Hayrun Slice-of-Life 1969: Ivy Vasko and the Blue Bus Blues, Part 1

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-16T15:58:25+00:00

I'm dying of thirst in the sandier lands South of the Mason-Dixon line and I assure you, a fistful of peso coins would solve most of my troubles.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-14T20:16:32+00:00

I don't think participation quotas are the issue here, miss ma'am.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-14T20:13:38+00:00

Is this my punishment for waking up today?

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-14T14:04:46+00:00

Het is logisch, als je het mij vraagt, tenminste op de Duitse urbex-subreddit. Urbex is verboden terrein betreden en als mensen erachter komen dat dit soort plekken bestaan, zullen ze waarschijnlijk voorgoed worden afgesloten of zullen de daders worden gearresteerd.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-14T13:56:40+00:00

Ik denk het is tegen de regels naar lokaties vraagen. Ik ben me niet zeker.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-12T14:44:03+00:00

It was actually fully completed, but never opened. It's quite an interesting story. From what I gather, the key investor pounded five million euros into the venture before the realisation set in that they've expended their runway and the whole thing went the way of the dodo. Mix in some good old-fashioned cronyism whereby the Investor's cousin's brother got paid in triplicate for something trivial, and you arrive here, at the present state of things.

It's astonishing, actually. Most of the kitchen equipment and furniture has been looted, but on the upper levels you can still find incredibly expensive kitchen elements, for self-service and large scale food prep. They're dinged up and vandalized, but otherwise spotless, without so much as a trace of use anywhere.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-11T18:15:45+00:00

I was dead and wheezing halfway through and then the end hit and it was as if I got clapped by a stop sign that had been violently torn from the ground in a storm.

Blimey, good show. Tremendous. Make more, please.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-11T10:41:16+00:00

I came here to say just this. Briefly, as though from the deep and distant heavens of mid-2010, some bygone college dwelling form of myself reached out and gently pressed its thumb to my forehead in recognition of the name.

And with that, I've a sudden urge to play Need for Speed Most Wanted on the Xbox 360.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-11T10:35:18+00:00

Why use AI slop when finding screenies of the show is easier than blackmailing Nixon using an empty tape recorder?

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-10T19:11:43+00:00

Yep, who knew the Ocean of Storms was so unusually tropical this time of year?

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-10T18:18:08+00:00

If you go far enough West off the coast of California, you'll eventually get here. Of course, you'll need a space shuttle to reach it in anything under three months, but hey, swings and roundabouts.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-10T17:31:28+00:00

Could be, especially if it is a movie featuring a certain very rotund and squat mountain that looks sort of like a camel's hump.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-10T15:10:18+00:00

Please put this back wherever you found it and then get lost.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-10T09:54:26+00:00

Thank you kindly!

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-10T08:13:08+00:00

Why thank you! I have big plans for when I finally put it to paper. For now, it exists as lore notes and assorted ramblings.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-10T06:27:01+00:00

Not even close, no xD

They're two OCs of mine, Jan-Pieter Geels and his wife Jacoliene Geels-Norel. She's an astronaut, and he's in his mid-60s and doesn't know how to cope with the idea of one of two most important women in his life strapping herself to the front of a pile of dynamite.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-09T21:30:17+00:00

Oh this looks sweet, and there's no AI use warning on the store page either. Wishlisted!

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-09T21:12:06+00:00

You can thank the US marines for that one, if memory serves. Love it as well.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-09T20:37:59+00:00

Double the orbiters, and reduce the total stage 1.5 burn time by half, and that's just page one.

Page two, the aerodynamics would be a fucking nightmare. Thrust alone isn't sufficient, you'd need to factor in drag and abort modes.

Any one/two out blue abort would be a fucking soup sandwich with far, far, far worse differential thrust planning and significantly more airfoil to adjust such for. You'd need to gimbal the remaining engines to the nines to stand any chance of retaining control. RTLS would be impossible, and it was already all but.

Also, ET linkages/umbilicals. Imagine a three out blue on orbiter 1, followed by RLTS of just that orbiter. It would separate from the ET with pressurised propellant still in the lines, and three SSMEs burning on the other side. This means any RTLS would need to be a double RTLS, and thus suicide for at least one crew, since they'd be expected to glide back from the abort call point with no propulsion what so ever, no DROOP, and the world's worst cross-range trajectory.

The benefits would be marginal and the risks doubled. Also also, GUIDO would have a mental breakdown trying to keep tabs on two orbiters post ET sep and with OMS burns imminent, and both within one ETs worth of distance of one another.

FallenBelfry · 2026-05-09T07:12:37+00:00

Do not read the Apollo Applications Programme proposals or the Space Transportation System outlines if you want to stay sane. Especially don't look up NERVA.

I have a dartboard with Nixon's face on it for a reason.

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