un: rocipilot, video

[donkeyballs]

[The video comes on to show a small group of people. Alex is in front, obviously doing the filming, but behind him are two women - Naomi Nagata and Bobbie Draper - and one man - Amos Burton. You may have met some of them. A little behind them stands Prax Meng, who is looking very awkward, and Joe Miller, who is visibly rolling his eyes.]

Hey there cowboys and cowgirls. [ Alex’s characteristic texan drawl is easy and smooth, and despite the fact that there’s currently no gravity, he doesn’t sound worried.] Hope ya’ll had your magboots on.

Looks like somethin’ in the station’s centrifugal system is jammed up. That’ll be why ya’ll found your breakfast start floatin’ this mornin’. Ya ain’t gonna die, so no panickin’, but we’re gonna need all hands on deck to sort this one out. Now me and my crew here have a lot of experience with space-walk maintenance, but this is a big station. Ain’t no way we can do this by ourselves. But we wanna make sure anyone that’s venturin’ outside isn’t gonna get themselves hurt.

[He raises a hand.] Now my name’s Alex, and these here are Naomi, Bobbie and Amos. [He points to each of them in turn.] We can check over your gear and make sure it ain’t gonna start leakin’ oh-two on ya while you’re out there. We’ll be headin’ out ourselves, but at least one of us’ll be by an airlock at all times.

If anyone is havin’ problems with the weightless side of things - you just give one of us a shout and we’ll try t’ get you set up. Basic rules are - you’re gonna keep goin’ in any direction you are propelled in. Easiest thing is to just use your magboots to get around, but if you’ve gone and gotten yourself caught without ‘em, make sure you stay within arm’s reach of a wall or bolted-down-object at all times, else you’re gonna find yourself floatin’ uselessly with no way of gettin’ t’ anything.

[He pauses, looking back at the group.]

That about it? [ He waits a couple seconds, but no one adds anything, so he looks back in the camera. ]


Alright. Let’s get this show on the road.

[ The feed winks out. ]


[[OOC: Each of the Roci crew will have top levels in the event post to help people with their suits, so feel free to hit them up there! I will also link them here for easy access. Naomi || Bobbie || Amos || Alex ]]

Comments

audio; un: alucard

[reposing]

I'm glad to see you are well, Alex.

I have no restriction to the lack of gravity, but I don't know how I will fair outside. That said, I am prepared to assist as soon as possible. If you can help me find a suit, I will use what strength I've accumulated in order to resolve this.

un: gunny

[marineris]

Oh, how magnanimous of you. What happens when you wipe yourself out again?

audio;

[donkeyballs]

I'm doin' just fine, kid, don't you worry 'bout me.

Do I even want to know what 'no restriction to the lack of gravity' means?

There's a bunch of suits around, but we'll be sharin'. That said, come on down and I can get you geared up.

Audio

[tumang]

Don't want you out there with me.

audio; un: socorro

[warfares]

I can assist with the shifting of debris. [ admittedly, he's more than a little skeptical about venturing outside. given the state of the station itself he can only imagine what the suits would be like.

even so, better to do something than nothing. ]

audio;

[donkeyballs]

Alrigh', good to here it. You ever been on a space walk before?

( text | un: revan )

[warcried]

I can help with debris, too, or repairs as necessary. We should figure out teams of who's doing what and when, though. There's a limited number of suits, isn't there?

[donkeyballs]

Think we've got a couple's dozen - but no one's gonna be able to be out all the time, anyway. Got a couple hours air for each space walk. So we'll be switchin' up pretty regular, anyway.

Anythin' that's big enough to halt the whole goddamn ring isn't gonna be a quick fix.

text; un: gunny

[marineris]

i don't have any repair knowledge beyond the basics, so i'll do some of the grunt work.

text; un: tokumei

[neuralnet]

Alex, Naomi, Bobbie, Amos.

Who are the other two?

[donkeyballs]

Prax and Miller. They're from the Roci, too, but they ain't exactly as experienced with space walks, so best to stick to asking the four of us.

They'll be able to point you in the right direction, though.

voice- un: brightness_kholin

[veristitalian]

I can help with debris. I can turn a small amount of something solid into liquid. Judiciously applied it may be able to dislodge particularly difficult jammed sections.

But wouldn't know how to begin getting out there.

audio;

[donkeyballs]

[Oh, hey, he recognises that voice.

But then she says something that he is never going to get used to: crazy things that the people here can do, apparently.]

You, uh - wait, go back a bit. You can turn a solid to a liquid?

I'm assumin' you ain't just talkin' 'bout ice to water, either.

audio

[tumang]

[ Piping up from behind Alex, is Amos. He also recognizes that voice, and mainly, he recognizes this stuff she mentioned the other day. ]

Can you do it while wearing a full vac suit? No need to have your hands free or anything? Because I can get you where you need to be.

video » un: rook

[onlydoubts]

[ Oh, hey again. ] I can help. With repairs that may need to be made, and the like. [ it's a little daunting, the idea of going out there with only the suit and boots against the magnitude of space, but if he can do something - then he should. ]

video; un: tekimang

[tekimetexeng]

I suspect we'll need all the help we can get.

[ This fellow sounds confident, like he's worked on this sort of thing before. There are a handful around who have but it can't hurt to confirm it. Someone getting outside and panicking would be... bad. ]

Have you ever spacewalked?

[donkeyballs]

[ Alex smiles broadly when he sees Bodhi. ]

Hey there, cowboy. We'd be happy t' have you.

You been holdin' up alright?

@polaris, audio

[mutants]

If it's metallic I can send it floating the other way -- or yank it over, if somebody goes flying out there. [ zero g will make the little nudges her powers have been reduced to go a long way ]

I'm Polaris, if anyone needs a lifeline. [ sounds good, she thinks, hard, and in no way betraying how terrified she is to walk into freaking space. to her ears. ]

audio; un: tekimang

[tekimetexeng]

That might help a great deal, actually. Just from the observation deck it looks like there's a lot of floating debris outside. Would you be comfortable minding workers? So no one gets hit or knocked off.

[donkeyballs]

After the star? [ Alex smiles a bit, he likes romantic names like that, what do you want from him. But he has another question - ]

What'd'ya mean you can send it floating? You like Revan?

un: amazon

[monomachy]

You have a lot of experience with this? Is it a common occurrence where you're from?

And I should have no trouble moving the debris once I'm outside. All I need is the... gear.

[there were so many new words in this post but she's out here doing her best]

[donkeyballs]

[ He nods. ]

Been workin' in space m'whole life, and run into just about every damn issue you can think of. Space Stations ain't my speciality, exactly, but Amos and Naomi here are two of the best damn engineers I know - they'll figure it out.

[He offers a rueful, lopsided smile.]

Think I can go ahead and guess that you ain't ever spacewalked before?

[charlieoscar]

I did. [Yes, he took Alex and Bobbi's Space 101 speeches seriously.] Same can't be said for the pool on Deck 4. It's hovering just under the ceiling now.

[donkeyballs]

[ Well that gets a low curse. ]

Who the hell thought it'd be a great idea to put a goddamn pool in space, anyway?

video } un; envoy

[resleeves]

Space Cop!

[ what was his name again? right right, alex. he remembered that. ]

Alex.

[ see. got it right on the second try. ]

The bar's shit right now. Alcohol everywhere.

[ and it hadn't even been his fault. ]

Shouldn't I just stay in there and supervise, make sure no one slips and falls and sues?

[ worth a shot, right? ]

[donkeyballs]

[ Oh Hi, Kovacs. Alex gives him a smile that's somewhere between amused and long-suffering. ]

Think they're that likely to trip and fall in zero gee, hoss? Need a bit of gravity for that.

Though you've got a point, whether you know you're makin' it or not - those bottles are gonna need to be stowed, or they'll be deadly when we get the gravity back on.