I should largely be back to normal posting rate now, I may miss a day or two in the next two weeks or so due to spotty internet connection at my parents' house but after that will be fully back in it.
Shujae will take notes on any security systems she can see and try to copy down a blueprint map as best she can from what they see.
"Agreed Xylian, anything important to either of you we should probably bring with, there may not be an apartment to come back to."
Happy thanksgiving.
"Well said Malik. But, best I can see turning these soldiers over to their 'opponents' would likely be seen as taking sides in this war. I think we need to look deeper, play both ends." He pauses and looks around before continuing "Show that Burrowdar is much better as an ally than a ruin for either king and that should they decide to make a ruin of it they will have a harder time at doing that than they may anticipate. If you see turning soldiers over as a warning then I can see it working, but just as a method of disposing of them, that won't do any good but to indicate that a side has been taken."
Shujae will accompany Zharis with staim to function as a touch of reassurance and security.
”Yes, there is a hesper hiding in the right engine core, they have been passive since we had an altercation with them yesterday but they may come out after seeing newcomers.”
"The Asmoth Institue is far more than just some University, they have professional research divisions historical documentarians state of the art scientific innovation an Osharian head of worship for Yaraesa as well as numerous outposts to monitor areas of scientific interest." Shujae says in a rehearsed tone back through the comm unit before continuing forward.
As she enters the washroom she takes interest in the multi-function stalls and takes down a few notes thinking even if this design may be flawed the idea could be used in a better form elsewhere.
"Thank goodness the vacuums pull was only as strong as it was. I don't know how well we would have faired if all of us were pulled into it."
Shujae will ask through the comms [/b]"Did you get a good recording of that for me to take notes from later?[/b] as she starts taking notes well its fresh in her mind regardless of their response.
"No, I don't think this was expected to happen, I don't think it was bumped, seems to graceful for that" Shujae starts.
"I think we all may be a bit outside of the "Norm" for typical spacefarers but I don't see that as a reason to change." Shujae says shrugging.
"I'll bet whatever is giggling scattered the contents of those cabinets, they have latches so it wouldn't be from normal movement." Shujae will whisper.
"VIATRIX" Augustus yells as he darts forward to her side well focusing himself. His eyes began to glow a familiar shade of white as he reaches out to touch Viatrix.
"STAIM!" Shujae shouts as the arm reaches out to pummel him when she sees it make contact a noticeable fire lights in her eyes which she puts first towards identifying the creature and then to taking sight down her pistol.
As she wracks her brain one thing keeps coming up again and again, the nanobots, this must be an assembly ooze. she calls out almost to quickly to be understood, "Its an assembly ooze, we can't flank it but we can short circuit its systems with a jolt of electricity use that if you can" She then pulls her pistol and fires
"Yeah, it looks like those "Spa" Jets are designed for creatures like our Azer friend. they shoot out real fire."
[/b]"I can see about a more in-depth scan but that would probably be best done from our ship. for the moment I'd like to see why all these tools around the engine were shifted into these patterns."[/b] as she says that Shujae will move next to the starboard engine again and look out to see if it is a hidden message she can decipher or anything she can make sense of.
after that, she will move over to the blackened port engine and look to see if she can figure out what happened to it.
"Hopefully." Shujae will say as she once again rushes to the starboard engine. and tries to diagnose the problem. Staim rushes up behind her and sets to work handing her different instruments to look at the engine.
Staim will take a step forward and take a shot at the Hesper with Shujaes Sub Zero Pistol
No complaints from the peanut gallery!
I hope this works Atticus mutters under his breath as he runs up to Kazell and closes his eyes. his hand begins to glow as he reaches down and places it over Kaz's chest where he feels his ribs knit back together.
Or Staim, considering he is probably the most expendable. not that I'd ever admit that.
Shujae hearing about the locked cabinet perks up waiting for everyone else to rest had been making her nervous, she knew there was limited time left and worried that if they didn't get going soon she wouldn't have enough time to save the engines so it was nice to have anything to do to keep busy. "Oh, I know a thing or two about locking mechanisms let me give it a try!" She called as she stood up and jogged into the stateroom.
"I think I see how this might work but working with alien technology is always hard." she says as she digs into it.
As everyone is resting stain will take the Azers body back into our ship.
both through the comms and loud enough that it looks like it is intended for the azer "This ship is going down and you don't look like a mechanic to me. I think that I can at least slow the meltdown of the engines. please allow me to help you, take me to the engines. If you won't then make sure to have a way off of the ship. It doesn't have much more than 25 minutes left." She looks to gauge the Azers reaction.
As he is passing Augustus will pick up the lead horses gate and call, "I'll catch up with you" as he takes off towards the town. once he gets there he hands off the horses to the kingsmen than called for them and then takes off back towards the farm as a canter catching up soon after the rest get there.
Shujae sees the damaged door and moves forward to take a look. she unconsciously mumbles to herself and the door as she is examining it "Somebody beat you up pretty good, huh, let's see if we can't help that"
After examining the door with her kit Shujae will address the party "It looks like the lock on these could theoretically be bypassed but honestly it might be a waste of time, they are locked up tight. If we could power down the ship temporarily it might make it a bit easier and obviously with a key card it would be a nonissue." she looks down for a moment before continuing "I'd recommend we move on for now and come back when we have another angle we can chase to get past them."
Personally I'd say Kingmaker
I love the political elements that seem to be present in Kingmaker and War for the Crown and with Wrath of the Rigorous I like the overarching plot outline and the opportunity to explore the Mythic rules.
in Vesk Shujae will murmur something to the group Vesk: "This thing appears to be a Rifti Protean. They arise from pure chaos if I am not mistaken. I believe that everything he has said so far is false as they exist for only brief periods not thousands of years and have no ability to do anything near the scale of grant wishes. This creature may well have formed if the drift engine of this ship was already damaged when it made the transfer through the portal The entropic energy could have given rise to it."
Once you get Olegs fully up and running a shady elf from that pathfinder society should show up that you can contract mercenaries from for a cost (Level^2 x 500 gold each) so you can make your whole team mercs its just expensive late game! Also, I saw that! I agree.
At Vilos increasing discomfort Shujae looks slightly worried until the burp at which she recoils and chuckles but says nothing more. when Xylian moves in Shujae's attention shifts to him. When he approaches her for a moment she looks concerned and when he reaches out to her shoulder she recoils for a moment before letting allowing the touch. Trusting Xylian she doesn't resist as the magic flows into her. "Interesting, I suppose that could make sense. I could alter one of them to transfer some power into a self-sustaining magnetic pole but it would be hard-pressed to overcome that of a star." She says and pauses thinking for a moment. "I wonder if we could siphon energy out of the heat that will be generated. ... No that wouldn't work because to do that we would need to reduce the external heat shield too much and the internal components would melt. Solar energy can't be collected fast enough for it to make an impact. I suppose we could align the self-generated field to suns natural field but then we risk the field pulling itself apart." She thinks for a moment longer then says. "It looks like we will only be in the Drift for another 30 hours or so and with this new theory I really should look to develop a plan to test it. I'm sorry I can't join you for a game though. Maybe on the way back?" and with that Shujae leaves back toward the core room with her grease.
Good luck everyone!
Shujae comes into the main room and waves quickly to the table where Sharis and Vilo are playing. she then goes into the dining area and opens the fridge which she looks around in for a good 2 minutes before the beeper in the fridge starts beeping saying that it is getting to warm. She goes back into the main area and watches the game for a while until a match is finished she lightly and awkwardly chuckles before quietly saying "I don't suppose either of you have seen my grease. I left it in a yellow Superayd bottle in the fridge after marking it "Grease" its just a cooking grease substitute for the some of Staim's gears but it needs to cool for 5 hours or so before being used"
About 70 minutes after Cabizo's message is delivered and 65 minutes after the last correspondence Shujae pulls her head out of the satellites for long enough to notice a notification on her datapad. After checking the responses she turns to Staim and hands him the datapad saying "You don't have the same trouble I do in getting absorbed into something with a one-track mind. Let me know if this gets any notifications." before going back to work looking through the mechanisms of the satellites and the ship itself a bit later she looks back and says as a bit of an afterthought "Oh would you mind seeing if you can find Vilo and Cabizo, Thank you Staim, I'd be nothing without you."
"This "misbehaving servant" how is he misbehaving, and also would most call him a servant?" Atticus will ask as he moves forward and flicks his forked tongue as if to say eating me would be more harmful than Yuzu.
”due to our thin skin all osharu have a salt intolerance, it’s kind of like an allergy but more just like dehydrating the body.” she starts and then will look to Zharis ”thank you, I just may take you up on that offer”
"I agree, May as well have those unaffected stay clear and those affected try to get into it." Atticus says as he looks to Gareth and Yuzu. "Do you want to try your hands at it, it seems fairly benign"
Good luck all!
Hmm. I'm thinking of a Seeker of Enlightenment Spiritualist who fought and died in this war in his last life. The idea being that he has the motivation to keep Burrowdar out of the war but also he is being pushed by his Phantom (the him who died in the war) to reduce the damage done by the war as a whole.
Backstory:
Jackson was born 20 days prematurely just 2 days before the Zapp Labs Accident. His parents were in the united states visiting from Canada when he was born. On the night of the Zapp Labs Accident, his family was flying home. at 7:18 PM the plane suddenly and quickly diverted course and a moment later a bolt of lightning hit the fuselage then another and Jackson was gone. He had warped onto solid ground on Whidbey Island Washington state. He was found on a street corner and brought to the police who gave him to a religious mission in Seattle named Seattle's Union Gospel Mission.
His mid youth was fairly normal as his powers did not manifest for a while after the first trigger but he always had an affinity for storms, he could feel them coming and he could sense when they would end. He wasn't adopted as he was very small and light for his age as a result of him being so premature. So he lived most of his youth in the foster and orphanage system. He looked to the military as a way out of this life he had, so the day he turned 17 He enlisted. However, he wouldn't have passed their initial physical exam except for the portion testing for latent active powers where they found he had active X-Matter in his system. Within 2 days they were testing Jackson for any source of power and asking about strange experiences. Soon they isolated it to weather-related due to his connection to rain so the next storm that hit they sent him out with experts on mutant powers and they helped him find some of his powers. seeing the potential that he held they put him into the air force where he learned to fly. He served for 8 years before leaving and going around America with the Air Forces blessing as a sort of Rainmaker during droughts and bad seasons. To aid in this they provided him a plane which he had outfitted with weapons in case the need for them arose. With his experience in the military behind him, Lightning Bug Looked for future endeavors and decided to go into crime-fighting. Recently He had begun looking for a group to help take on larger threats to freedom around the world.
Appearence:
Jackson is a fair-skinned short young man standing at 5'1" and weighing 92 lb. It's clear that his premature birth affected his growth. he has dark grey hair with a brownish tint and blue eyes. he often wears understated clothing. Super-Hero Appearence:
Lightning Bug wears a light blue 1 piece costume with a large collar and hood. it has golden yellow highlights Here's a first draft of his backstory. Is it okay if I wait on personality more than just his motivations I'm not fully sure what he feels like yet?
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