All landing module systems report nominal. Prepared to detach from return systems.
Showing full green and ready to go. Minor repairs continue on orbital craft, but nothing to fret. Navigation standing by.Final approach vector confirmed, locked negative 7 mark 81 for polar decent.
Confirmed SpecCom, in the pipe 5 by 5. By the time you hear this Houston, we'll be on the surface. ICS Ares 3 signing off. Call you back in thirty.Fluid lines detaching. Power couplings disabled. Automatic guidance correction in progress. Structural docking-
Hey, anybody else feel that?
Isn't it suppo-Boom.
What the fuck was that?Engineering reports structural integrity compromised. Gas leak detected in hydroponic bay. Electrical dischchch... *arge* detec-
Somebody want to tell me what's going on?
The computer isn't responding! I can't shut off the guidance rockets!
Emergency stations! Lock down all gas li...
Bloody hell!
Close the door! Now! Shit, get inside!
Look out for th-
Get away from those wires!
Help me!
Son of a bitch... Grab this befo-
HOT HOT HOT HOT
Is that the ground?
OW! Dammit!
Try to steer us away from that cra-
Holy fuck! This is gonna-
I said pull up!
Oh God...
God damn, that sucked... Is anybody else hurt?
Hello?
Groups(See Characters and Locations in the List Post for details.
Thinking quickly, Squeeg and Faris flee the personal quarters and bail into a lifeboat at the first sign of trouble. Seeing that yes, the ship is indeed doomed, they immediately punch out. The ride is steady, all things considering, since the lifeboat was built for this exact purpose. Landing follows just as smoothly.
You're both on the surface, in a tiny reentry lifeboat. Supplies are limited, you have one space suit but a good onboard radio. While unharmed, both of you are pretty spooked about the whole “we just bailed out the ship and landed on Mars” thing.
Against all odds, gluttony just saved your life, as you took reentry like a sexagenarian archaeologist. It was one hell of a tumble though, and the flying food and walls whacked your head pretty hard.
The fridge was built to last for no specified reason, and is still in pretty good shape. It's big enough to hold some air, and there's more food than you could ever eat, but the only liquid is a few soft drinks and some celebratory champagne. The bits of spaceship still attached to the fridge didn't fare so well, but there's enough to walk around in. The only equipment in this part of the structure is a simple computer terminal with a little backup power – detached from the core, all it has is Windows Spectacle.
Your fast ploy worked amazingly well, and the exploratory robotics bay landed relatively safely. You took a flying tackle from one robot and lost a couple more, but otherwise the landing couldn't have gone better. However, except for your new robot buddies and the all air in the bay, you've got nothing.
Luckily the hydroponics module was supposed to land. There's dirt and water and trowels everywhere, but fast action and fast bracing saved all your lives. Some of the plants even survived.
Everything is pretty trashed. Water is pouring out of the pipes, and you can all hear air whistling somewhere. Luck strikes again though, and the three Mars pressure suits for external farming are still good enough to use.
Your cube did exactly what it was supposed to – save your cowardly French ass. It was a wild ride in the darkness, but you've stopped tumbling without dying.
You're on Mars with a personal closet and an aired up space suit. Now what?
The Bridge was part of the orbital return vehicle, and was never meant to land. Some incredible combination of rocketry, aerodynamics, skill, and luck has landed you and what's left of the command crew on the surface, well shaken, but alive. As you slowly come to, the damage is astounding.
Mission Commander Reilly and the Chief System Officer are both mangled lumps on the front wall. Your fellow surviving navigators are not in great shape – Captain Uchio got a bad shock from his console, and Lieutenant Maciel can't move her neck.
There's still some emergency power, and amazingly a few systems still report functional. The rest of the Bridge is trashed, and leaking air from a thousand aching cracks. The EVA chamber has a pair of space suits, but only a pair.
The harden terrarium module was built to land, and except for some bumps on detachment flew just as expected. Landing was a bit rougher, but nothing your little friends couldn't handle.
The terrarium has quite a bit of air and water for all the creatures, but you can hear and see them both seeping out of the pod.
Louise made it into Engineering right before everything went to hell, asking her fellow mechanics about some recurring system problems. Then kaboom.
It was a wild ride, but the sturdy engineering bay took the landing better than it should have. The four of you are thoroughly dizzy now, and the three dead technicians are not lightening the mood. Except Vernon anyway, who's plenty glad that he at least is still alive. Geoffrey is just swearing a lot.
There's plenty of mechanical parts in here, and several EVA suits. The larger H2O processing systems are plenty vital in their own right, but were damaged in the fall, and without power are useless anyway. There's also some broken seams in the hull, and few of the liquid containment lines survived intact.
All your unwarranted bunging finally paid off. Sort of. The stress and plane of reentry managed to forge the bulk metal pod into a stable gliding brick. Then you landed.
Pain awoke you, and the lack of sensation in your left arm focused you back to action. The storage shed is crumpled on the rocks, precious air escaping though every seam it can find. But you're still alive – which is more than can be said for whoever it was that dove in with you. He brought a pressure suit with him, but lost his head to a flying I-beam.
You had your doubts about repairing the hull electronics when the surface module was supposed to drop, but hey you weren't on it. Everything went pretty crazy though when the whole thing started falling. Instinct alone welded you the hull as it plunged into the atmosphere.
After the hardest bodydrop ever, it took a moment to convince yourself you were still alive. Once reality set in, you could hardly contain yourself, and jumped up to shout and do a little jig on the wreckage you just cowboyed your way through reentry with. So now you've got the best “You Should Have Seen It” story in history, but reality just set in again. You're in a toasty space suit with very little air, surrounded by doomed debris somewhere on Mars.
Thank American Jesus, you just trucked your way onto Mars. That cab was hardly the best place to do it though – you're banged up and your left leg won't hold you, but you've had worse.
The vehicles didn't even fare that well. Your beloved Auger is laying on its side like the rest of the bay and is wedged into position. Everything else went flying, and there's tools everywhere. One earthmover was crushed under the Auger, and the rover and other backhoe are probably undrivable, and upended anyway.
The bay isn't doing well either. It's big enough to hold a lot of air, but it's leaking out somewhere. You're dodging a few popping rivets too.
It was a split second decision, and every panel that popped off the Vehicle Landing Module made you curse it more. Somehow, by some luck, the disintegrating bay frame sailplaned to an arguably stable landing.
The rest of the module is now scattered across Mars, but astoundingly the Exploratory Rover has nothing to show for it but a few dents. And a thick lattice of twisted girders all around. The computer doesn't report any critical damage, but the rover is stuck fast.
You fellow engineer came running back fast to grab you and evacuate. It didn't go so well. You both wound up in the plummeting Observation Pod, whipping through the air. Ironically, the Pod was specifically built to tumble to the ground, and now it's taking you with it.
You awoke to see both of you had suffered some bone crunching hits. Only your right leg is wasted, but your friend took his hit to the neck. The tarantula is still alive, somehow staring at you from it's cage with as many eyes as it can muster.
The Pod is perfectly intact. It was designed to unfold and deploy itself into a meteorological and communication tower, but without external power it might not be able to. You might be able to drag yourself across the room to activate some of the equipment. At any rate, all you have to keep yourself company now is an arachnid, a corpse, and searing pain.
The medical bay was theoretically supposed to make the trip down later, but it wasn't ready now. The flight was a maelstrom of scalpels, syringes, and jars, and claimed the lives of the Chief Doctor and one of the assistants.
You and Dr. Saberi are somehow still in the land of the living, even if that land is Mars. You're both pretty cut up too, and the wicked fall did nothing to help your motion sickness. Dr. Saberi looks like she's in serious pain, but is still trying to keep you alert.
Qwerty, Kallev and the bridge crew are in danger. Roy and Trippy are in bad shape. Strife and Harry got the double whammy.
Squeegy, Faris, Long John, Diet, Simon, and Andrzej are all in relative danger of dying from boredom.
Pitor, Louise and the greasemonkeys have some room to move. Sean has a robot army at his command. And Vlad is the luckiest man on Mars, with a greenhouse to chill in and Serg and Rosie to chill with.
Next Turn(I knew I forgot something.)
Everyone is picking themselves up and pretty shaken. Consider the next turn being about 10-15 minutes. Everyone gets one(1) action can they do in that time.
Sir_Geo – As cool as a light airplane is, that kind of jaunty experiment is hardly mission critical. The plane was sent in the ballistic pods with the rest of the bulk cargo, and will arrive later. For now, I moved you to a weather monitoring tower.
In the list post, you'll notice that most people have no relationships. Obviously, you'll all pretty familiar with each other after spending six months in a spaceship. However, right now nobody knows if anyone else is alive beyond people in the same room. As you meet up, the wild change of desperate survive is going to change those relationships, so everyone starts regarding each other with Professional respect.
Other corrections with go here as they inevitably arrive.
Author
Topic: Angry Red Planet - Totally And Completely Dead (Read 48103 times)