Traveller: Life in the Marches - A ship of our own

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Verne cannot understand the readings. He heads around the ship to see the status of the crew.

OOC: Cheers Four!!!

Nestor calls shotgun on the largest stateroom on her way to the bridge.

Glenn turns to Verne while waiting for the rest of the crew to arrive. "I said back on the Wind On Stars that if we didn't have a plan, we would fail, and it looks like I was right. We might be two weeks in the past, but that doesn't negate what we did, destroying a planet and the people on it. Dhinor said he would be Captain until he died or someone better came along, and I believe that someone is you. I intend to say as much to the rest of the crew, unless you don't want me to? And we have to decide if we're going to use these two weeks to fix what has happened."

OOC: I'm not sure of the timeline, we had to Jump to the station, and then to my planet and then Walston. If we're two weeks in the past, where does that place us in the story? Also, I just remembered this, by Evan, talk about knowing what's coming!: "Mr Cas, you'll never see your data or a financial return while this moron is waving that ****ing thing around. In a few weeks time you'll be assembling another bunch of no-hopers, shoveling another 6 grand at them and firing those poor bastards into the void to recover our marooned corpses"

#dunningkrugereffect

Dhinor comms Nestor.

'Medic, can you join me in the medbay. We need to make a call on this arm'

Pter wrote: »

Dhinor comms Nestor.

'Medic, can you join me in the medbay. We need to make a call on this arm'

Nestor checks the arm. "It'll heal, in time. It'll always be a bit stiff, and rheumatism will be an issue if you live that long. I don't think the ship has the capabilities to replace it with an augmented arm but I've yet to search the ship."

She cleans then applies unguents, soothing balms and dressings to the wound. Before he leaves she goes into a routine of chasing away evil spirits from the wound with some smouldering sage leaves while chanting some nonsense verse just for giggles.

"Take two aspirin and call me in the morning."

jasonb wrote: »

Glenn turns to Verne while waiting for the rest of the crew to arrive. "I said back on the Wind On Stars that if we didn't have a plan, we would fail, and it looks like I was right. We might be two weeks in the past, but that doesn't negate what we did, destroying a planet and the people on it. Dhinor said he would be Captain until he died or someone better came along, and I believe that someone is you. I intend to say as much to the rest of the crew, unless you don't want me to? And we have to decide if we're going to use these two weeks to fix what has happened."

'I appreciate your support Glenn. I am not however a mutineer, we have a captain currently that was democratically elected. I will follow him until a majority of the crew decides otherwise. Lets go see what he has to say for himself.'

Verne puts the ship in a holding position and heads down to the mess hall.

In the mess Nestor raids the stores and finds some frozen fish sticks that she sits and starts to eat still frozen.

"If it's true that we have gone back in time then we have some options.

We can try to save the planet by getting to the ship earlier than we managed before and producing the data needed by the planet leaders to commence an evacuation in time.

We can find a bookies off world and try to make our fortunes in a one off high stakes bet.

We can find our other selves and tell us not to start the mission irrespective of what paradoxes that might cause.

We can just keep the ship, become spacepirates free and independent traders.

We also don't know if this is a one time event, pun unintended, or are we stuck in a time loop until we get to the right answer. I guess we can just blow ourselves up again to test that theory.

I'd like to meet myself though, I'm pretty fascinating and always good company."

Although she's speaking glibly and with an air of nonchalance she is actually deep into her comm link researching time travel, time paradox, possible rational for timeslip caused by faulty M-Drive in planet jumping and for any references at all in the science journals for indications that this might have a precedence.

Nestor stands up and leaves muttering "Captain, schmaptain." Her disdain for authority clearly on view she heads out to search the ship for prosthetic limbs.

Pter wrote: »

EDIT: SORRY DHINOR DOESNT KNOW HIM AS EVAN. Just editing references to RJ.

OOC : The "Evan to the rescue" thing was my attempt to escape from this mess of names. I call him Evan, you call him Evan, he's Evan. Hurray! Also, Dhinor was the only character who was introduced to him as Evan

Standing in the doorway, with a loaded shotgun, Evan pipes up :
"captain, you attempted to assault me, unprovoked. You punch like a wet teabag. Neither of those things were my fault. My only mistake was to be prepared for your short temper to eventually explode into violence. And clearly, that was a no mistake.

You then proceeded to power up an energy weapon while you were being electrocuted, endangering the entire crew. My only mistake was to attempt to sacrifice both our lives for theirs. And clearly, that was no mistake.

THEN you insisted on leaving the sword powered on to ensure your own survival instead of taking one for the team, causing a volcano to erupt, destroy our raft, and threaten a town - granted, one mostly populated by racist petty criminals but still. My only mistake was to not let go and die needlessly. And clearly that was no mistake.

I didn't give the order to jump. I called out the options, someone on the bridge started powering up the jump drive so I routed power to the jump drive. Since before we found the ship I've been warning about the dangers of jumping in a gravity well. I'm an engineer. You and Verne are the pilots. My only mistake was to follow orders. And here we are, so clearly THAT was no mistake.

And now, despite everything I've done for you you still think I'm the problem. There is no saving you and I don't think I can love you anymore."

OOC : Names? Check. Infatuation? Check. Just need to stop masturbating into soup and eating synthetic human flesh and I'm free of all my accidental quirks!

"Blame me if you want. Lock me up. When it happens again, and it will happen again because people like you never learn, you can blame someone else and lock them up too. But you need to come to your senses and quickly because you're running out of limbs to learn lessons with. It's not their fault. It's not my fault. It's yours. And yours alone.

On the brightside, our supply of apples will last a bit longer now.

So, let's talk turkey. Astrogation display says we're in the Trojan Reach. This crate has a J2 drive, so we are hell and gone from Walston. Forget about contacting ourselves or saving the planet, it would take us months to get there.

We have no M-drive capability so all we can do is jump and drift. I don't see a lot of radio chatter out there so I'm guessing we're in a very low tech part of the spiral, so we're not getting towed any time soon.

OOC : What's our fuel situation?

Oh yeah, and bear in mind - we have 2 weeks to get the M-Drive repaired and the hole in the hull properly fixed. Right now, at worst officially we're on a ship with a forged license, because everyone knows that the real one is crashed a long way coreward from here. So we might run into a little trouble. In 2 weeks time, we're Space Hitler. So I suggest we find the most advanced planet we can withing J-2 range, do whatever we can to get that engine and get the **** away from civilisation."

Banjo wrote: »

OOC : The "Evan to the rescue" thing was my attempt to escape from this mess of names. I call him Evan, you call him Evan, he's Evan. Hurray! Also, Dhinor was the only character who was introduced to him as Evan

Standing in the doorway, with a loaded shotgun, Evan pipes up :
"captain, you attempted to assault me, unprovoked. You punch like a wet teabag. Neither of those things were my fault. My only mistake was to be prepared for your short temper to eventually explode into violence. And clearly, that was a no mistake.

You then proceeded to power up an energy weapon while you were being electrocuted, endangering the entire crew. My only mistake was to attempt to sacrifice both our lives for theirs. And clearly, that was no mistake.

THEN you insisted on leaving the sword powered on to ensure your own survival instead of taking one for the team, causing a volcano to erupt, destroy our raft, and threaten a town - granted, one mostly populated by racist petty criminals but still. My only mistake was to not let go and die needlessly. And clearly that was no mistake.

I didn't give the order to jump. I called out the options, someone on the bridge started powering up the jump drive so I routed power to the jump drive. Since before we found the ship I've been warning about the dangers of jumping in a gravity well. I'm an engineer. You and Verne are the pilots. My only mistake was to follow orders. And here we are, so clearly THAT was no mistake.

And now, despite everything I've done for you you still think I'm the problem. There is no saving you and I don't think I can love you anymore."

OOC : Names? Check. Infatuation? Check. Just need to stop masturbating into soup and eating synthetic human flesh and I'm free of all my accidental quirks!

"Blame me if you want. Lock me up. When it happens again, and it will happen again because people like you never learn, you can blame someone else and lock them up too. But you need to come to your senses and quickly because you're running out of limbs to learn lessons with. It's not their fault. It's not my fault. It's yours. And yours alone.

On the brightside, our supply of apples will last a bit longer now.

So, let's talk turkey. Astrogation display says we're in the Trojan Reach. This crate has a J2 drive, so we are hell and gone from Walston. Forget about contacting ourselves or saving the planet, it would take us months to get there.

We have no M-drive capability so all we can do is jump and drift. I don't see a lot of radio chatter out there so I'm guessing we're in a very low tech part of the spiral, so we're not getting towed any time soon.

OOC : What's our fuel situation?

Oh yeah, and bear in mind - we have 2 weeks to get the M-Drive repaired and the hole in the hull properly fixed. Right now, at worst officially we're on a ship with a forged license, because everyone knows that the real one is crashed a long way coreward from here. So we might run into a little trouble. In 2 weeks time, we're Space Hitler. So I suggest we find the most advanced planet we can withing J-2 range, do whatever we can to get that engine and get the **** away from civilisation."

'You can ignore your provocations and insubordination all you want. Its academic now, as our crewmate is dead, and no matter what i say, you will rationalise it away. Blame me all you want Evan - i will no longer attempt to lead this group as it cannot be lead with you behaving the way you have.

My only goal from now on is to get back to our timeframe, survive our mission, and make sure you dont kill any more of us.'

OOC: Four, can i find out if the damage to my pilot skill is permanent or am i back to where i was now that Nestor has salved me up.

OOC: I gots loads of science and computer stuff on top of medic and I gots Gun Combat (any) though I'm not sure what that actually entitles me too or if I can handle Spaceship PewPews.

Glenn listens to Dhinor and Even and then speaks up...

"I believe both of you are at fault, you stated the fight Dhinor and then neither of you backed down. I also believe neither of you are in a position to lead, as I doubt many of us will follow you, I know I won't. I think it's good to take stock of where we are, and what we bring to the table, so that hopefully there's less confusion when the next crisis strikes. But I still think we need a Captain, someone who can make a decision in a hurry, someone the rest of us will agree with. I suggest this should be Verne, who kept calm and didn't start any fights back on Walston."

OOC: I don't know how this works (add it to the list!), do players normally keep their skills secret from other players? If we're putting our cards on the table, I've got Level 1 in Mechanic, Vac Suit and Streetwise and Level 0 in Computer, Engineer, Space Science, Pilot (Spacecraft or Small Craft), Survival, Astrogation, Comms and Gun Combat (any). I'm pretty bloody intelligent apparently, and my Droyne stuff (Psychic, Teleport etc. etc.) has already been seen. I don't know how much of those skills above I should bring to the conversation in the Mess hall though. Do I suggest I can Navigate as well as fly, or is Level 0 not good enough? All these questions, sorry!