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The gear drop contained three hundred feet of rope, six grapnels, two three-person tents and two space heaters (in case a pickup couldn't be arranged or the team needed to stay for more than the night for some reason), three smoke grenades and three flares for signal purposes, five spare O2...

"We'll arrange for some transport to meet you in the field when you're done. A small plane, or a helicopter if we can get our hands on one," the quartermaster told the team, raising his voice as the rear doors opened, and the team moved into position in front of it. "Go, go, go," shouted the...

"Don't worry, it's perfectly safe, though it'd be better if you were experienced. We don't have any helicopters in the region capable of flight right now, so we're going to paradrop you into a field four miles from the site. We'll drop your equipment nearby. We've got a few hundred feet of rope...

After leaving the retired agent, the vans took Team Libra to the airport, where a large, cargo jet was waiting for them. They got on board, and after a few minutes of clearing the standard details with the airport control, it took off. Once they were in flight, a quartermaster started handing...

"It's been more than fifty years by now. I wasn't responsible for that operation, nor was I involved in it, so I don't know what we dumped there. Nor do I want to know. As for security, nice heavy locks, key and combination both, were what we used. None of these fancy keycards or scanners that...

Once he received the paper, Boris quickly began scetching out the layout of He explained as he did so. "I'm sure as 'digital' agents, you're familiar with computers and electronics and circuitry and all that modern rubbish. It won't do you any good in Hammerfall. You'll need a blowtorch if you...

Boris chuckled again. "I was a KGB agent. You really shouldn't bother trying to appeal to my better nature. I haven't got one." He then looked back at Larry. "You've got promise, kid. Get me some paper and a pen, and I'll tell you a few thigns that might save your lives. That was first duty...

Boris warmed up to Larry's initial offer, smiling and acepting the drink. "The doctors say I shouldn't. But what do they know?" He chuckled and smiled knowingly when Larry made his offer. He leaned in close, and whispered into Larry's ear. "I was playing people before your parents were born...

After purchasing the bottle of vodka, the team and the van made their way through the cold streets of Moscow, until they reached the apartment where Boris Kyznetsov resided. Boris was expecting the agents. He was an elderly man, in his late seventies and a wheelchair, but the awareness and...

OOC: Dyria is using the more general meaning of saint, rather than the specific mechanical term. "I was abducted as a young girl by enemies of my family and sold as a slave in Calimshan. Those Thayans spent their lives perpetuating the same system that destroyed my life and thousands of others...

Fedorov paused for a minute, then slipped half a dozen forms from one file to another. "At least you've been less difficult to deal with than most American agents. And we may be on the same side, but we do things very different here in Russia than you do in the United States. Unlike the US...

"Why do you characterize Murdoch's actions as evil?" Dyria asked Timrin and Alethia. "Perhaps they were not perfectly good, but the men he killed were all evil men who had earned death through their own actions. I can understand why a saint wouldn't kill them, but I'm not a saint, and I don't...

Fedorov was at his desk by this time, going through various reports and other paperwork that go with a man of his position. He listened to the information the group had gathered, and shook his head again. "Suicide. Going there would be absolutely suicide. Those old waste dumps are as close to...

"Yes, we do," Dyria said, sighing and following Alethia to the war room. "I can't imagine this is going to be overly pleasant."

Satellite imagery of the area indicates that only two or three of the buildings from the original surface complex are still standing, though it's impossible tell which ones. Various large cannisters and tanks are scattered about the area, a legacy of the Soviet hazardous waste disposal system...

The computer system is about a decade old, and uses an obscure, Soviet OS, but otherwise is fully functional. It only takes a few moments to dig through the index folders and find that the infiormation on Hammerfall is located in file cabinet 654-G. Which, by the laws of bureaucracy, isn't...