Cabosh 2014/03/15(Sat)04:47 No. 566375 ID: be48b2
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Choose your military branch.

Navy is easy mode, army medium and air force is hard mode.

Whichever it is they should be flamingly gay. I guess air force just because it's less cliché to be gay there?

army

Air force.

Army

To the air force we go!

Air force!

That means we get the stargate, right?

space army.

want to say navy for only one reason, they get the biggest guns.

Cabosh 2014/03/15(Sat)11:11 No. 566393 ID: be48b2
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Air force it is! Choose your vehicle class:

Fighters.
Bombers.
Logistics.

Note: Logistics includes transport planes not just choppers.

>>566386
The official stance of the Valeland government is that the 'space army' doesn't exist and is in fact product of enemy propaganda.

Fighters

Logistics.

Bombers

Logistics

Mmmm, driving a mid-air refueling plane or a flying radar post sounds absolutely perfect for fucking off and going AWOL.

Bombers. NUKE EM!!!

Cabosh 2014/03/15(Sat)13:40 No. 566412 ID: be48b2
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Logistics! Choose your Vehicle and name your Pilot.

Also choose one value between 90 and -90
and one value between 180 and -180

Supply Helo, Keith "Easy" Rhyder

0 and 0

rolled 43 - 90 = -47

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Supply. Here's the first number...

rolled 164 - 180 = -16

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...and here's the second.

>>566393
Supply Helo since it is winning. By the way, was there any change if we had made the right choices that we could have gotten something similar to an AC-130?

1/3 Cabosh 2014/03/16(Sun)06:56 No. 566535 ID: be48b2
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You are Captain Keith "EZ" Rhyder currently taking part in a joint military exercise at Booths peninsula.

You are currently tasked with transporting
supplies to a nearby island where the marines are practising landings.

>>566441
AC-130 wasn't a possible choice for the same reason attack helicopters weren't an choice. I forgot they existed.

2/3 Cabosh 2014/03/16(Sun)06:59 No. 566536 ID: be48b2
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You are currently listening your Door gunner Jeff depating with Crew chief Nathan about
personal philosophies on life.

Command informed you that today your side has the air superiority so there should be no trouble.

3/3 Cabosh 2014/03/16(Sun)07:00 No. 566537 ID: be48b2
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Aaaand then half the control boards warnings light up accomppanied with a cacophony of
warning sirens.

Your Co-pilot Hugo seems to be frozen in shock.

Jeff and Nathan have gotten off the intercom and you can just barely hear them shouting
something at each other over the warning sirens and the engines.

Well, alright, stay calm. You've trained for this.

Have you lost control of the aircraft, or is there anything, well, observable to accompany those alarms going off? And what do the alarms say is wrong?

day's just started and things have already gone to hell. Anyways get your co-pilot to help you regain control and start yelling at the other two in back to see if they can't find out what the hell the problem is and fix it.

1/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/16(Sun)10:58 No. 566560 ID: be48b2
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You test the controls and they are working normally. You slow down the chopper to a hover and check the altitude, stable at 1000 feet. You start testing the engines and electronics.

You turn to your co-pilot: "Hugo babe please tell me what we have and what we don't have."

2/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/16(Sun)10:58 No. 566561 ID: be48b2
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"Uuh yeah uh sat nav offline, GPS offline, ENC blank." Hugo starts silencing the alarms as he mentions them.
"INS has gone haywire, RDF has gone silent infact i am not hearing anything on the radio."

Glancing out the windows reveals only clear skies.

3/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/16(Sun)11:00 No. 566562 ID: be48b2
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You try to raise the rest of your crew on the intercom but are cut off by your tail gunner Noah.
"Captain! You won't believe this! The sea just changed color, I saw it and Jeff and Chief saw it too."

What?

look out your window and see what he's talking about.

>sea changed color
Oh. Worst case- that means we're suddenly somewhere else. A seamless teleport, of we fell into another world. (Not that you should voice that idea, yet).

Still, it's unlikely that every system that connects to outside communication failed all at once. Something just happened to cut you off.

Which means: currently we're above water, with no land in sight, and no means to confirm our position and course. Not good.

Do we have a compass at least? Is that acting up? How about fuel? How much is left in the tank, what's our range, and how far away was our intended destination?

Suggestion 2014/03/16(Sun)12:18 No. 566590 ID: 2f4b71
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You didn't happen to fly through an unusually thick fog bank, or see something like this did you?

>>566562
The sea changing color suggests some sort of aquatic event. Good thing we're not in a boat. Just keep going towards the destination. As soon as we see the island we can land without satnav, and maybe see if we can get repairs for the malfunctioning equipment.

Keith Rhyder 2014/03/16(Sun)13:50 No. 566603 ID: be48b2
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The kid is right, the sea is now a lovely teal/light blue instead of a dark blue color. Ain't that something.

>"Maybe a nuke or and EMP went off over the horizon? I heard that nuclear weapons can change the color of the sea" Jeff comments.

>"We would have heard it or seen it if that really happened. Besides nukes change the color of the sky not the sea." Nathan retorts

>"The clouds did disappear!" Noah exclaims.

Hugo informs me that the systems seem to be working but they just aren't receiving any signals.

Keith Rhyder 2014/03/16(Sun)13:50 No. 566604 ID: be48b2
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The compass seems to be working.

Hugo want's to keep heading north where our destination island lies.

Nathan says we should turn back south and return to the peninsula base. He thinks we might fly past the island.

Both destinations are about an hour away.

We have fuel for four(4) hours

Keith Rhyder 2014/03/16(Sun)13:50 No. 566605 ID: be48b2
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Choose your heading.

He could be right. Button up, full CBRN drill.

Hmm. How badly are the marines going to be in need of the supplies you're carrying? Especially if something big and bad went down that affects communications.

If they're non-essential supplies, and they'll be good to go for a while, and enough of our instruments are down that the risk of missing the island is real, it's probably safer to return to base.

>>566605
The safe option is to head back home, because we won't miss the peninsula. Let's do that.

Is there any visible land on your horizon or any radar hits for anything at all? Your navigation is compromised if you don't have any signals or references to work from so our first priority is to find land. We also had massive system changes/failures of some kind so we should start prepping for an emergency landing because we don't know what's going to fail next.

Back where we came from is as good a choice as any, if we can get back there.

well since our systems are down I say head to wherever the bigger land mass is so we don't miss it. Without our instruments it's a very real possibility that we could get lost at sea and I'm pretty sure this thing won't float.

1/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/17(Mon)08:14 No. 566729 ID: be48b2
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You turn south and start heading back to base.

Thankfully you weren't supplied NBC suits in this exercise but you decide to close the rear door just to be safe.

After some debate Jeff and Nathan decide to don their gas masks.

>"Aliens." Jeff suggests

>"..." Nathan lets the silence do the speaking.

You order Noah to make sure that the life raft and other emergency supplies are in working order.

2/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/17(Mon)08:15 No. 566730 ID: be48b2
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Hugo doesn't don a gas mask since he thinks there is no logical reason for anyone to be firing nukes.
Hugo resets the INS and keeps an eye on the choppers speedometer, clock and the compass to help with navigation while you fly.

3/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/17(Mon)08:16 No. 566731 ID: be48b2
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An hour passes.

Radio and sat nav are still silent and no one has seen any land.

You double and triple check the INS, speedometer, the clock and everyones watches and conclude that you have moved 270 clicks south.
and should be over the peninsula. At your current height the horizon is about 40 clicks away so you should see the peninsula and the continent.

You have fuel for three(3) hours.

Noah informs that the life raft and emergency supplies are in good condition.

Okay. So the peninsula isn't where you left it. That, and the sudden change in ocean, and all your instruments crapping out, suggests that maybe you aren't where you think you are.

Meaning you don't know which way land is.

All we know for sure right now is that for an hour's trip north, there's water. Do have any means to determine where land might be from our current position? (Has anyone seen anything? Birds? Sealife? Stuff that might have washed off of shore?). Because if we can't be smart about this, our only real option is to keep guessing until we run out of fuel.

ok weird shit has officially hit the fan but until we can find somewhere to land we have bigger things to worry about. We can't really go back because we have no idea what's north other then an hour of ocean and then we have no idea so our best bet at this time is to keep going south. We have everything ready incase we need to bail so just have everyone looking out a window and have them yell if they see anything, anything at all. Also you have a radio on this thing right? Maybe give that a try and see if we can't get lucky.

>>566731
Start moving in a circular pattern until you're 1 hour north of your previous position. We don't know where anything is right now so we need to confirm the compass is working. This will unfortunately burn up about half our remaining fuel.

>since he thinks there is no logical reason for anyone to be firing nukes.
Don't you have radiation sensors on the chopper?

>Land has buggered off.
Unless you can see some kind of indication of land, you may as well pick a direction and fly until you see something or run out of fuel.
Flying in circles is only going to decrease your coverage.

Do we have anybody good enough at oceanography on board to look at the water under us and guess the depth and (if we're really lucky) find a clue which direction land might be? Our instruments seem to be fucked pretty hard so it seems that the only sane direction is straight, checking for radio contacts and so on. If we've experienced radio silence this long it's time for periodic maydays. What's the supplies we're carrying?

1/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/18(Tue)10:20 No. 566844 ID: 752026
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Jeff starts rummaging through the cargo while Nathan starts reading the shipment info.

>"Adult diapers, batteries, blankets, binoculars, wet wipes, travel chairs, sleeping cots, spare boots, caps, boxers,
Energy drinks, MRE's, garbage bags ect. ect. Almost two tons all in all."

>"I found some MEG's!"

2/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/18(Tue)10:21 No. 566845 ID: 752026
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So the navy is keeping up with the military tradition of smooching as much free stuff from the other branches as possible.

I start racking my brain for anything that might help with finding land. Remembering back to the training classes.
Uhh the sea breeze was to land at... Evenings? Or was it the land breeze?? And was it the mornings???

When asked about anyone seeing anything at all Noah says he thinks he saw some clouds near the horizon in the west during our flight here.

3/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/18(Tue)10:22 No. 566846 ID: 752026
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Hugo has gone through the entire range of the radio and still there is nothing. He starts sending out distress messages.

-Choose a new heading or keep going south?

the seabreeze is towards land during the day. heat rises and sucks in cool air under it. land gets hot during the day and cold at night.

>>566848
well then can you find a breeze?

>two tons of gear
Meaning that's way more than you can take with you if you come down over water (unless it's in containers that will float that you can tie to the liferaft?) Have your guys break it down into a smaller amount of useful stuff you can take, in the worst case where you run out of fuel over water.

>he thinks he saw some clouds
Could he make out kind? (There are clouds that form over land and sea, after all).

>>566848
>>566850
Hmm. It's a little difficult to stick your hand out the window and see which way the wind is going with the rotors, yes. (Unless we have an instrument for that?)

...maybe we could lower someone down with a strip of cloth to test the sea-breeze direction?

Head for the clouds.

Keith Rhyder 2014/03/18(Tue)11:40 No. 566861 ID: 752026
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When asked about the clouds Noah says they were the 'dunno just clouds' type.

With only INS working the wind speed and direction information is anything but accurate.
Nevertheless there seems to be light air movement which seems to alternate between South East and South West.

>"I wish you didn't draw on the screen"

might as well keep heading south then

then south is still a good direction. also yeah, start breaking the stuff down. the MREs are a good thing to hold on to entirely. may not eat like kings but you will eat for a good while. and who knows, maybe it's the good stuff. one extra set of clothes for each person. some batteries can be good if there is any wire in the lot, can make a fie starter. maybe not actually break it down, but mentally so we know what to start chucking first.

Try southwest.

go south. fly up high.

Well, let's go south, then.

Keep your eyes peeled as we go.

1/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/19(Wed)07:25 No. 566948 ID: 426581
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You keep heading south and raise your flying altitude to 3000 feet.

Your crew starts stashing away anything useful from the cargo in case you run out of fuel before you reach land.

2/3 Keith Rhyder 2014/03/19(Wed)07:26 No. 566949 ID: 426581
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You spot something in the horizon and start flying towards it. It turns out to be a silhouette of an island.

Keith Rhyder 2014/03/19(Wed)07:26 No. 566950 ID: 426581
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A tropical island. Which is weird. Because this morning when you woke up at the peninsula the closest tropical anything must have been over 2500 kilometers away.

According to the INS you have flown about 400 kilometers from your starting position.

Jeff says this looks like an paradise island.

Hugo says that this is messed up.

Noah says that he sees other islands further in the east.

You have fuel for two(2) hours.

>climate looks tropical
Yup, you definitely aren't where you though you were. Hope it's just teleportation and you didn't fall into another world, or through time.

What's that brown dot next to the forest line on the far side of the island? Is that a burn mark from a fire-pit or something?

Can we estimate how far away the other islands are? (Need to weight fuel consumption against possibly finding a better island to be stuck on).

lower your altitude and fly around to the other beach, I think I see something.

land near that brown spot on the far beach. provided you don't spot any hostiles.

>>566950
Get closer to the ground and check out that brown spot. Is there anywhere clear to land? If that's a house or something you could ask for directions to the nearest friendly city.

Keith Rhyder 2014/03/20(Thu)05:36 No. 567071 ID: b30f36
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You fly low to the other beach your rotors blowing sand everywhere.
The thing appears to be a boat turned into a makeshift shelter.

The other islands are about 30 minutes flight away.

It's nearly lunch time.

Land here or move to the other islands or some other direction?

stay and dine. be on the lookout for hostiles. after you're done, try and look for tracks in the woods, if anyone in your group is competent in something like that. if not, well you probably got someone's attention anyway.

Might as well land. If there are people here, you might be able to learn where you are.

Check if there's anyone nearby, what make the boat is, how old it appears, and what gear the owner left with it. Then, uh, maybe we have lunch while we discuss our options and wait to see if the owner of the boat-shelter returns.

What sort of infantry training do you all have? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Valeland basic and logistics training regimens, so for all I know, you could be special ops droputs, grunts, or REMF specialists.
Keep a damn good eye on that jungle. It doesn't seem like there would be many people here, but there was at least one, and it only takes one person to pull a trigger. Wouldn't be the first time a bird got taken out by twitchy locals hiding in trees.
Form a perimeter and slowly advance to the boat. Give a shout, see if you can spot anyone. If no one responds, do not touch the boat. We are in unknown waters and jurisdiction, and diplomacy is key to surviving and returning safely to friendly territory.

Land here, find out who the survivor is. Let's not assume they're nonhostile though. Meet with him/her while armed.

here's good as anywhere else and we can't fly forever. I say land here, set up a defensive parameter (just incase), make sure that distress beacon is working and unless something happens just wait here for help to arrive.

Keith Rhyder 2014/03/22(Sat)18:23 No. 567397 ID: 26c50e
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You land your chopper, quickly shut down the engines and tell your men to form up in front of the helo. You jump out to the beach.

Keith Rhyder 2014/03/22(Sat)18:23 No. 567399 ID: 26c50e
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...

The warmth envelops you. You feel a light breeze on your face. The only sound is the waves lazily hitting the beach.

Slowly the birds that were frightened quiet by the rotors begin calling out in the jungle.

Somehow you really are in the tropic.

You turn to your men and decide to take stock of your situation.

Keith Rhyder 2014/03/22(Sat)18:24 No. 567400 ID: 26c50e
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You are on an unknown island in the middle of an unknown sea with your crew of 4.

Your time spent in the air forces logistics have been really lax. And you suspect that the training
of your enlisted men have been just as lax.
You and Hugo have had excellent officer training, though for the last two years you have been
receiving only pilot training.

The men respect you and follow your orders readily. The morale seems to be high.

You have two(2) heavy machine guns and five(5) handguns with plenty of ammo.

Your chopper comes with basic tools and emergency equipment.

Your cargo seems to be a cornucopia of miscellaneous items.

Keith Rhyder 2014/03/22(Sat)18:25 No. 567401 ID: 26c50e
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You carefully approach the makeshift shelter and find it abandoned. Any tracks have been covered by
the sand blown by your rotors.

Hugo checks the fire pit and finds that it is still warm.

You don't see anyone and no one answers your shouts.

>"Damn it is hot! And something doesn't smell right." Nathan complains.

>"I want to go explore the island!" Exclaims Noah.

>"I want to go swimming!" Jeff says.

No swimming or relaxing yet. We're mysteriously in the tropics when we shouldn't be. That warm firepit means someone else is on this island, and we don't know if they're hostile yet, or if they can tell us where we are.

Before we explore further out, we should explore the closer area. And when we do explore, we can't afford to leave the chopper and supplies alone.

Do you recognize the bird species you saw flying by? Or any of the vegetation, plant species? Any of you know about that kind of stuff, or been deployed to the tropics before?

I think I see something buried under the sand in the upper right hand corner of that shelter.

actually, noah has the right idea, exploring is useful, BUT we must enforce the buddy system. Nathan goes with him. they stick to each other like glue.

tell jeff to set up a campsite first, unless he finds the idea of sleeping in the sand after his swim and waking up with a sand EVERYWHERE, somehow pleasent.

>>567401
Something doesn't smell right? That could be an issue.

We can't leave the heli unguarded. Whoever's taking shelter here might be desperate enough to try to steal it. I say we mostly stay put and wait for whoever's here. With the noise the chopper made, they're sure to come over on their own.

Swimming could be a bad idea- we don't know what's in the water. Could be poisonous fish or something around here. I suppose we could walk a little ways inland, staying within sight of the chopper, and just check out the island a bit. However, keep the pilot at the chopper, so that we can leave in a hurry if needed. So, let's walk into the jungle and bring Noah and Nathan. There's shade in there, so Nathan should be a bit less uncomfortable.

>>567405
WE are the pilot of the chopper.

>>567414
Oh. In that case, let the co-pilot stay behind. That'd be the crew chief, right? Just bring Noah. Make sure he knows not to touch anything in the jungle. Pretty much anything could be poisonous.

>>567419
Hugo, I believe, is the copilot. "We" are the Commanding Officer of this squad, the CO. Slightly superior in rank to Hugo, but if he has any calls he'd like to make, they should probably be considered.

Propose having Nathan and Noah explore together. Remind them not to touch anything, just make observations on what they can see. Tell them NOT to split up. Have Jeff work on making a campsite, would it be possible to produce a tent out of the supplies? If not, a perimeter will have to do, protecting the sleeping bags. Hugo can stay at the chopper, using binoculars to keep watch on the surroundings, including Jeff.

After suggesting that, ask Hugo if he has any alternate ideas he'd like to bring up. Like I said, his ideas may be just as useful.

>with your crew of 4.
Yeah, okay, we are the 5th member and commander of the group.

think we should set up a defensive perimeter before we do anything. Even if we have nothing to fear it will still kill time and if something bad is on this island then we'll be ready. Once we get that out of the way I think we should have 1 person stay near the radio incase we get a call, one person watching the sea to see if they can see any ships, and one person watch the woods to make sure nothing comes at us from there. The last two can go explore the island to see if we can't find anything useful.

Hey, hey. The boat's been holed. Whoever's here might be as out of their way as you are.
Or not. That could be a body under all that sand, or it could be an elaborately hidden IED. That's a really weird shape and there's some kind of hole near the center. But whatever it is, someone had to bury it, so keep eyes up.
I understand it's hard to stay on edge in a place like this, but at least for the next few hours you absolutely need that mutterin voice of paranoia to keep you alive, at least until you meet up with friendly troops or civvies. You need to be a rock for your men. A sharp rock.
Anyone have survival experience? Come from a jungle/warmer climate? Hike as a hobby? Bring them. You need someone with a grounding in common sense and the will to learn.

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/23(Sun)13:30 No. 567496 ID: 26c50e
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No one seems to have any experience operating in a tropical environment.

You assign Hugo to the radio and tell him to keep an eye on the horizon for ships.

You lower your helicopters rear ramp and assign Jeff to the rear machine gun. He can easily cover most of the beach and treeline.
You assure him that you can all go for a swim later if the island proves itself safe.

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/23(Sun)13:30 No. 567497 ID: 26c50e
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You send Nathan and Noah to explore the island. You tell them not to eat or touch anything poisonous.

Nathan grumbles while Noah grabs a radio and they start heading down the beach.

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/23(Sun)13:31 No. 567498 ID: 26c50e
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You return to the makeshift shelter and start shifting the sand. You discover three barrels buried under the boat.
There was also a plank under the sand with markings carved on it.

Jeff asks if he can put some music on from the helicopters loudspeakers.

>>567498
I don't see why not.

Keep digging out the sand, see if we have any tools to help. Once a barrel is totally clear, open it up and see what's in it.

looks like boat owner has been here 38 days. assuming it's days and they started on the day they got here.

jeff can have some music but not loud or with any percussion.

So long as he doesn't play anything particularly heavy or crazy sounding. (And so long as that isn't going to run our batteries or fuel down significantly).

Go for it just don't blast the speakers.

check if it's rum.

nobody drinks it if it's rum.

Sure, he can play some music. Just not loudly. And preferably something tropical as the first song.

Give each barrel's contents a sniff before digging one up. Pull the bungs - yes, that is the correct term - out, somehow remember basic chemistry safety and waft the scent from the hole to your nose with your hand instead of sticking your face against it.

Wonder why in this day and age these barrels are wood and not plastic. Outside of wine and maybe whiskey there aren't many things stored in wood barrels these days.

How's your knowledge of astronavigation and constellations? You might be able to figure out where you are after nightfall with that knowledge, or at least which hemisphere you're in. Maybe there's a navy guide with info on that in the pile of miscellaneous supplies.

>>567532

Ooo, check if the barrels are IEDs, nobody eats them if they're IEDs.

It just occurred to me that we can use our chopper's clock and the position of the sun to estimate our location within around ten degrees.

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/24(Mon)15:32 No. 567612 ID: d7050c
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Jeff is given the green light and he disappears into the cockpit to get the music going.

You do a quick search around the barrels and find no wires or other IED parts.

The bungs get pulled and you take a careful whiff. It's alcohol, smells like a mixture of whiskey and beer.
The other two barrels have the same content.

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/24(Mon)15:33 No. 567613 ID: d7050c
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You use the plank as a showel and dig up one of the barrels. It's small, 25-30 liters maybe.

You are amused by your current situation. You are on a tropical island, you got drinks and soon you will have music. All you are
missing is a net, a volleyball and some chicks and you would have a beach party.

You know only the basics of astronavigation, mostly just ways to figure out which way is north or south.

The thing about the helicopters loudspeakers is that they are meant to be used over the sound of the rotors.
So the settings only go from ear-splitting to loud.

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/24(Mon)15:35 No. 567615 ID: d7050c
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Just as the musics starts playing you hear rustling in the nearby bushes.

pull out sidearm and say "halt who goes there?"

>>567613
Silly Keith. That's not your alcohol, it's the survivor's!

>>567615
Alright, stand up and be combat ready. No telling what's gonna come out of those bushes, but don't point your gun directly at it just yet. If you can yell over the sound of the music, tell Jeff to get back on the gun. If not, just wait for whatever it is to come out of the bushes. If it's human, say hello and ask if it can understand you.

pull out your gun. be ready to fire a warning shot in the air instantly if things seem like they may get messy, that'll definitely be heard.

Alright, stand be ready. Draw, but don't take aim. Make the handsign to cut the noise if Jeff can see you.

...and don't go breaking into the booze yet. It's too early and too uncertain to get drunk, and you won't ingratiate yourself much with whoever else there is on this island if you steal their booze.

ready sidearm and start backing up to the chopper and ask who's there.

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/25(Tue)17:54 No. 567684 ID: b30f36
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You pull out your handgun but don't point it at anything yet.

Jeff is still inside the chopper.

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/25(Tue)17:54 No. 567685 ID: b30f36
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You wait but nothing comes out of the bushes. You clear your throat and put on your officer voice.
"Halt who's there?" You bark at the bushes.

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/25(Tue)17:54 No. 567686 ID: b30f36
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There is a moment of silence and then a hoarse voice answers you from the bushes...
You have no idea what they are saying.

>>567686
Oh god damn it, they're foreign. At least we know it's not a wild animal. Holster your weapon, I guess, and gesture for them to step out of the bushes.

make sure whoever is on the chopper's gun is paying attention to you an holster your weapon. Let them come to you and DON'T GO TOWARDS THEM. Seriously that's how horror movies start. If no one comes out stay next to the chopper and wait for the other two guys to come back so you can form a search party later without worrying about being jumped alone.

put gun away and back further out into the open, maybe they just want their beer?

point your gun at it, but don't be startled if it turns out to be some sort of weird creature. just back way, slowly and steadily.

Seriously, if Jeff sticks his head out or looks this way, make the kill the noise gesture.

>not English
Drat. Do you know any other languages to try? Otherwise all we have to go off of is tone and body language, assuming they come out into the open.

Nice trigger discipline.
I think keeping your sidearm at a low ready is athe best idea, because we still don't know this person's intentions. Finding out these intentions may be rather difficult, however, so let's back off and give them a clean line of access to their booze stash. Keep your movements calm and maintain eye contact with where you believe this person to be.
Let them come to you.They should know you are armed and confident, but not hostile. They shouls have more to gain by being peaceful and friendly than angry and violent.

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/26(Wed)19:58 No. 567753 ID: b30f36
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You holster your weapon and start backing towards the chopper in a calm manner. You start waving at the bushes hoping to draw whoever is there out. You turn around and motion to Jeff to kill the noise. He gives a thumbs up and disappears back inside the cockpit.

You try another language. You ask the bushes "Comment puis-je vous aider?" You get more of the unknown language as an answer.

But it looks like they are coming out! They rise from the bushes and step into the light.

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/26(Wed)19:58 No. 567754 ID: b30f36
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...

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/26(Wed)19:58 No. 567755 ID: b30f36
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You weren't quite expecting that.

... go to the chopper and get the other guy out here to see if he sees what you're seeing. Maybe radio the other guys if you can and tell them to get back here. she looks a little pissed so don't get to close what with the harpoon and all.

...Don't think we're in Kansas anymore Toto.

don't shoot, there could be more then one and they will all throw spears at you if you start it.

>>567755
AN ALIEN! You're not on Earth anymore, buddy. Looks like you got sent to the planet of the dogs.

I think your only hope for survival here is to find out where this lady's home is and bring her there. That'll ingratiate you to the natives so you can live in peace, maybe.

Well... what information can we glean from this initial contact? Since she's wearing clothing and has what looks to be a well-made satchel and iron-tipped fishing spear, the technology level doesn't look that low. Medieval at least.

Go run over and tell your buddies that the survivor is a fucking talking dog-person. Don't shoot the lady, obviously.

Oh I have an idea. Use the loudspeakers to call your buddies back, now that we know the situation is completely out of hand. Also warn them not to shoot the dog-people.

>>567758
The proper term would be an Extra-Terrestrial. Or perhaps Extra Terrestrial Alien.

>>567759
This may be a good plan, but the lack of music will hopefully draw them back anyways. You need to present yourself as non-threatening, perhaps draw some images for picture-based communication. Try and convey that you will use the "loud noise making hunk of metal" to simply bring your friends on peaceful terms.

So on the positive side it is some kind of person judging by the clothes, and they are holding their spear in a clearly non-threatening manner.
She won't understand it but say hello anyway to show that you want to talk (be sure to use a friendly tone of voice in case that carries over to here), and introduce yourself in the classic manner of saying your name while pointing to yourself. Don't grab your gun or shout unless she starts acting threatening, and similarly don't run back to the helicopter because that just looks suspicious.

...Jeff, do you see what I see?

Don't draw your weapon or try to kill it. That's a fishing spear, anyways. Could be used as a weapon, but that's not it's predominant purpose. (Also, if she doesn't know what a gun is, brandishing one isn't much of a deterrent without actually firing).

Note that she looks more worried or concerned than anything else.

Uh, hi.

keep backing away until someone sees you.

Aaaa! Furries! Kill them! Stop them before they yiff again!

Okay, I've calmed down now. Seriously, you're looking at scary Island of Doctor Moreau stuff here. Chances are that whichever mad bioengineer is creating these beast-people values his or her privacy, judging by the fact that before we even got here we seem to have entered some kind of crazy jamming that acts like a really huge faraday cage. I don't even know how the heck that's possible since a faraday cage is usually, y'know, a cage.

So we are all kinds of screwed here since it's probable they would expect to cover up your deaths as a simple MIA by tossing stuff in the ocean. How do we cover up your arrival on this island from whoever's running the show?

...
Well then. Nothing in the books for this one.
I understand that saying "keep calm," is shouting in the wind at this point, but I can't really stress how important it is that you not freeak over the what the fuck is that weird thing standing over therre and it spoke and it's wearing clothes and oh god.
Because that would be bad.
First off, it's obviously intelligent, and possibly even more wary of you than you are of it. That's unlikely, but possible.
Second, it doesn't appear aggressive, and obviously pretty goddamn confident, because it just stepped onto a beach covered in armed aliens standing right next to their huge bloody aircraft.
You need to match that confidence. Swallow that terror and metabolize it. Stand straight, maintain eye contact, don't draw, but carefully and loudly instruct Jeff to slowly come to the rear of the chopper. Stand your ground. First impreessions, and all that.
Thirdly, it appears to be female. Appears. Consider this confusedly as your notions of femininity are unexpectedly challenged.

Try to call back Jeff. Once he's got you covered, attempt to somehow convey to her that you mean no harm. Make sure you keep your voice and actions as neutral as you can--there's no way to know how different of a culture she's from, so you don't know what tones of voice or body language she could find offensive or threatening.

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/27(Thu)19:24 No. 567826 ID: a0267c
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Planet of the dogs, aliens or bioengineered beasts. Whatever it is you can deal with this. You holster your weapon and say hello to the native(?) She says something right back at you, didn't sound like hello.

Oh shes going over to her shelter.

You turn around calmly and casually shout at the helicopter: "Jeff, Hugo you better come out here and meet the... uh Extra-Terrestrial."

You pick up your radio and call Nathan and Noah tell them to head back to the chopper.

"We were just heading back and uhh. We might not be on earth anymore." Nathan reports.

When you ask what does he mean he says he will show you once they get back. You tell them not to shoot any dog-people and cut the connection.

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/27(Thu)19:25 No. 567827 ID: a0267c
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She walks over to you but can't seem to keep her eyes off of the chopper. You note that she is moving kind of slowly and seems somehow lethargic. But she doesn't seem to be afraid or shocked by you. Has she seen humans before?

You point at yourself and put as much weight as you can on the word "Keith." She points at herself and says "Oira." Ok good this is progress.

Oh she is offering a shake?

>WAIT!

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/27(Thu)19:26 No. 567828 ID: a0267c
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>"I wasn't ready but it's filming now. HUGO GET OUT HERE OR YOU ARE GOING TO MISS THE FIRST CONTACT!"

Jeff seems really stoked by this whole thing.

tell them to shut up and not do anything to panic the lady.

shake hands.

just shake her hand and then tell jeff not to yell and possibly startle something.

look at Jeff for a second like he's an idiot, then continue to shake the dog ladies hand. If she doesn't do anything else wait for the other guys to get back and discuss how the hell you guys are going to get fuel for the chopper.

>>567828
Tell him to shush, he'll startle the E.T. Speaking of which watch out she isn't about to spear you. She seemed pissed off that you were messing with her alcohol, and someone shouting and pointing a strange device at her isn't gonna help her mood.

Give Jeff a glare before shaking her hand. My guess is that Oira has encountered humans before, her lethargic movement may suggest being tired of greeting them.

If she does not seem to have anything to say, in any form, then you should tell Jeff that her attitude suggests as much (not being first contact).

If this is an extra-terrestrial how the heck did it get to Earth, or conversely how did we get to their planet? Us being on another planet is roughly as outlandish as the many-klicks-sized, invisible, faraday cage, so I'll try to roll with that.

The fact that you recognized the container as a barrel and the substance within it by smell as probably being whiskey and beer suggests that either you're still on Earth or the native biochemistry may not be TOO different. The blue sky suggets a nitrogen-dominated atmosphere just like Earth, which is one of the reasons why I did not consider the possibility that you're an extraterrestrial right now earlier.
It makes no sense without aliens that either scanned and reconstructed you and your craft from a distance or the power to break the speed of light. If this thing's walking around with a harpoon or fishing spear either it's a neo-primitivist playing at living from the land or this isn't one of the aliens responsible.

The fact that they don't speak our language suggests that the neo-primitivist angle is unlikely. I'm not sure if it understands you, or if an outstretched hand is asking for a pawshake, a customary gift exchange to signal a lack of hostile intentions, or something else entirely. Did the colour of the tube-top change or did the alien just come out of the shadows into sunlight showing that it's red instead of brown? I think handing the critter something unequivocally harmless but valuable seems like the order of the day, and then trying to figure out if it understands YOU when you speak.

>can't seem to keep her eyes off of the chopper
I wonder if she knows what it is. If I'd be marooned on an island for who knows how long, I'd have a hard time keeping my eyes off the only way out.

...even if we do have limited fuel and no idea where the mainland is.

>she doesn't seem to be afraid or shocked by you. Has she seen humans before?
Or worst case: she used to be human. Planet of something that turns you into dog-people.
Tell Jeff to calm down a little, and accept the hand(paw?)shake.

>>567827

This is too weird, as nice as it is to both find out that you're not alone and make first contact with a new form of life. Skin to skin contact with a completely unknown biology is really dangerous. Even if this isn't some kind of mutagen-viral contagion whatsit, she's been away from civilisation for a long time (or never seen it), and therefore away from civilised medicine.

Oh snap, there's an idea. Continue making friendly gestures and keeping neutral body language and distance, even ask questions and point at things like the boat and spear, see if she seems to understand what they are and where they come from.

Have one of your buddies grab some dry -packaged- food (like biscuits or jerky, no chocolates obviously) and toss her that without showing her how to open it. If she was human and from about the time that we'd developed sailing and lifeboats and leather belts like that, she'd probably be able to open the pack without any kind of prompt and understand what's inside easily. Of course she could just be smart, but even then you've exchanged something and shown you're friendly without having to touch the weird alien dog person who's been living in the jungle.

>>567872
Even if she does carry some form of disease, you need to show her some manners, anyways. Keith is part of the airforce, I'm sure he's undergone tests to ensure he can hold some level of immunity to foreign diseases.

Other than that... Giving her a Meal Revealing Envelope may be a good idea. If she offers anything in return, accept it, but don't be hasty about it. Place your hands out and let her hand it to you. Likewise, while handing her the MRE, don't push it into her, hold it out and let her either grab it or ready her hands to accept.

Yes I'm totally calling it Meal Revealing Envelope, it fits MRE so why not

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/28(Fri)18:33 No. 567928 ID: b40a79
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You give Jeff 'the look' and tell him to calm down before he gets a stroke.

You shake hands with Oira, she smells like beer.

>"Man this is it, the most important moment in human history! We are going to be rich and famous!"

You mention to Jeff that she doesn't seem too surprised and we might not be the first humans she has met.

>"Well if she has met someone else they must have been as dumb as you almost were captain and forgot to film it. Or they got silenced. But we got evidence now!"

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/28(Fri)18:34 No. 567929 ID: b40a79
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>jungle, mutagen-viral, contagion, danger turns you into dog-people.

... Those wet wipes better be antiseptic.

You try asking Oira how she got here and is the boat hers but she just stares at you. She doesn't seem to understand what you are saying. She glances at Jeffs phone but doesn't seem to understand what it is and loses interest. She goes to examine the helicopter.

Hugo comes out.

>"Hugo care to say a few words on this historical moment?" Jeff asks.

>"...Damn"

>"Short and non explicit. That's going on all the posters as a quote."

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/28(Fri)18:35 No. 567931 ID: b40a79
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You go inside the chopper to wash your hands while Jeff and Hugo play documentary maker with the alien outside.

>"She looks kinda worn out, healthy dogs are supposed to have a shiny fur." Hugo laments.

>"Well she has been marooned an island. I bet she could use a hug" Jeff says.

>"Nope."

You grab an MRE and go outside. You offer the Meal Rarely Edible to Oira. She takes it, turns it around, gives it a shake and a sniff and looks at you questionably. Jeff and Hugo start laughing.

>"Even aliens know that MREs are no good!"

>"Meals Rejected by ET's."

You see Nathan and Noah returning.

>>567931
Well it's wrapped, she probably doesn't know it's food. You might need to unwrap it for her.

Oh hey, the other guys are back. Ask them why they think you're not on Earth anymore.

Radio them, ask them if they're alright. You just met a talking dog woman, there's no telling what they ran into. Talking dog-men, possibly. I dunno.
This is a very relaxed first encounter. That's...good?
To be honest there really aren't many ways to fuck this up assuming you and your men don't start blazing away at the forest canopy in a drunken stupor. (Perhaps joined by this lady, after all, she appears to know the right way to spend her time while marooned on a tropical island. That is to say, piss-stinking-drunk) At least, few ways we can predict and prevent now. Which is a bit foreboding.
So for now I'd say sit back and watch how this pans out. Oh and get the lady a knife or a razor or something for chrissakes.

how about a bottle of water instead?

The Magnificently Repulsive Entrée may not be all that appetizing under normal means, but there are methods of making it more appealing. Gesture for her to return the MRE so you can open it for her, for the time being it will help to know what type of diet she consumes.

Also: Alternatively to our previous thoughts, her reasoning for being lethargic might just be that she's got the same idea as us-not showing a neutral attitude may be seen as hostile. This means it's possible that this island is foreign to her as it is to you. Could some force be bringing various species together into a new world?

greet those two before they go apeshit over meeting real-life furries.

Just remember not to offer her any chocolate.

>>567955
Grapes, onions and garlic also aren't good for dogs, but the lethal dose for somebody of her size is way more than any MRE is likely to contain. My real concern is that she'll eat the gum; xylitol, the active ingredient, is very toxic to dogs.

she doesn't know what that thing is and even less on how to cook it, you should show her how to do that much at least. Oh and uh tell Jeff that the other two guys said you guy's are probably not on earth now so unless he has any idea how to boast our signal no one else is going to that we found life outside of earth. If he ask where we are just joke and say the twilight zone.

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/29(Sat)18:33 No. 568022 ID: be48b2
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You delegate the alien feeding duties to Jeff and Hugo: "Take her inside the chopper and open up a MRE for her, sloppy joe looks like dog food so give her that one. Just take away the tabasco sauce and the gum."

You then jog over to Nathan and Noah who have stopped and are staring at Oira.

"So you weren't joking on the radio, planet of the dog-people." Nathan says.

"That or the twilight zone. Too early to say" you answer.

You tell Noah to go on ahead and meet the alien, you will look at the fruits they found later.

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/29(Sat)18:34 No. 568023 ID: be48b2
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You ask Nathan to report their findings.

"There was nothing interesting at the beach, after a while we found a trail inland and started following it. We came to a small clearing where we found a single grave that had been dug up. We moved further inland and started finding different kinds of fruit trees and you can imagine how hot it gets when there is no ocean breeze to cool you. Then we both got a bad feeling about wandering further inland and started heading back. Noah claimed that we were being watched but i didn't feel nothing. We reached the beach and a little after that you called us up on the radio."

"Did you meet any dog-people? And why are you so certain that we aren't on earth anymore?" You ask.

"We didn't meet anybody, and remember that smell i complained about? It was actually a familiar smell that was missing. It was salt."

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/29(Sat)18:35 No. 568024 ID: be48b2
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"See that ocean? You can drink it. It' all fresh water. Me and Noah already had a drink so i hope you guys haven't been pissing in the ocean."

...how the hell can a body of water this large be fresh water. Rivers wash salt into the sea. That's how it works!

Oh well. At least you won't be dying of thirst anytime soon.

Don't just eat the fruit. Check with Oira. If any of them are poisonous or dangerous, maybe she can identify them.

Then maybe... you can show her your map? Or draw one in the sand? Maybe she can fill in what you're missing.

>>568024
...I hope the edible flora/fauna here have some other source of sodium, because humans do in fact need sodium to live, and a freshwater ocean implies that creatures on this world have low salt levels as well.

Wait shit I just realized, if there's low salt here, the MRE might have too much salt for our guest! Hopefully she can taste that and won't want to eat it. I mean, I have no idea how that would affect her.

yeah discuss the fruits with your guest. point to the pile, then to your mouths, then make a "i'm dying" face.

>>568030
or... what if that's why she is sick looking? she too needs salt and this is not her native planet ether?

>>568027
Well, if the planet does not contain much salt at all, or just not where running water can be found, the oceans won't be full of it. This definitely is NOT Earth, so the question is, is it the Dog's planet, or somewhere else entirely?
>>568030
Oh, crap, you'd better run in and stop them.
>>568032
It is possible, if there are any salt packets in the gear, you can spread a bit into a dish and place a pinch of it in your mouth, to show her to do the same. If she does not immediately spit it out (or, if she does, but seems to actually realize the need for more), then she needs sodium.

...Actually, we can get a feel for her diet once she opens her mouth, assuming it's something she'll be doing in company.
As for the fruits, be careful with them. Have somebody put on a gasmask while cutting them open, and have them do so away from camp--Some plants can carry toxic gasses inside themselves, and hopefully any toxic gasses won't be colorless. If they seem safe, try consuming only a small piece--Noah, especially, would be useful for this, due to his youth; as you get older, you lose an instinct that lets you recognize poisons as easily, and so he'll be repulsed or sickened a lot more easily than the rest of you, as well as having the metabolism to get over the sickness.

alright then, so how did we get here and how do we get back? I mean if we got in there has to be a way out, either through some kind of technology or hell even magic, I'll take magic at this point if it means a way back home. But the real problem (at least at this time) is we only have 2 hours worth of fuel left and no idea where to go. I mean if we can find a way to get the local to talk to us in something we can understand and get an idea on what's out there we could just B line it to however would seem to be able to help us the most. Till then we're grounded unless we can find more fuel or something else that can let us easily move island to island.

try to ask her to lead us to her people. she's not a pet you guys, stop trying to feed her.

>>568030
There's the possibility she's non-native too. (Or that might be one of the deficiencies making her look not so hot).

Still, even if it is more than she's used to, the effects of excessive salt aren't usually immediately life threatening. I don't think it's worth snatching away from her.

Dig out a pad of paper and a pen and draw out what happened to bring you here to show to Oira. If she seems to understand what your trying to convey then give the pad and pen to her so she can do the same for how she got here.

Unless there is a solar or hand crank charger in that pile of supplies, electricity to recharge your equipment is going to be damn hard to come by. Same goes for the batteries in heli. Running the engine to recharge them and possibly the other devices uses fuel which is in very short supply. Taking steps now to conserve battery use is vitally important.

Remove the batteries from everything that has removable batteries and cap their terminals to prevent discharge. Disconnect the heli's batteries to be sure they won't be drained by any electronics that might draw a stand-by charge. Devices without removable batteries, such as Jeff's phone, should be turned off when not in use. Turn all phones to "airplane mode" so they don't waste charge searching for a cell tower that'll never be there.

1/5 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/30(Sun)17:44 No. 568083 ID: 28fc01
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This has given you a lot to think about but first you ask Nathan how is he holding.

>"Don't worry about me im fine. Hell ill just think this whole thing as a well deserved vacation."

Nathan is the only one in your crew who is married.

You are happy that your men are relaxed and even enjoying the situation. It is the leaders job to worry about the future and the fact that you might be forever stuck in this place.
The 2 hours of fuel mean a range of about 500 kilometers. You saw a group of islands further away before you landed on this island but you need to find the continent... If there is one.

2/5 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/30(Sun)17:45 No. 568084 ID: 28fc01
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Inside the helicopter your crew is enjoying lunch with the alien.

>"I have never seen anyone eat an MRE so fast, or looking so happy after eating an MRE."

You ask Hugo if there was something Oira didn't eat or if the food seemed too salty for her.

>"What? No, she wolfed down everything we didn't take away from her. At first she didn't like the energy drink but now she can't get enough of it."

>"She has started talking, we can't understand what shes saying and she knows it. But if i had been marooned alone i probably couldn't shut up if i found someone to talk to." Jeff says.

3/5 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/30(Sun)17:46 No. 568085 ID: 28fc01
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You present the fruits to Oira and with Noahs help you act out the dying after eating poisonous fruit.

Oira grabs the purple fruit and throws it the fuck out. Then instructs you to cook the fruits.

You inform the rest of the crew about Nathans findings and tell them to start conserving electricity. Batteries get taken out and phones get put on airplane mode or off. Hugo is against disconnecting the helicopters battery since everything but the radio has been shut off anyway. He figures that we might not be the only ones who ended up here.

4/5 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/30(Sun)17:46 No. 568086 ID: 28fc01
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You grab some paper, a pen and a compass for Oira. She gets really ecstatic at the sight of the compass and understands how it works.

After showing her some some of your maps and some more acting from you and Noah she finally starts drawing what you hope is a map of your current location.

...

>"No way to tell the scale, she ain't a cartographer that's for sure." Hugo notes.

>"So are we in a lake after all?" Noah asks.

>"We flew over 500 klicks and at the altitude we were the horizon was almost a 100 klicks away. This is an ocean." Nathan comments.

5/5 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/30(Sun)17:47 No. 568088 ID: 28fc01
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You act out how you ended up here with copious helicopter sound effects and then spend some time pointing at her and the boat and the island and finally she gets it and starts drawing.

The fudge in the middle is accompanied by wind sound effects.

You try coaxing more out of Oira but aside from some details this seems like the best that she can do.

devouring it means she tasted salt and instinct took over, salt was indeed something she really wanted.

the boat in the picture has two people. ask if the pictured boat is the same one. and if the other person is dead.

>>568088
Alright then find out where she wants to go, and we can bring her there. I expect she'll want to bring the beer, and anything else she owns.

Depending on the time of day, it might be better to wait for tomorrow before we try and go anywhere else.

...where are we supposed to be on that map?

Okay, so freshwater thing slightly less worrying than before. If my reading of the map is accurate, we're on a huge inland body of water fed by a mountain chain to the north, where Oira presumably hails from, which feeds into the sea to the west. More Lake Ontario than Dead Sea or terrifying world-encompassing pond.
Or.
Or, she got pulled through the same way we did and we're nowhere near where she thinks we are. But, given she's managed to survive as long as she has here and knows the local flora pretty well, I'd say we can rule that out. On a related note, she seems to be a traveller or trader of some sort, because she's adapted pretty goddamn well to life on a deserted island a half continent away from home. You couldn't ask for a better alien to make first contact with than a merchant marine, at least as far as languages, survival, navigation, and local customs are concerned.

so from what I can make out of the map (the circle scribes are us right?) we're on a island between her home and a trading outpost and seeing how it looks like both are port towns trade is more then likely hot in both towns and we're probably not going to find a better place to look for fuel. But even if they have fuel unless there's something on the chopper we could trade for it we got nothing in the way of currency and to top it off unless someone in either of these towns speaks English it's going to be very hard for us to get someone to tell us where we can even find fuel.

Ok what time is it now? Because I think we should maybe see if we can't figure out a way for all of you to maybe learn some of Oira's language or at least see if you can't teach her some English. Don't think we can do this in one night but still think we should put any real plan making off tell the morning if it's getting late.

uh... uhhh... go towards where she drew people?

>>568085
So, the potatoes, the cucumbers, and the orange squashes are good, but the eggplants are bad. Fruitwise, I mean- they look like those vegetables.
>>568088
Okay, if this is the real map, then we can't reach the larger landmasses. We flew two hours south to find this island, it will take at least four hours flight north or five hours east to find the larger land masses.
You wouldn't necessarily be in an ocean, but rather, a sea; a common term used for giant masses of water that aren't ocean. Freshwater seas are surprising, but in another world they may be commonplace.

1/4 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/31(Mon)14:57 No. 568210 ID: 185f1f
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You and Hugo go over the map a few times to figure out what Oira is trying to tell you.

"Ok she set the compass deliberately here so i think north is up here and south down here."

>"First she drew the house so i think it means home?"

"Makes sense"

>"Ok then she drew this... Thing?"

"... A merchants stall?"

>"Yea sure, then the boat and the dashed line there. But on the way back home the dashed line gets into this mess."

"Wind? Storm? Hurricane?"

>"Probably yeah, and finally the dashed line continues down here where i think she means we are now."

2/4 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/31(Mon)14:57 No. 568211 ID: 185f1f
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You take the map drawing back to Oira and tap at the two people drawn on the boat.

3/4 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/31(Mon)14:58 No. 568212 ID: 185f1f
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She points at the boat on the beach, herself and the people drawn on the map. She says one word "Olle" and shakes her head.

4/4 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/03/31(Mon)14:59 No. 568214 ID: 185f1f
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You turn to Nathan.

"You said something about a grave in the woods?"

>"Yeah we found a grave a bit inland but it had been dug up, probably by some wild animal since it wasn't a deep grave."

As for staying or moving on you think it's now 2 or 3 pm. You could spend the night on the island, roast some fruits, maybe catch some fish and swim a little. Since you plan on moving soon anyway you could listen to some more music, the helo has a big battery and it can be started even if the battery is depleted.

And you pretty sure you are obliged by the maritime law to help Oira off this island.

Express your condolences in some way. Even if she doesn't understand the words, I think she would get the gist.

Okay, looks like we should head to 1. If we head northeast then follow the coastline north/west we should find the place. Try to make it clear we'll bring her there, and for her to get her stuff. Which is just the beerwine I guess.

Actually, ask if she wants to leave now or tomorrow. Maybe explain that if we leave now we might arrive after dark. ...come to think of it, we can't be sure this planet has a 24 hour day. It probably doesn't. The clocks will get fucked up after a while and we'll have to reset them while eyeballing the sun. Maybe we can make a sundial to circumvent that issue somewhat.

Also I find it interesting that she drew a question mark. You don't think about it much but that's actually an evolved element of written language. I wonder if her written language is similar to yours?

Write down your name and say it out loud to her, then gesture for her to write her own down. That'll give you a sample of their written language. You could even work on more words that match to easily explained, specific concepts. On the other hand I'm not sure how you'd be able to nail down grammar, but just getting some grammatically similar written words may be helpful.

I say leave in the morning. We have no idea what's out there and this might be the only time you all get to relax so make the most of it. Once dawn comes around lets try following the "map". We just came from the north right? which means unless this land is only an hour away from where we entered this world there's no way in hell we're going to be able to make it all the way up there. But it does look like the eastern part of the map has land that goes all the way back to Olia's home and the port.

The way I'm seeing this is unless we find some way to refuel the chopper the best we can do is head east towards land and hope we reach it before we run out of fuel, then start walking north ditching the chopper. Oh yes I really think we should wait until morning as this trip is going to be a long trip unless we find fuel, a very very long trip indeed.

i say southeast. south land should be the closest. and east will bring us towards their civilization.

>>568215
Write down your name, point to it, and say, "Keith." Then, point to the next line, and say "Oira." Let her write down her name then, she should understand if you do that.
>>568228
Yes, Southeast you should find land in about an hour. East would be about four, and north would be six or seven hours. You will not make it to your destination, but at least you'll be able to walk from there.

...On second thought, gesture to the forest, say "Forest." Point at the map, and ask "Forest?"

I say we wait till tomorrow before attempting to get to the mainland. (Or, at least, the land of the village of dog people). Try to coney that to her, if you can.

>And you pretty sure you are obliged by the maritime law to help Oira off this island
Even if you weren't, it would be a major jerk move to leave her here.

>>568277
Anyways, she's somebody who knows the local area and language. Even if we were jerks who didn't care about maritime law, it would still be a major advantage to take her with us.

With no scale on Oira's map we've got no idea how large the sea is to the south, or how wide it is east-west. Heading out over open sea is a bad idea when we don't know land is there. We'd better head to the island to the east instead. Maybe we're at the end of a chain of islands we can follow to the mainland. That way even if we don't reach the mainland we'll have somewhere to land instead of having to ditch into the sea.

When we do eventually take off it'd be a good idea to fly up as high as the 'copter can and have everyone scan the horizon with binoculars. Maybe we'll spot land we didn't see before.

Oira could have jumped worlds like we did, but it's looking unlikely. If she had both worlds would have had to have had fresh water seas, otherwise she wouldn't have drawn a map like she did. She's also likely to know how to navigate by the stars, so she would have seen any change in the night sky right away. Just to be sure about that, ask her about the stars and constellations after night falls.

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/01(Tue)14:56 No. 568505 ID: a0267c
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You solemnly offer your condolences to Oira, she seems to understand your meaning.

You write your name down while saying it then you point at Oira and tap on the paper. She says her name and writes down some squiggles. You decide to have her also write your name.

If it comes down to it your gonna have Noah be the one who learns Oiras language, he is the youngest so he should have the easiest time learning it.

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/01(Tue)14:57 No. 568506 ID: a0267c
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You decide to spend the night on the island and head southeast in the morning.

It takes a while but you finally get it across to Oira that you will be leaving tomorrow and taking her with you. Looks like she doesn't want to bum a free ride and gives you one of the 'beer' barrels.

Since you will be staying you put some music on and start working on a shelter.

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/01(Tue)14:59 No. 568508 ID: a0267c
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A shelter for six gets made from tarps, duct tape and sleeping pads.

Oira is tying a length of rope to her harpoon so you think she is going to fish. Jeff demands that the whole crew finally goes for a swim after working up a sweat. Nathan thinks we should have some courtesy and taste the 'beer.' Everyone is having a great time.

Except Noah who keeps claiming that he feels like we are being watched. No one else feels anything so you are inclined to ignore Noahs bad vibes.

>>568508
You're probably being watched by wild animals. Possibly dangerous ones. Someone should stand guard while the others go for a swim.

Of note is that from the map, this looks like a big-ass lake, that's why it's freshwater. So perhaps their oceans do have salt after all.

just to be safe have someone watch the beach on the chopper's gun just incase we have some unfriendly locals show up. Just switch off form time to time so everyone can have some fun. Also make sure we set up a watch at night as well. Better safe then sorry after all.

>Except Noah who keeps claiming that he feels like we are being watched.
>"Yeah we found a grave a bit inland but it had been dug up, probably by some wild animal since it wasn't a deep grave."
Keep in mind, this was a wild animal who had the need to dig up a grave. It could have easily gotten fruits, but it spent more effort on getting the corpse. It's a meat eater, and you're the only meat on the island.

As suggested by 2c6ff1 and nothing, have somebody on watch at all times, switching them out. If Oira asks to take watch at some point, let her. She's trying to be fair, and it's only fair on your part to let her be.

put up some snare traps.

Noah might not be imagining things. Something dug Olle's grave up, and going by the fact him and Nathan didn't see a 'dog-person' body whatever did dig it up drug it away and likely ate it. That means we've got a large hungry carnivore out there just waiting for a chance to score another meal from our numbers if we aren't careful. So nobody should go off on their own at any time.

Oira's been here for at least 38 days, so she'd know the most about the island. Best tell her about Noah's feeling of being watched and try to find out what she knows of the island; A drawing of the jungle edge with a pair of watching eyes in the darkness for Noah to show her would help here. And share that Noah and Nathan found Olle's dug up grave when they were foraging inland. She might have some idea of what dug it up.

Moving the camp away from the tree line would be prudent so nothing can jump us in our sleep. Since Noah is the one worrying he can do that. Putting it at the foot of the helicopter's ramp so we could retreat inside would make sense.

Nathan he can have some of the 'beer,' but only him, and only a cup. We don't know what's in it so he's going to be our tester for how strong it is and if it 'disagrees' with the human digestive tract before the rest of us have any.

>>568543
It might be more of an omnivorous scavenger than a carnivore, but I suppose there's no reason to take dumb risks. We might as well keep someone on guard (rotate, obviously).

Still, Oira's been trapped on this island, alone, for who knows how long, ever since her buddy died. If there were someone or something dangerous watching, you'd have think it would have made it's move before.

if Noah enjoys being paranoid, he can have the first watch.

1/2 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/03(Thu)12:18 No. 569023 ID: 7b33e8
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You decide not take any risks and move the shelter next to the helicopter and have someone stand guard at the rear machine gun at all times.

Then you finally go swimming in the warm water. The discarded purple fruit floats so it gets turned into a football.

Nathan gladly becomes our beer tester.

>"Brownish-yellow, mildly hopped, warm, mildly fruity, i would guess the alcohol percentage to be around 5 - 10%. If this was carbonated it would actually be quite good."

2/2 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/03(Thu)12:19 No. 569024 ID: 7b33e8
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After dinner you and Noah enquire Oira about the feeling of being watched and Olles dug up grave.

Oira starts talking excitedly and gestures towards the mountain and the eyes drawn on the sand. She thinks for a moment and starts to pantomime.

Ok shes walking, going to the mountain.

She is stopped or halted by...

Shivering? Fear?

And she has no idea what is living on the mountain.

>"She felt it too captain something is watching us." Noah says.

Eh maybe it's just an alien wild boar (space boar?) Anyway you are certain that your helicopters heavy machine gun can take care of anything that might climb down from the mystery mountain.

You should probably gear up the team and check out the mountain as soon as you can; having something that you don't know watching doesn't sound very safe. Leave Hugo behind with Oira if she's scared to come along.

Maybe she's being literal, and the mountain has some sort of crazy-ass thermocline?

>>569024
It's a mountain yeti, obviously. OBVIOUSLY.

I'm not sure if we should investigate or not. On one hand, we have guns so it won't be terribly dangerous so long as we keep our wits about us. On the other, what's the point? The only thing we'd gain is a bunch of meat if we have to kill it. Unless Oira has a reason for us to go?

well unless you want to go hunting for something we don't even know what it looks like in a jungle that we don't really know what's even in it go ahead, but it sounds like a bad idea to me and we're going to leave in the morning anyways so unless this thing comes to us to hell with it. But again be safe and have someone stand guard throughout the night.

>>569043
and through out the night I mean work in shifts

it's time to be big damn heroes. once you've eaten up, rested up, and geared up to the max, storm the shit out of that mountain.

think of all the furry fangirls you'll get.

1/5 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/04(Fri)18:30 No. 569219 ID: 2d6511
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What are you, infantry? No way are you going hiking on a sweaty jungle mountain. There is a reason you joined the air force.

You spend the rest of the evening listening to music and playing cards.

2/5 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/04(Fri)18:31 No. 569220 ID: 2d6511
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Darkness comes fast as there was barely any twilight. The alien night sky confirms that you aren't on earth anymore. There is no moon and there is one curiously bright star.

Your clock claims that it is now midnight. You arrange guard shifts, two hours each, Hugo takes the first watch, then Noah, Jeff, Nathan and you take the last watch.

3/5 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/04(Fri)18:31 No. 569221 ID: 2d6511
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You settle down into your shelter but after such a strange day everyone has trouble falling asleep and thus the banter starts.

>"What if we are stuck in this world for good?"

>"We got here somehow so logically we can get out of here somehow. It's like the third law or something."

>"No third law is that there is always an opposite reaction. So maybe we just got switched with something in this world."

>"So there might be some really confused dog-people wandering somewhere back home?"

>"Maybe"

...

4/5 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/04(Fri)18:32 No. 569222 ID: 2d6511
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>"So if we are stuck here for good does that mean that we will have to get dog wives or husbands?"

>"Jesus Jeff we haven't even been here for 24 hours yet."

>"Yeah you are probably right... On a completely unrelated note what is your favorite dog breed?"

>"Jesus Christ Jeff."

>"St. Bernard" Hugo whispers from his guard post.

The banter and giggling continue on but you are used to it and manage to fall asleep after a while.

5/5 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/04(Fri)18:33 No. 569223 ID: 2d6511
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You are woken by Nathan for your shift and has nothing to report.

It is 8 am according to your watch and you already miss coffee.

How should you wake up the crew?

the classic, revelry.

>>569224
make sure you crank the radio when you play it.

Wake Oira as kindly as you can, then teach her how to activate the radio to wake the others. You can teach her a rather important skill and have some nice bonding time all at once.

>>569220
>curiously bright star
What if this world actually has a similar technology level to our own? What if that's a satellite or space station? Tonight, try to find the star again in the sky. If it's in a vastly different location then it's probably manmade. Actually, maybe you can spot it in the sky right now? There was also a strangely blue star, and an object in the sky that did not look like a star at all.

Once it's nighttime near/on land we can look at the horizon for evidence of lights.

>>569223
I dunno, the normal way? It's not like you're a drill sergeant. Just like, nudge them awake.

>>569236
>What if this world actually has a similar technology level to our own? What if that's a satellite or space station? Tonight, try to find the star again in the sky. If it's in a vastly different location then it's probably manmade. Actually, maybe you can spot it in the sky right now? There was also a strangely blue star, and an object in the sky that did not look like a star at all.
Some stars are just naturally blue in appearance, but yeah, it might be something else. As for the line thing, that may have been a comet passing by, or a meteor burning up in the atmosphere. It is, however, worth seeing if they're still visible at all.
>>569230
Yes, let Oira wake them with the radio. That way she isn't startled but they are.

>So if we are stuck here for good does that mean that we will have to get dog wives or husbands?
Well, if you swing that way. And if you aren't willing to resort to fraternization.

>bright star
I don't suppose we have a telescope or spyglass among our supplies? Might be too late for a good look if it's already oh-eight-hundred, though.

there's a blue dot up there. you might want to check it out if you happen to possess a binocular.

wake the crew up with footrubs. no wait, coffee. no wait, with quotes from Full Metal Jacket.

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/05(Sat)13:41 No. 569304 ID: b7a896
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It is already too bright to see the stars, you will have to binocular the sky the following night.

Unfortunately you don't have a bugle or any coffee with you. You pray that the coffee plant actually grows in this world and somebody has found it. You have never watched Full Metal Jacket.

You wake up Oira and take her to the cockpit and start teaching her how to use the laptop connected to the Helicopters radio/loudspeakers. It takes a while of poking at the screen and looking behind and under the laptop but eventually Oira gets the hang of using the laptops touchpad.

You decide to gamble the wake up song and direct Oira to the music folders. For a horrible moment you think she is going to click on Noahs folder but thankfully she clicks on Hugos folder instead. As the music starts you show Oira where to change the volume, you are pretty sure that everything on the island with ears has been now woken up.

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/05(Sat)13:44 No. 569307 ID: b7a896
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You have a quick breakfast, pack up Oiras stuff and your shelter and leave the mystery island and it's bad vibes behind.

Oira seems to be glued to her seat in the center of the helicopter, but she isn't panicking.

You head southeast and start raising your altitude.

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/05(Sat)13:44 No. 569308 ID: b7a896
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You fly for half an hour and reach an island chain. Off in the horizon you start seeing a dark shape and clouds, Hugo says that it must be the continent. It's about 100 klicks away so about another half an hour of flight.

You spot a village and some fishing boats on an island below you. You could land or continue towards the continent.

get oira up here and see if she wants to stop here and keep going.

>>569308
Let's land and update the map. They should know where they are on it, which can give us a good idea of where to go next. Let Oira talk to them.

First consideration: if we stop at this village, how much fuel range / will we have remaining? How much would you expect to have left if you continue to the mainland?

Can you tell from here if the village is populated by more dog people?

And yeah, consult with your native.

Before you try landing, try and see how Oira feels about the village. If she seems to think it's safe, land at a respectful distance and approach on foot to request supplies and update your map. If she looks like she doesn't want to stop here, fly on.

civilization ho!

1/2 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/06(Sun)13:22 No. 569449 ID: b7a896
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You have one and a half hours(1.5) of fuel right now. You will have a little over an hours worth of fuel after you reach the mainland.

You ask for Oira to be sent over to the cockpit. She isn't loving flying apparently.

2/2 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/06(Sun)13:22 No. 569450 ID: b7a896
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You point at the village below you and Oira awkwardly take a look while trying to lean away from the windows at the same time.

She sounds pissed and goes on what sounds like a rant?
You pantomime landing on the island and Oira waves her hands dismissively and heads back into the cargo bay.

You fly lower and have Nathan binocular the island.

"They look like more dog-people but they are all midgets, like really short."

Continue to the mainland or land on the island?

mainland

>>569450
Mainland.

Keep flying, if Oira's against it it's probably for the best.

lets keep going. sounds like she hates these guys.

Well, landing a helicopter among a bunch of strange people, who seem less technologically advanced, and who don't speak your language is always awkward. If they also don't get alone with your passenger, that's not going to help any.

Let's just go to the mainland and avoid the bad diplomacy. At least there hopefully there will be people glad to see you bringing her back.

Sucks that you're probably going to have to mothball the chopper after this trip, but chances of finding fuel, while low, are better on a continent to a small undeveloped island.

>>569457
Actually, I think with adjustment gas turbines can run on a fairly wide variety of combustible fuel. Diesel, gasoline, kerosene, ethanol, etc. Heck, even vodka, if it's not watered down crap. So if the people on the mainland have the knowledge and technology to create distilled spirits then it's possible the 'copter could fly again on ethanol.

island.

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/07(Mon)15:40 No. 569585 ID: a0267c
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You decide not to land and keep flying towards the mainland.

"I wonder if anyone else got transported here" Jeff muses "Would suck to be a a fighter pilot that was transported here."

"Still nothing on the radio" Hugo reports.

You reach the mainland and see a road along the coast, you follow it south.

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/07(Mon)15:40 No. 569586 ID: a0267c
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The helicopter turbines can use a wide variety of fuel, though usually it is recommended that the substitute fuels are mixed into aviation kerosene.

After a short flight you see a town and decide to do a fly by.

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/07(Mon)15:41 No. 569588 ID: a0267c
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You ask Oira to come to the cockpit again, she indicates that you should land.

Should you land on the marketplace or in what appears to be a fortresses drill yard.

The people seem to be gathering to gawk at your helicopter.

"They look like humans!" Nathan shouts.

You currently have fuel for one(1) hour.

the market. how would YOUR military respond if an unknown aircraft landed in the middle of your airbase? BLOW IT THE FUCK UP!

so obv we should avoid attempts at being blown up.

Ooh, civilization! That's nice. Although that possibly means there's a military or government getting ansy about your invasion of their airspace.

Let's look for someplace to land that's not right in the middle of town.

we really need fuel, so let's assume this time around that whichever place we choose to land this thing it's going to STAY there.
Now, my thoughts on the choices: Assuming whoever's there when we land will be friendly, we're better off landing in a more defensible position where we can't be swarmed, aka. Fortress.
However, I presume that we'll befriend the common people if we land in the marketplace, and since we're hoping to fly the helicopter on BEER POWER, that would probably get us closer to it, and recruit more allies due to greater exposure to individuals.

how about outside the city for now? otherwise you're gonna wreck everyone's shit and scare them witless.

>>569588
Can't we land outside of town? If there's nowhere with enough room... hmm. I'm not sure. Landing in the military complex sounds like a bad idea even if it would be less disruptive- they might think you're hostile, and using the loudspeakers is not guaranteed to work because they might speak a different language. Let's land in the market, I guess. We can always relocate it later.

On the other hand we could just sortof fly by the military area to see how they react. If they start running around and pointing guns at us then we should probably not land there. If they form up and one guy comes forward to gesture us down or something then we can land.

Actually, the biggest problem with landing in the market is people could get hurt. And we'd have to move later. The fort looks more open, and hopefully the people there are well trained enough not to run into our blades.

Our dog-person might be able to get us past language barriers.

...biggest problem is we don't know how these people will react.

Landing outside of the town sounds a lot safer than either of those locations. Landing in a main area of the town without any sort of clearance seems like a good way to get in trouble with whatever sort of military is based in that fort.

Tokoshoran!!MvZwquBGL0 2014/04/08(Tue)11:07 No. 569727 ID: ca0da5
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[NOT AN UPDATE, JUST A SUGGESTION IMAGE]
>>569586
It looks like there's a large, open rock near the roadway. Would it be possible to land there? If so, again, we should keep somebody on guard while we check out the city. Heck, leave TWO people on guard, you never know what a curious person will do around a new machine.
For clarification sake, here's a guide to what spots look good for landing and what spots look bad.

>>569727
Let's land on the beach near the town, leave two people on guard, then go into town and try to contact the military so we can relocate the chopper to their base.

land on the beach away from the city. If this people have never seen a helicopter before it could cause a bit of an incident with the town's guard/cops. Best play it safe for now.

land on the beach far away from the city so hopefully you aren't spotted and mistaken for some flying metal demon

>>569771
>>569775
Landing at that location might leave you walking a good lengthy while to reach the town. Ask Hugo if he'd be alright staying at the helicopter, if not, have Jeff and Nathan to stay. If Hugo is alright staying, have Jeff come with you instead, but lets let Nathan stay behind for now. We're heading into a new town, so we'll want to have Noah with us, so that he can learn a bit more about these people's language, if they speak a foreign one, and having Nathan stay behind means he can determine what all you'll be able to trade in for what supplies. I know he's a Crew Chief, not a quarter's master, but he's the best suited to the job.

Land on the beach nearer town, it will shorten the walk if there is danger.
If you do need to evac, it's best to be nearby so nobody gets stranded.

>>569750
This seems like a good idea. The other beaches seem like they might be flooded at high tide and we don't really know how long it'll take us to negotiate relocation.

1/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/09(Wed)14:46 No. 569903 ID: b7a896
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You decide not to land in middle of the town and instead meekly land outside the walls.

After the engines and rotors die down you can hear cacophony coming from the town. People shouting and horns being blown.

2/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/09(Wed)14:47 No. 569904 ID: b7a896
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You have Hugo stay in the cockpit, Jeff manning the left door gun and Nathan watching the right side. Noah readies the rear machine gun while you and Oira get off the helicopter.

For a while nothing happens, the noise from the town starts dying down and you see movement in the windows above the gate and there are people appearing in the towers windows, but they all just stare at you.

Then the gates are opened and you see your welcoming committee.

3/3 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/09(Wed)14:47 No. 569905 ID: b7a896
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So the planet of the dogs hypothesis has been overruled. Apart from the grey skin these look like humans.

About 15 people start marching towards your helicopter. No uniforms and no orderly movement, these guys look like militia.

oira is your diplomat right now. have her take the lead, but cover her.

Oh hey, a flintlock rifle! They know how to make gunpowder. If we can get precise enough tools to make blasting caps it might be possible to reload our guns by reusing shell casings. Unfortunately due to the grey skin I think we can assume they do not speak our language. I guess you can ask, but if not, Oira will have to do the talking.

So... don't point any guns at them yet. Body language. Smile and wave and say hello. We come in peace?

Uh, Oria, I hope you share a language with these guys.

Please try not to act like friendly tourists.
You are soldiers in a foreign country and you're expected to be nice, but you have to put on a firm fucking face and meet them at the middleground. These are militiamen. They don't appear to have a uniform or a dedicated commanding officer and if you've ever dealt with militias before, you know that is not a good sign. Especially since the guy in the middle looks like some sort of person of power, a merchant, priest, nobleman, politician or somesuch, and that is bad news.
Once again, you need to make a solid first impression. You are not four stranded, confused, and easily overpowered foreigners. You are also not four boorish, strange, and terrifying men with ridiculous firepower and technology. You are four well-trained and well armed strange but amicable soldiers from a far-away country. I can't even count the number of ways this could fuck you and this community over, so let's try to make sure we fuck this up in the most peaceful possible way.

>>569905
The guy with the shotgun(?) looks angry, the guy with the crossbow looks a bit lethargic (possibly just doesn't care enough to figure things out one way or another), but the guy in the middle... He looks like he's carrying a mix of curiousity and agression.

Be assertive. Not agressive or passive, but assertive. Try first saying "Hello." and pausing a few seconds to see how he responds. If he doesn't seem to be about to say something, introduce yourself by name, maybe mention Oira's name questioningly, to denote for her to try talking.

Try to have your gunners not aim directly at the group. They look a bit tense, and if you start pointing strange weapons at them it could get scary. Attempt some small talk, first. If they don't seem to understand, try to have Oira say something and see if they'd understand that.

as long as they don't point your weapons in your face, you don't need to either. be all friendly and shit. show 'em your pearlies.

1/4 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/15(Tue)17:22 No. 570920 ID: 5c2ccb
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You decide to seize control of the situation and instead of letting them come right up to the helicopter you march confidently to meet them.

The group stops as you march towards them. You salute the short man who seems to be in charge, greet him and ask him if he understands what you are saying. He stares at you blankly and asks you something in a language that you don't understand but Oira steps up and answers the short man.

2/4 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/15(Tue)17:23 No. 570921 ID: 5c2ccb
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The conversation sounds awkward and involves a lot of hand signs but the group seems to relax a little. The short man turns and barks some orders towards the group behind him and someone runs back inside the city.

3/4 Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/15(Tue)17:23 No. 570922 ID: 5c2ccb
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More people start coming out of the gates, these seem like curious civilians. Thankfully they keep their distance to the helicopter.

Then the crowd parts as a child dressed in rags is lead towards you.

Keith "Easy" Rhyder 2014/04/15(Tue)17:24 No. 570923 ID: 5c2ccb
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Holy hell this kid smells horrible.

The child is lead to the short man who says something to him. The child covers his mouth and speaks to you.

>"The short one wants to know who you are and warns you that if you are gods or spirits they know how to deal with your kind."

Looks like you have a translator.

>>570923
Well first off, ask how he knows your language. Second, say no, you're not gods or spirits, you're military men from what appears to be another world. You were traveling in your vehicle on the way to a military exercise when you were suddenly transported above the sea in this world. Show him the map.

Third, ask what that smell is.

Oira looks... Kinda frustraded. As do the Short Man and the guy who led the kid out. I'm thinking that the scent has to do with whatever means he took to speak your language-and that he's not actually speaking your language, but has some sort of universal translator, possibly in the form of a bug or something (It's not too far-fetched to think a bug would have slight telepathic abilities and be able to speak directly to minds, is it?). Plus, it matches the fact that he's covering his mouth.
>>570942
>Second, say no, you're not gods or spirits, you're military men from what appears to be another world.
Or rather, that you're soldiers, who were brought here by spirits and don't really know how to get back. While you'd fight to defend yourself, you'd prefer friendships.

Also, if it was Oira who suggested you might be gods or spirits, inform them it was a simple misunderstanding. Your vehicle (if he looks confused at this word, say "Carriage" instead) was low on fuel ("Energy"), so you landed at the island she was at, and decided to help her out, since she seemed to be stranded, and had more knowledge of the world than you did. As powerful as your vehicle is, it is not made by gods or spirits, but rather, the efforts of your species, and can only consume a very special liquid to refuel itself (Although, if he seemed to understand the other words, you could full-on say "It only accepts aviation kerosene").

Finally, he'll probably ask why you came here, you can show him the map for that, and explain that this was the closest point on land you could reach, therefore the safest to go for.

Say that you are the crew of this sky ship, which is from another world. Say that you are helping Oira to return to the mainland from a shipwreck, and are interested in trading for supplies. You would also like to inquire about the methods they have for dealing with spirits, since you suspect a spirit might have transported you to this world without your knowledge.

>Third, ask what that smell is.
If their culture is anything like ours that would be rather rude.