>>5563466A spiker has been all but embedded in the wall of the vessel, propped up by Cleo’s huge hand and the barrel of her shotgun. Beside her, Kiro appears to be directing the fire of the remaining crew at some sort of floating prismatic sphere covered in wires. Adrenaline spikes your system, and you call out for a status report over your helmet’s loudspeakers.
Only silence greets you.
“Peedee, what’s going on? Why aren't you doing your job and updating this?” You whisper at a level only you and your comm can hear.
“Am doing.” Comes the synthesised response. “Nothing moved. They frozen. See? All fuzzy.”
Small squiggly lines work their way up over the depicted scene, Peedee’s way of indicating some distortion in the air before you.
Kiro seems to be only an arms length away and yet it might as well be lightyears. At least they all appear to be uninjured, despite their motionless state.
How do you proceed?
>Reach out and grab your Ops officer’s shoulder. Maybe you can pull him out.>Fire your pistol at something. The orb? The walls? What?>Call for Eon and WEAVY’s assistance despite the fact they are unwittingly running interference with Guard for you.>Try to map out the extents of the ‘frozen’ zone, maybe there’s an off switch somewhere?>Try to free the trapped crew some other way. How?>Some combination or something else? Write in. 