Zora/Logs/Slavers and You
IC Time: May 7, 2122
Paquin -- Spaceport
Colorful banners, streamers, and flags snap in the wind on the tall poles that circle the Spaceport, adding a festive mood to this busy place. While simplistic, the Starport has been built with ease of access and comfort in mind. Paquin has long been the artistic center of the border worlds--some rather patriotic citizens claim it not only rivals but surpasses Sihnon. Since the government of Paquin recognizes that fact and strives to maintain that reputation, aesthetics are--and will likely remain--the most important consideration in their design of public works.
A myriad of ships can be found here at any time, mirroring the type of people that frequent this world. Rusty buckets of bolts that might just be held together solely by lengths of tape and epoxy are seen side by side with sleek, streamlined, state-of-the-art vessels. Paquin is nothing if not eclectic in its people... and all else.
Grey's head snaps once more as Crow's boot makes contact - but then he uses the force of the blow to twist himself back into a crouching position, reaching forward for Crow's sidearm. And it's in that moment that the scene erupts. The rifleman opens fire on Matrix, double-tapping on instinct at the movement, and the leader fires on Grey. The others prepare for the worst. <English>
Slavers shoots a bullet at Grey with its Starshot 50 - 13151. Slavers successfully attacks Grey using a Starshot 50 - 13151 at a 25 difficulty. (11) - Grey has taken 1 points of stun damage. He is currently Dazed. - Grey has taken 1 points of wound damage. He is currently Injured..
Slavers shoots a bullet at Grey with its Starshot 50 - 13151. Slavers successfully attacks Grey using a Starshot 50 - 13151 at a 25 difficulty. (16) - Grey has taken 0 points of stun damage. He is currently Injured. - Grey has taken 0 points of wound damage. He is currently Injured.. Slavers lowers its Starshot 50 - 13151. Slavers draws its Winchester M1894 - 12427.
Slavers shoots a bullet at Matrix with its Winchester M1894 - 12427. Slavers unsuccessfully attacks Matrix using a Winchester M1894 - 12427 at a 40 difficulty. (-6) .
Slavers shoots a bullet at Matrix with its Winchester M1894 - 12427. Slavers successfully attacks Matrix using a Winchester M1894 - 12427 at a 40 difficulty. (20) - Matrix has taken 5 points of stun damage. He is currently Dazed. - Matrix has taken 8 points of wound damage. He is currently Injured..
About a hundred swear words in English, Chinese and Russian dance through Ashlyn's mind as gunfire erupts, as do images of what happened /last/ time she tried firing her gun. "Ya gotta be fuckin' kiddin' me..." she laments as she leans out from the cargo bay, bracing her arm and taking aim center mass at the slaver who appears to have just shot her mechanic. <English>
Ashlyn shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Lightfoot 42 - 6591. Ashlyn unsuccessfully attacks Slavers using a Lightfoot 42 - 6591 at a 60 difficulty. (-6) .
Matrix is just about to head back towards the ship, when a bullet wizzes past him. "No fu..." he begins, before the second shot strikes him, right in the upper right thigh. He screams out in pain, and the hand that was most likely going for his Lightfoot clutches the wound in an instinctive motion. The mechanic probably doesn't even notice that he's lost his balance, and unless Matty steps out of the way, they'll both end up on the ground. <English>
Matty's hand is already inside her coat to reach for a proposed lighter, though she's really going for her weapon. As shots are fired, she whips out her Slipshot, but doesn't get far enough to get off a shot around Matrix before the engineer tumbles into her. And being injured already, she doesn't have the agility to sidestep and yes, they do both end up on the ground, at which point the XO raises her weapon to aim and fire. <English>
Kitty trys to fire her weapon at Slavers but only gets a CLICK. Kitty reloads her Slipshot 44 - 12957 with 8 bullets of 10mm ammo.
Kitty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 12957. Kitty successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 12957 at a 50 difficulty. (9) - Slavers has taken 5 points of stun damage. It is currently Dazed. - Slavers has taken 6 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Kitty grunts as she shakes her head and takes a shot at one of the slavers, grinning a bit as she finally gets the chance to take a shot at someone, someone very deserving of being shot. With a bit of time spent taking aim she pulls the trigger, hoping to at least add a bit of pain to one of the assholes' day. <English>
Matty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 7414. Matty successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 7414 at a 80 difficulty. (29) - Slavers has taken 8 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 10 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Adila's eyes narrow dangerously, when Crow threatens. She's barely breathing, so seething with anger it's almost blinding. Crow has to come back up the ramp, to get inside the ship and if her expression is any gauge, he might have a fight on his hands, or a bullet in his brain if her shot is good. "You gotta come back up this ramp, you filthy traitor!" She shoots back to Crow. "Don't think for a moment I will hesitate to blow your head clean off your shoulders." She draws her weapon with steady hand. Suddenly, as most times trouble comes suddenly, the scene erupts. Unfortunately, her first target may be Crow. The dirty traitor. <English>
Adila shoots a bullet at Crow with her Slipshot 44 - 10697. Adila successfully attacks Crow using a Slipshot 44 - 10697 at a 45 difficulty. (15) - Crow has taken 8 points of stun damage. He is currently Dazed. - Crow has taken 14 points of wound damage. He is currently Injured..
Adila shoots a bullet at Crow with her Slipshot 44 - 10697. Adila unsuccessfully attacks Crow using a Slipshot 44 - 10697 at a 45 difficulty. (-2) .
Matty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 7414. Matty unsuccessfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 7414 at a 80 difficulty. (-3) .
Crow swings at Slavers with his Sword - 12491. Crow successfully attacks Slavers using a Sword - 12491 at a 25 difficulty. (0).
The second Crow feels the weight of the slipshot 44 leave his back, he gives a little grin and snaps his hand towards the sword on his back, turning and stepping to try to cover Grey and keep him from being shot. The sword in hand, Crow turns hard on his heel and slices the blade towards the leader, finding flesh. However, in the blindness of battle, he doesn't hear Adila's words. Instead...he feels a boiling hot bullet connecting with his skin just below his collarbone, sending him slamming painfully to the floor with a splatter of blood. <English>
Zora joins the Redemption crew which seems to be gathered on the ramp, dressed in a nightgown with a wineglass in her hand. She looks around all puffy and disoriented, and there are a pair of glasses hooked on the neckline of her gown. "Whas goin' on?" she mumbles, peering at Adila from mostly in the cargo bay. "Am I hearing fireworks? Why did no one tell me we were setting off fireworks?" <English>
Lucas wanders down the ramp at the cryptic comm. Not more than two steps behind Zora he looks at her dress and wineglass oddly as he says, "That good a ni.." that's about the same time Adila's gunshot rings out. Eyes widen as his gaze snaps up to see the seen. Guns! Swords! Explosions! No. Wait. Blood! Lucas tenses to pucker factor 10 as he reaches behind him to grab his trusty old never been used, but waved angrily, Slipshot from his waistband. No need to fear everyone. Lucas is here and ready to get shot. <English>
"KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!" the Leader screams, his Starshot barking harshly. He takes a step back as Crow comes at him with a sword, the edge of it scraping against his Mesh Armor and cutting it open, but not striking flesh. Behind Crow, Grey is on his feet again, blood all down the right side of his face. "The MULE!" he yells hoarsely as he levels the weapon to fire. "Mow these fuckers down!" Right in the midst of them, he fires on the one wielding an automatic, nearly point-blank.
The rifleman that Matty hit fires at her, though who the bullet will actually hit in that entanglement is up in the air; the other rifleman fires back at Kitty, having been tagged by her in the shoulder. It's a full-blown firefight right on the Spaceport. <English>
Crow drops Slipshot 44 - 12981. Grey takes Slipshot 44 - 12981.
Grey shoots a bullet at Slavers with his Slipshot 44 - 12981. Grey successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 12981 at a 30 difficulty. (57) - Slavers has taken 8 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 10 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Grey shoots a bullet at Slavers with his Slipshot 44 - 12981. Grey successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 12981 at a 30 difficulty. (51) - Slavers has taken 6 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 8 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
[ROLL] The judge rolls for a 50/50 chance. The result is failure (40).
Slavers shoots a bullet at Matty with its Winchester M1894 - 12427. Slavers unsuccessfully attacks Matty using a Winchester M1894 - 12427 at a 60 difficulty. (-7) .
Slavers shoots a bullet at Matrix with its Winchester M1894 - 12427. Slavers unsuccessfully attacks Matrix using a Winchester M1894 - 12427 at a 60 difficulty. (-15) .
Slavers shoots a bullet at Kitty with its Winchester M1894 - 12427. Slavers successfully attacks Kitty using a Winchester M1894 - 12427 at a 50 difficulty. (15) - Kitty has taken 7 points of stun damage. She is currently Dazed. - Kitty has taken 6 points of wound damage. She is currently Injured..
[ROLL] The judge rolls for a 50/50 chance. The result is successful (74).
Slavers shoots a bullet at Grey with its Starshot 50 - 13151. Slavers successfully attacks Grey using a Starshot 50 - 13151 at a 25 difficulty. (8) - Grey has taken 0 points of stun damage. He is currently Injured. - Grey has taken 0 points of wound damage. He is currently Injured..
Slavers shoots a bullet at Grey with its Starshot 50 - 13151. Slavers successfully attacks Grey using a Starshot 50 - 13151 at a 25 difficulty. (18) - Grey has taken 2 points of stun damage. He is currently Injured. - Grey has taken 1 points of wound damage. He is currently Injured..
Slavers successfully attacks Grey using a unarmed attack at a 30 difficulty. (11) - Grey has taken 0 points of stun damage. He is currently Injured. - Grey has taken 0 points of wound damage. He is currently Injured..
Slavers successfully attacks Grey using a unarmed attack at a 30 difficulty. (14) - Grey has taken 0 points of stun damage. He is currently Injured. - Grey has taken 0 points of wound damage. He is currently Injured..
Ashlyn cringes as her first shot breezes past the slaver, clanging off a metal crate in the darkness beyond. She readjusts her aim after the recoil, obviouse to anyone watching her that this is not within her comfort zone. Still at the top of the Theory's ramp, she takes aim at the slaver still firing on her crewmates and shoots again. <English>
Ashlyn shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Lightfoot 42 - 6591. Ashlyn unsuccessfully attacks Slavers using a Lightfoot 42 - 6591 at a 60 difficulty. (-18) .
Matrix groans as he ends up on top his XO, in a less-than-friendly environment. He winces mightily as the Slipshot in her hand goes off twice, before getting the hint, and pushing off of the ground on his right side. The end result is that he's on the ground, on his back, and Matty's most likely a bit out of breath after he rolled off of her. And of course, another bullet whizzed past him while he was moving. The pilot reaches slowly for his Lightfoot, and raises it to aim at /someone/. He blinks repeatedly, trying to clear his eyes of tears, but half-blind thanks to them, he knows he's /not/ going to hit anybody, and his hand falls to his side for the moment. <English>
"Adila, no! Don't shoot him! It's a gorram rou..." That's all Kitty manages to get out as she is hit, causing her to yelp in pain thanks to the round that made its way around the open front of her armor and into her side. "Fuck.." she comments flatly while pressing her fingers to the wound and then stares at them after the are pulled away wet and sticky with her blood. "Gorramit!" Gritting her teeth, Kitty takes aim again, this time not quite as slow like before. <English>
Kitty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 12957. Kitty successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 12957 at a 50 difficulty. (23) - Slavers has taken 7 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 9 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Kitty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 12957. Kitty successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 12957 at a 50 difficulty. (3) - Slavers has taken 4 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 5 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
"Fucking hell, geroffme!" Matty shouts at Matrix, one hand pushing at the man while the other still aims at the gunmen. More shots whizz past without hitting from the front as well as the back and the XO stays low, shifting around to lie on her belly to carefully aim more carefully at the gunmen now that she doesn't have an engineer sprawled on her. She fires two shots before she gives a glance toward Matrix for a second then turns back to the action. "You okay, Matt?" <English>
Matty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 7414. Matty successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 7414 at a 60 difficulty. (27) - Slavers has taken 8 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 10 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Matty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 7414. Matty successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 7414 at a 60 difficulty. (35) - Slavers has taken 7 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 9 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
One down, several to go. Adila's gun doesn't hesitate, she pulls the trigger again. The small amount of confounded chaos behind her from Zora, Kitty and Lucas falls away, as she lines up another shot as quickly as possible. Bang Bang. No sooner does she pull off the shots before she turns, looking wide eyed at the fallen Kitty. "WHAT?!" Color her stupid. The gun still held up, it wavers, her hand trembling for a heartbeat. <English>
Adila shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 10697. Adila successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 10697 at a 45 difficulty. (26) - Slavers has taken 4 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 6 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Adila shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 10697. Adila successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 10697 at a 45 difficulty. (41) - Slavers has taken 6 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 8 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Matrix shoots a bullet at Slavers with his Lightfoot 42 - 10865. Matrix successfully attacks Slavers using a Lightfoot 42 - 10865 at a 75 difficulty. (0) .
"Whoa...whoa, WHOA!" Zora yells after all the gunfire, fumbling madly for her glasses and dropping her wineglass in the process, which shatters. Jamming the eyewear on her face, she surveys the situation in front of her with utter shock. "What the fuck is going on? Are we shooting peo - are they shooting at /us/?" Her mouth hangs slack for a moment before glancing to Lucas as his gun is madly waved around. She starts to get out a stammering comment about his ease at joining the situation, but she cuts herself off when she notices crewmembers bleeding. "Jesus," she breathes under her breath. "I am not wearing the right clothes for this." <English>
Lucas tests his Agility against a 40 difficulty. The result is successful (5).
Lucas glancing around quickly he quickly brings his Slipshot up to aim. Putting both hands around the grip he takes aim towards the slavers, all the while he is saying, "Don't hit Grey.. Don't hit Grey.. Don't hit Grey.." Eyes close. Finger squeezes and the shot rings into the night! The buck of the shot slides the gun up in recoil as he opens one eye too see his success and the delayed command of his targ...errr.. Captain comes into his ears. Calling out to those on the ramp as he turns, "Clear the ramp! I'm getting the MULE!" Then like a fat kid going to a buffett he turns to head back into the Redemption to try a whole new experience. MULE Driving! <English>
Lucas shoots a bullet at Slavers with his Slipshot 44 - 5380. Lucas successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 5380 at a 50 difficulty. (15) - Slavers has taken 6 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 8 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Sam shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Starshot 50 - 5918. Sam successfully attacks Slavers using a Starshot 50 - 5918 at a 50 difficulty. (35) - Slavers has taken 7 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 10 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Sam comes out from the inside of the ship and looks at the situation "What the hell? Vivian and Kitty... What the HELL?". The woman's eyes go really wide and she gives a quick look... At seeing Crow bleeding the situation takes on a whole new rage for her. "You shot him?" She looks to the enemy, "I just got a real boyfriend and you fuckin shot him?" She glares at the slavers and pulls her starshot and fires off a round. <English>
Grey is hammered twice in the chestplate and knocked back before booted out of the way. Crow's Slipshot goes flying out of his hand and he falls on his ass, moving slowly over to his own weapon lying there as he tries to get his wind back. The far rifleman closest to the Chaos Theory is down and bleeding badly - he's not going to be shooting anyone, nor is the guy who was wielding an AK. In fact, all of the Slavers are hurting pretty bad, but three of them are still good enough to shoot. One of them forsakes his rifle for the fallen AK, and they all open fire. <English>
[ROLL] The judge rolls for a 50/50 chance. The result is successful (69).
Slavers prepares for recoil and proceeds to spray bullets from its AK-47 - 463 at Sam. Show me to your nuclear wessels! Slavers successfully attacks Sam using a AK-47 - 463 at a 40 difficulty. (15) - Sam has taken 7 points of stun damage. She is currently Dazed. - Sam has taken 6 points of wound damage. She is currently Injured..
Slavers prepares for recoil and proceeds to spray bullets from its AK-47 - 463 at Adila. Show me to your nuclear wessels! Slavers unsuccessfully attacks Adila using a AK-47 - 463 at a 40 difficulty. (-1) .
Slavers shoots a bullet at Kitty with its Starshot 50 - 13151. Slavers unsuccessfully attacks Kitty using a Starshot 50 - 13151 at a 50 difficulty. (-2) . Slavers shoots a bullet at Kitty with its Starshot 50 - 13151. Slavers successfully attacks Kitty using a Starshot 50 - 13151 at a 50 difficulty. (14) - Kitty has taken 5 points of stun damage. She is currently Injured. - Kitty has taken 5 points of wound damage. She is currently Injured..
Slavers shoots a bullet at Matty with its Winchester M1894 - 12427. Slavers unsuccessfully attacks Matty using a Winchester M1894 - 12427 at a 80 difficulty. (-55) . Slavers shoots a bullet at Matty with its Winchester M1894 - 12427. Slavers unsuccessfully attacks Matty using a Winchester M1894 - 12427 at a 80 difficulty. (-74) .
[ROLL] The judge rolls for a 50/50 chance. The result is failure (24).
Ashlyn scowls again as her second shot goes wide. But better people than her have taken down the man she was firing at, not that that's really put them in much of a safer place as they attract the attention of a second slaver. Who mercifully seems to have aquired himself some cheap bullets. "Matty! Matrix!" she calls, bolting over to them. Both her crewmates are on the ground, and that's not a terribly good thing, but Matty doesn't seem to have been shot. "Might as we should take this moment ta get some cover?" she asks, keeping low and offering her hand to help Matrix back toward the Theory. <English>
More shots are fired, the local near-invincible superhero gets cracking, and Matrix finally manages to get himself in order. Well, enough to aim and fire at least, which ends with nothing more than grazing the slaver with the Winchester. "Fuck." he mutters, before letting the hand drop to the ground, due to fatigue just as well as trying not to present a nice, big, immobile target. "Well, I'm still alive, and I can still feel my leg. Now I just have to not bleed to death." he answers Matty's question weakly, continuing to stare at the action, before Ash comes running towards them. He takes her hand, and assuming the captain helps him keep upright, he manages to stumble back to the ship, his wounded leg curled up and not seeing any use. <English>
"Stop shootin' mah gorram Capt'in, yew mutherfuckin, ugly bastards!" Kitty shouts that as she makes to leap off the edge of the ramp to get out of Lucas' way but she's shot again, this time in the leg which causes her to pretty much land on one knee and a hand. That pretty much takes her mind off of trying to explain to Sam what's happening on the fly and Adila's left to wonder what it was she was trying to tell her as Kitty's busy trying not to scream in pain. "Gorram....sunuva.." She looks to the side to see if she can find an easy target while she's down and seeing that one man has gotten sprayed in the face when his weapon jammed, she takes two shots at him. <English>
Kitty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 12957. Kitty unsuccessfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 12957 at a 55 difficulty. (-20) .
Kitty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 12957. Kitty successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 12957 at a 55 difficulty. (14) - Slavers has taken 8 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 10 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Bullets flying everywhere. And the characteristic sound of Kalashnikov rifle fire suggests that it's best to stay low to the ground. Which is exactly what Matty does. Legs spread wide behind her, she's still on her belly with her elbows braced on the tarmac as she takes aim for targets. Someone's saying something nearby, but the XO doesn't have to pay attention to that as she lets of another couple of shots toward the gunmen, intent on taking all of them down. Did someone say something about cover? She blinks a few times and looks back toward Ashlyn and Matrix. "Tourniquet, Matt. Ash, help him will ya?" she says and turns back to the action, gauging the situation while still keeping her Slipshot ready. <English>
Matty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 7414. Matty successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 7414 at a 50 difficulty. (15) - Slavers has taken 5 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 7 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Matty shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 7414. Matty successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 7414 at a 50 difficulty. (32) - Slavers has taken 5 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 6 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Adila stares at Kitty for what seems to her like an eternity. "Shite." She hisses between clenched teeth. Shoot now, ask questions later is apparently still in full force as she turns her eyes back to the slavers. Lucas said to clear the ramp, so off the ramp it is. With (hopefully) relative ease, she jumps off the side of the ramp, using it for cover as she squeezes off two more shots in the direction of the still standing leader. <English>
Adila shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 10697. Adila successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 10697 at a 45 difficulty. (6) - Slavers has taken 6 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 8 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Adila shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Slipshot 44 - 10697. Adila successfully attacks Slavers using a Slipshot 44 - 10697 at a 45 difficulty. (35) - Slavers has taken 6 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 8 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured..
Watching the chaos everywhere, Zora zeroes in on Crow's motionless form. Her eyes flit from person to person in the area, and her face gains a determined expression. Her eyes go wide when Lucas yells, and she calls back to him, "I'm getting on!" as she runs inside the cargo bay to scramble on the MULE before he mows people down with it. "Combat medic in a nightgown," she mutters as she goes, for anyone close enough to hear. <English>
Lucas tests his Pilot:mule against a 35 difficulty. The result is unsuccessful (-21).
[ROLL] The judge rolls for a 50/50 chance. The result is successful (51).
Lucas scrambles into Cargo Bay and onto the MULE. Taking a quick assessment as a highly qualified command pilot he always is capable of finding the ON switch. The MULE hums to life as he glances over to Zora scrambling on board. Brow furrows as he waits on her to settle and slams on the accelerator. As the MULE lurches to life he glances to Zora and comments, "By the ay I don't know how to drive this thing..." WIth a heated hiss the MULE escapes the cargo bay and ramp and keeps going straight. With a loud scream of partial fear and widened eyes, "MAAAKKKEEE A HOOOLLLEEE!!!!" The MULE lurches violently towards the Slavers knocking a few cargo boxes over in it's fishtail as he just screams loudly charging towards the slavers still standing, "DDDDIIIIEEEE!!!!" and with a whooshing sound he shuttles past them in a very intimidating gust of wind and flurry of dirt! <English>
Sam shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Starshot 50 - 5918. Sam successfully attacks Slavers using a Starshot 50 - 5918 at a 50 difficulty. (30) - Slavers has taken 8 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 11 points of wound damage. It is currently Injured…
Sam shoots a bullet at Slavers with her Starshot 50 - 5918. Sam successfully attacks Slavers using a Starshot 50 - 5918 at a 50 difficulty. (20) - Slavers has taken 8 points of stun damage. It is currently Injured. - Slavers has taken 11 points of wound damage. It is currently Unconscious..
The shot hits Sam in the gut and she slumps back against the doorway and holds a hand to her wound. The Starshot stays up and aimed at the Slavers and she fires off two rounds, going for their head. She mutters under her breath, "'Bout time someone shot me. Was beginnin to think I was unhittable." She says with a bit of a laugh. She then moves a little bit back, trying to gain some cover... And trying to avoid being run over by her own crewmate. "Lucas, gorram it. They are tryin to kill us... They DON'T need no help!" <English>
Grey covers his head as Lucas goes whizzing by - so close to reaching his weapon! The Hover MULE veers off-target, but it's no matter in the end. Sam's shots connect with the remaining slavers - the leader and the gunner - and they both go down hard, dead before they hit the ground. Two are bleeding out, and one is still screaming, blinded. Grey groans and struggles for breath, lying on his back, trying to crawl over to where Crow lies facedown in a pool of his own blood. He speaks briefly into his iComm before sitting up with great effort and no shortage of swearing in Mandarin, immediately starting to undo his tac vest to get the pressure of the flak jacket and ballistic plate off his upper body. <English>
[XXX.XX MHZ] Grey says, "Medic... Crow's bleeding out. Sam, get these fuckers into our Brig. The dead ones, we're putting through our Thruster. Make it happen." <English>
Ashlyn tests her First_Aid against a 40 difficulty. The result is successful (26).
Ashlyn drops her gun back into it's holster and gets an arm under Matrix' shoulder to haus him after her, taking his injured side to try and help him compensate for the loss of the use of his leg. She helps him into the relative cover of the cargo bay. "Tournaquet?" she wonders to herself outloud. It should come as not surprise to Matrix at least that much like engines, directions for Ashlyn would ring much clearer using words like 'thingie' and 'whatsit.' She does, however, dutifully retrieve one of the many small first aid kits stationed around the Theory. "Ya a'ight, Matt?" she asks worriedly as she flips the lid off the kit and looks out at the suddenly ended battle. A bandage is placed over the wound in Matrix' leg, staunching the bleeding a little provided he's not adverse to being treated. <English>
Sam keeps her gun out and reaches into a pocket of her duster to pull out zip tie type handcuffs. "Here." She hands them out to someone who hasn't been shot. "Get them tied up." She's got one hand shoved into her wound and is up and walking to what's left of the mess. "Fuckers." She says and kicks at one. Then her eyes go to Crow and she looks for a doc to make sure someone is headed for him. "Get the ones that can still walk. The dead ones are gettin special treatment." She growl out. <English>
Torres disembarks from the Chaos Theory. Torres has arrived.
Adila holsters her weapon, rising up very slowly. A small, shaking breath and she grabs the ramp to keep from falling down and sitting hard on her backside. Sweat is running in a cold race down her spine. Letting go of the ramp, she wipes her face and moves towards the blinded man. Grabbing him, she gives him a good, hard, swift kick before she 'coaxes' him towards the ramp. A string of curses is leaving her mouth, almost a constant sound. <English>
Pix tests her Agility against a 75 difficulty. The result is unsuccessful (-8).
A lump under the tarp on the back of the mule moves slightly, though it may take a moment for anyone to notice. That is, of course, until the lump rises up like a tarp covered zombie thing, and wavers side to side, just about the size of a seated person. There's some flailing and some rattling of the tarp before it catches a breeze, flips back, and trails off of the mule, billowing up like a mighty flag. "What'sm thrusters say?" That's about all that is evern understandable that comes out of her mouth as she reaches up to wipe some drool. An empty Whiskey bottle rattles off the MULE and falls harmlessly into the dirt. It's about then that dulled senses realizes there's a breeze and movement, and someone's driving the MULE she passed out on and what is with all these people and--"HO-MI-GOD LUCAS!" She shrieks, and tumbles backward off the moving vehicle in a flailing mess of arms and kicking legs. <English>
Kitty gets up off of the tarmac (which she had landed on but didn't manage to elaborate on that fact in her last pose) and she begins to limp towards where everyone is. Pistol safety-ed and reholstered, she looks first at her crewmates, her first priority, and then out towards the others, just now realizing they were not the only ones here. "Oh.." she breathes out a moment before turning back to look at Grey, her eyes narrowed at him a bit. "Yer a'ight, Grey?" <English>
Matrix is /definitely/ not adverse to receiving help. "I'll live." he answers in a weak voice, leaning against a random wall for support as Ashlyn bandages him. "Knowing our luck, we'll get involved soon enough." he repeats, this time finishing the sentence. After a short while, all of the adrenaline finishes leaving the bloodstream. He makes a small, quiet groan, before slipping out of consciousness. <English>
Matty stays down for a few moments more as the gunshots stop, then gets to her feet ever so slowly, putting most of her weight on her left leg to get leverage for the standing part. "Where the hell's my cane?" she mutters, giving a glance around the tarmac, Slipshot still in hand. Limping a few steps forward, she stops looking for the cane and keeps her eyes on the shooters, making sure none of them are still trying to get shots off. "Ash," she calls back over her shoulder, her eyes still on the gunmen, though she's not moving toward them anymore. "'s Matt a'right?" <English>
Ashlyn tests her Strength against a 45 difficulty. The result is successful (16).
Lucas glances back to Pix only to see her tumble off into the dust cloud. Looking over to Zora he pulls the MULE to a stop and motions expectantly, "Go.. Goo.. Do your medic gowny thing!" looking around he just lets his eyes dart form place to place in a survey of the events. <English>
The blind man stumbles, as Adila pushes him to the ramp, taking up the offered ties. She gives him another snarling kick, sending him neatly to his knees. Adila apparently doesn't prescribe to not kicking a man while he's down because no sooner does she zip him up with hands behind his back, she plants her foot at the center of his back and shoves him face down so his face kisses Redemption's ramp. "Stay." She says with a hiss, leaning onto her foot to give it extra weight. <English>
"Whomph!" Ashlyn gasps as Matrix passes out on her. She manages to grab him before he tumbles to the ground or bowls her over. She helps him to the ground a little more gently than a fall would have. "Fer now, but Deco or someone's gonna need ta look that o'er," she calls back to Matty as she stands up. "You a'ight, Matty?" <English>
Grey grunts to Kitty, letting the layers of his armor fall away. Taking off his shirt - slowly - he looks down at his chest to see the damage. His entire torso is blue and black, the bullets not having penetrated the ballistic plate but having hammered hard against it, bruising him everywhere. "I'm... okay," he murmurs. He reaches down and touches a particularly painful spot and hisses. "I think that rib's broken. I can't tell... I'll need it looked at. After Crow and everyone who got shot get taken care of." With another grunt, he gets back up on his feet, wiping crusted blood away from his eyes. After being pistol-whipped twice and kicked in the head, his face isn't looking too pretty, and with his chest all bruised up, he's not at his best. "Fuck. I think I swallowed a tooth." He searches the interior of his mouth with his tongue, trying to locate where the gap is. <English>
Inside the hold of Theory, Torres comes down the catwalk stairs. His tired yawn is cut short when he sees Matrix on the deck with Ashlyn kneeling over him. "The hell? What's goin' on, Ash?" His eyes dart toward the open ramp, and sees more shadowy figures outside. Adrenaline kicks in, and he continues down the stairs at pace, reaching for his lightfoot. <English>
Zora holds on for dear life, her large eyes made huge by fear of Lucas' apparent road rage. MULE rage, rather. As soon as he stops, she jumps off the MULE and bolts for Crow, checking him over. She pretty much ignores the moaning, wounded, or dead men around her. "Lucas, please help me get Crow on the back," she pleads, and then turns to Grey, her demeanor completely changing. "You are getting on that MULE if you can walk, and if you can't, someone is carting you." She gives him the evil eye, clearly familiar with the retarded heroic motions men and Captains make - not getting medical treatment when hurt, not leaving dangerous areas while their crew is around. "Anyone else shot?" she yells out, turning around in a wild circle, searching for wounded. She finally spots Sam and cries, "Sam! Can you walk?" <English>
Sam moves over as best she can to zip up another one of the Slaver's arms behind him. She wrestles the man with her extra hand to move the man into the cargo bay and down beside the one that Adila brought in. She's got her other hand shoved into her wound. "Hell, yes, I can walk." Sam remarks to Zora. "Just in my gut is all. Get Crow better. Just do it." She looks to Crow, frowning. <English> "None of yer gorram heroics, Grey," Kitty says with a sigh. "We need you. Can't do shit like this without yew.." The impact of what happened hits Kitty hard and she looks over to Crow and then to Sam and then to Lucas, the daredevil driver of the Redemption, that one getting a bit of a smile from her before she turns towards the ship as a whole. "C'mon, Grey. Yew can walk me back to the ship and we can have a nice little chat while we do, eh?" <English>
Letting the Redemption crew deal with the gunmen and their own injured Matty reloads her pistol before flicking the safety on and slipping it into its holster. Then she gives a nod and turns back to the Theory, slowly ever so slowly making it back to the ramp, still not finding her cane in the shadows that permeate the area. "Comin', Ash.. Jus' gimme a few minutes..." she says and gives a grim chuckles as she steps onto the ramp. "Hey, Cid. Yer too late fer the party." <English>
Lucas quickly scrambles off the MULE at the request of the Medic. Maybe out of fear of Syna yelling at him later if he didn't help or actually wanting to help. He runs over to Crow's body and hooks his hands into his armpit and heaves upwards to start dragging him towards the MULE to load him on. Glancing to Zora he just remarks in a grunt, "We need to put some of these people on a diet.." <English>
Lucas tests his Strength against a 50 difficulty. The result is successful (20).
Matrix has left. Matrix boards the Chaos Theory.
"S'a'ight," Ashlyn says to Torres as he appears. "No more shootin' but Matt needs a doctor." She leans out of the cargo bay to survey the damage done to the Redemption's crew. "Grey!" she hollers across the distance. "How's you an' yers?" <English>
Pix tests her Spot against a 40 difficulty. The result is successful (1).
Torres looks at Matty briefly as he continues on toward Ashlyn and Matrix. "What happened? Who was shootin'?" he replies to Matty. He squats next to Matrix, staring with knitted brow. Looking at Ashlyn, he pulls out his comm, and calls into it, "Deco, wherever you are, get to the hold. Got wounded." <English>
Sam and Adila work to bring in the Slavers who are still living into the cargo bay. She then sits down on a cargo container to check herself out. As Crow comes by on the MULE, Sam lets out a low breath and shakes her head, "Fuckin slavers." She's just sittin and bleedin right now. "Just make Crow and Kitty better and check the captain. I'll be here." <English>
Grey grunts again and puts an arm around Kitty's shoulders to help her stand. "It ain't heroics," he mutters. "A Captain ain' supposed to leave the scene until he knows all his wounded have been taken care of. 'Sides, I gotta pick up all my shit." He gestures at all of his guns lying around where the slavers made him drop them. "'Sides, my injuries are the least serious. So it's practical as well." He smiles wanly as he begins to move for his gear - and finds that he can't bend down easily to pick it up, not without pain. Luckily, he finds an excuse in responding to Ashlyn: "Three wounded!" he calls back. "On your side?" <English>
Pixie, newly tumbled from the MULE, still heinously hung over, just remains there for a few beats, on her back, spread eagle in her coveralls. Several tools poke into her back, since she's still wearing her tool belt, but mostly she doesn't notice. "... Oh, man." She turns her head slightly, and notice she isn't the only one on the ground, "I need a drink." About that time, it occurs to her that maybe this isn't the best place for a lengthy constitutional. "Um. Bodies and weapons and..." She squints. "Oh, shit." Yup. The lightbulb went on. <English>
Adila has left. Adila boards the Redemption. Sam has left. Sam boards the Redemption.
It's slow going. One step at a time. Step, hop. Step, hop. Without her cane, Matty really does take a few minutes to get up the ramp, where she turns to hold up two fingers to Grey. "Two, but that's counting me 'n my old injuries," she yells back to Grey with a laugh, then looks back into the cargo bay, where Matrix seems to have passed out. "Didja get a torniquet on 'im, Ash?" She limps further in and grins to Torres. "Seems Grey's havin' some trouble with some slavers." <English>
"After those kids I assume," Ashlyn answers ads to Matty's explaination, looking back at him over her shoulder, then to Matty worriedly as she limps up the ramp. But being as the XO is not dripping blood, she heives a sigh of relief. "What's a torniquet?" Well, that should be answer enough. At least Matrix is not in danger of bleading to death any more. <English>
As he replaces the icomm, Torres looks right at Matty then. "The slavers? Ruttin' pieces of refuse." Pause as he trades glances between Ashlyn's ministrations of Matrix, and Matty as she hobbles in. "Tourniquet's something you tie round a limb to stop blood flow. Usually a last ditch thing from what I've read." He holsters his lightfoot then. <English>
Kitty nods a bit as she kneels down and then looks to Grey before gingerly handing his gear to him, the effort taken to bend her shot leg causing it to bleed a bit more. "Well, Ah think it's a'ight now, Sir," she offers while holding up a bulkier piece of armor, that being stared at for a moment before she looks back to the injured Captain. "Need help gettin' yer gear back to yer room, Sir?" <English>
Quick steps are heard before Deco bolts from the fore hall entryway onto the catwalk, bag in hand. "Talk ta me, people!" he shouts as he glances down quickly. "Who's hurt?" If the man goes any faster he might end a casualty himself. <English>
Matty gives a nod to Torres and stops moving, giving a look down at Matrix' wound. "Eh.. Guess it ain't really bad enough fer a torniquet. He's still gonna need some pressure, though. You got ----" she starts, then stops acting the medic when Deco comes down and lets him take over. "Hey, Cid. Do me a favour 'n go see if ya can find my cane? I lost it outside somewhere when Matt fell on me." <English>
"Kitty, I appreciate your help, but please get Grey onto the MULE. I don't want him walking right now. And I don't much care what he says." The last is mostly directed to Grey. "Someone who didn't just get shot can pick up your stuff, Captain. It'll be taken care of. Please get on the MULE." If the situation wasn't so serious, Zora might come across as amused. If. "Sure, Lucas, diets of tofu and booze from here on out." she retorts to Lucas, giving Sam an in depth peer. "Sam, honey. Get on the MULE. You're shot in the stomach. Don't argue with me. I know kungfu and I /will/ lay you out flat." She tries to fake a smile and points to the MULE sternly. "All wounded on the MULE, now. No arguments, please. I don't want anyone walking in that cargo bay until I can examine you." Announcing this loudly to the area, she runs over to help Lucas get Crow in the back. <English>
You test your Strength against a 50 difficulty. The result is successful (31).
Lucas climbs onto the MULE and pulls Crow's limp form into the freshly vacated storage area that Pix so kindly left available. Glancing to Zora just briefly he slides into the Driver seat and comments, "Get on, you can grab him by his ear and drag him in.." Glancing over to Grey just briefly he gets ready to head towards the Redemption after Zora gets on. Hooking a thumb back towards Crow, "Besides he we need to get him upstairs quick like." <English> <Redemption> Rah Rah Rasputin Alabaster Smith says, "won't slavers in the thrusters gum up the works?"
Pixie rises from the ground, dusts herself off, and peers around. "Hm." Bodies. She glances toward the MULE, and the gimping wounded. She peers toward the bodies. "Cleanup, aisle nine," the mechanic murmurs to herself. She grins slightly, and begins the ghoulish task of rounding up the fallen not-good guys to properly dispose of them. Nobody mind the very short, long haired engine ghoul. <English>
Grey nods to Kitty. "I think I might," he says, and takes in a hissing breath. "Probably best to load this shit on the MULE and sort it out later. Guns, ammo, grenades, hell..." He shakes his head. "Yeah yeah. I'm gettin' on the friggin' MULE. All I'm sayin' is, the ones with holes in 'em get seen to first." Tossing what of his stuff he's gathered already in the back of the MULE, he gestures to his Katana and Starshot. "Those... come with me." He grabs hold of them before taking a seat on the MULE with a wry smile to Zora. "Pixie... Think you can get the systems fired up? At least, high enough to incinerate some bodies? We got some clean-up to do... And we better get off this world, too." <English>
Pix tests her Strength against a 40 difficulty. The result is successful (12).
"Already on it, Boss," comes Pixie's short and sweet reply from the overly cheerful, if a bit hungover, mechanic. <English>
Kitty looks at Zora and nods a bit, giving the medic a sad smile. "A'ight." She looks at Grey and then angles her head at him while ever so carefully getting back up onto her feet, her face going pale and clammy as the pain throbs all over, limb and torso. "Ah should ask ya for hazard'us duty pay, Capt'in. Seems like yew've got some pretty gorram dangerous bed fellows, ya know?" She gets the last of Grey's gear and hobbles after him once she sees he isn't going to argue with anyone, a look of relief mingling with the 'oh god I hurt' expression that's already on her face. "Can Ah add 'pack mule' to mah job descrption," she asks with a chuckle, making light of her carrying Grey's armor for him. <English>
"Can I help ya get Matrix inta the medbay?" Ashlyn asks Deco. She looks over at Grey and the dead slavers. and bites her lips. She turns to Matty and Torres, biting her lip. "I think maybe... Maybe we should tell them... Bout Ryans," she says in a hushed tone. <English>
Pix drags bodies, arranging them in optimal position for a little sustained burn. It takes a few moments, of course, what with the dragging and the calculating whilst dragging. Luckily, her family is from good country stock, and she's always been used to hefting bodie--er... stuff. Probably that's it. It's not like little Pixie's ever done this before, right? Drag, drag, kick. Drag, drag, kick. Drag, drag, kick, kick. Drag. Loot. Drag. Just kidding about the loot. Mostly. <English>
Torres nods to Matty, "Sure thing," he says, then heads down the ramp, in search for Matty's cane. Deco squats down beside Matrix, taking his pulse, then says, "His pressure's good if a little thready. Keep pressure on that thigh, Ash. Any other wounds on him? I don't see any. We need to get him to medbay." He looks around for a litter, and spots one hooked on on the wall. Deco shoots back up, then jogs to the litter to retrieve it. <English>
Matty gives a look between Ashlyn and the Redemption outside in the gloom, eyes stopping on Pix' workings. What the fuck? She gives a quiet nod in response to the captain's opinion. "Well, maybe not right now," she mumbles and continues watching what Pix is doing. "Somewhere near the ramp, Cid. Never got very far 'fore the shootin' started." <English>
Ashlyn nods, turning her attention to Matrix as she helps Deco load him onto the stretcher without another word, lost in thought. "Come on Matt," she says encouragingly to the unconscious man. "Looks like ya get ta visit the medbay again." <English>
Zora finally notices that Kitty is hurt and nods quietly to the mechanic in what is hopefully a reassuring manner. Kitty on, Grey on, Crow on, Sam in the cargo bay, everyone's ready to go. "Alright, Lucas, can you take us in, please?" She glances worriedly around the area, and arches an eyebrow at Pix's dragkicks, but she's really just focused on getting inside, and dealing with the wounded. Especially Crow, who concerns her the most. <English>
Torres shouts back from further down the ramp, "Alright." He stares a moment at Pixie, trying to figure just what she's doing, and when he does, the gunhand only snorts and shakes his head, then continues the search for Matty's cane. "Found it!" he shouts back up the ramp as he bends down to grab one lost cane. Torres heads back up into the Theory's hold. Deco grabs one end of the stretcher, while Ashlyn the other. "On three," he says. "One, two, three!" the two, captain and doctor, lift Matrix off the ground, then begin toward the stair on the way to medbay. <English>
Lucas does a headcount and heads towards the Redemption. Super slow and careful in his driving this time. Holey people aboard and all. Slowly encroaching on the ramp he eases the MULE into the Cargo bay. <English>
Grey chuckles and grabs his side both at once, amused but in pain. "You're not the first to ask... nor the last," he says to Kitty. "The last one to ask..." His voice trails off, though, and he falls silent as he looks down over the side of the MULE. But before he disappears into the Cargo Bay, courtesy of Lucas' not-so-crazy piloting, he motions to Ashlyn, 'I'll call you sometime'. <English>
"That girl's crazy..." Matty mumbles as she watches Pix, then turns her attention back toward Torres as he comes back up the ramp. "Thank. Didn't see any cigarettes out there, didja?" She pats down her new duster, the pack of smoke gone from the pockets after the incident outside, then shakes her head. "Nevermind. I reckon I need to go lie down a bit." She takes the cane from Torres and tests that its integrity is still good for taking weight, then turns to follow Deco and Ashlyn up to medbay. <English>
Matty has left. Matty boards the Chaos Theory.
Kitty nods as she leans a bit against Grey while they're shipped off into the Trans-U, her own thoughts left unvoiced. There's nothing to say, really, and she's suddenly a bit too sleepy to really be able to talk, the adrenaline rush over, leaving her shakey and in pain now that her mind isn't on shooting people other than innocents. <English>
When Torres hands Matty the cane he says, "Here ya go. Cripple." There's a grin on his face though. "Go on ahead, I'll close up." He turns then, walks to the access panel, and hit the close button. the ramp to theory groans as it rises, shutting out the world for now. Safe. <English>
Pixie snorts as she drags the last body into the careful arrangement. "Boy, it's gonna small like a Christmas Ham out here for a week..." With that, she heads for the Cargo Bay of the Redemption ta fire it up. And toast some bad guys. <English>
TRAVEL
Redemption - Infirmary - A Deck
The ship's Medical Ward is rather large. Two sickbeds have been placed at one side of the room and on a small table between them. Prepared instruments are still sealed in a sterile packets. The cabinets seem to hold a good bit of equipment and pharmaceuticals. Behind a screen is the Doctor's Desk, a comfortable chair before it.
On the other side of the room is a large self contained Medical Diagnostic Doctor Bed. While not quite on par with the full Imaging Suite that you'd fine in hospitals in the Core, this Doctor's Bed does allow three dimensional holo-imaging of the patient's bone structure, and computed axial tomography of the soft tissue as well. There is a dedicated high power computer attached to the bed that controls the holo imaging and maintains a constant readout of the patient's vitals.
With the chaos over, the exodus to the medbey begins with the more seriously wounded bought up first while the others are allowed to come up under their own power. Kitty, gimped and sore, helps Zora bring Grey into the room set up as the ship's medical facilities, an arm drawn around his body to help him while allowing herself to use the man as a 'crutch at the same time'. "Bloody 'ell," she mutters once they're inside and she has her charge settled somewhere to sit, the weight of his body off hers now which allows her to straighten a bit more. <English>
[XXX.XX MHZ] Lucas says, "Alright everyone on board who needs to be?" <English> [XXX.XX MHZ] Kitty says, "Yeah, Ah think so." <English> [XXX.XX MHZ] Grey says, "We've got me, kitten, Crow, and Zora here." <English> [XXX.XX MHZ] Grey says, "Ashlyn is with us as well, staying in the Guest Quarters... She's got something she needs to talk to me about, after she rests." <English> [XXX.XX MHZ] Lucas says, "Roger that. Powering up and en route to Ita Moon." <English> [XXX.XX MHZ] Grey says, "Bodies are disposed of good, Pix?" <English> [XXX.XX MHZ] Pix says, "Nothin' but a fine red, slightly charred mist." <English> [XXX.XX MHZ] Grey says, "Just like my mother used to make." <English>
Grey comes into the Infirmary with Kitty. They've worked out a strange symbiotic relationship where they support each other in turn, but it works. Once they reach the Infirmary, though, he lingers behind at the doorway, fishing about his pants for his cigarettes. Shirtless, missing a tooth, bloody down the side of his face, bruised to blackness on his chest, and with one rib likely broken, his first priority is nicotine. Finally finding them in one of the side pockets, he lights one up triumphantly. <English>
Crow, laying on one of the beds with a gunshot wound to a spot of flesh just below his collarbone with no exit wound, lets out a small groan. Tilting his head to the side, his eyes lid open suddenly and blurrily scan the forms in the room that he suspects are his crewmates. "....hello?" He mumbles, breathing heavily, wincing in pain as his chest rises. "...o-fuck...they shot me didn' they....?" He starts, suddenly blinking, a weak panic sets in. "Oh fuck they hit my chest..." <English>
[XXX.XX MHZ] Kitty says, "Like Ah wasn't feelin' naseous to begin wit'. Thanks, guys." <English> [XXX.XX MHZ] Pix says, "Now I'm hungry." <English>
Sam sits over to the side with a hand stuck in her stomach. When Crow begins to talk, Sam rises up and walks over to place a hand on his shoulder. "You gonna be all right. We got you to the Infirmary." She rubs at his shoulder a little, doing her best to not show the wound in her gut. <English>
You test your Medicine against a 40 difficulty. The result is unsuccessful (-2). You test your Nursing against a 40 difficulty. The result is successful (12). You test your First_Aid against a 40 difficulty. The result is successful (26). You paged Grey with 'Can I treat bullet wounds with first aid?'
Zora is checking Crow over as best she can, grabbing a sharp pair of scissors as /rip/ goes the shirt to shreds. "Kitty, sit down on the chair over there, okay?" Zora gestures to a chair in the corner as she grabs a washcloth, which she pours disinfectant on and begins to dab at Crow's wound. "Sam, please lay on the other medbed, okay honey? Please don't argue. Bullets in the stomach are very, very, very serious." She frowns down at Crow's chest, though she gives him a reassuring smile and brushes his hair away from his forehead with a cool hand. She steps away from him and begins to walk in Grey's direction, sighing as she does so. "Captain. You've got to put that out. And you need to lay down." She lowers her voice so that Sam and Crow can't hear, and murmurs, "I can get the bullet out of Crow, it's too high to have hit his heart. But I don't have the medical knowledge to treat Sam. We need Syna." <English>
"Ah'm fine, Zora, Ah promise. Probably jus' a graze here..." She points to her right side, "and a bullet wound on mah leg. Nuthin' a bandaid and a cookie won't fix, Ah swear." Kitty grins but then, with a frown, she looks towards Sam and Crow, a blank look falling onto her face. "Yew two hang in there, got me?" She shrugs to herself and sits down, looking away from the majority of all within the sickbay, taking to muttering to herself as she does. <English>
Grey looks down at his cigarette, then back up to Zora. "I can lay down in the Commons on one of the couches and finish this. One, I need it; two, there's only two beds in here. Crow and Sam need them the most. I'm a minor case at best." He leans in close to murmur something back to her before moving to Crow's side. He looks down at the man for a long moment before producing the Slipshot and twirling it around his fingers. It snaps to a halt in his hand and he sets it down lightly on Crow's bed. "You put yerself right out on the line jus' to give me a chance with this pistol... It might very well jus' be, that I owe you my life," he says. But then he considers a moment and adds, "But then again, you kicked me in the head, so I figger we'll call it even." He grins crookedly and lays a gentle hand on Crow's shoulder. "You done good." He backs away, wincing with his steps. "Actually, Miss Zora - got somethin' I can take to dull the pain some while I wait?" <English>
"But...that's my...." Crow protests, sleepily delirious as the shirt is ripped up. Frowning as if his favorite pet kitten was just crushed under a car, he lays back and sighs. "...god I can't believe they shot me...." He groans, rubbing his face and then trailing his hand after Sam, missing and frowning. Looking up, he smiles as he slurs his words to Grey. "They didn' get anyone did they...we're all alive and the kids are here right?" He blinks, trying to lean up to look at his chest as he reaches for his gun. <English>
Grey whispers: Get her patched up as well as you can. Get the round out, stop the blood loss. Get her fluids, clean the inside of her stomach... It can get right nasty in there, and infections galore. Syna will take care of the rest.
Syna arrives from Redemption - Crew Commons - A Deck. Syna has arrived.
Sam looks to Zora as if to argue and then sighs as she walks over to the bed and moves into it. "Gorram bed. Please don't go lettin Wren know I been in this thing." She mutters out, "Crow. You sit still and let them take care of you!" She says, actually using some intimidation in it all. "Or you get none for a... For a Month!" Then she crawls into the bed and grumps there, still holding her gut. <English>
Zora nods to Grey, who is standing by the med bay door with a lit cigarette, and gulps, moving towards Crow, who is occupying one of the medbeds. Sam is on the other, though she doesn't look too happy about it, with her hand on her stomach area. "Well, Kitty, I'll give you something in one moment to hold on that leg, alright? I want you to keep pressure on it until I get a chance to look at it." As she speaks, she's yanking Crow's shoes off and cutting through his pants. Bullet to the chest area, bullet in the stomach, who do you treat first? Zora seems to be at a loss. She snatches some cotton pads from the nearby counter and hands them to Sam, instructing her, "Hold these on your stomach, apply pressure. Watch for when the blood seeps through, let me know and I'll get you a new one. And you tell me if you feel faint, please." Speaking of feeling faint and being in pain, Zora moves to a drawer and begins to pull out needles and small liquid jars of medicine, filling them up with single doses. But before she gives anyone anything, she grabs a spare iComm laying on the counter and calls for Syna, just in case. <English>
[XXX.XX MHZ] You transmit, "Syna, if you're near the ship or on the ship, I need you in the medbay. Badly. *pause* Please, please hurry." <English>
Kitty looks at Zora and winces a bit upon hearing Sam's threat but whether she does so out of sympathy for Crow who might be cut off or for some other reason it isn't clear. "Oh..okay," she says softly, sounding almost crestfallen. "Ah'll go ahead and git out of yer way once yew get me all paatched up. Keep the Capt'in company." She still kind of has her back to the room in general, only able to look at Zora from over her shoulder but she soon turns back around to face everyone. "Crow was very brave," she offers to the room as a whole while looking at Sam sidewards. Kitty looks pained but with her leg and side positively aching it's easy to surmise that it's her wounds that are causing her to look that way. "Ah think Ah need some water." <English>
[XXX.XX MHZ] Syna says, "On my way..." <English>
Grey stands in the doorway, cigarette half-finished. "Okay, um," he interjects. "I'm jus' gonna take a thing of these, and... I'll be out there." He picks up a vial of painkillers, strong dosage, and slips out again, since Zora's preoccupied with other people. "Ugh..." he grunts, holding his side. "Definitely need some gin..." <English>
"....why did you cut off my..." Crow slurs tiredly, sweating a little bit out of pure shock. Breating heavily, he gives a little smile and leans back down at Sam's suggestion, lulling his head to look over at her. He's been shot through the upper chest just beneath the collarbone with no exit wound. "Cappin...thanks...can you bring me some of my vodka I need a drink..." He says, chuckling and then immediately wincing. Confessing, he hangs onto his pistol at his side, but not wrapping his fingers around the handle, as his other hand tries to cover up his groin area. Sniffing inwardly, he closes his eyes to relax, shivering with pain. "I'm not gonna fuckin' die am I?....hurts..." He stops protesting, exhausted. "...Sam?...you got shot? I didn' see you...." <English>
"Came out after you all started the fight and finished it off. One of 'em got me in the gut." Sam says over to Crow and gives the man a wink. "Gonna be just fine." She turns her head and looks to the ceiling, taking a deep breath. "Shit hurts, yeah. Hey. Don't go checking out his junk!" She says, clearly joking about it all. <English>
It takes a few minutes but Syna finally arrives. She steps up behind Grey or maybe passes him. Giving him a hard look, she says, "Come see me in a few minutes. Or I'll come hunting for you." Then, she moves to step inside the med bay. Taking a slow scan around to see what is going on, she turns and begins to head towards the table Crow is at, apparently gauging him to be the worse off. "Zora, give Sam some pain killers, stop the bleeding and make sure she doesn't go into shock. Then, set up two IVs, and hook up both Crow and Sam to them. In that order." She's in professional mode now. Grabbing her white jacket, she also heads over to the sink to wash her hands and then put on some gloves. Next stop, Crow-ville. From the counter, she grabs the hypospray and immediately inserts something into it, and then presses it against Crow's neck. "Don't worry, you won't feel a thing..", she says. She unrolls a nearby set of utensils on a small metal tray nearby and immediately begins to look at the wound to Crow's chest, apparently deciding that is the worst one. Now she's got to go digging for bullets and enters into the deep concentration of surgery. <English>
Kitty stands up and waits until Sam and Crow both are sufficently distracted before muttering an 'Ah'm 'appy fer the both of ya' in their general directions before she looks at Syna and Zora. "Ah think Ah'm goin' ta head out, put mah leg up," she utters hastily then, looks at the nurse and doctor while trying to not look at what they are doing. "And Ah promise not to bleed on th' couch." She breezes past the beds and heads for the door, at that, not stopping unless made to. <English>
"You think I'm not feelin somethin right now...?" Crow starts as he smiles. "....ey Syna...guess what? I got shot up..." He grins, he's definitely in Crow-ville right now. Laughing, wincing, and then shivvering back into place again as his chest moves, he loses his sense of humor once. "I knew this girl that bled on the couch once....Drugs....thank god...drugs...oh shit wait...I gotta tell...everyone about the..." He starts. The hypospray hits his neck, and Crow's eyes gloss over. He says, falling asleep. <English>
[XXX.XX MHZ] Lucas says, "Welcome to Ita Moon. Shepherd, do that thing you do." <English>
The relief on Zora's face when Syna enters the room is nearly comical. She moves right into underling mode, following Syna's directions as far as stopping Sam's bleeding, giving her something for the pain, and she starts to set up the IVs after. Sam's is done with no fuss, and she's moving across the room to get to Crow when Grey announces he's leaving, followed by Kitty. "Whoa, hey now," she calls out. "Grey going I can understand, it just looks like he's got some scrapes and bruises, possible rib damage, nothing immediate. But you've got a bullet wound in your leg, Kitty. I'd really feel more comfortable if you stayed here, in that chair, till I can take a look at you." She eyeshifts to Syna, her eyes pleading for help here. <English>
Sam lays there, talking to Crow as she is killing time. "You hush up and do what the doc's tell you to." She giggles as she says it, wincing to the pain that the giggle causes. As Zora walks over, she winks to the woman, "Give me your best shot." She then slowly soaks into the no pain world and giggles, "Man... Crow's birthday is gonna be a blast." Well, at least people know what she's thinking about. <English>
En-masked now that Syna is pretty much cutting into crow to get the bullet out of him, she doesn't talk until she finally pulls the bullet out with a small set of forceps. Looking up with blood on her gloved hands and a bloody bullet in hand, she looks over at Zora and then Kitty. "Kitty. Sit. In a chair, at the desk, somewhere, just sit down and apply pressure to your leg. If you are losing too much blood then you might have actually been shot in the femoral artery and we need to take care of you now. So watch your leg." There really is only so much she can do, so she glances over at Zora and nods to her. "Check her leg make sure it's not a femoral breach. Then set up the IV here as quick as you can please.." Looking back down at Crow then, she begins to dab at the blood and goes back to working on Crow's chest, this time she is sewing him up and carefully cleaning the wound. Next she moves to the other shot area, his leg? A brief glance is given to Sam and all her giggling, a blink of confusion but then she just shakes her head and concentrates back to what she was working on. <English>
"Aw c'om, gorramit! Do Ah need to stay 'ere and watch the lovebirds making sappy googooeyes at each other? Ah'd really jus' like to sit.." She grunts in defeat and sits down, Kitty taking to moping as she does. Good thing she doesn't know squat about femoral breeches or the like otherwise she'd bring up the argument of 'hey, I haven't bled out yet so just let me go in the other room', Zora and Syna getting their way about it while she stays put and sits. "Can yew at least knock 'em the fuck out so Ah don't have to watch?" <English>
Once Crow's IV is in, Zora grabs some cotton pads and disinfectant and moves to Kitty's side. "Alright, I don't want to cut these pants off if we don't need to," she explains. Can you pull them up far enough for me to see where you got hit, or is it too far up?" As Zora waits for a response, she looks down at the floor and notices the substantial amount of blood pooling around her. "Kitty, lay down," she says quickly, dropping the supplies and motioning to the floor. "Now. You're losing too much blood, I need to see, and you need to be horizontal." She snags the shard scissors once more, and moves to cut the pants. So much for Zora's respect for articles of clothing. Arteries come first. <English>
Adila arrives from Redemption - Crew Commons - A Deck. Adila has arrived.
Sam is just slightly giddy at this point. She's feeling no pain from the wound in her stomach. She lifts the bandages and starts waving to people. "Hey Syna. How you doin? You gettin any lately?" And then to Kitty. "Kitty. You are a good woman. Real nice." She points to her, hand full of bloody bandages. <English>
Giving a soft, "Thanks", to Zora as she sets up the IV for Crow, Syna's eyes are still focussed on his leg. Her hands are covered with blood at this point, but she successfully pulls out the second bullet from his leg. With a small 'dink', it falls into the round tray to hold such items and she begins to systematically patch him up, sewing the bullet wound closed with several minute stitches. Cleaning the area with a small disinfectant wetnap, she reaches for a spray and sprays over both the leg wound and the chest wound. Wiping at her hands with the wet nap then to remove the excess blood, she last covers each wound with a gauze and tapes it closed. Looking up at the monitor which shows his vital signs, she double checks to make sure his vitals are all looking okay before she looks back to Sam and then Zora with a little concern. "I'm done with Crow here.." <English>
Crow, having been asleep for nearly an hour as he was worked on, slowly comes to. His eyes flutter and then crack open, breaking the small seal of sweat and sleep that had brushed over his eyelids. "Water?" Crow asks softly from the bed, as he looks down to his IV and then to them. "Is everyone okay?" <English>
Sam is eyed as Zora approaches her and Kitty can't help but to snort. "Yeah. Ah am a great humanitarian and a bloody joy to be 'round, too.." As Zora mentions the loss of blood to her Kitty looks down and the blood that has ran down her leg to soak the material as well as the leather of the boot before poling on the floor itself. "Literally. Ah will need to get out of these.." she mutters while hurriedly taking off her toolbelt, which she is rarely without, and her duster is shrugged off of her body and left to sit behind her on her chair. Laces undone, boots kicked off and coveralls yanked off of her then, in that order, and now Kitty's in nothing but a little pair of 'boy short' panties and her white tank top. Upon hearing Crow waking question she snaps her head in his direction while she moves to lay down herself, hissing out to him, "If yew weren't jus' wakin' up from getting your gorram own wounds tended to Ah'd walk over there and give you a thrashin' jus' to show ya how gorram fine Ah am, yew loon!" <English>
Adila, being one of the lucky, can actually take herself to Medbay. And, after several drinks to calm her shaking hands, she does just that. The door slides open and thankfully she has no weapons. Unless you count that cast, which is bloody from today's events and that balled up fist of her right hand. Pale blue eyes turn focus on one person and as the door slides open to allow her entrance, she merely stands there for a full heartbeat, seething. "Why are you treating him?" The words come out cold, as if she can barely unclench her jaw to speak. She looks ready to leap at the man any minute and strangle him with her bare hands. <English>
Sam looks to the others and laughs once more. She just keeps giggling to herself. "There's a scotty dog in the ceiling." She giggles a little more and then as Adila comes in, Sam looks to her, "ADILA! Hey! Wow... You have kinds of lights blinking around you. Like a some kind of dance." Then she lays back on the bed once more, "Hey... Are there ants in here or is someone tickling me?" <English>
Zora is ignoring Sam's babbling sadly, focusing on helping Kitty. There's been too much blood loss already. "Syna, can you get me some blood? I don't know her type off the top of my head, but she's definitly going to need some." Zora cleans and disinfects the area as best she can, and then uses the cotton pads to staunch the bleeding. "How are you feeling, Kitty? Do you feel dizzy at all?" When Adila comes in, Zora (who missed all the traitor action) reponds with a confused tone, "Because he's...hurt?" <English>
Crow lulls his head up, loaded down with painkillers as he turns half-hearing some of Kitty's words. He looks to Sam, checking on her, before looking back to Kitty. He sees her, the underwear, looks down to his own boxer-briefs and then makes a strange face as he covers himself up best as he can with the tatters of his shirt. "You must not be that bad..." Crow says, giving a little lazy chuckle. "Why ya half naked girl? Oh...you're shot...jesus my eyes are kinda trailin' behind like they're catchin up. I ain' seein a scottie dog but everyone's gettin naked Sam...is' kinda scary..." He stops, hearing Adila's words he turns to her. "Girl...hey you...missed it. Them slavers shot me up..." <English>
She takes her eyes off Crow for only a moment, Adila's blue eyes snapping to Sam and then back to Crow. "He's a DIRTY TRAITOR!" She nearly scream it at poor Zora, fist and brace trembling at her side. There is probably a good reason she left her gun back in her cabin. "The slavers didn't shoot you, you bastard! I DID!" Oh, there is is, as easy as pie and she reaches for the man, moving to grab the bed he lays as if she's going to scoot him forward. If anyone looks closely, there are tears burning in her eyes, "I fuckin TRUSTED YOU! And you threaten to shoot Idris? You betray Grey right in front of my gorram eyes!" Someone better stop her, because if she gets her hands on him, he might need treatment again. <English>
Syna pulls a blanket over Crow to keep him covered. She quickly moves around him and over to Kitty. Snapping off the bloody gloves, she tosses them in a biowaste bin from afar, having done that often it appears because she makes it perfectly. Grabbing some new gloves, she snaps those gloves on as she heads to where Zora is near Kitty. Kneeling on the other side, she looks over at Adila as she enters with an angry aura about her. Eyes narrowing, Syna, who is in -her- element, says in a very professional tone that brooks no argument. "Adila. You are in my sickbay. Do not question me, do not start fights in here. If you have a problem, leave and we will discuss it later." Her words don't leave any opening for discussion, she actually sounds like she's ordering Adila to leave if she has a 'problem'. She is still, sharp green eyes locked on Adila until she leaves. <English>
Syna rises and kicks Adila out. <English>
[XXX.XX MHZ] Adila says, "Are we still in lockdown? Someone? Anyone?" <English> [XXX.XX MHZ] Sam says, "Lockdown! Sounds like a good name for a band doncha think?" <English>
Zora has stopped what she was doing with Kitty in complete and utter shock at Adila's words, actions, and then exit. Wordlessly looking to Syna with abject helplessness and a loss of the ability to speak, she simply turns back to Kitty and continues working, remembering a few moments later to quietly shut her jaw. She's going to take care of Kitty as best she can till Syna takes over with the bulletfishing, and then go between Sam and Crow, monitoring them and following Syna's orders as best she can. <English>
