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Activity Boards => Forum Games => Topic started by: JDigital on January 10, 2013, 02:18:38 PM
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Maids in Space! is a Maid RPG forum game for 1 to 12 players. This is both the play thread and signup thread. You can apply to join at any time. A randomly generated character will be created for you.
Scenario
In the future, science has taken mankind to the stars and beyond. The Federation is locked in a war with alien species, with nearly all young men pressed into military service or weapons research. Those rich or daring enough to escape military duty travel the galaxy in search of fame and fortune. Those women brave enough to serve them are known as Maids.
Sign-up
Post in this thread or PM me. A random character will be dispatched. Anything you don't like is open for re-roll, and anything not specified on your character sheet is up to you. Play will begin once at least two players have joined, and rules will be explained as we go. We are not using the weird rules that let you seduce the GM's character for XP.
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I wanted to make an O'Reilly joke about the in zone, but that would be the no in zone.
So I guess I'm just in.
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What, maids? COUNT ME IN.
Hope ya'll like CHEESECAKE.
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This sounds super, i'd like to play if I could, Do you think I could save a spot for my friend if he wants to play, he was excited about playing in the other game, but that didn't really work out, i'll ask him if he wants to play in this.
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The first three players have received their characters by PM. Here's a brief explanation:
You have six attributes: Athletics (physical ability and combat), Affection (forming bonds with people), skill (maid duties like cooking, cleaning, starship operation), Cunning (tricking people), Luck, and Will (mental fortitude). When you attempt an action, the roll is 1d6 times the relevant attribute.
How do you decide which is the relevant attribute? You make it up. Anything the GM judges to make sense is fair game.
When you roll an action, enemies or other Maids may roll to oppose you. Whoever rolls highest succeeds. The rest take Stress damage equal to the winner's roll divided by their roll. When you declare an action, state the Attribute and what number it is. The other players have two days to join in and make their own opposed action, if they wish. After that, the GM rolls all results and declares the winner.
A determined maid is indestructible, but vulnerable to mental breakdown. When your Stress exceeds your Spirit, you suffer a Stress Explosion. You can still take actions, but only if they fit in the category of the Stress Explosion on your character sheet. While under Stress Explosion, you lose one Stress per total post in the thread, until you reach zero, at which point you return to normal.
Your goal is to accumulate Favor with the Master, a GM-controlled character who employs the Maids. He awards and deducts Favor arbitrarily.
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Some more particular rules:
Teaming up in combat: People can work together in combat or to attempt a task. They add their rolls together. If the team fails, they must pick one person to take all the Stress damage. If they suceed, any Favor gained may be divided or only awarded to one Maid.
Maid uniform: A maid uniform must include a headdress, apron, blouse, underwear and stockings. A maid who loses any part of her uniform suffers a -1 penalty per piece to all die rolls, and a -2 penalty for a missing headdress. A maid who is not wearing a maid outfit cannot use her Maid Power.
Spending Favor: Favor is like XP. You can spend 1 Favor to remove 1 Stress, 1d6 Favor to add +1 to the roll or your attribute for one action, or 1d6 Favor to trigger a Random Event. You can raise an attribute 1 point by spending 10 Favor times the new attribute level. If your Favor drops below 0, you are fired.
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Maids in Space! Episode 1: Shock! Big Sister And I Are Going To Be Maids Together?
The USS Kinomoto isn't exactly as grand as the job posting suggested. The tiny ship looks barely big enough to hold a crew of ten, and one of the warp nacelles blinks on and off like a broken light. The entire hull is painted with an embarassing mural of some 20th Century cartoon girl.
Still, the captain's credit rating checks out, so at least the money's good. The starbase extends a docking tunnel to the ship and plays an automated farewell message in six langauges. The bay doors shudder open and get stuck partway, forcing you to squeeze your way through.
At least the money's good.
A wall panel lights up and a wall-mounted security camera leers over you. A young man's voice speaks over the intercom.
"Hello? Ugh, internal sensors are on the fritz again. Alright, assuming you're the Maids I just hired, tell me who you are and what you look like."
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A wide set of hips shakes through the tight shutters. Barely able to squeeze through, the bay's metal gives out first, sign of top-of-the-line hip technology. The hips continue to shimmy with each step, aided by gold and silver stileto heels. They were matched perfectly to the silver lining of a standard white maid's apron and silver, gem encrusted tiara shaped as a headdress that lay on a flowing head of gray hair, covering almost all of her face, that surely would be described as silver as well if you asked her.
"I'm the grandmaid, master. Best you can hope to receive with over sixty years experience." Her voice (clearly once as lusterous as the rest of her, but now raspy) pauses as she turns slightly from the camera, running a hand down her blouse, pretending as if there were any folds to straighten.
"Of course," she pauses for before putting more emphasis on the word this time "master, you can refer to me as Grammy. I'd prefer you look me over yourself, cameras just don't do me justice."
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"...yeah, I can't even see through this camera. Internal sensors are down, and I never learned how to fix them, which is everyone's fault but mine. You sound like ninety. Are you posing at me? You'd better not be posing at me. Gross."
"Next!"
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(Mei has dropped out of the game and Stush is posting tomorrow.)
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(Feroce added.)
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(Doom added.)
Please introduce your characters.
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A tall, thin maid with purple eyes and navy blue hair rides atop a skateboard through the doorway after Grammy, she wears a black blouse and stockings, with a beige apron, But she has made alterations to the traditional outfit, wearing a pair of black board shorts rather than the usual skirt, black skating shoes and on her head is a backwards cap with the traditional maid headdress drawn on the front of it, she stops her skateboard and kicks it up into her hand, lowering her dark thick sunglasses to look up at the camera.
"Whoah, Master-dude, why you gotta be so harsh? You should take like, a chill pill or something." She puts her sunglasses back on. "I'm Princess Rebecca Lamington, of the kingdom of Lamington or whatever, My friends call me Becky L, though, But my mum, the queen, like, totally sent me here to like, learn how to be a lady or something like that, She said it's what she had to do when she was my age, it's totally bogus."
She walks towards the camera, putting the skateboard across her shoulders. "So like, do we have pizza or anything? I'm starving out here."
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A small, boyish looking maid slips through the bay doors with little trouble, her silver eyes taking in the surroundings.
"Ahh, must be nice to own home this big. Could house ten families!" She says wistfully before noticing the camera.
"Wah! I- I-" She blushes and bows sharply to the camera having missed the earlier conversation regarding it's disrepair. "Привет! I'm Alexandra Arkadeyevna Strelnikov, age sixteen. Please, call me Shura. I am very grateful for opportunity to work for you and from look of things you could really use the help too!" She goes about wiping the camera lens clean with the edge of her apron.
Her voice is heavily accented and husky, and her uniform is a bright red with a white apron, necktie and headdress. The whole outfit is of a rather plain style and made with a heavy durable fabric with no embellishments except a well polished gold star on her neck tie. Her hair is cut very short and dyed an energetic shade of green to match her personality.
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"Princess, huh... heh heh. If I play this right, I'll be rich! I mean, even richer than I already am! Hahahah! Wait, is my mic still on? Shit! *click*"
"Shura-chan, welcome!" The Master speaks with no hint of a Japanese accent, so why he's using a Japanese honorific when speaking English is anyone's guess. "Hm... divide by half... add seven..."
"Anyone else going to show up before we set off? I'm not turning the ship around if anyone shows up late."
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This next maid appears adjacent to the other three deathly silently, intentional or not, maybe scaring the daylights out of them. Her entire uniform(and even skin!) is a very light tinge of beige, almost to the point of looking like a stark, neutral beige-white, as though a plastic unit of maid uniform was just printed fresh from the factory but somebody forgot the dye packs! This gives her straight, chin-length hair a chance to sparkle by contrast and the large bright-pink flower and ribbon set on the right side are a beacon of color in a desert absent of it. She executes a very precise three point bow, assuming pose, bowing, then rising and suddenly... clicks.
Her old-style cover-all blouse withdraws it's forearm sleeves, sheds it's middle down the chest, along the collar and two sides along the back, her skirt halves to show off tight stockings and her hair parts to allow headdress to pop up a neat inch and join with ribbon-flower. Appearing out of nowhere, a set of large pink ribbons weave themselves into a faux-tail with two trailing wraps on the skirt. Did she walk in barefoot? She grows two inches as heels have appeared on her feet and topped themselves neatly with tiny pink bow trim. With the more revealing outfit this maid has curves to spare on an hour-glass figure.
The rigid hands held in front of her pose drops to an elegant and fluid curtsey. With another click, she closes her eyes with matching bright pink iris and tilts her head, letting out a boisterous cheer. "Hello, Master! With 18 years, Ikora Lanyar will take care of you! However..." She ends the curtsey and leans towards a camera to waggle a finger in a mock-scold. "This is my first job, so please take care of me as well." She straightens up and smiles again, eyes opening. But it takes her a second or two too long to stop looking so pleasant and to drop to a natural and neutral stance.
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There's a rattling sound echoing as someone comes charging down the tunnel through the bay door. She easily fits the opening with her boyish frame. Her black uniform is lined with spikes, which would look threatening if it weren't for the bushy tail and her fox-like eyes, imbued with an orange tinge. Not to mention the blue hair, which makes her mismatched outfit look even more garish.
She comes to an abrupt stop and says in monotone: "Hello, my name is Alexandria Alexander Jones, but everyone calls me Alex. I'm very excited to be here and am looking forward to working with all of you."
"...as long as I'm getting paid, of course."
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"Alex... and Ikora. Awesome! This is the closest the USS Kinomoto has come to a full crew since all those other maids mutinied!"
The bay doors shut on their own and the ship shudders into motion. The docking bay slides past the window and soon the space station is a tiny dot in the vastness of space.
"Alright! All hands to the control room. We have an important mission!"
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Ikora looks the others over one by one, eyes starting at their feet and rising at a set pace to the top of their head with a "click!" After looking the late Alex over, she sets off for the control room at a brisk yet regulated pace.
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Signposts on the walls lead you to the ship's control room at the front. You pass what look like some escape pod hatches, but they're filled with boxes instead.
The control room doors slide open. Inside, a scrawny man in his early twenties sits in the captain's chair, illuminated by hovering holographic screens that show nothing but static. He wears a white lab coat, thick rimmed glasses, and has a mess of orange hair.
"Welcome to the USS Kinomoto! I'm Captain Smith, your new employer. You can call me Captain, or Master."
He clicks a hand-held button and a large holographic screen blinks into view. It shows an old 20th Century building, constructed out of two upside-down grey pyramids. A massive crowd of people surround it.
"Our destination. Comic Market 800, Tokyo, planet Earth. Home to the world's greatest traditional comics, and the best ones sell out within twenty minutes. There's a certain doujin I must obtain at all costs, and the only way to secure it is to make it to the launch in person."
"Earth is about eighty warp jumps away through Federation space, and we won't make it in time. Luckily, I worked out us some... shortcuts."
"Oh... and we only have enough escape pods for two people. In the highly unlikely event of disaster I'll only have enough room for one maid. Naturally, I'm going to pick my favourite. Any questions?"
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With a quick visual scan of the area, Ikora clicks and gets a proper "at ease" protocol going and relaxes her rigid stance a bit, using perfectly symmetrical body language to suggest that she's totally and naturally comfortable. She smiles. "The only question is the name of your doujin, Captain Master."
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Becky glides through the corridors on her skateboard, looking around with not much interest. "Yeah, question here, Master-Dude, Like, I'm sufferin' from a serious case of the space-munchies here, so where can we get some food?"
"Also, can't we just give the con a buzz and ask them to deliver that stuff to you? I mean, you have a giant spaceship, dude, like, don't you have a credit card?"
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Grammy tosses her hair back, revealing a face much more clearly in line with her apparent age, that would make anyone who took a moment (such as this one) to think about what was under her maid outfit to cringe or possibly throw up a little. The horribly wrinkled face is almost recolored by age spots, outshone, quite literally, by her smile. The few parts of her gums that actually have something attached are solely gold or gem, with not a single actual tooth to be found.
"I'm sure a lady as lovely and experienced as myself could get.. or give anything the master needed." With the pause she winks coyly at the disturbingly young boy.
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"Да Капитан, Can't we just clean out other pods? They is full of boxes like warehouse from Raiders of Lost Ark!" Shura seems totally distracted while asking this, her eyes wandering all over the control room marvelling at the equipment. "If you have map of ship, I could probably find place for everything."
.oO(I wonder why he has so many screens with nothing on? Wouldn't it be easier to just shut them off? Or maybe he can't shut them off? Perhaps that's why his glasses are so thick; He ruin eyes from watching static all day.)
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Alex raises her hand rather nonchalantly. "Captain, what types of dangers are we likely to encounter on this journey? just how safe are these 'shortcuts'? and why did your last crew mutiny?" Despite these pressing concerns, Alex's demeanor is as if she had just asked someone about the weather.
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Captain Smith shudders at Grammy's advances.
"To answer your questions: The doujin's name is Inazuma Girlfriend Asuka. I didn't get rich ordering intergalactic takeout every day. The escape pod bays are actually empty; we lost most of them due to human error during an alien attack and the former crew escaped in the rest when they mutinied... which happened because they all had personality issues."
"First things first. I'm hungry. Bonus pay for whichever of you cooks me dinner first. Kitchen is over thataway next to the maid's quarters and staff mess hall. Oh, and the internal sensor grid needs repaired. Bonus if you can do that by the time I'm finished dinner."
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((Okay test run, I'm using cunning of 3 for conspiring with Ikora, and Skil of 2 / affection of 2 to cook a meal with love))
Grammy walks up to Ikora and gives a polite bow, completely unaware that she's about to be completely racist and not complimentary.
"Darling, since you're just a wiz with those computers, why not work on that, and I can worry about making this little cutey his dinner? What really matters is just getting the best job done, and this way we can both get a little bit on his better side, right?"
Without waiting for a response she gives a small giggle to nothing in particular and half-scurrys, half-sashays away.
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(Conflict rules work as follows: All maids who wish to stop either of Grammy's actions have 48 hours real-time to make a counter action. You must specify which attribute and how much that attribute is (only use one attribute). After the 48 hours, all results will be rolled. Winner gets their way, losers take Stress damage.)
(A maid targeted by an action probably wants to make a roll, but does not need to. If they surrender without rolling, they fail to stop the opponent, but do not take any Stress for it.)
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Alex, ignoring Grammy's shenanigans, raises her hand again. "Captain, before we go, can you tell us the layout of the ship?"
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Shura hops between Ikora and Grammy "I think Ikora should decide for herself, she may surprise you with what she's good at!" (Will 3 vs Grammy's Cunning) She flashes a smile and spins on her heel. "Sensor grid is all over ship, да? I volunteer to try fix it. Feel free to join me if you like!"
With a short gesture to any of the other maids to follow her, she dashes out the door towards the airlock area where everyone boarded, thinking it's best to start work in the location she's most familiar with first. (Skill 2 to begin work on repairs)
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He's already watching some old 20th Century cartoon on the big holographic screen, still surrounded by smaller screens displaying static.
"Layout? There's a map somewhere on the computer... which I'm using now. I'll find the map later. But uh... the engine room is at the very back, maid quarters and mess hall in the middle, shields and weapons stations near the back, medbay in the middle. Transporter room somewhere up front, I haven't used it in years. There's a bunch of other stuff but I forget."
Shura: The camera in the airlock looks fine, but it looks like no signal is getting through. The cable leads to a room in the front of the ship labelled SENSOR CONTROL where smoke is wafting from a control panel.
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Ikora regards her opponents with wary respect hidden behind a mask of peppysmileprotocol2.exe. With Grammy taking the initiative and speaking to her first... Rival identified. Unit Ikora is a THREAT to Elder! Compiling consensus amongst Human Hierarchy Trait Table and Sociological Studies Of Importance Of Grandparents In The 2nd Earth Millennium, she decides to activate daringgambit4.exe.
With utmost respect, Ikora bows back to Grammy. "I trust it to your skill and experience, Madam."
Cunning 3 to identify the first Maid attempting to offer Captain Master a meal and intercepting them to present it as my own.
I will follow Shura and assist her with the Repairs with Skill 2 until I need to break off to intercept. Assuming that it's a full-ship job, I can facilitate my Cunning by working close to the Kitchen. "Your peppiness is within 5 points of an acceptable standard for over-achiever. I believe that you and I may attain the best partnership as other Maids demonstrate lack of genkispirit.pdf." ... Switch from neutral facial expression to friendly and confident. "Let's do our best, Shura!"
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"Your peppiness is within 5 points of an acceptable standard for over-achiever. I believe that you and I may attain the best partnership as other Maids demonstrate lack of genkispirit.pdf." ... Switch from neutral facial expression to friendly and confident. "Let's do our best, Shura!"
Shura grins enthusiastically and nods. "Yeah! Lets go!" She positively radiates happiness, having made a friend already.
The cable leads to a room in the front of the ship labelled SENSOR CONTROL where smoke is wafting from a control panel.
. . . "пизде́ц" .oO(Why is it STILL smoking? Was this just done recently? Are there pests on this ship? Did someone drop something in there? Maybe whoever was working here was having a snack and dropped it inside by mistake... it sure doesn't smell good whatever it is. I wonder what kapitan likes to eat. I don't think I'll be able to cook anything in time, maybe I can bring him some snacks later. Enough to share with the rest of the staff of course! I wonder what supplies are on the ship for cooking? Grammy may have her work cut out for her...)
Her mind continues to meander like a train through a mountain range as she eyes the room for a way to power off the panel and/or pry it off safely.
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Becky gets on her skateboard and starts gliding towards the kitchen alongside grammy. "I don't know what we're cooking, but I definitely wanna be around the kitchen once it's done, got a totally bogus need for food right now."
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Alex, having been descended from a long line of skeptics, decides to leave the cooking and the repairing to the other maids and instead investigate the credibility of her employer after hearing about the last maids' mutiny. "I think I'll get going as well." She dashes to the escape pod hatches to snoop through the aforementioned boxes.
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Alex: They're full of old comic books and merchandise. True enough, the passenger escape pods are all gone, leaving (presumably) only one escape pod in the captain's quarters.
The Battle for Lunch
Grammy: 2x6=12
Ikora: 3x4=12
TIE - no damage
"Such a beautiful scene," sobs the Master, engrossed in an anime about a little squeaky-voiced creature trapped in a ball. He doesn't even notice which maid brought his lunch.
Whose Station is Sensors Again?
Grammy: 3x2=6
Shura: 3x4=12
Ikora: Concedes to Grammy anyway
DAMAGE: Grammy takes 2 Stress
Sensor Repair
TEAM FIX IT
Shura: 2x6=12
Ikora: 2x6=12
No contest
TOTAL: 24
You repair the sensor grid. In fact, it's now working even better than before. Sensors can now track the movements of anyone on the ship, and external ship sensors have improved by 50%.
You both took some smoke damage: Your aprons are dirty, imposing a -1 to all rolls until cleaned.
The Master shows up chewing on a sandwich, completely oblivious that he didn't make it himself. "Hey, the internal sensor screens are back online! No more static! Nice work, you two!"
Shura gains 3 Favor.
Ikora gains 2 Favor.
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"Lets get this party started. I need one of you in the engine room and one in the pilot's chair. There's only one control panel for each station, so... yeah, no co-piloting. Engine's at the back of the ship, pilot chair is... up that hoverlift for some reason."
He throws a crust into a round alcove behind the Captain's control room and it levitates upward.
"No time to lose! Demerits if you mess this up!"
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Becky grins, "Whoah, Piloting a starship? That sounds mondo rad." She hops on her skateboard and starts moving, all of a sudden, she vanishes. A second later, she reappears up behind the pilot's console, flopping down onto the chair. "So how do I fly this thing, anyway?"
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The Master facepalms.
"Tell me one of you knows how to pilot a starship. It's basic maid training!"
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Alex states: "I don't."
"I can work in the engine room, though."
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Ikora gives Shura an affection hair rustling, exactly 4 shuffles alternating left and right and departs with a smile to spend time cleaning her apron, ideally in the crew quarters to see how those are set up.
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Grammy gives a big smile, vacuous in more than just a physical sense.
"A proper lady doesn't drive. Oh my, does that mean no one here can, though?"
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Anyone with at least Skill 1 can roll to pilot or run the engine room.
The Master begins to look impatient.
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Ikora gives Shura an affection hair rustling, and departs with a smile.
She beams then fixes her headdress.
The Master facepalms.
"Tell me one of you knows how to pilot a starship. It's basic maid training!"
"Да, I remember training. Is very hard! I will join Princess Lamington, maybe we can work it out together!" She walks over to the hoverlift and with a small hop, floats up to the cockpit to join Becky.
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It's a roll of 4 at each station (pilot's chair and engine room) to successfully make the warp jump. That's Becky+Shura and Alex making Skill rolls, if nobody else wants to interfere in the hops of grabbing any Favor and/or dealing Stress.
Ikora cleaning her uniform: 6x2=12. You have it clean in five minutes.
One more rule on Favor, if I didn't mention it. You can spend 1d6 Favor to add +1 to either your attribute or the die roll, for a single check. This is risky unless you've accumulated a lot of Favor, as a maid who drops below zero Favor is fired, and most of you are only on about 4 Favor.
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Becky pats Shura on the back. "Hey, the more the merrier, dude. You can handle the technical stuff, and i'll handle making it look stylish."
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"A-As you wish Princess. Um, there's only room for one. So, erm, please forgive my closeness?" Shura, standing behind the seat, reaches over and places her hands on Becky's, guiding her through the proper motions. "We already know destination, so plot course here, then throttle up and steer like so... Ship is big, but still need finesse to move. Think like Whale, or Siberian Tiger. There is lot to move, but still move with grace." She backs up (as much as one can in the small compartment) and fidgets a bit, clearly feeling out of place around a noble. "I think that will do. Would your Highness care to give try now?"
(Skill 2 to show Becky the basics of how to fly a ship... hopefully it's close enough in design to the ones in maid training. There's a manual for this thing on hand somewhere right?)
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Going to interpret Alex's earlier post as volunteering to work the engine room, and assuming you're both rolling straight Skill uncontested.
Alex: 2x3=6
Shura: 2x(5-1)+3=11
GREAT SUCCESS
Alex gains 6 Favor.
Shura gains 4 Favor
The ship warps off with a noisy whoosh. The ship's computer beeps and a simulated female human voice speaks from a small screen with a star map.
"You have now reached your destination."
The Master smiles. "Only fifty more jumps until--"
He's interrupted by a dull explosion from the rear of the ship. All the lighting goes out, and is quickly replaced by red emergency lighting.
"Intruders in shield generator room. Shield generator offline."
The Master flees to his room. His panicked voice shouts over the intercom: "I'll give my antique Ayanami Rei figurine to whoever kills them first!"
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Are they daft? Performing repair work upon the ship made it child's play to mentally construct and save a three-dimensional file of it... and to begin defending it in earnest! As Ikora responds to Captain Master's call by dashing out of the Maid's Quarters and towards the Shield Generator Room, she emits a click!
Her maid power guarantees that the Shield Generator Room is booby-trapped and via her Cunning 3, the intruders will be taser'd into a more manageable state by a simple device that siphons off a fantastically small bit of surplus electrical power and turns it into a violently large shocking field. Ikora flicks her right arm to the side hard and allows her fore-arm to pop open as a hollow framed case. She retrieves her pink-ribboned revolver with her left hand and then shuts her arm.
"FREEZE!"
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Alex, a naturally physical adept, hastens to the battle. She gets on all fours and runs to Generator room, her silky tail waggling as she goes. If the intruders appear to be physically threatening, she will use her athleticism of 5 to neutralize them by kicking them in the head. (http://youtu.be/dKNeWIvcofs?t=2m38s)
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Stuff and things about intruders.
Shura lightly hops down the hover lift, deciding to stay on the bridge as it is a rather important place and the Princess happens to be there too. She peers at the numerous screens around the captain's chair to see if she spots anyone without the proper maid attire running around the ship. (Assuming those are still functioning.)
.oO(Wow, they must be really good at hiding if Ikora and I didn't see them when fixing the sensors! I wonder if they're ninja, or ghosts, or ghost-ninja.)
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Shura: You see a squad of mantis-like humanoids wearing black clothing that conceals all but their eyes. They're in the shield generator room smashing up control panels with straight-bladed katanas and kung fu.
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Becky leans over to Shura. "Can you detect where they came from? Like, their ship or whatever?"
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You can make a roll for it. Skill, or whatever else you think's relevant. Of course, dealing with that means you'll be too busy to handle the intruders. And someone else can try to contest you on it, if they post within 48 hours.
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Shura hits the intercom: "Attention all hands, there are Praying Mantis Ninja in the shield generator room." After switching the intercom back off, she mutters; "I sure hope inverse ninja rule is true.".
Becky leans over to Shura. "Can you detect where they came from? Like, their ship or whatever?"
"Shouldn't be problem, Highness. Sensors are better than new!" She smiles proudly. "But I may need help to watch my back this does take fair bit of concentration..."
(Skill 2, to take a look at the external sensor readings.)
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Becky nods and puts her hand out, a nail bat zips into her hand, and she stands at the doorway, ready to stop anyone getting through. [Using athletics of 3 on any jonk who tries come through]
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NINJAS
Ikora 2x3=6
Alex 5x5=25
Ninjas 3x5=15
No sooner has Ikora drawn her gun than a mantis ninja drops from above the door and flips it back on her, firing a shot. She slumps to the ground, staying conscious just long enough to spot her electricity trap sliced in half on the floor. These ninjas are GOOD.
Just then, Alex bursts in and a martial arts scene breaks out. Ikora gets stepped on a lot, and at one point she's used as an improvised weapon.
The ninjas take 8 Stress.
Ikora takes 12 Stress. STRESS EXPLOSION
For the next 12 posts (total posts, not just Ikora's posts), Ikora can only take actions which involve SLEEPING.
All but one of the ninjas is knocked out or dead. Unfortunately, the inverse ninja theorem means that he's just as powerful as the group was. He tosses down a smoke bomb and escapes. The computer voice echoes over the intercom: "Intruder detected in engine room."
Meanwhile at the sensors:
Shura: 4x2 +3 = 11
Sensors detect a cloaked ship just off the port side.
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Grammy wakes up from her mandatory hourly old person nap and notices the new alerts about the engine room.
Rushing (sexily) down towards the engine room she confronts the lone ninja.
"Hold up now, young man. Think about this, you've an evil mantis race that came in a group and confronted a lone white girl who beat your friends up. This obviously isn't your team's story, and you're doomed to fail. If you get finished off here, it's just dishonorable. If you take out your own ship and take yourselves out honorably you'll be a true ninja, though. Isn't that more important than dying fighting a beautiful, vivacious older woman like a non-ninja mantis?"
(whoops, forgot to mention cunning: 3)
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Alex, having neutralized most of the ninjas, take a momentary break. "I'm sure the others can handle a single ninja." Having time to think, Alex remembers to utilize her critical thinking skills once again. "Anyways, we should probably check their ship to see if more of them are waiting for us...Hello? Ikora? ...Ms. Robot?" She finally notices Ikora lying on the ground, asleep. She kneels down to get a diagnosis. "Hm... it appears the path of her qi is improperly flowing through several of her meridians. I might be able to revitalise her if I can strike the correct pressure point."
Alex raises her right hand in a closed fist to about chest level, grips her wrist with her left hand, and extends her index and middle fingers to concentrate more energy to her extremities. After sufficient concentration she quickly pulls her hand back, and using a skill of 2, she jabs Ikora in the eye.
"..yep, I think that should do it."
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Hopefully that does anything at all, since Ikora had her Revolver turnedupon her, where it lodged a bullet into her totally life-like eye socket and caused a critical system error. She simply collapsed and fell into a pleasant looping sleeping protocol as internal repairs began.
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"Intruder detected in engine room."
"Ёб твою мать!"
Meanwhile:
Sensors detect a cloaked ship just off the port side.
Shura coms the Master's quarters; "Капитан, there is cloaked ship to port-side. Is there any way to defend ourselves from it?"
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The Master's voice sounds panicky.
"Gaaaaaah! Raise the shields! Fire the weapons! Evasive manoevers! We're a sitting duck!"
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The Master's voice sounds panicky.
"Gaaaaaah! Raise the shields! Fire the weapons! Evasive manoevers! We're a sitting duck!"
"Have faith in maid team, everything will be fine! After this is over we can celebrate. I'll even make some snacks for you." (Affection 3)
.oO(And the other girls of course! They did all the work after all.)
Shura switches the com off and looks for the control to raise the shields, hopefully the ninja didn't damage them too much... after that, she looks for weapons. (OOC I'm assuming they can all be controlled from this room.)
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Unfortunately, the shields can only be controlled from the shield room, the weapons from the weapons room, and so on. This seemed like a good idea when the ship was built fifty years ago, during the war with the Tharmaxlons.
On the bridge, a blinking red panel says "SHIELDS DOWN". A security screen shows all the controls in the shield room are broken and sparks are coming out.
Grammy vs Lone Ninja
Grammy: 1x3=3
Ninja: 1x3=3
The mantis tilts its head inquisitively and emits a set of clicks and whistles. It shakes its head and raises its sword in a defensive stance again.
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Unfortunately, the shields can only be controlled from the shield room, the weapons from the weapons room, and so on. This seemed like a good idea when the ship was built fifty years ago, during the war with the Tharmaxlons.
(OOC This is starting to sound a lot like FTL.)
Coms to shield room: "I don't mean to alarm you ladies further, but there is cloaked ship off port side and we need shields back! Also; if anyone is good shot, it might be smart to operate the guns!"
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Becky grabs the microphone "Wait, like, nobody get on the guns just yet." She looks over at Shura, "Hey, can you get us a bit closer to that thing, like, nudge right up against it?"
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Becky grabs the microphone "Wait, like, nobody get on the guns just yet." She looks over at Shura, "Hey, can you get us a bit closer to that thing, like, nudge right up against it?"
"So long as engine room hasn't been damaged too severely... maybe. What about the shields?"
(I think we should probably let the rest of the maid team catch up in posts now) :whoops:
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It's a tricky manoever. You can do it safely on an 8, or terribly dangerously on a 4. You're still on -1 to rolls for dirty apron, but +3 to the result for your Maid Power, Hard Work. Engines are still online. Wanna try?
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[Can I assist, adding my luck of 3 to the attempt?]
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Sure, if you can explain how.
Ikora's Stress Explosion ends.
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Alex notices Ikora rousing from her nap. "It took a while, but it seems my harmonious fist has finally rejuvenated her. You can take care of yourself, right?" Alex asks. She doesn't wait for an answer though, because Shura's message has her attention. "It seems they need help getting the shields back up." She rushes over to the shield room to try to fix what's broken with her limited repair skill of 2.
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Becky gets on the controls with shura, hitting random useful looking buttons that look related to the engines and maneuvering.
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Grammy changes her tactics. Tossing her hair back she slowly saunters towards the Ninjask.
"It must get awfully lonely being an nonspeaking horror that only knows murder. I... know what that can be like?"
(2 affection)
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I'll assume nobody's going to counter moving the ship closer.
Drive Me Closer! I Want To Hit Them With My Sword
Shura: 2x(1-1)+3 = 3
Rebecca: 3x3=9
TOTAL: 12
In the heat of the crisis, Shura keeps messing up the controls. Rebecca accidentally hits the automatic docking thruster control and the ship slides up so close to the enemy that it just barely touches. You hear a "tink".
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Becky grins. "That should be close enough." She looks at the scanners, trying to figure out where the bridge would be, then gives up, she walks away and gets on her skateboard. "Be right back, dude~" she says just before she vanishes, teleporting over to a random spot on the other ship, hoping she gets lucky and lands on the bridge. [Using luck again]
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Rebecca: 2x3=6
*BAMF*
You're inside an alien ship with purple walls. The bridge is manned by nobody but a small wheeled robot that looks like a trashcan with arms. The robot wheels away into the corner when you arrive. It looks like you can control the whole ship from here.
Unfortunately, the controls are in weird alien writing. There's a blinking red panel, a triangular blue panel, and an oblong green panel. Touching the each panel probably does... something.
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Becky lowers her sunglasses. "Wow, Mondo complicated, dude." She decides rather than try figure out the specifics. She'll use a tried and trusted method.
She bashes the hell out of the panel, trying to land a lucky hit with her bat, then skates over to the little robot, picking it up and teleporting back onto the mansion-ship near shura, with the robot in her arms. [Using luck again, it's worked well so far!]
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Bad Gran Versus Dragon Ninja
Grammy: 1x2=2
Ninja: 3x2=6
The mantis ninja suddenly grabs something from his pocket -- a weapon? -- and points it at Grammy. The object bleeps: "Universal translator activated."
Then it translates the creature's clicks and screeches, but out of sync with the mouth movements:
"Our biological data of your species indicates that you are beyond the optimal age for combat OR procreation. You are not even worth capturing as a slave."
Grammy takes 3 Stress.
He plants a high-tech explosive on the engine core, taps a communicator on his wrist and lifts it to his mouth in one fluid motion.
"Floyd-002, teleport me out."
The ninja confidently waits as the timebomb ticks down.
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Grammy stands, stunned, as the alien turns to plant the bomb.
"too... old..?"
(http://i.imgur.com/oPz8BpL.gif)
Reaching for the nearest blunt object she can find, she pulls a part that's probably pretty important out of the engine room. Running at the obviously-completely-misinformed-about-culture Mantis' back she reaches to grab for both him and the bomb, hoping to hitch a ride on the teleport.
[If I can't manage to bullshit a 3 on cunning for timing, then I have a 2 skill roll for it]
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Beep! Boop
Rebecca: 5x3=15
Suddenly, the alien ship decloaks, lowers its shields and powers down weapons... and just sits there.
The ninja looks nervously at the bomb and speaks through his communicator.
"Floyd-002! Teleport now! ... What do you mean you're not on the bridge? ... What are you doing on THIS ship? ... What exactly is a 'skateboard'?"
The ninja makes a panicked run for the door before being knocked unconscious by a pensioner with an important chunk of warp conduit pipe.
Grammy: 5x3=15
Ninja: 4x3=12
Grammy barely has time to roll underneath the lowering blast doors before the explosion engulfs the engine room.
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About half an hour later, the Master finally comes out of his quarters.
"Phew! We saved the ship! Er... you all did equally well, I guess."
Everyone gains 3 Favor.
"Except for Rebecca, who got me this SWEET ROBOT."
Rebecca gains another 2 Favor.
"But... I'll just keep the prize in my room, for now."
"Next on the agenda: We don't have a warp core any more. Seriously, don't go in there, there's just space where our engines used to be. But don't panic. We have an abandoned MANTIS ship right next to us. I'm pretty sure we can just steal their core and hook it up to our ship."
"I mean, it's BASICALLY the same tech. How hard can it be?"
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Current Favor ranking
Shura 16
Alex 13
Ikora 9
Rebecca 9
Grammy 7
Uses for Favor
Remove Stress:: Spend 1 Favor to remove 1 Stress
Raise attribute by 1: Spend 10 Favor times the new attribute
Bonus to roll: Spend 1d6 Favor to add +1 to either the die roll or your attribute score for one action
Random Event: Spend 1d6 Favor to cause a Random Event
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Rebecca shrugs. "Hey, that robot was just looking after the bridge, he wasn't messing with anyone, it would have been pretty harsh to leave him there if we were gonna blow it up."
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"Whew, I'm glad that is over. I- AAHHH! Ikora! Your eye!" :gasp:
Shura rushes over to make sure she's alright.
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Ikora reaches out and holds Shura back by placing her palm against her forehead. Ahhh, her eye? Silly, her eye is perfectly fine! She tilts her head and clicks, setting up a smile for Shura. "Please calm down, we have a job to do." ... Ikora flicks the side of her own head, causing her repaired eye's iris to recolor itself from the default white back to neon pink.
Let's head to the airlock and see what options we got for ripping parts off the Mantis ship and rigging them to ours. Space-suits, power tools, etc.
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The supply cabinet contains the following:
One universal hyperspanner (+1 to Skill when making repairs)
One laser pistol (no battery)
Three flamethrowers
Two space suit helmets
One space suit
A towel
The rest of the cabinet is full of comic books.
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Ikora reaches out and holds Shura back by placing her palm against her forehead. Ahhh, her eye? Silly, her eye is perfectly fine! She tilts her head and clicks, setting up a smile for Shura. "Please calm down, we have a job to do." ... Ikora flicks the side of her own head, causing her repaired eye's iris to recolor itself from the default white back to neon pink.
"Ah, a-alright... I should get cleaned up first, I was going to make snacks to give everyone energy after all that effort." .oO(I'm glad she's ok, but I could have sworn she was hurt by the ninja earlier. I really wanted to make a cute eye-patch accessory too. >:T )
With that, she leaves to tidy up her uniform, after which she prepares some Сырники for everyone. (Skill 2) Syrniki, sorta like a light, sweet, creamy, cheese pancake served with honey, jam or applesauce.
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I'll assimilate the hyperspanner into my... pocket and examine the set-up for the space suit. I hope it has, say, an air-tube and other such nonsense. Enough to head out into the vacuum of space without dying quite so immediately.
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Grammy grabs the towel and begins cleaning the ship in her downtime.
(skill 2)
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The space suit is in full working condition with a full air supply. It's enough to survive in open space for several hours.
The opposing ship is right next to yours, but there's nothing connecting the airlock to the other ship's airlock.
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"Hey dude, I could like, teleport over there again, I dunno how i'd move the thing, though. Those controls were mondo illegible."
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From the airlock window you can see the alien ship close up. It's made of rounded edges and purple tinted metal. The alien airlock is conveniently located next to your own. The doors are practically touching. The alien airlock has a button panel on the outside.
Meanwhile, nobody contests Grammy, so the ship is a little tidier now.
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(No posts in four days. Rolling a random event...)
The Master walks into the airlock. "Man, this ship's so boring! I'm going to explore the alien vessel. You guys killed the last alien when you blew up my warp core, so I'm sure it'll be perfectly safe. I'll be back when you guys have fixed the warp core!"
He taps some panels and a bright blue energy tunnel appears connecting the two ships' airlocks. The doors open and he walks straight over to the enemy ship.
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Alex looks back. "mmmyeah... it looks like you guys have a handle on this situation. I'm going to go investigate the ship for anything suspicious." She strides through the doors and uses her Detective Skill of 2 to look for any cool loot.
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The interior of the alien ship is all purple metal and rounded edges. It's cold, and dimly lit. The Master walks around in his lab coat, randomly touching dangerous-looking things.
Alex: Mounted on the wall on the bridge is a large red and silver alien rifle. An energy readout bar on the stock shows it has 3 shots left.
Suddenly you hear something skitter through the corridors.
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Suddenly, on the alien ship, a large furry creature lunges out of the darkness and claws at the Master!
The ship's computer voice of the USS Kinomoto sounds an alert. "Captain's life in danger. In the event that the Captain is killed or missing in action, his favourite Maid is to inherit the ship and all his wealth, and become replacement Captain."
"Favourite Maid is currently: Shura."
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"Oh bogus!" Becky grabs her skateboard and zips over to the other ship next to the master, pulling out her metal bat, jumping in front of him and going to work on the alien with her athletic abilities [score of 3]
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Gonna go with another pre-set Trap off Cunning 3, obviously capturing the furry thing in a net that I set there despite being asleep and never boarding the ship at the time. How?! Mechanical precision! Click!
... And I guess I should casually stroll across the same airlock Captain Master used and keep tabs on him. Even if Shura would be a decent captain.
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Save the Master!
Becky: 3x4=12
Ikora: 3x4=12
Creature: 3x6=18
Becky takes 6 Stress.
Ikora takes 6 Stress.
The creature tears out of the flimy net Ikora set, and claws at Becky and Ikora. The Master panics, draws a laser blaster, fumbles and drops it on the floor.
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The creature tries to attack the Master again! (stat 3).
(48 hours to oppose.)
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Shura, having heard of the Kapitan's danger, spent most of the time during the skirmish dashing across the ship. Entering the fray she belts out a war cry and grapples the large furry creature from behind in an attempt to suplex it, or at least pull it away. "Uuuurrraaaah!"
(Athletics 2 + 1 from spending 1d6 favour. Dice, don't fail me now!)
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdofvu88MZ1rq93l5o1_500.gif)
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CREATURE FIGHTY
Creature: 3x2=6
Shura: 3x5=15 (Cost: 6 Favor)
(http://i.imgur.com/nvGElnI.png)
The creature is knocked out cold. The master scrambles to his feet and smiles at Shura with tears of appreciation.
Shura gains 10 Favor. (Net gain: 4 Favor.)
He pulls out a tiny gold pin from his pocket and attaches it to the collar of your maid uniform.
"Shura, I'm promoting you to Lieutenant. As of now, if anything happens to me, you're second in command of the USS Kinomoto."
"Okay, enough exploring. Lets go get that warp core and get out of here."
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Becky brushes herself off, and pats Shura on the back. "Hey, radical save, man, I owe ya one."
She jumps back on her skateboard, rolling slowly through the corridors. "Where's this warp core thing, it'd be near the back, right?"
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The creature is knocked out cold. The master scrambles to his feet and smiles at Shura with tears of appreciation.
He pulls out a tiny gold pin from his pocket and attaches it to the collar of your maid uniform.
"Shura, I'm promoting you to Lieutenant. As of now, if anything happens to me, you're second in command of the USS Kinomoto."
"Okay, enough exploring. Lets go get that warp core and get out of here."
"Да, Капитан!" .oO(A lieutenant huh? I guess that means I have plot armour now! Which is good, I was the only one wearing red on this ship. Does this mean I'm Uhura? I hope I don't have to do that naked fan dance, that would just be too awkward.)
:LISTENU: Read the atmosphere!
"Ah." Shura realizes that she nearly forgot the others. She walks over to Ikora and Becky. "Princess? Ikora? Are you two ok? Are you hurt anywhere?"
Becky brushes herself off, and pats Shura on the back. "Hey, radical save, man, I owe ya one."
"Oh, thank goodness!" Shura looks over at the fuzzy thing passed out on the floor. It's kinda cute when it's like this.
.oO(I wonder if I can drag it back to the ship. Maybe it'll like us if we feed it and show it that we're nice people.)
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At the back of the ship lies the engine room. A golden sphere the size of a cannonball hovers inside a small glass chamber.
"Huh. This is their warp core? It's a lot smaller than ours. Someone bring it back and install it in our engine room. I'm sure it's safe, but... just to be sure, I'll just stand outside while you do that."
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A radio message comes from the ship. It's the Master.
"Hey, uh... it's been a couple hours. It's like, my dinner time now. Have you guys installed my new warp core yet? I'm not paying you for nothing!"
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Becky replies "Hey, I don't know how to install a warp core, dude! I can bring it over, though. How do we get it out?"
She turns to shura, "Should we just like, break this thing?"
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Becky replies "Hey, I don't know how to install a warp core, dude! I can bring it over, though. How do we get it out?"
She turns to shura, "Should we just like, break this thing?"
"We could... I sorta thought it unplugged like this;" Shura taps on the attached control panel and fidgets with the glass chamber in an attempt to disengage it. (Skill 2)
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(Assuming no contest.)
2x6=you totally pass
The glass rises and the warp core rolls out into your hand. It's warm and glows softly.
Suddenly the lights cut out and an alarm siren fills the ship. An alien computer voice repeats a series of words. Is it... a countdown?
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The glass rises and the warp core rolls out into your hand. It's warm and glows softly.
Suddenly the lights cut out and an alarm siren fills the ship. An alien computer voice repeats a series of words. Is it... a countdown?
". . . еба́ть!" Shura turns to becky and hands her the core. "Princess, you can get this to our ship faster than me. We need to get as far away from here as possible." and with that, Shura runs off to find the fuzzy thing. Nobody else is alive on this ship. It would be cruel to just let it die too.
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Becky nods, grabs the core, and zips off to the airlock to wait for shura.
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Shura: The furry creature is surprisingly light. As soon as you drag its body back through your own ship's airlock, the alien vessel explodes. Heavy shrapnel pummels your ship.
The computer voice speaks: "Hull integrity damaged by 10%. Current hull integrity: 80%. It is not recommended to operate the ship below 10% total hull integrity."
(I notice nobody took the laser rifle from the alien ship, so it's gone.)
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MASTER: "Nicely done!"
Becky gains 3 Favor.
COMPUTER: "Two hours of reserve power left. Shutting down internal sensors and entertainment."
MASTER: "Get that core back online!"
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COMPUTER: "One hour of reserve power left."
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"Okay, guys, where do I put this thing?" Becky asks, lifting up the core.
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"Okay, guys, where do I put this thing?" Becky asks, lifting up the core.
"Engine room! Hopefully is still in good condition!" Shura jogs ahead, fuzzy thing clutched in her arms like an oversized teddybear.
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The engine room is currently a mess of smashed panels and burned-out scrap metal. It's going to take an amazing feat of repair to get this back online.
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Becky zips over to the engine room. "Dude, I don't know how to like, fix this high tech stuff!"
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Also, the engine room is venting atmosphere and you have less than an hour to repair it.
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"No time to lose, dudes, I'm sure i'll figure it out!" Becky starts randomly attaching loose cables together and reattaching panels, hoping to get lucky.
(Using my luck score of 3 to repair it)
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Shura eventually catches up having hard to run rather than teleport or board, and having to drop the fuzzy thing off in her room first. She gets right to work, assisting the Princess, starting with patching up the holes. There should be enough scrap around for that! She looks for some nearby tools to weld some holes shut. (Skill 2)
"I really wish Ikora were here! She had the space suit!"
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Four hours (real-time) left for anyone else to aid or interfere...
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EMERGENCY REPAIRS
Rebecca: 3x2=6
Shura: 2x6+3=15
TOTAL: 21
Shura manages to patch up the hull breaches for long enough to let Rebecca work her magic. Ship systems power up with a warm hum.
COMPUTER: "Power at 150%. All systems back online."
CAPTAIN: "Great job!"
Rebecca gains 5 Favor.
Shura gains 3 Favor.
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Shura finishes up her job and sighs in relief, the crisis finally over. She returns to her room to check up on her guest, grabbing some of the snacks she made earlier from the fridge. .oO(I wonder what sort of things it likes to eat...)
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The furry beast tackles you to the ground. It starts licking your face. It sniffs at the food you've brought and starts eating it, plates and all.
CAPTAIN: "Man, it feels like I only have two maids pulling their weight. Alright, here's what we're going to do. It's dinner time. Five maids, I want five dishes. You have half an hour before we warp jump, and whoever doesn't bring me anything is fired. Hop to it!"
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Ikora wakes up from a sudden mandatory system shut-down and maidOS update as she hears the latest order. Downloading JoyOfCooking.pdf... instituting Cunning Plan #125 Protocol...
I'm gonna use my Cunning 3 to set a trap for another random maid in the kitchen after a quick stop to the Infirmary to grab bandages. Basically some bolos with the bandages wired up will mummify the sucker and the momentum will knock them into a supply closet that'll lock behind them. With mechanical precision.
Then I'll cook something with a dynamic Skill 2. Nobody will out-appetizer me and my appetizers! Hrmm. Sausage-stuffed mushrooms. Deceptively... perfect. Click.
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Becky, of course, has no idea how to cook anything, so she finds the nearest space phone on the ship, using it to call the nearest intergalactic pizza place to get a bunch of large pizzas and some garlic bread delivered.
(Using my Luck of 3, because i'd have to be lucky to find a place that delivers several light years away at this time of night.)
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The furry beast tackles you to the ground. It starts licking your face. It sniffs at the food you've brought and starts eating it, plates and all.
"Wah! So hungry!"
"Man, it feels like I only have two maids pulling their weight. Alright, here's what we're going to do. It's dinner time. Five maids, I want five dishes. You have half an hour before we warp jump, and whoever doesn't bring me anything is fired. Hop to it!"
"Ahh~ I will bring you bigger meal later. Капита́н is demanding attention too, and if I don't do it, my family will be in trouble." She gives her new friend a cuddle and messes it's fur. (Affection 3)
Shura hums Hearts on Fire to herself as she psyches herself up for the coming challenge.
.oO(I wonder what the other maids will do? That's a pretty serious thing to threaten us with over a snack. What happens when we're fired? There aren't any shuttles on here. We aren't literally fired are we? Like, from a cannon, into a sun, or maybe out an airlock.)
She realizes that Hearts on Fire may not be the best montage music unless she wants impending doom, and starts humming Katyusha instead. She switches to a crisp, clean uniform, not having time to wash her old one. She makes sure her star is polished to a mirror shine and tightens her apron, just so, before depart- Oh right. She almost forgot.
Shura coms the Kapitan; "Капита́н. If you want something before we make dinner, there is snacks I prepared earlier in fridge.". Having her share eaten by the fuzzy thing was a bit of a loss, but she made enough for everyone and left in in the fridge before all the excitement began. With that she storms out of her room and toward the kitchen.
(Would I even be able to counter Ikora's roll if I have no reason to suspect foul play? I'm not exactly a ship boarding ninja pirate ghost mantis alien thingie who would be looking for such traps.)
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(Usually you only make one roll for the total encounter. For example, if you use Skill to cook and someone uses Cunning to plant a trap, you don't need to roll something else to counter their trap, the encounter is just your Skill vs their Cunning.
If multiple skills might apply, just roll once using whichever is best.)
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(Usually you only make one roll for the total encounter. For example, if you use Skill to cook and someone uses Cunning to plant a trap, you don't need to roll something else to counter their trap, the encounter is just your Skill vs their Cunning.
If multiple skills might apply, just roll once using whichever is best.)
(Thanks! Nice to know how that works. Also; a sound track is required for this showdown. Fighting 17th - Backdraft Movie Theme~Hans Zimmer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMskSnRvWTw#) Allez Cuisine!)
Shura Bursts into the kitchen with a determined smile on her face and fire in her eyes. She raids the pantry and freezer and cooks up a table filling meal that emphasizes nourishment over aesthetics and warmth over style, complete with a serving of beef, potatoes, vegetables, bread, hot tea, pelmeni (Like a pirogi only with meat stuffing) and if there's any available, Vodka. Completely overlooking the order of one dish per maid and attacking the problem with her usual gusto! Naturally she doesn't expect all of it to be eaten, a Russian dinner requires only that people pick and choose what they like.
(Skill 2, and I'll spend 1d6 favour to boost that by 1)
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Alex, having been knocked temporarily comatose by the explosion, wakes up just in time to hear the master's declaration. "I'm a terrible cook...I hope the captain like TV space dinners." She uses her luck of 3 to root through the fridge for something to eat.
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MASTER CHEF
Ikora: 3x4=12
Becky: 3x4=12
Shura: 3x1+3=6 (spends 3 Favor)
Alex: 3x3=9
Becky finds cold pizza in the fridge.
Alex's luck backfires! The whole fridge shelf collapses on top of her and ruins her apron (-1 to all rolls).
Shura just finishes her epic meal when the supply cupboard opens and a mechanical contraption wraps her with bandages and snaps her in, leaving a perfectly finished dish for Ikora.
Shura takes 4 Stress.
Alex takes 4 Stress.
The Master munches down the meals hungrily. "I love cold pizza! This stuff Ikora made is good too, though. And Alex... well, at least you tried. Not like Grammy and Shura."
Ikora gains 3 Favor.
Rebecca gains 3 Favor.
Shura loses 1 Favor.
Grammy loses 3 Favor.
"Becky, you're my new Lieutenant."
He rummages around in his pocket and finds nothing.
"Okay, I'm out of gold pips. Your first job as Lieutenant is to find Shura and take her gold pip. And tell her she's demoted until she redeems herself."
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LEADERBOARD
Lt. Rebecca: Stress 6/30, Favor 20
Shura: Stress 4/30, Favor 19
Alex: Stress 4/20, Favor 13
Ikora: Stress 6/10, Favor 12
Grammy: Stress 5/20, Favor 4
FAVOR SHOP
Remove 1 point stress: 1 Favor
Raise attribute by 1: 10x new attribute level
Roll bonus: 1d6 Favor for +1 to either the die roll or the attribute score for one action
Trigger a random event: 1d6 Favor
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I'll use 1d6 favor to trigger a random event.
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The ship suddenly jumps to warp. There's an unfamiliar whoosh and the ship judders for a few seconds.
CAPTAIN: "What just happened? Why did we jump?"
COMPUTER: "New core is identified as a Mantis class Z telepathic device. Any maid can now cause a spontaneous jump automatically, simply by willing it."
CAPTAIN: "Who jumped us?"
COMPUTER: "Particle emissions from the core spiked at an angle of incidence of 34.44 degrees. Internal sensors place only one maid at that precise angle relative to the core when the jump occurred. Maid Alex caused the jump."
Alex loses 1 Favor.
COMPUTER: "Captain, receiving an automated distress signal from an abandoned orbital outpost 10,000km from here."
CAPTAIN: "Yeah, probably a trap or something. We should probably bring the weapons online and just blow it up for scrap. You guys deal with that while I try to stop our warp core doing that thing."
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Ikora bows and smiles with a click to the master, basking in his warm praise. Later, she comes to the supply closet she set earlier and opens it, initiating SurprisedReaction4.exe as she hums a jaunty tune, "looking" for some misc cleaner... and gasping as she comes across Shura! She enables scissor-fingers and frees her, deeply concerned. "Friend Shura, what happened to you!?"
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"Friend Shura, what happened to you!?"
Shura brushes off the other bandages and glares back at the device. "I WAS making dinner for everyone. I hope Капита́н enjoyed it, I really don't want to die right now!" . . . "Also; did we just warp? We should have waited 'till repairs were complete."
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COMPUTER: "Captain, the automated distress signal is still broadcasting."
CAPTAIN: "Yeah, I told the maids to take care of it like an hour ago. They're slacking!"
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I'm going to try to use my Cunning 3 to hail the Distress Signal before we blow it up.
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Cunning doesn't work. However, it's not difficult to operate the ship's comms device, and the other ship replies. It's a woman's voice.
"Hello? Oh, thank goodness, someone's arrived to rescue us. I'm the only crewman left on this station and we're running out of power and supplies. If you can maybe dock and rescue us, I'd be happy to be dropped off at the next Federation starbase."
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"Dude, it'd be totally uncool to just leave them here, but docking with an unknown ship is a pretty dangerous move too, nudge up beside it, and i'll totally zip over to see if it's safe."
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"Dude, it'd be totally uncool to just leave them here, but docking with an unknown ship is a pretty dangerous move too, nudge up beside it, and i'll totally zip over to see if it's safe."
Shura joins the others on the bridge. "Well, that worked for us before." She hops up into the pilot seat. "I hope for everyone's sake, that your luck holds out Your Highness. If anything goes wrong, you get back here immediately. Капита́н did order us to blow up station after all."
(Skill 2 to glide the ship forward smoothly and slowly. Hopefully the enhanced ship's systems also included the shields and any sort of inertial dampening.)
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The ship slides up to the station and extends the docking beam.
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Becky Looks at the scanner, and then doesn't even bother trying to comprehend the data, relying on her luck (3) to zip her somewhere inside the station that isn't inside a bulkhead.
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Ikora will stand by the docking door or whatever that Becky skate-boarded out of and prep a trap and arm her revolver. I think this time I'm gonna go with bolo launchers aimed at the legs and torso/arms with Cunning 3. Manual activation rather than first into proximity.
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Alex stands and gawks.
"...You guys look like you know what you're doing, so I'm gonna go to dust off my uniform."
Alex goes to bathroom to clean up.
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Becky: 3x2=6
Ikora: 3x4=12
Ikora succeeds.
Becky takes 4 Stress.
A bolo launcher wraps around Becky's arms and legs and knocks her off her skateboard before she can make the jump.
i can't read
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(I dunno why I'd activate my trap against somebody I didn't intend to trap, particularly if I'm successful in using my Cunning. :V It's protection against somebody from the other ship running into ours.)
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Oops, I misunderstood.
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Becky skateports into a dark corridor and trips over a crewman. He scrambles to his feet and points an energy rifle at Becky, flicking on the attached flashlight.
The crewman sighs with relief and lowers his weapon.
"Thank God, a human! We haven't seen any other humans for over a year. Hey, I don't suppose you could spare us some supplies? Or... maybe your ship could use some more crewmen? I'm pretty sure the Federation has long forgotten about us."
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Becky looks skeptical. "Hey dude, we heard a lady's voice over the eadio, and she said she was the only crew member left on this wreck"
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"Ah, it's a recorded message, so it's out of date. There was one maid on this station when we showed up four months ago in a Federation scout ship. Our ship was too damaged to risk another jump so we've been trapped on this space station ever since. And half the systems on this station are fried so updating the distress signal hasn't exactly been a priority."
"Nice to meet you, by the way. I'm Commander Dan."
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Shura hops down from the pilot seat and taps away at the bridge com systems to check a time stamp for the station's distress signal. If the station was in such dire straights as it was when the signal was sent, then it couldn't have been that old at all.
She sends a message down to Ikora and Becky "Just a moment, I'll see if I can verify his story. Would you kindly ask him what happened here, who else is alive, and what is his service number?" She switches off the two way coms and just listens from the ship's normal surveillance system.
(A time stamp should be easy enough to find. But I'm going to also run a search on information on a Commander Dan, from a Federation scout ship sent to this station, on the off chance that such information is readily accessible. I'll also see if there's any news on this space station's demise, if it's old then it should be public knowledge, it'll also give me something to check his story against. Skill 2)
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COMMANDER DAN: "Supplies to the station were cut off two solar years ago by a Mantis blockade three star systems away. Eventually the Federation sent a small five-man scout ship, the USS Lovecraft. That was us. We found the station abandoned, except for one Maid in a cryostasis pod."
"It's just me and my four men. We can't leave because our warp manifold was damaged in an ion storm and we really don't have the resources here to replace it. We're just holding out until rescue."
"As for me, I'm Commander Hiroshi Dan, service number F-57005-48879."
Shura: You find a Federation ship registry in the USS Kinomoto's database. (Skill: 2x3+3=9). There is indeed a scoutship named the USS Lovecraft, commanded by Commander Dan, and his service number checks out. There's also an old news story in the database about the Mantis blockade of Beta Hydrae three warp jumps from here. It briefly mentions this space station, Station Baghdad 1304.
The flow of information this far from the Federation core systems is unreliable and there's no word as to whether the blockade has been lifted.
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As the Maid on Point Ikora glares daggers at her companions until they hasten themselves. To this purpose she employs RealTimeFacePolynomics.exe and narrows her eyes the absolute hardest, no fooling.
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Being in the bathroom, Alex doesn't notice the the icy look of Ikora. She does take advantage of her extensively long bathroom break to clean her apron, though.
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Shura: You find a Federation ship registry in the USS Kinomoto's database. (Skill: 2x3+3=9). There is indeed a scoutship named the USS Lovecraft, commanded by Commander Dan, and his service number checks out. There's also an old news story in the database about the Mantis blockade of Beta Hydrae three warp jumps from here. It briefly mentions this space station, Station Baghdad 1304.
The flow of information this far from the Federation core systems is unreliable and there's no word as to whether the blockade has been lifted.
(Lovecraft.... oh god, NO!) :itsatrap:
"хуй!" Shura was hoping that Dan's story would be full of holes. If only the system was more reliable. She thumbs the coms; "Well, his story mostly checks out. Ikora, please keep Becky safe. I will join you a little later.". Shura then scans for lifesigns on the station using the ship's sensors and relays any relevant data to the girls.
Once that's all taken care of, she returns to the kitchen to clean up, and by clean up, I mean she takes the table with the leftovers of the dinner she made and wheels it away to feed her pet/furry garbage disposal unit like she promised.
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There are eight life signs on board the station. One is Rebecca, five appear to be the crew of the Lovecraft, and two faint life signs in the ship's medbay.
COMMANDER DAN: "We're just glad someone finally responded to our hails, even if its not a Federation ship. We'd really appreciate any help you can give. We're running low on food, medical supplies and power, most of the secondary systems are offline, and we still can't work out how to wake up the Maid in stasis in the medbay."
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Shura apparently has a lot of time to get ready and catch up with the rest of the group. She pets her little friend, tells him- .oO(Wait... is it a him or a her?....or an it? I'll have to look that up sometime soon... ) -tells him to behave while she's gone, then meets up with the party.
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You arrive on the ship just in time to hear Commander Dan asking for any help with supplies, repairs or waking up the Maid in stasis in the medbay.
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You arrive on the ship just in time to hear Commander Dan asking for any help with supplies, repairs or waking up the Maid in stasis in the medbay.
"We're just one ship, so our supplies are limited too. But I'll see what I can do about getting some of the systems back online. Though, I was under impression that the station was too far gone by this point... Please, show me where to get started, maybe there's something broken in the secondary systems that's keeping the maid from waking up."
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Gonna invite myself on board and use Cunning 3 to look over the systems myself, as well as the layout of the ship. Maybe go take a look at that comatose Maid as well.
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"Let me take you to Sleeping Beauty first. This way, ladies."
Dan leads you through dark corridors lit by sparks from damaged panels. He forces a pair of doors apart manually. It's a large medbay. In the middle, a stasis pod glows with green light. Inside, a woman in a black and white maid uniform clutches a white rabbit, asleep.
"We've tried everything we can think of," says Dan, "but the pod controls don't respond."
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Becky taps on the front of the stasis pod. "Yo dude, wakeup call"
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"but the pod controls don't respond."
Shura ponders this a moment, then looks for an access hatch to the inner workings of the controls. Checking to see if they're even plugged in/have power and to see if there are any other faults. (Skill 2 to fiddle around with the electrical bits.)
"Ikora. Would you mind keeping eye on things out there, please? I am not a big fan of surprises."
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(Sorry guys, been busy. Game continues:)
The pod is fully working, just locked. But as you touch the front panel, it bleeps and the pod jolts open.
COMPUTER: "Female DNA detected. Opening pod doors."
The maid inside suddenly awakens and staggers out of the pod, coughing and spluttering. The white rabbit she's holding hops off into the corridor.
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"Wakeup calls always work"