Babylon 5 Extras

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:30:42 GMT

As another weapons blast hits the hull, Zack staggers, grabbing hold of the communications console to remain upright.

For john__crichton, rogersmith_bigo, and londo_mollari

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:37:37 GMT

"Thank you, Ambassador." The interrogator stands and snaps his briefcase closed. "I believe that will be sufficient." He gestures to the guards. "Take him back to his cell."

For vir_cotto_tm, karen_firemage, and Zack Allen

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:28:45 GMT

Seeing that Vir is getting increasingly worked up, Zack gently takes hold of the young Centauri's shoulder, stilling him before he does something crazy, like following Mr. Crichton and Mr. Smith. He can feel that the guy's as hot as a candle through the thin fabric of his shirt. "Vir. I know you're scared. And I know you don't want to leave anyone you care about behind. I understand that. I do. But you need to look after you. I think Ambassador Mollari would want you to do that."

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:58:48 GMT

Zack takes a deep breath. "All right, everybody. Keep your eyes and ears open and let's go."

Ms. Beauchamp opens the hatch.

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:31:27 GMT

Zack looks around the modest deck, quickly conducting an internal roll call.

"Well, it looks like we're all here. Are we cleared for take-off?"

From the flight deck, the communication comes in: "You may release the clamps when ready. Opening outer doors now."

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:44:15 GMT

OOC: All right, all- here's the first rescue thread. We'll follow farscape_rpg/b7_rpg rules here. That means when the comments get about halfway across the page, we should wrap the thread. And when we hit 49 replies, I will generate a new thread. Everyone got it? Let's roll!

"Jumping to normal space... now."

On the farside of a small moon in Quadrant 20, a blue maw opens and the Black Glory emerges. On the flight deck, Zack watches the activity of the Centauri crew with some apprehension. "Any sign they've detected us?" he asks. It had occured to him some hours ago that Clark's forces may not take too kindly to a Centauri ship appearing directly in their space given Ambassador Mollari's current relations with their government. So he ordered the Centauri watch officer to make the jump a half hour of normal space travel away from the base itself.

"No, Mr. Allen. There's no change in the communications traffic. Yet."

"All right. Then let's shut off the juice."

"Shutting off main engines."

As the lights dim, Zack turns to Roger. "At this distance, I don't know if you'll be able to hack into their main computer. Then again... it's worth a shot. Do you think you can use their communications transmissions in some way?"

OOC: Rescue Play-By-Play

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:24:10 GMT

john__crichton,
rogersmith_bigo,
_mariel,
londo_mollari,
and karen_firemage:

Watch this thread for OOC messages from your fellow roleplayers! Since we don't all have YIM or AIM, this is as close to a real time conversation as we can get.

In the meantime, I hope you all don't mind if I take control a little bit and present a basic outline:

Step One: We arrive at the base. rogersmith_bigo will have to crack into the base computer to find out where Londo and Vir are being held.

Step Two: Once Londo and Vir are located, we will need to send a boarding party to the base, probably in "Tatyana's" ship. The party will consist of rogersmith_bigo and Dorothy, john__crichton, _talon and his Narn companion, karen_firemage, if her mun is available, and the Black Glory's Centauri physician, who will be played by me. "Tatyana" will pull a ruse to get access to the base.

Step Three: Then said members of the boarding party will hurry to the correct holding cell and nab Londo and Vir. Once at the cell, they will meet resistance, also played by me. Londo will be knocked unconscious. Vir will react, probably by doing something suitably heroic and foolish. Roger will turn off everyone's energy weapons and play hell with the lights to give everyone cover. Everyone will move as quickly as possible to "Tatyana's" ship.

Step Four: "Tatyana" will pilot her ship as quickly as possible to the Black Glory under fire from Starfuries launched from the base. Once the party reboards the Black Glory, Vir will collapse and be carted to the med bay with the unconscious Londo. Everyone else, meanwhile, will run up to the flight deck to join Zack and defend against the attack from the base. The Black Glory will withstand the attack and jump into hyperspace.

Step Five: A med bay thread will be opened after Easter for the denouement of this chapter. *g*

Please reply with additions and feedback!

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:55:45 GMT

Continuing the storyline from here:

The Black Glory has been in hyperspace for three hours now, and Zack, curious about the members of their hastily thrown together rescue team, has decided to head to the ship's mess for a drink. When he arrives, he discovers Karen sitting alone.

"Hey," he says quietly. "Mind if I join you?"

Hello from hobsonphile: A Rationale

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:11:28 GMT

Hello, fellow players! hobsonphile (aka the mun for vir_cotto_tm and timov_of_algul) here with a word on the intended purpose of this journal:

I joined theatrical_muse as vir_cotto_tm when it first opened, and I've been an active roleplayer in extended B5-centered storylines since... well, since we first began to construct them. *g* And one thing I've noticed over these many months is the fact that, on many occasions, we've been short a player or two. The B5 T_M community is somewhat, shall we say, alien-centric. *g* Which makes a nice counter-balance to the usual in B5 RPG communities I've seen, but considering the fact that B5 is a Human run military outpost and diplomatic center, we have, obviously, felt the lack of our Human compatriots. *g* For example, several of our storylines have required the presence of Dr. Franklin- and since Dr. Franklin as yet has no player on T_M, every trip to the Med Lab has put us in somewhat of a pickle. Now yes, we've managed to work around that in the past, but...

...but I've been thinking recently that it might be advantageous for all of us to use a central handle when we require the input of a character who has not been adopted by a generous mun. I think this will become especially important once certain nefarious plans involving londo_mollari and alfredbester kick into gear (we will certainly need a Sheridan for that at least). And pilotmoya, once we begin your storyline, I will be using this handle to play the various people who will be your new passengers.

Obviously, since this handle will be used for many characters, each time we use it, we will have to designate- through icons or through the subject heading- who precisely we are playing. *g* If you all want to designate your characters via icons, I'm willing to buy the space- just let me know.

Have fun!