Spess Game #game-ic 8/14/2017

DiscoDude: **---BEGIN SESSION---**
DiscoDude: **Session logging commenced**
Kalos-GM: last time on spess nerds
Kalos-GM: Our heroes followed the strange signal to outs source- a patch of ocean a mile from shore
Pampa: heeeey
Pampa: im here
Kalos-GM: and submerged- poor sonar familiarity leeds to inability to idenfiy the object, so the explorers are opting to enter the waters themselves
Kalos-GM: at least, everyone with a pressure-resistant suit is, it seems.
Koshy: Well
Kalos-GM: which exclused Eryn?
Koshy: I am my own pressure-resistant suit
Koshy: and gills... You get the idea
Eryn: Yes. Eryn has no pressurized suit, methinks...
Eryn: (An odd oversight, on my part)
Eryn: Oh wait
Eryn: Eryn has a skinsuit
Eryn: (And it isn't Koshy)
Koshy: Heh
Koshy: *Thankfully*
Kalos-GM: Skinsuit's vacuume proof but not pressure proof
Koshy: derp
Kalos-GM: You could try to do this like free diving mode I guess
Eryn: (Looks like Eryn never planned for deep sea exploration)
Eryn: "Alright. I guess I'm holding the fort down here. Keep me updated, I guess?"
Kalos-GM: is Pampa going too?
Pampa: uuuh
Pampa: yeah, I have a biosuit
Pampa: Alright, I'll check it out then
Kalos-GM: Alright, well, airlock fits 2. Who's going in the first outing? Koshy doesn't count
Kalos-GM: I guess everyone can
Eryn: (So does Koshy have a computer implant? And if so can I just see shit through it? I assume he'd have no problem giving me permissions)
Kalos-GM: Ely and Pampa and Koshy can go in one airlock cycle.
Ely: Just be careful with the spikes
Pampa: Hahahaha
Kalos-GM: I... I'm pretty sure radios don't work under water
Koshy: First off, yeah, radio do work, but it is limited range
Eryn: I'd assume the range might be shortened, but not outright blocked
Ely: I have some cable somewhere, let's trail a communications line between us and the ship
Kalos-GM: A suitably long cable could do it, if Ely for some reason has it
Ely: Ship repair supplies I guess, there's gotta be wire somewhere
Kalos-GM: Radios will reach like someone standing right next to you
Kalos-GM: but not back to the ship
Koshy: Yeah, I agree
Kalos-GM: So hope you all have gesture skill~
Koshy: Oop, not meee
Ely: _has gesture to make up for his lack of face-muscles!_
Eryn: _contents herself with martian cartoons, nicotine and thinking up magic tricks to scare koshy with_
Kalos-GM: Alright- Pampa and Ely step into the airlock: big questions come now, like 'whose neck does Koshy hold onto?'
Kalos-GM: What are you all bringing?
Kalos-GM: Besides biosuits
Koshy: I don't own anything, I will only bring what is given to me
Ely: _brings vibroknives, flashlights, and a radiation badge. Most of his fancy stuff doesn't work underwater..._
Eryn: _toys with the idea of giving koshy her tangler....though she is unsure how he would even work the controls._
Pampa: _Is bringing a vibroknife, heavy flashlight, and also a radiation badge._
Eryn: Maybe the wrist needler? Could Koshy somehow, if awkwardly work that?
Eryn: Ah!
Kalos-GM: vibroknives, plural?
Kalos-GM: *how many do you have?*
Eryn: _presses a mini laser torch into Koshy's paws. "Oi Koshy. I'm giving you this in case you find any locked doors....try not to cut through the hull or lose it."_
Ely: _has two vibroknives, for extra vibrokniving._
Kalos-GM: big responsibilities. can Koshy take that kind of pressure? we'll have to find out
Koshy: _Koshy shoves it in his payload, it should provide it with all of Koshy's advantages_
Koshy: (Like... pressure tolerance)
Kalos-GM: Is <@Reality Glitch> bringing things/coming along?
Kalos-GM: For right now, the first party now inside the airlock, pressed the cycle button., the small room rapidly filling with water from various holes pumping it in from the outside-
Kalos-GM: in only 10 seconds, it reaches the top, but still at low pressure. from there it slowly ramps up the pressure 1 atm every couple of seconds-
Kalos-GM: until a light turns green- it's equalized. The outside airlock door will now open at will.
Reality Glitch: ((So the ship is underwater now?))
Eryn: (That it is)
Ely: _slowly reaches out to press the button, glancing up at Pampa_
Koshy: ( Dew it)
Kalos-GM: The door opens- the white-green nanocomposite being replaced with a wall of Green blue and green and brown- there's lots of tall kelps and such here
Kalos-GM: perhaps part of why the sonar resolution wasn't so good. but unmistakably, looking on forward you can see the structure- Very rectangular, covered in barnacles and corals and other sea growth
Kalos-GM: This aint no pirate ship
Kalos-GM: There's no flat deck on top- only one mast- and various shapes sticking out and breaking its sillouete, especially at the bottom.
Kalos-GM: lots of alien fish around too but they all seem to be minding their own business and such
Reality Glitch: "Well, guess this makes it our turn."
Ely: _pokes his head out the airlock to make sure there's no big scary monsters. The fish aren't too threatening, swims out to clear the lock._
Koshy: _Keith attaches himself to Ely, like a remora_
Kalos-GM: nothing 2pooky, everything here seems to be not much bigger than Koshy
Kalos-GM: (do you have swimming skill?0
Ely: _looks at Koshy, then up at a fish. Will protect small weasel._
Ely: (I do not, oops)
Kalos-GM: You'll just walk along ze bottom)
Ely: (Good plan lol)
Ely: _stands up straight as he slowly sinks to the ocean floor. Welp :I_
Koshy: _Koshy notices Ely is not swimming, he then checks if Pampa is swimming._
Pampa: _Is walking alongside the bottom as well. Why would a cactus of all things know how to swim?_
Kalos-GM: You're all at move 1 basically.
Kalos-GM: Once you're all stepped out
Koshy: _Koshy is starting to realise that, maybe, maybe... Maybe him, and the fish, are the only things who knows how to swim._
Kalos-GM: you should probably wait a minute as the airlock cycles again for Argee
Kalos-GM: Argee, what are you bringing?
Kalos-GM: besides your biosuit
Reality Glitch: ((Grav Beamer, obviously; don't think I've got much else.))
Kalos-GM: (a force rifle?)
Kalos-GM: (what's a grav beamer?)
Reality Glitch: ((Oops!  Must have misremembered the name.))
Ely: (Force beamer? Small handheld weapon)
Reality Glitch: ((Yes.))
Reality Glitch: Once the airlock cyles back to internal conditions I eagerly step in.  "Good thing all that clutter is out there; I'm terrified of the open ocean."
Kalos-GM: (ah. doesn't work underwater!)
Kalos-GM: (it'l hit the water right in front of the firing end)
Reality Glitch: ((Why not?  It's just gravity.))
Kalos-GM: (and do probably not what you want)
Kalos-GM: (so it 'works' just not to desired effect.)
Reality Glitch: ((I'm not seeing how gravity would change underwater.))
Kalos-GM: They apply force to the first thing they hit)
Kalos-GM: (which in this case, is water.)
Koshy: (Well, it emits graviton beams... Particles?)
Koshy: (Otherwise, they'd have rules for overpenetration)
Reality Glitch: ((By that diffinition they should only work in a vacuum because they'll hit the air otherwise.))
Kalos-GM: (1 atm gasses aren't substantial enough to sap the energy.0
Kalos-GM: (this is my ruling)
Reality Glitch: ((So this *isn't* in the official rules.  Got it.))
Kalos-GM: (it isn't mentioned *AT ALL*
Kalos-GM: (so no.)
Reality Glitch: ((Low blow in my opinion to slap that restriction on when it doesn't specify that it should work differently.))
Kalos-GM: (anyway. do you stil want to bring it?)
Reality Glitch: ((Got nothing better.))
Kalos-GM: (if you press it right up against someone itl' still fuck them up)
Kalos-GM: It's also tiny, which helps)
Kalos-GM: (.35 lbs )
Kalos-GM: (bulk-1. its like a pen)
Kalos-GM: (or a sub-compact pistol)
Reality Glitch: ((So it's just a glorified spiked-guantlet at this point?))
Koshy: (It's still 3d, double knockback)
Kalos-GM: (yep)
Kalos-GM: anyway- you step in
Kalos-GM: one minute later, it's cycled
Kalos-GM: you can step out and join your buddies.
Reality Glitch: Rather than walk along the bottom like the others, I stretch my wings inside the elastic-back of my suit and take "flight"; gently gliding just over the others heads with the occasional down stroke to keep myself up.
Kalos-GM: do you have the swimming skill?
Koshy: (You can still try to swim without the skill...)
Reality Glitch: ((I thought the flight ability would cover it since going across the bottom is covered by base land speed.))
Reality Glitch: ((Otherwise, wouldn't *both* need a Swim check?))
Kalos-GM: (walking along the bottom is like the 'failure option' of swimming)
Kalos-GM: propelling yourself meaningfully is a swim check)
Kalos-GM: now all of you are together-
Kalos-GM: Your radios will work within this very intimate proximity, but should you step more than a couple yards away from one another it'l just be unintelligible
Koshy: (There is an advantage for underwater movement, called amphibious)
Koshy: (You can also use flying IF IT IS NOT MODIFYIED IN CERTAIN WAYS)
Koshy: (Having wings counts, sadly)
Kalos-GM: The exactness of what the object is, is hard to decipher yet still. the water isn't very clear- plenty of stuff being stirred up by you all and sea life
Kalos-GM: It's a mere 20 meters away. Do you all head straight to it? or what's the plan?
Ely: _doesn't see any reason to not just walk up to it_
Reality Glitch: ((Going straight.))
Kalos-GM: as you guys reach half way in, RG you realize what it is-
Kalos-GM: this is a space ship.
Kalos-GM: one that's been here a really long time.
Koshy: _Koshi continues looking around... While he is still hitching his slow ride_
Kalos-GM: the tall mast is merely part of a sensor array.
Kalos-GM: though.. heavily modified
Kalos-GM: You wouldn't normally have a big long radio tower sticking out of your ship
Kalos-GM: there'd simply be no point
Reality Glitch: I speak over the comms, "Guys, we got space-farring vessel on ours hands.  Anyone want to see why they a radio antenna sticking out the top?"
Koshy: (I assume we are close enough to radio, right? Water cuts range greatly)
Koshy: (I mean, why wouldn't we be this close?)
Kalos-GM: Yea)
Kalos-GM: (that's the idea.)
Kalos-GM: (you're all basically shoulder to shoulder)
Reality Glitch: "I can give someone a lift if they need to get up there."
Kalos-GM: (it'l still sound crackly, but your implants understand the words just fine)
Koshy: "I can swim freely! I am a born swimmer, if you need me! I could scout- I only would need to come back with the results of whatever is inside!"
Koshy: ( Decisions, decisions, <@!Pampa> and <@!Ely> )
Reality Glitch: "Yes, but are you a communications engineer?  Because that's what we'll need to check it out thoroughly."
Koshy: "Uuuuuuh... Nooo... But Eryn gave me a laser torch!"
Koshy: "That must means something!"
Reality Glitch: "It means we need to keep you away for risk of breaking anything."
Koshy: "Awww..."
Kalos-GM: you can jump up without too much difficulty- swim checks *can* be defaulted.
Kalos-GM: (HT-4)
Koshy: (How much does gecko gear work underwater?)
Kalos-GM: (page ref.)
Kalos-GM: (oh.)
Kalos-GM: (uh, sure it works fine)
Reality Glitch: ((I've got that, too.))
Koshy: ( If anyone got Gecko Gear, as I suggested, you can probably climb it )
Koshy: "Maybe we should check if there is a way in... Somewhere?"
Reality Glitch: "I know diddly squat about radio manufacture; can anyone beat me?"
Koshy: "Oh! Oh! I think that Ely is the engineer! Maybe they know something!"
Ely: (What exactly are you trying to figure out?)
Reality Glitch: "I just said I don't know."
Reality Glitch: ((We want someone to inspect the antenna.  Preferably someone with experience in that field.))
Ely: "...Yep, that's an antenna"
Koshy: "B-but... What's for?!"
Koshy: "Why so biiiiig?"
Ely: (engineer or electronics or something to ascertain purpose of sensor tower?)
Reality Glitch: "It's for telecommunitions."
Reality Glitch: "They used to need large towers like that because smaller antenna have trouble catching larger wavelengths."
Koshy: "Ooooh... So you *are* versed in radio manufacture!"
Kalos-GM: ('yep. that's a radio mast.')
Kalos-GM: it also seems telescoping.
Reality Glitch: "No, I just remember a time before we had the tech to make them smaller than this."
Kalos-GM: you're right now, 10 yards from the ship
Koshy: "Hey! So, now that we know that, should we try to find a way in?"
Reality Glitch: "I'm not comfertable with penetrating anything until we get all the information we can without doing so."
Kalos-GM: approach closer then? you're right now at the rear left of the ship
Kalos-GM: 'south south west'
Reality Glitch: "Arr; we be approaching the port stern."  I couldn't help but use a nollywood pirate accent for that line.
Kalos-GM: yes? no? stay at a distance and circle?
Koshy: "Aye aye cap'tn!" Koshy replies, having seen enough martian cartoons
Reality Glitch: Once with in arms reach, I try picking at the alien barnacles to see how well stuck-on they are.
Kalos-GM: The resulting answer is not very well, actually
Kalos-GM: with some effort, you can get one to slide off
Kalos-GM: revealing a paint-chipped, hardened surface below
Reality Glitch: "My first instinct is to clear these off, see what's underneath.  Any objection?"
Koshy: "None mine."
Pampa: "Not from me~"
Kalos-GM: other parts have moss-like growths, but essentially the entire suface is covered. this has been down here decades
Reality Glitch: I start peeling them off.
Kalos-GM: making a big cleared circle? or what's your direction here?
Reality Glitch: Starting where I am and working out in a spiral fasion until I find something of interest, then focusing on that spot.
Kalos-GM: Does @everyone else help? doing something else?
Pampa: I'm going to watch the fish swim by
Koshy: _Koshy decides to let go and start swimming up and over, to see the ship a little better from above, maybe there's an entrance?_
Kalos-GM: Not from above. It's totally sealed up.
Kalos-GM: Argee: any point where you're starting?
Kalos-GM: like where you suspect an airlock will be or something based on what you know of ships
Koshy: _Koshy decides to swim up to Argee, and attach himself to his suit._
Reality Glitch: ((I just glided up to a random spot and started prying.))
Kalos-GM: <@!Ely> what do you do meanwhile?
Reality Glitch: I feel the ermine-like fellow cling to my suit.  Hopefully they weren't to shocked at that it feels like gripping bare human skin.
Koshy: "Me and your strange suit meets again, it seems... Why did you choose this model?"
Reality Glitch: "Because it reminds me of how my skin used to feel like."
Koshy: "... Oh..."
Kalos-GM: After like 5 mintues Argee you find the edge of a panel
Reality Glitch: I say to the little one, "Would you mind helping me clear this?" with a grin on my face, though they can't see it throught my mask.
Koshy: "Sure!" Koshy says, hopping off from Argee and proceeding to help clear where he is being pointed at.
Kalos-GM: what's koshy's ST?
Koshy: (So...)
Koshy: (ST 2, but ST 5 for lifting)
Kalos-GM: (k)
Kalos-GM: after one minute- you've cleared it. it's a 4 inch x 4 inch small panel- no buttons or present labels or mothod of opening
Kalos-GM: and pressing onto it doens't do it either
Koshy: "Well! What matters is that we did it!"
Reality Glitch: ((Can I wedge my claws between the panel an the rest of the ship?))
Kalos-GM: claws (sharp)?
Koshy: (( We could ask others for a knife, too, but I believe that if you have the advantage, then yes ))
Reality Glitch: ((Yes, but not trying to cut this time; prying instead.))
Kalos-GM: Yea, you can wedge them in
Kalos-GM: you however, lack the strength to pry it off.
Kalos-GM: its also thicker than it looks it seems
Reality Glitch: ((Does it go in further or is it a plate covering something?))
Kalos-GM: your claws can't find an under-side
Kalos-GM: it goes further than your claws reach at least
Kalos-GM: could just be an armored panel
Reality Glitch: "Anyone want to come check this while I continue de-barnaling?"
Reality Glitch: I then continue de-barnacling.
Kalos-GM: you spiral more- does <@!Pampa> or <@!Ely> have anything to say?
Koshy: "I'll call them." Koshy says, as he swims off to wanr <@!Ely> and <@!Pampa> that we found a pannel that might be messed with.
Kalos-GM: (if the answer's no, please say no because it may be a while in-game before RG finds something)
Ely: (Don't have anything to do)
Pampa: (Neither do Iiiii)
Kalos-GM: (you could just say you help RG debarnacle)
Ely: (Alright)
Pampa: (Alright, sounds good~)
Kalos-GM: 10 minutes later- you find another edge/slight depression.
Reality Glitch: ((Who does?))
Kalos-GM: doesn't matter
Kalos-GM: you're all there together
Kalos-GM: spiraling the same thing
Reality Glitch: I clear the rest of the depression.
Kalos-GM: !roll 1d4
DiscoDude: <@Kalos-GM> rolled 1d4 for 2 [1d4 = 2]
Kalos-GM: Koshy does.
Kalos-GM: This one proves to be far larger, here on the roof
Kalos-GM: after another 2 minutes with everyone's combined help- this is an airlock
Kalos-GM: its got all the buttons and panels and such one expects.
Kalos-GM: if very old and worn
Kalos-GM: its not a centuries old design
Kalos-GM: still follows the main vague design philosopies of 'standard ship manufacture' within the past several decades.
Koshy: (i.e. WTF is this ship doing here?)
Kalos-GM: The wire jack is sufficently busted up that you can't plug into it over the years- its intenerals are filled and rusted around
Reality Glitch: "Wow.  I keep forgetting your tech looks like something out of a Stek Trek episode."
Reality Glitch: ((Is the airlock sealed?))
Kalos-GM: Yep.
Kalos-GM: Still looks watertight
Kalos-GM: these things are made of nanocomposite and all
Ely: (Could I try to roll computer or security or anything to crack open the control panel and force the door open? Probably not without tools actually)
Koshy: (*checking what is the temperature that Koshy can survive at*)
Koshy: "Hey! we could use the torch that Eryn gave me!"
Reality Glitch: "I want to say, 'Let's finish the rest of the hull and come back to this.' but now I'm just curious."
Kalos-GM: Ely: you can roll and try at a penalty
Kalos-GM: EO:Sec
Reality Glitch: "Wait!  Let's not be hasty."
Ely: (-2 or -4?)
Reality Glitch: "We don't now what kinds of thing we'd wreck if we pop the preservation bubble."
Koshy: (You do have a knife, Ely, if you want to try, but it seems that RG thinks we should check the rest of the ship)
Ely: (My skill's 11)
Kalos-GM: (you can expect it to be -4 or more if you use the jack)
Kalos-GM: (you can also you know. try the buttons.)
Ely: _tries the buttons. Right. Nobody ever tries the door first._
Kalos-GM: you press it. The outside panel lights up with a few patches of dead pixels.
Reality Glitch: "What did I just say about preserving it's contents?"
Ely: "The contents of the inside of the airlock?"
Kalos-GM: text appears labeling the buttons around it like a MFD.
Kalos-GM: 'open' 'canncel' 'displace outside atmosphere' 'displace inside atmosphere'
Reality Glitch: "We don't know what's inside.  We might waterlog something important."
Kalos-GM: ... you suspect 'displace' is a mistranslation.
Ely: "What door do you want to use, then?"
Koshy: "Hm... How do we cycle the airlock?"
Reality Glitch: "One that's already filled with water."  I cross my arms with a pensive look on my face.  "Though, that'd only get us so far if the rest of the ship is dry."  I look back at them.  "Do we have any scanning equipment that can penetrate the hull?"
Koshy: _Koshy goes to the airlock and knocks on it, trying to hear if it is full of water or empty_
Kalos-GM: the open button would cycle it... if its working.
Kalos-GM: (does koshy have discriminatory hearing?)
Koshy: (No.)
Koshy: (Lemme check what auditory advantages he has)
Kalos-GM: !roll 3d6
DiscoDude: <@Kalos-GM> rolled 3d6 for 7 [3d6 = 5, 1, 1]
Koshy: (Subhearing and ultrahearing, tho)
Kalos-GM: you THINK it's empty? but then again,
Kalos-GM: Nanocomposite is pretty good at stopping vibrations
Reality Glitch: ((I have discriminatory hearing *and* extanded high/low band hyperspectral vision.))
Koshy: (Well, maybe Kalos can roll for you too?)
Koshy: "Hmmm... I *think* it's empty..."
Reality Glitch: ((> implying X-ray will penetrate the hull.))
Reality Glitch: "Let's turn 'thinking' into 'knowing' before we do anything rash."
Koshy: (Wait, didn't we discuss about the extended high/low band before?)
Kalos-GM: X-ray will definitely not penetrate a radiation proof ship hull
Koshy: (I actually didn't catch what end it had)
Reality Glitch: ((Will *any* EM wavelength?))
Kalos-GM: nope. That's the point of radiation shielding.
Kalos-GM: it does however, see through the mosses and stuff...
Reality Glitch: (( <@!Koshy> I can perseve it all, just not with my special eyes.))
Kalos-GM: which would let you see the other airlocks better.
Reality Glitch: ((> implying water won't block the radiation))
Koshy: (I got normal hyperspectral vision, for that's worth)
Koshy: (Oh, but ultraviolet shouldn't reach here in the deep blue sea)
Kalos-GM: (yea, hyperspectral won't help)
Reality Glitch: "Why don't we clear more of the biomass from the hull before looking for ways through it?"
Reality Glitch: I then continue de-barnacling.
Koshy: _Koshy shrugs and continues helping._
Kalos-GM: Ely since you don't touch the screen or buttons after ever so long
Kalos-GM: the screen turns off.
Kalos-GM: You debarnacle for yet longer- soon enough the rest of the hour will have passed and you will have cleared off the roof.
Kalos-GM: The antenna sticks out from here- it's welded on it seems
Koshy: "Huh..."
Reality Glitch: "Looks more like an ad-hoc add-on then part of the initial design."
Kalos-GM: or at least, the seam is.
Kalos-GM: There aren't any other panels or airlocks on the roof here.
Reality Glitch: I give the antenna a couple taps.
Kalos-GM: You tap it. its a metal antenna alright
Kalos-GM: There is actually one other thing on the roof I just remembered
Kalos-GM: A turret.
Koshy: (Pretty important one, TBH)
Kalos-GM: Yep.
Reality Glitch: ((What kind of turret?))
Kalos-GM: You can't tell too well- its almost flush with the roof, its barrel shrouded by its armored covering.
Reality Glitch: I try to pry it like the panel before.
Kalos-GM: No dice.
Kalos-GM: its almost ass iff these turrets are made to not be pried of by human strength
Kalos-GM: (I think you'd need a crane to lift it out, even)
Reality Glitch: ((Are the other sides of the ship exposed? (not counting any barnacles.)))
Kalos-GM: all but the bottom.
Kalos-GM: which is buried in sand.
Reality Glitch: "Let's clear the rest of the ship, maybe we'll find some more information."
Reality Glitch: I then continue de-barnacling.
Kalos-GM: you estimate this will take several more hours
Kalos-GM: does everyone agree to do this?
Ely: Alright
Koshy: Ssssure
Koshy: Luckly, Koshy can breath underwater
Kalos-GM: its a good thing biosuits last for a week with power provided.
Kalos-GM: back to the barnacle scraping
Kalos-GM: https://lehollandaisvolant.net/tout/folio/img/Spongebob%20time%20cards/5%20hours%20later.jpg
Reality Glitch: ((If push comes to shove, my suit can just eat one of the barnacles.))
Eryn: _continues to play slack the hell off while her crew toils in the depths._
Kalos-GM: (HAHA)
Eryn: "This is what we I call leadership."
Kalos-GM: the ship has 2 other airlocks- one on port and starboard, and a big ole cargo hatch
Kalos-GM: no other guns visible
Eryn: _takes a sip of space whiskey, without Koschei. She has no access to fruity cocktails, but she will live without them."_
Kalos-GM: also at about this point suddenly the antenna springs to life
Reality Glitch: ((No identifying marks?))
Kalos-GM: and starts to telescope outward
Kalos-GM: Paint has chipped or worn away
Kalos-GM: leaving bare nanocomposite
Reality Glitch: I look surfaceward as the antenna extends.  "Well .... at least we have more information now."
Kalos-GM: The radio mast in a manner of a few seconds, reaches its full length, seemingly almost needle thin at the end which breaches the surface.
Koshy: "Ssooo... It's broadcasting now?"
Ely: (Oh, is this the scheduled broadcast time)
Kalos-GM: its about time it did.
Reality Glitch: "Let's find out."  I start "flying" up to the surface.
Kalos-GM: roll swimming.
Kalos-GM: (HT-4)
Koshy: _Koshy swims up too_
Reality Glitch: ((Is it O.K. if I use my unspend character point to add swimming right now?))
Kalos-GM: what
Kalos-GM: no.
Reality Glitch: !groll 7
DiscoDude: <@Reality Glitch> rolled 8 (degree -1; failure)
Kalos-GM: Koshy swims up- he has amphibious
Kalos-GM: and thus doesn't require a roll
Kalos-GM: you however, can't swim up- your stuff's too heavy and you don't know how to swim
Reality Glitch: "Man, flying underwater is so much harder."
Koshy: _Koshy, from the surface, tries to signal something down to the others (what is the default for gesture?)_
Kalos-GM: IQ-4
Kalos-GM: (or CH-4 if I use that houserule in this game?0
Koshy: (You don't)
Koshy: (It is the starting game of several people)
Koshy: !Groll 7
DiscoDude: <@Koshy> rolled 10 (degree -3; failure)
Kalos-GM: Koshy gesturesbut
Kalos-GM: he's also a fish 100 feet up
Kalos-GM: you can't see what he's doing
Reality Glitch: "I think we should try heading back to our ship so we can breach and pick up what that signal is saying."
Koshy: _Koshy begins swimming down to the others_
Reality Glitch: "What did you find?"
Koshy: (Eh, The ship is probably recording it as we speak)
Koshy: "It is broadcasting the same signal as before!"
Kalos-GM: (your ship isn't. it isn't getting any of it)
Kalos-GM: (your ship however, has several dozen recordings of it by now)
Reality Glitch: "Oh."
Reality Glitch: "Mmmm.  As uncomfortable as it makes me, it looks like we'll need to breach the hull."  I thrust my right arm upward, index finger extended.  "To the airlock!"
Koshy: "Alright! Let's do this!"
Kalos-GM: Which airlock?
Reality Glitch: ((The one closest to our current position.))
Kalos-GM: !roll 1d3
DiscoDude: <@Kalos-GM> rolled 1d3 for 3 [1d3 = 3]
Kalos-GM: right side airlock
Reality Glitch: ((Is the panel on *this* one working?))
Kalos-GM: you press a button screen lights up.
`text appears labeling the buttons around it like a MFD.
'open' 'canncel' 'displace outside atmosphere' 'displace inside atmosphere'`
Reality Glitch: "Hmm....  I wonder what they mean by 'displace'?"  I press Displace Outside Atmosphere.
Kalos-GM: The screen changes-
Reality Glitch: ((How?))
Kalos-GM: "5 Atmospheres of pressure-" "99% H20"
Kalos-GM: "various impurities."
Koshy: (I think I now understand)
Kalos-GM: `'open' 'cancel' 'displace outside atmosphere' 'displace inside atmosphere'`
Koshy: (Press... "Displace" inside atmosphere)
Reality Glitch: "Huh; they seem to mean 'display', not 'displace'."  I press Displace Inside Atmosphere.
Kalos-GM: "hard vacuume- impurities of H20', N2, O2, etc;"
Kalos-GM: `'open' 'canncel' 'displace outside atmosphere' 'displace inside atmosphere'`
Reality Glitch: I press Open.
Koshy: "Oh, well then, it appears that it-"
Koshy: "This can literally suck..."
Koshy: "If it malfunctions."
Reality Glitch: "Not much we can do, without give up." I say to the small one.
Kalos-GM: there's a sound as it begins to siphon in water somehow from small holes that it must have somewhere
Koshy: _Koshy don't stand in front of it._
Kalos-GM: "filling-" a percentage bar is shown, rapidly going to full in a manner of seconds.
Kalos-GM: "Done-" The airlock slides open.
Kalos-GM: Revealing a rather pristine- if now water filled, interior airlock chamber.
Koshy: _Koshy latches on to Argee, now that it seems safe._
Reality Glitch: "Well, let's see if we can't get the airlock to be air filled."
Koshy: "Don't think so."
Kalos-GM: Not without closing it first, certainly.
Koshy: "Hard vaccum inside, water outside, air nowhere."
Kalos-GM: it ain't magic. can't force out 5 atmospheres of water.
Reality Glitch: I move into the airlock and look for more controls.  "Anyone coming with?"
Koshy: ( How many people can it fit? Also, <@!Ely> and <@!Pampa> ?)
Kalos-GM: 2. its insignificantly larger than the airlocks on your ship
Kalos-GM: The interior here has much more things to play around with, sealed lockers, more screens and buttons...
Kalos-GM: all in all, this is standard spaceshipper stuff
Koshy: (Is all this stuff in local's language?)
Kalos-GM: Old indeed, but this part of spaceships is a pretty mature technology.
Kalos-GM: And as for that:
Reality Glitch: ((Or at least translateable.))
Koshy: (Well, we did get a linguist on the job)
Kalos-GM: It's in Martian.
Kalos-GM: which is to say, a pidgin of English and Avali
Kalos-GM: A very common language
Reality Glitch: ((Translateable by software, y/n?))
Koshy: (Totally, it is in the archives)
Kalos-GM: (its what the stuff on the outside was written in too)
Koshy: (Local's language isn't on the archives, but the linguist is doing a fine job)
Reality Glitch: ((What does Avali script look like compaired to our own?))
Ely: _climbs into the airlock- doesn't see much else to do other than cycle it, though. Good thing they have spacesuits_
Kalos-GM: (blocky characters which are worked into kinda letters.)
Reality Glitch: ((What does the information written on the inside of the airlock say?))
Koshy: _Koshy gets into the airlock and attaches himself to Ely._
Kalos-GM: Much the same stuff on the outside- 'open' 'canncel' 'displace interior atmosphere' 'displace airlock atmosphere'
Kalos-GM: Ely cycles the airlock? (y/n)
Koshy: _Koshy is attached to argee in the Airlock._
Reality Glitch: ((Nothing on surfaces other than the M.F.D.?))
Kalos-GM: Not of significance.
Kalos-GM: Serial numbers on a few panels and such
Ely: if RG is doing stuff then no
Kalos-GM: You're not big on galactic culture but,
Kalos-GM: to Ely this looks like a retro ship from old movies and stuff
Kalos-GM: 40 or 50 years back
Reality Glitch: I close the outside door, then ~~continue de-barnacling~~ open the inside door.
Kalos-GM: Outside door closes- the water begins to drain down and out, being replaced by breathable air
Koshy: "Huh, what do you know?"
Kalos-GM: And a moment later the door opens, revealing you an interior of a ship that's on low power mode.
Kalos-GM: All the lights are dimmed and so on
Koshy: "Hm... Maybe we can check the other airlock's contents, and see if someone got out of the ship."
Kalos-GM: This is just a hallway- there are signs pointing to cockpit and so on,
Koshy: "If they did, should be filled with water, rather than hard vaccum."
Kalos-GM: and workable wire jacks!
Koshy: "... I assume."
Reality Glitch: "One way to find out."  I shrug at the ermine latch onto my right should as I say then start walking.
Koshy: "Ely." Koshy says, turning back "Are you going to check what is in the ship's computer archives?"
Reality Glitch: "Well that's a good place to start, yes."
Ely: (I don't have computer stuff with me. Can I still interface without wires?)
Kalos-GM: do you have spacer or scrounging?
Kalos-GM: you could try to find a wire.
Ely: (Spacer)
Kalos-GM: roll it
Ely: !groll 11
DiscoDude: <@Ely> rolled 5 (degree 6; success)
Kalos-GM: you find a wirejack in a moment's notice on a shelf in a common room
Ely: _`jacks in`_
Kalos-GM: Roll computer operations
Ely: !groll 12
DiscoDude: <@Ely> rolled 10 (degree 2; success)
Kalos-GM: Ely: what do you try to access?
Reality Glitch: I follow the signs leading to the cockpit.
Kalos-GM: You head on over as ely's `jacked in`
Kalos-GM: And reach there after perhaps half a minute of going through unfamiliar hallways
Kalos-GM: and bam, you're there~
Reality Glitch: ((What's it look like?))
Kalos-GM: a retro cockpit of the setting
Kalos-GM: couple chairs, big dash,  hanging wires..
Kalos-GM: lots of buttons and wires.
Kalos-GM: But in general, not too different from a modern one
Kalos-GM: any modern spacer would be mostly at home there.
Ely: !groll 12 (more computer operations)
DiscoDude: <@Ely> rolled 3 (degree 9; critical success!)
Kalos-GM: `you're in`
Koshy: That's a nat 3
Ely: I access `everything` https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2126/2353281088_4ec3075edb_m.jpg
Ely: _`jacks out` and checks his radio. Can they communicate inside the ship's less watery atmosphere?_
Kalos-GM: Even the interior compartments are radiation proof, but you can access the ship's radio systems
Kalos-GM: and message the others from there
Ely: Oh right, I can `access everything`.
Koshy: Consider
Koshy: checking what the message is
Koshy: before you change it
Kalos-GM: nah not that way
Kalos-GM: just a regular PA/messaging system
Ely: _beeps everyone on the radios. Tries to contact their ship too, if they can reach it. "There's a native in cryostasis on board. They speak martian and know how to operate the ship. Find the cryo-chambers."_
Koshy: "Well... Wow, That's something..."
Kalos-GM: It can't quite reach Eryn. maybe you should go get him? you remember seeing a biosuit earlier...
Ely: "It sure is... Something. Maybe they can tell us what happened. I would guess that they're a survivor of the plague and took refuge here. That doesn't explain their speaking martian, though."
Ely: (I... Can't really swim. Oops.)
Eryn: _sings martian classics and drinks more space whiskey, oblivious to any discoveries being made._
Koshy: "Are they infected?" is Koshy's immediate response.
Eryn: "Taaaaaakke meeee oooonn."
Ely: "Don't know, but we can cure them."
Koshy: "As soon we take them out of stasis, we should consider doing it quickly."
Reality Glitch: "What better source of information than someone who experienced it first hand?"
Ely: _searches for the cryo-chambers. Hopes this ship isn't too big._
Koshy: "Did you find out what the transmission was?"
Ely: "Their call for help."
Koshy: "Well then. Should have used hyperspace to transmit the radio signals, because help came a bit late."
Kalos-GM: it doesn't take too long once you begin searching- especially when you have full access to the ship computer and the map
Ely: "Didn't have hyperspace, something was broken."
Kalos-GM: it was beside the habitat section-
Kalos-GM: there's a couple of cyro pods
Kalos-GM: One of them as you arrived, already has its screen saying 'defrosting'
Reality Glitch: "Oh good; one of them is waking up."
Kalos-GM: this can take several mintues or hours depending on the nature of the cryo system.
Kalos-GM: the other is empty.
Kalos-GM: (or at least, the screen on it says empty)
Kalos-GM: (they're both opaque and closed over+slightly armored)
Ely: _just waits, then._
Koshy: "I assume Ely set them to thaw... Right?"
Ely: "I didn't touch this... Must be automated."
Koshy: "Also, we have technology to ressucitate popscicles, right?"
Kalos-GM: The cyropods do both, or at least, they're *supposed* to
Kalos-GM: Some parts of looking around this ship reveal it to be in some very strange condition
Kalos-GM: especially towards the back half, where Koshy probably wandered once cause koshy wandered every part of a ship-
Kalos-GM: Everything looks oddly corroded. including the stuff which by all rights, shouldn't be able to be
Koshy: It is a thing Koshy does, yes
Ely: Uh oh
Kalos-GM: Nanocomposite doesn't rust. yet the rear half of the ship looks like its falling apart or rotten, but its no living creature.
Reality Glitch: "I have a bad feeling about this."
Reality Glitch: "The airlock was in pristine condition; why is the rest all messed up?"
Koshy: "Was there a fight inside here? I don't know..."
Kalos-GM: The airlocks aren't near that portion- and its seems to be the interior and decreasing in intensity from some center point
Kalos-GM: so the cockpit for example, which is almost as far as one can get, is untouched.
Kalos-GM: yet the engine room and other things are missing.
Reality Glitch: "This wouldn't be from a fight.  My guess is that the virus affects nanocomposite."
Kalos-GM: There's one powerplant left up at the front end of the ship
Reality Glitch: I take a sample of the decaying nanocomposite.
Kalos-GM: have a vibroknife?
Reality Glitch: ((It's falling, apart so I didn't think it was an issue.))
Kalos-GM: I suppose you could pick a fallen part
Kalos-GM: and grab that
Kalos-GM: sure
Reality Glitch: ((Yes.))
Kalos-GM: nanocomposite corroded shard get.
Kalos-GM: Anyway-
Kalos-GM: perhaps 15 mintues pass as ely is waiting-, and the color on the 'defrosting' changes to a yellow
Kalos-GM: and a percentage bar fills the space.
Kalos-GM: from the time it took to go from 1-5% you think it'l be an hour.
Ely: Just wait again?
Reality Glitch: ((Sure.))
Koshy: _Koshy starts to explore the ship, while the darn thing takes one hour to defrost_
Kalos-GM: anyone doing anything or shall I just skip? (I also could possibly end the session because 4 hours)
Ely: Yeahh
Koshy: Might be a good idea to end it here
Kalos-GM: !end