Mission #14 - A New Ally?

[GM Craig]

[OOC: You guys have plenty of weapons.]

With your own rope secured, Jexian takes the lead. As you travel down the rope, you can hear the sound of klaxons echoing through the facility.

You get about twenty feet when you encounter your first obstacle. There appear to be horizontal blast doors that have sealed off the lift shaft. Without coming off the sytherope, Jexiam moves aside to let Mariah have a look at it. Pulling out her toolkit she gets to work.

"They're probably going to have these all the way down," she says.

It takes about twenty seconds before Mariah tracks down the servo housing. Fortunately, it's next to a live power line. A few sparks later, and she has applied raw power to the actuators and the door slides open about halfway before the motors burn out. It's enough space to get through, but it will prevent the use of the lift.

Through the opening, you spot another set of blast doors. If your intel is correct, these should be the last once before the lower levels of the facility become open to you.

[Actions?]

Keep on keeping on, or you want to make some changes?

[Niil Spaar]

Niil keyed his comm.  "Hold on a sec.  They've probably got a few dozen blaster rifles aimed and ready for that last set of doors to open, and those doors might be rigged.  Can you see any doors leading to the level above that last set?"


OOC:  Ie. vertical doors.

[GM Craig]

[OOC: Sure, there's doors in the lift shaft every 10'.]

[Trax]

"Yeah we can.  But if they're monitoring our progress and we stop now they'll have a better idea of what door were coming through.  I say open the next one and then pick which floor we want to enter.  If the next door only opens partially like this one we'll have position on them for firing and dropping grenades."

[Jex]

"The longer we give them time to setup, the harder it will be to punch through them. Open the blast door and lets take it one level at a time, but do it fast."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil gave a curt nod.  "True enough.  Mariah, see if you can pop open that last blast door.  Everyone else, scrape some cover if you can and get ready for covering fire."

[Collan]

Collan attempted to get in position and pulled his blaster rifle around. It didn't matter so much that he wasn't good with it....what mattered was making the Imps duck down. He readied and steadied himself to fire as needed.

[GM Craig]

Jex, Mariah and Collan drop down to the next blast door, and Mariah gets to work. She finds the actuator panel easy enough, but this time there is no handy power feed to drive them. Feeling the pressure, she pulls four spare power packs from her armour belt and begins to wire them together. It takes about thirty seconds, and there is a fair bit of cursing from her as she gets a little singed. But you are rewarded with an audible click when the interlocks disengage, and the door slides open slightly. Mariah yells "Down!" a moment before her rigged power supply detonates, scattering (mostly) harmless shrapnel around the area. Aside from some singed fingers on Mariah an minor cuts and burns on Jex and Collan, everyone is fine. It takes Jex a little effort to force the doors open, but with feet and hands me manages to force the doors far enough apart to fit through. Still no sign of hostiles.

Below you, you see one more exit door in the side of the shaft, and below that the lift. It looks like there is an unexpected lower level to the facility. Not a total surprise, given that there was apparently an Intel base here, and it changes the plan little. The reactor will be in the bottom of the facility, and that's your goal.

[Actions?]

The lift is blocking access to the bottom level, but it should be fairly easy to blast through.

[Trax]

[OOC: I believe it's Trax that's down there with Mariah and Jex.  Unless something changed along the way.]

"Might be a good idea to go in here but blast the lift once we're in so we can use the lower level for an exit." Trax commented over the comm.  "We might have to do a floor by floor search for our target anyway."

[Niil Spaar]

"True enough.  Jex, think you can carve some access holes in that lift so we can bypass it, or should Mariah just use some shaped charges?"

[Jex]

"Maybe the lift has a service access hatch. I may be able to cut holes, but it would be much faster to blast it"

[OOC- is it feasible to use a vibroblade in this fashion, or would it eventually damage the weapon?]

[GM Craig]

[OOC: It will eventually damage the weapon. It's not made to cut open steel. Still, you could slice off hinges from an access hatch without much issue.]

[Niil Spaar]

Niil nodded.  "Whatever's quicker for you; blaster, or lop off the access panel hinges.  Both are gonna make noise anyway."

[Trax]

"If we're gonna be making noise, shouldn't we make sure we're not going to get pinned in here first?"

[OOC: I'm talking about getting through the lift doors before whoever is on the other side decides to blow them, or set up charges for when we go through.]

[Jex]

[OOC - Craig is there an service access panel on the lift?]