Scum and Villainy in-character (IC) thread.

[Séadna]

Ida will try to head down on the lynch not provoking the Rock Hoppers any further.

 

[Nobby-W]

Ida will try to head down on the lynch not provoking the Rock Hoppers any further.

You get onto the lift and winch yourself down to the bottom. According to your chrono there's 8 minutes until the detonators go off.

 

[Stan]

Steevo decides that's a good idea and goes down the winch after Ida gets off.

"Twitch, ya comin,?"

 

[Bunch]

Twitch boogies along with the others

 

[Nobby-W]

Ida will try to head down on the lynch not provoking the Rock Hoppers any further.

Steevo decides that's a good idea and goes down the winch after Ida gets off.

"Twitch, ya comin,?"

Twitch boogies along with the others

Smith, Séadna, Bunch, Stan -

Winching the rest of the party down takes another few minutes. You're standing around the bottom of the winch when the detonators go off. A few seconds later what appears to be the whole brood bolts out of the cave and down the ledge leading off it. You notice some carrying juveniles in their jaws.

 

[Séadna]

"Wonderful!" Ida says pumping her fists into the air, though she feels a bit sad seeing the little ones being chased out.

"Right let's get this clearing operation underway. Grab some sonic hammers guys"

 

[Nobby-W]

"Wonderful!" Ida says pumping her fists into the air, though she feels a bit sad seeing the little ones being chased out.

"Right let's get this clearing operation underway. Grab some sonic hammers guys"

You feel a tiny ripple in the fabric, barely perceptable.

 

[Séadna]

Ida closes her eyes, exhales and goes into a meditative state searching for anything unusual.

OOC: ATTUNE. Highest dice was 6.

 

[Smith]

Kal feels his stomach lurch when the juveniles are carried out. He struggles momentarily to come up with a funny quip but gives up. "Well, that's one issue dealt with. Let's get a move on."

 

[Nobby-W]

Ida closes her eyes, exhales and goes into a meditative state searching for anything unusual.

OOC: ATTUNE. Highest dice was 6.

You feel the presence in the temple again, somewhere behind the anteroom. It feels as if it stirred slightly.

 

[Bunch]

"Let's go see what we're dealing with." Twitch says eager to get a move on

 

[Stan]

Steevo talks quietly so no one outside of the team hears, "Well, let's go loot a temple."

Steevo starts heading back up.

 

[Nobby-W]

Smith, Séadna, Bunch, Stan -

You go back up into the temple. There is a corpse of a rock hopper that got blown apart by one of the charges but all the others have vacated.

Inspecting the antechamber, there is a pile of rubble from a collapse in the wall, with a large door into the next room stuck in the rubble. There is also another door in the wall wedged shut. Okon and the crew start bringing survey and recording equipment up. He explains that if the dig looks like blatant treasure hunting it will taint the finds and legit collections will be wary of them. The dig has to follow certain protocols about survey and recording.

The initial survey will take several days before they want to clear the rocks. They need to doctor it enough so it doesn't look like somebody's been throwing grenades around a 700,000 year old alien archaeological site. In the meantime he wants you to establish a perimeter at the valley entrance. There is some passive sensor gear in one of the crawlers that you can use to set up remote monitoring.

You keep getting the nagging impression that this is not Okon's first time at this sort of thing.

 

[Smith]

(He wants our entire crew out of sight?)

 

[Nobby-W]

(He wants our entire crew out of sight?)

OOC: One could test the waters by trying to finagle a way to stay here and keep an eye on them.

 

[Smith]

Kal surreptitiously nudges Ida, and gestures slightly in a means of saying 'Use the Way stuff'.

 

[Nobby-W]

Kal surreptitiously nudges Ida, and gestures slightly in a means of saying 'Use the Way stuff'.

OOC: Jedi mind tricks are a specific mystic ability that Ida doesn't have.

 

[Smith]

OOC: Jedi mind tricks are a specific mystic ability that Ida doesn't have.

OOC: I meant more along the lines of her having the best excuse, 'making sure the spirits are appeased' kinda thing. Could I try SWAY to convince em of her usefulness?

 

[Nobby-W]

OOC: I meant more along the lines of her having the best excuse, 'making sure the spirits are appeased' kinda thing. Could I try SWAY to convince em of her usefulness?

OOC: It might work. If you lay on the 'empathetic earth-mother chick' trope too thick you might get a slapping, but that's up to Séadna

 

[Smith]

OOC: I will take Séadna liking my post as approval!

"Okron, given the spiritualist nature of this site, I feel that Ida's gifts might be better suited to with you here. She's capable of staying out of your way while she ensures that whatever balance in this ancient place remains undisturbed." Kal gestures frequently with his hands as he talks, and throws in a couple side-eye glances towards the gloomier parts of the site.

 

[Nobby-W]

OOC: I will take Séadna liking my post as approval!

"Okron, given the spiritualist nature of this site, I feel that Ida's gifts might be better suited to with you here. She's capable of staying out of your way while she ensures that whatever balance in this ancient place remains undisturbed." Kal gestures frequently with his hands as he talks, and throws in a couple side-eye glances towards the gloomier parts of the site.

Séadna, Smith, Bunch, Stan

Make a SWAY roll. Ida can assist for an additional die by looking serene and mystical.

 

[Smith]

SWAY = 2d +1d = 2, 6, 1

 

[Bunch]

I think Twitch has a 2 in sway.
[1,3]=3

 

[Stan]

1 + 1 sway.
6,2

 

[Nobby-W]

OOC: Séadna, Smith, Bunch, Stan - The only SWAY roll I needed was from Smith. Sorry for the confusion.

Smith - Okon and Lar both seem happy with this. Fort happens to be in earshot and you hear him muttering 'Tree hugging hippie crap' under his breath. You had the impression that he's a bit of a positivist and may be a Way skeptic.

6 = Success. +1 Gambit.

 

[Séadna]

Ida stays at the site with Okon and Lar, ignoring Fort's comments.

 

[Smith]

Giving Ida a sly nod, Kal heads out with the others to assist in their given task.

 

[Nobby-W]

Ida stays at the site with Okon and Lar, ignoring Fort's comments.

Giving Ida a sly nod, Kal heads out with the others to assist in their given task.

The trail bikes are capable of scrambling over the rocky trail. Okon shows you a couple of cases with remote sensors - surveillance cameras, seismic sensors and proximity sensors. The sensors can be monitored by a radio relay and connect via an aerial to a control console about the size of a laptop computer.

You're a few kilometers into the valley, about 20 minutes' careful ride across country or less if you drive like a maniac.

Séadna, Smith, Bunch, Stan - who else wants to go with Kal?

 

[Bunch]

Twitch will

 

[Nobby-W]

Twitch will

Smith, Bunch, Séadna, Stan
OK. There are two bikes; Twitch and Kal ride out to place the sensors. On the way through you disturb an eyrie of Psychodactyls, which start squawking loudly and dive bomb you a few times, but then lose interest.

Arriving at the mouth of the valley you can easily conceal some seismic sensors in the rubble and set up a couple of surveillence cameras. They have little PV cell packs for power that fold out with a stand. Little gecko clamps allow you to fasten them to the rocks. After a bit of testing you have them set up. The process takes a few hours, after which you return. On your way through, the psychodactyls seem pretty blase about you.

 

[Smith]

OOC: Can we spot the Psychodactyls from afar? If they get alerted like they did with us, I'd like to keep an eye on them for anything that might be sneaking up on us.

 

[Bunch]

If it looks like we have a little down time Twitch will attend to some extracurricular needs....

 

[Nobby-W]

OOC: Can we spot the Psychodactyls from afar? If they get alerted like they did with us, I'd like to keep an eye on them for anything that might be sneaking up on us.

OOC: If they're getting territorial and defending their eyrie they make a lot of squawking and dive bombing. You can see that from a long way off.

 

[Smith]

OOC: What kind of observatory watch are we setting up for the camp? Are the locals in charge of that?

 

[Nobby-W]

OOC: What kind of observatory watch are we setting up for the camp? Are the locals in charge of that?

OOC: You are free to arrange that as you see fit. You're the muscle, and it will be a few days before they've finished the initial survey. The whole dig is expected to take several weeks.

 

[Smith]

"Whenever we set up our scouting positions, let's keep those flying buggers in view. If they get spooked, it might be for a good reason we should be aware of."

 

[Bunch]

"You think they'll move without makin noise? "

 

[Smith]

"I just mean if they kick up a fuss like they did when we got close, that's likely a sign that someone or something is near 'em and annoying 'em - and might be trying to advance on us."

 

[Nobby-W]

Smith, Séadna, Bunch, Stan -

The survey team spend several days setting up and running scans with spectroscope and photogrammetry equipment to record a detailed model of the interior. There are two rooms accessible - the room with the statues and the antechamber. There are two doors that they leave closed for the moment.

A rock fall where some of the ceiling has caved in leaves the door to the statue room stuck slightly open - you can squeeze in.

A backscatter depth imager shows a corridor behind the door at the far end of the statue room and there is a side chamber behind the door in the anteroom.

You take the time to do a recon of the surrounding area. The valley is a box canyon with a dead end. You can find some negotiable paths up the side and can place a direction antenna relay on a ridge that lets you monitor the sensors at the valley mouth with tight beam comms.. You can even set up a directional mike pointing at the eyrie that will pick up the 'dactyl's sounds.

Making trips to check the surveillance gear you notice that the 'dactyl's pretty much ignore you now.

Once the initial survey is finished Okon calls a meeting where he says he needs all hands to assist with clearing the rubble. He has some power hammers that will break up the rocks and now it's just warm bodies to break up the larger rocks and clear the rubble. You can take it down with the winch an pile it up by the bottom of the cliff. You still need to be careful to preserve the actual wall facings with the carvings and pigments so it's not just a free for all.

You're starting on the rubble clearance. What are you doing?

 

[Smith]

Kal's least favourite aspect of any job, physical labour, he reluctantly pitches in.

OOC: Do we still have anyone on watch whilst we focus on this?