During the trip, Nate and his party will run into two separate groups of the mammoth creatures- one will be easy enough to skirt, but the other will be taking up residence right near a point of interest.
The trip itself will be long and exhausting traveling by foot. After a week and a half worth of travel, they will come across what looks like a steel circle in the ground, roughly 8 feet in diameter, with a small control panel to the side. Although snow covers the landscape, it's strangely absent from the steel, and upon touching it, it's clear that it's heated from the inside. The heat appears to be what attracts the mammoths, as they are hanging around on top of it and will need to be cleared away.
Successfully navigating through the alien languages and options on this control panel will make the circle open up into an elevator shaft that you can take straight down into the ground. Alternatively, you could force the door open, but you would not have an elevator to take you down and would need an alternative way of dealing with the ~100 foot drop.
Once you get to the bottom of the elevator shaft, you will find yourself in a large room with branching doors and hallways. The architecture is alien and minimalistic, with tubes of blue light running along the walls for lighting. The temperature is far warmer than it is outside and it seems that the heat is being generated by this strange blue light.
While these tubes are mostly in the wall, there are several branches that come down onto the floor, running across the ground into what seems to be computer consoles. In one room, the light runs into a broken tank that may have been used for containment. The light has oozed into the tank from where the tube ran off in it and remains a gellike substance that spills out onto the floor. It smells strongly of burnt plastic and getting within several feet of it will make any organic creature feel physically ill- there is glass littered around the floor and several trails of a green/black blood leaving the room.
The control panel next to the tank is gently illuminated with something that seems like an error message, though everything is of course in an alien language so it will be difficult to navigate through. Escaping from the error message brings up the current status of the tank- empty, of course- and the temperature of the room around them.
If you're able to navigate through the logs of the panel, you will find images of a former host being trapped within the tank, floating in a soft green substance as the Null performed experiments on it. While again, the accompanying text is alien, there are images and recordings of various surgical procedures, in-depth diagram of the host brains and sickening images of the bloodied mass of organs that are revealed when you remove their shells. Some of the experiments detail the Null implanting various devices along the host bodies and into their brains. It is unknown if the hosts survived these procedures.
Using your network devices, you can download and save this data as an external file- strange though, that the systems are compatible (or perhaps not so strange, given that everything the gods know of technology, they learned from the Null).
Other rooms in this facility are similar- the vast majority of the tanks are empty or broken, though there is one with a host still inside. Upon closer examination, it seems as if it is long-dead, as the liquid it is suspended in has been drained of its supply of nutrients some time ago. With careful management of the control panel, the body is able to be extracted from the tank.
For now, this will be what Nate and co. find. There is a possibility that they can find another bunker as well, but as that depends on interest and how many other exploration parties go out, we will give more information at a later time. Hopefully this is enough to start off of though!
no subject
During the trip, Nate and his party will run into two separate groups of the mammoth creatures- one will be easy enough to skirt, but the other will be taking up residence right near a point of interest.
The trip itself will be long and exhausting traveling by foot. After a week and a half worth of travel, they will come across what looks like a steel circle in the ground, roughly 8 feet in diameter, with a small control panel to the side. Although snow covers the landscape, it's strangely absent from the steel, and upon touching it, it's clear that it's heated from the inside. The heat appears to be what attracts the mammoths, as they are hanging around on top of it and will need to be cleared away.
Successfully navigating through the alien languages and options on this control panel will make the circle open up into an elevator shaft that you can take straight down into the ground. Alternatively, you could force the door open, but you would not have an elevator to take you down and would need an alternative way of dealing with the ~100 foot drop.
Once you get to the bottom of the elevator shaft, you will find yourself in a large room with branching doors and hallways. The architecture is alien and minimalistic, with tubes of blue light running along the walls for lighting. The temperature is far warmer than it is outside and it seems that the heat is being generated by this strange blue light.
While these tubes are mostly in the wall, there are several branches that come down onto the floor, running across the ground into what seems to be computer consoles. In one room, the light runs into a broken tank that may have been used for containment. The light has oozed into the tank from where the tube ran off in it and remains a gellike substance that spills out onto the floor. It smells strongly of burnt plastic and getting within several feet of it will make any organic creature feel physically ill- there is glass littered around the floor and several trails of a green/black blood leaving the room.
The control panel next to the tank is gently illuminated with something that seems like an error message, though everything is of course in an alien language so it will be difficult to navigate through. Escaping from the error message brings up the current status of the tank- empty, of course- and the temperature of the room around them.
If you're able to navigate through the logs of the panel, you will find images of a former host being trapped within the tank, floating in a soft green substance as the Null performed experiments on it. While again, the accompanying text is alien, there are images and recordings of various surgical procedures, in-depth diagram of the host brains and sickening images of the bloodied mass of organs that are revealed when you remove their shells. Some of the experiments detail the Null implanting various devices along the host bodies and into their brains. It is unknown if the hosts survived these procedures.
Using your network devices, you can download and save this data as an external file- strange though, that the systems are compatible (or perhaps not so strange, given that everything the gods know of technology, they learned from the Null).
Other rooms in this facility are similar- the vast majority of the tanks are empty or broken, though there is one with a host still inside. Upon closer examination, it seems as if it is long-dead, as the liquid it is suspended in has been drained of its supply of nutrients some time ago. With careful management of the control panel, the body is able to be extracted from the tank.
For now, this will be what Nate and co. find. There is a possibility that they can find another bunker as well, but as that depends on interest and how many other exploration parties go out, we will give more information at a later time. Hopefully this is enough to start off of though!