Turn 5 :
October 12th, 1888
One hour before midnightHarker tries to establish some order on board the vessel. There's rain pouring down, thunder, cannon shots in the distance, and a city burning below, so it's pretty easy to see why communication is almost impossible. He shouts at everyone within earshot "Go Up!" and "Steam Thruster!". Repeatedly. Most are confused by this, but eventually Charles understands that he means that we should go up. Harker shrugs and goes down to the steam thruster control valve bank and starts turning knobs, inadvertently dumping all steam pressure out a dump valve. The ship loses all engine power and a huge blast of steam propels the ship at a high rate of speed vertically, and by the time Harker turns off the valve, the ship starts falling at a rapid pace due to the buoyancy lines being empty(2)
Adrienne is in a corner of the bridge, sobbing hysterically and occasionally shouting at Charles. When the steam is dumped, she hits the ceiling and bangs her head, and is thrown back to the floor when the ship reverses direction. She continues to shout at Charles "Take us up! Take us up! Take us up! We are falling!" She starts jumping up and down, hoping to prove a point.(6)
Gerald is manning the gun when the ship starts heading upwards, so he wraps his arms around the cannon barrel to stay in the ship. As the ship reverses direction, he looks to the bridge and sees the chaos in there, so he decides to abandon his post and go to the bridge. (9)
Charles had barely started a course to gain altitude. He was reaching for the boiler pressure lever when the ship lurched, and managed to grab it to hold himself in place. As he did that, he inadvertently grabbed the emergency shutoff with the other hand, which quenched the fire in the boiler. As the ship reverses direction, he is thrown into a pipe handle and his head is cut greviously. Blood is splattered across the bridge and he's now laying face down, stunned. (1)
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Wesley dutifully trudges to his station. As he starts to load the cannon, the ship lurches and Wesley grabs on to a nearby rope from the rigging. He's thrown into the underside of the balloon as the ship goes verticaly, and then swings wildly over the edge as the ship starts to fall back down . His heart is racing and he looks at the ground below him, now rapidly approaching.(5)
((Wesley is still hanging by the rope over the edge, approximately 3m below the top deck. ))
Lyliss goes to to the gatling gun, deep within the bottom of the ship. As the ship lurches, she wedges herself between two structural beams and waits for the worst of the movement to quell. She quickly forms a hypothesis that something has went wrong with the thruster, so she quickly rushes to the boiler to disable it. She also notices two more unusual things - out the window, Wesley is hanging onto a rope. And the boiler is dead.
<< The boiler needs to be restarted, the ship is currently a sitting duck, and Adrienne is losing it.>>
Player Status :
Name: Adrienne Du'Morne
Class: Diplomatic Envoy
Starting Equipment: Fancy Dress / Letter from the King
Injuries: Bruise, head
Bruise, shoulder
Name: Wesley King
Class: Medic
Starting Equipment: Medical Kit
Name: Charles
Class: Able Airshipman
Starting Items: Revolver and Spyglass
Injuries : cut - head (bleeding)
bruise - head,shoulder, L arm, R arm
Name : Lyliss
Class : Ship's engineer
Starting equipment : toolbox, goggles of clarity.
Name: Gerald
Class: Royal Marine
Starting Equipment: A carbine and a saber.
Name: Harker
Class: Esteemed Agent in Poggrov Military Police
Item:Revolver
Airship
Port Radial Engine - Not started, 10/10 durability
Starboard Radial Engine - Not started, 10/10 durability
3" cannon, Fore - Ready , 10/10 durability
Gatling gun, Bottom - Ready, 10/10 durability
Steam Thruster - 0psi steam pressure, Not started, 3/3 durability
3" cannon, Aft - 10/10 durability
Hull :49/50
Airworthiness:48/50
Heading : 95 / 400 meters altitude and falling.
Speed : 0 km/hr