Eleanor Moraes - Day 3
The morning has started out with a snag--literally. After finding yourself floating an hour down river, you ran into this logjam. You decide to blow it open with TD19 and some laser shots.
It takes 600 grams of TD19 to break it open enough that a few hits with a laser breaks through, which is a little more than you expected. Total delay is just under 30 minutes, but you get through, slowly push the rafts down and around the bend, and get on your way again.
6:30 a.m. (6.5 hours remaining) (1.5 hours with no rest)
Rations remaining: 46 (each survival ration is for one person for one day)
Bivouac Units: 1 (30/30 SP (structural points); 10 kg each); second one is kept as scrap (10 kg)
As you drift, Appleburg is becoming a little more talkative. He asks about your mission, and when you give him the details, he says he was trained in the military as a military surgeon, and even made it through boot camp and weapons training, but fighting is not his main skill. Nevertheless, he is happy to join in the fight because this is for a good cause and he really is anxious to get off this planet. "If I never hear the word Sathar again, it will be too soon," he says.
He tells you the tube sucking creature that got Orvo is called a Thalian, and that there are some other dangers as well--something called Flutterbyes that will land on you and try to put their larvae on you. A few minutes later, his oar hits a malleable something in the river. "These are called 'Jellbellies'," he says. "They are like almost invisible jellyfish which will stun you with their poisonous tentacles." (You remember your oars hitting those from time to time in the river. They appear quite common.) He thinks a minute and says, "The Sathar also discussed an intelligent species called the Notui. Some sort of bird-like species. I didn't get all the details but they are somewhere south of here. The Sathar lost one or two scout ships or something down there. Something with the atmosphere or natural EMP seemed to cause some wrecks and cut off the ability to easily find them via GPS or normal methods. As far as I know, they're still down there with rotting Sathar corpses inside." He chuckles. "I hope they rot. They--"
His statement is suddenly cut off.
OOC: I should have had you state who was in each raft. Because we didn't do that, I had to guess and go by some comments made earlier, so sorry if this is not what was intended, but you can switch it up later.
RAFT 1:
Desi
Hammer
Appleburg
S'krllk
RAFT 2:
Porter
Orvo
Bartja
Shemp (robot)
Appleburg is interrupted when the lead raft is suddenly flipped high into the air and its contents dumped into the water. The crew of the raft discover themselves in the river splashing around and surprised. And then you see the giant crododile-like creature that flashes past Desi as it opens its great jaws and clamps them onto the overturned raft as though attacking a territorial competitor.
The creature is very, very large--at least 10, and maybe even 15, meters long. It is impossible to tell its size for sure in the water as it thrashes around with the raft in its mouth.
You are 25 feet from shore, and your things are floating in the water around you (except those that sink to the bottom). The crocodile monster is thrashing around with the raft not far in front of you.
The second raft is 10 feet behind and floating without a problem.
7:00 a.m. (6 hours remaining) (2 hours with no rest)
Rations remaining: 46 (each survival ration is for one person for one day)
Bivouac Units: 1 (30/30 SP (structural points); 10 kg each); second one is kept as scrap (10 kg)
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:19, Thu 11 June 2020.
