Underneath Center of the Temple
Eden had been giving Maki the room she needed to work and let the medic do so unassisted. Truly, this was a technician’s job. Eden thought back happily on her chief engineer as the Shosa floated near the ice floor. It was a hard mission to face with your family gone, but the new and old faces alike in this bitterly cold environment warmed her heart enough to presss onwards.
To Mikael, she said, “Very,” quite tersely as she watched Miyako work and then turned to the SAINT operative to pat him on the shoulder. “I have a good idea of what you’re thinking, but the foundation will hold. This temple is hundreds of feet long and wide, though. That should be taken into account. As well as what we’ll do when we’re leaving…” She turned to look over her shoulder at Kasumi and then popped over to Kasumi’s line of vision through her sensors and HUD that her AIES relayed to her and then recognized that there was a passageway she had not been briefed on. It went another hundred feet from the center of the temple and then there was a sharp left turn. Eden gritted her teeth.
As interesting as it would be to allow Kasumi to continue to explore the North Western underside of the temple that the glacial archeologists that came before them had carved, but she didn’t know the dangers of doing so. As Hoshi jogged up, Eden looked to the captain and then behind her back.
Hoshi took the cue and continued jogging until her hand was next to the hard point on Kasumi’s shoulder.”Let’s form up on the Shosa’s position. We can be the last in. Mark,” Hoshi said, turning her attention to him over team comms, "I want you available at a moment's notice when we're up there."
Meanwhile, Eden had given Katsu a little nod and a quick, “Hai, Santo Hei. Proceed.”
Level One
Center of the Temple
When Katsu had gotten into an almost entirely empty cubical room about forty feet by forty feet, he would see that all it that contained was an altar on the Eastern wall to a nude ((OOC - NSFW))
maiden sipping from a saucer while one knee bent over the other and a demure look swept over her face. Hair curled upwards, towards the high ceiling, which was about thirty feet.
Eden herself floated up the cylindrical hole in the ice and foundation with one hand open in case of unfiendlies. When things looked clear, she looked around the room then did a sensor scan and sent what she got back from her scans to the team before calling out to her team, "I've got something! Make your way up here. I want logistics and that UNSAFE up behind a few of you to clear the doorway to the Western wall."
What she sent to them was a map of the first three floors of the temple. It seemed the main stone walls of the temple had lasted but whatever material the doors were made out of were gone, so every doorway was open and easy to enter. The top thee floors were obscured in ice but were the same layout as the third floor. Above that was the rooftop and some thirty feet of ice.