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by Welsh Halfwit
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:46 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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62 Marius huffed as he kept up with the others, his unfamiliarity with the suit slowing him as Pangal and Raven kept pace with the desperate old Mican through the town. “I don’t get it,” he huffed, “this reaction doesn’t make any sense. Why kill their own workforce?” <“There’s a lot about what they ...
by Welsh Halfwit
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:02 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Last poster wins.
Replies: 3034
Views: 880818

Re: Last poster wins.

Silence in the library!

Steals the win before they work out they're not in a library and it's a bad 'Doctor Who' gag
by Welsh Halfwit
Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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61 Katara swore as a starboard power coupling gave out and she worked on rerouteing the power flow so an engineer could get to the physical location and repair the system whilst they were still under fire. She watched as Tillock obviously fired the new weapons again, evidenced by the power flow fluc...
by Welsh Halfwit
Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:25 pm
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Word Chain
Replies: 20152
Views: 3037935

Re: Word Chain

Twitterpated
by Welsh Halfwit
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:50 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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Spot the Star Trek gags in this one... 60 The battle railed as the Scholl and the Loper engaged the trio of Darts defending the planet as the trio called for assistance, only to have their calls blocked by Dawton and the Kestalan communications operative as fast as they could. They kept switching fr...
by Welsh Halfwit
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:46 am
Forum: Not the Comic
Topic: Announcements of leave and return
Replies: 3633
Views: 1175446

Re: Announcements of leave and return

I'm back. It's just that Life is beginning to annoy me and I had to return here and just write as I go along. Hugs a writer. That's how I do it. And how Lee Childs does it too. He believes it's important that the writer finds out the danger or challenge facing the hero at the same time as the reader.
by Welsh Halfwit
Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Word Chain
Replies: 20152
Views: 3037935

Re: Word Chain

Lunatic
by Welsh Halfwit
Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:39 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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59 Raven finished adjusting her combat armour as she stood in the teleport room of the Raicarran vessel, amongst a group of ten ‘ground walkers’ and five Kestalans, armed with inbuilt weapons and additional heavy energy hand blasters. Only one of the ten was missing the hand weapon as Pangal finishe...
by Welsh Halfwit
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:50 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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58 ‘Flint’, being the one in the actual combat armour, led the way into the structure, climbing over the smashed section of wall and shining his suits lights into the dark, silent, world inside as the tip began to spark into life. Kirrie Muir pushed him on as he stopped for a half second as she wasn...
by Welsh Halfwit
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:48 am
Forum: Forum Games
Topic: Word Chain
Replies: 20152
Views: 3037935

Re: Word Chain

Dunderhead
by Welsh Halfwit
Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:46 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

Re: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER

57 The group watched the three ships pass by overhead, some of the Raicarrans getting their first chance to assess the damage from outside their ship as it went by, still bearing visible scars and gaps in the hull. The bulkheads were still sealed in some places, repairs having been against a large c...
by Welsh Halfwit
Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:08 pm
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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Oh, that'll happen. With a sort of twist.
by Welsh Halfwit
Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:15 pm
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

Re: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER

56 “This time,” Katara said, holding the youthful vixen by the collar whilst she strode down the passageway, “you ARE going in the secure zone, ma’am… And you’re STAYING there!” Sarafina squirmed a little under the grip and wondered if she had the right to raise a complaint against this officer. Was...
by Welsh Halfwit
Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:19 pm
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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55 It was almost a council of war in the meeting room, with Hawle, Stikka, Havakar and Patchway sat at the table with Salara and Yakkuk conspicuously in opposite corners of the room. The Hrakar had tried assuring her that she wasn’t in trouble but she wasn’t certain she could trust him. His report o...
by Welsh Halfwit
Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:17 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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54 The Loper waited at the edge of sensor range, waiting for the probe they’d sent to report back on the situation on the fourth planet in the system. It seemed to be the only planet in the system that could support life any more and Caltaya was already analysing the scans of the first planets it ha...
by Welsh Halfwit
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:06 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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53 Raven and Hawle watched from the bridge as the Savval headed back towards home, turning languidly so Cheel could, as she’d once said, show Sarah the most perfect butt in the sector. To the starboard side the Raicarran ship, which Parkway had called the ‘Silkway’, was being patched up by an extrem...
by Welsh Halfwit
Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:53 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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Oh, yeah. Hawthorne's been to dinner there several times. 52 “Hawthorne,” Aldair asked, stepping forward to hug his cousin as she arrived on the teleport pad. The pair embraced and enjoyed the feeling for the moment. “Is everything OK at home? Dale alright?” He let Hawthorne go and she stepped back....
by Welsh Halfwit
Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:22 pm
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

Re: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER

Yes, that IS a Titan A.E. reference. And now you know who's popping infor a quick visit. 51 “Do you think anyone’s coming, sir,” Jaqui asked as the Loper waited at the rendezvous point for back up. He wanted to get underway. To deal these things that occasionally interrupted his night’s sleep a thum...
by Welsh Halfwit
Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:22 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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50 A day out and drying paint saw the Loper close on a small field of asteroids hanging it the deepest part of space and Caltaya on the science console on the bridge, having replaced a somewhat knackered Match after a twenty hour shift he’d insisted on pulling. The Professor had asked if he could fi...
by Welsh Halfwit
Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: Not the Comic
Topic: Announcements of leave and return
Replies: 3633
Views: 1175446

Re: Announcements of leave and return

HiraokaNettoMichio wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:35 am I'm back and it's mainly because of very recent scam that was pulled in Glasgow involving AI and Wonka.

It got my creative juices flowing!
For more on that ludicrosity...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrlr3dw2x3o
by Welsh Halfwit
Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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49 They were parked some three million kilometres further out from the reignited star, angled towards home rather than where they were planning to go. Dawton was keeping his ears out for signals from home as the maintenance teams and engineers did their best to repaint the hull of the ship. Or, as E...
by Welsh Halfwit
Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:49 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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She's reminding him that they've been successful.
by Welsh Halfwit
Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:33 am
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: Non-HPU: Crater City
Replies: 1274
Views: 564611

Re: Non-HPU: Crater City

"I know," Julian said, testing out if this was the right time to handhold by handholding Tracie. "I think it's to do with the rhythm of the noise, yeah? Something comforting about it."
by Welsh Halfwit
Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:12 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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And things continue. An upcoming episode is more of a 'touchbase' as characters from another story pop in for a quick visit. But I'll leave it as a surprise as to who... 48 Jaqui looked at her comm in annoyance as her team worked on the plan drawn up by Salara and Marius, with Teplar sealing the doo...
by Welsh Halfwit
Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:03 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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47 The Kestalan world lay below them, a shining grey and blue orb around a yellowing sun and the light glinted off the shuttle as it arced towards the surface, where the colonial flight and their leader were waiting for the strangers from outer space to walk beneath them. Hawle wondered if he should...
by Welsh Halfwit
Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:00 am
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: Non-HPU: Beacon of Hope
Replies: 4760
Views: 5613071

Re: Non-HPU: Beacon of Hope

Sarah huffed. " Seems nowt. thought might be a door or... Any of youse got a shap'd charge? Mak' oor ain door? " -------------------------------------- Corp gave Conall a thumbs up before rolling his eyes and contacted Recon on a private channel. " According to our little loca the air...
by Welsh Halfwit
Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:09 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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The Jondahl crystal thing was something from waaaaaayyy back in the stories, back when I only had a word processor. That's how far back. 46 She remembered visiting the location once, a year or so back. She’d been acting as the adjunct for Solbrea back then, his associate as he examined the process, ...
by Welsh Halfwit
Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:14 pm
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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45 Hawle had his feet on the floor in his office and was keeping quiet as he turned a message chit over in his hand and tapped it on the table with each turn. It was something he’d hoped never to need, an emergency message that was sealed to outside sources. An ultra priority package that could only...
by Welsh Halfwit
Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:15 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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44 Sarina Raven and her squad arrived in the primary teleport control room of the Raitchian craft and signalled for Chief Pangal to open the door and was a little nonplussed when the Lappinean simply stepped towards the door and it opened. There was pressure here, it seemed. No bodies though. The cr...
by Welsh Halfwit
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:17 am
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: HPU - Richardson Valley
Replies: 10522
Views: 4570997

Re: HPU - Richardson Valley

"Well," David counselled, stroking her side, "I know we have things to do today but we have at least a half hour before our 'daughter' gets up and..." He heard a soft thump from the next room. "Or, maybe, half a minute?"
by Welsh Halfwit
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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Mint Imperials. Good for eating. Good for throwing. 43 Harvey Winsome, feeling his head being considerably less abuzz than it was yesterday, had decided to try and make up for his lamentable lack of intelligence that had, seemingly, gotten them into the trouble they were in now. The probe they’d lef...
by Welsh Halfwit
Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:57 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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Time to mention a few characters who aren't here. And what was Night up to that she encountered HIM? 42 The fact it was a Raicarra cruiser put Hawle in two minds as to whether to ‘announce’ themselves to the incoming cruiser. On the one hand approaching openly seemed to promote the idea of friendlin...
by Welsh Halfwit
Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:33 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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41 They released the science buoy Zowaix had been working on half an hour after launching the torpedo. According to Match and the Professor, the nuclear reactions were beginning inside the structure and heat radiation was steadily beginning to creep up from near zero. Match and the Professor made su...
by Welsh Halfwit
Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:24 pm
Forum: Not the Comic
Topic: Announcements of leave and return
Replies: 3633
Views: 1175446

Re: Announcements of leave and return

HiraokaNettoMichio wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:00 pm At the very least, I am not going to let a murderous fandom ruin my fun and work.

I will get back to the exercises sooner rather than later.
THAT, good sir, is the best attitude!
by Welsh Halfwit
Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:47 am
Forum: Not the Comic
Topic: Announcements of leave and return
Replies: 3633
Views: 1175446

Re: Announcements of leave and return

If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. There's no pressure. If you do? Write for fun.
by Welsh Halfwit
Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:57 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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40 Donikka and Goole exited the launch bay quite quickly as the grapple system grasped hold of the torpedo in question and lowered it into a launch tube. The tube capsule sealed against the void and readied for launch but the pair were deciding that discretion was the best part of valour and, quite ...
by Welsh Halfwit
Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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I tend to name the Micans after Northern England/Scotland towns or names. (Henry Postlethwaite, Harriet Thurso and so on.) I think I got away with Kirriemuir but I've reached peak name silliness with a Scotland born Mican called Kirkin Tilloch...
by Welsh Halfwit
Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:20 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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39 A dark rock of immense proportions lay ahead of them right now. It was on the U.S.C. maps as Urikkila Delta and it had been one of the runners up in Caltaya’s initial plans for the test. The main thing he’d held against it was that the first one was closer and easier to spot via the high powered ...
by Welsh Halfwit
Fri Feb 16, 2024 5:31 pm
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: HPU - Richardson Valley
Replies: 10522
Views: 4570997

Re: HPU - Richardson Valley

Scruff practically jumped to his feet as Sam fell to the ground and struggled to remember if he was wearing pyjamas or not as he headed over to help Sam up. She beat him to it. "Shoulda figgured you didn't need help," he told his new 'sister' sheepishly.
by Welsh Halfwit
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: Media Median
Topic: THE LOPER - SUNBRINGER
Replies: 135
Views: 29576

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It's always the little things you forget... 38 Salara looked up as Katara and Desty worked to put up something appropriating her species resting area between the walls with Katara using the stepladder and the Canine just standing on the floor. The Vixen (which was a female Ceelican?) was using an en...