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((That won't end in information overload...))

"Not until you learn to control your powers. You can figure that out if you have enough time to cheat in TF2."

"I have control over my powers, it's not cheating, and Yomiko is gaming the RNG. Which is, incidentally, cheating, same way that hacking the game to game the RNG is. No rule against having really good intuition."

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Lily appears in a swimming pool with...Kayla and Rachel.

Hmm, loot versus score... that sounds really cool. I'd love to collaborate on it with you if you want (doing art assets etc).

Another new avatar.
And neat, a collaborative freeform video game!

You should add a bonus mode where you defend your Throne of Loot from angels using the treasures you banked.

Or a second game. If you figure out a way to move the data from one game to the other...

((Whoo, my mission idea was semi-accepted!))

Locate some area with a lot of projectiles as large as any I can throw at a good speed. Grab them, telekinetic myself so I'm flying, and then head towards wherever the BETA is going to land. If it is there, begin smashing it with stuff.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on February 27, 2014, 07:38:15 pm

Anyone have mirrors they're ready to have Lily drag in?

Um, I'm not sure. :| Though Mirror Yuri is going to be hilarious if she gets brought in XDDDD

Indeed. Although she seems to be an alternate universe.

Anyways. Do you think you could pull it off or should I bring in Wanda/Rachel?

I'm alive, but I'm gone.

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The R&D team figures out space electricity. It's a lot like normal electricity, they say.


_{Archibald seems particularly interested in this invention, which he attributes to "losing power and, hence, control, twice in the course of duty".}

This discovery opens up all sorts of possibilities of other things we can do in space.



_{The Council is starting to tire of pamphlets.}

The 6+b is in for another slow descent.


_{Whee. Boredom.}

After one orbit, the Mk 6+b is strangely much closer to the Mk 5 than Jeb.
Twenty-one orbits total (I think--I wasn't careful counting).


<sub>Possibly-six orbits in, our orbiters are all in a row.

Thirteen orbits in.

Fifteen in, and Jeb is clearly pulling ahead of the two spacecraft.

Seventeen orbits in.

Nineteenth orbit complete.


Twenty. A productive orbit. About 2/3 of the orbit is in atmosphere.</sub>

When we are a bit before where the periapsis was in the twentieth orbit, the apoapsis finally drops into atmosphere, thus ending the over-an-hour?-long TV Tropes/Forum/KSP waiting hybrid.
16:27:20. We hit the 60 kilometer mark for what I believe is Archie's first time in nearly three days. The apoapsis is a couple kilometers lower, the periapsis a few higher. We are approximately at the old periapsis.
16:31:48. The apoapsis, about where the periapsis was, hits 59k. We are maybe a sixth or a quarter or the orbit past, at 57k; the periapsis is at 52k.
16:34:00. The periapsis is at 45k. Apoapse 58, craft 56. We could be landing close to the Sand Flag Crash, or maybe even KSSC. Also, I realize that at some point we pulled ahead of the Mark Five in the orbit, about twice as close to it as Jeb.
16:35:10. Periapsis at 40k. Craft at 55k.
16:36:06. Periapsis at 35k. Apoapsis at 56. Craft at 53.
16:36:50. Periapsis at 30k.
16:37:45. Craft at 50k. Periapsis at 21k. Apoapsis at 54k.
16:38:35. Periapsis at 10k. Craft at 48k. Apoapsis at 52k.
16:39:05. Periapsis vanishes. Craft at 46k, apoapsis at 51k. Roughly passing over SFC flag, likely overshooting KSSC.
16:39:31. Apoapsis 50k, craft 45k, both pretty much exact. Zooming in from map view.


_{16.40.37: Kerbin looks really pretty, and quite visibly moving. Craft at 40k.}

16:41:00. Stage ejected. Now just "lander". 37.4 km.


_{Farewell, rocket that might have reached Jeb.}

16:41:41. Lowering legs manually. Typical button not working.
16:41:55. 29k, starting to heat up outside.
16:42:05. Rocket booster a kilometer away.
16:42:21. Legs lowered. Craft horizontal.



_{But since we're going over ocean, it's kinda moot.}

16:43:13. 11k. Archibald's tea is wearing off. He is panicking.
16:43:17. 10k. Falling ~250 meters per second (with a total velocity just over 330 m/s) may be responsible for this. Parachutes deploying.
16:43:28. 8k. Craft tumbling.
16:43:43. 6k. Craft stable, but upside-down.


_{"Guys, the sky's really dark...}

16:44:00. 4k.
16:44:11. 3k.
16:44:15. 2500 meters.
16:44:22. 2000.
16:44:28. 1500.
16:44:35. 1000.
16:44:38. 750.
16:44:41. 500. Parachutes open.
16:45:05. 400. Archibald calm.
16:45:31. 300.


_{Anyone else see that weird beam of light in the water and wonder what's up?}

16:46:03. 200.
16:46:11. 150.
16:46:25. 100.
16:46:32. 75 meters above the ocean.
16:46:38. 50 meters.
16:46:41. 40.
16:46:44. 30.
16:46:47. 20.
16:46:49. 10.
16:46:50. 5.
16:46:52. Splashdown.
17:38:24. Recovery attempted.
18:21:41. Recovery attempted.
20:03:52. Recovery attempted.
23:32:30. Recovered.


<sub>Landing.

Note: We also got three Science from Archie's surface sample of the sea.</sub>

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_{The face of apathy.}

What now? I've been out of the tin can for days, spent days before that in it.

Should I even be rescued, if this is what it's taken? Is my return to Kerbin worth stopping my friends' path to the stars?

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"Should we continue trying to rescue Jebediah? Obviously, it is unconscionable to leave him drifting there for eternity, but many have questioned if it is even possible, with our current level of technology, to retrieve Jebediah Kerman. Should we continue onwards in our quest for science, and delay is rescue until later? And, either way, how will we proceed?"

"You get a room in the castle."

"Oh. That's nice."

<Fucking huntsmen...>
HILDA goes spy.

She gets headshotted. While disguised.
Same sniper.

"...Huh?"
((She stayed there last night, remember?))

<Uh-huh. Man, I'm owning this one girl in TF2 right now.>

As if on cue, some sniper headshoots HILDA with a Huntsman.
<Why are you guys all on the same server?>