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#1 User is offline   Count Altair El Alemein 

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Posted 01 August 2001 - 05:50 AM

[This is a webboard version of that game where a group of people get together and each of them makes up one or 2 lines continuing a story. It has been tried out on the EV webboards, and I'd like to give it a go here.]

The Gaitori cruiser accelerated away hurredly, dodging and weaving as best it could...

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Posted 01 August 2001 - 10:18 AM

but unfortunately Gaitori Cruisers can't accelerate, weave, or dodge, so it was hit squarely in the rear...

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"Once, just once, I'd like to be able to land somewhere and say, 'Behold, I am the Archangel Gabriel.'"
"I fail to see the humor in that situation, Doctor."
"Naturally. You could hardly claim to be an angel with those pointed ears, Mister Spock. But say you landed someplace with a pitchfork……"

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Posted 01 August 2001 - 11:34 AM

...with a concussion missle and a mess of fusion pulses and pk beams from the Ishiman HVC pursuing it.

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Posted 01 August 2001 - 03:05 PM

This sudden impact caused it to………

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"Once, just once, I'd like to be able to land somewhere and say, 'Behold, I am the Archangel Gabriel.'"
"I fail to see the humor in that situation, Doctor."
"Naturally. You could hardly claim to be an angel with those pointed ears, Mister Spock. But say you landed someplace with a pitchfork……"

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Posted 01 August 2001 - 06:38 PM

...run smack into the transport it was escorting. Both of the ships...

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Posted 01 August 2001 - 06:47 PM

...fell tumbling toward the hostile planet below. The HVC decided to...

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Posted 02 August 2001 - 12:25 AM

[Cicion, you can bring the Phylydian into my RPG, as may anyone with geniune ideas and the RPG's best interests at heart.]

...The HVD turned around full-on thrusters blasting it 180 degrees in mere seconds. Heck, with the impending fleet looming up before it, it would need all the firepower it could get...

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Posted 02 August 2001 - 07:48 AM

……so it hardly noticed the Gaitori Cruiser turning into a bowl of Petunias……
[I should hope most of you get the reference]

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Posted 02 August 2001 - 03:24 PM

...which thought "Oh, no, not again" as it plummeted toward the planet below...


(Thanks, CA. Of course, I really don't know what's going on in the RPG, so if you could give me a quick summary I'd be much obliged.)
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Posted 02 August 2001 - 11:11 PM

[Make sure you read all the posts in 'Try Again' and in the new chapter, then download SETR multiplayer edition lite, and modify the levels for single player for help in writing RPG battles. Other than that, read the readme's on Earth Quest Resubmitted, and SETR multi.]

The bowl of petunias crashed into the stratosphere. Meanwhile, the human vessels were closing on the Ishiman HVD. It fired it's fullerene rapidly, and a gunship blew up...

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Posted 03 August 2001 - 08:45 AM

……creating small quantities of Debris which……

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"Once, just once, I'd like to be able to land somewhere and say, 'Behold, I am the Archangel Gabriel.'"
"I fail to see the humor in that situation, Doctor."
"Naturally. You could hardly claim to be an angel with those pointed ears, Mister Spock. But say you landed someplace with a pitchfork……"

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Posted 03 August 2001 - 11:41 AM

...pointed out that the ship was actually an HVC, not an HVD. Time moved backwards for a few minutes until the HVC was back...

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Posted 03 August 2001 - 05:37 PM

Points out he was never referring to the HVC turning into an HVD, the HVD is a totally different ship on another side of the solar system, which proceeded to make for the jumpgate...

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Posted 05 August 2001 - 09:28 PM

...when the jumpgate sputtered and a large hostile Grolk fleet began to emerge...

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Posted 06 August 2001 - 02:34 AM

The alarmed HVD jumped to lightspeed and made for the HVC, which was finishing off the rest of the Gaitori convoy. Bang!

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Posted 08 August 2001 - 01:45 AM

The HVD hit the HVC. The resulting explosion...

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'What?'
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conform now. conform now. conform now.
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join us. express your commonality. copy and paste.

Boom bam as I step in the jam, God damn.

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Posted 08 August 2001 - 04:08 AM

Was extremely large. Seeing the destruction of the HVD and HVC, the incoming human fleet made for the jumpgate, which was of course defended by the Grolk!

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Posted 17 August 2001 - 01:50 AM

The human fleet engaged in close combat with the grolk fleet. The grolk, clearly outnumbered, tried to retreat...

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Posted 17 August 2001 - 02:16 AM

...into a nearby asteroid belt. The scattered and hid amongst the big floating rocks. The humans promptly...

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Posted 17 August 2001 - 03:33 AM

Began to blast away the asteroids. The main flagship of the human fleet, the UNS Purple, was hit by a nastiroid...

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Posted 17 August 2001 - 11:13 AM

Which promptly bounced off the Uber Shielding ™. The captain engaged the Death Cannons and started blasting the...

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Why?
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Posted 17 August 2001 - 04:05 PM

Nastiroid, which exploded, revealing a Grolk Battlecrusier which was...

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Posted 17 August 2001 - 07:26 PM

Armed and dangerous. It began firing it's photopulses at the human ship. Suddenly, nastiroids all over the belt exploded to reveal more Grolk ships.

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