The Long Journey Home

[Universal_narration]

Echo Squad:

Meia looks confused at first then calls out of Ray as he hauls the MDA away. "Wait, don't say you need my help with something then just walk off.. hey!" She sighs and keeps working away.

OOC: Tell me when you both want to leave the armory.

 

[Ray Ray]

He pouted slightly; that was one of his -best- pickup lines and she didn't even register it.

"Yeah... I uh... Forget it."

OOC: I think we're ready to leave seeing as Arthur is already waiting impatiently for Ray heh

 

[J. D. Tsuba]

Placing his hand gently on hers for the briefest of moments he said in a tone so only she could hear

Thankyou.

spoken in exactly the same inflection as a moment before, and no hint of emotion, but somehow it seemed the most heartfelt word he had yet uttered

OOC: whew, is it just me, or is it getting hot in this snowdrop?

Ah yes, now you mention it he was there, Kaito.... yes that takes me back, you know he had a fling with one of the psychology professors while I was there? Such scandal!
nobody in corridor 3 talked of anything else for a whole month, most entertaining.

I still remember playing pranks on the lecturers, hacking into an assistant holo was peanuts to most of the students, but the older ones just had no idea what was going on!
Once we reprogrammed a holo to give a lap-dance to anyone who asked it a question. That one got a lot less funny when the dean came round to check on the class.
Ah the vagaries of youth... sometimes I miss those days.

 

[Arthur Campbell]

As he watched Raymonds attempt at flirting fall flat he chuckled quietly to himself.
Lets head off than shall we Morrisette? See you later Meia, I have no doubt that you'll restore it to its full potential. Smiling as they left, once they were outside he clapped Raymond on the shoulder. Keep at it, I'm sure she'll come around eventually.

OOC: Yea I assume we're ready to leave

 

[Universal_narration]

OOC: Forgot to mention consider after the battle as the end of the session, so that is episode 1 completed. We are now in episode 2 thus all your Destiny points and winds of fate dice have regenerated. For all rolls for now I trust you all to roll 2d6 and put the result on screen. When we get the die roller functionality back we'll use that but for now use actual dice. Also if it hasn't updated you by email there is now an NPC thread in the campaign group.

Sierra Squad

After a little bit of conversation Sarah starts clearing away some of the debris using the rockets to basically disintegrate some of the more useless pieces. Ghost spends some time looking around for useful bits of Salvage.

OOC: Roll me a scavenge check and an unseen sense check, writing the degrees of success and/or failure.

Snowdrop reaches the bigger damage zone at the back of the ship. You can see directly outside repairing the engine is 3 engineers in MDAs, two of them are in Chi suits and one is in a Sigma. The two in Chi suits have drones that are slowly clearing away debris into a machine that has been attached to the side of the ship away from the engine. There seems to be quite a lot of debris leftover, the engine itself seems to have been mostly assaulted by claw bots as you can see the slash marks on the side. At their current rate the engineers might take a while.


Echo Squad

Arthur and Raymond both arrive back at the damaged area, shortly after arriving you see Damiano carrying some surveying equipment. It seems to be in a rucksack and a briefcase, he starts setting it up near the debris. "You guys are certain this is going to work?

Fedor chuckles before replying, "If it doesn't we'll go out with a bang."

OOC: You may make checks using the surveying equipment or whatever else you have, just tell me which skill you are attempting and margins of success/failure. Attach a bit of description to each check you attempt to make.

 

[Aleksandra Zhukov]

Feeling the tank's retro thrusters fire Aleksandra stood up again. "Looks like we'll have to regale each other another time Dr. Tsuba I believe this is our cue."

With that she focussed her equipment so that one of her holos was projected in full functionality mode. "I'm sorry Ula you'll have to back seat again, Olga's optical programming is far more detailed so I'll need her on point." The small orange hologram was re-incorporated into the suit and sat floating on one of the many orbiting plates while the other grew to full combat size about a foot and a half tall. "It is okay." said Ula quietly "The new interface is much nicer than the last one so I will be all right." "Thank you." said Aleksandra. "Right lets get to it shall we?"

Aleksandra briefly made sure the other's MDAs were regulating air, it was hard to tell what with several of them resembling clothes and making little sense to still be pressurised, though looking care fully a slight film could be seen over exposed areas acting as some kind of pressured membrane. She then went over to the breach doors and opened them into the void of space. She drifted for a moment before lazily pulling herself over the vehicle towards the ships engines and she opened up a comm to the engineers.

"This is starseeker squad sierra reporting in, I'm Private Zukova, I'm going to send my VI into the engine to do and internal survey. Could one of you please brief us on the current situation with this engine." she saluted as sharply as she was able to in space and sent Olga in through the cracks of the damaged engine to have a look inside.

OOC: Olga will roll a perception, 2d6 rolled a 9 - 4 perception = 5 degrees of sucess.

 

[Arthur Campbell]

Yes I'm sure this will work, now lets get cracking shall we? Arthur started to operate the surveying equipment before whistling This is much better than the equipment I was expecting, those buried may actually survive the blasts! He paused to pass some instructions to Kaboom, take some notes and tweak the equipments settings. That was a joke by the way Damiano. Kaboom once miss Morissette has updated your video equipment head under there and see what you can find.


He returned to the surveying equipment working deftly with its controls eventually getting a read out of the rough structure of the debris.

			Hmmm..this wont be easy, I could blast this debris easily if I didn't have to watch out for those damn civillians. Assuming I even knew where they're buried... I think I see where they are..judging by the debris structure.

Arthur got out one of the charges and started making more notes on his notepad flicking back to look at the survey readings every now and then. Anyone looking could see the mathematics calculating the required placement and strength of the blasts. His face gradually shifted into a smile as he neared completion tapping his notepad satisfactorily.

Alright then, it was a tricky job, but we're good to go, once kaboom gets back with confirmation we can set these and stand back.

OOC: Dice rolls away: Investigation to use the survey correctly: 3 degrees of success Intuition to correctly fill in any holes the survey may have missed (basically double checking with his own knowledge): 3 degrees of success Science and engineering (not sure which is more appropriate) to calculate strength and placement of explosives: science 1 degree of success. engineering 2 degrees of success Kabooms perception to see under the debris: a flat pass with 2 destiny points spent (if we're allowed to, otherwise 2 degrees of failure) Arthur's perception to evaluate the debris from his own viewpoint: 4 degrees of success Things can happen before Arthur sets the charges off, he'll be busy calculating etc but will welcome help from anyone if they want to. I'm just covering everything with this mass of skill checks but for the actual demolition roll when you guys set it off: two degrees of success And thank heavens for specialisations, the amount of ones I avoided was insane.

 

[Alexander Bauhdric]

OOC: Dice rolls away: Investigation to use the survey correctly: 3 degrees of success Intuition to correctly fill in any holes the survey may have missed (basically double checking with his own knowledge): 3 degrees of success Science and engineering (not sure which is more appropriate) to calculate strength and placement of explosives: science 1 degree of success. engineering 2 degrees of success Kabooms perception to see under the debris: a flat pass with 2 destiny points spent (if we're allowed to, otherwise 2 degrees of failure) Arthur's perception to evaluate the debris from his own viewpoint: 4 degrees of success Things can happen before Arthur sets the charges off, he'll be busy calculating etc but will welcome help from anyone if they want to. I'm just covering everything with this mass of skill checks but for the actual demolition roll when you guys set it off: two degrees of success And thank heavens for specialisations, the amount of ones I avoided was insane.

OOC: Remember, I can flex at you to make you BETTER AT BOMBING. ;D

 

[J. D. Tsuba]

Over his hands he had noted a thin film covering slip over them from the suit sleeves, thus keeping pressurization, however, over his face there was no protection. He was not worried as they had already been proved space-worthy, but still, he was intrigued. He paid close attention as the airlocks opened and felt a strange tingle at the back of his neck and over his face, although there was no longer any air in the cabin, he could still breathe, and there was nothing noticeable in front of his eyes. moving his hand carefully towards his face, about 10 cm away he felt an odd pull on his hand

			huh, this must be some sort of strong nuclear force forcefield, its pushing all the oxygen inside this area, without using gravity, electromagnetism or physical substance, if I could reverse engineer this I would really have something special! to think paksis is this powerful, to be able to manipulate subatomic forces, on such a large scale...

while he floated towards the wreck of a ship for the first time outside and not distracted, he noticed something odd about the stars surrounding them

OOC: mapping, astronomy, intuition at the stars, I wanna know where we are! mapping + 5 destiny - 3 degrees success astronomy 4 degrees success intuition 4 degrees success

as he got closer to the action, his suit whirred to life and the purple aura reached out to touch several of the workers, including Aleksandra

OOC: +1 int to Aleksandra, and +1 wis to Chi helpers

looking at the savaged exhaust for himself, he could see the weak points in its structure, and where it needed bolstering if it were to fire with any decent efficiency

OOC: perception and science at the engine nozzles perception 2 degrees success science 1 degree success

 

['Ghost']

Ghost shifted through the pieces of debris, picking out any he thought would be useful in repairs. Occasionally firing at a robot that showed some signs of activation. He had been caught off guard once, he was not going to let that happen again. Sarah drifted lazily by, enjoying her freedom, occasionally floating over to both Ghost and Sarah before floating off elsewhere, having been asked to keep an eye open for anything suspicious by Ghost.

OOC: Rolls incoming: Scavenge 8-7 giving 1 degree of success Unseen sense 10-8 giving 2 degrees of success Sarah's perception 6-5 giving 1 degree of success