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An Idea: Because I am bored for the moment.

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Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#281 - 2017-01-02 11:25:44 UTC
Jev North wrote:


Elmund Egivand wrote:
Noir tragicomedy. It will be about a robot private detective who is to investigate a case of a runaway fedo[...]

I'm impressed, you've really thought about this.




Came up with this in five minutes upon reading the question. Alas, I know absolutely nothing about writing a musical so I won't be producing this anytime soon.

How many people sharing the dining hall is too many people for you?

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Jev North
Doomheim
#282 - 2017-01-02 11:30:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Jev North
Elmund Egivand wrote:
How many people sharing the dining hall is too many people for you?

More than six total gets noisy -- more of an event or a party than a shared meal, at that point, and the conversation tends to break up into clumps of about that size anyway.


What's the hardest lesson you've had to learn last year?

Even though our love is cruel; even though our stars are crossed.

Lunarisse Aspenstar
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#283 - 2017-01-02 15:39:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Lunarisse Aspenstar
Jev North wrote:
What's the hardest lesson you've had to learn last year?


Too painful for me to put into words here.

Since I didn't answer that candidly, I will respond to three priors one.

Elmund Egivand wrote:
How many people sharing the dining hall is too many people for you?

I agree six people is the most for a good dinner party. Over six, the conversation will get split and divided.

Matias Kurovassi wrote:
If you could mix two genres of film to make a musical, what would you choose and what would it be about?

Rom/Com and Tragedy. A doomed love affair between a True Amarr Holder's Heir and the family's Sebiestor head slave in the period before the Minmatar Rebellion. Starting off superficially light, it ends with a knife in his chest when he seeks to elope with her but she chooses to escape.

Quincyy wrote:
What is your earliest memory?

An odd one. I remember laying on a couch in a sunbeam being gazed on by the family cat as if I were potential prey. it's no wonder I prefer dogs to this day.

And for my question:

Have you ever found true love?
Kairelle
Raven.Syndicate
#284 - 2017-01-02 16:12:59 UTC
Lunarisse Aspenstar wrote:


Have you ever found true love?


I thought so once, but perhaps not.

What is true love anyway?

Hnolai ki tuul, ti sei oni a tiu.

Jev North
Doomheim
#285 - 2017-01-02 16:21:38 UTC
Kairelle wrote:
What is true love anyway?

"One of those things which turn out to be not at all like what you imagined, but in hindsight, couldn't have been any other way."

Not that I have personal experience.

What's the best gift someone ever gave you?

Even though our love is cruel; even though our stars are crossed.

Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#286 - 2017-01-02 16:50:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Elmund Egivand
Jev North wrote:
Kairelle wrote:
What is true love anyway?

"One of those things which turn out to be not at all like what you imagined, but in hindsight, couldn't have been any other way."

Not that I have personal experience.

What's the best gift someone ever gave you?


A skeleton chronometer. My wife built it herself after, I assume, several weeks of study and many hours on the 3D printer and precision saws and drills and an additional week or two of assembly. With upmost secrecy. On hindsight, I should have suspected what with her missing from the bed many nights in a row and the specks of metallic dust I kept finding on my equipment and her being incredibly sluggish, dull and very unenergetic for a few months prior to my birthday.

I daren't wear the watch unless I expect to stay all day in station. Yes, I do not actually need the watch, but heck, it's the thought that counts.

What is the most impractical object you had ever had in the cargo hold of your combat vessel?

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Hetu Hegirin
Doomheim
#287 - 2017-01-03 19:14:08 UTC
Elmund Egivand wrote:
What is the most impractical object you had ever had in the cargo hold of your combat vessel?

In the days just after commencement from PTS, I was getting a feel for the market and looking to find a way to build a bankroll. I started taking small contracts as a courier in between gigs for Republic commercial agents. On one such occasion I took a contract in Devoid, somewhere I'd never been, to move several large crates of soil to some 'seed world' project for a clan in the Heath. It wasn't until I arrived at the pickup that I thought to look at the destination: the doorstep of the Wildlands, well outside CONCORD's punitive auspices. I told myself this was a common rookie mistake, but it was a bit embarrassing to inform the crew of the oversight. I could have cancelled, but I wanted to avoid tarnishing my budding reputation and assumed the risk was a small price to pay. Foolish I guess, but my motto in those early days was better to try something and fail than try nothing and succeed.

Well, I had to high-tail it back to Teonusude to pick up the only ship I had that I could trust to run the gauntlet: a Scythe fresh off my first production line. We immediately refit the hull with the largest cargo hold we could manage, put everything possible into reinforcing the shields, and jury-rigged the navigational alignment and hyperspatial systems. A flight of drones was the only defense we would have beyond the gate guns.

So we made another run to Devoid and plotted a back-door route to Elfrard through Derelik, pushing as fast as we could in a Scythe whose hold was absolutely stuffed to the brim full of dirt. Whatever blessings we whispered must have found purchase, because the pipeline was dead empty almost the entire way. We made the delivery safe and sound, and even got through Bosena on the way back to HQ.

Turns out there was administrative error on the part of the contract issuer and it was assigned to the wrong recipient. They offered me another contract to move it again, but I thought better than to tempt fate twice.

Have you ever 'bet it all' on something and come out on top?
Tyrel Toov
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#288 - 2017-01-03 22:11:45 UTC
Hetu Hegirin wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:
What is the most impractical object you had ever had in the cargo hold of your combat vessel?

In the days just after commencement from PTS, I was getting a feel for the market and looking to find a way to build a bankroll. I started taking small contracts as a courier in between gigs for Republic commercial agents. On one such occasion I took a contract in Devoid, somewhere I'd never been, to move several large crates of soil to some 'seed world' project for a clan in the Heath. It wasn't until I arrived at the pickup that I thought to look at the destination: the doorstep of the Wildlands, well outside CONCORD's punitive auspices. I told myself this was a common rookie mistake, but it was a bit embarrassing to inform the crew of the oversight. I could have cancelled, but I wanted to avoid tarnishing my budding reputation and assumed the risk was a small price to pay. Foolish I guess, but my motto in those early days was better to try something and fail than try nothing and succeed.

Well, I had to high-tail it back to Teonusude to pick up the only ship I had that I could trust to run the gauntlet: a Scythe fresh off my first production line. We immediately refit the hull with the largest cargo hold we could manage, put everything possible into reinforcing the shields, and jury-rigged the navigational alignment and hyperspatial systems. A flight of drones was the only defense we would have beyond the gate guns.

So we made another run to Devoid and plotted a back-door route to Elfrard through Derelik, pushing as fast as we could in a Scythe whose hold was absolutely stuffed to the brim full of dirt. Whatever blessings we whispered must have found purchase, because the pipeline was dead empty almost the entire way. We made the delivery safe and sound, and even got through Bosena on the way back to HQ.

Turns out there was administrative error on the part of the contract issuer and it was assigned to the wrong recipient. They offered me another contract to move it again, but I thought better than to tempt fate twice.

Have you ever 'bet it all' on something and come out on top?


Yes, good night at the casino.

weirdest experience in space?

I want to paint my ship Periwinkle.

Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#289 - 2017-01-04 01:31:41 UTC
Tyrel Toov wrote:
Hetu Hegirin wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:
What is the most impractical object you had ever had in the cargo hold of your combat vessel?

In the days just after commencement from PTS, I was getting a feel for the market and looking to find a way to build a bankroll. I started taking small contracts as a courier in between gigs for Republic commercial agents. On one such occasion I took a contract in Devoid, somewhere I'd never been, to move several large crates of soil to some 'seed world' project for a clan in the Heath. It wasn't until I arrived at the pickup that I thought to look at the destination: the doorstep of the Wildlands, well outside CONCORD's punitive auspices. I told myself this was a common rookie mistake, but it was a bit embarrassing to inform the crew of the oversight. I could have cancelled, but I wanted to avoid tarnishing my budding reputation and assumed the risk was a small price to pay. Foolish I guess, but my motto in those early days was better to try something and fail than try nothing and succeed.

Well, I had to high-tail it back to Teonusude to pick up the only ship I had that I could trust to run the gauntlet: a Scythe fresh off my first production line. We immediately refit the hull with the largest cargo hold we could manage, put everything possible into reinforcing the shields, and jury-rigged the navigational alignment and hyperspatial systems. A flight of drones was the only defense we would have beyond the gate guns.

So we made another run to Devoid and plotted a back-door route to Elfrard through Derelik, pushing as fast as we could in a Scythe whose hold was absolutely stuffed to the brim full of dirt. Whatever blessings we whispered must have found purchase, because the pipeline was dead empty almost the entire way. We made the delivery safe and sound, and even got through Bosena on the way back to HQ.

Turns out there was administrative error on the part of the contract issuer and it was assigned to the wrong recipient. They offered me another contract to move it again, but I thought better than to tempt fate twice.

Have you ever 'bet it all' on something and come out on top?


Yes, good night at the casino.

weirdest experience in space?


Watching a procurer drift past station. As in Deteis courier delivery vehicle drifting. With that electronic music blaring in the background.

Worst backwater hamlet you had ever visited?

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
#290 - 2017-01-04 19:16:06 UTC
Elmund Egivand wrote:

Worst backwater hamlet you had ever visited?


I spent a few months living with some colonists on J143140 III. The system had been abandoned by the capsuleers who settled it and they simply left behind their planetary infrastructure and the colonists they had employed to extract resources. Most of the colonists managed to get passage back to known space but some decided to stick it out. There was little access to most commodities and agriculture was mostly subsistence level. Food was scarce and there was little social cohesion.

I helped them set up some basic social structures based on the communal model of my home planet and we re-purposed some of the heavy machinery and factories to produce tools for farming and shelter. Things seem to have improved by the time I left, but they would still be considered quite poor and deprived by most standards.

When was the last time you experienced a physical illness?
Tyrel Toov
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#291 - 2017-01-04 19:19:38 UTC
Persephone Alleile wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:

Worst backwater hamlet you had ever visited?


I spent a few months living with some colonists on J143140 III. The system had been abandoned by the capsuleers who settled it and they simply left behind their planetary infrastructure and the colonists they had employed to extract resources. Most of the colonists managed to get passage back to known space but some decided to stick it out. There was little access to most commodities and agriculture was mostly subsistence level. Food was scarce and there was little social cohesion.

I helped them set up some basic social structures based on the communal model of my home planet and we re-purposed some of the heavy machinery and factories to produce tools for farming and shelter. Things seem to have improved by the time I left, but they would still be considered quite poor and deprived by most standards.

When was the last time you experienced a physical illness?

The last time I tried to follow Kim's logic.

Worst fit you have ever flown and managed to get a kill in?

I want to paint my ship Periwinkle.

Neph
Crimson Serpent Syndicate
#292 - 2017-01-04 23:45:33 UTC
I'm not sure it's necessarily *bad*, but I've killed some fun stuff in a max-gank blaster Corm. Null is life, Null is love.

Who was your first crush? What happened?

~ Gariushi YC110 // Midular YC115 // Yanala YC115 ~

"Orte Jaitovalte sitasuyti ne obuetsa useuut ishu. Ketsiak ishiulyn." -Yakiya Tovil-Toba-taisoka

Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#293 - 2017-01-05 14:15:59 UTC
Neph wrote:
Who was your first crush? What happened?


When I was a teenager, there was this boy that went to the same Scripture study class as I did. So at the next church ice cream social, I asked him out, and he said yes. We went on a few dates, to the holo-cinema, playing badminton, the usual kind of teenage stuff.

Then one day, after he dropped me off at my house in his sports car, when he was going to give me a kiss goodnight, my pet slaver hound burst out of the bushes and tore his clothes to shreds.

Turns out, he was also dating another girl, on the other side of town. My slaver hound could smell her different perfume in his sports car, I think.

Anyway, that was the end of that. And let that be a lesson to you !


So, a Question, hmm.

If you had a bronze statue created in your honour, what pose would you like to be sculpted in, and what motto would you want on the sculpture ?

Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.

Jason Galente
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#294 - 2017-01-05 14:39:55 UTC
Valerie Valate wrote:

If you had a bronze statue created in your honour, what pose would you like to be sculpted in, and what motto would you want on the sculpture ?


A dab. "I came, I saw, I rustled."

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Only the liberty of the individual assures the prosperity of the whole. And this foundation must be defended.

At any cost

Tamiroth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#295 - 2017-01-05 15:01:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Tamiroth
Jason Galente wrote:
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Not even while.

Imagine for a second that all those mythical creatures after which so many ships are named, like Griffin, Jaguar, Rokh, Phoenix, etc., actually exist somewhere. For example, I always imagined a Wolf like a feral cross-breed between a common dog and a slaver hound (I know that's impossible :P) .

How would you think a Leviathan would look like?
Saya Ishikari
Ishukone-Raata Technological Research Institute
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#296 - 2017-01-05 15:17:50 UTC
Tamiroth wrote:
Jason Galente wrote:
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Not even while.

Imagine for a second that all those mythical creatures after which so many ships are named, like Griffin, Jaguar, Rokh, Phoenix, etc., actually exist somewhere. For example, I always imagined a Wolf like a feral cross-breed between a common dog and a slaver hound (I know that's impossible :P) .

How would you think a Leviathan would look like?

Like the last thing in the cluster you'd ever want to screw with...

Best dream or worst nightmare you can recall?

"At the end of it all, we have only what we've left in our wake to be remembered by." -Kyoko Ishikari, YC 95 - YC 117

Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#297 - 2017-01-05 15:55:34 UTC
Saya Ishikari wrote:
Tamiroth wrote:
Jason Galente wrote:
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Not even while.

Imagine for a second that all those mythical creatures after which so many ships are named, like Griffin, Jaguar, Rokh, Phoenix, etc., actually exist somewhere. For example, I always imagined a Wolf like a feral cross-breed between a common dog and a slaver hound (I know that's impossible :P) .

How would you think a Leviathan would look like?

Like the last thing in the cluster you'd ever want to screw with...

Best dream or worst nightmare you can recall?


Worst nightmare? I dreamt of waking up to find that the ventilation fans aren't noisy and that I couldn't hear the hum of distant engines, the liquid rush in the pipes and the cracking of some shoddily taped wires.

What's the closest you had managed to get to a planet or a star before the starship's navigational failsafes stopped you from going any further?

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

morion
Lighting Build
#298 - 2017-01-05 19:01:19 UTC  |  Edited by: morion
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morion
Lighting Build
#299 - 2017-01-05 19:14:39 UTC
i had a navigational detour.
when i awoke it was years later.
what is cake and why do we talk about it all the time?
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#300 - 2017-01-05 19:46:47 UTC
morion wrote:
i had a navigational detour.
when i awoke it was years later.
what is cake and why do we talk about it all the time?

Cake is matter-- that is to say energy-- hanging together in a matrix that's full of holes. Without the holes, it collapses into something much less pleasant. Of course, most matter can maybe be described in this way.

I used to think tortes were unreasonably dense, but then someone offered me a neutron star. I wanted to sample a singularity, but nobody could find one even though it was obvious where to look.

What is the most disturbing thing (story, fact, etc.) you ever found out was completely true?