[Date: 10/12/2020; 9 pm GMT.] [The site is around a small town in the south of Scotland.] [There's two patroling security guards but otherwise the facility seems shut down. There's an office building going up on the site. There's also a pit at one corner of the building.] [Start] * Ren is in his usual 'work' clothes- A green pleather jacket, faded, worn-out jeans, and a plain t-shirt- as he settles in a safe distance from it, looking it over. He watches the gaurds patrol patterns, trying to figure out their priorities on what to guard. [Military science (tactics) check. -4 bonus.] [The security guys are focused on watching the pit. The rest of the rounds are perfunctary.] * Ren smirks a little. "Figgers. Just the place I wanted to visit." * Ren eyes the office going up, seeing if that's watched much. "No matter. Door number 2 for now." [Doesn't seem to be watched that Ren can tell.] [Watched much. They do glance at it.] * Ren heads that way, then, taking care to try and be somewhat inconspicous, keeping an eye out for surveillance. He waits for the guards to get to the pit and focus there before going. (Give me a -4 stealth (hiding) check) [Ren is able to approach without attracking an attention.] * Ren then goes about going up to the door, and listening for a moment. ( Ie; hear if anyone is inside, talking, etc. ) (Awareness check) [There's a third guard walking around inside the building. And for the record you can get to the pit from outside or inside the building.] [And there's a trailor on site. Looks vacant.] * Ren goes there! [Straight stealth roll required. It's pretty near the pit, so it'll be harder to sneak there.] ( change of plans, then. ) [The office building is five stories tall, although only the bottom three are at all completed.] * Ren flicks his gaze upwards, then non-chalatnly shrugs, talking seemingly to himself for a moment. "See how dependent I've become on you? I'm gonna feel crippled when yer gone, yannow." * Ren adopts the usual over-pronounced feline traits as he crouches down, readying to jump up the the 4th floor. He spares some attention to wait for the best placement of guards to make the jump with minimal attention. [Okay. Body stealth (move silent) roll.] [Ren gets up there and makes a small amount of noise. One of the guards starts looking around.] * Ren freezes, waiting it out. [Guards don't notice anything. After a minute they settle down.] ( 'Return to your stations.' ) * Ren drops down to the the third floor, away from prying eyes from the ground, ears and eyes open to place the inside guard's current position. [Guard is presently wandering on the second floor and isn't being too quiet.] * Ren bemusedly smiles to himself. "I'm gonna feel stupid if I go to all this trouble to sneak and when I could have just walked in." * Ren chuckles to himself, and walks slowly, and hopefully, quietly, to the side/corner nearest the pit. [Stealth roll. -4] [Ren gets to the corner without making a sound.] * Ren then jumps lightly up to the lip of the unfinished wall, and crouches there, looking down. [There's a metal stairway leading down to the pit. No guard at the bottom.] * Ren keeps tabs on the various guards, waiting for the right moment... [And the guards are now at the optimum position and don't have a clear view of the pit.] * Ren flicks his ears, and jumps straight down into the center of the pit- skipping the convenient stairs. [Acrobatics roll. -2 per level of jumping.] [Ren makes it down smooth, straight through the center of the metal staircases which goes along the edge of the pit. There's some equipment and rebar lying at the bottom but he shifts his weight to target his landing and rolls to ignore damage.] [There's a shaft leading off that ends abruptly in a concrete wall.] * Ren looks around, twitching his feline ears momentarilly. "The manmade dead ends are always the most suspicious..." [There's rebar, a few other supplies, and a good number of empty bags of concrete mix. Also an elevator for raising and lowering heavy stuff.]] ( The concrete wall- like they're sealing up a tunnel? ) (Yeah) ( There a path left at all, or it -completely- sealed? ) (Completely) * Ren pads over to it, and lays a palm flat against it. "Very suspicious indeed." ( it = the wall ) [The wall seems real enough.] ( more like testing for tempature and any odd contact senstaions, but yay! Real! ) [Nothing out of the ordinary to the touch.] * Ren turns back, and eyes the bags of concrete. "Assuming they haven't thrown any of the empty bags away, and also assuming the tunnel is straight, and that it's width is uniform, how far back would this tunnel go..." * Ren starts counting bags, and chugging numbers in his head. [Physical science roll. Or math, or construction, or anything you can justify.] ( Architecture:Fortifications or Demolitions? ^_^ ) (Both work. ^_^ ) [The wall is likely about two meters thick.] * Ren stands at the very center of the door. "... in range. Assuming all my assumptions are correct. Let's try it." * Ren pops out in a burst of fur, aiming for 4 meters straight ahead. [And Ren arrives on the far side of the tunnel wall. It's pitch back in here. Ren has some sort of night vision, right? ( ... nope! Just HS:Sight. ) [So he's not seeing so well as there's no light source.] * Ren risks a small amount of sound, tapping his foot loudly against the ground. After that sounds, he risks a "... is anyone here?" [No reply. And give me an awareness check against smell. -4 bonus.] [There's a strong smell of cleaning fluids in here. They mask a slight odor of long dried blood.] * Ren narrows his eyes at the smell. * Ren pulls out one of his assault rifles, and points it safely down. He holds down the trigger for a couple of seconds, and quickly looks around to see what there is to see. [He's in an earthen tunnel. At the far end, several meters away, there appears to be a conventional hallway. To his right is an empty rack and a bin labeled 'safety equipment.'] [He can't see the contents of the bin because it is a few feet deep and the muzzle light doesn't extend that far.] * Ren lets the sound and light from the weapon fire die down before walking to his right, aiming for the bin, one arm outstretched. [He reaches it easily enough.] * Ren then starts feeling around in there for something with a light on it- flare kits, helemts with perched lights, a regualr flashlight, lamps, etc. [There is a helmet with a perched light and a vest. The vest has a square object hanging from it that ways a few pounds.] ( weighs ) * Ren flips on the light! "... if Lady Victoria didn't get any response, this sure as hell can't hurt." * Ren takes a look at the square thingie, next! [With the light on, Ren can see that it is a data-pad in a heavy damage resistant casing.] * Ren turns that on! [A map comes up: http://www.zort.net/~gsanders/images/map.gif] (That load for you?) * Ren muses over it, chuckling. ( yeah. ) Now why would someone go to all the trouble of sealing off an underground ... gym? [There's a little you are here dot in the tunnel.] ( The -3F one? ) (Right) ... * Ren looks at the walls more, while heading for the door indicated ahead of him. An underground base. Meant to be a place of safety... or secrecy. Hmm. * Ren scratches behind one of his human ears. "But why such a big gym?" [Ren gets out into the first hallway. He sees the occassional faint remains of a bloodstain, but no bodies.] ... hmm. Whoever's up top didn't like them being here... or they escaped to the top to seal off what was down here? [The door in front of Ren hangs open. Someone has welded through the lock apparently.] ( still hot? ) ( Long cold) ( from which side? ) ( Your side) * Ren tucks the datapad away for the moment, replacing it with a pistol, and walks in cautiosuly. [This room seems like it once once a loung/break room. There's tables and chairs, although they've been pushed up against a wall. Some of them are smashed. There's a fridge, a microwave, and the like.] [Also bathroom facilities.] ( Power to the firdge/mircowave/etc? ) (No.) * Ren frowns, and looks over everything, walking around, specifically looking for signs of arranging stuff to act as a barrier. [The security shutter seperating the break room and the hallway has been propped open.] [And no. It loooks like the tables were just moved to be out of the way] * Ren goes out into the hallway, then. He checks the data-pad again real quick before tucking it away. (actually, no I'm wrong. It isn't a security shutter, it's just a room divider.) [He gets back to the first hallway.] [Incidentally, when approaching from this angle, he can clearly tell that this hallway was tunnelled into. I.E. the tunnel came after the base. * Ren heads over to 'Supplies'. [Give me a visual awareness role.] [He notices some black marks on the floor coming out of the supply area. Looks like two tracks about a meter apart. There's also computer wiring coming in to the supply area.] [The supply area itself has a series of metal shelves. It seems to have been stripped of anything remotely valuable or salvagable.] ( The black marks look like tire/tread marks? ) (More like scuff marks, but yeah, that's the general idea. ) [ They go up to the back wall of the supply closet. ] * Ren kneels down and takes a closer look at the black marks, then follows the computer wiring. [The computer wiring also runs to the back wall of the supply closet.] * Ren looks closer at the back wall, for seams, lines, anyting that might indicate a passage or door. [Awareness roll. -4] [Ren finds seems that match up exactly with one of the shelves. There's also a hidden button along one of the seems.] * Ren pushes the button! [The shelves swing open revealing a room not on your map. It holds a generator and looks as if it once had room for a supercomputer, but now there's just a big gap with a lot of disconnected wires and jacks. The scuff marks end where the computer once stood. There's also a small ventilation shaft in one wall.] ... research. They took it back up? Make a note to see if I see anything like that in the building... * Ren eyes the ventilation shaft, then exits the hidden room and closes it back up. Then he heads to Security. [The security room looks as if it was badly wrecked. Lots of broken monitors and the like. However it was subsequently cleaned up and stripped carefully of any working equipment.] * Ren frowns as he looks it over. "If they did this... they didn't leave any tapes, most likely." He checks anyways. [Also give me an unarmed attack roll against mind.] [And Ren's guess is correct.] [Oh, there's a weapons rack as well. But that's been completely cleared out. There's also a cabinet with a series of collars/chokers that seem to have been damaged beyond repair and left.] [And Ren thinks the monitors were smashed using a human body.] [Oh, and the overhead computer wiring also runs into this room. It'll also be running into any other room that once held advanced equipment, so I won't mention it again.] * Ren shakes his head, and leaves. He skips the science labs and heads for the Dorms. [The dorm facilites seem to proide housing for a couple dozen people. They're more comfortable then barracks, but not much more sizable. They've been stripped of anything valuable.] * Ren isn;'t worried about valuable. He's worried about traces of identity. [Oh, and to the right is an open door to a small security room.] [There are a few personal effects in the room. Pictures. Novels. Although there's a distinct lack of any personal datapad or journals or the like.] [The pictures are both art work and some apparent family shots.] * Ren snags some of the family pictures, and flips throug any of the novels to see if they're signed. [Give me a soul (luck) roll.] [One of the books, a cautionary tail on genetic engineering, is signed "To Roger, thanks for all the questions you answered." The author signed his name beneath that.] ( Does Roger have a family picture to go with the effects? ) ( Sure ) * Ren snags the family picture to go with it. The name and picture together will do better together. * Ren heads to the small security room, glancing at the datapad w/map again. [The small security room overlooks a lobby. There's an elevator shaft at the far end of the lobby that has been filled with rubble. It looks like a few attempts were made to clear out the rubble, but it was a lost cause.] ... the original way in, I think. * Ren shakes his head, and goes over to the science lab. [The science lab also looks as if it was trashed and then cleaned. There's remains of two supercomputers here as well as what looks to be an MRI machine. Finally there's a covered bed. It loooks as if a whirlwind had originally gone through this room and took great care to destroy the equipment. If any parts of it survived they were stripped by the cleanup crew.] [And give me a bioscience roll; a bioscience +4 roll; and an electronics (sensors) roll.] [The sensors on the MRI type machine look very heavy duty. Not the sort of thing you'd want to use on a living subject if you wanted them to stay that way.] * Ren pokes around the room a bit more, uncovering the bed. (Oops, made a mistake. Should be a vat, not a covered bed.) [And a big one. Think bacta tank from the Empire Strikes Back.] [It was damaged, but not as vendictively as some of the other equipment in the room.] * Ren looks over the vat impassively, circling it and looking it over from all sides. [It apparently was attached to a few monitors and had sensors and fluid control. However any worthwhile equipment has been stripped.] * Ren steps back from the vat, and looks at the room as a whole, trying to look for any sign or pattern of destruction that might confirm his theory- something busted out of the vat, and destroyed everyting around it, not worrying so much about the thing it came from. [His theory doesn't seem to stack up. The damage to the vat came from the outside.] * Ren cradles his chin, and hmms. "So much for that idea." * Ren gives the perimeter of the room one more pass, walking it, and trying to guess at a path or order to a path of destruction. (Mind demolitions or police science roll) [It seems like between two to three subjects entered the room from the door and systematically destroyed the contents of the room. There's some signs of bodies being tossed around in addition to the overall whirlwind effect. They seemed to smash the MRI machine first and spent the most time making sure it was gone.] * Ren frowns, and leans against a wall for a moment. "Hmm. Were the test subjects angered with the equipment, or did a hostile force come in to shut this down...?" [That he has no way of knowing.] ( Thinking out loud. ) ( I'm willing to give rolls for thinking out loud. ;P) * Ren stands up, and shakes his head. "Not enough information." ( Heh. ) * Ren heads to the elevator! [The elevator shaft has a construction elevator installed within it. This is obvious a jerry rig and not what was originally intended. There's a security shutter that had closed, but has been jacked up (the jack is still there) and has a jerry rigged metal support beam holding it open now. Strangely the rock floor underneath the security shutter has been dug away leaving enough room that a human could easily pass underneath it even when the shutter was down.] [The construction elevator is presently at the top of the shaft. There's a place for an electric generator to hook up to it, but it seems that the generator has been removed.] (a human could easily pass underneath it even when the shutter was down.]) * Ren checks for buttons of destinations or such. ( In particluar, anything between -3 and -7? ) [There's a button on the construction elevator for up and one for down.] * Ren pushes the down button! He really doesn't expect it to work. [It does not!] Yup. Quick way, then. * Ren gets onto the elevator, and makes sure his inventory is secure. He then takes off the safety hat, and holds it in his hands and points it down. A moment later, he teleports straight down, just enough to be clear of the elevator. ( braking his fall with air-dashes, looking for the next passage down in the shaft. ) [The shaft goes down, not apparently having any side passages except the one at the bottom. Give me an awarenss check. Demolitions helps.] [As Ren airdashes to slow his fall, his light illuminates the bottom of the shaft. Some kind soul has left a satchel charge there attached to a motion sensor. Unlike everything else in this facility, that looks very active.] * Ren lets out a growl, and gains some more air before shoving himself against a wall to slide down it- and as soon as he gets close enough to do so, tries to teleport past it. [Power usage roll. -8] [Ren appears in the lower hallway, safely past the bottom of the shaft and the deadly surprise.] * Ren turns around to eye the explosive. "Well, it looks like they decided to leave something behind after all." [Demolitions roll.] [The satchel pack is a fairly straightforward and simple explosive. It could potentially collapse the shaft. It can be triggered by the attached motion sensor although it is a multipurpose pack and could have used a different trigger. Also looks as if it can be remotely turned off.] (And I'm tempted to call it a night. The second level and subsequent departure will probably be as long as the arrival and first level.) * Ren leans against a wall, and ponders for a moment. Then digs out the datapad and checks the map again. "Trying to catch intruders, or holding out a hope of returning? Can't think of why if they went to all that trouble up there, they wouldn't just collapse the shaft anyways..." ( I was pondering that myself. Seems like a good calling point here. ) [Break!]