Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Retro]

try a bunch of things, like moving our hands towards the planet, walking towards the planet, moving our heads towards the planet, etc until it zooms in more.

It seems like tightening or loosening your grip causes the view to zoom in or out while pushing the sphere in one direction moves the indicator that way. Easy enough to work. Although it doesn’t seem like you can zoom in any further than you began. Zooming out a bit, there doesn’t seem to be other nearby star systems.

Zoom into the planet with rings around it. Somehow.

You move the indicator to the planet with rings. The entire display revolves to keep the indicator in front of you. Nothing else happens.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ask for information.

I vote to insert.

Ask who and insert what?

Yeah, RAM, I don’t know if you’re just trying to be random in an attempt to be funny or if you’re really that disconnected with what’s going on in each panel, but you’ve been making irrelevant, totally abstract commands since the beginning of the story. You have to cut it out, dude. Being silly and having fun is one thing, but… It’s not funny, it’s just really annoying.

Also, I have no idea why simply pressing 'enter' caused the post to go through early. I was still typing dammit :\

[dragnar]

Select the earth-like planet and release the orb. If that does nothing, then try spinning it.

[RAM]

Ask for information.

I vote to insert.

Ask who and insert what?

Just ask for information, maybe the machine responds to vocal commands.

Insert the medallion into the slot.

[Armok]

> Open the slot in our head and try to get a wire out far enough that we can touch the sphere with the end of the wore, and do that.

[iceball3]

Keeping hold of the sphere, try to pull it apart outwards without breaking it. If it expands, then turn it to aim at the ringed planet.

[Evergod41]

Eat the thing were holding

[Silfurdreki]

Spoiler: Galaxy! (click to show/hide)

It seems we've got ourselves stuck in M81  This sphere, if it is what I suspect, namely a spaceship, is presumably quite a mover, having covered roughly 12 million light years (assuming it came from earth).

Anyway, I think this map is some sort of destination selector, and that we can't really get any more info from it.

[Tarran]

Hm, that does look like Messier 81. So, as I see it, there's three options here on where we are in the universe and where this spacecraft came from:

1: It came from Messier 81 and we're in the Milky Way in some system that's not Sol. Likely. See below.
2: It came from Messier 81 and we're in some system in Messier 81. Unlikely. See below.
3: It came from the Milky Way and we're in Messier 81. Very unlikely. See below.

I'm leaning towards the first. As we seem to be human-like robots. Plus, everything we've seen so far that seems to be made by our creator's race seems to be human in origin (e.g, a familiar looking anvil, the roman numeral system, top hats, human lettering system, to list a few). I also doubt the ship's human in origin; human style isn't based around orbs or spheres, but cubes and triangles.

[Retro]

Select the earth-like planet and release the orb. If that does nothing, then try spinning it.

You move the indicator and release the sphere. The display fades. There appears to be no way to ‘select’ a planet, or perhaps whatever this is isn’t working properly.



You take hold of the sphere again and spin it. The display spins with it. This sphere-interface is fairly intuitive to navigate with, but you’re not really having any success at selecting anything, or learning any info about what you’re targeting, or… anything like that, really.

Keeping hold of the sphere, try to pull it apart outwards without breaking it. If it expands, then turn it to aim at the ringed planet.

You begin to try and expand the view, but the holographic display begins to glitch up.



The sphere turns dark. The stand resumes shooting static to and from it.



The, uh… the main monitor appears to have reset to the first frame of the cassette. The bots displayed are… looking at you. It’s a bit unsettling.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

We have breached 700 panels! Wooooooooooooooooooo

> Open the slot in our head and try to get a wire out far enough that we can touch the sphere with the end of the wore, and do that.

I… honestly don’t understand on what grounds you think AG can extend a magic manipulatable wire out of the panel in his head. Inside his head panel is a simple slot for memory chips to go. None of the wires elsewhere in his body can extend and be moved around at will.

Eat the thing were holding

:\

[Evergod41]

Do a dance to see if they follow you.

[dragnar]

Wave at them.

[Rose]

Unrelated, I dreamed about AG last night.

more specifically, that holo display.

[iceball3]

Yay! I got an action in!
Wait for the sphere to begin working again. Once it does, try rotating it around a vertical axis. Failing that, try to compress the sohere. DO NOT BREAK

@Retro: Looking back at the stomach tap thing, instead of telling us not to say any variation, couldn't you just use a Deus Ex Machina to do something like fuse AG's abdomen shut?

@Tarran: How do we look like a human save a pair of eyes, a mouth, being bipedal, and having arms, a torso, and a head? That defines a whole buttload of generic aliens and a few realistic ones. Though you have a point about the human culture.

[Glech]

Speak into microphone on control panel and attempt to speak with bots.
If it doesn't work start pushing every button you see.

[RAM]

There is also the facial hair... I have no issues with a spherical ship being human, and the general lack of any outside contact suggests that this isn't Kansas...