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[Radio Controlled]

((Let's assume it's the green on my map, aka Team Scrupulosity.))

((Yeah, which green is it? Because Jason is part of the green team on RC's map, but Chthunkan is green on PW's map.))

"Yay, we get first shot at possible death. I'm so excited. Do we have to leave the ship?" Jason asks, his lack of enthusiasm apparent in the monotone way he says it.

"Probably not, it's just taking a quick peek more than going out to shake its hand really."

So yeah, for our ship, leave a buoy here then continue on as planned. 

[NAV]

"Anything I can do General?"

If Miya doesn't need anything then work on this.

More crafting! Upgrade my laser cannon.
1.Wire it up to my suit and robot body and welder for MORE POWER!
2.Scavenge some rebreathers from my spare spacesuits, hook them up to recycle the generator's exhaust. I doubt it will work indefinitely but it should extend the life of the air tank quite a bit and make it run longer in space.
3.Scavenge a couple electrodes, some wire and switches from a robot body. Create spark gap. Wire spark gap to laser's power supply and put it in front of barrel. Turn laser into ELECTROLASER!

[Radio Controlled]

"Anything I can do General?"

If Miya doesn't need anything then work on this.

More crafting! Upgrade my laser cannon.
1.Wire it up to my suit and robot body and welder for MORE POWER!
2.Scavenge some rebreathers from my spare spacesuits, hook them up to recycle the generator's exhaust. I doubt it will work indefinitely but it should extend the life of the air tank quite a bit and make it run longer in space.
3.Scavenge a couple electrodes, some wire and switches from a robot body. Create spark gap. Wire spark gap to laser's power supply and put it in front of barrel. Turn laser into ELECTROLASER!

"For the moment, not really, enjoy your free time while it lasts. Just be ready in case I need you for something, and don't blow anything up in the meantime, or I'll have to find you some busywork. Like scrubbing the deck or whatever."

[Toaster]

Lars bowed at the comms screen.  "I accept your commands, General.  We will investigate for the glory of Steve."


Investigate!  Is it wiggling or writhing?  Is it travelling in any direction?  Is it giving off any energy readings (besides the lowlevel background radiation)?  Is it trying to communicate or reacting to us now that we've spent a bit more time here?

Don't approach yet.

[Parisbre56]

((I propose you name this anomaly "The Giant Radioactive Spaghetti Ball".))

[Radio Controlled]

((I propose you name this anomaly "The Giant Radioactive Spaghetti Ball".))

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[Harry Baldman]

Proceed as planned. Nothing to see here, move along.

[spazyak]

build a shrine to the ramen noodle god

[piecewise]

((Let's assume it's the green on my map, aka Team Scrupulosity.))

((Yeah, which green is it? Because Jason is part of the green team on RC's map, but Chthunkan is green on PW's map.))

"Yay, we get first shot at possible death. I'm so excited. Do we have to leave the ship?" Jason asks, his lack of enthusiasm apparent in the monotone way he says it.

"Probably not, it's just taking a quick peek more than going out to shake its hand really."

So yeah, for our ship, leave a buoy here then continue on as planned. 

I meant green on my map but it doesn't actually matter. We'll go green on yours.

"Anything I can do General?"

If Miya doesn't need anything then work on this.

More crafting! Upgrade my laser cannon.
1.Wire it up to my suit and robot body and welder for MORE POWER!
2.Scavenge some rebreathers from my spare spacesuits, hook them up to recycle the generator's exhaust. I doubt it will work indefinitely but it should extend the life of the air tank quite a bit and make it run longer in space.
3.Scavenge a couple electrodes, some wire and switches from a robot body. Create spark gap. Wire spark gap to laser's power supply and put it in front of barrel. Turn laser into ELECTROLASER!

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You've got a +2 so you don't fuck it up, but you don't get any real work done.

Lars bowed at the comms screen.  "I accept your commands, General.  We will investigate for the glory of Steve."


Investigate!  Is it wiggling or writhing?  Is it travelling in any direction?  Is it giving off any energy readings (besides the lowlevel background radiation)?  Is it trying to communicate or reacting to us now that we've spent a bit more time here?

Don't approach yet.

It's...well it's sort of doing both?  It appears to be overall stationary, though parts of it are expanding out and then contracting in. It's not giving off any other energy readings, at least none that you can detect. It still seems to either be ignoring you or not to notice you. In reality it might not even be alive. You might be waiting for some sort of natural phenomena to acknowledge your presence, like introducing yourself to a rock.

build a shrine to the ramen noodle god

You build a rather impressive house of cards style structure out of ramen noodle wafer things.

Proceed as planned. Nothing to see here, move along.

You don't run into anything, however, Red Team, Good old Miya, runs into something. At 10,5. Or I should say that they start getting strong gravity readings and that the normally weightless interior of the ship suddenly attains a cycling gravity which causes everyone inside the ship to slowly slide along the walls, ceiling and floor, like the ship is lethargically rolling over and over.

[spazyak]

make a quick prayer to the ramen noodle god for good sustenance then go watch Draco and make sure he doesn't get hurt by the mean old gravitational anomaly!
Oh, holy bringer of sustenance, lord of the holy noddle, here thine plee and bless these noodles to bring great sustenance to all that eat them in you glory!
Jackson gets up wandering to his pet Alot
Draco, buddeeeee, you out there?

[The Lupanian]

Ask if there's anything remotely helpful I could be doing

[Radio Controlled]

"Great. Just what we wanted, an anomalous invisible tumble dryer.

Dubley, Jack, I'll need the two of you to keep an eye out for now and help me determine if we're still inside the gravity effect zone. We'll try to steer around it and leave a buoy to inform Scrupulosity."

Leave stationary buoy. Fly away from the center of (10,5) until the gravity effects stop. Do they suddenly stop, or is it a gradual effect? If first, then once out keep going around keeping quite some distance until we can resume our normal course. If second, try to fly so we can stay at the 'edge' of the anomalous zone and map it out like that, but otherwise keep going in the direction we were. Transmit any data we find to said buoy so it can transmit it in turn.

Also, and sorry in advance for semi-tinker (it came up in a discussion in ooc, but isn't exactly pressing, so I decided against pm'ing), but could you tell us how the tesla saber contains the electricity/lightning it produces? Does it need automanips for that? And if yes, does that mean it's affected by the lurker?

[Harry Baldman]

"So that's two teams tied up on anomalous occurrences. No changes in orders, I assume?"

Keep moving, steady on.

[Radio Controlled]

"So that's two teams tied up on anomalous occurrences. No changes in orders, I assume?"

Keep moving, steady on.

"We aren't going to investigate this, but if we gotta fly past it we might as well try to map its edges, so the team following behind knows what to avoid. But yes, both of our teams keep going otherwise."

[NAV]

Take a video of the Alot in the gravitational anomaly. I'll post it on space youtube later.