Rumor List

Post rumors.

Rules:
Two about another character for every one about your own. One out of six should be false. Keep it in mind. This is so that it doesn't become self-focused, but also have a wealth of tidbits about other people, to start RP. "Hey, I heard you drank way too much at the Mess Hall last night, man. Vance climb up your ass?"
Keep them realistic for what goes on in a ship, and what people would pass on. What do people gossip about? Sex, money, politics, promotions, and petty nonsense. Someone has a supply of contraband chocolate, for example. Or they're an unstable PTSD wreck that the Marines are keeping under control.

"The package we're going to pick-up is an ancient artifact with the power to either destroy Cretin or Humans entirely, which is why the Jutland is a fleet of one - so as to attract less attention."

"The alcohol and smoking ban is going to be lifted tomorrow."

Nobody on the ship is supposed to know that, Dalla :/

"The true nature of it's mission was unknown even to those who captained it; their instructions merely being to pick up a cargo and a VIP" - Episode One - Fate.

Yeah.. we know it.


Besides the specifics were just a rumour.

"MCPO Vance is actually a cretin experiment gone wrong. He slaughtered all of the bird scientists and made his escape on one of their ships."

"MacNamara is a dangerous flirt, innit he? He seems willing to chase any of the crew."
"Vance lost his arm as a teenager. Joining the military gave him the opportunity to have it replaced."
"Vance is screwing one of the marines."

"Private Winters actually rolls both ways."
"I hear that Scott Norman guy has perfect vision, and he wears fake glasses because it makes him look more intelligent."
"EMMI has eyes everywhere. Yes, even in the bathrooms. Yes, /especially/ in the showers."

"EMMI's an unusual prototype, despite everyone's protestations that she's based on existing software. She's never been used before."

(( I hate the fact everyone's assuming that my character's a Luddite for being so dead-set against EMMI's presence. She's a brand-new prototype AI that's never been used before, the first of her kind, and they're using her on a massive scale. ))

"Vale is a luddite"

(( Diiiiiiiiiiiick. ))

"Hassan is in the brig for making moonshine."

"EMMI likes to hum to herself audibly when nobody's around, for no particular reason."

"EMMI killed two crew members by sending them outside of the airlock."

"A package of new tablet computers arrived."

"Surgical bay is restricted from common eye not only because it is not sterile but also because government scientists are currently dissecting a cretin corpse there."

Moved this to the IC section, where it belongs.

"You hear the Captain once socked Admiral Trudl in the jaw? 'Parently they never liked each other; old blood."

"The package we're carrying ain't a fucking artefact, dufus! It's just a load of canned penguin food for some diplomatic banquet."

"The Captain has a stash in the ship; I think it's some weed, but some say it's just booze and smokes."

Negromancer wrote:

"Surgical bay is restricted from common eye not only because it is not sterile but also because government scientists are currently dissecting a cretin corpse there."

(( Guys: realistic rumors. Saying there's a cretin corpse is bad. Saying that it's being used as a morgue is bad. Saying that there's a system fault is good and realistic. ))

((That's just the sort of thing that wouldn't be released into the public? Whereas a system fault would be rather widely known? Also, saying that the package jutland is supposed to deliver is an artifact or w/e is even less realistic.))

(( Rumors are rumors, they can be bullshit because not every rumor is serious. That's how it is IRL even. ))

"You hear about the spook? His last posting a pair of Marines went ape-shit and iced his team. He's the only one that survived..."

"Commander Kovalev knows exactly what we are carrying but he won't even tell the captain that smug fuck."

Putting some of these on announcement scroll.

"I heard from a guy that made it out of Duskstar alive that someone he knew got bagged by an ONI black team. I heard Kovalev was at the head of it..."

"Captain is a Cretin sympathizer she was sharing military secrets with the Cretin we captured..."

"The Cretin have such a highly developed sense of smell they can pinpoint exactly where our dug in positions are the moment they touch down."

"You know that big fleet ship we saw when we got ambushed? Apparently Cretin have about three more of them ready to go, five more in production already! Those ships are bigger than our largest human vessel; the Cortex!"

"Kovalev's tryin' to undermine the Captain and strong arm his way up ship command, tryin' to issue edicts without any flags to get ahol' of from ONI... well, he can' get any from anyone, considerin'."

"I heard the birdie prisoner's tryin' to mate with it's guards."

"Tarh's really out for a count, I'm pretty sure I saw him sleeping in the Officer's club."

"Tan-Tan supposedly has a hidden stash of alcohol and cigarettes somewhere on the ship."