IC: Gate technologies, Stargate: 2064 Options

[Misfit Toy]

"I dunno about jammin' 'em, but we can at least learn how to play with 'em. I mean, like, they're sittin' right o'er there and, uh, stuff."

The next morning, after deciding to take a break from all the number crunching, Cosmo decides to play around with the gauntlet a little more. He spends about twenty minutes experimenting with the nutrino blasts and various UHF signals to see if he can figure out how to use the rings.

[Shadow]

Cozmo presses the jewel on the gauntlet, and then stands in awe as the six rings leap out of the ground and stack on top of each other. After a few seconds they fall back into the stone floor as if they were never there.

[Misfit Toy]

"Ooh."

After only a few moments of playing around, the little dwarf's eyes light up. He turns to look at the 'troll' for whom he still needs to print a sign out for. "Hey man, could ya, yanno, go stand o'er there and stuff? Think I got it workin' but I won't know til, yanno, we like... uh... use it or sumfin'. Yeah."

[Leowulf]

Ghost Dragon waits from his position for another day to go by. He quietly eats his third day worth of rations and sips water from one of his canteens. After finishing, he takes out one of the chocolate bars that he put into his pocket and unwraps it. He had not touched them until now due to the heat outside. With it being cooler in the temple, he hopes the chocolate bar will be somewhat solid.

Finding that the bar appears to be solid but is actually very soft, he carefully peels back the wrapper and bites off little pieces at a time, since trying to tear one off got his two fingers covered in chocolate, which he licked off.

"Cosmo, are you having any luck deciphering those symbols?" he asks.

[Misfit Toy]

"Huh, wha... oh, yeah... I've pretty much managed to, uh, get 'em down to a just under a thousand different addresses. Still need to do a little more processin' 'fore I can narrow it down to the most likely ones and stuff."

[kevyn668]

Chase looks quizzically at the dwarf. "Leme get this straight: you me to guinea pig the ring teleporter? Could we use a plant or somethin' first?"

He eyes Snoopy for a second.

"Maybe we should stick with a plant 'cause I saw this vid once--it was a remake of some old flat screen--this guy was playing around with teleportation and it didn't work out for him."

Chase goes outside the temple and returns shortly with a plant. He places it in the center of the rings.

"Any idea where this goes?"

[Misfit Toy]

"Well, like, sure... but I dunno where the thing, like, goes, and a plant won't call me on the radio of nuffin'. 'Sides, you're big and strong right? But if, yanno, you're not up for it, I s'pose I can be the man around here..."

Cosmo then waits for a few moments to see if his crash course in Pop Psychology paid off.

[kevyn668]

Chase draws himself upto his full height. "Look, if you're sure that this thing is safe enough to use, I'll give it a try...but if I get scrambled, I'll be real unhappy with you."

He tries to chuckle but it gets caught in his throat.

Chase moves over to the center of the ring and tosses the plant aside. "If you don't hear me on the comm in a few seconds zap me back here, pronto, got me?"

Now's one of those times I wish I knew how to pray.

[Leowulf]

Ghost Dragon watches from where he stands.

A bad idea, but it will prove useful.

[Shadow]

Cosmo presses the jeweled gauntlet when Chase is in positioned. The rings pop up into the air and land surrounding the street sam. WIth a flash of light and a somewhat worried look on Chases face.... he vanishes.

[kevyn668]

"Team. Chase. Talk about one small step for mankind..." He swallows the lump in his throat and looks around. "I'm few meters from the Gate. Good job, Cosmo."

He smiles in spite of himself and takes a few deep breaths.

[Misfit Toy]

"Nobody ever, like, trusts me..." the dwarf exasperates. "Wanna, yanno, try the return trip or are ya gonna hoof it back or sumfin'? I can totally do this."

[kevyn668]

Chase clears away the foliage around the Rings and actually smiles. "Sure, uh...dude. Beam me up."

[Misfit Toy]

Cosmo pushes the button again...

[Leowulf]

Ghost Dragon says, "Good job, Cosmo. Now, all we need is to figure out the right address to get home."

[Shadow]

The rings lept out of the ground and flashed a brilliant white and then vanishes as quickly as they came. Standing there, somewhat bewildered, was Chase.

[Misfit Toy]

After yanking Chase back home, Cosmo plops down on the dusty floor and mumbles something about "I'm workin' on it, quit rushin' me... it, like, just makes it take longer man..."

[kevyn668]

Chase lets out a low whistle. "You guys should try that sometime."

He looks at the dwarf on the ground, "Take your time Coz. Better safe than sorry, neh?"

[Leowulf]

Ghost Dragon says, "Hm! Right... have it your way."

He settles down and goes back to waiting patiently, something years spent in his former occupation has taught him well.

[Shadow]

It takes the Mad Hatter and Cosmo another two days to narrow down the possibly Gate Addresses. In the end there are two addresses that it could possibly be.

[Misfit Toy]

Cosmo seems to have an epiphany while snacking on one of his breakfast burritos on the fourth day here. The stunned look he gives resembles something out one of those bad Christopher Walken movies from the TwenCen. "Dude... I think I got it. Well, at least I, yanno, got it down to... uh... two possibilities. Pretty sure one of 'em's it and stuff."

[Moonstone Spider]

Meanwhile back at the gate Torque quickly sets up his Chemistry kit on a tarp, deciding to keep working on finding anything interesting in the local plant life.

[Shadow]

In that time, Torque discovers that the plants have amazing properties. The one plant he tests has almost 200 times the ability to produce oxygen and eat pollutents out of the air as anyplant on earth. It is small, blue and looks remarkebly like a fern.

[kevyn668]

Hearing Cosmo chirp something, Chase stops doing the push-ups that had become part of his daily routine since being stranded on the jungle planet.

Boguss would kick me straight in the pills if he saw me stop in the middle of PT...and I wasn't under fire. He shakes the thought away and refocuses on the dwarf's statement.

"So we got a fifty-fifty shot?" Chase wipes the sweat off the back of his neck and walks over to where Cosmo is, "I'm normally not a betting man, but I can deal with those kinda odds. Don't suppose you know where the other might lead to?"

[Leowulf]

Ghost Dragon stops his meditation and looks up. He says, "Why only two? What was the thing that you were unable to determine? Perhaps, if we put our heads together, we could make an educated guess about which one to choose, and sweeten our odds."