Re: Hymenopterran Hijinks

Can we merge these posts together? Imagine that the bug got blown up -
like in Andy's post, but then Amber finds the homing beacon in the
wreckage of the Hymenoptera ship. Then we're all here, and all key
story points are covered.
Onion
--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "David V" <soulpillar@...>
wrote:
>
> ... ... ... ...
>
> Alright, two pages of writing for nothing.
>
> Carry on then- I'll try and get Dysart to do something else somehow.
>
>
> --- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "Rebecca Tordoff" <cedrada@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Who: Amber, Efof, Rose.
> > Where: Alota's BD
> > When: After the Bug towers above them.
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > ---- Snip ----
> >
> > Efof wondered in his simple little mind what the exterior of this
> > Blue Dwarf now looked like, with this monster ripping through
floors
> > and pushing bulkheads out of alignment. It probably had severe
bulges
> > that the monster had pushed out.
> >
> > It's mandibles clicked and the giant insect prepared to crash down
> > into them.....
> >
> > ---- End Snip ----
> >
> >
> > Emulating Efof's earlier statement, Amber decided to offer up some
> useful
> > advice to the rest of the group.
> >
> >
> "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
uuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!"
> > she screeched, belting off down the corridor and dragging one of
> Efof's many
> > arms with her.
> >
> > "I have an idea." Rosette said, panting with the effort of keeping
> away from
> > the creature. "If we lure it back to it's ship, and then force it
> out into
> > space, all of the other Blue Dwarfs around will surely blow it to
high
> > heaven!" She said, proud of her plan.
> >
> > "How do we eject it though?" Efof asked, his naive mind always
coming up
> > with the best flaws in the plan.
> >
> > "Simple, I'll just go inside and set the auto-launch sequence
whilst
> you two
> > distract it for a minute." Amber said, deliberately picking up the
> pace a
> > little bit. The deck plating creaked ominously behind them.
> >
> > "Distract that thing?! It's huge, and the corridors are tiny. What
> do you
> > want us to do, dress in drag and do the hula or something?!" Rose
> protested.
> >
> > "No, I thought you could use the bulkhead controls to block it's
> path on a
> > few decks to cause it to go up and down a few levels rather than
> going in a
> > straight line whilst I run on ahead and set the auto-launch."
Amber
> grinned,
> > breathless after the running.
> >
> > "Great... Nice and simple then...." Rose murmured, and branched
off to
> > engineering where the bulk head doors were controlled from.
> >
> > The giant stag beetle paused as his prey went two different ways,
he
> decided
> > to go for the direction that smelled more. The direction that the
> most prey
> > had gone down. The deck plating behind Rose and Efof began to
buckle and
> > bend as the huge bug charged after them.
> >
> >
> > Deep down at the back of the ship, Amber reached the Hymenopterran
> crashed
> > ship. It didn't take her long to set the auto-launch for the
moment
> the stag
> > beetle returned to his ship, drawn there by a clever and alluring
> maze of
> > blast door traps. However, Amber did notice something odd. An
> addition to
> > the Hymenopterran ship that shouldn't have been there. After a few
> moments
> > of analysis she found out what it was.
> >
> > "Oh no... Seriously... This is bad." She belted out of the ship
and
> hammered
> > on the nearest communications monitor. "Jay!" She danced on the
spot and
> > waited for a reply. "Jay! Come on this is serious. It's about that
> > Hymenopterran ship that came through with one of the BD's." She
paused
> > briefly, making sure that anyone who was tuned in and happened to
be
> called
> > Captain Jay Chrysler could hear.
> >
> > "What is it Amber? I'm busy in a meeting?" Jay finally responded.
> >
> > "It's carrying a homing beacon." She stated simply.
> >
> > "Smeg." Came the reply. Amber heard a rumbling in the distance.
> >
> > "Gotta run! I'll debrief if I get back..." And she pelted back up
the
> > corridor and hid in an escape-pod, waiting for the bug to go past.
> >
> >
> > <Tag Rose and Efof... and Jay!>
> >
> >
> >
> > OOC - Sorry it's short and quite talky. I needed to post this and
am
> rushed
> > off my feet atm! Hope it's ok Andy. I know it's not great. :(
> >
>