Roll to Dodge: Sci-fi Edition! 3iff's streak continues

[3iff]

I'll give a pitiful wave to Zip...there's no way he can fix my shoulder while we're still floating about.

[Sentran]

[Jedo the Jedi]

Don't be fatalistic. I've kept you alive this long, and I'm sure mathgrant has no intention of killing you right away.

Seriously though, you guys just seem to be on a pendulum swing. We're back to some sucky rolls, but things will improve.
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[Sentran]

(to the bleedy-faced guy with a funny accent) Hey, get that bleeding under control!

Action: tear off a corner of the sheet and throw it to Reggie, willing it to fly to him.
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"Speaking of double negatives, I haven't read greylab yet today." - Lifeinmomland

[3iff]

Don't worry too much about my comments. I'm just railing against a system I have no control over...

I certainly don't expect you to be nice to me here...

[mathgrant]

[Jedo the Jedi]

Still waiting for a couple of actions. This is the first time you guys haven't submitted them promptly.
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[Elethiomel]

You said I would have no action, since I'm unconscious.

But since you insist; Action: Unconsciously rest my hand in the towel, healing the hand.

[Jedo the Jedi]

My apologies. I just count the number of bold sentences to know everybody has submitted. I forgot about that. You are an excellent participant, worthy of commendation.
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[3iff]

Action change.

Action: Drape the towel over my injured shoulder in an attempt to heal it...

[MNOWAX]

Ooops, sorry!

Action: attempt again to get that damn knife!
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MNOWAX

[MNOWAX]

bump cause my failing cause the game to go inactive apparently lol
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MNOWAX

[Jedo the Jedi]

As I was in bed last night, I thought I should get on here and explain what's happening. MNO beat me to the punch.

It's the end of the semester for me, and we are both busy. We'll have it up in a couple days.
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[Sentran]

Bump, hoping that this game has not died.
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"Speaking of double negatives, I haven't read greylab yet today." - Lifeinmomland

[MNOWAX]

I am the one that killed the game, I shall walk to the noose slowly.
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MNOWAX

[Jedo the Jedi]

It hasn't, mathgrant and I have just been lazy with the holidays.

The game hasn't been forgotten!

Edit: For the record, 3iff won't be back until January 2nd, so I'm not going to rush to have it up.
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[3iff]

I'm back...but just Wed-Fri for the whole of January, but I'll try hard not to delay things...

(still looking for a crash helmet and body armour to protect me as I walk around!)

[Jedo the Jedi]

Turn 24 Resolution:

Suddenly, a new writer appears, and the story shifts in tone somewhat, having acquired a fourth-wall-breaking introductory sentence. . .

MNOWAX: 1

Jack seethes with frustration that his knife, fondly nicknamed the Jack knife, is not in his hands and primed for killing someone. He decides to launch himself towards it one more time, but fails to notice that the crew member he crashed into spilled his coffee all over the floor, and subsequently floated to the ceiling along with everyone else. He miscalculates his movement toward the knife, face-planting into the scalding hot coffee.

“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!”

Jack has a rail gun and 4 ammo clips.

Jack’s face has a mild burn on it.


Elethomiel: 6

Dee bobs unconsciously on the ceiling unaware of everything going on around him. He can only hope the situation has improved by the time he regains consciousness...or he could, if he was conscious.

Dee is unconscious from hitting the ceiling. He will regain consciousness next turn and proceed normally with his -1 to manual dexterity.

Dee has his towel.


novice: 3

“What the f***?! Why are things so secure on this ship? Who do they think could possibly want to sabotage a colony mission?” Frustrated by all the levels of security, Zip notices the captain on the far side of the room. Thinking to launch to her and get her to input her override code, he sees Dee’s limp body in the other direction. Torn between the two (especially since the captain is somewhat bosomy), Zip decides to launch toward Dee. He miscalculates the jump, but he lands reasonably near to Dee, enough to be between Dee and the approaching, rabid crew member.

In the meantime, he shouts to the captain, “Captain, what’s the override code? I need it to end the zombie transmission!”

Zip has a Dragonslayer with 5 shotgun rounds and two grenades remaining.


Monk: 3

Reggie decides that redeeming himself by doing something more effectual than what he just did is more important than his bloody face, so he pulls out two rubber bands and gets ready to aim them at two nearby crew members’ eyes. His aim is true, successfully incapacitating both targets. Unfortunately for Reggie, the second crew member had been wearing an iPod Femto on his eyebrow. Much to the surprise of anybody living in the 21st century, but not in this one, the iPod Femto’s tiny speakers are still capable of producing very audible sound, and the rubber band grazed against the play button to start playing the crew member’s favorite music: smooth jazz. Reggie finds himself unable to move, but at least the crew member he had gotten entangled with is incapacitated now.

Reggie has a bag of 47 rubber bands.

Reggie’s face is bleeding and may become problematic if not bandaged.

Reggie is physically impaired by the smooth jazz, and cannot use his fingers until the music stops.


3iff: 2

Suzy winces at yet another injury caused aboard this crazy ship. “These sort of things never happened in the sci-fi novels I read as a kid,” she mutters to herself. Thankful she can at least do something about it this time, Suzy attempts to drape Dee’s spare towel over her shoulder to let the healing nanites do their work. Unfortunately, the towel responds to the lack of gravity in a way which makes it difficult for Suzy to properly get it on her shoulder.

Suzy has a kitchen knife and Dee’s back-up towel.

Suzy has a dislocated shoulder and will be at -1 for all appropriate actions until it is relocated.


Sentran: 1, 1

Now that he is safely secured on the floor, Tank is calmly able to assess the situation on the ceiling. He sees the different problems going on, and determines that Reggie is in need of the most help. Sentran decides to remove part of his sheet and will it to Reggie for his bleeding face. The sheet really doesn’t like the idea of being separated from itself, so it resists Tank’s ripping motion. Finally, it comes loose, becomes super heavy, and drops onto Tank’s toe before re-assimilating with itself. Tank curses himself for his stupidity whilst bemoaning his throbbing toe.

Tank has a throbbing toe and will receive a -1 to all actions involving walking for the next two turns.

Tank has an assault rifle with 200 rounds.
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[Jedo the Jedi]

It's back! New scene up, so submit your new actions and bemoan the most recent turn of events.

I put up an updated poll so we could break the tie. If it is still tied by the time I write the new scene, I will roll a die to determine the plot twist.

It. Will. Be. EPIC!
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[3iff]

I've given up bemoaning the events...at least during the strike I suffered no more injuries.

Action: Continue to attempt to drape the towel over my injured shoulder

[Sentran]

Action: Sulk quietly while waiting for someone to turn the gravity back on.
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[MNOWAX]

Action: GET THAT MOTHERF***ING KNIFE!!!
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[novice]

Hmm, things aren't looking so good for my... Friends? Yeah I suppose they must count for friends in the larger scheme of things. This reminds me of that scene in Love Actually...

[Elethiomel]

Action: Use my towel to restore full manual dexterity... if you know what I mean.

[MNOWAX]

[Jedo the Jedi]

Monk hasn't posted on the forum since December 20. I know he was dealing with some real life issues, and that may still be going on. I'll give him until Monday, then I guess I might ask Zag to proxy again.
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[Zag]

Reggie sighs, listening to the dulcet tones of Kenny G for a moment. However, knowing it's magical debilitating effects, he knows it has to stop. Since he can see that the player is clearly not a Nokia, he figures a swift kick to the electronic device will likely disable it.

Action: Kick the iPod.

[Jedo the Jedi]

Turn 25 Resolution:

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MNO: 6

“Would somebody please reverse this damn gravity problem?! A man can’t properly move through space like this. It ain’t right,” Jack yells as he tries again for the knife. He misses, and the attempt sends the knife floating across the room once more. “DAMMIT!!” Jack gathers his wits, does his best to calculate how to launch toward it, then pushes off from the wall. Unfortunately, Jack never had much of a head for geometry. His miscalculation sends him spinning past the knife and into the arms of a waiting crew member.

“Why couldn’t you be a woman,” Jack mutters disconsolately.

Jack has a rail gun and 4 ammo clips.


Elethiomel: 5-1=4

As he comes to, Dee realizes that the world is incredibly wrong. What the hell am I doing on the ceiling? Still, he is glad to see he is not in any immediate danger. Zip is nearby, preparing to shoot at the soldiers to herd them away, though Dee wonders how effective that will be. He begins to think what he should do to help out--hell, he would be happy just to be able to think straight--when he remembers that his hand still needs healing. He gingerly wraps his towel around it letting the nanites do their work. Before long, he can easily flex his hand.

“It’s go time,” he says. Did I really just say that?

Dee has his towel.


novice: 2+1=3

Zip looks around to see just how far from his target he landed, and decides it is just as well since he’s at least between the recovering Dee and the danger. He gets out his gun, switches it to “stun,” and attempts to ward off the slowly on-coming, zombified crew members. Unfortunately, it is just at that moment that the gun jams and refuses to fire. Zip looks closely at it, and realizes he didn't flip the switch to “stun” all the way. “Well, that’s odd. I guess it just didn't want to decide on its own which I setting I really intended.”

In the meantime, the captain shouts back, “It won’t work. I’ll have to get down to a terminal and input it myself. A little help would be appreciated.”

Zip has a Dragonslayer with 5 shotgun rounds and two grenades remaining.


Monk: 4

“Curse that smooth jazz for its...wonderfully...paralyzing...smoothness,” mumbles Reggie. His fingers twitch uncontrollably in the motions of playing an invisible saxophone. Why did I ever let my mother talk me into taking those lessons? That must be where this reaction came from. Since he can’t use his hands to do any real good, Reggie slowly makes his way toward the crew member. When he gets close enough, he gives the crew member’s iPod a sharp kick which sends it hurtling the the air to break against the bulkhead across the room.

Reggie has a bag of 47 rubber bands.

Reggie’s face is bleeding and may become problematic if not bandaged.


3iff: 4

“Listen here, you sodding excuse for a towel. You will work like I want you to, and you will heal my shoulder. I don’t have any more time for these ridiculous injuries,” growls Suzy. She twists her body in the air a bit to make sure she is properly positioned so gravity will cause the towel to drape her shoulder. This time, it does so, and the nanites quickly heal the wound giving it optimal use.

“Sounds like I should speak like Reggie more often.”

Suzy has a kitchen knife and Dee’s back-up towel.


Sentran: 6

“Rackin’, frackin’, rootin’, tootin’, high-falootin’, no-good, darn sheet!” yells Tank as he sulks about his throbbing toe. Unfortunately, his outburst draws the attention of a crew member floating overhead. Thankfully, there is no way for him to come down, and Tank just gives himself the beginning of a headache from his oxygen-depriving tirade.

Tank has a throbbing toe and will receive a -1 to all actions involving walking for the next turn.

Tank has an assault rifle with 200 rounds.

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“Command, this is Lieutenant Bostock. I don’t know if you can even hear me, but I’m at the breach. I’m holding it as best I can, but it seems these lizard freaks are activating some sort of special weapon. Our men have picked up a power surge from their ship, but we don’t really know what it’s for. If you guys can hear me, hold onto your butts. We’ll try to disable it if we can press forward onto their ship, but they’ll likely get a few shots off before we can get there.”

Almost immediately after the communication ends, a bright pinpoint of light begins to bloom in the Command center near Suzy. It slowly spreads further and further out until it encompasses her and a few of the nearby crew members. The light flares causing everyone in the room to shield their eyes, and when the light dies, they see Suzy and the crew members are gone.


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Suzy opens her eyes to nothing. She senses she is in a safe place, probably aboard her same ship, but she can’t see a thing. Maybe that light blinded her, or maybe it’s just dark here. Nearby, she hears some movement.
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[Jedo the Jedi]

The person dislodged from the present time was chosen with a die roll. Congratulations, 3iff. I'm sure you're ecstatic.

(I have no idea how the time difference will work. Will Suzy be able to change things, or did "whatever happen, happen"? I'll work that out as we go along, but I will be generous.)
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[MNOWAX]

Action: GET THAT MOTHERF***ING KNIFE!!! Pt 2. How many turns have I been trying to grab that knife now?
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MNOWAX

[Sentran]

"Just my luck..."
Action: Prepare to muzzle-punch any advancing crewmembers in the sternum, to get their attention.

Trust me, that never fails to get someone's attention. Brief oxygen deprivation from having your chest impacted will do that.
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"Speaking of double negatives, I haven't read greylab yet today." - Lifeinmomland

[3iff]

And there I was wondering what I would do next...and here I am, somewhere else.

Let me think...

[3iff]

Looks like I'm 6 hours in the past but Suzy is yet to discover that. Target 1: Meet myself (or maybe not?)

Action: Briefly drape the towel over my eyes just in case I'm dazzled by the bright light. Say in a quiet but commanding voice "Who's there!"


subsequent action if events move faster than my access to the internet:

Action: Check the qComp for my location, time, recent qMail. Speak into the towel "Is anybody there?"

[Zag]

Glad, at least, that none of the haberdashers in London can see him do something so... so... so very American, Reggie wipes his face on his sleeve, cleaning it of blood temporarily. He then stretches two of his larger rubber bands around his head, to hold the wound closed.

Action: First Aid on the wound, using rubber bands

[UMonk*]

Im taking a sabatical from the GL not for good but I can't find time to post here sorry guys I will be around and will post an update when I can. MNO Im sorry to abandon Top Gler but I just dont have the time.

[Elethiomel]

Best wishes, UM.

Action: Make my way to the captain and escort her to the nearest terminal, "shielding" her with my armor.

[MNOWAX]

[novice]

Action: Gape in confusion at the point where Suzy disappeared. Then make my way to the captain as well, and escort her to the nearest terminal, stunning anybody who tries stopping us.

[3iff]

Good luck UM. Hope to see you back here soon.

[Jedo the Jedi]

Turn 26 Resolution:

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MNO: 5

Before the crew member can get purchase on Jack’s clothes--or worse, his face--he sucker punches the crew member, and pushes off once more in the direction of his knife. Finally, he gets the geometry correct, and snags his knife on the way by. The trajectory sends him toward another crew member, but anticipating the collision, he throws the knife into the crew member’s shoulder. As the crew member flinches from the hit, Jack plows into him, removes the knife, and sends the crew member tumbling toward the other end of the room.

Jack takes the moment alone to breathe deeply and recover himself while he strokes his newly returned knife. Those nearby can barely make out the words “my precious” being uttered.

Jack has a knife, a rail gun and 4 ammo clips.


Elethiomel: 5
novice: 1+1=2

Dee isn’t sure what the captain needs help with, but he gathers himself anyway and launches over to her position. Zip heads in the same direction, thankfully clearing the way for the still woozy Dee. When they arrive at the captain, they help her disable the couple remaining crew members around her. After the captain gathers herself, she launches down toward the nearest terminal, and Dee and Zip follow as a sort of guard. (Well, Dee follows. Zip misses his mark and ends up close to Tank near the door.) Dee and the captain grab hold of the terminal to stabilize themselves, and Dee watches for danger while the captain inputs the code.

Dee has his towel.

Zip has a Dragonslayer with 5 shotgun rounds and two grenades remaining.


Sentran: 1

Tank continues scanning the room for threats while ignoring the pain in his toe. Out of the corner of his eye he sees somebody approaching him from the right. He swings his left fist around, but misses the incoming Zip by a wide margin. Tank pretends he was swatting at a fly, and mutters to himself, “I’m getting too old for this shit.”

Tank has a throbbing toe and will receive a -1 to all actions involving walking for the next turn.

Tank has an assault rifle with 200 rounds and a sheet.


Monk: 4

“Oy! That Jack is not right in the ol’ turnip. He loves that knife entirely too much,” Reggie muses to himself. Seeing that there is no longer an immediate threat, Reggie decides he should probably do something about the scratches on his face. “I don’t rightly know where my first aid kit wandered off to, so I guess I’ll just have to use some of these rubber bands to bind myself up.” Reggie takes out a few, holds his skin together, then loops the extra large rubber bands around his extra large head. It does seem to stifle the bleeding, and Reggie feels quite smug about his genius.

Suddenly though, Reggie begins to spasm. He has a moment of panic before he passes out. The rubber bands had collected a toxic powder on them in the store room, and it seeped into Reggie’s blood when he bound his wounds. He floats unconscious on the ceiling as the toxin fills his body.

Reggie has a bag of 44 rubber bands.

Reggie is unconscious from a blood toxin. He will regain consciousness when an antidote is found.


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3iff: 1

Unsure of why exactly she can’t see, Suzy drapes Dee’s back-up towel over her eyes as quietly as possible. When she pulls it away, nothing is changed. She hears more sounds nearby, so she says in her most commanding voice possible, “Who’s there?!” The sounds stop immediately, and while she is comforted that whatever it is is clearly afraid of her, she still wishes she knew what exactly is in this dark room with her.

Suzy has a kitchen knife and Dee’s back-up towel.


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011023891124

The captain works quickly to input her command codes. First, she removes whatever subliminal message was playing and mind-controlling her crew members, then bracing herself, she disables the anti-gravity. Everybody falls from the ceiling, and she realizes she probably should have given some warning to the others. Well, really only Jack and Reggie were affected, and Jack is an old fart. He can handle himself.

She runs over to Reggie to check on him, and realizes that he is unconscious. He doesn’t respond to her at all. She doesn’t want to lose this guy who was so motivational to her and encouraged her to save her people, even if he was a bit of a putz. “Something is wrong with Reggie. I’m going to take him to the infirmary,” she tells the others. At least she hopes there is still a functional infirmary on board. She gathers all of her strength, hoists him over her shoulder, and runs out of the room to the infirmary.
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