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Post by ExoticHunter on Jan 3, 2008 19:55:01 GMT -5
Arriving next is Adorna, who also has a hammock suitable for takeoffs, landings, and sleeping. However, unlike Eet, Adorna can use a standard seat in the cockpit. Bringing with her her own personal weapons and a supply of medicines, she also asks Stone Heart for a cabin so she can stow her supplies and hang her hammock. She can ride in either location but prefers undisturbed sleep.
Adorna greets Stone Heart warmly, and politely reminds him she is telepathic and can read any thought he formulates clearly (useful for passing messages, keeping secrets, and calling for assistance).
Adorna will ride in the cockpit if Stone Heart approves of this arrangement - she likes to know what is going on and "scan" situations.
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Post by Sweet Eet on Jan 3, 2008 21:12:29 GMT -5
Eet instantly memorises the code 7ahK-mN47-0109er; she will easily enter the code telekinetically and not be stuck in her cabin! Quickly she stows her gear in the pro-offered closet and slings her hammock from the ceiling using special attachers which cause the fabric of her hammock to be strongly attracted to the material of the ceiling. Eet telekinetically sends the fur pad up, teleports up herself, and fixes the pad. Then Eet attaches a net made of strong webbing above her, so she is held in place, and readies herself for takeoff.
As she is arranging the top net she senses Adorna's arrival. "Won't she be surprised at the galley", Eet laughs to hrself.
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Post by Stone Heart on Jan 4, 2008 5:50:12 GMT -5
(I personally am confused by you guys... You know you made multiple entrance posts, yet no exit ones, right? Each day here isn't depending on days in real life.)
Stone Heart, seeing that Eet was ready, nodded, then walked out. He hit the red button on his way out the door, which closed the door behind him. It was because of the fact that there may have been objects that would have rolled out of the room, fallen out, or such as they took off. That would have been a nuisance to him, as he would have seen it on his cameras, and been forced to wonder what it was. It would also probably be a nuisance to everyone else, for various reasons.
Next on the list was Adorna, who had managed to locate him in the huge ship. "Well, you can sleep in starboard dormitory number five," he said, walking to the door on his right. He keyed in his code after revealing the console, and the door opened. The room looked the same as the one he had given Eet. They were right next door, after all. "The code for this one is... Y0no-u5TuB-E9c0m." He tapped his foot as he waited, not understanding why people wanted rooms for the few simple hours it would take to get there. He did not understand it. They would hardly even have time to sleep. They probably wouldn't even end up on the ship when they got there.
The question about sitting in the cockpit was an uneasy one. "Yes," he said in a reluctant voice, one that signalled he wasn't entirely pleased with it. "But you shall touch not a single thing within, other than the chair you shall sit in. Not unless I say otherwise." A Yautja ship was very complex. Piloting one was more than simply hitting buttons, it involved knowing what buttons to push, what levers to pull, and what switches to hit. And most of all, when to do all of it. He had to maintain the air, the fuel, the artifical gravity... Everything. While he acted like he was dumb, he was smarter than he really was. Or rather, his memory let him be smarter than he acted.
[Post made bold by user so that staff wouldn't have to.]
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Post by Sweet Eet on Jan 4, 2008 12:47:51 GMT -5
"That's three for three," Stone Heart stated. "Since you two were the only ones who actually agreed to join the mission, we can get the show on the road." He walked up the ramp into his ship, the dull lights of the room making it an eerie orange metal. There were several computers, four on each side, the only seats appearing to be benches that had been modified to be more chair-like, similar to that of a drop-ship, so that one could strap themself in. This was the main hold of the ship.
All the other doors of the room were closed and locked. He made his way toward a door behind him, on the left side of the room. He ran his finger across a certain point in the wall, and a console flipped out just above the point. He entered a code, and the door slid open. This room only had two seats, a whole load of computer, and one big window in front of it. It was the cockpit.
He sat down in the seat, then pulled on the cross-buckles. He connected them with the seat, then began flipping numerous switches, pressing many buttons, and pulling a few levers. "Alright. Everybody get in, sit down, and strap yourself in so that you don't end up being smeared across the wall when we take off. I don't plan on wasting any time until we have time to waste." (From me to you, thanks for the bold post!)
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Post by ExoticHunter on Jan 5, 2008 0:27:37 GMT -5
Getting into the spare seat in the cockpit, Adorna takes care to not touch anything. She carefully watches Stone Heart fasten his straps and does the same.
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Post by Stone Heart on Jan 5, 2008 4:37:31 GMT -5
(Eet's comments: Taken care of. No more OOC posts needed.)
After having buckled himself in using the crossbuckles, Stone Heart decided on using his one last safety device. He reached out toward the buttons, then frowned behind his helmet. He looked at his seat, realizing he had accidentally pulled it farther back. He hit a button near him, and it brought his seat forward to the appropriate distance.
He hit multiple buttons, and a plastic harness came down over his head, and was locked onto his seat. It was similar to the ones Oomans used in their amusement park rides, so that they were not sent flying. It composed of a simple strong, plastic piece that came in front of him, with only space to move his arms or his head. His actual body could not move. He hit a few more buttons, and the same harness came down on Adorna. "Watch your head," he said briefly. "I'm using these so I can make us go faster safely. Make up for the time we've lost. Besides, it's on the edge of all known space. That's quite a distance to travel."
He pulled on a grip that was in front of him in a lever-like fashion, pulling it out like a ripchord. However, it did not come out, but instead, pulled back in, and the controls of the ship slowly rose up from the floor in front of him. He gripped the handlebar-like controls, then tapped a few final buttons.
The engines roared to life as the ship seemed to start hovering, dislodging from its place in the ground. The ramp slowly closed up as it did such, leaving no access into the ship. He hit the intercom button briefly. "Eet, I hope you're ready. We're taking off in fifteen seconds." He slowly counted down after he said such. "Brace yourself, Adorna. It's about to be one wild ride."
He pushed forward on the controls, pushing forward a lever at the same time, and the ship pointed upward as its trajectory was mapped. Almost instantly, the engines roared again, and the ship was sent directly upward at a ninety degree angle. It seemed to get faster and faster as the seconds ticked by, the clouds themselves far below the ship as it was. What once seemed like oceans became little more than puddles... And the continents themselves appeared only as rocks. Once the ship his the atomosphere, he hit a few final buttons... And the ship cloaked from sight, and actually disappeared from existance for a moment.
A few minutes later, the ship reappeared in a galaxy entirely different from that of the one they were just in. "Well, the worst part's over. I hope," a rather calm Stone Heart said. He was used to that. It used to give him an adrenaline rush... But that feeling was long since gone. The only thing around them was the blackness of space. The pitch black void, the black that never ended... Apart from a few stars, spread across the galaxy.
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Post by Sweet Eet on Jan 6, 2008 14:44:35 GMT -5
Eet, upon discovering that the ship had slowed and was moving rather calmly and peacefully, extricated herself from her travelling hammock where she'd been bracing herself against the strings and teleported down. She went out into the main area of the ship, wondering if Stone Heart was going to set it on Autopilot and come out to discuss the attack strategy.
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Post by ExoticHunter on Jan 6, 2008 20:27:27 GMT -5
As the ship emerged in the destination galaxy Adorna stretched her muscles. She released to restraints holding her and arose... stretching and walking toward her cabin to check her weapons. After a thorough inspection which found nothing damaged, she returns to the main area to await further information and direction from Stone Heart.
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Post by Stone Heart on Jan 7, 2008 0:05:34 GMT -5
"No, no, don't do tha-!" Stone Heart said, then watched as the harness around Adorna's head slammed into the control panel. "Da-! Not good! Everybody, hang on and hold your breath!" Alarms went off, and a cold rush of air was sent through the ship. Why in the galaxy did it have to hit those buttons? Why couldn't it have been something that wouldn't matter?!
His dreadlocks lifted off the ground slowly as the artificial gravity turned off, then turned on the oxygen filter tank that supplied him with false air no matter what. The ship then slowly turned by the second, and was now spiralling out of control. The ship's ramp opened, and all objects were sucked toward the vaccuum of space.
He slammed his fist into the buttons that unlocked his harness, and the mechanical arms that had brought them down lifted it away. He was almost instantly pulled over the chair and into the main hold. Shortly afterwards, he was pulled outwards into space. He felt cold almost instantly, and couldn't believe he was actually getting pulled into space over something so simple.
He lifted his left arm, and a chord fired off almost instantly at a high speed. It slammed into the hull the ship, and he was pulled in at the same high speed the chord had travelled. He hit the side of the ship, and grabbed onto one of the metal handles. He then slowly used the handles to pull himself across the hull, which he was glad he had made those there. He hated the fact that he was spinning as the ship spiralled. It got him off-track many times.
As he hit the open ramp, he grabbed the metal handle on the side. He pulled himself into the ship, and the ramp slammed shut due to being pulled by him. Well, the only problem now was getting back to the cockpit. And breathing. He quickly kicked off the ceiling, which was on his side at the time, and it launched him into the cockpit. He quickly managed to sit down, then entered a code. The oxygen and artificial gravity were then turned back on, taking care of two problems.
He then began entering multiple codes, throwing the harness that Adorna had taken off out of his way. He then instantly turned on the auto-pilot, and the ship slowly stopped turning in circles. The ship stabilized after a long while, returning to a normal position. Finally, all the madness was over. Finally, they could relax.
He turned on the intercom. "Everybody to the main hold, please, and we'll discuss a plan of action for when we get to the actual planet." He walked into the main hold, breathing heavily. He moved in a spastic motion, making it so that all his joints moved. Loud cracks could be heard, and ice instantly fell to the ground. He slammed his fist into his shoulder, and huge shards of ice continued to fall. That was why he hated space. It made him get coated in ice. It didn't hurt too much, since he was immune to pain. But it still annoyed him.
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Post by Sweet Eet on Jan 9, 2008 7:11:51 GMT -5
As Eet is walking toward the main hold she receives a telepathic communication from Kei-Lin. Kei-Lin tells her he wants to join the journey and asks Eet to teleport him over. After asking Kei-Lin if he is holding any weapon or other gear he wants to bring and receiving an affirmative answer, Eet teleports him through time and space to the main hold of the ship.
Eet walks into the main hold and asks StoneHeart if he has a plan...
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Post by Kei-Lin on Jan 9, 2008 9:45:33 GMT -5
(STONE HEART - A Predator couldn't survive in outer space for more than 10 minutes. If your character was out there for 10 minutes or less, it's all right, but if he was outside more than 10 minutes and survived then it was a godmod. Also, how can there be ice in space? There isn't any water. )
As the flashes of blue light from the teleportation device slowly fade away, Kei-Lin appears in the long corridor. He looks like quite a formidable opponent, standing there with his armor and weapons recently polished, the light glinting off him in a demonic way. He let out a low, clicking growl and followed the others toward the main hold.
"Hello, Stone Heart", he said upon seeing his old friend. "Off on another hunt, I see. Well then, I guess I got here just in time"
Hello, Eet and Adorna!, he thought, remembering that they could hear his thoughts inside theirs through a telepathic method. It was convenient. He could say hello to them and to Stone Heart at the same time.
Then his wrist computer started beeping. Muttering a comment of disgust in his native language, he accessed the schematics for his wrist computer and quickly repaired the electrical fault that caused the alarm to go off at random intervals. Looking up as he snapped the side panel back into place, he said/thought "So... What is our hunting strategy?"
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Post by Stone Heart on Jan 9, 2008 14:21:07 GMT -5
(He has an air tank that he turned on. And his bio-helmet. Between that and heat mesh... And it was less than ten minutes, anyhow. The ice, if you look out a window of a ship it usually has small ice particles on it. However, that is not my reason for such. I suppose maybe I should have stated such, but the fact that he has to maintain his own ship would also involve engines and such. So, he'd end up with oil on him and his armor.)
"Hello Kei-lin," Stone Heart stated. He sat down on one of the benches in the main hold, sighing. "This is not a hunt, Kei-lin. It's a mission. Though, in all reality, it might just turn into a hunt if all goes as I think it would. Though, it won't be us hunting." He scratched the back of his head... He was still cold from that ordeal. His fingers felt nearly frozen, since all he wore over his hands were fingerless gloves. Great for acid, but not so much against space.
"But, I do have a strategy, sorta... Well, I did, anyway," he stated, trying best not to shiver. He wanted to maintain his look, so he couldn't without looking weak. "It was not definite. But now there's four of us. So now I'll need to re-think it." There was not much to it anyway. Not much they could do. They didn't know the Mothership's exact location. The Ooman bases' locations. No major geography. Just a few brief ideas.
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Post by ExoticHunter on Jan 9, 2008 16:54:55 GMT -5
Starting toward the main hold Adorna feels a burning thirst. Being constantly bathed in the thoughts of others she is aware Eet is also thirsty. Around the corner of that awareness is a faint awareness of Kei-Lin's presence, which is new...
"Hey, Kei-Lin, glad you joined us! We were about to have a strategy meeting in the main hold so you're here in good time. Eet and I are quite thirsty, and Eet brought a fne supply of "space nourishment" in tubes and I was just getting two - would you like one? I think our Captain is never thirsty!" Adorna passes thoughts directly to the members of the group at the same time.
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Post by Stone Heart on Jan 9, 2008 20:22:44 GMT -5
"I do need a drink from time to time, yes. I just never have that time. Other times, I'm just not," Stone Heart stated. He stood, then walked over toward the door to the storage. "Hold on. I'll open the door." He had never re-hid the console, so he simply typed in his code quickly, and then hit the enter key. It slid open, and he walked back into it. "All I ever carry is water and... Well, some stuff I'm sure will not be so good to have right before going on a mission," he said. He took a bottle of one of the many drinks he himself had stored, then opened up the other cabinet. "Take whatever it is you need."
He walked back into the main hold, sitting down on the bench again. He stared at the ceiling, thinking about how much he hated being in space. It was like being infinitely lost in ones own mind. As long as you were there, it never ended. You can't do anything about it other than drift... Always moving, but never going anywhere. You could go insane due to being confined to yourself. You could drown in the darkness... How I hate space.
He snapped back to reality briefly, wishing he hadn't done that. Whenever he got involved in his philosophical thoughts, he was drifting. Like space. And his thoughts were easily read by such telepathic beings. Which he hated. He now knew four telepathic beings. Two of which he already knew would always read your thoughts if you gave them the chance. He never liked having his mind read unless he was having a conversation through thought, which meant he wanted only that person to hear said thoughts. "A plan without information is not an easily made one."
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Post by Kei-Lin on Jan 9, 2008 21:23:51 GMT -5
Kei-Lin gratefully accepts the energy drink from Adorna. "Thanks", he thinks as he drinks it.
Handing the empty tube back to Adorna, he sat on a bench across from Stone Heart. "We should only attack if necessary, otherwise, we will not be as stealthy", he suggested. "Since there are four of us, perhaps we should break up into two teams - Two people on each team. We'll cover more ground that way"
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