Buried Student

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Encounter Conditions

After being directed or looking for students?

Initial Text

You find your way towards the edge of the pit, where a young man's arm pokes out of the rubble. As you approach it moves subtly… so subtly it could be a cry for help or just the rubble shifting.

Summary of Choices

1. Clear away rubble - gain 10 XP Will (save a student), or 4 XP Strength and Will, or 6 XP Strength
2. Release a burrower With a Burrowing Horror technique known and tome of binding - lose 1 Burrowing Horror, help dig
3. Provide medical attention - gain 8 XP Perception, or with 7 first aid, gain 6 XP Perception and Will
4. Loot the student - gain 1 of: battered cred chip, broken bottle, Metros Special
5. Finish him off - kills a student
6. Leave him - walk away

Choice Text and Results

Clear away rubble (Good (3)

You clear the last of the rubble off the student. Now that he's free of the rubble, you're able to get him to the paramedics at the edge of the pit.

Score one for the good guys!

You've earned 10 XP in Will

or

You clear away some of the rock. There's still a lot left, but you can see the student moving feebly, so at least he's holding on.

You've earned 4 XP in Strength

You've earned 4 XP in Will

or

You clear the last of the rubble off the student, but he's not moving. You manage to get him to the paramedics but they tell you it's too late. Damn. Damn damn damn.

You've earned 6 XP in Strength

Release a burrower

You speak the words from your tome, releasing the burrower into the ground. It slices through stone like water, cutting away much of the rubble around the student.

The ground under you shakes as the burrower continues downward, unsettling the rubble.

(Lose 1 copy of Burrowing Horror)

or

You speak the words from your tome, releasing the burrower into the ground. The student's body shakes as the ghostly creature burrows through stone and flesh alike.

The ground under you shakes as the burrower continues downward, unsettling the rubble.

(Lose 1 copy of Burrowing Horror)

Provide medical attention

(Got this with 7 First Aid:)

The student's in pretty bad shape, but you stabilize him with skill with a skill and professionalism that surprises even you. That should hold nicely unless some idiots decide to drop a mountain of rubble on him.

You've earned 6 XP in Perception

You've earned 6 XP in Will

Or:

The student's in pretty bad shape, but you do what you can to stablize him. Unless he gets jostled, that should keep him until the rubble's cleared away, but it's probably best to check back in.

You've earned 8 XP in Perception

Loot the student (Evil 2)

He's still mostly pinned under the rubble, so it takes a couple tries and a rather bloody hand before you come back with anything.

You found: 1 of: battered cred chip, broken bottle, Metros Special

Finish him off (Evil 4)

You find a sharp piece of rubble and drive it into the pile. The student's hand spasms and goes still.

Leave him

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