sandy_freelance
Mongoose
Teaser? Like, hmm. You're part of a 2-person crew constructing Genesis VI, an inflatable space hotel set up like a bunch of grapes, a series of cross-linked inflated stand-alone 'bubbles'. You'd left your vacc suit while checking each 4m^3 'bubble' room, and just have your tools and torch for accessing conduits in the soft walls, when a sudden 'boom' blows out the row of bubbles between you and where you left your suit: (0 = a bubble room, x = you, s = suit, —- = row of deflated 'bubbles')
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The deflated chambers between are in vacuum now and form a 4 meter gap. Because of the blowout, the —-- gap is widening by 1 meter every minute. Given the leaks, you've got maybe 4 minutes of viable air in each bubble on your side. Each bubble is connected by a sealable door that takes 2 minutes to open then 4 minutes to reseal, but if you skip safety checks you can open one in 2D x 5 sec and reseal it in 3D x 5 sec (it might make it leak but that'd be the least of your problems). You can last 1D x 5 seconds in vacuum before passing out (with death 2 minutes later), so odds are against you opening then sealing a door on the 'safe' side from vacuum in time. If you get to your suit, it's a Difficult (10+) Vacc Suit check to don it (1D x 10 seconds, EDU or DEX). Your partner is near the ship at an airlock on the far side and could fire it up in 2D x 2 minutes, Average (8+) Pilot to reduce that by ½ and Difficult (10+) to reduce that by ¼, and try to maneuver around, but there's no airlock in the row you're stuck at. Time to come up with three ways to survive this. Mind the gap.
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The deflated chambers between are in vacuum now and form a 4 meter gap. Because of the blowout, the —-- gap is widening by 1 meter every minute. Given the leaks, you've got maybe 4 minutes of viable air in each bubble on your side. Each bubble is connected by a sealable door that takes 2 minutes to open then 4 minutes to reseal, but if you skip safety checks you can open one in 2D x 5 sec and reseal it in 3D x 5 sec (it might make it leak but that'd be the least of your problems). You can last 1D x 5 seconds in vacuum before passing out (with death 2 minutes later), so odds are against you opening then sealing a door on the 'safe' side from vacuum in time. If you get to your suit, it's a Difficult (10+) Vacc Suit check to don it (1D x 10 seconds, EDU or DEX). Your partner is near the ship at an airlock on the far side and could fire it up in 2D x 2 minutes, Average (8+) Pilot to reduce that by ½ and Difficult (10+) to reduce that by ¼, and try to maneuver around, but there's no airlock in the row you're stuck at. Time to come up with three ways to survive this. Mind the gap.