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EclecticInspiration 
Skaven
@FoxMcCloud97
@Peaches #BD3F
The large wolf holding Auria’s hand nods to the fox lady in greeting before gazing around the establishment. “Nice place,” he quietly comments.
@Peaches #BD3F
The large wolf holding Auria’s hand nods to the fox lady in greeting before gazing around the establishment. “Nice place,” he quietly comments.
Roleplaying » The Nation of Arcadia (NSFW) » Post 104
FoxMcCloud97 
Cornerian Ace
@Dave33333
The apothecary smiled as Dana walked in. “I see you are done enjoying yourself, as far as the bell is concerned… What can I get you?” He asks. The potion maker, a middle aged equine, nodded at Dana.
@Anonymous #BD3F
“Oh, Mistress Auria! It is good to see you again, M’lady.”
The apothecary smiled as Dana walked in. “I see you are done enjoying yourself, as far as the bell is concerned… What can I get you?” He asks. The potion maker, a middle aged equine, nodded at Dana.
@Anonymous #BD3F
“Oh, Mistress Auria! It is good to see you again, M’lady.”
Roleplaying » Story writing thread [NSFW/SFW] » Post 1
background furry #19375
Comet Running, by Anders Sandberg
Doing a comet run is a mixture of luck, opted hardware and some limited skill. In space everything is either immobile or fast enough to kill you, and near an active comet there is so much going on that no predictive software and sensors can fully keep track of it. Still, being nimble and prescient helps reduce the chance of death from certain to merely large.
There is plenty of old-fashioned macho aesthetics to it. It would be trivial to sleeve into a heavy metal penetrator and just railgun into the comet - so there is no point to it. Human-sized morphs, EVA bikes (often fitted out to look like motorbikes - remember those?) and no excessive armour. Plenty of opinions about whether synthmorphs are cheating or not, but in my book their higher acceleration tolerance is outweighed by the extra care biomorph owners show with their bodies.
Finding the right comet is also a bit of an art. Fresh long-periodic comets look grand, but are fairly “clean”: mostly ice, with a gradual evaporation that makes the run uneventful. Except when they do have an unexpected eruption - suddenly you find yourself surrounded by tumbling pure icebergs in a white mist. Nothing like it. Jupiter or Halley family ones are far less visual, but the crustiness makes for some challenging navigation. The organisers typically aim for having the run just after a big eruption or even better a breakup.
Some of my best experiences have been just off Jupiter, with tidal shearing turning the coma into a labyrinth of shards. And once I did a sungrazer: we honestly did not know if the core would make it, and if the winner would go down with it.
Seeing the corona through the flaming coma, photosphere reflected in sublimating ice…
%[ a sungrazing comet ]%
we did not care whether we would live or die.
Suit up, boot up the control network, rev up your bike and wait for the organiser to signal (in our race the Nick detonates a plasma warhead). The first part is simple and boring - just getting close to the comet. You can accelerate a lot, but that will make the approach too dangerous. But you don’t want to hold back too much either - there is nothing worse than seeing the others far ahead. This is where you can start to see the personalities of your competitors.
Coma approach is just dodging dense clouds, avoiding getting hit by pebbles and abrasive ice. Mostly luck and not too interesting unless there is some odd space weather. Some strategizing for getting a good angle - it is at this point the jockeying for advantage really starts. Then things pick up as you approach the core. By now you need to slow down to avoid overshooting it, so getting shot by a pebble is less of a danger. Instead the icebergs start showing up, especially if it is a good breakup. It is at this point pure luck is replaced by skill, precognition and tech.
%[ inside the tail of a comet ]%
There is no way of expressing what you are doing. It is not just dodging incoming projectiles and avoiding hitting tumbling blocks, but finding a path through the many dimensions of velocity, position, angle and fuel reserves as the comet throws surprise after surprise at you.
Some comets are fair - P/2087 Seung-Resnick seems remarkably regular - while others are black balls of maliciousness and bad luck. There is a reason why we speak in hushed tones of P/2018 Albeverio. It is not just respect to the people it has claimed - remember, this was the one that got Olivia Blitz for real - but because there is something downright intentional in how it is throwing everything it got at you. You dodge a curtain only to find yourself in front of a small reef of shards. You select a fast and clear approach, and just as you are committed to it there is a surface eruption filling it with the fastest and most fractious bergs you can imagine. A friend had his automation crash on approach and I know two people who have had their nano act up inside the coma: Albeverio is evil.
Finally you reach the core. If you have been lucky and skilled there is nobody ahead of you launching their victory flares.
%[ 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko ]%
Just you and kilometres of pure comet. Land, crash or touch down. Enjoy the kiss of a conquered piece of heaven.
Comet Running, by Anders Sandberg
Doing a comet run is a mixture of luck, opted hardware and some limited skill. In space everything is either immobile or fast enough to kill you, and near an active comet there is so much going on that no predictive software and sensors can fully keep track of it. Still, being nimble and prescient helps reduce the chance of death from certain to merely large.
There is plenty of old-fashioned macho aesthetics to it. It would be trivial to sleeve into a heavy metal penetrator and just railgun into the comet - so there is no point to it. Human-sized morphs, EVA bikes (often fitted out to look like motorbikes - remember those?) and no excessive armour. Plenty of opinions about whether synthmorphs are cheating or not, but in my book their higher acceleration tolerance is outweighed by the extra care biomorph owners show with their bodies.
Finding the right comet is also a bit of an art. Fresh long-periodic comets look grand, but are fairly “clean”: mostly ice, with a gradual evaporation that makes the run uneventful. Except when they do have an unexpected eruption - suddenly you find yourself surrounded by tumbling pure icebergs in a white mist. Nothing like it. Jupiter or Halley family ones are far less visual, but the crustiness makes for some challenging navigation. The organisers typically aim for having the run just after a big eruption or even better a breakup.
Some of my best experiences have been just off Jupiter, with tidal shearing turning the coma into a labyrinth of shards. And once I did a sungrazer: we honestly did not know if the core would make it, and if the winner would go down with it.
Seeing the corona through the flaming coma, photosphere reflected in sublimating ice…
%[ a sungrazing comet ]%
we did not care whether we would live or die.
Suit up, boot up the control network, rev up your bike and wait for the organiser to signal (in our race the Nick detonates a plasma warhead). The first part is simple and boring - just getting close to the comet. You can accelerate a lot, but that will make the approach too dangerous. But you don’t want to hold back too much either - there is nothing worse than seeing the others far ahead. This is where you can start to see the personalities of your competitors.
Coma approach is just dodging dense clouds, avoiding getting hit by pebbles and abrasive ice. Mostly luck and not too interesting unless there is some odd space weather. Some strategizing for getting a good angle - it is at this point the jockeying for advantage really starts. Then things pick up as you approach the core. By now you need to slow down to avoid overshooting it, so getting shot by a pebble is less of a danger. Instead the icebergs start showing up, especially if it is a good breakup. It is at this point pure luck is replaced by skill, precognition and tech.
%[ inside the tail of a comet ]%
There is no way of expressing what you are doing. It is not just dodging incoming projectiles and avoiding hitting tumbling blocks, but finding a path through the many dimensions of velocity, position, angle and fuel reserves as the comet throws surprise after surprise at you.
Some comets are fair - P/2087 Seung-Resnick seems remarkably regular - while others are black balls of maliciousness and bad luck. There is a reason why we speak in hushed tones of P/2018 Albeverio. It is not just respect to the people it has claimed - remember, this was the one that got Olivia Blitz for real - but because there is something downright intentional in how it is throwing everything it got at you. You dodge a curtain only to find yourself in front of a small reef of shards. You select a fast and clear approach, and just as you are committed to it there is a surface eruption filling it with the fastest and most fractious bergs you can imagine. A friend had his automation crash on approach and I know two people who have had their nano act up inside the coma: Albeverio is evil.
Finally you reach the core. If you have been lucky and skilled there is nobody ahead of you launching their victory flares.
%[ 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko ]%
Just you and kilometres of pure comet. Land, crash or touch down. Enjoy the kiss of a conquered piece of heaven.
Roleplaying » Suggestions and bullshitting thread, venting, etc. [NSFW] » Post 47
Anonymous #77DC
@Jinx
The furry community does not have what i would call ‘quality’. ‘Quantity’, maybe, but not quality, which is typically what i seek. Not to mention furry has a much, much higher quantity of the ‘muh mary sue OC race’ crowd.
‘tis unfortunate that the adventure had to end the way it did, but so it goes.
I’ll leave a discord tag that won’t be changing anytime soon behind in case you lot ever want to get in contact with me, but otherwise this is where we part ways.
Box#9458
Enjoy the rat and whatever gems you manage to dredge up in the ash.
The furry community does not have what i would call ‘quality’. ‘Quantity’, maybe, but not quality, which is typically what i seek. Not to mention furry has a much, much higher quantity of the ‘muh mary sue OC race’ crowd.
‘tis unfortunate that the adventure had to end the way it did, but so it goes.
I’ll leave a discord tag that won’t be changing anytime soon behind in case you lot ever want to get in contact with me, but otherwise this is where we part ways.
Box#9458
Enjoy the rat and whatever gems you manage to dredge up in the ash.
Roleplaying » Suggestions and bullshitting thread, venting, etc. [NSFW] » Post 46
Jinx 
Loves a German
Holy fuck, that took way too long. I just finished porting the characters thread me and cere share in PM. big mega posts to get them all. And TONS of links to pictures.
Roleplaying » Suggestions and bullshitting thread, venting, etc. [NSFW] » Post 45
Jinx
Loves a German
Well, yeah actually, this place has the potential for new people, and better RP. You can still come over luke.
Roleplaying » Suggestions and bullshitting thread, venting, etc. [NSFW] » Post 44
Sky
Drgs&sharks
@Anonymous #77DC
There are not many active Derpi RP threads left and I’m not involved in any that are still around other than occasionally popping in the counterpart to this thread over there.
There are not many active Derpi RP threads left and I’m not involved in any that are still around other than occasionally popping in the counterpart to this thread over there.
Roleplaying » Suggestions and bullshitting thread, venting, etc. [NSFW] » Post 43
Anonymous #77DC
Anyways, i’m just here to ask if this is going to be an attempt to drag all active threads on Derpi here. If so, then i suppose rip in piss, forever miss, and we shan’t be speaking again as most of my offers of external contact methods have been rejected.
Roleplaying » Suggestions and bullshitting thread, venting, etc. [NSFW] » Post 40
Anonymous #77DC
Now this is a big yikes.
Roleplaying » The Nation of Arcadia (NSFW) » Post 103
Anonymous #BD3F
Auria grins and leads her new companion to the Silver Dragon Inn, approaching the counter and waving to the fox woman behind it.
(Aw thanks, you too! I think we will have to pick up again tomorrow, as it is super late. Good night!)
(Aw thanks, you too! I think we will have to pick up again tomorrow, as it is super late. Good night!)
Roleplaying » The Nation of Arcadia (NSFW) » Post 102
MichaelMuffin147
Casual Furry :3
@EclecticInspiration
(Yeah, I might head off today to. See you guys tomorrow. :3)
(Yeah, I might head off today to. See you guys tomorrow. :3)
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