SCENE FIVE: Who's In The Kitchen With Dina

THE RUN DOWN

Lots and lots of food going bad and stairs that lead down.

THE SET-UP

The eating area has lots of overturned tables and half-eaten dinners. The food dispensers are off and the food is very cold. In the back of the room is a simple manual door that is open, showing a staircase leading down into the lower levels of the complex.

THE ACTION

Once again, there are no spiders on this level. The mercs should be getting concerned by now. The trackers can't pick up any movement except their own and the stairs are pretty dark and forbidding. The stairs are safe, just dark. Unfortunately, they are also filled with rubble.

Apparently, the mercs had to blow the stairwell on their way back up for some reason or another and now it's filled with fallen walls and ceiling pieces. There's no way of safely blasting through the rubble. In other words, the mercs are going to have to go down the elevator shaft.

FOLLOW-UP

There is a pretty important clue in this room. One of the ceiling panels has fallen to the floor, and the opening in the ceiling is just large enough to fit a young adult spider. In fact, it did. There are a great many of the spiders just above the mercs heads. They are not attacking the mercs because they are wearing pressure suits - the same kind of pressure suits the scientists used to wear. Right now, the mercs took like the scientists, which is why the spiders are not attacking them.

SCENE SIX: The Elevator Shaft

THE RUN-DOWN

A pungent stink, and a long drop. No spiders, but be patient. Soon.

There are two doors that are both easy to open at the bottom of the shaft. The north door leads to SCENE FIVE, the south door leads to SCENE six.

THE SET-UP

The elevator shaft is long and dark. Lights do not reach the bottom. Lights can detect the second floor, however, almost three hundred feet down. There is no sign of spiders other than the nest that was behind the door. There is a handladder on the left of the door that you can use to climb down to the second floor. There is a smell drifting up from below that you can't quite place since it's coming through your filtering system on your pressure suit.

THE ACTION

The climb down should be pretty uneventful. Have everyone make Climb checks if they try to do something stupid like climb with one hand and carry their gun with the other. It's three hundred feet to the second level, and once they get there, they're going to have to get through the door somehow. The crowbar they find in the toolbox in the crew's quarters will be very helpful here. The door opens tip into a circular room with two other doors: one to the north and one to the south.

If they chose the north door, go to SCENE FIVE. If they chose the south door, go to SCENE SIX.

BattleLords of the 23rd Century An Old-Fashioned Bug Hunt (Part 2)

Introduction
Scene One: The Frying Pan No Good Enough?
Scene Two: The Control Center
Scene Three: A Letter to Home
Scene Four: From the Belly of the Beast
Scene Five and Six: Who's in the Kitchen with Dinah and The Elevator Shaft
Scene Seven: The One You Warned Me Of
Scene Eight: Mommy Won't Wake Up
Scene Nine: Sending Our an SOS and Afterward
Map of Driscoll VII Research Labs (slow: 102K)

BattleLords of the 23rd Century An Old-Fashioned Bug Hunt by John Wick, et. al. (Part 1)

GM Information
Scene One: Spiders, Spiders, Everywhere
Scene Two: Jane Fonda's Nightmare
Scene Three: The Living Quarters
Scene Four: Lost Little Alice
Scene Five: Waking Up Hatter
Scene Six: Goodies
Scene Seven: Putting The Hatter To Sleep
Scene Eight: Getting Some Wheels
Map of Starship Gamera (slow: 103K)

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