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Thread: Starside
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2018-04-06, 06:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
Dyson Sphere
Yone finds that the glow of the fruit is not a trick of the light, but that they are actually bioluminescent. The fruit is oblong, and its skin is semitransparent, revealing a pulpy interior with a number of disk-shaped seeds.
When Reinholdt looks into the upper passage, he sees a grove of blue flowers. In the center of the grove is a pile of logs. Flatish insects the size of dinner plates are snapping at the pile, tearing off pieces and retreating into the flowers with them. Then Reinholdt sees the head. What had first appeared to be a pile of logs is actually the corpse of a stick insect so large, it could eat Reinholdt in one bite. Its head has wickedly curved mandibles, which look razor-sharp. Good thing it's dead.
The lizards don't seem to take much notice of Kin. They go on placidly grazing on the vines. However, there's a smell of something burning nearby. It seems to be coming from one of the burrows nearby the lizards.Awesome avatar (Kothar, paladin of Tlacua) by Linkele!
Originally Posted by William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i.46Originally Posted by Howard Tayler
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2018-04-06, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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[Dyson Sphere]
Yone picks a few of the fruits and disappears them to wherever she keeps her things.
Then she picks her way over to the darkened passage to have a look at whatever happened here. She gives the lizards a wide berth; what if they tried to stampede?
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2018-04-06, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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- In hiding. Always hiding.
Re: Starside
[Dyson Sphere]
Reinholdt shivers with discomfort and floats back down to the group to report. "There are insects everywhere and they are big. You know those kind that pretend to be sticks? Imagine those, but a hundred times larger. Just saying, be careful of the things holding the fruit." The cat peers suspiciously at the fruit bearing trees. Could be fruit. Could be lures of tree shaped insects.
"No probe up there though." Not that he could see in one glance. He's not sure which exit a probe would be most likely to go for, so Reinholdt will go to check on the lit exit to be thorough.
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2018-04-09, 07:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
Dyson Sphere
The lizards do not stampede. Yone can see that the lights in the dark passageway are out, they don't seem to be working anymore. The vines are not present in the passage, revealing the metal of the walls and floor.
The trees appear to be just that. They don't attack or do anything suspicious.Awesome avatar (Kothar, paladin of Tlacua) by Linkele!
Originally Posted by William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i.46Originally Posted by Howard Tayler
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2018-04-09, 08:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-04-09, 11:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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- In hiding. Always hiding.
Re: Starside
[Dyson Sphere]
"It probably went this way..." Reinholdt will check down the lit passageway on the ground floor. Robots are attracted to the light right?
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2018-04-10, 08:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
Dyson Sphere
Yone probably can't tell why the lights aren't working unless she's a trained electrician and examines them, or has the right equipment. The tunnel continues into the darkness for a short distance, then forks.
If Reinholdt's helmet is off, he'll smell a very strong sweet smell, like someone aerosolized sugar. It seems to be coming from the tunnel.Awesome avatar (Kothar, paladin of Tlacua) by Linkele!
Originally Posted by William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i.46Originally Posted by Howard Tayler
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2018-04-10, 08:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-04-11, 12:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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Re: Starside
[Dyson Sphere]
Everyone can see Reinholdt's beautiful face all the time normally. He's in space as space cat. There's no way he's going to take off his suit or helmet unless he's forced to.
"No space probes over here. What do you think? Which way should we go? Maybe the probe went that way before something went wrong and broke it and the lights. That'd keep it from reporting back." Reinholdt says, reversing his previous consideration as he looks back at the darkened passage.
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2018-04-11, 07:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
Dyson Sphere
Nothing stirs in the darkened passage. Yet. The two cadets are currently looking at one of the big lizards.Awesome avatar (Kothar, paladin of Tlacua) by Linkele!
Originally Posted by William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i.46Originally Posted by Howard Tayler
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2018-04-13, 09:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-04-14, 07:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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Re: Starside
[Dyson Sphere]
"Yeah?" Reinholdt says, pulling out that scanner he picked up at the ship and using it as he follows Yone into the tunnel.
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2018-04-14, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Shuttle from Skyside]
Containing Chevin and Felandria and probably other, less important passengers.
"I don't actually know how any of this works," the little silver person admits along the way up, pointlessly adjusting hir goggles. "There's no air up here, so what keeps them flying? It's a mystery."
"But how could we not go anyway?" shi asks, encouraging Felandria to look out the portholes as the world falls away beneath them.
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2018-04-14, 05:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
Dyson Sphere
The vines making up the floor of the sweet-smelling passage are awfully sticky. So sticky, in fact, that Yone and Reinholdt may find themselves trapped by the substance coating the ground. They can see the mutilated corpses of several small birds littering the ground, stuck in the sticky goo.Awesome avatar (Kothar, paladin of Tlacua) by Linkele!
Originally Posted by William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i.46Originally Posted by Howard Tayler
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2018-04-14, 07:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Dyson Sphere]
"Something that, on further consideration, is clearly a trap. But it might have trapped our probe too."
Yone tries to take a step forward and finds that that particular paw is stuck fast to the ground.
The rifle she took from the ship appears held in her tentacles, and she carefully lines it up with one of the vines she's stuck to before pulling the trigger.
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2018-04-14, 09:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2012
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- Olympus
Re: [Shuttle from Skyside]
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2018-04-15, 11:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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- In hiding. Always hiding.
Re: Starside
[Dyson Sphere]
Reinholdt nearly suffers the same fate, but Yone being ahead of him spares him when she stops. He does the same and takes a look at her predicament, floating up off the ground a little so he's not tempted to step in the sap. His surprised yelp indicates he wasn't quite prepared for Yone's reaction to involve firearms. Shaking it off, he puts away his scanner. "So... scissors or fire? I'm thinking fire." Scissors would probably just get stuck too. But if he uses fire to try and free Yone's paw, there's a high probability of incidental burn damage.
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2018-04-16, 04:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
Dyson Sphere
Yone's shot hits the vines, but does nothing to her predicament, merely punching a hole in one of them. Her struggles attract the attention of the creatures which set the trap in the first place. Numerous lizards, each about the size of a fist, crawl out of their hiding places in the vines, baring needle-sharp teeth. The one in the lead tries to bite a chunk out of Yone's trapped leg. It's the biggest one of the lot, though not by much.Awesome avatar (Kothar, paladin of Tlacua) by Linkele!
Originally Posted by William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i.46Originally Posted by Howard Tayler
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2018-04-16, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
[Dyson Sphere]
"Fire would be good." Yone had been hoping that the gun would have a little more burning power than it turned out to. Guess it's more for punching through than cutting through. How embarrassing. Anyway, Reinholdt can probably burn the vines far enough away from her paw to be safe. If they have time.
And then there's a pack of little lizards. Maybe they're in a hurry.
While Yone might have her feet stuck in place, she isn't helpless. As the one in the lead sinks its teeth into her, she twists and does her best to sink her teeth into it. Probably to much greater effect; the little monsters are practically bite-sized. The gun, an unfamiliar tool, is forgotten.
[Shuttle]
"Huh. Back home we said the stars were the dwellings of the gods. Up there beyond the reach of any evil. But it turns out they're just other suns, far away."
"But they're beautiful still, huh?" Chevin is on tip-toes, seems to be looking out hir own closest window. Just a gesture.
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2018-04-17, 12:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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- In hiding. Always hiding.
Re: Starside
[Dyson Sphere]
Uh-oh. Are these like the baby versions of the big lizards they left behind? Hopefully the cadets aren't dead right now and these are just distant cousins rather than same species. Rein pulls out a small blowtorch better used on vaults and sealed doors than as a weapon. Lighting it, he waves it around and floats in front of Yone, trying to scare off the aggressive lizards. "Shoo! Get! Go away!" He shouts at the critters loudly.
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2018-04-17, 01:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
Dyson Sphere
Yone devours the alpha lizard, then Reinholdt waves a flame in the faces of the rest of them. The lizards are scared off, for now. They retreat back to their hiding places, but can occasionally be seen watching what's going on.Awesome avatar (Kothar, paladin of Tlacua) by Linkele!
Originally Posted by William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i.46Originally Posted by Howard Tayler
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2018-04-17, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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[Dyson Sphere]
Maybe they're only ravenous flesh-eating monsters while they grow, and the full-sized ones are mellow herbivores.
"Thanks."
With the lizards at a safe distance for the moment, Yone stows the gun away again and reaches for the floating blowtorch, to cut through the vines that she's stuck to and thus retreat away from this trap.
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2018-04-18, 12:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
[Dyson Sphere]
"Of course," Rein says, handing the torch over. He remains vigilant as a guard though, keeping eye out and a shout prepared in case the lizards change their mind and reassert their hunger. If Yone gets free, he'll retreat with her.
"Other way then?" Rein pulls out a small flashlight and checks the batteries.
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2018-04-18, 01:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2012
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- Olympus
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2018-04-18, 03:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
Dyson Sphere
Yone's paw is freed and the lizards do not attack again. The strip of trapped ground is not very large, so it is possible to move forward past it or back into the large chamber. Ahead in the passage, there is some sort of cabinet or large box against the wall, then the passage continues past it.Awesome avatar (Kothar, paladin of Tlacua) by Linkele!
Originally Posted by William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i.46Originally Posted by Howard Tayler
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2018-04-18, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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[Dyson Sphere]
"You can fly, right? Why don't you keep going this way and see what that box is? I'll keep an eye on the lizards."
It would be a shame to give up when they weathered this first challenge so well.
[Shuttle]
"Space is dangerous. It's hollow and poisonous. It's where you're free, and you know that somewhere in all those lights - the stars, you know? - there's whatever you're looking for. It's the sky, you know? The sky is full of wonders. And this, moreso. Peaceful."
"Do you travel much, sir?"
Chevin sits down, away from the window.
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2018-04-19, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2012
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- Olympus
Re: Starside
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2018-04-20, 01:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
[Dyson Sphere]
"I guess." Reinholdt eyes the lizards warily, but floats over to the cabinet like box to check it out. Might be something interesting.
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2018-04-20, 07:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
Dyson Sphere
The cabinet appears to be some sort of electrical junction. There are wires on it which connect to little trapezoidal pieces of metal, then run back into the wall. One piece is missing, leaving an empty gap in the wires. Each section is labeled with strange, alien symbols.Awesome avatar (Kothar, paladin of Tlacua) by Linkele!
Originally Posted by William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i.46Originally Posted by Howard Tayler
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2018-04-20, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Starside
[Dyson Sphere]
Yone glances back to check that the cadets and giant lizards are still visible in the main room, then returns to watching Reinholdt.
((Feel free to skip my while he's examining the circuit box.))
[Shuttle]
Chevin asks the obvious question.
"What happened at Olympus?"
The shuttle slowly starts twisting and coming to a stop.