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December Star System
Here is your December star system! If you have any questions at all, please post them here!
End of November
Whether you've gotten a vaccine from one of your helpful science officers, or just waited around for the augments to catch on to the problem and take care of it themselves, everyone should be feeling better as the nanomachines dissipate during the beginning of December.
If you'd like, you can use this post to discuss the finer points of how the cure was distributed, and whether your characters used it or not, or you can totally just assume/imply. That's all up to you guys. One way or another, everyone was cured before anything too terrible happened.
Beginning of December
Around the beginning of the month, the weekly Shuffle broadcast doesn't happen. A bunch of passengers disappear, some get shuffled around, but there is no episode of the Drift Fleet Shuffle playing to explain it. It all happens in silence.
However, anyone browsing the network or searching for signals will find something new around this same time. Crackly and full of static at first, but then coming in sharp and clear, there seems to be a new constantly-playing station available on the network!
The Atroma Shopping Network, styled alarmingly similar to the various home shopping networks of Earth fame, is now available to all ships-- all day, every day. All through December, passengers can watch smiling vendors hawk whatever strange wares are for sale that day... including ones that they might recognize.
The ASN will occasionally be selling what appear to be important (or unimportant) objects once belonging to passengers, from their homeworlds, or from previous worlds that they've visited. Even powerful weapons and magical objects can be seen being sold on the show. You are all free to assume whatever is playing, and react accordingly as you wish. HOWEVER-- the prices are all outrageously expensive, and any attempts to contact the frequency listed for buyers to call will be met with nothing a busy signal. ...Merry Christmas, Drift Fleet.
December Planet
More on this later! The planet will likely come into range around December 13th.
Way-Stations
The way-stations that come into range starting in December are quite different than the ones that the Fleet has come across so far. Still in the basic ring shape as the others, but the malls and courtyards are reserved to only a small slice of the way-station pie. The entire rest of the discs are reserved for the massive ostrich ranches that each one hosts.
They might be called "Tallbirds" by the locals, but for anyone familiar with Earthling creatures... they are most definitely ostriches. In space. And space-ostriches mean space-ostrich meat.
→ Courtyard: Exactly like the ones that you all have seen since October, but only a fraction of the size. And these alternate between having the usual open ceiling of black stars, and some kind of halfway-decent projected image to make it look like a blue sky, complete with sun and clouds. They say it's to keep the Tallbirds happy. These yards are also very warm, and you can get right up to the fence to look at the ostriches, if you dare. But any harassment of the birds will be dealt with harshly--by both handler and bird alike.
→ Shopping and Entertainment:
All of the automated vendors and entertainment systems from the last way-stations are still available and exactly the same... save for one very important addition.
Whether set up like a small street vendor's stall, a cafe, or a fast-food restaurant, there are eateries and shops of varying kinds all over the way-stations, and they all feature ostrich-related fare.
Massive ostrich egg omelets and quiche, giant eggs fried and scrambled and hard boiled! Ostrich jerky for days! Baked ostrich. Kentucky-fried ostrich. Ostrich and waffles. Ostrich on a stick. If you can think of it, and it's made from ostriches, odds are that they have it here. They will even sell fresh cuts of ostrich and other bits for passengers to stash in their freezers. There are also shops selling absolutely every kitschy thing they can possibly think up made from ostrich eggs, feathers, and leather.
If asked, the workers on the stations explain that the ostrich is the only meat-bearing animal that they've managed to ship and actually farm with success this far out. And once the trade took off, they've just kept it going. They also explain that the terraforming on the nearest planet didn't go so well, so all meat and plant-growing in this vicinity is done on stations. And while the Fleet does pass some stations that seem to be dedicated to farming, verifying these claims, there is absolutely no visitor parking or orbiting allowed. You'll all just have to live with ostrich meat and the usual crappy protein and tasteless space vegetables for now.
Enjoy!
End of November
Whether you've gotten a vaccine from one of your helpful science officers, or just waited around for the augments to catch on to the problem and take care of it themselves, everyone should be feeling better as the nanomachines dissipate during the beginning of December.
If you'd like, you can use this post to discuss the finer points of how the cure was distributed, and whether your characters used it or not, or you can totally just assume/imply. That's all up to you guys. One way or another, everyone was cured before anything too terrible happened.
Beginning of December
Around the beginning of the month, the weekly Shuffle broadcast doesn't happen. A bunch of passengers disappear, some get shuffled around, but there is no episode of the Drift Fleet Shuffle playing to explain it. It all happens in silence.
However, anyone browsing the network or searching for signals will find something new around this same time. Crackly and full of static at first, but then coming in sharp and clear, there seems to be a new constantly-playing station available on the network!
The Atroma Shopping Network, styled alarmingly similar to the various home shopping networks of Earth fame, is now available to all ships-- all day, every day. All through December, passengers can watch smiling vendors hawk whatever strange wares are for sale that day... including ones that they might recognize.
The ASN will occasionally be selling what appear to be important (or unimportant) objects once belonging to passengers, from their homeworlds, or from previous worlds that they've visited. Even powerful weapons and magical objects can be seen being sold on the show. You are all free to assume whatever is playing, and react accordingly as you wish. HOWEVER-- the prices are all outrageously expensive, and any attempts to contact the frequency listed for buyers to call will be met with nothing a busy signal. ...Merry Christmas, Drift Fleet.
December Planet
More on this later! The planet will likely come into range around December 13th.
Way-Stations
The way-stations that come into range starting in December are quite different than the ones that the Fleet has come across so far. Still in the basic ring shape as the others, but the malls and courtyards are reserved to only a small slice of the way-station pie. The entire rest of the discs are reserved for the massive ostrich ranches that each one hosts.
They might be called "Tallbirds" by the locals, but for anyone familiar with Earthling creatures... they are most definitely ostriches. In space. And space-ostriches mean space-ostrich meat.
→ Courtyard: Exactly like the ones that you all have seen since October, but only a fraction of the size. And these alternate between having the usual open ceiling of black stars, and some kind of halfway-decent projected image to make it look like a blue sky, complete with sun and clouds. They say it's to keep the Tallbirds happy. These yards are also very warm, and you can get right up to the fence to look at the ostriches, if you dare. But any harassment of the birds will be dealt with harshly--by both handler and bird alike.
→ Shopping and Entertainment:
All of the automated vendors and entertainment systems from the last way-stations are still available and exactly the same... save for one very important addition.
Whether set up like a small street vendor's stall, a cafe, or a fast-food restaurant, there are eateries and shops of varying kinds all over the way-stations, and they all feature ostrich-related fare.
Massive ostrich egg omelets and quiche, giant eggs fried and scrambled and hard boiled! Ostrich jerky for days! Baked ostrich. Kentucky-fried ostrich. Ostrich and waffles. Ostrich on a stick. If you can think of it, and it's made from ostriches, odds are that they have it here. They will even sell fresh cuts of ostrich and other bits for passengers to stash in their freezers. There are also shops selling absolutely every kitschy thing they can possibly think up made from ostrich eggs, feathers, and leather.
If asked, the workers on the stations explain that the ostrich is the only meat-bearing animal that they've managed to ship and actually farm with success this far out. And once the trade took off, they've just kept it going. They also explain that the terraforming on the nearest planet didn't go so well, so all meat and plant-growing in this vicinity is done on stations. And while the Fleet does pass some stations that seem to be dedicated to farming, verifying these claims, there is absolutely no visitor parking or orbiting allowed. You'll all just have to live with ostrich meat and the usual crappy protein and tasteless space vegetables for now.
Enjoy!
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It'd really only work if the whole crew wanted to get on it, fresh omelette for the ss bishop anyone???
also does anywhere do ostrich rides
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...Ostrich rides, officially coming to a way-station near you. Probably somewhere in the middle of the month.
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This is a very serious question.
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BUT EXCELLENT. I am very pleased by this answer.
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He desires to fill the bridge with them.
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Joshua can afford one case of bobbleheads per week of ratings money. So, like... either buying them slowly over the course of the month, or four cases all at once near the end of the month. And a case is however many bobbleheads would fit jammed into a box he can carry in his arms.
Either that or... whatever you want. Live your dreams.
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I think they should just slowly appear on the SS Bishop. Like there's just a couple the first week, and then second week there's more, and then finally they're EVERYWHERE. On seats, under cushions, on top of things, under things, in the Captain's cup of coffee, etc.
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Godspeed.
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it's when ceiling ostrich bobblehead is watching you make dinner that someone has to finally say enough
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He's gotta make things interesting.
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The farmers on the stations are extremely protective of their stock. ...Also, no one wants to see what happens to the creatures that Atroma decides are too large or dangerous to be kept on the ships. H-haha...
However! Keep an eye out for pet critter opportunities later on~ 8}
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i'll be waiting anxiously for those opportunities, though! villagervibrate.gif