weremensh wrote:
Since Arkady is there, he's going to try to make another 'dose' of sealant then watch one Irina Yuliovna Federenko wake up.
Arkady: Engineering: +4 Roll: +1 Total: +5The sealant dose requires some exacting and tricky work with very limited ingredients. It's not
difficult to follow the recipe. It is, however, extremely
tedious.
By the time Arkady has finished creating the dose, the sun is setting outside, the Ship's shadow stretching long towards the horizon.
The group will doubtless stay overnight on the Ship; Arkady can choose to awaken his wife now, or wait for the morning. Either way, at the time of Arkady's choosing, David will ensure that Arkady had a suitably large plate of food prepared and start the procedure to awaken her...
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Felix: Engineering: +5 Roll: -1 Theresa: +4 Total: +8There are enough tasks needing fixing on this Ship to take a decade for an army of engineers. Felix's work, though inspired, can only do so much.
A decade for an army of engineers. Maybe a day for an army of Felixes.
Regardless, there
isn't an army of Felixes. There's just the one. He replaces a cable here, bypasses a battery there, replaces a doodad in one spot and adjusts the environmental controls in another. With the extra power bought about by making a few small adjustments to the life support (the Ship is in
atmosphere now, it's never going to take off again, it doesn't
need to maintain vacuum protocols anymore) he manages to free up a surprising amount of power, and with a little help from Theresa he gets at least a dozen more of the hydroponics rooms
almost up and working again. (He does the difficult part; the engineers who are staying with the ship can do the tedious drudgework of refilling the water tanks, it's not like it'll take more than an afternoon anyhow).
David is
ecstatic. Felix has blown past every target David had set down for - well, for a
long time! The effects of this days work on the Ship's number of waking colonists cannot, David insist, be overestimated.
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Roger: Science: +5 Genius (Hacking): +2 Roll: +0 Total: +7Blackwell has a tablet. It is still on the network.
Roger manages to slip his digital fingers into it, slyly has the tablet turn on its microphone, and send him everything it hears.
At the moment, all he hears is galloping hoofbeats. Wherever Nicholas is, he's going there by horse. And where is Nicholas? Well, there already is that mapping satellite. Triangulating the signal from the satellite and the ship... the math is somewhat tricky. Normally, you need three locations to accurately triangulate someone's location. However, with one of those locations being in space, and assuming that Nicholas is at ground level...
...you can't
quite get the position of his tablet with GPS accuracy.
But you
can estimate it to within about a hundred metres.
Your estimate suggests that Nicholas is heading pretty much directly for the Zemoch border.
You can shut down his tablet's link to the Ship, make it unable to access any information from the Ship. However, that is something that Blackwell will notice - probably the first time he tries to
get information from the Ship. You don't believe he'd be able to bypass your block, but the chances are that he'll throw the tablet away if he finds that it's useless to him; and then you won't have any way to track him.
It's up to you whether you want to cut him off or not.