Shortning . . . For Cookies?" Phoenix's D.S.P. Log Book. Part 424.
Scene opens to the bowling alley on Arcust.
(Vu) *drinking something from the bar* “Fuck, it’s been a week how fucking far out did we get?”
(Chelle) “Who knows, not having a working dimensional jump grid sucks. Almost forgot how long raveling anywhere without it really takes.”
(J) “I think it’s great. There’s some cool scenery when we travel in hyperspace.”
(Chelle) "Lesley is making you take pictures isn’t she?"
(J) ". . ."
(Chelle) "So whipped."
(Angelica) "I'm still waiting for Phoenix to explain how we lost our com's but he still managed to open a channel to us."
(J) "I have a theory about that."
(Angelica) ". . . And?"
(J) "Oh, I think that bell was made from some crazy material that just blocked out everything inside the bell tower."
(Angelica) "That the worst explanation I’ve ever heard. our display screens still worked while we were right next to it."
(J) "So? it blocked signals from communications and sensors signals not the other tech that doesn’t rely on sending out a signal."
(Angelica) ". . . Ok I guess that sort of makes more sense."
(Vu) "Why are we talking about this?"
(Angelica) "Because I wanted to know, damnit."
(Chelle) "Has anyone seen Sibene lately?"
(J) "No, why?"
(Chelle) "No reason, I just remember her being here when we came onboard but I haven’t seen her in a few days."
(Vu) "Has anyone seen M's?"
(Chelle) "M's is here?"
(Vu) "Yeah, she’s been down in some weird lab with my brother almost all week."
(J) "That must be where Ari's been too. it’s strange not seeing them around the ship."
(Angelica) "It's some kind of mineralogy lab, Phoenix and M's are both rock and gem nerds, so they've been going through some of the more interesting things mined from the asteroid fields."
(Ari) "They've been sorting stuff from planets we've visited too."
(Chelle) "Hey Ari, how long have you been standing there?"
(Ari) "Couple minutes, what are you guys doing?"
(Vu) "Drinking."
(Ari) "There’s like 4 bars on the ship now, why are you in the bowling alley?"
(J) "Vu figured once she’s nice and drunk we all might want to see how shitty we can all bowl."
(Vu) "You agreed with me when I suggested it you ass."
(J) "That’s just because I want to see you fall on your face drunk bowling."
(Chelle) "And all the excuses for falling that don’t have anything to do with being drunk."
(Angelica) "Or anything to do with bowling."
(Vu) "You guys are assholes, you know that?"
(Ari) *giggles* "You guys have fun with that, I’m going to go back to the rock lab." *turns to walk out* "Oh and we'll be back at Mular Bay in about 8 hours if any of you care." *skips out of the bowling alley* "Later guys."
(Vu) "Great, 8 hours to get drunk. that’s just not enough time!"
(Angelica) "You made a deal with Phoenix to drink extra hard when he can't didn't you?"
(Vu) "Hey, what makes you think he’s not plowed right now?"
Scene fades.
Day 60
You would be surprised what kinds of shit comes out of asteroids, especially when the asteroids themselves were once part of a planet that was torn apart for whatever reason. It’s not uncommon to come across a lump of carbon the size of a building that just under the black crusty surface is one massive diamond. Doesn’t happen a lot, but it’s not uncommon. Planets and asteroid fields are always good for mining so many different useful things. Precious metals and gems are always my favorites though . . . But anyway. Just made it back to Mular Bay. M’s is pissed at me again and I still don’t know why. Angelica hasn’t said 2 words to me, I have a feeling I know what that’s about and the rest of my crew is completely drunk right now staggering around somewhere lost on the Arcust singing drunk songs. I’ve been listening to them over the com’s for the last hour and it’s just amusing as all hell.
Scene opens to the mineralogy lab on Arcust.
(M’s) “No, I’m not mad at you for drinking, I’m mad at you because we didn’t get to see the Mayan city on that planet first hand!”
(Me) “For the last time it was a Vasht city. They only influenced the Mayan’s.”
(M’s) “How does that make it any different? I’m still mad at you because I didn’t get to see it!”
(Me) “You know where the fucking place is, you can go back there and see it whenever the hell you want! It’s not like you’re not in fucking charge of shit, you can do whatever the fuck you feel like doing!”
(Ari) *looking at a large translucent green stone* “Can we go see the big Feathered Serpent later? I want to ask him if he’s Kukulkán.”
(M’s) “Damn you know all the names for that one don’t you?”
(Me) “I think it’s a she, so not likely Quetzalcoatl, or any of its variants.”
(Ari) “. . . Captain? Can I ask you something?”
(Me) “Sure.”
(Ari) “The Mesoamericans had something called the Heart of the Sky and it was about Lightning Gods. Were they talking about Mr. Lie? I mean they call him Lie Thra and that means lightning god, right?”
(Me) “. . . I have no idea. Lie has traveled all over all of the universes of all the known dimensions and probably then some. I guess it’s possible and it kinda would make sense saying as he traveled with 2 of his closest friends and they were sometimes called the lightning warriors.”
(M’s) “You have one of the strangest families ever.”
(Ari) *giggles* “I guess I’ll just have to ask Mr. Lie next time I see him.”
(Me) “Good call, just don’t expect an answer, he likes to be all mysterious and secretive about shit like that.”
(M’s) “Kind of like you not wanting to be mentioned in Egyptian history even though you lived there off and on for however many centuries.”
(Me) “That’s different, I didn’t really do much of anything aside from drinking and partying with the Orion’s.”
(M’s) “Right, I seem to remember Osiris telling me a story bot how you got kicked off the planet for a fire that...”
(Me) “That was Ravena! I just got blamed for that shit!”
(Ari) “What? That’s part of the story I haven’t heard yet.”
Both M’s and Ari just stare at the Captain waiting for him to elaborate.
(Me) “. . . Crap, you want me to tell the whole damn story don’t you?”
(M’s) “Start to finish.”
(Ari) “Don’t leave anything out!”
(Me) “Someone better get some chairs and make some popcorn cuz this story’s a fucking long one.”
(M’s) “Ari, get the chairs, I’ll make the pop corn!”
(Ari) “Yey popcorn! The Captain’s stories are always so much fun!”
(Me) “. . . I am so going to regret this...”
Scene fades.
(Vu) *drinking something from the bar* “Fuck, it’s been a week how fucking far out did we get?”
(Chelle) “Who knows, not having a working dimensional jump grid sucks. Almost forgot how long raveling anywhere without it really takes.”
(J) “I think it’s great. There’s some cool scenery when we travel in hyperspace.”
(Chelle) "Lesley is making you take pictures isn’t she?"
(J) ". . ."
(Chelle) "So whipped."
(Angelica) "I'm still waiting for Phoenix to explain how we lost our com's but he still managed to open a channel to us."
(J) "I have a theory about that."
(Angelica) ". . . And?"
(J) "Oh, I think that bell was made from some crazy material that just blocked out everything inside the bell tower."
(Angelica) "That the worst explanation I’ve ever heard. our display screens still worked while we were right next to it."
(J) "So? it blocked signals from communications and sensors signals not the other tech that doesn’t rely on sending out a signal."
(Angelica) ". . . Ok I guess that sort of makes more sense."
(Vu) "Why are we talking about this?"
(Angelica) "Because I wanted to know, damnit."
(Chelle) "Has anyone seen Sibene lately?"
(J) "No, why?"
(Chelle) "No reason, I just remember her being here when we came onboard but I haven’t seen her in a few days."
(Vu) "Has anyone seen M's?"
(Chelle) "M's is here?"
(Vu) "Yeah, she’s been down in some weird lab with my brother almost all week."
(J) "That must be where Ari's been too. it’s strange not seeing them around the ship."
(Angelica) "It's some kind of mineralogy lab, Phoenix and M's are both rock and gem nerds, so they've been going through some of the more interesting things mined from the asteroid fields."
(Ari) "They've been sorting stuff from planets we've visited too."
(Chelle) "Hey Ari, how long have you been standing there?"
(Ari) "Couple minutes, what are you guys doing?"
(Vu) "Drinking."
(Ari) "There’s like 4 bars on the ship now, why are you in the bowling alley?"
(J) "Vu figured once she’s nice and drunk we all might want to see how shitty we can all bowl."
(Vu) "You agreed with me when I suggested it you ass."
(J) "That’s just because I want to see you fall on your face drunk bowling."
(Chelle) "And all the excuses for falling that don’t have anything to do with being drunk."
(Angelica) "Or anything to do with bowling."
(Vu) "You guys are assholes, you know that?"
(Ari) *giggles* "You guys have fun with that, I’m going to go back to the rock lab." *turns to walk out* "Oh and we'll be back at Mular Bay in about 8 hours if any of you care." *skips out of the bowling alley* "Later guys."
(Vu) "Great, 8 hours to get drunk. that’s just not enough time!"
(Angelica) "You made a deal with Phoenix to drink extra hard when he can't didn't you?"
(Vu) "Hey, what makes you think he’s not plowed right now?"
Scene fades.
Day 60
You would be surprised what kinds of shit comes out of asteroids, especially when the asteroids themselves were once part of a planet that was torn apart for whatever reason. It’s not uncommon to come across a lump of carbon the size of a building that just under the black crusty surface is one massive diamond. Doesn’t happen a lot, but it’s not uncommon. Planets and asteroid fields are always good for mining so many different useful things. Precious metals and gems are always my favorites though . . . But anyway. Just made it back to Mular Bay. M’s is pissed at me again and I still don’t know why. Angelica hasn’t said 2 words to me, I have a feeling I know what that’s about and the rest of my crew is completely drunk right now staggering around somewhere lost on the Arcust singing drunk songs. I’ve been listening to them over the com’s for the last hour and it’s just amusing as all hell.
Scene opens to the mineralogy lab on Arcust.
(M’s) “No, I’m not mad at you for drinking, I’m mad at you because we didn’t get to see the Mayan city on that planet first hand!”
(Me) “For the last time it was a Vasht city. They only influenced the Mayan’s.”
(M’s) “How does that make it any different? I’m still mad at you because I didn’t get to see it!”
(Me) “You know where the fucking place is, you can go back there and see it whenever the hell you want! It’s not like you’re not in fucking charge of shit, you can do whatever the fuck you feel like doing!”
(Ari) *looking at a large translucent green stone* “Can we go see the big Feathered Serpent later? I want to ask him if he’s Kukulkán.”
(M’s) “Damn you know all the names for that one don’t you?”
(Me) “I think it’s a she, so not likely Quetzalcoatl, or any of its variants.”
(Ari) “. . . Captain? Can I ask you something?”
(Me) “Sure.”
(Ari) “The Mesoamericans had something called the Heart of the Sky and it was about Lightning Gods. Were they talking about Mr. Lie? I mean they call him Lie Thra and that means lightning god, right?”
(Me) “. . . I have no idea. Lie has traveled all over all of the universes of all the known dimensions and probably then some. I guess it’s possible and it kinda would make sense saying as he traveled with 2 of his closest friends and they were sometimes called the lightning warriors.”
(M’s) “You have one of the strangest families ever.”
(Ari) *giggles* “I guess I’ll just have to ask Mr. Lie next time I see him.”
(Me) “Good call, just don’t expect an answer, he likes to be all mysterious and secretive about shit like that.”
(M’s) “Kind of like you not wanting to be mentioned in Egyptian history even though you lived there off and on for however many centuries.”
(Me) “That’s different, I didn’t really do much of anything aside from drinking and partying with the Orion’s.”
(M’s) “Right, I seem to remember Osiris telling me a story bot how you got kicked off the planet for a fire that...”
(Me) “That was Ravena! I just got blamed for that shit!”
(Ari) “What? That’s part of the story I haven’t heard yet.”
Both M’s and Ari just stare at the Captain waiting for him to elaborate.
(Me) “. . . Crap, you want me to tell the whole damn story don’t you?”
(M’s) “Start to finish.”
(Ari) “Don’t leave anything out!”
(Me) “Someone better get some chairs and make some popcorn cuz this story’s a fucking long one.”
(M’s) “Ari, get the chairs, I’ll make the pop corn!”
(Ari) “Yey popcorn! The Captain’s stories are always so much fun!”
(Me) “. . . I am so going to regret this...”
Scene fades.