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IC: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE.

Posted by The GuardianFor group 0
Smoke Alarm
player, 2052 posts
Minty fresh
as a Kang could be
Thu 28 Sep 2017
at 11:57
  • msg #506

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Stanley Newton:
"Well, you didn't crash the TARDIS. That is definitely a point in your favour." Stanley replies.


Smoke Alarm shuffled her sneakers, innocently...

Stanley Newton:
Stanley looks at his own familiar. "They are very useful. I am not sure I'd want one hovering around me for the rest of my life, no offence Tobias, but for a short stay in an unfamiliar place like this, they are great. You can get directions and other information just by asking them."


'I can ask my talkiphone that, and it doesn't try to clean me up.' Smoke Alarm concluded, still not at all convinced of the usefulness or benevolence of cleaners.

The Traveller:
"DOCTOR Newton. I will tell you the same thing I told Malakai of Atlantis and Gooseberry - if you don't like how I drive, you can go outside and push."


'But we might have to.' she pointed out teasingly.

The Traveller:
"You don't want to be a Time Lord, sweet. The job description calls for much sadness, and you're one of my happinesses. Further, being a Blue Kang seems to be a full time job!"


Smoke beamed. 'I get so much done as a Kang anyhow!'
The Traveller
player, 2157 posts
Change your view,yourself
Blue and living it
Thu 28 Sep 2017
at 15:05
  • msg #507

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

"Where is Sairen, by the by? I need to have some quick words with him before we go."
Stanley Newton
player, 758 posts
Fri 29 Sep 2017
at 00:01
  • msg #508

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Smoke Alarm:
'I can ask my talkiphone that, and it doesn't try to clean me up.' Smoke Alarm concluded, still not at all convinced of the usefulness or benevolence of cleaners.


"Now that you mention it, I guess phones can already do much of what the familiars can."

Smoke Alarm:
'But we might have to.' she pointed out teasingly.


Stanley tries his best not laugh too hard.
The Guardian
GM, 2391 posts
Fri 29 Sep 2017
at 04:29
  • msg #509

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Stanley Newton:
"Now that you mention it, I guess phones can already do much of what the familiars can."

"...I am certain you must be correct, sir."

Stanley may have never really imagined what it looks like for someone to hover in quietly affronted dignity, but Tobias is making a bold essay of it.
The Guardian
GM, 2392 posts
Fri 29 Sep 2017
at 04:35
  • msg #510

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

The Traveller:
"Where is Sairen, by the by? I need to have some quick words with him before we go."

As if to speak of the devil is to make him appear, Trav notices the young man himself sauntering by some ways off, either arm draped across the shoulders of a pretty violet-skinned  woman and a pretty, elfin-eared and pale-skinned man, talking in animated fashion with each.
The Traveller
player, 2158 posts
Change your view,yourself
Blue and living it
Fri 29 Sep 2017
at 05:06
  • msg #511

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

More memories flood in. Oh, this one even flirts like she did.

She smiles as she saunters up behind him, and purrs, "Sweet."

"I'm sorry to interrupt your style. But we have some business. Ladies, I apologize, but I need something acquired, and only a great thief can do it."
The Guardian
GM, 2393 posts
Fri 29 Sep 2017
at 11:29
  • msg #512

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Sairen's companions disengage from him with some reluctance.  The young man with him gives Trav a wounded look that as much as says we saw him first! while the woman's reaction is more appraising, as she gives Trav a once-over and comments, dryly, "I'll just bet."

Sairen smiles at each of them in turn.  "Why don't the two of you go on ahead?  I'll catch you up.  Or, of course, you could always start without me."

When the two of them have moved off out of earshot (with more than one wistful glance back) he folds his arms and falls into an insouciant stance.  "And what would make you need the assistance of a has-been like myself?"
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:30, Sun 01 Oct 2017.
The Traveller
player, 2159 posts
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Blue and living it
Sun 1 Oct 2017
at 16:30
  • msg #513

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

"You never change, do you." She shakes her head, smiling.

"First, I need to meet this Ms Kismet, the person who put you up to all of this. I need to get her involvement in this straightened out."

"Then, after that, sweet, I'll give you an offer. You see, you left me something, but that was back when you were a different person. I want to give you a choice that I was never given."

"Ever steal from the greatest thief in all of time and space... yourself?"
The Guardian
GM, 2394 posts
Sun 1 Oct 2017
at 18:04
  • msg #514

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Sairen frowns.

"Explaining how this job went sideways to Ms. Kismet was going to take some doing, so I'm more than happy for you to explain it to her," he says.  "But for the rest of it -- what in the nine billion names of Om are you on about?  Different person?  Stealing from myself?"
The Traveller
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Sun 1 Oct 2017
at 21:51
  • msg #515

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

"Lead me to Ms Kismet, and I will answer some of your questions. You see, no matter who you were, you are you now. That you has as much right to be here as any living person. Sairen the Recently-Caught has as much right to be as anyone else does."
The Guardian
GM, 2395 posts
Sun 1 Oct 2017
at 23:37
  • msg #516

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

"Well, that can certainly happen, if you've got temporal transport.  I've got an assigned delivery window for when I was supposed to deliver the Death, at her offices in the headquarters of the Trust."

He glances back through the crowd where his companions have, by now, disappeared.  The look on his face when he turns back to Trav is remarkably mournful.

"Oh, and I'm going to need to drop myself a note explaining when and how I should steal the Map of Forever.  Things could get sticky if we don't close that loop."
The Traveller
player, 2161 posts
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Blue and living it
Mon 2 Oct 2017
at 17:24
  • msg #517

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

"Come on board. And no walking off with stuff, please, on my ship. This is all I have. If you want to borrow something, please ask. I trust you'll be a good guest."

Corsi had a bad habit of raiding her wardrobe, especially the shoe collection and the gun cabinets. But she reminded herself that this man was not the Corsair in the same way that Louise Simons was not the Traveller.

"Do you have a communications device? Please let me see it?"

If he does and hands her over one, she pulls out a piece, sonics the device, sticks in a piece from her bag, sonics it again, and hands it back to him, giving him a superphone (OOC - 1 SP for Resourceful Pockets)

"Send yourself an email."
The Guardian
GM, 2396 posts
Tue 3 Oct 2017
at 02:10
  • msg #518

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

The Traveller:
"Come on board. And no walking off with stuff, please, on my ship. This is all I have. If you want to borrow something, please ask. I trust you'll be a good guest."

"As if I would!  Stealing stuff out of a ship is so inelegant when it means you'd be leaving the rest of the stuff and, of course, the ship itself behind."

(He gives a broad wink and a grin, the kind that's meant to indicate that what one has just said is so patently outrageous as to be completely without serious intent.  Except that Trav recalls that being one of the Corsair's favorite ways to lie.)

quote:
"Send yourself an email."

"Sure, I'll just forward the mail I got with the information back to myself."
Stanley Newton
player, 760 posts
Thu 5 Oct 2017
at 21:31
  • msg #519

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

It looks like it is time to get back in the TARDIS and leave the Habisphere. That means it is also time to say goodbye to his familiar.

"Hey Tobias, I need to go now. I know it is your job, but thank you for showing me around the Habisphere. Take care of yourself. Keep your virus-scanners up to date, if that is a thing."
The Guardian
GM, 2399 posts
Fri 6 Oct 2017
at 01:22
  • msg #520

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Stanley Newton:
"Hey Tobias, I need to go now. I know it is your job, but thank you for showing me around the Habisphere. Take care of yourself. Keep your virus-scanners up to date, if that is a thing."

The drone bobs with apparent pleasure.

"Every familiar aspires to assist an appreciative visitor, Doctor Newton.  Facilitating your visit has been a most satisfactory task."
Smoke Alarm
player, 2053 posts
Minty fresh
as a Kang could be
Fri 6 Oct 2017
at 06:16
  • msg #521

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

While Traveller got talky with Sairen the Catchable, Smoke Alarm footed about saying build-high-for-happinesses to the friends she'd made on the Habisphere: Phelba and D'jon-jon, quite warmly; Sando, with shy and uncertain giggling; and the familiar she'd forgotten about, begrudgingly. She also farewelled the Calixi can, with knowhow that the unalive were rememorised still and all-ways, some way and some how, in the can and inside her and everyone. She specially farewelled the unalive hover-blade racer who'd rememorised with her, a piece of them lost-and-found in her mind.

She skipped back to Traveller, wondering of Sairen, 'Is he coming with now?' still 'waring the shoplifter they'd been chasing.
The Traveller
player, 2163 posts
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Blue and living it
Fri 6 Oct 2017
at 14:39
  • msg #522

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

"I don't know, quite rightly. We also have the Warpsmiths of Phaidon to deal with. That's another bunch of people who I changed hair color to get information on - that book we originally went to Khestartes Delta to find."

Trav looks at Sando in the distance. "I'm becoming more enamored of filling my timeship with sexy men.  But then I'd be accused of trying to structure my life to resemble a harem anime."
This message was last edited by the player at 14:44, Fri 06 Oct 2017.
The Traveller
player, 2165 posts
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Fri 6 Oct 2017
at 14:47
  • msg #523

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

The Guardian:
The Traveller:
"Come on board. And no walking off with stuff, please, on my ship. This is all I have. If you want to borrow something, please ask. I trust you'll be a good guest."

"As if I would!  Stealing stuff out of a ship is so inelegant when it means you'd be leaving the rest of the stuff and, of course, the ship itself behind."

(He gives a broad wink and a grin, the kind that's meant to indicate that what one has just said is so patently outrageous as to be completely without serious intent.  Except that Trav recalls that being one of the Corsair's favorite ways to lie.)


Trav bites her lip. The Corsair has stolen Sweet Boy before. "I just took the lad on a short jaunt," she said.

That is where "lad" came from. She grins to herself.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:47, Fri 06 Oct 2017.
The Guardian
GM, 2401 posts
Sun 8 Oct 2017
at 03:19
  • msg #524

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Sairen has been working at his comm for a bit now, and finally sends a message back to Trav.

"This is a list of the Trust's 'offices'," he tells her.  "Ms. Kismet positioned her major centers of operations along a series of times and places through Earth's history, where she would be well placed to take advantage of local... opportunities."

  • Venice, 15th Century
  • Mexico City, Viceroyalty of New Spain, 17th Century
  • New Orleans, mid-19th Century
  • Hong Kong, late 19th Century
  • New York City, mid-20th Century
  • London, early 21st Century
  • Victory Station, Earth Orbit, 23rd Century

"She's expecting delivery at Renaissance Station, but I doubt we would miss her no matter when we came to call."
Smoke Alarm
player, 2056 posts
Blue Kangs are,
of course, best.
Mon 9 Oct 2017
at 06:34
  • msg #525

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Traveller's outlook on the picturespout was blocked, as was common, by Smoke Alarm's blue-hairy head. She eagerly scanned the list with customary lack of comprehension. 'What are these places? Towers for the offices?'
The Traveller
player, 2167 posts
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Mon 9 Oct 2017
at 21:51
  • msg #526

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Smoke Alarm:
Traveller's outlook on the picturespout was blocked, as was common, by Smoke Alarm's blue-hairy head. She eagerly scanned the list with customary lack of comprehension. 'What are these places? Towers for the offices?'


"I don't quite rightly know. Why don't we go find out. Hm, hm?"

"Family, you go ahead and pick. As for Ms Kismet, I think we've all met her before, after a fashion."

Trav checks the 21st century date. "Stanley, if this is close to 2017, we can go visit your delightful mother."
This message was last edited by the player at 21:52, Mon 09 Oct 2017.
Stanley Newton
player, 762 posts
Thu 12 Oct 2017
at 16:20
  • msg #527

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

The Traveller:
Trav checks the 21st century date. "Stanley, if this is close to 2017, we can go visit your delightful mother."


"We could, but if Ms. Kismet is expecting Sairen to contact her at the Renaissance station, shouldn't we go there?" Stanley asks. "Showing up there and explaining everything would be less confusing than showing up in a completely different era. Though, she is probably used to looking at things out of order, if she regularly deals with time travellers."
The Traveller
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Thu 12 Oct 2017
at 16:36
  • msg #528

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Stanley Newton:
The Traveller:
Trav checks the 21st century date. "Stanley, if this is close to 2017, we can go visit your delightful mother."


"We could, but if Ms. Kismet is expecting Sairen to contact her at the Renaissance station, shouldn't we go there?" Stanley asks. "Showing up there and explaining everything would be less confusing than showing up in a completely different era. Though, she is probably used to looking at things out of order, if she regularly deals with time travellers."


"Welcome to my life. Make your decisions, my sweets, or I will roll some of my old D&D dice. All aboard, my kitlings."
This message was last edited by the player at 00:55, Fri 13 Oct 2017.
Smoke Alarm
player, 2057 posts
Blue Kangs are,
of course, best.
Fri 13 Oct 2017
at 01:35
  • msg #529

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

Smoke Alarm screwed shut her eyes and jabbed the screen. 'How 'bout this one?' she suggested, opening her eyes to see her finger had landed on both "Hong Kong, late 19th Century" and "New York City, mid-20th Century". She shifted it up to "Hong Kong, late 19th Century".

'The kitlings blapped away while you were asleep-tight.'
The Traveller
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Fri 13 Oct 2017
at 06:41
  • msg #530

Re: Hathtotep Habisphere, 57,818 CE

She places her gloved hands on the console. An old pair of the 5th Traveller's driving gloves. A concession to the past.The float over the controls of the TARDIS gracefully.

"Hong Kong, late 19th century, then. I can practice my Canton." Snap, snap snap twist twist flip flip flip THUNK.

The time rotor starts, as the 6th Traveller sends the TARDIS hurtling into the Time Vortex for the first time!
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