DracoLunaris

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

25 pairs of eyes stare at those who had spoken slightly confused, they had commented on what The Mind had assumed to be a news item and the description of the Help wanted section as if they were options. They were considering whether said fact should be brought up or whether The Mind had read the letter entirely wrong in the first place when the rather portly and excitable engineer piped up

"Excuse me sir, or sirs. Are you or you all the captain or captains of our crew?" Fiddlesticks asked "If that's the case, then I assume you know what to do in an emergency? Let's say that we're boarded by space pirates, what do we do?"

The bees having been reading at the time only heard the ‘we're boarded by space pirates, what do we do?’ part and rapidly buzzed into action. The Mind, decided that going with his charges gut reaction would be better than trying to shout them down vanished for a few moments, the purple glow blinking on and off once. Within a second there were 25 laser pistols and tiny knife weapons that looked like a cross between a sword and a syringe were drawn from various jackets and the drinks can sized humanoids prepared for the worst. .

At this point the ever reliable Elarin chimed in with a more reasonable response but by that point the order had gone out.

”Thank you for your vote of confidence Elarin but allow me to demonstrate the appropriate response”

20 seconds after the question was asked the doors opened and 35 bees wearing military helmets, flak armor and armed with pen sized laser rifles barreled in, shouting the most terrifying war cry their little lungs and high pitched voices could muster forming a protective ring around the booth. They are followed about 10 more seconds later by 40 more in a ridiculous rope setup carrying the ship’s minigun. This is promptly plonked on the middle of the table and then maned by the carriers into a sort of turret configuration. The entire congregation then proceeded to stand ready to repel borders for about 10 more seconds before becoming confused at the lack of pirates.

where is the pirate invasion they asked anyone who would listen, last time they were attacked there were men with candy filled beards and sail ships in space, and the time before that weird beaked robots, this lot look more like your regular Henderson's Ribs patronage. Unless they are ninga pirates some began to suggest, and are currently sneaking about waiting to ambush us

Before the Bees could become either bored and wander off or scare themselves with tales of robot zombie ninja pirates from the sun or something the mind spoke once more, considerably louder and more imposing with the 100 armed bees in the area

”And that is how we respond to pirates on my ship! Good job troops, back to the transport operation with you, extra ribs tonight for everyone. No not you lot get back there you're going to be eating soon anyway”

The 75 all filed out again taking the minigun with them, the original 25 bees went back to their seat after a bit of confusion.

”Now where were we? ah yes the potential missions, so far we have one suggestion and that is the party. Oh and yes, Toony is here for when we need some more concentrated force. She is the tip of the spear, so to speak.”

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

The Bees second Vanessa’s fridge comment as some had already had a look inside and had ended up moved it to the medbay assuming it was simply in the wrong place. They apologies for the inconvenience on that bit

"Now that we are all here, I am, as you're probably aware unless I have only communicated with you viea a messaging system for the recruitment process, your Captain: Draksal the Devourer!”

The bees collectively roll their eyes at this last part.
The Bees explain that the voice is The Mind, they are The Bees and that they are very excited to go on adventures with you all

The rest of the group apart from... Tik-Tik, (the mind could probably pronounce her name, having no vocal cords to get in a twist as a result of being a disembodied voice, but her nickname was certainly faster to say/think) had ordered the waiter dispensed a fresh copy of the Space Friends Newsletter.

"Oh good, a copy that hasn’t been used by a napkin by someone. Get rid of that one someone left here and wake up Elarin, there is business to be discussed before food arrives ”

The old issue was quickly scrunched up and tossed at Elarin to try and get him to join in the discussion that was to follow as the two captain bees packed away the chess set and hovered above the newsletter to view the possible tasks.

The words shrink ray immediately attracted their attention, such a device would be very useful to… acquire and the Bees did have a small number of individuals who had rigorously read detective novels that had seen very little use. The Bees were particularly fond of parties much to the chagrin of The Mind, though free cloths sounded nice so that one was also on the swarm’s table.

"As captain I would be interested in hearing your opinions before we decide. It will be useful to get some knowledge as to how you think your skills would apply to that task, vague as their descriptions are”

Project Crossover [Video Game Crossover RP]

@Simple Unicycle We are just leaving. read the DM post there's a post order and stuff now so if you do post you have to wait for Gordon's player to go first.

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

<Snipped quote by DracoLunaris>

Could we make it that I befriend one of the bees from the hive? The bee that only knows stuff about a very specific thing, like cats, pencils, etc? Sometimes have that bee make puns based on the subject it knows? If you're not into it then don't worry about it. If you want things to go that way but it's too much trouble then I could write as that one specific bee. Just spitballing ideas.

@TwelveOf8

I wasn't going to have the bees have that much specialization in what they know about, their minds and memories are sort of muddled together like a raid array because having the one Bee that know how to use spoons die would be really unhelpful. Making friends with one is the same as making friends with all the ones of the same type. So if you want to make friends with all the engineer bees(or something) that would be pretty cool as they could be your assistants.

On the writing one yourself bit, feel free to order the bees about and write what they do so long as The Will isn't explicitly in command of them(like the ones in the restaurant are) and you can kind of assume that if your on the ship there are bees available to do whatever. This goes for everyone. Just try to stick with the third person group think style of communication, if you would be so kind.

So, your going to flirt with the vampire, and not the robot? Why not flirt with both? :P. I can understand not flirting with the spider though. Poor girl must not get much xD.

@Archmage MC

you never know someone might be really into milfs. she's probably super popular with other giant spiders tough.

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

At the table with the others were 25 small humanoids with bee wings and antennae. 2 where wearing miniature captains hats who were attempting to look as dignified as possible, 3 where dressed in with a shirt and tie and where there to do accounting for when they paid as well as to remember the new recruit’s CVs. The remaining 20 were there to make up the numbers so that they actually had a presence of a swarm rather than a few small individuals that could be ignored and where dressed in the standard red jacket of The Bees. The numbers were also important so that they could activate automatic doors or make rope teams to pull open manual ones and other size reliant tasks. The Bees were either sitting on the chair, on the table or hovering between those two groups, all but the captains buzzing excitedly at being brought along. The Will was effectively popping in and out of the group, the present bee’s antennae occasionally lighting up as it made sure they and the solos of the crew were OK before going back to managing the bulk takeout order operation currently being undertaken by the rest of the swarm. There would have been a mass riot if only the 25 at the table where to get those succulent ribs.

As it was the majority of the bees were currently engaged in a mass transport operation from the joints drive through to the ship, which was parked some way off as Elarin(very sensibly) wouldn’t let The Bees drive, using a system of ropes, pallets and those trolley things you get at airports. Imaging the massive limestone blocks being dragged to build the pyramids except instead of slaves it’s tiny bee people, instead of limestone its delicious ribs, instead of dragging it along the ground they had to contend with the uncontrollable wonky wheels on the trolleys, instead of slave drivers with whips there were angry drivers who couldn't use the drive through because of the operation shouting at them and finally that they were building a giant banquet instead of a tomb. All of this was watched in horrified fascination by the acne ridden teenagers manning the drive through. Currently things were going smoothly and casualty rates were at an acceptable level, they all knew the party they were going to throw was going to be worth it.

The Mind, having gotten the external operation into a relatively self sustaining state after much prodding and macro-management of The Bees, finally settled into the 25 just in time to watch Vanessa’s theatrics. The Bees gave her a round of applause while The Mind added ‘Show off’ to their data on her after which The bees got down to arguing about what to order.

"Everything is going well so far miss Kiyvana.”

The Bees then inform the waiter that they want Ribs coated with honey, fries with honey on the side, tomatoes, an entire lettuce, lemon sorbet, Jub Jub juice, coconuts, grubs of a scarab beetle, more honey and...

All these and more are shouted over each other in an incomprehensible mess before the mind drowns them out.

"Ignore everything the Bees just said, they will have 3 child portions of ribs, a large basket of fries, a mixed salad, a plate of Venusian sour spheres and four bowls of honey.”

The Mind had spoken and given a relatively decent order, so The Bees stopped their uproar and got back to what they were doing which was a lot of low level chatter, looking over the Space Friends Monthly(mainly a the pictures) or in the case of the two captain's hat wearing Bees a rather amateurish game of chess.

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

@Hylozoist@Hank@DracoLunaris@Valor@Sovi3t@Archmage MC@TwelveOf8 So I figured, with Elarin being the pilot, that he'd be as close to an original crew member as possible, especially given The Will's need to modify the ship, you'd want someone who had been there for most of the modifications to be flying it. If there's any issues, concerns, information that needs shared, etc. Let me know, cause I'm about to make a post, and I wanna make sure I get info right.

@DepressedSoviet

I am cool with this. Though note that its more that we have had lots of engineers that keep doing whatever they want to all the machinery and The Bees enthusiastically try and document everything, with varying degrees of success. There are probably a few very old buttons that neither of us know what they do.

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

x1 Ye old Minigun - “Big old beast, fires the traditional bullets, though maybe we can repurpose it… if i get around to it.”

@Sovi3t

the best weapon for the bees.

(and, god help me, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged if I'm not careful).

@Hylozoist

Well I know what I am watching this afternoon.

also should I try and mush our history discussion into something I can put onto my char page?

Project Crossover [Video Game Crossover RP]

Naija

Lvl: 1
Day: 1
Location: Raganival - forest
Speaking with: Gordon Freeman@Hostile, Mario/Brigan @Holy Soldier, Fox McCloud@Etherean Fire
Mentions: Luigi@Bright_Ops
Seed deployed: None
Post length: 347

Naija watched in horror as Brigan the hulking general spluttered all over Luigi while belittling him. Before she could do anything rash, like try to smash Brigan's brains out with a rock, Mario sprung into action.

“I will be right back.”

Stomping over to his brother Mario gave perhaps the first indication of why he was a hero Naija had seen, placing himself right in the way of the massive general, hammer at the ready. Naija leaped into the air into one of the nearby trees quickly singing the notes C-D-E to cast the bind song on the rock she was sitting on, towing it behind her as she ascended, ready to strike if things got ugly

“If you don’t get outta my brother’s face with your rotten breath…”

“Yeah, you leave him alone!” she called in support,

Brigan stood up in response to the plumbers bold action, much to her relief.

“Make your choices now. We don’t have all day here,”

”“You know what, I bet this Deomonlord your think is so tough is something we can handle with just four of us, heck I have probably fought more dangerous starfish than what you described””

Admittedly Naija hadn’t understood half his metaphors but those starfish where huge, shot barrages of stars, were really fast and hurt like hell when they got to close so it might have been an apt comparison. She didn’t care, she was mad and wanted to take that anger out on something that wouldn’t cause problems to the team, as picking a fight with the general would surely be disastrous.

“Fox, Gordon, Mario, come on, we’re gonna stop that demon lord from ever reaching that castle.”

She leaps away from tree to tree with great bounds, the path of her travel seen by the shaking of the trees and disturbed wild life as the rock sailed along behind her.

Then the shaking stops, turns and comes back. She reappears on another branch and, trying to maintain her composure, asks.

“Um, so where is he then?”

Interplanetary Space Friends - A Game About Space Adventures, Friendship and Fast Food

ISF Membership Form c-98bV2

Name: Swarm Species 5207B The Bees/The Will/Draksal the Devourer(nobody calls them this, not even The Bees)

Appearance: The average bee is a humanoid about the height of a refreshing beverage can with yellow and black striped skin, blond or black hair, bee wings and small antenna on their forehead wearing a red jacket over a black jumpsuit. Some of them might have different outfits so that they remember who has what specific information in them(bees with sciency stuff have lab coats, bees with engineering skills have little hard hats and overalls, tactics knowing bees in generals outfits etc.). Whenever The Will of the hive needs to intervene somewhere the antenna of the bees in the area glow purple and a voice can be heard from thin air, instructing, explaining etc.

Species Name & Description: The Bees are a psychically linked hive mind that evolved on a very small planetoid and as a result they represents their entire species. Like any self respecting hive-mind they were going to take over the galaxy until it turned out that everyone else was much, much bigger than them and unfortunately, unless I intervene, the bees aren't the most focused bunch .

Favorite Side Dish: Honey. What did you expect? Yes, they know its more of a condiment. No they don't think having honey on ribs is that weird. That squid faced guy is eating a brain with his, they point out. honey is banal in comparison they argue some what unsuccessfully. Can we just move on?

Useful Skills & Abilities: Individual bees are fairly expendable every bee is basically the same baring some of the specialist data carries and even then they have many of each set, as a result they are perfect for doing anything that is almost guaranteed to be lethal. A Lot more memory than the average lifeform though they have to find what bodies have the required memory or skill. Great at multitasking. The combination of these two makes them a good backup for most task and good assistants if someone has a proficiency in a skill. Sewing.

Membership Number:
αξορρδινγ το αλλ κνοων λαωσ οφ αωιατιον τηερε ισ νο ωαψ α βεε σηουλδ βε αβλε το φλψ ιτσ ωινγσ αρε τοο σμαλλ το γετ ιτσ φατ λιττλε βοδψ οφφ τηε γρουνδ τηε βεε οφ ξουρσε φλιεσ ανψωαψ βεξαυσε βεεσ δοντ ξαρε ωηατ ηυμανσ τηινκ ισ ιμποσσιβλε

An Inspirational Quote That Sums Up The Character's Personality: Curiosity killed the cat. Fortunately have many cats to spare / The bees wonder what this big shiny red button does

History: get off planetoid, ‘infest’ ship, become captain.

The City of Gems

@Akayaofthemoon

how about a morning-star for a weapon, name wise it works quite well, you could make the head sun themed and nobody has taken anything mace like as far as I can tell. or perhaps a chakram, Plumbata or boomarang if you want to stick with a throwing weapon.