Liam Devlin
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Plankowner:
Good one.
And no one ever said you couldn't use titles for your pieces
Good one.
And no one ever said you couldn't use titles for your pieces 
Meet & greet on Lonestar, eh?
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Liam Devlin
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Thanks T.E.!
Liam Devlin
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Well said, fellow wordsmith!
Liam Devlin
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Whenever One Travels Far
Customs, Courtesies
Wide-eyed wanderlust Trav'ller
Met; Fast ticket home.
Customs, Courtesies
Wide-eyed wanderlust Trav'ller
Met; Fast ticket home.
Liam Devlin
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Few places are utterly devoid of life if ever,
Even in the heart of the Black,
In the hardest of vacuum,
or the depths of a gas Giant
There is Life.
Passing it maybe, and transient as we who travel between stars,
So too the Sun baked painted rocky desert, and the canyon strewn bad land wilderness where tremors humbled once mighty mountains, and rivers of life scoured paths now even we may walk with dry feet.
Learn to look where life leads after such calamities and adversity, and survive. Still waters run deep.
--passage from a tract written by a Jonkereen wandering prophet/ Free Trader, Niktu T'ahlZayn, circa 1210, Cyril Subsector P/Reft.
Even in the heart of the Black,
In the hardest of vacuum,
or the depths of a gas Giant
There is Life.
Passing it maybe, and transient as we who travel between stars,
So too the Sun baked painted rocky desert, and the canyon strewn bad land wilderness where tremors humbled once mighty mountains, and rivers of life scoured paths now even we may walk with dry feet.
Learn to look where life leads after such calamities and adversity, and survive. Still waters run deep.
--passage from a tract written by a Jonkereen wandering prophet/ Free Trader, Niktu T'ahlZayn, circa 1210, Cyril Subsector P/Reft.
Liam Devlin
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Oh, lest I forget..
A Happy St. Patrick's Day to you one and all.
A Happy St. Patrick's Day to you one and all.
As the "Golden Goose" crew cleared customs
and the six drove towards Jackertown
none of them could've ever dreamed
t'would be the last all but one would touch down.
While Captain Garix had been the sort
who'd sometimes been all-but-deranged,
it was the second mate, Lieutenant Fehl
round whom their fates all were arranged.
What none of the Goose's crew knew was
Fehl had bought a 'mental guard'
rumored to have been unearthed years past
in a Darrian archive yard.
Now as Fehl fiddled with his amulet
and puzzled over it's meaning
he must've tripped a trigger -
and a cracklin' beam sent the air/raft careening.
Seems the pendant had a bit more savvy
than just a kind of shield...
...Fehl's consciousness already consumed,
the entity went for the one behind the wheel.
By the time the car was happened upon,
a grisly sight was all that was left.
The 'Goose wasn't there, the landing pad bare...
save the torn bones of five, souls bereft.
and the six drove towards Jackertown
none of them could've ever dreamed
t'would be the last all but one would touch down.
While Captain Garix had been the sort
who'd sometimes been all-but-deranged,
it was the second mate, Lieutenant Fehl
round whom their fates all were arranged.
What none of the Goose's crew knew was
Fehl had bought a 'mental guard'
rumored to have been unearthed years past
in a Darrian archive yard.
Now as Fehl fiddled with his amulet
and puzzled over it's meaning
he must've tripped a trigger -
and a cracklin' beam sent the air/raft careening.
Seems the pendant had a bit more savvy
than just a kind of shield...
...Fehl's consciousness already consumed,
the entity went for the one behind the wheel.
By the time the car was happened upon,
a grisly sight was all that was left.
The 'Goose wasn't there, the landing pad bare...
save the torn bones of five, souls bereft.
Liam Devlin
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Bravo, Ms. Mickazoid!
Liam Devlin
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It has that air of spooky chill of meddling with the unknown (high tech) best left undisturbed. Certainly worked for me! Nicely done
Liam Devlin
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Thank you!Forgot to comment. This was like 'Sioux advice from space'.
Its from an NPC in my post 1203 TNE-campaign the player's have been trying to locate..
Liam Devlin
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American-Indian Sioux (One of the Great Plain's Tribes) Philosophy, Jame.
In the proverbial nutshell:
It speaks to the heart of all things using the sophistry of Spirits in nature and Man vs. nature, and his place in the 'Verse.
In the proverbial nutshell:
It speaks to the heart of all things using the sophistry of Spirits in nature and Man vs. nature, and his place in the 'Verse.
Liam Devlin
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If you liked that piece, then also from my post 1203 TNE-campaign, a regressed world's oral history recited by a local Techno/ Data-priest and a homily in their Virus-God driven world:
"The heavens rained fire down, and those believing in/of the false gods Lucan, Dulinor, and Strephon perished in the flames that consumed this world.
"No longer flew their star steeds, their machine's magicks undone by their release of he who was wrongly imprisoned--our Prometheus, our saviour, the great power we call Loki."
"Loki has restored the weather, and our crops prosper-yea our world is greener for it than before the great calamity;
Loki has restored the heavens, and he, and his Einhierar, and the Valkyrie in their star-steeds keep the infidel from our planet's shores still;
Loki rewards the faithful, recasting them in his image, and they dwell in Valhalla above us yet today!
Great is Loki, Lord of Valhalla and the rainbow bridge!"
---the Kingdom of Suevii-Donpoor, delivered daily by the High Priest of *Loki*, Bokilbom [2834] X5746SD-3 Ag Ni B104 Wi/Cyril(P)/ Reft Sector, circa 1210.
GM Notes:
Planet's former UWP (1120):B573552-D Po Ni 804 Fi .
"The heavens rained fire down, and those believing in/of the false gods Lucan, Dulinor, and Strephon perished in the flames that consumed this world.
"No longer flew their star steeds, their machine's magicks undone by their release of he who was wrongly imprisoned--our Prometheus, our saviour, the great power we call Loki."
"Loki has restored the weather, and our crops prosper-yea our world is greener for it than before the great calamity;
Loki has restored the heavens, and he, and his Einhierar, and the Valkyrie in their star-steeds keep the infidel from our planet's shores still;
Loki rewards the faithful, recasting them in his image, and they dwell in Valhalla above us yet today!
Great is Loki, Lord of Valhalla and the rainbow bridge!"
---the Kingdom of Suevii-Donpoor, delivered daily by the High Priest of *Loki*, Bokilbom [2834] X5746SD-3 Ag Ni B104 Wi/Cyril(P)/ Reft Sector, circa 1210.
GM Notes:
Planet's former UWP (1120):B573552-D Po Ni 804 Fi .
Liam Devlin
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Some explanation for those not in game with us...
The players are remnants, with a relic ship of their own, and have begun accumulating clues to the one man who founded a Free trader's rendezvous in this neck of Viral fleet haunted space across from the Imperial regency..
the man named in an earlier upthread post, *CPT Niktu T'ahl'Zayn*, a Jonkereen Free Trader captain.
In This TNE-TU, those handful of starship Free traders (Free merchants, not the A2 starship mind you ) all can point back along thie rown ship's legacies back into the 1170's, and each recalled to the players, their first time meeting this man..
Savvy guy to be running around and still be aloft, the Player's thought. Someone who might know a thing or two about ducking and dodging vampire ships, and so on. They chanced upon the world where the 1210 annual "meet" was held, yet Niktu's ship was not there, a first in 38-years..
And have been looking for him since then..
Last week's session, they discovered his ship may have gone down on Bokilbom...
The players are remnants, with a relic ship of their own, and have begun accumulating clues to the one man who founded a Free trader's rendezvous in this neck of Viral fleet haunted space across from the Imperial regency..
the man named in an earlier upthread post, *CPT Niktu T'ahl'Zayn*, a Jonkereen Free Trader captain.
In This TNE-TU, those handful of starship Free traders (Free merchants, not the A2 starship mind you
) all can point back along thie rown ship's legacies back into the 1170's, and each recalled to the players, their first time meeting this man..Savvy guy to be running around and still be aloft, the Player's thought. Someone who might know a thing or two about ducking and dodging vampire ships, and so on. They chanced upon the world where the 1210 annual "meet" was held, yet Niktu's ship was not there, a first in 38-years..
And have been looking for him since then..
Last week's session, they discovered his ship may have gone down on Bokilbom...
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
The Spacing of Sam McGee
There are strange things done out beyond the sun
By the men who trade for gold;
The Spinward trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The jumpspace lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the bridge of the Lady Midge
When I spaced old Sam McGee...
[please, someone stop me before I do the whole poem!]
There are strange things done out beyond the sun
By the men who trade for gold;
The Spinward trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The jumpspace lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the bridge of the Lady Midge
When I spaced old Sam McGee...
[please, someone stop me before I do the whole poem!]
bryan gibson
Absent Friend
Hearken to the sound of engineering
Hear the jump drive’s siren call
The power plant sings harmonics
They are both held in her thrall
The grid is tunelessly humming
To the jump drive’s vibrant song
The performance must be flawless
For the play is one week long
Seven acts are in this play
And the actors altogether
Must go where she directs them
For engineering has their tether
Lifesupport gives them breathing space
So they dance to engineering’s tune
For there is no breath in jumping space
Don’t you leave the play too soon
Appearing early is very dangerous
Its bad form to arrive too soon
The play has an allotted time
And the play commands the room
And when the curtain rises
And the players take their bow
Nav and comp and pilot and captain
Trust the engineer to tell them how
So come into the temple
Where the heavenly chorus sings
For engineering has the power
And the power is the thing
Hear the jump drive’s siren call
The power plant sings harmonics
They are both held in her thrall
The grid is tunelessly humming
To the jump drive’s vibrant song
The performance must be flawless
For the play is one week long
Seven acts are in this play
And the actors altogether
Must go where she directs them
For engineering has their tether
Lifesupport gives them breathing space
So they dance to engineering’s tune
For there is no breath in jumping space
Don’t you leave the play too soon
Appearing early is very dangerous
Its bad form to arrive too soon
The play has an allotted time
And the play commands the room
And when the curtain rises
And the players take their bow
Nav and comp and pilot and captain
Trust the engineer to tell them how
So come into the temple
Where the heavenly chorus sings
For engineering has the power
And the power is the thing
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
Very good!
