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[Busterbugs]

Sorry I haven’t been posting on here for a few days. I wasn’t feeling the best and that plus work was making me exhausted, so I was in a bit of a slump. But, I’m feeling better now, so I’m going to be back to work on this.

I have some ideas for POI’s in the world of Novus for each Biome that I’m going to post throughout today, as well as completing up my unfinished Crew Characters today so I can start introducing them in the BlackStar.

Also, For the POI ideas, I was thinking of starting them out as fairly normal places, still being alien looking, but having nothing really crazy going on in them. They will be first areas our crew starts to explore on Novus and be where Zone Alpha, Beta and Gamma touch, with Zone Delta POI being at the top point. Pass those POI’s it will get stranger and more dangerous.

For the First POI of Zone Alpha, I was going to make it look like this

and have it be a large wide meadow in the northern top of Zone Alpha. It would be a area that is peaceful, treeless and supports a array of exotic flowers and plants.

[Busterbugs]

For the first POI of Zone Beta, I was thinking it would look like this

and be a humid tangle of moss covered trees, vines, fungus and fern-like flora. Sun light would barely penetrate the canopy, leading to a lot of the Flora and Fauna to have some sort of Bioluminescent feature, large eyes to see in the dim light or some other heightened sensory perception.

[Busterbugs]

For the first POI of Zone Gamma, I was thinking it would look like this

and be a area of marshes and muddy islands of land. The trees that grow their are hardy and short, but eventually always get overwhelmed by the parasitic fungus that feed on them, twisting their shapes as they do so. Thin blankets of mist rise from small geysers in the water, limiting the visible area to 20 to 30 feet area around a person normally.

[Busterbugs]

For the first POI of Zone Delta this is what I had in mind for it to look like.

The temperature is warm, but not unpleasant and the sand is soft, but has a bit of strange texture, almost like a squishy rubber. The coast is made of rocky outcroppings, small meadows of grass and groves of palm like trees. The sea is shallow and has many types of aquatic/semi aquatic creatures living in it.

Let me know what you guys think of those ideas to start with.

[Warning]

The last one is very "Florence in swimsuit" ish. (And yes, ARA also has one. Unsure about Warning.) I love it. I mean, even in term of places themselves, it's very pretty. It could be fun to explore. If you wish to find more, there are some tags you could use:

https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=landscape+no_humans+sort%3ascore

[Busterbugs]

On 01/10/2023 at 16:47, Goddess Aurora said:

The last one is very "Florence in swimsuit" ish. (And yes, ARA also has one. Unsure about Warning.) I love it. I mean, even in term of places themselves, it's very pretty. It could be fun to explore. If you wish to find more, there are some tags you could use:

https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=landscape+no_humans+sort%3ascore

Thank you for that, sorry it took so long to reply. I’m finally on a small vacation, so I’m planning to get a lot done on here over the next few days.

I’ll take a look over the link you sent to see if I find some more references for POI for Novus. Like I said before, I want to start them off looking more normal, then get slowly more exotic, supernatural and sometimes dangerous the more the crew explores. 

 

[Warning]

That's nice. I've left my characters in ready status for when we can start doing something. Exploring and stuff could be nice. I'm looking forward to begin sometimes but no rush for the time being. Still, I can't say that I'm not excited to find out what we will be doing out of this.

[BladeRunner]

Same here, got my characters all set up when we're ready to go. 

In lore, wouldn't it make sense that during a long flight through space that everyone aboard be in stasis/cryo sleep? Kinda my personal thought on this, if we just got done with a slew of conflicts Humanity could still be figuring out FTL? If ya wanna go all Halo on it, could have Slip Space which opens a "portal"/wormhole from one destination to the next?

[Gardsorm]

That's a good point. Most of the fleshy sentients would need cryosleep if this was a long trip through space I think, while the AI and machine types would be the ones more active I feel. Unless we started getting woken up once our destination was in sight so we could hit the proverbial ground running. 

The latter option could be the easier way to go about having everyone up and in activity for the moment though, maybe. Since we're just a smaller ship and tasked more with exploring, I don't know if we would have gotten tangled up in any major conflicts, but maybe there were a few close calls along the way through space. : p 

[Gardsorm]

Is everything okay here? It's been awfully quiet on this front. :c This didn't fall through the cracks, did it?

[Warning]

I wonder the same. I had all of my characters ready so yeah. Still looking forward to do something out of this.

[Busterbugs]

Sorry I haven’t been posting on here. Work was draining me and I couldn’t really focus, but I’m ready to start working again on POI’s for are characters to explore.

The BlackStar has the ability to Warp space, humans learning how to to do that by studying the ships of the aliens that attacked earth, thus making a trip across space that would take a long, long, long time to be done in a week or two. So, no characters would need to be in Cryosleep.

So, if you want to introduce your characters on the BlackStar now you can. I was thinking that it was maybe a bit less then a day before it reached Novus. Or I can make it already be on Novus, The ship having landed in the save POI that I already made.

[BladeRunner]

10 minutes ago, Busterbugs said:

Sorry I haven’t been posting on here. Work was draining me and I couldn’t really focus, but I’m ready to start working again on POI’s for are characters to explore.

So, if you want to introduce your characters on the BlackStar now you can. I was thinking that it was maybe a bit less then a day before it reached Novus. Or I can make it already be on Novus, The ship having landed in the save POI that I already made.

Methinks could be before we land, onboard preparations could make characters interact with each other?

[Busterbugs]

22 minutes ago, BladeRunner said:

Methinks could be before we land, onboard preparations could make characters interact with each other?

That sounds good to me. And if new people join, they can just introduce their characters on the BlackStar.

[Gardsorm]

That sounds good to me then. : ) Starting in the BlackStar seems like a good place until the ground locales are properly set up. 

[Warning]

Well, that sounds nice. I will have to introduce my characters in proper order. (Florence being first while the others are worked on for now). Just to make sure nothing is being rushed or anything. It looks like there is still hope for this club and I'm here for it.

[DreamsnThings]

Somehow i have not been getting notifications here x.x thought this grinded to a halt... i need to work on my native...

[Gardsorm]

I should doublecheck just to be sure, but should we just choose whatever topic to start posting in on the BlackStar as long as it makes narrative sense for our characters to be there?

 

Assuming we're going with either the GM's BladeRunner's suggestion, we can have those onboard the BlackStar just interacting wherever it's possible before the ship has arrived at Novus/landed correct? Since both give crew opportunities to prepare in their own ways. A day before should be psyching everyone up at least, while in preparation to land could have people equipping and readying themselves to disembark while others make sure the BlackStar systems are in working order. 

Mostly, just wondering if we should be the ones making a post in a given topic or not. : )

[Warning]

From what I saw, the first and only post happens in the Main Bay. I would hope to see more happening with this story. I don't know if I will do anything with my bots yet but Florence would be a good start at the very least. (As I am slowly getting back to catch up on roleplays). I had to check the ship plans from close up to determine things (The ship is named the Mourning Wolf originally btw) and Florence would likely be in lower engineering due to medical bay being close, a thing she might use if she takes care of like ARA. (Medical bed with techs)

The issue is where and how to exactly begin and it would be fun that we manage to actually start something with this. Also, I have the map for the ship (but without the words) if someone wants to see a close-up version of what the ship is like. I will post it below:

[Gardsorm]

Oh, crap, I didn't even notice someone already started posting. After waiting for an answer from the GM all this time, I guess starting on our own is a good idea. Thinking about it, I could start Archer in the lounge, since it's close enough to the medical bag as well (somewhere I planned for him to visit early on so he could get himself vaccinated/immunized prior to setting foot on an unfamiliar world). Assuming people aren't blocked from going wherever they like except places of extreme importance or require special care, I could have Archer pay a friendly visit to Florence prior to said visit so he can ask about the status of some of their other crew.

At least the ones she's in charge of caretaking like ARA and Warning. : p Don't know if the other Biobot types fall under her care too or not. 

[Warning]

Well for the record, Florence is an engineer, not a nurse. Which is why she takes care of anthroids. (Just to be clear). But yes, when and if she does not work on anthroids, she is the one basically busy with making sure the ship's machinery works as intended. In the same spirit, she "could" also be taking care of other droids if any exists. To her, it would be the same with crafty works of changing parts and etc. IF I include Ara right away or at the very least her body, she would be on the techbed on the right. IF warning is around, I'll probably leave her in the healing pod on the left (Maybe as a way to keep a check on her status. She might also be damaged and needed it.) I'm not sure where else she'd be.

But yes. If she is toying with ARA, she would be out of the engine rooms which would at least remove the limitation on if a characters (except her) can't go there. Pretty sure there would be nothing too bad about your character visiting the medbay. So that'd be one idea.

Edited November 8, 2023 by Goddess Aurora

[Gardsorm]

Apologies for the confusion earlier, I brought up the medbay thing more for myself as an idea of where to send Archer, didn't mean to confuse Florence as working there. ^^;

Beyond that, though, this sounds like a plan. : ) Plus if there's a medbay visit, then BladeRunner could also potentially slip his Medical Combat Droid Mace into the scene.

[Warning]

No worries. It was just me trying to be clear. But yes, that could be fun. Whatever you like. I just want my character to be somewhere and have some kind of entertainment with someone. No rush necessary however but letting know that I am open to it at any times. We've been preparing this for a while so I do hope that we will manage to get some little thing going for fun. But yep, ready whenever (well, I mean in the soon future). I'll keep checking around and if I see a post of some sort, I'll happily reply as soon as possible.

[Gardsorm]

There we go... Let me know if I need to edit, but I made a post in the medbay. : ) And took a few edits when I forgot this site doesn't seem to like BBcode much in posts, so I had to remember how to work with colored text. >.>

[Gardsorm]

If it feels like I'm writing too much each post, don't be afraid to hit me with a bat and tell me off. >.> I sometimes can't really control it.