Or the CatMan could knock Nia out by hitting her on the head with the butt on the weapon, and Graham could step up as team leader. (Rangin would love that).
Or the CatMan could knock Nia out by hitting her on the head with the butt on the weapon, and Graham could step up as team leader. (Rangin would love that).
Then we'd probably be at war in ten minutes, as evinced by fellow security officer Collins holding her weapon on the alien. Nia's gonna have a talk with her about that! Security needs to stick to shooty shooty bang bang and let the rational heads do the leading!
Temporarily found a new internet access point via my wonderful sister and a hotspot. So hopefully this will continue and I'll be just as omnipresent as ever, which I'm sure will thrill many of you.
Welcome back! And on we go....
I don't understand. Are there three doors -- one ahead and two on either side? Or did we go through that other door, and now there are two doors to the left/right? Or is there just a single door ahead of us and one behind?The Yorktown boarding party moves forward. The corridor makes a 90-degree turn to starboard. It then goes another 20 meters and ends in another door. There are two doors on each side of the corridor here. You hear a Klingon disruptor blast somewhere ahead of you, then another
One door directly ahead of you and two on each side, for a total of five within your line of sight.
Holy cow, I didn't even realize there were five. I feel like we're about to enter a Warner Brothers cartoon, where everyone's running in and out of different doors chasing one another!
Oooh! Fun!
Must ask for patience again... My sister needed her hotspot back so am dealing with craptastic phone keypad while waiting for Verison guy to fix my internet problem today. Please bear with my typos and slow posting!
Hope it works out for you.
Just got this very cool miniature ST:TOS USS Enterprise. Diecast metal, well-detailed and painted, and fits in the palm of your hand. Squint a little, and it looks just like the Yorktown!: http://www.historicaviation.com/USS-...tinfo/0097657/
A good holiday gift for any Trekker.
This accessway... am I right?Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
"It makes no logical sense! I mean why is it here?!!!"
Now I want Nia to just stare into it and yellSpoiler (mouseover to read):
FUCK THAT!
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The chompers are a few decks down on an Aelyrr ship. You probably won't have to go through them.
Probably....
That episode was badly written!
Can you construct some kind of rudimentary lathe?
I see you've managed to get your shirt off again
Am I the only thinking that a Galaxy Quest RPG would be awesome? All the PCs would be actors playing their favorite (or least favorite) characters and are full of meta knowledge
Yeah, that would be fun. Dibs on Guy Fleegman!
Sometimes I think that Galaxy Quest is the best ST movie evah....
It's a terrific film with some wonderful performances from the entire cast. I think it's the only thing other than Toy Story in which I can tolerate Tim Allen.
May I make a teensy request? I can hardly believe I'm saying things are moving too fast after all this time, but it's been noticeable over the last few days that the exposition/narrative has increasingly shown the actions of our characters rather than the results of our own actions. (E.g. the exposition has just told us that Graham has moved into the room, presumably Collins followed, and I guess Rawlings agreed and is behind them, while Nia's... somewhere.) Of course it's for expediency's sake, and it's nothing even close to egregiously out of character, but it's still a bit... rush-rush.
Meanwhile, having not heard from CIAS yet, who knows whether Rangin even agreed to hold on to Nia's inhaler much less concurs about the plan to get off a few shots and then head to engineering or whatever? I know we don't want a big debate before every move, but since a few of us live in different time zones--and now because most of us are getting ready for holidays, and I'm having my internet problems--maybe the Big Set Pieces can at least get everyone's input to make sure our PCs are doing what we want them to do, rather than having the GM push them into place for us?
I know we're all anxious to push forward but if nothing else, surely things can wait until CIAS can get his posting in, which unless I'm mistaken is usually around 4AM - 8AM ET? Sorry, I don't mean to speak for you, CIAS, and I know you want stuff to move forward as much as everyone else. Probably doesn't matter to anyone else and as usual I'm the complainer, what else is new. But it's not really a complaint, I just don't remember the game exposition moving our characters around so much in the past, and I'm worried not all of us are getting to participate, is all.
Sorry for being a pest, but I figure my reputation can't get any worse, so what the heck.
Thanks choie. Hope you managed to sort out your internet issues.
All right, I'm up to date again, feel free to have me blat anything that gets past the 4 main bruisers in the party.
Honestly, I can't believe Nia is littering. Tsk, tsk.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Each time I have moved the party forward since boarding the alien ship it's been because Onn had given orders as to what was to happen next (as is her prerogative), and/or it appeared that the party was ready. If there is a consensus, though, I'll wait until everyone has posted before I write the next action phase.
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow American Mellofolk!
Ooh thanks, I think that'd be great, especially because Nia's usually asked her people to confirm/argue with her decisions. She's not an expert in security or warfare, although she's obviously got experience and knows enough to lead. But a good officer knows her limits, so she wants to get input from the team as to whether her decision has problems she hasn't foreseen. She learned from her scientist parents to come up with a theory (or strategy) and ask others/figure out herself why that theory/strategy is false or suboptimal.
To go back to one of my favorite films, Contact, I think of Elly Arroway's line to her SETI colleagues when she first hears The Signal and thinks it's an intelligent message: "Make me a liar!" Before leaping ahead and assuming she's right, Elly wants to hear possible objections to her instincts.
So generally Nia will order and wait for confirmation--"if you have no objections, get going." I definitely want to hear Graham, Collins and Rangin (and possibly T'Var/Rawlings) responding to either affirm or object the orders. Otherwise I don't think it'd be much fun for GU, anyrose or CIAS to just follow my lead if they have other ideas.
But it is nice to know Nia has the power to make everyone act as a team! Who'd've thunk that would ever happen with this crew?
Back at you. I know I'm very thankful for this game and all the hard work that goes into it. Hope everyone--yes, even that tea-drinking chap across the pond--has a wonderful day and weekend.Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow American Mellofolk!
(My internet woes are, crossing fingers, about to be over. I currently have Verizon DSL service, and they said on Tuesday that my whole network section around my block is out, and would probably stay that way until December 5th.
Can you imagine?!! I work from home, I can't be without internet service for eleven days (as it was then). I'm using my sister's work hotspot for now, but she obviously needs it during the week. So I was like, to heck with that, and signed up for cable service, which will be installed tomorrow. Another benefit is going from 3mbps/1mbps to 100mbps/10mbps. I'm really leaping into the 21st century! Thus I guess I should also give thanks to Time Warner Cable.)
Anyway. Happy thanksgiving to all.
Likewise Happy TG (except of course to the godless Rangin er CIAS located in Un-America...
Apologies for delays in posting was a busier than usual week!
I thought today was your day of giving thanks...to all the retailers with all the low prices.
Happy TG all
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Today is the day of flaring tempers and stampeding shoppers. Since y'all don't have Thanksgiving in the U.K., how do you know when to start getting crazy?
When it's FA Cup or World Cup time.
Black Friday has been imported over here. Last year, it was ridiculous and it was horrible to be even near a shopping centre on Black Friday.
Apparently, unlike the US, civility has broke out this year.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Do you all have a extra dollar or two you could spare for a worthy cause? Thank you in advance.
Possibly daft question - but what are T'Var, Rawlings and Rangin doing?
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No, no, no. Roll that again. I'm sure you'll get a higher score. Collins has a 12 dexterity!
Cry me a river! At least Collins hits every shot she makes. Some of us can't hit the side of a barn, and are rather bizarrely apparently the only ones affected by the ship suddenly lurching. I guess that's the fault of Nia's crappy 9 dexterity and even crappier 7 luck.
(Although since people usually hold phasers with one hand, even if she had typed the text with her thumb--something any teen can do these days--she could still hang onto the phaser simultaneously. Then again, given her bad DEX level, maybe not!)
And yeah seriously, like CIAS said: what are T'Var and Rawlings doing? It would've been kinda nice to have a big-ass security dude to grab hold of K1, and T'Var could have been shooting at K2 or K3. Damn, it's like our NPCs are the opposite of the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who--they only exist when we actively look at them!
Collins hitting both K1 and Eris has nothing to do with her dexterity. They were very close and were both caught in the same phaser-stun effect.
The latest lurch of the ship was felt by everyone, but Onn was the only one firing at that moment. She is not a Security officer, but FWIW Collins and Graham have missed shots, too.
Ferguson did not respond to Onn because he did not get a message from her. We have not established that Starfleet communicators (which in TOS only have an audio function) have a speech-to-text function; even the texting function is an innovation for this game. As for "brandishing the phaser... only after her sending the message is done," since she's nude, what was she doing with the weapon as she ran after K4?
Hmm, well, gosh, I would've thought it only stands to reason! It's bad enough they still schlep around handheld communicators for centuries when tiny earpieces or even the later TNG-era pins would be so much more efficient. I promise you this, when she returns from the mission, Nia will definitely start an initiative to develop both text-to-speech recognition and a non-handheld communication device! (I know either Kylah or Nia herself complained at least once about the discomfort in not having a more functional communicator--maybe the two can commiserate.) If there's no official canon background as to how those pins were invented, I assume the game is free to toss in some speculation as to how that logo-pin-as-communicator was devised.
Tsk tsk. A gentleman shouldn't ask such a question.As for "brandishing the phaser... only after her sending the message is done," since she's nude, what was she doing with the weapon as she ran after K4?
No, seriously, I thought the word "brandishing" referred specifically to "holding the weapon in readiness to fire," i.e. with the weapon up and/or aimed, not just clutched in one hand while running. 'Cause I think the latter is possible to do while running and talking, or even texting with a thumb if you're good at it. The former (aiming) would be very unwieldy since it would mean you can't move that arm while running, which is awkward.
I guess we'll never know what the heck T'Var and Rawlings have been doing all this time, although it's good to see them saunter into the room at last! NPCs are the Schroedinger's cat of the game: Both there and not there.
The disconnect between TOS and speech technology is one of the most interesting things to me as a technologist - and it is not unreasonable. Within the last 12 months of so Siri, Cortana, and Alexa (voice interfaces from Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon, respectively) have become "awesome" rather than "crappy." As recently as 2 years ago I had...discussions...with corporate decision makers who poo-poo'd voice as a primary interface.
You're completely right, of course. I'm completely wrong. I'm sorry for harming the game with my snarky, terrible complaining about unimportant issues, and generally making the game less enjoyable for everyone.
I apologize mostly to Elendil's Heir and appreciate his tolerating my disruptions for as long as he has, when he's just creating a fun, interesting adventure that's true to ST canon. I promise I won't bother anyone again with anything that isn't a simple question asking for clarification of a game point, or telling you if I can't post for whatever reason.
Thanks.
As you may have figured out, SidonianGal/choie and I have recently had an exchange of PMs which has displeased her. I apologize that it has spilled over here. I hope it will not happen again.
I can't even apologize right. I guess I'm sorry for saying I'm sorry. I don't want to make this stressful for anyone.
The only thing TOS communicators show is that Clamshell is not dead. What's really amazing is the impact that the design has had on mobile devices over the last few decades. At some point, we may even catch up with TNG and have combadges instead, although bluetooth headsets are getting incredibly close.
It all takes time and a few breakthroughs here and there. I'll agree that having something react to you through voice alone is quite cool, it's still a fair way from being the full experience. I'd give it another 5-10 years at least before they full solve all the problems with dialect and language to take it beyond the basic versions as well as it make it more commercially viable for all and sundry. Closest other product I can think of is the Kinect, but that hasn't worked out as well as Microsoft wanted, but it's ideal for phones and that's likely to be the way forward.
Also, currently not stressed - just hoping the pair of you can to some agreement over your differences, apologise to each other and move on.
Then again considering what I have seen rush-hour commuters do: texting with one hand while talking on a phone balanced on a shoulder and running with a bag to catch a train, I'm inclined to think people are capable of almost anything.
Also, I want it on record that K4 is a coward who ran from a naked female. Admittedly, she has a phaser-II and is near invisible, but no warrior should shirk from such a challenge.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
Also not stressed.
I guess he didn't have his prune juice this morning.Also, I want it on record that K4 is a coward who ran from a naked female. Admittedly, she has a phaser-II and is near invisible, but no warrior should shirk from such a challenge.
Thanks, everyone.
Given Worf's reaction to prune juice on ST:TNG (despite having been raised by Humans), I suspect it's an unknown beverage to Klingons generally in the TOS era.
That's because they hadn't grown their bumps yet
We do not discuss it with outsiders.
Ok, so how did Cheverez and Eris get down to Engineering before Rangin and Pojel?
I thought I had at least a minute's head start seeing as he wasn't even on board.
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
They took different routes through the ship. Rangin also stopped to talk (your post 1864).
I've dropped a PM as to why not - we can sort it out there - though it looks like its gone to far to change it.
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No worries. Won't make any difference in the long run. Thanks, CIAS.
The rap musical Hamilton is a huge hit on Broadway right now. And you'll never guess what it has a song about:
http://genius.com/Lin-manuel-miranda...de-down-lyrics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(musical)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wo...ed_Upside_Down
Huh, well I never - a Yorktown reference
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I know, right?!?
Collins thinks a moment and says "First contact, in my experience, has been the ship's captain seducing the prettiest female; so no, this was not ideal."
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