Ariadne Guardpost

PFCNublar · July 2003

*stops running the wrong way*
*runs in to the shaft as the last person before Night welds it shut.
"You know, I do hope she can't find us, by alien scary stuff senses."
*hears Marik's comment*
"Also makes you wonder about the icky icky mess. Eww..."
*gestures P-Khan over to Night Shade*
"I'm sure he's got some painkillers for that headache. Guilty might also inject with that stuff. Feels like something between morphine and andrenaline."

I hope that isn't crossing the line. God-*me gets strangled* I meant xect might get a bit disturbed about picking up an item out of nowhere. The door was pushing it in my opinion, but the item's a bit iffy.

Night_Shade · July 2003

Look at it this way, Terran - if no-one hurried us along (thanks Ed) we'd still be standing next to the blast door.
*Fires up welder and runs it round the edges of the maintenance hatch, sealing it closed*
"That should hold them. I hope."
*hears Terran pointing me out to Khan*
"I left my field kit on the station - the brass were in rather a hurry to get me here." *mutters something about incompetent leaders*
"Hey Spark, that R&D's new pep shot you got there?"

Lord_Darkness · July 2003

*puts new Cx-10 in holster, sticks own Cx-10 and P229 in belt*
"I'd have prefered a CZU or a shottie, but the extra gun might come in handy

Great, now I have three pistols.

Mr_Headcrab · July 2003

would you prefer the killamajig 9000 and a crowbar, with no armor?

343_guilty_spark · July 2003

" Let me take a look at that P-khan."
*Studies P-Khans bruise, pulls out a leaf out of his field medic vest and crunches it before rubbing it on P-Khans head then pulls out a plastic vial and gives it to P-Khan.
" Drink this and don't play with your bruise, or wipe the stuff of."
* Turns to face Shade.*
"Yeah most of this is new R&D stuff, but almost all of it is homemade or uses Kharaa plants, it's like herbal stuff but very strong and effective, you can have some of my supplys if you want them."
*Studies medic vest and belt.*
" I only got 5 booster injections left, 2 rolls of bandage, 3 vials, 13 Kharaa plant leafs, 2 pint of brandy and 2 boxes of homemade painkiller pills."
" Don't try and get internal bleeding or your dead."
" So where to now ?"

Night_Shade · July 2003

"Wow. Oldschool. They do know about nanotechnology, right?"
*chuckles* "Crazy R&D. They're always trying something weird out. All my kit had in it was about three packs' worth of med nanoes and my field surgery tools."
*looks around to make sure the hatch is holding shut, which it seems to be*
"Ed, how we going for comms? Any response from the station?"

xect · July 2003

Terran, my line was crossed when the hive suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Getting contact with the ship just like that doesnt make it any better. A small portable control thingy is a minor offense compared to that stuff. I might be able to survive the hive, but the contact never existed.

And ed, calm down. I know you're from the ship and you're supposed to know the ship. But you don't know what the Kharaa did to it, and you don't know what's happening outside the ship. You're taking a bit too much of control for my liking.

So, for the record, the lightly defended hive is still there, but Ed never established contact to anything outside the ship.

The maintenance shaft runs a few hundred metres with hatches and grates(one of which you came trough) to the side, then ends in an access door in the end.

343_guilty_spark · July 2003

So does that mean that the people Ed called for didn't get the message and the escape ship is there but we don't know that there is a hive by it ?


*Talks about medcines to Night shade.*
" Yeah i don't care much for the nanotechnology medcines, sure they patch you up but my homemade stuff gives it a extra kick, take Terran if we used a nano med pack he wouldn't have enough energy to make it to the shaft, the injection i gave him, was a mixture of a painkiller and adrenline with some nanonites in it."
*Looks up ahead.*
" Now what Sir ?"

xect · July 2003

That means that you know the hive is there (can't make you forget it), and so far Eds message has gone into space.

PFCNublar · July 2003

*looks around*
"Uhh...Ed. I know were safe and all in this shaft from the onos, but where does this thing go to. I don't want to find out suddenly that this thing leads to the solid waste tank."
*quivers*
"Ohh, the kickback of that stuff is coming. But it feels good...strangely."

P-Khan · July 2003

"Thanks sparks, the headache is starting to stop"
*gets a star-chart map*
"Where are we exactly anyways? I mean, in space? Depeneding our location I think that I know how to eliminate most of the Kharaa..."
*turns around to karma*
"How resistant are the aliens to radioactivity?"

343_guilty_spark · July 2003

" Don't you go playing with radiation, i'll be dammed if i have to patch you up, besides where does this place lead to ?"

P-Khan · July 2003

"well, doesn't the armous block radiation? If we could just manouver the ship next to a neutron star, or to the system's star, then the radiation relesed might just kill the weak Kharaas, like skulks. Of course, I don't know how resistant they are to radiation, or how resistant the ship and armour are, but it might work"

BadKarma · July 2003

"It wouldnt work anyway. Kharra have completly differant internal systems and in some cases where captured specimens were exsposed to gamma radiation, it acted as a catalyst, the lifeform would invairiably mutate incredibly quickly, turning from a skulk into a differant life-form within minutes. They were never allowed to complete their mutations, they were alwasys exterminated. Personally I dont want to know what the end result is."
I pulled that out my bum, I think it sound pretty good

Bogglesteinsky · July 2003

its better than most things i pull out of my bum <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'>

P-Khan · July 2003

"Govno. Oh well, thought it could work"
*looks around*
"Shouldn't we get moving to the Cargo Bay? That Onos might not get in here, but skulks definatly can"

Mr_Headcrab · July 2003

For the record, Almighty DM Xect, a few pages back, when i frist arrived, i talked about my freighters in the cargo bay. They have been parked in the hangar the wohle time. Im not sure their condition, but they should be still there. The portable terminal was a bad idea, I'll remedy that soon enough, and i was intending on not knowing if the transmission was received, i screwed up in my ontext and i apoligize. if i do that again, kill me off.
 *Ed looks at the junctions and takes a second to think*
" the cargo bay should be this way, through this hatch"
*Ed hooks up the Portable Terminal a port in the wall, after a few presses, the terminal sparks and dies, a B.S.O.D. is diplayed on the terminal's screen*
"Damned peice of crap!"
*Ed opens the Porta-Term's casing, reveiling mass amouts of infestation*
"Damed thing's fried."
*Ed starts to pry the hatch open, but it refuses to move*
"Somthing's jamming it, looks like we're taking the long route past the hold..."

P-Khan · July 2003

"Wait a second Ed, isn't the hatch electronicaly sealed? I might be abble to open it"
*looks for a console for the hatch*
Now, if you guys can just help me find the console for this thing...."

343_guilty_spark · July 2003

Wow Karma that's pure genuis what you just said.
"Oh great a long route, where does it lead may i ask ?"
" Can't Night Shade weld down the door ?"

PFCNublar · July 2003

"Erm...I don't think that it can. It's not a maintenace point where nanites will magically flow in and form a door. It's a really, permanent door that's powered by electricity. And I highly doubt the console box is on this side of it. Don't think we're gonna be opening it anytime soon."
*looks down the long, omnious hallway of the "long way"*
"The long way still leads to to some place, right? I mean, I won't exactly be very happy if we had just welded ourselves into a maintenace shaft."
*hears an erie echo from the "long way"*
"Umm...ok. Let's try to break this door down, eh? Don't really wanna go the long way now.

Oh come on, Headcrab. Don't kill yourself so easily. Everyone makes mistakes *cough* me in the last RPG *cough* <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

P-Khan · July 2003

"No, there probably is another console on this side, so people won't get stuck in here."
*looks around everyone*
"Like us. It's still worth a shot to look for the console, and if we find it, we could save a lot of time"
*turns on flashlight for better view, and begins to look for console*

343_guilty_spark · July 2003

*Sits down.*
" Well make up your minds Gentlemen before we are overrunned by Skulks."
*Lies down agasint the wall and closes eyes*

Night_Shade · July 2003

"Well, I can give the welder a shot, but..." *raps on the hatch* "...it sounds pretty solid, it might take a while. Here goes..."
*cranks welder to full and starts running it around the hatch*
*to Sparks* "Yeah, organic medicines usually are better than nanoes but there's always the risk of side effects or allergies. You don't get that with the nanoes - they work off your own DNA. I guess its just a matter of personal preference."
*to Khan* "Yeah, the armour blocks radiation - only up to about five or six rem's worth tho. After that the shielding material's soaked up as much as it can and the rad will just go straight through."
*looks around, still welding*
"So what are we gonna do about the hive anchoring itself on Ed's transport?"

PFCNublar · July 2003

"We do nothing. We take off, and watch it burn in the engine exhaust. Problem is, can we jump in, start the engines, and kick off before a huge thing mulches the ship with us in it."
*looks at the vent*
"Dude...how long is this gonna take. Welder will overheat and weld itself before that door goes. I remember what Boggle said in the beginning when I was bitching like a little girl when he wanted to weld my wound shut...At around 75% energy, the welder is at its maxium safe point. Go over that, and the welder will start to weld itself/break."
*reminises over memories*

Night_Shade · July 2003

"I've got no idea, Terran. And don't you have to like turn the safety off or something before it will overload?"
*checks welder*
"Yeah, it's at maximum safe. I may only be a medic but I'm not totally stupid."
*chuckles, then resumes cutting open the vent*
"Tell you what, I'd give anything for my dad's fusion cutter right about now."
Hey Xect, how tough is this thing to weld?

Mr_Headcrab · July 2003

" I'd give my right leg for A good old blowtorch right about now. The hive attached to my ship should be only a minor problem, its the little beasties it breeds that's the problem..."

343_guilty_spark · July 2003

" Well i can pilot the ship, but i'm not to keen on carrying extra passengers who aren't welcome, i say we sneak into the hive room, if the hive is attached the ship then we fly off and hope it burns on the engines."
*Pulls out some chewing gum.*
" Anyone want some ?"

Mr_Headcrab · July 2003

"Another pilot, eh? Have any experence in remote piloting?"

343_guilty_spark · July 2003

" Yeah, aslong as it has fuel in it i can do it."
* Chews on gum.*

Mr_Headcrab · July 2003

"Well, that makes my life easier, how's the hatch coming, Night?"

Ariadne Guardpost

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