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As much as you hate the idea of just ruining salable material, considering the time constraints that you are under - as well as the motherlode of conduit that is hopefully waiting for you on the other side of this obstruction - you decide that you are going to cut your way through the grate. The biggest issue is that if you are close enough to the grate to cut it, then that means with the constraint of your head's movement, you are going to be too close to see what you are doing as you are cutting. If you were to take your time, go a finger length, then stop, back up far enough to check your work, get back to cutting distance, then make another finger length of cuts - repeating until you were done, you would be able to recover the whole unit in one piece. Eventually. But you simply do not have that kind of time right now. Not to mention that there is a lot more length to cover if you were to cut the thing off of the wall as opposed to cutting around the circumference of the grate.
Resolved into your course of action, you wiggle yourself into the most advantageous position you can, then you get the torch up against the wall of the intake. After you eyeball it, you slide the head of the still-lit torch up, until it hits the grate. The cutting begins as soon as you make contact, and not wanting to waste gas nor air, you start to trace along the edge of the grate as best as you can, avoiding where the sub-units of the cleaner/cleaner are to the best of your ability. At some points in the cut, you can just barely make out some of what you are doing, but to get even that slim glance you have to strain your eyes at the top of your visor until they feel as if they are going to pop out of your head. Sparks, filings and spalling, as well as flakes of rust float down from the soft light from your wisps overhead into the harsher light from your suits integrated lamps. You do your best to move as you cut, to ensure that you can see as much of your work as possible - but rushing as you are and with little more breadth in the intake than the shoulders of your suit, you won't know if doing so helped or threw you cut off until you are done. Still, by the time that you have made your way all around the grate, you feel as if you had done a damned good job, everything considered.
You shift yourself further down the intake, and angle yourself to take a look.
> Please, can I get 4 rolls of 1d100, and 1 roll of 1d12 for the incidental? For the sub-units, you need 60 or higher for them to be in retrievable condition. If any of them are 90 or higher, you will get a bonus small common electronic out of all of this.
