"No sir!" Harmony responds, "Sorry sir! I think they had some explosives with them, sir, because the blast wasn't supposed to be that severe! The airlock's been blasted open and the other vessel's bridge has been torn apart. I'm trying to see if the interior airlock door closed automatically when the breach occurred... Careful, sir: it could be hard vacuum on the other side of that blast door!"
Harmony brings up a damage report while editing the drivers to get the pulse drive back online: if the pirate vessel does decide to start shooting, there's not much she can do to stop them at this point! Reaction thrusters and maneuvering thrusters can wait until the ship isn't in imminent danger of being blown up by angry pirates who just watched their mates get blasted into the Black. "Captain, we should probably get someone on the turrets in case they do start shooting!"
(IS it hard vacuum on the other side of that blast door? Also, trying to separate out the engines- or even functions- to make the rolls easier... any way to do that?)
If you want to target a specific part of the engine first, you can, Harmony. It would need five successes.
-
Kenneth makes a Medicine roll to investigate the gunshot wound that Phillip is bleeding from. He rolls three successes using his template's bonus, and get in there. It entered through the left side of his chest, far enough below to collar bone to end up where it is. There is no exit wound... it may be lodged in his lung.
-
Kelly checks the readings on the door controls to make sure that Marina and Shaftoe aren't going to be exposing them to vacuum, then comms Harmony back.
"Get that pulse drive back so we can scoot," Kelly says. "I got the turret. You all get that boarding crew off my ship!"
Marina and Shaftoe then yank the door open, a wave of heat greeting them... as well as twenty charred men lumbering toward them wearing full hazard suits!
I need the Gun schticks for Shaftoe, Marina, Alan, Gabriel, and Toki.
Yes, my bad, Toki. I need yours as well.
Also, in that group, tell me what weapon you are starting out with.
-
The way we account for Christopher helping medically is that Kenneth and Christopher put their dice together. However, each can only contribute as much as the lowest Medicine pool between the two.
Nadra has no Medicine skill but she can make Kenneth's job easier by handing him his tools.
So we have our crewmembers and guest gunman ready to fight off the invaders. Marina has decided to stick with her original schticks.
The boarding hijackers are all wearing hazard suits that protect them fully from the elements of space, but the explosion that Harmony caused has worn them down considerably. They all lose two points of armor, leaving them with one. They are all wielding submachine guns of various types.
Now to give the boarding party a proper Gan Ying greeting...
>>>>>
BOARDING PARTY SHOWDOWN, START OF TURN 1
Maintenance Corridor
Hijacker A (G 6): 0 (1A)
Hijacker B (G 6): 0 (1A)
Hijacker C (G 6): 0 (1A)
Hijacker D (G 6): 0 (1A)
Hijackers x4 (G 5): 0 (1A)
Hijackers x4 (G 5): 0 (1A)
Hijackers x4 (G 5): 0 (1A)
Hijackers x4 (G 5): 0 (1A)
Doorway
Marina (G 9): 1/1/7 [Marksman/Straight Shooter/Lightning Reload]
Light Revolver (3/3)
Shaftoe (G 13): 1/1/5 [Eagle Eye/Gunslinger/Marksman]
Shaftoe's Heavy Revolver (4/4)
Shaftoe's Katana
Toki (G 9): 1/1/5 [Mercykiller/Bodyguard/Lightning Reload]
Light Revolver (6/4)
Toki's Nunchaku
Alan (G 4): 1/1/5 [Bullet Time/Lightning Reload]
Shotgun (8/3)
Gabriel (G 8): 1(1P, 1C)/1/5 [Carnival of Carnage/Eagle Eye/Eye of the Storm]
Gabriel's Shotgun (8/3)
Gabriel's Jian
>>>>>
And... go!
Meanwhile, Harmony is getting the Pulse Drive going so that Gan Ying is less of a sitting duck. Making use of Fix-It again, she rolls eight dice that show up 2, 5, 2, 5, 6, 3, 3, 4. Three successes! Not quite enough to get it going this turn.
I'll need to know what Christopher and Kenneth have decided on- is Kenneth going it alone or is Chris chipping in his dice?