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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2816508" data-attributes="member: 9758">Synopsis of 2/13/06 session“Episode 6 - Mort's Bad 'Day' ” - First SessionSynopsis of 2/13/06 session –subtitled Good, Honest WorkThe crew had been stopped at a spaceport for a day while Daniel tried to find out information about the fall-out of their activities on Ebbon’s World and the state of his good name.While Asta was at work in the med bay, a rather pale looking Daniel stumbled in.  She tried to find out what his problem was, but he only responded in grunts.  Jenny then stumbled into the med bay and puked on Daniel’s shoes.Take: (over intercom) I’m dying!From Daniel’s grunts and Jenny’s responses in between retching, Asta quickly determined that they both had a bad case of food poisoning from their lunch at Wong’s Chinese Buffet.Take: (over intercom) I’m dying!She sent them both back to their quarters and told them to drink lots of fluids.  Over the intercom, she told Take that he should have avoided Chinese food, to drink lots of fluids and stay where he was.  She then heard a crash and a thud out in the hallway.  She called for Campan to check on what was going on in the hallway.  She called the station authority and told them she had a case of food poisoning from Wong’s.  They told her they’d send someone over to shut his place down and save the puppies (though it sounded like they said kick instead of save).Campan called out that Daniel had collapsed in the hallway.  Asta told him to bring him back to the med bay.  Campan went to grab one of Daniel’s shoes to drag him, but quickly decided to grab an arm instead.  Asta got Daniel set up with an IV for fluids on one of the beds then she cleaned up the mess Jenny left behind (thankfully most of it ended up on Daniel’s pants and shoes).  Asta then headed for Take’s room to check on the big crybaby.  She let Mort know that both the Captain and XO were incapacitated.  His immediate response was to hop in the pilot’s chair, request permission from station authority to depart and get on their way.Campan wandered onto the bridge.Campan: So, driving huh?  Sweet!  What does that button do?Alex: That’s the self destruct.Campan: We have a self destruct?Mort: No.  That’s the Emergency Alien Self Destruct.  Left over Jasp button.Campan: Oooh!  Neat!Campan then pushed the button.  The button flashed and beeped a few times, then Campan got hit in the face with a pie.  Sadly, it was a really old, liquidly cool whip type protein pie.  It smelled horrid.Mort: That’s why you shouldn’t touch the Emergency Alien Self Destruct button, man.Campan: Well you didn’t say anything about pie!Mort: I was saving that for an evil hijacker.Mort reset the spring mechanism while Campan went off to go wash.After talking with Take, she found that he didn’t have a case of food poisoning after all; he just had a massive hangover.  Asta told Take to drink lots of fluids and he’d feel better later.*Ryan glares at Dan for Take going drinking without Campan*Dan: What?  If I take Campan drinking, he drinks three quarters of the beer!  How am I supposed to get drunk then?*Ryan continues to glare*Up on the bridge, Mort leafed through the manifest to see where they were supposed to be taking the ore.  When he saw the name of the buyer, he panicked slightly and hit the intercom button.Mort: Uh, Asta?  How is Take?  I kinda need him up here to fly.Asta: Oh, he’s just hung over.  He’ll be fine.Take: (in background) I’m dying!Mort: Don’t let Campan hear he went out drinking without him.Campan: (joining intercom discussion) Who went out drinking without me?!Mort: Campan, get Take up to the bridge.  I need him to fly so I can go make the ship go much faster.Asta watched as Mort went to set up the ship for full burn and wondered why he looked worried.  They were just going to be a couple of days late with their shipment.  She looked up who the shipment was going to, but didn’t get any answers.  What would this Adelai Niska care if his ore was two days late.  It shouldn’t be worth nearly draining their fuel to get there.She went down to the engine room to find out.Asta: Who is this guy?Mort: THE local crime boss.  So, will somebody be dead soon?  Can we use that as an excuse?Asta: I suppose I could say there was a plague or something.  We can claim to have been stuck in planetary lockdown for some of it, can’t we?Mort: I don’t think he cares.  We’re late and I’m worried about criminals who kill people for being late.  These are not rational men.Asta: And I suppose we can't lose ourselves somewhere else with his ore shipment?  That’d be worse, huh?Mort: Uh Yeah.  Being late, probably we get yelled at a lot.  Maybe broken kneecaps.  Stealing all his stuff, definitely all dead.  Possibly all tortured and all dead.With Take’s flying and at full burn, they just made it in under the wire for ‘acceptable’ arrival times.  After docking at the skyplex above Ezra, Mort and Take went out with the paperwork to talk to the guards while Campan pushed the ore off the ship to the grunts.Head Grunt: Boss wants to talk to Daniel Jardin.  He has your payment ready.Take: He’s kind of indisposed at the moment.Asta: He’s very indisposed at the moment.Campan: He’s pukin’.Head Grunt: Then I guess he’ll want to talk to the XO.Take: Right.  Uh.. Mort!  Wanna take a trip?Mort told Campan and Asta to guard the ship while they went off and did Captainy things.  Campan looked like a wounded puppy for being left behind.Mort made a quick run back into the ship and grab a video capture of Daniel sitting on the john looking very sick.  Mort managed to get back out of Daniel’s room before Daniel could get his gun.They were led up to Niska’s office by the head grunt.  It was a spacious room with a large window overlooking the central tube of the station.  The room was warmly lit by an antique desk lamp sitting atop a very nice looking desk.An old man of Russian descent stood near the door as they entered.  He was balding with white hair further back on his head.  He wore small spectacles and a very nice striped grey suit.Niska: Ah.  Good to see you.Take: Hola.*Mort slaps Take on the back of his head*Niska: And Daniel Jardin is which?*Mort holds up the video capture of Daniel*Mort: Food poisoning.  He would be here, but he is preoccupied and you don’t want to talk to him right now.  We brought the captain.Niska: And you two are?Mort: This is the captain. (pause) Take.  Captain Ivan Take.  I’m Mort Cassé.Niska made his way over to his nice desk chair and sat down, leaving the head grunt over by the door while Take and Mort walked into the room.Niska: I am Adelai Niska.  You… are earlier than I expected.  After hearing of problems on Ebbon’s World.Mort: Yes, well, we made up time.  We like to be punctual.Niska: You must have expended a lot of fuel to make up that time.  Fuel costs much money.  It is good to see young men who understand the value of being punctual.  There are so few these days.I have a situation you may be interested in.Take: I’d be interested in being rich and retired.Niska: This job should be quite profitable. *turns to Mort* You and Daniel have reputation for            ruthlessness.For a man too           kill an unarmed sheriff in cold blood.  THAT       is the type of person I need for this job.*Mort pulls out his clipboard and starts going through his list of names.*Mort: That wasn’t me.  Oh yeah, I think that was Daniel.Niska: There is problem of famine on nearby moon.  Alliance ignores their requests for aid, so they come to me.  I say I can help them.  There is nearby freighter working for the Alliance that is transporting food.  I would like this food to be diverted.  You have no problems stealing from Alliance, yes?Mort smiled at this request.Mort: Stealing food and giving it to people who need it?  Good, honest work.  If the Alliance has to have their things stolen and their ships blown up, well, these things happen.Niska: This Alliance freighter, Heart of Gold.  They are headed for Regina.Niska stood up and poked the computer matt on his desk.  It changed to show the system with a line connecting two planets.Niska: This is their registered flight plan.Take: Where are the cruisers hiding?Niska: Good to see you know Alliance.  There are no cruisers.  They are freelance, like you.  They take on job for Alliance often.  Their Captain was big hero in the war.Mort: For which side?Niska: For Alliance.  They are scheduled to make drop on Regina in two days time at three in afternoon here.*Niska brings up map of Regina and docks*Niska: This is last chance for you to acquire cargo.  Two crates.  I leave up to you when you appropriate goods.  The goods will then be taken to moon Zorba.  Buyer there, Alma Cook, has payment for goods.  We have agreed up payment for goods.  It is not negotiable.Mort: So we’ll be picking up the money and bringing it back to you?Niska: You will receive payment and then meet Arsov here.*Niska brings up map of hunk of rock for rendezvous*Mort discussed with Take how they could possibly hijack the ship.  He suggested playing victim and hoping they stopMort: Or we could just dock with them whether they liked it or not.  We’re faster than them.  Asta and I could pop open the doors.  She probably wouldn’t go for the whole venting them into space.  I think we’ll look as pathetic as possible so they’ll stop for us.  Ship full of orphans. Radiation leak.Take: (to Niska) Okay, yeah.  I guess we can take the job.Niska: Good to see someone so enthusiastic about your work.Take: Oh yeah.  We’re all about the enthusiasm.Mort: Anything else we take along the way is okay for us to keep?Niska: Yes.Mort: (Mr. Burns voice) Excellent.Take: I assume the middleman is trustworthy.Niska: I suppose you mean Alma?  She less middleman, more buyer.  I am setting you up with job and ready buyer.  Payment is agreed upon and is not negotiable.  It is expected.Take quickly discussed payment with Niska.Niska: Payment for job two thousand platinum.  Half money now, Arsov give you other half at rendezvous point.They collected the payment for Tako, half payment for the current job, and the information Niska had for them before heading back to the ship.Back on the ship, Mort prettied up the job for the others.Mort: We’re going to go steal food from the Alliance and give it to people that need it.  And to cut down on excess casualties, I think we should fake transporting starving orphans to food.  Then we just need a ship problem that is so pathetic they’ll have to stop.  Like ‘heat radiator busted, children freezing to death. Asta pointed out the problem of not having the heat signatures on board to simulate the orphans, so Mort said he’d rig some heating units to up to look vaguely human shaped.  They then discussed how to deal with these people and talked about how to go about gassing them.  Asta pointed out that they still had the air guns from looting customs.Mort: Captain.  The doctor is making us all nonfatal.Campan: We’re supposed to kill the orphans!Asta: There are no orphans.Campan: What?Mort: She wants us to use the tranq guns we made up previously and sleep gas and she’s taking all the fun out of it.Take: So the problem is you’re not allowed to kill anybody anymore?Mort: I think we should talk to the doctor about this.Campan: Well, you can kill people with the tranq guns, though.  You know, shoot them in the neck.  I kinda left one at the robbery.  Didn’t mean to.Take: Are you trying to replace all our guns with tranq guns?Asta: Well, I’m just thinking, you know, that the stealing food and giving to hungry people sounds like a good idea.  Um, having more murders on our plate maybe less good of an idea.Mort: Consequential.Take: Well, if there is no one left around to identify us…?Asta: It’s not nice to kill people, you know.  It is really wrong.Mort: I suppose we could cut out the taking their ship entirely.Take: (whispers to Mort & Campan) I think we need a new doctor.Campan: I don’t want a doctor that is pro killing people.Take: She’s really good, but.Mort: I’m with Campan.  I don’t want a doctor that is pro killing people.  This will lead to bad things later on.Take: Yeah, but she keeps trying to stop us from doing our jobs…Liz: She lets you rob people blind, she just has problems with you killing.They left it at that.Fade to Black</blockquote>

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