The Third Forumised Shadowrun Adventure!

[Grimmie]

You can't open it (too small to operate a doorhandle), but you could make it underneath the door.

I'll do so, cautiously.

[Joose]

I'll do so, cautiously.

It disappears. Last image you received was a dark, empty looking corridor, and then static.

heheheeee, see I was gonna ask if you'd been invited, but im guessing you aint been. You going o'er to that place o'er yonder? Cos if you ain't been invited, you prolly don't wanna go doing that.

yup

Tramp 2 offers Chopper the bottle.

[Grimmie]

Nikolai spits and leans forward, that was a new drone!

Chyort voz'mi! Chto za huy?!
Frank. Do not go any further. I just lost my scout.

Top two floors safe. Ground floor just blacked my drone out.

[Roman Totale]

Chopper contemplates the bottle for a second before taking a swig.

Smooth.

So what sort of crazy shit they got going on over there? Crazy joo joo shit?

Here, have a tin of beans. Ignore the dent in the can.

[deject]

I don't suppose you guys mind telling us why we shouldn't be going in there? While you think about it, have a sip of this.

Leland offers his flask to one of the tramps.

[HereComesPete]

Pffft. giving single malt to the tramps? Should have filtered some petrol out Nik's van instead.

five by five on the warning Nik. These tramps are showing a wary respect for the place too. Looks like we've got a lot more than we bargained for.

Hey dude. You get anything other than address for this place in the barrens? Some weirdness happening, Niks snooper drone got eaten by static in an empty coridoor and there's some old tramps having a good laugh at us turning up 'without an invite' as they put it. Anything you can find dude, I hate surprises. If it's electronic in nature we'll need you out here I guess.

Hey, did you check the tramps out when you had a look at the astral goings on? They seem to have a wary respect as to what's going on in that place, but how do they know? Why are they hanging around outside here of all places? Possibly just paranoia but I don't like what happened to Nik's snooper.

[deject]

Well I only got two hits, but that is enough to see any implants and classify any spirits I spotted, but there was just absolutely nothing but bog standard tramps. You think I should make with the astral go tiems and see what's what?

[The Shutting Downs]

I'll see what I can do, but it's a pain trying to connect to the Barrens, there's not enough signal between here and there

[HereComesPete]

Leland, until we get more from the tramps or N-zo, I think the best thing is to keep you out of astral in regard to inside that place. If I go down bleeding and dying then you can possibly drag me out and let my body heal itself or stick me on Nik's healing drone. If you go down there ain't jack shit we can do about it.

N-zo, rumours, heresay, anything floating around friends of yours? Anything you can get us is a big bonus. If you turn up nothing then don't worry about it, you tried. If you think you might be able to crack this place from on site then that's your prerogative. I don't think you'll get much joy here though.

We'll lean on the tramps a bit more, then we'll either knock and be cheeky, or kick the door in and see what rears it's head at us.

[The Shutting Downs]

Nik, did your drone get crunched, or did you just loose Connection to it?

[deject]

I'm thinking that the corridor has some serious signal jamming is all.

[Grimmie]

N-zo, I saw empty corridor, and then nothing.
Either someone dropped weight on drone from above, or drone has gone offline.

Joose, seeing as my dragonfly is probably nearly the same depth as the door and probably didnt get too far, do I reckon I could send my centipede in there to retrieve it without losing it to the same fate?

Are there any programs I can run to see what the last few processes that went through its brain was? Can I run Edit to try and enhance the last recorded image and check to see anything suspicious?

/inexperienced

Also, I swept the anniversary rule book.
It's very nice. I would like it in paper form.
Where can I get it from cheap?

[The Shutting Downs]

I'm on the way to you uys

How long ill it take N-zo to get there by bike?

[deject]

I guess the tramps liked my scotch so much they passed out!

[Joose]

Joose, seeing as my dragonfly is probably nearly the same depth as the door and probably didnt get too far, do I reckon I could send my centipede in there to retrieve it without losing it to the same fate?

You can try, but the centipede may end up with the same fate.

Are there any programs I can run to see what the last few processes that went through its brain was? Can I run Edit to try and enhance the last recorded image and check to see anything suspicious?

If its just signal jamming, like deject suggests, then the drone is probably still on and working, just sat there waiting for instructions its not going to get. If thats the case, then simply recovering it will allow to to check out its memory.

If its been squished, you would need to try and recover the memory hardware, load it up in something, and see what you can recover.

Also, I swept the anniversary rule book.
It's very nice. I would like it in paper form.
Where can I get it from cheap?

It is lovely, but alas, theres nowhere you can get a print copy from yet, as its only been released in pdf. Once it comes out, I'll be getting one too!

How long ill it take N-zo to get there by bike?

20-30 mins? its not all that far away.

Meanwhile, tramp 2 is merrily glugging away on your scotch. You may need a new one after this.

heeeeeeh hehehe he, dunno whats in there, magic or what. Y'see people comin and goin, but only them as supposed to. Knew a few guys went in there, get out the rain, they didnt come back out again though. Nope, I wouldn't go in there for anythin.

yup

[Joose]

so, uh....

[HereComesPete]

Fucks sake! Getting pissed off standing here!

Frank stalks over to the door and gives it a shove to see how sturdy it is. Then steps back and engages the mighty boot and attempts to kick the door in.
(trying to avoid stepping over the threshold or standing on any drone that might still be on the floor.)

Right, who wants to go first?

[Joose]

Front door is pretty feeble, and swings open with a nasty crunching noise.

The corridor within is dark, but there's enough light to see that there's not much in there. You can see a door directly opposite you, with what appears to be a small drone sticking out from underneath it. Looks familiar.

Next to that there's some stairs heading down towards the cellar. All the other doors have large, thick metal sheeting over them.

[HereComesPete]

Right, science time. I'll stick an arm in and waggle it about and see if it falls off with lasers and such. If it doesn't, then...

Well, seems okay. I'll get your drone for you Nik, then we can all head inside and see what happens.

If the arm does fall off...

Aaaargh, the fuck!!! Fucking arm fuck! Fucking lasers!!! Aaaaargh!

I kinda want to lose an arm because that's funny.

[Dog Pants]

Fucks sake! Getting pissed off standing here!

Frank stalks over to the door and gives it a shove to see how sturdy it is. Then steps back and engages the mighty boot and attempts to kick the door in.
(trying to avoid stepping over the threshold or standing on any drone that might still be on the floor.)

Right, who wants to go first?

Hahaha, that made a wonderful little scene in my mind; Frank being all cocky kicking the door in then getting sheepish suddenly at the idea of actually entering.