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: 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.

[mutants]

More comfortable than I'd be watching them go all Sandra Bullock out there.

You're one of the crew, right? [ "the crew" to Lorna is anyone who knows what they're doing on a space station, who cares right now if they're the most suspicious people on board. ] Any tips for a first timer?

[tekimetexeng]

[ The fact that there's a large group of them and they're open and honest about having lived in space could be either a point against or in their favor. Surely whoever's responsible for bringing them here would play along with the majority, and try to appear clueless? Or maybe a story about having lived in space before could be considered hiding in plain sight. It's up to the general public to decide, really, but Naomi takes "crew" to mean Alex's, that he just mentioned. So she nods in answer to both questions. ]

Keep your eyes down whenever you move. Out on a hull there's nothing to orient yourself with and you can get pretty unsteady looking around. Step wrong and your boots won't lock, so plant your feet before you play lookout. If you get scared by it that's natural, but mind your breathing, don't panic. The oxygen packs seem to be meant for short trips.

[mutants]

I'm used to high risk situations. [ She's telling herself as much as tekimeng, trying to turn this into just another day at the dilapidated husk of an office. ] I can keep my cool.

Are you staying in or going out?