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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.

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.

Dog Pants wrote: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...

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

Dog Pants wrote: the vent slows to a steady stream of hot air.

Called it!

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

I hope it's a sewer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dog Pants wrote:Whoever's on point (Deject?) please make make a detect roll

10, 7 + 5 = 22

Dog Pants wrote:and a hide roll if you're being stealthy.

7, 9 + 4 = 20

hot damn