[Jumpers #10.]
<Justine> (Oh, if Kohlan male or female?  Because this is a harem comedy centred 
around Thalan.  Honest.)
<Murynal> (Kohlan is neutral, I think.)
<Kohlan> (Kohlan is neither.)
<Kohlan> (HUZZAH FOR ANDROGYNY!(
[After spending a while getting drunk and fooling around you get your security 
passes.  The admin flack is there for any questions about your delivery.]
[You were given a package to deliver.  That was why you're here.  You've still 
got the package so just need to bring it to the quartermaster in the lower 
decks.]
<Neisis> (So he can fix the station and we can go back to the doughnut!)
<Neisis> (Too much Ten. >.<. I think I'll say it's a tipsy Neisis.)
[Resume]
<Murynal> (Are we still drunk?)
<Grysar> (Mostly worn off)
* Murynal has a security pass! It looks like something. Probably a high school 
ID, complete with when her lunch break is. Her picture on it no doubt sucks. She 
holds it up to the light and eyes it from various angles.
[It has little holograms and is shiny]
* Justine takes her security pass and attaches it to the armrest of her chair.  
The hologram on it looks to have been caught in mid-drunken-giggle.  Never get 
identity photos taken when drunk.
* Neisis looks at her shiny and holographic pass. It gets rained on. There's a 
little storm cloud in her hologram too.
* Murynal pins her security pass above her left breast. "Where do we need to go 
again?" she asks the guy. "If we were told, I forgot."
<Intern> Down the elevator, first left, third right, you're there.
* Justine sips the last little bit of Sprite from her glass, then sets it down 
on the table, her arm moving noticeably more easily once rid of the weight.
* Murynal nods. "And are there any traps on the way? Spikes? Snakes? Fire? Giant 
crushing boulders?"
* Intern shrugs.  "You think I go down there?  Are you crazy?"
* Neisis attempts to pin hers by her neck, but there's nothing there to pin it 
too and the rest of her is rather armored at the moment. "Uh... Could I get a 
string or something to tie this onto?"
<Murynal> You work here.  I think you are.
<Intern> Point.  ::He then searches through his pockets and finds some string 
for Neisis.
* Thalan glances at his pass. He looks angry. This is normal.
<Murynal> (Quick, tug his tail!)
<Thalan> Just pocket the thing.
* Neisis takes it and ties it around her neck and then attaches the ID to that. 
"There we go."
<Murynal> All right, well.  We won't let you know if we die horribly.
* Murynal looks to the others. "Can we go?"
<Intern> Anyways, only thing I've been told is don't drink the water down there.  
::his voice goes slight spooky:: It has strange effects.  
<Thalan> You never drink the water.  First rule of traveling.
<Neisis> Okay. No drinking the water. If that's it, I guess we're ready to go 
now.
* Justine looks among her fellows, waiting for them to decide if they are to 
proceed.
<Intern> Elevator is in the back.  Once you're inside you'll each need to show 
your badges to the automatic scanner before it will take you down.
* Murynal nods.
<Neisis> Thanks.
<Justine> "Thank you."
* Neisis heads for the elevator.
* Murynal follows like a good little Murynal.
* Thalan nods in understanding and walks to the elevator.
[The elevator is in back, doors open, apparently waiting for you.  There's a 
security panel on the inside wall to the left.
* Justine rolls up behind them.
<Murynal> (If you don't show it the badge, it drops piranhas on you and fills 
the elevator with water.)
<Neisis> (Poor piranhas)
<Justine> (If you DO show it the badge, it drops water on you and fills the 
elevator with piranhas.)
<Murynal> (See, different order!)
<Murynal> (And ratio.)
* Neisis holds her badge out to the scanner and waits for the rain of fish, 
it'll make a nice change from the rain of water.
* Murynal eyes the storm cloud and steps in, trying not to get water on her. She 
shows the thingie her thingi- badge, too.
* Thalan shows his badge to the scanner. Mmm, scanner.
<Murynal> (It'd taste better with cheese.)
[The scanner beeps each time.]
<Thalan> (Cheese and mustard and teeth and muffin.)
<Murynal> (MUFFIN!)
<Neisis> (MUFFINS!)
<Neisis> (... Ten just broke my mind and I can't tell any of you how. >.<)
* Justine shows her badge to the scanner.
[Then the doors close and the elevator shakes precariously for a moment and then 
*drops* moving at a fairly fast speed down but also at a bit of an angle.]
<Kohlan> (TELL US.)
[Balance check as needed.  Driving check for Justine I suppose.]
<Grysar> (At least several floors and really quite fast.  Think roller coaster)
<Justine> (Is the right long enough to trigger Justine's bane?)
<Justine> (Ride, rather.)
[And you all keep your footing/wheels on the ground.  However the elevator keeps 
dropping and is slowly spinning.  The floor is tilting up and the back wall is 
tilting back as if it may become the new floor.]
<Grysar> (And no.  At this point you're at less than a G
<Justine> (Okay.)
* Murynal takes half a step before catching her balance. "That was unexpected."
* Thalan never seemed to have lost his sense of balance. "What was unexpected?"
<Justine> (So, if I follow the physics right, this is decreasing the downward G, 
not creating an upward G?)
* Neisis takes a step twords the rotating wall. "Is everything here broken?"
<Grysar> (Right)
* Murynal thinks about that, then nods.
* Justine seems noticably more comfortable and sits up straighter in the 
lessened gravity.
[And the rotation continues, the floor seems to be approaching 45 degrees.]
<Justine> "This is a very strange place."
[And it is still falling as well, but you've managed to keep your balance.]
<Thalan> I have yet to come across a place that *wasn't* strange.
<Justine> "My home didn't seem as strange, but maybe I was just used to it.
* Neisis edges down the corner.
* Murynal fluffs her hair and straightens it a little. "I'm sure I'd find your 
home strange."
* Justine nods.  "Most people from places with gravity thought Escher was really 
disturbing."
[And it hits 45 degrees.  Seems to still be going.]
* Murynal adjusts her footing. "Why?"
<Neisis> What was it like?
<Murynal> (It's called Escher.  Why WOULDN'T you find it disturbing?)
<Justine> "It wasn't designed with an up and a down.  Things went in all 
directions, even right next to each other."
<Neisis> (I've never hear of the guy!)
<Murynal> (Neisis: 
http://images.google.com/images?q=escher&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=ii&oi=imagest)
<Justine> "I find it strange that everywhere else, things are all put into only 
one direction."
[And the drop becomes more sideways movement and the back wall continues to 
flatten out.]
<Neisis> (... Ard? I have several of his books and a print. Neisis is the one 
who has no idea what an escher is. ^^;)
<Murynal> (You went and put it in parens!)
* Justine seems totally at ease with the shifting orientation of the elevator, 
for reasons that are clear from her dialogue.
* Neisis walks onto the wall. "Ah... I'd never wondered about it before."
[And before to long the elevator comes to a jarring stop and the doors in the 
ceiling open.]
* Murynal keeps adjusting her balance, walking onto the wall, too. And then that 
happens. "Hm."
[Hearing checks please]
* Thalan idly walks along the walls/floor/ceiling in time to keep his balance 
oriented, sometimes seeming to defy gravity with that tail of his.
<Justine> "All the furniture on the same surface took forever to adjust to."
<Murynal> (HA count?)
<Grysar> (Yes)
* Justine sits in her chair as the floor tilts to become the wall and vice 
versa, rolling back and forth slightly but mostly just waiting out the 
transition.  She just keeps talking as if she doesn't notice what's happening.
[Anyone who makes it hears a chanting from the corridor above.]
<Murynal> (What kind of chanting?)
* Murynal walks out, stretching. She blinks, glancing up.
* Neisis looks up. "More dangertainment stuff?"
[Multiple voices, a ways down the corridor, bit monotonous.  Not particularly 
pleasant, we aren't talking Gregorian or choral here.]
[Present elevator situation: The elevator has turned 90 degrees.  The back wall 
is now the floors.  The doors are now the ceiling.  The floor you were standing 
on is now one of the walls.  Gravity has consistently pointed “down” but because 
of the rotation “down” has meant different parts of the elevators.  The doors 
are seven feet up.]
<Thalan> Probably.
* Justine looks up at the ceiling.  "Things are so much easier without gravity.
* Murynal folds her arms, looking up for a way to climb. "It'd be nice if I 
could turn it off."
<Thalan> It gets in the way so many times.
* Neisis reaches up, takes hold of the door frame and tries to pull herself up.
[Climb roll.]
<Justine> (You could lower a rope or a tree branch...)
[Neisis has to really work at it and shift her weight a few times to the floor 
above to pull it off, rather uncomfortable really, but she manages.]
[The upstairs hallway has a normal floor and such, aside from the doors in it.  
There's an emergency firehose on one wall.  Unfortunately the hall is quite 
dirty.  There's a layer of grime on all the surfaces but the ceiling.  Floor is 
worst of all and so the front of Neisis's outfit is quite dirty.]
* Murynal calls, "How is it up there?"
* Neisis looks around. "It's a huge mess. Thalan'd hate it. Oh, that'll be 
usefull. Hold on a beat." She goes and sees of she can get enough of the 
firehose unwound enough to reach the elevator door.
[She can]
* Thalan scratches his chin as he looks up. "There's a reason I didn't jump up 
there."
[Hearing check.  -4 for Neisis.]
* Neisis drops it down.
* Murynal steps away before the hose lands on her head.
[Everybody but Mury hears lazer fire from down the hallway.]
* Neisis leans over the door and the people below can see that not only is she 
sogging wet, but her front is covered in grime now. "Hurry up, somebodies 
fighting up there!"
[And this sound comes from the hallway to the left, for the record.]
* Murynal looks up, then to Justine. "Hm."
<Kohlan> [Directly afterwards, more swearing and sounds of a different sort of 
fire come from about the same direction.]
* Murynal calls up, "We need to get Justine up there. Maybe one of us can carry 
her and the other her wheelchair?"
<Thalan> ...  Bad science fiction strikes again.
* Justine looks at Thalan, puzzled.
* Neisis kneals down. "Uhm, just pass her up maybe?"
* Murynal nods.
<Justine> "I'm sorry for being such a bother."
* Murynal looks to Justine. "It's okay. Want me to lift you?"
<Thalan> Where else do you get chanting of 'Destroy all Robots'?
<Murynal> Um... here, I guess.
<Justine> "My home."
<Justine> "We really didn't like robots where I come from."
<Justine> "With good reason," Justine adds with a sudden flash of 
uncharacteristic grimness.
<Neisis> Oh? the androids were nice where I came from. Well, most of them 
anyway.
* Neisis lays in the muck so she can get both arms into the elevator.
[And passing up Justine will involve a -3 body roll for all involved.  
Powerlifting helps.]
* Thalan looks to Murynal. "Go ahead and lift Justine, I'll handle the chair. 
And, uh... we had some people end up becoming soulmechs where I come from."
<Murynal> They're generally okay where I'm from, though I've only met one A.I. 
on the level of Denal.
* Murynal nods to Thalan and reaches around Justine, lifting her from her chair 
and trying to pass her up to Neisis.
[And Justine is successfully lifted up.  Same check for her chair.]
* Justine rises through the air, apparently light as a feather.
[There's more lazer fire back and forth down the hallway.]
* Thalan draws his plasma rifle as the laser fire gets closer.
* Neisis pulls Justine up. "Aahh... maybe we should have done the chair first."
<Justine> "Thank you."
* Neisis looks around for a slightly less mucky place to put Justine.
<Justine> (Neisis holds Justine in her arms!  Then they make out.  And they are 
catgirls.)
<Neisis> (I lack a tail and paws and the right kind of ears... I've got the eyes 
for it!)
* Thalan hefts the chair, judging its weight.
[There's a slightly less mucky place, bust still kind of mucky.]
* Murynal climbs up after Justine's handed off.
* Justine turns her head to look at where the shots are coming from.
* Neisis starts to walk over to the less mucky place but stops when she hears 
Mury start climbing.
[The hallway is fairly long to the left.  The shots seem to be coming from the 
first crossing hallway.  You can see multiple lazer beams, utterly defying 
physics, flying from left to right.]
[Defying physics by being visible and moving at less than the speed of light.]
<Thalan> What did I tell you?
<Thalan> Bad science fiction!
<Kohlan> [From right to left, you can see what look like bolts of energy coming 
back sporadically, accompanied by yelling.]
<Neisis> (You can't see that, you're in the hole!)
<Kohlan> [Fine, then you can't see that!  Nyah!]
<Thalan> (Oh, right.)
<Murynal> It doesn't seem that fiction to me.
<Neisis> (And Justine is probably getting damp by now. Silly rain)
* Murynal gets to the top and walks around. In the muck. She looks down at her 
feet. Sandals are not a good prize here. "Yuck."
* Justine is getting damp.  Her short hair is plastered to her head, but her 
flightsuit, meant to withstand the vacuum of space in a pinch, keeps her body 
dry.
* Neisis looks back at Mury while holding Justine. "Ah, do you think the two of 
you can get the chair up? I don't want to put Justine down in this."
[Thalan can handle the chair, he has to strain a bit, but so long as he doesn't 
hold it long he's fine.]
<Justine> "Just make sure it's face up if you do need to, okay?"
* Neisis blinks down at Justine. "Why wouldn't I?"
* Murynal goes to the edge and reaches down for the chair.
* Thalan picks up the chair and passes it to Murynal.
<Justine> "I don't know."
[From down the hall, an apparent human in a shiny silver jump suit steps out 
firing down the hall to the right.  He then takes an energy bolt to the chest 
and falls over.  His hair is silver and those of you with good vision could see 
that his eyes were red.]
<Justine> (Vampire!)
<Neisis> Okay. Well, I wouldn't. (And I am so totally facing the wrong way and 
I'm not Katie so I can't hear what color his eyes were. ;P)
* Murynal doesn't notice, because she's pulling up the chair. She lifts it over 
the edge and sets it down, then rolls it over to Neisis and Justine.
* Neisis sets Justine down in her chair! And then she turns around to try and 
deal with the firefight.
<Justine> "Thank you," Justine says to Murynal and Neisis.
[YOu'll need to move closer to really see what's going on.  It's at least half a 
city block away.]
* Thalan jumps up and lands on his feet, because cat people just like doing 
that. damn jumping.
[Thalan's feet are now grimy.]
<Neisis> You're welcome.
* Justine moves her chair slowly on the grime until she's sure it won't skid or 
get mired.
<Murynal> You're welcome.
<Justine> (Jumpers: The Polite RPG.)
* Murynal blinks as she looks ahead. "Did he just get shot?"
[Justine is fairly confident that she's got the situation under control.]
[And the elevator door shuts now that you're all out.]
<Justine> "I think so."
<Murynal> I... should... run ahead and make sure he's okay.
* Thalan looks disgusted at his feet. "Let's, uh... let's get to some place with 
less dirt and more clean?"
[There's another exchange of gunfire.]
* Neisis turns around. "I guess so?" She starts walking down the hall. "We wait 
untill they're done having fun and then go?"
* Justine looks back and forth between them rapidly.  "Are we staying or going?" 
she asks.
<Justine> (Conflicting orders make Justine's head splode.)
* Murynal blinks a couple of times, too. She looks at Neisis and Thalan.
<Murynal> (We're really pathetic, Justine. ;P)
* Thalan looks uncomfortably ready to go.
<Justine> (Yes.)
[There's an "oof" of pain from down the hall.  Apparently someone else got hit.]
<Murynal> Should we go?
[No sound of a body hitting the floor though.]
* Justine looks from Thalan to Neisis to Thalan to Neisis.
* Murynal is very calm. One hand's over her hilt, though.
<Neisis> Of course if you want to go join in that could be fun too.
<Justine> (...  Damn you, Neisis.  You're supposed to be the voice of sanity 
here.)
<Murynal> (Sanity.  Ha ha ha.)
* Thalan sneaks off ahead since people aren't doing anything.
<Neisis> (Sanity maybe, self-preservation? Never.)
* Murynal takes Thalan's !mysterious disappearance as a go ahead and jogs 
thataway.
* Justine looks at Neisis.
[Thalan walks few the grime.  Eww... As he gets closer he can see that there's 
another four largely identical looking guys in the silver suits and one guy in a 
gold suit.  They regularly look left and right, actively scanning the hallway 
with their eyes.]
<Neisis> Ah, we're going in!
[They all have low quality laser rifles.]
[And on the other side of the hall is...]
* Neisis follows them.
* Justine nods.  She draws her blaster pistol.
[Oh and the five are all chanting "destroy all robots.]
<Kohlan> [is...a very tall, very thin form in a black tunic.  You can't see it 
very clearly as it's popping up just to shoot back, but it seems to have 
blueish-green skin whorling in patterns, no visible nose and ears, and slanted 
silver-green eyes.  Its hair is black, short in the back, sloping to jaw-length 
in the front.]
* Kohlan pops up and down like a carnival game.  "I *shoot shoot* am NOT *duck* 
a *shoot* RO-*duck*-BOT!  *shoot shoot*"
[Okay,  this ones straightforward so I won't bother with init.  Everybody make 
your moves.  We'll say that was Kohlan's from last turn.]
* Kohlan is also using curved weapons of some sort.  They're clearly ranged 
weapons--pistols of some sort--but seem to be edged as well.
* Murynal tilts her head, watching. "He's not a robot. They're confused."
* Justine glances from one side of the firefight to the other.  "Orders?"
<Justine> (* Neisis points at Kohlan.  "Kill the robot!")
<Murynal> Do we disarm?
<Murynal> (<Murynal> But it's not a robot.)
* Neisis yells at the glowyeyed ones. "That's not a robot!"
<Gold human> Robot trickery!  Your clever lies and stratagems will not work on 
us.
<Silver humans> Destroy all robots.
<Murynal> (Yes.  It was the cleverest lie of them all.)
<Justine> (And so very strategic.)
[They keep firing.  They largely seem to ignore you guys.]
<Neisis> I have a plan?
* Murynal blinks, then shakes her head. "Neisis, do we disarm?"
* Thalan rolls his eyes.
<Neisis> Uhh. Yeah that'll work. 
<Justine> (* Murynal and Justine both throw aside their weapons.  <Neisis>  Next 
time, disarm THEM.)
<Murynal> (Ha!)
<Neisis> (HA!)
<Kohlan> (Snerk!)
[Although you guys have talked a bit.  The new entity kills one of the silver 
humans that was already ruined.  Two good shots at her are both dodged.]
[So give orders.]
<Justine> (Hey!  Greg is stealing Justine's line.)
* Thalan stays hiding in the shadows. Mmm, shadows. Gotta love that negative 
energy.
<Justine> "Which side?"
* Neisis points at the silver guys "Them!" And then she runs forward and leaps!
* Justine nods, apparently having inferred permission to open fire from Neisis' 
instructions to disarm the gentlemen enforcing the three laws with extreme 
prejudice.
* Murynal nods once, then runs forward, the hilt flying of its own accord into 
her hand as she does so. As she nears one of the silvers, a cold blue light 
springs from it, hopefully slicing through the man's weapons. She follows this 
by turning, swinging at the gold's weapon next to her.
* Justine shoots at the weapon of one of the men with her blaster pistol.
[And claw! slice! zap! The silver and gold guys are all disarmed!]
<Murynal> (We're a comic!)
<Gold> They have been re-sequenced to again serve the robot overlords!  Show no 
mercy.
* Justine's sees the enemy forces disarmed, and sets her blaster pistol down 
again.
* Neisis , for the record, didn't go for her glowy claw today, but for a pair of 
the bar things. Guess she wanted to go easy on them.
[The humans all go for their pockets and seem to be grabbing fist sized 
objects.]
<Neisis> What? Hey! You're supposed to give up!
* Justine picks the gun back up again, grunting slightly with the effort of 
holding it aloft.
* Murynal blinks, then turns, trying to smack the gold one upside the head with 
her hilt.
* Kohlan looks up suspiciously to see what all the new fuss is about.
<Justine> "Permission to fire at them?"
* Kohlan remains peeking until it can see what these humans are going for.
* Thalan draws his rifle on one of them, ready to fire if they go about doing 
threatening stuffs with their pockethands.
<Justine> (Actually, most of us don't look exactly human.)
<Murynal> (Well, half of us.)
<Murynal> (I look pretty human.)
<Justine> (You have weird colouration, don't you?)
<Murynal> (True.  Dark green hair and eyes.)
<Murynal> (But other than that, I'm the right height and ear shape and 
everything.)
[Attack roll Mury.  And the humans all draw  silver cylinders with a red LED 
going around the top in a circle.  They hit buttons on the top and the LED 
lights start going out one at a time.  Goldie goes out cold before he can hit 
the button though.]
[The other humans stand around looking confused now that gold is down.]
[Next round!]
<Kohlan> ( I meant the "Kill all robots" human.)
* Murynal looks down at the gold one. "That was easy."
<Kohlan> ...seems to be an explosive.
<Neisis> It was... wait what?!
* Neisis looks back at Kohlan.
* Murynal blinks. She looks at Kohlan.
* Kohlan eyes the LEDs.  "Oh.  Also, hello.  And thank you."
[Beep, beep, beep... the lights steadily go out.]
[Half gone.]
<Kohlan> I would suggest exiting the premises as soon as possible.  Just in 
case.
* Neisis yells at the Silvers. "Turn them off! Turn them off!"
<Murynal> (Okay, yes, 1. weird coloration, and 2. very, very calm.)
* Kohlan starts backing out.
* Thalan backs off behind a corner.
* Justine hits reverse on her chair, sending it careening backwards.
<Kohlan> ( Kohlan has blue-green *skin*.  It definitely got weird coloration, 
and for all it knows, green hair and eyes *would* be normal for humans.  It 
hasn't met that many.  ^^)
* Murynal looks back, then she starts running, pushing Neisis to go. The air 
around her shimmers.
* Kohlan gets out of the hallway and trots some more for good measure.
<Silvers> Orgon commands only accepted from commander.
<Justine> (Oh, no one gave Sharyna descs of our chars, right?)
<Murynal> (Nope.  We need to do that!  Once we're not getting blown up.)
[And beep, beep, beeeeeep.  Boom boom boom boom!]
<Justine> (It makes sound effects.)
[The hallway splatters with blood, gore, and bad jump suits.  And man, you 
thought it was dirty before.  Ranged defense rolls from all.  -4 bonus.  Speed 
helps.]
* Neisis 's eyes widen and then she turn and runs away as fast as she can. 
(Unless she just exploded.)
 [And everyone pulls out in time.  Although Thalan gets hit with some of the 
subsequent non-shrapnel splatter.]
[Out of combat]
* Kohlan takes a breath.  "Well.  I suppose I owe you all some thanks."
* Thalan 's tail goes rigid when the splatter hits him. "... I need a long, long 
bath."
* Justine wheels herself forward again, to where everyone else is.
* Murynal lets out a long sigh, then the air around her stops shimmering. She's 
not splattered! Some of the gore got close, but it fell just short.
[The hallway keeps going on for some ways.  There's four more cross hallways up 
ahead.  On the third overall cross hallway there's a sign pointing right that 
says "Quartermaster"]
* Neisis ran quickly away from the explosion and nods now. "Yeah, who were 
they?"
<Justine> (Is there a bath on the ship?)
<Thalan> I don't care, but next time I meet them they're *dead*.
<Thalan> (We should have hygiene facilities.)
* Thalan hisses angrily. "Or anybody like them."
<Neisis> Uhm... Thalan? I don't think you're going to meet them again.
<Kohlan> I'm not quite sure.
<Grysar> (Hygiene facilities, sure.)
* Kohlan looks around.  "...aha.  Quartermaster."
* Murynal nods to Kohlan before she puts her hilt back to her side. She's a 
pretty woman who looks like a human of Asian descent in her mid-twenties, who's 
wearing loose clothing, sandals, and... has quite a bit of grime on her at this 
point. Her hair's long and dark green, her eyes are not long and dark green, and 
she looks around.
<Murynal> Well, they exploded.
<Thalan> (Look, if we can't wash ourselves on the ship and clean ourselves, 
there's no way Thal would have been okay with it.  Just a FYI.)
<Grysar> (You can.  Is coo)
<Kohlan> Indeed.
* Murynal looks at Justine. "If all humans around here are like that, I'm glad 
you're not from around here."
* Justine looks apologetic.  "We don't normally attack people who aren't 
actually A.I.s in my world."
[Hearing checks.]
* Thalan is, um... a cat-person, is the best way to describe him. He has a coat 
of orange fur and a fairly long and active tail. Just over 5 feet tall, he's not 
very large, but glances around, taking in the large array of sights and smells 
around.
<Justine> (Made by 2, if HA counted.)
* Justine is a Caucasian human female with short auburn hair and blue eyes.  
She's slumped back in her motorized wheelchair.
* Neisis smiles and the two weapons that were attached to the forearms of her 
white, ceramic simply vanish. She's a little under six feet tall and has long 
purple hair and slightly darker purple, cat slit eyes. Oh and she has tall 
pointy elf ears that actually reach higher than the top of her head.
[Anyone who makes hears renewed chanting from the hallway behind you.  No one in 
sight yet, but it sounds like there's a whole lot of them.]
<Neisis> (White armor. >.<)
* Thalan is dressed in a jumpsuit, has a pack, and short black hair. A military-
grade plasma rifle is at his side.
* Murynal glances back. "Maybe we should get going?"
* Thalan has reflective green cat-slit eyes, too. Forgot about those. -_-;'
<Thalan> Definetly.
<Neisis> I don't think I can fight twenty of them. All in favor of running for 
the quartermasters start running now.
<Neisis> Or rolling!
* Neisis goes that way.
* Justine pushes the joystick to get her chair moving forward.
* Murynal gets going, then!
* Thalan gets going too!
[You fairly quickly get down to the third hallway.  Which is even dirtier. 
There's about a half a foot worth of grime along the base, although its of a 
consistency that Justine could power through if she gunned it and didn't mind 
splatter.  The walls are also worse, the ceiling is comparatively clean, 
although there's lots of dripmarks and such.]
<Thalan> A very, very, very long bath.
* Thalan tries his best to avoid touching anything.
* Kohlan has quit IRC (Ping timeout )
<Neisis> I'm kinda glad I'm getting a shower now.
<Justine> "Me too."
[At the far end of the hall there's a line marking the start of the quarter 
masters section.  There's a window on one side, a doorway at the end of the 
hallway, and to the right an open door with a sign that says "PdL Safety Instant 
Shower.  One use per day."]
<Neisis> (We need our notarobot!)
[And Thalan?  How you gonna avoid touching stuff?]
* Murynal looks down at her sandaled feet, which are *covered* in grime. "This 
is disgusting."
<Neisis> (He can FLY!)
[What with it being all over the floors and walls and such.]
<Thalan> (Avoid touching with hands and body extremities. <.<)
<Thalan> (Not feet, though. Kinda gotta walk through it.)
<Justine> (Thalan moves forward on his stomach!)
<Murynal> (He slithers!)
[Everyone slogs through.  Soul roll Thalan.]
<Neisis> (He's actually a snake)
[And the grime is actually mildly corrosive and highly insidious.  You can feel 
it soaking through to your skin.  Doesn't seem to dissolve flesh, but it does 
work its way though clothes and such.
[Wheelchairs are all good though.  Except for the people they splatter.]
[We'll say you're halfway there.]
[The sound of the chanting is getting louder behind you, but at a manageable 
speed.]
* Thalan is beginning to look more and more uncomfortable as he progresses 
through, even going as far as to turn around and check in paranoia as they move 
through.
* Neisis twitches and then brings an arm up and moves her elbow. "Ugh, it's 
squishing under my armor. We need to get out of her."
<Thalan> Did something move under that?  I'm pretty sure something did...  <.<  
>.>
<Justine> (That is a straight line if ever there was one.)
<Neisis> (here too!)
<Murynal> My feet did.
* Justine looks down at the muck.
* Murynal sounds very calm. But she's staring at said feet in a way that's 
probably disgusted.
[The grime bubbles slightly.  You're also starting to wonder if you'll ever feel 
clean again. Particularly if this has a chance to set.]
[Three quarters of the way there.  ABout half a city block left.]
<Murynal> I feel like I want to throw up.
<Neisis> I just want to get out of my armor and find some soap.
* Thalan murmers to himself as he, um, walks through.
<Neisis> Lots of soap.
<Justine> "Neisis?  Thanks again for not putting me down in this stuff," Justine 
says sincerely.
<Murynal> I wish I had developed my telekinesis more.
<Murynal> Maybe I could have floated over this.
<Neisis> You're welcome, and if I'd learned magic maybe I could have frozen it 
or something. That'd be nice, but nope we get to slog!
<Justine> :)
<Justine> (Sorry, in parens.)
[Thalan makes three beautiful jumps, the fourth one is also quite nice except 
for the fact that it lands him in a sink hole, helpfully demonstrating the 
location for the rest of you.  He's slowly sinking and is waist deep in the 
stuff, but he can get out using a body roll in a manner of his choosing.  From 
there clear shot to end of the hall.
* Murynal looks up to see Thalan land in the sinkhole. "That... wasn't a very 
good place to hand."
<Neisis> Ack! No it wasn't!
* Neisis slogs faster twords the hole with Thalan in it.
* Murynal keeps slogging. Eew.
* Thalan winces as he lands, keeping his eyes shut as he pulls himself out, only 
opening them when he's out to make a mad dash for the door. "I am going to shoot 
someone. Shoot them a LOT."
<Murynal> I hope it's not me.
* Neisis slows down and tries to edge around where the hole should be. "Me 
either."
[Thalan removes himself from the grim and gets to the end of the hallway but 
still feels dirty as hell.  THe rest of you will catch up shortly there after 
and knowing where the hole is can avoid it without incident.]
[At the end of the hallway is a forcefielded quartermaster window, a door, and 
the PdL safety shower.
* Justine maneuvers around the sinkhole.
* Murynal slogs around the hole and up to the door with increasing difficulty. 
Ugh.
* Kizn has joined #jumpers
* Thalan knocks on/opens/kicks in/shoots the door (in that order) assuming the 
door withstands the previous attempt to open it.
* Kizn is now known as Kohlan
<Neisis> (Welcome back!)
<Grysar> (Kzn: You've just slogged through a lot of grime, we're about to wrap, 
feel free to make a witty comment.)
<Kohlan> ( Charter - spawn of evil. )
<Kohlan> ...well.  This would be the sixth least pleasant circumstance in which 
I have become acquainted with new people.  You yourselves, however, seem to be 
good people.  It was good knowing you, however briefly.
<Murynal> (Thalan MUST GET TO THE SHOWER.)
<Quartermaster> So, I'll take the delivery.  I get the feeling the standard line 
about how you need to collect keys from each of the seven sections of the base 
won't be appreciated right now.
* Murynal smiles at Kohlan. "Nice to meet you, too." And then she looks to the 
quartermaster and blinks. "Keys?"
<Justine> "Pleased to meet you."
<Neisis> No thanks, we'll just give you the parts now. Right?
<Quartermast> Right!
<Murynal> Can we get showers and a clean way up, too?
* Murynal looks back at the grime. "How do you stand it down here?"
* Thalan points at the shower with his clawed finger, growling at the 
quartermaster. "You let me wash up, I don't melt your face."
* Kohlan gifts the quartermaster with an even more narrow-eyed glare.
<Murynal> He'll do it, too.
* Quartermaster blinks and hits a button and the shower opens for Thalan.
* Quartermaster seems pretty petrified.
<Murynal> (You really wanted to use "melt your face", didn't you?)
* Thalan gets in as fast as he can and doesn't bother to close the door before 
he turns it on, closing the door after that. Hell, he doesn't bother taking his 
clothes off before turning it on.
<Thalan> (Yes, yes I did. :D)
<Kohlan> ( Yay melt your face! )
[As soon as Thalan enters the shower, the transparent door closes automatically 
and the shower rapidly starts, running a high volume of water that makes Thalan 
feel cleaner.  A friendly voice announces. "Welcome to the Ponce De Leon 
Cleaning and Youth restoring shower system, we thank you for choosing...]
<Neisis> (Ponce? KILL IT!)
* Thalan ignores it and cleancleancleans.
<Justine> "Good thing you did that.  He'd have cut you into an eighth master," 
Justine brightly informs the quarter master.
<Murynal> (*rimshots*)
* Quartermaster slowly comes back to his sense.  "And if you'd prefer to avoid 
the de-aging I can also provide you with terrific towels and soap."
<Neisis> (budumpching!)
<Murynal> (Oh God.  De-aging.)
<Justine> (I love Justine's really, really, really bad sense of humour.)
<Murynal> (It's awful.  And great!)
* Thalan doesn't seem to notice.
* Murynal blinks a few times, then walks to the shower, banging on the door. 
"Thalan," she calls, "It's going to make you younger."
* Murynal gets slime all over. Oh well.
* Kohlan scratches its nonexistent nose.  No telling whether or not that's a 
reaction from the bad pun.
* Neisis blinks. "It's what? How?"
[The quarter master provides towels and a great cleaning solution.]
* Murynal takes the solution hesitantly, glancing back at Thalan. "Maybe you 
should turn off the shower," she says doubtfully.
<Quartermaster> So, that will get you cleaned up nicely, and the officers 
elevator will of course take you straight back to your ships.  Thank you for 
your good work!
[Thalan is feeling cleaner, but still not really clean.  Still not clean!]
[And he’s also looking steadily younger.]
* Thalan ... purrs? from inside of the shower.
<Kohlan> ( Has Kohlan already got what it wanted? )
* Murynal gets out of her sandals - they're ruined - and starts rubbing some 
solution on her feet and hands and such. She seems more fascinated than 
horrified by Thalan getting younger. "Um."
[Quartermaster then arranges for Kohlan to get its parts.  On the condition it 
get its shuttle the hell out of the station wall so that the beach can be fixed.  
The elevator can stop there on the way.]
[And we're basically done.  SO do what description and chatter you like, then 
end.]
* Neisis takes a towel and tries to keep it out of the rain while walking to a 
corner and then pulling off her armor. Evidently it's held on by techno babble.
* Kohlan seems not to notice weather conditions?
* Murynal tries to clean her sandals with the solution. Maybe it can work!
<Neisis> (I've got a small storm cloud floating over my head. ^;)
[The solution works wonders.  Rain helps too, although the storm cloud is slowly 
evaporating.  The cleaning seems to be all it can handle.]
[And the shower finishes and the door opens.]
* Justine takes a towel and cleaning solution, and begins trying to clean off 
where the muck splattered on her.
* Kohlan takes towel and cleaning solution and wipes off whatever muck is 
splattered on.
[And as a random descriptive note, someone has graffitied on one of the side 
walls "End Orgon genocide against robots!  --Sundollar.]
* Neisis cleans her armor and then starts on herself, keeping her bodysuit on 
for the time being. "Aww, it's going away. C'mon you're finally helpful!"
[And the towels and solution clean it up very nicely.]
[The rain cloud is encouraged by the love and sticks around a bit more.]
<Murynal> (I thought it'd go away to spite her.)
<Justine> (What's Thalan look like?)
<Grysar> (I'll let Thalan do his reveal line,  you all can react, and we'll cut)
<Justine> (Okay.)
* Kohlan stretches and creaks.  Creaks a LOT, that is.  It is definitely multi-
jointed.
* Quartermaster decides this is a good moment to go on break.  Just in case 
Thalan's temper hasn't improved.
* Thalan has quit IRC (Ping timeout )
<Grysar> (Uh, you still hear Ard?  Want to let him post through your terminal?)
<Grysar> (If not, cut)
<Justine> (snerk)
<Neisis> (Thalan became so young he doesn't exist anymore!)
* Murynal has quit IRC (Ping timeout )
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