The Game of Future and Space

[Aeti]

No Mayinponder ever stayed back when others are in danger! Fortinbras declared angrily, Just you try and keep me back!
Oh odgay, hatway avehay I ottengay yselfmay into?
Despite his vehement protests, Fortinbras remains in the back of the group.

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OOC-assuming everyone else is going. Which I hope they are, because I don't want to get murdered. We could always go and check the unexplored and undangerous first floor rooms, right guys? Guys?

[thisnamedoesntf]

Daggit swings Daisy by his side and restlessly follows Tal down the hall.


The muttering continues.

[Doctor Bloo]

David hangs back at the doorway. He seems disturbed about the rumbling sound. He listens to it for a while, trying to discern more about it.

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listen - +3 take ten.

[jm_jazzman]

Tal'vere and Daggit make their way down the hallway with Fortinbras following behind. To the left, the hallway continues for quite a distance. The door on the right opens easily, revealing a white-tiled room with large, shapeless bean-bag furniture pieces affixed to four of the corners, and a small kitchenette at the far end (complete with a mini fridge, zero-g coffee maker, and microwave oven).

Listening carefully, David determines that the rumbling sound has settled into a consistent frequency. Its origin is still a mystery.

[!rorak]

O-kay. Bit anticlimactic. Tal turned to Daggit and Fortinbras. "May as well check the left now."

[Aeti]

Fortinbras sees if it is possible to make a cup of coffee.

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Use Magic Device - (1d20)[2]

[Aeti]

After seeing if it is possible to make a cuppa joe, Fortinbras checks to see what is in the cupboards. He doesn't really expect to find anything besides sugar and spices, but he searches nonetheless.

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[roll=Search][/roll] OOC- Dammit. I just rolled a 22, but I screwed up my spoiler tags again. Ignore this roll and just know it's a 22 kthxbai

We might as well give the room a quick check in case there is something interesting to find. As they say in my family: "hatway indkay of idiot are ouyay, otay ebay ushingray around ikelay a wattay"

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* post roll count doesn't match database

[jm_jazzman]

Tal checks out the corridor to the left. It goes for about 100 feet before coming to a large pressure door.

Fortinbras presses some random buttons on the coffee machine, which fills with water and hums softly. A quick jet of brown powder is suddenly sprayed into the liquid. Only a moment after, Fortinbras hears a small but terrifying *click* as a small hatch opens and the cold, half-mixed coffee goo is expelled out to where a bottle-thermos should be waiting to collect it, collecting on Fortinbras' clothes instead.

Searching the rest of the kitchenette, Fortinbras finds only some biscuits, five granola bars, and a can of shockolate Power Thirst in the mini-fridge.

[Aeti]

Swearing, Fortinbras changes his shirt with one of the ones he took from the locker room. He leaves the soiled shirt hidden in a cupboard. I hope none of them saw that.

Fortinbras takes the biscuits and granola bars, then eats a biscuit while he reads the ingredients label on the Power Thirst.

[jm_jazzman]

The biscuit tastes slightly stale, but not horrible.
The power thirst ingredients are as follows:
- ENERGY
- caffeine
- sugar
- chocolate
- REAL LIGHTNING

It's a shame there's no government standards for this kind of stuff any more, eh?

[!rorak]

Tal'vere moved up to the pressure door, and checked whether it led into hard space or not.

[Aeti]

Fortinbras wipes the crumbs off his shirt. He offers a granola bar to each of the people in the hallway. Nothing else in there. Are you people hungry?

[jm_jazzman]

Through a small porthole, Tal can see another room on the other side of the door. The pressure gage shows a normal atmosphere on the other side, and the control panel shows that this door is locked.

[!rorak]

Wow. A locked door. That's new. Tal'vere tried to fiddle with the control panel.

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Take 20 Use Computer +5.

[jm_jazzman]

Tal'vere spends several minutes trying to hotwire the door open. However, despite doing so previously, he can't seem to force this one open.

The low rumbling sound grows more intense, and everyone suddenly finds themselves drifting uncontrollably, progressively faster. It feels like you are all falling sideways.

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OOC: You are all "falling" to the right according to the map's orientation (except Tal, who is just resting against the door at the end of the hall now). Everyone may roll a reflex save to get a solid hold on something.

[!rorak]

"Ugh. Daggit, little help here?"

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(d20+2)[8]

[Aeti]

Fortinbras attempts to maneuver himself!

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Reflex - (1d20-1)[8]OOC- Man I wish this was move in Zero-G

[thisnamedoesntf]

Clutching Daisy tightly, Daggit tries to grab onto something with his free hand.

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Reflex - (1d20)[6]

In a minute, Tal. What the frak is going on?

[Doctor Bloo]

David kind of bumps against the wall in the corridor.

This is NOT good.

He moves to the side of the shaft and looks down what seems to have become a chasm of death at Daggit and Fortinbras.

[!rorak]

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Hey, I think Aeti's right. Shouldn't we be getting a couple extra points for any skill we have in zero-g? It seems like the kind of thing that would make a difference in this situation.

[Aeti]

It feels like the gravity generators are coming online! I feel sick.. At least there is not much to get rid of.

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OOC- Ha ha tossing his biscuits ha

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It's funny because he just ate a biscuit haaaa

[jm_jazzman]

You are all accelerating at a constant rate (so it's like gravity). Tal'vere and Daggit are standing on the pressure door at the bottom of the deep chasm of death that the hallway has become. David stands on a wall near the edge at the top, while Fortinbras hangs in front of him, barely keeping the tips of his fingers on the frame of the door to the small room.

Meanwhile, Granny is caught by surprise and is thrown hard against the far wall of the refrigerator room.

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Granny takes 5 points of damage

[Aeti]

HELP! I think I'm going to fall!

[Doctor Bloo]

David reaches out as far as he safely can to try to help Fortinbras.

"Try to swing over towards me! I'll catch you."

Well... I'll try my best to catch you. Idiot, why would he do something like this?

[!rorak]

There was yelling up above, the sound spiralling down the lengthy corridor. From the sound of it, David and Fortinbras could have used some help. Can't worry about that right now, the acceleration could change again and send us flying back out of the passageway at any time.

Tal'vere glanced at the door, trying to discern where the locking mechanism was so that Daggit would only need to cut that.

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Search check, I guess. +1 for Int.

Tal'vere turned to Daggit. "We gotta cut through this door, fast. Is Daisy up to it?"

[jm_jazzman]

This door looks like the other ones that Daggit has cut through already. There are four locking points around the circular door, so that it must be completely removed if one is to cut through it.

[Aeti]

Eyes wide with fear, Fortinbras tries to swing nearer.

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Whatever this check is, I don't have a rank in it, and both my strength and dexterity are -1, so it really doesn't matter. Here goes.. (1d20-1)[6]

[Aeti]

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OOC- Now that I think on it, it really isn't very hard to swing, is it? Like DC 5 or something. I probably shouldn't have rolled.

[jm_jazzman]

Fortinbras swings forward and down, catching himself painfully on the ledge in front of David, who is waiting to help him.

Everyone feels lighter and then begins to float. The walls rotate around in a dizzying manner, and then everyone suddenly feels heavy again as the sideways force resumes its pull once more. There is stumbling as everyone tries to regain their balance. Fortinbras finds himself resting on the wall-floor by David's feet.

[Aeti]

Fortinbras groans and lies on the floor. I think I hurt my side.

He is obviously not badly injured.