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by Lys
Mon Jun 11, 2018 3:51 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War
Replies: 615
Views: 145620

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War

Honestly that seems like a completely reasonable reaction. Leyton is a manipulative bastard, and nobody knows that better or more personally than Leyton Jr. Of course he's going to disbelieve and try to cut to the heart of what's really going on. Also yes, the Romulans would be rather less concerned...
by Lys
Sat Jun 09, 2018 4:51 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War
Replies: 615
Views: 145620

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War

Pretty sure variants of "I know how to stop the Borg" conversation has happened thousands of times by now, with pretty consistent results. Here's Ishtar's idea: We cannot and will not stop the Borg, but that's no excuse not to try. Here's Ishtar's idea if she knew we had a Changeling in the fleet: I...
by Lys
Sat Jun 02, 2018 8:41 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War
Replies: 615
Views: 145620

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War

For all that Discovery might pretend to be part of the main Star Trek continuity, it frankly has every indication of being part of some alternate timeline. There's just too much that doesn't really fit with everything else. Honestly I'd prefer to ignore it.
by Lys
Fri Jun 01, 2018 12:06 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War
Replies: 615
Views: 145620

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War

Well the two meetings are explictly nine hours apart, so Cretak should have no trouble attending both of them. Cynical Cat, while there is no canon source establishing how the Klingons got cloaking technology, it's very strongly implied the Romulans gave it to them in exchange for M/AM reactors and ...
by Lys
Sat Apr 28, 2018 7:45 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Sunday Night Gaming Schedule
Replies: 110
Views: 65392

Re: Sunday Night Gaming Schedule

I'm working at America's Beauty Show tomorrow, but i do expect to make it to the game, however i may be a bit late.
by Lys
Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:31 am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: LA in Battletech
Replies: 1
Views: 13160

Re: LA in Battletech

Obviously i am the one who must do you.

Cynical Cat - Lao Hu, Capellan Death Commandos

Conveniently, this means we can be allies!
by Lys
Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:44 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War
Replies: 615
Views: 145620

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War

A glossary of Romulan terms Lys makes use of: Rihan = "Declared" = Romulan (adj) Rihanh = "The Declared" = Romulan race Rihannsu = "Declared Ones" = Romulans Rihanha = "[One who is] Declared" = A Romulan Havran = "Changed" = Reman (adj) Havranh = "The Changed" = Reman race Havrannsu = "Changed Ones"...
by Lys
Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:09 am
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War, Volume II
Replies: 34
Views: 26094

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War, Volume II

Some time before the arrival at Prophet's Landing The three guests who had gone Kadon's party aboard the Riskdah - khre'Riov Charvanek, Dahar Master Murugan, and batgirl Nerio - sat in Khanjar 's main conference room. A lightly built Rihanha man with a scarred face and a sinister countenance had jo...
by Lys
Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:37 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War
Replies: 615
Views: 145620

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War

From the Romulan point of view, the humans more or less did what they would have in their place were it not for their complex history with the Vulcans. Of course she views them becoming the Federation's centre of mass as a "just as planned" kind of thing, when reality was closer to "well that happen...
by Lys
Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:36 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War
Replies: 615
Views: 145620

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War

Kadon and Ishtar weren't actually disagreeing with each other, they were just approaching the same concept from different directions. The key factor giving Earth its advantage is that it was a neutral third party. While it's to the credit of humanity that they successfully leveraged that advantage, ...
by Lys
Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:46 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Earthdawn?
Replies: 25
Views: 19013

Re: Earthdawn?

Assuming we're playing Earthdawn, i have an audition tomorrow that may make me a little bit late.
by Lys
Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:00 pm
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War, Volume II
Replies: 34
Views: 26094

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War, Volume II

Ishtar had always liked Galan, he had a good head on his shoulders and you could rely on him to keep secrets. The downside was of course that this made him difficult to manipulate, and ties by marriage only stretched so far. Though perhaps farther than before, given how little family either of them ...
by Lys
Tue Mar 27, 2018 4:01 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War
Replies: 615
Views: 145620

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War

Reading back on the game, General Havoc made it clear that we didn't have enough power to run the structural integrity field, inertial dampers, and life support aboard the Saeihr . Since we do have the fleet tender under tow now, we must have solved that problem, so my post provides the explanation ...
by Lys
Tue Mar 27, 2018 4:01 pm
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War, Volume II
Replies: 34
Views: 26094

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War, Volume II

khre'Riov Ishtar i-Nalim Charvanek sat in Khanjar's seethed with murderous wrath. The Artificitor-class fleet tender ChR Saeihr , the only vessel of its kind left anywhere in the quadrant, lay shattered before her, exceeded in its ruin only by all the carefully laid plans to capture it intact. So mu...
by Lys
Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:55 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Star Trek: The Quadratic War
Replies: 615
Views: 145620

Re: Star Trek: The Quadratic War

Since i off-handedly brought up this game several days ago, and now it's restarting, i am hereby taking full credit for inspiring Havoc to do so. Guess me and Cynical Cat can write up what transpired during the dinner between Kadon and Ishtar after they met out in the nebula away from the rest of th...
by Lys
Thu Mar 08, 2018 1:41 am
Forum: The Arts
Topic: Oscar's the VI: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
Replies: 3
Views: 6982

Re: Oscar's the VI: The King is Dead, Long Live the King

It's not bestiality if it's an intelligent being, merely xenophilia.
by Lys
Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:55 am
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: RPG Review: Symbaroum
Replies: 9
Views: 9313

Re: RPG Review: Symbaroum

The elves aren't even originally from the Davokar, they have their own realm to the west of it. The implication is that just after Symbaroum was destroyed by whatever evil corruption it afflicts it, none of the survivors knew what the hell to do about it, so the elves volunteered to become guardians...
by Lys
Fri Jan 19, 2018 7:21 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: So, What Now?
Replies: 10
Views: 9810

Re: So, What Now?

There's also the little matter of geneseed mutation and people like Fabius Bile experimenting. For traitors, biologically female isn't totally out of the question, it just makes you a special snowflake. Since i am the specialest of snowflakes, it is only fitting that my characters be so as well. Al...
by Lys
Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:16 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: So, What Now?
Replies: 10
Views: 9810

Re: So, What Now?

Dark Heresy interests me little, and it's dissapointing you're not suggesting to bring back Rogue Trader. Traipsing around in a blinged out space penis cathedral appeals to me. Black Crusade on the other hand, i already have a character concept for. It's established in 40k lore that all Space Marine...
by Lys
Fri Jan 05, 2018 9:45 pm
Forum: Gaming & Technology
Topic: RPG Review: Symbaroum
Replies: 9
Views: 9313

Re: RPG Review: Symbaroum

You can tell i like a setting when even a short synopsis inspires a character concept. "Listen bro, my mother wanted a changeling child. She took her baby to the forest, called the elves, made a free trade. I'm everything mom ever wanted, the twinkle in her eye, as they say. And the rest of the vill...
by Lys
Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:59 pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: What is Cyberpunk?
Replies: 9
Views: 9601

Re: What is Cyberpunk?

I feel the aesthetic while an identifiable part of Cyberpunk changes over time. I remember when mohawked, garishly clad gangsters were front and center, then it became long leather trench coats over all black ensembles and now it seems to be turning towards utilitarian work clothes. The two main th...
by Lys
Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:07 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Trump pardons Joe Arpaio
Replies: 7
Views: 9434

Re: Trump pardons Joe Arpaio

It occurs to me that making it so you can only pardon people who have already been convicted would be an acceptable limit to the Presidential Pardon. This means Arpaio's pardon would still be legal, distasteful though it is, but it would prevent killing investigations via pardons. Only once the fact...
by Lys
Mon Aug 28, 2017 6:26 pm
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Trump pardons Joe Arpaio
Replies: 7
Views: 9434

Re: Trump pardons Joe Arpaio

This is bad, but its not as bad as Bush senior pardoning a bunch of people for the Iran-Contra. Generally i rate abuse of your own citizens as much worse than abuse of foreign citizens, since government officials have a sworn duty to the former. That said, Arpaio was pardoned over a midsmeanor for ...
by Lys
Mon Aug 28, 2017 5:31 am
Forum: News & Politics
Topic: Trump pardons Joe Arpaio
Replies: 7
Views: 9434

Re: Trump pardons Joe Arpaio

On the face of it this seems like a waste of executive power. Arpaio was almost certainly going to get a six month deferred sentence, which would mean he wouldn't serve as single day in jail. Trump basically pardoned the former Sheriff over a slap on the wrist . Either Trump is just doing this becau...
by Lys
Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:26 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: Why The City Never Sleeps (Modern Nights Vampire)
Replies: 67
Views: 50785

Re: Why The City Never Sleeps (Modern Nights Vampire)

The 28th of August is henceforth declared to be a cursed day! Stay in ye vampires, sleep the night away in thy coffins, lest doom befall ye!