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[freeformschooler]

You cannot get ye card

Apparently, it was a load-bearing card.

>Andrew: Place some of the buildings down in a convenient location for Achim

You place down all the necessary game structures in a totally convenient location. By that you mean his living room because his bedroom is just too dark to see into.

[Blade Master Model 42]

>Penny: Return to your room and turn the crank on the thing.

[freeformschooler]

By the way, I've started work on a new format of character sheet more closely mirroring the main FATE ones. It's still pretty condensed. You can view it here, but not edit it:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AprUG4EIL-vAdHNySmVhQjNIOE9VUGhKWGtiTHRialE#gid=0

[Liber celi]

I played exactly one actual pen&paper rpg and it was a FATE derivate. Fun times.
I am very sorry for my late arrival, but here it comes:

Ad-Hoc Character Sheet:

Name: ACHIM ENGELER

Average: Robustness, Growling, Search
Fair: Incinerate, Chemistry

Aspekt: Flames Deep Beneath
Aspekt: Yeah, I will do it tomorrow

[Dermonster]

Sirius frowned. Surely it was an optical illusion.

Just in case, he took a picture and compared it to similar ones he took monthly at work.

Sometimes having a job has benefits.

[ShoesandHats]

This is so that people know that this book is a reference to something:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Liber celi]

DD: Great Graphics!
DD: Sorry for messing up your Sim's room
DD: One moment, I will put it back...
LR: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LR: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LR: THAT BOOK ALMOST HIT ME
LR: AND NOW YOU STARTED A FIRE WHAT
LR: AND NOW YOU THREW A CUBE AT IT OR SOMETHING?
LR: WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON?

Jonathan is overreacting... it's not like you demolished his actual room... or did you? Heh, this would be pretty crazy.
...about as crazy as the noises coming from the living room, actually.

>ACHIM: Check out the ruckus in the living room!
But... the cat!

>ACHIM: o_O
Okay, okay.
You check the living room.
What the...
You owe somebody an apology, it seems.

>ACHIM: Deploy Jonathan's Totemizer and Cruxtruder!

[freeformschooler]

>ACHIM: Deploy Jonathan's Totemizer and Cruxtruder!

While deploying Jonathan's Totemizer and Cruxtruder, you notice there's a few other items to deploy, including a pre-punched card. You also notice that this, apparently, would cost the remaining amount of Jonathan's measly initial 20 Grist. Whatever that is.

>Penny: Return to your room and turn the crank on the thing.

You return to your room and do the deed. A top-heavy cylinder colored the same as Zellsprite pops out of the Cruxtruder.

Sirius frowned. Surely it was an optical illusion.

Just in case, he took a picture and compared it to similar ones he took monthly at work.

Sometimes having a job has benefits.

While it is fairly obvious tonight is the night for Mars to be larger in general, about 10 minutes' worth of research reveals to you that Mars isn't even in the same place in the sky as the Mars-colored object you saw. Uh oh.

[TherosPherae]

Spoiler: TOILETS (click to show/hide)

-- testingBeta [TB] began trolling starboundLogicbomb [SL] at 20:12 --
TB: hey
SL: Hello
TB: do you have the suburb beta?
SL: ...yes?
TB: F|N/\LLY
SL: uh
TB: |'ve been trawl|ng around for someone w|th |t for l|ke forever
SL: wait hold on a second...
SL: Oh. Hrm.
SL: Do you happen to know someone by the pester tag pseudoSkeptic?
TB: oh yeah that guy
TB: he's been out of contact s|nce.... eh, | th|nk somet|me after | met the basement squ|d
TB: but bas|cally | need a server
SL: I see
TB: and |'d rather get someone else as a server before Penny f|gures out how to do |t
SL: how did you find me?
TB: random pester|ng
SL: that seems a little too contrived considering recent events
SL: like teleportation and stalking
TB: ?
SL: to name a few
TB: okay then
TB: maybe my basement squ|d told my computer to connect to you or someth|ng
TB: | don't even know
SL: Let me ask you, how likely would it be for you to ask me out of the million people on Pester to play a game that I happen to have just recently gotten, and who knows your friend
SL: just by pure chance
TB: about as l|kely as the controls on that game be|ng sh|tty
SL: obviously it has happened but lightning would strike me fifteen times over before happening again
TB: by wh|ch | mean |t |s a th|ng that |s happen|ng
TB: now are you go|ng to server or am | go|ng to have to talk to someone else
TB: or, god forb|d, have Penny do |t
SL: That depends entirely on weather or not I trust this text file
TB: what text f|le
SL: a text file you have no concern over
SL: either way
SL: the person who sent me it, I have a searing annoyance with
SL: so just to spite it, I will, in fact, server you
TB: so you have l|ttle to no reason to trust them
TB: excellent.
TB: |'m go|ng to need an |P
SL: I was in the middle of looking at mars though
SL: uh
SL: Fine, I guess. My IP is 729-42-8008
TB: a|ght
TB: you should get a cl|ent connect|on soon
TB: once |t passes through my mass|ve proxy wall
SL: I'll have to put the other disc in then
SL: Maybe I should wait till this other guy does his thing
SL: does it even matter, I wonder
TB: don't th|nk so
SL: By the way my... augh, this termonology, my, uh, server is this skeptic person you know
TB: oh cool
TB: he's a bro he should do an excellent job deploy|ng sh|t and probably blow|ng up your to|let
SL: ...
SL: uh
TB: also | should warn you th|s game has some ser|ously sh|tty controls
TB: and don't worry | th|nk |t's l|ke a v|rual s|m-space or someth|ng
SL: I guess even people who can creat teleporters can make shitty cont-what
SL: Oh
SL: right, i think I get it
SL: he said it was like the sims
TB: sh|tty controls, probably a vers|on of the s|ms, please try not to explode the to|let
TB: core rules and concepts r|ght there
SL: why would I explode a toilet
TB: on acc|dent
SL: how do you know there will be a toilet, barring common sense
TB: well my cl|ent had a to|let
TB: she actually had several to|lets
SL: ho wmany
TB: so | am presum|ng my |n-game character w|ll also have a to|let.
SL: probably
TB: l|ke s|xteen or somesh|t
TB: |t was an absurd number
SL: I will endeavor- holy what even does she eat to make that many neccessary?
TB: and | acc|dentally every s|ngle one
SL: Is it constant taco tuesday over there?
TB: dude | don't even know but whatever th|s game |s |t requ|res seventeen to|lets
SL: has the government put up a biohazard dome over her residence?
TB: | don't th|nk so?
TB: maybe she found a we|rd to|let gl|tch
SL: ARE THEY RESEARCHING HER WASTE TO PRODUCE BIOWEAPONS?
SL: sorry I tend to do that
TB: |t's ok bro
SL: I'll tell you when skeptic gets his shit together then
TB: so |'m gonna play some skyr|m wh|le th|s sh|t slowly makes |ts way around the world through var|ous servers and whatnot
TB: or that works too
SL: cool, cool
TB: ad|os
SL: I'm gonna go look at mars
SL: see ya
-- testingBeta [TB] gave up trolling starboundLogicbomb [SL] at 20:29 --

TB: CONNECT

[Dermonster]

(That's the problem with edits and my ungodly view speed. My action was not there when I checked and subsequently got pestered. Hrm.)

'Fuck! Fuck fuck this is probably really bad.' he muttered to himself. "From the size it's either really close or very big.'

Quickly opening a variety of programs, Sirius points his array back up to the object and attempts to calculate its trajectory and speed.

[Blade Master Model 42]

>Penny: Retrieve the cylinder. Take it and the card to the bathroom!

[freeformschooler]

Quickly opening a variety of programs, Sirius points his array back up to the object and attempts to calculate its trajectory and speed.

((Gm note: I had a few of these down as mediocre, but they were suppose to be average? Either way, my fault.))

(Stargazing [Average] +2 vs. ? ? ?) Using complex mathemagicks (read: Physics), you calculate the object's speed to be "deadly" and its trajectory to be "you." There is definitely no scenario where this does not end badly.

Except, of course, for one involving weird teleporty stuff. And what's the only connection you have to weird teleporty stuff right now? Right. Better get a move on.

TB: CONNECT

Sirius's screen changes, and Jack appears on his SUBURB viewport. Man, is that what kids are doing nowadays? Dying their hair green? ((OP updated with connection info.))

>Penny: Retrieve the cylinder. Take it and the card to the bathroom!

You take the cylinder to the now-destroyed restroom. What a mess! After a few minutes, the lathe carves the totem from "slightly top heavy" to "oddly distinctive."

BOOOOOM!

You hear a gunshot and then an explosion from the main living room.

[Blade Master Model 42]

You briefly consider investigating the gunshot and explosion, but eventually decide that guns and explosions are dangerous, and that dude with the bird puns said doing this game stuff is super important. Hopefully you're making the right choice.

>Penny: Abandon your parents to their fate, and get the totem to the roof!

[ShoesandHats]

Did Andrew already install the client disc? If not,

>Andrew: Install Suburb client on laptop

[freeformschooler]

You briefly consider investigating the gunshot and explosion, but eventually decide that guns and explosions are dangerous, and that dude with the bird puns said doing this game stuff is super important. Hopefully you're making the right choice.

>Penny: Abandon your parents to their fate, and get the totem to the roof!

You barely even look downstairs to see what's happened, instead opting to head back toward the roof. Placing the Dowel in the Alchemiter, a flash light appears froms its circular base. The light dissipates, and left behind is...

...a large, pyramid-shaped, red-orange stone. Huh. It seems to be around three times your size.

Did Andrew already install the client disc? If not,

>Andrew: Install Suburb client on laptop

I already had noted that everyone's servers and clients were installed when we started back. Sorry.