[Sentinemodo]

software(4)+res(5)+TM(2)=11d6.hits(5)=4
Fading of 4S: will(5)+res(5)=10d6.hits(5)=3
So Mouse takes one point of Stun.

@Team: Ok, I'm ready. Which direction?
@Omar: Unca Omar: this is sooo cool! No wonder you're always tinkering with these things!

D1, quite suddenly started making moves, that made Omar completely wondered. BUT the drone really made an effort to avoid kicking or stepping on loose rocks, and was making a lot slower moves, to avoid making noise when stepping.

Two things here (take a look at the rigger bible - table at pg. 247 SR4A) 
1. piloting aerial cannot be defaulted, so with flying drone, you have to let drone work on autonomous mode.
2. make a roll on infiltration on the d1.

don't forget for further rolls, that you need to maintain that complex form (which gives you -2)

[Larzarus]

Having passed through the wall Lips found himself in a tunnel similar to the one the rest of the team is. It is heading straight for at least hundred meters without any crossings.

Since Lips can move as the speed of thoughts, he move a little bit further down the tunnel to see if there is anything interesting.

[Sentinemodo]

@Bob: "I hope this is not an unsensitive question, Mr. Bob, but does anyone in your team had some valuable headware that could justify a head extraction?" Along with the message, Fractal sends a map with directions on how the Beaver that Bob will send can come to the place where Lips moved the body.

It's just Bob, not Mr. Bob, I'm not that old. Yes, most of them had cerebral boosters at least. Specialists had cybereyes. Is it general question or you need specific list and what for if so?

I've found that reports:

• 19:27 - Shen Feng - We've arrived at the first junction. Watchers signal an aura to the east.  Tseng Gong and Liu Ki are checking the cave in in the west tunnel. Tseng Mo reports that  after cavein the tunnel continues - it will take long time to get through. The tunnel collapsed on the hundred meter length. Tseng Go claims, that the metal supporters have been corroded - it's too damp in the tunnels.
• 19:45 - Shen Feng - we found alligator. Sun To says that it is a male, and it seems well fed. it is aggressively protecting his territory, which means he has settled here for the long time. Sun To want to study him later, so Tseng Mo, put a barrier on the entry so we could pass further.  There is tunnel to the south - it is walled. Tseng Go claims it has been walled at least five years ago. While Tseng Mo says that there is some other tunnels network connection. We will check it further, but for now we will head north. Liu Ki hears a water there.
• 20:11 - Shen Feng - another junction - a well upward here. similar to the one we entered the tunnels, but closed on the top. We will need to find this location on the surface. There is also another walled up tunnel to the east. We head west.
• 20:37 - Tseng Mo - Shen Feng is a bit too shaken to report. We got attacked by the swarm of devil rats. Noone got hurt. Liu Ki and Chin Kuei made a quick work of them. They were nesting in the wall at the junction. Seems, like there are cracks in the concrete. To the east from the junction is a place I've named Ritual chamber. There are remains of sacrifices - bones, herbs, candles, fires. There are some texts on the wall probably in Aztec pictrograms. We've made pictures for future analysis. But there is no magic done in the place, more like kids playing sorcery. The bones are dogs, cats and rats and herbs are probably estragon mixed with parsley - at least Sun To claims so.
• 21:03 - Tseng Mo - Shen Feng got back on his feet. Everything is all right. We moved north, we are going further"

[Sentinemodo]

Having passed through the wall Lips found himself in a tunnel similar to the one the rest of the team is. It is heading straight for at least hundred meters without any crossings.

Since Lips can move as the speed of thoughts, he move a little bit further down the tunnel to see if there is anything interesting.

About two hundred meters further there is a junction. The tunnel turns south and continues west. The continued tunnel ends shortly with a round room about five meters diameter. It is filled with devil rats - fifty or so.

[Larzarus]

Heroic retreat! Back to the his body, before someone blow the wall away.

@team: "Please leave the wall intact. The tunnels seems to go on and on, but right after around 300 meter, I ran into a nest of devil rats, big one. Explosion could attrack them."

Back at his body, Lips go through the message from Johnson. This Ritual Camber could be of some interest and also updates his map.

[Larzarus]

Here is what I found behind the wall so far.



My watcher also checked around the well: No lifeform larger than my head.

[Sichr]

@Sam: Negative. Sorry pal but we are here for rescue, not exploration. Previous team seems aware of it. Lets move furhter. Sooner we got out of this tunnels, sooner we get paid.

[Sentinemodo]

Having checked astrally, that no threats are before you, and feeling quite safe following the steps of the previous team, you went further north. toward the upwared well. As expected you found a east west corridor, the on the east side turned north after some 80 meters and ended up with a wall similar to the one to the south (build few years ago). On the sides of the well was a small pipe that was trickling more water to the small stream and adding to it.

After checking the RFID on the south wall of the east corridor (reading "20:11") you've followed to the eastern tunnel. The sound of rushing water increased and was audible even to those of you without hearing enhancements. After about 50 meters, the tunnel turned north and after another two hundred meters you found yourselves at the junction.

There you  found a crack in the eastern wall, opposite to the side tunnel. Both in the crack and on the floor you found more than a dozen bodies of devil rats, and around 30 assault rifle shells. The side tunnel leads to a small chamber forming another dead end. As you expected the chamber, roughly 4m square have walls covered with pictographs written with a red-brown ink. On the ground, you see ritual materials – small piles of ashes, burned-down candles, dry herbs and several piles of small bones. The air in the chamber is completely motionless. The air is dry and smells slightly flowery. The candles on the ground are made of red and black wax.

Astral perception shows no background count or any lingering auras. Radar shows that this place was reinforced with metal rings a little denser than the main tunnel. There are at lest three rings on the length of two meters in contrast to the one per ten meters in the main trunk.

You have also scouted further north, where you found final RFID tagging "21:03". The problem is that it is attached to the side of a downward leading well. The water gathering form the tunnels is cascading down here.

Looks like you’ll have to climb down. The well is slightly narrower then the tunnels and have barely three meters in diameter.

as you probably want to assess your chances to climb down safely. you will have to make an Strength + climbing (16, 1 combat turn) extended test  with -2 modifiers (-2 for flat surface, -2 for wet surface, +2 for assisted climbing for those that use climbing sets).
glitch result in falling off.

if you have a line - you may want to try rappelling - you'll need to score 2 hits in a single test.

[Sichr]

First of all, Beavers spolight lits the hole, and Fly Spies fly down the hole to asess the distance and surface down below.

[Sentinemodo]

Now you know how flies feel during the rain, and why they don't fly then.

make a maneuver test (3)

[Netzgeist]

During the way to the well, Fractal approaches Lips and tells him: "I'm sorry about asking your watcher to put itself in danger by scouting for us. I don't know a lot about magic myself, and most mages I met didn't show this kind of... concern that you have to their spirits."


The ritual chamber seemed more interesting on the report than on personal experience, Fractal thought. I've seen better ambiences in trids. As Lips told them that no astral activity could be sensed, they continued on their way, until they reached the well.

"Looking" down the hole, Fractal comments: "I really don't like this. If we go down, will we be able to climb up again?"

[Sichr]

Rsp(3)+Pilot Aircraft(1)+Rig(2)+Nanites(3) (9d6.hits(5)=1)
Glitch

[Sentinemodo]

Rsp(3)+Pilot Aircraft(1)+Rig(2)+Nanites(3) (9d6.hits(5)=1)
Glitch

Around 8 meters below, while dodging the sprinkling drops of water the drone flew straight under 30 cm pipe of of water, that swept it off the air.

The falling damage is 4P. Resisted with Body and half impact armor.
The glitch result is that the water got into sensors reducing them by 1 until fully dried.

Still you got your requested info: the well is 16 meter deep. Below is a large room (the drone was unable to catch walls during the falling). The surface of the well is wet a slippery, the pipes pumping water make it even more so. On the very bottom is a water but it is not very deep (up to half a meter) and then flat concrete.

[Larzarus]

As the team before, Lips takes some pictures of those pictogram in the ritual chamber. Again, he left it to Fractal or Sam, to make an report to Mr. Bob.

During the way to the well, Fractal approaches Lips and tells him: "I'm sorry about asking your watcher to put itself in danger by scouting for us. I don't know a lot about magic myself, and most mages I met didn't show this kind of... concern that you have to their spirits."

"No no, don't apologize. I just had a bad experience with a really .... unhappy spirit during a summoning long ago, since then, I made it a habit to ...ähm ... be nice to my spirits. But don't hesitate to tell me, if I'm too over-protective, better risk a smaller watcher than one of our team, nicht wahr? [correct?] "

Realizing, that Lips should care a little bit more about there mundane scouts, he addresse his watcher.

"Hallo there again, sorry to ask you, but same procedure as before."
Lips give his watcher the same order as before, down the well in the astral space, follow every passage around 50 meter, report any lifeform larger than Lips head. But adding:
"And when you return, materialize down there and check if the small flying metal drone is still flying, if not, bring it up to me."

Lips propably has to start a second page for the next level of his map...




Looking down the well himself, he agreed with Fractal, he really does not like that, too much water. If he falls, case one, the water is deep enough to buffer his fall, but he will drown, if the water isn't deep enough, he might break some bones.
"Gentlemen, as you might guess, I'm not very good at climbing. Can the Beaver work as a crane?"

[Sentinemodo]

Realizing, that Lips should care a little bit more about there mundane scouts, he addresse his watcher.

"Hallo there again, sorry to ask you, but same procedure as before."
Lips give his watcher the same order as before, down the well in the astral space, follow every passage around 50 meter, report any lifeform larger than Lips head.

Watcher reported existence of large funguses below.