She did use the softy softly root, then explaining what was at stake, the ordered him, but his testosterone ego driven bone headed response I'm fine with that but what comes next is understandable as well. His rebuff really sounds like he's just plan scared and unwilling, the doctor seems to think the same. So it should come as no shocker about what she says next.
She holds his eyes and hears the Vathan out, the as the doctor comes over, she hears what he syas. In Vathan she sees ,machoisem, anger and fear, she shakes her head in sadness.
How very disappointing
"Doctor, I don't have time to stroke your ego Vathan, I asked, I pleaded and I ordered. If your saying you unwilling to go then you leave me no choice, as of this moment your released from your employment. The world has no use for a another cowered and insubordinate. When they play this back for history classes I pity what they will say about you."
She stands up wobbling looking at the doctor, her hand out to hold herself steady.
Vathan will not let him help her if he try's slapping his hand away
She says to the doctor.
"I have been shown how a vacc-suit works. I have computer skills, Ill go as the 3ed member of the crew. I can get there."
She reaches weakly for her helmet and she starts to make her way to the air lock wobbly. She stops and looks back with pity at Vathan.
"Now are you willing to go and or must I take your place?"
She then looks back and starts to make her way to the air-lock to wait to be show how she will get over to the other ship.
She looked at him, gauging the man. This is what people of her class did, they got others to do things they did not wish. Not for her own selfish needs but for a state, country, government and company. She had to make him understand the gravity of their situation and just what it meant not to her but for all the generations of come.
her look became hard and still looking him in the eyes. A look harder then anything he had been allowed to see before. In a calm but firm voice she said.
"Vathan I have never been more serious in my life, you say your task is to protect my life, but what of the lives of my children and my children's children, and all the children of our world. You just heard that AI, where a lost colony and where dying Vathan. Our world is falling into barbarism and as time go's by the faster that fall is becoming. Right now we have a chance to change that, to place our world back on a sound footing and stop it becoming a lost world full of primitives living in grinding poverty and superstition. If anything we can do here, right now brings a secure future to the children of our world then I will do all in my power to make that happen. Do you understand me Vathan!. So right now in this moment I could not be more serious. The captain of this ship wants you over there, I asked now I am ordering you, Get yourself over to the ship right now, and do what ever they tell you to do, Do you understand."
"Well that's good news, they will need a crew over there, that ship needs to be retrieved. It means literally the our worlds future, and the family's. The tech on the ship can become the bedrock of what we will be manufacturing for the next 200 years or so."
She sips the tea.
"Lets hope all this is worth it, many lives where lost on that ship
Vathan. I felt their flesh and blood when I sent my mind over there. That is something I wish never to experience again."
You can see the pained look on her face when she says this.
Lady Annaras was weak, she had never done some much in such a short time. Once she had passed on the information from her scan, she had to grab a back and was sick. Offer another drink of water, she lay back breathing hard.
"I need to rest for a short wile, wake me of any thing changes"
And with that she classes her eyes and falls into a deep coma like sleep.
in one hour she will wake, she's not at Zero PSI points but she has never do this much in one go and taken this much of the PSI drugs shes very close to doing herself harm.
Vathan gently awakes Annara and relays the request to her.
He then contributes collecting secure boxes, food, water, repair-tools, adrenaline shots, vitamins and caffeine pills.
Lady Annara wakes, the hears Vathan out.
she nods, the takes her last vile of Bust, two on one day was bad, lucky she did not have a 3ed, one more and it would course real damage.
She drank the vile, and let it do is work, expanding her mind. She concentrated on the metal object she had sensed earlier. She senses inside it hull.
+5 temp PP 1 hour, using Sence 2pp + 2pp Range 150m 1 temp left + 4pp. Over to you GM
Brainstorm and make decisions when we have more information.
2ed'ed
Doctor Ziirkaa wrote:
If memory serves, we have only time for one more visit to the ship. If we are taking the macguffen, that is a one way trip for a potential pilot.
Nope GM said 2 more trips and to get the SS Macguffin takes only 10 mins now. Low breath is a nice +, but who ever go's can get back in time.
Forget the computer for now its at -7 and evey time we use it the ship gets more unstable, also having one Roll -7 computer roll say ya/na for SS Macguffin sucks as game event so lets not go there.
Holt should go back and once there they can see of the ship is.
1: Working
2: There is a way out for it.
3: State of the craft v life support and fuel
Then if its yes/yes/yes Holt can come back and switch with Gómez [or other if need be] and go back.
with more info then we can act right now there is more game going in here than in game.
God bless the SS Macguffin and all who sail in her.
"There comes a time in every campaign baldric when the supreme sacrifice is called for, you baldric are that supreme sacrifice. Now off you pop, there's a good lad"
Blackadder
My vote is that
Holt should head to the little ship get on and try and pilot it out.
Its the big prize, there could be dum dum derr someone in cold sleep.
But also its own Nav computer data banks.
She thanks Vathan, sits and takes the drink.
you can tell she's not going to be much use for a wile.
She drinks then places the empty cup down and sets back,
closing her eyes she lets herself rest.
Then she opens them for a moment and whispers to Vathan with the last of her strength.
Vathan only:
Whisper"In the bay with the large metal object Vathan, I felt also with the Heat, blood, burned meat and sparking wires, a toxic kind of haze, warn them to be careful of the haze, Vathan"
Exhausted she closes her eyes once more she falls back into an light sleep.
"I am going to try and see if a boat is in each of the pays. With the
diagrams and knowing our location to them now. I can target area. Please give me a moment. If I find one in a bay, My recommendation is that Ensign Holt make her way there. Doctor hold off asking any other thing until I am done."
She closes her eyes and moves her minds eye to each of the Boat bays.
Sweat runs down her face. In the vacc suit its hot, it smells and close. But she keeps her mind steady. She could feel outside the cold emptiness of space. It send a shiver down her spine. All their lives could end in a moment, she placed that out of her mind.
Well at last she has something of use to do, this is what she was trained for, and we dont have time to go looking on both and get any thing we find out. So GM her Ladyship is using PSI-Sense talent x2 Cost 2PP + Range 3PP 500m, time 30 Seconds at each to try and see if a craft in the Boat bay GM. 14pp-10 she has 4pp left.
She had made her way up to the flight deck. sat in the dinning area, Lady Annara looking over the images of Holts trip.
Even from what she could see, the level of tech as higher, the bad news was the damage on the other ship. But not they had a link to the failing AI, they could if lucky get something of real use.
"Doctor, do you think the AI has a core dump or back up we could down load, any technical or logs world be of use. There could even be in say deck plans a smaller craft or life pod. If you can locate it on the plan I could try and remote view it, to see if its still there and intact before Holt heads back."
my thinking on ship plans being in ships data banks.:
If a warship,
It would very much have a ton of tactical data on as many ships as it's command crew felt possible. Most cases full designs for tactical use, in shooting at. boarding on and searching .Then subsystems design for reapers if own ships In any kind of feet it was in. This baby's not a one off and more than likely a mine line battleship if a war ship.
If a science vessel,
then again it would have information on itself and other craft.
For identification uses, not as useful.
If a merchant vessel,
It could have data for sale, as all info has to go v jumps, ship plans carry a good price.
If a privet ship
Holy crud! Who's got that kind of credits, any one that rich could have anything in the IA.
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the who gos next as no one wanted to go before, most of use working with -5 on every roll. its holt again i think.
if we go with ships logs and deck plans her ladyship could remote view to see if a craft is still in the docking area and something like intact.
things to ask the AI, my vote
1: where are the local systems jump points
2: all info on jump drive capable space craft designs
3: local systems and news update
4: what happened to the ship?
I think its wrong, ALL skills it nuts, there are some skills that don't need orientation, like comprehend a language. "Sorry I don't know what your saying in German because I'm in Zero G" Or math you do in your head
Nope its just a really badly worded rule. Indicative of the system in parts.
Its should read something like->
Normal: Untrained characters suffer the full penalty on any physical skills use in a low or zero-g environment.
Armor Proficiency (Vac Suit) (T20 Feats) (OGL)
The individual has been trained in the wearing, care, and maintenance of all types of Vacuum Suits and Combat Armor.
Benefit: Can work normally while wearing a Vac Suit or Combat Armor, only suffering the armor check penalty when attempting to Climb, Hide, Jump, Move Silently, and Tumble.
Normal: Untrained characters wearing armor suffer the listed armor check penalty for their armor when performing all tasks and activities.
The character is comfortable and familiar with working and living in a low or zero gravity environment.
Prerequisites: Armor (Vac Suit) feat. Must not already have the Heavy Gravity Adaptation feat.
Benefit: The character may reduce the penalty for zero-g or low gravity by -2 when using skills in such an environment, except for combat skills, which require tne Zero-G Combat feat.
Normal: Untrained characters suffer the full penalty on any skill use in a low or zero-g environment.
With the nurfing of Vacc-suit proficiency for most of us and the fact you need proficiency Vacc-Suit And Zero-G Adaptation to uses skills with out -5
At Level 3, our max skill ranks being 3, with class+3 thats still 6-5=1 best dex 18 gets you to +5 left over from dex skill 10.
A trained NPC with 10s will do a lot better.
Just seems wrong to me we are sending PCs out to basically do the game for us. If your willing :)
That is unless the GM is sending one Ensign Wesley Crusher in a red shirt to do the job. :o)
So who's heading out in the hard suit, we need some one doing that to move on.
Lady Annra - nope
Fernán Miguel Gómez - working inside.
Viktoria Ceres - Could -5?
Doctor Ziirkaa - Could -5?
Ophelia Holt - Could -5?
Vathan - Not trained
She heard Vathan out, this is why he was the head of her security. Vathan had already been working out what they needed.
"I can only pick up minds Vathan, plants and mechanical forms I can't detect. You have a very good point about drones and robots. I'm going to put is back on the main comms look. I think the caption need to hear your views on this. The good doctor may be able to give us the info on the lights"
She flicked them back into the comms loop everyone was on.
"Caption, Vathan has some views on that ship I think you should hear. He's extremely experienced in risk assessment in unusual situations. Vathan could you out line to the Caption you’re the risk assessment you just gave me and your comments of getting data on the lights"
Lady Annara gets out of her crash webbing, then over the comms to Gomez,
"Gomez, did you hear, we have a leak down here, some where in the cargo area, if your fully suited, do you think you could find it and fix it? If so I'm going to ask the caption to open your door and let you try, what do you say."
after a short wile her mind fell back, she waited a moment, letting her thoughts settle. Then she said over the open line the caption had set up.
"Caption Cares with the exception of our ships crew. I can tell you that there is no others alive unless PSI shielded within a 1/2 a Km radius of us. My feeling is none of the crew or others survived the cataclysmal that befell that ship. If you wish me try and remote view into specific locations within the wrecks hull, please let me know."
Once the order was given to strap down Lady Annara had headed to her bunk, fixing the webbing in place she lay back, Helmet on. The Ship manoeuvred, she could feel the thrust’ers pushing them closer.
All the time chatter over the Comm’s . Then suddenly the impact, it came as a shock, worried voices calling. The sound of Bulkheads closing and alarms, she felt a sense of sadness, this would be the moment of her death. Images of her life came to mind, but she had been trained. Trained to even face death, this she now did. Biting down on the capsule in her mouth, a shot of Boost hit her system. Everything slowed, sight and sound became heightened and her mind expanded. She held it back concentrating on the now waiting until she could expand it.
Autohypnosis taking 10+10 =20
Her mind came into sharp focus, then talk on the comm’s, the ship was damaged but still working, they were coming into dock. The sound of docking clamps, systems powered down, they were no long moving. Then a crewmen asking to about the docking clamps, something about them de-docking later. She was still holding her mind tight to her. Now was the time, at this moment wile everything was still and others where webbed in. She closed her eyes and let that inner eye out, feeling the space around her, the hard walls and vacuum of space not in any way impeding her mind as it expanded. Then bright mots of light, minds lighting up In the shadowy view around her. The Crew, close and this side of the large craft, still her mind went out as there others, others on the craft they had just docked with, the minds of survivors?.
Talent Detect Life use:
"detect life"*
1 shot of booster +5 PSI [One hour]
Detect life [conscious or unconscious, Range 500m Radius from her point on the ship. Time up 60 mins] Cost 5PSI [all from boost] [2pp Talent Cost + range 500m cost 3PSI]
She has had 1 douse of PSI drug.
The aim is she should get most of the two ships with this and the areas where live can still be detected. I think this is the most conservative and affective use of her power.
EDIT->
I think she will be OK with detect life once docked or very close range [5km] with the bigger ship being in that range. That would not cost her any where near as much as all her PSI goodness for the day.
I was thinking "detect life"* GM, not affected by matter or radiation,
Once docked She would take 1 shot of booster +5 PSI [One hour] then she Detect life PSI cost 5pp [conscious or unconscious, Range Radius 5km on whole ship / Time 60 mins] + [2pp Talent Cost] 7PSI [5 boosted 2 inherent] and still have PSI 12 [inherent] left for later in the game. [Really 11 as she will always keep 1PSI point]
*Life Detection: Radius Detect the presence of other minds, conscious or unconscious, Number of minds, general type of mind, Human, Animal, other and their general location relative to the Psionicist.
In this way she can try and get a life Ping, seeing if any one is alive over there. And still have some PSI left for later GM.
GM I wanted to do an action as we got close, is that still possible.
Ceres:
She can detect life, and remote view past the air lock. My give us an idea what's on the other side if the sensors are no good.
also lady Annara being spooky again, putting her suit before other knew they had to. It's odd how her gifts kick in or is it plane logic and she's not spooky at all. Hehe
