Team Door, ASSEMBLE

[solarcharged]

» WHO? Team Door… that’s EVERYONE because you’re all automatically drafted now, congratulations
» WHEN? Forward dated to 15th June
» WHERE? The door with the porthole on Deck 2
» WHAT? Eight hours’ worth of beating up a door
» WARNINGS? None

Team Door have identified a likely-looking door to attack! This door, located on Deck 2, has a porthole through which some blinking lights can be seen. It’s the most likely-looking door to go for, so this is how things will unfold:

1. Feel free to handwave that Apollo, Kaldur or Amos (or anyone else involved) has been in touch with your character to let them know that door shenanigans are about to go down
2. With Amos’s space engineering expertise they manage to depressurise an area around the door, effectively creating a small airlock within a section of the corridor
3. The general plan is to overwhelm the door, so that whoever is tackling it first uses whatever force they can to try to open it until they have to tap out from exhaustion, and then they get swapped out for the next person and so on and so forth
4. It will then take characters some 8 hours of flinging themselves/their powers at the door. The exhaustion and weakness that comes with attempting to damage the station will increasingly hamper their progress
5. There will be no visible progress in the first three hours but eventually cracks will start to appear and on the eighth hour the door will give
6. Once the door gives way, the mods will let us know what magical things will be found on the other side... (edit: looks like this will be announced OOCly by the mods before the 15th)

Things of note:

• Edit: explanation of the three sections that make up the corridor-airlock-door sequence of areas (with a handy image too):
  1. First section is the normal corridors, where people are resting up when they're getting the woozy feelings/getting their orange slices/getting into the suits. This is a normal station environment
  2. Then there is a second section - the ante room/airlock area where the pressure keeps on cycling to let people in and out so when you get in from the station corridor the pressure is the same
  3. And then the depressurized area with the door
• Characters can find 15 suits in or near assorted air locks in those areas of the station as is accessible to them at this time
• Characters can go in to the depressurised airlock in teams or in pairs, whatever works best for them
• The longer they keep attacking the door, the more quickly they grow exhausted and unable to access their powers/strength
• Exhaustion + space suits = not a great time for anyone involved
• Use this post to play out as much/as little as you need

Comments

[wentnuclear]

[ That's super helpful, thank you Mako. And he's not too proud to lean tiredly against the wall as he gets out of the bottom half of the suit, passing it off as well. He's so damn exhausted right now that just holding it up is an effort. Maybe he should bash doors on a daily basis from now on, if the weakness wasn't so disconcerting it might be good for his insomnia. Mako's prodding is a little painful, but not enough for him to flinch away. He flexes his hand to test if he aggravated anything for real. ]

I wouldn't mind an icepack? Just sitting for a minute will have to do.

[setpoint]

[Mako smoothes the suit out, disappearing for a moment to return it back to the pile they've gotten set up. When she returns, her hands go to his shoulders again.]

Sit down. You need a break.

[wentnuclear]

[ Well if she insists. Raleigh drags himself a little farther away from the airlock so they're not blocking anything, then sinks down the wall to sit on the metal flooring. And reaches up for her hand. ]

C'mere. But don't let me pass out on you.

[setpoint]

[Mako hesitates for a second, then finally takes his hand, lacing their fingers together and ignoring the way her heart skips a beat. She settles down next to him, close enough for their shoulders to brush.]

You can go to sleep.

[wentnuclear]

[ She's on -- well, the left is technically it's his bad side, but at the moment his right is the bruised one so she's on the better side. He leans into her a little, tilting his head back against the wall to rest. With their luck Frank will come by and give that knowing smirk but Raleigh is too tired to care. ]

Right here in the hall? With that?

[ Even though the airlock, there's the irregular clang of magboots and thunk of bodies hitting the door just around the corner. ]

[setpoint]

[She smiles a little, glancing back towards the airlock. It is loud.]

You were worried about passing out.

[wentnuclear]

Might happen. Doesn't mean you should let me.

[ He's teasing -- mostly. At least nodding off against her side wouldn't be as bad as collapsing straight to the floor. ]

What do you hope we'll find past this door?

[setpoint]

[She's quiet as she considers that, thumb brushing across his knuckles absentmindedly.]

A way home.

[But that's not entirely realistic and she knows it.]

I hope we find a path to the command deck, and I hope the logs aren't wiped there, too.

[wentnuclear]

[ Yeah, he doubts they're going to find a way home so easily. For one thing, having gone outside they know now for sure there are no ships docked on the station. Maybe shuttles inside a bay somewhere? ]

It could be the first step to a way home. Logs could at least tell us where we are, what happened here.

[setpoint]

[She nods.]

I hope so. Maybe we'll at least find out why we were brought here. There must be a reason.

[wentnuclear]

Mass kidnapping usually does. We'll figure it out eventually.

[ It's just taking a lot longer than he'd like. Much like breaking down the door. The clangs and thuds continue in the background, though, everybody keeping at it. ]

If nothing else we're determined. Personally I'm hoping for some kind of system access, too. So we can figure out how much time we have, maybe get some power to the door locks... [ He lowers his voice a little, not that anyone is paying attention to them. ] Have you talked to Frank lately?

[setpoint]

[Mako leans in closer instinctively when he lowers his voice, shaking her head.]

No, not recently. Why?

[wentnuclear]

He said his friend Karen found some pages from an instruction manual or something -- about the doors. They said each one has its own unique code to unlock them, so if we can get power to the access panels maybe we can work on cracking those. Might not be any faster than trying to break them down one at a time like this, but it's worth a try, right?

[setpoint]

[She nods.]

There's less risk of breaking something, and less risk of someone getting hurt. We probably won't be setting off the station's defense mechanisms, either.

[wentnuclear]

[ His thinking exactly. ]

Maybe some of you geniuses or that AI or someone could program something that just tries all the numbers? Like safe crackers in heist films.

[ He doesn't actually know how that shit works but it looks cool and sounds like a good idea. ]

Let's see if there's some way to power the panels on first, through here. Frank wanted to keep it quiet so more people didn't go wrecking the door controls trying.

[setpoint]

[Mako's lips quirk up at that.]

I'm not a genius.

[But she looks pleased anyway.]

Will he mind that you told me?

[wentnuclear]

Sure you are. You don't need a test or whatever to prove it.

[ Will Frank mind... hmm... ]

I'm pretty sure when he told me he would've assumed it was the same as telling both of us.

[setpoint]

[Mako considers that, head tilting, then nods. That's a safe thing to assume, she's just a little surprised someone from a world without the drift would have thought about it.]

I'll talk to him, then. Is your shoulder doing okay?

[wentnuclear]

[ In this particular case it has nothing to do with the drift... they can't share thoughts without a bridge anyway. But they're together the majority of the time and the way Frank views their relationship? Whether he's right or not he'd realize they tell each other basically everything.

Raleigh shrugs at her next question, and a little pang shoots down his arm with the movement. Ugh. ]

It's starting to complain.

[setpoint]

[Mako pulls away, untangling her fingers from his.]

Sit forward. Away from the wall.

[wentnuclear]

[ Huh? Okay... Raleigh lets go of her hand for the moment, shifting himself forward a little. It kinda sucks being tired and having nothing to lean on, but he trusts her. ]

[setpoint]

[She shifts into a kneeling position, then begins to knead at his shoulder carefully.]

Does that hurt?

[wentnuclear]

[ Oh. Ummm. Come on, Raleigh, snap out of it, you've done years of therapy involving this kind of thing. Just because it's Mako doesn't make it weird. ]

A little. It'll help, though.

[setpoint]

[This is fine. She's just helping! It's chill.

He's okay with it, though, so she massages a bit more firmly, working at the knots.]

Tell me if it's too uncomfortable.

[wentnuclear]

I can hack it.

[ He just needs to not make any inappropriate noises in a public corridor. Or around Mako in general.... he's like 99% sure she Knew What He Was Doing in the shower a few weeks back and so has just abstained ever since to avoid awkwardness.

Her attentions do hurt a little, but he can also feel his shoulder loosening up instead of tensing more as it swells. Definitely a good thing. ]

You've done this before?