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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1800009" data-attributes="member: 515">In the Oser's lounge, Ian yells at Mark to drop his weapon while Swann fires at Mark with his snub pistol. The round hits but in spite of his wounds, or perhaps because of them, Mark appears to be unaffected because he fires his hand cannon again at Ian. The slug hits the crouching Marine in the right arm. Fortunately, the round strikes at an angle and is deflected by the vacc suit, only resulting in a slight bruise. Infuriated, Ian fires a burst at Mark in reply. Because of the pain, Ian misses. Swann fires a second round at Mark. Again, the tranq round doesn’t seem to have any effect. Ian fires a second burst at Mark. This burst also misses. Unarmed, Saro wisely dives for cover. "Who is this guy? Rasputin?" Swann thinks to himself as he fires again at Mark. "Son of a . . . !" Ian fires off a few choice words then again aims his pistol at the stubborn non-pirate. -----In the Oser’s airlock, Vasilii spies cameras next to the controls for the inner iris valve, outer iris valve, and the iris valve to what should be the air raft berth. Reasoning that his previous attempts to open the inner valve may have shorted out the inner iris valve camera, he decides to shoot the outer iris valve camera first. The shot strikes home and the camera lens appears to be destroyed. -----In the Bray Keaven’s port airlock, Aidan shakes off his scare, activates his magnetic boots, and tries to open the outer iris valve. The iris valve refuses to open because there appears to be a vacuum on the other side. Aidan sets the controls to evacuate the air from the airlock so that he can open the outer iris valve. -----In port engineering, Martha continues her transmission feed to the rescue vessel approaching from Sentry. She decides against including anything down the feed about the cubes, and she does get a faint and garbled return signal that is promptly lost: "Bray **** This **** SNS Fallow’s Knife. We receive **** ****. Understand pirate ******. Hang on, we’re *** the ****. ETA ****" -----The Oser fires again, this time, at the underside of the bridge area. The Bray Keaven shudders as the hit strikes home. Martha’s communications suddenly go dead, and her damage control display lights up in the bridge area. She immediately begins working to diagnose and correct the problems, attempting to apply some damage control to the Bray Keaven’s systems as the ship continues to lurch through combat. Kevon gets the Bray Keaven’s turret swung around towards the port side of Oser’s engineering section and fires. The shot hits and the Oser shudders again. Over his suit comm, Vasilii again calls for Kevon to stop firing on the Oser. "I’ll hold for the moment, Mr. Kugiikishshi, but someone better take out their damned gunner, or else I’m going to protect the ship with every means at my disposal," Kevon warns as he takes careful aim at the Oser’s engineering section. -----Swann fires a third tranq round at Mark. Again, the round hits. This time, the tranq round takes effect, and Mark’s eyes roll up into the back of his head. Fortunately for Mark, Ian is moving a little slower than he usually does, and Ian manages to avoid shooting Mark again as he slumps to the floor, bleeding profusely. Ian, Swann, and Saro stare at the carnage and pant for a while. Saro gets up and prepares to cross the lounge to retrieve the shotgun. -----Vasilii fires at the vidcam on the controls leading to air raft bay. The shot destroys the vidcam. -----In the Bray Keaven’s airlock, the air has finally been evacuated, and Aidan opens the outer iris valve. The boarding tube’s lower half has pretty much been destroyed. While most of the tube remains, quite a bit of it has been melted or warped. -----Martha starts looking at the damage control display. Making repairs will take some time. -----On the bridge, Kevon realizes he heard Vasilii’s complaint over the suit comms, but not the bridge comm. Time stretches, and the Oser doesn’t fire, so Kevon holds his fire, too. -----Swann and Ian keep their weapons trained on Eric and the bleeding Mark while Saro retrieves Koolishu’s shotgun. After about 25 seconds, the overhead speaker announces in a strained and panicked voice, "Please tell your ship that we surrender! They aren’t answering! We surrender!"</blockquote>

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