"Looks like we are getting into space that has not been touched for a long time, so it seems safe, unless there are some traps. I'd say let's check out the next door, and if it's similar, maybe we go back to report, or check out he rest of the cave before to make sure the others can come down here without being attacked." Zelpuz looks around. "Or do you think we should continue exploring?"

"Never mind 'them'.... I'm really excited!" Yuu responds, walking around all this old stuff. "This place is amazing. Let's check the next one, definitely."

Compared to the previous rooms they have entered this one appears much more inviting and well kept. It is difficult to discern its purpose since it has a number of consoles, some machinery, but also a table with chairs, a pair of beds now devoid of mattress or linens, a kitchenette, a small toilet room and shower. In essence it seems like a small apartment.

The other door in the room is either locked or wedged shut from somewhere as it will not budge. Most peculiar though is the vehicle or cart in front of that door. It had four wheels, which have degraded into metal circles, a drivers seat and room for 3 passengers.
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Never expecting to find a car underground, Vanyra says, "Let's not break through this door, there is a lot of potential for weird stuff down here.  Let's try to ascertain the rest of the complex and clear the caves a little so we can report back.  There is a lot here."

"Sounds good, we'll come back with some tires for this thing, or maybe another rover, who knows how far this goes. Let's check out the other halls and caves and report back."

Vanyra heads straight down the long hall they came down until she comes to another turn.  "There are two more doors down here," Vanyra reports while examining the are for more ancient symbols.

"Let's check out the one on the left first", Zelpuz says, checking out the signs in front of the door.

The lettering and pictographs are similar to the previous ones, and indeed some appear to be exactly the same as the previous two rooms you entered, suggesting whatever is beyond the door could be likewise.

Vanyra attempts to open the door and step inside.

"Looks like the other room, minus the vehicle. Let's try the next door?"

Yuu has been poking his nose into all the curiousities of the first room, staying behind to investigate the 'car' a little longer. Realising his friends have continued on quite a time ago, the curious mage takes a few more pokes and prods, before heading down the hallway to meet up with the others.

"Wow, this room is so cool as well!"

The present room is dominated by a table off-center, some large machinery to one side, and a pair of control or monitoring consoles opposite. Judging by the various rooms they have encountered, the sparsely decorate corridors, and general lack anything else, it would certainly seem they are in some sort of maintenance area. Given the sheer scale, where one could drive a vehicle around within, they find it nigh-impossible to ascertain what could possibly need such a grand maze maintenance junctions.

"So, um... we have a problem I've been trying to work out." voices the young mage fiddling idly with one of the dead control panels.

"I think it's safe to assume, this place goes on a very long way. We could spend a very long time down here, and still not cover everything. Probably time to get report back and parlay with the science team."

He pauses. "The problem though... the only entrance we seem to have found also happens to be the only place that's not quite secure. Kind of dangerous for a those guys to be walking in and out of. So, do we go back through the cave area and slaughter everything to make it 'safe'? Any alternative you guys can think?"
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"Well, we have rations for ... " Zelpuz checks his bag "... a few days, but folks outside may get nervous if we stay in here for too long." He considers the situation for a while. "I guess building a safe passage would be tricky, although the mantis may have learned to stay away. We could check with the crew outside and see what they suggest."

"I would hope we could make a safe passage without exterminating everything living here.  I'm sure they would love to study on some of the things down here first.  Though if we do manage to get it from somewhere else, we may not need to spend as much time in the caves."

"Given the size, there must be other entrances and air ducts, the question is if we can find them, how long it takes and if they are still accessible. I'd say let's report back, maybe try to clear some path to here, and then keep on exploring. But let's take another way back."

"Taking any other way back may put us further from an exit. Safer, I think, to stick with the route we know. Albeit, with a cave entrance full of nasties."

"I meant going a path close to the one we know back, but exploring different caves along the way. I don't think we walked the most direct route."

"Ah, yeah, that makes more sense. We ready now, then?"

"OK, we can always come back here."
Zelpuz walks back to the first room. "Maybe let's peek through the other door, too, just for fun."

Yuu's eyes light up. "Oh yes, definitely. We need to secure this place, after all."

Following Zelpuz to the other side of the pit, Vanyra comments, "Its another long hallway with a door at the end," while looking out for more signage.

Yuu skips along, peaking into the dark corridors with his companions.

"I wonder if it was something in this place that caused the workers to evacuate, or some external reason..?" the mage muses out loud.

"Not sure, I think they might have planned to come back, everything looks like they just left. Or maybe they had to run away too fast."
Zelpuz keeps walking and opens the door at the end of the hallway.

The next room encountered induces a sense of deja vu as it a layout and design very similar to the previous ones, a table, consoles and some dormant machinery. A pair of storage lockers stand behind the table, the only furnishings here that could be concealing items of interest.