@Scribbs you catch up with the others as they skirt south and are just outside the bunk room (F) when you hear the android coming towards you, it seems it is outside the door to the server room. (D)
Clarke whispers to you @Gungeon
“Come on, we can make it to the eastern airlocks and the suits…”
He gasps. “More than enough for all of us. At least six…”
“Then why are you whispering?”
Turning to Bridger: “Hey Bridger! Eastern airlock and suits this way!”
“Go, go, go, it’s not far behind!”
Clarke is two steps ahead of you as you pass the door to the mess and is just heading into the access corridor to the outer ring when Duncan, sprinting from the machine lab, slams him into the bulkhead, hitting his head repeatedly against the metal.
@Gungeon make a panic test because of your secret phobia.
@Scribbs behind you, you hear another Duncan laughing. “We were never going to let him go…”
Good enough for me!
Isaac is already past Duncan and Clarke before he can react.
I think self preservation is the name of the game. Bridger keeps on after Isaac.
The two survivors pound the corridor, reaching the airlock with the suits just as the screaming behind them fades…
Is there anything you do before you cycle the airlock and attempt your escape @Gungeon and @Scribbs ?
Bridger stops the feed from JIM’s body cam, vowing silently to not watch the recording, but aware that someone might be interested in what was happening in the machine lab.
“Let’s get the hell out of here and back to the Beast” he mutters, glancing nervously back down the corridor.
Isaac, running, just nods a few times without looking at Bridger.
You swiftly strap on the EVA suits and as the airlock depressurises The Starbeast is revealed, only a short manoeuvre away.
Both lose 5 stress.
What are you both thinking as you propel yourself towards the Starbeast?
Bridger is concerned at what they will find on the Beast. The emergency protocols fired their cryopods out for a reason, and they’re no clearer in understanding that. Still, it has to be better than dealing with a self replicating crazed android right?
Takes Notes.
Isaac is thinking similar. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
He’s also cursing himself for switching that thing back on!
((Tangent alert. @RossM have you seen the upcoming RPG due to be published by Osprey, Those Dark Places? Very much aiming for the same theme of sci-fi as Mothership))
(No, but I’m in for the Orbital Kickstarter.)
