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Arctic Rescue RPG - Page 5

The Game Master says...

Uhura applies some relief to Nathan using the first aid kit Josh gives her and it allows Nathan to recover but not fully. Nathan seems to still be unaware of his surroundings or what happened to him. You realize that he will be of little help to you in finding out more about the Arctic Base.

GM: Nathan can have 1hp restored.

Major checks out the other body in the room by poking his gun at the slumped figure. He looks like an unkept man in his 40s. There is no response but yet the vomit and saliva seems rather fresh. You notice in one of his hands is an empty auto syringe just like what you saw earlier in the upper level.

GM: You will not be able to ascertain more about this man unless you do further examination. Say what you wish to do now.

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The Game Master says...

Major asks Greg about the auto-syringes. Greg speaks through the environ suit comm system back at Major,

"You've got me there, looks like whatever it was didn't help that guy."

Uhura examines the man slumped in the corner. The first things she notices after lifting his head is bite marks around his jugular with dried blood oozing into his clothes and his vomit covering it all. By all appearances, he is dead but oddly he is not as cold as he should be, either he only recently died or something with the injection is warming his body. Uhura will ascertain that her findings make for something peculiar she has never studied before.

GM: Say what you wish to do now.

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After Uhura leaves the slumped man to his awful state Major fires one slug into the skull of what he figures is a potential zombie. Blood oozes on the hair and drips to the ground as the body now falls to the floor motionless. Greg immediately comes over the comm-link,

"What did you do that for?" there is some signal interference followed by, "...he could have been alive."

Thomas tries to gauge how coherent Nathan is with questions. Nathan acknowledges him and seems aware but at the same time Nathan, now part of your trapped group, tries to recall what he is doing there and what happened to him but he is as oblivious to the whole affair as you are.

As you converse you suddenly realize that after a head count there are only four of you now standing in the room.

GM: Say what you wish to do now.

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Major and Nathan examine the room further but other than what has been ascertained before you find nothing else useful. Upon learning of Nathan's skills some in the group wished they had his knowledge to examine what Greg was doing in the control room.

Thomas and Uhura looks for Josh but does not see him anywhere on the current floor. Uhurah asks Greg about Josh but all she gets is static over the suits comm link.

GM: Say what you wish to do now.

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Nathan examines the corpse more thoroughly. He does find some filled vials for the auto syringes, four to be exact, and a small computer audio log (like a voice recorder). There is about 30 minutes of content on it according to main menu.

GM: Corsava is out of the game. Say what you wish to do now.

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Finding the vials encourages Uhura to take one of the auto-syringes with her. Seeing Nathan's search of the body turn up a 'gift' Uhura decides to search the man in the East room once more but she finds nothing new.

You all decide to listen to the log. As it plays the first five minutes a small video of the man, now dead, can be seen in a place that is sunny and green. By his footage it looks like he loved the outdoors and experimenting with various kinds of biology. His home is decorated with bottles of various rare specimens he has collected.

By this time, Nathan starts feeling around the room for any hidden areas but the solid concrete bunker reveals nothing but the cold surface which shows no gaps at all. It reminds him of the vintage museum nuclear silos once use in the cold war era of earth's history.

As the voice log continues to play you believe you hear a thump come from the floor below. Major quickly shines his beam at the hall's ladder but there is no movement.

GM: Say what you wish to do now.

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Most of you take boxes, frames and other things to make a fair barricade at the entrance of the room (?).

GM: Location of the barricade was not specified.

Major asks Greg if he can turn the lights on. After some static you hear him reply with a very short,

"Negative".

In the mean time Uhura listens to the rest of the dead man's video journal log. As it plays you can visibly see Uhura's face turn from nonchalant to serious to very concerned. She puts down the log and breathes in deep.

The log reveals that the man is one of the engineers of some kind of virus mutation that enables great instant powers for any one being injected with it. It was first tested on animals but the results were sometime inconclusive or violent. He is but one belonging to a covert group working undercover for the global military council. The arctic base is in fact a testing ground for the virus but something went terribly wrong during routine experimentation and the log ends with darkness and screams.

The background did reveal one thing about the last level... It is where their lab equipment and experiments are conducted. It is also the place for the main power source of the arctic base. Uhura picked up glimpses of it in the background from the log.

GM: Say what you wish to do now.

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Nathan shows Uhura his arms and she sees nothing unusual about them.

Major leads the group to what is supposed to be the last level using his beam as a front to capture what he cannot see with his suit.

As you venture down you see that the layout is the same as the other floors. On the ground and walls is splattered blood and in the middle of the floor is a mangled body, but you are not yet close enough to know the details of it.

Uhura's detector signals faint radiation and fuels coming from the area.

Your heart starts to pound.

GM: Say what you wish to do now.