[HQ Ignorance] Scene 123: Shutdown of the Kalen System

[Gianni & Anna Vacca]

[OOC] This scene made me really laugh out loud :D

--- On Tue, 8/9/11, lev at mimesisrpg.com <lev at mimesisrpg.com> wrote:

> From: lev at mimesisrpg.com <lev at mimesisrpg.com>
> Subject: [HQ Ignorance] Scene 123: Shutdown of the Kalen System
> To: "HeroQuest Glorantha" <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2011, 2:59 PM
> Scene 123: Shutdown of the Kalen
> System
> 
> Jareena looks quizzically at the broken and still body of
> the Mostal.
> "They are so... unlike us", she mutters. Making the slow
> chant of her
> people over the body of the Dwarf she shakes her head at
> the difficulty in
> raising the healing magics of such an alien being. "There
> is no flesh or
> wood here. It's like trying to heal a broken stone."
> 
> A flicker of light then appeared at the Dwarf's eyes.
> Jareena beamed. "But
> there is spirit in there. And I can touch that."
> 
> [Roll 6 against Prevent Dying 17 - 10 for very alien
> species, success.
> Roll 20 for death at 14, fumble! A major victory for
> Jareena!]
> 
> Kalen began to speak in the mechanical tone that the
> Fellowship had become
> familiar with. But this time the communication was strange,
> to say the
> least.
> 
> "0x1BADB002, input output error, cyclic redundancy check
> failure, core
> dump, oops, kernel panic, 0xFEE1DEAD"
> 
> For his part Rikku attempst to heal Kalen as well, with his
> knowledge of
> magic. However critically forgetting the allergic reaction
> that the metal
> people have to the fertility rune, he manages to make
> matters worse as a
> fungul growth began to sprout on Kalen's damaged tubes.
> Kalen starts to
> let out a high-pitched screetching sound.
> 
> (Roll 9, from First Aid 16 - 3 = 13, marginal success. Roll
> 1 for wound,
> critical success. Marginal success for wound, increases
> wound to "dying"
> again.)
> 
> "0xD15EA5E! 0xD15EA5E! 0x8BADF00D! 0x8BADF00D!"
> 
> At this point Rotterex, on little more than a wing and a
> prayer, pressed
> the button on Kalen's back. There was a bried sigh, and
> Kalen sighed:
> "Restart required. The Kalen system is shutting down.
> Shutdown -r now".
> 
> 
> 
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