[accidental audio]

[gokai_red]

Attention Birds. This is your Captain speaking.

It would seem the Galleon can't breach the upper atmosphere in this world.

In fact, it would seem we're in a nosedive. Something I've never seen this ship do.

Cover your heads with your wings, and hope this thing's more aerodynamic than it looks!

WE'RE GONNA DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!

[ooc - Normal text = Marvelous
Bold text = Machalcon.]

Comments

[sunsetsandwomen]

Huh.

So, Captain Marvelous.... you know how to pull your ship out of a dive like that?

[gokai_red]

About to find out!

I'M STILL LEARNING TO FLY IN THIS FORM!

SHUT UP!

[sunsetsandwomen]

You're gonna need some drag to slow you down. Don't unfurl the mainsail, though. You'll snap your mast, and then you're really screwed.

I really hope you can pull this off, I'd hate to lose a decent rival before we even have a chance to challenge each other.

What WERE you doing trying to break the cloud ceiling, though?

[gokai_red]

Done and done! But I don't plan on checking out THIS easily.

Kind of an interesting perspective, though. Never seen straight down quite like this.

INTERESTING?!

But, what was I doing up there? Trying to see what WAS up there, of course!

[sunsetsandwomen]

And I think that you found out!

I don't think that Yggdrasil wants you to leave, Marvelous.

1/2

[gokai_red]

The bastard. I... oh, wait.

[sound of the ship lurching, along with Machalcon and Navi both screaming and tumbling around the cabin, then silence for several moments, and...]

There we go. Skimmed across the ocean a bit, but we're okay.

Skimmed? I think you mean SKIPPED.

Semantics.

2/2

[gokai_red]

[sound of a flash of energy, him depowering]

That was about what I expected. Figured if anyone could LEAVE this place that easy, they'd have already done it...

Ah well. Worth a shot, eh?

[techsavytabby]

Aha! So that's what would happen. I'd been curious about that exact subject for the longest time. Fascinating.

[last_lombax]

[Very sick sounding Lombax on the other end.]

Well shit...

So much for our plan. Maybe if we increase the boosters...that might help. Any ideas on your end?

[techsavytabby]

Well it might be a shielding issue, perhaps if we send up a probe we can gather some energy readings from whatever is blocking us and deduce a solution from there.

[thewizardsnii]

Yeah, sorry to tell you, but this is Yggdrasil's doing.

He doesn't let anyone escape the atmosphere.

[techsavytabby]

Well...that's rather small minded of him. Just think of what could be gained scientifically speaking.

[witchmon]

Yggdrasil isn't really much one to care about such things, as he already knows whatever's out there.

Just the way of the world, sadly~

[techsavytabby]

Well of course I understand that we are here for a reason...as vague as that reason may be. But one can't help but want what they can't have. It's basic nature.

[3rd try is the charm]

[witchmon]

Which I certainly won't deride anyone for, but Yggdrasil most certainly does not want his lab mice experiments to take flight. Controlled environments, and such forth.

[ooc - Strikes unreadable, because Witchmon a... well, she's Witchmon.]

Re: [3rd try is the charm]

[techsavytabby]

Ugh...thinking about it like that put a rather foul taste in my mouth. I rather prefer to be the one running the experiment. But I'm aware that what I like is hardly of the higher powers concern.

[witchmon]

It's something even those of us in Witchelny aren't exempt from.

We all just sort of have to ... go along with the flow, as it were.

Believe me when I say that what any of us like aren't of the higher power's concerns.

[techsavytabby]

If only I weren't such an obsessive personality with a need to sort, organize and control. I have some friends back home that Yggdrasil would probably love alot more.

[last_lombax]

Probe might work. At least we'll have some information to work off of.

[audio]

[gokai_red]

The Galleon's a space faring vessel, normally, and able to easily bounce in and out of a planet's atmosphere. Never had troubles with that, so if I can't get THIS thing up and out of there...

Ah well. Plenty for me to explore down here.

Re: [audio]

[techsavytabby]

That's a healthy attitude to have about it. I suppose I just miss space travel. It was so exhilarating when I was finally able to travel between planets on a worthy vessel.

Re: [audio]

[gokai_red]

It's a bit of a pain, but. Well. Here we are. I'm used to being able to go wherever I want, but I guess I'll just have to deal with this for now.

A single planet can have a lot to offer if you look deep enough, anyway.

Re: [audio]

[techsavytabby]

But of course, and in a universe compiled of data we can explore down to the very bits of information that form it's structure.

Re: [audio]

[gokai_red]

Sounds more like something that'd excite Doc. But, that sort of thing's worth keeping in mind, at least.

[Audio]

[cantletyoudothatstarfox]

If you survive, I'll buy you a drink and I want to hear what went wrong.

Re: [Audio]

[gokai_red]

Survived.

Drink, you say?

Re: [Audio]

[cantletyoudothatstarfox]

Yeah, there's a nice bar I know in Neon. Care for a few rounds while you tell your story?

Re: [Audio]

[gokai_red]

You've gotta be in for more than just a story for all that.

But, I'm game.

Re: [Audio]

[cantletyoudothatstarfox]

I'm interested to hear exactly what happened and what you saw up there. And I think a man with balls as big as you deserves alcohol after that.

Re: [Audio]

[gokai_red]

To be honest, I didn't think it'd be much of a thing until we got bounced back down below.

But hell, who am I to turn down an offer like that?

Re: [Audio]

[cantletyoudothatstarfox]

I thought so.

[Attached; Coordinates to the bar.]

[Text]

[gsx401fw]

I have learned what occurs when one attempts to leave this planet.

Re: [Text]

[gokai_red]

...that you have.

Gotta ask; what are you?

[Text]

[gsx401fw]

I am STARGAZER. I am an experimental deep-space exploration mobile suit designed and constructed by the Deep Space Survey and Development Organization. My mission is to advance the frontier through exploration of space beyond the orbit of Mars, the fourth planet in my home solar system. In this world, the colloquial term for what I am appears to be "giant robot".

Re: [Text]

[gokai_red]

Mars, Mars...

...OH. That red one on the way to Earth.

...only there, huh? Guess every reality's gotta start somewhere.

[Text]

[gsx401fw]

That is correct.

Automated probes have been sent throughout my home solar system, and a single crewed mission reached Jupiter, the fifth planet, 55 years ago. However, automated probes are highly limited in their ability to determine what to examine without continual human direction, while humans do not live long enough to make crewed exploration practical; reaching Jupiter with a crewed spacecraft required a seven-year journey and an extremely large quantity of fuel, due to the mass of the equipment required to maintain the crew. I was created to allow exploration with minimal energy requirements and an on-site intelligence that will not die of old age.