Imperial Fringe Online Game Chat Session Log 29.12.2002
20:48:32 - Kit: So, are we going to start?
20:49:00 - Kraiger: I'm ready...
20:51:09 - Methuslah: We'll wait till nine, then get going.
20:51:22 - Kraiger: Hello?
20:51:31 - Kraiger: OK...
20:51:40 - Kit: OK
20:59:56 - Methuslah: Well, I reckon it's time.
21:00:05 - Methuslah: Now, last week....
21:01:18 - Methuslah: After the shuttle developed a life support malfunction, you rushed to get the Silver Sliver to the Azhanti High Lightning, pushing it through a battle between Imperial and Zhodani fighters. You had just managed to dock inside the carrier, and the atmosphere was pressurizing.
21:02:04 - Kit: Phew. I could use a hot cup of coffee right now.
21:03:58 - Kit: I think Steward knew the captain of this ship. We should check on him and the other people who switched to the shuttle slow boat to see how they are.
21:04:48 - Kit: And then, time permitting, I'd like to give this little baby (pats Silver Sliver) a once over.
21:05:18 - Kit: I doubt we'll have the time though.
21:05:22 - Kraiger: I'll check on the others, then report to the captain...
21:05:55 - Kit: I'll come along, I wnat to see how my patient is doing.
21:06:42 - Methuslah: The shuttle bay has fully pressurized now. All the indicators are green, and atmosphere is reestablished on board.
21:07:30 - Kit: OK, all clear to get off (but remail in suit, just to make sure, and keep helmet at hand)
21:08:07 - Kit: (shutting off all systems on the sliver, making a quick checkup)
21:08:55 - Methuslah: No sooner have your feet touched the deck than you feel the ship shudder underfoot. The amber lights dotted around the otherwise empty bay are all turning red.
21:09:31 - Kit: dammned. Hull breach (refitting helmet)
21:10:49 - Kit: Kraiger, grab your stuff (I'll grab mine) and lets go see the captain. Sounds like he could use some help.
21:10:55 - Kraiger: I assume I'm still in vacc suit....
21:15:03 - Methuslah: The bay is deserted. Most of the standard equipment is missing. A door leads out of the bay, sealed shut at present.
21:15:07 - Kit: (we both should still be suited up, and probably remain so) let's go (heads for exit to bay
21:15:26 - Kraiger: (following Kit)
21:15:30 - Kit: Looks like they don't use this bay often.
21:15:59 - Kit: (attempt to open door)
21:19:23 - Kit: (am I familiar with this type of ship, so that I can find my way around?)
21:19:30 - Methuslah: All text has gone blank on my screen. Sorry for my temporary absence.
21:19:35 - Methuslah: Working again!
21:20:01 - Methuslah: The door is sealed. The panel on one side of it indicates that the other side is a vacuum.
21:20:23 - Kraiger: The ship is in vaccuum? Crap, out of the frying pan....
21:20:55 - Kit: Kraiger, try to catch the commander or someone on comm. And seal your suit.
21:21:33 - Kit: (preparing to depressurize bay and open door)
21:22:35 - Kraiger: (*comm to carrier) This is Kraiger, Silver Silver successfully docked in Bay nine - where should we go now?
21:22:44 - Methuslah: You hear a voice speaking from the panel.
21:23:28 - Methuslah: "Attention. Attention. Commander Vaspura to Crew. Deck 5 in vacuum. Evacuate to Deck 3. Non-essential personnel to core shelters."
21:24:51 - Kit: Well I guess that means we'll have to find deck 3 eh? (proceeding to depressurize bay and open door) Kraiger? All sealed up?
21:26:12 - Kraiger: Ready...
21:26:32 - Kit: (action)
21:26:53 - Kit: Caught anyone on comm yet?
21:27:11 - Kraiger: No reply yet...
21:27:38 - Methuslah: The bay depressurizes quickly. The door opens onto a long corridor, with dorrs inset around. A group of paniced-looking suited technicians run past you, pushing you into the wall.
21:27:49 - Kit: I guess then we'll jut have to find our own way. Keep trying though.
21:28:20 - Kraiger: (I'll keep trying to raise ships security on the comm)
21:28:50 - Kit: Hey, what's the rush.... oh, heck. Well their direction?
21:29:07 - Methuslah: The internal comm system seems to be jammed - all channels in operation.
21:29:28 - Kit: (heads of in the general direction the technicians went)
21:29:30 - Methuslah: They were heading to your left, now about a hundred yards away.
21:29:54 - Methuslah: they have stopped running, and are now standing about outside a door.
21:30:20 - Kit: (following them) I assume they know the way.
21:30:49 - Kit: (trying to tune into their internal comm) Hello... Hello.. anybody reading me
21:33:18 - Methuslah: "Who is this. That you, Lieutenant?", rings through your communicator, with a strong Vilani accent.
21:34:23 - Kit: No, I'm no Lieutnant. I'm Kit. We just landed in Shuttle bay (insert number). We would like to know where to head now.
21:35:24 - Kit: Current position... (scan walls for any markings/numbers and insert them)
21:36:10 - Methuslah: "Lift'll take you to Level 3. Orders to evacuate there."
21:36:59 - Kit: We need to talk to the captain, it's urgent. Ans I would like to learn the wherabouts of the passengers of shuttle (insert neme of other shuttle)
21:39:30 - Methuslah: "Captain on the brdige when it got hit. The Wasp will be in auxilary - on Three."
21:39:37 - Methuslah: The door slowly begins to open.
21:40:39 - Kit: The bridge got hit? Oh heck. Where is shuttle (insert other name) docked? They have a badly injured man abord.
21:41:53 - Methuslah: "Don't know anything about a shuttle."
21:42:06 - Kit: Who would?
21:45:03 - Methuslah: "The Wasp would. He'll be running the ship. Lift's here!"
21:45:16 - Methuslah: The doors have fully opened, revealing a spacious cargo lift, also depressurized.
21:45:42 - Kit: The Wasp? I thought that was the ship's name?
21:45:59 - Kit: (entering lift)
21:46:17 - Kraiger: Follow into lift
21:47:44 - Methuslah: "Naw! The Wasp's the XO, Vaspura."
21:47:56 - Kit: You don't happen to have a coffe machine somewhere around here do you?
21:48:25 - Kit: So does he get called Mr Wasp to his face or is it just a nick?
21:48:39 - Methuslah: "You like Navy coffee?"
21:48:59 - Methuslah: The lift doors slowly close, and it begins to ascend, with a series of long jerks.
21:49:01 - Kit: I'll even take navy coffee.
21:49:16 - Kit: Now this lift certainly has seen better days.
21:49:37 - Kit: Kraiger, wanna bet thet the lif will get stuck?
21:50:33 - Methuslah: "It's gravitic - must be on emergency power."£
21:51:31 - Kit: Sigh.. looks like I won't get much rest around here. Just in case I should be needed. Where's engineering?
21:53:14 - Methuslah: "Deck Nine"
21:53:15 - Kit: Btw. whats your name?
21:53:27 - Methuslah: The lift slowly begins to pressurize.
21:54:22 - Methuslah: "Able Spacehand Illegi. Call me 'Legs', all my mates do."
21:54:53 - Kit: OK Legs. Now where do we find the Wasp?
21:55:27 - Kit: I'm Kit, thats Kraiger
21:57:32 - Methuslah: "He'll be in anuxiliary control. Blue corridor, all the way to the end. They'll be a guard on it. Better keep your suits on in case we get holed again."
21:58:06 - Kit: I had no intention of stripping right now. Thanks Legs.
21:58:28 - Kit: (heading along blue corridor)
21:59:08 - Kraiger: (following)
21:59:40 - Kit: Say Kraiger. Do you wanna do the talking with these navy guys?
22:00:49 - Kraiger: Nervous about your diplomatic skills Kit?
22:01:16 - Kit: Not as long as they donst start calling me a civillian!
22:01:32 - Methuslah: The corridor seems quieter than the others. A few crewmen, many wearing suits, are walking down the corridor. Then the ship shudders briefly, and the you begin to drift up into the air. After a few secons, the gravity field is reesatablished and you return to the deck.
22:02:11 - Kit: Must be quite a show outside. Sigh. Poor machines always taking the beating.
22:03:03 - Kraiger: I _hate_ not being able to see who's shooting at me!
22:03:28 - Kit: In space you rarely see who's shootingat you.
22:05:05 - Kraiger: Exactly!
22:05:47 - Kit: Well don't worry. Sooner or later you'll get to fire at enemies close up again.
22:06:00 - Kit: If thats what makes you happy.
22:07:18 - Methuslah: You reach then end of the corridor. A pair of guards are standing outside it, standing at parade rest.
22:07:28 - Methuslah: "Halt! Who goes there?"
22:08:17 - Kit: Greetings sir. We are the passengers from the silver sliver. We need to talk to Commander Vaspura. It is very important.
22:08:55 - Methuslah: "Identify yourselves!"
22:09:03 - Methuslah: One of them rests his hand on the butt of his gun.
22:09:17 - Kraiger: I am Lt. Col Kraiger.
22:09:56 - Kraiger: We have much information about the Zhodani attack - plus a Zhodani hostage!
22:10:03 - Kit: I'm Baroness Dr. Messalina Kitiara of Regina. My identification papers are inside my suit. If you don't midn, I'll dig them out ok?
22:10:19 - Methuslah: "I need to see ID, sir."
22:10:46 - Kit: (fishing out my papers from inside my pockets)
22:12:36 - Kraiger: (Get out my papers)
22:13:35 - Methuslah: "Permission to enter granted."
22:13:49 - Kit: Thanks.
22:13:51 - Methuslah: The guards stand at attention. One of them reaches behind him and taps a code into the door, which slides open.
22:14:18 - Kit: (resealing my papers inside my suit)
22:14:21 - Kraiger just entered this channel
22:14:45 - Kraiger: (through the door...)
22:15:01 - Methuslah: The auxiliary control room is a hive of activity. A group of officers are clustered around a harried-looking man sitting in the command chair. The navigator is standing up, attempting to put out a small fire at his board, and the helmsman is puinching commands in, desperately. A team of six engineers are working the control board at the rear, attempting to correct a series of malfunctions.
22:15:02 - Kit: (enter door)
22:15:52 - Kit: Kraiger, you go to the captain and report, I'll help those guys (heading over to wherever my help seems most needed and get to work)
22:16:53 - Kraiger: Captain Vaspura? My name is Colonel Kraiger - I have important information that may help you out...
22:18:45 - Methuslah: "Commander Vespura. Who are you, and what do you want. I'm damned busy."
22:20:30 - Kraiger: We have a Zhodani prisoner in our custody - in fact, he is the Commisar for this invasion fleet!
22:21:06 - Kraiger: He was on the other shuttle that came out to pick up the injured from the Silver
22:21:49 - Methuslah: "Injured? Were they in Medical?"
22:22:21 - Kraiger: We haven't been able to locate the shuttle. The commander of the Trane orbital was also onboard - badly injured
22:22:25 - Kit: (I doubt that that shuttle got here before we did)
22:24:29 - Methuslah just entered this channel
22:25:55 - Methuslah: "That'll be on Deck 5, Bay six. Get down there and take them to Cargo Bay - Deck Seven. Get one of the guards to show you the way."
22:27:14 - Kraiger: On my way - I suggest you contact the Zhodani and tell them we have their Commisar captive...
22:27:30 - Kraiger: Kit - I've located the shuttle - coming?
22:28:15 - Methuslah: "Good idea but I doubt it'll help. They're winning this battle."
22:28:20 - Kit: One moment (will the guys her get along without me?) Do you know where medical is? The commander will need immediate mediacal attention?
22:29:10 - Kit: Winning? Can't you try to run away from them?
22:30:46 - Methuslah: "Medical was hit."
22:31:00 - Kit: Dammned.
22:31:14 - Methuslah: "And who are you to be giving me a lesson in fleet tactics! The Navy does not withdraw!"
22:31:57 - Kit: Do you have any chance to win?
22:33:09 - Methuslah: "Of course we do. The Grigg and Jilluri are coming in now. Get going!"
22:33:50 - Kit: OK, OK. (to Kraiger) I'm read, let's go.
22:34:31 - Kit: (once outside) So Kraiger, what do you think of the situation?
22:35:23 - Kraiger: (Back to the door) Commander Vespura wants you to show us to Bay six, on deck five.
22:35:48 - Methuslah: "Kay. I'll get suited up."
22:36:36 - Methuslah: The guard pushed the wall, and a section folds out to reveal a vacc suit, which he hurriedly begisn to put on. While he is doing so, another blast shakes the ship, almost throwing you off your feet.
22:36:54 - Kit: As far as I see it, we can stay on this ship, more or less helpless to do anything. With medical down, the chances for the commander are very bad indeed.
22:37:03 - Kit: There is another option though.
22:38:17 - Kraiger: I'm listening...
22:38:25 - Kit: We might be able to get some fuel and two additional vacc suits and some extra air here. We suit everyone in our crew up, get back on the sliver and try to reach either one of the other ships that Commander Vaspura mentioned or try to reach the minder and catch that Xboat?
22:39:30 - Kit: Somehow I doubt that our original mission to explore egryn is still valid, with the war going on and all.
22:40:07 - Kraiger: I'm all for that - lets turn the Commisar over to these guys, and try and get out of here...
22:40:58 - Kit: Lets collect the rest of our crew first.
22:41:37 - Kit: (to guard) Sir, would it be possible to get two suits and some spare air flasks here somewhere? We have comarades on the shuttle in need of them?
22:42:24 - Methuslah: "They'll be emergency equipment on the shuttle. I'm ready - let's go. We'll need to take the cargo lift and depressurize."
22:42:57 - Methuslah: The guards walks off, down the corridor.
22:43:05 - Kit: OK, ready.
22:43:14 - Kit: (follow guard)
22:43:39 - Kraiger: (follow...)
22:44:27 - Methuslah: He walks back to the same lift that you entered before, and hits a button on the side. The lift opens, and a group of suited people stumble out. The guard motions you in.
22:44:44 - Kit: (following)
22:45:04 - Kraiger: (in we go)
22:46:19 - Methuslah: The lift begins to jerk down again, bumping and grinding slowly to level five.
22:46:37 - Methuslah: "Gravity sinks are on backups. Don't worry - it's not much of a fall."
22:47:10 - Kit: No problem
22:48:00 - Kit: (to guard) We need to refuel our shuttle. The captain said that was ok. Can we use the facilities in bay (insert number)?
22:49:23 - Methuslah: "Ha! That bay was stripped last month. We never got the equipment back in, weren't given time."
22:49:58 - Kit: But the fuel lines are still in place or aren't they?
22:51:31 - Methuslah: "Sure. Just not connected to the tanks. Look, we were skedded for a six month session in dry dock. They pulled us out after two. We'd barely got the equipment otu, hadn't replaced a thing. They said it was just a 'quiet patrol'."
22:52:36 - Kit: sigh, yeah, I know what you mean. (analyzing plans in my head. What would be easier. Switching the sliver to a connected bay or reconnecting the fuel lines?)
22:53:44 - Methuslah: (Switching to another bay probably. You'd have to have a look at what was done. You might be able to reconnect the fuel lines at the tanks themselves, if you could get to them."
22:54:17 - Kit: (was the bay we entered intended for more than one ship?)
22:55:28 - Kit: Which bay are connected? We may need to transfer the shuttel to another bay?
22:55:46 - Methuslah: (Bay Four)
22:56:53 - Methuslah: (It looked like it could hold two or three shuttles.)
22:57:58 - Kit: Maybe I should take the Sliver to bay six, if there is room there. We'll see that when we get there.
22:58:58 - Methuslah: The lift stops, and the lights fade out.
22:59:28 - Kit: (are we at deck 5 yet? or did I win my bet?)
23:00:39 - Methuslah: The lift appears o have stuck.
23:01:19 - Kit: I hate it if I win my bets (proceed to control panel to see if it can be fixed)
23:03:26 - Methuslah: Power appears to have failed. The circuitry is intact, but nothing is being fed into it.
23:04:16 - Kit: Oh dammned. No power. Is there a crawlway somewhere? We seem to have to continue on foot.
23:06:04 - Kraiger: All we need now is a big hairy alien crawling around the ship!
23:06:21 - Kraiger: (to guard) is there any emergency power for this thing?
23:06:42 - Methuslah: "There is a service hatch on the floor, and the shaft has rungs. Give me a hand."
23:06:47 - Kit: Big and hairy? You talking about a centaur?
23:07:14 - Kraiger: (open hatch)
23:07:15 - Methuslah: The guard leans down, and pulls a key out from behidn the pack of his laser pistol. He starts to work on the floor.
23:07:38 - Kit: (I'll give him a hand)
23:09:28 - Methuslah: The hatch drops open with a clang, hanging by it's hinges. The guard pulls himself down, and gently swings himself onto the rungs.
23:09:36 - Methuslah: "No problem! Your turn."
23:10:26 - Kit: Oh rats. I'm getting too old for this kind of excercise (getting down and following his example)
23:12:05 - Methuslah: You manage to find the rungs with your feet.
23:12:43 - Kit: (once I get a hold, I proceed down)
23:12:56 - Kraiger: Follow down the ladder)
23:14:27 - Methuslah: You slowly make your way down the ladder, until you reach the hatchway. The guard is about to tap in the codee to open the door.
23:15:04 - Kit: Say, just in case we get separated. Whats the code?
23:16:19 - Methuslah: "I can't give you my personal access code!"
23:16:31 - Kit: Is there a general emergency code?
23:19:32 - Methuslah: "When we get to a dat terminal I'll log you into the mainframe, if it concerns you."
23:19:58 - Kit: Might be useful. Who knows what more will happen during this battle.
23:21:14 - Methuslah: "Ready?"
23:21:45 - Kit: Ready
23:23:22 - Methuslah: He pucnehs the button and the door slides open. Immediately the air inside rushes out, and you find yourselves pressed agaisnt the wall.
23:24:02 - Kit: (Holding on)
23:25:21 - Methuslah: "Quick! We've only got sixty seconds!"
23:25:40 - Methuslah: The guard pushes himself through the door, and is pulled by the wind against the bulkhead on the far side.
23:25:44 - Kit: OK(moving quickly)
23:26:38 - Kit: (following the guard, readying for wall contact)
23:28:33 - Methuslah: YOu find yourself thrown against the wall, andfell a shrap pain along your arm. You drop the the floor, slowly.
23:29:33 - Kit: Ouch, dammned (grabbing hold onto something with unhurt arm and examining hurt arm for injuries) I'm really geting too old for this kind of stunts.
23:30:01 - Kraiger: (I'll struggle along and help Kit up)
23:30:17 - Kraiger: ( roll if needed: 2D6: 11)
23:30:25 - Methuslah: The door slams shut.
23:30:33 - Methuslah: "What a ride!"
23:31:11 - Kit: You can say that again. (how is my arm, eny serious damage?)
23:31:50 - Methuslah: Feels OK - but you'll have a bruise there in the morning.
23:32:26 - Kit: Dammned, mutter mutter. I'm OK, lets go.
23:32:53 - Kit: (whild going I'll check my suit for any damage)
23:33:22 - Methuslah: The guard runs off down the corridor for about a hundred and fifty years, before coming to a door with 'Bay 6' written on it. Next to it is a data terminal.
23:33:28 - Methuslah: (Your suit looks OK.)
23:33:50 - Kit: (I'll follow the guard)
23:34:19 - Kit: Is that bay pressurized inside?
23:34:35 - Methuslah: "YOu want an entry code?"
23:34:49 - Kit: Yup!
23:35:28 - Methuslah: The guard begins to tap into the computer.
23:35:46 - Methuslah: "OK. Input your service ID, and that will be your pass number."
23:36:11 - Kit: (Inputting my id)
23:36:39 - Kit: Kraiger, try to reach Steward on the comm.
23:36:51 - Kit: (to guard) thanks.
23:37:48 - Methuslah: There is no response.
23:38:16 - Kraiger: (comm to Stewart) Kraiger to Bailey - do you read me?
23:38:27 - Kit: (are there any indicators next to the hatch as to pressure within the bay?)
23:39:36 - Methuslah: The bay appeasr to be fully pressurized.
23:40:08 - Kit: We need to establish communication to within, lest someone there is not suited up.
23:40:22 - Kit: Is there a comm panel somewhere?
23:41:33 - Methuslah: The door panel should double as a comm, but it is not lit.
23:42:07 - Kit: (checking it, anything that can be fixed?)
23:42:34 - Methuslah: No power.
23:42:56 - Kit: Is there any power on the ship?
23:43:31 - Methuslah: "Must have swtiched to power conservation. All non-essential systems shut down."
23:44:04 - Kit: And communication is non essential? Thats hard to believe.
23:44:09 - Kraiger: Crap - can these doors even open if there's a pressure difference?
23:44:54 - Kit: There's no reason why they shouldnt. But if there is anyone inside not suited up and braced, he may be in a lot of trouble.
23:44:59 - Methuslah: "Safety systems are designed to seal unless overriden. Can be done on the door, but..."
23:45:08 - Methuslah: "I could blast it."
23:46:09 - Kit: We need to establish communication to those inside. I'll try banging on the door to see if there is an answer. Kraiger, put your hand on the door to feel for a reply.
23:46:32 - Kit: (taking out old faithful wRench and banging a couple of times.
23:46:58 - Kit: And continue to try comm channels.
23:47:06 - Methuslah: Within a few minutes, you hear two bangs from inside.
23:47:39 - Kit: OK, I'll switch to morse code, in the hopes that Someone in there understands.
23:47:47 - Kraiger: (Try hailing on the comm again( Damn, why don't they answer?
23:47:55 - Kit: Bay 6 do you read me?
23:49:00 - Methuslah: The comm just gives off static.
23:49:28 - Methuslah: Suddenly you hear an ear-piercing whistle in your helmets.
23:49:56 - Methuslah: "Attention! Attention! Zhodani shuttles inbound! BOARDING SHUTTLES INBOUND! All crew...."
23:50:45 - Methuslah: You are then thrown to the floor, as the deck shakes underneath you. You then slowly rebound back up into the air.
23:51:02 - Methuslah: (And that, I think, is a suitable ending for this session.)
23:51:12 - Kit: Dammned. Kraiger, we gotta get our weapons from bay nine.
23:51:26 - Kit: Really you Are amean GM!
23:51:55 - Kraiger: Ahhh crap, here we go! (Can I fire my Snib pistol in Vacuum?)
23:52:15 - Kit: I probably won't be able to make it next week. At least not in time.
23:52:42 - Kit: Kraiger, we got laser rifles and your favourite big gun on the sliver!
23:52:45 - Methuslah: OK. No problem.
23:52:52 - Kraiger: Got mine right here.... (I am assuming I would carry my precious weapons with me at all times...?)
23:53:40 - Kit: You carried such abig gun around?
23:53:43 - Methuslah: (Not the PGMP. I'll allow the laser rifle, though.)
23:54:04 - Kit: (lets say we have a laser rifel each ok?)
23:54:13 - Kraiger: (OK... much better in here anyway! 
)
23:54:25 - Kraiger: Alright, see you next week....
23:54:51 - Kit: Somehow I would feel safer on a fully fuels sliver right now.
23:55:10 - Methuslah: (OK. Have a happy new year!)
23:55:29 - Methuslah: Bye!
23:55:30 - Kraiger: Oh yeah - see you next year!
23:55:37 - Kit: With two such cliffhangers waiting? You must be kidding! 
23:55:48 - Kit: Mean mean GM
23:56:26 - Kit: Oh, I just noticed that Kit does know how to shoot a rifle!
23:56:28 - Methuslah: (Evil cackle.) Bye!
23:56:40 - Kit: Checking own character sheet once a while helps