5punk

Guys this just leads off into tunnels leading off into more tunnels. Dirk can you call in and see if Maintenance can provide us with any sort of map for this area? If I go much further I'll just be guessing and I might get lost, which is not a good idea.

Dirk to the Maintenance Dept wrote:Hello is that the Department of Maintenance? I'm Dirk from the SLA squad Five Punk and we're currently investigating the tunnels in [gives co-ordinates]. Do you have any current maps of the area, or can you tell us when the maps were last updated? If you have any please send them over.

Ta.

Dirk wrote: Can you track anything through here, Deej? If not could you make an educated guess about the which direction they might have come from and come back carrying numerous goods?

Sanitation won't give you a map - they sell them usually and it isn't required for your BPN.

However, Deject can track the movement of quite a few feet in one particular direction.

Well there seems to be some movement off this way. I'll go investigate it.

He moves off.

Edit: He moves off sneakily.

Sneak roll: 6,10 + skill of 4 = 20

He does indeed move off sneakily.

The tracks lead off down the main tunnel, as far as you can tell. Tracking anything is tough in such a hard and wet place, but you think that the bulk track you're following is thinning out each time you pass a side tunnel.

EDIT: That's all you're getting with passive tracking. Make a roll if you want to follow it further and I'll decide how far you get.

Tracking roll: 4,3 + 7 = 14

a ho-hum roll

Yeah, not great. You can track the main group for another 30m or so before it gets too faint to follow. It takes another tunnel at an intersection with another large drain and disappears into Downtown.

Well I've lost the trail. Unless you've got some cray ebon tracking stuff you can do Dirk I think all we can do is maybe see if we can track them. I'm going to set up my other mini-cam here, then try to find an exit up to the surface so we can get back here if Maintenance seals off the tunnel before we've found your stuff.

deej will also do a detect here in the intersection.

Detect roll: 4,5 + 3 = 12

After setting up the camera to look at the intersection from where he came from, deject will go off towards Downtown looking for ways up.

You don't see anything you thing is particularly relevant here. Finding an exit isn't too hard, although you have to navigate your way up a few steep water runs first. You emerge in a wide alleyway within sight of the wall. There are bins nearby.

I'll mark this spot on the map and head back down into the sewer.

You don't have a map of this area. The map is of the sector on the other side of the wall, and even then only of the drainage.

My helmet's Nava-map has the downtown area in it. Unless I'm totally wrong that should help no?

It doesn't. It has the capability to have the downtown area in it, but those maps cost 2c per sector and there's several hundred sectors. Same as the standalone nava-map, main rulebook, p237.

oh, then I guess I totally misunderstood what the rulebook meant then.

well shit

I've found a way to the surface from the sewer but I have no clue where in Downtown this is. You guys have any ideas?

Since you didn't realise I'll let you have pre-purchased the maps if you like.

Dirk wrote:Most of Downtown looks the same to me. I'll have a look see if there's any traces they've left.

Oh fuck yeah...

Detect roll: 9,9,+8 = 26

Dog Pants wrote:Since you didn't realise I'll let you have pre-purchased the maps if you like.

well I don't have the cash for that.

What I had done was think of the "sectors" as Uptown, Downtown, that sort of thing, lol. I paid for 5 of them, so how about I get 5 real ones then? I bought them well before this BPN, before the last one as well I believe, so choosing the one for this particular sector of Downtown would be rather cheap.

I think I'll go with one for the sector where the Pit is, one for where my apartment is, one for the part of Mort Central where the BPN hall is, and one for the sectors that Dirk's and Grimmie's apartments are in? Seeing as they're the Ops deej has spent the most time with, it makes some sense that he'd be interested in the surrounding areas.

Yo' momma's so fat she fills this entire sector!

Grimmie wrote:Yo' momma's so fat she fills this entire sector!

deject wrote:well I don't have the cash for that.

What I had done was think of the "sectors" as Uptown, Downtown, that sort of thing, lol. I paid for 5 of them, so how about I get 5 real ones then? I bought them well before this BPN, before the last one as well I believe, so choosing the one for this particular sector of Downtown would be rather cheap.

I think I'll go with one for the sector where the Pit is, one for where my apartment is, one for the part of Mort Central where the BPN hall is, and one for the sectors that Dirk's and Grimmie's apartments are in? Seeing as they're the Ops deej has spent the most time with, it makes some sense that he'd be interested in the surrounding areas.

Haha, I didn't mean buy all the maps. They're only 2c each so generally people just buy the particular ones they need as they need them. You could probably get them on some sort of download system depending on where you are.

There's no real description of how many sectors there are and a real scale for Mort, but the city is described as the size of a continent. I tend to scale it down though. Thinking about it for the first time really, because this situation has never really come up for me before, I'd say you could probably cover Central in one, Uptown in maybe 20, Suburbia in say 80 and Downtown in, well hundreds. The problem with Downtown is that it's fucking massive, and it keeps changing. Lower Downtown is more like a shanty town, and there's a standing Green BPN to map levels below (I think ) 20.

Anyway, that aside, your choice of maps is about right. Generally you'll build up a library of sectors you visit fairly often so after a while you don't need to buy them that often.

5punk

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