I jump on my rocketboard and... Wait... Where the fook do I go?
...
ANYWHERE!
[2] You fail to turn on your rocketboard, but try to determine where you should go anyhow. [3] Nothing really comes to mind. You could probably try to locate the black airship, or maybe attempt to loot the League hall, even with the Watchmen there. Or get down the lower levels, maybe even home.
Uh, wow.
Teleport to the ground, away from the soon to be crash site.
[6-1=5] With the airship collapsing all around you, you decide it'd be best to get the fook out of here. You quickly manipulate the controls of the PRB and feel a lurch as you are teleported to the platform below. [5] Looking around, you are standing in the landing area of a warehouse, one of the many thousands in the Descent. The inside of the warehouse looks quite empty, with only a few boxes and containers sitting neatly on one side. On the other side of the vast storage hall you see a few staircases going upwards. As the airship is pretty much straight above you and falling, you decide to get inside the warehouse before you get squashed.
If possible I follow the chief scientist out, if not I just get out of there and into the nearest building.
[3] Despite the horrible damages and the fires raging all across the transport, the crew doesn't seem to have suffered many casualties. With the death of the captain - and the ship - the command bridge explodes into chaos and panic, and the huge amount of crewmen and soldiers now gets in your way, trying to get away. You have no choice but to let the flow take you. [1][Dodge:6] Horrible amounts of men and women are pulled down and crushed underfoot as the horde desperately flees down the top deck. You manage to stay up yourself, though.
Then, suddenly, you're at the edge of the top deck and attempt to step forwards, but your legs find no more floor in the air. You fall. [Dodge:5] You're not the first to fall, though, and instead of hitting the hard stone platform, hit the remains of the crew who already did so. Eww. [4] You quickly get up and rush towards the safety of the warehouse, burning bodies still falling behind you. They are soon followed by the actual airship.
Unplug my arm, and run, try and get on the spider-bot and have it and me leap to safety away from the airship, onto the platform.
[2] You attempt to unplug your arm, but it's gotten stuck - at the worst possible moment. [3] You shout orders to the bot, though, and it pulls you off from the recharger. [5] With it carrying you in it's arms like a baby, you two hack your way up to the top deck and [Dodge:3][Bot Dodge:1] fall shrieking through a hole in the floor towards the platform below. [BP:5][Damage:6-1-1=4] You land robot-arm first on the hard stone, causing considerable damage to it but saving your own skin. [BP:8][Damage:4-1=3] The spiderbot falls on two of it's many legs, and suffers some damage. After you've been pushed inside the warehouse by the soldiers, the remains of the airship crash down on the edge of the platform.
Robotic Left Arm: Moderately DamagedSpider Bot: 3rd Left Leg: Slightly DamagedSpider Bot: 4th Left Leg: Slightly Damaged I equip a parachute, hastily drop the internal organs I've accumulated plus my grenade launcher, and take a running leap out of the ship. Hopefully I'll be able to float down to the platform.
[6] You panic, throwing away all the internal organs you had gathered and pushing the grenade launcher to the soldier who helped you. You desperately look around for a parachute, and, by sheer luck, stumble upon one left on the floor for some reason. [3] The soldier shouts ' Let's go! The roof will come down any moment now!' and begins racing up towards the upper deck. You follow him as fast as you can, jump, and pull the parachute. The soldier has to actually jump. [Soldier Dodge:1][BP:5][Damage:2+1=3] He lands hard, but gets up almost immediately and seems fine. [4] You hover straight inside the warehouse with the parachute. Behind you, the transport is quickly turned into a charred metal husk.
Some Internal Organs removed from Inventory! WAKE UP AND DO SOMETHING DAMN IT!
[Survival: 5+1=6] You struggle for control of your body, but fail. You are vaguely aware that the crewmembers accompanying you and the doctor, supporting the soldier with the ruined face, are running away for their lives.
[1] The entire roof comes down on you. [Dodge:Auto-1][BP:4][BP:6][BP:2][Damage:5+1=6][Damage:5+1=6][Damage:1+1=2] Being unconscious, you hardly register pain. Which is good, because bones shattering and flesh turning into unrecognizable goo isn't the nicest thing in the world to feel.
You die and the remains of your body are buried under the entire top deck.
SHADOWdump
Health: Torso: Slightly Wounded
Inventory: Simple Tools, 5 Canisters of Cheap Oil (100/100), Radical Rocketboard, Some Computer Parts, Mechanical Parts, Scrap Metal, Mechanical Replacement Head, Communicator, Autopistol (Ammunition Left: 6/6), 2 Pistol Clips [12/12], Robot Communicator
Creations: Radical Rocketboard (Power [4], Size [3], Functionality [3], Fuel [4]
Fuel Left: 90/100
Ultimate Nacho Dispenser (Power [2], Size [1], Functionality [2], Fuel [3]
Fuel Left: 90%
Hologram Bot - In Use (Power [5], Size [5], Functionality [2], Fuel [6], Intelligence [3])
Main Body: Slightly Damaged
Charge Left: ∞
Mechanical Replacement Head In Use (Power [5], Size [1], Functionality [4], Fuel [5])
Charge Left: 80%
Robot Communicator(Power [5], Size [6], Functionality [6], Fuel [1])
Charge Left: 100%
Khan
Health: Fine
Inventory: Simple Tools
Creations: Robotic Left Arm (Power [4], Size [4], Functionality [3], Fuel [3]
Moderately Damaged
Charge Left: 60%
Spider Bot In Use (Power [3(4)], Size [6], Functionality [3], Fuel [3], Intelligence [5])
3rd Left Leg: Slightly Damaged
4th Left Leg: Slightly Damaged
Fuel Left: 40/100
Converter (Power [3], Size [6], Functionality [1], Fuel [2])
Charge Left: 100%
Professor Nirur
Health: Torso: Slightly Wounded
Inventory: Simple Tools, Box of Immortality Pills, Muscle Tissue, Fresh Brain
Creations: Immortality Pills (Power [5], Size [2], Functionality [4], Fuel [3])
Derek
Health: Head: Slightly Wounded
Right Leg: Slightly Wounded
Inventory: Simple Tools, Prototype Reality Bender, High-Explosive Grenade
Creations: Prototype Reality Bender (Power [4], Size [3], Functionality [2], Fuel [5])
Charge Left: 90%
Power Cord (Power [4], Size [4], Functionality [6], Fuel [3])
Charge Left: 100%
Dragnar
Health: Fine
Inventory: Simple Tools, Nanite Factory, Some Mechanical Parts, Computer Parts, Some Scrap Metal, Stasis Disk
Creations: Nanite Factory (Power [4], Size [4], Functionality [3], Fuel [3])
Moderately Damaged
Fuel Left: 90/100
Stasis Disk (Power [1], Size [4], Functionality [2], Fuel [6])
Charge Left: ∞
NPC'sGETOUTGETOUTGETOUT
[3] Not too many make it down to the platform intact. The ones that survived the initial explosion, the mass panic, the fall and hitting the ground amount to just over a dozen.
Let's get the hell out of here!
[6] Surprisingly, only a few soldiers are lost in the escape from the transport. They amount to a full-strenght Council platoon of nearly 40 men. They shepherd the crew inside the warehouse and even manage to calm them down a bit. [6+1=6] Their leader takes overall control of you survivors quickly.
Ohgodohgodohgodohgod
[3] The chief scientist stumbles blindly down the top deck, blind and bleeding heavily. [Dodge:1][BP:6][Damage:5+1=6] She stumbles over the edge and falls on the ground hard and still burning. [1] Nobody realizes - or cares - that she's still alive and ignore her completely. The remains of the airship then fall straight on top of her. [BP:1][Damage:6+1=6] Unsurprisingly, she doesn't make it.
Escape?
[2] Few of the captured League personnel manage to get down on the platform. There's only half a dozen of them now, all tightly guarded.
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I'll introduce iceball3 as a surviving Council scientist, most likely. Please (re)post your character.
Also, guys, you do realize you could make yourself some kind of armor/other form of protection? Might help with the, uhh, not-dying business.
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