Jake: "WTF! I swear I saw a dog skull! Didn't you see I found it William?"

William: "Yes, I did. I am speechless."

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Wasn't William with Jake? I assume he wandered off a little.

Oh shit you did.  I mess read that.  Lets just say William saw the whole thing too.

Jake and William start searching the surrounding area for footprints. There must be something. Lucas comes with them trying to help as good as he can.

Meanwhile Caroline goes to the lab to investigate the bloodsamples. Smiley comes with her to lend a hand.

Among the snow the men eventually found a frozen human corpse.  He was severely cut and most likely bleed to death in the cold.  What you found are notes that are useless due to the blood.  Further investigation reveals this man to be one of the members of the science team.

Mean while nothing strange happen in the lab.

The crew pick up the man and take his body to the lab.

Smiley is looking at Caroline, while she is analysing the blood samples. Caroline works very methodical and looks like she knows what se is doing. Smiley attemps to say something, but instead he sighs and starts thinking if he hasn't overlooked a detail. They were in danger, that was clear to him and he wanted to be sure he looked at the problem from all different direction.

They could be dealing with some sort of invisable monsters. But then why no footprint? Could they mask that? Or were they flying as well? Maybe he should check the roof. Then again it could also be something mental. People could be attacked by someone with mind control powers. Or maybe people were being poisoned and dillusional and the idea of being attacked caused real wounds. Pfff, a lot of speculation. Smiley isn't sure what to think.

Caroline is focusing on her work. She must identify the blood group and the DNA of the victim. After that she wants to check it for allergies, parasites, viruses, bacteria, venoms  and toxins. Can she call the ship for the medical files of the scientists? Caroline wants to identify who's blood is on the rod.

Caroline and Smiley are now interrupted by the others. "Howdy, folks!" Jake says. "We got you a fresh body. Nicely covered with wounds. It looks like stab wounds to me. What do you think, Lucas?" Lucas looks at the body and replies "Yes stab wounds or at least cutting wounds. Let me take a closer look to see if this looks like an alley mugging victim."

William walks to Caroline and asks "Maybe you should finish your work on the blood first and then look at our John Doe here? Shall I call the ship first to transfer the medical files to the lab? I can help you sort this out to take some of the pressure of you." Caroline confirms this idea with a short "Ok, sounds like a plan." and then continues with the blood samples. First she will do the DNA and blood group test. After that she takes a quick look at the corps. And then she goes back to the blood at the rods again for the rest of the tests.

Mental Test Fail

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Umm...  The closest thing to communicate to the outside world is the radio in the living quarters.  Smiley remembers that he never check that out due to the fact he was doing other things yesterday like helping the pilot transport stuff to the living quarters.  Shit...

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When William goes to get the radio he sees that some one actually broke the damn thing.  Smiley was suppose to check on this since he said he was going to the living quarters to check that building out.

You should find a back up radio.  Map says there is one in the generator building.  If that doesn't work you got two weeks of isolation.  Maybe even more if the weather doesn't hold out.

The blood itself has enough DNA for Caroline to find out.  While she has no way on communicating to the company directly they did have the decency to give her information for the scientists.  The blood belongs to Jenny Richards who is the youngest scientists in the team.  The woman grew up in LA and this is her first time in Antarctica.  Age is 28 years old.  Race is white/asian.  Gender is of course female.  There are no other substances in the blood.

The body belongs to another scientist known as James Hammerson.  Age is 56 years old.  Race is white.  Gender is of course male.  The body looks like he was holding onto something before losing grip and falling over.  The crack at the back of the skull indicates the man did fall at high speeds.  Possibly he and some other scientist was escaping the outpost on a snow ski and the poor man fell off due to blood loss.  This also means there is another scientist out there.

Caroline checks out how many scientists there were on the station. They found two. How many are there left?  Jake and Lucas stay with her to clean up the lab after she is done.

"Let me just take a look at the list." Caroline says. "If we already found two, maybe we should do a sweep looking for the other ones."

William goes  to the generator room looking for a radio. He takes Smiley with him, because he was so stupid not to check on the damn thing in the first place. William and Smiley are in the generator room looking for the radio.

Smiley asks "Hey, William. How are you holding up?".

"Fine, under the circumstances." replies William. "Let's just look for the radio first and see if we can get into contact with the outside world."

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How is the system holding up? I figured I had to do some rolls, but you do everything. Is is mostly passive skill checks? No active rolls?

Back from the big move.  I am living in a apartment building now, but doing great.

Okay so far you been making passive rolls which don't require any dice rolling.  I just check up what you have in term of stats, merits, and talents.  So far it is going as plan.  How do you feel about it?

You manage to find the radio.  Only it is beaten to the point that it is broken beyond repair.  Seriously it is as if some one grab a tool and smash the poor thing to death.  That is pretty bad and what makes this worst is that there is no contact without the outside world.  Looks like you got two weeks ahead of you if your lucky.

Mental Test Success

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Caroline manage to find eight names of the scientists that form the team.  So that means there are six missing people.

Are you busy?

Quote from: Snowman0147;790391Are you busy?

Oh, you replied. I start posting again in an hour or so.

I also sent a private message and told you in this thread that I had just moved.  Did you get those?

Yes, received the message and yes system works fine for now. Just waiting for the active rolls to kick in sometime. Ok, back to the game.


"Damnit!" says Smiley. "It's all banged up! Let's get back to the other and bring them the bad news."

"Looks like sabotage. It sure is deliberate." William replies. "Ok, let's head back. It has no point staying here." William grabs a few small pieces of the radio to show it to the others.

"Six more names to go. I wonder if any of them are still alive." Caroline mumbles. "Maybe we should make a sweep around the base to see if we find any other bodies? There aren't any leads for now and there might be more of them out in the snow."

Lucas and Jake both nod. It makes sense to them to do an area sweep together, all five of them. Five see more than one or two. They all agree to wait for Smiley and William return.

As William leaves the generator room something grabs him.

Roll Initiative

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Enemy rolled 9 for initiative and challenge is 3.  Active challenge is combat attribute base.

Mental Roll Success

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Smiley notice that there is something wrong with William.  Something is pulling him, but you don't know what.

Potency Roll Failure

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Both Smiley and William cannot figure out what is going on other than the fact that there is some force grabbing onto William.