IC-SWORD-The Lion's Den(Sally only)

The survivors from the T-Bone flee for the safety of Warren Air Force Base, while a lone woman struggles against all odds to stay alive in a very dangerous place. A small group of survivors races across Nebraska in a pickup truck. The helicopter group arrives in Omaha in a last ditch effort to save the world, but time is running out. Z-Day seems to last forever, but it will come to an end. The sun is getting lower, and night is coming...

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Z-Day - 3:58 PM Mountain Time - Deep Mole Two
In the shaft room-
Sally sat upon the lift, her ears popping as it rose up the seemingly interminable shaft. Her body was still wracked with pain, though she was relieved to have a chance to rest at last. Still, she knew she wouldn't be able to relax for long. Above her, the underground facility below the PMS compound awaited, occupants unknown. Would she run into heavily armed skinheads, or zombies, or both? Below her, she knew the giant worm was still following. It had been hunting her ever since it had overturned the car and slaughtered her friends. If she hadn't rolled out of the vehicle before it struck, she would have died with them. Part of her couldn't help but wonder if she'd have been better off, but she was as determined as ever to survive. The cost was already high: she had lost her companions, had her leg broken by some bizarre creature's tentacle, had her body pushed to its limits and beyond, and had several brushes with death which she only escaped from by the narrowest of margins.

All was dark but for the light of Sally's flashlight. The only sounds were the hum of the rising lift, the pounding of her heart, and the hammering inside her head. But then she noticed a dim halo above her that grew brighter and larger as time passed. She was nearing the top, and there was light up there! It gave her hope that she could somehow make it out of all of this alive. After the ordeals she had already survived, she had no intention of dying now.

Finally, the lift reached the top of the shaft, stopping with a thump. The room looked just like the shaft room below the T-Bone. The door leading into the decontamination chamber was wide open, and the room beyond was well-lit but deserted. The room's only other feature was the lift mechanism itself. The steel rail upon which it had ridden reached up to the ceiling, operated by a series of cables and electrical lines. Cables and gears were attached to the ceiling above the elevator. A gear box had a switch that could send it up or down, identical to the ones on the elevator and just beyond it.
OOC,[b]Sally[/b], you are still suffering from the -10 skill penalty. The trip up the shaft took 5 minutes, and it takes a total of 30 minutes of uninterrupted rest (or 25 more) to remove the penalty. 15 minutes of uninterrupted rest (10 more) will reduce the penalty to -5. Walking into the decontamination chamber will count as interrupting the rest, which means you'd have to start over again if you wanted to rest again later. You may alternatively wait here until the penalty is reduced or eliminated. You know from the worm's earlier pursuit of you that it takes a long time to dig, so you can wait here until you recover without it catching up to you, but that will reduce the time remaining until it ultimately does. You still need to make your skill XP checks for the end of Chapter 3, which you can do in the new Chapter 4 OOC thread. The OOC thread in the Chapter 3 subforum contains the instructions; I believe they're on the next-to-last page.
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With her pistol in her hand, Sally remains seated on the lift, resting while she can. Knowing the worm was digging feaverishly after her while she rested, she couldn't help but to grin when she thought of the looks on those skin head bastards faces when her terrible persuer broke into the middle of the compound.
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In the shaft room-
Sally continued to wait and rest for as long as she dared. Nearly half an hour passed, and she knew the worm was beneath her and tunneling upwards all the while, but she remained undisturbed. Finally she felt she had recovered enough to continue.
OOC,[b]Sally[/b] no longer has any skill penalties, and she won't pick any up again unless she carries out more strenuous activities like hiking a mile or more on her broken leg. The time is now 4:23 PM, and she is free to act.
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OOC: Can I attempt a Medicine roll or anything while she rests or will that interupt her rest? Can I attempt one now?
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OOC,You already made a Medicine roll back in Chapter 3 and recovered as many HP as you can without at least a day's rest. You can attempt another one while you rest to examine your injuries, but you won't regain any additional HP. It won't cost you any additional time, however.
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While taking a rest, Sally attempts to inspect her leg to see how much damage was done. Despite her best efforts, all she can tell is it's broken and it hurts. Badly.
After resting for a while, Sally begins to feel better. She's like to just lay her for ever and never have to confront the terrible world that awaits her, but she knows she must move on. She must keep going. All of the others would have died in vain is she were to just give up.
With a slight grunt of pain, Sally hauls herself up to the standing position and moves carefully to the decontamination chamber. She listens and looks around for any trouble as she approaches the decontamination chamber.
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In the decontamination chamber-
Sally hobbled over to the decontamination chamber using one of her canes for support. She saw that it was indeed empty, and she heard nothing but the hum of machinery. The airlock-like room looked just like the one she had seen before leaving Deep Mole One. The door she passed through was open, but the one at the far end was sealed. This one also had showers and various gauges and meters, but there were no protective suits stored in this chamber, nor was there a Geiger counter. It felt roomier, but that was only because she had been with a large group of people in the other chamber. Now she was all too alone.
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OOC: I thought I recalled there being a porthole type window in the decontamination chamber doors, correct?
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OOC,I never described any, but both doors had been open in the other decontamination chamber, so there was no need to check at the time. [b]Sally[/b] is [url=http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1877161/]in luck[/url], however.
In the decontamination chamber-
Sally did see a round glass window in the far airlock door. Peering through it, she could see the hall beyond. It stretched out into the distance. A short way down the hall there was a closed metal door in the left wall. Directly across from it, a skinhead sat in a folding chair cradling a shotgun in his lap. Fortunately, he appeared to be asleep at the moment. His head was lowered and his eyes were closed. Sally realized that she recognized him. He had been one of the skinheads who had attacked the T-Bone that morning. Beyond the door and the skinhead, the hall continued. Far down the hall were two large windows and doors, one set on each side, like the ones that had led into the labs in the other facility, though she was much too far away to be able to see inside them. At the extreme end of the hall, a flight of stairs led up.
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Seeing the Skin Head in the hallway make Sally cringe. At least he was asleep...but for how long? Gently, Sally tested the door handle on the decontamination chamber to see how easily and quietly it would turn.
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In the decontamination chamber-
The handle did not turn, and the door refused to open.
OOC,[b]Sally[/b], roll Idea.
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An idea comes to Sally as she tried to move the stuck handle.
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In the decontamination chamber-
Sally had previously noted this chamber's resemblance to an airlock, and she recalled that normally you cannot open one airlock door while the other is still open, as the door leading back to the shaft room was. The doors in Deep Mole One had both been open when she had gone through the chamber there, but someone or something could have overridden the safety measures.
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Realizing that the other door must be closed, Sally returned to the open door and started to slowly close it. She started slowly to test how much noise it made.
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In the decontamination chamber-
Sally closed the inner door leading to the shaft room and it sealed automatically. Closing the door made little noise, but there was a clunk when it locked into place. That wouldn't be a problem if she simply opened the outer door and left it that way. When she went back to the outer door and looked through the porthole, she saw that the skinhead was still asleep. The doors were fairly thick, so the outer door had probably muffled the noise of the inner door locking.
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Sally tested the handle on the outter door and atempted to open it again. She cringed at each and every noise it made.
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In the decontamination chamber-
The door opened relatively silently. The skinhead made no sudden movements. His chest continued to rise and fall, and Sally could hear him snoring. So far he hadn't heard her. The corridor stretched in front of her beyond the door. If she left the door open, he would likely notice the fact if he later did wake up, but if she closed it behind her there was a chance he'd hear it and wake up now.
OOC,[b]Sally[/b], if you're going to move down the hallway, roll Sneak. The base skill is only 10%, but even if you fail there's still a good chance he won't hear you. If you decide to shut the outer door behind you first, don't roll Sneak yet.
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OOC: Can she close it most of the way. Basically leaving it slightly ajar. Enough so that a glance in that direction and he may not notice, but not so much that the lock kicks in?
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OOC,Yes, you can do that. Go ahead and roll Sneak if you plan to move down the corridor afterwards.
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Sally pushes the door almost closed. She does not want the door to lock, but makes it so that a glance in this direction will appear that the door is still closed.
That done, Sally limps forward on her bad leg as quietly as she can.
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