I say "Clever girl." And get eaten by a raptor.

Thanks OP, this was a lot of fun.

>>14219292

SKILLS
Mechanics [Basic]
- [Maintenance]
Computers [Basic]
Survival [Basic]
Park Knowledge [Basic]
Dinosaur Knowledge [Basic]
First Aid [Basic]
Firearms [Basic]
- [Small Arms]

INVENTORY
- Blue Level Security Card
- Orange Level Security Card
- JP Maintenance Dept. Hard Hat (Floodhat)
- JP Maintenance Dept. Coveralls
- Chainmail (Hidden in Explorer)
- Utility Belt
- Flashlight [Pwr: lllll]
- Walkie-Talkie [Pwr: lllll]
- Compressed Air Pistol
- x14 Tranquilizer Darts
- Toolbox
- 2 Rechargeable batteries (Flashlight/talkie compatible)
- Recharging station (Battery)
- .44 Magnum (Hidden in Explorer)
- x23 .44 Magnum rounds (HP)
- 12 Gauge Shotgun (Hidden in Explorer)
- x12 12ga Shotgun Shells (Solid Slug)
- Jury-rigged Flamethrower (WD-40 and Lighter)
- Fire Extinguisher
- Gas Mask

The turbines need machinery replaced after the compys displaced some of the inner workings. In addition, both the power cable for the turbine and the building's electrical wiring are significantly chewed up. The computers are currently not not functional.

It is now a little after 8 PM, you and the crew are starting to feel tired.

Before we continue, I'd like to know how many visitors we have on the island.Seeing as the entire Maintenance crew is planning to abandon the island while dozens, if not hundreds of dinosaurs, are free this might cost InGen quite alot if we don't fix everything.

Also, what dumbass thought it was a good idea to let the Compys run around freely?!

>>14219636

The island can cater to two dozen visitors at a time.

Slow night.

We need to get the electricity on asap.
There was spare machinery parts laying around somewhere, right? I say we repair the turbine first.

>>14219726

Yeah, the storage room had everything you needed to repair the turbine.

>>14219636

Compys are a bit like rats; they get everywhere, and ar almost impossible to contain.

>>14219741

Right, then we get to work.

Also, shouldn't the MREs, rocket launcher, and spare rockets be added to our inventory?

>>14219815

From what I recall, it was decided that they would be left in the store room until you finish your job, then you would load them into the Explorer.

Make a Mechanics check. d100.

rolled 89 = 89

>>14219891

Oh jeez, please let this work

You take a look at the damage the compys did with their nesting, and boy did they do a number on it. You have Emmanuel and Juan bring the spare parts out while you finish your inspection of the turbines. A lot of parts need replacing, but you get to it. The job is easy, but time-consuming. By the time you finish, it's around 10 PM. The turbine appears ready to go.

>>14220042

yessssssss...

we are turbine fixin' MACHINES

>>14220118

We flip on the radio.

"Dispatch, this is Porter over at hydroelectric. Repairs are complete, preparing to activate, over."

We turn it on.

>>14220137

The locks on the turbine can't be unlocked manually, they require the computer to tell it to unlock. Plus the water isn't flowing past the blades. The floodgates are down and the river is flowing over the dam.

"*static* Alright Porter, I'm looking at the power grid."

>>14220194

What do we have to do, then? Raise the flood gates, then use the computer to unlock the turbines? Do we know how to unlock the turbines with the computer?

>>14220218

Flood gate and turbine controls are both controlled by the computer. To get those working, you'll have to get power to the building. There's a backup gas generator tied to the building's power system, but at the moment it's only filled with water. After that, you'll have to replace the power cables that were chewed up by compys. Then, once that's done, you can get the turbine running. But you won't get any power flowing out of the complex until you replace the power cable that was mauled by the compys.

And yeah, you know basic operating procedures for the power systems.

>>14220248

Damn.

Did we find any replacement power cables in our search of the building? Or gas?

>>14220287

There's a large tank of gas in the storage room. You have electrical cable in your toolkits, and there are a bunch of coils in the storage room.

>>14220301

How long do we think it'll take to repair the cables?

>>14220317

The compys only managed to chew on the cables on the ground, but there are a lot of them. At least an hour.

>>14220328


"Cancel that, Dispatch. Turbines are fixed, but it looks like there's still some power cables that the compys were chewing on. Will take another hour to fix 'em, but then we should be good to go. Will radio back when we're ready to activate."

Right, we get to work on the cables then.

>>14220354

"*static* Please hurry up, the park is starting to get a bit out of control."

You can either replace the entire cables, which will take on another hour, or you can attempt to splice cables together, a relatively simple job, for a maintenance check.

rolled 32 = 32

>>14220375

So replacing them entirely will take two hours and splicing them will take one?

>>14220397

Whoops, didn't mean to roll there. Forgot to turn the dice off.

>>14220397

Yes. But splicing has the chance of something going wrong, making it take longer or, in extreme cases, bad things happening.

>>14220411

We don't take the chance. We replace the wires entirely.

>>14220430
This, we don't need more trouble.

It's a tedious task, but you replace every cable that was broken, stapling them into place along the floor and walls. Everything is now properly connected to the power grid.

>>14220510

Right. We gas up and start the generator, then try to turn on the computers.

>>14220517
If we fix this, then we should try to get some sleep. It's been a rough day for all of us and I hope Dispatch can get it through their heads that even Frank Porter needs good 8 hours of sleep.

>>14220517

You dump the water out and fill it up with gas. The generator roars to life and suddenly the room is bright. Some of the lights are burned out, but most seemed to have survived.

!it's around midnight now, and the whole crew is starting to feel fatigued. You sure you want to keep going?

>>14220559

We should tell Dispatch that we've fixed everything and then try to get some sleep.

"*static**sigh* Alright, I'll give you a wake up call around 7."

Wait, wait, did we actually turn on the generator? That's just a matter of using the computers.

Let's do that before turning in, that gas may not last the night.

>>14220663
are there any good areas to rest without getting munched on?

>>14220781

As long as the doors are closed, you should be fine, provided none of the dinos can open a door.

>>14220808
>provided none of the dinos can open a door.

...can we lock the doors?

Also, at least turn the damn turbines ON before going to bed. How long will that take, really?

>>14220808
put something heavy infront of the doors

or better yet, sleep in a closet/Small room

>>14220824

None of the doors have locks.

>>14220826

Are you forgetting what happened to the guy whose body we found locked in a closet in a makeshift fort?

We barricaded the door in the lobby using filing cabinets, right?

If there are any spare filing cabinet, we get Juan and Emanuel to go barricade the second doorway into the building.

Then, we lower the floodgates/activate the turbines. We'll sleep in the turbine room, and we'll sleep in shifts. Do we or the other two have a cellphone with an alarm clock function, or a watch with a timer? If so, we use that to set the shifts.

Could you please post the map of this building again?

So do we want to take care of the computer now or later?

And do you want to do anything with the doors before sleeping?

>>14220934
put heavy objects infront of them

>>14220934

First

A) could you please post the map again and

B) Do we have anything we can use as an alarm to set sleeping shifts and

C) Are there any other filing cabinets in the office that we can use to barricade the other doors?

>>14220901

You haven't barricaded any doors.

>>14220962

There are 3 filing cabinets in the office that could be used to barricade. There are also a number of wooden crates that could also serve that purpose.

>>14220962
i say we take turns haveing 2 hour shits
12-2
2-4
4-6
by then it should be dawn

>>14220976

And do we have any way to keep time or set alarms?

>>14220997

You have a watch, but it's analog.

2 hours might be too long. Perhaps 20 minutes if no actual alarms are present. With a shorter amount of time everyone is getting 40 minutes of sleep per cycle, but at least no one's going to doze off before the next guy takes over?

have our assistants barracade tha doors with whatever is on hand and not important while their doing that do the computre stuff. if we think we can get the power going to the park within the hour do it, if not just do what we can with the computer

>>14221008

I'm not sure the human body can really function like that. I mean, it takes me twenty minutes or so just to fall asleep after I lie down.

Hold up, though.

Here's what I think we should do:

First, we barricade one door with two filing cabinets. Then, we barricade the second door with the third filing cabinet and a few crates. Use ONLY the MRE crates, not the rocket crate.

Second, we pile the remaining crates in the turbine room, against the door leading into the office. We will sleep in the turbine room. With one door into the turbine room barricaded, we can watch the other while listening for anything trying to get in.

Third, we switch on the computers, then start the turbines after lowering the floodgates. The park needs that power crucially, and we don't know if the gas generator has enough fuel to run all night.

Then and only then do we settle down for sleep. We divide the night (until seven) into three shifts. Whoever has guard duty stays up with one of the tranq rifles. We will take first shift, because I'd rather rely on Emanuel or Juan AFTER they've had some sleep.

Sound good to everybody?

>>14220976
Barricade the doors and sleep in shifts with one person to stand guard while the other two sleep.

>>14220781

Sounds good to me.

>>14221079

The office and lobby are one level higher than the turbine room. Sorry if the map doesn't show that.

>>14221079
The only real concern I have is someone falling asleep while on watch. If that happens the watches afterwards become obsolete and everyone is already exhausted. We don't know if they can stay awake and still do all the tasks. What if while doing all this prep one member sleeps during all of this to take the first watch. Possibly getting in a good solid hour of down time to be in good shape for the first watch?

Remember longer watch hours are dangerous.

>>14221207

So there are no more miscommunications:

In the lobby, there is a door leading into the office and onto a catwalk above the turbine room. The catwalk has stairs that allow access to the turbines, it also has outside access to the top of the river dam The turbine room has a door leading into emergency storage as well as a door with hydraulics to separate the turbine blades from the rest of the machinery, so water doesn't flood the place.

>>14221260

*and one leading onto a catwalk.

Let's just turn everything on so that the power is flowing, then go into the room with the body, block the door with crates/cabinets/whatever we can haul in there, and go to sleep in there secured from rampaging whatevers. Leave the radio on (make sure it's charged) so that Dispatch can call us and wake it up if something goes wrong.

>>14221208

Okay, Juan can sleep while we and Emanuel set all this stuff up. Then we take first shift. And we barricade the door up to the office with crates. Juan takes second shift. Emanuel takes third shift.

And hell, we'll break it into four shifts, with us taking the last one as well.

Sound good?

>>14221287

Dude, the room with the body has a body because the guy barricaded himself in there and STARVED TO DEATH BECAUSE THE DOOR WOULDN'T OPEN

>>14221345
And he was apparently without a crowbar. Or a shotgun. Also, there are three of us with thrice the muscle power. I do not fear a stuck door.

>>14221345

Yeah, and we were able to knock that door down by ourselves. Plus, there's three of us, and we have tools. We could just take the door off its hinges if we had to.

>>14221366
Nor do I. +1 vote to do it. Just in case though, see if there's any water bottles or canteens to fill and bring with us.

You send Juan off to sleep, which he does gratefully, while you and Emmanuel blockade the doors.

If you guys decide to turn on the turbines, it will be making too much noise for you and the the crew to sleep very well. You still want to turn it on now?

>>14221366
>>14221368

Okay. Then we do as stated in >>14221079 but instead of sleeping in the middle of the turbine room, we barricade ourselves into the emergency storage room?

Do we ignore barricading the other doors, then, and just focus on this one?

>>14221380
The turbines are far more serious business than how well we sleep, and having the power on is the difference between life and death for others on the island. Turn that shit on.

>>14221413

Also, it'll mean we don't sleep TOO securely. That's actually a good thing.

Okay, so we're holing up in emergency storage, barricading THAT door, but not the others, and we're turning on the turbines?

Are we all agreed on this?

>>14221489
Yes. While I'd like to seal up the whole building, that's simply not feasible and it's already really late. Better to secure a small area and worry about the rest later.

>>14221489

Right. And we make sure all our gear is int here with us, including the rocket launcher, rockets, and MREs.

Alright, you decide that power is more important than your fatigue and try to turn on the computers. They boot up just fine, but something is wrong with the system, someone was messing with it and it's no longer in standard mode.

Make a Computers check. d100.

rolled 100 = 100

>>14221533

Shit.

>>14221551

BOOYAH!

I am FIRE tonight!

>>14221551
YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD

You navigate the computer easily and return the computer to its standard layout. From there, you raise the floodgates, which automatically lowers the hydraulic door, and unlock the turbine blades. The turbine starts spinning and the power management program says that the turbine is putting out an impressive amount of power.

Your radio squawks.

"*static* Thank you Porter, damn fine job. Get some sleep you earned. Tomorrow, we get to work regaining control."

>>14221551

>>14221551

FUCK

YES

Was there any indication that the computers had been... tampered with?

>>14221551
>alpha as fuck

>>14221653
It probably has more to do with months/years of disuse than intentional tampering. this place was obsolete before the stuff about sabotage was broached, iirc.

>>14221631

Right. We hole up in the storage room with out stuff, and we take first watch.

You head back to the emergency storage room, and have to crawl through a small hole in the barricade Emmanuel made. After crawling through, you take a look at the state of the room.

The fort is still there, but it isn't as large. Juan is in the fort attempting to sleep. Emmanuel gestures for you to join Juan.

>>14221798

with our stuff*

>>14221812
Engage sleep mode.

>>14221812

Ask Juan if he's sure, as we're prepared to take first watch.

If he insists, we give him our wristwatch to keep track of the time and make sure he understands when to wake us up.

>>14221856

Juan is trying to sleep, Emmanuel wants to take the first watch.

>>14221913

Er, right, my bad. Same thing, but with Emanuel, then.

He insists on taking the first watch, and you give him your watch. You and Juan both manage to fall asleep.

You're shaken awake right after, it seems to you, you had just closed you eyes. You look blearily at Emmanuel and he hands you the watch. 2 AM. He lies down on the concrete.

>>14221966
Eat something to keep ourselves awake.

>>14221966

Right, we pick up a tranq rifle and get to work and start our watch. Are we carrying the shotgun or magnum?

Too keep busy we unload them, make sure they're working, then load them again and keep the safeties on. We don't know enough about guns to safely disassemble and reassemble them, and we've bot nothing to clean them with, but we can double check that they're not likely to jam.

>>14221998

You have the shotgun, not the magnum.

To keep yourself busy, you eat an MRE and take a look at the shotgun. There's some residue from use by the water tech, but it's in great condition, as near as you can tell.

Your watch passes without incident, it's quite monotonous. It is now 4 AM.

>>14222043

Well, we unload it, make sure the pump, trigger, and safety catch all seem to be working fine, then reload it and put the catch back on.

Just try to familiarize ourselves with how it works some more.

We're mechanics, it should be second nature to us, figuring out how stuff works.

as we have nothing to do but wait lets read the instructions for the rocket launcher. its not much use if were more likely to blow ourself up than the dinos

>>14222081
Wake up the last guy. Juan. Hand him the watch, try to communicate that he should wait two hours and then wake the two of you up, then give him a gun and get back to sleep.

>>14222104

They only know how to use the tranq rifles, so give him that one.

You give him the watch and he nods, evidently Emmanuel explained the procedure to him already. He gets up and gets the tranq rifle.

>>14222195
Unconsciousness beckons. Enter its sweet embrace.

You head back to sleep.

Later, you feel hands shaking you awake.

>>14222314

We get up and try to take stock of the situation

You get up and Juan puts his finger to his lips. He points to a space in between the boxes making up the fort.

>>14222446

We grab the shotgun, check to see where Emanuel is, then try to listen/look through the gap, see what he's indicating.

Lets take a quiet look. Get juan to wake Emanual up.

Be silent, given how juan is acting its something bigger than compys.

It's gonna be raptors, isn't it?

You point to Juan, then to Emmanuel, and you think he gets the hint. You take a look through the crack and see this peeking in through the hole in the crates.

>>14222554

FUCK

SAFETY OFF AND SHOOT THAT MOTHERFUCKER

>>14222554

Clever girl...

>>14222554

To clarify this point:

The head is peeking through the hole in the crates blocking the door, not the crates of the fort.

Well fuck-a-truck.

OK, grab the radio and lower the volume low enough to hear. Then silently scoot to the furthest end away from the barricade. Call Dispatch for DRTs. get everyone to Keep quiet and have weapons ready.

>>14222607

How far away from us is it, and does it seem to see us?

>>14222636

It doesn't seem to be seeing you.

>>14222607
Everyone awake.

Everyone get tranq rifles. Those are one-shot kills (well, knockouts) on a raptor, even if they take a bit of time to work; it might be able to keep charging through a shotgun blast.

Expect the raptors to smell us and attempt to attack shortly. If they don't, it's because they're planning to ambush us when we leave. Be ready.

We gesture for Juan to hand us one of the Tranq rifles.

We use a box in the barricade to support our aim, and shoot the Raptor in the head with a dart.

>>14222676

Why wait for them to detect us? Shoot it now.

>>14222702
>>14222711

The crack in the crates is too small for the rifle barrel to fit into. You'd have to exit the fort to shoot the raptor.

We probably shouldn't use the flamethrower or the shotgun with that big gas tank not too far from the door. Get out our dart pistol, make sure Juan and Emanuel have their rifles loaded and ready.

Wait, what TIME is it? Switch of the radio; we don't want the Dispatch wakeup call to attract the raptors.

shoot it with the tranq rifle and radio management for a DRT team. Theres no telling how many are out there and from the sounds of it were one of the only maintence teams still working. Also I think this is the seventh raptor we have seen, there were suposed to be only six. If my count is right that confirms that there are a unknown number of raptors roaming the island.

>>14222835

Juan gave you your watch back, it's 5:45 AM.

So the plan is to reveal yourself to the raptor and shoot it with a tranq?

Does the radio have a volume control we could turn down, so we could ask Dispatch to send a DRT? We could whisper, and if we turn the volume down enough, their response won't be so loud as to attract the raptors.

Also, earlier we discussed barricading ourselves in here and NOT barricading the other doors, so does that mean our door barricade includes the filing cabinets? Or is it just crates?

>>14222974

No, we're still deciding. Right now it's just make sure the three of us have our guns loaded and ready to go if the raptor notices us and tries anything.

>>14222974
The plan is to QUIETLY wake up and arm all three of us.

All other plans can be conducted after that, including radioing dispatch and shooting raptors.

>>14222981

The radio has volume control. The barricade does include the filing cabinets.

>>14223000

Juan has awoken Emmanuel, who whispers to you.

"What's going on?"

>>14223045

We whisper back: "Raptors in the building. One's peeking through the barricade, but I don't think it knows we're here. Get your rifle, load it, and be ready if it tries something."

>>14223045
Murmur. Don't whisper, whispers carry.

"First, be very, very quiet, no matter what I say. Understand?"

"Good. There is a raptor poking is head into the room. I think it smells us, and they hunt in packs. Get a tranq rifle."

Get the radio, turn the volume down really low (but not off) and call Dispatch.

Say: "Dispatch, this is Porter over at Hydroelectric. We have raptors up here, I don't know how many. I need a DRT up here to secure the building ASAP. The raptors are INSIDE the building, repeat the raptors are INSIDE. Send help at once. Over and out."

Listen for a response. If they confirm, turn off the radio. If they don't confirm, still turn off the radio. Then check back on what the Raptor is doing.

>>14223077 then >>14223102
Make sure our own tranq is ready in case.

Emmanuel whispers to himself.

"Hijo de puta!" Juan grunts in agreement. Emmanuel grabs a rifle and pulls the bolt, moving a dart into the chamber.

"Ready."

You're attempts to contact dispatch leave you with nothing. No one answers.

>>14223236
Switch to maintenance channel, see if anyone's there. Then switch to security channel, see if anyone's there.

If those fuckers left us behind, I will be so pissed.

We aren't wearing our chainmail, are we? If we are it makes sense for us to take point since we're most protected.

>>14223253
Its a bit optimistic but they could still be asleep

>>14223253
Dispatch is probably asleep. Jurassic Park is heavily automated, the island is designed to run on a small staff, there might only be one or two guys.

>>14223253

You don't know the Security frequency, but you switch it to the Maintenance frequency. Instead of the automated signal, you've got a cacophony of voices, most of them speaking Spanish.

>>14223328
Fuck, turn it off before the raptor hears!

>>14223328

Ask them if any of them speak english.

>>14223341

You have to hold the radio up to your ear just to hear them over the turbines, there is no way the raptor can hear them.

>>14223358
We could just ask Emanuel or Juan to listen.

>>14223373

Can they translate?

If so, GET IT DONE.

>>14223369
Pass it to Emanuel, ask him to find out what's going on if he can.

>>14223381
Emanuel speaks both English and Spanish.

He listens for a while. Then whispers to you.

"Sounds like a lot of new workers came onto the island. Where are the old ones?"

>>14223429
"Maybe they got sent off the island. Do the new workers know the situation?"

>>14223429
"At a guess, off the island. They were gathered at the docks last I heard. Still, bringing in a whole new crew to replace them... those people will be clueless. No training, no familiarity with the island. With the dinos loose, half of them will end up dead in days unless management brought in just as many new DRT types as they did maintenance."

>>14223439

"They know, but they're confident that management and security have the situation under control. Sounds like they're at the bungalows getting them fixed up to sleep in. Some of them are impressed with the guards Dispatch sent them."

>>14223549
Grumble silently about how it'd sure be nice if we had guards. Is the raptor still looking for us or has its attention shifted?

>>14223549

"They won't be impressed for long. See if you can find out what kind of weapons the guards are carrying. Some sort of head-count would be good too".

in the meantime we think about the raptor and whether or not we should check if it's still lurking around.

>>14223549
"Well, either they'll learn or I will be pleasantly surprised. Anyway, Dispatch isn't answering, which leaves us with a raptor problem. I'm inclined to shoot any of them that poke their noses in here, then use the radio to call in a DRT- if the maintenance channel is open, we should be able to talk our way through to someone eventually- and fort up until it gets here. I wouldn't relish leaving this room when raptors could still be waiting outside. You have any better ideas?"

>>14223619

You look back in time to see it yawn wide and retreat its head from the crates. You then see them start to wobble. Looks like they're trying to move them. Not putting a lot of effort into it though.

>>14223672
>They
Oh crap.
Oh crap.
Check one last time that everyone has tranqs, then... we could try pushing the crates onto them.

>>14223672
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our PC: He can repair a power plant in six hours, but can't build a decently braced barricade to literally save his own life.

>>14223690
When Jurassic Park raptors are involved, the rules are risky.

>>14223672

Get emanuel off the comm. immediately and prepare for a confrontation, but keep it quiet.

>>14223690

Technically Emmanuel built it, not you. And the crates aren't moving, just wobbling. As in moving in place.

>>14223686
>Fuck with barracade
NOPE.png.

Tranq the one in the face, approach hole, tranq others.

Hmmmmmmmm. Cliffhanger? Getting tired? Sounds like a good place to end tonight. Night all. Someone archive please.

>>14223705

As if something had been leaning against them and then suddenly moved away very, very quickly?

Oh shit.

Whose bright idea was it to leave the guns in the explorer?

>>14223721
We can't tranq them without exposing ourselves to attack anyway. If they're pinned down they'll be unable to react before we can get a shot off.

>>14223728
We didn't leave the guns in the explorer. We have many guns in here with us, where they belong.

>>14223737

> implying you can sneak up on a raptor.

>>14223744
Who the fuck said anything about sneaking.
Look, if they're being held down by the crate, possibly with a broken bone, they are physically incapable of attacking, at least before we can shoot them.

>>14223767

Alright fuck it, but send Juan in first lol.

>>14223725

Since some people may have missed this.

Archived.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14219292/

>>14223879

I saw it, was just thinking about what the next move should be until the thread archived is all.

nite nite bro