<> <> <> <> * Hestia isn't needed in the map room, obviously, so with the proper amount of *clang!* noises she's climbing the ladder onto the bridge to get a good look. * Zeke moves out of the way of Hestia so she can fit, holding onto a console as his birdsect shutters its wings, having moved forward enough to watch their entry. Like a rock, this one. His holoface just looks straight forward. <> 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Zeke (2d6+4) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 12. (I got a 12!) (YOU SUCCEED) (There are no words.) * Lexi attempts to keep the ship steady with one of her real hands. She smiles widely as they enter the planet's atmosphere. "This is so Schway! Man! I can't wait to get out and look around!" * Amadeus climbs up pretty much right after Hestia. "Looks like Earth," he says, because it's pretty obvious but someone has to say it. (Is it.... TRES schway?) * Tomas peers over Lexi's head at the approaching terrain, "I wouldn't have expected a planet this far out to look so much like Earth." (It should be quatre schway.) (Tres is so 20th century.) (Quatro?) (and you already said that. I'll be over in that corner) (You do that, Licksy McLickerson.) Distance shouldn't matter, since it has its own system. And this is just a first glance. If it actually *is* like Earth, that would be impressive. * Zeke replies, "It is not odd for humans to want to be on an Earth-like planet." I don't know. I just always expected these far out alien planets to be uh gray and barren. * Amadeus turns his attention from the planet to get a good look at the stars. He squints. Perhaps there other colors than grey. I hear purple is a fine color. and, well, alien. * Amadeus then pushes up his glasses, rubs at his eyes, and goes back to looking at !Earth. "Most of them are." * Hestia steps off to the side, away from Zeke, to make room for Amadeus as well. She crosses her arms over her chest. "It is a little bit," she throws back over her shoulder at Zeke. "I didn't sign on for a walking tour of an Earth clone, after all..." <> * Lexi flies the ship in the direction of the landing pad and brings it down for a landing. (Any roll?) * Zeke replies to Hestia with, "This is all testing. It will be more interesting soon." <> <> "Howdy, chainjumpers. Welcome to Indi Epsilon Alpha. My name's Steven - Steven Starblaster." <> (NERD ALERT) * Tomas shakes Steve's hand enthusiastically, "How exactly does one earn the name Starblaster?" (Fired.) * Hestia doesn't take her eyes off Steve as she answers Tomas. "Commit some sort of major crime, perhaps." * Zeke's bugsect takes off into the sky almost immediately after he gets out of the ship, with a very noticible buzzing-like noise as it heads higher in the sky. Zeke pays it no mind as he looks at Nova Steve. I changed it! Hard to be a good chainjumper with a boring old name, right? * Lexi floats up a compact out of her bag on the way out and begins retouching her makeup as she heads out of the ship and waves with an enthusiastic grin. "Hey there, Steve! Nice planet you got here. Now what about that drink we were promised?" <> * Amadeus shakes Steven's hand briefly once Tomas is finished with it. "I'm Amadeus Cheung." (*eyes a commercial for "Push"* OH MY GOD YOU GUYS, TELEKINESIS) (OH MY GOD) Remind me to check the contract we signed later. If there's a name changing clause, I'm going to give our employer a piece of my mind. * Amadeus snickers. I read the whole thing over. I didn't see anything about names in it. Good to know. * Zeke nods slightly in agreement with Amadeus. Perhaps he reads as well. (Oh, BSG. I wonder how often these actors slip up and just say "fuck".) <> "Dr. Cheung? I'm eagerly awaiting your book! And I'm pleased - darn pleased - to meet you all, and welcome you into our exclusive club." * Hestia gives Amadeus a raised eyebrow, mouthing 'book'? before turning to Steve and offering her hand. "Tia," is all she offers. * Amadeus blinks at Steven. "Thank you." He seems a little at loss for words and just settles with, "I'm surprised you heard of it." (See, Tia hasn't heard of it!) (Amadeus clearly has not had a lot of experience with otaku before.) <> "I get bored as hell out here. Helps me keep up on my reading, though, so I try to get as many journals and books as I can in my discipline." Which discipline is that? * Hestia looks briefly like she has a list of 'disciplines' she wants to suggest but, mercifully, does not say any of them. * Zeke follows, having escaped these 'pleasantries.' * Amadeus grins. "Makes sense to me." He doesn't seem to be confused at all by the discipline idea. * Lexi follows closely behind and, having finished fixing her hair and makeup on the way, returns the various items to her bag. "What kind of planet is this anyway, Steve? How come it looks so much like earth?" * Hestia glances around. "I guess if you consider that however many years ago, Mars was just... red rock and nothing else, the idea that there's another Earth out there somewhere *is* kind of astounding." (Sorry, dad called. "What're you doing?" "Busy." "I'm driving! How are you?" "... busy!") * Tomas looks to Tia, "Mars is still mostly red rock with just pockets of 'Earth.' This place looks to be all Earth." "Biology! At least, it used to be. Now I tend bar, and I try to make things interesting when people blow into the system for parties." <> That's my point. "Well, the planet's Earth-like for a couple reasons. It's in the right heat range, being so close to multiple brown dwarfs. It gets just about the right amount of light energy, and has a similar blend of atmosphere." <> (oh crap. Not pine.) (We're at that Imperial base on Endor.) (*plays Mos Eisley song*) (Haha, FIRST TIME OFF PLANET AND SUDDENLY: EWOKS) (DAMMIT EWOKS) (YOU'RE BONED NOW) (GET OUT OF OUR GOOD UNIVERSE) (How tall is this Steve guy? Does have *ahem* ewokian features? Does he look very shaved?) (GO BACK TO YOUR LOUSY ONE) (It's too late, now they've got christmas specials and everything) (And a really shitty cartoon) * Lexi nods. "So... are these actually pine trees?" * Hestia tries to process people having parties on this planet, and glances at the 'huts'. A pause, and then she blinks. "Are you *alone* here otherwise?" * Amadeus peers at one of the trees in question. No. The bark's scaled and the needles have a hexogonal cross pattern. * Syzix (zegond@c-24-15-245-98.hsd1.il.comcast.net) has joined #ATC * Syzix is now known as Kyle (Sorry. Completely forgot that we had this.) <> "Exactly right. Just similar. In point of fact, this is the only real Earth-like planet out there we've found, so chainjumpers like to come back here a lot. It's like Earth or Mars, without the total lack of privacy. So usually I'm alone here, but it's only for a week or two at a time before SOMEone swings by." <> * Lexi moves ahead of the others and into the bar. "So what do you have to drink here?" (*frowns* AFK for just a bit. Assume I'm following the crowd and biting back snarky commentary.) * Tomas ducks into the bar and scans the room. * Zeke mms, and says slowly, "Odd that there are no others..." <> * Amadeus smiles almost apologetically at Steve and taps to the side of one eye. "SCA mutation." < rather interesting-looking rock, and many, many, many pictures.>> * Kyle grins as he exits the ship, maybe a little disoriented but not too worse for the wear. "Hey, 'sup?" <> * Amadeus doesn't "ooh", but it looks like he wants to. He wanders over to the nearest caged animal and checks it out. * Zeke's birdsect flutters down next to him as they enter the bar area, landing with ease. Zeke tells Kyle, "This is Steven Starblaster." * Tomas's eyes grow wide, having noticed the delicious looking plants and animals, "This all stuff you've collected in your travels?" <> "Not me personally, no. Lots of people bring back souvenirs here... it's more or less neutral ground." * Kyle gives a wave to the Starblaster. "Kyle Maksimov." * Lexi sits herself at the bar and floats over some vodka and kaluha. "Don't mind if I help myself do you?" She smiles widely at Steven. "Help yourself, we'll start up a tab for your ship." * Zeke looks over some of the interesting rocks, his holo-face smiling slightly. * Amadeus is methodically blinking at the animal and occasionally flicking his eyes in a way that shows he's accessing a headputer. Once he's done with that, he goes about studying the next one he sees. * Hestia has been looking around, and only now gives Kyle a glance before turning back to Steven. "No ancient civilizations or intelligent life here, I assume." * Lexi grins and a glass floats over as well. "Excellent." She mixes the two, puts them back and spins the stool around to look at the place while she enjoys her drink. """ " So... how long have you been chainjumping, Steve? (Lexi's already wasted!) (Ignore whatever what going on with the apostrophes at the end of that...) <> "Nope, Tia, not that we've found. Of course, it's hard to go over an entire planet with a fine tooth comb, but certainly nothing built cities like we've got on Mars." * Tomas walks up to the potted plants and with his back to the others takes a closer look--a very closer look (Don't lie to us Tomas.) * Hestia nods and has a seat, trying to decide if she wants to drink something from this place or not. "The sleythin have a database, don't they? Any records on this place?" (Tell us what you're doing.) (What's my check!) * Zeke is silent as he examines, then he turns and walks over to near Steve and Lexi to... okay, stand. * Tomas looks to each side conspiratorially then takes a quick lick at the leaf of one of the plants and closes his eyes, looking to savor the taste * Kyle walks over to the bar and grabs a few drinks, mixing them together with a small amount of flair and takes a sip from the resulting drink. He looks around the place, paying close attention to any live specimens of animal life around. <> "I've been chainjumping since about the beginning. Got a little tired of it and decided to set up a bar, and here was the best spot. And it's funny you should mention the sleythin records, since they did have an entry on this place. However they were doing their scans, they found out there's almost no large predators on this planet. Kind of strange." I'm sure if there's anything really interesting it'd find you. * Hestia blinks at that news, and turns to Amadeus, with an expression that clearly says: explain why this is, I wanted to see Godzilla. No large predators? I guess if it was terraformed to not have any that'd make sense, but that's still pretty bizarre. <> * Amadeus furrows his brow and looks over at Steven, all distracted from his analysis of the second animal. "That doesn't make any sense." * Tomas turns around, looking a bit disappointed, and heads to the bar "Are there no large herbivores either?" "No, it doesn't make any sense. There's a couple cow-sized herbivores, but that's it. Makes it a safe enough place for a base... that's why there's no perimeter defense like you'd find on any other planet with a full ecosystem." I'd wonder how they'd be kept in breeding check with no predators. yar Tia, the niche is sitting there wide open for any animal that wants it. * Amadeus whistles. "It's a good question. How big do predators get here?" (OH MY GOD BSG WHAT sorry) ( YOU SHUT UP. ) (I didn't say anything other than an expression of surprise!) (BSG is recording so I don't have to wait on commercials) (It ended on a cliffhanger! Surprise is normal!) (Now I know that something crazy is going to happen 15 minutes in. THANKS.) (OH GOD SHUT UP) (Oh man you guys. This planet is a dream of the Wind Fish.) (We have to leave like RIGHT NOW.) (... fuck, you're right.) "There are some little buggers about the size of chinchillas that'll swarm up and get you if you're standin' real still. That's about it. We're not sure if it was an extinction event or what, but as Tomas says, the niche is open." (... wot?) * Hestia thinks that through. "Well, if it's stayed in equilibrium since the sleythin survey which was however the hell long ago, it can't be too bad." * Kyle takes another drink. "Evolution usually takes its sweet time, I think." (burb) The Sleythin's work was not recent. To say the least. Give me something sweet, Mister Starblaster. "Yeah, we're talkin' several thousand years." <> "So, you guys gonna tell me what happened with your lemon?" * Amadeus is back to checking out that animal. It's really cool! * Lexi shrugs and downs the rest of her drink. "We almost hit the sun." It was an anvil at the time. A really hot anvil. Let's just say we got a crash course in nullspace astrogation. I was head of moral support. * Zeke's bird peers at Tomas. Peeeer. * Tomas feels a shiver run up his spine, "Wow. That space basil has some odd lingering effect." <> "Wow, you guys got knocked off the chain? That's crazy, the phlogiston in Sol system's almost never that strong." Our ground crew was just *that* bad. * Hestia has her glass halfway to her lips when Tomas says that, and her eyes flicker to him momentarily. "You... tasted a local plant?" * Amadeus snaps his attention away from the animal and stares at Tomas. "You *what*?" hmm? Yeah. It looked tasty. Turned out to just be basil. * Hestia pauses, quite frankly staring, before saluting Tomas with her glass. "Good luck." Then she sips! What fruit is it? * Amadeus stares at Tomas like he's insane. Because he is. "Just because something looks tasty doesn't mean it can't kill you!" <> "You'll want a shot of this, I suspect." <> Yo prof, he doesn't look very dead. * Hestia says, between sips: "Yet." And it doesn't mean it can't kill you- THANK YOU. <> * Kyle shrugs. "Eeeh, technicalities." (Real lime, not space lime?) <> (FROM SPACE!) Thanks Steve. enh. I'm gonna have to take the risk if I'm going to find the new ingredients to take back. And anyway, I have a bit of protection. * Lexi watches Tomas with interest and mixes herself a martini behind her. "A-man is right, Tomas. It's probably not very safe to go trying local plants without asking what they are." She grins widely. "So kudos to you for living on the edge. Hell chainjumping isn't very safe for that matter." Yeah, if we were being safe we wouldn't be here in the first place. It's perfectly sensible to run some tests to make sure it won't kill you, THEN taste it. There's a thin line between adventurous and suicidal. * Tomas downs the whiskey without flinching, "pfah." (A-man? Hahahaha.) (A MAN. 500000 POINTS.) <> "You guys are gonna have a great time out there, I can tell." <> * Zeke's bird remains looking at Tomas. Zeke doesn't bother, just standing there near the bar. * Tomas smacks his lips a bit, "Where do you get your alcohol, Steve?" (A shuriken suddenly flies into the space basil.) (/me dives "NOOOOO") (/me falls about 10 feet short) "Shipped in periodically by other chainjumpers. If you've got some spare cargo weight sometime, I'd appreciate you taking a load." * Amadeus looks like he's developing a headache, then says, "Look, if it's that important to you, I'll specifically test potential ingredients for edibility first. But I'd rather not you die on me, no matter how stupid you are." He goes back to looking at the animal, gives up as the headache's a little too bad, and just grabs a seat and flops into it. * Hestia looks at the rim of her glass. "Something tells me we're always going to have a good supply of alcohol on hand." * Lexi finally floats the drink in front of her and begins to sip it. She nods to Steve "Sure. No problem. I'm sure we'll be back here. At least we can be guaranteed a drink or five." He could just be immune to poison. <> "You look like you could use a drink yourself, Doctor." <> But yeah, dying from eating a space-plant'd suck. Think about what it'd say in the obituaries. "Died because he was a dumbass and ate a space-plant." * Amadeus shakes his head. "Don't drink. Just depresses me." He sounds serious about that. And miserable, because headache. heh. Simmer, A-man. You think I'd come out looking for new cooking stock without protecting myself from the nightshades and fugu? * Hestia pokes her straw into her drink and then waves it at Amadeus. "Good for you. Though something about the last ten minutes tells me you're going to need to find an alternate vice sometime in the next few months." There could be nightshades and fugu you've never even heard of - which is kind of the point here. (Secretly Lexi's 24 power is that when she gives something a stupid name everyone starts to use it.) (A good power!) * Amadeus just smiles weakly at Hestia. And pushes his glasses up, because they're slipping down his nose. ( I RECOMMEND CRACK :D ) (Crack is pretty awesome.) * Kyle finishes his drink. "Doesn't do anything for you? That sucks man." It is not a unique malady. <> "On a remarkably similar note, are you guys ready for the induction ritual?" Still sucks. Induction ritual? Into what? 'Ritual'? Sounds kinda archaic. "Into the secret and storied Fraternity of Chainjumpers, of course." <> * Hestia leans back in her chair, crossing her legs. She just apparently has the type of natural posture that puts her in sex kitten poses for no reason. Somehow this also has the useful attribute of making her sidearm in the holster on her hip visible. * Lexi downs a nearly full martini and places the glass back on the bar. "Sure." she hops up. Whatta we got to do, Chief? 'kay, I'm game. * Zeke just says, "If we have to, then we will." <> "Well, it's pretty simple. You can wuss out and take a shot of straight sleythin alcohol, or you can man up and eat one of these..." < e much like a cross between a millipede and a brine shrimp. They're squirming madly.>> "... raw." (Or I could put this gun to your head until you say I pass. *kchk*) * Tomas's eyes pop wide, "What're those?!" Look like they might be tasty battered up and fried. * Hestia finishes her drink, and lets her gaze fall on poor Amadeus. Lady or the Tiger, Prof... "They're little critters that live in the oceans here. Dunno rightly what they are, but they're squirmy as hell." * Amadeus just has a headache. What are you looking at him for? hrm. I've done Sleythin alcohol before. We don't have to take the critters in one bite, do we? * Hestia puts her glass on the bar. "You might as well pour me the shot, if it'll keep people off my back." "As few bites as you can manage." * Kyle grins. "I'll take a critter, then. That looks fun." * Chamelaeon gives voice to Kyle Lexi * Amadeus just watches. It doesn't look like he wants to participate in this nonsense unless he absolutely has to. c'mon A-man. Don't you want your decoder ring? * Lexi looks the critters over. "Can I wash them down with some sleythin alcohol?" * Zeke peers at the options, and then says, "An insect will be fine if I have to." <> "Sure can." * Lexi shrugs. "Count me in." You're all insane. Ah, yeah, line me up a 'bit of that alcohol to wash it down. * Kyle grins and thumbs-up A-man. "Ain't it the truth?" (By the way, Cham. I don't think I mentioned. Lexi's theme is "Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett.) (For the record I agree. Eating something with that many legs alive is not something my throat is down with.) (Dirty Deeds. DONE DIRT CHEAP!) (I'll get those up on the page.) (I'm considering the seminal "Charles has a Licking Problem") (I might change mine eventually, but nothing fits or as funny.) Pop the jar and pore me a chaser. Let's do this. <> "Oookay then. You'll want to watch, they've got a biting reflex when you bite them in half." <> * Lexi raises an eyebrow to Amadeus. "As opposed to all the sane people who risk their lives chainjumping all over the universe?" * Hestia snags a shotglass and really is looking to down this thing so she can grab Amadeus and leave. She then downs it. Chainjumping does not *have* to involve an archaic hazing ritual. * Amadeus watches Hestia with mild concern. Ah... but it DOES have to involve a certainly level of insanity. Gotta admit that. <> 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Hestia (2d6+6) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 15. (I deem this 'good enough to remain standing'.) (WOO) Okay, Kyle... you first. * Hestia does indeed exhale sharply, and perhaps slams the shotglass down on the bar a LITTLE too forcefully. But having gotten that out of the way, she gets up and gestures to Amadeus. "Let's go look at some of the local flora. Before the screaming starts." (Hestia and I are totally bonding here in the we-are-sane-and-hang-out-in-the-map-room kind of way.) * Amadeus nods, gets up, and gets going. Hestia first; he's making sure she can actually walk out. I got this one. * Kyle licks his chops and takes the critter. "This isn't gonna be pretty." He stuffs it in his mouth and tries to get it to co-operate and go down as he gulps. (Ew ew EW.) * Hestia can walk! She made her roll. (... dude. raw body roll.) (Amadeus so did not sign up for fear factor!) 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyle (2d6+5) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 12. (Oooh, that's tough.) (Bare make on 12! Not on 15, though.) <> <> * Zeke takes a critter as well in his exo hand. * Kyle pauses for a moment. <> 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyle (2d6+8) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 13. * Lexi takes a deep breath. "Here goes nothing." She opens her mouth and floats the thing up with TK, keeping it's jaws shut with her other tk hand. She forces it into her mouth and chomps it in half to make it a bit easier. * Tomas smacks Kyle on the back with his free hand, "ha ha. Good try, friend," and bites off the back half of his bug, swishing it around a bit in his mouth before swallowing. * Zeke opens a hole/hatch open on his suit, just below his holoface, and slides the bug in whole. Or tries to. (Lexi, raw body; Tomas, body+2) 2d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tomas (2d6+7) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 12. (bah, seriously?) 2d6+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lexi (2d6+5) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 11. 2d6+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyle (2d6+2) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 8. (Err, wrong mod) 2d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyle (2d6+7) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 13. (why hasn't this dicebot been sitebanned?) (.... dicey's satan?) (I dunno, but I made my roll not to be obliterated by sleythin alcohol, so maybe he just hates *stupid actions*.) (As ye sow, so shall ye reap.) * Zeke then slides that hole shut. Tada! It's magic! <> <> (another shot?) (Another roll at it.) * Lexi grabs the shot of sleythin alcohol to chase the bug thing and kick her body into accepting something slightly less repulsive. * Zeke's holoface manages a fake smile for a moment, as his birdsect's wings flutter. (Gonna shoot that thing soon.) * Lexi downs it and firmly clamps her jaws down. * Kyle almost coughs it up, then stuffs it back in with his hands, the critter suddenly stops moving as he keeps on trying to bring it down. * Hestia and Amadeus skip through the woods, hand in hand. They may be singing the Smurfs song. (Did you not see the note, doofus?) * Kyle can't seem to simply gulp it down, however, and starts chewing on it to get it to smaller chunks, eventually reaching for the chaser to wash it down. * Tomas snatches his chaser and downs it quickly, hoping to drown the bugger into submission (You're not gonna believe this. I typo'ed the EXTREMELY POINTLESSLY LONG NAME, YOU JERKASS.) <> 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lexi (2d6+8) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 15. 2d6+10 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tomas (2d6+10) and gets 12, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "o/~I love you... you love me... o/~" (dot dot dot) (WHIFF) (Both of us? Or just him?) 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyle (2d6+8) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 13. (Oh come ON.) <> (GO REBEL GIRL) <> * Lexi sits back down on her stool and wobbles a bit. "There. Satisfied?" She grins. * Kyle still can't get it down, however, and grabs the chaser, chugging it down to try and finally swallow this thing. He's not getting beat out by Lexi, no sir! * Zeke watches everyone go, then glances at Steve before saying, "You seem very amused." (Is it bad that I read that sentence, out of the corner of my eye, as "palpatine amusement"?) "Of course I am. Most people aren't dumb enough to try it." <> * Tomas hrumphs and pops the last bit into his mouth and mashes the whole thing with his tongue 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyle (2d6+8) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 13. (... I give up. -_-) 10 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyle (10 2d6) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 7 7 10 4 7 11 6 9 4 3. (Hey, there's some decent rolls!) (Too late. c.c) (Hell, a 7 woulda worked.) <> 2d6+10 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tomas (2d6+10) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 19. (Thanks for getting rid of those bad ones, Z) (*grumble*) (Shoulda rolled out the ones, blah blah.) <> "That's three successes. You guys are tougher than you look." (Zeke is actually a genetically engineered lab rat trying to take over the world.) (*hums obvious theme song*) * Zeke replies, "Thank you. Is that sufficient?" * Lexi shrugs. "I've had worse things in my mouth." * Kyle looks around in a 'bit of a panic before heading to the door, around the corner, and, well, yeah. (Man, there's just no good way to take Lexi's comment.) (I KNOW) Could I have a couple of those to take back? I have some contacts at home that would *love* them. <> "You're not quite sane, are you?" Chainjumper. * Zeke turns to thud his way out of the bar. "I will tell the others we have succeeded." * Tomas grabs the last shot of sleythin alcohol and downs it, "Why do you say that?" (full filtering =D) (There wasn't intended to be) <> "Fair enough. Congrats, you're part of the club now." (Should I join the other channel, or has Kyle not done so so I should get to him first?) * Kyle re-enters the bar. "Goddamn that stuff is crawly, even when it doesn't want to be." * Zeke nods his holo-head at Kyle and says, "He said we succeeded. I am going to tell the other two." * Zeke walks past him, thud thud thud thud. (Okay, join) <> "You guys know where you're headed first?" * Kyle thumbs up to Zeke. Not a clue. (uh. Do we?) * Lexi gets up off the stool. "Actually lets all go to the other two. I want to see more of this planet." She stumbles a bit and bumps into Kyle. "C'mon. She grins and links arms with him and heads out." "Uh uh, Steve. Hey why don't you come with us." * Tomas heads to the door and holds it open for the other three. <> * Kyle links arms back with Lexi, grinning and heading out with her. Yeah, you can tell us where it'd be stupid to go, so we can head there right away. <> "Yeah, okay." <> (Cham made it in Spore.) * Hestia had just said something to Zeke, when she catches sight of everyone else. "Oh, you're alive." It's more deadpan than you might expect. (In the REAL Spore. The one that doesn't SUCK) * Zeke turns to face the others. With his face! <> (as opposed to the fake spore? o.O) (The one we got in stores was not REAL) (Oh?) * Tomas smiles at Tia, "Yep, it was a bit tough. The gods tried to thwart us, but we came out on top." (You'll have to explain this later.) * Hestia says nothing, though the perceptive can almost see a series of potential retorts passing behind her eyes. Oh yeah! * Tomas doesn't notice, "so what'd you guys find there?" * Amadeus shrugs. "Trees, rocks, that three-legged creature you just scared away." It is all very interesting. (After my line in the other chan I am waiting for Audrey II to eat our ship.) (Set to music, obviously.) (heh, okay. This is going places fast. Are we about done for tonight?) (Thinking so.) (3 hours is good hours!) * Hestia glances at Steve, and grins. Slowly. "I imagine this is probably the most entertainment you get, on Indi Epsilon." (It was a good session. Lemme wrap it up.) <> "You bet, except when everyone's here for a really good party. Hey, don't forget to check the plaque before you go." * Hestia looks like she is *almost* prepared to forgive him the Starblaster name for shell game-ing her crewmates. (Who wants to check the plaque!) (it's a tarp.) * Zeke, being the least drunk, will ask, "Where exactly is it?" <> "It's over there next to the landing beacon." Speaking of going... I suppose I should go spend some quality time in the map room. Quality time with the prof? * Hestia starts heading to the ship, and stops to look at Kyle over her shoulder. "I was thinking with the nav computer, but..." She turns to Amadeus. "You're welcome to come with." (That nav computer sure knows how to please a girl.) * Kyle snickers at some unheard joke. (Okay, gonna wrap it up.) * Zeke will tromp over to find the plaque and read it so they can get on the kewl roomz. <> * Lexi heads back to the ship as well with Kyle in tow. * Kyle goes to the ship. SHIP! * Tomas heads shipward. <> <>