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    More cool stuff from the Planetary Society: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/20/us/ual...nch/index.html

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    Thanks for the kind words, mission accomplished and I even have a real bed tonight...Graham is back!

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    Splice the mainbrace! A ration of grog all around, Mr. Bennett.

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    Mmmm. Grog.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Safe travels

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    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.

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    Vargas says, "Prepare to return to the ship. Mr. Kylah has been found unconscious and we're now waiting for a medical update."
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    "Acknowledged, Sir. Stand by for transport. Collins out." She puts away the communicator and heads for the bar entrance. "C'mon," she says to Jones.
    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!

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    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?

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    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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    Does she like flags?

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    No, nor trains. So I guess there's still hope for her.

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    Yes, I do have an evil streak. Why do you ask?

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    Quote Originally posted by anyrose View post
    Yes, I do have an evil streak. Why do you ask?
    Wow. "Chaotic evil" in D&D terms perhaps...

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    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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    Quote Originally posted by general_urko View post
    Quote Originally posted by anyrose View post
    Yes, I do have an evil streak. Why do you ask?
    Wow. "Chaotic evil" in D&D terms perhaps...
    Yeah, most of my RPG characters have been Chaotic Neutral, usually siding with the good guys, but you never know what will send them to the dark side.

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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!
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    The third part of T'Var and Johnson: Tapas for Two is now available.
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    Cmdr. Will Riker gets the TV he deserves: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/23/86...ow-he-deserved

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    I'd love to see Riker and Jack Harkness in a flirt off

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    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.

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    Quote Originally posted by choie View post
    But go on, you guys continue whipping out your rulers.
    You mean yardsticks

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    Graham is no longer in the warehouse,
    Quote Originally posted by general_urko View post
    Graham steps outside to ask St. Croix what she's found,
    and he spoke to Collins outside.
    Quote Originally posted by anyrose View post
    When Graham comes out to talk to St. Croix, Collins brings him up to date, leaving the former to concentrate on the tricorder readings. She then asks "What's going on with you and Rangin, Booker?"

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    Thanks. I must've missed that.

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    Graham can't actually hear Rangin, but assumes whatever he's saying to Collins would piss him off, and so becomes even more angry.

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    FYI I am going to be in Australia for a few days so posting may be at very odd times!

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    Australia? I'm so jealous! Have a safe trip.

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    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....

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    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.

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    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.

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    A HA!!!!


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    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.
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    Quote Originally posted by anyrose View post
    Her mood shifts from pensive to defensive to guilt-ridden to defiant very quickly.
    ...And yet none of those moods involve even a glimpse of concern or sympathy toward the unconscious girl in the bed whom she was supposed to be visiting. Oh, Collins.

    Also: hallelujah, the mission!

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    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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    Quote Originally posted by anyrose View post
    ...(look, it took a whole mission for her concern for Fujishiro to surface ... she'll get to Kylah eventually)
    By the time she makes captain, for sure.

    Probably.

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    Admiral, almost definitely.





    Erm... post-retirement party?

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    Gotta love a compassion-impaired character

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    Quote Originally posted by CatInASuit View post
    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.
    Thanks for asking! The Australia flights have all gone without hitch. Really as nice as 14 hours on a plane can be short of a Cathay Pacific or BA 1st class boondoggle.

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    Hope the rest of your trip goes well, general.

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    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....

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    Quote Originally posted by general_urko View post
    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....
    Don't worry, she's bound to fall asleep again, and I have no doubt Graham will manage to hear something that can trigger his easily-triggered Rangin-rage.

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    Quote Originally posted by Elendil's Heir View post
    The Captain nods. "To that end, Mr. Roble, my Science Officer, has suggested we go to the FGC 23 pulsar cluster. There's an inhabited planet there, so we should be able to both test the radio astronomy capabilities of the prototype, and see its impact, if any, on our biosensors."
    So, Singh has no problem with jeopardizing the inhabitants with an unproven piece of tech?

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    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.

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    Quote Originally posted by choie View post
    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?....
    Correct.

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    Quote Originally posted by choie View post
    "Please, Lieutenant, please do not tell Velir," Kylah pleads, now hyperventilating. "He--he will be angrier... He will say I--I deserved it--"
    KHAAAAAAAAAN!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!
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    *takes the fifth*
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    Quote Originally posted by CatInASuit View post
    *takes the fifth*
    of Scotch?

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    Going to be traveling again this weekend - not sure how much time or Internet access I'll have.

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    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.

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