Sarah remains silent but nods regarding Lucas' comment about the there being hundreds of floors (so to speak).

"Roger that, General," Randall replied. "Also, SG-X5 is low on ammunition. The raptors returned in force. The anthropologists are still trying to figure out why."

"Anyway, they could use a few more rounds... maybe 500 of those rubber ones."

"So I'll wait for you to get back to us."

It takes about an hour before General Hammond has the gate dial back. SG-7 comes through the gate after the MALP confirms that it's safe.

Captain Burton is leading the team. One of his men is carrying an ammo box with a thousand rounds of 'stun' bullets, in clips, which he then hands to Eric.

Introductions are made with Tawaret, and after Dr. Samuels dials an address on the DHD, and SG-7 with Tawaret step through the gate.

"What you don't know you can't tell," Captain Burton says in parting as he's the last one through the gate.


After the gate shuts down, it's time to get back to 'work'.

"Okay, I'm ready to go dungeon delving again!" Kylie says.

"Colonel Thomas... you the new head honcho. Whatcha got in mind?"
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"We've got a far better handle on this place now," Sannis suggested. "Still don't know if there's any danger, but we should be able to split up into two or three teams. The elevator moves pretty damn fast now. And we can now stay in communication with each other. That's a big step!"

"I could go back down and check out that tunnel. Based on the room-shop we found, I'm guessing the tunnel leads to some kind of mine, maybe even to the outside. It doesn't sound like you guys were blasting on that side of the mountain."

Lucky merely stood back and kept his mouth shut, there were far too many officers involved now for him to insert himself in the conversation. He merely stepped off to the side towards Sarah and waited for orders, not even sure who they would come from now. He did however arch a brow at Sannis' offer.

After getting the go ahead from Colonel Thomas, Eric gathers up the exploration team, and heads back down the water run-off to the shrine.

Not having been down below yet, he lets one of the others activate the ring gate once everyone is standing on the mandala emblem on the floor.

"If everyone's ready... go ahead and activate it."

He quickly activated his radio and reported to the Colonel.

"We going down below now. We should still be able to maintain radio contact, so I'll report in every 15 minutes, and whenever we encounter something interesting."

He'd looked over the videos that the rest of the team had recorded, while they waited for the transition of the Tok'ra queen, so he was somewhat familiar with the layout that they'd explored already.

Sarah was ready... silent... but ready.

"Here we go again." Lucky said softly as he stepped onto the ring platform, his rifle at the ready, just in case. There had been no issues so far, but he was not one to get complacent.

Now that she had a moment... several, in fact... to think about things, she realized that she'd been a bit impulsive in setting Tawaret free. Well, truth be told, she'd been technically free all along, just stuck in a stasis tube. It may not have been true stasis, perhaps more like hibernation, but she had no way of knowing how long it would last. The flashing light had indicated something was wrong, and Kylie had just reacted.

She guessed the verdict was still out on whether she'd done a good thing or not. Only time would tell.

"Yep," she echoed Lucas's sentiment. "Once more into the breech!"

She still couldn't decide whether she liked using the ring gate or not. It was an odd sensation, and made her think of riding a roller coaster, even though there was no sense of movement. It was all visual sensation, like one of those 360-degree screens--when the camera tilted, everyone fell down!

[OOC: Meant to do this just before my problem with the internet, but everyone can progress a level... whoever happens to be left... ]


The ring gate activates without any trouble, and deposits everyone on the upper level of the complex below. Once again, you're standing on the mandala symbol on the floor, with the matching mandala symbol on the ceiling.

Now that you know the layout of the place, you realize that the mandala (and presumably the internal mechanism/electronics) is directly over the elevator shaft that lies one level below.

Off to the arbitrary left is the 'security room' that has the control panel for the facility, or at least the upper control panel. Off to the right is the robot storage room. Ahead is the ramp that goes down to the elevator entrance.

Lucky watched the rings recede, "Do you ever get used to that?" He moved to the edge of the group hs rifle slung but ready as he kept an eye out for trouble. "Not as freaky as the Stargate, but still!"

"Okay, folks, let's get this party started," the major speaks up.

"I see the facility's power is still on. Sannis, check the robots in the side room. See if there is any changes in the number... some missing, any additions?"

"Alynita, would you be so kind to check out the control room and that console you told me about? See if you can tell if there is any change in it."

"Lucky, keep an eye on the ramp down. I know you've all been down here already, but I haven't, so you'll have to pardon me if I feel a little bit paranoid."

"Sarah, Kylie, Cormac... do you have any preference for where you'd like to explore next? Any suggestions at all?"

"Yessir." Lucky said as he took up his position with a slit smirk, "Nothing wrong with a little paranoia, Sir."

On the one hand, Sannis thought it was a somewhat silly request, but he also realized it was a 'wise' move. They hadn't been gone all that long, so what could have caused a change in the robots?

Dutifully, he headed over there. He'd made a note of them the first time through so they'd have something to report back to Stargate Command.

There didn't seem to be any change... nothing apparent at any rate. He counted heads. Yep. Same number. No AWOLs, no additions.

"All present and accounted for, sir," he reported back to Eric. "I didn't see any change."

"I took a picture of the console, so I should go with Alynita at the moment so she can compare the current condition with the previous one," Kylie suggests.

"If there's no change, then I think we should explore the mine... if it is a mine. Find out what it is, what they were mining... might even be another way out of the mountain."

She follows Alynita to the control room.

Once Kylie and Alynita reach the control panel, nothing looks out of place, but they can only confirm that by comparing it to the picture Kylie took. It takes a minute to make sure that it is the same, but there's no difference.

Fortunately, the Ancients... or whoever built this facility... had made provisions for communicating all the way to the bottom... at least through a radio. Tawaret had told them about the system, and the team had been able to activate it.

And that is why they got a communication over their radios now.

...RADIO TRANSMISSION...
"Major Thorne to Major Brooks. Got a strange request from Command. It seems the Tok'ra are requesting Alynita's return. They wouldn't say why, but they've sent a replacement for her. I'm sending her down now, and I'll wait for Alynita to come back up. Thorne out."
...END TRANSMISSION...

A moment later, the ring gate activated, and a woman appeared on the mandala.

In reply to StarMaster (msg # 740):

[Pangan]"I don't care about their rules. I'm wearing someone else's boots and they are uncomfortable."

The petite form stepping off the platform was only a little over 5" and the uniform was obviously a size or 2 too large. As soon as she cleared the ring area she stopped and made several loud stomps on the ground as though trying to get the boots to shift.

[Pangan]"Besides, if they needed us so bad they had to drag us out of bed they could have at least found some clothes that fit."

Noticing the other people on the level she turns to them, [Russian - heavily accented]"Can you direct us to Major Brooks?"

[stomp][stomp][Pangan]"What kind of monster has a lump in their shoes there?"

"Copy that, Major," Eric replied to Major Thorne.

He then glanced over to the mandala where the ring gate would deposit the new guest.

"Hey, Alynita! Just got a transmission that the Tok'ra are requesting your return. They even sent a replacement already," he called out into the next room to their resident Tok'ra.

Just as Alynita came out of the control room, the ring gate activated and deposited the replacement.

Although he didn't understand a word the newcomer said--except for his name, he stepped forward and introduced himself.

"I'm Major Brooks. Welcome to the party," he said.

In reply to Eric Brooks (msg # 742):

[Accented English]"Ah, Americans. Sorry, we have been working wid de Russians on Pangan. We are Meredy-Kianan of de Tok'Ra science council. De High Command has requested dat we assist you - dough nobody bodered to tell us wid what."

[stomp][stomp][Pangan]"Are all Tau'ri feet bent like this or do you think that doctor has deformed feet?" Looking up from her feet, she continued: [Accented English]"Sorry, Kianan reminded me you don't speak Pangan. Would you please brief us while we see if we can do anyding about dese boots?"

Shrugging out of her backpack's straps, she sets it on the floor before pulling off the P90 sling and setting it down also. Laying on the floor, the medical and engineering patches indicating the contents of the pack's major compartments were visible. As she sat on the floor, Brooks could see that she was young; on Earth, she would probably still be in high school.

Pulling off the boots, her relief is clearly visible for a moment before it vanishes as she sits slightly straighter and her hands move towards the pack with a much smoother, less animated motion. [Accented English]"Please, we do not intend to be rude, but de shape of de boots will soon cause foot cramps if we do not fix them." The voice is the same, but the tone and pacing has slightly changed.
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Sarah bit Alynita goodbye, giving her a hug.  She'd just gotten comfortable with her teammate and now they were changing her?!   And on meeting the new member she was left entirely underwhelmed.   Maybe I'm just judging a book by its cover?  She hoped that that was the case as she watched the interaction with the Major.

[OOC: What language is Pangan based off of?  As I understand, the Pangaran people were ruled over by Ra - so I suspect it is Egyptian based.  I have quite a list of known languages (including ancient Egyptian) so I may be able to understand you.]

In reply to Sarah Morgan (msg # 744):

[ooc]stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Pangaran has it listed as an English derivative.

[OOC: That's what the wiki identifies as the Pangaran language, but without stargate travel, they wouldn't have had access to English for at least 300 years (when Apophis defeated Shak'ran and the Gou'uld abandoned the planet). And Ra ruled the world about 5,000 years ago, but he's not the one that transplanted humans there. Presumably, the Ancients did that.

So we're looking at English from 5,000 years ago. Was English even a language then?

Obviously, 'English' was used simply as a convenience for the TV production. At the very least, however, it would have to be English from the 1700s... or earlier. So, let's say it's like Shakespearian English.]


"Welcome to the team, Meredy-Kianan," the Major says as he looks curiously at the boots the Tok'ra was wearing. He was wondering if maybe she had them on the wrong feet. Also, he'd recently heard that military boots had once been universal... no left, no right... one shape for both feet. That was only relevant to modern boots, though. Older styles were merely flexible enough to conform to whichever foot it was worn on.

"You probably noticed the Avian-like humanoids and their nests as you made your way here. And, no doubt, you saw that the shrine with the ring gate was far beyond the technology of the Avians."

"That was what we came here to investigate... and discovered that it was a ring gate into the facility deep within the mountain."

"As near as we've been able to tell, there are 600 levels to this facility. We've only investigated a dozen or so. We did discover that the inhabitants are in some sort of suspended animation chambers down on  the lower levels. Until we know more about them, however, and more about the technology, we have been reluctant to awaken any of them."

He didn't see any point in mentioning that they had awoken one, who claimed she was a Tok'ra queen. The Tok'ra were already dealing with her.

"So, for the time being, we are exploring the rest of the levels. Well, at least as many as we feel necessary. There seems to be some repetition to them."

In reply to Eric Brooks (msg # 746):

  Reaching into the boots she pulled out the insoles & ripped out the arch supports. Putting the boots back on, she stood up and stomped a few times. Stuffing the shredded foam in a pocket she retrieved the pack & weapon before telling herself, [Accented English]"We will have to apologize to de doctor, but dat is much better."

   She paced a bit to settle her boots before turning to Brooks and ticking off the points on her fingers,[Accented English]"1) Stasis systems, 2) unknown sentients, 3) large facility, 4) unknown technology. Have you at least identified de source of the core technologies yet? Also, since you said you're reluctant to awaken dem, can we assume dat de stasis systems are currently stable?"