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Encounter Conditions
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Initial Text
In the depths of the pit, you find a sharply-dressed woman moving between piles of rubble with a fluid grace. Something about her calm is unsettling… out of place down here.
But she does seem to be planting explosive charges. Or, at least, she's burying small boxes with obvious circuitry attached.
Or, if you've defeated her?
You find a familiar woman in the depths of the pit. Although you quite clearly remember killing her, she's moving between piles of rubble with a fluid grace. Something about her calm is unsettling… out of place down here.
But she does seem to be planting explosive charges. Or, at least, she's burying small boxes with obvious circuitry attached.
Summary of Choices
- Ask her why - information
- Ask who she is - information
- Add some dynamite if you have any - gain 6 XP Perception, lose 1 dynamite
- Offer white flakes if you have any - gain 6 XP Perception, lose 1 white flakes
- Give her back her charge if you have any - gain 6 XP Perception, lose 1 thermos charge
- Attack her - fight Janet Barsukov
- Leave her be - walk away
Choice Text and Results
Ask her why
She glances up at you over her gun. "This situation has spiraled out of control. The teams we've sent in to restablish containment are dead or worse and we still don't have a clear picture of what's going on."
"So… standard containment protocols. Can't call in an Omega Order since the system went offline in the collapse, so we're doing it," she pulls out an explosive charge, "manually."
Ask who she is
"Seems like an odd place for introductions," she shrugs. "My name is Janet Barsukov. I've been temporarily reassigned to this project by the executive management team."
"My budget requisition included seperate line items for employee and civilian death benefits, if you catch my meaning… If you don't, I personally suggest getting the hell out or notifying your next of kin. Getting buried under a couple tons of rubble may not kill everyone, but it'll certainly ruin your day."
Add some dynamite
She pulls out a clipboard. "Ah, nice to see someone still functional enough to help. Put that over there," she points at a crack in the rubble a short distance from where she placed her charge.
"That should be close enough to be triggered when we set the main charges."
You've earned 6 XP in Perception
Offer white flakes
She pulls out a clipboard to check something.
"Hmmm, good. Pack those around the support there, I'll get another charge next to them, should cut right through it. Thanks for the assist."
It's sort of delicate going with the sharp rubble, but at least you're not trying to use something like Nitro.
You've earned 6 XP in Reflexes
Give her back her charge
She cocks her head to the side and mutters something under her breath, then directs you where to place the charge.
As you're placing it, she is willing to confirm that it won't go off without "orders from above."
You've earned 6 XP in Perception
Attack her
One moment, she's planting explosive charges… the next she has a gun leveled at your face. While you're trying to figure how that happened, she's already retaliating.
(Fight Janet Barsukov)
Leave her be
She lets you walk by. It's hard to tell if she's pretending to ignore you while watching you out of the corner of her eye or if she's just very focused and even more paranoid.
Either seems perfectly reasonable, so you let her go about her business.