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Topic: Demonic Vending Machine
Subject: Lounge Lizardelicious


It spits out Wayne Newton...then his hair.

I feed it a Star Wars DVD and a pound of cheese. Heh.

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 21:13:46.

Topic: The Would You Rather Game
Subject: Rubber balls are fun.


Racquetball.

Snow resort or beach resort?

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 21:09:32.

Topic: Who Owns Rusty Dull Swords? (W.O.R.D.S.)
Subject: Yeesh


Y.E.S.T.E.R.D.A.Y.

Your Evil Stepmother Tried Eating Roast Duck And Yams

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 21:06:52.

Topic: Is Vanadia on a plane AGAIN?
Subject: Mods On A Plane!


Have a good trip, Vanadia. Be safe!

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 20:55:20.

Topic: Happy Fourth of July!
Subject: Happy 4th!


Let me add my best wishes as well! I hope everyone has fun, stays safe, doesn't get too drunk, and properly honors the birth of our country.

And let's take a moment to give thanks to our troops at home and overseas. Whether we think they need to be there or not, they answered the call and are serving our country to the best of their ability. They deserve honor and thanks on this birthday of the country they unflinchingly serve.

Happy 4th, everybody!


--Duncan

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 20:52:54.

Topic: Who Owns Rusty Dull Swords? (W.O.R.D.S.)
Subject: S.E.A.S.


Short Elves Are Sassy!

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 08:58:14.

Topic: Q&A ~Crimson Blood~
Subject: I hate busted pipes.


Will post for Artemis some time during the day on Thursday. Having to do some emergency plumbing-hehe, then going to bed.

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 08:55:14.

Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: 1.21 gigawatts! Great Scott!


Your flux capacitor is fluxing just fine, Lou-hehe.

Hope my contact post is ok, too.

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 06:21:11.

Topic: Demonic Vending Machine
Subject: Nutritious...and Vivacious


It spits out a slice of rye with very lustrous curls.

I feed it a badger and a garden gnome.

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 06:00:34.

Topic: Star Trek: Operation Persephone
Subject: Contact!


Stardate 2374.09.06 - 1220 hours
ASRV-83964:E-001, deployed from USS Cerberus


At first, Duncan couldn't believe his eyes or his ears. The events of the past half-day flashed through his mind as he tried to determine if he had truly gone insane at some point, and was just now experiencing delusions and hallucinations.

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For the first little while after the disaster, there had been very little talk or activity in the crowded escape pod. For the most part, the survivors seemed to be in their own worlds, dealing with the loss of their crewmates and their ship in their own way. Duncan had heard quiet sobbing, muttered curses, murmured prayers and subdued conversations at different points, but silence virtually ruled the cramped confines of their ASRV for a while.

For his part, Duncan had spent a while drowning in the blackest depths of horror and despair. The faces of all those he had loved and lost passed before his mind's eye, seeming to silently accuse him, to mock him. Survivor's guilt plagued his thoughts, as the Cerberus' last few seconds of life played over and over in his head like a broken recording. If only I hadn't been off the bridge when it started. If only I had tried harder to get the core to eject. If only I had been able to get a forcefield around it. If only I had stayed at my post instead of running for the pods, I might have had enough time to transport it away from the ship. If only I had died with her...

It took a stern rebuke from MacTavish to get Duncan on a more productive track and start thinking of someone besides himself. Everyone had suffered a grievous loss this day; he didn't have the monopoly on pain; but what he did have was a responsibility to the survivors to do everything he could to improve their chances of rescue, and he had a responsibilty to the dead to find out exactly what had happened to the doomed ship, and why.

He began by rerouting power to the automated distress beacon. The stronger he could make the signal, the farther away someone could pick it up and hopefully find the handful of bedraggled survivors. With an emergency tool kit and some creative wriggling behind some of the other crewpeople, he removed access panels and hotwired various bits of circuitry. It took some time, some cursing, and some complaints from the others, but he was finally able to boost the beacon's power by enough to get the signal out an additional two million kilometers. In this sparse region of space that was a very small thimblefull in a very large bucket, but it was something.

Next, Duncan boosted the communication systems using power packs from the hand phasers stored in the wall hatches. After more cursing and creative yoga exercises to get to the circuitry he had to access, he had augmented their communications range by half a light year. Again, not a huge boost, and it wouldn't take long for the power packs to die, but at least it was getting out farther than the distress signal.

Leaving the others to try to reach help over the com system, Duncan found a PADD and downloaded the Cerberus' logs to to it so he could review them. Like the "black boxes" on ancient aircraft, the ASRVs downloaded a complete copy of their mother ship's sensor and telemetry data, so that in the event that a pod was found, bearing survivors or not, someone would have a record of what happened. The data was identical to that which was downloaded into unmanned log buoys and jettisoned into space when a ship was destroyed.

To say he was shocked and enraged at what he found would be a supreme understatement. After carefully poring over the sensor data and reviewing the Engineering logs, he found a disturbing amount of information indicating that the loss of the warp core's ejection system, the failure of the emergency containment systems, the malfunction of the ship's main distress signal, and the initiation of the overload itself all pointed to more than just a mechanical problem. With all the safeguards built into Starfleet technology, there was no way that such simultaneous systems failure was a coincidence.

As he reviewed the Engineering telemetry from the moment the overload started, something strange caught his eye. Erratic power fluctuations that could not have occurred naturally began at the exact same instant that antimatter flow became irregular in the intermix chamber. He vaguely remembered seeing something similar in the Enterprise-D's logs. He pondered it for quite a while, and it suddenly hit him with the force of a punch. Nanites!

He felt an icy chill course through him as he realized what it meant. This was no accident. Someone sabotaged the Cerberus!

In that instant of realization, Duncan felt very alone. He had no way of knowing who had done this horrible thing. The nanites could have been introduced into the system from virtually anywhere on the ship that had access to the main computer. And worse, nanites were known to have a very limited operational life, so they had to have been set loose by someone after the Cerberus left Starbase 10, which meant it was someone on the ship! All the death, all the destruction, all the pain...was because of a traitor!

Suddenly unsure of who could be trusted, Duncan was unwilling to share this horrifying revelation with anyone other than MacTavish. And the current situation made such a vital disclosure of information impossible. Furthermore, Duncan wanted incontrovertible proof before he presented the captain with such a damning allegation. He tried to keep the alarm he felt from showing as he squirmed his way back to the main console, intending to download more detailed data to back up what he already knew to be true.

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As he looked at the board before him, Duncan suddenly saw a return echo from the distress signal indicated on the screen. At that instant, the computer voice spoke up, and that is the instant at which he questioned his own sanity; maybe despair, rage, and suspicion had taken their toll.

=/\= Incoming vessel detected. Starfleet transponder signature detected. =/\=

Everyone in the cramped pod sat up straight as Duncan quickly reviewed the information on the screen. It didn't take him long to realize that he wasn't imagining things. Despite the chilling revelation he had just unearthed, Duncan couldn't contain the excitement in his voice as he turned to MacTavish.

"By God, they found us, sir! It's the Charon!"

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 05:37:16.
Edited on 2008-07-03 at 20:31:18 by Duncan74

Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Sounds good


On the energy usage thing, that works fine for me, DM; the end result is the important thing.

Sorry about your post Lou, I too know how badly that sucks.

Have posted ahead to making contact with the Charon.

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 05:35:47.

Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Danke


Thanks for setting me straight, DM. Doing a bit of posting ahead of my own, in the spirit of Brom's advice.

Posted on 2008-07-03 at 03:29:30.

Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Cerberus survivor info


That's right, YeOlde. The Charon just left Deep Space 9 and is en route to rescue Cerberus survivors (Cerberus set sail out of Stabase 10), ETA is 14 hours according to Brom.

Anybody who made it off the Cerberus would be in escape pods, awaiting rescue operations.

I think I see where there could be confusion. Brom's post about the disaster states that it is Brianna McQueen that is alive and in a pod with her MACOs, but Brianna's earlier posts say that it is Rhianna (or Rhiannon? sp*) aboard the Cerberus. I just re-read the whole thread to double-check that.

So I'm assuming that it's Brianna in the escape pod and Rhiannon leaving with the Charon for the rescue, yes? Or would it be vice versa? Or do I have it wrong entirely? Hehehe

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 23:53:30.
Edited on 2008-07-03 at 00:03:49 by Duncan74

Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Ship Info


Try this for info on the Saber-class.

That's the type of ship the Charon is.

Saber-class Info Link

EDIT: I changed the original link I put up; Call to Duty site is MUCH better info.

Which, I see, is the same link you posted, YeOlde, hehe...ah well, double coverage is always nice.


Posted on 2008-07-02 at 23:31:54.
Edited on 2008-07-02 at 23:42:39 by Duncan74

Topic: Demonic Vending Machine
Subject: Try the veal!


It spits out a loudly-dressed lounge lizard.

I feed it a tire, a pitchfork, and a jar of peanut butter.

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 23:25:52.

Topic: Corrupt a wish
Subject: ...A bike scorned


Granted! But my Harley shows up, and in a fit of jealous rage, chomps the Interceptor to pieces...then belches on me for being unfaithful.

I wish Lysk had to ride a Segway everywhere-hehe.

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 19:57:59.

Topic: Demonic Vending Machine
Subject: Nooooo!


It spits out my wail of lament and despair.

I feed it Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, AND John McCain.

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 19:55:14.

Topic: The Would You Rather Game
Subject: woot


Unlined...I like mah freedom. Heh.

Biscuits & gravy, or eggs and bacon?

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 19:52:59.

Topic: Blatantly Obvious Lies
Subject: Dang leprechauns


It's the leprechauns.

They are driving up the cost of gas so they can line their pots with more gold. They have succumbed to an unfortunate pastry addiction and are spending all their existing gold on eclairs and doughnuts. Plus, Lucky was fired by Lucky Charms and is now on leprechaun welfare assistance. This is their heinous way of offsetting their costs.

Speaking of which, why are Lucky Charms magically delicious?

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 19:50:43.
Edited on 2008-07-02 at 19:51:13 by Duncan74

Topic: Blatantly Obvious Lies
Subject: Shhhhh!


Secret bottled water trees.

Why is pecan pie so yummy?

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 11:26:15.

Topic: The Would You Rather Game
Subject: Take Two


Even though you're asking the same question I asked earlier in the game-hehe, I shall answer forthwith:

Star Wars! But Trek is right up there.

Long-haired guys or guys with shaved heads? (I'm a shaver; please be kind-hehe)

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 11:22:29.

Topic: Hammer Hiatus
Subject: Cool!


Checked out the website; looks like it's gonna be an awesome con! We just had PersaCon, also an anime & comic convention, here in Huntsville, AL last weekend; it was great fun!

Hope you have a good time!

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 10:33:52.

Topic: Vote for the Inn
Subject: To the polls!


My vote is in. Still at #5. Vooooote!

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 10:20:47.

Topic: Question and Answers Game
Subject: Board games ftw!


How do you win at Monopoly?

Giant earthworms.

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 08:04:09.

Topic: What Should You Be Doing Right Now?
Subject: Water games


I should be chasing Merideth down to pull her in with me-hehehe.

Posted on 2008-07-02 at 07:59:30.
Edited on 2008-07-02 at 08:01:11 by Duncan74

 


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