fandomhigh | Archaeology for Fun and Profit! [Tues, 1st Period]

Aphra’s class were in the Danger Shop again, though last week's Massassi temple was nowhere to be seen. Instead they stood in the foyer of what had clearly once been a sleek, high-tech office-block that now looked considerably worse for wear.

Aphra held up her thumb and forefinger about a centimetre apart. “So, kids, I may have cheated a little last week with all the traps,” she said. “While you're probably going to run across all kinds of traps and security measures when exploring ruins, especially the important ones, most of the time they’re not going to be in super great condition. Well, unless things were really built to last, or someone's doing maintenance, in which case the traps are the least of your problems. Trust me on that.” Angry locals were not something they wanted to deal with.

“Basically, they're called ruins for a reason, and there's a lot of ways they become ruins, time, war, natural disasters, vacuum suckers deciding they're entitled to mess with a less advanced culture’s achievements for fun, but the big one’s the first, time. Things break down, batteries run down, no one replaces the poison darts, you get the picture. But if you think that makes them safe, you probably deserve whatever horrible accident happens next.” Aphra was great at reassurances. “Anyway, last week we went up, so today it’s down.”

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Going down.

Jason Lee Scott

Peebee

June Iparis

Kaylin Neya

Shiemi Moriyama

She knows things because of her learnings.

At the end of the foyer was a set of lift doors, which Aphra promptly took a prybar to, revealing a distinct lack of any kind of lift. Hopefully no one automatically tried entering the lift!

After securing a line to a support pillar, Aphra started rappelling down the shaft.

[Same deal as last week, if you 'die' you end up back at the start.]

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Luckily, that whole 'secrecy' thing had Jason managing to resist his initial urge to just jump down the shaft (it might have been quicker, but then again, the simulation might not have taken in to account that he could easily survive such a jump and sent him back to the start. Best to avoid all that entirely). Rappelling it was. Ugh. So much work.

Someday there would be weird Remnant gravity wells and Peebee really could just jump down them without worrying about going splat in a way that would be more final than just ~~reloading from the checkpoint~~ going back to the beginning, but for now, rappelling it was.

With a little help from mass effect fields, of course. Shh.

After far too many levels, you found the lift carriage! Parked on the level you actually want to access. Luckily there's an emergency hatch in the roof. Less luckily, about half the floor of the carriage is gone, so watch your step.

Jason crawled into the lift- and after a moment where he nearly lost his footing- actually managed to make it out the door.

. . . yeah, Peebee fell through a hole in the floor. Sigh.

Once everyone had made it out of the lift carriage and onto the level proper, the lift gave way with a creaking shudder, and feel the rest of the way down the shaft. Aphra switched on a hand lamp and started leading the class through a dark maze of rubble and fallen masonry.

[There's a couple of tight squeezes, but provided you pay enough attention to avoid tripping over something and breaking your neck, there's nothing deadly here.]

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Oh hey. Once again, this class was providing a scenario that was all too familiar. Jason wasn't sure how he felt about that, to be honest.

Eventually, Aphra and the class came upon a brightly light, relatively well maintained area, complete with a security door.

"So, hopefully, you've noticed this area has it's own power-source and it's still running," Aphra said, in a tone that suggested she thought one or two of them mightn't. "That's good because it means whatever's behind that door is something they wanted protected, it's bad because that means any other security might still be working. In any case, just chat among yourselves while I get the this."

"This should be good," Jason remarked. "... I hope." It better be, after all that.

On the bright side, at least he wasn't soaking wet.

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Once Aphra got teh door open, it revealed a room filled with, if not opulent treasures, at least a few very intriguing knick-knacks.

And some very unhappy looking security droids. Probably a good idea to ~~run~~ retreat, though you can try snagging a some loot first like Aphra is.

[You've got maybe a one in twenty chance of not dying if you try for the loot.]

Jason was so, so glad that Zack wasn't here right now. Because Zack would have totally tried to snag something shiny. Jason was just gonna cut his losses and run, thanks.

Several sizable explosions and a return journey later, one way or another, the class was back in the lobby. "Well, that was fun."

"You have an interesting definition of fun," Jason noted. But he was also trying not to smile, so. Maybe he'd had a little fun.

Maybe you want more reassurance?

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