S A L V A G E COMMS | SEPTEMBER 4 Entering the ship through Medical and the empty elevator shafts, characters will find themselves in pitch darkness, with the air feeling stagnant and slightly musty. With the ship on its side, the elevator shafts will more resemble tunnels, stretching onwards into the dark and showing no nearby signs of damage or any debris. The first five doors characters encounter as they progress will be inaccessible, either damaged and warped in such a way that they cannot be forced open, or open to reveal the corridor behind collapsed in. At the sixth, characters will be able to gain access, though this will take them a level above where the comms hub is located.
The corridor will be mostly clear; halfway in, a storage room has opened, dumping its full load of crew uniforms, underwear and gym clothes out into the corridor. A few metres further beyond this, the corridor has collapsed in from some impact to the hull. While this will impede further progress, it offers an opportunity in having damaged the corridor floor. Working carefully so as not to exacerbate the structural stability of the collapsed debris, characters should be able to clear a large enough space through the floor to access the corridor below.
This corridor will be in a far worse state, with many wall and ceiling panels damaged, leaving structural bars and cabling hanging into the corridor. Though main power is dead, some of the exposed wiring is connected to the emergency power system, posing a risk of severe electrocution. Likewise, the status of any of debris will be very delicate - one wrong foot, or a caught cable, could bring the rest down on your head. Picking through the obstacles safely will take time, but characters will be able to work their way back to the comms hub. Due to the ship being on its side, this will be beneath them.
The hub, when accessed, will appear to be severely damaged. One side of the hub will be caved in, with many of the consoles having been ripped or knocked free and fallen into a heap at the back of the room. The sub-level, containing the network servers, will be completely destroyed. Despite this apparent level of destruction, characters will find on sorting through the debris that much of the equipment is intact, with only a few knocks and scratches. The equipment contained in the adjoining storage room will be the same, though the shelving will need to be lifted clear to access much of it. The hub will be stable enough for characters to take their time in sorting through what's available to decide how much and what they want to take back with them.
Progress back the way they came will be slower as they transport the equipment through the obstacles and to the hole through to the next corridor. After about half of the chosen equipment has been moved through the hole, the debris of the collapsed corridor will begin to show signs of instability. Though any disturbances will speed this up, it will inevitably collapse back in on the hole, injuring any characters nearby and trapping any who haven't made it through.
Efforts to try and clear the hole again will only find the collapse continually unstable - though it may be possible to clear it for a short enough period of time to quickly pull someone through, it will collapse in again, and threaten to take much more of the corridor down with it if disturbed further. The structural groaning of the ship around them will grow louder and more constant, and characters will have to be very careful in progressing back down the corridor to the elevator shaft. However, from the elevator shaft back out to medical, their journey should be relatively easy.
This salvage attempt should take approximately a day in total. We will leave it to your discretion and character choices on whether the journey in will be longer or shorter than the journey out.
Please don't hesitate to contact us should you have any further questions about any of this information, specific interactions with the environment, or need anything clarified!
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COMMS | SEPTEMBER 4
Entering the ship through Medical and the empty elevator shafts, characters will find themselves in pitch darkness, with the air feeling stagnant and slightly musty. With the ship on its side, the elevator shafts will more resemble tunnels, stretching onwards into the dark and showing no nearby signs of damage or any debris. The first five doors characters encounter as they progress will be inaccessible, either damaged and warped in such a way that they cannot be forced open, or open to reveal the corridor behind collapsed in. At the sixth, characters will be able to gain access, though this will take them a level above where the comms hub is located.
The corridor will be mostly clear; halfway in, a storage room has opened, dumping its full load of crew uniforms, underwear and gym clothes out into the corridor. A few metres further beyond this, the corridor has collapsed in from some impact to the hull. While this will impede further progress, it offers an opportunity in having damaged the corridor floor. Working carefully so as not to exacerbate the structural stability of the collapsed debris, characters should be able to clear a large enough space through the floor to access the corridor below.
This corridor will be in a far worse state, with many wall and ceiling panels damaged, leaving structural bars and cabling hanging into the corridor. Though main power is dead, some of the exposed wiring is connected to the emergency power system, posing a risk of severe electrocution. Likewise, the status of any of debris will be very delicate - one wrong foot, or a caught cable, could bring the rest down on your head. Picking through the obstacles safely will take time, but characters will be able to work their way back to the comms hub. Due to the ship being on its side, this will be beneath them.
The hub, when accessed, will appear to be severely damaged. One side of the hub will be caved in, with many of the consoles having been ripped or knocked free and fallen into a heap at the back of the room. The sub-level, containing the network servers, will be completely destroyed. Despite this apparent level of destruction, characters will find on sorting through the debris that much of the equipment is intact, with only a few knocks and scratches. The equipment contained in the adjoining storage room will be the same, though the shelving will need to be lifted clear to access much of it. The hub will be stable enough for characters to take their time in sorting through what's available to decide how much and what they want to take back with them.
Progress back the way they came will be slower as they transport the equipment through the obstacles and to the hole through to the next corridor. After about half of the chosen equipment has been moved through the hole, the debris of the collapsed corridor will begin to show signs of instability. Though any disturbances will speed this up, it will inevitably collapse back in on the hole, injuring any characters nearby and trapping any who haven't made it through.
Efforts to try and clear the hole again will only find the collapse continually unstable - though it may be possible to clear it for a short enough period of time to quickly pull someone through, it will collapse in again, and threaten to take much more of the corridor down with it if disturbed further. The structural groaning of the ship around them will grow louder and more constant, and characters will have to be very careful in progressing back down the corridor to the elevator shaft. However, from the elevator shaft back out to medical, their journey should be relatively easy.
This salvage attempt should take approximately a day in total. We will leave it to your discretion and character choices on whether the journey in will be longer or shorter than the journey out.
Please don't hesitate to contact us should you have any further questions about any of this information, specific interactions with the environment, or need anything clarified!