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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2816481" data-attributes="member: 9758">Synopsis of 10/31/05 Session “Episode 4 – Obligatory Cliché Halloween Episode” Synopsis of 10/31/05 SessionThe past couple weeks had been fairly quiet.  They were on a long journey out in the black, heading towards the Georgia system.Daniel found out about Asta hiring Jenny and was not happy that she had gone over his head (and Take’s as well).  She was unremorseful.Take found out about the kitten and was not happy, since he had declared the ship a pet-free zone.  Asta was unremorseful.Asta spent her time teaching Jenny to read and what each tool in the med bay was called.  Daniel spent a lot of time working out.  Mort spent a lot of time holed-up in his bunk or in his workshop.  Campan spent some time training Asta how to protect herself using a hand-to-hand weapon while Mort watched.  The three of them spent time together organizing some recreational sports, which Jenny would participate in so they could have even teams.Also during this time Mort eventually noticed that Kenny hadn’t been out of his room at all.  Mort went to check and found Kenny wasn’t in his room (or on the ship).  What he did find was a faux-leather jacket, a slightly rusty and junky pistol, a ballistic mesh shirt with some decent sized holes in it, and the small pistol Campan had leant Kenny.  Mort took this stuff and eventually informed the crew that Kenny wasn’t onboard.Mort was able to get the security system installed and interfaced with the ship’s circuitry.  He installed a ‘hidden’ camera in the airlock (camera 1), minus red ‘on’ light, one at the top of the cargo bay looking at the door (camera 2), and one at the bridge pointing down the corridor towards the galley (camera 3).  He stuck a view screen in the cargo bay that could view camera 1.  Other view screens could access all three cameras.When he got it all set up, he went and booted up the system.  Unfortunately, it seemed he had made some mistakes in trying to make the system compatible with the ship.  Spark. Spark. Spark. Spark. Lights went out. Engine wound down.  Ship went quiet.  Mort rolled a one (which was eerie, since Paul then proceeded to actually roll a one).Take: What did you do to my ship?Campan: Bad Mort! Bad! Of course, since the intercom now wasn’t working, their voices got muffled to the point where Mort didn’t hear them.  Daniel crashed about in the dark.Daniel: Damn it, Mort! That was a bulkhead! The only lit place on the ship was the med bay, which was illuminated by a single red emergency light rigged to turn on when power was interrupted to it.Mort grabbed a palm light and quickly ascertained that he had overloaded a couple of circuit boards, frying them.Mort: (yelling) Sorry!  Blew a fuse! Take and Daniel stumbled their way down to the Engine room to ask what Mort had done.  Mort explained that is was the fault of bad parts and Take needed to give him more money for parts.Mort: There was a slight overload when I wired in the security cameras.Another cook showed up to help stir the pot, so too speak, as Asta arrived to help make suggestions.  Daniel eventually herded everyone but Mort out so he could think in peace.  Daniel hit his head twice on the way to the galley.While Mort set about laying down wire to use the shuttle to power the bridge, Daniel woke up Campan and had him put together food and water and ammo to place on the shuttle.  Campan put the beer on the shuttle first.  Asta assembled some emergency medical gear and brought Jenny to the shuttle giving her a teaching data book to keep her occupied.Mort got the wiring set up, disconnected the rest of the ship power system from the bridge and connected the shuttle’s power to the bridge.  The bridge lights and systems glowed faintly and the lights on the shuttle dimmed greatly.  Jenny whimpered (she was afraid of the dark).Paul: There. Now there should be a ship nearby.Alex: What do you take me for?  Station.  Ship is too dinky.Paul: This is not good.Mort: Hey look, a space station.Take: We are saved.Campan: Lets go there! It won’t be full of zombies!Asta: Anything on the outside look like something you could steal?Alex: This is why I don’t make it a ship.  You can steal a ship.Paul: I can steal a space station, it just isn’t as useful.  Can’t go anywhere with it.Mort: Clearly we need to depressurize it and take what we need.Daniel: That would work well, but I don’t think everyone would be behind it, though.Mort: Well, we could hail them.  If we don’t get a nice coherent answer, we can talk about venting them all into space.Bored with the conversation, Campan went back to earlier comments he had made about whores on board.Asta: I don’t know. She actually seemed pretty excited about not having to sleep with anybody on the crew. Mort: Well, I think Campan is the only representation of our crew she had seen, so I can’t blame her. Campan: Steal my gun and insult me.  Yup.  It’s a dark ship.  People could fall. On bullets.The station itself wasn’t putting out much data.  It had an Alliance transponder signal designating it as an Alliance research facility, but the station itself was shielded from sensors.  They decided to go towards the station on the shuttle and leave Jenny on the bridge in case they needed to contact her.  Of course, with the shuttle gone, this would cut off all power to the Orasca and make putting Jenny on the bridge pointless.  Mort grumbled as he transferred the power cable from the shuttle to the Korv.  Asta showed Jenny how to work the comm and how to watch the sensors for approaching ships.  She also brought the kitten up to the bridge to keep Jenny company.  Daniel was the only one to show up with a space suit.  After a ‘duh!’ moment, Campan and the others headed back to get the remaining four suits (the ship has always only had five suits).Once on the shuttle and underway, Daniel hailed the station, saying he was Bill Wilcox of the ship the Fragon.  The only response he got was a computerized voice requesting an authorization code.  Asta submitted hers.Computer: Authorization code accepted.  Greetings Captain Asta Sarv.  Clearance Level: Red.She was a bit disconcerted that it accepted her code.  Daniel kept talking to the station, but the only response he ever got was the request for authorization code.  When they approached the base, they could see an older ship slightly smaller than the Orasca docked at one of the ports.  They docked the ship at one of the adjacent ports and put on their space suits.<img src="http://home.nycap.rr.com/aokitty/spacebase2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The crew put on their emergency suits and entered the airlock.  Asta punched in her code and the door opened.  Before her was a long, empty hallway.  The power seemed mostly intact.  The lights were dim and flickered, but the hum of an engine could be faintly heard coming from below.  Asta had dragged along the half-finished medcomp as well as some scanning equipment.  She found that containment was maintained and the air was good, so they could venture forth without their suits.  As she was finishing up her scans, a woman’s scream could be heard off in the distance.  This lead to Daniel ordering everyone back into the shuttle to remove their suits. The door into the base shut on its own as they re-entered the airlock.  Once in ‘civvies’ they ventured back into the base.  Daniel ordered them around in military combat squad fashion.  They explored the first couple of numbered doors, which turned out to be empty barracks.  The barracks were trashed, but otherwise empty.  Getting closer to the center of this level of the station, the doors started having names on them instead of numbers.  They entered the first one, which had the rank of Captain embossed on the name placard.  Inside, they found an office with a skeleton sitting at a desk.  Now, if this were a different game, the skeleton would actually be moving.  But, unfortunately for the poor guy, he was just sitting back in his chair with his hands hanging at his side.  Closer inspection revealed a large hole in his skull from a self-inflicted bullet wound and a pistol dropped on the floor his right hand.  Asta decided to try and hack into the computer system, but Daniel stopped her when it took her longer than a minute.  Damn those Alliance bastards and their decently encrypted machines.They moved on, reaching the point in the hallway where it split to go around a center room.  They ventured off to the right and found several portals in the outer walls where escape pods had been jettisoned.  They made a quick loop around this central area to find all of the escape pods gone.  They also found two doors leading into the central room, along with the corpse of an emaciated person in a white lab coat.  The body itself was still fleshy, for what little it had left on it.  There didn’t appear to be any external cause for this person’s death and Asta diagnosed the death as starvation.Venturing into the central chamber, they found an unlit armory and emergency supplies area.  The walls had been emptied of their goods, with obvious gun and clip holsters around, as well as all the emergency suits missing.  Along the opposite walls that did not have doors, they found open-faced lifts, with both on their level.  The floor was a trash heap of broken crates and cannibalized equipment.  They also found a cannibalized person in an old Alliance uniform (around wartime).  Mort didn’t find anything of value.  Climbing onto one of the lifts, they decided to head down towards the engine noise instead of up.  The lift whined and made grinding noises as it descended, lurching at inconvenient intervals.The next level was also dark, but the flashing around of several palm-lights showed a cafeteria with an enclosed galley in the center.  There were several overturned tables, looking almost like they were used as cover.  While looking around, some metal glinted from lights passing over it.  Something humanoid made a half-roar and started moving towards the crew quickly.  It fell to the ground face first in a hail of bullets.  They didn’t approach it, just observing from a distance with their lights centered on it.  Whatever or whoever it was, it was definitely scrawny and malnourished.They decided not to look around any more and moved on down again.  Again the lift groaned and lurched, bringing them into another dark area.  Looking around, they found a storage area with many smashed crates.  As the lift took its time getting to ground level, Campan caught sight of movement.  This was just before their lights revealed three makeshift spears traveling towards the group.  One hit Mort in the shoulder, another hit Asta in the torso, and one hit Campan in the leg.  As the three stood with large chunks of wood sticking out of them, Mort frantically punched the up button.  Unfortunately, the lift didn’t obey his commands.  The beings almost made it to the lift before the last one was finally mowed down. Asta tended to her wound, blacking out from the pain when she removed the shaft.  Mort also blacked out when she removed his piece of wood.  Campan said he was fine and liked his new attachment.  Really, he just didn’t want to go through the ordeal the other two did.  Asta didn’t let him escape the pain.  He was the only one not to black out, though.While Asta tended to the wounded, Daniel and Take checked out the corpses.  Flipping them over, they quickly determined that these were Reavers.  They didn’t really care what they were doing there or how they came to be there, just that it was bad.A bandaged Mort joined the two in searching for the part they needed.  As they searched, Take heard the grinding of the other lift moving.  Daniel came across the fresh, dead body of an emaciated woman in the remnants of an officer’s uniform.  It looked like the Reavers had found a fresh meal.  Mort found the replacement part needed and they quickly gathered back onto the lift.As the lift groaned and climbed, the crew heard movement on the storage bay floor.  Asta thought she heard some movement in the walls as well.  The sounds of pursuit got closer and closer as they reached the armory again.  Mort quickly ran over to the other side, opened up a wall access panel, and yanked out some wires needed for the lift to operate.  He then quickly closed up the wall access panel.  No one wanted to open the panel on the wall Asta had heard things moving in, so they left that lift operational and fled back towards the shuttle.They got back to the airlock and Asta entered in her clearance code to open the door.Computer: Authorization code not accepted.  Blue Clearance Level Required.The others set themselves up in defensive positions using the doors to the barracks while Asta worked on getting them out of there.  Reavers were mowed down.  Crewmembers were speared.  Clearance codes were tried.  As the Reavers were almost on top of them, Asta got the door open.  Mort made sure the others got onboard and then jammed the airlock door open.  When the shuttle detached, about a dozen Reaver corpses were vented into space.They made it back to the Orasca in mostly one piece and Mort fixed the electrical system.  With power restored, Asta herded everyone to the Med bay for sterilization and bandaging.Roll Credits</blockquote>

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