Aarav
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Post by Aarav on Mar 17, 2021 14:59:20 GMT -5
"Here!" calls Vargas from the cargo hatch, "Hurry and get aboard everyone, those Pirates are trying to lift their ship!" Pirates!?! What have I gotten myself into, thinks Aarav.
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Post by Terry Mixon on Mar 17, 2021 15:03:12 GMT -5
Charlie leaves Raven with Doc and races for the bridge.
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Post by joertexas on Mar 17, 2021 15:26:56 GMT -5
Quickly looking around Casca and Aarav see the cargo hole is filled to the gills with large shipping containers...the air/raft barely fits! But more importantly it is also filled with very angry looking men and women...and two large aliens. Everyone, is looking at them and there is more than one firearm pointed right at them and it doesn't look like it would take much to set these people off! Takheal turns and goes to the bridge. If there isn't a pilot, he settles into that seat and begins the hasty startup checklist. Tokheletoi stands up straight and lets out a rippling snarl that reverberates through the cargo bay. "Everyone, please calm yourselves," she calls loudly. "We are preparing to lift, so please return to your stations, or to your cabin."
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Post by Terry Mixon on Mar 17, 2021 15:30:08 GMT -5
Quickly looking around Casca and Aarav see the cargo hole is filled to the gills with large shipping containers...the air/raft barely fits! But more importantly it is also filled with very angry looking men and women...and two large aliens. Everyone, is looking at them and there is more than one firearm pointed right at them and it doesn't look like it would take much to set these people off! Takheal turns and goes to the bridge. If there isn't a pilot, he settles into that seat and begins the hasty startup checklist. Tokheletoi stands up straight and lets out a rippling snarl that reverberates through the cargo bay. "Everyone, please calm yourselves," she calls loudly. "We are preparing to lift, so please return to your stations, or to your cabin." Charlie is already strapping in. “A ship to ship fight in atmosphere. Never thought I’d see the day. Glad to have you fighting beside me.”
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Post by joertexas on Mar 17, 2021 15:49:44 GMT -5
Takheal turns and goes to the bridge. If there isn't a pilot, he settles into that seat and begins the hasty startup checklist. Tokheletoi stands up straight and lets out a rippling snarl that reverberates through the cargo bay. "Everyone, please calm yourselves," she calls loudly. "We are preparing to lift, so please return to your stations, or to your cabin." Charlie is already strapping in. “A ship to ship fight in atmosphere. Never thought I’d see the day. Glad to have you fighting beside me.” "This is no warship," Takheal says with a low growl. "If we take a laser hit, it will go straight through us."
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Post by Terry Mixon on Mar 17, 2021 15:56:17 GMT -5
Charlie is already strapping in. “A ship to ship fight in atmosphere. Never thought I’d see the day. Glad to have you fighting beside me.” "This is no warship," Takheal says with a low growl. "If we take a laser hit, it will go straight through us." "Someone already fired the laser at them. I wonder if it was Peng. And where is the Vargr that was holding Doc hostage? We've got people on the ship that might be dangerous." Charlie will lock the bridge and vet anyone wanting in before he opens the hatch. Better safe than sorry.
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ateno
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Post by ateno on Mar 17, 2021 16:23:45 GMT -5
Ekhunoz responds to the comm. "Its on the deck at 075 relative, flight level zero and climbing, 3-4 aahh.. Klicks. I'm off line now."
Ekhunoz stops transmitting, goes to the command station and begins to bring engines on line.
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Post by Terry Mixon on Mar 17, 2021 16:43:39 GMT -5
Ekhunoz responds to the comm. "Its on the deck at 075 relative, flight level zero and climbing, 3-4 aahh.. Klicks. I'm off line now." Ekhunoz stops transmitting, goes to the command station and begins to bring engines on line. OOC: If by command, you mean the bridge, the hatch is sealed and locked. If you’re going to engineering, that’s a different matter.
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Tophocles
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Last Guy in the Airlock
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Post by Tophocles on Mar 17, 2021 17:17:20 GMT -5
Casca helps the body onto the air/raft, helped by the people yelling at him, and continues to offer the bare minimum of first aid, hoping he does not make things worse, when suddenly the air/raft lurches and skews its way into a cargo hold. When Casca looks up, the hatch is closing, and the air/raft surrounded with what appear to be trigger-happy menacing figured.
Serves me right for trying to help.
Slowly, keeping his eye on the biggest of weapons, he roves one bloody hand from the body in a position of surrender. He wants to raise the second hand, but is concerned for the effect it would have on the woman at his knees.
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Post by erisred on Mar 17, 2021 17:31:00 GMT -5
Ekhunoz responds to the comm. "Its on the deck at 075 relative, flight level zero and climbing, 3-4 aahh.. Klicks. I'm off line now." Ekhunoz stops transmitting, goes to the command station and begins to bring engines on line. OOC: If by command, you mean the bridge, the hatch is sealed and locked. If you’re going to engineering, that’s a different matter. OOC: New thread coming up!
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Aarav
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Post by Aarav on Mar 17, 2021 19:06:38 GMT -5
A gale of wind, dust and debris sweep over them and the air/raft actually bucks making it hard to keep if from flipping! Whew! That was a fun ride! At least we made it without getting shot at by that pirate ship!
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Aarav
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Post by Aarav on Mar 17, 2021 19:13:27 GMT -5
Everyone gets aboard Clear Sails...Cyril is the last aboard and he is feeling very sand blasted! Cho and Raven are already on their way to Sick Bay with Blackjack and Charlie carrying them. The two Aslan, Cyril and several of the Delgado Trading passengers are still in the cargo hold surrounding Casca and Aarav. One of the passengers wearing a Delgado jumpsuit says, "What the hell is going on and who are these two?"Well, I'm no longer just "borrowing" that air/raft, Aarav thinks. Guess that makes me a fugitive on ShiraLea!
He looks at the other interloper as he powers down the air/raft and slowly raises his hands.
"Just a bystander who was trying to help," he says, looking from the man in the jumpsuit to the tall alien he'd already spoken with outside.
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Aarav
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Post by Aarav on Mar 17, 2021 21:16:35 GMT -5
OOC: FWIW, as also a new player, it was really difficult to sort out what was going on at the point we've entered the game. You know who the "good guys" are and who the "bad guys" are--and I do too, from an OOC perspective--but looking at it from Aarav's perspective, standing there watching the confrontation unfold, I had a hard time sorting out how he would decide which side he should jump in on (assuming that simply continuing to be a bystander wasn't particularly conducive to further game play).
OOC: Blame me! I sort of purposefully did it that way. OOC: Oh, it was quite cleverly done. No doubt about that. But it was tough to jump into as a PC!
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Post by erisred on Mar 17, 2021 23:02:45 GMT -5
A gale of wind, dust and debris sweep over them and the air/raft actually bucks making it hard to keep if from flipping! Whew! That was a fun ride! At least we made it without getting shot at by that pirate ship!YET!
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Aarav
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Post by Aarav on Mar 18, 2021 0:02:29 GMT -5
YET! Aarav has a baaaaad feeling about this. . . .
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