The drone draws nearer and nearer, but you still cannot make up your mind. You have half a mind to try to trick the drone into some tight spot somewhere, and then find some way to deactivate it ... but the <span class="mu-i">other</span> half of your mind has made itself up to cut your way past it. By choosing to detour around this thing, you are avoiding some serious risks, at the cost of dealing with whatever the Hell is in the rooms on the other side of these walls ... and of squeezing through the too-tight wall struts, unless you want to take the time, air and gas required to properly cut your way through them. Snaring the drone, now that comes with risks, real risks. Not to mention questions - the first of which is <span class="mu-i">how the fuck?</span>
You suppose if you were able to bait it into a doorframe, and then keep it there long enough for you to get a good look at its eye, or through the bale, then you might be able to get the thing shut off without risking the integrity of your suit. Or maybe if you had a long metal pole, something that it couldn't cut through, and you were able to get that hooked onto the bale, you might be able to force it into somewhere tight. But even if you were able to get it good and stuck, that doesn't account for the shuddering and scything. There is no way that you can think of that you could put an end to that, at least not without damaging or destroying it.
That just doesn't seem like a winning proposal, doesn't it?
As you expected, the drone is noticeably slowing down as it approaches the corner. Clearly, whoever programed this thing put enough forethought in to the code to prevent it from charging into spots where it was liable to get fouled up and caught. So snaring it ... well, it was always going to be hard, but if you can't bait it into charging at you, then it has become all the more difficult.
With that thought, your mind is made up. You are going to cut your way around this confrontation. Keeping your lit torch at the ready, you watch the drone slow to a stop, several paces away from the corner. At first, you don't think that it is doing anything, but then you notice that the light from its eye is getting brighter, even through the protective tinting on your helmet, and you realize that as it must have assumed that you are some sort of conduit worm, right now, <span class="mu-i">it</span> is trying to bait <span class="mu-i">you</span>. The realization is enough to make you laugh, and you are still smiling once you have satisfied yourself that the drone is not going to advanced any further.
After you consult the schematic, to make sure that you aren't cutting into anything obviously dangerous, you put your torch to the wall and rip through the panels.
> Roll 1d200. Same rules as with >>5462828 