Star Trek RPG - Setup thread

The Indiana fan group Five Year Mission has a song about "This Side of Paradise": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyK-V0TpdSE

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Originally posted by choie

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Originally posted by general_urko

OMG I almost spilled coffee all over my keyboard ROTFL

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:) Just imagine how flustered Graham would be if he knew innocent daughter-figure Kylah was mentally snarking about his weapon length!

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Indeed...I suspect at some point we just might find out... :popcorn:

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Originally posted by choie

Oh dear. Wilson is clearly intimidated by the length of Graham's... knife.

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Ah, what a setup...see the Character Setup thread (post 5) for the memorabilia Graham brought onboard the Yorktown.

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Originally posted by CatInASuit

There's a chill that runs down Rangin's spine. He'd seen plenty of small-minded, petty, bullying, arseholes on Coridan and one of the reasons for joining Starfleet was to avoid them and make Coridan a better place. He wasn't expecting to find a pair of them on the same starship let alone in the same group as him. It was like watching a thug with a slime devil on a leash saying I'm doing you a favour keeping him on a leash, otherwise he would be really nasty to you. Collins and Graham were both acting as though they knew there was nothing Wilson could do and frankly it was contemptible.

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Oh my... I do so like Rangin! Cracking up here.

Perspective is a wonderful thing... :p

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Originally posted by CatInASuit

It was like watching a thug with a slime devil on a leash saying I'm doing you a favour keeping him on a leash, otherwise he would be really nasty to you.

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OK that was pretty funny. Although I think it means Graham is a slime devil. :( Maybe somebody will work this line while we're on OC3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdmqn9JIuzc

Wait. Is Collins the thug or the slime devil? ;)

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Originally posted by anyrose

Wait. Is Collins the thug or the slime devil? ;)

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I just want dibs on Richard Pryor :cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH8_FWPUA_I

Of course, after Henry Waite, T'Var's definition of a suitable mate has changed a great deal. <G>

As mentioned in her bio, a mate would not have to be Vulcan. She would also consider what sort of father this male would be. This is very important as she comes from a loving family and admires/respects her father very much.

^ Well, that leaves Graham out.

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Originally posted by anyrose

First good news in a while thinks Collins guiltily, realizing she's barely given Fujishiro a second thought since the Zombie Apocalypse.[/I]

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Heh. Honest, but ouch. Just part of what makes Collins such a stellar leader! Someone lying near death after an injury incurred on her watch? Eh, whatevs. :D

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Originally posted by choie

^ Well, that leaves Graham out.

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Hey! Are you implying Graham can't be a good father? :mad:

Granted he isn't a good father at the moment (er, so OK like for the past 10 years if you want to be a stickler about it, with the whole guilt-driven, self-destructive estrangement thing :()... but that doesn't mean he doesn't have it in him (...well, or not, time will tell...)

Heh. I think I may like Graham more than general_urko actually does.

Sorry, general_urko, I don't know where I got the idea that Graham isn't a great dad! It's not like he's been mentioning it or anything. :D Actually I think that's yet another reason T'Var is a good match, despite my joke above. Someone who's rational, kind and a good judge of character--erm, Waite aside--is just the ticket to soothe a wounded psyche and/or heart. :)

BTW seriously, EH, anyrose and g_u, my last post did include a nudge. Kylah made a suggestion to keep Fastolfe's knife in a safety deposit box (or whatever the equivalent is in hotels). It just kinda hung out there but it seems highly reasonable to me!

Also, I forgoet, EH: is there a Starfleet military presence around the planet and I just missed it?

Happy now? ;)

Blissed out, baby! :D My continuity OCD was itching me and I knew there was some topic that we'd left hanging recently.

There is no ongoing Starfleet presence at OC3 other than the research station.

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Originally posted by choie

BTW seriously, EH, anyrose and g_u, my last post did include a nudge. Kylah made a suggestion to keep Fastolfe's knife in a safety deposit box (or whatever the equivalent is in hotels). It just kinda hung out there but it seems highly reasonable to me!

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anyrose I am sad you didn't take the opportunity to reply "Just let a big strong man handle this, Ensign Kylah." :popcorn:

Listen, Collins has made so many errors on this and the last mission, I'd be surprised if she wasn't bounced back to Specialist.

(btw - EH, I'm only kidding. Please don't demote me.) :D

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Originally posted by anyrose

Listen, Collins has made so many errors on this and the last mission, I'd be surprised if she wasn't bounced back to Specialist.

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Such a setup for a GM:

"Your communicator chirps, you're demoted. Also, too, a zombie."

It occurred to me that Graham might insist he'd only release Fastolfe's knife "from his cold dead hand," but that was too much of a provocation:

"The air conditioning suddenly comes on and you feel very chilly. Also, too, you die."

Granted these examples are far too obvious and un-subtle for our GM. We have too anticipate something more fiendish, like Collins being demoted later for allowing Graham to turn into a knife-wielding zombie...;)

Hmm. Is the landing party anywhere near a mountainside?: http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

Hmm. Is the landing party anywhere near a mountainside?: http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml

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Laughing, because that is hilarious. :D

Scared, because our GM apparently has this on his favorites bar... :o

No, not on my favorites bar. But I've seen it before, and it wasn't hard to find with Google.

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Originally posted by general_urko

anyrose I am sad you didn't take the opportunity to reply "Just let a big strong man handle this, Ensign Kylah." :popcorn:

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Ah but we're now assuming she's a xenophobe, right? So she could've snarked, "Uh, the humans are handling this just fine, Ensign."

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Originally posted by general_urko

This gives him pause, and he turns to look at Kylah. He was impressed by her ability to talk through the situation earlier: whether it was how he would have played it or not, he recognizes communications skills that far exceed his own. But, he thinks, why was she so solicitous of a bully and a user given her...situation--whatever it exactly is?

His brow furrows and he wonders if it's something personal, or about Elasian culture...then he catches himself and looks away. He almost laughs, then: yeah, that would be just my luck, I piss off the Doc because she catches me staring at her girlfriend.

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I'm waiting for the light to dawn on Graham... when he finally realizes that Kylah is an ambitious, predatory, power-hungry gold-digger who'll swing both ways if it helps her attain her goals. Thus she's attached herself to a rising Vulcan doctor as well as a Coridanite engineer, then started harassing a poor innocent transporter tech, and is now setting her sights on both an apparently independently wealthy resort dude, and the even more fabulously wealthy fame whore/singer, Lord Fastolfe.

C'mon, hasn't he read any Mickey Spillane or Raymond Chandler? Guy like him oughtta know it's the high class dames with big teary eyes who are up to no good.

Does this mean that Rangin is being played by Peter Lorre instead? Who is this Coridanite engineer anyway?

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Originally posted by CatInASuit

Does this mean that Rangin is being played by Peter Lorre instead?

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Good lord, I hope not, otherwise Kylah is wasting her time in a big way! Does Rangin have a thing for Graham? Dang, this romance stuff is getting very convoluted!

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Who is this Coridanite engineer anyway?

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Yipe, I didn't want to tell you, but Kylah's been messing around with one of your fellow Coridan refugees...

(Sorry, I meant xenobiologist. I was thinking of Delaney for some reason. Also, it was very early in the morning over here! I shouldn't have been up at that hour.)

Delaney as well...Kylah does get around doesn't she :angel:

Can she help it if everyone wants to board the U.S.S. Kylah?

(Ah, if only my girl knew what Rangin just thought about her! "Impressive lady." She'd be over the moon! Actually, Rangin's just as impressive. I'm certain Kylah would have no clue what Lourdes refers to! Rangin must study lots of ancient miracle cures as a hobby.)

::sits back, feet up on desk, watches fireworks::

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Originally posted by choie

C'mon, hasn't he read any Mickey Spillane or Raymond Chandler? Guy like him oughtta know it's the high class dames with big teary eyes who are up to no good.

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Heh. But don't guys like him typically wind up totally manipulated by the big teary eyes anyway?

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Originally posted by choie

Actually, Rangin's just as impressive.

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I look forward to learning how Rangin's crippling gambling debts led him to sell Federation secrets to the Breen. Or something. He can't be this normal and be part of this crew. :dubious:

Of course, who knows how this would go...his "Luck" isn't published in the set-up thread, and Graham's is none too good...

GU: [with phaser trained on Rangin] You've sold your last secret to our enemies...and flaunted your damned stylish linen suit for the last time, too!

EH: Rangin escapes when a giant pile of rocks falls on you, Graham.

GU: WTF? We're on the ship...

EH: More, heavier rocks fall on you. Also the last thing you hear is Rangin being notified he's won the Interstellar Lottery.

"...and been shortlisted for command of a starship."

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Originally posted by general_urko

He can't be this normal and be part of this crew. :dubious:

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I should add that my operating assumption is that T'Var--based on her V'Shar background and (for example) the fact that she seemed to appreciate Graham's entirely justified emphasis on the lack of security :fist:--has a past and/or attitudes that some might find scandalous or disturbing.

This is an assumption--I don't know this for sure...yet...likewise my operating assumption is that Graham might find them eminently sensible...

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture...quotes#slide-4

"Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt." —Robert De Niro, Ronin (1998)

It's not so much the lack of security, more the method of mentioning that there is no security, that has irked Rangin :)

We will probably find out Graham is an undercover Klingon with violent tendencies and a need to express himself every so often. :p

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Originally posted by general_urko

..."Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt." —Robert De Niro, Ronin (1998)

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Great movie. I wondered about that quotation, though. In context, did he mean, "If you have any doubt about whether a situation is safe, it's definitely unsafe"?

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

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Originally posted by general_urko

..."Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt." —Robert De Niro, Ronin (1998)

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Great movie. I wondered about that quotation, though. In context, did he mean, "If you have any doubt about whether a situation is safe, it's definitely unsafe"?

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Right...in Graham's mind, if you have any question that someone is a "bad guy" he (or she) is. Which is a highly functional attitude to have if you are in a setting where >50% of those around you are "bad guys." But not necessarily as functional in a different context...

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Originally posted by anyrose

Collins walks over to and leans in towards Graham and quietly asks "What, are you hoping to solve a cold case or something?"

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Man, there really is no love on OC3! :o

Graham could answer "Just doing what they pay me to do," except of course it's not totally clear if or how we get paid :)

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Originally posted by general_urko

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Originally posted by anyrose

Collins walks over to and leans in towards Graham and quietly asks "What, are you hoping to solve a cold case or something?"

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Man, there really is no love on OC3! :o

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Nah. I just watch too many cop/crime shows: L&O:SVU, NCIS, NCIS:LA, CSI, Castle, . . . ;)

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Originally posted by CatInASuit

It's not so much the lack of security, more the method of mentioning that there is no security, that has irked Rangin :)

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Indeed the degree to which Graham is oblivious to any reason for (and will be taken aback by) negative reactions will be worth the price of admission should it surface later :popcorn:

Oh, it just got real up in here! ;) :fishbeat: :lol: :dance:

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Originally posted by anyrose

I heard that, you little shit. thinks Collins, "True, we all have made mistakes." She says in the same dry tone as Kylah.

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:bravo:

You still have 15 mins to edit "thinks Collins" to "says Collins"!!! :lol:

Ha! Oy, just Kylah's luck, she's stuck alone with the two security buddies! Why did all the voices of reason stay behind in the hospital, darn it?

(I don't count Lt. JG "Silent Jim" Delaney; alas, he's unlikely to participate in any discussion since T'Var has apparently sealed up his mouth with a tri-laser nerve connector. :) Which is why I personally can't blame Collins for not being too anxious to follow through on the idea of exploring the resort in teams--it kinda sucks being teamed up with someone so noncommunicative!)

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Originally posted by general_urko

Graham is pleased that the team is loosening up and exchanging a little banter. Granted it's not like being on the job with Faisal and some of their close compatriots back on the Invictus, but then Kylah doesn't seem like the type who'd ever appreciate having her clothes and towels disappear while she's in the gym shower. Collins, he ruminates, might stop short of transferring someone to security duty at a waste processing facility on the frontier if her were, say, replaced by traditional Tellarite dress clothes...eh, might, he concludes.

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2 PSI Score in action! :cool:

"I heard that you little shit" is the gift that keeps on giving.

I'm sitting at my computer laughing out loud.

It cracked me up, but man, Collins would need a PSI of, like, 25 to have gone that bitchcakes over Kylah's remark. Unless she's so unbelievably loyal that she'd freak out over anyone daring to say Starfleet personnel make mistakes -- or took it as a personal dig!

(Then again, if I had the leadership competency of Neelix, I'd probably take that remark personally too. :p)

Now, now. Don't be dissin' the 'Lix.

Quite so. He was a very snazzy dresser. And his cooking...!

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Originally posted by anyrose

Collins considers the ghost town they passed on the way in. No harm, I guess, as long as we don't get trapped there or anything, she thinks knowing full well that was a self-fulfilling prophecy. "That's an idea, Delaney," she says, "as long as we stick together."

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You little shit, Graham thinks, I suggested that in Post #520. :woowoo:

Just kidding about the little shit part, but Graham did suggest it in post 520 dammit :D...but unfair to single out Collins, clearly the spores have a side effect of crapping on Graham :fist:

Vulcans at least seem immune so far...

to be honest, I misread post 520 as Graham wanting the to *sleep* there. When I later reread it, it was too late to change it and I figured Collins is too distracted to realize she made that mistake

Ha!

Well it did look like a better place for a pillow fight than the research station :lol:

Now there's a mental image!