[HG-PBEM] Re: Tearing down the Track [Fixed]
- From: "Dennis D. Kirkpatrick" <dkirkpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <apaworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:02:32 -0600 (MDT)
Dennis D. Kirkpatrick said:
> Towards the rear of the pack, Juliette lined up for the banked turn as
> well. Her heart pounded as the rest of the course loomed ahead. These
> other sport pilots had all done this sort of thing before, but while
> Juliette was a master at the controls of her machine, she'd never even
> //attempted// to go through a cockscrew at full speed before. She kept
> her eyes on Shamus, watching his gear carefully as he started up the
> ramp.
Billy braced himself. "This isn't anything like the dirt road races that
I'm used to back home." Calling up the staggered pillars on the upper riht
of his HUD. "I've never put Manx through that kind of slalom work."
"just stay light on the control, bily," Jory called out. The tone of her
voice changed, sounding more maternal. "If you're scared you can just fall
behind Juliette and I, you can take it slow."
Sniffing, Billy answered back. "No, I'm fine." "//Light on the control//,"
he repeated to himself. "//I can do that,... I think//." The banked turn
loomed ahead as he watched both Shamus and then Keavy enter the turn.
[...]
> Having passed through the banked turn with ease, Shamus now faced the
> half pipe of track with randomly distributed pillars.
>
> [...Moving into section (4), everyone rewrite]
>
> [...corkscrew maneuver (5), everyone rewrite, then we can continue with
> the text below.]
>
> Shamus came on over the radio. "OK, blockers, this is where I'll need
> your help the most. The speed I can pick up on these straightaways is
> too good to pass up, so I'm going to bypass the pylons for the most part
> and stick to the flanks. My back is going to be wide open."
>
> Hoping that in the real race most of the pack would be far enough behind
> him to still be worrying about the corkscrew instead of taking pot-shots
> at his Racing Iguana's V-engine and fuel tanks, he accelerated, ducking
> low and weaving erratically at the same time.
>
> "Roger, on it," Juliette answered, kicking her own machine into high
> gear as she sliced across the track, weaving and tucking expertly around
> the massive ferrocrete walls. High speed piloting in tight urban areas
> was something the woman had extensive experience with from her time in
> Saragossa, so while she'd never dealt with exactly these kinds of
> obstacles before, they presented no trouble to her at all.
>
> [...]
>
> Moving into position behind Shamus' Iguana, Lemanz leapt her gear a
> short distance into the air, spun 180 degrees and slammed the
> transmission into neutral. Her tires chirped when she came down, and a
> split second later the machine was in reverse gear, moving at top speed.
> Tearing along backwards, Juliette kept watch on where she was going
> while simultaneously scanning the track she'd already covered with her
> targeting computer.
>
> [...]
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