Spess Game #game-ic 8/7/2017

DiscoDude: **---BEGIN SESSION---**
DiscoDude: **Session logging commenced**
Kalos-GM: Last time on space nerds, <REALITY GLITCH> was found in a living lifepod floating out in space somewhere, and grossed out the party.
Kalos-GM: and that was basically it.
Kalos-GM: That was a day ago.
Kalos-GM: One radio source remains, which plays every 12 hours.
Eryn: _emerges from her rack, groggy and unkempt. Her long orange her a mess of nappy, uncombed hair._
Grendel: _pops a magical space hangover pill and goes looking for trouble_
Eryn: "Mornin' minions."
Koshy: "Hello! Good morning!" Koshy answers back, enthusiastically... While he scrubs the ceiling. "We got visitants! On board!"
Kalos-GM: There is also a new minion on board, indeed.
Reality Glitch: I'm in the docking bay applying what little medical equipment I had with me to impact fractures on the underside of my 'pod.  After my initial inspection, I was able to conclude that she was suffering from virus that downed our raided vessel or else the shell wouldn't be so weak.  My biosuit leaves my head, neck, and wings exposed while I'm crouched on my hunches patching her up.
Kalos-GM: there's no hangar bay or anything
Kalos-GM: the 'lifepod' is merely in the cargo hold
Reality Glitch: ((Then where did I come in from?))
Reality Glitch: ((Ah.  I meant that then.))
Koshy: ( I think everyone is waiting on your action, <@!Eryn> )
Eryn: "Who said you could have Visitors, Koshy? Do I need to cut back on your rations again?"
Koshy: "Noooo! They were in a escape pod! They are on the cargo bay right now, I think! Please don't cut my rations!"
Eryn: _sighs and makes her way down to the cargo bay to meet her new crew mate. "Seriously Koshy. You can't let every stray on board. What if they have some weird space disease...like space aids?"_
Reality Glitch: ((You mean SpAIDS?))
Koshy: "I am already sterilizing the ship!"
Koshy: "ˢᶜʳᵘᵇᵃ⁻ˡᵘᵇᵇᵃ⁻ᵈᵘᵇ⁻ᵈᵘᵇ" Koshy adds
Grendel: _catches a few snippits of this, and pokes his head out. "I think we were the ones with space aids, technically."_
Eryn: "You better" She narrows her eyes at koshy.
Eryn: _is a appears more or less as a human female with a light tan and green eyes. She has long orange locks that currently hang down to her shoulder in an unkempt mess._
Eryn: "So where is my new minion?"
Kalos-GM: (cargo bay- someone could tell you)
Eryn: "And please tell me someone is flying the ship towards the last signal?"
Koshy: (Also, Koshy told you he was in the cargo bay)
Kalos-GM: The ship is currently just sitting in a stable orbit
Eryn: _takes a cursory look around the cargo bay, searching for the new guy._
Kalos-GM: The cargo bay isn't terribly large- it's only one room
Kalos-GM: You can spot them with no effort doing whatever it is they are
Kalos-GM: also a space squid-mollusk-thingy
Kalos-GM: which is apparrantly an escape pod from some larger bioship
Kalos-GM: its 'mouth' open revealing a cleaner interior that's mostly setup like any escape pod- a sight Eryn is somewhat familiar with
Reality Glitch: The *first* thing Eryn see hen she opens the door to the cargo hold is a lifepod-sized nautilus-like creature with its six tenticals splayed open and a cartilaginous tounge acting as an entry ramp.
Reality Glitch: I come around from the side to enter my 'pod when I spot a very human-looking figure entering the hold; turning to greet her.  "Oh!  Hello."
Eryn: _waves hello with her prosthetic left hand. " 'Sup."_
Eryn: "My name is Eryn Zaaka. Captain of this unfortunate vessel... and you are...some manner of space vagrant, I presume?"
Reality Glitch: The green flesh of my biosuit contrasts with the purple of my scales.  I hold my wings behind me and close to back so as to not treaten via size.  "Pleasure to finally meet you Captain.  And no, I've only recently been evicted from previous residence.  Shame when pirates get ahold of bioweapons."  I crack a joking smile to accentuate the intended humor and juxtapose the lack of mouth movement accompanying my "speech".
Eryn: _arches an eyebrow. "So what. Do you need a ride home or do you want to join our merry band of misfits?"_
Koshy: (Hmmm... Getting a new job may be a good idea)
Eryn: (that feel when koshy wants to quit being your pet)
Koshy: (Ahaha)
Koshy: (Not quite what I meant)
Reality Glitch: My smile widens to start revealing the white of my teeth, but holding closed enough to not show their shape; humans tend to find pointy teeth less comforting than square teeth like there's.  "Actually, both would probably be best: let my people know I'm O.K. and maybe get my position here made official.  I was heading home for reassignment anyway."
Eryn: "Well without doing and background checks or further questions to your background and why the hell you were stranded in space, I welcome you to our crew."
Eryn: Aside to Koshy she says, "I bet we can charge boss lady more in expenses with another hire."
Koshy: "Ooooh! Good idea! You always have the best ideas!." Koshy responds to Eryn, in the same manner she talked to him.
Reality Glitch: I chuckle a little at that, revealing some of my razor-teeth in full.  "Thank you.  You're all literal lifesavers."
Eryn: "I do what I can."
Reality Glitch: "Weeeell, you weren't there at the time, but yes: thank you"
Eryn: "Lets not get into technicalities."
Eryn: "Anywho. Can you pilot a ship or do I need to go find my helmsman?
Reality Glitch: "Nah, I'm used to self-piloting vessels."  I give my 'pod a small pat as I say that.
Eryn: _sighs. "Where the hell is the cactus."_
Koshy: ( Calling <@!Pampa> to the helm )
Eryn: _shrugs, "Nevermind. Koshy. Fetch me a drink."_
Koshy: _Koshy goes off to prepare a drink to Eryn_
Koshy: "Right away!"
Koshy: !groll 12 (bartender)
DiscoDude: <@Koshy> rolled 9 (degree 3; success)
Koshy: _Koshy prepares a drink to Eryn_
Eryn: .3d6
Reality Glitch: "Cute little fellow you've got there."
Eryn: !groll 13
DiscoDude: <@Eryn> rolled 17 (degree -4; critical failure!)
Reality Glitch: "What's there story?"
Eryn: "Thanks. I won him in a high stakes card."
Kalos-GM: (what was the roll for?)
Koshy: (Fast talk, I suppose?)
Reality Glitch: I lookat her, flabbergasted.  "I didn't think there were still cultures that treated people like property."
Eryn: (No. That was for piloting)
Kalos-GM: kek
Kalos-GM: one sex
Eryn: _arches an eyebrow at her new crewmate. "Where the hell have you been for the past...forever?"_
Reality Glitch: (( <@!Kalos-GM> What?))
Koshy: (We are crashing down)
Eryn: Hrm
Eryn: (CanI luck that kalos?)
Kalos-GM: yes.
Koshy: DO IT
Eryn: !groll 13
DiscoDude: <@Eryn> rolled 8 (degree 5; success)
Eryn: !groll 13
DiscoDude: <@Eryn> rolled 7 (degree 6; success)
Koshy: omg, git lucky kid
Eryn: (We'll take that 7, thank you very much)
Kalos-GM: Eryn takes the ship down out of orbit and heads for the location mentioned-
Kalos-GM: therewill be about an hour until the destination is reached
Kalos-GM: anything you want to do in the mean time?
Reality Glitch: "Sorry, it's just that last time I was with humans, they'd outlawed that kind of thing."
Koshy: Party
Eryn: "Well after the council feel it's been the wild west out here. Honestly. I don't care much for slaves myself. Admittedly I tease Koshy a bit more than I should but nothing like what I assume his former masters did."
Eryn: "I know I'd never put 'im up for a card game atleast."
Reality Glitch: "Well, at least that's a step in the right direction."
Eryn: "Progress always comes in baby steps, I always say."
Kalos-GM: (if you like I can just skip to the location right now)
Reality Glitch: "I've seen it go in leaps and bounds once, but that was an isolated incedent."
Eryn: (So whats the new place like?)
Kalos-GM: (skipping it is then)
Reality Glitch: ((I'd prefer for the conversation to wind down naturally first.))
Koshy: _Koshy brings the drink to Eryn_
Koshy: According to the roll, it should be at least good.
Kalos-GM: After the hour has passed- the shiper computer reports, the ship is now at the target location
Reality Glitch: ((How big is Koshy?))
Kalos-GM: A look out the monitors however- and this is a stretch of coastline
Kalos-GM: (koshy is 1 pound.)
Kalos-GM: the ship still keeping itself in the air- the source of the signal was calculated to be directly under the ship, perhaps a kilometer from shore.
Kalos-GM: of course, there can be some error here of a few kilometers but the ship computer also says the error on this reading is only +/- 50 meters.
Reality Glitch: ((Pre-timeskip)) "So, little guy," I say to the small one on the captain's shoulder, "are you comfortable telling me your tale?  I'd like to hear it."
Koshy: ( <@Reality Glitch> , Koshy weights 1.2 pounds, and is 1 feet 2 inches tall )
Eryn: :/me sips on her drink and nods in satisfaction. "This here be the good stuff."
Koshy: _Koshy looks to Eryn, awaiting for approval_
Eryn: _rolls her eyes. Koshy. You know you don't need my approval for everything. I assume you go to the bathroom without my le-..Actually you ask for piss breaks too, don't you? Yes. You may tell him your tale of woe."_
Koshy: "I, along with my other siblings, were created as the perfect lab assistants. I was named 'Number 30' before my new owner changed my name to Koschey. I was one of the ones tasked with keeping everything clean and tidy, as well as providing with cooking meals and serving refreshments. Maids and buttlers, if you will, only that we also were tasked with keeping the biossafety on the lab... It just so happened that, one fateful day, I was serving refreshments while my creator was playing cards, I only saw glimpses of it, but it seemed that he lost again and again... And got angrier and angrier at first, then drunker and drunker... I was just walking away when I heard him betting me on the game, as he was desesperately trying to get his money back."
Reality Glitch: "So your life before Cpt. Zaaka wasn't actually terrible?"
Eryn: _shrugs. "huh. Never actually heard his story."_
Eryn: "Two steps forwards one step backwards, then." Eryn seems unbothered by this.
Koshy: "Uh... Well... You see... I was really the least liked of all my brothers and sisters... If anything happened, I was the one to blame..."
Reality Glitch: "Ouch.  I've seen that happen before."
Reality Glitch: My 'pod gives a deep moan that rattles some of the empty containers on the hold.  "Oh, right.  How long until we can get me home?  I've done all I can for my 'pod here, but she'll need more medical attention in a couple days."
Eryn: "Right after we investigate this last signal. Then we'll ferry you back home."
Reality Glitch: "Alright.  Any reason why this signal is so important?"
Koshy: "God. You have no idea what is down there in the planet, do you?"
Kalos-GM: (he doens't)
Kalos-GM: (he doesn't know the planet exists, eticher)
Kalos-GM: (until now, that is)
Eryn: "Just the ruins of a dead civilization. We aren't entirely sure what happened down there, but it was apocalyptic"
Reality Glitch: "This is on the edge of A.I.R. maps, part of the reason my previous vessel was out here was to expand them."
Koshy: "There are skeletons everywhere! Also, diseases! Urgh!"
Reality Glitch: "Yikes.  Why are we going planetside then?"
Eryn: "Because I need cash quick and some nerds want us to investigate them."
Grendel: "Space nerds."
Eryn: _nods. "Goddamn Space nerds."_
Reality Glitch: "Heh, aside from sending people on missions of questionable survivability, they sound like my kind of people."
Koshy: (Also, going to a piece of rock and turning it into a garden world is fucking expensive. Getting a piece of rock will already a lot of green on it is really fucking great news)
Koshy: (But apparently these ones have some caveats)
Kalos-GM: (or in this case, yellow-orange)
Koshy: _Koshy leaps off, and returns to his sterilizing duty._
Grendel: _sorta wonders if he might be able to take a look at that escape pod, with the help of Space Doctor Technology?_
Kalos-GM: ( think the escape pod was fine actually)
Grendel: (Oh! Could've sworn it was still sick somehow)
Kalos-GM: (that was his main ship? Argee clarify))
Reality Glitch: I turn to Koshy.  "Do be mindfull of the poor gal here," I pat my 'pod again, "most cleaners are as toxic to her as they are to humans."
Reality Glitch: ((The 'pod is infected, yes.))
Koshy: "Well well well! I'll try rubbing alchohol and the sort, yes, yes! It should be fine!"
Reality Glitch: ((Interesting how Eryn didn't object to being called a human.))
Eryn: (Mmm, Took that as more of a turn of phrase than anything else. Everyone on board more or less seems to have the same biology...save for koshy and cactus lady. So we all get sick and have resistences to about the same things)
Reality Glitch: ((No, before that.))
Eryn: (That and Eryn is like 70 and has probably been called human like 50 bajillion times by now. Its something you kinda stop correcting after a while)
Reality Glitch: ((Ah.))
Reality Glitch: I crawl back inside and the tounge/ramp retracts and the tentacles pull back into the shell for the time being.  ((Ready to time-skip.))
Kalos-GM: `After the hour has passed- the shiper computer reports, the ship is now at the target location
A look out the monitors however- and this is a stretch of coastline
The ship still keeping itself in the air- the source of the signal was calculated to be directly under the ship, perhaps a kilometer from shore.
Of course, there can be some error here of a few kilometers but the ship computer also says the error on this reading is only +/- 50 meters.`
Kalos-GM: the last broadcast was 4 hours ago.
Reality Glitch: "So what's your protocol for this Captain?"
Grendel: "Protocol? Have we ever had a protocol?"
Reality Glitch: "Hey!  How am I supposed to know?  I just got here."
Grendel: "Fair point."
Reality Glitch: "Anyway, Captain Zaaka; your plan?"
Koshy: "Is it underground? What if the computer messed the triangulation? Should we lift up to get a better view?"
Reality Glitch: "Hold on there y' little scamp, we don't even know how to react to the surface conditions yet."
Kalos-GM: The water isn't clean enough to visually look through, and most other sensors are befuddled by it as wel. The ship does have a sonar, though, and can dive to 1500 meters.
Eryn: "Plan? My plan is to let my horde of scientist loose on this place while Grendel and I ensure something doesn't kill them."
Koshy: "We did land there before... We had lift-off to get to you."
Kalos-GM: (radars of various sorts don't work through water)
Koshy: "Also, we got the disease from there- Speaking of which, we should cycle the airlock, not open the airlocks."
Eryn: (Question, can this ship go underwater?)
Koshy: ( Yes, down to some depth)
Kalos-GM: `>The ship does have a sonar, though, and can dive to 1500 meters.`
Eryn: "We've got environmental suits and such enough that taking a quick dip shouldn't be too terrible. Not a big deal."
Reality Glitch: "Wait, desease?"  I suddenly turn in shock at the shoulder person,  "So I could be exposed to something like what my dying 'pod has?"
Koshy: "You already got your shots, right?"
Grendel: "We have space medicine. The disease isn't all that bad. Just pop a few space asprin, and it'll fix itself."
Eryn: "Oh. Yeah. Probably. I wouldn't worry about it though. If I recall correctly the disease mgiht have been some weird low tech bioweapon. Barely even effected us."
Reality Glitch: "You're lucky my 'suit's hermeditcly sealed."
Reality Glitch: "Wait, why are you just adding 'space' in front of a bunch 21st-centry Earth words?  You've been doing it since I got here and you're just sounding like some poorly written fanfic from my youth; not very flattering of an image you're making for yourself."
Koshy: ( Evolved, recombined or selected. but not genetically modified. But, it is likely it is natural )
Koshy: "Spaaaaaaaaaaaaceeee..."
Grendel: "I'll have you know that I'm a space doctor. If my space words sound weird, it's because you didn't go to space medical school."
Kalos-GM: (these aren't earth words. the only one speaking english is Grendel... maybe)
Kalos-GM: (you certainly don't speak english yourself.)
Kalos-GM: (the real reason is because its funny.)
Reality Glitch: I visibly cringe at the doctor's words.  "AAAAHHHH!!!!  HOMESTUCK FLASHBACKS!"
Reality Glitch: ((Look at the language on my sheet.))
Kalos-GM: (just like how for the purposes of this game's 'english translation' the galactic currency is dubbed 'spacebucks')
Kalos-GM: (oh. so you do. howevery probably no one knows what 'homestuck' is.)
Eryn: "Living on a space ship does weird things to one's mind. Don't mind our memes, friend."
Koshy: "Not to prod my nose where I shouldn't, but maybe we should focus on making a decision. Also, on using suits for now on, and getting disinfected on entrance."
Kalos-GM: (so it'd be translated as literally 'stuck at home' or some such)
Kalos-GM: the airlocks will happily deal with water, by the way
Kalos-GM: down to that rated depth
Eryn: "Yeah. We're taking the ship down and using suits....I'm not sure if our new friend here wants to come with though. Might be more nasty space cooties down there."
Reality Glitch: ((I assume the translation would be robust enough to signify that It's a proper noun.))
Kalos-GM: (some work of art dubbed as such)
Kalos-GM: Eryn: if you're gonna dive the ship, roll piloting at -4
Kalos-GM: Unless you happen to have submarine skill for some reason
Reality Glitch: ((Also, nonpsionic telesend on my part.))  I give the captain a peircing glare.  "At least I can hermetically seal my suit, even at full wingspan if I need to drop from here."
Eryn: !groll 9
DiscoDude: <@Eryn> rolled 7 (degree 2; success)
Eryn: Hell yeah.
Kalos-GM: The ship lowers itself down into the water-
Kalos-GM: There's an initial jolt as the ship becomes boyant, and begins to fill a balast with water, becoming neutral soon after and sinkin a little bit-
Kalos-GM: Someone roll me sensor operation to use dat sonar.
Koshy: ( <@!Ely> ?)
Ely: !groll 11
DiscoDude: <@Ely> rolled 14 (degree -3; failure)
Koshy: ( <@!Ely> , pls mah man, you're a part of dis. )
Kalos-GM: Anyway0
Kalos-GM: Scanning around, there's a depth of just under 100 feet down to the floor, where the ocean floor is covered in various strange shapes that you'd identify as 'corals of some sort'
Kalos-GM: except there's also another structure- A large, somewhat rectangular-prism shaped, covered in much of the same corals and the like
Kalos-GM: and form it a vertical mast of some sort- almost touching one of the sides of your ship
Koshy: Seems like we found it
Eryn: "So what is this...Some sort of Sea....Lab thing? Underwater Missle silo?"
Kalos-GM: the vertical mast is pretty thin. maybe a foot in diameter or less.
Kalos-GM: underwhelming missile if that's a launch tube
Kalos-GM: The strucure in its whole is pretty large-
Kalos-GM: 30 meters long, 8 wide
Reality Glitch: I put on my best hollywood pirate accent, "Arr, that be a sailing ship."
Kalos-GM: Ely isn't doing very well to get more detail out of it.
Grendel: "What say ye we fetch us some space booty?"
Koshy: "Well, I am always up for a swim."
Eryn: "Koshy. Can you even swim?"
Koshy: "Don't you remember? I can swim in poison!"
Eryn: "I was just going to put a tether on you and drag you around."
Eryn: _shrugs. "Fair enough. Just try not to get eaten but whatever weird sea creatures they may lurk out there"_
Koshy: "Well, I do have the ability to breath underwater... *granted it is oxigenated enough*"
Koshy: "Side note... I might find confort on people going there with me... This planet is weird..."
Reality Glitch: "I'll see what I can do."
Kalos-GM: everyone suiting up to go in the water? just a couple people?
Grendel: _is putting on his flippers_
Eryn: _straps on her suit and holsters her pistol and tangler round._
Koshy: Question, <@!Kalos-GM> , is it needed to know the swimming skill, if you have amphibious?
Kalos-GM: Nope.
Reality Glitch: At my mental command, my suit pulls itseklf over my wings and head and seals off seemlessly.  "I'm ready."
Kalos-GM: is everyone's suit happily able to deal with 5 atm?
Kalos-GM: (space biosuits will do 10)
Eryn: Hmm Actually lemme check
Koshy: I have pressure support
Koshy: God. The things you can get from genetic engineering
Grendel: _assumes that, in this case, 10 is better than five?_
Kalos-GM: (yep)
Koshy: *Checking the pinned message on <#324632698863747072> *
Koshy: yeah, I'm good
Eryn: (And my hardsuit doesn't have pressure support, apparently)
Reality Glitch: ((I've got that.))
Koshy: (Is it pressurized?)
Kalos-GM: annnnnd this seems like a fair place to stop- just before everyone enters the water.
Kalos-GM: !end