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Computer Use roll (55% / 2 = 27.5% skill) trying to access the shuttle via the datapad:
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I'd like to spend 4 Luck to make that a hard success.

FIrearms(Rifle) roll (35% skill) about the noise:
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Listen 45 roll: 50

Anyone who wants to approach silently roll Stealth. Have a bonus die since it is pretty noisy and they're likely to be distracted

Stealth 40 roll:28

After a few minutes of walking further downwards, deeper into the structure, the corridor opens up to reveal a larger chamber. The low level string lighting is supplemented by a number of site lamps illuminating the open space. There are six odd curved structures arising from the glassy surface of the floor, their purpose is impossible to determine but each one has a kind of semicircular recess.

Crouched behind one of these structures is someone in a pressure suit, facing away from her. Not the familiar bulky orange shape of a Titan surface suit but the clean olive green lines of something military issue. The sort of thing the Colonial Marines would wear but there are no markings. The figure is firing an automatic rifle into the distance at someone or something Nicole can't see. The rattling crack, crack, crack of automatic gunfire, and the corresponding orange-white strobe of muzzle-flash suddenly stops. The figure looks at the weapon and gives it a whack with their hand. Then they spin around to look back up the corridor, towards Nicole, suit lights sweeping across the black tunnel. Racking what looks like an underslung shotgun or grenade launcher.



Whoever they are they don't seem to have seen Nicole, yet.

Sam keeps her distance, just about keeping Nicole in her sight but dimming her suit lights to avoid giving her position away. Nicole turns a corner and Sam gently runs to catch up. The rattling crack, crack, crack of automatic gunfire and the corresponding orange-white strobe of muzzle-flash is suddenly immediately in front of her. She can't make out any details at this distance but the corridor has opened up to form a larger chamber. The low level string lighting is supplemented by a number of site lamps illuminating the open space. Then the gunfire stops.

Nicole and Sam disappear down the tunnel into the dimly lit darkness. The rattling crack, crack, crack of automatic gunfire continues to come in bursts. Then it stops.

can I contact the figure via open radio- or something?

Spot hidden 60 roll:79

Beyond the harsh lighting in the centre of the chamber it is just shadows and gloom. Nicole can't make anything out.

She does think she could probably cycle through a few open frequencies on her suit, see if she can raise the figure.

OOC:   I'd say that's a Luck roll to hit on the right frequency

Listen roll (20% base skill) in the corridor:
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Luck: 40 roll: 69 stealth: 40 roll: 16

Sam flattens herself against the wall and listens. There's no sound now - all the gunfire has silenced - it is disconcertingly quiet. Then she hears the sound of footsteps. Rapid and purposeful. Heavier than the sound Nicole makes. It's getting nearer. And then there's a mechanical noise, like someone cocking a rifle or racking a shotgun. For a second there's a crackle over the radio, Nicole's voice, it sounds like she's trying to raise someone, then it's gone.

Despite cycling through all the usual channels, Nicole is unable to raise the figure in the suit. She retreats back into the shadows as they stride past her, automatic rifle held up high, braced into the shoulder, sweeping ahead for targets.

There's no sound now - all the gunfire has silenced - it is disconcertingly quiet. For a second there's a crackle over the radio, Nicole's voice, it sounds like she's trying to raise someone, then it's gone. Isabella signals to Jojo, a hand gesture, she seems to be asking if she should go down the corridor to see what's happened to the others.

Nicole hears Sam's warning, and from the way they freeze, so does the figure in the combat suit. Immediately switching off their suit lights, shrouding the tunnel in more darkness, the figure crouchs down and raises their weapon to swing the barrel back and forth, up and down the tunnel, evidently looking for the source of the noise.