FAIL to PASS OUT. OVERHEAR CONVERSATION.
USE OBSOLETE PC to REQUEST a BACKGROUND CHECK on the MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST from the GRU.
TRY to PASS OUT again.
Let's play: SCRAMming up!
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Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
"If the capsule explodes, heroes of the Zenobian Onion will still rain upon us. Literally!" - Shroom
Cosmonaut Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (deceased, rain), Cosmonaut Petr Petrovich Petrov, Unnamed MASA Engineer, and Unnamed Zenobian Engineerski in Let's play: BARIS
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
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Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
OFFER PÁLINKA to GUEST without getting out of the COT.
SAY that if he would like to join, perhaps he could prove to do so by seeing whether he can UPGRADE the Ravenstar's MFD's with help from the OLD COMPUTER for BETTER NAVIGATION. Also, could he please take a look whether the robot probe is still in there and what he thinks about it.
BUT BEFORE, TELL PHYSICIST that I quickly have to write an email to RUSPROM ENT.
In e-mail, NOTE to tell RUSPROM ENT. that after consultation of our legal department, a few notes on payment:
- we require 2 million dollars at the signing of contract. This is to cover any pre-launch fees, transportation of the Ravenstar itself and legal fees. We refuse to accept any mission without signing of contract.
- payment: once the initial 2 million dollars are paid, the remaining of the bill can be paid at arrival of destination. Due to temporary legal misunderstanding, we require to be paid in cash or a valid cheque.
- a note on launch costs: launch cost include to-and-back. In the case of the moon mission, launch cost has to be paid twice: upon arriving on the moon and upon arriving back on Earth.
Once e-mail is sent, pass out on COT again.
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SAY that if he would like to join, perhaps he could prove to do so by seeing whether he can UPGRADE the Ravenstar's MFD's with help from the OLD COMPUTER for BETTER NAVIGATION. Also, could he please take a look whether the robot probe is still in there and what he thinks about it.
BUT BEFORE, TELL PHYSICIST that I quickly have to write an email to RUSPROM ENT.
In e-mail, NOTE to tell RUSPROM ENT. that after consultation of our legal department, a few notes on payment:
- we require 2 million dollars at the signing of contract. This is to cover any pre-launch fees, transportation of the Ravenstar itself and legal fees. We refuse to accept any mission without signing of contract.
- payment: once the initial 2 million dollars are paid, the remaining of the bill can be paid at arrival of destination. Due to temporary legal misunderstanding, we require to be paid in cash or a valid cheque.
- a note on launch costs: launch cost include to-and-back. In the case of the moon mission, launch cost has to be paid twice: upon arriving on the moon and upon arriving back on Earth.
Once e-mail is sent, pass out on COT again.
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WELCOME the MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST to the INSANITY that is TEAM L.A.M.E.
DECIDE i'm KNACKERED. OPT to SLEEP in the PILOT'S SEAT, just in case WE HAVE TO LEAVE SUDDENLY.
DECIDE i'm KNACKERED. OPT to SLEEP in the PILOT'S SEAT, just in case WE HAVE TO LEAVE SUDDENLY.
Baltar: "I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction!"
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
February 22nd 2025
Saturday
Abandoned airbase
Somewhere in Papua New Guinea
ROUND 3
You are now: ZIXINUS, ETERNAL FREEDOM, PHANT, WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY, RI'ANN SHAPP, LARGE IRRITABLE DOG, COMBAT JANITOR, SMARMY AMERICAN SAILOR and STIRLITZ THE RUSSIAN SPY.
You are MILDLY SICK. You are SLOWLY getting OVER the TEAR GAS POISONING.
You are in a JUNGLE. There is an OLD HANGAR. There is a slab of TARMAC and a RUNWAY. There is a SPACEPLANE. The SPACEPLANE is MAGNIFICENT. It is ALMOST EVENING. It is EVEN HOTTER. Also EVEN MORE HUMID.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES.
RI'ANN SHAPP is CAMPING out in the OPEN with LARGE IRRITABLE DOG and COMBAT JANITOR. They SEEM to have CALMED DOWN a BIT. They have CONSUMED most of your FOOD. They are VERY SATISFIED. STIRLITZ THE RUSSIAN SPY is ATTEMPTING to CONVINCE him to WORK as your LOADMASTER. RI'ANN SHAPP seems UNDECIDED. He has MELLOWED OUT somewhat, though. It's PROBABLY the copious QUANTITIES of RED MEAT he and LARGE IRRITABLE DOG have CONSUMED.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES.
ZIXINUS gets an IDEA to use a CELL PHONE to CONTACT your EMPLOYERS but it doesn't WORK as there is RECEPTION, but no SERVICE. ZIXINUS ABANDONS that PLAN, SENDING an EMAIL to ROACH CITY MOTEL instead. He CONTINUES his DISCUSSIONS while COMPOSING a REPLY to the SALES QUERY. He also tries to ORDER some STUFF, but you have no ADRESS.
WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY POINTS OUT that the CEREMONY is in NINE DAYS, and DOUBTS if you can MANAGE to PREP the SPACEPLANE for LAUNCH in TIME.
COMBAT JANITOR is WORKING on his SUNTAN.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES.
The CACKLE is INTERRUPTED by ZIXINUS, who HANDS a bunch of TACTICOOL GEAR to COMBAT JANITOR. ZIXINUS EXPLAINS that he MIGHT need it. COMBAT JANITOR ACCEPTS the TACTICOOL GEAR but doesn't SEEM very CONVINCED. WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY is ORDERED to FASHION some AIR PURIFIERS.
WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY FAILS his STAT ROLL. You LOSE TWO more RANDOM SPARE PARTS. You GAIN a SOMEHWAT DANGEROUS piece of MACHINERY. The NAVIGATION SYSTEM is as GOOD as it is GOING to GET without a FLIGHT SOFTWARE SDK. If you ATTEMPT to REWRITE the FLIGHT SOFTWARE without the SDK you RISK making a HOPELESS MESS of it.
Being TIRED you RETIRE for the NIGHT, sleeping WHEREVER there is SPACE.
SMARMY AMERICAN SAILOR CONTINUES to PLAY with FIRE.
Sunday
Abandoned airbase
Somewhere in Papua New Guinea
ROUND 4
You are now: ZIXINUS, ETERNAL FREEDOM, PHANT, WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY, RI'ANN SHAPP, LARGE IRRITABLE DOG, COMBAT JANITOR, SMARMY AMERICAN SAILOR, STIRLITZ THE RUSSIAN SPY and MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST.
You are no longer SICK. You have RECOVERED from TEAR GAS POISONING.
You are in a JUNGLE. There is an OLD HANGAR. There is a slab of TARMAC and a RUNWAY. There is a SPACEPLANE. The SPACEPLANE is MAGNIFICENT. It is NEARLY MORNING. It is KINDA COLD.
You WAKE UP. There is a GUY STANDING over COMBAT JANITOR. He LOOKS really NERDY. He has SURVIVAL GEAR on HIM.
NERDY GUY Says: Hey janitor, you know that hungarian was right, you made the correct choice. You ability to pull weapons out of your ass must have an upper limit.
COMBAT JANITOR WAKES UP.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES in CONFUSION.
NERDY GUY Says: You shouldn't kick a gift horse in the teeth...
ZIXINUS ROLLS OVER on his COT.
ZIXINUS Mutters: Was that the robot?
COMBAT JANITOR WONDERS if NERDY GUY is a COLLECTIVE DELUSION.
COMBAT JANITOR REMEMBERS something.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES
NERDY GUY INTRODUCES himself to COMBAT JANITOR as a MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST. ETERNAL FREEDOM is STANDING in the CABIN HATCH of the MAGNIFICENT SPACEPLANE for a MORNING PISS. ETERNAL FREEDOM PAUSES in SURPRISE upon SEEING the MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST.
ETERNAL FREEDOM Muttrs: My eyes must be worse than I thought...
ETERNAL FREEDOM accidentally PISSES on his SHOES.
ETERNAL FREEDOM Says: Ok, who's the new guy? Anybody?
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST begins WALKING around the TARMAC. He is BABBLING the WHOLE TIME. MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST ADMIRES the MAGNIFICENT SPACEPLANE. He CURSES an IDIOT LAB PARTNER of SOME SORT. He CURSES FUCKER MAXWELL.
There is SOMETHING about a LASER MISHAP. It is EITHER REALLY COOL or REALLY SCARY.
COMBAT JANITOR SCREAMS in HORROR and BEGINS to PANIC. The PANIC is ENORMOUS.
ZIXINUS is WOKEN UP. He MUTTERS someting about PALINKA to the MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST. STIRLITZ THE RUSSIAN SPY is FURIOUSLY TYPING something on the KEYBOARD of the OBSOLETE PC. ETERNAL FREEDOM ZIPS his PANTS up and OFFERS a HAND to MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST.
ZIXINUS has WOKEN UP somewhat and is OFFERING a JOB to the MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST.
There is a PING from the OBSOLETE PC. You RECEIVE a MESSAGE. STRILITZ THE RUSSIAN SPY RUSHES to the OBSOLETE PC and SHOVES ZIXINUS out of the WAY, but it is NOT the GRU.
PHANT wakes up. PHANT LOOKS at ZIXINUS with INSANE EYES.
PHANT Says: Counting down. All functions nominal. All functions optimal. Counting down. The center holds. The falcon hears the falconer. Infrastructure, check. Wetware, check. Everyone hang on to the life bar, please.
PHANT begins to SCRIBBLE on a PIECE OF PAPER.
PHANT Says: Apotheosis was the beginning before the beginning. Devices on alert. Observe the procedures of a general alert. The base and the pinnacle. The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes.
He is WORKING FURIOUSLY. There does not SEEM to be a RESULT just YET.
SUDDENLY there is a CRASH and the SOUND of an ENGINE. SUAVE PLAYBOY SKIDS to a HALT in a JEEP. The JEEP is slightly BEAT UP. There is a TROPICAL BEAUTY in the PASSENGER SEAT. There are many PERISHABLE SUPPLIES in the BACK of the JEEP.
The TROPICAL BEAUTY is really HOT. She MIGHT be the DAUGHTER of the VILLAGE CHIEF. She is SPEAKING very FAST in the LOCAL LANGUAGE. She is ALL OVER the SUAVE PLAYBOY. She is VERY CLINGY.
You have a slightly BAD FEELING about THIS.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES
What do you do? _
Saturday
Abandoned airbase
Somewhere in Papua New Guinea
ROUND 3
You are now: ZIXINUS, ETERNAL FREEDOM, PHANT, WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY, RI'ANN SHAPP, LARGE IRRITABLE DOG, COMBAT JANITOR, SMARMY AMERICAN SAILOR and STIRLITZ THE RUSSIAN SPY.
You are MILDLY SICK. You are SLOWLY getting OVER the TEAR GAS POISONING.
You are in a JUNGLE. There is an OLD HANGAR. There is a slab of TARMAC and a RUNWAY. There is a SPACEPLANE. The SPACEPLANE is MAGNIFICENT. It is ALMOST EVENING. It is EVEN HOTTER. Also EVEN MORE HUMID.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES.
RI'ANN SHAPP is CAMPING out in the OPEN with LARGE IRRITABLE DOG and COMBAT JANITOR. They SEEM to have CALMED DOWN a BIT. They have CONSUMED most of your FOOD. They are VERY SATISFIED. STIRLITZ THE RUSSIAN SPY is ATTEMPTING to CONVINCE him to WORK as your LOADMASTER. RI'ANN SHAPP seems UNDECIDED. He has MELLOWED OUT somewhat, though. It's PROBABLY the copious QUANTITIES of RED MEAT he and LARGE IRRITABLE DOG have CONSUMED.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES.
ZIXINUS gets an IDEA to use a CELL PHONE to CONTACT your EMPLOYERS but it doesn't WORK as there is RECEPTION, but no SERVICE. ZIXINUS ABANDONS that PLAN, SENDING an EMAIL to ROACH CITY MOTEL instead. He CONTINUES his DISCUSSIONS while COMPOSING a REPLY to the SALES QUERY. He also tries to ORDER some STUFF, but you have no ADRESS.
WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY POINTS OUT that the CEREMONY is in NINE DAYS, and DOUBTS if you can MANAGE to PREP the SPACEPLANE for LAUNCH in TIME.
COMBAT JANITOR is WORKING on his SUNTAN.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES.
The CACKLE is INTERRUPTED by ZIXINUS, who HANDS a bunch of TACTICOOL GEAR to COMBAT JANITOR. ZIXINUS EXPLAINS that he MIGHT need it. COMBAT JANITOR ACCEPTS the TACTICOOL GEAR but doesn't SEEM very CONVINCED. WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY is ORDERED to FASHION some AIR PURIFIERS.
WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY FAILS his STAT ROLL. You LOSE TWO more RANDOM SPARE PARTS. You GAIN a SOMEHWAT DANGEROUS piece of MACHINERY. The NAVIGATION SYSTEM is as GOOD as it is GOING to GET without a FLIGHT SOFTWARE SDK. If you ATTEMPT to REWRITE the FLIGHT SOFTWARE without the SDK you RISK making a HOPELESS MESS of it.
Being TIRED you RETIRE for the NIGHT, sleeping WHEREVER there is SPACE.
SMARMY AMERICAN SAILOR CONTINUES to PLAY with FIRE.
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February 23rd 2025Sunday
Abandoned airbase
Somewhere in Papua New Guinea
ROUND 4
You are now: ZIXINUS, ETERNAL FREEDOM, PHANT, WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY, RI'ANN SHAPP, LARGE IRRITABLE DOG, COMBAT JANITOR, SMARMY AMERICAN SAILOR, STIRLITZ THE RUSSIAN SPY and MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST.
You are no longer SICK. You have RECOVERED from TEAR GAS POISONING.
You are in a JUNGLE. There is an OLD HANGAR. There is a slab of TARMAC and a RUNWAY. There is a SPACEPLANE. The SPACEPLANE is MAGNIFICENT. It is NEARLY MORNING. It is KINDA COLD.
You WAKE UP. There is a GUY STANDING over COMBAT JANITOR. He LOOKS really NERDY. He has SURVIVAL GEAR on HIM.
NERDY GUY Says: Hey janitor, you know that hungarian was right, you made the correct choice. You ability to pull weapons out of your ass must have an upper limit.
COMBAT JANITOR WAKES UP.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES in CONFUSION.
NERDY GUY Says: You shouldn't kick a gift horse in the teeth...
ZIXINUS ROLLS OVER on his COT.
ZIXINUS Mutters: Was that the robot?
COMBAT JANITOR WONDERS if NERDY GUY is a COLLECTIVE DELUSION.
COMBAT JANITOR REMEMBERS something.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES
NERDY GUY INTRODUCES himself to COMBAT JANITOR as a MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST. ETERNAL FREEDOM is STANDING in the CABIN HATCH of the MAGNIFICENT SPACEPLANE for a MORNING PISS. ETERNAL FREEDOM PAUSES in SURPRISE upon SEEING the MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST.
ETERNAL FREEDOM Muttrs: My eyes must be worse than I thought...
ETERNAL FREEDOM accidentally PISSES on his SHOES.
ETERNAL FREEDOM Says: Ok, who's the new guy? Anybody?
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST begins WALKING around the TARMAC. He is BABBLING the WHOLE TIME. MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST ADMIRES the MAGNIFICENT SPACEPLANE. He CURSES an IDIOT LAB PARTNER of SOME SORT. He CURSES FUCKER MAXWELL.
There is SOMETHING about a LASER MISHAP. It is EITHER REALLY COOL or REALLY SCARY.
COMBAT JANITOR SCREAMS in HORROR and BEGINS to PANIC. The PANIC is ENORMOUS.
ZIXINUS is WOKEN UP. He MUTTERS someting about PALINKA to the MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST. STIRLITZ THE RUSSIAN SPY is FURIOUSLY TYPING something on the KEYBOARD of the OBSOLETE PC. ETERNAL FREEDOM ZIPS his PANTS up and OFFERS a HAND to MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST.
ZIXINUS has WOKEN UP somewhat and is OFFERING a JOB to the MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST.
There is a PING from the OBSOLETE PC. You RECEIVE a MESSAGE. STRILITZ THE RUSSIAN SPY RUSHES to the OBSOLETE PC and SHOVES ZIXINUS out of the WAY, but it is NOT the GRU.
ZIXINUS seems DISMAYED at the OFFER. He makes a NOTE and SHOWS it to PHANT in a VAIN HOPE he can REVIEW IT.FROM: RUSPROM ENT.
TO: LLOYD AEROSPACE AND MANAGEMENT ENTERPRISES, TEMPORARY LAUNCH SITE
Unfortunately, the cost-benefit analysis of the cost of such a PR venture is not positive. We are prepared to offer a lump sum of 9 million US dollars to transport two passengers with small personal luggage to Armstrong Base and back, out of which 10% can be paid out up front upon signature of contract.
We agree to a signed contract for the service.
Do you have the capability to transport the passengers to the launch site?
PHANT wakes up. PHANT LOOKS at ZIXINUS with INSANE EYES.
PHANT Says: Counting down. All functions nominal. All functions optimal. Counting down. The center holds. The falcon hears the falconer. Infrastructure, check. Wetware, check. Everyone hang on to the life bar, please.
PHANT begins to SCRIBBLE on a PIECE OF PAPER.
PHANT Says: Apotheosis was the beginning before the beginning. Devices on alert. Observe the procedures of a general alert. The base and the pinnacle. The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes.
He is WORKING FURIOUSLY. There does not SEEM to be a RESULT just YET.
SUDDENLY there is a CRASH and the SOUND of an ENGINE. SUAVE PLAYBOY SKIDS to a HALT in a JEEP. The JEEP is slightly BEAT UP. There is a TROPICAL BEAUTY in the PASSENGER SEAT. There are many PERISHABLE SUPPLIES in the BACK of the JEEP.
The TROPICAL BEAUTY is really HOT. She MIGHT be the DAUGHTER of the VILLAGE CHIEF. She is SPEAKING very FAST in the LOCAL LANGUAGE. She is ALL OVER the SUAVE PLAYBOY. She is VERY CLINGY.
You have a slightly BAD FEELING about THIS.
COMBAT JANITOR CACKLES
What do you do? _
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
- NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
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UNKNOWN PERSON finds OLD AIRBASE, sees the MADNESS happening, hides behind ABANDONED TRUCK.
An inhabitant from the Island of Cars.
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SUAVE PLAYBOY has come back with one hundred and fifty percent of the THINGS he was sent for although may have AGREED to UNKNOWN THINGS as there were many people saying THINGS HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND.
SUAVE PLAYBOY tosses the AMEX card back to ZIXINUS and explains the VILLAGE doesnt take CREDIT CARDS.
SUAVE PLAYBOY triumphantly settles in at the base for additional TIME WITH HIS GIRL both for enjoyment and to try and figure out what she's TALKING ABOUT.
SUAVE PLAYBOY tosses the AMEX card back to ZIXINUS and explains the VILLAGE doesnt take CREDIT CARDS.
SUAVE PLAYBOY triumphantly settles in at the base for additional TIME WITH HIS GIRL both for enjoyment and to try and figure out what she's TALKING ABOUT.
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Eternal_Freedom
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Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
Suggest to ZIXINUS that we take the offer, it's the ONLY ONE we've had AFTER ALL.
Baltar: "I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction!"
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
I suggest we take the offer. I will be the ground crew while someone else flies up in it.
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
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Simon_Jester
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Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST thanks ZIXINUS. TAKES SIP of PÁLINKA. His EYES get WIDE. You CAN'T BE SURE, but for a SECOND you think you see SMOKE COMING out of his EARS.Zixinus wrote:OFFER PÁLINKA to GUEST without getting out of the COT.
SPENDS next SEVERAL SECONDS in display of RUNNING AROUND AND FLAILING HIS ARMS going "Aaah! I can't see! I can't see! Oh, wait. Never mind. I'm OK." PROBABLY doesn't KNOCK OVER anything IMPORTANT. Probably.
After SOMEWHAT RECOVERING from THERMONUCLEAR HUNGARIAN BRANDY ATTACK, says that he would be HAPPY to TAKE A SHOT at it. It is AMBIGUOUS whether by this he means THE NAVIGATION SOFTWARE or ROBOT PROBE, but his TONE SUGGESTS he means UPGRADES not GUNFIRE.SAY that if he would like to join, perhaps he could prove to do so by seeing whether he can UPGRADE the Ravenstar's MFD's with help from the OLD COMPUTER for BETTER NAVIGATION. Also, could he please take a look whether the robot probe is still in there and what he thinks about it.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST then CONSIDERS problems in DETAIL. DOUBTS he can REWRITE NAVIGATION SOFTWARE in HURRY without SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT or THREE LETTER ACRONYM version of SAME. EXTREMELY RELUCTANT to SCREW WITH critical NAVIGATION SOFTWARE of ORBITING SPACESHIP without PROPER DEVKIT.
MIGHT be able to WRITE simplified CHEAT SHEET type PROGRAM, containing NECESSARY EQUATIONS and USEFUL APPROXIMATIONS for dealing with FUCKER NEWTON. This will hopefully MAKE PILOT'S JOB EASIER, allowing him to DO MANUAL CALCULATIONS more QUICKLY.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST accepts HAND from ETERNAL FREEDOM, then looks into COCKPIT. SEES equations SCRIBBLED on WINDSHIELD in UNREMOVABLE GREASE PENCIL.
DECIDES to WRITE CHEAT SHEET PROGRAM.
CHEAT SHEET is NO SUBSTITUTE for REAL NAVIGATION SOFTWARE, but WAY BETTER than SCRIBBLING EQUATIONS on WINDSHIELD with UNREMOVABLE GREASE PENCIL.
AS to ROBOT...
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST rummages around in SURVIVAL GEAR. SURVIVAL GEAR was packed by NERDY SCIENTIST, and is RATHER IMPRACTICAL. However, it contains NUMEROUS TOOLS for SCIENCE!
PHYSICIST retrieves HIGH VOLTAGE LOGIC PROBE. Tests LOGIC PROBE. There is a SLIGHT SPARKING NOISE.
"I'm sure we can come to a beneficial arrangement"
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST GRINS.
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Zixinus
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Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
SIGH at MORNING INSANITY that is TEAM LAME.
GET some FOOD from TRUCK LOADED WITH SUPPLIES. MAKE BREAKFAST for OTHERS as WELL (except SHEP). USE Pálinka to MAKE FOOD BETTER. EAT.
RECEIVE TEMPORARY STAT BONUSES for being WELL-RESTED and HAVING GOOD BREAKFAST.
AGREE with Eternal Freedom. That sum is still significant, should be enough to refuel and get us some stuff. Still, ask Ivan whether we can get any more out of this company in the future in lieu of lesser payment. Business contacts, stocks, letters of recommendation, perhaps even some of their products. Hell, what the hell do these guys make anyway?
Wish that PHANT would HELP with business research. READ PIECE OF PAPER given by PHANT.
LOOK FOR ROBOT PROBE INSIDE RAVENSTAR. WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO IT.
Once that is done, ASK WCDG, ETERNAL FREEDOM and PHYSICIST to REFUEL RAVENSTAR. While they do that ASK IVAN, SAILOR and JANITOR to HELP and GET SUPPLIES INSIDE the HANGAR'S OFFICE. I help of course.
ASK whether anyone feels like staying. Someone needs to WATCH PHANT in case he STARTS TO BECOME SANE and to KEEP BASE SAFE.
Once that is done, GET MYSELF WASHED. Then go INSIDE RAVENSTAR and CLEAN UP anything that IVAN MISSED.
GET some FOOD from TRUCK LOADED WITH SUPPLIES. MAKE BREAKFAST for OTHERS as WELL (except SHEP). USE Pálinka to MAKE FOOD BETTER. EAT.
RECEIVE TEMPORARY STAT BONUSES for being WELL-RESTED and HAVING GOOD BREAKFAST.
AGREE with Eternal Freedom. That sum is still significant, should be enough to refuel and get us some stuff. Still, ask Ivan whether we can get any more out of this company in the future in lieu of lesser payment. Business contacts, stocks, letters of recommendation, perhaps even some of their products. Hell, what the hell do these guys make anyway?
Wish that PHANT would HELP with business research. READ PIECE OF PAPER given by PHANT.
LOOK FOR ROBOT PROBE INSIDE RAVENSTAR. WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO IT.
Once that is done, ASK WCDG, ETERNAL FREEDOM and PHYSICIST to REFUEL RAVENSTAR. While they do that ASK IVAN, SAILOR and JANITOR to HELP and GET SUPPLIES INSIDE the HANGAR'S OFFICE. I help of course.
ASK whether anyone feels like staying. Someone needs to WATCH PHANT in case he STARTS TO BECOME SANE and to KEEP BASE SAFE.
Once that is done, GET MYSELF WASHED. Then go INSIDE RAVENSTAR and CLEAN UP anything that IVAN MISSED.
Credo!
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Scottish Ninja
- Jedi Knight
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- Joined: 2007-02-26 06:39pm
- Location: Not Scotland, that's for sure
Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
AGREE on taking the OFFER. "Is better than dying poor and alone."
FIND some SOLVENT that will REMOVE the GREASE PENCIL without DAMAGING the WINDSHIELD. LOOK ASKANCE at MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST for his APPARENT DISDAIN for RUSSIAN MATHEMATICS. OFFER him some CHEAP RUSSIAN VODKA anyway.
Tell SUAVE PLAYBOY that he will need to DRIVE COMBAT JANITOR to the SHORE so he can go on his SECRET MISSION. SHOW him WHERE TO GO on the MAP. GIVE him a HANDHELD RADIO.
GO BACK to the HANGAR to get a FAN to AIR OUT the SPACEPLANE INTERIOR. SPOT UNKNOWN PERSON. LOUDLY DETAIN HIM.
"And who are YOU? Spy? Saboteur? Assassin? Or potential employee?"
FIND some SOLVENT that will REMOVE the GREASE PENCIL without DAMAGING the WINDSHIELD. LOOK ASKANCE at MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST for his APPARENT DISDAIN for RUSSIAN MATHEMATICS. OFFER him some CHEAP RUSSIAN VODKA anyway.
Tell SUAVE PLAYBOY that he will need to DRIVE COMBAT JANITOR to the SHORE so he can go on his SECRET MISSION. SHOW him WHERE TO GO on the MAP. GIVE him a HANDHELD RADIO.
GO BACK to the HANGAR to get a FAN to AIR OUT the SPACEPLANE INTERIOR. SPOT UNKNOWN PERSON. LOUDLY DETAIN HIM.
"And who are YOU? Spy? Saboteur? Assassin? Or potential employee?"
"If the capsule explodes, heroes of the Zenobian Onion will still rain upon us. Literally!" - Shroom
Cosmonaut Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (deceased, rain), Cosmonaut Petr Petrovich Petrov, Unnamed MASA Engineer, and Unnamed Zenobian Engineerski in Let's play: BARIS
Captain, MFS Robber Baron, PRFYNAFBTFC - "Absolute Corruption Powers Absolutely"
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Scottish Ninja
- Jedi Knight
- Posts: 964
- Joined: 2007-02-26 06:39pm
- Location: Not Scotland, that's for sure
Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
CHECK UP on RUSPROM. "PUBLIC INFORMATION is SKETCHY. RUSPROM seems to have interests in CONSTRUCTION and HEAVY MACHINERY, possibly also ELECTRONICS, including AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY, and also OIL. Could be DELIBERATELY VAGUE. Might be CRIMINALS or ORGAN of STATE."
REQUEST DOSSIER on RUSPROM from GRU.
HELP MOVE SUPPLIES. EAT BREAKFAST.
VOLUNTEER to DEFEND the BASE. MUST BE HERE when COMBAT JANITOR returns from FEELIPEENS ANYWAY. "Am no longer HOTSHOT SPACE PILOT besides. Erm. Am NOT." EVADE TRUTH.
REQUEST DOSSIER on RUSPROM from GRU.
HELP MOVE SUPPLIES. EAT BREAKFAST.
VOLUNTEER to DEFEND the BASE. MUST BE HERE when COMBAT JANITOR returns from FEELIPEENS ANYWAY. "Am no longer HOTSHOT SPACE PILOT besides. Erm. Am NOT." EVADE TRUTH.
"If the capsule explodes, heroes of the Zenobian Onion will still rain upon us. Literally!" - Shroom
Cosmonaut Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (deceased, rain), Cosmonaut Petr Petrovich Petrov, Unnamed MASA Engineer, and Unnamed Zenobian Engineerski in Let's play: BARIS
Captain, MFS Robber Baron, PRFYNAFBTFC - "Absolute Corruption Powers Absolutely"
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Simon_Jester
- Emperor's Hand
- Posts: 30165
- Joined: 2009-05-23 07:29pm
Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST has NOTHING AGAINST RUSSIAN MATHEMATICS. RESPECTS RUSSIAN mastery of the ancient and venerable art of SLIDE-RULE-FU. PREFERS to NOT OBSCURE WINDSHIELD with it, IF POSSIBLE. OBSCURING WINDSHIELD MAKES doing a SEAT OF PANTS LANDING in MAGNIFICENT SPACEPLANE more DANGEROUS.Scottish Ninja wrote:AGREE on taking the OFFER. "Is better than dying poor and alone."
FIND some SOLVENT that will REMOVE the GREASE PENCIL without DAMAGING the WINDSHIELD. LOOK ASKANCE at MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST for his APPARENT DISDAIN for RUSSIAN MATHEMATICS. OFFER him some CHEAP RUSSIAN VODKA anyway.
THANKS the EXTREMELY RUSSIAN PERSON for his OFFER of CHEAP RUSSIAN VODKA. Takes SIP. NOTES that CHEAP RUSSIAN VODKA is SUSPICIOUSLY LACKING in FLAVOR CHEMICALS. Infers that CHEAP RUSSIAN VODKA is VERY STRONG, and UNOBTRUSIVELY AVOIDS DRINKING MORE at this time.
RECOMMENDS that EXTREMELY RUSSIAN PERSON use any of the FOLLOWING SOLVENTS, if we can find any:
-TRICHLOROETHANE or SIMILAR CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON
-ACETONE
-ETHANOL, possibly including CHEAP RUSSIAN VODKA, which MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST suspects could PROBABLY STRIP PAINT OFF OF WALLS using FUMES ALONE.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST also recommends TESTING SOLVENTS on any SPARE PIECES OF WINDSHIELD MATERIAL we have, if we have any. MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST would PREFER NOT TO learn that the solvent can DISSOLVE windshield material while using the actual WINDSHIELD.
ESPECIALLY TRICHLOROETHANE or SIMILAR CHLORINATED HYDROCARBONS. That shit can DISSOLVE FUCKING NEAR ANYTHING...
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Simon_Jester
- Emperor's Hand
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Force Lord
- Jedi Council Member
- Posts: 1562
- Joined: 2008-10-12 05:36pm
- Location: Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
BEGS for life, says "I can't be a SPY, SABOTEUR, or an ASSASSIN, because I'm not SHADY ENOUGH."
UNKNOWN PERSON reveals himself as QUIET HISTORIAN who happened to hear LOUD NOISES coming out from the OLD AIRBASE. Asks FORMER HOTSHOT SPACE PILOT if he can RELEASE HIM NOW. ASK if he can be of SERVICE.
UNKNOWN PERSON reveals himself as QUIET HISTORIAN who happened to hear LOUD NOISES coming out from the OLD AIRBASE. Asks FORMER HOTSHOT SPACE PILOT if he can RELEASE HIM NOW. ASK if he can be of SERVICE.
An inhabitant from the Island of Cars.
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MKSheppard
- Ruthless Genocidal Warmonger
- Posts: 29842
- Joined: 2002-07-06 06:34pm
Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
BRING LARGE IRRITABLE DOG OVER TO END OF FLIGHTLINE AND WALK HIM UNTIL HE CRAPS.
Notice SOMETHING in ENORMOUS PILE OF DOG POOP.
NUDGE it with FOOT.
FIND WORKING SECURE CELLPHONE.
Look STRANGELY AT LARGE IRRITABLE DOG who whines at the ATTENTION he is receiving.
Shrug and PICK UP SECURE CELLPHONE AFTER WIPING DOG POOP FROM IT.
SEE TEXT MESSAGE ON SHIT-SMEARED SCREEN INDICATING IT WAS OWNED BY USSOCOM.
Notice SOMETHING in ENORMOUS PILE OF DOG POOP.
NUDGE it with FOOT.
FIND WORKING SECURE CELLPHONE.
Look STRANGELY AT LARGE IRRITABLE DOG who whines at the ATTENTION he is receiving.
Shrug and PICK UP SECURE CELLPHONE AFTER WIPING DOG POOP FROM IT.
SEE TEXT MESSAGE ON SHIT-SMEARED SCREEN INDICATING IT WAS OWNED BY USSOCOM.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
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Scottish Ninja
- Jedi Knight
- Posts: 964
- Joined: 2007-02-26 06:39pm
- Location: Not Scotland, that's for sure
Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
BRING QUIET HISTORIAN over behind the HANGAR. RELAX GRIP SLIGHTLY.
FIND OUT how a HISTORIAN might be USEFUL for our OPERATIONS.
CALL RI'ANN SHAPP and LARGE IRRITABLE DOG over to WATCH QUIET HISTORIAN.
SEND another REQUEST for INFORMATION to the GRU, this time on QUIET HISTORIAN.
ASK OTHERS what we should do with QUIET HISTORIAN.
FIND OUT how a HISTORIAN might be USEFUL for our OPERATIONS.
CALL RI'ANN SHAPP and LARGE IRRITABLE DOG over to WATCH QUIET HISTORIAN.
SEND another REQUEST for INFORMATION to the GRU, this time on QUIET HISTORIAN.
ASK OTHERS what we should do with QUIET HISTORIAN.
"If the capsule explodes, heroes of the Zenobian Onion will still rain upon us. Literally!" - Shroom
Cosmonaut Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (deceased, rain), Cosmonaut Petr Petrovich Petrov, Unnamed MASA Engineer, and Unnamed Zenobian Engineerski in Let's play: BARIS
Captain, MFS Robber Baron, PRFYNAFBTFC - "Absolute Corruption Powers Absolutely"
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Zixinus
- Emperor's Hand
- Posts: 6663
- Joined: 2007-06-19 12:48pm
- Location: In Seth the Blitzspear
- Contact:
Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
ASK "What the hell is a historian doing here? What are you doing here?"
Also ASK SHEP what is wrong with dog. It seems to be dripping blood from it's behind.
Also ASK SHEP what is wrong with dog. It seems to be dripping blood from it's behind.
Credo!
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Force Lord
- Jedi Council Member
- Posts: 1562
- Joined: 2008-10-12 05:36pm
- Location: Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
QUIET HISTORIAN COUGHS a bit and COVERS MOUTH. WONDERS what his FATE will be.
"I was heading towards a village when I lost my map. While trying to look for it I heard some weird noises. I happened to find this OLD AIRBASE and saw you all. I hid because you all seemed...strange."
"I was heading towards a village when I lost my map. While trying to look for it I heard some weird noises. I happened to find this OLD AIRBASE and saw you all. I hid because you all seemed...strange."
An inhabitant from the Island of Cars.
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Zixinus
- Emperor's Hand
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Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
Say "That is understandable but that is beside the point. Why were you heading towards a village? Why are you in the middle of the jungle alone? Are you working here or what?"
Credo!
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Force Lord
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Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
Relpy "The village is where my temporary residence is. I was alone because my assistants were drunk and thus unreliable. And no, this airbase was long closed when I first found it. Ergo, I never worked here, but I did some sniffing around."Zixinus wrote:Say "That is understandable but that is beside the point. Why were you heading towards a village? Why are you in the middle of the jungle alone? Are you working here or what?"
An inhabitant from the Island of Cars.
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FaxModem1
- Emperor's Hand
- Posts: 7700
- Joined: 2002-10-30 06:40pm
- Location: In a dark reflection of a better world
Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY eats BREAKFAST and then uses SPARE PARTS from SUPPLIES acquired by SUAVE PLAYBOY he works on AIR PURIFIERS.
If successful, WCDG helps refuel SPACEPLANE.
If not successful, WCDG works again on making AIR PURIFIERS.
After that, WCDG uses PC to EMAIL his mother, second in command of CHINESE MAFIA, the woman FAT DRAGON.
If successful, WCDG helps refuel SPACEPLANE.
If not successful, WCDG works again on making AIR PURIFIERS.
After that, WCDG uses PC to EMAIL his mother, second in command of CHINESE MAFIA, the woman FAT DRAGON.
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Zixinus
- Emperor's Hand
- Posts: 6663
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- Location: In Seth the Blitzspear
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Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
ASK HISTORIAN "I mean why are you in New Genua and in this area at all? Where is your guide or are you telling me that you entered a foreign jungle in the middle of nowhere without one?"
TELL WCDG that the air filter/purifier can wait once we are in Russia. Priority is getting it refueled. We may have to leave for Russia today.
ASK PHYSICIST for HELP for making an OPTIMAL ROUTE to Russia, preferably Star City, Okhotsk or Kapustin Yar with a launch window of today sometime.
TELL WCDG that the air filter/purifier can wait once we are in Russia. Priority is getting it refueled. We may have to leave for Russia today.
ASK PHYSICIST for HELP for making an OPTIMAL ROUTE to Russia, preferably Star City, Okhotsk or Kapustin Yar with a launch window of today sometime.
Credo!
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Eternal_Freedom
- Castellan
- Posts: 10418
- Joined: 2010-03-09 02:16pm
- Location: CIC, Battlestar Temeraire
Re: Let's play: SCRAMming up!
COMMENT to MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST that having EQUATIONS on the WINDSCREEN makes no difference, as I CAN'T SEE THEM. LANDINGS and TAKE-OFFS are DANGEROUS ANYWAY.
BEGIN REFUELING SPACEPLANE.
BEGIN REFUELING SPACEPLANE.
Baltar: "I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction!"
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.