((OH DEAR.))
Wake up, hopefully. Dream of the gods of medicine, so that they may watch over me.
You wake up in one of the barracks beds, confused and sore as hell. Your shirt is off and when you look down you can see a newly stitched shut cut on your side. It hurts, but you can breathe normally again, and you don't seem to be dying of any new, kickboxing based surgical injuries. Everything turned out better then expected.
Throw metal to find a safe path..
You throw the hunk of metal out on the ground. It crackles with electrical discharge, bright points of arcing on every point touching the ground, sending up thin whitish vapors and slowly turning red hot. Hmm. You try a few more places and they're pretty much the same story; lots of electricity, no safe path.
"It's just one thing after another with you people..." Bishop grouses as he heads towards the garage. "I'm going to rebuild the damn wall AGAIN. Let's hope someone doesn't get the bright idea to punch a hole in it AGAIN, or so help me, I will STAB A BITCH AND FEED HIM TO MESK."
Pull myself together and head back to the garage to get to work on fixing the wall with the salvage from the previous one. Have gimpy organise tools and materials back to where they came from and clean up the mess while I work.
You start rebuilding, using Lukas as an all purpose heavy lifting machine again.
[handi:4+1]
The first half of the wall comes together perfectly. The welding is so good you could hang it in a museum and the supports are double thick this time; enough to stop any would be joy riders.
((How many turns would those 60 seconds be?))
"So, we're either dealing with something alive, or with something... else. I would like to know just how territorial it is, and how dangerous. I honestly don't know if you Denzel, being a robot, would have some ideas for experimentation in this area, but I'm not going inside of it. Not without some serious firepower."
Could something be potentially be hidden beneath those scales, or can we more or less see beneath them? Can we potentially hide beneath them, if we need to?
Can we get the map around us filled in, so we know what to avoid, and if the scales border the storm.
Does this place have any atmosphere?
How light are those scales and how easy would they be to break?
You can more or less see most of the area beneath the pile of scales; there are only a few in the pile.
You might be able to hide under them, if you had the time to arrange them properly.
Done.
It doesn't seem to.
You can pick them up with some difficulty, even with the exosuit, so they're fairly heavy. They seem vaguely flexible and don't look like they'd break that easily. But without testing, you can't really tell.
"Well, I'm not about to go in their either- we robots aren't THAT tough- but I am willing to take some of these scales as samples, if it's safe. Zeph, hold this stuff for me, will you?"
Survey the area VERY carefully. If nothing is in sight, rock-throw my way to the closest pile, sans-gear (give it to Zeph to hold for the time being- I'll claim it when I get back), being ready to turn back at any sign of danger. If I get to the pile safely, grab as many of the scales as I can carry and make my way back to my comrades as fast as is safe.
You test the ground with a stone. Nothing happens so you walk carefully over to the scales and bring one back to Vich, who examines it.
okay then, quickly upload the program to my suit and use my medical prowess to smooth out mesks surgery if necessary.
Oh and activate the thermal radar but not the visual filter.
Without the filter I suppose all you would see is something akin to a radar screen, but showing blips of heat rather then movement.
To All: "HELLO?! what the hell is happening?"
Respond appropriately to any response otherwise wander back to base
No one seems particularly talkative so...Back to base you go.
"It's just one thing after another with you people..." Bishop grouses as he heads towards the garage. "I'm going to rebuild the damn wall AGAIN. Let's hope someone doesn't get the bright idea to punch a hole in it AGAIN, or so help me, I will STAB A BITCH AND FEED HIM TO MESK."
Pull myself together and head back to the garage to get to work on fixing the wall with the salvage from the previous one. Have gimpy organise tools and materials back to where they came from and clean up the mess while I work.
Lukas looks around confused. "What just happened? In a flash I felt like I wanted to murder all you guys, and then in another flash I felt like I wanted to die." He sees Bishop wandering off to the demolished garage again. "Wait, I'll help you again!"
Follow Bishop and help him fix the wall.
You apply your particular skill of lifting heavy things and then putting them down.
"Ёёё-оперный театр... ye gods, that crystal sure did a number on this place. Wow. It'll probably take us a small fortune in scrap metal to fix. What a time for a tech to be a cripple. Better do something about it fast."
Start looking around for a set of parts that could make a wheelchair. Focus on finding a set of matching wheels, then a small motor and some scrap to make the frame of the thing. Mark the parts down when found and ask anyone in the vicinity who doesn't look occupied to help me get them into one place so I can work.
You remember that Lars was wheeling around in a wheelchair at some point in the past. Maybe it's still in the ruins of the Medbay, or in the temporary medbay in the barracks.