[Larzarus]

"Oh my. No, there was a very brutal massacre here." Lips swallows heavely. Checking, if he can see how old this 'swirl' is, Lips continues "I think we might found some traces of the third team member. ... very bloody traces indead."

As Lips remembers, after the moved a little bit further and the images started to fade away, the fitst body, near the alligator only had his limbs and head torn off, but not his guts.

Looking back, Lips also checks for blood on the floor, to further verify, if this astral disturbens is caused by the team they were looking for.

[Kouryuu]

... they felt that some one had died a horrific death there, really? I must really have too much Chrome in me, i did not feel a thing, could i be getting cold-hearted? ... Sam went on following Fractal while thinking.

[Sentinemodo]

"Oh my. No, there was a very brutal massacre here." Lips swallows heavely. Checking, if he can see how old this 'swirl' is, Lips continues "I think we might found some traces of the third team member. ... very bloody traces indead."

As Lips remembers, after the moved a little bit further and the images started to fade away, the fitst body, near the alligator only had his limbs and head torn off, but not his guts.

Looking back, Lips also checks for blood on the floor, to further verify, if this astral disturbens is caused by the team they were looking for.

Whatever happened here, happened long time ago - if there were blood traces, they are now only slightly brown traces over the walls here.

[Netzgeist]

Fractal concentrate for a while on his teammates expressions... and decided lingered at the murder zone would not do them any good. In fact, the sooner this job ends, the better. Being underground is really getting into his nerves, and standing idly does not help a thing.

"Okay, chummers, I don't want to sound harsh or anything like this, but please, stay on your feet and let's keep going. Let's end this little job quickly, and then when we get onto the surface again, the first round of drinks is on me, okay? So follow me, please, and let's worry about the ones in this tunnels that are living, rather than the dead."

That being said, Fractal once again start moving forwards, into the darkness, with a calm but decided step. He wants to show courage and reassure the others that they can keep on, but he does not walk too fast as to mean he is abandoning them. Walking some meters ahead, where the lights of the lanterns no longer shine, Fractal smiling once again greet the darkness and pay close attention to his new biosonar sense.

[Sentinemodo]

The walk was quite long. The tunnel after winding west went on and on. From time to time you seen a small chambers to one of the side or the other. They were empty and no traces of being walked on. After some time you encountered another patch of increased count marking murder place and then another.

At some point Fractal's sonar sense indicated that the tunnel is ending with round chamber.

You've reached it after another hundred meters. It is eliptic in shape, 8 meters wide (twice as wide as the tunnel ending here) and about 16 meters long. There are solid metal doors at the end. On the entrance you see few dozens of shells of the spent ammo and some blood stains.

Radar signal is severely weakened by the door, behind them is another room also eliptic in shape but smaller - 6 meters wide and 8 meters long.

[Netzgeist]

@Team: "So, guys, any thing to report on your specific senses? What the radar is marking on, Sam? Do the drones point out to something, guys? Anything behind the astral veil, Lips? My echolocation is severely barred by that door, and besides the cartridges and the blood remains, I got nothing to report."

Gun in hands, Fractal continue walking towards the door, cautiosly observing everything around.

[Kouryuu]

@Team: "So, guys, any thing to report on your specific senses? What the radar is marking on, Sam? Do the drones point out to something, guys? Anything behind the astral veil, Lips? My echolocation is severely barred by that door, and besides the cartridges and the blood remains, I got nothing to report."

Gun in hands, Fractal continue walking towards the door, cautiosly observing everything around.

Sam Switches his radar-sensor to transmit it overlay to the whole team.
"everyone, if you can make sense of it you are welcome, but i sure can't, the door seems to be made of thick Metal. But we should be near this mages home, maybe lips, or his spirit can take a look." the sides started to hurt a bit from so much speaking, even if only trough his sub-vocal micro.
He will need some days of rest - defiantly.

[Larzarus]

Lips looks around for any hint about what the previous team have fired at.

[Sichr]

Any tags from previous team nearby?
Any sign of radio comunication? Nodes?
Our last connection point made was the satelite uplink instaled near the chasm.
To tell the truth...Im not able to recall if we had any retrans left so we can use them in the corridor.

Give me a second...

Running Scan (EW(4)+Scan(5)+HotVR(2)=11d6, extended)

Drones set position against the doors. Both are armed with light machen guns, SMG on Dobbey was replaced with gun unmounted from sentry. D1 loaded with lead, Dobbey with S`n`S belt. Omar readz to jump in the D1, Dobbez left for Mouse of his sprites....just for case fried rat wont work. SMG unmounted from drone keeps Omar for himself, watching their back cautiously.
Waiting for Lips to provide more info and scan results.

[Sentinemodo]

Lips notices, that the bullets fired from the entrance of the chamber ricochetted near the metal doors on the other side, but some of them are laying at the centre of the room. That there was a combat taking place is of no doubt, but if any magic was used, you lost too much time for the signatures to last, so ntohing more to be assenssed in this chamber.

Scan didn't reveal any nodes within signal range.

[Larzarus]

Waiting outside of the room, Lips summon a fire spirit: (Spirit 5, but based on BC: Spirit 3)

Summoning: 3 hits, Spirit 2 hits
1 service, 4 Drain
Drain Resi: 3 hits
1S damage

Total damage: 1P / 4S (or less in case he had some rest in Eliza's wagon.)

[Netzgeist]

Fractal have approached enough the metal doors to touch them. He takes a look at them, and then smile at the  team.

@Team: "Ready when you are."

[snake_eyes]

At first, Mouse thought it was just being outside the reach of the 'trix. It was like having a head without the rest of the body--like missing a big part of you. But then again, it was getting stronger. Then all of a sudden, bang!

Fortunetly for Mouse, Unca Omar grabbed him when he did lest Mouse scurry into the unknown. Oh my God! What they did to that poor man! How could anybody be so cruel? Even the highest gore rated VR games are timid compared to what they did. Even Unca Omar was taken aback by the carnage--if ever so briefly.

Shaken, Mouse let his machine sprite control Dobbey, he tried to keep his mind occupied on monitoring the feeds coming in from the team and Dobbey while in AR. Passing the other wards, he tried to force his mind to shut out the visions of carnage of those wards. It's much hard than what the heroes on the trids make it out to be, though.

He wondered if Mr. Lips does this sort of thing, or Unca Ryker for that matter. He figures he can't rely on trids for that kind of information, after all, they haven't got Technomancers right yet.

He debated letting go of his sustained CFs, but he was rather proud of his accomplishment. He had never tried to thread two such forms before, it was very risky. So he decided to keep them active, until he had to drop one or both of them.
...
Nothing unusual coming through the sensors, until we reached a door. Not even recognizing that the dog might be in the room behind the door--for whom the rat was prepared for.

[Kouryuu]

Sam groped his taser a bit stronger and noder towards Fractal.

He was as ready as he could, considering the circumstances.

[Netzgeist]

Fractal watched as the group made their preparations, and then, after a little moment of hesitation, he tries pulling the doors.

@Team: "Okay, here goes nothing."