6.4 Interplanetary space en route to Mars, Day 2.5

[Dome]

"Could just be coincidence MJ. Hell it could be a whole panel that just went up in smoke. Who know how many systems were affected. Not sure we can prove it 100% but its a theory anyway. Just my thoughts, I'm just a jet jockey, not an investigator. Would his injuries be possible if it was a grav plate failure that bounced him around?"

Flip squeezes her tighter for a second before returning to just cradling her. "I know what you mean, remind me to thank the captain for it."

[dakota]

" I bet if it was someone else in here, he'd leave them enjoy the solitude the best they could." McKenna said flatly, trying to enjoy the embrace despite the horrible music. A thought occured to her," Flip, do you have any idea how high off the stairs we are? They turn the gravity back on in here and we could find out how my patient got trounced the hard way."

[Dome]

"Good point. The problem is its even to hard to figure which way is up. Hopefully they turn the lights on first."

[dakota]

" No kidding. Maybe we should try to figure that out before they do. if we push off of each other, at least one of us should find a wall or something." McKenna replied.

[Dome]

Flip pauses for a moment before answering. "Sound like a good idea. We need to find the stairs. Their shape is the only way we will be able to tell the floor from the ceiling."

He hesitates, "although, I really don't want to let go, but I'm ready when you are."

[Mierin]

Jessica nods and closes up the compartment and heads back up to the bridge.

[dakota]

" We don't have a choice." McKenna pushed off from Flip, her arms and legs outstretched. " Let me know if you find them. "

[Renekin Skywalker]

GM Placeholder: also, I neversaid power didn't go out in other places.

[Dome]

Flip drifts away from McKenna reaching behind him trying to feel for a hard surface. He thinks for a moment, 'if we weren't close to the ceiling now, there's a 1 in 4 chance one of us is close to the ceiling now.'

[Renekin Skywalker]

For simplicity purposes:

- We'll assume Jessica reactivated the power lines after finishing with the drive, and before shutting the section up again.
- Anything posting after a GM placeholder doesn't affect what the GM posts (muwaahahaha!)

Foreman and McKenna were very lucky people. Technically, McKenna was luckier than Foreman, though neither got lucky - and probably for the best, what with just happened. But we'll get back to that.

On the bridge...

As Jessica shut the door to the compartment, Tawfeek was very focused on the engineering readouts, watching what happened. "Looks like you fixed it. The system it doing a restart and acting like a power failure. We're vey lucky people." He said. "Remind me to shoot the guy that sold me this me. And, let me borrow something. I want it to hurt."

Indeed, all the warning flags aorund the stairwells, and the lower levels had gone to greens and boot-up yellows. It seemed that, by removing the drive, everything got back to normal.

"Check the logs." Tawfeek added contemplatively. "I want to see if this happened before."

In engineering, all the warning signals had turned off.

In fact, all over the ship, everything had resumed its normal functioning.

Mr. Smith opened the door and was quite astonished to see McKenna and Foreman as they were, one on top of the other, on the stairs. Thankfully, though, the pair ended up drifting closer to the stairs, so when the power came on, they only fell a couple inches, landing feet towards the bottom. The air from the ducks blowing down on their faces. McKenna landed on top of Foreman, so the poor pilot took more of a thump than she did. Whether or not they were facing each other when they landed, Mr. Smith spoke up.

"What, exactly is going on, here?" He asked, showing his first emotion (frustration or something like concern) since he arrived at the launch platform.

[dakota]

Relieved despite bumps and bruises from the systems coming on line, McKenna got to her feet quickly despite Smith's question. She looked at Flip," He broke my fall when the stairwell's gravity came back online." She offered Foreman a hand to help him up," I didn't hurt you, did I?"

[Renekin Skywalker]

On the stairwell.

"Please do not change the subject." Mr Smith almost-monotoned. "Inform the captain that I wish to speak with him." And he turned wth an annoyed look and left.

No Sooner had he left than Mrs. Johnson came running in. "Something's wrong with your equipment." She said leaning on the doorway, her face pleading for McKenna to come rigth away. "It's not working right."

[Dome]

Flip grabs MJ's hand as she helps him up, he looks questioningly after Smith, he was about to tell Mr. Smith where to go, when Mrs. Johnson comes in. He says to MJ, "want me to go with you Doctor," trying to sound proper in front of the patients wife. "If not I'll head to the bridge and find the captain. He may need me to take over flight control."

[Mierin]

Jessica smirks and Tawfeek's remarks and nods, "Sure, no problem. I might take a shot at him myself." Mostly, Jessica just looks relieved that the problem seemed to have been taken care of by what she had been doing. She then heads over to the logs to see if anything similar had happened before.

[dice=100], computer operation (pass)
[dice=100], computer programming (pass)[rand=43783655519259612960304583693157493010638014201945744726826520655]

[dakota]

McKenna broke into a run, " Go to the Captain!" She shouted over her shoulder as she headed for medical. " If Jess or Mengsk are there, tell them I may need their help for repairs."

When she got to medical she quickly looked for the problem [dice=20][rand=92714966319257826409291225094922609767575009522346740838845672266]