Ao the Overkitty
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Synopsis of 9/26/05 Session
“Episode 3 –Bounties” –Third Session
Synopsis of 9/26/05 Session – subtitled “Enemy Whores”
Mort headed out of the ship to case the docks to make sure they wouldn’t be seen sneaking into one of the other ships. The area was mostly deserted this time of night. There were a total of four ships in dock. Besides the Orasca, there was a ship a bit bigger than it and the others. There was a ship a little smaller than the Orasca, which was owned by the two guys the whores wanted dead. The last was a rather small ship, looking to be the right size for two or three people. The only other thing in the area was the dock warden’s shack, which had a light on.
Mort headed back in and let Daniel & Campan know the lay of the land. They took the time to properly disguise themselves. Mort and Campan were prepared with hanker chiefs and proper hats. Daniel was ill prepared in the hanker chief and head covering departments. The three went out and got into a good position to check out the shack from afar. The window was open and music was softly streaming out into the open air. Daniel found the music reminiscent of Alliance propaganda music and immediately took a disliking the to dock warden. Campan pointed out a security camera attached to the shack, pointing towards the marked men’s ship. Mort got a good look around seeing several security cameras mounted to the overhang of the shack. There was a camera pointed at each docking space and one pointing in towards town, covering all areas. Through the shack’s open window, he could see a man sleeping in a rocking chair inside while listening to an audio player. He couldn’t see if the guy was passed out drunk or not, but the man did have a lit cigar in his mouth. There were several monitors displaying the various feed routing in from the cameras. There was a pile on the floor and a shelf full of recordings.
The trio had a quick discussion about how to knock out the guy before they walked back to the ship and found Asta. Mort got some Ether from her and instructions on how to apply it. To see that he had a good idea of how to use it, he tested his method on an unsuspecting Kenny as it walked by. Campan dragged Kenny into the head and left him there.
Back outside, Campan snuck over and into the shack through the open window. He stepped on a very lazy orange tabby. Thankfully, the cat just kind of looked up at him, confused. Dr. Campan, Medicine Woman, walked over and applied the ether just right to knock the guy out but not harm him. Being Campan, he knocked the cat out with the ether as well. He then tried to use it on the goldfish, but it didn’t work. Mort proceeded to loot all of the surveillance equipment (four cameras, the recorders, the wiring, etc) and recordings. He took a quick check to make sure the feed wasn’t going anywhere else, but it didn’t seem to be. Mort took all of the equipment and stored it in the secret hold alongside the stuff he nabbed from the junkyard.
After giving Campan a beer wrapped in a hankerchief to empty, they went back. Daniel checked out the dock warden’s pockets, but found nothing of consequence except an ident card (Bill Wilcox). Daniel took the ident card. Mort nabbed the box of cigars. Campan was very unhappy with having to waste beer, dripping a drop or two on the guy’s mouth and face. He then drank the rest of it. Mort wiped off the beer again and they left. Campan stole the cat. Campan took the cat back to the ship and handed it to Asta before heading towards the bountied men’s ship. She gave it some oxygen, then took it up to the bridge and set it down on the sleeping Take’s stomach. The tabby didn’t seem to have the brainpower to care and curled up to go to sleep on Take.
At the other ship, Daniel found a mechanical lock as opposed to an electronic one. Pulling out some tools, he proceeded to pick the lock. Nothing attacked them as they entered the airlock. When they shut the outside door, it auto locked. Inspecting the now locked outer door, they found no opening mechanism on this side of the door. There was a small keypad next to the airlock door into the ship. Mort took the keypad apart and quickly figured out that the unlock code was 12345. Clearly they were not tracking the most brilliant of people.
Meanwhile, Take woke up to find an orange tabby sleeping on his lap. It kind of looked like a jar of orange marmalade with fur, only lazier. It looked very comfy.
Dan: Is this going to be like a regular thing every week? See how you can mess with Take before I show up?
Paul: (quick to answer) Yes!
Entering into the ship, the trio could now see that the cargo bay comprised most of the ship. It was a smaller ship, with only one level and no shuttles. There was a sleeping german shepherd. The cargo bay was moderately messy. No beer bottles, but there were dirty rags. There was also a corner the dog had been using as a bathroom. There was a half empty food bag and an empty water bowl on the ground next to each other. Mort picked up the water bowl and looked for the water source. Finding the kitchen, he filled the bowl with water and brought it back.
Campan was very sad to find the fridge void of beer, or anything for that matter. He went on to find the head, which was as messy as the rest of the ship. The toilet was dry, likely used as a secondary water source by the dog. He flushed the toilet to fill the bowl back up, making sure the dog had more water.
Mort found Jack’s quarters first. It was a dingy little hole. Felt kind of homey, really. He found the weapons locker devoid of guns or ammo. Booting up the computer, it prompted him for a password. He found typing in password worked just fine. Searching around the computer, he found a couple of games and some waves. There was a recorded message by a brick of a man discussing a meet out in Dreyden’s Gorge (two days previous to the current date). A message from his mom. An older message from Sergeant Wheeler about dropping off cargo.
Daniel found Larry’s quarters. The room was another dingy hole, but messier than Jack’s. The weapons locker was likewise empty, though looked to be set up to hold a shotgun. Larry was clearly the brains of the operation, since his password was not password. 12345 was, however, written under the keyboard. A wave from his mother was the most recent communication. A wave from his doctor informing him to take some medication after visiting a specific whore on another planet. A sent wave to someone off planet along the lines of ‘I didn’t mean to beat you up. You know you shouldn’t correct my spelling.’
Daniel: How does one misspell while visiting a whore?
Mort: (walks in) Umm... umm... I’m not answering that question. Maybe he’s dyslexic... and has spelling... Anyway, where is Dreyden’s Gorge?
Daniel: Bout a days ride in the desert. Nice little gorge suitable for ambushes and killing people.
Mort: Oh, they’re going there.
Mort played back the wave talking about the meet to show Daniel what the guy looked like.
Up in the cockpit, Campan found the place mostly not messy. They had fuzzy dice hanging. He also found a cheat sheet on how to fly in front of the controls. (forward, back, left, right). Campan flipped it. There were some little toy robots scattered around.
Daniel: Hey Campan. Anything interesting in there?
Campan: Toy robots, sir.
Daniel: Move along.
Daniel warned the other two not to get any of Larry’s blood on them, since he got a note from his doctor. Daniel checked to make sure they didn’t steal anything. Campan replied that he didn’t have any interest in toy robots (he didn’t realize/care how much Take would like robots so he could have them fight his dinosaurs).
Getting back to the cargo bay, they realized they hadn’t figured out how to get out yet. With Mort’s keen eyesight, he managed notice the control panel left of the door with paper slips under each button; ‘open’ ‘close’ ‘dump waste’ ‘flush toilet’ ‘depressurize airlock’ ‘pressurize airlock’ ‘self destruct’. Mort disconnected the self-destruct button and wired it to play the message from their mom that complains and bitches at them a lot. Campan and Daniel switched around a couple of the tags. Campan realized they needed to be able to leave alive and ran back to the cockpit to put their cheat sheet back the right way.
As they got back to the Orasca , they heard Take ask over the intercom why there was a cat on him. They also heard Asta fill him in on Campan stealing the cat. Take picked up the cat and stuck it on Campan’s bunk. The cat didn’t seem to care and curled up there.
Asta discussed with the crew how she was going to approach Doctor Cochran while she loaded up Campan with his supplies for whore interrogation.
Asta made her way to Doc Cochran’s shack. The moon was shining bright overhead as she arrived. There was light emanating through the dirty glass window on the shut door. Asta knocked, then knocked a little louder. After calling out hello, she heard some shuffling inside and the knocking over of some glass bottles. The door opened enough for her to see a small man with wild hair a bushy mustache and glasses. He was wearing suspenders that held up wool pants over full-length long johns. She could smell the whiskey on his breath as he asked her to come back in the morning. She talked her way inside, stating an embarrassing situation involving one of her crew. He resigned to having to talk to this woman and let her in. Once she got through her cover story, she realized she didn’t know what she wanted to get out of this guy. She excused herself and he went back to his drinking.
It was getting on towards one in the morning and, not being able to put it off any longer, Campan headed off towards the whore house. The common room was fairly empty at the moment. It had a few chairs and couches around the room. A young, fairly flat-chested brunette in her early twenties was lounging in one of the chairs. A tall, blonde woman in her twenties with a healthy bosom and fair skin in red clothes was sprawled out seductively on a couch. This was Joanie, the woman who first approached Campan with the job. Behind a shabby looking bar stood the engineer, Joel Starr. He was a wiry, greasy fellow with black hair and glasses. Campan made his way over to Joanie.
Campan: (with a bad seductive voice and wiggling his eyebrows) Why hello.
He discretely told her he was interested in a few more details on the job she had presented to him. When she suggested they head up to her room, he tried to get a free beer out of her first. When she told him couldn’t get him a free beer, he sulked and followed her up. Once upstairs, Campan drilled her for information. She revealed they had about five hundred platinum for the bounty. Campan thought of all the beer he could buy with that. Joanie told him that Joel’s interest in this ended when he got paid for Jenny’s misfortune. Campan asked her why they stuck around here, and she said there was no better place for them. No world was better than the next and Ms. Parker would shut them down if she tried to open her own house.
Campan: If you ever need a man to protect you, look me up.
Joanie: We’re always looking for a big, strapping man to protect us.
Campan: I’m not much for strapping. I like free range.
Campan asked her what exactly happened that night.
Joanie: Guys came in during the evening. Not the handsomest of fellows and they weren’t much for talking. But they had money. Jack went off with Little Dawn and Larry went off with Jenny. I was down in the common room, keeping an eye on things, when I started hearing some yelling upstairs. I got up there and found Larry standing there with his pants round his knees and he had a knife out. He was slamming her into the wall, punching her, and slashing up her face and chest. She was crying and saying she was sorry and yelling for him to get off. His friend Jack came in and grabbed her, throwing her into the bedpost. While they left, Larry kept repeating about how she was laughing at him. I got Jenny calmed down and looked to and she told me that, she didn’t mean to laugh. She got his pants off a him and she giggled, that was all.
Campan wanted to see Jenny. Joanie made sure he understood that Jenny was feeling a little self-conscious about how she was looking right now. He said he knew a surgeon who might be able to help. Joanie went out and came back with a short, shorthaired blonde. She had a black and blue face with a swollen shut left eye and cut marks on her face. She was fairly well covered up otherwise. Joanie convinced her to pull down her shirt a bit to show the cut marks across her chest. While she’d probably be average looking without being marked up, she would certainly not be making any money looking like this. Campan was suitably disgusted with what Larry did and told Jenny that he knew someone that could help her out. He said he’d bring the doctor from his ship over in the morning. She’d be able to fix her up. He also said to not worry about money, it’d be a bit of charity.
Campan: She’s a great doctor. She’ll get you a face transplant or something… uh, you’ll have eyelids...
After Jenny left, Campan said they’d take the job. Joanie let him know there were a few other people working on collecting the bounty. Jackson Bolt wasn’t around, but the Hagerty Brothers were. He expressed interest in meeting them, but they were currently engaged with Little Dawn and Delilah (separately). Campan said goodbye and that he’d be back in the morning with their doc. Joanie told him to come round back, since Joel wouldn’t take to kindly to them seeking out help on their own. Campan went back to the Orasca and filled the crew in.
When Campan left the ship, Daniel shadowed him till he got to the whorehouse then hid outside till Campan left. Once a little ways away from the whorehouse, Daniel made his prescience known and asked for a report.
Campan: I talked to the whores. Well, the main whore, mostly. I talked to the beat up whore. I didn’t bang any.
Well, apparently Larry, the genius of the two, was getting his nuts laughed at and decided to take it out on the girl. Cut her up pretty good. Apparently his friend came in and tried to stop him and threw her into a bedpost. Black and blued her face up real good. Not really sure why he did that. Might have been a little spin put on by the whores. Apparently their engineer doesn’t take kindly to them giving out free beer, so automatically, I don’t like him. He apparently got paid off after Jenny got beat up. She looks pretty bad. I’m going to take Asta over there in the morning to see if there is anything she can do.
There are three other people taking the job. The Hagerty Brothers, who I didn’t get to talk to cause they were banging whores. Also there is Jackson Bolt, who is mighty good with his gun, I reckon. The Hagerty Brothers are the big ones, I believe. That was my report by Campan.
Campan described Jenny as mortally wounded, but she was getting better. She’d be dead in a day or two. Daniel sent Campan back to fill Mort and Asta in, saying he’d be back in a bit. As Daniel walked off, Campan shouted out that he had forgotten the prophylactics. Daniel snuck into an alleyway and banged his head on the wall, waiting for Campan to leave.
Daniel made his way to the dark building across from the whorehouse. Making sure no one was looking, he knocked on the door and got let in. As stated, the house was dark, the only light coming from the small break in the curtains. Besides the burly man that let him in, all Daniel could see was a chair set up by the break in the curtains. Dan led Daniel back over to the window, where he sat down to keep an eye out.
Dan filled Daniel in on those that were working on the whores’ bounty. The Hagerty Brothers were a couple of brutes. Large folk and didn’t look too bright. They looked like they had been smacked with the ugly stick a few times and weren’t exactly burdened with an overflowing coin purse. So far, they had mostly stuck to the whorehouse, taking advantage of the whores’ friendly nature. The other one was a guy by the name of Jackson Bolt. He had a small rep as a good gunslinger. Much better dressed, with a fine brown coat and a nice holster for his gun. He didn’t spend long in the whorehouse and was probably out looking for the men. Bolt was in two days before. From what he’d heard, Bolt took up this job cause he’s no fan of the Alliance. Only reason why a guy of skill and means would take up this kind of job.
When asked what he’d do, Dan said he’d probably stop the trouble where it started. He agreed that the men were probably laying low right now and said they definitely weren’t in town. They left on a mule few days back.
Talking about Jenny, Dan said she couldn’t be as bad as he said, since she’d have been moved out of the house and to Doc’s shack if she were.
Back at the ship, Campan filled the others in. Mort grabbed one of the wires from the security equipment, went outside, and planted it near the larger ship (which they later figured out belonged to the Hagerty Brothers) to place the blame elsewhere. After a lot of talking, Mort, Campan, and Take decided they were going to go teach the Hagerty brothers a lesson. They bandana’d and hatted up and headed out. Take and Mort took care to be stealthy in setting themselves up in the alley next to the whorehouse. Campan, on the other hand, waved all around as he was approaching.
Dan: (nodding towards Campan and company outside) There’s an interesting group
Daniel only noticed Campan out there and watched Dan to see what he thought. Dan did his best not to show it, but most definitely recognized Campan. No anger, no love, just recognition. Daniel got the feeling that Dan was a guy who did his job and did it well and didn’t really care about the whys or whats. Daniel made his way back to the ship to get a cup of coffee.
Mort and Campan saw Daniel leave. The three waited around for another half an hour. It was getting on about two in the morning now when they saw two brutes leave the front of the whorehouse. They were about six and a half feet tall and built like linebackers. Mort went out and lured them into the alley.
Daniel got back to the ship and noticed the wonder trio were gone. Asta told him they left to go pay a visit to the guys at the whorehouse and that they said it wasn’t a chloroform job but a broken arms job. Daniel took out of there like a bat out of hell.
Back in the alley, Mort got the Hagerty Brothers far enough in, then turned around, dropped to his knees, grabbed for the guys’ balls and twisted. A fight ensued. The brothers pulled out steel pipes to use on the others. Take went down fairly quickly. He decided to play dead. Campan pistol-whipped one of the brothers while Mort wrestled with another. By the time Daniel arrived no one was looking great. Daniel saw Take on the ground and charged in. The fight ended when Daniel rifle butted one of the brothers into unconsciousness and Mort grabbed the other by the head and pressed his thumbs to the guy’s eyes.
Mort: Do you want to be blind tomorrow?
Darrel Hagerty: No.
Mort: Then I suggest you take your brother and you stop looking for Mr. Larry.
Darrel Hagerty: That mean we can’t work?
Mort: Yes. Doesn’t mean you can’t keep lying to the whores, though.
Darrel collected his brother and they hobbled out of the alley. Once they were gone, Daniel pulled Campan aside and quietly chewed him out. Mort followed the Hagerty brother back to their ship.
Once back at the ship, Daniel called Campan a moron.
Daniel: You walking up waving by a known to be watched whore house.
Campan: I didn’t know.
Daniel: I told you.
Campan: Oh. That makes sense sir. Worst is he’ll tell Ms. Parker that I’m around and they’ll just be looking for me.
Daniel: There are four ships at the docks. One is the people we’re looking for. One is ours. One is the guys you just beat up. And one is a really dangerous guy we have to find.
Campan: Oops.
Daniel: Lio Coh Jwei Ji Neong Hur Ho Deh Yung Duh Buhn Ja J'wohn.
Fade to Black
Lio Coh Jwei Ji Neong Hur Ho Deh Yung Duh Buhn Ja J'wohn. - Stupid son of a drooling whore and monkey
“Episode 3 –Bounties” –Third Session
Synopsis of 9/26/05 Session – subtitled “Enemy Whores”
Mort headed out of the ship to case the docks to make sure they wouldn’t be seen sneaking into one of the other ships. The area was mostly deserted this time of night. There were a total of four ships in dock. Besides the Orasca, there was a ship a bit bigger than it and the others. There was a ship a little smaller than the Orasca, which was owned by the two guys the whores wanted dead. The last was a rather small ship, looking to be the right size for two or three people. The only other thing in the area was the dock warden’s shack, which had a light on.
Mort headed back in and let Daniel & Campan know the lay of the land. They took the time to properly disguise themselves. Mort and Campan were prepared with hanker chiefs and proper hats. Daniel was ill prepared in the hanker chief and head covering departments. The three went out and got into a good position to check out the shack from afar. The window was open and music was softly streaming out into the open air. Daniel found the music reminiscent of Alliance propaganda music and immediately took a disliking the to dock warden. Campan pointed out a security camera attached to the shack, pointing towards the marked men’s ship. Mort got a good look around seeing several security cameras mounted to the overhang of the shack. There was a camera pointed at each docking space and one pointing in towards town, covering all areas. Through the shack’s open window, he could see a man sleeping in a rocking chair inside while listening to an audio player. He couldn’t see if the guy was passed out drunk or not, but the man did have a lit cigar in his mouth. There were several monitors displaying the various feed routing in from the cameras. There was a pile on the floor and a shelf full of recordings.
The trio had a quick discussion about how to knock out the guy before they walked back to the ship and found Asta. Mort got some Ether from her and instructions on how to apply it. To see that he had a good idea of how to use it, he tested his method on an unsuspecting Kenny as it walked by. Campan dragged Kenny into the head and left him there.
Back outside, Campan snuck over and into the shack through the open window. He stepped on a very lazy orange tabby. Thankfully, the cat just kind of looked up at him, confused. Dr. Campan, Medicine Woman, walked over and applied the ether just right to knock the guy out but not harm him. Being Campan, he knocked the cat out with the ether as well. He then tried to use it on the goldfish, but it didn’t work. Mort proceeded to loot all of the surveillance equipment (four cameras, the recorders, the wiring, etc) and recordings. He took a quick check to make sure the feed wasn’t going anywhere else, but it didn’t seem to be. Mort took all of the equipment and stored it in the secret hold alongside the stuff he nabbed from the junkyard.
After giving Campan a beer wrapped in a hankerchief to empty, they went back. Daniel checked out the dock warden’s pockets, but found nothing of consequence except an ident card (Bill Wilcox). Daniel took the ident card. Mort nabbed the box of cigars. Campan was very unhappy with having to waste beer, dripping a drop or two on the guy’s mouth and face. He then drank the rest of it. Mort wiped off the beer again and they left. Campan stole the cat. Campan took the cat back to the ship and handed it to Asta before heading towards the bountied men’s ship. She gave it some oxygen, then took it up to the bridge and set it down on the sleeping Take’s stomach. The tabby didn’t seem to have the brainpower to care and curled up to go to sleep on Take.
At the other ship, Daniel found a mechanical lock as opposed to an electronic one. Pulling out some tools, he proceeded to pick the lock. Nothing attacked them as they entered the airlock. When they shut the outside door, it auto locked. Inspecting the now locked outer door, they found no opening mechanism on this side of the door. There was a small keypad next to the airlock door into the ship. Mort took the keypad apart and quickly figured out that the unlock code was 12345. Clearly they were not tracking the most brilliant of people.
Meanwhile, Take woke up to find an orange tabby sleeping on his lap. It kind of looked like a jar of orange marmalade with fur, only lazier. It looked very comfy.
Dan: Is this going to be like a regular thing every week? See how you can mess with Take before I show up?
Paul: (quick to answer) Yes!
Entering into the ship, the trio could now see that the cargo bay comprised most of the ship. It was a smaller ship, with only one level and no shuttles. There was a sleeping german shepherd. The cargo bay was moderately messy. No beer bottles, but there were dirty rags. There was also a corner the dog had been using as a bathroom. There was a half empty food bag and an empty water bowl on the ground next to each other. Mort picked up the water bowl and looked for the water source. Finding the kitchen, he filled the bowl with water and brought it back.
Campan was very sad to find the fridge void of beer, or anything for that matter. He went on to find the head, which was as messy as the rest of the ship. The toilet was dry, likely used as a secondary water source by the dog. He flushed the toilet to fill the bowl back up, making sure the dog had more water.
Mort found Jack’s quarters first. It was a dingy little hole. Felt kind of homey, really. He found the weapons locker devoid of guns or ammo. Booting up the computer, it prompted him for a password. He found typing in password worked just fine. Searching around the computer, he found a couple of games and some waves. There was a recorded message by a brick of a man discussing a meet out in Dreyden’s Gorge (two days previous to the current date). A message from his mom. An older message from Sergeant Wheeler about dropping off cargo.
Daniel found Larry’s quarters. The room was another dingy hole, but messier than Jack’s. The weapons locker was likewise empty, though looked to be set up to hold a shotgun. Larry was clearly the brains of the operation, since his password was not password. 12345 was, however, written under the keyboard. A wave from his mother was the most recent communication. A wave from his doctor informing him to take some medication after visiting a specific whore on another planet. A sent wave to someone off planet along the lines of ‘I didn’t mean to beat you up. You know you shouldn’t correct my spelling.’
Daniel: How does one misspell while visiting a whore?
Mort: (walks in) Umm... umm... I’m not answering that question. Maybe he’s dyslexic... and has spelling... Anyway, where is Dreyden’s Gorge?
Daniel: Bout a days ride in the desert. Nice little gorge suitable for ambushes and killing people.
Mort: Oh, they’re going there.
Mort played back the wave talking about the meet to show Daniel what the guy looked like.
Up in the cockpit, Campan found the place mostly not messy. They had fuzzy dice hanging. He also found a cheat sheet on how to fly in front of the controls. (forward, back, left, right). Campan flipped it. There were some little toy robots scattered around.
Daniel: Hey Campan. Anything interesting in there?
Campan: Toy robots, sir.
Daniel: Move along.
Daniel warned the other two not to get any of Larry’s blood on them, since he got a note from his doctor. Daniel checked to make sure they didn’t steal anything. Campan replied that he didn’t have any interest in toy robots (he didn’t realize/care how much Take would like robots so he could have them fight his dinosaurs).
Getting back to the cargo bay, they realized they hadn’t figured out how to get out yet. With Mort’s keen eyesight, he managed notice the control panel left of the door with paper slips under each button; ‘open’ ‘close’ ‘dump waste’ ‘flush toilet’ ‘depressurize airlock’ ‘pressurize airlock’ ‘self destruct’. Mort disconnected the self-destruct button and wired it to play the message from their mom that complains and bitches at them a lot. Campan and Daniel switched around a couple of the tags. Campan realized they needed to be able to leave alive and ran back to the cockpit to put their cheat sheet back the right way.
As they got back to the Orasca , they heard Take ask over the intercom why there was a cat on him. They also heard Asta fill him in on Campan stealing the cat. Take picked up the cat and stuck it on Campan’s bunk. The cat didn’t seem to care and curled up there.
Asta discussed with the crew how she was going to approach Doctor Cochran while she loaded up Campan with his supplies for whore interrogation.
Asta made her way to Doc Cochran’s shack. The moon was shining bright overhead as she arrived. There was light emanating through the dirty glass window on the shut door. Asta knocked, then knocked a little louder. After calling out hello, she heard some shuffling inside and the knocking over of some glass bottles. The door opened enough for her to see a small man with wild hair a bushy mustache and glasses. He was wearing suspenders that held up wool pants over full-length long johns. She could smell the whiskey on his breath as he asked her to come back in the morning. She talked her way inside, stating an embarrassing situation involving one of her crew. He resigned to having to talk to this woman and let her in. Once she got through her cover story, she realized she didn’t know what she wanted to get out of this guy. She excused herself and he went back to his drinking.
It was getting on towards one in the morning and, not being able to put it off any longer, Campan headed off towards the whore house. The common room was fairly empty at the moment. It had a few chairs and couches around the room. A young, fairly flat-chested brunette in her early twenties was lounging in one of the chairs. A tall, blonde woman in her twenties with a healthy bosom and fair skin in red clothes was sprawled out seductively on a couch. This was Joanie, the woman who first approached Campan with the job. Behind a shabby looking bar stood the engineer, Joel Starr. He was a wiry, greasy fellow with black hair and glasses. Campan made his way over to Joanie.
Campan: (with a bad seductive voice and wiggling his eyebrows) Why hello.
He discretely told her he was interested in a few more details on the job she had presented to him. When she suggested they head up to her room, he tried to get a free beer out of her first. When she told him couldn’t get him a free beer, he sulked and followed her up. Once upstairs, Campan drilled her for information. She revealed they had about five hundred platinum for the bounty. Campan thought of all the beer he could buy with that. Joanie told him that Joel’s interest in this ended when he got paid for Jenny’s misfortune. Campan asked her why they stuck around here, and she said there was no better place for them. No world was better than the next and Ms. Parker would shut them down if she tried to open her own house.
Campan: If you ever need a man to protect you, look me up.
Joanie: We’re always looking for a big, strapping man to protect us.
Campan: I’m not much for strapping. I like free range.
Campan asked her what exactly happened that night.
Joanie: Guys came in during the evening. Not the handsomest of fellows and they weren’t much for talking. But they had money. Jack went off with Little Dawn and Larry went off with Jenny. I was down in the common room, keeping an eye on things, when I started hearing some yelling upstairs. I got up there and found Larry standing there with his pants round his knees and he had a knife out. He was slamming her into the wall, punching her, and slashing up her face and chest. She was crying and saying she was sorry and yelling for him to get off. His friend Jack came in and grabbed her, throwing her into the bedpost. While they left, Larry kept repeating about how she was laughing at him. I got Jenny calmed down and looked to and she told me that, she didn’t mean to laugh. She got his pants off a him and she giggled, that was all.
Campan wanted to see Jenny. Joanie made sure he understood that Jenny was feeling a little self-conscious about how she was looking right now. He said he knew a surgeon who might be able to help. Joanie went out and came back with a short, shorthaired blonde. She had a black and blue face with a swollen shut left eye and cut marks on her face. She was fairly well covered up otherwise. Joanie convinced her to pull down her shirt a bit to show the cut marks across her chest. While she’d probably be average looking without being marked up, she would certainly not be making any money looking like this. Campan was suitably disgusted with what Larry did and told Jenny that he knew someone that could help her out. He said he’d bring the doctor from his ship over in the morning. She’d be able to fix her up. He also said to not worry about money, it’d be a bit of charity.
Campan: She’s a great doctor. She’ll get you a face transplant or something… uh, you’ll have eyelids...
After Jenny left, Campan said they’d take the job. Joanie let him know there were a few other people working on collecting the bounty. Jackson Bolt wasn’t around, but the Hagerty Brothers were. He expressed interest in meeting them, but they were currently engaged with Little Dawn and Delilah (separately). Campan said goodbye and that he’d be back in the morning with their doc. Joanie told him to come round back, since Joel wouldn’t take to kindly to them seeking out help on their own. Campan went back to the Orasca and filled the crew in.
When Campan left the ship, Daniel shadowed him till he got to the whorehouse then hid outside till Campan left. Once a little ways away from the whorehouse, Daniel made his prescience known and asked for a report.
Campan: I talked to the whores. Well, the main whore, mostly. I talked to the beat up whore. I didn’t bang any.
Well, apparently Larry, the genius of the two, was getting his nuts laughed at and decided to take it out on the girl. Cut her up pretty good. Apparently his friend came in and tried to stop him and threw her into a bedpost. Black and blued her face up real good. Not really sure why he did that. Might have been a little spin put on by the whores. Apparently their engineer doesn’t take kindly to them giving out free beer, so automatically, I don’t like him. He apparently got paid off after Jenny got beat up. She looks pretty bad. I’m going to take Asta over there in the morning to see if there is anything she can do.
There are three other people taking the job. The Hagerty Brothers, who I didn’t get to talk to cause they were banging whores. Also there is Jackson Bolt, who is mighty good with his gun, I reckon. The Hagerty Brothers are the big ones, I believe. That was my report by Campan.
Campan described Jenny as mortally wounded, but she was getting better. She’d be dead in a day or two. Daniel sent Campan back to fill Mort and Asta in, saying he’d be back in a bit. As Daniel walked off, Campan shouted out that he had forgotten the prophylactics. Daniel snuck into an alleyway and banged his head on the wall, waiting for Campan to leave.
Daniel made his way to the dark building across from the whorehouse. Making sure no one was looking, he knocked on the door and got let in. As stated, the house was dark, the only light coming from the small break in the curtains. Besides the burly man that let him in, all Daniel could see was a chair set up by the break in the curtains. Dan led Daniel back over to the window, where he sat down to keep an eye out.
Dan filled Daniel in on those that were working on the whores’ bounty. The Hagerty Brothers were a couple of brutes. Large folk and didn’t look too bright. They looked like they had been smacked with the ugly stick a few times and weren’t exactly burdened with an overflowing coin purse. So far, they had mostly stuck to the whorehouse, taking advantage of the whores’ friendly nature. The other one was a guy by the name of Jackson Bolt. He had a small rep as a good gunslinger. Much better dressed, with a fine brown coat and a nice holster for his gun. He didn’t spend long in the whorehouse and was probably out looking for the men. Bolt was in two days before. From what he’d heard, Bolt took up this job cause he’s no fan of the Alliance. Only reason why a guy of skill and means would take up this kind of job.
When asked what he’d do, Dan said he’d probably stop the trouble where it started. He agreed that the men were probably laying low right now and said they definitely weren’t in town. They left on a mule few days back.
Talking about Jenny, Dan said she couldn’t be as bad as he said, since she’d have been moved out of the house and to Doc’s shack if she were.
Back at the ship, Campan filled the others in. Mort grabbed one of the wires from the security equipment, went outside, and planted it near the larger ship (which they later figured out belonged to the Hagerty Brothers) to place the blame elsewhere. After a lot of talking, Mort, Campan, and Take decided they were going to go teach the Hagerty brothers a lesson. They bandana’d and hatted up and headed out. Take and Mort took care to be stealthy in setting themselves up in the alley next to the whorehouse. Campan, on the other hand, waved all around as he was approaching.
Dan: (nodding towards Campan and company outside) There’s an interesting group
Daniel only noticed Campan out there and watched Dan to see what he thought. Dan did his best not to show it, but most definitely recognized Campan. No anger, no love, just recognition. Daniel got the feeling that Dan was a guy who did his job and did it well and didn’t really care about the whys or whats. Daniel made his way back to the ship to get a cup of coffee.
Mort and Campan saw Daniel leave. The three waited around for another half an hour. It was getting on about two in the morning now when they saw two brutes leave the front of the whorehouse. They were about six and a half feet tall and built like linebackers. Mort went out and lured them into the alley.
Daniel got back to the ship and noticed the wonder trio were gone. Asta told him they left to go pay a visit to the guys at the whorehouse and that they said it wasn’t a chloroform job but a broken arms job. Daniel took out of there like a bat out of hell.
Back in the alley, Mort got the Hagerty Brothers far enough in, then turned around, dropped to his knees, grabbed for the guys’ balls and twisted. A fight ensued. The brothers pulled out steel pipes to use on the others. Take went down fairly quickly. He decided to play dead. Campan pistol-whipped one of the brothers while Mort wrestled with another. By the time Daniel arrived no one was looking great. Daniel saw Take on the ground and charged in. The fight ended when Daniel rifle butted one of the brothers into unconsciousness and Mort grabbed the other by the head and pressed his thumbs to the guy’s eyes.
Mort: Do you want to be blind tomorrow?
Darrel Hagerty: No.
Mort: Then I suggest you take your brother and you stop looking for Mr. Larry.
Darrel Hagerty: That mean we can’t work?
Mort: Yes. Doesn’t mean you can’t keep lying to the whores, though.
Darrel collected his brother and they hobbled out of the alley. Once they were gone, Daniel pulled Campan aside and quietly chewed him out. Mort followed the Hagerty brother back to their ship.
Once back at the ship, Daniel called Campan a moron.
Daniel: You walking up waving by a known to be watched whore house.
Campan: I didn’t know.
Daniel: I told you.
Campan: Oh. That makes sense sir. Worst is he’ll tell Ms. Parker that I’m around and they’ll just be looking for me.
Daniel: There are four ships at the docks. One is the people we’re looking for. One is ours. One is the guys you just beat up. And one is a really dangerous guy we have to find.
Campan: Oops.
Daniel: Lio Coh Jwei Ji Neong Hur Ho Deh Yung Duh Buhn Ja J'wohn.
Fade to Black
Lio Coh Jwei Ji Neong Hur Ho Deh Yung Duh Buhn Ja J'wohn. - Stupid son of a drooling whore and monkey
