Dark Places

Yeah but... We don't know where in the universe we are. So we may need to do some work to figgure that out.

The portal is basically welded to the back of the ship.

You begin to repair the ship, using what you can to secure the panels to the side; spare wire and ad hoc adhesives. It doesn't really need to be waterproof, you likely reason, since you're not going underwater.

Let's get an Engineering roll from the engineer.

Y'breq tries to put the pieces together.

Y'breq knows what to do, but given the lack of her usual tools, the job will take a long time.

How long? Long enough that trouble will come looking.

Lyle, while on sentry duty, sees a pair on quintpods dragging a piece of refuse along the ledge and coming your way. You have maybe two minutes before they assertive, and need at least an hour to finish juryrigging the craft.

D'Jazyt will be ready to attack, wanting to be preemtive about it, when Lyle points them out.

"Look lively, folks...We have another two of those things coming this way. Looks like they're taking the trash out. They should be here in about two minutes." Lyle tells the group. He is tempted to pull out the shooter but- not sure if it would make any considerable noise he readies his bow.

Emmett sucks his teeth, cursing under his breath. "It was only a matter of time, anyhow, nothin' to be done. Two of 'em, though..." He looks around, thinking.

"We might be able to slow one down a bit. If one of you could distract 'em when they get close, I might be able to loop a rope over one and tie it down. By the time it gets loose, hopefully we'll have finished the first.

It's stupid, but sometimes stupid works." He grins.

"One of us act as bait? Lucky them. Think you could hold one down? That'll be quite a rodeo. Maybe we could take this opportunity to hide and be really quiet? This is their rubbish bin, I wouldn't imagine they love to hang out here and swap face ripping stories. Once they throw their crap away maybe they'll scarper off?

"I have a cypher that can alter the gravity in an area. I can place them between us and them, then trigger it and they will be stuck floating in the air. Or maybe to the ceiling, I'm not exactly sure."

These quints appear to be the same size you've seen and fought before.

"I might make sense to take whatever advantages we can take."

Feeling goose bumps as she saw those things and feeling them already coming closer Turana decided that it made no sense to hold on to the last thing she scavenged if it could cost her safety again "I have something here, like a gas bomb that i suspect it might numb the minds of the ones breathing it... .. it might slow those things down. if they have a mind that it can affected"

If you use that, you don't need to roll and they would each take 8 damage. NPCs generally have health equal to three times their difficulty level. If these are level 4 (which they are) you would chew up most of health.