In reply to Kaeya (msg # 30):

"Thank you." He restarted his hand terminal, reestablished contact with the drone. Then linked the video feed from the drone's cameras.

Smiling at Kaeya (he knew she was probably referring to the Pur'N Kleen personnel he offered, "Van Nguyen, captain of Cargo hauler Svetlana Savitskaya. Good people, but not my actual crew.

"Doctor. My blood type is A."

He piloted the drone to go right and scout ahead of Yuri while they waited.

Kattalin Sets each hand terminal aside for its owner to retrieve when ready as she quickly works through them, when she is nearing the end just a few minutes later she looks around briefly to check on the status of the rest of their preparations before moving out again.

”Did you want my help trying to use your ship as a distraction to clear our path, or to see if we can keep it safe from whatever method the mercenaries are using to disable the others?”

In reply to Kattalin Zubiri (msg # 33):

This person seemed to be very technically competent and Van decided to trust her.

While Belter crews usually worked together extremely well, their strong independent streaks meant they still had difficulties trusting one another at first. This meant the innalowdas with more their more interdependent and cooperatively-based societies found it easy to divide and conquer them, playing Belter off Belter. Trusting an Innalowda was practically unheard of.

"Yes. Will share Svetlana's encryption keys now. When closer, can access all ship core command and control systems remotely. Mercenaries are shooting out drive cores with PDC fire. Even if engines are damaged and offline still could be functioning subsystems (waste management expulsion ports, maneuver thrusters, radar, communications lasers, etc.) useful for distraction purpose."

He halted the drone for a moment and passed over his hand terminal so Kattalin could copy his command encryption keys. This was literally like giving her the keys to the ship and every fibre of his Belter being rebelled against doing this, and the other Belters were probably surprised as well, but he controlled himself and betrayed no emotion. If there was ever a time Belter needed trust someone else, even (especially) an innalowda, this was it.
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"Been on the Salisbury, me," says Kala. "Ice hauler. Five runs. Third shift pilot and navigator. Just arrived on Eros yesterday. Some of these guys work for the same company as me, Pur N Kleen," she taps the logo on her jumpsuit. "But not on the same ship.

"The others," she nods at Zubiri, Loc, and Kaos, "I just met up with them when all this craziness started up this morning.

"How 'bout you? You and Granny living here on Eros?"

"Doc, either we're bringing this guy with us or we're leaving him. We're not going to be able to sit here and do any good."

Seeing no one else speak up Abang turns to Captain Nguyen, "Okay, your up then.  Can you pilot the remote with only one hand?  I'll need you to pump your fist after every heart beat.  Are you left or right handed?"  Dr Kaos wraps the used surgical tools in a sharps resitant contaminants bag, tucks them in an internal pouch and pulls a canvas stretcher out.  He unrolls it on the floor next the cart and then gestures for help in setting the wounded man on it.  After he's arranged, Abang pulls tubing and a pair of cuff-biomonitor from the duffel, closes and locks it with a thumb press, and gestures for Hope to get ready to help him carry the wounded man. "You take the front so I can monitor him."

But first Abang preps Captain Nguyen for the transfusion, "Just walk alongside, try not to jostle your arm too much," he expertly taps into the vein just above Van's elbow, and applies the cuff to the other wrist.  In a moment it displays his blood pressure and temperature, a light flashes in time with his heart beat, and his BPM estimate comes on.  "When this light flashes, gently pump your fist," he taps the hand on the arm that has been hooked up for transfusion, "don't swing your arm, try to keep your elbow straight and relaxed, and just pump your fist.  If your arm starts to hurt anywhere, or cramp, or you feel dizzy or nauseous immediately tell me."

Dr. Kaos opens the valve, lets Van's blood flow through to the stop at the other tap, he inserts into the wounded man's forearm, affixes it in place with a biocuff, and watches the biomonitor until it reads the wounded man's cardio metrics.  He then takes the duffel from Hope, moves to pick the man up from the back of the stretcher and nods to Hope to lift the front.
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"AB positive, me," replies Kala, checking her dog tags to confirm. She's not happy about bleeding for someone, but she'll do it she's a match. Better that Loc has both hands available.

In reply to Kala Sui (msg # 38):

"Is ok Kala. Will comply," he said as he rolled up his sleeve. He had donated blood before and was reasonably sure he could pilot the drone while this was happening.

"Ok everyone, once route recce is complete, will need to move fash."
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"Sorry miss, this guy is A negative, AB could kill him.  But if needs be, I can tap you later for plasma if he's still in risk once we're in a secure location.  As it is there is still a small risk this man or the Captain has had immune therapies that might make their hemo-antigens incompatible, but that's something to worry about later.  Kidney and liver failure he can survive hours with, heart failure and brain damage from hemorrhagic shock is not so easily repaired."

With little more than a quick glance and some obviously habit driven touch typing that works even on the unfamiliar hand terminal Kattalin is in to the ship's systems.  If anything the next part happens even faster as she flips through several status screens once each and seems to use them to get some kind of impression of what is going on, or at least what she has to work with.  Then she brings up the sensors interface on the hand terminal and begins a significantly longer process of adjusting things.  ”When we get close enough to communicate with the ship I should be able to monitor it on the move, but not while shooting, so lets get any of the gunplay out of the way before we need to.”
[Private to GM:
Kattalin Zubiri rolled 17 using 3d6+8 (3 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {3}, 3, 3.  Electronic Warfare
Roll Effect: +2 difficulty to target the ship, set all weapons to fire at the first moving visible target in their firing arc.
3 Stunt points: System Damage (weapons) if applicable, otherwise Adrenaline Rush (+3 Fortune)]
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In reply to Dr. Abang Kaos (msg # 40):

At the mention of if his blood could compromise the patient, he shook his head. Once he gets his hand terminal back from Kattalin he resumed piloting the drone.

Alis returns from securing the grate and dusts her self off with a slight cough.

"Oh! Thank you." She says taking the hand terminal she'd handed over. "Sorry about the porn." She says looking at the hand terminal, swiping thru a few apps, then looks up at Kat. "It's not mine." She adds.

Shinsato had been watching Abang as he went to work on the man.  He went over to where he was and sat down on the floor beside him.  He then started rolling up one of his sleeves.  As he did so, he simply spoke the words: "I'm O negative, take what you need."

With the gut shot man stabilized (for now), and Van donating blood the group is ready to move out again. While Abang and Asha may both be willing to lift the man’s stretcher up a pair of men wearing Pur’n Kleen coveralls are more than willing to do the task themselves. One man explains to Abang that the doctor may need his hand free.

Kattalin tries to gain access to Van’s ship but with the networks down and who knows how many meters of rock between the group no connection can be made.

When the group eventually moves out, they get to a T intersection and are then led right. After traversing a few hundred meters the shaft ends in a dead end that is a ventilation grill.

The ventilation grill has already been removed, indicating someone has passed through here.  Beyond the grill opening is a shaft going upspin (i.e. down) towards the outside of Eros. This shaft has a ladder and is lit by the dim light bulbs used to illuminate the mechanical tunnels. The dim light bulbs do not provide enough illumination to determine just how far the shaft goes...

[Private to Shinsato Hirotsugu: Sato's mother is going to be able to climb down the shaft.]

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos: Your patient is in no shape to climb down the ladder.]

Alis look down the shaft then back at Van. "Looks like a job for Tink." She murmurs to him, using her phone flashlight to take a preliminary look downwards.

She then looks at the man on the stretcher, then back at the shaft. "Yuri, would you be able to carry him down? On your back?" She asks the strongest looking person in the group. Her tone is more, 'would it even be possible' then 'please do it.' at this point.

Going down would be a lot easier then going up she figures but still.

At a glance Kattalin assesses the hole in the ground, and the man unable to walk let alone climb, then looks around the rest of the growing group.  ”If we are unable to find a long enough rope it will probably be a question of who has spent the most time in high gravity recently, in particular Earth natives who have only recently left home. In either case it is probably a good idea to send a scout if the drone can fly far enough.”

"Thanks XO, I'll see how the patient is after I've taken a pint from the Captain here.  If necessary, we'll tap you next."

Upon seeing the ladder down, "Anyone have duct tape?  We could fashion a harness, strap him to the big guy, Yuri was it?  It's not ideal, he needs bed rest and his wound might reopen, but that would still be preferable to waiting here for him to recover... which in this environment?  Could take days at the minimum."


OOC:  Does Yuri or Kala have their packs?  those could be fashioned into harness for the woudned guy.  Or what type of armor do the armored characters have?  If it has tactical webbing, that might be able to be "rigged/strapped/clipped" to another's tactical webbing (like backpack attachments) so Yuri could carry him down on his back?

In reply to Alis Syn (msg # 46):

Van chuckled. "Tink? Yes. I like name. Is good idea."

He sent the drone down the shaft.

Yuri looks down the shaft, watching the drone extend into its depths until it is no longer seen. "Yes, I can carry him, if we had some sort of harness."

OOC: Both Yuri and Kala are hauling large back packs that contain a heavy vac suit.

"Yuri, could we use your backpack as a overgrown baby-carrier, just need to cut leg holes, slip him into it, you carry him down and we drop the vac suit down to you after he's back on the stretcher?"

Hope is perfectly happy to let someone else carry the wounded man. She doesn't appear particularly strong even by Belter standards.

"Sure but dropping the vac suit down that shaft might break it."

"Maybe tie the arms of the suit around someone else as they go down?"

"That works, here." She says, offering to do the task.

Kattalin looks over at the people working on the space suit problem.  ”I can wear the suit down the ladder, it might even be a good idea to keep most of it on in case I need to go outside to get a signal to the ship quickly.”

Alis shrugged. "Whatever works." She said. "But might I recommend we get Tink moving and then the rest of us after her while we suss out the details?" She added as she handed the garment over.