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Post by Machaeus on May 13, 2007 17:34:01 GMT -5
"Is there a Xacio on this station, to your knowledge, as a permanent resident or a visitor?" Urufu asks, dropping his "cloak and dagger" take on things.
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Post by tachyon on May 14, 2007 1:42:02 GMT -5
"You query us on sentient Xacio 555...Yes... Current and last know loaction are- Registory error #1209... Cannot comply...No..."
Gordon pulled an annoyed face. "Bleedin' 'eck! Must 'ave paid it off he 'as."
"A.I. correct it is...Yes." said Control, despite it's monotone voice a hint of smugness could almost be descerned, "Pay us well sentient Xacio 555 did...Yes...Divulge his whereabouts we do not...No...Common practice with us it is...Many sentient the same does."
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Post by Machaeus on May 14, 2007 12:11:06 GMT -5
"Your grammar sucks, dude," Urufu snorts.
"Patience," Machaeus says. "We'll find him."
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Post by tachyon on May 15, 2007 3:00:00 GMT -5
"Our grammer...When 200 years without tech support you go talk to us you may..." said Control, seemingly irritated yet showing no sign of it in it's warbling speach. "...Yes...If the sentient Xacio 555 you seek then directions we have...For have many sought him...Yes...But none have succeded...For many first stop Deathwatch Base be...Quadrant West 33 #125th District...Adidtional query you have?"
(I'm not sure how much longer I can kept procrastinating...running out of plot points that I can give away at this pont...Ash, come back mate! We need u!!
Gordon: "Well, there's a chess set and some cards somewhere 'round 'ere. Think I 'ad a Monopoly board too, but I lost the dog an' the battleship."
Me: "Fourth wall, Gordon! Fourth wall!"
Gordon: "Oh yeah...")
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Post by Machaeus on May 15, 2007 10:02:32 GMT -5
(Urufu: How does a computer lose pieces, much less move 'em?
Me: Uh, fourth wall much?
Urufu: Oh, yeah, sorry.)
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Post by tachyon on May 18, 2007 1:38:54 GMT -5
The female voice came back over the comms.
"Shuttlecraft, you have been cleared for entry on approach vector 1-18a. Follow laser guidance when prompted. You have been designated hanger bay #439 North. Copy over?"
"Righty-o then. Well, looks like were on the move again," said Gordon. He looked over at Ash, still asleep in the co-pilot's chair. "if he doesn't wake up by the time we get in I say we leave him 'ere... We'll give 'im a note but."
As the ship moved out of the queue a pair of blue lasers shot out parallell to each other from the entrance of New Eden's docks. Gordon positioned the ship between them and began to move towards the gigantic space station.
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Post by Ash on May 19, 2007 6:24:28 GMT -5
Ash slowly woke up.
He dreamt of various things.Strange things.A gigantic ocean.Ghost-like creatures,floating around in space.
His head still hurts,now more then before.
"Guys...are we already there?",he asks as he slowly stands up.
(Sorry I keept you guys waiting for so long.Right after I was back,my computer said "goodbye" as the CPU burnt away.
Took the opportunity to get myself a laptop.)
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Post by tachyon on May 19, 2007 7:40:57 GMT -5
"Look who's up then. Cor, you could sleep through a freight train goin' through a nitroglycerin factory."
The shuttle had now passed through the outer doors into the cavernous dockyards. Small transfer ships zoomed around the interior unloading the freighters too large to fit into any of the hangers. Gordon flipped the shuttle and proceded 'upsidedown' towards their designated hanger (though due to the effects of zero-gravity there is no true up or down). It passed through the blue haze of the protective forcefield and settled gently onto the metal landing pad. The engines whined as they powered down and cool air began to circulate as the cabin pressure was equalized with that of the station.
"Right, here we are then. What's next?" asked Gordon.
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Post by Machaeus on May 19, 2007 8:54:22 GMT -5
"What's next is our getting into the city and finding this Xacio card," Machaeus says. "Wonder what they want," he asks no one as two people come straight up to the ship.
"If they claim we destroyed Peragus II, I'm gonna SCREAM," Urufu states.
"This isn't KotOR," Machaeus snorts.
"Precisely why I said I would scream."
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Post by tachyon on May 19, 2007 17:16:01 GMT -5
"Probably just dockhands," said Gordon, "but if I remember right you pay the docking fee after you land so they might be 'ere for that. Oh, hang on a tick..."
Gordon's face disapeared from the screen. A moment later, a small device ejected itself from the flight console. It looked like a TV remote with a webcam on top.
"If you lot are going out I'm commin' too." said the remote in Gordon's voice, "But someone will have to carry me. I've got a handy-dandy belt-hook, or a landyard, or y'can just stick me in your pocket. How's that for versitility, eh?"
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Post by Machaeus on May 20, 2007 1:22:14 GMT -5
Urufu sticks the chatty computer on his beltloop with the landyard. "Alright, but keep it down unless we ask for you, 'k? Don't want anyone to stare. Oh, and do you mind if I call you 'Nicole' when you're like this?" he grins.
Machaeus bashes Urufu's head between his shoulder blades with a swift blow. "NO MORE OBSCURE REFERENCES!" he roars.
"It's not obscure, it's Sonic," Urufu mutters.
"It's obscure for THIS TIME PERIOD, Mr. Frozen For 120 Years!"
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Post by tachyon on May 20, 2007 1:32:03 GMT -5
Gordon's camera looks up at Urufu as indignantly as a camera can.
"Stare? I'm 'ere on a space staion with a population of eight an' a half million, most of whom are what you would call 'aliens', with a magician, a pair of transforming girls an' a dog who spent the last century in the fridge, an' you think that they'll stare at me?" After a second he adds, "When's the last time you washed your trousers sunshine?"
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Post by Ash on May 20, 2007 8:38:12 GMT -5
"Urufu is right.We should avoid being conspicious.I want this to be a little surprise for Xacio..."
He leaves the ship waits for the two people to tell him what exactly they want.
"I hope they don´t want us to hand over our weapons.Wouldn´t be so good."
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Post by Machaeus on May 21, 2007 21:14:49 GMT -5
"I'm not a dog, dude," Urufu scowls. "Werewolf. Close, but no cigar." He walks off the ship, muttering, "And I washed them last week. I have many pairs - I'm not a cartoon character."
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Post by tachyon on May 22, 2007 3:11:46 GMT -5
As the group descends the ramp they are greeted by a blue robot. Its ID tag identifies it as "#1420 <AJAX>, Cargohand, North Sector". It had an electronic clipboard in it's hands.
"Standard docking fee is 120 credits per standard day, 80 credits for each day thereafter." it said in a tone suggesting that it had done this many times before, and was thoroughly bored of it "So how do you want to pay?"
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