The 37th Deep Ones ASC Sea Sqaud(Paordy)

[SRoss]

"Garbage and chow should be easier to tell apart."

Random Sea Squad Trooper: "Sorta how we should be able to tell the difference between a Garbage Scow and one of the 37th's subs?"

[Arnie100]

"Garbage and chow should be easier to tell apart."

Random Sea Squad Trooper: "Sorta how we should be able to tell the difference between a Garbage Scow and one of the 37th's subs?"

Random Deep One Trooper #1: "Wait...there's a difference?"
Random Deep One Trooper #2: "One goes underwater. Other then that...not much."

[say652]

"Well if the seafood menu keeps improving like it has been I just may request a transfer."
Mr Snow Comlinks in.

[SRoss]

"Well if the seafood menu keeps improving like it has been I just may request a transfer."
Mr Snow Comlinks in.

"I thought cats didn't like water?"

[Arnie100]

"Well if the seafood menu keeps improving like it has been I just may request a transfer."
Mr Snow Comlinks in.

"We did get a new chef transferred in from Southeast Asia. I wonder if he'll see cat as an ingredient..."

[say652]

"Leave it to humans to eat the wrong type of "cat""

[Arnie100]

New Chef: (Looking at Mr. Snow and sharpening VERY LARGE BUTCHER KNIFE...) "Mèo trông đẹp và đầy đặn!!! (That cat looks nice and plump!!!)"
Random Deep One Trooper #1: "Where did HE come from?!"
Random Deep One Trooper #2: "Hanoi High School #69..."

[say652]

Bite the knife in Half.
"Snow Leopard eat people in the wild."

[Arnie100]

Bite the knife in Half.
"Snow Leopard eat people in the wild."

Chef: (Pulls out another knife...) "Báo tuyết...mmmmmm...âm thanh ngon...(Snow leopard...mmmmmm...
sounds tasty...)"

[say652]

I'm going to have to ask Washu to translate his threats against Annie.

[taalismn]

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"We did get a new chef transferred in from Southeast Asia. I wonder if he'll see cat as an ingredient..."

Here's the thing about societies; those people willing to eat just about anything in a famine, survive.
During the periodic famines in China, once the middle to upper classes ran out of hoarded and imported foodstuffs(and money to buy the stuff) they starved; the peasants, who were eating rats, snakes, and whatnot, managed to pull through..if not well, at least long enough to have enough energy for the next round of post-famine rebellions against those surviving upper class who still had hoarded food and guarded granaries.

[glitterboy2098]

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"We did get a new chef transferred in from Southeast Asia. I wonder if he'll see cat as an ingredient..."

Here's the thing about societies; those people willing to eat just about anything in a famine, survive.
During the periodic famines in China, once the middle to upper classes ran out of hoarded and imported foodstuffs(and money to buy the stuff) they starved; the peasants, who were eating rats, snakes, and whatnot, managed to pull through..if not well, at least long enough to have enough energy for the next round of post-famine rebellions against those surviving upper class who still had hoarded food and guarded granaries.

according to some ancient chinese documents, it is alleged that in some regions of china during Famines, that the rich, running out of stockpiled food, survived by eating the peasants.. (or at least those that were selling themselves into Slavery. odds are the documents merely record rumors rather than fact, but still..)

[say652]

Cannibalism is a common problem when Food runs low, Long Pork,it is.

[taalismn]

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according to some ancient chinese documents, it is alleged that in some regions of china during Famines, that the rich, running out of stockpiled food, survived by eating the peasants.. (or at least those that were selling themselves into Slavery. odds are the documents merely record rumors rather than fact, but still..)

Brings new meaning to 'finger bowl'.....

[Arnie100]

Random Deep One Trooper #1: "I don't like where this conversation is going..."
Random Deep One Trooper #2: "Why can't we just get a cheeseburger?"
Random Deep One Trooper #1: "I'd be afraid to find out what's in the patty..."
Random Deep One Trooper #2: "Oh, goodie...I'm not hungry anymore."

[SRoss]

Random Deep One Trooper #1: "I don't like where this conversation is going..."
Random Deep One Trooper #2: "Why can't we just get a cheeseburger?"
Random Deep One Trooper #1: "I'd be afraid to find out what's in the patty..."
Random Deep One Trooper #2: "Oh, goodie...I'm not hungry anymore."

Chief: "What, you not like Patty?"

[taalismn]

"...I really hope we don't get sent 'Meatloaf' as USO entertainment..."

[SRoss]

"...I really hope we don't get sent 'Meatloaf' as USO entertainment..."

"Um, Captain! The USO Entertainment has arrived."

[taalismn]

"...I really hope we don't get sent 'Meatloaf' as USO entertainment..."

"Um, Captain! The USO Entertainment has arrived."

"Quick! Flood the airlock! Dive! Dive!"

[SRoss]

"...I really hope we don't get sent 'Meatloaf' as USO entertainment..."

"Um, Captain! The USO Entertainment has arrived."

"Quick! Flood the airlock! Dive! Dive!"

Deep One #1: (Watching the water flood in) "Think we should tell the Captain all the hatches are still open?"

Deep One #2: "He'll figure it out eventually."

[taalismn]

"One of the joys of this job is knowing where all the commercial pearl fisheries are."
"So we can protect them from pirates?"
"No, because we ARE pirates."
"Nowhere does it say we are obliged to protect the pearl fisheries."
"Doesn't say anything about raiding them, either, sir."
"I have a liberal interpretation of our orders."
"Does that include kidnapping pearl diving girls?"
" Arresting Southern East Asian criminal cartel personnel for planting explosives in random clam beds."
"I'm not sure that was meant as an attack aimed at us."
"How else do you explain the exploding chowder?"

[SRoss]

Morgan: "Ok, What happened this time?"

"Sir! We were pursuing an old destroyer crewed by high school girls."

"Then we got tangled in their paravane."

"And then a depth charge landed on our conning tower."

"Which debilitated the hamster who fried our electronics."

Morgan: "Does this have anything to do with why the Typhon is full of water?"

[taalismn]

Morgan: "Ok, What happened this time?"

"Sir! We were pursuing an old destroyer crewed by high school girls."

"Then we got tangled in their paravane."

"And then a depth charge landed on our conning tower."

"Which debilitated the hamster who fried our electronics."

Morgan: "Does this have anything to do with why the Typhon is full of water?"

And NO, MCHS#69 wasn't holding a sea semester.

[Arnie100]

Morgan: "Ok, What happened this time?"

"Sir! We were pursuing an old destroyer crewed by high school girls."

"Then we got tangled in their paravane."

"And then a depth charge landed on our conning tower."

"Which debilitated the hamster who fried our electronics."

Morgan: "Does this have anything to do with why the Typhon is full of water?"

And NO, MCHS#69 wasn't holding a sea semester.

"So, you can't blame it on teenage hormones."

[SRoss]

Morgan: "A hamster?" <Fizt> "The computer. MY PORN!!!"

[taalismn]

Morgan: "A hamster?" <Fizt> "The computer. MY PORN!!!"

Ah, the perils of being a lusty pirate roamer in the 21st century....

[Arnie100]

"That's new...porn-addicted hamsters..."

[taalismn]

"That's new...porn-addicted hamsters..."

"Makes them easier to catch when they're zoning out in front of the video monitor..."
"Sorta like sneaking up on the watch officer, no?"

[SRoss]

Captain Morgan: (Staring through his binoculars) "If I can't have porn, at least there's this."

"Um, Captain. I think the Zentreadi females are on to us!!!"

[taalismn]

Captain Morgan: (Staring through his binoculars) "If I can't have porn, at least there's this."

"Um, Captain. I think the Zentreadi females are on to us!!!"

IceGuard Corporal: "Think we bagged another submarine."
IG Sergeant: "Aye we did, lad. That's the other secret to ice fishig with bazookas...picking the right bait."

[SRoss]

Captain Morgan: (Staring through his binoculars) "If I can't have porn, at least there's this."

"Um, Captain. I think the Zentreadi females are on to us!!!"

IceGuard Corporal: "Think we bagged another submarine."
IG Sergeant: "Aye we did, lad. That's the other secret to ice fishig with bazookas...picking the right bait."

Or did the girls just throw the sub all the way to Siberia?

[taalismn]

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Or did the girls just throw the sub all the way to Siberia?

Ice Guard has gotten VERY good at ice sculpture...it's the loneliness...

[SRoss]

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Or did the girls just throw the sub all the way to Siberia?

Ice Guard has gotten VERY good at ice sculpture...it's the loneliness...

Suddenly flashing back to the joke about the MPs and the Jeep. Unfortunately, it can't be repeated here.

[taalismn]

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Suddenly flashing back to the joke about the MPs and the Jeep. Unfortunately, it can't be repeated here.

Base Medic: "You burnt your WHAT doing WHAT?!"
"Quiet! And don't put it in your official report!!!"

[SRoss]

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Suddenly flashing back to the joke about the MPs and the Jeep. Unfortunately, it can't be repeated here.

Base Medic: "You burnt your WHAT doing WHAT?!"
"Quite! And don't put it in your official report!!!"

Not quite, think more along the lines of human and full sized Zentraedi relations and questionable parking choices.

[taalismn]

Not quite, think more along the lines of human and full sized Zentraedi relations and questionable parking choices.

I'll just drop the word 'rubber' here and let the innuendo fly....

[Arnie100]

Not quite, think more along the lines of human and full sized Zentraedi relations and questionable parking choices.

I'll just drop the word 'rubber' here and let the innuendo fly....

"Shouldn't that be protective covering?"

[taalismn]

"Shouldn't that be protective covering?"

"Hubcap."

[batlchip]

Sea trooper:Don't you mean body suit

[taalismn]

Sea trooper:Don't you mean body suit

Better than body BAG.

[SRoss]

Morgan: "WHAT ARE THOSE EXPLOSIONS!"

"Someone is detonating mines overhead..."

Cut to a periscope view of a big ass yacht.

A political candidate with bad hair: (Peppering sea mines with MDC Rifle fire, massacring sea life as he goes) "THIS is how Americans should fish!!!"

Morgan: (Leaning back from the periscope) "Launch a full spread of Reflex torpedoes..."

[taalismn]

Captain Morgan: "Now, what have we learned from this, boys?"
"...never practice cutlass fighting in engineering."
Morgan: "Good. Now you'll all follow the engineers' commands and find all the hoses and wires you cut and repair them...or the engineers will have your guts for garters."

[taalismn]

So, anybody see Captain Eric Morgan as a rather more rotund version of Steven Tyler(sans the bad singing?). Kinda a Johnny Depp gone to seed? Streaks of gray in the long hair and beard and a pirate version(fold-top boots, pistols stuck in the torso harness webbing, REF great coat tails, saber slung at side, tri-corner hat) of the Southern Cross uniform?

[SRoss]

So, anybody see Captain Eric Morgan as a rather more rotund version of Steven Tyler(sans the bad singing?). Kinda a Johnny Depp gone to seed? Streaks of gray in the long hair and beard and a pirate version(fold-top boots, pistols stuck in the torso harness webbing, REF great coat tails, saber slung at side, tri-corner hat) of the Southern Cross uniform?

Steven Tyler? Are you sure you didn't mean Keith Richards?

[Arnie100]

I'm thinking the current fat Steven Seagal.

[taalismn]

"Hey, Salty!"
"Arrr?"
"Why is it that despite the Sea Squad body armor you have having a single pane faceplate, you STILL somehow managed to fit it with an eyepatch over one side?"
"Why? Gotta look like a proper pirate, ar'course! Arrrrrr...."
"Right....why do I bother asking?"

[SRoss]

I'm thinking the current fat Steven Seagal.

And with that comment, Arnie100 suddenly discovered there were warrants out for him in Louisiana and Arizona.

[taalismn]

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And with that comment, Arnie100 suddenly discovered there were warrants out for him in Louisiana and Arizona.

Or congratulatory Tweets....

[Arnie100]

Arnie100: "I'll just throw him a box of Krispy Kreme donuts, pizza and a case of beer or a Krispy Kreme Triple Cheeseburger (yes, there is such a thing, you just gotta go to the San Diego fair to get one).

[taalismn]

Because IceGuard has robots, but the Deep Ones don't.

Weapons and Equipment:

QDSRV-302DSV 'Sea Ghost' Underwater Drone
The tongue-fatiguingly named QSDSRV-302DSV is a development of the QF-300E Ghost fighter, and was developed by the post-Rain of Death UEG Navy as a quick and cheap way to protect and survey the vast stretches of ocean believed to harbor Zentraedi renegades, often operating from submerged, but still water-tight, warship wrecks. The 'Sea Ghost' featured a new streamlined and watertight body propelled by high-speed hydrothrusters, outfitted with various sonar systems, and armed with various modular weapons packs, including guns firing supercavitating ammunition, blue-green lasers, or light torpedoes. It was hoped that, with a little reprogramming to take into account the greater density of water, and ocean currents, the original Ghost AI programming could be readily adapted and transplanted into the new platform, greatly speeding development time.
The Navy's expectations would prove overly-optimistic. Early model QDSRV-302DSVs were plagued with problems in adapting to the much more cluttered marine environment. Although they could easily run programmed sonar scan mission profiles, throwing them into combat situations tended to end in disaster, with drones getting locked into circular courses, porpoising up out of the water, or misidentifying targets(resulting in at least one spectacular torpedo run on the monitoring escorts). The Navy was obliged to settle for a much more limited oceanic survey drone, rather than the more dynamic underwater robofighter they wanted(and accepting the sonar drone was a calculated political move; rather than petition for more funding to make the Sea Ghost WORK, the Navy decided to scuttle the program to save bargaining clout for future projects for their elite Sea Squad). A super-high speed supercavitating variant never made it off the engine testbed phase.
The Navy DID get some use from the early Sea Ghosts, but as sonar and camera sea-survey drones scanning the ocean bottom and testing the waters near suspected Zentraedi wrecks. Most of the hundred or so Sea Ghosts produced ended up being either lost at sea to various causes, or scrapped. A few wound up in out of the way outposts as marine recon systems, and one was even used kamikaze-style to deliver a depth charge to a cornered Zentraedi Theater Scout, but few of these had the original modular weapons fitted.
How the 37th got ahold of a dozen ARMED Sea Ghosts is unknown; while many people suspect the drones were originally intended as expendable deep sea-trench probes, with the expectation that the 37th would deep-six them in the course of their official oceanic survey duties. A little black market dealing, however, may have allowed Morgan to acquire the armaments needed to refit them to original spec. Though the original problems with the AIs remained, and few, especially within the 37th itself, expected the SeaGhosts to be anything other than another, potentially deadly, equipment boondoggle, recent reports of the 37th in action(since they went rogue and started acting as pirates) seem to show the QDSRV-302DSVs operating quite proficiently. Whether this is due to some creative and successful reprogramming by the Deep Ones' resident technicians, remote control links(such as wire-guidance), or just sheer bloody luck that the drones haven't turned on their human commanders, remains unknown.