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Author Topic: Solar Graveyard - Starlight  (Read 19444 times)

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« Reply #45 on: June 19, 2021, 09:56:41 pm »

"Sure!  Lets go for one after the tour."
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« Reply #46 on: June 20, 2021, 03:43:14 pm »

"I wouldn't mind going for a stroll outside."

What... Is a stroll? Im afraid I’m unaware of that concept, Please, Enlighten me.
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« Reply #47 on: June 20, 2021, 03:46:36 pm »

"It's like a stride but more casual."
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« Reply #48 on: June 20, 2021, 03:51:27 pm »

"It's like a stride but more casual."

Lucca cocks his head. “I... See. That sounds weird, Why would you go for a “stroll” when you could be experimenting or training or telling people what to do? Their were no “strolls” in my culture, Why is that?
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« Reply #49 on: June 20, 2021, 03:55:43 pm »

"Some cultures are more uptight than others. Maybe you should do something to relax, it'll make you more effective if you're not stressed out all the time."
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« Reply #50 on: June 20, 2021, 04:55:09 pm »

Check what's in my box. It's never not a good time for that!
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You open the box, and... oho. Inside is a dozen primitive drones, small metal spheres, carrying simple scanners made to scan large bodies of iron for impurities. They seem to be calibrated to pick up on exotic or rare metals and transmit a rough location back to the ship.

You might find something interesting by sending them on ahead, and quickly extract the metals when you passed by. On the other hand, telling them to spread out through the planet could have better results, but might involve persuading everyone to go on a time-consuming detour to actually reach the stuff.



Steve starts searching the ship for secrets.

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No secrets as such, but Steve does find something he wasn't aware of. As well as defensive layers of reinforced metal separating the storage rooms at the back end of the ship from the large pod bay doors, there's a layer between the front of the ship and the rest. On one side of it is the engine room, the bridge, Varisdel's box and the workshop, and on the other is everything else.

This front part of the ship appears to be detachable, so in an emergency you could turn into a much smaller vehicle shaped like an inverted teardrop, and depart at immense speed, leaving most of the ship behind.


Lucca decides to inspect the Xelqu heart.
The Xelqu heart is brimming with power, strong and healthy despite the countless millenia since its owner passed from this world. The giant blue organ floats in the centre of the engine room, pipes of blackened iron providing it with a steady drip of nutrient gruel from the vats in the hold. It glows a little brighter as you enter, the tiny mind recognising a member of its own species. It's enough to make one feel a little less alone.


After conversation, Suzy is also going to tour the ship.  If the sword wishes, Suzy will carry it.
You make a rough circuit of the ship, holding the greatsword a little awkwardly even in two hands until you rest the flat of the blade on your shoulder. The weapon is cold, but not unpleasantly so. You can feel the vibrations in your collarbone as it talks.


First is the bridge, the wide windows looking out into the core of a dead planet, huge iron shutters ready to sweep across them at the first sign of danger. You avoid the engine room, as the Xelqu is in there with the weird psionic organ and is either performing essential diagnostics or having a bit of a moment, and pass through the crew's quarters. Next you pass the carefully customised voidsuits, and through the indoor garden that is the ship's biological regulation system, carefully created by Lucca's psionic tinkering, bizarre fungi and flowers carrying out reactions far too specialised for mere chemistry to handle. You avoid the Titan's dedicated storage chamber. Seeing that creature isn't really a "stroll" sort of experience.

You pass through the stocks of nutrient gruel sloshing in the hold, and then you're among the four pods at the back of the ship. Turning around, you pass through Lucca's gene banks, carrying every single biological blueprint he's managed to barter, beg or borrow since the collapse of the worlds. Next is medical as you work your way back to the front of the ship, then the ship's workshop, and finally the bridge again.





Varisdel senses a change in the huge shards of metal surrounding the voidship, and even the others can detect a slight shift in the shapes and colours on display. Soon you'll reach the jagged exterior of this exploded planet, and be able to get properly underway.


There are rumours of some kind of settlement on the exposed surface of the shattered globe, as well as something living outside it, large and dangerous enough to afford the inhabitants of the interior an unusual degree of tranquility. Which might make leaving interesting.


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« Reply #51 on: June 20, 2021, 05:14:59 pm »

"Alright, perhaps we should get some practice with fighting while we can? Surely there's something in storage we could take outside and use as a target."
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« Reply #52 on: June 20, 2021, 05:31:33 pm »

"Sure.. I think I saw some hard stuff in the workshop."

Timo speaks up. "Don't forget your powers too, Suzy.  Maybe you can jazz up breakfast a bit, turn it into something tasty."

Lets try out my powers.  Gather a bowl of nutritious gruel and see if I can turn it into real Nutriwheat! gruel.  Maybe I can even make the protein flavoring a bit more jazzed up, like a bit of real mustard!

Then, after eating, lets head over to the workshop and find a nice target to try out the sword on.  Stab!

Same with her own powers.  Lets try all three.  Lasers, heat rays, and electricity, one at a time.
« Last Edit: June 20, 2021, 05:36:04 pm by Devastator »
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« Reply #53 on: June 20, 2021, 06:14:38 pm »

Would any of you mind giving me a blood sample? I promise no voodoo, I’m more of a psionic type.”
« Last Edit: June 20, 2021, 06:16:19 pm by Knightwing64 »
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« Reply #54 on: June 20, 2021, 06:19:31 pm »

"Umm.. I'm not sure?  The last time I had my blood taken it caught fire."

(Do note this isn't saying no, it's saying 'talk the microorganisms into letting you into their private garden'.)
« Last Edit: June 21, 2021, 03:03:36 am by Devastator »
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« Reply #55 on: June 20, 2021, 06:52:54 pm »

"Hmm well isn't that interesting..."

Steve attempts to figure out how to activate the thing that detaches the front of the ship... just in case
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« Reply #56 on: June 20, 2021, 07:09:25 pm »

Would any of you mind giving me a blood sample? I promise no voodoo, I’m more of a psionic type.”

"Eh? Oh yeah sure just make it quick I got things I need to check up on."
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« Reply #57 on: June 20, 2021, 07:57:18 pm »

Varisdel walks into the main area, with his arms full of spherical drones. A few are slipping his grip and bouncing on the ship's floor.
Look, drones! They scan iron stuff for exotic and rare metals. He looks excited.
How long you all interested in staying around here? Because we could send them ahead and grab stuff drive-by, or we could take the time to search the whole planet.
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Glass is, as usual, correct.
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I'm gonna say we go with whatever Glass's idea is.

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« Reply #58 on: June 20, 2021, 08:04:23 pm »

"Dunno.  Maybe not too long.

..are we going to build something?"
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« Reply #59 on: June 20, 2021, 08:24:45 pm »

A world, I think? At least in the long term. In the short term, just whatever we need. I'm good at tech.
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Glass is, as usual, correct.
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I'm gonna say we go with whatever Glass's idea is.
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