Alright i'm back from work. Going to get collabing with @ihinka and @themadasshatter on one post and @ozymandias on another. 
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Need two more people for our Fantasy + Sci-fi roleplay - we have angry burning trees!
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New interest check is live, check it outttt
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If i could go back now, i wouldn't change a thing
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You've got red on you
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New roleplay: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/189457-the-eye-of-the-needle-where-fantasy-and-sci-fi-collide/ooc
Hey, I'm Catharyn! I joined the Roleplayer Guild on 2nd Feb 2011, then rejoined on the 17th Jan 2014 after Guildfall.
I was active every day until late 2015, accruing (i think) around 7k posts across dozens of roleplays. Then, I started working and had to gradually slow down my RP schedule. In 2017, I officially went on hiatus when other commitments got fully in the way of roleplaying.
This continued until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, when I suddenly realised I had a lot more free time in lockdown! So in mid-2020, I returned to the Guild with a vengeance. I also managed to get The Cradle 1x1 off the ground - a story i've had percolating for almost a decade.
My posting schedule has slowed down a bit now that the world has opened up again. I still love science fiction, fantasy and espionage themes, and generally aim for around 300 words per post.
Hey, I'm Catharyn! I joined the Roleplayer Guild on 2nd Feb 2011, then rejoined on the 17th Jan 2014 after Guildfall.
I was active every day until late 2015, accruing (i think) around 7k posts across dozens of roleplays. Then, I started working and had to gradually slow down my RP schedule. In 2017, I officially went on hiatus when other commitments got fully in the way of roleplaying.
This continued until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, when I suddenly realised I had a lot more free time in lockdown! So in mid-2020, I returned to the Guild with a vengeance. I also managed to get The Cradle 1x1 off the ground - a story i've had percolating for almost a decade.
My posting schedule has slowed down a bit now that the world has opened up again. I still love science fiction, fantasy and espionage themes, and generally aim for around 300 words per post.
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Would recommend collabing the post as thought it all took place prior to the riot, otherwise it'll be an immediate case of 'gtfo my office'
@CatharynI'm down for a collab... Just tell me when and how... I usually have the site of the guild open at the office, and can post/answer depending on workload... otherwise its at home after work hours
@ihinka@Catharyn That is probably the best way to approach our character interactions right now.
I agree with @ozymandias. It makes sense for the roleplay if the convo we have happens shortly before all hell breaks lose so @themadasshatter could you please edit that last bit please
. I'll open a Google Doc for us all the jump in and give you both a link via PM. That way the Director can assign you work and you can get to it right as shit hits the fan. 
I'm waiting @TheMadAsshatter to finish the conversation with Ogilvie and then I'll post as well.
Would you both like to collab on a post with me? What with everything kicking off on the docking pan its unlikely Director Ogilvie will have much time for a chat but we can certainly get everything moving! I've read up on the IC and i know that things will be getting pretty fast paced so the Director will reply to you @themadasshatter and then you @ihinka.
Hi, I'm finally back.
Welcome back!
Hi everyone, i'm back Gonna read through everything that happened while i was away and then start work on a collab with the relevant parties!
Gonna read through everything that happened while i was away and then start work on a collab with the relevant parties!Posted! Its a collab between myself and Ozy and we will be collabing again once everyone has posted. Things are getting real interesting. Lets hope nothing goes wrong.
Clara led Loken out of the Col-Ad building, where a group of heavily armed men and women were waiting for them. They sported combat armour and automatic weapons and took orders from Loken as if he was their commanding officer. The soldiers trooped along behind them in three lines of two.
A queue was forming at the door to the Director’s office, with people requesting to speak to Ogilvie. The agent guarding the door nodded and waved them through one at a time, telling them to keep their business short and quick. When they entered, Director Ogilvie looked up tiredly at them. Having just been confined to his office he was deep in thought but knew his duty well enough. “New arrivals? Welcome to RX, you have come at a busy time.” He said with a smile. “What can i do for you all?”
@ihinka @themadasshatter
An uncomfortable silence had developed, so Clara was well aware when some of the soldiers peeled off shortly after to deal with what looked like some new arrivals. Clara thought about saying something but there was definitely an air of urgency about the whole ordeal. Hopefully those new arrivals would take the hint and not piss these people off.
Clara took them to the vehicle pool, where the colony’s general use buggies were kept. It was essentially a large airless garage with rows and rows of different colony multi-purpose buggies, trucks and mining equipment. The place was always busy with dozens of rigs coming and going at all hours.
Clara signed out one four seater and a six seater. The four seater was for her, Loken and the two agents accompanying them and the six seater was enthusiastically accepted by the remaining soldiers to follow behind in. She clambered into the driver's seat and powered from the garage with the confidence of someone who drove one every day. After a couple of false starts the marines caught up behind.
“Doctor,” began Loken, looking from one side of the rocking transport to the other. “Can you tell me more precisely what it is you’ve located at this site?”
Clara glanced over at the agent, who luckily wasn’t staring right at her. “Well uh, the site we’ve uncovered appears to be part of an extensive set of structures under the surface of the moon. Maybe an entrance point? The materials used are millions of years old, but we’ve been able to uncover etching and patterns which our linguistics specialist is working on at the moment.
They were winding around large rocks and dips in the landscape, following a beaten track that Clara knew like the back of her hand. She glanced at Loken again. “So why are you guys here? Is it something to do with the quake we just had?”
Loken listened to the civilian while scanning the horizon around them. It was a habit he had developed in the marines, searching for targets; snipers, spotters, anything that could be watching them. “So in other words, no you can’t tell me what it is,” he said. “I can’t tell you specifically, but you’re no doubt aware by now that it is very much to do with the work you people have been doing here this last year or so.”
Great, thought Clara. A lot of talking but not much being said. Her earpiece started vibrating, she looked at her wrist unit. It was Thebes. She accepted the comm line. “Yes Thebes whats up?” She asked, seeing Loken craning to get a listen from the corner of her eye. “Ma’am, i have detected some kind of biological anomaly at the dig site you are heading to. I have dispatched the Sacred Band to your location.
The Sacred Band were a project that Thebes had been working on since he arrived on RX. With almost none of his impressive processing power occupied with his day job, Clara always marvelled at the interesting advancements the AI made on an almost daily basis. The band consisted of twelve droids, made entirely of components manufactured by Thebes himself via small fabricators in the Security Control room he had made his home. They were stripped back robots which could use colony weapons with a reasonable degree of accuracy. More astonishingly, Thebes could control all 12 of them independently.
“Is that hardly necessary?.” Clara asked.
“Better safe than sorry Ma’am. I would like to take this opportunity to ask you to recall your men and head to the safety of the colony.” Thebes replied.
Loken looked over with curiosity. He wasn’t able to hear the conversation coming through Clara’s commbead over the din of the engine and the crunching of the heavy tires over the rock, but her could hear her replies. “What’s wrong?” he asked, unsure if it was relevant to him or not.
Clara navigated onto the mountainside track that would lead them to the dig site. “I just got a report of a biological anomaly at the dig site. Thebes is sending troops as a precaution.” She tried to get Dr Gao on her PA but his device didn’t respond. Clara sped up the buggy.
After half an hour’s drive, they arrived at the Science Station. It consisted of a huddle of habitats and work units on the edge of a precipice. At the bottom of a large roughly circular pit was the excavation, with large metal gantries winding down to it.
‘A biological anomaly,’ wondered Loken. Her reply had been fairly ambiguous, but the mention of troops being sent made him smirk. Local security, or some such. He had half a section of marines with him and his own agents; a small army, by all accounts.
Loken disembarked from the transport. One of the marines got out of the vehicle behind and walked up to him. “Falcon One can stay here for now. Falcon Two I want you doing a foot recce around the perimeter of the site. No contact to report, but we’ve been caught out before. Make it happen, marine.” he said. He wasn’t expecting contact on a moon like this. The marine nodded and walked back to their transport. His team disembarked and wandered around, scanning the horizon. Some of Falcon One sat down, others slumped against the side of the buggy. It was a case of hurry up and wait for them. Loken turned back to Clara. “Lead on, Doctor Lascelles,” he said. “My team and I will escort you.”
Clara made her way down the winding ramp. It was dotted with grav-lifters fulls of supply crates. She could see no sign of her team. “This doesn’t feel right.” She whispered to Loken. “There’s no activity, we have a team of twenty down here.” She tried calling Dr Gao again, no answer.
“Do not be afraid.” A voice rumbled, seemingly from inside her head. The whole excavation shook violently. Loken tapped his commbead. “Falcon One, come in. Are you feeling tremors up there too?” he asked.
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A queue was forming at the door to the Director’s office, with people requesting to speak to Ogilvie. The agent guarding the door nodded and waved them through one at a time, telling them to keep their business short and quick. When they entered, Director Ogilvie looked up tiredly at them. Having just been confined to his office he was deep in thought but knew his duty well enough. “New arrivals? Welcome to RX, you have come at a busy time.” He said with a smile. “What can i do for you all?”
@ihinka @themadasshatter
An uncomfortable silence had developed, so Clara was well aware when some of the soldiers peeled off shortly after to deal with what looked like some new arrivals. Clara thought about saying something but there was definitely an air of urgency about the whole ordeal. Hopefully those new arrivals would take the hint and not piss these people off.
Clara took them to the vehicle pool, where the colony’s general use buggies were kept. It was essentially a large airless garage with rows and rows of different colony multi-purpose buggies, trucks and mining equipment. The place was always busy with dozens of rigs coming and going at all hours.
Clara signed out one four seater and a six seater. The four seater was for her, Loken and the two agents accompanying them and the six seater was enthusiastically accepted by the remaining soldiers to follow behind in. She clambered into the driver's seat and powered from the garage with the confidence of someone who drove one every day. After a couple of false starts the marines caught up behind.
“Doctor,” began Loken, looking from one side of the rocking transport to the other. “Can you tell me more precisely what it is you’ve located at this site?”
Clara glanced over at the agent, who luckily wasn’t staring right at her. “Well uh, the site we’ve uncovered appears to be part of an extensive set of structures under the surface of the moon. Maybe an entrance point? The materials used are millions of years old, but we’ve been able to uncover etching and patterns which our linguistics specialist is working on at the moment.
They were winding around large rocks and dips in the landscape, following a beaten track that Clara knew like the back of her hand. She glanced at Loken again. “So why are you guys here? Is it something to do with the quake we just had?”
Loken listened to the civilian while scanning the horizon around them. It was a habit he had developed in the marines, searching for targets; snipers, spotters, anything that could be watching them. “So in other words, no you can’t tell me what it is,” he said. “I can’t tell you specifically, but you’re no doubt aware by now that it is very much to do with the work you people have been doing here this last year or so.”
Great, thought Clara. A lot of talking but not much being said. Her earpiece started vibrating, she looked at her wrist unit. It was Thebes. She accepted the comm line. “Yes Thebes whats up?” She asked, seeing Loken craning to get a listen from the corner of her eye. “Ma’am, i have detected some kind of biological anomaly at the dig site you are heading to. I have dispatched the Sacred Band to your location.
The Sacred Band were a project that Thebes had been working on since he arrived on RX. With almost none of his impressive processing power occupied with his day job, Clara always marvelled at the interesting advancements the AI made on an almost daily basis. The band consisted of twelve droids, made entirely of components manufactured by Thebes himself via small fabricators in the Security Control room he had made his home. They were stripped back robots which could use colony weapons with a reasonable degree of accuracy. More astonishingly, Thebes could control all 12 of them independently.
“Is that hardly necessary?.” Clara asked.
“Better safe than sorry Ma’am. I would like to take this opportunity to ask you to recall your men and head to the safety of the colony.” Thebes replied.
Loken looked over with curiosity. He wasn’t able to hear the conversation coming through Clara’s commbead over the din of the engine and the crunching of the heavy tires over the rock, but her could hear her replies. “What’s wrong?” he asked, unsure if it was relevant to him or not.
Clara navigated onto the mountainside track that would lead them to the dig site. “I just got a report of a biological anomaly at the dig site. Thebes is sending troops as a precaution.” She tried to get Dr Gao on her PA but his device didn’t respond. Clara sped up the buggy.
After half an hour’s drive, they arrived at the Science Station. It consisted of a huddle of habitats and work units on the edge of a precipice. At the bottom of a large roughly circular pit was the excavation, with large metal gantries winding down to it.
‘A biological anomaly,’ wondered Loken. Her reply had been fairly ambiguous, but the mention of troops being sent made him smirk. Local security, or some such. He had half a section of marines with him and his own agents; a small army, by all accounts.
Loken disembarked from the transport. One of the marines got out of the vehicle behind and walked up to him. “Falcon One can stay here for now. Falcon Two I want you doing a foot recce around the perimeter of the site. No contact to report, but we’ve been caught out before. Make it happen, marine.” he said. He wasn’t expecting contact on a moon like this. The marine nodded and walked back to their transport. His team disembarked and wandered around, scanning the horizon. Some of Falcon One sat down, others slumped against the side of the buggy. It was a case of hurry up and wait for them. Loken turned back to Clara. “Lead on, Doctor Lascelles,” he said. “My team and I will escort you.”
Clara made her way down the winding ramp. It was dotted with grav-lifters fulls of supply crates. She could see no sign of her team. “This doesn’t feel right.” She whispered to Loken. “There’s no activity, we have a team of twenty down here.” She tried calling Dr Gao again, no answer.
“Do not be afraid.” A voice rumbled, seemingly from inside her head. The whole excavation shook violently. Loken tapped his commbead. “Falcon One, come in. Are you feeling tremors up there too?” he asked.
@elevation
Nice post @Silver Carrot!
There is scope in the spaceport to essentially roleplay however you want. As this a story driven adventure, don't expect to stay in the same place for long though, RX3248 is only our first step!
There's just a lot of things going on and I've lost track of what's happening where and what Dalry would notice while she's unloading cargo and what's stuff that only the important people are awake of.
Totally understandable, don't worry we can sort this
. If Dalry is helping to unload supplies from the Scythian, she will have seen some soldiers heading to the colonial administration building. She will also have seen the queues growing and growing until its basically a mass of people held back by Scythian crewmen.I'll be trying to post somewhat tomorrow or the day after that. Please bear with me. Thankfully, Nelson's interaction isn't really significant just yet
Alright cool no worries!
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