SLA Industries: Cannibal Heart

[deject]

Hmmmm, I will grab it gingerly then once I have a good grip on it take off at full speed away. Hopefully I'm fast enough to avoid whatever trap this is.

[Dog Pants]

Could you make a strength roll please? Stat checks in SLA are a bit wanky, but I'll apply an appropriate modifier so it's not an auto-pass.

[The Shutting Downs]

Could you make a strength roll please? Stat checks in SLA are a bit wanky, but I'll apply an appropriate modifier so it's not an auto-pass.

Eraser limbers up in case he is needed...

[deject]

Strength (8): 4, 2 + 8 = 14

[Dog Pants]

You manage to shift it half an inch or so but it's pretty heavy. Now you have though, it's a bit wobbly and you can see darkness through a small gap you've made.

[deject]

I'll turn on the UV lamp and see what I can see in there.

[Dog Pants]

You can't see much through the gap, but it looks to be a small, rough shaft.

[deject]

Do we know if our dude used a FEN AR at all?

Does this shaft appear at all to be on the path to where his last contact was?

[Dog Pants]

You don't know what equipment he had, but since you're treading a roughly direct path to his last position it's safe to say this is also.

[deject]

I'll motion to my Stormer compatriot to come over and give me a hand pulling on the strap, since I'm apparently too weak.

[Dog Pants]

Oh, I thought you meant you were pulling the lump of concrete for some reason. The strap pulls free far easier, revealing a frayed end. As you do pull it you hear something clattering down the shaft, which is followed a second later by a roar as the concrete is hurled into the air by a geyser of hot gas. Since you bolted back as soon as you pulled it you merely feel the blasting heat rather than get a faceful of it. A few seconds later you hear the concrete land nearby, and the vent slows to a steady stream of hot air.

[Joose]

the vent slows to a steady stream of hot air.

Called it!

[deject]

I will go back to the vent and see what I can see.

[Grimmie]

I hope it's a sewer.

[Dog Pants]

It's not a sewer, it's a ragged hole which seems to open into a narrow fissure. It isn't a straight drop so you can only see as far as the first kink about twenty feet below. There's a metal bar wedged down there with a bit of strap attached to it. The air coming out of the fissure is very hot.

[deject]

I'm thinking this is probably a trap and we should move on. Any other ideas?

Unless there's anything else anyone would like to do here, I suggest continuing on.

[Joose]

I have no clue. If it is a trap its fairly rubbish, but that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't one. I cant see any compelling evidence that the bloke we are after is wedged down a hot fissure in the ground, so I second the motion to move on.

[Dog Pants]

Somewhere a cannibal has a sadface at you slagging off his vent trap. I'll move us along once I get home and check the BPN.

[Dog Pants]

Moving on then. You continue to meander through the ruins. Whoever's on point (Deject?) please make make a detect roll, and a hide roll if you're being stealthy.

[deject]

Whoever's on point (Deject?) please make make a detect roll

10, 7 + 5 = 22

and a hide roll if you're being stealthy.

7, 9 + 4 = 20

hot damn