Quaero II: Resurrection - Game Thread

[PyroSikTh]

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Name: Horst Madsen
Class: Mercenary

Stats;
Strength - 65
Toughness - 65
Reflexes - 90 (100)
Aim - 90
Computing - 50
Mechanical - 50
First-Aid - 40
Health - DEAD

Weapons;
- Shotgun (4)
- Knife

Items;
- Phase Shifter
Name: Natalia Briggs
Class: Doctor

Stats;
Strength - 55
Toughness - 85
Reflexes - 60
Aim - 60
Computing - 50
Mechanical - 50
First-Aid - 90 (105)
Health - 300

Weapons;
- Scalpel
- Pistol (10)

Items;
- Medikit
- Combat Stims
Name: Mark Forster
Class: Pilot

Stats;
Strength - 50
Toughness - 60
Reflexes - 70 (80)
Aim - 60 (75)
Computing - 80
Mechanical - 70
First-Aid - 60
Health - 297

Weapons;
- Pistol (7)
-

Items;
- Sight Matrix
- 5 Shotgun Shells
- Phase Shifter
Name: Brox
Class: Captain

Stats;
Strength - 75
Toughness - 75 (95)
Reflexes - 80
Aim - 85 (100)
Computing - 60
Mechanical - 60
First-Aid - 50
Health - 243

Weapons;
-
- Pistol (6)

Items;
- Override Keys
- Armour
- Sight Matrix
Name: S-4R4eH (Codename: Sarah)
Class: Security

Stats;
Strength - 60 (65)
Toughness - 60 (78 )
Reflexes - 100
Aim - 90
Computing - 50
Mechanical - 50
First-Aid - 40
Health - 220

Weapons;
- Sniper Rifle (3)
- Semi-Automatic Rifle (16)

Items;
- Armour
- Combat Stims
Name: Jergen Schlagger
Class: Mechanic

Stats;
Strength - 70 (90)
Toughness - 70 (90)
Reflexes - 50 (30)
Aim - 50
Computing - 80 (90)
Mechanical - 90
First-Aid - 40
Health - 51

Weapons;
-
-

Items;
-

It's been a millennium since Quaero II first went missing. The stories have grown old with the generations and into Myth. One thing is known for certain, and that is Earth is no more. As the legend goes, warriors were sent to investigate this mysterious ship out in the void, and brought back an infection so terrible that it wiped life from the Earth. Few inhabitants managed to escape, through thick and thin, building vast cities of metal that drifted through space.
Now, Human life continues on as normal, and those alive today only know of Earth by the stories. Of course stories are distorted and exaggerated over time and tellings, so no-one really knows what happened all those years ago. The Human race now lives in huge space stations that drift through the galaxy aimlessly...

ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR

The first thing you hear is an alarm ringing in your ears.

ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR

You open your eyes but all you can see is black. After a while you start to see some red flashing, lighting up the room.

ERRR ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR

Suddenly there's a hiss and the feel of a warm breeze against your naked body, and yet you're shivering uncontrollably. For a moment you wonder who you are and where you are, but then it all comes flooding back. You're on the mining vessel Tryton. You look around you and see your colleagues all looking around in a similar state of puzzlement as you feel. The room is a large, oval-shaped chamber at the bottom of the freighter with elevators either side that take you to any level of the ship, and a simple jumpsuit hung up next to each Cryo Pod. It must have been a long journey to require you to awaken in Cryo. Oh yes you remember, you and your colleagues were tasked with mining iron from Idaho, one of many rocky moons that orbits the small, distant planet; Isis. However the alarm that continues to ring in your ears must mean you're not there yet, and something has gone wrong that needs your immediate attention...

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia casually steps out of the cryo pod and onto the floor. Oh, how refreshing the feeling of the ship's cold, metal plates were as the numbing of the cryo system wore off. She'd always liked being barefoot onboard. Except near the engines. That was too warm.
If it were up to her, she'd never wear shoes on the ship. Of course, the Captain had told her a dozen times that she'd have to dress appropriately.
Well.. He wasn't awake yet.
She rifled through her jumpsuit looking to see if she'd managed to leave a scalpel in there before freezing - it had slipped her mind right now as to wether or not she put any sharps in there.

...That cryo stuff was wearing off. Her head started to feel heavy again. She didn't like that. That alarm wasn't helping the matter either.
Morphine'd fix that.
Having searched her jumpsuit, but leaving it hanging up, she looked to the others to ensure there was no malfunction with anyone's chamber. Once everyone was definitely alive - though maybe not awake, she moved to the elevator.
Had to get to the medical bay on Level 3. That was priority.

[Loner]

Horst finally woke up again. It's always better to be awake rather than in some sort of a sleep. He rubbed his eyes as he tried to get a clear vision. He looked around, just to see if there was any danger around him. He did a little dance in order to stretch his muscles. After that he put on his own clothes and waited for the orders of the captain. "I could use some food," he thought, as he looked through his pockets, "and a weapon."

[DCLXVI]

Eddie just lays there in his chamber for a bit, the haze slowly lifting as the alarm finally moves from a dull throb in his ears to full blown annoying. He frowns as he grips the sides of his cryo pod and pulls himself free. He takes a few hesitant steps forward, making sure he has full mobility despite the long sleep before he moves to pull on his jumpsuit. As he's finishing, he glances around at the rest of the inhabitants, his eyes looking for the Captain as he makes a mental note,

Better get paid extra for being woken up early to an annoying ass alarm.

His eyes glimpse a naked woman, Natalia was it? as she moves to the elevator. Another frown crosses his features again and begins to move towards her, "Hey! Doc! Where you going in such a hurry?"

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia doesn't look towards Eddie as she jabs the elevator button a few times slowly. Very slowly. Each time, progressively slower.
She didn't like machines. Waiting for them took forever. If it was a person it'd be here by now. It was only a few floors. Why did it take so long? Did the elevator have a break or union rules about not working too hard?
Her eyes intensified, staring at the button for the elevator.
She mumbled, almost inaudibly amongst the siren. "Noise. Conscious. Drugs."
She prodded the elevator button once more to be on the safe side.

[DCLXVI]

Jogging up, Eddie stops by the Docs pod, grabbing her jumpsuit before approaching her.

"Hey, does you no good to run around here with your buns showin'." His arm stretches towards her, jumpsuit in hand, "Besides, elevator looks like it's being slow, you got the time to throw it on right quick."

[SonsOfStalingrad]

With a sigh, Natalia turned to face the crewmember. Why did they bother her? They weren't sick. They weren't dying any more than anyone else inevitably did from one moment to the next, so why did they have to bother her?
Her gaze took the man in as she tried to make heads or tails of them. Maybe he had a phobia about asses or bare skin.
The eyes slowly moved to the outstretched jumpsuit. Why did she need this? She was a doctor. Where was her white coat? That was better than this ugly thing. It also usually housed a scalpel. Or at least a syringe. Failing all else, it had a sugar-free lollipop in the breast pocket most times.
A lazy hand grasped the uniform, pulling a pit close to her nose. She inhaled deeply, then looked at the garment, perplexed, seemingly not detecting something she expected to.
She tied the jumpsuit to het person so that it fell loosely over her buttocks, thereby solving the crewmember's problem. She turned back to the lift, muttering again about the noise, with a slight shake of her head.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath steps out of the Cryo pod, looking around completely unphased by his nakedness.

"Why has pods closed down?" he asks noone in particular, grabbing his overall and tieing it round his waist as a kilt "is not time for awakening." he states, looking around to see what's going on "Why has alarms gone off?"

He spots the two people by the elevator, and heads over to them.

"'Vator no work? Garath Fix!"

He looks around for some way to get the elevator working, then resorts to pushing the button and kicking it.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia tenses up a little, fairly repulsed by the fact these... THINGS are crowding near her. Without letting it show, and without saying anything or making any further eye contact, she walks to the other side of the room and starts pressing that elevator button instead.

[DCLXVI]

Eddie shakes his head as Natalia just ties the jumpsuit around her waist. He glances sideways at the approaching mechanic Garrus? Marath? Something like that. After Garath announces he'll fix the elevator before resorting to pushing buttons and kicking it, Eddie just sighs as he steps back to let the mechanic 'work'. He watches the Doc walk to the other side of the chamber to press the button over there.

So far, two weirdos. The hell did I sign up for?

[scythes]

Jergen climbs out of his pod, shakes his head to clear the fuzziness there, and frowns. "Hmmm, probably some mechanical problem, these damn mining ships are always built by the lowest bidder." He grabs him jumpsuit and then walks over to a computer console and tries to ascertain why he woken up from the great dream he was in. He was on a beautiful sandy beach with his last girlfriend....Jergen shakes his head again, have to see what's going on here.

[Silas]

No time to post till monday.

[PyroSikTh]

No time to post till monday.

That's cool. Likely no update until Tuesday.

[Mali32]

"Jus' a few more minutes." Mark says, trying to get comfy in his cryo pod before realising it's a cryo pod, they dont do comfy. More to the point the alarm wasnt a wake up alarm. It was more of a 'something's gone wrong' alarm. Perhaps he'd have to take a look at it. Couldn't do with dying. Stretching expansively as he steps out his pod Mark takes a quick look around at his shipmates to make sure none of em went psycho in the deep sleep. Make that more psycho. he thought glancing over at the doc. Mark reached over and grabbed his jump suit. Clambering into it he checks to see if he left any bits and bobs in the pockets before the sleep and heads over to the lift.

"Being a bit slow is it?" he asks the mech and Eddie. "The lift I mean?" he adds with a smirk.

[Silas]

He dreamed. He was someone else, someone on a ship. He had been looking for someone, someone he cared for deeply. When he thought he had finally gotten close, the creatures had attacked... and then an explosion...

Captain Brox woke with a start. The alarms did not bode well for the trip at hand. Before stepping out the pod, he watched as the others moved about the ship, their names and profiles beginning to seep back into his consciousness. That strange doctor was awake, that was good. What was her name? Natasha? Nataly? No no... Natalia. Ok.

As the fuzziness cleared from his mind, Brox stepped down from pod, taking a moment to put on his jump suit and check it's pockets, and check the area around the pod for any containers he may have put items in before the sleep...

Gathering his thoughts and watching the strange interactions of the doctor, the pilot, and the mechanic... the captain spoke.

"Crewman, please. It seems obvious we have been woken prematurely for alert reasons. They don't want us asleep right now for some reason, and I will not have anyone wandering off by themselves without knowing the ship is safe."

The captain put his hands up to rub his temple, the doc was stubborn one and she would want her tools asap, and he could only imagine the security and mercenary forces were chomping at the bit to get some weaponry...

He would need teams.

"Ok, while we wait for the elevators... that you've already called I see. We need two teams, and they are as follows:"

Team 1
Silas - Brox (Captain)
SGS - Sarah (Security)
sneggy - Noggy (Pilot)
SourImplant - Hurst (Mechanic)
scythes - Jergen (Mechanic)


Team 2
SonsOfStalingrad - Natalia (Doc)
Thatfatguy - Garath (Mechanic)
Loner - Horst (Merc)
Mali32 - Mark (Pilot)
DCLXVI - (Merc)

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia sighed, hearing the orders. She had hoped to be out of cryo before the captain came to.
Sure, she understood the order - safety in numbers. But she also happened to know the onboard computer wasn't all that intelligent - In fact, she thought it only slightly more intelligent than the mercenaries that had just been ordered to escort her. Like the last time, when it had woken them all up due to a dangerous bio-hazard warning, only to find out it was caused by a malfunctioning food dispenser that had dropped hotdogs onto the floor, which had then begun to grow a fine fur coat in the interim. Disgusting... kind of. Threatening... not more so than the regular food on board.

She swing around to face the captain and mocked a salute to him, glad to at least nothave been ordered to put the jump suit on properly.
Again in mutters, she pointed to the vacant spot next to her. "My team."
Turning back to the elevator, she resumed muttering about alarms, drugs and headaches.

[Loner]

Follow into the elevator, although a bit hesitant.

[DCLXVI]

Nods towards Mark, "Yeah, taking its sweet ass time."

He taps Garath on the shoulder and motions him to follow as he trots towards to the Doc. He sighs as he watches her, My lucky day... or is it night? Shrugging he leans with his back against the wall next to the elevator as he waits, watching the rest of the crew climb out of their cryo pods and further orders.

[Thatfatguy]

"Is am in team with pretty lady?" Garath grins toothily "Am fine with this, who else these people?" he asks the others in the team, while scratching his backside.

"Is we check to see what malfunction being yes?"

[sneggy]

Noggy his head, clearing his vision as he came to. Retching slightly at the stale air down here in the Cyro pod he clambers out of pseudo bed and gras his jumpsuit. Pulling it on swiftly he moves over to the captain by way of acknowledging his order.

"if its all the same to you sir I suggest we move up floor by floor, we can collect supplies as we go and sweep the ship for problems. That'll allow us to arm in the Security hub immediately then check the engines for damage on board. Seems to me our most pressing issues are hostile life and engine failure. This way we solve both in fairly short order."

Whilst waiting for a response he looks around the room, for anything he could take with him, a flashlight, any kind of weapon (hefty bit of pipe/metal will do in a pinch if needed.) Any personal effects he might have left nearby. Oh and if possible a way to shut off that damn alarm.

[Silas]

The Captain looked over at the man. His profile flooding back to him, Noggy.

The name seemed familiar, his dream from last night called to him. He shook the fading images of the dream away and addressed the pilot.

"I understand your concerns, but if we go up the ship guns blazing and looking for trouble, it will cause more harm than good. There is no reason to suspect we've been boarded. Since we've been woken up early, we are somewhere out in the middle of space with no planets for a very long time."

Again he rubbed his temples, he could use a drink. Throwing around the idea of somehow being boarded is a good way to get those mercs riled up, and for some reason, riled up mercs sounded like a bad idea.

"But yes. We will go floor by floor with teams. And yes, we will start on the floor above us, where the security hub is located. Each team will take an elevator, if the damn things still work."

"Floors will be assigned to teams after we check the floor above us, and hopefully we can get that damn alarm turned off."

"And dammit people, put your clothes on."

Orders:
Check the room first.
Guide the teams into the two elevators.
Docs team takes the one she is near.
My team takes the other.
Go up one floor.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Like hell was Natalia about to do that. She needed medicine. She was almost feeling... NORMAL.
couldn't have that. Normal was both boring AND uncomfortable. Plus, she had no scalpels.
She needed those. All of her medical supplies were VITAL.
As soon as that lift opened, she intended to key in the location of her medical bay instead.
Besides, the other team would be checking out that floor anyway. What was the point in being two teams then both looking at the same spot? Could search quicker in two teams.
Could search even quicker if they just dropped two people off on each floor, but that was probably too obvious to even occur to the captain, wasn't it?
She gave a nod to pretend she heard and understood the order, muttered a 'yessir' and then begun to make up a little rhyming song containing the names of all the various medicines she knew.

[Mali32]

Mark heads over to the doc with the others.

"Well then doc. Looks like we're on a team together. Would you like a hug so we can begin the team bonding and all that bullshit?" he asks with mock enthusiasm.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Quizzical, empty eyes take in Mark as the sarcastic oaf approaches.
Why was it speaking? Did it really have to? Couldn't it be quiet? She was quiet. It should be too.
Pausing in her drug song, she simply muttered 'notouchy' and then continued where she left off without missing another beat.

[sneggy]

Having completed his sweep of the room Noggys eyes fell upon the still snoozing Sarah.
He calmly walked to her pod, released the door, and gave her an almighty nipple tweek by way of a wake up call.

SGS

[Mali32]

"Awww come on doc. I just wanted a hug." Mark said holding his arms out.

[SGS]

Having been calmly and carefully stretching her muscles out while the others went crazy, Sarah found the feeling of someone touching her quite annoying and uncalled for. In the space of a second she opened her eyes, aimed, and punched the offender in the throat. "Fine, I'm up." A minute to get her jumpsuit on and it's time to figure out this whole mess. "Captain. Any idea what's going on?"

[Silas]

"Sarah, glad to see you awake. All that is certain is that we've been woken prematurely and we're still in the middle of space and a long ways from our destination, oh.. and please make sure you didn't just kill that pilot..."

[SGS]

"We have replacements."

[Silas]

"Fair enough."

[sneggy]

Urgh,well someone got out of the wrong side of the cyro cell this morning.

Don't rush to help me up...I'm fine honest.
Jeez.

[Loner]

"Seems our lovely captain cares about all of us...
"

[SonsOfStalingrad]

"Awww come on doc. I just wanted a hug." Mark said holding his arms out.
Natalia's lip curled in disgust.
It wanted to touch her.
Touch.
That was practically a marriage proposal.
She wasn't about to start thinking about THAT. That was far too complex to think about with.. THAT ALARM!.
She tilted her head towards the nearest source of the noise, then made eye contact with mark.
"I would suggest you not continue unless you wish for that to be inserted in you." she narrowed her eyes. "I'm a doctor. I can make it happen."

[PyroSikTh]

Once the crew have come out of the Cryo daze, they put on their jumpsuits in various fashions and check the pockets for anything that may be of use, but only finding disappointment as their hands grasp into emptiness. Brox splits the crew into two teams almost immediately and sends each team to the elevators at either side of the room. The doors of the elevators spring open at the same time.

SonsOfStalingrad Thatfatguy Loner Mali32 DCLXVI
Natalia rushes in ahead of her team and quickly presses "Lvl 3" while the others follow her in. The elevator jerks before becoming more swift and stopping abruptly. The doors open wide on Level 3 of the ship revealing a dark corridor lit up by the red flashing of the alarm, closed by elevator doors at the other end. To their left is the Cargo Hold, and to the right, the Kitchens and Dining Hall.

Silas SGS sneggy SourImplant scythes
The captain waits for his team to get ready before leading them onto the lift and pressing "Lvl 5". There's a jerk as the elevator kicks into action and then stops suddenly. The doors open revealing a dark corridor lit up red by the alarm that continues to ring in their ears. To their right are the Mining Drills; six of them all primed and ready for once they reach their destination. To their left is the security hub; an array of screens that have yet to be turned on, and a comms outlet with three buttons either side, labelled as each level of the ship. There's also a few key ports on the console indicating locked draws underneath, and a large locked cupboard at one end. Natalia and her team are nowhere to be seen.

ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR

The alarm continues to blare at the two teams of the crew, with their only light being the dull red flash from it. Everyone on board feels a sudden jerk of the ship followed by a subtle groaning on Level 4...

[SourImplant]

Hurst stumbles, going to one knee in the sudden motion of the ship. He shakes his head, trying to clear his vision. Still seeing double. Or triple. Or maybe there really are a dozen people at the elevator with him.

Struggling to stand, he notices the large cupboard. Gotta be something in there that might clear his head. He tries pulling it open, but the damn thing is locked. Hurst looks around for something he can use to pry the cupboard open.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath scratches his head and looks around.

"I do not know about you, but I am feeling the hunger" he states, heading towards the kitchens

[scythes]

With only a grunt to show that he noticed the ship jerk, Jergen heads over to the mining drills and does a quick inspection making sure they're still ok. He then pokes around looking for a tool box where he can hopefully find a large wrench or maybe even a tool bag with everything he might need later on, including a large wrench.

[Mali32]

"Alright calm down doccy. Wouldn't really wanna hug you anyway. Might catch the crazies." Mark says in response to the docs threat. "Grub sounds like a plan my grammatically challenged russian friend. Although I think we could prolly do without the mood lighting though so perhaps someone could try find a lightswitch?" Mark says looking about for one.

[Silas]

"Damn that doctor..."

No time to deal with that now, she would be punished later. For now, he needed to see what he could manage here.

"Jergen, good. Keep checking on the drills, see if that is the source of the alarms. Sarah, go with Hurst and see if you can get the security hub operational, with that turned on, i can use use the local communications device. Noggy, clear the room, i'll check the comms. Let's make this quick, We need to make sure the comms outlet works so I can swear at the doctor and assign level sweeps."

With another curse, Brox moves to comms outlet, trying to make use of it and giving it a few choice test words.

[DCLXVI]

Eddie sighs as the elevator opens on the third level. Pretty sure we were all suppose to go to level five...

The sudden lurch of the ship causes him to grab the edge of the elevator to steady himself for a moment, his eyes staring into the darkness, studying it intently before movement next to him made him react. With a quick motion, he reaches out to grab Garath by the shoulder, "Hey hold on. Let's move out together." He points towards the medical bay, "Let's let the Doc get whatever supplies she needs and wants before securing the rest of the level." That should pacify her and hopefully make her more agreeable.

He turns and nods his heads towards the other mercenary, Horst. "Let's go."

Eddie starts to move into the red hued darkness, cautiously but with a confident purpose, his eyes scanning the expansive cargo bay as he approaches it. Whatever that noise was I heard, sounded like it's coming from below.... great.

[Mali32]

"So we're crossing the whole level to get the doc some of her More Crazy pills and then we're gonna sweep the level to check for nasties? Why not check it as we go?"

[Loner]

"Why don't we just look for weapons?..."

[DCLXVI]

Damn, does everyone have a complaint?

"Look, we don't know what's happening with the ship yet. It could just be a severe mechanical problem or some other nonsense. We were in the middle of travel, what the hell could possibly happen that we'd need weapons?" He thumbs the cargo area, "If you want, go ahead and look in there for your precious weapons. I'll make sure the Doc gets her supplies and then we'll join back up with you."

[SGS]

Sarah nods and goes to work getting the security station working, maybe finding the keys to the locked cupboard and draws before someone decides to break everything.

[Loner]

"Considering that we were woken up in the middle of our flight, there are decent chances that something is seriously wrong."
Anyone willing to check the cargobay with me? :D

[Mali32]

"Oh yes cos space is such a happy happy place filled with bunnies and rainbows." Mark says to the merc. "You feel free to head off to the med bay with the mad doc there, i'm gonna stick with these guys. Cos splitting up never got anyone killed."

[SonsOfStalingrad]

The doctor visibly smiles a pursed-lip smile as the lift opens at the third floor. Triumphant, she goes to step from the lift, only for the shake to knock her down.
The floor... so nice and cool. She paused, focussing on the feeling. She gently stroked the floor plating before getting to her feet and watching everyone quibble.
This one... Eddie.. He was at least a more interesting one than the other subjects. And wasn't convinced that the boogieman was lurking on the ship ready to eat them in the dark corners, too.
"The ship...." she said slowly and quietly, but at least clearer than the mumble, "Is probably just falling apart. It does that sometimes, remember? How long have we been asleep? The bump, our early revival... Probably nothing. Just... dead metal being dead." she sighed, beginning to walk towards the medical bay, "Oogieboogie won't be waiting for you. Cargo hold just has... cargo. Noise was down one anyway. So he's not here."
A casual glance met Eddie's eyes, hinting for him to follow as she proceeded to the bay.

If the door is workable, she'll go in, throw on her nice white doctor's coat, load up a medical case with her favourite various drugs, scissors, scalpels, all that good stuff a doctor should have... before stuffing some sugar-free lollipops into the breast pocket and packing a small portable heater and a rather large, flat spoon into the case. After this, she'll be content to rejoin the others and even go down a floor, if they want to go find the noise.

[sneggy]

"yessir"

Noggy moves to begin insecting the area, making sure not to stray out of earshot of the other crew members and searching as he goes. Obviously look for any signs of life or recent visits by anything alive. If possible grab myself something to arm myself (at this stage a hunk of metal to swing will do) and try to establish if anything but us is on this level. If the sweep is completed without incident then go join the others at the security hub and assist as best i can.

[DCLXVI]

"Seriously wrong could just be a busted circuit but hey, I'm just a merc. What do I know?" A slight grin forms on his lips as he shrugs. He catches Natalia's eyes on him and nods as he falls into step behind her.

"And splitting up only results in death in the movies man." He calls over his shoulder as he walks off.

[PyroSikTh]

SonsOfStalingrad Thatfatguy Loner Mali32 DCLXVI
Garath recovers from the jolt of the ship and heads single-mindedly for the kitchens, but finds the door security-locked that can only be open with a key-card, or by the ships computers. Mark looks around the area for something that might give them light, but the walls are bare but for the vents and doors in them. Madsen makes his way into the Cargo Hold whilst Garath continues thumping at the Kitchen door whining he's hungry. In his search for weapons he finds a few cupboards and drawers littering the walls of the Cargo Hold, but they're all locked shut. There's also a few large boxes which are also locked shut, some space suits locked behind a perspex door, two buggies held in place with chains, and the large Cargo Hold door, with small, closed-off halls either side with two locked doors either end of them.

Natalia and Eddie ignore the others and head straight for the Medical Bay at the other end of the level. Fortunately this door is open. They find themselves in a small decontamination tube that douses them in a smokey gas for a few seconds before opening the door on the other side. The room inside is pristine white, with not a speck of dirt to be found. Next to the decontamination tube entrance, there's a retina-scanner and hand-print analysis device with a large box beneath with a large, red cross painted on. In the center of the room is a table large enough for a seven foot muscular human to lie on comfortably, which slopes slightly into a drain and plug at one end. There's two beds attached to one wall with various life-support machines and computers beside each one. On the opposite wall is a long desk with a microscope attached. Locked cupboards line the wall above the desk which indicate what medicines and medical gear lie within. The cupboard indicating Scalpels interests Natalia the most, but first she needs to find a way in. Lastly there's a cupboard against one wall that Eddie manages to open and finds a white coat inside. He checks the pockets and enjoys a sigh of relief to find that there are no scalpels or drugs in them.

Silas SGS sneggy SourImplant scythes
Meanwhile on Level 5, Hurst strides up to the cupboard and tries pulling it open, to no avail. He then proceeds to search the area for something to pry it open. There doesn't seem to be anything laying around at all. Everything's either fixed to the walls or safely locked away.

Brox assigns the group to their individual tasks before heading towards the Comms outlet and aimlessly speaking into it. Nothing happens as he realises the Security hub needs to be switched on. Sarah gets to it, trying to makes ends meat of the hub. She studies the key ports and the drawers below them trying to figure out a way to get into them. The keys are nowhere to be seen, and there's nothing to indicate where those keys might be.

Noggy scours the level looking for anything that might be alive, and anything that can be used as a weapon, but there's nothing loose around, and the only living things he can find are his own crewmates. Jergen heads to the drills and studies them closely. They all seem to be in working order, with no indication that they've been damaged and/or that they wouldn't work when required. He also notes that the drills are fitted securely by hydraulics in the roof which will lift and lower the drills when necessary.

[Mali32]

"Well this is all thoroughly anti-climactic." Mark says to no-one in particular "C'mon ruskie. Let's go find the doc and her escort. Least we'll be able to have a few laughs as she tries to get her scalpels out of the locked boxes." he says heading towards the med bay. When he gets in there he leans against one wall and says "Judging by the lack of any comm chatter or lack of annoying alarms the others havent done much better than us. May as well head up to the bridge and see what we can get sorted from up there."

[Thatfatguy]

Garath rubs the back of his head, and attempts to bypass the lock with his mechanical know wots

"Food is on other side, Garath being the hungry"

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia's eyes suspiciously scan the room. "Who the fuck has been in my medical bay? Locks? Seriously? Why the fuck are they locked?" a hand agitatedly thumps one of the cabinets, "And where the fuck are my lollipops?"
The anger seems to subside almost instantly as she goes back to her quiet, thinking state. She examines the medical equipment - scanners and things - for their potential to batter open the cabinets.

(what's the retinal scanner doodad for?)

[scythes]

Seeing there's no problem with his drills, Jergen heads over to the security hub to help out Hurst with getting in. He looks around for some terminal or something he can use his technical know-how on to maybe see what the alarm is about and get it and the red lights shut off and some real lights turned on. "Lemme give ya a hand there bud."

[Silas]

"Ok, team. We head to level 2. Clear out your individual rooms, I know where the keys are. Back into the elevator!"

The Captain ushers everyone back into the lift and when they are all inside, pushes the big 2.

Orders:
Upon arrival of floor 2:
Everyone clears their own rooms.
Brox gets the keys from his and checks his room as well.

[Loner]

"Hmm... Intersting..."

Go back towards the others.

[sneggy]

"Yes Captain"

Noggy heads back towards the elevator with the captain and patiently awaits the arrival of level 2. Thus far this spaceship seeming rather empty and not yet full of the expected apocalyptic nightmare the alarm apparently thinks is here.

[DCLXVI]

Tosses the white doctors coat towards Natalia. "Here you go, figure you'd prefer to wear this instead."

Glancing back, he notices a couple of the others. "Everything is locked in here. Judging by your empty arms, I figure you had no luck either eh?" Stepping out of the medical bay he takes a quick survey before his eyes fall on the elevator, "Guess we should rendezvous with the Captain eh? He said floor by floor, would be heading to the fourth by now."

[Mali32]

"Screw floor by floor. There's nowt going on anywhere. We should head up to the bridge before we all get bored to death. At least on the way are our rooms. We can grab our stuff on the way." Mark "maybe even a little something extra." he mutters after, too quiet for anyone to hear clearly.

[SGS]

"Yes Sir."

To the elevator.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Tosses the white doctors coat towards Natalia. "Here you go, figure you'd prefer to wear this instead."

Glancing back, he notices a couple of the others. "Everything is locked in here. Judging by your empty arms, I figure you had no luck either eh?" Stepping out of the medical bay he takes a quick survey before his eyes fall on the elevator, "Guess we should rendezvous with the Captain eh? He said floor by floor, would be heading to the fourth by now."

The coat flutters slightly as it is thrown. Natalia catches it and gleefully gets suited up. "But... no drugs. needdrugs. doctor. medicalsupplies." she folds her arms, looking at each person in turn suspiciously. She never locked her stuff. Someone had been here. Which one of them was it?

[PyroSikTh]

SonsOfStalingrad Thatfatguy Loner Mali32 DCLXVI
Mark and Eddie's disagreement leads them to opposite ends of the corridor in front of each elevator. They call them and the doors in front of Eddie open.

Natalia, Garath, and Madsen are left between the two men, and realise they have three choices; Go to Level 2, Go to Level 4, or stay here on Level 3. Natalia decides to stay in her Medical Bay where she can attempt to get into those locked cupboards. Garath stays outside the door to the Kitchens as if waiting for something magical to happen to it.

Suddenly the doors in front of Mark open...

Silas SGS sneggy SourImplant scythes
Jergen makes his way back to the Security Hub and studies it, looking for some kind of terminal that he can use to hack into, turn the hub on, and get information, but he soon realises how difficult that is without a Hacking Device. Before he can think of another way of getting the Security Hub on, he's dragged back to the elevator by the Captain. The others pile in after them and head up to Level 2.

The doors open to reveal a corridor with 6 doors to their right, and 2 doors to their left, with a junction turning off next to them, and what looks like 2 further doors beyond that. They all pile out into the corridor, the doors of the elevator shut behind them, and they hear the whir of motors and pulleys taking the elevator down below them.

ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR

The alarm continues bellowing on all levels, and red lights illuminating them. There's a large clunk followed by a long fizz coming from Level 4. A second alarm begins sounding.

WOOOOP WOOOOOP WOOOOOP WOOOOOP

[Loner]

"Captain! What are your orders?!"

As he turns to the others: "Guys, I do need a weapon. It's quite simple to explain why.
Would a remote control work without batteries? No.
Would a doctor work without equipment? No.
Would a mercenary be useful without a weapon? No."

After that he waits for the LT's orders.

[PyroSikTh]

Just so you're aware Loner; you're on Level 3, Captain's on Level 2, thus he can't give you orders. Mali and DCL are currently heading to different floors, and SoS and TFG are staying put for the meantime. You're choice is to go either with Mali or DCL, or stay with SoS and TFG.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Noise. The noise. Has to stop.
Natalia gave the nearest unit a good thump one last time, then stepped away giving it a hate-filled look. How DARE it be locked.
She'd show it... later. Right now, there was something of more vital importance. And she could only think of two things more important than scalpels and drugs.
"Alarm. Kill it." she muttered pushing her way to the elevator. Regardless of any other people's wishes, she pushed the 4th floor button. She'd be damned if the boogeyman would get away with stealing her lollipops. And as for locking the scalpels away... well. If boogeymen had genders, she was in a mood to change that.

[scythes]

Jergen turns to the Captain, "You know, with a few minutes I could've had the security hub open and we'd know what this alarm was all about. And it could be shut off, now we're taking a stroll through the neighborhood." He then shrugs, knowing the general layout of the ship and heads down to the 6th door on the right, opens it and begins poking around for some tools or a hacking device or something he may have left in his cabin.

[sneggy]

Noggy heads down to his quarters and looks around. Picking up his equipment if he sees it along with anything else he may find. Having completed the search of his quarters he will report to the captain his findings and await further instruction, though he is now getting eager to go up to the bridge and check on the flight course of the ship.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath grunts, and heads off to look at the pretty lady, entering the medical bay

[Loner]

Follow Mali and friends.

[Silas]

EDIT: Ignored this.

[DCLXVI]

Eddies looks back over to the medical bay and frowns. Fucking doctor is gonna stay here isn't she? Walking back towards the bay, he realizes she isn't moving. He sticks his head back out, "Hey, I'm going to stay here with the Doc, the rest of you might as well go with the pilot."

Muttering something unintelligible under his breath, Eddie props himself up inside the doorway.

[Silas]

OOC: Team 1, change of Plans! Miscommunication with the GM. Ignore my last post.

SGS sneggy SourImplant scythes

"Ok team. Only emergency locations are unlocked. Your rooms will have no access. We need to head to the bridge and secure it, turn off those alarms, find what the hell is wrong with the ship, and get some keys. Hopefully restore the facility to non-emergency status."

He looks over the crew.

"Sarah, You and I shall take point entering the bridge. As soon as we get in there, i need my mechanics working overtime to figure out what is busted."

"Pilot, i need you to check our location, and how far we are from our destination."

The captain leads the team onto the bridge, he and the mechanics will go over the the main control area and find out what is wrong, and turn off those dame alarms.

Then grab the keys and restore non emergency status if it is safe to do.

[sneggy]

"yes Sir"
Noggy takes up position behind the captain and the secrutiy officer ready to run for the controls and check on the ships course.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Eddies looks back over to the medical bay and frowns. Fucking doctor is gonna stay here isn't she? Walking back towards the bay, he realizes she isn't moving. He sticks his head back out, "Hey, I'm going to stay here with the Doc, the rest of you might as well go with the pilot."

Muttering something unintelligible under his breath, Eddie props himself up inside the doorway.
Actually I went to the lift.

[SGS]

*Ignore my previous post because of input of new information.*

Sarah takes the lead as the group heads to the bridge, eyes darting left and right for any sign of danger.

[DCLXVI]

Actually I went to the lift.

Ah, so you did. Must have missed that then. Ignore last post, I'm on an elevator mother fuckers, don't you e'er forget!! :D

[scythes]

Jergen beats on his door a couple times before letting his shoulders sag some and heading over to the stairs to join the group heading up to the bridge.

[PyroSikTh]

SonsOfStalingrad DCLXVI
Natalia exists her Medical Bay and makes straight for Eddie, brushing past him and pressing "Lvl 4". Eddie quickly jumps in as the doors close. The doors open again revealing a huge large room. They step out into it and the doors behind them close once again. Eddie immediately notices the Heating and Cooling systems to their left, and notices that there's a huge red light flashing on the Cooling System. He goes up to it and studies it. There's a monitor between the two systems picturing a digital thermometer with a large red line slowly rising up it. This could be the source of the emergency; the Cooling System seems to be disabled, so the Engine Turbines are getting overheated. Thankfully they remain well inside the explosion threshold.

Meanwhile Natalia studies the rest of the room. She identifies the two engine turbines and Comms outlets. The engines appear to be running fine as far as she can tell, but she's not getting anything out of the Comms. There's also a large perspex room. Most the perspex is misted up, but she can see green inside. The door to it remains locked, however. Suddenly the turbine next to her starts making a clunking and churning noise. She's no mechanical expert, but it appears this engine is working overtime. Soon after, the second turbine starts making the same deafening noise. Eddie notices the red bar on the monitor is starting to rise more rapidly...

Thatfatguy
Garath, oblivious to everything around him, heads to the Medical Bay looking for Natalia, but finds himself alone. By the time he comes back out in the corridor, everyone seems to have disappeared.

Silas SGS sneggy SourImplant scythes Loner Mali32
Mark and Madsen pile in the other lift and soon find the door re-opening to Level 2, where the other team are. Noggy and Jergen are trying to get into their quarters, without success. Mark makes his way to his quarters and also finds it locked. The Captain speaks up and leads them all round the corner and up the stairs into the bridge.

The door slides open effortlessly, letting everyone pile on. There are large windows circling the front half of the room, but there are shutters in front of them, obscuring the view of what's beyond. There are two pilot outlets at the front, each with a large hub containing all manner of monitors, buttons, dials and levers. There's another hub at the back of the room with the comfiest-looking chair at it.

[scythes]

Jergen looks around the bridge and sighs as he once again tries to locate a console of some type he can work on to figure out what the problem is, how to shut off the alarms, how to turn real lights on, and, now that he's been up and moving about a little while, how to unlock the doors on the ship, most importantly his room, the mechanical bay, and the mess hall.

[Silas]

"Ahh.... sweet sweet chair. How i missed you."

The Captain takes a seat in his personal hub. Groaning as he sinks into the chair.

sneggy Mali32
"Now, let's see... Pilots. Take these override keys and get us unlocked at your seats."

Brox hands them the keys and waits. When this is done, Brox will shut off the damn alarm.

"Mechanics, please be so kind as to check the server room after the override is completed."

Brox waits for the override to happen, stores any extra keys or anything from the hub. (Looks for goodies) And sees what else he can control. Check for comms.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath scratches the back of his head

"Where everyone be going?" he asks himself, before shrugging and heading towards the lifts, heading to an upper floor

[Loner]

Salute [Silas] and request orders!

[Silas]

Loner
"For now, just make sure no one wanders off, and clear the room. We'll be splitting off to get the security team armed up shortly and to solve whatever this damn alarm is screaming at us about."

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia looks to Eddie, remaining seemingly unworried by the exploding engineyness. "Fix it."
Her attention turns back to the misty perspex room, staring at the... green stuff. "And what's this room?" she shuffles closer to it, having not come to this deck before. Engines don't need doctors. Silly engines.
Wait.
Silly engines, indeed.
She turns back to them, stepping and looking quizzically at them.
"If engines are making noise... Where are we going? They... don't make that noise usually."

[SGS]

Sarah stands by the captain's chair with her hands behind her back. Only the occasional blink giving any hint that she's a human and not a statue.

[DCLXVI]

Studying the instruments and systems, Eddie sighs audibly. "Fucking hell, is there a way to shut this shit off?" He says to no one particular.

G'damnit. I knew I should have paid attention in classes more often. I don't know shit about this stuff...

With another sigh, Eddie goes about trying to figure out how to shut off engines and prevent them from overheating or even exploding.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia scowls, folding her arms and not being particularly helpful. "You can't fixit? Get someone who can."
She taps a finger to her lip. "Captain might be on the bridge."
She gestures towards the elevator, hinting that she intends to go that way.

[sneggy]

Noggy slides into his chair and begins fiddling with the various instruments in front of him. First checking the ships course, then moving the ship into a more user friendly mode, alarms off, shutters open, quarters unlocked if it can be done remotely.
After that he will compile a report on the ships recent course changes and current target destination to give to the captain.

[DCLXVI]

Mutters a string of curse words as he stares at the instruments before nodding and heading towards the elevator. "Yeah, we better hurry. Shit looks like it's about to pop."

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia piles into the elevator with her new buddy and taps the first floor button impatiently. Stupid alarms. Why isn't the comms system working during an emergency? Surely it'd make sense for it to work LOUDER or something.

[PyroSikTh]

Sorry about the long delay for this update. LadyM had her friends staying over for half the week so we were super busy. Back on track now though.

Thatfatguy
Garath heads straight to an elevator and presses "Lvl 2". The doors close and the lift jerks upward. The doors open again and he steps out. He can hear voices up and round the corner, and is momentarily confused as to where they're coming from before the whole corridor lights up in a bright light. He hears some doors slide open, and as his eyes adjust he sees the doctor and that mercenary she vanished with staring at him from the other end of the Level.

SonsOfStalingrad DCLXVI
Eddie studies over the Engines and Cooling System before deciding Natalia's idea of heading to the bridge is the better idea. As the doors close, the level they left behind lights up. A light in the elevator also flickers on, but only casts a dull light, allowing their eyes to adjust slowly. The doors re-open on Level 2 to a bright corridor lit by lights in the ceiling. Something must've changed. There's also a large guy at the other end of the corridor looking at them. Must be Garath. Wherever did he get to?

Silas SGS sneggy SourImplant scythes Loner Mali32
Jergen looks about the bridge looking for somewhere he can fiddle to try and get things working, but he's interrupted by the Captains orders. Brox settles into his chair and opens a security lock with a simple retina scan. He takes out a couple of keys and hands one each to Noggy and Mark. He then empties the container of the rest of the override keys and stashes them in his pocket. Sarah stands guard over him, and Madsen heads to the stairway to guard it.

Noggy and Mark (auto-ing you as you haven't posted) slide into their chairs and insert the override keys into a lock on their separate hubs. Suddenly the hubs boot up, lighting up the room in different coloured lights. Noggy checks the ships course. The interface is fairly easy to use, so he manages to get up the flight path and the crews current location. Everything seems to be in order, but they're still eleven lightyears away from their destination.

Meanwhile Mark starts getting the ship out of lock-down. He starts by turning all the lights on throughout the ship. The bridge lights up once again, temporarily blinding everyone on board until their eyes adjust. Madsen watches as the stairs light up all the way down, and he can see Level 2 at the bottom of them. Mark then gets on to opening everything up. One of his screens lights up showing him the locked doors. As he goes through, the screen shows the doors being unlocked, but there's a delay with the Kitchens. Must've been a computer glitch as the Kitchens unlock and everything else unlocks smoothly afterward.

Noggy goes through the system to find out what's caused the alarms before he can turn them off. He discovers some kind of interference on Level 4, but for some reason he's completely blocked out and can't see what it is. The alarms won't go off until the problem is solved. Frustrated, he goes back to the ship's trajectory and compiles a report which he sends directly to the Captain's hub. Mark finalises the end the lock-down by opening up the shutters on the Bridge, revealing a vast blackness dotted with tiny lights. It appears they're still well within the galaxy system, which can only be a good thing.

The Captain then gives orders to Hurst and Jergen to go to the Computer servers and check everything is in working order over there. Madsen suddenly hears voices from down on Level 2...

[Thatfatguy]

Garath scratches himself, then heads towards Pretty-medic and the Mercenary.

"How are you being?" he asks them as he draws close, looking around "Is big ship no? I imagining theres many things needing fixing for us to have been opened early."


(also slight mistake in your post, you said in my update DCL is a mech when he's a merc :P)

[Loner]

"Oh what a mess," Madsen curses. Rapdily he looks for a weapon and tells the others about what he has heard. Then he continues to listen towards the sounds, trying to identify what they say.

[scythes]

Jergen mutters something unintelligible under his breath and heads to check the servers and computer systems. While he's poking around he brings up a feed from his cabin to make sure everything is still in order and then proceeds to check other parts of the ship such as engineering, the drills again, etc, places a mechanic would look for things broken.

[Silas]

"Ok, that's a little better... except that damn alarm."

The captain clears his throat and turns on the speaker's throughout the ship.

"This is Captain Brox, to all you stragglers... not mentioning any names... DOCTOR. All floors lockdown effects have been reversed, the alarm is centered around floor 4. I want a mechanic on it, and a mercenary or Sarah to go with them. Volunteers would be lovely. The rest of us will head down to security and make sure everything is in order there.... Jergen, you are welcome to keep poking around in the server room if you wish."

Forgetting to to switch the comm to off.... "And i could use a drink...oh shit, this still on? hold on a second.... Got it."

The comm switches off.

"Pilots, you are welcome to join us, or you can stay here and monitor the ship in my absence. We shouldn't be long."

With that the captain heads downstairs prepared to lead those who are coming with him down to the security hub.


To sum up:
- At least one mechanic and mercenary to level 4 to check it out and hopefully fix the problem.
- Anyone who wants to come to the security hub with me is welcome.
- Jergen, Sneggy, and Mali are welcome to chill on the bridge.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Garath scratches himself, then heads towards Pretty-medic and the Mercenary.

"How are you being?" he asks them as he draws close, looking around "Is big ship no? I imagining theres many things needing fixing for us to have been opened early."


(also slight mistake in your post, you said in my update DCL is a mech when he's a merc :P)
Natalia nods to the big man. "The ship is off course, probably. Engines are overheating. Explosion soon." There is an air of cheerfulness in her voice, "At least the alarms will stop then." hearing the announcement, the Doctor calmly and unblinkingly blows a kiss to the closest security camera and buggers off to the medical bay to get her scalpels and drugs.

[Mali32]

After completing the unlocking procedure Mark begins a quick scan through the ship's automated log for any events that might have caused the alarms to go off. He also prepares to set a systems diagnostic running and once it is heads down to check out his quarters for some stashed drink. The captain did have some good ideas after all. If the diagnostic will shut down any of the other systems skip that step and just head straight for my quarters.

[DCLXVI]

Tilting his head slightly, Eddie listens to the announcement a step outside the elevator. Nodding, he motions for the big mechanic Garath. "Hey, let's go big man. Time for you to fix some shit."

He steps back into the elevator and holds it open, waiting for the mechanic. Hopefully we can get this under control before it becomes worse.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath grins.

"Is Garath time to fix things"

He follows the Merc, heading down to do his thing

[SGS]

With the captain.

[sneggy]

Noggy sets his hub to continue on course and locks the keyboard to avoid anyone tampering with it.
Then slides back out of his seat and follows the captain. 11 lightyears is a long long way. May as well do something useful in the meantime.

[PyroSikTh]

Thatfatguy DCLXVI
Eddie and Garath head into the elevator Garath just got out of and head down to Level 4. The doors slide open revealing the engine room, with a large glass room between two engine turbines misted up. The two of them are buffeted by the loud noise of the turbines running in overdrive. Steam is starting to rise from the left one as it heats up uncontrollably.

SonsOfStalingrad
Natalia heads back into the opposite elevator which takes her down to Level 3. The doors slide open revealing a familiar corridor with her favourite door to the right. She enters the Medical Bay, allows the pod to decontaminate her, and then enters the room. She tries a random cupboard and is gleeful when it opens, but she closes it again and heads straight for the ones which contain drugs and scalpels. She takes a sharp-looking scalpel and places it in her pocket, then studies the drugs to decide what she wants to take with her and what to keep in the cupboard.

Mali32
Mark scans the ships log for anything interesting and finds...something. He's not sure exactly what it is, but the cooling system was being tampered with shortly after they were all awoken from cryo-sleep. That was followed moments later by the engine turbines working overtime, and heating exponentially. He decides to run a diagnostic to find out what might have been doing the tampering, but it would require putting the ship back into Lock-down. Not wanting to piss everyone off, he leaves it and heads to his quarters.

He brushes past Madsen as he makes his way down the stairs and turns left at the end. Next to the elevator, he finds the door to his quarters, swings it open and enters. It's a fairly small room, particularly with the bed in it, but it appears to be otherwise empty. He finds all his belongings in a drawer under his bed, and his clothes hung up in a wardrobe of sorts, next to a mirror.

Silas SGS sneggy
The Captain takes leave, followed by Sarah and Noggy. They head down the steps and straight to an elevator. After waiting a while for the elevator to come back up, they board it and head down to Level 5. The doors slide back open revealing a familiar part of the ship. The Security Hub appears to still be offline however.

scythes
Jergen leaves the bridge and over the top of the steps over to the Computer Servers at the other end. He finds himself in a large rectangular room with a seat at either end facing the wall. He sits down in one of the seats and is startled when the wall in front of him starts to shift and change. Before he knows it, he's staring at several screens and a hub of buttons, dials and levers.

"Good Morning Jergen Schlagger." A soft womanly voice echoes about the room. "How may I be of service to you today?"

Loner
Madsen soon recognises the voices of Natalia, Eddie and Garath, but they disappear. Before he knows it, everyone is brushing past him as they leave the Bridge and all head in separate directions. He notices Jergen precariously make his way over the top of the stairs to get to a room Madsen hadn't noticed at the other end. He sighs as he looks around for a weapon of some kind, but finds no such thing on the stairwell, or on the Bridge. It's on the Bridge he hears a whisper. A faint whisper, but the voice is deep and cold. He can't tell what it's saying as it seems to be in another language. Then the whispers stop suddenly.

SourImplant
You haven't posted for over 2 weeks now. Are you still playing, or do I have your leave to strike you off the player list and use Oldman as an NPC?

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Smiling for the first time since she woke up, Natalia loads up a medkit with the usual supplies - scalpels, gauze and wound dressing, adrenaline shots, pain killing injections, sedatives, as well as some less well-known illegal drug injections and some nice bags of powders that can be used in a variety of ways to relive pain, worry, fear and just about everything else. Pausing for a moment, she tosses in some surgical needles and thread, super glue and a small bottle of alcohol to help treatment.
Now if only she could remember where the fuck the lollipops were.

[scythes]

"Hmph, all this high tech electronics, I'd prefer a good wrench and some oil, but, lets get to it." Jergen frowns for a moment, "Uh, computer, what were the alarms on for?" If the system isn't voice activated he'll use his computing skills to see if he can search the servers, making sure they're in one piece and trying to find the answer himself.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath rubs his hands together, and looks at the Engines.

"Is time for me to fix, no?"

He then tries to determine what is wrong with the engines from a distance, before getting closer

[DCLXVI]

Winces at how loud it's gotten. The new steam is a new addition and for the first time, Eddie looks a little worried since waking up. He nods towards the big mechanic.

"Hell yeah big guy. Work your magic."

Eddie stands behind him, ready to do whatever he can to help out the mechanic.

[Silas]

"Alright, let's get this bad boy open."

Brox cracks his knuckles and struts over to the security hub, and switches it on.

"Once I get this thing turned on, head in and check our supplies. I can't remember off the top of my head what we brought along."

He tosses the cabinet keys to Sarah.

[Loner]

Heroicly Madsen panics and flees up the stairs towards level two. (I'm assuming I am on level 1.)
There, he takes a deep breath and looks around. "Now where the hell (Can I say hell on the forums?) am I?"
He tries to look for someone.
(If he doesn't find someone, heroicly flee up to level 3...)

[sneggy]

Noggy waits patiently for the captain to activate the hub. I will help in anyway I can.

[Mali32]

Mark rifles through his belongings trying to find any bottles of alcohol he might have stashed anywhere. If he finds some he takes a quick nip from the bottle before stashing it in one of his pockets and heading back up to the bridge to watch the stars go by and keep an eye on the ships systems as best he can be bothered (not very much).

[Loner]

PyroSikTh, edited my message. :)

[SGS]

*Stand around and wait for something that requires my attention.

[PyroSikTh]

Thatfatguy DCLXVI
Garath inspects the turbines from a distance, coming to the conclusion that they're running a bit too fast. He gets closer and goes to touch one, but he draws his hand back at the immense heat being radiated from it.

Eddie stands back and keeps a look out ready to alert the mechanic to anything else that might go wrong, when he suddenly notices movement round the other side of the glass room...

SonsOfStalingrad
Natalia grabs a Medikit and starts loading it up. She first puts in a set of scalpels, followed by wound dressings. Next up is a box of 3 Adrenaline Shots, 5 Painkillers, a Sedative and a bag of powders. She then puts in a set of surgical needles before realising the Medikit is packed to overflow, and she can't fit in the thread, superglue or alcohol, let alone her mysterious lollipops.

Mali32
Mark searches his room for any alcohol he may have hidden around it, but finds nothing. Cursing that he didn't think of stashing alcohol in his room, he leaves and heads to the Bridge. However he finds Madsen lying at the foot of the steps, looking as if he just fell down them...

Silas SGS sneggy
The Captain heads to the Security Hub and puts one of the override keys into one of the key slots. It's stiff, but eventually he manages to turn it 180 degrees before the hub lights up, and the screens blink on with images from across the ship. They notice Garath burning his hands on the Engine Turbines, and Natalia trying to pack as much as she can into a small Medikit. The Captain then presses a hidden button to the side which opens up a wrack of keys. He takes one on the end and throws it to Sarah along with orders to open up the cabinet. He then shuts the wrack of keys back into the hub.

Sarah catches the keys and unlocks the cabinet. She opens it revealing 10 Shotguns, 6 Pistols, and 3 Batons. There's also 3 suits of Armour lined along the back, and a shelf with 4 each of three strange devices.

scythes
"There is a malfunction on Level 4." Replied the soft voice. "Tampering with Cooling Systems and Engine Turbines. Requires immediate attention."

Loner
Madsen scurries out of the Bridge, but in his panic he trips down the steps and falls flat on his face (-8 Health). He looks up to see a pair of feet. As he looks up further, he sees they belong to Mark, who's looking at him rather bemused.

[sneggy]

Grab myself a pistol and a shotgun+some ammunition (Assuming they come pre-loaded) Then begin examining the strange devices. Try to figure out what they are and what they do without touching them.

[scythes]

Jergen contacts the Captain over the console he's at, "Sir, the computer just told me there's something going on down on the 4, seems something tampered with the engines. I'm gonna go check it out but if something if tampering I'd like some security with me to take care of this mysterious something." He waits for a response and then heads to the elevator to go to the 4th level.

[Loner]

"There was something in the bridge." Madsen explains to the pilot, "I heard something!"
Quickly he clambers to his feet and runs further up the stairs, towards the second level, not bothering to pay any attention to what the pilot does. When he is on that level, Madsen nervously looks around, shrieks when notices a sound and he continues to look for any possible signs of danger. Afterwards he goes to the door of his quarters and places his ear against the door, trying to find out of there could be any danger behind it.Then he tries to open it.

[Silas]

"Better. Lock and Load... I've always wanted to say that."

The captain cranes his ear to hear Jergen's words.

"Right, no more dawdling. I see the pilot's got the right idea. Grab one extra piece to hand out to the mercenary on level 4. Also, what the hell is this thing?"

He picks up one of the strange devices and looks it over before moving over the comms. Then the other, then the other.

"Jergen, we will meet you there. I don't like the sounds of this though. Garath and Eddie, be wary down there and don't do anything rash. We're heading to you.

All other members, the security hub is open. Proceed immediately to outfit yourself, i'd prefer Sarah and a mercenary to take the other two armor pieces."

With that, the captain waits for Sarah to gear up and heads to level 4.


Equipment For myself:
Shotgun
Pistol
Armor
Strange Device. (Take a random one)

[Mali32]

Mark nudges Madsen with his foot. "Oi Madsen, you ok? Summat in the bridge you say? Well that probably aint good. Yeah you go on up ahead. I'll catch you up in a min." mark says, waiting to see if anything happens to Madsen. When(or if) he comes rushing back past him Mark cautiously heads back up onto the bridge, keeping an eye out for any things up there. He moves over towards his console and tries to raise the captain on the internal coms.

"Captain it's Mark here. Either that merc Madsen's lost it or there's something else on or near the bridge with us. I ran a quick check of the logs earlier and saw that something had been tampering with the cooling systems right before we woke up. I dont think we're alone on the ship captain. Think we need to do a search. Permission to go arm myself?"

[DCLXVI]

Watching the big mechanic work, Eddie catches some movement out of the corner of his eye. He frowns as he didn't notice anyone come off the other elevator and starts moving. He places a hand on Garaths back and pats him, never taking his eyes off where he's looking. "Keep it up. I'm gonna check something out."

Moving cautiously, he starts to head towards the comms. Both to inform the Captain he and Garath are on level four and ask if someone else came down.

[Silas]

Mali32

I gave you permission. So go wild! :)

[SGS]

"Yes captain." Sarah quickly puts on one of the armor sets, grabs some weapons and one of the strange devices and stores it in a pocket.

Equipment:
-Armor
-Shotgun
-Pistol
-Strange Device (who the hell would know what these do?)

[PyroSikTh]

-Sling an extra shotgun to give to a merc.

You can only take one 2-handed weapon (Shotgun) and one 1-handed weapon (Pistol). The other mercs will have to come and get it themselves

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia frowns.
Where ARE those damn lollipops? The more she thought about it, the more she was convinced some sort of sugar-thief must have come aboard, stolen the lollipops and... she drew a blank at the next stage of their evil plan. But they had the lollipops.
Well, that would have to wait. She'd find them sooner or later. Once the engines stopped being explody. And then she'd find her thread and sew their lips to their ass or something.
With the kit overlowing, she throws the needles down beside her and quickly throws a couple packets of painkillers over her shoulder. Assuming she can close the medkit, she'll slam it shut. If not, she'll selectively remove another item until it can close.
Once she hears that satisfying snap of the medkit closing, she'll lug the contents back on down to the engine room at a casual-yet-brisk pace.
She liked that the engines were doing something interesting.
Interesting usually hurt people.
Hurt people usuall meant she got to play.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath heads over to the controls, and attempts to fix the turbines

[Mali32]

Mark makes his way over to the elevator and heads down to level 5 and the security hub. Once there he checks to see what weapons are available and, if there's any left, grabs himself a pistol, shotgun and then investigates the strange devices to try and figure out what they might do.

[PyroSikTh]

Thatfatguy DCLXVI
Eddie pats Garath on the back as he investigates the source of movement. He reaches the other side of the deck and looks around the corner of the glass room. There doesn't seem to be anything there. Although the wall appears to be shimmering...or is that movement? Suddenly something rushes out at Eddie from the wall, but Eddie manages to duck in time before it hit him. He looks back up and sees a humanoid form, shimmering (or moving) black. It appears tall, lean, and organic, but on closer inspection it's bio-mechanical.

Garath starts tinkering with the Engine Turbine. Eventually he manages to shift it back to a normal revolution, however the heat it continues to radiate has burnt his arms, hands and fingers (-48 Health). The other Turbine continues to make a huge racket.

The elevator behind Garath opens...

scythes SonsOfStalingrad
As Jergen exits the server room, he sees Mark heading up the stairs towards the bridge and greets him. He then heads down the steps to Level 2, where he gets in an elevator and presses "Lvl 4". The doors open, and he's met face-to-face with Natalia, a medikit in her hands. She then steps inside and the doors close. A moment later the doors open once again to Level 4. They see Garath stood next to an Engine Turbine with some pretty serious burns along his arms, and Eddie appears to be pre-occupied with something on the other side of the glass room.

Mali32 Silas SGS sneggy
Mark watches Madsen get up and brush passed him to the crew quarters. Mark shrugs and heads up the steps to the Bridge. Jergen greets him as he leaves the Server Room and heads down the stairs. Mark continues onto the Bridge. Nothing seems to be up here, and certainly no voices. It's as quiet as can be. He hails the Captain on the comms, gets the answer he liked most, and then heads back down the steps and to an elevator. He presses "Lvl 5", the doors close, and the elevator jerks into action. He then feels it come to a close, and the doors open revealing Level 5 and it's current 3 occupiers; the Captain, Noggy and Sarah. They're loading up on weapons.

The Captain takes a suit of armour, a Shotgun and a Pistol. Sarah does the same, and Noggy settles just for the weapons and an extra box of Ammo for each. Mark heads over and grabs himself a Shotgun and Pistol also, leaving 6 Shotguns, 2 Pistols, 3 Batons, and 3 suits of Armour. The four of them then give the strange devices their attention.

The Captain grabs a random one. It looks like some sort of high-tech set of headphones, but when he tries it on, there's nothing over his ears, instead his eyes are bombarded with a series of lights and shapes. Mark and Noggy decide to investigate them first before just aimlessly grabbing them. There's the set of Headphones - 3 more after the Captain grabbed one - 4 boxes which appear to be on wristbands, and 4 small brooches.

Loner
Madsen gets on to his feet, points and raves up the steps, and then hurries down the corridor to his chambers. He puts his ear to door and hears nothing but the hum of the ships engines vibrating through the ship. He then opens the door and sees his room, looking rather empty. A bed takes up half of it, with a large set of draws beneath. There's also a wardrobe, a mirror and a sink.

[DCLXVI]

As Eddie peeks around the corner, some kind of shimmering light catches his eye. What the fuck is that... He squints looking at it and realizes in the last second that it's rushing him, he manages to evade whatever blow was coming and rolls onto the ground. He looks back up in the direction of the attack and looks into some kind of shimmering? black form.

"Aw fuck..." Taking a in a quick scan of his location, he attempts to make his way quickly back to Garath and the elevator. "Big man! I think it's time we got out of here!!"

[Thatfatguy]

Garath examines his burnt arms, before turning to look into the elevator

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia takes in the situation, her eyes widening - not with shock but with a delight. Burns. PERFECT.
She waved Garath over to the elevator.
Few things had an odour quite like burned flesh. She did prefer the smell of the newly dead, but this was a close contender.
Smells kind of like bacon.
And who doesn't like bacon? Even vegans secretly like it. If they denied it they were LIARS.
If Garath makes it to the lift, she'll set to work diagnosing the problem and treating him with pain-killers and some wound dressing designed to help burns.

[Loner]

"Where is it?! Where is it?" Madsen looks in the drawers under the bed in the hope of finding a weapon.
Afterwards he opens the wardrobe and looks through his stuff for anything that can be used as a weapon.
If he doesn't find anything suitable weapon, he grabs hold of the sink and looks in the mirror as he tries to calm himself. He washes the blood of him falling down the stairs away.
If he does find a weapon, he grabs it and rushes back to the bridge, trying not to fall of the stairs this time.

[Mali32]

Mark picks up one of the sets of headphone things and tries it on like the captain.

[scythes]

Jergen helps Garath over to the elevators so the doc can get to work on him then turns and eyes up the engines. He gets as close as he can without getting burnt and tries get the cooling systems back online before they burn them selves out. "This is gonna be a long trip if we lose these things." He says to no one in particular.

[PyroSikTh]

He gets as close as he can without getting burnt and tries to get the other ones to a slower speed before they burn themselves out.

Just a little hint; If you attempt to slow it down, you will get burned. 100%. Try attempting to cool it down ;)

[SGS]

*Continue guarding the captain while he has his little mind trip thingy.
*Takes a wristband.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

I will happily set to work dealing with the injury in the best way possible, with only minimal prodding of the wounded area and asking "does this hurt?" and "how about here?" for a couple of minutes.

[Silas]

"Well, if that doesn't remind me of my days off at the academy... I don't know what will."

Orders:
Roll out to the turbine level! Stay frosty.

[sneggy]

try on a wristband.

~sorry for not being too detailed. rushing as on break at work.

[PyroSikTh]

Thatfatguy DCLXVI scythes SonsOfStalingrad
Eddie rushes back around the corner and drags Garath to the open elevator where Natalia and Jergen are. Jergen exits the Elevator and heads to the Cooling System to try and get it back online. First he switches it off and twiddles with some wires then turns it back on. It whirs for a moment before turning silent again. The little thermometer to the side shows the temperature increase slow, but nonetheless continuing to increase. Jergen's a little confused. He did everything right, but for some reason it didn't work.

Natalia gets to treating Garath's wounds. She starts off by giving him a healthy dose of painkillers, and then whips out a device from her Medikit that she scans over his burns. Immediately they start to reduce and start healing (+48 Health). To finish, she wraps up his arms in a dressing just to make sure the healing finishes.

Meanwhile Eddie keeps watch out the elevator, making sure no harm comes to Jergen. He sees the black, shimmering humanoid come round the corner, but it's not alone. There's two more, one either side.

Mali32 Silas SGS sneggy
Mark grabs a headphone device and puts it over his head. Suddenly he sees lights and shapes in front of his eyes. He notices what appears to be a distance measure, and target circles appear around the heads of anyone he looks at. Sarah and Noggy each take one of the Wristband devices and strap it to their wrists. They feel a sharp prick of the skin underneath and notice a large red button on the side of the box.

The Captain commands them to move out. They head to the nearest elevator and call it, but it doesn't arrive. After a while, they head to the one at the opposite end of the ship. This arrives almost immediately, and they all pile in. It stops and the doors open to Level 4. They see Natalia, Garath, Eddie and Jergen up the other end of the ship near that opposing elevator. Natalia seems to be treating and injured Garath, Jergen is working on the cooling system, and Eddie is looking towards them. Then they notice 3 black humanoids between the two groups, constantly shifting and shimmering. Noggy tries to call out to the other group, but the noise of the Engine Turbine next to them drowns everything out.

Loner
Madsen frantically searches his drawers, cupboards and wardrobe. He finds all his clothes and a couple of personal belongings. Then he finds his knife. It's only small, but it's as sharp as humanly possible. He takes it and rushes back up the steps to the Bridge. There's no-one here and he's entirely alone. And then it strikes him...Where's Oldman? Did he go with the Captain?

[Loner]

"Where is everyone?! What's wrong with this ship?!" Madsen panics. "One moment that pilot was here and now he is gone!"
He looks around, trying to figure out where everyone is.
"What have I gotten myself into this time?!"

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia finishes treating the wounds, looks towards the black... things... and slowly reaches for a scalpel.
She shows no sign of fear or surprise. No, that would require not having various drugs in her system.
"Oh, look. Boogiemen did come on board. Maybe they want to eat our flesh."
she admired the glint of light on her scalpel.
"Maybe they took my FUCKING LOLLIPOPS."
She looks questioningly to the others, wondering what should be done.

[scythes]

Jergen continues messing with the cooling system, he tries cranking it up all the way, if that does nothing he'll completely shut it off and turn it back on to see if it helps any. "Damn machines, no reason they shouldn't just be working correctly!"

[Silas]

"Well i'll be dammed... there ARE things on this ship. Sarah. Noggy. With me. We move forward and if any of those ugly things make a move any of you don't like, take em down. Noggy, watch our six. I don't want any of their friends sneaking up on us."

Orders:
-Move to a an optimal firing range, coming in from the side of those things, approach in a direction that if we fire, we won't risk hitting the other group.
- If they move, kill them. If they look at me funny, kill them.
- Otherwise, give them a solid 5 count, then kill them.

[DCLXVI]

Watching from the elevator, Eddie sees more of those shimmering figures. His eyes keep darting back and forth from Jergen and the alien looking figures. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Not good. NOT good! Another quick look and decides he needs some fire power.

"Hey! HEY! Jergen! You got some fucking company! I'm going to go grab some weapons, either get in here with me or hope they can get to you first!!" He nods towards the other elevator as the rest of the crew steps off.

[sneggy]

Noggy pulls his shotgun into his shoulder bracing for its recoil. He advances slightly behind Sarah and the Captain glancing behind them occasionally to ensure their exit is clear.
If the firing begins then target any alien that Sarah isnt targetting. Ideally the one most likely to rip my face off.

[Mali32]

Mark quickly draws his shotgun and points it at the shimmering creatures. He also takes note of what any of the images and symbols in his eyes say or show him about them. If the opportunity arises to take a careful shot at one of the creatures without damaging anyone or anything Mark will happily take it.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath looks at his bandage wrapped hands.

"I look like a mummy! ha!" he grins, punching the air a bit with his bandaged arms, before looking around. looking through his tools for a weapon.

[SGS]

*Fire on the captain's command. 12 gauges of slug I hope.

[PyroSikTh]

Thatfatguy DCLXVI SonsOfStalingrad
Natalia holds her Scalpel at the ready, and Garath looks around confused that he doesn't have any tools. Poor thing. Suddenly the doors of the elevator close and it starts to move. They both look to Eddie who's finger is still on the "Lvl 5" button. The doors open and Eddie is quick to exit the elevator and heads straight to the cupboard with all the weapons in. Inside are 6 Shotguns, 2 Pistols, 3 Batons, 1 suit of Armour, 4 Phase Shifters, 2 Combat Stimms, and 2 Sight Matrices.

Loner
Madsen panics frantically feeling alone and neglected. Then he remembers there's an alarm still blaring in his ears...

Mali32 Silas SGS sneggy scythes
Jergen fiddles with the Cooling System some more. He manages to fix the problem and switch the Cooling back into place. Unfortunately the loud noise created by the second turbine is still deafening, so must still be in overdrive. At least now he can get near it to fix it. He gets the feeling someone is shouting at him, but he doesn't hear and continues on.

The Captain, Sarah, Noggy, and Mark all watch as Eddie, Natalia and Garath disappear behind the closing doors of their elevator. That brings two of the creature's attention to them, and the third to Jergen who remains at the other end of the deck. The four of them get into a good position next to the noisy Engine Turbine, and use it for cover now that it's heat-output is dying down. Two of the creatures start making their way towards them, leaving only a short distance between them and the Captain's group.
Brox lays on the first shot, catching the creature in it's chest, but the creature just stumbles back.
Noggy keeps a look-out round the other side to make sure they're not being flanked, and notices the creature's tendency to stick together. He fires his Shotgun at the one closest to him, but it morphs shape causing the shots to miss completely.
Mark takes the opportunity to take aim at it. The Sight Matrix kicks in and shows Mark where the best place to aim for is, and he takes his shot. It catches the creature in it's chest. It stutters back, almost falling to the ground. A huge hole is left where it was hit, and it appears to be sparking inside (49 Damage).
Sarah takes her shot with her shotgun at the one the Captain caused to stumble backwards. The creature seems to have gained it's footing however, and manages to dodge out the way with lightning speed.
Both creatures remain a short distance away, but not close enough to attack themselves.

Sarah follows up with another shot straight away. This time the shot hits true, but only skims what appears to be some sort of dense shell (10 Damage). The creature stumbles back once again.
Noggy fires another shot at the one closest to him and hits it in the torso. Suddenly the creature falls to the ground and disintegrates into a million little pieces that slide across the floor in all directions, and absorb into the walls (115 Damage - Dead).
Mark uses the Sight Matrix to take aim at the other creature. Unfortunately he's too hasty with his shot and the creature manages to morph it's dense shell to deflect the shot.
The Captain takes another shot at the creature, letting the Sight Matrix identify the best target on the creature's body. He pulls the trigger and causes a hit which manages to penetrate the shell, but not much else (61 Damage). It stumbles back further, creating a larger distance between it and the group.
The creature manages to regain it's feet, but stands motionless. Mark and the Captain's Sight Matrices point out that the creature is now beyond the range of the Shotguns they're carrying.

The third creature continues to lumber towards Jergen, closing the distance between them...

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Suspiciously, Natalia grabs a pistol for protection. She'd prefer some sort of scalpel-launcher, but this would do. She'll also grab the stimms, seeing as medical stuff is her job, so why the fuck shouldn't she have them.
With these items secured, she will return to the elevator.
"So. Some black things on board. People but not people." she wipes her scalpel, ensuring a nice shine. "Why are they here?"

[Mali32]

Mark decides that finishing off these things is one for the captain and the mercs/security and so hangs back near the elevator, ready to provide support should it be needed.

OOC: Can we only have one of the phase shifter/stims/sight matrix at a time?

[PyroSikTh]

OOC: Can we only have one of the phase shifter/stims/sight matrix at a time?

You can have as many as you can wear or put in your pockets. So no, you can have more than just one.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath takes a shotgun, baton and sight matrice, grinning as he hefts his new weapons.

"is not tools, but do."

[DCLXVI]

Eddie quickly starts suiting up in the armor. As he does a quick once over, making sure everything is in place, he grabs some combat stimms (did Natalia grab both or just one? If she nabbed both then ignore this), sight matrices and a phase shifter. Grabbing a shotgun, he checks this weapon quickly, but careful before grabbing as many rounds as possible. He does the same with his side arm and starts moving back towards the elevator.

"Let's go welcome those fuckers properly now."

[Loner]

Madsen panics and runs in a little circle before he decides that he shouldn't stay here.
Heroicly he climbs the stairs to level 2, panics, runs in a little circle again before he pushes the buttons on the elevator. He looks around wildly: "What the hell is going on in this place?!"
(If not attacked by a horrible creature or slaughtered along the way, stop at the level where the captain is.)

[Silas]

"Dodgy little buggers, Sarah, please save Jergen. He seems to actually be making some headway on getting the damn ship fixed. Noggy, we finish the other one."

With that, he moves slowly forward with the pilot into shotgun range and levels his shotgun using his sight matrix to full advantage.

"Get off... MY SHIP!"

[scythes]

Hearing the shotgun blasts (hopefully), Jergen turns around to spot a strange creature heading his way. "What the hell is that thing?" He looks about quickly to see if there's anything nearby to protect himself with, preferably a large pipe wrench or something of the sort. He then takes a defensive stance and does his best to ward off the creature.

If I don't hear the shotgun blasts....Jergen continues working at the control station, oblivious to the danger creeping up on him, and tries to get the engines back under control.

[PyroSikTh]

Thatfatguy DCLXVI SonsOfStalingrad
Natalia immediately grabs a Pistol and a wristband, for just in case. Garath grabs a set of headphone things, a Shotgun and a Baton, hanging the Baton on his belt. Eddie suits up in the last suit of armour, grabs the last Matrix and Stimms as well as a Phase Shifter, and then checks the remaining Shotguns before deciding which one best suits his needs. He then grabs a box of Shotgun ammo and heads to the Elevator...

Loner
Madsen hurries back down the stairs to Level 2 where he's greeted by two strange humanoid...things. They're jet black, but shimmer with movement constantly...

Mali32 Silas SGS sneggy scythes
Mark hangs back near the Elevator whilst the Captain moves in the opposite direction, closing the distance between him and the creature. Once in range, he pulls the trigger, aiming at the pretty red circles dancing about his vision. The shot just clips the creature, causing no damage (the creature needed to roll a 96 to dodge the shot, and it rolled a 96 exactly). The creature closes on him, now within arm's reach. Before Brox can react, the creature unleashes a flurry of attacks, but they fall short. Brox follows up, using his shotgun to batter it, but the creature manages to parry the blow. With Brox off-balance, the creature attacks again, sending a flurry of tiny razorblades that scratch at his armour plating. The Captain strikes again with the butt of the shotgun, smashing the creature's head in (21 damage). It shatters, but the main body continues with a relentless attack at Brox's face, but he manages to block it with his arm leaving scratches along the armour plating. With a swing of his shotgun, Brox strikes what remains of the creature in the side, but the creature just swallows the shotgun with it's body. The Captain watches as the shotgun is slowly dismantled like a doughnut dismantled by a swarm of ants. The creature thrusts towards him, but a simple side-step causes the creature to fly onto the floor where Brox stamps on it (DEAD). There's a loud screech as what remains of the creature disperses in all directions across the floor and into the walls of the ship.

Jergen turns round at the sound of Shotgun blasts and sees a hulking, black humanoid towering over him. He quickly grabs round the back of the Cooling System and finds a large pipe. Before he can swing the pipe round, the creature is on him. Jergen feels a thousand sharp blades across his chest, but not digging deep enough to cause any damage. As Jergen swings the pipe around, the creature attacks again, but Jergen manages to dodge and finish his swing, hitting the creature in the torso. There's a crackling noise as the insides of the creature sparks (16 damage). In retaliation, the creature sends a flurry of blades at him again, but Jergen ducks. The creature sends a second flurry below catching Jergen in the legs and slicing them both open (-57 Health). As Jergen stumbles to the ground, he swings the pipe at the creature, but it bends and morphs it's body out the way followed by another slam of tiny blades into Jergen's back, breaking through the skin and causing uncontrollable bleeding (-54 Health). Again the creature attacks, but Jergen manages to roll across the floor just in time as the blades cut into the floor where he was. With another swing of the pipe, the creature ducks, dodges and morphs all at the same time, sending the blades at Jergen twice more. Jergen feels a sharp pain in his chest (-73 Health) as only one set of blades manage to catch their mark. He feels the blood pumping out his body as he tries one last stab and thrust with the pipe using the last of his strength. The creature's arrogance is it's downfall as the pipe stabs into it's side, taking a large chunk out the other end (56 damage). The creature stumbles, but has enough strength remaining to send two more sets of blades towards Jergen as he lie bleeding on the floor. The first one scratches at his jumpsuit and the second hits him in his left arm, knocking the pipe out of his hands...

[scythes]

OOC: Um, was anyone else gonna give me a hand here? I'm fighting some alien thing with nothing but a pipe.

Jergen feels it very hard to move from the massive amount of wounds and loss of blood. He tries to swing the pipe some more, but not to hurt the creature, just keep it at bay until his companions can come to his rescue. "I could use a little help over here guys," he says as loudly as he can cursing the creature through the pain.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath grabs as much ammo as he can, and heads after the merc

[Loner]

PyroSikTh, assuming I am in the middle of the second level, are these two things both on the left side, right side or on both sides?

[PyroSikTh]

You're at the bottom of the steps, so they're blocking your way to the quarters and elevators.

[Loner]

In that case...
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/707/nothing-to-do-here-template.jpg.scaled500.jpg

Flee back to the bridge slowly. Try not to make any noise.
Then once I am in the bridge, grab something that I can throw and hide near the stairs.
Once the humanoids appear, throw the object to the corner far away. After that I dash back up the stairs.

[PyroSikTh]

...Where are you intending to go?

[DCLXVI]

Eddie quickly moves into the elevator and starts mashing the button, the damned machine not working fast enough for him.

"For fucks sake, let's GO!!"

[SGS]

*Kill the last creepy thing

[Silas]

SGS sneggy

Brox curses as he loses his shotgun.

"You've got to be shitten' me..."

He turns towards Jergen. "Quit screwing around and kill that thing!"
The captain draws his pistol and calls sarah and noggy to him to wipe out the last creepy thing attacks scythes.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia will stay silent within the elevator, seemingly lost in deep thought.

[Mali32]

Mark hangs back near to the elevator, letting the others finish off the creatures but ready to blast away if any more appear near him.

[sneggy]

Any creepy things still alive?

Rally to the captain and shotgun shit.
If all creepy things are dead look around for other targets and if nothing appears then go spend a quiet moment by myself contemplating on what I have done. Talk to myself at this stage in hushed whispers. Just loud enough for the others to hear noise but not what I am saying.

[PyroSikTh]

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, it's been a pretty busy week. I'm updating now though, with more streamlined combat. This won't affect you or your characters in any way, it'll just appear to occur slightly different in the write-up.

Thatfatguy DCLXVI SonsOfStalingrad
Garath grabs two boxes of shotgun shells and follows after Eddie into the elevator, Natalia already there. Eddie smashes the button to Level 4 and the doors close. There's a shunt as the elevator starts and stops. The doors open again to Sarah smashing the last creature into smithereens. Jergen lies beneath the debris seriously injured and bleeding.

Loner
Madsen quickly hurries back up the stairs and onto the bridge. He looks for something loose to use as a distraction, but everything is fixed or locked away. Then the two creatures emerge, walking through the doorway, their faceless heads fixed on Madsen...

Mali32 Silas SGS sneggy scythes
Jergen struggles to keep the creature at bay. The creature continues it's offense despite it's sparking wounds. It jabs at him with it's two bladed tendrils. Jergen manages to block one, but the other catches his side. Fortunately it just leaves a scratch. The creature whips the bladed tendrils, but Jergen keeps hold of one stopping it from getting anywhere near him. The other goes for his arm and slices it, releasing a small spray of blood (-21 Health). At that moment, Sarah, the Captain and Noggy all come to the rescue. Sarah gets in first and smashes the creature with the butt of her shotgun. The creature flinches as the shotgun makes contact (9 damage). Sarah then swings her shotgun around with mad skills, but the creature dodges the swing, and the following stab. Sarah continues the attack and manages to swing the shotgun into the creature's side, spraying tiny pieces of metal all over Jergen (DEAD). The spray continues beyond natural laws of physics, and soon all the debris has been swallowed by the walls.

Jergen lies back on the cold floor bleeding profusely as the alarm continues to blare and the second engine turbine still making a huge, deafening noise.

[Loner]

OOC: On what levels is everyone?

OOC2: How fast are these creatures?

[scythes]

"I hope the doc is nearby, I've always preferred female docs to male ones...." With that Jergen closes his eyes and rests as best he can, trying to deal with the pain he's in. He concentrates on breathing and pretty much nothing else, he doesn't want to think about anything right now.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath looks at the creatures, and steps forwards, prodding one with his foot

[PyroSikTh]

OOC: On what levels is everyone?
You're on Level 1. Everyone else is on Level 4.


OOC2: How fast are these creatures?
Roughly as fast as you.


Garath looks at the creatures, and steps forwards, prodding one with his foot

There are no creatures to prod. They all dissolved into the walls.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia walks calmly over to the seriously injured crewmate and open up her first aid kit. She'll loudly snort a li'l of the mysterious white powder herself before inspecting the wounds.

If it's safe to get the debris off before treatment:
"You. Muscles." she says bluntly, pointing a finger to Garath, "Move this shit." She waits only long enough for the debris to be moved before starting to treat the wounds as best she can with the tools she has with her. Anything that can't be fixed, she'll botch some other way to at least slow down its fucked-upness (shutup that is a word) - you know the sort, splicing this thing onto that thing, putting a knot in that, and removing those things entirely. Whilst working, she will merrily sing a rhyme involving any body parts and organs she happens to see (and poke back into place)

If it's unsafe to get the debris off before treatment:
With a disappointed look, Natalia sighs and speaks to the patient, "Now how did you fuck up this badly?" She will treat the wounds its possible for her to treat whilst rigging up methods to prolong Jergen's lifespan for the stuff she can't actually fix, all the while complaining, complete with head shaking, "You know, your body is little more than a fleshy little packet of blood. It doesn't like being squished and ripped open. You really should try not to do this again in future.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath heads over to natalia, helping her to remove the debris, checking her out the entire time.

[PyroSikTh]

...There is no debris, no trace of the creatures at all. It all absorbed into the walls and floors.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Yes there is. Your post clearly says Jergen is under debris. Therefore I got the big foreign guy to remove said debris.

[PyroSikTh]

Read the next sentence; last line of the large paragraph; "The spray continues beyond natural laws of physics, and soon all the debris has been swallowed by the walls." Not sure I could've made it more clear cut than that.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Ah right it is in the separate section. Yeah, when I play these games, I only read where I am tagged - I assume other tags are for other locations. As my character isn't privvy to the ability to see that scene, I tend not to read them. Enriches the roleplay stuff.

Re-do.

Natalia shuffles on over to the dead body of the former crewmate and watches it closely. She gives it a neat kick to the side, waits for a few seconds and looks to the captain. "That's a dead'un." her voice is still flat and unemotional, despite the strange goings on. "Suggest we flush it out into space. Don't know what the boogeymen were. Could be contagious. Also, get the fucking alarm off." she stretches her arms out, "anyone else bleeding?"

[PyroSikTh]

Sorry I probably should have added that to your paragraph too. My bad. Also I seem to have placed the "(DEAD)" badly. I always place it at the end of the sentence, it was just coincidental that that sentence finished with "Jergen".

Right guys to summarise and clarify; the creature is dead. It smashed into a million tiny pieces over Jergen and then dissolved into the walls and floor, leaving no trace. Jergen is not dead, just severely injured and bleeding profusely.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Righto. Then back to the plan of snorting powder and seeing what I can fix.

[Mali32]

"Captain i think it's probably important to get that engine cooled down or shut down. I for one dont want to be blown into tiny smithereens. We could try shutting it down from the bridge perhaps? I'll go do it but I would like some company." Marks calls out over the engine as he moves over to the captain muttering afterwards "Preferably someone I can outrun."

[scythes]

"Hey doc, think you could hook me up with a little of that stuff you snorted? Might make me feel a little better while you're poking and prodding at me."

[Loner]

"Oh shit," Madsen curses.

He circles around the headless things untill he finds an opening through which he can escape to level two again.
Fear steadily pumps the adrenaline into his body.

He holds his knife in his hands and is ready to cut off anything that tries to touch him.

After that he rapidly punches the buttons on the elevators.
"Why the f-ck does it take so long?!"

(I assume there are no stairs to level 4?)

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia will obviously shoot the patient up with various sorts of anything she has whilst working. She's not crazy enough to just go in with a scalpel and nothing else. Pain killers for everyone!

[SGS]

*Check shotgun for damages. Recheck to ensure it's fully loaded. Check pistol to ensure it's fully loaded. Try to figure out what the little bracelet thing is supposed to do.

[Silas]

The captain snorts.

"Alright, these things literally eat our technology. Keep that in mind, try to keep your distance when fighting them.

We need to get to the dorms, make sure those bastard don't destroy anything important in there.

I need a volunteer to stay with doc and Jergen. While the rest of us hit up the rooms.

We'll then work on sending out a distress beacon... for whatever good that will do us."

With that he spins on his heel and moves to the elevator and waits for anyone who is going to follow him before hitting the button that will take him to the bedrooms.

"Good luck."

[PyroSikTh]

Loner
Madsen attempts to make a break for it back to Level 2, but the creatures stand in his way in the doorway. One of the creatures takes the opportunity to strike at him. As Madsen closes, the creature hurls an arm at him, but he manages to duck. Another arm comes at him from below, but he blocks it and spins around as the first arm slams down to where he was. The second arm sweeps up from the block, but Madsen manages to block that one too. He flicks out his knife and lurches for the creature, stabbing it in it's torso. The blade cuts deep, almost splitting the creature in half (88 damage). He then brings the knife back and slashes as the creature grabs hold of his arm. He goes to slam his left fist into the arm grabbing hold of him, but the creature's arm distorts and bends, causing Madsen to almost go over himself. He slams his foot to the ground to regain his balance and swings his left hand back to slap the creature's head. He feels a crack in his knuckles as contact is made, but all it does is leave a sting in his hand. He then swings his foot underneath the creature to trip it up, but the creature steps over it like a skipping rope.

Mali32 Silas SGS sneggy scythes Thatfatguy DCLXVI SonsOfStalingrad
Natalia gets to work on Jergen. She injects him with an anesthetic before cleaning up, stitching, and dressing his wounds (+24 Health). It's the best she can do without being in her medical bay. Jergen starts to drift in and out of consciousness as the Captain gives his orders and heads to the elevator where Mark is already waiting. Eddie volunteers to remain behind with Natalia, Jergen and Garath. Sarah checks her weapons, finding the Shotgun has 2 empty shells, and takes a quick look at the Combat Stims on her wrist before grabbing Noggy and dragging him to the elevator. Mark presses "Lvl 2" and the doors close. There's a shunt as the elevator starts to move before some of the buttons begin to spark. The elevator comes to a brisk halt and opens the doors. There's a long corridor, with the Medical Bay on their left and the Cargo Hold to their right. They're on Level 3...

[Silas]

"Well, that's no good. Careful ahead, this is ripe for an ambush. I'm guessing we have to cross to the other elevator to go up to the next floor, and I'm guessing these things have set a lovely little trap for us. Be ready and move as one. Shoot anything that doesn't call out."

The captain readies his pistol and leads the movement across the to the other elevator, giving wide birth to doorways, and taking headshots using his targeting thing if foes present themselves.

[scythes]

Jergen lays on the floor, only about half conscious of what is happening around him.

OOC: Not much for me right now. :(

[PyroSikTh]

Jergen lays on the floor, only about half conscious of what is happening around him.

OOC: Not much for me right now. :(

Unfortunately not, sorry.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia pokes Jergen quizzically before announcing to the others with her best bedside manner, "This guy's going to drown in his own blood if we don't hoof him up to the medical bay." she looks toward the engines, "However we're all going to decorate space with a new colour called 'hint of guts' if those things aren't shut off soon."

[PyroSikTh]

Only 3 people?

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[Loner]

Horst panics and flees further up/towards the stairs, cutting and slashing if he needs to.
"Disgusting things! You ain't killing me!"

[PyroSikTh]

Right I'm sorry, GM intervention here. Loner, you're a fucking killing machine. You almost one-shotted that creature with a single slash of a KNIFE, and managed to dodge, block or resist everything it gave you. Stop being a coward and be the Mercenary you're supposed to be! Did you not read how BADASS your character was in that fight?!

Besides, there's nowhere to run. They're stood in the doorway of the Bridge, which is the only exit. I'm forcing you to fight these things.

[Loner]

Madsen starts to twitch once. "Keep your paws off a me," he grunts, "last chance emokids."
Seeing it has no avail, he curses: "Why do I always have to play the f...ing hero?! Those pansy cowards are ofcourse all hiding somewhere, waiting for me to rescue them."
He then proceeds to murder the humanoids, slashing them up and stomping them flat.
"You keep your f...ing paws off a me!"

After that, wipe the blood off the knife, scrap the gore of your boots and casually walk up the stairs.

[PyroSikTh]

That's better :P

[SGS]

*Stay with captain. Be ready to kill any other threats that show their ugly faces. Continue to look absolutely calm and/or bored.

[sneggy]

NO idea what I'm meant to do right now.

Noggy follows the captain....

[PyroSikTh]

NO idea what I'm meant to do right now.

Well you're a pilot. Do piloting things. I've designed the game to avoid this very thing, giving all roles something to do at almost all times. However that only works if players co-operate.

[PyroSikTh]

Loner
The damaged creature swings one of it's arms at Madsen, but Madsen manages to dodge to the side avoiding it completely. It's second arm slashes at his new position, but he manages to jolt back in time for it to miss completely. A third arm morphs from it's torso, but Madsen's already moved ready to make his attack. The creature attempts a high kick, but Madsen ducks and jabs with his left hand. The creature morphs it's body to dodge that attack as well as the next jab. Madsen decides to go low with his knife and stabs the creature in it's crotch, but the knife just chinks off it's body. A kick at the creatures legs manages to trip it up, but it morphs it's leg round to stop it from falling. This gives Madsen an opportunity to stab at the creature with his knife once more, but a simple dodge avoids that.

The other creature then clicks into action. It lurches for Madsen, but he spins around, hurling the first creature to smash into it. As it crashes to the ground, it morphs one of it's arms into a deadly blade and swings it at his feet. Madsen lifts his leg to dodge the attack, and smashes his foot down on top of it. In a struggle the creature punches and kicks with it's other limbs to get him off. A kick manages to trip Madsen up, followed by retracting and stabbing with the blade. Madsen falls to the ground and feels the blade embed itself in his thigh (-78 Health).

Mali32 Silas SGS sneggy
The Captain advances slowly and warily to the elevator at the other end of the level, with the other three following closely. He summons the Elevator, but nothing happens at all. He presses it a few more times, but there's still nothing. They appear to be stuck here, with Dining Hall, Kitchens, Cargo Hold, and Medical bay relatively unexplored. A quick look around shows the myriad of containers and cupboards lining the walls of the Cargo Hold. Suddenly the door to the Medical Bay opens and Oldman appears. He looks disheveled and ill.

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Natalia continues to help Jergen the best she can (+15 health). She manages to bring him to a conscious level, but the pain is still too much for him to be of much use. The engine turbine continues to roar.


Okay guys, please let me know if interest is starting to wane. There honestly isn't that much of the game left to go, but the less of you there are, the less of you I have to wait for.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

I'm willing to keep playing. i'm liking it. But I dont want to move by myself as i'm not a combat character. I need to know if the people with me are fixing this engine or if we're going to go to the medical unit and explode gloriously.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath goes to look at the turbine

[scythes]

"Ergh....I think I can move, slowly. We can get ourselves up to the med bay if that'll help doc..." Jergen tries to get up, putting a lot of weight on anyone who'll help him out.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia looks to Garath and then to Jergen. Is splitting up a wise idea?
She shrugs.
"You stay here." She says to the others, "Get that thing fixed and don't get killed while I'm gone. Or else I'll kill you again when I get back."
Natalia will try to help the wounded crewmember to the elevator, against her usual instincts - Not often did these people-things get to touch her at all. At least there was blood on her nice coat. That was a plus.
She jabbed the button impatiently to go to the medical bay.

[Loner]

OOC: I would like to keep playing this one, if you agree too. I kinda like this one and at the moment I am still alive. (hint hint, nudge nudge >.>)

"Dammit!" Madsen curses, "I told you to keep offa me!" He got to his feet again and moved around in such a way that only one of the creatures can attack him. He then proceeds to stab, dismember, slaughter the humanoids. At first he goes after the wounded one, ensuring that it stays down this time, before he takes care of the other one. "No mercy this time!"

[Silas]

Suddenly the door to the Medical Bay opens and Oldman appears. He looks disheveled and ill.

I feel like i missed something. Who is Oldman? Or are you saying some random old man appears?

[PyroSikTh]

Oldman was SourImplant's character, until he stopped playing. I referenced his absence in one of Loner's updates.

[Silas]

The captain is wary of the sudden appearance of the man.

"Oldman, where have you been? No, no. Don't come closer. You don't look well, what happened?"

Brox keeps his pistol at the ready, still wary of those things coming after him. If Oldman is fine, put him back in the medic bay, see if I can snag some type of first aid items before checking the kitchen and cargo bay.

[SGS]

*Raise shotgun. Kill Oldman at the first sign of hostility and/or when the captain gives the order.

[Silas]

*Raise shotgun. Kill Oldman at the first sign of hostility and/or when the captain gives the order.

And i'll give the order at said time of hostility. Thanks for reminding me

[Mali32]

OOC: Sorry i havent posted. Went away for the weekend for brothers birthday and internet/free time were a bit intermittent at best. Defo still interested.

"Oh great so now both elevators are broken and we're stuck with a creepy old man. I mean Oldman. Look you guys check he's ok and i'll see if i can figure out what wrong with the elevator. One of you watch my back though." Mark says before investigating the elevator panel to see if he can figure out the fault/open it to figure it out. If i need a tool to open it then say "Looks like i'm gonna need something to open this up with. Unless the other elevator will let us get back up to engineering, which somehow i doubt it will, then i'll need to figure something out. Possibly something in the cargo bay/medical bay/ kitchen will help? Although if we get anything from the medical bay i aint gonna be the only one taking the blame from the Mad Doc."

[PyroSikTh]

Loner
Madsen cuts straight into the attack with his knife, stabbing at the wounded creature. It manages to move out the way, so Madsen swings the knife, following the movement of the creature. The creature distorts it's body allowing Madsen's slash to miss. He attempts to grab hold of the creature to keep it still, but it's 'skin' is too slippery for him to get a firm grip. He slashes again with his knife, followed by a stab, but the creature dodges both and follows up with it's counter-attack.

One of it's arms morphs into a blade like it's friend, and the other arm morphs into a whip-like thing. It stabs the blade at Madsen's throat, but he manages to dodge backwards to avoid it. The whip arm cracks round his leg and coils round it. The creature pulls and Madsen feels his balance go off, but otherwise manages to keep his footing. The creature slashes at his side anticipating him falling, so he avoids that too. The creature then cracks it's whip again at his throat, but he manages to push the arm aside leaving the whip to crack against the Captain's console.

The healthy creature then morphs both arms together into a huge ram and pushes Madsen against one of the consoles. He feels a couple of his ribs crack (-81 Health), but before he has time to regain the initiative, the creature slams the ram at him again. He manages to spin out the way, causing the creature to ram into the console. It sparks in it's wrecked state. The creature swings the ram round to Madsen, but he ducks before it takes off his head and rolls to the side as the creature slams the ram down.

Mali32 Silas SGS sneggy
"I just feel a bit...sick I guess. It shouldn't be anything major, it's probably just from the Cryo-sleep." The Captain takes him back into the Medical Bay anyway, and tells him to lie down on one of the beds to rest up. Sarah follows, keeping her Shotgun trained on Oldman at all times should he turn hostile.

Meanwhile Mark takes a look at the Elevators. The panel appears to require some force to get open so he searches around the Cargo Hold for something that would help. He manages to find a crowbar in a draw alongside what appears to be Missiles, behind some large loading suit. He wedges the crowbar in behind the panel and pulls it open revealing all sorts of wires. After fiddling with it for a bit, the wires spark and the elevator doors open revealing the elevator without a light on. He takes a look inside to make sure it's okay and the doors close behind him, leaving him in pitch blackness. The elevator doesn't feel like it's moving though. Suddenly the light flickers on and a bloodied face flashes in front of his eyes. "My ship" It wails "My ship. My ship. My ship." The light flicks back off and the doors open once more. He sees Noggy staring at him with a confused look on his face as if to say 'What the hell happened to you?' Then the elevator doors at the end of the room open with Jergen hanging off of Natalia's shoulder.

Suddenly they all notice a distinct silence as the alarms stop blaring.

scythes SonsOfStalingrad
Natalia helps Jergen to his feet and they make their way to the elevator. Natalia presses the button repeatedly. After a while of waiting, the doors open and they both get on. There's a small jolt, followed by another, and then the doors open to Level 3. They see the back of Noggy, and Mark beyond him who looks like he's just seen a ghost.

Suddenly they all notice a distinct silence as the alarms stop blaring.

Thatfatguy DCLXVI
Meanwhile Eddie remains with Garath as he inspects the other engine turbine still in overdrive. After a little bit of fiddling, the engine starts to slow, and the large thrumming sound with it. Eventually the alarm stops blaring as well, leaving the two of them in comparative quiet, with only a low quiet hum of the turbines left.

Then there's a clank from within the green, glass room...

[sneggy]

Find out what Mark saw, keep my gun raised as I suspect mark has seen something dangerous.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia will ignore ALL the things going on and get the wounded person to medical bay to do the work she can do on him. As the alarms stop, it's as if something inside her switched on, "Oh good. Now maybe I can get some work done. And if someone finds my lollipops, we're in business. Anyone who needs medical care, get in my office - the doctor is in."

[Loner]

OOC: Help? Anyone? Please? :D

I don't need the exact numbers but on avarage, how wounded are these creatures? (As in how much more can they take before they die?)

[PyroSikTh]

One is at full health, the other will only survive one more damage-dealing hit (unless you roll badly on the the damage roll and roll single digits)

[Thatfatguy]

Garath readies his shotgun, happy with the turbine.

"Is quiet, quiet is usually good, usually" he grins, before going to investigate the clanking.

[scythes]

Jergen lets Natalia help him into the med bay and onto a slab to get patched up better than he was downstairs. He tries not to move much so the doc can work more efficiently.

[Loner]

"These jokes end here!" Madsen lurges himself forward once more and proceeds to take out the wounded one before he takes care of the other one.

[Mali32]

"Ok seriously what the fuck. A fucking bloody face screaming something about a ship. What the fucking fuck. Captain what the shit is going on here?" Marks says rapidly back-pedalling out of the elevator and grabbing up his shotgun again, waving it about a little wildly.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia throws a glance towards the rather crazed crewman as she's working on Jergen, "Need a sedative?"

[SGS]

*Stand around until the captain does something.

[Loner]

No one is going to even remotely try to save my skinny ass? D:

[Silas]

"Calm down there, son. It obviously has to do with those metal eaters downstairs... Something doesn't like us here, but we need to figure out how to take back control of the elevators on this ship. I don't want to be dropped 5 floors to my death. Natalia, watch out for Oldman, he's not looking.... normal. Mark, get yourself together and get that elevator working, I'm taking Sarah downstairs to see if I can radio out using the long range comms."

With that, the captain takes sarah and head back down to level 4, sweeps the room, and then sees if he can make any contact first to the bridge... and then to send an S.O.S on all frequencies in all directions.

[Silas]

No one is going to even remotely try to save my skinny ass? D:

We have no way of getting to you :(

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia distractedly eyes oldman. Does it need disecting?

[Mali32]

"And what exactly are we supposed to do while you're messing with the comms? Twiddle our thumbs?" Marks answers back in a sarcastic but slightly shaky voice as he moves back over to the elevator panel to check if it's still broken or working again. He makes sure to keep his shotgun nice and close this time.

[Silas]

"Get the damn elevators working, help the doc, or make yourself a sandwich."

[SGS]

*Yawns and rotates shoulders to loosen the muscles up.

[PyroSikTh]

Loner
The ram-creature swings the ram round to where Madsen is, but he ducks and dives out the way as it smashes into the wall. It follows up with a push at Madsen, pushing him off his feet. As he stumbles to the ground, he puts out his arm but hears a crack from it as he makes contact (-31 Health). He doesn't have enough time to yell as the ram is upon him again. He dodges out the way as it smashes into the ground beneath them. It clumsily tries to swing the ram out, but it's trapped in the floor.

The wounded creature steps in with a kick to Madsen's face, but Madsen manages to roll to his back to avoid it. The creature stabs the blade down, but Madsen kicks it out of the way causing the creature to stumble and the blade to slam into the floor wide of it's target. Infuriated, the creature whips it's other arm, but Madsen is able to block that and uses it to get back onto his feet. The creature attempts another stab, but Madsen manages to dodge beyond it's reach.

Madsen returns the stab with a stab of his own. The blade cuts deep into the creature's torso. As he rips the knife back out, it's followed by a million tiny pieces of metal that spray all over the floor and absorb into nothingness (DEAD). The ram creature is still upon him. As he ducks another attack, he lunges for it, but it manages to morph out the way causing Madsen to smash headlong into the wall behind it. Madsen kicks back with his foot, striking the creature's back. The impact causes the small crater to appear and the creature is shoved forward into the opposing wall (66 Damage). Madsen follows up with another kick, but the creature spins out the way. He slashes his knife at the creature and it scrapes along the armoured ram leaving nothing more than a scratch. He follows up with a stab, wedging it behind the ram and twisting. The creature falls away into a million little pieces that absorb into nothingness (DEAD). Madsen looks around at the wrecked bridge to find himself completely alone, and searing pains throughout his body.

Silas SGS
The Captain and Sarah take the elevator recently vacated by Natalia and Jergen and head down to Level 4. The elevator's slow to respond, but it does eventually, and the doors open up to the engineering level. Eddie appears to be stood around not doing a lot, while Garath is nowhere to be seen. The Captain heads straight to the Comms stations and boosts them on. There's a fizz and some feedback, then the screen goes black with a message written in green flashing up;

Error
Could not connect

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Natalia hauls Jergen into the Medical Bay and lays him down on a slab and gets to work patching up is wounds in a more sterile environment. She removes the hotch-botch dressing she did downstairs and gets to doing a proper job of cleaning, stitching and dressing using all her lovely fandangled equipment she couldn't fit in her bag. Before long Jergen is feeling as good as new (+181 Health). Suddenly there's movement from the other bed as Oldman begins to have a fit.

Meanwhile Mark turns to re-attend the creepy elevator. He fiddles with the wires a bit, and finds that everything should be working perfectly fine. He cautiously gets in with his gun at the ready, and presses Level 5 to test. The doors close and the panel sparks. The lights begin to flicker and then the elevator starts to move. Suddenly it stops and the doors open to Level 5. Feeling happy about that, Mark presses back to Level 3. Doors close, elevator shunts up, doors open, and he's greeted with the view of Noggy pointing a gun at him cautiously.

Thatfatguy DCLXVI
Garath heads into the glass green room to investigate. He opens the door and walks in. He's greeted with a punch of warmth and moisture, feeling as if he's just walked into an exotic jungle. There are plants everywhere, small ones and big ones, and large vents in the top. He wades through the jungle of leaves where he reaches a control panel at the end. It appears to be doing strange things, as if there's a ghost trying to fiddle with it...

[Mali32]

"Elevator's fixed. I'm gonna go grab something to eat." Mark says, heading over to the kitchen to get himself some grub.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia rolls her eyes, looking at the guy having a fit.
"You can't all die at once." she will nonchalantly flick on a light and examine his pupils and suchlike to see if she can work out what's going on, one hand grasping a scalpel just incase the patient needs... sedating.

[Thatfatguy]

Garath looks at the panel, and attempts to decipher what it does.... and then to play with it

[scythes]

Feeling much better Jergen gets up off the medical table, thanks the doc, and heads out to see what's going on. Remembering there are some odd creatures aboard the ship and that they're pretty mean he looks around for something he can use as a weapon before going back into the medical bay to see if the doc needs any help.

[Loner]

"What the...?! Where did it go?"
Horst stamps on the floor with his foot, just to see what happens.
He scratches the back of his skull for a moment and he tries to stop the bleeding before he goes up the stairs.
He shouts out once, just to see if he would get some reply, "is there anyone?!"
After that, he goes to the elevator and starts pushing the buttons in order to call it. "Come on, come on come on..."
(Assuming it arrives: Go to level 3 and then to themedical bay...)

[Mali32]

OOC: Dunno if this is still going or not but just in case: I'm going away in a couple of hours and wont be posting again till thursday probably. If updates happen in the interim i'll try and catch up when i get back.

[PyroSikTh]

OOC: Dunno if this is still going or not but just in case: I'm going away in a couple of hours and wont be posting again till thursday probably. If updates happen in the interim i'll try and catch up when i get back.

Thanks for letting me know.

Waiting on Silas, SGS, and sneggy

DCLXVI are you still playing or shall I NPC you? You haven't posted in quite some time.

[SGS]

*Continue guarding the captain as he tries to do whatever it is he plans to do with that computer.

[DCLXVI]

Sorry, I thought I messaged you that I was on a heavy work schedule at work. Really no time to log on at all, but I'm good now. Just gotta read and catch up on the story and I can jump back in.

[PyroSikTh]

Sorry, I thought I messaged you that I was on a heavy work schedule at work.

Ah it appears you did and I just didn't read it. Haha sorry!

I'll probably get round to updating this sometime in the week as I just really need Silas to post before I can update, and I know he's not much of a weekend poster.

[Silas]

The captain shrugs.... "Fine, let's see if that elevator got fixed"

The captain calls the elevator that (mali32) was working on and tries to go to the 2nd floor once more.

[PyroSikTh]

Loner
Madsen heads to the stairs and calls down it, but there's no reply. He continues down the stairs, cautiously round the corner and straight to an elevator where he frantically presses the button to call it. It arrives and the doors open. Madsen steps in and presses the button for Level 3, but once the doors re-open, he finds himself on Level 4. He sees the engine turbines, the comms stations, and the big, green, glass room. Eddie is just standing around, and the Captain and Sarah are just getting onto the opposing elevator.

ERRR ERRR ERRR

Suddenly the alarm returns and a soft female voice calmly breaks through it. "Oxygen maintenance disabled. Oxygen levels decreasing."

scythes SonsOfStalingrad sneggy Mali32
Mark shoves Noggy's gun out of his face and proceeds to the kitchens. Inside he finds a large room with a large round table in the middle, with ten chairs set up around it. At the end of the room is a door to another room, and a large pass-through between them. Mark peers through the pass-through and sees an empty, clean, and completely untouched kitchen, so he enters and looks for some food. It doesn't take him long to find a walk-in fridge containing all manner of mouth-watering delicacies.

Natalia casually makes her way to the annoying patient who won't stop fidgeting and checks his vitals. His pupils have turned almost milk-white. His heart seems to be working in overdrive, yet his breathing is slow and steady. It's unlike any fit she's ever seen before.

Meanwhile Jergen thanks the doc and walks out in the Cargo Hold to look for some kind of weapon. He sees a large mechanical walker, as well as several crates marked with interesting symbols like skulls and military. He also finds a lot of cupboards and safes in the walls that could be filled with anything.

ERRR ERRR ERRR

Suddenly the alarm returns and a soft female voice calmly breaks through it. "Oxygen maintenance disabled. Oxygen levels decreasing."

Silas SGS
The Captain briskly leads Sarah to an elevator and calls it. Once it arrives, they step aboard and he presses the button for "Lvl 2". The opposing elevator opens up and they see Madsen step out looking confused about his surroundings, before the doors to their own elevator close and jolts into action. The doors open once again and they find themselves on level 2 where all the accommodation is.

ERRR ERRR ERRR

Suddenly the alarm returns and a soft female voice calmly breaks through it. "Oxygen maintenance disabled. Oxygen levels decreasing."

Thatfatguy DCLXVI
Eddie just stands around while he waits for Garath to reappear. The Captain and Sarah step aboard an elevator, and just as they leave, the other elevator opens up revealing Madsen looking rather confused and bloody.

Meanwhile Garath inspects the panel to see what it actually does. His answer comes when the panel begins to flash red all over, the alarm returns, and a soft female voice calmly explains how oxygen levels are decreasing. That must mean the panel maintains the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. Whatever it was that was fiddling with it has disabled it, and he realises that if he doesn't fix it soon, all the crew could die in an hour or two.

[SonsOfStalingrad]

Natalia punches whatever's closest that isn't a patient. "What have I told you about those alarms?" Her voice seems deflated and distracted, "Fix shit. This thing is falling apart.", she says injecting a relaxant into the patient to try and control the fitting, working on the complete assumption of it being a muscle spasm-related problem.
deciding to try a new tactic, Natalia bops the patient lightly on the kneecap to check the reaction.

[Mali32]

"Well isn't that just fantastic." Marks says to himself whilst grabbing some food he can eat on the move. He heads over to Jergen "Well it seems like something may just be out to kill us. I think it might be a good idea to try and join up with the captain again as soon as the doc's finished with whatever she's doing in there. Found anything useful?"

[Thatfatguy]

Garath attempts to fix the thingamabob!

[Silas]

"Dammit... really?"

"Sarah, check your room for supplies and anything else that can be helpful. They should be unlocked now." Brox heads upstairs to his captains chair to run a diagnostic to figure out what the hell is wrong this time.

Then he uses the ships comms to tell the crew what the problems is and directs them to send a merc and mechanic to fix it. (Feel free to put words in my mouth, Pyro).

[scythes]

Jergen eyes the mechanical walker....hmmm....he then looks over to the elevators and tries to imagine if it will fit in other parts o the ship. If so, suit up, if not, he'll check out one of the crates with skulls and military markings. He turns to Marks, "If that thing fits around the ship I got dibs! Oh yeah, there's those crates there that look interesting, I don't remember them being loaded before we left."

[SGS]

After a quick salute, Sareh attempts a quick search of her room. Part of her is hoping she did not return the shotgun pistol she had borrowed from the ship's armory.