Bob's reply was sweating with nervousness:
Please hurry it's been hours since they last contacted.After having roasted the rat an hour or so after you returned to the Eliza's car and ready to go. Eliza helped you with a grapple hook line so you could climb yourself more or less safely to the top of the chams and on the other side of the tunnel. Where you could then in a joined effort pull up the drones. Eliza bids you farewall and returns to her house.
The tunnell shortly after the chasm is turning sharply toward the south and it leads for at least several hundred meters there but the tunnel is slowly turning west again. After the turn it also gets narrower - it's now only a four meters wide. It isn't long before you feel the first patch of confusion.
For the astral sight the wisps of mists that surrounds you in the tunnel, are getting thicker.
There is nothing ahead that you could detect with ultrasound or radar.
Make an Intuition + Intuition roll - respective tresholds are at 2, 3 and 4 hits. Counterspelling act as negative modifier.
The area before you act as Background Count 2
Lips was unable to assense any kind of spell, that could have been responsible for the mana swirl.The drones went in without effect.
So on a self assumed role - Fractal took the point, and went first. He crossed the line, that Lips has marked as a begining of the mana swirl. But he felt nothing spectacular, not even the faster air movement. After him Sam but his pain shrouded mind also didn't register anything.
Fractal scored only 1 hit. Sam only 1 as well
With those two having passed without problems Lips entered the swirl and instanteusly understood the nature of the phenomenon. He was assulted with fear, panic, subconscious, animal like will to flee, a feeling of being stalked. It was a place of murder. Somebody was killed here, and gutted mercislessly. The event evoked enough emotions from the poor victim that the fleeing souls ripped through the astral plane. That was the source of the increased background count.
Lips scored 3 hits. While the effect was harmless in terms of physical damage, it might result in a few bad dreams the more intuitive one is the more susceptible he is. Counterspelling intutivelly protected Lips from the assault as it was of a magical nature.
The last ones were Omar and Mouse. Warned byt Lips and cloaked in counterspelling, their high intuition seemed to be their voulnearbility. As soon as they crossed the line they were assaulted by the images of a human dying horrible death, gutted and bloodied, and laying around, crawling and spilling his guts. Mouse would have run, a cry went out of him, without him even acknowledging that. Only Omar's grip held him in place. While Sichr was affected also, he had seen carnage like this in Lagos, and after initial surprise got a grip on himself and knowing that it's only a couple of meters he forced Mouse with him to get through the swirl. Shaking he held to the wall as soon as you were out.
Omar got 3 hits, Mouse 7
