[No Dachi]

Bakan
You walk through the door to the stairwell and the source of the blood on the door is immediately apparent. A body, wearing a technician's uniform, lies on the ground, slumped against the wall. Its chest is a bloody mess. But, immediately, you realise it's no ordinary corpse. Looking close at the chest, which is a bloody mess, you see something yellow and shiny seemingly embedded in the man's chest. You realise that this thing is coated in carapace. A few moments later, you hear a high pitched screech from your right, and something jumps at you. Turning, you cannot bring your arm down in time. The creature, about the size of a man's hand outstretched and yellow, with its front two limbs practically blades and a pair of powerful-looking jaws, manages to score your biological arm with one of its talons. You feel a sharp pain as skin is rended open, and see blood welling up from the wound. The creature lands on the floor, and begins scampering up the wall, apparently preparing to jump at you again...

Darkling
The private nods through his fully-enclosed heavy armour, and goes back to standing in the middle of the corridor, gun trained on the door in front of him, which he has by now closed. You set off, leaving the bulky winter coat in the store, kept under the watchful eye of the Battalion Quartermaster. This done, you move quickly down various corridors and stairs to the first underground level, where you make your way to the Field HQ. Captain Yoshikawa looks up from an illuminated floorplan of one level of the base as you enter.

"Corporal? You're back? Why isn't the com relay working?" He asks. Evidently, your transmissions back to HQ hadn't got in.

Dunin
After finishing looting the corpse, you radio in to HQ.

"Recieved, Roxborough. I have reported the presence of the 107th Rangers to Tactical," He says, Tactical being the Battalion Intelligence Officer, 2nd Lieutenant Palmerstone. "He wants you to check the badge again, over." You do so, with the same result, and tell the Coms Operative. "Corporal, Tac looks worried. Captain Yoshikawa's orders are to seal off all entrances to the ground floor of the research lab, and from there make your way down to the Armoury on underground 1. You are to guard the armoury untill further notice. If you spot any of our Marines, or any base staff, in need of assistance, you are to assist them in any way you can. Keep that com unit you stole - they seem to be jamming our communications from conventional units somehow. Either that or there's a hell of a lot of us dead. If they attack the armoury, report in. Over."