The gentle purring of your interface bracelet awakens you, consciousness shifting from dream to alertness with its usual ease.You give your dreams the customary look-over as your body lifts itself from your bed, the habit of twinning your consciousness as easy as breathing now that you're coming of age.Your dreams were of>Terror and anxiety. Today is the day you finally leave your world. Many have not come back. Even more were so changed that they could never settle back into regular society>Anticipation and hope. It's always been a day you looked forward to and finally it's time to see what promises the stars hold for you>Whimsy and Romance. You thought to perhaps find someone special out amongst the cosmos. Perhaps love, perhaps a grander purpose, perhaps the power to find deeper secrets not seen by any before.
>>6111509>Anticipation and hope. It's always been a day you looked forward to and finally it's time to see what promises the stars hold for you
>>6111509>Terror and anxiety. Today is the day you finally leave your world. Many have not come back. Even more were so changed that they could never settle back into regular society
>>6111509>Whimsy and Romance. You thought to perhaps find someone special out amongst the cosmos. Perhaps love, perhaps a grander purpose, perhaps the power to find deeper secrets not seen by any before.
>>6111509>>Whimsy and Romance. You thought to perhaps find someone special out amongst the cosmos. Perhaps love, perhaps a grander purpose, perhaps the power to find deeper secrets not seen by any before.
>Whimsy and RomanceYou've always been a little on the irrational side. Truth be told -- More than a little. Amongst your peers you were often seen as borderline deviant, though your parents made sure to foster that scintillating spark of joyous insanity rather than trying to "fix" you be it through education or more invasive methods.Your room reflects that. A far cry from the austere and utilitarian furnishings currently the rage within your age group you've instead chosen to adorn your space with rows upon rows of wall hangings, stuffed animals, hammered brass, book cases and one wall taken up by a broad floor-to-ceiling mirror.In keeping with the theme, your own form is - by the standards of the Human Sphere of Expansion - somewhat more on the traditional side, at least outwardly.You look at yourself and see>A comparatively small girl, fine of limb and face>A tall boy, each muscle carefully accentuated >A girl of average height and build >A boy somewhat on the shorter side but heavily muscled for someone your age>write-in(I'm so happy this got responses, welcome everyone)
>>6111589>A boy somewhat on the shorter side but heavily muscled for someone your ageNot quite space dorf but I'll take it!
>>6111589>>A girl of average height and build
>>6111589>A boy somewhat on the shorter side but heavily muscled for someone your ageSpacedorf
>>6111589>A tall boy, each muscle carefully accentuated
>>6111589>A girl of average height and build
>>6111589>A comparatively small girl, fine of limb and faceShocked this didn't immediately win
Btw are we like an Android or an actual human or something?Are they just throwing us out?
>>6111589>>A comparatively small girl, fine of limb and face
>>6111589>A comparatively small girl, fine of limb and face
>>6111589>A tall boy, each muscle carefully accentuatedNo cooming. Only gains and brains.
>>6111589>A boy somewhat on the shorter side but heavily muscled for someone your age
>>6111613>Btw are we like an Android or an actual human or something?You're human. Enhanced, improved, augmented, but human.>Are they just throwing us out?It's traditional for your people to go through a period of travelling the stars before coming back home. Counting and writing!BTW should I keep the updates longer or is this length sufficient?Any other short questions?
>>6111682The length is sufficient, especially if you're updating is often as it has been already.I do wonder how you're going to handle the four-way tie.
Rolled 1 (1d4)>>6111689>I do wonder how you're going to handle the four-way tie.Wait drat it really is.Guess I'm gonna
Rolled 3 (1d4)And second>>6111689>The length is sufficient, especially if you're updating is often as it has been already.Hah! Back in my day this used to be considered extremely slow. 15 - 45 minutes was the norm.
ALRIGHT.Tie-breaker vote.>A comparatively small girl, fine of limb and face>A girl of average height and buildApologies in advance. I so very much don't like to roll tie-breakers.
>>6111700>A comparatively small girl, fine of limb and face
>>6111700>A girl of average height and build
Rolled 2 (1d2)>>6111700I'm fine with both so I'll roll
not really interested in playing a girl, so I'm out
>>6111700>A comparatively small girl, fine of limb and face>>6111723Weak.
>votes come in right as I'm writingOOFEDalright.[VOTING CLOSED]>>6111723Understandable. Have a good one.
>>6111682The length seems appropriate for the info conveyed, the importance of the vote and how often you've updated, so far at least.
You're certainly on the more elegantly-shaped side. You never quite managed to get your parents to confess how much of this was deliberate choice and how much they left up to the wiles of the process, but either way you're seldom unhappy with the results.Sure, a more impressive frame might engender more respect but you do quite like what you have all the same.You get dressed in the uniform customary for all departees, snatch your rather old-fashioned phone from its charging stand and seal the room behind you.Your interface bracelet vibrates, confirming that the space behind you is now undergoing full lockdown procedures with the air being replaced by first hard vacuum, then ethylene gas and finally argon, to ensure that no matter how long you stay away it'll be as be as pristine as the day you left it.Your heart flutters and you revel in the feeling. Sadness is such a gift and you let yourself cry as you make your way down the spire, others seeing your uniform and giving you understanding nods. By the blood, you're not the only one.Relieved and hopeful you arrive at the central plaza assigned for take-off, your parents BEAMING with pride as they embrace you, similar scenes playing out all around you.Mother's floor-length dress is a scintillating crimson that slowly shifts between different hues, father wearing a purple toga and True Leather boots. He was always so proud of those boots, despite some calling the act of hunting with your bare hands rather barbaric for this age.It's odd how you notice and recall these details so clearly now.>Tell them you'll miss them>Tell them you'll make them proud>Tell them you'll come back soon
>>6111737>Tell them you'll make them proud
>>6111737>Tell them you'll make them proudIs this setting based on anything?
>>6111737>>Tell them you'll make them proud
>>6111737>Tell them you'll miss them
>Tell them you'll make them proudYou dance a few steps backwards and meet each of their eyes in turn.Your voice carries the unmistakable ring of TRUTH to it as you smile and place one hand above your chest and uphold the other in the ancient gesture of the most sacred of oaths."By the blood, by the creator, by the stars and skies and all the names of my ancestors I humbly swear to bring honor upon this house or may my memory be striken from the record of all".They can't help but feel a twinge of satisfaction as their shared surprise morphs into beaming pride. You're going to show them. You're going to show them ALL what you're truly capable off.[CLASS C-11 READY FOR DEPARTURE]The voice of the principal sounds over the intercom and breaks the moment. Your mind flickers through what you know of his habits, the layout of the place and the size of the crowd.95 seconds to spare. Not bad.Your mother draws a thin blade from the elaborate weave of her hair and opens a thin cut in her hand, then presses the bloodied palm to your face."The blood endures".You let yourself feel the full brunt of joy, embarrassment, pride and longing, crying freely as you give them one final hug, careful not to wipe the rapidly-drying mark off your cheek.At the terminal your class - or rather, the part chosen for this assignment - is already quite agitated, many of them bearing a marking similar to yours. >Speak to Traya Synn, the comms expert and probably the least likely member of this mission. Sure, her scores are amazing but she always seemed like such a homebody it seemed odd she'd even wish to undergo the journey>Speak to Ramon Kess, the guy who just plain never seems to shut up about space and adventure and - both comfortingly and worringly - the people he intends to kill out there.>Speak to LLena Ash. You'd never been very close - her being more interested in exploring the tunnels underneath your school complex with her posse of equally misfit girls - but she's capable at navigation and seems to have the most well-rounded knowledge of what you're about to undertakeAs you arrive you find your ship to be>A small, lithe, aerodynamic hybrid vessel capable of both atmospheric and space flight>A blocky craft of medium size, meant to mainly orbit and only come down in dire circumstances [This option increases crew size]>A massive behemoth only reachable through shuttle or orbital elevator. [This option increases crew size massively]
>>6111817>Speak to Ramon Kess, the guy who just plain never seems to shut up about space and adventure and - both comfortingly and worringly - the people he intends to kill out there.>A blocky craft of medium size, meant to mainly orbit and only come down in dire circumstances [This option increases crew size]
>>6111817>Speak to LLena Ash. You'd never been very close - her being more interested in exploring the tunnels underneath your school complex with her posse of equally misfit girls - but she's capable at navigation and seems to have the most well-rounded knowledge of what you're about to undertake>A blocky craft of medium size, meant to mainly orbit and only come down in dire circumstances [This option increases crew size]
>>6111817I'm already scared.>Speak to LLena Ash. You'd never been very close - her being more interested in exploring the tunnels underneath your school complex with her posse of equally misfit girls - but she's capable at navigation and seems to have the most well-rounded knowledge of what you're about to undertake>A small, lithe, aerodynamic hybrid vessel capable of both atmospheric and space flightA cozy adventure, I hope.If anything, go big or go small. Presumably the behemoth comes with shuttles for when there isn't an elevator. Whereas the medium should only land in emergencies.
>>6111817>Speak to LLena Ash. You'd never been very close - her being more interested in exploring the tunnels underneath your school complex with her posse of equally misfit girls - but she's capable at navigation and seems to have the most well-rounded knowledge of what you're about to undertake>A massive behemoth only reachable through shuttle or orbital elevator. [This option increases crew size massively]Luv me sum big ships
>>6111817>Speak to Ramon Kess, the guy who just plain never seems to shut up about space and adventure and - both comfortingly and worringly - the people he intends to kill out there.>A massive behemoth only reachable through shuttle or orbital elevator. [This option increases crew size massively]
>>6111817>>Speak to LLena Ash. You'd never been very close - her being more interested in exploring the tunnels underneath your school complex with her posse of equally misfit girls - but she's capable at navigation and seems to have the most well-rounded knowledge of what you're about to undertake>A blocky craft of medium size, meant to mainly orbit and only come down in dire circumstances [This option increases crew size]
>>6111817>Speak to LLena Ash. You'd never been very close - her being more interested in exploring the tunnels underneath your school complex with her posse of equally misfit girls - but she's capable at navigation and seems to have the most well-rounded knowledge of what you're about to undertake>A small, lithe, aerodynamic hybrid vessel capable of both atmospheric and space flight
>Medium Ship>LLena>You have chosen the path Path of Exploration. >This will give you access to a wide array of options with a decent balance of combat, trade and general weirdnessYou beeline to LLena's gaggle of girls and run a quick analysis of your shared history. She's definitely going to be open to a conversation if you do it right. You stay three arm lengths out, body language becoming a mixture of terse and uncaring. There. She's noticed you and doesn't mind the intrusion.You flicker your gaze from the corner of her eye to a space in between and she relaxes, giving you the opening you need to approach."Hopes?" You give her smile half-apologetic at interrupting and half encouraging to convey that yours are indeed quite high.She shrugs."Hopes are for Baselines and people who play cards. I'm gonna MAKE this work for us".You suddenly remember why your relationship was always a little distant. Sure, you feel the same, but the frankness is... you stop the mild irritation. You're on the same page here. No use feeling like this when she's clearly looking at someone who should be quite pleasant to spend time with.You close your eyes and slightly tild your head in a sign of cordial assent."Likewise, likewise".You let twinge of amusement colour your voice."Got any plans yet?"She side-eyes you. Right. Too vague. Too open-ended. People like her likely see it as an affront to imply they wouldn't always have a plan. You shouldn't have let yourself get tricked into becoming too single-minded."Absolutely. Once we're out of the system I'll probably try to get us core-wards. Don't think we'll make it all the way to earth in one line but y'know".She suddenly gets more animated."I wanna get us where the action is. Rings. Habs. The cloud cities of the inner sphere".She's talking faster and faster now."A ship like this is built for SPEED y'know. We can junk around in the rim later on but at first we might not want to stick out too much. Lots of other classes going there. Sure, it's much harder to make some good Bands but just imagine at what we'll SEE!!"You wince at the mention of money. Nearly 70 thousand of the 100 thousand Bands each citizen gets assigned at birth have gone towards your share of the ship. The remainder is more than adequate to start but it'll take a lot of effort to come back with more than you started. LLena's mind seems quite taken with the idea of going on a joy ride then make back your expenses in the danger-fraught periphery.You sway your head from side to side, communicating the idea of being unsure but theoretically agreeable."And you?"She seems genuinely interested, your arrival at the boarding ramp giving you time to mull over your answer.>Go to the periphery. Rummage around and see what you find>Go core-wards. See the sights. Relax for a bit. Get to know the shipThe inside of your vessel is>Cool and sleek>Baroque and luxurious>Harsh and utilitarian(Apologies for the delay)
>>6111817>Speak to LLena Ash>A small, lithe, aerodynamic hybrid vessel capable of both atmospheric and space flight
>>6112420>Go core-wards. See the sights. Relax for a bit. Get to know the ship>Harsh and utilitarian
>>6112426Holy late
>>6112420>We can junk around in the rim later on but at first we might not want to stick out too much. Lots of other classes going there. Are we in the magic school bus setting?>You wince at the mention of money. Nearly 70 thousand of the 100 thousand Bands each citizen gets assigned at birth have gone towards your share of the ship. The remainder is more than adequate to start but it'll take a lot of effort to come back with more than you started.So there's UBI but still an economy?>Rim>Harsh and utilitarian
>>6112420>Go core-wards. See the sights. Relax for a bit. Get to know the ship>Baroque and luxurious
>>6112420>Go core-wards. See the sights. Relax for a bit. Get to know the shipI'm fine with her plan. Get to know each other before we go headfirst into danger together. Risky, but this is supposed to be an adventure full of romance and whimsy. It wouldn't be much fun if we weren't putting it all on the line.>Baroque and luxuriousNice.
>>6111767>Is this setting based on anything?>>6112473>Are we in the magic school bus setting?Little bit of Traveller, little bit of Outlaw Star, little bit of Pokemon, decent helping of Mezametara Saikyou Soubi to Uchuusen, seasoned with some aspects of Mindjammer and Battletech. (you) are determining which aspects will be more or less important>So there's UBI but still an economy?Sorta! The economy isn't post-scarcity/post-activity but post-survival. People who don't want to work don't need to to stay alive, the ones who enjoy growing their belongings do so or invest their starting capital. The exact nature of it varies depending on where you go.
>>6112420>Go to the periphery. Rummage around and see what you find>Baroque and luxurious
>>6112420>Go core-wards. See the sights. Relax for a bit. Get to know the ship>Cool and sleek
>>6112420>Go to the periphery. Rummage around and see what you find>Harsh and utilitarian
>>6112509You're the guy from the general who wanted to make fantasy adventure or space. 1. Can you explain the differences between post scarcity and post survival? 2. How do we determine which aspects of the setting to bring out?
>>6113638Not OP, but I imagine for the first that it is the difference in abundance is between being able to fulfill any desire (without even needing substantial trading activity or anything) and having enough stuff (and the right institutions needed) to distribute for every member of society to survive, though not necessarily thrive, respectively.
>>6113638No I'm not. I pretty much lurked for a while but never really talked about my plans beyond asking stuff about the technical and scheduling aspect.>1:Nobody starves or struggles for base safety or physiological needs but there's still things that are rare like time, expertise, logistical throughput etc. >2(YOU) do! I've intentionally written several different versions so there's a way to adjust the tone according to what people seem to enjoy.>>6113646Well put! A lot of people just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and just chill out but an even larger percentage find stuff to do, and work is a pretty popular one. There's rich and there's "poor" but "poor" means roughly equivalent to a 1990s upper middle class lifestyle with 2020s technology available for effectively free and no real concept of being destitute (on civilized worlds anyway, it's pretty tough in some rim worlds).I'm going for a walk then updating. Thank you everyone for your ample participation and patience.
>>6113676Then based and I'm going to stick around. Sorry for the assumption. There was someone in general who said they wanted to run either fantasy or spaceship and then said they decided to do both. But if this can have some Traveller in it I'm game.
>>6113676>I'm going for a walk then updatingWere you kidnapped?
>>6114432No but I'm presently stuck on my phone for for reasons outside of my control. Pretty upsetting. QM curse is alive and well.Damnit we ball.>>6113951 Cheers
>>6114469Killed by curse?
