Re: Orb

Hi, just to add further confusion that last email from Henry was actually forwarded from me. I was having problems with my email last night and just couldn't wait to weigh in with my opinion.
Thanks guys and gals.
Onion
--- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "henrypote_ma" <henry_pote_ma@...> wrote:
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> Hi Jimmy/Dewey, and to everyone else in the Blue Dwarf group too who needs to hear where we stand on the story. I admire your enthusiasm for creating a dramatic story so soon after joining. But as Andy Longman has already pointed out, sinking the Blue Dwarf to the bottom of the ocean is a breach of rules.
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> We don't have many rules, and I don't like to go on about them because I don't want anyone to feel like their creativity is being oppressed. But there has to be limits just for the sake of not pissing off everyone in the group.
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> There is a definite rule about moving the ship. Players can't significantly move the Blue Dwarf without checking with a moderator first. This stops someone new from coming in during the middle of a dramatic story and just moving the Blue Dwarf to another planet making it difficult or just awkward to get back. That's just annoying.
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> Just to confirm, the mods are Andy Longman, Becca and Onion (me)
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> Your rewrite of your post is much better, although I find it a bit vague and wasn't sure where your character was speaking from - was he on the Blue Dwarf from the start? If so make sure you write that in the "Where" at the start, it just helps clear things up at a glance.
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> If it was the Blue Dwarf that was attacked, that's fine. In space these things happen all the time, it's up to either of the other members to respond to these things happening, and your character Dewey is free to defend against these attackers himself, maybe by getting into a Starbug and fighting them off, or getting onto the enemy ship and disabling them somehow from the inside. Otherwise the attacking ship might have just attacked us once and just moved off. It is up to individual members whether to join you, please don't assume they're joining in and force their characters to do stuff the players dont want to.
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> Andy L told me tonight that he's going to write an Action post soon which will have a story for the whole crew to take part in.
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> If anyone had read Jimmy/Dewey's initial post where the Blue Dwarf had been sunk under the ocean please put it from your mind.
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> If thees any other questions about this can it please be emailed to me or Andy, to stop clogging up the group with OOC posts. Also I'm on msn during most of the day and evenings.
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> Onion, GM
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> --- In JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com, "joeyjawoewo" <simon@> wrote:
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> > (Due to the fact that I got rid of the sinking part of this story, I don't need it cleared through a moderator, because it isn't a major ISSUE.)
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> > Who: Dewey Walsh, Where: A Remote Part of the Galaxy, When: Several Weeks Later
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> > "Hello. This is the crew of the Shuttlecraft White Giant speaking. We have evacuated our ship after a massive attack! Send help!"
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> > That was the message from a White Giant Shuttle Craft, sixty clicks from Blue Dwarf. The crew had been attacked by some sort of energy pulse from an unknown source. The only clue was the radar detected a giant sphere made of an unknown material, right before the I.S.S (Interstellar Starship) Jasteox was destroyed.
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> > There were only a few visual sightings a a similar object from anywhere in the galaxy, and it was described as a "bloody big hell ship". The source of these sightings were mostly from German tourists and angry housewives, so nobody is sure what to think. But one thing was for sure: The ship was heading for Blue Dwarf. And it was going to attack. It was going to destroy. It was going...to kill.
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> > A few days earlier however, Dewey Walsh was bragging that Blue Dwarf had never been attack ever, a stupid thing to claim around some of longest aboard crew. He was denounced as a goit, smeghead, goatface, and a gitwad. He walked away very cross, his trainers clacking on the metal floor.
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> > "What the..." He spotted a crew member acting very weird. He was dancing around and punching himself in the knackers. He singing the French anthem, a hard thing to do since it had no words. Or at least Dewey thought so. He slowly walked over, and the clanking echoed through the gray hall.
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> > "What the hell are you doing?" Dewey asked, stupefied.
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> > "Heh heh heh! HA HA HA! I ate a banana yesterday!"
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> > "Okay...." Dewey backed off.
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> > The thing was, sixty crewmembers had been admitted to the mental institution in the last five days. And it wasn't a coincidence.
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> > Something was going on, Dewey thought, sixty times a day for the next week or so. That's when it hit. A giant energy pulse slammed into the hull and sent the ship spinning. And when Dewey looked out the window right before it happened:
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> > "That's a bloody big hell ship."
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> > The response system crackled to life.
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> > "Hello, White Giant. We have recieved your message and are sorry to say we are busy at the moment. Please leave a message after the click. *click*."
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> > Dewey was thrown against the wall, as the ship heaved back and forth.
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> > "What the smeg happened?!" he screamed.
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> > The drive room workers were able to correct the spinning, and found out they were orbiting Phonegra. A surprise, as it was quite a long way from the original spot.
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