Re: Baphomet!
In reply to Jason Sinclair (msg # 60):
Somehow Jason knew the demon was dead, that it had left Simon. And they had left Simon's reputation intact. Rowan and Schaeffer worked on his friend. She had suffered a heart attack at the demon revealing itself. Perhaps unlike the posse she just couldn't believe in the supernatural nature of what they faced, despite Schaeffer's warning.
The chamber was packed with supplies and weapons. Much of it was Combine issue and therefore booby-trapped. Only Jane could handle this equipment safely due to her Headbanger chip. In fact, its signal was probably the only thing keeping it all from going off, if the fail-safe had been tripped by the Combine infiltrator commander, Phelps, before he died. There were thousands of rounds of ammunition in all different calibres, Combine, SATO and NATO. Grenades, body armour, the works. D-21 Assault rifles and SMGs taken from the Junkyard militia, Junkyard militia uniforms, helmets and webbing. Combine weapons like Damnation rifles,
Trask secured the hatch behind them. As well, he checked the front passage. As expected it was heavily booby-trapped. It would collapse the entire area if it went off. The one automaton was destroyed by its own fail-safe charge intended to prevent capture. The two cyborgs were in rough shape. Phelps had blown his head off using his headbanger chip, like he did with his Combine troops. The other cyborg, the Soviet combat drone had taken an AT rocket to the head. The 7.62mm minigun mounted on its shoulder in an armoured pod seemed salvageable.