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The GM is going to be gone for the weekend. That's me, but I may have time to post once more before I leave.

The short burn propels the Cargo OTV in the general direction of the Santa Maria which is little more than a small spot on the visual horizon.

After a few minutes of heading back towards the direction of the Santa Maria still with it getting closer in the background a error in piloting is discovered by Kea who is still rather unexperienced at flight between multiple moving objects. it seem the calculations called for the Santa Maria top remain in it's current location which is about the training Kea had received going from one stationary body to a moving one or a moving body to a stationary one. it has become apparent that the OTV will have to make a correctional burn since they are almost perpendicular to the Santa Maria. Even now Kea knows that at the current heading and speed they would be lucky to reach the back end of the ships engines since it is moving at near light speed.

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for ref

comet path - - -^

Santa Maria's Path

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I agree with the Dammned I hat when peopel slaughter an old classic.

Kea and Danielle board the OTV and have everything ready to blast off the rock of the comet back towards the Sant Maria. A slight buzzer goes off which indicates a rising level of radiation not deadly but neither is it something that should anyone be out in for an extended period of time.

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Netrunning continued

Sex costs a lot more here since it's not legal!

Still it has the same point of fun as taking drugs or anything else that sets off the brain to release endorphen in the brain, pleasure!

Still good amounts of chocolate can do the same thing.

Otherwise, no wonder your girlfriend always eats chocolate and then complains of having a headache, she already got hers.

Well if sex is supposed to extend life I guess I will be dying pretty young!

Intimate contact normaly releaves some stress as you have someone willing to be that close with you to share what you hope they don't share with a bunch of other people.

Still today many people use sex as something they just need to do going back to near animal predatory insticts hunting for the next conquest and kill as it were since people have little to no need to hunt for food these days.

Ok here is the second part of the log sorry to much bother to break off the timestamps.

As a way to make the netrunning a bit more realistic I have gotten together on chat with Nitewolf and run a short session. What follows are the first part of last nights transcripts.

Kea and Danielle finish up what they are doing and make their way back to the cargo OTV. They strap themselves in and prepare the short prelaunch sequence when kea notices how far away they are from the Santa Maria. With some navi-computer quick calculations it is found they are near the extreme limit of range with expected fuel left in the OTV.

Kea and Danielle feel that they have just about put as much ice chunks and such as they can into the cargo bay without somehow causing a major problem since the material tends to shift around alot, even with cargo lashes.

Danielle calls back to Ben that the idea was to use the land rover for the terristrial mission once they had made it to their destination to break down the molicules from H2o to O2. Of course he needed to be back at the ship to convert the engine to seperate the materials.

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I sorry there is a bit of lag time between the long haul of what is going on on the comet and the boring tedious tasks or lack of tasks on the ship as basically time just goes by. Certain tasks during times other than emergencies should be made mention of by crew members every once in a while. Time does pass by and the players characters do have to take care of normal everyday tasks.

ok you two this is really not on topic or does it have really anthing to do with anything that is not seriously gross and offensive.

lets keep these comments to ourselves please as they seem to be sort of personal attacks. Even if both are capable of handling and answering personal attacks and such it sets a bad example for other board members.

hmmm never have run a game in Houston.

Live in th nw side of town huh! I know of at least one other player that came down here from Nac with me and we also are both in the Northwest area.

I am near the corner of FM1960 and Veterans Memorial.

Maybe we can get a game going some time?

Depends really on how much land you have.

Houston is a giant urban sprawl, with huge gaps of land between section of the town.

There are really multiple downtown like areas with sky scrappers.

Downtown/midtown

The galleria area ( for the big mall )

Greenspoint.

Woodlands

NASA area

all of these have a cluster and I am sure there are others

It's still cheaper in many areas to build out than up.

Well I guess as long as they don't object!

You know thats the thing about women, you can have sex with em and as long as they like it or are to ashamed to admit to the general public they let you do it too them when they are drunk you don't get slammed with a rape charge. but if you did not pleasure them just the way they wanted and they are a bit outspoken or a media junkie you bet your butt you will meet them again on Court TV.

Mayuki comes around a corner to find a relatively wide open space inside the computer network. This area is slightly different than the others she has seen recently as part of it look like jungle vines while others look like granite or Basalt that is polished to a fine sheen. The two areas of differing backgrounds are seperated and do not really co-mingle with each other except for in a few places where the vines seem to be slowly overtaking the granite and Basalt. The large open area also has what appears to be two insectiod ant like creatures slowly chewing or nibbling away at the older granite and basalt background. At the moment they have taken no notice of Mayuki.

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Ben searchs around for anything that could hold the water check here and there. One of the few things he can come up with to at least suck up small clumps of the water is the small vacuums used to clean out the space suits after an accidental purging of human fluids while someone is still inside a space suit. Though there are no real containers to place materials of any large amount into, only a few left over vac bags and maybe the shower system back in the crew quarters. Cleaning up the excess water seems like it's going to be a daunting task. At this point Ben is sort of wondering exactly what where they planning to do with all the water/ice.

Optical or laser targeting systems dont work well underwater. A super fast torpedo could be used like they used to do for torpedos in WWII whenthey were unguided and a firing solution was used at short range to hit a target. The difference being that at a much higher speed you could be much further from your target and still be relatively assured of a hit if you have remained unnoticed by your target. Still detection range is rather short so use of a hyper velocity torpedo would likey not require any real guidance since most targets move at as maximum speed around 30 knots.

Thanks always good to add in new material. The underground is a take off of the real underground city system in Houston Texas with just a minor tweak of the system. I have a great deal of pictures from the tunnels and they will make it into the next update for the pay version of the Cyber City guide along with quite a few other pics taken around town that will enhance the Cyber City guide. Everything from the underground tunnels. brand new transit train and skyways between buildings to go with the stuff Malek put into the guide.

I used to do large maps of cities and such with details on who lived where and such but since maps do not translate very well from hand drawn into computer scans I really have not done much recently.

Also creatting a map for a city requires a lot of background and history for anything modern and the scale is much larger than a crowded city from the middle ages would look.

Secondly, a modern city looks very differently depending on where it is located.

for instance Houston Texas is a large spread out city with ends that reach 70+ miles from side to side with three giant traffic loops going around it. and still people have private lands inside where they have small ranches with cows.

on the other hand is a city like New York, very small and compressed into a limited space still with lots of suburbs coving three states.

There are better maps on my website and even a little better in the pay for product. But the idea was not to really use a scale for the map, since the whole idea was to create a generic City anyone could use and perhaps even shoehorn it into their own town.

But imagine it to be somewhat of a large downtown area with the major metropolitan areas surrounding including some combat zones.

Sadly, I kept the map real simple for the reasons many might not want to use it and just pull out some of the locations and gangs.

Though I have been inclined to attempt to make it more detailed in the future.

Time passes quickly if perhaps not rather boringly for most everyone as Kea and Danielle use any means at their disposal to continue putting ice and snow inside the OTV.

The others wait for their return and Mayuki continues on her exploration of the insides of the computer system.

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what is a good time and day to meet in chat for netruning Nightwolf?

they are old trouble makers. Some have never even graced the boards here but are infamous elsewhere.

Sadly Joe Q. I don't think that will get you anywhere. Though I wonder why chrys has decided to let it out on the Forums that she has PMS.

Kea and Danielle are busy stacking chunks of comet debris into the OTV. While the work is much less dangerous than before it is more taxing and tiring. A lack of sleep is starting to take it's toll as energy levels drop.

Richard has just entered the hanger area and walked into a floating puddle or water. ben also is starting to notice little floating puddles of water starting to form around the place slowly flipping over and over drifting around the hanger.

Mayuki continues on searching the vat tech jungle that is the computer system. So far finding no resistance to speak of yet. Around a corner a small clearing of sorts if it can be called that emerges from the din of the jungle passages.

Kea and Danielle go through the ardous task of picking up and bringing in chunks of the frozen stuff from the comet.

Ben finds after a check of the security consolethat only immediately basic functions that affect the localized section of the ship can be accessed. All the higher functions seem to be blocked and unaccessable.

addendum:   larger naval vessels always seem to get sold off from frigate size onward from the US and USSR navies and get recycled.

India and China are attempting to use older WWII  Korean era US Aircraft carriers as part of their fleet.