>*nervous croak* *ribbit* *croak* *ribbit* (W-well, show me what's broken? i've fixed FTL drives before, but i don't think this ship has the materials necessary to repair the drive. Do you have a working teleporter, by chance?)
edited 25th Aug '16 11:12:10 PM by insumes
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@insumes The bartender puts his hands down on the table and scans the room left to right. He pauses and whispers to you, "Don't tell anyone I said this, but just between you and me I'd say if you wanted to get into the VIP room you'd have to be a very important person".
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STR: 6 SPD: 5 STL: 4
Inventory: ID Card, Pistol Railgun, Smartphone, $15,000, Cola (1)
Ship Inventory: Radioactive Computer Core, Pure Steel Pole
@insumes "I watched you look at them just outside of this room."
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>*internal croak* (fuck)
>*ribbit* (well, i'll see what i can do)
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>"U DONT SAY!?"
> Go see if the bouncer is as stoic as the Buckingham Palace Guards...
edited 26th Aug '16 9:15:25 PM by dvorak
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@insumes You go outside of the room and check out the computers. A vast diagram displays hundreds of possible locations for you to teleport to. You zoom in on the engines and hit the button. A pop-up appears.
"WARNING: This room is highly radioactive. Exposure lasting more than 5 minutes is not recommended. Are you sure you wish to enter? Y/N"
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@dvorak You touch the bouncer. You are punted across the room.
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>go in and see how many bodies there are
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> "Careful man! There's a beverage here!"
> Check the time & see if it's time for dinner at the church
edited 27th Aug '16 10:47:35 PM by dvorak
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@insumes You turn on the cameras in the engine room. You can count at least twelve bodies. An awful lot for a broken ship in the middle of nowhere.
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@dvorak The bouncer does not respond. You check your smartphone to see that only 3 minutes have passed, you have a whole 54 more to waste. Looking at your Cola you can see it fizzing, but it shouldn't get too flat.
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> While drinking my cola, amuse myself by making the lights flicker, causing people to wonder if the power's going out...
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>(ok, something is up)
>(unlike 99.99% of germs, i don't die when the disinfectant hits, instead i proceed down my evolutionary path and wipe out whatever race decided to invent the disinfectant.)
>(i'll work for him for now, but when the time's right i'm taking this ship for myself)
>ask the "captain" for a protective suit, don't mention the bodies
edited 29th Aug '16 10:03:32 AM by insumes
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@dvorak You try flickering the lights off, but an AI forcibly boots them back up. The bartender chuckles to himself.
"You thought all that fancy stuff in the VIP room was skin deep?"
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@insumes You exit the room and walk back into the cockpit, explaining to the captain you need a suit. He ponders the question for a few seconds.
"There is a suit in the closet down Hallway 59-A."
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> Check if my contractors have any more work for me.
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>go down the to the hallway and grab the suit
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@dvorak You open up a list of jobs from your contractors, simultaneously sending them a message to complete the loop. Several options present themselves:
- Mine asteroid, SR477 - $300,000
- Investigate ET rumors, Yetti's Star - $1,000
- Destroy shopping center, Tiensate - $20,000
- Ship perception drugs, Sol - $500,000
- Decentralize police, Sagittarius A - $80,000
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@insumes You warp to the hallway and put on the radiation suit. It's quite heavy and fairly clunky, but as far as you can tell it seems to be operational. You warp back into the computer room. The Y/N message continues to display above you.
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>In order of personal preference:
- Ship perception drugs, Sol - $500,000
- Investigate ET rumors, Yetti's Star - $1,000
- Destroy shopping center, Tiensate - $20,000
- Decentralize police, Sagittarius A - $80,000
- Mine asteroid, SR477 - $300,000
> Fire off the relevant E-Mails
>Keep looking for the staff.
edited 31st Aug '16 1:51:05 AM by dvorak
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@dvorak The list reorders itself. Your phone vibrates as the tachyons fly off to their recipients. You slide the phone back into your pocket and walk outside of the saloon. Looks like you have about 30 minutes left until the service starts.
To your left is the church. Behind that is the police office, sitting right next to the fire department, a gun store and a jeweler. Far off towards the horizon looks to be a farm. Resting in front of you is more houses. Only one seems to stick out though, it being a good two stories taller than the rest.
To your right is your ship.
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>Gun store? Going shopping! I want something better that my starting pistol.
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we got these iPads at school, so I can actually play during lunch
>hit yes
>now, what's wrong here...
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@dvorak You enter the shop. A stout man is sitting across from you at the counter, he takes notice of you but he does not speak. The walls of the shop are lined with guns of extreme variety. Energy weapons, kinetic weapons, ancient weapons, weapons that do unknowable things. Almost every kind of projectile weapon you can think of.
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@insumes You press your hand on the "Y" button. In an instant you are teleported to the engine room. Immediately your suit's Geiger counter starts clicking your ears off. The engine has a deep gash in it, inside you can see several miniature stars. This must be how they power the ship.
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>try to determine the size of the gash
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> "Kid in a candy store" mode.
> Ask what I can get for $1000-$5000
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@insumes The gash seems to be about 8 meters long and a meter wide at its widest.
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@dvorak The man pulls out a fairly long gun from behind the counter. It's about as wide as your head is tall, so it seems a bit unwieldy. But the man insists it packs quite enough power for it's price. He offers you $4500 for it.
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> "You will give me $4500 for taking the really big gun? What do you know that I don't?"
edited 4th Sep '16 2:30:51 PM by dvorak
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>time to put some of that math skill to work, but i need some kind of measuring device
>go back and ask the captain for a measuring tool
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> Grab a cola
> Ask the bartender (I assume the bouncer will just tell me to leve him alone) what goes on in the VIP area and how you get in.
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