[Aaron manages to make it to Makoto's ex-cargo room. The porthole is still open and his bed is still toppled. All the other crew has left the area.] * Aaron looks for the IV tubing. [It's pretty easy to find. It's still attached to the IV.] (Which is a good place for IV tubing, I reckon.) (Figured. ;p There's no extra?) [Not that you can see. Unless you want to search boxes and crates.] (Doubt we have time for that.) * Aaron walks over to the IV stand and removes the tubing. "What do you think the length should be?" (Can I make a mind roll or something?) (Sure? But I'd say long enough so that you can still breathe would be ideal. ;P) (Well, yeah. ;p But I'm not sure how long is too long.) [TJ figures out the ideal length! Which is a number but the GM doesn't want to make it up.] (2 pi!) (4.72160135) (Awesome.) [Yes. 2 pi.] [Good luck measuring it. It needs to be exact.] "About six to seven feet?" T.J. hazards. (I wouldn't happen to be carrying a tape measure, would I? ;p) (Nor is T.J. One is specifically listed on Ben's sheet, but alas he's not here.) (I am so totally not surprised. ^_~) (You're not surprised even a little that Ben isn't here?) * Aaron nods and proceeds to do an estimate, then recheck it, then finally cut two lengths of tubing. Measure once, cut twice! (No, that it's listed on his sheet.) (I think I counted that I listed 85 or so items on it.) [Aaron now has obtained two fine lengths of IV tubing.] (TJ: But does he have a Gideon Bible?) * Aaron holds out one of the tubes to TJ. "Well, here we go." (*idly checks Penny's sheet* She has measuring tape listed.) (No. A Torah. Ben's a good Jewish boy, can't you tell?) (I thought he was Buddhist.) * T.J. takes it. "Thanks." (I knew somebody had to have it on their sheet. ;p) (Is it a scroll Torah, or a book?) (Katherine wouldn't marry him until he agreed to let her take Penny to a good Christian church. That's why Penny likes bibles.) (How old was she when they got married? ^_~) (Penny, I mean.) (I'm getting juicy gossip here!) (What? Penny isn't married!) (Unborn.) (Okay.) (Though possibly in the oven.) (They're law abiding citizens!) (The way Ard phrased it, it sounded like she had been born before they got married.) (And very religious.) (Okay, game-related question. Is the porthole on the side we need to jump out of, or do we need to move somewhere else?) (Well, yes. If you want to go jumping out of portholes.) (For the record, I was kidding about Ben having a Torah on his inventory. And he's actually a Catholic.) (Are you a bad enough dude to jump out of portholes?) (I mention this because it's not impossible he WOULD have one.) (*Snorts*) * T.J. tries to set up the tubing as a snorkel, but realizes he's not quite sure how to. (*slams the ten commandments over Ben's head*) (Psh. Didn't you figure out once that Katherine violated nine of ten?) (I figured we just stuck one end in our mouth and held it up so the other end would stay above water.) (If we're holding it up, we can't swim.) (Which one did she miss?) (Aaron is correct!) (It's like a twisty straw.) (We're supposed to swim like that?) (Bent it up, I should say.) (Honor thy father and thy mother, probably.) (No, she breaks that by lying to them.) (And this plan was up to you.) (Even KATIE breaks that one.) (Wou.. what Nic said.) "Don't we need to tie these to something to make them go straight?" * Aaron attempts to bend the tube to see if it will hold on its own. "Let me see how good it is at holding its shape first, but yes, start looking for something." * T.J. looks for something. (I believe she's safe from coveting someone's wife or husband.) (Which isn't the same thing as not committing adultery, I guess I should note.) ( She doesn't covet me even a little!) (Nah, it turns out that Ben accidentaly got married once while drunk.) (NO. SHE DOESN'T COVET YOU, TAKI.) (Do I roll for that?) ( ;_; You arn't even married. ;;_;;) [The cord has some play in it. There is medical tape around the table. Is TJ looking for something specific?] (Didn't Taki marry in SAB future?) (Something rigid.) (Living in Sin with Satoshi.) (That would be a great name for a band.) (It would.) (So, not only do we have Lamer than Chomei and The Real Miles, we now have Living in Sin with Satoshi?) (Yes.) (Awesome) (Sweet.) (They can have a battle of the bands.) (Poles or something?) [There's always the crates. Those are plenty rigid. Nothing special in the bedding though. The fire extinguisher and pin are still out too.] (What kind of music do they play?) [There are poles with nets attached, yes.] (*dies laughing*) * T.J. grabs a couple of the poles with nets attached. "How about these?" (Also, there's Six Martini Lunch and Purple Neon Jesus, right?) (What made Kate die laughing?) (Catching up on OOC chatter.) Good enough! * Aaron cuts the net parts free and hands TJ back a pole. (Yes.) * T.J. grabs the medical tape and tapes the tubing to it. (If we suddenly decided to become a band, the only problem would be which name.) (We need to start the directory of fake bands.) (Oh! And STICK + METAL!) (How could I forget STICK + METAL?) (I don't know!) (STICK+METAL=SPEAR) (What about "Tastes Like Jesus"?) (That's really more of an album than a band.) (Definitely.) (Nah. Pretty sure that was the band. Ard? Gryph? You remember?) (As in, "And now, here's Lamer Than Chomei's hit song from their new album "Tastes Like Jesus".) (Also, shouldn't this be taken into the OOC channel? :P) (Bah ) [TJ and Aaron have makeshift net-tubes.] (I'm not used to having an OOC channel for this. ^^;) (Me neither.) * T.J. looks out at the water. "Okay, you ready?" As I'm going to be. Here goes. * Aaron takes a deep breath, clamps the makeshift snorkel in his teeth, and dives. * T.J. nods, and takes a running jump out into the water, snorkel gripped tightly. As he leaps, his ballcap flies off his head, descending gently onto the water, where it floats for a few minutes. [TJ loses his ballcap. -5 coolness points.] (;_;) [But you both make it into the water with a splash. Your clothes are now wet. But no one is shooting at you. Which is a good sign.] [Hopefully you're on the wrong side of the boat.] (T.J. has many ballcaps, and he varies them so it's not like it's a signature cap.) * T.J. floats beneath the surface, trying to get the snorkel into position. (How dare a char have more than one outfit! ;p) (I was hoping to go for a different cap each mission.) * T.J. flounders in the darkness, trying to grab at Aaron or at least get his attention. (PULL AARON UNDER) * Aaron is trying his best to keep the snorkel above the water and himself underneath it. So far, no one's shot at him, which means he's probably succeeding. For now, at least. * T.J. surfaces, treading water. He looks up quickly, for any snipers, prepared to dive again. [TJ sees none.] * T.J. looks around for Aaron. [TJ sees Aaron!] * T.J. dogpaddles over to where his soaking wet ballcap is just about to go under, grabs it, and places it on his head. He then heads for Aaron. When he gets close to his fellow agent, he tries to grab Aaron's arm and pull him up to the surface. * Aaron starts as TJ grabs his arm but allows himself to be pulled up. "There's somethin' movin' there. A shark or something." T.J.'s voice contains a bit of gasping for breath, since he is treading water in full clothing as he speaks. You're kidding me. "It ain't Ryan, that's for sure." Okay. Think we can swim away from it without attracting its attention? "Do I look like I went to shark school? I didn't even see Jaws." It was overrated. * Aaron jerks his head. "I think I saw it that time." Well, not it, but something. Something definitely moved over there. [TJ doesn't seem to notice it anymore. Which is strange, because he's sure that's where it was.] "I can't see it anymore." This sounds like it worries T.J. Well, it was there. I think. * Aaron swims a bit away from where he thought it was. * T.J. also swims away from the menacing underwater object, though he puts space between himself and Aaron as he does. (He doesn't need to outswim it. He just needs to outswim me.) "Watch out! It's over there!" T.J. shouts at Aaron, splashing water as he waves toward the ripple, before adding somewhat puzzlingly. “I just can't see it!" * Aaron swims *away* from there. [Aaron doesn't have much of a chance to turn that way. Whatever it is, he feels something clamp down over his leg and start to pull him under.] Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! [End of File!]