<> <> <> * Dicesuke (akodomakot@ip68-13-166-245.om.om.cox.net) has joined #atc2 1d7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Chamelaeon (1d7) and gets 1. (Fitzroy is killed by an awning.) <> <> (I have a ship in my room!) (Yes. It eats you when you enter.) (... Cool.) (>_>) * Rochelle is in Roy's room. Whether it's okay with him or not, she's on the floor and flipping through TVNet with a mildly bored expression. Maybe she's trying to find differences in programming. * Ian is sitting on a couch, alternately looking at the ceiling and writing in a notebook. He's been at it all day. * Leopoldo is lying down on a couch, staring at the ceiling and listening to who-knows-what. It's gotta have a good beat the way he's 'tapping' his foot in the air, though. * Vera finds a nice wall to lean against, folds her arms, and smokes. * Fitzroy sits at a table, "Y'know, I haven't been able to find much of anything different about this place, wherever we are." (In this dimension, walls lean on you!) (In this dimension, monocles shoot Ian. ;_;) I think it's because there is not much different. * Ian nods. "Me neither. It's just like old scifi." Even the Kat and Ronnie news is the same.. Well, except that Ron's a he in those too. * Katherine is in Roy's sitting room. She doesn't look to have been enjoying the captivity, herself. She's currently been reduced to watching TVNet. How sad. The music is the same too, unfortunately. I was hoping they'd have something new. <> * Katherine chuckles a little. "Everything I can find that I worked on is pretty much the same too, right down to the details I can remember. It's a little creepy." Looks like they've got more episodes of Yak here. <> <> * Vera shrugs. Ugh, what else is new? * Ian writes! (I'm going to vacuum - if I ping out it means I've blown a breaker and will be back shortly. ^_^) (>_>) * Katherine 's ears twitch. "I'm well past tired of this, and that's after I took a nap. How long can it take to figure out you fucked up?" This is Vernon we're talking about. A very long time, I think. * Rochelle snickers a little. And changes the channel. <> 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fitzroy (2d6-1) and gets 3. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fitzroy (2d6+1) and gets 5. 2d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fitzroy (2d6+6) and gets 15. (ouch ^_~) * Katherine looks over at Ian with a thin smile, then says, "This cycle of ATC capture just gets tiring." She cracks her knuckles and eyes the world of rocks. "... If I wanted to watch rocks, I'd walk outside the ion curtain." <> The point's to watch the guy talking about the rocks. * Fitzroy stands up suddenly and nearly knocks his chair over, "Guys! They never did a live test!" I was wondering when that would come out. Yeah, they mentioned something about that, Roy. It got lost in all the screaming. They what?! * Katherine looks extremely angry. "... I asked him! I _ASKED_ him! He said they DID. I'm gonna... I can't even think of a good enough threat." Well, I heard Vernon say that they did. We're the first, though. * Rochelle sighs and changes the channel. * Ian facepalms. "Oh, hell." The rest of the plans here look about the same. We were supposed to go in, get data and get out. Maybe the other thing is here they never tested it, in our natural dimension they did. * Leopoldo shrugs. (...that was a fun impromptu nap.) (Not.) The rest of the tests went perfectly though. * Fitzroy hmms. * Leopoldo sounds interested in something else and tunes out the current conversation. Doesn't really matter if all the rests of the tests worked, we're here, which means that the live test is what mattered. Hey, Roy. Can you find something on 'dimensional slip 4D rotated injection mapping'? * Katherine mutters, "For Vernon's sake, I hope we get out of here soon." (You going to be okay, Todd?) Dimensional slip somethin?.. Sure. (In a sec, hopefully the answer will be yes.) 2d6+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fitzroy (2d6+4) and gets 11. * Threnody knocks at the door! If you were telepathic or had x-ray vision, you'd know it was him. * Rochelle gets up and goes to open it before any of you can stop her. Not a thing, Leo. Did you hear that on the radio waves? Was there anything else with it? (Rochelle has ninja speed.) * Fitzroy doesn't stop Roch.. or even try. (I sure do!) * Rochelle opens the door OMG! "Hey Thren." And then she goes back to her spot on the carpet. Yeah, I'm getting stuff on brainwaves and quantum mechanics. They've got no clue why the live test differed from the inanimate tests. * Ian waves to Thren, and goes back to writing again! Only rather less enthusiastically. * Katherine 's head snaps up at the door opening, or maybe it was at the door knock. You know. Roch is ninja. * Threnody looks tired. "Hello." He steps in and closes the door behind him! So polite. <> (I cut the TV in half.) (With my BRANE.) They're actually making some pretty profound arguements on what consciousness is. * Katherine says dryly, "Welcome to the boredom room. We have no food." Perhaps they should experiment on Vernon. * Threnody stands there. "I see." <> * Vera watches the remake. We've got Ronnie inbounds too. You still particularly irritable, Kat? * Katherine leans back on her hands, still sitting up. "Yeah, but what's Ronnie gonna do, glare me to death?" Maybe divorce you a couple more times. * Katherine snickers. "Yeah, oh no. I wonder why other me hasn't signed a prenup to get some cash out of this deal." * Threnody mms and turns to the side, running his fingers along the door idly. "I am simply feeling a little claustraphobic right now. I'd like to get outside." <> * Ian looks over at the door. * Threnody opens it. He knows who it is. * Fitzroy sits back down, since he's been standing for a while. <> "Hi, guys. Mind if I come in?" * Threnody takes a step back to make room. * Katherine turns towards the door and says in a sarcastic tone, "It's your secret science complex, isn't it?" * Fitzroy shrugs, "Sure thing." (*actually hits his head on the monitor leaning forward sleepily* fucking ow. Can we speed this up?) <> "Look, it's been a rough day for all of us, alright? My yous are lost, maybe back where you're supposed to be, you're here instead, and I've got a hundred hepped-up scientists who haven't slept in a day." * Ian nods. "I think it's safe to say this has not been a relaxing afternoon at home." (Or I could go get a Pepsi.) (And chug it. BRB.) No surprise. "Anyways, Vernon and his braintroopers have come up with a theory on what's going on. Not a why, but at least a what." * Leopoldo nods. * Rochelle changes the channel again. * Katherine still frowns slightly, but seems to be letting Ron speak his piece. <> * Threnody tilts his head in confusion. "...not what I expected to see." "'Dimensional Slip 4D Rotated Injection Mapping', he called it. Fuckin' tech speak." * Leopoldo positions himself so he can better see Ronnie. He's a lizard lying stomach-first on the couch. Someone shine a sunlamp on him and make him happy. Sounds more like a technical slip. * Katherine tracks Thren's view, her eyes widen, and she snaps back to looking at Ronnie. So.. what is it? * Threnody knits his brow. "They're dissecting a Bug," he says distractedly, as if he doesn't really believe he's watching it. * Ian blinks a few times. "I've read too much scifi, and that still escapes me." "Yeah, well, they didn't fucking predict it, that's for sure. But based on what the Med center's reading and what the Braintroopers can figure out, not all of you guys went dimension-hopping. Technically, nothing but what we've been forced to call your 'consciousness' has moved at all.>> (->>+") That'd explain the arguements on philosophy. So in otherwords, it's our minds and not our bodies. So...no actual matter has been moved? <> "Nope. Your consciousness is mapped onto the brain of your other self, hence the double-high brainwave patterns." * Threnody blinks, actually tearing himself away from the dissection to look at Ronnie. "We're 'possessing' ourselves?" <> "That'd be one way to put it, yeah." * Katherine frowns, "Sounds right, but it sounds stupid, since they'd done live tests, and some of us aren't all 100% human. Why didn't any of that tag along?" * Rochelle keeps watching the 'net. "That's messed up." Whether she's talking about the bug or the conversation, we may never know. (I meant 'drone' tests, not live tests. Must have them on the brain.) <> "Fuck if I know, Kat. Best guess at the moment is that 'consciousness' just totally fucks up the process." Have you tried animals? "Hell no. We haven't let anyone near the machine since you came out of it." * Threnody frowns, rubbing his chin. It's adorable because he, you know, looks like a high schooler. Anyhow. "So basically... if you think about it, the only differences between 'us' and the 'other us' are developmental things like experience and ethics. But... they can't 'trace' it with neurochemistry?" * Katherine mutters, "Chalk one up for arbitrary nonsense restrictions." Her ears twitch. "Technically, there isn't any difference between you two, or at least there wasn't until you popped into this dimension. At least, none the med-techs can tell. Your brainwaves are 99.99% similar, within experimental error. There's just ... two sets of them." * Rochelle huhs. "Wonder if Thren can think to himself." She looks over at the telepath in question. "Does it work that way?" <> "We're thinking about trying to send you back." * Threnody tilts his head. "I've never had reason to try." I wonder what's going on in...well, where we came from? * Katherine looks over at Roch. "... that's a really freaky thought." It might be a good idea, though. See if your other self is still concious. * Threnody scratches his cheek with a finger. "There's not really much known on the science of telepathy. I suppose if thought patterns are nothing more than sets of brainwave activity, it exists as a theoretical possibility..." Maybe the other us's are laying on the floor, braindead.. Hope not. * Threnody shuts his eyes a moment, then tilts his head, then opens them again. "Nothing. If there is another me as a fully-formed consciousness, it's either dormant, or beyond my perception." "Vernon, the ass, says that the likelihood is that our team is there. Or some other team. He rambled on about probability similarity within extra-dimensional spheres from ... you know what, fuck it. I've heard way too much of that crap today." <> * Katherine eyes Ron and grins. "You can't get drunk either, huh?" * Threnody says, as an afterthought and with the trace of a giggle, "It was echo-ey." "No. Much to my displeasure at the moment." < (-??+>>) Sure. I have no objection. * Rochelle shrugs. She looks back at the bug dissection. Roche, it'll be on tomorrow at the same time. * Threnody tilts his head at Ronnie. "I suppose nothing ventured, nothing gained..." * Ian nods. "We might as well." * Katherine stands. "Yeah, but that's what happened last time. What's to say we wouldn't just end up sending ourselves and... the other brainwaves on to a different place?" Weren't we supposed to be able to go back on our own? * Rochelle addresses Leo without looking away. "Yeah, probably." "No clue, Kat, but are you gonna be happy with just sticking around here?" * Katherine chuckles a little. "We could always stick around somewhere else. I could live in a dunnoless universre for a few... years." She rubs her head. "Yeah. Go crazy experiments go." * Ian sighs. "Today's experiment...failed." "Great. I'll meet you guys down there." <> Did it ever. (Also punches Ian in the face.) * Rochelle doesn't throw the controller at Ian, because she doesn't get the reference. She does, however, turn off the 'net and get to her feet. * Leopoldo gets to his feet. "You're never going to be happy anyways." * Fitzroy shrugs, "Might as well." * Ian gets up and stretches, then puts his notebook back into his ever-present backpack. * Threnody hmms a moment, then shrugs. "I'm going down. It's not like collecting my 'things' makes any difference." He sets off for the Lab with Shake and Meatwad! (Fast forward to the lab?) * Katherine looks over at Leo, then says sarcastically, "Well, glad you figured out how the world works." (Fine with me.) (Kayo.) (Sure! Who really wants to see Sig-Asp all over again?) (Sure.) ( K ) <> <> * Threnody stands on the octagon! Since he gave the Rat Tail to Bahamut, he will be able to change class to Samurai! * Rochelle eyes Vernon, but walks on in anyway. * Ian stands on the octagon. "At the very least, we should get to see the light show again." * Fitzroy strolls on in. * Leopoldo is on/in the octagon. All your pokemon are restored! * Katherine says to Vernon, "I hope the other Kat comes back and peels off what's left of your hair," and then goes in. * Fitzroy grins, "Hey Kathrine, if we make it back alive, I'll help you work on that TSM sim of the trip." * Vera heads in. <> * Katherine looks over at Fitz and says, "Sounds good," but her heart doesn't seem in it. * Threnody remembers his mother's advice from previous 'transported through not entirely sure what' incarnations and shuts his eyes for this one. * Ian doesn't - he's looking forward to it. <> ".... did it work?" Uh... No. * Threnody opens one eye, then blinks the other one open. "...I don't think so." * Rochelle shakes her head. * Katherine is frowning. How could you tell the difference? I don't think so. There's still no such thing as DunnoCorp, right? (AFK a sec. Can assume Roch is being her usual quiet self. ;P) "No. SHIT!" <> "Vernon, you told me this had a decent shot at working! You said ... argh!" So... now what? * Threnody tilts his head in confusion. "I'm not sure why he's so upset about all this. Really, it's not all that terrible." Like I was asking before.. Wasn't there a way we were supposed to be able to get back on our own? Can't we use that? Neither do I. * Katherine taps her foot and looks angry enough to spit. Or something. "Portal, Roy. Portal. I don't see one." "You head back on up and we work on a plan B. And I try to get drunk." * Fitzroy shrugs. "I was thinking it came from the equipment.. Which we don't seem to have anyway." * Vera sighs and heads back up. "Knew this was a bad idea." (Back.) * Katherine bites off a, "Yeah," at Roy and heads out of the room. * Threnody wanders back on up, to the east side. Or something. "I'm actually wondering about Rochelle's theory. Maybe some sort of trance?" * Ian sighs, and follows. * Leopoldo shrugs and follows! * Rochelle walks along. <> (Talk amongst yourselves, I'm working on stuff.) * Katherine mutters to herself as she walks. * Ian sighs. "Getting drunk sounds like a nice idea." * Rochelle speaks up suddenly: "Can't. We're leaving soon." * Threnody theorizes out loud as he walks. "I suppose it could be done... it might be the same as working with an amnesiac. So... if I couldn't do it, maybe another telepath could?" Leaving? * Rochelle nods. Hoo-fucking-ray. * Vera smokes. " Mm." Well, then again, it would seem that of all people I'd know my own mi... huh? * Threnody turns and looks at Roch mid-sentence. <> (Artificial Struct?) (All specs work.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katherine (2d6) and gets 7. (On the nose.) (No demo, just architecture...) (I must be the only demo specialist. ^^;) (I could probably do some good digital demolition.. If it's real-world skills, I bet you could just count me out. ^_~) (Why would I have that skill at all? c.c) * Katherine DIVES to the floor and screams out, "Bomb! Forward and down!" (I could have just about any skill! That's what education does. I just have the useless ones.:P) (Kat dives forward as she says that.) * Ian doesn't hesitate - he moves as instructed. * Threnody ducks and covers almost as quickly. Woo split-second mental warning. * Rochelle does as Kat commands. Being blown to bits is a bad thing. * Vera ducks, drawing her gun. "The hell?!" * Fitzroy tries to dive for it also. * Leopoldo ducks! <> (Flame on!) <> * Threnody gets up, rubbing his head... then looks at the burnination groggily, scans the area, and without a moment's more hesitation heads into the flame. Because he is dumb. * Leopoldo gets up and runs after Thren. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" * Katherine crawls away from the door and then sits up/turns back to see Thren run _back_ into it. "Thren!" * Ian gets up, rubbing his head. "Wha...?" * Rochelle sits up, rubs at her forehead, and gets to her feet. "Thren, what're you doing?" * Vera moves away from the door, glancing up and down the hallway, gun drawn. <> Christ. * Leopoldo runs into the room, mostly ignoring the flames. He does duck down once the smoke gets too much, though. * Fitzroy stays out in the hallway, mostly confused. * Katherine gets to her feet and activates a comm system panel, "Explosion in... oh, fuck, where the hell are we? Between Barracks and Dimtech! Get medics here now!" * Threnody is inside! Near the fire. The buuuurning fire. He's crouched low because he's brave but not suicidal, and eyeing a man under a girder. He doesn't even turn to look at Leo (+.) * Leopoldo crawls forward and gets near the girder, trying to lift it off the man. <> * Ian gets his bearings and follows Leo, keeping very low. <> * Leopoldo winces, but still lifts. "Get him out of here." * Threnody grabs! And tugs and saves lives. 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Leopoldo (2d6) and gets 12, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "Hey, a failure. Oh, by the way... I heard what you've been saying about me." (... What the FUCK?!) (... How bog.) (Or not.) (Shouldn't you get a bonus for Super Strength?) (Right, -4. So I still fail by 1.) (Doesn't really matter with the critfail. ^^;) (!!) (Degree of failure matters. >_<) <> 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Leopoldo (2d6-3) and gets 5. (By 2.) <> * Threnody really saves the guy this time. Honest. * Leopoldo coughs and waits for Thren to pull the guy out, then lets the thing fall to the floor, making his way out behind Thren. * Ian waits near the entrance to make sure that all three people are okay. <> (We can't jump yet. We haven't defeated Pirate Rocksteady and Bebop yet.) * Leopoldo coughs up some smoke. "What the heck was that?" <> ( We've been cast into Quantum Leap. ) <> * Rochelle 's eyes glaze for a moment, then she shakes her head, digging her nails into the palm of her hand. (How astute a guess. ^_~) (God dammit, it IS quantum leap.) * Katherine blinks in confusion and looks around. "What the..." <> (Ah, ehe, I misinterpreted. Guess I didn't do much looking or speaking.) * Threnody tastes like burning. <> (+s+ * Katherine sees the bugs and _instantly_ tries to draw her gun. Hopefully otherher has it at one of the SANE places to put it. Or she's holding a minigun, that would work too. "Holy fuck!" * Ian blinks several times, and then looks up. "...the fuck?!" <> * Ian draws INSTANTLY and clicks off the safety. (hot-looking as in WHUPASS) (Woo!) * Rochelle glances, then steps instinctively back and checks the gun. This thing'd better work. * Vera aims her gun. Then blinks at it. "What the crap is this thing?" Whatever it is, I hope it's got a trigger. * Leopoldo blinks. "What the heck?" * Rochelle looks. "Yeah, it's got a trigger." * Fitzroy goes wide eyed, "What the??" He doesn't check his person for hawt NRG weapons. <> (Cool!) These look effective by any standards. ( 'Cept for those of us who can't use 'em :P ) * Threnody tilts his head, looking dazed and a little charred. "Where am I and why am I holding a rifle?" * Katherine just starts shooting, "Who cares? Jesus, FIRE, people! It's bugs!" I have NO CLUE. Mars and because we're being attacked. * Threnody gingerly sets his down. "Looks a little dangerous and I don't know how to use them anyway." * Ian begins firing. * Rochelle shrugs. "Yeah, okay." She aims and fires. * Vera aims hers, but doesn't fire. Not yet. * Leopoldo shoots? Eh, I guess so. * Fitzroy finds his weapon after looking around at the others and realizing that he has one too. He's not shooting yet, though. <> ( I've reread that sentence four times now and still can't figure out what you mean :P ) (Yeeeah.) (It means everybody but Leo and I can fire at will.) (No, it doesn't. Remember? Two handed guns are different. Nobody here can use them. At all.) (ENERGY guns are different. We all suck. ^^;) (Yup!) ( Unless we suddenly can. Which we might, because I can't parse that sentence @_@ ) (But hey, there's a lot of them. ;P) (Yeah, really.) (Yeah, shoot and you're bound to hit one of them!) <> (GO US!) (I don't _care_. I'm STILL firing.) (Do we roll anyhow?) (It's a mass of bugs.) (Yeah. Lotsa bugs to hit.) <> * Vera takes a shot. "This is the LAST time I fuckin' do something for the sake of the freakin' world. Screw this." ...apparently we are in the bad sci-fi dimension. A very bad sci-fi dimension. * Katherine says quickly, "It'd be bad Sci-Fi if it weren't a Bug resurgence! FIRE." <> <> 2d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ian (2d6-3) and gets 5. 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Leopoldo (2d6+1) and gets 8. (That's a yes.) (Pfft, no.) 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Vera (2d6-1) and gets 7. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rochelle (2d6-1) and gets 4. ( Nope ) 2d6+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katherine (2d6+1) and gets 11. (Yup!) (... Ha ha no.) 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Fitzroy (2d6) and gets 11. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Threnody (2d6-1) and gets 4. (Yes.) * Rochelle glances to her left, then fires again as she comments, "Yes, Captain Kat." She doesn't look worried, but when does she ever? (oop, -1, but that still gives a big no.) * Ian glances that way, as well. "...ANDERS?!" * Threnody just... blinks, tilting his head. Also, HAWT AMAZON COMBAT CLOTHING + adorable little boy face = weird. "It does appear to be Anders." * Anders waves! * Katherine snorts, and her firing starts to be a hell of a lot better. "What about Anders?" ( Thren's wearing Wonderwoman's outfit? Freaky? ) Who cares?! * Rochelle doesn't wave back. Two hands holding the gun here. "He's next to us." <> Uhm, hi. ( Does he have a multicolored hand computer? ) (Not yet.) * Katherine blows up bugs like much less of a novice! "Very busy!" * Vera fires, and glances to the side, towards Anders. "NOW what?" * Threnody tilts his head to one side. "Does this mean what I think it means?" He tilts it to the other. "...no, that's not right at all." Jeopardy music plays. (Thren's latent 24 power, y'see.) (It's why I'm made for Leo. ourloveissobackgroundmusic.) (<.<;) <> So, er. Having fun? <> * Threnody tilts his head back to the first side. "...something doesn't add up here." He seems completely oblivious to the rampaging Not Starship Troopers, Seriously out there. For one, I'm not hearing Perry Como in my head, and yet Anders is right there. * Katherine fires after them, then closes her eyes once they're out of range. "I don't believe this. Oh my god, bugs." * Rochelle lets out a breath, then turns to look at Anders. "What are you doing here?" What's going ON here? Where's the real Anders? <> "That was the most piss-poor excuse for combat I've ever seen! If I didn't know any better I'd suspect you all of being implanted! And who the hell are you talking to?" * Katherine turns towards the commander and looks him/her over. * Leopoldo turns to Mr. Commander Person and glances him over, too. * Ian looks over. * Rochelle glances at her weapon. Well, I'm here to help! Or try. I don't know how much use I'll be without... oh, and he probably can't see me. * Threnody slaps his hand into his palm. "I knew it! It's some sort of mental dimensional probability timeslip awareness power! That's how he can see the future!" He sounds as if he's been working on that theory for months. * Vera grimaces and holds her head. <> "Well? An explanation, or do I haul all of you in for ...." <> "Have you completely fucking slipped your wig, soldier?!" * Threnody pauses, putting a finger to his chin. "...well, I think that sounded technobabbly enough to make sense." Commander who? Lalala, SCIENCE! ... Yeah. Yup. Er... well, it can wait. I think. * Vera mutters something in Russian. <> "... right. Get off to the infirmary, on the fucking double!" <>