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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Feb 15, 2011 14:01:43 GMT -5
Impactor shrugs.
"You want pieces that'll run off to some other planet in the middle of a game because they're 'tired of fighting,' that's your problem," he answers, prodding at the other games with the tip of his harpoon.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Feb 15, 2011 22:51:44 GMT -5
Threatening Impactor isn't much fun, Emirate Xaaron is reminded, and yet, he does it anyway. He continues to crawl around, pulling pieces oput from under gurneys, and he comments aloud, "So for the next batch, I'm going to put magnets on the bottoms, so we can play even when the ship's pulling Gs."
Emirate Xaaron wants to see how Impactor handles that! Has Impactor even ever been on a spaceship before? Maybe a dropship? It's something of a thrill to Emirate Xaaron, to think he's maybe had more crazy spaceship rides than Impactor has.
The other games do not appear to be particularly dangerous, though the boxes probably dent if Impactor pokes them too hard.
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Feb 16, 2011 11:29:53 GMT -5
No, Impactor has never been on a spaceship before, a fact that he's already faintly irritated with. Being the 'rookie' at anything is something he hasn't had to experience for a good long while.
"'Pullihng Gs'? Doesn't this thing have artificial gravity to deal with that?" he asks warily.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Feb 16, 2011 11:47:11 GMT -5
"When it's pulling off full military maneuvers, you can still feel it a bit, despite the inertial dampers and artificial gravity, to give the pilots some force feedback," Emirate Xaaron notes absently. It's like an aircraft with a powered stick - the engineers still design in some force feedback, "and to tell the truth, the inertial dampers and artificial gravity are not considered essential systems in most areas of the ship, anyway. If we run out of power for them due to an emergency, we'll shut them off."
"But we have smaller ships, too, like Skyfire and Omega Supreme." He looks up and gives Impactor a wicked grin from the floor, playing with the Commando between his fingers like a cheerleader with a baton. "They're a rougher ride in general, I find."
Why does the concept of Impactor, implacable zombie, on a Vomit Comet for the very first time, as unprepared as anyone, fill Emirate Xaaron with such delight?
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Feb 16, 2011 17:53:16 GMT -5
Because Emirate Xaaron is a sadistic son of a glitch, of course!
Impactor eyes the Commando piece that Xaaron is waving around casually... the very familiar Commando piece... and scowls. Then he looks up at Xaaron.
"Do you really plan to be playing Full Stasis in the middle of military maneuvering? Or while riding the smaller ships?" he asks dubiously.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Feb 16, 2011 18:03:55 GMT -5
Emirate Xaaron's factory was a saint, thank you very much, Impactor!
"Given that it is plausible for a trip on one of the smaller ships to take hours or days, I think it is more than possible that I might want to play full stasis during a portion of the time. After all, I can only field strip my non-existent rifle so many times!" He winks at Impactor, an uncanny gesture given that one of his optics has been stabbed out. "Besides, you never know when the ship might need to go into full military maneuvering, and you don't want the pieces to go flying everywhere just because cons are attacking!"
Emirate Xaaron thinks he's found all the pieces that he's going to find. Now if Swerve finds the Cavalier stuck in a gurney, Emirate Xaaron's blaming Impactor.
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Feb 16, 2011 20:38:04 GMT -5
Didn't Megatron roll out of Emirate Xaaron's factory?
A saint indeed!
Impactor considers, and shrugs.
"All right. Well, given all this, why didn't they already have magnets?" he asks.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Feb 16, 2011 20:56:41 GMT -5
Saints don't always have the best parenting skills!
Emirate Xaaron always has an answer! "Because we didn't have spare magnets." He sits back down in his chair, now that the mess is cleaned up, and asks, "So, what now? Monotony?"
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Feb 16, 2011 23:46:39 GMT -5
Impactor shrugs. He covers his optics, waves his harpoon around faintly to 'randomize' things, and fires it at the table. Then he reels whatever box he just speared back in. Then he uncovers his eyes and frowns at his catch.
He appears to have spear-fished the Candyland game.
"What the hell are those things?" he asks, studying the malformed candy creatures on the front of the box.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Feb 17, 2011 23:03:45 GMT -5
"Aliens," Emirate Xaaron answers, and so he believes. For once, he is not screwing with Impactor. Emirate Xaaron has no reason to believe that Candyland is not a faithful depiction of life on some remote part of Earth. Sure, none of the tee-vee he watched with pee-Dee looked like that, but Emirate Xaaron knows that tee-vee is not real life!
He tries to take the lid off the box and read the rules out loud to Impactor.
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Feb 18, 2011 9:05:43 GMT -5
Impactor listens to the rules. Draw a color, move to said color. He grunts. "Sounds pretty easy," he observes, grabbing up a purple playing piece.
(Does this mean he's playing a Decepticon child?)
He examines the highly simplified marker - no where near the detail used in traditional Stasis sets. "I take it these aren't true-to-life," he observes, then sets the piece down at the start.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Feb 18, 2011 11:27:41 GMT -5
"I honestly have no idea," Emirate Xaaron replies, when Impactor expresses dubiousness about the accuracy of the aliens.
Impactor is normally purple. Maybe that's just an Impactor child. Emirate Xaaron picks a yellow child for his part. He shuffles the deck of colours and says, "Pick a colour. I'm picking yellow. Whoever draws their colour goes first."
Emirate Xaaron holds out the deck of cards for Impactor to draw first.
OOC: You can just assume that Impactor gets to go first, if you want.
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Feb 18, 2011 20:00:00 GMT -5
Impactor shrugs. "Red," he says, and draws. It takes a few rounds of drawing before one of them pick their color, and it turns out that Impactor is the "lucky" person. Once the cards are reshuffled (thanks to Xaaron, since Impactor's one-handed state makes shuffling difficult, and he hasn't gotten far enough along in his repairs to be able to easily switch out) he draws again, getting an orange card, which puts him next to a rainbow shortcut. He tilts his head and looks over the board. "This thing's pretty much all luck, isn't it?" Then he scowls at Xaaron. "Unless you stacked the deck." OOC: Posing of Xaaron shuffling with permission. Also: perhaps they should play this version of Candyland: www.ehow.com/how_4443787_play-drinking-game-candyland.html
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Feb 21, 2011 11:37:53 GMT -5
"Yes, Impactor, I stacked the deck, just for you," Emirate Xaaron deadpans. Did he really? No, probably not.
He sorts through a few of the other things in the box and comes across a second 'rules' inserts and ah-hahs! "Ah, this game is a test of gustatory fortitude. See, whenever someone draws blue, we all have to drink, and so on..." He points to the extra 'rules' page, which was clearly added by someone else and doesn't actually belong with the game.
Emirate Xaaron then draws a card and ends up landing on gum, which takes him back to the start. Inauspicious.
OOC: Clipper left them a bunch of snacks, didn't she? Perfect!
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Post by Impactor/"Imp" on Feb 21, 2011 18:00:35 GMT -5
Impactor picks up the new rules and looks it over. He nods. "Better," he declares them to be, then sets them down and draws a card.
He ends up on a dot. And is stuck there for a turn.
He also has to pass out three drinks.
He looks over the modified rules, shrugs, and picks up three drinks from Clipper's tray before setting them in front of Emirate Xaaron. He smirks.
"Well? Drink up!"
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