Re: Return to X8T-121: Aerielle
SG-X5:
"Is that the best you can do, Colonel?" Sgt. Glosten says over the radio, and then fires again.
18:14, Today: Caleb Glosten rolled 13,6,16 using 1d20+3,1d20+3,1d20+3 ((10,3,13)). Two hits and one miss. 9 down.
"We've thinned 'em out too much... harder to hit now."
"Nah, he's just holding back so us grunts'll look good!" Sgt. Tate adds on the radio, and also fires again.
18:16, Today: Adarius Tate rolled 21,8,18 using 1d20+3,1d20+3,1d20+3 ((18,5,15)). Hoo-yeah! Another 19!
"So you're saying if you ain't shootin' fish in a barrel, you can't hit squat?" Tate quips back.
SG-X4:
After Eric looks over the images on the seismograph, he looks at Brayce as if to say 'what am I looking at?'
"It appears to be some sort of structure embedded in the mountain," Brayce explains. "Can't tell how long it's been there, but guessing from the surrounding rocks, I'd say it was... well, beamed in... like using the ring gate. It's probably Ancient tech, so who knows what magic they could do."
"It's not connected to the rest of the complex--no tunnel leading away from it. Although... down here... about 200 feet below this structure, you can see these diagonal passages. Kind of small. I'd say those are ventilation shafts for the main complex."
"Can't guarantee we can get into this box that's here, but we can blast away the rock to reach it."
"What do you want to do, Major? Blast? Or move down lower and probe for the main base? You do realize that we won't be able to blast through the mountain to the base, right? We didn't bring that much explosive, and we don't have any power equipment for moving the rock out of the way. SG-X3 never saw any signs of a tunnel inside either. The tunnel borer they found just bored straight down."
Mostly he was just talking to give the major a chance to think, rather than all of them sitting there in awkward silence.