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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 2958341" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>“Episode 9 – Laying Low” - First Session</strong></span></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 7/17/06 session -subtitled <strong>Daddy’s Girl</strong></em></p><p></p><p>Mort walked out of the galley a second time, heading for the engine room. He was a little surprised to come upon Daniel lurking in the corridor.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Buggs?</em> (pause) <em>Campan has a fake leg. Apparently this doesn’t make him better at kicking grenades.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>What kind of leg is it?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>It’s some kind of bio-techie thing. Asta is real excited.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>He’s in trouble.</em></p><p></p><p>Mort explained that Campan had taken off his leg and placed it on the table. Daniel asked how he disconnected the leg.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>I don’t know. He played with himself for a little bit and it fell off.</em></p><p></p><p>Mort said he was going to go off to the engine room to tinker and sew up another hole in his coat. Daniel suggested Mort change his face as well. Mort told Daniel that he needed a place to get parts to build his latest improvement to the ship; a name plate changer. Daniel said that he knew of a company town on mining asteroid X61, which was nearby.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>You need to go look at the leg.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (off screen) <em>I’m not a god damn peep show!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>I’m pretty sure Asta is still looking at it.</em></p><p></p><p>When Daniel walked into the galley he found Asta kneeling down on the floor in from of Campan with Campan trying to bat her away from his leg.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Asta, when you look at it again, can I see it?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Jesus.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Sure!</em></p><p></p><p>Campan grumbled as he took his leg off again and handed it to Daniel. Daniel found it had a good heft to it. He tested holding it at different points.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>You ever think of using it as a club?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>No!!! It’s expensive!</em></p><p></p><p>Campan eventually got his leg back.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>You guys decide anything in your debate?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Yeah. Mort is an <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=":)" /><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=":)" />. And apparently I’m a drunk who can’t deal with money. It was very productive.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>That didn’t solve any of our problems.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>No, it didn’t!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>I think we should fake our deaths. And the Orasca’s death.</em></p><p></p><p>On that note, Daniel walked out of the galley and headed for the cockpit. He talked to Take and suggested they land on Asteroid X61. He said it was a fairly quiet place where they wouldn’t care about outsiders landing and it would be a good place for Mort to do some work on the ship. Take concurred and set course.</p><p></p><p>Walking through the galley, he noticed Asta was no longer there, so he headed down to the Med Bay. There, he saw Asta searching through the Cortex for all the information she could find on prosthetic limbs.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>We’re not going to be able to drag you away from that for a while, are we?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>I’m just looking at things for a tune up.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Does he know this?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>I think so. He mentioned something about needing to take it in for servicing.</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel relayed that they were going to be making a stop sometime soon and he’d like her to keep an eye on the local comm. traffic to make sure no one reports their presence. He then headed up to the engine room. He let Mort know their plans for landing. Mort brought up needing parts and methods of acquiring them.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Yeah, I was going to have Campan buy them.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>That’s not much fun.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Well we’re avoiding fun right now.</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel finished his tour back in the galley to let Campan in on the immediate plan. He told Campan that his job was going to be procuring supplies legally. He also told Campan to keep an eye out for people messing with the ship while they were there.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>I think if someone messes with the ship they’ve got Mort problems.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Well, we’ve got to start avoiding trouble from now on.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Yeah, well, are we dropping Mort somewhere?</em></p><p></p><p>With an exasperated slump of his shoulders, Daniel wandered off to his bunk.</p><p></p><p>A day later, they landed without any fanfare at all. They weren’t even asked for their identification. They landed near the company town, which was fairly small. It consisted of a bar, a junkyard, some barracks for miners and a company store. A mining plant and some mining shafts were off in the distance.</p><p></p><p>After ‘asking dad’ for the money, Mort and Campan headed off to procure parts and beer.</p><p></p><p>Feeling he needed it, Daniel brewed himself a cup of his real coffee. This led to Asta wandering around the ship trying to find where that wonderful smell was coming from.</p><p></p><p>Campan tried to stop into the bar first for a beer, but Mort wouldn’t let him. The junkyard was your standard cast-off place for mining equipment. Thankfully this meant they had a lot of hydraulic presses and pumps, which is largely what Mort wanted. Mort picked out the best stuff that looked the worst, so they could argue better prices for it. Campan got the price down very low with Mort’s offer to fix up some parts so the junkyard guy could sell the working equipment back to the Mining company. Mort then explained to Campan that Daniel had better get the savings from the parts back or there would be trouble.</p><p></p><p>Leaving Mort at the junkyard, Campan headed on for the part of the mission he was enthused about beer purchase. The bar was mostly empty. It seemed to be the right time when most of the miners were either working or sleeping. There were maybe five miners scattered around the bar in drunken hazes and a portly bartender behind the bar, none of whom looked properly washed. There was also a rather pretty young woman in her early twenties with reddish-brown hair and wearing a long, flowing skirt sitting at the bar. She had the distinction of having bathed recently. She was the only clean person besides Campan in the bar.</p><p></p><p>Campan negotiated for portable beer with the barkeep. He opted for payday beer over regular beer, bartering five kegs of beer for the cost of three. He also got the bartender to throw in a free bottle of payday beer for the pretty young thing down the bar.</p><p></p><p>After receiving her beer, she nodded thanks to Campan and moved down the bar to sit next to him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Young woman:</strong> <em>I can see your clean.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>That’s what Asta tells me.</em> (pause as Campan adopts his cheesy leisure suit pick up attitude and grin) <em>Were you impressed by my bartering?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Young woman:</strong> <em>Oh yes.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>It is impressive.</em> (adds another cheesy grin for good measure) <em>You wouldn’t happen to have a mule, would you? You see, I have all this beer and need to get it back to my ship.</em></p><p></p><p>She shook her head.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Oh.</em> (over comm.) <em>Uh, Daniel, I need a pick up. I bought too much beer.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Too much beer?</em> (pause) <em>Too much beer that you need another person to help carry or too much beer that you need a mule?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Uh, mule would be good.</em></p><p></p><p>Campan could hear Mort cracking his knuckles through the comm. He could almost feel the glare.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>I’ll be there shortly.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Uh, there’s lots of change!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>There’d better be.</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel chose not to respond, just looked at Take while sipping his coffee and shook his head. Asta traced the smell of coffee to the bridge.</p><p></p><p>When Mort arrived at the bar with the mule, Campan greeted him.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Hi Mort. This is, umm…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>You haven’t even found out her name yet, have you?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>I was getting there. I impressed her with my beer bargaining skills.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> (complete lack of enthusiasm/belief) <em>I’m sure.</em></p><p></p><p>The young woman offered that her name was Ezmerelda. Looking at her, Mort found she reminded him of someone. It was not a bad association, but recognizing anyone is enough to make him a little worried.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ezmerelda:</strong> <em>So you fellahs have a ship, huh?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (looks at Mort) <em>Yeah? </em> (sees Mort glaring) <em>No?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Why do you ask?</em></p><p></p><p>She said she needed to get somewhere. Campan asked Mort not to kill her. Mort glared, then said that they don’t kill paying passengers. Mort called up Daniel on the comm., calling him Buggs, and asked him if they were taking on passengers and to come talk to someone in the bar.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> (to Ezmerelda) <em>Our XO will come talk to you once I bring all this <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=":)" />ing beer back.</em> (to Campan) <em>You’re going to help me load.</em></p><p></p><p>Once the mule was loaded, Mort gave Campan his order.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Okay. You stay here with the potential customer while I drive this back.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Aye Aye, Mortain.</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel discussed with Take where they were heading next. He suggested a planet called Leyla, which was near Paquin. He felt it’d be a good place to hole up for a little while.</p><p></p><p>When Mort got to the ship, he talked with Daniel briefly.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>We managed to trade my services for the parts, which means Campan should have change for you. If he doesn’t have change for you, I’ll discuss it with you later.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>He bought five kegs of beer?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>I don’t know. Apparently he got the bar man drunk.</em></p><p></p><p>Mort explained he be working on the junkyard for a day, but it would take two weeks to build and install the name plate changer. Daniel decided they might as well stay here for the two weeks. He asked Asta to check out the local shipping schedules to make sure there weren’t any big shipments going out that they might get noticed by the shippers. Asta muttered something about coffee then agreed.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Oh. I expected this from Campan, but why did you call me Buggs over the comm.?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Because Daniel is a wanted name?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Yeah, he called me that. They know me as Buggs too. You should have called me Jack. I told Campan about that name.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Okay. Sir. Just because you told Campan doesn’t mean everyone knows.</em> (pause) <em>Oh, and the passenger looked familiar. I can’t place her. Not familiar in the Jasp kind of way, but familiar.</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel made sure he stored Hammer, his sawed off shotgun, in the back of his jacket, just in case. He also asked Take to keep watch on the people around.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>It’s a good ship. Practically all new parts. It’s almost a new ship at this point.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ezmerelda:</strong> <em>Sounds great. What kind of ship is it?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>It’s a Firefly.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> (over comm.) <em>Campan? I’m going to go have a beer there and check her out. I’ll probably be pegged as an outsider the minute I walk in there but…</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> ( cutting Daniel off over comm.) <em>Are you bathed? Then I’m pretty sure you’re right.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> (over comm.) <em>Aww crap. Okay. I’ll just walk up.</em></p><p></p><p>As Daniel walked into the bar, he saw Campan sitting next to Ezmerelda. She definitely looked like someone he knew, though he wasn’t quite sure who. He gave her an odd look as he walked up to the bar. He flagged down the bartender and ordered a payday beer. He then asked the bartender about coffee and ended up buying a small bag of medium grade beans, saying it was a gift.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile on the ship, Asta broke into Daniel’s room and ransacked it for coffee. She took it up to the galley to brew a pot.</p><p></p><p>Now with a beer, Daniel nodded to Ezmerelda.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>How is it going?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ezmerelda:</strong> (smiling brightly and batting eyelashes) <em>Hey. I want to ride on your ship.</em></p><p></p><p>When asked where, she said anywhere but here. As Daniel took a drink of beer, Campan asked how it was.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>You didn’t have a beer?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>I was told to bring back change so I’ll probably get shot if I don’t have every single dollar.</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel ordered Campan a payday beer.</p><p></p><p>Talking to Ezmerelda, he found out she just happened to get stuck here. She said she didn’t have a lot of money, but she could cook and brew. From this point on, Campan was a staunch supporter in her coming onboard. Daniel was weary of taking on any stragglers at the moment. He did figure out where he recognized her from, though. Mostly, she reminded him of himself, but also a woman he knew about twenty or so years back. This, of course, intrigued him enough to entertain the idea of taking her onboard. He explained that they weren’t leaving for two weeks. She said she could make due until then. She also commented that it’d be good to get away from all these unwashed men.</p><p></p><p>Daniel tried to find out more about what she was doing here, but she just said that her ship left her behind and didn’t appear to need her anymore. She said she’d been working at the bar for the past week. He found out where she was from, which happened to be where he met the woman she reminded him of. He asked her if she was in trouble.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ezmerelda:</strong> <em>Only a little bit.</em></p><p></p><p>She explained a couple people in the past caught her doing things she wasn’t supposed to do, but they were small potatoes and weren’t actively pursuing her. She smiled warmly and Daniel thought she was being truthful.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Well, it doesn’t do a spot of harm to take someone on this ship. Doesn’t do any harm to take someone where we’re going. Like I said, we’re gonna be here another two weeks. I’ll tell you when we’re shipping out to when we’re on route.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ezmerelda:</strong> <em>Sounds great.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Fade to Black</em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 2958341, member: 9758"] [size=5][b]“Episode 9 – Laying Low” - First Session[/b][/size] [i]Synopsis of 7/17/06 session -subtitled [b]Daddy’s Girl[/b][/i] Mort walked out of the galley a second time, heading for the engine room. He was a little surprised to come upon Daniel lurking in the corridor. [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Buggs?[/i] (pause) [i]Campan has a fake leg. Apparently this doesn’t make him better at kicking grenades.[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]What kind of leg is it?[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]It’s some kind of bio-techie thing. Asta is real excited.[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]He’s in trouble.[/i] Mort explained that Campan had taken off his leg and placed it on the table. Daniel asked how he disconnected the leg. [b]Mort:[/b] [i]I don’t know. He played with himself for a little bit and it fell off.[/i] Mort said he was going to go off to the engine room to tinker and sew up another hole in his coat. Daniel suggested Mort change his face as well. Mort told Daniel that he needed a place to get parts to build his latest improvement to the ship; a name plate changer. Daniel said that he knew of a company town on mining asteroid X61, which was nearby. [b]Mort:[/b] [i]You need to go look at the leg.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] (off screen) [i]I’m not a god damn peep show![/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]I’m pretty sure Asta is still looking at it.[/i] When Daniel walked into the galley he found Asta kneeling down on the floor in from of Campan with Campan trying to bat her away from his leg. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Asta, when you look at it again, can I see it?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Jesus.[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Sure![/i] Campan grumbled as he took his leg off again and handed it to Daniel. Daniel found it had a good heft to it. He tested holding it at different points. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]You ever think of using it as a club?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]No!!! It’s expensive![/i] Campan eventually got his leg back. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]You guys decide anything in your debate?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Yeah. Mort is an :):):):):):):). And apparently I’m a drunk who can’t deal with money. It was very productive.[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]That didn’t solve any of our problems.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]No, it didn’t![/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]I think we should fake our deaths. And the Orasca’s death.[/i] On that note, Daniel walked out of the galley and headed for the cockpit. He talked to Take and suggested they land on Asteroid X61. He said it was a fairly quiet place where they wouldn’t care about outsiders landing and it would be a good place for Mort to do some work on the ship. Take concurred and set course. Walking through the galley, he noticed Asta was no longer there, so he headed down to the Med Bay. There, he saw Asta searching through the Cortex for all the information she could find on prosthetic limbs. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]We’re not going to be able to drag you away from that for a while, are we?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]I’m just looking at things for a tune up.[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Does he know this?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]I think so. He mentioned something about needing to take it in for servicing.[/i] Daniel relayed that they were going to be making a stop sometime soon and he’d like her to keep an eye on the local comm. traffic to make sure no one reports their presence. He then headed up to the engine room. He let Mort know their plans for landing. Mort brought up needing parts and methods of acquiring them. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Yeah, I was going to have Campan buy them.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]That’s not much fun.[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Well we’re avoiding fun right now.[/i] Daniel finished his tour back in the galley to let Campan in on the immediate plan. He told Campan that his job was going to be procuring supplies legally. He also told Campan to keep an eye out for people messing with the ship while they were there. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]I think if someone messes with the ship they’ve got Mort problems.[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Well, we’ve got to start avoiding trouble from now on.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Yeah, well, are we dropping Mort somewhere?[/i] With an exasperated slump of his shoulders, Daniel wandered off to his bunk. A day later, they landed without any fanfare at all. They weren’t even asked for their identification. They landed near the company town, which was fairly small. It consisted of a bar, a junkyard, some barracks for miners and a company store. A mining plant and some mining shafts were off in the distance. After ‘asking dad’ for the money, Mort and Campan headed off to procure parts and beer. Feeling he needed it, Daniel brewed himself a cup of his real coffee. This led to Asta wandering around the ship trying to find where that wonderful smell was coming from. Campan tried to stop into the bar first for a beer, but Mort wouldn’t let him. The junkyard was your standard cast-off place for mining equipment. Thankfully this meant they had a lot of hydraulic presses and pumps, which is largely what Mort wanted. Mort picked out the best stuff that looked the worst, so they could argue better prices for it. Campan got the price down very low with Mort’s offer to fix up some parts so the junkyard guy could sell the working equipment back to the Mining company. Mort then explained to Campan that Daniel had better get the savings from the parts back or there would be trouble. Leaving Mort at the junkyard, Campan headed on for the part of the mission he was enthused about beer purchase. The bar was mostly empty. It seemed to be the right time when most of the miners were either working or sleeping. There were maybe five miners scattered around the bar in drunken hazes and a portly bartender behind the bar, none of whom looked properly washed. There was also a rather pretty young woman in her early twenties with reddish-brown hair and wearing a long, flowing skirt sitting at the bar. She had the distinction of having bathed recently. She was the only clean person besides Campan in the bar. Campan negotiated for portable beer with the barkeep. He opted for payday beer over regular beer, bartering five kegs of beer for the cost of three. He also got the bartender to throw in a free bottle of payday beer for the pretty young thing down the bar. After receiving her beer, she nodded thanks to Campan and moved down the bar to sit next to him. [b]Young woman:[/b] [i]I can see your clean.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]That’s what Asta tells me.[/i] (pause as Campan adopts his cheesy leisure suit pick up attitude and grin) [i]Were you impressed by my bartering?[/i] [b]Young woman:[/b] [i]Oh yes.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]It is impressive.[/i] (adds another cheesy grin for good measure) [i]You wouldn’t happen to have a mule, would you? You see, I have all this beer and need to get it back to my ship.[/i] She shook her head. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Oh.[/i] (over comm.) [i]Uh, Daniel, I need a pick up. I bought too much beer.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Too much beer?[/i] (pause) [i]Too much beer that you need another person to help carry or too much beer that you need a mule?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Uh, mule would be good.[/i] Campan could hear Mort cracking his knuckles through the comm. He could almost feel the glare. [b]Mort:[/b] [i]I’ll be there shortly.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Uh, there’s lots of change![/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]There’d better be.[/i] Daniel chose not to respond, just looked at Take while sipping his coffee and shook his head. Asta traced the smell of coffee to the bridge. When Mort arrived at the bar with the mule, Campan greeted him. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Hi Mort. This is, umm…[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]You haven’t even found out her name yet, have you?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]I was getting there. I impressed her with my beer bargaining skills.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] (complete lack of enthusiasm/belief) [i]I’m sure.[/i] The young woman offered that her name was Ezmerelda. Looking at her, Mort found she reminded him of someone. It was not a bad association, but recognizing anyone is enough to make him a little worried. [b]Ezmerelda:[/b] [i]So you fellahs have a ship, huh?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] (looks at Mort) [i]Yeah? [/i] (sees Mort glaring) [i]No?[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Why do you ask?[/i] She said she needed to get somewhere. Campan asked Mort not to kill her. Mort glared, then said that they don’t kill paying passengers. Mort called up Daniel on the comm., calling him Buggs, and asked him if they were taking on passengers and to come talk to someone in the bar. [b]Mort:[/b] (to Ezmerelda) [i]Our XO will come talk to you once I bring all this :):):):)ing beer back.[/i] (to Campan) [i]You’re going to help me load.[/i] Once the mule was loaded, Mort gave Campan his order. [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Okay. You stay here with the potential customer while I drive this back.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Aye Aye, Mortain.[/i] Daniel discussed with Take where they were heading next. He suggested a planet called Leyla, which was near Paquin. He felt it’d be a good place to hole up for a little while. When Mort got to the ship, he talked with Daniel briefly. [b]Mort:[/b] [i]We managed to trade my services for the parts, which means Campan should have change for you. If he doesn’t have change for you, I’ll discuss it with you later.[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]He bought five kegs of beer?[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]I don’t know. Apparently he got the bar man drunk.[/i] Mort explained he be working on the junkyard for a day, but it would take two weeks to build and install the name plate changer. Daniel decided they might as well stay here for the two weeks. He asked Asta to check out the local shipping schedules to make sure there weren’t any big shipments going out that they might get noticed by the shippers. Asta muttered something about coffee then agreed. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Oh. I expected this from Campan, but why did you call me Buggs over the comm.?[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Because Daniel is a wanted name?[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Yeah, he called me that. They know me as Buggs too. You should have called me Jack. I told Campan about that name.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Okay. Sir. Just because you told Campan doesn’t mean everyone knows.[/i] (pause) [i]Oh, and the passenger looked familiar. I can’t place her. Not familiar in the Jasp kind of way, but familiar.[/i] Daniel made sure he stored Hammer, his sawed off shotgun, in the back of his jacket, just in case. He also asked Take to keep watch on the people around. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]It’s a good ship. Practically all new parts. It’s almost a new ship at this point.[/i] [b]Ezmerelda:[/b] [i]Sounds great. What kind of ship is it?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]It’s a Firefly.[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] (over comm.) [i]Campan? I’m going to go have a beer there and check her out. I’ll probably be pegged as an outsider the minute I walk in there but…[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] ( cutting Daniel off over comm.) [i]Are you bathed? Then I’m pretty sure you’re right.[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b] (over comm.) [i]Aww crap. Okay. I’ll just walk up.[/i] As Daniel walked into the bar, he saw Campan sitting next to Ezmerelda. She definitely looked like someone he knew, though he wasn’t quite sure who. He gave her an odd look as he walked up to the bar. He flagged down the bartender and ordered a payday beer. He then asked the bartender about coffee and ended up buying a small bag of medium grade beans, saying it was a gift. Meanwhile on the ship, Asta broke into Daniel’s room and ransacked it for coffee. She took it up to the galley to brew a pot. Now with a beer, Daniel nodded to Ezmerelda. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]How is it going?[/i] [b]Ezmerelda:[/b] (smiling brightly and batting eyelashes) [i]Hey. I want to ride on your ship.[/i] When asked where, she said anywhere but here. As Daniel took a drink of beer, Campan asked how it was. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]You didn’t have a beer?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]I was told to bring back change so I’ll probably get shot if I don’t have every single dollar.[/i] Daniel ordered Campan a payday beer. Talking to Ezmerelda, he found out she just happened to get stuck here. She said she didn’t have a lot of money, but she could cook and brew. From this point on, Campan was a staunch supporter in her coming onboard. Daniel was weary of taking on any stragglers at the moment. He did figure out where he recognized her from, though. Mostly, she reminded him of himself, but also a woman he knew about twenty or so years back. This, of course, intrigued him enough to entertain the idea of taking her onboard. He explained that they weren’t leaving for two weeks. She said she could make due until then. She also commented that it’d be good to get away from all these unwashed men. Daniel tried to find out more about what she was doing here, but she just said that her ship left her behind and didn’t appear to need her anymore. She said she’d been working at the bar for the past week. He found out where she was from, which happened to be where he met the woman she reminded him of. He asked her if she was in trouble. [b]Ezmerelda:[/b] [i]Only a little bit.[/i] She explained a couple people in the past caught her doing things she wasn’t supposed to do, but they were small potatoes and weren’t actively pursuing her. She smiled warmly and Daniel thought she was being truthful. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Well, it doesn’t do a spot of harm to take someone on this ship. Doesn’t do any harm to take someone where we’re going. Like I said, we’re gonna be here another two weeks. I’ll tell you when we’re shipping out to when we’re on route.[/i] [b]Ezmerelda:[/b] [i]Sounds great.[/i] [b][i]Fade to Black[/i][/b] [/QUOTE]
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