Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Oooooookay, but don't say I didn't warn ya!
Seriously, folks. The point of the 'command staff' orders (aside from the need for the command staff to be present on the ship, of course) is to 'steer' the story along it's plot line. If your character is ordered to do a,b, or c, there's probably a plot-driven reason for it...
Sooo, I say one more time - "consequences schmonsequences" aside - be careful of what your characters do 'in defiance' of orders, folks... I can count at least 3 PCs that are coming very close to being victims as opposed to the vindicators that they're trying to be.
P.S. Just so there's absolutely no doubt - and I really hate to be a hard-arse but kind of have no choice since we're coming very close to this whole thing being de-railed, thank you - "victim" = NPCd or dead, folks.
Posted on 2008-07-23 at 13:30:06.
Edited on 2008-07-23 at 13:34:54 by Eol Fefalas
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Topic: Continuing Where We Last Left Off Q&A
Subject: *snicker*
Yeah, that'd work out well... "Hmmm... I see that the last mage to accompany you died a horrible death..." *divine, divine, scry, scry* "I don't foresee myself falling to that same fate... primarily because I'm staying right here in Freegate where there are no bugs and the women don't try to kill you!" 
FYI... working on character concepts for both the Savage Wizard and the Warlock... still haven't decided which one I like better... *shrugs*... Not going to be Jal, either way, but should still be an interesting sort... just less Spooky.
Posted on 2008-07-22 at 20:32:42.
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Topic: Cap'n Lou is lacking in time.
Subject: Understandable...
... the RL monster is well known for rearing it's ugly head at the most inopportune times around here, isn't it?
Here's to you, Cap'n Lou. Best wishes for a return to 'normalcy' in the near future and all the happy, happy, joy, joy business that goes along with it. 
Posted on 2008-07-22 at 18:57:56.
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Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Whoa! Am I seeing a bunch of Dishonorable Discharges in the works...
...or what?
Ignoring direct orders from superior officers? Doing what we want to anyway despite orders that have been given? Starting to feel like a regualr mutiny in the making hereabouts isn't it? 
I appreciate that everyone is so enthusiastic about posting and that we all have our own ideas as to what our characters would/should do, etc, but, WOW! Just a friendly reminder to all concerned: each and everyone of our characters are Starfleet personnel or representatives of the Romulan Star Empire/Navy and, as such, should rightly be expected to conform to and comply with a cetain set of ethics and regulations... In other words, behave like military personel on a mission together and not runamok star pirates fighting for control of the ship and a bigger cut of the booty.
Now, having said that... Feel free to fly in the face of orders and/or crawl up Stan's keester just to make sure he doesn't do anything else if you like... just keep in mind that there will be consequences for such actions... icky, vile, nasty, and probably unexpected consequences, at that.
Also, I'm almost caught up with everything, now, and should have a post ready to go in the very near future.
Posted on 2008-07-22 at 18:21:54.
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Topic: The Brom be out, yo!
Subject: Welcome back, yo!
Glad to hear that the trip went well and turned out to be so much fun. Hearing that kind of stuff always 'restores my faith' in humanity.
Posted on 2008-07-22 at 14:17:41.
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Topic: Continuing Where We Last Left Off Q&A
Subject: And a lesson painfully learned, too. :)
Anyway... Just been giving this some thought and am looking at creating something along the lines of the Witch(Warlock) kit in the Complete Wizard's Handbook - although, the Savage Wizard looks mighty interesting, as well. Hmmmm... decisions, decisions...
Suggestions? Preferences? "No, Robert, don't do thats"?
Posted on 2008-07-22 at 14:15:29.
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Topic: Continuing Where We Last Left Off Q&A
Subject: Ain't gotta ask me twice...
...I'll put some thought into a new character and see what I can come up with. Hmmmm... now to figure out how to whip up a mage (or something) that might just live.
Posted on 2008-07-22 at 12:49:33.
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Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Most likely...
... the replicators could make replacements, yes.
However, with Talon having his knickers in a twist about security and Romulans in general, I'd almost be surprised if he didn't implement security lockdowns on the replicators that specified 'bread and water' only. 
Posted on 2008-07-22 at 12:34:05.
Edited on 2008-07-22 at 12:43:17 by Eol Fefalas
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Topic: Blatantly Obvious Lies
Subject: Because...
...if you weren't grounded you'd probably be outside doing other fun stuff rather than being confined to your room with nothing to entertain yourself with other than a shrimp fork and an electrical outlet. 
(And for Lysk because she posted like two seconds before I did: That is because They said so. That and They is friends, after all, and They like it when That is just like when Those are and These have... It's all about They... or is it Them?)
What prompted the invention of the spork?
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 19:43:49.
Edited on 2008-07-21 at 19:48:18 by Eol Fefalas
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Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Yup... the wife's got 70+ kids in her charge...
...on a daily basis, so i'm with ya there. Rollbooks, however, are usually pretty much at hand (in or on the teacher's desk) and the school likely isn't going to be burnt completely to the ground in the span of 60 seconds.
My point here is that you had half the length of a standard television commercial to get the CD and your crew from the centurion's quarters to an escape pod before the ship went boom...I seriously doubt that anyone would have even thought about saving the swords, let alone attempting it (when it's your life vs some antique which would you choose?)... we're lucky the cloak made it, to be honest.
Final word... the swords did not make it.
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 18:58:32.
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Topic: I got Crabs!
Subject: *SNORT!*
Okay... thanks, Jozan, for the much needed laugh (and thanks from my company for the keyboard I just ruined by spewing coffee all over it after having read the title of this thread).
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 18:49:05.
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Topic: BIG NEWS
Subject: Congrats, Li'l Momma!
If you're excited and happy about it - regardless of age (hell, I was just 18 when my oldest was born) - I'm excited and happy for you! 
I do expect updates on a regular basis and, of course, pictures when they're available. All my best to you, the proud papa, and the little 'bun in the oven'.
Luv,
Uncle Eol
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 18:18:54.
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Topic: Voyages of the Rocinante - Firefly RPG QnA
Subject: LOL @ stim or sedate
Nope... no mambo... no cha-cha... probably not even so much as a 'reaches for Miss Will and makes a smoochy face'.
Like you said (and i figured from the extent of the injuries) any time spent conscious is probably gonna be spent going oooh...ow... son of a b that hurts... gimme some drops quick!
Just making sure that I had more to post besides... *Lies there bleeding on the floor*
Willow: *doses Sam with a stim-pack* "Sam? Sam! Can you hear me?"
Sam: "Yup... but it hurts..."
Willow: "Can you move your arm?"
Sam: "Woman, I can't even open my ruttin' eyes without feelin' like my gorram spine's gonna slide out! Why? Where did ya want me to move it to? Yer still dressed after all!"
Willow: *Sedates Sam... twice*
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 17:29:19.
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Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Possibly...
...however, I'd guess the swords and S'Talon would have only made it as far as the first security detail that spotted a Romulan running down the corridor carrying a couple of swords. I would imagine that, given the level of suspicion towards teh Romulans, anyway, if a Sec detail had seen S'Talon hauling arse for an ASRV with some sharp pointy things that weren't his ears, the Romulan would've been phaser-ized and the swords would have clattered to the floor. End result's the same.
Here's a real world analogy... you're teaching a class full of six year olds and the fire alarm goes off, there's no drill scheduled for the day so, it's quite possible that the school is on fire and everyone needs to get out right-freaking-now! Do you let little Johnny make a trip to his book bag to grab his favorite Hot Wheels car before you hurry him outside to safety? Probably not... life before stuff and all that... how's it gonna fly with Johnny's mom and dad when they find out that their son's a cinder because he wanted to grab a 99 cent Hot Wheel, right?
Sorry.
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 17:22:51.
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Topic: Voyages of the Rocinante - Firefly RPG QnA
Subject: Purplebellies and surgery?!?!?
Gorram but m'day jes' gets better an' better all th' ruttin' time, don' it?
Roger - Is Dash completely out of it, at this point, or can I work with an "in and out but mostly out" angle for posting purposes? Y'know... "inappropriate mutterings" to Willow as he's being examined, mumblings about innocents, etc?
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 16:13:54.
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Topic: A Shadow Over Drasnia Q&A
Subject: Frightening? Mmmmm.... coooould be...
I did manage to scribble a bit more of the 'backstory' out over the past few days and, with a little luck, will have it done and done before much longer.
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 16:08:59.
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Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Geez...
...I forgot to mention in either of those last two posts but, great work in the RP dept over the past few days, gang!
I, myself, am hoping to absorb and address all that's occurred since Mac's last by this evening (with hopes of a post actually going up tomorrow) and have us 'nudged forward' shortly thereafter.
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 15:59:34.
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Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: What made it off the Cerberus?
- Personnel who were 'on duty,' awake, and near enough to an escape pod to have made the dash in one minute or less may have made it to an ASRV. (This includes whatever they were wearing and/or whatever equipment (padds, tricorders, tools, etc) they might have already had in hand or, for some odd reason, might have grabbed in the mad dash to save their lives... meaning it was practically in your hand at the moment and the only reason it made it into the ASRV with you is because you forgot to drop it in the panic)
- Personnel who were 'off-duty,' sleeping, and/or otherwise not within 45 seconds of a pod - along with a greater majority of on duty ENG personnel in Main Engineering and several other departments in the area - did not survive.
- Very few of the ASRVs that were ejected from the aft portion of the ship, also, did not escape the blast. Ther personnel aboard those ASRVs did make it off the Cerberus but not much farther (poor souls).
- The singular 'personal item' that I can imagine might have made it off the ship with the surviving crew would have been Rrowl's knife and that only because the Rug carries it on him at all times... Mac lost his kilt (which, itself, was a family heirloom that travelled with him his entire career) and a damn fine bottle of scotch (not to mention any holographs, saved 'letters', etc, from Chantelle), for instance, and all of that stuff was less that 10 steps away in his ready room... Survival instincts won out, of course, and the kilt, scotch, and momentos were left to die in deference to actually getting off the exploding boat.
Basically, if you were wearing it or had it in hand, it made it to the ASRV... if it was sitting beside you (on a bunk, table, deck) you could have instinctivley grabbed it up and took off a runnin' but, with the red alert klaxons blaring and the ship screaming 'Get off or die', I doubt even Spock would have had the wherewithall to grab anything, let alone realize what it was that was being grabbed up... Sentients, the uninstalled cloaking device, a PADD/tricorder, and/or the random piece of job related equipment made it... Anything else is, by now, atomized.
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 15:44:40.
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Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Personal effects?
Ummm, just noticed that some 'personal effects' appear to have made it off the Cerberus with the Romulans... hate to say it, folks, but unless you were carrying it with you or had it in hand at the very minute the evacuation order was given nothing except for the one, uninstalled cloak would have made it off the ship with you... People, PADDs, and possibly a phaser or two (for TAC/security folks) would have made it, I'm sure... You would not have had time to grab anything that you brought with you from home. Sorry.
Edits where applicable, please. Thanks.
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 15:08:05.
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Topic: Short Notice
Subject: I'm baaaaAAAAaaaack!
Did ya miss me?
I see Meri kept at least one of my decoys entertained whilst I was away.
Anyhoo... off to 'catch up' on what I've missed and get some posts going. Still draggin' my wagon today - was a loooooong drive back, yesterday - but I'll kick the muse in the keester and see what I can't eek out.
Posted on 2008-07-21 at 12:49:48.
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Topic: Short Notice
Subject: Oh no they're not...
...more flexible!
Smarter, maybe... 
Posted on 2008-07-16 at 17:14:07.
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Topic: Short Notice
Subject: Deploying countermeasures:
*prepares a dozen or so life sized, inflatable Eols (don't ask) and sets them up at strategic locations about the Inn*
Hehehe... you'll never know I'm not here.
Posted on 2008-07-16 at 16:42:52.
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Topic: Star Trek: Operation:Persephone - Q&A
Subject: Skibbidy bee bop (for lack of a better title)
Just a reminder/note: I will be out-of-pocket as of this evening and likely thru sunday night (have to go take care of some business up north). I'll try to check in and update if possible but can't guarantee anything.
If i can manage some tiny updates today, I will. If not, I'll have something extensive come the first of next week.
Sorry for the short notice.
Posted on 2008-07-16 at 13:05:45.
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Topic: ^ < V game
Subject: But an absolute machine in the long haul!
^ Mega Muse
< Blew a fuse
V Not wearing shoes
Posted on 2008-07-16 at 13:01:30.
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Topic: Short Notice
Subject: Short Notice
Looks like I may be out of pocket as of tomorrow evening (Wednesday, 16 July 2008 ) and gone through Sunday night.
I'll try to get some posts in before I leave but can, unfortunately, make no guarantees. Sorry for the short notice.
Posted on 2008-07-16 at 01:46:39.
Edited on 2008-07-16 at 01:47:04 by Eol Fefalas
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