[Metal Joe d20 Modern] No Rest for the Nameless [PG-17]

[Krizzel]

The scouts find:

- Straight in, up the slope about 250 feet or so (just at the point where the terrain is transitioning from something you can walk on to something that requires a climb check) there is some very rusted, almost unrecognizable wreckage (Wraith can make out a wing and the large round cylinder of an engine). It has moss, flowers, vines, and who knows what else growing all over, under and through it.

- About 15 feet into the treeline there's something strange that at first looks like it might be a snake, but it turns out to be a thin, tissue-paper-like strip of cast off scales.

- A glinting on the ground from a bit of starlight that sneaks through the leaves directs Silent Snake's attention to something (natural 20!). It's a small metal piece of...something. Some kind of gear that he doesn't recognize. It's flat, slightly curved, and about 3" x 3" in surface area. Besides jagged, possibly broken edges, he can't make anything else out without more light.


Rocks:

There are plenty of boulder sized rocks strewn randomly about the beach, and a few areas you've already found where there are concentrations of rocks that you could use as makeshift fortifications. However, there aren't really any natural harbors in this section of the coast (so if you left the boat in the water, it would be easily seen and shot at).

The rubber boat you could actually hide up in the rocks, and then pick it up and run it out into the surf (right now you've got it pulled up under the trees with the crates). Two people dragging the boat move at 5', four carrying it move at 15', and six carrying move at 20' (with the normal multiples if you jog, etc. - but you can't sprint when doing it). The hydrofoil is way to heavy to carry this way when put together.


Crates:

You've got them all pulled 10' into the tree line, and lightly hidden with nearby branches, etc. such that they can't be seen from the air, would be pretty difficult to spot from say a boat, but if someone walked by they'd find them easy. None seem to be damaged in any way. From the responses I've seen for the extra 20 lbs, I think I'll give you a package of extra explosives and some tear gas, so yeah, you'll have enough stuff to rig either or both boats to explode, and the radio detonators for them, if you decide to do that.


Everything so far has taken 30 minutes.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

OOC: Would it be possible to hide the boat inside the remains of the plane? Also, could we have a few laser trip mines in our extra gear?

"I've got something here. Looks like a downed plane. I'm going to check it out."

Wraith moves toward the plane and begins quietly going over it in search of anything usefull.

 

[DM_Matt]

"Snake, keep an eye on this side for me. I'll cover wraith.

 

[Krizzel]

Upon closer inspection, the 'engine' turned out to be the entire fuselage of an old, small prop-driven plane. The twisted hole that used to be the cockpit was barely recognizable, though a bit of the canopy framing was still intact and now serving as a makeshift vine trellis. The other wing was nowhere to be seen, the side it would have been on pressed up against the increasing slope of the mountain.

The wreckage is completely covered in dirt and plant matter, and wiping some of this away Wraith finds a layer of rusted, faded metal. Wiping clean a few feet of the wing reveals no markings that he can see through his goggles or the unaided eye. Perhaps more light would help, or perhaps there's just nothing there to see.

Whatever the case, the plane has obviously been there for a couple decades or more, and it looks like the design is at least that old as well. Try as he might, Wraith can't place it any better than that.

OOC: The plane is too small for your boat to fit inside (well, unless you deflated it and packed it up). I will add some mines to the gear - that's it for the extra stuff now though Lastly I picked up Ultramodern Firearms the other day, if anyone would like to use something out of it. Let me know in the OOC thread please.

 

[garyh]

The scouts find:

- A glinting on the ground from a bit of starlight that sneaks through the leaves directs Silent Snake's attention to something (natural 20!). It's a small metal piece of...something. Some kind of gear that he doesn't recognize. It's flat, slightly curved, and about 3" x 3" in surface area. Besides jagged, possibly broken edges, he can't make anything else out without more light.

"Wraith?" Snake whispers into his com. "I've found some sort of small gear here. Further examination would require more light. Are we clear enough to risk it?"

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

"Should be fine." Wraith answered. "If you have a small light, just hold it close to the ground. I don't think there are any hostiles close."

With that, he flipped up his nightvision gogles and turned on his own small penlight to further inspect the wreckage.

[OOC: He will get inside and look around if he can.]

 

[garyh]

Using his illuminator, Silent Snake will light up the gear as stealthy as he can.

 

[Krizzel]

Even if the cockpit was in perfect condition it would have been a tight squeeze. As it is, twisted and crushed by whatever catastrophe befell the plane, it doesn't look like Wraith could even fit in there. To top it off, the hollow is half-filled with dirt, plants, rocks, and even a tiny black snake that at first looked like an earthworm, and quickly burrows into the dirt as Wraith's light shines on it.

With a little wiping away of dirt he can get a look at the instruments - or at least the ones that are still intact. Most of the glass and some of the paneling is broken, but what he can see certainly confirms the notion that this craft is more than twenty years old. Probably at least twice that. Additionally he can see that the labels on the instruments - those of which aren't simply numbers - aren't composed of characters of the roman alphabet. In fact they look pretty familiar - probably Asian.

Blaster, coming up to watch Wraith's back while he looks at the plane, recognizes it as a World War II era fighter, and though it's pretty busted up it looks like it's of Japanese-make.


Meanwhile Silent Snake flips on his light and takes a look at what he's found. There's a little dirt on the small piece of metal, but not much more than if it had just been dropped on the ground a couple of times. One edge is perfectly smooth, while the other sides of the rough 'square' are jagged and broken. The piece is slightly curved as if it might have been part of the end of a cylinder.

The outside face of the curve has the look and feel of stainless steel, only perhaps a few shades darker. There are also some scratches and denting along one of the broken edges. The smooth edge has some ridges along the outside face - they might be threading like that of a screw, assuming this piece is part of a cylinder. The inside face is a highly polished, very smooth chrome.

What it is and what it's for, Snake does not know.


Back at the beach, Zeus and Snow Crane are taking a look at the instructions for assembling the Hydrofoil, while Evac is looking over the rest of the personal gear and supplies that is in the crates. It's obvious that the engineers didn't think about having to put this thing together in the dark, and it will probably take a few more hours to do than expected.

Evac confirms that everything is fine inside the crates (as they looked from outside) and has everyones stuff sorted out, which will save you a little time when you want to change out of your wetsuits (which are starting to get a little cold) and pick up whatever gear you couldn't fit within the duffels you jumped with.

You're at T+40 minutes now. Changing will take 5 minutes. Setting up the Hydrofoil will take an extra two hours when done in the dark. It will take 3-4 hours to walk to the rendezvous point (stealth skills at -5 penalty; twice that time for no penalty - you do get the bonus for your fatigues though, as they fit in well with the jungle). If you want to move the hydrofoil somewhere else, you'll either have to move the crates there and build it there, or build it here and pilot it there.

 

[perivas]

"I'm not too convinced that this thing will be quiet." Evac points towards the 'foil. "It's probably best to use it as little as possible. I still think the best plan is to build our evacuation backup plans first before going to the rendevous point. We might need to evacuate as soon as we meet our contact." Evac changes out of his wetsuit into his fatigues and gears up.

 

[KitanaVorr]

Kai's Theme

They trample about like a bunch of cattle, don't they, Charlie?

Through the darkness, through the flora, those dark black eyes watched the infiltration group through the pentrating glance of the scope.

We'll just wait for them to come to us, won't we?