08-13-2023, 10:35 PM
== Carryover post by Calleja ==
Things had been going relatively smoothly for Beka as she ran the triage. There had been some nasty burns and cuts that Cartwright and Syrol hadn’t been able to treat with what they had, but her extra experience and training as a front-line emergency specialist had made the difference. She hadn’t been overly tested but that was fine by her. The whole point was to test Robin, not the redhead who was only too happy to play sidekick.
[Doctor Sydesh, can you give tricorders to some of the least-wounded in your area and have them doing active life and movement scans near the exits in your position? We're not expecting any bad guys to come through while the shield is up, but I don't want to take chances.]
“Er… sure, ma’am.” Beka looked around as she replied to Robin, taking mental stock of the equipment they had left. “I can make that work.”
I think.
Truth be told there wasn’t much functional equipment that had survived the fight. She got hold of a few borderline working tricorders, then gently cajoled a couple of wounded engineers to do what they could to get them going again.
There were a whole 4 fully functioning scanners, 1 of which had to be kept for treatment between the 3 medics, so that left another 3 to be handed out. Sydesh was about to do that when a Talaxian came round.
“Doctor. Doctor!” they called. “I need to speak with you.”
“Sure. Syrol?” Beka called the Vulcan over. “Orders from Lt Mayfair. We need 3 of the walking wounded using these tricorders. Watch the perimeter for movement, immediately report if they see anything. Find the fittest we’ve got left.”
Syrol nodded, took the scanners and moved off, and Sydesh dropped to one knee next to the patient.
“What’s up? How are you doing?” she asked, scanning the Talaxian with the surviving tricorder.
== Tags! GM-Damian input on the patient please. ==
== Carryover post by Mayfair ==
Time passed, and no assault. Robin wondered whether the enemy had given up and decided to wait them out or if they were planning something else. And the bombing wasn't regular.
“All set,” the Engineer declared, “I’ll send the spots to target, to your tricorders. Try to be as accurate as possible to save on energy packs, and also decrease the possibility of a full cave-in.”
"Thanks," the nurse said gratefully. "Lt. Miller, stay here and help man the barricade in case they do try an assault again." Robin was confident in Aeryn's ability to keep the situation under control here, especially if they could create a real chokepoint. She turned to the engineer, asking him to step aside with her.
"Let me see your arm," she said, spraying his burn with an analgesic from her hypo. "There, that should help with the pain. Can you pull up a schematic of the building? I don't trust the fact that they aren't trying to break through again. It could be that they're just licking their wounds or have decided that the building simply isn't worth it, but they could also be trying another route of attack. Now that we've got a plan here I'm thinking that we do need to scout the situation. I do not want us to get attacked from a different direction or taken by surprise." She was trying to draw the dejected engineer into the idea of being proactive instead of waiting to be picked off by the enemy. Or at least in the idea of making sure their little fortress really was secure.
== Tag ==
== GM Input: How does the engineer react? And does he have a schematic that Robin can look at to plan a little scouting mission? ==
== Carryover post by Miller ==
Aeryn was well aware that most eyes except those of her friend were now on her, as Robin issued her orders, and the security officer knew without asking that she was now in charge of the barricade. It was an easy role to slip into given her current position and, even if it wasn't, she had been in situations like this before her promotion. Although she took advantage of what silence they did get, which allowed her to focus on what was happening, from the occasional sound of bombardment to the irregular use of artillery, which told the Security Chief a lot. Whoever the enemy was, they didn't seem to be directly targeting them or aiming accurately with their weapons. That did change briefly as the whole building then shook and the lights flickered.
Still Aeryn held her resolve as the minutes ticked by without a sign that they were going to go through with a direct assault on the barricade. The Engineer who had been working on finding a way to bring the building down safely, gave Robin an update which the CMO acknowledged promptly, before Robin thanked him and gave Aeryn the order to stay and help, just in case the enemy changed their minds.
" Acknowledged" Aeryn replied simply, as Robin then took the Engineer to one side.
" Let's keep watch and be ready" Aeryn instructed those left, thinking that they might have to divide the watch into shifts, as time went on.
== Tags ==
== GM response from those with Aeryn? ==
== GM-Coleman replies begin here==
== Sydesh ==
The patient grimaced, obviously in some pain, but there was determination in her expression too. Swallowing down everything she was going through, she cleared her throat to respond. As the building shook from another strike, the Talaxian winced. Realizing that the strike hadn’t brought the shields down, she finally spoke.
“We didn’t know this was going to happen,” she started, looking equally ashamed and somewhat panicked.
“I swear. We didn’t even know that they were here. To us, it all looked abandoned. Scans didn’t find anything, we were cautious, we were really cautious,” the words jumbled out of her mouth, as if they had been pent up for days.
There was terror in her eyes as she was about to speak again, her blood pressure and pulse rising,
“But they were still here. They are still here.”
Then her eyes rolled back as she passed out again.
== Mayfair ==
The Engineer followed her, and audibly sighed when the contents of the hypo kicked in. Even then, he still looked wired and ready, even if some of the edge was taken off. He nodded as he listened to Robin, understanding in his eyes in what she was trying to get at.
“Sure, we have a preliminary scan from when we came in, and whatever the Talaxians could give us. It isn’t a perfect layout though…”
Grabbing a PADD, the Engineer pulled up a schematic of the building, and stood to Robin’s shoulder so she could see with him.
“Here we are on the ground level. You’ll see that there are five sublevels, not all of them the same size or height. We only have layouts for the first two sublevels,” his fingers touched the surface of the PADD, showing those areas.
“Some of it looks like office spaces, maintenance closets, and some storage areas on sublevel one.”
“Sublevel two is much the same, though with more storage.”
“Sublevel three is where we get fuzzier,” the layout was incomplete, with only sections closest to the stairwell being shown clearly.
“It looks like some lab areas, and again storage spaces. We think there is some interference from the fusion generator on sublevel five. I had a quick visual look down there when we first came in, and the genny looks fine, and it seemed to have sufficient fuel…” he paused.
“But I didn’t really get a good look on levels three or four. Once we knew that the generator was on five, I was ordered to prioritize looking after that. When that was done, I had to fall back to the barricade.”
The Engineer showed the rest of the scans to Robin, showing that there was almost no information about sublevels four or five, both having too much interference for tricorders to properly map in those areas.
== Miller ==
Most barely acknowledged the order. However, they also did follow it, pulling up tricorders or checking their energy cells in their phasers. It was clear that the barricade team was beyond exhausted, and their morale was at a breaking point. One or two of the faces did have a certain grim determination, and they’d likely fight the hardest, but even they were out of gas.
There were a few more hits to the building, one of which sounded and felt like a direct hit as the whole place, floor included, shook. One of the people on the barricade raised a hand, pulling everyone’s attention to them… there was movement on the tricorder.
“Unh, movement ahead. Not close to the explosives yet. I think maybe even outside the building? Scan isn’t very clear.”
Things had been going relatively smoothly for Beka as she ran the triage. There had been some nasty burns and cuts that Cartwright and Syrol hadn’t been able to treat with what they had, but her extra experience and training as a front-line emergency specialist had made the difference. She hadn’t been overly tested but that was fine by her. The whole point was to test Robin, not the redhead who was only too happy to play sidekick.
[Doctor Sydesh, can you give tricorders to some of the least-wounded in your area and have them doing active life and movement scans near the exits in your position? We're not expecting any bad guys to come through while the shield is up, but I don't want to take chances.]
“Er… sure, ma’am.” Beka looked around as she replied to Robin, taking mental stock of the equipment they had left. “I can make that work.”
I think.
Truth be told there wasn’t much functional equipment that had survived the fight. She got hold of a few borderline working tricorders, then gently cajoled a couple of wounded engineers to do what they could to get them going again.
There were a whole 4 fully functioning scanners, 1 of which had to be kept for treatment between the 3 medics, so that left another 3 to be handed out. Sydesh was about to do that when a Talaxian came round.
“Doctor. Doctor!” they called. “I need to speak with you.”
“Sure. Syrol?” Beka called the Vulcan over. “Orders from Lt Mayfair. We need 3 of the walking wounded using these tricorders. Watch the perimeter for movement, immediately report if they see anything. Find the fittest we’ve got left.”
Syrol nodded, took the scanners and moved off, and Sydesh dropped to one knee next to the patient.
“What’s up? How are you doing?” she asked, scanning the Talaxian with the surviving tricorder.
== Tags! GM-Damian input on the patient please. ==
== Carryover post by Mayfair ==
Time passed, and no assault. Robin wondered whether the enemy had given up and decided to wait them out or if they were planning something else. And the bombing wasn't regular.
“All set,” the Engineer declared, “I’ll send the spots to target, to your tricorders. Try to be as accurate as possible to save on energy packs, and also decrease the possibility of a full cave-in.”
"Thanks," the nurse said gratefully. "Lt. Miller, stay here and help man the barricade in case they do try an assault again." Robin was confident in Aeryn's ability to keep the situation under control here, especially if they could create a real chokepoint. She turned to the engineer, asking him to step aside with her.
"Let me see your arm," she said, spraying his burn with an analgesic from her hypo. "There, that should help with the pain. Can you pull up a schematic of the building? I don't trust the fact that they aren't trying to break through again. It could be that they're just licking their wounds or have decided that the building simply isn't worth it, but they could also be trying another route of attack. Now that we've got a plan here I'm thinking that we do need to scout the situation. I do not want us to get attacked from a different direction or taken by surprise." She was trying to draw the dejected engineer into the idea of being proactive instead of waiting to be picked off by the enemy. Or at least in the idea of making sure their little fortress really was secure.
== Tag ==
== GM Input: How does the engineer react? And does he have a schematic that Robin can look at to plan a little scouting mission? ==
== Carryover post by Miller ==
Aeryn was well aware that most eyes except those of her friend were now on her, as Robin issued her orders, and the security officer knew without asking that she was now in charge of the barricade. It was an easy role to slip into given her current position and, even if it wasn't, she had been in situations like this before her promotion. Although she took advantage of what silence they did get, which allowed her to focus on what was happening, from the occasional sound of bombardment to the irregular use of artillery, which told the Security Chief a lot. Whoever the enemy was, they didn't seem to be directly targeting them or aiming accurately with their weapons. That did change briefly as the whole building then shook and the lights flickered.
Still Aeryn held her resolve as the minutes ticked by without a sign that they were going to go through with a direct assault on the barricade. The Engineer who had been working on finding a way to bring the building down safely, gave Robin an update which the CMO acknowledged promptly, before Robin thanked him and gave Aeryn the order to stay and help, just in case the enemy changed their minds.
" Acknowledged" Aeryn replied simply, as Robin then took the Engineer to one side.
" Let's keep watch and be ready" Aeryn instructed those left, thinking that they might have to divide the watch into shifts, as time went on.
== Tags ==
== GM response from those with Aeryn? ==
== GM-Coleman replies begin here==
== Sydesh ==
The patient grimaced, obviously in some pain, but there was determination in her expression too. Swallowing down everything she was going through, she cleared her throat to respond. As the building shook from another strike, the Talaxian winced. Realizing that the strike hadn’t brought the shields down, she finally spoke.
“We didn’t know this was going to happen,” she started, looking equally ashamed and somewhat panicked.
“I swear. We didn’t even know that they were here. To us, it all looked abandoned. Scans didn’t find anything, we were cautious, we were really cautious,” the words jumbled out of her mouth, as if they had been pent up for days.
There was terror in her eyes as she was about to speak again, her blood pressure and pulse rising,
“But they were still here. They are still here.”
Then her eyes rolled back as she passed out again.
== Mayfair ==
The Engineer followed her, and audibly sighed when the contents of the hypo kicked in. Even then, he still looked wired and ready, even if some of the edge was taken off. He nodded as he listened to Robin, understanding in his eyes in what she was trying to get at.
“Sure, we have a preliminary scan from when we came in, and whatever the Talaxians could give us. It isn’t a perfect layout though…”
Grabbing a PADD, the Engineer pulled up a schematic of the building, and stood to Robin’s shoulder so she could see with him.
“Here we are on the ground level. You’ll see that there are five sublevels, not all of them the same size or height. We only have layouts for the first two sublevels,” his fingers touched the surface of the PADD, showing those areas.
“Some of it looks like office spaces, maintenance closets, and some storage areas on sublevel one.”
“Sublevel two is much the same, though with more storage.”
“Sublevel three is where we get fuzzier,” the layout was incomplete, with only sections closest to the stairwell being shown clearly.
“It looks like some lab areas, and again storage spaces. We think there is some interference from the fusion generator on sublevel five. I had a quick visual look down there when we first came in, and the genny looks fine, and it seemed to have sufficient fuel…” he paused.
“But I didn’t really get a good look on levels three or four. Once we knew that the generator was on five, I was ordered to prioritize looking after that. When that was done, I had to fall back to the barricade.”
The Engineer showed the rest of the scans to Robin, showing that there was almost no information about sublevels four or five, both having too much interference for tricorders to properly map in those areas.
== Miller ==
Most barely acknowledged the order. However, they also did follow it, pulling up tricorders or checking their energy cells in their phasers. It was clear that the barricade team was beyond exhausted, and their morale was at a breaking point. One or two of the faces did have a certain grim determination, and they’d likely fight the hardest, but even they were out of gas.
There were a few more hits to the building, one of which sounded and felt like a direct hit as the whole place, floor included, shook. One of the people on the barricade raised a hand, pulling everyone’s attention to them… there was movement on the tricorder.
“Unh, movement ahead. Not close to the explosives yet. I think maybe even outside the building? Scan isn’t very clear.”