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by grixit
Mon Jan 01, 2024 2:28 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
Replies: 69
Views: 741035

Re: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!

It occurs to me that if the umiaks are using some kind of psionic detection equipment, they might not know that Alex is even there.
by grixit
Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:04 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!
Replies: 69
Views: 741035

Re: Page: 225 - Krak, KRAK!! WHOKK!!!

Shoot the neck.
by grixit
Fri Dec 08, 2023 9:32 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 224: Optimistic Way Of Looking At Things
Replies: 51
Views: 346727

Re: Page 224: Optimistic Way Of Looking At Things

Also-- maybe time for the historian to send them some intervention.
by grixit
Fri Dec 08, 2023 9:26 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 224: Optimistic Way Of Looking At Things
Replies: 51
Views: 346727

Re: Page 224: Optimistic Way Of Looking At Things

Time to find out if our boy has any actual close combat skills.
by grixit
Wed Jul 07, 2021 9:42 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 207: Tempo showing off
Replies: 37
Views: 14972

Re: Page 207: Tempo showing off

I wonder if it would be possible to arrange an explosion that would coincidentally knock them towards the Prophet's Wisdom.
by grixit
Mon Jul 05, 2021 9:06 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 206: Just needs an expert's touch
Replies: 64
Views: 17948

Re: Page 206: Just needs an expert's touch

Now i am reminded of the old old Star Trek game we played on printing terminals before crt monitors became standard. Long range sensors would tell you how many klingon ships were in the next sector, but you had to actually go there to see where they were.
by grixit
Tue Jun 01, 2021 2:40 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 202: WHY?
Replies: 47
Views: 23481

Re: Page 202: WHY?

raistlin34 wrote:
Mon May 31, 2021 11:59 pm
This is war; killing off named characters is a good way to drive this point home.
Thank you for that stark reminder.
by grixit
Mon May 10, 2021 11:48 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 199: MAD about stuff
Replies: 68
Views: 126733

Re: Page 199: MAD about stuff

I love how the surface of the buggy ships are covered with buggy protuberances.

Waiting for the officer to say the code phrase which means "the enemy must not gain possession of the alien".
by grixit
Wed May 05, 2021 12:50 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 198: Beated!
Replies: 40
Views: 25536

Re: Page 198: Beated!

IRL pilots will use the rudder of an aircraft to yaw back and forth a bit "wagging the tail" when in view of another plane, like waving to each other. This is sometimes done to indicate a problem when a radio is unavailable, or it can just be a friendly acknowledgement. "They're waggleling!" -- Bat...
by grixit
Wed May 05, 2021 12:48 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 198: Beated!
Replies: 40
Views: 25536

Re: Page 198: Beated!

Heh. I think the pilots have been thinking of him as an unsophisticated yokel. The idea that he could use a psychological ploy, play the player as well as the game, to gain advantage through distraction, never occured to them.
by grixit
Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:56 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 197: Playing games
Replies: 26
Views: 15043

Re: Page 197: Playing games

Also, it seems strangely naive to think that an artifact of a civilization with much more advanced technology than yours is really off when it's not doing anything. In fact, that explains to me how the bot has a reading on the current mental states of the loroi. Clearly, there is a communications me...
by grixit
Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:51 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 197: Playing games
Replies: 26
Views: 15043

Re: Page 197: Playing games

The historian ai maintains the pretense that they are the tools of a bio species that created them. However, the creators are actually long dead. The cylons are on their own.
by grixit
Sun Apr 18, 2021 9:03 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: page 196: Crossfire
Replies: 61
Views: 18424

page 196: Crossfire

We're getting a complete writeup of the game, right?
by grixit
Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:16 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: page 195: bad enough
Replies: 43
Views: 12500

Re: page 195: bad enough

Given the degree of strategic surprise the bugs achieved, I personally think they would probably be most interested in preparing to move on to the next system as quickly as possible. They seem to be in a position where they could gain a lot from pressing as far as they can as quickly as they can be...
by grixit
Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:30 pm
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 194: partial functionality
Replies: 62
Views: 27346

Re: Page 194: partial functionality

<all the things> Speaking of chaotic situations, is Jardin a Jonah? Only been twice so far, but that's a lot of getting shot at. What? A Jonah? Like the biblical figure? What has been twice? Twice contacting the pocket Historian? Originally from the Bible. A person on shipboard regarded as the caus...
by grixit
Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:12 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 194: partial functionality
Replies: 62
Views: 27346

Re: Page 194: partial functionality

I have an old phone. I took the sim out and use it as a little tablet. Every time i turn it on, i have to remove up to 4 programs that somehow installed themselves since last time. So apparently here in our pre stellar age, there are already examples of powerdown intrusion. None of them have warned ...
by grixit
Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:51 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 193: Space Stroganoff shifting around
Replies: 44
Views: 21308

Re: Page 193: Space Stroganoff shifting around

That's bad. Remember he doesn't trust the suit to handle his biological functions for fear it might be female specific. Though it seems weird to me to assume that congruent evolution has made everything match between humans and loroi including the form of the dangly bits. Whatever, the stroganoff is...
by grixit
Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:46 am
Forum: Outsider Discussion
Topic: Page 192: Sleep well, girls!
Replies: 45
Views: 19122

Re: Page 192: Sleep well, girls!

Dummy still doesn't realize that he's getting some of Red's memories.