Collapsed Dorm

Location

This was a temporary <Metroplex U> area available in the aftermath of Halloween 2012.

Enter through the Smoking Pit (must be wearing a containment suit to be allowed entry).

This area does not count as underground.

Legend
	Combat Encounters		Etheric only
	Noncombat Encounters		Non-Etheric only
	Choice Encounters		Requires Fishing pole
	Gang Warfare Encounters		Mining Encounters

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Combat Encounters

	Opponent	Encounter Text	Notes
	BURROWING DRONE	A digging drone whirrs up to you. You quickly move to the side so it doesn't start dismantling the rubble you're standing on, but it turns to face you again. Huh.	After attacking a drone and not winning or collapsing a wall onto a drone?
?	BURROWING DRONE	You see a strange shape silhoutted by the green light that fills this place. Fortunately, it's just a mining drone. Unfortunately, it seems to think it's supposed to be mining you.	At some point on November 4th
	BURROWING CENTIPEDE	Rocks near your feet begin to hiss and pop as a whiplike creature cracks through the stone to bite at your feet.
?	x2 2 TWISTED HOUND	As you pass a pile of rubble, two hunched shapes lope out of it, slipping through corners far to small to fit their bulk. However, your petty complaints about physics don't deter them from leaping towards you with a howl like stones grating together.
	SLAGS GUARD	Several needler rounds piff piff piff into the rubble near your head. You're not sure whether that qualifies as another warning, but they were apparently quite serious about the first one.	No containment suit, after You have to go back
	SLAGS GUARD (INFESTED)	A guard in a full containment suit that roughly matches yours waves you down among the rubble. Then, as you briefly consider how to respond, rushes you with a bestial howl!	Wearing containment suit, after something happens?
	SLAGS GUARD (INFESTED)	Through the rubble, you can see the blaze orange flash of a containment suit. A moment later, its owner is barreling down on you with a bestial howl.	Not wearing a containment suit, after something happens?
	x3 3 TWISTED HOUND	You can hear the clicking of something moving behind you, some creature prowling through the rubble. But each time you look, there's nothing. Then, in a mass of smoke and light, three crystalline forms pull themselves from the rubble. Their howls echo through the ruin as they rush you.	Nov 2rd (~3 AM)
	AWAKENED STUDENT	A student rises from the rubble near you, rubble falling from him as he rises. It's incredible that anyone survived that head wo… oh no.	Nov 3rd
	x2 2 GRASPING ARM	As you move through the rubble a hand snaps out to grab at you, blackened by frost and scored by a dozen bloodless wounds. As you consider what to do another pushes its way out of the rubble, reaching for you from the other direction.	Nov 3rd
	x4 4 GRASPING ARM	As you move through the rubble, hands begin grasping at you from every direction. Their blackened nails tear at you, scrabbling to find purchase.	Nov 3rd
	x2 2 AWAKENED STUDENT	You hear the rubble behind you shifting and turn around to find two students reaching out towards you. For a moment, you can let yourself believe they're survivors looking desperately for help, but reality sets in quickly.	Nov 3rd (~2 AM)
	SHARK HOLOGRAM	A shape of pure light and energy swims out of a nearby pile of rubble, looking for all the world like a hologram of a shark. This day just keeps getting weirder.	Nov 3rd (~3 AM)
	RAG MAN HOLOGRAM	Some instinct commands you to turn around. You're unsurprised to discover that your instincts have proven right once again. Standing behind you is Matsuo's old foe, the Rag Man, now darkness cloaked in blindingly pure green light.	Nov 3rd (~3 AM), with Channeling Matsuo
	HOLOGRAPHIC SKULL	There's a startling roar as a pile of rubble near you collapses, revealing a shaft of green light shining into the heavens. A shape hangs in the shaft, a skull large enough to swallow you whole, carved from pure energy.	Nov 4th
	HOLOGRAPHIC MUMMY	A voice behind you rasps "mine, it belongs to me. ME!" You turn around to find a humanoid being of pure light, extending its as though to throttle you for your insolence.	Nov 4th (~4 PM), only with a laser
	HOLOGRAPHIC SPIDER	You hear the skittering of legs behind you and turn to find… not a dark shape or a serpentine creature weaving through the rubble, but a massive spider woven from pure light.	Nov 4th (~4 PM)
	JANET BARSUKOV	You hear a cold female voice behind you. "Don't worry, the newscasts will remember you as a hero, one life sacrificed to save a hundred more." You turn around to find a gun pointed in your face. Thank goodness she decided to give that little speech or you'd have a bullet in your brain already.	Nov 5th
	WRITHING HOLOGRAM	The rubble below you grinds, stone against stone, as it's vaporized by brilliant green light. At the bottom of the resulting pit, the light congeals into something resembling tentacles.	Nov 5th, late in the day. Gain 1 energy of In a Pit.

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Noncombat Encounters

	Encounter	Result	Notes
	You have to go back	-	Once per day, without a containment suit, costs no Energy
?	Improper Burial	Gain 6 XP in Perception
?	Mystery Murderess	Gain cracked containment helmet, infested containment pants	One time only
?	Smoking Emerald Rubble	Gain 20 energy of Broken World	With insufficient Etheric Defense? (I don't seem to get it with 18.), costs no Energy
	Emerald Infestation	One of your equipped heavy containment suit pieces transforms into an infested piece instead	Nov 3rd
	Makeshift Omega Order	Collapsed Dorm area is closed off	Nov 6th

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Choice Encounters

Rubble Trouble

1. Break it up - Gain 4 XP Strength, enhanced with mining weapon or 15 Melee Power
2. Start looting - Gain 6 XP Strength, or gain a large variety of XP/items
3. Collapse it - Gain 4 XP Reflexes and Strength, reset some progress in the dorms
4. Climb up for a look - Gain 4 XP Perception, enhanced with scopes equipped
5. Leave it be - walk Away

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Slow Mining Drone

1. Help it out - gain 4 XP in Perception and Strength, enhanced with mining weapon
2. Attack it - fight Burrowing Drone
3. Topple rocks on it - gain 4 XP in Perception and Strength, slows down mining
4. Leave it to digging - walk away

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(Pretend?) Rescue Team

1. Ask about the situation - information
2. Ask for directions - gain 4 XP Perception, or after November 4th, fight Slags Guard (Infested)
3. Jump him - fight Slags Guard
4. Just wave - walk away

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Buried Student

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

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Hounds at Bay

1. Find a path - gain 6 XP Will, help the hounds?
2. Release a hound (with tome of binding and Release the Hounds known) - gain 8 XP Will, lose one instance of Release the Hounds
3. Attack them - fight 4 Twisted Hounds
4. Bind them (with tome of binding) - fight 4 Twisted Hounds
5. Leave them - walk away

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Janet Returns

1. Ask her why - information
2. Ask who she is - information
3. Add some dynamite (if you have any) - gain 6 XP Perception, lose 1 dynamite
4. Offer white flakes (if you have any) - gain 6 XP Perception, lose 1 white flakes
5. Give her back her charge (if you have any) - gain 6 XP Perception, lose 1 thermos charge
6. Attack her - fight Janet Barsukov
7. Leave her be - walk away