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Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

Posted by AzraileFor group 0
Azraile
GM, 2513 posts
The Storyteller
Dislexic
Sun 17 Jul 2016
at 02:29
  • msg #105

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

"A ship designed to go into the Crown Storm to look for Baylor's Pleasure Dome... clearly things did not go well. What ever happened the thing came out of some form of FTL and slammed through demolitions hard before blowing life pods and crashing some where in the Artemus Mountains. The area is hard traveled and full of carnivores, so if you take the job you will meet up with a hunting party that will accompany you the whole way. But any ship built for the Storm is bound to have a grate deal of valuable material used in it's construction. The hunting party already brought back some from when they went to check for survivors, apparently the only survivor abandoned ship and lays no claim to it.... even if he dose setting up primary rites to clear out the area and scrap the ship would be exstreamly profitable. I won't be a part of this and I can't say what way this will go, but it will stay legal and hopefully make everyone a good deal of money."
Edith Goddard
player, 57 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Wed 20 Jul 2016
at 00:37
  • msg #106

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

Edith still wanted to know the answers to the rest of her questions as well as info about who was leading the expedition. If this man didn't know, she asked who she needed to talk to in order to find out.
Azraile
GM, 2517 posts
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Thu 4 Aug 2016
at 01:48
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Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

"The hunting party will be leading the expedition. I work for the Tellus Northern Shipping Co. or more percicely a scrapping subsidiary. There is a strait in the Artemis Mountains to get to the ship, but it's sliding into the Artemis' Deep... it's well over a kilometer deep and full of some big nasty things.... we can get a large ship squeezed in there and load up a lot of scrap but it's not going to get there in time, we need people to go and try and secure the ship or least get the best goods off it before it slides down into the depths and becomes way more trouble than it's worth. Hopeful we can negotiate a contract to retrieve the data too, they will want that and if we can get there before them and it's in danger they are likely to pay a grate deal of money for that, Governor Moon is getting fairly desperate to make his electrical promise on finding that station they where looking for."
Edith Goddard
player, 59 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Mon 8 Aug 2016
at 17:54
  • msg #108

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

Edith asked a few questions about the equipment they were bringing with them and asked for certain items that would help stabilize the ship. Her only other question was when the party would be leaving.

In the meanwhile, Paracelsus had woken up and was listening to the conversation with his eyes closed. The only sign that he was awake was his tail agitatedly swishing back and forth. The thought of going into the cat-eating wilderness did not appeal to him at all.
Azraile
GM, 2519 posts
The Storyteller
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Mon 8 Aug 2016
at 18:33
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Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

"They will be leaving soon as the hunting party gets here, and you should bring what ever you think you need or may come in handy. Though I would defiantly bring any life support systems you may have unless you want to use what ever the hunting party provides. Most people don't last more than a few days outside the city with out one."
Edith Goddard
player, 61 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Fri 12 Aug 2016
at 06:52
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Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

OOC: Is Edith going to be able to buy life support equipment for herself and the rest of the troupe with the money she has?
Azraile
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Fri 12 Aug 2016
at 12:37
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Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

(Nothing good, no. But he did say they may be able to provide some... so probably best to see if you can get in contact and see about that.)
Edith Goddard
player, 62 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Sun 18 Sep 2016
at 22:30
  • msg #112

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

Edith realized that she didn't know the man's name or how to get in contact with him, so she asked for that information.

Then she asked for the contact information for whoever was leading the mission so she could find out about survival gear.
Azraile
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Thu 22 Sep 2016
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Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

The man supplies the information. "Think about it, scavaging a ship this size thats this on the cunning edge is very profitable... and we only have to get one item from the ship, we just want you to flag the most valuable of things to try and get out encase we can't get a team there in time to secure the ship before it slides into the water. Also to assess the value that if it dose fall into the trench, if it's worth the trubble of scavenging after that. Securing it from hostiles or eleminating them is not an objective, just assess value and get something off the ship.... try and secure the ship from slidding into the water if possable or secure anything of high value. Top priorities, anything solid that can be iditifed as part of the ship, and the ships data stores."

Sounds prity standard for ships lost in deep space... she would have to look it up but it sounds like while Venus is a colony, un-collonized land counts as 'international waters' so to say... unlike other planets where the whole planet is considered part of the planets governmental control zone. Wouldn't be hard to understand why, enforcing laws in such savage lands would be near impossible.
Edith Goddard
player, 63 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Sun 16 Oct 2016
at 01:30
  • msg #114

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

Edith took down the information. She said goodbye to the man, then started planning. This was just the perfect job for her. It would bring in some money and would get her outside! Of course Paracelsus wouldn't like it.

She turned to see if the cat was paying attention. He had been curled up in a ball on her bed, his ears turned to listed in to the conversation.

"I hope you realize how dangerous it is out there." Paracelsus turned his head to consider Edith. "It's full of cat-eating monsters."

Edith nodded, "That's why you're not going."

Paracelsus perked up at this, offended. He might not like cat-eating jungles, but he was never left behind. "They are human-eating monsters out there too. How do you expect to survive without me to spot the monsters."

Edith shrugged, "You can't go. There aren't any cat-sized environmental suits."

"Besides," Donovan said. He had been listening quietly the whole time. "I'll be there."

"You're not going either," Edith interjected. "It's too dangerous."

The cat and apprentice stared at Edith with identical disbelieving expressions.

OOC: I'm assuming we're wearing some kind of suit to survive out there. If there's something I'm not thinking of that could protect Paracelsus, this conversation might go a bit differently.
Azraile
GM, 2530 posts
The Storyteller
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Sun 16 Oct 2016
at 03:52
  • msg #115

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

There are but there a lot more of a pain than a suit is.

Regular monitoring of life signs.
Regular injections.
Respirator helps...

Life energy is crazy... so microorganisms grow like wildfire and many plants and stuff have toxic deffences.

So in addition to all the unpleasant things out there, you have to keep an eye on your health.

It's a lot easier to wear some form of life support so your not exposed to all that.
Edith Goddard
player, 64 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Sun 16 Oct 2016
at 23:16
  • msg #116

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

"Don't look at me like that," Edith replied.

Paracelsus began to swish his tail back and forth anxiously. "It's not a good idea to go alone."

Donovan nodded.

"I know," Edith replied. "But we don't have any choice. So stay here and I'll be back as soon as I can. Then we'll have enough money to think about our next step. Maybe it'll be time to head somewhere else for a while."

"Look, I need to get some sleep. We can argue about it more tomorrow."


Paracelsus grumbled, but moved aside when Edith came to bed. He settled down in the curve of her arm, tail still twitching. Meanwhile, Donovan was mentally making plans for continuing his earlier experiments.

***
The first thing next morning, Edith contacted the leader of the mission to find out about survival gear and when they would be heading out. She also made a list of the things she'd need.
Azraile
GM, 2531 posts
The Storyteller
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Sat 5 Nov 2016
at 07:27
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Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

They would be provided gear if they didn't have any, most where using some form of force field or suit though, they didn't know if they had suits that would fit though but they diffidently had a field unit.
Edith Goddard
player, 65 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Fri 18 Nov 2016
at 04:11
  • msg #118

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

"Good news!" Edith announced as she walked into their rental, carrying a bag of gear.

"You're not going,"
Paracelsus guessed hopefully from his spot in the sunlight on the window sill.

"Better! We all are." She pulled out a small force field unit and showed it to the cat and Donovan, who was sitting on his bed reading.

"You've got a regular suit,"
she said to the young man. "But you," she turned to Paracelsus, "have a force field. Come over and let me set it up for you."

Paracelsus stretched reluctantly, then made her way over to the bed where Edith was unpacking. She sniffed at it hesitantly, "Will it stop the monsters from eating me?"

"It'll help,"
Edith admitted.

The cat wasn't thrilled at the situation, but it was better than letting Edith go out into the dangerous forest all by herself so she stood still while Edith adjusted it to accommodate Paracelsus' size.

"There you go," Edith said, satisfied at last. "Try walking around in it."

Paracelsus took a few tentative steps, then jumped down from the bed to see what it could really do. She ran from one side of the room to the other, tried jumping back on the bed, and took a tentative swipe at a metal spring that was peeking out of Edith's bag.

"How does it feel?" Edith asked, pausing to make a few more alterations.

"Strange." Paracelsus replied. She tested it a bit, then wanted it removed.

Taking that as a positive response, Edith unpacked her bag and sat down to do some work. She had a schematic of the type of ship they were going after. She studied it looking for places where the most valuable items and metal would be, figuring out ways and supplies needed to stabilize it depending on how it had crashed and where it was, and familiarizing herself with the main workings. It wasn't likely, but maybe she could skip-fly it back. That would save time, money, and be safer.

After a few hours of working, she packed up her gear and got ready to head to work. "I need to show everyone how to use the new machinery," she said to Donovan. "I'll be back soon. What are you going to do?"

"Since I'm going too, I've got some things to get ready. I want to bring back some soil samples and see how they affect my experiment,"
Donovan replied.

Since landing on the planet where plants ate cats, Paracelsus had been traveling via Edith's shoulder. He took up his position and the pair headed to work.
Azraile
GM, 2542 posts
The Storyteller
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Sat 19 Nov 2016
at 06:31
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Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

(poor paracelsus)
Edith Goddard
player, 66 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Sat 17 Dec 2016
at 18:33
  • msg #120

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

<Nudge.>
Azraile
GM, 2547 posts
The Storyteller
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Sat 17 Dec 2016
at 22:22
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Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

Work was more exhausting than doing the actual hard work... they had a lot of questions for her. These people had been using the same equipment for a long long time and where not as trusting of the refurbished and updated equipment as the foreman was. This was dangerous work and if something went wrong they could be seriously hurt or killed after-all... and while the new machines MAY be safer, at least they knew what to expect from the old ones. The devil you know and all that. They had some healthy 'respect' for what a witch could do though and if they had any doughts of her engineering because of her gender they weren't saying anything. The world was backwards in ways but they had to deal with some rather powerfull witches protecting the local wyld life from time to time if they wondered into the wrong area's or did to much to disturb the planet.
Edith Goddard
player, 67 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Thu 29 Dec 2016
at 22:04
  • msg #122

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

Edith took her time going through the changes to the machines and the new procedures. She showed them the directions she had written up, explained how each change would benefit them, and had at least one person run through each procedure.

Meanwhile, Paracelsus dragged Edith's jacket into a quiet corner and made a nest of it. Machines like this ate cats so she decided to let discretion be the better part of valor and hid.

Paracelsus hoped they'd be leaving this planet soon. When living and non-living things all wanted to eat you, it was time to find a more friendly place.
Azraile
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Mon 2 Jan 2017
at 20:21
  • msg #123

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

Besides some painfully dumb questions from people who did't understand the machinery, just knew how to make it do what they needed it to do, it wasn't a big deal. Paracelsus in the meantime got some scares from very loud machiniery. x.x
Edith Goddard
player, 69 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Mon 23 Jan 2017
at 01:57
  • msg #124

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

After finishing work, Edith scooped up an uneasy Paracelsus and headed back to their room. On the way, she picked up dinner.
Azraile
GM, 2560 posts
The Storyteller
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Tue 24 Jan 2017
at 01:12
  • msg #125

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

If I didn't say before cheapest stuff here is oversized fruit you can't really identify as anything, and dino meat. They don't have much in the way of veggies besides just leaves from plants that are particularly edible. Anything else is ether synthetic or expensive. The local veggies are a bit to much trubble to bother with for food unless there above ground and growing nearby.

The few veggies you can get are just chopped off chunks of it.
Edith Goddard
player, 70 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Wed 25 Jan 2017
at 00:01
  • msg #126

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

In her travels, Edith had always found it safer to go with local food so she picked up some dino meat and local fruits for dinner. She picked a variety of fruits in case Donovan wanted to do some research about them.
Azraile
GM, 2561 posts
The Storyteller
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Sat 28 Jan 2017
at 21:28
  • msg #127

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

The fruit came chopped into small chunks, if he wanted research material best to buy it whole.

Edith gets contacted with all the information about when they where leaving and where, with the added information that apparently some diplomatic snob has rangled in some additions.
Edith Goddard
player, 71 posts
Daughter of Ether
physicist gadgeteer
Sun 29 Jan 2017
at 23:08
  • msg #128

Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

Edith promised Donovan that they could pick up some more fruit for his studies when they got back.

She wasn't happy to hear about hangers-on. They tended to be more trouble than they were worth. Hopefully this was just a couple of tourists; they were usually fairly easy to keep in line with talk of the dangers of the place. Heck, a few minutes with Paracelsus and they'd be running for the safety of the city.

When the time came to go, Edith packed up the supplies she had bought to deal with the ship and divided them between herself and Donovan. Paracelsus reluctantly allowed himself to be fitting with his force field, although if the truth was told, he was secretly relieved to have some protection against the many cat-eating dangers here.
Azraile
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Sat 18 Feb 2017
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Re: Chapter 3 Edith Goddard - Seeking Less Boring Life Forms.

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