(001) A Shuttle Ride To Regina

[Nuke66]

Edwardo heads to the comm station. "Mayday, Mayday, hull breach, coming in hot." and waits for a reply.

[Eris]

I'm working on an update. I'll post later today, if the creek don't rise.

Oh, and I've got two more folks that want to play. Both have told me they want to play Scouts.

[Eris]

Edwardo picks his way forward, noting that two of the body guards are dead, one is wounded and bleeding and the other is trying to stay between Mr. Haber and the aisle. Haber is pressed against the bulkhead and shouting, "What happened?"

Edwardo ducks through hole where the hatch to the bridge used to be heads toward the comm station. He stops for a second. The pilot is dead, the controls are a mess, blacked and smoking.

Looking out the cockpit window he sees the blue planet below twisting in a circle. The boat is in a spin and isn't at the right angle for a reentry.

The comm *might* be working, "Mayday, Mayday, hull breach, coming in hot." and waits for a reply. He gets dead air, not even a hiss. No power, might be worse than that, but first thing is no power!

Zaki reaches under her seat and pulls out the emergency vacuum bubble pack. She doesn't deploy it yet, but keeps it in hand. With her other hand she hits a button on her visor, attempting to contact emergency services...she gets nothing! Dead air! Her local systems are working, but she has no contact with anything external. It occurs to her that she was piggy backing off the boat's comm system to get range and that must be down. This could be bad!

Pedro moves toward the gray suited man. He recognizes someone stuck in a hull breach. Pedro sees several dozen clear balls that have fallen to the deck and on seats...he's seen these. They are sucked into small hull breeches and seal them with the gluey substance they contain. He looks around desperately for something thin and rigid to jam between the Greysuit and the hull, a tray from the galley!

"Hull breach! Vacuum Stations!" he yells from long-engrained training. He learned this drill when he was five...

It couldn't be too large of a hole or he'd already have been sucked out, already. He slips the tray between the loner's body and the hull, and jams a handful of the glue balls into the 10 cm wide hole in the inner hull. The hiss starts and he feels the air begin to rush past him followed by loud popping sounds from the balls and the hiss stops. It should hold for now.

Donnie Boy dashes toward engineering having to climb over seats and bodies on the way. He reaches the hole where a hatch used to be and looks inside. The walls in here are blackened and scored with pockmarks. There is a small fusion power plant, it doesn't look too bad, but the control unit that transfers electricity to the rest of the boat is wreaked! A quick look shows that the grav drive and thruster plate look mostly undamaged, but no power to run them, or even test them to see if they can run. Donnie Boy sees a toolbox on the wall!

Keven welcome to the game!

Carlos Matsumi had been playing it cool since entering the lounge back at the gas giant. He didn't know these people so he just stayed quiet. When the explosions took place and he heard that dreaded hiss from the hull just ahead of him he jumped forward and shoved his hip into the crack. The hiss stopped and hell! It didn't hurt that much. Then the red emergency lights came back on and so did the anti-gravity and he had to grab hold of the walls and hook his legs under the seats to keep himself pressed into the hull breech and string of curses started coming out of his mouth...he couldn't have told you what he said or even how he came to know some of what he was saying, but it kept him tight against the crack and he didn't hear a hiss.

Then this guy came over and shoved a tray down his side and Carlos fell away from the hull, and NOW it HURT! It felt like his left butt cheek was on fire!

Welcome to the game Justin!

Benton McKenzie had been hanging with the marines since being thawed out. He'd been 'assigned' to their unit before being put into low berth, so he was thawed out and billeted with them on the gas giant's station. The marines had no idea who he was, Scouts probably would and he'd rather not hear any more ribbing about his unfortunate past.

He'd enjoyed gambling with the guys and had just about broken even. Benton was ribbing Joe about losing almost all his mustering out credits when all hell had broken loose! There was an explosion forward then one aft and he'd felt something heavy whiz past his ear. When the emergency power came back up he frowned at the dead body seated across the aisle from him...Joe wouldn't be needing any of his mustering out pay now.

The short guy who called himself Donnie Boy came past Benton heading for the hole in the rear of the boat. "Get the power back on!" he was muttering as he went past. Maybe Benton could help?

[bruce.desertrat]

"Hull breach! Vacuum Stations!" he yells from long-engrained training. He learned this drill when he was five...

It couldn't be too large of a hole or he'd already have been sucked out, already. He slips the tray between the loner's body and the hull, and jams a handful of the glue balls into the 10 cm wide hole in the inner hull. The hiss starts and he feels the air begin to rush past him followed by loud popping sounds from the balls and the hiss stops. It should hold for now.

"You're gonna need a medkit, but you'll live. Stings like hell..." Pedro says to the gray suited man "I gotta help this pilot..."

Perdo barges into the cockpit. and takes in the mess. Does this boat have emergency backup controls or is it a flybywire deathtrap?

He either hops into the copilot seat if there is one or drags the pilot out to get at the controls and figure out what's left. We're not dead yet so there is some power to the contragrav.

[Fidget76]

Donnie Boy dashes toward engineering having to climb over seats and bodies on the way. He reaches the hole where a hatch used to be and looks inside. The walls in here are blackened and scored with pockmarks. There is a small fusion power plant, it doesn't look too bad, but the control unit that transfers electricity to the rest of the boat is wreaked! A quick look shows that the grav drive and thruster plate look mostly undamaged, but no power to run them, or even test them to see if they can run. Donnie Boy sees a toolbox on the wall!

Donnie Boy sees Benton looking around, "You, with me. Let's see if we can't get some power flowing through this POS before it becomes a mass tomb."

Without waiting to see if Benton has followed, Donnie runs to the tool box and rips it off the wall, he pulls it open to see what his resources are. He also starts trying to figure out which non essential systems on the ship might use similar connections that went between the grave drive and power plant. If he can't fix the control unit, he may just have to jump power straight from the power plant. Risky but it's better than nothing.

[joertexas]

Zaki stays in her seat, but she looks around the cabin to make sure everyone is uninjured. "Is anyone hurt?" she calls out.

[Eris]

Benton was following the old rule; Why stand when you can sit, why sit when you can lay down, why lay down when you can sleep...

The explosion in the fore of the ship jarred him awake, a quick shake of his head to clear out the cobwebs and shake off the pressure wave. By the time he pulled his hat's visor from his eyes, the whoompf from behind pitched him into the chair in front of him. By the time he regains his footing and he tries to leg over the person beside him, the gravity cuts out, sending him flying a foot or two just before the gravity cruelly comes back on inviting him to join the floor.

With a snarl he gets to his feet just as Donny Boy brushes past him..
"You, with me. Lets see if we can't get some power flowing through this POS, before it becomes a mass tomb."

Red lights, klaxons going, and a feeling of a ship out of control Benton had a quick thought, "Crematorium, more like it"

Benton picks his way aft, over debris and bodies, a quick experienced glance let him know which ones might get up again and which ones wouldn't.

Off to his side a woman asks "Is anyone hurt?" He points his finger.. "Yea, check on the fellow who plugged the hole, he's gonna have a massive hickey, i suspect internal bleeding and cellular damage, he saved our bacon"

Benton enters Engineering, jabbing his finger onto the closest console. Over the noise, he yells over to Donny Boy "The computer has acknowledged the emergency, security protocols are off.. I'm accessing the grid, gimme 30 ticks"

[joertexas]

Off to his side a woman asks "Is anyone hurt?" He points his finger.. "Yea, check on the fellow who plugged the hole, he's gonna have a massive hickey, i suspect internal bleeding and cellular damage, he saved our bacon"

Zaki releases her seat harness and picks her way forward to the injured man. "I'm Zaki, and I'm a nurse. Where are you hurting?"

[bruce.desertrat]

he saved our bacon

Oh man you're going to have to step up the snappy banter game...missing a pun like 'his bacon saved ours!' Tch Tch!

[Eris]

"Carlos Matsumi. Just my cheek, probably ruptured a couple minor blood vessels, it'll be fine. We really need something to seal off that tray. And that hole's ghanna really khest up our reentry."

[joertexas]

"Carlos Matsumi. Just my cheek, probably ruptured a couple minor blood vessels, it'll be fine. We really need something to seal off that tray. And that hole's ghanna really khest up our reentry."

"Hole?" Zaki looks startled. "What hole?" She looks at the side of the shuttle. "What do we need to seal?" Her training ran to sealing wounds, but this was something totally new to her.

[Eris]

Perdo barges into the cockpit. and takes in the mess.

Edwardo is in the co-pilot's seat trying to get the comm working. The dead pilot is on the floor just inside the blown hatch.

Pedro drags the pilot out of the way and sits in the wobbly seat he had occupied. The main controls are a mess. Something blew up right under them!

There are backup controls, but Edwardo is sitting in front of them. The boards there aren't completely dark and lights are coming on as Pedro and Edwardo watch. They are not going to control this boat on emergency power alone. You needs the power plant back on. The internal comm light just came on. You still can't transmit outside the ship, but at least you can communicate inside the ship now.

The boat is in a spin and starting to twist as it begins to enter the upper atmosphere. Pedro thinks he might have enough power to kill the spin and get the nose forward, but without more power the hull is going to burn as it dips lower into the atmosphere.

Back in the cabin...

Donnie Boy sees Benton looking around, "You, with me. Let's see if we can't get some power flowing through this POS before it becomes a mass tomb."

Without waiting to see if Benton has followed, Donnie runs to the tool box and rips it off the wall, he pulls it open. There are standard hand tools in the box, but the boat probably has standard connectors, so he should have what he needs for emergency repairs here.

Donnie also starts trying to figure out which non essential systems on the ship might use similar connections that went between the grave (Freudian slip? <g>) drive and power plant. Donnie expects to find that most of the systems use the same connectors and quickly determines he is right. He could pull the connectors from the deck's anti-grav plates and replace the burned out ones on the grav drive. The thruster plate shouldn't be needed if the boat is landing and the control unit for it *should* be almost identical to the ruined control unit. He'll need two minutes for each.

Benton picks his way aft, over debris and bodies, a quick experienced glance let him know which ones might get up again and which ones wouldn't.

Zaki stays in her seat, but she looks around the cabin to make sure everyone is uninjured. "Is anyone hurt?" she calls out.

Benton points his finger.. "Yea, check on the fellow who plugged the hole, he's gonna have a massive hickey, i suspect internal bleeding and cellular damage, he saved our bacon"

Benton enters Engineering, jabbing his finger onto the closest console. Over the noise, he yells over to Donny Boy "The computer has acknowledged the emergency, security protocols are off.. I'm accessing the grid, gimme 30 ticks."

The computer is resetting and bringing up systems in default mode, but it is going slowly. The power plant has reset already but is in standby mode, because the computer is reporting failed connections all over the place! Manuel control can be taken to restart the plant, and send power to avionics and the drives, but if there are live lines with shorts in them you're likely to get fire and smoke, and have the computer cut power again.

Zaki releases her seat harness and picks her way forward to the injured man. "I'm Zaki, and I'm a nurse. Where are you hurting?"

"Carlos Matsumi. Just my cheek, probably ruptured a couple minor blood vessels, it'll be fine. We really need something to seal off that tray. And that hole's ghanna really khest up our reentry."

"Hole?" Zaki looks startled. "What hole?" She looks at the side of the shuttle. "What do we need to seal?" Her training ran to sealing wounds, but this was something totally new to her.

Zaki doesn't think Carlos is in immediate danger from his injury. It does indeed look like it is going to be a gigantic hickey and she predicts he'll need a hole pillow and limp for a few days...if any of you live, that is.

Up front one of the bodyguards hollers, "Mr. Haber is hurt! If you're a nurse get up here!"

Your turn!

[Fidget76]

Donnie also starts trying to figure out which non essential systems on the ship might use similar connections that went between the grave (Freudian slip? <g>) drive and power plant. Donnie expects to find that most of the systems use the same connectors and quickly determines he is right. He could pull the connectors from the deck's anti-grav plates and replace the burned out ones on the grav drive. The thruster plate shouldn't be needed if the boat is landing and the control unit for it *should* be almost identical to the ruined control unit. He'll need two minutes for each.

Donnie Boy quickly starts working on pulling the control unit for the thruster so that he can use it to control the grav drive. After which he will shout out to everyone to warn about the impending lack of an anti grav unit and start pulling connectors so that he can begin the rewiring of the units to keep the shuttle from turning them into hot buttered mulch.

"Things are going to get awfully floaty here in a moment. They may also get a bit crispy but I am going to do my best to see that that doesn't happen."

Is there anything that can be rolled to see if Donnie can't speed things up a bit? 4 minutes seems like a long time.

[bruce.desertrat]

Perdo barges into the cockpit. and takes in the mess.

Edwardo is in the co-pilot's seat trying to get the comm working. The dead pilot is on the floor just inside the blown hatch.

Pedro drags the pilot out of the way and sits in the wobbly seat he had occupied. The main controls are a mess. Something blew up right under them!

There are backup controls, but Edwardo is sitting in front of them. The boards there aren't completely dark and lights are coming on as Pedro and Edwardo watch. They are not going to control this boat on emergency power alone. You needs the power plant back on. The internal comm light just came on. You still can't transmit outside the ship, but at least you can communicate inside the ship now.

The boat is in a spin and starting to twist as it begins to enter the upper atmosphere. Pedro thinks he might have enough power to kill the spin and get the nose forward, but without more power the hull is going to burn as it dips lower into the atmosphere.

"Edwardo, outta the way! I need to get in there!" Pedro says, assisting Edwardo out of the seat if need be.

"DONNY! POWER! NOW!" he yells, using the old fashioned 'top of the lungs' ship intercom his uncle Rio taught him.

When he gets into the copilot seat he starts trying to get the boat under some sort of control. "The moment we get power, Ed, hit the 'all channels' red button on that screen there..." he points without looking at a comm unit on the wall "...and keep yelling mayday until someone answers."

He concentrates on getting the nose around on what little power we have left. "DONNNEEEEEEE! ANY DAY NOW!"

[Eris]

Is there anything that can be rolled to see if Donnie can't speed things up a bit? 4 minutes seems like a long time.

Donnie hurries (needs 10+): [2d6+2] = 10+2 = 12 Success! Cut the time down to 2 minutes.

He concentrates on getting the nose around on what little power we have left.

Pedro tries to get control of the spinning boat (needs 12+): [2d6+2] = 10+2 = 12 Success! Pedro is able to kill the spin and gets the boat's nose forward and slightly up.

Rolling a pair of 10's is pretty lucky.

[Fidget76]

Is there anything that can be rolled to see if Donnie can't speed things up a bit? 4 minutes seems like a long time.

Donnie hurries (needs 10+): [2d6+2] = 10+2 = 12 Success! Cut the time down to 2 minutes.

He concentrates on getting the nose around on what little power we have left.

Pedro tries to get control of the spinning boat (needs 12+): [2d6+2] = 10+2 = 12 Success! Pedro is able to kill the spin and gets the boat's nose forward and slightly up.

Rolling a pair of 10's is pretty lucky.

Sweet!

Donnie yells out "HOLD ON EVERYONE, IT'S GONNA GET A BIT WEIRD!!!"

[bruce.desertrat]

Sweet!

Donnie yells out "HOLD ON EVERYONE, IT'S GONNA GET A BIT WEIRD!!!"

Pedro sees stuff lighting up on the console, and as power flows to the drives the ship becomes more responsive "YOU DA MAN DONNY!" he starts trying to orient the boat for some sort of non-destructive re-entry. "Start calling for help, Edwardo...just hang on to something, I think the interior grav comp is not coming back"

Pedro takes one hand off the controls long enough to strap himself into the seat then concentrates on getting us down on the ground in one piece.

Two pieces max. No more than three. Honest.

[joertexas]

Zaki doesn't think Carlos is in immediate danger from his injury. It does indeed look like it is going to be a gigantic hickey and she predicts he'll need a hole pillow and limp for a few days...if any of you live, that is.

Up front one of the bodyguards hollers, "Mr. Haber is hurt! If you're a nurse get up here!"

Zaki struggles for balance as the ship's internal gravity fades. "Carlos, we will have to look after your injury later." She looks forward. "I'm coming." She makes her way to the injured man. "Get me a medkit," she tells the nearest guard.

JR

[Justin3.14]

Benton looks up from the pad, "Basic systems are coming back online, slowly.'
I can feel the ship plates beneath my feet the tub seems to be settling down, at least something is working.

"Grav is shot, but we're heading down the gravity well, Regina will have an ever increasing grip on us, so no worries... its not the fall that kills you"

Avionics has a squeak of power in it, "Give me a second, i have to run diagnostics on avionics before i can give you full power back, i don't wanna short anything out. After that, life support, then i'll see about the main engines. Spot your local vac suit, and get ready to get suited up" he calls loud enough "just in case this goes south" he mutters.


(OOC, ya figure a Canadian wouldn't miss a bacon pun... sigh...)

[Keven]

"Carlos Matsumi. Just my cheek, probably ruptured a couple minor blood vessels, it'll be fine. We really need something to seal off that tray. And that hole's ghanna really khest up our reentry."

"Hole?" Zaki looks startled. "What hole?" She looks at the side of the shuttle. "What do we need to seal?" Her training ran to sealing wounds, but this was something totally new to her.

Catch up time, FINALLY got authorised to post

Carlos gives her a Look. "The hole in the side. The atmo hits that, it'll burn right through." He looks forward. "Give us a bit of yaw, put the starboard side UP a bit, keep the hole above the fireline. Can we make it back to orbit?"