Zixinus wrote: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?"
"I did come with my guide. Problem is, I lost sight of my guide around the same time I lost my map. The reason I'm in New Genua is because I was sent to investigate the rumor that there were some ANCIENT RUINS hidden in the JUNGLE. Unfortunately, I was hit with a fucking bad dose of bad luck. So here I am, lost and prisoner of a band of lunatics. Can you let me go now?"
QUIET HISTORIAN produces CELL PHONE from his POCKET.
"I doubt signal strength will be good here, but better try contacting someone than do nothing, eh?"
Zixinus wrote:YELL TOWARDS HISTORIAN: "Well, either help or go! We have some other problems right now."
HISTORIAN attempts to CALL from CELL PHONE, but unable to get a response. Shuts down CELL PHONE. DECIDES to LOOK AROUND. Notices PIECE OF PAPER lying on the ground.
"What's this?"
Picks up PIECE OF PAPER, suddenly hears WEIRD NOISE in the BUSHES.
"Huh?"
Sees PAIR OF CAT EYES peering out from the BUSHES.
WAKE UP. USING my BADASSERY SKILLS I RECOVER ALARMINGLY QUICKLY.
ASSESS SITUATION. INCOMING VIOLENT TRIBAL NATIVES. LOOK for a WEAPON. BEMOAN LOSS of TOKAREV, PUMP-ACTION SHOTGUN and AR-15.
GRAB BIG KNIFE THINGY. PREPARE to CHALLENGE TRIBAL LEADER to SINGLE COMBAT. That USUALLY WORKS.
EDIT: Spoiler
Gee, thanks for just leaving me there guys. Lucky I spent my experience points on badassery so I can survive minor things like Hydrazine exposure"
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.
MAKE SURE that PARANG is in my INVENTORY. STAND BY in a HIDDEN FORWARD POSITION to OBSERVE INTRUDERS. MAKE SURE the ELABORATE SIMPLE TRAPS are READY. PREPARE to ATTACK from BEHIND if NECESSARY. Spoiler
You should've just gone with "MAN UP and WALK IT OFF".
"If the flight succeeds, you swipe an absurd amount of prestige for a single mission. Heroes of the Zenobian Onion will literally rain upon you." - PeZook
"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"
Wasn't the JEEP that SUAVE PLAYBOY brought back the VILLAGE'S only motor vehicle?
EXPRESS CAUTION. We still don't KNOW who these PEOPLE are.
"If the flight succeeds, you swipe an absurd amount of prestige for a single mission. Heroes of the Zenobian Onion will literally rain upon you." - PeZook
"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"
Nah, "Recover alarmingly quickly" is good enough. Now I get to show my real badassery in combat
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.
It was not GIVEN that the JEEP was the ONLY VEHICLE in the VILLAGE.
Or they may be NEW GUINEAN COMMANDOS coming to FUCK YOU UP
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
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.
That was the impression I got from the description. Still best not to assume we know who these guys are yet though.
"If the flight succeeds, you swipe an absurd amount of prestige for a single mission. Heroes of the Zenobian Onion will literally rain upon you." - PeZook
"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"
Zixinus wrote:While waiting, THANK PHYSICIST for his help. Apologize for trying to make him do three things at once.
CONSULT with IVAN IVANOV about ROUGE ANTI-AIR BATTERY, which ROUTE would be IDEAL to AVOID POTENTIALLY BEING SHOT AT BY OTHER COUNTRIES and whether we can pick up our clients in OKHOTSK.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST assures ZIXINUS that DOING THREE THINGS AT ONCE is NORMAL in his line of work. OFTEN results in LASER CANNON MISHAPS, though. MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST continues to OBEY THE MUSTACHIOS.
PHYSICIST REGRETS not having GOTTEN FURTHER into REVIEW of REFUELING PROCEDURES, because then KAMIKAZE SPACE PILOT* and WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY might have been WARNED before trying to HUFF LETHAL ROCKET FUEL.
ME goes off into huddle with ZIXINUS and EXTREMELY RUSSIAN PERSON. CONSULTS with IVAN about RUSSIAN AIR DEFENSE CONTRACTORS and their desire for PROTECTION MONEY. Also CONSULTS BOTH about ground and air TRANSPORTATION to OKHOTSK. Granted OKHOTSK is in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, but then again I DOUBT we were PLANNING on our MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR PASSENGERS having to REACH THE LAUNCH SITE via GREYHOUND BUS. If a MAGNIFICENT SPACEPLANE can FLY to OKHOTSK, perhaps a CHARTER PLANE can too.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST asks POSSIBLY STUPID QUESTION. From everyone's behavior, MAGNIFICENT SPACEPLANE is expected to take off from DISUSED NEW GUINEA AIRSTRIP. If TAKEOFF COSTS are not too EXTREME, and if we DON'T ALL KILL OURSELVES with LETHAL ROCKET FUEL, perhaps WE could do job of CHARTER PLANE. OR NOT.
HEARS ROAR of APPROACHING ENGINES. Watches EXTREMELY RUSSIAN PERSON and KAMIKAZE SPACE PILOT ready WEAPONS to FIGHT.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST reviews INVENTORY. MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST regrets lack of RAY GUN or other SCIENCE! type WEAPON. OR, for that matter, JUST PLAIN GUN.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST discovers that only weapon is METAL ASSAULT SLIDE RULE. EQUIPS SLIDE RULE. FINDS some place to HIDE until ensuing FIREFIGHTS blow over, until PHYSICIST is forced to engage in HAND TO SLIDE RULE COMBAT largely against his will, or until PHYSICIST is forced to SURRENDER. Spoiler
What, you thought the ancient and venerable art of Slide Rule Fu was limited to mathematical operations? Fencing skills are implied!
WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY, now seeing that ETERNAL FREEDOM is not only HEALTHY and is now PACKING HEAT, looks for a weapon as well. WHITE CHINESE DELIVERY GUY looks in SUPPLIES, BAGS, and HANGAR until he produces TWIN NICKEL PLATED PISTOLS.
ASK to BORROW one of the NICKEL PLATED PISTOLS, as TWO GUYS with one gun each is MORE EFFECTIVE than ONE GUY with TWO GUNS.
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.
And we can be BUDDY MOVIE PARTNERS, provided ONE OF US isn't DESTINED to get KILLED as a SIDEKICK.
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.
LOOKS like I'll be FIGHTING with the PARANG 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.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST peeks out of HIDING PLACE and watches GUN-ARMED members of TEAM LAME discard their weapons in dismay after REALIZING that they have NO AMMO.
CONCLUDES that we are PROBABLY FUCKED. Mentally REVISES PROBABILITY of SURRENDER. Upwards. WAY upwards.
STAND BY to go all COMMISSAR on MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST.
"Not one step back, comrade!"
DETECT some CLUE about the NATURE of the APPROACHING VEHICLES from the SOUND.
"If the flight succeeds, you swipe an absurd amount of prestige for a single mission. Heroes of the Zenobian Onion will literally rain upon you." - PeZook
"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"
BEGIN some PRACTICE MOVES with the PARANG. DISPLAY SKILL that is both VERY IMPRESSIVE and VAGUELY TROUBLING to the rest of TEAM LAME.
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.
