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    Quote Originally Posted by GnomesofZurich2 View Post
    Excited by his find, Tariq grabs the crowbars to see if they could be used to pry open the lockers in the locker-room.
    Tariq carries his new tools back to the lockers and cracks his neck in preparation for the effort.
    There are eight lockers in the barracks.

    (OOC: Roll a ST contest against the hardware's HP of 11 per locker you're forcing open. +2 for the crowbar, more bonuses for Forced Entry, add Lifting ST levels. Repeated attempts cost 1 FP and at a cumulative -1.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shoot Da Moon View Post
    Tariq carries his new tools back to the lockers and cracks his neck in preparation for the effort.
    There are eight lockers in the barracks.

    (OOC: Roll a ST contest against the hardware's HP of 11 per locker you're forcing open. +2 for the crowbar, more bonuses for Forced Entry, add Lifting ST levels. Repeated attempts cost 1 FP and at a cumulative -1.)
    Tariq tries forcing a lock, fails, and then tries again.

    (OOC: first roll failed by 1, second roll including the cumulative penalty succeeds by 1)

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    Sweating and huffing, Tariq pries one of the lockers open.
    Inside are sparse supplies - another bottle of heroin pills and a broken Colt Government .45 pistol.

    Seven lockers remain unopened.

    (OOC: There are 6+2d pills in the bottle. The firearm is broken, worth only 25% of its usual value, and can’t be used until repaired.)
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    Emboldened by his success, Tariq continues his assault on the lockers.

    (OOC: Succeeded by 2, 2, failed, 2 (for a cumulative attempt), 4, 3, 2, 4. There are 10 pills in the bottle)

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    Tarif manages to muscle open 3 lockers but the rest are strong enough to resist his might.
    The first locker he cracks open contains a small bottle of pills - heroin, again. Only three pills left in the plastic container, though.
    The second locker he breaks open has a broken Colt .45 Single Action Army revolver.
    The third locker contains two improvised grenades, made out of jam tins, nails, and packed-in gunpowder.

    (OOC: The jam tin grenades are cheap TL 6 grenades, see High-Tech page 191.)
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    Tariq will take a breather, and then try the remaining four.

    (OOC: Locked 5: fail, repeated attempt critical failure; Locker 6: fail, repeated attempt success by 2; Locker 7: success by 4, repeated attempt success by 0; Locker 8: success by 3, repeated attempt fail).

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    Tarif hurts him a little in the process (and tires himself until he is sweating bullets), but he manages to open up two more lockers.

    (OOC: Tariq loses 1 HP because of a critical failure. See Pulp Guns 1 page 27 or asked me for the found gun stats. The MREs are as per AtE 1 page 30.)


    The new lockers he pries open are smaller than the others, but contain loot all the same.
    Four high grade MREs have been stored in one locker, a working H&R Model 8 Standard 12G single shotgun is in the other.

    Two lockers remain sealed.
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    Determined to get the remaining lockers open, Tariq again takes a 30 minute breather, and then goes at it again.

    (OOC: success by 2, cumulative attempt success by 5; success by 6, cumulative attempt critical failure)

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    Tariq gets another locker open after his first try.
    The last locker is even more stubborn. Tariq hurts himself again when he tries to break it open, cutting his hand in the process.

    The locker he DID manage to muscle open contains 6 pistol bullets and 2 shotgun shells.

    (OOC: Tariq takes another 1 injury from the critical failure. One locker still to go...)
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    Tariq will rig the jam tin grenade to blow the last lock off. He then plans to carry all his finds back to the others.

    (Demolitions roll succeeded)

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    The locker blows open with a satisfying explosion that rattles miscellaneous junk off the shelves. When the smoke clears, Tariq looks inside, and finds the key to the infirmary securely encased in a tiny metal box, and four small doses of a drug called crystal meth.

    He returns to his fellow exiles with this loot, and settles in to rest. 3 days, both he and his injured comrades feel a little better.
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    DAY 13

    After a few days of healing, Sean is ready to start contributing again.
    Sean unlocks the infirmary and takes a look inside. From the doorway, he notices a working motion sensor operating in the middle of the infirmary, probably hooked up to an alarm and security system. He can’t find anything else until he deals with that.

    There are a few beds in the infirmary and stacks of containers and cabinets. It is not very organised.

    (OOC: You can spend a CP to learn Physician skill, but using the infirmary is risky without disabling that motion sensor.)
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    Sean does not open the door any further and does not move in, instead observing the sensor and any wires that might be running from it.

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    Sean takes a few steps back and narrates his findings to Tariq. He proposes Tariq to take a look for himself and try to make an educated guess where the wires might go from the box in the wall and where they might be intercepted.

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    Although Tariq doesn't know much electrical, he does know buildings, so he tries to figure out where would be a logical place to run the wiring.

    (OOC: Architecture roll succeeds by 4)

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    Tariq traces the wires through some walls and one floor, eventually finding a big battery hooked up to multiple cables (each of which presumably poses some device or another) secured in a strongbox, hidden under a covered desk in a side room. A locked panel on the battery covers the wires' outlet - if you opened it up, you could simply pull the right wire to de-power the sensor. It looks like this is a mini-generator that the previous occupants of the radar base used to run their machines. The main generator in the basement may be too expensive to maintain on the regular.
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    "Woo! Great find, Tariq!" Sean observes the assembly to find out if it, itself, is trapped. Assuming it is not, he tries to pry the thing open using a crowbar, fails, and proposes Tariq to try for himself.

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    Sean Pires

    "Woo! Great find, Tariq!" Sean observes the assembly to find out if it, itself, is trapped. Assuming it is not, he tries to pry the thing open using a crowbar, fails, and proposes Tariq to try for himself.
    Tariq tries to pry open the strongbox, straining with the crowbar.

    (OOC: With the +2 bonus from the crowbar I succeeded by 1, but I'm guessing that might still not be enough).

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    The panel cover creaks and cracks open, revealing the guts of the makeshift power supply - a mess of cables, plugs, slots and outlets.

    All of it unlabeled. One of them powers the sensor in the infirmary, but which one?

    (OOC: Anyone got Electrician or Electronics Operation skill?)
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    The panel cover creaks and cracks open, revealing the guts of the makeshift power supply - a mess of cables, plugs, slots and outlets.

    All of it unlabeled. One of them powers the sensor in the infirmary, but which one?

    (OOC: Anyone got Electrician or Electronics Operation skill?)
    Standing back and surveying the electrical box Tariq comments to Sean, "Well, we could just unplug these one at a time and see what changes..."

    (OOC: I guess that's one way of taking extra time.)

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    Sean thinks about the proposal, then shakes his head. "Nah, I would not like to affect something we have no idea about. How about a non-destructive investigation instead? It seems you could follow these cables and see where they go. Just be wary of more sensors and such like."

    Having made this proposal, Sean sits with Richard and enjoys the rest of the day trying to remember what he was taught about sprains, bruises, and medical massage as it applies to them, practicing on himself only for now, to see if it works.
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    DAY 14

    The sun rises on the next day as the exiles rise from slumber. It appears nothing of note happened during the night, or or the group hoped.

    (OOC: Eat 3 more rations.)

    The injured among the group feel a little better, having rested enough to let their bodies heal.
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    Simone helps the men with the task of inspecting the cable and the battery.
    It does not take her long before she manages to identify the right cable and outlet for the infirmary sensor.
    With only a quick tug, the cable comes out, cutting off the power for the sensor and negating the threat of the alarm.

    Checking out the infirmary confirms that the sensor has been shut down...and three doses of medical nanomachine injectors are sitting out in the open, on a desk. The labels on the meds all warn users "FOR EMERGENCY WOUND TREATMENT ONLY".

    (OOC: Anyone wanna roll a medical skill to identify the meds' effects?)
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    Sean looks at the nanomachine injectors. The Shelter certainly had and used some, maybe some were issued to the scouts sometimes, but Sean was unable to remember the details of their working besides what was written on them already. Sean then does his best to search the room for anything else of interest. After it's done, he decides to go hunting. He does not intend to go far from the base and does not propose to take everyone with him, especially, not Richard, but one additional person might be useful, depending on what they would have to bring back. Sean takes a mostly empty backpack, a crossbow and a rifle.

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    Sean's hour of scavenging in the infirmary turns up only 600 pounds of broken and miscellaneous junk in chaotic piles. The infirmary was used extensively by the previous occupants, and left in a severely messy state.

    The hunt after takes another hour and goes much better. Sean eventually spots a rabbit in the snow, hopping over to a plant to munch on it...

    (OOC: The rabbit is SM -2, I believe.)
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    Sean tries to sneak up closer to the rabbit and shoot it with a crossbow, both because he does not want to waste a bullet on such a low-value target and because for such a small target a crossbow bolt should be sufficient. That said, he also expects his cheap crossbow to be more accurate then the - also cheap - rifle he had recently bought.

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    Sean's bolt flies through the air and buries itself in the rabbit's belly, knocking it out instantly and leaving it completely vulnerable to Sean's coup-de-grace.

    The rabbit weighs (weighed?) about 4 pounds in total, so the butchered meat would be enough for 2 meals. Cutting the meat does not take very long, but that in itself is less than encouraging.
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    Sean recovers the meat, the bolt, and makes his way back to base, but goes the long way around, hoping to maybe get another rabbit or some large enough bird.
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    As Sean patrols the woods, he spots another animal to hunt; a wild dog.
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    Sean contemplates whether the dog deserves a bolt or a bullet, then proceeds to sneak up on it with a loaded crossbow.

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