Spiders from Mars
Feb. 1st, 2003 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothToday was Chris's Shadake scifi game. We played at the new guys' apartment again, because Sandy (Lazar's wife) was sick from FC. Snow-Wolf had the worst luck getting there -- we were supposed to pick him up at the 'Overlake Park and Ride', but we went to the 'Overlake Transit Center', which also has a park and ride at it. He wasn't there. 45 minutes later, we found the correct location -- it was very well hidden, and took three passes even with a map. Of course, by that time Snowy had just caught a bus that took him closer to the apartment and walked the rest of the way.
As for the game itself, we were saved by pirates, and cops, and then some stuff happened and people started wanting to kill someone other than me, since they thought I was already dead. And a crazy lady tried to turn me into a chicken. Then, spiders.
Well, while I was in the cabin telling everything to the reporter, to hide from the cops, the station was attacked by pirates! It was Black Kat, my old boss... and she was looking for me, and killing everyone she found who didn't have me, except for reporters. It seemed she wanted publicity. That was lucky for the photographer I'd left in the police station, since he was able to snap a few pictures, give an interview, and get back to the ship.
My reporter was totally spooked by all the fighting and killing and explosions, though, and ran away. The ship, the Blue Manchuka, contacted me and asked me to go down to the fabrication lab, where it took a sample of my DNA and quickly constructed a crude replica. Then the ninja Ran carried it out and used TK to throw it at Black Kat in a simulated attack... and as we'd hoped, she and her bodyguards reacted with immediate deadly force, blowing it to small bits identifiable only by DNA scan, which would show that they were me.
The pirates would have killed us all anyway, but the police warped in and engaged them in combat. Ran and I manned the turrets and took some potshots at the pirate ship blocking our path while the computer split its attention between sparring with its gravity drive and calculating a difficult jump, since we were nowhere near a Lagrange point. The sparring went well, and it managed to set one ship spinning, but the jump went less well, and we ended up in the middle of nowhere.
He also forgot to warn us that he was going to jump more than two seconds beforehand, so I wasn't strapped in or anything. I woke up floating in a tank in the medbay, all my nanites reporting low power levels by HURTING A LOT. Then the tank went into crash mode, locking me up in jello, while we jumped again.
That jump worked a lot better, and we spent some time at a station. I tried to trick little kids into sneaking me onto another ship with them, but the photographer kept following me around and ruining everything! It eventually worked out okay, though. The ship's avatar (a creepy little robot Blue can inhabit) printed me out a fake ticket so that the captain would let me stay aboard, and promised me that we wouldn't go anywhere near that horrible, awful Earth place that the cops wanted to take me to. Ran even gave me 100-e for (accidentally) saving his life, although that wasn't enough to replace the stuff the cops had confiscated when I was arrested.
The news reports showed only that the second station we'd been attacked by pirates at had also been destroyed, and all the reporters killed. But apparently the trick had worked, because Black Kat didn't send any more pirates after me. An assassin did come after one of the passengers (Isaiah, as it turned out), but the old 'pump all the air out of the cabin' trick took him out -- what a pathetic assassin! -- and we got to keep his giant gun.
So, anyway, there was a meeting with the captain, who outlined the mission and remarked repeatedly about how he was only letting me come along because of all the money I was paying for passage... which of course I wasn't -- Blue is apparently really good at printing tickets for itself. I guess it knows what they're supposed to look like better than anyone. He told us that after necessary repairs, which would take about a day, we'd be heading to Earth.
Nooo! Not Earth!
Blue came through, though, and we landed on Mars instead, where Isaiah, an info-courier, had to drop off some stuff. Blue suggested I go with him to have 'Drusilla', his contact, take a look at the nasty mental block the cops had put on me. I told Isaiah I was coming along to protect him, and Ran came too, for additional protection.
There turned out to be nothing to worry about -- Drusilla was as good as her word, and even looked at my problem for free, although she managed to wipe my memory, reverse my time sense, turn me into a duck, and replay all my worst nightmares first. It took a while, but she eventually got me back in working order, with the block probably removed. I tried to test it by killing her, since I didn't like having my memory wiped, or my time sense reversed, or being turned into a duck, or reliving my worst nightmares, but her equipment automatically foiled the attack. She didn't even notice.
I was able to test it out on Isaiah, though... at his request. Since he was asking I wouldn't have felt good actually killing him, so I just horribly wounded him instead. Yay! I was free!
Ran asked me some really weird questions about whether I'd kill people if he paid me, then gave me more money without asking me to kill anyone because he wanted to make sure I knew that human life was valuable. He's really confusing -- he rushes into battle even faster than I do, but he acts all offended and self-righteous at the thought that I might attack someone 'innocent'. He claimed that human life was actually worth more than he could pay, so I said he could owe me. I think he was just trying to trick me into not assassinating people, though.
Then we went back to the ship, and were attacked by spiders. Lots and lots and lots of spiders. Ran opened up with the giant gun from the assassin, I started lifting fuel trucks and smashing the spiders with them until they exploded, and then the ship finally got its act together and lifted off without us. Both of us could fly, though, so we got in through the airlock after most of the spiders had been shook off... but only just ahead of the spiders, who showed that they could fly too.
So we went up into orbit, and I had fun hunting the remaining spiders on the hull. Pounce! *Crunch*! There were only a couple dozen. I sent the captain a bill for pest removal, but I don't think he'll pay it. He's mean.
Below, the cops took care of the other spiders by blowing up the city... apparently they were self replicating, and that had been the only way to contain them after we'd scattered them all over trying to shake them off the hull. Oops!
last week next week
Best line:
"You were the one who knocked that grenade away from me, right? You saved my life!"
"Really? Can I have some money, then?"
"Er, sure. Here's 100-e."
"Yay! Now I know the value of a human life!"
As for the game itself, we were saved by pirates, and cops, and then some stuff happened and people started wanting to kill someone other than me, since they thought I was already dead. And a crazy lady tried to turn me into a chicken. Then, spiders.
Well, while I was in the cabin telling everything to the reporter, to hide from the cops, the station was attacked by pirates! It was Black Kat, my old boss... and she was looking for me, and killing everyone she found who didn't have me, except for reporters. It seemed she wanted publicity. That was lucky for the photographer I'd left in the police station, since he was able to snap a few pictures, give an interview, and get back to the ship.
My reporter was totally spooked by all the fighting and killing and explosions, though, and ran away. The ship, the Blue Manchuka, contacted me and asked me to go down to the fabrication lab, where it took a sample of my DNA and quickly constructed a crude replica. Then the ninja Ran carried it out and used TK to throw it at Black Kat in a simulated attack... and as we'd hoped, she and her bodyguards reacted with immediate deadly force, blowing it to small bits identifiable only by DNA scan, which would show that they were me.
The pirates would have killed us all anyway, but the police warped in and engaged them in combat. Ran and I manned the turrets and took some potshots at the pirate ship blocking our path while the computer split its attention between sparring with its gravity drive and calculating a difficult jump, since we were nowhere near a Lagrange point. The sparring went well, and it managed to set one ship spinning, but the jump went less well, and we ended up in the middle of nowhere.
He also forgot to warn us that he was going to jump more than two seconds beforehand, so I wasn't strapped in or anything. I woke up floating in a tank in the medbay, all my nanites reporting low power levels by HURTING A LOT. Then the tank went into crash mode, locking me up in jello, while we jumped again.
That jump worked a lot better, and we spent some time at a station. I tried to trick little kids into sneaking me onto another ship with them, but the photographer kept following me around and ruining everything! It eventually worked out okay, though. The ship's avatar (a creepy little robot Blue can inhabit) printed me out a fake ticket so that the captain would let me stay aboard, and promised me that we wouldn't go anywhere near that horrible, awful Earth place that the cops wanted to take me to. Ran even gave me 100-e for (accidentally) saving his life, although that wasn't enough to replace the stuff the cops had confiscated when I was arrested.
The news reports showed only that the second station we'd been attacked by pirates at had also been destroyed, and all the reporters killed. But apparently the trick had worked, because Black Kat didn't send any more pirates after me. An assassin did come after one of the passengers (Isaiah, as it turned out), but the old 'pump all the air out of the cabin' trick took him out -- what a pathetic assassin! -- and we got to keep his giant gun.
So, anyway, there was a meeting with the captain, who outlined the mission and remarked repeatedly about how he was only letting me come along because of all the money I was paying for passage... which of course I wasn't -- Blue is apparently really good at printing tickets for itself. I guess it knows what they're supposed to look like better than anyone. He told us that after necessary repairs, which would take about a day, we'd be heading to Earth.
Nooo! Not Earth!
Blue came through, though, and we landed on Mars instead, where Isaiah, an info-courier, had to drop off some stuff. Blue suggested I go with him to have 'Drusilla', his contact, take a look at the nasty mental block the cops had put on me. I told Isaiah I was coming along to protect him, and Ran came too, for additional protection.
There turned out to be nothing to worry about -- Drusilla was as good as her word, and even looked at my problem for free, although she managed to wipe my memory, reverse my time sense, turn me into a duck, and replay all my worst nightmares first. It took a while, but she eventually got me back in working order, with the block probably removed. I tried to test it by killing her, since I didn't like having my memory wiped, or my time sense reversed, or being turned into a duck, or reliving my worst nightmares, but her equipment automatically foiled the attack. She didn't even notice.
I was able to test it out on Isaiah, though... at his request. Since he was asking I wouldn't have felt good actually killing him, so I just horribly wounded him instead. Yay! I was free!
Ran asked me some really weird questions about whether I'd kill people if he paid me, then gave me more money without asking me to kill anyone because he wanted to make sure I knew that human life was valuable. He's really confusing -- he rushes into battle even faster than I do, but he acts all offended and self-righteous at the thought that I might attack someone 'innocent'. He claimed that human life was actually worth more than he could pay, so I said he could owe me. I think he was just trying to trick me into not assassinating people, though.
Then we went back to the ship, and were attacked by spiders. Lots and lots and lots of spiders. Ran opened up with the giant gun from the assassin, I started lifting fuel trucks and smashing the spiders with them until they exploded, and then the ship finally got its act together and lifted off without us. Both of us could fly, though, so we got in through the airlock after most of the spiders had been shook off... but only just ahead of the spiders, who showed that they could fly too.
So we went up into orbit, and I had fun hunting the remaining spiders on the hull. Pounce! *Crunch*! There were only a couple dozen. I sent the captain a bill for pest removal, but I don't think he'll pay it. He's mean.
Below, the cops took care of the other spiders by blowing up the city... apparently they were self replicating, and that had been the only way to contain them after we'd scattered them all over trying to shake them off the hull. Oops!
last week next week
Best line:
"You were the one who knocked that grenade away from me, right? You saved my life!"
"Really? Can I have some money, then?"
"Er, sure. Here's 100-e."
"Yay! Now I know the value of a human life!"
