Lost in Fiction Redux SD #2

[LT_Ryguy]

New Thread. Hooray.

Here is the first thread, a modest 1345 posts:
http://forum.spacebattles.com/showth...7&page=1&pp=25

Post IC stuff here now on.

[LT_Ryguy]

Originally Posted by krinsbez

Nathan: "Can I ask you a personal question?"

Nate: "Sure."

Nathan: "Was this a one time thing, or are you going to be actively pursuing her?"

*Before Nate could respond, Vez approached the table.*

Vez: "May I "sit" with you?"

*Nate and Nathan nodded. While Vez found a comfotable position at the table and began to chow down, Nate thought for a moment, and then shook his head.*

Nate: "I'm not sure,, because of the whole three universes thing. But I'm seriously considering it."

*Vez cut in*

Vez: "I don't think it's a good idea to develop romantic entanglements with our fellow castaways. There's a reason most militaries forbid 'fraternization'."

Nathan: "I have to disagree with you there. With a mixed crew in a situation like this, you're going to have sexual tensions regardless. Look at the hubbub around Sophia, for example. Forbidding 'fraternization', as you call it, would probably make things worse." *he paused* "Mind you, I make no claims to being an expert on romance. My practical knowledge of it derives from a single date with a colleague named Dairine Callahan. It ended when her sister threatened to turn me into a piece of firewood."

[Megaguiras]

((OOC: Uhm, they've already left that planet man))

"So then Captain.. what's our next move?"

Bill had lit another cigar, puffing away at it a bit before holding out another to Ava in offering.

"We've got our services and my booze to offer at present. Got a lotta guns to but then those gungan fellas already got plenty a' those it seems. We got an inventory a' what the cydonians gave us? Might be somethin' in there to trade that don't go bang."

[Aiyel]

Aurora was very, very tense. She'd been shot at by an ally, pulled a near-suicidal stunt to rescue J'kaara, and then had to dock with the Puller with a control thruster out. She wasted no time climbing out of the cockpit. a walkaround showed there was, indeed, significant damage to the nose port RCS cluster, as well as the heat shield. Six centimeters further in, and that shell would have hit both the binary reactant tanks for the autocannon, ending her day rather messily.


She was very lucky to be alive. She was also very sore from being tense for the entire trip back. She asked Leonidas to show her second passenger to... wherever, really, just out of her hair. And she went to check on J'kaara.

"How's he doing?" She asked the medical droid.

"The patient is very badly injured. If we had a sufficient supply of bacta, I would reccomen immersion therapy, but I have done all I am able. His survival is up to him, now. You are free to sit with the patient, if you desire, though your bioscan show you are in need of rest. Do you require a sleep aid?"

"No, thank you. I was just on my way to go get cleaned up and go to bed. I just wanted to check on him."

"Very well. Return if you have need of anything."

Aurora went to her quarters, stripped out of her now quite smelly flightsuit, and had a long, hot, relaxing shower.

[Skenethor]

Kimichiri appears aboard the ship, falling through the portal, he lands on his feet and looks around at the people with the guns. "They sure do have differently designed muskets." The ninja thought. Stalking through the ship without being seen, he sees the only one who he believes might be able to give him a clue as to what he was doing here. He eyes Corporal Gomi and waits to see if there is anyone around...

[Harbinger]

Josh stumbled down the hallway, his mind now in a sort of daze which although had happened to him before he was still not used to. He knew these moments, he was reacting to whatever had been done to him at the Academy, and he hated it. His mind was working faster than what it should, but he couldn't process what was going on so he could only stumble around waiting for it to end. Part of these moments he had most trouble with was when he was around others. He could hear them, even when they weren't talking. Brief thoughts rushed through his mind. Simple sentences, emotions, rather chaotic unless he tried to focus on someone (which gave him even more trouble than it was worth afterwards).

As he tried to keep to himself, and unsuccessfully at that, he suddenly caught a glimpse of someone's thoughts that were out of the ordinary, even moreso since there was only one person in front of him and yet he had a second thought going through. Josh stopped and listened. The thoughts were confusion mainly, similar to his own, but it definately wasn't coming from the uniformed man in front of him. Focusing in on the source he pinpointed it to a nearby shadow, where there didn't appear to be anyone. Unfortunately the mind gave it away.

Leaning up against the wall, half to conceal his motion for his gun and half out of the need to lean on something Josh fingered his Colt and thumbed the hammer. A small whine sounded out, getting the attention of the officer as he pointed it to the shadow and said "Okay stealth boy, come out or I put bullets in your gorramed hiding spot."

[Skenethor]

Originally Posted by Harbinger

Leaning up against the wall, half to conceal his motion for his gun and half out of the need to lean on something Josh fingered his Colt and thumbed the hammer. A small whine sounded out, getting the attention of the officer as he pointed it to the shadow and said "Okay stealth boy, come out or I put bullets in your gorramed hiding spot."

::Kimichiri's mind raced for ideas to get out of this predicament."What are you foreigners doing so far in the mainland?" He asked Gomi and Josh? Are you Nobunaga's men? What are those muskets your wielding? Do you have the courage to face me sword to sword foreigner, or are you the Dark Lord's honorless puppet?"

Edit-He spoke this all in japanese.

[Harbinger]

Josh groaned as the unknown person spoke. It was almost complete babble, but it sounded incredibally similar to the Chinese he knew. After going over what the man had said he suddenly realized that he was speaking one of the East Asian languages, and after going over it again he remembered him mentioning something about a Nobunaga. So he was from Japan of the Earth that was.

"Look, first off I don't speak Japanese." he said in Chinese, "If you can understand Chinese, thats great. If not we're going to have some problems. So you mind telling us who you are?"

[Skenethor]

Originally Posted by Harbinger

Josh groaned as the unknown person spoke. It was almost complete babble, but it sounded incredibally similar to the Chinese he knew. After going over what the man had said he suddenly realized that he was speaking one of the East Asian languages, and after going over it again he remembered him mentioning something about a Nobunaga. So he was from Japan of the Earth that was.

"Look, first off I don't speak Japanese." he said in Chinese, "If you can understand Chinese, thats great. If not we're going to have some problems. So you mind telling us who you are?"

"Kimichirii. No chinese. French?" ::His voice calmed down.::

[Harbinger]

"Well shit." Josh sighed and was about to drudge up what French he had learned on his younger days on Ariel when Corporal Gomi spoke up.

"You are aware that I speak Japanese sir?" he asked. He was met with a sharp glare by Josh.

"Well thanks for letting me make a gorramed fool of myself." he sighed as he lowered his gun slightly, "So what did he want?"

"He asked who we were, if we were Nobunaga's men, about your...musket he called it, if you were going ot face him honorably with a sword, and if we were the Dark Lord's puppets."

...You know something?" Josh said as his mind began to cloud up again, "You cover this Corporal. I'm no good at speaking to medieval Japanese ninjas. Just make sure to mention that swords went out of style a long time ago."

[Skenethor]

"So. what manner of sorcery have you contrived to take us to the stars? Not even Sou's magic has this kind of power." The ninja sounded astounded."Truly, the gods will punish the traitor Nobunaga, who has made a pact with the christian Satan to conquer the Earth. Even the foreign Jesus is against you scum!" His voice sounded with righteous anger.

[senor_kickass]

H'ax floated down the corridor, busy mapping out the instuctions for assembling the servos of the armor he was building. He was somewhat surprised to see a human in matte black clothes skulking about, activated the recon drone's holo-shield and followed the man.

::Actions consistent with infiltrator or saboteuer.:: he concluded. ::Clothes designed for stealth action. Scans reveal primitive edged weapons. Conclusion: Monitor until he poses a threat.::

H'ax chose to drop the holofield when the man stopped to talk to Corporal Giomi and Josh. The little drone body descended to eye level and scanned the man with a very obvious beam. H'ax didn't need to do it, he already had enough sensor data to reconstruct the man's body from the ground up with a holo. He just liked to startle primitives.

It had the desired effect. The man leapt back as if he had been stung and flung a handful of shurikens at the drone. H'ax dodged with ease, and flitted around the man as he tried to attack with a sword.

Finally, bored with dodging his efforts, H'ax rose to the top of the hallway and projected a hologram of his planned body below him. The man took a few ineffectual swipes at the hologram and stopped, puzzled.

The hologram, which looked like an articulated suit of Tau Carapace Armor, yawned, a bizzarely living mannerism for a robot.

"If we're done swinging sharpened metal at each other, perhaps you would like to tell me who you are and why you're here?" The drone buzzed through a speaker unit.

[Skenethor]

"I have fought the sorcerer Sou in a battle which destroyed a village, and he sent me hurtling into a greenish purple vortex which sent into this prison, or ship, or whatever it is. I assume you must be Oda's lapdogs, no doubt with all of the foreigners. I wonder who this native man's trappings are with you."

[senor_kickass]

"You paranoia does your species credit." H'ax hissed, his contempt for humans rising again. "You are on board the Starship Lewis B. Puller, Gue'la. Doubtlessly that will mean little to you, and I doubt you will even begin to comprehend where you truly are until you have been given a few hours of basic physics lessons. Quite simply put, its a ship that travels betweenthe stars. Follow me."

H'ax led the man to one of the ship's viewports and let him take in the spectacle. His reaction was interesting. He turned a few different colors.

"By the way, I'm H'ax, an Artificial Intelligence serving Kor'vre T'au J'kaara Y'eldi. We work for no one but ourselves, not this Oda Gue'la you speak of."

[Skenethor]

"So this is really a ship that travels in the sky. That is remarkable. I can only wonder at what your firearms are capable of. They must not be the the small metal balls they used to be. Can you fire lightning with these things?" KImichirii ponders. "You must send me back or Nobunaga will be free to conquer the Earth. Only the Iga ninja can stop him!"

[MJ12 Commando]

Dalton's Quarters

"New arrival?" He asked Liu Han, looking at the pirated recon drone feed.

"Affirmative. Seems to be speaking in a dialect of Japanese. Claims to be a 'ninja'."

"I noticed that already." Whether it was the ninja aspect or the speaking Japanese aspect, or both, he didn't bother to clarify. "Anything I need to borrow from the armory?" Dalton asked.

"I suspect the man isn't carrying firearms, if that's what you mean."

"Great. I hate hard body armor with a vengeance." the Operative said, picking up a pistol and a combat knife. "So if it doesn't come to violence, I'll be standing a fair distance away as to avoid being accidentally gutted."

He headed off.

Near a Airlock
"So, really, who's the new guy?" Dalton asked in Japanese, pointing at Kimichirii.

"I am Kimichirii, ninja of the Iga clan and enemy of the sorceror Sou."

"Now I know that I'm going insane." Dalton muttered in English, under his breath. "A ninja?"

"To make a long story short, we were all transported here against our will, and currently busy getting shafted repeatedly by various types of nasties. Some human, some not." the Operative told the newcomer.

[Skenethor]

Originally Posted by MJ12 Commando

"To make a long story short, we were all transported here against our will, and currently busy getting shafted repeatedly by various types of nasties. Some human, some not." the Operative told the newcomer.

"My grandfather told me that there are people and monsters in the sky. Are these 'nasties' people of the sky or monsters?"

[MJ12 Commando]

Originally Posted by Skenethor

"My grandfather told me that there are people and monsters in the sky. Are these 'nasties' people of the sky or monsters?"

"People of the sky? I suppose if you want to put it in one way, yes. Both." Dalton replied, musing.

[Skenethor]

Originally Posted by MJ12 Commando

"People of the sky? I suppose if you want to put it in one way, yes. Both." Dalton replied, musing.

"Have you had any success with negotiating with these?" The Iga ninja was curious. "You still have diplomacy in the future don't you?"

[senor_kickass]

"Diplomacy means saying something soothing when you pull the trigger, right?" H'ax quipped. "We haven't had time to actually talk to anyone we've become enemies of, since they seem to enjoy shootig more than discussing."

[Skenethor]

Originally Posted by senor_kickass

"Diplomacy means saying something soothing when you pull the trigger, right?" H'ax quipped. "We haven't had time to actually talk to anyone we've become enemies of, since they seem to enjoy shootig more than discussing."

"So do you have any explanation of why a sorcerer would send me to the future?" The ninja aked. "It certainly appears prettier than the Under World or whatever Hell he could have sent me."

[MJ12 Commando]

"It only seems pretty until you realize that this world is a lot more lethal than the one you probably lived in." Dalton said. "There is a reason people want back to the 'good old days', where one man with the right tools couldn't kill a million people in a few minutes." Dalton sniffed.

He knew that lesson from personal experience.

[Skenethor]

Originally Posted by MJ12 Commando

"It only seems pretty until you realize that this world is a lot more lethal than the one you probably lived in." Dalton said. "There is a reason people want back to the 'good old days', where one man with the right tools couldn't kill a million people in a few minutes." Dalton sniffed.

He knew that lesson from personal experience.

"It does sound horrifying." said Kimichirii. "But unless you send me back to Earth humanity's very soul is endangered. If you can send us to the stars, surely you can send me back."

[senor_kickass]

"This is technology, not magic. If we could send ourselves back, why do you think we'd still be here? Now, if you excuse me I have a body to build."

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J'kaara was getting better, but very slowly. He was concious, could talk and move his head, but he lacked control over the rest of his body. The med droid said that his brain was still reconnecting to the rest of his body. All he could do was wait an hope. He went back to sleep.

[Skenethor]

"Is there anywhere I can go to on this thing? Yoshitsune hungers for battle and I've no one to fight."