OOC Re: Katrina:- Fixing the bug\'s.

hahaha
<snip>
the artificial gravity kicked in and decided that it
really ought to be doing something about all the floating people and
inanimate objects drifting through the air all across the ship.
hinthinthinthint
--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "sirlagerlotuk"
<sirlagerlot@...> wrote:
>
> Who:- Katrina, Zodar
> Where:- Engineering
> When:- Shortly after Rosette attacked Jay. Jay Byrd, that is. Not
> Jay Chrysler.
>
> "Ok!" Zodar's voice was muffled coming from under the ships main
> reactor. "Try it now!"
> Katrina pulled a lever and a loud clunking noise filled the chamber
> as Zodar rolled out on a trolley from his position.
> The exhaust vent rumbled for a few seconds then sputtered to a halt.
> "Looks like a blockage" Katrina said simply, returning the lever to
> it's original position before walking to the rear of the vast
> reactor, to where the exhaust vent connected to the coolant
> system. "Try to see if you can open the valve manually"
> Zodar nodded and disappeared back underneath the reactor and
started
> fiddling about with spanners, while Katrina checked a monitor on
the
> side of the panel showing temperature and pressure levels.
> "I think we'll be ok if we keep running at the normal output." She
> said "But if we try running the wormhole drive then we'll likely
> overheat..I'll shut it down and inform the Captain…"
> "The Captain" Zodar said laughing "Does he make you call him that
in
> bed too?"
> "No…he prefers `Colonel Giantdong…'…."
> "Enough! Please!!"
> Katrina smiled, she didn't easily take offence to banter like many
> women may have, it made the day go quicker. There was one thing she
> took offence too though, and that was being salivated on by a giant
> spider. Which is exactly was happened to her as she turned around
to
> deactivate the wormhole drive.
> The fearsome creature loomed above her. "CHRIS!" yelled Katrina,
but
> Zodar didn't hear, he was drowning her out with his bad singing.
> "Sod it.." she said, and dove to her right, narrowly avoiding the
> spiders approaching fangs.
> She got to her feet and looked over to the monster, it wasn't
> chasing her. In fact, since she'd dodged it had barely even looked
> at her and was instead scurrying eagerly toward the reactor. And
> Zodar. Oh god, it was after Zodar.
> Looking around frantically she grabbed the only thing she could as
a
> weapon, a plasma cutter, and switching it on, sliced the torch
> through the nearest spider-leg to her.
> The spider shrieked as the torch cut into it's flesh, and kicked
> out, knocking Katrina flying across the engineering bay, dropping
> her plasma torch. It glanced back at her menacingly, then at it's
> injured leg but ignored her, and carried on toward the reactor,
> limping.
> Zodar chose this moment to come out from under the reactor
> again. "Katrina…I said try it….oh.." he said, as he found himself
> staring up at the many-eyed face of the Black Widow. The bug reared
> up, and Zodar, having nowhere to run, prepared for the worst. But
> the spider didn't attack, sure, it brought it's legs down hard, but
> not on Zodar, instead it punctured the casing on the reactor's
> console and yanked out several cables, including the main power
> conduit to the ships vast power systems.
> The lights went out in Engineering, and indeed across the whole
> ship, along with everything else. Katrina and Zodar found
themselves
> floating blindly suddenly, in a light and gravity-less environment
> until Katrina managed to switch on a head lamp she'd grabbed from a
> nearby supply locker and strapped to her forehead, she flashed the
> light around the room. "It's gone!" she said when the beam failed
to
> hit anything that looked remotely like a spider.
> "Hit the backup generator!" Zodar shouted. Katrina kicked off the
> nearby wall and floated over to the back-up generators console and
> tapped in the activation code, the lights around the ship
flickered,
> before becoming steadily on, and Katrina and Zodar fell roughly to
> the floor as the artificial gravity kicked in and decided that it
> really ought to be doing something about all the floating people
and
> inanimate objects drifting through the air all across the ship.
> The nearby monitor flashed on revealing the still-battered-from-his-
> time-travel-adventures face of Jay Chrysler.
> "Chrysler to engineering, what the smeg's going on down there?"
> "Little bug problem hun!" Katrina replied, happy to see her
> boyfriend for the first time since he went MIA. "A hymenoptera just
> breezed in, yanked out the power supply conduit and smegged off
> without a thank you..we're on back up power…..we've got, 24, maybe
> 35 hours before we have to start shutting down non-essential
> systems…."
> "Perfect…" replied Jay…"I'm not in the door five minutes and
already
> have a crisis to deal with…."
>
> <tag Smandy, or anyone nearby!>
>