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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2816430" data-attributes="member: 9758">Synopsis of 8/15/05 Session “Episode 2 – Detour” – Second Session Synopsis of 8/15/05 Session – subtitled “Those left behind” With Leonard gone, the crew got on with their business.  After a quick chat with Take, Daniel and Campan headed back off to the bar to accept the pro-offered job.After checking their guns, Campan noticed a guy sitting at the bar without a drink.  Of course, he saw this as a very sad thing.  Even sadder still, he recognized the guy as his cousin Kenny.  Borrowing a bit from Daniel, he ordered a beer for Kenny, then followed Daniel back towards Mingo’s table. Details were quickly worked out and the two were on their way back out of the bar.  Daniel told Campan to go get the beer for the journey.  Campan then hit Daniel up for more money to make the beer run.Daniel: And strangely enough you never have any money.Campan: I have a sick grandmother, sir.Daniel: Yes.  I met you sick grandmother, if you remember.Campan: Yes sir, so you know I send her all the money I can.Kenny intercepted them and chatted with Campan.  Looking over Kenny, Daniel saw a very poor man, wearing dirty and soggy clothes.  He also didn’t smell too good.  Campan did his best to convince Daniel to hire his cousin.Daniel: You’re related to him. Campan: You can’t hold that against him. Daniel: Does he also have a sick grandmother?Campan: I believe he has two, sir.Daniel did a quick pre-interview with Kenny, to assess his skills. He also asked Kenny if he had anyone hunting him.  Kenny said he paid everyone so they wouldn’t hunt him.  Daniel found this a bit strange, but told Campan to get his cousin cleaned up while he was buying the beer.  He’d talk to Take about an interview when they got to the ship.Daniel headed back to the ship and looked around for Take, finding the captain sleeping on the bridge.  A brief, if sleepy, conversation ensued about the interview.Daniel: He’s Campan’s cousin.Take: Is he poor too?Campan used a minor amount of the beer money to buy Kenny a new shirt and pants.  When they arrived at the ship, Daniel greeted them while Mort was setting up the interview table.  After waiting a few moments, Daniel realized he was going to have to go wake Take up again.  He sure sleeps a lot for the work he does.Once Take was woken and given some coffee, the interview could begin.  Kenny passed the psych test easily, showing he was the most stable person on the ship. The rest of the interview process went smoothly and, once Take put on the Captain Pants, he was hired.  Kenny was given some cleaning supplies and a bucket and Daniel showed him to Jasp’s old room.  Kenny quickly started having ideas about what to do with all the tinfoil.Daniel and Campan then discussed the beer that was procured.  He really wasn’t sure about the jalapeno beer. While they were talking, there was a knock on the door to the ship.  Mort opened it to find a short, bald gentleman in his sixties.  The clothes he was wearing were utilitarian and a bit faded and he had a pistol holstered over his right hip.  He stood with a bit of a hunch under the weight of the backpack over his left shoulder.Wing: (holds out his hand) Howdy.  I’m Wing.  Nice to meet you, sonny.Mort immediately hit the intercom button and asked Daniel if they were expecting someone.  When told they were, Mort shook Wing’s hand and showed him in.Daniel made his way down to the cargo bay to meet Wing.  Wing greeted him in the same way he greeted Mort.  The sonny comment confused Daniel a little, but he ignored it for the time being.  Daniel asked Wing about coordinates to where they were headed.Wing: Oh, I’ll plot in the course into your computer for you.  No need to worry about that.  Now, would one of you nice boys be kind enough to give me a tour of this boat.  Looks like a fine ship. Mort retreated to his engine room while Daniel gave him an abbreviated tour.  He dropped his pack off in one of the passenger rooms.  He was told Mort considered the engine room his private sanctum, so it’d be safer if he just stayed out of there.  He was shown where the Med bay was, but told Asta considered that her sanctum, so not to go in unless he was injured.  Asta didn’t seem to care for him calling her dearie.  They ended the tour going through the lounge to the dining room where Campan was sitting, drinking beer.Again there was the greeting, though Campan made the comment that Wing couldn’t have his beer.  Wing said that was alright, cause he had brought his own.  Campan perked up at this comment.  While the two talked, Daniel went and got Take and mentioned the coordinates thing.When Take came in, Wing again greeted with a smile and a handshake.Wing: You’d be the Captain, right? Nice to meet you, sonny.Wing was asked if he was hunted by anyone besides the Alliance.  He responded no, adding something about being the one always left behind.  When asked for the coordinates by Take, Wing tried the same line he had used on Daniel.  Take said he wanted the coordinates, since he needed to know where they were going.Campan (over the intercom to Asta): “Did you give him a backbone?” Wing tried to reason out his argument to them, but it boiled down to him not wanting to be dumped off the ship once they knew where they had to go to get the goods.  Daniel was able to convince him to hand over the coordinates.After giving the coordinates to Take, Wing shuffled back to his quarters to get a bottle of whiskey.  Perking up at the offer of some good booze, Campan was more than happy to chat with the fellow.  Asta moved up to the dining area and joined them.  During the trip, Kenny tried to requisition himself a gun from the armory.  He found it locked.  Searching out Campan, he was lent a small, concealable handgun (read the woman’s purse gun Wash has in War Stories).Three days later, the ship made it to the small asteroid where Wing hid his bank robbings.  Daniel used the scanning systems to find the hideout before Wing pointed it out and told them where to land.  He told them the asteroid had an atmosphere, so they wouldn’t need suits.  Gabe then proceeded to ask questions one should not ask (how does it have an atmosphere?)  Alex glared at him and responded failed terraforming.Mort, Campan and Kenny accompanied Wing into the hideout.  On the approach to the hole in the ground, Wing told them to stand back as he walked in a funny, drunken pattern towards the hole.  Once he brushed off a keypad and hit some combination he waved the others in.  Mort had a very cautious Kenny go first, followed by an equally cautious Mort.  Campan swaggered along behind.At the bottom the ladder inside the hole, Wing punched in another combination after everyone was down.  Several times through the journey down a mineshaft like tunnel, Wing stopped to disarm and then rearm traps.They finally reached a room cluttered with lockers, crates, and four identical locked cases with small consoles.  Mort and Wing checked them over to make sure they weren’t trapped.  Mort got Wing to check inside one of them to make sure the goods were still there.  Once they decided it was safe and the money was intact, everyone picked up a rather heavy case.At this point, the sound of a gun powering up could be heard.  An unkempt, muscular man of about six feet tall partially stepped out from behind a locker with his gun pointed at Wing.Bad Guy: Drop the cases and leave Wing and you can leave.  We’re just here for what is ours.Mort muttered something and opened fire on the guy before dragging his moneybox into the hallway to use the door as cover.  Unfortunately for him, he only hit the locker as the guy ducked back behind it.  Campan and Wing both dropped their boxes and ended up diving behind the same crate near the door.  Kenny dropped his box and ran behind a locker further into the room, yelling about not wanting a fight.Wing: (from behind cover)  They ain’t ruttin yours!  You fled when things went bad and left me behind!A brief firefight ensued as the bad guy’s companions, a short bald chick with a peacemaker and an ugly bastard with a submachine gun, joined the game.  Campan and Mort got shot up good.  Mort managed to get all the moneyboxes out into the hallway while Wing and Campan moved their cover towards the door.  Wing wasn’t hitting anything, but he also wasn’t getting hit.  Kenny moved further into the room before trying to get back out.  Unfortunately for him, he tripped and fell in the middle of room.  The Bad Guy moved over and picked up Kenny, using him as cover and a hostage (not that the others seemed to care).  When a shot was made at the guy and the bullet whizzed passed Kenny, Kenny tried to convince him to move behind some cover.Kenny: Could we move behind that locker?  Cause now they’re just going to shoot both of us.Daniel had been watching the scanners to keep an eye on the party as they went into the compound.  They had dropped off the screen a minute or two ago, but he expected that.  About this time, he noticed another ship approaching on the scanners.  With the clip it was moving at, it’d get there in three or so minutes.  He tried to call the others in the hideout, but all he got was static. He moved to the Korv, leaving Take and Asta on the bridge.  Asta started working on boosting the comm. signal to reach those inside.Once they identified the ship as looking and acting like the one they left in the dust a week or so ago, Asta got Take to set up some suits for the rest of the crew.  Daniel took off in the Korv and got it situated in a nice spot away from the Orasca.Campan shot the Bad Guy twice, dropping him.  This freed Kenny up to dive behind their cover.  Mort, much annoyed by now, cursed and moved into the room to mow down the guy with the submachine gun.  About this time, Asta got through on the comm.Asta: You should know it would be best if you returned to the ship post haste. (I can't remember what was said exactly and can't inflict the complete lack of urgency in which this was said)Mort: We’re a bit busy at the moment.  Can this wait?Asta: Not when Mr. Likes-to-put-holes-in-the-ship is above us. Seeing two of her crewmates downed in a hail of bullets, the Bald Chick swore in Chinese.  The crew heard the tearing of something, the tinkle of metal hitting the ground, and saw something small and round land near the door between Campan and Mort, as the Bald Chick moved further behind her locker.  Crouching behind Campan near the door, Kenny was the first to react to the grenade.  He fled further into the room, hiding in a corner behind a locker.  Campan picked up the grenade and chucked it back towards the Bald Chick, but didn’t get it far enough away from Mort.  The Bald Chick dove behind a crate further away.  Mort moved up and kicked the grenade so that it would hit a box and ricochet towards the Bald Chick... then shot at her twice for good measure. One second later, it exploded, obliterating the Bald Chick and tearing up Mort’s jacket, shirt, bullet proof vest, vest, and undershirt, filling his chest with shrapnel.     Exiting from his hiding spot, Kenny and Campan wanted to take the time to loot.  Wing had heard Asta’s response and was already carting his moneybox down the shaft.  The grenade had toasted the Bald Chick and the Ugly Bastard, along with their stuff.  In their seriously injured states, Mort grabbed one moneybox while Campan dragged two.  Kenny wanted to stick around and strip the Bad Guy, but ended up just dragging him, at the insistence of Mort.On the way back to the surface, Mort asked Wing about the guys they just met.  He said they were the crew that had done the bank job with him, but they had left him to rot when the feds showed up.  By the time they got through the traps, Kenny had partially looted the body, gaining a mangled and hole filled bulletproof vest and a Peacemaker.The group made it to the surface in time to see the Orasca lifting off, leaving them behind as the ship that looked like Reavers from the last session pursued it.  Wing jumped up and down and cursed at the Orasca for getting left behind again.  Mort said they weren’t getting left behind and opened fire with his gun at the pursuing ship.  Mort asked Wing if that ship was the one guys inside used, to which Wing responded he'd never seen it before.  The Korv flew by about a click behind the Reavers.As the ship had passed the Korv earlier, Daniel noted they once again weren’t pumping out a ship ID single or radiation.  A dogfight commenced with the Korv dealing pretty much all the damage.  The Orasca and the Korv were just too maneuverable for the Reaver missiles.  Daniel damaged the Reaver ship’s maneuverability and destroyed their food and supplies stores while doing a lot of structural damage.  The Reavers broke off pursuit and went to full burn to escape.While waiting for the Orasca to return, Mort asked Wing why his former partners didn’t just make off with the cases if they could get into his hideout.Wing: The cases have a lock code on them.  I’ll admit my security may be a little lacking, sonny, but a code (smiles and chuckles a little, shaking his finger), ah yes.  A good code, I can make.Mort was now covering his chest.  He informed Asta that they were going to need serious medical attention.  Without doing anything for their wounds and overexerting themselves, Mort and Campan were just gushing out blood.Campan’s speech was getting slurred by the pain and fatigue.Campan: I’m sleepy.Wing cursed and reached into his pack to pull out a bottle of Whiskey.  Handing it over, Campan started drinking.Wing: You’re supposed to pour it… eh, whatever.Daniel did a scan for the ship of Wing's former crew, but came up with nothing.  The Korv redocked with the Orasca as it touched down to pick up its passengers.Fade to Black</blockquote>

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