Dance with the Devil
Apr. 19th, 2003 02:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothTonight was Chris' scifi shadake game... tonight's distraction was the computer game the people in the apartment had written as a school project. They'd already turned it in, and were trying to show it off for the rest of us, but ran into a horrible crashing bug, which they fixed. But then everything else went wrong at random. They had no debugger, so Ran's player spent the whole night trying to fix the problem using printf-equivalents.
So, we have god, who we retrieved from the Federation when they tried to ambush us at the mall, and we got some neat new stuff from those creepy Blacktrons, and then Blue decides that he has to go way over there right now. Way over there wasn't where Isiah wanted to go, not even close -- and Blue refused to tell us where he was going or why.
So, when where he was going turned out to be a black hole, I thought it was obvious -- someone was messing with his mind again. I told Kev'ry to switch him off before we were all swallowed up, but of course no one listened to me. It turned out that I was right, by the way!
Anyway, we all went quietly to our doom inside the black hole, only instead of doom there was this space station full of tasty fish. I thought they might be intelligent, so I dove into the water and ate a few -- no cop-fish showed up to arrest me, so they were just plain fish. Oh well.
In the center of the station was this crazy fish guy -- no, really, that's what he told us to call him -- who'd had infinite mental power and was Blue's boss. Although with infinite mental power, you're really whoever's boss you want to be. He'd activated a hidden backdoor to bring Blue to his station so he could look over Sky -- aka God -- steal our lives' stories, and offer us useless stuff in return -- I mean, his main product was information, for crying out loud. That hardly counts!
I asked him for money. Specifically, enough money to buy the ship I sort of had my eye on from time to time... yeah, it's just a freighter, but those things are really zippy once you sub in a cruiser grav drive, and have plenty of cubic meters for weapons and cargo. My favorite kind of pirate ship, much better than the teeny little fighters like Blue!
He acted like I was making a mistake just asking for money, but hey, it's more money than I've ever seen in my life. Blue just asked him where the most interesting planet in the universe was -- talk about wasting your reward.
So, crazy fish guy communed with Sky and deteremined where Sea (the devil) was, and sent us there in a big hurry since somehow the Federation was already on their way despite NOT having Sky who was supposedly the only person in the universe able to find Sea. Cheaters.
We caught up with the Federation on the way (well, a squadron of scouts, nothing big) and Blue hacked their systems to bits... Trent and I took one of them as a prize crew, and we crashed the others' drives and left them marooned. Blue asked if I was happy that I'd finally gotten to do some piracy. Eh. It's not much of a rush for the boarding party when the enemy surrenders peacefully. Don't they have any pride?
Then we met the devil, Sea. He was hiding in an old research facility, which was like the only possible place that anyone looking for him might have possibly thought to look for him -- what an idiot! He was all sad about being nothing but a weapon... I tried to cheer him up by pointing out that he was a really *good* weapon, but for some reason that just made him kinda pissed off.
So he blew up the planet. Converted the whole thing to energy! At least he gave us time to get off first. Trent and I hid behind the sun -- it's not gonna be a star much longer, but it absorbed most of the blast that would have hit us. Blue tried to hide behind another planet, which didn't work nearly as well... fortunately, he had God on board, and she turned all the rock and energy that was about to pummel him to death into a sort of misty rain.
We picked up Sea, who was just floating there where the planet used to be, and... well, now what?
last significant session next week
So, we have god, who we retrieved from the Federation when they tried to ambush us at the mall, and we got some neat new stuff from those creepy Blacktrons, and then Blue decides that he has to go way over there right now. Way over there wasn't where Isiah wanted to go, not even close -- and Blue refused to tell us where he was going or why.
So, when where he was going turned out to be a black hole, I thought it was obvious -- someone was messing with his mind again. I told Kev'ry to switch him off before we were all swallowed up, but of course no one listened to me. It turned out that I was right, by the way!
Anyway, we all went quietly to our doom inside the black hole, only instead of doom there was this space station full of tasty fish. I thought they might be intelligent, so I dove into the water and ate a few -- no cop-fish showed up to arrest me, so they were just plain fish. Oh well.
In the center of the station was this crazy fish guy -- no, really, that's what he told us to call him -- who'd had infinite mental power and was Blue's boss. Although with infinite mental power, you're really whoever's boss you want to be. He'd activated a hidden backdoor to bring Blue to his station so he could look over Sky -- aka God -- steal our lives' stories, and offer us useless stuff in return -- I mean, his main product was information, for crying out loud. That hardly counts!
I asked him for money. Specifically, enough money to buy the ship I sort of had my eye on from time to time... yeah, it's just a freighter, but those things are really zippy once you sub in a cruiser grav drive, and have plenty of cubic meters for weapons and cargo. My favorite kind of pirate ship, much better than the teeny little fighters like Blue!
He acted like I was making a mistake just asking for money, but hey, it's more money than I've ever seen in my life. Blue just asked him where the most interesting planet in the universe was -- talk about wasting your reward.
So, crazy fish guy communed with Sky and deteremined where Sea (the devil) was, and sent us there in a big hurry since somehow the Federation was already on their way despite NOT having Sky who was supposedly the only person in the universe able to find Sea. Cheaters.
We caught up with the Federation on the way (well, a squadron of scouts, nothing big) and Blue hacked their systems to bits... Trent and I took one of them as a prize crew, and we crashed the others' drives and left them marooned. Blue asked if I was happy that I'd finally gotten to do some piracy. Eh. It's not much of a rush for the boarding party when the enemy surrenders peacefully. Don't they have any pride?
Then we met the devil, Sea. He was hiding in an old research facility, which was like the only possible place that anyone looking for him might have possibly thought to look for him -- what an idiot! He was all sad about being nothing but a weapon... I tried to cheer him up by pointing out that he was a really *good* weapon, but for some reason that just made him kinda pissed off.
So he blew up the planet. Converted the whole thing to energy! At least he gave us time to get off first. Trent and I hid behind the sun -- it's not gonna be a star much longer, but it absorbed most of the blast that would have hit us. Blue tried to hide behind another planet, which didn't work nearly as well... fortunately, he had God on board, and she turned all the rock and energy that was about to pummel him to death into a sort of misty rain.
We picked up Sea, who was just floating there where the planet used to be, and... well, now what?
last significant session next week
