[Game Thread] Wherein Everything Goes Kablooey

[Caput]

 

Sunshine wanders aimlessly until her (well, "her" for the next five minutes or so. After that we'll see) mental gears clunk into the boredom position. It doesn't take long. Still eating the chicken, our great hero starts wiggling in search of more specific things. "Arcade machines. Pew pew."

[hobocommando]

 

"Goddammit!" Klikam slams his hand on a nearby wall. My first day and they can't even get their **** together so I can even work. What's more I can't even help! Klikam thought to himself trying to figure out what the hell to do. Klikam decides to follow the dimming lights till he finds the area that will more than likely be the one that the power is being directed off too.

[MCP]

 

So... Yeah. Chicken-like food. It's not half-cardboardy in either taste or texture either, so that's five bits well-spent. Dabbing his mouth with a synthesized napkin and dumping the garbage into the nanodisassembler chute so someone else can enjoy the leftovers as their next order, he ambles on six legs out onto the main thoroughfare to stop off at the district's technological doodad station to see if those new encryption spikes have come in yet.

[Fragmaster01]

 

Your happy exit from the place of vaugely chicken based foods is interrupted by the station wiggling a bit, then a large steel barricade dropping in front of your face.

 

Well, that's not helpful. Both directions are dimmed...
The lockdown doors slam down on your section, leaving you staring at a steel barricade helpfully painted a slightly different shade of grey than the norm.

 

A large steel barricade slams down on both escape directions. The paint job happily declares it as a lockdown barricade. Oh dear... they don't do that for just stowaways, do they? Maybe they saved it for when something else would happen, so they could get you and the bad guys at the same time! Sounds like something 'they' would do...

 

The station gives a hearty wiggle around you, and the sound of something large slamming shut outside the bar. They're having fun out there.

An announcery voice comes over the PA, in several different languages. "This sector is under lockdown until further notice. Please remain calm. Happy music starts to play to aid in your remaining calm.

[Caput]

 

"Aw. Butts." Sunshine knocks on the new wall a few times. It's important to find out how it sounds. "Now all the crew are going to think I made this happen."

[hobocommando]

 

This day just keeps on getting better. I out to just give up thinks the bug that seems to encounter failure at every turn. However, concern seems to take over. Klikam begins to look around the area in order to find someone who looks like they have a clue as to whats going on.

[MCP]

 

...Oh. Well, this is one of two things. A police control, or the area right beyond that just experienced explosive decompression. Both of those are reasons to flee at the fastest speed available. If the shutters are down between here and his place, Sennesel will use the ducts. He has to get his stuff and then get outspace as soon as possible. Brushing past the wiggly thing, he snorts in its direction if it doesn't get out of the way quick enough.

[The Smarter Pie]

 

He laughs off the loud noises at the door but the PA is giving off a worrying signal. Nothing's screwed right? I get to keep to keep drinking right? He gets that sinking feeling that he's somewhere he shouldn't. Leaving the drink he approaches the door and attempts to open it and asses the situation outside, sincerely hoping it's mostly harmless and he can get back to his table.

[Fragmaster01]

 

It sounds like a metal wall. Kinda thick, and has a good *thung* when you knock on it.

 

No one else seems to have a clue what's going on. You watch a spaced out looking Ormu knock on the lockdown door, perhaps to see if anyone answers.

 

Here we go, nice loose panel in the floor, and down to the ducts we go! If only all things could be so easy.

 

There are two large metal doors proudly proclaiming the word LOCKDOWN on them closing off the section. People are staring around, wondering if now is a good time to start panicking.

The station gives another hearty wiggle, this time a little more akin to an earthquake. Except in space.

 

Reflex save. You needs a 10 to maintain a graceful manner of entering the vents, and not slipping and landing in a splat.

[The Smarter Pie]

 

Jup knows a panic is the last thing this section needs. What they DO need is a loud action-man to look up to, natch. He climbs onto the bar and shouts "Everybody stay calm! Can anyone contact the outside?"

[MCP]

 

Venturing through the somewhat familiar bank of ducts that connect the food court section to the residential section that his dinky quarters are in, Sennesel grumbles to himself about the futility of consumerism and how this would never have happened if he had just eaten that rat he saw under his bed an hour ago.

Dice Reflex:

1d20+6

(3)+6

Total = 9

[Fragmaster01]

Everyone save Jup: You hear a loud, brash male voice shouting from near one of the bars. "Everybody stay calm! Can anyone contact the outside?"

[hobocommando]

 

Klikam feels a bit at ease after hearing this. "Finally someone who isn't completely hysterical." Trying to walk calmly through the crow of civilians Oi! I might be able to. I'm a member of the security around here....Well, sort of. The brass is still dragging their feet and don't even have me on the payroll yet but my communicator is government issued and I could possibly get on a frequency that could give us some info.

[Fragmaster01]

 

An Alak walks towards you from the lockdown door. Oi! I might be able to. I'm a member of the security around here....Well, sort of. The brass is still dragging their feet and don't even have me on the payroll yet but my communicator is government issued and I could possibly get on a frequency that could give us some info.

[Caput]

 

Sunshine does the most productive thing possible in the circumstances: Seeing how high the chicken can go and still fall into the mouth. Circumstances be damned. Fun will be had regardless.