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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2816472" data-attributes="member: 9758"> “Episode 3 –Bounties” – Online Wrap-upsubtitled “Everyone needs a kitten” Daniel and Campan, lacking caffeine, swapped two ninety-minute catnaps.  At the end of  that time, Leon came into the back room with two guys (including John) to let them know the mule was back.  Leon’s henchmen grabbed the two coffins with Jack and Larry and dragged them outside.  Leon took Campan and Daniel outside where three guys were loading the slaves onto the barge. The two including John dropped the coffins off outside the front door to the church and headed to the back of the mule to unload a crate.  There was still a guy with a rifle in the bell tower.  Leon walked over to the crate with a pouch and opened up the crate.  He reached in and Daniel and Campan could hear the distinct jingle of metal as he transferred some from the crate to the pouch.  He then shut the crate back up.  As Leon walked back over to them, he tossed the pouch to Campan.Leon: We're about set here.  Once we finish getting these people on the barge, you'll be ready to go.  (pointing over to the coffins) There are your other cargo.  Don't know where you want them.As the two guys started to haul the crate inside, Daniel spoke.Daniel: All right, I'm going to have a mighty hard time getting these bastards off-planet if you don't leave them with some cred.Leon: They've still got whatever they had on them.  This is just our agreed upon payment.  That. (pointing to the pouch he tossed Campan) is your cut. If you want to give it to them, that’s fine by me.Daniel had Leon’s men load the crates into the back of the mule, since he didn’t want the slaves attacking Jack & Larry, for now.-----Mort sat outside watching the Hagerty Brothers' ship past full dawn and saw no activity going on.  When he went back to the morons' ship to check for food, he found some crates with food in them.  Nowhere near enough to feed twenty-five people for the 'intended' (minimum) three day journey to Higgins' Moon and keep the travelers happy.  But, to Mort, that was good enough.*****In her sleep-deprivation induced hysteria, Asta thought she sent Campan off to fetch her a whore while she got some sleep.  Campan, however, wasn't there, so no one fetched a whore.  So, in the morning, a very groggy Asta awoke to her alarm.  She stumbled about the ship, looking for coffee.  Unfortunately for her, the only one who knew where Daniel stashed the coffee was Daniel.  So she only found drained cups from the previous night and Mort coffee.*****Take had a good sleep wherever he settled down (presumably on his bed or possibly on the bridge)*****Daniel and Campan decided not to cause some trouble at the church, so they didn't have a problem getting set up to go.The mule traveled a damn site slower than Daniel would have liked.  He was stuck driving, since Campan forgot to bring a driving cheat sheet with him.  Campan kept an eye out for evil-doers (or should that be goody two-shoes?).  They did get shot at.  And chased.  Seems someone else out there was all with the taking offense to their existence.  Daniel had a hard time with the nifty maneuvers.  He is, after all, no Take.  Damn bastards had a front windshield on their hovermule.  That just ain't right.  Campan managed to pull off some nice shots to temporarily disable their engines.Campan: (smugly) Metal on metal my friend.  No keyboard needed.Who needs Mort?The rest of the trip into town was fairly uneventful, but Daniel rode the accelerator.  They radioed ahead to have Asta & Mort meet them at the morons' ship.  They transferred the crates over easily and quickly cause they didn't know just how much time Campan bought them.Mort and Campan got the shmucks set up in the cockpit.  Then Daniel called Campan back to help with the people.  Mort expected Asta to pull out a stimulant to wake them, but she just smacked then across the cheek.  Larry really didn't like to be the one being hit and cursed at her.  She just slapped him again before heading back to check on the people who were being loaded.  She really would have liked to have innoculated all these people, but that would have been very expensive and she didn’t have that many supplies on hand.The closest thing the poor bastards got to a last meal was the non-lumpy variety of Mort coffee.  He forced them to send waves to their mothers.  Gunpoint was necessary (it adds circumstance modifiers to the intimidate, after all, and Mort needs those for a Will+Influence roll).  Once they were done, he told them their payment was loaded and their cargo was almost.  He tried to instill fear in them without the gun, but Larry just cursed at him and struggled to get out of his chair.  They didn’t have a timer onboard, but the dock warden had one in his shack.  Mort was able to swipe it while Bill was out somewhere.Once the people were all loaded and Asta gave her okay, they let Mort know and he set the timer.  Telling them to take off when the timer goes off, he left them and headed off the ship with the others.One minute later, the ship powered up and took off.  Eight minutes later, Bolt's ship started up and took off.Mort suggested to Daniel that they get paid by Parker as soon as possible.With the morons underway, Asta turned to Campan and asked him to go and fetch her a whore.  Campan, however, felt someone, anyone, could do that job better than him.  After all, he might wave out of turn.  He felt the best use of his resources would be for him to get on the ship and do the beer inventory.  He suggested Daniel or Mort could easily show them the way.  When Daniel said he needed Mort to go along with him to Miss Parker's as backup, Campan suggested Take would be a good choice.  After all, Take had gotten enough sleep for the lot of them.  Daniel agreed that Campan might not be the best choice, even if he was the contact with them.  He suggested that Asta go herself.Daniel: After all, the captain needs his beauty sleep.Campan said he didn't think Asta should go alone.Campan: There are disreputable people about.Daniel left it up to Take and headed off with Mort.Once roused from his slumber, Take was irked that he was being put to work, but he went along with it.  He went to the whorehouse (Campan made sure he knew to go to the back) to collect Jenny.  Take looked funnier than usual with his new black welt from the piping wound and Jenny wasn't sure about going with him, but he was able to convince her that Campan worked for him.Once back on the ship, Campan let them in and Take showed her to the infirmary.  Asta got a good look at her.  The poor girl wasn't going to die as Campan suspected, but she was going to be scarred.  Asta just didn't have the team or set up for proper plastic surgery.  She'd need a trained assistant and some equipment she just didn't have.  She could give her something for the swelling and some cream to make sure the cuts healed without infection, but that was mostly it.  Asta did see an opportunity that they both could profit from this.  With Jenny’s new disfigurement (she was sitting at an Attractiveness –2 at the moment, but with proper care, Asta felt she’d heal to a Attractiveness –1), she wouldn’t do well with her given profession anymore.  Asta found the girl couldn’t read or write, but was willing to learn.  She knew a little first aid, though pretty much just what a whore would need to know.  She did say she was a quick study.  Asta offered Jenny a place on the ship as her assistant.  She said she’d be trained in a marketable skill, fed, clothed, and would have her own room.  And, she wouldn’t have to service the crew.  Jenny took up the job, eager to make a fresh start.She didn’t want to return to the whorehouse for her things, so Asta showed Jenny to the passenger rooms.*****Mort and Daniel arrived at Parker's saloon later than they would have liked.  It was past noon when they found themselves walking through the large, open wooden doors.  The saloon itself was pretty empty.  There was only a single gentleman sitting at the bar.  He was a portly man with an old top hat and a plaid, worn coat and was drinking an amber colored liquid.Dan stood behind the bar, polishing a glass with a rag.  He looked over at the two and nodded to Daniel.  He put two glasses on the bar and a bottle of what looked to be the same amber liquid.Dan: Have a drink, gentlemen.  I'll be but a moment. He then moved out from behind the bar and headed up to Pearl's office.Mort looked suspiciously at the liquid, but didn’t drink any.  Daniel was polite and sipped some of the bourbon.Dan returned a few minutes later to escort them up to her office.  When Dan showed Mort & Daniel in, Pearl was once again sitting at her desk.  The large windows and glass balcony door allowed this room a lot of natural lighting.  She was looking through some papers as Dan gestured to the two seats in front of her desk.  Once inside, Dan closed the door and walked over to the desk to collect the papers.Mort took his usual spot along the wall.Pearl: Good afternoon.  I trust the matter has been taken care of?The discussion was brief.  Daniel talked about how the whores needed a firmer engineer than Joel and perhaps Tom would do a better job.  Daniel managed to talk Pearl up from 180 credits to 200 for the job.  They concluded their chat and were paid in Alliance credits.They swung by Tom’s to talk to him about the whores.  Daniel convinced Tom he should be handling the whores, even though he had no clue how.*****Since Take objected to the dog, Mort tried to sell it.  The dock warden was a cat person, but the junkyard owner was willing to take it off Mort’s hands.Meanwhile, Asta went out to find a kitten.  She ended up finding someone with free kittens and picked up a male orange tiger Maine Coon cat.  For the second time in one day, she neglected to ask or inform Take of an addition to the crew.  Poor Take.  His peons weren’t respecting the chain of command.Roll Credits</blockquote>

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