Traveller: In the Reach - The Droyne Blues

Fourier

The Grandfather's Hammer and the Vainglorius, with tether ship in front, arrive in orbit over Blue, which despite its name, looks like this (OOC: canonical image of Blue):



Gospis speaks to high command once more.

"They've approved you all to land. No legal trouble to speak, though..." he laughs "...Captain Verne there's obviously some kind of error. Drinax port authority says you're arriving there in seven weeks on a shuttle and that you're currently in the Hierate, heh!"

He turns to Glenn.

"They'll be eager to see you, we all are."

Finally to Seneca.

"We've no record of you, but I vouched for your presence."

OldGoat

Nestor, between spells of checking on Dhinors condition, scours the interwebnetthing for a list of galleries and art exhibitions on Blue and researches the leading artists and in particular any are relating to Droyne.

She also paints a bullseye target on the back of Dhinors new armour suit.

She puts some time aside to greet the newest team member and manages to find an apple like fruit in the galley that she presents.
"Bakleth liked these, hope you do too."

conor222

OOC: What was the end point of the drones on the original ship, were they ok or were they destroyed in the fighting with landing pods? If not, do we have them again?

Banjo

Evan approaches the new horse-dude.
"Hi! I'm Evan. I'm the guy your death will be erroneously pinned on when the Pod People's erratic decision making eventually gets you killed. Let me know what funeral arrangements you'd like. So, how was it? Crammed in that tiny little pod up, steeping in his hot, carrion-infused breath? Everything you dreamed? Here - it's a turnip latté, made with what I'm calling Soylent Milk. Don't worry, no cows were harmed or pleasured in the process. So... what happened? Verne rescue you from the pirates?"

Necro

Banjo wrote:

Evan approaches the new horse-dude. "Hi! I'm Evan. I'm the guy your death will be erroneously pinned on when the Pod People's erratic decision making eventually gets you killed. Let me know what funeral arrangements you'd like. So, how was it? Crammed in that tiny little pod up, steeping in his hot, carrion-infused breath? Everything you dreamed? Here - it's a turnip latté, made with what I'm calling Soylent Milk. Don't worry, no cows were harmed or pleasured in the process. So... what happened? Verne rescue you from the pirates?"

KaKraa smirks and takes the latté.

'Thank you Evan. KaaKra is what you humans refer to me as. As for how Verne and I met...

I will not lie. I was second in command on the ship your crewmates blew from the sky. Verne and I tried to kill each other, her with that axe. Me with an FGMP. We agreed to escape together when death for both of us was the only other likely outcome.

I have skills to assist your crew if you require it. But I will not lie about my past.'

Professor Moriarty

Seneca emerges blinking from beneath Milt's petticoats swearing to himself that he'll never go there again. "What happened? Sounded like I missed a party?"

Ooc: I was away for a week in Spain. In the rain.

Banjo

Necrominus wrote: »

KaKraa smirks and takes the latté.

'Thank you Evan. KaaKra is what you humans refer to me as. As for how Verne and I met...

I will not lie. I was second in command on the ship your crewmates blew from the sky. Verne and I tried to kill each other, her with that axe. Me with an FGMP. We agreed to escape together when death for both of us was the only other likely outcome.

I have skills to assist your crew if you require it. But I will not lie about my past.'

"Nor shall I! I was born in a water moon. Some people, especially its inhabitants, called it a planet, but as it was only a little over two hundred kilometres in diameter, 'moon' seems the more accurate term.

What kind of skills? We have an excellent medic, a kick-ass engineer, a teleporting pilot, a mysterious ninja, a guy I'm convinced is a secret agent and a pair of psychotic fighters, so our table's pretty full - what you bringing to it?

Anyway, welcome aboard. Anyone who's happy enough to try to kill the lion is ok by me."

He goes to slap the K'Kree on the back, then remembers how touchy they are about that kind of thing. He disguises the hand hanging in mid-air by repeating the gesture with his other arm and segueing into a robot dance.
"Domo arigato!" he calls as he moonwalks away.

Necro

KaKraa shrugs.

'Scouting, guns, piloting, little delve into Computers... I specialise in Comms and Battle Ops though. Was destined to be captain of my previous ship... till you all decided to blow it up.

Still, we were trying to do the same. So I guess that makes us... even?'

Banjo

Reverse-moonwalking back up, Evan replies
"My equine chum, we never wanted to destroy your ship. The plan was always to take it and murder everyone on board. But plans are just little thought exercises to keep me busy while everyone else does whatever the **** they want and blows up whatever they can see, so don't take it personally. A captain eh? Well that's something we do need. Another captain. This is going to be great. I mean this is going to be great sir."
He salutes and snaps out of the breakdancing motif with a quick pop-lock / electric boogaloo and wanders off looking for Tusip to find out of this planet has a highport or if this ship has an air-raft they can use to enter the atmosphere. He also confirms his wafer with a copy of the Vainglorious's logs is secure.

Necro

Banjo wrote: »

Reverse-moonwalking back up, Evan replies
"My equine chum, we never wanted to destroy your ship. The plan was always to take it and murder everyone on board. But plans are just little thought exercises to keep me busy while everyone else does whatever the **** they want and blows up whatever they can see, so don't take it personally. A captain eh? Well that's something we do need. Another captain. This is going to be great. I mean this is going to be great sir."
He salutes and snaps out of the breakdancing motif with a quick pop-lock / electric boogaloo and wanders off looking for Tusip to find out of this planet has a highport or if this ship has an air-raft they can use to enter the atmosphere. He also confirms his wafer with a copy of the Vainglorious's logs is secure.

KaaKra follows Evan down the corridor.

'You misunderstand me, human. KaaKra WAS to be captain. Now, he will probably languish in a jail cell when we disembark.

Or... worse.

Anyways, I was wondering if you'd be interested in assisting me in...acquiring... another FGMP whilst we dock here. Could make things... interesting.'

Mollyb60

Necrominus wrote: »

KaKraa smirks and takes the latté.

'Thank you Evan. KaaKra is what you humans refer to me as. As for how Verne and I met...

I will not lie. I was second in command on the ship your crewmates blew from the sky. Verne and I tried to kill each other, her with that axe. Me with an FGMP. We agreed to escape together when death for both of us was the only other likely outcome.

I have skills to assist your crew if you require it. But I will not lie about my past.'

[OOC: Verne is a 'he' doode ]

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Ooc: I was away for a week in Spain. In the rain.

[OOC: me too!]

Verne stays as close to KaaKra as the K'Kree is comfortable with, ensuring that no one messes with him whilst also ensuring that he doesn't cause any trouble.

Banjo

As the K'Kree begins to follow Evan, Cilla and Nancy begin to follow the K'Kree but Evan gives them a stand-down hand gesture.

"Well if you we'ren't the captain, sure none of it was your fault. You didn't give the order. Besides we only sent 2 guys over there, you didn't kill either of them unfortunately, so what harm was done?

And didn't our drones open fire on your recovery team first? Those were self defense nukes you fired! I mean, one of our captains is a genuine war criminal, you were in fear of your life!

If we don't get you a FMPDR immediately, who knows what could happen! So what is it, what does it do and how much will it piss off the Lion?"

Edit : "The lion who is standing right next to me. Whoops! Didn't notice you there big fella. What are you doing here? I left some plans in the common room for you to piss all over!"

OOC : By the way, I hope no one is taking any of this personally, I'm kind of stuck in a rut where Evan has to constantly be at odds with Dhinor and Verne.

OldGoat

Nestor aproaches the 3 crew member in the corridor.
"Captain, Captain, Captain." she says as she nods to each inturn.
"Alright, we are close to this planet and should be getting some landfall time while the ship get a refit. We are currently in their good books, hero space protecting pirate hunters AND we have the Droyne with us. We should be able to turn this to or advantage and get decent coin or upgrades.
So...lets try to not **** this up till we are ready to skedaddle."

She salutes and marches off with an exaggerated military swagger.

Baggly

Banjo wrote: »

OOC : By the way, I hope no one is taking any of this personally, I'm kind of stuck in a rut where Evan has to constantly be at odds with Dhinor and Verne.

OOC: I was only grumpy yesterday because you suddenly had TN. Usually you write an eleborate plot explaining how you got TN. Yesterday it just magically appeared with you

Necro

OldGoat wrote: »

Nestor aproaches the 3 crew member in the corridor.
"Captain, Captain, Captain." she says as she nods to each inturn.
"Alright, we are close to this planet and should be getting some landfall time while the ship get a refit. We are currently in their good books, hero space protecting pirate hunters AND we have the Droyne with us. We should be able to turn this to or advantage and get decent coin or upgrades.
So...lets try to not **** this up till we are ready to skedaddle."

She salutes and marches off with an exaggerated military swagger.

KaKraa turns to Evan and Verne as Nestor marches off.

'Who's the good looking broad? I wonder if Blue has some nice salad bars...'

He turns and runs after Nestor.

'Pretty one, what is your name? More importantly, do you like salad?'

Banjo

Evan finds himself alone with Verne.
"Soooooooooo..... um..... hey. Uh..... so you rescued a pirate eh? From the Pirate ship you were commandeering that Dhinor destroyed the engines of and we were forced to blow up? Good.... good job?

Look, it's my fault - I should never have built those sarcastic drill pods thinking Dhinor would get the message, I should have just told him he was a ****ing idiot to his face. How was I to know he really was a ****ing idiot and he'd use the damned thing? I mean jesus christ, the second you launched you gave us away and it was ALWAYS going to escalate to a nuclear exchange once we were seen if we couldn't incapacitate them first, and once the missiles were flying the boarding action was a completely ****ing pointless waste of energy and Dhinor's upper epidermis. You and D can't be expected to think for yourselves, and it was irresponsible of me to let you. I won't let it happen again, Cap.

By the way, if you're going to be slee-meditating a lot, you should maybe let Glenn keep the captaincy. Might be good for you but it's no use to the ship."

He whistles for his 'girls' and they head off again looking for Tuspis and the disembarkation options.

jasonb

Glenn, after feeling fairly useless in the battle, is glad that everyone survived and that it now looks like they'll get the Scout ship up and running and fully repaired. Possibly even upgraded, considering the work they did in getting the Pirates destroyed. He walks up to Gospis and asks, 'Can you tell me why your people seem to hold the Droyne in such high regard?'

Baggly

Dhinors heavy footsteps clank on the floor plating as he makes his way about the ship.

All in all, life was good. He was now stronger than he had ever been, had his sword, had killed the pirate captain and was completely pain free. He could also do really cool looks with his eyes that freaked people out. Sometimes he did those looks just to freak people out, even out of context.

He made his way to whereever the new K'Kree shipmate was and made his introductions.

'Well met, warrior. No hard feelings for me having killed your captain. Alls fair in love and war after all, and we most certainly werent in love. I hear from Verne that you fought valiantly and have some skill with piloting and gunnery. We have that in common - i look forward to working with you. Maybe you can share some of your expertise with me so that we can get more turrets installed on the scout ship and be even more formidable'

Mollyb60

Banjo wrote: »

Evan finds himself alone with Verne.
"Soooooooooo..... um..... hey. Uh..... so you rescued a pirate eh? From the Pirate ship you were commandeering that Dhinor destroyed the engines of and we were forced to blow up? Good.... good job?

Look, it's my fault - I should never have built those sarcastic drill pods thinking Dhinor would get the message, I should have just told him he was a ****ing idiot to his face. How was I to know he really was a ****ing idiot and he'd use the damned thing? I mean jesus christ, the second you launched you gave us away and it was ALWAYS going to escalate to a nuclear exchange once we were seen if we couldn't incapacitate them first, and once the missiles were flying the boarding action was a completely ****ing pointless waste of energy and Dhinor's upper epidermis. You and D can't be expected to think for yourselves, and it was irresponsible of me to let you. I won't let it happen again, Cap.

By the way, if you're going to be slee-meditating a lot, you should maybe let Glenn keep the captaincy. Might be good for you but it's no use to the ship."

He whistles for his 'girls' and they head off again looking for Tuspis and the disembarkation options.

Verne watches Evan leave with a shake of his head. He has never met a human more enthralled with the sound of his own voice before this one. He heads to find Glenn and see what the plan is on landing.

Fourier

jasonb wrote: »

He walks up to Gospis and asks, 'Can you tell me why your people seem to hold the Droyne in such high regard?'

"Such modesty.....why you created us and walked the stars when other races were but children.

It was then one of your own who saved us once more during the collapse.

The main temple will reveal all."

Necro

Pter wrote: »

Dhinors heavy footsteps clank on the floor plating as he makes his way about the ship.

All in all, life was good. He was now stronger than he had ever been, had his sword, had killed the pirate captain and was completely pain free. He could also do really cool looks with his eyes that freaked people out. Sometimes he did those looks just to freak people out, even out of context.

He made his way to whereever the new K'Kree shipmate was and made his introductions.

'Well met, warrior. No hard feelings for me having killed your captain. Alls fair in love and war after all, and we most certainly werent in love. I hear from Verne that you fought valiantly and have some skill with piloting and gunnery. We have that in common - i look forward to working with you. Maybe you can share some of your expertise with me so that we can get more turrets installed on the scout ship and be even more formidable'

KaKraa regards the robot man with a hard stare.

'The captain was a close friend of mine. But... given we were in a combat situation, I bear no grudges.

To be honest, my skills are more versed in combat and tactics as opposed to gunnery on ships. I do have vast experience in communications and how they work though, so if you need an upgrade, I can try.'

Baggly

'Lets get to the planet and see what upgrades are available. It would be an honour!

To introduce myself, i am Dhinor; i am one of the ships pilots and its gunner. Im also a dab hand at survival skills and am great with my blade, The Negotiator, as well. Im always happy to meet a fellow warrior - so i look forward to fighting alongside you.

I was friends with our former K'Kree crewmate and was sad to lose him as a shipmate and fellow warrior. Be careful of Evan - he is not a warrior and is extremely devious. He will pretend to befriend you while at the same time plotting against you. While i was captain, he attacked me with a tazer, which lead to Bakleths death. I am sure you can handle yourself, but you deserve to know Evan was responsible for the death of a fellow K'Kree.'

Necro

Pter wrote: »

'Lets get to the planet and see what upgrades are available. It would be an honour!

To introduce myself, i am Dhinor; i am one of the ships pilots and its gunner. Im also a dab hand at survival skills and am great with my blade, The Negotiator, as well. Im always happy to meet a fellow warrior - so i look forward to fighting alongside you.

I was friends with our former K'Kree crewmate and was sad to lose him as a shipmate and fellow warrior. Be careful of Evan - he is not a warrior and is extremely devious. He will pretend to befriend you while at the same time plotting against you. While i was captain, he attacked me with a tazer, which lead to Bakleths death. I am sure you can handle yourself, but you deserve to know Evan was responsible for the death of a fellow K'Kree.'

KaKraa takes this all in and looks grave.

'Your squabbles with crewmates are no concern of mine. As for his part in a fellow K'Kree's death... was this Bakleth alone? If so, he was an outcast, like myself.
To be honest, we should all attempt to co-exist and work together, at least for now. I have an interesting method that helps to bond crews together... perhaps I can show you all? It might heal the rifts you seem to have at present.

But I will take your advice on board. I presume Verne told you of my fusion gun. I would like to acquire another one... just in case. It was a favoured toy of mine.

The name is KaKraa by the way.'

He heads towards the bridge.

'If you wish to all try to mend your relationship, I will prepare for my method. Whoever is acting captain, please summon the entire crew.'

Baggly

OOC: This should be good. Bet my robot suit does the BEST naked lunges.

Necro

When the crew arrives on the bridge, KaKraa has already stripped nude.

The gasps are audible as he strolls amongst the stunned attendance.

'I hear you have issues within your crew. Allow me to try to resolve this.

First, I will need you all to disrobe, as I have. Dhinor, perhaps you should stay as is lest you die... I heard what our nukes did to you.'

He plugs in his favorite song to the bridge from his fancy communicator. He programmed this in himself before being cast out from Kruuneetlaa, his home world.

'Once you have done so... I will explain the next step. Do not worry, this is not some weird K'Kree mating ritual.'

He winks at Nestor.

'That comes after our date.'

As the song begins to play, the K'Kree begins to dance.

'Interpretative nude dance. Relax, be merry and free. Dance your problems away!'

He grabs Nestor and begins to conduct a K'Kree jig with her..

OldGoat

Necrominus wrote: »

'Pretty one, what is your name? More importantly, do you like salad?'

Eyebrow arching upwards ala Spock.
"You are trying to initiate some kind of romantic tryst? Ha, I can't get 'involved' with you ponyboy without my twin being here. However, if you are bored I can paint you like one of my French Empire dancing courtesans.

I'm Nestor, remember, the one who gave you an apple earlier?"

"However, on a non jocular note, I need some basic combat skills upgrading. I'll share a salad with you if you'll agree to help me train with various weapons."

Necro

OldGoat wrote: »

Eyebrow arching upwards ala Spock.
"You are trying to initiate some kind of romantic tryst? Ha, I can't get 'involved' with you ponyboy without my twin being here. However, if you are bored I can paint you like one of my French Empire dancing courtesans.

I'm Nestor, remember, the one who gave you an apple earlier?"

"However, on a non jocular note, I need some basic combat skills upgrading. I'll share a salad with you if you'll agree to help me train with various weapons."

KaKraa sighs.

'Perhaps we just swap knowledge if there is no interest on your behalf.

You train me in some basic medic skills, I shall return the favour and whip you... not literally, unless you ask - into combat shape.'

OldGoat

"Great, looking forward to it. Now, lets DANCE!"
Nestor shirks off her thermosuit and gyrates with full abandon to the music in a display of interpretive dance that no one but her could ever hope to interpret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IttcKP-XpuI

Baggly

Dhinor activates the dancing programme built into the suit.

'Suit, activate worm dancing mode'

The suit initiates worm dancing mode.

Professor Moriarty

Seneca observes the various dance moves and notes how their bodies move. Weaknesses are important information. He smiles and nods as they dance.

Mollyb60

Verne roars loudly and sheds his armour and joins in the dancing. It feels good to let his mane whip back and forth.

Baggly

'WORM DANCING SEQUENCE COMPLETED.

DO YOU WISH TO START A NEW WORM DANCING SEQUENCE?'

Necro

'Doesn't this feel good!'

KaKraa shouts over the music.

'Evan, you should have a dance off with Dhinor or Verne. Dance away your troubles!'

Banjo

Evan bangs on the ceiling of engineering - even though the bridge is actually forward of his position, it's a symbolic banging - and resumes his work on Project Cecil.
"Keep it down you ****ing hippies!"

Necro

Banjo wrote: »

Evan bangs on the ceiling of engineering - even though the bridge is actually forward of his position, it's a symbolic banging - and resumes his work on Project Cecil.
"Keep it down you ****ing hippies!"

KaKraa rigs the comms to blare into engineering as the next song comes on.

'Come on Evan... join us and let your dislike fade away.'

Banjo

Evan finds that he can't stop the feeling.
It's going to feel good good creeping up on them while they dance, dance, dance, dance.

He loads his shotgun and starts to adjust life support to reduce the oxygen going to the bridge, but stays his hand. Not till we're docked Evan, not till we're docked. Instead he feeds all of the audio pumping into Engineering back to the bridge but at 180 degrees out of phase.

If there's time, he'll hollow out an apple and put some bacon in it, but Project Cecil is a big job, there might not be.

Professor Moriarty

Seneca enjoys his noise cancelling headphones.

Necro

Deciding he has started the party, KaKraa leaves the bridge and goes to engineering to check on Evan.

'Human - why you not dance? Anything I can help you with down here?'

Banjo

Click-click
"Oh it's you."
Evan lowers his gun.
"Sit down. Oh no, wait you can't. Bakleth never could. Silly human chairs. Squat down! And whatever you do, don't eat that apple."
Evan quickly hides Project Cecil in it's flight case.
"So... you were going to tell me what an FMHTR or whatever it is does so I could help you get another one?"

Baggly

Dhinor joins Evan and KaKraa in engineering.

Professor Moriarty

Seneca removes his headphones and stands at the door of Engineering watching carefully.

Banjo

Click-Click.
"**** off, Tin man. We're having a private chat about your surprise birthday party."

Necro

Banjo wrote: »

Click-click
"Oh it's you."
Evan lowers his gun.
"Sit down. Oh no, wait you can't. Bakleth never could. Silly human chairs. Squat down! And whatever you do, don't eat that apple."
Evan quickly hides Project Cecil in it's flight case.
"So... you were going to tell me what an FMHTR or whatever it is does so I could help you get another one?"

KaKraa nods.

'To describe it simply, it's a fusion gun. Makes lots of firepower... you may or may not have seen me try to kill the Aslan with it...

I missed and wrecked half the ship... but at that point some lunatic... who I now know to be Dhinor - had critically damaged our engines, killed our captain and jumped ship so I really had nothing to live for...

That seems to have changed now though.'

Baggly

Dhinor advances two steps but doesnt say anything. He cocks his skinless eyebrow at Evan.

'Ive as much right as you to be here engineer. We are all friends now, having danced our issues away.'

Dhinor keeps his hands spread out at his sides, acting as unthreatening as a hulking robot suited skinless man can.

Banjo

"Dhinor destroyed your ship? Pretty sure that was my fault, everything he does always is in the end. Crewmates dying, planets exploding, him punching like a girl. Must really grind his gears that so much of his destiny is apparently in my hands. You're not getting a hand-sized fusion generator on Blue, I don't think they have the tech for that. Would you settle for something a little less apocolyptic?"

Pter wrote: »

Dhinor advances two steps but doesnt say anything. He cocks his skinless eyebrow at Evan.

Kaboom.

Baggly

Banjo wrote: »

"Dhinor destroyed your ship? Pretty sure that was my fault, everything he does always is in the end. Crewmates dying, planets exploding, him punching like a girl. Must really grind his gears that so much of his destiny is apparently in my hands. You're not getting a hand-sized fusion generator on Blue, I don't think they have the tech for that. Would you settle for something a little less apocolyptic?"




Kaboom.

OOC: Should you not be declaring an action before rolling?

Necro

Banjo wrote: »

"Dhinor destroyed your ship? Pretty sure that was my fault, everything he does always is in the end. Crewmates dying, planets exploding, him punching like a girl. Must really grind his gears that so much of his destiny is apparently in my hands. You're not getting a hand-sized fusion generator on Blue, I don't think they have the tech for that. Would you settle for something a little less apocolyptic?"

KaKraa pouts his bottom lip.

'But where's the fun in that? But... needs must I suppose.'

He turns to Dhinor to include him.

'Have you guys done necessary scouting of this region? If not, I can help. Also a briefing on what has happened up until now, and what I appear to have gotten myself into would probably be a good idea.'

Baggly

Necrominus wrote: »

KaKraa pouts his bottom lip.

'But where's the fun in that? But... needs must I suppose.'

He turns to Dhinor to include him.

'Have you guys done necessary scouting of this region? If not, I can help. Also a briefing on what has happened up until now, and what I appear to have gotten myself into would probably be a good idea.'

OOC: Dhinor appears to have just been shot for no real reason.

Banjo

Pter wrote: »

OOC: Should you not be declaring an action before rolling?

OOC : I had already stated in previous posts that I was holding a shotgun and indicated that I was pointing it at people who come through the door. Click Click and all that. Don't worry. You'll probably survive. You have the suit.

Baggly

OOC: Cool lets see what happens.

Necro

KaaKra sighs and draws his rifle.

'Stand down Evan. I am more skilled than you and you know it.'