(I am so sorry about this, I thought I had time but ugh school.)
Andel prepares to deal with shit that happens on the ship, pretty much like last time.
Hopefully minus the pain. And animals. And stuff damaging comms and other important shit.
Andel accidentally breaks the weaker of their two harpoons during their preparations as part of an attempt to improve it. Everything on the ship seems to be in order. Andel considers creating a sort of "airlock" system between parts of the ship. However, he doesn't have the materials, time, or knowledge required to do so at the moment.
Scan the whale
The ship stays where it is for now, though it enters atmosphere for later.
The scans seem to indicate that the whale is composed entirely of cream cheese. That's probably not right. It isn't outside the realm of possibility, but it just seems to silly to be true.
Maybe we could drop a jackbot in as a sort of scout?
Techni mans the laser turret, for now.
It might not be a terrible idea. How far do you think the cable is on the harpoon turret? Maja heads to the engines, finding Edward and Frank. I hear one of you is suicidally reckless? The kind of person who might ride a fishhook into battle, perhaps?
Maja lays out a plan, loosely inspired by Techni's Plummeting Jackbot, but safer. For the Jackbot. Edward and Frank could hang on to a slowly unreeling harpoon, and provide reconnaissance on the whale. If Edward agrees, Maja starts prepping the harpoon turret for the stratagem. If not, she can go do another scan of the whale, but glummer.
Edward volunteers for the plan, and the crew slowly works to attach him to the harpoon turret's cable. It takes awhile to replace the harpoon with him and Frank, but after a bit of finagling, he's fastened on relatively safely and securely. Now it is just a matter of having the harpoon turret slowly launch or reel out its payload, rather than shoot it into the abyss at top speed...
[Tech: 1] (I usually hide rolls, but this was too good not to show.) The harpoon flies off at maximum speed, and the duo fly off towards the planet's surface. Edward stays conscious despite intense G forces, and is met with a curious sight as he enter's a wide forested clearing.
First of all, the whale in the center of the clearing is decidedly larger than their last foe by about a third. The whale is located at ground level, and doesn't seem to be flagrantly ignoring gravity like most of its kin seem to like doing. The whale is violently tearing apart the area with three large arm-like limbs, each about half the length of the creature. It is feeding on both the vegetation and animal life of the world. The arms don't possess any fingers or visible joints, but can fold up and "flex" nonetheless. They may be more akin to fins. One arm is somewhere on the creature's "back" and the other two are off to the side as one would expect of arms. Perhaps the third is more like a tail, or a dorsal fin? The whale's whole body is covered in shiny bronze colored scales, and is wiry and twisted. The proportions seem otherworldly, or perhaps like what one would see in the victim of a car accident. That doesn't seem good for quick movement. On its head are 2 eyes, one on each side of its head, and what appear to be 4 Antennae. The Antennae twitch on occasion. It still seems to be busy eating, and doesn't seem to have noticed the ship yet.
Edward is quickly reeled in before he hits the ground. However, the cable jams into him unpleasantly and he vomits his last meal into his suit. After a short reprieve, he's back aboard the ship, and the harpoon is placed back into the turret. What will you do?
Statuses:
Ship class: "Protsvetanie" Medium Whaler
Ship name: Hyperious Interstellar Border Occurrence Peequod Pod
Credits: 760
Hull/Structure:
Fore: 7/7
Aft: 7/7
Port: 7/7
Starboard: 7/7
Dorsal: 7/7
Ventral: 7/7
Processing System: 8/8
Propulsion System: 8/8
Communications System: 8/8
Sensors System: 9/9
Control System: 8/8
Dedicated Tracking System: 6/6
Storage Bay: 695/900 units free.
Weapon status:
Kinetic Harpoon Turret-8 (Fore): 8/8
Ram Blade Mount-1 (Fore): 1/1
Railgun Mount-2 (Dorsal): 2/2
Compression Laser Turret-1 (Ventral) 1/1
CIWS-1: 1/1
Storage:
Jackbot-5(10u) x2
Kinetic Harpoon-8(1u) x 70
Explosive Harpoon-1(1u) x9
Tranquilizer Harpoon-1(1u) x 9
Railgun ammo-1(10u) x 4
Tranquilizer Railgun ammo-1(10u) x3
Gauss rounds-1(3u) x9
Player: Ozarck
Name: Techni Caliope Shunal
Appearance: Adult and Human. Male.
Health: Perfectly Fine.
Credits: 0
Stats:
Strength:6+2
Agility:7
Toughness:9
Intelligence:10
Skills:
Weaponry:11
Piloting: 0
Technical skill:11
Medical skill: 0
Inventory:
Battle Suit-2 (Currently worn)
Jet pack Suit-3
Compression laser-1
Compression laser-1
Player: AkumaKasai
Name: Anna Lyudmila Petrov
Appearance: An adult woman. Shortish, athletic in appearance, looks vaguely Caucasian.
Health: Perfectly Fine.
Credits: 0
Stats:
Strength: 6
Agility: 9
Toughness: 10
Intelligence: 7
Skills:
Weaponry: 11
Piloting: 0
Technical skill: 11
Medical skill: 0
Inventory:
Standard Suit
Player: Coolrune206
Name: Edward Tivrusky
Appearance: Male human adult. Edward has brown hair, which is neatly tucked. His kind blue eyes do an excellent job at hiding the insanity inside of him.
Health: Bruised gut, battered gut. Bruised ribs.
Credits: 0
Stats:
Strength: 7
Agility: 8+3
Toughness: 8
Intelligence: 8
Skills:
Weaponry: 11
Piloting: 0
Technical skill: 6
Medical skill: 6
Inventory:
Jetpack Suit-3
Harpoon Reel Rifle-3
Kinetic Harpoon-8 x5
Sealant Pack-1 x5
Explosive pack-4 x6
Gunbot-4 Named Frank, strapped to Edward's back. Frank is holding a Kinetic Harpoon-8.
Player: crazyabe
Name: Dr. Alexander Violant
Appearance: Adult and Human. Male.
Health: Perfectly Fine.
Credits: 0
Stats:
Strength: 6+5
Agility: 6
Toughness: 6
Intelligence: 15
Skills: (Distribute 20 points)
Weaponry: 15
Piloting: 0
Technical skill: 0
Medical skill: 6
Inventory:
Power Axe-10(Probably better than your harpoon for some tasks. I'd ask you not to cut off your team mates legs but I doubt I can stop you.)
Power Suit-5
Kinetic Harpoon-20
Kinetic Harpoon-1 x4
Harpoon Reel Rifle-5
Length of Cloth
Player: AzyWng
Name: Andel Dieter
Appearance: A light-skinned male with brown hair and brown eyes. About early 20s age, pretty tall.
Health: Perfectly Fine.
Credits: 0
Stats:
Strength: 9
Agility: 7
Toughness: 7
Intelligence: 9
Skills:
Weaponry: 6
Piloting: 6
Technical skill: 6
Medical skill: 5
Inventory:
Standard Suit
Kinetic Harpoon-1
Kinetic Harpoon-8(In use)
Compression Laser-2
Player: The Ensorceler
Name: Maja Lukic
Appearance: Young adult and human. Female, with pock marks down part of her face. Would perhaps be fat if she weren't also quite tall.
Health: Perfectly Fine.
Credits: 0
Stats:
Strength: 5+3
Agility: 8
Toughness: 6
Intelligence: 12
Skills:
Weaponry: 4
Piloting: 0
Technical skill: 6
Medical skill: 9
Inventory:
Power Suit-3
Explosive Harpoon-1
Tranquilizer Harpoon-1
Absent:
Player: The Moonlit Shadow
Name: Telyor
Appearance: Adult and human.
Health: Perfectly Fine.
Credits: 0
Stats:
Strength:4
Agility:20
Toughness:6
Intelligence:4
Skills:
Weaponry:15
Piloting:0
Technical skill:7
Medical skill:0
Inventory:
Standard Suit
Sealant Pack-5 x1
Kinetic Harpoon-8
Kinetic Harpoon-10 (In use)
And we're off! Feel free to do your things now. I should be able to post/work on this much more frequently now.
Edit: Changed Andel's turn.
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Topic: Space Whaling RTD Adventure: Revival - Cancelled (Read 33438 times)