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[spazyak]

Summary of current situation: Duncan Hudson (NJW2000) is feeding Henk Reinolds (spazyak) tea laced with a friable wish in the rec room. He's been working toward this for two or three updates now, and Henk has been an eager participant, because tea.

Looks like they're making a Forever War movie: http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1307468/

"An elite task force returns home after a brief interstellar military operation, but discovers that 20 years have passed and the planet they once knew is completely different. "

But thats not the story of Forever war!

Can't watch the video because my nets are shit. But, that was at least the very beginning of the book... sorta. They also knew that was going to happen when they signed up for it. The book was alright. Didn't read any of the sequels. Anyone know if they are any good, or if they are even related to the first, in the sense of them fighting?

the movie probably won't stick very close to the book anyway. John Carter, anyone? And Forever Peace was awful. I don't know about other sequels.

Spoiler: an actual plot spoiler (click to show/hide)

Theye try to fly a ship outside of the galaxy and superbeings prevent them because galaxies are their petri dishes in a cosmic experiment. (wormhole jumping between galaxies was fine because they were always in one or other galaxy.)

what is friable wish

[Harry Baldman]

what is friable wish

Something you shouldn't put in your tea, judging by piecewise's reaction. Geometric candies according to the wiki.

This is why you don't accept tea from strangers, of course.

[Ozarck]

http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/Nyars_boxes in short, a Nyartifact candy with unknown effect. Your new tea drinking friend slipped you one. and you took it. You even bolded your action to drink it. And it stopped the turn midtrack. Last time I aw that happen (admittedly i haven't read all the missions in order) was on mission 15, and STAN was the outcome.

what is friable wish

Something you shouldn't put in your tea, judging by piecewise's reaction. Geometric candies according to the wiki.

This is why you don't accept tea from strangers, of course.

unless you are cra~~~~zy~~~~. So on this ship, of course you do.

[Twinwolf]

...I'm afraid to ask, but what's STAN?

[Parisbre56]

...I'm afraid to ask, but what's STAN?

The reason people are afraid of Xan. Which is a bit strange, because the fact that Stacy saw the star eater was also responsible. Guess you can't blame the dead.
Edit: The fact that the AM had made him dance forever like a dance commander probably also had something to do with it.

[Harry Baldman]

...I'm afraid to ask, but what's STAN?

Mission 15, in short. Be sure to check it out, it's not a long one.

The reason people are afraid of Xan. Which is a bit strange, because the fact that Stacy saw the star eater was also responsible. Guess you can't blame the dead.

Did PW say it was that, or is that an educated guess?

[Nikitian]

The reason people are afraid of Xan. Which is a bit strange, because the fact that Stacy saw the star eater was also responsible. Guess you can't blame the dead.

Did PW say it was that, or is that an educated guess?

The Doctor told Xan so, or so he claims.

[tryrar]

...I'm afraid to ask, but what's STAN?

Simple answer:Read mission 15. Long answer: Harry Baldman's previous char had had contact with beings from beyond our understanding, forcing him to take a memory erasing pill to forcibly forget them(or be liquidated on the spot). And Xan at the time had the Doctor turn him into something akin to a living flesh overload. They went to the same mission in the Artic, where Stacy(harry's char) begin stacy, wrecked his robot body, and Xan tried to grow him a new flesh one. emphasis on tried. He absorbed his brain instead....and the results weren't pretty. "Nuke the site from orbit" not pretty

[spazyak]

Why do I have a feeling I'm going to lead to another Stan and lots of death?

[Lenglon]

Honestly, I'm thinking more along the lines of a Grate incident than a Stan one.

which is still completely horrible.

[Twinwolf]

...I want to say Anita had a horrible feeling and decided to get the f*** out of there, but that's metagamey. And probably requires an Intuition roll, and she has a -1 in that.

[Ozarck]

It was glorious. And it was a large part of why I joined this game.

I laughed most, though, about the guy threatening to shoot anyone who opens a shipping crate. Wasn't the whole purpose of that mission to retrieve at least one of those crates?

"Go get the crate"
"Okay"
"hey, we're here, let's carefully examine these crates"
"Oh hell no. touch that crate and die."
"Hey guys, this guy broke himself and nearly killed us all, and no one really want him touching anything for fear he might doom us all."
"So?"
Also, I'm an untrustworthy flesh horror, myself."
"your point?"
"Can I flesh him up a new body so he can continue touching stuff?"
"sure, why not?"
"Seriously, dude, you touch that f-ing crate, i will space magic you a new butthole, and pull you backward through it. I'm not even kidding."

[Harry Baldman]

It was glorious. And it was a large part of why I joined this game.

I laughed most, though, about the guy threatening to shoot anyone who opens a shipping crate. Wasn't the whole purpose of that mission to retrieve at least one of those crates?

Oh no, our mission was to figure out what was down in that ship aside from all the plot-insignificant crates full of crap we don't need. Namely, we could have located an invaluable non-wetware AI to use for the revolution. Sadly, it was not meant to be.

[NJW2000]

Seeing as I might be a little bit involved in this, do I assume PW knows where I am?

[Twinwolf]

Just in case, say where you are.