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Joose, can I get out the tiny crawl space thingy and got and shoot things with chopper yet? I want to try out my shotgun!

HereComesPete wrote:Joose, can I get out the tiny crawl space thingy and got and shoot things with chopper yet? I want to try out my shotgun!

Absolutely. How long did you set the bomb for then? And don't forget it will take a couple of mins to crawl back out again.

Chopper is heading back towards you lot - you don't get much over the radio/comms except manic cackling*

*That is unless Joose has any nasty surprises for me on the way back

Franks pan to everyone else's pan wrote:Attention, detonation will occur in fifty nine minutes and fifty nine seconds and counting. Have a nice day!

Frank wrote:Well there it is. I'm hoping we'll be watching from outside as the clinic does nothing but shake a bit. I put that time on to be safe, I've still got to see about rigging that lift. The chances of anything disarming that are slim to none, ghouls aint clever enough.

By the time I'm out this shitty little hole there's not going to be much time left before the doors open so it's sit-rep time.

Frank wrote:Al, any ideas on where door control might be? I can put that security door through in a jiffy with my bag of tricks, but is it worth it? Do you think we'll have time?

Frank wrote:Leland, I'm thinking you're moving up on Chopper? My comms were a bit hazy in that crawl space.

Frank wrote:Chopper, I take it you'll be needing more grenades next time you go shopping? Anything or anywhere useful, or are we making a ninja escape up the lift shaft?

*scrabbles out as fast as his bulk will let him*

Joose, anything new in terms of noises I'm picking up after the grenade? Any vengeful dead or bio-genetic gribblies? Or just the wailing of ghouls and Choppers mad laughter echoing down the halls?

Leland wrote:Yeah Frank, I'm heading over to Chopper right now. I don't see him yet, and he's not responding on the comm. I think that adept fucker might have been trying to follow me back down here. Hopefully Chopper didn't blow himself up.

Al wrote:No idea about the controls, but I know we can't do shit from down here. Even if we did get into the security room and the controls were there, I'm no techie. I say fuck it.

As I report in I'm going to follow Leland. If the shit's going to hit the fan I don't want to be hanging about on my own.

EDIT: I'm making sure I'm masked up and weapons free from now on.

Chopper turns up back at the stairwell, a huge grin on his face.

Chopper wrote: ahahahahaha - take that you fat, ghoul fucks! You should've seen it! Boom followed by splat!

There's some fucking creepy shit in there though - freaked me the fuck out. You've got to be careful with the blood and stuff. Don't let it get on you. Seriously, not a fucking drop. You've all got face protection and shit like that right? Get it on now! Have any of you touched any blood or anything? Don't do it, cover yourself up. No blood on you yeah? You should see what it does to people - nasty shit man.

You all covered up? I don't want any of you turning.

After jiggling around a bit, looking slightly on edge and checking everyone has protection, he focuses back down the corridor.

Chopper wrote: Are we moving out now?

Leland wrote:Nah Chopper, the rest of us are all good. Frank set the timer for an hour, so we can take a bit of time to get out of here. It's good that you're OK Chopper, this would be a shit place to bag it. Al and Frank are coming up behind me, I'm going to check out that security door, see if I can get it open. I'd like to get a better look at that center room as well if we have the time.

HereComesPete wrote: *scrabbles out as fast as his bulk will let him*

Joose, anything new in terms of noises I'm picking up after the grenade? Any vengeful dead or bio-genetic gribblies? Or just the wailing of ghouls and Choppers mad laughter echoing down the halls?

The ghoul wailing was cut suddenly quiet when the grenade went off, though you can still hear movement. The only thing of note was some crunching noises that sounded distinctly like something structural giving way, seconds after the grenade.

You are all back together at the top of the stairwell that goes down to the bottom level now. So you are all heading back around to the security door then? Or is Leland going to the central room first? And if so, is anyone going with him?

Oh, and after all that and Franks wriggling out of his hole:

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TICK TICK TICK!

Leland wrote:Guys we're not going to make it out of here before that damn timer runs out. I say we do what we can until 20-25 minutes are left on the bomb then run like hell.

I'm going to try this security door, see if I can get in there.

if the door is locked I'd like to try using Levitate to try and horse it open. What chance of success would that have of working?

We have no clue on how many routes down the ghouls have. I'd assume they have the stairs/lift shaft area, but they might get in through vents, or dug through to the central lab area from above. We've got to get somewhere to hold, if we smash the door on the security room in, then we end up trapped in that small room near the stairs/lift, and although it'll concentrate them, I don't doubt we'll be overwhelmed.

I think I'm right in saying that because the doors lift shaft was torn open at the top, they will be at the bottom, we could ninja up that whilst the ghouls head down the stairs, the middle level, their floor, maybe the lift doors are closed?

All these 20 pages have left me confused as to what the fuck anything is like on previous floors. I think we have these options

1 - if we risk whatever the fuck is in the middle the ghouls may find it tasty, or run away from whatever the fuck else is in there. We may end up regretting opening the doors. It may save us.

2 - security room, we could try and get in, time is short. If we do, then what? Try and use computers that might not be in there? Get trapped and overwhelmed or find uber ghoul killing stuff.

3 - ninja the lift shaft, hope the ghouls don't like using it. I've got a pair of gecko's if anyone need them, I can use brute horse on the cables or whatever to haul myself up. We could end up trapped in a vertical box, gribblies above and below, or bypass them completely and I could detonate the lift/stairs in the process.

4 - go back to the sub-basement and try and hold that. I don't like this, it's no better than trying to hold any other place, but it's furthest away from freedom, does only have one definite entrance however.

Anyone got any more, running up the stairs as fast as we can? waiting by the stairwell, grenades/guns/spells ready?

er, I'm guessing/hoping that that's 30 minutes rather than 30 seconds?

I was thinking 30 seconds actually. Hence the need to get a fucking shift on. We can't have been poking things for four hours since we got the power on.

I've got Gecko Gloves and climbing rope (plus climbing skills), so I could theoretically climb up inside the lift shaft and drop a rope down.

That said, I'm quite tempted by the possibly suicidal Security Room option...

It's 30 seconds, and if things lock down with us in the building I think we'd better be near enough to the bomb to defuse it if doors lock between us and it.

I want to see what's in there, and in the central room. I could turn on my internal lung so I'm breathing pure air and have a peek in after the fights over.

We could fuck the ghouls up and then have a look round in the security room and in the central bit. I'm thinking the sensible option in ninja the lift, we won't have time for you to get up and get a rope down if it's 30 secs. You've got gloves, Deej can float, I'll haul myself up and I'm guessing Al would need my gecko's.

sort of edit - I just found my character stuff, it doesn't mention gecko's, I was sure I bought them, but maybe not. I did notice that my browning ultrapower is actually loaded with explosive ammo, so that might be useful for anyone wanting a better weapon. I've got my other pistol as backup too, plus my machete if things get very personal.

I could carry Al probably.

Or we could peek in the Security Room...

Another suggestion - If we leave Al down in the sub-basement then as they rush him and we're in the lift shaft. We could then have a look in the security room. And maybe kill the ghouls as they're busy feasting on Al.

Capital idea!

Sorry guys, but talking takes time! (god, that sounds like some kind of catchphrase)

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Systems reset. Reverting to default values.
WARNING: Prime Vector Active, sector 6

Theres a series of noises best described as "schhhhhhck", and you notice all the little red AR signs (that you can see from here) have gone green.

However, you do hear, from below you (down the stairs you are standing at the top of) two loud THUNK noises.

Deject, your detect enemies spell tells you the ghouls are on the move, but other than a general downwards trend, you cant tell where they are exactly. The background magic count on this level is playing merry hell with the spell.

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