Carl Ironfist Prometheus.'s page

Seeing Tinman coming up the ramp, Carl seems happy he's here.
Carl takes him to where Romulus is working
He whispers to him

"This here is Romulus, I asked him to help me fix up them medical parts into auto medic bays or what ever they make. But he seems to be stripping the ship and I'm getting worried. Have a look and see if you can help him make them bays up, once done port-em to the town square."

then as they walk up on Romulus

"hello Romulus, this here is Hermes, he's come to help ya with them medical parts"

he then runs to the teleporter.

"Look I has to go back to town and helps out for a wile. Ill be back soon as I can"

And with a press on his arm hes gone.

Carl, don't you have to help with the rebuilding of the hospital? ;)

Romulus is taking hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of medical equipment and breaking them down for parts to be used in a clockwork and magic imbued substitute. His simultaneous genius and stupidity would be astounding from another person's viewpoint

[ooc]If your saying all he's going to do is brake the ship then not a lot Carl can do about it other then throw him off as soon as he sees how stupid Romulus is. Which will be very fast if he takes a blow touch to the Power core. I thought you where playing him as smarter then that. And this IS Carl trying to help. They and he don't have to skills to make the medical bay. SO lets see how you get on with a real brain box.[/b]

Carl gets a bit worried by what this little chap seems to be doing, he takes the Tablet that Hermes gave him and gives Tinman a call.

"Hermes ye there Tinman, I been helping out the town with medical stuff, you know them bits in the crates. Well I meet this wee chap and he thinks he has an idea to fix them up into bays like. But he's just about to take a blow Torch to the Elemental reactor. Would ya mind porting over and seeing if hes about to blow us all up, cus I am a bit worried, thanks"

Carl was getting use to the little guys chatter.
"Right a welder got ya"

She heads off and gets one, bring it back he says.

"here ya go, hope you know what your doing, Tinman will be upset if ya brake the ship, he only just fixed it after last time."

"Romulus"

In the power room Romulus looks confusedly at the generator, which just sits there... no moving gears or anything....

How does this....stuff work?

most of Carl ship is steam punk, what's in the crates is up to you you say it's high tech then it is, Carl dos not have a clue. There is more that one power unit in the power room, back up etc. most are in casest as you say, no moving parts

Carl comes on with mugs of tea,
"here ya go..Romulus. Drink that it will make ya feel better"
The tea is as strong as gravy and very sweet.

"Main power core is an elemental reactor, linked to a number of elemental planes. Then there are battery's over there a nuclear decay engen, that ones a H3 fusion core and that one over there I have no idea, some sort of clockwork life support thing, just in case all the others fail. Be honest I may have misses a few, star ship buildings not really me thing"

He kicks a think on the wall and lights come on.

"so what ya think, any thing of use in them medical box's?

"Sorry Laddy, some find teleporting upsets their insides some"

Carl dos not seem to mind about the sick, he comes back down and picking up a shovel, scoops up some sand from a can and covers it up.

"This is the hold of the Hammer-shaft me Space-mining scout ship. It's parked just outside of town at the fire-birds temporary camp site. She's here cus I help with moving the fire-birds move form where they used to live."

He go's over and hits a big red nob. A ramp starts to open down from the hold, you can see grass and light below, clean air blows in taking away the smell of sick.

"I best just get a drink, milk tea I think, settle them guts a yours"

He heads up the steps again.

Carl looks over you and your bike, then brings up his arm, on it is one of his arm bands. they look odd, hard to read what kind of devices they are. He taps it a few times.

"Its..."

There is a shifting feeling then, the town is gone and your in the hold of a ship. Well hold is a nice way to put it. Who ever designed this hold had a think for military type Bunkers. The walls are massively solid. All plating, rivets and ships systems, back up ships systems, back ups to the back up and then some more back ups just in case. There is mining kit on racks, and Can of rock. This is a work space. The only odd thing is a half eaten cake off to one side and what looks to be used party hats and streamer. Carl points to a door,

"That's the tool shop in there. and that door."

He points to another door the a a pile of boxs in the bay area.

"Power room over there, and that rack there has the Medical stuff on it"

12 boxs with a medical symbol on them sit there.

"Ill ya have a look ill got get us a drink and eat, ya like coffee?"

He heads up some steps, a sign above says flight deck, then he stops and looks round.

"buy the way never got ya name laddy. Me names Carl Ironfist of from the Prometheus clan, nice ta meet ya."

He Smiles,
"Handy thing that. Right then, well see laddy the main hospital here in town was damaged in the chaos. So the warehouse behind me is being made into a temporary one. Now I have on me ship carats of old medical stuff. Me and Arthur picked it up as part payment in a deal. Scarp I thought, but I think I have enough parts in them crates to make three full auto medical bays. Their magic is depleted so we need to find power, and some parts are broken. I need you to have a look at the parts in the crates, build the bays if you can. I have a full tool shop on the Hammershift, take what ever ya need, then once we have a pay made ill teleport it here for the medics. What ya say"

Wile you think he turns to one of the medics and emplanes what he has in mind. Then Carl looks back to you, waiting to see what you say.

"Well Laddy I have some good news and some bad news, the good news is the factory's are that way"

He points,

"and they are always looking for them with smarts like you seems to be, ya have to talk to Jiminy Sunwake. Hes the lad that runs em."

He puts his hands down

"Bad news is right now, no ones there, they came here to help. See a few hours ago this place was hell on earth. Real bad, some cutter had but a hex on the place and every one local went demon. Lot hurt and a few died."

He looks looks around

"I tell ya what laddy, I could really use ya help for a wile. Things to bring and stuff to fix here, all really urgent. How about ya give me a hand for a wile and after Ill take ya to the factory's. What ya say?"

Carl stops and looks at Romulus as he gushes out words like bullets.

When he's done Carl slowly takes his unlit cigar out of his mouth, looks over the things in the bike over then smiles and says.

"I din-nee got a word of that Laddy. How about ye say all again, but this time try breath-in between ya worlds."

Behind Carl the townsfolk are are carrying the box's into he building.

The bike begins to slow as he spots the construction work that is going on, He had been told that the city was supposed to be industrious, but the remnants of burnt building was not a good sign.

As Romulus is getting the low-down from a local Carl comes into being next to medical supply boxs. A number of medical types come over and start to carry them in to a building. Looks like some kind of treatment hall. Carl Picks up a as big as himself and carry's it past Romulus.

"Nice ride"

then is into the building, after a moment he comes back for another box.

if and when your new Steam-punk using PCs in game
Death_Keeper, Carl would really like to meet them, even get them working on his ship when its busted :)

He is steam power and clockwork mostly... Its not like nanoweave and arc reactor level, and definitely not TARDIS... I think Carl has the closest tech level...

Yes!!! steam punk

At Mel's words and the fox boys then with out a word heads out teleporting away.

Its his work, the Iron skin is modded so he can work in the just above absolute zero Vacuum of space. He's used to it, but he's slow, 10'r move and clanking around. seeing as he's now 10x the weight he was.

whispers: "O, wee cats got a broken heart then, ya think beer will help the kitty, helps us dwarfs, by the way sum imp ive been told made me into a lass, so this time am ready for the (#^(##0er"

He waves his net.

As Carl it's the cold you can see it affect him, but he seems to heal the Damage just as fast, then his body shimmers over with Iron and he's incased in his space mining suit, blocking out the cold.

"I know lad, just looking for ya, bit chilly in here, but no as cold as space like"
He clanks up to them looking down at the cold cat.
"Is he hurt?"

Carl is a miner who works in space, his built in iron skin ability works as his space suit. He dis take DMG coming in but he's got a really high healing factor

"Hes right there Mel, but he should get Ye point"
Carl says from behind them walking up.

He's male again and carrying a big net on a pole.

Carl says

Carl rushes out the WC, teleporting past any one in the way, and head to the sick rooms not caring who sees him. He stops for no one head down.

Arthur is making his way to Carl

Lad One: "Hey, even the dames need peace and quiet. Maybe the girl's room is full. You okay in there, miss?"

In a deep voice as she/he can muster Carl says

"Ne problem lads, just testing some magic, I'm a lad like thee, now be nice to a lady an rod off"

::"Arthur where the #%##€£ at Ye "::

::"I'm in a pickle Arthur some ^*##^& of *@@@&^( has gone and... Me wigglley bit a gone, and got real man boobs, I'm a LASS!!! im in the end stall and ant coming out till this is fixed, so get a working, your the smart one"::

Carl says from the stall in the mens

Carl sticks his head out of the dunny, looking around to see if Arthur
Is about. He gets on the comes

::Arthur, I needs ya fast, men's toilet, some }%#£€£#} has... Look just come it's best at show ya::

He voice seems higher than normal.

Carl feels odd for a moment but he had been drinking most of last night so put it down to a hangover starting. He picks puts his coffee down and head to the WC for a pee, not long after going in the whole canteen can hear a high pitched scream from the Gentlemans room.

The language like no other comes out the WC door.

"*#&@%*&#^ O(@*(&# @*&#*@^#@&(@*#& kill the (@#@&^(@*& (@&@(#* who I#@&@^& rip off there &^@%*@^ and make them eat them, the *&@*&@^ )*@(@@)*@& son of a ^@*@&^@(& (@&^@(@* (@&^@*&@^("

Carl stops on his way out to top up his coffee.

Carl eats the last of his breakfast and heads off to class.

As the tremor hits Carl stops eating, then slams his foot down hard on the floor, the ground around him stops moving in an instant. He then starts eating again like nothing happened.

Kiara sits at her usual table and pops open her book, before glancing around the room for any new faces or students.

Carl comes into the mess hall, he looks a sight with twigs in his hair. He heads to the toilet to clean up before coming out. Heading over to grab a plate of ham and eggs, then a whole pot of coffee, which he takes a draft from before heading to Kiaras table and taking a seat. He nods at her.

"Hello, I'm Carl, nice ta meet ya, so what's a nice Dragon like you doing in a place like this"

He says jokingly before starting to shovel eggs and ham into his mouth.

Carl wakes with a start as a small animal trys to make nest in his beard.
Looking up at the morning sky from hes back he belches, has a good stretch and gets up. He spots a small stream and bending over dips his head in the cold water. Shaking it like a dog wile standing back up.

"What a &#*#^#& lovely day, right time for som-et ta eat and a bucket o coffee and a smoke."

He reaches for a cigar but then remembers he left them on he's ship.

"Sweaty Ogres &*##&#*s, well coffee will have to do"

He starts back to the cool and the mess hall they have for an food eatin.

In the woods Carl rolls over farts and mumbles in his stumbler about large chested barmaids.

Carls

Advanced PE
History of Agartha some rock, totally bunking this class
Engineering
Mathmagics
Shape shifting control class [or smiler]
Accountancy basic Business studys

Extra Curricular Counselling: Anger management

look good?

Carls

Advanced PE
Astrogation
Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering
Mathmagics
Shape shifting control class [or smiler]
Business studys

Extra class
Astro-Geology

he could not care less about history.

Carl in the woods outside the school. Is snoring heavily on his back, he seems to have fallen off his log late last night, all around him is a number of empty beer battles.

@Monkeygod
Chill Monkey, things have moved on.

:)

Carl had dumped the p*** poor synthetic beer from that canteen once he had had a sip.

Gods what there thinking of when they made that rat p**8

He had thought wile pulling out a ships bag of holding, inside of witch was all a đwerȝaz needed for a good night in the woods.

Most of it being real đwerȝaz Ale bottles with one mouth eaten bed roll and a lump of soup.

He had slung the soup, and started on the Ale.

He was now sitting deep in thought about the horrors of synthetic beer and a nice business opportunity that may have just come his way.

Magic it came over a wee bit racist when you only said.

"synthetic beer for the dwarves"

but as LF2 now says,

"People smuggle in alcohol"

Carl would say OOC of couse

"Now ya got my attention ladee, money to be made from a wee bit of smuggling, "synthetic beer" may be not so bad if its making a market."

hummm

:-)

OK, before this starts to be a "wast of time debate",
for Lynora and others let me be clear,

"synthetic beer for the dwarves"

Errr... I would say No so many Dweorg cultural, religious and Clan levels, bit like saying the wards make everyone have synthetic sex for a Dweorg .

"At moment of consumption removal" works just as well in my book.

Carl, I think the beer in the cafe is non-alc. It just simulates it to keep the dwarves going.

It wouldn't be too big of a jump to say he has his own, though.

magic: It been established the wards work at the moment of consumption not before. So its real beer but when you drink inside the words the alcohol is removed when you try to drink it.

lot of medical and other stuff will not work it the wards just removed all alcohol, flambe-cooking for one etc.

Unbeknown to him Carl finds a log close to where Al'rqyq mn Al'kwabys was staying in the woods, he sits on it and starts drinking his 24 pack in the dark. He looks very intent on getting drunk.

Carl seeing on one in the bed rooms turns around and heads back to the canteen, garbing some ale, he then heads out of the school grounds and the words that keep him sober.

Carl gets to his room and sees if his room mate is back.

Carl looks over the Hammershafts hold, it was all fully kitted out again for mining. Also Arthur's ship was not out and in the hanger, ready for him and Tinman to work on. The left side shuttle port would mount it from now on. He pulled his whiskers, the place positively clean. There was five trash cans full of rubbish to show what had been laying about.

He stepped off the ship and closed up the hold ramp, then put this ship in standby and locked her up. He then headed off to his room on foot.

Vickory listens patiently, "Well, I should go find the main office. I have some ideas but will definitely need the library access. I'll see you later."

Vickory heads off to find the main office.

Carl nodes and gets back to work

Vickory seems more fascinated then anything else about the whole thing, "I don't think you have a temper problem. It seems to me your temper probably is just a trigger for that problem. People cant just think themselves into a raging temper like that. That is probably why those mages failed. Too many mages ignore the mundane studies, like psychology. I only the basics of psychology but I'd say your issue is only partially emotional. You showed good control just in starting it like you did, that means the problem is something else. I'll see what I can do for the symptoms though. Do you ever practice with your power?"

After getting up and wile Vickory talks Carl says little, The glow from is arm bands is still there but its seems to be fading. He starts carrying crushed things to the trash shoot, wile he dos he say.

"Nope, to much risk, I went slow there cus I knew you where close. I was thinking of how Mel nearly got killed earlier today and how we could do little to help her, that set me off"

he hammers some plating down the shoot with his bear fists, walking back he says

"after that I don't remember much, till I awoke, the arms bands cut off my mind see, out like a light, if not well I just keep growing and eating more stuff around me."

He stops and looks down, some how sad.

"When we came here, same day a ship broke up high above the town close by the school. The main chunk was heading down to mash into a manufacturing plane, 100s working there. I had to do something, to save em like, so I asked to bands to not knock me out, just for a wile, just the time I needed to stop it. They did, they let me shift all the way, they ship wreak fell into me like butter melting into hot bread. But I did nothing more than look for the next thing to eat. See when I shift I loses my mind. The bigger the Gravity elementals you are the more you become a thing of hunger. Gravity elementals will eat any thing, even eat each other. By the time I eat that ship I was a thing of hunger and nothing more. So I don't know if psychomelogy will work once I losses it, no mind to work on see. The bands stopped me pulling in whole darn planet into me. They opened a gate and pushed me right into the plane of gravity, and that should have been the end of me. They what they where made to do. Save others no me. Lucky for me Arthur a smart feller, we worked out a way to come get me before I was eaten there. owe that man me life yet again, He's pulled me from death more than once."

He looks up.

"Don't tell em I want all misty eyed about that now will ya, if he know he will not stop gabbing about it for a week."

He picks up another chunk of junk to carry to rescaling.

"Thing is when I losses it most time a don't remember a thing after. All I can do is look at the Police image recording and say "yep that was me how much to fix it""

He slames more stuff in the hopper.

Meanwhile, back on Carl's ship...

Vickory takes the gems from Carl, and as he continues, she looks thoughtful for about half a second,
"Well, wouldn't a spell to calm your emotions be better? That way you don't lose control, but you won't be obstructed if you actually need to use your powers, such as when attacked.

Of course, I can still make a gravity controlling item, but I would need to know a bit more about what exactly needs to be done. Spell matrices require more specifics then regular spellcasting. It all has to broken down into a logical design pattern. Oh and I will need amber, or something similar, for the matrix itself."

"I tried that lass, me tempers just keeps growing until, well I overcome the magic's, me dad paid some very good mages to try and, well most only got slightly hurt. I has Amber some place, you want resin or rock?"

He walks into the centrer of the hanger close to some cans.

"Ill find that is a bit, but I think you best see what I mean with me problem. Best hold on to something till me arm bands kick in"

he waits till she dos then stands still, around him the light starts to bend, and things start moving towards him. You can feel a pulling feeling as gravity sheems to shift very close to Carl. Then there is a thooop sound as an empty Can close to him flys off the ground and slames into him, it gets crushed as it dos. The pulling just gets stronger, he feel air flowing past you as it falling into where Carl stands, lost of things are flaming into him now, papers, odd tools, a table, the range going out from him, hes out of sight now in a ball of objects. Then it stops, there is a crashing sound and the objects all fall onto the ground. The rush of air to him has gone. You can see Carl out cold under the pile of crushed things. His arm bands glowing.

After a few moments he starts to move a little,

He smiles as she talks

"other plane a, I try's to keep away from them, but I will think you for the offer, if Ye don't mind I'm looking for a way to control gravity, high orders of powers stuff. Limit it kind of, and thing that can do that would help me more than ya know."

He go's over to a can and pops it open, he takes out two diamonds as big as fists.
He comes back and hands them to Vik,

"They need cutting but they are worth a coin or two, let's say that's payment up front for any research ya go on gravity nullification field maxtrixs, see that's what I'm after, some thing to replaces theses"

He clinks his arm bands.

"See when I lose me temper. Well I get worked up, theses where made to stop that, but all they do is knock me out cold like, not real useful in a fight, and there slow acting, by the time they do knock me out I has already damaged stuff, Vkory I needs something better, some thing smarter, let me control me erges and powers not just turn me and em off"

He smiles at her hopefully

"Don't tell any one about this, just between you and me if that's all right"

He places the gems in her hands.

@ Carl

"I don't know what electronic computers are. Never seen one, but spell matrices make thousands of calculations each second and can interface directly with standard spells, including illusions, which can display data much easier then some mechanical contraptions. Though I haven't encountered heavy EM fields, just the light and radio wave experiments Jenna did, so I have no idea of the capability there.”

After he brings forth some green rock, she examines one, ”I come from the world , the eastern end of the Crystal mountains on the smaller continent. You won't find many of us in that world any longer though."

fast post wile I travel

"Dwarf computers are spell matrices in part, some mecanical and some earth elemental thing, bound into them see, so if ya block the Magic they still work, Tin man added the new electronic stuff and some photonics as well so he says, light based something or other. basic idea is, it's got so many parallel systems it's near impossible to brake, brain of this ship ant smart but it's got a really thick skull."

He's carrying more cans back on to the ship,

"Sorry to earr there is only a few of ya left Vickory, I'm a space dwarf me self, from the clans, there are bloody billions of us, just look for any space rocks with rare stuff in and I'll bet ya you will find a clan working them somewhere. Mind you, We don't stay put long, the big blacks our home see, space itself, it calls to us inside"

He taps his chest
" so, keep moving is what we do. From system to system, who ever will let us mine. No idea what it's like to live a whole life on a single world. Must be odd, seeing the same sky and land all ya life. Think I would go mad if I had ta do that."

He stops puts the can he was holding down and points up.

"I feel it now calling me, up there is my home, the 10,000 suns of the empire and many more. Being down here is nice but not far long, mine you, your Crystal mountains sounds nice, good Crystal can cost."

He winks

"If ever ya want to head back to Carahadras you let me know, old Hammershaft can get most places"

Vickory looks around at everything.

"Very interesting. The styling is unlike anything I've ever seen."

Seems delighted with everything, until the computer, "You use a mechanical computer? That is some old science you are using. Though it is much larger then the ones I've seen. What is it's calculating speed?"

"I never seen a lass like you before. Where ya from Vickory!"

Sorry, the internet went out for my apartments. Probably ATT playing with the local box again.

---

Kryzbyn wrote:

To play a space opera type game, what do ya'll think is the best game system for that?

I have a system that needs testing. Fixes some things I didn't like about d20, adds some interesting factors, and still keeps about the same complexity level and the DCs and higher is better are the same. Spellcasting is more balanced. Mgic has versatility but can't produce results beyond the mundane without also having the mundane skill. (Swords do more damage, though magic can do AOEs, etc)

---

"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"
— John Milton

Answer, "Growth. Conflict drives life to improve. Without conflict, life diminishes. The difference between animals, barbarians, and civilized folk is merely the values espoused, and the rules of warfare."
-Me

no problem Vickory

Vickory looks around at everything.

"Very interesting. The styling is unlike anything I've ever seen."

Seems delighted with everything, until the computer, "You use a mechanical computer? That is some old science you are using. Though it is much larger then the ones I've seen. What is it's calculating speed?"

As Carl shows her the hold, he go's down the ramp into the hanger coming back carrying some large canisters, he's carrying a lot, for all his size he seems very very strong.

"That's there is plotoneum, of of the rearest minerals in the cosmos, whole tails can be told about that stuff, not much use for stuff but some will pay a good prise for it."

He starts staking the cans.

"If you don't mind me asking Vickory, but where do ya hail from. Not meet your kind before see, be nice to know the dos and donts "