Anyway. Last time on Planeteers, wak happened. Er, I mean, rain happened. And lots of it. Eui-Tae, Akinyi, and Tyler have been holed up in a fuel station with a small village of people for some time now. It's really starting to smell in there, but hey, they're dry(er), so they can't complain. Much. (Penguin cheeks) Session Start. ^^ (Wak.) (Jose and I are still just cruisin' allong back to town, right?) (/me pulls up the planeteer website.) * Tyler glares at anyone who jostles her too much. So she's pretty much glaring at everyone. (Do we need Dicesuke and an Akinyibot?) (We can still talk right?) * Eui-Tae looks around, and checks his pockets. He then realizes he didn't have his wallet anyways. * Woman is still looking out the window, a contemplative expression on her face. (Ard, don't forget those +s things and da Dicebot) (No Akinyibot. Dicey, though.) * Dicesuke has joined #Planet * Tyler slowly makes her way over to Eui. "What do we do now? We're not doing anything just trapped in here." * Eui-Tae whispers back to Tyler, "I have no idea. We gotta figure out how to put this guy under, but how is beyond me." I wish the mud would just come already, so we could get out of here. How would the mud comming let us get out of here? You've got your wish. The rain's almost over. * Tyler nods and points to the woman. "When it comes, then we can stop waiting and deal with the aftermath." Waiting is the part that sucks. Yeah, you're right about that. (/me sings: "Waiting, is the hardest part...") (Mmmm. Dragon Warrior goodness) * Todd has joined #planet ( Mew. ^_^ Can I watch? ) So what are we going to do after the mud comes? (Hey, Todd. Smell the sweat of FEAR.) (Naturally. ^^) Dig our way out and try to find out who the guys running the show are. (But it smells like... Nirvana?) * Tyler punches the air, rather pathetically. "Then we kick their ass so we can go home." Unless you want to end up in prison, I don't think you want to physically assult the CEO of whatever company is running this. * Tyler shrugs. "We've got a fast plane. He wouldn't be able to catch us." (Damn politically correct world. You cant just BEAT UP the bad guys anymore. Not even the goons without a lawsuit...) The amount of rain you hear on the roof drops very suddenly, and then you hear none of it at all. The woman hrms and starts trying to open the door. (Heh) (You beat up Thug#4! You are going to jail mister!) (Nope. ^^) * Woman curses as she pushes at the door. It won't budge. Hrmm, we stuck? * Atom has joined #planet Eui-Tae, Tyler, give me perception rolls. ^^ 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Eui-Tae (2d6-4) and gets 6. (And Ard said that. Honest.) 2d6-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Tyler (2d6-4) and gets 3. You both notice a familiar yellow shape through the window. (The suN!) (Pikachu!) ( *spittakes* ) (I'll kill you all, I swear.) ( Please do. ) (Um... penut M&M's?) ( "Wak wak wak wak, wak wak WAKWAK WAKWAK!" "What?" "'By your powers combined, I am Sparkychu.'" ) (The Konamix CD cover?) (Twinkie!) (/me is cracking up on his end) Jose, Zieg: You guys are flying up to the village. It's in ruins - maybe five buildings are left standing, and what's collapsed is utterly covered in mud. Nobody's in sight. (The Geocruiser, I assume. :P) (Hrm, that sucks...) Hrm... that sucks... * Eui-Tae sees the Magic Schoolbus. Moses Smell the Roses! Its a disaster down there! Hey, Akinyi, think you can contact them? ( *beep* "The planeteer you have reached -- 'Akinyi' -- is not in service. The new number is..." ) Akinyi nods and puts her hand to her forehead. "Heart." (Bwahaha!) ("Akinyibot, go!" "Looten Plunder is lame! His hair goes straight up and he's bloody stupid!") ( ... ) Jose, Zieg: "We're in the fuel station with the rest of the villagers. The door's jammed." (*coughs*) * Jose scratches his head. Akinyi? ( ... Heh. ) "Yes, Akinyi. It should be easier for you to open the door for us. ... I think." * Zeigfried nods, cranks up "Sandstorm", and heads for the semi-covered fuelstation. Look for a fuel station Zig. Ja. * Tyler elbows her way towards the door to be one of the first out. You find it! Like it's hard to notice. The fuel station isn't covered at all, really; it *is* one of the bigger structures in the village. There is, however, a good amount of mud built up around it. * Eui-Tae nudges his way through Tyler's wake. Land this thing. Its time to play in the mud. * Zeigfried lands on the roof, because he doesn't want another mudstorm to nail the cruiser... Congrats, Zieg lands on the roof! ( Which promptly collapses, killing everyone. The end. ) * Zeigfried gets out of the cruiser, locks the doors, pockets the keys, and walks over to the edge of the roof. (I was wondering if that would happen...) (Don't give her ideas.) Those of you in the building hear a thud. Fortunately for all of you, the place doesn't collapse. (I figured it's better to be IN the cruiser than UNDER it...) * Tyler looks up at the ceiling and frowns. Morons. * Woman blinks. "What the hell was that?" She looks up. * Jose unbuckles his seatbeat, then stands up and proceeds to exit the vehicle. That was just the Yellow Scho- err, our ride. (They can probably make out Darude from down there, muahah...) On the roof? You kids really are crazy. (Well, until I cut the engines and everything anyway, but... hehe =) (How far is it from the roof to the ground?) Hey, I'm not the one that flies that thing. Well, I'D never land it on the roof. I'm just the navigator. We're just lucky this place didn't come down on our heads. * Woman frowns and goes back to trying to open the stupid door. I know... I'm going to have a word with Zeig when this is over. This is why I should always be the pilot. * Tyler catches herself. (Ha!) When I actually have to go on one of these stupid things. * Tyler coughs. (How far is it from the roof to the ground?) (Alright, Team Alpha! Fast-rope down from the roof!) (That's too much work, I have a better plan =) (one and a half stories Amad.) (Yup.) (Ard's orders) (ok, cool * Zeigfried looks down, nods, and busts out his ring... Zig? * Jose takes a step back. You know what you doing there buddy? * Zeigfried tries to make a ramp to the ground from the mud. "Earth!" ( Quick, Eui! Cast Float! ...Okay, too much Kingdom Hearts for me. ) (I guess he knows when he's moving every zig. *hides) Soul roll, Ziggy! (Aw shit....) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Zeigfried (2d6) and gets 4. (HA!) (Hehe, 1 away) (DR) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Zeigfried (2d6) and gets 6. ( No, no. Then he would be flying with the power of Happy Thoughts, and these people don't have those. ) (Even worse) (Fuck me. Ok, proceed) (I'd rather not. And okay.) The bridge forms. And forms. And... the mud's just way too soft, so it collapses. Whooops. (Are the windows broken at all Ard? ) * Zeigfried tries again Earth... and... stuff. (Hey! Stay in character! Zig shouldn't try more that once! j/k) (It's less work than climbing. But jumping is becoming a good- looking idea...) It doesn't work. Same thing happens as last time. (It's mud, it's nice and mushy. :P) Well, its not THAT high. (See, if I knew how to use my ring better, I could pull the water out of the mud in question. But I don't. So.) (Squish, squish.) Plus we got all the mud on the ground. A soft landing perhaps unless we sink. Hrm... Alright, so who jumps? * Zeigfried creates a pile of mushy mud, if he didn't with his earlier attempts. (Just to let you know... we've seen people try to jump off buildings before, and it's not pretty) You do. Um. No. Only one way. Rock, paper, scissors. (Remember Bob, Amad?) (^_^) Ja, uhhh... I have the keys to the thing, remember? ( ...I'm not going to ask. ) (Yeah, remember who this character is modled after?) (You realize that you could easily be the brain of this group, Todd. Common sense-wise, at the very least.) (Modeled even) ( I'm trying to be quietly amused. ) ( It's rude to gloat. ;) ) Alright. Here goes nothing. (Bob's level one character jumped off of a thirty-foot structure because it was the fastest way down. ^^) (Only problem is my ring's the only one that can't effectively move objects. :( ) (Says you. :P) ( Err, I think the Heart ring is fairly useless on the move objects front. ) * Jose walks toward the edge and looks for a soft spot to land. (Right, my bad) You jump down, and help them out. I'll be right down after you, ja? Ja. * Jose chuckles. They all look about as soft as any other spot. The bridge Zieg was trying to make is in a soft muddy mound, but it's quickly spreading out. Hey lady... doesn't the door open to the inside? * Zeigfried contemplates throwing Jose off the edge, but decides it isn't worth the effort. * Tyler keeps her neck craned up towards the ceiling and lets out a low, continuous string of insults. * Jose jumps. (Weee!) It *should*, but the engineers were idiots. (And the GM needed a plot device. Deal. :P) Jose's a jumpin' fool! Jose, give me an acrobatics (tumbling) roll. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jose (2d6) and gets 5. * Eui-Tae goes over to the door and checks the brackets. He jumps, he falls, he rolls in the mud, he... miraculously isn't hurt aside from a few bruises. Ja, good job. Now, where's the door? I can't see it from up here... ALright. * Eui-Tae realizes the brackets would be on the outside, because the engineers were morons. Now, to find this door. (Speak friend, and enter.) (Hey Ard, where did they land?) * Jose looks for the door. (On the roof? :P) (The roof) Jose finds the door without a problem. (Did we seem them fall near a window or what?) It's... well, mudful. Yup. (I'm still on the roof, hehe) (No, you didn't.) You find it yet? Ya. * Tyler starts pounding on the door. "Idiots! Hurry up and get us out of here!" Mud blocking it though. Hey! Its Tyler! * Tyler gives the door a good swift kick. And Jose hears Tyler pounding on the door and yelling. Hi Tyler! The door shakes. What's up! Poor door. ;_; * Eui-Tae pounds on the door along with Tyler. * Zeigfried nods, and does his best to create a 5 foot hole in front of the door to clear it. Earth! * Tyler glares at the door. It doesn't seem to notice. * Woman gets out of the way and lets them pound on the door. Mud moves away from the door, but it's not quite a five foot hole. Might be enough to pull it open, though. That's it. Stand back. Get us out of here, and get the damn plane off the damn roof! * Jose grabs the handle/knob/opening devise. * Zeigfried will settle for that. * Eui-Tae points his ring at the door. "Wind" (Blow it off its hinges, Eui?) Ja, I'll be right down Jose. (Hell yeah) * Zeigfried gets back into the plane, guns the engines, and hovers it around to the front of the building, keeping it a good foot off the ground... Eui: Roll ring attack - 3. 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Eui-Tae (2d6-3) and gets 1. Gee THANKS Zig. Making me jump like that. The door fails its defense miserably, and is blown directly backwards, completely off its hinges. Bits of it splinter off, flying to the sides. Jose flies with it. Go Jose! (Question. How does Zeig get back to the plane?) (He was always on the roof.) (Oh yeah.) The woman, and everyone else in the building, stare at Eui-Tae in shock. What? (Hehe, leave it to me to always think of details, like being able to get to the plane...) You- but- that- uh. * Woman blinks a few times. * Jose lands in a large pile of mud with the door on top of him. Good job! * Tyler runs out without a look back. * Eui-Tae runs along with Tyler, waving his hand at all the startled people. (Heaven help us if Tyler and Eui-Tae decide to get along.) * Zeigfried keeps the plane somewhat steady, so they can get in. * Tyler plants her fists on her hips and glares at Ziggy. "You don't get to fly any more." * Zeigfried grunts. * Eui-Tae hops into his seat once Zeig gets the doors open. ( And no dessert tonight! Go to your room! ) * Jose rescues himself and gets the door off. Dude, do you know what would have happened if that roof didn't hold? Yay. Do you know how we'd get home if this thing sunk into the mud? The villagers get over it already and start pouring out of the fuel station. A number of them stop, staring at their village in shock, until the woman starts barking orders again. * Jose walks over to the Geo. Hey guys! * Tyler climbs into the Schoolbus and walks up to the pilot's seat, glaring at him. "Swap." * Eui-Tae holds the steering column while they switch. (If he agrees to switch. :P) * Zeigfried sits up, brooks an eyebrow, and shakes his head. Switch Zeig. Ja, how about not? Think of it this way: what happened the LAST time we let her pilot the plane? Before long, they organize into groups and begin the long, tedious job of salvaging what they can. Akinyi pulls the woman aside and they start talking quietly. * Tyler ticks off points on her fingers. "I know how to fly, I never almost killed a village full of people by landing on a roof, and I'm about to hit you over the head with the nearest heavy object if you don't move your ass out of that seat." * Zeigfried laughs. That's Tyler for ya! You also ditched us, and would have let this thing sink into the mud without realizing there was no other place TO land... Last time she pilioted we got to our destination without incident. * Tyler smiles at him sweetly. Too sweetly. "I would have had this thing hovering the entire time, like you finally realized you could do." There wasn't an incident here, either. Yeas, but you could have KILLED us. * Zeigfried shrugs. "It looked pretty solid." Ladies! The best way to solve this problem is to do rock paper scissors! Come on. Did he just call us ladies Zeig? Besides, we're flying now, it's NOT a good idea to switch in mid- air. * Zeigfried kicks the plane up a few dozen feet, probably knocking over anyone not sitting down. Uh oh. * Eui-Tae pulls out the instruction manual. * Tyler would have toppled over if not for snagging Ziggy's shirt on the way down. * Jose ignores the enraged German war machine. * Eui-Tae was sitting in his seat the entire time. So guys, what did you find out so far? Apparently, there's lots of mud. * Zeigfried doesn't budge an inch, even with a tipsy woman grabbing his shirt. He's used to that scene... Ja, we see that. Anything else, like where we should go to next? How about down, so we can get Akinyi in here. (I assumed she was already here... where is she then?) * Tyler stands next to the pilot's seat, her fist wrapped securely in Ziggy's shirt to avoid any more stumbles. (Ard said she was talking to the woman) (Yes, I did. ^^) (Bah, it was a quiet conversation... but I see that now.) * Zeigfried heads forward, banks sharply, and heads around and down, and lets the plane hover near Akinyi. Let's see, if there was a supply depo-err, fuel station here, then there should be a road leading from here to a large manufacturing plant. * Eui-Tae brings up the GPS. Ja, and what would have happened to that road just now? Someone in the village may know the way. That's what I was thinking Jose. * Zeigfried nods. "Maybe Akinyi was just talking to her..." Akinyi finishes her conversation and walks over to the plane with the woman. We'll see soon enough Zeig. Hey Akinyi! * Tyler leans forward and switches the sound system to the Ramones. "I fought the law and I won!" blares through the cabin. Akinyi: So, what's up? * Eui-Tae hits the breaker so he can hear Akinyi. * Tyler scowls. * Zeigfried clips the sound, we needed to talk anyway. (Heh, kev beat me, oh well.) (Aww, heck.) * Zeigfried nods * Akinyi has joined #planet (Might as well make my job easier. :P) (That's Ard, not Dame) (Told ya an Akinyibot would be a good idea =) (Now, where'd that dew go...) (woot, d3w!) * Akinyi breathes out a sigh. "I'm staying here. They need all the help they can get. Ngoli, on the other hand, knows a lot more about this than we ever did." She gestures to the woman. (Sunk1st!) * Woman is now known as Ngoli (Freaks.) * Ngoli nods. You sure you want to stay here Akinyi? (Good golly, miss Ngoli...) (Dr P3pp3r.) (sunkist!) (rofl) (R00t B33R!) (Sounds good. Yes. You saw how they act without her. I might not be from around here, but... And she needs to go with you. Trust me on this. * Zeigfried nods Ok. If you find anything else, you can always use your heart messaging device. * Ngoli eyes Jose. "The Mexican kid can stay, though." Did you do something Jose? Ja... he dug you out of there, you know. Hrm? * Zeigfried nods to Jose. Oh yeah, that. Did he? * Tyler starts adjusting the control panel to her liking while Zeigfried's busy talking. Ja, you dug them all out single handedly. Saved the whole village. * Zeigfried glances at Tyler, and swats her back a bit. * Ngoli frowns. "Fine then." She glances at Akinyi. "You know what to do?" He's a good guy, just sometimes confused. * Akinyi nods. Very confused. He thought I was a fricken' poacher when we first met. * Tyler smacks his shoulder. "Don't ever do that again." She then proceeds to fix all the controls he's screwed up. * Zeigfried ignores the smack, and puts up an arm to hold her back. * Tyler shoves it aside with both hands. * Eui-Tae starts to fiddle with his control panel, realizing Jose had no clue what he was doing. (Actually, I doubt you could...) Er... Of course. By the way, sorry about that Eui-Tae. (One arm, out to the side? No leverage.) Alright, I'll forgive you this time... but next time, to the moon. (Plently muscle though...) (I just finished a chicket BLT salad from Wendy's. Good cookin' (sorta). ) Akinyi leaves, joining up with a group of villagers. Ngoli folds her arms. "If you kids are finished...?" (did they give you a free bacon cheeseburger this time? =) (Bah, Ard and I had Geno's East for lunch. ;) ) (Damn, no they didnt.) * Zeigfried nods Ja, where to? (:9) Well, he's got the gyro off by three degrees. Alright, we should find out the next destination. * Tyler points to a readout. Yeah, where to? * Akinyi has quit IRC (Quit: Heart! ) (I so much want to say that in the Xeen voice.) (Hee.) (I ate at Soul food... well, sorta. More like we ate next to it =) Ngoli, do you know of any manufacturing plants or larger proccessing areas we can go to? * Ngoli gets in the plane already. "The city. Just follow the road... well, it'll be mostly mud, so follow my directions." That's the idea. Alright, everyone buckled in? * Zeigfried nods. * Eui-Tae buckles up! (It's the law) I'm standing up here. The readings still aren't fixed from when we got this thing, and a novice is trying to fly it. * Zeigfried waits until Ngoli is ready, and accelerates at a decent speed. * Tyler balances from years' practice on the BART. And the big combat boots don't hurt, either. (BART?) (Homer's kid) (Bay Area Rapid Transit. San Fran subway system.) * Ngoli starts directing in pose because the GM is lazy. (Ah, okay) (What she'd be doing on him is beyond me though, and for four years at a time...) * Zeigfried ignores Tyler, obeys the directions, and heads toward... well, we'll figure out where, won't we? (Yes, you will. Stop now or keep going?) * Tyler leans forward and fiddles with controls mid-flight, trying to fix the inaccuracies. She glances over to the "pilot" and shakes her head. (Yer call. We got WC3 running here, and I don't know how much longer until the game they have going ends... * Eui-Tae periodically places electronic becon points as we fly, so he can guide us back when we need to. (I'm assuming the GPS has the appropriate programming here.) (Yes, it does. Seventy years out of date, but it does.) Man, this thing needs some serious work... * Jose hums a Yekuana folk song. * Tyler glances over her shoulder at Eui. "You up for it later?" Hell yeah! Ja, like... no, those are contrabanned I think... * Tyler grins. Just a little bit. (I'm ready to end it soonish. Presents to open. ^_^) (I can just picture the Geocruiser with a SCUD attatched to the bottom...) (Make peace, clean up the world, and recycle... or else!) This thing could really use a tune-up though... we shouldn't need to adjust these settings all the time. Maybe we could include a few net-jacks too. * Tyler nods at Eui. I'm sure we could swap out the solar panels for better ones, too. And definetly change the color. * Tyler lets her imagination run away with her. Machines are good. They make sense and don't piss her off. We should camouflage it... blue on the bottom, green and grey on top. Ja, we wouldn't need to fix every little thing every ride if our backseat driver wasn't anally retentive. But I guess if it saves me the trouble, I'll let her fix... whatever she's... hey, don't toutch that! Ya might have a point there. Goodness knows Camo is always good. I'll touch whatever I want to touch, Sparky. I'm keeping this thing from listing three degrees to the right. Um, Zeig, if you don't let her adjust that, we won't have enough power to get home. Dont forget a nice spoiler on back. How about we change the location of some of the controls too... And dice on the rear view mirror. * Tyler nods at Eui. "They're not very intuitive as-is." And bigger speakers. (So, are we calling it here, or keep moving.) Bigger... speakers... ... ok, I agree on that one. No spoiler... How about personal headphones though? An onboard chef! Good call! And a minibar. Wait! Im a chef! * Jose smiles. We could get a portable kitchen on here. * Eui-Tae thinks of the possibilities. (Floor wants... big... WC3 game...) * Jose begins to imagine a wealthful of kitchen items. The conversation makes time pass quickly, and before long you see... civilization! A modest city, but leaps and bounds and decades ahead of the village you were in not so long ago. But it probably won't matter, since Ziggy will land us on the edge of a cliff and we'll all die. * Tyler smiles. * Ngoli smiles a little, probably because this'll make them shut up. "We're here." Well, we would have a nice meal before we died. Yay! We have arrived. Ja, cliffs are in short supply here. I'll settle for another building. Don't you dare. * Eui-Tae looks at his GPS... it says nothing about a city here. You sure? Maybe its old. * Ngoli looks out the window and points out a clearing. "Land over there. It won't rain for at least another week." Say, when was this city founded? Fifty-odd years ago. * Zeigfried nods, and heads for the clearing. Ah, okay... hey Tyler, mind if I borrow your laptop? * Tyler nods at him. "Don't let anyone else touch it, though." I gotta do a little adjustment to the GPS... that's all. Can I touch it? NO! * Jose smirks. * Jose goes back to humming his tune and admiring his bow. Ziegfried reaches the clearing! Land? (y/n) * Tyler runs her fingers across the control, fine-tuning some of her adjustments prior to landing. (/reformat) y (Bwaha.) * Eui-Tae jacks the laptop in and starts typing away. (I'm getting called away. Are we ending?) Ziggy lands without any need for a die roll. Session end.