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“Roger that 28-2K, we’re just a little on edge here. You know how it’s been between the Star Marshals lately, I swear there’s going to be a civil war some time soon. That wont be good for anyone.”

The guard let himself go to ease once he had heard to obviously human voice on the other end of the radio-line.

“We can’t completely leave our post, so i’ll come in by myself to cover you while you check out the damage to the facility hull,”

He signed off the link to the dead guard’s headset, and linked a new channel to the guard in room 50, a small, sealed containment chamber for high disorientation and incendiary mining explosives. There were 3 such chambers, all kept locked for obvious reasons.

“Come in 50-1-K, this is 29-3-K, we need an additional man to cover 28 while they assess some damage to the facility, request you support through the south door, over,”

“This is 50-1-K. I hear you loud and clear, on my way now.”

The guard in 50 immediately set down a data pad he was using the process some unknown data, placing it upon the terminal he was stationed at and turning on his heel to the door that kept the explosives safe. He unlocked the door with a quick ID scan and swiftly jogged down the hallway to the door or 28, which slid open; he strolled through, not expecting anything out of the ordinary…

The guard from 29 cautiously moved through the upper-east door of 28, with his rifle raised however. He was not taking any chances…

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The Roman07 said
*shiftey eyes* No idea what you mean... hehehe

You may have saved your entire team from getting insta-gibbed from a sweeping flank.

I don't fuck around guys, cover your sixes.

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The Roman07 said
My hungry bug is ready lol

Ah you clever bastard.

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Random walling. Like a big cubicle.

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Sounds good, do give the others a chance to do some whacky shit too, though.

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Guardsman Ano crooked his head to the left, eyeing up the other two Guardsmen who were stood at their posts outside room 29. He had had his head pressed against the layered metal panel wall that separated them from 28, and had noticed… unusual anomalies.

“I can hear voices,” he remarked after a moment of contemplation.

“So? There are men stationed in there” one of the others announced rather condescendingly.

“I can’t quite make it out, but… I can hear a female? I think, anyway. That or it’s a child. it’s hard to tell with these fucking walls.”

“Well, you know what those two are like. Their crude ass impersonations don’t fool anyone,”

“And something far from human. Like, that can’t be a human voice. That’s disgusting, it sounds like a bug,” he recoiled once more from the wall, playing with the idea of pressing up against it once again to ascertain and discern more information. He immediately beckoned his somewhat skeptical squad-mates to join him in trying to listen in to the muffled voices through the heavy walls. This was only possible due to the slight sensory augmentation of their helmets; it wasn’t a big bonus, but every little helped.
Cautiously, one of the others also put his head to the wall, and the tone changed immediately. To him, it was no longer a joke.

“Intruders?” he gasped.

“No way to tell.”

“We could just go in and look?

“And then what? We get ourselves killed. If there are intruders in there, those two guardsmen are worm food.”

The second guard pondered for a second, his brain ticking over as many solutions to the situation at hand that he could think of.
Finally, he announced:
“Let’s just check in the the two guardsmen via radio. Just hope to god that they answer, okay?”

The first nodded, and gave the third a signal to access the radios of the two (dead and hanging) guards in 28.

“Come in 28-2-K. This is 29-3-K, report in any discrepancies on your end to the data flow. I think we may have been hit by a minor blunt object, most likely an asteroid. Over”

In room 28, the radios flared to life, transmitting the message for all Ephemeral to hear.

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Also congratualtions to horrodaily for scoring the first achievement of the Roleplay!

For having a disturbingly accurate vision of your own future, with 'It only takes one fuck up....' you got the 'I Saw The Future'. Well done.

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The Roman07 said
Consider it winged :)Oh by the way I put about a guard on the opposite side of the wall. This was under the assumption that the two guards originally came from the room to the right and since there was three red dots there I naturally assumed there was one moreBUT if you want to negate everything I stated I merely said I "felt" a presense and you can juust chalk it up as me being a crazy old bug XD

That's quite alright. Guard locations are approximations to be able to give our writing coherency. It's perfectly logical to assume guards wander around a little by their posts.

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Raptorman said
What do dotted lines on the map indicate?

Doors that don't just open. They will require forced entry.

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The Roman07 said
ok so how do you want my character in this thing? Just wing it or call for backup or?

Just wing it. It's close enough to the start that you can get away with you just having stepped out of the shuttle with the others.