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Icarus Ascending (Space Pirate Quest)

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Diomedon said:
You go to close the locker when something in the bottom catches your eye. You fish it out to reveal an equipment belt. An equipment belt with a gun holster, complete with gun. And a stun baton. And a mono-molecular knife.

Suspicious.
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Well well well, it seems we may have hijacked someone else's brilliant plan!

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Disgusting. Even if they were mechanical geniuses, you couldn't stand people like them on your crew. It made your skin crawl to think you were even the same species. No wonder humanity had lost the contact war.
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...Eh, we're pirates. Not our problem.

[X] Just...just get on the ship...
We got this far by applying a minimal amount of sanity! Roll with punches! We need more crew anyway. I vote we appoint her our mascot, and then ignore her when she isn't doing anything important/adorable.

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Diomedon said:
...a little too perfectly for your taste, so you throw your jacket back on over it, replace your hat, adjust your eyepatch a little, and you're looking like every proper pirate should!
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At first I thought the suit we were putting on had a helmet and assumed we were wearing the eyepatch on the outside of it. I absolutely want that to be a thing if we ever operate in vacuum!

[X] Just to be absolutely clear, you're not someone who is madly in love with me who keeps looping through time again and again, right? Or a killer robot?
 
[x] Just to be absolutely clear, you're not someone who is madly in love with me who keeps looping through time again and again, right? Or a killer robot?

Gotta clear out the obvious possibilities first, of course. ^_^
Diomedon said:
"Ugh, you're too difficult," you concede as you let your arm, and by extension the pistol, drop to your side. "I'll pay you five percent of the profit. Happy?"

"I want 15% of the gross, and free room and board," he counters, starting to grin, "The mechanic is really crucial, you know. All the crew in the world is useless without a working starship."

He's-He's enjoying this?! "No! Ten percent of the profit. And free room and board is expected, idiot! That's my final offer!"

"And you'll fill out paperwork so this counts as an internship?" he says, looking pleased as punch.
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Diomedon said:
"I have traveled far, through both space and time to come here. Do you treasure your dream, this life of piracy you chase?" she pauses, the barest of moments, and resumes after you give her the barest of nods, "Then I'm sorry, so, so, sorry, but you must let me come with you, if you want your legend to live on."
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:rofl: I'm liking this crew.
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"You know, fools who run their mouths off wind up dead," you say softly, almost whisper to him.
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You do realize that you're obligated to continue including these, right? It's almost contractual now. ^_^
 
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[x] Just to be absolutely clear, you're not someone who is madly in love with me who keeps looping through time again and again, right? Or a killer robot?

An ally?
 
Diomedon said:
"Hail, the greatest pirate who ever lived, Captain Aurora, the Red Death herself,"
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Oh, we should also probably check sometime to see if she has the right pirate...

NAH! Who else could she talking about, right?

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TurtleDucks said:
I was wondering about that. It's possible we have a stowaway with us, and considering the weapons it's safe to say they won't be a particularly friendly sort. We definitely need to keep a tight lock on the weapons once we're back on the ship.
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Well, I was more thinking that we interrupted the head crazy scientists plan to make off with his prize test/escape ship. He was due to test it soon, right?

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TurtleDucks said:
Well, there is the 'Captain Aurora' bit. We're supposed to have thrown away our name after all. Though I guess it could be a title.
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If she is from the future, we may have picked up a few names and titles as we went on. For example, our in-atmo jumpship apparently leaves behind an auroral effect when make a dramatic exit.

Also, at our most direst hour, we should make a note to ourselves to come back during this time at this place so that future us can pull past us out of the fire! BUT ONLY AT OUR MOST DIRE HOUR! Preferably when other time-shenanigans are going on, we don't want to cheat too much, right?

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Sightsear said:
If she is from the future, we may have picked up a few names and titles as we went on. For example, our in-atmo jumpship apparently leaves behind an auroral effect when make a dramatic exit.

Also, at our most direst hour, we should make a note to ourselves to come back during this time at this place so that future us can pull past us out of the fire! BUT ONLY AT OUR MOST DIRE HOUR! Preferably when other time-shenanigans are going on, we don't want to cheat too much, right?
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Oh, right, totally blanked on that aurora bit, I remember it was in the news broadcast now. Speaking of time travel shenanigans, I see this quest now has a 'Surprise Time Travel!' tag.
 
[x] Just to be absolutely clear, you're not someone who is madly in love with me who keeps looping through time again and again, right? Or a killer robot?

Never hurts to check. Though we should have a cross and holy water ready anyway just in case.;)

... Wait, no that's vampires.:oops:
 
Vicjer said:
[x] Just to be absolutely clear, you're not someone who is madly in love with me who keeps looping through time again and again, right? Or a killer robot?

Never hurts to check. Though we should have a cross and holy water ready anyway just in case.;)

... Wait, no that's vampires.:oops:
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I think people are entirely too worried about our possible demise by this girl.
Even if she is a murder monster who happens to be madly in love with us and looping, I mean, who's to say one of these loops it won't work? Could be this one. Could be the next one.
 
Oh, we have a flag! It's so cute! The star-shaped eyesocket really adds to the charm! And would you look at all the heart-shaped bones!
TurtleDucks said:
At first I thought the suit we were putting on had a helmet and assumed we were wearing the eyepatch on the outside of it. I absolutely want that to be a thing if we ever operate in vacuum!
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I know, right!?

The image of wearing a jacket on top of an apparently skin-tight EVA suit cracks me up.

[x] Just to be absolutely clear, you're not someone who is madly in love with me who keeps looping through time again and again, right? Or a killer robot?

People have lost the sense of piracy romance. :( If she is a killer robot madly in love with us she definitely needs to come along! All Great Pirate stories have them commanding a crew of whackos. The weirder they are, the greater the legend!

She must come. Don't waste our chance! Besides, we need more crew. And we just got robbed of 10% of our profits on the mechanic deal, but the new girl makes it a 2-in-1 offer, reducing the losses to an acceptable level of 5% per crew member. The one we offered ourselves. Our word is law! We are just showing them who's the boss here, really.
 
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Nevill said:
She must come.
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Well duh, that's why my vote was to just awkwardly tell her to get on the ship.
The "just to be clear" vote almost seems negative. If she is a murder robot time looper madly in love with us, I, fucking, want her. I am not willing to gamble on a vote that looks negative.

I suppose we could always specify for our QM, but, well, who's to say?
Certainly not I.
 
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