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Isabella picks up a length of cable, 'Yep, Richter Dynamics, they even stamp it on their wiring, the arrogant arseholes.'

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Nicole steps through the rectangular opening and climbs down the rungs of the ladder. That incessant high-pitched noise has been nagging at the edge of her awareness but as she passes beneath the stone surface it suddenly stops. She drops the last few feet onto the sloping floor which is smooth and glassy.

She's in a rectangular tunnel or corridor, some three metres wide and four metres up to the opening above. The walls are as smooth as the floor except for a frieze running along the length, both sides, as far as the eye can see. More of the six-limbed squid-creatures carved in bas relief. The tunnel continues forward and upwards, or backwards and downwards. Thick ropes of electrical and data cables dangle down through the opening above and continue in both directions. Dull strings of floor lights weakly illuminate the ground. Sam and Isabella clamber down behind her.

'At least that noise has stopped,' remarks Isabella.

It is difficult to keep a firm footing on the slippery stone, although their feet do seem to have more traction on the surface, like the gravity is higher here.

Can you roll me Zero/Low G to see how they manage on the slippery slope and also Listen

Sam manages the slope adequately, but she hears nothing in her suit.

Zero/Low G roll (50% skill) climbing the slope:
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Listen roll (20% base skill) climbing the slope:
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Zero G 70 roll:21 listen 45 roll:21

Nicole places her boots carefully to maintain her balance.
Wait. What was that?” She listens carefully.

The three manage to get a firm footing on the slippery black stone. Isabella immediately turns to the reliefs seemingly carved into the rock. She runs her hands over them, entranced by the strange and alien forms. 'Look at these carvings, they're stylised yet naturalistic, like you're seeing something the artist knew well in life. It's remarkable.'

While Sam is getting her bearings, Nicole hears something, something coming from the descending limb of the tunnel. It's faint but rhythmic, like the pounding of feet. Then over the radio crackles something, a male voice, 'Mayday, mayday. I am being pursued and in danger. Is there anybody out there?' The voice is oddly formal, a little stilted even. And familiar. It's Jojo.

"It's Sam, Jojo," replies Sam. "Where exactly are you?"

“He’s further down the tunnel, heading this way! Let’s get ready for evac. Dammit, where’s Kiara?” Nicole gets ready her flame thrower and points it down the tunnel.

"Do you know where Kiara is?" Sam adds into the communicator.

The thumping noise gets louder and a bright light appears out of the gloom. Moving rapidly up the slope towards them. It's someone in a Titan surface suit running at an impossible speed, even given the attenuated gravity of Titan.

"Identify yourself!" calls Sam, readying her stun baton.

“Is it JoJo? Can he run that fast?” Nicole shouts, readying her flame thrower for its final blast. She looks beyond the racing figure-what is chasing it?

The sprinting figure slows down, but it's still moving at quite a lick towards them. Over the radio comes Jojo's voice again, 'I'm running towards where I came in down the curve. I've been trying to reach you but there must be some kind of interference down here. I'm being chased by the thing that impaled me earlier.'

Isabella shouts, 'He's nearly on top of us. Is it Jojo or...something else?' She unslings her shotgun.

Is that something in the darkness, behind the running figure? It doesn't look right, are there eyes? A face? But then it's gone. Disintegrating into the gloom. Probably nothing.

"I think this is Jojo," says Sam. "I see someone behind him, chasing him. It doesn't look right. I thought I saw eyes and a face, but they're gone now."

Spot Hidden roll (55 / 2 = 27.5% skill) looking at the suited figure:
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“Let’s hope you’re right!” Nicole gets ready with her incinerator to blast the second figure as soon as the first is past.
“What does he mean- the curve?”

Spot hidden: 60 roll:49

"Must still be ahead of us," says Sam, getting her own flamethrower ready to deal with Jojo's pursuer.