The arrogant prick quietly checks his gauss rifle strapped in his suit and camly moves to open the door.
"...This will be a piece of cake."
Make sure weapon is primed and ready the rifle specifiacally open door Snark. Keep in mind he actually dident hear the briefing unless it was broadcast throughout the ship.
Your gauss rifle is fully combat ready. Just keep your finger off trigger until you find something to shoot at.
[Dex: 5-1] Moving in zero G is a bit challenge for someone who's used in normal gravity. You gently push yourself out of the shuttle towards the airlock, but end up slightly rotating yourself 90 degrees with uneven push. Either way, in three seconds you reach the ship hull and grab tightly of one rung near by securing yourself in place. Arrogant prick is proud of his first unsecured spacewalk.
[Aux: 4-1]
Airlock control panel, or rather its cover panel, is within arms reach so you bang it akwardly to get it open. The cover sinks inside the hull and slides aside revealing two buttons, red and yellow, and a some sort of handle that is begging to be pulled out. Red button is labeled "Close" and yellow one "Open", so it isn't really hard to figure out which one to press.
Just like the cover for control panel, the airlock door too sinks inside good half meter before swinging wide open revealing suprisingly spacious room. Entire team could fit inside at once.
[Int:3] It also seems like the company owning this ship had unusual design sense, because lights are on the floor. Weird. Not thinking too much about it you swing yourself in.
[Dex: 6-1] Turns out the floor is actually ceiling. You figure this out when you get inside the airlock and gravity suddenly kicks back on making you fall head first. You take this opportunity to display your amazing body coordination by executing perfect roll and springing up your feet as if you had planned this.
"Piece of cake!" you declare while giving yourself thumbs up.
"Let's just hurry up and get in."
follow the prick and make sure he enters first, though still cover him, stay to the side of the air lock and wait a bit till after prick has entered to walk inside
The prick is making a real show of this. It's starting to feel like his arrogance is warranted.
[Dex: 5+1] Not to be outdone you reorient yourself and forcibly kick yourself out of the shuttle and into airlock way too fast, doing somersaults entire way until you are stopped by a wall.
Grits doesn't speak, eyeing the prick warily as he assumes points. He'd speak up to let the technician take a look at the airlock, but no amount of bitching makes anyone actually listen to tech support. Sighing, he shoulders his rifle and follows the group.
Make sure my rifle is loaded, then follow the group. Stand some distance away and not directly in front of the airlock as it gets opened, follow everyone inside if they succesfully get it open.
Smart man would have secured themselves on the shuttle with a rope or something and only then carefully exited. But apparently here are no smart men around.
[Dex: 3] You reorient yourself upside down inside the shuttle and then carefully and slowly sail out. It goes well until you hit airlock room and stumble down on your face.
Joanna stays a bit behind, as well - she's by no means a fighter, she's mainly there just in case somebody gets fucked by whatever was in here. That said, she was ready to pull out the monoatomic razor she'd grabbed at any point.
Follow the group, try to stay a safe distance from the door (with Grits, presumably), follow people inside.
It seems safe enough. Everyone is getting safely over so there's no reason you can't.
[Dex: 5] The point proved by touching airlock floor the very moment you enter in range of gravity automanipulator, so unlike others, you gracefully fly inside landing gently like some sort of space fairy. You wouldn't be a good doctor if you couldn't do at least this much.
"Are you sure it is not us who are standing still and the micrometeorites that are moving at 2000 meters per second?"
Stay safely behind the prick. Try to get his camera view on my screen so I can see what's in front without exposing myself.
> Absolutely certain. Do not forget that those micrometeoroids can actually go in opposite direction than you, so the actual impact speed is going to be double of that. Potentially extremely lethal.[Dex: 4-1] You too make it akwardly over, falling over by sudden reintroduction of gravity.
[Aux: 3] Pretending stumbling didn't happen you start fiddling with your wristpad, trying to figure out how to peek through other people's cameras. You don't quite figure out how to do that. API is confusing, protocol isn't familiar and encryption also poses a bit of problem. At least you figure out how to make connection in first place, which doesn't really help that much.
Like said, the airlock is spacious, same silvery color as hull is with darker line painted around ankle height on all walls. On wall next to open door to space is controls for it, both buttons and manual crank. On the opposite side is equivalent controls for the internal door.
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