And Four's a lot more fun!

Who: Guinevere Winters, Mark McJohn, Johnny Goode & Eric LustbaderWhere: ParrottsWhen: Still no sign of code brown.<<SNIP>>"Well, they are an alien race we have encountered many times. It seems like no-one else wants to encounter them. They are as evil as they are ugly. They are very spider-like, and they have a hive mind and such." Eric said. "Oh." Guinevere replied.<<END SNIP>>*Just my luck, spider-like enemy, just what I need.* Guinevere thought to herself, as she detested spiders more
then any other bug … not that spiders were technically a bug, but does that really matter, no I didn’t think so.“Well if they ARE as evil as they are ugly, then that makes perfect sense why no one wants to wine and dine them.” She said undoing the top button of her uncomfortable uniform, it was on her neck and beginning to cause her to not skull as easily, which if she had been on duty she still would have undone as it was very possible for her to be drinking while she was on duty … well that’s how she had envisaged her time to come on this vessel. Although she had not foreseen the ridiculous uniform she was enduring presently, thankfully she had not yet seen anyone else wearing it and so couldn’t wait to be rid of it and back in her overalls.<<SNIP>>"We've faced them many times - a lot of them before I came
on board." Eric added.<<END SNIP>>“Arh.” Guinevere said disappointingly, if they had encountered the Hymenopteran already many times then it was almost certain this would not be their last. *Bugger* She thought, *Where’s the variety in that.*<<SNIP>>"Yeah." Mark replied. "I remembered when we first faced them. It wasscary stuff. They have recently captured our Chief Navigation Officer and Head Pilot Jay Chrysler. They put something into the back of his neck, and now he of one of them. In fact, they've made him their Emperor or something. He's blowing up planets each time we try and stop him."<<END SNIP>>“Look on the bright side, if there’s something in the back of his neck then they’re controlling him, it doesn’t mean he’s deflected.” Guinevere said, guessing that the crew of this rust bucket would want such an important crew member back amongst the ranks. Surprisingly she hasn’t even been aboard more then a couple of hours and yet rust bucket has already come to mind.<<SNIP>>"Don't forget the training simulation." Eric remembered. "Seymour did more bloody damage than the Hymenopteran." "Yeah. He finished me off in that. I'm glad he's no longer running the ship." "Who is this Seymour guy?" Guinevere asked. By this time, multiple rounds had been consumed. "Seymour Niples - resident
arsehole." Eric replied. "He is the most uptight git in the galaxy. He thinks he is better than everyone else, and he was the first Captain of this ship. I'm glad that was all over by the time I came on board. He hates everybody. Either they are beneath him and he won't want anything to do with you, or you're his superior, which would make him insanely jealous." Guinevere thought of some other people who also seemed to fit parts of Eric's description.<<END SNIP>>Guinevere couldn’t help but laugh at the ex-captain’s name, though it came out as a short snort due to the amount of alcohol she had already consumed.“Well it’s a good thing that he isn’t captain any more then … though he sounds to me he just needs a good lay.” Guinevere said finishing the drink in her hand and taking up the next one that was already awaiting her, she didn’t usually drink this much
beer when she drank this much, especially Guinness, she was pleasantly surprised that she was able to keep up with the two men on the said beverage.<<SNIP>>"Err, McJohn, with Jay gone, who is the current Chief Navigation Officer?" "Oh smeg." McJohn replied. "That would be Dean." "Who's Dean?" Guinevere asked. "Dean Thomas. You name it, he can crash it." McJohn said. Guinevere was starting to notice how... strange everybody on the ship seemed to be. "Then there's Phil, our Head of Security. He's part GELF and a clone of himself. Then there's his clone, Mini Phil. He's a midget, and he's very mad." Eric added. "Don't forget Phil's daughter, Amber. She went from a toddler to a teenager in a few days, due to the GELF DNA. She's completely nuts. Stay away from her if you want your appendages attached." McJohn added.<<END SNIP>>Guinevere was trying to keep up with all the information that she was hearing, there was so much to remember, as she knew absolutely no one on board, the people mentioned thus far were all quite strange and it was a wonder any of them held positions. Phil and Jay seemed to be the only two who hadn’t been insulted so far to top things off.“Right so our current Head of Nav, … Dean … Thomas can’t fly to save his life, or is it can’t land to save his life?” She asked somewhat rhetorically, more wrapping her head around the details.“GELF stands for Genetically Engineered Life Form right?” She asked gingerly as she hadn’t had any reason to know what it was till now, she wondered what on earth this … Phil would look like and guessed something big, scary and ugly to be the Head of Security. And to top it off this … Phil had a midget clone of himself that was mad.Guinevere
decided to not dwell on the information concerning Amber as she was starting to wonder if joining had been a good idea after all … but then she had needed to get away from her mother and the JMC board seemed to only want to send her to Blue Dwarf … she was beginning to realise why, no one would willingly or knowingly join this crew … surely.<<SNIP>>"Speaking of Amber, I haven't seen her lately. Or Seymour." Eric said. "Or Callum." "Who's Callum?" Guinevere asked. "Just a mad Scotsman." Eric and McJohn slurred at the same time as they finished their umpteenth round. 'No surprises there', thought Guinevere. ‘All Scotsmen are nuts.’ "Hol?" Eric called out. "Where's Amber, Seymour and CK? With most of the department heads elsewhere, I could really use Amber's help." "They went to New Ibiza a few days ago on Starbug 666 for a break." "Seymour, Amber and CK? On a trip?
Together? Now I'm really worried." McJohn said.<<END SNIP>>“So you do know some things.” Guinevere called out to Holly as his head disappeared from the screen, he hadn’t been all too helpful to her when she had first arrived.“So what department are Seymour, Amber and Callum in?” Guinevere asked hoping the former two weren’t in engineering from what she had heard, though she wouldn’t have minded the latter, she had a weak spot for a light Scottish accent, same with an Irish one, most English accents hit the spot as well. Not that she would have admitted any of that to any one.“Arh … What’s wrong with the three of them together?”<<SNIP>>Johnny made an appointment with Roberts for his next flying lesson, then walked gingerly to the
elevator and went to what had by now been colourfully (and imaginatively) re-named 'Level Parrott's/Nivelo Drinky' by someone on the level chart. Johnny entered Parrott's to see Eric Lustbader and McJohn seated talking to someone who he hadn't seen before. He ordered a scotch schooner and sat down, joining them.<<END SNIP>>Guinevere noticed as another man sat down with them, he had clearly noticed her but hadn’t offered a welcome, she hadn’t drunk enough to point this out … she wondered if he was one of the people Eric and Mark had already mentioned, knowing that she could at least cross off Amber, Jay, Seymour and Mini Phil from the list.She barely raised an eyebrow at the guys moustache, it was thicker then Lustbader’s, how she detested them, but then if she was ever to get either of them drunk enough shaving off have of it would always be a good
laugh.She couldn’t wait any longer to be introduced and so did so herself.“Guinevere Winters … Engineer … just got in a couple of hours ago.” She said extending her hand to be shaken.
<TAGGER, TAGGER, TAGGER>GUINEVERE WINTERS, ENGINEEROOC: I can’t believe how much I just bagged out the ship and its crew … I‘m such a traitor. *Hangs head in shame*I knew that the ship was using Seymour’s wine, (although I am surprised that it is cask) as I have read a few of the recent posts to get a hold of wants going on but of course Guinevere doesn’t hold the knowledge that I do which brings me to another point, it is so weird to have to write as for a Character that doesn’t know the things I know about this ship and it’s crew and it’s even stranger to have this ship and its crew described to me by someone who joined after I left. Don’t get me wrong it’s a good thing that you wrote that last
post as Guinevere has to learn it from somewhere and of course things have happened since I left (2 years ago) that I don’t know about.I was here when the Hymenopteran were created attacking New Ibiza the first time round, though my character Eve Rimmer was on Earth, with Tara Cleavage-FeBuggure and their mother, at the time discovering that they were in fact half sisters and not the only children they believed they were, or as Tara believed that her mother was dead and in fact alive.It was also during that time that Seymour Niples handed over captaincy to White Wolf, (Who I wish was still here as I’m now addicted to Baldur’s Gate AD&D and now understand some of the things he use to write that I hadn’t before.) Seymour was even King for a short fashion when Brittany Jennifer resigned from being Queen so that she could stay in New Ibiza and permanently party before he became ambassador.And then dear Dean Thomas who was dating Jasmine Starbolt a character I wrote
for often and even took over when my best friend and her Creator had to leave. (She’s also who I’ve fashioned my yahoo addy to as I don’t like people knowing who I really am except people I already know and of course Blue Dwarf as this is family here.) We put Dean through so much, teased him and probably hurt him more then anyone else using Jasmine and then deprived him of sex … though they got close once.Mini Phil’s was always a good threat, although he’s need to hump EVERYTHING leaves little to be desired … if you could desire the little bugger at all.And little Amber FeBuggure-Keats whom Eve babysat as a baby/toddler, a tough bird who had an affection for Jay while her twin Rufus had formed a short lived affection for Eve. I can’t believe Amber got married albeit due to a virus or such or that she used Bliss.Sorry for the rambling and probably coming across very un-likeable, I wasn’t trying to prove that I know more then you, but hopefully passing on old
interesting information that you didn’t already know yourself. And reminding all the oldies the BD I remember.I’m so glad this group is still going strong and more then five years old too, not many people can say that there is such a thing for a RPG … Well done Onion! and of course all the members who have been in and out since Blue Dwarf was first added to Yahoo groups.I will shut up now and go back to my dark corner as this OOC will almost be as long as the IC I’m about to start writing, that you’ve already read.JENNI
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