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Check contents of flab.

Search for some kind of cave. Or grotto. Or strip club.

[Angel] frowns, heading off to locate food, making sure to keep track of where she came from.

[5-1=4]
You find some berries and catch a rabbit. You're pretty sure that neither is poisonous, although the rabbit gives you pause.

Selina tries to see if her friend went through the ravine, and any other sign nearby.

Nope. No sign of her.

Quote from: kj1225 on February 25, 2014, 10:26:13 am

...
I'm going to regret this but try healing whoever I can.

Bets on how quickly I mess up?

[4]
With care and patience, things go well. Until they go badly.
[3]
Ow! Your arm is...well, your left hand is mostly gone, the lower arm is mangled, and overall ow.

Quote from: Harry Baldman on February 25, 2014, 10:33:53 am

Get fixed already! Dismiss oil elemental if possible without any sort of effort.

You can't dismiss it. Huh.
You're healed. And then you're not.
[5]
Although aside from minor scratches everywhere and needing to replace your clothes, you're actually alright.

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on February 26, 2014, 08:05:18 pm

Finish getting patched up. Repeat thermo-laser trick on the remaining huge crystals one at a time. Enlist the help of soldiers to collect the larger shattered crystals into piles which I can blast again.

Power: [5+1+0.2=7]
...Okay let's stop using magic.
Control: [6-1+0.2-1=4]
Lasers spray across everything, causing shattered crystals. The good news is that they're more or less all gone. The bad news is in two parts: You've destroyed most of the town by now, and well...
You: [3-0.2=2]
Your lower leg is shredded by large chunks of crystal and your skin is irritated by intense heat.
Prince: [6]
CO: [6]
They're okay. Good.

Quote from: scapheap on February 25, 2014, 12:47:21 pm

More swordplay

Found Scapheap's turn.

Yay!
The bear is essentially finished off. You now have a dead bear and some crude weapons.

Quote from: Kansa on March 02, 2014, 02:12:17 pm

So how does the plot system exactly work in this game?

PM plots and relevant lore to @Elf. Get added to the plot roster. Run the plot when the time comes. Try not to piss off half the playerbase.

In theory. In practice, it's often more like:

"Hey, guys, it's been a while since there's been a plot."
*chatter chatter*
"Hey guys? Plot?"
*chatter*
"I'm running a plot now!"
*plot*
Crap, I didn't think they'd do this...

At least we haven't forgotten Maxim 15...yet

Stupid Google.
And I think we've forgotten, or at least flunked, that maxim. Remember the bunker we used to have?

Quote from: Tack on March 02, 2014, 08:30:30 am

Quote from: Remalle on March 01, 2014, 09:35:34 pm

lvl 100 healer lfg

Can't see the picture. 

URL fixed.
...Error 404: Explanation not found.

GWG. Just stop.

Culise has quit because of this argument an argument I point out that didn't start until you butted in.

So you're blaming all of this on me.

...

Fuck you, I'm out.

Take cover, then shoot the necromancer.

So how does the plot system exactly work in this game?

In theory or in practice?

Kayla kisses Rachel the cheek.
"My safe word is teacup."

Isn't Kayla supposed to be celibate and asexual?

Quote from: 'Anima'(?)

It's lemonade, which is poisonous in large enough doses.

Which would be poisonous first: The lemon juice, the sugar, or the water?

Our of our six kerbonauts, one is dead, two are ghosts, one is still recovering from various fractures, one is dealing with rocket fuel toxicity, and one is currently going through tea withdrawal. This gives our Councilors time to think about what they want to do.

The answer: Go to Minmus with sciencecraft.

First, we design the pod which will be landing on Kerbin.


_{...if everything goes according to plan.}

Second, we add a rocket for getting from Minmus to Kerbin.


_{Third, we get a new prototype after someone launched this one into the sky.}

After some discussion of the feasibility of landing legs, a compromise is reached on the next stage, intended to get the craft from Kerbin orbit to the Minmus surface, and also gather some science.


_{This angle brought to you by: My inability to zoom.
P.S. I added some struts to make it less breaky after this photo was taken.}

And finally, some solid rocket boosters were added, hopefully getting the massive craft into orbit.


<sub>Totally structurally sound.

Big rocket, though.</sub>

Bob was sent up, having recovered pretty well. Bill is expected to recover soon, so the second Minmushot will include him.
So, our rocket launches.


_{Indeed, we are ready. Probably.}

Our target:

<sub>That's pretty far away.

And inclined.

Well? Let's get started.

"Wait, there's a return plan, right guys? ...Guys?"</sub>

I try turning a bit but discover that the first stage has pretty much zero maneuverability. We lean a few degrees southwest, helpless to do anything about it.


_{"Um, what do you mean, 'helpless'?"}

The next stage, beginning its flight close to six kilometers above Kerbin, is much more maneuverable, and we begin the turn to--


_{"WAIT! Did you not say this stage was supposed to get from orbit to Minmus?"}

Well, yes, but we've got plenty of fuel.


_{"That is what you said about the SciMax 5."}

Shut up. You'll be fine.


_{"Fine like Jeb?"}

...

If I'm reading the navball right, Minmus is right about rising.


<sub>"..."

I've been told that's the ideal time to launch for them.</sub>

We start dragging that apoapsis up...


<sub>We have a long way to go.

Huh.</sub>

We run out of fuel in our minmus lander stage at 30 kilometers, with an apoapsis a bit over 64 kilometers. I'm sure the return-to-kerbin stage would be able to get to orbit, but that's not our goal today.
So, we chuck the lander bits...


_{...seem to collide with the last stage because I briefly forget that's not how the lander was built...}

...and plot an atypical maneuver node to see if we can't at least get some nice polar science from this.


<sub>Just in time.

Or not.</sub>

About 15 seconds after the maneuver node I set, I managed to lock onto it, which made the ETB recalculate to a bit over a minute.


<sub>We might not hit the poles...

...but it's been a pretty trip along the way.</sub>

We eventually run out of fuel...


<sub>Here we are. The lander. Preparing to land on Kerbin not five minutes into the flight. I think we can call this one a failure.

We're not even getting to the poles!

And the last rocket isn't exactly fully detached.


That did the trick.

Although I feel kinda sad...I wonder why.
"Breaking news: Kerbal Science Center drops an empty rocket onto fisherbal's boat! More at three.
Oops.


KSSC staff are taking bets as to if Bob is going to land in the ocean, land on the land, explode, or get to orbit. Poor interns who chose that last option...

Water wins, although the "explode" team is still holding out on their payments.

...Okay, this is just stirring up controversy.


Well, that's a plus.</sub>

Back to the drawing board. We're adding a stage of several gimballing liquid fuel rockets, as well as massively increasing the number of solid rocket boosters. Nine total.


_{Adding struts to the boosters.}

The Munshot II looks majestic...


_{Well, it's all subjective.}

...and one can only imagine what wonders will happen when we launch it. Later. First, science. And lunch.



_{It said it was more valuable at the time...}

We can research advanced rocketry and flight control; OR one of advanced construction, aerodynamics, fuel systems, landing, or space exploration; or save up for advanced electronics, advanced exploration, or precision engineering.
Bill suggests that we go for the first option because flight control sounds safe. Bob is interested in aerodynamics, which promises to make sciencing distant corners of Kerbin easier. Archibald thinks the big rockets of advanced construction sound good. The director notes that space exploration gives us extra science tools, as well as Mobility Enhancers (which will help us with creating landers).

The sooner we reach a science consensus, the sooner I can update. And now for lunch.

Oh look, a ninja vote.