Digest Number 413

To the Moderator,
Your questions and my answers to those questions...plus the 2nd part to the
storyline I started.
Jeanny
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1) The name of your character (does not have to be your own name)
M’Ress
2) Male or female?
Female
3) Age of character
33
4) The ethnic origin/nationality of your character.
Humanoid Cat of the Chicaba System
5) Please write a physical description of your character (height, weight,
eye colour, hair colour. etc)
Height: - 6ft
Weight: - 75 kgs.
Eye Color: - Amber
Hair: - long-red mane with a white streak down the centre
M’Ress is bipedal and almost humanoid in appearance excepting she is a cat.
Her species have a soft downy tan fur covering their bodies, excepting for
their hair coloring. According to what color hair they
Are born with, is their designation in life. M’Ress and her family have
various colors of red therefore they are Security Officers for the Royals.
Each Clan has different hair colors. The Royal House of Chicaba has black
hair with white streaks through it.
M’Ress has served the Royal House for 10 years and when her Mother retired
took over as a Lieutenant and Senior Security Chief. The Chicaba’s are a
Matriarchal Society of beings. The Females are the Leaders of each Clan. A
Clan has between 90 and 100 families in it.
The Chicaba System has 8 planets that sustain life and the Royals and the
Meow’s, M’Ress’s clan; dominate the 4th Planet in the system. M’Ress travels
between the worlds sorting out disputes within the clans. Normally she would
be travelling with her security contingent, which consist of 100 one-person
silver fighter craft. However when she crashed into the Blue Dwarf’s shuttle
Bay she was on her own and on her way home.
6) What do you want to do on Blue Dwarf?
Security, Tactical, or Intelligence Officer
7) Please write a paragraph about your characters personality and interests.
M’Ress is almost happy-go-lucky individual. She is courteous, strong and
diplomatic. She is also extremely curious and it often gets her into
trouble. She normally wouldn’t hesitate getting into scraps but on the odd
occasion she will play by-stander and watch the out-comes.
She is ever the practical joker when it suits her. She can be extremely
sarcastic at times, yet gentle and kind at other times. It is against her
principles and her honor to break confidences that are told her. Her
detection skills are excellent and her bite is as bad as her bark. She is
also a typical cat. She has a long red/gold tail and her hands/paws have
five fingers, but she can retract her claws when they are not needed. She
has two fangs, which are distracting when she talks as other than the soft
fur and the fangs she looks humanoid. She speaks English and various cat
languages. She enjoys reading, card games and finds males entertaining. Two
of her hobbies are Genetics and electronics. She also enjoys a good argument
from time to time.
8) (Where were you born? Are you fresh out of the JMC Academy? Have you
worked on a starship before?)
Born on the planet Meow. Taught by the Clan to be a Security Officer.
Spent time on different Starships before taking over as Security Chief.
9) Favourite quote/ saying/ piece of advice?
It’s not the destination that matters – it’s the journey.
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Part Two
M’Ress’s Story
Rounding a corner however she saw a disturbance ahead and there were
creatures of unknown variety arging with others. So she leant against the
bulkhead and watched the proceedings unfold. It wasn't her place to
interfere, so she chose to watch instead.
When she saw that it was a fight and it had no redeeming qualities, she
shrugged and walked away to find something else of interest. She seemed to
be walking forever. Everytime she stopped to speak to bipedals, they had
shrugged and ignored her and hurried off onto their own destinations. No one
was very friendly she decided. When she was tired she found a storage unit
and climbed into it and fell asleep. She slept for the longest time and when
she woke she found herself very hungry. She hadn’t eaten in awhile. Climbing
out of the storage unit, she stretched her long frame and extended her hands
and talons, and then retracted them. She began walking again. Down a long
lit corridor.
Then the whole world around her decided to go crazy and she found herself
slipping and sliding down the long corridor that had no ending in sight and
it tilted even worse, with a howl of dismay she tumbled head-long into the
darkness below, all the lights had gone out. Frightened she finally felt the
ship she was in shudder to a halt and then there was a bang and the whole
ship vibrated for ages and then came to a standstill. She smashed hard into
something. The lights flickered briefly for a few seconds and then returned
barely.
She picked herself up off the floor and heard some hissing noises and
Wondered what they were. Then something wet hit her in the face and she
looked closely at where it was coming from. She tasted the wetness and then
spat it out disgusted. It was salty. She wiped a paw over her mouth and
stared in silence as the water spritzed out of pipes slowly. The ship had
sprung a leak. M’Ress was worried. She had no idea where she was, or how to
get off. She started walking quickly on down the corridor.
She rounded the corner and saw bipedals talking to the wall. She paused and
watched them and saw them take out dishes and walk away. Intrigued she
walked over to the wall and saw some kind of device in it. She had no idea
how to work it. The first thing that came to mind was FISH. So she said
“Fish” The machine hummed and then a door opened and a dish appeared. She
tentatively reached out her paws and retrieved the dish and sniffed it. Her
stomach growled and she opened the lid. It had a piece of fish in it. She
ate it hungrily and then went back to the machine and ordered 10 rounds of
more fish. Then she said “BIRD” The machine hummed a second and then the
door opened and on two plates were two different species of bird. She ate
them both and then ordered water. She didn’t know what to do with the plates
so she left them on the deck next to the machine. Satisfied, no longer
hungry she carried on with her explorations. She found a lot of the food
machines throughout her meanderings.
She walked, slept in storage rooms and ate along the way.
Finally she arrived at a walkway, which went downwards and took the stairs
to the next level. Unfortunately it was filling with water. She was glad she
had her boots on. She wasn’t ordinately fond of water.
She came across a door and touched it. It opened and she found herself in a
strange room, the humanoids in it turned to look at her in astonishment. It
looked like a bar room. Excepting 18 inches of water covered the floor. One
was female and the other behind the bar was male.
She eyed the pair of them wondering if they would even talk to her. She
walked through the water and said “Greetings and Salutations. Would you be
so kind as to tell me, what ship this is, where I am exactly and how do I
get off.?”
Lt. M'Ress
Meow Ranger
Chicaba System
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