Scrap heap. 

No breebles post yet?  Whaaa? 

Paging Bud, breebles...

I plan to post today.  This may be the fina one for me in this game.

New week, new update... let's see some posts, Citizens!

I think that Keeper of Dragons is going to take over the role of Midge. 

I will probably NPC the actions today and bump the story forward.

Well, the basic idea is that the's a cidal (halfling) conjurer.  He belongs to the Circle of Arcane Englightenment - specifically, to the Walkers of the Planes - which is the mage guild in our setting.  He carries a staff sling. 

I can shoot you his character sheet; you may want to read along with the game to get a feel for him.

Looks like Ayrn is out for the forseeable future as Midge the halfling mage. 

Would anyone like to pick up this role?

It's the truth.

Fudgesicle. 

Bromern in an A+++ player.  Good luck finding anyone better!

Haha... I'm jealous, and he's already in my game!

So really, I'd just like to know Ayrn's take.  I hate to move the party from a dead wizard's house without consideration from the party wizard.

Yep.  Ops is a great role (Data from TNG was the Ops officer), but it's also easy to NPC.  "Captain, sensors indicate X.  Captain, we are being hailed..."

So you need, for sure, at least one major science type (ideally two, if I'm reading your post right), a chief tactical officer is pencilneck doesn't want that, a helmlsman (chief flight control), and a chief ops officer. 

I mean, you can NPC some, but if you had your druthers, that's where you'd be.  Yes?

Yeah, you're thinking of Tracking.  Helps you ID footprints, much more subte signs of passage, etc.  Hunting is more about finding and killing game. 

Even a really experienced Tracker would have a tough time with this, though.  You're talking about ground that is covered literally every day, many times over, by people going in and out of the Inn.  Finding a specific pair of footprints would be like searching for a needle in a stack of needles.

Two votes for "find out", one for "nah", one for "zzzzzzz".

Need to know re: Ayrn and breebles. 

How do you plan to search for Davena and Gorn, if that is what the group decides to do?

Court martials take time, y'know.

I plan to post yet again today.

Heeee liiiiives!

**sniffs pits**  Maybe it's me?

So, where do we go from here?

Look, we can wait for everybody to post.  Of course, Cedric is currently sleeping, so he doesn't have much to post about.

But I don't see the value.  If someone has something to add, they can always do it via backpost. 

What do you want to do from here?  Talk to anyone in town?  Look for Davena and Gorn?  Search for the source of the undead?  do some reasearch on death cults, rituals, and anchors?  Walk away from this crazy place?

This feels like a good place for us to hit a lull while evrybody figures our creative ways to post that their character doesn't have anything too do... and I'd like to avoid that sort of lull. 

Wow.  She goes punny AND talks Trek.  Noice.

Since no one has anything useful to ask Friend Computer, the moitor eventually goes dark and recedes beneath the surface of the muck with a gurgle. Once more, you are alone in SWR sector.

The party slowly retraces their steps - only getting lost three times - before once again finding the blast door with the defense turret on the far side.

The door is currently open, and standing on the other side of the doorway is a jackobot standing just short of five feet tall. A keen eye might discern that this bot is an older model, and perhaps a bit neglected or worn... though jackobots do tend to function for a very long time.

"BEE-DEE-BEE-DEE-BEEP," it intones through a dented speaker. "Greetings, Team MAO-17859 Dot R-2. I am Jackie the Jackobot. Please allow me to escort your superior intelligences to the PLC distribution center."

You might be wrong, but the jackobot appears to speak in a slightly sarcastic tone. 

Yes.  Fleets are really just a cooprative thing.  They aren't meant to be multiple simultaneous threads. 

One game might be set in early 2365, another in late 2364, another in mid 2365, etc.  As long as any truly major events that impact everyone are handled appropriately, you're okay. 

Take Wolf 359, for instance.  Right now, both of our sims are set before that massive battle.  If we decide to move a sim to after that, we need to decide how that impacts the other ships in the fleet.  According to canon, there were unthinkably massive losses at Wolf 359, so did any of the Draconis Fleet vessels respond?  If so, were they damaged or destroyed?  This could remove characters from play entire;y, or at the very least, put them on different ships. 

But yeah... seeing as how even a super active Trek game can take months to complete an adventure, you don't want to try to force eveyone to stay on the same identical page.  It's more a collection of adventures that happen in the same reality.

I saw that Eol messaged me on Facebook that his router died, that he'll be back tomorrow.  I'm going to go ahead and bump Paranoia, and I was already planning to post to Trek...

Cheese, what's going on?  All of my games were just hopping along, but all of a sudden, they are getting slooooooowwwww. 

Where my posters at, yo?

I would love to see that!

Yeah, okay.  This isn't an oficial recruitment thread, per se.  But with the renewed interest in Star Trek here at the Inn, and with the launch of a second, affiliated sim... I've been playing with this idea in my mind for a bit.

I would love to see the Inn become home to a collection of Star Trek games with some organization to them.  Roughly the same time period, definitely in the same "reality". 

You see this in places like Star Trek: Freedom, where all they do are Trek games.  I don't see us ever going that far (after all, the Inn's roots are in D&D and fantasy), but would it not be cool to drop in to the Trek Tools and see a nice roster of active ships?  It wouldn't take much effort for me to beef the Trek Tools up, make them a little easier to use, add some features, etc. 

Of course, we don't really have any GMs willing to run Trek games at the moment... let alone the players to fill them out.  But it's a cool idea.

And yeah, the fleet just names itself, doesn't it?  You could go with the canon nomnclature of "11th fleet" or whatever, but the common name almost HAS to be Draconis Fleet, doesn't it?