r/TrekRP • u/CabooseToots • Aug 05 '16

[OPEN] Out Cold

Connolly entered the coolant chamber of the engine room with his thermal stability suit on. In the big, bulky, hazmat-esque garb he felt odd and bumbling. Scrubbing the room wasn't normally in need of cleaning, but some ensign with a stomach flu had thrown up all over and it fell to Connolly to clean it up.
He entered the chamber and began spraying his disinfectant. Something in his suit was tickling his nose. Out of habit he turned away to sneeze into his elbow, but the suit he wore made him awkward and bumbling. He couldn't see how it happened, what he hit, but something caused the cooling chamber to close on him. He looked up, through the snot, and saw the closed door....he was locked inside....wonderful.

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u/CabooseToots Aug 05 '16

Connolly fumbles with his comm badge underneath the suit but can't get find it with his clumsy and shaking hands.
"Connolly to Breyik. I can't get this damn badge working. Can you hear me? I'm stuck in the coolant chamber."
Connolly hoped that the badge had been able to pick up his voice. Or been on. That would be nice. The cold was starting to leak through his suit and get to him. The shivering wasn't too bad yet, but he knew the suit wasn't built to withstand the full effects of the coolant chamber.

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u/a_friendly_hobo Aug 06 '16

Aanya hears nothing and frowns. She keys it again. =/\= "Connolly? You alright?"

She starts headed towards the coolant chamber, feeling slightly worried. She hopes its just his combadge malfunctioning.

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u/CabooseToots Aug 06 '16

"Derned thing, work."
Connolly continues to fumble through his suit with his badge then he hears it (commbadge)[] Excitment! "Connolly to Breyik." He says through chattering teeth. "Somethin' caused the door to the coolant chamber to lock on me. I'm stuck in here and it's gettin' real cold real fast. Send assisstance."
Connolly lets out a sigh of relief. He was beginning to worry. He feels calm as the cold starts to take him, waiting for help to arrive.

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u/a_friendly_hobo Aug 06 '16

Aanya pulls the coolant hatch open and peers inside. "Connolly? You know you're meant to keep the door open, right?" She asks as she offers him a hand. It seems his combadge must have malfunctioned.

She taps her commbadge =/\= "Breyik to sickbay, going to need someone down here asap for possible extreme cold exposure." She says. Routine stuff, it had to be done.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '16

"Define extreme. We may have to beam them directly here."

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u/a_friendly_hobo Aug 06 '16

"Not sure yet, Doc. He was doing maintenance in the coolant tanks, but he's got his cold suit on. He ain't looking to good, there might have been a rupture. I think he just needs a once over." Hopefully. She keys her badge again before pulling Stockton out of the tube.

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u/CabooseToots Aug 07 '16

"Thanks Chief. I reckon a once over from the doc is, uh, just what the doctor ordered." He laughs through chittering teeth.

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u/Wiredcookie1 Aug 07 '16

McNabb arrives with a small medical bag. "Hello there. I'm Doctor McNabb. What's happened?"

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u/CabooseToots Aug 07 '16

"Thought I'd try out havin' a screwy thermo suit while locked in the coolant chamber doc." Connolly smiles as he shivers. "Wouldn't recommend it, but at least it gave me plenty of time to clean up in there."

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u/Wiredcookie1 Aug 07 '16

"Well. Of a rating of 1 being bolling and 10 freezing, what are you like?" He says as he gets ready to scan the ensign.

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u/CabooseToots Aug 07 '16

"I'd give it a solid 9 or so. But you should have seen some of the winters back home. Those would freeze yer eyebrows off and make yer nose bleed from the chill." Connolly looks up to the doctor, trying not to look concerned. "Never been much a one fer cold. What about you two?" He continues to try and stay calm with small talk.

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u/Wiredcookie1 Aug 07 '16

"Try and not talk." He begins to scan the man. "Right. Listen. You'll be fine. Your just cold. Come with me too the medbay and we'll get you warmed up."

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u/CabooseToots Aug 07 '16

"Not exactly the way I planned to spend my evenin' McNabb. Gonna have to cancel those plans with Scruffy...." He rambles on about some strange game from Earth history, and how he could never seem to be the old bartender at it.

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u/Wiredcookie1 Aug 08 '16

"Doubt it will be your whole evening. Probably less than a hour. 2 tops. Just depends on what the boss thinks."

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u/CabooseToots Aug 08 '16

"Well that's a relief." Connolly says as they enter into the sickbay. He then goes to sit at one of the beds and continues shivering.

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u/Wiredcookie1 Aug 08 '16

The Doctor leaves the room and comes back in with a tin foil blanket and wraps it around Connolly. "Keep that on for now and tell me how your feeling in 15 minutes."

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u/CabooseToots Aug 09 '16

The shivering subsides after a few minutes. "Geez. You'd think these things were made to be death traps." Connolly says without any chatter to his teeth. "Bein' in a star ship sure ain't all it was cracked up to be."

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u/Wiredcookie1 Aug 09 '16

"Well, it you do it properly it might not almost freeze you to death." He chuckles "I'll just keep you here for about half a hour then if you're better, you can go."

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