[Kouryuu]

Either to his Omar or Mouse or through his new commlinks:

Really disliking the direction Sams idea is going, especially the part about water. "I already send a watcher, looking around. But shoudn't we follow the RFIDs, placed by the previous team?"

@Team >Of course we will follow the tags, at least most of us will, but it would be wise to check other leads as well. who knows what might be there, maybe some hint of what happened to the team is in the water or a short-cut, or danger we have to keep an eye out. not checking it would be easy going as far strategy is considered.< Sam felt how the team is not happy about his idea about the way he organises the structure of the S&R job, might be he has lost the clear head, might be he is just more grumpy as usually because he has not slept well in weeks.

[Sichr]

@Sam: Nope. I understand your argument but Drone far ahead wont compromise us, but give us early-warning. We are following explored path for now. Calm down, your time will come. Your life, for noéw, costs more than 2K so dont be that jumpy just because you get your hands on the big gun

[Sentinemodo]

Just to avoid any doubts on that. Vector thrust drone is having jet engine to prepell himself. in the closed quarters of the tunnels the noise is so much, that it's impossible to talk in the range of hundred meters, and it is audible from few kilometers as a distant rumble. In the weaker sections of the tunnels, it might produce a cave in - that piece you aren't certain, but the dust is falling of the walls as it passess by.

Watching through the astral sight, Lips observe a small wisp appear before him. It listens carefully to the order given trying to comprehend as much as possible and speed away. It returns three seconds later.
Master. There are five metahuman auras in the direct vicinity and one creature that is not metahuman. lacking other means, wisp transformed himself to a shape that roughly reminds you crocodile or aligator.

Assuming that Lips raised an immediate alarm in the for of "watchout Sam".

There was in fact danger in the water. Laying in ambush below the level of water was hiding a large, toothed critter. It had been alerted by the sounds, ignored the drone as inedible but having spotted Sam by smell it had waited for him to close enough to strike (which is basicaly crossing area). Fractal by that point was half way t the crossing with remaining part of the team at the first junction.

Combat mode. Please cut the IC talk to single sentences, and they will consume your free actions.

all of you please roll the initiative. Omar roll for the drones.

all of you also make surprise rolls (reaction + intuition) you got +3 modifier to the surprise roll due to Lips warning. Drones aren't surprised, but they don't have orders to shoot anything.

alligator infiltration Agility(5) + Infiltration(4) + Edge(3) -> 12d6.hitsopen(5,6)=8 hits as opposed to
   Sam's perception of 6 (audtio) and 2 (visual)
   Dalmatian's perception (visual) 3
alligator initiative Reaction(4) + Intuition(2) -> 6d6.hits(5)=2 -> 8
the ambush roll Reaction(4) + Intuition(2) + Ambush(6) + Edge(3) -> 15d6.hitsopen(5,6)=3 DAMN, so perfectly laid trap and only 3 hits

CT #1, IP #1
[Omar 17 surprised][Sam 16 ][Lips 10 surprised][alligator 8][Fractal 4][Mouse ??][doberman][dalmatian][beaver]

pending rolls - Mouse initiative

[Netzgeist]

Initiative Roll
Initiative roll (First Initiative Round) = 7/2= 4 dice = 1 hit, no glitch; Total Initiative Score for the First Initiative Round = 5
Note: Not sure about that. I don't know if I should round the resulting dice as 3 or 4, and I didn't find this information on SR4A; I believe it's the latter, since most rounding situations on the game are rounded up. But if its otherwise, then his roll stays the same, but his initiative for this round becomes 4.
Surprise Roll:
3 (Reaction) + 4 (Intuition) + 3 (Lips Warning) - 3 (Combat Paralysis) = 7 dice = 3 hits, no glitch

[Larzarus]

Initiative: 3 Rea + 5 Ini = 8d6 = 2 hits

Surprise: 3 Rea + 5 Ini + 3 Warning = 11d6 = 3 hits
Lips only has 2 Edge (don't want to spend it at the beginning, but if its a roll without spending the Edge: 1 hit

No Spell substained so far: 1IP

[Sichr]

Another junction, another closer observation for traces. As Omar kneels and jumps int the drone, he feels that there is some anomaly laying in the ground. For closer look Omaruses the Camera, switching to low light. Vectored thrust provides enought light to clearly recognize severed body lying down there.
Sam, your turn, we got a body laying down provided with footage from drone camera D1 free for your command, Ill stay and provide cover.
When Sam moved in, Omar is watching him on the approaching carefully the mutilated corpse. Suddenly, something big leaps out from under the dump surface and in the spray of  sewage it attacks Sam with terrible maws full of teeth.

Surprise:
RE(4)+INT(5)+VR(2) (11d6.hits(5)=2)
unable to act at 1st IP

Fuck!!
At the first moment Omar hardly recognizes the shape as an aligator. Being above the beast, he was in the bad angle to be able to use his sniper riffle. He at least commanded Drone autopilot to fly by itself, finding better position for the shot, Then, Omar jumps out
Initiative:
RE(4)+INT(5)+VR(2) (11d6.hits(5)=6)=17

just to jump in the D1 in 2nd IP.

[Sentinemodo]

CT #1, IP #1
[Omar 17 surprised][Sam 16 ][Lips 10 surprised][alligator 8][Fractal 4][Mouse ??][doberman][dalmatian][beaver]

free action - drop gun
simple action - quick draw + shot
Agility(7) + Pistols(6) + smartgun(2) - Radar(2) + PointBlank(2) - shooting in melee(3)  -> [3,6,5,6,6,5,2,2,6,1,1,5,3] = (7)
Defense -> Reaction(4) + Defender running(2) + Edge(3) -> 9d6.hitsopen(5,6)=2 5 net hits
DV 11S
Damage Resistance -> Body(4) + HalfImpactArmor(1) -> 5d6.hits(5)=2 9S
Stun resistance -> Body(4) + Willpower(3) - Wound modifer(3) -> 4d6.hits(5)=0 STUNNED

I should have expected that, and just allow Kour to roll several hours ago.

As the alligator sprung his trap his pawns slipped on the polished, concrete surface of the tunnel. That split second was all that Sam needed. Letting the large gun he was carrying to fall he kept to the reaction that he had ironed by the weeks and weeks of training - he drawn and shot a taser in the same fluid move. As the alligator still trembling with after shocks landed at his feets Sam managed to catch the falling machine gun before it even dropped to the floor. 

[Larzarus]

When the aligator crushes through the water surface, the water and all the movement make it impossible for Lips to get a clear look at the beast. So Lips moves a little bit to the side of the tunnel to see if he gets a better view.

But after the water splashes have settles again, Lips sees that most of the action is almost done. After this encounter, he really has to put his reflex spell on.

"Hey over there, is it dead?"

[Sichr]

With a cold look, Omar cames to Sam.
Give it back to me. I didn`t lend you the gun to throw it away at the first oportunity. And never ask for something like that again.
Then watching stunned Gator for a moment:

Well
someone should end its missery. maybe it should be good for pair of nice shoes...

Looking down the corridor.
I think this is the point. This flying shit is too big to be of any use downthere, Im sending it back to surface. D1 would replace it. 30 meters point. Then our silent taserman. . Then the rest of the team. Mouse...
Omar thinks about Mouse`s new Doberman...or rather on its free weapon mount.
Would you mind to call you new pet down here? It takes only a few minutes...and I will lend you some artilery, the weapon mount is capable of carying this gun
more to it...it is able to fire it full auto while almost completely compensated. Let your practice begin

[Larzarus]

Lips follows Omar and the Reaver, carefully, in case the stunned aligator wakes up again. "Could someone please, bind it, stunn it again or do something so that it stays harmless?"

Next, Lips addresses his watcher, who is still floating next to his head: "Good job, my little minion, we have to learn to prioritize our reports, but everything else was well done.   

Now. please be so kind and dive down that water basin, Lips points at the east end of the tunnel, at the round rome , " and report any lifeform bigger than my head back to me. Don't follow any passage more than 75 meter and come back to me at least after 10 minutes."

Lips moves around the aligator, carefully watching for any movement of the beast, ready to jump back in case it come back to life and take a closer look at the headless body, while the rest deal with the aligator or the drones.

[Sentinemodo]

Lips follows Omar and the Reaver, carefully, in case the stunned aligator wakes up again. "Could someone please, bind it, stunn it again or do something so that it stays harmless?"

Next, Lips addresses his watcher, who is still floating next to his head: "Good job, my little minion, we have to learn to prioritize our reports, but everything else was well done.   

Now. please be so kind and dive down that water basin, Lips points at the east end of the tunnel, at the round rome , " and report any lifeform bigger than my head back to me. Don't follow any passage more than 75 meter and come back to me at least after 10 minutes."

Lips moves around the aligator, carefully watching for any movement of the beast, ready to jump back in case it come back to life and take a closer look at the headless body, while the rest deal with the aligator or the drones.

The watcher again listened carefully. The sped in the direction requested. He returned three seconds later. Master there is no lifeform.

The body is naked. You had to take a close look to see that under layers of dry blood and dirt. it's missing head, arm, hand, and a leg.

make a Logic+Forensic(3) roll

Alligator starts to move.

[Sentinemodo]

While the drones travel back and forth, the total time you're under the ground tick first quarter. Mr. Johnson asked for frequent reports.  So it might be a good time to deliver your first.

At that point also Mouse completes assembling results from the first data search. There are still some matrix node, he hadn't yet visited, and the sprite is still having thousands of fetched files to filter and analyse. Results:

• the tunnels under Aztlan Sector is no myth and the stretch into all neighbouring sectors as well some reach as far as to Aurora Warrens.
• the tunnels initialy serving water draining tasks were improved by the government to serve as passages into other sectors
• after Aztlan Sector eradication by the most of the tunnels wer found and collapsed by the forces of the remaining sectors. other tunnels are progressively searched for and collapsed
• some however are left open for the use of coyote, after all smuggling is the blood in the veins of the Denver plex, without it economy would collapse, and noone want that to happen
• under the network of water drain tunnels is another abandoned network - this time it is old subway system. it has been closed from service after construction of maglev lines, and some of the subway tunnels collapsed like the ones above, but still, some do exist and serve the same purpose as the water ones
• it's difficult to find, but there is a watering hole (one that deliver high voltage beverages) in one of this tunnels, and it is a good place to find and hire smugglers or coyote it is called Five by Five.

Mouse you got 7 hits. if you continue your search make another roll, remember about reduced dicepool, let me know how many rolls you need to reach 12 total hits

[Sichr]

Aligator strts to move...as Beaver uses its mechanical arm to pick it up, somewhere behind the neck...if such creatures have necks. In the next moment pneumatic drill dives throuh armored scales into the lizards head, crushing its skull, spraying all around red... When the drill reaches the stone of the floor and strikes a few sparks, it finaly stops. Gator`s head lays severed from the body by the power of hydraulics and steel.  Omar jumps-out the drone, looks around almost happily:
You mean something like this?
he adresses Lips.
Beavers manipulator finaly ease, and mutilated body flop down, splashing the rain of blood tears once again.

[Sentinemodo]

The headless aligator's tail twitched ... and then twitched again

[Kouryuu]

With a cold look, Omar cames to Sam.
Give it back to me. I didn`t lend you the gun to throw it away at the first oportunity. And never ask for something like that again.
Then watching stunned Gator for a moment:

Well
someone should end its missery. maybe it should be good for pair of nice shoes...

Sam Gives Omar his gun back with no hesitation. "sorry Pal it felt just so wrong in my hands, I think these big guns are not made for me, i will stick to Pistols for now." then he turned back  the way they came, the pile of rubble had made a interesting impression and he wanted to check it out So he followed the dalmatian drone until the junction and went on straight. until he cam the rubble. He concentrated on his radars readings so he would know if something was on the other side.