32: Space Battle Gundam

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The 32nd episode of The Magical Monster High School Drama! series. After the Raptor has been attacked, Ishkandar, Kiereniel and Lysandryl explore and loot the deafeated enemy ship.

Plot
Kiera, Móts and Violet are on Clarence’s spaceship with crewmen Lysandryl, a scientist guy, Yassi, an alien engineer, Eric Withakay the pilot, and Iskandar, a cyborg security man. Everyone was a bit traumatised/surprised by the events of last session, in which the actual party destroyed half of another ship, killing lots of people. Kiera, Móts and Ish have boarded said ship and are headed towards the bridge. Eric, Lys, and Yassi are engaged on the Raptor, keeping it stableundefined.

Móts takes flight alongside a tube in the ceiling. Ish decides to follow using his jetpacks. Kiera has just witnessed Móts enter a room and murder a fuck ton of people and then fly upwards with Ish following, and he also follows after. Up the shaft ahead, there is a large crushing and churning noise. There is a Móts shaped hole in the bulkhead in front, and loud gunfire from beyond. Then all the noise suddenly stops, and Kiera experiences all the air moving really fast around him, pulling him up the shaft towards the hole. Ish sticks to the bulkhead with his magnetic boots, then holds out his hand for Kiera. The angel reaches out, catches Iskandar’s hand, and both escape drifting into space.

Iskandar, magnetised to the ceiling, begins dragging Keira through the air, carrying the angel while he stomps along, then throwing him into the next pressurised area. Móts has disappeared. However, over the Móts shaped hole, there appears to be a force field or something similar forming over the breach. The two unlikely companions continue exploring, finding what looks like an antechamber to the bridge, but which has a hole through it such that the entire bridge can be seen. There are bodies everywhere, but seemingly no survivors. There is a huge dominating console area at the top, several banks of consoles below. Most of this is very heavily damaged, though some might still work. There is a quite decadent set of stairs leading up to the captain’s chair, and it looks like it may once have been quite opulent, but there is damage and scratches everywhere, some of which look older than the space battle.

Iskandar advises they make sure there are no hostiles remaining, though agreeing with Kiera here that Móts has probably dealt with most, if not all, of them. Ish moves over to a new area with a keypad, next to the captain’s chair. The captain is in a similar state to Zero was, beheadedundefined. Ish examines the pad, finding it still has power. He then attempts to loot the place: the captain’s armour is fucked, but around the guy’s wrist is a little fob on an elastic band, which he takes, and uses it to swipe on the next door. There is a breeze as the atmospheres between the two areas adjust into equilibrium. It appears to be the captain's ready room, and it is filled with junk food wrappers and other assorted rubbish. Ish declares it clear. Kiera, at the door, asks what is in a small foot locker. Ish proceeds to rip the metal apart. Inside are several grenades, as well as what looks like a saber, a sidearm, and a couple of books.

Ish remarks that he is glad that he didn’t set any of the grenades off after appraising them as heavy incendiary grenades. He then hands Kiera the saber, saying he is more disposed to melee armaments. They then agree to go back to the Raptor and consolidate their prize. Ish tells Jesebel that the ship has been taken and she relays this to the Raptor ship. After all this, Kiera’s goopsuit bubble helmet dissolves down, confirming that an atmosphere has re-established itself on this part of the ship. When Clarence says to do another scan for lifeforms, Ish overhears and replies he will begin purge, cocking his rifle.

Meanwhile, on the Raptor bridge, Eric initiates the actual scan for life. He finds a few very faint life signatures clustered throughout the ship: One near the engine, perhaps engineering; one in the middle of the ship; and a larger group of lifeforms next to the hull. Eric relays this information to Iskandar, also asking whether the Raptor can take prisoners. Iskander says that they have the facilities to store one hundred prisoners, if the space is used most efficiently. Though they may die. Clarence orders that any sapient life be held down on the enemy ship, and that further casualties are to be avoided. Iskander replies that he is disabling lethal force.

Lys goes to store a thing, then asks Jesebel what’s going on. She summarises the current situation to him. Jesebel informs Kiera, through Ish, that the captain wants to talk to him, so he makes his way back to the Raptor while Ish remains on the enemy shipundefined.

Kiera gets back to the Raptor, and finds that Violet has been dragged out into the galley, and seems not strictly compos mentis. Clarence says he doesn’t know where Móts is right now, but reminds Kiera that they have three weeks left to complete the mission that the party hired him for, and that they only have that window at the graveyard. He explains this to say they should probably leave a beacon and salvage properly later, going on with the mission first. Kiera agrees.

Back on the enemy ship, Iskandar chucks the captain out of his chair, sits down, and looks for a port to plug his dreadlock wire jacksundefined into. He finds a place to interface, and immediately gets a large number of errors, only some of which are the obvious: “Engines lost”, “atmosphere lost here” etc. Scrolling back further, there are a large amount of errors about food levels, maintenance, and basically everything else wrong has been noted by the ship’s computer going back months and months. At the end of this is a series of damage reports of various points being overrun, and this spacefaring township being overtaken by another force. Iskandar asks his internal AI for the CCTV at this point, but the records that far back have been overwritten. He then asks whether the ship is totalled or whether there is a chance of salvage. The engines are caput, though life support is functioning. Currently survivable, and estimated to have full breathable air everywhere in the ship in about two days.

Iskandar, after looking at some recent CCTV, showing a it was kind of Mad Maxian existence on-board, tells Clarence that he feels the current crew are unready and the ship is going to take months to fix at least. Clarence comms through to Yassi in engineering to ask when the Raptor's shields will be ready. She replies that they’ll be ready in six hours, but after one hour here they should be able to move and then by the time they get to the graveyard they will be fully operational.

Clarence gives Kiera a comm bracelet, that connects to his suit. If he taps it, it has a distance and direction sensors to every other crew member. Lys helps Yassi in engineering, though she doesn’t really need it. She runs along the walls of the ship after rerouting power from the engines, using her vibration sense to feel the weak points and fix them. Seeing she is pretty good there, Lys decides to go to engineering on the enemy ship to get autonomy of the ship. Ish says he will meet Lys there, as he is about to test the dead captain’s pistol, but he says that Lys should wait as it could be dangerous to organics.

Iskandar shoots the laser, away from the direction of the Raptor. It’s a laser weapon, that goes as far as he can see and makes a nice scorch pattern in the bulkhead. Expecting recoil, he stutters a little, but notes that the range and lack of recoil could make it excellent for a sniper weapon. Then he meets up with Lysandryl, giving him a data chip from his head when asked for anything logged from the ship. He then replaces the chip. The both of them head towards engineering. Along the way is shit, and literal shit, in the hallway. Lysander uses his jetpack to float above the detritus. The gunk reduces the closer they get to the engine room, however, until they come to a giant door that beeps red.

Iskander waves the captain’s fob, and the door opens. There are several poorly armoured guardsmen raising their weapons, behind rickety barricades. Ish raises his own rifle and commands them to stand down. Most of the guards are unsure. Three drop their weapons, and two shoot at him. He repeats that his captain ordered to capture - if possible. He identifies the assailants and shoots back. The lucky one gets his arm shot through, the not so lucky one gets a smoking hole through his throat. Ish repeats that he has been ordered to spare their lives if possible. The rest are now compliant. Most of them seem human, and all are humanoid, but some seem to be mongrels, with one being notably reptilian. Lys moves forward to do what he needs, and scans the captured on his way. It seems actually none of them are fully human. After taking a copy of that scan, he looks over the ship’s systems.

He finds auxilary power cells dotted around the ship, while the main fusion core and two other alternating auxilary cores here in engineering. The auxilary cores seem more recent than the ship’s construction. There is also an extremely small generator located to service the bridge, and one towards the main gun as a power supply for that. Lys asks for some storage from Ish, and Ish replies that he will need to interface with the console, so Lys sets down a turret and watches the prisoners. Iskandar looks over the console, and, finding no suitable ports, rips the facing off. Here he fins some, and plugs in. He searches for everything he can find on the particle cannon Lys is interested in, and downloads what he can, though it seems there is some propriatary software on the gun station itself. Lys also realises he knows the material of the gun.

The pair get themselves to the gun bay, and Lys gets SAM to scan the place. It seems like the gun’s systems are blown, but he might get some luck from the auxilary console. With the information therin, he should have all the information he needs. They return to the ship.

Iskandar goes to engineering and finds Yassi there, who comes up to about his thigh. She flashes a muted green, and asks what she can do for him. He points to his shoulder, that is smoking. With a quick understanding and only slight hesitation, Yassi skitters up the metal man and goes about fixing the hole, reaching her multiple hands into nothing and pulling out the appropriate tools. Soon, it is completely fine, and she runs down. Ish flexes, then declares Yassi his favourite organic, which makes her quite relieved, then he leaves.

Kiera goes to test the captain’s saber, within the presumed safety of his quartes, and cuts straight through a chair. It’s a lightsaber.

Lys then tries to download all the data he has to SAM, which will take about eight hours. After this, he sets it to render a simulation of the gun, and log every day of testing. This may take about a week.

Kiera hears a slight knock on his door, and looks down to find a Yassi. He remarks that she looks really interesting, and she replies that she has never seen a human with wings before. He says he isn’t human. At any rate, Yassi just wanted to welcome Kiera onto the ship and invites him to engineering if he ever has a problem of that nature. She then leaves, crawling onto the wall and then the ceiling before departing.

With the Raptor recovered enough to vacate the vicinity, they jump back to Hyperspace and later, they arrive at the graveyard.

Cast and Crew

 * Game Master - Terry
 * Akio - Marco
 * Eric Withakay - Ben
 * Ishkandar - Salem
 * Kiereniel - Josh (TheRealWiredUP)
 * Lysandryl - Damien
 * Mótsognir - Rory
 * Violet - Kitto
 * Yassi - George (Drake1000)


 * Script Supervisor - George (Drake1000)
 * Publication Editior - Josh (TheRealWiredUP)

Production Notes
It seems there might have been another episode prior to this one that may have been lost, where the initial attack on the Raptor started, and feature Móts and Ishkandar's relaiatory attack, as well as Kiera waiting in the armoury for boarders that never came, drinking a Piña Colada.