[IC] Aleph Station

[flyinglemur]

Spoiler: Talk: Barracks

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”You haven’t told me any new info, and if you’re wrong then the two of us die. If we wait four minutes before flipping the switch then by the time we make it to the shuttle we’ll almost be out of time. If we meet any resistance on our way we die.” Hound points to the generator room,”If you want to go you have to do it now, I’ll wait a minute and no more.”

OOC: I’m assuming by minute you mean round. Point being, after this turn to find the switch, then waiting four rounds, then flipping the switch, we’ll have only four turns left, not enough to actually reach the airlock, which is 5 turns away from here and probably we’ll need another turn to actually board the shuttle from the air lock.

The plan only works if you leave this turn, and even then you have to get back immediately after. Then we can flip the switch on turn 8, which gives us a much better 7 turns to get out, though we’ll still be cutting it close. So don’t investigate the posters, leave that to us, and move to the generator this turn.
The switches open a vault, which doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the self-destruction, which probably can’t be shut off. All this is to say, that unless you come back on turn 8 with a real good reason we shouldn’t flip the switch, I’m going to try and flip it on turn 8 regardless.

[Sarone]

Spoiler: Talk: Barracks

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”You haven’t told me any new info, and if you’re wrong then the two of us die. If we wait four minutes before flipping the switch then by the time we make it to the shuttle we’ll almost be out of time. If we meet any resistance on our way we die.” Hound points to the generator room,”If you want to go you have to do it now, I’ll wait a minute and no more.”

OOC: I’m assuming by minute you mean round. Point being, after this turn to find the switch, then waiting four rounds, then flipping the switch, we’ll have only four turns left, not enough to actually reach the airlock, which is 5 turns away from here and probably we’ll need another turn to actually board the shuttle from the air lock.

The plan only works if you leave this turn, and even then you have to get back immediately after. Then we can flip the switch on turn 8, which gives us a much better 7 turns to get out, though we’ll still be cutting it close. So don’t investigate the posters, leave that to us, and move to the generator this turn.
The switches open a vault, which doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the self-destruction, which probably can’t be shut off. All this is to say, that unless you come back on turn 8 with a real good reason we shouldn’t flip the switch, I’m going to try and flip it on turn 8 regardless.

Sidewinder

Spoiler: Barracks

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Narrowing his eyes, it suddenly dawns on Sidewinder what the miscommunication is.
"Hound, we have fifteen minutes left before the self destruct goes off."

In regards to time and rounds:

The first post had it as thirty minutes (half hour) and twenty rounds. The meta would be 1.5 minutes per round. The plan is to spend four minutes/three rounds in the Barracks. That would leave 11 minutes and 7 rounds to get back to the airlock and on the ship.

[flyinglemur]

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“You still have to leave now though. So don’t bother with the poster”

OOC: I only can’t tell if you’re moving this round or not, since you mentioned before looking at the posters. You should do that. Otherwise, that plan works, from now on we should probably just write rounds next to minutes. There isn’t an even conversion for most times, 4 minutes ends up as less then three rounds with that rate.

[Sarone]

Sidewinder

Spoiler: Barracks

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Nodding, Sidewinder moves for the door to the Generator Room.
"Wait two (rounds). If the self destruct is still active, flip the switch and get back back to the shuttle. I will see about deactivating it."

Spoiler: Action

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Sidewinder is moving to the Generator Room.

[bc56]

Turn 12 Begin

Spoiler: Sneak

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Current Room: Hangar
Exits To: Robotics Lab, Engineering Bay, Test Range

You shoot at the turret but miss wildly, and then dive for cover under the shuttle as it returns fire, narrowly avoiding a rain of bullets. The door to the Engineering Bay opens and Aurora emerges, but she doesn't seem to have noticed you yet. However, there's no way she hasn't noticed Battery's corpse.

Spoiler: Aurora

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Current Room: Hangar
Exits To: Robotics Lab, Engineering Bay, Test Range.

You enter the hangar. Here a single-seater exploratory shuttle stands in the center of the room, and a trio of spacesuits hang on the wall. An active but damaged turret swivels to face you. But more notably, Battery's corpse is lying on the ground. A neat, circular hole has been seared through his torso, and it's still smoking slightly. The turrets use bullets. You conclude that whatever did this was something else, and very recent. It might even still be in the room.

Spoiler: Sidewinder

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Current Room: Generator
Exits To: Robotics Lab, Engineering Bay, Barracks

You enter the generator room, a smallish chamber dominated by the station's nuclear reactor. A computer console displays the self-destruct timer in large text, while another allows access to the reactor controls. The exits lead across to the hangar and left to the engineering bay

Spoiler: Hound

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Current Room: Barracks
Exits To: Auxiliary Airlock, Generator Room, Hydroponics Bay, Mess Hall, Storeroom

Sidewinder exits the room heading to the generator while you peel posters off the wall looking for the switch. You find it under one, in the off position, with four of the five lights above it green and the other red. You also find environmental controls. You could change the temperature or humidity in the station, and if you overrode some failsafes, you could even create a dangerous environment such as extreme heat, cold, or vacuum.

Spoiler: Bolt

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Current Room: Robotics Lab
Exits To: Armory, Hangar, Generator Room, Vault (sealed)

You leave your makeshift trap behind and enter the robotics lab. The most notable feature of this room is the large vault door which spans the right wall. There are five lights above it, four green and one red, and a switch next to it in the on position. A remote operated rover is also resting here, its controller nearby. The exits lead left to the hangar and across to the armory.

Turns until self-destruct: 9

[Togo]

Bolt

Spoiler: Actions

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Bolt examines the rover carefully. Good for several hours of operations, he really only needed it for less than 15 minutes, which means....
He moves the rover to against the wall, as close as he can to the vault door. Then he carefully loosens a side panel and starts removing the large battery packs, one by one, and stacking them out of sight, between the rover and the wall, leaving enough to power the rover for about 15 minutes. Then he welds the packs together and starts adding wires, dials, and switches to the outside. If there is paint, he carefully letters 'experimental' to the side. He doesn't know exactly what an experimental AI looks like, and he's betting his colleagues don't either. His fake won't stand up to close inspection, but he's fairly confident that soon there will no time left for close inspections...

If anyone comes in, hide, behind the rover unless I can see a better place.

[Sarone]

Sidewinder

Spoiler: Generator Room

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Breathing a sigh of relief, Sidewinder moves to the console and examines. "Come on, luck, don't fail me now." After examining it, Sidewinder checks out the reactor, giving orders to his drone. "Hatchling, scan the area. Maybe there's a code book."

Spoiler: Actions

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#1 Check the console
#2 Direct Hatchling, the drone, to scan the room. If able, Sidewinder will also look to see if there is anything else in the room.

[WindStruck]

Aurora

Spoiler: Sidewinder and Hangar

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"****! Sidewinder, we got a problem. Battery is dead. And it doesn't look like this turret killed him..."

Spoiler: Actions

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Lets run to the test range again just to make sure everything is fine there.

[GameOfChampions]

Sneak

Spoiler: Action

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Sneak will remain hidden and sneakily move to shoot from an angle that cannot be seen from the side Aurora came from.

[flyinglemur]

Spoiler: Action:

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Investigate the rest of the room to see if there's anything hidden that was missed

[Sarone]

Sidewinder

Spoiler: Aurora

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Listening to Aurora, Sidewinder shakes his head at the news. "Aurora, get back to the Generator Room. If someone is killing agents, then I want to make we can out number them."

Spoiler: Actions

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#1 Check the console
#2 Direct Hatchling, the drone, to scan the room. If able, Sidewinder will also look to see if there is anything else in the room.

[Corona]

Fairy

Spoiler: Barracks (to Hound)

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"You got the switch, Hound? The other four are on? Cool, cool. This ducked mission can't be over too soon."

Spoiler: Action

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Have pistol prepared to shoot in case anyone appears with hostile intent.

[flyinglemur]

Spoiler: Barracks

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”Yup, just waiting for sidewinder’s signal.”

[bc56]

Turn 13 Begin

Spoiler: Sidewinder

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You take a look at the console. It's the main reactor control, and could be used for a variety of purposes. If you can hack into its systems, you could easily cut power to a single room, turn off the reactor entirely, leaving the station on emergency power, or you could, with difficulty, try to disable or trigger the self-destruct, although there would be a slight chance of the opposite outcome.
Your drone scans the area and reports no anomalies.
You hear a series of gunshots through your Communicator. Something may have happened.

Spoiler: Aurora

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You dash towards the exit to the test range, but are interrupted by a gunshot which strikes you and cracks your armor. Twisting around even as you're still fleeing, you see Sneak crouched underneath the shuttle, a pistol in his hand. The second burst of gunshots catch you by surprise almost as much, as the damaged turret opens fire with its own weapons and you find yourself riddled with holes. Bleeding profusely, you slump to the ground, dead.

A Security Turret killed you using its Submachine Gun. Game Over.

Spoiler: Sneak

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You fire off a shot at Aurora as she flees, breaking her armor. She whirls around to face you, but is suddenly interrupted by fire from the room's surviving turret. Her bullet-ridden body slumps to the ground a moment later, slain.

Spoiler: Bolt

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You grab some battery packs and miscellaneous parts and weld them together into what you believe looks somewhat like an AI core. Given the haphazard materials you used and the little time you had available, it doesn't seem like it will be very convincing, but you never know.

Spoiler: Hound

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A search of the room yields nothing immediately interesting until you decide to check under the bunks. One of the mattresses has a makeshift secret compartment hidden in its bottom. Inside is a bottle of vodka, a lighter, and a couple packs of cigarettes. These are certainly not normally allowed on research stations.

Spoiler: Fairy

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You ready yourself for whatever threat might come, but none do. In the meantime, Hound searches through the room. It seems like he found something hidden under one of the beds. Interesting...

Turns until self-destruct: 8

[GameOfChampions]

Sneak

Spoiler: Actions

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Will wait for a second then edge out of cover to shoot the turret again. If it's dead and he has time he will then quickly check over Aurora's body

[WindStruck]

Aurora

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dummy entry to fool the other players!

gg wp. Too bad I couldn't get out of that room alive!

[Corona]

Fairy

Spoiler: Actions

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Flip the switch if Hound doesn't, and run back to Mess Hall.

Spoiler: Hound/Barracks

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After making sure the room is safe, Fairy approaches Hound. "What did you find over there?"

[Togo]

Bolt

Spoiler: Actions

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Find the best cover in the room for someone shooting someone exiting the vault. Hide a remote-control bomb there. Get back to my hiding spot behind the rover, next to the vault door.

If time, grab some packing material, foam, duct tape, insulation, whatever, to help disguise the package while I hide.

[flyinglemur]

Spoiler: Talk:

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Only some vodka. The bottle will make a great souvenir.

Spoiler: action:

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Hold my gun at the ready

[Sarone]

Sidewinder

Spoiler: Action

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#1 Sidewinder will do which is easier: reset the timer, add more time , or disable it.
If he can easily disable the self destruct, he will do that.
If he can't easily disable the self destruct, he will reset the timer. He does that, he will then see about extending the timer.

[bc56]

Turn 14 Begin

Spoiler: Bolt

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You find a spot where you think an ambusher might likely hide behind a workbench and plant your bomb in a hidden space by it. You don't think it's likely someone else will find it there. You then head to hide behind the rover, but it's just not big enough to provide adequate cover for you. It seems unlikely that you'll escape notice there. While you're doing that, the final light above the vault turns green, and with a pneumatic hiss, the large door swings open.

Spoiler: Fairy

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You pull the switch, and the last light turns green. If what you've heard is correct, the vault should be open now.

Spoiler: Sidewinder

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Since messing with the timing circuits is easier than shutting them down entirely, you manipulate the computer and manage to get its countdown to stall for a few minutes.

Actual turns until self-destruct: 9

Spoiler: Hound

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As you watch, Fairy pulls the switch, and the last light turns green. If what you've heard is true, the vault should be open now.

Spoiler: Sneak

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You fire your pistol at the turret again and manage a hit this time. It deactivates with a shower of sparks. You approach Aurora's body, but it's going to take a while to search, you don't have time to do it right now.

Turns until Self-destruct: 7

[Togo]

Bolt

Spoiler: Actions

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Enter the vault with the rover. Being cautious for traps.
If time, search the vault.

[GameOfChampions]

Sneak

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Leave the bodies and instead move to the Robotics Lab, try to repair armor if possible.

[Sarone]

Sidewinder

Spoiler: Generator Room

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Happy that he has a bit more breathing room, Sidewinder weighs his options, then turns off the power to the Robotics Lab.

Spoiler: Action

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First Action is to turn off the power to the Robotics Lab.

[Corona]

Fairy

Spoiler: Action

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Run to Kitchen

[flyinglemur]

Spoiler: Action:

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Going into the mess hall

[bc56]

Turn 15 Begin

Spoiler: Bolt

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Current Room: Vault
Exits To: Robotics Lab

The rover is too heavy to carry with you, and its battery is missing (you removed it to build your fake AI prototype).

The vault is a cylindrical room. Thick black cables extend from the walls to a pedestal in the center, connected to which is a black box, about a foot on each side, with blinking colorful lights on it. It looks like it could be easily detached from its housing. You are certain this is what you are here to retrieve. You get the strangest sense that it is watching you.

Spoiler: Sneak

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Current Room: Robotics Lab
Exits To: Generator Room, Armory, Hangar, Vault

You would need tools and materials to fix your armor, neither of which you have.

You enter the robotics bay to find it mostly as it was the last time you were there, except the large door to the vault is unsealed and open and someone moved the rover to a different part of the room.

Spoiler: Sidewinder

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You attempt to hack the system to remove power from the robotics bay, but the system resists your meddling.

Actual turns until self-destruct: 8

Spoiler: Fairy

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

You run into the kitchen and find it too is unchanged from when you last visited.

Spoiler: Hound

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

You enter the mess hall. It's got a bunch of tables, a bulletin board, and a destroyed turret.

Turns until self-destruct: 6

[GameOfChampions]

Sneak

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Sneak will do a more in depth examination of the room to notice any threats before entering the vault.

Alertness?

[Togo]

Bolt

Spoiler: actions

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Carefully unhook the AI, and leave the room. Take evasive maneuvers coming into the Robotics Lab, as it's the last point someone can get at me before I have what I think is a clear run to our ship.

[Corona]

Fairy

Spoiler: Action

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Run to Rec Lounge