Dark*Matter: Discovery, The Delphi Paradox

[iwatt]

"I have a bad feeling about this place." CHecking his gun's magazine, he keeps the weapon unholstered. "Looks like I'll be doing this old school."

 

[kinem]

"Oh, I'm all about old school" Diego says "but in this case, maybe we should try to talk to it. You know, so we don't piss it off by accident.

Anyway, I figure these two" he points "must have attacked the rest."

He examines the door to exit the armory, and tries to open it.

 

[iwatt]

"I can shoot the breeze with the best of them, but from what Blade and the Doc are saying, I don't think we're going to like whatever we find." Turning to Cade, he says. "So, which way towards the ancient Delphite artifacts, boss?"

 

[Friadoc]

"Let's see," says Cade as he uses boots the PDA up, in order to see if he can get a better signal; he'll try adjusting it, but if not he'll scribble down a rough map on his paper notepad and go from there. "First off, I say we search this room for anything useful, especially security cards and old maps."

 

[Falkus]

The door of the armory slowly grinded open with a load screeching sound, as Diego pushed it against decades of rust. The door opened into a security area, which consisted primarily of a variety of desks and small offices. There were more frozen corpses on the floor here, all Soviet Soldiers.

 

[Shayuri]

Meri walks slowly out into the room, holding her chemglo stick in her left hand to cast the room in an eerie monochrome green light.

"Remind me to ask for a vacation when we get back," she mutters. "Somewhere not radioactive and toxic."

She looks carefully at some of the bodies, trying to see if they were shot, or something else...

 

[Falkus]

Meredith noted that all the bodies in the armory had gunshot wounds, but the ones by the door had over two dozen bullet holes in their bodies, while the rest were just killed with two or three shots. There were another three bodies in the security room, one of whom had been killed by just as many shots as the other two.

 

[industrygothica]

"Guess someone really wanted to make sure those three didn't come back; that's a lot of bullets." Nick looks around to see if he can make sense of the battle-grid that took place here.

"Whatever it is - it looks like something made these guys snap... and hard to kill. I just hope they got them all."

 

[Shayuri]

"That explains the elaborate security...filling the base in, dumping toxic waste on it... They were afraid whatever made these soldiers zombies might spread out of the base."

 

[Friadoc]

"I can see why the Institute doesn't harp on the 'See the World' motif in the orientation films," says Cade as he looks over the security area, as well as the bodies. In fact, he'll give the bullet-riddled bodies an extra couple of checks, just to be safe. "Hell, remind me to go on a date, or something...just in case next time I take an ax, I don't pull through."

"I've got a feeling that what we're seeking is what we've felt," thinks Cade out-loud. "Whatta ya'll think?"