Re: Eclipse Phase: Glory
Posted: February 5th, 2014, 13:30
Sure, why not
Kinesics (16): Rolled 91
What's a colour?
Kinesics (16): Rolled 91
What's a colour?
That's as good as the translate can get, Joose let me know if you need to know what I actually said!We lagi looking for kapal. Kaya Yours. Stealthy. Padha Gear. Cilik. Racer. Stands metu. Dijenengi Keysrah. Katon iku?
Marksley wrote:Son, you just described half the ships docked in Casa Arturo. Kesyrah... I think that's one of Shoggys. Yeah, Shoggy, that Uplift fella. Does good work, that guy. Good luck finding it if the pilot don't want to be found. If Shoggy can give you the ships Mesh codes you might be able to find it by broadcasting a direct connection request transmission. You would need to be within a few km of it first though.
Joose wrote:Shoggys skin colour changes. If you want to know what that means you need either an appropriate bio-science skill or a really good kinesics roll.
Shoggy wrote:Oh, right yeah! You must be Yu's friends. Honestly I'm not sure whether to be relieved about that or not, I was beginning to think she had just ran off with it. Yeah, the Kesyrah is mine. Its a...er...racing ship. Minimal cargo, only room for one pilot, one co-pilot. Built primarily for speed. And, just as a personal development project, it happens to be stealthed; radar defeating panels, minimal forward facing heat signature, EM clean, that sort of thing. Just to see if I could, you understand. Tends to be hired out by a certain kind of person, if you know what I mean. Yu didn't really fit the template to be honest, but I didn't object. Seemed more trustworthy than the regulars really. She was only supposed to have it for a couple of days, its been weeks now. If I can help you track down my ship and get it back to me I will absolutely help you out. Not sure if I can though. She didn't exactly file a flight plan, you know? If I knew where she was I would have sent someone looking already
DCOM pauses and cocks his head.DCOM wrote:I see your point. What would you say the range of the ship was? Do you think she would still be within the Greeks? You may have noticed she was in a Ghost Morph, and we know she had bought equipment to deal with unconventional data types. Do you know of anywhere in the Greeks which might attract such an infiltrator? Somewhere off-limits?
I'll try that kinesics roll. I aced the last one.DCOM wrote:You assumed we are her friends. You are correct, but taking into account her recent behaviour are you not concerned that we are hostile?
Usagi wrote:A stealthed ship is going to be hard to locate, even if we can get into its general vicinity. As it's your ship, do you have anything that could help us in that regard - some unique signal we could trace or some autoresponse we could trigger within range?
He scratches the back of his head (well, the big bulbous bit at the top of his body).Shoggy, to DCOM wrote:The Kesyrah has a pretty good range for its size, but its still a shuttle. Almost certainly her destination was somewhere in the Greeks. I'm just a ... whats that old Earth term ... grease ape? I just build the ships, I dont go out there myself. If you wanted to hide something, the Greeks would be a good place to do it. Trouble is, thats because its full of shit. Big rocks, dumped husks of old ships, abandoned habs. Full of crap. Not much help for finding the ship though.
Shoggy wrote:She seemed nice, actually. Professional, courteous. Not at all hostile. Besides, We are in my shipyard, in my home hab, surrounded by my close friends. You might be hostile, but you don't look stupid.
You know a bit about the colours of Octopus uplifts! Their skin colour changes are a bit like a humans facial expressions. The colour change you just saw was the equivalent of a humanoid going from a confused frown to a happy smile. His overall behaviour seems pretty open and honest.Dog Pants wrote:I'll try that kinesics roll. I aced the last one.
Kinesics: 55
2, 2: 22 Critical! Excellent Success!
Haha, I'm Sigmund fucking Freud.
He looks thoughtful for a second.Shoggy, to Usagi wrote:Oh sure! Here, I'll transmit you the mesh access codes. It wont broadcast any mesh signal, but if you fire a access request at the ship it will give you a connection. You'll have to be pretty close, but as long as you get within a few km it'll be able to pinpoint it easy. These codes will also give you access to the logs, controls and so on.
It might be nothing, but she specifically wanted a two man ship. You might want to look for the second man.
She smiles tightly.Usagi wrote:It's 'grease monkey'
Usagi wrote:Did you see anything of this.. second man?
Usagi, subvocally, to Ramu wrote:okay, Lum - i tell him, shut up already
Shoggy wrote:Ah, thats it. Oh! Oh, sorry. No offence meant.
I'm not sure about the second guy. I mean, I'm just guessing there was a second guy. Inferring, you know. There was another guy came in on the same shuttle from Locus that she did. Might have been the second guy. I saw him, but ... well, he had two legs, two arms and hair at the top. Most humanoid morphs look kinda the same to me.
There's going to be a point when we can't schmooze our way through this investigation.DCOM wrote:Do you know the name of the shuttle which she came on? That would be very helpful, and you clearly know your spacecraft.
Shoggy wrote:Ooooh, not sure the shuttle had a name. Its one of Gus Garretts regular transports.
DCOM wrote:Gus Garrett. Thank you. Do you know where we might find him?
I think I covered this when I was talking about Yu sending forks to Vishnukam, but just in case: People can make copies of their Egos that they then prune down to a kind of edited copy known as a Fork. Alpha Forks are direct or near direct copies, Beta Forks have personal details and other similar sensitive info pruned out, Gamma Forks are the barest bones of a personality, usually just enough of the original person left to do one specific job. Most people use Beta Forks for stuff: Alphas are a high risk for buggering off and living a life of their own, Gammas are often too restricted.Shoggy wrote:Might not be physically around, but he tends to leave a fork online to deal with things when he is out somewhere. Try him on the mesh, it will get through to him one way or the other.
Gus wrote:Yo. What can I do you for?
DCOM wrote:Hello Gus. I hope you can help me, I am looking for a friend who I am led to believe came here to Casa Arturo from Locus on one of your shuttles. She had a ghost morph and maybe a companion, I think you may have found her distinctive. Her name was Yu. Do you remember her?
Gus wrote:Oh, sure, I remember her. Ghost morph. Had a guy in some sort of throwaway synth morph with her. One of those crappy things with a wig on to make it look more human. One small crate in luggage. Let me see...yeah, Tara Yu and Morteza Bey. Didn't get more than names off them though, sorry. You know how it is, they didn't say and I didn't need to know.
I'm painfully aware that we're just picking at the peas here while the steak's going cold. I was assuming that the companion was her AI combo, but now I'm not so sure. The spindle synth could have been in the crate and Robo-Wogan could have been a pukka gen companion. Or it could have just been her fancy AI wearing a mannequin. What do you guys reckon? I'll get Ignacio onto Morteza Bey anyway while I ask around. I love Anarchists, so helpful.DCOM wrote:Thank you Gus, I appreciate the help.