Imperial Fringe Online Game Chat Session Log 01.09.2002

19:19:26 - Kit just entered this channel
19:19:53 - Kit: OK, Im here, lets see who else shows up.

19:22:23 - Kit: How's my Luck today: 2D6: 8
19:22:40 - Kit: Acceptable

19:28:02 - Methuslah just entered this channel
19:28:11 - Methuslah: Hello!
19:28:20 - Methuslah: 2D6: 12
19:28:29 - Kit: Hello
19:28:59 - Kit: So how many are we gonna be tonight?
19:29:53 - Methuslah: I hope three - although the Colonel will be leaving early I understand.
19:30:42 - Kit: So you haven't found any new players yet?
19:32:21 - Methuslah: I actually got an email this morning from someone interested. Wanted more details.
19:32:56 - Kit: Did you refer him to the logs?
19:35:00 - Methuslah: Yes.
19:36:00 - Kit: That should give him a pretty decent idea of what we have done so far and how the game is being played in this group.
19:36:31 - Kit: (and that the poor characters almost never get to have a moment of peace

)
19:36:33 - Methuslah: I agree - they will be invaluble. New players can get a feel for the style of the game.
19:36:46 - StewartBailey just entered this channel
19:37:05 - Kit: (Though of course, whats bad for the characters usually makes up most of the fun for the players

)
19:37:11 - StewartBailey: Luck check: 2D6: 6
19:37:16 - StewartBailey: Hmmmm...
19:37:23 - Kit: Hi Steward
19:37:31 - Methuslah: Hello!
19:37:34 - Kit: You got the worst luck of all of us so far
19:37:36 - StewartBailey: Hello again
19:38:53 - StewartBailey: Having the GM have all the luck is probably not a good sign
19:39:11 - Kit: Maybe hes used it up already?

19:39:39 - StewartBailey: That means mine is still left, right?
19:39:57 - Kit: Sure!

19:40:17 - StewartBailey: 2D6: 12
19:40:30 - Methuslah:

19:40:38 - Methuslah: Well done! 2D6: 11
19:40:43 - Kit: btw could one of you change colors so taht weh can better tell you apart ?
19:40:49 - StewartBailey: Doh!
19:41:11 - StewartBailey: Good idea. I'll be right back.
19:41:27 - Kit: While you two are using up your highnumbers, Im saving mine for the game.

19:41:31 - StewartBailey just entered this channel
19:41:48 - Kit: Better!
19:42:33 - Methuslah: Hello.
19:42:52 - Methuslah: Sorry - my screen just went blank for a minute.
19:43:35 - Kit: happens, just hit reload. That should fix the problem
19:43:38 - StewartBailey: It does that sometimes. I also temporarily lose the last message on occasion.
19:44:55 - Methuslah: Just got a message from Luther - he'll he here in a few minutes. Minor computer troubles.
19:45:20 - StewartBailey: Hey, that's me!
19:45:29 - Kit: Sometimes the connection has some lag and then the browser either gets a wronk signal (blank screen) or refers to its cache (missing message) but in either case hitting reload will get the full log back.
19:46:04 - Kit: wronk

new word.
19:46:41 - Kit: and that with the K being nowhere near the G on the keypad

19:47:38 - Kit: Really gotta practice my typing

19:48:23 - Methuslah: I'm usually alright - just get the occasional problem, and it soon fixes itself. This time it happened when I got an email, and had to swtich screens.
19:49:56 - Kit: The advantage of this script over most other chats is, that even when you log off and log back in, you still get to see the whole history. Most other chats programs dont do that.
19:50:23 - Kit: If you get thrown out there, you better have a good memory!
19:51:10 - Kit: So are steward and me going to be alone tonight in babysitting the Mindreaders?
19:52:53 - Methuslah: How can you ever be alone with telepaths around?
19:53:30 - Methuslah: I agree having the whole chat history is very useful - its a real problem in my other campaign. I haven't heard from the Colonel, so I suggest that we get started.
19:53:39 - Kit: Yeah. Sometimes maybe I want to be alone. As in Alone on an x-boat in Jump!
19:53:44 - StewartBailey: Let's go!
19:54:23 - Kit: (meth, if you want, you can use this chat for the other game and Ill put in a separate log)
19:54:47 - Kit: (I could open a separate channel for it)
19:55:10 - Kit: (just mail me) Lets get started!
19:56:36 - Methuslah: (Will do!) OK. It is now 0600 Trane Time, and the Commander has asked to meet you before you board the Zhodani ship.
19:57:15 - StewartBailey: (off to the Commender's office we go)
19:57:23 - Kit: Commander. Dr. Messalina Kitiara reporting!
19:58:08 - Kit: (some coffe ready in his office

)
19:58:21 - Kit: (hope hope)
19:58:24 - Methuslah: "Good morning. How do you feel?", he says, pouring out coffee.
19:58:57 - Kit: (takes coffe) Great (sip, roll eyes) but Im afraid that wont last.
19:59:11 - StewartBailey: Fine. Ready for escort duty.
20:00:33 - Methuslah: "You are aware of the risks involved. We'll do our best for you, but if anything happens you both understand that the sasfety of the station has to be my highest priority."
20:01:07 - Kit: Sure. (sigh) Just the usual!
20:02:43 - Methuslah: "Now, I have a few little things for you."
20:03:12 - Kit: Panic Button?

20:03:16 - Methuslah: He takes three boxes out of the draws of his desk, and puts them on the table. Opening the first, you see two small, blusih grey pills.
20:03:23 - Kit: Or better: Psi Shields?
20:03:33 - Kit: ???
20:03:38 - StewartBailey: What could these be?
20:04:26 - Methuslah: "These are radio transponders, with a range of twenty kilometers. The Trane militia have agreeed to monitor your location and try and keep tabs on you. Swallow them."
20:05:02 - Kit: Ah, bleeps. (takes one, swallows. washes with coffee)
20:05:20 - StewartBailey: (down it goes)
20:05:41 - StewartBailey: What's in the other boxes?
20:05:51 - Kit: recovering them tomorrow then is gonna be the fun part

20:06:14 - Methuslah: He opens the second two boxes to reveal two watches, shaped to your wrist.
20:06:42 - StewartBailey: Hmm. And what do these do?
20:07:09 - Kit: I hate to part with my good old multi purpose tool here (taps own watch) whats theirr specialty?
20:07:23 - Methuslah: "I've had the Technical boys working overtime for you. Standard watches, but with a few nice extras for you. On the rim you see three buttons. The first releases a high sonic blast, loud enough to incapacitate, unless you are ready for it."
20:07:51 - Kit: Cool
20:08:33 - Methuslah: "They are also a radio transmitter, good for a hundred miles - enough to reach us as long as you have line of sight. The final button activates a audio recorder, good for three hours. No playback facility, I'm afraid - but if you hear anything interesting, hit the button."
20:08:34 - Kit: A one shot matter?
20:09:44 - Kit: (Meth, Can I pack my translator for Zhodani and how big is that thing?)
20:10:02 - StewartBailey: Who will that transmitter reach? The station or the militia on the ground?
20:10:57 - Kit: (Can I pack it somewhere in my pocket with only a small button-speaker in my ear to understand what the zho are talking about?
20:11:12 - Methuslah: "Either - but only on the horizon. Trane doesn't have a communications satellite network. IF you haven't got a clear field to the station, we're your best bet - we've got more powerful recievers anyway."
20:12:41 - StewartBailey: Sonic blast. Short-range transmitter. Audio recorder. Got it. (puts it on)
20:12:57 - Methuslah: (The transmitter is basically a dedicated computer, that you wear strapped around your wrist. It will speak and translate for you, on demand.)
20:13:55 - Kit: (can I rig it up so that it will be less obvious, like box in the pocket, small speaker in the ear. It only has to translate one way.
20:14:32 - Kit: (I could wear a normal headphone over the button to disguise it)
20:14:47 - Methuslah: (You can place it in a deep pocket with an earpiece - but then it will not speak for you, only translate what you hear.)
20:15:07 - Kit: (thats the only thing I want of it for now)
20:15:20 - Methuslah: (OK.)
20:16:02 - StewartBailey: How about this: we agree to check in every hour on the radio, and if you don't hear from us within 30 minutes of the designated check, you come after us?
20:16:19 - Kit: (will do just that. I assume Steward and I have normal strap on commos)
20:16:36 - Methuslah: (Sure, standard issue.)
20:17:06 - Kit: (that should be sufficient to hide the translator. I dont want the Zho to know I can understand them.)
20:17:52 - Methuslah: "Whatever you want. Our shuttle can get to anywhere on the planet within twenty-five minutes, perhaps less. The Kid's record is thirteen minutes, fifteen seconds, and he'll be doing the piloting." With this, he smiles weakly.
20:18:27 - Kit: Then he'll be there fast! That Kid is good!
20:18:38 - StewartBailey: Perhaps.
20:19:16 - Kit: He is. Believe me Steward. He is!!
20:19:30 - Methuslah: "At any rate, well, good luck. I'll see you when you get back." He holds out his hand.
20:19:55 - StewartBailey: (shake hands, head out to the airlock to met the Zho)
20:20:00 - Kit: (shake his hand, salute, the leave)
20:20:28 - Kit: Lets show some Zho around the beautiful Planet Trane!
20:20:54 - StewartBailey: (head to the airlock to meet the Zho as we had agreed yesterday)
20:21:30 - Kit: (thinking up "nice" new pictures of the zho commander in silly costumes as we go)
20:21:31 - Methuslah: You arrive at the airlock to find four security men, wearing dress uniform but without rifles, lined up at the airlock.
20:22:06 - StewartBailey: Good morning gentlemen. No signof our guests yet?
20:23:41 - Methuslah: "No, sir. They're due in five minutes. The Commander thought there should be an official reception."
20:24:20 - StewartBailey: Too bad you can't come with us. What can we expect on a tour of the local aquaculture?
20:26:07 - Methuslah: "Well, sir, I've been here for six months. We get one day off in seven. I've spent one of those days on the surface."
20:27:56 - StewartBailey: Eerie isn't it, to breath atmospheric air, after spending most of your life in environmental domes of on ships?
20:29:32 - Methuslah: "It's all reconstituted. Trane is atmosphere code three - too thin for easy breathing, so you have to wear a condenser. I haven't breathed real air in years."
20:30:28 - Kit: What would constitute "real" air in your definition?
20:31:06 - StewartBailey: The worst is rain. I don't know how people live in that stuff.
20:31:41 - Kit: You ever been in a sandstorm?
20:32:06 - Kit: Or run with bare feet over a dew soaked meadow?
20:32:32 - Kit: Chased by local wildlife?
20:32:49 - StewartBailey: Outdoors? You've got to be kidding.
20:33:00 - Methuslah: "I come from Rhysk, in this subsector - only air there is what we make ourselves. I served a tour on Berengaria once, though."
20:33:12 - Kit: You aint no scout, thats obvious.

20:33:22 - StewartBailey: What's Berengaria like?
20:34:39 - Methuslah: "Garden world - good air, good environment. Personally I can't stand the stuff."
20:35:34 - StewartBailey: Do you ever get visits from traders venturing out into the unexplored areas?
20:36:26 - Methuslah: "Here, no. Don't go out much from this end, on account of the long Jump. The odd few go through the Foederate."
20:36:58 - StewartBailey: Too bad. I'm always interested in stories of what's out there.
20:38:29 - Methuslah: "Hey, sir.", calls one of the other guards, "I had a friend went out there once. Came back with some wild stories."
20:38:58 - StewartBailey: Too bad we don't have time now. How about telling them to me when we get back?
20:39:28 - Methuslah: "Sure, sir? You be in the bar?"
20:39:48 - Methuslah: At that, a light buzzes on. It is now 0622 Trane, and the airlock is about the cycle.
20:39:55 - StewartBailey: I'll find you. Can't wait to hear the stories. I'll buy the beer.
20:41:55 - Methuslah: "Come on boys, attention!"
20:42:31 - Methuslah: The guards stand to attention as the doors open, to reveal the figure of the Commisioner.
20:43:34 - StewartBailey: (quietly to Kit) I grovelled yesterday - now it's your turn.
20:44:05 - Kit: (quietly back) Im no good at this stuff, are you sure?
20:44:32 - Kit: (nods to commisioner) Commissioner! Nice to see you again!
20:45:04 - Kit: (genuine smile while I imagine him in a bunny costume)
20:45:06 - StewartBailey: (Oh, well) Greetings Comissioner. It's good to see you again. I hope that you have adjusted to the local time enough to be able to fully enjoy our tour today.
20:45:47 - Methuslah: "Greeting gentlemen. I have adapted to the time of this delightful planet below. Are you ready?"
20:46:31 - Kit: Of course Sir. We can leave any tim eit pleases you!
20:46:52 - Methuslah: "Then let us proceed. Come aboard."
20:47:06 - Methuslah: HE then turns bolt around, and strides back into his ship.
20:47:20 - StewartBailey: (follows)
20:47:24 - Kit: (sigh and follow)
20:47:51 - Kit: (looking around quite interested on the other ship)
20:48:43 - StewartBailey: (paying close attention to anything and everything)
20:49:10 - Methuslah: The ships is subtly different from anything you have seen before. The Commissioner strides through a route at a rapid pace, leaving you hard pressed to keep up. You notice the gravity is set slightly higher than you are used to - it is a bit uncomfortable.
20:50:17 - Methuslah: You notice there are a number of crewmen standing near the walls, looking at monitors - but you can see no other instrumentation. ALl the doors appear to have eben sealed - except the last one. It dilates open.
20:50:47 - Methuslah: Inside is a small shuttle bay, with three long, narrow ships lined up facing a forcefield. The Commissioner looks at you.
20:50:53 - Methuslah: "Come aboard."
20:51:09 - Methuslah: And then walks into the nearest shuttle, through another dilating door.
20:51:16 - Kit: Thank you Sir.
20:52:22 - StewartBailey: (in we go)
20:53:51 - Methuslah: The ship is certainly not designed for comfort. There are no windows, and no obviosu control panels. A eerie green light fills the cabin from overhead areas, but it is being dimmed down. You are motioned onto hard couches, with the Commissioner sitting next to the pilot. Also in the room are the three people who came over to the station, with soem sort of handgun obviously strapped to their belts.
20:54:34 - Kit: (nodding agreeting to everyone)
20:54:59 - Kit: (I watch the pilot trying to figure out how he controls the ship)
20:56:09 - Methuslah: The pilot has his hands resting on the hull plating in front of him. Looking more closely, you see two faintly defined handprints.
20:56:23 - StewartBailey: (sits down and gets strapped in)
20:57:01 - Kit: (weird)Commissioner. May I ask a Question?
20:57:18 - Methuslah: "Naturally."
20:57:56 - Kit: Im used to ships with lots of panels, buttons and blinking lights, but I see none of that here. How does the pilot steer the ship?
20:59:03 - Methuslah: "How do you control your ship?"
21:00:07 - Kit: Well, we look at panels that tell the pilot where he is and the state of the engine and then he presses a lot of buttons and maybe uses a clutchstick of some kind to give his commands to the engine.
21:01:29 - Methuslah: "As do we. But our controls, our panels, do not rely on physicality in order to function. The pilot does not have to think, then react. The two are one."
21:02:07 - Kit: You mean you control the ship with your mind?
21:02:53 - Methuslah: "As do you, madam. Our method is more direct, that is all."
21:04:03 - Kit: Still it looks very strange to me. Can all Zhodani learn to do this or does it require a special kind of talent?
21:04:15 - StewartBailey: "I thought that exceptional powers of the mind were limited to your nobility. Is controlling a ship really worthy of their attention?
21:06:27 - Methuslah: "You know much about us Commander - interesting. Telepathy is not required for the system to function, although I admit it was used in its development. The actual technique is off course secret, but it involves the detection of brain waves. I fear that is all I am at liberty to say."
21:06:48 - Methuslah: "As for your question, lady, anyone can do it with the proper training."
21:07:15 - Kit: Even a non-zhodani?
21:07:42 - Methuslah: "Even you, madam."
21:08:02 - Kit: Fascinating idea that. Just thinking your commands to the ship!
21:10:10 - Methuslah: "we find it.....useful."
21:11:34 - Kit: Is there any danger of the system malfunctioning when it picks up some kind of wrong stray thoughts or such?
21:13:04 - Methuslah: "We use a physical connection to prevent spurious thoughts. You touch your hands to the control panel, forming a direct link."
21:14:28 - Kit: And what if the pilot thinks of something else besides steering the ship. Like maybe an itch thats plaguing him or if he has some worry in his heart distracting him. Would that be a danger?
21:15:21 - Kit: I assume there is also some kind of feedback to the pilot over these contacts?
21:15:56 - Methuslah: "This is why special training is required. The pilot must be trained to blank his mind of all spurious thoughts - but I imagine you require similar concentration when you fly your ship. A two-way link is formed. The pilot sees through the ship's sensors. You really must try, once we are safely one the ground."
21:16:31 - Kit: That would surely be an interesting experience.
21:16:57 - Methuslah: "Anyway, we should begin. The ride to the surface will take at least thirty of your minutes. Pilot, launch!"
21:17:17 - StewartBailey: I can just imagine all of the ship's coffeee makers being somehow turned on.
21:17:45 - Methuslah: You feel a rumbling as the ship takes off, but this time you feel ntohing as the gravity is perfectly matched to the acceleration. The lights dim still further, till you can hardly see your hand in front of your face.
21:18:07 - Kit: I havent seen a coffe machine yet, but that WOULD be a good idea

21:20:16 - Kit: Why the dimming of the light?
21:20:27 - Methuslah: The time seems to pass quickly, and it hardly feels like any time has passed before you hear the engines roar again, bringing the ship into a landing. The engies quiet, and the lights come back up.
21:22:37 - Methuslah: "To aid concentration. The fewer sources of sensory input, the better."
21:22:53 - Kit: Ah I see. Makes Sense.
21:24:52 - Methuslah: The side doors open, and you see a large, opaque dome rise around you. Inside is a small port, with a few hangers, tower and various support vehicles.
21:26:06 - Methuslah: "Will you go and check us in, while we secure the ship?"
21:26:06 - StewartBailey: (time to get unstrapped and get up, I suppose)
21:27:04 - StewartBailey: Certainly. (exit ship, see what's outside - where's the logical place for TAS to be?)
21:28:13 - Kit: (ill stay with the zho, eying the weird think controsl with honest curiosity)
21:28:53 - Methuslah: A group of technicians are milling about outside the ship, fitting a fuel line. It seems that the only office is the tower, a three story high building. )
21:29:47 - StewartBailey: (off to the tower - when I arrive) I'm trying to find the offices of Trane Aquatic Safaris. Can you point me in the right direction?
21:31:28 - Methuslah: In light, the controls appear to be just siple handprints. The pilot looks around nervously at you, and with a look from the Commissioner, just sits in his chair.
21:32:29 - Methuslah: Thecontrol office is on the upper level. Inside is a harriiiiiiiied looking executive.
21:32:53 - Kit: Fascinating. It looks so simple, yet it must be an impressive technological accomplishment.
21:33:05 - Methuslah: "Trane Aquatic Safaris, eh. Not the best group, I'll tell you that. My brother Kright has a much better service, yes indeed."
21:33:51 - StewartBailey: I'm afraid that we've already paid for the other guys. Where can I find them?
21:34:14 - StewartBailey: By the way, why do you say that they're not the best group?
21:35:24 - Methuslah: "Only a couple of people run it, and they are not very professional. But if you insist - you'll find their office on the far side of the island. Just follow the main road about a hundred meters. You can't miss it - they have a very garish sign. Do you need a condensor?"
21:36:16 - Kit: (I wonder why the pilot is so nervous. I think of a funny version of the Commissioner again and try to watch for any reaction among the zho)
21:36:50 - StewartBailey: I'll need a few, actually. (radio to Kit) Kit, how many Zhodani are going to accompany us? We will need to get breathing gear, unless they have their own.
21:37:27 - Methuslah: "Yes, it is an excellent achievement, madam. And three of us will accompany you."
21:37:53 - Kit: (to Zho) Commissioner, how many of your men will accompany us. Mr. Bailey wants to arrange for breathing compressors and needs the number required.
21:38:08 - Kit: (radio answer back to Steward)
21:38:17 - StewartBailey: OK, that's a total of five condensers that I'll need.
21:39:06 - Methuslah: "I'll get them for you."
21:40:07 - Kit: If I touched those panels, would I ba able to make any sense of what I would...hmm...see?
21:40:42 - Methuslah: He goes down to the next office.
21:40:44 - StewartBailey: (after getting the condensers, I head back the ship with the four others besides my own, drop them off, then head out to find the TAS offices)
21:42:12 - Kit: (Ill help the zhodani get their condensors fitted correctly, if they seem to need help)
21:42:33 - Methuslah: The executive returns with the condensors. Five of them, that resemble old-style gas masks. "Anything else I can help you with?"
21:43:24 - Methuslah: "You would see very little, madam. A random blur of colours. COnditioning is required, prolonged exposure and a psionic tutor to help interpret the signals."
21:44:03 - Kit: How long do your pilots train before they can fly a ship?
21:45:39 - Methuslah: "Two weeks in one of our academies. OF course, they must also master the normal intracies of navigation, and so forth."
21:46:48 - StewartBailey: That should do it. Thanks.
21:46:56 - Kit: I assume you do that the same way we do. Through application of mathematical methods on known data?
21:47:36 - Methuslah: "That is correct."
21:48:17 - Kit: Somehow its nice to learn that some things are the same everywhere

21:48:17 - Methuslah: "Very well. Have a good time!"
21:51:26 - Methuslah: Only the starport facilities appear to be in the dome. The Zhodani have litle trouble with the condensors.
21:51:38 - Methuslah: "Shall we proceed? Do you have any business to conduct first?"
21:52:51 - Kit: Everything has been arrangend so unless you want to take alook around, we can proceed. (ill give them the standard doctors short speech on precautions in thin atmosphere)
21:54:06 - Kit: (btw. do the others besides the commissioner talk among themselves at all?)
21:55:08 - Methuslah: (Not at all - they are completly quiet.)
21:55:20 - Methuslah: "Very well, let us go."
21:56:00 - Kit: (ill give steward a short message on the com that we are coming)
21:56:26 - Methuslah: The town is very small, as befits the tiny population of the planet. You see a few shops, and a small, recently built structure with TA (and an obvious blank) above the door. A group of workmen, wearing condensors, are working outside.
21:57:15 - StewartBailey: (knocking on the door) Is this Trane Aquatic Safaris?
21:58:41 - Methuslah: Behind an amazingly clean desk, in an immaculate office, is a untkempt individual smoking some king of leaf, clecnched in his mouth. He is not wearing a condensor.
21:58:50 - Methuslah: "Whatca want?"
21:59:49 - StewartBailey: I believe that you have a booking this morning under the name of Kraiger. A private tour.
22:00:12 - Methuslah: "Maybe. You him?"
22:01:19 - StewartBailey: Mr. Kraiger couldn't make it today due to a relapse of an unfortunate exposure to a biowar toxin years ago. I am here with his party in his place.
22:02:42 - Methuslah: "Huh. OK. Gus is out back with the bug. You bring the party round, huh."
22:03:38 - StewartBailey: I will. Bythe way, what's that you're smoking? Is it local? (head out back to meet Gus)
22:04:40 - Methuslah: "Thumble weed. Grows out on the floats."
22:04:46 - StewartBailey: Is it Thagweed?
22:05:39 - Methuslah: Another equally disreputable-looking individual is sitting atop a beatn old hovercraft, with a small open-topped cabin.
22:05:49 - StewartBailey: Are you Gus?
22:06:05 - Methuslah: "Dunno if you have it outworld. I just pick it sometimes."
22:07:04 - Kit: (looks like we really picked the cream of the crop in Aquatic safari services

)
22:08:24 - StewartBailey: (even the bad guys are scraping the bottom of the barrel out here)
22:08:41 - Methuslah: "You ready? Mount up."
22:09:05 - Kit: (leastwise the Zho will probably think of this planet as bein not worth it and leave it well enough alone :

22:09:18 - StewartBailey: Actually, there are four others in the party. They will be here shortly.
22:09:55 - StewartBailey: (radio to Kit) Kit, our guide, Gus, is out back of the TAS building waiting for us and ready to go.
22:10:04 - Methuslah: "Very well."He pointedly looks at his watch.
22:10:24 - Kit: Understood, we are coming. ETA 5 Minutes.
22:10:52 - StewartBailey: The others should be here in about five minutes.
22:11:20 - Kit: (to Zho) Gentlemen, please follow me, our ship is waiting.
22:11:41 - Methuslah: "Yes, madam."
22:12:06 - StewartBailey: Gus, how does your firend here manage to get by without a condensor? This air is pretty thin.
22:12:10 - Methuslah: The group moves forward silently. For a group supposedly on a tour, they seem to be showing remarkably littlie interest in their surroundings.
22:13:12 - Kit: (thinking of silly pictures of Zho again) Are you enjoying yourselves? You seem rather demure?
22:14:08 - Methuslah: "Quite, madam. WE look forward to experiencing this world's aquaculture."
22:15:46 - Kit: I assume among your people you show your emotions in different ways from how we do it?
22:16:10 - Methuslah: "We are less - demonstrative."
22:17:47 - Kit: Please be so kind as to inform me, if there is anything thet you do nit like. We are here to insure that you have a good time. Since it is difficult for me to judge what you like, I assume I may also have difficultoies in judging what you dont like. Please feel free to tell me if there are any problems!
22:19:02 - Methuslah: "We will tell you if we are unhappy. As it is, we are enjoying being able to stretch our legs. Also, barbarism such as this can be most amusing at times."
22:19:42 - Kit: Barbarism? You really find this place so barbaric?
22:20:50 - Methuslah: "Of course. The rough construction, low evident technology, the brutish people - do you not also find it so?"
22:21:48 - Kit: This place may be a small backwater without much of a cultural scene, but that doesnt mean it is barbaric as in brutal or uncivilized!
22:23:46 - Methuslah: "Oh, come on. These people are barely savages. Now Zhdant, that is a beautiful place."
22:25:00 - Kit: I do not doubt that your home planet is a beautiful place. But calling these people savages is an insult!
22:25:29 - Methuslah: "Why - you are not of this world? Whay take it to heart?"
22:27:31 - Kit: Just because Im not native of a world, doesnt mean I cants sympathize with the people there. I have seen many different cultures, and they all had their merit, even if they seemed what you would call primitive at first glance. And a small colony out on the fringe like this one has different rules for Life and society than a highly populated center like Zhdant. That doesnt make the people here savages!
22:28:33 - Methuslah: "Perhaps you would not fit on Zhdant, after all. The Consulate is more homogenous. Let us proceed."
22:28:45 - Methuslah: With that, he and his retinue stalk off.
22:29:24 - Kit: (arrogant snobs!! The're worse than some nobles ive met!!)
22:30:59 - Kit: (Theconsulate is more homogenous. yeah, sure. Probably all mind controlled into obeying the central command. What about variety and tolerance!!. Mumble Mumble. When we reach the ship Kit is right back into her crabbiest self.)
22:31:45 - Methuslah: The five of you assembled at the hovercraft, the loutish man waves you up on board, up a ladder.
22:32:22 - Kit: (brooding silently Kit climbs aboard)
22:32:57 - StewartBailey: After you, gentlemen.
22:33:11 - Methuslah: Finally you are all seated in the craft, and Gus puished forward on the throttle, and the ship roars away.
22:34:08 - StewartBailey: Gus, what will we see on this tour today?
22:34:53 - Methuslah: "WE start through the farms, then out to take a look at the floaters. Then we go to Crashland Wreck, and then back home again."
22:35:26 - StewartBailey: What's Crashland Wreck? And the floaters?
22:36:10 - Methuslah: "The Wreck is the landing site of the colony ship. The floaters are, kind of, floating islands covered in plants. You'll see."
22:37:22 - StewartBailey: (hmm, nothing overly suspicious yet)
22:38:30 - Methuslah: The landscape is all ocean, and the island base recedes in the background. On the horizon, you see a green patch, which you are heading towards rapidly.
22:38:41 - StewartBailey: [are we approaching a good place for a break - it's probably 12:30 in Germany]
22:39:14 - Kit: (it is I am getting somewhat tired, but I can wait for a good brak point)
22:39:48 - Methuslah: (I was about to suggest just that. Good game, everybody.)
22:40:13 - StewartBailey: (brakpunkt, auf Deutsch)
22:40:18 - Kit: I may not be able to make it next week. Though I cant say for sure yet
22:40:53 - Methuslah: No problem.
22:40:54 - Kit: We have a big vampire live event on friday and saturday and I may be VERY tired by sunday.
22:41:02 - StewartBailey: Until next week.
22:41:22 - Kit: so depending on my degree of tiredness, I may, or may not show up.
22:41:27 - Methuslah: Sounds like fun. Have a good time!
22:41:34 - Methuslah: See you all next week!
22:41:46 - Kit: I will, I will
22:42:17 - Kit: see you next week, or, barring that, in two weeks.
22:42:43 - Methuslah: Bye!
22:42:48 - Methuslah just logged off.
22:43:18 - Kit just logged off.