Blue Skies Discussion

lol I am very new to RPG's, lol. So this is my first time really getting into one.

 

That said, you don't give yourself enough credit

 

I moved you all aboard the Humility. Read the blue thing, everything is explained

 

YAY! Plot forwarding! *goes to see

 

A few minor questions before I post:

* Is it daytime now? I noticed you said blue skies, but I thought it was the middle of the night? I suppose the sky is still blue at night, but... I just want to make sure I got this right.

* Is there some way to identify The Humility without being told its name? (i.e. is the name written on it somewhere? is there some feature only this ship has that makes it instantly recognizable?)

* It seems like the Materion engines are anti-grav generators or something, so do the ships still have need of propellers and control surfaces or do they just glide magically along? Do they have smoke stacks (Materion engines seem like weird steam engines, so I figured there would be exhaust of some sort)?

* Is there electricity in this world? I thought not, but someone mentioned wires earlier and someone else mentioned batteries in a watch. You might wanna squash that before it gets out of hand.

 

*It's nighttime. My bad, will change it asap.

*No way to identify the Humility, although Desmond did talk about the ship with those inside his airship.

*Materion engines are reactionless drives. It pretty much means that you grab something, you put a Materion enigne in it and it flies/moves. Yes, it defies modern physics (conservation of momentum, conservation of energy, what not). As long as there is Materion in the engine, it flies.

*No, there are no batteries as such. Watches need to be winded up. Don't know who was talking about batteries, but I missed that post.

 

Ah the batteries were in my post. My bad

 

Forgiven It's steampunk, not electricity punk (waith what?)

I figure I could explain some more about Materion engines;

The engine itself is pretty much a large type of kettle in which there is water. When Materion is added to that water, the engine can be started. There are a number of pipelines troughout the ship, and by controlling the Materion levels inside those pipes, the ship can go right, left, forward, backwards up and down. There are no propellors, no rails.

Don't try to compare it to any traditional engine. It is a reactionless drive, which means it can't really exsist (since it does not depend on the expulsion of fuel or reaction mass to create thrust)

 

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oops, fixed. I must not be keeping up very well since I missed some things he must have said.

 

Sorry about the slow response time, Show. I went to make an omelet. :redface:

 

Electric punk... that would be a cool genre. buildings with wires running everywhere, gaint tesla coils, and lightning everywhere.

 

Terrible for your hair though

Giving you time to interact again. Hope to get another blue post up in the morning... maybe earlier.

 

Nah I'm sorry for my slow response. lol

 

For the record, if this is a war ship then there would be lots of 'dead' space'. Open areas to sneak through hiden behind walls and such. (Reasoning is that these a a cross between zeplines and naval ships, and both have dead space. )

 

Think more naval ship, less blimp. As far as dead space goes; there are vents, some spaces between walls, but nothing you can comfortable crawl trough without creating a enough sound to attract several guards.

 

Yo, the game is slowing down. You might want to try and take care of that somehow.

 

Weekends are usualy a bit slow. I'm not worried

Besides, it's superbowl tonight. I doubt we'll have a lot of our American friends around

 

Ah, ok.

Oh yes, the Easter Sunday of the United Church of Football! lol

 

I don't have an interest in sports and so don't bother watching much if any and I have no plans to watch the super bowl. I will be at church in the afternoon but then I'll be back here in the evening in case anything has happened.

I did put a post up to start the meeting with Desmond.

 

I am waiting for an opportunity to let some of my plans for my character come to pass.

 

GO STEELERS!

Yep Superbowl party tonight...no computing unless it's late and I doubt that will happen either. I'll be in RPG withdrawal.

 

Just so you know...not all Americans are all that interested in sports. Take me, for instance. I'll be free to post at any time, but there is a chance that the quality will diminish over time as I will be at a super bowl party and there will be many less savory beverages around.

 

Hmm perhaps I should watch... never saw one, may be a culture shock for me.

 

yea I'm gonna watch some of it since I live with a few Americans

 

Pfft, Cardinals are going to walk through the Steelers.