The Starport Dive

[terrymixon]

Funnily enough I blundered across the below on the internets and thought it depicted something of the dynamic between Garvin and Aster. She's classily attired while he's dressing down but nevertheless clearly hoping to make amends by impressing her with the dimensions of his pipe...

Garvin and Aster.jpg

You've got her, I think.

[terrymixon]

The song says it all…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhJ69m ... rogoodVEVO

I already have one self-rescuing princess with high-end combat implants that favors powered armor. Should I go for two and give Fredrick heart failure?

The first few paragraphs after my self-rescuing princess was forcibly enhanced by machines that both didn't care whether she wanted the implants or not, and left no instruction manual.

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Kelsey Bandar, second in line to the Imperial Throne of the Terran Empire, fell with a crash loud enough to turn every head in the physical therapy center. She lay there in the deafening silence, staring at the metal support bar in her hand. She’d ripped it completely out of the floor and bent it.

“Really?” The blonde noblewoman snorted bitterly and dropped the mangled bar. It landed with a substantial clang. She rolled onto her back and stared at the white-tiled ceiling.

“That may be a first for me,” Doctor Lily Stone, chief medical officer of the Imperial Terran Fleet destroyer Athena, said dryly. “Normally, the patient gives out before the equipment. You’ll forgive me if I don’t offer you a hand up.”

[Thumper]

YES!!!

[terrymixon]

See my power! Risk death and find it! MWHAHAHHA!!!

[Thumper]

Bah! See there! You made this a video game. Respawning encourages acts of great recklessness.

[terrymixon]

Bah! See there! You made this a video game. Respawning encourages acts of great recklessness.

True, but Walt will remember in vivid detail how it feels to drown. PTSD for sure.

[Thumper]

Hmm. Are you confusing Teleportation with Clairvoyance? Clairvoyance requires a psionic to project in a bearing, range, and azimuth from present position? Teleportation merely requires a mental image of the destination from some source (been there or the image implanted via psionic means).
…plus the range to that location requires sufficient strength pts.

I know, I’m being a rules Nazi!

Well now ops test Metz’ brilliance!

[terrymixon]

Hmm. Are you confusing Teleportation with Clairvoyance? Clairvoyance requires a psionic to project in a bearing, range, and azimuth from present position? Teleportation merely requires a mental image of the destination from some source (been there or the image implanted via psionic means).
…plus the range to that location requires sufficient strength pts.

I know, I’m being a rules Nazi!

Well now ops test Metz’ brilliance!

I think I see where you are going. Back to the cave? You should have said that more clearly. I will roll for that. You're under a lot of pressure, so we'll see. I kinda want to kill all rules lawyers, so there might be a negative DM.

[Thumper]

No! Don’t! Let this play out. Will be fun. I was just quibbling that I , Thumper, had it in mind to do other things (very rational and IAW the rules, I might add) based on the PC’s (imaginary) actual reality.

Let this scenario play…

[terrymixon]

No! Don’t! Let this play out. Will be fun. I was just quibbling that I , Thumper, had it in mind to do other things (very rational and IAW the rules, I might add) based on the PC’s (imaginary) actual reality.

Let this scenario play…

If you guys don't spell out the specifics, I get to make things up that make sense to me.

[Thumper]

I figured Terry might try to kill Walt since his pre-op brief said never go off alone!

[terrymixon]

I figured Terry might try to kill Walt since his pre-op brief said never go off alone!

It was handy.

[Thumper]

I will use this later on, too

[terrymixon]

I will use this later on, too

"That thing I did? Don't do that."

[helvorn]

Funnily enough I blundered across the below on the internets and thought it depicted something of the dynamic between Garvin and Aster. She's classily attired while he's dressing down but nevertheless clearly hoping to make amends by impressing her with the dimensions of his pipe...

Garvin and Aster.jpg

You've got her, I think.

Very nicely done! The visual really help to define the characters even if they are not perfect representations.

[helvorn]

I already have one self-rescuing princess with high-end combat implants that favors powered armor. Should I go for two and give Fredrick heart failure?

Or maybe you just need the attitude to go with the mysterious civilization motif.

[Thumper]

From Post #339:

Also, that fusion pistol you found in the Ancients city doesn't really look like it is of Ancients manufacture. It looks like something a human would make, rather than a Dryone. Maybe one of the servitors cooked it up. Or maybe someone else built it and it made its way there. You'll likely never know.

Are all the other advanced rifles and the the Maser Pistol obviously Ancients in appearance? Could any be credibly passed off as a Metz advanced creation?

After thinking about it, Walt will change out the body pistol for the Accelerator Pistol and a couple mags.

[terrymixon]

From Post #339:

Also, that fusion pistol you found in the Ancients city doesn't really look like it is of Ancients manufacture. It looks like something a human would make, rather than a Dryone. Maybe one of the servitors cooked it up. Or maybe someone else built it and it made its way there. You'll likely never know.

So the Fusion Pistol is, or at least appears, non-Ancient? So, easily passed off as a Metz creation.

Walt would holster that in a chest holster under his suit jacket in place of a body pistol.

Are all the other advanced rifles and the the Maser Pistol obviously Ancients in appearance? Could any be credibly passed off as a Metz advanced creation?

None of the weapons in Mad Dog’s hidden cache are of obviously Ancients origin, extremely high tech origin will get a lot of attention anyway.

[Thumper]

Sure, but credibly explainable…At least to high authorities.

Ion and fusion/plasma weapons are common at TL 14/15…same as Accelerator Weapons… so shouldn’t be too difficult Metz-slain, right? The Maser, Sunbeam, and Disintegrator…”Lucy? You got some ‘splaining to do!”

[terrymixon]

Sure, but credibly explainable…At least to high authorities.

Ion and fusion/plasma weapons are common at TL 14/15…same as Accelerator Weapons… so shouldn’t be too difficult Metz-slain, right? The Maser, Sunbeam, and Disintegrator…”Lucy? You got some ‘splaining to do!”

Explainable? Yes. Draw every person in the sector that wants that tech at any cost? Also yes. Have the authorities impound the for public safety (and to reverse engineer)? Once again, yes.