Oh, the space-shippity...
Mar. 15th, 2003 01:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothAs previously noted, tonight was Chris' scifi Shadake game. After the shopping trip, we were witnesses to a great tragedy.
So it turned out where we went next was the black-tron guys' secret asteroid base, which was also painted black. Since they seemed to like black and black with different shades of ultraviolet, I had myself spray-painted black on ultraviolets to make sure no one mistook me for one of them.
They sold a lot of sort of semi-neat stuff at the asteroid, but nothing really interesting... I ended up buying an attachment for my right claw that prevented nanite healing from working, to go with the taser on my left. Not sure it was really worth it, but what else am I gonna use money on? All the actual weapons were ridiculously expensive.
I was bored, and tried hacking into a computer with psi power like Blue always does, but when I got blocked and tried to apply a bit more power, the computer blew up! Not that much of a surprise, really... basically, I'm a 'macro' psi and not a 'micro' psi, which apparently means I'm good at blowing things up and not at hacking computers.
And they wouldn't sell me a ship on credit, even when I told them I'd go on pirate runs right away to pay them back.
So, I was forced to get back on Blue when the feds somehow tracked us down to the base, although I managed to argue them into actually paying us to be the bait.
Everyone thought the feds were after me, but, like, wha? I ditched my transponders ages ago, and they weren't frigging ansibles to begin with. I pointed out that we had a psi they were probably looking for sleeping in the med bay, and since psi sometimes travels faster than light they were probably tracking him.
So we jettisoned him, and then squished him with a gravity drive, and then shot him up a lot. I also shot up a bunch of missiles -- someone altered Blue's laser turrets to be super-rapid fire. A lot of fun, and good for point-defense!
We didn't really have anything to even scratch the three battleships, though, so we eventually had to sort of jump wildly when Blue told us he didn't think he'd survive another salvo. We ended up flying right into a big blue planet, but fortunately it didn't have a surface so we were okay. We were even sort of in the right place to meet up with the blacktron ambush, so we went and sat as bait like we'd been told.
And the battleship warped in, and the blacktrons shot it up with missiles and lasers, and Blue hacked its computers and made its point-defense shoot down its own fighters and escape pods, and then a HUGE missile hit it and punched a big hole right through the center, and it was about time to board it and take it over for salvage...
...and the stupid blacktrons wouldn't stop firing! They kept shooting and shooting until the ship was forced into the big blue planet and ripped to shreds!
And all I could do was sit there in the turret and watch that big, beautiful ship burn up, and hope that we ditch these idiots before they drive us broke. It's not like we didn't take damage in the fight, and what are we going to use for parts when they destroy the friggin' prize?
last week next week
So it turned out where we went next was the black-tron guys' secret asteroid base, which was also painted black. Since they seemed to like black and black with different shades of ultraviolet, I had myself spray-painted black on ultraviolets to make sure no one mistook me for one of them.
They sold a lot of sort of semi-neat stuff at the asteroid, but nothing really interesting... I ended up buying an attachment for my right claw that prevented nanite healing from working, to go with the taser on my left. Not sure it was really worth it, but what else am I gonna use money on? All the actual weapons were ridiculously expensive.
I was bored, and tried hacking into a computer with psi power like Blue always does, but when I got blocked and tried to apply a bit more power, the computer blew up! Not that much of a surprise, really... basically, I'm a 'macro' psi and not a 'micro' psi, which apparently means I'm good at blowing things up and not at hacking computers.
And they wouldn't sell me a ship on credit, even when I told them I'd go on pirate runs right away to pay them back.
So, I was forced to get back on Blue when the feds somehow tracked us down to the base, although I managed to argue them into actually paying us to be the bait.
Everyone thought the feds were after me, but, like, wha? I ditched my transponders ages ago, and they weren't frigging ansibles to begin with. I pointed out that we had a psi they were probably looking for sleeping in the med bay, and since psi sometimes travels faster than light they were probably tracking him.
So we jettisoned him, and then squished him with a gravity drive, and then shot him up a lot. I also shot up a bunch of missiles -- someone altered Blue's laser turrets to be super-rapid fire. A lot of fun, and good for point-defense!
We didn't really have anything to even scratch the three battleships, though, so we eventually had to sort of jump wildly when Blue told us he didn't think he'd survive another salvo. We ended up flying right into a big blue planet, but fortunately it didn't have a surface so we were okay. We were even sort of in the right place to meet up with the blacktron ambush, so we went and sat as bait like we'd been told.
And the battleship warped in, and the blacktrons shot it up with missiles and lasers, and Blue hacked its computers and made its point-defense shoot down its own fighters and escape pods, and then a HUGE missile hit it and punched a big hole right through the center, and it was about time to board it and take it over for salvage...
...and the stupid blacktrons wouldn't stop firing! They kept shooting and shooting until the ship was forced into the big blue planet and ripped to shreds!
And all I could do was sit there in the turret and watch that big, beautiful ship burn up, and hope that we ditch these idiots before they drive us broke. It's not like we didn't take damage in the fight, and what are we going to use for parts when they destroy the friggin' prize?
last week next week
