The Ethereal spacedocks (and hotels), Under Construction

[flapjack]

Welcome to the (old) Ethereal spacedocks (and hotels). First and foremost, note that the under construction part of the title is indeed correct, the Ethereal spacedocks (and hotels) are being built during this very thread, that means most of the ship will be missing at the start.

Those that came through the long range transporters found themselves in a large room, the walls on both sides lined with transporter pads, though only pad 1, the pad you're standing on, looks finished, the remainder of the pads are all missing vital components or have wiring hanging out at odd angles, everything shows that the ship isn't finished and as you walk into the hallway you notice construction crews heading from 1 side of the ship to the other, the 5 meter high hallways are almost permanently crowded and small good carriers, running on railing on the top of the hallways, are constantly zooming past, the larger of the aliens ducking whenever 1 approaches.

Those who came by their own ship where forced to park their ships in the bottom hangar, since the top hangar was missing completely and the side hangar's doors where at present locked in their closed position. The first thing you notice upon entry is that the automatic docking control is offline and you're forced to land your ship manually. The second thing you notice is that the turbolift tubes are empty and you are thus forced to work your way up to the bar on foot, a rather large discomfort on a ship with 'only' 250 decks

[flapjack]

*Flapjack sits in the bar, listening to huge racket of a group of Jovian construction workers as they attempt to place several large decorations in the back of the bar*

"I wonder what's taking guests, perhaps I left the transporter off again."

[AcidK]

*AcidK chose this spot to actually talk, he had a natural talent of hiding, most assassins did. But AcidK did not hide in shadows, he hid in the light, making illusions of himself whever he went.*

Was watching the bar being set up... any chance I can own that you reckon? They're doing pretty well.

*AcidK, anticipating FJ's moves, kept behind him at every point, making sure to be behind him as he turned. After a while, he added.*

I will stop if you agree...

[Bakan]

*Blinking, Bakan looks around the location he just appeared in.*

"Hmm, a hotel, how quaint."

[flapjack]

*Flapjack turns around suddenly as someone talked behind him, the only transporter log being that of Bakan appearing in the hotels. As Flapjack however turned around, Acidk moved with him. Scratching himself on the head for a moment, Flapjack notices 1 of the engineers looking at something behind him, thus Flapjack turns around again and finds nothing once more*

"Hmm, is this a very well trained and stealthy person, or is someone messing with my mind again?"

"Anyways, I will need someone to actaully take care of that bar, high explosives and droids don't mix very good and that's the third time they've had to build the damned thing."

[AcidK]

*AcidK stops fooling around and smiles.*

Sounds like you need me then

[flapjack]

*Flapjack, after finally turning to face Acidk, smiled momentarily, before suddenly ducking as 1 of the construction bots which was busy welding a wall section together malfunctioned, sending 2 oxygen tanks flying backwards at high speed*

"Damnit, who fixed that bot? Oh and yes, i do need someone that can serve drinks without blowing the ship up. Which reminds me to get that help wanted sign up again, I had to take it down because these guys."

*Flapjack quickly looked around the transporter room, hoping to spot any more disasters before they happened*

"Figured out they forgot half the transporters when they where just finished placing the wall where those transporters where supposed to be."

[AcidK]

Don't worry, I wont serve explosive drinks at Etheral... I can certain do better jobs at making the bar than these droids...

*AcidK quickly got to work in setting the bar up, within seconds he was behind it with a full array of drinks behind him, fended off with a form of glass to stop droids smashing his drinks. Any droid that did venture beyond the bar, suddenly and without warning, got dismantled and used to make extra freezing co9mpartments for his drinks experiments to be held.*

[Verric]

"My legs hurt." says Verric, leaping into the bar. One of his ankles twist below him and he falls to the ground. Almost immediately, he spring back up again, flashes out a plaid picnic blanket, whirls it around, and announces:
"Ha ha! The Amazing verric is here! Stairs cannot defeat me! Broken budget-rent-a-ships cannot defeat me! Intergalactic monkey fries cannot defeat me! Baked beans cannot defeat me! har har har!"

Without waiting for a response (its very likely to be painful, y'see), he wraps the blanket around his shoulders and makes himself as small as possible.

[AcidK]

*AcidK looks at Verric as he dived into the bar, noting the painful smash-proof glass as he lands into it. AcidK now, after the speech, loomed over Verric as a mountain would over the sea. He lifted Verric up and placed him the other side of his bar before watching one of the service droids collide into him. AcidK smiled as his prediction was yet again correct.*

[flapjack]

*Flapjack goes to see how far done the hotel area is, when he arrives there the first and most important thing he notices is the single person who isn't dressed in the same uniform as the construction workers. Guessing it was a guest, Flapjack walked over and greated the man*

"Good day and welcome to the Ethereal spacedocks and hotels, well, 1 hotel currently, the others aren't finished yet. The bar is through this door, then just follow the signs, if you need any drinks."

*Flapjack walks back outside, give the stranger little time to respond, to start placing the signs which are to point guests towards the bar*

[AcidK]

*AcidK leans to flapjack as he strolled into the bar.*

Acid Volcano Bomb, sir? Or would you like something I've cooked up recently?

[flapjack]

*Flapjack finally arrived at the bar, for some reason he felt like he hadn't exactly taken the short route, but he felt satisfied to know that everyone else would be taking the same route as him*

"Hmm, you've cooked new things up recently? Let me get out the guinea pigs. I'd like an acid volcano bomb myself."

[mrmao]

From some room off the side of the bar mrmao walks in dressed as a guinea pig.

"umm sorry all your real guniea pigs were ejected out an airlock by a construction driod. So all you got is me dressed a guinea pig." turnig to Acidk,"Hand me one of your new concoctions."

[flapjack]

*Flapjack turned and looked at the odd looking person, whoever it was, he shouldn't have been wearing that suit because the cleaning droids and security droids rushed in straight away, surrounding him and preparing their various utensils for what was to come*

"Hmm, guess those AIs do learn..."

[AcidK]

*AcidK quickly morphed MrMao's suit and even gave him a small barrier to stop the workers from sending him towards the nearest airlocks.*

Guess you should have hired psychics or mages to do the construction work, at least they will do a small amount of damage, not a huge amount.

*AcidK turns around and hands FJ an Acid Volcano Bomb , before turning to the a cabanet that had many bottles, all with simple number labels, no explanation other than an ingredient list in a language no other person would understand other than Ynten and a few other Shraan survivors.*

Number 209 I think, this time...

*AcidK pours a shot and places it on the table.*

At least it has non-violent materials as the ingredient, save a minute amount of hydro-ceasium.

[mrmao]

"umm ceasium should have kick." say mrmao as he unzips the guinea pig suit to his waist."cheers."after saying that swallows the shot and promptly burps.

[flapjack]

*Flapjack, having had some experience with Acidk's experiments, then promptly dived into a small adamantium sphere, which had been constructed for moments like this*

"Please, don't let this be a big blast."

[mrmao]

then after flapjack is secure, mrmao explodes in a mealstrom of gore and guniea pig costume.

[AcidK]

*AcidK wipes some costume off one shoulder and intestine from his other before looking around and taking a small notepad out.*

Well... not as effective as Myst Breaker, I must admit, but still effective none-the-less. No damage to ship interior other than some chairs being toppled by spraying giblets.All in all, this may be a good adition to my poison collection rather than a drink.

*AcidK places the bottle into a chilled container beneath him, which contained many of the Assassins Guild poisons and collections that he managed to get permits on taking out of the Academy. It also contained a few add-on parts for his half-mechanic arm that rested the Emotion Tranquiliser, which was actually part of his arm.*

We will wait for him to return before we try another. In the meantime, what is the ETA of ship construction completage?

[flapjack]

*Flapjack crawled out of the sphere after the blast*

"Hmm, no huge half ship destroying blast like when the guinea pigs broke into the drink cabinet? Well, at least it'll save a lot of work."

*After noticing Acidk's question, Flapjack walks back over to the bar, where amazingly the acid volcano bomb is still untouched*

"Hmm, a few more days, provided nobody blows important things. In the meanwhile, I need to find a crew."

*Flapjack places a large HELP WANTED sign on the outer-hull of the ship, then begins placing small 1s all over the place*

"Let's see, I need an engineer, a pilot, a tactical officer, an idiot to send head first into enemy ships and we'll probably need a medic as well, wait, make that 10 medics, with the expected amount of injuries to occur."

[mrmao]

With the stament of idiot who will cahrge into ships headlong mrmao runs in in a piolt uniform and a pilots helmat.

"suicdial idoit on deck."mrmoa says as he snaps to a salute."i have refrences pertaining to the jobs requierments."

[flapjack]

*Flapjack takes a quick look at Mao*

"Okay, you're hired. You'll be given weapons when you're enroute to an enemy ship and not a moment before that though."

*Flapjack goes to check if the holodeck is finished yet*

[AcidK]

Seeing as I have lived for nearly sixty-two thousand years, many of were in times of war, I beleive I could be of some us as regards to being the Tactical Officer as well as the barman of this ship. I can easily patch the hardware and software needed into my bar area, probably near the till and making sure if looks a lot different to the till at that.

*AcidK pulls out a half-drunk bottle of Myst Breaker from his jacket and takes a small swig before putting it back. AcidK closes his eyes and stretches a little.*

Isn't it strange that a drink that can enhance my mental and muscle abilities can have catastrophic effects on others...

[Verric]

"I think I may be somewhat hurt" comments Verric, sadly. "Being squashed and stuff does that to a person, i shouldn't wonder..."

[Jack Ryan]

Jack Ryan entered the bar slightly melodramatically. His black hair cut short and spiked, along with his raven black eyes, just added to it. He wore a loose cloak over rather tight leathers that gave him a slight "wastelander" look. He held no expression and sat at a lone chair. He breathed in silently and leaned back.

"Least there were some people"

[flapjack]

Flapjack looked over his shoulder and yelled back to Acidk "Well, we do need the tactical officer on the bridge, but I can imagine that not being a major problem for you either."
Just as Flapjack finished saying this Jack Ryan walked in, and directly into him, the immediate and expected result being that Flapjack crashes down to the floor, the unexpected and slightly later result is that the floorplating Flapjack lands on cracks and breaks away, leaving Flapjack another deck down

"God damned construction droids can't do a thing right can they."

[mrmao]

"Nope boss." mrmao yells as stands next to the bar doing a little jig of victory ove his new job. That combined his two love comic death and needless slaughter of anyone who is in his way.

[Jack Ryan]

Watched as the funny dragon fell through the floor. Jack pulled out a small rock from his pocket and tossed it after him.

"Sorry about that..." he whispered.

[flapjack]

At the very moment Flapjack notices the rock's rapidly increasing velocity, the grav plating once more fails utterly. Immediatly several tables float off towards the ceiling, the rock slowly beginning to slow down by the air around.

Flapjack takes advantage of the several moments extra he got from this and grabbed the rock out of the air just before it hit him, then pushed off hard against the floor, sending him hurtling back up through the broken floor. As Flapjack approaches the roof at a rather unpleasant speed, he hurles the rock back to its owner right as he hits the roof, immediatly pushing off towards the automatic doors.

Unfortunately automatic doors only work where they're powered and when the power is off, they thus don't work automatically. Flapjack realised this just as he pushed off and found himself hurtling along towards the full automatic but not functioning 3" blastproof doors.

"Something smells wrong here, I think I need to slow down."

[AcidK]

*AcidK watched as a rock flew towards his bar. Despite the glass panels covering the bar, AcidK did not like things being thrown at it, even if it was at a bar person. AcidK chose this moment to morph himself using multiple organic panelling he had placed under the bar purly for moments like this, using his new morph to grab the stone before it had even reached ten metres of the actual bar. The AcidK clone looked and smiled as flapjack hurled into the blast doors before wondering where a rock had came from inside the massive ship.*

Clone: I will head to the bridge immediatly, sir...

*AcidK, the one behind the bar, smiled as he loamed over Jack Ryan. Being an eight-foot blue creature with starfeild-like eyes, the ability to loom was not hard. He loomed over dragons even if they were much taller, usually because of his vaste heat-resistance and cold-resistance, not to mention not being technically alive.*

What can I get you? And you, Mao, another experiemental drink? A less explosive one this time.

[flapjack]

Flapjack started first off all by peeling himself off the automatic doors, just then power came back. The simultaneous actions of the doors opening and gravity being restored sent Flapjack hurtling to the ground again.

"Damned, they should either fix the damned reactor or switch back to shipyard power."

After a few minutes Flapjack got back up and headed towards the (hopefully) constructed holodeck

[mrmao]

mr mao turns around to face the bar and stops his jig. He starts to shake his head vigoursly with a "yeah yeah" along also.

he goes to the bar and examines all the stools. after a period mrmao pick out a stool slightly to the left of the center and puts a big sticker on it, it reads 'mrmao's stool NOW GET OFF'. After making sure the sticker is secure he sat down on the stool, and perpared himself for his next test.

[flapjack]

Flapjack quickly found the holodecks, half of which were finished, and booted up a program in 1 of the active holodecks.

Flapjack then transported Mrmao into the holodeck in a hardly noticeable way, where the holodeck showed an exact replica of the bar, with all the people who were currently in it.

After a few moments the alerts on the holodeck go off to signal the 'ship' being attacked

[mrmao]

Mr Mao turns around after hearing the klaxon of the alram. As he is looking around the 'bar' he notices Flapjack. Noticing hiss boss and the alarms togther he asks hopefully.
"Do I get a gun now?"

[AcidK]

*AcidK sits in the bar as Mao disappears and sighes.*

Another customer disappears on me, oh well...

[flapjack]

The hologram Flapjack turns to Mao and pulls out a heavy disrupter repeater rifle (not for rookies) hologram mk2 and tosses it to Mao.

"They boarding pod is ready on deck 5, just get in and press the big red button."

With that the hologram Flapjack disappeared into thin air

[mrmao]

mrmao gives s shudder of deliat at the disrupter rifle in his hands. He grabbed his helmet put it on and activated the thermal imagin plate over his left eye. He slung the rifle over his shoulder and headed to the borading pod.

when he got there he sealed the pod and pushed the big red button. The pod ejected form the 'ships hull' and started to the pirate ship that was about one klick form the bow of his pod.

[flapjack]

Flapjack in the meanwhile arrived back in the bar, upon which he immediatly fell through the large hole directly in front of the door.

Just before hitting the ground however, Flapjack realised what was happening and he thus managed to land properly and propel himself back up at sufficient speeds.

"We should get that hole fixed. Oh and I think MrMao will have a fun time on that holodeck, now, 1 acid volcano bomb please."

[AcidK]

*AcidK quickly produces an Acid Volcano Bomb and hands it to FJ.*

There you go sir, freshly... erm.... fresh

[mrmao]

Meanwhile in 'space'. The assult pod glides twoard the enemy vessel. As the pod gets closer space lights up with all the anti missle fire it has. Unfortunatley for the ship it wasn't a missle they were shooting at but a ai driven pod. This turns out far harder to hit then a missle.

After jukeing ever closer the pod connects with the hull. The pods airlock attaches to the hull and the laser drill attached to it's edges begin to carve through the hull. Inside the pod mrmao goes over intradiction tactics prefered by his current employer. As the laser drills finish mrmao grabs plasma rifle and heaads through the airlock and into the enemy ship.

[flapjack]

*Flapjack sips his drink, currently not having a lot better to do untill MrMao finishes his little adventure or someone gets a nice adventure for the whole crew*

[AcidK]

*AcidK, equally waiting with patience, continues to clean a glass cup used for his more destructive drinks (and usually the only things that can hold them without corroding or exploding) using an anti-mattter cloth set to only activate onto grime and dirt and, as usualy, anything other than the cup. This took some effort to do as he used a Kylithium glove on his gauntleted arm just so no valuable electronics or metal gets taken awy by the cloth. This came to a difficulty as his gaunlet was huge anyway, let alone having a crystal 'glove' over the top of it.*

[mrmao]

Mrmao ducked behind bulkhead as he came out of the airlock. The first direcxtive he was to take was to destroy the offending ships armoury. Using what he learned aout this class of vessel. Within a couple of moments he had found a computer consel. A few moments later he had a map too all the important parts of the ship.

As he finished his scan of the ships computer two security personal came upon. When they saw him they let of a couple of shots, but there lack of traing they missed. Almost instatly mrmao had ducked behind a bulckhead, the next instant he had taken aim and left off two rounds from his rifle. The securtiy personal went down.

mrmao began moving from bulckhead to bulckhead.

[Runo]

*Enter stage left Runo. He walks up to the bar, carefully inspecting the powertools lying around, left by the construction crew. Taking in the scene, and enjoying the feel of beeing back on a spaceship, he takes a seat next to Flapjack.*

"Hello there, old friend. Long time no see..."

[flapjack]

Flapjack, startled by the sudden movement to his left, immediatly turned towards Runo, the acid volcano bomb spilling over the edges and flying out towards Runo

"Oh hi, hmm, you're a non-qualified doctor right?"

Flapjack pushes 1 of the help wanted ads into Runo's face, the positions of Barman, Tactical officer and 'marine' already being striped out

[Runo]

Runo rustles inside his inside coat pocket and produces a pen. He swiftly checks out "Doctor" on the ad.

"You couldn't find a more non-qualified doctor, even if you made some sort of non-qualified doctor finding machine. Now, isn't there some papers I have to sign? "

[flapjack]

"Ofcourse there are papers you have to sign, unfortunately 1 of the desk clerics thought the papers in the blue bin where to be shredded. So the contracts have been lost every so slightly, the cleric is still busy trying to tape them together."

[Runo]

Runo takes a paper napkin from the bar, and with a doctors precicion (and handwriting) signs his name "Dr. Cornelius Runo."

"Here... I'll just trust you to sort out the paperwork later. But just so you know, I will demand full controll of the entire medical staff. And my wages to be paid in alcohol and cheese."

He glances thirstly at flapjack's drink.

"You don't mind me drinking on duty? I feel it calms my hands, especialy before surgery."

[flapjack]

"Well, you'll have full control of the medical staff and the best part is, I don't have to introduce you to anybody."

Flapjack takes the napkin and place it in his pocket.

"Well, seeing as how you're permanently on call, I can't really object, just try not to get drunk."