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Here you go:
Dear (Mahz, I guess),
When you update the server, I suggest changing something with the user interface. Something simple, like the color scheme or layout (I have no idea what's simple), just to have a visual indication that the Guild has been updated and is better now. I know, I know, you'll post something at the top of the site. But working in a service industry has taught me that people never read signs. Like, ever.
Of course this isn't necessary, and I'd hope people could figure out that the Guild got updated on their own, but I think it might help our retention rate a bit.
When you update the server, I suggest changing something with the user interface. Something simple, like the color scheme or layout (I have no idea what's simple), just to have a visual indication that the Guild has been updated and is better now. I know, I know, you'll post something at the top of the site. But working in a service industry has taught me that people never read signs. Like, ever.
Of course this isn't necessary, and I'd hope people could figure out that the Guild got updated on their own, but I think it might help our retention rate a bit.
[Confirm Block A separation]
[Igniting Block B]
Okay, so the volcano wasn't that far away. It really didn't call for a suborbital hop outside the atmosphere. But damnit, the N1-L3 was a rocket, and he wanted to fly,
[Confirm Block B separation]
[Igniting Block V]
The atmosphere was mostly below him now. The N1-L3 was in space. And it was glorious. He stopped the burn and re-oriented the engines to face toward Death Mountain. The ascent stages weren't designed for atmospheric re-entry, and so he'd have to brake using the rockets rather than parachutes.
Air pressure began to rise around the downward-pointing rockets. He reactivated them, slowing his descent. Even so, the shockwave beneath the engines ionized, and a brilliant sheath of plasma surrounded the N1-L3 as it descended. Of course, it was also descending through a plume of its own rockets' smoke. Overall, it was rather like watching a fireball descend on Death Mountain. Block V ran out of fuel.
[Confirming Block V separation]
[Igniting Block G]
Much of the N1-L3's bulk had been shed now. It was mostly just a couple of engines and the LOK orbiter. As Block V tumbled down beneath the N1-L3, he couldn't help but suddenly wonder where these ejected stages were going to hit. Hopefully nothing important.
[Confirming Block G separation]
[Igniting Block D]
Block D was the last rocket motor left. It was directly attached to the LOK orbiter; without it, the orbiter was practically immobile. Block G crashed into the caldera with a molten splash. At this point, the N1-L3 had slowed down to the point that it was nearly hovering. It turned Block D's rockets off, and coasted weightlessly the last few meters into the caldera.
[Igniting Block B]
Okay, so the volcano wasn't that far away. It really didn't call for a suborbital hop outside the atmosphere. But damnit, the N1-L3 was a rocket, and he wanted to fly,
[Confirm Block B separation]
[Igniting Block V]
The atmosphere was mostly below him now. The N1-L3 was in space. And it was glorious. He stopped the burn and re-oriented the engines to face toward Death Mountain. The ascent stages weren't designed for atmospheric re-entry, and so he'd have to brake using the rockets rather than parachutes.
Air pressure began to rise around the downward-pointing rockets. He reactivated them, slowing his descent. Even so, the shockwave beneath the engines ionized, and a brilliant sheath of plasma surrounded the N1-L3 as it descended. Of course, it was also descending through a plume of its own rockets' smoke. Overall, it was rather like watching a fireball descend on Death Mountain. Block V ran out of fuel.
[Confirming Block V separation]
[Igniting Block G]
Much of the N1-L3's bulk had been shed now. It was mostly just a couple of engines and the LOK orbiter. As Block V tumbled down beneath the N1-L3, he couldn't help but suddenly wonder where these ejected stages were going to hit. Hopefully nothing important.
[Confirming Block G separation]
[Igniting Block D]
Block D was the last rocket motor left. It was directly attached to the LOK orbiter; without it, the orbiter was practically immobile. Block G crashed into the caldera with a molten splash. At this point, the N1-L3 had slowed down to the point that it was nearly hovering. It turned Block D's rockets off, and coasted weightlessly the last few meters into the caldera.
What the hell, I'll try my hand. I've got basic GIMP skills. Had anything in mind?
If someone makes a Googledoc, I'll happily add my notes to it. Until then, satisfy yourself with this.
Uh, sure. Hang on, let me compile my notes again/wait for someone else to beat me to it.
The lander's still with Team Rocket. It's just the rest of the ship that took off from back where we started.
You could go with Key and Willa, as they're the two closest to humans. Or you'd have to go with the N1-L3 and Key or Willa, because of the male/female pair.
Heck, you could argue that Taokafka qualifies, if the cat-lady in his head is out.
Heck, you could argue that Taokafka qualifies, if the cat-lady in his head is out.
"Fascinating," The N1-L3 transmitted. [b]"I do believe that we've traveled forward in time. Man, I wish that I'd had more sensors engaged to record the event. I mean, let's see, you'd have to, what, scrunch spacetime up really hard to make it seem like we're traveling really fast for a bit. Or something. But, wait, I didn't record a gravity shift. And it appears to have affected all of us... travelers. So it's both very focused and widespread. I'd say whatever did this is a good chance of being what we're looking for." It paused for a moment, computers crunching. "Although, honestly, whatever caused this event seems less powerful than whatever caused the high-definition resolution event. I mean, whatever did that affected the entire universe."
Did it actually affect all the travelers, though? What about the group that went to Death Mountain? Happily, one of the instruments provided back in the LOK orbiter was a telescope, and swinging that around revealed some people going up a path with a broken gate. The N1-L3 recognized Samus and Link, at any rate. They were making their way up a volcano, past some rolling boulders (hard to tell precisely what they were made of from this distance). It looked like they had a ways to go.
"...oh. I'm an idiot," the N1-L3 transmitted. "I'm gonna be distracted for a bit, guys. Just, you know, knock if you need me."
Presumeably the game had you go into the caldera of the volcano. The N1-L3 vaguely remembered something about a fire temple. Obviously that would be in the molten volcano center. The path to get up there would be long and annoying (inevitably there would be some part involving twisting underground pathways), but the thing was probably wide open from the sky.
And, hey.
He was a rocket.
At the last second, he realized that he'd never actually fired the block A rockets, and didn't the real-life N1's all explode spectacularly, or something? But goddamnit, he was a rocket, and he was going to launch. He started a mental countdown. Well, not so mental.
"30 секунд до пуска," the N1-L3 unintentionally transmitted. Meanwhile, it ran through a mental checklist in its head. (Fuel? Go. Flight Computer? Go. Tracking?) The LK lander rotated so its telescope could track the main rocket. (Go. Mechanical? Go. Network? Well. Sure, Go. I'm a go for launch!)
"10 секунд до пуска." the N1-L3 transmitted. "Запуск ракеты. Пять, четыре, три, два, один, пуск."
Fuel and oxidizer rushed noisily into thirty NK-15 engines. Metallic pops and bangs echoed around the rocket. With great joy, the engines lit. A massive wall of smoke rushed out from the base of the body, glowing from the incendiary fury happening at the base of the thing. Slowly, the rocket began to lift from the ground. The sound generated by the rockets was phenomenal, easily heard from a great distance. So, too, was the plume of burning incandescent burning rocket fuel visible for miles.
Did it actually affect all the travelers, though? What about the group that went to Death Mountain? Happily, one of the instruments provided back in the LOK orbiter was a telescope, and swinging that around revealed some people going up a path with a broken gate. The N1-L3 recognized Samus and Link, at any rate. They were making their way up a volcano, past some rolling boulders (hard to tell precisely what they were made of from this distance). It looked like they had a ways to go.
"...oh. I'm an idiot," the N1-L3 transmitted. "I'm gonna be distracted for a bit, guys. Just, you know, knock if you need me."
Presumeably the game had you go into the caldera of the volcano. The N1-L3 vaguely remembered something about a fire temple. Obviously that would be in the molten volcano center. The path to get up there would be long and annoying (inevitably there would be some part involving twisting underground pathways), but the thing was probably wide open from the sky.
And, hey.
He was a rocket.
At the last second, he realized that he'd never actually fired the block A rockets, and didn't the real-life N1's all explode spectacularly, or something? But goddamnit, he was a rocket, and he was going to launch. He started a mental countdown. Well, not so mental.
"30 секунд до пуска," the N1-L3 unintentionally transmitted. Meanwhile, it ran through a mental checklist in its head. (Fuel? Go. Flight Computer? Go. Tracking?) The LK lander rotated so its telescope could track the main rocket. (Go. Mechanical? Go. Network? Well. Sure, Go. I'm a go for launch!)
"10 секунд до пуска." the N1-L3 transmitted. "Запуск ракеты. Пять, четыре, три, два, один, пуск."
Fuel and oxidizer rushed noisily into thirty NK-15 engines. Metallic pops and bangs echoed around the rocket. With great joy, the engines lit. A massive wall of smoke rushed out from the base of the body, glowing from the incendiary fury happening at the base of the thing. Slowly, the rocket began to lift from the ground. The sound generated by the rockets was phenomenal, easily heard from a great distance. So, too, was the plume of burning incandescent burning rocket fuel visible for miles.
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