[D20 Modern] Stargate SG-1 - Part II - It's getting warmer

[Nuke261]

Inside Warehouse 37
Las Vegas, Nevada
0719 hours, June 3, 2003

Durant began to tell Campbell to go ahead and search the desk, any intel is good intel, when he heard a comment about it getting hard to breathe. He slowly wiped his face from the tremendous heat being generated. The heat that seemed to get more intense in the elevator shaft. "Oh $&!+!!" Suddenly a giant light bulb came on inside his head. There has to be something burning in here, eating up our fragging oxygen!!
"Montoya, check the door for heat!" He yelled down the shaft towards Ricardo and Lucas.
"Donovan, give me a sitrep on your door! Can you open it without danger if I give the word?"

 

[Vardeman]

Inside Warehouse 37
Las Vegas, Nevada
0719 hours, June 3, 2003

"Montoya, check the door for heat!" He yelled down the shaft towards Ricardo and Lucas.

Montoya called back up, "Aye aye, sir." He felt the seams of the access panel with his hand and compared it with the door and the wall in several places, trying to determine if the panel itself was hotter than the surrounding wall. He turned his head back up the shaft and called out, "Someone be ready to pull us back up in case something bad happens, eh?" With that he prepared to open the hatch, keeping his body off to the side a ways.

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[kid A]

Inside Warehouse 37
Las Vegas, Nevada
0719 hours, June 3, 2003

One thing that hadn't changed was the heat . . . but there was a change, just not very noticable. Rylee noticed it first, followed shortly thereafter by Andreev. It was getting tougher to breath . . . Andreev noticed it as a decrease in oxygen levels - something he was familiar with in the space program.

Once Andreev noticed the decrease in oxygen, his cosmonaut training kicked in, and he automatically began to relax his body, taking smaller breaths and suppressing panic. As everyone else began to figure out what was happening, he confirmed their theory. "Commander Durant is correct. For some unknown reason, the oxygen levels in this room are slowly decreasing, but if we are not hasty with making an exit, it will not take much time for it to deplete completely. Everyone, please try to calm yourselves and control your breathing. If you can help it, please refrain from deep breaths or even shouts."

He began looking around the room for any kind of vents or ducts that may have been obstructed or damaged by whatever had caused the blast. He asked anyone who wasn't currently invovled in another task to assist him. He also approached Lieutenants Donovan and Stewart. "That sound you reported from the top of the stairwell... it concerns me. Perhaps it was not someone attempting to persue us at all, but instead someone preventing us from escaping this warehouse. Lt. Donovan, would you please inspect the door and see if we still have a working exit?"

 

[MadThinker]

Inside Warehouse 37
Las Vegas, Nevada
0719 hours, June 3, 2003

He began looking around the room for any kind of vents or ducts that may have been obstructed or damaged by whatever had caused the blast. He asked anyone who wasn't currently invovled in another task to assist him. He also approached Lieutenants Donovan and Stewart. "That sound you reported from the top of the stairwell... it concerns me. Perhaps it was not someone attempting to persue us at all, but instead someone preventing us from escaping this warehouse. Lt. Donovan, would you please inspect the door and see if we still have a working exit?"

Damn it! What the hell is going on here? Who the *%#$ would wanna keep us in here instead of just taking care of us?

"Yes, sir!"

Donovan trained the sight of his rifle on the door and began moving up the stairs quickly. He just couldn't figure out what he had gotten himself into. But it didn't matter, because he had a job to do, and anyways, he sure as hell wasn't going to go out by suffocating. He climbed the stairs and listened for any noises coming from the door.

 

[Fanog]

Inside Warehouse 37
Las Vegas, Nevada
0719 hours, June 3, 2003

Leonard nods to Durant and is about to walk back to the desk when all hell seems to brake loose. Damn, what's happening here? In about three seconds, we've gone from 'reasonably well' to 'big trouble'. Damnit! Leonard feels his breath pick up just as Andreev warns him about that. Steady, Len, he reminds himself.

He looks around the room for a short moment, trying to decide where he is most needed. It's the call from Ricardo that makes him decide. As he grabs the climbing rope, he looks down into the shaft, gaining a feel for the situation down there. "Just a sec, Ric. Lucas, still doing okay down there?" Needing both hands on the rope, he tosses his flashlight over to the young man by the desk. "Jemeriah, please leave the desk for the moment. Help Andreev in locating any air vents..."

After he's found some steady surface to brace himself against, Leonard calls into the eleveator shaft, reminding himself to keep his voice low. "Ok, Ric. You're good to go."

 

[Keia]

Inside Warehouse 37
Las Vegas, Nevada
0720 hours, June 3, 2003

At a controlled advance up the stairs, Donovan moved to the stone outer building with Stewart following closely behind. It was warmer up here than it was when the group first entered the room. Both teammates were feeling the heat - their fatigues had sweat lines on their backs and chests. The door was secure but didn’t seem to have been barred from the outside. Of course, this would be much easier to determine by just trying the door. Listening at the door, neither Donovan nor Stewart heard anything outside that wasn’t drowned by the sounds inside and down the stairs.

As Andreev scanned the room with his flashlight, it was apparent that the black crusty material had covered all of the wall area. The rough surface of the built up crust would make it almost impossible to determine where a vent would have been without digging everywhere. Reed stopped working on the panel and started to search the walls and floor for vent plates by stabbing her survival knife into various spots on the wall and floor . . . but it would be a while. At Leonard’s request, Jeremiah also looked around the walls for vents – finding nothing but thickly covered walls.

Ricardo and Lucas got the panel cleared and Ricardo inspected the panel and surrounding area. The panel was warmer but only slightly so – a difference that could be attributed to the thickness of the panel compared to the thickness of the walls around the panel. There was light between the panel and the wall – it was brighter in the room beyond than in the shaft, though that wasn’t too difficult considering the darkness of the shaft.

Leonard got into position to assist with pulling Montoya and Fisher up out of the shaft with Durant and the two braced themselves as best they could in the crusted floor. A plaintive meow could be heard from the backpacks beside the elevator shaft as Krizzel popped his head out of the pack to complain about the heat.

OOC: GM Fast Forward

Finding no reason not to open the access panel, Durant gave the word to open it up. Montoya nodded to Fisher and opened the panel, pushing it away from the shaft and into the room beyond. Light streamed into the shaft from the room beyond accompanied by a blast of hot air that stole the moisture from their mouths.

Looking into the immediate area beyond the panel, there was a metal grating and metal stairs that appeared intact heading down into what was really Warehouse 37 . . . though it certainly had seem better days. The warehouse was easily a thousand foot on either side and perhaps a hundred feet tall. A huge circular ring almost twenty feet tall stood upright in the middle of a huge warehouse. The ring had no glow from within, though. The glow was from several areas of lava within the warehouse. Debris littered the floors where there wasn’t lava, any shelving or other contents of the warehouse had been destroyed or was buried.

When Fisher thought he had seen it all . . . he gave a sharp intake as he saw something move within one of the lava pools. Slowly . . . something rose out of the lava pool. A creature covered in scales, slightly larger than human size, flames licking off of its body that ended in a tail rather than legs. The creature seemed to glow from within. Montoya noted the creature’s weapons – several metal javelins which appeared to be undamaged from its time in the lava.

OOC: All

 

[Jarval]

Inside Warehouse 37
Las Vegas, Nevada
0720 hours, June 3, 2003

Lucas curses quietly as the blast of heat hits him from the room beyond the panel. Braving the flow of hot air, his eyes widen in surprise as he looks though, seeing first the magma, then the bizarre creature rising up from the molten rock.

Swinging slightly to one side, he taps Ricardo on the shoulder, and points upwards.

"I think we really don't want to go in there at the moment." He whispers. "Maybe we should head back up and report to Durant?"

 

[Vardeman]

Inside Warehouse 37
Las Vegas, Nevada
0720 hours, June 3, 2003

Swinging slightly to one side, he taps Ricardo on the shoulder, and points upwards.

"I think we really don't want to go in there at the moment." He whispers. "Maybe we should head back up and report to Durant?"

Montoya calmly examined the unusual creature, using the stairs and catwalk for cover. "Go on and report, but this hatch is a bottleneck, and we need a presence on the other side." He then swung through the hatch, crouched on the catwalk, and unhooked himself from the rope. He examined the area, searching for any other signs of intruders, as well as keeping an eye on the one already spotted.

(ooc: how far away is the creature, and does it seem to have noticed Ric's entrance yet?)

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[Jarval]

(OOC: Do we have radios, or is Lucas going to need to climb back up to talk with Durant?)

 

[Keia]

(OOC: Do we have radios, or is Lucas going to need to climb back up to talk with Durant?)

OOC: yes, each person has a tactical radio with a range increment of about 2000 feet. I posted a list of SG-1 gear and survival gear that everyone was issued (should be just after the post of Rylee in OOC. PLease try and keep OOC questions in the OOC thread thanks!

Also Creature is about 120 feet away and didn't appear to notice Ric - yet!