In reply to Osram (msg # 311):

That's safe to assume Lilly is evasive answering those types of questions. She says she and the kids were captured, experimented on, and shoved into the cubes but no other real details.

She dodges questions about her past before being captured. She literally would not have answered with anything other than "just some small colony you never heard of".

You're right to be suspicious and its safe to assume she is withholding information. Skip and Ed are also onto something. Whoever they are, it's not as simple as she's claiming. As Andre pointed out: slaves are not cost effective with today's technology. So why would anyone do that to anyone else? And then why would a warship raze every ship to dust without warning?

Good questions to consider before you decide what to do next.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:41, Tue 19 Mar.

Skip has questions.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:32, Wed 20 Mar.

If you want to include Lilly on the meeting you can tell everyone else to call her into the mess hall.

Been almost a week. Is it safe to say everyone's character has nothing more to say/ask?

None of you have confirmed what course of action you want to take next. Some of you proposed interviewing Lilly but nobody has set it in motion.

The discussion between the crew is there for you guys to both ICly and OOCly decide what your next course of action is. I can only build adventures based on where you go next, so you guys have to come to a consensus and decide.

If your character wants the group to do something, you can propose it and have everyone put it to a vote.

Gill, you're our most active player so you're officially the tiebreaker if not enough people respond within 2 days/person.

If you guys need help with clear choices, here's what I see so far:

1. Wait in deep space while supplies run low hopefully the warship forgets about you or thinks you're dead.
2. Search the asteroid for survivors (low probability there are any, but high probably of a lot of expensive space junk and possible enemy scouts)
3. Make your way back the way you came (high probably the warship is waiting or you)
4. Try to find another route back (pick any belter colony from the list or make one up from your backstory and I can integrate it into the narrative)
5. Battle strategy for taking on the warship (you're outgunned and outnumbered so you'd need to think/gain something to give you an edge to counterbalance that or its suicide)
6. Other?

Are Skip and Gil going to question Lilly?

That seemed to be where we left off.

I second questioning Lilly.

Otherwise I like Rey's idea, get into the trade lanes to pick up news.

Skip is definitely planning to question Lilly.  Though, I think he would prefer the captain join him.

You'd rather have the captain, who has no experience with good cop bad cop over Gill, who is virtually a master of it? Okay I understand. (J/K you run the show, I can go have coffee.)

The Lance and Val are young. They are good at what they do, but were brand new when you joined up with them. Literally everyone on the crew has more experience than them. The captain may be you boss on paper, but he's essentially a paper pusher and contacts guy. You guys ultimately call the shots and just agree on what you want. The only time he'll disagree is if its an obvious suicide mission or somehow screws him over. And Val is essentially just your crazy medic who believes in ghosts and witchcraft. And with the gremlin appearing, she seems less crazy and more..."that tinfoil conspiracy theorist actually turned out to be right about everything". LOL

The captain may have less experience, but Gill is nucking futs.

I beg to differ, the gremlin is real after all.

Work it out however you want. Put it to a vote. We just need the team to decide what they're going to do with the ship before moving on. If you decide to interview Lilly before making that decision go ahead. Just let me know if she's being pulled into the mess hall with all of you or if someone is going to her quarters to talk to her alone.

Skip would prefer alone (watched remotely), or with one other person.  That way, he keeps the background emotional contacts to a minimum.

Well since this is Skip's plan, I'd say just tell how he'd do it.  Where, when, etc, and the rest of us will roll with it.

Well,if Nod ( or the gremlin) can record it, that would be witness enough for him.  But, if Gill really wants to come along, he would (reluctantly LOL) allow it.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:53, Wed 27 Mar.

I think Gill would be more helpful than you realize. I'd like him to be there, please.

Okay, Skip and Gill will interview Lilly (possibly good cop/weird cop).

I assume you will separate her from the kids or did you want to interview all 3 together?

Establish your plan ICly and we can start the interrogation---erhm "interview"...

Always separate the suspects.

1,000 posts!

Sorry guys, been out of touch for a couple days.

It's alright Edwin, we are just getting things together to space you go down and interrogate our "guest."

Is anyone out there?

Nobody but us chickens.

Nope.

Sorry guys, been busy with the eclipse today. Traffic is insane, everything is full, nobody can get an uber or lyft b/c they're all backed up. I heard they were charging $1500/week for rental vehicles. Leave it to a rare celestial event to get people acting out of sorts.

You guys come to a consensus on what you're going to do. I think we were waiting on Ed?