Ariadne Guardpost post-Xect vacation posts

spinviper · July 2003

"Save the res!" "Well I rather blow up the ship, but you know the R&D boys they will mess us up reaaaal good when we get back" "Now do we have any sedetives?"

pEnGuiN_gab · July 2003

I don't think we should do anything too drastic in xect's absence... Imagine the shock xect will get when he gets back and realised we bombed the ship to hell and escaped in a pod... lol.

"Hey.. Don't think nanites will work well against acid wounds... it dehydrates the skin and causes the burns. Let me give something for the nanites to work on."
*Pours water on the wound*
*Hears deafening scream*
"...Oops."

Lord_Darkness · July 2003

"I'm with you, I say we blow this ship. And those R&D boys can go f**k themselves. There is no way we can catch one of these things, not even a Gorge. Those R&D boys'll have to find another squad to do them 'favours'. Any chance of me getting a shotgun here?"
*walks over to Frosty*
"[whisper]Look, Frosty, I'll need those shells that you've got in your cigar case. Before you ask, I found them when I took one of the cigars out and tried to find the lighter in that compartment. I put the shells and the cigar back after finding them. No-one else knows, except for you and me. If I get a shotgun, I'll get the shells and if you get a shotgun, you'll get them. Unless you want the commander to know about them. I have an idea, if we get off of this rustbucket alive, I'll take the blame for having banned ammunition, how's that sound.[/whisper]"

SilentMurderer · July 2003

*I stand next to ddarkness*
"Or, no one of you uses those shells withought the commander knowing... Unless..."
*Waits for someone to say something*

"you know... I have a shotgun.. But, i might want something for it"

pEnGuiN_gab · July 2003

"Those shells aren't FF nano-implanted are they? Oh man.. I really hope you don't hit any part of the ship thats even remotely close to the walls. I'm soooo not going to enjoy being sucked out of the ship into that vacuum out there. And, don't shoot your teammates too."
*grinz*

TiberRaptor · July 2003

I hope you guys have some more twists up your sleeves, because blowing up the ship is a hackneyed way to deal with alien infestations. Plus, the brass would probably kill us all if we did it too.

"So how are we going to blow up the ship - what's the game plan gentlemen?"
*Wipes the sweat off his forhead with the back of his hand*
"That's the obvious choice. Like hell I'm going to try and capture one of those little ****. They wouldn't let us take them alive anyhow"

pEnGuiN_gab · July 2003

Yeah. So what happens to this role-play after we blow the ship up?

"Yeah whats the plan? Anyway we can try to trap them with like.. put a phase gate in the middle of nowhere. Then link it to another one that we can ambush them with nets and stuff. When the alien phases in, boom hes caught by out net."
*Smiles*
"Just joking."

PFCNublar · July 2003

"Penguin, that would actually be a good idea. A phase gate that leads to a phase gate at base hat has a cage over it. Yes...if only we could find a cage...or better yet, a box that can fit a phase gate in it. The minute a skulky runs over the phase gate, our wonderful comm will activate it,then recycle bother phase gates. Bang, skulk in a box. Then, we can blow this ship over to hell. Yes? No? Smite me because the commander doesn't want to waste 50 res?"
*wonders*
"You know, the next time something BIGGER than a fade comes in, I don't think we should really care about FF, and contrabanded weapons/ammunition. I say the miunte something bigger than 7-8 feet comes through that doorway, rip the U-238 can off of the phase gate and chuck it at the damn thing. Better it dies and we get hurt a bit than us dying because we're using little lead shavings called 'bullets.'"

TiberRaptor · July 2003

"Nerver thought about that Penguin. That's actually a plausible idea. I don't mean to sound like a pencil pusher or anything, but its much less costly than blowing up the ship."
*Thinks about Terran's comment*
"Good point Terran. Maybe comm can work on upgrading armory or something. Of course, I'm perfectly fine with shotgun slugs - they do their job.... but some of you just have pistols, and that's not cool."


I don't know how much res we have, but maybe we could get some new technology.

Marik_Steele · July 2003

"Alright, I've already did a little dirty work researching the reactor core. Don't worry, there's no infestation between you and there, none whatsoever. But it's for darn good reason -- they've got just as much or more security there than for the bridge. Not only that, but unlike the Bridge's security, it's not so geared towards just humans; my guess is they were also afraid of someone slicing the software of a maintenance bot and sneaking it in through the hazardous areas.

*A small icon pulses in the lower right corner of your HUDs. It's for an armor upgrade, but you've never seen it red before. The commander says something to himself -- you can't make it out, but from the tone it doesn't look like he's happy*
"Didn't realize how low we are on resources. That upgrade's just been queued up until we can make a better income. You've got a new waypoint -- it's the last res node you passed before one of the Fade attacks."


I'm about to PM Xect. Dunno when I'll get an answer, but I've got an idea or few I think he'll approve of regarding when/how this roleplaying session should end and what can be done with it. In the meantime, sorry about the predictable sidequest. At least it'll get you some of the tech we've all been waiting for. Should help whether you plan on facing aliens or automated stuff.

BadKarma · July 2003

"Christ, youre all nuts."

Lumberjack_Wannabe · July 2003

*listens to the words of BadKarma*
*chuckles*
"That's why we're here, Karma. We're nuts! HAHAHA!"

SilentMurderer · July 2003

"Actually Lumber, that isn't funny... That's the reason i'm here :/"

Lumberjack_Wannabe · July 2003

*looks around as if waiting for a punch line*
"Oh... well.. hehe... awww...."

Mr_Headcrab · July 2003

I thought that after this chronicle is over, we'd go back to the Guardpost and do more Frontersman... stuff

 "Thats just great, one of the few subsystems i have no clue how to access remotely stands between us and free--" *Ed suddenly gets an idea* "... What if we froze em? These beasties seem to thrive in heat, if we shut down life support and the reactor, this ship would freeze in a matter of hours, ten we come back and kill the Kaharaasicles!, could even get one for your R&D geeks..."
*Ed begins pecking away at his console*
"I'll have a plan for ya approval soon..."

PFCNublar · July 2003

*look at Silent, smiles sarcastically*
"Well, I never took you as the sadistic, insane type Silent. Learn a new thing everyday...<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>"

Thank you BadKarma, for keeping too many people from seeing the uninformed idiot I am <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

BadKarma · July 2003

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Delta|Cpt.Terran @ Jul 3 2003, 09:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> [cause the pressure of space the crush this thing like a tin can. </td></tr></table>
Erm. There is no pressure in space. Anti-pressure. Thats why if you go in space without a suit or something, it rips the oxygen out of your veins. Same thing happens to a deep sea fish. Take a fish from 2000 ft up to sea level and you'll have a fish blob.

Marik_Steele · July 2003

*The commander listens to Ed's theory, then Delta's words of warning*
"I'm no physicist, so I don't know how the ship would react. If you guys decide to freeze this thing over, that's fine by me, but we'd have to get temperatures pretty low if we wanted to literally freeze them. Off the top of my head, I can only think of 3 ways to do it. The first is at the Bridge, but that's probably not a happy place to be right now. The second is at any auxiliary life support control room Ed knows of; depending on the ship, it may have just the Bridge with different temperature settings for each sector, or multiple smaller control rooms in each sector itself. The last is to go to the reactor core anyway and re-route a ridiculous amount of power to cooling the whole ship. Might have to shut off some other stuff, but I doubt the Living Quarters needs their kitchen operational anymore." *Comm chuckles a bit*

"Speaking of Ed and control systems..." *to Ed:* do you still have Crew status? Does it work on ID cards or biometrics? It could come in real handy with getting us into places the Kharaa can't. I'm feeling pretty bad about not being able to find you any sort of armor equivalent earlier." *to all* "I know it's a dirty job, but on the way to that waypoint, could you see if any of the deceased still has usable armor? Even if it's just a helmet, it'll help."

"Keep the ideas coming, guys. A half dozen heads is better than one. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll ask some of the people you heard in that recording whether they can see hull damage from where they are on the outside, and see how much we'd be in danger if we changed the ship pressure by going through with the freezing."

Mr_Headcrab · July 2003

"yeah, i still have status, only problem is, my keys"
*Watches as all the marines roll their eyes*
"Kommand Entraten Yeagar Sereatin, K.E.Y.S., its a ttransmitter that uses the body's water content as a antenna, Geman in design, their in my Quarters, along with my, hehe, "collection". It should be easy to get to the crew quarters, If Mutter was still online, we could get some serious help...."
*Ed adjust radio*
" is Mutter still online?

Lord_Darkness · July 2003

"What the f**k is this Mutter?"

What happened to my shotgun request, didn't anyone hear it?

Mr_Headcrab · July 2003

" Mutter is the main computer, she's connected to every system on this ship, If she was online, i could get total shipwide awareness to your commander... only poroblem is i think she's offline..."

Bogglesteinsky · July 2003

Well, thats settled. we'll go back to his quaters to get his keys and his pr0n

"right, so all we need to do is find the on switch then.

SilentMurderer · July 2003

edited out until Silent and the DM can determine whether it breaks the "you're a normal marine" rule

Mkay, sorry Marik :/

pEnGuiN_gab · July 2003

"Yeah.. cool. Anyone got any more ideas?"
*frowns*
"But if we freeze the ship, whats gonna happen to us? I'll rather be eaten by Kharaa and going down a hero than to be popsiclised."

PFCNublar · July 2003

"Yesh...temperature. Might cause some unsightly things to happen...like a floating fadesicle to float right into a window...probably breaking it...and then every single 'precious' popsicle would be lost...perhaps."
*looks at Silent*
"Umm...kill who in particular? A name, please? This sounds to be a pretty disturbing development...well, besides the fact we want to either blow the ship up or freeze it."

Bogglesteinsky · July 2003

"I doubt a randomly moving fade bumping into a window will break it. besides, do you see any windows here?"

Marik_Steele · July 2003

Lord Darkness: your shotgun request is on the backburner because an armor upgrade is higher priority and we can't afford it. Feel free to Bring it up again when we have a steady income.
[edit]SilentMurderer, I don't think I have to explain why this whole "secret order" thing of yours doesn't quite mesh in. PM me about it if you've got plans with it that you think would contribute well, otherwise you may want to drop it.

"I was wondering what this Mutter thing was. It's online, but subject to many of the same restrictions as me thanks to the Kharaa-induced nano-gridlock. As for getting Ed's KEYS...hmm." *the commander starts rambling* "The crew quarters have to be in walking distance of something like a locker room, or the mechanical area the crew would work in, or the mess hall...wait a minute, base is in the mess hall and we've been through Mechanical. Crew quarters are actually below you. Take the hallway nearest to you and take either the stairwell or elevator down 1 floor. I just told the elevator to go to your current level, so don't worry about the noise from it starting up."

"This command chair doesn't handle multiple elevation levels well, so you'll be without me while you're down there. In the meantime I'll see about building a res tower here in base -- I don't remember when it got taken out, but I've got enough faith in the turrets we've got left."

*In your HUDs, the "commander name" field begins flashing "no commander"*

As you can see, I couldn't stand the thought of giving you that boring resource tower side-quest, so I'm handling that on my end. We'll see how you handle yourselves without a Big Brother watching over you.

SilentMurderer · July 2003

edited out until Silent and the DM can determine whether it breaks the "you're a normal marine" rule

Sorry again marik... I'll just go back to being normal again <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

TiberRaptor · July 2003

Yeah Silent, you're kind of crazy. So you're in secret cult kind of thing out to get the Kharaa?

"Where would we go after we froze the ship? If we went back to main base, we would most certainly be shoved back into the phase gate and left to die. These R&D guys are sadistic **** you know - they don't give a rat's **** about human life, much less ours."
*Ponders*
"Who would you rather die from, the aliens? or your own race?"
*Looks at Silent quizzically*
"You know, I'm all for toppling evil empires of power hungry puppeteers, but please tell us, what this has to do with Kharaa and this particular spaceship...."

I can see a lot of possibilities opening up here. Im starting to feel really normal compared to all you nutjobs out there. Maybe I should unveil myself as a space pirate and try to kill you all <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'>

Mr_Headcrab · July 2003

"I'm not suggesting we freeze the ship with us in it, we can get off using Ferrin and the Twins in cargo bay 2--"

*Hears that Mutter is online*
"Well, thats somthing good for a change..."
*Ed hears the elevator in route*
"Better and better... Weapon collection, here we come! Almost forgot..."
*Ed taps a series of buttons*
"Mutter? Can you hear me?"

Ariadne Guardpost post-Xect vacation posts

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