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READ ONE:

If you’ve completed Buried Survey Team:

You wake up, sitting up in your bedroll. As you do, something slides off your chest and lands on the ground next to you. You feel around for it, and find a bundle of Quisi’s favorite snacks! Looks like she and her father passed by your camp while you were asleep and left you a small treat.

Each Ranger gains 1 additional energy of any type for the first round.

If you’re currently on Buried Survey Team:

You wake to find Silaro leaning over your sol coil, apparently making breakfast. He nabs a morsel from the pan and eats it.

“You can rest a little longer,” he says, chewing. “It's done. They're safe! Thank goodness for Kal Iver! If he hadn't been there at just the right moment ... why ... I can hardly imagine!” Silaro hands you a bowl of your own food. "You did your part too, of course."

Record KAL SAVED THE TEAM on the campaign tracker. Complete the BURIED SURVEY TEAM (KAL IVER, HARLAN VOS, QUISI VOS) mission. Each Ranger suffers 3 fatigue. Then read 1.111A

If neither of the above is true:

As you make breakfast, you see a light bobbing in the distance. Soon it resolves into the lean form of Kal Iver. He stops near your sol coil with a grim look on his face.

“Still in one piece, I see," Kal says. He sits down heavily. "I thought you were trapped by a cave-in! How else could you explain not coming to my rescue? Or the rapscallion's? Or her father's?" He playfully harrumphs. "Lucky for you, I rescued myself. Though it took some time to dig out Quisi and Harlan. Once they were safe, I tried to convince them to go back to the surface, but they wouldn't hear it. Though I suppose it's not much safer up there right now, what with the electric fog everywhere."

Kal sighs. “But that's not why I'm here. Silaro's found something in the old Estian records. There appears to be some sort of apparatus in the very depths of the arcology, in a chamber the Estians called 'the Cage.' We need to get down there and find out what it is. It’s possible that it’s some sort of ... engine for the arcology. Silaro believes that it's responsible for these quakes.”

Record KAL SAVED THE TEAM on the campaign tracker. Complete the COLLAPSE! (KAL IVER, HARLAN VOS, QUISI VOS) mission. Gain THE LONG DARK and RATTLING THE CAGE missions. Each Ranger suffers 3 fatigue.