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  On 10/23/2017 at 4:37 PM, Geschosskopf said:

Don't the Ussari consider vodka an essential resource?

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Hmm. Maybe that’s why they’ve been so cranky lately...

  On 10/23/2017 at 5:12 PM, JadeOfMaar said:

@Geschosskopf Due to the unique nature of Kerbalism and the ability to turn off its LS system if you wanted to, it may indeed be possible to add Vodka to and remove Water from the LS resources. :wink: 

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Of course I hear this right after I’ve gone through all the trouble of making Rald wet. :rolleyes:

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Year 7, Day 315...

The crew is now leaving the lush, green slightly squishy lowlands behind, heading southwest and ever higher. Barely past 1500m attitude, there's simply not enough air to breathe any more, so the Raldbase is buttoned up and pressurized. No more hanging one's arm out the open window and doing the hand thing. Haylotte is devistated. I am not!

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  On 10/29/2017 at 10:00 PM, CatastrophicFailure said:

GONNA FEEL THAT ONE IN THE MORNING!

It's probably nothing to worry about.

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You know, if you scroll your last post really fast, it actually plays like a movie.  Or at least one of those old coin-operated, hand-cranked, card-flipping things from the 1890s.  Very cool :wink:

I'm sure Lodvin will be fine with Triti nursing him back to health.  Probably.

So, is Lodvin going to look like Gregory Peck in "Moby Dick", with a cool scar and a streak of white hair from the lightning?  And be all crazy and obsessive from it?  I mean, more than usual :wink: 

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  On 10/30/2017 at 5:55 AM, Geschosskopf said:

So, is Lodvin going to look like Gregory Peck in "Moby Dick", with a cool scar and a streak of white hair from the lightning?  And be all crazy and obsessive from it?  I mean, more than usual :wink: 

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I...

hmm.

Ill have to look in my bag of tricks & see what I can find. :wink:

  On 10/31/2017 at 4:25 PM, cfds said:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyLongGag

 

Sorry, but stunts like that have to be punished by tv-tropes links....

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That sounds like a challenge... 

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  On 11/1/2017 at 5:27 PM, 1101 said:

Or this?

 

Or did you mean a face that has seen horror, rather than a face that is horror?

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BURN THAT THING TO THE GROUND WHY DOES IT EXIST?!!?!!1!

In calmer words, that thing is creepy as [choice of expletive here]

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  On 11/1/2017 at 5:27 PM, 1101 said:

Or did you mean a face that has seen horror, rather than a face that is horror?

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Great unholy flarp! :blink::wacko:

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  On 11/6/2017 at 3:44 AM, qzgy said:

In calmer words, that thing is creepy as [choice of expletive here]

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A thousand sailors cursing for a thousand years could not craft the expletive that monstrosity demands. :confused:

(Ancient Lost City coming Soon™). 

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  On 11/6/2017 at 4:16 AM, CatastrophicFailure said:

A thousand sailors cursing for a thousand years could not craft the expletive that monstrosity demands. :confused:

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I'll have to remember that line :) 

 

  1 minute ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

(Ancient Lost City coming Soon™). 

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Well, if the airport's control tower is such a dangerous place, who knows what horrors await in the main city? 

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Year 7, Day 316...

Out of the gloom and clouds it materializes, like... some gloomy, materializing thing. At this altitude, the ever-present clouds are a constant annoyance. Wait, that's a bit redundant, isn't it? Anyways, it's the mysterious Ancient City.

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Somebody grabbed Lodvin, right...?

 

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  On 11/10/2017 at 9:16 AM, CatastrophicFailure said:

Year 7, Day 316...

Out of the gloom and clouds it materializes, like... some gloomy, materializing thing.

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You can paint such pictures with words :) 

 

  13 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

 

What do you think, Lodvin?

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Did we really, truly, EVER want to know that?  Surely not even the staff of Ussari gulags want that info lying around to use as an instrument of torture.  It would likely do more damage to the torturers than the tortured.

That said, you've obviously found a cenote, a sacrificial well.  I suggest pushing Lodvin in.  The ancient alien gods obviously want him but are too weak these days to take him themselves.  I think that lightning bolt was their best shot.

 

  13 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

BEHOLD, HE RISES!

 

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See, I told you pushing Lodvin in was a good idea.  But did you listen? :D 

 

  13 hours ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

Somebody grabbed Lodvin, right...?

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I certainly hope not, but given Triti's......   attachment.... to.... ............................. him........., I wouldn't be surprised if she.....  did.....

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  On 11/10/2017 at 10:53 PM, Geschosskopf said:

That said, you've obviously found a cenote, a sacrificial well.  I suggest pushing Lodvin in.  The ancient alien gods obviously want him but are too weak these days to take him themselves.  I think that lightning bolt was their best shot.

See, I told you pushing Lodvin in was a good idea.  But did you listen? :D 

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Blood for the blood god skulls for his skull throne!

Do kerbals have blood or skulls?

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Blood for the blood god skulls for his skull throne!

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Blood and souls for Arioch!  Oh wait, wrong story :D

 

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There is some suggestion from Squad that they do....  I personally choose to ignore this in my own universe.

 

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Year 7, Day 318...

With Lodvin once again tied up and sedated in the back recovering from his little prophetic out-of-mind excursion, the crew leaves the high dunes behind and heads back toward the sea. They only venture as far as the unexplored Riverlands, though, not quite low enough to open the windows again. Haylotte is crushed
I am not!

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Maybe it's time for the science team to begin working on that long-range one-Kerbal interplanetary mission. Sooner or later, probably through force of pure will and spite, Triti is going to make it back here... Vlad my need a long vacation. And the distraction would benefit us as well...

 

 

 

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  On 11/13/2017 at 1:03 AM, CatastrophicFailure said:

With Lodvin once again tied up and sedated in the back recovering from his little prophetic out-of-mind excursion........

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Well, that will make tossing him into the cenote a bit easier.  Which still seems like a good idea....

 

  14 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

Pokepoke.

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And the Glorious Ussari Revolution saves yet another long-dead population from the opiate of the masses :) 

 

  14 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

After many sleepless nights going over complicated mathematics, the engineering team nudges them into perfectly regular, evenly spaced medium-altitude orbits.

...only to discover that this perfect orbit puts each satellite just below the horizon relative to the other two, preventing them from relaying with each other and leaving only a slightly-less-narrow communication window to the RaldBase every few hours. 

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D'oh!  How much dV do the commsats have left?

 

  14 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

Maybe it's time for the science team to begin working on that long-range one-Kerbal interplanetary mission. Sooner or later, probably through force of pure will and spite, Triti is going to make it back here... Vlad my need a long vacation. And the distraction would benefit us as well...

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Wouldn't it be better for everybody if Vlad joined Triti, Lodvin, and company in exile?  Think of the possibilities :) 

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Year 7, Day 342...

The science team is becoming more and more concerned about the marooned crew's mental state, and quite frankly so is everyone else. But, there's still science to be gained, so instead of simply bringing them home with the orbiting return ship, we're just sending them more crap instead.

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What?
What to you mean, that name's already taken?
Jim? Jim who?
Well it can't be @Just Jim, it's gotta be Jim... Bob... or Jim Beam, or Jim... something!
 

No, we are not calling it the FrankenFrog! Maybe it's the crew down here I should be worried about...

 

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  On 11/16/2017 at 12:34 AM, CatastrophicFailure said:

We're expecting this new renovation to float even better than the last one, so in recognition of the Raldbase's new go-anywhere capability and cobbled-together nature, we're officially renaming it the Platypus, and--

What?
What to you mean, that name's already taken?
Jim? Jim who?
Well it can't be @Just Jim, it's gotta be Jim... Bob... or Jim Beam, or Jim... something!

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OMG... I just choked on my Dr. Pepper... lmao!!!

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The science team is becoming more and more concerned about the marooned crew's mental state, and quite frankly so is everyone else. But, there's still science to be gained, so instead of simply bringing them home with the orbiting return ship, we're just sending them more crap instead.

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The Travelling Circus has commissioned a series of propaganda posters featuring such great Ussari sayings and has hung them on all available wall space in its Astronaut Complex Cell Block.

 

  1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

I'm sure this can't possibly come back to haunt us later.

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There's no such thing as a Kerbal ghost, so there's no haunting in KSP :D 

 

  1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

Orbital velocity is so low at Rald that entry heating is only a minor concern, so the engineering team has abandoned heat shields altogether in favor of an asbestos-lined fairing with stabilizing airbrakes.

They've been coughing a lot. Maybe we should get the VAB a humidifier or something, maybe some nice candles.

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Or just give them some propaganda posters :) 

 

  1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

But with heavy lifting like this, Haylotte is called out, too. leaving Lodvin and Triti alone to...
On second thought, we're sending Triti out instead. HEY! Gonna need some muscle anyway. oh, ok

Woohoo, wrestling dive, lookout below

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No to worry, Lodvin is still sedated and in chains, ныет?  Though while he's not in the cenote is still a big question...

 

  1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

And speaking of housekeeping, the crew has apparently reached an... agreement... with the living shadow in the icebox. After some tense negotiations, it has been resolved that with the newly increased living space, the shadow will have free reign of the base (except for the command cupola) in exchange for cleaning out the lavatories, since no one wants to do that, and will henceforth be known as Stinky.

But thanks to what even Triti recognized as some very shrewd negotiating on Stinky's part, it will not, in fact, have to clean out the nasty hair clogs from the space-shower drain. That responsibility will remain with Lodvin and Jencine, as they are the primary contributors. I DO NOT HAVE CHEST HAIR! Um, actually neither do I...

Well it didn't get there by magic...

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Is this "living shadow" any relation to THIS?!?!?

Anyway, good help is hard to find, especially on Rald.  Have you checked the shadows referrals?

 

  1 hour ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

No, we are not calling it the FrankenFrog! Maybe it's the crew down here I should be worried about...

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Aww, that's such a good name :) 

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  On 11/16/2017 at 2:29 AM, Geschosskopf said:

There's no such thing as a Kerbal ghost, so there's no haunting in KSP :D 

 

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Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. :wink:

  On 11/16/2017 at 2:29 AM, Geschosskopf said:

Have you checked the shadows referrals?

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It is, without a doubt, the most highly qualified latrine scrubber on the entire planet. :D

 

  On 11/16/2017 at 5:35 AM, qzgy said:

How high are they exactly?

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About one meter. Except for Vlad, who’s probably still swinging from the rafters. 

  On 11/16/2017 at 4:28 AM, insert_name said:

I must ask how many kraken attacks you get with a modular rover held together by docking ports?

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Zero. :D Kerbal Joint Reinforcement is my friend. I’ve had .625 meter nodes holding together 500 ton rockets, and only use struts for cosmetics anymore. @Angel-125‘s Buffalo floaties there have already taken some big hits with no issues. More weight seems to help over the terrain seams, too. 

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