The group have fallen into a forgotten area of the deep underground. They have shoo'ed away the strange rat like creatures, who seem very curious about the new arrivals, and explored the only light source, other than the single fusion lantern in the lift.

The corpse has the following possessions:
An extra heavy leather trenchcoat armour with built in gas mask (5d).
A kettle style helmet with a miner's fusion-torch strapped to the top and an aventail (the torch does not appear to work).
A rucksack containing:
Enough ration bars to feed the whole party for 1 day.
A full water bottle, the minimum for each member of the party for 1 day.
An empty 250ml water bottle which is attached to a strange device (not identified)
A large dirk (4d).
A heavy revolver (6d) - no ammunition.
A 5 shot, self-loading, shotgun (8d shot/7d slug) with red dot laser sight - no ammunition.
A short range high gain ruggedised wrist pager designed to work in these underground tunnels (it's mike is missing)

On the pager the group have read the following recent messages:
"hey, where are you mate?",
"dude that campsite was too dangerous, if you get this we've moved. Go south from the old site. There's an old door at head height. Through that, straight on for a bit and your there",
"here I mean, ha",
"shit that was close, I tried to go back and get my pack but the old camp is overrun. give that place a wide berth.",
"dude you ok?, the others reckon you're done for. I've convinced them to stay the night though, this place should be secure enough",
"Hey mate, Jogbie has laid some traps down in both passages. The usual type, you can get past them if you flip them with your dagger",
"Hey mate, is that you with the light on?",
"Dude, why are you swinging your helmet, its better on your head you know, it's dangerous out there",
"Don't be playing that shit on me, we're spooked enough",
"mate?",
"I can see you coming towards us, quit with the moaning, it's scaring the crap out of us"