. <Snowshoe> Brigit's wrench nails the thing, throwing it away from the vent and into a nearby wall. It drops the floor with a quiet rustling noise.
  315. <PresidentEvil> Greg moves to put his boot down on it.
  316. <TheRaven> "...damn, nice arm."
  317. <PresidentEvil> "Someone get a sample bag!"
  318. <Alivi> Eriko comes behind greg. Can she science it?
  319. <Snowshoe> Greg, the portion of the thing that you put beneath your boot puffs up into a small cloud of ash. The rest of it lies there, unmoving, with Brigit's wrench lying next to it.
  320. <Alivi> Eriko gets out her bag, "I got it!"
  321. <Snowshoe> Ralph, feel free to roll perception.
  322. <PresidentEvil> "Bag it, quick!"
  323. <Alivi> Eriko places on gloves and kneels down."
  324. <Alivi> "Okay!"
  325. <Alivi> what does she roll?
  326. <Roget> 6df+7 2spooky
  327. <Glacon> Roget: 2spooky: 5 (6df+7=-, 0, -, +, 0, -)
  328. <PetraCore> "Can someone get me my wrench back?"
  329. <PetraCore> Brigit hangs back.
  330. <Snowshoe> Ralph, that looks a whole lot like a little black cloth. About three feet across, if you had to guess. Eriko, roll science.
  331. <Alivi> 6df+8
  332. <Glacon> Alivi: 5 (6df+8=-, +, 0, -, -, -)
  333. <Roget> "It's not big... unless it's all cloth."
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  335. <Snowshoe> Eriko, as you touch the thing more of it puffs up into dust. As you try to put it in the bag, it suddenly wriggles in your grip and yanks, throwing itself away from you and back towards the roof. Strength.
  336. <Alivi> 6df+4 nono
  337. <Glacon> Alivi: nono: 3 (6df+4=0, +, -, -, -, +)
  338. <Alivi> "Ah!"
  339. <Snowshoe> It rips itself out of your hands and throws itself into the vent, disappearing in an instant. Eriko, you did manage to get some ash in that bag.
  340. <PetraCore> "Ah!"
  341. <PetraCore> Brigit gets her wrench.
  342. <TheRaven> "Well, shit."
  343. <Alivi> "[DAMMIT]"
  344. <PetraCore> "Bad luck."
  345. <Alivi> Eriko sighs.
  346. <Alivi> "Im sorry..."
  347. <PetraCore> She pats Eriko's shoulder.
  348. <PetraCore> "No prob."
  349. <PresidentEvil> "Let's hope it doesn't bring any friends..."
  350. <Alivi> Eriko looks at the ash she has. Does it look the same as what she already has.
  351. <Snowshoe> From what you can see, yes.
  352. <Roget> "Careful, it's in the ceiling now."
  353. <Alivi> She sighs.
  354. <Alivi> "…Yea…"
  355. <Alivi> She gets up. And places the ash in her bag.
  356. <Alivi> She takes off her gloves and looks at Ralph.
  357. <TheRaven> "Fall back to the entrance?"
  358. <PresidentEvil> Greg looks up. "We should probably start looking around for a switch or something. Some way to open that other door."
  359. <Roget> "Be quick about it."
  360. <Snowshoe> There is the whole rest of the hallway to check.
  361. <PresidentEvil> "Was there anything out in that hallway?"
  362. <Alivi> "I can go check..."
  363. <Alivi> "I just noticed the other door.
  364. <Alivi> "
  365. <Snowshoe> You remember that the reason you're in here is to get through and identify major features of the facility, not to stop in every room to check for samples.
  366. <PetraCore> "Look, just move through."
  367. <PetraCore> "Peek in each room, note it down, move on."
  368. <PresidentEvil> "Yeah, let's not dally."
  369. <TheRaven> "Excellent plan."
  370. <PetraCore> "Unless you see something /really/ obvious to grab, I guess."
  371. <PetraCore> "Deal?"
  372. <PresidentEvil> "We did get good info, though. That ash was mostly inanimate without a host, right?"
  373. <PresidentEvil> He looks to Eriko.
  374. <PetraCore> "Seemed like."
  375. <Alivi> "The ash is the dead pathogen…it is revitalized in liquid."
  376. <Alivi> "This is all a biohazard."
  377. <PresidentEvil> "So how's it forming it animate sheets?"
  378. <PresidentEvil> into animate sheets, even.
  379. <Alivi> "…I….I don't…know….It is like the liquid."
  380. <Alivi> "I've never seen it."
  381. <Roget> "Maybe the sheets are some weird pool monster that good infected."
  382. <PetraCore> "Maybe."
  383. <PresidentEvil> "We can debate it when we're out. Let's get to that other door you saw, Eriko."
  384. <Alivi> "…Maybe."
  385. <PresidentEvil> Greg gets moving.
  386. <PetraCore> "Right now, they seem to be avoiding us."
  387. <PetraCore> "Let's hope they stay that way."
  388. <Alivi> Eriko nods. She follows Greg out
  389. <PresidentEvil> Greg heads to the other yonder door.
  390. <Alivi> Eriko follows him
  391. <Roget> Ralph follows his lady
  392. <TheRaven> Taggart brings up the rear again.
  393. <Snowshoe> The rest of the hallway stretches on for a good ways, further than you can see with the ash so thick. As you approach the other door, you see a small sign next to it "Security Office:", with a small arrow pointing further down the hall.
  394. <TheRaven> "Security office sounds promising."
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  396. <PresidentEvil> "Cover me?" Greg says?
  397. <PetraCore> "Hopefully."
  398. <PresidentEvil> He hopes everyone's getting the routine by now.
  399. <Alivi> "Yes."
  400. <PetraCore> She's back to doing flashlight in one hand, rag over her mouth in another.
  401. <Roget> "Got you covered."
  402. <Alivi> Eriko shines her flashlight.
  403. <PetraCore> She swaps the rag for a wrench tucked into her overalls.
  404. <Snowshoe> You hear a bang from inside the room, sounds like a metal plate hitting the ground.
  405. <Roget> Ralph shines his flashlight all up in this joint
  406. <Alivi> Eriko jumps.
  407. <Alivi> "….m-maybe…not…"
  408. <TheRaven> Taggart shines his pistol light in the right direction.
  409. <PresidentEvil> Greg's gun snaps up at the door.
  410. <PresidentEvil> "Did that sound like a plate to you guys?"
  411. <PresidentEvil> "...Or a vent cover?"
  412. <Snowshoe> The door remains shut. You hear something rustle faintly from inside the room, and a heavy thunk.
  413. <PetraCore> "I don't know."
  414. <Alivi> "….Well..
  415. <TheRaven> "There's something in there."
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  417. <Alivi> "…What should we do?"
  418. <PresidentEvil> "Be ready" Greg says, tensing for a moment before opening the door and entering the room.
  419. <Snowshoe> Pdef, greg.
  420. <Alivi> Eriko nods.
  421. <PetraCore> Brigit hangs back, nervous.
  422. <Alivi> Eriko sticks behind Greg
  423. <Alivi> Shining her light.
  424. <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 Zuh-oh.
  425. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Zuh-oh.: 7 (6df+6=-, -, +, +, 0, +)
  426. <Snowshoe> 6df+5 I AM BUT A MINION
  427. <Glacon> Snowshoe: I AM BUT A MINION: 9 (6df+5=+, +, +, 0, 0, +)
  428. <Snowshoe> Greg, something heavy barrels into you as you enter the room, nailing you in the stomach and throwing you backwards out into the hall. You hit the ground on your back, and -1 body. Everyone else, you see what looks like a good-sized dog standing on greg's chest, biting at him. It has a hook buried in the back of its neck, and a thin black cord stretches from the hook back into the room it came out of.
  429. <Alivi> "GREG!"
  430. <Roget> "Fuck fuck fuck fuck..." Can Ralph shoot at it with bullets?
  431. <PresidentEvil> Greg jams the gunbarrel into its belly and opens fire.
  432. <TheRaven> 6df+10 Taggart rapidly transitions to his rifle and lights a motherfucker up.
  433. <Glacon> TheRaven: Taggart rapidly transitions to his rifle and lights a motherfucker up.: 10 (6df+10=0, -, -, +, +, 0)
  434. <PresidentEvil> 6df+11 tagging Sustained Fire.
  435. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: tagging Sustained Fire.: 13 (6df+11=+, 0, -, 0, +, +)
  436. <Snowshoe> ...
  437. <Alivi> Eriko backs away from the gunshots
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  440. <Roget> 6df+6 pew pew pew hope I don't shoot greg
  441. <Glacon> Roget: pew pew pew hope I don't shoot greg: 6 (6df+6=0, -, +, +, 0, -)
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  444. <PetraCore> Brigit points her light at the fray.
  445. <Alivi> Eriko is trtying to get out of the line of fire. She keeps her flashlight on the dog.
  446. <Snowshoe> The thing is thrown from Greg, physically lifted off the ground as bullets tear into it. It thunks into the ground a foot away, a gut a bloody mess.
  447. <Snowshoe> *it's gut a bloody mess.
  448. <Alivi> "Greg! Any puncture wounds???"
  449. <Alivi> Eriko rushes over to him
  450. <PresidentEvil> Greg staggers to his feet. "Don't think so..."
  451. <Roget> "I think we got it." Ralph goes to check Greg for woundalicious wounds.
  452. <Snowshoe> Greg is fine, aside from a nice bruise on his shoulders from where he slammed into the ground.
  453. <Alivi> "Should I look at it?"
  454. <PetraCore> "Jesus."
  455. <Alivi> Eriko's eyes go over to the creature.
  456. <PetraCore> Brigit approaches.
  457. <PresidentEvil> "Nah, I'm fine. My shoulders hurt, though..."
  458. <TheRaven> "Target down, check the room."
  459. <Snowshoe> You really can't see shit about the thing. It's a bloody mess.
  460. <Alivi> Eriko shines her light into the room.
  461. <PresidentEvil> "Take point for a second, Taggs. I need to catch my breath."
  462. <Alivi> Eriko waits for Taggart.
  463. <Snowshoe> The cord that trails from the dog-thing into the room tightens, before the hook pops out of its neck with a quiet sucking noise and is drawn backwards into a vent.
  464. <Snowshoe> It swishes past Eriko as she enters the doorway.
  465. <TheRaven> He does, pulling his sidearm again and illuminating the room.
  466. <PetraCore> "...an umbilical cord?"
  467. <Alivi> Eriko frowns.
  468. <PresidentEvil> "Jesus, look out!"
  469. <Alivi> "no."
  470. <PetraCore> "Is there a big mama monster in here?"
  471. <PresidentEvil> Greg tenses, then relaxes a split second later.
  472. <Alivi> "No…..not that I know of……"
  473. <PetraCore> "...let's /not/ check in the vents."
  474. <PetraCore> "Okay?"
  475. <Alivi> "Its in the vents though….n-not good."
  476. <PresidentEvil> "I'm not sure I wanna know where all these hooks are coming from..."
  477. <Snowshoe> The hook slides into the vent and, after a few seconds of metal-on-metal clanking that grows more distant, the hook is gone.
  478. <Alivi> "…whatever controls the place. I mean a hook…..A hook appeared in containment. Shouldn't have been there...."
  479. <Alivi> She rubs her arms. before sighing and moving towards the room, shining her light through the room.
  480. <Snowshoe> It looks the same as the previous room, a relatively bare office.
  481. <Alivi> "Move on to the next one."
  482. <PresidentEvil> Greg looks around for a switch.
  483. <Alivi> Eriko leaves the room back into the hallway
  484. <Snowshoe> Not even a light switch.
  485. <PresidentEvil> "Alright, next one."
  486. <PetraCore> She follows everyone.
  487. <Alivi> Eriko nods.
  488. <TheRaven> Taggart leads.
  489. <Roget> "Do we have any way to smoke them out of the vents... or smoke them while also keeping them in the vents?"
  490. <Snowshoe> Eriko, looking further down the hallway reveals a few more doors that look exactly the same as the rooms you've just checked. Maybe see what else is in the hall before checking every room individually?
  491. <Alivi> "We d-..."
  492. <Alivi> Eriko sighs.
  493. <PetraCore> "That's not our job."
  494. <Alivi> "I have a feeling these will be all the same….let's go all the way down. Then backtrack..."
  495. <Alivi> Eriko shines her light.
  496. <PresidentEvil> Greg starts looking at the walls more carefully. Smoother concrete?
  497. <PetraCore> "Sounds good."
  498. <Alivi> Eriko looks at Greg
  499. <TheRaven> "On it."
  500. <Alivi> Eriko nods.
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  502. <Snowshoe> Heading further down the hall, you do eventually reach a different looking door. It looks thicker and sturdier. A small plaque next to it reads "Security Office"
  503. <Alivi> "Let's look in here..."
  504. <PresidentEvil> "Seems like a safe bet."
  505. <PetraCore> '...If it's locked, jsut let me know."
  506. <PresidentEvil> Greg puts his ear to the door and listens, first.
  507. <Alivi> "Okay…."
  508. <Snowshoe> Perception.
  509. <Snowshoe> Greg only.
  510. <PresidentEvil> 6df+5
  511. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: 6 (6df+5=0, 0, 0, -, +, +)
  512. <Snowshoe> You hear a quiet, mechanical ticking. It's very slow, a quiet metal 'tick' once every five seconds or so
  513. <Alivi> Eriko waits with her flashlight
  514. <PresidentEvil> "...New Meat, come listen."
  515. <PresidentEvil> "There's some sort of ticking noise on the other side."
  516. <PetraCore> "Yeah?"
  517. <PetraCore> She presses her ear to it.
  518. <Roget> "Careful..."
  519. <PresidentEvil> "Wait a moment..."
  520. <Snowshoe> Perception, Brigit.
  521. <Alivi> "…." Eriko steps near Ralph.
  522. <PetraCore> 6df+4
  523. <Glacon> PetraCore: 5 (6df+4=0, 0, 0, -, +, +)
  524. <Snowshoe> You hear the same, quiet ticking. Nothing else you can really tell about it.
  525. <Snowshoe> You all hear another metallic bang from a nearby office, this time much louder than before.
  526. <TheRaven> "Oh shit."
  527. <PetraCore> "Ticking."
  528. <PetraCore> "Could just be a clock, you know."
  529. <PetraCore> "Or... not."
  530. <PetraCore> "Not with that timing. Hmmm."
  531. <PresidentEvil> "Ticking's not our problem anymore." Greg says, turning towards the office.
  532. <PetraCore> She's completely absorbed.
  533. <PetraCore> "Huh?"
  534. <PresidentEvil> Is it the same one as he was listening at?
  535. <Snowshoe> No. The bang came from a separate office, has the same kind of aluminum door as most of the other rooms.
  536. <Alivi> "….We should…..look in this office…"
  537. <Alivi> Eriko points to the securitiy one.
  538. <Snowshoe> The only sound coming from the security office is the quiet mechanical ticking.
  539. <Roget> "So... we got two noises. I don't like either of 'em. What's the game plan?"
  540. <PresidentEvil> "I'll take the ticking over another noise any day."
  541. <Snowshoe> You hear the sound of metal scraping on concrete coming from further down the hall, in the direction you haven't looked yet. Seems to be getting louder, slowly.
  542. <TheRaven> "Deal with the thing coming towards us first."
  543. <PresidentEvil> Greg trains his light on it.
  544. <Alivi> "…mm..."
  545. <TheRaven> "Everyone who can't shoot, lights down that way." Taggart shoulders his rifle.
  546. <Alivi> Eriko shines her light down the hall, stepping forward a bit to allow the light to reach furthur.
  547. <Snowshoe> The noise is slowly getting louder. You all realize that if something's making that much goddamn noise and it's not close enough for you to see yet, it's gotta be something big.
  548. <PresidentEvil> "New plan. Into the security office."
  549. <PresidentEvil> "Wait for it to pass by us."
  550. <Alivi> Eriko nods. "I agree..."
  551. <Alivi> "Taggart get the door open,"
  552. <PetraCore> Brigit tries the door, not opening it yet.
  553. <PetraCore> Just to check if it's lcoked.
  554. <Snowshoe> It's unlocked.
  555. <PresidentEvil> Greg pushes it open and starts hurrying the others in. "Go, go."
  556. <PresidentEvil> Once everyone else is inside, he'll duck in and close the door.
  557. <Alivi> Eriko ducks inside.
  558. <TheRaven> Taggart follows in, loosening a grenade on his belt.
  559. <Roget> Ralph ducks in the room
  560. <Snowshoe> It's a decently sized office, about twenty feet across. A row of surveillance monitors sit against one wall, showing what look like various rooms from inside the facility.
  561. <TheRaven> Taggart starts scanning the monitors.
  562. <Snowshoe> The ticking noise seems to be coming from a control panel in front of one of the monitors, ticking every time a small red light flashes on and then off.
  563. <PetraCore> She ducks in.
  564. <PresidentEvil> Greg ducks in and shuts the door.
  565. <PetraCore> Brigit examines the screen from a distance.
  566. <PetraCore> What's it say?
  567. <Alivi> Eriko stays near Ralph
  568. <PresidentEvil> Drawing his pistol, he gets down on his stomach and tries to peer through the crack at the bottom of the door... from a short distance away, of course.
  569. <Snowshoe> The monitors show a few of the rooms you've already been in. You recognize the shattered vats from some of the entrance rooms. and you see the room full of computers. Conspicuously absent is the room holding the bodies in the entrance hallway.
  570. <Alivi> Eriko reaches for Ralph's hand.
  571. <Snowshoe> Greg, you see what looks like a grey shape with lots of hard edges slide past.
  572. <Snowshoe> Perception, everyone.
  573. <Roget> Ralph takes her hand.
  574. <Roget> 6df+7 ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
  575. <Glacon> Roget: ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff: 6 (6df+7=0, +, 0, -, 0, -)
  576. <PetraCore> 6df+4
  577. <Glacon> PetraCore: 3 (6df+4=+, -, -, 0, +, -)
  578. <TheRaven> 6df+7
  579. <Glacon> TheRaven: 8 (6df+7=0, 0, 0, 0, 0, +)
  580. <PresidentEvil> 6df+5 This is not good...
  581. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: This is not good...: 4 (6df+5=-, 0, +, -, 0, 0)
  582. <Alivi> 6df+12 tagging what is this
  583. <Glacon> Alivi: tagging what is this: 9 (6df+12=-, -, +, -, 0, -)
  584. <Snowshoe> Greg, as you look out from under the door you feel something cold and metal tap against your spine, about midway up your back. Eriko and Taggart notice a hook lying on the floor, it obviously wasn't there when you entered. Eriko, you get the feeling that you're being watched.
  585. <Roget> "Oh shit..."
  586. <Snowshoe> The hook Eriko and Taggart see isn't touching Greg. It's just there.
  587. <PetraCore> Brigit presses the space key on the moniter.
  588. <PresidentEvil> "What the... Guys, I have something on me."
  589. <Alivi> "…Greg….don't move..."
  590. <PetraCore> "Huh?"
  591. <PetraCore> She turns.
  592. <Alivi> "No one move…..we are being watched..."
  593. <Roget> Ralph freezes
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  595. <PresidentEvil> "Guys... there's something on my back. What is on my back guys..."
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  597. <Alivi> "…Greg…relax….please…."
  598. <Snowshoe> The grate covering the vent in the roof shoots off from the roof, crashing into the floor. Those of you who look, you don't see anything in the vent.
  599. <Alivi> "Just don't move okay."
  600. <PresidentEvil> Greg winces, closing his eyes.
  601. <PetraCore> Brigit clutches her wrench.
  602. <PetraCore> "I don't see anything..."
  603. <PresidentEvil> "Shit... Look, guys, I can feel something on my back."
  604. <Alivi> "….Greg….its a hook..."
  605. <Snowshoe> Eriko, pdef.
  606. <Alivi> "It isn-"
  607. <Roget> Ralph clutches his sidearm in one hand, and Eriko's hand in the other.
  608. <Alivi> 6df+6
  609. <Glacon> Alivi: 6 (6df+6=+, 0, 0, -, +, -)
  610. <Snowshoe> 6df+6 I hit slightly harder than that other, lamer minion
  611. <Glacon> Snowshoe: I hit slightly harder than that other, lamer minion: 4 (6df+6=0, +, 0, -, -, -)
  612. <PetraCore> "It's not touching you."
  613. <PetraCore> "But if you feel it..."
  614. <PresidentEvil> Greg slowly, very deliberately, releases his pistol and slides it towards whoever's on his right.
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  617. <PresidentEvil> "Guys... If whatever it is, if it..."
  618. <PresidentEvil> "You do what you have to, understand?"
  619. <PetraCore> "...sure."
  620. <PetraCore> "Can I try something?"
  621. <Snowshoe> Eriko, you feel something whistling towards you and duck to the side. Looking behind you reveals one of the ashy men you've encountered before, a small section of wall behind him having opened up. Looks like he entered through there. Greg, as you move, you feel the cold slide up your spine towards your neck.
  622. <PetraCore> brigit sloowly swipes her wrench just behind Greg's back.
  623. <PetraCore> Not touching him.
  624. <TheRaven> Does anyone else see the ash man?
  625. <PetraCore> From the neck to the butt.
  626. <Alivi> Eriko let's out a startled cry.
  627. <PresidentEvil> Greg tenses. Can he see the hook on the floor from where he is?
  628. <Alivi> Eriko lets go of Ralph's hand.
  629. <Snowshoe> Well, now everyone can see the ashy guy. Greg, your vision is occupied by wall and door.
  630. <Roget> Ralph backs near Greg, raising his gun to the ash man.
  631. <PresidentEvil> Shit. Well, he'll just have to guess then.
  632. <TheRaven> Are there still noises coming from outside?
  633. <Snowshoe> Yes, but they're fading.
  634. <Snowshoe> The metal thing that rolled past would now be between you and the exit of the prefab.
  635. <PetraCore> "Did that change the sensation, Greg?"
  636. <PetraCore> "I tried to swipe behind your back.
  637. <PetraCore> ":
  638. <PresidentEvil> 6df+9 tagging Professional, Greg leaps towards where he thinks the hook is, the real hook, and tries to grab it.
  639. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: tagging Professional, Greg leaps towards where he thinks the hook is, the real hook, and tries to grab it.: 12 (6df+9=+, 0, 0, +, 0, +)
  640. <PresidentEvil> Seize it, more like.
  641. <Alivi> "Greg don't!"
  642. <TheRaven> 6df+8 tagging I Know What I'm Doing to very quietly throw a knife and sever the connection between the ash man and the hook cord
  643. <Glacon> TheRaven: tagging I Know What I'm Doing to very quietly throw a knife and sever the connection between the ash man and the hook cord: 9 (6df+8=+, +, -, +, 0, -)
  644. <Snowshoe> Greg, the cold tingle on your back jerks upward as you dive, nearly reaching your neck, then cuts off as you grab the hook. Your hands go absolutely numb.
  645. <Snowshoe> 6df+10 cord pdef
  646. <Glacon> Snowshoe: cord pdef: 11 (6df+10=0, 0, 0, -, +, +)
  647. <Snowshoe> The knife hits the cord, slicing against it and fraying part of it, but failing to fully sever it
  648. <Alivi> "Greg! Let it go! And Taggart! DON'T!"
  649. <PresidentEvil> Greg holds his arms out as far as he can. "Someone get a bag! Quick!"
  650. <PetraCore> Brigit saws at the cord with a knife from her multitool.
  651. <Alivi> Eriko is frantic. She rushes over and places on gloves. She tries to bag it.
  652. <PetraCore> The blade is serrated.
  653. <Alivi> "DON'T CUT THE CORD."
  654. <TheRaven> "WHY?"
  655. <Alivi> "I did it once! It went into me!"
  656. <Roget> "Greg, you okay?"
  657. <Snowshoe> Greg, pdef. Brigit, you're gonna have to get to the guy before you can cut the cord, and he's not gonna let you do that. pdef.
  658. <PresidentEvil> Greg tries to shove it into Eriko's bag.
  659. <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 Frantically.
  660. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Frantically.: 7 (6df+6=+, 0, 0, +, 0, -)
  661. <PetraCore> 6df+6
  662. <Glacon> PetraCore: 6 (6df+6=-, +, -, -, +, +)
  663. <TheRaven> Can Taggart roll again, or...?
  664. <Snowshoe> Greg, you successfully dump the hook and avoid damage. Eriko, you have a bag with a hook.
  665. <Snowshoe> 6df+6 taking a hit against brigit
  666. <Glacon> Snowshoe: taking a hit against brigit: 4 (6df+6=-, 0, 0, -, +, -)
  667. <Alivi> Eriko curses.
  668. <PresidentEvil> "Close it up!"
  669. <Alivi> She closes it.
  670. <Alivi> or attempts to.
  671. <Snowshoe> Brigit, you manage to evade a swing as the ashy man tries to throw you away from him. Poolboy's turn.
  672. <PetraCore> Brigit backs up.
  673. <PresidentEvil> Greg doesn't have the pistol. Cursing, he draws a flare from his webbing.
  674. <PetraCore> "Okay, I won't cut the cord! I'm backing up!"
  675. <Alivi> Eriko attempts to close the bag.
  676. <TheRaven> 6df+10 shooting the fuck in the head
  677. <Glacon> TheRaven: shooting the fuck in the head: 9 (6df+10=0, -, 0, -, +, 0)
  678. <Snowshoe> 6df+6 the guy himself has much lower pdef than the cord
  679. <Glacon> Snowshoe: the guy himself has much lower pdef than the cord: 8 (6df+6=+, 0, +, +, 0, -)
  680. <Snowshoe> Taggart, you nail him in the side of the head, bullet kicking ash into the air as it hits him. He staggers back.
  681. <TheRaven> "Fuck stealth, weapons free!"
  682. <Alivi> "We have to get out!"
  683. <PresidentEvil> Greg lights the flare up and tries to jam it into the ashman's neck. Melee?
  684. <Roget> "Where do we go?"
  685. <Snowshoe> Melee, greg.
  686. <Alivi> "…I-….I dunno..."
  687. <TheRaven> "Take this motherfucker down and check the monitors."
  688. <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 eat magnesium, douchebag!
  689. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: eat magnesium, douchebag!: 6 (6df+6=0, +, 0, +, -, -)
  690. <Snowshoe> 6df+6 oh sheeit
  691. <Glacon> Snowshoe: oh sheeit: 5 (6df+6=0, +, -, +, -, -)
  692. <Roget> Ralph fumbles with his sidearm, trying to get ready to take a shot at it.
  693. <PetraCore> 1d10+5 Brigit tosses a wrench!
  694. <Glacon> PetraCore: Brigit tosses a wrench!: 13 (1d10+5=8)
  695. <PetraCore> 6df+5
  696. <Glacon> PetraCore: 5 (6df+5=-, +, 0, +, 0, -)
  697. <Snowshoe> Greg you jam a burning hot stick of flare against his throat. There's an audible choke as you nail him, and the ash man is shoved back against the wall. The smell of rapidly cooking human flesh fills the room.
  698. <Snowshoe> 6df+6 pdef against brigit
  699. <Glacon> Snowshoe: pdef against brigit: 5 (6df+6=-, +, -, +, 0, -)
  700. <Alivi> Eriko covers her mouth.
  701. <TheRaven> ~Mm, barbecue.~
  702. <TheRaven> Wait no
  703. <PresidentEvil> Greg keeps the flare pressed into its neck, gritting his teeth and breathing heavily.
  704. <Snowshoe> Brigit, you hit him, but the wrench just thuds into the ash and falls to the ground.
  705. <Alivi> "Greg! Get back!"
  706. <Snowshoe> Ralph or Eriko, going to attack?
  707. <PresidentEvil> Greg wants to kill this monster very, very badly. But he hears Eriko and quickly withdraws, holding the flare up in front of him in a defensive stance.
  708. <Alivi> Eriko is too shocked
  709. <Roget> 6df+5 I have okay ranged so I am going to shoot you now if that's cool with you I mean we can still hang out after this
  710. <Glacon> Roget: I have okay ranged so I am going to shoot you now if that's cool with you I mean we can still hang out after this: 1 (6df+5=-, -, 0, -, 0, -)
  711. <PetraCore> Brigit tries to get the wrench safely.
  712. <Snowshoe> ralph you manage to point the gun vaguely towards the guy and pull the trigger. You miss by a /mile/. The man clutches at his throat as he drops to the ground, but you don't hear him struggling to breathe. He turns, wrenches a metal cover off the wall, and begins to dive into what you would guess is an access tunnel.
  713. <Alivi> "D-Don't!"
  714. <PresidentEvil> "Disengage!"
  715. <Snowshoe> The man successfully dives into the tunnel. You hear the faint sound of flesh dragging against metal as the hook in his neck pulls him down the tunnel.
  716. <Alivi> "O-Oh god..."
  717. <TheRaven> "Son of a bitch." Taggart retrieves his knife and sheaths is.
  718. <TheRaven> *it
  719. <Alivi> Eriko sits on the ground.
  720. <Roget> "Jesus christ..."
  721. <Alivi> "…We can go now….right?
  722. <TheRaven> "Everyone okay?"
  723. <PresidentEvil> Greg slumps against a wall, fighting to catch his breath. "We can try..."
  724. <PetraCore> Brigit gets her wrench and backs up.
  725. <Alivi> Eriko nods.
  726. <PetraCore> "W-wow."
  727. <PetraCore> "should we leave, or keep... looking in rooms."
  728. <PresidentEvil> "Switch... we were looking for a switch, right?"
  729. <TheRaven> Taggart heads over to the monitors and starts looking at them.
  730. <Snowshoe> The flashing red light by the monitor bank draws your attention again.
  731. <PresidentEvil> Greg lights up a cigarette to calm his nerves.
  732. <Snowshoe> Taggart, you see a lot of rooms. Several seem to be basic offices, one is a view of the main cylindrical room you came through to get here, you don't see much of note. You do notice one view of what seems to be a very large room with something cylindrical in the center, lots of tubes running from it to the ceiling.
  733. <Alivi> "Maybe I should take one from you greg…" Eriko laughs.
  734. <TheRaven> "Hey Eriko, take a look at this."
  735. <PresidentEvil> Greg holds one out to her. "They're unfiltered, so if you've never smoked before... Do me a favor though?"
  736. <Snowshoe> You hear the metal screeching from whatever massive thing was in the hall start up again, now coming from the direction of your exit. It's much louder than before, and the screeching is punctuated every few seconds by the sound of metal slamming against metal.
  737. <Alivi> "What is it Greg?"
  738. <Roget> "Shit."
  739. <PresidentEvil> Greg picks up the machinegun and glances warily at the door. "Don't let that fucking bag out of your sight, okay?"
  740. <Alivi> Eriko nods and takes the cigeratte from greg before Going over to Taggart, She doesnt have time
  741. <Snowshoe> As the screeching grows louder, you identify the source of the banging. Sounds like doors being thrown from their hinges.
  742. <TheRaven> He points to the monitor with the cylinder.
  743. <PresidentEvil> Greg retrieves his pistol from the floor and holsters it.
  744. <Alivi> Eriko takes a look.
  745. <TheRaven> "Oh shit, here we go." Taggart swings around and readies his rifle.
  746. <Roget> "Back from the door... it's looking for us. Can we hide?"
  747. <Alivi> "Everyone, we need to hide.
  748. <PresidentEvil> "Into the access tunnel."
  749. <Alivi> Eriko looks around, "Anywhere else???"
  750. <PetraCore> "O can carry the bag."
  751. <Alivi> "No, I have it."
  752. <PetraCore> "Stick it in my bag to carry."
  753. <PetraCore> She unzips her tote.
  754. <PresidentEvil> "We don't have time, Eri! /Move/!"
  755. <Alivi> "Eriko points to her bag over her shoulder."
  756. <Alivi> -""
  757. <PresidentEvil> Greg starts shoving people into the tunnel.
  758. <Alivi> Eriko stumbles being shoved in.
  759. <Roget> Ralph gets into the tunnel.
  760. <Snowshoe> Eriko, you identify some of the tubes on display on that monitor as being like the kind that carried chemicals to the vats in one of the earlier rooms. The kind of tube Greg shot that filled the room with ash. That's all you really have time to see.
  761. <TheRaven> Taggart goes last, trying to not fall all the way down.
  762. <PresidentEvil> Greg heads glancing warily back at the room and the door...
  763. <Alivi> Eriko looks behind as well
  764. <Snowshoe> The access shaft is about five feet high and three feet wide. There's barely room for you to fit, even ducking. It looks like it stretches on for about a hundred feet in either direction, with multiple paths branching off.
  765. <PetraCore> She leaves.
  766. <PetraCore> "Well, I've been in places like this before."
  767. <PetraCore> "Maybe I should lead."
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  769. <Alivi> "No."
  770. <PresidentEvil> "Maybe we should stay here until that thing passes, then make for the exit."
  771. <Alivi> "The ones with guns lead, you stick behind point."
  772. <TheRaven> "Greg, take point, I've got the rear."
  773. <Snowshoe> The banging grows louder.
  774. <Alivi> Eriko's breath catches in her throat.
  775. <PresidentEvil> "Let's go..." Greg heads off, cautiously.
  776. <Roget> "Let's just get away from that goddamn thing!"
  777. <Alivi> "Ralph!"
  778. <PresidentEvil> He picks up the pace a little.
  779. <Alivi> Eriko follows Greg.
  780. <Roget> Ralph scurries with the group, sticking to his lady.
  781. <TheRaven> Taggart is at the back, following.
  782. <PresidentEvil> "Once that thing passes us, we double back and get the fuck out of here, agreed?"
  783. <Snowshoe> You hear the door to the security office bang open as you set off down the tunnel. You hear a quiet metallic click from behind you as you continue, then two more. The sound comes from the exposed entrance to the tunnels from the security office.
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  785. <PresidentEvil> Greg glances over his shoulder. "I caught a glimpse of that thing right before the hook... you know."
  786. <TheRaven> Taggart looks back. Is the exit closed?
  787. <Roget> "What's it look like?"
  788. <Alivi> "Oh?"
  789. <PresidentEvil> "Big. And gray. Lots of rough edges."
  790. <PresidentEvil> "Like metal, or rock..."
  791. <PresidentEvil> "That's all I've got..."
  792. <Alivi> "Okay…."
  793. <Alivi> "Let's keep going." Eriko shines her light forward.
  794. <Snowshoe> Looking back behind you towards the entrance reveals three metal hooks lying on the ground just inside the entrance. They lie there, unmoving. Their cords stretch from where they lie back into the main hall.
  795. <PetraCore> "Let's just get out of here."
  796. <PetraCore> "..."
  797. <Snowshoe> *Just inside the entrance from the security office.
  798. <TheRaven> "Oh, I don't like the look of that."
  799. <Alivi> "Just keep moving..."
  800. <PresidentEvil> Greg starts backing off very, very cautiously...
  801. <Alivi> Eriko holds her bag close to her chest.
  802. <Snowshoe> The hooks remain where they are as you continue down the tunnel. You pass several side-passages as you go, apparently small branching things. You can't tell much about them, they only stretch about fifteen feet before turning.
  803. <PetraCore> "Maybe we can set them off on purpose?"
  804. <PresidentEvil> He has his pistol drawn, but he's not sure he can get a shot with everyone else between him and the hooks..."
  805. <PetraCore> "Like mousetraps."
  806. <Alivi> "Don't…."
  807. <TheRaven> "Let's not touch them."
  808. <PresidentEvil> "Let's not take any branches, okay? Don't wanna get lost."
  809. <Roget> "I wouldn't mess with them."
  810. <Snowshoe> Which direction are you headed? Further away from the entrance, or back towards it?
  811. <PresidentEvil> Towards it.
  812. <Alivi> Eriko sticks close to Greg
  813. <PetraCore> "Or we could just always go left."
  814. <Roget> Ralph sticks to Eriko
  815. <PetraCore> "Easy enough to backtrace that."
  816. <Roget> they're probably in a conga formation
  817. <Snowshoe> As you continue, you eventually reach a metal wall-mounted plate that looks like it could be removed to allow you to exit. You hear a faint hissing from further down the tunnel, from the direction you've been coming from.
  818. <Alivi> "Oh god…"
  819. <PresidentEvil> Is there room for someone to slip by?
  820. <PresidentEvil> Say, Brigit?
  821. <Snowshoe> It'd take a bit of uncomfortable squeezing, but you could reorder yourselves.
  822. <PetraCore> "Sounds mechanical."
  823. <PetraCore> "Hopefully."
  824. <PresidentEvil> "Brigit, get that fucking grate off."
  825. <PresidentEvil> "Double time."
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  827. <Alivi> Eriko moves to let brigit through
  828. <Roget> As does Ralph
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  830. <Snowshoe> Engineering, Brigit. Anyone looking in the direction of the hissing, perception.
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  832. <PresidentEvil> Greg flattens himself against the side.
  833. <PresidentEvil> 6df+5
  834. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: 8 (6df+5=+, +, 0, +, +, -)
  835. <PetraCore> Brigit passes through, then lays her hand on the plate, as well as her ear. Anything that indicates opening it would be a bad idea? Like, say, heat?
  836. <PetraCore> 6df+10 (Tagging Solitary)
  837. <Glacon> PetraCore: (Tagging Solitary): 9 (6df+10=0, -, +, -, -, +)
  838. <Snowshoe> The metal's the same temperature as the air around you.
  839. <TheRaven> 6df+7 percep whee
  840. <Glacon> TheRaven: percep whee: 4 (6df+7=+, -, -, 0, -, -)
  841. <Alivi> 6df+8
  842. <Glacon> Alivi: 11 (6df+8=0, +, 0, +, +, 0)
  843. <Roget> 6df+7 glacon u betr not fuck me over this time
  844. <Glacon> Roget: glacon u betr not fuck me over this time: 9 (6df+7=+, +, 0, 0, +, -)
  845. <PetraCore> Right, but that roll was for getting the plate off, sorry.
  846. <Snowshoe> Taggart, you see what looks like a wall of ash hurtling down the tunnel towards you. Ralph and Greg, you can tell that there's... something... in that ash. Eriko, you see a very rectangular human in the ash cloud, sprinting towards your group. It fills the tunnel, both height and width-wise.
  847. <Snowshoe> Brigit, the plate pops right off. You are a pro.
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  849. <Alivi> Eriko screams.
  850. <PresidentEvil> "Go, go, go!"
  851. <PetraCore> "Go!"
  852. <PetraCore> Brigit runs!
  853. <PresidentEvil> Greg is next out the door. "Taggart, drop a frag!"
  854. <TheRaven> 6df+4 "Frag out!"
  855. <Glacon> TheRaven: "Frag out!": 3 (6df+4=+, -, 0, -, +, -)
  856. <Roget> Ralph grabs Eriko's hand and ducks inside
  857. <Alivi> Eriko is dragged inside.
  858. <TheRaven> Once it's away, he hauls ass out of that tunnel.
  859. <PresidentEvil> "Keep moving, get to the ladder!"
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  861. <PetraCore> brigit barrels at the ladder.
  862. <Alivi> "W-where?"
  863. <Snowshoe> Taggart, you successfully put a frag in the access shaft. It detonates as you all exit, blowing ash out of the tunnel and through the room.
  864. <Alivi> Eriko looks around the new room
  865. <Snowshoe> As you exit something wrenches at the opening that brigit created, clawing at the hole in the wall.
  866. <Snowshoe> This is another standard office, but there's nothing in here this time.
  867. <TheRaven> 6df+10 bang bang bang fuck off
  868. <Glacon> TheRaven: bang bang bang fuck off: 9 (6df+10=+, 0, -, 0, 0, -)
  869. <Alivi> She is shining her flashlight around the room. She turns around.
  870. <PresidentEvil> 6df+7 Greg puts some rounds into the tunnel, hoping to delay the thing.
  871. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Greg puts some rounds into the tunnel, hoping to delay the thing.: 4 (6df+7=-, -, +, -, -, 0)
  872. <PresidentEvil> "Where the fuck are we going, guys!?"
  873. <Snowshoe> 6df+7 I have slightly higher pdef
  874. <Glacon> Snowshoe: I have slightly higher pdef: 7 (6df+7=-, 0, -, +, 0, +)
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  876. <Alivi> Eriko goes over to the door and opens it.
  877. <Roget> "Away from the giant ash monster!"
  878. <Snowshoe> Taggart hits home at the rectangular thing trying to claw its way out into the room, temporarily knocking it back into the tunnel.
  879. <Alivi> She looks into the hallway. What can she see?
  880. <PresidentEvil> "Through the door!" Greg yells, backpedaling. He'll exit once everyone else is out.
  881. <Alivi> "Wait!~"
  882. <Snowshoe> It's the same hallway from before. You can hear the metal screeching still, growing louder, but it's no longer between you and the exit.
  883. <Alivi> "We have to be fast! It is coming!!!"
  884. <Alivi> Eriko gets out into the hallway opening the door for the others.
  885. <TheRaven> Taggart runs. "Go go go!"
  886. <Snowshoe> The rectangular thing heaves itself at the opening, throwing its top half into the room behind them.
  887. <Alivi> "HURRY!"
  888. <PetraCore> "I'M HURRYING"
  889. <Alivi> Eriko is in the hallway, her eyes towards where the big noises are coming from.
  890. <PresidentEvil> Greg shoves Ralph and Brigit out the door and bolts, urging everyone towards the ladder.
  891. <Alivi> Her flashlight pointed there as well
  892. <TheRaven> 6df+10 assuming Taggart can place more suppressive fire on it.
  893. <Glacon> TheRaven: assuming Taggart can place more suppressive fire on it.: 7 (6df+10=0, -, -, 0, 0, -)
  894. <PetraCore> Does she reach the ladder?
  895. <Roget> Ralph begins hopping up the ladder. "ERI, COME ON!"
  896. <Alivi> They are just in the hallway, they need to get to the exit first.
  897. <Alivi> Then they are at the catwalk then there is the ladder, right?
  898. <PetraCore> Does she reach the exit, then?
  899. <Snowshoe> Everybody reaches the lower catwalk.
  900. <Snowshoe> 6df+7
  901. <Glacon> Snowshoe: 4 (6df+7=-, -, -, -, +, 0)
  902. <Snowshoe> Taggart, you nail the thing again. It collapses.
  903. <PresidentEvil> "UP THE LADDER, MOVE IT MOVE IT".
  904. <PetraCore> To the ladder!
  905. <Alivi> Eriko is looking around, trying to keep on her toes.
  906. <Snowshoe> Agility, everyone.
  907. <PresidentEvil> 6df+5 Uh-oh.
  908. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Uh-oh.: 5 (6df+5=+, 0, -, 0, +, -)
  909. <TheRaven> 6df+5 welp
  910. <Glacon> TheRaven: welp: 5 (6df+5=-, 0, +, 0, 0, 0)
  911. <Roget> 6df+7 VISION TEST
  912. <Glacon> Roget: VISION TEST: 10 (6df+7=0, 0, +, 0, +, +)
  913. <PetraCore> 6df+5 shit shit shit
  914. <Glacon> PetraCore: shit shit shit: 6 (6df+5=+, 0, +, 0, -, 0)
  915. <Alivi> 6df_6
  916. <Alivi> 6df+66
  917. <Glacon> Alivi: 62 (6df+66=-, 0, 0, -, -, -)
  918. <Alivi> 6df+6
  919. <Glacon> Alivi: 4 (6df+6=-, 0, -, 0, +, -)
  920. <Snowshoe> Hooks fly from the direction of the metallic screeching in the hallway as you start up the ladder. Ralph and brigit manage to dodge, pdef from everyone else. Full pdef, no debuff from agility failed.
  921. <Alivi> 6df+6
  922. <Glacon> Alivi: 2 (6df+6=0, 0, -, -, -, -)
  923. <PresidentEvil> 6df+6 Oof.
  924. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Oof.: 5 (6df+6=0, +, +, -, -, -)
  925. <TheRaven> 6df+11 tagging I Know What I'm Doing
  926. <Glacon> TheRaven: tagging I Know What I'm Doing: 10 (6df+11=-, +, -, 0, 0, 0)
  927. <Snowshoe> A hook slams into Eriko's arm, stabbing itself into her skin. Greg is hit as well, on the back of his shoulder. Mdef, and -1 body to both of you.
  928. <Snowshoe> only mdef from greg and eriko
  929. <PetraCore> "Oh... shit."
  930. <Alivi> Eriko screams
  931. <Alivi> 6df+4
  932. <Glacon> Alivi: 0 (6df+4=-, -, -, -, -, +)
  933. <PresidentEvil> 6df+4 "SON OF A..."
  934. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: "SON OF A...": 3 (6df+4=+, -, 0, 0, 0, -)
  935. <PetraCore> Brigit keeps climbing. She can't help them from where she is in the group.
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  937. <TheRaven> Taggart is still at the bottom of the ladder.
  938. <Roget> Ralph doesn't climb, he's got his best "oh shit" face as he watches the mayhem
  939. <PetraCore> "Guys, we need... we need to keep climbing if we can."
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  942. <PetraCore> "At least if we're not close enough in the line to help."
  943. <Snowshoe> Eriko and Greg, something tremendously cold slams into your conscious. Eriko, you feel a pressure hooking into your neck and your heart skips, then falters. Greg, you feel the same. Something crushingly huge presses against both your minds, suppressing thought. You can both still move, barely, but combat is way beyond you right now.
  944. <Snowshoe> -1 mind to you both.
  945. <PetraCore> "I'm going to try to get backup!"
  946. <TheRaven> Can Taggart see where the hooks are coming from?
  947. <PetraCore> She keeps climbing as fast as she can.
  948. <Alivi> Eriko looks up at Ralph.
  949. <Snowshoe> They're coming from the doorway. The metallic screeching is growing louder by the second.
  950. <Snowshoe> The large doorway, the one brigit cut the padlock on.
  951. <PresidentEvil> Greg reaches back and grabs the hook, grits his teeth, and /wrenches/ as hard as he can. If the hook refuses to give, he keeps pulling.
  952. <TheRaven> He heads for the doorway, reloading with impressive speed.
  953. <PresidentEvil> 6df+10 tagging professional to block out pain
  954. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: tagging professional to block out pain: 8 (6df+10=-, +, -, 0, -, 0)
  955. <Roget> Ralph dashes over, and tries to grab Eriko and yank her outta there
  956. <Alivi> She seems confused. She pulls back a bit. It is weak though.
  957. <PetraCore> Does Brigit reach the top?
  958. <TheRaven> Can Taggart see the monster the hooks are attached to?
  959. <Snowshoe> Greg, you rip out the hook. You dun /fucked up/ your hand, and another -1 to body. You're still staggered, and you've got a raging headache, but you can think somewhat clearly again.
  960. <Snowshoe> Pause for one sec.
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  962. <Snowshoe> Eriko, you drop off the ladder. Thank /god/ you're only a couple feet in the air. You land in a heap, but mostly unharmed.
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  964. <Snowshoe> Taggart, mdef.
  965. <Snowshoe> Still pause for everyone but taggart.
  966. <TheRaven> 6df+6 pls
  967. <Glacon> TheRaven: pls: 6 (6df+6=0, -, 0, 0, +, 0)
  968. <Snowshoe> Taggart, as you round the corner you feel ice grip your mind. Your movements slow, and your reactions are shit, but you manage to avoid mind loss. A twisted heap of rusted metal and human flesh sits in front of you, dragging itself out the doorway and towards your group. It fires off another hook at you.
  969. <Snowshoe> Agility or pdef from taggart, everyone else unpaused.
  970. <TheRaven> 6df+7 aw /tits/
  971. <Glacon> TheRaven: aw /tits/: 5 (6df+7=0, -, -, +, 0, -)
  972. <Roget> Ralph rushes to his wife to help her up. "Eri!"
  973. <Snowshoe> Eriko still has a hook in her, and is incapable of doing much beyond lying there and freezing to death as her heart stops.
  974. <PresidentEvil> Greg walks over to Eriko. "Ralph! We have to get this out of her now!"
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  977. <Roget> Can Ralph roll medical to get that shit out of her?
  978. <PresidentEvil> Can Greg assist?
  979. <PresidentEvil> Or, if there's not enough time, can he put his foot on her back and yank the thing out of her?
  980. <Snowshoe> Taggart, the hook /just/ misses you. It rips through your sleeve and embeds itself in the concrete at your feet. The hunk of metal pulls itself closer to you again, and the icy hold on your mind strengthens. If it gets any closer, it'll be overwhelming.
  981. <Snowshoe> Yes, medical is an option.
  982. <Roget> 6df+10 I HAVE EXTREMELY HIGH MEDICAL MOTHERFUCKER
  983. <Glacon> Roget: I HAVE EXTREMELY HIGH MEDICAL MOTHERFUCKER: 9 (6df+10=-, +, +, 0, -, -)
  984. <Snowshoe> Ralph, you are like the jesus of hook removal. You manage to pop the hook out of Eriko's hand and drop it before it numbs you.
  985. <TheRaven> 6df+14 tagging This Is My Rifle for headshots.
  986. <Glacon> TheRaven: tagging This Is My Rifle for headshots.: 17 (6df+14=+, -, +, +, +, 0)
  987. <Snowshoe> Eriko, your heart stammers back to a healthy beat, and the pressure on your neck releases
  988. <Alivi> Eriko gasps.
  989. <PresidentEvil> Greg hauls Eriko to her feet and yells "Start climbing!" at her.
  990. <TheRaven> ~I am a leaf on the wind, watch me soar...~
  991. <Alivi> Eriko stumbles. Still confused.
  992. <PetraCore> "IS EVERYONE OKAY?"
  993. <Snowshoe> Brigit you are all the fuck alone at the top of the ladder.
  994. <PresidentEvil> Greg shoves her at Ralph and yells "Get her outta here!"
  995. <Alivi> "…Ralph…we need help..."
  996. <Roget> Ralph grabs Erikos's hand, and swiftly leads her to the ladder. "Eri, we gotta go, climb up here, okay?"
  997. <PetraCore> Brigit climbs out and uses the radio.
  998. <PetraCore> <<Can anyone here me? We need medical help!>>
  999. *** Tehpillowstar [Mibbit@3E9224D8.2F616764.610698A5.IP] has joined #redpool
  1000. <PetraCore> <<We need backup!>>
  1001. *** Strifey [~androirc@142E7593.9511DA53.CBA15B39.IP] has quit [Connection reset by peer]
  1002. <Alivi> Eriko attempts to climb up the ladder her hand hurting
  1003. <Snowshoe> Taggart, your bullet tears through a corpse near the center of the thing and punches straight through, nailing the center of the mass of metal. A metallic screech rips through the air, and it pulls itself closer to taggart. Mdef, taggart.
  1004. *** Strifey [~androirc@142E7593.9511DA53.CBA15B39.IP] has joined #redpool
  1005. <Roget> Ralph climbs up after her.
  1006. <TheRaven> 6df+6 welp
  1007. <Glacon> TheRaven: welp: 8 (6df+6=+, +, 0, 0, +, -)
  1008. <PresidentEvil> Strength to pull Taggart outta there?
  1009. <PresidentEvil> Or can he use intimidation to snap him out of it?
  1010. <Snowshoe> Your choice.
  1011. <Snowshoe> Taggart, something slams against your mind with so much strength that you are staggered. You're not going to be able to hold up against something like that again.
  1012. <PresidentEvil> 6df+9 Greg, tagging Professional with his last AP, doesn't really have it in him to do anything but grab Taggart's shoulder and scream "WE ARE LEAVING! MOVE!" in his ear.
  1013. <Glacon> PresidentEvil: Greg, tagging Professional with his last AP, doesn't really have it in him to do anything but grab Taggart's shoulder and scream "WE ARE LEAVING! MOVE!" in his ear.: 9 (6df+9=0, 0, -, 0, 0, +)
  1014. <Snowshoe> You feel your heart stutter as ice clamps your mind, but you can keep going.
  1015. <TheRaven> He fucks right off up the ladder with Greg's assistance.
  1016. <PresidentEvil> Greg shoves him up, grabs the ladder as soon as possible, and climbs for dear life.
  1017. <PresidentEvil> <<All callsigns, we are coming up the ladder with a fucking hookmonster on our tail! Be ready to bug out ASAP, do you read!?>>
  1018. <PetraCore> <<We need support!>>
  1019. <Snowshoe> Greg, a hook embeds itself in the ladder next to your leg as you climb. You manage to evade, hang on, and continue climbing.
  1020. <Snowshoe> If you're all still inside the prefab, you get no response.
  1021. <Alivi> Does Eriko make it to the top?
  1022. <PresidentEvil> Greg climbs like a fucking madman.
  1023. <Snowshoe> Everyone makes it.
  1024. <TheRaven> Taggart pulls the pin on a grenade and drops it back at the hookbeast, then runs.
  1025. <TheRaven> 6df+4
  1026. <Glacon> TheRaven: 4 (6df+4=+, 0, +, -, 0, -)
  1027. <Alivi> Eriko gets to the top and sits down.
  1028. <PetraCore> Brigit runs for the door as soon as people starts to arrive.
  1029. <PetraCore> "Let's go!"
  1030. <PetraCore> She pauses.
  1031. <PetraCore> "Aw hell, I can carry Eriko."
  1032. <PresidentEvil> Greg hauls himself to his feet, his shoulder screaming in response to the abuse he just put it to, and breaks into a run. "Don't look back, just move!"
  1033. <Roget> Ralph grabs Eriko's hand, and pulls her up. "I got her."
  1034. <PresidentEvil> Hauls Eriko to her feet, sorry*
  1035. <PetraCore> She runs.
  1036. <Alivi> Ralph you feel the blood on your hand. Eriko stumbles. She doesn't look well.
  1037. <Snowshoe> As you book it, you hear another metallic scream when the grenade detonates.
  1038. <Snowshoe> You make it to the exit.
  1039. <PresidentEvil> Greg helps Eriko and Ralph.
  1040. <Roget> Ralph basically fuckin' hoists Eriko up and half carry-half drags her to the exit as he books it
  1041. <PetraCore> Once out of immediate danger, Brigit basically stumbles and collapses.
  1042. <PetraCore> "Whoof."
  1043. <PresidentEvil> He's holding his pistol in his other hand, slick with blood, and running to the exit. Is Brigit outside?
  1044. <PetraCore> Should be.
  1045. <PetraCore> She's breathing pretty hard.
  1046. <Snowshoe> Everyone who exits the prefab spills back into #farrecon
  1047. *** PetraCore left #redpool []
  1048. *** Magnobile [~Magnolia@synIRC-A96BEDEB.cinci.res.rr.com] has quit [Broken pipe]
  1049. *** Magnobile [~Magnolia@synIRC-A96BEDEB.cinci.res.rr.com] has joined #redpool
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