03 Above Nor Below

Set the Scene

Ekaterina is waiting for the surface Fungal expansion to take and using the Cloning Pod as a new safety wants to see least explore the burrows to know what she is colonizing on top of. 

Complication: 4 An NPC acts suddenly

Altered Scene: 2 Normal

Yes/No (Even)

Swarm is the NPC?

1,3 No

Detail Focus

What are the local nest of Flea Hoppers up to?

6D Mundane (technical)

The local Flea Hoppers are starting to lay eggs for the season. They are roaming around outside the nest but if left alone they will leave Ekaterina alone.

Animal Handling 3 - Not interacting with the Flea Hopper is difficult when one wanders directly up to you.

Failure Move

5 Reveal an Unwelcome Truth

The small tech setup under the fallen tree isn't exactly secured and is a favorite spot for a hungry hopper that can't quite figure out how to get in to feed on the still trapped Bile Swarm.

Ekaterina has free time and the Cloning Pod is not at risk from Flea Hopper nesting nearby. They fully intend to just wait it out and instead work on that locked door in the abandoned Floran housing.

Investigation 7 - A year passes and Ekaterina has still not gotten into the locked passage. The Flea Hopper grubs have hatched and matured enough to leave the nest at least.

Failure Move

6 Foreshadow Trouble

Ekaterina hears noises from the locked passage on quiet nights. Small beeps, servos rotating, something in there must be important.

Medicine 11 - the local jungle has been successfully converted to a Fungal network and the Flea Hopper grubs have grown up breathing and eating the spores. The adults are infected, sure, but the next generation of sub adult Flea Hoppers are fully integrated with Ekaterina and able to think on their own and use simple tools. A lovely new worker caste.

Arcana 35 - Ekaterina, now with access to the Pixel Printer once again, builds out designs for a locking disruptor device and feeds it into the machine for fabrication. Allowing her access to the locked passage finally.

Dungeon Crawler

Location: 3 Living area or meeting place

Encounter: 3 Hostile enemies

Objects: 2 Nothing, or mundane objects

Exits: 4 1 additional exit

Yes/No (Unlikely)

SDA attached to a ship?

1,6 No and...

The room is a small storage closet that looks like it has been untouched longer than just the last year. A heavy server sits near the back, a face lights up on the screen, a simple pixelated Floran smiley face outline. It's an SDA, but without a ship to fly it's an immobile PDA with a slight lean on scientific investigation. Probably the discarded SDA after an upgrade by the Floran Star Hunter that was living here. Ekaterina fabricates a large hull for a capitol ship resting above the fallen tree and has the workers install the SDA. Now effectively space worthy... she has no way to actually get it off the ground. The designs for a planets flight package for a craft that size is complex and while she can describe it adequately for the pixel printer, they do not yet have the raw materials.

Dungeon Entrance

Dungeon Theme:

How it looks: AH Unique (social)

How it is used: 8C Reveal (physical)

Location: 1 Typical area

Encounter: 3 Hostile enemies

Objects: 3 An interesting item or clue

Exits: 2 additional exits

A large tunnel opens below into the burrows and a single rope descends into the darkness. various humanoid footprints are forever imprinted in the tunnels here from years of hunting but also large rocks cover bits of destroyed gear and shell casings. this entrance is not secure.

Combat - Ekaterina is attacked by some of those large stones, they uncurl into Boulder Bugs and are ready for a meal. Barley able to hold them off even after deploying her holo guardian and focusing on healing herself up she is forced to retreat back to the surface having made basically no headway in her exploration.