Star Trek RPG - Setup thread

Yes, I've been guessing at least one missing knife. Some instinct in me wants there to be one absent knife on the loose, although it doesn't quite make sense--honestly I'm at a loss as to why they were taken at all, it just feels like an error on someone's part. But if not, I'd like there to be a knife in someone's possession that makes him/her dangerous. Just ups the tension. (But unless it's on the Chariot it's impossible, given the unique qualities of the knives; we scanned for them and couldn't find them anywhere on the planet.)

As to what else... A key or something that leads us somewhere else? The mysterious dispensers of epinephrine? A batch of naked photos of Mrs. Hsu? A mask matching Mr. Wilson's face, indicating the Wilson we saw all day was a false Wilson? A strange black statue of a falcon? A rope? A bottle of champagne with black sand/uranium in it?

CIAS in main thread #2918 you have a typo, you typed "He greets Booker and Kylah at the door with a nod" when what you intended was probably "He greets Kylah at the door with a nod and Booker with a glance and slight shake of the head that conveys both contempt and pity, although surely too subtly for the stupid ape to detect."

So, Kylah is a lush?

Only a half-glass of wine! Just someone who can't handle her liquor. Maybe she's too used to Klingon blood wine.

Serve her a Warrior's drink ;) :devil:
http://www.thegeminiweb.com/babyboom...rune_juice.jpg

Ha! Considering her half-human physiology that might have unpleasant consequences that didn't seem to affect Worf.

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...A bottle of champagne with black sand/uranium in it?

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Kudos for the reference to Hitchcock's Notorious, one of my favorite movies.

Ok...who moved the knives?

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...A bottle of champagne with black sand/uranium in it?

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Kudos for the reference to Hitchcock's Notorious, one of my favorite movies.

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You know I'm a sucker for Claude Rains, even as a Nazi! And beautiful Cary Grant and elegant Ingrid Bergman. Or is it elegant Cary Grant and beautiful Ingrid Bergman?

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Ok...who moved the knives?

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Those bloody knives! Too many of them and where the hell are they???

Thanks for giving Kylah a bit of success, EH! Now did you do it because she was so low and you felt sorry for her, or was the password always the same and you were testing me/her?

And I will give you a million quatloos if it turns out Q equals... Q! I could totally see Fastolfe as a Q. Hey, Quark isn't hundreds of years old, is he, by any chance? Because I remember he had something to do with the Orion Syndicate over on DS9 and was going to testify against them.

Speaking of which, I finally went and did some research on the O.S. over at Memory Alpha, and I had no idea that in the TOS era, they were only briefly mentioned in the first pilot and later in Journey to Babel, but otherwise nothin' (unless the wiki is wrong?). The way everyone in the game except Kylah and Collins has a history with them, I thought they were rife throughout the 23rd century episodes! Is it just because they're teased so lightly and never elaborated on in-universe that they've caught people's imaginations? If anything they're more DS9-era enemies. I didn't even remember that they were the guys behind O'Brien's 'Donnie Brasco' episode.

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You know I'm a sucker for Claude Rains, even as a Nazi! And beautiful Cary Grant and elegant Ingrid Bergman. Or is it elegant Cary Grant and beautiful Ingrid Bergman?....

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Yes.

Kylah got her win because she'd earned it. Not everything has to be difficult for her... or for anyone.

"Q" wouldn't be Quark or any other Ferengi; first contact won't come until the first year of ST:TNG.

There are also Orion pirates in an episode of ST:TAS. They've always interested me.

Could "Q" be Q?

http://www.startrek.com/legacy_media...01/320x240.jpg


I know "we" (the audience) didn't become aware of Q until Encounter At Farpoint, but the Q (collective noun) may have been watching the Federation for centuries.

And yes, they have no use for money, but it may have amused them to collect it as a novelty.

Hmph, if someone wants in on the ruminations, maybe that someone should get her butt back in the game. :devil: In any event I beat you to that theory (or at least a hope) a few posts up! Interestingly EH doesn't deny it, although he does refute my opining about Quark. Still I find it hard to believe someone like a Q would really waste time with extortion... unless he/she were trapped somewhere kicked out of the continuum without any powers, like in that TNG episode. Plus, adding Q seems like such a game-changer this late in the mission.

Anyway, EH, whether it was pity or just good timing for Kylah, thanks for the moment of success! :)

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Could "Q" be Q?

http://www.startrek.com/legacy_media...01/320x240.jpg


I know "we" (the audience) didn't become aware of Q until Encounter At Farpoint, but the Q (collective noun) may have been watching the Federation for centuries.

And yes, they have no use for money, but it may have amused them to collect it as a novelty.

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The Q we all know and love would have staged this whole thing just for the entertainment value of the intra-crew drama...

Hmm. If you want a definitive answer about Q the ST:TNG character in this mission, I'll give it.

The phrasing of that remark interests me strangely. Clearly it's not TNG's Q.

In fact the answer is obvious. Who has the technology, the canniness, and the money to pull something like this off?



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ond%27s_Qs.jpg


Also: bloody Delaney and his nosy questions! He did the same thing on the Sakath mission, too One of these nights he's gonna be shanked by an Elasian knife.

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Originally posted by CatInASuit

Heh, that was a typo, that was supposed to be Mr Young.

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Our GM enjoys tweaking us for our omissions--NPCs never seem to understand them! Remember this donnybrook when Collins/anyrose left out the word "crew" or "team"?

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"Yes, thank you. I think we each learned something," Collins says un-ironically. "Are our quarters ready? Some of my want to freshen up before we debrief each other."

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"Some of your what?" Palver asks.

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All right, that's it, goddammit, Graham thinks, hearing Palver's response. Do these spores make everyone on this planet ball busters, or just science division types? For all his inclination to ask Collins one-on-one what the hell she's doing, and despite any temptation to watch her twist in the wind, she's still his mission commander. He strides forward until he's face to face with Palver, backing off from an aggressive posture at the last moment since he accepts the fact that their rank differential makes going drill sergeant on a superior officer a losing proposition.

"Her egg-bearing Hortas...." he mutters while on approach, then then drastically moderates his tone to all business. He stands at attention and then shifts to parade rest and clasps his hands behind his back. "Sir, I believe the lieutenant meant her team, sir."

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On a different subject, because it's been a while since I used my mad artistic skillz to assist with evidence, I happened to be rereading the game thread and when I came across the description of Wilson's body, I decided it seemed odd to me, so I created a layout of it. Pardon the incredibly bad line drawing--I don't have a tablet and it's hard to draw with a mouse. (Otherwise clearly Wilson was doomed to die anyway from Rubberized Appendage Syndrome.)

http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps36d20e72.jpg

What struck me as odd is: If Wilson was standing when stabbed, why is his arm in that weird position? Even if it had been raised over his head by the attacker (hence the bruise), if he'd fallen backward the arm wouldn't just conveniently stay in that upright position--it'd probably just drop onto his chest or face, or just down by his side again.

Also, why is that right hip raised? Was something underneath it? Why are his eyes closed--that's rare in a violent death if the victim is awake, I would imagine--and his mouth only slightly parted? If someone's attacking me and I'm aware of it, I doubt my mouth is only slightly open.

I guess I'm asking if there's any possibility that he was unconscious and lying down when stabbed. Although how? T'Var would've found signs of a concussion or some kind of drug.

Short version: probably useless drawing but since I drew it, now you get to share in its glory because I'm damned if I'm wasting all that effort!

Speaking of, I also decided to upload Kylah v.2 that I created a few weeks back but never uploaded. This one I'm proud of, because in addition to a better model face, I found an appropriately proportioned costumed body to attach it to (well, I had to widen the hips a bit, the original cosplay pic was super-busty but really narrow), and an empty photo of the Enterprise bridge to use as a backdrop.

http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/x...psae654d26.jpg





(Yes, I will do anything to avoid working on my manuscripts.)

@choie

1. Wilson having been unconscious or asleep is interesting especially given our perpetrators mad transporter skills and dropping things into people's bed rooms...

2. " the original cosplay pic was super-busty but really narrow"

I'm shocked, shocked I say!

Nice work on both graphics. Only one suggestion: Kylah, as an ensign, would have no braid on her cuffs.

Yeah I'd better get rid of that. I doubt Kylah will ever be anything more than an Ensign!

Can I rewrite your last post? Here it is:

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Kylah looks at Halsey's record: He is a red herring.

Dr. T'var says, "Most interesting. Halsey is a red herring."

Delaney adds, "Yeah, Halsey is a red herring."

Topgallant yadda yadda by the way, Halsey is a red herring.

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Very helpful. Can you do one for the Hsus now?

Can we get a timecheck in the game please? I think I've lost track somewhere?

Also, wasn't Dr T'Var supposed to be in Hiram Young's office with Rangin? Did I miss something?

Clearly she was too busy being a typical doctor and sticking up for her fellow member of the "Do No Harm" society! :D

Here is the appropriately demoted Kylah.

http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/x...9.jpg~original

Nicely done... for now. I'm sure she'll rise higher in her Starfleet career!

It should be about noon by now, isn't it? Any objection?

Perhaps I lost track of Dr. T'Var; I thought she was with all the others.

Noon-ish should be fine.

I thought Dr T'Var had gone with Rangin to Mr Young's office.

OK, thanks. Now that others have referred to her being away from Rangin, let's just roll with it.

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OK, thanks. Now that others have referred to her being away from Rangin, let's just roll with it.

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"Dammit!" Graham shouts, getting in T'Var's face and obviously enraged. "Didn't I order you to go with Rangin! I'm in charge here!"

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"...don't you know the trouble a hippy could cause if let loose in this resort. The next thing you know it will be all campfire songs and free love and....and...belay that order will you."

;)

Hey welcome back Collins!

Yes, indeed!

Yay, welcome back! Well, almost. Here's to a quick recovery period.


Hey I have a question, EH. All of the evidence and reports that the team have gathered/given verbally. Can we assume that... somehow... all of this data is accessible via our tricorders? For example if Kylah is trying to remember what Dr. Halsey said about Fastolfe's visit this morning (BTW I cannot believe that it's only been less than 48 hours since the murder... I really thought there was another day in there!), can she "pull it up" on her tricorder, assuming that Rangin has made notes and uploaded them as we all agreed to do back in the beginning when the interviews started, or does she have to get in touch with Rangin and hope that he can recall just by memory?

In short, can we assume that everyone has diligently followed the directions at the start of the interviews when we decided we'd keep everyone abreast of stuff? Does everyone know or have access to just about everything that we've already discussed/recorded?

Yes, you should assume that just about everything has been recorded as the Yorktown landing party has done its work; that seems proper investigative technique in the ST:TOS era. As to obscure factoids, if I remember something off the top of my head, I'll tell you - otherwise, you'll need to look back through the game thread yourself (and then please provide a link, or a cite).

Thanks, EH! That's good news. As far as obscure factoids... as I've mentioned to my cohorts, I've spent the past week rereading the entire thread and taking notes (I just caught up today, yay!). Very interesting, and also maddening. All the things that are consistent and those that are not... Thanks to all the data stuffed into my head and on my massive Word doc. now, I seem to have become John Nash, and am seeing secret codes and patterns everywhere. :)

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He's also both gratified and alarmed. She remained silent until I gave her...leave to speak, they might say in archaic language, and then she kisses my ass... (snip)

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Hee! To paraphrase Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck: Boy, what Graham don't know about women is a lot. :D

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He's also both gratified and alarmed. She remained silent until I gave her...leave to speak, they might say in archaic language, and then she kisses my ass... (snip)

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Hee! To paraphrase Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck: Boy, what Graham don't know about women is a lot. :D

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Role-playing success! :D

Or maybe I'm just writing from experience... :o

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Thanks, EH!... Thanks to all the data stuffed into ...my massive Word doc. now, I seem to have become John Nash, and am seeing secret codes and patterns everywhere. :)

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Glad to. Ooo, I'd love to see the Word doc. PM me for my email address, if you don't already have it.

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Wow you must really want that document! :D I'll send you the 42-page thing--it's entirely your posts (hopefully getting all of them that included something useful, but you never know) with I think just some extra dialogue or comments to add context.

I have a strategic and crackpot theory document but that stays out of your gimlet-eyed gaze, because just as we shouldn't know a GM's next move, a GM ought not be aware of players' tactics before they blunder forward with 'em. :devil:

Oh wait, sorry, in-game question:

You ended the most recent post with "Kylah's impression of his general truthfulness continues to hold as to these answers."

But the previous post said: "Kylah's sense of his untruthfulness is less strong now, but still perceptible."

There's a bit of litotes going on here. Do you mean that Kylah still feels that "his untruthfulness is less strong now, but still perceptible," or did you mean that he now seems truthful?

(I do miss the days when you'd actually let her notice when one of the specific answers strikes her as untrue, as with #2160, instead of for a whole three thousand-word post of Q&As. But I guess that's my fault for cramming them all in together!)

*I'd* like to see the crackpot theories list

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...Do you mean that Kylah still feels that "his untruthfulness is less strong now, but still perceptible," or did you mean that he now seems truthful?....

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The former. And as to post 2160, the Vice Admiral seems to have a better grip on his "emotional broadcasting" than some others whom she's observed.

Damn, EH! If an NPC conveniently providing all the evidence via magic wand is seriously the answer to the murder mystery, I am going to file a protest with the both the FCC and the RPG Commission for Crimes Against Player Agency!

...did I just miss something important?!

Yeah, the info that apparently we could've just hung out in the spa getting massages while waiting for the NPCs to finish the game for us. So, shall we go over to the WR&R's finest steak restaurant and get something to eat?

Now, now. You had to do the legwork to get to this point.

I'm just glad Graham gets to start kicking some ass! America F#ck Yeah!!!! :hist:

Yeah okay. We get to a point where we're about to check on Hardin's alibi, we would've probably discussed what Hardin's motive could be, and so on. Hell, now that Hardin confirmed that WR&R is the only corporate entity allowed access to the spores, Kylah was going to ask the gang why on earth Starfleet would engage in unethical behavior such as handing over an exclusive contract to create a monopoly where WR&R is sole distributor of a unique plant that heals people--but is now only available to the extremely rich since WR&R has no competition and thus no reason to lower its prices.

There were ways we could've solved this on our own, we were very close to doing so, but instead we get... everything dumped out of the bag all at once, nice and neat. And a murderer who's apparently also a Q, of all things, since he managed to magically make us black out and disappeared into a puff of smoke like Merlin. ARRRGH!

But I guess if the others enjoyed it, that's cool. Thanks for letting us do the character interactions, anyway. Those were rewarding.

Oh it totally didn't register to me that Graham just ordered Rangin out into the rain.

Icing on the cake I suppose :lol::devil:

I want to know why it's raining on a Paradise planet? It would never rain on Rysa.

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I want to know why it's raining on a Paradise planet? It would never rain on Rysa.

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A wizard did it.

I missed choirs edit in the main thread, sorry!

Also auto correct will nor allow me to type her alias as anything other than choir

You guys are killing me.

You're allowed to dismiss autocorrect, y'know. :rolleyes:

I'm surprised it doesn't default to 'choice.' That's usually the correction I get.

With rather good timing, my internet access will be limited over the next week though I'll try to check it once or twice a day. Since Kylah is--to quote one of my favorite vituperative fictional characters--about as much use as a marzipan dildo, I doubt this will cause a problem.

Ahh, the cavalry came in the form of my brother-in-law and his extra router. So, breathe easy, Team Yorktown. Your search for justice will not suffer for the lack of Kylah's extraordinarily vital ability to sense vaguely when someone might possibly be saying something that's less than 100% truthful!

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You're allowed to dismiss autocorrect, y'know. :rolleyes:

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He can't do that, he's just an Ensign, he doesn't have the authority anymore. :p

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...Kylah is--to quote one of my favorite vituperative fictional characters--about as much use as a marzipan dildo....

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I don't know that you have ever been so wrong about something.

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...Kylah is--to quote one of my favorite vituperative fictional characters--about as much use as a marzipan dildo....

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I don't know that you have ever been so wrong about something.

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Do I reeeeeally want to know how you got some use out of a marzipan dildo?


_{Yeah, its one of those days}

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You're allowed to dismiss autocorrect, y'know. :rolleyes:

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He can't do that, he's just an Ensign, he doesn't have the authority anymore. :p

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In her mind's eye she can see Velir under attack by a slime devil; she can see a flash of him in between a vicious swarm of altered Sakathians, his face contorted in pain as they tear ravenously into his flesh; she can see his feverish, unconscious form lying nearby in the tiny shuttle. Somehow, she also sees her parents' corpses, clad in exquisite royal garments that cannot hide the scars and melted flesh from the accident that killed them.

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I stand corrected if Rangin is attacked by a slime devil while running through the rain that will be the icing on the cake... :LOL:

I keep replaying this scene substituting "marzipan dildo" for "Captain Dunsel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgO_y57_078

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I don't know that you have ever been so wrong about something.

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You flatter me! I've been wrong (assuming I am wrong, which I don't--unless the raison d'etre of our characters is to get thrown out of interviews a lot and get sexually assaulted, in which case I do agree she has few equals!) about waaaay more things than this. I'm a Knicks fan, for pete's sake.

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...Kylah is--to quote one of my favorite vituperative fictional characters--about as much use as a marzipan dildo....

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I don't know that you have ever been so wrong about something.

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Do I reeeeeally want to know how you got some use out of a marzipan dildo?

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:bravo: :bravo: Excellent setup and punchline. :D Well played!

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I keep replaying this scene substituting "marzipan dildo" for "Captain Dunsel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgO_y57_078

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LOL. Unfortunately I can't get a good link to the scene because in the US, the episodes are only available on Hulu or for pay on Youtube, but here's a soundclip from the master* himself. The character is Malcolm Tucker (as played by Peter Capaldi), the frightening, vicious yet somehow charming press director to the Prime Minister, from The Thick of It, a British comedy that should be mandatory viewing for anyone who is interested in labyrinthine politics, dark humor, and positively rococo swearing.

http://38.media.tumblr.com/52fc00bdf...yo8_r1_250.gif One of my favorite illustrative quotes that describes Malcolm perfectly. He's the PM's attack dog and has all of Whitehall trembling lest they be at the receiving end of one of his vitriolic bollockings.

To define the term "marzipan dildo" -- If one knows the consistency of marzipan, which is soft and crumbly, and then takes into consideration the common use of the implement in question, you would probably see that one made out of marzipan would be less than structurally sound, and certainly of minimal effectiveness for its intended purpose.

There, did I say it delicately enough? :D

_{* Or should I say now, the Doctor? Doctor Who reference for the nongeeks out there, who... I don't think exist in this thread.}

:: golf clap ::

But I still think you are far too modest on Kylah's behalf.

Graham feeling in his element:

http://www.lzxray.com/37.jpg

Actually Lt. Col. Hal Moore directing things at the battle of the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam (subject of the book / movie "We Were Soldiers Once and Young").

One of the biggest problems there was that a young ensign transported herself without permission a young lieutenant led his platoon out of formation pursuing a fleeing enemy solider (aka bait) that became trapped in on man's land...

Well, nothing happened, Rangin's fine and surrounded by security people, so as usual Kylah's instincts were in top form! Hell, I would love it if Kylah could actually be trapped, that at least would indicate she'd found someone or done something to spur someone into action. We would've been fine if not for Delaney--get his ass decommissioned for being such a loudmouth!

And I'll have you know, general_urko, it's Graham who's going rogue now! :)

Oooooooh boy

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Nobody puts Baby in a corner. :devil:

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He puts you in danger one minute and treats me like a porcelain doll. It is not right."

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:bravo:

"Now now," Graham explains in a kindly fashion while offering a cookie,, "that's because you remind me of my daughter while Rangin keeps riding my jock about all his new age bullshit."

:D

Heh. I wonder how vastly different the dynamic would be if Graham's child was Lennie instead of Lizzie...

Or a hermaphrodite. Now that could be interesting....

Wholesale, Graham wouldn't be Graham as he is without his wife & daughter issues. Like Kirk he needs his pain!

Surely he'd have concerns about a boy too, I should hope. It'd be a trip to see him with a son who's more like Rangin.

But man, I hope with all the patronizing "poor, impotent Kylah, who dares to go off on her own, needs a man I don't even respect to protect her and a Vulcan to advise her properly" crap Graham is spewing--despite going searching for Hardin alone when there were security guards five feet away from him, and his worrying about walking through an electric storm while Kylah was smart enough to beam over instantly--at some point, Graham gets to watch impotently while Kylah goes all Sigourney Weaver/Ripley on Hardin's ass!

Hold on Rangin has already played Hicks to Kylah's Ripley, last time on board the Sakath station.

Oh no, here we go again. This is going to become on ongoing thing isn't it. :(

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Hold on Rangin has already played Hicks to Kylah's Ripley, last time on board the Sakath station.

Oh no, here we go again. This is going to become on ongoing thing isn't it. :(

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:) IIRC in that fight against the slime devil, Rangin got the kill shot, didn't he? Kylah was too busy having her wrist almost bitten off.

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Hold on Rangin has already played Hicks to Kylah's Ripley, last time on board the Sakath station.

Oh no, here we go again. This is going to become on ongoing thing isn't it. :(

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:) IIRC in that fight against the slime devil, Rangin got the kill shot, didn't he? Kylah was too busy having her wrist almost bitten off.

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True, but in the final fight against the hordes of onrushing zombies, who came out swinging and who was being carried off injured to sick bay. :fail:

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True, but in the final fight against the hordes of onrushing zombies, who came out swinging and who was being carried off injured to sick bay. :fail:

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Don't remind me! Kylah just had a terrible flashback to that. :( But to make it up to you, I'm fine with Kylah getting terribly wounded (as long as it happens while she's doing something!), with Rangin kablamming whoever-the-baddie is with one hand while he's simultaneously carrying her to safety with the other.

Kylah should probably have a full neural scan after the mission - first she gets a contact trip from Collins, then she's all but roofied, now Hardin's knockout blast. It's a wonder her brain is still in one piece.

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Surely he'd have concerns about a boy too, I should hope. It'd be a trip to see him with a son who's more like Rangin.

But man, I hope with all the patronizing "poor, impotent Kylah, who dares to go off on her own, needs a man I don't even respect to protect her and a Vulcan to advise her properly" crap Graham is spewing--despite going searching for Hardin alone when there were security guards five feet away from him, and his worrying about walking through an electric storm while Kylah was smart enough to beam over instantly--at some point, Graham gets to watch impotently while Kylah goes all Sigourney Weaver/Ripley on Hardin's ass!

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Now, now Graham doesn't think Kylah's impotent (or weak), he fears that she's vulnerable (for various reasons)...

As noted before, remember that phasers (either the small, cellphone-sized phaser-1s or the larger, pistol-like phaser-2s) are not "holstered," but are attached to the waistband of Starfleet uniform pants, or to a black utility belt, by a Velcro-like (but stronger) material, like so: http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albu...donais0465.jpg

A full brainscan is a very good idea, anyrose. Maybe someday! Oh wait, and for Kylah too. :)

EH, maybe 'unholstered' is just the shorthand vernacular that's still in use? We still "dial" phones even though rotary phones haven't been popular in over 40 years. I know ENT isn't considered canon in this game, but they did have holsters back then, so the name could've just 'stuck.' It's certainly cooler to say than "He unsticks his phaser from its Velcro-like holding thingy." :D

I wonder what the correct terminology for it is then? Holstering also has the connotations of it being put away so it cannot be used easily as well.

Stowed his phaser, just doesn't seem right somehow.

Fair point. I would probably write "stowed" (which is proper naval parlance for putting away just about anything) or "put away," though.

So the outcomes of this transporter room interaction has totally got to be Rangin's esteem rising for Kylah given her saintly compassion for other living beings (including primates) while Graham is that much more of a cad for so rudely harshing everyone's mellow by staggering around injured in such a rude way.. :D

Well, duh.

Can't wait to hear Graham's internal monologue on recovering to see Kylah in Rangin's arms...

"Getcher hands offa my daughter, you piece of ... oh, it's you. What are you doing with my dau... oh, it's her."

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"Getcher hands offa my daughter, you piece of ... oh, it's you. What are you doing with my dau... oh, it's her."

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@choie Hardin's location via Hsu at Main Thread #3041

Granted she doesn't know and Graham (perhaps bc of his depleted condition hasn't told anyone) but I'll wait to post till tomorrow so EH/CIAS have chance to catch up

Especially CIAS getting all pissy at Graham :D

Thanks! Yep, I know where he is and where we were told--I just didn't know how Kylah and, ahem, Rangin would've known since Graham had his physical breakdown before he passed along the info, or at least I thought he did; maybe the comm channel was open and I didn't realize it.

(Sorry, CIAS... you already know I'm OCD where continuity is concerned. :D)

Ah I was reading Rangin as reacting simply to he fact of Hardin = "Not Here" and he reasonably thinks it's imprudent to charge off anywhere in the storm is too much of a delicate precious flower to get rained on ;)

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Thanks! Yep, I know where he is and where we were told--I just didn't know how Kylah and, ahem, Rangin would've known since Graham had his physical breakdown before he passed along the info, or at least I thought he did; maybe the comm channel was open and I didn't realize it.

(Sorry, CIAS... you already know I'm OCD where continuity is concerned. :D)

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Fair enough, I'll update Rangin's post to be not so omniscient.

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Ah I was reading Rangin as reacting simply to he fact of Hardin = "Not Here" and he reasonably thinks it's imprudent to charge off anywhere in the storm is too much of a delicate precious flower to get rained on ;)

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Yeah, so precious, he's already been soaked once due to Graham's orders. Graham just transported across to avoid the rain.

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Thanks! Yep, I know where he is and where we were told--I just didn't know how Kylah and, ahem, Rangin would've known since Graham had his physical breakdown before he passed along the info, or at least I thought he did; maybe the comm channel was open and I didn't realize it.

(Sorry, CIAS... you already know I'm OCD where continuity is concerned. :D)

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Fair enough, I'll update Rangin's post to be not so omniscient.

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Ah I was reading Rangin as reacting simply to he fact of Hardin = "Not Here" and he reasonably thinks it's imprudent to charge off anywhere in the storm is too much of a delicate precious flower to get rained on ;)

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Yeah, so precious, he's already been soaked once due to Graham's orders. Graham just transported across to avoid the rain.

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Now, just for the record, Graham did not specifically order Rangin to go secure the transporter room on foot... He could have asked for a transport.... :devil:

Man, we really need Collins down in the OC3 transporter room so the fur can really start to fly...:hist::lol:

:smack:smack:smackOops hey speaking of idiots I pasted the below into the main thread at 3064, one of our esteemed administrators should delete...


Trek uniform makes "IT Dress Code: 10 Cardinal Sins": Remember, you work for an enterprise, not on the Enterprise.

http://www.informationweek.com/it-li...d/d-id/1315987

I'll fix it, if it hasn't been done yet.

And how many of those violations, general, have you seen yourself...?

I'll be leaving midday Friday for a weekend with some old friends out of town. My Internet access may be spotty, even nonexistent, until late Sunday. Keep posting in the game thread or here if you like, though.

Have fun out of town.

Time to watch the Kylah/Graham show whether neither understands the other. :popcorn:

Hope you have a good weekend, EH! And sorry about leaving you stuck with all the now mute and stone-like NPCs, CIAS. :)

Now I'm in a bit of a quandary. Presumably Hsu hasn't zapped everyone, but my inclination as Kylah would be to scan the room nevertheless even though Graham's suggestion was sarcastic (I think). But obviously she can't because then we'll be stuck until whenever EH can get back.

CIAS, unless you've been told that Rangin's lying twitching on the floor in a puddle of drool, maybe Velir can step outside to see what the deal is? Then at least you're back in the land of the PCs and we can all converse while the NPCs stand staring dopily into space till EH returns. (In Delaney's case, probably not much of a noticeable difference.*)


_{* Yes, as CIAS and g_u know, I'm not a Delaney fan. He's been pissing me right off this mission!}

Ooh if Rangin is lying twitching on the floor in a pool of drool Graham's day will just get better and better... :P

Although is Kylah is (more) pissed because she thinks he's being a jerk about scanning the room it may just get worse... :o

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I'll fix it, if it hasn't been done yet.

And how many of those violations, general, have you seen yourself...?

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I appreciate the fact that you asked how many I've seen, not committed, EH... :D

Yes, sometimes I can be surprisingly tactful.

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Rangin looks around the room at Graham's request to Delaney looking to see if anyone reacts badly to the suggestion. It had to have been aimed at Mr Hsu as the only non Starfleet person there, but it would be curious if any of the other crewman were not as happy about the suggestion.

Actually, Rangin had just gone over this room completely only 20 minutes ago, so there would be nothing in the walls, no, it could only be aimed at the people there. Perhaps Graham was even less trusting as things got worse.

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Naturally Rangin is too civilized to blurt out that this is a stupid idea but surely he just might discreetly take Graham aside and criticize him for implementing Kylah's idea being such a rude thug.... :fishbeat:*

*But who is beating who is the question...perhaps we need an icon where there's an unbroken circle of mutual beatings...

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Naturally Rangin is too civilized to blurt out that this is a stupid idea but surely he just might discreetly take Graham aside and criticize him for implementing Kylah's idea being such a rude thug.... :fishbeat:*

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:D Oh dude, don't even blame Kylah for this one! Yes, scanning, but no, not issuing a formal clarion call to arms by announcing his intention to scan for unusual devices. If there were someone who had one of those weapons, Graham's basically just given the guy a good reason (and plenty of warning) to use it!

Probably nothing will happen, but dang, I almost hope it does, just because... well, it proves Kylah's "acting without thinking" point so nicely.

Hey, Graham is the one in charge, its his call :D

And look where that attitude got Collins

Right now I kinda want Rangin to get up-close-and-personal with that stun gun. What the heck, why is he suddenly Hsu's BFF? Isn't he the guy who just told Kylah "not now, my dear, we must think of group unity, be as one with the universe, at least until the case is solved"?

Been there, done that. At least the helpless for a while part.

Then again, Kylah just decided to ignore everyone's feelings and scan whether they like it or not. Because group unity means I don't trust you until I have scanned you.

Way to hit one of Rangin's hot button topics.

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Been there, done that. At least the helpless for a while part.

Then again, Kylah just decided to ignore everyone's feelings and scan whether they like it or not. Because group unity means I don't trust you until I have scanned you.

Way to hit one of Rangin's hot button topics.

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Been there, done that. At least the helpless for a while part.

Then again, Kylah just decided to ignore everyone's feelings and scan whether they like it or not. Because group unity means I don't trust you until I have scanned you.

Way to hit one of Rangin's hot button topics.

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Oh quiet, you! This is all Graham's fault. Kylah wouldn't have had to fall on her sword if Graham had the sense God gave a turnip. :D Plus, as I hope Rangin will eventually find out, Kylah didn't want everyone scanned. She wanted Hsu scanned, a freakin' suspect who is (apparently) the only person with the technical knowhow and opportunity to pull off this unbelievably convoluted murder, at least as a co-conspirator.

And while I'm a bleeding heart liberal with the best of 'em, even I don't think it's wise to just ask someone who might very well have control of a weapon that seems to need no time or visible physical movement to activate, "hey, is it okay if I scan you to see if you have this superpowered weapon that we can't possibly protect ourselves against since it can be used faster than a guy can fire a phaser?"

Because geeze, if he has that weapon and also has two brain cells to rub together, he'll use it before you finish saying the word "scan."

Hee hee hee

Graham certainly lacks the tact of a turnip, but he's not totally unthinking here... Hsu probably isn't suicidally loyal to Hardin, so would it make sense for him to take an incriminating weapon with him? Would he be confident it would work on everybody? And if it did, then what the hell does he do--there's still a whole ship in orbit and he's just 100% outed himself and upped the ante...

But then I shouldn't write this here, I should save it for a patient lecture Graham can give Kylah later... :lol::lol:

Unless of course Hsu kills us all in the next few game minutes :o

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Graham certainly lacks the tact of a turnip, but he's not totally unthinking here... Hsu probably isn't suicidally loyal to Hardin, so would it make sense for him to take an incriminating weapon with him? Would he be confident it would work on everybody? And if it did, then what the hell does he do--there's still a whole ship in orbit and he's just 100% outed himself and upped the ante...

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Then why did Graham ask for a scan at all, particularly of everyone? And why in public? Hsu would bring something like that along and utilize it for the same reason Hardin did--if he had no other choice. I doubt it was Hardin's best option either, but apparently for whatever reason, he felt it was better than doing nothing. And for all we know, ahem, there's some kind of cloaked ship out there.

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But then I shouldn't write this here, I should save it for a patient lecture Graham can give Kylah later... :lol::lol:

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Graham certainly lacks the tact of a turnip, but he's not totally unthinking here... Hsu probably isn't suicidally loyal to Hardin, so would it make sense for him to take an incriminating weapon with him? Would he be confident it would work on everybody? And if it did, then what the hell does he do--there's still a whole ship in orbit and he's just 100% outed himself and upped the ante...

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Then why did Graham ask for a scan at all, particularly of everyone? And why in public?

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1. He was resolved to act on Kylah's suggestion
2. That's the way Graham is inclined to do things
3.a It never would have occurred to him it would bother her if he didn't do it surreptitiously (...ok, so you win, there's the turnip angle...)
3.b. I think a scan is legally probably like a search so a covert scan might have been illegal
3.c. He really did want to send Hsu to the security office, but sending-a-bad-Hsu-with-a-stun-thingy to the two Security officers would have been really bad. Whereas Kylah's go-to skill in a pickle is, you know, skillful communication, Graham's is more of a borderline reckless physical courage...

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3.b. I think a scan is legally probably like a search so a covert scan might have been illegal
3.c. He really did want to send Hsu to the security office, but sending-a-bad-Hsu-with-a-stun-thingy to the two Security officers would have been really bad. Whereas Kylah's go-to skill in a pickle situations is, you know, skillful communication, Graham's is more of a borderline reckless physical courage...

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:eek: Oh man, I hope he uses the noble "I didn't want to put two security officers in danger, so it was better to risk Hsu zapping all of us" line when speaking 'patiently' to Kylah. She'll rip him a new one!

I'm also not entirely convinced that legality is uppermost in Graham's mind considering he doesn't have a warrant nor did he even ask permission before ordering Delaney to scan everyone in the room. :)

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3.b. I think a scan is legally probably like a search so a covert scan might have been illegal
3.c. He really did want to send Hsu to the security office, but sending-a-bad-Hsu-with-a-stun-thingy to the two Security officers would have been really bad. Whereas Kylah's go-to skill in a pickle situations is, you know, skillful communication, Graham's is more of a borderline reckless physical courage...

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:eek: Oh man, I hope he uses the noble "I didn't want to put two security officers in danger, so it was better to risk Hsu zapping all of us" line when speaking 'patiently' to Kylah. She'll rip him a new one!

I'm also not entirely convinced that legality is uppermost in Graham's mind considering he doesn't have a warrant nor did he even ask permission before ordering Delaney to scan everyone in the room. :)

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Yeah, well, he wouldn't be on the firmest ground on the former... :roll:

On the latter his intincts are more about what if it panned out... sneaky scan = obviously inadmissable, caught up in declared room scan w/o objecting or leaving, maybe would be admitted as evidence....rather than legal niceties ;)

(And of course if Hsu objects to being scanned that would be weird if he wants to be in the club...)

I felt like Graham needed some love today.

Of course too bad it's a distant, irrecoverable memory...in Apocrypha.

Awww, that was sweet! My boys liked to wake me by pouncing back in the day....

You know, you could have just asked Delaney to scan the room in general to make sure it was secure and let him use some common sense to expand the range to include other devices.

A generic scan across the room is one thing. Having him individually scan each person for something, as if you don't trust any of them, is completely different. :smash:

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You know, you could have just asked Delaney to scan the room in general to make sure it was secure and let him use some common sense to expand the range to include other devices.

A generic scan across the room is one thing. Having him individually scan each person for something, as if you don't trust any of them, is completely different. :smash:

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Well obviously the former lacks that extra special sauce of infuriating Rangin... :devil:

(Actually to be honest, funnily enough, here's a case of in-game rather than meta-game thinking: I was just playing Graham, I didn't in fact think about Rangin's reaction at all at the time I wrote that post...)

Hey Booker! Guilt much?

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About everything except antagonizing Rangin :lol:

Actually I suppose he feels bad about not helping Collins out more but it's pretty clear the whole miscarriage thing wasn't his fault so he's off the hook on that too...

Clearly he doesn't mind Rangin catching pneumonia after getting drenched on Graham's orders! :) I bet you wouldn't let Kylah walk around in a soaking wet uniform!

Hmm. On second thought... his feelings might be a bit mixed on that score considering the circumstances..

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Clearly he doesn't mind Rangin catching pneumonia after getting drenched on Graham's orders! :) I bet you wouldn't let Kylah walk around in a soaking wet uniform!

Hmm. On second thought... his feelings might be a bit mixed on that score considering the circumstances..

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Heh darn it too bad his character wasn't inspired more by Kirk - two parties, one led by Rangin that happens to be all the male personnel that beams over, the other led by Graham that just happens to be all the women who head over on foot... :cool:

With Graham checking out bringing up the rear.

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Don't forget occasionally dropping his tricorder for someone to pick up... :woowoo:

Oops... in main thread 3106 I didn't realize Rangin and Kylah had stepped out as opposed to drawing off to the side - I propose that Booker's comment there be read as taking place as Rangin and Kylah walk back into the room (3113).

Sorry about that.

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Oops... in main thread 3106 I didn't realize Rangin and Kylah had stepped out as opposed to drawing off to the side - I propose that Booker's comment there be read as taking place as Rangin and Kylah walk back into the room (3113).

Sorry about that.

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Hmm, I don't think there's a conflict. Velir asked his question to Graham, then briefly went to Kylah while Graham had time to mull it over and grit his teeth or flex his muscles or whatever he does. :D Next, Graham asked him the question of what he wants to do, and (after realizing he couldn't get his shirt dry after all), Velir answered you. After which, then he and Kylah went out of the room.

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Oops... in main thread 3106 I didn't realize Rangin and Kylah had stepped out as opposed to drawing off to the side - I propose that Booker's comment there be read as taking place as Rangin and Kylah walk back into the room (3113).

Sorry about that.

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Hmm, I don't think there's a conflict. Velir asked his question to Graham, then briefly went to Kylah while Graham had time to mull it over and grit his teeth or flex his muscles or whatever he does. :D Next, Graham asked him the question of what he wants to do, and (after realizing he couldn't get his shirt dry after all), Velir answered you. After which, then he and Kylah went out of the room.

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Oh good grief I also missed Rangin's hissy fit answer in 3108 - you're irght, ok all set my bad :smack

Oh my as a result of the cold and damp Rangin must be running a high fever, he expressed (grudging) approval of Graham... :o

Definitely a fever. He also just went up to Hardin's suite, which he told Kylah to do earlier! :)

Maybe Rangin needs time to process the fact that Miss Perfect just told him Graham wasn't worse than 1,000 Hitlers :D

OK EH earns XP for having Delaney try to cobble together a lightning rod... ROTFL

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Maybe Rangin needs time to process the fact that Miss Perfect just told him Graham wasn't worse than 1,000 Hitlers :D

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Très amusant, but be fair, Kylah puts Rangin on a pedestal, not the other way around. It's clear Rangin is aware Kylah is hopelessly flawed, but he seems to like her anyway. Unlike certain other black-and-white thinkers on this team, he doesn't seem to require women to be categorized as either Madonnas or sluts. :devil:

Anyway it's too bad Graham didn't overhear Kylah's semi-defense of him. I would have been curious to know his reaction!

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Maybe Rangin needs time to process the fact that Miss Perfect just told him Graham wasn't worse than 1,000 Hitlers :D

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Très amusant, but be fair, Kylah puts Rangin on a pedestal, not the other way around. It's clear Rangin is aware Kylah is hopelessly flawed, but he seems to like her anyway. Unlike certain other black-and-white thinkers on this team, he doesn't seem to require women to be categorized as either Madonnas or sluts. :devil:

Anyway it's too bad Graham didn't overhear Kylah's semi-defense of him. I would have been curious to know his reaction!

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And nicely done on reading Graham. I was at an event with the president of Trinidad and Tobago some year ago (long story) and these two guys flanked her as she walked through the room to the podium and you could feel in the air (a) these are presidential bodyguards and (b) do NOT fuck with these guys... Was trying to capture that.

Rangin always tries to see the best in everyone, just like Graham tries...well, Graham is always trying. ;)

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Rangin always tries to see the best in everyone, just like Graham tries...well, Graham is always very trying. ;)

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I fixed it for you. :devil: :dance:

OMG if Rangin gets waxed while disobeying Graham's explicit orders he won't even need to feel guilty about it :devil: :dance:

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OMG if Rangin gets waxed while disobeying Graham's explicit orders he won't even need to feel guilty about it :devil: :dance:

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Considering Graham's orders are usually about as clear as porridge, Rangin can probably twist any of them to suit his own needs.

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It's funny the things that pop into your head at times like these, Graham muses at a random moment: If I'm KIA Faisal will think it's really weird there's a bottle of rose-scented perfume in my stuff.

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:bravo: Ok, I'll admit it, that is really funny.

If Rangin can actually find a scent in a rainstorm, my take is that Hardin was wearing some of that rose-scented perfume--and must've doused himself in it! :D

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And nicely done on reading Graham. I was at an event with the president of Trinidad and Tobago some year ago (long story) and these two guys flanked her as she walked through the room to the podium and you could feel in the air (a) these are presidential bodyguards and (b) do NOT fuck with these guys... Was trying to capture that.

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And you did it very vividly/creepily, so it was easy to work off that, thank you.

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Hmm. I always thought that Madonna was a slut.

You will recall that the Yorktown has a Lyceum for the arts, literature and higher learning. The latest Naval History magazine has an article on the role of the Lyceum in early U.S. Navy history: http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalh...-enlightenment

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Rangin stops and bangs the side of the tricorder a couple of times wondering if the water has got into the workings as the trail has ended.

Wishing he had a couple of English Bloodhounds or Bolian landsharks, as if there was any trail they could have followed it, even through this rain, but alas, modern technology just wasn't up to it.

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*knock-knock-knock* "Candygram!" :dance:

Oh anyrose, you're going to give away our ages with that reference. And I doubt CIAS will get it at all. (Although never count him out...)

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St. Croix and the others look at each other, and she says, "I'm probably the fastest here, Mr. Graham. Garcia was the top phaser marksman at the Academy three out of four years, weren't you, sir?" He nods modestly.

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Wow, no wonder Garcia was such a great marksman--his hearing is keen enough to reach from the Hotel Tower #2 all the way across the resort to the transporter room! :D (Garcia has been assigned to be Kylah's backup since #3100, and we're both already at the 3rd floor near Ebling's hideout; also, remember that he's in Communications and is apparently an expert in cryptography. Not saying he can't do that and also be a great marksman, but... point is, he's not Security, at any rate!)

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Oh anyrose, you're going to give away our ages with that reference. And I doubt CIAS will get it at all. (Although never count him out...)

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I had to google it. A 1975 reference from SNL indeed. And here I was thinking the pair of you were both in your 30's :p

For me, the only candygram sketch I remember is from Blazing Saddles, although not from when it released, seeing as the movie is older than I am. :D

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Oh anyrose, you're going to give away our ages with that reference. And I doubt CIAS will get it at all. (Although never count him out...)

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I had to google it. A 1975 reference from SNL indeed. And here I was thinking the pair of you were both in your 30's :p

For me, the only candygram sketch I remember is from Blazing Saddles, although not from when it released, seeing as the movie is older than I am. :D

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Blazinfg Saddles is older than you are???

Goddamn you to hell Rangin!!! :mad:

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...Wow, no wonder Garcia was such a great marksman--his hearing is keen enough to reach from the Hotel Tower #2 all the way across the resort to the transporter room!...

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My bad - all references corrected to Security Specialist Geilil, instead.

FYI I was drafted to attend a conference will be able to post tomorrow evening, I think - sorry if I am holding things up!

Nice piece on Collins, anyrose.

Any chance of picking up Dobson for a run to the Colony?

Oh dear, good luck with the conference, general_urko! Looks like our poor blokes will be in the rain for a while longer.

And welcome back again, anyrose! I particularly enjoyed seeing Collins being Collinsy. :D

Makes a note to have Kylah clever enough to belittle her crappy job performance to her supervisor while weepy and vulnerable in a hospital bed, recovering from her rape trauma. Who but a monster would say anything but 'there there, don't be so hard on yourself, my dear...'

(But seriously, I was confused by her reference to not 'using' anything for a month, though. Wasn't her last use of 'Elsewhere' just 2 1/2 days ago? The night before the mission?)

Yes, but that was after several months of not using. Collins has gone months between fixes, believing she could kick it, but "just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in"

Ahhhhh. So she was talking about before that last trip (or whatever you'd call it, sorry, I'm so straightedge I could cut glass). Gotcha!

OK, good to be back from the real world of technology where I'm treated like a respected expert to the game world where Graham is treated like a dangerous dunderhead...! :dance:

Welcome back G_U :madsci:

Don't tell me, you do this to let out your inner doofus? :devil:

"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." - James T. Kirk, ST:TOS "Shore Leave"

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"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." - James T. Kirk, ST:TOS "Shore Leave"

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Ah ha, I knew the explanation was something like that :D

Speaking of which, starting Friday I'll be on vacation for several weeks. The good news is: vacation. The flip side is part of the time I'll be in the Amazon. I expect I'll average a post a day (this is play after all, and everything is pretty swish, we don't really do rustic!) but if I disappear for a day or two (or three) it means I may not have Internet access where we're at.

Wow. Enjoy yourself and have a great time.

Sounds terrific, have fun, g_u! Dang, nice [vacation] if you can get it!

But one post a day, possibly less, yipe! and EH himself is already down to one post a day. This mission won't end until 2016!

Not that it's a democracy, but can lightning strike Graham while Hardin zips back to the hotel? At least Rangin can follow, and thereby he and Kylah can have some good interaction. Especially if the lights go out. Terror and lovin' in the dark! <3

You're going to vacation in an online store? :D :dance:

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One really could get a room at the Fairmont down there and life the life for a week, if that wouldn't make you stick a fork through your own eye, of course...

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Sounds terrific, have fun, g_u! Dang, nice [vacation] if you can get it!

But one post a day, possibly less, yipe! and EH himself is already down to one post a day. This mission won't end until 2016!

Not that it's a democracy, but can lightning strike Graham while Hardin zips back to the hotel? At least Rangin can follow, and thereby he and Kylah can have some good interaction. Especially if the lights go out. Terror and lovin' in the dark! <3

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In the interest of not having lightning or a mysterious pile of rocks descend from the sky on Graham (but seriously for EH's benefit to plan stuff),* from this Friday - Monday, probably more than 1, 0-2 through midweek 1 ish, it's the following week that's really hard to say!

* And also to prevent Rangin from gettin' any ... :devil:

Brief absences will not be punished by the GM... no matter how much he's tempted.

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Not punishing brief absences is fine! But positive reinforcement works too, so how about rewarding steadfast presences? That's what I wanna know! :D

:: hands choie a virtual cookie ::

:: the cookie suspiciously dematerializes and appears in Sick Bay in Collins' hand :: :devil:

And here's my virtual thanks in return. Edited to add: Oh, look, Collins gets the cookie instead. That actually sounds about right for this game!

Anyway. Since subspace messages aren't exactly instantaneous, what with it taking 20 minutes for Graham's message to get to Wilson's wife*, how long would it take for Ebling's message to reach Starfleet Command, assuming that is whom she contacted? I'd have Kylah ask this in the thread, but as a Comm officer I'm assuming she'd know it.



* Who's apparently dead, MIA or unbelievably indifferent

Graham cannot be sure that Mrs. Wilson ever got the message.

A message to Starfleet Command could take hours to get to Earth and have an answer come back.

Geeze I hope the poor woman (or lucky one, as it may be) hears the message before the news gets public!

Thanks for the info on the communication speed. I wasn't sure if Starfleet Command might have some outpost on Vulcan or any other place nearer to us than Earth. But hours is definitely too long to wait!

maybe - all that transporter activity was the wife, in cahoots with Hardin, from a cloaked ship.

Ooo - an intriguing theory!

Apologies all, life just got slightly busy. Should be back to normal aka dull by Monday.

So which of the security crew is most likely to burst out into a chorus of "Singing in the Rain" then?

Forty quatloos on St. Croix!

Being naught but an ignorant Comm officer (and not even really that), I don't quite understand Hsu's latest response. What's the difference between a transmission grid and a power generator? I would have assumed the transmission grid had to do with communications and stuff. But if the power fusion reactor or whatever is fine, why are the lights flickering?

Power Generator - what creates all the power
Transmission Grid - the wires that move the power around all over the resort.

Losing the Transmission grid is a fancy way of saying the lines are down for electricity.

Ahhhh. So basically Hsu gave more info than Kylah really needs to know. The layman's version of this interaction would be:

"Dude, are we gonna lose electricity?"
"Oh no of course not.... well, except we totally might."

Thanks as always, CIAS. :)

CIAS has it right. Of course this isn't quite like something the Wichita lineman would work on, but the 23rd century equivalent of it. Power would still be generated, but it might not get where it needs to go.

Wichita lineman, ai yi yi, how dare you get that earworm infesting my brain. You're a cruel man, EH.

Rangin's latest Apocrypha was fun to read--he seems destined to spend time in bad weather, poor guy. And he was certainly a lot more of a risk-taker than one would think. No wonder he's such a planner now.

Did I understand the plan correctly, though? He's sabotaging Orion Syndicate mines by blowing them up, right? Isn't that putting the raptors and all the other animals Velir loves so much in danger too? And why would the miners be embarrassed? Maybe I don't fully understand what the deal is between the O.S. and Coridan. Are the miners there in secret, or is it an arrangement allowed by Coridan's government? Help!

Coridan is a planet full of dilithium and also has a small...no medium...alright a huge corruption problem. As a result there are several illegal mines being run on the planet by a variety of people including the Orion Syndicate. Now, Rangin is very much someone who wants his planet for Coridanites and not being raided by other races, see Tellarities, Andorians and everyone else who has been trying to take Coridan's resources for their own and when younger was taking matters into his own hands with some friends. You can consider the wisdom and intelligence of such actions at your own leisure.

Rangin certainly does in those dark hours before the dawn on occasions.

However the expected result of the attack would be an illegal mine with a set of miners milling around with absolutely no power, and having had a large beacon go off (the generator) so that military forces can come in and arrest the lot of them. There is no intention to detonate it across the entire valley.

new snippet in Apocrypha

Good stuff, both of you - thanks.

It occurs to me that this adventure is too long for a TV episode, and it's bordering on being too long for a two part movie. We're talking LotR epic trilogy here.

And I never thought it would be this long! But the end is now in sight. Keep up the good work.

Hi all - the next two days will be days at sea, assuming no interruption in connectivity (satellite, which has been solid if a bit slow) will be good ones for me to post if we want to carry on to the next scene(s).

Or you can just carry on impressively as has been done with Graham as Ens. Dunsel (or Marzipan Dildo)... :(

On the flip side, my pedicurist yesterday* looked just like Marina Sirtis, so I can't complain (having checked Wikipedia re: Sirtis they are both of Southeastern European ancestry so there's some sort of geographical / ethic basis to the look apparently).

*No I haven't had one before. We should work in Graham getting one into the story at some point. If I can, he can. Maybe with Rangin... :)

Thanks, general! Hope you have fun at sea.

You'll all be glad to know I'm wearing this for the trick-or-treaters tonight: http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/st...antarctic.html

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On the flip side, my pedicurist yesterday* looked just like Marina Sirtis, so I can't complain (having checked Wikipedia re: Sirtis they are both of Southeastern European ancestry so there's some sort of geographical / ethic basis to the look apparently).

*No I haven't had one before. We should work in Graham getting one into the story at some point. If I can, he can. Maybe with Rangin... :)

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Rangin would be quite capable of giving Graham a pedicure. He has, when he was younger, cut the toenails of large lumbering animals of limited hygiene and intelligence that can't do it for themselves.

Would he like a sugar cube when Rangin has finished?

Burn.

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On the flip side, my pedicurist yesterday* looked just like Marina Sirtis, so I can't complain (having checked Wikipedia re: Sirtis they are both of Southeastern European ancestry so there's some sort of geographical / ethic basis to the look apparently).

*No I haven't had one before. We should work in Graham getting one into the story at some point. If I can, he can. Maybe with Rangin... :)

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Rangin would be quite capable of giving Graham a pedicure. He has, when he was younger, cut the toenails of large lumbering animals of limited hygiene and intelligence that can't do it for themselves.

Would he like a sugar cube when Rangin has finished?

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Oh snap...

I would have said "Meow," personally. :)

And hey what's with everyone just summarizing their dialogue? Don't y'all want to speak with each other?

Graham's in the zone, best not to disturb him.

Good point. Any takers on when the "red haze" makes its appearance?

Is that anything like a purple haze?

Yes, but with fewer psychedelics and more blood. :RAEG:

Speaking of which, Kylah is beginning to see a red mist herself, the way Mrs. Hsu is acting as if she's provided her alibi for that night when she totally hasn't. What the hell?

Wow, Ensign Kylah: Woman on a mission :popcorn:

Heh. Kinda sad that she's at her most efficient and productive when none of her team is around to notice. Then again, maybe that's not a coincidence. She's let the team down by cowardly backing out of the dangerous mission. If she can narrow down some of these inconsistencies and find more evidence to nail Hardin (or an accomplice), at least she won't feel quite as big a disappointment.

Although it will be cold comfort if someone ends up hurt while racing* to capture Hardin.


* Albeit this is a rather broad definition of "racing," considering the length of time it's taking these men/women of action to walk out the freaking door. :devil:

Hey, its cold and wet out there.

It's cold and wet here on Earth, too

In my particular corner of the globe, too, at the moment.

If humidity counts it is wet here, but it is nudging 100F....

In main thread 3205 btw Graham may have modified his original orders slightly based on the range of the modified tricorders, but otherwise indeed all still stands.

Also, too, we ate piranha today. If I were Graham I would hope that somehow that would discomfit Ranging :)

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It's cold and wet here on Earth, too

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Also, too, we ate piranha today. If I were Graham I would hope that somehow that would discomfit Ranging :)

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Who is this Ranging you speak of? :iiam:

Better that you eat piranha than vice versa....

Wow, the wind and the rain must be tough, we only just reached the hill.

Rangin is also pleased that Graham is now suffering the wind and the rain as well, and not just him.

Various members of the crew, at different places on the grounds, spot Hardin running for his life. Before any of them can act, a blue light beam hits him and he disintegrates. They all turn in the direction of the beam and see a Cyberman in a brigadier's cap standing on a hill with his arm raised.

Oh, I'm sorry. Wrong fandom.

These things happen.

http://lavonardo.net/blog/wp-content...ry-coexist.jpg

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Flunking hell, Graham thinks, looking up from where he'd dropped to his belly when Ranging yelled. That was as close as I ever want to be to a bolt of lightning again... He turns and gives a thumb up in the direction of Ranging and Delaney before jumping up and waving the team forward.

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Can I suggest fixing your auto-correct: Ranging != Rangin :fishbeat: