New Khazad-dum breaks through the rock (First Contact RP)
"Nain, look I see light, keep digging!"
"So I do, Noin!"
Two dwarves with large and sharp mithril pick-axes were hacking at the rock. They were digging toward an unknown light, beautiful it seemed for they themselves had lived in the darkness of the underground for many years with only the torchlight to guide their delving pursuits.
"Look, the light is so beautiful! Could it not be the hand of Mahal the great maker?"
Noin was intoxicated by the brightness, he dreamed of how much more the jewels of New Khazad-dum would look with this beauty to mount them.
"It could be, look, run down the tunnel and call the guard. Have them bring one of those heavy machine gun things. No telling what could be on the other side."
Noin ran down the tunnel, shouting "LIGHT! LIGHT!"....
MORE DWARVES! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
First Khazad-Zar moved under my country, and now more? NOOOO!
The guard came, in their mail of Mithril rings that clinked with every marching step. They carried strange looking rifles and a large machine gun was dragged behind them by workers.
"Who called the guard?"
Shouted Nori, the Captain in charge of that local areas Armed Group which was responsible for duties ranging from police work to defence.
"I did sir, Noin is my name and my brother Nain and I have found light! Light that likes that none of us have seen before! Follow me!"
The guards followed Noin to the dig sight where Nain had managed to enlarge the gap through which the light spilled into the gloomy cave.
"Keep digging you two, my guards will help!"
The Dwarves began hacking away at the rock, some nearly passed out over the next hour or so due to exhaustion and blindness, they were relieved by other Dwarves.
And then there it was, the rock crumbled and the light spilled in.
The countryside was covered with flowers, grass and trees. Strange things that the Dwarves had never seen before, they had been growing their foods and plants underground in vast hydroponic bay areas that spanned a large area of tunnel and cave space.
"Set up the transmitter!"
One guard at Nori's command set up a radio transmitter and sent out mathmatical signals, logic that would be understood by any...
MORE DWARVES! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
First Khazad-Zar moved under my country, and now more? NOOOO!
[ooc] We are not in your country, we are based in the Ered Mithrin in the North of Rhovanian, a place the Dwarves were forced out of in earlier times.
OOC: Just in case. Where there is one dwarf, there will soon be more. I think I'll track K-Z down.
OOC: Anyone else going to respond to this RP?
we congratulate our fellow dwarves
OOC: Oh come on, I thought people would be nice enough to RP a first contact with me.
The Ctan
12-10-2003, 13:05
[Confederate Signal Monitoring Post A35, Kelbla Pass]
"What is this?" said Torin, reflexively thumbing the record switch. He turned and placed his mug on the coffee table behind him.
"What's what?" asked the supervisor.
"Some joker's transmitting across half a dozen bands."
"With what?"
"Prime Numbers."
"You think they're messing about?"
"Yeah."
"I'm inclined to agree," the supervisor said, "but you can't be too sure." he walked to the wall and activated a vid-phone. "Get me the special contact unit," he said.
[Confederate Foreign Ministy, Special Division HQ]
"Doctor Marendil" asked the messenger, opening the door unnanounced.
"Yes?" snapped the doctor.
"We have a contact of some sort," she said.
"What kind?"
"Mathematical."
"Where from?" asked the doctor, already in motion from behind his desk.
"Somewhere on earth, we've not got an exact fix yet."
"Have response procedures been enacted?"
"Not yet sir, we thou-"
"Enact them." he ordered.
In a low orbit one of the confederacy's communications sattelites stopped transmitting. Hidden commands and programs were enacted, and the sattelite re-aligned itself. Selecting one of the radio frequencies pretty much at random, it began to reply in kind, with the same messages.
"Sir! We are recieving a reply identical to our current signal, it is coming from the... What is it called? Ceiling?" Said the guard.
"You mean the 'sky' as our ancient ancestors called it. Send them a different arrangement of mathematical coding, it should give them the message that we have recieved their reply and that they should investigate." Said Noin.
He began inputing the data into the transmitter. The coding was sent on all bandwidths in all directions.
Independant Pluto
12-10-2003, 17:52
From the Mobile White House, in Earth Orbit
President-elect Jennifer Knight was here, considering opening better relation with the Belmore Family, when she was interrupted.
"We've been getting strange radio signals," was the message of the low-ranking communications officer. Jennifer waved her hand, as if to say, "go on".
"It looks to be an attempt to communicate. It's not from any known nations."
"Let's send down a delegation, then. Me, you [directed at the camm officer], and a security officer."
Near where the Dwarves came up
A small craft lands, and three people step out.
The Ctan
12-10-2003, 20:08
"We've now got an exact location sir," said a communications officer, on a large screen above the room a bright red cross showed the location.
"Send them a confirmation signal on their latest transmission, and prepare to ship out a diplomatic team," replied the doctor
"Executive office informed, the Princeps has given the go-ahead for further contact," added a signal operator.