[Sat 2:23:35 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
0
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[Sat 2:25:12 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
2
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[Sat 2:30:42 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
1
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[Sat 2:32:24 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
0
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[Sat 2:32:34 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
No one takes me seriously.
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[Sat 2:33:17 PM] undefined - Rob:
What do you expect when you keep giving commands like "Go make me a chicken pot pie, bitch!"?
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[Sat 2:33:31 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
You just stood on the bridge and exclaimed, Keep Firing, Assholes! What do you expect?
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[Sat 2:35:31 PM] undefined - Kristian:
"Bitches, come"
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[Sat 2:36:40 PM] undefined - Rob:
Now he refers to himself in the third person?
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[Sat 2:37:48 PM] undefined - Rob:
Aiden probably teleported down by sheer force of will upon somehow learning that people are sciencing without him.
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[Sat 2:38:20 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan 's left eye twitches
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[Sat 2:39:22 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Pretty sure that's an understatement, Dirk.
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[Sat 2:39:38 PM] undefined - Jason G:
who is the picture on the bottom left, half obscured?
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[Sat 2:39:45 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I feel like perhaps we should go back ot the ship and decide what to do up there. With like, maps, and people, and not a ticking timer of doom?
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[Sat 2:40:09 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
Can we even be sure we'll be able to get back down here? This might be our only chance.
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[Sat 2:40:18 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
You want to walk back through whatever the hell those were?
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[Sat 2:41:07 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Yeah. We're here now. We might have trouble getting back here again.
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[Sat 2:41:15 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
I suspect our new friend here won't be keen to leave either.
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[Sat 2:41:40 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Does Aiden know what's going on?
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[Sat 2:42:16 PM] undefined - Kristian:
so short version is when we activate this, however big the bubble is, we can still bamph outside the bubble, but nothing inside can use drives anymore?
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[Sat 2:42:34 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
Let's just start with this: what's everyone's gut instinct? Maybe we're miraculously on the same page and that'll make this incredibly easy.
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[Sat 2:42:43 PM] undefined - Kristian:
so basically slowmo mode for everyone in the bubble
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[Sat 2:42:54 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
I'll go first: cut them off, make the bubble as big as we can without cutting off the worlds that will die without supplies.
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[Sat 2:43:02 PM] undefined - Rob:
And I presume nothing outside can dive to a point inside the bubble.
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[Sat 2:43:14 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
Fuck the Council. Let's end another war before it starts.
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[Sat 2:43:41 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
We are condemning everyone left inside to..whatever happens inside, though.
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[Sat 2:43:53 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
And if we don't, we're condemning millions to die in war.
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[Sat 2:44:07 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
What happens inside should be that they can't use dive technology. That's it.
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[Sat 2:44:16 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
... Anyone left outside is still at the mercy of these.... things, though, right?
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[Sat 2:44:18 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I'm pretty sure humans will figure out a new way to kill millions in a war.
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[Sat 2:44:19 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan is gaming (with Calliope's assistance) the timelines of potential death and human misery if we bubble this space.
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[Sat 2:45:11 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
I'm in agreement with Cara on this one.
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[Sat 2:45:13 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Who here has people they care about left inside the area we're talking about bottling up? Who on the crew?
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[Sat 2:45:40 PM] undefined - Jason K:
How many people died in the last war?
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[Sat 2:45:52 PM] undefined - Kristian:
any chance of a map that has possible bubble diameters on it?
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[Sat 2:45:56 PM] undefined - Jason G:
versus... war and unknown losses.
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[Sat 2:46:26 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
Ultimately, no one can make you do anything, Dirk. But you know where Roland and I stand.
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[Sat 2:47:09 PM] undefined - Rob:
It was mentioned last session that the things from dive space are drawn by very deep dives, and the level 1 dives don't tend to be noticed, right?
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[Sat 2:47:13 PM] undefined - Kristian:
we have a..Gen 2 drive? Has there been anything public about a Gen 3 drive coming or anything like that?
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[Sat 2:47:20 PM] undefined - Debinani:
https://publish-01.obsidian.md/access/073e39bbe768f819de315968c97d81d8/Tabletop/Whistler's%20Reach/Places/assets/whistlers-reach.svg
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[Sat 2:47:29 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
And yes, any of us outside the bubble are still potentially under threat from...whatever those things we fought on the way here. So for all we know, we could be *saving* the people in Whistler and Roberts
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[Sat 2:47:35 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
comes across the comms - do we know the extents?
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[Sat 2:48:03 PM] undefined - Kristian:
it's Dirks Axe Body Spray
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[Sat 2:48:07 PM] undefined - Debinani:
Veth, you have a hot mic.
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[Sat 2:48:17 PM] undefined - Kristian:
60% of the time it unleashes eldritch horror every time
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[Sat 2:48:19 PM] undefined - Rob:
Easy solution. Shoot Dirk and jettison his body into the sun.
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[Sat 2:48:31 PM] undefined - Veth:
thank you!
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[Sat 2:48:39 PM] undefined - Kristian:
do you want an Axe Star? That's how you get an Axe Star.
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[Sat 2:50:02 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
*glances at Cordova* Well that's not creepy at all.
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[Sat 2:50:06 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan 's right eye also begins twitching
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[Sat 2:50:17 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I wonder if the transit gates still function properly
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[Sat 2:50:32 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Just guessing, but probably not.
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[Sat 2:52:25 PM] undefined - Kristian:
put something in discord, we're talking like doing this?
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[Sat 2:52:38 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
The hair on anyone else's taint standing up?
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[Sat 2:52:49 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I'm thinking we don't have a whole lot of time to decide if we're doing it right here right now.
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[Sat 2:53:05 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
hey Izzy, where were you planning on making the cutoff?
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[Sat 2:53:13 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Daniel Eckhart sits down heavily on the nearest rock
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[Sat 2:53:46 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Only the ones that don't like cannibalism.
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[Sat 2:53:56 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
So my concern is, if this is done it will be fairly easy to find the epicenter and someone will just un-do it.
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[Sat 2:54:10 PM] undefined - Kristian:
I think the answer is they can't
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[Sat 2:54:13 PM] undefined - Rob:
Right. Can't be undone once it's activated.
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[Sat 2:54:15 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
a lot of misery for no benefit
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[Sat 2:54:17 PM] undefined - Kristian:
the machines were on planets outside the bubble
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[Sat 2:54:18 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
From our understanding, there's no undoing it.
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[Sat 2:54:33 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Yeah I think..you can't change it once it's set.
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[Sat 2:54:57 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Aiden, have you had Calliope try to min-max this to see if there's an optimum spot for minimal loss of life?
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[Sat 2:55:00 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
We should come to a consensus before a reality-eating monster pops up.
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[Sat 2:55:18 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Yes, Mr. Yang, we've been running the numbers
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[Sat 2:56:23 PM] undefined - Jason G:
it changes their calculus though. it's now exponentially more expensive to carry out their empire plans
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[Sat 2:56:39 PM] undefined - Jason G:
and gives time for cooler heads to prevail
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[Sat 2:56:49 PM] undefined - Kristian:
but also motivating...they want to colonize outside to expand faster, and are super pissed.
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[Sat 2:57:14 PM] undefined - Kristian:
Most importantly..where is our Andersen mining colony that makes us rich, and our shipyards? :)
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[Sat 2:57:37 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
and the alternative is. a war... one that we cannot truly predict
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[Sat 2:57:58 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I'm hearing war anyway..just in 10-20 years, not...10-20 days.
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[Sat 2:58:17 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Assuming this bubble isn't a giant leviathan beacon and we all get gobbled up anyway.
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[Sat 2:58:27 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I'm sure Jericho would appreciate 10-20 years to build up.
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[Sat 2:58:37 PM] Din Strata - Veth:
It is a lot of unknowns, but that's been our specialty for a while now.
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[Sat 2:58:48 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Ten to twenty years provides a lot of time for alternatives to war. If we don't do anything then war is guaranteed.
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[Sat 2:58:48 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
and what you said, Dirk... if humanity simply continues diving deeper through this space....
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[Sat 2:58:50 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
What then
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[Sat 2:59:09 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Humanity, or whatever is "east"
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[Sat 2:59:15 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Dirk Yang sideyes Izzy
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[Sat 2:59:39 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I think we are pretty much all on the same page. I just want to make sure so I don't fuck this up.
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[Sat 2:59:50 PM] Din Strata - Veth:
Din Strata nods.
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[Sat 2:59:54 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Should we be consulting any of the rest of the crew on this, or is this a Board decision?
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[Sat 2:59:58 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
If we try to think through the entire possible history of humanity before we make a decision then we're going to be Eldrich-food before we have a chance
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[Sat 3:00:13 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Daniel Eckhart sighs
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[Sat 3:00:24 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Cara wants me to do something rash and ill-thought out. Noted for the record!
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[Sat 3:00:45 PM] undefined - Kristian:
any abstains from the circle I put in Discord?
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[Sat 3:00:54 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
She wants to make sure you're not taken out of your comfort zone. Sign of a good leader.
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[Sat 3:00:56 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
Well you've been a poor influence on all of us, I suppose
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[Sat 3:00:59 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Yeah I feel wonky here... We need to shit or get.
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[Sat 3:01:21 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I'm doing this, last chance for any dissent?
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[Sat 3:01:37 PM] Din Strata - Veth:
I say do it.
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[Sat 3:01:42 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Roland Denhardt checks his weapon, just in case
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[Sat 3:01:43 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
I think we will all regret this, the question is... how much?
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[Sat 3:01:54 PM] undefined - Kristian:
"If I get eaten, please let history know this is the "Yang Maneouvre"
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[Sat 3:02:11 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Dirk Yang cracks his knuckles
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[Sat 3:02:13 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
Add it to my list of regrets, then
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[Sat 3:02:20 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
I'd regret not doing it even more
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[Sat 3:02:27 PM] undefined - Kristian:
LEERROOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YANGKINS
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[Sat 3:02:29 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Mr. Yang, go ahead
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[Sat 3:02:45 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
It feels dirty when you call me Mr Yang Aiden.
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[Sat 3:02:52 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Dirk Yang goes ahead
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[Sat 3:03:18 PM] undefined - Jason G:
infinitely better than "Mr. Yang, I consent"
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[Sat 3:03:32 PM] undefined - Kristian:
that was the agreement...get as close as I feel I can w/o accidentally engulfing something we didn't want.
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[Sat 3:04:12 PM] undefined - Rob:
Funny thing is that the rest of us won't have confirmation for quite a while that this worked.
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[Sat 3:04:19 PM] undefined - Jason K:
"That's probably fine"
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[Sat 3:04:35 PM] undefined - Kristian:
"Did I do that?' *Urkel*
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[Sat 3:05:03 PM] undefined - Kristian:
I'm envisioning Dr Manhattan's palace on Mars.
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[Sat 3:05:18 PM] undefined - Kristian:
I'm in your head Deb ;)
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[Sat 3:05:27 PM] undefined - Jason G:
Papa Nurgle and a bunch of Chaos warpships come through thousands of portals..
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[Sat 3:06:39 PM] undefined - Kristian:
LUDICROUS speed?
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[Sat 3:06:39 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Ludicrous Speed!
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[Sat 3:07:23 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
oh fuck.
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[Sat 3:07:49 PM] Din Strata - Veth:
What?
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[Sat 3:07:53 PM] undefined - Kristian:
leave normal space unless it punches...waaaay down
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[Sat 3:08:07 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
Not the reaction I was hoping for
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[Sat 3:08:08 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Anyone already en route..not sure where they are now.
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[Sat 3:08:10 PM] undefined - Jason G:
and... time to dive home now.. oh, wait...
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[Sat 3:08:16 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Well shit.
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[Sat 3:08:34 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
They either got ejected from dive space or..something else.
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[Sat 3:08:39 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Not surprising, I suppose...
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[Sat 3:08:41 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan stares quietly at the projected number of casualties...
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[Sat 3:08:42 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Daniel Eckhart scrubs his face with his hands
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[Sat 3:09:08 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
So ...that done I think we need to get the fuck out of here as quick as we can.
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[Sat 3:09:44 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Yeah, let's go before the natives get restless again.
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[Sat 3:09:51 PM] Din Strata - Veth:
Din Strata hefts his gun.
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[Sat 3:09:52 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Daniel Eckhart readies Betsy and takes point again
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[Sat 3:09:53 PM] Din Strata - Veth:
Let's go.
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[Sat 3:09:58 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
You coming, Cordova?
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[Sat 3:10:03 PM] undefined - Kristian:
does the machine seem..inert at this point?
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[Sat 3:10:40 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Dirk, help Mr. "Look to the East" along.
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[Sat 3:11:02 PM] undefined - Kristian:
yes, and have him bring some more LSD for Izzy.
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[Sat 3:11:13 PM] undefined - Rob:
I think we might have another few darts of it left.
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[Sat 3:11:15 PM] Debinani - Debinani:
-1
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[Sat 3:11:42 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Time to lobotomize Cordova and Dirk to prevent this from ever happening again
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[Sat 3:11:44 PM] undefined - Rob:
And we're eaten by a grue.
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[Sat 3:11:52 PM] undefined - Kristian:
audio cut off because that's where we died, right?
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[Sat 3:12:03 PM] undefined - Jason G:
over the river, through the woods, past the chaos elf stronghold....
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[Sat 3:12:23 PM] undefined - Michelle:
yeah
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[Sat 3:12:24 PM] undefined - Veth:
I took a big hit
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[Sat 3:12:34 PM] undefined - Jason G:
not Daniel?
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[Sat 3:12:36 PM] undefined - Rob:
Oh, right. I think his spleen traded places with his liver.
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[Sat 3:12:40 PM] undefined - Michelle:
I took a small hit
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[Sat 3:13:15 PM] undefined - Kristian:
how long before Aiden gives Izzy a job offer?
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[Sat 3:13:26 PM] undefined - Jason G:
3...2...
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[Sat 3:13:47 PM] Din Strata - Veth:
I'll be in the medbay.
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[Sat 3:14:07 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
We've been following you a while Mr. Cordova. Ever since we found...
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[Sat 3:14:15 PM] undefined - Kristian:
porque no los dos?
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[Sat 3:14:23 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan stops mid sentence
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[Sat 3:14:26 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Daniel just needs like rest for his one Phyiscal stress?
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[Sat 3:14:26 PM] undefined - Rob:
Are we drugging and freezing Dirk, too?
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[Sat 3:15:11 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan helps Din to the medbay
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[Sat 3:15:31 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Lobotomy
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[Sat 3:16:02 PM] undefined - Rob:
That would be a bit tough.
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[Sat 3:16:06 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Not unless we plan on taking a looong time to do it
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[Sat 3:16:10 PM] undefined - Kristian:
where'd we leave Tomoe?
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[Sat 3:16:14 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Whistler
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[Sat 3:16:20 PM] undefined - Rob:
Oops.
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[Sat 3:16:30 PM] undefined - Kristian:
Tomoe dives to level 10 and monsters eat everything in the bubble. Oops!
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[Sat 3:16:40 PM] undefined - Jason K:
Well given her powers that might actually be the safest place for her anyway lol
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[Sat 3:16:50 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan patches up Din and anyone else that is visibly wounded and takes blood samples from /everyone/ who went down.
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[Sat 3:16:51 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Daniel is a bit subdued right now but suggests to Cara that we consider Jericho's offer now.
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[Sat 3:17:20 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
The only way this could have gone worse is if we had Princeton on board with us for this.
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[Sat 3:17:46 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
I think your friend Princeton might be one of those elder horrors.
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[Sat 3:17:50 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
Worse? We stopped a war and, maybe, some sort of eldirch-invasion. I think we did quite alright for ourselves.
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[Sat 3:17:52 PM] undefined - Michelle:
So how cut off are we from our bank accounts?
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[Sat 3:18:14 PM] undefined - Jason K:
I am trying to remember what Jericho's offer was
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[Sat 3:18:17 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Yes, any markers related to the things we've seen, etc...
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[Sat 3:18:23 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Assuming data transfers that were done by ship ain't happening now
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[Sat 3:18:45 PM] undefined - Kristian:
how cut off are we from the lawsuit showing ownership of our two driveyards? :)
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[Sat 3:18:47 PM] undefined - Michelle:
That's why I suggest Jericho. They don't want our money
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[Sat 3:19:53 PM] undefined - Michelle:
No more surprise visits from our two favorite agents either
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[Sat 3:20:02 PM] undefined - Jason G:
and hey, those could be really handy right know.. cranking out sublight ships
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[Sat 3:20:34 PM] undefined - Kristian:
what was the council presence around Foxglove at this point?
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[Sat 3:20:42 PM] undefined - Kristian:
that's pretty much what's left other than pickets?
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[Sat 3:21:06 PM] undefined - Michelle:
No one still knows where that big ass ship went though
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[Sat 3:21:32 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan wonders if we just reverted humanity back to the industrial age
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[Sat 3:21:36 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
We don't know how long it's going to take for people to realize what happened, either.
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[Sat 3:21:40 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
other than inside the bubble.
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[Sat 3:21:58 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
So yeah, we should probably get to Jericho or as far away from Council space as possible
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[Sat 3:22:00 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Do ships trying to dive INTO the bubble vanish too?
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[Sat 3:22:21 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
did they vanish or just drop out/
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[Sat 3:22:23 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
I don't see how the Council will figure out we're responsible, unless you plan on posting a video about it.
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[Sat 3:22:23 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
right
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[Sat 3:22:58 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I mean, there's always an audience...
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[Sat 3:22:59 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
so a bunch of ships that had a week of provisions suddenly looking at slow-boating it for months in cryo
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[Sat 3:23:13 PM] undefined - Jason K:
Hey y'all, BubbleBoy69420 here with another video about how we fucked over a majority of Council space
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[Sat 3:23:22 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I'm sure there are certain types who would laud us protecting everyone from the imperiousness of the council...
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[Sat 3:23:42 PM] undefined - Kristian:
lol jas
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[Sat 3:24:03 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Yeah, well, let's not tell them about this.
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[Sat 3:24:22 PM] undefined - Jason G:
it's ya boy Bubbleboy69420 - don't forget to smash that like and subscribe button for more
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[Sat 3:24:44 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
We can let everyone think it was a weird phenomena or act of god or something.
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[Sat 3:25:04 PM] undefined - Rob:
Odds on a new religious movement sprouting from this.
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[Sat 3:25:08 PM] undefined - Jason K:
"Oh right. Izzy." *gunshot*
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[Sat 3:25:24 PM] undefined - Kristian:
sad to report his freezer malfunctioned...
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[Sat 3:25:25 PM] undefined - Michelle:
The rest of our crew will be questioning why we can't go back to Council space.
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[Sat 3:25:42 PM] undefined - Jason G:
so izzy was taken over by the precursor/ancients/whatarewecallingthem?
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[Sat 3:25:43 PM] undefined - Kristian:
it's cool they'll probably just blame stupid Dirk for his drive space fuckery
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[Sat 3:25:51 PM] undefined - Michelle:
How long can we dodge that before someone else figures out the limits of travel and make it news?
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[Sat 3:25:57 PM] undefined - Rob:
We'll say it's Dirk's fault without explaining. They'll fill in the blanks with something that involves sexting.
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[Sat 3:26:32 PM] undefined - Jason G:
he went full color out of space...
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[Sat 3:27:56 PM] undefined - Jason G:
jump back
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[Sat 3:27:59 PM] undefined - Jason G:
how?
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[Sat 3:28:24 PM] undefined - Jason G:
oh right, the ones traversing from outside to the boundary
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[Sat 3:28:42 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Gonna be a whole lot of ships sitting right outside the bubble going "wtf?"
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[Sat 3:29:10 PM] Debinani - Debinani:
<div class="physics-tools"><h3>Travel Times</h3><b>Thrust</b>: 9.8m/s² (1.0g) <br /><b>Distance</b>: 1.0LY<br /><b>Time</b>: 2y 76d 10h <br /><b>Ship Time</b>: 1y 326d 3h <br /><br /><b>Time to impact</b>: 1y 260d 23h <br /><b>Ship Time to impact</b>: 1y 107d 11h <br /></div>
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[Sat 3:29:20 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
All that "outside the bubble" real estate just went way up in value...
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[Sat 3:29:52 PM] undefined - Jason G:
is it like Mayvick drew it?
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[Sat 3:31:29 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
All the "outer colonies" just gained a huge economic advantage over the "inner" ones
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[Sat 3:31:52 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Was the retrofit before or after we retrieved the stolen artifacts?
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[Sat 3:32:00 PM] undefined - Kristian:
I think Jericho unless we want to stop. Certainly send Peach there becuase that is likely safest? I assume piracy is going to be...a problem...and Harrington needs a vaca.
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[Sat 3:32:26 PM] undefined - Michelle:
We're going to have to tell Jericho what we did.
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[Sat 3:32:37 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
and the gates... Whistler, Grove.... Where
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[Sat 3:32:40 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Especially if it messed up the gates
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[Sat 3:33:07 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Helena is still outside
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[Sat 3:33:12 PM] undefined - Rob:
Depends on if it messed up the gates outside the bubble or not.
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[Sat 3:33:26 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Yeah. We need to let the people who actually have looked at the alien stuff know what we did in case things go awry otherwise
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[Sat 3:33:39 PM] undefined - Rob:
We also need to let them know why they should maybe stop fucking with it.
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[Sat 3:33:56 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Well, at least on the deeper diving part
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[Sat 3:34:33 PM] undefined - Rob:
How deep does the gate actually go? It's a faster traversal than a level 1 or level 2 dive.
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[Sat 3:34:37 PM] undefined - Kristian:
stop fucking with the alien stuff? that saved everyone's ass! we should fuck with it even more!
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[Sat 3:35:02 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Someone with clout needs to start working on preventing people from doing deeper dives and attracting leviathan attention
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[Sat 3:35:15 PM] undefined - Kristian:
more than that on Dirk Express.
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[Sat 3:35:25 PM] undefined - Rob:
No.
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[Sat 3:35:47 PM] undefined - Kristian:
c'mon guyyyyyyys lemme show off for my girlfriend.....
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[Sat 3:36:00 PM] undefined - Michelle:
So we learned nothing from the whole previous episode
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[Sat 3:36:01 PM] undefined - Jason G:
wait, we can still dive? because we go deeper than the bubble?
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[Sat 3:36:11 PM] undefined - Michelle:
We're not in the bubble
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[Sat 3:36:33 PM] undefined - Jason G:
sorry, catching up from missing last week
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[Sat 3:36:44 PM] undefined - Michelle:
If we had been in the bubble, we were dead - not enough supplies to go anywhere useful
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[Sat 3:37:28 PM] undefined - Rob:
So are we taking a 2 week or 4 week jump to Jericho?
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[Sat 3:37:36 PM] undefined - Kristian:
I think we should arrive pre-Peach, since it's really just a civvy ship.
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[Sat 3:37:43 PM] undefined - Kristian:
we come bearing intelligence and such
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[Sat 3:37:59 PM] undefined - Michelle:
May need to let them know an unannounced former Council ship is on the way
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[Sat 3:38:05 PM] undefined - Kristian:
sooner Jericho knows what is up sooner they can do something..like maybe go n utkick the council ships elsewhere, too.
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[Sat 3:38:50 PM] undefined - Rob:
Or see if they're now more receptive to peace offerings.
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[Sat 3:39:25 PM] undefined - Michelle:
AFK
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[Sat 3:39:26 PM] undefined - Kristian:
afk
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[Sat 3:39:32 PM] undefined - Jason G:
/afk doesn't work hehe
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[Sat 3:39:36 PM] undefined - Rob:
Dammit... Forgot that /afk doesn't work anymore.
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[Sat 3:39:45 PM] undefined - Debinani:
This upgrade so messed up everything.
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[Sat 3:44:51 PM] undefined - Rob:
Obviously you need a dev environment to test these sorts of things.
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[Sat 3:47:36 PM] undefined - Debinani:
Problem is what happens is the creators of the systems make updates fast and the module authors take forever. So yeah, the only way to really deal with it is to not upgrade at all (and test in a lower environment first).
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[Sat 3:51:08 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
There have been a couple games I play where that is also true. game devs update more frequently than mod makers
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[Sat 3:52:13 PM] undefined - Debinani:
They hadn't done a major UI refresh in a while so it broke a lot of modules that hadn't needed updates in years.
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[Sat 3:53:13 PM] undefined - Rob:
I wonder if the makers of some of the now-broken mods are still active.
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[Sat 3:53:42 PM] undefined - Debinani:
Some almost certainly aren't. I've seen a few forks appear where folks are taking them over.
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[Sat 3:54:50 PM] undefined - Rob:
yo.
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[Sat 3:54:56 PM] undefined - Kristian:
yep
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[Sat 3:55:00 PM] undefined - Veth:
yeah
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[Sat 3:55:05 PM] undefined - Michelle:
here
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[Sat 3:56:43 PM] undefined - Rob:
We did, just not by ship.
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[Sat 3:57:07 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Tell Benny we're here! Yeah, that Benny.
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[Sat 3:57:49 PM] undefined - Jason G:
we're here to see malkovich.... and benny....
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[Sat 3:59:13 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Dude... We really really need to talk. lol
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[Sat 3:59:29 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
We have... news. We should probably meet in person.
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[Sat 3:59:44 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
No, really...
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[Sat 4:00:45 PM] undefined - Rob:
We shall head there, unless someone has a better idea?
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[Sat 4:00:48 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
See you soon
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[Sat 4:00:54 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Did we stuff Cordova in a freezer or just drug him?
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[Sat 4:01:39 PM] undefined - Rob:
Did Aiden come up with any ideas of what to do with Cordova? That don't start with 'dissection', that is.
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[Sat 4:01:45 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Ok. Then leave him frozen for now but we probably want to offload him onto Benny
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[Sat 4:01:50 PM] undefined - Jason G:
are we keeping Dirk drugged or is he exhibiting self control?
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[Sat 4:02:01 PM] undefined - Michelle:
hahahahahahahahahah
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[Sat 4:02:10 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Self control....
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[Sat 4:02:25 PM] undefined - Rob:
I think he means with regards to jumps, not pants.
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[Sat 4:02:37 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Even then
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[Sat 4:02:42 PM] undefined - Kristian:
Dirk assumes he'll be drugged but will see if he can be confined to quarters with Polly to look after him and not strapped to a bed in sick bay with his ass hanging out.
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[Sat 4:02:49 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Daniel made SURE he got drugged
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[Sat 4:02:55 PM] undefined - Jason G:
not sure we want to just hand Izzy over to be dissected
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[Sat 4:02:59 PM] undefined - Kristian:
now that he has a babysitter
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[Sat 4:03:06 PM] undefined - Rob:
You'd rather dissect him personally?
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[Sat 4:03:15 PM] undefined - Kristian:
he can watch Polly and Calliope play chess.
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[Sat 4:03:22 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Keeping him on the ship is worse than keeping Dirk on it
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[Sat 4:03:27 PM] undefined - Jason G:
that deprives Aiden of being able to dissect him instead!
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[Sat 4:03:29 PM] undefined - Kristian:
oh yeah baby...threaten that bishop...*lip bite*
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[Sat 4:03:31 PM] undefined - Rob:
We meet with Benny before this goes further off the rails.
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[Sat 4:03:31 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Let's fill Benny in and talk over options
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[Sat 4:03:57 PM] undefined - Michelle:
We've burned our Council links. We're cut off from most of IBI. We need some backing here
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[Sat 4:04:09 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Roland Denhardt nods to Beeny
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[Sat 4:04:12 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
You're looking well.
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[Sat 4:04:42 PM] undefined - Rob:
Does it have iron maidens?
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[Sat 4:04:54 PM] undefined - Jason G:
cone of silence...
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[Sat 4:05:18 PM] undefined - Rob:
The late Edward Platt twitches.
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[Sat 4:05:25 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Sooo... we broke space.
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[Sat 4:05:55 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan pulls out a systems map
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[Sat 4:06:00 PM] undefined - Michelle:
And we just handed your government temporary supremacy in all things outside Council space....
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[Sat 4:06:01 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
We broke the universe.
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[Sat 4:06:07 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Roland Denhardt motions to Dirk
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[Sat 4:06:09 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
What he said.
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[Sat 4:06:11 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Sort of.
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[Sat 4:06:28 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan pulls out a ring in the rough area of the bubble around Whistler
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[Sat 4:06:36 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Fair
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[Sat 4:06:47 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
We broke part of the universe, in a way that is beneficial to Jericho.
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[Sat 4:07:02 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Aiden Harlan draws out the basic korolev ebbreviation inside it, then crosses it out dramatically
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[Sat 4:07:46 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Thanks to more weird alien shit, ships inside Council space can't dive anymore.
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[Sat 4:07:55 PM] undefined - Rob:
Roland will explain things, mostly from the beginning with the discovery of the eldritch things and the alien tech.
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[Sat 4:08:59 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
And Story.
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[Sat 4:09:03 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Fin
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[Sat 4:09:12 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
That's about the size of it, yes.
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[Sat 4:09:27 PM] undefined - Jason K:
"So you'd give us a bunch of money"
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[Sat 4:09:27 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
You may.
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[Sat 4:09:39 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
It's sort of hard to wage a war without the ability to dive.
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[Sat 4:10:14 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
We did mention the existential krakens, didn't we?
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[Sat 4:10:16 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Jericho's economy?
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[Sat 4:10:28 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
It buys time before their war machine gets back on its feet. But it means anyone outside that bubble better start some hard thinking when it comes to dives.
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[Sat 4:10:36 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
That includes you.
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[Sat 4:10:41 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
They'll live. You're a bit removed from what was going on in places like Foxglove so you didn't see how bad it was getting. And probably would get.
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[Sat 4:10:58 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
They built this for a reason
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[Sat 4:11:23 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Keep in mind we're talking to the guy whose entire planet WE JUST CUT OFF FROM SAFETY
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[Sat 4:11:30 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Unless you've got a better plan.
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[Sat 4:11:50 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
We have not really seen how much they can...invade..our space.
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[Sat 4:12:04 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Somewhat our speciality?
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[Sat 4:12:12 PM] undefined - Michelle:
And since we can't go home, we're here to take your job. lol
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[Sat 4:12:38 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
*drily* We like to aim high.
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[Sat 4:12:51 PM] undefined - Jason G:
also, Dirk is somehow screwing our AI
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[Sat 4:13:01 PM] undefined - Kristian:
HE IS NOT
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[Sat 4:14:03 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
There are a lot of hearts and minds there for Jericho to assist.
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[Sat 4:14:50 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
The blockade around Grove is made up of a navy that's completely cut off from its government. That might provide an advantage in negotiations.
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[Sat 4:14:55 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Figured that damn ship was outside the bubble
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[Sat 4:15:00 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
We're not blind to the collateral damage.
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[Sat 4:15:57 PM] undefined - Rob:
A Blades in the Dark campaign. Duh.
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[Sat 4:16:13 PM] undefined - Kristian:
*disturbing Benny laugh*
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[Sat 4:16:14 PM] undefined - Jason G:
"honestly Benny we just like flying around pulling giant space levers and seeing what happens..."
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[Sat 4:16:29 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Interested in having Jericho be the new HQ for an independent arm of IBI?
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[Sat 4:16:55 PM] undefined - Jason G:
crap... I wonder what this does to Jack's current adventure..
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[Sat 4:17:13 PM] undefined - Rob:
In transit within the area of the bubble.
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[Sat 4:17:23 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Roland Denhardt shrugs
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[Sat 4:17:27 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
We might be.
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[Sat 4:17:41 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
We can't go back to Whistler - for anything. Our independent warship is now even more independent.
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[Sat 4:18:05 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Let's start with your job offer, but I think there's more on the table in the future.
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[Sat 4:18:27 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Do please try to keep our names out of the chatter, when the "who did this" comes up
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[Sat 4:18:36 PM] undefined - Michelle:
oooo, snacks....
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[Sat 4:18:41 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
Hard to believe anyway, really
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[Sat 4:18:45 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
We haven't had a good snack in a while.
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[Sat 4:18:59 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Daniel Eckhart Daniel actually forgoes the snacks, drinking just some water
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[Sat 4:19:04 PM] undefined - Jason G:
snacks always win
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[Sat 4:19:52 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Dirk Yang Dirk eats a snack or twenty
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[Sat 4:19:54 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
I mean...everything else aside, we do still need work, right?
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[Sat 4:20:03 PM] undefined - Jason G:
completely not laced with sub-atomic tracking nanobots...
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[Sat 4:20:08 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
We do. We're sort of cut off from our funds right now.
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[Sat 4:20:08 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
We may actually need work *more* now.
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[Sat 4:20:22 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Given that we have alienated a whole lot of potential clientele.
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[Sat 4:20:30 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
...Alienated?
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[Sat 4:20:31 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Get it?
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[Sat 4:21:02 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Harlan, where can I safely shoot Dirk so it won't ruin anything important when you dissect him?
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[Sat 4:21:02 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
and we already know that nobody listens to Dirk, so we're safe!
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[Sat 4:21:14 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
We should've let the eldrich horrors eat you
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[Sat 4:21:31 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
We need a new base of operations, and Jericho is the main power outside that bubble. If we do this job for them, we're a long way toward in. But any remaining bridges with the Council are gonna get burned.
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[Sat 4:21:56 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Gove and Foxglove are gonna take a while to sort themselves out.
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[Sat 4:22:08 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
We also have some shipyards and a mining concern to address.
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[Sat 4:22:17 PM] undefined - Rob:
And Preston still wants to ride with Dirk.
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[Sat 4:22:18 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Refineries
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[Sat 4:22:21 PM] undefined - Jason G:
the scientist thing would be good, while folks are distracted
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[Sat 4:22:37 PM] undefined - Jason G:
and gives us time to see what shakes out
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[Sat 4:22:55 PM] undefined - Kristian:
where is he at?
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[Sat 4:23:00 PM] undefined - Rob:
Dammit.
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[Sat 4:23:07 PM] undefined - Jason G:
oh no....
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[Sat 4:23:13 PM] undefined - Kristian:
Sidetracked by bullshit time!
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[Sat 4:23:39 PM] undefined - Jason G:
guns that can be disabled remotely, no doubt
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[Sat 4:23:41 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Sure, and I suggest someone start working on a business plan for those refineries. Income independent of Council-controlled banks would be good.
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[Sat 4:23:52 PM] undefined - Jason G:
when we don't pay the support contract
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[Sat 4:23:56 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Daniel Eckhart looks at everyone around the room
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[Sat 4:23:58 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
I don't think we should turn down free ship upgrades when they're on the table
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[Sat 4:24:09 PM] undefined - Rob:
Jericho has been acquired by Broadcom?
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[Sat 4:24:23 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Define "free"
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[Sat 4:24:38 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
In exchange for a minor 'recovery' operation.
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[Sat 4:24:59 PM] undefined - Kristian:
so like having Boeing stock.
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[Sat 4:25:09 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Assume that anything held by Council companies is frozen for a while.
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[Sat 4:25:19 PM] undefined - Kristian:
except I own a 747 and we're flying around on it already and it's weaponized.
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[Sat 4:25:37 PM] undefined - Michelle:
War machine, policing, and food/water will get bought and paid first
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[Sat 4:25:59 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Daniel is assuming we have ZERO money right now
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[Sat 4:26:06 PM] undefined - Jason G:
and a terror-supporting foreign nation just offered us a new ship.. for free.. (totally not Qatar)
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[Sat 4:26:16 PM] undefined - Kristian:
Space UAE
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[Sat 4:26:25 PM] undefined - Rob:
Can't be. Benny didn't have a turban.
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[Sat 4:26:36 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
As far as everyone knows, we are still a functioning business, so I guess we should act like it.
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[Sat 4:26:49 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Take on work, and...whatever Robin Hood shit we get up to on the side
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[Sat 4:26:59 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Assuming things are chaotic, now is also a good time to make a run at this artifact base - or it's a really really bad one and they're locked down even tighter
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[Sat 4:27:21 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
It's decentalized, right? so we can try that
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[Sat 4:27:45 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Harlan, don't you have a former associate stuck on Solace?
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[Sat 4:27:58 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
Dirk will definitely be trying to do that anyway, since he has to run Peach and pay Harrington and stuff
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[Sat 4:28:04 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
I do.
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[Sat 4:28:13 PM] undefined - Michelle:
And 10 weeks back to say OK
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[Sat 4:28:23 PM] undefined - Debinani:
k
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[Sat 4:28:38 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
In the same place as the artifacts?
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[Sat 4:28:45 PM] undefined - Michelle:
And that was BEFORE THE BUBBLE
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[Sat 4:28:51 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
I wouldn't mind going to retrieve him, but the ship can't be in two places at once. <br /><br />What say we go get him, then come back and get the refit
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[Sat 4:29:20 PM] undefined - Jason G:
refit it is then
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[Sat 4:29:24 PM] undefined - Michelle:
BUT do we want to swindle the guys we may need to be friendly later?
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[Sat 4:29:54 PM] undefined - Jason G:
but we need to try to work towards getting the stations running as well.
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[Sat 4:30:13 PM] undefined - Michelle:
IF we take this job....
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[Sat 4:30:22 PM] undefined - Michelle:
What are the chances the Council eventually finds out it was us>
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[Sat 4:30:37 PM] undefined - Rob:
Finds out that it was us that did what? Recovered the artifacts?
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[Sat 4:30:51 PM] undefined - Rob:
Or wrapped them in space bubble wrap?
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[Sat 4:30:54 PM] undefined - Michelle:
And in lieu of coming after us (slowly), they're probably going to go after our assets. AKA money.
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[Sat 4:31:11 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Not for causing the bubble - for raiding their base
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[Sat 4:31:24 PM] undefined - Kristian:
I assume Dirk can spin som elegalese on how our money should be fungible everywhere even if comms go down?
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[Sat 4:31:52 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
10
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[Sat 4:32:02 PM] undefined - Kristian:
10 doesn't have a descriptor lol
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[Sat 4:32:09 PM] undefined - Kristian:
"Lawgod"
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[Sat 4:32:25 PM] undefined - Kristian:
let's focus on the assets part ;)
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[Sat 4:33:01 PM] undefined - Rob:
Not counting the Salvage, how much are our assets? Would we be better off starting broke?
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[Sat 4:33:06 PM] undefined - Kristian:
so do I roll again in a couple weeks? lol
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[Sat 4:33:09 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Promise the bank that we'll make payments to them on our loans - and if anything system-wide falls through, they get to keep it.
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[Sat 4:33:29 PM] undefined - Kristian:
also wondering about Dirk Enterprises and the Peach, as well...since that's also outside the bubble.
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[Sat 4:33:31 PM] undefined - Jason G:
transfer it all into silver.... I read on a forum that was the way to protect our assets...
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[Sat 4:33:50 PM] undefined - Michelle:
All hail our alien overlords! Invest in arnite!
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[Sat 4:34:24 PM] undefined - Kristian:
yeah, DE isn't a charity so assuming when Peach arrives and Harrington gets a month of R&R or something he needs to be doing joyrides again
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[Sat 4:35:01 PM] undefined - Kristian:
totally OOC but my silver has like tripled in value and my 401k is eating poop...so you should listen to whatever forum that was!
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[Sat 4:35:08 PM] undefined - Michelle:
What are the legalities of us taking jobs on behalf of Jericho controlled entities?
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[Sat 4:35:45 PM] undefined - Kristian:
is it worth bothering trying to get incoroprated with RoJ?
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[Sat 4:35:47 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Ok. Sic the Peach on whatever it usually does.
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[Sat 4:35:52 PM] undefined - Kristian:
jfc..incorporated
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[Sat 4:36:36 PM] undefined - Jason G:
and IBI itself... is a Council space entity right?
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[Sat 4:36:37 PM] undefined - Kristian:
I meant IBI, actually...but that's good too. And gives Harrigton mental health vacation + snacks while paperwork happens
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[Sat 4:37:17 PM] undefined - Kristian:
chaos is a moneypurse man! We can do what we want and they can suck it!
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[Sat 4:37:30 PM] undefined - Jason G:
and with the complication of Jack's Trust thing
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[Sat 4:38:06 PM] undefined - Kristian:
hey calliope, you good just signing this paperwork babe? Don't worry nothing strange in it...
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[Sat 4:39:00 PM] undefined - Kristian:
I mean seeing if they will do it > taking a risk I roll 4 -s lol
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[Sat 4:39:08 PM] undefined - Jason G:
is it better not being more beholden to Benny?
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[Sat 4:39:31 PM] undefined - Kristian:
Can we caveat the refit that Polly has to be supervising? So they aren't buggin gthe shit out of us and stealing all of Calliope's data?
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[Sat 4:39:40 PM] undefined - Jason G:
well the refit is basically an advance on payment, right?
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[Sat 4:39:49 PM] undefined - Michelle:
We can either work FOR Jericho by taking this job, or we go back to business as usual but only in non-Council spaces.
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[Sat 4:40:40 PM] undefined - Jason G:
but we remain independant as a company?
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[Sat 4:40:52 PM] undefined - Michelle:
That's what Daniel is banking on. If he can't go home, we pick a new one and curry some favor with the local government.
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[Sat 4:42:27 PM] undefined - Jason G:
I have a feeling (or hope) that they may need to recall the Damoclese back to whistler space, since it sitting there being a glorified blockade doesn't serve them very well when all hell is breaking loose at home.
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[Sat 4:42:42 PM] undefined - Rob:
How long would it take the call to get to it?
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[Sat 4:43:12 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
*looks around the room again* Is anyone AGAINST taking Jericho's job offer?
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[Sat 4:43:21 PM] undefined - Rob:
The Damacolese could also just decide to go rogue and form a fleet of Space Bandits.
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[Sat 4:43:21 PM] undefined - Jason G:
yeah but the ship will figure out there's a problem within weeks, if not already
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[Sat 4:43:27 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Getting a lot of reconnect messages from the site
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[Sat 4:43:50 PM] undefined - Debinani:
My internet sucks.
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[Sat 4:43:51 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
My only concern would be what Jericho intends to do with the artifacts.
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[Sat 4:44:06 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Daniel Eckhart laughs coldly
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[Sat 4:44:21 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Like we're good judges for that?
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[Sat 4:44:26 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Summoning Dirk's sea monsters would be bad, for example.
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[Sat 4:44:46 PM] undefined - Veth:
Hard to be a council if you can't enforce anything.
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[Sat 4:44:49 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Sure. So warn the shit out of them on what we've experienced.
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[Sat 4:44:59 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
Roland Denhardt nods
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[Sat 4:45:12 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
So, with recent developments, those artifacts are now at risk whether we retrieve them or not, yes?
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[Sat 4:45:17 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Someone will.
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[Sat 4:45:22 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Yeah
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[Sat 4:45:23 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
And hope it's enough, I guess. But no, aside from that I'm not really against this job.
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[Sat 4:45:25 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Should we make sure it's us?
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[Sat 4:45:48 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Us how?
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[Sat 4:46:02 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
We sure as hell don't want to keep them.
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[Sat 4:46:06 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Make sure it's us retrieving them, and not someone else
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[Sat 4:46:20 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
No, but at least we can say where they end up
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[Sat 4:46:39 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Jericho knows what they lost, don't they?
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[Sat 4:47:01 PM] undefined - Jason G:
what are we talking about?
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[Sat 4:47:03 PM] undefined - Michelle:
So if anything goes missing, we better have a good explanation
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[Sat 4:47:16 PM] undefined - Jason G:
Oh, I see
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[Sat 4:47:18 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Or lie that we didn't find it/them
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[Sat 4:47:52 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
I think we need to play this pretty straight-up. We take the job, retrieve whatever we can get ahold of, and bring it back here in good faith.
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[Sat 4:48:18 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
... And not let Dirk - or you, Doc - tinker with the damned things.
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[Sat 4:48:19 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
As soon as those keeping the artifacts find out they are cut off, what will they do? We need to act quickly
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[Sat 4:48:27 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
Cara Burton nods
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[Sat 4:48:29 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
I'm with Daniel
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[Sat 4:49:08 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
I'm on board, although I will say our last tinkering was a group decision..
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[Sat 4:49:13 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Yeah, Doc. Cause they're either in chaos right now OR they're locked down tight and we're gonna die in the attempt.
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[Sat 4:49:19 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
But we can't know till we get there.
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[Sat 4:49:47 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
I was more concerned they would move them and we lose the opportunity, but yes, that too
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[Sat 4:50:15 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
So let's tell our friend Benny that we're in.
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[Sat 4:50:18 PM] Roland Denhardt - Rob:
They might not know that they're cut off for a while yet. It depends on if they were expecting a communication from Council space or not anytime soon.
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[Sat 4:50:32 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
The longer we take, the more time there is for news to travel.
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[Sat 4:50:50 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Literally the moment we arrived here is when that clock starts
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[Sat 4:51:20 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
You'll be happy to know that IBI will be taking you up on the contract.
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[Sat 4:51:20 PM] undefined - Michelle:
lol. it started the minute we turned the machine on
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[Sat 4:51:40 PM] undefined - Michelle:
we're already four weeks past that
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[Sat 4:52:25 PM] undefined - Michelle:
We should discuss what "asylum" means too - so all the business stuff we were just debating.
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[Sat 4:52:27 PM] undefined - Kristian:
"the DM offers a hard choice about your future deaths"
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[Sat 4:52:27 PM] undefined - Jason G:
thinking "we can get there in a couple days...."
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[Sat 4:52:42 PM] undefined - Michelle:
ugh
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[Sat 4:52:46 PM] undefined - Rob:
NO!
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[Sat 4:52:46 PM] undefined - Jason G:
lol
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[Sat 4:53:00 PM] undefined - Michelle:
DO NOT TEMPT THE SEA BEASTS!
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[Sat 4:53:06 PM] undefined - Kristian:
Izzy is 60x stronger, he can probably get us there before we leave, just sayin'
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[Sat 4:53:09 PM] undefined - Jason G:
ah c'mon. we get the full armor up AND get there in time
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[Sat 4:53:23 PM] undefined - Rob:
How far is it from Whistler?
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[Sat 4:53:31 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
We also need to discuss our ... "passenger". *looks at Aiden and Cara*
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[Sat 4:54:08 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Anyone outside the bubble is going to notice this reasonably soon. And word outside the bubble is going to spread just as fast as it always did.
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[Sat 4:54:15 PM] undefined - Rob:
I think 5 weeks, minimum. Assuming someone on the edge of the bubble relays the news to them.
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[Sat 4:55:04 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Sure. Just as fast as it always did. But if the military realizes something is up, you can figure someone is sending notes to alllll their little bases
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[Sat 4:55:08 PM] undefined - Rob:
Wait, sorry. 4 weeks assuming a ship on the edge of the bubble brought the news to them.
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[Sat 4:55:15 PM] undefined - Jason G:
speaking of... we should be making some serious market investments NOW, before this becomes common knowledge<br /><br />does Jericho have insider trading laws?
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[Sat 4:55:23 PM] undefined - Michelle:
lol
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[Sat 4:55:33 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Without knowing how this will fall apart?
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[Sat 4:55:34 PM] undefined - Jason G:
because you know that's what Benny just went to do
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[Sat 4:55:52 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Buy IBI!
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[Sat 4:55:59 PM] undefined - Veth:
SHORT EVERYTHIIIING!
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[Sat 4:56:09 PM] undefined - Rob:
So we're just having them refit the weapons for now, right? That's what we decided?
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[Sat 4:56:15 PM] undefined - Jason G:
you guys OK with the full refit and dirk express?
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[Sat 4:56:26 PM] undefined - Rob:
How about no?
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[Sat 4:56:28 PM] undefined - Kristian:
*Dirk itching to make new law rolls*
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[Sat 4:56:29 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Seriously tho - we should wrangle the option to set up shop here in Jericho favorably if we pull this off. Not just asylum.
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[Sat 4:56:49 PM] undefined - Michelle:
We did just eff up the entire economy
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[Sat 4:57:17 PM] undefined - Michelle:
It'd be a hard sell on the Dirk Express
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[Sat 4:57:26 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Ok, let's get the weapons and critical upgrades done. The remainder can be completed when we return, as originally stated?
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[Sat 4:57:32 PM] undefined - Michelle:
Too many chances we don't get there at all
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[Sat 4:57:46 PM] Cara Burton - Jason K:
That makes sense to me
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[Sat 4:58:32 PM] undefined - Rob:
I think the skin upgrade is going to wait until after the mission.
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[Sat 4:58:41 PM] undefined - Kristian:
Dirk votes yes because a) not dying b) month of down time after all the shit we have just gone through
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[Sat 4:58:50 PM] undefined - Jason G:
I think we needed to move before that, right? but I'd like them to complete that regardless afterwards
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[Sat 4:59:13 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
And we get a fast-track on reincorporating and banking here.... I know that wasn't specified before, sir, but given the ... uncertain times... having some assurances would be greatly appreciated.
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[Sat 4:59:46 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Again, appreciated, sir.
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[Sat 5:00:26 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
private encrypted message to Benny now/later asking for Jericho trade advice since I don't trade here. and I will actually invest/short strongly with my own assets.
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[Sat 5:00:31 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Only some recommendations on nice places to settle, once this is all done.
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[Sat 5:00:35 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Daniel Eckhart smiles wryly
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[Sat 5:01:02 PM] undefined - Veth:
nice :)
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[Sat 5:01:10 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
woot
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[Sat 5:01:13 PM] undefined - Veth:
Thanks Deb!
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[Sat 5:01:13 PM] undefined - Kristian:
next time...Jack "WHAT THE SHIT YOU MORONS"
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[Sat 5:01:19 PM] Din Strata - Veth:
14th is good for me
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[Sat 5:01:20 PM] undefined - Kristian:
June 14 good
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[Sat 5:01:21 PM] undefined - Rob:
Should be good.
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[Sat 5:01:25 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Should be ok
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[Sat 5:01:33 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
14th works
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[Sat 5:01:38 PM] undefined - Jason K:
Thanks Deb!
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[Sat 5:01:40 PM] Daniel Eckhart - Michelle:
Thanks Deb!
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[Sat 5:01:41 PM] Din Strata - Veth:
Later guys :)
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[Sat 5:01:43 PM] undefined - Rob:
Thanks Deb.
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[Sat 5:01:44 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
thanks Deb!
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[Sat 5:01:45 PM] undefined - Jason G:
and any council business is pretty much paralyzed
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[Sat 5:01:47 PM] Dirk Yang - Kristian:
cya in 2
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[Sat 5:01:48 PM] Aiden Harlan - Jason G:
Thanks, Deb!
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