Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'Underneath'


Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

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billytea - Jan 23, 2011 3:47:27 pm PST #9169 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BSG

A recreational space vehicle?

That's courtesy of omnis. It's become a tradition in these games to refer to unmanned vipers as "redshirt vipers".

(Also, do you always start out under attack? I don't remember that from the game I played. Or maybe we just took care of it really quickly.)

You do indeed always start out under attack. I wouldn't worry about it though. What's the worst that could happen?


NoiseDesign - Jan 23, 2011 4:52:06 pm PST #9170 of 26134
Our wings are not tired

BSG

Okay folks, looks like we are starting. What do folks think the first move to preserve the human race should be? I can activate comms since I'm already here and check out what we have out there with our civvies, or I could move to weapons control and take a shot at the toasters out there.


Liese S. - Jan 23, 2011 4:52:29 pm PST #9171 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

You could all die miserably in a flaming heap and the universe could be taken over by robots?


billytea - Jan 23, 2011 4:54:04 pm PST #9172 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

You could all die miserably in a flaming heap and the universe could be taken over by robots?

I believe the robots are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way...


Liese S. - Jan 23, 2011 4:54:27 pm PST #9173 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

BSG
 
Hee. I meant that as an answer to billytea`s rhetorical, not as a suggestion for humanity`s first action. But it does read amusingly that way.


NoiseDesign - Jan 23, 2011 5:05:06 pm PST #9174 of 26134
Our wings are not tired

BSG

Excellent. This time we find out we are cylons because we hear the voice of Michael Jackson in our heads.


Laga - Jan 23, 2011 5:09:44 pm PST #9175 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

BSG

Am I reading it right that the raiders need three activations before the civvies are in danger? In that case I would be in favor of Dee moving to Weapons Control.


billytea - Jan 23, 2011 5:13:06 pm PST #9176 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BSG

Excellent. This time we find out we are cylons because we hear the voice of Michael Jackson in our heads.

You'll know you've been a bad Cylon if you hear "Ben".


billytea - Jan 23, 2011 5:17:20 pm PST #9177 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BSG

While I think of it, note that your starting resources are lower than normal (8/7/9/10). This is because we are playing the No Sympathiser variant. There will be no Sympathiser in this game; to offset the advantage this gives the humans, you start with lower resources, and revealed Cylons draw three cards on their turn instead of two.


-t - Jan 23, 2011 5:21:35 pm PST #9178 of 26134
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

BSG

And with only 2 Civ ships in peril, Dee's superpower doesn't make a difference right now. So shooting could be good.