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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2816504" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><strong>Synopsis of 1/16/06 Session</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong> Episode 5 - "The Real McCoy" - Fifth Session</strong></span></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 1/16/06 Session – subtitled <strong>Let’s Get the Hell Off This Gorramn Planet </strong></em> </p><p></p><p>The crew was more than eager to get off the planet now that the law didn’t want them to. Go figure. Asta discussed with Mort about the possibility of disabling the land-lock and just leaving, but that was ultimately decided to either not be feasible or not be wise; it wasn’t decided which. Daniel did decide that they needed to get rid of their ill-gotten goods as quickly as possible, since the Alliance was sure to check their ship.</p><p></p><p>Daniel took some time casing the port area while sitting at a scummy docks bar (different than the one owned by Glen Morshower). He found that the Alliance was actually patrolling the Docks now. Four different squads had patrols that led them through the area. Each made a loop of their patrol every two hours, with a half an hour window between each different squad. Like he remembered, the docks really didn’t have a quiet time where the streets were deserted. There were more quiet times now that there weren’t ships going in and out, though. The squads were stopping the occasional mule that drove by and checking the contents.</p><p></p><p>Mort went around to the different ships to talk with the other mechanics and grumble about their current situation. There were a couple that wanted to trade parts and hooch. Mort got invited to a poker game later aboard <strong>The Prophet</strong>.</p><p></p><p>Asta and Mort then cross-referenced the stolen cargo from the warehouse with the ships still in dock. The plan was to pick a scapegoat that had goods withheld in customs that might have wanted to liberate them. Mort decided <strong>Serina</strong> was a wonderful target. He then went out and found the bum he had given the APS clothes to and bought back the hat for ten credits.</p><p></p><p>When Daniel returned from canvassing the port, Mort let him know the plan, who their patsy was going to be, and when they were going to do it. Daniel’s part in the plan was to get the entire crew of <strong>Serina</strong> to the poker game so they could do some planting of evidence.</p><p></p><p>Daniel found the ship to be a bit larger than the Orasca. Once inside, he found the cargo hold was actually a lot smaller than theirs, though. Captain Sylvia Petrie was a slightly attractive woman of around thirty-five years with short black hair. Daniel had no problem convincing all ten of her crew that they were invited to the poker game and they should go. Even the old geezer.</p><p></p><p>A few hours later, Daniel and Asta returned to escort them to the game. </p><p></p><p>While the poker game was going on, Mort disabled the security feeds watching the docked ships. After a patrol went by, he and Campan dressed like they belonged and took the mule with some stuff over to <strong>Serina</strong> to dump some of their evidence. Campan brought along a beer to make it look like they were coming back from drinking. Mort actually had some trouble opening the door, until Campan handed him his beer and opened it for Mort. After searching the small cargo hold and finding no secret compartments, they planted some boxes from the warehouse under other things. Wandering up to the crew quarters, which were rather spacious, Mort planted the datapad manifest of the contents of the warehouse on the table in the Captain’s quarters. They then went to the next quarters, which was also spacious but a mess. Mort found an empty closet and an overflowing pile of dirty laundry. He made the mistake of lifting up about a day’s worth of laundry and sliding the APS hat in. The stench released was almost unbearable.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Oh dear GOD! What the <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> are you doing?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Planting evidence.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>That’s not planting evidence, that’s trying to kill me!</em></p><p></p><p>They could swear they saw that pile moving.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Let’s move before the laundry eats us.</em></p><p></p><p>They moved to another room, uploaded some of the Claggett blackmail data onto their computer and spread some printed out pamphlets around the room with a note saying, ‘hand out tomorrow.’</p><p></p><p>They then headed back to the Orasca by a circuitous route. Mort made sure they got stopped by a patrol.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (from passenger seat and a bit slurred) <em>No no, it’s okay. I’m not driving.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>I had to go pick him up, he was drunk.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>He only held my beer once, occifer.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Actually, yeah. I saw a bunch of guys loading a whole lot of stuff onto that ship there yesterday. Might want to check them out. Looked awful suspicious. You don’t often see APS trucks parked on the side of their ship like that. Unloading boxes and stuff.</em></p><p></p><p>When the officers asked for their ident cards, Mort handed them his fake ID. They told him he’d need to get a new card, since he had a couple of scratches on it and a bullet hole through the photo. Campan had the officer hold his beer while he fished out his card. There was considerably less beer when he got the mug back. They told him that he was overdue on some student loan payments and he should really take care of that. They then went along their way back to the Orasca, where Mort turned the cameras back on.</p><p></p><p>A different squad did go over to the ship to check it out.</p><p></p><p>Because so many people showed up at <strong>The Prophet</strong>, a few poker tables had to be set up. The old geezer opened with his teeth. After several hours, the game wound down. The old geezer now had three sets of teeth, some vodka, and a nice pile of platinum. Daniel’s winnings were mostly in credits and platinum, though he did end up with a packet of spices. Most of Asta’s credits had been lost, but she won a leatherman and a pair of glasses (there was one person at the table that was squinting really hard at his cards after that). Daniel chatted with a few of the people at the game and learned some choice tidbits that he kept to himself. Captain Petrie seemed to take a liking to him. Daniel and Asta left before the games ended to ‘beat the crowds.’</p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>We’re doing our good dead for the episode by not killing Leon.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Leon:</strong> <em>I’m hungry!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>I feed him.</em></p><p></p><p>Watching Captain Petrie and her crew going back to their ship, Mort and Daniel saw them meet up with the Alliance officers outside the ship, go inside, then get hauled off in official vehicles a while later. Two officers stayed behind outside the ship to guard.</p><p></p><p>The next day, the residents of the ships were getting more angry, since they had been kept from doing their jobs (and the whole getting paid part). Daniel mingled with the crowds and convinced a few key people to be grumpy enough to complain. A group of Captains for eleven of the twelve ships in port headed off for Port authority to complain about the detainment. Daniel quickly told Take to go with them, so it didn’t look suspicious. A couple of hours after the captains returned, each ship received a wave saying that they after they underwent a proper ident check to make sure they weren’t harboring anyone with a suspicious background they’d be allowed to leave and to make sure they had their ship manifest and crew’s ident cards ready. One ship volunteered to go first and two ships volunteered to go last. The crew then scrambled to deal with this because their ident cards did not match the manifest they docked with. Eventually, Daniel decided to scrape together whatever and all cash they had and put it in a bag with the ident cards. One drama point later, the official who came to check their ship was corrupt enough to take the bribe and tell them they could go on their way shortly.</p><p></p><p>Once they took off, they headed about two days out of town and touched down in a canyon. Mort went in to Leon’s cell. Leon backed away from Mort. Once he was in a corner Mort told him not to struggle or he’d hurt him. He blindfolded him and grabbed him by the collar and the belt and dragged him out of the cell.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>I’ll hurt you if I have to.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Mort, please don’t hurt him.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> (outraged) <em>Why’d you have to say my name?</em> *slams Leon’s head into a metal wall* <em>You didn’t hear that, RIGHT?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>You do realize he is completely drugged up and won’t remember this anyway.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em> Cause if you did hear that, you’re going to end up in a shallow grave. Right? </em></p><p></p><p>*Leon whimpers and nods*</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em> Good. </em></p><p></p><p>Mort took him outside and set him down on the ground. Drawing an arrow in the ground pointing towards town, he then handed Leon a back with water, a food bar and some happy pills in it. Mort didn’t care what the engines draft would do to the arrow.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em> Towns the direction of the arrow. You have water and a food bar. Start walking when you hear the ship take off. I’m even leaving you with a handkerchief.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (waves)<em> We’ll see you next time we drop bye. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> (patting Leon on the back and whispering)<em> If you tell anybody about this and I find out about it, I might get angry. </em></p><p></p><p>Everyone but Leon then got back on the ship and they took off. The Orasca left orbit and flew past the space station and the alliance cruiser in orbit and headed off towards the Georgia System.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Roll Credits</em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2816504, member: 9758"] [b]Synopsis of 1/16/06 Session[/b] [size=5][b] Episode 5 - "The Real McCoy" - Fifth Session[/b][/size] [i]Synopsis of 1/16/06 Session – subtitled [b]Let’s Get the Hell Off This Gorramn Planet [/b][/i][b] [/b] The crew was more than eager to get off the planet now that the law didn’t want them to. Go figure. Asta discussed with Mort about the possibility of disabling the land-lock and just leaving, but that was ultimately decided to either not be feasible or not be wise; it wasn’t decided which. Daniel did decide that they needed to get rid of their ill-gotten goods as quickly as possible, since the Alliance was sure to check their ship. Daniel took some time casing the port area while sitting at a scummy docks bar (different than the one owned by Glen Morshower). He found that the Alliance was actually patrolling the Docks now. Four different squads had patrols that led them through the area. Each made a loop of their patrol every two hours, with a half an hour window between each different squad. Like he remembered, the docks really didn’t have a quiet time where the streets were deserted. There were more quiet times now that there weren’t ships going in and out, though. The squads were stopping the occasional mule that drove by and checking the contents. Mort went around to the different ships to talk with the other mechanics and grumble about their current situation. There were a couple that wanted to trade parts and hooch. Mort got invited to a poker game later aboard [b]The Prophet[/b]. Asta and Mort then cross-referenced the stolen cargo from the warehouse with the ships still in dock. The plan was to pick a scapegoat that had goods withheld in customs that might have wanted to liberate them. Mort decided [b]Serina[/b] was a wonderful target. He then went out and found the bum he had given the APS clothes to and bought back the hat for ten credits. When Daniel returned from canvassing the port, Mort let him know the plan, who their patsy was going to be, and when they were going to do it. Daniel’s part in the plan was to get the entire crew of [b]Serina[/b] to the poker game so they could do some planting of evidence. Daniel found the ship to be a bit larger than the Orasca. Once inside, he found the cargo hold was actually a lot smaller than theirs, though. Captain Sylvia Petrie was a slightly attractive woman of around thirty-five years with short black hair. Daniel had no problem convincing all ten of her crew that they were invited to the poker game and they should go. Even the old geezer. A few hours later, Daniel and Asta returned to escort them to the game. While the poker game was going on, Mort disabled the security feeds watching the docked ships. After a patrol went by, he and Campan dressed like they belonged and took the mule with some stuff over to [b]Serina[/b] to dump some of their evidence. Campan brought along a beer to make it look like they were coming back from drinking. Mort actually had some trouble opening the door, until Campan handed him his beer and opened it for Mort. After searching the small cargo hold and finding no secret compartments, they planted some boxes from the warehouse under other things. Wandering up to the crew quarters, which were rather spacious, Mort planted the datapad manifest of the contents of the warehouse on the table in the Captain’s quarters. They then went to the next quarters, which was also spacious but a mess. Mort found an empty closet and an overflowing pile of dirty laundry. He made the mistake of lifting up about a day’s worth of laundry and sliding the APS hat in. The stench released was almost unbearable. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Oh dear GOD! What the :):):):) are you doing?[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Planting evidence.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]That’s not planting evidence, that’s trying to kill me![/i] They could swear they saw that pile moving. [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Let’s move before the laundry eats us.[/i] They moved to another room, uploaded some of the Claggett blackmail data onto their computer and spread some printed out pamphlets around the room with a note saying, ‘hand out tomorrow.’ They then headed back to the Orasca by a circuitous route. Mort made sure they got stopped by a patrol. [b]Campan:[/b] (from passenger seat and a bit slurred) [i]No no, it’s okay. I’m not driving.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]I had to go pick him up, he was drunk.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]He only held my beer once, occifer.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Actually, yeah. I saw a bunch of guys loading a whole lot of stuff onto that ship there yesterday. Might want to check them out. Looked awful suspicious. You don’t often see APS trucks parked on the side of their ship like that. Unloading boxes and stuff.[/i] When the officers asked for their ident cards, Mort handed them his fake ID. They told him he’d need to get a new card, since he had a couple of scratches on it and a bullet hole through the photo. Campan had the officer hold his beer while he fished out his card. There was considerably less beer when he got the mug back. They told him that he was overdue on some student loan payments and he should really take care of that. They then went along their way back to the Orasca, where Mort turned the cameras back on. A different squad did go over to the ship to check it out. Because so many people showed up at [b]The Prophet[/b], a few poker tables had to be set up. The old geezer opened with his teeth. After several hours, the game wound down. The old geezer now had three sets of teeth, some vodka, and a nice pile of platinum. Daniel’s winnings were mostly in credits and platinum, though he did end up with a packet of spices. Most of Asta’s credits had been lost, but she won a leatherman and a pair of glasses (there was one person at the table that was squinting really hard at his cards after that). Daniel chatted with a few of the people at the game and learned some choice tidbits that he kept to himself. Captain Petrie seemed to take a liking to him. Daniel and Asta left before the games ended to ‘beat the crowds.’ [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]We’re doing our good dead for the episode by not killing Leon.[/i] [b]Leon:[/b] [i]I’m hungry![/i] [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]I feed him.[/i] Watching Captain Petrie and her crew going back to their ship, Mort and Daniel saw them meet up with the Alliance officers outside the ship, go inside, then get hauled off in official vehicles a while later. Two officers stayed behind outside the ship to guard. The next day, the residents of the ships were getting more angry, since they had been kept from doing their jobs (and the whole getting paid part). Daniel mingled with the crowds and convinced a few key people to be grumpy enough to complain. A group of Captains for eleven of the twelve ships in port headed off for Port authority to complain about the detainment. Daniel quickly told Take to go with them, so it didn’t look suspicious. A couple of hours after the captains returned, each ship received a wave saying that they after they underwent a proper ident check to make sure they weren’t harboring anyone with a suspicious background they’d be allowed to leave and to make sure they had their ship manifest and crew’s ident cards ready. One ship volunteered to go first and two ships volunteered to go last. The crew then scrambled to deal with this because their ident cards did not match the manifest they docked with. Eventually, Daniel decided to scrape together whatever and all cash they had and put it in a bag with the ident cards. One drama point later, the official who came to check their ship was corrupt enough to take the bribe and tell them they could go on their way shortly. Once they took off, they headed about two days out of town and touched down in a canyon. Mort went in to Leon’s cell. Leon backed away from Mort. Once he was in a corner Mort told him not to struggle or he’d hurt him. He blindfolded him and grabbed him by the collar and the belt and dragged him out of the cell. [b]Mort:[/b] [i]I’ll hurt you if I have to.[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Mort, please don’t hurt him.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] (outraged) [i]Why’d you have to say my name?[/i] *slams Leon’s head into a metal wall* [i]You didn’t hear that, RIGHT?[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]You do realize he is completely drugged up and won’t remember this anyway.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i] Cause if you did hear that, you’re going to end up in a shallow grave. Right? [/i] *Leon whimpers and nods* [b]Mort:[/b] [i] Good. [/i] Mort took him outside and set him down on the ground. Drawing an arrow in the ground pointing towards town, he then handed Leon a back with water, a food bar and some happy pills in it. Mort didn’t care what the engines draft would do to the arrow. [b]Mort:[/b] [i] Towns the direction of the arrow. You have water and a food bar. Start walking when you hear the ship take off. I’m even leaving you with a handkerchief.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] (waves)[i] We’ll see you next time we drop bye. [/i] [b]Mort:[/b] (patting Leon on the back and whispering)[i] If you tell anybody about this and I find out about it, I might get angry. [/i] Everyone but Leon then got back on the ship and they took off. The Orasca left orbit and flew past the space station and the alliance cruiser in orbit and headed off towards the Georgia System. [b][i]Roll Credits[/i][/b] [/QUOTE]
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