See, I can't turn my back for a minute....<br/><br/>I go to bed and look what happens! Goodness knows what's going to happen from tonight on, when I will be back at work and will have only a couple of hours each evening to work on this, plus weekends!<br/><br/>First of all,<br/><br/>@Linna, welcome back, I'm sorry I scratched your characters, but you did say you were dropping out and I then didn't hear from you. I have re-instated both, but if you only want to use the one that is fine.<br/><br/>I haven't got to the IC threads yet, so I'm just hoping the character you activated was the bisexual one? We have a M/F imbalance with too many guys. Give me a few hours to sort everything and I'll have a look at your post.<br/><br/>Yes I mentioned the mass/weight thing - had a NPC Sergeant mention it over open radio channel to his assigned group of civilians when they were unloading the shuttle.<br/><br/>Terraforming is going to take decades. The equipment to start terraforming is still being fabricated in Earth Orbit and won't be here until MCM-1 returns in four years (re-branded MCM-3) with the third wave.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>@ Blinkin, Lou isn't mad, she's scared. She wouldn't really throw her security chief in the slammer on the first day.... she'd be more likely to confine her to quarters and then come and give her a good spanking!<br/><br/>As I said, I haven't checked the ICs yet, but I would prefer it if Laura ran back to get her suit like Steffan?<br/><br/>Otherwise I have to change my posts! I'm a great believer in characters suffering the consequences of their players' mistakes! Continuity is the key, just because you<em>can</em>edit something, doesn't mean you<em>should.</em><br/><br/><strong>This goes for everyone:</strong><br/><br/>If someone posts something that you don't like, you don't think is correct in context, doesn't work, etc... Please DO NOT respond to the post IC. Instead, PM the player and/or post here in the OOC. If you PM them it would help if you could copy me in, but it's not essential.<br/><br/>IF you respond IC to a post, it is assumed that you have accepted those actions and your character is reacting to them.<br/><br/>This is a general rule of roleplaying, not one of mine. To ask someone to edit a post that you have responded to is considered |\|00|3-ish. (Noob-ish, for the un-leet and those with talking computers!) My point being that if I had wanted Blinkin and Prince to edit, I would have asked them to.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Just to summarise the Suit Incident:</strong></span><br/><br/>Julie headed down to Life Support on her own initiative, (possibly with Abs - and May, you are okay to edit your posts if you wish and if DR is okay with it). She found it impossible to work in the tight spaces in the suit and requested a sitrep on the atmosphere. She was given the all clear by Louise, who wasn't listening properly!<br/><br/>So, Julie removes her suit.<br/><br/>Just before heading down in the lift, Louise gives everyone a DIRECT ORDER to stay suited and keep helmets handy for now.<br/><br/>Now, there is no way IC-ly that Stefan and Laura could know that Julie has taken her suit off, so they have taken their own decisions independently to un-suit. Louise is therefore justifiably annoyed that her two senior staffers have disregarded and/or blatantly disobeyed a direct order, that was given to ensure the safety of everyone on the base!<br/><br/>If Laura and Stefan hadn't shown up without suits on, Julie would have been fine. Laura would even, if asked, have made an exception for her, simply because of what she was doing and where. The base commander isn't in some ivory tower, she came up through the officer-grades and has got her hands dirty on many occasions.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>I will have the thread for Habitat block 1 open today some time.<br/><br/>Dasha has asked if people can choose a room. I think I already gave details of specifying rooms, but basically it's Block/level/room<br/><br/>Block will be 1 for everyone, please. I will not be opening the other two habitat threads unless we get a shit-load more players, in which case I will be deputising five of you guys as co-GMs!<br/><br/>Level is 1, 2 or 3, with three being lowest and closest to the exit.<br/><br/>Room is 1 to 8, numbering anti-clockwise from the entrance so 1 is on your immediate right as you walk in to the corridor and 8 is on your left, then 2 and 7, and so on.<br/><br/>There are 25 people on Mars right now. Three of those have rooms in the command centre, leaving 22. 3x8=24 so there are two empty rooms in block 1.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Is anyone's character not involved in something? Please say.<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6753573#msg6753573">Quote from: Linna on 13-08-2012, 11:27:10</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Just the Chief Engineer please.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Okay, I will move the other character to NPC status if you don't mind? She's too cute to waste!<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6753583#msg6753583">Quote from: iamaponyprincess on 13-08-2012, 11:38:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I have a question: do we have some kind of posting sequence? Or we can post whenever we want?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Post whenever you have something to respond to.<br/><br/>There are enough players here to keep things moving and make it so two players aren't "thread-hogging".