* Slipstream changes topic to "-=2002.227=- Game ON!! :)" * Outreachs knocks on Restore's Office door * Waitstate is in the temple with Kerakasaa Um, yeah, I... guess we don't have to leave right away * Earshot is in his quarters, tinkering with his spy nodes * Sunspot is right outside the temple with Moonstone, still greeting the natives. You will staay? Excellent. * Chameleon is afraid he'll end up as reptile lunch * Avalanche is sitting on the couch in the obs deck, staring out the window. * Restore opens the door to her office * SsetKsek continues to conduct the ceremonies outside. * Slipstream wanders slowly into the observation deck Ah, Outreach :) What can I do for you? *spots Avalanche* Ah, heya Avy. so, uh... what is it you'd have us do here, anyway? * Outreaach grins holding two cups of warm energon "Need a boost? Just energized a fresh pot" * Avalanche looks up. "Oh, hi. What's up?" Aas I haave saaid, you must staay and guide us in our traavel to the paaraadise beyond this world. Actually, I was just finishing up and heading off to my quarters till next shift. *shrugs and yawns slightly* Eh, n'much. ye know where everyone is? I see... you want to leave your world? Thanks anyway, though A few of them went planetside. Looking for another one of those beacon things. *dryly* sounds fun * Slipstream plunks down in a couch and stretches * Outreach shrugs "No problem. I'll hold things down here....Oh, by the way...what about that green guy we worked on a little bit ago?" * Earshot decides to go to Terra's store, walking in He's been given the tour and has recovered quite nicely. He just needs a little time to adjust to his surroundings is all Good afternoon. Can I get you something today? :) Maybe for once it'll be an easy job. We haave done all thaat we can here. Thaat is whaat is written. Aand with your aarrival, it haas shown to be true. One can hope. I might pop down and see how they're goin' at some point. Wonderful. If there is an emergency, I'll comm you? Might be a good idea to check up on them if they don't report back soon. * Earshot grins at Terra "Can I have another bucket of bolts and washers? Oh, and some rubber tubing please Only if you'll need two doctors. If you think you can handle it on your own, go for it. *nods* Yup. That, and I wouldn't mind some atmospheric flight. Welder will be on duty in another hour or so, too I don't know that you'd like it out there. This place is as much a paradise, at least for your kind, as anywhere else. Maybe moreso * Outreach nods and grins "Go re-energize. You look like you just got stomped by a combiner....erm, *smiles* no offense Then...perhaaps our traanslaations of the aancient texts were mistaaken. Feel like I've been run down by Trihorn * Resore leaves medbay and returns to her quarters Jungle's not really my environment of choice, but I'd be up for a trip off-ship. I wondered if you'd want that again. I saved what I didnt serve you last time. I'll go get it from the back room :) * Outreach sits in the main med-bay, quietly sipping his energon and cleaning his tools Perhaaps...you aare to instruct us on the next phaase of our development HERE. * Earshot smiles brightly "Thanks!" hehe, you'd hafta take a shuttle though. I plan on goin' down solo, y'know? * Avalanche nods. * Terrafirma retrieves the bucket of scrap, tossing in some of the spare tubing from her energon refining equipment Looks like a nice enough planet. *looks out the obs deck window* It does indeed. All green and stuff. maybe so. What sort of development though? *muses* wonder how well it'd burn... *grins* Thaat is not for me to saay. * Earshot looks hungrily "Wow....that looks great! How much do I owe you?" * Avalanche chuckles. Not enough snow for my tastes. mmm, snow is always fun. ^_^ well, the tubing is, shall I say, fresh, so that raises the price. 17 credits. * Earshot nods, pulling out 30 from his subspace compartment "Keep it all." and starts chowing down * Slipstream yawns and continues looking out the window at the planet below. I wish I knew more about your people. I could maybe tell you what you needed to know I think I've run out of snow-based programs for the sim room. Perhaaps...you need time to observe our progress? Hm, y'could try makin' your own sometime. Or get Powerplay to help ya out or somethin'.... To see whaat staage we aare aat, thaat you might aassess the next step? * Terrafirma takes the cash and pockets it after setting the bucket on to the table * Ghost-Stalker quietly walks into the obs deck and finds somewhere to sit Well... tell me, is your culture peaceful? Maybe I'll work on that. Keep me out of the bar some. Hehe, sounds good. Heya Ghosty. It is. We raarely even hunt except for certain rituaal prey. * Avalanche waves to Ghost-Stalker. you never fight amongst yourselves? We haave not waaged a true waar since the Great K'Ket caame to interrupt our tribaal conflicts. * Earshot sits quietly, enjoying his meal * Ghost-Stalker glances at Slipstream and Avalanche, acknowledging their presence * Waitstate walks through the temple, admiring the fine art adorning the walls * Avalanche looks out the window. "It LOOKS like a calm enough planet..." *nods* Looks can be deceiving though. Ah well. what about your people? Any great disease? Poverty? Famine? I'm gonna drop planetside for a bit, annoy the locals and stuff. * Avalanche nods. Hey, call me if you spot any trouble, okay? heh, will do. hopefully there won't be any trouble though. There aare plaagues, despite our devotions. However, the only true indigents aare those who refuse to support them selves, aand criminals baanished from the city-staates. * Slipstream gets up and stretches again, joints popping slightly. I'll see ya later. Don't do anything I wouldn't do. ;) Heh, sure. * Slipstream waves at Avy and Ghost as she leaves It sounds to me like you may already HAVE paradise *gestures widely to indicate the whole world* * Earshot finishes his bucket, scarfing down the tubing. He hands the bucket back to Terra, handing her a 5 dollar tip "Thank you for the meal" I'm glad you enjoyed it, hon! I'll try to keep some quality scrap in stock for you in the future :) * Earshot flashes a smile "I would enjoy that, thank you!" and exits * Ghost-Stalker keeps her optics fixed on what can be seen outside of the ship * Earshot decides to head up to the bridge, knocking and waiting patiently How is thaat possible? There is still deaath, still sickness. We caanot aascend to the skies aas you caan. *answers the knock on the bridge door* Home of the Whopper, what's your beef? ;) * Talis begins walking down the corridor towards one of the training sims. * Earshot laughs "Hey Roadkill. Nice ta seeya again" Nice t'see you again too, mothyboy. Whassup? * Slipstream heads down the corridor past the sim rooms and towards the flight deck Just wondering If I could get clearance to go on a little fly. *smiles* Feel like streaching my wings * Talis sees Slip walking from the other end of the corridor and waves. Sure, don't see why not. Just don't get lost or anything ;) Death and sickness are everywhere. Even among my kind, though I admit it's rare. as for the skies... well, the skies are full of danger beyond your imagining * Earshot grins " Are we parked? heh, don't want to get left behind or anything" Ah, heya Talis. How goes things so far? ...eh. Confusing. Figured I'd log in some training time whle I was here. We're in geosynchronous orbit, so I guess that counts as parked. Yeah, I can imagine. Sims are always fun. I'm goin' planetside if y'wanna come along for the ride though. * Earshot smiles "Seeya later than, wanna hit the bar after I get back in?" heh. Actually, that beats the sims anyday. I'll go with you. * Avalanche sighs and stands up. Heh, maybe. if anyone from the next bridge shift shows up, anyway Cool, c'mon. I'm headed for the plaza. * Slipstream continues on towards the flight deck Later. * Avalanche leaves the obs deck and heads for the bar. * Earshot waves goodbye and makes his way to the hangar Hmmmm Hmmm Hmmmm Mr. Wonderful....hmmm hmmm Hmmmm..... * Slipstream and Talis arrive at the flight deck * Talis jets out of the flight hangar out into space, then transforms and heads planetside * Slipstream tfs and zooms out of the flight deck after Talis, quickly catching up and barrelrolling alongside You lead, since you know where we're going. Whoah, and I thought I was stir crazy, oh well, probably not my business * Avalanche gets down to the plaza, but decides to go into Terra's place instead of the bar. The lack of protocols on this ship still continues to amaze me... *laughs* who says I know where I'm goin'? Heh, I do! Cuz I sure don't. Fair enough. :) * Slipstream scans the planet til she picks up on Waitstate's sig There we go. let's go say hello to the grey one or something. race ya. ;) Oh, I wouldn't bother. Only good for speed on a straight-run. Plus, I figure you've got the acceleration advantage on me anyw... * Talis blasts his rocket boosters to full and flies forward * Slipstream easily catches up and flies around Talis. Heh, probably. :) * Avalanche enters Terra's restaurant and sits down at the counter. Heh, my buddy Quickwind used to do that to me all the time. Course, he was built for speed. * Earshot tf's, gliding out the ship and soaring through space, sighing "SO much better..." Evening Avy. What'll it be? Bein' built for speed always helps. It'd be interesting t'meet this friend of yours sometime, methinks. * Slipstream starts diving through the outer layers of the planet's atmosphere Got any specials tonight? * Earshot flies around the ship, doing lazy barrel rolls and loops I caannot speak for whaat is to haappen. * Talis pulls nose upward and starts planetary reentry. I only know thaat it is to haappen. Or aall we haaved lived for is a lie. hey, I'm not knocking your way of life. I'm envious, really Aall the more reason then thaat you should staay and enlighten us. * Chameleon gets tired of standing and sits on the ground Tell me... what was your world like before my kind came, so long ago? * Hyperion leaves the bridge The records aare incomplete. Things were not so...diligently recorded before the Maasters aarrived. Aand much of whaat haad been written waas destroyed becaause it did not fit with what we had learned. It waas aa more violent time. well, I'm all out of scrap metal, heh * Slipstream goes zoom into the lower atmosphere and starts looking for Waitstate and the others I have some lovely energon-filled fullerine cakes though * Talis passes through the lower atmosphere and trails behind Slipstream That sounds good. * Earshot flies past the observation deck window Hmmm... *spots Sunny and Cham, surrounded by fawning lizard-people* Oo, cool. * Ghost-Stalker notices Earshot outside the window * Slipstream dives down and zooms overhead, then banks around and hovers over Sunny and Cham before tfing and dropping down to land next to them Heya guys, what's goin' on down here? What the slag are you doing here? Hi! *shrug* eh, got bored. decided to come say hi and stuff. There are these lizard guys, and they think we're cool. * Talis flies over the party by six hundred feet, slow passover *looks at the lizard guys* Nifty. * Chameleon gets off the ground and stands * Slipstream watches the lizard peoples reactions to her and Talis' arrival. if there's any at all, that is. * Various K'Ket move to adore the new arrivals. * Probably moreso, since they can fly. * Moonstone chirps up at Slipstream from Sunspot's shoulder. Having fun, Moonstone? *pats the little dragon* He likes all the lizard guys. * Earshot flies around the ship, humming to himself, enjoying his freedom Yeah, I can imagine. *eyes the lizard guys warily* are they all this... adoring? Yeah. They just really seem to like Transformers. * Chameleon decides to keep his opinion to himself. Weird. Ah well. could be worse, aye? they could hate our guts and try to kill us on sight. ;) * Earshot decides to ask Wait about his security camera nodes [comm] Hey Roadkill, where is Yon Grey One? [comm] He's planetside somewhere, chattin' with the locals. [comm] I need to ask him about my security cameras...any idea where? [comm] Not really. He'd prob'ly be busy at the moment anyway. might be better t'wait til he comes back shipside. [comm] okay. * Earshot continues to happily fly around the ship and wonders if anyone is in the obs deck to scare.... * Outreach reads the newest medical journals contentedly, wondering if anything catastrophic is gonna happen * Avalanche sits at Terra's counter enjoying his snack. * Slipstream starts getting slightly freaked by all the adoringness of the local lizard people. * The various K'Ket ask questions about what they're going to be taught and where the LONACers come from and what not-this-world is like. * Talis looks to Slip * Slipstream lets Sunny answer all the questions so what is this mission all about anyway? Eh, from what I remember we're after some kinda beacon thing that's on this planet. * Chameleon wishes he could vanish from sight and run away * Sunspot tries to do her best to explain things to people who have never even been off-planet. * No one understands, but they like getting answered. * Ghost-Stalker continues to look out the obs deck window * Slipstream lets Scrabble out just to see what the reaction will be. * OutReach finishes the journals and finishes cleaning his tools, sighing. He'd hoped for more patients, but less patients is better for the crew.... * Waitstate comes to a decision Kerakasaa... it's not yet time Not...time? * Waitstate realizes that this society only exists because of their faith... faith he is unwilling to destroy Your society has come far, further than my kind ever expected. But you have greater heights to reach yet Then...we aare not prepaared? Whaat is the purpose of your visit, then? Surely your kind would not stoop so low aas mockery? No, of course not * Ghost-Stalker wonders if Earshot will fly past the window again or not. We came to test your faith. To see if you still waited. We are... quite pleased at what you have accomplished. * Avalanche finishes his snack, but decides to just hang around at the counter. * Earshot flies past the window again, spiraling around happily Then...whaat? We are here to give a message Continue your good works. Elevate your world to new heights of peace and enlightenment. The beauty here... suprised me I...feel obliged to tell you thaat this weighs heavily upon my heartss. yes... mine too * Waitstate is suprised how much * Earshot has more fun, buzzing around the ship Aand whaat of your entouraage? Will they aall depaart with you? sadly, they must But don't despair! we will leave you with a new token of faith. We must take the original artifact... you have outgrown it. We will replace it with something even more wonderous Aand...whaat is this? * Waitstate starts interfacing with the Freedom computers and has the machine shop start building something A record of us. * Sunspot enjoys all the attention fron the lizard people, even if the others don't. Kerakasaa, your people's progress is encouraging, but it is not yet time. will your people accept that the time has not come? We will...aaccept whaatever you saay. You aare, aafter aall, the Maasters. * Earshot flies torwards the flight deck, landing and tf'ing, smiling "Ah, that was just what I needed..." and heads to the Obs deck, humming to himself * Talis leans over to Slip mm? Well, I'm heading back into orbit. Do a few runs for practice, then heading back to the ship think I'll join yeh. these guys are freakin' me a bit. Aw, you don't wanna stick around with the neat aliens who love us? * Talis flies out into space too much love makes me sick. sorry Sunny. /:) * Earshot sits in the Obs Deck, bringing up a star chart hologram and looking it over, looking up at the real stars occasionally, still humming * Slipstream tfs and flies skywards * Waitstate changes topic to "-=2002.227=- RP put down. Mercy killing and all..."