Active thread - The Red Strain [TRS]

[Tabs]

[ooc: I needed that recap, and I like the layout diagram.]


In the kitchen Arthur pulls the lid off of his Szechuan hotpot he'd prepared earlier, he chokes in disgust at the dry mass inside the giant casserole dish. "Bloody Hell!" He sets the timer on the oven to ten minutes, leaves the oven door open, and turns on the gas rings on the hob. He exits the kitchen, shuts the door, and bellows:

"THE STATION IS GONNA BLOW IN TEN!"

[Dave Syrinx]

That one!

[Laraqua]

"What? What are you doing? Where will we go?" Janet curses. "All right, underground passage...." She heads for the laboratory.

[Dave Syrinx]

Ten minutes and counting -

The door to the second floor budges a bit and it sounds as if a dozen trouts are thrashing at the door. From above the whaling of Dwayne continues. Eric and George follow the tail of Arthur bottle necking the air lock hallway. A scuffle starts as everyone wants to go in different directions. Arthur is heading out the main door. Janet tries to squeeze through to the lab area.

Spoiler:

What´s the plan for the rest of you guys? And who do we have with us?
Me reviving this scenario might have gone unnoticed.

Let´s see what happens...

[Mr. Handy]

OOC,Am I in the radio room yet?

[Dave Syrinx]

Spoiler:

Yes, Robert arrives to his den. It almost feels as normal. If he disregards the screaming and rattling in the stairwell...

[Mr. Handy]

Robert quickly transmits the evac order, not wanting to waste a second.

[Dave Syrinx]

"Evacuate station! I repeat evacuate station! This is Robert Bailey, abandon station!", comes from the radio. The protocol for hazard situations is to get to the surrounding buildings and await rescue. A beacon message automatically sent to McMurdo base.

[Mr. Handy]

With the message sent, Robert runs back out of the radio room to rejoin the others and head for the trapdoor in the lab.

[Dave Syrinx]

Arriving back at the airlock space, Robert finds the others scattering in all directions. Only Walther seems a bit unfocused, He´s staring after Janet as she moves towards the lab area. Arthur pushes the main door open. Sondra and Nichols decide to oblige to the evacuation message and trail after Arthur. George and Eric head for the lab as well.

From the stairs behind the locked door to the upstairs you hear Dwayne call, "Open the door for god´s sake. I need to get out as well!"

[Mr. Handy]

"Not that way, there's a bloody sniper outside!" calls Robert. "There's a trapdoor in the lab! That way, everyone!" He hurries to the door at the stairs to let Dwayne out.

[Dave Syrinx]

Walther follows after Janet, “Janet wait up, are we after the lab to save the specimens or for this supposed trap door, God knows why there would be a sniper in the middle of the Antarctic.” Walther is a little confused at the moment due to the rush of activity and even though he knows where most things after in the supply room, the base specially the labs are more of a mystery, plus Janet seems to know where she is going compared to Arthur, the overgrown slug.

Robert opens the door to the second floor when Sondra, Arthur and Nichols pour out the main door. Only Nichols stays in the doorway, hesitating.

From the opened, dented second floor door, Dwayne falls out, all blooded and hair in disarray, wild eyed and frantically sprawling with his arms. "They´re gone, man!" He sees the open main door and the USAF officer. "Help us! KILL IT!!!"

Janet takes the few steps to the lab and starts to lit the trap door in the center of the floor. Snow blows in through the opening as she lifts the door. At Dwayne´s screaming, she comments. "Now, what´s it about? Germs?" She dons a protective mask from one of the counters and hands out two remaining for the others to put on. The issue is the one used for hazardous protection on the lab. Eric quickly accepts one of them.

[Mr. Handy]

"Not the front door, it's too dangerous!" calls Robert after the people fleeing that way. "Follow me, there's another way out!" He rushes to the lab.