Auto-repair/assist.
(Gonna be away for the weekend.)
Mesk pushes the button on his forehead that says 'Autopilot' and begins slowly beeping and booping around the room, repeating the phrase "I AM HERE TO ASSIST. PLEASE INSERT ORDERS OR DAMAGED ORGANIC MATTER."
((... Do consider that my action had nothing to do with the door. It had to do with cutting a Gilgamesh-sized hole in a wall. I can't see how it's possible to weld a door shut, even with a crit fail, if I'm not working anywhere near to it anyways.))
I consider it to be like this: You're walking out to cut up the hallway so that Lukas can get close to the door. On your way there, you suffer a mild stroke and begin performing a handiwork action on the nearest object, the door. Would you rather I have had you lop off a limb? Because that armor won't protect you from your own self inflicted injuries.
((That was really funny. It doesn't make any In-Universe sense, and it pretty embarassing, but is really funny.
To Flint: Because I forget that they are not mushrooms.))
Fine. Get Zephy, then
head to the sector NorthWest of the fog, and West of the Teleportation Mushrooms Domes, making a detour (if we need it) to the shuttle to resuply, and mapping the fog sector limits in the process.
"By the way, Lars, I was wondering. Why did you call that murderous mist in the last mission "Sharkmist"? Didn't see any sharks in there, and while I skimmed the mission logs, I must have missed the reason."
Well, people going completely unresponsive in universe doesn't really make sense either. I was just wondering exactly what that must look like, in universe. People just standing there, completely still, staring forward with a blank expression. Oh well
You gather up your team mate and head northwest, toward the area beyond the black gap. You stop near the boarder, noticing something far, far away; probably near the center of the area. It looks like a mass of ink suspended in water; just a glob of floating, slowly churning darkness.
((May I ask why you're calling the domes mushrooms?))
Prepare to weld a strong looking handhold like piece of metal to the door.
You grab some spare metal and prepare to weld yourself a yanking handle in the center of the door. You're not really sure how well it will work, especially with your inability to yank very well-losing the ability to stand is a real bitch- but maybe if it's strong enough, lukas can do it for you if you fail.
"I did not think this through!" Bishop yells as he takes to the air.
Fly over the umbilical and try pushing against the top part of it at one end with my exoskeleton and rockets pushing against it to turn it around. Once it's turned, then start slowing it down by moving ahead and piling up large rocks for it to roll over. DON'T get pulled under the stupid thing!
[aux:6+1]
Slow and deliberate actions resulting in a desired outcome? FUCK THAT NOISE!
You fly off, grab a giant rock and proceed to use your mechanically aided strength to spike the rock straight into the umbilical and forcefully pin it in place.
"MK III's FUCK YEAH!"
Then you give yourself a high five.
Follow the Leader 3: The Following
Lars nodded. "A teammated was able to conclude that the alien mist was shark-based. It was grey and ate things, so obviously sharks. And aliens. In a mist. Amen."
((I actually had to look up who started that one.))
"Now, this is just me...but I say we shove Zeph in there first. I mean, she's good looking and all, but I'm pretty sure Mesk replaced her brain with a clock radio or something. I mean, " You wave your hand in front of her face, "We might as well pin a 'sorry, we're closed' sign on her chest"
"Oh well, happens to the best of us... I'll just go help somewhere else."
Assist with moving wall sections to the garage for repair, or if there's not a bridge over the crater, start laying out pieces to make one.
There is a bridge of sorts, mostly revolving around climbing a ladder up to the roof and using it to cross, but hey, it works.
You start moving large sections of metal over to the garage and stacking them up in neat piles for later use. There's something to be said for simple manual labor; it's a calming experience, comparatively.
"GOD DAMMIT BISHOP! WE NEED THAT!"
Go help Bishop stop the umbilical.
You catch up with the Umbilical just in time to see Bishop spike a 12 foot shard of stone through it.
"Well...I guess that works."
Go fix things in the garage.
The wall or the vehicles? Wall is handiwork, Vehicles are aux and handi, depending.
sort through the electricals and try to find a few thermal cameras.
If found take them to my footlocker and wait for simus to get her shit together before heading to whetever theyve taken gilgamesh.
[int:5]
You manage to dig the cameras out of the mess without much trouble. Goddamn people really need to learn the importance of proper organization. You, for instance, keep all your rubble in neat alphabetized folders in a filing cabinet. Speaking of which, you take the cameras to the barracks and huck them in your footlocker before joining simus at the scene of her most recent brain hemorrhage.
"Michael to bishop over: Base is uber-fucked, and I am trapped outside, roger roger, "
Report to bishop, meander around being useful
You wander into the garage and look around. Hmm, ships need fixing. So does that wall. Or I could go explore the conference room. No one seems to have been in there recently.
Wonder how the hell I managed to weld a door closed without intending to even stop at the door.
Okay, Lukas, medbay option is out. It looks like I managed to weld it's door shut on my way to cut a hole in the wall for you to get in through. Don't ask me how, I don't know. However, there's still the Conference room, which is damaged and in vacuum, but the door there still works.
Cut a hole in the wall of the Conference room (and the remaining Garage wall if needed) big enough for Gilgamesh. I don't think we were planning on ever using it anyways.
You wander over to the conference room and, after squeezing through the door, find a surprisingly pleasing sight. The Conference room looks like it got hit with bowling ball buck shot; it's been so torn to hell and back that it's pretty much nothing but a metal box filled with bits of shrapnel. With Lukas' help and a bit of nearly foolproof cutting, you manage to slice away most of the east wall and let bot the giant robots into the room.