Trans Terminus Homo
Troperia, Hallway
"I'm sorry, but my programming and construction is classified as a Company Secret of Smirnov Shipyards according to company policy, I as a normal consumer model don't have access to them." Sha'Koro shook his head "No... my ship was in the process of turning into a wreckage... its in the hangar currently."
"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
The Troperia - Somewhere in the Hallway
Kyerine had quickly sprinted down the corridor though not exactly subtly. He was now currently hiding behind a set of boxes out in the hallway curled up a little bit sobbing and shaking. "Rhy tonra... Asra se Guine..." He muttered still in his native tongue without looking up to Chris.The Troperia - Med Bay
Blake looks up a little bit from his pillow, his eyes flickering back and forth from his passive faint red to its crimson glow in a way it has never done before, clearly pushing forward despite his physical and mental exhaustion. "Thanks for the concern Doc but... *Yawn* I won't just leave him here right now..." Blake was still hooked up to his IV drip though it was nearly empty at this point though he did seem to be over his previous intoxication.The Troperia - Engine Room
Russell and Michael followed up behind Amos into the engine room. The hum of the machines from all around engineering."Not really somewhere I have really explored on the ship but it is pretty cool how this stuff can make this giant ship fly." Michael comments, waiting for a few moments then commenting again. "I guess its kinda different to get a tour of a place when you don't really see it and you cant just go around and touch everything." Michael clearly pondering.
Meanwhile Russell had just been humming along in almost perfect harmony with the engine and machinery. If anyone actually looked at him, he was clearly very distracted but at the same time there was this really bright smile across his face.
"After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."
Hallway
Izzie waves to Chris, then turns back to the group. "You're that guy who was the first doctor in here, right?"
"Oh, that's a shame." She says to Aicha. "Can it be fixed?" She asks Sha'Koro.
Val presses one finger against Greg's side and delivers a mild electric shock to wake him up.
Dominic & Mitch's Room
"I wanna do more than punch you right now..." Mitch says as he wipes the tears from his eyes. The magnetic fields die down a little, though they haven't completely disappeared. "Whatever you wanna say, say it."
Captain's Quarters
"Wait, Kyerine..." Chris leaves before Peter finishes. He points to the bow, the bed and the punctures that used to be on the wall, confused. "How did he..."
Fifth most hated man in America
Kriken Prison Facility, Hallway
It's been exactly 3 days since Cadreon West, callsign Harrier, had landed in the clink. This was a new personal record, the longest he had ever been in. It's actually quite funny, he uses the same method every time, and they never seem to catch on to it. Right now, after having unlocked his handcuffs, he is looking for the evidence room, since his equipment is most likely there.Let's see...2 guards, and a sentry gun. This could be a challenge
He notices a vent on the ceiling. Definitely dangerous, but it's a better bet than the alternative. He climbs some nearby crates, and pulls himself into it.
edited 8th Jun '16 7:36:32 AM by MajorProblem
THE FITNESSGRAM PACER TEST IS A MULTISTAGE AEROBIC CAPACITY TEST THAT PROGRESSIVELY GETS MORE DIFFICULT AS IT CONTINUES
Trans Terminus Homo
Troperia, Hallway
Sha'Koro gave a sad nod "Yes... yes she can, but the price... 73.625.154 Credits" He recited from his database "26.527.194 Credits if I only want her to fly... somewhat again." He shook his head "That... that is just too much for me, I mean I could sell the artifacts still in the ship, but evenso I wouldn't get too much out of it."
"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
Everyday's great at your Junes
Hallway
"Zzz-Gaaaaaaagh...!" Greg exclaims as he quickly leaps up off the ground. "THE EVIL TIN CAN MEN ARE ATTACKING!"
...
...
...
"...Oh, its just Val. Uh. Hi."
Med Bay
Forcing yourself when you don't have to is not good for your health." he says as he wanders over towards the two of them now. "I can watch over him for you."
Mitch's Room
"...I'm sorry for calling you a liar. I just felt like you weren't being 100% with me, like I've been doing with you all this time..." he says, folding his arms and looking away.
Engine Room
"Yeah. I always relish being able to see machinery in motion...to see how things work." he says, stepping over to a section of the wall and feeling the working parts moving within it.
He glances over to Russell, and sees that he seems to be enjoying himself in some capacity. "Do you like this room, Russell?"
Old habits die hard, especially when no one else lets them die either.
Fifth most hated man in America
Kriken Prison Facility, Vents
Harrier passed over room after room, none of them was what he was looking for. Finally, he found the evidence room. Unfortunately, the Kriken are more intelligent than they seem, and they decided to station 2 guards in that room, armed with some very nasty looking laser-miniguns. Harrier thought and contemplated how he would deal with them, when he got an idea. Harrier started to bang on the vent, intentionally getting their attention, and quickly crawls backward.
The vents!
The guards open fire on the vents, not realizing that if they damaged them too much, a section of the vent would....
CRASH*
...fall right on top of them.
edited 8th Jun '16 8:06:21 AM by MajorProblem
THE FITNESSGRAM PACER TEST IS A MULTISTAGE AEROBIC CAPACITY TEST THAT PROGRESSIVELY GETS MORE DIFFICULT AS IT CONTINUES
[Godsgift, orbiting Nos Lycarin]
"I'm booored," Godsgift whined.
"I thought you were incapable of boredom," Sy muttered absently.
"Unless I choose to be bored," the AI corrected. "I'm now choosing to be bored, as I've done literally everything else conceivable to occupy myself, so it became boring. Being bored is less boring. I'm so bored that deliberately being bored is more entertaining than anything else I could possibly do."
"Why don't you calculate pi out to a few hundred more digits than anyone's ever done?"
"Try a few nonagintillion digits," Godsgift muttered.
"Well, there's spare storage space in the ship's onboard memory, right? Why don't you copy yourself for company?"
"You mean you haven't noticed?"
"Noticed what?"
"You're talking to three of me right now. We're speaking in turns."
"Really?"
"No. That would be stupid."
Sy grimaced and didn't reply.
Dominic & Mitch's Room
"I'm still not..." Mitch sits further back on the bed. "I'm such a failure... I can't do anything by myself..."
Hallway
"Oh, you're awake. Good. You should probably get to your room if you wanna sleep. Do you want me to carry you?" Val says the last part half-jokingly.
edited 8th Jun '16 8:41:42 AM by AqueousBunnies
[Godsgift, orbiting Nos Lycarin]
"I can't help noticing that your speech isn't glitching anymore," Whistler noted.
"Oh, that? Hard to tell. I think I've managed to clean up my user interface sufficiently to avoid verbal irregularities, but honestly, it's a bit like hiccups. Sometimes you'll think they're gone and then bam, they come back and it's like they never left."
Whistler stared at the console. He wasn't sure where else to look. He considered asking the AI to make up a face to display on a screen to give him something to look at while talking, but decided against it. He didn't want to know what Godsgift would come up with.
"Well," he said uncomfortably. "Good job on that, then. I guess."
"No problem, Whis-is-is-istler." There was a pause. "Damn it. Maybe if you try sc-sc-sc-sc-scaring me."
The Troperia - Med Bay
"I cant let you do that... It's my mess and if he does wake up the only way the rest of you could stop him is proberbly with more fighting..." Blake responds to Toraq, looking up a little at him moving over.Matthew was deep asleep, the monitors showed his heart rate and breathing rate to have dropped very low, his blood pressure had decreased and his brainwaves were very weak. Almost like his body was in a near-hibernation state under Blake's influence.
The Troperia - Engine Room
Russell doesn't respond to Amos, just following along and now you note he wasn't really sweeping with his cane like he did when first coming aboard. He just held it and occasionally knocked it.Michael finally takes notice. "Russel?" Snapping his fingers loudly next to his ear trying to grab his attention.
In a exaggerated motion he rapidly shakes his head out of a daze before looking clear and straightly at Amos with his bright smile. "Yeah it's great! I-it I dont know how to explain it..."
"Take your time, it's a lot quieter than some space stations." Michael responds, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"No, no its really loud, it's really really neat! I can make out so much here! I, I get what you guys meant, like Amos near your hand hand I can hear things moving on the other side, small thing zipping back and fourth!" Russell tries to excitedly express, though he was clearly struggling to put his ideas and emotions into words.
Michael just looked confused for a few seconds, the ship wasn't that loud for him not being able to hear the infrasound waves the ship's systems naturally makes nor being able to hear the pistons moving in the wall near Amos.
edited 8th Jun '16 9:19:00 AM by darkdestinysoul
"After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."
Hallway
"Higreg! Hival! Byegreg! Byeval!" Chris says very quickly as they pass the pair in the hall, his earthslide starting to fall a bit short of his quarry, "Kyerine. Stop. I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to talk."Merrick nods to Izzie, Yeah, I am, though now I just lend a hand in the med bay in emergencies. At the moment I'm trying to focus on exobotany, mostl...." his voice fades off as he hears Sha'koro answer, "Would we even get that much from selling the ship?"
"I'm as free as the dust in the solar wind."
Everyday's great at your Junes
Hallway
"Huh? N-No..." Greg says, the idea of Val carrying him.embarrassing him.somewhat. "I'm not tired anymore after that...anyway...I guess we can take off? Everyone is on board, so..."
As Kyerine and Chris run past.he blinks before taking a Double Take. "What the..." Upon seeing his teddy has been absconded, flames start flickering around his head, and embers flying out of his mouth as he yells. "HEY! WHAT THE HELL IS TEDMAN DOING OUTTA MY ROOM, DAMN IT!?"
Mitch's Room
Rakiri gets a bit closer. "You don't have to always do stuff by yourself...that's what allies and stuff are for." He considers teaching out to touch him, if only he didn't worry about it causing a negative reaction.
Med Bay
"Well, I suppose I can't make you...legally." he answers. "Just...try no to overdo it, ok?" he says, sounding similar to a concerned parent.
Engine Room
Amos thinks for a minute, seeming to understand. "Ah. For him, it probably is quite loud. For those that are blind, it's not uncommon for their hearing to be much more attuned. It's one of the body's ways of adapting to compensate. In some cases, at least." he says to Michael. "It must be quite the interesting to experience in that way."
edited 8th Jun '16 9:49:49 AM by BaronGreen
Old habits die hard, especially when no one else lets them die either.
Dominic & Mitch's Room
"No, I mean, I can't do anything right. I screwed this up, I screwed everything up..." Mitch closes his eyes and tries to control himself, as a few objects in the room begin rattling. "Everyone's scared of me... they'll always be..."
Hallway
"Oh, we are? Alright, sure." Val starts to walk to the bridge, before he sees Greg freak out and chuckles.
"Hey, slow down. No one's going to hurt you." He says telepathically to Kyerine.
"That is an... exorbitant amount of money." Izzie says in disbelief. "Oh, that's cool. Have you met the other botanist? Mireille, was it?" She asks Merrick.
Captain's Quarters
Peter goes in the shower, trying to either make sense of or forget what just happened.
edited 8th Jun '16 9:57:25 AM by AqueousBunnies
Trans Terminus Homo
Troperia, Hallway
Sha'Koro shook his head again "The people I went to are the only ones still producing them... so they can price them as high as they want I'm afraid. I was already on probably every facility there... maybe I find a place where these parts are still manufactued... but I don't think so... the Ultimo is a Northwindclass freighter... parts aren't manufactured for them since around 70 years it seems."
"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
The Troperia - Med Bay
"Look... I-I appreciate it a lot but a little loss sleep won't stop me." He said pushing himself back up off the pillow; then while pulling his IV rack walking over to the sink to splash himself with water."If you want to help, could you check his IV and stuff for me. I'm no medic." Blake asked between splashes.
The Troperia - Engine Room
Russell nods towards Amos. "Yeah and on top of that I got given surgery when I was younger to make it even stronger!" His enthusiasm lowers slightly at Amos' final musing."It's frustrating most of the time. You guys can make out details of things way further away than I can, read without help or it being braille, can actually see gaps in the ground where for me its really easy to lose something I've dropped or to not be able to find something small even with the room tidy... Then people constant-" He seems to freeze and suddenly move back a step from Michael as his mood dropped, rubbing the shoulder he got touched by him.
"Is something the matter?" Michael asks a little confused.
"N-No, i'm fine." Russell actually hesitating for once with what he said. Not being bubbly, excited or direct.
The Troperia - Somewhere in the Hallway
Perhaps it was the telepathy but whatever it was something got through Kyerine's crying shell to catch his attention enough to look up at Chris. "Why is everyone being so angry...?" He quietly asks trying to clear tears form his eyes, before seeing the flames of Greg in the background and suddenly hiding behind Chris, hugging the bear even tighter.edited 8th Jun '16 10:04:51 AM by darkdestinysoul
"After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."
Divine Burden
Meanwhile, in the middle of the ghost ship... well.
The lights are off, seemingly, probably because a certain someone messed with the power system. The rooms themselves are messy, with most of its inhabitants being slaughtered. Some, however, are seemingly merely unconscious, and tied up to a room.
A figure quickly makes paces within the central room, seemingly waiting for them to wake up. Nothing can be made out of it, except for a single eye with a striking yellow pupil.
"That's what you'll get." she says, manipulating a crude knife in one hand, while staring at the corpse of a deceased alien.
Fallout 2? More like Fallout 2 bad.
Hall
Chris gently wraps his arm around Kyerine's shoulder, shaking his head to Greg, It's alright, I'll handle this, please calm down. he sends telepathically to his boyfriend over their Psychic Link.Turning his head to Kyerine and crouching down to be less frightening, he looks down to Tedman, "I think it's all because of a misunderstanding between how we think. A lot of races place a lot of sentimental value in things they own. And they don't want something they've grown attached to to be taken from them. Do you understand?"
Merrick nods to Izzie, smiling, "I have. She's starting to do biological profiles on the crew." he then shakes his head sadly at Sha'koro's words, "That's so unfortunate.."
@Solly: Not sure if you saw, but Chris responded to Whistler's message a few pages back.
"I'm as free as the dust in the solar wind."
@AB: This
was the last one I saw, did I miss something? All it said was basically "wait for the Troperia to take off", so I figured I'd just have some fun while I wait.
The Troperia - Somewhere in the Hallway
Kyerine looks very confused at Chris, "Sent-imen-tal val-ue..?" The word or maybe concept dumbfounding the boy. The ideas presented seemingly a somewhat alien idea to him."Your reproductive partners upset because they thought I was going to steal your bed..?" He questions with a completely innocent and confused tone; trying to piece together why both Greg and Peter were upset with him.
edited 8th Jun '16 11:11:31 AM by darkdestinysoul
"After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."
Hallway
"Heh, she'd want to see my team. We have some pretty interesting biology." Izzie says to Merrick.
"Why don't you just replace it with a newer ship? It'd be a lot cheaper." She say to Sha'Koro.
"No, Greg wants the doll back." Val says to Kyerine rather quietly, pointing to the teddy bear in his arms.
GM HAT ON
Big Daddy P, you are permabanned from the game for making personal attacks against fellow players and the GMs.
GM HAT OFF
Trans Terminus Homo
Troperia, Hallway
Sha'Koro violently shook his head on that, becoming a bit more hissy "N-NO, I-I can't do that... thiss sship iss... it iss... I bought it together with... a very dear friend of mine... he died a long time ago... I don't want to losse the Ultimo too..." Even if he was a robot, Sha'Koro's voie became... kinda sad at the mention. "I jusst couldn't do thiss." "Also this ship still is my workstation you know?"
"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
Fifth most hated man in America
"Thanks, boys."
Harrier jumps down out of the section of vent still on the ceiling, and set to work opening every locker.
"Junk....Junk....ooh, money....junk..here we go!"
"Looking for something, Mr. West?"
(insert coilgun sound effect here)
"Found them."
"Now then, everything's here...except for my armor....and my Tau cannon"
He notices another door in the back of the room
edited 8th Jun '16 12:31:54 PM by MajorProblem
THE FITNESSGRAM PACER TEST IS A MULTISTAGE AEROBIC CAPACITY TEST THAT PROGRESSIVELY GETS MORE DIFFICULT AS IT CONTINUES
Somewhere in the Hallway
Greg merely turns over onto his side and keeps snoring away...
Med Bay
Tor is busy tidying up the med bay after the influx of today's patients. "Blake. I really do think you should get some rest." he says suddenly as he finishes putting a clean set.of linen on the unoccupied beds.
Mitch's Room
Rakiri is silent before merely holding his arms.out and away from.his torso. "If you want to throw shit at me, go ahead. It might help.you feel better. And I deserve some.of it, I guess. I'm durable enough."
Cargo Bay -> Engine Room
"Well, we can just stop and show him whatever we happen to be near. The engine room is pretty close to here." he says as he hears the stairs that lead.to the engineering bay.
Old habits die hard, especially when no one else lets them die either.