Topic: Sailing on the Sea of Stars [5/5] - Turn 6 (Read 43635 times)

Harry Baldman · « **Reply #75 on:** October 05, 2017, 12:41:34 pm »

Quote from: Coolrune206 on October 05, 2017, 12:33:13 pm

"Then how about, we escort until we get into an empty sector, then attack and take everything."

"Rhalmost definitely not. These things are rhincredibly easy to figure out by the authorities. If ryou need to go rhextralegal, do it with flair!"

Nakéen · « **Reply #76 on:** October 05, 2017, 12:54:34 pm »

Turn 1: Weapons Systems Online

Sneed apologized profusely to the captain, in an overly respectful manner.
"Sorry Captain! Just checking thrusters!" Sneed says in a slightly embarrassed tone through the intercom (or whatever communication device is available). "I won't make that mistake again! I, the lowly Alpha, respect your dominance, Omega leader. I'm sure that under your leadership, we'll hunt down those metaphorical beaver-bisons and oxen-deers that plague the galaxy!"

Then Katerina barged in furious, visibly with a clear idea in mind.
"'Captain' dog, I have proposition for you. We should head to war between Sheorns and Lignondrims, and offer services as privateer to one side. Then we can be like pirate,
but legal. Also, tell whatever idiot accelerated those engines that I am going to kill him."

Sneed avoided crossing gazes with this unnerving human female.

Starbeard handed a paper filled with barely readable gibberish. It breathed with illiteracy.
Starbeard agree rock miner
rock miner smart we go war and kill.

Thomas reported in, making a concise report of his findings.
"Yes, Captain. There's a couple of transport missions, which our ship isn't really made to do. Elgenei Tech is hiring crew for space data gathering, which also might not fit our ship's specifications, as it isn't a science vessel. Also, a trade convoy is looking for escorts; it seems like a job well-suited for an Honesty-class Corvette such as this, and, also, I must emphasize, very exciting."

The captain took the information in mind, and quickly made his choice.
"Rohhohoohgoodness no! Rhoho! That's rhow you get your ass blown apart like a basket of eggs! There's rhundreds, nay, thousands of idiots who've realized the same thing, y'see, place must be bloody rwell crawling with corvettes just like - I rreiterate, just like this one! But much better armed and with rless to rlose, I suspect."

"Nah, rwe need something rless obvious. The rleast exciting mission available. Rescorting it is! In a prelriminary sense, at rleast. Rlet's do the sweep first and get moving real soon!"

Starbeard writes something else in the paper: kill or no kill? dog speak weird words
Starbeard want to loot and kill ships.

"In due time, Mr. Starbeard! You know, rwhen rwe rhave better weapons and more skills!"

"Besides, rescorting is rlike privateering, rhexcept you can rlegally claim self-defense on anyone you space-murder!"

There was much arguing about the viability of an escort mission versus jumping straight into the heat of war. Ultimately, the captain's words went through.

Now, they had to choose an escort job from those Thomas gathered.
1. [Escort] Trade convoy recruiting additional escorts. Safe route and few risks of raids.
Starting Point: Idvent (Em II System)
Destination: Logion Prime (Davos System)
2. [Escort] Scientific team looking for an escort to the star of Xoa, in case of an encounter with a Black Riperius.
Starting Point: Gavarle (Em II System)
Destination: Xoa (Xoa System)

"Weapons System Online." said FAI-T7BAAU33.

Starbeard?

Quote from: Harry Baldman on October 05, 2017, 03:20:10 am

Jim growled as he got back onto his feet and considered where to go from here.

"Mmrrh, rlet's not get too excited here, crew," he says before moving straight to delegation, using the intercom if need be.

"Starbeard! Check the weapons. Thomas, rreport on rwhat's available work-rwise. Katerina, rrcheck the Fergas Shipyard catalogues to see if there's anything we can afford for ship-stuff, and Sneed! Sneed, ryou keep checking the systems, but keep yer pseudopods off the thrust controls, eh?"

Perform a search of the corvette for any hidden compartments, odds and ends of the previous crew, surveillance equipment left behind and other stuff.

Quickly regaining his composure, Jim turned the thrusters off and communicated orders to the crew through the intercom.

[Luck +2]: [4] -Success-
When all talks were done, he proceeded to inspect their ship. Rummaging around the rooms of the HMS You're Next, he noticed a door that wasn't on the base model plans. He opened it, revealing a hidden storage room full of basic equipment.

Something caught his eye though. Two Zero-G suits, a bit tattered but fully operational. One was human sized, and the other had four arms and a tail compartment too.

Hold +1
+1 human-sized Zero-G Suit
+1 alien-sized Zero-G Suit (4 arms 1 tail)

Quote from: randomgenericusername on October 05, 2017, 06:31:23 am

Starbeard check the ship weapons then goes find more weapons on it while wondering how drunk was he when he accepted to join a crew that had a dog as a captain. How did I end in this situation? He activates the weapons, too. Just in case.

[Artillery 1]: [7] -Overshoot-
Starbeard made a wide saluting gesture to the captain, and proceeded to check the weapons systems. Pondering of the drunkenness of his past self, he sort of realized he was still a bit drunk right now. Couldn't help it, the 3-Eyed Tepton served an awesome brew.

In a state of half-drunkenness, he checked the weapons systems. They were working perfectly fine, as could attest the charred hole in the hangar.

Everyone in the ship heard the detonation, and the fire system alarm blarring.

-10 Power
Light Laser Turret #1 Online
Weapons Systems working good!!!

Quote from: GigaGiant on October 05, 2017, 10:06:17 am

Quote from: Harry Baldman on October 05, 2017, 03:20:10 am
"Starbeard! Check the weapons. Thomas, rreport on rwhat's available work-rwise. Katerina, rrcheck the Fergas Shipyard catalogues to see if there's anything we can afford for ship-stuff, and Sneed! Sneed, ryou keep checking the systems, but keep yer pseudopods off the thrust controls, eh?"

"Sorry Captain! Just checking thrusters!" Sneed says in a slightly embarrassed tone through the intercom (or whatever communication device is available). "I won't make that mistake again! I, the lowly Alpha, respect your dominance, Omega leader. I'm sure that under your leadership, we'll hunt down those metaphorical beaver-bisons and oxen-deers that plague the galaxy!" Sucking up to authority figures was typical Slimeon behavior. Sneed just hoped its minimal, secondhand knowledge of dogs, humans, and other Earth species would be enough to keep it on good terms with the captain and its fellow crew mates.

Continue checking systems. More carefully this time.

Apart from his previous blunder, Sneed had made a perfect routine check of the systems. They were all good to go, and no defect was present.

Ship Systems working good

Quote from: Kadzar on October 05, 2017, 10:25:23 am

Quote from: Harry Baldman on October 05, 2017, 03:20:10 am
Thomas, rreport on rwhat's available work-rwise.
"Yes, Captain. There's a couple of transport missions, which our ship isn't really made to do. Elgenei Tech is hiring crew for space data gathering, which also might not fit our ship's specifications, as it isn't a science vessel. Also, a trade convoy is looking for escorts; it seems like a job well-suited for an Honesty-class Corvette such as this, and, also, I must emphasize, very exciting."

Quote from: Coolrune206 on October 05, 2017, 05:51:17 am
Katerina, clambering to her feet, was a little too distracted to follow Jim's orders. Instead, she stormed back out to the command deck and glared at everyone else, before signing and relaxing.

"'Captain' dog, I have proposition for you. We should head to war between Sheorns and Lignondrims, and offer services as privateer to one side. Then we can be like pirate,
but legal. Also, tell whatever idiot accelerated those engines that I am going to kill him."
"What? No. I mean, I like that you're concerned about the legality of the idea, which is something I'd like everyone to keep in mind for all future ideas, but it's a very bad idea to go into an active war zone, and an even worse idea to join a side. Besides, we have a very exciting mission we can do instead."

Space Jesus Christ, thinks Thomas, these people are going to get me killed, aren't they?

Yes they are. And this sudden display of eagerness to shoot things left Thomas livid.

Then he heard the woman with a russian accent speak of war between Sheorns and Lignondrims...
[intelligence 3] [9] -Overshoot-

Wait wait wait, Sheorns? Lignondrims? He heard things, terrible ones.
Sheorns were said to be a warmongering species, practicing sentient species sacrifices for fun. They said they flew massive warships fueled with the souls of their enemies, and that they killed kittens for fun.
Lignondrims were a people able to peer into your mind, and mentally torture you with a single gaze. They were sadistic, and masochistic. Oh, and didn't this drunken hobo last night spoke of how they could steal your memories, manipulate your thoughts, and lift things with the power of mind? And that their ships were made of brain tissue?

Thomas started sweating heavily, he wasn't feeling really well. His reason was telling him the baseless rumors were probably children stories, but his panicked state wasn't having any of that.

Spoiler: Crew Status (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: HMS YOU'RE NEXT Status (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Current System Info (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Emelus System Map (click to show/hide)

Nakéen · « **Reply #77 on:** October 05, 2017, 12:58:44 pm »

Quote from: sprinkled chariot on October 05, 2017, 02:48:10 am

PTW

also damn, I missed slot in such brilliant looking rtd :c

Quote from: Ultramarine Prime on October 05, 2017, 10:00:08 am

PTW, any chance for a waitlist?

Sure, I will add you to the waitlist

Harry Baldman · « **Reply #78 on:** October 05, 2017, 01:01:54 pm »

Tentatively accepting the second one - a little excitement never hurt anyone, did it?

That done, begin perusing the news for details almost completely unrelated to escorting a science vessel along past a Black Riperius!

Coolrune206 · « **Reply #79 on:** October 05, 2017, 01:16:55 pm »

Quote from: Harry Baldman on October 05, 2017, 01:01:54 pm

Tentatively accepting the second one - a little excitement never hurt anyone, did it?

That done, begin perusing the news for details almost completely unrelated to escorting a science vessel along past a Black Riperius!

((Priorities- we just shot a hole in the hangar of the all powerful space dudes. Apologizing time))

Hearing the blast, Katrina's gaze darkened.
"What was that."

Harry Baldman · « **Reply #80 on:** October 05, 2017, 01:19:20 pm »

Quote from: Coolrune206 on October 05, 2017, 01:16:55 pm

Hearing the blast, Katrina's gaze darkened.
"What was that."

"Mr. Starbeard rhas blown a hole in the hangar! Rhyou'd think they rwould build them tougher."

Coolrune206 · « **Reply #81 on:** October 05, 2017, 01:27:36 pm »

Quote from: Harry Baldman on October 05, 2017, 01:19:20 pm

Quote from: Coolrune206 on October 05, 2017, 01:16:55 pm
Hearing the blast, Katrina's gaze darkened.
"What was that."

"Mr. Starbeard rhas blown a hole in the hangar! Rhyou'd think they rwould build them tougher."

"What. He. What."

randomgenericusername · « **Reply #82 on:** October 05, 2017, 01:29:12 pm »

Try to stop Sneed from leaving the ship. Set the other turrets to online too to see if they work, but try to not shoot something this time. Except Sneed, if he leaves and tries to return to the ship shoot him with the turrets.
He takes another piece of paper and writes: sorry accident.

Harry Baldman · « **Reply #83 on:** October 05, 2017, 01:37:38 pm »

"Rhit was a rlight turret rhas well," Captain Jim says. "Just goes to show, rhyou can't get good engineering rhese days."

Kadzar · « **Reply #84 on:** October 05, 2017, 03:01:39 pm »

Thomas's mind goes into into overdrive trying to think of how to deal with the situation. What if I just...ran away? he thinks. No, station authorities must have heard the blast, and if they catch me running, the charges will be worse.

"Okay, everybody just stay calm, I'm going to figure out a way to get us out of this without us getting into trouble."

Thomas uses his law expertise to try to figure out how to deal with having discharged a ship weapon in a hanger that doesn't get them into more trouble or get them arrested or have them pay a huge fine.

Coolrune206 · « **Reply #85 on:** October 05, 2017, 03:04:47 pm »

"We just bought the ship. Why don't we blame the AI as being faulty? We can hand it over to station technology people, and get a new one- by the time they've figured out we lied, we will be far off."

GigaGiant · « **Reply #86 on:** October 05, 2017, 04:08:12 pm »

Sneed, hearing the commotion, quickly made its way back to its crewmates.
"Hey! What happened, friends? Are we under attack? Is everyone alright?"

Quote from: Harry Baldman on October 05, 2017, 01:19:20 pm

Quote from: Coolrune206 on October 05, 2017, 01:16:55 pm
Hearing the blast, Katrina's gaze darkened.
"What was that."

"Mr. Starbeard rhas blown a hole in the hangar! Rhyou'd think they rwould build them tougher."

Sneed let out a noise vaguely resembling a sigh of relief.
"Oh, that's not too bad. It's all just a simple mistake. No harm done. We can just apologize for the damage." Sneed's three eyes began to twinkle as it spoke optimistically. "Yeah! That's what we'll do! Everyone appreciates a good apology. I'm sure the authorities will be understanding. Accidents happen. Just leave it to me!"

Leave the ship and locate the authorities. Confess our involvement in the hangar damage and sincerely apologize.

(Feel free to stop Sneed if you see fit)

randomgenericusername · « **Reply #87 on:** October 05, 2017, 04:49:42 pm »

Starbeard stops himself from smashing the blob thing. What the hell, he is gonna call the space cops and everyone will go to prison if someone does not stop him. He writes this:
Blob you stupid not leave or kill
rock miner right again
we say ship fault we leave before they notice lie.

Nakéen · « **Reply #88 on:** October 05, 2017, 05:08:44 pm »

I am so amused I can't wait to write the turn.
eta: 3h max

Nakéen · « **Reply #89 on:** October 05, 2017, 06:57:43 pm »

Turn 2: sorry accident

"What was that."

"Mr. Starbeard rhas blown a hole in the hangar! Rhyou'd think they rwould build them tougher." said Jim without an ounce of worry.

"What. He. What."

Anger was rising in Katerina's voice.

sorry accident. Starbeard quickly scribbled.

"Rhit was a rlight turret rhas well," Captain Jim says. "Just goes to show, rhyou can't get good engineering rhese days."

Thomas attempted to defuse the atmosphere, but they just weren't really listening to him.
"Okay, everybody just stay calm, I'm going to figure out a way to get us out of this without us getting into trouble."

"We just bought the ship. Why don't we blame the AI as being faulty? We can hand it over to station technology people, and get a new one- by the time they've figured out we lied, we will be far off."

"Hey! What happened, friends? Are we under attack? Is everyone alright?"

Despite the agitation of the crew, Sneed seemed rather unfettered.
"Oh, that's not too bad. It's all just a simple mistake. No harm done. We can just apologize for the damage." Sneed's three eyes began to twinkle as it spoke optimistically. "Yeah! That's what we'll do! Everyone appreciates a good apology. I'm sure the authorities will be understanding. Accidents happen. Just leave it to me!"

Attempting to shift the fault away by backing up Katerina, Starbeard scribbled again:
Blob you stupid not leave or kill
rock miner right again
we say ship fault we leave before they notice lie.

Quote from: Kadzar on October 05, 2017, 03:01:39 pm

Thomas's mind goes into into overdrive trying to think of how to deal with the situation. What if I just...ran away? he thinks. No, station authorities must have heard the blast, and if they catch me running, the charges will be worse.

"Okay, everybody just stay calm, I'm going to figure out a way to get us out of this without us getting into trouble."

Thomas uses his law expertise to try to figure out how to deal with having discharged a ship weapon in a hanger that doesn't get them into more trouble or get them arrested or have them pay a huge fine.

[Intelligence +3 Space Lawyer +2]: [1] -Critical Failure-
While he asked everyone to calm down, inside Thomas himself was unable to relax. This stress, these unexpected events, this... crew. His stress levels were off the charts, and his usually composed mind was fumbling with his knowledge.

And with all this speed thinking, he reached what seemed like a logical conclusion.

We are toast, the Hub government is going to sue us for massive amounts of money, and not contempt to push us into the abyss of debt, they will own our bodies like slaves. We will be sold to be experimented upon until we die. And this is the best outcome, the spacestation defense force will definitely come rushing and blast us away with their heavy weaponry. Oh god oh god oh god.

Quote from: Harry Baldman on October 05, 2017, 01:01:54 pm

Tentatively accepting the second one - a little excitement never hurt anyone, did it?

That done, begin perusing the news for details almost completely unrelated to escorting a science vessel along past a Black Riperius!

Impervious to the stress waves emitted by his shipmates, Captain Jim simply opened the command room's terminal to get more details on the escort mission, and possibly other tidbits.

------------------GALACTIC NETWORK------------------

-----------------BLACK RIPERIUS------------------
Black Riperius are space dwelling predators, native to the hyperspace. They usually live close to young stars, and are extremely territorial. First discovered in the Riperius System, and named Black Riperius due to their completely black appearance as they do not reflect light. As non-standard dimensional creatures, looking at their movements can have strong nausea effects.

-------------------------------------------------------

He didn't found anything interesting about the Xoa System. It was a mostly unexplored one, and the Xoa star was young.

Spoiler: Escort Mission (click to show/hide)

Right as he finished that, FAI-T7BAAU33 warned him of an incoming transmission.
"Incoming transmission from the Hub authorities. Putting caller online."

[Luck +2] [7] -Critical Success-
A male voice was heard by Jim, Katerina and Thomas.
"HMS You're Next of the Hangar G-56, this is Sgt Nathan Jenkins. An unauthorized weapon activation was detected coming from your ship, and you damaged the wall of your hangar. "

Jim naturally responded, as the captain of the HMS YOU'RE NEXT. The officer continued:
"Enchanted Captain Barkley. Let's go straight to the point then. We quickly determined this unfortunate event was probably an accident. Don't worry, this stuff happens all the time for new captains, we all went through that. You will just have a small fine to pay for the damage, nothing to worry about. That's why the crappiest hangars are given to new spacefarers after all."

He laughed in the intercom, and you could hear other people laughing behind him.

Quote from: randomgenericusername on October 05, 2017, 01:29:12 pm

Try to stop Sneed from leaving the ship. Set the other turrets to online too to see if they work, but try to not shoot something this time. Except Sneed, if he leaves and tries to return to the ship shoot him with the turrets.
He takes another piece of paper and writes: sorry accident.

Quote from: GigaGiant on October 05, 2017, 04:08:12 pm

Sneed, hearing the commotion, quickly made its way back to its crewmates.
"Hey! What happened, friends? Are we under attack? Is everyone alright?"

Quote from: Harry Baldman on October 05, 2017, 01:19:20 pm
Quote from: Coolrune206 on October 05, 2017, 01:16:55 pm
Hearing the blast, Katrina's gaze darkened.
"What was that."

"Mr. Starbeard rhas blown a hole in the hangar! Rhyou'd think they rwould build them tougher."
Sneed let out a noise vaguely resembling a sigh of relief.
"Oh, that's not too bad. It's all just a simple mistake. No harm done. We can just apologize for the damage." Sneed's three eyes began to twinkle as it spoke optimistically. "Yeah! That's what we'll do! Everyone appreciates a good apology. I'm sure the authorities will be understanding. Accidents happen. Just leave it to me!"

Leave the ship and locate the authorities. Confess our involvement in the hangar damage and sincerely apologize.

(Feel free to stop Sneed if you see fit)

[Strength +2] [3] -Partial Success-
Starbeard ran after Sneed, attempting to catch him. But his legs felt heavy, probably due to his inebriation. Unable to really catch up to Sneed, he still managed to get his attention.

[Intelligence -1] [1] -Critical Failure-
Seeing the mute pirate stumbling menacingly toward him made him nope away faster. He darted out of the ship, waving his gelatinous tentacles at a visible camera.

Starbeard grunted, and rushed to activate the weapons systems.

[Artillery +1]: [7] -Overshoot-
He turned all the turrets online, and prepared to lock on and fire on Sneed. But in the rush, he accidentally made the turrets shoot again. They blasted the hangar, missing the panicked Sneed.

The hangar was now on fire, having suffered a full volley from the HMS YOU'RE NEXT weapons.

Power -40
All turrets online

------------------

Back at the command room, a few seconds before this unfortunate pyrotechnic display.

"Don't forget to deactivate your turret captain, remember that having active weapon systems in civilian areas is prohibited."

Before anyone could answer, the Sergeant added with a surprised voice:
"Err, Captain Barkley, why are all your weapons systems activated?"

The following shockwave and tremors scrambled the transmission. The hangar was on fire, and Starbeard was back to the weapons systems console.
"Captain Barkley, I'm afraid we are going to intervene. Don't panic, turn your turrets off, and wait for us."

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