I'm not sure that the authorities would appreciate us walking around with an arsenal. Not to mention trying to get off world with all this.

We have a new player who will be taking over the Orvo character. Please welcome him to the game.

You begin searching the bodies and the explorer.

The explorer is carrying a case of grenades (3 tangler, 6 fragmentation, 3 doze and 4 smoke); a box containing 5 rockets for the rocket launcher, 30 power-clips, 20 automatic pistol bulletclips and 9 automatic rifle clips; and two backpacks with climbing gear (pitons, crampons, 200m of rope, and so on).

Also, the modified explorer has been slightly retrofitted.  Heavy weapons can be fitted to the roof hatch of an explorer by means of a swivel mount. The swivel mount fits around the roof hatch and takes one technician an hour to install both it and a heavy weapon. No more than one heavy weapon can be mounted on an explorer at a time.

Further, the KLC explorer has air-tight hatches that can be pressurized to allow the occupants to breathe normally when travelling at high altitudes. They also carry breathing apparatus for use outside the vehicle, or when one or more of the hatches are open. Additional oxygen tanks are carried, as well as a portable compressor with which to refill them.

For weapons on the bodies, you find:

1) Commander: Laser rifle, Heavy autopistol (3 20 round clips), Vibroknife (Beltpack 30 SEU and 4 Powerclips), Albedo suit (40 points), Inertia screen(F), Magnigoggles, Military skeinsuit (35 points)

2) KLC 1: 1 Gauss rifle (see below), with 2 40 round clips; Gyrojet pistol (3 Jetclips), Military skeinsuit (35 points)

3) 1 Rocket Launcher; Automatic rifle (5 Bulletclips), Albedo suit (20 points)

4-6) Laser pistol (5 Powerclips each), Military skeinsuit (40 points each)

In inspecting the weapons, you find that all of the weapons are manufactured by Stysor Arms of Madderly's Star.

There is also enough food and water in the explorer to feed 6 people for 5 days, and there are radios, but a code must be input into them for operation, including listening, which you don't have.

Heavy Autopistol .38/9mm
Damage 2d10
Ammo 20 rounds SEU -
Rate 3/1
Defense Inertia
Range(meters) PB 0-5 Short 6-15 Medium 16-40 Long 41-75 Extreme 76-200

Gauss Rifle
Damage 3d10/8d10 burst
Ammo 40 rounds SEU -
Rate 2/1*
Defense Inertia
Range(meters) PB 0-10 Short 11-65 Medium 66-200 Long 201-600 Extreme 601-1200

Gauss rifles fire needle-like projectiles using an electromagnetic field generated along the barrel. The projectiles themselves are long, thin slivers of of dense, armor-piercing allow surrounded by a jacket of softer metal gving the round both good stopping power and armor-piercing capability. The rifles are easily recognized by their long barrels (up to 2m in some models) and are easily located by magnetic scanners. This ease of detection has limited their battlefield use, though they remain in service with several UPF units. They are strictly military weapons, and their possession is a felony offense on all UPF member worlds.

You remember searching the garage area earlier and finding something unusual.

Quote from message 154 of Day 10-2:
You really don't find anything helpful in the garage.  It's just a lot of parts and tools.

 But then you search the inspection pit and find something unusual.  There is a concealed doorway down there.  It appears to be alarmed.

 (Requires a tech to unlock a level 2 alarm.)



You begin collecting information and documents, and copying files.  It is while you are doing this that Dever's radio goes off.  "We found something, boss.  There's been an explosion at the entryway, and Beedo is dead.  Boss?  You there?  We're coming up."

You gather the last of your things and leave before more of the mercenaries arrive.  Rezz takes you where she thinks the armory is, which is on the same floor (floor 1) and down the hall.  You hit the jackpot!

You are in a room full of weapons and items of war, almost as if stashed here for a military operation.  You have your pick from the following:

400 powerclips
51 power beltpacks
22 laser rifles
37 power backpacks
37 laser pistols
17 gyrojet rifles
28 automatic rifles
46 automatic pistols
3 machine guns
1 recoilless rifle
1 rocket launcher
3 swivel mounts*

Ammunition:
342 bulletclips for the automatic rifles
475 bulletclips for the automatic pistols
207 jetclips for gyrojet rifles
50 machine gun belts
25 recoilless rifle shells
23 rockets

Grenades:
20 doze
40 fragmentation
20 incendiary
25 smoke
30 tangler

Defenses:
120 skeinsuits (100 military, 20 civilian)
28 albedo suits
30 inertia screens
25 albedo screens
10 gauss screens
3 sonic screens

Miscellaneous:
500 grams of Tornadium D-19
50 variable timer/detonators
70 vials of solvaway
200 allweather blankets
50 infra-red goggles
10 infra-red jammers
50 breathing apparatus
20 magnigoggles
12 radiophones
10 toxy-rad guages
100 holoflares

There are also 10 military sized backpacks and "kits" for storing weapons and ammo.

As you peruse and drool over the weaponry, you hear boots as a number of soldiers exit the elevator and run to Dever's office.  But you are around the corner, so they don't see you.

However, if they need weapons, you are pretty sure you know where they will come to get them.

Is that a house rule for the game? We reset our STA when we start a new chapter? Good for me if that's the case...

RECAP:  (Since I've been neglecting to post regularly...)

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You then found a secret tunnel under the Sanitarium which led to a crater landing pad with a shuttle.  You fought off a robot but the mechanic woman you were chasing disappeared somewhere.

You all enter the ship and start some stimpaks and healing...

(At this point, please assume you found stimpaks and a healing center on the shuttle so that you are all back to normal stamina levels.)
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After some healing and looking around the ship, you discover the following facts:

Speaking of my dissertation, my defense will be next month. I may be posting less frequently for the next month or so.

Fingers crossed, I nail it the first time and don't need to repeat it next spring.