More cool stuff from the Planetary Society: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/20/us/ual...nch/index.html
More cool stuff from the Planetary Society: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/20/us/ual...nch/index.html
Thanks for the kind words, mission accomplished and I even have a real bed tonight...Graham is back!
Splice the mainbrace! A ration of grog all around, Mr. Bennett.
Isn't anyone going to tell the first landing party that a second landing party has been dispatched to a new location? It would help the right hand if it knew what the left hand was doing.
Done and done. Thanks, anyrose.
FYI, I will be traveling out of town this weekend and may have only occasional Internet access until late Sunday.
Have a good trip, EH!
Dang, Kylah is in way worse shape than even I was anticipating. If she's got that bad a head wound, she's probably bleeding like a stuck pig.
Damn, Collins is a brave little soldier. But she can't fool me! I can read between the lines: it's obvious that she's desperately trying to hide her shock and concern over her beloved roommate's being found unconscious!
She's a professional. She knows other members of her crew are now with Kylah and the situation will be handled. Her meltdown timer isn't scheduled to go off until later in the mission.
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Heh, I dunno, I think there's some middle ground between a lack of reaction and a meltdown--something along the lines of a mental "What the hell, I hope she's okay," you know? If only because Collins spent good money on that present. It'd be a shame if Kylah bled to death and wasted Collins's credits. Though I suppose she can always re-gift it to someone else.
Don't get me wrong, her reaction is perfectly in character. That's what amuses me about it, it's so very Collins--just like her not thanking the bartender earlier. She is true to herself, and I like that she still isn't deft at the whole compassion/empathy/manners thing. I know several people like her IRL, and she's thoroughly believable.
It's easy to write a Mary Sue who always reacts perfectly composed with nary a misstep. Flawed people are much more interesting, even if they're frustrating at times. That's why I keep making sure Kylah is one screw-up and lie after another, and now Nia's underplayed the danger, believes the rumors about Kylah's flakiness/promiscuity/spoiled nature, and snarks at what I very obviously know is a grave situation.
If a character doesn't make mistakes, there's nowhere for him or her to grow and develop, and who wants that in a long-running RPG?
She was raised properly, but somewhere in her drive to be the best at whatever she does, she's become borderline Asperger's. She'll never be a Sheldon, she doesn't have the ego for it, but she does have her days.
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No, nor trains. So I guess there's still hope for her.
Yes, I do have an evil streak. Why do you ask?
You guys are hilarious. Meanwhile I'm stuck with one unconscious character and the other without any info on the Bridge (unless Vargas/Singh have been passing along status reports to everyone during all this). So I'll just watch the fireworks.
Hmm I can't tell, how does Graham really feel about Rangin? And this is before he knows how badly hurt Kylah is, although I guess the trail of blood is a pretty good clue.
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Oh now this should be fun. Wonder if Graham is going to remember to apologise for all those nasty thoughts he had about Rangin early on.
Wasn't me Guv!
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
The third part of T'Var and Johnson: Tapas for Two is now available.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Cmdr. Will Riker gets the TV he deserves: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/23/86...ow-he-deserved
I'd love to see Riker and Jack Harkness in a flirt off
Ah, I do love me some Riker.
As flattered (well, stunned, really) as Kylah would be to know that the boys are fighting over li'l ol' her (actually they're really just measuring their... phaser lengths), I'm wondering if either of them is going to pick up the fact that they're right at the scene of the crime. Unless these petty criminals are as obsessive geniuses as Palver/Hardin, I highly doubt they cleaned up that well after themselves, including the blood that Kylah must've caused after slashing at least one of 'em.
But go on, you guys continue whipping out your rulers.
Graham can't actually hear Rangin, but assumes whatever he's saying to Collins would piss him off, and so becomes even more angry.
FYI I am going to be in Australia for a few days so posting may be at very odd times!
Australia? I'm so jealous! Have a safe trip.
Sigh...one would think jealousy entirely appropriate. Unfortunately, I have to be in Australia Monday- Tuesday and Boston Thursday-Friday so in aggregate I am spending more time on planes than in either spot....
Somehow I will channel the absurdity of it all into anger at Rangin....
I'd love to go to Australia someday... but not like that, frankly. Hope the trip is better than you expected, g_u! Take along some good books and get plenty of sleep on the way.
I had written awhile back, in response to a PM from a player, that site-to-site transport (for instance, using a ship's transporter to move a person from Point A to Point B on a planet's surface, without the person being brought up to the ship) was not technically possible in the ST:TOS era. I was wrong. I just remembered that it was done in "A Piece of the Action" to gather all the Mob bosses in one place for Kirk to talk to them. There may be other examples, as well.
How goes the flying G_U?
Apologies for removing Rangin out the way of your incoming rage, you'll just have to find some catharsis elsewhere.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
I'm just keeping Collins in character
(look, it took a whole mission for her concern for Fujishiro to surface ... she'll get to Kylah eventually)
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Admiral, almost definitely.
Erm... post-retirement party?
Gotta love a compassion-impaired character
Hope the rest of your trip goes well, general.
So far so good (although I have been through 3rd world airports that function better than LAX) but I am just very sad that Graham couldn't be in Sickbay to hear first fevered words from Kylah along the lines of "No, please Velir, it hurts" and then we could have some serious Rangin catharsis... at least until or unless Collins stunned Graham or T'Var gave him the Vulcan nerve pinch....
It sounds as if, should something go wrong, it would only affect the way the ship's biosensors read their lifesigns, not that it would affect the inhabitants themselves. Is that right?
I can't imagine we're due for another "dangerous medical experiment endangers people" storyline so quickly. Something else must be up.
*takes the fifth*
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Going to be traveling again this weekend - not sure how much time or Internet access I'll have.
It's a good thing Graham and Rangin are going to run into each other in Sick Bay. They're probably both going to need doctors once the sparks start flying. Good thing Collins is still there, in the Doctor's office. She'll have a front row seat.