Space Opera - The Drip Chronicles

Originally posted on MSPA by Mystify.

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Huddle in terror

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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This is my new favorite image

Why are you so great thriggle

EDIT: I just noticed NT has Bambi eyes, too. D'AWWWW

Thanks for the kind words, Sloopy! And as for your question, I am so great because I am really not all that great. That's my theory, anyway.

Originally posted on MSPA by Not The Author.

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> NT: Face-pom.

Originally posted on MSPA by Not A Ninja.

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>Make like a berry and... RIPEN!!!! And stay completely still as the events pass.

>Steve: DEEPLY MOVED MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted on MSPA by Nopad.

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> Interpretive dance to convey to him that you can talk through interpretive dance.

>Save yourself! Dance like you've never danced before!

You briefly consider simply explaining to Steve John that you can now understand him and then asking him not to shoot you, but realize that your situation is much too nuanced for the medium of speech, and can only be fully related through INTERPRETIVE DANCE.


You LEAP your encounter with the SAVAGE FOLIAGE.


You ARABESQUE your explorations in the NATIVE VILLAGE.


You PIROUETTE the confusion and frustration you felt as you made your way through this PRIMITIVE FACILITY.


And finally, you dance a complex and sensual CODA designed to connect with your audience on the universal hindbrain levels of DANCE and MOVEMENT, and fully invoke understanding regarding your discovery and removal of the MISTRANSLATION DEVICE, as well as explain via RECURRENT DANCING that you can communicate fluently and reliably through INTERPRETIVE DANCE.



Steve John appears DEEPLY MOVED.

We need ACTIONS not WORDS!!
You've got to convince your old rival that you have become the ultimate coolness!

>Shoot the gun out of his hand off of his body.

>SHOOT FIRST!

Not trusting Steve John's apparent SENSITIVITY and APPRECIATION for the PERFORMING ARTS, you decide to play it safe and shoot that ZAP RIFLE out of the Drop's han-- er, skin.


You are now Nigel's Thornberry.

New favortie post.

Originally posted on MSPA by Anathema.

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I was also moved to tears by that dance. It was beautiful.

Originally posted on MSPA by The Random One.

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NT: Be also moved by the display of dance. Spontaneously learn the Interpretative Dancing skill.

Originally posted on MSPA by FORRUNNER ALEX.

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Well, what the hell hapens now?
NT- Appeal to Steve John. Or confuse him by talking into his (ear?) hearing organ.

Originally posted on MSPA by Anathema.

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NT: Be also moved by the display of dance. Spontaneously learn the Interpretative Dancing skill.

Originally posted on MSPA by Nopad.

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Hey, isn't thriggle, like, an English major or something?

Originally posted on MSPA by Anathema.

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Hey, isn't thriggle, like, an English major or something?

I believe he is.

Originally posted on MSPA by Ed.

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> Escape!

Originally posted on MSPA by Not The Author.

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I feel I must reiterate...

> NT: Face-pom.

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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> NT: Face-pom.

What a stupid drip.

> Escape!

You're not going to hang around and let these ANIMALS put you back into a BERRY-PROOF CONTAINER. You decide it's high time to make a LEAP Skill Check and get the heck outta here!

In two great LEAPS you manage to escape into the DUCTWORK.

The DUCTWORK leads directly upwards above you, probably to the rooftop vent through which you sent Agent Rubble, but it is too steep to CLIMB and too high to LEAP. At the far end of this DUCT, the corridor turns sharply to the right; you can see light coming from that direction. And of course, there is the opening behind you through which you entered.

Originally posted on MSPA by Mystify.

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take a couple of hte screws holding the duct together and use them as climbing spikes

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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>take a couple of the screws holding the duct together and use them as climbing spikes

You quickly employ your PULL Skill to remove one of the screws from the DUCTWORK.

However, it occurs to you that you lack the CLIMB Skill, and don't have any idea how to use CLIMBING SPIKES, makeshift or otherwise. Plus, thornberries (lacking both thumbs and the ability to skinclench) can't effectively hold more than one thing at a time, since it takes both arm-thorns to hold something.

You have obtained one (1) SCREW.

Originally posted on MSPA by Mystify.

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Use the screw as a weapon and leap down at the strange new drip.

Originally posted on MSPA by CabbageHat.

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Wait, is Bob eventually going to become immune to the effects of this so-called SPACE MADNESS? He's been jabbed enough time that you'd imagine it wouldn't have quite as much of an effect. Thus:

>Bob: SPACE IDIOCY!

>NT: Wield screw vehemently against who or whatever moves first. It's every manfruit for himself!

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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>Use the screw as a weapon and leap down at the strange new drip.

>NT: Wield screw vehemently against who or whatever moves first. It's every manfruit for himself!

You don't have enough Maneuver Juice* remaining to execute your STABBITY Maneuver (or any Maneuver, really).

You'll need a good night's SLEEP before you'll be able to use any of your very useful Maneuvers.

But this DUCTWORK isn't exactly the most secure place to start SLEEPing...

*Or in CabbageHat's case, Manoeuvre Juice.

Originally posted on MSPA by Not The Author.

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> NT: Go towards the tunnel at the end of the light.

Originally posted on MSPA by CabbageHat.

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*Or in CabbageHat's case, Manoeuvre Juice.

You just made me realise that I very rarely actually write this word, and when I have I use YOUR spelling. So shush.

But this DUCTWORK isn't exactly the most secure place to start SLEEPing...

>Sleep inside the bin then.

Originally posted on MSPA by Ed.

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> Exit the duct, aggress STEVE JOHN with your new obtained weapon

Originally posted on MSPA by The Random One.

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> Color-code your manouevres, than use the mauve manouvre.

Originally posted on MSPA by Crowstone.

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>Birthquake

Originally posted on MSPA by Nopad.

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>Birthquake

oh. oh god.