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[2259.116] -- [Away Mission on Dayoumir VII] -- [Open Post]

Jun 28, 2010 09:51

(OOC: If you want to be a part of this away mission, please read the whole post including OOC comments at the end for all information, captains orders, etc.)Kirk stared down at the ice planet on the forward view screen unhappily. He didn't have the best relationships with ice planets, and the idea of going down to this one had him less than pleased ( Read more... )

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AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters kirktastic July 8 2010, 03:00:43 UTC

Jim looked to Bones, Hank, and Tyler and gave a quick nod. "We need to check out the other areas. We go carefully." He looked to the others, giving a longer look to Spock, then walked back out the door and towards the buildings in the distance. If anyone was alive, they had to find them.

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters lt_hank July 8 2010, 03:08:54 UTC

Hank had out his phaser and was shadowing Bones, as were his initial orders. He nodded towards Tyler to take point, ahead of the Captain if possible. No point getting either of their high ranking officers killed.

Tyler nodded in agreement, splitting the guarding duties equitably and headed ahead, phaser also ready. Who knew what was going on and all this ice just made things seem more...sinister. At least they were moving. He was starting to feel like he was freezing in place.

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters dctr_mccoy July 8 2010, 16:33:47 UTC

The group was moving slowly as they made their way to the other buildings. Bones couldn't imagine surviving in this environment, even indoors. Immediately he started wondering about the supplies on-board, mentally preparing in his head for advanced frostbite and other cold weather scenarios.

One eye on Jim, Bones stepped closer to him as they approached the living quarters, the doors frozen shut again. "More like they'd be at work, you think?" Bones asked. This wasn't a place you brought families. Seemed to him these colonists would be more likely at their jobs if something bad happened.

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters kirktastic July 8 2010, 16:38:06 UTC

"I don't want to miss anywhere they could be," Jim said quietly, voice loud away from the wind in the doorway. He eyed them, cursed, then gestured for everyone to step back. "Hank, if you would again?" Damn this ice... "How can ice move this quickly? That shouldn't even be possible."

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters lt_hank July 9 2010, 02:03:39 UTC

Hank nodded. He was thankful he'd obeyed his teachers advise to prepare, and then overprepare so long as you could carry your pack easily. It meant he had plenty of explosives. The ice just creeped him the hell out. He laid the explosives, and detonated them safely. A few more times and he'd be having to let Tyler do the exploding. Or borrow his. Captain Kirk had a thing about multiple people carrying the explosives, rather than entrusting them all to one person.

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters dctr_mccoy July 9 2010, 03:58:50 UTC

They made their way inside, the four of them, into the building that somehow felt as cold on the inside as it was on the outside, minus the blowing winds. There was no one there in the main entrance area, nor in what looked like a communal lobby for workers.

Bones looked over at the lift as they walked toward the first floor apartments, and wondered if they'd be able to somehow manage getting to the higher floors.

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters kirktastic July 9 2010, 14:16:14 UTC

The howling wind echoed inside of the lobby of the building, putting pressure on their ears that made Jim think of that popping sensation when going into space via shuttle. He rubbed his ear through the hat, sighing as he looked around. It could have been a place deserted for years, not just months.

He pulled out his tricorder and started to scan the building. Maybe it was the ice that was making scanning difficult, but it seemed unable to get very far beyond the first two floors. "I'm not getting anything immediately..." He trailed off, looking to the small group. "None of this makes sense. How could this ice get this far into these buildings already?"

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters dctr_mccoy July 9 2010, 23:37:20 UTC

Bones had his scanner out as well. No signs of life, of any sort. "Without computers, we're gonna have to get into each of these rooms the hard way, if you want to check each one, but," he shook his head, "I don't see how anyone could survive this, even the Andorians."

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters kirktastic July 11 2010, 02:50:38 UTC

Jim gave a hard look at Bones. "Then where are they? There's no bodies, no sign anyone was even here. Why isn't the generator still running?" He walked past Bones, shaking his head. "We need to find the generator. I want to know what the hell happened."

"This doesn't make any sense, no sense at all. The generator should have been running, keeping this place warm."

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters dctr_mccoy July 11 2010, 02:58:37 UTC

They didn't have access to schematics of the buildings, but this was a standard sort of Starfleet residences, and there was a pattern to the way these buildings were constructed. "The generator would be below ground, if they would be able to dig a basement in this ground." Walking a little further, they moved passed the frozen lift to a door with stairs behind it.

He looked back at Jim and the security people. "This is gonna be slippery." Thank fuck there were spikes in their shoes, he groaned to himself, as they headed slowly down the frozen steps.

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters lt_hank July 11 2010, 03:01:42 UTC

"What if the ice overcame the generator?" Tyler questioned. He had minored in engineering, and icing was still a problem. "With the state the rest of the building is in..."

"Wouldn't they keep that from happening?" Hank asked. "I mean the generator ought to be the most protected."

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters kirktastic July 11 2010, 03:07:29 UTC

"The problem is that it shouldn't have been able to. The generators were supposed to be overcome the ice, not the other way around. Something had to stop them." Jim was moving carefully, digging in his heels with each step.

Step by step they made it down into the basement, and Jim hit on a flashlight. It was pitch black, and not very deep. "How did they get into the ice and stone this deep..."

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters dctr_mccoy July 11 2010, 03:15:08 UTC

"Whatever they use to get that damned mineral out," Bones shook his head, the cold making that small movement bother his equilibrium. Damn... "They must have indestructible machinery."

The four of them made it to the bottom of the steps, only their flashlights providing any light. They spotted the generator in the corner, a frozen block of ice. "Shit," Bones said, mostly to himself. Without any heat, no one would have survived this cold.

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters kirktastic July 11 2010, 03:25:10 UTC

Slowly Jim walked over to the generator and shook his head. How could it have gone out so quickly? The ice was so thick, how were they supposed to find out what happened to it?

That was, until he spotted something. Kneeling down, he lifted his goggles for a few seconds to get a better look. "Look at this. There's some sort of green liquid frozen in the ice here." Instead of being blueish-clear, it was a light neon-green color.

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters lt_hank July 11 2010, 03:52:31 UTC

"Please don't touch it, sir" Hank looked at it. Gross. "I think we're going to need to use the ice picks. Exploding the generator wouldn't be a good idea." He digs around in his pack for the ice picks and hammers.

Re: AWAY MISSION - Reseach and Living Quarters kirktastic July 11 2010, 04:05:00 UTC

That earned Hank a look. What was he, five? He wasn't going to touch it. "I'm going to call Spock over here, see if he knows what it is. Then we'll see if we can dig it up out of the ground, if we even have to."

He pulled out his communicator, fumbling in his thick gloves, and called out as soon as it beeped, "Spock! I need you in the living quarters in the basement. Found something you need to take a look at. Careful coming down, it's a slippery slope." It occurred to him he could have done it through their bond, but the idea of it made him shiver more than the cold. Not yet... not yet.

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