IC: Ship in a Bottle Options

[hyzmarca]

The cabin door slams shut behind Sam as she rushes off toward the bridge, her tail still wrapped tightly around her pistol. When she bursts into the bridge her fur is damp with perspiration.

[HMHVV Hunter]

Glad to see everyone gathered on the bridge, Mal starts laying out his plan.

"Alright guys, Solomon isn't answering the com, so I think we're going to have to do this ourselves.

"Bottom line: we have to bluff our way past those Azzie ships. And I think I've got something that can help us do that.

"I'm pretty sure I overheard Solomon say something about a stealth system on this ship - something about adaptive coloration paint or something like that. Well, whatever it is, I think we can use that to our advantage. I have a plan that involves that, but it's gonna take some pretty fraggin' precise timing.

"One of you guys has to find the controls to activate the stealth system. At the exact same moment as we vanish from sight, I throw up an illusion of our ship so that it looks like we're still there. Meanwhile, we sneak away and hope we don't attract any attention. With a little luck, by the time they think to board the ship, we'll be a good enough distance away that we'll be tough to find.

"I'm going to need some serious coordination from everyone on this, and that includes you Spikes. You know more about sailing than I do; how fast could we move without attracting attention?"

[Chance359]

Hank is in the galley working on the next meal for the crew. After hearing a garbled message come over the his radio. The only word he managed to pick out of the broken message was "Aztlan".

After several attemps to get his radio working by tapping it against the counter, Hank heads up the bridge to see whats going on.

[HMHVV Hunter]

Mal sighed heavily as the latecomer Hank arrived on the bridge.

"Alright, I'll repeat myself just this once," Mal said in frustration. "We're going to sleaze by the Azzies using the adaptively-colored paint on this boat, and I'm going to whistle up an illusion of our ship at the exact moment that we go invisible that should buy us some time and distance. That clear?"

[hyzmarca]

Sam nods, "perfectly."

It wasn't perfectly clear; Sam didn't know enough about magic to fill a thimble. But, the basic concepts were basic enough.

[Chance359]

"Clear enough, but its better than nothing. Anything I can do to help?"

Asked the ork, wish he had more to offer than just a pair of strong hands.

[HMHVV Hunter]

"Yeah - stay below decks, but get your guns ready just in case it comes to that," Mal replies to the ork. "That goes for everyone here, too."

Mal taps Spikes on the shoulder, hoping he can still feel it while jacked in.

"Spikes, get ready to activate the camo paint on my mark. Acknowledge if you can hear me."

[hyzmarca]

Sam tightens her tail around her weapon and speaks to no one in particular, "You do understand that we won't be able to talk our way out of this if they spot us."

"If this doesn't work we'll have to sink both boats before they can radio for backup."

[HMHVV Hunter]

Mal nods at Sam's comment.

"That's why if this doesn't work, we're spinning around 180 degrees and burning in that direction. There's other rebel factions in the world we could sell this cargo to that don't involve us running an Azzie blockade."

[Glyph]

Ziptide smiles grimly. "If it all hits the fan, I'll be able to help slow those boats down." Privately, he thinks he will likely have to do just that. Covering such a large ship is spreading the mojo pretty thin - which makes it all the more likely that someone will see through it.

[Callidus]

"Sorry, was a little zoned out trying to get some more info. As for stealth we got two real options, if I drop the boat into pure sail we become very hard to spot of sensors and I should be able to do something about visuals especially with the camo paint on the Delph, not Ruthenium scale but it'll help. On the other hand the boat's got a Jet turbine below decks that I've spun up, so it's ready but shouldn't be detectable yet, and hydrafoils on the hull so we should be able to massively out run them..... at least til they get some aircraft up to trace us. If we go the speed route I'd suggest dropping to sails and stealthing it after a short burst.... say 15-30 minutes or we'll have planes and LAVs all over us."

"Either give me the yell and I'll go with whatever your plan is. Either comms or just speak within normal earshot of my deck and I'll hear ya."