Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread
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				Title: <strong>Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 15:06:15</strong>
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				<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Carbon Block;" class="bbc_font"><span style="font-size: 36pt;" class="bbc_size">PRISON PLANET</span></span></div><br><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Blue Highway Linocut;" class="bbc_font"><span style="font-size: 36pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>Hell Frozen Over</strong></span></span></div><br><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Blue Highway Linocut;" class="bbc_font"><span style="font-size: 36pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>Out Of Character Discussion Thread</strong></span></span></div><br><div align="center">(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--5R_wRtNaNE/T_J24GiGnQI/AAAAAAAADX0/Uuq6QUtRsYs/s1600/Ice+World+%25284%2529.jpg)</div><br>The Galactic Empire spans may worlds and many cultures, most of them human or humanoid. In such a vast civilization, of course there are criminals. Those considered worth saving are given "rehabilitation treatment" and released as useful (if somewhat uncommunicative) members of society.<br><br>However, character restructuring (as the scientists like to call it) can only do so much and only works on those who have the right sort of personality to begin with. Plus, of course, the individual must give consent to be so "restructured". This means, of course, only those who plead guilty get to undergo Character Restructuring.<br><br>The Galactic empire is (allegedly) humane and does not have a death penalty. But prisons are expensive places to run and no-one really wants a prison in their back yard. but with all those planets out there, many of them uninhabitable and even more of them just barely inhabitable, the solution of what to do with the criminals who are found guilty is fairly obvious.<br><br>However, the earliest experiments with penal colonies revealed a flaw in the system. Put men and women together on the same world, and even if they are separated by a vast ocean they will find each other eventually. And of course this will inevitably result in a new generation who's only crime is that their parents were criminals.<br><br>Again, the solution is obvious: put the male prisoners on one planet on one side of the empire, and put the female prisoners on a different world on the other side of the empire.<br><br>And so, we come to the planet HZ1128, or as it's inhabitants call it, "The Cooler".<br><br>The Cooler is a world covered almost entirely in ice. The temperature never rises above -10°c and can go as low as -75°c (14°F to -103°F, but as this is sci-fi I would prefer we use the Celsius scale). The world is approximately 200 million Km away from the closest of the three primaries, a blue dwarf star. This star orbits a binary system of a blue giant and a yellow dwarf at a distance of around a quarter of a light year, once every five thousand years. <br><br>There is indigenous life on the planet, mostly some edible lichens and fungi and a few non-sentient creatures that are edible and appear like giant millipedes, each being something around a metre long with more legs that anyone has bothered to count. There are rumours - but only rumours - that somewhere in the deep ice fields there are other things that live, and that some of them may even be intelligent.<br><br>There are no guards on the world. There is no possibility of escape after all. Newly convicted inmates are transported in suspended animation in special shuttles. The shuttles are heavily armed and armoured and are impregnable to anyone forcing their way in. Each prisoner is revived on the descent to the planet and placed in a rotating chamber. Once the shuttle lands the chambers will rotate, allowing the prisoners to exit. They have ten minutes to do so and get clear, and then the shuttle lifts off again. The chambers do not rotate back until the shuttle is back aboard the main transport, thus anyone attempting to escape that way will die of asphyxiation and/or fall to their death.<br><br>Food and replacement clothing are brought down by the shuttles in metal containers that are not airtight. Minerals mined by the inmates are loaded into the same containers that are returned to orbit slung underneath the shuttles. Not being air tight, anyone attempting to escape in one will, of course, suffocate. In fact, the containers start their journey empty on the planet's surface. Once full, they are taken to orbit by the shuttles and returned on the next scheduled visit full of food and supplies. If the prisoners don't supply the minerals, they don't get the supplies from outside.<br><br>The only clothing provided for inmates is a transparent body suit made of a material that is a super-insulator. It will keep 95% of the wearer's body heat inside it. The suits are skin-tight, with an opening at the neck, or at the face when the hood is pulled up, also at wrists and ankles. There is also a seal-able opening at the crotch.<br><br>The suits look something like this, only transparent:<br>(http://img.alibaba.com/photo/496019911/Pearly_golden_Latex_catsuit_zentai_latex_clothes.jpg)<br><br>Inmates are provided with a variety of different gloves from thin transparent ones the same as the suit to thick, heavy protective ones. The same applies to footwear.<br><br>Inmates are expected to provide a certain quota of various rare minerals, some of which can simply be picked up on the planet's surface, and others need to be dug out of the ice.<br><br>It is in the deeper mines that some have claimed to have come across signs of intelligent life, but no one has ever successfully proved this. Mining The Cooler is a dangerous bisiness and people disappear anyway, even if one's companions are not all murderers and thieves. For one thing, the planet may not be solid all the way through...<br><br><br><hr><hr><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Moraline's List Of topics</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Game:</strong><br><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>The game is going to be Freeform, and will be placed in Extreme</li><li>The RP is open to all female players and also to male players who wish to play female characters&nbsp; </li><li>Players will all be female convicts. They can be guilty as charged, or they can be innocent and wrongly convicted, however they all pleaded not-guilty at trial and were convicted by jury.&nbsp; </li><li>Setting is the Ice planet HZ1128, known as "The Cooler" </li><li>The game will be a freeform sandbox (or should that be Ice Box? *snigger*)&nbsp; </li><li>Character Sheet will follow if i get sufficient interest. All characters are to be female (no futa, hermaphrodites or trans-gender, please, also no neuter characters. They would be on a different world). All characters are to be at least recognisably humanoid - i.e., two arms two legs, walks upright with a head at the top and genitals between the legs. No shape shifters either. Other than that, pick a species. Humans are of course going to be the most prevalent.&nbsp; </li><li>Game Pacing: I would prefer a minimum of one post per week, please. Anyone not posting for two weeks without saying why will be nudged twice by PM and then assumed to have left the game. Players who drop out with their character "in play" will be taken over by myself or another player.&nbsp; </li><li>This is going to be a principally smut based RP. If you're looking for hot F/F action in a cold place, this could be for you. There will be side plots and stories, too, which may or may not include the mysterious indigenous creatures alluded to above!&nbsp; &nbsp;</li><li>Post tagging will be required. The code to tag posts will be specified in the OOC thread as and when.&nbsp; &nbsp;</li><li>NPCs will mostly be handled by myself and/or any Co-GMs I may appoint. However, players may feel free to create NPCs "on the fly" in ordser to move their plots along.&nbsp; &nbsp;</li></ul><strong>Game Master Info / GM(s) Participation Level (If/where applicable)</strong><br><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>If interest in the game exceeds a certain level i will appoint a Co-GM from among the players, at my discression.</li><li>The play will be sandbox - in other words you make your own plots. I may, from time to time, throw in a side plot.</li><li>NPCs may be created on the fly by players and then discarded when they are no-longer required.This is an entire world, after all. However all NPCs created in this way must be fellow inmates. I and any Co-GMs will also create NPCs for players to interact with as required. If a NPC is used repeatedly by the same player, I will deem her to be a player character and require a character sheet to be submitted.</li><li>As GM I will control the environment (the weather, the stability of the planet's surface, etc) and many of the NPCs. I may, also, have a "player character" of my own. </li><li>There will be an OOC thread. Players may use it for out of character discussion of the game, planning sub plots, choosing IC partners, raising issues with the GM or other players, letting everyone know of an upcoming absence, discussing sporting results, leaving random messages and general goofiness. The more players use the OOC the better they are getting on and the better the game goes.</li><li>Anyone wishing to contact me about the game may do so (initially) in this thread. Once the OOC thread is open, posting there willalso get my attention. If you wish to discuss something privately, you may also send me a PM. <strong>PLEASE DO NOT USE MY YIM ADDRESS TO CONTACT ME!</strong></li><li>If you have an issue with another player, or with their post, take it up with them first, by PM. If that doesn't work, bring it to me, I will hear both sides of the issue and make a decision. I do try and be fair, but equally i expect my decisions to be abided by, please. If I cannot resolve the issue, i will take it up with staff. IC issues should be resolved IC and OOC issues resolved OOC.</li><li>PVP will be allowed, by mutual consent between players, but please clear it with me first and respect each other's offs. </li></ul><strong>Additional:</strong><br><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>Player Oath "Oath of the Drake (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=54576.0)" - this is mostly common sense, but it gives players some good guidelines on how to behave in a group game. </li><li>My golden rule for non-consensual RP is that non-consent applies to the CHARACTER, and <strong>not</strong> to the PLAYER. In other words, if my character is screaming "NO! PLEASE DONT!" at the top of her voice, you carry on! But if <em>I</em> say, "Please don't do that", I expect you not to do it! Before interacting with another player please read their ons and offs, and abide by them. If the player does not have an O/O page published, do not assume. ask them! </li><li>Players are required to post at least once per 7-day week, unless tyhey have indicated that they will be away or unable to post. Any player not posting for two weeks will be PMed. If I see they have been active since the PM was sent and they have still not posted or replied, i will PM them again, and if I still get no response they will be assumed to have dropped out. Characters that drop out will simply be ignored for the duration. If the player returns, they may (if appropriate) pick up where they left off, or bring their character back into the action in some other way.&nbsp; </li><li>New player characters may simply appear - having bee there all along but not having taken any part yet, or they may arrive on a prison shuttle&nbsp; &nbsp; </li><li>Players may post in first person or third person as they see fit. I would prefer all posts to be in past tense, but i will not insist on this if you prefer to post in present. All i ask is that you try to be consistent within a post and preferably throughout the RP, but again, I'm not going to enforce the latter.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </li></ul></div></div><hr><hr><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial;" class="bbc_font">THREADS</span></strong><br><br>Recruitment Thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173322.0)<br>OOC Thread (This one)<br>Character Thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.0)<br><br><strong>IC Threads</strong><br><br>The landing Pad (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175104.0)<br>The Settlement (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175103.0)<br>The Mine - Above Ground (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175039.0)<br>The Mine - Below Ground (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175028.0)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 15:06:41</strong>
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				<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size">RULES OF PLAY</span></div><br>I have a set of rules that I use in my group games. They are generally common sense anyway, and I like to think that there is nothing onerous here, nothing draconian. I ask that everyone read them and post to say they have and are in agreement.<br><br><strong>IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH SOMETHING HERE, <span class="bbc_u">PLEASE TELL ME!</span></strong><br><br>All rules except two are negotiable!<br><br><strong>Ice Box</strong><br><br>This is a sandbox type role play. That means that you, the players, need to provide your own plots. You do this by interacting with each other, the environment, and NPCs.<br><br>How you do this is up to you. <br><br>As GM, my duty is to provide you with a world in which to play. I will from time to time throw sub-plots at you, to see what happens. i will also provide Non-Player -Characters for anyone who wishes to interact with. Sub plots may include anything from sickness, to attacks by native creatures, to ice-quakes, to mine collapses, to the outside possibility of a shuttle crash and perhaps even a rescue attempt by pirates! Any, all or none of these may or may not occur!<br><br><strong>RULES:</strong><br><br><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>The GM's word is law. This does not mean I'm not open to discussion, but if it comes to an impasse, if a decision needs to be made, or a discussion is getting out of bounds, I will render a decision that I expect to be abided by. I will do this based upon context, by considering all the opinions and options</li><li>Respect other players ons and more importantly, their offs! <strong>This is NOT negotiable.</strong> Ons and offs are there for a reason. If you feel someone has broken this rule, please PM them first to talk about it. If they will not change their post, then contact me via PM and I will deal with it. Please note that persistently ignoring another players O/Os is grounds for reporting to staff!</li><li>Try to post at least once a week. If you know you will be unable to post for a while please let us know in advance in the OOC. it is a good idea to create an Apologies/Absences (A/A) thread so everyone you are RPing with knows where you've gone. If you know you are going to be away for a considerable time (more than a week) please bring any story-arcs you are involved in to a conclusion , or extract your character from them.</li><li>If you find your character is sitting around doing nothing, post something to the OOC, or PM me. If you wait for someone to interact with you, you will wait a long time. Let me know and I will create a NCP for you to interact with.</li><li>If you have any questions about anything in the game, ASK! The only stupid questions are "how many beans make five" and ones that aren't asked!</li><li>The OOC thread is here for people to chat. I have no problems with you guys discussing the latest football results if you wish, (although I'd rather you didn't because i hate football), because it means you are getting on as a group. However, please try not to interject random discussions into serious game related ones if possible? Other than that, use this thread as you see fit!</li><li>Please tag all IC posts using the code supplied below, editing the details as appropriate. This will enable other players and myself to track where everyone is. Especially important in a single IC thread game</li><li>Please ensure you read all posts in the IC thread(s). failure to do so is the primary cause of continuity errors in a group game.<br></li><li>There is no rule 9.</li><li><strong>HAVE FUN!</strong> This too is non-negotiable. If you aren't having fun, I would like to know why, so I can change whatever it is that is stopping you having fun!</li></ul><br><strong>Code to tag your posts:</strong><br><br>Tagging posts is important, because when we have a lot of players and they are in the same thread but in different locations, things quickly get confusing.<br><br>The code works in exactly the same way as the character sheet. Paste it in at the top of each post, and fill in the details. You can if you wish copy the code from a previous post you have made, but please remember to update it when things change.<br><br><div class="codeheader">Code: <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);" class="codeoperation">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">[floatleft][img height=100 padding=5]Paste URL of character avatar here[/img][/floatleft]<br>[table]<br>[tr][td][b]Character name:[/b][/td] [td]Name of your character[/td][/tr]<br>[tr][td][b]Location:[/b] [/td] [td]Where are they WITHIN the area covered by the thread[/td][/tr]<br>[tr][td][b]With:[/b] [/td] [td] What PCs and NPCs are they currently with[/td][/tr]<br>[tr][td][b]Doing:[/b] [/td] [td] What are they doing[/td][/tr]<br>[/table]<br><br>[hr]<br></code></pre><br>Completed example:<br><br><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/08/Mrinka_Pirate_avatar.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name:</strong></td><td>Harrin Ffrrit</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>Her Cube</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td>Syndel</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Seeing who's tail goes in furthest</td></tr></tbody></table>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 15:07:00</strong>
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				<div align="center">(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Imperial_eagle.jpg)</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Carbon Block;" class="bbc_font"><span style="font-size: 24pt;" class="bbc_size">INVALUERIT PER SAEVITAE</span></span></div><br><hr><br>The Galactic Empire is not evil, <em>per se.</em> It does not seek to enslave other peoples, as such, but what it does is seek to survive, at any and all cost.<br><br>The Imperial Fleet and Imperial Marines are probably the best equipped, best trained and best led military force anywhere in the universe. This is not a military that doesn't care about casualties. Far from it. Each soldier killed in action is a soldier that must be replaced. The cost to train a soldier, feed him/her, equip him/her and transport him/her into battle is a considerable investment, that needs to be protected in order that it can give an adequate return!<br><br>And that attitude about sums up the Empire. It is not so much an evil monstrosity, as an uncaring bureaucracy.<br><br>Each world in the empire is allowed to run itself more-or-less as it pleases. Each world will have an Imperial Office somewhere within the capitol city. If there is no capitol city or there are several, the largest city is usually chosen.<br><br>Depending upon the strategic importance of the world, it may receive a garrison of marines and/or a naval base. Depending upon the location, social structure, relative importance, size of the population, balance of trade, etc, it may receive other offices besides the token Imperial Presence, such as a trade delegation, a branch of government, a branch of the judiciary, etc... <br><br>Worlds that have proved their loyalty are often granted the privilidge of maintaining an armed militia for self defence. The rest of the Empire is dependent upon the Imperial navy and marines for protection against outside threats and internal pirates.<br><br>But only certain worlds are governed directly by the Empire. Those worlds, such as Earth, Mars, and several others, that are considered to strategically important to be allowed self determination, also worlds where the Empire has been forced to step in, in order to prevent some major upheaval or some threat to the Empire developing. Home worlds of hostile species that have been co-opted into the Empire, such as Mrinoa, are often governed directly.<br><br>Crime and punishment is generally left to the local laws and law enforcement agencies. The one thing the Empire will not allow is the death penalty, however, except within it's own military for crimes such as refusing a direct order while under fire, for which the punishment is summary execution, always has been and always will be...<br><br>Local laws and local punishments are usually a lot softer than Imperial ones. The Empire reserves the right to step in to any criminal investigation, take over the trial of any individual case. Equally, local law enforcement have the right to appeal to Imperial justice. If a criminal is deemed to be too dangerous or violent to be dealt with locally, he or she may be handed over to the Empire. All cases of treason are tried by the Empire, as are cases of piracy.<br><br>Imperial Justice is harsh. Acquittals under the Imperial system are about one third less likely than under the harshest local system. And a guilty verdict almost always results in transportation to a "planet of exile". Many a criminal, on hearing that their case will be tried by the Empire, has changed a not-guilty plea to guilty, simply to avoid such a fate.<br><br>However it is also possible for a prisoner who believes they will not receive a fair trial locally to appeal to the Empire. This is somewhat rare, of course.<br><br><hr><br><strong>Important Note:</strong> The term Empire implies an Emperor. However, no one actually knows whether there is an Emperor or not. Obviously, someone up at the top of the bureaucracy must know, but those people who do are not telling, and they are so far removed from our characters that we will never know one way or the other.<br><br>It is a traditional toast before dinner to say "Long Live the Empire", rather than long live the Emperor.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 15:07:14</strong>
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				<div align="center"><span style="font-size: 36pt;" class="bbc_size">THE TRANSPARENT SMARTEX SUITS</span></div><br><div align="center">(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvrzx7C29t1qdd7wuo1_500.jpg)(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loa23wl09D1qmzlrao1_400.jpg)(http://s3.amazonaws.com/imgly_production/2443733/large.jpg)</div><br>Before arriving on-world, every prisoner is stripped naked. The only exceptions are body piercings that the convict has specifically requested to keep and that have been scanned and found to be nothing but solid metal. The inmate is then made to lie in a bath of a cold, gelatinous gloop. This gloop is actually a liquid polymer made of nanotech cells - microscopic robots that are programmed to behave in a certain way.<br><br>When the prisoner emerges from the bath she will be coated in a thin but visible layer of what appears to be transparent latex. It feels like latex as well, is skin tight but not restrictive. The material is called Smartex (Smart latex). It will dry within a few seconds and form a transparent "cat-suit".<br><br>This clothing is all that the inmate will wear for the rest of her life.<br><br>The suits have the following properties:<br><br><strong>Heat Retention:</strong> The suits are capable of retaining the wearer's body heat to a certain extent. The wearer will still feel the cold, especially at night when the temperature drops, but provided they are careful, they will not suffer from frostbite or hypothermia so long as the suit is kept charged.<br><br><strong>Location sensing:</strong> The suits can detect when they enter certain locations within the settlement. Outside the settlement they will offer maximum protection from the environment including boots, gloves and hood. In the event the suit detects a storm it will also provide eye protection and in extreme conditions, a mask over nose and mouth.<br><br><strong>Hygiene and Breathability:</strong> The suits are effectively self cleaning on the outside, however they are essentially watertight and practically airtight in order to maintain the protection and heat retention functions. When the wearer enters the shower block, the suit will enter hygiene mode. This mode allows warm water to penetrate through the membrane permitting the wearer to wash. The suit membrane will allow a small amount of CO<sub>2</sub> to leave and a small amount of O<sub>2</sub> to enter. When in maximum storm mode, the membrane over the face will permit a larger flow to avoid suffocation.<br><br><strong>Bodily Functions:</strong> By tracing a finger around an area of the body, an opening may be made in the suit. This is to enable the expelling of normal bodily waste. It may also be used by inmates to gain access to sexual organs or erogenous zones. After one hour the opening will attempt to close itself. To close the opening before then, simply wipe a hand across it. The opening can be kept open longer by keeping a finger in contact with the edge of the suit. NOTE: Running a finger <span class="bbc_u">around</span> a limb will have no effect. You cannot create a short sleeved version, for example. a maximum of five holes can be made at one time in a suit and there must be at least 1cm gap between penings. An opening, once made, cannot be enlarged.<br><br><strong>Protection;</strong> When outside, the suit will cover the entire body except the face, under normal conditions. Inside, the suit will retract to leave the head, hands and feet uncovered. Coverings for the head, hands and feet will remain in place when entering a mine shaft. Additional protection such as thickened soles to the feet, hardened uppers to the feet, thicker gloves, hardened protection for the head, padding on knees and elbows, may be provided depending upon what the suit detects the inmate doing, especially when in a mine shaft. Spiked soles may be provided if a loss of traction is detected.<br><br><strong>Additional Protection:</strong> In the event a suit detects a penetration by a sharp object it will harden and thicken instantly at the point of impact., thus preventing the object from penetrating and harming the wearer. In the event that a suit detects such a penetration, and this is being attempted by another suit wearer, the suit will send a "temporary immobilise" signal to the other suit. In the event the suit detects a major trauma event, such as the wearer being buried alive, it will harden in an attempt to protect the wearer from being crushed and will provide the same full face protection as in a major storm. The suit will not react to individual blows with blunt objects.<br><br><strong>Immobilisation:</strong> The Imperial Marine contingent assigned to the space station that orbits the world are equipped with short range transmitters that, when activated send a signal to any suit within ten metres, causing it to harden and immobilise the wearer. This immobilisation will usually last for one hour. If an inmate attacks another with a sharp object, the suit of the attacked wearer may send a similar command to the suit of the attacker which will last for around five minutes.<br><br>(Will add anything I've forgotten here if i remember it)
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 15:07:31</strong>
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				<div align="center">(http://www1.sulekha.com/mstore/s19c/albums/Switzerland/Jungfrau%20ice%20tunnel.jpg)</div><br><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Blue Highway Linocut;" class="bbc_font"><span style="font-size: 36pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>The Mines</strong></span></span></div><br>The mines on The Cooler are the reason that the prison colony exists. The mineral found in long veins beneath the surface of the ice, known to the Empire as Gelumium was discovered some fifty years ago by an Imperial geological Survey team, who were examining the otherwise useless planet to see if it could be of any value to the empire. No credible explanation of exactly how the mineral came to be in the ice in such useful quantities has ever been put forward. Gelumium ore is found in trace quantities on a few other worlds which are either going through a period of intense glaciation, or have substantial ice caps, but HZ1128 is the first ice planet found to have anything more than a few grains of the stuff per million parts. In most situations where Gelumium is found, it is evenly distributed through the ice in such minute amounts as to make its extraction prohibitively expensive.<br><br>Refined Gelumium is extremely useful as a superconductor, and since it's inclusion in molecular circuitry the creation of AIs, ship-board computers and nanotechnology have all become 50% more efficient.<br><br>An ever increasing supply of the mineral is thus vital to the continued wealth of the Empire.<br><br>Gelumium is a yellowish green crystal. A thin vein of it looks for all the world like snow that has been pissed on! The main difference is that Gelumium does not melt when raised above 4°c. In fact it's melting point is 32°c.<br><br>The mines on HZ1128 are dug where the richest concentrations of Gelumium are found. Prison camps are always sited within easy walking distance of a mine shaft. Also within easy walking distance will be a shuttle pad.<br><br>Power to all facilities is provided mostly by wind turbines that are made of an extremely hard-wearing transparent polymer known as Duraplaz® This material is, in fact, used to make almost every structure and item on HZ1128. Duraplaz has some unique properties that make it the perfect material for use on the prison colony:<br><br>1) It is almost completely indestructible, having a similar molecular structure to Buckminsterfullerene, in a polymer form. It is almost totally inert and requires special catalysts to put it together and take it apart. It is totally resistant to extremes of temperature and is also a good insulator.<br><br>2) The open molecular structure is often threaded through with molecular sized strips of superconducting material, thus enabling the transmission of electricity via a hardened and all but indestructible power grid. Fluorescent materials can also be introduced into the polymer making the Duraplaz glow when a current is passed through it. It does so without producing any heat. Alternatively an exothermic material can be introduced that will warm up slightly when current passes through it.<br><br>3) It is completely transparent, meaning that there is no opportunity for inmates to hide anything by using it.<br><br>4) It is cheap and easy to manufacture in large quantities, in a wide variety of shapes.<br><br>5) It is very lightweight for it's volume, having an exceedingly low density.<br><br>In the mines themselves, the mine shafts and tunnels are lined with Duraplaz pillars and roof boards. Corner pieces that run along the yupper corners of the tunnels carry the electric current from the power grid, and are fluorescent. They are also hollow and are used to pump fresh air into the tunnels from the surface.<br><br>In larger, well used tunnels, Duraplaz rails will be laid to ease the passage of ore and spoil wagons to the surface. Ore and spoil wagons are also made from Duraplaz.<br><br>The wagons are 1m high (including the wheels) by 1m wide by 1.5m long. The volume of the wagon is 995 litres. If filled with liquid water each wagon would weigh exactly 1 ton. Filled with ice spoil, the wagons weigh about nine tenths of a ton. Filled with Gelumium crystals, they weigh around three quarters of a ton.<br><br>Wagons are propelled by inmates often referred to colloquially as "pit ponies". These inmates are usually equipped with a harness that attached to the hips and shoulders, enabling them to pull the wagons with maximum effect. Detachable harness shafts are connected to the front of the wagon. When the wagon reaches its destination, they are detached and moved to the opposite side for the return journey.<br><br>The spacer bars between the rails (often called sleepers after the construction of old fashioned railway systems) provide the pit ponies with traction.<br><br>A manual track switching system is used, operated by the pit ponies. Points are "run-through" from the trailing direction - in other words they will switch automatically as the wagon runs over them. In the facing direction, the pony must choose which track to take and operate the switch before she reaches the turning. Passing loops are provided at regular intervals in all tunnels.<br><br>In the smaller tunnels closer to the digging faces, there is no room for the larger wagons and so smaller wheeled buckets 500mm long by 300mm wide by 300mm deep are used to drag ore and spoil from the digging face.&nbsp; The face workers will often be working in a space big enough to allow them to lie more or less on top of each other and no larger, as the average cross-section of a gelumium vein is around 200 square centimetres. The face workers are not there to widen the tunnel, that is the job of the excavation team that follows them.<br><br>Pit Ponies are often co-opted onto the excavation and shoring teams.<br><br>To bond the Duraplaz, a special catalyst tape called Plazweld® is used. This tape is supplied on rolls, under the supervision of the Pit-Prop chief. The tape is very tough and requires a steel blade to cut it. The only steel blades permitted on the planet are built into the Plazweld dispensers. The tape is placed between the two peices of Duraplaz and a thin red strip is pulled off the outside of it. This initiates a chemical reaction which is thermally neutral (takes in no heat and gives out no heat), which will permanently bond the Plazweld to any Duraplaz it is in contact with. The reaction takes a few seconds to complete, at the end of which the Plazweld will have gone from being a flexible strip to an immobile mass.<br><br>In the event that a piece of Duraplaz needs to be moved, or the possible accidental attachment of something to the Plazweld, a loquid solvent known as Solplaz® is provided. A single drop ot this solvent, applied to a strip of hardened Plazweld, will, after a few seconds, reduce it to a fine powder. This reaction is slightly exothermic (it gives out a small amount of heat). Thus it is recomended that Plazweld and Solplaz not be stored where they might come in accidental contact with each other while underground as accidental contact could result in possible melting of the ice.<br><br>All mining tools are made from Duraplaz.<br><br>Vertical shafts are all fitted with an electrically operated elevator.<br><br>At the pit-head, spoil wagons are routed to the spoil tip, where they are emptied.&nbsp; The spoil tip is a number of long sidings that are being continually moved, extended and raised up so that when the pony activated the tip mechanism on the wagon, the wagon will empty itself of the ice dug out of the mine.<br><br>Ore wagons are routed to the sorting and grading area where they are also emptied into a hopper. This hopper raises the temperature of it's contents to 10°c, enough to melt the ice but not the Gelumium. The liquid water is allowed to flow away and is piped to the spoil top where it is allowed to re-freeze. The Gelumium crystals are released onto a conveyor belt where they are graded and loaded into three different wagons. Grade 1 is the finest crystal and contains the least impurities making it ideal for nanotech. Grade two is medium sized and mostly used for creating AI and computer circuitry. Grade three are the larger crystals and are most useful for making data storage chips. Grading is largely automatic but there is always a supervisor on hand overseeing the process.<br><br>The three graded wagons are then hauled by three more ponies to the shuttle pad, where they will be tipped into three waiting containers. When a container is almost full it's built in detector will signal this fact to the space station and a shuttle will be dispatched to retrieve it. The containers are returned to the planet filled with food stuffs, supplies and the occasional reward item.<br><br><hr><br>Anything I've forgotten or got wrong, let me know!
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 15:07:51</strong>
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				<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Blue Highway Linocut;" class="bbc_font"><span style="font-size: 36pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>The Cooler - HZ1128</strong></span></span></div><br><div align="center">(http://www.classicalarchives.com/prs/astro/Antarctica/0477-One_of_many_shots_of_the_magnificent_Antarctic_landscape_3.jpg)</div><br>The planet designated HZ1128 by the Empire orbits a star known only as Gamma-Rho-Scorpius-Three, it being the third and smallest star in a ternary system, the star being in the direction, from Earth, of the constellation of Scorpio, designated by the greek letter γ on the nineteeth or ρ (Rho) pass through the Greek alphabet. The star is only visible from Earth as part of the Milky Way.<br><br>γρ-Scorpius-iii orbits γρ-Scorpius-Prime at a distance of around a quarter of a light year, or around 2.35 x 10<sup>12</sup> km. in an orbit that takes almost five millennia. γρ-Scorpius-iii is a blue dwarf star (in the sense that it is small and it's emission spectrum tends towards the blue and UV rather than in terms of it's age).<br><br>Planet HZ1128 orbits the star at a distance of approximately 300,000,000 km. As a result, the surface temperature of the planet never rises above -10°c and can dip as low as -75°c. The Planet is, in structure, rather like Saturn's moon Titan. It has an atmosphere consisting of Nitrogen, Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in quantities breathable by organic life forms. The entire surface is covered in a permanent water ice sheet some ten km thick. Below this is a global ocean of liquid water that averages five km deep, the deepest parts being around eight km and the shallowest around three. Only at the poles does the ocean become any shallower. Beneath this is a layer of pressure ice and beneath this is the ferro-silicate core of the planet, the rotation of which provides a magnetic field.<br><br>&nbsp;Because of the low temperatures, the CO<sub>2</sub> in the atmosphere has a habit of freezing and forming a layer of "dry ice" on surfaces during the night. This can also happen to exhaled CO<sub>2</sub>.<br><br>The planet does support a variety of indigenous life forms, both flora and fauna. The flora are exclusively lichens and mosses that grow precariously on the ice. Fauna are all exclusively invertebrate, most being either moluscoid or arachnoid, with a few crustacioid. The native fauna are divided more or less equally between herbivores and carnivores, although the carnivorous varieties are not thought to be a danger to sentient humanoid species.<br><br>Unusually large deposits of the mineral known as Gelumium have been located on the planet and an exclusively female prison colony has been established in order to mine the ore.<br><br>The surface if the planet is largely a featureless, barren frozen waste (for a map, see a blank sheet of paper). Only at the poles does the ice sheet crack and shift forming ice mountains and crevasses that some times reach all the way to the ocean beneath. As the poles are not stable, no settlements have been established near them. Any deposits of Gelumium near the poles would be too dangerous and costly to mine even with convict labour.<br><br>All other deposits of Gelumium have been carefully mapped from orbit. New seams are offered to individual convict settlements on the basis of how well they have mined previous seams.<br><br><strong>Convict Living Conditions:</strong><br><br>Convicts are housed in Duraplaz cubes that use the power grid fed by wind turbines to provide light and a limited amount of heat. Lighting is motion sensor activated, on a photosensitive cut-off - in other words, when it gets dark outside the lights will come on if there is movement within the cube. The motion sensor requires either a very deliberate movement sucjh as waving a hand, or a constant level of smaller movement such as doing push-ups to stay activated. If you want to be in the dark, you need to stay fairly still, but just rolling over in your sleep will not turn the lights on. Heating is activated by the presence of a Smartex suit within the cube, but will only raise the temperature to around 5 or 10°c<br><br>The floor of each living cube is covered with a layer of Impervafome. This material is a soft, spongy version of Duraplaz.<br><br>Individual living cubes are 2.25m x 2.25m x 2.25m. there are only a limited number of individual living cubes available in each settlement, however. Extra convicts are accommodated in the communal cubes (not strictly cubes) which are 4.5m x 4.5m x 2.25m high. Individual cubes are expected to house from one to three convicts, communal cubes are expected to house up to fifteen convicts. There is one communal cube per mine-shift.<br><br>Other communal facilities include the shower and toilet block, and the kitchen-dining block. <br><br>Note that all buildings are constructed from Duraplaz and are thus transparent, unless the Duraplaz has been specifically stained in construction to make it opaque for the purpose of hiding the contents from the inmates.<br><br>There is one shower block per mine shaft, which is located near the mine shaft entrance. Within the block are five toilets of standard humanoid design, of the type most commonly found aboard space craft and space stations. These toilets automatically sterilise the waste products and, on space craft or stations, would usually send the waste for reclamation and recycling. Here, the waste is sterilized and piped away to a part of the surface far enough away from the settlement that there is little risk of it coming back. The toilets are at one end of the block and the shower heads are at the other. There are no dividing partitions as they would be superfluous, being transparent.<br><br>Shower temperature and duration may be selected by the inmate, on the following basis:<br><br><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Temperature</strong></span></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Duration</strong></span></td><td><strong>15°C</strong></td><td><strong>22°c</strong></td><td><strong>37°c</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Ten Minutes</strong></td><td>Any Inmate</td><td>Inmate's shift must be on quota</td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Twenty Minutes</strong></td><td>Inmate's shift must be on quota </td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota</td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota, inmate takes class 2 rations</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Indefinite</strong></td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota</td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota, inmate takes class 2 rations</td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota, inmate takes class 1 rations</td></tr></tbody></table><br><br><br><br><br>The kitchen and dining hall is one large block in the centre of the settlement. One end of it is the food store. Food packets are delivered by shuttle on a weekly basis to each settlement, in sufficient quantity for all the inmates at that settlement to have two meals per day. The meals are frozen blocks of food, each of which contains sufficient nutrition to keep an average inmate alive and healthy. Special nutritional requirements of non-earth species are dealt with automatically. Supplies are loaded into a slot that is large enough to take one food block at a time. Each block is bar-coded, and is scanned and stored. When an inmate enters the kitchen dining hall their suit is identified and if they have not yet received their allotted meal it will be automatically dispensed.<br><br>The food storage areas are as transparent as everything else and so it is possible for inmates to see if supplies are getting low and request more if they have not automatically been sent.<br><br>Each meal block comes in a biodegradable plastic tray with a biodegradable plastic spoon. attached. The spoon should be broken off, and the meal placed into one of the ten microwave ovens provided. The oven will automatically heat the food to the correct temperature.<br><br>There are three grades of meal available. Grade one will provide just enough nutrition to get an inmate through to the next meal. Grade two will provide enough that the inmate will no longer feel hungry once she has eaten it. Grade three will actually taste pleasant! Replacement supplies are ordered by the kitchen unit depending upon what has been dispensed. Food of all three grades is held in the store in sufficient quantity.<br><br>Which grade of food is dispensed is dependent upon whether a shift has met or exceeded their quota. The same food grade is dispensed for the entire shift, unless a particular individual has been identified to the AI as being responsible for the shift not meeting quota.<br><br>The used trays and spoons are disposed of in a spare spoil wagon that, when full, will be taken to the waste disposal site and tipped.<br><br>Most of the facilites are self cleaning, however additional cleaning is undertaken by the inmates as required. Cleaning equopment is available in closets within the shower block and kitchen block<br><br>The convicts work down the mine six days out of seven, on the seventh day, the shuttle arrives and all the settlement's inmates are expected to work to unload the supply containers into the various storage areas, meet and greet new arrivals, and carry out any cleaning tasks<br><br><strong>Population, deaths and replacements:</strong><br><br>The population of The Cooler is pretty stable. It is a harsh and unforgiving environment and because the population is entirely female (and pregnant females are not deported until <em>after</em> they give birth), there is no population growth through natural means. New population arrives fully grown on a <em>ad-hoc</em> basis from around the Empire, when criminals are caught and convicted by the Empire or are handed over to the Empire by local law enforcement.<br><br>The death rate sometimes exceeds the arrival rate, and sometimes the arrival rate exceeds the death rate. <br><br>There are 35 settlements on the planet, each being serviced by one of five shuttles on a weekly rota, the shuttles take away full ore containers and return the same containers with supplies, and also bring new inmates. each settlement has from three to eight mine faces, each face being served by three shifts of convicts.<br><br>Each shift consists of:<br><br>2 x face workers - dig the Gelumium out of the face.<br>2 x face clearers - load the Gelumium into buckets and move it back.<br>2 x Ore wagon loaders - tip the ore buckets into the ore wagons.<br>2 x tunnel wideners - increase the size of the ice tunnels to allow the wagons to progress further, prop and shore-up the tunnels.<br>1 x underground supervisor - in charge of all underground work, especially the shoring up. <br>2 - 8 x pit ponies - pull the loaded wagons up to the surface, bring supplies down to the face. Also used to help widen and shore-up at need. The longer the tunnel the more ponies on the shift.<br>1 x Elevator operator - ensures that the elevators are not overloaded, and that loads are aboard safely before activating the elevator.<br>1 x spoil yard supervisor - ensures that spoil wagons are routed to the correct track to tip the spoil.<br>2 x spoil yard maintenance - move and/or extend tracks in the spoil yard<br>1 x pithead supervisor - monitors the grading machine to ensure that all the ice is malted out of the ore and that the ore is graded correctly. Supervise the pad ponies, supervises pit ponies unloading ore and loading with supplies.<br>3 or 6 x Pad Ponies - take the loaded, graded ore wagons to the shuttle pad and tip them into the shuttle transport containers.<br>2 x supply loaders - assist the pit ponies in loading supplies to be taken down to the face.<br><br>For a maximum of 30 inmates per shift.<br><br>Any deaths on a shift will be automatically logged by the space station AI and the next batch of prisoners will be scheduled to replace them. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 15:52:38</strong>
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				Wohoo! I'm really looking forward to this! ^_^
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 15:59:30</strong>
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				You and me both~<br><br>I'm even anticipating the points of settings we'll discuss about in this very thread actually
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 16:06:46</strong>
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				And, after reserving those five posts, which will slowly fill up with data, here is the first actual post by me!<br><br>Welcome, to hell, everyone. Not the classic idea of a fiery hell with satan ruling it, but rather a frozen hell with no-one ruling it!<br><br>I mentioned topics for discussion.<br><br><strong>1) Shelter. </strong><br><br>I have three ideas on this. <br><br>a) The convicts are provided with an instruction book on "how to build an igloo" and left to get on with it.<br>b) There are caves within walking distance of the landing site. Not too keen on this one as it implies rocky promontories above the ice.<br>c) The empire provides transparent cubes as shelters. These cubes absorb and store solar radiation and use it to power a minimal number of items, such as a heater.<br><br><strong>2) The suits</strong><br><br>I really like Haibane's idea that the suits are made of smart nanotech. Unless anyone objects, I think we will go with this. I will elaborate on the actual technology and what it is capable of when i have a bit more time.<br><br><strong>3) Mining equipment</strong><br><br>People have been mining for thousands of years, digging coal and iron ore, tin and copper, out of the ground. There are tin mines in Cornwall that date back to before the Roman conquest. To dig a hole in the ground, you need something that is stronger than the ground, to hit it with.<br><br>Again, I have a couple of ideas that I like equally.<br><br>a) The convicts are provided with primitive tools - picks and shovels, and left to get on with it.<br>b) They are provided with sophisticated equipment for melting holes in the ice and pumping the water out before it freezes again. This equipment would in fact be robotic, AI controlled, tamperproof and self repairing.<br><br>The first option has the advantage of making the bitches work hard. The second is really the soft option. The first option also puts lethal weapons in the hands of the inmates. This actually may work to the games advantage.<br><br>In the event we go with option a) (which I prefer), plastic pit props will be provided by the Empire as part of each supply drop.<br><br><strong>4) Fuel:</strong><br><br>Obviously there is nothing to burn (except human excrement) on this ice world. The sun provides very little energy. What there is in abundance, though is wind!<br><br>So, I propose that the convicts' settlement(s) be supplied with more than ample electricity by massive wind turbine generators.<br><br><strong>5) Facilities:</strong><br><br>If we go with the igloo option, then basically there are none.<br><br>However, I am swinging towards the transparent cubes. Each cube will have a transparent solar collector on the roof, and the ability to be plugged into the power grid from the turbines. Each cube has within it a space heater and a padded floor.<br><br>In addition, there will be a number of larger cubic-shaped "huts". All are transparent the same as the living cubes. Some are simply used for storing supplies. Others will be communal facilities; A "cafe" of sorts where food can be heated up and hot drinks made, a shower and toilet block.<br><br><strong>6) Political Organisation:</strong><br><br>Obviously, in a society composed entirely of criminals, the worst ones will rise to the top.<br><br>This is, basically what the game is about, and if you hadn't realised that, sorry!<br><br>However, the reason I like the idea of primitive mining tools is that it evens things out. Consider: If you are the baddest bitch on the planet, you are not going to want to get all dirty by going down a mine. However, you will want your life to be as easy as possible in this hell, so you will want the quotas kept up so the supplies keep coming. To this end, you will want the workers to be as well equipped for mining as possible.<br><br>However, this means giving the miners metal tools to dig with. These metal tools could so very easily become weapons. There are very few people on world who haven't killed someone already, and even fewer who wouldn't kill <em>you</em> given half a chance, if they thought they could get away with it and usurp your position.<br><br>So, there is a political dilemma. How do you keep the workers from using the tools that you have to give them to work as weapons to kill you?<br><br>The answer?<br><br>There is a game called "co-operation". Players may choose to cooperate or not. Points are awarded on the following basis: If you do not cooperate and your opponent does not cooperate, you get 1 point each. If you cooperate and your opponent does not, you get nothing. If you do not cooperate and your opponent does you get five points. However if you both cooperate, you both get 25 points each.<br><br>This is not, in fact, a game. It is how life works, and it has been distilled and condensed into a simple binary switch placed in front of each player.<br><br>This is how i see the politics working. The bad-cats will set themselves up in charge, but will be forced to keep things reasonably sweet for the down trodden masses with the heavy metal tools.<br><br><strong>7) Native creatures:</strong><br><br>Leaving aside the possibility of an attack by ice-tentacle monsters for now, there are as already mentioned some creatures that resemble metre long by 100mm wide millipedes. These creatures are edible, but they take a lot of catching as they actually tunnel through the ice. They also taste disgusting!<br><br>However, we are talking about an entire world with it's own rather fragile ecosystem. Does anyone have any other native creatures they would like to suggest?<br><br>I think that is it for now. Let the discussions begin!
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 16:23:31</strong>
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				My immediate thoughts!<br><br><strong>1) Shelter.</strong> I'd strongly advice option C, the transparent cubes. It's the most sci-fi-y, and it's thematically consistent; the prisoners do not get much privacy and don't get to hide things away in clothes or homes. Everything's transparent.<br><br><strong>The suits.</strong> Smart nanotech seems cool!<br><br><strong>Mining equipment.</strong> How about a mix of the two options? There's a limited amount of high-tech equipment, enough for maybe a small percentage of the prisoners to use. The vast majority has to use the primitive picks and shovels. This will allow for at least some effective mining for the Empire, while at the same time keeping most of the bitches working hard -- it's a punishment, after all. The access to the high-tech equipment can also be a nice point of conflict; obviously that equipment is a privilege that there's going to be a lot of competition for...<br><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 16:46:32</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8218898#msg8218898">Quote from: Chrystal on 13-05-2013, 16:06:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I mentioned topics for discussion.<br><br><strong>1) Shelter. </strong><br><br>c) The empire provides transparent cubes as shelters. These cubes absorb and store solar radiation and use it to power a minimal number of items, such as a heater.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div> I like these. I love the fact that there is no privacy whatever on the entire operation. Anyone in any other cube, or even eating their dinner can watch you fucking someone else. Mmm, sexy.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8218898#msg8218898">Quote from: Chrystal on 13-05-2013, 16:06:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>2) The suits</strong><br><br>I really like Haibane's idea that the suits are made of smart nanotech. Unless anyone objects, I think we will go with this. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div> Yummy. The idea of a bunch of women, all clothed only in clear latex bodysuits so that they seem to be nude, sweating away wielding picks and shovels underground is just indescribably hot!<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8218898#msg8218898">Quote from: Chrystal on 13-05-2013, 16:06:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>3) Mining equipment</strong><br><br>a) The convicts are provided with primitive tools - picks and shovels, and left to get on with it.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Gets my support.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8218898#msg8218898">Quote from: Chrystal on 13-05-2013, 16:06:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>4) Fuel:</strong><br><br>I propose that the convicts' settlement(s) be supplied with more than ample electricity by massive wind turbine generators.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div> I like this. It’s clean and simple. Ice can be melted and heated to provide water for showers, toilets and cooking, electricity heats the cubes. What else do we need?<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8218898#msg8218898">Quote from: Chrystal on 13-05-2013, 16:06:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>5) Facilities:</strong><br><br>Each cube will have a transparent solar collector on the roof, and the ability to be plugged into the power grid from the turbines. Each cube has within it a space heater and a padded floor.<br><br>In addition, there will be a number of larger cubic-shaped "huts". All are transparent the same as the living cubes. Some are simply used for storing supplies. Others will be communal facilities; A "cafe" of sorts where food can be heated up and hot drinks made, a shower and toilet block.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Transparent showers (communal?) and transparent toilets too please.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8218898#msg8218898">Quote from: Chrystal on 13-05-2013, 16:06:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>6) Political Organisation:</strong><br><br>Obviously, in a society composed entirely of criminals, the worst ones will rise to the top.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div> I’m not a big fan of RPs with competitive settings but I guess we’ll see how it pans out. I was just hoping to build myself a little harem of a darling little slut or three and have fun.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8218898#msg8218898">Quote from: Chrystal on 13-05-2013, 16:06:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>7) Native creatures:</strong><br><br>Does anyone have any other native creatures they would like to suggest?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I like the idea of the Florian eels, so how about something like an ice worm or eel or a larval grub that likes to –ahem- burrow into warm places?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 17:03:43</strong>
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				<strong>1) Shelter</strong><br>I'm having something a bit hybrid in mind.<br>Near landing points are common dormitories, entirely transparent, with no maintenance whatsoever, and many, many innmates in cramped spaces. And of course, absolutely no privacy at all.<br>By going over one's quotas, one can acquire a personal shelter. It's dropped wherever, with the innmate having no choice in the matter, it's very barebones, and it's entirely transparent. Even more than the commons since it's not as grimy most of the time.<br>So, for economy, convinience, or privacy reasons, some might prefer igloos. They can have a bit of comfort to them and feel like a refuge, but equipment is harder to acquire individually, than bundled with a shelter. Plus, they're easily destroyed.<br>Finally, I imagine the top dogs could have made themselves a rather comfortable home, underground, in mine veins that aren't exploited. Warmer than an igloo, connected with the grid, and quite possibly very private, but limited in amount, and often in even worse spots than the shelter drops.<br><br>Alternatively, about the cave idea, a possibility is that, in the vein of the last of my humble little ideas, all caves under a certain altitude or proximity are already taken by powerful established forces, and that rising above a certain height makes the suit malfunction resulting in death.<br><br><strong>2) The suits.</strong><br>I liked the original simplicity of transparent suits that were just really easy to keep warm, but nanotech, or other ways of advancement do offer some interesting possibilities. Perhaps with the possibility, for going over a personal quota, to buy some upgrades, like more solid feet and hand covers, or the ability to obfuscate part of it (I see it as something costly and temporary. Like a suscription for the price of something like a third of a shelter each month. Simply to give the choice of a partial, illusory privacy, and make it unwise to pick.). Plus, a part of the suit could show how long it's been since one has arrived, or even personal informations and crimes. And of course, there's also the possibility of hacking, though it seems only a handful amongst the millions of innmates could have the equipment, let alone the skill, to perform such a feat.<br>And then, with all technology also comes natural malfunctions.<br><br><strong>3) Mining equipment</strong><br>The hard, classic tools seem indeed like they fit much more the theme and atmosphere of the game. If robotic equipment does all the mining, the innmates don't have much to do, besides maybe ferry the ores. Even with more technological equipment, I still figure it'd be something personal, potentially hazardous, and demanding some amount of effort. Perhaps like a mining blowtorch/laser that can only be recharged with a handcrank, and can't be targetted even remotely towards a suit?<br><br><strong>4) Fuel</strong><br>I'm figuring there are many various futuristic power sources. I'm figuring they are all potentially quite dangerous in the hands of criminals, and thus kept far, far away from the innmates. I'm also figuring wind turbines are easy to break in this cold, harsh environnment, and that they're basically held by duct tape. So that seems like a good plan. Geothermal plants seem like a secondary backup plan too, much more limited in scope, but more reliable.<br><br><strong>5) Facilities</strong><br>Regarding the storage, I'm figuring there's an identification system at the entrance, tied to the suit or something internal, to basically tell who brought what, in order to manage personal quotas. Probably the most secure place on the planet since in there is what the Empire actually wants. Of course, who actually played the part in bringing the ores someone got identified with is a secondary concern. Like the drop points for equipments that are different from these warehouses, and here as well, a secondary concern.<br><br>I'm figuring besides some extremely basic commons, nothing would be actually planned though. So places like a café would be mostly an innmate initiative, perhaps using materials or entire shelters from the recently departed.<br><br>As for the private shelters, I'm figuring they could be pretty barebones initially, with simply some heating tied to an unreliable wind turbine, some walls, a door and a roof. But that they could be upgraded with things like a lock recognizing one's personal suit, secondary power reserves, a personal kitchen, some crude bed, a softer floor, or a computer, with no online access of course, except if one pays for data sent by the empire, with things like e-books, propaganda, and practical guides.<br><br><strong>6) Political organisation</strong><br>I do imagine it pretty unstable, yes. After all, everybody has indeed a potential weapon indeed. Loyalties can be fickle... I figure some places might be more civilized or organized than others, forming a spectrum ranging from complete chaos, to strong individualism, to organized mafia control.<br>If we go with what I suggested in point 5, an interesting aspect is also that, no matter how high or low, someone who wants to check in has to do so personally, even with goods that aren't personal. So, has to go through a pre-planned point of passage, potentially exposed.<br><br><strong>7) Native creatures</strong><br>Let's see what there could be... Big fuzzy beasts that'd generate extra heat through a chemical reaction underbelly to drink from melted ice. Large swarms of creatures floating with the wind before crashing hard, with a particularly solid sort of mix between a beak and a horn. Giant dangerous powerful insects with a sawblade-like appendage.<br>I don't think the creatures will be as strong a focus as the politics, interpersonal relationships, distant attempts at imperial dealings and so on, so I'm not sure I'm all that inspired regarding native creatures.<br><br><br>So, there are my two cents, hope there were a few accidental suggestions that got lost in all that!
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>deusexkristina</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 18:10:42</strong>
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				My thoughts so far!<br><br><strong>1) Shelter</strong>: I LOVE the idea of a prisoner on the landing shuttle asking how they are supposed to keep warm and the warden tossing a book at her feet with the title “How to Make an Igloo” in large, happy letters. <br>That said, I like the idea of the cubes too; they're future-y and have neat synergy with the suits. With the Cubes, I also like the idea of there being a fixed amount of cubes. The bare minimum required to house the entire populace with eight-ten inmates per cube (a recommended use which is not respected). Having a cube is a status symbol, something you earn by working your way up the social ladder. Those higher on the social ladder will hoard cubes, keeping five or six for themselves forcing underlings to go fifteen or twenty to a cube or even sleep outside.<br><br><strong>2) Suits</strong>: I'm more in favor of the nanotech idea. I'm imagining something that's less of a suit and more of a thin layer of nanites that gets sprayed onto the skin and functions like a suit. I'm in favor of having the 'suits' be as minimal as possible, just trapping body heat and identifying the owner.<br><br><strong>3) Mining Equipment</strong>: I vote for the 'mixed' approach. More on this later in section 6.<br><br><strong>4) Fuel</strong>: Wind energy is a great idea! It also makes a prisoner who knows how to service the turbines incredibly important.<br><br><strong>5) Facilities</strong>: As minimal as possible. Everything the prisoners have is money out of the Empire's pocket. I imagine some kind of chemical shower (water would freeze) is provided near the landing site. This would be a single Cube with four spigots. And the Wind Farm. Beyond this, its whatever the inmates have managed to construct themselves.<br><br><strong>6) Politics</strong>: This is where I have ideas &gt;:) SO, the idea that's been floating around in my head is that there is a settlement of sorts near the landing site. This settlement has a majority of the Cubes, the shower facility, some high tech mining equipment (lasers that melt ice or rock but don't effect biologicals) and the wind farm. This settlement is also strictly hierarchical, ruled by a Queen of sorts who has managed to claw her way to the top with force or by making the right alliances. Wanting to take advantage of the benefits of the settlement means submitting the the rules and starting at the bottom (or trying to usurp power for yourself). Of course, there is safety in the system. You don't have to worry about someone stabbing you with an icicle while you sleep (or, if you do there are ways to make yourself safer). You always know where you stand. Also, there is safety in numbers; the Settlement stands together.<br>I imagine there are those who get fed up, slight the wrong person, or just don't want to live in that kind of society. They have the choice of abandoning the 'comforts' of the settlement to live On the Ice. A loose society exists out there. Most of the inmates are fending for themselves but a small, shaky alliance exists. The general rules are very basic: 1) you keep what you can defend, 2) the Market is neutral ground. The Market being a kind of trading post where interested Icers can come together and trade, talk, or plan. Occasionally, a charismatic inmate will unite some of the Icers to raid the Settlement, steal supplies, Cubes, or precious precious ore. Much more rarely, an Icer chief will try and lead a coup of the Settlement.<br>This might be too complex, but I like the idea of competing social structures. Its very Lord of the Flies-y<br><br><strong>7) Native Life</strong>: I really like the idea of native life. Perhaps this is my character's interests coming through. As a biologist, I imagine Kimb would be intensely interested in the native life. Even if its not necessarily for sexual purposes, I think it could be a really interesting element. For instance, can the native ice worms be used to harvest ore more effectively? They can burrow through ice. Who knows what kinds of things are living in the deep places of the world?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 19:07:20</strong>
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				Thinking some more about the society we have here, whatever it is, its already well established, so Crystal has to decide what it is, who is in charge (I am sure someone would be the queen and have lieutenants and soldiers presumably that's an NPC), what the rules and structure is like and then we have to fit the characters who have been on-planet a while into it. I can't see how we can create and begin our own society here and besides as others have said there's likely millions of inmates and probably more than one prison if the planet has rich veins of whatever ore is being mined, each one over a high value field.<br><br>The new arrivals get thrown into this society but the existing inmates will have to agree relationships between them all beforehand and positions in the heirarchy.<br><br>Without wanting to appear to argue with anyone, I don't see there being much scope for outsiders to live beyond the cubes (or whatever they live in) because the prisons are built around the ore being retrieved and supplies being dropped so whoever has control in the prison controls the food source and anyone not accepting their rule will simply starve very quickly.<br><br>Likewise I can't see there being alliances and such since there is no need if the prisons are not close and a prisoners transponder would be linked to her prison only.<br><br>On the other hand I do like the idea that has been suggested that the suits have a built in transponder that identifies the wearer and thus the wearer can be seen to be mining their quota. Maybe prison sentences are measured in mined ore quotas and either an individual must produce so much mass per week or a total mass in order to be given their freedom (the amount varying with the sentence). Failure to meet quotas will result in a suits transponder not granting access to, say, certain food dispensers, the showers, your own cube and finally even the main gate (aka death sentence).<br><br>This means the suit signals are monitored from far away and the controlling entity could even send a signal to the suit to alter its functions, so a warer could be less warm, less protected and even locked in place.<br><br>This mechanism could effectively end any queen-led society because we could make it impossible to tamper with the suits so absolutely everyone must do the forced labour.<br><br>Not a big fan of personal posessions especially computers as this is simply expense for the Empire and giving hardened criminals anything without any supervision is going to end in trouble (Murphy's Law).<br><br>Question - do suits come off for sleeping and showering? Otherwise sex is going to be very limited.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 19:26:21</strong>
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				Okay, so far so good...<br><br>I'm going to say no to the idea of "upgrades". <br><br>So far as the Empire is concerned, there are X number of convicts, who should each produce Y amount of product A and Z amount of product B each 28 day period. So they should get X * Y of A and X * Z of B. If they get less, the supply drop is reduced. If they get more the supply drop is increased.<br><br>Dead inmates bodies are placed in the ore containers so that the Empire knows to reduce the quota, but equally they will reduce the supplies. If an inmate's body cannot be retrieved then a token is placed in a slot on the ore carrier indicating that an inmate has died. These tokens are kept on a special dispenser by the landing site. They can also be used to request special items such as medicines, replacement tools, repairs to the wind turbines, etc.<br><br>Repair teams will come down if necessary. They are heavily armoured and guarded by a full platoon of Imperial Marines in full combat gear!<br><br>(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tjkQUZ9f9gk/Srok6jVTDuI/AAAAAAAABww/5QX62knxhCw/s1600/Imperial%2BFists%2B-%2BSternguard%2BConversion%2B-%2B01.JPG)<br><br>I was speculating about having more than one settlement. The idea that there could be "Icers" who survive away from the main settlement is something I like. However, the idea that they would raid the settlement is a little bit pushing it. They are going to have a hard enough job staying alive., and they will need to trade with the settlement too.<br><br>Native fauna I'm going to allow players to be creative with. Nothing too outlandish and nothing intelligent, please, other than that, feel free! Fill ecological niches.<br><br>I have already decided on Haibane's idea of nanotech suits. They can be used buy a repair crew to immobilise an inmate or several inmates using a coded signal, they will keep the wearer warm, they will draw power from the sun, and also from the settlement's power grid. Icers will have a problem with that! The convict is dipped in a slimy, gel-like liquid, after being told to take a deep breath and keep their mouth and eyes closed. The nanotech stuff will thus coat every hair and every crevice.<br><br>So, my character will have her fur coated by the stuff.<br><br>Geothermal energy won't work, because to make it you need a volcanically active planet, a solid crust and liquid water to pump down it. The Cooler is a crust of ice, which (as has been hinted) floats on an ocean of liquid water. Think Titan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28moon%29).<br><br>Drill through the ice crust and you get water, which is kept above freezing point due to pressure. Release that pressure and it freezes blocking your bore-hole.<br><br>This is how I am leaning so far.<br><br>.....<br><br><br>However, I am now considering Haibane's latest post.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>deusexkristina</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 21:19:47</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8219675#msg8219675">Quote from: Chrystal on 13-05-2013, 19:26:21</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The idea that they would raid the settlement is a little bit pushing it. They are going to have a hard enough job staying alive., and they will need to trade with the settlement too. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Very good point. While some inmates might be able to survive away from the settlement it does seem unlikely that they could organize.<br>Another possibility would be to have multiple drop-zones/collection points? One for an entire planet kinda limits the amount of ore that can be harvested without transportation. Just another random idea&nbsp; :-)<br>Also, @Haibane, I certainly don't mind being disagreed with, I see it as constructive. I tend to throw out ideas and see what sticks. <br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8219675#msg8219675">Quote from: Chrystal on 13-05-2013, 19:26:21</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Nothing too outlandish and nothing intelligent, please, other than that, feel free! Fill <em>ecological niches.</em></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Pun intended?<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8219675#msg8219675">Quote from: Chrystal on 13-05-2013, 19:26:21</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I have already decided on Haibane's idea of nanotech suits. They can be used buy a repair crew to immobilise an inmate or several inmates using a coded signal, they will keep the wearer warm, they will draw power from the sun, and also from the settlement's power grid. Icers will have a problem with that! </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Oo, good idea on the immobilization part, that hadn't occurred to me! Linking the suit's power to the settlement's gird is also a neat idea.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8219577#msg8219577">Quote from: Haibane on 13-05-2013, 19:07:20</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">This mechanism could effectively end any queen-led society because we could make it impossible to tamper with the suits so absolutely everyone must do the forced labour.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Even if the suits did monitor which inmates had mined the correct amount of ore, there are ways to exploit the system. The top dogs would still have to work, but they would enjoy more of the spoils. "You there, underling! Use your suit credits to buy me another ration or I'll have my brute squad beat you within and inch of your life"<br>Also, the government would have to <em>care</em> about the inmates to meddle in their society.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8219577#msg8219577">Quote from: Haibane on 13-05-2013, 19:07:20</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Not a big fan of personal posessions especially computers as this is simply expense for the Empire and giving hardened criminals anything without any supervision is going to end in trouble (Murphy's Law).</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Agreed.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8219577#msg8219577">Quote from: Haibane on 13-05-2013, 19:07:20</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Question - do suits come off for sleeping and showering? Otherwise sex is going to be very limited.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I wouldn't think so. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the idea behind the nanotech thing is that the inmate wearing it wont even notice they are wearing a 'suit'. The nanites will integrate into the skin, or something similar, forming a protective layer that is too thin to notice. It will be like being naked, except you don't get hypothermia and the government can freeze you in place whenever they want.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>piece</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 21:41:37</strong>
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				For shelter, I like the idea of the transparent cubes the best. The idea is just amazingly sexy, and very appropriate to the theme.<br><br><br>I think that the primitive hand tools for mining are the best way to go, with some advanced technology like the mentioned wind turbines to provide for the electrical needs of the cube shelters and their accompanying heaters and such, in tandem with the solar collectors.<br><br><br>The nanotech suits are also a great idea, as they provide a consistent, possibly self repairing and therefore easy to implement, means of letting the prisoners deal with the harsh environment when out of the shelters. One idea I did have, to get around the issue of how do you have sex in a nanosuit, is that instead of just having transponders built into the nanotech suits, each prisoner could also be subdermally tagged as well. If a prisoner enters one of the cubes, there could be a system that removes the suit from her body and plugs it into the power grid to make sure it recharges before she has to go back out into the cold. Although I freely admit I'm not sure how to implement that idea just yet...<br><br><br>The transponders in the suits and perhaps implanted in the prisoners themselves could also serve as the means to keep any prisoners away from any of the higher level technology in place. Say if an inmate gets too close to a wind turbine or other such equipment, her suit could lock down and hold her in place for a set time as a warning, and approaching closer can result in something far worse.<br><br><br>On the idea of individual quotas, I don't know that this would work well in practice. How do you keep track of the actual mining done by each prisoner, and not just the ore/minerals that each prisoner actually delivers to the storage area? It seems to me that the overall quota works better in the setting. The Empire knows there are x number of prisoners, and expects y amounts of raw materials at each supply drop. If y is lower than expect, supplies are shortened, and if greater, extra supplies might be provided. <br><br><br>In the case of prisoner death, why not have whatever crews are doing supply drops scan the transponders of each prisoner, producing an accurate, automated count of living population? No need for the prisoners themselves to keep track of such numbers.<br><br><br>I do like the idea of multiple settlements, but I imagine they would be highly scattered across the planet, though some might be in closer relation. Say the Empire put the settlements down near deposits of the materials they want to be mined, and then drop the prisoners off to get down to it.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 22:18:06</strong>
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				Okay, to summarize....<br><br><strong>1) Shelter. </strong><br><br>On the flight down from the prison transport, new inmates are shown a short film about the planet, which is basically meant to scare the living shit out of them. They are shown that it is a wilderness of ice, told the maximum and minimum temperatures, told that there is native fauna that has been know to be aggressive. If the inmate asks about shelter, they are given a leaflet on how to build an igloo.<br><br>However, that is just the transport guards having fun. In fact, there are clear plastic cube cities at various locations on the planet's surface. <br><br>I would actually prefer to think of the planet's population being closer to ten thousand than a million. Don't forget it is a dangerous place, and there is no population growth, other than by people being newly convicted. Being sent to The Cooler would actually be quite a deterrent to pleading not guilty!<br><br>Lets say that in our settlement there are maybe three or four hundred.<br><br>I like the idea of the communal shelters with no privacy at (not that anyone has any privacy anyway).<br><br>So, new arrivals get put into one of the barrack blocks. There they stay unless an existing inmate takes a fancy to them and pulls them out, or unless they manage via sheer strength to oust an existing in mate from their "private" cube.<br><br>The cubes are 2.5m x 2.5m x 2.5m and are transparent. They have an overhead light and an underfloor heater. The floor is padded and serves as a mattress. They are made of a high tech material that is a super-insulator. There are no locks on the doors.<br><br>The other "buildings" are 2.5m x 2.5m x 20m. This includes the storage rooms, barracks, communal kitchen/dining room, communal showers and toilets. Everything is completely transparent.<br><br><strong>2) The suits</strong><br><br>The suits are smart nanotech latex which moulds itself tightly to the wearer and will keep as much as 90% of the wearer's body heat inside. However they are thin and offer no protection whatever. Still undescided on the quota thing.<br><br><strong>3) Mining equipment</strong><br><br>Mining equipment is all low-tech. Picks, shovels, ice saws and hand carts. There are no explosives, no lasers, no electric drills even. Pit props are made of a clear plastic-like material and are supplied in bulk by the Empire. <br><br>Gloves and boots are supplied too, as are helmets. Helmet lamps are rechargeable and must be charged from the power grid while not in use.<br><br><strong>4) Fuel:</strong><br><br>Wind turbines provide 95% of the settlement's electricity, with solar power providing the remaining 5% as a back-up for those almost unheard of occasions when the wind drops.<br><br>Failures on Wind turbines can be reported by inmates using the shuttle chits. A repair crew will then be despatched, usually within ten days. Repair crews are always accompanied by Imperial Marines<br><br><strong>5) Facilities:</strong><br><br>There is one shower and toilet block in the settlement. There is one communal kitchen which is attached to the food store. All rations are basic, bland and nutritious. They are frozen (obviously) and come with a clear, biodegradable plastic spoon. The kitchen has several microwave ovens, and a hot water dispenser. Hot drinks are available in clear, biodegradable plastic cups: tea and coffee, plus several non-human equivalents.<br><br><strong>6) Political Organisation:</strong><br><br>TBC<br><br><strong>7) Native creatures:</strong><br><br>I am going to say NO to anything larger than a wolf. Also, nothing with fur and I'm tempted to say no vertibrates. The reason for these restrictions should be obvious. They basically give you a way to get around the nudity restriction. Kill something, skin it, and hey presto, you have clothing!<br><br>Other than that, I am willing to allow players to make up their own native creatures.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>13-05-2013, 22:38:18</strong>
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				Mmm, its getting better all the time. And ruder. What deranged ruling society makes prisoners live and do hard labour nude? Its so hot.<br><br>As to gloves and boots they do kill the sensual side of it for me. I'd still prefer the nanotech suits to protect the feet from sharp surfaces, heavy blows and crushing weights dropped on them, etc. Apart from a head covering of sorts it leaves the prisoners effectively naked which I just think is awesomely sexy.<br><br>Also *hugs kristina* for being so cool with the constructive discussion.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>14-05-2013, 03:46:14</strong>
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				Since I doubt we'll be changing settlements anytime soon, I figure the best way to settle (no pun intended) the matter of population down is simply to decide on how many there is in a single settlement. Three to four thousand seem like a good number. Large enough not to know everyone, but small enough to make it virtually impossible to avoid someone.<br><br>If we can go with that quantity, I imagine something like around a thousand individual cubes, and the rest packed up in "chicken coops" or whatever derogatory nickname could be given to common dormitories. Of course, the only actual difference between the dorms and the individual cubes is proximity, and possibly sound insulation, since there are no locks. They're also quite cramped. I mean, my room is larger than the dimensions given. So, all in all, cubes are an improvement, but hardly a luxury.<br><br><br>About the suits, After taking things into consideration, I'm still torn. On one hand, the personal quotas theorically force everyone to have a single point of passage, and provide an incentive to actually mine personally. It allows direct possibilities to racket both what is mined and the benefits, and generally gives a direct incentive to have many close-knit groups.<br>On the other hand, a quota by settlement shows more distanciation from the empire, makes it feel more cold and impersonal. There can be public responsabilities, a need for clear leadership, and scapegoats. The punishment is also generalized ; instead of cutting someone's access to facilities, it's cut for everyone in the settlement. Which is bound to raise tensions.<br><br>So yeah, good luck on deciding that one.<br><br>As for the constitution of the suit itself, the fact it provides no physical protection make the old-fashioned tools all the more dangerous. However, making it look like a simple skin oil is a bit too much to my tastes. I really like the transparent latex look, and I think it'd be a shame to lose that. Regarding footwear, since the suit provides no protection overall, I don't really see why the feet would be protected by it. I'm figuring they could have a cover to protect them against icy grounds, and avoid slipping every two steps -though that could be funny- but when going down to mine, it's with boots and gloves on.<br><br>One last thing that could be fun for the suits, to reinforce the no privacy aspect, would be to have the sealings be undone by a manual command. Perhaps something like tracing with one's finger a circle over the pelvis or around the navel. The trick being that anyone could do that, not simply the wearer.<br><br>I'm not sure about the possibility of completely removing them however.<br><br><br>About fauna, the big fuzzy thing are out of line apparently, for good reason I must say. I do like the idea of windriding jumpy floating things with hard beaks traveling in flocks. Since they're floating, they're probably too light to provide much meat. And, sometimes they could attack a settlement, causing a mass panic and the need for everyone to get inside until they're done crashing about. Which can provoke encounters.<br>Another idea could be a weird thing with long stilted legs, a small round body, and an extremely long, unfoldable appendage. It'd dispense chemicals to make ice melt, and sip deep layers, possibly with some microbial life deep enough under. Of course the chemicals might have other properties like sudden surges of hormonal unbalance.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>14-05-2013, 23:46:55</strong>
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				Right. I have posted my standard rules of play to the first reserved post in this thread.<br><br>Please read them and PM me if there is anything there you think is not acceptable?<br><br>There are only two rules that I will not negotiate on, and they are rules two and ten.<br><br>Getting back to the topic in hand, I'm sure we're all itching to get on with it, so I'm going to make a ruling on the subject of the society.<br><br>I think that thousands are too many.<br><br>This is a last resort punishment for the worst offenders - or at least that is how it was designed. The reason innocent people and minor offenders get sent here is because the miscarriage of justice is so huge that to admit it would be a crime against the Empire!<br><br>The entire population of the world could be measured in thousands, so I think the population of each settlement should be measured in hundreds<br><br>Remember that these are frontier mining towns, not metropolises. If we go with the "everyone must dig there quota or starve, and we have a thousand people in town, a lot of them are going to starve because the most people who can work a mine face at any one time is one! The test would be disposing of the spoil, shoring up the shaft, sorting out the ore, getting it to the surface, etc... but for that we are looking at about fifty people at most.<br><br>Say there are four shifts of seven hours each in the 21 hour day, that means that each mine needs 200 people to operate it. Put three mines per settlement and that is six hundred.<br><br>If you have four thousand, that requires twenty mines to keep everyone busy. That is a lot, even for an area rich in ores. With that number of faces, the area would very quickly become unstable. Remember this is ice and not rock, too!<br><br>Plus, there are no mothers, no school teachers, no police, no fire brigade, no shop keepers, no bankers, no accountants, no lawyers, etc... Everyone goes down the mine!<br><br><strong>However:</strong><br><br>Not everyone digs!<br><br>As I said, there can only be one person at the face, lying on her back on the ice, swinging a pick to cut the mineral out of the seam. A mine can have more than one seam following tunnel, of course, but that counts (for the purposes of this post) as a separate mine.<br><br>Digging is the lowest job.<br>The next lowest job is sorting and packing. This inmate is right behind the digger, and pulls the ore and ice out from where she has dug it, sorts it and puts it into two different trucks. When a truck is full it is taken away by the "pit pony" and transported up to the surface. There will be several "ponies" per shaft. *giggles as Haibane's eyes light up*<br><br>Behind those digging out the minerals will be those who widen the shaft and shore it up.<br><br>On the surface, the best jobs of the lot will be those who dispose of the spoil (favoured subs) and those who sort and grade the ore (The bosses)<br><br>The ore is graded and sorted and then transported to the shuttle bins. The bin registers the amount of each grade of ore placed in and transmits this to the orbital control centre (which is an AI). The AI knows who is on which shift at each mine and allocates food privilidges according to shifts meeting their quotas rather than individuals.<br><br>The suit knows which shift it is on and is informed whether its occupant is on a shift that has met, exceeded or fallen short of quota. Meals provided automatically by the kitchen are graded by taste and quantity. Fall short and your shift gets less food. Exceed and you get food that actually tastes of something!<br><br>This gives us the hierarchical structure, as well as the "all hands to the plough" ethos.<br><br>Oh by the way, if food is pilfered on the way from the shuttle to the kitchen, the system will know and will shut down all food withdrawals until the guilty party is identified and deprived of whatever food was pilfered!<br><br>The suits cannot be removed. They are not like a second skin, but more like being coated in a layer of plastic.<br><br>At Haibane's request, I will renege on the boots and gloves. The suit is smart and will harden and thicken under the soles of the feet and on the palms of the hands when necessary.<br><br>How does that grab everyone? Any serious objections?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>piece</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 00:00:15</strong>
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				I have no objections to the rules, and fully understand them.<br><br><br>I do have a question though. If the suits are going to permanent, what is the process of charging them via the limited power grid the mining camp has to offer? 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 00:09:03</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8226161#msg8226161">Quote from: piece on 15-05-2013, 00:00:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I have no objections to the rules, and fully understand them.<br><br><br>I do have a question though. If the suits are going to permanent, what is the process of charging them via the limited power grid the mining camp has to offer?<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>The power grid is actually quite sophisticated. It is strips of superconducting material laid under the ice that connect all the turbines in parallel. There will be maybe five or ten turbines per settlement. The grid touches every building in the settlement and the mines as well. The pit props also act as light sources and grid strips are provided for extending the grid as needed. <br><br>The suit is smart enoif to know when it needs to charge. It can use a small amount of solar energy to keep going, but when it is near a power source and needs to charge, it will, given the opportunity, automatically plug itself in.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>deusexkristina</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 00:42:28</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8226084#msg8226084">Quote from: Chrystal on 14-05-2013, 23:46:55</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">At Haibane's request, I will renege on the boots and gloves. The suit is smart and will harden and thicken under the soles of the feet and on the palms of the hands when necessary.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>No objects, but I will need clarification on suit hardening. If step on a jagged piece of rock, okay, the suit will harden. But will it harden if I slap an another inmate or stomp an ice-worm? I imagine there will be some physical confrontations; if my suit hardens to sudden force on the palm, an open-handed slap would probably be a better weapon than a a closed fist. Does the hardening feature only activate in the vicinity of the mine, or is it just always on so I can't stub my toe ever? Kimb is easily distracted, so this could work in her favor. How hard does it get? Hard enough to stop a thrust from a pointed mining tool if you catch it in the right place?<br>Is this something I should stop nit-picking about and just get on with it?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 01:17:47</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8226386#msg8226386">Quote from: deusexkristina on 15-05-2013, 00:42:28</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">No objects, but I will need clarification on suit hardening.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Okay<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> If step on a jagged piece of rock, okay, the suit will harden.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div> <br><br>No, because there is no rock. If you step on a jagged piece of <strong><em>ice</em></strong> the soles of the feet will detect the penetration and will harden and thicken to prevent damage.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">But will it harden if I slap an another inmate or stomp an ice-worm?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>You have given me a great idea. I'm going to say no to the first and yes to the second.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> I imagine there will be some physical confrontations; if my suit hardens to sudden force on the palm, an open-handed slap would probably be a better weapon than a a closed fist.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div> <br>No. It hardens when it detects penetration by a sharp object, in order to prevent the wearer being damaged<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Does the hardening feature only activate in the vicinity of the mine, or is it just always on so I can't stub my toe ever? Kimb is easily distracted, so this could work in her favor.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div> <br>It is always active but it will not prevent you stubbing your toe. At the entrance to the mine, the "toe-tector" function activates, as do the "hard hat" and "work glove" functions. These turn off again when leaving the mine.<br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">How hard does it get? Hard enough to stop a thrust from a pointed mining tool if you catch it in the right place?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Yes. The suit will react to prevent possibly injurious penetration by hardening. Bruising will still result, and if the impact is har enough broken bones can occur. It won't save you if you fall down a vertical mine shaft otr if a tin of ice lands on top of you.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Is this something I should stop nit-picking about and just get on with it?<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>*giggles* Absolutely!<br><br>No, but seriously, good questions and I hope you like the answers.<br><br>So, guess what, I've been unwittingly handed the answer to the mining tools as lethal weapons dilemma. The suit is smart enough to detect if it is being attacked and to defend itself and its wearer. It is also smart enough to inform the attacker's suit, which will freeze the attacker and allow the attacked to escape.<br><br>Fights will thus be rather short!
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>deusexkristina</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 01:25:45</strong>
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				Excellent answers, thanks!
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 01:35:39</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8226608#msg8226608">Quote from: deusexkristina on 15-05-2013, 01:25:45</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Excellent answers, thanks!<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Shame about the quote tag editing.... lol!
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 03:59:45</strong>
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				I strongly disagree with rule 10, as fun is a terrible thing abd we should keep things always serious all the time! &gt;:(<br><br>More seriously, the rules are perfectly fine. And the recent rulings too! I like the way the organisation is defined, since it more or less implies that the higher you want to be, the more you have to concede to the top dog. And if you're the top dog, you have to handle and manage fifty criminals.<br><br>I still have a few more little questions about the suits though.<br>You mentionned the suit has a more protective setting when going down a mineshaft. Is it imaginable to also have differing settings between inside a cube, and outside it? I can imagine the outside setting having thin gloves, feet sock-like covering for heat containment and anti-slippage, and a hood pulled up, while inside a cube, someone would be barefoot, barehanded, and possibly with the hood recessed to neck level. This also poses again the question of the crotch opening control though, but I'll let you sort it out, as you've done so far to great effect~
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 10:47:53</strong>
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				I'm fine with everything, thanks Chrystal. The social order you've created works well enough and I prefer the idea of a community of hundreds rather than a faceless sprawling megalopolis.<br><br>I do like the decision you came to with the suits. I especially wanted them to be a visible layer, something like latex but thinner and much more body-hugging, something like the Second Life images I posted in the players wanted thread. Tight latex flattens the breasts too much *giggle* so I envisioned a layer that forms to the individual's body much more. I find the sheen and slippy/smooth surface of latex to be so sexy and having some visible transparent covering is more erotic than an invisible nanite layer where the women just seem to be nude. The suit idea is just plain hot.<br><br>The only issue I have with it is that your character being furry she'll look pretty weird in one... unless the authorities shaved her all over ;)<br><br>Also if we're back to visible transparent suits rather than spray on nanotech layers what about taking them off for showering?<br><br>When you mentioned shafts and ponies I pricked my ears up ;) I have a question about what the ore trucks will be like. I'm thinking along the lines of hard plastic tubs made of the same stuff the pit-props are made of with either lo-tech soft rubber tyres or a hi-tech anti-grav float system. They need to be pulled by one woman and maybe pushed by a second so they can't be very big if they have wheels, not much more than a garden wheelbarrow. An anti-grav float system would remove most rolling resistance and they could then be about as big as a small car but then we come into conflict with how big the mine tunnels are. How are the pulled exactly? Your thoughts?<br><br>I'm cool with the rules.<br><br>I would only suggest that you try having 3 7 hour shifts in a 21 hour day rather than 4, things could get messy with 4 such shifts.<br><br>Presumably all the player characters will be on the same shift and also I presume they'll live in close proximity. A few hundred workers is still enough that if they are spread thinly they'll hardly ever interact.<br><br>I think we just need to decide who is where in the heirarchy for those who've been in prison some time, and who knows who and likes/hates who *grin*
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 21:11:44</strong>
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				I'm still going with dipped on nanotech, but the layer formed is like thin latex.<br><br>Chloris, I love the idea of the suits rolling themselves off the feet, hands and head, as one enters a cube.<br><br>I am going to go with the crotch opening being triggered by a finger run in a ring around the area required. Note that this trigger will worg to open a hole anywhere on the suit... <br><br>... so that nipples and belly buttons can be exposed if required. <br><br>By the way, the suit only protects against punctures, not against impacts.<br><br>Hai, I'm really sorry, I forgot to answer one of your questions.<br><br>Piercings...&nbsp; Yes, existing piercings can be retained and additional ones... well things are pretty primitive, but I'm sure that the med-centre on the planet is sophisticated enough to quick-heal any holes made in nipples, labia or clits, however crudely done, and if a piece of metal happens to be in the hole in such a way that the robotics can't easily get it out, it will be left there and the wound healed around it!<br><br>My character's fur will be squashed flat by the suit, admittedly, but she has two big advantages over everyone else. 1) The fur provides an extra layer of insulation, so while everyone else feels the cold, she doesn't. 2) each hair has a nerve attached and so she feels any touch. Plus her tail is a major erogenous zone! ;)<br><br>Hard plastic tubs, yes, and with lo-tech tyres. The pit props come in three sizes. 1m, 1.5m and 2m. Older tunnels will be 2m square. Newer tunnels smaller.&nbsp; The newest will be a bare 1m square in section, and the face will be whatever size the seam is plus enough space for the workers to swing a pick.<br><br>Hai, you are forgetting one important piece of technology that was invented originally for use in mines, and has been around for hundreds of years before making it's first appearance above ground in the 18th century.<br><br>Rails! <br><br>A simple L-shaped piece of plastic laid on the floor of the tunnel. a spacer bar and then another L-shaped rail facing the other way. The wagon is pushed along it and moves easily, with no need to be steered. And I don't see any reason why the trucks can't be pulled by a team of ponies.<br><br>The reason I went for 4 shifts was to rotate, but I guess three is easier. Every seventh day can be a rest day (why change that?) and on the following day every shift moves around one slot.<br><br>I agree that all player characters be on the same shift and live close to each other, that was my plan. Lets assume that there was a collapse in the mine on their shift that killed some workers, hence the requirement for the new intake?<br><br>As for who is where, that is decided by time served.<br><br>Harrin Ffrrit, Shift supervisor &amp; Cheif sorter. 6 years.<br>Diah, 3 years<br>Dioni Van Graaf, 2 years<br>Enyr Jones, 1 year. (Prop, rail and shoring up supervisor?)<br><br>Dr. Kimb Fern, 3 years, sub.<br><br>All new arrivals will be assigned roles by the shift super according to how sexy they are and whether she likes them... <br><br>We have another D character pre-approved by PM waiting a small change to her age and/or time served so the maths add up.<br><br>Favoured subs with time served will obviously get menial jobs above ground. Unfavoured Dommes would probably get "cushy" jobs below ground, like pit-prop supervisor. (Actually, Hai, given that PM you sent me, and my reply, you might like to have that job for yourself? I'll reserve it for you in case...)<br><br>Please note that Harrin has a dislike of all humans. She will me more likely to keep company with the other ETs, but will take great pleasure in dominating human subs!
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 23:49:24</strong>
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				No, I thought of rails but assumed they'd be completely redundant by this time so I went with squishy balloon tyres or anti-grav. It struck me that opening up new seams and closing down old ones, plus taking the tubs to the loading areas would require so much labour on building, dismantling and moving the tracks it would be a bit pointless. So yeah, step ahead of you there my love ;)<br><br>Edited:&nbsp; I re-read Kristina's profile of Dr Kimb!
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>15-05-2013, 23:55:35</strong>
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				Hmm... I see your point regarding rails. Okay, so forget them and go with big squishy tyres and teams of three pony's pulling plus one at the back pushing and guiding. In fact, even big squishy tyres would eventually wear a nice groove in the ice that would function as a rail.<br><br>Dr Kimb has been there three years PLUS two years awaiting trial, for a total served sentence of five years, however only time served on The Cooler counmts towards seniority unless you are enough of a bitch to make time on remand count, and Kimb is a submissive!
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				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>deusexkristina</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 00:02:54</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8231831#msg8231831">Quote from: Chrystal on 15-05-2013, 23:55:35</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Dr Kimb has been there three years PLUS two years awaiting trial, for a total served sentence of five years, however only time served on The Cooler counts towards seniority unless you are enough of a bitch to make time on remand count, and Kimb is a submissive!<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Beat me to it :-) Three years on planet is the important part, the extra two were for flavor (lots of 'delays' to her trial while the Empire pumped her for information). And you're quite right, Kimb certainly isn't going to be making a fuss about where she falls on the social ladder.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 00:13:19</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8231831#msg8231831">Quote from: Chrystal on 15-05-2013, 23:55:35</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hmm... I see your point regarding rails. Okay, so forget them and go with big squishy tyres and teams of three pony's pulling plus one at the back pushing and guiding. In fact, even big squishy tyres would eventually wear a nice groove in the ice that would function as a rail.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div> How do you feel about 1 pony per tub with the tubs being smaller (or the ore less dense)? I can just see that being done due to efficiency or something plus it adds a personal touch for when Enyr needs to make sure a tub gets to the unloading chute fast - she just has to threaten horrible things to one girl (or promise nice things if she's quick at the journey) rather than a team of three.<br><br>And yes, I can take the pit props and shoring supervision job, no problem, though I think Enyr will have her eye on the ponies mostly. Maybe other ponies bring tubs carrying pit props too, then assemble them under supervision?
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 00:36:18</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Hmm... Okay, one pony per tub.<br><br>I think that the knees should harden as well as the soles of the feet, too. Don't you agree?<br><br>I think the gross amount that one person could pull, given that the shafts are going to be worn reasonably smooth, would be around 200kg. They are going to be pulling up hill with loaded carts.<br><br>Here's a thought. As well as hardening the soles of the feet, the suits should extrude spikes when in contact with the ice to give grip! Ice is slippery stuff after all!<br><br>The same carts that take the ore to the surface also bring the pit props and bonding tape (when needed) down. While waiting for the carts to be filled, the ponies should not be doing nothing, but should be assisting in widening the tunnel and shoring it up.<br><br>Enyr will supervise this from the section that is already shored up, I would expect...?<br><br>In case people haven't noticed, I have posted some background material on The Empire to one of the reserved posts. Following a prompts from piece, i am going to give some thought to how the new arrivals will be arriving. <br><br>Two options:<br><br>1) In the shuttle, on the way down, woken from chryo, stripped naked and made to lie in a cold slimy bath of stuff, then put into a pod on the outside of the ship and when it lands, kicked out onto the ice....<br><br>2) Kicked out onto the ice...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 00:45:31</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I like #2 as the opening post for each new arriving character but their post could cover their reactions to what just occurred after arriving in orbit (i.e. #1)<br><br>Then as they hit the snow, the established women will be waiting to <del>pounce and claim a new toy</del> lead them to the cubes and inform them of the prison mine procedures.<br><br>If any switch or subby character's player would like to have some early scenes with Enyr, please just say so, here or by PM. I don't plan on any long-term pairing off because it may be nice to share things around but I'm up for an early scene or two with anyone.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>piece</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 00:49:26</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				While the first option for new arrivals could be a lot of fun all by itself, it'd also be a lot of work for the GM, unless you want to have each player work out the details for their own posts. I'm comfortable with either option.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 01:12:08</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				OK, I am seriously stupid.&nbsp; When you first mentioned the ponies, Chrystal, I thought you were talking about REAL ponies and I was thinking about how they would be kept warm and imagining latex covered ponies.&nbsp; &nbsp; 8-)<br><br>I also see one of my questions answered above, the question being "How does a new arrival find an unclaimed cube since I am assuming they will all look exactly the same?"<br><br>From a the looks of the post/s above the newbie won't have to worry about that.<br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 03:48:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8232309#msg8232309">Quote from: BeckyAnnn on 16-05-2013, 01:12:08</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">OK, I am seriously stupid.&nbsp; When you first mentioned the ponies, Chrystal, I thought you were talking about REAL ponies<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Tell me about it. I keep imagining actual pony-play that can't reasonably happen. Not beacuse of a misinterpretation though.<br><br>Not all that much to say besides that, I agree with what's being discussed so far! Regarding the pony teams, I figure that can be left to the wisdom of the one who manages these up close. As for the introduction for new arrivals, I figure any point of consciousness regain can be good, possibly leaving some amount of flexibility for new arrivals.<br><br>And Haibane, as tempting is your offer, I think I'd rather play out my arrival first, to avoid any misconception or anything of the caliber.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jayna</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 07:41:37</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8232074#msg8232074">Quote from: Chrystal on 16-05-2013, 00:36:18</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hmm... Okay, one pony per tub.<br><br>I think that the knees should harden as well as the soles of the feet, too. Don't you agree?<br><br>I think the gross amount that one person could pull, given that the shafts are going to be worn reasonably smooth, would be around 200kg. They are going to be pulling up hill with loaded carts.<br><br>Here's a thought. As well as hardening the soles of the feet, the suits should extrude spikes when in contact with the ice to give grip! Ice is slippery stuff after all!<br><br>The same carts that take the ore to the surface also bring the pit props and bonding tape (when needed) down. While waiting for the carts to be filled, the ponies should not be doing nothing, but should be assisting in widening the tunnel and shoring it up.<br><br>Enyr will supervise this from the section that is already shored up, I would expect...?<br><br>In case people haven't noticed, I have posted some background material on The Empire to one of the reserved posts. Following a prompts from piece, i am going to give some thought to how the new arrivals will be arriving. <br><br>Two options:<br><br>1) In the shuttle, on the way down, woken from chryo, stripped naked and made to lie in a cold slimy bath of stuff, then put into a pod on the outside of the ship and when it lands, kicked out onto the ice....<br><br>2) Kicked out onto the ice...<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>&nbsp; <br>I think both idea are pretty good. Number 2 might be simpler considering the large amount of new arrivals we have.<br><br>Also, just wanted to give a quick hello to everyone since I am just now joining in! :)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 16:09:02</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I would think that unless everything&nbsp; is self cleaning that there would be at least a minimal support staff. Someone to keep kitchen dining shower bathroom facilities clean. Now how they would earn their provisions I can not say.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 16:34:17</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I was thinking that the prisoners clean and service everything, load new food and drink into the automated dispensers, etc. I thought right frm the start that there is absolutely no-one on the planet other than prisoners.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 17:05:44</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Oh I figured if there was a cleaning staff (or cleaner) it would be a prisoner.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 18:00:37</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Good point! I'm sure the shifts rotate so that at some stage everyone gets their turn at cleaning and such. Or supervising the cleaning&nbsp; ;D
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>piece</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 20:26:50</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I literally just noticed that the tag section had Harrin and Syndel comparing tails. Oh my...<br><br>I am curious how hygiene will be dealt with it the suits aren't removable.<br><br>I also figured that most of the other things, like cleaning lavatories, kitchens, and even the dispensation of food, would be far more automated than anything requiring operator input. Maybe throwing bags of nutrients into a pot for the sake of warm, bland food. It would make more sense for the Empire to provide perfectly balanced nutrition for the prisoners, without the extra expense of making it all taste wonderful.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>16-05-2013, 21:49:30</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				In order....<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8232133#msg8232133">Quote from: Haibane on 16-05-2013, 00:45:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I like #2 as the opening post for each new arriving character but their post could cover their reactions to what just occurred after arriving in orbit (i.e. #1)<br><br>Then as they hit the snow, the established women will be waiting to <del>pounce and claim a new toy</del> lead them to the cubes and inform them of the prison mine procedures.<br><br>If any switch or subby character's player would like to have some early scenes with Enyr, please just say so, here or by PM. I don't plan on any long-term pairing off because it may be nice to share things around but I'm up for an early scene or two with anyone.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>I have no objections to people pairing up, but it would be much more fun to share the subbies around. Be warned though, that Hai and I have been discussing certain aspects of the technology available.... This is in extreme, after all!<br><br>If you want to discuss relationships, now would be a good time to start. I have no problem with new arrivals simply waiting to see, but that does require you to take an active part once the game starts, or your girl will just sit there.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8232309#msg8232309">Quote from: BeckyAnnn on 16-05-2013, 01:12:08</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">OK, I am seriously stupid.&nbsp; When you first mentioned the ponies, Chrystal, I thought you were talking about REAL ponies and I was thinking about how they would be kept warm and imagining latex covered ponies.&nbsp; &nbsp; 8-)<br><br>I also see one of my questions answered above, the question being "How does a new arrival find an unclaimed cube since I am assuming they will all look exactly the same?"<br><br>From a the looks of the post/s above the newbie won't have to worry about that.<br><br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>New arrivals go into the communal "stable" block unless they are told to join an existing inmate. If the new arrival is a D she is welcome to try her luck at ousting an existing inmate from her cube. This will always result in a fight!<br><br>There are NO unoccupied cubes. When someone dies, their cube is usually taken by either the longest serving or most dominant inmate in the stable.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8235513#msg8235513">Quote from: BeckyAnnn on 16-05-2013, 16:09:02</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I would think that unless everything&nbsp; is self cleaning that there would be at least a minimal support staff. Someone to keep kitchen dining shower bathroom facilities clean. Now how they would earn their provisions I can not say.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Haibane is right. Everyone takes their turn at cleaning. Most things are actually automated and self cleaning though. If something breaks, the AI detects it and summons a repair team, which usually gets there within a week.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8236530#msg8236530">Quote from: piece on 16-05-2013, 20:26:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I literally just noticed that the tag section had Harrin and Syndel comparing tails. Oh my...<br><br>I am curious how hygiene will be dealt with it the suits aren't removable.<br><br>I also figured that most of the other things, like cleaning lavatories, kitchens, and even the dispensation of food, would be far more automated than anything requiring operator input. Maybe throwing bags of nutrients into a pot for the sake of warm, bland food. It would make more sense for the Empire to provide perfectly balanced nutrition for the prisoners, without the extra expense of making it all taste wonderful.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Actually they are comparing who's tail goes in furthest...&nbsp; into what I didn't say. That was, however, just for the sake of titillation and as an example. (Not to say I'm not open to the possibility).<br><br>The suits are smart suits. They are capable of allowing soap and hot water to pass through their structure, and then automatically drying the wearer off. This function is triggered on entering the shower block.<br><br>I already mentioned that food is basic blocks of frozen nutrition that can be kept frozen by leaving them in a storage compartment. They are automatically microwaved to edibility and dispensed to the inmate on a biodegradable dish, with a biodegradable spoon. If your shift exceeds quota, additional rations and/or sauces will be dispensed. If your shift is below quota, reduced size rations will be dispensed.<br><br><hr><br>Ruling regarding arrival posts:<br><br>I will post that the shuttle lands and the inmates are ejected from it. <br><br>It is then down to the individual player how much or how little of what I post they choose to respond to, as long as they take their post forward from the point at which the door opens for them to step out onto the surface.<br><br>NOTE: None of the inmates will see each other until they get off the shuttle! So far as they know they are the only one on it.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>18-05-2013, 00:09:44</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I have added details about the "Smart Latex" or "Smartex" suits to reply 3. Please read it and let me know a) if there's anything you don't like and b) if there is anything I've forgotten.<br><br>Thanks
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>18-05-2013, 00:38:46</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Smartex +1&nbsp; ;D
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>18-05-2013, 06:10:13</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				It all looks pretty good to me!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>18-05-2013, 20:04:43</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Catching up on everything here. There is a lot of wonderful information, and I pretty much concur with everybody else as of right now.<br><br>I'm hoping to see some rival dommes try to claim workers for themselves. Territory wars!<br><br>I'm not sure if this has been asked, but can the cubes be attached to one another? I could see a domme trying to collect more cubes for a larger abode. Just a thought, though.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>18-05-2013, 20:25:34</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8246662#msg8246662">Quote from: Visna on 18-05-2013, 20:04:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Catching up on everything here. There is a lot of wonderful information, and I pretty much concur with everybody else as of right now.<br><br>I'm hoping to see some rival dommes try to claim workers for themselves. Territory wars!<br><br>I'm not sure if this has been asked, but can the cubes be attached to one another? I could see a domme trying to collect more cubes for a larger abode. Just a thought, though.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Hopefully there will be enough subs to go around... PvP is permitted, but please please please, clear it with the other player and me first, and decide in advance who wins!<br><br>I have considered the possibility of the most dominant characters ousting people from the larger cubes and claiming them for themselves, but that would mean the ponies having to fit four or five to a small cube. It's important to note that all government is subject to "the will of the masses". The French Revolution occured because the aristocracy were living in luxury while the masses had nothing to eat. In the event that the few top dogs get themselves too comfortable, I'm sure the lower echelons would gang up against them. <br><br>This is why I have already likened the political system here to the game of "Cooperation". If you insist on treading down the masses, eventually they will rise up and swallow you. The best way to keep the masses subservient is to keep them content!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>18-05-2013, 21:06:37</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				A warning in advance, I'm not a fan of 'fighting' in any sense of the word. I get enough stress and crap like that IRL.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>18-05-2013, 22:16:26</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				This why I want people to clear ALL PvP with me in advance.<br><br>To ban it entirely would be unrealistic in the setting, but I don't want people getting upset about it. If necessary I will create a separate thread for people to have their characters challenge each other in, but i would actually prefer it if any "fights" could be handled swiftly and cleanly within one post each, keeping violence to a minimum.<br><br>Cooperation is the key to survival!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 01:07:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I have posted a detailed description of the mines, the technology in use, and the way they are worked.<br><br>Also I have named the stuff we are mining, Gelumium, and defined what it is used for!<br><br>Please would everyone go and have a good read of this information as there are some very carefully concealed gems in there.<br><br>If anyone cannot see other possible uses for Plazaweld® and Solplaz®, they are to report to me (or Haibane if i'm not about) for a serious spanking....
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 01:11:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Spanking?&nbsp; &nbsp;*smirk<br><br><br>Is that the only only way to get one?&nbsp; &nbsp;;D
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 01:20:07</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Not at all *spanks*
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 09:43:32</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Oh? I got promoted to Assistant Spanker?&nbsp; 8-) I'll be in my office...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ElvenKitten</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 09:49:57</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				*gets in line for her spanking*
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 10:10:27</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				As we're both here, Elven, you can have two...<br><br>Okay, so to save any further possible confusion regarding the alternative use of the plazweld and solplaz materials, allow me to demonstrate....<br><br><hr><br>Chrystal takes hold of ElvenKitten's wrists and after cutting a length of Plazweld, wraps it tightly around them. She reaches up to the low ceiling of the cube and presses the ends of the plazweld strip firmly against the duraplaz ceiling, then pulled out the tab to activate the plazweld.<br><br>A few seconds later and Chrystal lets go, leaving ElvenKitten's wrists permanently welded to the ceiling of her cube.<br><br>With great relish Chrystal opens a hole in Kitten's suit over each buttock and administers a nice hard spanking, turning both butt cheeks a nice bright crimson. She then hands over to Haibane, tossing her friend a bottle of Solplaz. "For when you want to get her down again, sweet."<br><br><hr><br>Get the picture?
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 10:14:56</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				*promptly loses the bottle of Solplaz*<br><br>"Oopsie. Hey everyone, Elvenkitten seems to be permanently hung from this cube's ceiling, help yourselves!"<br><br>I'm also thinking that whoever has guardianship of the plazweld dispensers will be a popular person.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ElvenKitten</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 10:15:33</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				*giggles* Oh I knew the possible applications, just wanted the spanking&nbsp; &gt;:)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 10:39:41</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8256149#msg8256149">Quote from: Haibane on 20-05-2013, 10:14:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">*promptly loses the bottle of Solplaz*<br><br>"Oopsie. Hey everyone, Elvenkitten seems to be permanently hung from this cube's ceiling, help yourselves!"<br><br>I'm also thinking that whoever has guardianship of the plazweld dispensers will be a popular person.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>That would be you, wouldn't it, Hai?<br><br>I'm also considering the various things one could do with a nicely sized icicle, provided the end was rounded off so it didn't do any damage...<br><br>Ice enemas anyone?
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>piece</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 13:52:09</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				-figures out the uses too, but also gets in line for a spanking, because spanking-<br><br><br>Also, the idea of icicle play hadn't even crossed my mind until now. And it sounds terrifying and exciting.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 13:55:17</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'm more of a hot water person so Enyr will be in the showers ;)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 16:26:59</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8256516#msg8256516">Quote from: Haibane on 20-05-2013, 13:55:17</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm more of a hot water person so Enyr will be in the showers ;)<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Um, sorry to disappoint, Hai, but what passes for "hot" water on this planet is 15°c...! It will feel scaldingly hot when you come in from outside...<br><br><strong>I have posted my final info post (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8218686#msg8218686)!</strong><br><br>Please take a look and let me know if I've forgotten anything important?<br><br>I'm thinking we are about good to go.<br><br>Any dissension from the ranks?
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 16:29:27</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				It needs to be at least blood temperature or it'll feel cold.<br><br>The suits are keeping the prisoners warm remember.<br><br>Showering after you wake and before going on shift? Needs hot water!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 16:35:24</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The general idea is that it feels cold all the time! The suits only keep you from getting hypothermia and frostbite, not from feeling cold!<br><br>Soon enough, the humanoid metabolism is such that the operating body temperature will adapt and you will no longer feel the chill in the same way, whereas newcomers will all be huddling together for warmth!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 17:57:27</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Hm, perhaps we should draw the line on realism at some stage and let the women have a little fun.<br><br>If the conditions outside are like Antarctica I think the suits would have to not only retain heat but generate it to some degree or else this game is just going to be miserable :(<br><br>I also vote for hot showers again!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 18:45:22</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Well, it is supposed to be a prison for really bad criminals... I'd think "miserable" is what we're going for here.&nbsp; :-[
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 18:48:48</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Then again, there are several kinds of miserable.<br><br>There's the kind of misery that leaves open cruel torments and delicious interpersonal relationships, which is should be encouraged.<br>There's the somewhat freaky kind of miserably that makes sense, but would really squick everybody, or restrict their actions in a terrible, terrible way, and should be avoided.<br>And, there's background info miserable, that probably won't come into play anyway.<br><br>I believe shower temperature falls into that last category, but am perfectly open to be proven wrong.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 18:56:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The point is, that this is not a holiday camp it's a prison. It is supposed to be miserable, and the idea is that the women are trying to make the best of a seriously fucked up situation as they can. I'm willing to compromise over some things. The temperature of the water in the showers is not that important to me. I'm more than happy to raise the temperature of the showers to something bearable like 25°c, however that will result in the time being cut from ten minutes to five!<br><br>I'm not going to compromise on the discomfort factor, nor on the suits not generating heat. The human body generates vast amounts of heat. It just needs to be kept in. Air is the best insulator going and if you trap a layer of it against the body it retains a lot of warmth. Trap it behind an insulating material and it does even better!<br><br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 19:38:20</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The issue is, its a role-playing game and we should be doing this for fun.<br><br>I want long hot sessions in the shower so sex is enjoyable.<br><br>I'm sorry Chrystal but if you're going to insist on real prison conditions and mentality the game would be miserable, so you have to be flexible and introduce some features a real prison wouldn't have.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 21:01:12</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Right....<br><br>Shower temperature and duration may be selected by the inmate, on the following basis:<br><br><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Temperature</strong></span></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Duration</strong></span></td><td><strong>15°C</strong></td><td><strong>22°c</strong></td><td><strong>37°c</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Ten Minutes</strong></td><td>Any Inmate</td><td>Inmate's shift must be on quota</td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Twenty Minutes</strong></td><td>Inmate's shift must be on quota </td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota</td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota, inmate takes class 2 rations</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Indefinite</strong></td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota</td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota, inmate takes class 2 rations</td><td>Inmate's shift must be over quota, inmate takes class 1 rations</td></tr></tbody></table><br>And that is my last word on the subject of showers! Take it or leave it!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 22:27:38</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Chrystal, I am good with what ever you want.<br><br>I am just easy that way. ;)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 22:37:38</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Same here, really.... In any case, shower temperature seems to be, um, a rather minor detail that probably won't come into play a whole lot anyway?
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 22:41:14</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8257633#msg8257633">Quote from: Haibane on 20-05-2013, 19:38:20</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The issue is, its a role-playing game and we should be doing this for fun.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Which means it should also be fun for me!<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I want long hot sessions in the shower so sex is enjoyable.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Funny. I tried having sex in the shower a few times. It was really cramped, and I ended up wit water up my nose. Not what i would call enjoyable...<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm sorry Chrystal but if you're going to insist on real prison conditions and mentality the game would be miserable, so you have to be flexible and introduce some features a real prison wouldn't have.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Hmmm... features a real prison wouldn't have. Let me see.... Does anyone know of a real prison that is an entire planet made of ice?<br><br>Anyone...?<br><br>Hai, have you ever been in a real prison?<br><br>From what I understand the showers are nice and warm, and you don't turn you back on the other inmates - I believe that is especially true of men's prisons... ! Which brings me back to the question of sex in the shower being enjoyable.... Well, for the D, maybe, but the S is going to be screaming her head off if she is straight "which most of the subs seem to be).<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8258507#msg8258507">Quote from: BeckyAnnn on 20-05-2013, 22:27:38</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Chrystal, I am good with what ever you want.<br><br>I am just easy that way. ;)<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Thanks Becky. I know you are easy...<br><br>*sniggers*<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8258580#msg8258580">Quote from: Ayahka on 20-05-2013, 22:37:38</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Same here, really.... In any case, shower temperature seems to be, um, a rather minor detail that probably won't come into play a whole lot anyway?<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>I think someone is planning on spending rather more time in the showers than down the pit!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 23:12:31</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Um... prison rape jokes aside, wouldn't the shower be a pretty inconvenient place for that in this particular prison? In a "normal" prison, the danger is there because everyone's naked and the shower's not as heavily guarded, but here the inmates all walk around practically naked at all times anyway, the transparent bodysuits are easy to open on the strategic places, there are no wardens around to stop it if some bigger, stronger woman decides to overpower and have her way with a weaker one.&nbsp; Just saying. :-[ 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 23:16:06</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8258752#msg8258752">Quote from: Ayahka on 20-05-2013, 23:12:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Um... prison rape jokes aside, wouldn't the shower be a pretty inconvenient place for that in this particular prison? In a "normal" prison, the danger is there because everyone's naked and the guard's less heavy, but here the inmates all walk around practically naked at all times anyway, the transparent bodysuits are easy to open on the strategic places, there are no wardens around to stop it if some bigger, stronger woman decides to overpower and have her way with a weaker one.&nbsp; Just saying. :-[<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Well yeah.....<br><br>I was actually rather expecting most of the actual sex to take place in the cubes...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 23:17:37</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				That was my understanding of it as well. ^_^
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>20-05-2013, 23:43:56</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				What? No work place sexual harassment in the mines?<br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>21-05-2013, 00:11:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8258936#msg8258936">Quote from: BeckyAnnn on 20-05-2013, 23:43:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">What? No work place sexual harassment in the mines?<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Now I didn't say that!<br><br>I just said "most of the actual sex".
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>21-05-2013, 22:20:16</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Okay, well, I am ready to get this started, but before I do I need to know who is still here, please?<br><br>For those players who's characters are already on the planet, I need to know who wants which job, from the list given below.<br><br>Equally, for those arriving on the planet on the first shuttle, it would be good to know which job you would like.<br><br><del>2x face workers - dig the Gelumium out of the face</del>. Taken<br><del>1 x face clearers - load the Gelumium into buckets and move it back.</del> Taken<br><del>2 x Ore wagon loaders - tip the ore buckets into the ore wagons.</del> (Not required)<br>2 x tunnel wideners - increase the size of the ice tunnels to allow the wagons to progress further, prop and shore-up the tunnels. (One taken)<br><del>1 x underground supervisor - in charge of all underground work, especially the shoring up.</del> Taken<br><del>2 x pit ponies - pull the loaded wagons up to the surface, bring supplies down to the face. Also used to help widen and shore-up at need. The longer the tunnel the more ponies on the shift.</del><br><del>1 x Elevator operator - ensures that the elevators are not overloaded, and that loads are aboard safely before activating the elevator.</del> (Not required)<br>1 x spoil yard supervisor - ensures that spoil wagons are routed to the correct track to tip the spoil.<br><del>2 x spoil yard maintenance - move and/or extend tracks in the spoil yard</del> (Not required)<br><del>1 x pithead supervisor - monitors the grading machine to ensure that all the ice is malted out of the ore and that the ore is graded correctly. Supervise the pad ponies, supervises pit ponies unloading ore and loading with supplies.</del> Taken<br>3 x Pad Ponies - take the loaded, graded ore wagons to the shuttle pad and tip them into the shuttle transport containers. (2 taken)<br><del>2 x supply loaders - assist the pit ponies in loading supplies to be taken down to the face.</del> Not required<br><br><br>Here is the table of characters.<br><br><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Player</strong></td><td><strong>Character</strong></td><td><strong>Species</strong></td><td><strong>Domme/Sub</strong></td><td><strong>Guilty or Innocent</strong></td><td><strong>Time served</strong></td><td><strong>Job</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Chrystal</td><td>Harrin Ffrrit (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8218535#msg8218535)</td><td>Mrinka</td><td>Domme</td><td>Guilty</td><td>Six years</td><td>Pithead Supervisor</td></tr><tr><td>deusexkristina</td><td>Dr. Kimb Fern (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8218543#msg8218543)</td><td>Liffan</td><td>Switch (Sub pref)</td><td>Guilty</td><td>Three years plus two on remand</td><td>Pad Pony</td></tr><tr><td>Ayahka</td><td>Diah (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8218550#msg8218550)</td><td>Quyllian</td><td>Switch</td><td>Guilty</td><td>Three years</td><td>underground supervisor</td></tr><tr><td>BeckyAnnn</td><td>Katianna Malova (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8218568#msg8218568)</td><td>Human</td><td>Unknown (Sub)</td><td>Mostly innocent!</td><td>New arrival</td><td>Face Clearance</td></tr><tr><td>Chloris</td><td>Basiléa Frédérique Martine de Virzonne (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8218575#msg8218575)</td><td>Human</td><td>Sub</td><td>Guilty</td><td>New arrival</td><td>Face Worker</td></tr><tr><td>RedEve</td><td>Dioni Van Graaf (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8218588#msg8218588)</td><td>Human</td><td>Switch (Domme Pref)</td><td>Guilty</td><td>Two years</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>piece</td><td>Syndel (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8218622#msg8218622)</td><td>Ouranii</td><td>Sub</td><td>Innocent (Guilty by association)</td><td>New arrival</td><td>Pit Pony</td></tr><tr><td>jayna</td><td>Jessica Kenney (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8231684#msg8231684)</td><td>Human</td><td>Switch (Domme Pref)</td><td>Innocent</td><td>New arrival</td><td>Face Worker</td></tr><tr><td>ElvenKitten</td><td>Paige 1478 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8237404#msg8237404)</td><td>Syntha (Augmented human)</td><td>submissive</td><td>Mostly Innocent</td><td>New arrival</td><td>Tunnel Widener</td></tr><tr><td>Visna</td><td>Layla Labwa Sitt A'daha (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8246657#msg8246657)</td><td>Human</td><td>Switch (sub pref)</td><td>Guilty</td><td>New arrival</td><td>Pit Pony</td></tr><tr><td>ADarkenedForest</td><td>Kira Ni`Haniko (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173956.msg8269281#msg8269281)</td><td>Human</td><td>Switch (sub pref)</td><td>Mostly Guilty</td><td>Two months</td><td>Pad pony</td></tr></tbody></table><br>If all players who are still playing could let me know their preference for what job they want?<br><br>Actually, if you are no longer interested for whatever reason, it would be polite if you could say so, so that I can remove your character sheet and know not to wait for you?<br><br>NOTE: If two or more players want the same job, I will give that job to the more dominant character with the longest time served, and then to the player who applied for it first. Obviously this only applies to the single jobs, unless I get three players wanting to be face workers...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>piece</strong> on <strong>21-05-2013, 23:55:09</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I am still in and ready to go.<br><br>As for jobs, I'm pretty flexible. Given the nature of my character, she'd probably do best in one of the more physically demanding jobs, like digging the face of the mine or as a pony pulling carts to and fro.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 00:30:09</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'm in.&nbsp; &nbsp;;D<br><br>As far as the job though I am not sure.&nbsp; As a new arrival I figure young Katianna will end up with the worst job the team thinks she is capable of doing.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 00:33:03</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Hmm...<br><br>Given that we have six new arrivals, I am thinking of three possible opener back-stories (assuming all six new arrivals' players are still in).<br><br>1) There has just been a major accident on our shift, in which a massive ice-quake or possibly a giant ice-worm caused a large portion of the tunnel to collapse. Of course such a collapse means that everyone digs to get the victims out, alive if possible. There were several survivors but we lost a lot of people too.<br><br>2) The shift has been low on people for some months due to older inmates dying and one or two lesser accidents, and the number of people being convicted and sent to the Cooler has been low, with the few who have been sent going elsewhere, but this time we are being brought back up near full strenght on the shift.<br><br>3) This is a new shift being set up on a new tunnel, on a new seam that has just been approved for mining. The settlement is not a new one, but the mine shaft and equipment are all new and the settlement has been expanded to accommodate the three new shifts of workers. The new shifts are being formed to keep newly arrived inmates busy, because there has been a sudden glut of them. The senior people on the shift have all been promoted from other shifts within the settlement or transferred in from other settlements.<br><br>Please note that I am implying something here that I have not previously mentioned: An order imposed from outside!<br><br>I don't see the social pecking order being imposed as such, and I still see who does what and sleeps where and with whom as being all things that the inmates decide for themselves. You want my job, you kill me and you can have it. But if you don't kill me, I'll kill you! Not that i see that sort of challenge being part of the game particularly, but it is there.<br><br>No, what I mean is that the inmates do not have access to the geological survey data. Nor are any of them actually skilled at mining (hence the low-tech tools).<br><br>I am envisioning a support team who spend most of their time on the orbital space station enjoying life and monitoring what is going on below them, and if it looks like all the shifts are up to full strength and more inmates are arriving, so things are going to get crowded, the marines come down and cordon off an area, then the support team come down and dig a new shaft, onto a previously untapped vein, set up all the various equipment and inform (via some method of communication that isn't important) the new seniors on each shift that they will be starting work on a new tunnel. Of course the support team use totally hi-tech tools such as lasers... in fact the shaft could be cut with a satellite laser!<br><br>So, anyway, three options. The bit about the support team makes sense anyway so I might just make that canon.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 00:43:00</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Personally I like the accident ideas because it establishes from the start how dangerous the operation is...and scares the new arrivals.&nbsp; :)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>piece</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 01:32:37</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I think that either the first or second option as the major backstory would work well. The outside imposition of order from an orbiting space station makes perfect sense, insofar as directing the prisoners in where to put their mining efforts to best use. But the idea that this particular settlement has been shorthanded for however long due to insufficient workers from losses lends itself well to the settlement as a whole being glad to see new arrivals. More workers to help meet and exceed the quota for mining, and shiny new playthings for the more dominant and superior prisoners to enjoy.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 08:47:54</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I think a nice balance could be to have it be the third solution, but the already established innmates would pretend there was a major cave-in to instill fear and play with the newcomers.<br><br>But overall, I'm mostly indifferent.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 11:29:21</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I think Diah, not being very physically strong, would be best suited for a job not too physically demanding. After all, it's in everyone's best interest that we get as much mining done as possible, so putting her as a pit pony or face worker would slow the operation down because she wouldn't be able to keep up with the bigger, stronger women. Elevator operator maybe?<br><br>I like the part about the support team having a comfortable and cushy life in space stations above the planet, completely disconnected from the cold, harsh life down on the surface! Is the support team all-female too, or are there males in it as well? 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Haibane</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 11:43:43</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Just letting everyone know that after much thought I have decided this game isn't for me. I hope you all have a great time playing. I'm pretty sure you will because Chrystal is an awesome and very naughty GM.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 13:51:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Mmmm...I like naughty.&nbsp; &nbsp;&gt;:)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>deusexkristina</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 18:06:03</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'm still in.<br><br>First, I like the idea of this being a new mine. A recent seismic shift (or something similar) has brought a rich new vein of ore into the range of orbital scanners. Wishing to take advantage of this untapped resource, a new mining site is set up nearby. To staff the new site, the wardens send in a flood of new arrivals and cherry-pick (or randomly select?) some from other sites. This would mean that those who have been on the planet for a while don't necessarily know each other. Its still possible that two inmates from the same site got moved together but not necessary.<br>A new mine is just so much more dangerous and exciting. Just my thoughts.<br><br>Second, I was tentatively thinking Kimb would be a good fit as elevator operator, though this might be too high up the social scale.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 20:54:19</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I am veering towards the new mine, mostly because the whole idea of the number of people being killed by a collapse to justify the number of new arrivals fills me with abject horror! I don't mind actually killing NPCs, but to have that number of people buried alive in the ice slowly being crushed to death, suffocated or frozen before they can be rescued.... I just don't want to go there.<br><br>So, unless half of you are willing to change your time served to a minimum of one month, I'm going to go with the new mine.<br><br>As Haibane has decided to drop out, which decision I agree with, because to make the game enjoyable for her would compromise the elements I most wished to include - the elements of hardship and discomfort being principal amongst them, the job of Underground supervisor is available. This is a great job for someone who wants to have free rein (pun intended) with the pit ponies.<br><br>Ayahka, as Dia has been on world second longest after Harrin, I'm offering you that job?<br><br>Kristina, given that Kimb totally enjoyed being held captive by a bunch of insects, I was wondering how she might take to being the shift's primary digger?<br><br>Pithead supervisor is, of course, the top job which is why Harrin has it! GM's privilege!<br><br>Waiting to see who else is still playing then I'll get some threads open.<br><br>Thinking four to start with - The mine, below ground, the mine above ground, the village, and the shuttle pad.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 22:51:17</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'm still playing, of course.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 23:03:49</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8270078#msg8270078">Quote from: Visna on 22-05-2013, 22:51:17</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm still playing, of course.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Yay.<br><br>Could yopu have a think about a job for Layla...<br><br><br>UM! Oh. Did I get two people's characters confused? AGH!<br><br>Visna, it was Layla who was captured by the insect queen wasn't it? Kristina, I'm sorry, my brain has gone mushy! So, yeah, have a think, people.<br><br>If any of you would like to not be new arrivals it would make my life easier, because that number of newcomers on the same shift is very contrived!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 23:19:10</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8270149#msg8270149">Quote from: Chrystal on 22-05-2013, 23:03:49</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Yay.<br><br>Could yopu have a think about a job for Layla...<br><br><br>UM! Oh. Did I get two people's characters confused? AGH!<br><br>Visna, it was Layla who was captured by the insect queen wasn't it? Kristina, I'm sorry, my brain has gone mushy! So, yeah, have a think, people.<br><br>If any of you would like to not be new arrivals it would make my life easier, because that number of newcomers on the same shift is very contrived!<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>That is what I thought, but I wasn't sure if I should say something!<br><br>I'd be fine with being a digger. I don't have any preference, really. I do agree that it fits her, though. Mind explaining a bit more about the role?<br><br>I wanted Layla to do whatever job would get her the most brownie points with her supervisors. She wants to brown-nose her way into a lifestyle that is more leisurely, and she is fine doing the dirty work at first to accomplish that goal.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 23:30:50</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8269399#msg8269399">Quote from: Chrystal on 22-05-2013, 20:54:19</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As Haibane has decided to drop out, which decision I agree with, because to make the game enjoyable for her would compromise the elements I most wished to include - the elements of hardship and discomfort being principal amongst them, the job of Underground supervisor is available. This is a great job for someone who wants to have free rein (pun intended) with the pit ponies.<br><br>Ayahka, as Dia has been on world second longest after Harrin, I'm offering you that job?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>That sounds like a good job! I'll take it! ^_^
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>22-05-2013, 23:47:36</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				OK, Chrystal.&nbsp; I have at least narrowed it down to face cleaner or pit pony.&nbsp; My only concern with the pit pony is that Katianna is quite small and I wonder if she will be able to pull the carts.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8270149#msg8270149">Quote from: Chrystal on 22-05-2013, 23:03:49</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">If any of you would like to not be new arrivals it would make my life easier, because that number of newcomers on the same shift is very contrived!<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>You can take me off the new arrival list it you need to.&nbsp; Just be patient with me as I have never played a group game before.&nbsp; (yeah I know...enough with the doubts)&nbsp; &nbsp;;)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 00:06:43</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8270250#msg8270250">Quote from: Visna on 22-05-2013, 23:19:10</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">That is what I thought, but I wasn't sure if I should say something!<br><br>I'd be fine with being a digger. I don't have any preference, really. I do agree that it fits her, though. Mind explaining a bit more about the role?<br><br>I wanted Layla to do whatever job would get her the most brownie points with her supervisors. She wants to brown-nose her way into a lifestyle that is more leisurely, and she is fine doing the dirty work at first to accomplish that goal.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Basically, the role involves going to the workface and hitting it with a pick-axe to break the Gellumium out of the ice. Layla will mostly be lying in a tunnel that is barely big enough for herself and one companion. She needs to follow the vein of Gellumium as it winds its way through the ice, digging it out. If the seam widens, she can dig the tunnel a bit wider. If the seam narrows, she must not waste time and energy widening the tunnel - that is the job of those behind her. She is allowed to widen it enough that her co-digger can get beside her and that is it.<br><br>When she gets tired, she hands over to the co-digger, and takes over her job, which is scraping the loosened Gellumium back down the tunnel so the face clearance girls can get at it and load it into their buckets<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8270325#msg8270325">Quote from: Ayahka on 22-05-2013, 23:30:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">That sounds like a good job! I'll take it! ^_^<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Cool.<br><br>Becky, I'lll put you down for face clearance then. being small would be a distinct advantage! <br><br>Piece, I can put Syndel as the other face-worker if you like, but she will have to get on very well with Layla, as the two will be working in intimate proximity.<br><br>Kristina, I can put Kim as the elevator operator if you like, but that is really a dominant's role as she gets to play with the ponies in the lift...<br><br>As she's been their a while, perhaps a job as a surface loader, or a pad pony might suit?<br><br>Chloris, any preference for job?<br><br><br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 00:14:37</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Just curious, will our characters be able to switch jobs or work their way up to a higher position as the plot progresses? I love the idea of Layla being a face worker, but I'd also love putting her in other situations down the road.<br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Piece, I can put Syndel as the other face-worker if you like, but she will have to get on very well with Layla, as the two will be working in intimate proximity.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>I really love Syndel's design. Piece, if you're interested, message me and we can figure something out.&nbsp; :-)<br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 00:22:28</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8270531#msg8270531">Quote from: Chrystal on 23-05-2013, 00:06:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Chloris, any preference for job?<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>I like to be surprised~
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 00:34:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8270569#msg8270569">Quote from: Visna on 23-05-2013, 00:14:37</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Just curious, will our characters be able to switch jobs or work their way up to a higher position as the plot progresses? I love the idea of Layla being a face worker, but I'd also love putting her in other situations down the road.<br>I really love Syndel's design. Piece, if you're interested, message me and we can figure something out.&nbsp; :-)<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Characters will be able to work their way up, yes, provided the game lasts that long<br><br>I'm going to cut the number of available roles, because I'm going with the new mine scenario, which would have fewer people working it...<br><br>That means less NPCs for me to worry about.<br><br>Piece has decided to have Syndel be a pit pony.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ADarkenedForest</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 01:01:27</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Hi there everybody, my character just got added to the game this morning. I'm excited to see where this goes, and I'm sure our characters will get to know one another much more closely soon, hehe.<br><br>As for Kira, I'd be happy to switch her from a new arrival to someone who's been there for a few months or so if that suspends disbelief a little more easily, I just don't want to play her as someone who's been there for more than a year. I'd like to start her off still in her adjusting period. Regarding her job, I think making her a pit or a pad pony would let her work up a nice sweat, even if she would struggle a little with the weight.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 03:59:05</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Hi&nbsp; ADarkenedForest.&nbsp; Welcome.&nbsp; &nbsp;:-)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>deusexkristina</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 19:39:41</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8270531#msg8270531">Quote from: Chrystal on 23-05-2013, 00:06:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Kristina, I can put Kim as the elevator operator if you like, but that is really a dominant's role as she gets to play with the ponies in the lift...<br><br>As she's been their a while, perhaps a job as a surface loader, or a pad pony might suit?<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Honestly, I can fit Kimb in wherever there is an opening. Kimb's character is flexible enough that she could fill a low level dominant-leaning work role and still have a submissive social role. Though, she'd be just as happy in a subbie job (which might be a better idea since we seem to have more subbie jobs). Whatever role is left I can fill&nbsp; :-)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 20:19:19</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Okay, so, I have put Chloris' Basiléa as a face worker, moved Visna's Layla to Pit pony at her request, and assigned Forest's Kira to Pad Pony, which is actually rather a plumb job and really would only go to someone who had been there a while - because it's above ground and thus a lot less dangerous!&nbsp; So, I have changed Kira to having been there two months.<br><br>Kristina's Kimb is also a pad pony.<br><br>I'm going to PM those players I haven't heard from yet to see if they are still in and then we can make a start!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jayna</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 21:24:15</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Hey! Sorry for my absence! I have no real preference on jobs!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 21:44:07</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Worst job is in the place! Take that, petty serial killers. Dictatorship is where it's at!&nbsp; &gt;:)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>23-05-2013, 21:45:32</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8275380#msg8275380">Quote from: Jayna on 23-05-2013, 21:24:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hey! Sorry for my absence! I have no real preference on jobs!<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>No worries. As a new arrival you would get an underground job. The only Domme-ish job left underground is face worker. Is that okay?<br><br>If RedEve is still interested, I am reserving the job of yard supervisor for her, but if she has dropped out, then if you give Jessica some time served, you could take that role.<br><br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jayna</strong> on <strong>24-05-2013, 01:16:46</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8275484#msg8275484">Quote from: Chrystal on 23-05-2013, 21:45:32</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">No worries. As a new arrival you would get an underground job. The only Domme-ish job left underground is face worker. Is that okay?<br><br>If RedEve is still interested, I am reserving the job of yard supervisor for her, but if she has dropped out, then if you give Jessica some time served, you could take that role.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>I would be up for either of those! Just because she prefers being Dom doesn't mean she'd get a Domme-ish job. Might be even more interesting if she doesn't end up with one! Just let me know what you want me to do! If she dropped I don't mind taking Yard Supervisor
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ElvenKitten</strong> on <strong>24-05-2013, 01:50:17</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Hi I'm still in&nbsp; ;D Hopefully a job that doesn't require as much physical strength since she's not all that strong.&nbsp; &nbsp;
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>24-05-2013, 20:56:27</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8276816#msg8276816">Quote from: ElvenKitten on 24-05-2013, 01:50:17</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hi I'm still in&nbsp; ;D Hopefully a job that doesn't require as much physical strength since she's not all that strong.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Tunnel Widener requires a degree of fitness and stamina, but not much actual strength. The job mostly involves swinging a pick axe at the ice and widening the tunnel dug by the face diggers so that the pit ponies can bring their wagons closer to the face.<br><br>It is probably the most dangerous job in the mine, more so than digging the face. At the face, you are digging out the seam of Gelumium, which is in a natural tunnel of it's own. But widening that tunnel means digging the ice away from above&nbsp; and to the sides, in a much larger size. This is more likely to result in a collapse, and the shoring up follows behind the widening.<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8276611#msg8276611">Quote from: Jayna on 24-05-2013, 01:16:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I would be up for either of those! Just because she prefers being Dom doesn't mean she'd get a Domme-ish job. Might be even more interesting if she doesn't end up with one! Just let me know what you want me to do! If she dropped I don't mind taking Yard Supervisor<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>I'll put you down as digger for now, okay? If players drop out or join, things will move around.<br><br>I will kick off the IC threads this weekend, probably tomorrow evening (my time) or Sunday morning.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>26-05-2013, 00:57:14</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'm opening the threads, slowly.<br><br>If anyone doesn't know how to do a post-link when moving between threads, please PM me and I'll try and explain it. I find it easy, but I have a head for that sort of thing!<br><br>If you can't get it to work, don't worry about it.<br><br>Right now I'm installing Bryce, a 3D landscape generator, with the intention of creating some nice images...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>26-05-2013, 16:45:23</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/30/Prison_planet_settlement.jpg)<br><br>Not exactly what I had in mind, but then neither are any of the other pics I'm using - And it gives you a sort of general idea...<br><br>And yes, I created this one myself using Bryce.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>26-05-2013, 17:58:42</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Dayum, I love this pic... it actually shows you the sort of settlement I have in mind, except everything is transparent...<br><br>(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090803042921/ogame/images/thumb/4/4f/Ogame_Ice_Planet_Resources_Backdrop.jpg/640px-Ogame_Ice_Planet_Resources_Backdrop.jpg)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>26-05-2013, 18:14:40</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Looks harsh.&nbsp; I like.&nbsp; :-)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>26-05-2013, 19:57:59</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Oooh yes, I love that second pic! It looks much colder and harsher!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>26-05-2013, 20:56:51</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				IC threasds are now open for posting.<br><br><strong>IC Threads</strong><br><br>The landing Pad (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175104.0)<br>The Settlement (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175103.0)<br>The Mine - Above Ground (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175039.0)<br>The Mine - Below Ground (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=175028.0)<br><br>Links can also be found in the first post of this thread, the character thread and the recruitment thread.<br><br><br><br><br><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Blue Highway Linocut;" class="bbc_font"><span style="font-size: 72pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>GAME ON</strong></span></span></div>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 15:36:26</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I was busy all weekend! Catching up on a ton of posts. So glad I didn't miss the start.&nbsp; :-)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 17:31:08</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				So far, no-one has missed the start... &lt;.&lt;&nbsp; &gt;.&gt;&nbsp; <br><br>*shrug* It's a holiday weekend and everyone is doing stuff.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 18:06:27</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'm here, I'm just trying to figure out where to begin. :-[&nbsp; It is the first time I'm in a multi-thread role-play of this size, so I was hoping to peek at a few posts by someone else first in order to get some hints about how it was done.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 18:10:40</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm here, I'm just trying to figure out where to begin.&nbsp; &nbsp;It is the first time I'm in a multi-thread role-play of this size, so I was hoping to peek at a few posts by someone else first in order to get some hints about how it was done.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br><br><br><br>I have never played a group game let alone a multi-thread game so I was doing the same, waiting for someone else to post.&nbsp; I may be in over my head.&nbsp; :o
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 18:40:15</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Patience, ladies.<br><br>There are experienced group gamers here.<br><br>You have both seen my openers. Becky, you PMed me your post and i told you it's great. I have no problem with people waiting because they don't want to go first, but... well, if no-one goes first, it's going to be a short game!<br><br>Visna will be posting soon, I'm sure
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 18:43:49</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'll try to have something up today or tomorrow.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>piece</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 19:08:12</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I will have a post up sometime today as a new arrival.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 19:10:00</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8295423#msg8295423">Quote from: Visna on 27-05-2013, 18:43:49</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'll try to have something up today or tomorrow.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8295525#msg8295525">Quote from: piece on 27-05-2013, 19:08:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I will have a post up sometime today as a new arrival.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Yay, thanks girls, you're the best!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 19:46:31</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8295543#msg8295543">Quote from: Chrystal on 27-05-2013, 19:10:00</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Yay, thanks girls, you're the best!<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Nooo, you are!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 20:01:16</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I did spend the waiting time drawing a picture of Diah (I wasn't a hundred percent happy with the one I initially posted). <br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">NSFW</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://s23.postimg.org/3ocnbe0ej/diah.jpg)</div></div><br>Could you add it to her post on the character page?
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 20:32:40</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				What a beauty! She is such an awesome character.&nbsp; :-)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 20:33:22</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8295820#msg8295820">Quote from: Ayahka on 27-05-2013, 20:01:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I did spend the waiting time drawing a picture of Diah (I wasn't a hundred percent happy with the one I initially posted). <br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">NSFW</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://s23.postimg.org/3ocnbe0ej/diah.jpg)</div></div><br>Could you add it to her post on the character page?<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Consider it done.<br><br>Because, I just did it, lol.... Nice pic. I'll recruit you to do artwork for me if you aren't careful!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 20:52:10</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Thank you! ^_^
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 21:39:34</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				OK going to go on and take the plunge.<br><br>Crash and burn!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>27-05-2013, 21:44:23</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8296413#msg8296413">Quote from: BeckyAnnn on 27-05-2013, 21:39:34</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">OK going to go on and take the plunge.<br><br>Crash and burn!<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Go for, girl.<br><br>Piece, that was beautiful!<br><br>By the way, the reason I didn't post anything in the Settlement thread beyond the place-holder, was because I couldn't think of anything meaningful to post there... So don't panic if you are stuck. I'm joing to post in the landing pad as Harrin, to give the existing inmate players something to insipre them.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>28-05-2013, 10:27:34</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8296443#msg8296443">Quote from: Chrystal on 27-05-2013, 21:44:23</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm joing to post in the landing pad as Harrin, to give the existing inmate players something to insipre them.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Hey, when you do, is it okay if Diah is with her? As one of the "veterans" she'd be curious about the newcomers... that, and she'd make for an interesting contrast to Harrin. ^_^ 
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>28-05-2013, 19:29:41</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				The general idea is that unloading and loading is an "all hands to the pump" thing (or plough, or on deck, or... well it's an all hands thing). So basically I'm expecting pretty much everyone to post first in the pad thread.<br><br>I'll get my post there tonight, with a bit of luck.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>28-05-2013, 21:54:51</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				All right! I must have misunderstood something then. But this works!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>29-05-2013, 19:07:13</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Hi there.<br><br>Sorry for the lackluster presence, but a few issues made that I don't have much time to spend online currently. I should be back to a more normal schedule in a couple of days, at which point I'll probably post my arrival.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>29-05-2013, 20:18:16</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8307085#msg8307085">Quote from: Chloris on 29-05-2013, 19:07:13</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hi there.<br><br>Sorry for the lackluster presence, but a few issues made that I don't have much time to spend online currently. I should be back to a more normal schedule in a couple of days, at which point I'll probably post my arrival.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>No worries. Thanks for letting us know.<br><br>Real Life Comes First!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>01-06-2013, 19:34:56</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Okay, waiting on just two players to post, Chloris (who I think is still having real life issues) and jayna, who was about earlier today...<br><br>Giving you two until tomorrow morning and then moving things forward. You can still post your arrivals retrospectively, but I can't keep everyone else hanging around.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jayna</strong> on <strong>01-06-2013, 19:48:06</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Sorry I have been some real life issues limiting my time one the computer. Ill have my post up tonight
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>01-06-2013, 19:55:08</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8323467#msg8323467">Quote from: Chrystal on 01-06-2013, 19:34:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Giving you two until tomorrow morning and then moving things forward. You can still post your arrivals retrospectively, but I can't keep everyone else hanging around.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Is that tomorrow morning your time....or middle of the night my time?&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;My today is your tomorrow...or is it my today is your yesterday? *smirk<br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>01-06-2013, 20:23:20</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				*puts Becky over her knee and spanks for being too technical*<br><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8323518#msg8323518">Quote from: Jayna on 01-06-2013, 19:48:06</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Sorry I have been some real life issues limiting my time one the computer. Ill have my post up tonight<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>It's okay hun. If you could try and let us know, that's all.<br><br>And for those currently having trouble sitting down, *snigger* I meant tomorrow morning 9:00am UTC, or 10:00am my time.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>01-06-2013, 20:29:46</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">*puts Becky over her knee and spanks for being too technical*</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br><br><br>Thank you, mam. May I have another..........hehehehe.&nbsp; &nbsp;;D
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>01-06-2013, 20:32:02</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				*giggles* Damn, girl you really bring out my sadistic side...<br><br>No, you may not!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>02-06-2013, 05:45:34</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				&nbsp;:'(
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>02-06-2013, 22:19:45</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Just so people know, I have no problems with people pairing up, but I would quite like it if the dommes could basically take their pick of the subs, rather than choosing one and sticking with her?<br><br>If you do want to have your character form some sort of exclusive attachment, please could both of you say so here?<br><br>We have more subs than Ds, which is good, and I have nothing against two subs getting together ass long as they realise that if a D grabs one of them, their only option is to offer a 3-way!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>02-06-2013, 23:33:08</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Well, can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not planning on pairing up exclusively with anyone. ^_^ That'd take most of the fun out of this.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>02-06-2013, 23:46:52</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Layla isn't exclusive. She is open to pretty much anybody who approaches her.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ADarkenedForest</strong> on <strong>03-06-2013, 15:02:20</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Kira might feel a little protective of some of the new girls, but she's definitely open for anyone to grab her, hehe.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>piece</strong> on <strong>08-06-2013, 19:08:39</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				On the character side of things, Syndel won't be exclusive either, unless one of our dominant types scares everyone else away from her.<br><br>On the personal side of things, sorry for the delay in response. My internet decided to flake out on me. :(
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>08-06-2013, 19:55:03</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Glad you seem to have it working again, I was beginning to wonder if you'd vanished.<br><br>*hugs*
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>09-06-2013, 02:45:36</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Soooooooo...have we all died in a freakishly strong ice storm?&nbsp; &nbsp; *smirk
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jayna</strong> on <strong>10-06-2013, 02:10:12</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'm posting tonight!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>15-06-2013, 00:16:45</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Try to post at least once a week. If you know you will be unable to post for a while please let us know in advance in the OOC. it is a good idea to create an Apologies/Absences (A/A) thread so everyone you are RPing with knows where you've gone. If you know you are going to be away for a considerable time (more than a week) please bring any story-arcs you are involved in to a conclusion , or extract your character from them.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Game Pacing: I would prefer a minimum of one post per week, please. Anyone not posting for two weeks without saying why will be nudged twice by PM and then assumed to have left the game. Players who drop out with their character "in play" will be taken over by myself or another player.&nbsp; </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Player</strong></td><td><strong>Character</strong></td><td><strong>last post</strong></td><td><strong>Days since post</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Chrystal</td><td>Harrin Ffrrit</td><td>Yesterday at 21:26:55</td><td><div align="center">1</div></td></tr><tr><td>Ayahka</td><td>Diah</td><td>02-06-2013, 11:29:55</td><td><div align="center">12</div></td></tr><tr><td>BeckyAnnn</td><td>Katianna Malova</td><td>Today at 03:39:13</td><td><div align="center">0</div></td></tr><tr><td>Chloris</td><td>Basiléa Frédérique Martine de Virzonne</td><td>03-06-2013, 00:41:38</td><td><div align="center">11</div></td></tr><tr><td>piece</td><td>Syndel</td><td>Today at 02:56:01</td><td><div align="center">0</div></td></tr><tr><td>jayna</td><td>Jessica Kenney</td><td>02-06-2013, 08:45:00</td><td><div align="center">12</div></td></tr><tr><td>ElvenKitten</td><td>Paige 1478</td><td>30-05-2013, 12:08:37</td><td><div align="center">15</div></td></tr><tr><td>Visna</td><td>Layla Labwa Sitt A'daha</td><td>02-06-2013, 22:45:52</td><td><div align="center">12</div></td></tr><tr><td>ADarkenedForest</td><td>Kira Ni`Haniko</td><td>06-06-2013, 01:53:38</td><td><div align="center">8</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br>Okay, so I know things are a little slow, but come on people.<br><br>This is a sandbox game. You make your own action. and stories. If your character is sitting waiting for someone to notice them, your best bet is to move centre stage and make someone notice them!<br><br>I can't be everywhere!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ElvenKitten</strong> on <strong>15-06-2013, 00:19:09</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				will be posting tonight, had some inspiration&nbsp; O:)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>15-06-2013, 00:26:03</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8399490#msg8399490">Quote from: ElvenKitten on 15-06-2013, 00:19:09</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">will be posting tonight, had some inspiration&nbsp; O:)<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Yay, thanks :)<br><br>
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>15-06-2013, 01:30:02</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'm waiting on Ayahka, pretty much.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>15-06-2013, 20:24:11</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8399876#msg8399876">Quote from: Visna on 15-06-2013, 01:30:02</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm waiting on Ayahka, pretty much.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>I just checked and she has been active today. I have sent her a PM.<br><br>If anyone is waiting on someone else to post, please feel free to check when they were last active and if it was after your last post, send them a PM. Yes, ultimately it is my responsibility as GM to keep the game running but I do have other things outside E, as well as always having more games running than I should, so any assistance in nudging people would be appreciated? The one thing to remember is be polite.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>18-06-2013, 08:09:19</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Gah. I'm really sorry I seemed to have dropped off the face of the Earth for a bit, but I had some weird computer trouble -- I could browse for like five minutes but not type anything because my keyboard got all strange and began typing random keys. I've gotten myself an external keyboard now and finally figured out how to disable the built-in one so that it doesn't insist on typing QQQQQQQQQ or whatever all the time, so now I can actually write and make it legible. I'll start typing up the next Diah post immediately.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>18-06-2013, 20:26:42</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Welcome back, and glad you have it sorted.<br><br>We missed you!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>18-06-2013, 23:03:49</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Good to be back! ^_^ For someone who relies so much on computers in her work, I'm surprisingly little tech-savvy...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chloris</strong> on <strong>19-06-2013, 01:55:39</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Well that's annoying, I can't seem to get into things. As in, actually getting into things.. I gave up on writing a post after staring at a blank field three times now...
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>19-06-2013, 23:39:01</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=173959.msg8423241#msg8423241">Quote from: Chloris on 19-06-2013, 01:55:39</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Well that's annoying, I can't seem to get into things. As in, actually getting into things.. I gave up on writing a post after staring at a blank field three times now...<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>Been there, done that, bought the tee-shirt!<br><br>How can I help? Would a NPC bumping in to Basiléa and dropping a load of Duraplaz girders on her feet give you some inspiration, perhaps?
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>26-06-2013, 19:48:06</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Is anyone actually still wanting to play this game (apart from BeckyAnnn and piece)?<br><br>I'm asking because, quite honestly, if people are not going to keep the game going, I'm not going to GM it!<br><br>I've already said to you that this is a sandbox game, and that means you make your own stories in the environment I have provided.<br><br>The only player right now who should be waiting for me to post is Piece, and she and I have started a one-on-one game, thanks.<br><br>I am going away for a week from Friday. I will post between now and when I leave, but if there are no posts other than direct responses to my post between now and when I get home on the 5th, I shan't be posting again either to the IC threads or the OOC thread!<br><br>You have been warned!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Visna</strong> on <strong>26-06-2013, 23:33:20</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'm still interested. :/ Just been waiting for a response.<br><br>Although, I'll be gone the next two weeks. Leaving tomorrow.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>27-06-2013, 16:46:21</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				I'm absolutely still on board with it -- if I've seem a little passive even after my computer was fixed, it was largely due to not quite knowing where to continue. In any case, I did manage to write a new post for the landing pad and was planning on writing up a post yesterday, but then the forums went all weird -- anyone else experience that? Well, it's up now, at any rate.<br><br>(And Visna: Keep in mind that Diah is only <em>attempting</em> to hypnotize Layla. It's up to you whether she manages or not. ^_^)
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>27-06-2013, 17:17:10</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				E was down for a good part of this morning / last night (depending on your time zone).<br><br>I'm not going to apologise for the tone of my last post here, even though some of you do deserve one, because... well, basically I'm a bitch, and I was feeling bitchy.<br><br>When I get back from holiday i will see who is in still...<br><br>Aya, Vis is off for a while, so I will forgive you not posting again until she gets back.
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Ayahka</strong> on <strong>27-06-2013, 18:46:03</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Okay. Hope you have a good... whatever it is you're off doing!
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Chrystal</strong> on <strong>27-06-2013, 18:50:36</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Camping... :D<br><br>Tents and bottle gas stoves and camp beds and the like :D
			</dd>
			<dt class="postheader">
				Title: <strong>Re: Prison Planet - Hell Frozen Over - OOC Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>BeckyAnnn</strong> on <strong>27-06-2013, 19:18:51</strong>
			</dt>
			<dd class="postbody">
				Have fun! 
			</dd>
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