Wild Portal Chase
Jun. 26th, 2004 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothLast night we had a session of Lazar's stargate-themed shadake game. Again, no combat == actually using shadake.
Java was in town all week (apparently) but is leaving today. He was around, but couldn't really join the game just for one session -- Lazar tried to bring him in as an NPC but it just didn't work out.
Negotiations with the mages went well. They didn't know much about the portals, but they had access to the security cameras for the city (an artefact from the time of the gods) which verified that the portals all went to the same place -- or at least were the same color, which was generally the same thing -- and one of them was able to predict the portal's future path... or so he thought. He had a mathematical formula which had worked up to that point.
So the party paid the mages even MORE to help fly them around to chase after the portal -- they'd have to be in the air longer than they could usually stay up, if they wanted to have any chance, since the portal's opening and closing was unpredictable.
After a little bit, Nuki suddenly turned away from the group, heading south. JT, who was closest, turned to follow him to keep him in sight, since Nuki was refusing to acknowledge any radio contact. "I think I'll catch up to him before he gets over the lake," JT radioed to the others, just before a portal-discharge appeared *around* him, rapidly closing in towards him on all sides. "Um, belay that, I'm about to die..."
But he didn't. The portal fragged all his equipment, and gave him frostbite on his wingtips, but apparently either it wasn't intended to hurt living creatures, or he was just lucky that this one didn't, because he ended up back in the base, with alarms going off, etc.
Explaining what was going on (and who he was, since he was still invisible, never having been able to turn that off), he found out that Theta Team had almost been given up for lost, since they'd been missing for fifteen weeks. No one knew why the portal had opened up around JT, though -- they certainly hadn't opened it.
At any rate, he was sent back quickly with an EM-shielded return-laptop, to get the others. They were gotten, along with one of the mages, who agreed to come with them since JT had demonstrated that he was able to come back.
So they were debreifed, while the hapless mage was quarantined in a room and explicitly NOT allowed to talk to the scientists. Plans were made to send a civilian team of contractors back to the world to exploit the gem trade and possibly figure out how the artifacts the mages were using worked. And Theta team was immediately assigned a new mission, without any chance to rest or recover, or spend the fifteen weeks worth of accumulated pay in their accounts.
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Java was in town all week (apparently) but is leaving today. He was around, but couldn't really join the game just for one session -- Lazar tried to bring him in as an NPC but it just didn't work out.
Negotiations with the mages went well. They didn't know much about the portals, but they had access to the security cameras for the city (an artefact from the time of the gods) which verified that the portals all went to the same place -- or at least were the same color, which was generally the same thing -- and one of them was able to predict the portal's future path... or so he thought. He had a mathematical formula which had worked up to that point.
So the party paid the mages even MORE to help fly them around to chase after the portal -- they'd have to be in the air longer than they could usually stay up, if they wanted to have any chance, since the portal's opening and closing was unpredictable.
After a little bit, Nuki suddenly turned away from the group, heading south. JT, who was closest, turned to follow him to keep him in sight, since Nuki was refusing to acknowledge any radio contact. "I think I'll catch up to him before he gets over the lake," JT radioed to the others, just before a portal-discharge appeared *around* him, rapidly closing in towards him on all sides. "Um, belay that, I'm about to die..."
But he didn't. The portal fragged all his equipment, and gave him frostbite on his wingtips, but apparently either it wasn't intended to hurt living creatures, or he was just lucky that this one didn't, because he ended up back in the base, with alarms going off, etc.
Explaining what was going on (and who he was, since he was still invisible, never having been able to turn that off), he found out that Theta Team had almost been given up for lost, since they'd been missing for fifteen weeks. No one knew why the portal had opened up around JT, though -- they certainly hadn't opened it.
At any rate, he was sent back quickly with an EM-shielded return-laptop, to get the others. They were gotten, along with one of the mages, who agreed to come with them since JT had demonstrated that he was able to come back.
So they were debreifed, while the hapless mage was quarantined in a room and explicitly NOT allowed to talk to the scientists. Plans were made to send a civilian team of contractors back to the world to exploit the gem trade and possibly figure out how the artifacts the mages were using worked. And Theta team was immediately assigned a new mission, without any chance to rest or recover, or spend the fifteen weeks worth of accumulated pay in their accounts.
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