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"Everyone else in the airlock now. We're doing this together."

Everyone is already inside. Just curious, but you guys know that dialogue does not constitute an action, right?

Vinecent swiftly heads to the MRU to buy some rounds, then prepares prepares for a fight.

Did I neglect to give you ammo? I'm sorry about that. I must've been rushed. *waves wand* +Three 10-round magazines

Check the charge in my hand laser.

You check the digital readout near the sights on your pistol (20/20). You also have one spare magazine (20/20).

You all pile into the airlock. The noise outside stops abruptly.

((Hmmm…. Spectral figures eh? Sounds like voodoo to me! Burn the witch!!!))

Fall back for a short moment and pour your efforts into fixing the pulse laser. Perhaps that RPB did it? If the weapon remains unresponsive, gird your loins and open the hatch. Crawl out onto the torso of your 'mech and see what the hell went wrong. Once repairs have been completed, hop back in and cover the grenadiers.
I am presently having a weapon malfunction. I will attempt to remedy this myself.

Use the shield. Better to avoid dying first of all.

You lift the shield in your left hand and hold your blade in the right. The shield will give you full body coverage when held in front of you, and extremely effective stability when planted on the ground. You can hardly see around it though, and you'll be hard pressed to get strikes in while defending.

The creatures are growing ever more fervent in their assault. If you don't deal with them, they're bound to damage something important. All the Migrants receive a simultaneous update from the Migrant Office:

Additional Migrants Incoming --- ETA: Approximately 30 Minutes --- Good Luck

Quickly open windows.

You rush past two others as they groggily wander about and accidentally push Vincent into Jim. Their visors making a dull fishbowl ring as the bounce off of one another. You reach the wall nearest the airlock and slap the polarisation switch. The windows lose their opaque quality and you see two large creatures flash by. They're circling the building slowly and occasionally lashing out at it without much effect. Its too dark for you to make out much, but they appear to resemble bears when it comes to their towering shape and husky physique. The similarities end there however. It has a total of 6 limbs, two round, long, club-like legs with reversed knee joints (like a velociraptor) situated at either end of the beast, and two more hanging limply below its chest that end in points. You can't quite see what their faces look like, aside from the strangely piercing grey eyes. Your trance is broken when it lunges at the wall near you. They can't see you from the other side of the transparent wall, but they know you're inside. You begin to sweat profusely and your hand involuntarily tightens its grip on your weapon.

Once windows are transparent, see what's causing the noise.

After running into Vincent, you shake the cobwebs from your head and direct your attention to the beasts circling outside. They look lethal, even from here.

DAY THREE

It is just before dawn. You're all suddenly awoken by an unnaturally loud banging between long, drawn out chalkboard scraping. It sounds like something is literally punching the walls repeatedly, and the resulting racket is incredibly irritating. It just doesn't end does it? You all groan and get to your feet, shouldering weapons and donning your helmets.