Back when I was in college I submitted an article called "A Guide to Undercover Missions on Low-Tech Planets" to the now-defunct Traveller Magazine. They paid me but never published it.
But now it's in Traveller Compendium 3!
So that makes me happy. My years of playing sci-fi RPGs beccause I was too hipster for Dungeon & Dragons have been totally worth it.
So I'm trying to make my chapters not be so short with little substance. I started reading a little bit of the stories that inspired me to get into writing again. It helps a little. Hopefully by the time this ends, my chapters won't be so short with almost nothing but dialogue.
Anyway, nuu chapter.
[spoiler2]Chapter 2
Rynjin and Stackbabbin' Bumscags sat across from each other at the table. They waited impatiently for the others to show up. "Why does it seem like we're the only people that enjoy playing these games anymore?" Bumscags started setting up the board for Pandemic.
"You should start offering a cash reward if the players win. That will get them to join."
"As if any of you deserve my hard earned cash." As Bumscags began shuffling the cards, Doopliss joined the table.
"Sorry I'm late. I had some set up to do in my room this morning."
Rynjin reached into a cooler at the side of the table and set it on the table. "Set up? Are you guys doing something special?"
"We are but . . ." Doopliss looked out the door as if he were expecting to hear someone eavesdropping on him. "I probably shouldn't tell you. Corv and Bern don't think anyone else should hear about it."
"Come on, Doop, you can tell us." Rynjin picked up the beer and held it just out of Doopliss's reach. "I'll let you have this beer if you tell us."
"Ryn, I'm not falling for that." Doopliss took his class card and got ready to play. "We're not five anymore."
"Well you're no fun." Rynjin set the beer back down beside Doopliss. Idiot Cube joined them and set some cubes down on the table. "Uh . . . why did you bring these cubes?"
"I'm glad you asked. Watch this." Idiot Cube tapped the top of one of the cubes. It immediately sprouted arms and legs and started dancing around. It then sprouted a birthday hat with the word "unbirthday" on it. "I made these cubes for our unbirthday! There's one for each of you." Idiot Cube reached into the bag slung over his shoulder and took out a plate wrapped in tin foil. He took off the tin foil, revealing the most scrumptuous cookies any SPUFer had ever laid eyes on.
"Thank you very much, Cube." All three of them spoke nearly in unison. They all took a cookie and started eating them.
"Enjoy those, guys." Idiot Cube had the biggest grin on his face. He set his bag down beside the table. "Now, let's start this. What classes are you guys again?"
Bumscags grabbed his notebook and started writing down some notes. "Doopliss is a generalist. Rynjin is a field operative. Rammire still hasn't shown up yet. While we wait for him, what will you choose, Idiot Cube?"
"Um . . ." Idiots Cubes eyes moved back and forth as though he were reading the cards in his head. "I want to be a medic."
"Alright." Bumscags took note. "Now, we just need to wait for Rammire to get here."
Bynary passed by the room they were playing in. After seeing the four sitting there, he remembered that he had to deliver them a message. "Oh, guys, Rammire won't be able to make it tonight. He has important god duties that need to be finished now. He promised he'd be able to meet you guys tomorrow though."
Bumscags closed his notebook and started putting the game away. "At this point, I've come to expect it. Thanks, Bynary." He finished putting the game back in its box and started to leave. "Lets meet again tomorrow at the same time then. See you gentlemanns tomorrow."
Rynjin, Doopliss, and Idiot Cube waved goodbye. After Bumscags was gone, Rynjin and Doopliss went back to eating Idiot Cube's cookies. "How do you make these?!" Rynjin looked intently at one of the cookies. "I must know!"
"A lot of love." After all the cookies were gone, Idiot Cube put the tin foil back on the plate and put the plate back in his bag. "Lots of love and lots of the butchered remains of Cub --"
"What did you say?" Doopliss didn't seem to hear what he said.
"Just lots of love." Idiot Cube had the most innocent smile on his face.
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Bernkastel laid curled up on her bed. She lightly batted the air with her hand. The door slammed open, causing Bernkastel to perk up her ears and open her right eye. She saw Corvette and Doopliss returning with bags full of markers. "Corvette! Doopliss!" Bernkastel jumped to her feet and dashed at them, hugging them both as tightly as she could.
"Hey, Bernk!" Corvette put an arm around her, before walking to his bed and setting down the bag of markers.
Doopliss hugged Bernkastel back as well. "Sorry we took so long. We had trouble finding the room that Bynary keeps the markers in."
Bernkastel grabbed a black marker and ran over to the poster. She began writing down the names of every SPUFer in the mansion. "Did I forget anyone?"
Corvette took a long look over the list. He used his own black marker to write in the name of one more person. "Yes, XYTWO."
"Oh, right. My mistaske, nya~"
Doopliss sighed and rested his hand on Bernkastel's shoulder. "Bern, do you remember what we talked about regarding ending your sentences with 'nya~'?"
Bernkastel thought for a second. Her ears perked up as the wheels started turning in her head. "Don't end your sentences with 'nya~' because the non-weeaboos think it's weird." Bernkastel's ears drooped down. She had a nervous smile on her face. "S-sorry."
"Hey, guys, who should we ship Rynjin with?" Corvette stared at Rynjin's name, trying to make a connection between him and the other SPUFers.
Bernkastel grabbed a red marker and started drawing a line. "Oh, Rynjin so has a thing for Idiot Cube!"
"Do you guys not like Huff's shipping chart or something?" Doopliss picked up a purple marker and looked at the names.
"Of course not." Bernkastel drew another red line from Silent to Razputin. "Huff's chart is based on that, oh what do they call it, ham steak?" She drew a third red line from Huff to Nitzan. "I'm not even in it."
"Probably because he doesn't think it's acceptable to ship people with a cat."
"Says the guy who runs around wearing nothing but a bedsheet and a party hat."
Corvette put his hands over both of their mouths. "Guys. No bickering right now. Shipping." Bernkastel and Doopliss nodded back at him and focused their attention back on the shipping chart.
Doopliss started to draw something until he noticed something odd about Verumae's name. "Corvette, why did you circle Verumae's name in green?"
"A green circle around someone's name means narcisist. The only person who Verumae can be shipped with is Verumae."
Bernkastel ran to the other end of the room. He started looking through the books on Doopliss's bookshelf. He picked up a book about using magic for cloning. "Doopliss, we should clone Verumae so that he can have someone to love."
"I'll think about it." Doopliss didn't turn his attention away from the shipping chart. "By the way, what should we list the three of us as, Corv?"
Bernkastel jumped back over to them and rest her head on Corvette's shoulder. "Yeah, Corv! What lines should we draw for us?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Corvette grabbed a blue marker and drew lines connecting all three of them together. "We're the three amigos!"
Both Bernkastel and Doopliss had depressed looks on their faces. "Oh. Yeah, you're right." They both said this as if they knew the other was about to say it too.
Suddenly an alarm sounded. It was the familiar alarm of a group meeting. Everyone had to meet in the big living room on the bottom floor. "You guys go ahead to the meeting. I need to finish up a couple of things. I'll meet you there. Save me a seat."
"Will do." Bernkastel and Doopliss walked out the door and headed for the meeting.
Once they were gone, Corvette walked over to the door and locked it. He grabbed the red marker and pointed it towards his on name. He looked at the name he planned to draw the line to, but he hesistated. After a moment of waiting, he snapped the cap back on the marker and set the marker away. "Not today, but some day, 3fort, you'll be mine . . ."
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The entirety of the mansion gathered in the giant living room. To their front was a large stage with three chairs. Bynary and Rammire were sitting in the chairs to the left and right of the stage, while Commander stood in front behind a podium, reading off of an attendance sheet. He had almost finished checking the attendance, but it seemed that one person was still missing. "Verumae . . . Verumae . . . does someone know if Verumae is here?"
"Commander," Rammire called from behind him. "We spoke to Verumae earlier. He says that he refuses to come down from his level."
"Well, fine. If he's going to miss this information, then so be it." Commander pounded his fist on the podium. "Alright, everyone, listen up. This mansion is going to be going through some changes here in the next few days. We're upgrading to a more useful and efficient mansion. Don't worry, you aren't being kicked out. The changes will happen around you as the days go by. You may not even notice they're there."
From the crowd, Razputin shouted out. "If we won't even notice they're there, then why are we changing it?"
"Well, trust me, it will make our mansion much more efficient. I mean, we have to get a leg up on the SPUD Mansion, right?"
Dr. Evil Brain was the next one to protest. "We all chipped in to buy this stupid mansion, shouldn't we put it to a vote instead of letting you three make all the decisions."
"What do you think this is, a democracy?"
Bernkastel stood up in her chair. "Right, this is a monarchy! Bow before me, scrublords!"
Commander pounded his fist on the podium again. "If you all don't shut the hell up right now, I'll banish all of you five ever!" The whole room became quiet. Commander waited to see if anyone dared to peep after that. He cleared his through and began speaking again. "In conclusion, if you see changes to the mansion over the next few days, do not be alarmed. Now, Buddha and Idiot Cube should almost be done making lunch. Everyone report to the dining hall."[/spoiler2]
Hey there, I'm kuliise, you might have seen me lurking around on SPUF sometimes. I'm also one of the NA admins for RSP, so if you need anything just give me a call. (And yes, Season 3 is coming, but currently we're all sort of busy so we're not sure on the date. It's gonna be after i49 though for sure.)
Other than that, I like to draw occasionally and hop around on other video games. Currently playing a mixture of Warframe, Mabinogi, Borderlands 2, Osu!, and TF2.
Nice to meet y'all. :D
Hi, I'm 1Fort 2Fort, most of you already know me from spuf or on steam as vainglory. I'm a huge metal gear fan, besides liking Deus Ex, TF2, and Infamous. I'm also a self taught artist dude, both in traditional and digital arts. I like to make comics and work with 3d modeling and making stuff for tf2. I'm currently a full-time sophomore in college, searching for a part time job, and living off of art commissions when I'm not playing games or reading. You should buy a commission so I can make a cool cosplay.
Go ahead and ask any questions, I tend to be open enough.
Ohhh, it's nice being part of a secret little group. The last secret little group I was in (and still am in) is full of dicks.
Anyway, nice to meet you all again. The only difference between mainSPUF me and hereSPUF me is that I am 100% more likely to use swear words.
Hey all!
I've got a lot of posts over at SPUF proper, but I'd never heard of this site until now.
One of the main reasons I finally switched over is to mourn the passing of our good friend "the thread that itsurblog" I'll be making a thread where I've written a letter asking that it be reopened. I'd appreciate anybody who wants to sign the letter.
I was told to make an introductory thread, so here it is!
Name: Mersopolis
Position: Not a popular person
Known for:
[*]Several posts on SPUF
[*]Screwing up my first post on this website
[*]PAN'D!
[*]My Mantread buff idea.
Links:
[*]http://steamcommunity.com/id/mersopolisii
hey guys, i-- wait, i just said that.
you might remember me as sirzippety56 on SPUF.
all there really is to say about myself is that i LOVE the fallout series, i live in alabama, and i have a cat with a stump for a tail.
that said, make me feel welcome!
Well, I just got done building my new computer, so you're in luck. You get to hear all the shit I've found out through a week of heavy research without slogging through a week of heavy research!
This is what I ended up getting.
The GTX 760 is a new card and one of the most cost efficient cards on the market today. It will pull 60 FPS in most games at 1920x1080 with really demanding games dragging it down to 30 at high settings (so I've heard, I'm still downloading games to play). Although at $1500 you could probably get a GTX 770 if you want even higher FPS. Or if you're really crazy you can SLI two 760s and get near the performance of a Titan for half the price. You also want to look at similarly priced AMD cards, you might find one on sale.
Your CPU choice is really down to either an i5 or i7 Haswell. The i5 will do just fine but the i7 is faster, though not a hundred dollars faster in my opinion; besides, CPUs only do so much for games anyway. Don't get the K version if you don't overclock. The only difference between an i5 4670 and a 4670K is that the K version can overclock. That's it. Also, if you DO get the K version you'll also really want an aftermarket cooler and thermal paste that will add $50 to the total cost. So it's really $80 more to overclock effectively. I didn't really look at AMD CPUs because the i5 I got is pretty much perfect for me.
The motherboard I have, or a similar one, should work well with yours, unless you go for an AMD CPU in which case I have no idea what motherboard you should get.
You'll want at least 8 gigs of DDR3 memory, but you can get 16 gigs though I have no idea why unless you'll be doing memory intensive shit other than gaming. Either way, memory is easily addable later on if you decide you need more.
For a $1500 budget an SSD is a no-brainier, get a 120 GB one with a 1 TB HDD for storage.
A power supply is simultaneously the most important and least important item in the computer. If it works, a $20 is not that different from a $100 one (as long as the wattage is high enough), but if the cheap one fails it can and probably will take your motherboard, CPU, and GPU out with it. The $100 is probably less likely to fail and less likely to hurt anything else if it does. Make sure your PSU can supply around 30% more than your computer needs. Modular PSUs allow you to remove unneeded cables so your case doesn't have a shitload of cables lying around, if you're concerned that your case is too small.
Case is really personal preference, but make sure it's big enough and has good airflow, and that it supports your motherboard.
Any cheap-ass optical drive will do unless you intend to watch movies on a disk. Otherwise it just needs to install Windows before being tossed aside in the bin with the floppy drive.
If you're morally flexible you don't need to buy Windows and can save a hundred bucks. Or you could install Linux if you're weird like that.
And that's really all I have for you.
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