The 504 errors appear to be letting up and I'm on a keyboard that actually works now! Strangely I managed to connect with a different computer last night when mine couldn't, but its keyboard was busted so, yeah.
Flint stared at the empty gun for a few seconds....
"DIBS ON THE LESHO TUBE!"
If the tube is useful, carefully remove it and take it to the AM to remove its life locks.
Make my way to the closest point Steve provided that isn't the heat one Lars is at.
You move in to take a closer look at the tube; it quickly becomes clear as to why the armory master refereed to it as single use. Much of the internal structure of the tube has been damaged or destroyed when the LESHO round launched, even the heat sink is slightly melted. It appears to have been designed as a single use method for firing a Lesho shell...and judging by the antennae affixed to the back, it was done remotely.
You rocket away from the tower and follow steve's instructions down to one of the lower maintenance levels, going after the strangely open series of doors. Unfortunately you seem to be too big to fit into the cramped tunnels beyond the elevator area.
look around the inside of the ship, look for any buttons but DON'T TOUCH THEM!
The ship does have some buttons, although it seems as though it has a lot more touch sensitive screens. The buttons are, unfortunately, not blinking or flashing or beeping like good spaceship buttons should. How disappointing.
(( Bay 12 seems to have recovered, it was just offline with it's famous 504 error for most of the day with me. Can't help with the poor keyboard 
Try the windows on screen one. Cause that's efficient. 
))
Fantastic. So it's likely he was never on this roof to begin with. Steve, where is that sensor hole?
All squads, we found a remote control launcher on the roof, likely the source of that LESHO round. SW still at large, no idea where, but it seems reasonable to say he wasn't on the roof when it fired.
Ask Steve about the sensor hole. Do a loop around the nearby high-ground, looking for further anomalies.
As you slowly turn the ship around, you notice that there's another such tube on one of the other roofs; although it seems incomplete as far as you can see. It's not been bolted down and there are several parts missing. Maybe he was setting up a second system but was interrupted? No matter now.
>It's an area where several sensors seem to be down. I can't say if it's sabatoge or just a result of some sort of damage incurred when I took over ARES. Bomb? what bomb? Are You the bomb? I'm a fly dog, yo.
((Someone, set him up the bomb!))
"Miss Feyri, are you okay?"
Wave my hands in front of Ms. Feyri's face, jumping if need be.
As you wave your hands in front of Feyri's face, the cat girl climbs up on her back and begins controlling her using a complex system of Meows and batting her upside the head.
Get controlled by Lenglon for the moment because she is awesome.
Also storm storm weather error storm disruption net problem failure.
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROLLars looked down the tunnel. Odd... what is the heat source? He looked at Xan, who was now a giant eyeball.
"Brother Xan, do you see anything down there with your... self?"
Examine the tunnel. Where does the trail go? Are there any abnormalities that could indicate a trap?
The tunnel is clearly something designed not to be used often, at least by humans. It's a way to gain access to the deep machines, the incalculable spreading roots of ARES and the planetary assembly systems. It's a metal, square walled tube barely four feet high that forces you to bend and almost walk on your knees. The trail of now cooled and hardened melted metal heads off down the tunnel and into the dark. It's almost as though someone was holding a handful of molten steel and letting it drip out behind them as they crawled through the tunnel. You don't see anything that indicates a trap, the walls are pretty much completely bare and there's nothing around you.
Xan wobbles.
Examine tunnel with giant eye self while growing some limbs and chitin plating.
[will:3+1]
You manage to generate a fibrous mass of muscular, vaguely Cnidarian tentacles which you use to slither along the ground.
You stare down the tunnel, enormous and complex eye picking up a dozen different spectrums of radiation. You see nothing down the length of the tunnel, at least until it turns left and continues. You see no traps, no men crouching in the dark, waiting to attack, no anything.
((I'm betting the LESHO tube is booby trapped. Where did that molten metal come from though???))
"Right. I'm heading to the sensor array. Gonna need some people to help, just in case. Whatever."
Grab some people nearby and head to the array. Check out the problem of why it's not working but don't touch anything. Make sure someone else goes ahead of me and stay a nice distance back incase of tripwires.
You follow Flint down toward the blacked out sensors and shrug as he attempts unsuccessfully to squeeze into the tiny tunnels.
"Well, I don't knwo what the frak these readings mean. So, I'm just gonna snooze a bit. Captain Niabs, wake me up when you need me, would you."
Sit back and load up brain
I can only imagine you sitting here, your face screwed up in concentration, with the sound of shotguns chambering rounds playing in the background.
((I'm...relatively sure this is where I'm supposed to be? I'm with Lars' team. If I'm in the wrong thread please tell me))
STEPHEN HAWKING runs up toward the place wherein he is supposed to be. He totally knows where that is, because he invented knowing that.
Hmm...lets see...I think you're with lars, who is down in the dark tunnels with an ambulatory eyeball.
Continue to follow the Pirate
Get controlled by Lenglon for the moment because she is awesome.
Also storm storm weather error storm disruption net problem failure.
For Feyri:
"Miss Feyri, are you okay?"
Wave my hands in front of Ms. Feyri's face, jumping if need be.
"I'm ok Grate. Just... Just distracted is all."
That LESHO round was a single-shot remote-controlled decoy, avoid the area it came from.
How much damage could the Shadow walker do if he got to the control room now? also, will you know if any of the elevators are used?
What would be a good area to search that won't overlap with the rest of the sweep team's search areas?
Feyri asks Steve.
>None, really. It would be rather silly for him to rush up there anyways, he'd be pretty much guaranteed to be caught. And no, this place doesn't have a self-destruct or something, if thats what you're thinking of. Take out shotgun. Follow behind lars if he takes the lead. If he doesn't, then follow whoever takes the lead.
"So, who is taking lead?"
Apparently no one right now. Everyone is squinting down a dark tunnel.
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