Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by Dulahan

I know, right! To both.

And it really IS usually the more stupid stuff that surprises me, not the smarter stuff. Well, I guess the latter does as well, just in a different and more pleasant way. Of course as a player, I tend to take pride in moments I surprise my GM and hear "I never expected that!"

Well, I tend to just hammer the stupid out of them, so I don't see it too often.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

I don't know; Gronan and weren't that stupid as players, and neither were the people we played alongside. Those of us who are still alive are still pretty canny players.

But Uncle, I'm talking about smart decisions, too. Just unexpected ones, and probably amusingly dangerous.

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Uncle,

Do you remember which pole the base was located and how big it was? Also since you mention it, I would love to see that little "ship"...!!!

Thank you as always,

H:0)

North pole, a couple of square kilometers from what we could see.

The only description I ever got from Phil was "spherical, about the size of a tubeway car, silvery grey, hatch on top, looks like a spaceship - you know, like in 'Space Vikings!" So...

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Got this casting from a vendor at the flea market ay Cincy Con; I am told it's a bad casting, but it looks fine to me.

Originally Posted by AsenRG

Well, I tend to just hammer the stupid out of them, so I don't see it too often.

But Uncle, I'm talking about smart decisions, too. Just unexpected ones, and probably amusingly dangerous.

Understood, and I agree with you - unexpected is always a lot of fun for me.(Mayhem usually ensues.) What's driven me mad, over the decades, is ponderous pacing and decision-making processes that usually result in a decision that I saw coming several hours ago and which is astonishingly predictable.

Chirine,

Love the Tardis .
What other planets did you make it to in the Tekumel system? Would you be able to give us some details about the location, i.e. terrain, inhabitants, atmosphere, etc?

Shemek.

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Very cool!!! That would leads me to my next question. How did the Professor see Humanspace technology? Pulp style such as Lensman? Or did he have something else in mind(apart from Space Vikings)? Thank you for sharing!!!

H:0)

Phil's view was very much in the pulp genre, and the Lensman series fits in this nicely. "Space Vikings" comes into this as one of the players happened to have his copy at the table, and Phil started paging through it with obvious delight. So, plot-wise, his mantra of "Action! Adventure! Romance!" very much applied. As for the look of the thing, Phil was very much in the mode of 1930s 'streamline art deco moderne', as is Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion cars and buildings; as we've mentioned a while back Phil knew what the future looked like - just like the the 1939 World's Fair.

So, my little ship looks a lot more 'modern' as in "2001 - A Space Odyssey" or the kind of "We must show all the panel lines to show the fans that we really put a lot of work into the ship models!" look hat Hollywood has conditioned modern viewers to, but my reply is that the thing was a whole $15 and it'll paint up just fine, saving me a week of work that most gamers will never be able to appreciate. And the book Phil was holding up had panel lines on the ship on the cover - it was the Ace edition, and I still have mine - so there we are...

And in later years, people got all cranky bitch all over Phil because his view of the future wasn't out of Star Trek / Star Wars/ Macross; he got pretty tired of it, and tended to avoid the subject when he could.

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

Chirine,

Love the Tardis .
What other planets did you make it to in the Tekumel system? Would you be able to give us some details about the location, i.e. terrain, inhabitants, atmosphere, etc?

Shemek.

Ahem! It is not a TARDIS, it is a "Telephone Box". And it's a pretty bad one, too, as it looks nothing like any of the GPO boxes. It does, however, bear a startling resemblance to a Metropolitan Police Mk 2 call box - the rozzers lost a complaint about who owned the trademark, by the way, as Auntie Beeb had gotten there first. So, as long as you never - ever - use it in any sort of activity relating to the IP owned by A Certain State-owned Telecommunications Monopoly you're safe from Auntie Beeb's Men In Black from paying you a visit and whisking you away in their black helicopters to Luton. Never To Be Seen Again, of course.

Right. Tell that to my Missus, who was on a first-name basis with more then a few of the people involved. Who also made me look at:

http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/real-...x-history.html

As for the other planets on our system, yes, we dropped by for visits during our 'tourists see the world(s) phase', but we didn't see or get shot at by anybody so we assumed that they are uninhabited. Ruins as mentioned, but that's it. Atmospheres largely unbreathable, unless maybe you're a Shunned One, and local conditions about what one would expect for each given their positions in the system. Which is why when dear old Turshanmu would follow his usual habit of arriving and opening the hatch to see where we were, we'd get pretty cranky - no airlock.

Kashi is your big tourist spot; imagine the Death Star spread out all nice and flat for you to map. The custodians, on the other hand, are a handful.

Like that scene in Flesh Gordon:

* sniffs * "Good... there's oxygen here."

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Ahem! It is not a TARDIS, it is a "Telephone Box". And it's a pretty bad one, too, as it looks nothing like any of the GPO boxes. It does, however, bear a startling resemblance to a Metropolitan Police Mk 2 call box - the rozzers lost a complaint about who owned the trademark, by the way, as Auntie Beeb had gotten there first. So, as long as you never - ever - use it in any sort of activity relating to the IP owned by A Certain State-owned Telecommunications Monopoly you're safe from Auntie Beeb's Men In Black from paying you a visit and whisking you away in their black helicopters to Luton. Never To Be Seen Again, of course.

Right. Tell that to my Missus, who was on a first-name basis with more then a few of the people involved. Who also made me look at:

http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/real-...x-history.html

As for the other planets on our system, yes, we dropped by for visits during our 'tourists see the world(s) phase', but we didn't see or get shot at by anybody so we assumed that they are uninhabited. Ruins as mentioned, but that's it. Atmospheres largely unbreathable, unless maybe you're a Shunned One, and local conditions about what one would expect for each given their positions in the system. Which is why when dear old Turshanmu would follow his usual habit of arriving and opening the hatch to see where we were, we'd get pretty cranky - no airlock.

Kashi is your big tourist spot; imagine the Death Star spread out all nice and flat for you to map. The custodians, on the other hand, are a handful.

Kashi seems like the hot property, then! What's the going rate for buying a villa there, did you bother asking?
Also, what is special about the inhabitants?

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Like that scene in Flesh Gordon:

* sniffs * "Good... there's oxygen here."

But does it also have enough N to be breathable?
My players would ask that, funny enough, being trained as biologist does that to people. And they'd only remove their helmets after a full spectral analysis!

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Like that scene in Flesh Gordon:

* sniffs * "Good... there's oxygen here."

You know, I still don't know if Phil ever saw that romp (where a bunch of SF fans make off with a perfectly legit porn film and turn it into an epic - may of them would go on to do a little confection called "Star Wars") and modeled dear old Turshanmu on Dr. Flexi Jerkoff. We will never know, I think.

I'll betcha, my General, that the youngsters on this forum have never heard of this movie, let alone actually seen it. Ah, the days of our youth, gone like dust on the wind...