Log:A Breach in the Case, Scene 14

A Breach in the Case 2016/06/12 Rick Griffin Indira Quiet 14

When last we left our heroes, Indira and Breach were in the Medical & Computer Laboratory of the Operation Sundial facility. Breach had just recently finished booby trapping the only access point to the laboratory from the main hallway of the facility and Indira had just finished engaging the mass teleportation(???) device that forms the central, raised dais of the room. Both were waiting anxiously for Griffin and Quiet to arrive with their legions of not-quite-dead soldiers, still trapped in the sarcophogi they were stored in within the Mausoleum deep beneath the facility.

Griffin and several fire teams of the deceased-but-not-dead are riding the freight elevator upward toward the open access portal between the Mausoleum and the umbillicus that connects it to the rest of the facility. Quiet, for reasons of extraordinary heroism, has lept back down to the Mausoleum floor and is searching for someone or something that seems to have escaped from a sarcophogus. Its presence in the Mausoleum is currently "cloaked" by the lingering chill of storage within the sarcophogi and substantial skill at taking cover.

Will Quiet remain to hunt the thawing hunter or will she join Griffin in evacuating those who cannot evacuate themselves from the facility?

Griffin grasps the side of his head in pain before he taps his comms, "Q- Anything? Double-tap if you need back up." he asks as he continues to methodically clear the deck of the freight elevator.

His eyes feel like they are bubbling with some unknown substance- and it worries the hell out of him, but in the midst a mission there's no time for this. He pushes it down in time for his headset's display to go haywire and he groans.

Quiet remains unable to positively ID the prior contact, but it's looking more and more like a thawed gruntcicle.

Quiet remains unable to positively ID the prior contact, but it's looking more and more like a thawed gruntcicle. She's out of time, though. They've incoming, and the many in hand are worth more than one in the bush. She makes two, deliberately separate and spaced keys of the comm as she bounds up and hover/flies towards Griffin and the elevator.

Indira transmits over the comm systems, "Is there trouble below? Does Mr. Mason need to accompany you?" She finishes tapping at her holoscreen interface for the moment, the transport set to go. Hopefully. And did she really just suggest Breach go down to help, and leave her alone in the Medical and Computer Laboratory, when there's a small army heading their way?

Breach has faith that Indira will talk the entire army of Operation Sundial security forces to death. They'll never see it coming, particularly after all of the grenades that they'll have waded through to get into Wordmurder range of Indira.

"You need fire support?" inquires Breach, turning toward the door at the far curve of the elliptical room. Readers have to endure highly polished lens flare off of his helmet's mirrored face lens.

"Negative- Team Bravo parts 1 & 2 on elevator and en route." Griffin says over the comms, while he gives Quiet an inquisitive look. His face shows that he too is worried about their bare-foot tag-along.

He keeps his hand on his sidearm as he watches Quiet's six, knowing that she's watching his.

Indira relaxes at the news that the others are on their way. "We should be ready when you arrive," she replies, although she has no idea just how much cargo they need to get on the dais to go.

"Roger," replies Breach over the radio, "Standing by."

He looks over at Indira and bobs his head at her. This may or may not be a general signal of readiness. Breach returns to staring at the entry way with his particle revolver primed and ready to shoot people.

Quiet gives a very uninformative shrug, but this doesn't keep her from readying her weaopn and scanning her sector. She does offer some vague explanation by gesturing with her off-hand generally to the crypts riding up with them, then to Griff, herself, and up.

"I get the feeling we'll find out one way or the other. But thanks for checking it out." Griffin says appreciatively. He steps forward to be shoulder to shoulder with Quiet, each with their own sectors- only now they aren't in each other's line of fire.

Griffin makes sure to keep an eye out for any more footprints- or signs of movement beyond his or Quiet's cause.