Say what you want to do next here.

I'd like to start over immediately. If there's enough interest, I'd be alright with roleplaying on the boards.

He means in terms of the rp.

I realized that about ten seconds after I posted, Sorry. Militarist post coming up...

I say we begin recruiting a militia immediately. Soon afterwards, register the entire population for evaluation for military service. Also, force all current physicists and biologists into weapons development fields. Now our military has something to do.

That's for Jess's tribe :P. The other tribes may take a different approach. I'll IM Chris and see how his tribe (the one with the crushed ballon animal) wants to take it. Also Tom (sword mage) needs to show the reaction of the defeated avian. Also the Lawyers may need to gather in their Logo shaped temple to discuss... Since we pointed out the logo shaped temple to the humans, hopefully they'll meet up with the lawyers there. Otherwise, we'll probably have the lawyers chase after them in the spiffy ferrari ballonanimal (it's up to Tom). As for the rest of you, plan appropriate actions.

My avian is gonna punish Atash's for running off to see the Humans. He's also gonna fervently deny that they exist.

My guy is brooding over what happened. If anyone asks him about the humans he just mutters ominously. In the back of his mind, he is going over the fight again and again, trying to find where he went wrong, where the weak spot in this giant thing might be.

Oh... and post your AIM names here! I need to talk with you guys on AIM.

Also, for the sake of non-confusion the following tribes and characters will be referred to as:
The Techy = Atash's character
The Mizer = My character
The Avenger = Tom (swordmage)'s character
The Lawyer = Other Tom's character
The Loner = Sarah's character
The Placid = Chris's character
The Xenophobe = Jess's character

The tribes will be:
The Lawyers (duh)
The Peaceniks = Chris's and Tom's tribe
The Grognards = Jess's tribe
The merchant tribe and the fisher tribe will have generic names until we get more tribes of the type.

Aez 1, Confusion 0 :ph43r:

jess, good luck geting a weapon developed in a week, using only your tribe. The tribal system they live in is very very bad for organizing armies across tribes, plus, your character doesn;t know if the humans will be back, and if so where, so a army wouldn't help if the humans don't happen to find it, and then they just run to their ship and turn on the engine, and you get roasted. Also, how do you propose governing such a army? the hippies wouldn't fight anyway, and the warriors will fiight if they meet the humans regardless, and a bunch of spread out tribes would be better for finding the humans anyway. plus, remember the average speed of one of the ballon animals is like 20 mph, they are ballons after all, not jets. they don;t have radio, and teh fastest thing they have is the lawyer's car-animal-hindenburg. the tribes float around doing stuff ( raising ballon animals ? fishing? getting high?) and bump into each other about once a month. How would information travel in such a culture? extreamly slowly! the fastest it could go would be the speed of the lawyers ballonanimal to cover the eniter planet, but it would probally take much longer than that. plus, not everyone would take the storys as fact, especially after they have been embellished through many retellings by the survivors. The story would also probally get distorted through many retellings, so the humans might meet sophonts who have only a vauge notion, or a vauge fear, or the human ship.


Also, logan said something about areial flashes or something. I was just wondering if they would consider this big metal thing that came down from the sky, burned them, yelled at them, then left, to be an imminant danger to all of the sophonts, that they must be warned about immediatly? what basis do they have to think that the thing will come back? or that they can be prepared for it? its possible that the sophonts in general might not be able to conceive of extraterrestrial life, epecially if they have no sci fi, and sparse knowledge of astronamy.what would they say anyway? "attacked by giant metal fire thing, be very afraid, pass it on"? trying to tell an elaborate story like that would get incredibly mangled by translating it into a simple code, which we hope they all understand and speak teh same lanquage, which seems rather unlikly, seeing the sheer # of lanquages on earth. Plus, we never said anything about areail flares, would they be produced by the ballonimals or what? I personly think having no knowledge of the humans could be very interesting to role play, especially if the humans act diffrently, because then teh storys confict and the sophonts could think they were two diffrent creatures.

Well, the ship coming down will have been seen by quite few people. After all, since the cloud cover is usually unchanging, any disturbance is sigificant. For instance, the crashing spacecraft one year ago drew lots of attention (then got ignored...)

Chirs, Jess, and I got together for a skiffy chat during lunch. As far as we can tell, this is the plan.

The Grognards will find the Peaceniks and give them a lift to the nearest Merchant island (the Mizer's and Techy's island) The Xenophobe will try to convert the Peaceniks to join the war effort, and after going to the merchant island, they'll go around gathering support for the war. The Placid is looking to guide his tribe outta trouble. The Avenger joins up with the Grognards. Now, all the rest depends on where the humans land.

If the humans land at the temple:
Lawyers greet them and peaceful (hopefully) stuff starts. Tom does his thing.
The Loner is off like a shot.
The Techy is off like a shot.
The Mizer is off like a snail chasing the Techy.
The Xenophobe continues gathering forces.
The Placid does something...
The Avenger stays with the Grognards, or goes to confront the humans

If the humans land at the same spot:
They meet up with the Grognards and Peaceniks.
Grognards and Avenger attack or scope them out.
Peaceniks try to stay out of trouble,
Loner is nearby so she meets up with them.
Techy is off like a shoot again.
Mizer is off like a snail chasing him.
Lawyers are off like a shot.

If the humans land at the Merchant Island:
The Grognards and Peaceniks arrive later.
Mizer denies their existence and refuses to leave the office.
Techy meets them.
Loner is off like a shot.
Lawyers are off like a shot.

If I've misportrayed your character or something, be sure to yell at me. After all, your actions are up to you (You just haven't met with me yet so in a way it's your own damn fault :P)

The Peaceniks (placids (me) ) might still be on teh grognard's ship when they land again, so i would be draged into it when teh grognards are "off like a shot"

The lawyers are uniting together to fight for interspecial communication in their Hall of Friendship and Eagles!

Woot!

interspecial communication, is that communication between special people?


I don;t think anyone knows if there are even people inside the space ship. My charachter thinks its devine retribution for thinking warlike thoughts against the other peacenik tribe (the inferrior one)

An next time you eat a sea slug... We have an ancestor vision scene!
So you should go ask the Loner for sea slugs (drugs) so you can get yourself your ancestrial vision :P

Interspecial is inter species.

Where is Sarah anyway?

Dunno. I told her about the RP thing, so hopefully she'll return to the forums...

remind me, were the sea slugs harmful, like LSD or herrowin, or just fun, like pot supposedly is, or addictive, like alchol?

LSD = Hallucinogen
Heroin = VERY Addictive (Depressant I think?)
Pot = Mentally Addictive, Depressant
Cocaine = Stimulant
Alcohol = Depressant

The nature of Hallucingens is that they make you see things. Very very wierd things... Depressants give you a passive high in the form of a euphoria. Stimulants make you go crazy. I'm thinking we should have different types of sea slugs of course... A favorite of the warriors will be stimslug which they eat before battle (and then go crazy). Shamen will like the halluslug which gives them visions. Fishers may like the depreslug which gives them a euphoria which helps them search for more slugs. This is based off of the Wind on Fire series in which the Mud People eat tixy leaves. The tixy leaves are depressants that make them move slowly and lazily. This in turn helps them see the tixy leaves which are hard to find in the mud. Maybe we should do that for the fishers... But the problem with that, is that the mud land is not very dangerous. The oceans of our world are not just dangerous, they're suicidal. Fishers pretty much are on constant alert so that they can dodge the fierce creatures that chased the Avian ancestors out of the water. The only reason Fishers can surivive where the other Avians can't are because the Fishers stil have functional gills and that they are heavily adapted for underwater speed and have fighting instincts for underwater. So they either can outfight (in groups!) their opponents or barring that outrun them (they're pretty much the fastest thing down there with significant fighting ability)... so Fishers using euphoria drugs doesn't seem very realistic. Merchants are probably not a big fan of drugs either, being more practical then the other avians (Cept for Atash's)... Lawyers on the other hand... Lawyers do everything. At once. Part of the reason why they're so screwed up. These drugs probably have some negative effects, but none that the avians aren't used to.

OK, are we calling them avians or what? We might want a name ...

Nah. The species communicates with music, so they're name will be wierd.

*ALSO* We need to find a way for them to communicate with the humans. Damn our lack of psionic powers... it would make this much easier... And we need to forumulate our language. Is it merely experession of emotions through music? (which will be easily to ad-lib rp) Or is it an actual language (in which we've gotta make it up...)

lets ab lib it, i am not trying to write a musical lanquage. besides, we are doing it on the forums, so we could just say *happy music sounds*

We could develop a calligraphic writing system based on the humans' writing/logos. I think that the stimulants should have effects similar to ecstasy: increased activity, but also high blood pressure and temperature, and can result in organ damage. It shortens the warriors' life spans, but we spawn like rabbits anyway. We use it before battle all the time. Orifice masks with ground sea slugs inside that we breath in throughout battle?

i was going to say that we couldn't have masks, because their spiked tongue is their most effective weapon, but then i remembered that they breath through tubes in their shoulders, so we could get some sort of teabag (slugbag?) sort of thing going in their shoulders.

The drugs don't necessarily need to have bad effects. I was thinking that some tribes could have a pond-like thing in their baloonimal, or have one of their balloonimal livestock be a pond, and keep some slugs with them. Like pet fish, only they get you high.


BTW, are they living in or on the baloonimals? I don't think we ever decided...

For the most part, they live on top of or hanging off of the ballonanimals. They spend most of the time flying around the ballon animals unless they're resting... However, the young ones and the old ones spend time in orficies of the ballonanimals. As for the pond idea, sure, the ponds can support sea slugs but the sea slugs will have to be replenished and it can't hold a whole lot.

I thought that the clamp-mouth was one of their greatest weapons...

Also, they could just eat the sea slugs and get high that way. (of course, that requires fore-knowledge and preparation because the chemicals don't take effect quickly in that manner) Perhaps the more powerful sea slug drugs have to be taken orally, while the other can be ground up and inserted into an open wound or something.

by orifices, do you mean old air sacs that have been opened up into rooms, causing the balloonimal to grow another air sac?

Possibly. They are fairly small though...

*Also I edited the other post I made a second ago*

Oh, i thought that they were fairly large (large enough to support an entire tribe) If the avians live partly inside of the balloonimals, the balloonimals can be smaller, because they need less top area for living space. I was thinking slightly smaller than blimp size. Remember that they have to live up there for months.

The clamp mouth and the spiked tounge are their greatest weapon IIRC.

I don't like the idea of a slug pond inside a living balloonimal. What if they use the dried corpses of dead balloonimals for slug ponds or powder storage. Or storing anything?

Also, have we heard at all from the humans this weekend?

No we haven't... I need to start pestering them again :angry:

Thanks for that. We should try to talk to them in person, too.

And when is COTI 2006 starting? We could start on the forums now, as long as we let everyone know at the next skiffy meeting.

So they say they've been landing repeatedly over the week now... this would drive the xenophobe nuts, but I can't say much more until we hear about where they've been landing. *Goes to ask that in the public thread*

We need a group voice now. I nominate myself :P :ph43r:

sounds good to me.

why not? i should be logan, but you post 4x the amount he does, so why not? As long as you are not like " the whole planet got high, so we are all unconsious tripping when you arrive"

lol :P

Logan is a God, not a participant ;)

what? the whole damn planet did get high! In my book, anyway.

If we have a (victory/friendship/ orgy )celebration at the end of this to celebrate our (victory over / new friendship with/ severe ownage causing us to need to breed wildly to rebuild our race by the ) humans, we should build a huge bonfire out of sea slugs and get the whole planet high with the smoke.

PS avains could use the sea slugs as a hunting meathod. take the sky spider, to dangerous to approach, so they burn slugs in his direction until the spider gets high, then they move in for the kill / steal his food that he has cought.