  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| **** SESSION ONE **** | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask superluminalvagranttwin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "It's not just the interest on your loan," you remember him saying. Floyd | "It's maintaining the cryo tube, storing it, powering it, insuring Floyd | it... Shit, even paying for me to come out here and give you this Floyd | little reminder goes on the bill." Floyd | Floyd | You waited for him to get to the point. Floyd | Floyd | "Five million credits. An even five mil. 5000k. I'm rounding down Floyd | here. I'm on your side. You come find us on Autark; you pay off your Floyd | balance; you get your twin back." Floyd | Floyd | Niv holstered his blaster and left then. When he was through the Floyd | airlock, his goons left too. Floyd | Floyd | Superluminal Vagrant Twin Floyd | A text-only space sim by C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | Release 6 / Serial number 160316 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | (Type about if you have trouble getting started. Type Floyd | credits to learn who made this possible.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Boony Floyd | A grey, airless world, left lopsided by some ancient cataclysm. Floyd | Floyd | A crackling transmission reaches your ship from the surface. "I see Floyd | you up there, captain. You going to land any time soon?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I don't know who sent that transmission but they need to be nicer." | |
| DavidW says, ">about" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Superluminal Vagrant Twin by C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | Floyd | The following commands will definitely be useful: Floyd | Floyd | TO MOVE AROUND: Floyd | jump to a world you've heard about Floyd | land Floyd | launch Floyd | refuel Floyd | record a world you want to visit later Floyd | Floyd | TO SEE WHAT YOU HAVE: Floyd | status Floyd | fuel Floyd | cargo Floyd | Floyd | TO SEE WHERE YOU ARE Floyd | look Floyd | Floyd | TO INTERACT: Floyd | talk to people Floyd | buy something they have for sale Floyd | sell something you have to someone who might want it Floyd | take a passenger or something that's lying (or floating) around Floyd | give a delivery to its recipient Floyd | read some data you have Floyd | open a closed container Floyd | Floyd | SYSTEM: Floyd | save, load, change highlight Floyd | Floyd | There's a few other commands that you can learn by talking to people Floyd | and experimenting. Floyd | Floyd | TIPS Floyd | -read your ship's log and trading log for Floyd | reminders of where you've been Floyd | -the command map (or just m) is short for read ship's Floyd | log, and prospects (or just p) is short for read Floyd | trading log Floyd | -if you record a world you haven't visited yet, it will be Floyd | listed in your ship's log Floyd | -talk to Szymon to get hints on finding new worlds Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu | [LINK]) | |
| Jacqueline says, "whoa" | ||
| Doug says, "yeah, I often don't enjoy resource games but I liked this" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Grr, link broke there. Oh well." | ||
| Roger says, "looks like someone might need to take notes" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I... am usually not that person." | ||
| Doug says, "I didn't. it keeps enough notes for you in-game" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I already had gedit open anyway." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to KO), "yay" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You didn't get this far as a space captain by needing to examine Floyd | everything that's plainly in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony (not yet landed) Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, ">; :agrees with Doug." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "prospects" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > PROSPECTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a command you need to use. Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read ship's log" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SHIP'S LOG Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony (not yet landed) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I ... guess we land?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 0k (That is to say: you're broke.) Floyd | Equipment: spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 2/5 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | debt note, flight manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | nothing Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I thought prospects was a command." | |
| Jacqueline says, "It's s'posed to be a command." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe it doesn't work in orbit." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Should be, yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x szymon" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SZYMON Floyd | Floyd | You didn't get this far as a space captain by needing to examine Floyd | everything that's plainly in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "grrrr" | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, um, no X. Just the other stuff." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to szymon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SZYMON Floyd | Floyd | Szy lurks in the bowels of your starship, doting over the core Floyd | systems. A bit too much radiation exposure has left him a Floyd | cybernetically-preserved head floating - detached and jawless - in the Floyd | space helmet of a heavily patched old EVA suit. Floyd | Floyd | Szy's a pretty good engineer. And he works for free, which is just Floyd | about in your price range. Floyd | Floyd | His simulated voice rasps and crackles. "Come to listen to an old Floyd | slingshot mechanic prattle on, captain?" Floyd | Floyd | (Press Z to listen. Press any other key to say farewell.) | Guenni says, "Ohyeah. X doesn't work in this game. at all." | |
| DavidW says (to Guenni), "Not at all? Geez." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "No money, no trade goods, 5m in debts. We're off to a good start." | ||
| DavidW says, "You can see why I felt out of my comfort zone." | ||
| Guenni says, "It's not really needed." | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we do land, then." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "We're a SPACE CAPTAIN. We don't need to examine stuff." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | (Press Z to listen. Press any other key to say farewell.)"You Floyd | heard the lady, captain. We gonna land or what?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "There's a lady?" | |
| DavidW says, "Space captains like the ladies." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "The person on the comms." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The voice that asked us whether we're ... right." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe we're a lady." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, we could also very much like space ladies." | ||
| DavidW says, "So maybe we like laddies. Whatevs." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I'm guessing if we cling to this fantasy of what the game will be like we will end up sad." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "With no X, we can be anything we like." | ||
| Doug asks, "I think entering the command 'z' isn't the same as pressing 'z'?" | ||
| DavidW says, "So let's land and get our first non-examinable of a world." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "THAT'S THE SPIRIT, DW" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Boony Floyd | A cratered and mountainous wasteland that curves noticeably at the Floyd | horizon. Abandoned mining equipment is strewn across the landscape. Floyd | Floyd | A dilapidated saloon sits in the shadow of a broad chasm, staffed by Floyd | an automated bartender and patronised by long dead astronauts, Floyd | mummified in their spacesuits. Floyd | Floyd | An ageless woman with long, golden hair sits incongruously at Floyd | the bar. "Don't be shy," she says. "Talk to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "LAND, HO" | |
| Doug says, "HO, LAND" | ||
| DavidW says, "Talk to the ageless woman who is probably of age anyway." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Curves noticeably... does that mean the planet is really tiny?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Like, Le Petit Prince tiny?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe a bit bigger." | ||
| DavidW says, "Not necessarily quite that small." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | (Szymon) Floyd | Szymon is here at the Surface of Boony. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm. I gotta go copy that command page for my own reference." | |
| DavidW asks, "er what? Jump made Szymon appear?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh. Jump to world." | ||
| Guenni says, "Jump is how you move from planet to planet." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | The woman turns to you. A jagged scar runs diagonally across her Floyd | unnaturally beautiful face and her right arm has been replaced with a Floyd | cheap robotic claw. "My name's Aurea," she says. "And you need money." Floyd | Floyd | She's not wrong. Floyd | Floyd | "I can get you ten million creds," she continues. "If you can get me Floyd | to Haven. Yes, that Haven - the one inside Hardshell." Floyd | Floyd | This whole thing was a wild goose chase. You're only here because Floyd | you're desperate. Floyd | Floyd | The auto-bartender hands her a shot of something glowing blue and she Floyd | throws it back. "Don't look like that, captain. I'm living proof that Floyd | Hardshell's not impenetrable. It's where I came from. Floyd | Take me with you, anyway. I've been starship crew before. I Floyd | might be useful." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Somehow I guess that defaulted to Szy." | |
| Guenni says, "Since you don't know any other planets yet, it won't really work." | ||
| DavidW says, "We just learned about Haven." | ||
| Guenni says, "But we're already there." | ||
| DavidW says, "Take Aurea." | ||
| DavidW says, "We're on Boony, not Haven." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take aurea" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE AUREA Floyd | Floyd | Aurea climbs aboard and slides into the co-pilot's seat. "Okay, let's Floyd | launch. Unless you want to check your ship's status Floyd | first." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Seems like fuel might be a thing" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 0k (That is to say: you're broke.) Floyd | Equipment: spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, Aurea and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 2/5 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | debt note, flight manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | nothing Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni wonders why that wasn't read to her. | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | There's nowhere to refuel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "be back." | |
| DavidW says, "We didn't even talk to the bartender for gossip." | ||
| Guenni goes home. | ||
| Guenni arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to bartender" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BARTENDER Floyd | Floyd | The automated bartender babbles a few platitudes from a broken voice Floyd | recording. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We can try. We haven't left -- yeah" | |
| DavidW says, "oh. I'm so confused where we are." | ||
| DavidW says, "We seem to be both inside and outside the ship." | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess the bartender is useless." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "order drink" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > ORDER DRINK Floyd | Floyd | The automated bartender serves a glass of your favourite poison. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess that does mean we don't have to explicitely board the ship." | |
| DavidW asks, "I don't suppose we can go north and find a loose gold nugget on this rock?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | To move: jump to worlds you have heard of, land and Floyd | launch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "NOPE" | |
| DavidW says, "wow. One-room planets." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Single room planets. Convenient, but not particularly realistic." | ||
| DavidW says, "And no-room ships." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This is exactly the sort of reaction CEJ Pacian hopes for from parser peeps." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You realize that, right? You're just falling into his web." | ||
| DavidW says, "I cannot, of course, deny Pacian anything. He is a god." | ||
| Guenni says, "@mute all" | ||
| Guenni says, "Ilac C as in command." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We'll wait a second for you to get that sorted, Guenni." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So, what happens if we go to Haven right away? We get money and lose a crewmember?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suspect the haven quest won't be so easily achieved." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to KO), "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But we should try anyway" | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's talk to her again. Maybe she can mention other planets." | ||
| Guenni says, "The game usually isn't mean, or wants you to be mean." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Guenni), "You all set to go? Your client is configured how you want it?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, shall we?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Like I said. I'll just watch." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Launch us into orbit." | ||
| Jacqueline. o O (Why am I so darn tired? Again?) | ||
| Guenni says, "So no need to wait on my behalf this time." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump to haven" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO HAVEN Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Boony Floyd | A grey, airless world, left lopsided by some ancient cataclysm. Floyd | Floyd | Aurea rests her space boots on the dashboard. "You want to learn more Floyd | about Hardshell, you should jump to Lonely Rock, talk to Cifez. Floyd | But you're the captain, of course." Floyd | Floyd | You could try jumping into Hardshell, but not knowing where anything Floyd | is inside it, you'd probably materialise inside solid matter - just Floyd | like every other idiot who ever tried it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. jump to lonely rock." | |
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess Hardshell earns its name in a few ways." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump to lonely rock" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO LONELY ROCK Floyd | Floyd | A low drone begins to emanate from the heart of your ship, rising in Floyd | pitch and intensity. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | pitch and intensity.Slowly, a feeling of falling, of pitched Floyd | acceleration begins to grow in the pit of your stomach. The universe Floyd | elongates - stretching into a single line. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | elongates - stretching into a single line.Blinding light. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | elongates - stretching into a single line.Blinding light.Deafening Floyd | white noise. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | white noise.(The fuel warning light blinks on.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Lonely Rock Floyd | Though it's not as bright as any star, the luminescence of Hardshell Floyd | dominates the sky: a furrowed, flesh-and-metal sphere enclosing the Floyd | entire star system. The entire star system, that is, except the Floyd | irregular planetoid below; a little left over chunk of rock and ice. Floyd | Floyd | An automated, meteor-shredded fuel station in low orbit offers the Floyd | chance to refuel. Or it would if you weren't broke. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I hope that is a one-time thing." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Same" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That was way too many spaces." | ||
| Guenni says, "I don't remember that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But, well, we *are* in space." | ||
| Guenni says, "Heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Lonely Rock Floyd | The horizon bends precipitously and asymmetrically. The only Floyd | habitation is a single transparent dome. Floyd | Floyd | A charity worker of uncertain origin has set up a refuge in the dome. Floyd | His name badge reads simply "Cifez". Floyd | Floyd | Rufo-C maintains a radio telescope directed at Hardshell. Floyd | Floyd | Belisent the Unready lives quietly in the dome's shadows. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're a charity." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "But flesh-and-metal? What is Hardshell then?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to cifez" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CIFEZ Floyd | Floyd | Cifez is a tousle-haired man, not quite young any more, wearing a Floyd | practical jumpsuit. Floyd | Floyd | "Aurea," he says, noticing your companion. "Never thought I'd see you Floyd | again." Floyd | Floyd | "I want to get back in. To go home." Floyd | Floyd | "Really?" He studies her carefully for a moment. "Didn't you say it Floyd | was someone by the name of Prex who helped you escape?" Floyd | Floyd | Aurea nods. "He helped a lot of us out." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, he passed through here himself a while back. Guess if he knew Floyd | how to get out, he might know how to get back in." Floyd | Floyd | "Things must be really bad in there," Aurea says, "if Prex gave up on Floyd | it. Where did he wind up?" Floyd | Floyd | Cifez sighs. "Somehow he caught the attention of the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth. Some official types took him away. To Pearl Floyd | probably. I don't think he was a prisoner or anything, if that makes a Floyd | difference." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aw. Not quite young any more. That's me. A man on the street addressed me as 'young lady' yesterday, which surprised me, but then I noted that he was, like, 70." | |
| DavidW says, "Cifez it to say" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay: ba-dum-TISH" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to cifez" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CIFEZ Floyd | Floyd | Cifez is a tousle-haired man, not quite young any more, wearing a Floyd | practical jumpsuit. Floyd | Floyd | "Prex went to Pearl, I think. After that, the flow of refugees Floyd | slowed considerably." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We have that certain Aurea about us." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to cifez" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CIFEZ Floyd | Floyd | Cifez is a tousle-haired man, not quite young any more, wearing a Floyd | practical jumpsuit. Floyd | Floyd | "Prex went to Pearl, I think. After that, the flow of refugees Floyd | slowed considerably." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay then. Enough conversation." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to rufo-c" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RUFO-C Floyd | Floyd | A young man with flawless hair and features, wearing cheap, eclectic Floyd | clothes. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, hey. I, um, just maintain this equipment for Dr Vosov-R. Floyd | Of course, this is small fry, but after what happened we had to scale Floyd | back our operation." Floyd | Floyd | Aurea steps right up to him. "What do you mean, exactly?" Floyd | Floyd | He shrinks back nervously. "We, uh, landed on the surface of Floyd | Hardshell. The doc wanted to try and map the interior with his Floyd | neutrino scanner. But, as soon as we started, the shell reacted pretty Floyd | badly. We had to get out of there. No-one died or anything, but our Floyd | grant was cut." Floyd | Floyd | "And where is the doctor now?" Floyd | Floyd | Rufo shrugs. "Probably back on Diallo. He's more a theory guy Floyd | than a field guy like, um, me." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can Diallo it back." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to belisent" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BELISENT Floyd | Floyd | Rags are heaped high on this ageless woman. A lock of fiery red hair Floyd | escapes her makeshift wimple. Floyd | Floyd | Aurea blocks her path. "You're still here, Belisent?" Floyd | Floyd | The woman seems to consider trying to shuffle away, then meets Aurea's Floyd | gaze. "Just wanted to get out. Didn't need to go far." Floyd | Floyd | "I'm trying to get back in." Floyd | Floyd | Belisent remains expressionless. "You're an idiot." After a second, Floyd | she adds, "But you're not alone. Barbarians jumped a whole fleet into Floyd | the World. Picked up some of the panic even out here. Only one ship Floyd | made it back out, of course." Floyd | Floyd | "Who?" Floyd | Floyd | "I only got snatches. Patchwork people; all different pieces stitched Floyd | together. A name, perhaps: Viscera." Floyd | Floyd | Aurea clenches her remaining natural hand. "Amalgs." Floyd | Floyd | "Barbarians," Belisent says, shambling off. "Just like they said." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Wish you could see the expression on my face just now. Please, do keep it up." | |
| DavidW says, "We got quite a few place names." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+ Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "prospects" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > PROSPECTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a command you need to use. Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to belisent" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BELISENT Floyd | Floyd | Rags are heaped high on this ageless woman. A lock of fiery red hair Floyd | escapes her makeshift wimple. Floyd | Floyd | "I gave you the name Viscera. Now leave me alone." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "One conversation exchange per person. Efficient." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trading log" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRADING LOG Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -None Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "refule" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFULE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a command you need to use. Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | There's nowhere to refuel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I was hoping the maps of all those places were recorded somewhere." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I think we need to lauch to refuel." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+ Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to KO), "So it would seem" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Of course, we have no money either." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "She has money" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It would be in her best interest to refuel us" | ||
| DavidW says, "We need money to refuel before we can go anywhere." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Lonely Rock Floyd | Though it's not as bright as any star, the luminescence of Hardshell Floyd | dominates the sky: a furrowed, flesh-and-metal sphere enclosing the Floyd | entire star system. The entire star system, that is, except the Floyd | irregular planetoid below; a little left over chunk of rock and ice. Floyd | Floyd | An automated, meteor-shredded fuel station in low orbit offers the Floyd | chance to refuel. Or it would if you weren't broke. Floyd | Floyd | "You know we've only got enough fuel for one more jump, Floyd | right?" Aurea says. "We should head to somewhere in the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth. The hyperspace gates'll let us jump between Commonwealth Floyd | worlds without using up any fusion cells." Floyd | Floyd | "And hey," she adds, "don't forget we're in this together. You need Floyd | help, you talk to me, okay?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record viscera" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD VISCERA Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD PEARL Floyd | Floyd | You record Pearl in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So I guess she's not paying for gas." | |
| DavidW asks, "Which places are in the Commonwealth?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump to" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to jump to? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "(I was hoping it would give us the list)" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 0k (That is to say: you're broke.) Floyd | Equipment: spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, Aurea and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 1/5 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | debt note, flight manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | nothing Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record diallo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD DIALLO Floyd | Floyd | You record Diallo in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record viscera" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD VISCERA Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read log" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LOG Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the ship's log or the trading log? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Pearl is in the Commonwealth." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read ship's log" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SHIP'S LOG Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+ Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Pearl and Diallo Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "And that dude is there." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, Pearl?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump Pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP PEARL Floyd | Floyd | (Red lights blink on around the cockpit. You're out of fuel.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pearl Floyd | Moon of a storm-bedecked gas giant, jewel of the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth: a world of blue seas, green continents and white clouds. Floyd | Its night side glitters with artificial light. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth Courier Co. has a floodlit spindle in low orbit. Floyd | Viktoria doles out the packages, as ever. Floyd | Floyd | A dejected freighter captain is awaiting repairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Can you have seas and continents on a gas giant?" | |
| DavidW says, "Gassy seas, I suppose." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to viktoria" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO VIKTORIA Floyd | Floyd | Viktoria's a stocky woman in a baggy flight suit, sleeves rolled up to Floyd | her elbows. Floyd | Floyd | "You heading to Khamsin? Got a package for Chief Drake. 1k credits if Floyd | you deliver it and get back here in one piece." Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | Knight_Otu says, "No, but on the moons." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, ah. Yeah. Got it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oooooooh. A stock-standard quest." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take package" | ||
Floyd | (yes/no)>
Floyd | > TAKE PACKAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | Please answer yes or no.> Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, captain. See you when you're done." Floyd | Floyd | You store the package in your hold. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "And no fuel to deliver it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record khamsin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD KHAMSIN Floyd | Floyd | You record Khamsin in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "shhhh. Don't let her hear that, KO" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "But maybe it's in that network." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Hoping." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to freighter captain" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FREIGHTER CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | Your comm screen shows only static as the captain drones lugubriously Floyd | across the link. Floyd | Floyd | "Just got this piece of junk overhauled at Cygnet and it crapped out Floyd | after one jump. Now my buyer's nowhere to be seen and the parts I need Floyd | are on order from the back end of nowhere." Floyd | Floyd | He sighs heavily. "Look, captain, if you'll buy this crate of Floyd | Khamsin red wine for 2k credits it'll really help me out. Worth Floyd | more to a connoisseur, but where am I gonna find one of those in orbit Floyd | around Pearl?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "It should be." | |
| DavidW says, "I have no idea if Khamsin the Commonwealth or not." | ||
| Guenni says, "you could check the map." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Does the map say such detail?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl (need heat shield) Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+ Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Khamsin and Diallo Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "not if we haven't been there yet." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, this is generally not my type of game. I'm going to pretend it's goat-fox-cheese set in space with fuel and money issues." | ||
| Guenni says, "Obviously only after you visited." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump khamsin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP KHAMSIN Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to chief" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CHIEF Floyd | Floyd | "This is dangerous work, but it pays well. Uh, no, there aren't any Floyd | openings at the moment." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give package to chief" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PACKAGE TO CHIEF Floyd | Floyd | "Perfect. It's so hard to get fresh fruit here. My team will be Floyd | delighted." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "And... then just jump back?" | |
| DavidW says, "yup" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline keeps waiting for the other space shoe to drop. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP PEARL Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pearl Floyd | Moon of a storm-bedecked gas giant, jewel of the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth: a world of blue seas, green continents and white clouds. Floyd | Its night side glitters with artificial light. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth Courier Co. has a floodlit spindle in low orbit. Floyd | Viktoria doles out the packages, as ever. Floyd | Floyd | A dejected freighter captain is awaiting repairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Hey it's the first mission." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to viktoria" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO VIKTORIA Floyd | Floyd | Viktoria's a stocky woman in a baggy flight suit, sleeves rolled up to Floyd | her elbows. Floyd | Floyd | "Nice work, captain. Here's your creds. Come talk to me if you want Floyd | more work." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Shame there's no receipt to prove we didn't drop the package into the sun." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "1k down, 4999k to go." | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "HHeh!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to viktoria" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO VIKTORIA Floyd | Floyd | Viktoria's a stocky woman in a baggy flight suit, sleeves rolled up to Floyd | her elbows. Floyd | Floyd | "Want to run another delivery for 1k? This one's for Grayson at Floyd | Cygnet." Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | Jacqueline asks, "Is this how we want to grind?" | |
| DavidW says, "I don't know." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Probably not long-term." | ||
| DavidW says, "I still don't have a good grasp of the possibilities." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Same" | ||
| Guenni says, "No, there are better paying jobs out there." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But we earn another thousand and then we can buy this wine" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And maybe mark it up somewhere." | ||
| DavidW asks, "How much does refueling cost?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That is true." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I feel like I'm playing Mount & Blade." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Alright, let's get this wine. One sec." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Keep your fingers crossed that I don't run into a space monster.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, captain. See you when you're done." Floyd | Floyd | You store the package in your hold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump cygnet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP CYGNET Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to grayson" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GRAYSON Floyd | Floyd | You order a shot of your favourite poison. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson nods his tattooed head and slides the glass to you across the Floyd | bar. "You won't find better grog in the Commonwealth, short of Floyd | visiting my dear old home of Nereus." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give package" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PACKAGE Floyd | Floyd | (to Grayson) Floyd | "Ah... More of the secret ingredient for my famous Antimatter Bomb. Floyd | Relax, captain: it's just a cocktail." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to traveller" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TRAVELLER Floyd | Floyd | The traveller raises his tankard. "No heat shield, so I can't make Floyd | atmo. No headjack, so I can't talk to weird cyborgs. No visa chip, so Floyd | I can't see the Imago Republic. But this place... it always welcomes Floyd | me with open arms." Floyd | Floyd | Grayson sighs. "I think you've had enough, old man." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record nereus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD NEREUS Floyd | Floyd | You record Nereus in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So he might need heat shield or headjack or visa chip or something" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "KO, keeping notes?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Trying to at least." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x log" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOG Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the ship's log or the trading log? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trading log" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRADING LOG Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -None Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -dejected freighter captain, selling a crate of Khamsin red (Pearl) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm no longer thinking of this as fox-goat-cheese. It is now making me think of The Old Woman and Her Pig." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. This dude isn't listed as an opportunity" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP PEARL Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pearl Floyd | Moon of a storm-bedecked gas giant, jewel of the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth: a world of blue seas, green continents and white clouds. Floyd | Its night side glitters with artificial light. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth Courier Co. has a floodlit spindle in low orbit. Floyd | Viktoria doles out the packages, as ever. Floyd | Floyd | A dejected freighter captain is awaiting repairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to viktoria" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 2k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO VIKTORIA Floyd | Floyd | Viktoria's a stocky woman in a baggy flight suit, sleeves rolled up to Floyd | her elbows. Floyd | Floyd | "Nice work, captain. Here's your creds. Come talk to me if you want Floyd | more work." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to captain" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 2k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CAPTAIN Floyd | Floyd | Your comm screen shows only static as the captain drones lugubriously Floyd | across the link. Floyd | Floyd | "Just got this piece of junk overhauled at Cygnet and it crapped out Floyd | after one jump. Now my buyer's nowhere to be seen and the parts I need Floyd | are on order from the back end of nowhere." Floyd | Floyd | He sighs heavily. "Look, captain, if you'll buy this crate of Floyd | Khamsin red wine for 2k credits it'll really help me out. Worth Floyd | more to a connoisseur, but where am I gonna find one of those in orbit Floyd | around Pearl?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "How much is fuel?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. No idea." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So you want to sell the wine to Grayson?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I wasn't sure who I was selling it to, but I wanted to see what he'd give us, yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Might be an option." | ||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 2k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take wine" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WINE Floyd | Floyd | Buy the crate of Khamsin red for 2k credits? Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You buy the crate of Khamsin red for 2k credits, leaving you with 0 Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump khamsin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP KHAMSIN Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Wrong place, right. Or should we see what Drake offers?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Talk to him, I suppose." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "The wine's from here, so I suspect it'll be little?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to drake" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DRAKE Floyd | Floyd | "This is dangerous work, but it pays well. Uh, no, there aren't any Floyd | openings at the moment." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give wine" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE WINE Floyd | Floyd | Whom do you want to give the crate of Khamsin red to? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drake" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRAKE Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake is not interested in trade. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There ya go" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump cygnet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP CYGNET Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give wine to grayson" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE WINE TO GRAYSON Floyd | Floyd | "Captain, I order my booze special. I'm very particular about it. I Floyd | certainly don't serve my valued customers the piss that Khamsin passes Floyd | for wine." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Golly" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Ouch." | ||
| DavidW asks, "The bartender back on Booty?" | ||
| Guenni asks, "You're aware that you didn't land yet?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Can't get there without fuel." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record imago republic" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD IMAGO REPUBLIC Floyd | Floyd | The Imago Republic is a nation of multiple worlds. You can only jump Floyd | to one at a time. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, like the commonwealth" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Whoops. Crud. I have a small emergency." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I need someone else to drive. I will hopefully be back." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess we can land on the airless ..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Good luck there." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Knight), "Where were you thinking of going?" | ||
| Guenni says, "You might try landing on all of them." | ||
| DavidW says, "We could do another run for Victoria if our hold isn't full." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think we can land here and khasmin." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to szy" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SZY Floyd | Floyd | Szy lurks in the bowels of your starship, doting over the core Floyd | systems. A bit too much radiation exposure has left him a Floyd | cybernetically-preserved head floating - detached and jawless - in the Floyd | space helmet of a heavily patched old EVA suit. Floyd | Floyd | His simulated voice rasps and crackles. "Come to listen to an old Floyd | reactor tech prattle on, captain?" Floyd | Floyd | (Press Z to listen. Press any other key to say farewell.) | DavidW says, "Cyberpunk might want the wine. The clerk might have a job for us." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | (Press Z to listen. Press any other key to say Floyd | farewell.)"Jumping between Commonwealth worlds will rest our poor Floyd | jump drive. And aren't there a few Commonwealth worlds we haven't Floyd | stopped by yet?" Floyd | Floyd | (Press Z to listen. Press any other key to say farewell.) | Knight_Otu says, "yeah." | |
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | (Press Z to listen. Press any other key to say Floyd | farewell.)Szymon returns to work. "Don't be a stranger, captain." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to clerk" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CLERK Floyd | Floyd | "Everything is always a mess; everything is wrongly ordered, Floyd | misdelivered, undelivered and late. Say, captain, want to buy a Floyd | large oxygen canister for 2k credits? I need to get it off my Floyd | landing pad to make way for a million other mistakes that haven't Floyd | happened yet." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Something to keep in mind." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to punk" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PUNK Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, yeah: detente, we're all friends now, forgive and forget. But I Floyd | don't care how long ago the Battle of Franklin was, I can't blame the Floyd | Imago Republic for keeping their borders closed after that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to matej" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MATEJ Floyd | Floyd | Matej is a round-faced man in a comfortable spacesuit. His smile is Floyd | almost as wide as his gut. Floyd | Floyd | "That's a fine ship you have there, captain. But with my help, we can Floyd | make it even better. Here's what I'm selling:" Floyd | Floyd | -sleek heat shield - 10k (atmo entry) Floyd | -wireless headjack - 25k (non-verbal communication) Floyd | -external fuel pod - 10k (+5 fuel) Floyd | -ion booster - 3k (racing speed +1) Floyd | -Diasporan Commonwealth star map - 2k Floyd | -autorevolver - 25k (personal weapon) Floyd | -fishing rod - 2k (allows you to fish) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Racing?!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to devrim" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DEVRIM Floyd | Floyd | Devrim's a wiry, hawkish man in a jumpsuit emblazoned with corporate Floyd | logos. Floyd | Floyd | "I haven't seen you in a while, captain. I suppose there's much more Floyd | lucrative ways for a starship captain to make money than ferrying Floyd | cargo pods into orbit. Still, if you need a few kilocredits, I could Floyd | give you a small job for old time's sake?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | Knight_Otu asks, "Yes/No?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "I've left them on the landing pad. Just take each one into orbit and Floyd | I'll pay you 5k." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take pods" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PODS Floyd | Floyd | cargo pod: The shipping-and-receiving clerk directs a heavy lifter to Floyd | heft the cargo pod into your ship's hold. It just about fits. Floyd | cargo pod: These cargo pods are huge. You only have room in your hold Floyd | for one at a time. Floyd | cargo pod: These cargo pods are huge. You only have room in your hold Floyd | for one at a time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | One of the freighters synchronises its orbit with your starship Floyd | and collects the cargo pod you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see two cargo pods here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take pod" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POD Floyd | Floyd | (the cargo pod) Floyd | The shipping-and-receiving clerk directs a heavy lifter to heft the Floyd | cargo pod into your ship's hold. It just about fits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | One of the freighters synchronises its orbit with your starship Floyd | and collects the cargo pod you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a cargo pod here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take pod" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 0k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POD Floyd | Floyd | (the cargo pod) Floyd | The shipping-and-receiving clerk directs a heavy lifter to heft the Floyd | cargo pod into your ship's hold. It just about fits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | One of the freighters synchronises its orbit with your starship Floyd | and collects the cargo pod you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | You receive a transmission from Devrim. "Thanks, captain. I've Floyd | sent you the credits." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well, we got a bit more there." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to forewoman" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FOREWOMAN Floyd | Floyd | She's tall, loping and silver-shelled. Floyd | Floyd | "My boys and girls give their all. Makes me proud. But they do work up Floyd | an awful thirst." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Thirst for wine?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell wine to forewoman" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL WINE TO FOREWOMAN Floyd | Floyd | "I know a lot of thirsty miners who will really appreciate this. Sure, Floyd | connoisseurs turn their noses up at Khamsin wine, but to us, booze is Floyd | booze. 10k credits good enough for ya?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 15k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 15k. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Thank you, forewoman." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That was a good deal, I'd say." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yep." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Back to Pearl for fuel, or get a heat shield?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Should we buy a map of the Commonwealth?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Fuel is most important, I think." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess we can buy the map." | ||
| Guenni says, "I'm not sure about the map." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY MAP Floyd | Floyd | You buy the Diasporan Commonwealth star map for 2k credits, leaving Floyd | you with 13k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I think you don't really need it." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl (need heat shield), Khamsin (need heat shield), Cygnet+ Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+ Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Nereus and Diallo Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 13k Floyd | Equipment: spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, Aurea and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 0/5 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth star map, debt note, flight manual, ship's log Floyd | and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | nothing Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read star map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ STAR MAP Floyd | Floyd | The following worlds are part of the Diasporan Commonwealth: Pearl, Floyd | Storm, Khamsin, Cygnet, Nereus, Skadi and Autark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ MAP Floyd | Floyd | The following worlds are part of the Diasporan Commonwealth: Pearl, Floyd | Storm, Khamsin, Cygnet, Nereus, Skadi and Autark. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So, we haven't been to some of those." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO PEARL Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pearl Floyd | Moon of a storm-bedecked gas giant, jewel of the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth: a world of blue seas, green continents and white clouds. Floyd | Its night side glitters with artificial light. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth Courier Co. has a floodlit spindle in low orbit. Floyd | Viktoria doles out the packages, as ever. Floyd | Floyd | A dejected freighter captain is awaiting repairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | There's nowhere to refuel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Lonely rock has the fuel." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "And Cygnet." | ||
| Guenni says, "And the fuel station" | ||
| DavidW says, "I missed Cygnet." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to cygnet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO CYGNET Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the industrial fuel rig for 1k Floyd | credits each. 5 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 5 fusion cells out of 5 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "woot" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "So 1 fuel is 1k. Good to know." | ||
| Guenni says, "You can later buy some kind of neverending fuel cells." | ||
| DavidW says, "We should probably stay in the Commonwealth and learn stuff and earn more money." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "True." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Guenni), "That's nice. Can I get one for my brain and tummy?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Okay, so we can't land on Pearl or Khamsin. Follow the map in order for now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to storm" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO STORM Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Storm Floyd | An unbroken layer of cloud leaves this planet an almost featureless Floyd | grey sphere. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth military fleet is in orbit: hulking warships Floyd | ready to jump into trouble at a moment's notice. Floyd | Floyd | Commodore Lyulf commands the planet's considerable orbital Floyd | defence network. Floyd | Floyd | A merchant service fuel tanker services civilian traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to lyulf" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LYULF Floyd | Floyd | An imperiously bearded officer appears on your screen. Floyd | Floyd | "You're welcome to land, captain, but this is a predominantly military Floyd | world. Civilian freighters are better off going to Cygnet." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I suspect we can't land anyway without a heat shield." | |
| DavidW says, "Friends for Lyulf." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Ow." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to nereus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO NEREUS Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to meriel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MERIEL Floyd | Floyd | "I like it up here. Watching the clouds, chatting with the odd space Floyd | captain. Not that I'm calling you odd or anything. Although... Anyway, Floyd | much better than doing national service on Storm. Deserting was the Floyd | best thing I ever did." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess with her, the less, the Meriel." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Nereus has an atmosphere. You'll need a heat shield to get close Floyd | without burning up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to skadi" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SKADI Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Skadi Floyd | A bright white moon, its surface smoothed over by cryovolcanic snow. Floyd | There are very few lights visible on its surface. Floyd | Floyd | A small squadron of private security ships monitor traffic in the Floyd | system, led by the infamous combat synthetic, Kala-D. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Heat shield is getting to be a top wish-list item." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to kala-d" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO KALA-D Floyd | Floyd | A harsh, authoritarian voice over the comm: "Traffic in orbit around Floyd | Skadi is strictly monitored. No dumping space junk; no smuggling flora Floyd | or fauna; no deviating from your designated landing path. We are Floyd | authorised to use lethal force." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yee-ikes." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Subsurface of Skadi Floyd | A sealed, metal-sided citadel grasps the underside of the frozen Floyd | surface: an upside-down, underwater city. Plant fronds dangle into Floyd | depths where strange silhouettes swim and dart. Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine is a way of life on Skadi. Most citizens wear cleansuits Floyd | and face masks. Floyd | Floyd | Many parts of the city are closed to you, but the canteen run by Floyd | Chef Elin and Chef Iason is open to all. Floyd | Floyd | A researcher picks sadly at his food in the canteen. Floyd | Floyd | A red hot diver melts through the ice far from the city. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the creatures from the Wizard of Oz that threatened Dorothy were called the Kalidah." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to elin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ELIN Floyd | Floyd | A big, red cheeked woman with an infectious smile. Floyd | Floyd | "Iason learned to cook in the military, serving slop to the troops on Floyd | Storm. To him everything is meat, meat, meat. But if I had the right Floyd | ingredients I could cook a vegetarian meal that would knock everyone's Floyd | socks off." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I only know the first book." | |
| DavidW says, "That is in the first book." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Is the canteen called Iason and the Elin-auts?" | ||
| Guenni says, "In German. And read it about 25 years ago." | ||
| DavidW says (to Knight), "Possibly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to iason" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO IASON Floyd | Floyd | He hacks into slabs of meat, violently, with a sizeable cleaver. Floyd | Floyd | "People in this city live their whole lives being told not to touch Floyd | the animals. So naturally, they want to eat animals. It Floyd | satisfies a deep urge to rebel. But the meat I have to work with Floyd | here... Abysmal." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "So these two basically want us to smuggle flora and fauna?" | |
| DavidW says, "Jack Sprat could eat no veg. His wife could eat no meat. And yet between the two of them, they make a menu complete." | ||
| Guenni says, "I think more like former flora and fauna." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to researcher" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RESEARCHER Floyd | Floyd | "Yeuch. I know this place is a research facility and not a pleasure Floyd | resort, but the slop they serve here is unbearable." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to diver" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DIVER Floyd | Floyd | Steam rises from her wetsuit. Empty jars clink at her belt. She levels Floyd | a harpoon gun at you, in a not-too-unfriendly kind of way. Floyd | Floyd | "Unauthorised specimen. 2k. Cross me and regret it." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I bet that world Meriel was at has all the food we want." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "What a friendly bunch here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to David), "Quite possibly." | ||
| Guenni says, "Not everyone can have the grinch's sunny disposition." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Does the diver want a red herring or is that what she's selling?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "prospects" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > PROSPECTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a command you need to use. Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Crud. Now three emergencies, simultaneously. Guess I will not be back, which sucks because I was kinda starting to get into this." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read trading log" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ TRADING LOG Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -shipping-and-receiving clerk, selling a large oxygen canister Floyd | (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -red hot diver, selling an unauthorised specimen (Subsurface of Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | Chef Elin (Subsurface of Skadi), Chef Iason (Subsurface of Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yikes" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Ouch. Hope things get better soon." | ||
| Guenni says, "Oi, hope your sunday isn't completely messed up because of it." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
| Guenni says, "Erm your twin is waiting for his rescue... :-)" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sorry." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Skadi Floyd | A bright white moon, its surface smoothed over by cryovolcanic snow. Floyd | There are very few lights visible on its surface. Floyd | Floyd | A small squadron of private security ships monitor traffic in the Floyd | system, led by the infamous combat synthetic, Kala-D. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Well, I want a heat shield next. If we can afford it from Matej, buy it. If not, maybe haul more pods." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to cygnet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO CYGNET Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to devrin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DEVRIN Floyd | Floyd | That's not something within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to devrim" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DEVRIM Floyd | Floyd | Devrim's a wiry, hawkish man in a jumpsuit emblazoned with corporate Floyd | logos. Floyd | Floyd | "Got a few cargo pods to ferry into orbit if you want to make a few Floyd | kilocredits?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "I've left them on the landing pad. Just take each one into orbit and Floyd | I'll pay you 5k." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take pod" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POD Floyd | Floyd | (the cargo pod) Floyd | The shipping-and-receiving clerk directs a heavy lifter to heft the Floyd | cargo pod into your ship's hold. It just about fits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "lauch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUCH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a command you need to use. Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | One of the freighters synchronises its orbit with your starship Floyd | and collects the cargo pod you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sometimes, I just can't type." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see two cargo pods here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take pod" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POD Floyd | Floyd | (the cargo pod) Floyd | The shipping-and-receiving clerk directs a heavy lifter to heft the Floyd | cargo pod into your ship's hold. It just about fits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | One of the freighters synchronises its orbit with your starship Floyd | and collects the cargo pod you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a cargo pod here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take pod" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 8k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POD Floyd | Floyd | (the cargo pod) Floyd | The shipping-and-receiving clerk directs a heavy lifter to heft the Floyd | cargo pod into your ship's hold. It just about fits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | One of the freighters synchronises its orbit with your starship Floyd | and collects the cargo pod you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | You receive a transmission from Devrim. "Thanks, captain. I've Floyd | sent you the credits." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy heat shield" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY HEAT SHIELD Floyd | Floyd | You buy the sleek heat shield for 10k credits, leaving you with 3k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "There we go." | |
| DavidW says, "yay" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO PEARL Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pearl Floyd | Moon of a storm-bedecked gas giant, jewel of the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth: a world of blue seas, green continents and white clouds. Floyd | Its night side glitters with artificial light. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth Courier Co. has a floodlit spindle in low orbit. Floyd | Viktoria doles out the packages, as ever. Floyd | Floyd | A dejected freighter captain is awaiting repairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Where's that nice blue world?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Pearl Floyd | Blue skies; carefully managed fields and forests; air that's almost Floyd | baseline-breathable. Elevated highways pass over the greenery with Floyd | minimal impact, tangling together at the foot of narrow skyscrapers. Floyd | Floyd | The tallest spire reaches towards the gas giant above, satellite Floyd | towers splitting off like branches: the Commonwealth Building itself. Floyd | A cyborg representative allows citizens to query the government Floyd | systems. Floyd | Floyd | The ambassador from the Imago Republic maintains a penthouse Floyd | embassy. Floyd | Floyd | Besnik's small knickknack shop stands on splayed stilts, trees Floyd | leaning out from beneath it in search of sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | The landing pad is maintained by the shellskin, Katalin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. govt stuff." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It's the capital world." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cyborg" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CYBORG Floyd | Floyd | A friendly face on the end of thick, articulated data hoses. Floyd | Floyd | "How can I help you?" Floyd | Floyd | Aurea steps forward, golden hair billowing improbably. "I'm looking Floyd | for someone by the name of Prex. He originated on Haven. And he might Floyd | have given his full name as Praxiteles the Unsatisfied." Floyd | Floyd | The representative thinks for the briefest moment. "Prex. Biological Floyd | classification: human, other, modified. Granted asylum approximately Floyd | three cycles ago. After fifty days, he boarded a transport bound for Floyd | Jarland. No other public information is available." Floyd | Floyd | Aurea frowns. "Jarland? And yes, captain, before you ask, I have a Floyd | dumb name too. No, I'm not telling you what it is." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record jarland" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD JARLAND Floyd | Floyd | You record Jarland in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I'll bet Jarland is Imago territory and we need a visa." | |
| DavidW says, "oh, probably." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to ambassador" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AMBASSADOR Floyd | Floyd | The ambassador is an unnaturally dignified woman in a neat business Floyd | suit. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry," she tells you, "but I have no authority over the Floyd | distribution of visa chips. The Immigration Ministry on Venter Floyd | controls access to the Republic." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "record venter" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD VENTER Floyd | Floyd | You record Venter in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to besnik" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BESNIK Floyd | Floyd | Besnik's carefully cultivated oddball persona is completed by a Floyd | patched waistcoat and antique pince-nez glasses. Floyd | Floyd | "Not got much here that'll interest a space captain. This autodoc Floyd | unit maybe? It's a curio by modern standards, but some folks out Floyd | there in the black might be lucky to have it. I'll let you take it Floyd | away it for 2k credits." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "A lot of things we can buy for 2k." | |
| DavidW says, "mm" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to katalin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO KATALIN Floyd | Floyd | The sun gleams off her opalescent skin. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, I know, a shellskin living on the most hospitable world in the Floyd | Commonwealth. I've heard it all before. I may not need air, but I like Floyd | forests and fields. And vacuum is only a short hop away, in any case." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "So shellskins are humans modified for vacuum survival." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read trading log" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ TRADING LOG Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -Besnik, selling an autodoc unit (Surface of Pearl) Floyd | -shipping-and-receiving clerk, selling a large oxygen canister Floyd | (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -red hot diver, selling an unauthorised specimen (Subsurface of Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | Chef Elin (Subsurface of Skadi), Chef Iason (Subsurface of Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh." | |
| DavidW says, "I was imagining a snail that talks." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I had to piece it together." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm not sure yet that whether there are nonhuman sapients." | ||
| Guenni says, "I actually never really thought about it." | ||
| DavidW says, "In a multi-planet game, I assume there's oodles of species." | ||
| DavidW says, "It didn't even occur to me that it's all modified humans." | ||
| Guenni says, "I don't think they all are." | ||
| DavidW says, "Well, obviously some aren't modified at all." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We don't know of any actual aliens yet, I think." | ||
| Guenni says, "Not all have homo sapiens origins I think." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe Aurea's golden hair that billows improbably is an alien symbiote." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Should we buy that autodoc before searching the other systems?" | ||
| Guenni says, "You're not done in this one, Ithink." | ||
| Guenni says, "But I could be wrong since I had to step away for some minutes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think I talked to everyone." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to aurea" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUREA Floyd | Floyd | An unnaturally beautiful, golden-haired woman with a jagged scar Floyd | across her face and a cheap robotic arm. She slouches in the Floyd | co-pilot's seat. Floyd | Floyd | "Prex knows more than anyone about getting out of Hardshell, so Floyd | hopefully he can get me back in. He was last seen heading to Jarland." Floyd | Floyd | "We should be on the lookout for an amalg called Viscera." Floyd | Floyd | "Dr Vosov-R on Diallo tried to scan Hardshell or something." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I meant all planets in the common wealth." | |
| DavidW says, "I worry about buying things that might use up space when we don't know where to sell it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suppose that's a concern." | ||
| DavidW says, "We haven't landed on all the planets in the commonwealth yet." | ||
| Guenni says, "I don't think it is. But wouldn't swear on it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Guenni), "Yeah, I wanted to explore the commonwealth worlds." | ||
| Guenni says, "Oh, ok. Because you wrote systems. I thought you wanted to go further away." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I was under the impression the worlds are all in different systems for the most part." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But maybe I missed something." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pearl Floyd | Moon of a storm-bedecked gas giant, jewel of the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth: a world of blue seas, green continents and white clouds. Floyd | Its night side glitters with artificial light. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth Courier Co. has a floodlit spindle in low orbit. Floyd | Viktoria doles out the packages, as ever. Floyd | Floyd | A dejected freighter captain is awaiting repairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I guess we mean different things when saying systems. :-)" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to storm" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO STORM Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Storm Floyd | An unbroken layer of cloud leaves this planet an almost featureless Floyd | grey sphere. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth military fleet is in orbit: hulking warships Floyd | ready to jump into trouble at a moment's notice. Floyd | Floyd | Commodore Lyulf commands the planet's considerable orbital Floyd | defence network. Floyd | Floyd | A merchant service fuel tanker services civilian traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Storm Floyd | Rain pelts down from the thick clouds above, feeding rivers that wind Floyd | through warped and improbable rock formations. Air pressure and Floyd | temperature are tolerable, but the pure carbon dioxide atmosphere is Floyd | unbreathable for even the hardiest diasporans. Every building - Floyd | civilian or military - is a robust fortress or sunken bunker. Floyd | Overground traffic consists of a few rugged all-terrain rovers. Floyd | Floyd | A uniformed general meticulously maintains his garden under a Floyd | reinforced dome. Floyd | Floyd | An off-duty soldier throws back drinks in an underground bar. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting in the lee of an austere building, military-issue breather Floyd | mask held over his face, is a homeless veteran. Floyd | Floyd | A combat synthetic skulks around the landing pad in ill-fitting Floyd | civilian clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Btw, I think you can jump without having to launch first." | |
| DavidW says, "oo, a garden" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess that might be." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to general" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GENERAL Floyd | Floyd | He wears mixed-terrain camouflage fatigues and brightly coloured Floyd | gardening gloves. Floyd | Floyd | "Good day, captain. Admiring my little domed oasis? Those spiked Floyd | bubble-plants are from Khamsin. The pond vines are descended from Floyd | native Skadi flora. And that willow tree? Well, I picked it up during Floyd | a police action on Unity. It has sentimental value, even if it's ugly Floyd | as sin." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Unity?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record unity" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD UNITY Floyd | Floyd | You record Unity in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Must be in Imago space I imagine." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Well, not "must."" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to soldier" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SOLDIER Floyd | Floyd | "Cyborgs to the left of us, bioroids to the right. The Commonwealth's Floyd | the only place left where you can find true humans." Her Floyd | gills swell with suppressed rage. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "afk for a few. Bathroom break needed." | |
| Knight_Otu wonders what a "true" human looks like in this universe. | ||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to veteran" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO VETERAN Floyd | Floyd | "You're a vagabond, captain? Me too. Used my old buddies still in the Floyd | service to get hold of this classified intelligence report, Floyd | fresh up-to-date. Gotta be worth at least 5k credits. I don't want to Floyd | know what you do with it. I don't care. Gave my heart and soul at the Floyd | Battle of Franklin and damned if I got any loyalty back from them Floyd | after." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I have to admit, I'm also getting tired early." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record franklin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD FRANKLIN Floyd | Floyd | You record Franklin in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Do you want a short session today then?" | |
| DavidW asks, "maybe?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to synthetic" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SYNTHETIC Floyd | Floyd | "Please. My name is Link-J. They made me to kill, but I don't want to. Floyd | Please, take me to Venter so I can be with my people. I only Floyd | have 13k credits, but it's all yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I still want to see the surface of Meriel's planet." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We can do that." | ||
| DavidW says, "oo, new crew member." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take link" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LINK Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you. I will require little in the way of sustenance." Floyd | Floyd | Link-J moves his few belongings into one of your ship's smaller Floyd | cabins. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Might be a while until we reach Venter." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to nereus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO NEREUS Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Storm Floyd | An unbroken layer of cloud leaves this planet an almost featureless Floyd | grey sphere. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth military fleet is in orbit: hulking warships Floyd | ready to jump into trouble at a moment's notice. Floyd | Floyd | Commodore Lyulf commands the planet's considerable orbital Floyd | defence network. Floyd | Floyd | A merchant service fuel tanker services civilian traffic. Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Probably in the Starbucks system." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Nereus Floyd | Airy, simple buildings break up a multi-coloured and chemically Floyd | unstable mix of diasporan and native flora. The ocean sparkles at the Floyd | horizon in every direction. Floyd | Floyd | Nereus' most famous resident is the radical artist Tomer. Floyd | Floyd | A nervous girl paces the pier, twirling her parasol. Floyd | Floyd | A marine biologist lives out of his submersible, washing strung Floyd | between two palm trees. Floyd | Floyd | A group of surfers lounge around a beach barbecue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Beach planet." | |
| DavidW says, "Hippieville" | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| DavidW says, "please talk to all of them." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to tomer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TOMER Floyd | Floyd | You find him to be surprisingly accessible. Also wild-eyed and Floyd | moustachioed. Floyd | Floyd | "You will buy this decompressionist statue. The last one I will Floyd | ever make. Now I spit on the decompressionists. They are stale and Floyd | trite. 1k credits. I'm charging you too much. I should pay you to take Floyd | this garbage away. But I must eat." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And we can't even examine it." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Starving artists." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUE Floyd | Floyd | You didn't get this far as a space captain by needing to examine Floyd | everything that's plainly in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to girl" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIRL Floyd | Floyd | She notices you from a distance and calls out. "You! Space captain! Floyd | Excellent! I need something romantic and surprising and exotic and Floyd | perfect. You must have found something like that somewhere right? Floyd | Please, it's very important..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "But that's four things at once!" | |
| DavidW asks, "Are oxygen tanks romantic?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I have some doubts about that." | ||
| Guenni says, "I think some plant is." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to biologist" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BIOLOGIST Floyd | Floyd | He shakes his head. "Nereus was settled too early in the diaspora. Floyd | Before we knew better. What I wouldn't give for the quarantine they Floyd | have on Skadi. This ecosystem will never be the same again." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to surfers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SURFERS Floyd | Floyd | Their necks are gilled, their hands and feet webbed. Floyd | Floyd | "Man," one says, "what a mindscrew that Autark is in the Commonwealth Floyd | and Jarland isn't." Floyd | Floyd | Her friend shrugs. "Jarland values its independence, dude." Floyd | Floyd | Another butts in: "And Autark would be just another lawless backwater Floyd | getting owned by the amalgs without the Commonwealth fleet only a gate Floyd | away." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did we ever go to Autark?" | |
| Guenni says, "That's farther away." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "No, we skipped that to get the heat shield." | ||
| Guenni says, "Oh, ok." | ||
| DavidW says, "That's where Niv wants his $$$$, but it's in the Commonwealth." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right, Niv. Almost forgot that guy." | ||
| DavidW says, "Larry Niv." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Shall we do a tour of the remaining commonwealth?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Please." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to khamsin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KHAMSIN Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Khamsin Floyd | Skyscrapers cluster together in the planet's only city, a small Floyd | metropolis at the heart of a barren, dusty wasteland. Floyd | Floyd | A party of robed hunters has made camp outside the city. Floyd | Floyd | A caravan of nomads circumnavigates the planet's tiny ocean. Floyd | Floyd | Rella camps out in the spikelands. Floyd | Floyd | A young man sits playing a handheld game in the shade of the Floyd | landing pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We could also talk to our new crewmember." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to link" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LINK Floyd | Floyd | "Please, when will we arrive at Venter?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh well" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It'll be a bit of an Adventure, Link." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to hunters" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO HUNTERS Floyd | Floyd | Protected from the harsh elements by billowing robes, they peer at you Floyd | through tinted goggles. One of them steps forward to speak halting Floyd | Nacrese. Floyd | Floyd | "This is the last of our sand dragon meat. For 2k." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Iason might want that." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess we could smuggle that to... right." | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh, we have to smuggle it?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't know if it would be smuggling, but that security guy in the system said something about flora and fauna smuggling." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to nomads" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO NOMADS Floyd | Floyd | They walk on elongated, webbed feet and watch you through thickly Floyd | lashed eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "This pilgrimage is harder than even the ancestors decreed. In their Floyd | time this ocean was freshwater. Now it is brine." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to rella" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RELLA Floyd | Floyd | Long, dark-blonde hair spills out around her utilitarian gas mask. Floyd | Floyd | "These lands are harsh and strange, but if you respect them, you can Floyd | still find a home here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | "Why did you even come to this hole? I'm Mirek. I'm tired and I'm Floyd | bored to death. Can I catch a ride to Xanadu? I'll pay you 20k. Floyd | Life is easy there, not like this place." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record Xanadu" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD XANADU Floyd | Floyd | You record Xanadu in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Do we buy the meat?" | |
| DavidW says, "I kinda want to, yes. But I wish I knew if it will be confiscated or not." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 3k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "You can't get into complicated trouble in this game." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy meat" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY MEAT Floyd | Floyd | You buy the sand dragon meat for 2k credits, leaving you with 1k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read trading" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ TRADING Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -Besnik, selling an autodoc unit (Surface of Pearl) Floyd | -homeless veteran, selling a classified intelligence report (Surface Floyd | of Storm) Floyd | -shipping-and-receiving clerk, selling a large oxygen canister Floyd | (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Tomer, selling a decompressionist statue (Surface of Nereus) Floyd | -red hot diver, selling an unauthorised specimen (Subsurface of Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | coastal nomads (Surface of Khamsin), nervous woman (Surface of Floyd | Nereus), Chef Elin (Subsurface of Skadi), Chef Iason (Subsurface of Floyd | Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some sand dragon meat Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of Guenni), "No space jails? No space wars? No space pirates?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I mean, we can buy a personal weapon." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to skadi" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SKADI Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Skadi Floyd | A bright white moon, its surface smoothed over by cryovolcanic snow. Floyd | There are very few lights visible on its surface. Floyd | Floyd | A small squadron of private security ships monitor traffic in the Floyd | system, led by the infamous combat synthetic, Kala-D. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "No jail in which we'll land." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Subsurface of Skadi Floyd | A sealed, metal-sided citadel grasps the underside of the frozen Floyd | surface: an upside-down, underwater city. Plant fronds dangle into Floyd | depths where strange silhouettes swim and dart. Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine is a way of life on Skadi. Most citizens wear cleansuits Floyd | and face masks. Floyd | Floyd | Many parts of the city are closed to you, but the canteen run by Floyd | Chef Elin and Chef Iason is open to all. Floyd | Floyd | A researcher picks sadly at his food in the canteen. Floyd | Floyd | A red hot diver melts through the ice far from the city. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell meat" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 1k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL MEAT Floyd | Floyd | Whom do you want to sell the sand dragon meat to? Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "no boat no phone no motorcar" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "iason" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > IASON Floyd | Floyd | "The meat of a Diasporan animal gone wild. Sand dragon. A delicacy on Floyd | its own world, let alone on this world of limited menus. 11k credits. Floyd | A fair price, you agree?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 12k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Subsurface of Skadi Floyd | A sealed, metal-sided citadel grasps the underside of the frozen Floyd | surface: an upside-down, underwater city. Plant fronds dangle into Floyd | depths where strange silhouettes swim and dart. Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine is a way of life on Skadi. Most citizens wear cleansuits Floyd | and face masks. Floyd | Floyd | Many parts of the city are closed to you, but the canteen run by Floyd | Chef Elin and Chef Iason is open to all. Floyd | Floyd | A researcher eats intermittently in the canteen. Floyd | Floyd | A red hot diver melts through the ice far from the city. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to researcher" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RESEARCHER Floyd | Floyd | "Would you believe it, the food is actually getting better round here? Floyd | It still has its off days, though." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Maybe the researcher has an opportunity for us later." | |
| DavidW says, "hm. The researcher might discover something if the food is better." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Last stop, Autark." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to autark" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO AUTARK Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Skadi Floyd | A bright white moon, its surface smoothed over by cryovolcanic snow. Floyd | There are very few lights visible on its surface. Floyd | Floyd | A small squadron of private security ships monitor traffic in the Floyd | system, led by the infamous combat synthetic, Kala-D. Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Autark Floyd | Airless ice-moon of a black-ringed, aquamarine ice giant. Scattered Floyd | across its surface are bright lights and gaudy megastructures. Floyd | Floyd | An asteroid on an eccentric orbit has been carved into the luxury Floyd | habitat of reclusive trillionaire Leda. Floyd | Floyd | Souped-up ships with huge engines line up in view of a vast-windowed Floyd | habitat. An orbital race overseen by Silver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 12k Floyd | Equipment: spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, Aurea and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 5/5 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Passengers: Floyd | Link-J (Venter) Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth star map, debt note, flight manual, ship's log Floyd | and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | nothing Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to leda" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LEDA Floyd | Floyd | Your transmission is refused immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "But but..." | |
| DavidW says, "I bet if we were Beyonce, she'd talk to us." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't think we're cut out for races yet." | ||
| Guenni says, "She only takes cargo." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to silver" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SILVER Floyd | Floyd | Voluptuous and barely dressed; her hair spills out around her in a Floyd | ridiculous cloud of floating curls. Floyd | Floyd | "This race is a hyperbolic orbit out past the furthest moon. First Floyd | place gets 6k, sixth place 1k. Our sixth racer just pulled out - Floyd | overclocked reactor melting down or something - so even if you come in Floyd | dead last you still make some creds. So, do you wanna race, captain?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | Guenni says, "And you're right about the races." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "I guess it might be a free 1k?" | ||
| Guenni says, "But I think you could make a bit of profit anyway." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5
Floyd | (yes/no)>
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | "What's your ship called, then? Something fast-sounding, I hope."
Floyd |
Floyd | (Your ship is called the)>
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh hey." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Suggestions?" | ||
| Guenni asks, "Zuwarmdraussen please?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hah." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Zu what?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Too hot outside." | ||
| Guenni says, "It's german for to warm outside." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "Zuwarmdraussen" | ||
Floyd | (Your ship is called the)>
Floyd | > ZUWARMDRAUSSEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Let me make sure I got that right. Your ship is the Zuwarmdraussen?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (yes/no)>
| DavidW says, "Swarmdancer" | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | (yes/no)>
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now if you'll just sign these disclaimers, waivers and other things
Floyd | you don't need to read too carefully, you're ready to race!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You line your ship up alongside the other racers and plot your course
Floyd | past the furthest moon from the ice giant. Crowds waving banners press
Floyd | against the habitat's windows, their jubilant cries failing to carry
Floyd | across the vacuum.
Floyd |
Floyd | A glowing hologram of Silver throbs into existence beyond the starting
Floyd | line. "Ready..."
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | line. "Ready...""Set..." | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | line. "Ready...""Set...""GO!" Floyd | Floyd | You slam your ship's throttle to the max. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | You slam your ship's throttle to the max.The other racers, in their Floyd | specialised ships, easily pull away from you, leaving you trailing far Floyd | behind. By the time you reach the finish line, another glass-sided Floyd | habitat, your underdog status seems to have won you some fans. Floyd | Floyd | "And crawling over the finish line in sixth place, it's the Floyd | Zuwarmdraussen! It seems that sometimes you do get a prize Floyd | just for taking part." Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance ticks up 1k to 13k. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu wonders if there's an opportunity to name the captain as well. | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Autark Floyd | Domes and arcologies crowd the horizon: spacious mansions, dirty Floyd | communes, unregulated sweatshops and outlandish temples. Floyd | Floyd | A trendy office neighbours the landing pad, rented out by an Floyd | entrepreneur for unspecified business. Floyd | Floyd | Luciano conducts his business in an avant-garde park, Floyd | talking on multiple comm screens at once. Floyd | Floyd | A cyborg starship pilot drowns her sorrows in a holo-nudie bar. Floyd | Floyd | A legendary data thief by the name of Violet supposedly makes Floyd | Autark her home. Floyd | Floyd | The Snake will be in his private dome, surrounded by Floyd | bodyguards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "That was the one part I never managed." | |
| Guenni says, "I never managed to win a race." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm. Well, we can buy a booster from matej. Maybe multiple ones, too." | ||
| DavidW says, "This seems very Chicago." | ||
| Guenni says, "It's not really important." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to entrepeneur" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ENTREPENEUR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to entrepreneur" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ENTREPRENEUR Floyd | Floyd | She lights a cigarette. "I don't even know how I made a profit on Floyd | Pearl with all that red tape. This place is a paradise." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to luciano" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LUCIANO Floyd | Floyd | A handsome, well-dressed man with a winning smile and immaculate hair. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry, I don't think you have an appointment. Have your people Floyd | call my people." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to pilot" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PILOT Floyd | Floyd | Her silver skull sweeps back to an aerodynamic point. Not to go Floyd | faster. Just to look good. Floyd | Floyd | "Name's spitfire6. Had a few too many close calls out there, but the Floyd | deep black still calls to me. You need a pilot who can dodge amalgs Floyd | for a couple of rounds, I'll work for an upfront fee of 5k." Floyd | Floyd | Pay her 5k credits? Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | "Your loss, captain." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to violet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO VIOLET Floyd | Floyd | Violet only agrees to talk to you on a pre-paid vidphone. It's unclear Floyd | whether the hard-femme punk on the screen is her real appearance or a Floyd | simulation. Floyd | Floyd | "You want in to the Imago Republic and you don't want to jump through Floyd | hoops? I got my hands on a private key from the 'roid Immigration Floyd | Ministry on Venter. Don't ask how. So what I got now is the only Floyd | guaranteed perfect forged visa chip in existence. 45k credits." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well, we have a new goalpost there." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to snake" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SNAKE Floyd | Floyd | A bodyguard stops you at the dome's entrance. "You got five million Floyd | credits, captain? No? Turn around." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Don't we want to go to Venter anyway?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Yeah. Shall we try?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sure" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Autark Floyd | Airless ice-moon of a black-ringed, aquamarine ice giant. Scattered Floyd | across its surface are bright lights and gaudy megastructures. Floyd | Floyd | An asteroid on an eccentric orbit has been carved into the luxury Floyd | habitat of reclusive trillionaire Leda. Floyd | Floyd | Souped-up ships with huge engines line up in view of a vast-windowed Floyd | habitat. An orbital race overseen by Silver. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm about ready to collapse, though." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Last system for today, then." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's an ancient, plasticky synthetic in a pre-Diasporan Floyd | spacesuit and a ten-gallon hat. Floyd | Floyd | "You're looking to make some creds, maybe get a visa chip? Well, Floyd | you're in luck. Unlike some nations I could name, the Imago Republic Floyd | respects sovereign territory. That said, sometimes fugitives from our Floyd | law wind up abroad. To that end we offer sizeable rewards to those who Floyd | can arrest them on our behalf." Floyd | Floyd | He hands you the Imago Republic's most wanted list. "We can Floyd | always use more bounty hunters, captain." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Bounty hunting, eh?" | |
| Guenni says, "Yep." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read wanted list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ WANTED LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - 50k reward Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - 50k reward Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - 50k reward Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - 25k reward Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - 25k reward Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - 25k reward Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "It's very lucrative." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Venter Floyd | A synth-futurist city of wide open spaces and glass-sided buildings Floyd | that would seem almost idyllic were it not sitting in the crater of an Floyd | airless ice moon. Bioroid citizens stroll through the plazas and Floyd | avenues in casual clothes, unbothered by the hard vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | Space-suited refugees form a lengthy queue outside the Border Floyd | Ministry, where they are turned away by a polite official. Floyd | Floyd | Many of the workers at the loading docks are shellskin Floyd | immigrants. Floyd | Floyd | A scruffy scientist sits on his luggage beside the landing pad. Floyd | Floyd | Link-J disembarks, pausing to shake your hand, awkwardly. "My Floyd | journey is far from over, but this part wouldn't have been possible Floyd | without you. Here is the 13k I promised." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I get the strong feeling we have multiple pathways to success, depending on our values." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Bye, Link." | ||
| Guenni says, "read list works." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Shall we save here?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| **** SESSION 2 **** | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did you all finish last week, after I had to run away?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I also tried to replay the beginning part of the game to remind myself what we've done so far." | ||
| Knight_Otu arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "We did not finish, no." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I'm gonna take that as a no." | ||
| Guenni says, "I'm also fine." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Perry is still running, so I'll just keep it in the same transcript." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "One does not simply earn 5 million credits." | ||
| Guenni says, "Not even halfway there yet. I think." | ||
| Guenni says, "And hi Knight." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "We have some 40k, I think?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hi, yes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Golly" | ||
| DavidW says, "We sold our wine, bought a heat shield so we can land on atmospheric worlds, bought a map of the local area, and tried to race our ship for giggles." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We Linked up a passenger, sold the wine, and also got a most wanted list." | ||
| Guenni says, "Which you didn't inspect yet, I think." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember a wanted list." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We also bought and sold some exotic meat." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh right. Forgot about the meat." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The wanted list if we want to go bounty hunting." | ||
| DavidW says, "If we can also sell food plants to the meat buyer's partner, that unlocks something." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This is definitely a game of the old lady and her pig." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I don't know that story." | ||
| Guenni asks, "What's that?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "There are a number of other passengers we could take on, and some goods we could buy." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a favorite of mine from childhood. Basically an old woman buys a pig at market and is walking it home but it won't go over a stile, so she asks dog to bite the pig, but it won't. So she asks a stick (yes, a stick) to beat the dog, because the dog won't bite the pig and the pig won't go over the stile and she won't get home tonight. But thee stick won't." | ||
| Guenni says, "Ah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It goes on like that for some time." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. I remember a MASH episode where there was a long chain of favours." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Also, we are searching for a "friend" of Aurea who is - maybe - somewhere in another nation where we need a visa." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure this game is quite like that. It's just we're finding ever more opportunities for contacts and money." | ||
| DavidW says, "Prex." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, but it's all tasks. I guess that's what's making me think of that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's basically one giant fetch quest." | ||
| DavidW says, "My replaying say that Prex went to someplace called Jarland." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Like a text version of Skyrim." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We can talk to Aurea and she should tell us." | ||
| DavidW says, "Aurea is very good at that, yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Less so on paying our fuel bill with the money she promised us." | ||
| DavidW says, "Anyway, our save file name is cfsvtventer." | ||
| Guenni says (to Jacqueline), "I remember feeling like a taxi with a very large trunk when playing the game, yes." | ||
| Roger arrives, full of fun and funk. | Knight_Otu says, "Also, we did a moderate amount of punning." | |
| DavidW says, "yes, yes, it's time for ad Venter." | ||
| Guenni says, "So, I guess someone should start the ship. :-)" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "What's the file name for the game?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | Roger says, "oh yeah, this" | |
| DavidW says, "cfsvtventer" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cfsvtventer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Knight_Otu says, "There we are." | |
| DavidW says, "The game where we can look but never examine." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to aurea" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUREA Floyd | Floyd | An unnaturally beautiful, golden-haired woman with a jagged scar Floyd | across her face and a cheap robotic arm. She slouches in the Floyd | co-pilot's seat. Floyd | Floyd | "Prex knows more than anyone about getting out of Hardshell, so Floyd | hopefully he can get me back in. He was last seen heading to Jarland." Floyd | Floyd | "We should be on the lookout for an amalg called Viscera." Floyd | Floyd | "Dr Vosov-R on Diallo tried to scan Hardshell or something." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yep, Jarland. Must be right next to Vase-land." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Venter Floyd | A synth-futurist city of wide open spaces and glass-sided buildings Floyd | that would seem almost idyllic were it not sitting in the crater of an Floyd | airless ice moon. Bioroid citizens stroll through the plazas and Floyd | avenues in casual clothes, unbothered by the hard vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | Space-suited refugees form a lengthy queue outside the Border Floyd | Ministry, where they are turned away by a polite official. Floyd | Floyd | Link-J has joined the queue. Floyd | Floyd | Many of the workers at the loading docks are shellskin Floyd | immigrants. Floyd | Floyd | A scruffy scientist sits on his luggage beside the landing pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Hang a right at the Pottery Nook." | |
| DavidW says, "I don't think we talked to any of these folk yet." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Essentially the embassy world of the so-called Imago Republic." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We didn't." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh right, we can get a visa chip here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hopefully, at least." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Link was our passenger." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to refugees" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO REFUGEES Floyd | Floyd | You pick a refugee at random. "I fought in the Battle of Franklin. Now Floyd | here I am." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You pick a refugee at random. "I'm a bioroid if you can believe it. Floyd | Just had the dumb luck to be gestated in some far flung shithole." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're currently bopping around the Diasporan Commonwealth, but the chip will, in theory, let us visit the Imago Republic." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Venter doesn't quite belong to the Commonwealth, though." | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. The Battle of Franklin is why the Imagos closed their borders." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You pick a refugee at random. "I couldn't get into the Commonwealth. Floyd | Seems even less likely I'll get in here. But what choice do I have?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You pick a refugee at random. "Used to be a nomad. Looking for a Floyd | home." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You pick a refugee at random. "Amalgs destroyed my home. I was lucky Floyd | to get away." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah, so this is a borderland sort of place, I guess." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to official" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO OFFICIAL Floyd | Floyd | "I'm afraid the Border Minister has been called away to Zhao. I have Floyd | no authority to issue visa chips myself." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "An airport's waiting lounge at best." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Zhao" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD ZHAO Floyd | Floyd | You record Zhao in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Thanks." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to link" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LINK Floyd | Floyd | "As I said, my journey is far from over, but already I have made Floyd | friends. Do not worry for me." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Beware of Ganons, Link." | |
| DavidW asks, "Who's the scientist?" | ||
| Guenni says, "We brought him here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to immigrants" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO IMMIGRANTS Floyd | Floyd | Someone who clearly warrants considerable respect among the workers Floyd | beckons you into one of their break rooms. "Hey, captain. So life Floyd | ain't so bad for us shellskin here on Venter. Working hard, sure, but Floyd | we get visa chips at the end of our contracts. Those poor bastards Floyd | outside the Border Ministry though..." Floyd | Floyd | She shakes her smooth, featureless head. "They're supposed to get Floyd | help. But it doesn't always work out that way. Look, all I'm saying Floyd | is, you get us some oxygen, we'll pay for it, see it gets distributed Floyd | to who needs it." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. There was an oxygen cannister for sale for 2k creds somewhere." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Someone sold oxygen tanks, I recall." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -Besnik, selling an autodoc unit (Surface of Pearl) Floyd | -homeless veteran, selling a classified intelligence report (Surface Floyd | of Storm) Floyd | -shipping-and-receiving clerk, selling a large oxygen canister Floyd | (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Tomer, selling a decompressionist statue (Surface of Nereus) Floyd | -red hot diver, selling an unauthorised specimen (Subsurface of Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | coastal nomads (Surface of Khamsin), nervous woman (Surface of Floyd | Nereus), Chef Elin (Subsurface of Skadi), shellskin immigrants Floyd | (Surface of Venter) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Right." | |
| DavidW says, "clerk on Cygnet has it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to scientist" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SCIENTIST Floyd | Floyd | An unshaven bioroid in a clean, white environment suit. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, captain. You look like someone who has seen the wilderness." He Floyd | extends a hand. "Dr Pico-G. I'm looking to make observations of Floyd | certain astronomical phenomena from a wide variety of perspectives. Floyd | I've already collected data from across the Imago Republic, the Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth, Network..." Floyd | Floyd | He looks over your ship. "But I need to go farther afield. If you take Floyd | me on board, I'll pay you 1k credits for every unaffiliated world we Floyd | visit. I might even be able to wrangle a visa chip for you." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't remember the Network mentioned before." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That's new, yes." | ||
| Guenni says, "It's possible I mixed up two different people." | ||
| DavidW says, "We should take him." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take scientist" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SCIENTIST Floyd | Floyd | He boards your ship, swaying under bulging cases of equipment. Floyd | Floyd | "Pleased to be aboard, captain." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We know of two unaffiliated worlds, I believe." | |
| DavidW asks, "Lonely Rock and uh... Boony?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "So let's buy some oxygen, first?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to David), "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to cygnet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO CYGNET Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay. I take it back. This isn't a giant Skyrim fetchquest. It's the interminable task of carrying tradegoods around to get more money for paying your troops in Mount and Blade." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to clerk" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CLERK Floyd | Floyd | "Everything is always a mess; everything is wrongly ordered, Floyd | misdelivered, undelivered and late. Say, captain, want to buy a Floyd | large oxygen canister for 2k credits? I need to get it off my Floyd | landing pad to make way for a million other mistakes that haven't Floyd | happened yet." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy canister" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 24k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY CANISTER Floyd | Floyd | You buy the large oxygen canister for 2k credits, leaving you with 24k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 24k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+ Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+ Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Jarland, Unity, Franklin, Xanadu, Zhao Floyd | and Diallo Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "by the way, if we buy a headset, I think we can talk to the, uh, comet wranglers, that were in orbit above Khamsin." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 24k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 24k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the fuel jockey for 1k credits Floyd | each. 3 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 21k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 5 fusion cells out of 5 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 21k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Venter Floyd | A synth-futurist city of wide open spaces and glass-sided buildings Floyd | that would seem almost idyllic were it not sitting in the crater of an Floyd | airless ice moon. Bioroid citizens stroll through the plazas and Floyd | avenues in casual clothes, unbothered by the hard vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | Space-suited refugees form a lengthy queue outside the Border Floyd | Ministry, where they are turned away by a polite official. Floyd | Floyd | Link-J has joined the queue. Floyd | Floyd | Many of the workers at the loading docks are shellskin Floyd | immigrants. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell canister to immigrants" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL CANISTER TO IMMIGRANTS Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you, captain. We can do a lot of good with this - make sure the Floyd | most needy get it when they, well, most need it. We hope 10k credits Floyd | is enough?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 31k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -Besnik, selling an autodoc unit (Surface of Pearl) Floyd | -homeless veteran, selling a classified intelligence report (Surface Floyd | of Storm) Floyd | -Tomer, selling a decompressionist statue (Surface of Nereus) Floyd | -red hot diver, selling an unauthorised specimen (Subsurface of Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | coastal nomads (Surface of Khamsin), nervous woman (Surface of Floyd | Nereus), Chef Elin (Subsurface of Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "p works, but prospects doesn't." | |
| DavidW says, "Prospects just never works." | ||
| DavidW says, "There's probably a typo version that does, but I haven't guessed it yet." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "propects" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > PROPECTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a command you need to use. Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "prosects" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > PROSECTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a command you need to use. Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sounds likely." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "porspects" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > PORSPECTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a command you need to use. Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "prospecs" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > PROSPECS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a command you need to use. Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "bah" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I misremembered. I thought potential passengers would also show up." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "pprospects" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > PPROSPECTS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a command you need to use. Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 31k Floyd | Equipment: spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, Dr Pico-G, Aurea and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 5/5 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth star map, debt note, flight Floyd | manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | nothing Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "i and status do the same thing." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "d = land; u = launch." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That's nice" | ||
| DavidW says, "You can also 'go to PLACE' even if you're on the surface of another world." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "We can try jumping to Zhao, where the border minister should be?" | |
| DavidW asks, "I guess?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to Zhao" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ZHAO Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Zhao Floyd | Slender megastructures rise gleaming from the silvery continents Floyd | below, arcing over oceans and snow-tipped mountains. Floyd | Floyd | The muscled war beasts of the Imago Defence Fleet are in orbit, Floyd | guns protruding from every orifice. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to fleet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FLEET Floyd | Floyd | Echoing voices transmit from the war beasts. You make out the words: Floyd | "WE... ARE... WATCHING." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wish I had advance info on which planets are in which different regions." | |
| Guenni says, "You could record them, than use map." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "True. Some have context of course." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Warning signals and weapon lock-ons bombard your ship from the Floyd | surface. You'll need a visa chip to land on this world. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Map doesn't tell you the info unless you've actually been there." | |
| Guenni says, "Ah ok." | ||
| DavidW says, "Zhao is part of Imago Republic, I'm guessing now." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Unfortunately, it seems we'll need a visa chip to get a visa chip." | ||
| DavidW asks, "There was something about getting one illegally?" | ||
| Guenni asks, "Didn't some surfer dudes talk about it wanting to stay independent?" | ||
| Guenni asks, "Or do I mix things up?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I only vaguely remember surfer dudes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "There is a way to get a chip illegally, yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not great at remembering so many characters in just one game." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+ (need visa chip) Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+ Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Jarland, Unity, Franklin, Xanadu and Floyd | Diallo Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I think the surfers were talking about Autark and Unity." | |
| Plover arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | Superluminal Vagrant Twin Floyd | A text-only space sim by C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | Release 6 / Serial number 160316 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | (Type about if you have trouble getting started. Type Floyd | credits to learn who made this possible.) Floyd | Identification number: //44956A3D-87D6-4570-89DF-C57A8438B956// Floyd | Interpreter version 1.3.1 / VM 3.1.2 / Library serial number 080126 Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/090402 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Glulx Text Effects version 3 by Emily Short Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: Floyd ] Credits: 31k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Since that jump was a bit of a waste." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Tour of the places of interest?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suspect most will be Imago territory." | ||
| DavidW says, "sorry, was afk to use washroom" | ||
| DavidW says, "I see. We un-visited Zhao." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Since we can't do a whole lot there yet, yes." | ||
| Plover runs out of the room, with a smile on his face. | DavidW says, "hm. Just noticing that the headjack is 25k. That's pretty pricey." | |
| Guenni says, "You could check the list for more places of interest." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, we should probably visit more places or try to." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jarland" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 32k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JARLAND Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jarland Floyd | A dark, cratered moon in the shadow of a turbulent gas giant. Networks Floyd | of bright lights shine from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel tanker refuels passing traffic. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Jarland is unaffiliated, I guess." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 32k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+ Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+ (not yet landed) Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Unity, Franklin, Xanadu, Zhao and Diallo Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Unexpected." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 32k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Jarland Floyd | The thin atmosphere is a subtle glow at the horizon, behind glass Floyd | hemispheres large and small. Each dome brims with lush greenery and Floyd | minimalist buildings. Floyd | Floyd | Maximo runs the Bell Jar Pub, an olde timey establishment Floyd | filled with antique astronaut paraphernalia. Floyd | Floyd | A hard working jar farmer nurtures crops that bulge out against Floyd | the side of his bubble. Floyd | Floyd | The pressure chief hurries from habitat to habitat in a bright Floyd | yellow boiler suit. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim hauls cargo out of a low, ugly, opaque warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | The highest ranking official that'll talk to a random space captain is Floyd | Minister Ramos. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'medusoid' sounds fun. Didn't want to talk to them?" | |
| DavidW says, "oo, crops." | ||
| DavidW says, "we can use those." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think that was Venter, and the source of the most-wanted list." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to maximo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 32k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAXIMO Floyd | Floyd | Maximo's arms are tattooed with rocket engine blueprints. He winks and Floyd | pours you a drink. Floyd | Floyd | "To hear those Commonwealth types talk about it, you'd think Jarland Floyd | was some lawless rogue world like Splinter, but we're a democratic Floyd | state like any other. Just not interested in being part of anyone Floyd | else's plans." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record splinter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 32k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD SPLINTER Floyd | Floyd | You record Splinter in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to farmer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 32k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FARMER Floyd | Floyd | His overalls hang from a pale and lanky frame that has never seen the Floyd | outside of a dome. Floyd | Floyd | "Shipping crops interstellar gives you the thinnest profit margins - Floyd | unless it's a true luxury, like this blue asparagus. 4k is a Floyd | fair price, in my eyes." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Don't visit Splinter until we have a gun." | |
| DavidW says, "Or four ninja turtles." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Noted." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah, I think that's a good idea." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy asparagus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 28k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY ASPARAGUS Floyd | Floyd | You buy the blue asparagus for 4k credits, leaving you with 28k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to chief" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 28k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CHIEF Floyd | Floyd | She wipes sweat from her brow with a grimy hand. Floyd | Floyd | "You think it's easy, so many people living in a near vacuum? Always Floyd | checking for positive pressure and racing to find the leak. I'd kill Floyd | for some help." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmm." | |
| DavidW says, "There was a shellskin on Pearl." | DavidW says, "oops" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess we can check back there." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to phelim" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 28k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PHELIM Floyd | Floyd | His thick beard flows dangerously over the neck ring of his urban Floyd | camouflage spacesuit. Floyd | Floyd | "No world can be truly independent when the cyborgs and 'roids have Floyd | banded together into their cartels. Even the Commonwealth is more Floyd | interested in bullying smaller nations than furthering the diasporan Floyd | cause." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to ramos" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 28k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RAMOS Floyd | Floyd | Tall. Slender. Pale. The product of a carefully controlled Floyd | environment. Floyd | Floyd | "Your friend here is from inside Hardshell?" Floyd | Floyd | Aurea looks herself over, as if wondering what part of her ridiculous Floyd | appearance gave it away. "You knew Prex?" Floyd | Floyd | "I met him when he first arrived. It was pretty big news." Floyd | Floyd | "Is he still here? I need to speak with him." Floyd | Floyd | Ramos shakes his head. "He never settled in. Claustrophobia. Sort of. Floyd | Terrified of getting cut off from the Universe. Thought he'd feel Floyd | closer to the vacuum living in a dome, but it wasn't enough." Floyd | Floyd | "Where is he now? Please." Floyd | Floyd | "A nomad worldship passed by some time ago. Prex talked his way on Floyd | board. I think they were stopping by Source 3 for supplies, then Floyd | heading off away from civilisation. No idea where you'd find them Floyd | now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Source 3" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 28k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD SOURCE 3 Floyd | Floyd | You record Source 3 in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess you're faster recording than I am." | |
| DavidW says, "By the time we find him, he'll have duplicated himself into Corn Prex and Rice Prex." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Deliver the asparagus first, and a side jump to Pearl?" | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Heh!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Knight), "Good plan." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 28k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -Besnik, selling an autodoc unit (Surface of Pearl) Floyd | -homeless veteran, selling a classified intelligence report (Surface Floyd | of Storm) Floyd | -Tomer, selling a decompressionist statue (Surface of Nereus) Floyd | -red hot diver, selling an unauthorised specimen (Subsurface of Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), coastal nomads (Surface of Floyd | Khamsin), nervous woman (Surface of Nereus), Chef Elin (Subsurface of Floyd | Skadi) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some blue asparagus Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to skadi" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 28k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SKADI Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jarland Floyd | A dark, cratered moon in the shadow of a turbulent gas giant. Networks Floyd | of bright lights shine from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel tanker refuels passing traffic. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Skadi Floyd | A bright white moon, its surface smoothed over by cryovolcanic snow. Floyd | There are very few lights visible on its surface. Floyd | Floyd | A small squadron of private security ships monitor traffic in the Floyd | system, led by the infamous combat synthetic, Kala-D. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 28k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Subsurface of Skadi Floyd | A sealed, metal-sided citadel grasps the underside of the frozen Floyd | surface: an upside-down, underwater city. Plant fronds dangle into Floyd | depths where strange silhouettes swim and dart. Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine is a way of life on Skadi. Most citizens wear cleansuits Floyd | and face masks. Floyd | Floyd | Many parts of the city are closed to you, but the canteen run by Floyd | Chef Elin and Chef Iason is open to all. Floyd | Floyd | A researcher eats intermittently in the canteen. Floyd | Floyd | A red hot diver melts through the ice far from the city. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell asparagus to elin" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL ASPARAGUS TO ELIN Floyd | Floyd | "Blue asparagus? Like real blue asparagus from Jarland? Do you know Floyd | how much this is worth here? 12k. That's all I can offer you." Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 40k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 40k. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Talk to the researcher now." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to researcher" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 40k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RESEARCHER Floyd | Floyd | "The food is so much better now it's crazy. I mean, I grew up on Floyd | Sirona, so I'm not a gourmand or anything, but this is delicious." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Sirona" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 40k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD SIRONA Floyd | Floyd | You record Sirona in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "my my my Sirona" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 40k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Subsurface of Skadi Floyd | A sealed, metal-sided citadel grasps the underside of the frozen Floyd | surface: an upside-down, underwater city. Plant fronds dangle into Floyd | depths where strange silhouettes swim and dart. Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine is a way of life on Skadi. Most citizens wear cleansuits Floyd | and face masks. Floyd | Floyd | Many parts of the city are closed to you, but the canteen run by Floyd | Chef Elin and Chef Iason is open to all. Floyd | Floyd | A researcher wolfs down food in the canteen. Floyd | Floyd | A red hot diver melts through the ice far from the city. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "The diver sells that "specimen". Shall we?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember what the specimen is all about." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Where would we take it?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to diver" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 40k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DIVER Floyd | Floyd | Steam rises from her wetsuit. Empty jars clink at her belt. She levels Floyd | a harpoon gun at you, in a not-too-unfriendly kind of way. Floyd | Floyd | "Unauthorised specimen. 2k. Cross me and regret it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hard to say." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Now if only we could x it..." | ||
| DavidW says, "sigh. yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "Up to you. I'd wait." | ||
| DavidW says, "But 2k isn't that much right now." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy specimen" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 38k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY SPECIMEN Floyd | Floyd | You buy the unauthorised specimen for 2k credits, leaving you with 38k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I think I know where that one goes." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 38k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO PEARL Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Skadi Floyd | A bright white moon, its surface smoothed over by cryovolcanic snow. Floyd | There are very few lights visible on its surface. Floyd | Floyd | A small squadron of private security ships monitor traffic in the Floyd | system, led by the infamous combat synthetic, Kala-D. Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pearl Floyd | Moon of a storm-bedecked gas giant, jewel of the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth: a world of blue seas, green continents and white clouds. Floyd | Its night side glitters with artificial light. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth Courier Co. has a floodlit spindle in low orbit. Floyd | Viktoria doles out the packages, as ever. Floyd | Floyd | A dejected freighter captain is awaiting repairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 38k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Pearl Floyd | Blue skies; carefully managed fields and forests; air that's almost Floyd | baseline-breathable. Elevated highways pass over the greenery with Floyd | minimal impact, tangling together at the foot of narrow skyscrapers. Floyd | Floyd | The tallest spire reaches towards the gas giant above, satellite Floyd | towers splitting off like branches: the Commonwealth Building itself. Floyd | A cyborg representative allows citizens to query the government Floyd | systems. Floyd | Floyd | The ambassador from the Imago Republic maintains a penthouse Floyd | embassy. Floyd | Floyd | Besnik's small knickknack shop stands on splayed stilts, trees Floyd | leaning out from beneath it in search of sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | The landing pad is maintained by the shellskin, Katalin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Probably someone's ear, if it's a babelfish." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to katalin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 38k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO KATALIN Floyd | Floyd | The sun gleams off her opalescent skin. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, I know, a shellskin living on the most hospitable world in the Floyd | Commonwealth. I've heard it all before. I may not need air, but I like Floyd | forests and fields. And vacuum is only a short hop away, in any case." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, not her, then." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to besnik" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 38k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BESNIK Floyd | Floyd | Besnik's carefully cultivated oddball persona is completed by a Floyd | patched waistcoat and antique pince-nez glasses. Floyd | Floyd | "Not got much here that'll interest a space captain. This autodoc Floyd | unit maybe? It's a curio by modern standards, but some folks out Floyd | there in the black might be lucky to have it. I'll let you take it Floyd | away it for 2k credits." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy autodoc" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY AUTODOC Floyd | Floyd | You buy the autodoc unit for 2k credits, leaving you with 36k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "No. :-)" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to ambassador" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AMBASSADOR Floyd | Floyd | The ambassador is an unnaturally dignified woman in a neat business Floyd | suit. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry," she tells you, "but I have no authority over the Floyd | distribution of visa chips. The Immigration Ministry on Venter Floyd | controls access to the Republic." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to cygnet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO CYGNET Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pearl Floyd | Moon of a storm-bedecked gas giant, jewel of the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth: a world of blue seas, green continents and white clouds. Floyd | Its night side glitters with artificial light. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth Courier Co. has a floodlit spindle in low orbit. Floyd | Viktoria doles out the packages, as ever. Floyd | Floyd | A dejected freighter captain is awaiting repairs. Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to matej" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MATEJ Floyd | Floyd | Matej is a round-faced man in a comfortable spacesuit. His smile is Floyd | almost as wide as his gut. Floyd | Floyd | "Back for more, captain? That fine ship of yours deserves the best. Floyd | Here's what I'm selling:" Floyd | Floyd | -wireless headjack - 25k (non-verbal communication) Floyd | -external fuel pod - 10k (+5 fuel) Floyd | -ion booster - 3k (racing speed +1) Floyd | -autorevolver - 25k (personal weapon) Floyd | -fishing rod - 2k (allows you to fish) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "25k for a revolver is quite a bit." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm sure we can eventually afford his entire stock." | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "True." | ||
| DavidW says, "I want the headjack first of all those remaining, though." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to clerk" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CLERK Floyd | Floyd | "You've done a lot to help me, thanks, brilliant, now get out of Floyd | my way." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Stay a clerk forever, guy." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Do we want something from Matej yet?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I want the headjack, but I can wait." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -homeless veteran, selling a classified intelligence report (Surface Floyd | of Storm) Floyd | -Tomer, selling a decompressionist statue (Surface of Nereus) Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), coastal nomads (Surface of Floyd | Khamsin), nervous woman (Surface of Nereus) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | an autodoc unit and an unauthorised specimen Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The comet wranglers are above Khamsin." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "The nervous woman wanted some exotic flower, right?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember. That intel report may be interesting too." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't recall what the nomadds wanted." | ||
| Guenni says, "SHe wanted something hopelessly romantic. I guess a exotic flower could count." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The report was 5k." | ||
| Guenni says, "an." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "For all I know, a decompressionist statue is 'romantic'." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the industrial fuel rig for 1k Floyd | credits each. 2 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 5 fusion cells out of 5 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I have some doubts that we can just sell the statue on the same world." | |
| DavidW says, "true." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to khamsin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KHAMSIN Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I don't remember that one." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to wranglers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WRANGLERS Floyd | Floyd | They seem to speak a weird dialect unique to the outer reaches of this Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Khamsin Floyd | Skyscrapers cluster together in the planet's only city, a small Floyd | metropolis at the heart of a barren, dusty wasteland. Floyd | Floyd | A party of robed hunters has made camp outside the city. Floyd | Floyd | A caravan of nomads circumnavigates the planet's tiny ocean. Floyd | Floyd | Rella camps out in the spikelands. Floyd | Floyd | Mirek sits playing a handheld game in the shade of the landing Floyd | pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to nomads" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO NOMADS Floyd | Floyd | They walk on elongated, webbed feet and watch you through thickly Floyd | lashed eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "This pilgrimage is harder than even the ancestors decreed. In their Floyd | time this ocean was freshwater. Now it is brine." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's why we need the headjack. We can't talk to the wranglers without it, I'm assuming." | |
| Knight_Otu nods. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - 50k reward Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - 50k reward Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - 50k reward Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - 25k reward Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - 25k reward Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - 25k reward Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Rella is on our list." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Luciano is I believe on Autark." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Can we just 'arrest' people?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But I don't think we should bounty-hunt without a weapon." | ||
| DavidW says, "Don't we need a space tranq gun or something? yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I don't think we have much to do in the Commonwealth for now. Next of the places of interest?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We didn't talk to anyone above Jarland." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "On scrollback, I think there was only the fuel tanker?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I saw two people to talk to." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jarland" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JARLAND Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jarland Floyd | A dark, cratered moon in the shadow of a turbulent gas giant. Networks Floyd | of bright lights shine from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel tanker refuels passing traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to tanker" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TANKER Floyd | Floyd | You can refuel at the fuel tanker for 1k credits per unit of Floyd | fuel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Was I thinking of Zhao then?" | |
| DavidW says, "I forget now where the medusoid was." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Zhao I think was only that fleet that was watching us." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That was Venter, and the person who gave us the list, I#m pretty sure." | ||
| DavidW says, "There's too many characters for me to keep track of in my head. I take copious notes for a reason." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Jarland Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Khamsin Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "I can imagine. Just spectating is wearing me out." | |
| Guenni says, "You could put the poor folks out of their brine misery, I think." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "lot's and lots of characters." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Guenni), "How? Did we see a portable shower stall somewhere?" | ||
| Guenni says, "I was listening with only one ear, but I think you bought what they need." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We bought the autodoc and the specimen." | ||
| DavidW says, "We bought an autodoc and a specimen. Neither seem to be anti-salt in any obvious way." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yep." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell autodoc to nomads" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL AUTODOC TO NOMADS Floyd | Floyd | "We have simple needs and do not require such a thing." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell specimen to nomads" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL SPECIMEN TO NOMADS Floyd | Floyd | "We have simple needs and do not require such a thing." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "you gotta shoot one of them first" | |
| DavidW says (to Roger), "uhh" | ||
| Guenni says, "OOps! I thought the specimen was what they wanted. Sorry." | ||
| DavidW says, "Please do not shoot the nomads because they are getting salty." | ||
| Guenni says, "We don't have a weapon yet anyway." | ||
| Roger says, "just part of a viral marketing campaign for the autodoc, now with real viruses" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I guess we can jump to Unity for now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe the comet wranglers sell ice comets and the nomads would like one of those." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe." | ||
| DavidW says, "Unity is okay, but I'm not a fan." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to unity" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO UNITY Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Unity Floyd | Impact craters have thrown bright dust across the bronze surface of Floyd | this planet. The relentless red blaze of the swollen nearby star has Floyd | stripped any atmosphere it may once have had. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to pico" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PICO Floyd | Floyd | An unshaven bioroid in a clean, white environment suit. Floyd | Floyd | "You've taken me to 2 worlds outside the Imago Republic, Network or Floyd | the Diasporan Commonwealth, captain. I can't thank you enough, but the Floyd | more data I can get, the better. And, don't forget, there may be a Floyd | visa chip in this for you." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "land on this rock, I guess?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Did we know that we could get a visa from pico?" | ||
| DavidW says, "If I did, I forgot." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't recall seeing that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Unity Floyd | The settlement on this world is enclosed within thick, windowless Floyd | radiation shields. The buildings are square, orderly and undecorated. Floyd | Floyd | The smiling face of Leader adorns his towering residence. Floyd | Floyd | You do your best to avoid the secret police agent that shadows Floyd | your every move here. Floyd | Floyd | Some disaffected youths hang out in the alley between two Floyd | cuboid apartment blocks. Floyd | Floyd | The otherwise deserted landing pad is swept clean by a worker Floyd | in a grey boiler suit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "geez. This is an unpleasant place." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm not sensing much unity on Unity." | ||
| Guenni agrees. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to worker" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WORKER Floyd | Floyd | "I'll always be grateful to Leader for taking me in. I'll die before I Floyd | go back to Jag." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record jag" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD JAG Floyd | Floyd | You record Jag in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to youths" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO YOUTHS Floyd | Floyd | All grey boiler suits and shaved heads, tagging the wall with crude Floyd | graffiti. One turns to you with piercing green eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "You don't have to pretend. Our tags are awful. But this isn't the Floyd | place to come see great art. If... someone were to bring us art from Floyd | the outside, we'd be grateful." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. Buyers for that statue." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Ah hah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to agent" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AGENT Floyd | Floyd | He tries to look casual as you approach. Floyd | Floyd | "Greetings, outsider. I hope you are keeping your strange ideas to Floyd | yourself." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to leader" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LEADER Floyd | Floyd | A guard turns you away. Floyd | Floyd | "Enough foreign assassins have taken advantage of Leader's hospitality Floyd | in the past. Never again." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Enjoy your stay, may it be short." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Right." | ||
| Guenni grins. | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Go buy that statue?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Sure. I like money. Sometimes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to nereus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO NEREUS Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Unity Floyd | Impact craters have thrown bright dust across the bronze surface of Floyd | this planet. The relentless red blaze of the swollen nearby star has Floyd | stripped any atmosphere it may once have had. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Nereus Floyd | Airy, simple buildings break up a multi-coloured and chemically Floyd | unstable mix of diasporan and native flora. The ocean sparkles at the Floyd | horizon in every direction. Floyd | Floyd | Nereus' most famous resident is the radical artist Tomer. Floyd | Floyd | A nervous girl paces the pier, twirling her parasol. Floyd | Floyd | A marine biologist lives out of his submersible, washing strung Floyd | between two palm trees. Floyd | Floyd | A group of surfers lounge around a beach barbecue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy statue" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY STATUE Floyd | Floyd | You buy the decompressionist statue for 1k credits, leaving you with Floyd | 34k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell specimen to girl" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL SPECIMEN TO GIRL Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it's exotic, I'll give you that. Also probably very difficult Floyd | to look after off of Skadi, and maybe illegal to own? So, maybe Floyd | something else, please?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well then." | |
| DavidW asks, "What about the biologist? Is he buying?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to biologist" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BIOLOGIST Floyd | Floyd | He shakes his head. "Nereus was settled too early in the diaspora. Floyd | Before we knew better. What I wouldn't give for the quarantine they Floyd | have on Skadi. This ecosystem will never be the same again." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. He won't want it." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I think he's just relating setting details." | ||
| Guenni says, "Trying rarely hurts." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell specimen to biologist" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL SPECIMEN TO BIOLOGIST Floyd | Floyd | He doesn't look impressed. "So here I am extolling the virtues of the Floyd | Skadi quarantine, and you expect me to be impressed that you broke Floyd | it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Good point." | |
| Guenni says, "Ok, Ok. You were right." | ||
| DavidW says, "I just don't want to be adde to our wanted list." | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Heh!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -homeless veteran, selling a classified intelligence report (Surface Floyd | of Storm) Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), disaffected youths (Surface of Floyd | Unity), coastal nomads (Surface of Khamsin), nervous woman (Surface of Floyd | Nereus) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | a decompressionist statue, an autodoc unit and an unauthorised Floyd | specimen Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Statue to Unity, I guess, next?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure. We have some fuel to spare." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to unity" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO UNITY Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Unity Floyd | Impact craters have thrown bright dust across the bronze surface of Floyd | this planet. The relentless red blaze of the swollen nearby star has Floyd | stripped any atmosphere it may once have had. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Unity Floyd | The settlement on this world is enclosed within thick, windowless Floyd | radiation shields. The buildings are square, orderly and undecorated. Floyd | Floyd | The smiling face of Leader adorns his towering residence. Floyd | Floyd | You do your best to avoid the secret police agent that shadows Floyd | your every move here. Floyd | Floyd | Some disaffected youths hang out in the alley between two Floyd | cuboid apartment blocks. Floyd | Floyd | The otherwise deserted landing pad is swept clean by a worker Floyd | in a grey boiler suit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh yeah, don't run out of fuel." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell statue to youths" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL STATUE TO YOUTHS Floyd | Floyd | "Decompressionism? Dated, but it still flies here. We just take what Floyd | we can get. 7k?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 41k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 41k. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "maybe there's some way to forge papers for the thingy" | |
| Roger says, "but unloading it is good too" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 41k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+ Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Splinter, Sirona, Jag, Franklin, Xanadu, Floyd | Zhao, Diallo and Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Franklin?" | |
| DavidW asks, "fuel?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We have fuel to jump back to the commonwealth after that." | ||
| DavidW says, "Eventually, we'll probably use up more than 1 unit of fuel for 1 jump." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 41k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Possibly not. But I won't swear on it." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to franklin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO FRANKLIN Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Unity Floyd | Impact craters have thrown bright dust across the bronze surface of Floyd | this planet. The relentless red blaze of the swollen nearby star has Floyd | stripped any atmosphere it may once have had. Floyd | Floyd | (The fuel warning light blinks on.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Franklin Floyd | Dust chokes the atmosphere of this world, obscuring the surface. Floyd | Floyd | The entrails of a dead war beast form a gruesome planetary Floyd | ring. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to beast" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BEAST Floyd | Floyd | The corpse broadcasts a looping cry for vengeance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Franklin Floyd | Ash clouds drift across the broken remains of megastructures and Floyd | arcologies. Long dead synthetic flora clings to every surface, frozen Floyd | in the act of clambering desperately towards the sun. Floyd | Floyd | Now only rampant biomechanical scavengers remain to pick Floyd | through the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | A thin line of red light shines from the laser eye of an Floyd | eviscerated amalg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to scavengers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SCAVENGERS Floyd | Floyd | They reply in a broken mishmash of stolen words. You can't make out Floyd | any meaning in what they say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to eye" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO EYE Floyd | Floyd | The laser eye is not something you can talk to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take the eye" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE THE EYE Floyd | Floyd | It comes out with a wet pop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Ew." | |
| DavidW says, "finders, keepers!" | ||
| Guenni points to the ewww channel. | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess we want that com thing for the scavengers as well." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to cygnet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO CYGNET Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Franklin Floyd | Dust chokes the atmosphere of this world, obscuring the surface. Floyd | Floyd | The entrails of a dead war beast form a gruesome planetary Floyd | ring. Floyd | Floyd | (Red lights blink on around the cockpit. You're out of fuel.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the industrial fuel rig for 1k Floyd | credits each. 5 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 37k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 5 fusion cells out of 5 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 37k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to matej" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 37k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MATEJ Floyd | Floyd | Matej is a round-faced man in a comfortable spacesuit. His smile is Floyd | almost as wide as his gut. Floyd | Floyd | "Back for more, captain? That fine ship of yours deserves the best. Floyd | Here's what I'm selling:" Floyd | Floyd | -wireless headjack - 25k (non-verbal communication) Floyd | -external fuel pod - 10k (+5 fuel) Floyd | -ion booster - 3k (racing speed +1) Floyd | -autorevolver - 25k (personal weapon) Floyd | -fishing rod - 2k (allows you to fish) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy headjack" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY HEADJACK Floyd | Floyd | You buy the wireless headjack for 25k credits, leaving you with 12k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Now we got it." | |
| DavidW says, "yay" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 12k Floyd | Equipment: spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Implants: wireless headjack (non-verbal communication) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, Dr Pico-G, Aurea and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 5/5 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth star map, debt note, flight Floyd | manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | a laser eye (+2 badassitude when implanted), an autodoc unit and an Floyd | unauthorised specimen Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "now we can go walkie-talkies." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We got a +2 eye." | ||
| DavidW says, "hm" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to khamsin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KHAMSIN Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I had no idea badassitude was an attribute." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to wranglers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WRANGLERS Floyd | Floyd | They seem to speak a weird dialect unique to the outer reaches of this Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hrm." | |
| DavidW says, "boo" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think at wranglers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK AT WRANGLERS Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > THINK Floyd | Floyd | You didn't get five million creds into debt by thinking every little Floyd | thing through! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to wranglers using headjack" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WRANGLERS USING HEADJACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not something within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear headjack" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR HEADJACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use headjack" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > USE HEADJACK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to use the wireless headjack to implant? Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I vaguely remember the headjack being for somewhere else." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "implant headjack" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > IMPLANT HEADJACK Floyd | Floyd | It's already implanted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "use headjack on wranglers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > USE HEADJACK ON WRANGLERS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a valid command, even if it used some of the right words. Floyd | Type "about" if you want help. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. ok. So the headjack doesn't help here. Or not yet. Drat." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to franklin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO FRANKLIN Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Franklin Floyd | Dust chokes the atmosphere of this world, obscuring the surface. Floyd | Floyd | The entrails of a dead war beast form a gruesome planetary Floyd | ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to beast" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BEAST Floyd | Floyd | The corpse broadcasts a looping cry for vengeance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Franklin Floyd | Ash clouds drift across the broken remains of megastructures and Floyd | arcologies. Long dead synthetic flora clings to every surface, frozen Floyd | in the act of clambering desperately towards the sun. Floyd | Floyd | Now only rampant biomechanical scavengers remain to pick Floyd | through the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to scavengers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SCAVENGERS Floyd | Floyd | They reply in a broken mishmash of stolen words. You can't make out Floyd | any meaning in what they say. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hrm." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | DavidW asks, "Visit a new world?" | |
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+ Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Splinter, Sirona, Jag, Xanadu, Zhao, Floyd | Diallo and Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Diallo's been on our list a long time." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We should show Boony and Lonely Rock to the Doc." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That, too." | ||
| DavidW says, "your choice" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to boony" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 13k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO BOONY Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Franklin Floyd | Dust chokes the atmosphere of this world, obscuring the surface. Floyd | Floyd | The entrails of a dead war beast form a gruesome planetary Floyd | ring. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Boony Floyd | A grey, airless world, left lopsided by some ancient cataclysm. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to lonely rock" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO LONELY ROCK Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Lonely Rock Floyd | Though it's not as bright as any star, the luminescence of Hardshell Floyd | dominates the sky: a furrowed, flesh-and-metal sphere enclosing the Floyd | entire star system. The entire star system, that is, except the Floyd | irregular planetoid below; a little left over chunk of rock and ice. Floyd | Floyd | An automated, meteor-shredded fuel station in low orbit offers the Floyd | chance to refuel. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can fuel up at Lonely Rock too." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the automated fuel station for Floyd | 1k credits each. 3 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 5 fusion cells out of 5 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to pico" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PICO Floyd | Floyd | An unshaven bioroid in a clean, white environment suit. Floyd | Floyd | "You've taken me to 5 worlds outside the Imago Republic, Network or Floyd | the Diasporan Commonwealth, captain. I can't thank you enough, but the Floyd | more data I can get, the better. And, don't forget, there may be a Floyd | visa chip in this for you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to diallo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO DIALLO Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Diallo Floyd | A thin blue sliver of nitrogen atmosphere curves over a loamy surface Floyd | punctuated with lakes of hydrazine and a single, carapaced Floyd | megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Diallo+ (need visa chip) Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Splinter, Sirona, Jag, Xanadu, Zhao and Floyd | Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Diallo's in Imago." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I was hoping for Network." | ||
| DavidW says, "I bet Source 3 is unaffiliated." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or Network." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to source 3" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SOURCE 3 Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Source 3 Floyd | Mountainous terrain looms through the fog of the thick, toxic Floyd | atmosphere below. Floyd | Floyd | Small shuttles arc back and forth between the surface and a huge Floyd | mining ship. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to ship" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SHIP Floyd | Floyd | "The Imago Republic is processing this world into raw materials. We Floyd | don't need anything from you, captain, except to stay out of our way." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "beep beep low fuel" | |
| Guenni says, "Gee, thanks for nothing." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Not yet." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "m" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > M Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Diallo+ (need visa chip), Source 3 (need visa chip) Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Splinter, Sirona, Jag, Xanadu and Zhao Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Jag may be unaffiliated." | |
| DavidW asks, "maybe?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jag" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JAG Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jag Floyd | Tangled canyons have been clawed across the face of this large, rocky Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | Chaotic, unclear radio transmissions blast out from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg clawship occupies an eccentric orbit. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | The amalg clawship closes in, locking on to your cargo hold. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Uh oh." | |
| DavidW says, "oopsie" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to amalg" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AMALG Floyd | Floyd | You receive only aggressive electronic barks in return. Floyd | Floyd | The amalg clawship tears into your cargo hold, extracts Floyd | the autodoc unit and reels it in. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "noooo" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Jag Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 12k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Jag Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Source 3 Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We'll stay away for now." | |
| DavidW says, "NAUGHTY claw ship." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to aurea" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUREA Floyd | Floyd | An unnaturally beautiful, golden-haired woman with a jagged scar Floyd | across her face and a cheap robotic arm. She slouches in the Floyd | co-pilot's seat. Floyd | Floyd | "Prex knows more than anyone about getting out of Hardshell, so Floyd | hopefully he can get me back in. He was last seen heading to Source Floyd | 3." Floyd | Floyd | "We should be on the lookout for an amalg called Viscera." Floyd | Floyd | "Dr Vosov-R on Diallo tried to scan Hardshell or something." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to xanadu" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO XANADU Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Xanadu Floyd | This planet's sparse green patches cluster around small seas. The only Floyd | indication of habitation is the brightly lit space elevator protruding Floyd | from the equator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Diallo+ (need visa chip), Source 3 (need visa chip) Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu (not yet landed) Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Splinter, Sirona, Jag and Zhao Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "space elevator!" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Network!" | ||
| DavidW says, "oo!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | You dock with the space elevator, which ferries your ship down to the Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Xanadu Floyd | A lone hyperspace conduit to Hub stands at the heart of parched Floyd | scrublands and bare hills. Floyd | Floyd | The surface is deserted but for the odd simple obelisk standing stark Floyd | against the sky. Each marks an entrance to the subterranean facilities Floyd | where stacks of bodies and brains are plugged into a virtual reality Floyd | world. Floyd | Floyd | A visitor's port will let you jack in temporarily. Floyd | Floyd | xDreamQueenx sashays through the deepest corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jack in" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JACK IN Floyd | Floyd | Xanadu Proper Floyd | A chaotic jumble of tessellating realities. Fields spill into oceans Floyd | beneath floating cities that tower towards a hundred different skies. Floyd | You can jack out at any time. Floyd | Floyd | The virtual superintelligence, Nephele, sprawls through Floyd | multiple domains. Floyd | Floyd | Bright colours and flowing shapes spill from the hands of a thought Floyd | artist. Floyd | Floyd | Jade participates in an endless post-neo-electro-swing dance Floyd | number. Floyd | Floyd | hotSpyder sits thoughtfully on a cloud. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to nephele" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO NEPHELE Floyd | Floyd | Shapeless, a million colours at once, constantly shifting. Floyd | Floyd | It subjects your mind to a barrage of indecipherable information that Floyd | momentarily stuns you and then leaves you with the vague sense of Floyd | having had a satisfying conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If this is VR, we won't get more than info here." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to artist" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ARTIST Floyd | Floyd | "One day," he says, scattering winged rainbows from his fingertips, Floyd | "this place will be larger and more intricate than the Universe Floyd | outside. One day... the Universe outside will die, and this will be Floyd | the new totality." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "tries to subtly clears her throat." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Universe" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD UNIVERSE Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to jade" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JADE Floyd | Floyd | Her limbs are literally impossibly long, her hair consists of rippling Floyd | waves of electric blue. Floyd | Floyd | "Careful! Don't ruin the rhythm!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Jade I think is on the list." | |
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "How do we arrest her though..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to hotspyder" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO HOTSPYDER Floyd | Floyd | A painfully average looking man in a grey suit. Floyd | Floyd | "Most of the time I live on Panopticon. I just come here for holidays Floyd | from reality. And sometimes to remember what it was like to have a Floyd | human body plan." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Bad guys are just like objects. :P" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record panopticon" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD PANOPTICON Floyd | Floyd | You record Panopticon in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I assume 'arrest Jade' or 'take Jade' would do something." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest jade" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST JADE Floyd | Floyd | Xanadu acknowledges your authority as a bounty hunter and wraps Jade Floyd | in virtual chains. The dance number loses its rhythm and the Floyd | participants drift away, complaining loudly. Floyd | Floyd | "Nice," Jade says. "Real nice. Bet you're proud of yourself." Floyd | Floyd | A system admin informs you that Jade's physical form has been placed Floyd | in your ship's brig. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oh." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - 50k reward Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - 50k reward Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - 50k reward Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - 25k reward Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - 25k reward Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - 25k reward Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jack out" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JACK OUT Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Xanadu Floyd | A lone hyperspace conduit to Hub stands at the heart of parched Floyd | scrublands and bare hills. Floyd | Floyd | The surface is deserted but for the odd simple obelisk standing stark Floyd | against the sky. Each marks an entrance to the subterranean facilities Floyd | where stacks of bodies and brains are plugged into a virtual reality Floyd | world. Floyd | Floyd | A visitor's port will let you jack in temporarily. Floyd | Floyd | xDreamQueenx sashays through the deepest corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to queen" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | She trails neural connector cables like fairy tale hair. Her silver Floyd | face is fixed and expressionless. Floyd | Floyd | "The sleepers dream deeply, but they are not solipsists. I control the Floyd | entry of external stimuli into their world. If you have new stories or Floyd | myths, I will compensate you suitably." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm boggling not only at all you all are having to track, but how much planning it took to freakin' write this game." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. Has Queenie heard the one about the old lady and her pig?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Jacq), "Yeah." | ||
| Guenni laughs. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell specimen to queen" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL SPECIMEN TO QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | "That will not entertain my dreamers." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Vent Jade at Venter?" | |
| DavidW says, "sure. Then refuel asap." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 11k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | The space elevator ferries your ship back into orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Xanadu Floyd | This planet's sparse green patches cluster around small seas. The only Floyd | indication of habitation is the brightly lit space elevator protruding Floyd | from the equator. Floyd | Floyd | (The fuel warning light blinks on.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give jade to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE JADE TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's remote deputies collect Jade and transfer your 25k Floyd | credit reward. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh hey," she says. "It's the fun police. Sorry I cracked a smile." Floyd | Floyd | "Next time," the marshal says, "don't have your fun on someone else's Floyd | credit balance." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the fuel jockey for 1k credits Floyd | each. 4 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 32k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 5 fusion cells out of 5 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We might want to buy an extra fuel pod soon." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That is a possibility." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 32k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Diallo+ (need visa chip), Source 3 (need visa chip) Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Splinter, Sirona, Jag, Zhao and Floyd | Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "So, we're staying away from Jag for now." | |
| DavidW says, "I suppose we'll need a story before we learn another Network locale." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Panopticon may be one." | ||
| DavidW says, "or wait, Panopticon is probably Network too." | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder if all of Network is VR." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We can perhaps safely jump to Splinter." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to David), "Maybe." | ||
| DavidW says, "Splinter is the one where I want a gun for." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "As long as we don't land?" | ||
| DavidW says, "But sure, orbiting Splinter should be okay." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to splinter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 33k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SPLINTER Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Splinter Floyd | The largest irregular rock in the asteroid belt around a dazzling blue Floyd | star. Clunky industrial structures cling to its surface. Floyd | Floyd | Souped-up barges comprise most of the shipping. You know Floyd | smugglers when you see them. Floyd | Floyd | A Commonwealth warship, repainted mercenary colours, holds a Floyd | high orbit. Floyd | Floyd | A carefully shored up fuel tower extends far out from Splinter. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 33k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to smugglers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 33k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SMUGGLERS Floyd | Floyd | They pretend not to receive your transmissions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to warship" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 33k Fuel: 4/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WARSHIP Floyd | Floyd | "Whatever rumours you've heard, this is a safe port. Dangerous Floyd | elements will be dealt with swiftly." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Riiight." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Not landing here yet." | ||
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to sirona" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SIRONA Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Sirona Floyd | A sizeable, jaundiced moon just on the outside of the habitable zone. Floyd | Floyd | An outdated defence satellite maintains watch. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to satellite" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SATELLITE Floyd | Floyd | An automated voice speaks: "You are very welcome here at Sirona. Floyd | However, know that marauders and pirates will be met with maximum Floyd | force." Floyd | Floyd | It's questionable just how much force this piece of junk could Floyd | actually provide. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Sirona Floyd | Small settlements cluster around hot springs, many of the buildings Floyd | cobbled together from old starships. Floyd | Floyd | Kleo dozes on the roof of her fuel truck, air tank Floyd | tucked under her head. Floyd | Floyd | A fish farmer nurtures a sickly looking shoal at one of the Floyd | less populated springs. Floyd | Floyd | Idly wandering the settlements is, of all things, a tuber. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg has been strung up from a makeshift gallows, his razor Floyd | tail dangling limply down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - 50k reward Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - 50k reward Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - 50k reward Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - 25k reward Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - (caught) Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - 25k reward Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to kleo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO KLEO Floyd | Floyd | She nods a greeting as you approach, but doesn't bother to sit up. Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to the ass end of nowhere, captain. Used to be a promising Floyd | little place. Now it's only a matter of time before we get raided by Floyd | the amalgs. Everyone who's not a stubborn fuckup like me has run off Floyd | to the Diasporan Commonwealth." Floyd | Floyd | She tugs down her breathing mask. "Which is just perfect, by the way, Floyd | because the amalgs were never a threat before those bastards armed Floyd | them at the Battle of Franklin." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I bet this place is where the fishing rod is useful." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Possibly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to farmer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FARMER Floyd | Floyd | His hand falls to the gun at his hip. "Back off, stranger. These are Floyd | my fish." Floyd | Floyd | Seeing them swim in circles and bump into one another, you're pretty Floyd | sure he can keep them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to tuber" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TUBER Floyd | Floyd | A battered metal tube with robotic arms and legs arranged - in this Floyd | case - in a vaguely humanoid form. The tube is featureless save a Floyd | sturdy round porthole, through which you catch glimpses of something Floyd | luminous and sinuating. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello. I am known as Six Redsky. My childhood has ended. I have Floyd | learned much out here, but I must now return to the Orphanage Floyd | to pupate. This could form a transaction of benefit to you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record orphanage" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD ORPHANAGE Floyd | Floyd | You record the Orphanage in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to razor" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RAZOR Floyd | Floyd | The razor tail is not something you can talk to. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Orphanage sounds weird." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh right." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tail" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TAIL Floyd | Floyd | It tears away from the spine, trailing wires and tendons. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We be scavengers." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 34k Floyd | Equipment: spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Implants: wireless headjack (non-verbal communication) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, Dr Pico-G, Aurea and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 3/5 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth star map, debt note, flight Floyd | manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | a razor tail (+1 badassitude when implanted), a laser eye (+2 Floyd | badassitude when implanted), an autodoc unit and an unauthorised Floyd | specimen Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we're collecting our amalg Hallowe'en costume." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "More badassitude." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Diallo+ (need visa chip), Source 3 (need visa chip) Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+ (not yet landed), Floyd | Sirona*, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Orphanage, Jag, Zhao and Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read star map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ STAR MAP Floyd | Floyd | The following worlds are part of the Diasporan Commonwealth: Pearl, Floyd | Storm, Khamsin, Cygnet, Nereus, Skadi and Autark. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I have in my note file a passenger for Xanadu. I think they're on Khamsin." | |
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| Guenni asks, "What's with the guy here?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, take the tuber." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We can take him, I guess, unless the Orphanage is Imago territory." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take tuber" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 3/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TUBER Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you. I will not require any form of sustenance or material for Floyd | the duration of the voyage." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to orphanage" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ORPHANAGE Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Sirona Floyd | A sizeable, jaundiced moon just on the outside of the habitable zone. Floyd | Floyd | An outdated defence satellite maintains watch. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Orphanage Floyd | A massive blue star is warped into strange concentric shapes by... Floyd | something. It's difficult to tell if what you're looking at is Floyd | physical or a complex optical illusion. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 85k Fuel: 2/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Orphanage Vestibule Floyd | Impossible shapes loom in the distance, moving fluidly, rippling the Floyd | bright light that emanates from all directions. Floyd | Floyd | Indistinct, colourful forms move to and fro, coiling Floyd | organically. Floyd | Floyd | You jettison Six Redsky's tube from the airlock. Floyd | Floyd | Something approaches. Something physical, with parts that might be Floyd | eyes and fins. Floyd | Floyd | Six Redsky's voice speaks in your head: "Thank you. I will always Floyd | know that I was once like you. I lived among the likes of you. I shall Floyd | always respect and appreciate what I am about to receive." Floyd | Floyd | The tube peels open and something erupts from it - an undulating Floyd | and rapidly growing form that has soon acquired the same stature and Floyd | anatomy as the thing that first approached. Together they turn and Floyd | recede into the Orphanage. Floyd | Floyd | You realise your credit balance has increased by 50k. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "nice." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Now that was nicely weird." | ||
| Guenni says, "Like I said. A Taxi with a massive trunk. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "Space taxi." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to khamsin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 85k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KHAMSIN Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Orphanage Floyd | A massive blue star is warped into strange concentric shapes by... Floyd | something. It's difficult to tell if what you're looking at is Floyd | physical or a complex optical illusion. Floyd | Floyd | (The fuel warning light blinks on.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "FUEL!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 85k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Khamsin Floyd | Skyscrapers cluster together in the planet's only city, a small Floyd | metropolis at the heart of a barren, dusty wasteland. Floyd | Floyd | A party of robed hunters has made camp outside the city. Floyd | Floyd | A caravan of nomads circumnavigates the planet's tiny ocean. Floyd | Floyd | Rella camps out in the spikelands. Floyd | Floyd | Mirek sits playing a handheld game in the shade of the landing Floyd | pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "We're fine!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to mirek" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 85k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MIREK Floyd | Floyd | "Why did you even come to this hole? I'm Mirek. I'm tired and I'm Floyd | bored to death. Can I catch a ride to Xanadu? I'll pay you 20k. Floyd | Life is easy there, not like this place." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take mirek" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 85k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MIREK Floyd | Floyd | "Finally!" Floyd | Floyd | He finds a cubbyhole in your ship where he can sit and continue to Floyd | play his game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to cygnet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 85k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO CYGNET Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 85k Fuel: 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the industrial fuel rig for 1k Floyd | credits each. 4 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 81k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 5 fusion cells out of 5 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 81k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Cygnet Floyd | A landscape of vast mining machines and small, perfunctory buildings. Floyd | Superheavy cargo transports crawl along the oversized roads. Most of Floyd | the people around are shellskins, the smaller number of spacesuited Floyd | figures seeming strange and unwieldy by comparison. Floyd | Floyd | Several ships are being overhauled in the mechanised dry dock run by Floyd | that sly dog, Matej. Floyd | Floyd | Devrim directs the haulage traffic from a squat, functional Floyd | tower. Floyd | Floyd | A stern forewoman oversees the operation of a deuterium mine. Floyd | Floyd | The shipping and receiving clerk runs around the landing pad in Floyd | a panic, clipboard clutched to his chest. Floyd | Floyd | A bona fide cyberpunk sips fluorescent booze in a back alley Floyd | VR-bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to matej" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 81k Fuel: 5/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MATEJ Floyd | Floyd | Matej is a round-faced man in a comfortable spacesuit. His smile is Floyd | almost as wide as his gut. Floyd | Floyd | "Back for more, captain? That fine ship of yours deserves the best. Floyd | Here's what I'm selling:" Floyd | Floyd | -external fuel pod - 10k (+5 fuel) Floyd | -ion booster - 3k (racing speed +1) Floyd | -autorevolver - 25k (personal weapon) Floyd | -fishing rod - 2k (allows you to fish) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We could even buy him out." | |
| DavidW says, "It's very tempting, yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we should." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy pod" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 71k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY POD Floyd | Floyd | You buy the external fuel pod for 10k credits, leaving you with 71k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy booster" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 68k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY BOOSTER Floyd | Floyd | You buy the ion booster for 3k credits, leaving you with 68k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy revolver" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 43k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY REVOLVER Floyd | Floyd | You buy the autorevolver for 25k credits, leaving you with 43k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy rod" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 41k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY ROD Floyd | Floyd | You buy the fishing rod for 2k credits, leaving you with 41k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to matej" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 41k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MATEJ Floyd | Floyd | Matej is a round-faced man in a comfortable spacesuit. His smile is Floyd | almost as wide as his gut. Floyd | Floyd | "If it isn't my best customer! Captain, if it's worth buying, I've Floyd | already sold you one." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "No multiple boosters." | |
| DavidW says, "Drat" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 41k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 41k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the industrial fuel rig for 1k Floyd | credits each. 5 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 10 fusion cells out of 10 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to xanadu" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 36k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO XANADU Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Xanadu Floyd | This planet's sparse green patches cluster around small seas. The only Floyd | indication of habitation is the brightly lit space elevator protruding Floyd | from the equator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | You dock with the space elevator, which ferries your ship down to the Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Xanadu Floyd | A lone hyperspace conduit to Hub stands at the heart of parched Floyd | scrublands and bare hills. Floyd | Floyd | The surface is deserted but for the odd simple obelisk standing stark Floyd | against the sky. Each marks an entrance to the subterranean facilities Floyd | where stacks of bodies and brains are plugged into a virtual reality Floyd | world. Floyd | Floyd | A visitor's port will let you jack in temporarily. Floyd | Floyd | xDreamQueenx sashays through the deepest corridors. Floyd | Floyd | Mirek disembarks. "Thanks and all that shit. Here's the 20k I owe Floyd | you. Smell ya later." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "what a sweetie" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 56k Floyd | Equipment: fishing rod (allows you to fish), autorevolver (personal Floyd | weapon) and spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Implants: wireless headjack (non-verbal communication) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, Dr Pico-G, Aurea and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | ion booster (racing speed +1) Floyd | external fuel pod (+5 fuel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 9/10 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth star map, debt note, flight Floyd | manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | a razor tail (+1 badassitude when implanted), a laser eye (+2 Floyd | badassitude when implanted), an autodoc unit and an unauthorised Floyd | specimen Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I need another bathroom break, back in a few secs." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to pico" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PICO Floyd | Floyd | An unshaven bioroid in a clean, white environment suit. Floyd | Floyd | "You've taken me to 8 worlds outside the Imago Republic, Network or Floyd | the Diasporan Commonwealth, captain. I can't thank you enough, but the Floyd | more data I can get, the better. And, don't forget, there may be a Floyd | visa chip in this for you." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Good timing." | |
| Guenni says, "I think you could try to get a visa chip now." | ||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -homeless veteran, selling a classified intelligence report (Surface Floyd | of Storm) Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), coastal nomads (Surface of Floyd | Khamsin), nervous woman (Surface of Nereus), xDreamQueenx (Surface of Floyd | Xanadu) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | an autodoc unit and an unauthorised specimen Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Back." | |
| Guenni says, "Like I said. I think you could try for a visa chip now." | ||
| DavidW asks, "From Pico?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAP Floyd | Floyd | The following worlds are part of the Diasporan Commonwealth: Pearl, Floyd | Storm, Khamsin, Cygnet, Nereus, Skadi and Autark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Diallo+ (need visa chip), Source 3 (need visa chip) Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+ (not yet landed), Floyd | Sirona*, Orphanage, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Jag, Zhao and Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "From the official adress. You brought someone in after all." | |
| DavidW says, "Just one." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, right, they mentioned that." | ||
| DavidW says, "but I suppose it's worth a try." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | The space elevator ferries your ship back into orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Xanadu Floyd | This planet's sparse green patches cluster around small seas. The only Floyd | indication of habitation is the brightly lit space elevator protruding Floyd | from the equator. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I'm not sure about the specifics." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's an ancient, plasticky synthetic in a pre-Diasporan Floyd | spacesuit and a ten-gallon hat. Floyd | Floyd | "You've brought in a bounty or two. Not bad. The Imago Republic Floyd | rewards loyalty. Just keep at it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess we neeed more." | |
| Guenni says, "Yeah, it's possible I only needed one because it was one of the "big" ones." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well I think you met at least one other already." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I guess we can try the two in Commonwealth space if we want?" | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - 50k reward Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - 50k reward Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - 50k reward Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - 25k reward Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - (caught) Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - 25k reward Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Rella and Luciano, I think we've seen?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| Guenni says, "The first one I remember." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Shall we?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to khamsin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KHAMSIN Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Khamsin Floyd | Skyscrapers cluster together in the planet's only city, a small Floyd | metropolis at the heart of a barren, dusty wasteland. Floyd | Floyd | A party of robed hunters has made camp outside the city. Floyd | Floyd | A caravan of nomads circumnavigates the planet's tiny ocean. Floyd | Floyd | Rella camps out in the spikelands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder what can help the nomads." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest rella" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST RELLA Floyd | Floyd | You sneak up on Rella's camp and press your autorevolver to her head. Floyd | Floyd | She spits at you. "You bounty hunters make me sick. This is a world of Floyd | true honour and you besmirch it." Floyd | Floyd | You lock her up on your ship. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "She's Rella mad at us." | |
| DavidW asks, "O Rella?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to autark" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO AUTARK Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Autark Floyd | Airless ice-moon of a black-ringed, aquamarine ice giant. Scattered Floyd | across its surface are bright lights and gaudy megastructures. Floyd | Floyd | An asteroid on an eccentric orbit has been carved into the luxury Floyd | habitat of reclusive trillionaire Leda. Floyd | Floyd | Souped-up ships with huge engines line up in view of a vast-windowed Floyd | habitat. An orbital race overseen by Silver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Autark Floyd | Domes and arcologies crowd the horizon: spacious mansions, dirty Floyd | communes, unregulated sweatshops and outlandish temples. Floyd | Floyd | A trendy office neighbours the landing pad, rented out by an Floyd | entrepreneur for unspecified business. Floyd | Floyd | Luciano conducts his business in an avant-garde park, Floyd | talking on multiple comm screens at once. Floyd | Floyd | spitfire6 drowns her sorrows in a holo-nudie bar. Floyd | Floyd | A legendary data thief by the name of Violet supposedly makes Floyd | Autark her home. Floyd | Floyd | The Snake will be in his private dome, surrounded by Floyd | bodyguards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't remember all these people." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest luciano" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 56k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST LUCIANO Floyd | Floyd | "Whoa there! The state shouldn't use violence to interfere with the Floyd | workings of the free market. How do you sleep at night? Not that you Floyd | have to use violence. I'm coming with you, peacefully..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I think spitfire is a pilot with some skill." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to spitfire" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SPITFIRE Floyd | Floyd | Her silver skull sweeps back to an aerodynamic point. Not to go Floyd | faster. Just to look good. Floyd | Floyd | "Name's spitfire6. Had a few too many close calls out there, but the Floyd | deep black still calls to me. You need a pilot who can dodge amalgs Floyd | for a couple of rounds, I'll work for an upfront fee of 5k." Floyd | Floyd | Pay her 5k credits? Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | Knight_Otu says, "I think that's a yes, now." | |
| Guenni says, "flying fast might help against clawships." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Cool. Take me aboard whenever you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We're not ready, though, are we?" | |
| Guenni says, "She doesn't bring any hassles if she's aboard." | ||
| DavidW says, "We have one or two bounties to deal with." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Do you think she'll object?" | ||
| Guenni says, "She's fine with that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take spitfire" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SPITFIRE Floyd | Floyd | She straps herself into your ship's pilot seat and, after adjusting it Floyd | to her liking, sits back. "Okay, I'm back where I belong." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "She's just there, once she's there." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Autark Floyd | Airless ice-moon of a black-ringed, aquamarine ice giant. Scattered Floyd | across its surface are bright lights and gaudy megastructures. Floyd | Floyd | An asteroid on an eccentric orbit has been carved into the luxury Floyd | habitat of reclusive trillionaire Leda. Floyd | Floyd | Souped-up ships with huge engines line up in view of a vast-windowed Floyd | habitat. An orbital race overseen by Silver. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm worried if Luciano will take over our ship if we're not careful." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give luciano to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 76k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE LUCIANO TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's remote deputies collect Luciano and transfer your 25k Floyd | credit reward. Floyd | Floyd | "I want to speak to my lawyer immediately," Luciano says. "I will be Floyd | suing you for the business I'm losing right now." Floyd | Floyd | "If I were you," the marshal says gruffly, "I'd start working on a Floyd | deal. The Imago Republic gets mighty angry about the trafficking of Floyd | synthetic humans and we've got plenty of evidence that's what your Floyd | business partners are involved in." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni laughs. | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give rella to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 126k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE RELLA TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's remote deputies collect Rella and transfer your 50k Floyd | credit reward. Floyd | Floyd | "Enjoy your blood money, scum," Rella hisses at you. Floyd | Floyd | "That'd carry a lot more weight," the marshal interjects, "if you Floyd | weren't wanted for selling people to the amalgs." Floyd | Floyd | "Wait a second," the marshal adds. "You've been a real help to the Floyd | Republic, captain, so I've authorised a visa chip for you." Floyd | Floyd | He shows you to the habitat's doctor. The implantation doesn't even Floyd | hurt. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "take the chip" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We got the chip." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take chip" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 126k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CHIP Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, it's implanted." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 126k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the fuel jockey for 1k credits Floyd | each. 4 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 122k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 10 fusion cells out of 10 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 122k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Diallo+ (not yet landed), Source 3 (not yet landed) Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+ (not yet landed), Floyd | Sirona*, Orphanage, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Jag, Zhao and Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "So, Diallo next?" | |
| DavidW says, "It's weird, but because of a Russian song, I keep associating the word 'implanted' with boob implants." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is Diallo the one with the claw ship?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Diallo is the one with the professor, I believe." | ||
| DavidW says, "I am happy to travel to places." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to diallo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 122k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO DIALLO Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Diallo Floyd | A thin blue sliver of nitrogen atmosphere curves over a loamy surface Floyd | punctuated with lakes of hydrazine and a single, carapaced Floyd | megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "No, I think the clawship was another." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 122k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Diallo Floyd | Bioroid scientists and data holograms glide through the airy white Floyd | halls of the research institute. Only the odd picture window offers a Floyd | view of the freezing world beyond its curved walls. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Vosov-R bosses his assistants around in the neutrino Floyd | observatory. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Rindo-X is in charge of the bio-research team. Floyd | Floyd | Jaheem is one of the few natural humans on the research team. Floyd | Floyd | A shifty grad student loiters near the landing pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That was Jag I think." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to aurea" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 122k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUREA Floyd | Floyd | An unnaturally beautiful, golden-haired woman with a jagged scar Floyd | across her face and a cheap robotic arm. She slouches in the Floyd | co-pilot's seat. Floyd | Floyd | "Prex knows more than anyone about getting out of Hardshell, so Floyd | hopefully he can get me back in. He was last seen heading to Source Floyd | 3." Floyd | Floyd | "We should be on the lookout for an amalg called Viscera." Floyd | Floyd | "Dr Vosov-R on Diallo tried to scan Hardshell or something." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oo, researchers." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to vosov" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 122k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO VOSOV Floyd | Floyd | A handsome, neatly groomed man in a lab coat meets you in the Floyd | reception area of his lab complex. Floyd | Floyd | Aurea gets straight to the point. "I hear you tried to map the Floyd | interior of Hardshell." Floyd | Floyd | He takes in her unusual appearance. "Did you also hear that it almost Floyd | got me and my team killed?" Floyd | Floyd | "A risk I'm prepared to take - to get home." Floyd | Floyd | "Really? Interesting. Look, I can sell you my neutrino scanner Floyd | for 100k credits. That's at no profit for me; it's just an expensive Floyd | piece of kit." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well now things are getting expensive." | |
| DavidW says, "I was wondering when." | ||
| DavidW says, "We can afford it. Maybe." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to rindo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 122k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RINDO Floyd | Floyd | Her neon pink hair is a stark contrast to the immaculate white of her Floyd | clean-suit. Floyd | Floyd | "Managed, synthetic biology is quite liberating, but we can't compete Floyd | with the sheer diversity and longevity of natural ecosystems. Not that Floyd | we get much chance to study that sort of thing in the Imago Republic. Floyd | Every new specimen we get here is highly significant, especially with Floyd | the pressure we're under to innovate for the colony on Jaenisch." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We do have to think of our twin, though." | |
| DavidW says, "I was hoping to save some creds for a Captain's Vacation Fund." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell specimen to rindo" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL SPECIMEN TO RINDO Floyd | Floyd | "Aww! It's cute! And it has trilateral symmetry! Let's pretend I don't Floyd | know where you got this, and I'll pay 10k. Deal?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 132k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 132k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Jaenisch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 132k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD JAENISCH Floyd | Floyd | You record Jaenisch in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oh, almost missed that one." | |
| DavidW says, "so did I" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to jaheem" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 132k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JAHEEM Floyd | Floyd | "Back home they call these people soulless husks. Well, I look at the Floyd | passion my colleagues here have for science compared to the venal Floyd | academic politics in the Commonwealth... You can probably finish my Floyd | train of thought yourself." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to student" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 132k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO STUDENT Floyd | Floyd | "Look, you're a straight shooter, right? I need creds and I've got Floyd | some confidential research: bleeding edge theoretical physics. Floyd | Not published anywhere yet. Guaranteed to be the first place you ever Floyd | read these ideas because the only other minds to think of them died Floyd | three million years ago on Sheol. 5k credits. It's a steal but I need Floyd | the cash right now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record sheol" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 132k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD SHEOL Floyd | Floyd | You record Sheol in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| DavidW says, "I am fond of research." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy research" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 127k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY RESEARCH Floyd | Floyd | You buy the confidential research for 5k credits, leaving you with Floyd | 127k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read research" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 127k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ RESEARCH Floyd | Floyd | You can't claim to understand it, but it's certainly some advanced Floyd | theoretical science. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "If I remember correctly no red herrings are for sale in this game." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Good to know." | ||
| DavidW says, "It'll let some mad prof make us a powerful gun or warp drive or something." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Should we buy the scanner now?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Universe self-destruct button?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy scanner" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY SCANNER Floyd | Floyd | You buy the neutrino scanner for 100k credits, leaving you with 27k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Vosov-R oversees its installation on your ship. Floyd | Floyd | "I really can't overstate how dangerous it will be to scan on Floyd | the surface of Hardshell. Then again, maybe you're in a position to Floyd | deploy better defences than my research team was." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd rather have a pocket universe." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I wonder if we can scan other worlds." | ||
| DavidW asks, "maybe?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Diallo Floyd | A thin blue sliver of nitrogen atmosphere curves over a loamy surface Floyd | punctuated with lakes of hydrazine and a single, carapaced Floyd | megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "scan diallo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SCAN DIALLO Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to scan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "scan" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SCAN Floyd | Floyd | The neutrino scanner is a pretty involved piece of equipment. It's not Floyd | clear that using it here will do anything other than waste a lot of Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Probably not." | |
| DavidW says, "drat" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Diallo+, Source 3 (not yet landed) Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+ (not yet landed), Floyd | Sirona*, Orphanage, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Sheol, Jag, Zhao, Jaenisch and Floyd | Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Source 3 is where Prex was last seen." | |
| DavidW asks, "Source 3... was that the one with the warship?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to source 3" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SOURCE 3 Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Source 3 Floyd | Mountainous terrain looms through the fog of the thick, toxic Floyd | atmosphere below. Floyd | Floyd | Small shuttles arc back and forth between the surface and a huge Floyd | mining ship. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Mining ship." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to ship" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SHIP Floyd | Floyd | "The Imago Republic is processing this world into raw materials. We Floyd | don't need anything from you, captain, except to stay out of our way." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Source 3 Floyd | The air and ground are both rich in valuable, if poisonous chemicals. Floyd | Floyd | Mining crawlers churn through the haze, carving wide trails Floyd | into the oozing rock. Floyd | Floyd | Intendant Aq-P manages the bustling administration facility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to crawlers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CRAWLERS Floyd | Floyd | A low, keening moan is your only response. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to aq" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AQ Floyd | Floyd | A tall, slender woman in a sleek yellow jumpsuit, made top heavy by Floyd | bulbous comms headgear. Floyd | Floyd | "This is the part of the Source process that requires the most thought Floyd | - gathering data on where resources are concentrated, mapping the Floyd | world's interior, planning where the world excavator will touch Floyd | down... So you'll excuse me if I'm a little busy." Floyd | Floyd | "I'll be quick then," Aurea says. "Did some nomads pass through here, Floyd | and where did they go after?" Floyd | Floyd | "Why do you want to know? Lot of unsavoury types would be very happy Floyd | to get their hands on a worldship." Floyd | Floyd | "My friend is on that worldship. I need his help." Floyd | Floyd | The intendant pushes her headgear up and takes in Aurea properly for Floyd | the first time. "Well, maybe he really was your friend. Okay. They Floyd | stopped by to trade for some rare minerals, then headed off to the far Floyd | reaches. Place called Gossamer if I remember rightly." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Ack-Pee? What an awful name." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Jikes." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record gossamer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD GOSSAMER Floyd | Floyd | You record Gossamer in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x trading log" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRADING LOG Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -homeless veteran, selling a classified intelligence report (Surface Floyd | of Storm) Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), coastal nomads (Surface of Floyd | Khamsin), nervous woman (Surface of Nereus), xDreamQueenx (Surface of Floyd | Xanadu) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some confidential research and an autodoc unit Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "fish" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > FISH Floyd | Floyd | There aren't any good fishing spots here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There was that one place with the fish farmer and a gun." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Might an intelligence report be of interest to the queen of Xanadu?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think so." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right. Also that one ocean world Meriel watches over." | ||
| Guenni says, "I'm not sure." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+ (not yet landed), Floyd | Sirona*, Orphanage, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Sheol, Gossamer, Jag, Zhao, Jaenisch and Floyd | Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think Queen wants a story that can be turned into a dream play." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to zhao" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ZHAO Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Source 3 Floyd | Mountainous terrain looms through the fog of the thick, toxic Floyd | atmosphere below. Floyd | Floyd | Small shuttles arc back and forth between the surface and a huge Floyd | mining ship. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Zhao Floyd | Slender megastructures rise gleaming from the silvery continents Floyd | below, arcing over oceans and snow-tipped mountains. Floyd | Floyd | The muscled war beasts of the Imago Defence Fleet are in orbit, Floyd | guns protruding from every orifice. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Maybe." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to fleet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FLEET Floyd | Floyd | Echoing voices transmit from the war beasts. You make out the words: Floyd | "WE... ARE... WATCHING." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Basically, find someone named Marsha who's written some Harry Potter slash fic." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh my." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | A grasping limb curves towards you with swan-like grace, enfolding Floyd | your ship and setting it gently down upon the surface. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Zhao Floyd | A wilderness of synthetic life bursts from the foot of translucent, Floyd | shell-like arcologies. Cetacean biomachines scud gently through the Floyd | skies overhead. Floyd | Floyd | An elegant lady and gentleman sit outside a cafe, immaculate Floyd | and graceful. Passers-by of all stripes stop to briefly chat with Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | The Diasporan Commonwealth ambassador frequents some of the Floyd | more exotic bars. Floyd | Floyd | Jora-D hangs out at the landing field, sketching the ships Floyd | neatly lined up by articulating space elevators. Floyd | Floyd | A florist sells altflowers from his market stall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni laughs. | |
| DavidW says, "Jora-D la Forge!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to lady and gentleman" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LADY AND GENTLEMAN Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to lady" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO LADY Floyd | Floyd | The lady sips a cup of coffee. "Do you know the latest news, captain?" Floyd | Floyd | The gentleman adds a dash of cream to his own cup. "One must keep up Floyd | on current events, don't you agree? Especially those lesser known Floyd | facts." Floyd | Floyd | "People from all over," the lady says, "keep us up-to-date." Floyd | Floyd | "And," the gentleman adds, "isn't fine conversation its own reward?" Floyd | Floyd | "Or so they say," the lady finishes. Floyd | Floyd | The two share a knowing smile. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Also altflowers for the nervous girl!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Probably." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to ambassador" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AMBASSADOR Floyd | Floyd | He's a stubbled, cheap-suited guy, standing out among the immaculate Floyd | bioroids. Floyd | Floyd | "No-one back home cares about cooperation, but imagine if we could get Floyd | a fraction of the production output of Koltsov. It could turn the Floyd | tides of poverty and win the war against the amalgs. Hey, a guy can Floyd | dream, right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "These two might like an intel report, maybe. They might like gossip more, though." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Koltsov" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD KOLTSOV Floyd | Floyd | You record Koltsov in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | |
| Guenni says, "I think they really want it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to jora" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO JORA Floyd | Floyd | She sketches on a holopad with a graphite pencil. "I meet all sorts Floyd | here. Well, all sorts of humans. No aliens yet." Floyd | Floyd | After a moment, she shrugs. "And yeah, before you ask, I consider Floyd | myself human. You talk to a mind from Panopticon - and beyond the Floyd | singularity - and suddenly the whole natural/synthetic divide doesn't Floyd | seem too big." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record singularity" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD SINGULARITY Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to florist" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 27k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FLORIST Floyd | Floyd | His stall bursts with colour: from bright petals that would pass for Floyd | natural if you didn't know better, to gleaming leaves embedded with Floyd | miniature solar cells. Floyd | Floyd | "It's very rare that a humble flower seller such as I would have Floyd | anything to offer a space captain from the depths of the black. But my Floyd | living crystal rose has just bloomed. 3k credits is a fair Floyd | price for such uncommon beauty." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy rose" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 24k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY ROSE Floyd | Floyd | You buy the living crystal rose for 3k credits, leaving you with 24k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Back to the commonwealth then?" | |
| DavidW says, "I'll just put it in water... in a vase... next to Jarland." | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Heh!" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to nereus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 24k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO NEREUS Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | The same muscular appendage that deposited your ship on the surface Floyd | raises it up beyond the atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Zhao Floyd | Slender megastructures rise gleaming from the silvery continents Floyd | below, arcing over oceans and snow-tipped mountains. Floyd | Floyd | The muscled war beasts of the Imago Defence Fleet are in orbit, Floyd | guns protruding from every orifice. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 24k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Nereus Floyd | Airy, simple buildings break up a multi-coloured and chemically Floyd | unstable mix of diasporan and native flora. The ocean sparkles at the Floyd | horizon in every direction. Floyd | Floyd | Nereus' most famous resident is the radical artist Tomer. Floyd | Floyd | A nervous girl paces the pier, twirling her parasol. Floyd | Floyd | A marine biologist lives out of his submersible, washing strung Floyd | between two palm trees. Floyd | Floyd | A group of surfers lounge around a beach barbecue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell rose to girl" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL ROSE TO GIRL Floyd | Floyd | She gasps so hard it seems she might suffocate, until she finally Floyd | remembers to breathe. "YES. That is so perfect I could cry. 11k Floyd | credits. It's all I have. That and the knowledge that you will be Floyd | smoothing the course of true love. Please?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 35k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to storm" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO STORM Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Storm Floyd | An unbroken layer of cloud leaves this planet an almost featureless Floyd | grey sphere. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth military fleet is in orbit: hulking warships Floyd | ready to jump into trouble at a moment's notice. Floyd | Floyd | Commodore Lyulf commands the planet's considerable orbital Floyd | defence network. Floyd | Floyd | A merchant service fuel tanker services civilian traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Storm Floyd | Rain pelts down from the thick clouds above, feeding rivers that wind Floyd | through warped and improbable rock formations. Air pressure and Floyd | temperature are tolerable, but the pure carbon dioxide atmosphere is Floyd | unbreathable for even the hardiest diasporans. Every building - Floyd | civilian or military - is a robust fortress or sunken bunker. Floyd | Overground traffic consists of a few rugged all-terrain rovers. Floyd | Floyd | A uniformed general meticulously maintains his garden under a Floyd | reinforced dome. Floyd | Floyd | An off-duty soldier throws back drinks in an underground bar. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting in the lee of an austere building, military-issue breather Floyd | mask held over his face, is a homeless veteran. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to veteran" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO VETERAN Floyd | Floyd | "You're a vagabond, captain? Me too. Used my old buddies still in the Floyd | service to get hold of this classified intelligence report, Floyd | fresh up-to-date. Gotta be worth at least 5k credits. I don't want to Floyd | know what you do with it. I don't care. Gave my heart and soul at the Floyd | Battle of Franklin and damned if I got any loyalty back from them Floyd | after." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy report" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 30k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY REPORT Floyd | Floyd | You buy the classified intelligence report for 5k credits, leaving you Floyd | with 30k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "read it" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read report" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 30k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ REPORT Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty heavily encrypted. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmmm" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We'll see if the couple still wants it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "launch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 30k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Storm Floyd | An unbroken layer of cloud leaves this planet an almost featureless Floyd | grey sphere. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth military fleet is in orbit: hulking warships Floyd | ready to jump into trouble at a moment's notice. Floyd | Floyd | Commodore Lyulf commands the planet's considerable orbital Floyd | defence network. Floyd | Floyd | A merchant service fuel tanker services civilian traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 30k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the merchant service fuel Floyd | tanker for 1k credits each. 4 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 10 fusion cells out of 10 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "our creds are lower than I" | |
| DavidW says, "I'd like" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to zhao" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ZHAO Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Zhao Floyd | Slender megastructures rise gleaming from the silvery continents Floyd | below, arcing over oceans and snow-tipped mountains. Floyd | Floyd | The muscled war beasts of the Imago Defence Fleet are in orbit, Floyd | guns protruding from every orifice. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "It's true." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I blame the neutrinos." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 26k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | A grasping limb curves towards you with swan-like grace, enfolding Floyd | your ship and setting it gently down upon the surface. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Zhao Floyd | A wilderness of synthetic life bursts from the foot of translucent, Floyd | shell-like arcologies. Cetacean biomachines scud gently through the Floyd | skies overhead. Floyd | Floyd | An elegant lady and gentleman sit outside a cafe, immaculate Floyd | and graceful. Passers-by of all stripes stop to briefly chat with Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | The Diasporan Commonwealth ambassador frequents some of the Floyd | more exotic bars. Floyd | Floyd | Jora-D hangs out at the landing field, sketching the ships Floyd | neatly lined up by articulating space elevators. Floyd | Floyd | A florist sells altflowers from his market stall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell report to gentleman" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL REPORT TO GENTLEMAN Floyd | Floyd | "Quite a conversation piece." the gentleman says. Floyd | Floyd | "20k words of conversation, to be precise," the lady says. Floyd | Floyd | The gentleman smiles. "If we are quite clear?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 46k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 46k. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says, "I wasn't expecting that to work." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Now let's hope the next time we jump to the commonwealth we don't jump into a war zone." | ||
| Guenni says, "The universe is stable as it is. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "By the time we rescue our twin, he will have to rescue us." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, we must be making enemies left, right, and starboard." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Where next?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 46k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+ (not yet landed), Floyd | Sirona*, Orphanage, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Sheol, Gossamer, Jag, Jaenisch, Koltsov Floyd | and Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Isn't Sheol another name for Hell?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Jaenisch was the imago colony?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think it may be." | ||
| Guenni shrugs. | ||
| Guenni says, "I don't remember." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think Jaenisch was a colony, yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jaenisch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 46k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JAENISCH Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | The same muscular appendage that deposited your ship on the surface Floyd | raises it up beyond the atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Zhao Floyd | Slender megastructures rise gleaming from the silvery continents Floyd | below, arcing over oceans and snow-tipped mountains. Floyd | Floyd | The muscled war beasts of the Imago Defence Fleet are in orbit, Floyd | guns protruding from every orifice. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jaenisch Floyd | One hemisphere of the planet below is formed of blue oceans and Floyd | silvery landmasses, the other is a sand-blasted desert. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 46k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Jaenisch Floyd | Spiral-shelled synthformers crawl across the landscape, scattering Floyd | spores that sprout into solar-panelled altforests and biomechanical Floyd | utilities. The few urban areas are a hodgepodge of improvisation and Floyd | re-use. Floyd | Floyd | A blimp floats overhead, from which the construction Floyd | shepherdess directs the planet's development. Floyd | Floyd | A frontier family is camped out in tents beneath a fungal Floyd | satellite dish. Floyd | Floyd | Girix-F oversees the unloading of embryonic machines at the Floyd | landing pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to sheperdess" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 46k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SHEPERDESS Floyd | Floyd | That's not something within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to shepherdess" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 46k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SHEPHERDESS Floyd | Floyd | Her long hair is gathered into a complex but practical knot of braids; Floyd | her synthetic skin is weathered and aged. Floyd | Floyd | "Every shipment from Koltsov improves our ability to enrich lifeless Floyd | planets. We don't have that drive to take over the Universe that our Floyd | progenitors did - no offence - but having a few worlds under our belt Floyd | will help to ensure our survival." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to family" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 46k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FAMILY Floyd | Floyd | Clad in practical outdoor clothes, each at various stages of mental Floyd | maturity, one still showing the fresh sheen of the gestation tanks. Floyd | Floyd | "We wanted a more exciting life than on Zhao. We certainly got that, Floyd | but it'd be nice to have a more permanent home." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to girix" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 46k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GIRIX Floyd | Floyd | His body bulges with a biologically impossible amount of muscle, but Floyd | his eyes are calm and kind. Floyd | Floyd | "Some time ago we messed up the watercourse. Took some doing, but we Floyd | sorted it out ourselves. Now this water desalination beast Floyd | turns up, when we don't need it any more. Take it off my hands for 4k Floyd | creds and you'll be doing me a favour." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "THAT for the nomads." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy beast" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY BEAST Floyd | Floyd | You buy the water desalination beast for 4k credits, leaving you with Floyd | 42k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | |
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Guenni says, "I mixed that up with the other specimen." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Do we have to find this family a new house?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), coastal nomads (Surface of Floyd | Khamsin), frontier family (Surface of Jaenisch), xDreamQueenx (Surface Floyd | of Xanadu) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | a water desalination beast, some confidential research and an autodoc Floyd | unit Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "That, I don't remember." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Doesn't look like it." | ||
| DavidW says, "I assume we don't have to solve absolutely everything." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oops, they do." | ||
| Guenni says, "I'd have thought they want to go somewhere. But it sounds like some form ofr oof is required." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "looked at the wrong category." | ||
| DavidW says, "I hear someone 3D-printed a house." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to khasmin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KHASMIN Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to khamsin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KHAMSIN Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jaenisch Floyd | One hemisphere of the planet below is formed of blue oceans and Floyd | silvery landmasses, the other is a sand-blasted desert. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 42k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Khamsin Floyd | Skyscrapers cluster together in the planet's only city, a small Floyd | metropolis at the heart of a barren, dusty wasteland. Floyd | Floyd | A party of robed hunters has made camp outside the city. Floyd | Floyd | A caravan of nomads circumnavigates the planet's tiny ocean. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell beast to nomads" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL BEAST TO NOMADS Floyd | Floyd | "This creature is strange. But so are we. If it will allow us to drink Floyd | of the sea, as our ancestors did, we shall offer 13k credits. Do you Floyd | commit to this exchange?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 55k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 55k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 55k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Khamsin Floyd | Skyscrapers cluster together in the planet's only city, a small Floyd | metropolis at the heart of a barren, dusty wasteland. Floyd | Floyd | A party of robed hunters has made camp outside the city. Floyd | Floyd | A caravan of nomads circumnavigates the planet's tiny ocean. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to nomads" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 55k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO NOMADS Floyd | Floyd | They walk on elongated, webbed feet and watch you through thickly Floyd | lashed eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "The absurd beast you sold us mingles well with our pack animals. Floyd | Through this strange addition we are closer to our ancestors and their Floyd | ways." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to hunters" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 55k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO HUNTERS Floyd | Floyd | Protected from the harsh elements by billowing robes, they peer at you Floyd | through tinted goggles. One of them steps forward to speak halting Floyd | Nacrese. Floyd | Floyd | "We have sold all we have to sell. Soon we return to the hunt." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 55k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+ (not yet landed), Floyd | Sirona*, Orphanage, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Sheol, Gossamer, Jag, Koltsov and Floyd | Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Nacrese" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 55k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD NACRESE Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record nacre" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 55k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD NACRE Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Koltsov should ve the last republic world on our list." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Also, we're nearing the three-hour mark." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is that the food world?" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh wow." | ||
| DavidW says, "The universe is a big place." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I lost track of what world it could be." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Want to land the ship for the week?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Visit Koltsov first, then stop." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "It's a holiday tomorrow, so I could go a bit longer." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to koltsov" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 55k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KOLTSOV Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Khamsin Floyd | A sandy brown world orbiting close to an ageing red star. Its arid Floyd | terrain is capped with scant white ice at the poles and veiled by a Floyd | few insubstantial clouds. Floyd | Floyd | Comet wranglers tow in evaporating hunks of ice from further Floyd | out in the system. Floyd | Floyd | Chief Drake leads a crew of spacesuited ice breakers, blasting Floyd | and drilling those comets too large to dump on the surface intact. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Koltsov Floyd | Below thick clouds and barren mountains, geometric shapes are etched Floyd | into the surface of this world. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 55k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the fuel jockey for 1k credits Floyd | each. 4 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 10 fusion cells out of 10 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Koltsov Floyd | A labyrinth of ribbed tunnels, through which ooze giant construction Floyd | polymorphs. Floyd | Floyd | Every tube and artery leads back to Controller in her nerve Floyd | centre. Floyd | Floyd | Fono-H oversees the output of one of the primary sphincters. Floyd | Floyd | Nursing his latest crop is a hab farmer. Floyd | Floyd | A tentacled engineer paces the complex, muttering to himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oo, let's stop here and do this next week." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "This isn't secretly a spin-off of Eat Me, is it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "That'll give us something bizarre to look forward to." | ||
| DavidW says, "I have no idea where Pacian gets all his ideas from, but maybe." | ||
| **** SESSION THREE **** | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "As I recall, we landed on a weird biofactory planet." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh somewhere so strange that I didn't want to explore it last week." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "load" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LOAD Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cfvagrantwhatthe" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 10/10
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Koltsov Floyd | A labyrinth of ribbed tunnels, through which ooze giant construction Floyd | polymorphs. Floyd | Floyd | Every tube and artery leads back to Controller in her nerve Floyd | centre. Floyd | Floyd | Fono-H oversees the output of one of the primary sphincters. Floyd | Floyd | Nursing his latest crop is a hab farmer. Floyd | Floyd | A tentacled engineer paces the complex, muttering to himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I was hoping we could get yummy plants for the cook, unless we've done that already." | |
| Guenni says, "We did." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The Blue Asparagus, I think." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh right" | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), frontier family (Surface of Floyd | Jaenisch), xDreamQueenx (Surface of Xanadu) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some confidential research and an autodoc unit Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "fish" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > FISH Floyd | Floyd | There aren't any good fishing spots here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Queen wants a story. What did the others want?" | |
| Guenni says, "The family wants a roof/tent kind of thing." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh right. hmph" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I think the pressure chief wanted... I don't quite recall. Helping hands?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure, let's go with that." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah, someone wanted that." | ||
| DavidW says, "anyway, look at stuff here, please. talk to the folks. The usual." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to controller" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CONTROLLER Floyd | Floyd | She shows you one of her twelve faces. Floyd | Floyd | "Let's not talk shop. I'm a ten tonne brain made to design technology. Floyd | There's really nothing about machines you could tell me that I'd find Floyd | interesting. So, how are you?" Floyd | Floyd | You make small talk with the Controller for a little while. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| DavidW asks, "Would controller like research?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell research to controller" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL RESEARCH TO CONTROLLER Floyd | Floyd | "I could mentally dis- and re-assemble that in a split second. It's of Floyd | no interest to me at all." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "You could show her the document." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show research to controller" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW RESEARCH TO CONTROLLER Floyd | Floyd | "I could mentally dis- and re-assemble that in a split second. It's of Floyd | no interest to me at all." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "It's some research." | |
| DavidW says, "Perhaps a blueprint is what she wants instead." | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "That may be. And I was so sure!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to fono" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 51k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FONO Floyd | Floyd | He keeps a bundle of eight eyes on the results of the production line. Floyd | Floyd | "Our production is usually tightly allotted to Imago Republic needs, Floyd | but output is so high now that imports from Source 3 are finally Floyd | ramping up, we're able to allocate a few items for free trade with Floyd | passing ships." Floyd | Floyd | -headjack orifice - 25k (non-verbal communication) Floyd | -fuel bladder - 10k (+5 fuel) Floyd | -laser pistol - 25k (personal weapon) Floyd | -remote drone - 10k (take items from dangerous environments) Floyd | -solar sail membrane - 3k (racing speed +1) Floyd | -collector spines - 25k (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | -warp shield - 100k (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, he's a store!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Indeed." | ||
| DavidW says, "That drone and the spines look very useful." | ||
| DavidW says, "With the spines, we start generating our own fuel." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We probably don't need a second personal weapon, nor a second set of non-verbal com though." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Wasn't there someone that was despondent because they didn't have a headjack or visa chip or a third item?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, though I don't think they counted as a buyer." | ||
| Guenni says, "possibly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy drone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 41k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY DRONE Floyd | Floyd | You buy the remote drone for 10k credits, leaving you with 41k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I admit they're not listed as a buyer, so you may be right." | |
| DavidW asks, "Is controller listed now?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Should we get the spines now as well? I guess the earlier, the better." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 41k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Fono-H (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), frontier family (Surface of Floyd | Jaenisch), Controller (Surface of Koltsov), xDreamQueenx (Surface of Floyd | Xanadu) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some confidential research and an autodoc unit Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oho. She is." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "So she is." | ||
| DavidW says, "Sure, get the spines." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy spines" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 16k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY SPINES Floyd | Floyd | You buy the collector spines for 25k credits, leaving you with 16k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to farmer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 16k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FARMER Floyd | Floyd | A thick, transparent hood keeps the pollen out of his lungs. Floyd | Floyd | "These are all due to ship soon, but the runt of the litter won't be Floyd | mature in time. What do you say, 2k for a house spore of your Floyd | own? You can sell it on if it's not your style." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oh hey." | |
| DavidW says, "Buy it! Sell to frontier family!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy house" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY HOUSE Floyd | Floyd | You buy the house spore for 2k credits, leaving you with 14k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to engineer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ENGINEER Floyd | Floyd | "This genetic blueprint still requires significant revision. The Floyd | biophysical properties are difficult to simulate. Those theoretical Floyd | types on Diallo would probably love to work out the particulars, but I Floyd | don't want to give them the satisfaction. If you take me to ERX Floyd | Beta, I can solve the problem more discreetly. Obviously, I would Floyd | pay you 20k credits for the passage." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Erx beta" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD ERX BETA Floyd | Floyd | You record ERX Beta in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record erx beta" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD ERX BETA Floyd | Floyd | ERX Beta is already recorded in your ship's log as a place of Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take engineer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ENGINEER Floyd | Floyd | He finds a cabin on your ship and gathers his tentacles around Floyd | himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Deliver the house, then erx away to beta?" | |
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jaenish" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JAENISH Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jaenisch" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JAENISCH Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Koltsov Floyd | Below thick clouds and barren mountains, geometric shapes are etched Floyd | into the surface of this world. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jaenisch Floyd | One hemisphere of the planet below is formed of blue oceans and Floyd | silvery landmasses, the other is a sand-blasted desert. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Jaenisch Floyd | Spiral-shelled synthformers crawl across the landscape, scattering Floyd | spores that sprout into solar-panelled altforests and biomechanical Floyd | utilities. The few urban areas are a hodgepodge of improvisation and Floyd | re-use. Floyd | Floyd | A blimp floats overhead, from which the construction Floyd | shepherdess directs the planet's development. Floyd | Floyd | A frontier family is camped out in tents beneath a fungal Floyd | satellite dish. Floyd | Floyd | Girix-F oversees the unloading of embryonic machines at the Floyd | landing pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell house to family" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL HOUSE TO FAMILY Floyd | Floyd | "Great Minds be praised, we could nurture this spore into exactly the Floyd | home we need right now. 10k credits seems almost too little, but it's Floyd | the best we can offer. What do you say?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 24k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 24k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to erx beta" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 25k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ERX BETA Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jaenisch Floyd | One hemisphere of the planet below is formed of blue oceans and Floyd | silvery landmasses, the other is a sand-blasted desert. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting ERX Beta Floyd | The dark surface of the airless world below is etched with complex Floyd | glowing circuitry. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hey, also unaffiliated." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 45k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of ERX Beta Floyd | Lightning arcs across neat, right-angled channels cut through rocky Floyd | terrain. The soil has crystallised into regular hexagons. And Floyd | somewhere deep underground, something quakes and rumbles with Floyd | mechanical precision. Floyd | Floyd | A holographic persona of ERX Beta stands on a stone dais. Floyd | Floyd | A crystallised idle fancy protrudes from the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The tentacled engineer disembarks. "Here's your 20k, as promised. Floyd | Now I just need to convince ERX Beta to help me..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "And with the spines, the pay from Pico doesn't need to go to fuel." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to beta" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 45k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BETA Floyd | Floyd | The hologram is a vague reflection of your own appearance. It speaks Floyd | in a voice tinged with bitterness. Floyd | Floyd | "I have allocated a tiny fraction of my mind to this simulation of a Floyd | human personality. The rest of me is currently engaged in mourning and Floyd | is otherwise unavailable. I am prepared to trade for self-replicating Floyd | polymer. All other functions are suspended." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get fancy" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 45k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET FANCY Floyd | Floyd | As you lift it up, it hums ethereally in the palm of your hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh dear" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 45k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Fono-H (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), persona of ERX Beta (Surface of Floyd | ERX Beta), Controller (Surface of Koltsov), xDreamQueenx (Surface of Floyd | Xanadu) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | a crystallised idle fancy, some confidential research and an autodoc Floyd | unit Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder who ERX Beta is mourning for." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Who knows?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to beta" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 45k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BETA Floyd | Floyd | The hologram is a vague reflection of your own appearance. It speaks Floyd | in a voice tinged with bitterness. Floyd | Floyd | "I have allocated a tiny fraction of my mind to this simulation of a Floyd | human personality. The rest of me is currently engaged in mourning and Floyd | is otherwise unavailable. I am prepared to trade for self-replicating Floyd | polymer. All other functions are suspended." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The queen might want the fancy, maybe?" | |
| Guenni says, "If I remember correctly someone'll tell you." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The... right." | ||
| Guenni says, "about the mourning." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to xanadu" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 45k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO XANADU Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting ERX Beta Floyd | The dark surface of the airless world below is etched with complex Floyd | glowing circuitry. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Xanadu Floyd | This planet's sparse green patches cluster around small seas. The only Floyd | indication of habitation is the brightly lit space elevator protruding Floyd | from the equator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 45k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | You dock with the space elevator, which ferries your ship down to the Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Xanadu Floyd | A lone hyperspace conduit to Hub stands at the heart of parched Floyd | scrublands and bare hills. Floyd | Floyd | The surface is deserted but for the odd simple obelisk standing stark Floyd | against the sky. Each marks an entrance to the subterranean facilities Floyd | where stacks of bodies and brains are plugged into a virtual reality Floyd | world. Floyd | Floyd | A visitor's port will let you jack in temporarily. Floyd | Floyd | xDreamQueenx sashays through the deepest corridors. Floyd | Floyd | Mirek has been plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell fancy to queen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL FANCY TO QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | "This... is potent beyond imagining. The idle fancy of a giant mind is Floyd | a million lucid dreams to a mere human. I will pay 20k credits. It is Floyd | worthless to anyone but me. Is that acceptable?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 65k. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well that was a couple of lucrative trips." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+ (not yet landed), ERX Floyd | Beta, Sirona*, Orphanage, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Sheol, Gossamer, Jag and Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "As I recall, we'll be attacked over Jag." | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We have a pilot now, but I think Id feel better with the shield as well." | ||
| DavidW says, "agreed" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Splinter, we wanted a personal weapon first. We have one now." | ||
| * Zach has left the channel. | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we need to visit it eventually, so okay." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to splinter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SPLINTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | The space elevator ferries your ship back into orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Xanadu Floyd | This planet's sparse green patches cluster around small seas. The only Floyd | indication of habitation is the brightly lit space elevator protruding Floyd | from the equator. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Splinter Floyd | The largest irregular rock in the asteroid belt around a dazzling blue Floyd | star. Clunky industrial structures cling to its surface. Floyd | Floyd | Souped-up barges comprise most of the shipping. You know Floyd | smugglers when you see them. Floyd | Floyd | A Commonwealth warship, repainted mercenary colours, holds a Floyd | high orbit. Floyd | Floyd | A carefully shored up fuel tower extends far out from Splinter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to warship" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WARSHIP Floyd | Floyd | "Whatever rumours you've heard, this is a safe port. Dangerous Floyd | elements will be dealt with swiftly." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Splinter Floyd | Gravity is a weak tug towards the floor of these cramped and Floyd | functional corridors. Every so often, a path opens up into a Floyd | glass-sided observation gallery, crowded bar or chaotic market. Floyd | Floyd | There's no real law round here, but Sheriff Yeung keeps people Floyd | from killing one another, mostly. Floyd | Floyd | A deep space explorer nurses a drink in one of the more Floyd | secluded establishments. Floyd | Floyd | A sickly amalg haunts the maintenance corridors, wrapped in Floyd | rags. Floyd | Floyd | Kal-Y watches the coming and going of the loading docks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - 50k reward Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - 50k reward Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - (caught) Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - (caught) Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - (caught) Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - 25k reward Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Kal is on the list." | |
| DavidW says, "I see." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to yeung" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO YEUNG Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff is a stubbled man in a baseball cap, creased suit and Floyd | bulletproof vest. Floyd | Floyd | "Chances are you came here to do stuff you can't do anywhere else. Floyd | That's fine. Just remember the one rule: you hurt anyone, I'll hurt Floyd | you worse." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to explorer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO EXPLORER Floyd | Floyd | She's older than anyone you've ever seen. Not in years, maybe, but Floyd | certainly in biological terms. White-haired and wrinkled, practically Floyd | pickled by the longevity systems in her faded spacesuit. From the Floyd | looks of it, she might even be baseline. Floyd | Floyd | "I've seen things out there. Stars consuming one another. Barren rocks Floyd | in just the right part of space to take your breath away with their Floyd | beauty. Distant colonies that left humanity behind so long ago there's Floyd | no resemblance anymore." Floyd | Floyd | "And alien civilisations. Oh, they're separated from us by millions of Floyd | years of technological evolution. Even the molonks, after a fashion. Floyd | But they're not all tucked away in the Orphanage. They're out there, Floyd | doing stuff. See enough of it, you start to think you might even be Floyd | able to grasp the tiniest notion of their plans - though no human mind Floyd | really could, I'm sure of it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record orphanage" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD ORPHANAGE Floyd | Floyd | You recorded the Orphanage in your ship's log the first time you Floyd | visited it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "You brought some robot adolescent back home there. :-)" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah that was the..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right." | ||
| DavidW says, "I've forgotten a lot of stuff. Why I keep notes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to amalg" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AMALG Floyd | Floyd | He shies away from you fearfully, clutching a broken prosthetic arm. Floyd | Fresh injuries to his biological parts suggest he's not Splinter's Floyd | most popular inhabitant. Floyd | Floyd | "Leave me alone, please. I couldn't hack it on Athena. I'm not a Floyd | killer. I just want to live here in peace." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record athena" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD ATHENA Floyd | Floyd | You record Athena in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "sell auto-doc to the amalg?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell autodoc to amalg" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL AUTODOC TO AMALG Floyd | Floyd | The sickly amalg is not interested in trade. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Apparently not." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sell auto-doc to amalg" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL AUTO-DOC TO AMALG Floyd | Floyd | That's not something within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to kal" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO KAL Floyd | Floyd | The smooth good looks of this bioroid are marred by numerous scars. Floyd | Floyd | "You wanna be careful, flying a nice ship like that through places Floyd | like this. People might try and take a piece out of it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Fono-H (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), persona of ERX Beta (Surface of Floyd | ERX Beta), Controller (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some confidential research and an autodoc unit Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Doesn't seem to count as a buyer." | |
| DavidW says, "the amalg, you mean. So it's a wildcard." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Wasn't someone on the list from here?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, Kal. Do we try to apprehend them? The sherriff might not like it." | ||
| DavidW says, "I honestly don't know." | ||
| Guenni says, "We only arrest him, no torture/hurting involved." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Can we undo in this game if we goof up?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We did when we jumped to Jag." | ||
| Guenni says, "Ant like I said, it's pretty unmessupable. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "So arrest him then. Or try to." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest kal" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST KAL Floyd | Floyd | You approach Kal-Y, aim your autorevolver over his head and fire a Floyd | warning shot. Within a few seconds the loading docks are deserted Floyd | apart from you and your quarry. Floyd | Floyd | He tosses a blade away. "I know better than to bring a knife to a gun Floyd | fight. But I gotta warn you: you'll regret this." Floyd | Floyd | You stow Kal-Y in your ship's brig. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Such nice criminals." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, maybe we will regret it." | ||
| DavidW says, "Not this turn, though." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm hm." | ||
| DavidW says, "so, deliver to venter." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 65k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Splinter Floyd | The largest irregular rock in the asteroid belt around a dazzling blue Floyd | star. Clunky industrial structures cling to its surface. Floyd | Floyd | Souped-up barges comprise most of the shipping. You know Floyd | smugglers when you see them. Floyd | Floyd | A Commonwealth warship, repainted mercenary colours, holds a Floyd | high orbit. Floyd | Floyd | A carefully shored up fuel tower extends far out from Splinter. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give kal to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 115k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE KAL TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's remote deputies collect Kal-Y and transfer your 50k Floyd | credit reward. Floyd | Floyd | "You'll pay for this," Kal-Y calls back to you. "My crew will bust me Floyd | out and we'll find you." Floyd | Floyd | The marshal laughs. "It'll be difficult for your crew to bust you out Floyd | when they're already locked up themselves, numbnuts." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 115k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's an ancient, plasticky synthetic in a pre-Diasporan Floyd | spacesuit and a ten-gallon hat. Floyd | Floyd | "You're making quite a name for yourself as a bounty hunter, captain. Floyd | I'm impressed." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can buy a shield now, I guess." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to aurea" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 115k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUREA Floyd | Floyd | An unnaturally beautiful, golden-haired woman with a jagged scar Floyd | across her face and a cheap robotic arm. She slouches in the Floyd | co-pilot's seat. Floyd | Floyd | "Prex knows more than anyone about getting out of Hardshell, so Floyd | hopefully he can get me back in. He was last seen heading to Floyd | Gossamer." Floyd | Floyd | "We should be on the lookout for an amalg called Viscera." Floyd | Floyd | "We can try landing on Hardshell and scanning with the neutrino Floyd | scanner, but I don't think it'll work out well." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 115k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, ERX Beta, Sirona*, Floyd | Orphanage, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Sheol, Gossamer, Jag, Athena and Floyd | Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to koltsov" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 115k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KOLTSOV Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Koltsov Floyd | Below thick clouds and barren mountains, geometric shapes are etched Floyd | into the surface of this world. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 115k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Koltsov Floyd | A labyrinth of ribbed tunnels, through which ooze giant construction Floyd | polymorphs. Floyd | Floyd | Every tube and artery leads back to Controller in her nerve Floyd | centre. Floyd | Floyd | Fono-H oversees the output of one of the primary sphincters. Floyd | Floyd | Nursing his latest crop is a hab farmer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to fono" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 115k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FONO Floyd | Floyd | He keeps a bundle of eight eyes on the results of the production line. Floyd | Floyd | "Our production is usually tightly allotted to Imago Republic needs, Floyd | but output is so high now that imports from Source 3 are finally Floyd | ramping up, we're able to allocate a few items for free trade with Floyd | passing ships." Floyd | Floyd | -headjack orifice - 25k (non-verbal communication) Floyd | -fuel bladder - 10k (+5 fuel) Floyd | -laser pistol - 25k (personal weapon) Floyd | -solar sail membrane - 3k (racing speed +1) Floyd | -warp shield - 100k (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did we ever jack in on Xanadu?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We did on our first visit." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy shield" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 15k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY SHIELD Floyd | Floyd | (the warp shield) Floyd | You buy the warp shield for 100k credits, leaving you with 15k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Also, is the headjack orifice different from the headjack itself?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I honestly have no idea." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 15k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 15k Floyd | Equipment: fishing rod (allows you to fish), autorevolver (personal Floyd | weapon) and spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Implants: bounty hunter visa chip (entry to Imago Republic) and Floyd | wireless headjack (non-verbal communication) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, spitfire6, Dr Pico-G, Aurea and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | remote drone (take items from dangerous environments) Floyd | collector spines (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | warp shield (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | neutrino scanner (run deep scans) Floyd | ion booster (racing speed +1) Floyd | external fuel pod (+5 fuel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 8/10 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth star map, debt note, flight Floyd | manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some confidential research, a razor tail (+1 badassitude when Floyd | implanted), a laser eye (+2 badassitude when implanted) and an autodoc Floyd | unit Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Both name the same benefit though." | |
| DavidW says, "We have a 'wireless headjack' but maybe we can't use it without an orifice." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh wait. That makes no sense." | ||
| DavidW says, "If it's wireless, we don't need to plug it in anywhere." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe it allows someone to plug into us... somehow?" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay, we can worry about that later, I guess." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Can't afford it anyway." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, yes, we need to earn even more credits." | ||
| DavidW says, "I want to see Gossamer." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to gossamer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 16k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO GOSSAMER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Koltsov Floyd | Below thick clouds and barren mountains, geometric shapes are etched Floyd | into the surface of this world. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Drifting near Gossamer Floyd | Deep space. The nearest star is an intense pinpoint, outnumbered but Floyd | not outshone. Small space habitats are scattered across this orbit, Floyd | made of metal, glass and hollowed out comets - all tethered together Floyd | with thin, monomolecular cables. Floyd | Floyd | Spidery cyborgs glide along the lines, their business Floyd | inscrutable. Floyd | Floyd | World Weaver stands astride a multitude of tiny worlds, Floyd | surveying everything with a cluster of eyeballs and sensor dishes. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Aren't you there at the moment? Or did I misunderstand that." | |
| Guenni says, "I was... partially absent for a bit." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "we were at the biofactory" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm wondering if World Weaver actually 3D prints planets." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cyborgs" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 16k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CYBORGS Floyd | Floyd | They query you with weird requests for data: adverbs from your mother Floyd | tongue, visual memories of marble architecture, the sensation of eyes Floyd | watering in a cold wind. Floyd | Floyd | You reply to each enquiry as best you can, and the curious party in Floyd | each case responds with something equally enigmatic - intense Floyd | claustrophobia, the image of something squirming at the heart of a Floyd | dark asteroid, music that you can feel but not hear - before Floyd | slithering away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to weaver" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 16k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WEAVER Floyd | Floyd | You send World Weaver a query for information on the nomads. Floyd | Floyd | It replies with a vivid but alien memory of their vast, ungainly Floyd | worldship jumping into the system. Its crew - tiny, fragile little Floyd | wisps of meat from World Weaver's perspective - traded for knowledge Floyd | of far off, uncharted worlds. Floyd | Floyd | But these frugal, hyper-efficient cyborgs don't want for much. World Floyd | Weaver shares the worldship's destination with you for free: Amarok. Floyd | Floyd | You add the new data to your star charts. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Should land here as well." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 16k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing with high enough gravity to land on. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. Or not." | |
| DavidW says, "Cotton candy world." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I've been in an argument with our cat just now, so I've been a bit slow." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 16k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, Gossamer, ERX Beta, Floyd | Sirona*, Orphanage, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Sheol, Jag, Athena and Panopticon Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record amarok" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 16k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD AMAROK Floyd | Floyd | You record Amarok in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Good thing I checked." | |
| DavidW says, "oh yeah. The game was misleading there." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "At least this one, we could get from Aurea if we missed that it wasn't added." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Sheol next?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to sheol" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 17k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SHEOL Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Sheol Floyd | Barren moon of a verdant world. The grey surface below is marked with Floyd | precise, angular formations. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I imagine Sheol will be some airless wasteland." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 17k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Sheol Floyd | Orderly channels have been carved between silver ziggurats, broken Floyd | sporadically by impact craters. There is no movement, no indication of Floyd | life. Floyd | Floyd | Tera-O leads an archaeological team from a bubble tent. Floyd | Floyd | A xenolinguist studies carvings in the wall of a half-collapsed Floyd | structure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to tera" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 17k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TERA Floyd | Floyd | She wears a sleek but armoured suit, powerful lights mounted on her Floyd | shoulders. Floyd | Floyd | "This civilisation died out three million years ago. Never got much Floyd | further than their moon. There's almost nothing of them left on their Floyd | homeworld now, but here the vacuum has left things remarkably well Floyd | preserved." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to xenolinguist" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 17k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO XENOLINGUIST Floyd | Floyd | She looks up from a complex spaghetti of etchings with no obvious Floyd | start or end. Floyd | Floyd | "Rifling through dead cities is a bit morbid, I guess, but this is the Floyd | only way we get to study alien cultures that are the least bit Floyd | comparable to our own. If these guys hadn't died out, by now they'd be Floyd | beyond anything we could understand." Floyd | Floyd | After a moment, she adds: "Well, there's always the molonks. But after Floyd | the time I spent on Volund I decided they're the exception that proves Floyd | the rule." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carvings" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 17k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARVINGS Floyd | Floyd | You didn't get this far as a space captain by needing to examine Floyd | everything that's plainly in front of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sadly, still no X." | |
| DavidW says, "I forgot." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Volund" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 17k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD VOLUND Floyd | Floyd | You record Volund in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That was a quick visit." | |
| DavidW says, "mm" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to panopticon" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 17k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO PANOPTICON Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Sheol Floyd | Barren moon of a verdant world. The grey surface below is marked with Floyd | precise, angular formations. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Panopticon Floyd | You orbit carefully in the shade of one of the huge solar panels Floyd | Panopticon uses to leech energy from the intense blue star at the Floyd | heart of the system. Panopticon itself is a glittering band of linked Floyd | space habitats of all shapes and sizes. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel drone adopts a similar orbit, sending binary offers for Floyd | a reasonably priced refuel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 17k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Panopticon Interior Floyd | Piercing starlight shines through broad skylights into multi-layered, Floyd | over-sized streets that curve towards an inverted horizon. The air is Floyd | thick with colourful holograms. Floyd | Floyd | A hyperspace conduit provides ready access to Hub. Floyd | Floyd | Decidedly non-humanoid cyborgs go about their strange business. Floyd | Floyd | The posthuman superintelligence Wunderkind socialises with Floyd | several new arrivals at once. Floyd | Floyd | A spiral-shelled bookseller hoards physical tomes in a Floyd | cluttered shop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cyborgs" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 17k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CYBORGS Floyd | Floyd | It quickly becomes apparent you lack whatever peculiar social mores Floyd | you need to engage one in conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Hub" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 17k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD HUB Floyd | Floyd | You record Hub in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to wunderkind" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 22k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WUNDERKIND Floyd | Floyd | A lustrous brittle star of a creature. One of its spiny fronds curves Floyd | round to meet you and approximates something like a face. Floyd | Floyd | "Tell me your story - your whole story - as you see it - in your own Floyd | words." Floyd | Floyd | You tell Wunderkind about where you came from; about how you got your Floyd | ship; about your twin and the Snake. Floyd | Floyd | "Unique - and precious - as are all the stories - take this - for your Floyd | story." Floyd | Floyd | Wunderkind transfers you 5k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Nice kid." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to bookseller" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 22k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BOOKSELLER Floyd | Floyd | The bulbous cyborg glides around the shop on a multitude of stubby Floyd | little legs, clutching old volumes in its claws. Floyd | Floyd | It sends you a brief greeting across cyberspace and then resumes Floyd | organising its books. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "And they say talking is overrated. :-)" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 22k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Fono-H (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), persona of ERX Beta (Surface of Floyd | ERX Beta), Controller (Surface of Koltsov), bookseller (Panopticon Floyd | Interior) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some confidential research and an autodoc unit Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Bookseller probably wants a book." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "So the book*seller* is a potential *buyer*. Right." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, well" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So I guess we get the book from a bookbuyer." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe get a library spore to put his books in." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to hub" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO HUB Floyd | Floyd | You need a transit chip to pass through the hyperspace conduit. Do you Floyd | want to launch and jump to Hub normally? Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 22k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "Why not?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "We haven't seen one of those yet, have we?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember any." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I didn't want to jump too quickly." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's nice to have the option." | ||
| DavidW says, "Like, maybe the chip is only available on the other side." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But I guess we can jump there." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to hub" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO HUB Floyd | Floyd | You need a transit chip to pass through the hyperspace conduit. Do you Floyd | want to launch and jump to Hub normally? Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 22k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Panopticon Floyd | You orbit carefully in the shade of one of the huge solar panels Floyd | Panopticon uses to leech energy from the intense blue star at the Floyd | heart of the system. Panopticon itself is a glittering band of linked Floyd | space habitats of all shapes and sizes. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel drone adopts a similar orbit, sending binary offers for Floyd | a reasonably priced refuel. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Hub Floyd | The surface of Hub is aflame with the light of sprawling conurbations. Floyd | Floyd | A multitude of space elevators lance into the sky, each feathered with Floyd | white hot radiators. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel drone adopts a similar orbit, sending binary offers for Floyd | a reasonably priced refuel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 22k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | You dock with one of the space elevators, which ferries your ship down Floyd | to the surface. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Hub Floyd | Dark megastructures crowd out the sky, wreathed in holographic Floyd | advertisements and connected by glowing arteries of aerial traffic. Floyd | The hot air would be unbearable if not for the cool, only mildly Floyd | acidic rain. Floyd | Floyd | The matte black, spidery transit master stands watch over Floyd | hyperspace conduits to Panopticon and Xanadu. Floyd | Floyd | Onlycheapdroids has established a meatspace store at the base Floyd | of the elevator. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting in one corner of a dirigible bar is Quidnunc, his Floyd | heavily modified brain pressing against a transparent cranium. Floyd | Floyd | A broken android lies crumpled in a filthy back alley. Floyd | Floyd | A golden cyborg going by the moniker Eleet watches the skies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to master" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 22k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MASTER Floyd | Floyd | The transit master's voice carries through cyberspace, genteel and Floyd | expressive. Floyd | Floyd | "Free usage of all Network hyperspace conduits can be yours if you Floyd | only buy this transit chip for 3k credits." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Any bets the broken android will have a body part we can snatch away?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Probably." | ||
| DavidW says, "ah, transit chip for sale!" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Do we want it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes please" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy transit chip" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 19k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY TRANSIT CHIP Floyd | Floyd | You buy the Network transit chip for 3k credits, leaving you with 19k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "With the fuel never ending, I'd say you don't need it." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to droids" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 19k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DROIDS Floyd | Floyd | Her holographic form swims gracefully towards you, flame-haired and Floyd | striking, if a little pixelated at the edges. Floyd | Floyd | "You won't believe how much you'll get done with this maintenance Floyd | droid in your life, taking care of all those little time wasters Floyd | that eat up your energy. Really, it's priceless. But, for a brave Floyd | space captain like you, I'll sell it for only 5k credits. I may not Floyd | actually make a profit on this." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah, but the fuel replenishing is slow too." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That is true." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, there's the "help" that someone else wants." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Probably." | ||
| DavidW says, "A nice little droid slave." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy droid" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY DROID Floyd | Floyd | (the maintenance droid) Floyd | You buy the maintenance droid for 5k credits, leaving you with 14k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to quidnunc" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 14k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO QUIDNUNC Floyd | Floyd | "You're well travelled, captain? Seen a lot? Cutting-edge science. Floyd | That's what I want. Theoretical stuff. I don't want any machinery or Floyd | alien bio-junk. Something to blow my mind." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell research to quidnunc" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL RESEARCH TO QUIDNUNC Floyd | Floyd | You let him skim the abstract. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, yes! Provocative and surprising. Such a new perspective! 20k Floyd | credits. Agreed?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 34k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get android" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | It's not clear this pile of scrap is worth taking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | As a space captain, you take in the big picture. No need to rummage Floyd | through everything like some kind of surface beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to android" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, hello," the android says. "I am Cicerone. I was created to be a Floyd | guide to the known worlds. Unfortunately, my previous user decided to Floyd | void my warranty, and I am uncertain what occurred subsequent to this. Floyd | As my ownership has been forfeited, I would be pleased to accompany Floyd | you on your travels." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oh, not *that* broken." | |
| DavidW says, "We can rebuild it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get android" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | "Please, talk to me if at any point you wish to learn about the Floyd | general region." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to android" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "This world is part of Network: a superluminal alliance of transhuman Floyd | and posthuman cyborgs, simulated brains and intelligent programs. Floyd | Historically, Network has maintained a stance of neutrality towards Floyd | the other powers and their conflicts." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to eleet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ELEET Floyd | Floyd | His voice is a deep and bombastic growl across cyberspace. Floyd | Floyd | "You got an iron spine, captain? This place is too soft for me. Just Floyd | suckers and the losers who bleed them of their money. Yeah, Network's Floyd | not the place for me. I shoulda been an amalg. Take me to Floyd | Athena and I'll pay you 25k credits. Danger money, you know." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Take him. We want to go there anyway." | |
| Guenni checks ship once more for a cab license plate. :-) | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "take eleet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ELEET Floyd | Floyd | Eleet looks around your ship as he comes aboard. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't worry, captain. I could wrest control of your ship from you Floyd | easily, but I won't. 'Cause I'm so honourable." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, that sure is a trust-building sentence." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Shall we dump him at Athena as quickly as possible?" | ||
| Guenni says, "You could get try to get rid of him as soon as possible." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is Eleet on the wanted list?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 34k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - 50k reward Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - (caught) Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - (caught) Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - (caught) Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - 25k reward Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Nope." | |
| DavidW says, "oh well." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to athena" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 35k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ATHENA Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Your ship is ferried back into orbit by the steaming elevator. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Hub Floyd | The surface of Hub is aflame with the light of sprawling conurbations. Floyd | Floyd | A multitude of space elevators lance into the sky, each feathered with Floyd | white hot radiators. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel drone adopts a similar orbit, sending binary offers for Floyd | a reasonably priced refuel. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Athena Floyd | Space junk crowds around a planet of dark clouds and oily seas. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg war junker tries to blend in with the garbage. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | The amalg war junker closes in, blasting out aggressive binary Floyd | obscenities. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, let's dump him asap." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Athena Floyd | The air is a haze of toxic pollutants, the skyline a jumble of stolen Floyd | architectural styles. Wet rubbish and rotting biomatter squelch Floyd | underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | Fireballs periodically burst into the air from the eye sockets of a Floyd | giant metal fuel skull. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting on a towering throne of broken cyborg prosthetics is the Floyd | exalted Piecekeeper. Floyd | Floyd | An elderly warrior sits slumped in the street, stripped of his Floyd | parts by younger amalgs. Floyd | Floyd | Pyrogut sharpens his blade by a burning oil drum. Floyd | Floyd | The landing pad is run by Sharptooth. She keeps the locals away Floyd | from your ship with lightning that arcs from her gunmetal fist. Floyd | Floyd | Eleet pays you his 25k credit fare and disembarks cheerfully. Floyd | "Thanks, captain. Now I'm truly home. I know it." Floyd | Floyd | A few minutes later, you hear distant screaming that is abruptly Floyd | silenced. An amalg scampers past the landing pad clutching one of Floyd | Eleet's golden arms. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That was a quick end." | |
| Guenni says, "Ouch!! :-(" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get arm" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ARM Floyd | Floyd | That's not something within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's a lot here." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Pyrogut is on the list." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to piecekeeper" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PIECEKEEPER Floyd | Floyd | The Piecekeeper's voice rasps from between the teeth of a matte black Floyd | skull. Floyd | Floyd | "We are monsters, yes? We cannot be reasoned with. But we can be Floyd | bought. A protective emblem for your ship. Wherever you travel, Floyd | amalgs will respect it. 50k. Many credits. But our favour is Floyd | priceless." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to warrior" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WARRIOR Floyd | Floyd | He lifts his head with the hiss of escaping hydraulic fluid. "Don't Floyd | pity me. I've led a glorious life. I crewed the war cruiser of Viscera Floyd | herself. Now she fights on at Chimera while I nourish new Floyd | generations." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record chimera" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD CHIMERA Floyd | Floyd | You record Chimera in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to pyrogut" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PYROGUT Floyd | Floyd | His body bulges with dozens of stolen prosthetics and organs. His Floyd | mouth is a wide grin, overflowing with teeth. Floyd | Floyd | He ignores everything you say, just laughs heartily and loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "This world has been claimed as sovereign territory of the amalg. Floyd | Travellers are not advised to remain here for any length of time." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to sharptooth" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SHARPTOOTH Floyd | Floyd | Her voice is warped by the chrome canines that inspired her moniker. Floyd | Floyd | "This is not the best place for you, outsider. The old ways hold sway Floyd | here. You'll find Junkbucket to be much more... welcoming." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "record junkbucket" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD JUNKBUCKET Floyd | Floyd | You record Junkbucket in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I hope there's a bookshelf at Junkbucket." | |
| Guenni says, "I think I know now it least one place where I don't want to live." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Is Junkbucket Jarland after a visit from an elephant?" | ||
| Guenni asks, "Can you imagine the comments every time you mention your hometown planet whatever?" | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Heh!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu, Hub+, Panopticon+ Floyd | Floyd | Amalg Floyd | Athena* Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Sheol, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, Gossamer, ERX Floyd | Beta, Sirona*, Orphanage, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Jag, Amarok, Chimera, Junkbucket and Floyd | Volund Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So, arrest this guy?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Let's try." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest pyrogut" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST PYROGUT Floyd | Floyd | You aim your autorevolver at Pyrogut and tell him that he's under Floyd | arrest. Floyd | Floyd | There is the prolonged clatter of guns being loaded and cocked as Floyd | amalgs spill into the street to point their weapons at you. Floyd | Floyd | Pyrogut gestures to his comrades and laughs magnanimously. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Nope." | |
| DavidW says, "well, geez" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "At least we live through the attempt." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah. Maybe the medallion would make a difference." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "This may be where badassitude comes in." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, that too might help." | ||
| DavidW asks, "anyway, where to next?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess we can try Jag now." | ||
| DavidW asks, "We didn't buy that drone, did we?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 60k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 60k Floyd | Equipment: fishing rod (allows you to fish), autorevolver (personal Floyd | weapon) and spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Implants: Network transit chip (enter hyperspace conduits), bounty Floyd | hunter visa chip (entry to Imago Republic) and wireless headjack Floyd | (non-verbal communication) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, Cicerone, spitfire6, Dr Pico-G, Aurea and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | remote drone (take items from dangerous environments) Floyd | collector spines (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | warp shield (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | neutrino scanner (run deep scans) Floyd | ion booster (racing speed +1) Floyd | external fuel pod (+5 fuel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 8/10 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth star map, debt note, flight Floyd | manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | a maintenance droid, a razor tail (+1 badassitude when implanted), a Floyd | laser eye (+2 badassitude when implanted) and an autodoc unit Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, droid" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "And the drone as a ship system." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jag" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 61k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JAG Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Athena Floyd | Space junk crowds around a planet of dark clouds and oily seas. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg war junker tries to blend in with the garbage. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jag Floyd | Tangled canyons have been clawed across the face of this large, rocky Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | Chaotic, unclear radio transmissions blast out from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg clawship occupies an eccentric orbit. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | The amalg clawship closes in, locking on to your cargo hold. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Who wanted the hired help?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh right." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jarlabd" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 61k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JARLABD Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | spitfire6 fires the retros and evades the amalg clawship. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jarland" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 61k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JARLAND Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jarland Floyd | A dark, cratered moon in the shadow of a turbulent gas giant. Networks Floyd | of bright lights shine from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel tanker refuels passing traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 61k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Fono-H (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | pressure chief (Surface of Jarland), persona of ERX Beta (Surface of Floyd | ERX Beta), Controller (Surface of Koltsov), bookseller (Panopticon Floyd | Interior) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | a maintenance droid and an autodoc unit Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We ignored the junker over Athena, I suppose." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That one attacked as well." | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh, did it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I miss having my own notes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "At least it approached us with obscenities." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Which seemed a lot like hostile intent." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok. So land and visit the chief." | ||
| Guenni says, "Possibly, yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 61k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Jarland Floyd | The thin atmosphere is a subtle glow at the horizon, behind glass Floyd | hemispheres large and small. Each dome brims with lush greenery and Floyd | minimalist buildings. Floyd | Floyd | Maximo runs the Bell Jar Pub, an olde timey establishment Floyd | filled with antique astronaut paraphernalia. Floyd | Floyd | A hard working jar farmer nurtures crops that bulge out against Floyd | the side of his bubble. Floyd | Floyd | The pressure chief hurries from habitat to habitat in a bright Floyd | yellow boiler suit. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim hauls cargo out of a low, ugly, opaque warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | The highest ranking official that'll talk to a random space captain is Floyd | Minister Ramos. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell droid to chief" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 61k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL DROID TO CHIEF Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, Cicerone or the maintenance droid? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "maintenance" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > MAINTENANCE Floyd | Floyd | "Huh. That might be just the ticket. 12k credits. How 'bout it?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 73k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 73k. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Not the best profit margin we've seen, but okay." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 73k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "Although it has eschewed alliances with other worlds, Jarland remains Floyd | a powerful and prosperous state." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 73k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu, Hub+, Panopticon+ Floyd | Floyd | Amalg Floyd | Athena* Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Sheol, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, Gossamer, ERX Floyd | Beta, Sirona*, Orphanage, Jag (not yet landed), Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Amarok, Chimera, Junkbucket and Volund Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I wonder how we're supposed to make 5000 in this game. That is the amount we need, right? Or is it just 500?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "5000." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Supposedly, Aurea can get us twice the sum we need." | ||
| DavidW says, "We need to rescue a space princess or end a war or something." | ||
| Guenni says, "She can." | ||
| DavidW says, "ah" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 73k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Fono-H (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | persona of ERX Beta (Surface of ERX Beta), Controller (Surface of Floyd | Koltsov), bookseller (Panopticon Interior) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | an autodoc unit Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wanna see Junkbucket. It sounds fun, like an antique store." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to junkbucket" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JUNKBUCKET Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jarland Floyd | A dark, cratered moon in the shadow of a turbulent gas giant. Networks Floyd | of bright lights shine from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel tanker refuels passing traffic. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Junkbucket Floyd | Something loops around this faltering white dwarf star: space station Floyd | modules, starship wrecks and synthetic biomes all grafted together Floyd | into a single improbable habitat - a vast and irregular megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | Amalg freighters lumber back and forth, strapped haphazardly Floyd | with cargo. Floyd | Floyd | A few Network traders orbit at a wary distance. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to freighters" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FREIGHTERS Floyd | Floyd | The reply you receive, as much as it is comprehensible, is relatively Floyd | friendly and only somewhat obscene. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to traders" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TRADERS Floyd | Floyd | "No offence, captain, but if we wanted to trade with someone like you, Floyd | we'd still be at Hub." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I think I might be offended." | |
| DavidW says, "fine, they're another mention of 'Hub'." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Junkbucket Interior Floyd | A fever dream of metal architecture, plastic conveniences and rotting Floyd | leftovers. Corridors curve back on themselves; centrifuges speed and Floyd | slow, varying the gravity; too-big spaces are reinforced with Floyd | jury-rigged struts and cyborg body parts. Floyd | Floyd | Fireballs periodically burst into the air from the eye sockets of a Floyd | giant metal fuel skull. Floyd | Floyd | Filthy, many-limbed Grimo pitches items of dubious provenance Floyd | to the passing crowds. Floyd | Floyd | Sawbones potters around in her chop shop. Floyd | Floyd | Every unscheduled blackout, cacophonic music begins to pump out of the Floyd | nightclub run by Halftwin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to grimo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GRIMO Floyd | Floyd | Grimo's telescopic eyes size you up. Floyd | Floyd | "Genuine, best quality amalg products here. Precision made by our own Floyd | cybernetic hands." Floyd | Floyd | -battered heat shield - 8k (atmo entry) Floyd | -hardwire headjack - 23k (non-verbal communication) Floyd | -salvage crane - 8k (take items from dangerous environments) Floyd | -sawn-off blaster - 20k (personal weapon) Floyd | -reserve fuel tank - 10k (+5 fuel) Floyd | -chemical rocket booster - 3k (racing speed +1) Floyd | -military EM shield - 95k (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| DavidW says, "hm. Seems like we have most of those." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I would think the fuel and spped would stack, though." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, probably." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to sawbones" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SAWBONES Floyd | Floyd | A stooped old lady, long grey hair almost to the floor, heavy duty Floyd | buzz saw for a hand. Floyd | Floyd | "What is this fleshy lump before me? You call that a body? Bring good Floyd | parts and old Sawbones will swap them in for you. Very reasonable | Guenni asks, "Why fuel?" | |
Floyd | rate." Floyd | Floyd | You show her the razor tail and the laser eye. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes. Yes, all good," she says. "You want a part added, you Floyd | give it to old Sawbones." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Each tank system should add to fuel capacity, shouldn't it?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "But ours doesn't drop under 6 anyway." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "If we're doing enough jumps right after another, it would, I think." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure I want to go cyborg." | ||
| DavidW asks, "What will our twin say?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to halftwin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO HALFTWIN Floyd | Floyd | Badass shades. Luminescent hair. Long, nickel-plated legs that end in Floyd | stiletto feet. Her chiselled abs twist up into a crooked scar. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't worry, I'm used to the staring. That's where they tore out my Floyd | twin. After that, didn't have the heart to stay on Jag and keep Floyd | fighting. Came here. Got soft. Learned how to dance badly and not even Floyd | care." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is there another meaning to 'twin' we ought to know about?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerino" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERINO Floyd | Floyd | That's not something within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe?" | |
| Guenni says, "I don't think so." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "This world has been claimed as sovereign territory of the amalg. Floyd | Travellers are not advised to remain here for any length of time." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Was she a conjoined twin?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It sounds like it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu, Hub+, Panopticon+ Floyd | Floyd | Amalg Floyd | Junkbucket*, Athena* Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Sheol, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, Gossamer, ERX Floyd | Beta, Sirona*, Orphanage, Jag (not yet landed), Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Amarok, Chimera and Volund Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Should we risk a visit to Jag now?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Unless we want to buy a fuel extension or racing speed here..." | ||
| Guenni says, "I think the pilot helps. But don't remember exactly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm. I'm not sure we're ready for Jag, but we can try." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jag" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JAG Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Junkbucket Floyd | Something loops around this faltering white dwarf star: space station Floyd | modules, starship wrecks and synthetic biomes all grafted together Floyd | into a single improbable habitat - a vast and irregular megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | Amalg freighters lumber back and forth, strapped haphazardly Floyd | with cargo. Floyd | Floyd | A few Network traders orbit at a wary distance. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jag Floyd | Tangled canyons have been clawed across the face of this large, rocky Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | Chaotic, unclear radio transmissions blast out from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg clawship occupies an eccentric orbit. Floyd | Floyd | The amalg clawship closes in, sharp robotic pincers glinting in Floyd | the starlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Jag Floyd | Ponderous black clouds press low against the spiky crags of the Floyd | horizon. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg war party roams the wasteland, waving cyborg skulls on Floyd | pikes. Floyd | Floyd | The war party holds hostage a diplomat from the Imago Republic. Floyd | Floyd | Some charity workers have set up brightly coloured tents. Floyd | Floyd | Marisa lives in a remote shack. Floyd | Floyd | A dead amalg lies broken at the bottom of a cliff, yellow warning sign Floyd | emblazoned across his nuclear heart. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get heart" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HEART Floyd | Floyd | It unscrews with a bit of effort. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Have a heart." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to marisa" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MARISA Floyd | Floyd | She looks at you from under the brim of a broad, weathered hat. Floyd | Floyd | "Take a hint. Leave." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - 50k reward Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - (caught) Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - (caught) Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - (caught) Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - 25k reward Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to charity" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 74k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CHARITY Floyd | Floyd | They're all diasporans in blue T-shirts. Floyd | Floyd | "Those warriors are dangerous, never forget that, but most of the Floyd | people here are living desperate and unhappy lives. We do our best to Floyd | try and make things better, though what they really need here is Floyd | reliable medical practitioners." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell autodoc to charity" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL AUTODOC TO CHARITY Floyd | Floyd | "That would definitely improve some lives around here. Would 9k Floyd | credits cover your expenses?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 83k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 83k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to diplomat" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 83k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DIPLOMAT Floyd | Floyd | The amalgs holding him hostage aren't too keen on letting him Floyd | socialise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to war party" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WAR PARTY Floyd | Floyd | One of their number has an antique vocoder. She steps forward, Floyd | dangling bones clacking at the hem of her battledress. Floyd | Floyd | "Negotiator. Hostage one piece, for now. 50k credits." Floyd | Floyd | Pay the ransom? Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 33k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | The war party throw the diplomat at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you," he sobs. "Please, take me home. Take me to Venter. I'll Floyd | get you a visa chip, credits... I owe you my life!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "You'll get it back for Marisa anyway." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest marisa" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 33k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST MARISA Floyd | Floyd | You surprise Marisa while she strums an out-of-tune guitar, your Floyd | autorevolver levelled at her chest. Floyd | Floyd | She sets her guitar down, and her over-sized guns. "Fair enough." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get diplomat" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 33k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET DIPLOMAT Floyd | Floyd | You bring the grateful diplomat on board. Floyd | Floyd | "About damn time. Let's get out of here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 33k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jag Floyd | Tangled canyons have been clawed across the face of this large, rocky Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | Chaotic, unclear radio transmissions blast out from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg clawship occupies an eccentric orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give marisa to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 83k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE MARISA TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's remote deputies collect Marisa and transfer your 50k Floyd | credit reward. Floyd | Floyd | As they lead her away, she meets your gaze coldly. Floyd | Floyd | The marshal shudders. "She gives me the creeps, that one." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 183k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Venter Floyd | A synth-futurist city of wide open spaces and glass-sided buildings Floyd | that would seem almost idyllic were it not sitting in the crater of an Floyd | airless ice moon. Bioroid citizens stroll through the plazas and Floyd | avenues in casual clothes, unbothered by the hard vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | Space-suited refugees form a lengthy queue outside the Border Floyd | Ministry, where they are turned away by a polite official. Floyd | Floyd | Link-J has joined the queue. Floyd | Floyd | Many of the workers at the loading docks are shellskin Floyd | immigrants. Floyd | Floyd | The diplomat you rescued from Jag disembarks. "Thank you, captain. Floyd | I owe you my life. To redress the balance, I'm transferring 100k to Floyd | your account. You already have a visa chip, so I won't need to throw Floyd | one of those in too." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 183k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Venter Floyd | A synth-futurist city of wide open spaces and glass-sided buildings Floyd | that would seem almost idyllic were it not sitting in the crater of an Floyd | airless ice moon. Bioroid citizens stroll through the plazas and Floyd | avenues in casual clothes, unbothered by the hard vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | Space-suited refugees form a lengthy queue outside the Border Floyd | Ministry, where they are turned away by a polite official. Floyd | Floyd | Link-J has joined the queue. Floyd | Floyd | Many of the workers at the loading docks are shellskin Floyd | immigrants. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 183k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu, Hub+, Panopticon+ Floyd | Floyd | Amalg Floyd | Junkbucket*, Athena* Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Sheol, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, Gossamer, ERX Floyd | Beta, Sirona*, Orphanage, Jag, Franklin Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Amarok, Chimera and Volund Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger goes home. | ||
| Roger has disconnected. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 183k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Grimo (Junkbucket Interior) Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Fono-H (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | persona of ERX Beta (Surface of ERX Beta), Controller (Surface of Floyd | Koltsov), bookseller (Panopticon Interior) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I guess visit a new place?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to volund" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 184k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VOLUND Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Volund Floyd | Structures rise above the thick clouds of this planet: towering, Floyd | impractical machines of no obvious purpose and unsettling design. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 184k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Volund Floyd | This whole world is layered in complex and arcane machinery. Machine Floyd | has been built upon machine, feeding into machine, decorated with Floyd | baroque mechanisms and littered with spare parts. The noise is Floyd | profound. Floyd | Floyd | Hunched, furry molonks continue their inscrutable work, Floyd | refining their over-engineered contraptions even more. Floyd | Floyd | A lone human, Reuben, sleeps in a hammock suspended from Floyd | convoluted pipework. Floyd | Floyd | No sooner have you landed than a group of molonks heaves a weird, Floyd | disconnected gizmo into your cargo hold. It seems to do nothing except Floyd | move parts in complex rhythms. Floyd | Floyd | The molonks leave your ship having only warily acknowledged your Floyd | existence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I would 'x gizmo' if I could." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess the gizmo is for Controller." | ||
| DavidW says, "Sure." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to molonk" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 184k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MOLONK Floyd | Floyd | You approach a molonk in as non-threatening a manner as you can, but Floyd | it shies away from you. Floyd | Floyd | When you leave it in peace, it returns instinctively to its Floyd | construction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to reuben" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 184k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO REUBEN Floyd | Floyd | He's a scruffy old man in a creased jumpsuit and durable breathing Floyd | mask. Floyd | Floyd | "The chances of two civilisations evolving within even vaguely the Floyd | same time frame are seriously remote. Aliens have usually either Floyd | advanced beyond anything we can understand or died out completely. Floyd | These guys, though, well... look at them. They've adapted to Floyd | civilisation. They don't even think about it anymore." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 184k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - (caught) Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - (caught) Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - (caught) Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - (caught) Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - 25k reward Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 184k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "This world is inhabited by molonks - the first alien civilisation to Floyd | be recorded by human explorers. There is some debate about whether Floyd | they are truly intelligent, whether they are the descendants of Floyd | intelligent ancestors, or whether their entire technological society Floyd | is the result of pure instinct, similar to a spider's web." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Right. I keep forgetting about cicerone." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Do we arrest that guy?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest reuben" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 184k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST REUBEN Floyd | Floyd | He holds up his hands. "Ah, crap. Okay, you got me. I'll come Floyd | quietly." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 184k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Volund Floyd | Structures rise above the thick clouds of this planet: towering, Floyd | impractical machines of no obvious purpose and unsettling design. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give reuben to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 209k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE REUBEN TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's remote deputies collect Reuben and transfer your 25k Floyd | credit reward. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm gonna go down in history," Reuben says. "I'm gonna change the law Floyd | on this stuff." Floyd | Floyd | The marshal shakes his head. "Keep dreaming, son. Those laws are there Floyd | to protect alien ecosystems. It doesn't matter how much profit you Floyd | stand to make: right is right and wrong is wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 209k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's an ancient, plasticky synthetic in a pre-Diasporan Floyd | spacesuit and a ten-gallon hat. Floyd | Floyd | "You're making quite a name for yourself as a bounty hunter, captain. Floyd | I'm impressed." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 209k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "We are now in the Imago Republic, a nation founded by artificial Floyd | humans in response to their persecution and oppression elsewhere. Floyd | Recently, the Republic has begun tightly enforcing its borders, and a Floyd | visa is required to land on all of its worlds save Venter." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Gizmo to controller next?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to koltsov" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 209k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KOLTSOV Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Koltsov Floyd | Below thick clouds and barren mountains, geometric shapes are etched Floyd | into the surface of this world. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 209k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Koltsov Floyd | A labyrinth of ribbed tunnels, through which ooze giant construction Floyd | polymorphs. Floyd | Floyd | Every tube and artery leads back to Controller in her nerve Floyd | centre. Floyd | Floyd | Fono-H oversees the output of one of the primary sphincters. Floyd | Floyd | Nursing his latest crop is a hab farmer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell gizmo to controller" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL GIZMO TO CONTROLLER Floyd | Floyd | "What... is that? What do all the parts do? What is it for? What's the Floyd | power source? You don't know? I don't know either! Um, okay, look, Floyd | I'll buy it off you for 15k credits? Please?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 224k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 224k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to controller" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 224k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CONTROLLER Floyd | Floyd | She shows you one of her twelve faces. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm still puzzling that weird gizmo out. I actually don't think it Floyd | does anything at all, but working out exactly how it does Floyd | nothing is keeping me occupied in idle moments." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We just sold an office desk fiddle toy, didn't we?" | |
| Guenni says, "Yeah, something like that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So it's an automatic procrastinator." | ||
| Guenni says, "As the saying goes, what's ones junk it's another's treasure." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 224k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "We are now in the Imago Republic, a nation founded by artificial Floyd | humans in response to their persecution and oppression elsewhere. Floyd | Recently, the Republic has begun tightly enforcing its borders, and a Floyd | visa is required to land on all of its worlds save Venter." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess Cicerone's text is the same for each planet in a nation." | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to pearl" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 224k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO PEARL Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Koltsov Floyd | Below thick clouds and barren mountains, geometric shapes are etched Floyd | into the surface of this world. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pearl Floyd | Moon of a storm-bedecked gas giant, jewel of the Diasporan Floyd | Commonwealth: a world of blue seas, green continents and white clouds. Floyd | Its night side glitters with artificial light. Floyd | Floyd | The Commonwealth Courier Co. has a floodlit spindle in low orbit. Floyd | Viktoria doles out the packages, as ever. Floyd | Floyd | A dejected freighter captain is awaiting repairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But unaligned ones might be all different." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 224k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "This is the Diasporan Commonwealth, known as the cradle of Floyd | interstellar humanity. The Commonwealth is a diverse and loose Floyd | alliance of worlds connected by hyperspace gates and protected by a Floyd | unified military." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Fuel's at only 4." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to cygnet" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 224k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO CYGNET Floyd | Floyd | (via hyperspace gate) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Cygnet Floyd | Grey, airless and cratered, its surface is nevertheless dusted with Floyd | countless lights and scarred with broad highways. Floyd | Floyd | An industrial fuel rig extends its arms to passing freighters. Floyd | Floyd | Grayson runs a low-revolution saloon in high orbit, a spinning Floyd | constellation of gaudy neon. A grizzled traveller sits slumped Floyd | over the bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 224k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the industrial fuel rig for 1k Floyd | credits each. 6 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 218k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 10 fusion cells out of 10 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Not anymore." | |
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 218k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu, Hub+, Panopticon+ Floyd | Floyd | Amalg Floyd | Junkbucket*, Athena* Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Sheol, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, Gossamer, ERX Floyd | Beta, Sirona*, Orphanage, Jag, Franklin, Volund Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Amarok and Chimera Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Where's the place we're supposed to use that neutrino scanner thing?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Hardcastle or whatever it is?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Amarok to follow Prex, or Chimera for the Viscera?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hardshell I think." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Hardshell" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 218k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD HARDSHELL Floyd | Floyd | You record Hardshell in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | | Guenni nods. | |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "Amarok next, please." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Lonely Rock was a satellite of it I think." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to Amarok" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 219k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO AMAROK Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Amarok Floyd | Shrouded in thick, purplish clouds, this world probably isn't quite Floyd | massive enough to be a true gas giant. A white, cyclonic storm rages Floyd | at its equator. Floyd | Floyd | A gargantuan nomad worldship drifts powerless through space, Floyd | ripped open and spilling its cargo into the vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg dreadnought has latched onto it with over-sized claws. Floyd | Floyd | Ripjaw commands the boarding parties. Floyd | Floyd | A dead amalg drifts through space, her bronze wings useless in Floyd | vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wings" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 219k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WINGS Floyd | Floyd | They come off with a little effort. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well that's not looking good." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to worldship" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 219k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WORLDSHIP Floyd | Floyd | You receive only chaotic amalg transmissions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to dreadnought" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 219k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DREADNOUGHT Floyd | Floyd | You receive a transmission of aggressive growls, warbling modem sounds Floyd | and euphoric whooping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to ripjaw" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 219k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO RIPJAW Floyd | Floyd | A massive man fuelled by thick hoses pumping stolen blood. Floyd | Floyd | Aurea speaks calmly, but her fists are clenched. "What is going on Floyd | here?" Floyd | Floyd | His huge face is split by a smile. "Just collecting some salvage, Floyd | ma'am." Floyd | Floyd | "And the ship's crew?" Floyd | Floyd | "After this catastrophic hull breach, we put them in cryo tubes for Floyd | their own safety. Is there one in particular that interests you?" Floyd | Floyd | Aurea just grits her teeth. Floyd | Floyd | "You can buy the cryo tube off me for 100k. I only ask for so Floyd | many credits to be sure it's going to a good home. For all I know, you Floyd | just want a body for parts." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "buy it" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy prex" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 219k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY PREX Floyd | Floyd | That's not something within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The tube." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy cryo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 119k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY CRYO Floyd | Floyd | You buy Prex's cryo tube for 100k credits, leaving you with 119k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | Burly amalgs leave Prex's cryo tube in your ship's hold. Floyd | Floyd | Aurea examines it. "Life signs are steady." Floyd | Floyd | The cryo tube is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Could've been a synonym!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, Aurea gets to examine stuff." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Should we land? Open the tube?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 119k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | The atmospheric pressure on the surface would be too great to take Floyd | off, even if your ship could survive it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open tube" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 119k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN TUBE Floyd | Floyd | Prex emerges glistening, naked and bright-blue haired from the cryo Floyd | tube. He looks around with sharp but cynical eyes. "These are Floyd | friendlier faces than I expected to see when I came out of this Floyd | thing." Floyd | Floyd | Aurea helps him up. "I need your help to get back." Floyd | Floyd | "So purely altruistic motives then? I've memorised Haven's jump Floyd | vector. Just give me a terminal and I'll set you up. But can you get Floyd | me some clothes first?" Floyd | Floyd | You lend the man a jumpsuit. As he enters data into your nav system he Floyd | adds: "Shit got bad back home, princess. I got out just in time. Ya Floyd | know... this ship's pretty cool... Might hang around for a bit. Okay, Floyd | finished. We're good to go." Floyd | Floyd | Did he just call you "princess"? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record Haven" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 119k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD HAVEN Floyd | Floyd | You record Haven in your ship's log as a place of potential interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "No, protagonist, I think he was talking to Aurea." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I doubt we'd have that much of a debt if we were a princess." | ||
| Guenni says, "We're also a guy. :-)" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "(Though I suppose its possible.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't mind being a princess but Prex got dressed far too quickly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't recall our gender getting established, but maybe I missed it." | ||
| Guenni says, "Remember No x-ing in this game anyway." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember if we have a gender or not." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, I think it was mentioned we're identical twins." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "..Guenni I guess I'll just have to look at Prex with my fingers, then." | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 119k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ..GUENNI I GUESS I'LL JUST HAVE TO LOOK AT PREX WITH MY FINGERS, Floyd | THEN. Floyd | Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ack" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "touch prex" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 119k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH PREX Floyd | Floyd | It's not a good idea to wander the Universe putting your mitts on Floyd | everything. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni grins. | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It's not a touchy feely game." | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's go to Haven or wherever." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to haven" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 120k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO HAVEN Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Haven Floyd | A small, blue-oceaned world is warmed by a yellow star, both lodged in Floyd | immense biomechanical megastructures. Floyd | Floyd | "Enjoy the view, captain," Aurea says. "Very few outsiders have seen Floyd | the interior of Hardshell in a thousand years." Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's almost 4pm." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Do you want to wrap up early?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Not me. Just saying." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 120k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Haven Floyd | A lush, Arcadian land of rolling fields and cyclopean fortresses. Floyd | Gnarled pillars line the horizon, disappearing into a sky patterned Floyd | with organic shadows. Floyd | Floyd | A titanic statue of Aurea, young and unscarred, lies awkwardly on its Floyd | side, both arms snapped off. Floyd | Floyd | Black smoke vomits from several settlements, sparkling with hot Floyd | embers. Floyd | Floyd | Corpses have been heaped into careless piles. Floyd | Floyd | A perpetually bowed chamberlain glides snail-like across the Floyd | throne room of a castle besieged by crawling horrors. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is unsettling." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to aurea" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 120k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO AUREA Floyd | Floyd | An unnaturally beautiful, golden-haired woman with a jagged scar Floyd | across her face and a cheap robotic arm. She slouches in the Floyd | co-pilot's seat. Floyd | Floyd | "Well. Here we are." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sorry princess, your kingdom is in another castle." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 120k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "We are currently inside Hardshell. My databanks provide precisely Floyd | zero information on this location. Indeed, I am suppressing numerous Floyd | errors in my positioning system stemming from the assumption that Floyd | being here is impossible." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Credits: 120k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "We are currently inside Hardshell. My databanks provide precisely Floyd | zero information on this location. Indeed, I am suppressing numerous Floyd | errors in my positioning system stemming from the assumption that Floyd | being here is impossible." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to chamberlain" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CHAMBERLAIN Floyd | Floyd | The chamberlain prostrates itself before Aurea. "Princess Aureana the Floyd | Uncertain. When we saw that outsiders had arrived, I knew it to be Floyd | you." Floyd | Floyd | She watches the battle through arched windows. "This is what my little Floyd | sister has wrought, then? Fine. I'll take your damn crown." Floyd | Floyd | The chamberlain breathes a hissing breath. "Not all of the constructs Floyd | will recognise your authority. She has seen to this." Floyd | Floyd | "What's ever easy?" Floyd | Floyd | She steps out onto a balcony. Below, innumerable ageless, Floyd | brightly-coiffed denizens look up at her. | DavidW says, "Talk to the chamberlain next, I guess." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd | brightly-coiffed denizens look up at her.... Floyd | Floyd | "I don't like you guys," Aurea booms, "and you don't like me. But this Floyd | shitty sphere's set up so you need me, and here I am. I'm gonna kick Floyd | my sister's arse and then I'm gonna crack this piece of crap wide Floyd | open, whether you want me to or not." Floyd | Floyd | The faces below stare up at her silently. A wave of hesitant, Floyd | uncertain applause passes through the crowd and then dies out. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 10120k Fuel: 10/10
Floyd | uncertain applause passes through the crowd and then dies out....
Floyd |
Floyd | Aurea returns to the throne room. "Oh," she says, "and I owe this
Floyd | outsider ten million credits."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Very well." The chamberlain extends a long-fingered, tri-symmetrical
Floyd | hand and deposits a glowing cred stick in your palm. "We shall also
Floyd | refuel the outsider's starship, as a gesture of thanks for returning
Floyd | our rightful ruler."
Floyd |
Floyd | Aurea snorts disdainfully and throws herself into the throne. "Thank
Floyd | you, captain. One day I'll get back out, and look you up. When I do,
Floyd | you can introduce me to your twin."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "oh, this is a push space sort of storytime region" | |
| DavidW says, "oh. ka-ching ka-ching" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Now we know why she couldn't pay for refuelling." | ||
| DavidW asks, "so, we can now rescue our twin?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Jump to Autark and get our tw..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to autark" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 10120k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO AUTARK Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Haven Floyd | A small, blue-oceaned world is warmed by a yellow star, both lodged in Floyd | immense biomechanical megastructures. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Autark Floyd | Airless ice-moon of a black-ringed, aquamarine ice giant. Scattered Floyd | across its surface are bright lights and gaudy megastructures. Floyd | Floyd | An asteroid on an eccentric orbit has been carved into the luxury Floyd | habitat of reclusive trillionaire Leda. Floyd | Floyd | Souped-up ships with huge engines line up in view of a vast-windowed Floyd | habitat. An orbital race overseen by Silver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 10120k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Autark Floyd | Domes and arcologies crowd the horizon: spacious mansions, dirty Floyd | communes, unregulated sweatshops and outlandish temples. Floyd | Floyd | A trendy office neighbours the landing pad, rented out by an Floyd | entrepreneur for unspecified business. Floyd | Floyd | A legendary data thief by the name of Violet supposedly makes Floyd | Autark her home. Floyd | Floyd | The Snake will be in his private dome, surrounded by Floyd | bodyguards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Credits: 10120k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to snake" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 10120k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SNAKE Floyd | Floyd | A long, limbless trunk of a man. Floyd | Floyd | "I understand you've come into some money, captain. This is not Floyd | usually how these things go, but I do stick to my agreements. You can Floyd | buy back your twin's cryo tube for 5000k." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy tube" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5120k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY TUBE Floyd | Floyd | Niv brings the tube out to the landing pad, flanked by armed goons. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, captain," he says, "maybe you're not the complete reprobate I Floyd | took you for. I have a lot of respect for those who pay back their Floyd | debts. You ever need another loan, you come see us again." Floyd | Floyd | At that he breaks into a wide grin and leaves, trailing laughter. His Floyd | goons follow a moment later, unsmiling. Floyd | Floyd | You check over your new cargo. The life sign read-outs are steady and Floyd | the cryo tube is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open tube" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5120k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN TUBE Floyd | Floyd | Your twin emerges from the cryo tube naked, wet and shivering. Floyd | Floyd | "You got old," your twin says. Floyd | Floyd | The perfect comeback somehow eludes you. Floyd | Floyd | "How did you get the money?" your twin asks. "You must have got Floyd | around. Seen some things." Floyd | Floyd | You tell your twin how you got an Imago Republic visa, saw the inside Floyd | of Hardshell, met a molonk, entered the Orphanage, commanded a crew of Floyd | four, caught a bounty... Floyd | Floyd | "So you didn't win the respect of the amalgs, visit a world of cats, Floyd | catch an alien sea creature, get a badass implant, win an orbital Floyd | race, catch all the bounties..." Floyd | Floyd | You admit that you didn't get around to any of that. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, all the more for us to do together." Floyd | Floyd | You power up the jump drive and begin to plot a course. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Your adventures continue *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You gained 6 out of 12 achievements and visited 33 worlds in 84 jumps. Floyd | Floyd | Continue playing? (continue/restart/restore)> | DavidW says, "hm. It's tempting, but I'm okay with stopping here." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I must admit, I expected a last plot twist here." | ||
| Guenni says, "Oh, than let me at least show you something before we land definitely." | ||
| DavidW says, "I notice the dialog is carefully ambiguous with the genders." | ||
| Knight_Otu nods. | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Go ahead, Guenni." | ||
| Guenni asks, "You ok with showing you two plnets before landing?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, feel free." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "continue" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5120k Fuel: 10/10 Floyd | Continue playing? (continue/restart/restore)> Floyd | > CONTINUE Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Autark Floyd | Domes and arcologies crowd the horizon: spacious mansions, dirty Floyd | communes, unregulated sweatshops and outlandish temples. Floyd | Floyd | A trendy office neighbours the landing pad, rented out by an Floyd | entrepreneur for unspecified business. Floyd | Floyd | A legendary data thief by the name of Violet supposedly makes Floyd | Autark her home. Floyd | Floyd | The Snake will be in his private dome, surrounded by Floyd | bodyguards. Floyd | Floyd | Your twin settles back in aboard your ship in no time. Floyd | Floyd | "You'd better not have touched any of my stuff..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "jump to xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5121k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Autark Floyd | Airless ice-moon of a black-ringed, aquamarine ice giant. Scattered Floyd | across its surface are bright lights and gaudy megastructures. Floyd | Floyd | An asteroid on an eccentric orbit has been carved into the luxury Floyd | habitat of reclusive trillionaire Leda. Floyd | Floyd | Souped-up ships with huge engines line up in view of a vast-windowed Floyd | habitat. An orbital race overseen by Silver. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Xyzzy Floyd | A charred and ancient planet, far out from a fading white dwarf star. Floyd | It has long lost its momentum, forever showing one face to the feeble Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | A faint, intermittent signal stutters from the night side. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "cute" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5121k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Xyzzy Floyd | It is pitch dark. Your ship's running lights illuminate a small patch Floyd | of scorched rock. Floyd | Floyd | Something slithers in the darkness, a large blip on your Floyd | scanners, drawing closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is it a grue?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We might be..." | ||
| Guenni says, "Something like that. Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "David was faster there again." | ||
| Guenni says, "Want me to play that out, or flee as fast as possible? :-)" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are there Plugh and Plover planets too?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe even a Yoho." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5121k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "This world has no wider affiliation." Floyd | | Guenni says, "I do.t think so.-" | |
Floyd | A flash of ebony teeth and grasping claws. Something strikes the hull
Floyd | of your ship. And then begins, relentlessly, to tear through.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** You were eaten by an unknown creature ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You gained 6 out of 12 achievements and visited 34 worlds in 85 jumps.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
| Knight_Otu says, "Oops." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5121k Fuel: 9/10 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Xyzzy Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "jump to earth" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5122k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO EARTH Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Xyzzy Floyd | A charred and ancient planet, far out from a fading white dwarf star. Floyd | It has long lost its momentum, forever showing one face to the feeble Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | A faint, intermittent signal stutters from the night side. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's difficult to find an orbit that doesn't intersect with worthless Floyd | space junk. Below, white clouds swirl over green-brown continents and Floyd | deep blue oceans. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "gosh" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I *was* wondering about that." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah, my reaction exactly. :-)" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5122k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Earth Floyd | Wild trees and shrubs burst through cracks in the concrete-and-asphalt Floyd | ground, climbing fractured, empty-windowed, crumbling skyscrapers. Floyd | Floyd | Vibrant shanty towns of recycled building parts and rusting vehicles Floyd | are stacked haphazardly at their feet. Floyd | Floyd | Brightly dressed crowds press close around your ship. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's visit Austria and get pastries." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5122k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "This world belongs to the star system from which all diasporan life Floyd | is believed to have originated. Although this belief is arguably the Floyd | consensus among scientists, it is politically controversial due to its Floyd | contradiction of those religions that hold that humanity originated on Floyd | Pearl." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "We could the rest of our system." | |
| Guenni says, "could do." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to crowds" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5122k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CROWDS Floyd | Floyd | You try all the languages you speak well: Nacrese, Artiglot, Floyd | Astropatois, even your own mother tongue, but no-one seems to Floyd | understand. Random phrases you've picked up from other languages Floyd | similarly draw a blank. Floyd | Floyd | The people seem cheerful enough. Many try, with gestures, to sell you Floyd | worthless knick-knacks. Floyd | Floyd | Towards the back of the crowd, you notice a biomechanical Floyd | android of an unfamiliar design. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to biomechanical android" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5122k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BIOMECHANICAL ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Hydraulics whirr and hiss as his features assume a smile. Floyd | Floyd | "Let me answer your questions. No, I'm not an android. I'm a Floyd | Diallo-Zhao Series 3 synthetic human. Yes, that makes me very old. Floyd | Yes, these are baseline humans, though some modified diasporan genes Floyd | have entered the population, so they're not as baseline as they used Floyd | to be. Yes, there are a lot of them, possibly more than everywhere Floyd | else put together, but not as many as there used to be. No, there is Floyd | nothing valuable here except history and what's left of the sights." Floyd | Floyd | You try to think of a question he didn't answer. Floyd | Floyd | "You're welcome," he finishes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to mars" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5123k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO MARS Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Earth Floyd | It's difficult to find an orbit that doesn't intersect with worthless Floyd | space junk. Below, white clouds swirl over green-brown continents and Floyd | deep blue oceans. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Mars Floyd | A small, ochre world, scarred by a massive canyon and barely able to Floyd | hold on to its atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5123k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Mars Floyd | A frozen desert with an atmosphere as insubstantial as it is Floyd | unbreathable. And yet signs of habitation abound: black, rickety Floyd | towers; low, camouflaged bunkers; scaffolds strung with metallic Floyd | skeletons. Floyd | Floyd | Warped, lopsided cyborgs prowl the plains. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Nice." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cyborgs" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5123k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CYBORGS Floyd | Floyd | They keep their distance from you, aiming wrought iron spears at your Floyd | heart. Floyd | Floyd | "You anger the code-minds with your disgusting meatbag. Leave." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Not nice!" | |
| Guenni says, "Yep. I wanted to show you these before we stop. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "let's try the moon or Luna." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to moon" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5123k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO MOON Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to luna" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5123k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO LUNA Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Venus?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "No mooning." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5124k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENUS Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Mars Floyd | A small, ochre world, scarred by a massive canyon and barely able to Floyd | hold on to its atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venus Floyd | A planet left pale and featureless by a thick layer of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5124k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | The atmospheric pressure on the surface would be too great to take Floyd | off, even if your ship could survive it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat. I wanted to know what the surface of Venus was like." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Hot." | ||
| Guenni says, "Warm, I guess." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to vulcan" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5124k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VULCAN Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess we never learned terraforming technologies in this universe." | |
| DavidW says, "Guess not." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to deimos" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5124k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO DEIMOS Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to pluto" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5125k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO PLUTO Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pluto Floyd | An icy planetoid with a patchwork surface of darker and lighter browns Floyd | - smooth areas encroaching on fields of craters - and a surprising Floyd | collection of tiny moons. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I think only our system is implemented. :-)" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5125k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Pluto Floyd | Mountains of water ice, cold enough to seem more like rock, break Floyd | through tracts of frozen nitrogen. A subtle haze hugs the curved Floyd | horizon. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "nobody home" | |
| DavidW asks, "hm. Where's Dr Who's home? Gallifrey, is it?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to ceres" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5126k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO CERES Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Pluto Floyd | An icy planetoid with a patchwork surface of darker and lighter browns Floyd | - smooth areas encroaching on fields of craters - and a surprising Floyd | collection of tiny moons. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Ceres Floyd | A small, mottled planetoid with some evidence of patchwork habitation. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5126k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Ceres Floyd | Deserted domes interrupt a graveyard of partially dismantled starships Floyd | and rockets. Floyd | Floyd | A long-range survey ship leans improbably into the sky under the low Floyd | gravity, brandishing compact fuel collector arrays. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5126k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu, Hub+, Panopticon+ Floyd | Floyd | Amalg Floyd | Junkbucket*, Athena* Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Haven, Sheol, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, Floyd | Gossamer, ERX Beta, Sirona*, Orphanage, Jag, Franklin, Amarok, Volund, Floyd | Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Pluto, Xyzzy Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Hardshell and Chimera Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "They're all in other worlds rather than Sol system." | |
| DavidW asks, "Can we refuel from the arrays?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get arrays" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5126k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ARRAYS Floyd | Floyd | Using the remote drone, you're able to successfully extract the fuel Floyd | collector arrays. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5126k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 5126k Floyd | Equipment: fishing rod (allows you to fish), autorevolver (personal Floyd | weapon) and spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Implants: Network transit chip (enter hyperspace conduits), bounty Floyd | hunter visa chip (entry to Imago Republic) and wireless headjack Floyd | (non-verbal communication) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, your twin, Prex, Cicerone, spitfire6, Dr Pico-G and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | remote drone (take items from dangerous environments) Floyd | collector spines (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | warp shield (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | neutrino scanner (run deep scans) Floyd | fuel collector arrays (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | ion booster (racing speed +1) Floyd | external fuel pod (+5 fuel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 6/10 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth star map, flight manual, Floyd | ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some bronze wings (+1 badassitude when implanted), a nuclear heart (+1 Floyd | badassitude when implanted), a razor tail (+1 badassitude when Floyd | implanted) and a laser eye (+2 badassitude when implanted) Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Well where there's nobody home, there can't be a common wealth or something similar. :-)" | |
| DavidW says, "oh. They're like the spines. But for free." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "If you know where to look." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Wonder if they stack." | ||
| DavidW says, "Will we get 2 fuel every ... yeah that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jupiter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5127k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JUPITER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Ceres Floyd | A small, mottled planetoid with some evidence of patchwork habitation. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jupiter Floyd | A sepia-toned, swirling gas giant dominated by a large storm. Its four Floyd | largest moons are an odd and colourful assortment. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5127k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Ganymede Floyd | The intricately clouded face of Jupiter fills the skylights of this Floyd | sprawling but deserted complex. Floyd | Floyd | Cleaning bots glide along the long, silent corridors, searching Floyd | for litter that never appears. Floyd | Floyd | A holographic sales assistant flickers in an empty boutique. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I was about to say, that better not work." | ||
| DavidW asks, "What's for sale on Ganymede?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to bots" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5127k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BOTS Floyd | Floyd | Their only reaction to your presence is to bumble slowly out of your Floyd | way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to assistant" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5127k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ASSISTANT Floyd | Floyd | Her clothes adhere to no style or fashion that you know of. She smiles Floyd | broadly. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello! I'm afraid we are currently out of stock. No deliveries are Floyd | scheduled, however the previous delivery was only - ERROR - NUMERIC Floyd | OVERFLOW - days ago, so please check back soon!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, darn." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to titan" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5128k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO TITAN Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jupiter Floyd | A sepia-toned, swirling gas giant dominated by a large storm. Its four Floyd | largest moons are an odd and colourful assortment. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Saturn Floyd | A pastel-clouded gas giant with large, dazzling rings and a cluster of Floyd | icy moons. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5128k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Titan Floyd | A thick, frigid nitrogen atmosphere presses down on a world of dunes Floyd | and hydrocarbon lakes. Floyd | Floyd | Feral mining crawlers churn through the landscape, clustering Floyd | together for warmth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to crawlers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5128k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CRAWLERS Floyd | Floyd | A low, rumbling moan is the only reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is quite a lot of hidden content." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We do get 2 fuel." | ||
| DavidW says, "oo" | ||
| DavidW says, "Very nice." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to neptune" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5129k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO NEPTUNE Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Saturn Floyd | A pastel-clouded gas giant with large, dazzling rings and a cluster of Floyd | icy moons. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Neptune Floyd | A dark blue ice giant, brooding at the centre of a few tenebrous Floyd | rings. Floyd | Floyd | It has captured an icy, pinkish planetoid as its largest moon. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5129k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Triton Floyd | Geysers periodically erupt from the nitrogen ice surface, laying a Floyd | faint mist over the horizon, below the deep blue crescent of Neptune. Floyd | Floyd | A crashed orbital racer has carved a groove through the surface, its Floyd | fusion drive now long cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get drive" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5129k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET DRIVE Floyd | Floyd | (the fusion drive) Floyd | You salvage the fusion drive and fit it to your own ship. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5129k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 5129k Floyd | Equipment: fishing rod (allows you to fish), autorevolver (personal Floyd | weapon) and spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Implants: Network transit chip (enter hyperspace conduits), bounty Floyd | hunter visa chip (entry to Imago Republic) and wireless headjack Floyd | (non-verbal communication) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, your twin, Prex, Cicerone, spitfire6, Dr Pico-G and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | remote drone (take items from dangerous environments) Floyd | collector spines (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | warp shield (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | neutrino scanner (run deep scans) Floyd | fuel collector arrays (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | fusion drive (racing speed +2) and ion booster (racing speed +1) Floyd | external fuel pod (+5 fuel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 5/10 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth star map, flight manual, Floyd | ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some bronze wings (+1 badassitude when implanted), a nuclear heart (+1 Floyd | badassitude when implanted), a razor tail (+1 badassitude when Floyd | implanted) and a laser eye (+2 badassitude when implanted) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, faster racing speed." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That and the other racing systems may be the key to winning the race." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, probably." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to mercury" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5129k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO MERCURY Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Neptune Floyd | A dark blue ice giant, brooding at the centre of a few tenebrous Floyd | rings. Floyd | Floyd | It has captured an icy, pinkish planetoid as its largest moon. Floyd | Floyd | It's not wise to jump to a world so close to a star. The distortion in Floyd | spacetime can lead to side effects on arrival like extra limbs, Floyd | psychosis and astronaut duplication. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to uranus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5130k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO URANUS Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Uranus Floyd | A pale blue ice giant with faint, dark rings and an insubstantial set Floyd | of moons. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5130k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Titania Floyd | A lightly cratered surface of dry and water ice, beneath the azure Floyd | crescent of its parent world. Floyd | Floyd | Some long forgotten cult had its domed compound here, now only Floyd | populated with a neat circle of human skeletons and a thriving Floyd | population of stray cats. Floyd | Floyd | An eldritch book sits untouched in the centre of the circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "CATS" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cats" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5130k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CATS Floyd | Floyd | They're cats. They just stare at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And a BOOK" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5130k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You don't have the eldritch book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5130k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5130k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | Pages and pages of bizarre, psychedelic, stream-of-consciousness Floyd | speculation about the "Others" the author claims lurk behind the thin Floyd | veil of reality. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5130k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Grimo (Junkbucket Interior) Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Fono-H (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish... somewhere? Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | Potential Buyers: Floyd | persona of ERX Beta (Surface of ERX Beta), bookseller (Panopticon Floyd | Interior) Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | an eldritch book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, ""Others"? Does it mean us players?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Junkbucket had the bookseller." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh no." | ||
| DavidW says, "Panopticon did." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Panopticon." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to panopticon" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5130k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO PANOPTICON Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Uranus Floyd | A pale blue ice giant with faint, dark rings and an insubstantial set Floyd | of moons. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Panopticon Floyd | You orbit carefully in the shade of one of the huge solar panels Floyd | Panopticon uses to leech energy from the intense blue star at the Floyd | heart of the system. Panopticon itself is a glittering band of linked Floyd | space habitats of all shapes and sizes. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel drone adopts a similar orbit, sending binary offers for Floyd | a reasonably priced refuel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5130k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Panopticon Interior Floyd | Piercing starlight shines through broad skylights into multi-layered, Floyd | over-sized streets that curve towards an inverted horizon. The air is Floyd | thick with colourful holograms. Floyd | Floyd | A hyperspace conduit provides ready access to Hub. Floyd | Floyd | Decidedly non-humanoid cyborgs go about their strange business. Floyd | Floyd | The posthuman superintelligence Wunderkind socialises with Floyd | several new arrivals at once. Floyd | Floyd | A spiral-shelled bookseller hoards physical tomes in a Floyd | cluttered shop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell book to bookseller" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL BOOK TO BOOKSELLER Floyd | Floyd | The bookseller turns the eldritch book over in its claws a few times, Floyd | then sends you a simple data packet. "10k." Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5140k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 5140k. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "A little for for something you have to know about to find it." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "As in, hidden content." | ||
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Also compared to the fuel system and the drive. But okay." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, you don't reaaly need it at this point." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to twin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5140k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TWIN Floyd | Floyd | "So, you got an Imago Republic visa, saw the inside of Hardshell, met Floyd | a molonk, entered the Orphanage, visited a world of cats, commanded a Floyd | crew of four, caught a bounty... but we still need to win the respect Floyd | of the amalgs, catch an alien sea creature, get a badass implant, win Floyd | an orbital race, catch all the bounties..." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Of course, this means I want to try every planet from every story I've ever read." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to saturn" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5140k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SATURN Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Panopticon Floyd | You orbit carefully in the shade of one of the huge solar panels Floyd | Panopticon uses to leech energy from the intense blue star at the Floyd | heart of the system. Panopticon itself is a glittering band of linked Floyd | space habitats of all shapes and sizes. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel drone adopts a similar orbit, sending binary offers for Floyd | a reasonably priced refuel. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Saturn Floyd | A pastel-clouded gas giant with large, dazzling rings and a cluster of Floyd | icy moons. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Sorry. I'm pretty sure our system is the only one implemented that's not mentioned or can be guessed through logical deduction." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5140k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Titan Floyd | A thick, frigid nitrogen atmosphere presses down on a world of dunes Floyd | and hydrocarbon lakes. Floyd | Floyd | Feral mining crawlers churn through the landscape, clustering Floyd | together for warmth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to eris" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 3/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ERIS Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Saturn Floyd | A pastel-clouded gas giant with large, dazzling rings and a cluster of Floyd | icy moons. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Eris Floyd | The frozen surface of this planetoid has been shattered by a Floyd | cataclysmic explosion. Based on the amount of shrapnel in orbit - Floyd | shards of ice and tumbling, fragmented warships - this was the site of Floyd | some ancient, long forgotten battle. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Eris Floyd | The horizon is deformed into a surreal inverse curve by the huge Floyd | crater that has been blasted into the icy mantle. Floyd | Floyd | The corpses of ancient soldiers litter nitrogen glaciers, their Floyd | spacesuits painted colours representing no nation you know of. Floyd | Floyd | The soul of a primitive battle drone protrudes from its Floyd | armoured carapace. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Glad you remember all the dwarf planet names." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to soldieres" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SOLDIERES Floyd | Floyd | That's not something within reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I opened Wikipedia." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to soldiers" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SOLDIERS Floyd | Floyd | Nothing but static. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take soul" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SOUL Floyd | Floyd | It pops out of the slot with a brief hiss. The rest of the drone folds Floyd | up and quietly self immolates, bubbling through the ice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 5141k Floyd | Equipment: fishing rod (allows you to fish), autorevolver (personal Floyd | weapon) and spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Implants: Network transit chip (enter hyperspace conduits), bounty Floyd | hunter visa chip (entry to Imago Republic) and wireless headjack Floyd | (non-verbal communication) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, your twin, Prex, Cicerone, spitfire6, Dr Pico-G and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | remote drone (take items from dangerous environments) Floyd | collector spines (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | warp shield (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | neutrino scanner (run deep scans) Floyd | fuel collector arrays (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | fusion drive (racing speed +2) and ion booster (racing speed +1) Floyd | external fuel pod (+5 fuel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 5/10 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | primitive battle drone soul, most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | star map, flight manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | some bronze wings (+1 badassitude when implanted), a nuclear heart (+1 Floyd | badassitude when implanted), a razor tail (+1 badassitude when Floyd | implanted) and a laser eye (+2 badassitude when implanted) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read soul" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SOUL Floyd | Floyd | SELF: (event detected begin recording) Floyd | Floyd | ECHO SIX: Wait, does that mean- Floyd | Floyd | ECHO THREE: Nah, they'd never blow this rock. It's frickin' holy to Floyd | them or some shit. Floyd | Floyd | ECHO SIX: Do you feel that? Floyd | Floyd | ECHO THREE: Calm down. You're imagining it. Floyd | Floyd | ECHO THREE: And that light on the horizon? Floyd | Floyd | ECHO SIX: You- I- Um... Echo Leader are you- Floyd | Floyd | SELF: (imminent termination soul hardcopy) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wild" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to makemake" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO MAKEMAKE Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to haumea" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO HAUMEA Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to klingon" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO KLINGON Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to romulus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ROMULUS Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to death star" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO DEATH STAR Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to tatooine" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO TATOOINE Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I think we caught them all." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to counter-earth" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO COUNTER-EARTH Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to gallifrey" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO GALLIFREY Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to oz" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO OZ Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Well there are three you could find out when studying the map carefully." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to narnia" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO NARNIA Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Initial letters?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5141k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 3 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu, Hub+, Panopticon+ Floyd | Floyd | Amalg Floyd | Junkbucket*, Athena* Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Haven, Sheol, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, Floyd | Gossamer, ERX Beta, Sirona*, Orphanage, Jag, Franklin, Amarok, Volund, Floyd | Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Floyd | Eris, Xyzzy Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Hardshell and Chimera Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Not that complicated." | |
| Guenni says, "Look at names that have more than one word. so to speak." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Oh. ERX Alpha?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Yep, that's one of them." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Source 2?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And source 1 and 2, presumably" | ||
| Guenni says, "Yep. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "Please someone drive there." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to erx alpha" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ERX ALPHA Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Eris Floyd | The frozen surface of this planetoid has been shattered by a Floyd | cataclysmic explosion. Based on the amount of shrapnel in orbit - Floyd | shards of ice and tumbling, fragmented warships - this was the site of Floyd | some ancient, long forgotten battle. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting ERX Alpha Floyd | The dark surface of the airless world below is etched with dull Floyd | patterns in the shape of circuitry. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "jump to source i" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SOURCE I Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of ERX Alpha Floyd | Neat, right-angled channels cut through rocky terrain, crumbling at Floyd | the edges. Hexagonal patterns, perhaps once prominent, now fade into Floyd | the dirt. Floyd | Floyd | Natalya is camped out by an exposed vein of fibre optics. Floyd | Wiring trails out into her headjack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - (caught) Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - (caught) Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - (caught) Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - (caught) Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to natalya" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO NATALYA Floyd | Floyd | Data scrolls rapidly across her pupils. Her sleek cyborg head requires Floyd | no space helmet. Floyd | Floyd | "I guess humans didn't really make the ERXes, but we at least gave Floyd | birth to them. This was infanticide. And it was dumb. Diasporans will Floyd | never get the chance to harm anyone on the other side of the Floyd | singularity a second time." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Guenni), "You said Source I instead of Source 1" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest her" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST HER Floyd | Floyd | She holds up her hands. "Well, I've known this has been coming for a Floyd | long time. I've been able to think quite a bit out here, and I'm ready Floyd | to turn myself in." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to source 1" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SOURCE 1 Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting ERX Alpha Floyd | The dark surface of the airless world below is etched with dull Floyd | patterns in the shape of circuitry. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Source 1 Floyd | Great chunks have been ripped from this rocky planet. The debris of a Floyd | staggering strip mining effort forms a multitude of unstable rings. Floyd | Floyd | The metallic tentacles of a world excavator loop around the Floyd | uneven globe below, before boring into its surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Oh, I thought they were romen numerals. I didn't check on the braille display." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to excavator" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO EXCAVATOR Floyd | Floyd | The noises you receive in response are not intelligible to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Source 1 Floyd | There's not much sky left overhead, just a few ragged streams of gas Floyd | spiralling towards the stars from great chasms that bubble with lava. Floyd | Floyd | Intendant Tivu-Q is in command of the world excavation, from Floyd | deep inside a reinforced bunker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to tivu" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TIVU Floyd | Floyd | Even in his bunker, he wears an armoured spacesuit. Floyd | Floyd | "At such a late stage in the process, I don't need this Floyd | self-replicating polymer any more. 4k credits? Someone will Floyd | have a use for this stuff, but the Imago Republic can always just grow Floyd | more for much less than the cost of shipping it off this rock." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oooo" | |
| DavidW says, "ERX Beta wants that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We really should have guessed that there are alphas, 1s and 2s." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5142k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "We are now in the Imago Republic, a nation founded by artificial Floyd | humans in response to their persecution and oppression elsewhere. Floyd | Recently, the Republic has begun tightly enforcing its borders, and a Floyd | visa is required to land on all of its worlds save Venter." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy polymer" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5138k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY POLYMER Floyd | Floyd | You buy the self-replicating polymer for 4k credits, leaving you with Floyd | 5138k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to erx beta" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5138k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ERX BETA Floyd | Floyd | (Jumping to ERX Beta, where you last saw the persona of ERX Beta.) Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Source 1 Floyd | Great chunks have been ripped from this rocky planet. The debris of a Floyd | staggering strip mining effort forms a multitude of unstable rings. Floyd | Floyd | The metallic tentacles of a world excavator loop around the Floyd | uneven globe below, before boring into its surface. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting ERX Beta Floyd | The dark surface of the airless world below is etched with complex Floyd | glowing circuitry. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There might be an ERX Gamma and a Source 4" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5138k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of ERX Beta Floyd | Lightning arcs across neat, right-angled channels cut through rocky Floyd | terrain. The soil has crystallised into regular hexagons. And Floyd | somewhere deep underground, something quakes and rumbles with Floyd | mechanical precision. Floyd | Floyd | A holographic persona of ERX Beta stands on a stone dais. Floyd | Floyd | The tentacled engineer has taken up residence in an oxygenated Floyd | blister. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sell polymer to beta" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SELL POLYMER TO BETA Floyd | Floyd | "I will purchase this self-replicating polymer for 14k credits. I have Floyd | always acted towards humans with kindness and compassion, and the Floyd | price I will pay reflects this. Do you consider this a fair price?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 5152k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "This world has no wider affiliation." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Talk to beta again?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess Beta mourns for Alpha." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to beta" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BETA Floyd | Floyd | The hologram is a vague reflection of your own appearance. It speaks Floyd | in a voice tinged with bitterness. Floyd | Floyd | "I have allocated a tiny fraction of my mind to this simulation of a Floyd | human personality. The rest of me is currently engaged in mourning and Floyd | is otherwise unavailable. At this time, I have no requirement for Floyd | trade." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "OH" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to source 2" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SOURCE 2 Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting ERX Beta Floyd | The dark surface of the airless world below is etched with complex Floyd | glowing circuitry. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Source 2 Floyd | A small rocky world, ringed by debris. Floyd | Floyd | An embryonic world excavator gestates in orbit, guarded by a Floyd | serpentine war beast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to excavator" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO EXCAVATOR Floyd | Floyd | The war beast hijacks the signal with a growl of intense static. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to beast" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BEAST Floyd | Floyd | Screeching static and electronic noise coalesce into three words: Floyd | "KEEP... YOUR... DISTANCE." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Source 2 Floyd | The ground shudders and quakes constantly as automated mass drivers Floyd | systematically launch the useful parts of the planet's crust into Floyd | orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Intendant Dilo-R watches the show from a deck-chair beneath a Floyd | parasol. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to dilo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DILO Floyd | Floyd | "If one of those launches goes awry and lands on my head, a roof isn't Floyd | going to be worth much more than this parasol, believe me. Then again, Floyd | when the drones finish building my bunker I'll probably never leave Floyd | it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - 25k reward Floyd | Marisa (murder) - (caught) Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - (caught) Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - (caught) Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - 25k reward Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - (caught) Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Source 2 Floyd | A small rocky world, ringed by debris. Floyd | Floyd | An embryonic world excavator gestates in orbit, guarded by a Floyd | serpentine war beast. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give natalya to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5177k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE NATALYA TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's remote deputies collect Natalya and transfer your 25k Floyd | credit reward. Floyd | Floyd | "I want to do my time," she says, "and put this behind me." Floyd | Floyd | The marshal shakes his head. "If you hadn't run off in the first Floyd | place, you wouldn't be going away for quite so long. But it's too late Floyd | for that now." Floyd | Floyd | As Natalya is led away, she nods farewell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to source 4" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5177k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SOURCE 4 Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Source 4 Floyd | Rocky plateaus rise from dusty plains across the face of this planet. Floyd | Geostationary orbit is crowded with survey satellites of every shape Floyd | and size. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "There is a source 4!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5177k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Source 4 Floyd | A desolate wasteland peppered with tall, blinking survey beacons. Floyd | Floyd | Intendant Fira-P co-ordinates the reconnaissance from an Floyd | all-terrain rover. Floyd | Floyd | Yuzo-I traverses the plains on a synthetic steed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh" | |
| DavidW says, "Yuzo is on the list, I think" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to fira" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5177k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FIRA Floyd | Floyd | She loosens her scarf and pushes her protective goggles up onto her Floyd | forehead. Floyd | Floyd | "Come out here to get away from it all, captain? You and me both." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to yuzo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5177k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO YUZO Floyd | Floyd | A delicate figure almost lost in a beaten duster and lengthy scarf. Floyd | Floyd | "Just scouting for treasure, captain. But then, aren't we both?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest yuzo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5177k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST YUZO Floyd | Floyd | He dismounts his warbling, thick-skinned creature. "I have papers for Floyd | everything I've been doing. This is a profound mistake. Let me go, Floyd | captain. Or take me in, if you really must, I suppose." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5177k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Source 4 Floyd | Rocky plateaus rise from dusty plains across the face of this planet. Floyd | Geostationary orbit is crowded with survey satellites of every shape Floyd | and size. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give yuzo to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE YUZO TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's remote deputies collect Yuzo-I and transfer your 25k Floyd | credit reward. Floyd | Floyd | "We have some of your own people, marshal," Yuzo-I says. "Someone will Floyd | contact you soon to arrange a prisoner exchange." Floyd | Floyd | The marshal says only, "Hmm." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to source 5" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SOURCE 5 Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "All out of sources." | |
| DavidW asks, "ERX Gamma?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to erx gamma" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ERX GAMMA Floyd | Floyd | Unknown co-ordinates. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Nope." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 1, Source 2, Floyd | Source 3, Source 4 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu, Hub+, Panopticon+ Floyd | Floyd | Amalg Floyd | Junkbucket*, Athena* Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Haven, Sheol, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, Floyd | Gossamer, ERX Beta, ERX Alpha, Sirona*, Orphanage, Jag, Franklin, Floyd | Amarok, Volund, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Floyd | Neptune, Pluto, Eris, Xyzzy Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Hardshell and Chimera Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Talk to the twin. But I think we've been everywhere, or at least have a record for everywhere. :-)" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to twin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 8/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TWIN Floyd | Floyd | "So, you got an Imago Republic visa, saw the inside of Hardshell, met Floyd | a molonk, entered the Orphanage, visited a world of cats, commanded a Floyd | crew of four, caught a bounty... but we still need to win the respect Floyd | of the amalgs, catch an alien sea creature, get a badass implant, win Floyd | an orbital race, catch all the bounties..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to nereus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO NEREUS Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Nereus Floyd | Airy, simple buildings break up a multi-coloured and chemically Floyd | unstable mix of diasporan and native flora. The ocean sparkles at the Floyd | horizon in every direction. Floyd | Floyd | Nereus' most famous resident is the radical artist Tomer. Floyd | Floyd | A smiling girl strolls the pier, twirling her parasol. Floyd | Floyd | A marine biologist lives out of his submersible, washing strung Floyd | between two palm trees. Floyd | Floyd | A group of surfers lounge around a beach barbecue. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Just buying the emblem or whatever it was should get the amalg respect." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "fish" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FISH Floyd | Floyd | Standing on the beach, the alien surf between your toes, you cast your Floyd | fishing line into the sea. Floyd | Floyd | (Press Z to wait. Press space to reel in your line.) | Knight_Otu says, "Possibly." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | (Press Z to wait. Press space to reel in your line.)...
| ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | (Press Z to wait. Press space to reel in your line.)...A
Floyd | surfer leisurely paddles out towards the horizon.
| ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | surfer leisurely paddles out towards the horizon.You feel a tug on the Floyd | line. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 7/10 Floyd | line.You reel in your fishing line. Floyd | Floyd | You've caught a banded genejacked flounder. It turns sky blue, Floyd | trying to hide. Floyd | Floyd | Since this catch is priced in credits, not kilocredits, you throw it Floyd | back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to junkbucket" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JUNKBUCKET Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Junkbucket Floyd | Something loops around this faltering white dwarf star: space station Floyd | modules, starship wrecks and synthetic biomes all grafted together Floyd | into a single improbable habitat - a vast and irregular megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | Amalg freighters lumber back and forth, strapped haphazardly Floyd | with cargo. Floyd | Floyd | A few Network traders orbit at a wary distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Junkbucket Interior Floyd | A fever dream of metal architecture, plastic conveniences and rotting Floyd | leftovers. Corridors curve back on themselves; centrifuges speed and Floyd | slow, varying the gravity; too-big spaces are reinforced with Floyd | jury-rigged struts and cyborg body parts. Floyd | Floyd | Fireballs periodically burst into the air from the eye sockets of a Floyd | giant metal fuel skull. Floyd | Floyd | Filthy, many-limbed Grimo pitches items of dubious provenance Floyd | to the passing crowds. Floyd | Floyd | Sawbones potters around in her chop shop. Floyd | Floyd | Every unscheduled blackout, cacophonic music begins to pump out of the Floyd | nightclub run by Halftwin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is it just luck when fishing or do we need a fancy lure?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Wrong system." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I have no idea." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jag" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JAG Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Junkbucket Floyd | Something loops around this faltering white dwarf star: space station Floyd | modules, starship wrecks and synthetic biomes all grafted together Floyd | into a single improbable habitat - a vast and irregular megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | Amalg freighters lumber back and forth, strapped haphazardly Floyd | with cargo. Floyd | Floyd | A few Network traders orbit at a wary distance. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jag Floyd | Tangled canyons have been clawed across the face of this large, rocky Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | Chaotic, unclear radio transmissions blast out from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg clawship occupies an eccentric orbit. Floyd | Floyd | The amalg clawship closes in, locking on to your cargo hold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Jag Floyd | Ponderous black clouds press low against the spiky crags of the Floyd | horizon. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg war party roams the wasteland, waving cyborg skulls on Floyd | pikes. Floyd | Floyd | Some charity workers have set up brightly coloured tents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 1, Source 2, Floyd | Source 3, Source 4 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu, Hub+, Panopticon+ Floyd | Floyd | Amalg Floyd | Junkbucket*, Athena* Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Lonely Rock+, Haven, Sheol, Jarland+, Unity, Splinter+, Floyd | Gossamer, ERX Beta, ERX Alpha, Sirona*, Orphanage, Jag, Franklin, Floyd | Amarok, Volund, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Floyd | Neptune, Pluto, Eris, Xyzzy Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | NOTES Floyd | Places of potential interest: Hardshell and Chimera Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to athena" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO ATHENA Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jag Floyd | Tangled canyons have been clawed across the face of this large, rocky Floyd | planet. Floyd | Floyd | Chaotic, unclear radio transmissions blast out from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg clawship occupies an eccentric orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Athena Floyd | Space junk crowds around a planet of dark clouds and oily seas. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg war junker tries to blend in with the garbage. Floyd | Floyd | The amalg war junker closes in, blasting out aggressive binary Floyd | obscenities. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5202k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Athena Floyd | The air is a haze of toxic pollutants, the skyline a jumble of stolen Floyd | architectural styles. Wet rubbish and rotting biomatter squelch Floyd | underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | Fireballs periodically burst into the air from the eye sockets of a Floyd | giant metal fuel skull. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting on a towering throne of broken cyborg prosthetics is the Floyd | exalted Piecekeeper. Floyd | Floyd | An elderly warrior sits slumped in the street, stripped of his Floyd | parts by younger amalgs. Floyd | Floyd | Pyrogut sharpens his blade by a burning oil drum. Floyd | Floyd | The landing pad is run by Sharptooth. She keeps the locals away Floyd | from your ship with lightning that arcs from her gunmetal fist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy emblem" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY EMBLEM Floyd | Floyd | You buy the protective emblem for 50k credits, leaving you with 5152k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | You keep careful watch as amalgs clamber over the hull of your ship, Floyd | burning the arcane symbol prominently into the metal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to twin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TWIN Floyd | Floyd | "So, you got an Imago Republic visa, won the respect of the amalgs, Floyd | saw the inside of Hardshell, met a molonk, entered the Orphanage, Floyd | visited a world of cats, commanded a crew of four, caught a bounty... Floyd | but we still need to catch an alien sea creature, get a badass Floyd | implant, win an orbital race, catch all the bounties..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - (caught) Floyd | Marisa (murder) - (caught) Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - 100k reward Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - (caught) Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - (caught) Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - (caught) Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - (caught) Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I don't recall seeing Phelim. Though they might be at Chimera." | |
| Guenni asks, "Did you get the one from the amalg?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Pyrogut?" | ||
| Guenni says, "I don't know exactly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "He's too well protected by his allies." | ||
| Guenni says, "I think with the amalg respect, you can get him." | ||
| DavidW says, "sorry, had to visit the bathroom" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, that was my theory" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest pyrogut" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST PYROGUT Floyd | Floyd | You aim your autorevolver at Pyrogut and tell him that he's under Floyd | arrest. Floyd | Floyd | Passing amalgs side-eye the two of you, but refuse to engage in Floyd | someone else's dispute. Floyd | Floyd | Pyrogut drops his blade and shows you his hands. He laughs a slow, Floyd | resigned laugh. Floyd | Floyd | You lock him up in your ship's brig. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5152k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Athena Floyd | Space junk crowds around a planet of dark clouds and oily seas. Floyd | Floyd | An amalg war junker tries to blend in with the garbage. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give pyrogut to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5252k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PYROGUT TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's remote deputies collect Pyrogut and transfer your 100k Floyd | credit reward. Floyd | Floyd | As he's led away, the amalg throws back his head and howls with Floyd | maniacal laughter. Floyd | Floyd | The marshal just watches him go. "I don't get the joke." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5252k Fuel: 5/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Grimo (Junkbucket Interior) Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Fono-H (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish on Nereus Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to grimo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5252k Fuel: 4/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO GRIMO Floyd | Floyd | (Jumping to Junkbucket, where you last saw Grimo.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Junkbucket Floyd | Something loops around this faltering white dwarf star: space station Floyd | modules, starship wrecks and synthetic biomes all grafted together Floyd | into a single improbable habitat - a vast and irregular megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | Amalg freighters lumber back and forth, strapped haphazardly Floyd | with cargo. Floyd | Floyd | A few Network traders orbit at a wary distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5252k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Junkbucket Interior Floyd | A fever dream of metal architecture, plastic conveniences and rotting Floyd | leftovers. Corridors curve back on themselves; centrifuges speed and Floyd | slow, varying the gravity; too-big spaces are reinforced with Floyd | jury-rigged struts and cyborg body parts. Floyd | Floyd | Fireballs periodically burst into the air from the eye sockets of a Floyd | giant metal fuel skull. Floyd | Floyd | Filthy, many-limbed Grimo pitches items of dubious provenance Floyd | to the passing crowds. Floyd | Floyd | Sawbones potters around in her chop shop. Floyd | Floyd | Every unscheduled blackout, cacophonic music begins to pump out of the Floyd | nightclub run by Halftwin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to grimo" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5252k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GRIMO Floyd | Floyd | Grimo's telescopic eyes size you up. Floyd | Floyd | "Genuine, best quality amalg products here. Precision made by our own Floyd | cybernetic hands." Floyd | Floyd | -battered heat shield - 8k (atmo entry) Floyd | -hardwire headjack - 23k (non-verbal communication) Floyd | -salvage crane - 8k (take items from dangerous environments) Floyd | -sawn-off blaster - 20k (personal weapon) Floyd | -reserve fuel tank - 10k (+5 fuel) Floyd | -chemical rocket booster - 3k (racing speed +1) Floyd | -military EM shield - 95k (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy booster" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5249k Fuel: 6/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY BOOSTER Floyd | Floyd | (the chemical rocket booster) Floyd | You buy the chemical rocket booster for 3k credits, leaving you with Floyd | 5249k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy tank" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5239k Fuel: 6/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY TANK Floyd | Floyd | You buy the reserve fuel tank for 10k credits, leaving you with 5239k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "refuel" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5239k Fuel: 6/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > REFUEL Floyd | Floyd | You can replenish your fusion cells at the fuel skull for 1k credits Floyd | each. 9 cells are expended. Floyd | Floyd | How many do you want to refuel? Floyd | Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "all" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5230k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | Enter a number, "all" or "none" > Floyd | > ALL Floyd | Floyd | 15 fusion cells out of 15 are now charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to fono" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5230k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO FONO Floyd | Floyd | (Jumping to Koltsov, where you last saw Fono-H.) Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Junkbucket Floyd | Something loops around this faltering white dwarf star: space station Floyd | modules, starship wrecks and synthetic biomes all grafted together Floyd | into a single improbable habitat - a vast and irregular megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | Amalg freighters lumber back and forth, strapped haphazardly Floyd | with cargo. Floyd | Floyd | A few Network traders orbit at a wary distance. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Koltsov Floyd | Below thick clouds and barren mountains, geometric shapes are etched Floyd | into the surface of this world. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5230k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Koltsov Floyd | A labyrinth of ribbed tunnels, through which ooze giant construction Floyd | polymorphs. Floyd | Floyd | Every tube and artery leads back to Controller in her nerve Floyd | centre. Floyd | Floyd | Fono-H oversees the output of one of the primary sphincters. Floyd | Floyd | Nursing his latest crop is a hab farmer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to fono" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5230k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FONO Floyd | Floyd | He keeps a bundle of eight eyes on the results of the production line. Floyd | Floyd | "Our production is usually tightly allotted to Imago Republic needs, Floyd | but output is so high now that imports from Source 3 are finally Floyd | ramping up, we're able to allocate a few items for free trade with Floyd | passing ships." Floyd | Floyd | -headjack orifice - 25k (non-verbal communication) Floyd | -fuel bladder - 10k (+5 fuel) Floyd | -laser pistol - 25k (personal weapon) Floyd | -solar sail membrane - 3k (racing speed +1) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "buy membrane" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5227k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY MEMBRANE Floyd | Floyd | You buy the solar sail membrane for 3k credits, leaving you with 5227k Floyd | credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to autark" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5227k Fuel: 13/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO AUTARK Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Koltsov Floyd | Below thick clouds and barren mountains, geometric shapes are etched Floyd | into the surface of this world. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Autark Floyd | Airless ice-moon of a black-ringed, aquamarine ice giant. Scattered Floyd | across its surface are bright lights and gaudy megastructures. Floyd | Floyd | An asteroid on an eccentric orbit has been carved into the luxury Floyd | habitat of reclusive trillionaire Leda. Floyd | Floyd | Souped-up ships with huge engines line up in view of a vast-windowed Floyd | habitat. An orbital race overseen by Silver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to silver" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SILVER Floyd | Floyd | Voluptuous and barely dressed; her hair spills out around her in a Floyd | ridiculous cloud of floating curls. Floyd | Floyd | "We still need a sixth racer, captain. If you're not too embarrassed Floyd | by your last performance, do you want to take part again?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | (yes/no)>
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | You line your ship up alongside the other racers and plot your course
Floyd | past the furthest moon from the ice giant. Crowds waving banners press
Floyd | against the habitat's windows, their jubilant cries failing to carry
Floyd | across the vacuum.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice a laughing spectator wearing a snail costume and waving a
Floyd | crude "Zuwarmdraussen" banner.
Floyd |
Floyd | A glowing hologram of Silver throbs into existence beyond the starting
Floyd | line. "Ready..."
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | line. "Ready...""Set..." | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | line. "Ready...""Set...""GO!" Floyd | Floyd | spitfire6 slams your ship's throttle to the max. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | spitfire6 slams your ship's throttle to the max.G-forces push you back Floyd | into your seat. You easily pass by the slowest racer - a moustachioed Floyd | bioroid in an antique spacesuit, flying a brightly coloured Floyd | rocketship. He waves to you, jovially. Then you pass... | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | rocketship. He waves to you, jovially. Then you pass......a high Floyd | performance shuttle, weighed down by elegant flight surfaces. The Floyd | pilot winks one of her eight bionic eyes at you. | Guenni says, "That's interesting. I didn't figure out that you can jump to people." | |
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | pilot winks one of her eight bionic eyes at you....a bundle of engines Floyd | strapped to a crew pod filled with murky acceleration-absorbing fluid. Floyd | Whatever floats inside, it gives you the finger. | Knight_Otu says, "I remembered, the first time I typed jump, it defaulted to Szymon." | |
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Whatever floats inside, it gives you the finger....a shellskin riding Floyd | a missile. He slams his fist against it in rage. | Guenni says, "Ah." | |
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | a missile. He slams his fist against it in rage....a living spaceship Floyd | - human brain plugged into a stripped-down orbiter. The running lights Floyd | give you a respectful salute. That's it! You're in first place! | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5233k Fuel: 15/15
Floyd | give you a respectful salute. That's it! You're in first place!"Well
Floyd | ladies and gentlemen, history has been made today. The Zuwarmdraussen,
Floyd | a jump-capable starship weighed down by superluminal engines, crew
Floyd | quarters, and God knows what cargo... has won the Autark Orbital Race!
Floyd | It just goes to show: if you strap enough engines to it, anything can
Floyd | go fast!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your credit balance ticks up 6k to 5233k.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "hooray" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Race - won." | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Toeroe!!!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to twin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5233k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TWIN Floyd | Floyd | "So, you got an Imago Republic visa, won the respect of the amalgs, Floyd | saw the inside of Hardshell, met a molonk, entered the Orphanage, Floyd | visited a world of cats, commanded a crew of four, won an orbital Floyd | race, caught a bounty... but we still need to catch an alien sea Floyd | creature, get a badass implant, catch all the bounties..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to chimera" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5234k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO CHIMERA Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Chimera Floyd | What you can see of this world's surface through the thick storm Floyd | clouds is a cratered wasteland. Every so often, an explosion flashes Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | A Commonwealth troop carrier bombards the planet from orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Skirting the edge of the gravity well is an amalg grappleship. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | The amalg grappleship sends you a wary message of respect. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we must get an implant, let's have the wings." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to carrier" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5234k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CARRIER Floyd | Floyd | "Jump out of this system immediately. It is not safe here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to grappleship" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5234k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GRAPPLESHIP Floyd | Floyd | They maintain a polite silence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5234k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Chimera Floyd | Once a thriving settlement, before the amalgs came. Now a skeletal Floyd | city of raging fires, billowing smoke and constant gunfire. Floyd | Anti-aircraft lasers and bursts of flak are the only colour in Floyd | overcast skies. Floyd | Floyd | Commonwealth commandos have secured the landing pad. They Floyd | scurry between sand-bagged positions and periodically fire tracers Floyd | into the city. Floyd | Floyd | A refueller truck sits beneath thick camouflage netting. Floyd | Floyd | Viscera leads the amalg forces from an iron-ribbed hovercraft. Floyd | Floyd | The roboclaw of a dead amalg protrudes from a shallow grave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get roboclaw" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5234k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ROBOCLAW Floyd | Floyd | It pulls away with the snapping of old, decayed bone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Viscera." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to viscera" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5234k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO VISCERA Floyd | Floyd | Viscera has the face of a beautiful woman. You doubt it was hers Floyd | originally. Every other part of her is finely honed war machinery or Floyd | toned, transplanted muscle. Floyd | Floyd | "You got some guts, talking to me. Some pretty fine guts indeed. I'll Floyd | leave them where they are for now. They'll keep better." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take roboclaw" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5234k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ROBOCLAW Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to commandos" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5234k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO COMMANDOS Floyd | Floyd | Their officer narrows his eyes at you. "Are you sure didn't take a Floyd | wrong turn somewhere, captain?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to truck" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5234k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TRUCK Floyd | Floyd | You can refuel at the refueller truck for 1k credits per unit Floyd | of fuel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess if we still had Aurea, we could get somewhere here." | |
| DavidW says, "Perhaps." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to hardshell" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO HARDSHELL Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Chimera Floyd | What you can see of this world's surface through the thick storm Floyd | clouds is a cratered wasteland. Every so often, an explosion flashes Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | A Commonwealth troop carrier bombards the planet from orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Skirting the edge of the gravity well is an amalg grappleship. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Hardshell Floyd | A colossal sphere of wrinkled biomechanical flesh, large enough to Floyd | enclose a whole star system. A few intestinal structures spill across Floyd | the surface, and countless cilia probe the vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | There is no apparent way inside. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "scan" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > SCAN Floyd | Floyd | You've already mapped Hardshell. Not that the scanner could penetrate Floyd | it from up here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Hardshell Floyd | A bizarre vista: organic and squirming. Floyd | Floyd | Mechanoid drones stride across the shell-flesh, maintaining its Floyd | integrity. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "She won't leave, onc she's settled." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to drones" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DRONES Floyd | Floyd | They do not respond to your transmissions. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I assumed as much." | |
| Guenni says, "once" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAP Floyd | Floyd | VISITED WORLDS Floyd | Floyd | Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | Pearl, Storm+, Khamsin, Cygnet+, Nereus, Skadi, Autark Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Floyd | Venter+, Zhao+, Jaenisch+, Koltsov+, Diallo+, Source 1, Source 2, Floyd | Source 3, Source 4 Floyd | Floyd | Network Floyd | Xanadu, Hub+, Panopticon+ Floyd | Floyd | Amalg Floyd | Junkbucket*, Athena* Floyd | Floyd | Other Worlds Floyd | Boony, Hardshell, Lonely Rock+, Haven, Sheol, Jarland+, Unity, Floyd | Splinter+, Gossamer, ERX Beta, ERX Alpha, Sirona*, Orphanage, Jag, Floyd | Franklin, Amarok, Chimera*, Volund, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Floyd | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Eris, Xyzzy Floyd | Floyd | +fuel station in orbit Floyd | *fuel station on surface Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did we jack in in Xanadu?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to xanadu" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 13/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO XANADU Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Hardshell Floyd | A colossal sphere of wrinkled biomechanical flesh, large enough to Floyd | enclose a whole star system. A few intestinal structures spill across Floyd | the surface, and countless cilia probe the vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | There is no apparent way inside. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Xanadu Floyd | This planet's sparse green patches cluster around small seas. The only Floyd | indication of habitation is the brightly lit space elevator protruding Floyd | from the equator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 13/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | You dock with the space elevator, which ferries your ship down to the Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Xanadu Floyd | A lone hyperspace conduit to Hub stands at the heart of parched Floyd | scrublands and bare hills. Floyd | Floyd | The surface is deserted but for the odd simple obelisk standing stark Floyd | against the sky. Each marks an entrance to the subterranean facilities Floyd | where stacks of bodies and brains are plugged into a virtual reality Floyd | world. Floyd | Floyd | A visitor's port will let you jack in temporarily. Floyd | Floyd | xDreamQueenx sashays through the deepest corridors. Floyd | Floyd | Mirek has been plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Yes. and caught someone." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jack in" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 13/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JACK IN Floyd | Floyd | Xanadu Proper Floyd | A chaotic jumble of tessellating realities. Fields spill into oceans Floyd | beneath floating cities that tower towards a hundred different skies. Floyd | You can jack out at any time. Floyd | Floyd | The virtual superintelligence, Nephele, sprawls through Floyd | multiple domains. Floyd | Floyd | Bright colours and flowing shapes spill from the hands of a thought Floyd | artist. Floyd | Floyd | hotSpyder sits thoughtfully on a cloud. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to nephele" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 13/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO NEPHELE Floyd | Floyd | Shapeless, a million colours at once, constantly shifting. Floyd | Floyd | It subjects your mind to a barrage of indecipherable information that Floyd | momentarily stuns you and then leaves you with the vague sense of Floyd | having had a satisfying conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, we were here." | |
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to artist" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ARTIST Floyd | Floyd | "One day," he says, scattering winged rainbows from his fingertips, Floyd | "this place will be larger and more intricate than the Universe Floyd | outside. One day... the Universe outside will die, and this will be Floyd | the new totality." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > P Floyd | Floyd | Known Merchants: Floyd | -Grimo (Junkbucket Interior) Floyd | -Matej (Surface of Cygnet) Floyd | -Fono-H (Surface of Koltsov) Floyd | Floyd | Odd Jobs: Floyd | -Delivering packages for Viktoria, orbiting Pearl Floyd | -Hauling pods for Devrim on Cygnet Floyd | -Autark Orbital Race run by Silver Floyd | -Turn bounties in to Marshal Zila-S, orbiting Venter Floyd | -Fish on Nereus Floyd | Floyd | Other Opportunities: Floyd | -None known Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 5235k Floyd | Equipment: fishing rod (allows you to fish), autorevolver (personal Floyd | weapon) and spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Implants: Network transit chip (enter hyperspace conduits), bounty Floyd | hunter visa chip (entry to Imago Republic) and wireless headjack Floyd | (non-verbal communication) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, your twin, Prex, Cicerone, spitfire6, Dr Pico-G and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | protective emblem (amalg respect) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | remote drone (take items from dangerous environments) Floyd | collector spines (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | warp shield (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | neutrino scanner (run deep scans) Floyd | fuel collector arrays (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | solar sail membrane (racing speed +1), chemical rocket booster (racing Floyd | speed +1), fusion drive (racing speed +2) and ion booster (racing Floyd | speed +1) Floyd | reserve fuel tank (+5 fuel) and external fuel pod (+5 fuel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 15/15 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | primitive battle drone soul, most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | star map, flight manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | a roboclaw (+1 badassitude when implanted), some bronze wings (+1 Floyd | badassitude when implanted), a nuclear heart (+1 badassitude when Floyd | implanted), a razor tail (+1 badassitude when implanted) and a laser Floyd | eye (+2 badassitude when implanted) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to prex" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PREX Floyd | Floyd | You find him dozing at the scanner console. Pale, slender and Floyd | blue-haired. Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe a dinky spaceship like this is what I've been looking for all Floyd | this time. I'll, ya know, do the dishes every so often." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to spitfire" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SPITFIRE Floyd | Floyd | Her silver skull sweeps back to an aerodynamic point. Not to go Floyd | faster. Just to look good. Floyd | Floyd | "Can hardly believe this scrapheap actually flies, but don't worry: Floyd | I'll make it do things no-one will see coming." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to pico" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PICO Floyd | Floyd | An unshaven bioroid in a clean, white environment suit. Floyd | Floyd | "You've taken me to 31 worlds outside the Imago Republic, Network or Floyd | the Diasporan Commonwealth, captain. I can't thank you enough, but the Floyd | more data I can get, the better." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to szymon" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SZYMON Floyd | Floyd | Szy lurks in the bowels of your starship, doting over the core Floyd | systems. A bit too much radiation exposure has left him a Floyd | cybernetically-preserved head floating - detached and jawless - in the Floyd | space helmet of a heavily patched old EVA suit. Floyd | Floyd | His simulated voice rasps and crackles. "The engine's purring like a Floyd | kitten, reactor's as efficient as it's ever been. Everything else, I Floyd | leave up to you." Floyd | Floyd | Before descending back into the depths of the engines, he adds, "Glad Floyd | you got your twin back. Was always the more sensible one out of the Floyd | two of you. No offence, captain." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The drone soul had no useful info, did it?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't think so." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We are now at the three hour mark." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So what's left? One bounty and a fish?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we can stop here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to twin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TWIN Floyd | Floyd | "So, you got an Imago Republic visa, won the respect of the amalgs, Floyd | saw the inside of Hardshell, met a molonk, entered the Orphanage, Floyd | visited a world of cats, commanded a crew of four, won an orbital Floyd | race, caught a bounty... but we still need to catch an alien sea Floyd | creature, get a badass implant, catch all the bounties..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "And getting transplanted." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "And the implant." | ||
| DavidW says, "Sawbones can do the implant easily." | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to sawbones" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SAWBONES Floyd | Floyd | (Jumping to Junkbucket, where you last saw Sawbones.) Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to jack out first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jack out" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JACK OUT Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Xanadu Floyd | A lone hyperspace conduit to Hub stands at the heart of parched Floyd | scrublands and bare hills. Floyd | Floyd | The surface is deserted but for the odd simple obelisk standing stark Floyd | against the sky. Each marks an entrance to the subterranean facilities Floyd | where stacks of bodies and brains are plugged into a virtual reality Floyd | world. Floyd | Floyd | A visitor's port will let you jack in temporarily. Floyd | Floyd | xDreamQueenx sashays through the deepest corridors. Floyd | Floyd | Mirek has been plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to sawbones" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO SAWBONES Floyd | Floyd | (Jumping to Junkbucket, where you last saw Sawbones.) Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | The space elevator ferries your ship back into orbit. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Xanadu Floyd | This planet's sparse green patches cluster around small seas. The only Floyd | indication of habitation is the brightly lit space elevator protruding Floyd | from the equator. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Junkbucket Floyd | Something loops around this faltering white dwarf star: space station Floyd | modules, starship wrecks and synthetic biomes all grafted together Floyd | into a single improbable habitat - a vast and irregular megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | Amalg freighters lumber back and forth, strapped haphazardly Floyd | with cargo. Floyd | Floyd | A few Network traders orbit at a wary distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5235k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Junkbucket Interior Floyd | A fever dream of metal architecture, plastic conveniences and rotting Floyd | leftovers. Corridors curve back on themselves; centrifuges speed and Floyd | slow, varying the gravity; too-big spaces are reinforced with Floyd | jury-rigged struts and cyborg body parts. Floyd | Floyd | Fireballs periodically burst into the air from the eye sockets of a Floyd | giant metal fuel skull. Floyd | Floyd | Filthy, many-limbed Grimo pitches items of dubious provenance Floyd | to the passing crowds. Floyd | Floyd | Sawbones potters around in her chop shop. Floyd | Floyd | Every unscheduled blackout, cacophonic music begins to pump out of the Floyd | nightclub run by Halftwin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give wings to sawbones" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE WINGS TO SAWBONES Floyd | Floyd | She bares several rows of teeth, each a different kind of gem or Floyd | metal. "These won't quite let you fly, most gravities, but they should Floyd | give you a non-fatal terminal velocity. And make quite a fashion Floyd | statement. Just 3k credits. Agreed?" Floyd | Floyd | (yes/no)> | Guenni says, "You also had the right idea for the fish." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5232k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Excellent. You hold still and you bite down on this." Floyd | Floyd | ... Floyd | Floyd | You stretch your wings wide, exalting in your newly punk-angelic Floyd | appearance - and also knocking a few things over. Floyd | Floyd | "A start," Sawbones says. "Couple more parts, you don't look so bad." Floyd | Floyd | Your credit balance is now 5232k credits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5232k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Credit balance: 5232k Floyd | Equipment: fishing rod (allows you to fish), autorevolver (personal Floyd | weapon) and spacesuit (don't need air) Floyd | Implants: bronze wings (+1 badassitude), Network transit chip (enter Floyd | hyperspace conduits), bounty hunter visa chip (entry to Imago Floyd | Republic) and wireless headjack (non-verbal communication) Floyd | Floyd | Crew: Floyd | Yourself, your twin, Prex, Cicerone, spitfire6, Dr Pico-G and Szymon Floyd | Floyd | Installed systems: Floyd | jump drive (superluminal travel) Floyd | protective emblem (amalg respect) Floyd | sleek heat shield (atmo entry) Floyd | remote drone (take items from dangerous environments) Floyd | collector spines (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | warp shield (protection from laser weapons) Floyd | neutrino scanner (run deep scans) Floyd | fuel collector arrays (gain 1 fuel every 10 time units) Floyd | solar sail membrane (racing speed +1), chemical rocket booster (racing Floyd | speed +1), fusion drive (racing speed +2) and ion booster (racing Floyd | speed +1) Floyd | reserve fuel tank (+5 fuel) and external fuel pod (+5 fuel) Floyd | Floyd | Fuel: Floyd | 15/15 fusion cells charged Floyd | Floyd | Readable Data: Floyd | primitive battle drone soul, most wanted list, Diasporan Commonwealth Floyd | star map, flight manual, ship's log and trading log Floyd | Floyd | Cargo: Floyd | a roboclaw (+1 badassitude when implanted), a nuclear heart (+1 Floyd | badassitude when implanted), a razor tail (+1 badassitude when Floyd | implanted) and a laser eye (+2 badassitude when implanted) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of Guenni), "A lure?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Or fishing on Néreus?" | ||
| Guenni says, "The latter." | ||
| Guenni says, "Just do it again. It's somewhat randomized." | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder where the missing felon is." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Might be a bit too random." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't recall seeing them." | ||
| Guenni says, "That's something I don't remember. Where everyone was, I mean." | ||
| Guenni says, "but since we were everywhere. You could try jump to him/her." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to phelim" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5232k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO PHELIM Floyd | Floyd | Phelim is a wanted fugitive. You'll have to keep an eye out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. That's right. We *could* try that." | |
| Guenni says, "Pity." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess we havent seen them." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Could they be in disguise?" | ||
| Guenni says, "I think we have. But you can't just to them." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read list" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5232k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LIST Floyd | Floyd | Imago Republic Most Wanted Fugitives Floyd | Arrest on sight and turn over to a Marshal at Venter. Floyd | Successful bounty hunters eligible for visa chip. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim (terrorism) - 50k reward Floyd | Kal-Y (piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Natalya (fraud) - (caught) Floyd | Marisa (murder) - (caught) Floyd | Pyrogut (war crimes) - (caught) Floyd | Rella (kidnapping) - (caught) Floyd | Luciano (racketeering) - (caught) Floyd | Yuzo-I (espionage) - (caught) Floyd | Jade (identity theft) - (caught) Floyd | Reuben (bio-piracy) - (caught) Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "can't just jump." | |
| DavidW asks, "Which worlds would a terrorist like best?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Unity?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "One with a lot of important infrastructure or one that's heavily frequented?" | ||
| Guenni says, "I think looking on the first ones makes the most sense. Since the brain wasn't tuned to look out for him than" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Ah. Found him in my transcript." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, or that. :-)" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to jarland" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5232k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO JARLAND Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Junkbucket Floyd | Something loops around this faltering white dwarf star: space station Floyd | modules, starship wrecks and synthetic biomes all grafted together Floyd | into a single improbable habitat - a vast and irregular megastructure. Floyd | Floyd | Amalg freighters lumber back and forth, strapped haphazardly Floyd | with cargo. Floyd | Floyd | A few Network traders orbit at a wary distance. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jarland Floyd | A dark, cratered moon in the shadow of a turbulent gas giant. Networks Floyd | of bright lights shine from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel tanker refuels passing traffic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5232k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Jarland Floyd | The thin atmosphere is a subtle glow at the horizon, behind glass Floyd | hemispheres large and small. Each dome brims with lush greenery and Floyd | minimalist buildings. Floyd | Floyd | Maximo runs the Bell Jar Pub, an olde timey establishment Floyd | filled with antique astronaut paraphernalia. Floyd | Floyd | A hard working jar farmer nurtures crops that bulge out against Floyd | the side of his bubble. Floyd | Floyd | The pressure chief hurries from habitat to habitat in a bright Floyd | yellow boiler suit. Floyd | Floyd | Phelim hauls cargo out of a low, ugly, opaque warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | The highest ranking official that'll talk to a random space captain is Floyd | Minister Ramos. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to phelim" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5232k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PHELIM Floyd | Floyd | His thick beard flows dangerously over the neck ring of his urban Floyd | camouflage spacesuit. Floyd | Floyd | "No world can be truly independent when the cyborgs and 'roids have Floyd | banded together into their cartels. Even the Commonwealth is more Floyd | interested in bullying smaller nations than furthering the diasporan Floyd | cause." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "arrest him" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5232k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > ARREST HIM Floyd | Floyd | He makes a casual movement, and suddenly a large gun is in his hand. Floyd | Floyd | Before he can aim it, you've shot it out of his grip with your Floyd | autorevolver. Floyd | Floyd | "Phelim," he says. "Corporal. Four eight five six one five." Floyd | Floyd | You lock him in your ship's brig. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to venter" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5232k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO VENTER Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Jarland Floyd | A dark, cratered moon in the shadow of a turbulent gas giant. Networks Floyd | of bright lights shine from the surface. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel tanker refuels passing traffic. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Venter Floyd | The golden rings of a gas giant sprawl across the stars, dwarfing the Floyd | grey and icy moon below. Bright lights and luminous structures shine Floyd | from within the satellite's largest crater. Floyd | Floyd | A spinning, largely transparent, medusoid habitat serves as the base Floyd | of operations for the venerable Marshal Zila-S. Floyd | Floyd | A fuel jockey orbits lazily - tentacles trailing, bladders Floyd | swollen with deuterium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give phelim to zila" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5282k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PHELIM TO ZILA Floyd | Floyd | The marshal's remote deputies collect Phelim and transfer your 50k Floyd | credit reward. Floyd | Floyd | He stares hard at you with unwavering eyes as he's led away. Floyd | Floyd | "Your personal little war's over, Phelim," the marshal says. "And you Floyd | lost." Floyd | Floyd | "Well that's it, captain," the marshal adds. "You've caught all ten Floyd | most wanted fugitives. The Imago Republic owes you a debt of Floyd | gratitude." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to twin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5282k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TWIN Floyd | Floyd | "So, you got an Imago Republic visa, won the respect of the amalgs, Floyd | saw the inside of Hardshell, met a molonk, entered the Orphanage, Floyd | visited a world of cats, got a badass implant, commanded a crew of Floyd | four, won an orbital race, caught a bounty, caught all the Floyd | bounties... but we still need to catch an alien sea creature..." Floyd | Floyd | You sigh. Really? Does that one last lousy thing really matter that Floyd | much? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | |
| DavidW says, "CEJ Pacian, I do love you." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "twin, jump to nereus yourself" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5282k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TWIN, JUMP TO NEREUS YOURSELF Floyd | Floyd | Your twin ignores your orders. So much for being captain... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's go get it, then." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to nereus" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5282k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO NEREUS Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5282k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Surface of Nereus Floyd | Airy, simple buildings break up a multi-coloured and chemically Floyd | unstable mix of diasporan and native flora. The ocean sparkles at the Floyd | horizon in every direction. Floyd | Floyd | Nereus' most famous resident is the radical artist Tomer. Floyd | Floyd | A smiling girl strolls the pier, twirling her parasol. Floyd | Floyd | A marine biologist lives out of his submersible, washing strung Floyd | between two palm trees. Floyd | Floyd | A group of surfers lounge around a beach barbecue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "fish" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FISH Floyd | Floyd | Standing on the beach, the alien surf between your toes, you cast your Floyd | fishing line into the sea. Floyd | Floyd | (Press Z to wait. Press space to reel in your line.) | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | (Press Z to wait. Press space to reel in your line.)You feel
Floyd | a tug on the line.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5283k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | a tug on the line.You reel in your fishing line. Floyd | Floyd | You've caught something native to Nereus. Whatever it is, it's Floyd | pulsating with light and has nine eyes on stalks. Floyd | Floyd | You sell it to the Nereus Ocean Research Institute for 1k. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to twin" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5283k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TWIN Floyd | Floyd | "So, you got an Imago Republic visa, won the respect of the amalgs, Floyd | saw the inside of Hardshell, met a molonk, entered the Orphanage, Floyd | visited a world of cats, caught an alien sea creature, got a badass Floyd | implant, commanded a crew of four, won an orbital race, caught a Floyd | bounty, caught all the bounties... That's quite an adventure. Floyd | Maybe we should head to Waystation. We've earned it, right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "record waystation" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5283k Fuel: 14/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECORD WAYSTATION Floyd | Floyd | You record Waystation in your ship's log as a place of potential Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump to waystation" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5284k Fuel: 13/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP TO WAYSTATION Floyd | Floyd | (You launch first.) Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting Nereus Floyd | The world below is a bright, reflective blue: endless oceans broken up Floyd | only by sparse white clouds and even less substantial wisps of land. Floyd | Floyd | Meriel runs the orbital weather monitoring station all on her Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | Orbiting near Waystation Floyd | Tattered solar arrays reach out from the dual rings of Waystation like Floyd | fingers grasping at the Milky Way. The station is only partially lit, Floyd | but the axle landing beacon is as clear as ever. Floyd | Floyd | The face of the planet below is marred by canyons that radiate from a Floyd | gaping impact crater. Debris forms an orbital ring of readily Floyd | accessible metals. Floyd | Floyd | (Dr Pico-G pays you 1k for bringing him to a new world.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to cicerone" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5284k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CICERONE Floyd | Floyd | A sleek humanoid of shiny black plastic. Its head is dented and Floyd | cracked. Floyd | Floyd | "This world has no wider affiliation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "land" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5284k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > LAND Floyd | Floyd | Waystation Habitat Ring Floyd | Used to be, this place was a vital refuelling stop between Pearl and Floyd | the Old Worlds. Then jump drives increased their range by a few orders Floyd | of magnitude and the Old Worlds faded in importance. Now the shops are Floyd | shuttered and the apartments are stripped bare. Floyd | Floyd | But this place will always have a draw for space captains like you. Floyd | Floyd | Elva-G sits slumped against the Superluminauts' Wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to elva" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5284k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ELVA Floyd | Floyd | Her synthetic features are hidden behind tangled white hair that Floyd | spills to the floor, knotting around the matte black data cables that Floyd | snake out from her skull and into the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | "What is your name, captain?" Floyd | Floyd | (Your name is Captain)> | Knight_Otu says, "So there is a way to name us." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Right at the end of the game, of course." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think this will give us a code to send to the author to join the wall of winners." | ||
| Guenni asks, "So Clubfloyd?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ClubFloyd" | ||
Floyd | (Your name is Captain)>
Floyd | > CLUBFLOYD
Floyd |
Floyd | "Is that right? Captain ClubFloyd?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (yes/no)>
| DavidW says, "yes" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | (yes/no)>
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | She holds out a small laser cutter in her gnarled fingers. "Will you
Floyd | scratch that name onto the Superluminauts' Wall, to be preserved for
Floyd | untold aeons?"
Floyd |
Floyd | (yes/no)>
| ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Credits: 5284k Fuel: 15/15 Floyd | (yes/no)> Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | You scratch your name awkwardly into the hard material of the wall, Floyd | next to the most recent addition. Floyd | Floyd | Elva-G takes the laser from you and adds more words below. When she is Floyd | finished, your spot on the wall reads: Floyd | Floyd | "Captain ClubFloyd of the Zuwarmdraussen: Adventurer, explorer and Floyd | bounty hunter; peer to diasporans, cyborgs, synthetics and amalgs; Floyd | victorious racer; humane angler; TRUE SPACE CAPTAIN." Floyd | Floyd | "I guess we can take a break now," your twin says. "Then it'll be time Floyd | to find some more trouble to get into." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Your adventures will continue, another day *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You gained 12 out of 12 achievements and visited 51 worlds in 120 Floyd | jumps. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "woot!" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Horray!" | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah, we finished after all. :-)" | ||
| Guenni says, "Time for small Guenns to have some dream adventures." | ||
| DavidW says, "Until the next game, which I'd call Superliminal Virtual Triplet." | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Heh!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And only three sessions. That's quite fast considering the previous game. :p" | ||
