[Sentinemodo]

maybe it does work on response, ie. when queried, the energy of the question fuels up the transmitter to to send reply.
what would happen if I scan it with the full range of frequencies?
second possibility, it's batteries are down, and need to be replaced, or reloaded (is there a way to do so?).

other than that the badge would have to be recognized on visual, so one would need to carry it on visible spot or put before the reader while opening the doors. (are there any badge readers on the doors/stairs?)

[Kontact]

Experimenting a little, you find out it's the first one.  When you wave it in front of the hole the secretary android made in the wall, the droid in the next office recognizes it.  Monitoring the frequencies, you see that there's some kind of call and response.  The frequencies are very odd, and the second signal decays at a regular interval and on several frequencies at once.  It seems like some sort of chemical process, like fluorescence.

[Sentinemodo]

Without analyzing the patterns can I record and reply the sequence of signal decaying etc. and play it back at the delay after receiving the query signal?

[Xzylvador]

If they're chemical passkeys, they're lightyears away from anything we can crack.

[Sentinemodo]

I got rating 6 autopicker that is from 20 years ahead future. Don't think it has chemical appliances as well though.
and I got academy Biology rating 4 knowledge skill (with a thesis focus on Edible plants for specialization) to boost the fluorescence understanding in terms of recording/replaying the signal.

If that won't help, we'll need to find more badges.

Still probably higher levels would require different badges, I don't think the one we've found would open all the doors.

[Kontact]

The problem is that it's several signal frequencies at once. 

Jurryrigging: You could take the time to build multiple antennas to fill each frequency so that you can replicate the badge signal with a single commlink.

Brute force: Three commlinks should be able to replicate a badge.

The search: There are other corpses to be found, but finding them will not be so easy as rolling some dice.  You could even find other things worth your time.

[Crossbow]

I think I like the scouting idea, give Machete the badge.

[inca1980]

Ok, so i'll be up front with the badge prominantly displayed. 

[Sentinemodo]

Kontakt. We move up looking for more bagdes and things of value.

[Kontact]

So, going to 106?  That is where the staircase ends.

[Xzylvador]

Rules question... I ithink.
Could Devoted levitate pieces of rubble and bash them through the doors?
-- I know he could, or at least could try, but the rules are just weird. Thrown attacks are handled as if thrown w/ Strength equal to half magic. Which is just ridiculously low considering at F3 he could toss around 600kg, the momentum/kinetic energy must be a lot higher... So I'm guessing Devoted would be able to judge from experience if levitating half a ton pieces of rubble will have a chance of breaking doors. I'm guessing he can find some heavy piece of furniture or else go 'grab' maybe one of the destroyed turrets or pieces of the rubble when we blew up that door together with the floor and ceiling surrounding it.

[Kontact]

I'd give you a pretty high base damage depending on the size of the material, but you don't have much in the way of a straight-away to get the block up to speed, so limiting the strength aspect makes some sense.

Digger is well prepared to open doors with that axe of his though.  These things aren't security doors, they're just oak.
Hardwood: Armor 6 structure 7.  Shotgun blast would likely do it, if you're not worried about how the security would respond to gunfire.

[Xzylvador]

Yeah and security's been so friendly with us so far :p

[Crossbow]

Time to deliver a few candygrams then.

By the by, had a funeral to attend out of state, thus my absense the last week.

Any rolls needed?

[Kontact]

Any rolls needed?

Every attack roll is a chance to refresh edge. 

Plus, if you fail to break the door, the robot inside might take a pot shot at you.