[IC] Aleph Station

[Corona]

Fairy

Spoiler: Security Checkpoint

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"Dammit, did they just scatter!? Gah- nevermind, let's mop this up, Sidewinder."

Spoiler: Actions

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Fire at right turret, and if the agents manage to destroy it, read the documents on the table.

[bc56]

Turn 4 Begin

Spoiler: Aurora, Chain, Doc, Fairy, Scrap, Sidewinder

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Current Room: Security Checkpoint
Exits To: Main Airlock, Rec Lounge, Test Range, Armory (Locked)

Together the agents release a larger barrage against the turret. The machine is disabled by the onslaught of minigun fire, pistol shots, and a flying stapler. In the meantime, Fairy slips over and grabs some documents off the desk.

Sidewinder successfully attacks turret, dealing 1 damage.
Chain successfully attacks turret, dealing 1 damage.
Aurora misses the turret.
Fairy grabs documents.

Spoiler: Fairy

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The documents detail part of the station's security system. The vault is sealed by a complex lock, which can be overridden by triggering 5 manual override switches spread across the complex.

Spoiler: Battery, Sneak

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Current Room: Test Range
Exits To: Security Checkpoint, Hangar, Armory (hacked)

With some quick modifications and commands, Battery hacks into the lock on the armory door, which slides open with a hiss. Meanwhile, Sneak grabs a few bottles of bleach from the cart and looks at the switch labeled "Vault Manual Override 3." There are 5 small red lights above it. Other than that, there is nothing special.

Battery successfully hacks the door control. The door between the test range and armory is unlocked.
Sneak obtains bleach. It can be used to clean, disinfect, or maybe poison, but it might be able to be combined with something else as well.

Spoiler: Bolt, Hound

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Current Room: Kitchen
Exits To: Rec Lounge, Mess Hall, Food Storage

You leave the rec lounge. On the way, Bolt snatches the jump rope, a length of plastic cable about a meter long. It miiiiight be strong enough to hold a person's weight. Then you enter the kitchen. A number of drawers under the counter are labeled with different utensils. A UV dishwasher and an electric stove take up a large portion of the room, along with a sink. There's a steel table in the center which could be used for food preparation. Doors lead to the Mess Hall dead ahead and the Food Storage to the right.

[PartyOfRogues]

Spoiler: Test Range

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Got the door open, tell the others.

Spoiler: Actions

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Move into Armory

[Togo]

Bolt

Spoiler: Hound

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Bolt looks around the kitchen. Might be something here, but I don't think it's worth the time to find out... I'm going onward. I figure a Mess Hall has to connect to something. Maybe lots of somethings?

He sighs.

I'll bet the others are doing what we're doing. Spreading out, checking as much as possible. That... He gestures at the Food Storage with the plastic jump rope he's coiling up in his hand. ...is probably a dead end, but it could lead to a cargo bay or service corridor or something. I'll tell you about the dead ends I find if you do the same.

He heads towards the Mess Hall.

Or you can head this way. We're going to run into something one person can't handle sooner or later, so I don't object to the company.

Spoiler: Action

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Move to the Mess Hall

[Unavenger]

Spoiler: Security Checkpoint

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"So Fairy, anything interesting in there? What's it say?"

[zzzzzzzz414]

Spoiler: Security Checkpoint

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Scrap peeks out from behind the desk where she'd ducked for cover from the turrets. "Well. This is a fine f*****g mess isn't it?" She scratches her chin, looking around at the room. "Alright. Alright. Looks like Battery's booked it, so I'll take a crack at cracking this terminal, try and stop that countdown or at least grab some useful intel. We should probably send someone into the test range and rec lounge, make sure the others haven't gotten themselves killed in there, try and organize some kind of team structure here. And yeah, Fairy, whadda those papers say? Anything useful?"

Spoiler: Action

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Access the computer terminal, looking for any of the following: a way to shut down the self-destruct, info about the station and its remaining security measures (and whether they can be disabled from here), info about the manual override switches.

[flyinglemur]

Spoiler: Bolt

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”Time waits for no man, and we have to cover as much ground as possible.” Hound starts looking through the utensils, “I’ll head to food storage. We can come back here when we’re out of rooms, and if the other isn’t there we’ll look for them. If there’s more than one door in the next room, we’ll do as the hero Theseus did and mark the door we took.”

Spoiler: Action

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Grab as many utensils as I can and move to food storage.

[WindStruck]

Aurora

Spoiler: Message @ Security Checkpoint

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Shrugging,
Aurora says, "We don't have much time. And we don't know which way it will be to the prototype either... guess I'll see what's going on in the test range and make sure everyone is okay. If it's a dead end I will be back shortly."

Spoiler: Actions

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Moving to test range.

[Sarone]

Spoiler: Security Checkpoint

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"Yeah, this is ridiculous", Sidewinder says as he goes around the desk. "Here, lets check the terminal out. We need to know how to disable the self destruct."

Casually, Sidewinder reaches into his pocket and grab an operational communication device. "Aurora, take this and keep in contact with us."

Spoiler: Actions

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Give Aurora a functional communication device.
Check out the terminal and see if he can access it. He intends to get as much information out as possible.

[GameOfChampions]

Sneak

Spoiler: Test Range

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"I'm not gokng back into that room without a gun, knives are not meant for taking down giant turrets. Besides going off alone is asking for trouble. We can go through the armory through the other side to the security checkpoint. Preferably more equipped to take out turrets.

Spoiler: Actions

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Enter Armory.

[WindStruck]

Aurora

Spoiler: Talking @ Security Checkpoint

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"Sure," Aurora says nodding.
"Which of you has the other working one?"

[Sarone]

Aurora

Spoiler: Talking @ Security Checkpoint

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"Sure," Aurora says nodding.
"Which of you has the other working one?"

Spoiler: Security Checkpoint

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"I have the other one. We need the hacker back asap."

[Corona]

Fairy

Spoiler: Security Checkpoint

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"It says that the sealed vault can be opened by triggering manual override switches located in this station. There can't be too many rooms in a station like this. If Aurora is going to the Test Range, I'll check out the Rec Lounge. My communicator doesn't work, so I'll return here to inform you. If I don't, well... there's something very interesting, urgent or deadly."

Spoiler: Actions

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Move to Rec Lounge (keeping documents)

[zzzzzzzz414]

Scrap

Spoiler: Security Checkpoint

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"Sounds like a plan. I'll stay here and get what I can from this console, maybe try and get that armory door open. Aw, look at us, being a functional team and everything! Maybe we're not gonna perish in a fiery explosion after all." She continues fiddling with the terminal. "Does it say where those switches are? Or at least how many we gotta find?"

[bc56]

Turn 5

Spoiler: Chain, Doc, Scrap, Sidewinder

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Current Room: Security Checkpoint
Exits To: Rec Lounge, Test Range, Armory (locked)

Scrap gets to the terminal first, and Sidewinder watches over her shoulder as she searches the computer for information.

Spoiler: Scrap, Sidewinder

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The self-destruct system is airgapped from the rest of the station to avoid being hacked. Its console is somewhere near the station's reactor. The Vault can be reached through the Robotics Lab, and is sealed with a high-tech lock that requires 5 manual override switches scattered throughout the station to be activated.

Scrap successfully hacks into the terminal.
Sidewinder fails to hack the terminal, but can watch what Scrap does.

Spoiler: Fairy

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Current Room: Rec Lounge
Exits To: Security Checkpoint, Kitchen.

You find yourself in the station's recreation and exercise lounge. A number of heavy weights are scattered across one section of the room, while in the other, a sofa faces a large screen, perfect for watching movies or playing video games. In addition, a door stands across the way, leading to the Kitchen.

Spoiler: Aurora

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Current Room: Test Range
Exits To: Security Checkpoint, Hangar, Armory (hacked)

You enter the Test Range. A row of vaguely human shaped targets stands on one end of the room, and there's a line where you're presumably supposed to stand. A janitorial cart stands off to one side, but it appears to be picked clean of usable supplies. Furthermore, there's a large switch located on the exterior wall, with 5 small red lights above it. It's labeled, "Vault Manual Control 3." Lastly, there are two other doors, one leading to the Armory to the left, hanging open, the lock cut open and rewired, and one leading to the Hangar, directly across the room.

Spoiler: Bolt

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Current Room: Mess Hall
Exits To: Kitchen, Hydroponics Bay, Barracks

You leave the kitchen and head into the mess hall. The room is dominated by long tables and benches where the inhabitants of the station would have eaten. On one wall is a bulletin board with a few notes on it. There are doors across the room to the barracks and to the right leading to the hydroponics bay. As you enter, a turret descends from the ceiling and begins locking on to you. As before, you don't have long before it opens fire.

Spoiler: Hound

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Current Room: Food Storage
Exits To: Kitchen, Hydroponics Bay

You enter the food storage. Shelves of freeze-dried blocks of food and bags of vegetables are along every wall. The corner of a piece of paper pokes out from behind one such shelf. There's a door to your left, leading to the hydroponics bay.

Spoiler: Battery, Sneak

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Current Room: Armory
Exits To: Security Checkpoint, Robotics Lab, Test Range.

You enter the armory through the hacked door. It is, as expected, stocked with weapons and armor. There are 3 suits of heavy body armor, 3 pistols, and 1 Armor Piercing rifle. In addition, a door to the left leads to the Security Checkpoint, and one to the right leads to the Robotics Lab. The doors are not locked from this side.

Turns until self-destruct: 16

[PartyOfRogues]

Spoiler: Character Sheet

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Codename: Battery
Skills: Baton +1, Perception +1, Hacking +2, Maintenance +2, Explosives +1, Stealth +1
Equipment: Baton, Heavy Body Armor, Non-functional Communicator, Handheld Laser Cutter, Toolbox, Mechanic
Role: Mechanic
Description (optional): A short man with dark brown hair, he constantly checks his equipment, making sure everything works smoothly. He talks very little, heavily focused on his work.

Spoiler: Sneak

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I think we should split up now, I’ll go to the hangar and you head to robotics, I think we should leave the rifle for someone trained.

Spoiler: Actions

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Grab a Pistol and Heavy Body Armor, open the door to the Security Office

[WindStruck]

Spoiler: Direct Message to Sidewinder

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"Sidewinder, can't see the others yet, but I think they might have moved on to the armory here. There's another entrance to that, and it looks like the lock here's been cut and disabled. There's also an exit to the hangar from here. Oh! And there's a manual override switch! Number three. Ask the other gal, do I just flip it now, or...?"

[Unavenger]

Spoiler: Action

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Go to test range.

[Togo]

Bolt

Spoiler: Action

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Head for the Barracks as fast as possible. Would like to glance at the bulletin board, but only if it doesn't slow me down.

[Sarone]

Sidewinder

Spoiler: To Aurora

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"Thank you for the update, Aurora. Get with the other team first and have them open and secure all doors as soon as possible.

"The Bad News is that the self destruct is air gapped from the rest of the station. It is located at the reactor, so we need to find that first and stop the timer.

"The Good news is that there are only five overrides. Finding number 3 is good, just need to find the rest. I would hazard we might have to disable them one by one.

"I will head into the Rec area once we find out what can be done at the terminal."

Spoiler: Security Checkpoint

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Listening to Aurora, Sidewinder speak into the comms. "Thank you for the update, Aurora. Get with the other team first and have them open and secure all doors as soon as possible.

"The Bad News is that the self destruct is air gapped from the rest of the station. It is located at the reactor, so we need to find that first and stop the timer.

"The Good news is that there are only five overrides. Finding number 3 is good, just need to find the rest. I would hazard we might have to disable them one by one.

"I will head into the Rec area once we find out what can be done at the terminal."

Turning to Scrap, Sidewinder nods at the terminal. "Is there a map to the reactor? Is there any way to turn off the turrets? Can we get a map to the station? Where are the switches?"

[WindStruck]

[Aurora]

Spoiler: To Sidewinder

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"Roger. I think they went into the armory, so I'll head there."

Spoiler: Actions

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Aurora flips the override switch off (wait, no, to "on"? Let's make the override ON), then moves to the armory.

[flyinglemur]

Spoiler: Action:

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Grab that paper, and then go to hydroponics if I can move in the same turn as I do that. If I can't, then I just grab the paper.

[Corona]

Spoiler: Action

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Inspect documents to find out locations of switches, go to kitchen

[GameOfChampions]

Sneak

Spoiler: Armory

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Sneak grings as he sees the armoe and guns. He quickly starts to put on the armor and nods along with Battery "Works for me. I'm just happy to have something to help against any turrets that pop out."

Spoiler: Action

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Take and equip 1 Heavy Body Armor and 1 Pistol

[zzzzzzzz414]

[Scrap]

Spoiler: Security Checkpoint

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Scrap shakes her head at Sidewinder's questions. "Nothing like that I could find, all I've got in terms of location is that the Vault is connected to the Robotics Lab, so tell Aurora's group to keep an eye out for that at least. But if there's a more detailed map, I can't access it, not easily anyway. I could take another crack at searching for one, but it'd probably be a waste of time, and we don't have a hell of a lot of that to waste. I'm gonna try and get this armory door open, but if that doesn't work, we need to move on. By my count we've only got about 20 minutes to find that reactor." She begins fiddling with the terminal again.

Spoiler: Action

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Use the terminal to try and open the locked armory door, or, failing that, figure out where it could be opened from. If there is time, try to find a map of the station and/or the locations of the override switches.

[bc56]

Turn 6 Begin

Spoiler: Scrap, Sidewinder

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Current Room: Security Checkpoint
Exits To: Rec Lounge, Test Range, Armory

Scrap decrypts a couple files and discovers the locations of the switches. They are in the Test Range, Barracks, Robotics Lab, Kitchen, and Engineering Bay. She starts to hack the door to the armory open, but it opens on its own as Battery activates it from the other side.

Scrap successfully hacks information out of the computer.

Spoiler: Battery, Sneak

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Current Room: Armory
Exits To: Security Checkpoint, Test Range, Robotics Lab
You both grab heavy body armor and pistols. Sneak takes the time to put it on, while Battery opens the door to the Security Checkpoint. As you're doing this, Aurora enters the room from the Test Range.

Sneak equips Heavy Body Armor and takes Pistol.
Battery takes Heavy Body Armor and Pistol, but will need to spend a turn putting the armor on.

Spoiler: Aurora

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Current Room: Armory
Exits To: Security Checkpoint, Test Range, Robotics Lab

You flip the switch, and the center light turns green. Then, you enter the armory to see two of your fellow agents, Battery and Sneak, grabbing weapons and armor from the racks in this room. They each are grabbing a pistol and a suit of heavy armor. There's one pistol, one suit of Heavy Body Armor, and one Armor Piercing rifle left in the room.

Spoiler: Bolt

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Current Room: Barracks
Exits To: Mess Hall, Hydroponics Bay, Storage, Auxiliary Airlock, Generator Room (locked)

You rush past the turret without enough time to read the bulletins. Before it can open fire, you've slipped past it. You're now in the barracks, which has a number of cots arranged in neet rows, lumpy uneven posters on the walls, and a lot of doors. There's a door to the left leading to the auxiliary airlock, two to the right to the hydroponics bay and the generator room, and one on the other side of the room to the storage.

Spoiler: Hound

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Current Room: Food Storage
Exits To: Kitchen, Hydroponics Bay

It takes you longer than expected to get that paper out from behind piles of soup cans. But once you have it, you can read it easily. It's a short note. "REMINDER: The Override Switch is in the cupboard below the sink."

Spoiler: Chain

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Current Room: Test Range
Exits To: Security Checkpoint, Hangar, Armory (hacked)

You enter the test range. A number of human-shaped targets are lined up against one wall. There's a janitorial cart in a corner, but it looks like it's been picked clean already. There's a switch on the wall, labeled "Vault Manual Control 3" There are 5 lights above it, 4 red, and the middle one green. The door across the room leads to the Hangar, and one to the left leads to the Armory. Normally, it would be sealed by a keycard locks but someone has tampered with it so that it hangs open instead.

Spoiler: Fairy

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Current Room: Kitchen
Exits To: Rec Lounge, Food Storage, Mess Hall

You enter the kitchen. There are a number of cabinets and cupboards here, each labeled with their contents, a sink and a metal table for preparing food. Doors lead right to the Food Storage and across to the Mess Hall.

Turns until self-destruct: 15

[WindStruck]

Aurora

Spoiler: Talking in Armory

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"Hey! You two been in the hangar yet? We need to find five override switches and flip them on."

[Togo]

Bolt

Spoiler: Actions

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Bolt walks through the barracks to the generator room door, and crouches next to it, frowning. He runs his hands carefully over the lock and frame, trying to work out the quickest way in.

If I can quickly unlock the door with my tools, do so, otherwise, just blow up the lock.

Please note Bolt also has skills with traps, so should be able to recognise a hastily rigged one if he sees it.

[PartyOfRogues]

Spoiler: Character Sheet

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Codename: Battery
Skills: Baton +1, Perception +1, Hacking +2, Maintenance +2, Explosives +1, Stealth +1
Equipment: Baton, Heavy Body Armor, Light Body Armor(e), Non-functional Communicator, Handheld Laser Cutter, Toolbox, Mechanic
Role: Mechanic
Description (optional): A short man with dark brown hair, he constantly checks his equipment, making sure everything works smoothly. He talks very little, heavily focused on his work.

Spoiler: Armory

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Yeah, there’s a switch in the test range, I’m heading back there now to get to the hangar.

Spoiler: Actions

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Go to Test Range and flip the switch.

[WindStruck]

Spoiler: Talking @ Armory

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Aurora says, thumbing behind her, "I already flipped that switch. Got to make sure they're all green. What about the robotics lab? Have any of you been in there yet?"