Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Corsair]

((Michael Alexander))

[Zako]

Blue Team

Keep going and mapping. Make sure to keep tossing out rocks in front of us to check for stuff we can't see.

[Unholy_Pariah]

follow Lars and assist his experimentation by poking the gel with my melted rod

[Thearpox]

((Michael Alexander))

((Ask Prosperus, RadioControlled, or Pyrodesu. They're the ones giving orders.

But seriously, just go with Mesk and then join Lucas in the mapping. Those are pretty much the orders.))

[Toaster]

"Did anyone bring a stick?"


Stand back and throw a rock in.  If nothing horrible happens, throw one in from up close.  If still nothing horrible happens, hold a rock and dip it in.  Observe.  If nothing horrible still happens, collect a sample of gel and label it.

[Toaster]

((Assuming it won't dissolve our suits, we could always just walk into the gel and explore the bottom of it if we're feeling adventurous.  Might be best to let the lab look at a sample of it first, though.))

[Corsair]

Go with mesk

[Sean Mirrsen]

"Ooookay. Definitely not what I was expecting. But very curious." Anton opens a channel to Base team and Red Leader XO Simus, with his helmetcam's video feed. "Base, XO, are you seeing this? I have encountered some lifeforms deeper inside the Flatlands. Given the area's nature and the fact that some drones were lost here, I suspect that these creatures may feed off certain types of energy. I will maintain my distance from these, and try to find a path deeper in that doesn't intersect their habitat."

Steer clear of the lifeforms, maintain a distance of at least two to three hundred meters from them at all times. Go east, try to find a patch of flatland unoccupied by the creatures that leads deeper towards the anomaly center.

[Parisbre56]

"Given the area's nature and the fact that some drones were lost here, I suspect that these creatures may feed off certain types of energy. I will maintain my distance from these, and try to find a path deeper in that doesn't intersect their habitat."

((Actually, the drones were destroyed by the skylights. It seems like their laser rangefinders did not understood them as dangerous corporeal objects so they flew straight through them and were probably incinerated or whatever those lights do to things. Here are my notes on that sector if you're interested:))

Spoiler: Sector 2 (click to show/hide)

Flat Hexagons with Skylights (name?, zone 2, 1 bighex distance)
   Dangerous, proceed with extreme caution
   The ground is completely flat and partitioned into hexagonal chunks
      -Straight line border, not gradient
      -Border between hexes barely visible
      -No friction
      -Can be traversed with the help of rockets.
      -Near-absolute zero temperature. Possibly related to the lack of friction?
      -Ground very heat conductive. Possibly related to near absolute zero temperatures? Some kind of heat sink perhaps?
         --Laser caused glow but no damage.
         --Gauss round bounced off without breaking apart. This suggests great capability for energy redirection.
         --The flatzone's energy absorbent properties could help create armor against directed energy weapons. Sampling recommended.
   Ecosystem
      -Look crystalline in nature.
      -? How do they interact with the surface? How are they able to walk?
      -? The surface absorbs energy. How do the life forms cope with that? Do the life forms get energy from the skylights?
      -"On the ground are things you don't quite know how to classify. They look crystalline and sliver or chrome, but their shapes seem vaguely organic. Trilobites and Sea urchins, slowly moving things crawling amongst a forest of branching silver anemones and vent worms."
         --Anton
      -Trilobites
      -Sea urchins
      -Anemones
      -Vent worms
         --In what kind of vent are they in?
   Sky lights
      -The lights begin right after the border hexes.
      -The lights caused the disappearance of two drones
         --? EMP?
         --Ground below the lights safe.
      -Look like "...hazy chains of light, more distinct then an aurora, but still not entirely solid."
         --Miyamoto [Radio Controlled]
      -"The sky filled with strange strings of glowing shapes, like chains of interlocking squares and triangles slowly wriggling in the sky."
         --Anton

[Toaster]

((The long metal pole should become a standard issue loadout on these ventures into the complete unknown.  So many things to poke with sticks, and not enough sticks!))

[Thearpox]

((I believe it is standard equipment. At least when people asked him about our equipment me mentioned it as one along with several days supplies and our guns and exoskeletons. So if you want a long pole, you can assume yourself to have one.))

[piecewise]

Keep an eye out for those flying things.

Well, assuming you followed Lars out of the towers and on over to sector 19, you don't see anything flying around out here, at least nowhere near by.

((Where are you moving Piecewise? Leaving Las Vegas?

I love the flat zone stuff. And that sea is kinda freaky. Plus, the towers breed so many questions. And Life! I wonder what the records are of other expeditions on the planetoids. Some data from other expeditions would be really helpful, as we wouldn't want to be exploring the same old stuff would we? Then our data would be useless. Also, still want pictures.))

Blue Team

Yeah, I'm out of my depth here. Starting to feel slightly uncomfortable.

Continue mapping out the other side of black towers with my team. Still waiting for a response from Zephyris.

(Moving around inside the city. New house in a different part of town.)

Map mapple map. Hope you're not waiting for me to write a response from him . Probably not.

"And now you know.  Barring any other requests, I'm heading home."
Head home.

"Hope none of you wanted a ride home. Or medical attention. Because now ya got neither. Later bitches."

You fly your ass home and land the shuttle out near the hanger.

"Now then...what the heck am I gonna do here?"

Vich: "Sorry. It kinda sounded like..uh..nevermind. I..think we got that sorted out at last. Do you have any other questions?"

Follow Bishop. Help out with mapping. Do something useful!

You stick close to Bishop, but when it comes to doing something useful, that might be hard. A big group of people doing nothing but map doesn't really have much for it's individual components to do. Least not right now. Maybe when the giant flesh devouring bees come.

Flint Westwood - Blue squad - Sector 18

Get some more samples (make sure to take small samples from multiple towers so as not to compormise their structural integrity) and store them in containers and labeled "Black Tower Samples (Sector 18)" with "_nutrition?" noted with smaller letters.
Remember whether or not I saw any cameras back at base. If not, contemplate whether or not I could use the mapping drones as cameras.
If I can see a "trunk" that seems to be without carvings, place a camera drone with its camera pointed at it, so that I can hopefully see what's carving them.
Mark some positions with spraypaint on a "trunk" and on the ground around it so that I can tell wether or not the towers expand upwards or sideways overtime. Note their positions and distance with my pole as a measure if I have no other method of measurement available.
Follow the leader.
((Basically thinking of putting some cameras around to document the wildlife here, National Geographic style.Many animals usually behave differently when humans are visible. ))

You place a drone down next to one of the sections that has no carving on it and set it to record using minimum battery and lower resolution. Gonna result in lots of footage to comb through, but hey, thats what people at base are for. That done, you mark the ground level of one tower near the camera and then play follow the leader, hardcore style.

"Shiit. These things have both the high ground, and the home field advantage. I would advise against angering them."

Continue watching "treetops" follow Lars.

((Turns out I do get Internet here.))

You follow Lars straight out of the towers and over to the purple expanse of gunk.

"Ah, death comes from below this time, rather then above. Good thing too, that was starting to make my neck sore, staring up like that."

Blue Team

Keep going and mapping. Make sure to keep tossing out rocks in front of us to check for stuff we can't see.

Map map map map

follow Lars and assist his experimentation by poking the gel with my melted rod

You naughty boy.

Yeah, you jab the gel with the rod a few times. The film over the top is quite tough and resistant, it doesn't seem like you'll be able to pierce it unless you actually try to jam your hard rod into it's quivering, moist mass.

"Did anyone bring a stick?"


Stand back and throw a rock in.  If nothing horrible happens, throw one in from up close.  If still nothing horrible happens, hold a rock and dip it in.  Observe.  If nothing horrible still happens, collect a sample of gel and label it.

Rock one: Bounces on the surface a few times, then comes to a halt.
Rock the rest of them: Same deal, even when thrown quite hard.
Sampling attempt: Your container kind of just skids around on the surface, deforming it but not letting you get any of the stuff into the container.

Go with mesk

You take the mesk train back to the main base. Woo woo.

"Ooookay. Definitely not what I was expecting. But very curious." Anton opens a channel to Base team and Red Leader XO Simus, with his helmetcam's video feed. "Base, XO, are you seeing this? I have encountered some lifeforms deeper inside the Flatlands. Given the area's nature and the fact that some drones were lost here, I suspect that these creatures may feed off certain types of energy. I will maintain my distance from these, and try to find a path deeper in that doesn't intersect their habitat."

Steer clear of the lifeforms, maintain a distance of at least two to three hundred meters from them at all times. Go east, try to find a patch of flatland unoccupied by the creatures that leads deeper towards the anomaly center.

You coast toward the east, trying to find an unoccupied place but it all seems...well..occupied. There's no straight empty corridor without creatures, and from what you can tell, the area doesn't really have a specific center either. It's rather oddly shaped really, not like the blue radiation zone; which seems very geometric.


map
http://i.imgur.com/WSjNSma.png

[kisame12794]

"Hrmmm. I wonder if the drones are waterproof."

Poke the film with the handle of my shovel, gradually increasing pressure until it breaks.

[Doomblade187]

Red Team
"Let's move out a bit, but be careful."

Map around the arc chasm, keeping an eye out for any other anomalies.

[Corsair]

"Time to head to the volcanic zone"
Head to the volcanic zone using the extra resistant containers to sample the liquid from both the surface and bottom (or as far down as I can get) if it is under one of or both of these categories;
   -There are lifeforms heading towards it or dont appear to have recently "grazed"
   -A lifeform is leaving the pool or is currently passing through it