Jade says, "Codec, you pick a direction.  I'm going to shoot as many as possible."  She starts shooting them off the ship as much as possible.

Codec thinks for a bit, "I say we go up. If we're good enough at piloting this thing we may be able to scrape of the attached sentinels and shoot down the rest."

OOC: I was thinking about having a pilot make the ship barrel roll around in a full circle to use some momentum to get rid of the squiddies. That obviously won't work with our space and balancer pad limits.

"I say go down, closer to home, farther from the surface," he calls out, "Maybe we can get some back up if we get farther down."

3 seconds left.

Silicon says, "Give me a direction, guys!  Or I take the highest vote."

"I'm for down, gets us closer to home."

As the ship heads downward, everyone goes berserk.  You begin firing your EMP rifles, finding Hammer and a few remaining crewmembers helping you.  Jade is ruthlessly firing down at any Sentinels attached to the ship.  She make some incredible shots, and Sentinels drop like flies.

Two Sentinels hit the sides of the tunnel.  You know it would have been more had you chosen to go up, but Shadow can easily navigate downward.

8 Sentinels attach to the ship, along with 3 still remaining.  Of those 3, 1 of them drops to the floor directly in front of Screed, Dracos, and Cala.  It has penetrated the hull and stands in front of you.

Another of them is to the front of the ship, just out of reach of Jade's guns.  One of its tentacles slams through the front window, knocking back Silicon.  It is now about to drop into the front of the ship in front of Shadow and Codec.

Silicon has been knocked unconscious by the blow.  Shadow is alone in piloting the ship now.

29 Sentinels left.  10 attached to the ship.  1 inside of the ship.
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Screed calls out, "I've got this one, you two go up front and protect out pilot!"  He pulls the gun up and fires at the machine.

Codec hears a thud of metal as the Sentinel slams down into the ship, "Guys! What the hell was that!"
The screen of his navigator buzzes and jerks as static rips through the LCD display. Codec slaps it a bit.
[C'mon let's see the route!]
The screen snaps back to normal and Codec checks the paths.
"Shadow! We can go easy right, sharp left, or narrow amd hard down! We got to speed this chunk of scrap up!"

Codec's eyes widen as he sees the Sentinel on the glass in front of him. He whips out his EM Rifle and get's ready to shoot.

OOC: Can I make a hit on the Sentinel without frying the ship?
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Screed calls out, "Go in the direction that wipes out these buggers!"

Shadow struggles at the controls as the sentinels rock the ship.  Next to him Codec yells directions, but Shadow doesn't hear him, all his attention is on the squid about to bust through the glass in front of him.

The glass shards fly everywhere and Shadow covers his eyes, a moment later he sees the tentacle that streches to where Silicon once stood.  The words of Codec finally reach him, "Everybody hold on!"

[Taking the hard route down -- hope it works]

Probably, but there is a risk...luck of the dice.

OOC: I'll take the chance. Do I roll?
As the Sentinel rips through the shattered glass Codec fires his EM rifle at it. The stale air from the tunnels rips through his hair as the smell of ozone enters his mind when the rifle discharges.

After firing and hearing Shadow warn everyone, he does his best to hold on with both hands, letting the strap hold the gun on his body.

Jade continues to fire nonstop at any Sentinels she can reach with the gun, focusing first on those closest to or on the ship.

Dracos moves forewards, holding onto railings as he does so. His goal was to help cover the cockpit.

Screed takes out one of the Sentinels.

Codec fires at the Sentinel on the bridge...and knocks it flying disabled from the ship.  Unfortunately, his shot also sends sparks throughout the front of the ship.  Shadow starts to lose control of the ship and it begins dipping to the right.

Dracos moves toward the cockpit.

Shadow begins taking you down into the narrow and difficult passage.

Jade continues to fire...

The ship begins going down. Shadow is keeping relatively good control over it until...

...uh oh, it is sliding out of control...

Jade takes out 8 Sentinels.

19 Sentinels left.  3 attached to the ship.  0 inside of the ship.

...the right side of the Hyperion slams against the side of the narrow passage, sending out sparks and blue flashes from the balancers.  The gun run by Jade slams against the top as the Hyperion begins bouncing.

...12 Sentinels are destroyed trying to make the narrow passage and missing or being crushed by the ship.

7 Sentinels left.  0 attached to the ship.  0 inside of the ship.

But has Shadow's risk paid off?

Jade's gun is destroyed, there are 7 sentinels left, and Shadow has a seriously negative modifier in continuing to control the ship.

You pull up out of the narrow passageway into a wider one.

Screed calls out as he tries to keep his balance, "What the he..  Okay, we're hurting.  Cala, keep firing.  Jade grab an EMP.  Everyone take a spot and lets take the buggers out by hand.  Just try and keep us even in flight."

[damn, my bad]

Codec rushes back to his seat and straps himself back in. He scans the map and it is plagued by a dead black screen after a sadly short couple 100 pixels.

We can go straight with this dead bird, left into some hot piping, or right into a dead end....What's the decision? I can't see too far ahead so I can't tell you what is straight ahead of us...it's unmapped..."

Screed asks, "What do you mean, it's unmapped?  Will it pick back up later cause I'd really like to keep going straight.  If not, let's not go towards the dead end."  He wonders at them coming so close to lose now.  "Can we just stop and take these things out by hand?  There's only seven, right?  Maybe if we stop sudden enough, they'll just run into the back of the ship."  He grins at the thought.

PM

Screed calls out to Codec, "What kind of hot piping?  Is it the kind that would blow up if we shot at it?"

"By unmapped I mean our previous data got jostled a bit and it isn't getting retrieved. Let me see if I can snag some info on the piping..."

Codec searches through his map for info on the piping.

"Not really sure I wanna try and turn this bird anymore." Shadow pauses as he regrips the controls, "And as for the stopping thing, we might have a problem there....."

Jade is dismounting and running back with an EMP rifle in hand.  "Just point em out, and I'll blow them away," she says.  "We've almost got them all."  She looks around for any Sentinels within range of her rifle.

OOC: So are you going straight or turning?