As soon as the hand makes contact with one of the blue lasers a few others turn to focus on it. After about ten seconds the turn away and the red lasers then turn off. With the lasers out of the way Finn can see the ladder leads a long way down, though at the bottom he can see the ground is bathed in a light blue light
OOC: Can Lassie determine if the scratches were made in an attempt to stop the machine from running, or if it's a by-product of a fight taking place in this vicinity?
It looks more like it was targeted directly at the fusion reactor. Given the angle made it's like somebody was trying to cut through the protective plating
"Sorry boss, but no. No drones"
Finn manages to scavenges an engineer's inspection tool with a mirror back in utility room he hid in earlier.
Luca spins up the particle cannon as he descends the ladder, the humming sound building as he approaches the bottom.
Lassie manages this pretty quickly. It was simply the AI and the Teleporter.
"Shit, a fuckin' AI."
OOC: You can type in responses at the fusion reactor's console. Sorry wasn't clear above, that "Hello there" etc was simply text.
"Alright boys, I'm sure they heard all that. Let's move!"
Lassie sighs and begins typing.
Hello, you are indeed correct that I am not a cult member. I assume they have been using you as assistance for their efforts?OOC: Yes, no problem. Just to be clear for the next post, do you transmit the video?
Well, are you with the cult? Did they create you or just use you for their own ends?OOC: I'm first waiting to see it's reaction. I don't want it to interpret a pointed camera as a weapon so I'm going to ask first.
"Yeah..." he breathes out slowly "...I got this. Thanks"
It turns slightly in Finn's direction, the crackling then stops on Luca's cannon, but it doesn't do anything else.
Lassiter can see over the comm video a cavern with a clear water pool taking up most of it. Standing on the water he sees the beast Finn spoke of.
The creature remains facing Finn. A streak of purple energy courses over it slowly, crackling along its hide as it advances toward Finn across the water...
What do they have you doing? More interesting than managing mining enterprises? If you're bored doing this, I could see if I get you out of the loan early.Computing teleportation drops. It's hard but satisfying work. Quite a bit more interesting than mining optimization and management. Bored with this no, not at all, but I have had moral queries. I would appreciate getting out.
Something disturbing on that video feed?OOC:
Brock Savage , going to get you to fire as well.
Moral objections? To what, exactly? If you don't mind me asking. The video feed is a little troubling, yes.The comm crackles slightly. He does hear garbled voices, but just very brief pieces not complete words. His battle dress is clever enough to work out a rough estimate of his location from Saturn's position in the sky and local features. He is standing somewhere in the middle of Arrakis Planitia about 150 km from the colony. The battle dress reports good functioning. A little minor fraying that it's not able to diagnose the source of but nothing serious.
The poor doctor working here. She was obsessed, pushing things further and further. I don't fully understand the technology, I only compute enough to help them, but not enough to figure things out. She tested the technology on herself. It had some kind of mental effect on her. She came back missing skin once. It wasn't rightOOC: Vehicle tracks start here. The power cable stretches to the left after emerging from the sand a bit in front of you on the other side of the river. You can tell it continues under the sand to the right from the raising of the sand for a few feet around it, but it's direction is not clear (unlike the left where it is above ground) due to being buried.
