<> <> <> * Amadeus finishes the scans, records data, and then goes about suiting up! Because it might be safe to breathe the air, but who likes taking chances? He doesn't. (Did we find out if the atmosphere was breathable?) (Yes. It is.) * Kyle suits up and gets ready to exit the ship! Because suits are all the rage. <> * Tomas heads to his bunk to don his exosuit, "Let's check this place out." * Hestia does not suit up but appears to be okay walking right out the ship, regardless. She reeeeeally wants to see this square island. * Zeke is an always-exoing cheater, which is why he was already outside last session! And trying to take samples as his bugs spread out. (Cheatyface. :() (MAX BUGROOM IS A CHEATER.) (...oh jesus, now I went BUGROOM -> Bugrom -> Zeke is actually Katsuhiko Jinnai under that suit.) (Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.) (HAHAHAHAHA) (And here I am with my long brown hair and machine-controlling powers.) (HE-STI-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.) (And Tomas has SS...) (And Amadeus is a lesbian. Wait.) (And a substance abuse problem.) (Fuck it, El-Hazard for everyone.) ((All substances.)) (I'm compelled to lick.) (Actually if anyone here is Alielle it's Lexi. e_ea) (Seriously.) (Amadeus can be, uh... Ura.) * Tomas disembarks! * Hestia does too! What kind of island is this? (...) * Amadeus leaves the ship! IT'S A MASS EXODUS. * Kyle gets off the ship. OH SHI- ~Did the scanners scanners say anything more than "square" and "metal"?~ (OH GOD SCANNERS) <> (I was... intending to try to take core samples. Am I about to sink the ship?) (Go for it. I can run fast.) * Hestia taps her foot on it a couple times. She's going to try speaking aloud, because it's fun for everyone. "Not particularly." She then starts heading for the edge of the island. <> (Why is Lexi McExplorepants not out here.) (What kind of greenery are we talking here?) * Amadeus crouches and gets a good look at the metal. ~Do you think you can get a sample of this, Zeke?~ (lubj00 grass.) (.... oh my god where is that from) (...YOUR OWN FUCKING GAME.) (ATC2) (*suplex*) (Really?) (Ow!) (Yes.) (Yes.) * Zeke replies, ~I can, yes, but it will take time.~ (sorry was getting dinner) <> * Lexi also exits the ship and looks around. "Whoa... " * Zeke's drones bunch up, to focus on a single point. He adds, ~It is resilient. Possibly hollow.~ (Dear dicebot: If you continue to give me nothing but 3s, I am going to start killing people in this channel.) 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Hestia (2d6+8) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 18. (XD) (Alright then.) (Dicey loves me!) (I love how you assume you'd be the first to go.) (<_< >_>) (Dicey PM'd me. I think he's becoming self-aware.) 2d6+11 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Amadeus (2d6+11) and gets 23, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "Looks like your thread just got cut. Sorry." Dude, this is nice. (The start string (Dice will do it.) * Tomas crouches down and knocks on the metal then picks up a handful of the lichen and examines it more closely. <> * Hestia gets about 90% of the way to the edge of the island, then stops, ducks down, and puts her hand on the surface of the island. She stares out into the water from that point out. She then yells, "Robot boy! Come over here and look at this." 2d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tomas (2d6+7) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 14. * Amadeus peers at the ground, now definitely kneeling, and he furrows his brow. ~Someone's been here before.~ (I got spec!) * Amadeus blinks a few times. * Zeke's birdsect takes off from his shoulder, over to Hestia, landing on the edge of the island and looking up at her, before he comms, ~Yes?~ * Hestia gives the bird a 'I will build a walkman from you' look before waving a hand at the nearby water. "Stairs. Or something like it, anyway." ~This island is forged. Definitely forged. For durability, but someone put it here.~ < (+>>) * Amadeus turns to look at Hestia, then heads for the stairs. * Lexi heads for the stairs as well. * Tomas goes stairward on this news. ~Hey dudes! Did we just find some aliens?~ * Zeke is silent a moment as his bird looks at the water, then replies, ~Ruins... a building. Building-top, maybe.~ * Hestia crosses her arms over her chest. "I'd thought to go for a little swim and see what was under this thing..." She starts, before glancing back at the ship and resorting to the com. ~ We have anything approximating a waterproof, high-power light? ~ (Zeke's noggin) <> ~Yes, Kyle. I think we found some aliens.~ ~I think, technically, we're the aliens.~ * Zeke's holoface looks down, then he replies, ~I have obtained a sample.~ ~Great, good work.~ * Amadeus stoops and picks up some water and surface plant samples. Samples are samples! (Worst case scenario we hover the ship over the water and use the landing lights.) <> <> * Hestia glances at the scientists for a moment, then troops back toward the ship. * Amadeus is distracted! Taking samples! (Yeah, go go level 1 features on items!) ~Tia, you need me to fly us somewhere?~ (Need to analyze our sample!) <> * Hestia returns holding at least 2 lights for water exploration! ~ I don't think so, ~ she says, setting one down on the island and keeping the other for herself, turning it on. Then she... well, walks down the stairs. Like Bubsy Berkeley, in reverse! (So, who's going?) <> (Ha, I didn't go both high and low pressure, I forgot that they were sepreate.) (Just wrote down 'pressure'.) (I went with the default. I'll be sticking around topside.) (Note to self: buy speargun, tame orca mount) <> (If you breach the surface riding an orca, I'll squee.) <> (Yes, I'm analyzing right now.) (What question? I figure I'm going because I already posed going!) * Tomas stands at the top of the stairs and watches Tia go under, ~Radio if you encounter any trouble. We'll do what we can.~ <> * Kyle heads down after Hestia. ~This looks totally cool.~ 2d6+9 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Zeke (2d6+9) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 14. * Amadeus picks up one of the lights and heads down, too! This'll be fun. * Zeke's drones, well, two of them, go down the stairs as well, while he analyzes. (So Tia, Kyle, and Amadeus?) (And SortofZeke.) (I use the drones like a jetski.) (Awesome!) * Lexi floats one of the lights over as she heads down the stairs. (My drones are not jetskis. :|) (Give me a wrench.) * Tomas watches everybody head down and, beginning to feel left out, shrugs his shoulders and heads down. * Zeke comms, after his analysis is done, ~The material is an extremely resilient non-oxidizing steel alloy.~ ~Cool.~ ~ Explains why it eroded instead of rusted. ~ * Amadeus nods. He kinda figured. ~Yeah.~ < cut off. The actual bottom of the building and the seafloor are out of sight below you in the depths. It's pretty dark under here; probably due to the decreased light output of the sun for this planet.>> <> * Hestia continues 'walking' (this probably becomes 'swimming' after a certain depth) and raises an eyebrow, looking down, then across. ~ Now that's interesting. ~ * Amadeus whistles lowly upon seeing that, moving his lamp in a futile attempt to shed more light. ~I'm going to swim down to that pyramid and get a better look.~ * Amadeus puts word to action and takes off, swimming smoothly and quickly down to the structure. Who would have thought the geek had it in him? <> (so it's a notch in the side of the pyramid? * Lexi nods. ~I'm going with A-Man.~ She floats her light ahead of her and swims towards the structure. * Tomas continues to follow Hestia down the stairs. (Yeah, pretty much.) (Ah I see... So we're ON the pyramid. (?) * Hestia continues onward. Presumably, landing = door. She can live out her dream of pretending to be from Amway to an alien culture. <> (Okay) <> * Zeke's bugs stick to the stairs, and two more join them in coming down. * Kyle swims down after Amadeus after Amadeus and Lexi get closer to the landing. <> * Amadeus floats before the door and looks around for some reasonably obvious way to open it. * Kyle looks around for any sort of indication as to what's behind the door. ~Think any water has even managed to get in there? Opening the door may just flood it.~ <> (What's the former and what's the latter?) * Hestia floats toward the 'door' and looks it over, not quite touching it just yet. ~ Well, I doubt it's just a 'knock then enter', anyway. ~ He turns to Amadeus. ~ Basic physics, right? It'd have to have a preassure seal or something. ~ <> 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Kyle (2d6+6) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 11. 2d6+3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tomas (2d6+3) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 11. 2d6+13 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Amadeus (2d6+13) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 18. 2d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Hestia (2d6+7) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 17. (The latter.) (... and tell me which you picked, yeah.) (I was looking for the former.) (I was looking for a way to open, so the former! Haha.) (My guess is between us we've figured it out, Ard.) 2d6+9 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Zeke (2d6+9) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 16. (Former.) (What gives you that idea, fellow somewhat reasonable person?) <> ("What's it look like?" "Intriguing!") * Amadeus swims up for a better look! Not that he necessarily needs to do that, because supervision, but hey. 2d8+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Lexi (2d8+4) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 8. <> (Bah too late =P Sorry. it took me some time to find Lexi's sheet) * Tomas brushes the growth off of one of the transparent panels and has a peek inside. <> * Kyle tries to clean off some of the sea growth off and look inside. (It glows green! It must be radioactive kryptonite!) * Hestia narrows her eyes at the thing. She has no super sight and thus must get close to look at it. <> * Amadeus peers at it, then looks to Tia, who swam over. (God, I hope that's clear enough, I had to revise it like six times) (Is it like the spinning entrance on a darkroom?) (I think I get it. We'd basically enter a tube aquarium in Rainforest Cafe!) (It's an airlock.) (It's a--yeah.) (*nods*) (Yeah, that's a word for it.) (But Ard was basically right.) (A cylindrical airlock. Tomas had the right idea.) (I'd like a crappy pizza to go with my crappy burger. But at least the atmosphere is nice.) (Exactly!) * Tomas turns to the others, ~It looks like there's an airlock behind this door. We should be good to open it without flooding it out.~ <> ~Great. Well, here goes.~ * Hestia glances at the device. ~ Seems reasonable enough. Inside floods with water then drains out, probably... ~ * Amadeus tries, er, turning the thing. <> * Lexi floats over to Amadeus. ~Can't get it open?~ 2d6+13 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Amadeus (2d6+13) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 18. ~No. I think...~ * Hestia turns to Amadeus for a minute as he tries to open it, then mmms and turns back, running her fingers over the device surface a moment. * Amadeus studies the device a while longer, then stops. He looks like he would push his glasses up his nose if he could, but he's not even wearing them at the moment. ~I think we might need to use sound to get this open. I just don't know the frequency.~ * Amadeus activates his speakers. "Open," he says loudly, on the off chance that it works. ~Sonic-based? Cool, but there's gotta be a manual override too, right?~ ~ If it's sound based I doubt any language we know is going to work. ~ ("What's the weird-alien-water-world word for 'Friend'?") (=P) (Glub.) <> (AHA) * Amadeus sighs. He's not an expert in alien languages! * Zeke's spiders clamber onto the outside of the chamber to get a closer look at the actual markings on the door, managing to climb on the wall barely. * Amadeus looks around for any more clues or... well, anything. ~We could probably try to break through one of the windows if it comes down to it.~ (Sorry, bathroom break( ~If it comes to that.~ * Zeke comms, ~It may be possible to force the mechanism.~ * Amadeus sounds fairly relieved as he coms, ~Let's try that first.~ ~ Wait. ~ * Amadeus turns to look at Hestia. ~'sup?~ * Hestia brushes past everyone near the device, if necessary, and then presses her palm flat to it and closes her eyes. For a moment or two nothing happens; then lines of light -- not like veins, but perfectly geometric ones that branch and arc off at points -- run from her fingertips up to her wrist. They glow dimly on her arm beneath the fabric of her top. * Tomas glances at Hestia and backs off a little. * Amadeus watches, clearly interested. * Zeke's drones are definitely not on the door now, but they're oriented towards looking at the door! <> ~Nice trick, Tia.~ * Amadeus waits for the pressure to stabilize, then swims in! (... watching this window out of the corner of my eye leads to bad visions.) * Hestia pulls her arm back and opens her eyes as the light fades. She blinks a few times, then swims on in herself. ~ Yes it is, isn't it. ~ (Amadeus was not, in fact, complimenting Tia's breasts.) ~Dude. How'd you do that?~ (Are you sure?) (You don't know that.) ~ None of your business. ~ * Tomas glances at Tia again then swims into the airlock. (Good going, Kyle. Now Tia will kill you in your sleep.) * Zeke's drones skitter in with them. <> * Kyle heads in. * Zeke's bugs take places on the sides and top of the cylinder so as to not be in the way as the water drains. ~As long as it can be reproduced.~ (Err, move that up, but yeah) * Amadeus looks around! * Tomas steps out of the airlock and has a look around too! * Hestia brings up the rear guard, not the least of which because she's walking slower than everyone else. < ctly on the metal; these are of a creature which resembles nothing so much as a muscular walrus with a bulging forehead and a blowhole.>> ~Dude. Check out the chairs.~ (WELCOME TO PLANET VERNON) * Amadeus walks around, blinking at just about everything. ~Those look comfortable,~ he says, at Kyle's prompting. * Hestia glances around, then obviously starts walking toward the desk. That's where petty cash will be! * Amadeus gets a good look at the pictures. Wacky. (I'll be right back) * Zeke's drones start walking around the room. ~Deserted, but not dead.~ * Kyle walks around and checks out the swag. He also takes pictures of *everything*. * Tomas wanders the room examining the paintings. <> <>> * Hestia does not exactly sit down in the executive-back bean bag, and instead stares at the desk for a second before running her hand over the lozenge. She looks like she's concentrating! * Amadeus pokes at a beanbag chair. Maybe it actually is comfortable. (Okay, I should be more active now. I got something for my throat and finished what I had to do) * Tomas moves in closer to the wheel, ~There's a big vertical wheel over here.~ * Amadeus looks over. ~Oh yeah?~ And then he goes over, because wheel! (I hope it's a variation on the Wheel of Morality!) * Hestia knits her brow and pulls her hand back from the desk. Slowly, but she does it. * Lexi heads over to Tomas. ~Whoa, what do you think it's for?~ 2d6+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Hestia (2d6+8) and gets 10, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "I'm a child of extremes. Have a crit, and a nice day to go with it." (Fantastic.) (Nice knowing you all.) (You know Todd, at least you get all the bad rolls out for us!) (Bye Tia!) <> (Wow thanks, that's 100% what I wanted to hear after critfailing.) (PROTIP: This is sarcasm.) * Kyle hears sounds and wanders over. ~Hey, what'cha find?~ ~I'm not sure. It makes noises at you when you spin it.~ (They're like adventure gamers.) (The walrus says: MOO.) (Spin it, see what happens! What could go wrong?) * Hestia sighs with frustration and sits there staring at the 'lozenge' on the desk, arms crossed over her chest. If looks were lasers, she'd be writing 'KNIGHT SABERS' onto the surface right now. * Zeke's drones are generally looking around the room, although one has taken to staring at Hestia for a moment before it twitches and moves to take a piece of dead plant. <> (I shoot the drone!) (It's hiding something.) (Room exits?) (This is a walrus automat, isn't it?) * Amadeus shakes his head; he's not about technology so much. He goes about getting a sample of dead plant, too, a sample of dirt from that plant, and a sample of dust. Hey, dust! You never know when you might need some of that. (GO TEAM SCIENCE) <> * Tomas pokes around the panel, trying to find purchase to open it. (We're sent to get samples! Get samples we shall!) ~ Interesting. ~ ~ Annoying, but interesting. ~ <> * Amadeus asks, a little distractedly, ~What?~ <> (Fire a missile at it!) (Works in MEtroid.) * Tomas purchases the door open. (The panel door. On the face. Of the wheel. Yeah.) (What color is the door?) (We lack colored keys.) (Regular blaster would work if it's only blue.) * Hestia is staring down at the thing on the desk. ~ There's a PI running here, ~ she says distractedly. NOW she tries sitting in the beanbag, because something's caught her attention; she keeps running her fingers over various smooth ovoid things on the 'desk'. * Amadeus blinks, then looks over at Tia. ~A PI?~ He walks over to get a look at the desk, too. <> (Lick it! You know you want to!) * Zeke's bugs, well, one of them, reacts by skittering over and up onto the desk to join the looking party. ~To what degree is it functional?~ * Tomas acquires a Thing That Looks Like a Granola Bar! (It's really peeking over the edge of the desk. It's too big to be on the desk.) ~Pi? As in tasty pastry or... what?~ ~I think she means pseudo-intelligence, Kyle.~ * Tomas spins the wheel and tries another door. * Hestia nods, and doesn't look up when she replies. ~ Not pie, 'Pee Eye'. Pseudo-intelligence. Autonomous computer programs. Some can be pretty complex. ~ She glances over at one ovoid thing in particular. ~ I think it's in safe mode right now. It really didn't want anyone poking around in the system. ~ * Lexi gets distracted by looking at the pictures. ~What do you suppose they used this building for?~ < that. A cylindrical presentation of iconography.>> ~It is unclear.~ ~If Tia can't get any information out of the PI, I thi- hello.~ <> * Hestia looks up. ~ Well, this appears to be working, at least. ~ ~Oooh, PI.~ * Tomas turns to the sound, ~What's that?~ <> (As in, visible through the glass?) (Or in the projector?) * Amadeus peers at the hologram, studying it. * Lexi immediately heads over to get a better look at the hologram. ~Whoooa! That's crazy!~ * Tomas walks up to the hologram and proffers the granola bar. (WE COME IN PEACE. HAVE YOUR OWN GRANOLA BAR WE STOLE.) (Ha ha.) * Kyle looks at the projector. ~That's pretty schway lookin'.~ (It is the hologram that the walrus is in, though?) (wut? This is mine! I brought it with me! IYou're not getting off on a good foot making accusations like that!) (It is the hologram, yes.) (Sorry for the confusion.) (I clearly just need to hire animators.) (Yeah, that'd be sweet.) * Hestia frowns and glances at the icons in the hologram, then decides to play a hunch, reaches out, and pokes one with her finger at random. * Zeke's bug looks up through the igonography, then at the walrus. ~It... seems that is more the tone we should be aiming for.~ (I don't expect that to work but what the hey.) (Probably better than offering it food.) (Everybody likes food.) (I'm just treating the stuff like a touch screen, to be clear.) (As it's a hologram I expect this to net nothing. but you never know.) <> * Hestia dutifully brings her hand back. ~ Interesting. I wonder if that's the PI. ~ (I whip out my gun and shoot the walrus.) ~It's interactive, so why not?~ ~I'd guess so, given it reacted pretty angrily to you.~ ~He didn't like that at all. Maybe you should have offered him a treat first.~ (Tomas if you bring walrus kibble to the next planet I swear I will kill you.) * Hestia actually turns and looks at Tomas blankly. If gazers were lazers he'd have IT'S A HOLOGRAM, YOU FOOL written on his chest. (I get a discount at the Dunno store. I could get us some.) <> (INTO PAC-MAN.) (WAKAWAKAWAKA) * Zeke's bug just looks on. ~I am not understanding its language. Not enough samples.~ (Shuriken suddenly appear in Tomas' chest. Wait, wrong game.) <> * Amadeus starts at that. ~Holy shit!~ * Zeke also comms, ~... Very interesting.~ ~Duuuude!~ ~Would be nice to have that database about now.~ * Lexi jumps back some. ~I did NOT expect that.~ ~Can anyone speak Sleythin?~ <> * Zeke comms back, ~I hadn't cared to learn.~ (Now this is convenien.) (ha, Zeke.)\ * Hestia glances at the sleythin, then shrugs and says: "[Be more specific.]" (You know...) (The ONE time I make an ATC character that doesn't know Sleythin.) (I AM USEFUL :D) (You were useful before. <.<) (HOORAY :D) (DICE CAN'T GET YOU NOW) (I AM STILL USEFUL NOW :D) (*shoves Zeke in front of a comet*) (;_;) (I am waiting to be eaten by the beanbag.) << The !walrus returns to the screen.>> [The planet, beyond the bowl, in the asteroid.] (The beanbag is really a !walrus. Good work there, Miss Diplomat) * Hestia stares blankly at the sleythin. She translates, then adds: ~ I really don't know what he's talking about. ~ ~ Plus either my Sleythin is rusty, or he's speaking some dialect I've never heard of. ~ (Am I really the only one who speaks sleythin? Haha. ^_^;) * Amadeus thinks about that, then says, ~It might have been a very long time since this race was in contact with the Sleythin. Probably just a case of the language evolving.~ (I sure don't!) (I should.) <> * Hestia nods at Amadeus. ~ Makes sense to me. What should I tell him? ~ (It's no biggie!) <> (IF ONLY ISIS WERE HERE! SHE'D KNOW!) (I don't know if I'm supposed to know about stuff like this.) * Hestia knits her brow, then glances at the others with a clear expression of: does this look like something you recognize? <> * Zeke replies, after a few long moments, ~This is... of Halfway to Europa. Sleythins hiding.~ * Hestia turns to Zeke. ~ So you're saying that's the lizard planet? ~ She turns and looks back at the hologram. ~ Before or after the whatevers blew it to hell? ~ (I'm counting on THAT being a matter of public record.) (Wait. Weren't you guys just on Sleythin? Visiting the museum?) * Amadeus nods. ~Yeah, it was in the movie... and it was empty in the movie, too. At least before the Europa Team messed with it. I guess I'll have to rethink Halfway to Europa's historical accuracy.~ (Not by the long way.) (We bodyslid in.) (And thus never saw this.) ~Yeah.~ (ahh, ok) * Hestia frowns, then turns to what she presumes is the controlling PI. [We know it but have not been there.] [You speak it... you strange beings must have been. Or someone else. Do they send you?] ~ He... IT... is asking if the sleythin sent us, I think. He assumes we must have been there because I speak the language. ~ * Zeke replies, ~I suggest the affirmative.~ <> * Amadeus nods, thinking. ~You'd might as well tell it the truth. We're on friendly terms with the Sleythin, and we've been exploring and came upon this place.~ (Zeke likes to lie!) ~Totally agree with the prof here.~ * Hestia glances between Amadeus and Zeke for a moment, clearly amused at what they're both suggesting. She then turns to Kyle and Lexi. ~ How about you, Ms. Calhoun? ~ * Tomas nods at Tia as he tears open the granola bar and gives it a taste. <> * Lexi shrugs. ~Hey, I say we tell it the truth. No reason to lie, really.~ * Tomas , after smashing the granola bar into his face mask a couple of times, decides to take his helmet off and give it a taste. (Tomas: Amazingly Brilliant.) * Amadeus looks at Tomas oddly. ~... What are you doing?~ * Hestia gives Tomas a little look, before turning back to the console. [We are allies. We were sent here to explore.] Tia has a really convenient way of thinking about 'the truth'. <> ~I'm checking out some of this !walrus cuisine.~ * Tomas mmms, ~Blueberries~ * Amadeus shakes his head, bemused. ~Just save a sample, all right? And try not to die.~ [You speak truly? You are not... you are not @warbling noise@?] <> * Hestia replies: [No.] Why? Because she's not a freakin' Bug. It is an easy answer. * Tomas stops himself before popping the last bite in his mouth and instead stows it in a handy sample bag he handily has in a pocket. <> [They sent someone! But you are too late...] <> [Far too late, for my people.] * Amadeus , having made sure Tomas saved a sample, goes back to watching the conversation between Tia and the walrus. * Zeke's drone has settled on the side of the desk, looking up at all the images it can't understand. * Hestia frowns, glancing at the !walrus for a moment, then half-turns on her... beanbag?... to look at the rest of the group. ~ Looks like the Bugs got whoever lived here a long time ago,~ she translates. ~ We are, quote, 'far too late'. ~ * Amadeus winces, and he looks a little depressed at that. ~Damn.~ * Kyle frowns. ~That sucks.~ <> [Do you go away now?] * Lexi pouts and looks very sad. ~Poor Walrus guy.~ ~Does this guy know anything about the prophecy of doom the curator told you about?~ * Zeke's drones don't cry or anything. He does comm, ~It may be useful for your data gathering if you could date their death.~ [We're discussing. Just one moment.] ("PLEASE REMEMBER OUR LOST CIVILIZATION T_T" "Uh, please hold.") ~And beyond that, if it can guide us around here.~ * Amadeus pauses a moment, then adds, ~I wonder if we can take it with us... so to speak.~ (Look, I can't keep having players adopt every lost PI they come across. <_<) (We shall call it... Vernon.) (For no reason.) (but but, I'll feed him and take care of him! c'mooooon) (What, it's not like the PI is there for a race that still exists!) (This one could be a useful local guide!) * Hestia stands up from the beanbag and turns to look at everyone before turning back and leaning on the desk, palms flat down on it. So many requests... well, work from the top. [We'd like to examine this facility. Would you guide us?] (Amadeus is thinking 1. useful local guide, 2. if we take it back to Mars, there's a lot of additional information we can get.) (We are scanvengers.) (I know, I'm just joking because of Prag.) [This place, is the last place of my people. Other places all destroyed. We hide here, and starve.] <> [I will guide.] (AND NOW LET ME SING YOU THE SONG OF MY PEOPLE) (And yet, Tomas has already eaten THE LAST OF YOUR FOOD.) (WHAT A JERK) (FOR REALS. WAY TO KILL THE WALRUSES, TOMAS.) (I saved a bit.) * Kyle is recording what the creature is saying. Sleythinese can be translated later. :D * Tomas heads to the wheel to stock up before the guided tour. (You're not the only one, Kyle. HEADPUTERS GO) (I think here's a good ending point, if people are amenable.) (HEADPUTERS ARE GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!) (Fine with me!) (That's fine.) (Okay by me.) (Yeah, this is good) (I can do this.) (NO WE MUST CONTINUE FOREVER. UNTIL 8 AM EXPLORING THE EGYPTIAN WALRUSES) <>