[IC] Heart Of Gold - Firefly Inspired RP - Closed

[Afina]

"Blasted hell, I don't care who, someone get to the cockpit and vent this smoke before we loose all oxygen in this gorram ship!" Captain yelled through the com. Stumbling she slowly made her way out of the engine room now that the fire was taken care of, grumbling to herself about killing her now to be former mechanic if she ever got her hands around his throat. Taking a long breath she made her way to the back cargo area and hit the release, the doors opening and a rush of fresh air pulling into the ship as the smoke started to vent out.

Leaning back against the railing she sunk down to the floor, holding her arm and applying pressure to it to try to get the bleeding to stop. "Yeah, we're alive," Captain yelled out into the sunlight as she sat on the floor. "Who the hell are you?" she asked to the voice she had heard with the banging as she opened the ship up.

[knighthawk]

Gideon was hauling heiney through the wide flat expanses, He had mannaged to track down a lead on one of his family members, Deborah was alive and wanted for murder! No one but him would ever be happy to hear that sort of thing but him and he was hooting as he hopped rocks on his mule. While most had something like an AtV for hauling things around, this bitch was his baby, she could reach 500 miles an hour, theoretically. Theoretical in he couldnt find a way to hold on going that fast and road rashing at a hundred was enough for him to rethink his plans, but the theory was sound and the pieces held up to the stress tests.

All the same, then the firefly came fire-balling down he made a change in course and opened her up to try and find any survivors or savage. If the ship survived but the crew didn't, then he had a chance of fixing it up to make it his own! If the crew survived, they would need repairs! Either way is a win for him. He slowed his approach as there was the front door open and two people talking.

"Nihao! Yall look like you need some help! I'll do what I can to sort you out for Five pounds of protein or five battery boxes, whichever you got more to spare."

Greed is easier to believe than good Samaritans so he hoped offering self interest might be a better way to ingratiate himself with whoever is in charge. Fireflies are not luxury pieces, hard working ship for hard workers, hard workers appreciate fair work for fair pay. If he could get in the ship, he could convince them to limp to Boros for real repairs at the Iskellian Shipyards, hell, not even the shipyard, just the junkpiles would be worth the tetnus shots to get hands on stuff in their cast-offs.

[hoppiholla391]

Hannah groaned as the Captain's barked order came over the comm, coughing up a lung as she pulled herself to her feet with the railing. Make that foot—she limped to the console and propped her hip against it, fingers flying to input the override that would allow the cargo bay to open even with the alarms blaring.

Captain Lee made it to the release, the hatch opened, and some of the haze lessened. The coughing didn't let up, but Hannah slumped against the railing in relief anyway. She let her knees buckle and she sat on the floor, legs swinging in the open air over the cargo bay and her arms folded on top of the bottom rail.

"Captain," she said hoarsely, "Honest to Betsy that wasn't me this time."

She was just about to try some weak joke to try and brighten the Captain's black mood when the stragglers from outside caught her attention. Her eyebrows rose, and she pulled herself to her feet again, painfully making her way down into the hold. She gave halfhearted waves to the newcomers, but figured that if anyone was going to let them on board, it should be the Captain—and she had crates of grenades to shove in a refrigerator. And a busted ankle to deal with. Christ.

[Little_ninja]

The firefly started to open, black smoke escaping from the hatch. Waving his hand in front of him, fanning the smoke, Rune heard the captain speak. The captain stated that they were alive and wandered who he was. "Name's Jeff. I'm a small time mechanic here. Saw your ship hurling down, wanted to see if you were hurt or not, see if maybe you needed some repairs." As Rune gave a random fake name, someone else came over to the crash site. A mechanic.

Oh damn it! I hope I don't get discovered so quickly. Rune thought to himself, looking over to them. Inside the ship, a hoarse voice called out to the captain. Betsy? Who is that? Looking up at the voice, he saw a young lady, couldn't be older than himself. Seeing her wave, he waved back. "Anyway, exactly what happened here? Do you have a mechanic, Captain? Because it's dangerous being in the black without one." Rune asked the Captain. "If you need some repairs done, I'd like to offer my services. In return, I'd like to travel along to one of the other planets, if you don't mind." Rune demonstrated a full set of tools, ready to be used for the job.

[Markofkri]

@Afina

Hitting the comms Iean set out a word in between coughs. "I'm fine here capin. Cough. Hack. We got problems of the critical sort." Iean sprayed some stuff that tried to spark up and some areas still holding heat. Iean shook his head as he looked at the damage. Thankful to be alive he looked up and yelled at the ceiling in Chinese. "What the devil are you playing at? You'll not get this ship without a fight!" The only thing to do now was to find a place with better air.

Making his way to the cargo hold the high ceiling would allow the lower level to be free of smoke so he headed in that direction and when the ship touched down and the doors opened the air would rush to great him. Iean didn't have to wait long to breath free. "Ah that's the good stuff." He stayed close to listen in on the damage report from the captain.

[Afina]

Captain groaned deeply as she pushed herself to her feet, pulling a bloodied hand away from the deep gash in her bicep and taking out a cigarette, lighting it quickly and taking a long draw off of it. Looking at the two that had come up to check out the crash.

"Yeah, we had one and if I find that gorram mechanic I will drop him in deep space before he can say Browncoat," she spat as she held the smoke between her teeth.

"All injuries report to the infirmary, if you can't have someone carry you," she yelled into the com before turning back to the two new comers and then over to Iean.

"Preacher, take these two to the problem and have them get to work," she said as she pushed the smoke from between her teeth. "One of you start working on repairs, the other bring me a damage assessment in the infirmary. I'll hire both of you if you can get this gorram ship off the ground in less than a week, if not I'll pay one and hire the other. Who ever is better at the job," she said before storming off back into the ship and making her way down to the infirmary to patch up her arm and see who else got the blue blazes knocked out of them.

[knighthawk]

Gideon looked over with a mental groan at the other mechanic, the man was downright unflappable in the situation. He looked back at those that were talking and cast glance back to the other potential rival. He stowed his bike to the corner and came back to the fellow grease monkey to talk to him as calmly as he could while waiting for the preacher

"Alright, lets keep this simple, we can't be in there butting heads or else we both going to be stuck on this rock. One of us needs to do the hard work and the other one do the reports. Have you ever done overhauls to a firefly before?"

He had done a lot of work in the war, scrapping and slapping ships parts that were shot down or captured alliance pieces. Of them he had to appreciate purple belly tech, it was all built around like lego blocks. Push it in, pull it out, ultimate efficiency.

"Alright, lets assume for a second everything is (insert chinese here), We have the the two shuttles and the firefly made by the same people who make Dragonflies, her kissing cousin.
After that we got the bumble bee which is the inbred cousin, then yellow-jackets who are the brother from another mother and hornets that look like you from a ways off but aint got nothing to do with you. with Scarabs limping in at the last.

If the reactor is gone, A dragonfly has the same make we can use, but we can cobble together something that will limp with a long range shuttle to take apart or take a huge risk with finding a bumblebee to take apart piece by piece for what we need like a compression coil or the kin. The engine is in the same boat, either a dragonfly for a full replacement or a shuttle for parts. And again for the thrusters.
Hell we can get her just about anywhere for a spell if we scrap both of her shuttled for parts. But i'd rather not kill the babies to feed the momma-bird, she'll know and she'll let us know her displeasure.

Sensor packs we can get from both of those as well as any bumblebee, scarab, or hornet. Same for the whole computer. If the coms are down, then we can get it from anything but the scarab. What do you say?"

[Afina]

The captain headed down to the infirmary grumbling under her breath as she held her cigarette between her lips in the corner of her mouth. Storming in she rolled her eyes at the mess that had been caused by the crash and started rummaging though what was scattered about on the floor to find what she was looking for.

After a while she gave up and opted for doing it the old fashion way. Grabbing a gauze she cleaned up the wound and flicked her lighter, letting the flame build up heat on its steel surface. Once the top part began to glow she took a deep breath and pressed it against the wound, cauterizing it. Her breath held and her fingers curled against the counter. Pulling the lighter back she shook her grip loose and shoved the lighter back in her pocket.

Pulling the cigarette from her lips she paced a bit as she swung her arm about. Her foot kicking a small box, tilting her head she looked down and narrowed her eyes, it had been the kit she had been looking for.

"Figures," she said as she made her way back out of the infirmary and headed right for the bridge. She needed a damage assessment go the electrical and the rest of the systems.

[Little_ninja]

Rune groaned, physically as the other mechanic waffled on about the ships related to the Firefly, referring to those ships literally as family, with Dragonflies being the cousins, and all the other insect named ships. "Never spoke to another mechanic that refers to all those ships like that. I've done an overhaul from a firefly, can't imagine it to be much different. I mean they are practically like lego blocks."

Of course, he had done work as a mechanic before, actually overhauling from a firefly. And it was like lego blocks, but it wasn't as easy as he made it sound, as he didn't have quite the technical skills. He mostly had the technical knowledge. "Anyway, yeah sounds like a good idea, splitting the work and taking parts from those other ships. We could even use the thrusters and engine from the Wren class ship. I mean sure the engine and thrusters were meant for a smaller lighter ship, so they would be a slightly different model, but it will work as a makeshift to get the ship off the ground and to one of the other planets to get some real repairs. This place isn't really the best place to fully repair it so yeah." He mostly quoted things from the books and what he could remember. He only hoped that he didn't make a fool of himself and compromise himself. There shouldn't have been anything wrong with what he had said though.

Starting to make his way into the ship, he looked up at Hannah, who was on the railings. "Anyway, I'll let you decide whether to do ship repairs or reports. Or we could both do some of both. Up to you. For now, I think that lady over there could use some help." indicating to the girl on the railings. "Need some help to the infirmary young miss?" Offering her some help.

[knighthawk]

"Good plan, while you help everyone, find out if anyone knows where we can conjure the parts we need. I'd rather not bleed just my contacts, you know?"

With that plan in motion, he set off for the engine to wonder what hell of the holy dragon happened to the engines. He unslung the multi-took from the hook on his hip as he hung the heavy brown coat on a nearby nut like he already belonged. In the left pocket was three goose eggs for anyone who went looking.

The door opened to both a grizzly and lacking sight as he pulled out a bowens miner mask. To anyone else the place was covered in soot, black from head to toe. Those that knew what instantaneous cremation looked like, it was a different story.

What happened was fairly simple: When a ship preps to leave atmo, it pulls in the last air and activates all the vacuum seals to make it tight as a drum. Now if something happens to the compressors, the air grows heavy from the pressure and usually nothing occurs. But, Something as simple as a blocked intake vent, with shorted compressors because someone is defragging the ships hardrive, while someone cooks in the galley... astronomical odds. All the intake of air came to the engine room as it prepped to make the jump and the oxygen rich area compressed into an explosion like the piston in an old car.

Whatever could burn did burn, the old mechanic probably went up like a microwaved battery with instant death being the best thing to hope to Buddha for as his chemical remains painted the engine room in the black oil of his misted body. Gideon started flushing the air vents by blowing the air compressors to bleed dry before starting on electrical to see which wires melted together from the burst of heat. Every wire that had to be replaced was going to be time consuming more than anything else. Hours were out the window, days of they were lucky and could sleep on the ship.

[hoppiholla391]

"Oh, no!" Hannah called back, using the railing under her arm to pull herself along. "I'm quite alright, thank y—"

She paused at the top of the stairs, looking down the seemingly endless expanse with trepidation. She sighed. "On second thought, yeah. Yeah, I could use some help." As the man approached, she pulled on a smile, quickly cataloging his features—Jeff, he'd called himself. Jeff moved oddly for a mechanic. "Pleasure to meet you!" she piped up, leaning heavily on the railing. "Where'd you spring from? Did Captain sign you on board?"

[Markofkri]

As the doors opened and let in fresh air from the outside Iean walked out and drew a deep breath of air. While walking up to the boss, "No injuries to persons Captin. The engine looks like some one tried to barbecue on it. Most of the wires are fried." Iean was very thankful for the fire to be over and the ship to be in one piece. No one seemed hurt just a little smoke inhalation. Glad the design put the grave drive in a different location then the main drive. Fire in zero G is deadly.

Looking around the ship the only thought he had was how he just escaped death again. Normally a mechanic half asleep could keep a ship like this afloat. The only issue now was something definitely went south faster then it should. For now Iean would store that bit of insight away. No need stirring up trouble until he had proof.

Normally this would be a shrug of his shoulders but he was on the ship they tried to destroy making it personal. Obviously they had to of done it before they took off, and it being on the inside instead of a hull breach meant that they wanted to keep most of it in tact. But who would want it? These heaps were a a dime a dozen. Maybe the mechanic had enemies. It just didn't make sense. The only thing that was definitive was the damage. Iean had seen the damage but a part exploding looked the same as a small well developed bomb. He was going to have to wait it out....

[Afina]

The captain groaned as she looked around.

"Gorram pilot is gone now too?" she screamed before kicking the wall and shaking her head. This was turning out to be one rotten trip, perhaps the Reavers would have been easier to deal with. Turning she noticed one of her crew was sprawled out on the floor, out cold due to the crash.

"Ugh," she muttered as she headed out of the room and into the kitchen area. Filling a big pitcher with water and ice she stormed back. Taking the pitcher she dumped the freezing water on top of the man and stood back.

"Wake up!" she bellowed quickly.

[WilsonTurner]

Benson slowly became aware of loud noises and some weird feeling all over his upper chest, and his head. His mind very slowly re-booted itself after the hard knock he took, and he groaned as he started feeling the dull throb of a head wound. Then, the other feeling hit him- his head, neck, and shoulders were soaked with not-so-warm water. He groaned again, letting out the pain and cold in verbal form. Then, to make sure the point hit home, he groaned once more, and groaned a fourth time to cement that.

He continued hearing something that made the dull throb spike in pain- yelling or something. He slowly rolled over, reaching up with one hand to tenderly test his bleeding head, mumbling incoherently.

Then he awoke all at once. He shot upwards into a sitting position, smacking his head against his chair, and fell back down, groaning even more to accent his pain. He got up much slower, then, taking his time to stand up, leaning on the chair for support, and turned at the source of the yells.

"Oh. Hey cap'n, I got a hard knock on the noggin, if you'd kindly stop screaming, that'd be great..."

[Little_ninja]

"Sure. I'll ask around. I'll be there probably in 30 or something like that. See you then." Rune replied to Gideon, before making his way up to Hannah, who had requested for some help. He noticed that she was looking at him. However, he couldn't tell what part she was looking at. Is she checking my features or the way I present myself? Wait ... He noticed, he was walking as he usually did. Slightly messing up the tempo of fitting in. However, suddenly changing would be worse. He had to keep it up if he wanted to remain hidden.

"Pleasure to meet you!" Hannah piped up, leaning heavily on the railing. "Where'd you spring from? Did Captain sign you on board?"
"Oh, I just happened to see a big ball of fire come crashing down. When I saw it falling, it looked like a ship, so I came around to check if anyone were alive or not. The Captain said that as long as me and ...." he paused. Looking at Gideon. Come to think of it, he didn't catch Gideon's name. "The other mechanic got the ship off the ground in less than a week, we can be signed on board. Although I doubt you would need two mechanics, two is better than one I'd say." Rune smiled gently, helping Hannah up. Lifting her and carrying her like a princess/bride.

As he carried her over to the infirmary, he asked, "So, may I ask of your name? And what it is that you do on this ship? Oh. Not sure if you heard me when I introduced myself, but I'm Jeff. Pleasure to meet you."