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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2816514" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis of 4/3/06 session</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>“Episode 6 - Mort's Bad 'Day' ” - Third Session</strong></span></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 4/3/06 session –subtitled <strong>Not Without Cost</strong></em></p><p></p><p>Asta stood in the engine room with her back to the door, mucking around with the engine while she was waiting for more instructions from Take. She wasn’t expecting an arm to reach around her and press a cloth up against her mouth and nose. When she opened her mouth to breath in and bite the hand, she smelt a familiar odor. The chloroform made her a little light headed, but the person behind her was no stronger than her and she managed to get away.</p><p></p><p>Asta breathed in a lung full of good air and started yelling her head off as she headed for the intercom. She dodged past a slender, bald woman whom she recognized from the profiles as the other ship’s doctor. Asta stepped over a red wig as the woman tried to grab her and finish chloroforming her. She slammed the intercom button and yelled into it.</p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Their doctor is on the ship! In the Engine room! With chloroform!</em></p><p></p><p>As Asta slipped out the door to avoid the woman, the other doctor slammed it shut. Asta quickly realized leaving the engine room might not have been a good idea and started heading for the space suits.</p><p></p><p>Standing over the unconscious and tied up prisoners, Campan heard Asta’s yelling a few seconds before the general intercom message. He left the room, locking the door, and headed up to the engine room.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Mort was making his way towards the closest airlock that was away from the other ship’s Captain. Once inside, he jammed both the door into the ship and the door to space shut. He then proceeded to take his suit off and bind his wounds with duct tape.</p><p></p><p>Daniel swung back around near the <strong>Orasca</strong> to set up a dastardly plan to knock the other ship’s Captain off the hull of the ship with the <strong>Korv</strong>. They should have been more surprised when a missile launched from the underside of the <strong>Heart of Gold</strong>, but their luck on this job led them to expect it. Both ships deftly avoided a direct it and were only shook about a little from the explosive blast.</p><p></p><p>Campan got up to the engine room to find the door shut. He pulled out his gun, then put it back away, figuring the door and porthole were probably bullet-proof. Looking in, he saw the other ship’s doctor mucking about with the engine. Figuring Mort could fix it later, he went for the most expedient way to open the locked door. He took the grenade and wedged it in the handle before activating it. He then ran down the corridor into the galley and shut that door.</p><p></p><p>Take was not expecting the ship to rattle violently again so soon, since there was no apparent cause. The engines whined and shuttered, systems randomly turned off and on from power fluctuations, and the ship was now handling a lot worse.</p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> (over intercom) <em>Is anyone doing anything about that person down there?</em></p><p></p><p>Asta was forced to grab onto a handrail on the catwalks in the cargo bay to avoid being pitched to the floor below. She thought they had just suffered a direct hit and there might be a hull breech any second. She hurried faster towards the space suits.</p><p></p><p>Daniel noticed the <strong>Orasca</strong> shake and shutter as he set up for his attack run. Now Daniel was pissed. Gone was his idea of scraping this guy off the hull. Now he was going to hit him with the <strong>Korv</strong>’s big gun. As Captain Williams rounded the corner into the main airlock, Daniel let loose a large energy beam, vaporizing Williams, melting a hole in the outer airlock door and partially melting the inner airlock door of the <strong>Heart of Gold</strong>.</p><p></p><p>With his wounds now properly duct-taped, Mort moved on to properly duct-taping his suit.</p><p></p><p>Asta grabbed her suit and put it on. She then grabbed Take and Campan’s suits and headed for the passenger dorms to find Jenny and the cat.</p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Jenny! Kitty, kitty, kitty!</em></p><p></p><p>Wanting to inspect his handiwork and see if there was someone he had to kill, Campan opened the galley door to head for the engine room. The door only opened about halfway, forcing him to squeeze past. On the other side of the galley door, he found a large chunk of the engine room’s door impaled in it, stopping the door from sliding open fully. He trotted down the corridor to see sparks and a little bit of flame coming from the engine room. As he got to the doorway, he could see the top half of the door sticking out of the engine. Wandering in to grab the fire extinguisher, he managed to skid but not fall when he stepped on some charred intestines. He turned towards where the intercom used to be, wondering if he should call for help in repairing the engine, but put that idea off. Some metal shards were scattered around the room and imbedded in the walls and some power cables. After Campan put the fires out, he headed for the cockpit.</p><p></p><p>Getting to the dorms, Asta tried stuffing both Jenny and the cat in the same suit. When that didn’t work, she put them each in their own suit. The cat mostly stuck to the bowl. It tried moving further into the suit a couple times, then thought better of it.</p><p></p><p>Not getting any response on the situation with the woman in the engine room, Take turned off gravity on the ship. It didn’t affect him much, since he was strapped into his seat. Campan found himself lift off the ground as he headed through the galley.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Whee!!!!!</em></p><p></p><p>Asta, Jenny, and the cat found themselves floating in between a lot of heavy heating units. As the ship twisted, turned, and spun, the heating units started bouncing off the walls and each other, making their own personal asteroid field. Asta, Campan, and Jenny managed to not puke from watching the ship spin around them.</p><p></p><p>Asta grabbed Jenny and the cat’s suits as she moved out of the small asteroid field and headed for the infirmary, closing the door behind her. Her initial idea was to use the intercom in the Infirmary, but she then realized the suits had their own radios.</p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>What on earth is going on?</em></p><p></p><p>The sound of a cat retching was broadcast to everyone but Campan. It was probably a good thing he didn’t hear it, since the cat was in his suit.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong>: <em>Is there an alien in one of our suits?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Mort, are you okay?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong>: <em>No.</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel asked if the other crew was trying to get into the airlock he was in.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong>: <em>Don’t know. Busy. I have a plan!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Take. Status.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> <em>Someone is mucking up the engines.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Did anyone deal with the lady in the engine room?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong>: <em>What lady in MY engine room?</em></p><p></p><p>Asta gave him a very short synopsis of what was going on, with highlights being chloroform, suits, explosion, and no gravity.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Have any of you heard from Campan?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>No. I was hoping he was going to deal with the woman in the engine room more efficiently than I could.</em></p><p></p><p>Asta watched as a heating unit come through the wall of one of the passenger cabins and started banging off the walls and through the other passenger dorm walls. Only the converted room’s walls were safe from the heating units. She was glad they were in the Infirmary.</p><p></p><p>Having fixed his suit as best he could see, Mort put it back on. He looked like a duct tape mummy. He then set about trying to open both airlocks, but found there was no power where he was. This annoyed him, since he only found a manual override for the outer airlock.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Heart of Gold. Stand down. We have at least two of your crew. Alive and unharmed. They will stay that way if you stand down. I have an active plasma cannon trained on an inner airlock in your hull. We have two of your crew hostage. One of them is known to be wanted by one of the Tongs. I will sell her if you do not stand down now! Heart of Gold, this is your last warning. I will depressurize that portion of your hull if you do not stand down now!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong> (glares at Gabe) <em> Daniel’s ship explodes.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Don’t pressure the GM.</em></p><p></p><p>There was a long pause before they got a response.</p><p></p><p><strong>Pilot:</strong> <em>You’ve already tried to take the ship and killed the Captain. I have no reason to believe you won’t kill the others or me.</em></p><p></p><p>The <strong>Korv</strong> opened fire with its plasma cannon as the <strong>Heart of Gold</strong> released a missile. The plasma beam melted through the inner door of the <strong>Heart of Gold</strong>’s main airlock. A few objects and some air escaped before emergency systems engaged and a blast door slammed shut over the airlock.</p><p></p><p>The shuttle attached to the <strong>Orasca</strong> was destroyed as a hole was blown in the airlock. Campan had just swam his way out of the galley when he was sucked down the stairs and into the cargo bay. He managed to grab onto a railing and hold on to stop himself from being blown into space. Of course, he had the problem of being suitless.</p><p></p><p>From his vantage point, Mort could see a bright light near the ship he was on. He could see a lot of stuff being blown out of the <strong>Orasca</strong>’s cargo bay into space much better.</p><p></p><p>Asta, Jenny, and the cat watched as the heating units flew past towards the great unknown.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Mort, we need to fix this before we bash both ships to pieces. Any suggestions, aside from me taking out their weapons?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Uh, take out their cockpit? I’m going to go find another way in.</em></p><p></p><p>Mort used the manual release and headed back out into space. He didn’t notice the small leak in his suit under a patch of duct tape as he began a long trek across the <strong>Heart of Gold</strong> to another airlock. Daniel took aim at the cockpit of the <strong>HoG</strong> and fired. As the <strong>HoG</strong> did a spin to dodge the blast, Mort saw the <strong>Korv</strong> come into view and its front end light up as it discharged. Seeing the beam coming right at him, he quickly pushed off the hull with all his might. The beam missed him zipped between him and the hull of the ship, hitting neither.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> (annoyed) <em>Great shooting, Tex!</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel thought about picking Mort up, but decided to deal with the pilot of the <strong>HoG</strong> first and went around for another pass. Mort pulled out one of his tool cords, made a lasso, and hurled it at the <strong>HoG</strong>. Somehow, he managed to snag a stabilizer. Of course, the ship was still spinning, so that was a hard yank. By letting go of the cord, the auto retract pulled him to the <strong>HoG</strong>.</p><p></p><p>Back onboard the <strong>Orasca</strong>, Take decided to do something about the fact that they were losing a lot of air. He flipped the switches to shut off air to everywhere but the engine room, Mort’s room, and the cockpit. Mort’s ‘safety measures’ made it impossible to turn off the air in the engine room and his own quarters, with the cockpit being optional.</p><p></p><p>In the cargo bay, Campan made a last ditch effort to make his way towards air. He pushed off and dived towards the hatch to the shuttle. Sadly, his foot caught on the catwalk and yanked him back. He decided he liked it there and resigned himself to his fate of dying.</p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> (intercom) <em>I’m turning the air off. When you close sections off, let me know and I’ll turn the air back on. (pause) Anyone heard from Campan?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> (intercom) <em>I’ve heard nothing from Campan. Want me to look for him?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> (intercom) <em>He hasn’t been talking, does he have his suit on?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> (intercom) <em>I don’t know. </em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Sound of cat purring over intercom</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Somehow I knew that cat would be the death of me.</em></p><p></p><p>Asta attached her safety line to a girder and moved from the Infirmary to the hatchway leading into the cargo bay to shut it. As she looked up, she could see Campan floating off the catwalk without a suit on. She grabbed an O2 tank and floated up to Campan to retrieve him. He was almost dead when she slipped the oxygen mask over his mouth and nose. She dragged him back towards the infirmary, closing the door as she went.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (annoyed) <em>Why is there a cat in my suit?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>You weren’t in it. You want to go back out there?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (annoyed) <em>Not in that suit. Jenny, give me your suit. </em></p><p></p><p>Jenny shook her head.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (intercom) <em>Take, they blew up the engine room. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> (intercom) <em>They?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (intercom) <em>That’s right. They.</em></p><p></p><p>Asta headed back out of the Infirmary and headed to the upper level of the ship, shutting the door to the galley (the one with the chunk of engine room door in it). She told Take that the back section of the ship was sealed off and the air could go back on there.</p><p></p><p>Outside, Daniel aimed and fired at the <strong>HoG</strong> cockpit again. This time, the plasma blast went through the viewport and the cockpit door. A second later, the body of the pilot floated out the viewport.</p><p></p><p>With no one now flying the <strong>HoG</strong>, it evened out and headed straight for the <strong>Orasca</strong>. Take was able to coax the <strong>Orasca</strong> into moving out of the way.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Okay, she’s headless. We might want to see about stopping her now. How is the Orasca doing?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> <em>Very, very bad.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>I’ve got everything closed off. You want me to check out engineering?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Yes. There is still someone on that ship. We need to be careful.</em></p><p></p><p>Asta looked in the engine room. It looked the same as before, but now with a spleen and other random crap floating about.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Oh, Mort. There is apparently major damage in the engine room. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>What?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Holy crap! It looks like someone set off a bomb in the engine room!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> (screechy voice) <em>Why didn’t you (unintelligible) this? What the hell is wrong with you people?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>I think maybe she suicided cause there is intestine that just smacked me in the helmet. Kinda gross.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> <em>So that’s what the other explosion was?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>I……. guess so? Umm… there’s…. We should power down…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> <em>Should I turn the gravity on?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>I wouldn’t turn on anything. Just things we don’t need. Umm. Sparks everywhere. Parts with shrapnel in them. Bad! It’s making some unnatural noises. There is a door in the engine. That’s bad, right?</em></p><p></p><p>At this point, Mort broke down crying. He cried as he worked on finishing disabling the remaining outer engines of the <strong>HoG</strong>. He told Asta how to power down safely.</p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Umm, I don’t recognize that from your description; I’ll have to look.</em> (moves some intestines to one side, looks around) <em>Umm.. that just floated over my head.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Find the green lever.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>It’s red now… And gooey…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Okay, find the oval shaped lever…</em></p><p></p><p>Asta eventually got it powered down. Once she was done, Daniel instructed her to set up the power supply from the shuttle to life support. This was, of course, different than what Mort initially did because he powered the bridge with it. Mort tried hard to remember where he pulled that wiring out of. While Asta worked on the secondary power source, Mort worked on disabling that engine.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>By the way, is there a big hole in the ship?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Yes.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Plug that.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Are you going to need surgery when you get back?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Yes.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Okay.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Large caliber bullet. Probably went all the way through. That’s what it means when you have a hole on the other side, right?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Yup.</em></p><p></p><p>She told him to dial up some antibiotics on his suit pack, which confused Mort. For some reason, he thought it sounded very funny, which is strange because he has no sense of humor. Mort started laughing.</p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Uh, Mort, patch the hole in your suit.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>I did.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Uh, someone patch the hole in Mort’s suit. He’s running out of air. He’s laughing. There’s a problem.</em></p><p></p><p>Mort cut a few more wires, knocking out the engine, before Daniel ordered him to crawl in the front hatch to the <strong>Korv</strong>. Once Mort was inside and the air was recycled, Daniel got a good look at the duct tape mummy that was Mort. Daniel took Mort’s helmet off of him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> (reacquainted with oxygen): <em>I’ll pass out now.</em></p><p></p><p>He did.</p><p></p><p>Back on the <strong>Orasca</strong>, they played around with opening and closing some doors and set it up so the galley to the cockpit was closed off from the rest of the ship and had air. Campan, Jenny, and the cat were moved up there. The power cables went from the shuttle past the infirmary, up the stairs and into the engine room to hook up to the environmental systems and some systems.</p><p></p><p>Daniel docked back with the <strong>Orasca</strong>, telling Asta she had a patient. Using the oxygen mask, they moved Mort to the Infirmary and shut Asta and Mort in there alone (with oxygen on). Then the gravity was finally turned back on (because moving Mort without gravity was much easier). While Asta performed surgery on Mort, Daniel headed back to the <strong>HoG</strong> to do a search. He checked out the ejected cargo from during the battle to make sure none of it was the food they needed. He then headed over to the <strong>HoG</strong> to check it out.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Fade to Black</em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2816514, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis of 4/3/06 session[/b] [size=5][b]“Episode 6 - Mort's Bad 'Day' ” - Third Session[/b][/size] [i]Synopsis of 4/3/06 session –subtitled [b]Not Without Cost[/b][/i] Asta stood in the engine room with her back to the door, mucking around with the engine while she was waiting for more instructions from Take. She wasn’t expecting an arm to reach around her and press a cloth up against her mouth and nose. When she opened her mouth to breath in and bite the hand, she smelt a familiar odor. The chloroform made her a little light headed, but the person behind her was no stronger than her and she managed to get away. Asta breathed in a lung full of good air and started yelling her head off as she headed for the intercom. She dodged past a slender, bald woman whom she recognized from the profiles as the other ship’s doctor. Asta stepped over a red wig as the woman tried to grab her and finish chloroforming her. She slammed the intercom button and yelled into it. [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Their doctor is on the ship! In the Engine room! With chloroform![/i] As Asta slipped out the door to avoid the woman, the other doctor slammed it shut. Asta quickly realized leaving the engine room might not have been a good idea and started heading for the space suits. Standing over the unconscious and tied up prisoners, Campan heard Asta’s yelling a few seconds before the general intercom message. He left the room, locking the door, and headed up to the engine room. Meanwhile, Mort was making his way towards the closest airlock that was away from the other ship’s Captain. Once inside, he jammed both the door into the ship and the door to space shut. He then proceeded to take his suit off and bind his wounds with duct tape. Daniel swung back around near the [b]Orasca[/b] to set up a dastardly plan to knock the other ship’s Captain off the hull of the ship with the [b]Korv[/b]. They should have been more surprised when a missile launched from the underside of the [b]Heart of Gold[/b], but their luck on this job led them to expect it. Both ships deftly avoided a direct it and were only shook about a little from the explosive blast. Campan got up to the engine room to find the door shut. He pulled out his gun, then put it back away, figuring the door and porthole were probably bullet-proof. Looking in, he saw the other ship’s doctor mucking about with the engine. Figuring Mort could fix it later, he went for the most expedient way to open the locked door. He took the grenade and wedged it in the handle before activating it. He then ran down the corridor into the galley and shut that door. Take was not expecting the ship to rattle violently again so soon, since there was no apparent cause. The engines whined and shuttered, systems randomly turned off and on from power fluctuations, and the ship was now handling a lot worse. [b]Take:[/b] (over intercom) [i]Is anyone doing anything about that person down there?[/i] Asta was forced to grab onto a handrail on the catwalks in the cargo bay to avoid being pitched to the floor below. She thought they had just suffered a direct hit and there might be a hull breech any second. She hurried faster towards the space suits. Daniel noticed the [b]Orasca[/b] shake and shutter as he set up for his attack run. Now Daniel was pissed. Gone was his idea of scraping this guy off the hull. Now he was going to hit him with the [b]Korv[/b]’s big gun. As Captain Williams rounded the corner into the main airlock, Daniel let loose a large energy beam, vaporizing Williams, melting a hole in the outer airlock door and partially melting the inner airlock door of the [b]Heart of Gold[/b]. With his wounds now properly duct-taped, Mort moved on to properly duct-taping his suit. Asta grabbed her suit and put it on. She then grabbed Take and Campan’s suits and headed for the passenger dorms to find Jenny and the cat. [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Jenny! Kitty, kitty, kitty![/i] Wanting to inspect his handiwork and see if there was someone he had to kill, Campan opened the galley door to head for the engine room. The door only opened about halfway, forcing him to squeeze past. On the other side of the galley door, he found a large chunk of the engine room’s door impaled in it, stopping the door from sliding open fully. He trotted down the corridor to see sparks and a little bit of flame coming from the engine room. As he got to the doorway, he could see the top half of the door sticking out of the engine. Wandering in to grab the fire extinguisher, he managed to skid but not fall when he stepped on some charred intestines. He turned towards where the intercom used to be, wondering if he should call for help in repairing the engine, but put that idea off. Some metal shards were scattered around the room and imbedded in the walls and some power cables. After Campan put the fires out, he headed for the cockpit. Getting to the dorms, Asta tried stuffing both Jenny and the cat in the same suit. When that didn’t work, she put them each in their own suit. The cat mostly stuck to the bowl. It tried moving further into the suit a couple times, then thought better of it. Not getting any response on the situation with the woman in the engine room, Take turned off gravity on the ship. It didn’t affect him much, since he was strapped into his seat. Campan found himself lift off the ground as he headed through the galley. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Whee!!!!![/i] Asta, Jenny, and the cat found themselves floating in between a lot of heavy heating units. As the ship twisted, turned, and spun, the heating units started bouncing off the walls and each other, making their own personal asteroid field. Asta, Campan, and Jenny managed to not puke from watching the ship spin around them. Asta grabbed Jenny and the cat’s suits as she moved out of the small asteroid field and headed for the infirmary, closing the door behind her. Her initial idea was to use the intercom in the Infirmary, but she then realized the suits had their own radios. [b]Asta:[/b] [i]What on earth is going on?[/i] The sound of a cat retching was broadcast to everyone but Campan. It was probably a good thing he didn’t hear it, since the cat was in his suit. [b]Mort:[/b]: [i]Is there an alien in one of our suits?[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Mort, are you okay?[/i] [b]Mort:[/b]: [i]No.[/i] Daniel asked if the other crew was trying to get into the airlock he was in. [b]Mort:[/b]: [i]Don’t know. Busy. I have a plan![/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Take. Status.[/i] [b]Take:[/b] [i]Someone is mucking up the engines.[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Did anyone deal with the lady in the engine room?[/i] [b]Mort:[/b]: [i]What lady in MY engine room?[/i] Asta gave him a very short synopsis of what was going on, with highlights being chloroform, suits, explosion, and no gravity. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Have any of you heard from Campan?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]No. I was hoping he was going to deal with the woman in the engine room more efficiently than I could.[/i] Asta watched as a heating unit come through the wall of one of the passenger cabins and started banging off the walls and through the other passenger dorm walls. Only the converted room’s walls were safe from the heating units. She was glad they were in the Infirmary. Having fixed his suit as best he could see, Mort put it back on. He looked like a duct tape mummy. He then set about trying to open both airlocks, but found there was no power where he was. This annoyed him, since he only found a manual override for the outer airlock. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Heart of Gold. Stand down. We have at least two of your crew. Alive and unharmed. They will stay that way if you stand down. I have an active plasma cannon trained on an inner airlock in your hull. We have two of your crew hostage. One of them is known to be wanted by one of the Tongs. I will sell her if you do not stand down now! Heart of Gold, this is your last warning. I will depressurize that portion of your hull if you do not stand down now![/i] [b]Alex:[/b] (glares at Gabe) [i] Daniel’s ship explodes.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Don’t pressure the GM.[/i] There was a long pause before they got a response. [b]Pilot:[/b] [i]You’ve already tried to take the ship and killed the Captain. I have no reason to believe you won’t kill the others or me.[/i] The [b]Korv[/b] opened fire with its plasma cannon as the [b]Heart of Gold[/b] released a missile. The plasma beam melted through the inner door of the [b]Heart of Gold[/b]’s main airlock. A few objects and some air escaped before emergency systems engaged and a blast door slammed shut over the airlock. The shuttle attached to the [b]Orasca[/b] was destroyed as a hole was blown in the airlock. Campan had just swam his way out of the galley when he was sucked down the stairs and into the cargo bay. He managed to grab onto a railing and hold on to stop himself from being blown into space. Of course, he had the problem of being suitless. From his vantage point, Mort could see a bright light near the ship he was on. He could see a lot of stuff being blown out of the [b]Orasca[/b]’s cargo bay into space much better. Asta, Jenny, and the cat watched as the heating units flew past towards the great unknown. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Mort, we need to fix this before we bash both ships to pieces. Any suggestions, aside from me taking out their weapons?[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Uh, take out their cockpit? I’m going to go find another way in.[/i] Mort used the manual release and headed back out into space. He didn’t notice the small leak in his suit under a patch of duct tape as he began a long trek across the [b]Heart of Gold[/b] to another airlock. Daniel took aim at the cockpit of the [b]HoG[/b] and fired. As the [b]HoG[/b] did a spin to dodge the blast, Mort saw the [b]Korv[/b] come into view and its front end light up as it discharged. Seeing the beam coming right at him, he quickly pushed off the hull with all his might. The beam missed him zipped between him and the hull of the ship, hitting neither. [b]Mort:[/b] (annoyed) [i]Great shooting, Tex![/i] Daniel thought about picking Mort up, but decided to deal with the pilot of the [b]HoG[/b] first and went around for another pass. Mort pulled out one of his tool cords, made a lasso, and hurled it at the [b]HoG[/b]. Somehow, he managed to snag a stabilizer. Of course, the ship was still spinning, so that was a hard yank. By letting go of the cord, the auto retract pulled him to the [b]HoG[/b]. Back onboard the [b]Orasca[/b], Take decided to do something about the fact that they were losing a lot of air. He flipped the switches to shut off air to everywhere but the engine room, Mort’s room, and the cockpit. Mort’s ‘safety measures’ made it impossible to turn off the air in the engine room and his own quarters, with the cockpit being optional. In the cargo bay, Campan made a last ditch effort to make his way towards air. He pushed off and dived towards the hatch to the shuttle. Sadly, his foot caught on the catwalk and yanked him back. He decided he liked it there and resigned himself to his fate of dying. [b]Take:[/b] (intercom) [i]I’m turning the air off. When you close sections off, let me know and I’ll turn the air back on. (pause) Anyone heard from Campan?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] (intercom) [i]I’ve heard nothing from Campan. Want me to look for him?[/i] [b]Take:[/b] (intercom) [i]He hasn’t been talking, does he have his suit on?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] (intercom) [i]I don’t know. [/i] *[i]Sound of cat purring over intercom[/i]* [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Somehow I knew that cat would be the death of me.[/i] Asta attached her safety line to a girder and moved from the Infirmary to the hatchway leading into the cargo bay to shut it. As she looked up, she could see Campan floating off the catwalk without a suit on. She grabbed an O2 tank and floated up to Campan to retrieve him. He was almost dead when she slipped the oxygen mask over his mouth and nose. She dragged him back towards the infirmary, closing the door as she went. [b]Campan:[/b] (annoyed) [i]Why is there a cat in my suit?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]You weren’t in it. You want to go back out there?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] (annoyed) [i]Not in that suit. Jenny, give me your suit. [/i] Jenny shook her head. [b]Campan:[/b] (intercom) [i]Take, they blew up the engine room. [/i] [b]Take:[/b] (intercom) [i]They?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] (intercom) [i]That’s right. They.[/i] Asta headed back out of the Infirmary and headed to the upper level of the ship, shutting the door to the galley (the one with the chunk of engine room door in it). She told Take that the back section of the ship was sealed off and the air could go back on there. Outside, Daniel aimed and fired at the [b]HoG[/b] cockpit again. This time, the plasma blast went through the viewport and the cockpit door. A second later, the body of the pilot floated out the viewport. With no one now flying the [b]HoG[/b], it evened out and headed straight for the [b]Orasca[/b]. Take was able to coax the [b]Orasca[/b] into moving out of the way. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Okay, she’s headless. We might want to see about stopping her now. How is the Orasca doing?[/i] [b]Take:[/b] [i]Very, very bad.[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]I’ve got everything closed off. You want me to check out engineering?[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Yes. There is still someone on that ship. We need to be careful.[/i] Asta looked in the engine room. It looked the same as before, but now with a spleen and other random crap floating about. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Oh, Mort. There is apparently major damage in the engine room. [/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]What?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Holy crap! It looks like someone set off a bomb in the engine room![/i] [b]Mort:[/b] (screechy voice) [i]Why didn’t you (unintelligible) this? What the hell is wrong with you people?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]I think maybe she suicided cause there is intestine that just smacked me in the helmet. Kinda gross.[/i] [b]Take:[/b] [i]So that’s what the other explosion was?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]I……. guess so? Umm… there’s…. We should power down…[/i] [b]Take:[/b] [i]Should I turn the gravity on?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]I wouldn’t turn on anything. Just things we don’t need. Umm. Sparks everywhere. Parts with shrapnel in them. Bad! It’s making some unnatural noises. There is a door in the engine. That’s bad, right?[/i] At this point, Mort broke down crying. He cried as he worked on finishing disabling the remaining outer engines of the [b]HoG[/b]. He told Asta how to power down safely. [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Umm, I don’t recognize that from your description; I’ll have to look.[/i] (moves some intestines to one side, looks around) [i]Umm.. that just floated over my head.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Find the green lever.[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]It’s red now… And gooey…[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Okay, find the oval shaped lever…[/i] Asta eventually got it powered down. Once she was done, Daniel instructed her to set up the power supply from the shuttle to life support. This was, of course, different than what Mort initially did because he powered the bridge with it. Mort tried hard to remember where he pulled that wiring out of. While Asta worked on the secondary power source, Mort worked on disabling that engine. [b]Mort:[/b] [i]By the way, is there a big hole in the ship?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Yes.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Plug that.[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Are you going to need surgery when you get back?[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Yes.[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Okay.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Large caliber bullet. Probably went all the way through. That’s what it means when you have a hole on the other side, right?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Yup.[/i] She told him to dial up some antibiotics on his suit pack, which confused Mort. For some reason, he thought it sounded very funny, which is strange because he has no sense of humor. Mort started laughing. [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Uh, Mort, patch the hole in your suit.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]I did.[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Uh, someone patch the hole in Mort’s suit. He’s running out of air. He’s laughing. There’s a problem.[/i] Mort cut a few more wires, knocking out the engine, before Daniel ordered him to crawl in the front hatch to the [b]Korv[/b]. Once Mort was inside and the air was recycled, Daniel got a good look at the duct tape mummy that was Mort. Daniel took Mort’s helmet off of him. [b]Mort:[/b] (reacquainted with oxygen): [i]I’ll pass out now.[/i] He did. Back on the [b]Orasca[/b], they played around with opening and closing some doors and set it up so the galley to the cockpit was closed off from the rest of the ship and had air. Campan, Jenny, and the cat were moved up there. The power cables went from the shuttle past the infirmary, up the stairs and into the engine room to hook up to the environmental systems and some systems. Daniel docked back with the [b]Orasca[/b], telling Asta she had a patient. Using the oxygen mask, they moved Mort to the Infirmary and shut Asta and Mort in there alone (with oxygen on). Then the gravity was finally turned back on (because moving Mort without gravity was much easier). While Asta performed surgery on Mort, Daniel headed back to the [b]HoG[/b] to do a search. He checked out the ejected cargo from during the battle to make sure none of it was the food they needed. He then headed over to the [b]HoG[/b] to check it out. [b][i]Fade to Black[/i][/b][i][/i] [/QUOTE]
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