Active Plots (Alphabetical) - Updated 8/21/2010

Can't I Have Any Time? - (Eruantion Doriath [?], Amonost Doriath [?])

End of Solitude - (Verda Stelo [?])

No More Grape Soda - (Alex Dean [?], Samuel Jorgenson [?], Leon Mecheeto [?])

Questionable Means - (Tawny Black [?], Ishkan Ma'z)

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Stasis Hey Claudius... You killed my father. Big mistake. Dominion Master 7/19/2007 6:45:27 PM Level: 25 Experience: 65000 Total Posts: 691	RE: leaving lanus--scapino out Chaig is a little unsettled by the punching, but he just follows. He should really go back and take all the junk from the foul orc's wreckage, and have a good laugh about his demise, but he keeps following these two. He's feeling too lazy to turn around anyway. He unscrews the bottle of beer from his suit. He hears some kind of loud hissing and realizes he can't breath anymore. Slag! He kinks the hose and tries screwing the bottle back in. It's hard, though. He can't get it straight. Slag! The two weirdos have disappeared into the lighthouse while he panics outside. He keeps cross-threading the bottle. Slag! Finally, he gives up, tosses the bottle onto a trash heap, ties the hose in a knot, and stuffs his finger in the end. There. Not leaking anymore. He checks his oxygen levels. He's breathing CO2 right now. Slag! The lighthouse is right there, though. Maybe they have booze.
scapino scapino 7/19/2007 7:55:54 PM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 19	RE:�leaving�lanus--scapino�out Chaig froze. In a hurry to breathe oxygen, and slightly dizzy, he had taken off the helmet to his suit, rather than just raising the visor as he should have done. Now Scapino was standing on the other side of the airlock, eyes mad and somehow almost entirely green, and all he had to do would be to shut one airlock, open the other.  He might survive if he could get his helmet back on in time. Scapino: one third? Chaig: okay. Scapino helped him up into the lighthouse.  Immediately, his body felt like it had been taken over by music.  The sensation wasn't entirely pleasant. Pelia handed him headgear that canceled out the music according to speech detection algorithms, so you could easily have conversations over the near-deafening noise. Pelia: We had some scientists hook up a gravity generator to an audio equalizer, running through an interface for the DJ.  You get physics distortions according to the different kind of sound waves. Chaig: do you have any beer? He realized he had just shouted unnecessarily. Scapino:  The halfling exiles here actually brew their own cactus-juice.  Best in the system. Chaig: Cactus-juice? Scapino:  It grows out the radioactive deserts on Lanus Alpha.  It's the only thing that grows there. The plant has actually figured out a way to convert radioactive molecules into food. [scapino has a glass in his hand, somehow.  he drinks it.]  this is probably the only drink in the system that cures radiation sickness and gets you toasted at the same time. Pelia: and there are microscopic symbiotes that prevent hangovers. Scapino: My hand hurts. Pelia: Oh right, I'll get you a drink. Scapino: or, maybe, a doctor? Chaig: [who is feeling uneasy] both? Scapino and Pelia raised their glasses to that, Scapino's finger-stubb bleeding onto his. SCapino: none got in the glass, it's okay. Chaig also now somehow had a glass in his hand.  He toasted and drank.  delicious.  and the glass somehow had a cancellation field for the gravity distortions, because as much as the rest of his body felt like it had had miniature jackhammers built into its bones, the hand with the glass was perfectly steady. Pelia showed him how to activate the cancel function with his headset, and instantly his body returned to the normal 1/3 gravity of the garbage cloud. Once he had control over it, he found the effect of the hearing gravity pleasant. Scapino: but seriously, a doctor? Two tough-looking halflings come by and one puts the elf in a fireman's carry and jogs off with scapino.  The other winks at Pelia.  Neither of them have the distortion cancellers going on their headsets, so they dance off with scapino, blood from his finger dancing slowly to the floor. Pelia: So the lighthouse is a sign that ships shouldn't come near it due to highly dangerous or radioactive materials, right? Chaig: right... Pelia: so, some of our scientists figured out how to embed a subfrequency in the standard warning, which identifies the lighthouse to those in the know as a smuggler's port and 24-hour party zone. Chaig: seriously? Pelia: Yeah, halflings are crazy.  Especially ones like us that have been on Sunset too long.  I don't come here often, needing to remake my shattered reputation in my field of research and all...But they get a lot of injuries, what with the all-night grav-distortion dancing, so they have the best medical facilities on the junkheap. They hear scapino screaming. Chaig: is he...? Pelia:  yeah, halfling doctors.  crazy.
Stasis Hey Claudius... You killed my father. Big mistake. Dominion Master 7/19/2007 8:26:58 PM Level: 25 Experience: 65000 Total Posts: 691	RE:�leaving�lanus--scapino�out Chaig didn't know how he missed this place, being in Charlu for his entire life. But man, is he glad he found it. He's stumbling around from the drunkenness, but doesn't really notice all that much. The constantly shifting gravity isn't helping his balance either. Chaig: So, wh-what do we, you know. Uhhh. He can't help but lift the glass to his lips and take another sip. He lowers it back to waist level. Chaig: What was I saying? There's a bass note in the music and gravity increases severely. It finally pulls him to the floor. He manages to keep the glass upright. Chaig: Oh yeah! Now I remember what I was going to say! Pelia: What? He wretches all over the wall near him and points at it. Chaig: That! The vomit rebounds off the wall, freaks out in midair, and flops into a bucket a quick-thinking halfling managed to place under it. Chaig: That was pretty impressive! The halfling gives a hearty grin and a thumbs-up, then trots off with the bucket to dispose of its contents. Chaig: This is nice people. You know what would be really great right now? Dance Dance Revolution.
scapino scapino 7/19/2007 8:47:17 PM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 19	RE:�leaving�lanus--scapino�out Scapino:  DDR! Pelia and Chaig hadn't seen scapino float up behind them. SCapino:  check it out.  I've got, like, a socket in my hand.  The doctor said he could make me accessories, like a blender, and then just put my other hand in an outlet... Pelia:  Dance Dance revolution has mystical origins around here.  People take it pretty seriously. Scapino:  I am so good at this game. Pelia: you've lost a lot of blood. But Scapino was already walking over to the turn tables, and was assigned a color along with six other players.  Not surprisingly, his color was green. The game started, and instantly Chaig and Pelia were lifted off their feet by the most twisted electronic music Chaig had ever heard. The entire lower floor of the light house became an obstacle course, the walls, ceiling and floor converted to large square tiles that would flash with the different colors of the players.  Gravity was turned off.  Scapino drank more cactus-juice. Scapino: [to himself] the enemy is always down...
Stasis Hey Claudius... You killed my father. Big mistake. Dominion Master 7/19/2007 9:57:45 PM Level: 25 Experience: 65000 Total Posts: 691	RE: leaving lanus--scapino out Chaig makes a step and promptly launches himself upward, since there is no gravity. Chaig: There is a name for this! He pushes off the ceiling and lands on another arrow. By this point, twenty arrows have gone by and been missed. Chaig: "Not fun!" Everything stops. Gravity turns back on. He slams into the floor. Everybody glares at him. Chaig: Did I say something? Halflings: Throw the heretic! They grab him and throw him a few feet across the room. Random halfling: Resume the ceremonies! The seizure-inducing lighting and zero gravity resumes. Chaig assumes a sitting position in midair, looking dejected. He hasn't a clue how they play DDR in zero gravity, but they're doing it. There's some jerk breakdancing and hitting every step. He hates that guy.
scapino scapino 7/19/2007 10:55:29 PM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 19	RE: leaving lanus--scapino out Chaig can't help but feel a hint of satisfaction when the breakdancing guy got bodyslammed by another player, and thrown against a fence protecting the bar. That was the problem, the better you were doing, the more likely other players were to single you out for punishment. Chaig had glanced at Scapino a couple times and quickly concluded he was the worst player on the field.  He looked ridiculous, flailing his arms around and stumbling into people at random. later in the game people began to notice that scapino was in the lead, and that he'd been pretending to be far more blitzed than he actually was. Chaig: hey, aren't you guys still on those violence inducers...? Pelia: a little. Chaig: aren't you worried scapino will punch someone? Pelia: no. Chaig: why? Pelia: you'll have to ask him. Scapino was actually getting a fairly sound beating on the DDR field--apparently this was full contact.  He never fought back, but twisted around other players, always like he was falling feet first to the next square.  The only thing this type of DDR had in common with break dancing was a complete disregard for spatial orientation.   [OOC note: yes, I know I'm ripping off Orson Scott Card] The brains isometrics had to be differently trained, or genetically enhanced.  People who grew up on a space colony were pretty good at it.  So were acrobats. pelia:  the second and third floors have soundproof studies and sleeping rooms.  we smuggle everything through lighthouses but Ralinian and weapons, which aren't allowed inside.  Scapino will probably dance a few more hours, then pass out from exhaustion.  The stuff about his finger isn't true, the doctors just tell people that to make them feel better.  Scapino will realize that when he wakes up, so he'll be peaved.  He might be peaved at you for shooting off his finger. Chaig: hey, that wasn't me, that was you. Pelia: yeah? right. you were drunk. how do you even know what happened? Pelia laughs and he realizes she is screwing with him. Pelia: and if you sneak out to junk heap where your ships cameras probably caught us hiding our luggage, and find three ralinian hyper-crystals, I had some dust analyzed and they've degraded enough to be virtually useless.  So don't bother killing us in our sleep for them.  I'm sending the data to your headset. The dancing had switched to zero G.  Occasionaly Scapino would pass out contentedly floating in the middle of the dancefloor while halflings whizzed past him in every direction.     Pelia: I've got to go analyze some more data. Chaig had assumed that she meant she was going to one of the study rooms, but Pelia launched herself onto the dance floor and worked from her palms and visor while letting the sound gravity make her dance.
Stasis Hey Claudius... You killed my father. Big mistake. Dominion Master 7/20/2007 10:20:17 PM Level: 25 Experience: 65000 Total Posts: 691	RE: leaving lanus--scapino out The convulsing bodies and flashing... everything, convinces Chaig to stumble upstairs, away from the ear-rending grav-music, and pass out in a hallway. He wakes up three hours later, less drunk, but still buzzed. His liver is screaming. He realizes he's still wearing a spacesuit. He fights to escape its grasp. When he finally does, he finds a restroom, unrolls his belly flap, throws the liver-valve, removes his liver, replaces it with a fresh one, and reopens the valve. He urinates. In the toilet. He's not very drunk anymore, remember? Alright! Good as new. He looks at his belly flap. Gettin' a little loose. Gonna need to tighten up the seams. Oh well, he'll worry about that later. He straightens his clothing and steps out of the bathroom, heading downstairs. He stops mid-step. He doesn't have a mad hangover! First time in... ten years. Ever since he met that blasted, fowl orc. Like a headache to a normal person, the lack of pain in his head is irritating. Downstairs, the grav-rave is still going. Chaig: Dizang. He carefully weaves through the flopping crowd, trying his best not to flop with them. These people have turned being forcefully thrown randomly through the air into an artform. He accidentally finds Scapino and Pelia, who he happened to be looking for anyway. Chaig: I need to bail. You guys don't need a ride or nothin', right? He hopes they'll say they do, load up all loot from Kaiden's wreckage into his ship, and then he can ditch them on some slagging mudhole. Oh, you are a crafty one, Vorlose.
scapino scapino 8/23/2007 9:32:40 PM Level: 1 Experience: 0 Total Posts: 19	RE: leaving lanus--scapino out Scapino blinked.  He felt somehow like a lot of time had gone by. Scapino: What? Chaig: I'm leaving.  Wondering if you need a ride. Scapino: No, I think I'll dance for a while. Pelia: I thought you were going to go see that guy who was, you know, trying to kill you? Scapino's face is placid.  He eyes move in and out of focus. Scapino: Oh, they took care of that. Pelia: what?  who? Scapino: you know the...[he gestures vaguely]..space octopus. octopuses.  octopi.   Pelia and Chaig stare. Scapino:  remember?  they sang that song about substrate neutrality, showed us the holograms of how they turned Terian Q's outpost into a swimming pool.  They switched my DNA with a Kotian museum attendant through the recitation of their holy texts... Scapino takes a drink. He reaches up and turns the grav dynamics off, looks sick for a moment, turns it back on. Scapino: I've been drinking a lot of this juice.  okay, none of that happened, did it? I thought I lost my...[looks at his missing finger] oh.   Chaig: Look, I can give you a ride to see whoever you need to, maybe for another third of the loot? Scapino: out of all the things to have actually happened... Pelia: Sunset has doctors that can get rid of Yersbeu's signature in your DNA.  Maybe throw in some appliances for that finger... Scapino: But that costs money.  And I'm guessing they don't take painted cowrie shells from imaginary aquatic dimensional travelers, so I might as well try to find work with the crime lord Kaiden would have taken me to.  Maybe then he won't kill me. Chaig: This is starting to sound dangerous... Scapino: You can keep the weaponry.  All of it.  I'm genetically programmed to be incapable of violence.   Chaig: that explains some things. Scapino: Okay, I'm going to dance some more.  Hallucinate. Think about how you're probably planning to screw me over....
Stasis Hey Claudius... You killed my father. Big mistake. Dominion Master 8/24/2007 2:33:07 PM Level: 25 Experience: 65000 Total Posts: 691	RE: leaving lanus--scapino out Chaig: Pff. Hah! Screw you over? Yeah right! I'm gonna go load all that stuff in my ship and lea--uh, you know, leave. When you're ready. And in my ship. I'll leave. Not without you. He huffs, turns and heads for the airlock. He realizes he's not wearing a space suit. Slag. He turns around and wonders where his suit is. He has no clue. He heads back to Scapino. Chaig: Hey, you know what? I think I'll... I'll... His right arm has started flopping uncontrollably like a noodle. It's actually a little painful. Chaig: Wh--hey--stop! He grabs that arm with his other arm, but that one starts going too. He squints and steps away, then slowly reaches his hand toward that pocket of space. His fingers start moving all over the place by themselves. He pulls it a way. Chaig: Hey, do you guys know where my suit is? I've gotta get out of here.

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