Traveller: In the Reach - The Droyne Blues

Necro

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Verne approaches KaKraa with his arms outstretched, palms up. As non threatening as he can be. 'KaKraa this is just a momentary problem that the rest of the crew can fix quickly. I guarantee that I will protect you when we reach the planet. If you have concerns we can talk about them of course. But it's safer for us to remain on the bridge for a short while. Come dance with me while we wait. Computer, play some up-tempo music for us to dance to. Some TaytaySwifty I hear in the charts these days.'

'Your situation is not as airtight as you think. I heard Gospis speak of your own craft. How can it be in two places at once? Something odd is going on here, and when they find out, we will all die.

We should take this ship, I know we can. Hold Gospis to ransom, refuel and leave for where my own crew came from. They would pay big money for a far trader, it is why we wished to take your damaged one.'

Fourier

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Seneca approaches Milt Evan and holds his hand while pointing his sawn off at Evan's chest. "Hush now Milt, it will soon be over". He squeezes the trigger.

Evan sees the shotgun loom over him. He sees Seneca squeeze the trigger, his last thoughts are....

Banjo

Fourier wrote: »

Evan sees the shotgun loom over him. He sees Seneca squeeze the trigger, his last thoughts are....

"Auslag! You came from outer space! But when I saw your face, my heart kneeeeew!
Auslag! I'll enter your atmosphere! You'll touch my landing gear! See how it greeeeeeew!"

Mollyb60

Necrominus wrote: »

'Your situation is not as airtight as you think. I heard Gospis speak of your own craft. How can it be in two places at once? Something odd is going on here, and when they find out, we will all die.

We should take this ship, I know we can. Hold Gospis to ransom, refuel and leave for where my own crew came from. They would pay big money for a far trader, it is why we wished to take your damaged one.'

'We have bigger things to plan for than just money my friend. We are trying to save lives. A noble cause I'm sure you would agree? We suffered a.........displacement which is why it appears that our ship is in 2 places at once. Now we're trying to put right what once went wrong. Will you help us?'

Necro

'A displacement... so, you are renegades just like I am. That is all very well, and yes, I will help you. But docking here is a mistake. I will prove that to you.'

He turns to Glenn.

'You have access to the entire ship now? Open their records on Droyne, you will see exactly what they do with the beings this planet pretends to 'worship.''

Back to Verne.

'Gospis is our enemy. In time, you will see.'

Fourier

Banjo wrote: »

"Auslag! You came from outer space! But when I saw your face, my heart kneeeeew!
Auslag! I'll enter your atmosphere! You'll touch my landing gear! See how it greeeeeeew!"

The shotgun shatters Evan's chest immediately, the ship's engineer is no more.

The droids, upon seeing his demise, upgrade their aggressiveness, determined to preserve their only remaining master.

Fourier

Fourier wrote: »

Gospis runs to Verne, "Some sort of madness has broken out among your crew!!!"

Gospis, who was hiding behind Verne, now emerges on the bridge.

"How dare you, we love the Droyne, maybe it is you who seeks to do him harm."

He points a laser pistol at KaKraa, shaking with fear.

Fourier

An array of bullets begins to batter the bridge room door.

Necro

Fourier wrote: »

Gospis, who was hiding behind Verne, now emerges on the bridge.

"How dare you, we love the Droyne, maybe it is you who seeks to do him harm."

He points a laser pistol at KaKraa, shaking with fear.

'Show them what you really do to Droyne, you LIAR!'

KaaKra lunges to grab Gospis.

OOC: If he succeeds, he will hold the sword to his throat.

Fourier

OldGoat wrote: »

Nestor peeks out of her room doorway to see who or what is nearby.She has picked up her weapons.

A droid comes her way with twin mounted shotguns at the ready. It shows no mercy, all must be given to protect the master.

The pellets slam into Nestor, bruising her all over and blowing her back into the wall, she is on the verge of unconsciousness, but just manages to hold on.

OOC: Nestor has 20 Health, lost 14. One more till unconscious.

Fourier

Necrominus wrote: »

'Show them what you really do to Droyne, you LIAR!'

KaaKra lunges to grab Gospis.

OOC: If he succeeds, he will hold the sword to his throat.

Gospis fires as the K'Kree charges, but the blast does little to the giant sophont who slams Gospis into the wall, pinning him with his sword against his throat.

Professor Moriarty

Seneca realises that he is trapped. He reloads his sawn off and lies beneath Milt's lifeless body feigning death.

Fourier

A collection of droids fire throughout engineering. Seneca is ripped to shreds, the hail of bullets leaving his body unrecognisable.

Dhinor is similarly pelted with bullets, collapsing outside engineering. He has little strength left as he hears them scanning for him.

Necro

KaaKra leans on the blade, drawing blood in a thin sliver from Gospis throat, but not too hard as to seriously cut.

'The truth, you pathetic worm! What you do to Droyne!'

Fourier

Necrominus wrote: »

KaaKra leans on the blade, drawing blood in a thin sliver from Gospis throat, but not too hard as to seriously cut.

'The truth, you pathetic worm! What you do to Droyne!'

"We worship them you goddamn lunatic!!!" He reaches for a knife at his belt...

Necro

KaaKra drives the sword across Gospis throat in a fluid motion.

'Verne, Glenn - we need to get to the escape pod or we will all die.'

Mollyb60

Verne jumps forward and wrenches the pistol and knife out of Gospis' hand.

'Glenn! We need to do something about those droids now! Didn't they like you? Call them off!!'

Fourier

One of the droids saws through the bridge room door.

"Preserve the master."

Three enter and move aside for one with a massive chaingun, which it lets rip throughout the bridge.

Verne is too fast to be hit.

Glenn erects a telepathic force field, but it shatters under the hail of bullets. The droid begins to reload, as the others swing forth to unload their shotguns.

Professor Moriarty

As life drains from his body, Seneca's last thought is that AI is a bad idea.

OldGoat

Fourier wrote: »

A droid comes her way with twin mounted shotguns at the ready. It shows no mercy, all must be given to protect the master.

The pellets slam into Nestor, bruising her all over and blowing her back into the wall, she is on the verge of unconsciousness, but just manages to hold on.

OOC: Nestor has 20 Health, lost 14. One more till unconscious.

Retaliates with a paintball to the optics of the droid.

OOC: If it can't see me in the visible range then it'll resort to thermal imaging and then it'll mot see me as I'm not in the 'normal' range. Hopefully even a momentary pause will give me the opportunity to get my shotgun up close and personal with it.

Necro

Fourier wrote: »

One of the droids saws through the bridge room door.

"Preserve the master."

Three enter and move aside for one with a massive chaingun, which it lets rip throughout the bridge.

Verne is too fast to be hit.

Glenn erects a telepathic force field, but it shatters under the hail of bullets. The droid begins to reload, as the others swing forth to unload their shotguns.

KaaKra picks up Godris body and uses it as a shield.

'GLENN - Can you teleport us? The escape pod - NOW!'

KaaKra opens his mind to allow the Droyne to see a clear vision of the escape pod he and Verne docked on.

Fourier

The two remaining members of the Grandfather's Hammer crew, Tusip and Yispa, are gunned down in the halls. Their last sight is a pair of shotgun barrels.

Fourier

OldGoat wrote: »

Retaliates with a paintball to the optics of the droid.

OOC: If it can't see me in the visible range then it'll resort to thermal imaging and then it'll mot see me as I'm not in the 'normal' range. Hopefully even a momentary pause will give me the opportunity to get my shotgun up close and personal with it.

OOC: Permitted, roll 2d6!

Mollyb60

Verne takes out his reavers axe and swings it at the nearest droid with a mighty yell.

Fourier

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Verne takes out his reavers axe and swings it at the nearest droid with a mighty yell.

OOC: Roll, 2d6 - 1

Fourier

Necrominus wrote: »

KaaKra picks up Godris body and uses it as a shield.

'GLENN - Can you teleport us? The escape pod - NOW!'

KaaKra opens his mind to allow the Droyne to see a clear vision of the escape pod he and Verne docked on.

KaaKra sees the chaingun spinning into action. He can tackle and save either Glenn or Verne and possibly be shot or have no risk to himself and stay put, he decides to....

Necro

KaaKra stays put, and with one hand still holding the body of Gospis as a shield, draws his rifle and fires at the optics of the chaingun.

Fourier

Fourier wrote: »

OOC: Permitted, roll 2d6!

The droid swings around near Nestor looking for human heat patterns, but finding none.

Baggly

Fourier wrote: »

A collection of droids fire throughout engineering. Seneca is ripped to shreds, the hail of bullets leaving his body unrecognisable.

Dhinor is similarly pelted with bullets, collapsing outside engineering. He has little strength left as he hears them scanning for him.

Dhinor pulls himself into a service duct to hide and regain his strength.

OldGoat

Nestor using all the Ghost skills of her people slips silently behind the droid to point blank range, raises her shotgun and eases the trigger back.

Fourier

OldGoat wrote: »

Nestor using all the Ghost skills of her people slips silently behind the droid to point blank range, raises her shotgun and eases the trigger back.

The droid is blown to pieces from the point blank blast.

Fourier

Verne swings at the one with the chaingun, which swerves aside, but just before it can fire, KaKraa takes out its optics. The other droids fire.

Fourier

Fourier wrote: »

Verne swings at the one with the chaingun, which swerves aside, but just before it can fire, KaKraa takes out its optics. The other droids fire.

Surprisingly only one hits, knocking Verne back into the bridge console.

The other two upon missing, sent out an emergency call to the remaining five, who give up their search for Dhinor and head to the bridge.

Baggly

Fourier wrote: »

Surprisingly only one hits, knocking Verne back into the bridge console.

The other two upon missing, sent out an emergency call to the remaining five, who give up their search for Dhinor and head to the bridge.

OOC Can my suit give me some stems to ease the pain?

Necro

KaaKra takes cover and opens fire on one of the droids already in the room, again aiming for the optics.

Mollyb60

Fourier wrote: »

Gospis fires as the K'Kree charges, but the blast does little to the giant sophont who slams Gospis into the wall, pinning him with his sword against his throat.

Fourier wrote: »

Surprisingly only one hits, knocking Verne back into the bridge console.

The other two upon missing, sent out an emergency call to the remaining five, who give up their search for Dhinor and head to the bridge.

Verne pulls himself back up from the console and lunges again at the nearest droid.

He calls to Glenn 'GLENN! Can you teleport us to the escape pods?'

OldGoat

Nestor quickly moves back to her room, reloads and then sets about patching herself up with whatever medication and superglue she can find in her emergency kit. She is liberal with the uppers that she takes. When she is as well as she is going to get given the circumstances she slips back out into the corridor heading quietly for the bridge.
Thinking at Glenn: Shhh, be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits!

Fourier

Verne smashes one of the droids, the others offer no resistance and suddenly deactivate their weapons.

"The master is safe. Initiate ship destruction."

All the droids head for engineering.

Necro

KaaKra looks at the others.

'We can either take out the droids, or run for it with the escape pods. Glenn, how many pods are on board?'

Baggly

Fourier wrote: »

Verne smashes one of the droids, the others offer no resistance and suddenly deactivate their weapons.

"The master is safe. Initiate ship destruction."

All the droids head for engineering.

Dhinor pulls hinsefl out of the duct and attacks the droids with TN as best he can before they reach engineering

jasonb

OOC: Wow, that escalated quickly, I only went to a bloody meeting! I've no idea if I'm alive or not, but assuming I am...

Glenn takes a breath and disappears. Now that he can't be seen, he takes in the situation. Then he runs towards Verne and KaaKra and takes a breath before he tries to teleport them to a quick section of the ship, near any escape pods.

OOC: I also assume this needs a roll...

Mollyb60

Necrominus wrote: »

KaaKra looks at the others.

'We can either take out the droids, or run for it with the escape pods. Glenn, how many pods are on board?'

'

'Where do we go if we get into the escape pods though? You said that Blue wasn't a good planet for Droyne. Our only other option is to stop those droids.'

jasonb

Glenn contacts the Vainglorious and asks its computer to disable the Droids, in case it's able to.

Fourier

Glenn, Verne and KaKraa arrive at the escape pod section.

The main, massive pod from the pirate ship is gone. The remaining only fits two.

FUSION DRIVE SET TO OVERLOAD.

The droids have begun an irreversible drive overload.

Fourier

jasonb wrote: »

Glenn contacts the Vainglorious and asks its computer to disable the Droids, in case it's able to.

Unfortunately, the droids runtimes are not connected to the Vainglorious.

Necro

OOC: You backstard Four!

'It seems we have a problem.'

KaKraa runs for the pod as quickly as he can.

jasonb

Glenn quickly starts to suit up into a Vacc suit, allowing Verne to have the other Pod. He also comms the rest of the ship... "This is Glenn, the engine is going to explode and we only have two pods left. Do with that information what you will.."

OOC: How far can I teleport Four? Does the Vainglorious still have it's little 'shuttle/runabout' or did I imagine that?

OldGoat

Comms: "Don't any of the Captains have a counter-command for the self destruct? I'll try first. This is Captain Rear Admiral Nestor to all drones, command code Happy Alpha High As A Kite ZeroZero3, cease and desist the destruction right now." /muffles giggles.

Necro

KaaKra lets Verne squeeze in beside him again, then nods at the Droyne.

'You are a brave one, Glenn.'

He closes the pod door and locks it tight.

OOC: Do I have to programme it to release? Cos if so I'm doing it now

Mollyb60

'Our only option is to try get to the vainglorious. How many of us could you teleport Glenn?'