[Taocow PBEM] [Koba, Carlos, Lyle, Talas] Book 3 - Chapter I - Engine Room

[Troy Imlach]

[Talas]
on herring Koba's plan, Talas will holster his pistol and draw his katana. Talas will then try to sneak up to the pipes. And sever them with the sword.
[/Talas]

> [Koba]
> Quickly doning the mask just to be sure the breathing
> spell cast on him wont run out, Koba moves into the room.
> "Whatever we do, we need to stop those fish from
> opening up our hull or else we will surely drown quite
> quickly. That brain may be in charge of everything that is
> going on in this ship. We need to stop it now. If either of
> you can take out those pipes leading to the brain it may
> limit it's control or maybe that orb. I'll try to
> get to the control panel and see if  I can control the
> ship's function from here."
> 
>  
> With that, Koba will try to prowl his way to the
> closest control panel and try to gain control. He would want
> to sever all the controls from the bridge. If there is any
> way to lock any bulkheads or doors from the bridge or this
> engine room, he will try to do that as well. 
> 
>  
> [/Koba]
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:50 PM,
> Aaron Clausen <mightymartianca at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > [GM]
> > > Just as Koba predicted, the lights dim and
> sputter.  The two fishmen
> > > quickly scrabble up, but within moments can be
> heard hacking
> > > and coughing in their odd, aquatic way.
>  They're grasping at the
> 
> > > tubes, clearly trying to figure out what's
> going on, and they don't
> > > look at all well.
> > >
> > > More interestingly, the organic eye thing seems
> to turn several
> > > shades of white.  It seems, whatever it is,
> it's energy was being
> 
> > > taken from some sort of electrical source nearby,
> and without it,
> > > the thing, whatever exactly it is, isn't
> doing too well either.  After
> > > a few seconds it shrivels a bit and falls off.
> 
> > > [/GM]
> 
> > [Carlos]
> > "Now Koba!" Carlos shouts.  "Get that
> door open."  He opens fire
> > on the fish creatures with a vengeance, spraying them
> until they
> > fall over dead.
> 
> >
> > "I'm out of e-clips!" Carlos declares
> grimly as he looks at the smoking
> > creatures.  "Anybody care for some fish and
> chips?"
> > [/Carlos]
> 
> > [GM]
> > They do not appear to be out of trouble yet, however.
>  Three
> 
> > crewmembers are coming towards them, climbing up the
> passage
> > and firing.
> > [/GM]
> 
> OOC: Glad to see you back, Troy!!!!
> 
> 
> > [Talas]
> > Seeing how poorly a large weapon such as a rail gun
> performs
> > in such tight quarters Talas switches weapons and
> pulls out his
> > P-Beam pistol. Talas also activates his Armour of
> Ithen and puts
> 
> > himself between the crewmen and the rest of his party.
> Talas will
> > hold off an firing at the crew. In the hope that the
> door can be
> > quickly opened.
> > [/Talas]
> 
> [GM]
> While Talas pulls out his other gun, one of the crewmembers
> manages
> 
> to get a shot off [Strike: 15].  Talas cannot dodge
> [Dodge: 14] and the shot
> strikes his Armor of Ithan [Damage: 28MD].  Talas, in
> turn, returns fire
> [Strike: 6].  The short is a poor one, but the crewmen,
> actually have to climb
> 
> up, have little opportunity to dodge, and the shot hits the
> leading one
> [Damage: 120MD!].  The crewmember is killed and his body
> falls back down
> the passage, hitting the hatch to the bridge with a dull
> distant thud.
> 
> [/GM]
> 
> > [Koba]
> > With the fish men out of the way and the eerie eye no
> longer
> 
> > blocking the way, Koba will attempt to
> open the hatch and get
> > the group through while Talas is holding the crew
> back. As soon
> > as everyone is through, he will attempt to bar the
> door shut with
> 
> > a lock or anything available on the other side.
> Now they will try
> 
> > to make it to the actual engine room.
> > [/Koba]
> 
> [GM]
> Despite Koba's best efforts, the wheel doesn't seem
> to budge.  It would
> almost seem something on the other side is holding it
> shut.
> 
> 
> Meanwhile another crew member fires at Talas [Strike: 12],
> but Talas's
> easily moves away from the shot [Dodge: 21] and returns
> fire again
> [Strike: Natural 20!], literally blowing the crewman to
> bits [Damage: 180MD].
> 
> [/GM]
> 
> 
> > [Lyle]
> > Lyle scrambles out of the whole after barely dodging
> that blast. He
> > heads for the door and starts to spin the wheel.
> > [/Lyle]
> 
> [GM]
> With the combined strength of Lyle and Koba, the wheel
> slowly turns,
> 
> though it feels like someone has coated the inside with
> gravel.  With a final
> turn the hatch unlatches and out pours a horrible,
> chlorine-like smell and
> greenish vapors that make the interior all but invisible.
> [/GM]
> 
> 
> [Carlos]
> Carlos pauses for a moment, trying to get a reading off the
> sensors in his
> shattered armor.  "Damn." he says.
>  "Readings are indistinct, but I don't think
> the gas is poisonous... in the short term."  With
> that he flips down the visor
> 
> on his helmet and steps through.
> [/Carlos]
> 
> [GM]
> The rest of the team follows Carlos through.  Lyle can
> tell pretty quickly that
> none of this is normal.  The green vapors are backlit by
> the emergency lights,
> 
> giving the whole area a sort of dreamlike quality.  The
> vast hulk of the reactor
> can be barely made out, though it can't be more than
> twenty feet away.  Voices,
> like those of the fish-men they had encountered a few
> moments before, can
> 
> be heard, some to the right, and some straight ahead, by or
> on the reactor.
> 
> Beside the door are oxygen masks and small tanks for anyone
> who doesn't
> have environmental armor.  Beside the masks is a large
> blinking red display
> 
> with "Danger - Potentially Lethal Gas".
> 
> It's hard to tell, but it looks like the fish-men may
> be modifying the reactor.
> There's the light of an arc welder, as well as some
> tubes or pipes that may
> 
> very well be made out of the same strange fleshy material
> that had closed
> the engine room hatch.  A more disturbing sight can be
> seen to their left,
> where several fishmen are using blow torches to cut into
> the hull, making
> 
> a circular opening about ten feet in diameter.
> 
> Then the mists clear ever so slightly and reveal a truly
> bizarre and revolting
> sight; a giant floating brain, three eyes on venous
> neural-like stalks.  Organic
> tubes poke into various points along what must the frontal
> lobes and cerebral
> 
> cortex.  A strange black orb is shoved between the two
> hemispheres, and out
> of it comes a booming voice that is clearly in the fishman
> language.
> 
> It does not appear that anyone has noticed the four
> adventurers... yet.
> 
> [/GM]
> 
> [Carlos]
> "Alright boys," Carlos whispers, his voice
> muffled by the oxygen mask,
> "what now?"
> [/Carlos]
> 
> --
> 
> 
> 
> Aaron Clausen
> mightymartianca at gmail.com
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