August 21, 1998
Fred almost died. Was healed by crystal that harold touched Fred with. Also healed Andy.
Randy flying ship. Captain. Communicated that he saw explosion in space not sure where it is. Seeing numbers on console. Not sure what it means. May being attacked. Sees search droid on monitor. Randy Panics. Randy goes to kill it. It shoots at him.
Harold and Andy are coming up to the bridge. Randy is screaming "Wahh wahh" . Andy and harold come into the brdge and sees it. Andy leaves it up to Harold who suddenly remembers that he doesn't have his tape, but DOES have his knife! Pulls it out. Randy runs down the staircase to the droid with his jetrope out with intent to kill it. He leaps over the railing just as the droid shoots (missing Randy and hitting Harold). Harold is stunned and falls over. Andy runs angry at it with intent to kill.
Randy launches the jetrope and slices the droid in half - which blows up with a boga-blast.
Meanwhile, Fred, is cleaning the vomit and blood and hears a huge space rumble. Fred takes his mop and bucket to the bridge. Fred sees Harold and everyone's hair on fire. Harold is upside down all stunned as a statue. - but unscathed. Andy and Randy also statues .. hair NOT on fire. but their "explosion shadows" could be seen... oh and the ship is crashing./
suddenly everything goes frigid and Armegas shows up "for your sake, it is night." ... looks like we're in the ocean. everyone is back to normal. Andy gives harold back his knife. Armegas - huge with a shrunken head - semivisible.
"Who's our fashionable friend?" Randy asks Andy.
Andy says" I don't know. SOme ghost that seems to be helpful." Harold tries to get back onto his feet. and checks the power. Andy checks the size of the hullbreaches.
At the widest it's 4 inch wide hole and 4 feet long. Randy looks for robot remnants.
Harold "We're in the ocean?" and tries to do diagnostics to see if we're taking on ocean. It's dark outside and the only power is for lights. The air has a bit of impurity so that it smells of nailpolish.
Andy and Fred get their stick.
Harold checks how well he can see the apparition - it's about as clear as his reflection on a black television would be. Randy introduces himself to the ghost "Greetings, I am captain of this ship and wondering who you are"
Armegas "Baduku considers you victors, and will take a form to to help you."
Harold "Are you Baduku?"
Armegas "Of course. Armegas left long ago."
All - Shock.
Andy receives mental comm: "hello!" no visual through helmet. "Huh?" not recognizable at all. (It's Paul, fresh from taking over Exslamador.
"Who are you?" - Paul. Andy reports: I've got a mental comm, what should I do?
"We are members of the Intergalactic Explorer's Society. We don't need any help now. By the way, who's this?" "You guys are Space Seekers?"
"You have any translators on board? we bneed translators?" "I'm communicating quite well, I don't need one" "It's for a different matter."
"How do you know about Space Seekers?" "It's just rumors that we've heard. I thought we'd ask. We're also looking for suits, we're running low down here."
"So...are you Space Seekers?" "Yes" "What's your number?" "Six" "Oh byt he way do you have any starlances...oh, just come down. Here's our coordinates." Paul transports down (finds himself on a nasty bridge, floating in an ocean.) Maze Delcon appears. "hi" Harold"who are you?" "My name is Maze, I used to go by the name Space seeker four. So whattaya guys doing ouy here?" "are you really SS 4?"
"yes, I'm me. aRE you Fred?" "Use the ring" "I don't have a Space Seeker ring?"
"He doesn't have a ring"
"Let's just say I had a problem with SS, right now I'm kinda freelance."
"so if he's really Maze Delcom, he's got a lotta things he can use."
"You mean like..."
"like the Phoenix dimension"
"so let's ask him for stuff"
"but I've seen impostors"
"but if he's an impostor and he gives us stuff, what the hell?"
Randy waves in a friendly way."My face has only grown back about a day ago" Maze scans the air: radioactive, ammonia...he starts to laugh. "Don't make us laugh cause we cough up blood."
"Sometimes we turns into statues and we don't know why?"
"Sometimes we almost die and then we hold onto the plate."
"Where are we?"
"Planet Alf!"
Sector 9 in another galaxy. "Have you guys seen a big ship around here, aroud the size of a moon?"
"no."
"good"
"how long have you guys been this way?"
"Three hours"
Phoenix reports that the ship has been scavenged. It detoxes the air, then transports in a new filter system and new bay door. These are new recruits. "You guys need anything else?"
"Do you have any SS gear?"
"I don't know"
"Translator device?"
"do you have enough fuel?"
"fuel"
"do you want me to repair the ship before I replace the fuel"
"Don't go crazy, if you know what I mean."
"Only to specs"
"don't hurt the ship ghost"
"ship ghost?"
"a strong entity"
"Kind of a shock ghost, no we won't hurt the ghost"
"You guys wanna fight a big mighty ship armada?"
"No, could you do that for us?"
"We're new. Please don't kill us."
"DOn't worry. I won't kill you. It's nest if you huys get your own equipment, otherwise you won't learn anything."
(hey, if we kill him, then we get a lot of stuff! yeah, so when he's not looking I'll give the nod and rush him)
"any advice you think we should know?"
"yeah, don't get killed."
"anything in the area?"
"yeah, a giant ship"
Boop Boop Boop. A big tugboat appears. Maze is amused and watches. Randy sits in Cap's chair and rises up to observe the liner. Fred makes the ship wave with the giant arm.
"How did you guys get to be Seekers without training?"
"Well, we had training in which most of us got killed then we got the ship and left."
"DO we have any SS films?" Maze makes copies of SS training films, action films from Phoenix industries.
"Do have a mission?"
"You're supposed to find your purpose."
"Well, our purpose could be to get Alf pelts."
"Well, if you guys want to kill..."
"We don't know, we haven't tried yet."
"all ahnds, we're supposed to find our purpose"-CR
:"what's your purpose?"-cr
"TO try to kill as many people as possible."-MD
"well, it's time for you to leave now. I think I've found that my mission is to not die."-CR
"If you all would excuse me, i think I might go back to insanity of my ship"-MD
**WAIT**
"I think I'll stick around for a while...you guys have a replicator?"-MD
"No"-F
"How about some tea nd crumpets" MD beams down the usual assortment of drinks, including some burning coffee thing. Looks at his watch, mental comm (a little bit magic): **THANK YOU**
H checks the diagnostics, the ship is working well, including a bunch of stuff I didn't see before:
translators, water purifiers, full fuel, but no food replicators.
"Whya re the scavengers beating on us?"-CR
"They want your ship"-MD
"So what's the right way to shake these barnacles"-CR
"You shoot them...well, you don't have weapons. you're in a derelict ship."-MD
"Oh god please could we have a food rpelicator too?"-CR
"I could get you some storedx food"-MD
"How about a real ship?"-CR
"COuld you get us HardCore?"-a
"WShat do you know about HardCore"-MD
"Ixnay on the ArdCorehay!"-F
"It's a gun, right, with a pin point?"-A
"So you don't know anything about HardCore?"-MD
"If we knew anything what would you like to know?"-F
"Depends on how expereienced you are with it."-MD
"Well, could we get a big replicator out of it"-F
HardCore appears, lighting the night sky. MD is transported back. There's a big shot and we warp away, bouncing through the warp rocks. WE drop out - all our screens go white. Comm: "Hello. I'll try to assist you if I can." "WShat are you?" "I am a cherub unit" "What asistance can you provide?"
"If you can comm with me, that means you are in a storage compartment in Ectacaplana." "can we get a food replicator" "Open the door." Open the door, men in blacxk drop with big weapons. "Drop your weapons" Andy hits warp, doesn't do anything, they shoot Andy. Harold keeps the tape. They force the three standing characters up the ladder. CR gets to the top first, sees weird streaking.
"Move! Move!" "It seems to be moving prettty fast, it'll tear me apart." Fred and Randy jump in and Harold attaches the end of the tape to the rung and jumps in, spools out almost until the end and then we appear in another area.
Andy is given the choice of being possessed to live a little longer or exploring the unknown.
Unknown.
-MD tring to find a way to destroy HardCore. Scaned HC tring to find a way to stop energy on HC buy HC has its on Concordant.
...
Back in the room.
Maze kills HardCore.
He detects Andy's barely warm form and liferods him. Andy feels terrible pain as he comes back to life.
The three other heros: In a room Harold has an unrolled space seeker tape in his hand and Andy sees the hatch closing, as suddenly the room where the three are in are suddenly the room turns into liquid. White liquid is pouring into the room as the three are drowning.
Maze transports air tanks over the three. Randy panics and throws his away and puts it back on. Maze sanitizes the ship of crap. Harold pulls on the tape and the three (Harold pulls on tape, Randy holds onto Harold, Fred holds onto Randy). Meanwhile Maze pillages the disintigrating Hardcore. Sucks to be hardcore.
Andy tries to find out where everyone is. Harold can feel the closed door.
Andy scans three life forms outside and opens the door and the three as well as a shitload of stuff comes into the room. Kablam! into the ship. Fred rips the lower part of Randy's jumpsuit aoart as Fred's feet knock into Andy's head (as he's closing the port). Andy analyzes the goo. It's liquid makelin - it's the same stuff as Ecteca Planna is made up of. Everything's really slippery, but we're all along. the whole downhallway is full. Harold and Randy thinks that this milky goo is a good idea to keep. Harold looks for a drainage system to keep it into just one bildge.
Then we move the ship and bump into other items. ...
Scanning or visual is all vector - Fred works the hand.
Maze delcon contacts harold "OK?"
"yes" -Harold
Maze: The ship is disabled..
Harold: what does our situation look like from out therer?
Maze: here's a mental image.
It looks a lot like a holyshit super fuckin huge tube with all kinds of starwars stuff about four Sunds in diameter with creatures and stuff running around inside it.
Maze: You could probably adventure inside it and never leave it for the rest of your lives.'
Harold: Right now what we can detect is that we're in a big glass of milk. One of hundreds of storage bays.
Maze: Yeah, well most of 'em are probably like that. the only way to fix that is to restore power to it.
Harold: What power source does it use?
Maze: take a sun and multiply that power by a googleplex.
lots of witty sarcasm about the possibility of powering the ship again.
Maze: well, I doubt you'll ever find that power
R: So it's junk, in essence.
Maze: Oh no it's not junk!
All try to figure out way out of the milky goo. Andy doesn't scan way out.
Maze: well, just put someone into a suit and have 'em find their way out.
doot doot doot. Maze opens the doors into the containgin room. Milk pours into the drainage and the room is revealed. Insidey. One of many hundreds of holds. Lots of stuff.
Randy finds a replicator.
Harold looks for the Cherub droid. No trace.
grab all kinds of stuff. three get into space suits. Harold saves records of the different types of atmospheres so that we can record them for future reference. Huge flicker... and lights go out on the hold. Tulkurn's lights go on and gravity releases.
Fred and Harold leave the ship and go pick up shit.
Randy finds a "tow beam".
Fred takes the ridgerunner jetski out.
Harold: hey Fred, can I get your help moving this? (movijng the replicator)
Andy scans several lifeforms (squidish snakes ) in a spherical cage
Fred and Harold recover the replicator.
recover a B3 suit.
Andy receives a communication: busted up Zat unit. looks like Jaws took a bite out of him.
Find a Rocket pack. Find a couple of flashlights with cords. Beta rifles.
Big I-bean for, Fred goes and greets the Zat unit.
Big net for putting lots of stuff in it. Zat is messing with the panel.
The others think blast him. Fred thinks keep him. Zat is "fucked up".
Andy detects a two man space craft with an airlock - would fit at the top of the ship. Andy and Randy takes it using the ship. Randy says that two people should be onboard the ship all day.
Discussion on benifit of second ship.
Maybe we should find a way out of here that we could hole up.
Randy and Zat talks about how psychotic Zat is.
Fred and Harold go get the 2 man ship.
Maze dumps a Party Package on the ship. CR drinks beer and asks Zat if it has any time to talk privately.
Zat: No.
Zat brings CR a tray: tray has little joystick and remote camera to outside of ship with green button and red button. Green button lights up little monitor and activates tractor beam remote.
F&H find dull metallic flying saucer - as Harold touches it, he's hit with a green beam - and now the ship knows everythign Harold knows and opens the door.
"Hi Harold" it says to him in his voice.
Harold laughs. It laughs back in his voice. Fred joins him.
Fred didn't put his hand where Harold put his hand, but he didn't at this moment. Gravity field activates on the seats and suddenly sideways is up andthe dome closes it turns clear Harold has two joystick controls and Fred has two joystick controls
Harold knows everything about the craft. (and that it's named harold) travels warp speed and powered with beta-like power. Instead of bouncing the beta particle, it has a power particle that circles around and keeps it's constant power going.
Harold guides the craft around like it was a natural extension of him.
Harold renames harold to Charlie - and the voice changes too to Charlie the Tuna. Then he docks with the main ship.
Andy opens the Tulkurn's doors and then Charlie says "Open the door?" scrapes a little bit just to make a seal and then connects to the ship.
Hold onto handles and flip over and hold onto the ladder. And then harold does a little flip and catches the tape. Fred clutches onto his staff and doesn't die.
Maze suddenly teleports in. "Why aren't you eating or drinking?"
Andy "I wanted Chinese food"
Maze" Sweet and Sour chicken?"
Andy mentally communicates to MD exactly what he wants.
MD: do you MIND not doing that?!
Zat comes into the room and starts blasting MD. His expression is one of anger.
Randy checks to make sure that his blasts are the same as ours.
Big Ominous yellow ball with the Smiley face. Fred flames it. Maze's little joke.,
Maze sees that the tube is moving and that S.O.B. is towing it. Maze cuts out the small section with the four heros. An "Ectica Planna Steak" as harold calls it.
The Index page for Randy's Crew Storyline.
I plan to put up the star map and scan in any pictures that we've drawn in this game. Please remind me if there's any I've missed. -fred