Dr. Abang Kaos goes down the vertical ladder without much trouble. Kattalin is a bit slower with a gun in one hand and is followed by the Belter with bleached white dreadlocks, then Asha. The man with the assault rifle stays in position, pointing his weapons down the shaft.

Upon reaching the next deck, they find themselves in the vessels galley which has four tables (with bench seats) arranged around the centerline two meter wide shaft that appears to runs the length of the ship. An arrow and small bold vertical lettering on the left side of the ladder is pointing up with the letters: CREW AIRLOCK. An arrow and small bold vertical lettering on the right side of the ladder is pointing down with the letters: TROOP BARRACKS. As a large open area, the deck is easy to clear by stepping off the ladder and walking around to the other side of the shaft.

As Dr. Kaos and Kattalin clear the galley, the Belter with bleached white dreadlocks, and Asha keep going down to the next deck. With the galley deck cleared, Dr. Kaos and Kattalin reach the ladder to continue going down, at which point the harsh white lighting within the vessel changes to blue combat lighting.

OOC: There is no need to roll init yet...and please do not wait for others to post.
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Dr. Kaos mounts the ladder and starts down... (if there are no enemies present on the next deck he keeps going down past it.)

Major Action: Descend ladder
Minor Action:  More descend ladder?
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Descending into the ominously named barracks full of troops as the lighting changes Kattalin hurries along to find some place to take cover from the doorways of rooms, perhaps even an already open room, or just the nearest one that she can open quickly if that is all there is.  Pointing her pistol at as many other doors as possible she waits for any remaining troops to come out of them, hopefully still getting dressed on the run.

OOC: The Belter with bleached white dreadlocks has been replaced by Shasa Quan (Female Belter), a new player. Said new player is new to the system but has read most of the novels.

Kattalin gets down to the Troop barracks deck and steps off to the left of the ladder. She finds that Asha is giving a big thumbs up. No one is exiting any of the hatches, and there are no noises of people on the other side of said hatches.

A burst of gunfire is heard from above and sounds like it was fired upwards.

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Dr. Abang Koas is still on the ladder with his feet about to go past the Troop Barracks deck when gun fire is heard above.

Katalin is standing to the left/aft of the hatch that goes downward, while Shasa Quan is standing to the right/aft of the hatch. Each woman can easily cover a different part of the deck below. But if one or both back off, Abang could get shot up as he’s still on the ladder. There is room for Abang to get off the ladder to either side.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: You can see that on the next deck down, there are a pair of crew stations in your line of sight (you have like a 45 degree angle of view, but most of the deck is blocked by the rail gun conduit).

Oh and somebody is coming around the rail gun with some sort of SMG/PDW raised and wearing the same armor as the troops on the dock, but without a helmet.

He’s raising his gun to fire, but you’re a bit faster on the draw...

Can you please post your actions for all to see and just color them Orange with small font?

You do an excellent job of organizing your rolls/actions and it might help for others to see.]

[Private to Shasa Quan: You can see that on the next deck down, there are a pair of crew stations in your line of sight (you have like a 45 degree angle of view, but most of the deck is blocked by the rail gun conduit).

Oh and somebody is coming around the rail gun with some sort of SMG/PDW raised and wearing the same armor as the troops on the dock, but without a helmet.

It's clear he's going to get a shot off first...
]

Init/Posting Order
16 (w/Seize init) Kattalin
14 (w/Seize init )Bad Guy in Shasa’s line of sight (only Shasa, or person on right will see them)
13 (w/Seize init) Bad Guy in Kattalin’s line of sight (only Kattalin or person on left will see at them)
13 Asha Blackburn
11 Dr. Abang Kaos
09 Shasa Quan

OOC: I rolled init for everyone to get things going. Please make an init roll with your post.

TN to hit the enemies is 13. They have the same armor as the troops on the dock but are not wearing a helmet.
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Even as she brings her pistol up to engage someone around the corner Kattalin speaks a warning into the communication channel set up for just that sort of thing.
Then she fires a single round from her pistol and steps back. "Incoming."

Major Action: attack Kattalin Zubiri rolled 13 using 3d6+4 with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 3, 1.  Accuracy (Pistols). 3 fortune to change the 1 to a 3
Stunt: 4 Called shot to ignore all toughness, armor and cover.
Stunt: 1 Take Cover or Duck and Weave to increase defense by 1
Damage Kattalin Zubiri rolled 8 using 2d6+4 with rolls of 3,1.  Damage .
Minor Action:  Move away from the ladder and attackers to clear space and take cover.
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OOC: Hi all! Not my turn yet, but note that allies within line-of-sight of Shasa receive +1 to all Willpower checks and also generate an additional SP any time you generate stunt points.

 OOC: This probably requires the character to actually say/do something inspiring and interact with the cast. You haven’t done that yet.

I will let the Inspire Talent go into effect AFTER you post (i.e. stepping up to take charge). Just add some dialogue.

Whomever these guys are, wearing the same silverish grey armor as the troops out on the docks they seem well trained and fire upwards.

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The guy Shasa can see fires at her...

20:13, Today: Darkside Trooper, for the NPC Guy shooting Shasa, rolled 17 using 3d6+4 with the AGE System with rolls of {6}, 3, 4.  Shoot Shasa.
Result of 17, beats your defense of 12

20:16, Today: Darkside Trooper, for the NPC Guy shooting Shasa, rolled 9 using 2d6+2 with rolls of 6,1.  PDW dmg.
8 dmg -1 toughness = 7 dmg (you should use fortune to negate this)

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Despite being fired upon first, and getting hit, the guy Kattilin can see fires at her with a PDW.

20:18, Today: Darkside Trooper, for the NPC Guy shooting Kattalin, rolled 12 using 3d6+4 with the AGE System with rolls of {4}, 1, 3.  shoot.
Result of 12, this equals/beats Defense of 11+1

20:20, Today: Darkside Trooper, for the NPC Guy shooting Kattalin, rolled 9 using 2d6+2 with rolls of 1,6.  PDW dmg.
9 dmg vs toughness of 2 = 7 dmg

Asha moves up alongside Kattalin and fires downward...

Minor Action: Move
Major Action: Shoot

20:22, Today: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Asha Blackburn, rolled 1 using 1d2 with rolls of 1.  Move to Kattalin side =1, move to Shasa side= 2.

20:24, Today: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Asha Blackburn, rolled 13 using 3d6+1 with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 3, 4.  shoot guy shooting Kat.
Result of 13 equals defense of opponent

20:24, Today: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Asha Blackburn, rolled 9 using 2d6+2 with rolls of 3,4.  dmg to guy shooting Kat.
Total of 9 damage

The bullets fly past Abang's feet as combat erupts, finding a split second when everyone pulls back for a moment, he simply releases the ladder, tucks his arms in, and drops like a stone.  He plummets past the the troop deck and spreads his legs catching the deck on either side of the open shaft with his feet, steadying himself with a hand on the ladder, and them stepping out of the ladder well to survey the deck.

And praying the deck he's landed on is empty...


Major Action:  Movement
Minor Action:  Movement

00:51, Today: Dr. Abang Kaos rolled 18 using 3d6+4 with the AGE System with rolls of {3}, 6, 5.  Dropping through the ladderwell, DEX+2 (Freefall).
Spending 6 Fortune to change the 5 to a 6, for a 19 roll, and 3 Stunt points.  Spending 2 points on Duck and Weave, increasing Defense to 15 till my next action and 1 point on Momentum, +3 to Initiative next round.

01:02, Today: Dr. Abang Kaos rolled 15 using 3d6+2 (1 stunt point) with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 6, 6.  Initiative, DEX+2. – [roll=1657688575.30059.360150]
Initiative 18 (15+3 from Momentum)

Shasa held up a fist to acknowledge Kattalin's warning. "Ya, tu." She held up the index finger and pinky of her left hand (the one not holding at gun), then pointed at the one she could see that Kattalin perhaps couldn't and complemented her work. "Good shooting, sésata. Keep it up. We take out one, then the other."

"Pashangwala!" The belter barely moved her head back before a bullet ricocheted off the ladder. After a brief pause, she slipped over to the other side where she could also see the one targeting Kattalin and then fired a shot at him/her.

Shasa slid herself behind deck plating and called down. "Hey, dzhemang. You outnumbered. You get one chance to throw down and we let you walk. Else gonna be a short life. No reason to die today."

She looked over at Kattalin. "Keep firing, sésata, let them know we have teeth. And claws." She turned one hand palm up. "And many guns."

Spend 7 Fortune points to avoid getting holed (nothing like starting your first post missing a third of your fortune points).

Minor Action: Movement
Major Action: Fire at person that was shooting at Kat
Minor Action (continued): Move some more (Tactical Awareness) to get way behind cover

Used 10 Fortune to switch that Drama Die to a 5, turning a miss into a hit. I'll make it a Lethal Blow adding 2d6 to the damage.

Damage Total is 13.

21:15, Today: Shasa Quan rolled 11 using 3d6+4 (1 stunt point) with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 5, 1.  Shoot guy shooting Kat (if possible, else other).
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OOC: I haven’t posted yet to real e the action round…..

Katalin fires downwards and hits the man down/across below her center mass. He staggers back as he fires upwards with at least one round hitting her vac suit. Luckily the round glances off the side of her helmet.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri:
FYI, your still injured, so please remember to factor in a -1 to your tests.

You will need to spend 6 fortune if you wish to avoid getting wounded/taken out/killed.]

Asha, after moving up to Katalin’s left side she fires at the same man and hits him in the shoulder, causing his left arm to drop.

Ignoring the man shooting at her and taking a ricocheting round just below the right side of her chest, Shasa moves around the hatch/ladder to her left and comes up alongside Kattalin’s right side. The Belter woman fires several rounds from her pistol into the man below. Striking first in the chest then working upward the last round hits him just left of his nose killing him.

[Private to Shasa Quan: Please make sure you've kept track of the fortune you spent.]

The three amigas then see something odd occurring with the man’s armor. Wherever a bullet had penetrated the outer layer, the suit begins to self-seal up...

Dr Koas drops down the ladder/shaft and stops himself one deck below. He finds himself in a galley, that is roughly similar to the one above.



A voice responds to Shasa, that is right below Asha, but none of the three amigas can see the man. "Fuck you skinny."

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos: For Abang, the voice is above and to the left. You'll need to use your minor action to climb up to see if you can get a shot off.]

OOC: You will need to use your movement action (minor) to move over to the other side to see and possibly shoot the guy below.

There's no need for a posting order for the next round.

Shasa yelled back down at the dead man walking. "Okay, have it your way, mushroom food!"

She encouraged her allies to begin the hunt. "Amigas! Doc! Our friends are counting on us to end this hunt fast. Let's finish this!"

Shasa activates her Master Inspire Talent. It can reach Doctor Kaos assuming he can hear her from two decks below (which seems entirely reasonable).

All Shasa's allies recover 1d6+4 Fortune AND get a +2 bonus on their next test. This takes two minor actions, so I think that's it for her round.

Slipping out of the way of the incoming fire Kattalin takes a more defensive stance, firing from behind the corner at the least badly wounded guard.  Despite that her return fire is accurate, and potentially lethal, even to someone in armor.


Fortune Spent to deflect the attack: 6
Master Inspire Recovery: 6
Minor Action:  Guard up +2 Defense, -2 attack.
Major Action: Ready attack
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OOC: Yes, Dr. Koas can benefit from the inspire if he's already used fortune prior to this round. He also gets a +2 to his next test.

[Private to GM:
Lockdown BIG ship TN 12, Threshold
09:53, Today: Darkside Trooper rolled 9 using 3d6 (1 stunt point) with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 4, 4.
FAIL
09:51, Today: Darkside Trooper rolled 13 using 3d6 with the AGE System with rolls of {3}, 6, 4.
PASS
09:16, Today: Darkside Trooper rolled 13 using 3d6 with the AGE System with rolls of {2}, 5, 6.
PASS
Threshold is now 5

Three security troops at gangway
Apophis commander
2x Protogen Mercs
Next action round at outer air lock]
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Abang moves around the laddershaft to survey the whole galley, drawing his pistol as he circles it.


Major Action:  Movement
Minor Action:  Drawing pistol

Do I roll the 1d6+4 Fortune replenishment?

OOC: If your question is whether you roll it or I do, I believe the answer is that you roll it since I didn't do so. I don't think it's specified in the rules, but I feel like on RPOL most stuff that affects a player's character is left to that player to roll.

Asha remains in position and covers the deck below with her handgun.

Minor Action: Aim
Major: Action shoot if someone shows themselves

For everyone
All of the monitors, lights and consoles that can be seen dim slightly as they go into low power mode as the vessel powers down. The blue combat lighting is replaced with red emergency lighting.

Deck 9 Troop Galley
Dr. Abang Koas finds no on in the galley. He sees that there are 4 tables. On the portside of the rail gun conduit is a lift that is a 1x2 meter rectangle.

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos:
You notice that the tables are the type you’ve seen on UNN ships where the bench seats can be folded inward in order to make the table an operating table. Various plug covers confirm that the deck could be turned into a shock trauma ward, something very typical on troop ships.]

Deck 7 Troop Berthing Area
Asha, and Shasa see nobody coming around their field of fire.

Kattalin moves over to the other side of the hatch to get in position to fire down below at the remaining crewman. By the time she gets in position, the man is gone.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: With nobody to shoot at I think it is safe to say you did not spend 4 fortune to modify your roll.]

The man down below is unseen but can be heard speaking to someone.


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Abang moves back to the ladder, and climbs up a few rungs, preparing fire on whomever he sees on the CIC deck...


Minor Action: Movement
Major Action: Not taken yet...

00:06, Today: Dr. Abang Kaos rolled 6 using 1d6+4 with rolls of 2.  Shasa Quan's Master Inspire Talent, 1d6+4 Fortune.
Exactly what was spent...

Speaking probably meant that the fellow didn't have both hands on his gun and felt like an opening to Shasa. With three guns trained in the direction of the lone remaining crewman, she went on the move so she could cover them in turn. "Cover me, sésatas."

With the doc coming up the ladder, Shasa timed her movement to Kaos' and remaining crewman's chattering, and flung herself through to the next deck down, aiming for where the dead crewman's corpse was lying motionless. She wanted to get that gun and then find cover.

With Tactical Awareness, I believe Shasa should be able to move down toward the dead body, snatch the weapon he had used, and then get behind cover (i.e. finish her move). Let me know if that doesn't work for some reason.

Free-Fall: 17 (vs. TN 11) with 1 stunt point. Stunt point being used for GOOD INSTINCTS. Roll is an 11.

22:59, Today: Shasa Quan rolled 17 using 3d6+4 (1 stunt point) with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 6, 6.  Dexterity (Free-Fall).

06:12, Today: Shasa Quan rolled 11 using 3d6+1 with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 1, 4.  Perception .
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In position already to provide cover Katalin waits for the target to come back into view and shoots it when it does.


Fortune Spent to deflect the attack: 6
Master Inspire Recovery: 6
Minor Action:  Guard up +2 Defense, -2 attack.
Major Action: Readied attack
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Asha stays where she's at in case she has to cover Shasa.

Abang climbs up the ladder a bit and with his gun drawn. He doesn’t see anybody hostile. He does see Kattalin on the right side still up on the Troop berthing deck, covering the left side of the CIC deck, and Asha, also up on the Troop berthing deck but on the left side covering right side of the CIC deck.

Kattalin and Asha do not see any hostiles, but if nay come into their respective fields of view they can be easily engaged.

Shasa leaps down to the CIC deck, landing on the right side, and quickly picking up the dead mans gun she finds cover along the right side of the rail gun conduit. She too doesn’t see the hostile down here…

[Private to Shasa Quan: You quickly determine that the gun you picked up (It’s a futuristic MP-7) is useless to you. It’s either keyed to the dead man’s armor, or to a chip embedded in his hands. The gun itself has as extended magazine, collapsible stock, a folding foregrip, fiber optic sights, a laser targeting module on the right side, a compact flashlight on the left side.

The side of the deck you are on is configured as a combination flight/command deck, and has 8 crew stations, and a raised tactical command table in the center.

The hostile has to be on the left side, possible opposite or diagonal from you.]

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos: You can safely climb up and move to the right side of the deck as it is clear if there was anybody on the right side, they’d be shooting at Shasa.]

Having no targets Abang finishes the climb into CIC and moves to the right to cover that angle and start looking for where the missing hostile may have gone.
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With the hostile clearly not on the way back Kattalin drops down to join Abang in the CIC, setting up to cover the opposite side of the entrance while the others join them.

Shasa frowned at the weapon she'd picked up. Might as well have been a toy for all she could use the thing, apparently. However, it did maybe give her a chance to make a distraction. She nodded at Abang and Kattalin as they quietly moved, and pointed toward where she was best guessing the hostile was so that Asha would cover in the right direction.

At what seemed like an opportune time Shasa tossed the useless submachine gun so it clattered loudly and then skittered through what she expected was the enemy's visible section of the deck.

Hopefully the distraction would create an opening for her and her allies.

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Major: Misdirection (Deception) of 17 - opponent needs to roll Willpower (self-discipline) or be unable to stunt until the end of Shasa's next turn.
Minor: Move with Abeng under the cover of Kattalin's and Asha's guns.


07:12, Today: Shasa Quan rolled 17 using 3d6+6 with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 4, 2.  Misdirection (Deception).
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After picking up the dead man’s SMG/PDW, Shasa takes cover along the right side of the rail gun conduit as the ship crewman still alive fires shoots at her. The rounds hit along the rail gun conduit but do not penetrate.

Dr. Koas climbs up on to the CIC deck and takes cover next to Shasa. It's at this point the two realize they are standing/crouching on top of

Kattalin climbs down the ladder into the CIC deck the lone ship crewman fires at her but like those fired as Shasa they only hit the rail gun conduit. With Dr. Koas and Shasa using the right side of the rail gun conduit for cover, the only place the Martian woman can use as cover herself is to stand over the ladder well with her legs spread apart.

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Shasa, Dr Koas, and Kattalin quickly realize that in order to engage and shoot at the remaining ship crewman on this deck they would have to expose themselves. But conversely there is no way for him to get off this deck unless the ship crewman exposes himself.

Shasa tosses the PDW she recovered off the dead guy around the ‘corner’ and to the left to cause a distraction.

OOC: Sorry no map. But below is the deck description.

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Portside/Left side is a tactical operations center w/6 crew stations and a raised tactical command table located in the center. Two stations in the lower left corner are shot up with PDC’s rounds.

• Crew stations are facing left and form a semi-circle.
• Tactical command table is in center of semi-circle.

Starboard/Right is Combat Information Center w/6 crew stations and a raised tactical command table located in the center.

• Crew stations are facing right and form a semi-circle.
• Tactical command table is in center of semi-circle.

Center of deck is the rail gun conduit (a 2x2 meter square)

• Dorsal side is the vertical ladder well to lower decks.
• Portside/Left is a lift (a 1x2 meter rectangle) that goes to lower decks.
• Ventral side has 2 crew stations (configured for Pilot & Gunner) facing ventral.

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OOC: Just to clarify, the bad guy is somewhere on the upper left side of the deck (based off of where the gunfire came from.

Kattalin watches the incomming fire glance off the important ship components with a bit of a grimace, but collects herself quickly enough to transmit on their local subgroup channel. "We don't have a lot of time to play funny games with this guy, someone quick run across his field of fire to draw his attention and I will end him."

Shasa nodded. "Sure thing. Na desh séfetiye napelésh ere kuxaku, eh?" With that, the belter took off across the area she suspected was right in the remaining enemy's line of fire, hoping to draw him out if possible. If not, then Shasa should have a good flanking position on the bad guy.

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Minor: Moving from current cover to closer or flanking cover
Major: Defend (+2 to defense)

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Abang slips his medical duffle off his shoulder and speaks just loudly enough to be heard across the deck, "We don't have time for this, go down, the Belter can keep them under covering fire till we're underway,"  Then he slides over the rail gun conduit and pads quickly and quietly across the deck with his small pistol at ready, trying to get an angle to fire on the hiding hostile.


OOC:  17:34, Today: Dr. Abang Kaos rolled 14 18 using 3d6+2 with the AGE System with rolls of {4}, 6, 2 6.  Moving quickly and quietly across the deck. DEX +2. Spending 4 Fortune to raise 2 to a 4.
4 Stunt points generated. (Probably going to spent on "Just a Shadow", though if he doesn't get lined up for a shot, they'll go into "Bravery" and "Over Here".)

Abang is clearly not paying attention to team chat...

ooc: don’t forget you generate an additional stunt point due to Shasa’s presence.

With the distraction in place, and her ally drawing fire Kattalin has the opportunity to maneuver into a good position without to much fear of being shot at or distracted herself on the way in and puts a well aimed shot into some of the man's vulnerable bits.

Minor Action:  Move to get line of sight on the last target
Major Action: attack Kattalin Zubiri rolled 14 using 3d6+4 with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 4, 1.  Accuracy (Pistols). 4 fortune to change the 1 to a 4. Net roll 16
Stunt: 1 Skirmish. Move self 2m into a better firing position, and move the target 2m out from cover
Stunt: 5 Lethal Blow
Damage Kattalin Zubiri rolled 17 using 4d6+4 with rolls of 1,2,4,6.  Lethal Blow

Shasa runs out from the protective cover of the rail gun conduit. She manages to draw the attention of the enemy and gets shot at as she dives behind the tactical command table on the right side of the deck.

Kattalin takes this opportunity to move around the left side of the rail gun conduit and after getting behind the first of the non-shot up crew stations fires on the ship crewman. She hits the man in the side of his armor and looks to be in obvious pain but doesn’t go down. He does stagger back and away from the tactical table on the left side of the deck that he was using as cover.

Abang stays put as gunfire is exchanged. As soon as there is a lull in the gunfire, he moves from the safety of the rail gun conduit and across to take cover behind the two ventral/forward facing crew stations.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: You have a cover rating of 1 (+2 armor -1 to attack for opponents) as you are behind a crash couch.]

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos: You have a cover rating of 2 (+3 armor -2 to attack for opponents) as you are behind a row of 2 crash couches (the gunner and pilot seats down here), that are on a semi raised platform. BTW, the remaining ship crewman doesn’t notice you...]

The ship crewman, seeing only Kattalin fires at her with his PDW, and fires the weapon on full automatic fire.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: Normal attack
20:37, Today: Darkside Trooper rolled 12 using 3d6+4 (4 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {4}, 2, 2.  bad guy shoot Kat (TN 12).
12 w/4 stunt points
2 SP: VICIOUS BLOW +1d6 dmg
2 SP: LONG BURST (AUTOMATIC)

20:43, Today: Darkside Trooper rolled 1 using 1d6 with rolls of 1.  dmg Kat vicious blow.
20:42, Today: Darkside Trooper rolled 8 using 3d6+2 with rolls of 1,4,1.  dmg to Kat .
9 damage, reduced to 4 damage due to Toughness (2), Armor (1), and Cover (2).

Long burst attack
20:46, Today: Darkside Trooper rolled 13 using 3d6+2 (5 stunt points) with the AGE System.  Long burst attack vs Kat (TN 12).
13 w/5 stunt points (not using them)

20:59, Today: Darkside Trooper rolled 18 using 3d6+4 with the AGE System.  dmg to Kat +2 (factored in).
18 dmg, reduced to 13 damage due to Toughness (2), Armor (1), and Cover (2).

I see you only have 10 fortune....you can still shoot this guy if you want, but you'll get shot up pretty bad. I won't let you die tho.

BUT if you take the defend action and hunker down under the instrument consoles you actually won't get hit as it adds +2 to defense. Hopefully Abang shoots the guy if you defend.]

With the decoy effort done Kattalin switches roles, and becomes the distraction herself, ducking back behind cover and out of line of sight while leaving the other two free to act against their one remaining threat.

Shasa gritted her teeth against the pain. She refused to give the enemy any satisfaction of knowing he successfully lodged at least one bullet in her. Probably more. Of course now she’d have to avoid the blood, and vacuum would be very bad. Shasa had experienced better days, but didn’t let that keep her down.

The belter hobbled a little out from the cover she’d found, fired off a wild shot and then got her barely-conscious self back behind something solid.

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Minor: Move a little out of full cover
Major: Shoot pistol (doesn’t even come close to hitting)
Minor: Use more move to get back behind full cover (Tactical Awareness)

16:48, Today: Shasa Quan rolled 7 using 3d6+2 (1 stunt point) with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 2, 2.  Shooting (-2 Wounded).

Abang having moved into the perfect position takes careful aim as the enemy ducks back into cover and squeezes off one shot, the gel bullet flying towards the foe's unarmored head...

Minor: Aim
Major: Ranged Attack
19:12, Today: Dr. Abang Kaos rolled 12 15 using 3d6+4 with the AGE System with rolls of {4}, 3, 1 4.  Aimed Ranged Attack on remaining active hostile.  Spending 4 Fortune to raise 1 to 4.
5 SP generated (4 +1 from Shasa).  4 spent on Called Shot (Gun Stunt), to unarmored portion of target, 1 on Adrenaline Rush (General Combat).

First shot was a Sleeper Round; target (if hit) makes a TN 13 Con (Tolerance) test, on a Failure=Unconscious, on a Success=Fatigued
Come on drugs, do work your magic!
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Asha climbs down to the CIC deck and steps off to the right to avoid the gunfire being fired at Kattlin along the left side of the deck.

The vessel begins to lurch and move, as if pushing off from the dock, there is a bit of resistance at first, but it quickly goes away.

Shasa fires at the remaining ship crewman and misses.

[Private to Shasa Quan:
Can you make an ammo check? You do have a hi cap magazine, so this really only determine if you’ve expended half the magazine.
(GM rant: Such a stupid way to determine ammo expenditure for a game)]

Kattalin takes cover from the incoming fire. The consoles near her end up getting shattered and destroyed, while the crash couch she is near is also struck by several rounds and begins to ooze the cushioning gel used within crash couches.

Dr. Abang Kaos fires a sleeper round from his dinky revolver and hits the lone ship crewman in the left side of his neck. The man doesn't even react to getting shot and instead just collapses to the deck.

Asha stands next the rail gun conduit.

Although there is no longer a gunfight occurring in the ships CIC another one appears to have begun within the vertical ladder well. More PDW fire from the ship crew is heard coming from below along with some return rifle fire from above. Then all the shooting abruptly stops.

OOC: Please continue to post a Minor and Major action.

If your character decides to start looking at the various consoles and begins to try and access ships systems, please hold off on making any rolls.

I’m going to provide a list of ships systems that need to be accessed.

Some require a standard test with a threshold while other will be advanced tests that may require two characters to work together. Some of the advanced tests will take hours to complete.

Abang moves back over to where he dropped his medical bag and retrieves it, "Did anyone get hit?"


Major: Move
Minor: Ready bag to shoulder, still has pistol out.

With the hail of bullets done Kattalin quickly gets out from behind the heavily damaged couch that probably isn't as good of cover any more and makes her way down the hall to the unconscious man to separate him from his weapon just in case.  As she starts to inspect his equipment more closely she calls over her shoulder. "No new air holes yet, but we might want to not do that again if we don't have to."

Minor Action:  Move to the gunman
Major Action: 21 Technology (7 stunt points) to analyze the high tech armor/gear for salvage or use
(2 stunt points) Speed Demon (half time)
(3 stunt points) High Tech Hustle (1 fewer complication)
(2 stunt points) Lucky Break (Fact about object not noticeable with simple interaction)

Asha walks over to the right side of the ship and checks on Shasa. Helping the other Belter up she announces to everyone. "Shasa got shot in the ass."

Minor: Walk to Shasa
Major: Help Shasa get up

Shasa grunted as Asha helped her to stand up straight. "Sabaka." The belter wrapped her left arm around the other woman's shoulder, which helped to support part of Shasa's weight. The lack of gravity helped, of course, but even bearing a little weight was painful.

"Good shooting, doc. How long is that dzehmang out for?" She could put a bullet in his head quite easily now that he wasn't moving about. "And let's take a look at that gun he had - I couldn't use the other one as it must be keyed to either the person or the armor. But maybe this one is different. Speaking of armor, I may need to borrow a new suit from either of the dead. This one is wasted."

She looked down toward the lower decks. "We still maybe have one or more in engineering to deal with. Asha, Kattalin, you may be doing most of the heavy lifting in engineering. Unless the doc has a miracle cure for me."

The belter finally had time to report in. ++CIC is secured. We are moving to engineering next. Any reinforcements would be helpful. What is the status of the other three that were trying to enter?++

[Private to GM: OOC: I assume an ammo check is just a roll with no penalty? 11 with 5 stunt points for this one.

12:06, Today: Secret Roll: Shasa Quan rolled 11 using 3d6 (5 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 5, 1.  Ammo Check.]

As there is discussion of moving down to engineering and a status update a shot rings out from the ladder well from below shooting at someone who is on the upper decks.

Kattalin finds that the PDW lying by the man’s side and the holstered pistol are keyed to his armor. The armor itself is vacuum rated, and although she is sure she hit the wearer in the side (at least once), there is no sign of a bullet impact. Interfacing her hand terminal with the suits forearm terminal with a data cord (a wireless interface won’t work) she gets some more information about the suit’s features.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: Anti-Thermal weave
Medical sensor net
Medical Injector system
3-hour independent oxygen supply]

Abang moves over to the Belters, holstering his pistol as he moves.  "Okay, now strictly as your doctor, let's take a look at that ass..." he gives Shasa a saucy waggle of the eyebrows, but is pulling open the EMT duffel and doffing his vac gloves.


Major: Move
Minor: Holster Pistol

OOC: This thread here lists the ships systems you can access, cannot access and what rolls/TN's are needed to access a system.
link to a message in this game

Either convinced by her brief inspection that the armored space suit is worth taking, or just hedging a bet by taking a backup she starts to strip the former occupant out of it, by hard wired command first, then by pulling off the pieces of suit should they release themselves.

Kattalin Zubiri rolled 18 using 3d6+9 (4 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {4}, 1, 4.  Technology (electronic warfare) vs suit/computer.
(2 stunt points) Speed Demon (half time)
(3 stunt points) High Tech Hustle (1 fewer complication)

At the sound of gunfire, Shasa tilted her head in the direction of the ladder. "Taki, Asha, but go help Alis. She need cover from you. Doc can handle my ass all by hisself, right doc?"

The wounded belter bent and put hands on her knees so that Asha could go help Alis with the continuing firefight. "You need me outta this suit?" She gritted her teeth at the pain offered by movement.

Asha looks towards the hatch leading downward, then over to Kattalin. After hearing Sato over the hand terminal network she moves to one of the crew station consoles. "Hey Kat we need to work on taking over the ship, not get dressed up in that guy's fancy armor."

"Can you cover the hatch and make sure no one shoots us?"

As she taps on the console the Belter exclaims. "I might have locked out the pilot controls from the people in engineering. Looks like they are trying to do the same. They haven't noticed me yet."

21:24, Today: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Asha Blackburn, rolled 18 using 3d6+5 (6 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {6}, 1, 6.  Intelligence isolate/lock pilot controls TN 15.
18 w/ 6 stunt points
Threshold 6 (or 12 if we allow speed dean to double dram die in tests with a threshold)

2 SP: SPEED DEMON (should this stunt allow the drama die to be doubled in order to speed up a character reaching the designated threshold? Example here is with 6 on the drama die the stunt doubles that to 12, which means success.
Works in the player groups favor this time....but it might not when the GM rolls for the bad guys.)

3 SP: COVER YOUR TRACKS (hide fact that she's trying to isolate pilot controls)

1 SP: (CORE) A-HA! useful fact. Bad guys in engineering are also trying to isolate pilot controls. +1 SP on next test (if there is one)

Kattalin finds that it will take her several minutes to strip the suit off the unconscious man, another several minutes to undress herself, and finally several more minutes to get the man’s vac suit on.

Dr. Abang Kaos begins his assessment of Sasha’s right buttock. The emergency vac suit she is wearing can be easily cut and removed. The basic flight/jump suit she is wearing does have an ‘ass’ flap for using the rest room, so getting to the wound to treat it will not be a problem.

There is not much Sasha can do other than suffer the indignity of having a compete stranger check out her backside.

Asha manages to isolate the vessels piloting controls from the ship's crew down in engineering.

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos:
Since you're probably going to ace your test anyways....
The best you’re going to be able to do is stop the bleeding, and pump Sasha up with pain killers, and maybe some amphetamines. While she will still be technically ‘wounded’ in terms of movement, you will be able to negate one penalty point so she only has a -1 to tests.
]

Dropping the armor bits she has been fiddling with Kattalin returns to the consoles in CIC and begins setting up a containment bubble of sorts around the people in engineering, starting with where she knows they are now she reinforces the locks around the pilot control system Asha just kicked them out of. "If we know what they are trying to hack into we can hamper them, otherwise we should develop a priority list of systems needed."


Minor Action:  Move CIC terminal
Major Action: 13 Security (3 stunt points) to prevent engineering from regaining access to pilot controls
(2 stunt points) Speed Demon (half time)
(1 stunt point) A-HA: Useful fact about what the engineering team is targeting next.

Shasa grimaced at the doc's work, though between bouts of pain had a question. "You have access to cameras? Might be good to see what we up against." She took a sharp breath through gritted teeth, hoping that Kaos knew what he was doing.

Abang's work is relatively fast, apply some local anesthetic, as well as giving Shasa some meds (pain, antibiotic, and a stimmie so the pain meds don't dull her too much), then carefully cut open the spacesuit as minimally as needed, pack some gauze in her new hole (which hurts like hell regardless of meds), slap a patch on her ass, then find a patch for her suit.

After he gets her patched up, "That's going to hurt like hell when I take it out later to go after that bullet, buuuut for now you won't bleed to death, and the bullet isn't doing any further damage."

OOC:  Sorry, can't do nothin for your Fortune, they way this system works, you're actually better at "healing" that than a Doc is.

22:04, Today: Dr. Abang Kaos rolled 13 using 3d6+6 (5 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 1, 1.  Medicine roll for Shasa's ass, INT 4 (Medicine).
If 13 is good enough, I'll take the five Stunt points... if not, I can reroll the 1s.
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Seeing no one else doing so and not wanting to get shot in the back, Asha covers the hatch in case somebody from below deck pops their head up.

Shasa moved her leg around a little after the doc was done with patching things up. "Taki, doc." She grimaced as it still hurt. But it didn't hurt as bad as before, so that was good.

"Anyone take a look at the internal cameras?" Looking around and not seeing any nods, Shasa limped over toward a nearby console and tried to access video feeds of the lower levels that were still not under their control (i.e. Engineering).

With the ship moving under thruster power, everyone suddenly feels like they weigh a lot less than they used to when the ship was docked to Eros.

More gunfire erupts, as someone on the upper decks fires a SMG or rifle which is returned by two or maybe three individuals firing SMG or rifles upwards.

A body wearing the silverish/grey armor of the vessel crew falls from above in the microgravity created by the vessel being under thruster power and lands on the CIC deck having spun in such a way to get stuck and not pass past the ladder well hatch that goes further below decks.

Katalin locks out the piloting controls from engineering and only allows the piloting functions to be accessed from here in CIC or on Flight Deck.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: It looks like someone down in engineering is still trying to attain flight control but hasn’t figured out Kattalin has isolated them. She also notices that someone is trying to gain control of the ships PDC’s.

To answer the camera question, you do not have access to the ships interior camera’s.]

Dr. Koas pack's Shasa’s wound and puts a patch on her space suit so it will retain integrity.

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos: If you want to do something with those stunt points you can. Speed demon is a good choice. Not sure what else would be helpful.]

As the Doctor does his work, Shasa taps on a nearby console to access the interior camera’s.

[Private to Shasa Quan: All the drugs and shit you've been pumped fill of reduces your penalties from -2 to -1. Your movement speed in 0.3 G and up, or while using your mag boots is still halved. But is only reduced by 25% in zero G or micro G (like right now).

You are unable to access the ships interior camera’s]

OOC: While you are no longer in 0.3 gravity but in micro gravity the free fall focus can be used for movement.

Still fiddling with the ship systems Kattalin answers the questions put forward by the others without doing much more than shift her input style on the system. "You keep working on the cameras, I will stop them from taking over the PDCs."

Minor Action:  Switch to the PDC settings on the terminal
Major Action: 18 using 3d6+7 with the AGE System with rolls of {4}, 1, 6.  Intelligence (Security) PDC lockdown.
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Having finished closing up Shasa, Abang moved to retrieve the weapon she'd tossed as a distraction.


Actions:  Move and Ready weapon?

With a body now lying over the hatch leading below decks there was now some sort of barrier. Albeit not a great one from anyone entering the CIC from below.  Asha still covers the hatch with her pistol.

Kattalin begins to work on taking over the PDC’s and realizes that it will take a bit longer than the piloting controls.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: You need to hit a threshold of 10, with your dram die being a 4, the threshold is now a 6.]

With his patient, Shasa stabilized, Dr. Abang Kaos picks up and inspects the gun Shasa tossed, and quickly realizes why she tossed it.

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos: The gun (It’s a futuristic MP-7) is useless to you. It’s either keyed to the dead man’s armor, or to a chip embedded in his hands. The gun itself has as extended magazine, collapsible stock, a folding foregrip, fiber optic sights, a laser targeting module on the right side, and a compact flashlight on the left side.
]

Keeping her head down and her focus on the screens Kattalin is clearly still hard at work doing something most would consider mindbogglingly complex, at speed.

Minor Action: Watching for a change in status from engineering.
Major Action: rolled 19 using 3d6+7 with the AGE System with rolls of {2}, 4, 6.  Intelligence (Security) PDC lockdown roll 2..

Dr. Kaos types out a quick response into the comms, "workin on it - lacking hvy firepwr", then takes the PDW over to the dead man and presses it into his hand, testing to see if it unlocks.



Major Action:  Probably movement
Minor Action:  Ready weapon (checking it in dead guy's hand)

Is he still wearing armor, or is he the one Kattalin stripped?


Also, quick head-count:  We entered the ship with:  Alis, Kala, Sato, Asha, Dr. Kaos, Katalin, Dude with rifle, Guy with MMU, Kaeya, Ms Hirotsugu, Unconscious wounded guy, Woman with shot arm, and Helper guy.

Alis, Kala, Sato, went up; Asha, Dr. Kaos, Katalin, went down.  We left Ms Hirotsugu, Unconscious wounded guy, and Woman with shot arm strapped in or next to the airlock (probably "Helper guy" too IIRC).  I know one of "Dude with rifle"or "Guy with MMU" morphed into Shasa.  So my question:  Where did the other guy and Kaeya end up?

OOC:

Kaeya, has made a few updates in the radio thread. In message 19 she reported that the "dude with rifle" is dead.

Guy/Gal with MMU did morph in Shasa as this non gender defined NPC was described as having white dreadlocks.

Shasa looked over at the engineer. "Ah, sésata, I cover the hatch. You get us cameras, yes?" Shasa pointed over to the console that should provide Asha access to the systems, then took up the post guarding the hatch.

Asha made her way to a console and began to work on the interior camera's. "Dis ain't goin good. Maybe we shoot camera's here so dey don't see?"


11:01, Today: Secret Roll: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Asha Blackburn, rolled 9 using 3d6+5 (1 stunt point) with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 2, 1.  interior camera control TN 15, threshold 15 to regain access.
FAIL

Shasa covers the hatch with the dead body lying atop it.

Dr. Koas moves to the dead man and after placing the PDW in his hand is rewarded with a small status light on the rear to light up.

You have discovered that the gun is keyed to the man’s armor, and not his biometrics. You can fire the gun using the dead man's hand with a penalty of -1 for shooting tests.

Kattalin continues to work on gaining control of the PDC’s

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: You just need a 4 or higher on the drama die on your next roll to gain control of the PDC's.]


OOC: Kaeya and a bunch of NPC's are on the deck with the airlock.

Kattalin starts to look a little frustrated about how slippery this little block of code is, but keeps at it none the less, hammering away at the last few quirky bits of it just as precisely as she started.

Minor Action: Watching for a change in status from engineering.
Major Action: rolled 17 using 3d6+7 with the AGE System with rolls of {3}, 5, 2.  Intelligence (Security) PDC lockdown roll 3.

Dr Kaos crouches for a moment, contemplating options...

OOC:  A couple of questions; 1 - how long will it take to put his armor on?  Can I just take his gloves (I doubt it).
2 - How awkward will it be to freefall down the shaft holding his body like a shield?

Asha tries to get into the system again to gain control of the interior camera's

09:28, Today: Secret Roll: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Asha Blackburn, rolled 15 using 3d6+5 with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 4, 1.  interior camera control TN 15, threshold 15 to regain access.
PASS, threshold is now 10 to gain control

As thrust cuts off, the dead body lying on top of the open hatch begins to float/rise.

Kattalin keeps working on the PDC, and despite the frustrations with the code is able to gain control of them.

Dr. Kaos looks over the dead body and his options.

[Private to Dr. Abang Kaos: As a former member of the UNN Navy Dr. Kaos would be familiar with the concept of firearms being keyed to a servicemen's armor. Taking the glove off won't work. But you can use the dead body (and its armor as cover, bonus of 1) and fire with the gun in the dead guy's hand with you pulling the trigger. It might be better to wait for the other guys to expose themselves instead of exposing yourself as they are very well armed.

quote:

2 - How awkward will it be to freefall down the shaft holding his body like a shield?

I'd say to move with the body and use it like a shield, would consist of your minor action a being a Dex test TN 13. The body will provide a cover bonus of 1.

Using the body as a shield and firing a gun from the dead man's hand would increase the TN to 15.]

[Private to Shasa Quan: With everyone focused on something else, you're the only one to see a helmeted head pop up from below decks.]

OOC/FYI: It will take several minutes to take off the suit, and another several minutes to suit up. Minutes you do not have.

Please wait for Shasa to post before posting.

Shasa cursed as she saw something concerning. "Kaka felota! Desh xash deya!"

The belter didn't waste any more time and fired her sidearm at the offensive helmet. "Need a little help here!"

She then ducked behind a nearby console and readied her weapon to fire again.

OOC: Firing pistol (Major) and then finding cover behind something nearby (Minor)

19 to hit (which includes the -1) and 6 stunt points. Will use 2 for vicious blow (adding 1d6 to the damage) and 4 for Called Shot (making it penetrating).

11 damage (penetrating)

04:17, Today: Shasa Quan rolled 11 using 3d6+1 with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 6, 3.  Damage (vicious blow).

04:08, Today: Shasa Quan rolled 19 using 3d6+3 (6 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {6}, 6, 4.  Accuracy (-1 for injury).

Kattalin looks like she was about to make some effort at celebrating her success, but the renewed presence of gun fire makes her sigh almost imperceptibly in the vacuum suit and pull out her gun again, almost casually firing it down the corridor at the new moving target. "The PDCs are ours if we need them."


Minor Action:  Draw pistol
Major Action: Kattalin Zubiri rolled 12 using 3d6+4 (1+1 stunt point) with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 6, 1.  Accuracy (Pistols).  2 Stunt points for Overcome Toughness to cut it in half.
Kattalin Zubiri rolled 12 using 2d6+4 with rolls of 4,4.  Damage.

Shasa and Kattalin both fire at the armored head which quickly disappears after getting it. With no spatter of blood on the bulkhead its hard to determine if the assailant was killed.

Shortly afterward a canister grenade is lobbed up into CIC but it it’s the now floating body that is near the hatch leading downward and goes back down from where it came. Some smoke billows up from below decks but doesn’t obscure CIC. But anyone who looks down to the lower deck would have their vision obscured.

Three more canister like grenades are tossed up into the CIC by those one deck below. Two of the grenades ae thrown too hard and continue upwards, while a third bounces off the ceiling and as its trajectory takes it downwards begins to billow white smoke from one end which propels the grenade around the compartment.

OOC: The smoke is partially hindering your visibility and will enact a -1 penalty to all actions that require sight.

16:27, Today: Darkside Trooper, for the NPC Apophis Actual, rolled 10 using 3d6+2 with the AGE System with rolls of {3}, 1, 4.  toss smoke grenade into CIC (TN 11).
FAIL

16:24, Today: Darkside Trooper, for the NPC Protogen Merc 2, rolled 16 using 3d6+2 (5 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 5, 4.  toss smoke grenade into CIC (TN 11).
PASS

16:23, Today: Darkside Trooper, for the NPC Protogen Merc 1, rolled 9 using 3d6+2 (1 stunt point) with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 1, 5.  toss smoke grenade into CIC (TN 11).
FAIL

OOC: Is it possible to smack that smoke grenade back where it came from? Shasa isn't otherwise occupied, and I presume it takes some time to fill the volume of the CIC.

Also, at a guess, roughly how quickly is the air recycling system going to clear the smoke?

Without the ability to deal with the smoke in any appreciable way, Shasa prepared to deal with whomever might be following the smoke. She checked to make sure her weapon still had ammo, and was satisfied with that, at least.

"Did I mention we having guests?"

Shasa kept hoping that some of the others in the CIC might be able to give a hand with the shooting or even the talking. Though noting that no one else was doing so, she quickly activated her communicator with the hand that wasn't holding a gun.

"CIC confirms." She really didn't want to get into a long conversation when an enemy could pop up through the smoke at any time. But it sounded like someone needed a go-ahead, so she gave it. If any of her comrades seemed likely to move into what was going to become the line-of-fire, she would warn them away. Until then, she hunkered down and waited for reinforcements.
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Either because the smoke grenade was defective, or the ship’s air scrubbers were on full blast, the smoke begins to dissipate rather quickly.

But then, two more smoke grenades are tossed into CIC from below just as one of the PDW’s are also fired upward towards someone above decks. This is followed by a shotgun blast coming from below. Then there is return fire from at least two PDWs being fired downward.

Of the two smoke grenades tossed into CIC, only one goes off, and begins to add to the lingering smoke. But this last smoke grenades seems to be working at its full potential.

OOC: I do not know where everyone went, but please make a post if your still around.

I do not suggest looking down the ladder/hatch to below decks where a stray round from the gunfight below may hit you.

Shasa sighed as more grenades came her way. But at least they weren't explosive. That would have really ruined her day.

The shotgun blast was probably a friendly, which gave Shasa hope that she would not be facing three of the silver-suited enemies on her own. This wasn't really time to let down her guard, so she continued to concentrate on the only point of ingress. Smoke was annoying, but it wasn't lethal.

OOC: Still around! But still can't do much.

Those on the CIC deck hear several types of weapons being fired, a shotgun, and SMG, a pistol, and PDW’s. Several rounds strike the ceiling of CIC around the ladder well/hatchway. This is followed by one of the ships’ crew flying upward from below. The man flails about in zero G trying to find a purchase so he can move. Unlike the other members of the ship’s crew, this man’s armor has black stripes on the outside of the arms and legs.

OOC: Now you have a helpless target to shoot at.

Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth Kattalin shifts out of cover for a moment to fire at the floating man, getting him in one of the softer bits of armor before she ducks back out of the way.


Minor Action: Pop up from cover
Major Action: Kattalin Zubiri rolled 14 using 3d6+4 (2 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {2}, 6, 2.  Accuracy (Pistols).  2 Stunt points for Overcome Toughness to cut it in half. 1 Stunt point for take cover.
Kattalin Zubiri rolled 12 using 2d6+4 with rolls of 3,5.  Damage.

Dr. Kaos attempts to fire the dead man's PDW with the dead man's hand on the PDW's grip and trigger. It doesn't work quite like it did in the movies and Dr. Kaos ends up shooting up a bulkhead.

Asha fires on the floating man with her pistol.

09:53, Today: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Asha Blackburn, rolled 17 using 3d6+1 (6 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {6}, 6, 4.  shoot floating guy.
17 (will hit)
2 SP: VICIOUS BLOW (=1d6 dmg)
4 SP: CALLED SHOT (ignore toughness)

09:56, Today: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Asha Blackburn, rolled 14 using 3d6+2 with rolls of 5,5,2.  dmg to floating guy.
14 dmg

Shasa, like the others in the CIC, slides out from cover, places a bullet neatly in the floating body, then gets herself back into cover.

OOC: 14 to hit with 3 stunt points. Will add vicious blow and duck and weave (+1)
Damage is 7


16:34, Today: Shasa Quan rolled 7 using 3d6+1 with the AGE System with rolls of {2}, 1, 3.  Damage (vicious blow).

16:29, Today: Shasa Quan rolled 14 using 3d6+3 (3 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {3}, 4, 4.  Accuracy (-1 for injury).

Despite the smoke partially obscuring everything Kattalin, Shasa and Asha all hit the man failing about in zero G. It’s hard to tell whose bullets finish the man off but he stops flaying about and goes limp. Blood streams outward from the body forming into red globes that mixes in with the white smoke filling the compartment.

Below decks there is more gunfire occurring...

OOC: Please add an init roll to your next post if you decide to participate in the gunfight occurring below.

OOC: Are there friendlies 'above' Shasa whose fire would be impeded by the floating body? I'm inclined to at least clear the body away if it would help.

With all the smoke in CIC Sato still couldn't see down there. Taking a risk, (hoping not to get shot at) he yells down from the Troop Berthing Deck down to those in CIC. "I got myself and one other up here."

Shasa yelled back up. "Other enemy? Or other friend?"

There wasn't much for her to do at the moment, so she was able to engage in idle chatter. If nothing else the smoke would keep Sato safe (safer?) from those 'below'.

Hearing Sato, Asha lets everyone know he's on their side. "Don't shoot Sato, he's on our side!"

The gunfight below continues.... A shotgun and SMG are both being fired one or two decks below, and there is distant pistol fire coming from several deck ‘down’. The sounds of somebody below announcing they’ve been shot is also heard.



Within the CIC compartment itself, the smoke is still obscuring everyone’s vision, but it isn’t irritating the eyes. Three dead bodies of the ship’s crew float about along with their weapons, and several dozen shell cases from the various weapons that have been fired.

The sounds of torpedoes being launched reverberate throughout the ship.
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With the immediate area clear of hostilities again Kattalin quickly scans through the systems still in need of unlocking and picks out the sensor system most likely to matter if weapons fire happens outside the ship and gets started on it.


Minor Action: Holster Pistol
Major Action: Kattalin Zubiri rolled 22 using 3d6+8 (5 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 5, 4.  Intelligence (Technology) test TN 13, threshold 10.
Stunt point used: Speed Demon (2), High Tech Hustle (3)
Bonus Action: Kattalin Zubiri rolled 20 using 3d6+9 (4 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {4}, 4, 3.  Electronic Warfare +1, Reroll
Stunt points used: Communication Jamming: 4
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An alarm sounds in conjunction with a sudden drop in air pressure causing everyone ears to pop as several PDC rounds pass through the compartment and the ship itself. One of the dead floating bodies is torn in half at the torso and the dead man’s intestines begin to unravel and spread across the compartment.

Instead of the air pressure dropping to zero and then possibly dying from exposure to the vacuum of space, the alarm stops. Air pressure in the compartment is significantly lower than it was before, and they find it more difficult to breath. The smoke that had filled the compartment is now significantly less then it was before.

Each deck of the ship is cut off from the others as the hatches along the ladder/shaft of the vessel lock down.

Throughout the experience of the compartment depressurizing and several PDC rounds passing through it, Kattalin manages to get the vessels active sensor suite working.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: There are TWO torpedoes incoming. There is no sign of where the two torpedoes came from.

The only thing you can do is try and assist whoever is up on the Command/Flight deck by going active with the ship’s sensors.

Let me know how you want to use those stunt points.]

If you're going to talk, please make a Constitution test TN 11. FAIL and your too busy gasping for air to talk.
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Dr. Kaos gasps for breath, trying to get used to the reduced air pressure.

Asha tries to find an active console where she can do something about the loss in air pressure.

"I'm....working on...life support...getting...our air back."

15:32, Today: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Asha Blackburn, rolled 15 using 3d6+1 with the AGE System with rolls of {3}, 5, 6.  Constitution test TN 11.
PASS

15:37, Today: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Asha Blackburn, rolled 16 using 3d6+7 (2 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {2}, 5, 2.  Damage Control Test TN 11.
16 w/2 SP (not enough for quick fix)
Threshold for 1 loss is 5, so is now at 3.

Having never taken off her vacuum suit, and been lucky enough to not get it shot full of holes Kattalin notices the fall in cabin pressure mostly in the form of swirling smoke and blinking lights, while she stays focused on the much more significant threat outside she sets the now functional sensor systems to their active and defensive state.


Minor Action: Silence alarms
Major Action: Kattalin Zubiri rolled 20 using 3d6+9 with the AGE System with rolls of {6}, 2, 3.  Electronic Warfare +1, Reroll.
All drama dice used for defense
Stunt from previous round: Communication Jamming: 4, now down to 3 rounds.
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Shasa kept her body loose and her mouth open as the pressure started to drop, just in case they ended up in vacuum. But their new ship seemed to deal with the issue relatively quickly. Nice Ship

As the others moved to the consoles, Shasa checked the seals then did the same, again looking to see if she could gather any more information than the last time.

OOC: Asha should have 3 stunt points instead of 2 due to Inspire.

Do we have any more cameras? If not, Shasa is just going to look at status information and see if she can provide any further info. Also, if she has access to any external weapons, she can probably help with targeting/firing. Let me know if that's an option.

The sounds of Point Defense Cannons can be heard and felt being fired as most everyone does something.

Kattalin shuts off the decompression alarm, and work on jamming any communications other than their ad-hoc hand terminal network.

[Private to Kattalin Zubiri: You quickly realize, that there are no other ships within communication range to jam. Whomever fired the torpedoes is either thousands of kilometers away, got blown away, or is below the horizon of Eros.]

The ship’s sensors indicates that the Ba’al, a friendly vessel is nearby, and they also pick up three groups of ships that are vectoring away from Eros, and Kattalin pushes the data up on the various monitors throughout the CIC so all can see.

All three groups of ships are tens of thousands of kilometers away, and it is highly unlikely they fired the two torpedos.

• The first group of vessels are identified as the Amun-Ra, Amu-Aa, and the Montu. The mostly captured stealth assault frigate registers these three vessels as friendly. The three vessels are vectoring to a destination within the Belt, but not near any known stations.
• The second groups of vessels consist of an unknown science vessel, an unknown light freighter, and the Osiris, another friendly vessel. These three vessels are vectoring towards the Jupiter system.
• The last ‘group’ is just a single ship. It is not squaking anything on IFF, but the ships computer identifies the vessel's hull profile as an MCRN Corvette class light frigate. The computer cannot match the vessel's drive signature with any known vessels in the computer. Thus, the ship’s computer logs the vessel as unidentified MCRN Corvette class light frigate #1.

Asha works quickly to repressurize the ship’s various compartments back to a comfortable one atmosphere. She does notice something odd about Deck 15…

Shasa moves to a station and checks the exterior cameras.

[Private to Shasa Quan: You witness a pair of inbound torpedoes getting destroyed by the ship’s PDC’s. There is nothing out there that appears to have fired them.]

Dr. Kaos gasps for breath.

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At the same time as the PDC’s stop firing, the air pressure in the cabin begins to rise, and stops at what everyone feels is normal.

There is still a little bit of smoke in the air, and one of the dead bodies having been blown in half by the PDC rounds that passed thorugh the ship has its insides beginning to float around everywhere.

OOC: Your out of ‘combat’ (for now).

Shasa responded to the request from Alis since things had settled for a moment. "CIC quiet and has air. Still no internal camera. One more dead body here, but maybe two more still aboard that be less dead?"

NPC'd

Asha looks into why the air pressure on deck 15 was higher then one atmosphere of pressure and gets an answer.

"Pressure on deck 15 higher then normal, I think a water tank got shot full of holes, and deck is full of water."

NPC'd

It didn't look like anyone else was going to do it, so Abang secures their unconscious prisoner to a crash couch. He then moves to the closest intact body with the intention of doing the same.

NPC'd

The hatch to the upper deck opens up and Sato yells down "This is Sato coming down!" so at to avoid getting shot.

Seeing that CIC was truly a mess he checked in. "I sent the other guy to the crew airlock deck to check on the people we have there."

"Ya, Sato. Welcome. CIC full of people. Some alive. Some not so. Ship is now secure, yes?" She looked at the hatch with interest, though didn't scramble out of the CIC just yet.

Looking up from the system interface for the first time since she shot someone Kattalin takes a few moments to assess the state of the room before she recalls what got her attention. "As urgent as clearing and controlling the ship is, that water is more important than anything else.  Without it we don't get anywhere so we should head down there and see about fixing whatever holes, or source of sabotage we find as soon as possible."

Anyone who inspects the ship's communication system will find that the active radio communications (sending) are completely locked out, but passive (receiving) is not. The vessel’s tight beam communications are working, but they do require a line of sight communicate with other vessels/stations.

NPC'd

"We got people on the command deck who can operate the ship, so let's get an engineering crew down to engineering." Looking around he didn't know who knew what to do on a ship other than Asha, and Abang.

NPC'd

As he straps down one of the intact dead bodies Dr. Kaos. "This ship has a med bay. I'd like to get the wounded man we transported over into surgery and look at anyone else who needs medical attention."

The hatch to the lower decks opens up and the large Earther (Yuri) announces himself before coming through the hatch. Behind him is one of the Belters (Sancho). Both men were part of the group that went to secure the smaller ship.

OOC: Other then Alis, all of the PC's on the big ship are in CIC.

Sancho goes through the hatch. "Any idea where the rest of the enemy are ?" he asks the others present.


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Shasa shook her head at the question. "Been holed up here and no cameras yet. If none below, we have engineering access, yes? Then just need to clear out between here and bridge."

The belter looked around at the others, thinking about who would be good in engineering. She waited to hear from Sancho about the status before suggesting any sort of split, however.

Sancho went and checked a console as to the status of access and to see if he could bring any of the cameras online. "I am happy to go and find them if that's what needs to be done."


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Shasa nodded. "Together, yes? Better in numbers."

"I go too, also," said Yuri.

"As for ship systems, I am gunner."

“We cleared everything from the command deck to here. We still need to check engineering I think.”

"Right, well lets head that way and get it done." Sancho did a quick visual check as he followed someone who knew where to go.


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Setting her console into its standby mode so bumping it doesn't do anything stupid Kattalin draws the pistol again and nods to the ladder. "Lead the way down, we have to get to engineering anyways, we may as well clear the path while we do."

While some individuals head down to engineering others carry out other tasks.

Shinsato Hirotsugu (NPC) heads back up to the command deck.

Dr. Abang Kaos (NPC) along with Helper Guy (NPC) follow Sato but stop at the Crew Airlock Deck to collect the man who is gut shot.

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Those heading to engineering pass through a galley for embarked troops, then a medical deck with access to the forward breaching pods.

On the Cargo Airlock Deck the group finds Shaved Head (NPC) apparently on watch for anyone coming up from the lower decks.

Heading down further and after passing through one deck allocated to being an armory/weapons locker, and another allocated soley to being access to the aft breaching pods the goup gets to the Machine shop/gym deck.

The hatch leading to Engineering is still closed, and shows that the atmospheric pressure on the other side is oddly, at 1.3 atmospheres.

OOC: Vessel is still operating on 'the float.'

Sancho pointed out the atmosphere anomaly as he watched the others "stack up" to the side of the engineering hatch. He would trigger it opening and then enter the space with his SMG at his shoulder.


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Shasa nodded at the others that all planned to go to engineering, then moved gingerly toward the hatch and headed down/aft. As they all got ready, Shasa considered the additional pressure. She pointed toward then made a very quiet whooshing noise and a movement with her hand in a direction away from the hatch.

The Belter closed her mouth tightly and pinched her nose closed for emphasis.

When they get close to the display which reads an atmosphere discrepancy on the other side of the next door Kattalin shuts and dogs the hatch behind them so the shift in pressure will be limited to the second deck, and not mess with the whole ship.  When done she turns back around and nods to the person closest to the door.

After Shasa closes the hatch between decks 14 & 13 and secures it, Sancho opens the hatch between decks 14 & 15.

As the hatch opens there is an audible POP as the air pressure between the two decks equalize. As sancho moves to enter deck 15 he is met by a large bubble of water which hits him ten breaks up into smaller bubbles of water.

The bubble of water is followed by a leg encased within the greyish silver armor worn by the vessels crew.

Lookign within deck 15, Sancho can see numerous bubbles of water floating about, along with the body parts of one to three people.

Once again glad they are all wearing air, and thus water/bodily fluid, tight suits Kattalin gives the bubbles and body parts a few moments to settle into their new trajectories before she carefully pulls herself into the room and looks around to assess the damage.
[Private to GM:
Kattalin Zubiri rolled 17 using 3d6+7 with the AGE System with rolls of {3}, 2, 5.  Intelligence (Engineering) Damage assessment.]

When the hatch first opened, Shasa warily inspected every bit of movement in her vicinity. After several moments of looking for a target, she followed Kattalin through the hatch to deck 15. The damage seemed extensive, but not irreparable.

The belter continued to scan the area for any hostiles, gun still in hand.

Sancho enter the engineering space and with his rifle at his shoulder he begins to clear the area. he takes it slow listening as he goes and trying not to hit another water bubble.


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Yuri hung back in the hatch, providing overwatch.

There are no living hostiles on deck 15 and if someone were to count the body part they would find the remains of a man and woman floating about the compartment.

The water formed into bubbles due to being on the float are unavoidable.

Of the three crew stations on this deck only one appears to be non functioning as it has been perforated by PDC rounds. The other three crew stations, two are powered up and active.

OOC: I believe between Sancho and Kattalin (and maybe Shasa) the two have the abilities to restart the reactor. You’re not in in combat so I just need one player to make an Intelligence (Technology) and another make an Intelligence (Engineering) test.

Both tests are TN 14.

Kattalin takes a few moments to assess the room, and the tasks required, when the others have picked out their roles she takes the least desired one and does it with her usual efficiency.


Kattalin Zubiri rolled 18 using 3d6+7 with the AGE System with rolls of {6}, 4, 1.  +1 more if Technology.
[Private to GM: Not sure stunt points or even fortune mater still but if we are using them I will spend 4 to upgrade the roll to a 21 or 22 and gain 6 Stunt point to spend on High Tech Hustle (3) and When a plan comes together (3) to aid the other roll.]
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Shasa looked around and nodded at the others. "Not my area of expertise, but we got people counting on us. Let me know if you need an extra pair of hands for anything. I call it in."

Shasa activated the communicator. "Bridge, this Engineering. All clear here. Looking to restart reactor. Stand by."

Once we are certain there are no living enemies down here, Yuri sets around the distasteful task of gathering all the body parts. Not something you want floating round a well-tempered spaceship!

Sancho slings his SMG and takes up a position on one of the consoles. He is having trouble with the unfamiliar ships systems and does looking like he is going to be any help at all.

Sancho Castro rolled 11 using 3d6+3 with the AGE System with rolls of {2}, 1, 5.  Intelligence (Technology).


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Sancho and Kattalin get to work on restarting the reactor. Meanwhile Yuri goes up to medical, retrieves a pair of body bags and upon returning begins the grisly task of collecting up the body parts, and placing them in the body bags. Not needed to help with the reactor, Shasa helps Yuri.

As these tasks are being carried out Kala’s and Van’s voices are heard over the ad hoc communication network as they initiate docking between the two ships. The vessel reverberates as the docking is completed.

A few minutes later, Sancho and Kattalin to get the reactor restarted. When they do, the lighting goes from emergency blue light to white light.

When the lighting went white indicating reactor restart, Shasa pumped her fist. She voiced her appreciation to those responsible for getting things fixed. "Yes! Well done, big brains. Looks like you got her started again."

The belter went over to a console to check that they had control of everything, including the internal cameras. Once she was satisfied, she contacted the others. "All good in Engineering. We should all talk now, yes? Meet on command deck?"

Shasa looked over to Sancho and Kattalin. "You are done, yes? Everything will run okay without you here?"
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Kattalin is already starting to look around and get an impression of what the status of other systems are when asked, she looks up only long enough to explain before returning to her work. "The reactor is on, for now, but there are a dozen other systems that need to be booted up before we can do anything, if all you are going to do is sit around and chat for a while I will pass.  We can't bring these ships to a port any time soon so just do whatever seems likely to keep us alive until we can find a ship that we can go to a dock."

[Private to GM: In theory we could keep rolling for every repair job, but that is a whole lot of rolling, with a 10 low average on the dice and no other bonuses I get an 18, so we could just count that as a long term careful repair job instead.]

Shasa nodded. "Mi keng, sesata. I keep you in loop while you keep ship running, yes?" The belter tapped her forehead with her right forefinger at an angle, a signal of thanks and appreciation from the Belter to the Martian.

She then took her leave of the Engineering section, heading up toward the command deck.

--> Big Ship Flight/Command Deck

Hearing chatter about putting some way on the ship, Yuri used a hand-held vacuum device to capture any loose water floating about.

In reply to Yuri Ivanovich (msg # 138):

Asha also assists Yuri, and made sure the vacuumed up was sent to the ship’s recycler for purification.

Kattalin and Asha finish vacuuming up all of the water, blood and gore floating around the engineering deck and feed it into the ship's recycler.

On thin deck alone a few repairs are needed. Two of the water tanks have PDC round sized holes going through them and need to be patched up. The crash couch at one of the decks four engineering stations needs to be replaced, a replacement chair would have to be pulled from another station on the ship.

OOC: I updated the locations of the characters earlier today: link to a message in this game

Characters staying on the big ship can assess the big ship for what needs to be repaired and prioritize said repairs, along with a few other things.

• Moving chairs, and monitors from less needed stations to the more important ones.
• Gathering the dead bodies (I need to look back to see how many there are, but one belongs to an NPC Belter) and putting in hermetically sealed body bags, then storing them on the cargo deck.
• Dr. Abang Kaos has a prisoner that’s he’s sedated and strapped into one of the medical couches on the med deck
• Policing up the spent shell casings, and bullet slugs embedded into the bulkheads
• Vacuuming up the blood and core throughout the ship.
• Patching the holes in the water tanks and the coolant tank.
• Rail gun - feel free to make a roll to assess damage.
• The damaged docking tube for the portside cargo airlock needs to be cut away, can be done during the interlude.
• The hull damage will take some time to repair, can be done during the interlude.
• Accessing the ships navigation core will require an advanced test and 3 PC's working together, this will need to be done during the interlude.
• Accessing the ships computer core will require an advanced test and 3 PC's working together, this will need to be done during the interlude.
• Accessing the ships navigation core armories and weapons lockers will require an advanced test and 3 PC's working together, this will need to be done during the interlude. But there are two prisoners that may be of use.

With the overly time sensitive problems taken care of, and the chaos of the ship slowing down Kattalin redirects herself to a puzzle that has been nagging at her for a while and brings up the available diagnostic programs for the rail gun. "We should finish our assessment of unknown problems before we address the obvious ones we know, but feel free to keep picking up loose bits while I work on this."

Kattalin Zubiri rolled 18 using 3d6+7 (5 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 3, 3.  Engineering, Rail Gun assessment.
Stunt Points: (2) Intuition (3) Lucky Break

In reply to Kattalin Zubiri (msg # 141):

OOC: will post reply/response in the med deck thread.

After a quick, but effective inspection of the Rail Gun's problems Kattalin returns to engineering, pulls up its entry in the diagnostic system and sets it to 'Replacement' status.  Then she moves on to the water tanks, to get some patches done before they need to use them.

Kattalin Zubiri rolled 18 using 3d6+7 with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 4, 6.  Engineering, water tanks

Kattalin and Asha begin patching the water tanks sot hey can once again be filled with water. Thye then move on to patching the holes in the inner hull as the rail gun rounds passed complete though the vessel.

They then suit up and get ready to go into the inner hull to continue the patching process. When they get to the inner hull hatch, they oddly find that the inner hull spaces are fully pressurized. There is no issue with the gauge on the hatch, as it is analog.

Asha looks over to Kattalin. "I never see this before on ship. Have you?"

Never having removed her suit Kattalin didn't really think about it herself, but when asked she seems to put it together quickly enough. "With all we have seen in the last few hours this is what seems unlikely to you?  With self patching body armor, and hull, why not pressurize the utilities areas. Even if you don't use them very often keeping the temperature and pressure up will reduce wear on components."

Asha explained herself. "Yes the ship self-sealed itself, but how? The same way the crew's vac suit did?" Pointing to some of the places they just patched within the compartment she adds. "We didn't see anything different when patching the holes for this compartment."

"I think we should check inner hull spaces and see how ship self-sealed itself."