I thought it was in the rec room.

BTW, I am waiting for some information from GM before posting further.

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

For those who may not have heard, eight days ago on Sunday night just after dinner, I suddenly developed a severe stomach pain--level 7. While I struggled with it for half an hour, figured it was probably food poisoning. It wasn't like any other stomach pain I'd ever experienced before. Then I wound up throwing up 4-5 times, though afterwards the pain level was only 5. An hour later, I threw up 2-3 more times and the pain level dropped to 3. And there it stayed. No more throwing up, and it didn't go away. I couldn't find any position where the pain was lesser, and it was too high to let me sleep. Finally called the EMTs about 1 a.m. and off to the ER I went.

A dose of femital (or something) dropped the pain to 1, and eventually it went completely away. However, the hospital continued to run its test to try and determine the cause. I'm not convinced that they ever did. One doctor concurred that it might have been food poisoning, but the other doctor concluded that it was a problem with my gallbladder and recommended I have it removed. He scheduled laposcopy surgery for Wednesday. If it went well, I'd be hope by Friday. Turned out it was in bad shape and required full abdominal surgery to remove it.

Let me tell you... in all those movies/shows when they talk about a painful wound to you abdomen, they aren't kidding! Every muscle in your chest and abdomen, and a few in your arms and legs, are all tied in together. So every deep breath, every burp, every hiccup, every yawn, every laugh, every cough causes excruciating pain! This is on top of the pain meds!

Every movement... sitting up, standing up, sitting down, laying down, stretching, reaching, bending... causes pain. One such movement at a time is usually okay, but then requires an hour of sitting still and getting over it.

Alas, the hospital's discharge procedure was rather inept on Sunday, and I wound up having to make a dozen such movements so that I could get my meds from the pharmacy before it closed. So after I got home and settled in, it took around 8 hours for the pain to subside.

It's slowly getting better, but will probably take 5-6 weeks for the surgery to completely heal and the pain to completely go away.

But, I'm back! Not sure how much I'll get to in the next two days... have to reorganize the house a bit as I'm mostly fending for myself.

Anyway, I apologize for the absence and lack of word.

Wow.  Just wow.  Sorry to hear about your RL health woes.  Please, please, please, take all the time you need to heal up fully.  Come back to us when you are ready; there is no need to rush.  Take care of yourself and we'll be here if and when you can get back to us!

sorry to hear that, hope the pain gets easier

Glad to hear you are feeling better. As the others have said, take time to get better. And find a good recliner. Best thing I found to sleep in when I was recovering from abdominal surgery.

away for a few days, not sure about internet access

UPDATE: The pain is mostly gone, but so is my energy. 15 minutes of minor effort requires about 2 hours to recover, and I wind up crashing early in the evenings. So everything is rather slow going right now.

Alas, don't have a decent recliner but a couple of chairs are reasonable facsimiles.

My lack of posting seems to have stalled the game a bit so I thought I'd move it along a little.

Don't feel you are being railroaded; if you have something else you want to do, just say so.

Good to have you back. I hope you are recovering all right.
And don't worry. We were mainly waiting to see how much time Aimee had to decide on one of the few paths open to us.

I don't think anyone has a problem with Cassandra, or?

In reply to Kheaiftouaw (msg # 602):

I don't recall, now - did we get the Medbay updated, here on Outpost? I recall it had operational Tech-14 equipment, but that we needed some critical supplies for it? Did we do that? Should we do that, before we leave? Outpost is Tech-14, but according to the planetary write-up from StarMaster, it has to import almost all its high-tech. We can get what we need, here, but it might be expensive. Maybe.

When we don't stock up an Outpost then where else? A lot of planets here are non industrial. We would have to wait till Invermory to get a better deal and then only with tech 10.

Sounds fine on the Med bay.

Any word on the Count? He has not been on in over a month.

From the 7th - 18th March I am going to be away, and probably with only limited/intermittant internet access. SO don't post me MIA

IT'S A CONSPIRACY!

Finally recovering from my surgery, I get a cold last week. Wound up coughing half the nights so didn't get much sleep, making me tired the next day.

Then on Thursday and again on Friday, my computer picked up its own virus!

Somewhere along the way, I misplaced my brain. Been looking for it ever since.

The next adventure may have to be The Search for StarMaster's Brain!

A mind is a terrible thing to taste.

Hope things work out.

seem to have stalled abit - not sure who needs to post next - maybe Starmaster (if recovered enough?)

Since no watches were set, I rolled randomly for the 11 members of the crew. With that many people, I figured a 4-shift rotation made sense, with 3 per shift, and one shift just having 2 crew.

So, first shift--0001 to 0600: Sam, Valeska, Vonon.

Second shift--0601-1200: Jones, Walter

Third shift--1201-1800: Aimee, Kaengarr, Pablo.

Fourth shift--1801-2400: Darrel, Khea, Sharik.


When each of you wants to do your sleep cycle is up to you.

Just a heads up - from Monday I am going on holiday so posting may be a bit more intermitent. Not going to the back of beyond, so should have wifi access, but may have other priorities (ie relaxing or playing!) instead of posting

Another heads up - as of Friday I am going on a course for 2 weeks. The first week I should have Wifi access, but it seems like an intensive course, so may not be able to post. Second week won't be able to post for sure.

Guess we'll have to struggle on without you for a couple of days, then...

Travelling again over a long weekend (friday to Monday) so may be intermittant

Continuing this OOC as that seems Appropriate. I hadn't realised Darrells player hadn't logged in for a whileso take Walters point about updating this. But I think as it is is pretty much ok, but would suggest Battle captain and PR captain should be different people - PR won't be a good fit for Sam. In which case I suggest as below. If we can agree this ASAP could we get it made a Sticky?




                 Captain: Sir Walter Zeller - Assistant:Gregory Jones
                                ][
        Senior Pilot/XO: Samantha Kilgore
                      ][
     Navigator/Co-pilot: Sharik Kaagira
                      ][
                      ][----------Ships Boat:Kaengarr Ruzokh
       ====================================
       ][                                ][
    Engineering                     Gunnery/Security
       ][                                ][
    Kheaiftouaw                     Pablo Esteban Ryzov
    Valeska Brandenberg             Vonon Ronkunu
                       </tt>

And in battle


                  Captain: Samantha Kilgore
                            ][
  Co-Pilot: Sharik Kaagira ==== Boarding Operations:Vonon Ronkunu
           ][                                ][
      Engineering                    Gunnery/Security
           ][                                ][
      Kheaiftouaw                    Pablo Esteban Ryzov
      Gregory Jones                  Kaengarr Ruzokh

Medic/Damage Control:Count Darrel Cromwell, Sir Walter Zeller, Valeska Brandenberg


</quote>

Well personally I would place engineering much higher on that chart.....

So, Sam, you should be aware that the 'Captain' in a space combat will be required to roll Tactics (naval) for Initiative and actions, I believe.

And as far as I am aware, only Vonon has any formal training in that (at least according to the public UPPs thread); so, we should likely consider him for that wartime position.  Otherwise, we may be at a distinct disadvantage to the opposition.  Pablo, in theory has a Tactics (naval)-0 from his Tactics (military) cascade, and Sharik also has Tactics/0, effectively from her JoAT/3 training - but I am not sure either is appropriate for the formal position of wartime Captain.  Of course, as with any violence (especially ship-to-ship), it is likely most prudent to not be present during shooting at all...

Also, note that if you try to wear two hats during space combat, you take a stacking penalties to both rolls, which means, for example, that if you try be both captain and pilot, you wind up with -1DMs for both rolls (it would be the same if Sharik tried to pilot the ship and plot an escape jump course at the same time - which I would not advocate except under the most dire of circumstances).  But, I think that we have enough gunners to cover the weapons, even without Vo helping to man them.

Khea, if you want to be higher on command chain, that is fine with me!  As I recall, though, Scotty always wore a red shirt...

Yeah I was aware of the Naval tactics thing and thought I needed to get it as a skill at some point, but hadn't thought about the dual roll thing. All I did was remove Darrel from the Plan really. If someone else wants to be captain - fine, but it would be good to get this finalised I think.

In terms of UPP that does make Vo the main candidate, which is fine by me.

That leaves the issue of who goes on boarding missions, but that is perhaps a separate argument -as essentially it will involve takling people from posts anyway to have a party to board with.

so it looks something like this

    Captain: Sir Walter Zeller - Assistant:Gregory Jones
                                ][
        Senior Pilot/XO: Samantha Kilgore
                      ][
     Navigator/Co-pilot: Sharik Kaagira
                      ][
                      ][----------Ships Boat:Kaengarr Ruzokh
       ====================================
       ][                                ][
    Engineering                     Gunnery/Security
       ][                                ][
    Kheaiftouaw                     Pablo Esteban Ryzov
    Valeska Brandenberg             Vonon Ronkunu
                       </tt>

And in battle


                  Captain: Vonon Ronkunu
                            ][
 Pilot: Samantha Kilgore ====            ][
Co-Pilot: Sharik Kaagira           Gunnery/Security
           ][                            ][
      Engineering                    Pablo Esteban Ryzov
           ][                        Kaengarr Ruzokh
      Kheaiftouaw
      Gregory Jones

Medic/Damage Control:Count Darrel Cromwell, Sir Walter Zeller, Valeska Brandenberg