Kane's GURPS Traveller PbP

[Arkady]

Crystal groans ever so slightly when Joe speaks up, then looks from him to Sarah, raising a finger, "Don't even say it. You don't want to be bored at the shuttle, either." Her gazes wanders on to Ruddick. "And you cannot possibly miss the chance to do whatever you do with relics out of space and time." She throws her hands up in the air in exasperation, then sighs. "Fine. New plan A, as in 'Against my better judgement'. Everyone helps with efforts to camouflage the shuttle while we wait for Lopez to come to, and when she's ready to lead the way, we all move out. Might be best to have a look at the scout ship and see if it is salvageable, anyways, just in case we wind up needing a plan B for limping back to civilization from this here middle of nowhere. Let's just hope it doesn't come to that because giant alien Salties don't actually bother atttacking camuflaged shuttles."

[Colonel Kane]

Ibanez thinks a few minutes, "From what I gathered from what Lopez said, this creature should not bother small parties of no more than 5, I also doubt that it would attack the shuttle, as it has not attacked the scout’s ship. I do not think it would hesitate to have a small snack, though, so you should still be wary. We also have 4 radios with us. Short ranged, but could be of use. If you take one, Pita and Joe take one and go check out the scout ship. Maybe they can fix what is broken. Ruddick can use the shuttles radio… come to think about it. I say, have Ruddick take the shuttle and fly around the area, anything as big as what I think this thing is, should be able to be seen from the air. Percy and Sarah can stay in the shuttle with Ruddick. Joe could go with you to explore the cave, as he said his general skill set could be beneficial, then maybe Percy could go with Pita.

 

He hesitates. He is clearly torn, " I would like to see if I can find Pennington. I owe his father my life more times than I care to count.

The next time I see Tom, I would like to offer him something more than 'your son is dead'.

Sarah starts to say, " I will come…..," and Ibanez cuts her off, "Sorry Mame, but you would be safer in the air, and I can move much faster by myself. " Sarah nods.

She turns to you. "As you are in charge of my security team, so I will leave the decision up to you, but Ibanez does make sense.

[Kangaroorex]

Joe looks up and at the ship: "we can probably use the shuttle as a relay between the short range radios, it should certianly have the transmitting and receiving power.  Misss Sarah, Id be grateful if you could keep in direct communciation with both land parties so you will know what is happening and provide cover for both and an emergency rescue should one be required. Hopefully that will keep disasters to a miniumum!"  

 

Joe thinks for a minute "if we can get the scout going, its space based weapons make excellent monster deterrents, makes me wonder why they didn't use the old lightning from god gambit to eliminate the beast in the first place."

 

He grabs up his kit and (hopefully) one of the ship radios and looks at Crystal, "If you think someone with years of ground and space based scrounging can handle a little spelunking that is.."  with that he breaks out into a big grin and stands waiting for everyone to get started.

 

Rob:  I assume the shuttle has no weaponry?

 

 

 

[Arkady]

Crystal looks from Ibanez to Joe, frowning slightly. "I can't say I like it. That'd mean not actually having anyone from the core security team with the VIPs, and relying on draining the shuttle's energy reserves to keep them safe. While potentially leaving a largely unknown with them, unless Lopez recovers fast enough to join the cave delving crew. That's..." She shakes her head. "Look, I'm not ideal for this job, but I'll be damned if I don't try to do it right. Surely there has to be a saner alternative." She looks over the group.

 

"Actually, Joe, how are you with first aid? Could Miranda stay with the shuttle crew if you join me spelunking? No, wait, that'd leave Pita all alone to take a look at the scout ship. This..." She sighs. "Right, fact is, we've got over two weeks, so how about we not move out doing all various things at once, going in mostly blindly. Can we land the shuttle at the scout ship's site? That'd be ideal, so Pita, Joe and Wrench can do a first assessment together while the rest of us see about securing the site for repair work and wait for Lopez to come to. Perhaps there's some, any useful intel in the ships databanks, too. Plus, come to think about it, having some idea on what might be needed for repairing the ship be fore going spelunking seems like a splendid ideaOdds are there will be salvageable tech in that cave, but depending on what the rock is made of, we could be effectively radio dead once inside."

 

"If we can secure the site a bit, ideally, the shuttle could then stay on the ground most of the time, at the scout ship's site, so Sarah and Ruddick can lend a hand to Pita best as they can to perhaps get that ship working, instead of putting a a strain on the shuttle's energy reserves and possibly getting us stranded. Still need to figure out who stays there for actual security, but at least I, no, we will have a little more time to think about it. Ibanez, I get what you want to do, but it'll have to wait just a little. Besides, you don't actually want to move out until you've talked to Lopez about any pointers she might be able to give you."

[Colonel Kane]

Ibanez thinks for a few mintues, “Sorry boss. I kind of lost my head there a bit. You are right, we should take the shuttle over to the Scout ship and set up a permiter around them both. Let Joe, Pita and Wrench take a look at the scout and see if it can be salvaged. If it can not, at least there maybe some of the tech or some supplies that we could salvage. Once Recruit Lopez wakes up she can show us where their main base camp and the other camps are, even though she said those had been destroyed, there maybe salavagable supplies there as well. Surily the beast did not ruin everything. I suggest if we are going to do this, we get started right away. while two weeks can be a long time, I suspect it will go by pretty fast.”

[Arkady]

Crystal nods. "You're right. Two weeks is enough not to foolishly rush things, but it's not enough to dally. So let's get Lopez on the shuttle and relocate to the ship site. Wrench, I'm guessing you would have some info on what the scout ship's technical specs should be, so en route you, Pita and Joe put your heads together and plan out how you'll go about efficiently assessing the ship's current state. Ibanez, as the ops expert, you can brief the rest of us on how to go about securing the perimeter when we get there."

[Kangaroorex]

"sure. Besides, I am extremely curious to find out what takes a scout ship out and leaves it in one piece.  That is one hardy piece of equipment."  

 

Joe will start working with Pita to put together an evaluation survey and start identifying potential fault areas to look into.

[Colonel Kane]

In short order Recruit Lopez is placed on the shuttle and Ruddick has the shuttle in the air, a few mintues later Ruddick lands the shuttle with guidence from Ibanez. On exiting the shuttle, Ibanez begins looking at the crates of supplies and with help from the rest of the crew, carrying them and getting them organized into a defensable ring using the shuttle and Scout ship as anchor points.

Joe, Pita, and Wrench head over to the scout to try to find out what is wrong with it. Pita tries to start up the reactor, it takes a few minutes, due the reactor being shut off for so long, but it startes up just fine. She asks Joe to go to the cockpit and check things up there.

Pita does find a few parts that have some wear and tear on the, but most have spares and the few others, that do not have spares, Pita can machine them quite easily.

 

Recruit Jena Lopez wakes up in the middle if the preprations and Miranda does a quick check up on her and deems her fit for duty. Lopez helps out with the moving and organizing of the crates. There are two crates that Ibanez does not use, one is marked rations the other C4.

 [I figured I would use the C4 as I am unaware of the Traveller equvilant and also figure most every one knows what C4 is and would understand that better than if I tried to find C4s Traveller equivilant.]

 

[Arkady]

Crystal leaves planning the details of setting up the defensive perimeter to Ibanez, thugh she occasionally inquires about his choices, sounding like she's trying to get at least a basic grip on the essentials of it. That aside, the helps setting things up as best as she can, though judging by her lack of good technique for handling crates, she probably really didn't carry much more than resposibility during her time in the Navy.

 

She asks Miranda to check the crate of rations, see if there's any indication they might have gone bad or wheher they can be used to replenish, ever so slightly, the Star's supplies for the voyage home. 

 

After Lopez comes to, Crystal briefs her on the team's plans. "Given you're clearly not at 100 percent, I think it might be best if you stay here, to provide some additional security. And maybe forage a bit around the site. I'd presume you know what's good to eat and might make for a better meal for the team here than rations, right?"

 

She then gathers everyone. "Okay, time to finalize plans the spelunking trip. Firstly, Pita, anything you need the team to be looking for salvage-wise? Secondly, Lopez, how is the terrain as far as you could tell? Does it even make sense to take Wrench along, or is his maneuverability too likely to become an issue?" She points at the tracked robot. He may not like legs, but they might have been beneficial here. "Also, there is an additional factor to consider that I hadn't previously been aware of." She points toward the crate of explosives. "We have better capability for breaching obstacles than I had initially anticipated, so I need someone who actually knows their way around explosives in case actually utilizing them seems called for in order to reach the subterranean source of that distress signal. Any takers?"