"I'm coming! Got enough ammo here to defend our little travel group!" Chris said excitedly, pointing at the 5 magazines he had strapped to his armour.

"Alright, let's go." John says as he enters the code to open the blast doors. "You guys are gonna have to close the door behind us."

"Right! If we hear screams of terror or blood splatters against the door should we open it or wait till we hear sobs of despair and the smell of fear (which ironically tends to smell like urine)? Or should we just keep the door locked?"

"You know, if you're gonna be a dick about it, you can always just leave the door open and wait for us to get back." John says. "Come on, let's go." he says to Chris.

"Right behind you!" Chris said. Loading his rifle and turning on his helmet lights, Chris followed John.

jogging to catch up Ilundra follows Chris
and says to him "thought you might want some back up.

John pokes his head into the hallway. "All clear." he says as he begins inching toward the vending machine.

Turning to Ilundra, Chris said, "Ya, we'll we need all the help we can get!" Looking at the vending machine, Chris' stomach begins to growle. "Umm, you mind if we stop for a quick snack? i haven't eaten for a few days..." Chris said.

"a snack sure no problem" Ilundra said and with that she used the butt of her rifle to crack open the glass on the vending machine.
"everyone take an armfull we have what we came for."
Ilundra stuffing her pockets with pop bottles and water, she then grabbed an armload of chips and began carrying them back to the blast doors
over her sholder she called "Come on and grab some we got what we came for."

John loads up with snacks and begins walking back towards the blast doors. An ungodly wail sounds from down the hall. "Run!" he shouts.

"Covering Fire!" Allen yells across the hall. "Eat plasma!" Allen picks off a few as they start attacking the group. "Get inside before they get- AGH!" Allen gets hit with a baby necromorph bolt. "Die b****!" Allen pulls out the bolt and stabs the baby in the head with its own attack, holding the pistol unsteadly he fires more shots... "gotta...get... back there" *limp*

"Why did you leave the blast doors!?" John shouts as he tackles Allen, sending them both through said blast doors. "Hurry the hell up!" John shouts down the hall.

as Ilundra runs for the blast door one of the beasts catches up to her and smashes her in the back with its razor sharp apendage it slices through her armor and then suddenly stops as it meets with the fierce resistance of her now Iron hard body.
going into full sprint Ilundra jumps through the blast doors.

Running for the blast doors, Chris suddenly felt pain in his legs. Looking down, he saw that his leg was bleeding profusely. "I'm hit!" Chris said, as he lost consciousness.

OOC: I'm going to be busy for a few days so, I probably won't be able to post, which is why I'm leaving Chris unconscious for now!

"No!" John shouts. He leaves Allen and begins to drag Chris back towards the blast doors.

Name:Rick Hartigan
Occupation:Miner
Age: 32
Description:6'2", 250 pounds, Muscular.
Equipment:Laser Saw(Mining tool), Powered mining suit with ventilation system,comm link,emergency cyanide pill (incase the worst happens).
Backstory: Rick was also a tough man, he never did particularly well in school, but what he lacked in natural intelligence he made up for with his willingness to work harder than others, and his iron will to succeed. Rick joined the Miners union at the age of 21, and has been hard at work ever since. He is a firm resistor towards the Unitologist religion, mainly due to the fact that it destroyed his family. Rick was working on the planet beneath the Ishimura, at the mining colony, when the "Artifact" was discovered; believing it was somehow related to Unitology, he refused to have anything to do with it, demanding to be shuttled up to the Ishimura, where he now resides.

Hope I did this right, if there is something I did wrong, just let me know :)

"You don't want to go that way, trust me!" Rick shouts towards John and the others. "That place is crawling with these mutants now, come up here!" (Rick lowers a service ladder, providing access to the maintenance compartment).

"You've gotta be kidding me." John mutters under his breath. "How is that place any better than here?"

"I think I've got the damned things cut off from here, I sealed most of the vents leading to and from this shaft...we'll talk more later, here they come!" Rick reaches a hand to help John up.

John accepts the hand. "I hope you're telling the truth." he says as he climbs the service ladder.

"Alright, follow me, this is one of the larger service shafts, so we have to be careful, it may be hard to detect a breach in its security, but as far as I know shes safe." Rick motions John down the shaft.

"You're sure about that?" John says as the metal surface below him creaks ominously.

"Trust me, if it will hold me, it will hold anyone" Rick smirks, "You'll be fine, now hurry up, I have a plan to get us off of this ship!"

seeing john go up the shaft Ilundra using her now iron hard muscles grabs chris around the waist in mid stride and then jumped onto the ladder nearly falling off as her momentum bent the thin metal frame throwing chris over her sholder she grabbed her gun and shot a few of the infected to slow them down and then climbed into the vent.
she set chris down on the vent floor and then turned and jumped back down to buy the others some time to get up.

after they were all safe in the vent Ilundra followed them up and pulled the ladder in behind her.

when she got back up she saw john talking to a stranger and went over to meet him.
as she arrived she turned to him saying "hi Im Ilundra what is your name?"

"The name is Rick Hartigan, first things first, how the hell did you manage to do the things that you just did, you aren't infected are you?" Rick seems worried.

"to answer your question" Ilundra sighs and after a lengthy pause continues "yes I am infected.
I dont know entirely whats wrong with me but I have a theory."
"A few days ago I was attacked and I suffered a near fatal wound and needed to get to medical bay but I think that the combanation of the virus bio-foam and morphine have changed me...on a genetic level I am growing stronger by the day as this gray skin spreads across me starting from my wound and were I injected the morphine it now covers my chest and right arm.

"You don't have long to live, I'm sorry to say, but I'm afraid it will be far too dangerous to have you around when the transformation occurs, the risks simply outweigh the benefits. I do, however know of something you can do for us. There is a secret executive escape pod designed for emergencies just like this. The pod is designed to allow for the evacuation ov VIP's among the Ishimura. Now, the pod has not been launched as of yet, and I think it may be our best bet out of this Hell. There is one problem however; the controls to launch the pod are in a seperate room in the executive wing, a room which has had part of its hull compromised, resulting in a dramatic increase of radiation levels. You may be the only one of us that can manage to make your way through the radiated chamber and activate the controls; I'm sure the radiation will eventually overcome your system, but you will have boldly rescued the remaining survivors...I know this is alot to ask...but it may be our only hope." Rick puts his hand on the shoulder of Ilundra.

"So, you're saying that we need to leave someone behind. I'm not gonna let that happen. I personally think we shou-" John is cut off by the scythe-like claws wrapping around him, shooting out from what was thought to be a secure vent. They don't cut him, but they drag him into the darkness. "Nooo!!!!" he screams agonizingly.

"SHIT!" Rick screams and runs after John, he deploys the mining laser just in the nick of time, slicing the dangerous appendage from body of John's necromorph captor. "We're going to have to be more careful guys." Rick explains, "Now someone HAS to stay behind, now way around that, I hate to be the bearer of bad news...but this is just how it has to be. Now there is no sense in risking another life when there is already an infected among us. No matter the means of infection...the host WILL eventually die." Rick fixes his gaze onto Ilundra. "Now, what do you think, can you help?"

not wanting the creature to live and come back for another victem and with it to dark to shoot at in the vent Ilundra jumps after the creature but it was to fast and grabed her with its hands and reaching out to her with its remaining arm and pulls her into the darkness after a second or two the group hears the sickening crack of bones breaking and a scream abruptly cut off by a dull thud.
a few seconds later Ilundra climbs out of the airduct covered in gore and her left holding one of the creatures dismembered limbs.
the rest of the group notising a fresh cut into the chest plate were the creature had grabed her.
wiping some of the blood of her face she walks up to Rick and saids "Dont go in there its not pretty" walking up to Rick she said after a long sigh "I will do it but if that sector has a hull rupture it will be decompressed and I will need someone elses suit... mine seams to be comming apart and I think my chest piece could fall off soon if this keeps up and I didnt have time to grab an undershirt,
also I will need a tank of air this one" Ilundra indicates the twisted metal hanging off of her back. "its to damaged. if you can get me these things I will activate the pod... even if I cant leave with you."

"It doesn't have to be this way." John says. "We can try the hangar. There's gotta be a ship left." He turns to Rick. "Don't be so quick to leave people behind."

Ilundra turned to john and with a sad look on her face she said "no this is the way it was ment to be." putting a hand on his sholder "if I... If I turn into one of them I could kill all of you...I dont know how much time I have left Rick is right I am the only one that can do this."
with that being said Ilundra wandered back over to the vent and pulling a section of the unsecured vent from the rest Ilundra twisted the thin metal to create a make shift wall so that no new beasts made it through

Stirring from his deep "sleep" Chris woke to the sight of Ilundra creating what seemed to be a metal wall. "Hey what's going on?" Chris asked, slowly attempting to stand up. "What's Ilundra doing? and what's with all this mess?"

finishing the makeshift wall Ilundra turned to the group and shaking her head slightly she said "someone go fill in chris I need to finish securing this shaft.

"Well Chris, my name is Rick Hartigan, I am a miner from the complex located on the planet underneath the Ishimura. I think I have a way for us to get off of this ship, it's is an escape pod located in the executive wing of the Ishimura. The trouble is, however, that the launch controls for the pod are in a chamber flooded with a large amount of radiation, so much that even a hazmat suit will not protect us from it. Now I think Ilundra, being that she is infected and all, will have the best chance of all of us to enter the chamber and have adequate time to activate the launch controls, most likely killing her in the process." Rick turns to John. "Sorry if this plan doesn't work for you John, but I have checked...there are no more shuttles on this damn ship. Everyone has taken them and fled. Ilundra, lets find you a suit and get out of here." Rick points down one of the other branches of the shaft. "This way" he says.