Thunder: Level 2, Techno Master. Stats: HP - 27/30, MP - 15/15, 8/10 EXP
Having reached a stopping point with them,
Thunder looks over to what looked like a dead end for them. Deciding that he was the more convincing player out of the three, he steps forward with a risen brow, searching around briefly for any signs of spiders or other things before stopping before the entrance. "Let's hope no spiders jump us." He mumbled, mostly to himself, as he raises up his free hand and knocks on the door twice. "Hello? Is anyone in there?" He asked, taking a step back out as a precaution, not knowing what these spiders were capable of.
"Hello?" A man's voice from the other side spoke softly. "Bonnie, did you hear something?"
"Yes, that was a voice. Who goes there?" A female voice said, louder than the male one before her. "Identify yourself!"
"My name is Thunder, I am a traveler who was sent here with two others to come get you out of here." He hoped this wouldn't lead to their deaths. After a short moment of hesitation and mumbling among each other, the female voice,
Bonnie, answered
Thunder.
"Who sent you?" She asked, with a spark of hope in her voice.
"His name is Doctor Marius Vinkleburg. Do you know of him?"
Thunder asked, wondering if there was some plot twist coming up.
"Thank goodness."
Bonnie sighed of relief. "We've been hearing whispers from time to time and we were afraid whatever has been whispering learned to talk. There are giant spiders aboard, have you seen them?"
"We have not, only their webs."
Thunder worried about that for a moment, the longer they stood out here, the more likely it was the spiders would find them. "Can you let us in? We mean you no harm." Again,
Thunder was met with a short silence. It seemed the survivors were hesitant to open up. Though after a few seconds, the door did open up; revealing a group of six people. One woman, presumably
Bonnie, and three men were still standing. While they'd all been hurt or bruised one way or another, they seemed capable enough. The other two however, were laying flat on the floor with clear injuries to their legs. They wouldn't be able to move by themselves.
"This is just the few of us who made it back here. I'm Bonnie McClyde, captain of the ship." The woman introduced herself. "There were 20 of us in the crew before the crash, but…"
Bonnie looked away from Thunder as she spoke, "I can confirm there's at most 18 of us left. With two confirmed deaths and the six of us alive, that means there's twelve men and women we don't know the status of. I'm supposed to be in command of this ship… But this crash and these spiders have left me… I don't know what to do anymore."
Bonnie winced as she spoke. She wasn't able to keep a strong face, and
Thunder would notice she and the rest of the crew had lost hope before the party came.
"Would you help us? Save my crew? I know there are people left in the engine room down, possibly in their cabins or maybe some have hidden in the air-locks, because we confirmed some of them being opened and closed… Just, please, mister Thunder, tell me what can we do?"
Thunder heard all of the information and considered it, looking back over at
Pulse and
Sav before looking back at the NPC.
"Captain, I believe we need a map of the ship, to know where we're going. Give one to my friend Pulse if you can. I also need to know if there's any weapons on this ship we can use. Any information about the spiders would be helpful, a way to contact you as well. Any possible armor you have would be nice as well. If we're going to help you find your crew, we're going to need to be prepared for those spiders first. Also, any details about the ship would be nice as well, just in case those spiders start catching onto our plan."
"Of course,"
Bonnie said, and then ordered part of her crew to get a map of the ship's lay-out. "The ship is an old model, but she was in good state. The crash was sudden and violent, nobody was prepared. The bridge was reinforced well, but I don't know about the state of the rest of the ship. You must have seen it as you walked through…" The captain explained, and while there was indeed relatively little damage besides what they'd seen in their direct environment, some of the plates had be torn down in the corridors." She then kneeled next to one of the men with a leg wound; rolling up his bloodied pants to reveal an ugly purple infection spreading across his entire leg. "The spiders are poisonous. He's been hurting like this for long after he had been bitten."
"They came out of nowhere." The man whispered, "I couldn't see them coming… It was like they were invisible…"
"Furthermore the armory is downstairs as well."
Bonnie further explained, "But we don't know how much help it will be…"
Thunder had to take a plan into consideration. Those two weren't going to last long here, and Thunder knew leaving the others alone was too dangerous to take. He turns to face
Pulse, already he knew what he had to do.
"These people aren't going to last much longer like this, who knows how long it'll be before those spiders break through. I am volunteering myself to lead them back to the camp, this way we don't have as many people to worry about if we split up like this. Will you and Sav be fine finding the rest of the survivors?" He asked, he hated the idea of splitting off from the other two, but with the known NPCs as they were, what other choice did he have?
Pulse, having let Thunder doing the talking, had some mixed feelings about splitting up.
"I'm more interested in the supplies." She spoke bluntly, ignoring the NPC's their presence. "If there's an armory downstairs we can't leave it unplundered." Of about the same mind as
Pulse, Sav kept silent. He doubted that all off the other npcs were in fact still alive and if any were injured they weren't in any position to move them, let alone heal them. The armory on the other hand seemed a viable approach to the impending onslaught of spiders. Best case scenario they got something to fight them with, and worst case they died. If the latter was going to happen Sav was going to make sure as Hell they went out with a bang.
"I'm with her, the armory's probably our best chance in this mess, unless either of you have reconsidered my first suggestion."
"You heard the baboon, off you go."
Pulse said to
Thunder, ignoring the second thoughts creeping into her head. "Keep them alive, that way we'll at least get some of the XP." She said, as her own little way of encouragement. "Oh and you," She addressed Bonnie, though she talked to the captain as if she was a dog, mirroring
Sav's approach with the doctor earlier, "Give us your contact in case we need something."
"Like key codes to the armory."
Sav added. As ordered,
Bonnie McClyde showed up as a contact in all three their lists, and sent a message pertaining all the code locks.
"I don't know if everything is still functioning." She added. "But please let me know if I can help with anything."
"Contact us if anything happens, you two." He said to
Pulse and
Sav, before looking to the Captain. "Get everyone assembled and let's head out of this ship. We need to move before those spiders get to us." Something came to thought suddenly, as he moved around the room they were in. "Do you know when this ship was sent off and how long ago it crashed?" He asked the Captain.
"A few hours ago." The captain answered
Thunder, as she and her men mobilized. "We were part of the main fleet until suddenly the ship went out of control. We tried to keep her steady, but we were forced off course. As for when we launched, I'd say it was about nine months ago."
"Let's move out then." He said, beginning to head for the way back, with the Captain and her crew following. "Try not to become spider chow." He said back to them before focusing on the mission.