Re: The Game: Chapter 03
In reply to Rebecca Taylor (msg # 519):
Everyone straps in and braces themselves to the best of their abilities, even Rebecca's creepy doll which is placed snugly next to the controls for the ghost drive.
Viceroy hums quietly to himself, rapidly claps his hands together in excitement, wriggles the fingers on his right hand in expectation, and finally jabs his index finger into a button on the control panel.
When nothing happens, he jabs the button a second time, and then a third and fourth time before it becomes impossible to keep track of how many depressions are occurring due to the blur of motion which is his finger as it continually attempts to activate the drive.
"No! No no no no no no no no no no no GO-GO!"
He slams a fist upon the panel, and is hurled backward into his seat as juryrigged Roo lurches into motion at last.
As the craft gains speed, those who have experienced this sensation before will note that there is decidedly more shuddering this time around. The hull seems to bow outward and inward like an aluminium can in a trash compactor, and the rattling is such that both Viceroy and Rebecca are soon rendered unconscious.
Those in the luxury shuttle fare no better, though Battalion does manage to completely drain his beverage without spilling a drop before being shaken into a sleep-like state scientists refer to as "being knocked out". Billy's freshly repaired console shows lots of numbers and readouts, none of them good, and he is sent to join the ranks of the incapacitated secure in the knowledge that his slap-dash repair job was at least sufficient to keep the internals working during the most intense of circumstances.
Xander, hooked into the cockpit of Abraxis, suffers the least, but even he cannot maintain consciousness for long. His head rattles against the cockpit's neck rest -- which was built to contain the kind of forces fighter jets contend with -- with enough force to batter him into dreamland, too, though he makes it longer than any of the others.
45 minutes after launch, not a soul aboard is conscious.
~~ End Chapter 03 ~~
+500 Karma to all!
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:58, Thu 14 Apr 2016.