Thousand Empty Light - 01 _Playthough

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1	Final stats
2	Lucen Eos	Ending conditions	Key Stats
3	Teamster	Idea Fixation, Terror (raiders), Impaired Performance, Concussion	H 17 (20) / W 1 (2) / Stress 20 (2), Body (-8)
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5	Caisson
6	Log / Oracle		Roll
7	L1	After being dropped off at the top of the caisson, Lucen watches as the Pomarine-class craft flies off to orbit. Alone again, such is the job of lamplighters. The pay is decent, but fixing things that probably shouldn't be fixed feels comfortable. Lucen powers on the generator and looks out into the ocean as he waits for it to unlock the doors to the lift.
8	O	What does Lucen see?	SS: 27 Hazardous material (alert/temptation)
9		As Lucen looks out to the endless ocean of UBP 154, there's a sudden pull, something calling him to just jump in to the dark abyss, to join them. But who? The sound of the lift brings him back to his job.
10	L2	Lucen enters the caisson and seals the door shut. As pressurization begins for the lift, an automated message greets him recommending him to fill out the 'Letter of Last Resort (9L)' form. He wonders what the hell happened here that such a form exists. He plays the MemoComm transcript from the previous Lamplighter and fills out the form for fun anyways. After, Lucen leaves his first MemoComm in module A.
11	MemoCommA	So far everything seems normal up here at the caisson. And what is up with this Letter of Last Resort? First I've seen of something like this, is this a TEL 022 thing? What happened here that someone felt the need to make this form? Luckily I left a pen in my pack, guess I'll fill out this form. I'm not sure what to expect, seems like the lamplighter before me was having a bad day. As dark and endless the ocean feels out here, I feel some calmness for some reason decending into it.
12	L3	Pressurization completes and the decent into the holding area starts. He'll never get used to rapid pressure changes. Lucen closes his eyes hoping that helps.
13	O	How far does it go?	70 (+48 meters)
14		118 meters
15	L4	As the lift slows its decent, a sound pings that Lucen has arrived. He checks his dive gauge and it reads 118 meters, much past what was supposed to be 70. The doors from the lift opens to the darkness of the holding area, the air stale. Shining his flashlight, he checks to see what's in the room and for those crabs that the lamplighter mentioned.
16	O	Are there still dead crabs?	SS: 29 Yes, but (Noise distraction / attrition)
17		The light from the flashlight shows empty husks of crabs on floor but they all seemed to have been purposedly shoved all to the corner of the east side of the room making almost a small hill of carcasses. Only a few stragglers scattered about. A distant clang was heard in possibly in the next room, was it from the lift activating or is someone else here?
18	O	What's his impression of the area?	SS: 26 Corrosive consumption / decay
19		Stepping out into the holding area, a foul stench could be fainlty smelled. Is it the dead crabs? Shining the light, the walls and lockers seem to be molding over, the metal warping and dark blots seeping thru the metal.
20	L4	Lucen explores further and checks the hyperbaric chamber door as a start.
21	O	Is the door still sealed shut?	SS: 26 Yes But
22		The chamber door is still closed, but Lucen notices that the handle looks like it has signs of someone trying to break it open.
23	O	What does the tampering to the handle look like?	SS: 47 high-gravity / burden
24		The large dents looks like someone was hitting it with a blunt object numerous times like in a hammer motion.
25	L5	Lucen shines his light through the opening of the wash area across the chamber.
26	O	What is the impression of the wash area?	SS: 32 Gas storage ( responsiblity / risk )
27		One of the faucets is steadily leaking, with the sink overflowing into puddles on the floor. He goes over to try and see if he can makeshift a fix for the faucet
28		Speed check + Jury-rigging	20 - Pass
29	L6	Lucen traces the faucet pipes to find a valve and turn off the flow of water to the wash area. That looks to stop faucet and just the puddles and brim-filled sink remains.
30	O	With that done, Lucen proceeds to check the supply lockers. What's his impression from them?	SS: Intercom (volume / distance)
31		Lucen opens random lockers and so far most are empty, then suddenly a loud, banging on the door is heard from the direction of the decontamination corridor.
32		FEAR save	62 - Fail
33		PANIC check	Pass
34	L7	The loud banging from the what looks like Section 1 pass the door startles Lucen. As soon as he peeks over the locker door the banging stops and silence returns. He feigns checking a few more lockers, but continues to listen for any other noise. Nothing.
35	O	Are there anything in the remaining lockers?	SS: 19 No but / 14 Firearms
36		The only thing Lucen noticed are remnants of old shells of sabot needles likely from a flechette gun, supposedly the only permitted firearm in TEL 022.
37	L8	Lucen decides to continue on to the decontimination corridor where the MemoComm module and the backup generator are located.
38	O	What is the impression of this area of the room?	SS: 36 Cryogenic Chamber (stasis/cessation)
39		The walls here look untouched from the decay, almost unsually brand new and unaging compared to just a few feet west to the holding area's clear deterioration of metals.
40	L9	Lucen turns on the backup generator and as the all the lights flicker on he gets a better view of the corridor and supply area. Why is this area so new looking? Trying not to think about it too much, he returns to what he's being paid to do. Restore the lights. The sound of the generator whirs as the flicker of bright white lights shine overhead.
41	O	What does he notice now that the room has more light?	SS: Explosion risk (deconstruction / volatility)
42		The walls all around the supply area have looked to have been patched over many times, likely for years now. Sheets of metal misaligned, different colors from different metals. Not sure what could've required the numerous rebuilds of the wall. It's like it was being constantly barraged by something.
43		Lucen leaves a transcript in the MemoComm and checks for depth complication
44	MemoCommB	Dead crabs were still here like the previous lamplight saw, but instead were all moved to the corner of the west part of the room forming almost a hill of carcasses, like some twisted shapes of shadows casted from my flashlight. The smell was real bad in here too, sour stench that won't leave my nostrils but it couldn't be from the long dead crabs right? I mean many of the walls were molding over, same with the lockers so possibly from that, but the mold seemed different, almost fusing with the metals. I checked the hyperbaric chamber and that was still sealed shut, but the handle showed signs someone trying to break in it, no success. The wash area in the back was lightly flooded, but I quickly fixed that by shutting off one of the valves. Not surprising, supply lockers were all empty, except when I was looking through the last few I heard a loud banging on the door coming from section 1. The ocean makes this place sound creepy, but who the hell was banging on the other side like that? It could be something from the hazard manual, but whatever it was, it stopped for now. Only the deep ocean was left. Well time to continue getting the rest of TEL lights back on.
45	Panic Check	PASS
46	L10	Depth complications look normal so far. As the door finalizes its pressurization, section 1 of TEL022 is now open. Lucen doesn't want to know the source for that noise, but he continues on and takes a deep breath as he proceeds to leave the light.
47	Section 1: The Concierge
48			Roll
49	L1	In the darkness, The Concierge feels massive compared to the small holding area of the caisson. No obvious sounds besides his own breathing. After listening to the transcript, Lucen shines his flashlight in the immediate vicinity.
50	O	What's his impression to this part of Section 1?	SS: 27 Hazardous material (alert / temptation)
51		Shining his light revealed knocked over desks nearby and on the floor broken glass scattered about and a few sets of damp foot prints trail off chaotically towards the middle of the section. The foot prints is hard to tell if its boots or something else… The shattered glass looks like it came from the open door leading to the armory.
52	L2	Carefully walking over to the armory, Lucen covers the corners of the farthest end of the armory with his light before fully entering.
53	O	What does he see on initial look at the armory through the entrance?	SS: 43 Computer Terminal (system / access)
54		All the armory lockers here look old, but not rusted and molded over like that supply area at the bottom of the caisson. But surprisingly he does see the source of another dim light, and it seems to be coming from the monitor room in the back. Is it on emergency energy like the MemoComms?
55	L3	Lucen looks around the armory to see if there's anything useful.
56	O	Does Lucen find anything in the armory?	SS: 32 Yes, but (risk) / 5 Tight gap, proximity
57		It looked like whatever was in here was in a hurry and thrashed the place. Was it a fight? The only remaining item that he spots is peaking out from beneath knocked over lockers and broken benches. It looks to be a flechette gun. With an opportunity to defend himself, he tries to dislodge the gun from the pile.
58		Strength check	24 - Pass
59		Lucen is able to carefully lift the armory lockers just enough to slowly angle the flechette gun out. It looks loaded with a full set of needles still. With some extra assurance of the mind, Lucen goes into the monitor room shining his lights towards the back of room.
60	O	What is their impression of the monitor room?	SS: 16 Wildlife (nature / unknown)
61		At the back corner of the monitor room, two pairs of white eyes beamed back near the floor. Rabid looking rats immediately rush at Lucen, the source of light. And food.
62		COMBAT
63		Lucen sees the rats running towards him and he tries to kick them out of the way
64		Combat check	75 - Fail
65		Lucen misses and both rats slash at his legs.
66		As Lucen runs to the other end of the monitor room trying to find any kind of objects he could use and grabs a keyboard from one of the desks. The rats run at him again.
67		Rats Combat check	43 - Fail
68		The rats scurry to try and attacks Lucen's legs again, but he watches their movement closely and swats them with the keyboard.
69		Combat check	19 - Pass (3 dmg)
70		Lucen slams one of the rats across the room and starts wrapping around running back towards the armory hoping some of the knocked over lockers could slow them down and possibly crush them.
71		The other rat is now a few feet behind, chases Lucen towards the armory
72		Speed check	89 - Fail
73		As he sees the rat chasing him, Lucen tries to step on the lockers in way to possibly cause the lockers to collapse on the rat when it runsw under, but one of the lockers caved into the floor catching Lucen's foot and he tripped over landing on his back.
74	O	Did the rat following get hurt too?	SS: 38 Yes, but
75		To the right Lucen sees a bit of blood not from him, but from the rat as it looks like part of its tail was ripped off as the rat yanked itself out of the fallen lockers. He sees the rat escape into the darkness. As soon as he does, he hears the previous rat running on top of the lockers, a quick, tapping of metal then leaps at Lucen. On the floor he lifts up the keyboard to swing at it again.
76		Combat check	29 - Pass (4 dmg)
77		Lucen shatters the keyboard smacking the rat like a baseball, hearing a thud on a locker across the room. He here's the rat squeal and run into the darkness as well.
78	L3	He gets up and listens for sounds of the rats coming back, but the deafening silence returns. Sighing about the damn rats, Lucen goes back to the monitoring room to check the lit terminal.
79	Reprecussion	Not able to catch another break, in the monitor room, a small stream of water starts spewing out of the external piping on the far end of the wall that's facing towards the interior of the Concierge.	A3 : Water leak
80		PANIC Check	Pass
81		Not letting the unfolding situation get the best of him, Lucen inspects the pipe and discovers it only became loose, so not too severe of a leak. He acts quickly to try tighten the pipe back together knowing ocean water here can get corrosive with prolonged exposure.
82		Speed check + Jury-rigging	89 - Fail
83		The pipe required much more twisting and maneuvering than expected, the water increasing in flow making it difficult to Lucen to get a grip on it. After a bit, he manages to close it enough that no water looks to be leaking but the time it took the corrosive water burned his hands a bit.
84	L4	Stepping over to the dimly lit terminal screen, Lucen takes a look.
85	O	What does he see on the computer?	SS: 26 Corrosive (consumption/decay)
86		The display flashes on screen a warning on TEL 022 hull integrity. Detecting structual damage somewhere on TEL022. Lucen tries to see if anything could give more information on the terminal.
87	O	Does that terminal react to any input on controller?	SS: 11 No / SS: 13 (sleep/interaction)
88		Lucen tries to use the terminal and find any other information, but the screen immediately shuts off and last of the whirling machines in the room stop filled now only with the sound of his own breathing.
89	L5	He walks out towards the main area of the section and in the doorway exiting the armory, Lucen listens to hear if the rats are still around somewhere.
90	O	Does he hear anything?	SS: 27 Yes but
91		Some distant sounds could faintly be heard, but it doesn't sound like rats. Sounds more like a low groan that could be from the ocean's currents pressing on TEL022, at least he hopes so. Lucen goes back to module A to leave a transcript.
92	MemoCommA	Rats. Watch out for them. I doubt they were the ones that caused the banging I heard earlier, but they are deadly down here. Completely rabid. I found some running about in the monitor room within the armory on the south part of the room closest to this module A. The armory was pretty much bare except for a flechette gun that has a few needles loaded still. I'll leave this somewhere up ahead when I'm done. One of the terminal screens was on in the monitor room that warned of structural damage to TEL's hull somewhere. The screen shut off before I could try and find anything else on the computer, it must've been running on some emergency energy or something. Other than that, tons of glass shards are all over the floor here and at least 3 sets of foot prints chaotically running around and then towards the other end of Section 1. The footprints themselves? From the damp footprints on the ground, I couldn't really tell what made them... I'm gonna continue searching and head to the other half of the section. Something feels off here, or I feel off.
93		Leaving module A, Lucen goes over to the storage units directly north of the armory. Carefully watching for glass and maintaning a meticulous shine of light
94	O	What is his impression of the storage unit area?	SS: 47 High gravity (restriction / burden)
95		Hearing emtal clanging in the ceiling above him and then going away from him towards Section 2, one of the panels breaks down, falling right above Lucen.
96		Body save	80 - Fail
97		Jumping out of the way from the failling panel, Lucen barely lands just outside the path from the sheet metal, but dropped his flashlight as it flickered off when it hit the ground and rolled away. Darkness fills the entire area now as he gets up and immediately tries to go towards where he thinks his flashlight may be.
98		Speed check [-]	77 - Crit fail
99		PANIC check	7 - Fail. Idea Fixation. Condition
100		Losing sight of it, Lucen begins running panicking at the realization that he may be stuck in darkness forever. He stumbles into the glass floor in front of the armory entrance, cutting himself a bit. Then a 3 toned chime came from some speaker above and then a voice.