"Its worth a shot, let me just finish up here really quick"

Added to Fougeres Equipment

5x Cans of Dried Corn
5x Cans of Dried Beans

(I assume Fougere will go down together with Barry afterwards?)

Fougere and Barry discover the top deck, it's filled with all the machinery and resources needed to manouver a ship this huge over large distances. The whole deck is pretty open-spaced, although there's some metal grated walkways with railings on the side one needs to travel over to reach each room. Everything looks in good condition at first sight.

Rooms:

Aquamaster Room
Engineer Workshop Hall
Electrical Workshop
Radio Workshop
Engine Room

Machinery

Main Engine
Auxillary Generator
Sea Duty Generator
Fire Pumps (2x)

Ressources:
Oil Fuel Containers (2x)
Water Ballast (2x)
Sewage Unit
Drinking Water Containers (2x)

@Odeon @Ignance_ @barrymc @LuJo

Barry looks around the Aquamaster Room (Perception d20: 10 + 3 wisdom).

Although you can barely see them, there's some footprints in the small layer of dust that has settled on the walkway and also occassionally on the railings, as if someone had gripped them. You discover the Z-Drive system in the aquamaster room, it's used to rotate ships on its axis without the need of using a rudder allowing them to dock on easier. The buttons to activate it seem dusted off, as there's no electricity currently they don't seem to work.

On the each side of the bow room you're in right now you see the chain rodes used to lift the anchors and their respectives winches. The anchor on the left hand side still seems to be fully lowered as theres no chain on the winch on that side, implying that it's this anchor that is still holding the cargo ship in place. The chain rode on the right-hand side is a bit an odd sight though, it's fully retracted but not rolled up on the winch, rather it's rolled around the whole machinery, as if someone dragged it out manually by pulling on the chains and walked circles around the winch to keep it fixated, at least thats what the footprints on the ground imply. This almost seems impossible though as you assume the weight of the chain to be at least 10 tons if not way more by how it looks.

@LuJo @barrymc @Odeon @Ignance_

@Hollewood You still up for this?

"I wonder what moved this chain, it's way too heavy for a regular person. Was it the same thing that tore that hole in the ship?"

Barry looks around the Engineer Workshop Hall (Perception d20: 18 + 3 wisdom).

"I'd wager it is, wonder what exactly it was though"
I want to investigate the radio workshop
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You find a small notepaper on one of the tables in the center of the room, it contains a list written by hand.

"
Checklist to get the ship moving and notes to myself

Check if ship is maneauverable (Checked, it is! Rotation and Rudder intact)

Main Engine mechanically fine (No parts missing)

Electricity (Not working, Oil fuel is available, but auxillary generator to start up the main engine has some cuts on the exterior, seems like someone destroyed in on purpose, maybe the former crew of the ship, notice to myself, need to find some welding equipment, found cables to repair damaged parts in the electrical workshop, in case of emergency I steer it by turning the rudder by force, I need to get out of the bay without any electricity anyway, else those reds will probably not mistake this for a ghost ship)

Enough food for the voyages (Those cans in the provision department should suffice)

Anchors are still lowered (Will be hard pulling them up without electricity, I could do it by hand, but it will cost me some strength, maybe one at a day and then sleep the night to regain my powers)

Radio equipment (Seems intact, need to confirm to HQ that the ship is running once I succeed. Don't know if the long-distance transmitter is still intact, probably only will be able to reach them again after I return from the final destination since it's reach is about 35 miles, if Yasiin stands correct with his sensing abilities and 'he' really is there it will be a long journey to the south.)

Drinking Water (Checked the containers, it doesn't seem like the most pure, but I think I'll be fine)

Fire Pump seems intact (Don't really know the system, but it looks like it isn't damaged)

Alcohol for my headaches because I'm a stupid idiot for trying this mission alone (There are some beers in the fridge, but maybe I can go over to the riverside or check the containers for some whiskey, shouldn't lose my humour)
"

The radio workshop looks pretty cleaned up, the table next to the radio systems used to transmit looks fairly organized for a ship that had this much stuff lying around.
You find a notepaper on the table

"Don't forget the frequency:
HQ will be reachable every 3 days at 23.54pm if nothing happens to the station, else listen for information on UKW 90,7 MHz (47 kW ERP)"

“Found a note. There was a guy holed up in this ship, he was trying to get it moving. I’m guessing he was untouched since he wrote about moving the chains on his own. The blood trail upstairs might belong to him.”

“The note mentions a Yasiin... Pretty sure I’ve heard that name before. I’ll show this to D12 later.”

Barry keeps the note.

Barry searches the Electrical Workshop (Perception d20: 6 + 3 wisdom).

Nothing much around here as it seems, a workbench, some toolboxes with wrenches, drills, screws and hammers inside. Also a variety of different kinds of cables that can probably used to do maintenance on the equipment on the ship.

Added the Cans and the Note to Barrys Equipment (2nd Page of his Inventory)

@Ignance_ @Odeon @LuJo

Forgot to @ you guys for the new posts.

Party Health Restoration
Party +5 Health (Song of Rest), Coochiemane +5 Health (Aurora Flame Touch)

Odeon Stats: Health Points: 12/40
Elori Stats: Health Points: 10/42
Barry Stats: Health Points: 35/42 (in the second post)
Fougere Stats: Health Points: 24/ 25
Tariq Stats: Health Points: 30/30
Coochiemane Stats: Health Points:* 11/30

Time passes as Fougere and Barry search through the ship. Odeon plays the song of rest as soon as everyone is in reach to give the wounded some comfort and lighten the mood as the darkness settles over the ship.

It's now night, 21.30pm, most of the interior of the ship is completely obscured, only some rays of the moonlight are shining through the windows on the sides of the survivor deck. One can still see their hand and feet on the top deck and bridge and if you look at the sky there's a vast uncountable amount of stars to be seen, it looks mesmerizingly beautiful with the violet veil shimmering below. The immediate surroundings are silent, no noise is to be heard, only far away in the direction you're guys are heading there are still flashes high above and muffled booming sounds errupting from time to time.

Kuniva looks up chilling outside on one of the railings ontop of the bridge "Wow... I've never seen the sky above NY like this..."
Biz who's sitting on the ledge, letting his legs hang over it while leaning against the railing "Damn... this is hard den a mug.."
Eye-Kyu walks up next to them "... fo sure... now that all the electricity is gone there's no light pollution... no cars driving around... this tranquility... one can truly enjoy the night sky..."
Biz smirks "The city that never sleeps huh... Well at least one good thing about this whole mess... what a view..."
Eye-Kyu looks at him "Makes you think... huh fam?"
Biz shakes his head "Nah... still rather be chillin' in my crib watching TV, able to order some food conveniently over UberEats... but stilll... it's a good experience..."

@Odeon @Ignance_ @barrymc @LuJo

Elori meditates under these rare sight of stars, and sends prayers up to Atiya

Roll a D100

(If you use commune with nature that is and state the usual things you want to scan)

"I found a note aswell, says to recieve information to listen in on a frequency. I wonder if it's still even active"
I should probably try and listen in to the frequency when I can

@Ethic can I still search the ship or is it too dark?

If I can still search: Barry looks around the Engine Room (Perception d20: 9 + 3 wisdom).

"Can you turn the radio on? The note says that the electricity is out."

Yes, we assume everything is happening before darkness falls, so you still have time to search a room.

The engine room seems fine, just as the note described, just the auxillary engine seems to be damaged. There's a big hole on the exterior, it looks like several sharp objects have striked the exterior and there's partly even signs of gunshots. In the interior some cables have been cut through.

@Odeon @Ignance_ @barrymc @LuJo

P.S.: Jeez... marxists in México are super suspicious of foreigners. A girl hitted on me hard, but as soon as I talked to her in acceptable Spanish and about social and educational topics she became super wary, wanting to check my ID three times (!!) with a f***ing flashlight, I was like f*** it, if you want to think I'm an U.S. Spy trying to overthrow your revolution then fine (And I don't even have an U.S. ID!), this is not worth it. Had the same experience when I visited the university here, people barely wanted to talk to me because they found it strange that I approached them and I could talk their language
And then they complain about racism lmao

I stop playing the flute.

"I'm with Biz. You really start missing electricity once it's gone."

I stroke my beard

"and definitely food delivery is something I miss nowadays. We got anything to eat here anyway?"

I use flame touch on myself

1

then I continue playing the song of rest again

4+1

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prevalent plants minerals etc
powerful celestials
influence from other planes of existence

Since you’re inside a city the sensation you receive from meditating is less strong.
You truly only feel what’s around a three miles radius and it seems like this wouldn’t be possible if it weren’t for the river surrounding the ship. You just barely manage to connect to nature.

prevalent plants minerals

There don’t seem to be many plants around the radius, you feel the algae in the water in the vicinity and part of the wild growing plants close to the landfill up above in the north.

powerful celestials

You feel two untouched feeling energy signatures on the northern edge of your searching radius (Green Dots), 1 mile to the north from the highway bridge where the fight with the government took place.
Again you feel this large wretched energy to the south that you’ve felt before when heading back to the top deck after the fight with the spiders. By your connection with nature you can make it out to be somewhere around the passaic river. It feels like the distance to this energy has lessened since the last time you’ve sensed it about 3 hours ago (Purple Dot).

influence from other planes of existence

It seems as if the slow whirling violet veil in the sky is drawing tiny fractions of particles of energy towards it’s center. The intensity of this phenomena seems to be stronger now, when you compare it to the last time you’ve sensed it for the first time on the edges of the city.

Elori attains Aspect of the Bear
+5 STR, +1 AC

@Ignance_ @barrymc @Odeon @LuJo

Party Health Restoration
Party +5 Health (Song of Rest), Odeon +1 Health (Aurora Flame Touch)

Odeon Stats: Health Points: 18/40
Elori Stats: Health Points: 15/42
Barry Stats: Health Points: 40/42 (in the second post)
Fougere Stats: Health Points: 25/ 25 (Fully healed !!)
Tariq Stats: Health Points: 30/30
Coochiemane Stats: Health Points:* 16/30

You see Coochiemanes heavy wounds and bruises starting to close and disappear, he's still sleeping.

Biz fist bumps Odeon "Ait my man... we gon order something together if this plan of yours is going to work and you've fixed everything. What food do you have in mind?"
Eye-Kyu shrugs his shoulders "We could eat the provisions they gave us, I think Porter handed out one to each of us." he goes for his bag and takes out a tupperware "should eat this anyway before it get's bad, some rice, beans, sweet corns and slices of tomatoe, guess the government has some garden where they grow the ingredients close to NY."
Biz sighs with his stomach grumbling "Well.. better than nothing... but man no meat, what would I give for a Rib Eye..."
Kuniva chuckles "You think they're able to raise cows, chicken or pigs in this mess? Guess we'll be vegetarians for a while."
Biz gets up to grab his provisions he left inside the ships bridge "Yeah yeah... whatever.."

Tariq smiles at Odeon "Always feels really good when you play the flute, I'm sure we'll get back on track in no time." then he turns on his earpiece "Barry, Fougere you guys said there's some beds on the survivor deck right? I'm probably going to sleep now if no one needs me for anything else. You haven't seen any other spiders down there right?"

@barrymc @LuJo @Ignance_ @Odeon