<span style='color:blue'> *raises hand* "I could do a little tinkering on it...I need a test dummy anyway..." "Besides, I'm bored. The IP phasers never took this long to phase before." </span>
<i>A loud sound is heard as the reinforcements phase in.
Commander:" Ok, first shift, go look for whatever is in out there alive. I marked it with a waypoint, but I'm probably going to move it once in a while, it's smart enough to be moving AWAY from the boiling room, which probably also means it hasnt gotten all high yet <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.</i>
<span style='color:blue'> *catches it* "Yay." *stuffs the pistol into my vest pocket* *hears the Commander's orders* *laughs* "Roger that, sir." *pause* *mutters to self* "****, the wapoint doesn't show up on my headset." *turns towards Silent* "Where is the waypoint?" </span>
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
edited May 2003
<span style='color:purple'> *Glances at L. Jack* *Notes to self that this ship was reportedly making unspecified illegal substances* *Continues acting normal for now* "Commander, I've got a few questions about the boiler room. First off, what ship systems are dependent on its functioning? Second, have you run a lifeform scan in and around the boiler room itself? Third, which general area of the ship is that unknown lifeform heading towards? I'd rather run a shorter intercept path with it than try to chase it around, even if it is slow-moving." </span>
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
edited May 2003
"Alright people, lets form up, remember stay loose, we dont know whats out there. Frosty, if memory serves your on point?" *notices a few men slapping their helmets.* "Uh, hey boss, were having some technical problems here, can you see if one of the new guys is a techie?"
<i>Commander: "Ok steele, got a few answers for your few questions:
First, that depends strongly on in which way you mean "dependent". If you just shut off the thing, only the prodiction of funny things go down. If you happen to set it on fire, you could say that the whole ship is dependent on the boiler to avoid becoming a huge fireball. Needless to say, you'd prefer the former over the latter if you have the choice, or even if you don't.
Second, yeah, you don't want to know what I found. Don't go near that place before you got some more firepower.
Third, no idea, I can only tell you where he is now, your guess about its destination is as good as mine.
By the way, I think you'd be smart to take that techie, boggle, along for the mission. Seems you're gonna need him. Now get going, it's moving away from you now."
<b><span style='color:blue'>"i'll follow you guys and do my best to keep you alive.
it would be nice if you could return the favour every once in a while
Comm, could i get a welder here, or should i just borrow BK'S?"</span>
[edit] maybe i should stick in some character development, just so you guys know who you are dealing with Name: Bogglesteinsky (shorten that however you wish) Age: mid to late twenties General Characteristics: Quiet, prefers to be helping in the background. If you didnt know him well, you would say he was a nerd (ooo, new smilie time) <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->. He's inteliigent, but doesnt see himself as any different from people who are not so clever. He helps others because he may need them to help him sometime. Doesnt mind taking a backstage postion to let others do their thing. he will follow orders to the letter and while he may question their decsions, his loyalty to his squad and commander is un-questionable
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
"Hey steinsky, dont worry about it." *Tosses Steinsky the welder* "Just give it back later uh?" "Oh yeah, its not me but a couple of the guys says they arnt recieving the waypoints in their huds."
<span style='color:blue'><b>"no waypoints huh? thats not a job for a field techie, thats for the lab boys back home. most likely their nanite transmission and reception microbit processor is buggard.
you could always try the new impact technology..."
*takes the helmets and drops them on the floor*
"try that"
"still no luck? Get another helmet or just follow every one else. it does mean that you wont be able to use motion tracking, so it may be best if you just stay in base and guard. sorry for the boring assignmen, but you will be skulk bait out there"</b></span>
[edit] spinviper, a tip. before clicking on the sumbit post, click on the "close all tags" text to avoid that problem of no colour
nice to have you onboard, hope you survive [/edit]
<i>Commander: "Won't work, I need the whole second shift out there. Doesnt matter if they can't use MT, as you might have noticed we don't have the sludge for that sort of tech either. So off you go, I'll tell the command to send a few backup recievers along, let's hope they don't think that's too expensive.</i>
<b>And boggle, the "Close all tags" only works if you use the menus at the top of the post window to open the tags.</b>
<b>i see. well, i always use the tags at the top, so i suppose thats why it always works <span style='color:blue'>
"These godamned beurocrats holding back on money.
Do you realise we could all be fitted with the latest Heavy armour and machine guns if they had an ounce of sense?
money is not a problem in the tsa, but they dont want to spend lots on us becuase we will just die. what they dont realsie is that if they did spend lots on us, we wouldnt die half as much"</span></b>
<b>oh dear. may i suggest that you read the style of posts and the general posting rules at the start of this thread, or else this one will go AWOL like the others.
you are not a hero, you are not anyone special, you are just another cog in the machine. Xcet is the guy who advances the story, we just play along with his ideas until the next thing happens
<b>calm down, calm down. have a bit of patience, these things take time.
we only let you drink it when its ready (sorry about that, it just slipped out)
<span style='color:blue'>"Hey there SV, long time, no see. looks like you were one of the lucky few from the first phase to survive
What was it like, these kharaa? i head they are as big as elephants and have sharp claws and lots of webs everywhere.
The big boys were very secretive about them, i dont know what the 2nd phase were told, all i know is that we were going in to retake the ship. apparently some guy screwed up somewhere, but dont tell anybody."
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
edited May 2003
<span style='color:purple'> *Makes cursory check that weapons weren't affected by the Infantry Portal jump* "I'll take rear. Any others joining the fireteam?" </span>
<i>Commander: "Well, one thing I can say for sure is that the TSA do not have enough money for buying their own battle equipment. Believe me, I've seen their budgets, they aint got nothing to spare. All the money are in the hands of various governments, and those people dont WANT you to stay alive, TSA is messing with their income."</i> [B]And viper, calm down. Roleplaying is a slow thing, you'll have to be patient.
<span style='color:red'>*Idents the wp on hud* *Walks next to Lucid, revolver and nife in hand* "Time to move out people, we got places to be an' critters ta kill" *my step seems to have some extra bounce, and my eyes are alite with excitement*</span>
<span style='color:gray'> "This seems awfully familiar, like everything in this forsakened place. Frikin tin can." *kicks a wall* *rejoins group* *spits onto ground* </span>
Comments
*raises hand*
"I could do a little tinkering on it...I need a test dummy anyway..."
"Besides, I'm bored. The IP phasers never took this long to phase before."
</span>
"Have fun."
oh well, whats next comm? <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo--> </span>
Commander:" Ok, first shift, go look for whatever is in out there alive. I marked it with a waypoint, but I'm probably going to move it once in a while, it's smart enough to be moving AWAY from the boiling room, which probably also means it hasnt gotten all high yet <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.</i>
*catches it*
"Yay."
*stuffs the pistol into my vest pocket*
*hears the Commander's orders*
*laughs*
"Roger that, sir."
*pause*
*mutters to self*
"****, the wapoint doesn't show up on my headset."
*turns towards Silent*
"Where is the waypoint?"
</span>
"I didn't get it..."
*shifts eyes*
*quickly puts bag full of a white, powdery substance back into his pocket*
</span>
*Glances at L. Jack*
*Notes to self that this ship was reportedly making unspecified illegal substances*
*Continues acting normal for now*
"Commander, I've got a few questions about the boiler room.
First off, what ship systems are dependent on its functioning?
Second, have you run a lifeform scan in and around the boiler room itself?
Third, which general area of the ship is that unknown lifeform heading towards? I'd rather run a shorter intercept path with it than try to chase it around, even if it is slow-moving."
</span>
*notices a few men slapping their helmets.*
"Uh, hey boss, were having some technical problems here, can you see if one of the new guys is a techie?"
<span style='color:blue'>
*Checks all body parts in their correct place after the phase*
"Nice of you to leave me there in the simulator TAK.
It was a lucky shot, but i still think the simulators are a little too realistic"
*walks over to BK*
"let me help you with that. what seems the problem here?"
</span></b>
First, that depends strongly on in which way you mean "dependent". If you just shut off the thing, only the prodiction of funny things go down. If you happen to set it on fire, you could say that the whole ship is dependent on the boiler to avoid becoming a huge fireball. Needless to say, you'd prefer the former over the latter if you have the choice, or even if you don't.
Second, yeah, you don't want to know what I found. Don't go near that place before you got some more firepower.
Third, no idea, I can only tell you where he is now, your guess about its destination is as good as mine.
By the way, I think you'd be smart to take that techie, boggle, along for the mission. Seems you're gonna need him. Now get going, it's moving away from you now."
New waypoint appears on your HUD.</i>
it would be nice if you could return the favour every once in a while
Comm, could i get a welder here, or should i just borrow BK'S?"</span>
[edit] maybe i should stick in some character development, just so you guys know who you are dealing with
Name: Bogglesteinsky (shorten that however you wish)
Age: mid to late twenties
General Characteristics: Quiet, prefers to be helping in the background. If you didnt know him well, you would say he was a nerd (ooo, new smilie time) <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo-->. He's inteliigent, but doesnt see himself as any different from people who are not so clever. He helps others because he may need them to help him sometime. Doesnt mind taking a backstage postion to let others do their thing. he will follow orders to the letter and while he may question their decsions, his loyalty to his squad and commander is un-questionable
[/edit]</b>
*Tosses Steinsky the welder*
"Just give it back later uh?"
"Oh yeah, its not me but a couple of the guys says they arnt recieving the waypoints in their huds."
<span style='color:gray'>This will be my colour</span>
Edit: My name will be Zayl
you could always try the new impact technology..."
*takes the helmets and drops them on the floor*
"try that"
"still no luck? Get another helmet or just follow every one else. it does mean that you wont be able to use motion tracking, so it may be best if you just stay in base and guard. sorry for the boring assignmen, but you will be skulk bait out there"</b></span>
[edit] spinviper, a tip. before clicking on the sumbit post, click on the "close all tags" text to avoid that problem of no colour
nice to have you onboard, hope you survive [/edit]
<b>And boggle, the "Close all tags" only works if you use the menus at the top of the post window to open the tags.</b>
<span style='color:blue'>
"These godamned beurocrats holding back on money.
Do you realise we could all be fitted with the latest Heavy armour and machine guns if they had an ounce of sense?
money is not a problem in the tsa, but they dont want to spend lots on us becuase we will just die. what they dont realsie is that if they did spend lots on us, we wouldnt die half as much"</span></b>
<b> <span style='color:gray'>"Hey Terran mind if u mod my LMG?"</span> </b>
you are not a hero, you are not anyone special, you are just another cog in the machine. Xcet is the guy who advances the story, we just play along with his ideas until the next thing happens
[edit] much better, thankyou [/edit] </b>
Edit im bored...... add stuffz
we only let you drink it when its ready (sorry about that, it just slipped out)
<span style='color:blue'>"Hey there SV, long time, no see. looks like you were one of the lucky few from the first phase to survive
What was it like, these kharaa? i head they are as big as elephants and have sharp claws and lots of webs everywhere.
The big boys were very secretive about them, i dont know what the 2nd phase were told, all i know is that we were going in to retake the ship. apparently some guy screwed up somewhere, but dont tell anybody."
</span> </b>
"Guys, follow me, i got a WP on my hud. So, ill take point."
*pulls out pistol and waits for other to fall in*
</span></b>
<span style='color:blue'>"i'll just stay in the middle. i'm no good at bring up the rear</span></b>
*Makes cursory check that weapons weren't affected by the Infantry Portal jump*
"I'll take rear. Any others joining the fireteam?"
</span>
[B]And viper, calm down. Roleplaying is a slow thing, you'll have to be patient.
*Walks next to Lucid, revolver and nife in hand*
"Time to move out people, we got places to be an' critters ta kill"
*my step seems to have some extra bounce, and my eyes are alite with excitement*</span>
"ok frosty, no more orange juice for you"
*looks at the assembled group*
"well, im ready when you are"</b></span>
"This seems awfully familiar, like everything in this forsakened place. Frikin tin can."
*kicks a wall*
*rejoins group*
*spits onto ground*
</span>