OOC: Two tasks are needed in order to bring the systems up to where the signal can be traced.

1. Bypassing the Lock-out: The Romulans in main engineering have locked out the systems and the Player must attempt to override this obstruction. This is a Control + Engineering Task, with a Difficulty of 3. Success allows the Player to continue to the next step.
   
   
2. Reroute Power: This is a Reason + Engineering Task, with a Difficulty of 3. The Player attempts to siphon power from auxiliary back-up systems.

He'd figured out what had made him edgy: LaSalle was possibly the only survivor of the ship, and he was still functional despite going through hell and losing basically the entire crew. Somehow, he couldn't see most ensigns he'd met out of the academy pulling that off.

It sure wasn't something Juan would hold against the man.

Juan noted that they probably didn't need two people to cover the door, and made his way over to the room's ops, giving a respectful nod at Hansen as he left him to cover the door. Even now, it still wasn't exactly easy for him to trust others to watch his back.

Juan d studied the emergency ops panel, running his neural bridge into it while typing

"I'll give the lockout a try. I have a knack for getting computers to do things they shouldn't.  Someone else is going to have to transfer power though."

Ok. 2 base dice. I'll add 2 more from momentum and add a threat. I'd LIKE to use the neural bridge, but I'm not sure if it's applicable here?

"First let me help the ensign," Devon put in, before anyone got too far into repair plans.  Tucking her tricorder away for the moment, she turned back to the ensign.
"You're weak and dehydrated.  What you really need is fluids, food, and seven hours' sleep, preferably in that order, but given the situation this will have to do for now."  Pulling out a hypospray, she adjusted it and applied it to his neck.

OOC: Working the proper hypospray magic to help him function better.

"Romulans wouldn't abandon their own without a very good reason. I think we definitely need to know what is out there. Mister Kal, Mister Wright - do everything you can to help."

Vylana grimaced. "We need to get those Romulans out of engineering. If they feel there is no other option, they'll blow this ship up, and the Orion is too close. We could lose both ships! Still, the Doctor is right. You need some rest, Ensign. You get as much as you can while the away team tries to find whatever is out there."

You can go ahead and use it, but if there's a complication it'll possibly cause physical complication.

Sureee why not. Last die is the system. Will edit after rolling.
08:48, Today: Juan Kal rolled 79 using 6d20 ((1,20,5,17,18,18)).
08:50, Today: Juan Kal rolled 15 using 1d20 ((15)).

Man, I'm glad I padded that roll!
Juan has focus "Computers" so the 1's two sucsesses.

So I barely made it, and I think the 20 gives a complication?


Juan plugged into the neural port and rerouted power for as long as he could, his fingers rapidly tapping as well as providing neural commands.

Getting a computer to do what you wanted was actually not that much different than piloting a ship: you just needed to know how both of them worked and abuse that to make physics to get them to do what you wanted.

Of course, there usually wasn't something directly working against you.
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Juan seemed to have things under control. And since he couldn't help any with bringing the systems up (his specialty was on taking them down), he put his mind thinking how best to take down the Romulans:

"If they're in engineering, we can try crawling through the Jefferies and get the jump on them.  Even if it's just a couple of us, it would be enough to catch them in a crossfire"

OOC: That was the Rerouting, correct? I can let that stand, but still need someone to bypass the lockout first. :)

<Orange> Sorry that's bypass. Juan is a good hacker with a good control. I just wrote the wrong thing in the text. <orange>

NP. :) Do you want to go ahead and try the reroute or let someone else manage? :)

I was really hoping someone with a better reason would handle that.


"It's open but I'm getting active interference. I'm manually blocking the bypass.

Anyone want to reroute before I get kicked out of the system or worse?"

Sebastian nods, "I actually read a little about the Alcubierre's systems on the way here, so I think I can figure this out."

Spend 1 momentum to use "Did the Reading" to use Science instead of Engineering, and am counted as having an applicable focus

Research + Science = 17...rolled a 1 and 10, so 4 successes with the focus!

18:50, Today: Sebastian Wright rolled 11 using 2d20 with rolls of 10,1.  Reason + Science vs. 17.
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Stellar Cartography
Momentum: 5
Threat: 10

The systems in stellar cartography come to life. Ensign LaSalle eagerly inputs the coordinates. The location lights up on the star chart. LaSalle whistles in appreciation. "Now that’s unexpected," he says. "The signal the Decius received came from the Klingon armored space station, Kortar. The station straddles the edge of the Klingon Empire and unexplored space."

"Love to be a bug on the wall at that station. Klingons and Romulans together? Didn't they used to be aligned or something? Anyway.... if we're going to get things up and running, Engineering is where it's at. Anything we do anywhere else could be overridden from the control that they have down there. I should at least be able to give you a safe, open path to sneak down, but not sure after that if I could help much..."

"Klingons and Romulans... the Romulans abandoned their people here to go to a Klingon station? What the hell could persuade them to do that?" Vylana was as surprised as anybody could be. "Whatever it was, it wasn't anything good, that's for sure. At least we know the warbird has gone. We may not know what is out there, but at that is a piece of better news."

She looked over the away team and pursed her lips grimly. "I think this might get a bit vigorous now. They're entrenched in engineering, and I doubt they'll listen to reason. They already adopted shoot first, ask questions later tactics. And I don't fancy our chances in a full frontal assault."

She turned to the ensign. "What route can you get for us? If we can sneak in through an unexpected route, like a jeffries tube, that might give us enough of an edge."

Lt. Palmer walked over, shook hands with the Ensign, and went to aid him in whatever manner she might be able to. They needed to work together to get themselves out of this rather dire situation.

"What can I do to help, Ensign LaSalle?"

LaSalle looked at Lieutenant Palmer with a confused look, then shook his head and smiled. "Sorry, not used to getting help lately" He gestured at the panels. "If you can help me keep the Roms from locking us back down, I think we have a good chance."

Looking up at Vylana he nodded. "That's my thought as well. It may take a bit longer, but there's an access panel here," he gestured at a panel near the room's viewing screen, "that leads in a circuitous way to the Jeffries tubes into the back of engineering. The issue is that there's a spot along there where there was damage and it allows radiation from our upgraded engines to leak in. Nothing fatal I'm sure, but the couple of times I've gone along, it ended up making me sick as a Targ for a couple of days. If you want to take the chance though, I'm sure the Lieutenant and I can redirect some of the structural integrity field to act as a backup shield..."

Rob wasn't a scientist or an engineer, but radiation so strong it made someone sick for days, even if not immediately 'fatal',  didn't sound like an experience conducive to a long and healthy life.  It would be a hard pass on that, unless they could set up the shield.

"Let me know if you want me to distract the Romulans with a frontal assault, Commander.  Just to keep them occupied while someone sneaks behind through the tubes"

Sebastian turns to Devon, "Doc, anything in your kit that could maybe give us some temporary resistance to the radiation? I'm game for crawling through the tubes, but would rather not spend the rest of the week with stuff comin' out of both ends."

"It is a sold plan. Pincer movement them. Though I agree, if we have anything to help against radiation it would be welcome." Vylana considered options. "I'll be going through the tube. That sort of thing is pretty much a normal day for me. But I won't order anybody else to risk the radiation. Is anybody willing to volunteer? Others can be with Mr Hansen. I doubt it is that much safer, though. Romulans are not going to be an easy proposition when they are entrenched."

Sebastian nodded to the XO, "Hey, no guts no glory, right? I'm game."

Ensign LaSalle's forehead wrinkles as he frowns for  a moment then snaps his fingers. "The evac conduit! Unless they took the time to study the emergency evacuation schematics, and the way they've been doing I highly doubt it, there's a connection from this Jeffries Tube here. " He punches in a couple of commands and the map of the tubes appear onscreen. "It's right outside here in Stellar Cartography, and it connects to a Jeffries Tube that runs by the Chief Engineer's office in engineering. At that point, there's an emergency access conduit that runs up to the back of the upper Engineering level. That'll bypass the damaged areas, and make for a better angle on things." He grinned at Mr. Hansen.

"And, if you don't mind a bit of a climb, this also has a connection to the turbolift shaft that runs to engineering. We can climb down, drop into the top of a lift and get a bit of a surprise. And yes, I siad we. I'm going for the assault, because I'm tired of skulking around. I want to fight back for a change!"

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Momentum: 4
Threat: 10

You leave stellar cartography. With Ensign LaSalle leading the way down the jeffries tubes, you work you way to the intersection where the emergency conduit connects. LaSalle
cranks open the door with the emergency hand actuator. "Good Luck!" he says before leading Robert and the others making the assault toward the Turbolift shaft. The rest of you step through into the emergency access conduit. Climbing the ladder there, you enter the upper level of main engineering. On the far side of the room, the warp core is dark. Nearby, three Romulan uhlans work diligently at a freestanding computer terminal in the center of the room. The Sub-commander paces, barking orders at his subordinates.

On the way to the turbolift shaft, the hum from auxiliary power systems drowns out the echo of footsteps on the deck plating. You walk for several minutes to where it drops down to deck four.

Making the climb, you arrive after several minutes to the top of the lift car. Making sure it was unoccupied, you drop down cautiously, manually trying to quietly slid the door open, revealing Engineering.

Those making the climb need a Control+Fitness roll, Difficulty 1 for something not to go wrong for them. :)

In Engineering, there are a couple of options obvious. You could ambush the Romulans, slip into one of the side offices to tryto restore the engines, or maybe something else you all might think of. It's your go. :)

"Good call! It's best not to be where the people with guns are looking"

He remembered his sister saying something similar, when he'd climb the towers and walk the walls to avoid the roaming gangs as a child.

Later, when he'd been trying to relearn his motor functions, and gotten use to his implant, he'd chosen parkor as holodeck physical therapy, climbing all sorts of wonderous places till he'd been able to concentrate enough to make it look easy.

I'll add another 3 stress, taking me to 9 and use the physical enhancement again, and one point of momentum. This is probably Juan's best roll, so he's likely to get it back and then some.

18:29, Today: Juan Kal rolled 48 using 4d20 ((6,12,13,17)).

Edit: Wait, control + fitness? Those are two attributes. I literally only fail that on a natural 20.

Add momentum, since we'll probably need it?

The climb down was easy.  It was doing it quietly, and quickly, that was the tricky part.  He didn't think he made any sound going down, but he could never know how sensitive those Romulan ears really were.

The countdown on his communicator had four more minutes before they'll start their synchronized attack.  Nodding silently at Juan, he took his phaser out, and took position behind the corridor wall

Robert Hansen rolled 30 using 2d20 with rolls of 11,19.  control + fitness.
That's the 1 success needed

This was it.  Hansen has been eyeing the Romulans for a while now, trying to find his opening.  Unfortunately, with the emergency lighting on, he could barely spot the silhouette of his targets as they paced around the room.   It would be a hard shot to take, but if he didn't take it, at that very moment, the Romulans might gun down the entire team climbing down through the Jefferies tube.  He HAD to provide them with a distraction, no matter what, even if it left him and Juan exposed




...and I think I managed to miss somehow.

Set phaser to Stun.  spending minor action to aim, and 1 momentum from pool

15:08, Today: Robert Hansen rolled 41 using 3d20 with rolls of 18,7,16.  shooting a Romulan (+1 from momentum, aim).
15:09, Today: Robert Hansen rolled 10 using 1d20 with rolls of 10.  rerolling 1 die (18).

Difficulty should be at least 3 if I read it right (+1 due to the poor lighting), I have 2.

Will at least make sure to get some cover behind the wall before taking the shot, if possible

Juan joined in his phaser fire, his hand moving rapidly between targets faster than humanly possible as they scattered from Hansen's initial blast. As they tried to take cover from one side of fire, he shot from a slightly different angle,

Pew pew pew on stun with the aim minor.

I'll spend 3 momentum and use my cybernetics again. I think that's 12 stress, so I'll use second wind to 0 that out.

That's 6 dice total.

18:07, Today: Juan Kal rolled 53 using 6d20 ((5,3,16,12,1,16)).
Reroll 16
18:08, Today: Juan Kal rolled 10 using 1d20 ((10)).
Ok that's 2 doubles (1,3) and 3 successes (10,5,12) for 7 successes total.
I'll shoot as many as possible to cut down the counter fire.


He held his phaser with inhuman control, sweat beginning to form on his brow as he stressed his nervous system.