[Sat 2:04:03 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: 10 -------------------------- [Sat 2:16:25 PM] undefined - Kristian: back in a bit -------------------------- [Sat 2:22:47 PM] undefined - Rob: Now I have to remember how to play. -------------------------- [Sat 2:26:01 PM] undefined - Kristian: I think you want to roll as many 1s as possible -------------------------- [Sat 2:26:01 PM] undefined - Michelle: heard ya -------------------------- [Sat 2:26:09 PM] undefined - Rob: Heard you, but a bit low -------------------------- [Sat 2:26:13 PM] undefined - Kristian: or was it 66s? -------------------------- [Sat 2:26:37 PM] undefined - Michelle: 666s -------------------------- [Sat 2:26:59 PM] undefined - Michelle: apparently we're down the rabbit hole now -------------------------- [Sat 2:27:50 PM] undefined - Kristian: you're checked, still a little low but I'll just crank headphones. -------------------------- [Sat 2:28:12 PM] undefined - Rob: Mayvik's turned up his headphone volume... time for the air horn. -------------------------- [Sat 2:29:15 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: 15 -------------------------- [Sat 2:29:28 PM] undefined - Rob: I should've saved that roll... -------------------------- [Sat 2:29:36 PM] undefined - Michelle: lol -------------------------- [Sat 2:30:00 PM] undefined - Michelle: You just blew up the Jericho door -------------------------- [Sat 2:30:33 PM] undefined - Rob: With that roll I think I managed to open a hole in reality. -------------------------- [Sat 2:30:55 PM] undefined - Michelle: Blowing up alien tech might just do that -------------------------- [Sat 2:31:57 PM] undefined - Rob: Press the red button. -------------------------- [Sat 2:32:07 PM] undefined - Michelle: Take the blue pill? -------------------------- [Sat 2:33:47 PM] undefined - Michelle: riiight -------------------------- [Sat 2:33:49 PM] undefined - Jason G: Who am I again? -------------------------- [Sat 2:33:52 PM] undefined - Pat: hah! -------------------------- [Sat 2:34:02 PM] undefined - Kristian: previously, on Last Legion -------------------------- [Sat 2:34:08 PM] undefined - Rob: We just saved the universe and got the girl? -------------------------- [Sat 2:34:35 PM] undefined - Michelle: Other than still seeing "paused", it went well -------------------------- [Sat 2:34:41 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Dirk Yang sad f5 noises -------------------------- [Sat 2:34:43 PM] undefined - Jason G: sadface.jpg -------------------------- [Sat 2:35:03 PM] undefined - Michelle: Seemed fine -------------------------- [Sat 2:35:09 PM] undefined - Rob: Yeah, it loaded fine. -------------------------- [Sat 2:40:32 PM] undefined - Kristian: wait, who's Tomoe again? -------------------------- [Sat 2:40:35 PM] undefined - Rob: I don't trust this Wheeler guy. He looks like he's wearing an ascot. -------------------------- [Sat 2:41:31 PM] undefined - Pat: at least he doesn't have a goatee. That'd have made him a certain badguy. -------------------------- [Sat 2:42:41 PM] undefined - Kristian: "hey, you're that guy! Mordecai Weiner!" -------------------------- [Sat 2:42:40 PM] undefined - Rob: Which is kinda creepy since she's in her underwear... -------------------------- [Sat 2:42:57 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Nice to see you, Wheeler. may we have our clothes? -------------------------- [Sat 2:43:23 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Benny's a perv. -------------------------- [Sat 2:43:32 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt sighs -------------------------- [Sat 2:43:44 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: Daniel Eckhart shrugs -------------------------- [Sat 2:44:58 PM] undefined - Kristian: pocketsand! -------------------------- [Sat 2:45:00 PM] undefined - Jason G: because who doesn't? -------------------------- [Sat 2:46:32 PM] undefined - Pat: are there any motes of light around? -------------------------- [Sat 2:46:36 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Well that's...handy -------------------------- [Sat 2:46:49 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: So it has a blueprint... a genetic pattern coded into it? -------------------------- [Sat 2:46:49 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt stares at the stuff, curiously -------------------------- [Sat 2:47:35 PM] undefined - Pat: he had it in his pocket and just took it out with his bare hands, right? -------------------------- [Sat 2:47:54 PM] undefined - Kristian: prison pocket? -------------------------- [Sat 2:47:55 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen reaches out to poke at the sand. -------------------------- [Sat 2:48:25 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Kind of surprised you could keep it secret for 300 years. Must be a lot of bodies attributed to this. -------------------------- [Sat 2:48:46 PM] undefined - Rob: And Dirk unintentionally convinces them to kill us. -------------------------- [Sat 2:49:24 PM] undefined - Kristian: like a Sandals resort? -------------------------- [Sat 2:51:12 PM] undefined - Rob: Pretty much! -------------------------- [Sat 2:51:33 PM] undefined - Jason G: trying to remember, did we agree to give them the cave location last time? -------------------------- [Sat 2:51:36 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Is that... gate thing completely reliable? Ever had something go in one end and not come out or anything? -------------------------- [Sat 2:51:40 PM] undefined - Kristian: uncomfortable people, being naked in a room with Dirk? shocker.. -------------------------- [Sat 2:51:50 PM] undefined - Rob: Wait... does Dirk wear underwear? -------------------------- [Sat 2:52:18 PM] undefined - Kristian: vacc suit material, with tassels -------------------------- [Sat 2:53:08 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Anything not expected ever come out? -------------------------- [Sat 2:53:18 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Apart from us. -------------------------- [Sat 2:54:22 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: So it would seem to be in your best interest to not let them find what we found? -------------------------- [Sat 2:54:57 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: ... -------------------------- [Sat 2:55:15 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen stares at the robes. -------------------------- [Sat 2:55:18 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: We should have asked for a whisky, too. -------------------------- [Sat 2:55:30 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt takes it and puts it on, looking nonplussed -------------------------- [Sat 2:55:32 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: You got any black ones? White is _so_ not my colour. -------------------------- [Sat 2:55:42 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Are you bringing us hot tubbing later, BEnny? -------------------------- [Sat 2:55:50 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: Daniel Eckhart pulls on the robe and ties it loosely -------------------------- [Sat 2:56:01 PM] undefined - Jason G: I actually believe him -------------------------- [Sat 2:56:12 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Uh huh -------------------------- [Sat 2:56:18 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: You folk have a much different idea of military instillations than I'm used to. -------------------------- [Sat 2:56:23 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Dirk Yang puts on a robe, but leaves the top open so his glorious bare bear chest can breathe. -------------------------- [Sat 2:56:22 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: Julian Felix pulls on a robe, muttering about black ops funding -------------------------- [Sat 2:56:37 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen shrugs and puts on a robe. -------------------------- [Sat 2:56:54 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Angelica Triggs shrugs into her robe and ties it. -------------------------- [Sat 2:57:34 PM] undefined - Kristian: and then we put it in a box and named it Calliope -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:07 PM] undefined - Pat: like persuade? :P -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:09 PM] undefined - Rob: i remember how, i just don't think that Recon applies. -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:25 PM] undefined - Jason G: investigate? -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:27 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: 13 -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:31 PM] undefined - Jason G: nah -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:31 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: 8 -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:34 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: 8 -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:41 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: 8 -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:44 PM] undefined - Rob: not Streetwise, I presume. -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:49 PM] undefined - Kristian: so Soc skill with Int stat? -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:53 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: 7 -------------------------- [Sat 2:59:00 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: 10 -------------------------- [Sat 2:58:58 PM] undefined - Rob: Not that it matters since Tomoe nailed it. -------------------------- [Sat 2:59:38 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen looks at Aiden. -------------------------- [Sat 2:59:47 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Any particular computer scientist maybe? -------------------------- [Sat 2:59:50 PM] undefined - Rob: It was a broad and very exaggerated wink that Aiden missed. -------------------------- [Sat 3:00:06 PM] undefined - Kristian: he pointed at him with both fingers -------------------------- [Sat 3:00:34 PM] undefined - Debinani: You notice the little arnite thing reconfiguring itself a little bit, swishing a little closer to your side of the table -------------------------- [Sat 3:00:46 PM] undefined - Jason G: between medicine, genetics, cyberbetics, physics and biology, computer science is a minor -------------------------- [Sat 3:01:13 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen tilts her head, and reaches out, touching the sand figure again. -------------------------- [Sat 3:01:17 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Tomoe didn't kill them did she? -------------------------- [Sat 3:01:15 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan raises an eyebrow -------------------------- [Sat 3:01:32 PM] undefined - Kristian: I know I was assuming she kills all the brain NPCs -------------------------- [Sat 3:01:49 PM] undefined - Jason G: forgot her name? -------------------------- [Sat 3:01:50 PM] undefined - Pat: he deserved it. -------------------------- [Sat 3:01:55 PM] undefined - Jason G: thanks -------------------------- [Sat 3:01:59 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Florence? -------------------------- [Sat 3:02:05 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Why would a computer scientist be looking at..neural? material. -------------------------- [Sat 3:02:04 PM] undefined - Pat: did the sand collapse again? -------------------------- [Sat 3:02:27 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt rubs his forehead -------------------------- [Sat 3:02:31 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan stops looking off distantly and focuses on the conversation -------------------------- [Sat 3:02:33 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen tries to brush about half of the sand towards her. -------------------------- [Sat 3:03:05 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Make a slave race? -------------------------- [Sat 3:03:28 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: So she synthesi- -------------------------- [Sat 3:03:32 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: We've met some of those people -------------------------- [Sat 3:03:45 PM] undefined - Rob: Is assimilating Tomoe. -------------------------- [Sat 3:04:24 PM] undefined - Pat: delicate? -------------------------- [Sat 3:04:56 PM] undefined - Rob: So it's playing... rock music? -------------------------- [Sat 3:05:06 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Cara Burton raises an eyebrow -------------------------- [Sat 3:05:15 PM] undefined - Kristian: does it sound like Row Row Row your Boat? -------------------------- [Sat 3:05:18 PM] undefined - Pat: can I hum along with it? -------------------------- [Sat 3:05:35 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Angelica Triggs eyes widen -------------------------- [Sat 3:05:46 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen smiles and hums along with it. -------------------------- [Sat 3:05:52 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: Well that's weird. -------------------------- [Sat 3:05:56 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Man what an awful tune, these ancient ones had no taste. -------------------------- [Sat 3:05:57 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Angelica Triggs watches Wheeler -------------------------- [Sat 3:06:01 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt slides a bit further away from Tomoe -------------------------- [Sat 3:06:13 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Tomoe, I don't know what's worse, all the weird shit happening around you, or how ambivalent you are towards all of it -------------------------- [Sat 3:06:31 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: I choose "All of the above". -------------------------- [Sat 3:06:36 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan softly mutters, ' sympathetic?' -------------------------- [Sat 3:07:02 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Well, the way I see it, either I've lost it completely, and pretending that this isn't happening won't make much of a difference, or it is really happening, and pretending it isn't won't help. -------------------------- [Sat 3:07:03 PM] undefined - Rob: Thank god it wasn't Dirk the stuff was responding to... -------------------------- [Sat 3:07:26 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Whoops, I broke it -------------------------- [Sat 3:07:29 PM] undefined - Kristian: lol...hey, a set of arnite bigass titties, that's new -------------------------- [Sat 3:07:34 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: but ok, that _was_ odd. -------------------------- [Sat 3:07:46 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Neat trick. -------------------------- [Sat 3:08:39 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Hmm. -------------------------- [Sat 3:08:41 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Why? -------------------------- [Sat 3:09:06 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Oh. -------------------------- [Sat 3:09:18 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Right...uhm. -------------------------- [Sat 3:09:31 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I think so, yes. -------------------------- [Sat 3:09:31 PM] undefined - Rob: Right? Wright? Write? Rite? -------------------------- [Sat 3:09:39 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Cara Burton raises an eyebrow and turns back to Tomoe -------------------------- [Sat 3:10:27 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: But did people think he was mad because he talked about those doors, or did it seem like the doors and other stuff he saw drove him mad? -------------------------- [Sat 3:10:56 PM] undefined - Rob: The other part was eating someone's face off. -------------------------- [Sat 3:10:58 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Light? -------------------------- [Sat 3:11:01 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: That's why you wanted the AI. Another... AI... -------------------------- [Sat 3:11:05 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: These...*sighs* I'll just say it, aliens...have been dead for a long, long time, right? Tomoe and her family aren't secretly part-alien? -------------------------- [Sat 3:11:59 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan keeps a poker face -------------------------- [Sat 3:11:59 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Dancing lights. -------------------------- [Sat 3:12:16 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: speak of the devil -------------------------- [Sat 3:12:23 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt grumbles -------------------------- [Sat 3:12:30 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Oh, hi! -------------------------- [Sat 3:12:36 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Any strange interactions with arnite? -------------------------- [Sat 3:13:25 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Hot meal, a medal, and send us on our way? -------------------------- [Sat 3:13:30 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: In other words, we need fo figure out if we can go back the way we came here. -------------------------- [Sat 3:13:41 PM] undefined - Michelle: or if they'll let us -------------------------- [Sat 3:13:54 PM] undefined - Rob: How long would a message take to get to the Legitimate Salvage? -------------------------- [Sat 3:14:05 PM] undefined - Rob: Yeah. -------------------------- [Sat 3:14:12 PM] undefined - Rob: Assuming we were permitted to. -------------------------- [Sat 3:14:31 PM] undefined - Michelle: this secret is massive for the alien stuff, sure, but it's their #1 security secret for two worlds -------------------------- [Sat 3:14:42 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: I'm all for allowing us to go about our merry way. -------------------------- [Sat 3:14:49 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: That'll still show up as us suddenly having moved a loooong way with no clear explanation. -------------------------- [Sat 3:15:07 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: A glitch in the network, nothing to see... -------------------------- [Sat 3:15:12 PM] undefined - Jason G: remember that message I did try to send before we gave our helms and comms away -------------------------- [Sat 3:17:35 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Including our boss. -------------------------- [Sat 3:17:35 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: How about with each other? -------------------------- [Sat 3:17:39 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Speak of what? An empty cave? Barely even worth remembering. -------------------------- [Sat 3:17:59 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: That may prove challenging. Our boss is more of the invasive probing type. -------------------------- [Sat 3:18:05 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Not like, butt stuff. Just...inquisitive. -------------------------- [Sat 3:18:25 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I guess. -------------------------- [Sat 3:18:32 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen looks at Aiden. -------------------------- [Sat 3:18:36 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Mr. Yang, does this strike you as more of a legal contract, or extortion? -------------------------- [Sat 3:18:37 PM] undefined - Rob: 6 weeks later, Tomoe releases a song about it. -------------------------- [Sat 3:18:42 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: And if we go through and end up at a different location..or..nowhere, I guess that solves the issue for you in a different way? -------------------------- [Sat 3:18:49 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: It seems like a fair deal, but one additional request: can we leave Dirk with you? Not in exchange for anything. Just as an additional boon, to show our commitment to the arrangement. -------------------------- [Sat 3:18:49 PM] undefined - Pat: good point... -------------------------- [Sat 3:19:01 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Mr Harlan, there is a fine line between the two and we have one leg on each side. -------------------------- [Sat 3:19:39 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Where did you get the sand from, by the way? -------------------------- [Sat 3:20:02 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen looks thoughtful. -------------------------- [Sat 3:20:05 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: From one of the devices? -------------------------- [Sat 3:20:21 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Cara, I am simply aghast that you would consider leaving me here in my soft fluffy robe and not allow me to head back through the oblivion tunnel and risk likely cosmic dissaembly to arrive in a war zone if I am fortunate. Aghast I say! -------------------------- [Sat 3:20:24 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: I have to say, I am absolutely terrified of what the *most* well-kept secret is. -------------------------- [Sat 3:20:41 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: You can't be the first person to have crushed arnite in your presence. Why doesn't it make mini-gates for other people? -------------------------- [Sat 3:21:30 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Ah... so it has to be near an existing bit of tech. -------------------------- [Sat 3:22:05 PM] undefined - Jason K: *Definitely* a good sign that the same people who stole a bunch of military ships are also apparently gathering spooky alien dust -------------------------- [Sat 3:22:14 PM] undefined - Pat: Tomoe is _so_ going to start testing stuff with arnite after this! -------------------------- [Sat 3:22:17 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen okay. -------------------------- [Sat 3:22:31 PM] undefined - Rob: I don't think it's been established that they stole the ships. -------------------------- [Sat 3:22:35 PM] undefined - Jason K: That was out of character lol -------------------------- [Sat 3:22:50 PM] undefined - Jason K: But I thought we made that connection at one point -------------------------- [Sat 3:22:56 PM] undefined - Stig: This is one of those NDAs where a wrong answer goes bang. I don't like it. :) -------------------------- [Sat 3:23:37 PM] undefined - Stig: and that was again raided by the rogue military unit -------------------------- [Sat 3:23:36 PM] undefined - Pat: didn't we hand stuff back to them? -------------------------- [Sat 3:23:59 PM] undefined - Jason K: Ooooh okay, just black ops government warships. Should be fine. -------------------------- [Sat 3:24:04 PM] undefined - Stig: So the room of doors may get more visitors -------------------------- [Sat 3:24:25 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: If Ms. Gozen is fine with being your lab rat, I will oversee. As for keeping our mouths shut, I guess that depends how the calculus plays out. -------------------------- [Sat 3:24:26 PM] undefined - Rob: Ah. I think an assumption was made that company was reporting to the black ops folks (and maybe the Council) -------------------------- [Sat 3:24:38 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Sure. -------------------------- [Sat 3:26:07 PM] undefined - Jason G: do they take samples? -------------------------- [Sat 3:26:39 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: So...does anyone know of any other Wrights? Just how big is this side of Tomoe's family? -------------------------- [Sat 3:26:57 PM] undefined - Rob: "We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue." -------------------------- [Sat 3:27:13 PM] undefined - Rob: I'm hearing the question in Egon's voice. -------------------------- [Sat 3:27:30 PM] undefined - Kristian: Tomoe is the twinkie. -------------------------- [Sat 3:27:29 PM] undefined - Pat: that'd _not_ be something I'd consider non-invasive. -------------------------- [Sat 3:27:29 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Wright's not exactly an uncommon name. -------------------------- [Sat 3:28:13 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: I'm also concerned that their AIs are actually synthesized alien brains... -------------------------- [Sat 3:28:23 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: 14 -------------------------- [Sat 3:28:56 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: I mean at least now we know the AI isn't a human brain? -------------------------- [Sat 3:29:16 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: And I haven't figured out if that makes me feel better or worse. -------------------------- [Sat 3:29:20 PM] undefined - Jason G: but it might be a bio neural network -------------------------- [Sat 3:30:12 PM] undefined - Jason G: and anything like the matrixy thing I witnessed? -------------------------- [Sat 3:30:50 PM] undefined - Jason G: are they also taking notice? -------------------------- [Sat 3:32:00 PM] undefined - Kristian: since I wasn't around, when the stuff was showing interest in me did it basically bounce and head over to Pat, or was it all at same time? Was it weird/obvious enough Dirk should be thinking about maybe having magic arnite powers and scanning his family tree too? -------------------------- [Sat 3:32:16 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan takes a step closer and watches as well as I can, "How are you doing Ms. Gozen?" -------------------------- [Sat 3:32:25 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I'm fine. I think. -------------------------- [Sat 3:32:47 PM] undefined - Debinani: It was half the intensity as Tomoe but a far cry more than anyone else, so maybe? -------------------------- [Sat 3:32:50 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Good, hopefully we'll be done here soon. -------------------------- [Sat 3:33:32 PM] undefined - Jason K: Cara's sword? Hmm -------------------------- [Sat 3:33:36 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Finally, I have pants again. -------------------------- [Sat 3:33:42 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: We'll get the rest of it back before we head on through to the other side, right? -------------------------- [Sat 3:34:04 PM] undefined - Kristian: yes...and Calliope's evil twin can hear us too -------------------------- [Sat 3:34:12 PM] undefined - Kristian: I assume we're under surveillance -------------------------- [Sat 3:34:20 PM] undefined - Rob: The speaker has a goatee to show it's evil? -------------------------- [Sat 3:34:37 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Dang, guess there's no chance these robes came from a full-release massage parlor then. -------------------------- [Sat 3:35:07 PM] undefined - Kristian: steals robe for the ship -------------------------- [Sat 3:35:15 PM] undefined - Kristian: my prison wallet fits more than some sand! -------------------------- [Sat 3:35:20 PM] undefined - Jason G: and what are the chances there aren't about a dozen trackers in our gear and trackable nuclear isotopes, etc... -------------------------- [Sat 3:35:28 PM] undefined - Kristian: aw, that's the nicest thing you ever said to me -------------------------- [Sat 3:36:07 PM] undefined - Rob: Yeah, but we're going to be light years away shortly (hopefully). Plenty of time to remove the trackers before a message can reach where we'll be to tell anyone to track us. -------------------------- [Sat 3:36:35 PM] undefined - Rob: There goes Dirk's porn collection. -------------------------- [Sat 3:36:48 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: Welcome back, you`re ok? -------------------------- [Sat 3:37:14 PM] undefined - Kristian: shit, hope not my James Bond watch...that shit was expensive. -------------------------- [Sat 3:37:14 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan looks at his bricked slate.. "Good thing we encrypt" -------------------------- [Sat 3:37:23 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Yeah. I don't _think_ they left any transmitters or trackers. -------------------------- [Sat 3:37:25 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: I like good OPSEC, but it's bloody annoying at times when it is directed at me. -------------------------- [Sat 3:37:39 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt looks at Tomoe -------------------------- [Sat 3:37:48 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Doesn't look like they opened your skull. -------------------------- [Sat 3:37:58 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Not physically, at least. -------------------------- [Sat 3:39:16 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Do we get to retire to the sweet resort thing when we're old, if we keep our cakeholes closed? -------------------------- [Sat 3:39:19 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt shrugs -------------------------- [Sat 3:39:33 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: I understant -------------------------- [Sat 3:39:40 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Wait. -------------------------- [Sat 3:39:39 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Our options are "keep quiet" or "die". Which do you think we're going to take? -------------------------- [Sat 3:39:46 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: The resort village -------------------------- [Sat 3:39:48 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: that's not like -------------------------- [Sat 3:39:53 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: the farm where the old dog gets to go play, right? -------------------------- [Sat 3:39:54 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: We do. And *you* all understand that, even if today went very differently and we hadn't found anything, that secrets like this only stay a secret for so long? -------------------------- [Sat 3:40:10 PM] undefined - Kristian: Deb can read my mind now. -------------------------- [Sat 3:40:17 PM] undefined - Pat: that was the obvious question. -------------------------- [Sat 3:40:46 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Have you considered... -------------------------- [Sat 3:40:50 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: There always are. -------------------------- [Sat 3:40:55 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Too many secrets. -------------------------- [Sat 3:41:02 PM] undefined - Michelle: And we just want to make profit off our ship and be left alone! -------------------------- [Sat 3:41:05 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: that they might know it's there and be keeping their own backdoor copy available to send something else unexpected through? -------------------------- [Sat 3:42:02 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Benny, do you really think no one else knows? -------------------------- [Sat 3:42:20 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Fair enough. Although as of this morning a whole lot of pretty doubtful shit has been happening to me so... Just sayin'. -------------------------- [Sat 3:42:26 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Yes, he does. -------------------------- [Sat 3:42:39 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Are you looking? -------------------------- [Sat 3:42:41 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: "We".... -------------------------- [Sat 3:43:31 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: I understand. -------------------------- [Sat 3:43:32 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: Shouldn't we be focusing on how the hell to direct that thing to take us back where we came from? I mean, shit, we don't know how we got here. -------------------------- [Sat 3:43:54 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: I think we just have Tomoe sing it a lullaby or something. -------------------------- [Sat 3:44:13 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan takes it -------------------------- [Sat 3:44:51 PM] undefined - Rob: I'd like to use my earlier Explosives roll for that. -------------------------- [Sat 3:44:56 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Seems reasonable enough -------------------------- [Sat 3:45:04 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: The Board votes yes. -------------------------- [Sat 3:45:14 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Not as glad as we are. -------------------------- [Sat 3:45:16 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Us too. -------------------------- [Sat 3:45:19 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: That's great Benny. -------------------------- [Sat 3:45:29 PM] Angelica Triggs - Jen: Till next time. -------------------------- [Sat 3:45:32 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: I'm curious, how do you propose we explain how we got a message from Wheeler halfway across the universe, without tipping our hand on the portal -------------------------- [Sat 3:45:40 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: (as we're walking) -------------------------- [Sat 3:45:40 PM] undefined - Rob: This is when Tomoe gets curious and tries a completely random door... -------------------------- [Sat 3:45:57 PM] undefined - Stig: made a data loss haiku<br><br>Teaching sand to think,<br>the magic of computer,<br>now again a brick -------------------------- [Sat 3:45:58 PM] undefined - Pat: She's tempted. :P -------------------------- [Sat 3:46:23 PM] undefined - Pat: Jersey, UK? -------------------------- [Sat 3:46:24 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Remember Benny. a room /full/ of doors. These things can't be contained forever -------------------------- [Sat 3:46:26 PM] undefined - Stig: or in a bombed out theater -------------------------- [Sat 3:46:53 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Jealous. -------------------------- [Sat 3:46:53 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I don't know if they are really doors, or it's just my mind seeing it as doors. -------------------------- [Sat 3:47:11 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I mean, it'd make sense if my mind translated something really weird into something I could identify.. -------------------------- [Sat 3:47:12 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: You should come work for us. Think about it! *smiles* -------------------------- [Sat 3:47:14 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Right? -------------------------- [Sat 3:47:16 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: At least it wasn't like, weird ancient space vaginas, birthing you forth into a new world? -------------------------- [Sat 3:47:36 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: maybe not today... -------------------------- [Sat 3:47:38 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: Daniel Eckhart gives Betsy a once-over -------------------------- [Sat 3:47:58 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt checks his weapon and ammo -------------------------- [Sat 3:48:39 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: It doesn't stop being fascinating, really -------------------------- [Sat 3:48:38 PM] undefined - Jason G: is this where Captain Cara says, "make us go" ? -------------------------- [Sat 3:48:53 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Cara Burton coughs -------------------------- [Sat 3:48:59 PM] undefined - Pat: do I see anything? -------------------------- [Sat 3:49:06 PM] undefined - Michelle: We should have asked how they get to Demeter -------------------------- [Sat 3:49:10 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: OK so what did we do last time, let's just do that backwards. -------------------------- [Sat 3:49:18 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: 10 -------------------------- [Sat 3:49:28 PM] undefined - Rob: I was waiting for nake eyes. -------------------------- [Sat 3:49:37 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen looks around. -------------------------- [Sat 3:49:45 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Oh, right. -------------------------- [Sat 3:51:19 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Ooooooh. -------------------------- [Sat 3:51:23 PM] undefined - Jason G: please tell Aiden all of this later lol -------------------------- [Sat 3:52:44 PM] undefined - Pat: something is beneath me, right? -------------------------- [Sat 3:53:01 PM] undefined - Rob: *cues Jaws music* -------------------------- [Sat 3:53:25 PM] undefined - Kristian: dreamy? thanks -------------------------- [Sat 3:54:18 PM] undefined - Rob: *switches to random porn music* -------------------------- [Sat 3:54:54 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: 2 beds...2 choices. -------------------------- [Sat 3:55:08 PM] undefined - Kristian: lol I also read your mind sir -------------------------- [Sat 3:57:04 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Cara Burton exhales -------------------------- [Sat 3:57:07 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Holy shit -------------------------- [Sat 3:57:12 PM] undefined - Rob: Rob is afk -------------------------- [Sat 3:57:18 PM] undefined - Kristian: Kristian is afk -------------------------- [Sat 3:57:20 PM] Debinani - Debinani: <div class="timer-msg complete"><div class="timer-flavor">Break Time!</div><div class="timer-time">00:00:00</div><div class="timer-bar"><div></div></div><div class="complete-msg">Complete</div></div> -------------------------- [Sat 3:57:21 PM] undefined - Michelle: Michelle is afk -------------------------- [Sat 3:57:26 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan checks on Tomoe -------------------------- [Sat 3:57:28 PM] undefined - Jason G: Jason G is afk -------------------------- [Sat 4:02:15 PM] undefined - Kristian: Kristian is back -------------------------- [Sat 4:05:39 PM] undefined - Pat: Deb: Do ships sometimes just disappear during jumps? If so, how often does that happen? -------------------------- [Sat 4:06:09 PM] undefined - Michelle: Michelle is back -------------------------- [Sat 4:07:31 PM] undefined - Debinani: Jumps are very safe as long as the drives are well maintained. Failures are catastrophic and the ship is never seen again (except for San Orestes). It happens rarely, but about as often as commercial plane crashes. -------------------------- [Sat 4:07:57 PM] undefined - Pat: hm, ok. -------------------------- [Sat 4:08:15 PM] undefined - Kristian: uh oh...Space Boeing -------------------------- [Sat 4:08:14 PM] undefined - Michelle: Good thing you specified crashes. Weird incidences (looking at you, Boeing) certainly seem up -------------------------- [Sat 4:08:35 PM] undefined - Debinani: There's no way of knowing if the ships vanish or just appear so far away as to be lost forever. -------------------------- [Sat 4:08:39 PM] undefined - Jason G: Jason G is back -------------------------- [Sat 4:08:46 PM] undefined - Pat: ok. -------------------------- [Sat 4:08:55 PM] undefined - Rob: Rob is back -------------------------- [Sat 4:08:55 PM] undefined - Rob: Were any of the ships that disappeared called the Event Horizon? -------------------------- [Sat 4:09:17 PM] undefined - Debinani: Probably several -------------------------- [Sat 4:09:18 PM] undefined - Michelle: omg no -------------------------- [Sat 4:09:19 PM] undefined - Pat: that movie started out well, but the ending sucked. -------------------------- [Sat 4:09:25 PM] undefined - Michelle: terrible movie -------------------------- [Sat 4:09:36 PM] undefined - Debinani: My thoughts exactly, awesome first half that went WTF fast -------------------------- [Sat 4:09:38 PM] undefined - Kristian: philistines! Event Horizon is a classic. -------------------------- [Sat 4:09:35 PM] undefined - Pat: also, why would someone call a space ship Event Horizon? -------------------------- [Sat 4:09:37 PM] undefined - Rob: We'll opt to pass on any salvage missions of any such ships that have shown up again. -------------------------- [Sat 4:09:54 PM] undefined - Kristian: because it had a small black hole as the engine, silly -------------------------- [Sat 4:10:02 PM] undefined - Michelle: You mean any NEW ones? cause we kinda salvaged one -------------------------- [Sat 4:10:10 PM] undefined - Debinani: Pretty awesome adventure seed though -------------------------- [Sat 4:10:22 PM] undefined - Kristian: Space Seed? -------------------------- [Sat 4:10:32 PM] undefined - Rob: I saw that Amazon (( think) was making a miniseries based on it but I'm not sure where that stands. -------------------------- [Sat 4:10:38 PM] undefined - Kristian: Space Seed / Event Horizon crossover? This is Khan from HELL -------------------------- [Sat 4:10:51 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Tomoe? What the hell, you OK? -------------------------- [Sat 4:11:42 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: She freaked out in there, did you see her? -------------------------- [Sat 4:11:50 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: See...her? In...there? -------------------------- [Sat 4:11:54 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen curls up on the ground. -------------------------- [Sat 4:12:00 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: What the hell just happened? -------------------------- [Sat 4:12:11 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Oh..yeah, I saw her in there, she was fucked up though. -------------------------- [Sat 4:12:11 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: No, we just ended up here -------------------------- [Sat 4:12:11 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: See what? We were at the other gate and then we were here. -------------------------- [Sat 4:12:15 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: In the room -------------------------- [Sat 4:12:18 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: with the doors... -------------------------- [Sat 4:12:25 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: No room -------------------------- [Sat 4:12:36 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: except the one we departed -------------------------- [Sat 4:12:41 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: Daniel Eckhart grunts and moves toward the cavern passage with Betsy ready -------------------------- [Sat 4:12:46 PM] undefined - Rob: Is anyone checking on Tomoe? -------------------------- [Sat 4:13:03 PM] undefined - Jason G: I had said Aiden was, yes -------------------------- [Sat 4:13:07 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: Julian Felix is checking on Tomoe -------------------------- [Sat 4:13:17 PM] undefined - Pat: they stopped when I stopped screaming? -------------------------- [Sat 4:13:30 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: So based on this I'm going to say it is probably not real safe for us to be doing this sort of travel like..ever. -------------------------- [Sat 4:13:40 PM] undefined - Pat: that probably took a while. :P -------------------------- [Sat 4:13:45 PM] undefined - Michelle: shame about the helmet. I was picturing Mrs. Peacock and Mr. Green -------------------------- [Sat 4:14:04 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt shakes his head and checks on Tomoe as well -------------------------- [Sat 4:14:09 PM] undefined - Kristian: lol -------------------------- [Sat 4:14:35 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: *mutters* If only we had a medical professional here. -------------------------- [Sat 4:14:47 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Well, that's *two* of us now having weird visions while we instantly cross lightyears of distance -------------------------- [Sat 4:14:49 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: How long until the ship misses us? -------------------------- [Sat 4:14:51 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: There was Arnite in the faerie light cave, right? -------------------------- [Sat 4:14:54 PM] undefined - Kristian: mental trauma -------------------------- [Sat 4:15:35 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: *without taking his eyes off the path out of here* Anyone else want to get away from the spooky gate thing? -------------------------- [Sat 4:15:40 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: We should probably pack it up and get outta here...who the hell knows what is going on now on the surface and we don't need anyone else fucking down here. -------------------------- [Sat 4:15:42 PM] undefined - Pat: didn't we camp down here at least once? -------------------------- [Sat 4:15:44 PM] undefined - Jason G: I am going to get a handful of the crushed 'dust' and bring it back here -------------------------- [Sat 4:15:51 PM] undefined - Rob: Is Tomoe awake? In shock? Dead of asphyxiation? -------------------------- [Sat 4:16:13 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen looks around. -------------------------- [Sat 4:16:15 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: How are you doing, Tomoe? -------------------------- [Sat 4:16:17 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Tomoe. You're good. We're all back. -------------------------- [Sat 4:16:19 PM] undefined - Jason G: I just want to see if it 'wakes up' in any way -------------------------- [Sat 4:16:27 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: (to Tomoe) You okay to walk? -------------------------- [Sat 4:16:39 PM] undefined - Kristian: try singing to it -------------------------- [Sat 4:16:46 PM] undefined - Kristian: just because I want to see that happen lol -------------------------- [Sat 4:16:46 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: That was ... bad. -------------------------- [Sat 4:16:58 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I really don't think we should do that again. -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:05 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: We obviously had different experiences -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:06 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Agreed -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:11 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Was it painful? What did you feel? -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:22 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: We can talk about it later...for now let's just get out of here and back home. -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:33 PM] undefined - Michelle: Now remember, this is for posterity, so try to be honest -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:33 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with Dirk. -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:37 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Actually..fuck -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:39 PM] undefined - Pat: is the sand doing anything here at all? -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:44 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: we probably need to talk about one thing first. -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:49 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: How the fuck are we not telling Jack any of this? -------------------------- [Sat 4:17:58 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Let's talk farther away from Creepy Space Gate. -------------------------- [Sat 4:18:06 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Well, I guess we can't ever have drinks with him again -------------------------- [Sat 4:18:23 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: We can't and shouldn't talk about it at all. Even with each other. Who knows who might overhear us. -------------------------- [Sat 4:18:24 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen gets up and moves away from the gate. -------------------------- [Sat 4:18:26 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: We can talk about that on the way out if you want. Really thinking we should get out of here before it yanks us in again. -------------------------- [Sat 4:18:32 PM] undefined - Kristian: lol...we end up back on Benny's side screaming... God damnit you guys had one job! -------------------------- [Sat 4:18:42 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: We can probably talk here, but not on the ship. -------------------------- [Sat 4:18:50 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Normally I am one for a good yank, but yeah...let's skedaddle -------------------------- [Sat 4:19:16 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Once we leave this cave, if anyone wants to talk about weird aliens or their gates,. just say "eggplant", and we can find a place we know is secure. Otherwise, this never happened. -------------------------- [Sat 4:19:23 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: We have a body bag in our gear? -------------------------- [Sat 4:19:29 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I don't think that's a good idea. -------------------------- [Sat 4:19:35 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: What if we just want some eggplant? -------------------------- [Sat 4:19:38 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: We came in here, we found the dead body, and nothing else. We blew the cave behind us, again, because it's clearly dangerous and unstable./ -------------------------- [Sat 4:19:45 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I think we should bury him here. Because he clearly did not die in a cave-in. -------------------------- [Sat 4:19:57 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Shit. -------------------------- [Sat 4:19:57 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: I have to agree with Tomoe. -------------------------- [Sat 4:20:13 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan suddenly remembers he had taken the dogtag... did they take it from my stuff? -------------------------- [Sat 4:20:14 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt looks at Aiden -------------------------- [Sat 4:20:21 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Or the body is by the charges... -------------------------- [Sat 4:21:25 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: If we're to stay silent, then he died in a cave-in. His family will at least not have a mystery -------------------------- [Sat 4:22:14 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: Julian Felix nods -------------------------- [Sat 4:22:25 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: (a bit sad) So we should block off the cave, so no one else can get down here, I guess. -------------------------- [Sat 4:22:43 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Or someone might come down and find stuff they shouldn't. -------------------------- [Sat 4:23:00 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: and given what we learned about Calliope being the ... daughter, of their AI. We should not speak of this on the ship or across comms, even amongst ourselves, At least until we know more -------------------------- [Sat 4:23:09 PM] undefined - Rob: What was the other person's name? Cordova? -------------------------- [Sat 4:23:22 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: So, how about we take a break here, before blowing up anything, and talking about it here? -------------------------- [Sat 4:23:29 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Agree, that's why I said we should talk before we go back. No one else but us needs to be about this. -------------------------- [Sat 4:23:26 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Whoever Cordova works for may try digging things up again. -------------------------- [Sat 4:23:28 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: That should be safe enough. -------------------------- [Sat 4:24:12 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: As long as we're not parked on that thing's doorstep. -------------------------- [Sat 4:24:16 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Wheeler and his people will most certainly be rushing here to claim the site -------------------------- [Sat 4:24:39 PM] undefined - Pat: we're in the cave with the forest now? -------------------------- [Sat 4:24:55 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen looks around, looking sad. -------------------------- [Sat 4:24:54 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: "Rushing" is relative. They're not exactly a hop, skip, and jump away. -------------------------- [Sat 4:25:14 PM] undefined - Jason G: the fireflies were physical or ephemeral? -------------------------- [Sat 4:25:48 PM] undefined - Jason G: don't suppose we can ...capture one.... lol -------------------------- [Sat 4:25:57 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I think I would prefer no one finding this place and trying to exploit it. -------------------------- [Sat 4:26:03 PM] undefined - Kristian: Aiden wants a pet -------------------------- [Sat 4:26:09 PM] undefined - Kristian: always good when the DM says "you can try" -------------------------- [Sat 4:26:44 PM] undefined - Michelle: That's the beginning of our event horizon end... "we brought a firefly on the ship" -------------------------- [Sat 4:26:45 PM] undefined - Pat: didn't we try to get a closer look at them when we came through here the first time? -------------------------- [Sat 4:26:51 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: If a cave-in damaged the other gate.. we could always try destroying this one so nobody can abuse it. -------------------------- [Sat 4:27:03 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: From what he said though, it will repair itself -------------------------- [Sat 4:27:05 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: It'll likely repair itself eventually. -------------------------- [Sat 4:27:18 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Not sure it can repair itself it's entirely buried. -------------------------- [Sat 4:27:48 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: It's probably not a smart idea to try blowing up alien shit we don't understand. -------------------------- [Sat 4:28:33 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: So... -------------------------- [Sat 4:29:16 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: So indeed. -------------------------- [Sat 4:29:14 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: When we went through, I found myself in an ocean. Below the surface. There were these swirls on the surface, sort of. They were star systems. -------------------------- [Sat 4:29:25 PM] undefined - Pat: (let me know if I get anything wrong, Deb) -------------------------- [Sat 4:29:33 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I saw ships moving as well. -------------------------- [Sat 4:29:52 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Cara Burton blinks -------------------------- [Sat 4:30:12 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: (thoughtful) I wonder if I could've used it to bring us to other star systems as well... -------------------------- [Sat 4:30:17 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: swirls, like eddies, or like gravitational effects around mass? -------------------------- [Sat 4:30:31 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Like...human looking ships? Or like...weird ships? -------------------------- [Sat 4:30:30 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Maybe a weird question, but given the circumstances...*our* ships? -------------------------- [Sat 4:30:42 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: That's ... really the big picture you got to see. -------------------------- [Sat 4:30:43 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I think so, yes. -------------------------- [Sat 4:30:50 PM] undefined - Rob: My god, it's full of stars. -------------------------- [Sat 4:30:52 PM] undefined - Rob: My god, it's full of stars. -------------------------- [Sat 4:30:55 PM] undefined - Rob: My god, it's full of stars. -------------------------- [Sat 4:31:11 PM] undefined - Kristian: my god it's full of spam -------------------------- [Sat 4:31:10 PM] undefined - Rob: My god, it's full of stars. -------------------------- [Sat 4:31:22 PM] undefined - Rob: Wow... sorry, no idea what happened there. -------------------------- [Sat 4:31:24 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: But then, there was something below me. -------------------------- [Sat 4:31:36 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: And it grabbed hold of me. -------------------------- [Sat 4:31:38 PM] undefined - Michelle: something lagged. Deb cut out for a sec at the same time -------------------------- [Sat 4:31:58 PM] undefined - Jason G: "and then I was brought down to Dirk's level...." -------------------------- [Sat 4:32:08 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: It sounds like you slipped out of the..tunnel..or whatever it was we were in. -------------------------- [Sat 4:32:21 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Into..dive space? -------------------------- [Sat 4:32:46 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I'm wondering...this ...relative of mine that they mentioned, if he got experienced something similar, and that's what made him go mad. -------------------------- [Sat 4:32:47 PM] undefined - Rob: "How'd you get us home, Dirk?" "I picked Bambi over Candi. Her tits were bigger." -------------------------- [Sat 4:33:11 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Do you think you were there because of whatever grabbed you, randomly? Or just because it was..too much. -------------------------- [Sat 4:33:14 PM] undefined - Jason G: we perceive the world through our level of perception and understanding... Dirk saw what he saw.... -------------------------- [Sat 4:33:21 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: I only saw two doors. Not rooms full. -------------------------- [Sat 4:33:45 PM] undefined - Jason G: well, front door and back door -------------------------- [Sat 4:34:01 PM] undefined - Kristian: don't forget the side porch door. -------------------------- [Sat 4:34:20 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Something grabbed you... I think we definitely should not go through one of those things again. -------------------------- [Sat 4:34:31 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Do you remember, months ago, when we were ambushed, and the only way that ambush would've made sense is if someone knew *exactly* where we were going to come out of dive space?<br><br>And now...Tomoe saw spaceships. Real-time location of spaceships. Between systems. -------------------------- [Sat 4:34:43 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: ... -------------------------- [Sat 4:34:50 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: Yes, that. -------------------------- [Sat 4:35:04 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan describes as best he can the patterns he saw in Tomoe's scan, without saying it was from the scan. -------------------------- [Sat 4:35:19 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: So with that view, and a big enough boot, you could kick something out into real space -------------------------- [Sat 4:35:18 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: So you think that someone else already has access to this... in-between place? -------------------------- [Sat 4:35:26 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Is this close to what you saw? -------------------------- [Sat 4:35:33 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Cara Burton nods to Roland -------------------------- [Sat 4:36:13 PM] undefined - Jason G: got it. -------------------------- [Sat 4:36:16 PM] undefined - Rob: I do not know if we're going to run into Reapers or Warpspawn next... -------------------------- [Sat 4:36:28 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Who else was interested in Arnite? -------------------------- [Sat 4:36:28 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I don't know if I could've done that. -------------------------- [Sat 4:36:34 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: Remember? -------------------------- [Sat 4:36:45 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: But... I'm thinking -------------------------- [Sat 4:36:49 PM] undefined - Kristian: Ghandi? -------------------------- [Sat 4:36:51 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Whoever was behind the dig we investigated. -------------------------- [Sat 4:37:20 PM] undefined - Jason G: arnite is fairly common though, right? -------------------------- [Sat 4:37:28 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Sometimes, ships just disappear, right? And we think it's the drive. -------------------------- [Sat 4:37:30 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: What if it isn't? -------------------------- [Sat 4:37:35 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Uh... so, we were wondering why someone went through all that trouble to ambush us. Any chance it's because of Tomoe? -------------------------- [Sat 4:37:56 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: You think there's something sentient that..lives...in this extra spatial area? -------------------------- [Sat 4:38:00 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Doesn't have to be sentient. -------------------------- [Sat 4:38:16 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: But maybe? -------------------------- [Sat 4:38:20 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: What would it need to grab ships for though...snack? gratuitous violence? -------------------------- [Sat 4:38:26 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: ships or...things passing through. -------------------------- [Sat 4:38:45 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Wish we could have gotten more out of Benny about what types of things they lost when they had deliveries that never arrived. -------------------------- [Sat 4:38:48 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: It's difficult to explain, I don't think it was real. Not in the way I described it. -------------------------- [Sat 4:39:09 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I think it happened, but my brain translates it into pictures I can understand. -------------------------- [Sat 4:39:15 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: If that makes sense. -------------------------- [Sat 4:39:27 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: More like a natural force, that you were doing something you weren't supposed to be and it was trying to fix that? -------------------------- [Sat 4:39:26 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Maybe not what you saw, but what you perceived was put into terms your brain understood -------------------------- [Sat 4:39:43 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Yeah, that's what I mean. -------------------------- [Sat 4:40:00 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Man. Fuck this whole day. I need a drink. -------------------------- [Sat 4:40:27 PM] undefined - Pat: did I get a feeling of any intent from whatever it was? Was it sort of like a hungry predator, or something with a more sentient purpose? -------------------------- [Sat 4:40:30 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Still, it's too much coincidence.... that you could basically watch the flow of j-space traffic in the region... -------------------------- [Sat 4:41:18 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: and you saw... Doors, Mr. Yang? -------------------------- [Sat 4:41:22 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: So creepy extradimensional force tries to maroon us in creepy extradimensional zone, we can't tell anyone about it, and...now we just blow up the doorway and waltz out? -------------------------- [Sat 4:41:28 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Also, remember that Benny or that other guy said that sometimes, rarely, but it happened, things went missing? Or didn't show up when it was supposed to? -------------------------- [Sat 4:41:39 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: It sounded like what Tomoe described on our way out, but I only had 2 choices. -------------------------- [Sat 4:41:49 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: small room, two options only. -------------------------- [Sat 4:42:12 PM] undefined - Pat: I think I only saw two doors the first time. It was that other guy who saw loads of doors? -------------------------- [Sat 4:42:19 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: So... the ships were waiting for us and knew not only where we'd appear but when. Does this mean it's... uh... somehow able to see future-ish events? -------------------------- [Sat 4:42:27 PM] undefined - Kristian: oh I thought she said room full of doors my bad -------------------------- [Sat 4:42:58 PM] undefined - Kristian: and Dirk just kinda..intuited which door was the right one? -------------------------- [Sat 4:42:56 PM] undefined - Pat: that was my great- uncle. -------------------------- [Sat 4:42:59 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: I think you may be lucky to be alive... I don't think our minds are built to cope with this sort of thing... not... un-aided anyway... -------------------------- [Sat 4:43:11 PM] undefined - Rob: Ah, right. Sorry, it's been an eon. -------------------------- [Sat 4:43:23 PM] undefined - Rob: Disregard my last IC question -------------------------- [Sat 4:43:35 PM] undefined - Kristian: they might have like the reverse-o version of the gates -------------------------- [Sat 4:43:57 PM] undefined - Rob: I'm pretty sure he based it on boob size. -------------------------- [Sat 4:44:09 PM] undefined - Jason G: and they were just in the form or rotating red velvet beds.... -------------------------- [Sat 4:44:19 PM] undefined - Kristian: it's a good thing Dirk spent 10 years in undergrad. -------------------------- [Sat 4:44:56 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan looks at his slate -------------------------- [Sat 4:44:57 PM] undefined - Pat: is there any arnite sand around here, btw? -------------------------- [Sat 4:45:05 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Anyway yes, there were two choices and I deduced which one was here..and we ended up here. So hopefully that's just because I'm smart and not lucky, but hey, it's not stupid if it works. -------------------------- [Sat 4:45:17 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Maybe whatever 'grabbed' Tomoe is also how they pulled us out of jump... -------------------------- [Sat 4:45:20 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen picks up a handful of sand, letting it run through her fingers, looking at it thoughtfully. -------------------------- [Sat 4:45:28 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Tomoe, when we went through the first time, did you see me in there? -------------------------- [Sat 4:45:44 PM] undefined - Pat: I didn't, did I? -------------------------- [Sat 4:45:49 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: No. -------------------------- [Sat 4:45:56 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Hrm. -------------------------- [Sat 4:45:58 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: I saw you. -------------------------- [Sat 4:45:59 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: just you -------------------------- [Sat 4:46:01 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Both times? -------------------------- [Sat 4:46:06 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: but you were...not all there, either. -------------------------- [Sat 4:46:15 PM] undefined - Kristian: didn't see anything first time right, just the return trip? -------------------------- [Sat 4:46:33 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt looks at Cara and Aiden -------------------------- [Sat 4:46:43 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: No, just on the return trip. It was...not fully lucid. -------------------------- [Sat 4:46:42 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: What the hell am I blowing up? -------------------------- [Sat 4:46:52 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I'd say access to this cave. -------------------------- [Sat 4:47:01 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: We should consider all our electronics to be compromised, slates, comms, everything. pack them with the charges. -------------------------- [Sat 4:47:03 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan tosses his slate in the bag with the explosives -------------------------- [Sat 4:47:07 PM] undefined - Pat: is the arnite doing anything at all? -------------------------- [Sat 4:47:20 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt removes the slate -------------------------- [Sat 4:47:31 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: That means the Company's buying me a new watch, right Aiden? -------------------------- [Sat 4:47:33 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: I have to plant the explosives, not just toss a bag and make it go boom. -------------------------- [Sat 4:47:45 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Dirk Yang tosses his electronics into the bag too -------------------------- [Sat 4:47:52 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Of course, -------------------------- [Sat 4:47:55 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt throws the watch back at Dirk -------------------------- [Sat 4:47:56 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Stop that. -------------------------- [Sat 4:48:00 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan nods to Roland -------------------------- [Sat 4:48:03 PM] undefined - Kristian: we can dump those into space later or something. -------------------------- [Sat 4:48:21 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Aiden Harlan randomly touches explosives -------------------------- [Sat 4:48:43 PM] undefined - Pat: do we have any small plastic bags or anything? Kind of the evidence bags kind? -------------------------- [Sat 4:48:55 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: So... access to this cave? Access to the whole area starting back where we cleared the first cavein? -------------------------- [Sat 4:49:07 PM] undefined - Pat: fills a small plastic bag with sand and pockets it. -------------------------- [Sat 4:49:21 PM] undefined - Jason G: pocket sand -------------------------- [Sat 4:49:21 PM] undefined - Rob: There was a very narrow crevice we followed to get here, right? -------------------------- [Sat 4:49:33 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: I'm not an explosive expert, but whatever makes it the most difficult for anyone to get back in here -------------------------- [Sat 4:49:44 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Another thing -------------------------- [Sat 4:49:58 PM] undefined - Michelle: Will anything planetside or in orbit be able to detect our explosion? -------------------------- [Sat 4:50:07 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Probably that crack we had to follow to get here. -------------------------- [Sat 4:50:22 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: The sand that he had...it was weird that it played my song. -------------------------- [Sat 4:50:42 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: I'd want to set a timer on that, though, so we can make sure to be far away just in case it brings down more than we expect. -------------------------- [Sat 4:51:05 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: I'm wondering, did it somehow get it from my mind? -------------------------- [Sat 4:51:15 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Because if it didn't... -------------------------- [Sat 4:51:40 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: is arnite communicating with ... other arnite, faster than the speed of light? -------------------------- [Sat 4:51:45 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Maybe you're a little too..in tune..with this. -------------------------- [Sat 4:51:43 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Or something? -------------------------- [Sat 4:52:04 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: Think your ancestor boinked an alien? -------------------------- [Sat 4:52:18 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: Tomoe Gozen stares at Dirk. -------------------------- [Sat 4:52:38 PM] undefined - Rob: Yeah, and how do I use luck to make sure I don't foul this up? :P -------------------------- [Sat 4:52:42 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: (mutters) If I had a choice between you and an alien, I'd go for the alien too. -------------------------- [Sat 4:53:18 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: 10 -------------------------- [Sat 4:53:45 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Huh... i wonder if this means that Tomoe and Dirk are related. -------------------------- [Sat 4:54:01 PM] undefined - Pat: oh, dear. -------------------------- [Sat 4:54:12 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian: That'd be good to find out before we do anything inappropriate. -------------------------- [Sat 4:54:20 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: Roland Denhardt looks at Tomoe -------------------------- [Sat 4:54:28 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: (To Dirk) You probably don't have to worry about that. -------------------------- [Sat 4:55:05 PM] undefined - Pat: we probably should go back and check. -------------------------- [Sat 4:55:13 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: It's probably a good idea to go and check -------------------------- [Sat 4:55:21 PM] undefined - Rob: I think we'd go back to check it out. -------------------------- [Sat 4:55:26 PM] undefined - Jason G: are we going to crawl back into a crevice that was just destabilized by an explosive ? -------------------------- [Sat 4:55:35 PM] undefined - Kristian: not all of us lol -------------------------- [Sat 4:55:41 PM] undefined - Rob: We're sending Dirk first. He's our mine canary. -------------------------- [Sat 4:55:45 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: good enough -------------------------- [Sat 4:55:55 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: _If_ anyone noticed, would a cave-in be an explanation, rather than an explosion? -------------------------- [Sat 4:56:35 PM] undefined - Rob: Can we eliminate the markings they left on the way back? -------------------------- [Sat 4:56:46 PM] undefined - Michelle: We need to ... yeah, was just going to ask about that -------------------------- [Sat 4:56:55 PM] undefined - Pat: actually, no. We can have said we found the bodies, but then rocks started falling from the ceiling, and we ran and escaped a second cave-in. -------------------------- [Sat 4:57:13 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: Obviously an unstable area, yes. -------------------------- [Sat 4:57:18 PM] undefined - Rob: Which side of the cave-in we created was the Aliens Are Here marking? -------------------------- [Sat 4:57:26 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Scouts will come back if they don't get somewhat of an answer -------------------------- [Sat 4:57:46 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: So, if we say that we barely escaped a second cave-in, that should also be an incentive for people to not explore here anymore, right? -------------------------- [Sat 4:58:22 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: We could just say we ran into a second cave-in. -------------------------- [Sat 4:58:36 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: We found his remains... true. We narrowly escaped a cave-on... true... -------------------------- [Sat 4:59:21 PM] undefined - Rob: Oh yeah... we left Swann watching the entrance, didn't we? -------------------------- [Sat 5:00:01 PM] undefined - Pat: we get back, and find out that Kevin stole the ship and left us stranded here... :P -------------------------- [Sat 5:00:21 PM] undefined - Jason G: he is now the Dread Pirate Kevin -------------------------- [Sat 5:01:17 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: nope -------------------------- [Sat 5:01:42 PM] Julian Felix - Stig: We'll be careful -------------------------- [Sat 5:01:56 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: You guys ok? -------------------------- [Sat 5:02:06 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K: I wonder if the storm is somehow our fault too -------------------------- [Sat 5:02:19 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob: You think such happy thoughts. -------------------------- [Sat 5:02:22 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: ... -------------------------- [Sat 5:02:41 PM] Tomoe Gozen - Pat: (To Swann): When did it start? -------------------------- [Sat 5:02:54 PM] undefined - Pat: next time, then :P -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:04 PM] undefined - Pat: yeah, that's what I was thinking... -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:10 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: should be ok -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:12 PM] undefined - Jason K: May be out of town, unsure -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:16 PM] undefined - Kristian: maybe UK, maybe not -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:19 PM] undefined - Rob: Unknown. Probably good. -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:25 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: should also be ok -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:31 PM] undefined - Kristian: basically maybe in UK until I am there and back -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:34 PM] undefined - Rob: First should be fine. -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:36 PM] undefined - Jason K: 1st I'm definitely out of town so maybe plan w/o me if one of those works for everyone -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:38 PM] undefined - Jason G: 1st ok for me. -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:41 PM] undefined - Kristian: so don't plan around me -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:55 PM] undefined - Kristian: shore -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:55 PM] undefined - Jason G: memorial day? -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:56 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: June 8th and 15th I'm on the road -------------------------- [Sat 5:03:59 PM] undefined - Pat: 25th works -------------------------- [Sat 5:04:13 PM] undefined - Pat: here, it's Saturday... -------------------------- [Sat 5:04:20 PM] undefined - Jason G: don't think I can make 25th but will need to verify -------------------------- [Sat 5:05:11 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: okie -------------------------- [Sat 5:05:16 PM] undefined - Kristian: shore -------------------------- [Sat 5:05:14 PM] undefined - Pat: ok, thanks, Deb! -------------------------- [Sat 5:05:14 PM] undefined - Rob: Sounds good. -------------------------- [Sat 5:05:19 PM] undefined - Kristian: thx Deb! -------------------------- [Sat 5:05:20 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G: Thanks, Deb! -------------------------- [Sat 5:05:24 PM] undefined - Jason K: Thanks Deb! -------------------------- [Sat 5:05:26 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle: Later all! -------------------------- [Sat 5:05:30 PM] undefined - Stig: cheers, all --------------------------