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Originally posted by Overrider720:
**Where exactly am I being rescued from?
OV waits for someone to rescue him from whatever it is
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SO... Autonav is attacking the shields of the ship to disable, not destroy.
Payback is heading for the bridge...by himself.
Jess is in charge of alcohol, and has a big ask bazooka.
Capn and Gazza are disabling the thrusters.
I think UE Admiral, Payback, and Grundy should take over the bridge and try to kill or capture the Boss, also free the captives on the bridge. I think the Hand of Joy may not be in the obvious place (the bridge), but you never know.
Mamajama and Shade are in the prison cells, rescuing the slaves and prisoners. It seems that all of the Freeport Bar crew, except maybe OV, maybe Jess? have managed to free themselves.
Mamajama has seen many pitiful sights in her 138 years, but the pathetic prisoners wrench at her heart, not to mention her stomach. Shade's energy weapon, delicately used, makes short work of chains and shackles. Soon the abused collection of humanity (plus various aliens) is unbound.
Autonav and co must be making headway on the bridge, because apparently no one is watching the security cameras.
Only one or two guards have come to investigate, and Mamajama's plasma squirt gun made short work of them. Two large, hairy, smelly corpses block the corridor until they are dragged to the side. One of the guards has a collection of keys and key cards, and with the help of OV, Jess, and some of the more able-bodied prisoners, all are soon freed.
Then, the problem becomes what to do with them? Most are too weak or injured to fight, or even walk very far. Gazza's ship is available for the injured, but how to get them there?
At least a dozen of the captives seem to be in the final throes of Pyro addiction - their bodies are blistered and burned from attempts at self-immolation, and they look enviously at their rescuers' energy weapons. "Fire. Pretty fire," says one skeletal wreck of a man, lunging ineffectually at Shade's glowing sword.
Mamajama thumbs the com unit to Capn S P.
"Capn, what can your nano technology do medically? Can you heal the injured slaves or get someone un-addicted to Pyromania?"
Besides the plight of the prisoners, other things are making Mamajama anxious:
No one has reported finding the Hand of Joy. The situation on the bridge is unknown. And, as the icing on the cake, with a lurch, the gravity fails, comes back on, comes partially back on. People are floating and falling in a chaotic whirl. Other substances from the prison are also, freed from gravity, floating around in the air.
"I believe Gazza and Capn have disabled the thrusters", says Shade.
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