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Encounter Conditions
None
Initial Text
You wander through the stacks and there's… silence, as though there weren't another person in the entire world. You could see the experience as being claustrophobic, but it's rather soothing… especially considering how many of those people want to kill you.
Summary of Choices
- Look for trouble - fight 1-2 Midgard Heavy Guards (Unarmed)
- Explore quietly - unlock other choice encounters or fight 1 Midgard Heavy Guard (Unarmed)
- Do some reading - gain 3 XP in Perception
- Take a rest - gain 25-35 HP
Choice Text and Results
Look for trouble
You manage to find a guard wandering alone through the stacks.
(Fight Midgard Heavy Guard (Unarmed)). Gain +0 Records Panic if you win/lose, ? if you run.
Or, somewhat randomly around 8-11 or more Records Panic:
You find a guard wandering through the stacks, but find out too late that he's brought company.
(Fight 2 Midgard Heavy Guard (Unarmed)) Gain +0 Records Panic if you win/lose, ? if you run.
Explore quietly
Pick one of these exploration results at random — repeats possible:
Near the center of the vault, you find a cluster of guards. They're ducking into and out of a space walled in by bookshelves that they seem to have converted to a break room… or clubhouse, if you were being less forgiving.
It seems like every guard for the whole place is here right now, probably explaining the pause in patrols, but you might be able to sneak back later.
(Unlocks Hidden Break Room)
Along one of the vault walls, you find rows of refrigerators. There are too many guards around to play with them now, but they wouldn't have devoted this much space to them unless they were storing a lot of something.
(Unlocks Cold Storage)
Along one of the vault walls, you find a depressed niche covered with glass. There appears to be a skull inside of it, but you can't get closer without running headfirst into a guard patrol headed the opposite direction.
(Unlocks Skull in the Niche (sober) / Floating Skull in the Niche (Etheric) )
Among the stacks, you find a power cable snaking along the floor. Following it, you find a sleeping computer.
Two heavily-armored guards are trying in vain in get Net access through it, but they probably can't stand there forever.
(Unlocks Sleeping Vault Terminal)
Or, with some condition?
You carefully move through the stacks, but a guard somehow catches sight of you.
(Fight a Midgard Heavy Guard (unarmed). Gain +? Records Panic if you win/lose/run.)
Or, with some condition?
You sneak your way through the vault, unseen and unheard. You don't find anything new, but it feels great to move through a heavily patrolled area like a shadow.
You've earned 4 XP in Will
Do some reading
You peer through the books and stacks of paper. They look as though they've been forgotten by time, many of them visibly yellowing and showing versions of the Midgard logo you don't even recognize.
You're sure there's some interesting information in there, but you'd need years to read it all and decades of training to understand it all.
You've earned 3 XP in Perception
Take a rest
You take the opportunity to find a nice spot under a bookshelf and rest. Between the silence and the smell of old paper, it's surprisingly restful.
You regain 25-35 hit points!