>>22528617
lets take that base have Oolot and Luke open the doors with a well placed missile then charge

>>22528617

The sounds of gunfire disappear into the distance as you make your way deeper into the lush garden worlds interior, you're within the shadow of the mountain now, the setting sun hanging too low in the sky.

You notice the curt nods and glances the rest of Brigg's squad keep throwing your direction, the man himself could seem to care less about your presence now, likely finding comfort you've seen what your employers are really into and have lost interest in continuing along that path, at least for the moment.

>Give me a D100

Rolled 49

>>22528705
boom! goes the enemy

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>>22528617
I wouldn't go so far as to call us a "madman". We're just slightly unstable and have multiple personalities only one of which is genuinely crazy. Arrr!

I suppose there's that batarian thing as well... let's hope our new friend doesn't have any batarians in his entourage.

>>22528704

Briggs is leading you guys away from assaulting the other base since it was in the midst of tearing itself apart, why not let them kill each other and sort out the survivors only if you must?

>>22528733

Why are they killing each other though?

At any rate, fair enough I suppose. I'm curious myself what cerberus has unearthed.

>>22528716

You notice one of Brigg's soldiers if carrying a small pack covered in radiation symbols. Portable Tac-Nuke meant to be placed like a satchel charge.

You note the squad is Briggs plus four, all wearing helmets and some rather high grade Alliance gear, one curiosity, for their unit they have what appears to the face of a panther. Despite your time in the Alliance you're not familiar with any unit that uses that symbol.

>>22528721
None have the correct armor pattern to have 4 eyes. If they are here they are likely extremely uncomfortable and possibly brain damaged from having their massive domes crammed into a human helmet.

>>22528775

Don't know, they just appear to have gone insane, Briggs may know more than he's telling, his men seemed spooked but it mostly warranted a shrug from him.

You're closing on the mine now, it's sundown now, you can tell from the bit of horizon you can see still peering from over the mountain top.

Briggs signals his men to go covert and they drop into a crouch and start trying to make as little noise as possible.

[ ] Follow suit
[ ] Stroll in like you own the place
[ ] Free-form

>>22528805

That sounds like a nice talking point. Are we trying to be stealthy? If not...

"You've some interesting design of your helmets. Squad bonding thing? Or does it hold deeper symbolism?"

Also perhaps inquire over comm how far from the mountain can Switch land should we need rapid extraction from an armed nuke.

Rolled 62

>>22528805
If they are here they are likely extremely uncomfortable and possibly brain damaged from having their massive domes crammed into a human helmet.

just how we like them

>>22528845
[ X] Follow suit
its his op we just back up

>>22528845

[x] Follow suit.

>>22528871

You don't know what is in this place yet, stealth could assist with acquiring a better tactical position before coming under fire, but charging in also gives the advantage of shock since it's unexpected.

"Eh, you know how it goes, they're not much on talking and people wearing helmets seem to discourage conversation a bit. Does make it easier to give orders though, people fear what they don't know. It's a psychology thing...", Briggs replies, "Don't wear one myself normally but something is up with the atmosphere, I wouldn't wanna risk prolonged exposure, I only did before because suit was showing all clear and well...I wanted some fresh air." he laughs

"Wearing a helmet isn't all good, it makes people more likely to shoot you since you're faceless." chimes one of his soldiers.

"Yeah, yeah, you're just mad you can't woo the Drell without being able to show your smile Watkins!" Briggs replies, Watkins gives a slight thumbs up before holding up the bush for Sel to pass.

"After you ma'am" he says


You call Switch who lets you know he'll do his best but it may be best to let the Alliance worry about extraction, their shuttle is likely faster and more maneuverable than the I<3Ponies!

>>22528875
>>22528879

You signal for Oolot and Sel to follow suit and you reach a clearing, there are a couple large buildings here along with a small mine entrance tore into the side of the mountain. No detectable movement, Briggs waves Watkins and another soldier to breach the left single story building while he and the rest of his team move to the right to clear a larger 3 story complex.
The bottom portion of the structure appears to be a garage for maintenance of the equipment, the middle portion and upper portion more than likely housing and administration.

The building on the left gives off a supply shed kind of feel.

[ ] Breach left
[ ] Breach right
[ ] Head for the mine directly
[ ] Free-form

>>22529079

Where's Luke? We left him with that captive girl earlier?

>>22529079
>[X ] Breach left
there could be loot

>>22529079

You turn around and look, huffing and puffing behind you is Luke coming through the bush.

"Next time the Krogan is carrying the gear..." he says resting his hands on his knees.

>>22529123

Regardless, go in with Briggs. We'll want to see the headquarters for ourselves before they reduce the area into crater.

>>22529140
your doing good kid (pat him on the back) stick with Sel watch her back as she covers us

>>22529168
>>22529152
>>22529127

>Split the part to breach?

>>22529168

I think we don't need to be too warm when in Drake mode. Maybe just a nod with small smile would do?

>>22529181

samefag rom >>22529152 here, I'm in favpr of sending Luke and Oolot to check out the supply shed and have them catch up after.

>>22529181
>>Split the part to breach?
yea have Sel keep look out for any surprises and luke with her us and Oolot can take anything

>>22529207
true how about the classic "grow stronger"

>>22529217
>>22529258

Split decision

>>22529217
we hit the shed quick then move over we can do both

>>22529300

I'd rather have main character stick where the main action is liable to be, to be honest. Crew can take care of loot well enough on their own... we can send Sel instead, she's probably least encumbered right now with Oolot carrying the huskifier along with his arsenal and Luke the rockets... but too much load will hurt her ability to fight more than the two gentlemen, no?

>>22529332
ok but take lukes rockets I want some fire power

"here let me take that off your hands "

>>22529300
>>22529332
Sel prefers to try and be on the move but she would notify you of anything important immediately and try to lock it down for you to keep.

>>22529358
If you want, doesn't matter much to me as long as someone is enjoying it.

>Send the rest of squad left, you go with Briggs
>Move your entire squad to breach smaller building to finish quickly and then go into larger building

>>22529440

I vote for
>Sent the rest of squad left, you go with Briggs

>>22529472
I guess i'll second this.

Damn, looks like I've missed a thread. brb catching up...

>>22529472
>>22529515

You send the squad to breach the shed and stack up with Briggs and his two selected team members.

You can't help but think how stacking up like this reminds you of the good times in the Alliance back when things were more straightforward. It's relieving in a way...

Briggs takes point and blows the door with a biotic blast. You charge into the first floor, there is an armored APC in here along with a large construction mech but the place is otherwise deserted, no sign of motion.

Briggs and his men continue storming up the flight of stairs.

[ ] Clear first
[ ] Begin searching now

>>22529616
I guess it's best to stick together, altough if we stay and search i bet we'll find HIDDEN ASPLOSIVES or something.
>Clear first

>>22529616

Still no resistance? Most suspicious!

I wonder what has transpired down here. Check out the mech - is it deactivated, or on standby, possibly being a pain in the ass once we pass by? After that, follow Briggs up.

>>22529520
And caught up.

>>22529616
Clear first,

>>22529666
>>22529677
>>22529697

Mech is unactive, still shows power reserves according to your Omni-tool though, could be useful.

You continue upstairs and come to find a room torn apart, there's a lot of blood but no bodies, you can hear Briggs and his team upstairs. Damn they move fast...

[ ] Search
[ ] Continue up
[ ] Go back down

>Sel calls you, there are some heavy duty mining explosives and replacement parts for a multitude of mining equipment. Oddly no guns, she doubts Cerberus were the first people to find this place or the ones who originally sat up this particular camp, they just moved in at some indefinite point in the past.

>>22529745

Tell Sel to take one more look, then have the team wait at mine entrance.

Can we set up a link between the mech and Ponies for Rin/Switch to pore over?

Move up. Look for signs of who might have set up the camp in the first place. Something that resembles a server room might contain some logs.

>>22529809

She says she'll be more thorough.

You can use your Omni-tool the create an uplink to Rin from the Mech's terminal to orbit using the stations array if you would like.

You move up the top floor and find Briggs looking out over the jungle from the observation room at the top of this building. His men are milling about looking over things, you can see the base you left behind burning in the distance.

"Fucked ain't it?" Briggs asks still staring out over the dark jungle, the only point of light for miles being the burning base.

[ ] Free-form

>>22529745
>[ X] Continue up

keep moving I want to kill something radio Oolt see how things outside are

>>22529880

>Uplink for Rin to a new RC toy
Do eet.

"We should take a look to find out what caused that riot before we blow this place up. Unless you already know."

No working computers to extract logs from?

>>22529937

You set-up the uplink, Rin tells you she won't be able to command it if it goes underground but she can if you want it to stay outside and watch the base.

"We should take a look to find out what caused that riot before we blow this place up. Unless you already know." you say

Briggs tosses you a casual glance over his shoulder.

"I have my suspicions but nothing solid yet. Still too early to know for sure, all the accounts I've had are second hand and you know how that goes." he says moving towards the desk

There is research computer there.

[ ] View it with him
[ ] Try to distract him and dump the info onto your Omni-tool only
[ ] Search elsewhere
[ ] Free-form

>>22530005
View with him, inform him that Cerberus played with Gods' tech and spikes and something and the girl has glowy eyes and stuff

>>22530005
"Say Briggs, don't suppose your crew are any handy with rigging up mechs?"
Try to convince them to leave us with the research computer, view and copy.
Information is powa. We can share the information at our discretion.

>>22530005

[x] View it with him.

Make sure to record what you can with the omnitool for future reference.

>we now have a heavily armored sentry topside
good, good.

"Don't remember seeing weaponized nanotech during the Blitz. Think this might be it? And cerberus developing banned tech?"

>>22530035
>>22530061
>>22530066

2 votes to trust Briggs and view it with him
1 to keep for self
Any other input?

>>22530197
>[x] View it with him.

>>22530214

You elect to go over the data with Briggs.

[ ] Start with most recent
[ ] Start with oldest
[ ] Search for something in particular

>>22530251
Cross reference Priority data levels with recent messages. Should get us the answer of what's happened.

>>22530251
Start with Oldest

>>22530251
>[ X] Start with oldest

>>22530251

Take a look at few oldest entries to get a bit of background for the camp, then skip to recent ones, doing what >>22530263
suggested.

Copy contents of logs on a data medium (or omnitool if it fits)

>>22530263
>>22530274
>>22530282
>>22530294

Research logs date back 4 years.
You realize it was ExoGeni who originally located the planet, but they never presented it as a colonization candidate, strange even given the bizarre atmospheric readings this planet should have at least be brought to the Alliance, if not the Council's attention.

Reading on you realize the found the remains of an ancient spacefaring civilization on-world. Predating the Protheans by a large margin.

Interesting, and very, very illegal. Any discoveries like that are to be reported immediately to the galactic community at large. Playing fast and loose.

It goes on to detail them sending the research team who set up base here, they detected strange readings from underneath this mountain, specifically like a large Eezo reserve.

Ah, that explains the mining equipment, they could pay for any research based on the amount of Eezo they would find and still make a profit while further their own goals. Not bad...

Gets pretty boring from there, names and fancy degrees all dickwaving over who and what lived here.

The most viewed articles seem to come in when they started closing on the Eezo deposits.

They found catacombs.

"Data corruption detected" the computer alerts you.

Shit

[ ] See if Switch can remote in and perform some tech support
[ ] Try and access something else
[ ] Free-form

>>22530426
Switch magic

>>22530426

Here's hoping it's not a virus. Patch Switch (or Briggs's tech wiz) through. Are we downloading in the background?

Play captain obvious:
"If there's really an archaeological find here, we should avoid damaging it."

I wonder how many people were there in the expedition, and in cerberus takeover?

>>22530426
Hmmm, being a bit meta but: Exogeni means this was originally a cerberus initiative. Hm.
Get some tech support, alert folks to the possible presence of hidden troops within the catacomb (When you are a Spectre, you have to be paranoid).

Rolled 99

>>22530426

[ X]Switch do your thing

Rolled 1

>>22530506
Welp all's lost.

>>22530467
>>22530482
You contact Switch who allows you to set him up through the comm relay, he tells you not to worry, he'll isolate the system just in case there is anything bad in there but it may take him a bit, he recommends you look around in the mean-time.

>>22530491
Actually we're not Spectre, neither PC is.

>>22530506
>>22530521

Winning failure?

>>22530557

I'd like a "he failed so badly that it turned out all right", but I guess it's your call in the end

>>22530549

[ ] Continue to look around while Switch works his magic
[ ] Speak with Briggs about what he knows to see if you can get anything out of him
[ ] Free-form

>>22530668
Let us multitask, look around a bit and speak to Briggs at the same time.

>>22530696

You signal for Briggs to follow you while you search.

>Looking at anything in particular or a certain floor at least?

>What do you wanna say to Briggs?

>>22530668
I think we should explain to Briggs more about why we were sent to kill him and Geronimo, and who sent us.

>>22530729
More those spikey things that may or may not give us headache in the future

>>22530668

Take a cursory look around. Briggs seems unwilling to divulge much details of the mission.

Look for unconnected portable computer devices.

>>22530736

Ah yes, this might be good idea.

"What did you to piss this Volkov guy so horribly for him to send me after you?"

Rolled 78

>>22530729
look for valuable things

ask why Cerberus wants his head so bad

>>22530729

Oh and see if there is a sign of where the bodies were taken to. Like big clearly visible trails of blood, for instance.

>>22530729
Keep an eye open for another terminal, if inventory manifests are kept separately. Looking for things that have already been excavated.

>>22530736
>>22530764
>>22530773
>>22530796
>>22530801

You find a couple of tablets, one mostly full of porn with the occasional research note. The other, is a bit more interesting.

Private journal, for some reason no one was sleeping well. They kept waking up with night terrors, they attributed it all to jungle fever more or less. But then it starts getting weird. One entry in particular.

"Dr. Allen was telling me about his little girl Alicia today and how she has the most beautiful brown eyes and just took her first steps before he left. I think I'm losing my mind because that is MY daughter's name and she just walked before I came out here. How is that possible? Do I just want to go home that badly that I dreamed it? When I questioned him about it he swore to me it was the truth and we even remembered the same details! Something is wrong here, we need to get the hell off this planet. I don't know what ExoGeni is hoping to find but it's not worth it. Just last week we found our mechanic sitting outside staring at the cave entrance mumbling to himself and when someone approached him he attacked them with a wrench! I'm going to alert ExoGeni first thing in the morning once we get the Comm Relay back online, damn this planet's rainstorms.

"So what did you to piss this Volkov guy so horribly for him to send me after you?" you ask

You hear Briggs stop in his tracks

>Give me a D100

>>22530808
From the amount of blood in the room you don't think there would even be enough left in the bodies that wasn't coagulated to leave a trail.

>>22530828
Those are kept on the research terminal Switch is looking at, it was likely in the corrupted partition.

Rolled 15

>>22530932

I have a bad, bad feeling about this.
>Briggs stops in his tracks
Yeah, about that too.

Rolled 85

>>22530932
I forget, do we want to roll low or high?

>>22530960

Also, how old is that entry? Whatever the influence that this caused, we better know how fast it fucks with people minds.

Rolled 55

>>22530932
In before Reaper corpse buried in the mine. Which mind you would be something.

>>22530994

Low is better, I believe.

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Rolled 66

>>22530932
well fuck.....

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>>22531047

Don't worry m8, it's gunna be gr8.

>>22531017

That entry was just a few weeks old but it's impossible to know yet when the exact date of exposure was.
>>22530960
>We'll go with low rolls today, I like to mix it up.

You spin around activating your tech armor just in time for you to get slammed into.

You go skidding on your heels but manage to remain upright, your Omni-tool is wailing as damage reports from your Tech Armor is coming in. It held thanks to Switch's improvements.

You draw at the same time he does.

"I wouldn't do that, if they did hire me to kill you and your boss I doubt they would have done so if they thought I would fail." you tell him as he stares at you.

"That son of a bitch is dead, I watched him die, there is no way he is the one who sent you." he pumps his shotgun.

[ ] Free-form

>>22531123
"I talked to him in a bar on Thessia a week ago. He's still alive and kicking, though if his eyes are any indication heavily augmented. Why don't we put the guns away and carry on this conversation in a civil manner?"

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>>22531062
you're not making me feel better Vern

>>22531123

"Let's put the guns away and discuss this like intelligent people, shall we? I assure you that if I did want to take you out, blood would have already been shed long ago. Nor would I have mentioned the name."

>>22531123
If there is anything more than ash your doing it wrong no put that down before I show you

>>22531156

We only met him on Benning though, in that thug-staffed fancy restaurant.

How did he call us upon our entering the system? FTL radio? Would really suck to have to face down a cerberus fleet on our way out. Or maybe not.

>>22531123
"Apparently that wasn't enough. If you want, I could offer you an [Missile Launcher designation] for the next time."

>>22531209

continued:

if he's willing to listen, tell him of our encounter on Benning.


after that:
"You thought you killed him? I suppose that explains it. Be more thorough next time." Make a gesture towards the gore all around. "Maybe I'll help."

Additionally, this world might give us opportunity for the Midway's crew to fake their deaths, netting us another 8 millions and a tactical advantage.

>>22531156
>>22531209
"I talked to him in a bar on Benning a week ago. He's still alive and kicking, though if his eyes are any indication heavily augmented. Why don't we put the guns away and carry on this conversation in a civil manner? I assure you that if I did want to take you out, blood would have already been shed long ago. Nor would I have mentioned the name." you tell him smirking.

Briggs gives you a hard long stare, his men enter the room guns drawn.

"Stand down..." he tells them and they all lower their guns.

"You are going to tell me everything" he says walking towards you

"It's finished." Switch interrupts over the comm.

Briggs looks at you and says "This isn't over." and heads back up to the computer

Following him you begin to look through the entries.

They're still a mess but you can see Switch did what he could.

They broke through into the catacombs 3 months ago and it started to go downhill from there, the data entries become more sporadic and bizarre. Eventually they're not even in a language you understand anymore.

The research team and miners began disappearing for days at a time and then would show up, perfectly fine not having noted they'd been gone for more than a few hours at most.

The lead researcher ordered the mine sealed and many of the team members tried to talk him down, telling him they had so much to learn from this world. When he asserted his authority all hell broke loose that much is clear. There's not security footage but you can see the end results. You're not sure where everyone is now but all signs point to this mine and whatever lays within.

"Commander, Luke is gone" Sel tells you over the comm.

[ ] What...

Rolled 35

>>22531268
Hey, in this Writing of the universe maybe cerberus doesn't go from having 150 operatives to interstellar galactic empire.
>Just kidding

>>22531268

It wasn't him that called on you when you entered the system, it was another Cerberus Op who didn't brief you on who they were.

>>22531394

Bloody hell.

"What do you mean, 'gone'?" Ask Ponies for readouts of ships scanners, and perhaps mech's scanners as well. If he's not on the surface, he must've gone below.

Did he have his helmet off at any point? If it's something in the air, Briggs might have problems as well.

>>22531394
wears Oolot?

have Switch call him / locate

I swear if that idiot went into the mine I will bash his god dam head in so hard He will need a dozen vi to remember how to shit him self

>>22531410

>I'm flipping a few things around, they don't have a vast empire, but they have all the goodies and connections one would expect of a multi-trillion credit group of companies to have. Remember, Cerberus pulls the strings behind ExoGeni, Cord-Hislop, Terra-Firma and a fuck-ton of other things. They're terrorists with a PR Team and so much revenue they could simply buy a star cluster if they really wanted to.

>>22531410

They certainly have no want of resources. We've seen their destroyer gutted on our way in.

>>22531439
>>22531444

Rin reports he's dropped off the scanners, he's completely gone, there's nothing, weather scans show a large storm coming in, the oxygen rich atmosphere can likely have more lightning in a single storm than most planets have in weeks.

Oolot is with Sel, they're safe and outside the mine. Briggs teammates are requesting orders from him, they're still with your crew.

Briggs looks at you "We need to get the charge into the mine to maximize destructive capability otherwise the mountain will take the brunt of it. You in?"

[ ] Let's get it over with
[ ] Fuck this shit, fuck Luke, and fuck this planet
[ ] Free-form

>>22531439

To your knowledge Luke never had his helmet off, and with Blue Suns training he likely never would in a hot zone.

>>22531528
>[ X move move ] Let's get it over with

>>22531528

"Much as I loathe to see potentially valuable find destroyed..."

"I'm in. We should take care though. This place is bad for man's mind."

Damn Leave Sel outside to keep watch with the mech, take Oolot with us.

>>22531586

oh and have Ponies ready for extraction should things go bad

>>22531562
>>22531586
>>22531680

You're going to leave Sel, alone, outside with only a mech to keep her company.
Well that's cool, hope nothing dangerous is in the jungle...

>>22531743

I see your point. But Oolot would be very sad if he was left behind and it turned out all the action was down below. Convince Briggs to leave few men with Sel. And there will be Ponies for air support.

>>22531772
(If Briggs refuses on the grounds of him being unwilling to tilt the odds in our favor should we choose to confront him, leave Oolot behind. He'll have enough fun with cerberus assassins eventually anyway.)

>>22531743
what about the guy form the other squad trying to hit on her?

>>22531806

Yeah, I'd guess he will volunteer to keep her company.

>>22531772
>>22531798
>>22531806

Briggs nods and agrees to leave Watkins and his partner outside with Sel while you Oolot, Briggs and his two other squad members head into the mine.

[ ] Last chance to run
[ ] Proceed

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>>22531919
>[ ] Proceed

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>>22531919

Proceed.

I mean, it's just catacombs of millenia old spacefaring civilisation that messes with people heads, what could possibly go wrong?

>>22531919
[x] Last chance to run
Run to the hills!

Rolled 100

>>22531970
>>22531996

>It begins

>Give me a D100

>>22532009

Do we have a rincewind personality in our table? I don't think so. And well we shouldn't!

Rolled 56

>>22532039

I don't like the looks of this

Rolled 75

>>22532039

fuck yea lets go into a closed space with a nuke this is a great plan

>>22532039

WTF?
Alright then...
I think it's Briggs, the curse of the Vanguard strikes again

>>22532039
I told you to run!..

>>22532109

Follow the footprints. We're not leaving Luke behind.

If no footprints are visible at crossroads, we should spl-

Nah, just kidding. If in doubt, go right.

>>22532109
Go back, slowly. I don't like the look of this.

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>>22532152
>>22532131

>Year of Our Lord 2183
>Backing up from action

>>22532253

[x] Left
[x] Left

>>22532201
Let's go left and shoot Luke.

>>22532201
It's a toss of the dice eh?
We go right, because we are always in the right.

>>22532271

Let's go without shooting.

Punching is better, I suppose, but there's still danger so incapacitating him would not be advisable.

>>22532271
>>22532280

"What?" Briggs looks to you and asks

"I said, which way should we go?" you tell him

"Down I assume, it's either that or back to the surface." he replies

You look up, there's only one path

>Give me a D100

Rolled 93

>>22532384
Balls, indoctrination already?

Rolled 76

>>22532421

Rolled 78

>>22532384

I am offended at the cave shifting so rapidly. Make a mental note to bring portal gun with us next time.

Onwards!

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Rolled 36

>>22532468
>>22532421

You feel fine, nothing seems out of the ordinary now

"Com...der..." Luke's comm flickers in and out on your Omni-tool

>>22532498
"Where the FUCK are you, good squire? Luke, answer me."

Rolled 51

>>22532535

"I'm...de...ca...le...ple...*static*" the line cuts

"Let's move, in and out, hopefully we find your guy soon." Briggs says moving further down the corridor.

You come to an opening

This must be where they broke into the catacombs. You have entered into the middle of a hallway, you have to use your Omni-light to see, you can proceed left or right.

[ ] Left
[ ] Right

Rolled 39

>>22532498
"Luke you have 4 seconds to tell me why you went on your own, passed that delay I will reduce your rations by half! also WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?! and stay there so we can find you more easily! "

Rolled 2

>>22532652
"okay so just to be sure there *are* 2 path in front of us? in not hallucinating?"
1 for left
2 for right

Rolled 74

>>22532685

Nothing, dead air

>>22532685
>>22532713

Where'd everybody go?

Rolled 35

>>22532755
They went left.

>>22532765

>Well, we're boned

[ ] Left
[ ] Right
We have one vote for right

>>22532765
Seconding this i guess.

>>22532816
>.le...
Sounds a bit like "left". Let's go there.

>>22532765
>>22532831
>>22532855

You decide to head left, you walk for a few minutes and come to a room with multiple what appear to be sarcophagi, all empty.

"Hello?" you hear from over the comm
It's not your squad frequency.

[ ] Who is this?
[ ] Ignore
[ ] Free-form

>>22532927
Who is this? Are you the triggerman?

Rolled 2

>>22532927
[X] who are you?

>>22532927
Aaand i'm out, gnight OP.

>>22532943
>>22532973

"You first." it replies

>>22532927
RUUUUUUUUUN

>>22533074

You panic and run
>Give me a D100 if this is what you would like to do

Rolled 63

>>22533066
I am Bob Drake the baddest mother fucker on this rock

>>22533182
Bob drake doesn't panic

Rolled 2

>>22533066
"nuh huh, I asked first it's custom and polite to answer when asked first"

>>22533066

[ ] Introduce yourself
[ ] Lie to them
[ ] Ignore
[ ] Free-form

>>22533334
>>22533341

"Honestly I don't think I can answer your question anymore despite wanting to, I've been in here too long. Look, I don't know why you're here but I really don't care. Get back to ExoGeni and tell them to forget this fucking rock, that nothing is here that bears dragging out into the light, drop a fucking asteroid on this place and call it a day. It's too late for me, they already know where I am, it's just a matter of time now. I just wish I could remember where I was before. I don't wanna be like them, I won't..."

[ ] Free-form

>>22533524
mother of god my spelling took a hit to the head their :(

>>22533524

Easy man, usually I'm the person with the worst grammar in my threads. Wanna give that another go?

>>22533746
who are you talking about? please If I can shoot my way through a battalion of batarians I can get to you and get you out of this mine now tell me who you are and wear you are


do you have any idea how expensive a asteroid drop is? we brought a nuke god dam I hate people with no sense of scale

(lets back track and go down the other hall way find the dumb asses in here and blow the place

>>22533405
"oh... actually we have a truckload of C4 to blow this place up and if your some alien monster trying to get in my head try not to bang to hard on the door with the "danger, keep out" sign you'd regret it. pass hello to barnacle bob while your at it, if your not one ignore that rant"
(I know we have a nuke not C4 but I don't trust that voice)

>>22533834
this add this o god <3

>>22533798
>>22533834

The comm is silent again. Briggs looks to you and nods

[ ] Back the way you came
[ ] Search the room
[ ] Go out the opposite door

>>22533920

[X ] Go out the opposite door

>>22533940
I second this and we should storm into the room just in case
>>22533920
something tells me he thinks we're crazy

>>22534053
we are crazy

>>22533940
>>22534053

You head out the opposite door, it's a large antechamber. Mining lights are rigged along the wall, you see a small generator powering them, obviously the expedition had been this way.

[ ] Head back the way you came
[ ] Explore the room more thoroughly
[ ] Exit to the North
[ ] Exit to the East
[ ] Free-form

>>22534204
>[X ] Explore the room more thoroughly
take our time whats the worst that could happen?

>>22534225

>Give me a D100

Rolled 66

>>22534382
FOR GREAT ROLLSTICE!

Rolled 76

>>22534382
:)

Rolled 68

>>22534382
OH GODS OF MACHINAE E CAEL, GRANT US YOUR STRENGTH

>>22534442
>68
stupid reapers never again worshipping you again

>>22534459
idk did you see what they did to the batarians any one who would do that cant be all bad

Rolled 96, 75, 89 = 260

>>22534399
>>22534414
>>22534442

Rolled 25, 70, 1 = 96

>>22534519

It's a pretty empty room, what you assume was this races furniture is laid about the room, almost makes you think of Earth's Egyptian culture in a way.

Nothing of any real value, expect a datapad.

[ ] Read it
[ ] Put it aside for now and pick another option

>>22534664
>[ X] Read it

then lets get a move on gotta get them people out and blow the place

Rolled 54, 42, 90 = 186

>>22534695

Briggs leans in over your shoulder to see, there is a video that was the last thing captured, it is the personal data pad of Dr. Emil Kamarov. It has a few personal things of his on it, family photos, etc. A few things concerning the nature of the alien species these ruins were made by, xenobiology etc. A lot of it goes over your head.

[ ] Watch the video
[ ] Look for something else
[ ] Free-form

>>22534849
>[ X] Watch the video
who doesn't like a good movie in the middle of a spooky alien mine excavation wear people go mad

Rolled 78, 12, 21 = 111

>>22534915

"If you're watching this I bid you to leave this place." it begins, "Despite what ExoGeni hoped we would locate I can assure you there is nothing but suffering here for the entire galaxy. I can feel it, pulling at me, whispering in my head. I've walked for hours but still couldn't find my way out. The others are gone, I don't know where, it must have taken them. If anyone ever finds this leave now, if you can at all, and please tell my family I'm sorry I didn't come home." after finishing that statement he pulls out a sidearm and shoots himself in the head.

There's no body in here

>What now

File: 1357954443396.gif-(990 KB, 400x225, Burn it all.gif)

>>22535076
Time to GET THE FUCK OUT!

>>22535076
do what we came to fucking do find our man and blow this Popsicle stand

Rolled 99, 18, 99 = 216

>>22535153

>Do you hear it?
>That whistling in the distance
>It's the only train that's ever completely on time
>It's the rape train
>And it has no brakes

>D100 please

Rolled 83, 61, 89 = 233

>>22535231

[ ] Go back the way you came
[ ] Exit North
[ ] Exit East
[ ] Free-form

Rolled 78

>>22535289
We are fucking boned.

>>22535311
>[ X] Exit North

Rolled 59

>>22535324
please we are trained killing machines

Rolled 85, 66, 70 = 221

>>22535324
>>22535362
>>22535335

You head to exit north.
You notice something is off but can't put your finger on it.

[ ] Don't worry about it
[ ] Free-action

Rolled 17

>>22535362
Let us become a man of war.

>>22535421

[ ] put teck Armour up

Rolled 96

>>22535421
WORRY THE FUCK ABOUT IT!

>>22535454

It's online

Briggs seems to have noticed too.

[ ] Examine the room again
[ ] Continue on
[ ] Talk to someone
[ ] Free-form

>>22535617
>[ ] Talk to someone
Something is weird here, Briggs. I think that...something...is messing with me. Are we going the right way?

>>22535617

"I assume so yeah, but..." he draws his gun, "Our head count is too high"
There are 6 people in the room

>>22536081

[ ] Free-form

>>22536176
Get Oolot to form up next to us. If we have a scattergun, this is the place for it.

"So, gentlemen, this is the part where you open your goddamn helmets to see which of you is a goon.

>>22536176
this Is why you personalize your armor simple identification

one of these things is not like the other one of these things is going to die (sweep room with gun)

>>22536310
>>22536369

"Fuck..." Oolot mutters turning and drawing.
3 shotguns aim at 3 soldiers.

One of them kneels and holds his arms out.
Another is flashing hand signals at Briggs a mile a minutes and another is trying to speak but all you can hear is the muffled voice inside the helmet.

"They can't take off their helmets in this atmosphere, there is a much higher concentration of, whatever it is in here then there is out there. Dammit, why did Geronimo have to order the max polarized shit, I can't see a fucking thing in those helmets. In addition their helmet comm suites are apparently off-line. FUCK FUCK FUCK. Alright, calm down, we need to determine which of these are Baker and Johnson. The other son of a bitch needs to die." he tells you holding his shotgun on the one signing.

[ ] Free-form

>>22536484
Fuck, this is a terrible place for this shit.

"Well, we are going to figure it out shortly, so how about the extra one of you makes this easy on yourself and fesses up.

>>22536657
The other two you you need to start making with the hand signals yesterday.

>>22536657
>>22536678

They all start frantically waving hand signals at you and Briggs. Stuff along the lines of "IT'S ME, SHOOT THAT BASTARD!" along with them finger pointing at anyone but themselves.

Rolled 86

>>22536769
You know what we could do? Bash their face screens in.

>>22536845

"So you'd just kill them all?" Briggs asks shaking his head, "I can see why Cerberus hired you."

Rolled 71

>>22536893
"What? No, just bash the screen in. Break the glass. They'll get cut up but we'll be able to see who's who."

>>22536924

"They'll breath whatever it is in the atmosphere if we do that. It's much more concentrated down here."

>>22537088
...I don't think either of us are wearing helmets either. Are we?
"Well they can't talk, we can't see their faces, and none of them are willing to give up the other. Although then again, the two survivors probably really don't know who's who. Maybe we could hack the magnetic locks on their helmets? Did they have any identifiers that couldn't be copied? Codes, name tags? Anything that it would be impossible for a doppleganger to know? We could always take them with us up to the surface, and then force the helmets off."

>>22537088
well their your squad ask then something only those would would know

no matter what all three toss your weapons and lie down on the fucking ground

>>22537147
Everyone is wearing a helmet
You remember earlier you saw they had a panther emblem on their armor that was unique.

>>22537185
"I have, and each of them has gotten everything right...this one is Baker, he is the only one claiming to be and he answered all his questions right. The other two are claiming to be Hamilton and have gotten all their questions right." he reports

[ ] Free-form

>>22537266
"So, if we have one Baker and two Hamiltons, we have an extra Hamilton. Unless whatever it is that created the... extra soldier also rewrote Baker's memories and made Baker think that he is Hamilton. In which case we're fucked. That is a little too paranoid though. Do all of them have that Panther thing you guys have on your armor?"

>>22537266
does one not have that? shoot him in the head

>>22537369
>>22537392

None of them have it

>Roll 1d100

Rolled 41

>>22537433

Rolled 67

>>22537433
shoot them all!!!

Rolled 74

>>22537433

>>22537561
No, that's silly.

>>22537573
don't got the right markings
we give them to them (bullets)

>>22537564
Checking for identifying marks

Rolled 25

>>22537561
>>22537564
>>22537573

You do so, your bullets tear through their armor and strange black gunk seeps out of the armor. It's not just draining, it's moving towards you!

[ ] Free-form

>>22537671
thank the good lord for incendiary grenades

>>22537671
'Nade it and hit it with some shot.

Rolled 27

>>22537708
It's pretty close, you wanna toss it and run North?

>>22537817
toss it and book it

>>22537879

You pop the pin on an incendiary and tell Oolot and Briggs to make for the door. it lands dead into the pile of goo now reaching of the ground towards you.

You get to the door just as it blows, you can hear screaming but you just keep running, and then, you're falling there was a shaft just a few yards out the door.

TO BE CONTINUED

>>22537817
Wait, where is the nuke? Hold off on 'nade. Split force, focus fire.

>>22538083

Ouch just a little late, if it makes you feel any better, it wasn't there though, no one mentioned looking for it.

I have a question, in this setting is shepard already dead and in the process of resurrection?
and what was his background (sole survivor, butcher or war hero)? knowing that probably won't help but, I'd wager he would be pretty well know by now.