This door opens onto a long hallway that slowly curves off to the left.

Right now, there's no one to be seen (excluding Buzz and Johnny?) in that hallway.

But there's a wide window on the left side of the hall, like the one the laboratory had.

Gonna go take a look?

Or just sneak past it, crouching-down-like?

Ever the investigative type, Johnny skulks up the hallway trying to sneak a peek through the window...

Buzz hangs back and keeps checking ahead and behind to see if they've got unfriendly company coming.  Her pistol is at the ready.

(Hmmm... Johnny, I'm gonna say... gimmee an Agile check.)

Agility +0. Take -1 forward.
16:18, Today: Juan (Johnny) Gonsalvez rolled 6 using 2d6-1 ((3,4)). Agility Check.
So close... yet so far...

Wow. There's like 4 guys in there... based on the equipment and the activity, it looks like you found the control room, or the coordinating room, whatever you'd call it. When the cultployees call in your locations, this is probably where they're calling in to.

Unfortunately, one of them spots Johnny taking the peek. You can't hear anything they're saying, but before you duck your head down (too late), one of them looks right at you, and gets really excited. He's probably shouting...

(Johnny gets one xp, but things just got worse...)

"What do you see?" whispers Buzz.

”Four science types. They spotted me. Let’s blast off down the hall to the far door.”

Buzz growls and scoots down the hallway as fast as she can while remaining below the window line.  They more surprise they can maintain, the better.

Buzz and Johnny don't stand up until they are well past the long window. Only then do they run for the far door.

When they're about 15 feet from it, it opens, and what Buzz recognizes as another "Bruno-type" robot emerges-- no ranged weapons, but pretty dangerous up close.

It's also too big to just jump between it and the wall safely...

The new Bruno rumbles toward Buzz and Johnny...

With memories of the previous Bruno still painfully fresh in her memory, Buzz fires her ray gun as she begins backing up.  "You pick directions worse than me!"

Buzz's fire hits Bruno2, but it'll take a lot more than that to decommission 'im...

“Running into minions seems to be an occupational hazard.” Johnny quipped backpedaling alongside Buzz. Pistol held before him, electricity arced from the barrel but somehow managed to miss the hulking robot that blocked their path.

14:59, Today: Juan (Johnny) Gonsalvez rolled 4 using 2d6 ((1,3)). Miss

@Diceroller: have I done something to offend your algorithms?  Why can’t we be friends?

(Johnny gets -1 on his next roll due to extreme embarrassment. He does get 1 new xp, though.)

Bruno2 backs Buzz and Johnny back up the hall... soon they'll be near the long window of the control room, and the door that leads inside...

Will they

--fight Bruno?

--back up in front of the window?

--do something else? Something clever, maybe?

Buzz stands her ground and fires again.

Shoulder to shoulder with Buzz, Johnny keeps firing (and keeps missing).


22:05, Today: Juan (Johnny) Gonsalvez rolled 5 using 2d6-1 ((1,5)). ... Nope...

(Johnny gets 1 new xp.)

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The bad news: By standing their ground and firing, Johnny and Buzz get just barely in arm's reach of Bruno2.

(Buzz takes 2 damage. Johnny takes 4 damage.)

The less-bad news: However, Buzz's highly-accurate shots do break something in Bruno2: "WARNING!" he announces. "TARGET ASSESSMENT SUBROUTINES NOW OFFLINE! ALL TARGETS WILL BE REGARDED AS HOSTILE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!"

If only there was someone in the hallway besides Danger Patrol agents...

Buzz cackles in glee.  "Time to make some new friends, rookie."  She spits at Bruno2 and shouts, "You couldn't assess my grandmother's moondust, you bucket of bolts!" as she flees down the hallway and into the lab door.

The door is locked-- to entry from the hallway side, anyway.

Behind the door, those in the control room point and laugh mockingly at Buzz and Johnny.

Buzz will try the access key she looted from the less lucky guards.

Oh yeah, that! The door opens-- there's a tiny split-second to enjoy the looks of horror on the faces of those inside...

But right now, you've got to move!

Either jump inside the control room... or else stand in the doorway for a second until Bruno2 is right on top of you, and then jump back out into the hall and hope he goes in there anyway...

Buzz will rush in through the door, neither attacking or confronting anyone inside.  She's just trying to get non-Patrol bodies between her and Bruno (and will hopefully duck out later during the ensuing chaos).

(Roll Agile, please...)

Buzz zips inside the control room. There's a brief moment when some of the people inside think almost fast enough to grab her-- but not quite. She sidesteps, hops, ducks past, spins, kicks, and elbows her way past everyone like a Martian kangaroo lizard pursued by a gila worm, and no one's hands quite manage to touch her, although they sometimes come within an inch of doing so.

Bruno2, on the other hand, followed Buzz inside the control room, and makes very physical and traumatic contact with all the cultployees in the command room.

Soon, Buzz had made a little circuit of the control room, and was back at its door.

For the moment, Bruno2 was still busy disassembling everyone else.

Buzz closes the door and locks it, if possible.

"I'll bet he came from somewhere important," she said to the ghost, before heading back toward the direction Bruno2 had come.