Nightbird, Moonlight & Spellbinder
Aboard the Ragnarok -- Ship's Brig > Engineering
You leave the two R.I.O.T. troopers bound and gagged in their underwear in the brig they were guarding. Their uniforms are somewhat roomy on you, but as far as concealing who you are they seem to work passably well.
The minute Moonlight puts on the military fatigues she feels a prickling, itching sensation on her wrists, under her chin where the NBC mask and helmet are fastened, about her hips, and so on. As it turns out, the fasteners and elastics used in the uniforms have synthetic fibers!
Moonlight
I trigger your weakness complication and you are impaired (-2 to all checks) for the duration of this scene. You gain 1 HP now. Depending on the number of checks and the amount of combat you have to do, which effectively make the complication more severe, you may gain additional HP, but this is not guaranteed.
The rifle is steel, not cold (wrought) iron, so you can safely handle it.
The keycard reader flashes green with a satisfying beep, and the lift doors glide open. Inside the cramped confines of the turbolift, you see a control panel that says:
Deck 1 - bridge & armory
Deck 2 - engineering & crew quarters
Deck 3 - cargo
You can still tell that the submarine hull is angled upward, and from the direction of inclination, you can tell that the turbolift opens towards the ship's rear.
(Assuming you go to deck 2)
The turbolift doors glide open silently to reveal a narrow passageway lined with machinery on either side. Like everywhere else in the ship, the place is uncomfortably cramped. The ship's engines themselves are not visible from here, and it is not even clear where in the hull they are located.
What is visible from here is the room dead ahead, lined with electronic controls and computer monitors, and dominated by the massive device in its center. A transparent cylinder, like the SCU you escaped from but far larger, surrounds a great sphere of energy that burns bright blue-white like a newborn star. Electric arcs peel off its corona, and connect to antennae-like spikes at the cylinder's top and bottom. From the way the reactor is embedded in the floor you get the sense that what you see is only a part of it, and the machine's entirety occupies more than one deck. On the other side of the room past the reactor you see a door in a bulkhead that continues deeper into the stern of the ship.
Standing at a terminal before the titanic reactor is the familiar form of Professor Pandemonium's hulking battlesuit in its characteristic Soviet brutalist style. "Sir!" a R.I.O.T. trooper runs up to the Professor and salutes. "preparations for surfacing are complete. The bridge has issued the order to--"
"And
why," he complains loudly, "must we go to all the trouble of this? Am I to be reduced to a mere engineman, and my mighty warship a mere taxi for these N.O.M.U.? Can eight-foot-tall superhuman brutes not swim? Is our great revolution to be stopped by a few hundred yards of saltwater? So much for the strategic 'genius' of our dear 'General', huh?"
"S-sir... I..." stammers the soldier, who clearly has no idea how to deal with this treasonously insubordinate rant.
"First the prisoners, then the N.O.M.U. -- bah! Had we been loaded with ballistic missiles instead, I could've wiped out the entire United States, but no, we have to do this the slow, stupid and messy way. Blah blah whine whine yak yak etc etc..."
Spellbinder - Intellect 6 ranks
You recall General Havoc's exact words: "Bring the Ragnarok inland and direct all forces towards G.A.S. headquarters..."
But a submarine or ship has no means of leaving the water. Unless, of course, it can walk or fly -- and flying ships (even aircraft carriers, if comic books are to be believed) are not completely unheard of.
OOC
While disguised, you do not have to make checks to pull off your disguise unless you arouse suspicion in some way. An example might be asking for classified information, or going somewhere you are not authorized to.
You can investigate the room and look at the monitor readouts. Without the Technology or Science skill, or a related expertise, you can only interpret basic information presented in plain English.
You can question one of the R.I.O.T. troopers or interact with Professor Pandemonium.
You can try to open the door in the bulkhead at the far end of the room.
You can alternately back out to the turbolift and chose to investigate a different deck. You can also do whatever else you consider reasonable.
