Task: Rust?

Put off by First Officer Royce's declaration that the gases would be used for biological testing on the crew, the issue of the rising yellow gases remained unaddressed. They began to thicken and rise steadily toward the drilling equipment. However, when the gases reached the surface level, they appeared to level off, and simply thicken without rising any further. A greenish rime began to form on the drilling equipment where the gases thickened.

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THE TASK:
Do something about the rime, gases, etc. (or not). Format is the same as last time, with crew members proposing ideas, and the highest-ranking crew member on the job has his/her idea implemented, to much hilarity.

KEYWORDS: Engineering
NUMBER OF CREW MEMBERS: 6

RESULTS:
Among other things (dependent on what the crew does), the following will be added to the ruleset.

A new rule entitled "Desperate Times"

The crew have come to realize that some within their midst may be working against them. If a Crew Member thinks he/she has sufficient evidence that another Crew Member is a Saboteur, he/she may post an Accusation to the blog, with the title "[playername] is a Saboteur!" and text documenting the offenses this Crew Member has committed.

The rest of the crew (not the Accuser, and not the Accused one) then has 24 hours to vote For or Against. If, at the end of 24 hours, most of the votes are For the Accusation, then the Accused Crew Member is put into Custody (marked with square brackets around the Crew Member's name in the Crew Member list). Crew Members in Custody cannot help on tasks, and cannot vote or propose, and immediately drop all Tools. If most of the votes are against, or the vote is a tie, nothing happens.

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TASK COMPLETED.

Crew on the job: TrumanCapote (key member), CzarOfCanada, Keitalia, Axiallus

They cleaned the equipment successfully and fairly easily. The rime scraped off without leaving any noticeable stains or corrosion on the equipment, much to the crew's surprise. While TrumanCapote checked to make sure the drilling equipment still worked properly, CzarOfCanada took a sample of the gas and rime back to the lab for analysis.

The gas, on closer inspection, appeared to be a cloud of microscopically fine dust particles, with a similar makeup to the soil of the planet. Additionally, there appeared to be some form of adhesive agent in the gas, that CzarOfCanada did not recognize.

Turning to the rime, he found that it was this same weak adhesive agent with these dust particles stuck to it. Checking all the sources he could find, the closest match anywhere to this adhesive agaent that he could find was tree sap. This seemed odd, as there had been no evidence of any plantlike life anywhere on this planet so far, though there was quite a bit of oxygen in the atmosphere.

Somewhat disturbed by this, the crew began to search for a more permanent drilling site.

GAMESTATE/RULESET EFFECTS

As above.