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« Reply #325 on: April 10, 2010, 12:20:12 pm » |
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I hope I did not overstep with the horseflies...it just seemed to be too good an idea to pass up. talk about a horsey situation ...no, don't shoot me, please...  LOL, reminds me of the butterflies in the old Tomb Raider games, showing the way... I'm away myself this weekend, have a good time everyone! Theo |
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« Reply #326 on: April 11, 2010, 06:35:35 am » |
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Hope you enjoy your weekend Grey  And just letting you all know, I'm still around... sorry, it's been a weird week or so. I like the dragon scheme with betraying Loftis' location and trying to convince the delegates it will hurt the rebel dragons, very cool idea. Hopefully I will post on the main board after I get some sleep. |
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« Reply #327 on: April 12, 2010, 05:46:07 am » |
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What is this ..."sleep"... you speak of?  |
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« Reply #328 on: April 12, 2010, 06:00:52 am » |
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It's an inferior substitute for caffeine.
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"She used to look down on me. She used to call me "Rimmer."
"Everybody called you "Rimmer."
"Well, it's the way she said it, though. Rimmer. Rimmer. To rhyme with 'Scum." - Red Dwarf
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« Reply #329 on: April 12, 2010, 06:27:10 am » |
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It's an inferior substitute for caffeine.
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« Reply #330 on: April 12, 2010, 06:41:06 am » |
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What is this ..."sleep"... you speak of? I'm starting to wonder that myself. |
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« Reply #331 on: April 12, 2010, 08:08:00 am » |
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*coughs* I went ahead and posted. Even though I have no clue whether or not the conversation is over. If it isn't, I apologize for interrupting.
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« Reply #332 on: April 12, 2010, 07:51:48 pm » |
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Not at all, I believe Mr. Bailey wrapped up the interrogation by deciding to 'keep our friends close and enemies closer'. BTW, love the twist with your 'father' - your backstory on OOC Post 76 indicates he ran off when you were an infant, and you later killed your stepfather in a fight, so a great surprise and eerily similar violent encounter with a better outcome, good storytelling! Forgive me, I can't resist...
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« Reply #333 on: April 13, 2010, 01:28:58 am » |
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Not at all, I believe Mr. Bailey wrapped up the interrogation by deciding to 'keep our friends close and enemies closer'.
I intended it as an ending only if Alexis or yourself or Zuttle or anyone had nothing to add; I can't really read minds, so simply deciding that the conversation is over would by necessity be a bit arbitrary; I'd happily leave it to someone else to end it it, so whatever floats y'all's gunboats, as it were. but now that it appears to be over, I'm thinking Bailey, maybe Grey and the others as well, may return to the ship to find some of Bailey's sometime "allies" (the actual Black Suits of the Home Office ) on board and waiting less-than-patiently to get a report out of Bailey and lay down the law a bit, especially about whom he (Bailey) is allowed to kill --waiting in his currently-disused stateroom Yes, Her Majesty's finest are on hand to collect the piping bill, and maybe to 'recruit' a piper... ...It'll be a bit before I can add that bit in. |
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« Reply #334 on: April 13, 2010, 02:23:08 am » |
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Sounds like fun! Looking forward to it, Bailey |
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« Reply #336 on: April 14, 2010, 04:11:45 pm » |
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"No ma'am, we on Her Majesty's Secret Service have no sense of humor that we're aware of - may we come in?" Last time I saw numerous identical little men in bowler hats running around, Russian vodka was involved... bizarrely enough, I considered making Rodney call himself 'Rodney Smirnoff... I also considered giving Top Hat the name 'Lord Bacardi.' What a rum go that would've been...  Just had an idea for the Creature's advent in the Outer Reaches, involving an incident aboard an icy conglomeration of a station, unless others have better ideas. |
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« Reply #337 on: April 14, 2010, 11:38:35 pm » |
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That idea's quite good. I was wondering where (and how) exactly we would fight the beast if it was out in space somewhere... very awesome description of the station, too.
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« Reply #338 on: April 15, 2010, 03:30:45 am » |
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That idea's quite good. I was wondering where (and how) exactly we would fight the beast if it was out in space somewhere... very awesome description of the station, too.
Thanks! Feel free to add things in; it's a man-made station, after all, even if Mother Nature has taken a firm hold on it. plenty of room for hollowing out demesnes between conduits, unknown natural nooks and crannies (in one of which the beast makes its current {temporary?} lair, perhaps...) where smugglers, entrepreneurs, etc. make their abode, hermitages of recluses who squat and eke out an existence "borrowing" from one of the station's many "lost" steam pipes that still carries enough heat to melt a pace and keep it dry... The Drene-Vah could also conceivably have a base here that possibly no one would know about, especially near the messy-mouthed smelter, where all sorts of metals have gotten spilt over the decades, and thus would shield most thought energy or at least mask it... also, any additions of stationside characters are fine, too, especially if they keep the storyline going... Also, it's a smelter, which means that the local equivalent of Pirates would be skulking about (not too many though, the laws and the miners themselves being in teh habit of treating pirates and ore rustlers pretty savagely). Do we want to kill the Creature in the outer reaches, or chase it back in-system to Venus? Just asking for the sake of clarification. |
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« Reply #339 on: April 15, 2010, 05:47:03 am » |
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My votes on kill it. I kinda miss just plain "exploring" the story, with no real purpose. Or we could make it a pet and name it Rover.  |
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« Reply #340 on: April 15, 2010, 07:27:42 am » |
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Like, flying the storyline by the seat of one's pants, so to speak? Sounds great to me... OK, so, Frommaguer and Zhieh are there first, so They'll probably get first crack at the Jabberwock (but don't worry, there'll be plenty of brillig slithy toves to chase it through, and plenty of jabber for everybody to wock through...(somebody, slap me! ). Rover, eh? I vote for "Spot" . 'See spot run...' Lets start the slappy-slappy with the bitty beastie. Here, Spotty Spotty (Or Rover, Rover...)... |
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« Reply #341 on: April 15, 2010, 12:16:40 pm » |
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See Spot run. Run, Spot, run. See Spot extrude tentacles and grab humans. Squeeze, Spot, squeeze. See the humans pop like zits...  |
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« Reply #342 on: April 15, 2010, 05:33:21 pm » |
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My votes on kill it. I kinda miss just plain "exploring" the story, with no real purpose. Or we could make it a pet and name it Rover. Agreed, the hunt can just be our excuse to go to the Outer Rim, after which anything can happen... |
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« Reply #343 on: April 15, 2010, 07:09:44 pm » |
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OoPs... sorry...havent been ignoring teh Zahn facet of teh thread, just has been really hectic here with visitiong relatives, more visiyting relatives calling and changing meeting dates, yadda yadda, so I havent had tim eto do more than post and then revise later. and so, now, guess what I'm gonna do...ROFL |
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« Reply #344 on: April 15, 2010, 07:32:28 pm » |
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If I went too far with the last bit, I can rewrite it. I wanted to use the 'Kirza and Zhan being sweethearts' bit that Zhie talked about before the meeting. I'm thinking that Kirza has a lot of reasons for hating Zhan, especially with finding out that he didn't tell them about the Drene-Vah on the station, and may not have been telling the truth at any point.
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« Reply #345 on: April 15, 2010, 10:27:46 pm » |
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Nah, its fine, probably better too. Gives things a bit of a conflicted serated edge.
I'm thinking that the Trilidians, including the Sutter's Revenge, will be at the station just slightly before teh Badger, Sutter's Revenge first of all, since she's the "Jupiter Scoop" with the musclebound engines and all, and will arrive at about the same time as the Drene-Vah leaders' ship; the station at "present" is about the size of Earth's moon, I'm thinking, so it has ample equatorial harbor space, and even more so because of the Creature having scared off a lot of the miners, tradesmen, and well-heeled residents and especially all but the most foolhardy sightseers.
(I suppose The Drene-vah could try to land on the surface, but it's scouring (200-mph) winds and flying ice crystals, not to mention the bone-cracking cold, would make it uncomfortable even for a cold-loving species; even woolly mammoths and the like would find survival a difficult proposition during the 'Deathwinds' periods (that bit about luke lost in a storm on Hoth in the Empire Strikes Back episode of the Star Wars movies is what inspired the Deathwinds; that and that story about people living in "winter Cities" during teh killing winters when the barbarians came through, and various other deadly-winter-esque type novels that I've read (the titles of which escape me at present)
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« Reply #346 on: April 17, 2010, 08:44:49 am » |
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Pardon the Character Death, but the Beast needs a few victims, and incidents to build suspense... I can always rewrite, however...
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« Reply #347 on: April 19, 2010, 04:23:43 pm » |
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« Reply #348 on: April 19, 2010, 04:44:26 pm » |
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Not as far as I'm concerned, I've just been away since Friday - I'll post the Badger's involvement presently. Miss Curious, perhaps you could run into an old friend known to frequent the Belt in search of pirates, especially since he likely fled Mars under a shadow after our victory - i.e., Nightshade? |
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« Reply #349 on: April 22, 2010, 08:45:19 pm » |
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Chthugan Deep Reach syntax: a fictional form, inspired by Lovecraftian references to "the deep ones";I just thought it sounds/works better than "sanskrit graffitti." I wonder if it'll catch on... Bailey would be famliar with the graffiti used by such subversive elements in the area where he did his job, I'm thinking. |
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