At The Elite Bar

Session Start: Fri Nov 02 21:06:33 2001
*** Now talking in #theelitebar
*** Topic is 'www.bee-team.demon.co.uk/teb'
*** Set by Bee-Keep on Fri Oct 12 22:09:34
<Sharn-Lugonn> Good evening!
* Sharn-Lugonn walks in and finds a seat at the bar
* Bee-Keep wakes up.
<Bee-Keep> Evening.
<Sharn-Lugonn> So .. why have you been sleeping here?
* Bee-Keep rubs his eyes.
<Bee-Keep> Sorry, still a little dozy.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I see.
<Bee-Keep> I live here.
<Bee-Keep> Oh, you mean HERE? I don't really know.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Here in this room?
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<Sharn-Lugonn> By the way.. any giant-owl incidents lately?
<StuartW> Evening erm, all.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Evening.
<Bee-Keep> Saves energy, I suppose.
<Bee-Keep> Like some sort of seal. Or dolphin. I think they sleep with one half of their brain at a time, or something.
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<Bee-Keep> Possibly.
<Bee-Keep> Evening.
<Bee-Keep> Giant-Owl incidents? Well, it would have to be pretty special to be called an incident, these days.
<Bee-Keep> Giant owls loose their novelty after a while.
<Sharn-Lugonn> So it has become a routine?
<StuartW1> I had a ship with a loose novelty. It cost a lot to repair. Or am I thinking of something else?
<Bee-Keep> Perhaps. I'm still waking up.
<Bee-Keep> Lose, loose. I prefer loose, now I think about it. Or maybe not.
* Bee-Keep pours himself a drink.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Have you installed more energy-saving lightbulbs?
<StuartW1> Ah, the sign of a desperate barman, pouring oneself a drink.
<Bee-Keep> I would, but it seemed like a waste of time.
<Bee-Keep> So I installed some time-saving lightbulbs instead.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And what are their features?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Save time?
<Bee-Keep> I don't know. They don't write anything on the packet.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Perhaps to save time you would spend reading...
<Bee-Keep> And of course, you don't actually install them, or anything.
<Sharn-Lugonn> To save time, I suppose.
<Bee-Keep> That's probably right. Either that, or laziness.
* Sharn-Lugonn hands over his credit card ordering one brown
* Bee-Keep hands Sharn a pint of Brown.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Thanks
* Bee-Keep examines the credit card.
<Sharn-Lugonn> You remember, the passenger transport I mentioned two weeks ago?
* StuartW1 looks suspiciously at Bee.
* Bee-Keep thinks.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Something wrong with my card?
<Bee-Keep> Oh, no, it's fine.
<Bee-Keep> I just don't have a card-reading device.
* Bee-Keep hands the card back.
<Bee-Keep> But it's the thought that counts, after all.
* Bee-Keep shakes his head vigourously.
* Sharn-Lugonn puts 2C on the bar
<Bee-Keep> Right half's a little sluggish.
<Bee-Keep> Thanks.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Maybe it is still sleeping?
* Bee-Keep blinks.
<Sharn-Lugonn> So, I wanted to talk about the passenger transport, remember?
<Bee-Keep> It could be...
* Bee-Keep blinks again.
<Bee-Keep> That's right. Go ahead.
<Sharn-Lugonn> So the people I had to transport were not just tourists..
<Sharn-Lugonn> But that is quite common, isn't it?
<Bee-Keep> I suppose so. We get a lot of tourists here in summer.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And they wanted to travel to a system with no spaceport.
<Bee-Keep> Ah, well...
<Sharn-Lugonn> The first thing that came to my mind was to leave the ship with them on the planet and use an escape capsule to get away.
<Sharn-Lugonn> But that wouldn't have helped since the capsule is not capable of hyperjumps.
<Bee-Keep> No...
<Sharn-Lugonn> So I had to keep them in my ship. And after some time, they got unhappy and left at the nearest spaceport - thankfully.
<Bee-Keep> Hmm.. you get people like that.
<Sharn-Lugonn> But I don't know what such people think - that it will help them? Or maybe they just want to travel a bit in the ship for no money.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And they are so... nasty.
<Sharn-Lugonn> But I have done a terrible thing.
<Bee-Keep> Hmmm. They could have been giant weasles disguised as humans...
<Bee-Keep> Oh.
<Bee-Keep> REALLY terrible?
<Sharn-Lugonn> YES.
<Bee-Keep> Oh.
<Sharn-Lugonn> You warned me two weeks ago...
<Sharn-Lugonn> But I had no option.
<Bee-Keep> Did I?
<Sharn-Lugonn> I was extremely hungry and the only food I had was a packet of breakfast cereals.
<Bee-Keep> Oh, no...
<Sharn-Lugonn> And it was at dusk!
<Bee-Keep> Oh, just that! For a minute there, I thought you might have used the ceareal to trap small moles for food.
<Bee-Keep> That would have been awful.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, disgusting.
<Bee-Keep> But it's still pretty bad. You should at least have had the decency to toast the cereal first. Or stir-fry it.
* Bee-Keep closes his right eye.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I had no kitchen appliance available - I could have used only the lightbulbs to heat it a bit.
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<RedGamma> Wow, more than one person in here....rare
* Sharn-Lugonn wonders why the right half is more tired than the left one
<Bee-Keep> I once choked on a fragment of Slavonic pottery from 945 AD.
<Bee-Keep> I don't know why I should mention that now.
<Sharn-Lugonn> That would have been at least a luxurious death.
<Bee-Keep> Well, it's actually the right side that's tired.
<Bee-Keep> Or maybe the left. That side has a bad sense of direction.
<Bee-Keep> Sometimes, it seems a lot of effort just for inventing Perspex and making stone axes.
<Sharn-Lugonn> But that is lost in time, isn
<Sharn-Lugonn> 't it?
<Bee-Keep> Is it?
<Sharn-Lugonn> I think so. Who wants to use Pespex and stone axes today?
<Bee-Keep> I might want to use stone axes. But not Perspex.
<Bee-Keep> You can use them for chipping at flints and things. And deforesting things like islands.
<Bee-Keep> Or small regions that could be used for agriculture.
<Bee-Keep> Like pig grazing. Which contributes to the process of deforestation, because pigs use their snouts to climb trees.
* Bee-Keep blinks with one eye.
<Bee-Keep> Does that count as a wink if the other eye's already closed?
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<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, as long as we know that the other  eye's already closed.
<Bee-Keep> It is. It's been closed for a while now.
<Bee-Keep> Oh, evening, Red'. Didn't see you there.
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* Bee-Keep wipes the bar.
* Sharn-Lugonn is looking at his glass
* Sharn-Lugonn drinks a bit of the liquid in his glass
<Sharn-Lugonn> Could I have a glass of water with a fish - I am becoming hungry.
* Bee-Keep looks at the floorboards.
<Bee-Keep> I think you're the first person to ask for that since Pfeifer vanished.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Really? But the hole is still functional, I suppose.
* Bee-Keep kicks a hole in some loose boards.
<Bee-Keep> Mm-hmm. Still here.
* Bee-Keep drops a glass through the hole on a bit of string.
* Sharn-Lugonn marvels at the process of obtaining water
<Bee-Keep> I came up with this method to stop pike from tearing my fingernails off.
* Bee-Keep reels the glass in.
* Bee-Keep inspects the water.
<Bee-Keep> Very... wholesome. And a fish, too. Looks like some sort of shark.
<Bee-Keep> Here you go.
<Sharn-Lugonn> It is like from the ancient times... when wells were used to get water.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Thanks
* Bee-Keep hands the glass to Sharn.
* Sharn-Lugonn examines the shark-like fish
<Sharn-Lugonn> When sharks have not enough room to swim, they will die. Or is this one already dead?
<Bee-Keep> It plays dead to fool you.
<Bee-Keep> It has enough room. It's actually much larger than the glass.
<Sharn-Lugonn> A very intelligent animal. Uh - but I don't think sharks like breathing air.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Maybe that is why it plays dead.
* Sharn-Lugonn tries to guess the real size of the shark
<Sharn-Lugonn> What do you think? 20 inches? Or 50 centimeters?
<Bee-Keep> They call it the Right Gurt Shark.
<Bee-Keep> So at least five or six miles.
<Bee-Keep> But most of that is just fat for the winter.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Won't it damage this building?
<Sharn-Lugonn> I think the shark would not mind if I cut some of its enormous fat reserves.
<Bee-Keep> Of couse it won't.
<Bee-Keep> In both cases.
<Sharn-Lugonn> But I won't eat just fat - do you have some bread or something - or seaweed?
* Bee-Keep hands Sharn a plate of wholemeal bread.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Thanks. And something sharp would be useful, too.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Like a knife or something.
* Bee-Keep hands Sharn a knife. And a fork. And a soup spoon.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Thanks.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Good table manners in every situation..
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* Sharn-Lugonn cuts two slices of fat
* Sharn-Lugonn puts one in the water
* Bee-Keep - wrt. Red - me too, actually.
* Sharn-Lugonn puts the other one on the bread
<Sharn-Lugonn> What is better - a cold fish soup or a warm one?
* Bee-Keep switches hemispheres, and closes his left eye.
<Bee-Keep> Warm.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And what temperature is the water?
<Bee-Keep> About 4 above freezing.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I guess the shark has about 80 degrees Celsius - so if I mix it, it will be just fine.
* Sharn-Lugonn takes the spoon and begins to stir the soup
<Sharn-Lugonn> Hmm, smells good... like porpoise clippings.
<Bee-Keep> Ah, porpoise clippins'...
* Bee-Keep wanders into the back for a moment, remembering porpoise clippins'.
* Sharn-Lugonn sips at the soup
<Sharn-Lugonn> Mmm... really tasty.
* Bee-Keep returns with a can of Brasso.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I thought the only thing similar in taste to porpoise clippings is the Unknown Tm.
* Bee-Keep sits down behind the bar.
<Bee-Keep> I wouldn't know about that.
<Sharn-Lugonn> About what?
<Bee-Keep> Taste.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Oh, yes. But which one?
<Bee-Keep> Sorry?
<Sharn-Lugonn> The Unknown Tm, porpoise clippings or shark fat soup?
<Bee-Keep> All of them.
<Sharn-Lugonn> So you haven't tried any of them?
<Bee-Keep> No, all of them.
<Bee-Keep> Except the first one.
<Bee-Keep> And the last one.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Isn't it strange - you sell Mr Sunshine and haven't tasted it yet?
<Bee-Keep> I have - oh, that? I wouldn't know about that.
<Bee-Keep> I think that's a side effect of knowing about it.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Like the problem-solving bucket.
<Bee-Keep> Exactly.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Would you like to try the soup? I could "cook" one more, I think.
<Bee-Keep> I don't like to worry the sharks.
<Bee-Keep> No thanks.
* Sharn-Lugonn eats the rest of the soup quickly
* Sharn-Lugonn looks around at the others...
* Bee-Keep is asleep.
* Sharn-Lugonn thinks of sleeping as a disease spreading from one hemisphere to the other one
* StuartW1 awakes Bee for the purposes of an alcholic drink in the Brown-type mould.
* Bee-Keep uses one half of his brain to hand Stuart a pint of Brown.
* Sharn-Lugonn starts eating the bread
* Sharn-Lugonn thinks of LR Cruisers transporting the sharks to other systems
<Sharn-Lugonn> But maybe these sharks are able to live in space?
<Bee-Keep> That would never work, because books are books.
* Bee-Keep switches hemispheres.
<Sharn-Lugonn> "Living spaceships" - a fortune to earn
<Bee-Keep> Or rather, because they wouldn't fit in the ships.
<Sharn-Lugonn> LR Cruisers are too small?
<Bee-Keep> No, the sharks are too big.
<Sharn-Lugonn> But what if these amazing beings would be able to sail the currents of space without any spaceship?
<Bee-Keep> What would they eat?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Hmm... hydrogen fuel scooped by their mouths from stars and gas giants
<Bee-Keep> I think they prefer small fish and shrimp.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, they prefer. But when there is no other possibility - then anything will work.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Or not?
<Bee-Keep> No, probably. Good luck persuading them.
* Sharn-Lugonn looks at the shark but can't find an ear
<Sharn-Lugonn> Persuading deaf beings can get quite difficult..
<Sharn-Lugonn> Especially if they can't read.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And when their head is somewhere on the horizon
<Bee-Keep> Can't be helped.
* Sharn-Lugonn looks at the jukebox
<Sharn-Lugonn> Seems to have already repaired itself.
<Bee-Keep> 'appen.
<Bee-Keep> Damn thing.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Four sidewinders is not enough.
<StuartW1> " 'appen" ?
<Bee-Keep> Aye, 'appen.
* StuartW1 sups a little bit of the remaining Brown and considers this.
<Bee-Keep> 'appen as will, 'appen as won't.
* Sharn-Lugonn is looking at his glass
<StuartW1> How can you have something that 'appens as won't?
<Bee-Keep> Nay, 'appen.
<Bee-Keep> Or rather, N'egh, 'appen.
* StuartW1 frowns.
<Bee-Keep> Negh, 'appen but th' shouldn't be an 'i' in't.
<StuartW1> Ah.
* StuartW1 will therefore seek to get his "proper" accent back.
* StuartW1 would quite like a pint of Black.
* Bee-Keep blinks.
* StuartW1 blinks.
<Bee-Keep> I can mix some coal dust in a pint of Brown, if that'll do.
<Brianetta> I LOVE MY JOB
<Brianetta> Let it be known.
<Bee-Keep> That's the way to go.
<StuartW1> And a Klens-Um :-)
<StuartW1> <----- Having a bad life.
<Sharn-Lugonn> That is the "custom made" black?
<StuartW1> It's piss-poor being in the Federation Navy.
* Bee-Keep hands Stuart a pint of Brown with some coal dust and a Klens-Um.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, I have tried the Feds. I know something about it..
<Sharn-Lugonn> And I tried also the Imps, but that wasn't much better.
<Sharn-Lugonn> So I gave it up all.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Bee, could I get a pint of custom-made Black?
* Bee-Keep hands Sharn a pint of Coal-Brown Black.
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<Sharn-Lugonn> Thanks.
* Sharn-Lugonn is looking at his glass
* Sharn-Lugonn drinks a bit of the liquid in his glass
* StuartW1 pokes Adam with an unnecessarily pointy stick.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Lately, I have been inspecting some ship designs.
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<Sharn-Lugonn> Good evening!
* Stoo looks at Bee suspiciously.
* Bee-Keep looks back at stoo with equal suspectedness.
* Stoo crosses over to the bar and assists the perfectly adequate woodwork in holding it up.
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* Sharn-Lugonn looks surprised
* Stoo 's frown of suspiciousness moves into that of mild alarm.
<Sharn-Lugonn> No need to be alarmed.
<Bee-Keep> Good.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, everything is just fine. As well as the shark.
<Stoo> I like sharks, me. Yes.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Then have a look at this several miles long one lying on the glass.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I can't eat more of it!
<Sharn-Lugonn> We should put it back into water.
* Bee-Keep drops the shark through the hole.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Fine. Obviously more room here.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Well, anything interesting going on in the universe?
<Bee-Keep> No. I'm going to ask for my subscription back.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Which one? The Frontier News?
<Bee-Keep> No, the universe. All of it.
* Sharn-Lugonn remembers the incident with Rockforth Legal Academy
<Sharn-Lugonn> But the subscription is for free, am I right?
<Bee-Keep> No, it's worth billions.
<Bee-Keep> We all pay it.
<Bee-Keep> That's why none of us have much money.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Damn! My credit card!
* Sharn-Lugonn searches his pockets and finally finds the card
<Sharn-Lugonn> And every second they drain money from this little thing...
<Sharn-Lugonn> But what would we do without the subscription?
<Bee-Keep> Well...
<Bee-Keep> I don't really know. I don't think it's too easy to cancel, unless you die.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I thought so.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Or it isn't too easy to die unless you cancel it.
<Bee-Keep> Perhaps.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Like my recent trip to Riedquat.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I was 0.5 AU from the station. I thought the pirates had died out.
<Sharn-Lugonn> But no, only missing their subscription.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Finally, two of them appeared. But accidentally, they got unsubscribed by my laser.
<Stoo> Essentially the Universe Subscription is more of aa compulsory if well-hidden tax :-(
<Bee-Keep> Don't I know it.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Hm.
<Stoo> For example - it's not listed on any P60 you're likely to encounter.
<Sharn-Lugonn> But does it cost the same price for everyone?
<Sharn-Lugonn> I am slightly suspicious in this way.
* Sharn-Lugonn drinks a bit of the liquid in his glass
<Sharn-Lugonn> Bee, does this room resemble a library so much?
<Bee-Keep> Well...
<Bee-Keep> Not really. Why?
<Sharn-Lugonn> The people here are rather quiet...
<Bee-Keep> Oh...
<Stoo> Simon hasn't been here for ages has he?
<Bee-Keep> No, he hasn't.
<Bee-Keep> Then again, ages is a long time in Elite Bar terms.
<Stoo> Seen any of the oldies?
<Bee-Keep> Not recently.
<Stoo> To think I've only been here a year. Roughly.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I am here the second time. Precisely.
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* Sharn-Lugonn rises his right eyebrow
<Bee-Keep> There should be an answer to that, but I can't think of one.
<Bee-Keep> Anyway, I'm afraid I'll have to be off a little early, tonight.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Hunted by owls?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Or ghosts?
<Bee-Keep> Ghost owls.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Exactly what I thought...
<Sharn-Lugonn> The latest development?
<Bee-Keep> That's what they say.
<Sharn-Lugonn> At least there is something new.
<Bee-Keep> There's always something new.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And the universe subscription is not in vain.
<Bee-Keep> Not at all. Goodnight, all.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Goodnight.
* Bee-Keep wanders off into the back.
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* Sharn-Lugonn walks to the other side of the bar
* Sharn-Lugonn looks at all the bottles and stuff
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* rabidviXen walks in.
* Sharn-Lugonn pours himself a pint of Mint Surprise
<rabidviXen> Frelling pirates ... (mutter)
<Sharn-Lugonn> Good Evening, glad to see you!
<rabidviXen> Hi Bee ... all. Had a hell of a time getting here. Frelling pirates just *love* Panthers!
<Sharn-Lugonn> Bee?
<rabidviXen> Good evening, nice to be here ... in one pieces.
<rabidviXen> Or should that be piece (sic).
<rabidviXen> Would have been here earlier but I had to stop off at Reidquat for a 40GB HDD and a CMOS battery for the computer core.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Lately, I have been investigating the design of Panther Clippers.
<rabidviXen> Oh?
<Sharn-Lugonn> And definitely one thing is strange.
<rabidviXen> That they can't steer for Lavian Megatoffee?
<Sharn-Lugonn> You know - how can a ship have a total mass of 1775 t and capacity 2000 t?
<rabidviXen> Yessss ...
* rabidviXen mutters to herself: "Berihn Shipping, we get it there .... eventually."
<rabidviXen> Eventually being the operative word.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, must be.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I have been to Riedquat recently, too.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And found only two poor pirates.
<rabidviXen> Must be something to do with all of that external storage capacity. You know, I never understood why on Elite, Frontier and First Encounters, why we didn't introduce externally mounted cargo canisters and towing ability?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, maybe that's the clue.
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<rabidviXen> Good evening commander.
<ghog> hello,fellow pilots
<Sharn-Lugonn> Hello.
<rabidviXen> Ghog, say - I don't recognize the cut of your shipsuit? Who are you?
<ghog> newbie. :)
* Sharn-Lugonn drinks a bit of the liquid in his glass
<ghog> rating : below average
<rabidviXen> Oh, I see ... classic Elite, Frontier or first encounters?
<rabidviXen> Furthermore, where in the Galaxy have you dropped in from?
<ghog> i prefer FE
<rabidviXen> Rating: foxy as hell and armed to the teeth. Plus I own Longhaul Outpost.
<ghog> oh,from Sol of course
<rabidviXen> I'm a classic BBC Elite person, and I play Frontier on the PC.
<rabidviXen> Ah, a Human being. I'm from Diso.
<Sharn-Lugonn> By the way... you may want to check me out at http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/heinlein/415/Deadly/main.html
* rabidviXen walks over to the bar.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I hope it works.
<ghog> diso... there is narcotics legalized on Diso?
<rabidviXen> Say, Bee, can you get this man a drink ... here's my American Excess card ... charge it to my account.
<rabidviXen> Not really, but on my station - anything goes.
<Sharn-Lugonn> A Brown<
<Sharn-Lugonn> ?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Or something stronger?
<rabidviXen> Get him his brown, and one for the newbie too ...
<ghog> oh thank you very much
* Sharn-Lugonn pours two pints of brown and puts them on the bar
<rabidviXen> You're welcome. Now please feel free to converse on Elite, Frontier or First Encounters ... thats what we do here.
<rabidviXen> Tell me, Commander Ghog, have you ever visited the Alioth network?
* Stoo wakes up.
<rabidviXen> Where's Bee vanished too?
<ghog> yeah,pretty nice place,Commander rabidviXen
<rabidviXen> Hi Stoo. Nice of you to join us.
<Stoo> Bee has had to leave for personal reasons.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Somewhere to the back, I think.
<rabidviXen> Oh, his truss slipped again?
<Stoo> How's the Panther re-painting going?
* Sharn-Lugonn drinks a bit of the liquid in his glass
<rabidviXen> Not very well ... I'm trying to get it finished by Frellmas, but there is no way its going to get done.
<ghog> very tasty,this brown. *smiles happily*
* rabidviXen pulls out a small portable terminal and keys to into life.
<Sharn-Lugonn> What will be this time?
<Stoo> You should've put it into a reputable shipyard. It costs a lot, but it's quick and the results are good.
* rabidviXen the screen shows a page which can be found at www.angelfire.com/dc/lho/docking.htm
<rabidviXen> Maybe ... but the problem is, you simply cannot get the staff these days (sigh).
* rabidviXen smiles at everyone and the temperature in the room goes up ten degrees.
<Stoo> Is it only internal or external you're doing?
<rabidviXen> Ah, hormones ... terrific.
<Stoo> Hormones are not as effective under the influence of alcohol ;-)
<rabidviXen> External, the interior was finished last year. I had decks one through five done in standard gray and decks six through nine finished out in red. Engineering and cargo areas you see. If you're really lucky, I'll display blueprints for a Panther on my site when they're finished.
* rabidviXen checks her bag and pulls out the customary FRELL GRENADE.
<Stoo> I don't bother with externally maintaining my Asp - besides structural cheks on a regular basis, I prefer to leave it. Battle scars remind me of the time when skill counted. Nowadays the pilots are mostly oafs.
<rabidviXen> Just got these in. Nice, aren't they? Micro-molecular detonator and enough T-22 to make a hole in the side of a Cobra.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, really nice.
<rabidviXen> Yeah, I know what you mean ... I have no problem with new pilots, after all ... we need new blood to keep the scheme alive, but there are an awful lot of bad pilots out there. Anyone remember when you had to dock manually with a station, and how hard it was to maintain rotation and yaw?
* rabidviXen primes the Frell Grenade and in a flash rolls it out of the door into the swamp outside.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, I remember it. And practice in The New Kind
<Sharn-Lugonn> That's bad for the otters, as Bee says.
* rabidviXen smiles at that. She still uses classic ELITE on pcBBC ... the BEST Acorn emulator there is!
* rabidviXen listens as a distant WHOMPH! shakes the small island the bar stands on.
<rabidviXen> Satisfying.
<Stoo> Too much. Most new pilots were rich kids who could afford docking computers and never needed to improve their basic flying skills.
<rabidviXen> Yeah, I know what you mean, oh, are you aware that I'm upgradin my site?
<Sharn-Lugonn> I love having all thrusters under my control... in JJFFE.
<Stoo> Everything is bad for the otters here - they're endangered.
<rabidviXen> I plan to have my own shipyard there with all the extra's ... so look forward to it!
<Sharn-Lugonn> They should move to another planet, I recommend.
<rabidviXen> Endangered by what? Bloody great ships landing on them on Friday's?
<Sharn-Lugonn> That. And everything else you can think of.
<rabidviXen> If they don't like it, why don't they move to the southern hemisphere like the rest of the natives?
<Stoo> Partly. A Federation presence here years ago didn't ehlp.
<rabidviXen> I'm from Diso ... so please watch your language.
<Sharn-Lugonn> The otters came from space..
<rabidviXen> Where I come from, thats worse than Belgium.
* Stoo shrugs, albeit drunkenly.
<rabidviXen> You know, I'm actually thinking of editing all of #theelitebar logs up and putting them on a special site. Possibly "the best of the elite bar" or something like that.
<Sharn-Lugonn> That would be lovely.
<Stoo> Er, Sol. Worked for the Feds in Barnard's Star. Transferred to Beta Hydri for reasons unknown.
<Stoo> Now work for the Feds in Beta Hydri doing various sorts of stuff, plus covert reconnaisance missions for the Empire when I find the time.
* rabidviXen realizes that this is a shitloader work and considers it.
<Stoo> There's a lot of logs to go through. The early ones are hilarious.
<rabidviXen> I heard ... sweetie. Don't worry, I have no intention of going to Beta Hydri. Why in jeds name do you want to live that low on the galacic plane?
<rabidviXen> I bet they are!
<Stoo> Well...
<rabidviXen> Still, I've got time. I'm working on a book at the moment about the Philadelphia Experiment and another about time travel experiments at Montauk, Long Island which will be published possibly in 2003-4.
<Stoo> It's a long story. Maybe I'll get round to telling it and putting it online as a piece of fiction - an autobiography. Maybe.
<Sharn-Lugonn> So still some time to go.
<rabidviXen> One of my specialist subjects. I'm a qualified parapsychologist.
* rabidviXen blushes and hopes nobody thinks she is crazy ... well, crazier than she really is.
<rabidviXen> Ah, I'm being pinged!
<rabidviXen> How romantic!
<Sharn-Lugonn> You think?
* rabidviXen slaps Sharn-Lugonn around a bit with a large trout
<rabidviXen> Obviously.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Have you noticed the url of my site?
<rabidviXen> What's a lady to do when a gentleman pings here ...? Not yet.
* rabidviXen goes to check the URL.
* rabidviXen looks up her personal terminal ...
<rabidviXen> Oslo, Norway ... Earth!
<rabidviXen> Why in heavens name would anyone want to live on a huge game reserve?
<Sharn-Lugonn> What are you talking about?
<Stoo> To shoot things.
<rabidviXen> "the deadly's routine"?
<rabidviXen> Interesting ...
<Sharn-Lugonn> Not much there at the moment.
* rabidviXen looks at terminal closely and examines information there.
<rabidviXen> So, you hang around on Phekda ... explains a few things.
* rabidviXen grins.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, it is quite close to Alioth - and a system where you can get some work done.
<rabidviXen> ... nice site. Yes, I think you have introduced yourself nicely. In fact, so well, you might end up on the personnel files at Longhaul Outpost before long.
<rabidviXen> Send a passport size photograph with a *white* background on it to [email protected] for inclusion. A bio would be nice too or I'll have to fake it.
<rabidviXen> That offer extends to all commanders here, of course.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I will try.
<rabidviXen> Thanks, it will be appreciated. I'll do whatever else needs to be done for the files.
<Sharn-Lugonn> How do I determine the passport size of a digital photo?
<rabidviXen> Interesting question ... lemme see what that would be in metric ...
<rabidviXen> Well, in milimeters it would be approximately 55mm deep by 45mm wide.
<rabidviXen> I can scale that down from there for the files.
<rabidviXen> Stoo, you interested in taking part in the "know your commanders" file program?
<Sharn-Lugonn> OK. But how many pixels is it?
<rabidviXen> Okay ... I have that answer right here ... gimme a sec,
<rabidviXen> 104 x 145
<Sharn-Lugonn> That will do. But I don't know when I will have a photo available..
<rabidviXen> That is of course, the actual size for the files ... the actual one you should send me should at at least 208 wide ...
<rabidviXen> Whenever ... I'll probably email you if you email me, etc.
<rabidviXen> Ghog ... so when did you first begin playing FFE?
<ghog> oh,i dont remember,really
<ghog> two years ago?
<rabidviXen> You mean ... you just woke up one morning behind the console of a large and powerful ship and that was it, eh?
<ghog> actually, i played origianal ZX Elite
* rabidviXen has these strange and frightenign dreams about this sort of thing.
<ghog> before
<Sharn-Lugonn> So a fellow Spectrum owner!
<rabidviXen> Ah, the old ZX class ships ... nice, but I must admit, I never used them.
* ghog is genetically engineered pilot
<rabidviXen> I'm going to be a little superior for a moment and tell you that I played Elite on the BBC Microcomputer.
<ghog> you know,New Moscow Cloning Vats
<ghog> NMCV
* rabidviXen is a product of two people who really did not like each other very much.
* rabidviXen really did not like them much either, that is why she spent ten years living in Berlin and then another five in Argentina.
* Sharn-Lugonn is a product of star implosion... or something like that.
<ghog> really? do you have an emulator,rabidviXen?
<rabidviXen> Parents can be a pain.
<rabidviXen> Yes, I use pcBBC for the IBM PC. Excellent, full screen and very, very stable.
<rabidviXen> Uses disk images and all that.
<ghog> and where fellow commander can download pcBBC?
* Stoo spent 5 years living in Berlin.
<rabidviXen> You can buy a copy from some guy in England, who makes them to order. The program uses the same ROMs that the original machine used ... so everything is exactly the same, even the BASIC and 6502 machine code.
* rabidviXen thinks that Berlin is nasty.
<rabidviXen> Too many bloody Turks.
<rabidviXen> His product is called pcBBC and his name is Stuart McConnachie. You can find a copy of the emulator (crippled) at a site called "The BBC Lives!" which is believe is in Oslo, Norway ... of all places!
<ghog> oh
<rabidviXen> Lemmie find the URL for that ...
<rabidviXen> http://www.pcbbc.demon.co.uk/
<rabidviXen> http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/
<rabidviXen> And the one where you can download the original game and a manual I scanned in is ...
<ghog> oh thank you wery much,you are very kind
* ghog givez rabidviXen 1t of Gem Stones
<rabidviXen> http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/dir.php3?dir=sw/Acornsoft
<rabidviXen> Thank you!
<rabidviXen> The emulator requires that you know BBC BASIC and DFS commands (which I do) so if you want any help, just email me, Jannah Berihn at [email protected] and I'll be happy to assist you.
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<Sharn-Lugonn> Hm?
<Sharn-Lugonn> How did you say that - net split club?
<rabidviXen> The emulator runs at 50Mhz, the original BBC speed and smoothly. It is uneffected by Windows and provides a FULL SCREEN display! You can load programs into as disk images.
<rabidviXen> Yep, we're probably we next ...
<rabidviXen> be next ...
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<Sharn-Lugonn> Maybe not.
<rabidviXen> Hi Stuart, didn't you just leave?
* Sharn-Lugonn drinks a bit of the liquid in his glass
* rabidviXen looks around for Ghog.
<Sharn-Lugonn> He will appear ... eventually.
<rabidviXen> Eventually, as I said earlier ... being the operative word.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Right.
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<rabidviXen> Hmmm ... just checking The Frontier News Services ...
<Guest35851> I did just leave indeed. I needed a smegging reboot.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I haven't used the FE2 for about a year or so... Because I get that runtime error when I try to run it.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Division by zero, I think.
<rabidviXen> Reboots suck ... especially when your bloody BIOS cannot be bothered to remember any of the systems settings. Just like my machine at the moment.
<Guest35851> I use Miggy FE2 :-) Have done for 7 years now.
<rabidviXen> I cringe everytime I switch it on, or have to restart it!
<rabidviXen> Well, its nice if you can find a Amiga emulator, the ROMS and have sombody who can teach you how to use the commands!
<Sharn-Lugonn> And when I turn on the computer...
<Sharn-Lugonn> the Windows let me know of a VxD error.
<rabidviXen> Division by Zero ... what in jeds name does that mean? Here, contact me and I'll arrange something!
<rabidviXen> UxD sucks as well. Windoze 95 or 98?
<Sharn-Lugonn> And I have to replace the user.dat, system.dat for safe versions stored somewhere else.
<Sharn-Lugonn> 98.
<Guest35851> I do not use emulators.
<Guest35851> Have the real thing - it's been on for over a month now.
<rabidviXen> Same as me. Well, my copy of FE2 works fine in DOS, booted straight from Windows. Smooth as a die.
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<rabidviXen> Of course, I cleared by Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files of all entries.
<ghog> oh,what was that?
<rabidviXen> Hi there ... we were beginning to worry!
<rabidviXen> Netsplit. Welcome to the club!
* Sharn-Lugonn wonders if he will ever get to the club...
<ghog> no,this is just power problems,rabidviXen
<rabidviXen> Hang on, I'll provide you lot with a complete transcript of this log ...
<ghog> damned Adder
<rabidviXen> Oh, local black out, eh. That sucks.
<rabidviXen> http://139.18.4.13/~gerd/irclog/_teb.log
<Sharn-Lugonn> Adder... my first ship (sigh)
* rabidviXen knows that URL contains a complete transcript of the current conversation.
<ghog> do you think Spar Attack Fighter is nice ship?
<rabidviXen> Adder's ... good grief!
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, I have flown one...
<ghog> thank you again rabidviXen,do i own you another 1t of gems? 8ú
<Sharn-Lugonn> Actually, I have flown everything up to ASP Explorer... and also some big ships.
<ghog> Lynx is cool to flown i think.
<rabidviXen> Spah, never flown one. I tend to like ships which have sufficent room to carry a cargo that makes money and still have room left over for a minimum of four shield generators, one beam laser and an autopilot, Naval ECM and two military missiles.
<rabidviXen> Just to be on the safe side.
<ghog> oh,i relay on courier and military misssions
<ghog> cargo space is secondary to me
<rabidviXen> Commander Ghog ... you owe we nothing whatsoever. I'm here to help, that is my one function in life ...
<Sharn-Lugonn> You know, I had to get off with an Eagle Mk1 and 1 MW pulse laser against an Imperial Explorer.
<rabidviXen> ... and my other one is seeing that people who break the rules on Longhaul Outpost find themselves outside on the hull, chipping liquid waste off of the flush vents.
<ghog> do you run awat,Commander Sharn?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Away? Well, ...
<Sharn-Lugonn> hyperspace.
<Sharn-Lugonn> If I have enough fuel.
<rabidviXen> There is no dishonor in running ... just lure them in nice and close to a star, and then kick in retro-thrusters, roll over quickly and bring your guns to bear on them while their sensors are blinded by the solar mass.
<rabidviXen> This normally gives them something to think about as they get vaporized.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Usually, I am not so close to a star.
* ghog wanna be Elite without killing anybody
* Sharn-Lugonn wants to be Prince by working for the Feds.
<rabidviXen> Fuel is a burden, but it can also be handy. I once fooled an Imperial courier into thinking I was finished by jettioning two tonnes of fuel directly into space and then rolling the ship like she was dead. He came in nice and close for a final look and I made him eat a missile.
* ghog giggles
* rabidviXen thinks that Commander Ghog is okay, but in this universe ... its difficult to avoid.
* Sharn-Lugonn grins
<ghog> but cops,of course,must be vaporized
<ghog> obliterated
<ghog> cruelly
<rabidviXen> I have a strict no GALCOPs policy. Keep the bacon at home.
<rabidviXen> Why, then gentlemen! You're going to love LHO ... we have no cops at all, just our own defense perimeter pilots.
<Sharn-Lugonn> The cops like being vaporised.
<rabidviXen> Really?
<rabidviXen> Must be genetic.
<Sharn-Lugonn> As indirectly documented on my site..
<rabidviXen> From what I've seen, they can't fly to save their lives (giggle)
<Guest35851> So long as the DPP can leave their moorings without flying into things...
<Sharn-Lugonn> They fly straight into the walls of a station, with a smile on their faces.
<rabidviXen> They can ... I assure you. We use Falcons at LHO, but I'm thinking of upgrading them to Hawks when we can allocate the budget. I've just installed Quantum Shields for the station, so we're relatively safe.
* Sharn-Lugonn looks at the ships table straight before him
<rabidviXen> Of course, this is a bit of a problem. If and when the station is attacked, the shields prevent any incoming or outgoing traffic, which can lead to problems ...
<Sharn-Lugonn> Norman mentioned something about a large number of PA fired at one time..
<ghog> but what scum would attack this pretty place?
<rabidviXen> I might also point out that our hawks have been retrofitted so that they can be utilized in search and destroy missions in station space ... they never stray more than 30,000 km from the station. Strict orders. We still operate a 'S' zone at LHO. Remember them?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes.
<rabidviXen> Oh, you would be surprised ... tax inspectors, Popzine fans, Megasoccer supporters ... all sorts of scum. That and bounty hunters. We have quite the local mafia, or so I'm informed.
<ghog> terrible
<rabidviXen> I let 'em get on with business on the southern surface sprawl. Its good for the financial side of things.
<ghog> do you try free drinks?
<Sharn-Lugonn> And what about aliens in pink spaceships?
<ghog> you know? 'free beer for tax local mafia!'
<rabidviXen> The northern surface sprawl is where all the *decent* people live. The aliens in pink spaceships are only available on levels 44 gamma through 689 beta, where the bars are.
<Sharn-Lugonn> So you tolerate them?
<rabidviXen> Well, let me put it this way ... "you are gonna accept this drink, or we're make you a cocktail you gonna wanna forget."
<rabidviXen> And this cocktail involves airlocks, no pressure suits and plenty of screaming.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Nice.
<rabidviXen> Nice.
<rabidviXen> Exactly.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Right.
<ghog> whoa!
<rabidviXen> Yes, we tolerate mafia ... you see, Longhaul Outpost was founded on the principles of free play, open enterprise and getting me as rich as possible as quickly as possible. After all, I paid an awful lot for that old rust bucket and its hell to keep up.
* rabidviXen grins.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I haven't tried investing in such big things..
<rabidviXen> Its hell ... I onyl got the station cheap because it was scrap and nobody wanted it anyway. Stuck out at the edge of the Diso System, gutted and left to rot for 85 years.
<rabidviXen> So, I claimed it under salvage laws but that is another story ...
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, I know the story...
<rabidviXen> I'm sure most people do by now. Its all lies, of course ... (grins)
<rabidviXen> But its romantic, and mostly true.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Mostly?
<rabidviXen> The fact is, Commander Ghog, I'm an ex-pirate, bounty hunter, slaver, gun-runner and scumbag ... I can make up anything I want. Its something of a career, you see. Confusing the popular press.
* Sharn-Lugonn wonders which press is popular
<rabidviXen> Not that this makes me like bounty hunters. I'm also wanted for genocide, and a couple of other capital crimes in about forty different star systems.
<ghog> oh really? respectz to you,commander rabidviXen/
<rabidviXen> That is why I invested in a Panther. Big, bad and large enough to supply all the comforts of home.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I thought - I mean, you said that genocide is a minor charge..
<rabidviXen> Thank you. Its nice to be appreciated. Drop by LHO sometime (when its up).
<ghog> LHO?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Long Haul Outpost
<rabidviXen> Well, the genocide is a minor charge ... as the population of the planet in question has ceased to exist.
<rabidviXen> I think it had something to do either with the mutating virus or the planet-buster I dropped on them.
<rabidviXen> Longhaul Outpost ... two words.
<Sharn-Lugonn> A 900 t planet-buster as a tomb...
<Sharn-Lugonn> Sorry.
<rabidviXen> Yep, its a long way out to the edge of the system, but its a place to visit. Notice, I didn't use the word 'nice'.
<rabidviXen> Yes.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Maybe I'll invest a bit in the future and buy myself a Cobra Mk3.
<Sharn-Lugonn> You know that brilliant idea of Cmdr. Rollo?
<rabidviXen> A CObra can be fun, if its well-equipped.
<rabidviXen> What idea was this, he has so many?
<Sharn-Lugonn> A project for X-mas.
<rabidviXen> Oh, sounds interesting.
<rabidviXen> Either of you guys any good at computer generated artwork?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Making a Cobra Mk3 in gingerbread!
<rabidviXen> !
<rabidviXen> I constructed a cardboard one ... the picture is on his website.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Good? I can't make anything you could call "art".
<Sharn-Lugonn> I have seen the picture.
<rabidviXen> Excellent, email me then. I'm in need of people who might improve LHO tremendously.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Improve? Better say... deprove. I meant that seriously.
<rabidviXen> That BBC microcomputer is sitting behind me right now, on a shelf ... trouble is, there are no plugs around here which it will successfully plug into, and the power here is 110v, wherein the computer requires 240v to start.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I have one spare plug 230V on my left side...
<rabidviXen> http://www.angelfire.com/dc/lho/mastercomm.htm
<rabidviXen> This is the current homepage of Longhaul Outpost and the pic is a drawing a colleague did of me.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I thought so.
<rabidviXen> So, you've seen it?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes.
<rabidviXen> I'm going to change the page slighty, but for the moment, I'm happy with it.
<rabidviXen> Probably "Ceefax / Oracle" it for sub-menu's and the like.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I'm going to install IE6 tomorrow - hope it won't be any trouble.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And will make some pages work
<rabidviXen> They've released IE6 ... I'm still using 5.5 and that had lots of 128bit bugs in it.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I am using IE4 (!)
<rabidviXen> Good grief!
<rabidviXen> Internet Exploder, no less!
* rabidviXen rolls a FRELL GRENADE out of the door and into IE4.0
<rabidviXen> You can hear the code shattering from here.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And for some reason, I can't get more of your site than the mastercomm.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And docking, of course.
<rabidviXen> That is because I had it linked to other sites, and somebody noticed and they took them down. Damn their 50MB limit.
<Sharn-Lugonn> It is so big?
<rabidviXen> I'm gonna get around that somehow and probably bite the bullet and get rid of those annoying pop up banners as well. The LIND banners will stay of course.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, LIND banners are nice.
<rabidviXen> The original site, was in excess of 200MB and crammed with details and downloads. I lost a lot of it when they erased my links ... I also lost much of the original code when my computer crashed and took a 30GB HDD with it.
<rabidviXen> Trouble is, it was up two weeks and then down for six months.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Not much luck...
<rabidviXen> Annoying.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Really.
<rabidviXen> Highly annoying.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And will it work in the future?
<rabidviXen> Anyway, the NEW LHO will be a place where all commanders may do what they wish. If you have a nice idea, please feel free to email me and I'll see if it can be intergrated into the system. I want LHO to be like a REAL station BBS from FRONTIER or FIRST ENCOUNTERS.
<rabidviXen> The site should work in the future when the content is finished and checked live on-line.
<Sharn-Lugonn> That would be great.
<rabidviXen> Oh, a question ... what do you mean about deproving the site? Too slow, or what? I'm curious to know.
<rabidviXen> Please tell.
<Sharn-Lugonn> That I can't make anything.
<rabidviXen> You mean, you're impressed with the format, because you *personally* cannot code HTML (neither can I!) or draw?
<Sharn-Lugonn> You said it. True.
<rabidviXen> I find that hard to believe ... most of LHO is basic, primative HTML coding. I just make it look good. Its like "makeup" - a woman can dazzle when made up.
<rabidviXen> The same approach applies.
<rabidviXen> Well, gee ... thanks.
* rabidviXen blushes.
* Sharn-Lugonn grins
<rabidviXen> For the record, in case anyone is interested ... "rabidviXen" is my pirate name.
<rabidviXen> And, *no*, its nothing to do with X-Box.
<Sharn-Lugonn> What is an X-Box?
<rabidviXen> A new microsoft product ... a box which plays games. They're hyping it up in America at the moment. I take it, the X-Box has not hit the European markets yet?
<Sharn-Lugonn> I don't care about the outside world... sorry I can't give you the answer.
<rabidviXen> XBOX is the offical title, its unoffical title is "the money that you waste is better spent on a PC"
<Sharn-Lugonn> I like the unofficial title...
<ghog> on a ZX 8]
<ghog> or NES
<ghog> anybody seen NES Elite?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Probably not.
<ghog> nice piece
<rabidviXen> Not yet ... but then again, I've been busy rebuilding my PC to run ELITE 4 when it comes out.
<ghog> but only beta :(
<rabidviXen> Ever heard of http://www.seznam.cz/ by any chance?
* Sharn-Lugonn wonders if he will ever have the money to upgrade his PC
<Sharn-Lugonn> Of course.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I use that sometimes.
<rabidviXen> I thought so. Sorry, just indulging in a little intercontinential interchange.
* rabidviXen grins and then smiles broadly.
* Sharn-Lugonn smiles
* rabidviXen looks at the time ... by my chronometer its 18:30 hours, Central Time.
<Sharn-Lugonn> 0128
<Sharn-Lugonn> Central European Time
<rabidviXen> Ah, so that's where you are. Gotcha :)
<ghog> 3:28 msk
<rabidviXen> Oh, before I forget ... there are LOTS of Elite Bar logs ... lemme find the URL for them ...
<Sharn-Lugonn> Oh man! So late!
<rabidviXen> http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~troeger/tep/irclog.html
<Sharn-Lugonn> Aren't you tired, Ghog?
<ghog> not really :)
<ghog> why i need to be tired?
<rabidviXen> Yes, it is, isn't it. I'm a little tired myself, but I'm not doing much, and washing my hair is a waste of time because I'm a *GOTH* and like it this way. :)
<Sharn-Lugonn> I don't know, just because of human body limitations..
<ghog> dunno
<ghog> i prefer night activity 8ú
<rabidviXen> Human body limitations ... male or female, there are practically no other differances.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Vhat's that 8ú?
<rabidviXen> Night activity. Well, its a live-live-live networld out there.
<Sharn-Lugonn> should it be "What"?
* Sharn-Lugonn grins
<ghog> Sharn
<ghog> just typo
<ghog> 8]
<rabidviXen> Sometimes, when the sky is dark, and the night is old ... I like to find some poor unsuspecting mIRC line and just confuse the hell out of them.
<rabidviXen> Just for the FRELL of it all.
* Sharn-Lugonn imagines the situation..
<rabidviXen> Yes, I'm bored ... but then again, I love the way that * E L I T E * has brought so many people together. Can you imagine the fun we're all going to have when we can play ON-LINE against eash other? Eh? I mean, that's when we seperate the commanders from the wannabees.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, people sometimes need to be confused - and someone just has to do that.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Will it be possible - ON-LINE?
<rabidviXen> Of course, irrespective of talent, I can guarantee you that Braben (hallowed be his name) will introduce a new interface system and a new control system ... and even the most seasoned spacers will find themselves out there alone in the dark, unable to control a simple lander.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I have read things that said no multiplayer
<ghog> oh,i wish not to die before i play elite online
<ghog> god,help me
<Sharn-Lugonn> I mean Elite 4.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Cmdr. Ghog, how is it possible that you've been playing for 2 years and are still "below average"?
<rabidviXen> That's what rumor has it. That the next game will be a fully interactive, QUAKE-like environment with first person perspective and hopefully, some nice graphics for the ships. Hope they can pull it off. I also want to see a return to the "graphic cargo interface" which was used in the Amiga ELITE game series.
<ghog> of course not
<ghog> you know
<ghog> i reincarnated every time after vaporized
<rabidviXen> Reincarnation is coming back you know?
<ghog> last time i been deadly
<ghog> oh really
<Sharn-Lugonn> Ah, that .. reincarnation is nasty.
<rabidviXen> Actually, this bring me to a serious situation. I was sitting in bed the other night at LHO, when this book on the paranormal just materialized next to me on the side table!
<rabidviXen> Spooky, eh?
<ghog> heh :)
<Sharn-Lugonn> Hm.
<ghog> i know
<ghog> rabidviXen,just say no to LSD 8))
<rabidviXen> I never did LSD, but I did some LDS in the sixties ... the 3060's that is.
<ghog> nerve gas is the best
<rabidviXen> Commander Ghog: http://www.alioth.net/cgi-bin/bbs.pl?action=show&siteId=1
<Sharn-Lugonn> But illegal in most systems.
<rabidviXen> Nerve gas ... nobody stocks more than four tonnes of the stuff in any system. And that's allowing for the fact that there are four ports you can dock at.
* rabidviXen glances at chronometer again ... have to go pretty soon. I've got a date with a bounty hunter at Wolf 359.
<ghog> phekda is nice to visit if you wanna gas
<rabidviXen> Well, its been a blast, I'll have to leave now, but feel free to drop me a line.
<ghog> farewell,commander.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Don't mention it. I visit Phekda every week.
<rabidviXen> Good evening, commanders. Have a better one ... and vaporize them before they vaporize you, its the only way to be sure!
<Sharn-Lugonn> Bye, Jannah!
<Sharn-Lugonn> Good Luck!
<rabidviXen> Thanks! -[END OF LINE]-
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<Sharn-Lugonn> So what now? Be nice and go to bed? Or be nasty and keep talking?
<ghog> to bed?
<ghog> commander,you frightening me
<Sharn-Lugonn> Why? I have said something bad?
<ghog> but... because... uhh... nevermind
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<Sharn-Lugonn> Have you checked out my site?
<Sharn-Lugonn> There isn't much there at the moment, but I try and work on it..
<Sharn-Lugonn> I write some fiction, which I will put there when it's finished.
<ghog[confuzed]> url?
<Sharn-Lugonn> A moment...
<Sharn-Lugonn> http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/heinlein/415/Deadly/main.html
<ghog[confuzed]> 10x
<Sharn-Lugonn> You have visited it 10 times?
<ghog[confuzed]> tenX
<ghog[confuzed]> thanks i mean :)
<Sharn-Lugonn> Ah, got it.
* Sharn-Lugonn grins
<Sharn-Lugonn> And if you want to read some really crazy fiction, try http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/heinlein/415
<ghog[confuzed]> Lord... why imps,Sharn?
<Sharn-Lugonn> From my workshop.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I wrote that I gave that up.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I am not working for the Imps anymore.
<ghog[confuzed]> i understand,but why you start working for them?
<Sharn-Lugonn> I wanted to get to the photo missions - to boost my elite rating.
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* Raqoon looks around as he walks in
* Raqoon nods at Brianetta
<Sharn-Lugonn> That won't help.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Neither the Frell Grenade detonation did.
<Raqoon> hehehe
<Raqoon> where's Bee?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Yes, Jannah has been here.
<ghog[confuzed]> commanders... what IS the Frell Grenade?
<Sharn-Lugonn> Gone. Away. To the back somewhere.
<ghog[confuzed]> do NOT laugh!
<Raqoon> go get him
<Sharn-Lugonn> Bee?
<Raqoon> yeah
<Sharn-Lugonn> That's beyond my limits.
* Raqoon shows Sharn-Lugonn his rather large blaster
<Sharn-Lugonn> Nice.
<Raqoon> you want me to say please or what?
* Raqoon looks at his blaster and smiles
<Sharn-Lugonn> I say - he left some hours ago.
<Raqoon> ok
<Sharn-Lugonn> I don't know where he is.
<Raqoon> thanks
<Raqoon> anyone seens jades?
<Sharn-Lugonn> No. Not today. Nor two weeks ago.
<Raqoon> i'm still looking for his Imperial ass
* Sharn-Lugonn grins
<Raqoon> any of you guys seen my new website yet?
<Sharn-Lugonn> New?
<Raqoon> LMAO
<Raqoon> www.raqoon.co.uk
<Raqoon> THE only FFE website that matters
<Raqoon> because it's FEDERAL
<Raqoon> anybody have a problem with that?
* Raqoon looks for any imps in the bar
<Sharn-Lugonn> No I don't mind.
<Raqoon> goon... <wink>
<Raqoon> shit i meant good
<Raqoon> LOL
<Raqoon> <sorry>
<Raqoon> anyway... Phil Raqoon's the name and The Federation is my game
<Raqoon> what's your's commanders?
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<Sharn-Lugonn> You mean the Real name?
<Raqoon> i don;t wanna have to rough you up at all
<Raqoon> whatever commander..... ????
<Raqoon> what is your name?
<SimonC> Aw, no Bee :(
<Raqoon> Bee left COmmander Simon
<Raqoon> so he says
* Raqoon points at Sharn-Lugonn
<Sharn-Lugonn> Cmdr. Sharn-Lugonn, Alliance-minded.
<Raqoon> i reckon he's an imp imposter
<Raqoon> but....
<Raqoon> Bee would not be plessed if we wreck the joint.... again
<SimonC> Not seen Bee for ages :(
<Raqoon> nice to meet you Sharn-Lugonn
<Raqoon> i saw bee about a month ago
<Sharn-Lugonn> Nice to meet you.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I saw Bee 2,5 hours ago.
<Raqoon> hehehehe
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<SimonC> Drat. He was in here.
<SimonC> Must be a reflection of going down to the real pub every Friday now :-/
<Raqoon> looks like it
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<Guest35851> Buggeration.
<Raqoon> wb Guest35851
<Raqoon> have you ever met nickserv Guest35851?
<Raqoon> LOL
<Raqoon> so whioch system are you from in the Alliance Sharn-Lugonn?
<Sharn-Lugonn> I was born on Lave.
<Guest35851> Nickserv and me don't get on. I hate them, they hate me. The mutual hatred ironically forms a peace between us.
<Sharn-Lugonn> But nowadays I live in the Alioth system.
<Sharn-Lugonn> And work in Phekda...
* SimonC thought Guest was who he thought he was. Certainly sounded like him.
<SimonC> Hi Stuart
* Raqoon laughs
<Raqoon> i reckon nickserv is ru nby the INRA anyway
<Raqoon> or Duval
<SimonC> That bunch of tossers.
<Sharn-Lugonn> Damn! I...N...R...A... !
<Raqoon> they are on e and the same
<Raqoon> yeah
<Raqoon> they are worse than psycorp
<Raqoon> LMAO
<ghog[confuzed]> inra is nice
<Sharn-Lugonn> I had a number of incidents with INRA...
<ghog[confuzed]> they are so cute
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* Raqoon unholsteers his balster and aims it at ghog[confuzed]'s forehead... "Say again?"
<Raqoon> how many holes would you like in your skull today?
* Raqoon is serious
<Raqoon> INRA suck
<ghog[confuzed]> they was so kind to me Raqoon
<ghog[confuzed]> so put down your 'ball-ster'
<ghog[confuzed]> do you know them! no,you dont!
<Sharn-Lugonn> They gave you mycoid, or what was kind?
* Raqoon powers up the energy cell... it humms slightly
<Raqoon> please give me one more reason yto blow your fucking brains all over Bee's bar
* the_only_amiga_fe2_user_here pokes the Simon entity with a stray box of dominoes, some missing, covered in tippex and black pen.
<ghog[confuzed]> ha-ha-ha
<SimonC> Yes, they are wrecked now, aren't they.
<Sharn-Lugonn> You get to know them when there are 20 ships attacking you at the same time.
<ghog[confuzed]> you are so serios,pals... 8]]]
<the_only_amiga_fe2_user_here> You should buy him a new set.
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<Raqoon> ghog[confuzed] (we are in character in here)
<ghog[confuzed]> i know,raqoon
<Raqoon> HEY StuartW1
<SimonC> Are we?
<ghog[confuzed]> this is just friendly joke
* SimonC hastily polishes his Elite pendant.
<ghog[confuzed]> you know
* StuartW1 retrieves his Sergeant's rank insignia from the Asp.
* Sharn-Lugonn quickly glances at the Elite pendant...
* Raqoon gives StuartW1 10 cred's... for the dominoes
<StuartW1> OOC: Off to find Pringle packet bought earlier today.
* SimonC wipes the beer stains off the pendant.
<Raqoon> lol SimonC
<Raqoon> Klensum?
<StuartW1> Those aren't the only stains on it...
<Sharn-Lugonn> If you like.
* Raqoon sits down... grabs a coffee from the machine and puts his feet up on the table
<SimonC> There are no interesting stains on it. I would be dead if there were - don't want that kind of distraction in the middle of combat,
<Raqoon> i had a whore in my cabin once
<SimonC> Although it would be going out pleasantly, I suppose.
<StuartW1> I'm not saying they got on there via combat. Still, each to his own.
<Raqoon> she had no money for the fare so.... you know
<SimonC> She take you to heaven and back quite literally?
<Raqoon> she paid me in kind
<Raqoon> oh yes....
* SimonC wonders what kind of diseases Raq picked up that time.
<Raqoon> then i grassed her up on the bulletin board at the next starport... the Fed Military came and frog-marched her away
<Raqoon> hehe... imp bitch
<Raqoon> clones get diseases?
* Raqoon ponders on that while he goes and makes a coffee
<Sharn-Lugonn> It is possible.
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* StuartW1 wonders what kinds of exotic STDs will be around in 2000 years.
<SimonC> Probably a whole bunch of new ones.
<StuartW1> GASH is bad enough. :-/
* StuartW1 settles into a blind panic as he can now taste his own lungs.
<Sharn-Lugonn> I will probably go to the inner space - if my fatigue continues to drop like now.
<Sharn-Lugonn> It was nice to meet you all. Take care of yourselves; see you next friday (probably)!
<SimonC> Cya#
* Sharn-Lugonn walks to the door and after a while the noise of Moray's engines comes to the bar...
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Session Close: Sat Nov 03 02:19:50 2001