Space Camp Session 7

Princess Guard - The New Era 2017/11/18 	 Titan Wolf Lien Tali Harlequin Unix Artemis Nohrbor 51

Saving Cargo Shuttle Liberty
Wolf turns and pushes off with all four paws. He then floats across the depressurized shuttle to land next to Jackson, and then cautiously *noses* Tali, to see if he can ((Heal)) Tali back to consciousness. . . Wolf does his best to still keep watch over the rest of the kids as he works to see what can be done to help the unconscious heroine. ..

The Stranger reads Quiet's message and his eyes go wide. "Well that seems like a real problem. Perhaps it might be better to hold the explosion off... just long enough to save the crew?" His suggestion is not cruel - just practical. If something is attacking the crew, they should save the crew and leave whatever is attacking them to their fates. The Flight Engineer on the Space Camp shuttle, who's listening in like everyone else, warns Titan, "If you rip the drive off unless you have some way to stop or divert a multi-thousand ton craft it will impact the moon at full velocity.

Wolf closes his eyes and reaches out with his mind, forth healing energy, reinvigorating her exhausted cells and calling Tali back to the land of the quick.

Titan says over the radio, "And if we let the drive take out the shuttle, what's the situation then?"

Julio answers Titan, "It won't be good. It will add a lot more space junk. But it's better than having the cargo craft impact the moon with the force of a thousand nuclear bombs."

Quiet quickly answers, via holo, THEN THEY BUILD A NEW SHUTTLE.

They are much more easily replaced than crew or children. Speaking of the latter, she grabs up the pair, via grav tractors if necessary, and heads out the lock for the Daedalus.

Titan glances over at Quiet, "I was asking primarily about the potential of the debris being destructive. Perhaps to the installations on the moon."

Tali stirs, as if in slow motion. "Hungry...." she murmurs.

Julio sends, "Very little will hit the moon if the explosion occurs this distance from it... I hope."

Titan nods as the kids are taken back toward their own shuttle. "Let's check the crew quickly, then. I dont' want to leave anyone behind, if possible."

Wolf's ears point forward and focus as he peers through the dual suit faceplates and wags with relief when he sees Tali return to consciousness. Wolf pauses a moment to allow Tali to recalibrate and get her bearings. Knowing Tali, it won't take long!

To aid the process, Wolf sends Tali an update at the speed of thought, :

Thy efforts have indeed borne fruit, despite the cost to you. We're now close-by the other ship, what wouldst Thou now next do?

The team aboard the other ship reports some strange new life. . . The children are to regroup here, in case there might be strife

Tali indeed is recovering fairly quickly. "I'll stay here and watch the kids then, unless the others call for me.... I'm really hungry though....."

Julio is keeping track of time. "Four minutes thirty seconds before we have to start a burn to minimum safe distance." he announces.

Titan heads through the ship, looking for any crew members. Or aliens that attempt to eat his head. Whatever.

Artemis checks the seams of her spacesuit before prepping to go rescue members from the other ship.

Titan heads to the left, which should be toward the front of the ship.

As Titan heads through the door on his left, towards the front of the cargo shuttle, he enters a lifepod bay. All the lifepods are present, as is a crewmember webbed to the interior bulkhead by slimy webbing.

Titan heads over to the crewman and tries to remove the webbing. "What webbed you up?"

Titan says over the radio, "Found a crew-member webbed to the interior bulkhead. trying to free them."

With Titan's strength he can rip the webbing off her, although with some effort. The crew-member appears deeply unconscious and does not respond to Titan.

Titan says over the radio, "Should I put them in the lifepods? It'll help to also quarantine them, assuming we can...tractor them or something?"

The Stranger's eyes glaze over as he follows behind Titan. He speaks up, "The five crewmembers are still alive. They're in pain though..." The QA Director's eyes have a faint glow to them as he speaks. "...they aren't alone though. 5 ... feeders. 5... voracious hunger is all I can feel from them... hunger to feed... to breed. To kill."

Wolf's ears flatten and turn outward, one pointing toward each speaker as he listens to Julio's updates. Wolf's ears flicker and once more point forward as he turns to Tali and squnches up his nose thoughtfully, as he :

That shuttle's course is dangerous! and if it's not soon changed, That ship will hit the Moon full-speed! Could changes be arranged?

A tiny nudge, now, this far out -- the slightest change in course Could do the trick well long before it hits the Moon with force?

Artemis hears the radio call and moves to Titan's position. She gives him a nod as he works with the crew member. "Is she awake to tell us what did this?" she asks. She flexes her hand and her shield expands from her bracer. Looking about warily, she slowly draws her sword as the QA man speaks. "So this ship is infested. We must hunt for the others," she says, looking for a way to check other parts of the ship.

Julio answers Titan, "Our next port of call is Selene City. No atmosphere. We could strap the lifepods to the hull and still make a landing."

Titan shakes his head. "She's unconcious." He puts the crew member in the life pod. "Look for the others. And based on what he said..." He indicates The Stranger, "...we're looking at...five hostiles?"

There are two doors visible to Artemis gaze in addition to the one she followed Titan through. One to the right, and one straight ahead.

Tali frowns. "I can't think of a way to do that....." But she's still thinking about it.

Artemis goes the direct approach and heads straight ahead. As she passes the door on her right, she pivots to keep her shield pointing towards it in case there's a surprise attack.

Titan picks another door after setting the crew member down. He goes for the one that Artemis skipped. After all, he's sure the team is up to the challenge.

Tali says, "I guess if I took the whole ship apart it would be easier to deflect the pieces individually? Um - does anyone have the right sort of tools for that?"

The heroine Artemis finds herself in a small craft bay. There's a small shuttle in there for getting about without having to use the cargo craft. That's pushed to one side of the bay to make room for what must be some kind of alien vessel. Little larger than a basketball, spherical, and covered with alien script.

Meanwhile Titan heads through the door to the right and enters a corridor leading toward the midline of the cargo craft. At eh midline it turns a right angle heading towards the stern. There's a door leading toward the bow though.

Tali says, "Say - what do people think about my disassembling that ship? I'll start with the parts you aren't in, of course...."

Captain Hibson looks at Tali. "That's a big ship. We have a plasma cutter but that is going to take a lot of time."

Tali says, "There's a few minutes, yes? I'll be fine."

Artemis eyes the alien vessel and walks towards it. She doesn't see a need for stealth as she goes to check if any of its inhabitants are on board the rescued ship. She radios over the comms <>

Titan goes through the door in front of him, since it hopefully has a dead end, so to speak, in a room or something.

Tali grins. "I'll get started!" She grab the plasma cutter and any other likely tools and heads in to take the other ship apart.

<> a unexpected reply comes in. Unix had found herself needing to recharge her reserves and slipped into what WOULD have been her locker to store her space suit, but since she didn't need one... After a few seconds with her powerup sequence initiating she pushes the locker open stepping out to look around. "Seems like i missed out on some things... Still, i can probably be helpful now..."

The Stranger remains silent- watching Titan's indestructible back.

Titan says to The Stranger, "Keep an eye on that corridor. I'm going to check the door here. And if you can nail down exactly hwere the crew members or hostiles are...please...let us know."

Passing through the door facing toward the bow Titan enters another corridor section. There are three doors spaced out port side, three spaced out starboard side, and one straight ahead toward the bow.

Titan groans. "Lovely." He starts checking the door as he walks down the corridor, opening each in turn.

Titan says, "Probably crew quarters, I bet."

The first on the port side is a damage control command room. It's wrecked by physical impacts and plasma burns. There's a high powered plasma cutter laying on the floor.

The first on the starboard side is a corridor heading to the starboard airlock. There are four doors off the corridor, two bow and two aft.

Unix moves through the shuttle to the airlock, slipping inside and hearing the hiss of air before the vaccume takes over, then walks across the underside of the shuttle looking at the other ship in dire straights. Taps her forearm as she thinks, certain she can make the jump without issues, but with little in the way of safety she might be in trouble if she floats off into space...

The second on the port is a machine shop. Empty of life.

The second on the starboard is the officers quarters. There's a crewman webbed to a wall in here.

Finding the craft bay empty of opponents, Artemis starts to patrol for another part of the ship. She claps her sword against her shield to draw her opponents to her. Again...stealth. She isn't a student of it.

The crewman is like the other Titan found, unconscious. But even in unconsciousness he's obviously in great pain.

Tali sets to work on the spaceship. She begins with stripping out the furnishings. Stucturally essential parts and life support she's leaving till the others are clear.

Titan says over the radio, "Found a second crew member. Also unconscious. If it's like the movies, they're implanted with something." He takes the crewperson with him as he continues forward toward the bow, checking other doors.

Unix crouches before jumping giving plenty of room for error before landing on the other ship, her modifications allowing her to walk across the surface of the other ship easily without issue. <> She looks up to where the engines are, then the trajectory. <>

When Artemis enters the starboard door she finds herself in a crew room. There's a woman webbed to a bulkhead. And a incredibly ugly slimy spidery octopus scaly alien monstrosity in there too.

The alien feeder leaps across the crew area and tries to grab Artemis with four of its eight limbs, while also attempting to force a long slimy alien organ into Artemis' mouth and down her throat.

Titan furrows his brow, and heads over toward where he heard the noise coming from. Titan still has a crew member over his shoulder.

Artemis tries to bring up her shield, but the many-limbed alien just wraps its long limbs around it and her. She manages to twist and wriggle her sword arm free just in time to use the flat of the blade to block the more invasive limb from smashing through her faceplate and ramming into her mouth. "Zadkiel's blessing, that was too close!"

Titan figures if the alien is strong enough to bother Artemis, he can use his full strength. But slugging it doesn't seem like a great idea. He doesn't want to find out exactly how thick the hull is. So he sets the crew member down and he goes to grab the alien, being careful to keep its...attacking appendage hopefully pointed in a safe manner.

The slimy skin of the alien proves too slippery for Titan to get a firm grip.

Tali is unaware of the fight as she works, moving as she is so quickly for the sounds even to register as vibration.

Unix waits an appropriate amount of time, thirty seconds or so before coming to the conclusion no one was going to give her instructions, and goes to find her way into the ship, either via airlock or open hole... and see if she can help inside the ship with... whatever they needed help with.

Artemis twists her shield to gain some space within the grasping limbs. She manages to free her arms that way, and spins the alien about before she latches onto it in a bear hug. "Ha HA! Now, as the Earthians the say, the tables have spun!" As she holds on, slime and ichor get slathered all over her spacesuit, but it doesn't dampen her enthusiasm.

Titan shakes his head. "Turned. Not spun."

Unix hearing what appears to be combat... rushes forward, no clue what to expect...

At the end of her move Unix reaches a crew quarters room. Artemis and Titan are in there fighting a ugly spidery scaly alien monster.

With a slight frown on his face, 'Stefan' takes a step in the direction of the cargo ship after gazing out a porthole at it for a long moment. As he takes the step, silver and blue diskes whirl into existence around him along with a skin tight golden glow. Before his foot hit the deckplate, he fades from sight. To those on the cargo ship, Harelquin apprear out of mid air, his feet coming down on the deck just inside the inner door of the airlock in the hallway.

"What sort of tables turn over? I saw a spinning table here before. I believe it was called a "Lazy Sarah"," Artemis tries to banter with Titan while wrestling the gross alien. There really is goop getting everywhere.

Quiet returns the twins and tractors them into seats, pointing at them in a manner to suggest sit and stay. Ironically, her helm turns to the guard dog to see that they mind. Once that's secure, she pushes off and propels herself back towards the cargo ship. Once near enough, she will, yet again, forego the airlock cycling and teleport herself inside.

The alien struggles against Artemis' grip on it, fighting to turn and get its 'organ' into action.

"I'm just inside the cargo ship by the airlock. What is the situation, please?" Harlequin's seems calm. "Have all crew members been found?"

The alien nearly breaks Artemis' grip. But nearly doesn't count. It's still held.

Wolf counts and double-counts to make sure all the kids are safe and sound and settled, even as he muses, in the wake of Quiet's exit, about the irony of the -humans- being told to "sit" and "stay" and "wait". . . still, if that is the plan, that is what we'll do! Wolf's ears flare out and turn sideways, one pointing toward each of the helmet speakers, as he listens to the broadcasts from the embattled ship.

Artemis finds the alien to be darn slippery. She shifts left and right to avoid the ...'organ'...trying to accomplish one of its goals. "Really, how rude! Capable of more advanced space travel than the hoomans, but just like these Earthians, all you can think about is breeding!" She paints some awful broad strokes there.

Titan says over the radio, "I've found two crewmembers. I think one more is aftward. I think they've likely been infected by the aliens, as they...seem to be trying to do the same to Artemis." He tries to grab the alien again, to hopefully squeeze the thing.

The alien splits open and deflates like a punctured medicine ball.

Titan winces as he squeezes the alien and it comes apart. He says over the radio, "Here's an update. My full strength will apparently kill the aliens. Bleh."

For a moment it looked as if the goopy mess was trying to reform into several smaller alien monsters. But in the end it fails and spreads over the floor messily.

Titan adds, "And...it looks like it might have the potential to split into multiple monsters if torn apart. I bet they only had one get on board initially."

Artemis wipes the gelatinous fluids off of herself. Sizable globs and drips fall off her suit and to the ground. "I saw a ship of a strange design. Something sentient got them here. Or...if it was found adrift, maybe these were birthed by the original crew."

Harlequin nods to himself. "Hmm, well we can explore the alien derelict once we get the crew off this colony drop in progress," murmurs Harlequin. "I'll head aft and see if I cannot find more crew."

Unix says, "Nice to know. Err... hmmm..." Doesn't see any spiders on hand to give a knuckle sandwich, moves to help whoever to their feet. "Seems I missed some excitement..."

Titan says over the radio, "There should be four more aliens on board the ship someplace."

Unix cocks her head and looks in a direction. "I hear some painful moaning... Probably another crew member..."

In his activites so far Harlequin has found neither crew nor alien. So far.

Titan picks the crew member up that he has, "Taking the crew member to the lifepod. Keep looking."

Titan heads off to the life pod.

Harlequin keeps the others informed of his lack of findings in short sentences but otherwise remains silent.

Unix moves to where she heard moaning, opening the door to see who or what she would find...

As Tali works through the cargo ship disassembling non-essential systems while the search for crew continues she reaches the aft engine room. A scene of horror. A crewperson is webbed to a bulkhead. There's discarded used hypodermics, a couple of discharged fire extinguishers, kitchen knives, and a burnt patch around a jet fuel canister. There's also three aliens cuddled up next to the fusion reactor.

In the room Unix enters is a crewperson webbed to a bulkhead. That makes 4 out of 5 found.

Artemis nods and marches onward to seek out more crew or aliens. This time, she knows what to expect. Her thumb brushes over a control on her shield grip, and an energy field extends from the edges, expanding the shield to the size of a tower shield.

The Stranger steps around the corner in time to see Althea fend off exterterrestrial impregnation. He pulls himself together once she manages to wrestle the beast into her control and for Titan to squish it.

He is silently grateful. "I am glad to see you are unharmed, 'Artemis'." The QA director says with a warm smile. He falls in line behind her out of habit- following the shield as he has done thousands of times before.

Unix tries to detatch the crew member from the bulkhead.

Unix hears the ripping of webbing almost sounding like duct tape. Pulling the crew member down checks him/her over. "Hmmm..." Picks them up and moves towards where she last saw titan going for a lifepod.

Artemis nods at the Stranger's compliment. She's confused as to why the QA director is here. "Stay behind my shield. It's not safe for you here. Why did you come aboard this ship?" She asks, looking over her shoulder briefly at the unassuming looking human.

Tali luckily has lots of bits of ship lying around now. She uses them to build a barricade to slow the aliens down, hopefully. And then she slows down long enough to say over comms, "Three ickies by the fusion reactor - and a crew member. Cavalry, sap, please!"

Titan heads off in the direction of the rear of hte ship, where the reactor likely is, to help Tali.

The aliens hasten into action, smashing at the barrier erected by Tali.

Lacking any intelligence, acting only on primative instrincts, the aliens all smash at the barrier. It is broken apart but none of the aliens waited for their fellows to smash first.

Tali, enheartened by the backup, takes the time to test a theory. She warps time around one of the icky critters, reducing its age. Since there was no sign of forced entry on the ship, she's guessing that these critters were much smaller not so long ago.

The alien does reduce slightly in size. But the effect is marginal at this time.

Tali thinks. o O (Maybe I should have gotten closer. But, ick!)

The Stranger steps to the side of Althea's shield and sets his eyes aglow with psionic power. His first instinct is to cloak himself in telekinetic energy and squash the bugs himself but the ship makes for tight confines. He also has his cover to maintain- so he does the only sensible thing.

He picks the middle one- and attempts to sever its mental capacity to see and hear. This ought to give the other Guardians time to strike.

Artemis picks one of the least harassed aliens and charges for it. As she draws just a few meters away, she stabs her blade forward. It rapidly extends, segment by segment at her lunge attack, aiming to pierce instead of slice.

Just like when Titan squeezed, the alien goops as the sword pierces it. For a moment it almost seems to be spliting into several smaller versions, but then it gathers together. However it does appear badly damaged.

Titan tries to go something similar to the last one, even though there's a danger of causing the thing to split. He moves up to one to try to grab it and squeeze it. "Maybe they can't survive in space? I might be able to just hold onto one and take it outside, rather than risk splitting it."

The alien goops in Titan's grip, and the goop then forms into two smaller versions of the alien.

Titan sighs. "Wonderful."

Unix approaches the nearest icky thing and gives it a punch... hoping to kill it outright.

Artemis cringes at the two aliens newly created. "Perhaps flame would be more effective. Or frost."

The alien struck by Unix goops down to a liquid... that collects together and reforms.

Harlequin surveys the scene of sliminess and battle then lets his gaze fall on two 'new' critters produced by Titan's attack. A grey-white mist lashes from his eyes as he crooks his fingers in an odd gesture. The mist tries to envelop the spiderpusses as a slight chill and hint of dry decay fill the air for a moment. <> he thinks.

The creatures are enveloped by the mist and go very still, with only their 'cores' only pulsating slimily, their limbs extended and stiff. "Paralyzed. Fire or ice would be nice," murmurs the mage.

Titan says, "The engines exploding will likely manage that nicely."

Tali takes off the kid gloves. She warps time about the reformed alien, but this time trying to youthen just a few seconds and trap it at its moment of dissolution....

Unix comments "engines exploding...." blinks and likely would calculate the amount of time left they have... seems she woke up missing a few details.

Tali watches the alien goo shrink away to a blob of ick beside a spider.

The one remaining active alien monster tries to grab Tali.

But trying to grab Tali is like trying to grab lightning. It's too slow. Way too slow.

The Stranger maintain's his position at his Bloodbound Sister's side. He strikes out with his mind- invisibly to those present but his target will feel his wrath all the same. The target of his ire is one of the newer monsters that just split off. Once again- the goal the same, seperate senses and buy time for his heroic compatriots.

The unfortunate creature is already stuck tight thanks to Harlequin's petrefication so this is just more salt in the wound. Still his options are limited if he's to maintain his cover & avoid skewing the results of his 'research'. Hoo-mans are a strange sort afterall- though that might be the pot calling the kettle black.

Still- the creature is rendered deaf and blind with Nohrbor's mighty will.