9-281: Pristine, Mine Site One
Transport Drone
Give me an IQ roll for Oliver please.
Legion Assistance
fyi, Oliver remembers Calley saying he’d assist.
The Map is Not The Territory
The Ops Manager stops off at reception and hands everyone some high-tech ear plugs and bright red hard hats.
“Crusher can be loud if it’s running.”
She puts on a thick jacket and a two-tone blue hard hat of her own. If they’re not wearing it, the team can collect their cold weather gear from the Crawler. Of the numerous vehicles in the car park, she collects a multi-seater open-sided cart and drives along some of the open-cut mine’s roads for a while until they come to a tall funnel-shaped structure built at the edge of a towering rock wall, conveyor belts at the top and bottom. A sign indicates that this is Crusher #3.
The Ops Manager ignores a small control booth near the base of the crusher and leads them up several sets of stairs and along catwalks that ring the structure in a steel lattice. There are few people about, a blurred face can be seen behind the glass of the control booth, but things are pretty quiet people wise. Noise wise, the hearing protection seems to be a good idea; Oliver can feel the vibrations through the structure.
Near the top of the metal funnel a catwalk circles the structure. Arriving at this catwalk, the Ops Manager leads the team around to an area between the rock wall and the funnel. Here in the side of the funnel is an open fence of metal bars with gaps about 5cm wide. There is a cross bar about half way up and another near the top. The fence area is about 3m wide and 2m high. Either side of it the funnel walls rise another metre or so. Not far overhead, the inward conveyor extends from the lip of the cliff out over the funnel. Rocks of various sizes are tumbling along the conveyor belt and dropping off the end into the open funnel, hitting the walls further down and bouncing into a set of slowly spinning toothed metal cylinders at the funnel’s base, where they are being inexorably ground into gravel.
Roll 12 for IQ.
Transport:
On the Drive, Oliver will ask the Ops Manager “If someone could control the records of drop offs being made from the transit vehicles, what could they do with that information? Steal the mined minerals?”
Is it implied that this is the site?
If so, Oliver looks at the fence, does it seem easy or difficult to climb?