Page 197: Playing games

[Mithramuse]

Crossfire, word games, you name it.



Jardin's trying to sneak a little information while his (more serious?) minders are asleep... we'll see how that works out for him, I guess!

--Mithramuse

[Dan Wyatt]

FIRST

[DevilDalek]

Brings up the question.. what OTHER things did the commander want off her ship?
Including Alex of course!

[Dan Wyatt]

Brings up the question.. what OTHER things did the commander want off her ship?
Including Alex of course!

Let's see...
1. Tempo
2. Tempo's Sidekick
3. Beryl
4. Historian TIncan
5. Fireblade
6. Flint
7. Reed
8. Talon
9. Spiral
10. Alex's Stuff
11. Beryl's Nerd stuff

[asaenvolk]

Not sure Fireblade, Flint, or Reed would be on that list, more they are victims by proxy.

[Dan Wyatt]

Not sure Fireblade, Flint, or Reed would be on that list, more they are victims by proxy.

Captain Cray-Cray wanted everything that came in touch with the Xeno to be off her ship. She is from Taben, and according to tabenid superstition this pinko here is bad luck for the ship. You see her discussing with the XO, after the Wreck is nuked, about whether to keep the bad luck blank on the ship; and the XO probably telling her to yeet it, along with all corrupted(possibly) Teidars. Fireblade was on the list because she did not want to space the male, as she has the final saying in on-board security matters.

[DevilDalek]

Sounds like the makings of a plucky, non conformist, get the job done, thinking outside the box kind of adventuring crew..

[CrimsonFALKE]

Hey didn't it get mentioned the historians could have attacked the humans? Also how ugly would htey be you don't want to see them.

[Dan Wyatt]

Hey didn't it get mentioned the historians could have attacked the humans? Also how ugly would htey be you don't want to see them.

They are probably bored old people, having an isolationist policy.

[gaerzi]

"What about when their ships are in action? What's the color of their beam weapons? Is it very bright white with maybe a slightly greenish tint?"

[Jagged]

Hey didn't it get mentioned the historians could have attacked the humans? Also how ugly would htey be you don't want to see them.

Maybe they are actually extremely pretty and hate it when the younger races get all doe-eyed.

[Diodri]

"What about when their ships are in action? What's the color of their beam weapons? Is it very bright white with maybe a slightly greenish tint?"

Tempo: "Green?"

Historian: "That is not very precise intelligence, excellency."

[Clockwork Ninja]

Back on page 156 the historian advised Alex not to reveal its presence, but they seem to know about it here. Do the Loroi think the construct is not present and the the projector is suspect by association alone?

Alex clearly not listening to the historian anyway, which is understandable but may have consequences.

[kyosanim]

Back on page 156 the historian advised Alex not to reveal its presence, but they seem to know about it here. Do the Loroi think the construct is not present and the the projector is suspect by association alone?

Alex clearly not listening to the historian anyway, which is understandable but may have consequences.

I don't think is Alex not listening to the historian, but more not fully trust him while to fully dismissing him completely either.

[boldilocks]

Back on page 156 the historian advised Alex not to reveal its presence, but they seem to know about it here. Do the Loroi think the construct is not present and the the projector is suspect by association alone?

Alex clearly not listening to the historian anyway, which is understandable but may have consequences.

They know that the historian projector is on board. They don't know that a historian construct is on Alex' tablet and is whispering in his ear. The historian construct projector doesn't necessarily maintain a construct presence in the projector at all times.
Though that's some interesting questions

• Do the Loroi assume that the historian construct can't inhabit the projector at all times.

• Can the historian construct in fact not inhabit the projector at all times, but only use it as a relay?

• Did the historian use the projector as a relay from "Prophet's Reason" to get into Alex' tablet?

[raistlin34]

Hey didn't it get mentioned the historians could have attacked the humans? Also how ugly would htey be you don't want to see them.

Do all Union races share the same standards of beauty?
Or are Historians straight Lovecraftians horrors?

[gaerzi]

We can assume, until proven otherwise, that the personality constructs' visual appearance is based on a stylized/abstracted form of what Historians look like.
https://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider052.html to https://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider065.html

Four arms, (partial?) exoskeleton, long head with salient "cheekbones" at the eye level, pointy teeth.

[DCR]

Alex is pushing kinda hard with the subtle, casually slipped in questions.

[DevilDalek]

We can assume, until proven otherwise, that the personality constructs' visual appearance is based on a stylized/abstracted form of what Historians look like.
https://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider052.html to https://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider065.html

Four arms, (partial?) exoskeleton, long head with salient "cheekbones" at the eye level, pointy teeth.

Maybe the holofirm us a cute-ified version of them, and they are really the Antarans?

[grixit]

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.