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[NJW2000]

Find someone's forum name, who posts every time, search for it, which will bring up all quotes, check that these are all by PW. Faster than looking at updates themselves.

[Nunzillor]

Use the Bay 12 Thread Downloader and Filter tool in Parisbre's sig, choose only pw authored posts, then ctrl-f (or heathen Mac option-f equivalent) and search "piecewise".  Number of results will be listed.

[Parisbre56]

We clearly need a piecewise hertz metric. 

Seriously though, I thought record time was an expression that meant very quickly. I didn't actually mean this was the shortest mission ever. If you consider post frequency, I think the nuke door mission might have been the shortest one. Maybe an easy way to check would be to see how many posts there are.

Use the Bay 12 Thread Downloader and Filter tool in Parisbre's sig, choose only pw authored posts, then ctrl-f (or heathen Mac option-f equivalent) and search "piecewise".  Number of results will be listed.

Fakeedit: Oh, people actually use that thing? It's a bit buggy, I think. It imports all the posts correctly but doesn't do it in the correct order, I think, when the times are too close to each other. Has some problems figuring out which date comes first. If people find it useful I could work on fixing that when I have some time.

[Xantalos]

Definitely calling m15 for one of the shortest.

[Ozarck]

Flint once tried to eat a bite out of a mundane looking, methane breathing, carbon eating beetle. You know, a small one, just to see what it tastes like. Though he didn't, because the universe/his intuition told him it was probably a bad idea. Don't know if that counts as injecting weird stuff into yourself.

weird stuff, yes. Eldritch horrors? no. Besides, he had his space helmet on, and had he opened it, he'd have been injecting a lot of plain old, mundane methane into his system before he got much chance at the beetle.

I wonder if Pancaek's experience with the white planet counts.

I think it does. For a brief moment he was a god, or equivalent of one. But that was xenospit speaking, not technical spess magic.

Well, the Doctor did make a big deal out of the experience, so it was more than the xenospit.

STAN should count, because, well, Stacy and his painting. Residual traces of "alien space god", if you wish. (According to the Doctor as reported by Xan, anyway.)

I'm not familiar with that bit yet. I read M1, part of M2, all of missions 6 to 9b, 15, 19, 20 gyromatria, and all of the current stuff, as well as the on ship thread from inception to the point in M2 I am at, and of course everything since I awoke there. SO I have gaps in my knowledge. And I bogged down mid M2, so catching up has been slow.

Anyway, Candidates for Space Gods:
Grate
Timmy
STAN
Pancaek
Maurice
STEPHEN HAWKING? (I just remembered he was the one who gave Grate his quantum immortality)
Can't really consider the victims of the eater of cold ... they were more "consumed by an eldritch horror"

I just realized something: In the character index, Lyra is described as an "anthropomorphic cat." this is a cat that has taken on human form. She could probably better be described as a "felinomorphic human."

This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night in the daytime. (I work at night)

[tryrar]

Definitely calling m15 for one of the shortest.

heh, I agree actually. I mean, it was one fuckup right after another resulting in an orbital bombardment, in a very short span of time

[Parisbre56]

@Xan: Yeah, definitely.

@Ozarck: Well, you can eat things while in a MK2. It's how we ate those supplies we carried.

And wouldn't a felinomorphic human be a human that walks on all fours and pretends he is meowing and purring? A human pretending to be a cat, essentially?

[Beirus]

We clearly need a piecewise hurtz metric. 

FTFY

[Xantalos]

M15 went as such, if I remember correctly:
Team lands
Team drives to anomaly site and scouts it out
Stacy interrupts digging efforts by HEPing a giant hole straight down into the ship
Team investigates boxes, Dubley develops alien bees box paranoia and nearly kills some people before being annihilated
STAN
Orbital bombardment while team runs away
Remaining team steals scientist vehicle and drives away

[Beirus]

I think the longest part of M15 was actually getting a vehicle and getting away after it all went to shit.

[Xantalos]

It was. The timespan between Stacy blasting a hole down into the ship and STAN happening was about 5ish turns.

[Yoink]

Let's not forget how heroically I saved the day.

[Beirus]

Let's not forget how heroically I saved the day.

Or how you lost the APC and everyone who went with you got injured. 

[NJW2000]

*Rolls luck for DMR*

*Four instafails to 1 out of 4 rolls*

*Slams dice into head*

Dammit guys, didn't you read the first few pages of the first DMR? Some of you posted on them, for Chal-thul's sake

[AoshimaMichio]

So now we are having race up to the pyramid? This is gonna be good.

Funny things from IRC:
<@Piecewise> Well "Alive" is a hard term for the doc
<@Piecewise> If you are alive after the fight, then he is too
<@Piecewise> Technically, if any of you are, he is
<@Piecewise> That and about a million other people on other planets
<@Piecewise> You haven't had to see the doc use someone as a channel yet. That will be fun if that ever happens

<@Piecewise> wanna know something funny?
<@Piecewise> You know how the Doc is a good fighter? He's not a natural at it. He's just good with biology. But there is a natural fighter out there
<@Piecewise> one still alive
<@Piecewise> Oh god if you meet him