<i>Commander: "Well, let's put it this way: I won't ´mind you going out there alone, right now, but I'd be surpriced to see you again. Why don't you make mr. "civilian" tell us what was going on in this place?"</i>
<b>Wahhh! Everybodies stealing my weapon modding skillz! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> j/k</b> <span style='color:blue'> *looks at civi* "So...lets set up a perimeter around the civilian while he explains to the comm whats going on. Wouldn't be helpful if a skulk sneaked up on 'em and killed him mid-speech..." *looks at the structures going up* "Besides...we're gonna be here for a while anyway..." </span>
<span style='color:white'> *walks over and sits on resource node* "Alright, so you want a story, eh kiddies? It started a week ago. I was returning from a delivery, I remember a thud on the hull of my ship, I though nothing of it at the time, due to the nature of the material routinely handled, the Decontamination field in the cargo bay is kept off. Nearly as soon as the bay was repressurized, tendrils errupted from a mass on the port engine, was barely able to make it of there with Wynona before the emergency door slammed shut, had to pull an Indiana Jones in fact. We got the door sealed, but the ventilation system was left open for too long, it spread. Most of the crew, even the captain, did a mad dash to the escape pods, they left without Smith and myself. Smith was the Cheif Engineer, taought me everything i know about the innerworkings of starships, he was a great man, until....." *pulls out revolver, the once silver body is now corroded. the breech-loading action is fused patially open, it smells of death* "... three days ago, we were ambushed in Processing Facility 01, we put up a tremendous fight, but we where outnumbered by Pointy Kittys, He shoved me into the control room, sealed me in and then, in a increadable shot, but the .44 slug through the side of a holding tank.*gets choked up* he killed the whole lot of em, but..." *cradles revolver, starts to tear up*"... After draining off the chemicals, this is all that i found of him... "*grips gun tightly* " So far, i've only seen two of those wangly dangly things, one in Launch Bay 02, another by the grinder over there" *points down infested corridor* </span>
<b> Hmm, i wonder if xect meant actually have him make a story, or have xect tell us what he says....</b>
<b><span style='color:green'>"One of those things is above a grinder. Good god, those things arent very smart are they. We should just go down there and chop the little cherry off the little cherry tree and down into the grinder. I wonder what kind of weird substance it would mix with, and end up making....
...... imagine some kid getting high off of a hive... heh........"</span></b>
<span style='color:blue'><b>You're not still on about the suspicious substances are you? although it would be an interesting way to destroy that hive."</b></span>
<span style='color:blue'> "Yes, not only would it save us time and bullets...but it would give us a sadistic display of a lifeform getting grinded alive. Whoopie." *wonders about suspicious materials on board the ship* "Umm, what about those crack-grinders I found in the machine shop? Whats up with that, civi?" </span>
<span style='font-family:Geneva'><span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:green'> *Cataphract stares quizzically* "Crack grinders? What do you mean by that?" </span></span></span>
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
edited June 2003
*Half way listens to the civs story* "Hey civvie, I got a question for ya, precisely what have you seen on board here? Any big rhinoscerous type things? Tall purple things?"
<b><span style='color:purple'>*Shakes head* "Aliens must have gotten addicted to crack..." "Sounds like they certainly making themselves feel at home here, civi" *Decides that if he doesn't get new weapon soon, then it will be time to see if his disassembled grenade launcher will work after being put back together* *Wonders if BadKarma was drinking some bad water, tall purple thing??, he thinks to himself* "Hey, I think it would be fun to feed a skulk some grenades, heh heh"</span> xect, tell me if I get to have my grenade launcher work later. </b>
<span style='color:blue'> "Yea, crack grinders. I also think that somebody here has a packet of it on them which they swiped from that table." *thinks about purple creatures* "Actually, I've never seen one of them, and I'm damn happy. They seem to be an unstoppable powerhouse, the vets back at the station told me. And they shoot some hot stuff at you that burns like hell. The documentaries also say it looks a <i>dark, purplish-black</i>." </span>
<span style='color:white'>"... Rino things? Purple monsters?? You guys should lay off the wacky tobaccy. So far, all I've seen are Pointy Kittys, Tubbys & Leather Canaries."
*looks as entire marine squad stares blankly*
"... a Pointy Kitty is the thing i shot full of holes right as you arrived. *points at <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> * A tubby is a fat little jerk that likes to hock loogies at you, spit out tripwires and they also spawn all the little Bonsai trees of unhappiness * <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> *. Leather Canaries are the flying SOBs * <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif'><!--endemo--> *....
And what is with you guys and drug refrences?" </span>
<span style='color:blue'> *sees Silent* "Hey! I'm over here, man!" *waves with left arm instictively as my LMG is in my right* *feels pain from wound* *grunts* "F*ck! Commander, we got medpaks yet? Its a nice thing that I'm right handed and all, but my left hand is needed too." *hears civi's comments* "Nah, we just accidental sniffed some of that crack in the crack grinder when i yanked its lid off to hard <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->." "Tubbies, pointy kitties, leather canaries...you call 'em? Well, its a lot better than the names the TSA gave 'em." "And, this ship was used for illicit substances the Comm said when we got here...so...yea. Crack, weed, STDs, you'll find 'em if you look hard 'nuff." </span>
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
<span style='color:purple'> "Delta, as much as you're probably right about how you'll find anything if you look hard enough, that may be true about half the ships out there. The Kharaa got this one for a reason, and I can't shake the feeling that it's because of more than just the possible underground trade routes this infested bucket o' bolts could be running."</span>
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
edited June 2003
<span style='color:purple'> "Ariadne Arm, Jerren system. We're in Infantry-portal teleport range from a TSA guardpost. Am I missing something?"</span> <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><b>edit: changed spelling error, was "Jerran," now is correct spelling of "Jerren" as posted by Xect in post#1</b></span>
<span style='color:white'> *Ed turns a ghastly pale white* ".... the autopilot is still engaged, this thing is making a beeline for the nearest jumpgate. we got to shut it down! Only problem is that Autopilot is only accessable from the bridge, smack dab in the middle of Alien City."
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
<span style='color:purple'> "What, what's wrong with it being on autopilot? You think it'll end up in some nearby system with some criminals waiting to board it for a shipment? The moment they see official TSA or Kharaa readings, they'll know to keep their paws off." *Face suddenly has a spasm at the realization that the Kharaa are at the helm* "The jumpgate...that autopilot...when was that set, and have the settings changed since, um...since the incident?" </span>
<span style='color:white'> "The autopilot was an addon off a derelict we came across, we tried to change the settings, but we couldn't, it was hard coded in. previous setting was set for the Eden system, but i think the lauching of the escape pods reverted to its emergency destination...."
*starts to hyperventilate*
"Criminals? Shipment? what are you <i>talking about</i>?!?!?!"
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
<span style='color:purple'> "The reason the rest of the boys here've been joking so much about drugs is because our breifing told us the ship was making some sort of illicit substance. What it was wasn't specified at the time, but we've all just assumed the ship was a drug runner when one of the guys picked up a small machine from passing through the machinery shop and called it a "crack grider." Got any corrections to the history of this thing?"</span>
<span style='color:white'> "I. I- I don't know! I just was told where to go and who to get to sign for the stuff, I thought we were a mineral refinery... but in any case, we have to make sure this ship doesn't reach it's destination....." </span>
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
[COLOR=purple] "Minerals? Figures. The TSA probably gets donations from anywhere it can, and I'm betting a big donor just wanted less market competition around here. Comm, where to next?"
<i>Commander: "Damn, that guy is right about the jump-gate. But we got a while before it gets bad, and we're nowhere near having the equipment to assault that hive. I think we're gonna need another res node. There's a node in the data storage not far from you, waypoints on your HUD. Watch out, that thing is even closer to the hive. It'll double up as an access point for the hive assault, just don't die in there. I'm sending a new team in to defend this outpost, I'll ask one of them to take a medpack along for Terran."
A new team of marines appear in the phasegate. The first of them passes a medkit to Terran</i>
<span style='color:gray'><b>"Those Jet Black ones are called fades,they seem to come when there are two of those hive things" *Thinks* "Comm is it possible to siege frm the new res location?" *Finds mini coolant tubes* "hmm,lucky me" *overides Pistols computer,increases ROF and inserts new coolant tubes* "Heh Terran will be jelous"</span></b>
<b><span style='color:blue'>"thanks for the information spinviper, but we were all at the breifing too you know. Im sure Mr civvie knows what he's talking about too. </span>
<b>aww, man. sucks to see you go silent. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> </b> <span style='color:blue'> *takes the medpak and activates it* *feels my wound heal and close* "Ahh, yea. That's the stuff." *sees spinviper and his pistol* "Oo! Looks like somebody was bored. Just from judging over here, you have...added a full auto capacity by modifying the trigger mechanism and spring. But looks like it is gonna have a lot of recoil. The ammo capacity might be painful too, wasted fast with that ROF." *show meh right finger and wiggles it* "This is my full auto <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->" </span> <b>Yea, the pistol has a computer. Examine the v_model. It has a little HUD on the side</b>
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*looks at civi*
"So...lets set up a perimeter around the civilian while he explains to the comm whats going on. Wouldn't be helpful if a skulk sneaked up on 'em and killed him mid-speech..."
*looks at the structures going up*
"Besides...we're gonna be here for a while anyway..."
</span>
"Alright, so you want a story, eh kiddies? It started a week ago. I was returning from a delivery, I remember a thud on the hull of my ship, I though nothing of it at the time, due to the nature of the material routinely handled, the Decontamination field in the cargo bay is kept off. Nearly as soon as the bay was repressurized, tendrils errupted from a mass on the port engine, was barely able to make it of there with Wynona before the emergency door slammed shut, had to pull an Indiana Jones in fact. We got the door sealed, but the ventilation system was left open for too long, it spread. Most of the crew, even the captain, did a mad dash to the escape pods, they left without Smith and myself. Smith was the Cheif Engineer, taought me everything i know about the innerworkings of starships, he was a great man, until....."
*pulls out revolver, the once silver body is now corroded. the breech-loading action is fused patially open, it smells of death*
"... three days ago, we were ambushed in Processing Facility 01, we put up a tremendous fight, but we where outnumbered by Pointy Kittys, He shoved me into the control room, sealed me in and then, in a increadable shot, but the .44 slug through the side of a holding tank.*gets choked up* he killed the whole lot of em, but..." *cradles revolver, starts to tear up*"... After draining off the chemicals, this is all that i found of him... "*grips gun tightly* " So far, i've only seen two of those wangly dangly things, one in Launch Bay 02, another by the grinder over there" *points down infested corridor* </span>
<b><span style='color:green'>"One of those things is above a grinder. Good god, those things arent very smart are they. We should just go down there and chop the little cherry off the little cherry tree and down into the grinder. I wonder what kind of weird substance it would mix with, and end up making....
...... imagine some kid getting high off of a hive... heh........"</span></b>
"Yes, not only would it save us time and bullets...but it would give us a sadistic display of a lifeform getting grinded alive. Whoopie."
*wonders about suspicious materials on board the ship*
"Umm, what about those crack-grinders I found in the machine shop? Whats up with that, civi?"
</span>
*Cataphract stares quizzically*
"Crack grinders? What do you mean by that?"
</span></span></span>
"Hey civvie, I got a question for ya, precisely what have you seen on board here? Any big rhinoscerous type things? Tall purple things?"
"Aliens must have gotten addicted to crack..."
"Sounds like they certainly making themselves feel at home here, civi"
*Decides that if he doesn't get new weapon soon, then it will be time to see if his disassembled grenade launcher will work after being put back together*
*Wonders if BadKarma was drinking some bad water, tall purple thing??, he thinks to himself*
"Hey, I think it would be fun to feed a skulk some grenades, heh heh"</span>
xect, tell me if I get to have my grenade launcher work later.
</b>
*Cataphract looks at Karma*
"Tall <i>purple</i> things? The ones I've seen are jet black, they look like giant upright cockroaches."
</span></span></span>
"Yea, crack grinders. I also think that somebody here has a packet of it on them which they swiped from that table."
*thinks about purple creatures*
"Actually, I've never seen one of them, and I'm damn happy. They seem to be an unstoppable powerhouse, the vets back at the station told me. And they shoot some hot stuff at you that burns like hell. The documentaries also say it looks a <i>dark, purplish-black</i>."
</span>
*looks as entire marine squad stares blankly*
"... a Pointy Kitty is the thing i shot full of holes right as you arrived. *points at <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> * A tubby is a fat little jerk that likes to hock loogies at you, spit out tripwires and they also spawn all the little Bonsai trees of unhappiness * <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> *. Leather Canaries are the flying SOBs * <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif'><!--endemo--> *....
And what is with you guys and drug refrences?" </span>
*sees Silent*
"Hey! I'm over here, man!"
*waves with left arm instictively as my LMG is in my right*
*feels pain from wound*
*grunts*
"F*ck! Commander, we got medpaks yet? Its a nice thing that I'm right handed and all, but my left hand is needed too."
*hears civi's comments*
"Nah, we just accidental sniffed some of that crack in the crack grinder when i yanked its lid off to hard <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->."
"Tubbies, pointy kitties, leather canaries...you call 'em? Well, its a lot better than the names the TSA gave 'em."
"And, this ship was used for illicit substances the Comm said when we got here...so...yea. Crack, weed, STDs, you'll find 'em if you look hard 'nuff."
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"Delta, as much as you're probably right about how you'll find anything if you look hard enough, that may be true about half the ships out there. The Kharaa got this one for a reason, and I can't shake the feeling that it's because of more than just the possible underground trade routes this infested bucket o' bolts could be running."</span>
"... where are we? Where's the ship at?!"</span>
"Ariadne Arm, Jerren system. We're in Infantry-portal teleport range from a TSA guardpost. Am I missing something?"</span>
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><b>edit: changed spelling error, was "Jerran," now is correct spelling of "Jerren" as posted by Xect in post#1</b></span>
".... the autopilot is still engaged, this thing is making a beeline for the nearest jumpgate. we got to shut it down! Only problem is that Autopilot is only accessable from the bridge, smack dab in the middle of Alien City."
* Ed Readies the FAMA-P9.0 *</span>
"What, what's wrong with it being on autopilot? You think it'll end up in some nearby system with some criminals waiting to board it for a shipment? The moment they see official TSA or Kharaa readings, they'll know to keep their paws off."
*Face suddenly has a spasm at the realization that the Kharaa are at the helm*
"The jumpgate...that autopilot...when was that set, and have the settings changed since, um...since the incident?"
</span>
*starts to hyperventilate*
"Criminals? Shipment? what are you <i>talking about</i>?!?!?!"
</span>
"The reason the rest of the boys here've been joking so much about drugs is because our breifing told us the ship was making some sort of illicit substance. What it was wasn't specified at the time, but we've all just assumed the ship was a drug runner when one of the guys picked up a small machine from passing through the machinery shop and called it a "crack grider."
Got any corrections to the history of this thing?"</span>
"Minerals? Figures. The TSA probably gets donations from anywhere it can, and I'm betting a big donor just wanted less market competition around here.
Comm, where to next?"
A new team of marines appear in the phasegate. The first of them passes a medkit to Terran</i>
*looks around at the rest*
"...um, never mind. lets go guys"</b></span>
<b>Xect... I wanna quit this game.. Make me do something heroic but so i'll die when i do it... Please?</b>
*Thinks* "Comm is it possible to siege frm the new res location?" *Finds mini coolant tubes* "hmm,lucky me"
*overides Pistols computer,increases ROF and inserts new coolant tubes* "Heh Terran will be jelous"</span></b>
<b>Ooo silent B4 u leave gimme yer shotty</b>
Does a pistol have a computer??
he doesnt have a shotty. read the story</b>
<span style='color:blue'>
*takes the medpak and activates it*
*feels my wound heal and close*
"Ahh, yea. That's the stuff."
*sees spinviper and his pistol*
"Oo! Looks like somebody was bored. Just from judging over here, you have...added a full auto capacity by modifying the trigger mechanism and spring. But looks like it is gonna have a lot of recoil. The ammo capacity might be painful too, wasted fast with that ROF."
*show meh right finger and wiggles it*
"This is my full auto <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->"
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<b>Yea, the pistol has a computer. Examine the v_model. It has a little HUD on the side</b>