Captain Niples "Supercrew!"

Who: Captain Niples
Where: On the Blue Dwarf
When: During the evacuation
 
People were running everywhere, Seymour pointed them towards the nearest cargobay. There weren't enough shuttles for everyone of course, so the Captain had been helping people into the 2-man escape pods along the corridors on the skin of the ship's hull. He helped a scared young couple into one of the remaining escape pods and tried to keep them calm. "It's going to be alright, the pod is programmed to follow the shuttles to the planet's surface. Just enjoy the ride. He locked the doors by pulling a heavy lever down and pushing it into the wall. The sound of gas built up and the pod was sucked into space like a cork out of a bottle of Pinot Noir. That was one of the last pods.
 
Suddenly the captain heard the sound of crying. He pulled his bath robe closer around him (yes, he still hadn't found time to change) and went looking for where the sound was coming from. A small girl was sat behind a large air pipe, she must have gotten lost from her mother in the confusion. The girl hugged her teddy bear tightly and sobbed deeply into it.
 
"Hello there little miss." Seymour said, pulling on his soft child-speaking-to voice. Although he didn't know how to talk to children very well, they made him nervous. She backed away from him. "Theres nothing to be scared of. I'm the captain, do you want to just come with me and we'll get you to a safer place?"
"I want my mummy!" she cried.
"Oh...erm..." Seymour looked around. "Well, mummy isn't here, but if you come with me we can find her together.
She shook her head. She obviously wasn't going to budge. Seymour knew he had to try a different approach, he didn't like lying- especially to innocent little girls but he was going to have to give it a try for once.
"Your mummys just around this corner, let me take you to her okay?" he said, planning to throw her in an escape pod when she stood up.
"You're lying! Your a scary man! You look scary!" Shouted the girl.
Seymour looked down at himself. "I'd say based on my exquisite taste in clothes I look like a very nice man actually."
He sighed. He could feel the warmth of radiation touching him now, the ship would be lethal in a few minutes.
 
"Look... small ...child, theres going to be a huge fireball any second that will kill anything in its path, including you if you're still here so please get into an escape pod this instant!"
The girl got up and ran screaming. She bumped into her mother who was just around the corner.
 
The mother picked the girl up.
 
"Oh thank you Mr. Niples, I thought I'd lost my daughter for ever." She showered the child in kisses and got into an escape pod. Seymour smiled, glad to be of help and pulled the lever which sent them on their way.
He stood in a pose with his hands on his hips watching the escape pod fly out of the ship and head towards the planet. A gust of wind blew his robe open and he hoped to god that the mother and child's last look at the Blue Dwarf was a man standing in an airlock with an open bath robe.
 
Seymour checked the pod computer console, there was one left. He rushed down the corridor to it, finding it ocupied.
"Excuse me, is there enough room in there for me?" he asked in a suave voice.
"Oh Seymour, I thought you were never coming!" Said Katrina Swete.
 
He sat on her lap and ngaged the auto blast-off sequence. They rode the pod embraced in each others arms.
 
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Who: Department HeadsWhere: Meeting Tent 1AWhen: The Department Head Meeting
"This is ludicrous." Said Niples. "This kind of thing is not physically possible is it? We shouldn't just develop special supernatural powers overnight."
The captain felt the lockett Katrina had given him float out of his shirt pocket at will along with the loose change in his trousers. (yes he'd found some proper clothes by now but still wore the bath robe so that he didn't loose it.
 
In the madness of the meeting, he decided that they needed someone to take command. Of course that meant he had to do something.
"Quite please. Quiet people!" He shouted, and waited with his arms crossed like a school teacher until everyone settled down.
"Lets figure out how and why everyone is developing supernatural powers, that can be Phil and Zodar's job for now. Lets get all off the civillians into one "base" camp (OOC- all the rew that we dont ever hear about but know they're there). And I want four teams to take shuttles around the planet to see if you can learn anything from the people who live here. Try not to startle them with our space craft, they might think its an invasion. So use public transport wherever possible.
 
Meanwhile, I will try and communicate with the leader or council of the civilisation. He briefly imagined himself having a lavish supper with a King, or a slap-up meal with the President.
 
After giving these orders the captain suddenly felt a lot higher than everyone else. He pointed to Keto, you're lifting me by my metal fillings aren't you?!"
"its not me captain!" yelled Keto.
 
As his bath robe flapped around his hovvering feet, Captain Seymour Niples suddenly had the urge to rescue someone from the top of a burning building.
 
 
<<As this will probably end up in madnes can everyone pleasse stick to having one special power, and try to stay small- I dont want any omnipotent beings running around spoiling it for everyone else. I thought of a few 'les-than-super' powers: The annoying ability to make facial hair grow longer. The ability to shrink shoes. The ability to have X-ray vision through wood. The ability to talk like Elvis on demand. Okay, my ideas aren't very good. Make your own!!>>