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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 3004640" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>“Episode 9 – Laying Low” - Third Session</strong></span></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 8/07/06 session - subtitled <strong>Campan refuses to bring joy into Mort’s life</strong></em></p><p></p><p>A few days later Daniel got Take alone on the bridge. He brought up the possibility of taking on Ezmerelda as crew. He suggested sending her down to Jiangyin with the passengers to see if she had skills in that area. Take tried to route out what Daniel’s reasons for keeping her around were, but he was unhappy with the answers he received (mostly since Gabe wasn’t there to give the answers).</p><p></p><p>Take called Asta up to the bridge. Since they had already discussed her flying down to drop off the passengers, Take brought up taking Ezmerelda along to help with that. Asta asked if she was being dropped off as well. Take then realized that he needed to talk to Ezmerelda first, so he dismissed Asta and called Ezmerelda up to the bridge.</p><p></p><p>Ezmerelda found Take sitting in the pilot seat waiting for her and Daniel in the copilot seat piloting the ship.</p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> <em>Are you looking for work? I mean, we just kind of ripped you off that planet. Were you looking for some kind of work or were you just planning to, you know, get off and wander around a lot?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ezmerelda:</strong> <em>What kind of work are we talking?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> <em>Well, we’re going to Jiangyin to drop off the other passengers. I’d like you to go with Asta to do that and help out.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ezmerelda:</strong> <em>I could do that.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> <em>Okay. That’s all I wanted to talk to you for right now.</em></p><p></p><p>Take then called Asta back up to the bridge. He explained that Ezmerelda was going to be helping her acquire new passengers for the trip to Regina, since they were going to kind of be necessary to defray costs a bit.</p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Is there anything in particular we’re looking for in passengers? Like no psychotics?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> <em>Yeah. That’s good. People with money who want to go in the direction we’re going.</em></p><p></p><p>Asta asked what the price was going to be. Take decided to go with roughly four hundred platinum each, but said they could pay partially in food, since he was planning on selling crops and the like on Regina for a better price. Asta asked if there were any convenient stops on the trip where she could say they could drop people off. Take said no. Asta wandered off back to the medbay.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (over comm.) <em>Hey Take? </em> (long pause) <em>That’s you!</em></p><p></p><p>Take eventually responded, once he realized Campan was talking to him. Campan asked how long they were pausing on Jiangyin, to which Take responded as little time as possible and a day at most.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Can I get some shore leave?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Take:</strong> <em>Why?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em> I’ve got family.</em> (pause) <em>No, real family. Like mother and such.</em></p><p></p><p>Take told him to keep it short.</p><p></p><p>Campan wandered up to the bridge to get some money from Daniel. Daniel told Campan to go to Take for money, then handed the cash over to Take.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>If at all possible, I’d like my share, as I need to make a payment. Plus, apparently I’m getting parts for something Mort and Asta are talking about.</em></p><p></p><p>Take gave Campan his share, plus extra for whatever parts Mort was talking about.</p><p></p><p>Once at Jiangyin, five people piled into the shuttle. Asta looked a little surprised when Campan showed up to go down as well, but okayed it with Take. Campan directed Asta where would be a good place to land.</p><p></p><p>The flight down was rather bumpy, since Asta wasn’t as skilled a pilot as Take or Daniel.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>More with the anti-puking pills. Did you bring those?</em></p><p></p><p>The shuttle veered to the right and went into a dive as Asta turned around and fished through her bag with one hand.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>I’m not liking this. I’ll drive on the way back.</em></p><p></p><p>She grabbed a syringe and jabbed Campan with it. Leaving the needle in him, she went back to driving two handed and leveled off their decent.</p><p></p><p>The two miners kissed the ground as they got out of the shuttle. Or maybe they just stumbled out and fell over. The end result was the same. They crawled/stumbled off as fast as they could.</p><p></p><p>Campan stumbled out, saying he’d be back in a couple hours. Ezmerelda looked around the rather tiny and poor looking town.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ezmerelda:</strong> <em>Do they have a bar here?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Course they have a bar. There are two that went out of business since I left.</em></p><p></p><p>Campan pointed it out before heading off. Asta and Ezmerelda wandered to the general store to talk to the proprietor. Asking about moonshine, he directed them to the Lar farm. She started making a long list of all the places they needed to go for their shopping list.</p><p></p><p>After a mile or so out of town, Campan arrived at his family farm. It looked more run down than he had last seen it. No crops were planted and a small number of horses were out in the fields grazing. One of the fences was missing a few rails. The farmhouse itself looked weathered, but standing. He entered the house, clunking along through the place. There was lots of clutter about, looking like no one had cleaned in many, many months. He then heard the tell-tale sounds of a shotgun being cocked.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>It’s Campan! Don’t shoot!</em></p><p></p><p>Heading through doorway into the next room, he saw his mom sitting in a cushioned chair with a shotgun raised at him. She was a tiny, sixty or so old woman of only 4’10” with short grey hair. Her right leg was braced and resting on a stool while the other was resting normally with its foot planted on the floor.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>What happened, ma?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan’s Ma:</strong> <em>You’re not looking for money, are ya?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>No, no! I brought some.</em></p><p></p><p>She uncocked and lowered the shotgun.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan’s Ma:</strong> <em>Oh. Good.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>You weren’t gonna shoot me even if I was looking for money, were ya?</em></p><p></p><p>There was a short pause before she responded.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan’s Ma:</strong> <em>No. No. Of course not.</em></p><p></p><p>She explained that a horse had kicked her a season back. He pulled out his bag of money and extracted a hundred platinum and handed it to her.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>We ended up on planet, so I was able to stop by. I wish I could be more help, but here.</em></p><p></p><p>She commented that she hadn’t seen him in a few years. He said it had been a bad couple of years and explained about his leg. She asked if he had a spare. He said no. He explained that he owed money to a lot of people because of it. She said she owed some herself, since not much was going on with the farm. Since she broke her leg she couldn’t do much around the farm. She said she was supplementing income with booze from a still. With the help of her crutch, she hobbled out to the barn to show Campan the still.</p><p></p><p>He thought the still looked good. She said it was pretty much all she could do lately. She said she just had the horses out to pasture and some of them had gotten stolen. When asked about the shotgun, she explained that people came into the house on occasion to steal as well, since they knew she wasn’t mobile.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan’s Ma:</strong> <em>It’s rough, but I get by.</em></p><p></p><p>Campan said he couldn’t stay long. She asked him if he could tend to Bessy’s grave. The two of them went out to the grave and tended it for a while.</p><p></p><p>Back in town, Asta decided they should wait for Campan to do the shopping, since he knew the area and could get a better deal. So Asta and Ezmerelda headed over to the bar. The bar itself was empty at the moment, a rather small dingy place. When she asked the bartender for beer, he asked her if they had brought her own glasses. She wandered back to the shuttle and got two clean specimen containers. Ezmerelda talked to the bartender for a while about people who might be interested in heading to Regina.</p><p></p><p>Before leaving the farm, Campan bought a jug of moonshine at Asta’s request. When he arrived at the bar, he pulled out a tin cup.</p><p></p><p><strong>Bartender:</strong> <em>Campan!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Hey George. One beer please.</em></p><p></p><p>George inquired if he’d been out to see his Ma yet. Asta asked Campan how his family was.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Same and worse.</em></p><p></p><p>She asked if there was anything she could do.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Yeah, probably, but we’ve got other stuff we’re supposed to do.</em></p><p></p><p>She said they could take a detour while shopping, since she likely wasn’t going to be needed. After handing Campan the list, he looked down it and noted the people he knew and the ones he didn’t.</p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>If you drop me off with your Ma, I can see what I can do for her while you go off shopping and don’t have me frightening off potential customers.</em></p><p></p><p>After they had finished off their beers, they headed back to the Lar farm. Entering the house, Campan once again heard the shotgun being cocked.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>No Ma. It’s me again! It’s okay. I’ve got a friend. One of thems a doctor.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan’s Ma:</strong> <em>Where’d you meet a doctor?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>On the ship. Apparently they conned one, I mean the HIRED one. Mom, this is Asta.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan’s Ma:</strong> <em>Howdy.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>This is Asta and this is Ezmerelda. Asta is our doctor and Ezmerelda is our pretty thing.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan’s Ma:</strong> <em>Howdy. My name is Trixie.</em></p><p></p><p>Asta inspected Trixie’s leg and found out what happened with it. Trixie said that they didn’t have a doctor around to look at it when she broke it, so she just had to make do. Asta found that the leg had set wrong and would have to be rebroke and set. Asta told Campan this and asked him to do the job.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>You want me to break my Ma’s leg?</em></p><p></p><p>Asta explained that she’d never walk on the leg again the way it was. Trixie took a couple good swigs of moonshine before they set her up on the kitchen table and tied her down with straps from the barn. When they were good and ready, Campan broke the leg and Asta reset it. Trixie passed out during this.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (to Asta) <em>you hurt my Ma!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>No, the damn horse hurt your Ma.</em></p><p></p><p>She then set the leg up in a cast and asked Campan who could look in on her. Campan said that George the bartender could, so she made up instructions for him. They then set her back in her chair so she could rest.</p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong><em> Weren’t we supposed to buy something from your Ma?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Well, right now she’s in a good state to haggle.</em></p><p></p><p>Campan told her he had already taken care of the moonshine. Asta said that his mother owed her a favor sometime, since she had been told she should do her services for free.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Did you see the farm?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>Oh, I’m going to go take a look at the horses.</em></p><p></p><p>Campan ushered her out and away from the farm. He figured it’d be better if she disturbed the people and not the horses. The three of them then went on a long trek all around town collecting the supplies they needed for a still, among other things. Campan ended up carrying the bulk of the stuff and carting it back to the shuttle, since they didn’t have a mule with them to do so.</p><p></p><p>Ezmerelda got a lot of bug-eyed looks when she told people the price of passage. They got much more receptive responses when Campan pitched in that they could pay partially in food.</p><p></p><p>One of the larger farmer families tried to pay in livestock. They had a long discussion/haggling session with them as the farmer tried to convince them that chickens made good pets. He wasn’t terribly convincing, but he tried his best. Ultimately, Asta vetoed the live chickens as payment, but said that they could take some dead chickens for dinners. Asta was a little shocked at the farmer’s quick agreement to killing his pets. They then haggled out the going rate of chicken and duck dinners.</p><p></p><p>Once they had agreed upon payment, the farmer took the chicken he was holding into a shack. They heard a bawk and a loud thump a minute or two later. When the next chicken slaughtered ran out the shack with it’s head cut off, Asta thought that was very neat and went in to assist/learn. She later came out with a chicken head on her pointer finger like a finger puppet.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>No. No. That is not cool at all! Someday, when I find your decapitated head, I’m not going to stick my hand up it and go </em> (falsetto voice) <em>’Hey, look at me. I’m Asta.’ </em> (normal voice) <em>Cause that is not cool.</em> (pause) <em>I don’t know her.</em></p><p></p><p>The farmer asked if they wanted them gutted and plucked. They said yes.</p><p></p><p>Back up on the ship, Mort was really bored, so he decided to play with Maxx. He went into Campan’s room and found a sweater. He then took it out of Campan’s room and unraveled for yarn to play with the cat.</p><p></p><p>At the end of their shopping and passenger searching, they ended up with five passengers. Asta then realized that it might be a good idea to tell Mort that they were going to need more rooms, since there were going to be three passengers without beds.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> (over comm.) <em>We’re going to need some wood, can you pick some up down there?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> (over comm.) <em>Well, there is a forest here.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> (over comm.) <em>So there are trees we can steal?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (over comm.) <em>I don’t think it is stealing if no one owns them.</em></p><p></p><p>This made Mort sad. He said they were going to need some feathers for some pillows, so Campan talked to the fowl farmer for some duck down.</p><p></p><p>Once the shuttle was back onboard and unloaded, Mort and Campan went back down to the planet and cut down two trees for wood. They cut them up into manageable pieces and loaded them onto the shuttle.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Oh boy. Can we do this everyday, Uncle Mort?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Shut up, I have an axe.</em></p><p></p><p>Once they brought them back up to the ship, Mort drank some Mort coffee and stayed up all night making rustic furniture. He set up tarps for walls in the remaining wrecked room and camping cots for furniture. He only made up one down pillow for three people.</p><p></p><p>The next day, Campan went down to pick up the passengers. When he brought them up to the ship, he let them fight it out who got the actual beds and who got the one pillow for the beds.</p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Sadly, Mort will never learn of chicken finger puppets. Because Campan will never tell him. Because Mort would like it, and Campan refuses to bring joy into Mort’s life.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Yeah. It’s safer that way.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Liz:</strong> <em>Would Reaver ships be useful for harvesting parts?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Sure, if you could handle there being irradiated parts around the ship. I’d be okay.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>And this is why I blow up the ship. Cause some days it’s just not worth living. Cause of people like Asta and Mort.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Roll Credits</em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 3004640, member: 9758"] [size=5][b]“Episode 9 – Laying Low” - Third Session[/b][/size] [i]Synopsis of 8/07/06 session - subtitled [b]Campan refuses to bring joy into Mort’s life[/b][/i] A few days later Daniel got Take alone on the bridge. He brought up the possibility of taking on Ezmerelda as crew. He suggested sending her down to Jiangyin with the passengers to see if she had skills in that area. Take tried to route out what Daniel’s reasons for keeping her around were, but he was unhappy with the answers he received (mostly since Gabe wasn’t there to give the answers). Take called Asta up to the bridge. Since they had already discussed her flying down to drop off the passengers, Take brought up taking Ezmerelda along to help with that. Asta asked if she was being dropped off as well. Take then realized that he needed to talk to Ezmerelda first, so he dismissed Asta and called Ezmerelda up to the bridge. Ezmerelda found Take sitting in the pilot seat waiting for her and Daniel in the copilot seat piloting the ship. [b]Take:[/b] [i]Are you looking for work? I mean, we just kind of ripped you off that planet. Were you looking for some kind of work or were you just planning to, you know, get off and wander around a lot?[/i] [b]Ezmerelda:[/b] [i]What kind of work are we talking?[/i] [b]Take:[/b] [i]Well, we’re going to Jiangyin to drop off the other passengers. I’d like you to go with Asta to do that and help out.[/i] [b]Ezmerelda:[/b] [i]I could do that.[/i] [b]Take:[/b] [i]Okay. That’s all I wanted to talk to you for right now.[/i] Take then called Asta back up to the bridge. He explained that Ezmerelda was going to be helping her acquire new passengers for the trip to Regina, since they were going to kind of be necessary to defray costs a bit. [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Is there anything in particular we’re looking for in passengers? Like no psychotics?[/i] [b]Take:[/b] [i]Yeah. That’s good. People with money who want to go in the direction we’re going.[/i] Asta asked what the price was going to be. Take decided to go with roughly four hundred platinum each, but said they could pay partially in food, since he was planning on selling crops and the like on Regina for a better price. Asta asked if there were any convenient stops on the trip where she could say they could drop people off. Take said no. Asta wandered off back to the medbay. [b]Campan:[/b] (over comm.) [i]Hey Take? [/i] (long pause) [i]That’s you![/i] Take eventually responded, once he realized Campan was talking to him. Campan asked how long they were pausing on Jiangyin, to which Take responded as little time as possible and a day at most. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Can I get some shore leave?[/i] [b]Take:[/b] [i]Why?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i] I’ve got family.[/i] (pause) [i]No, real family. Like mother and such.[/i] Take told him to keep it short. Campan wandered up to the bridge to get some money from Daniel. Daniel told Campan to go to Take for money, then handed the cash over to Take. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]If at all possible, I’d like my share, as I need to make a payment. Plus, apparently I’m getting parts for something Mort and Asta are talking about.[/i] Take gave Campan his share, plus extra for whatever parts Mort was talking about. Once at Jiangyin, five people piled into the shuttle. Asta looked a little surprised when Campan showed up to go down as well, but okayed it with Take. Campan directed Asta where would be a good place to land. The flight down was rather bumpy, since Asta wasn’t as skilled a pilot as Take or Daniel. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]More with the anti-puking pills. Did you bring those?[/i] The shuttle veered to the right and went into a dive as Asta turned around and fished through her bag with one hand. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]I’m not liking this. I’ll drive on the way back.[/i] She grabbed a syringe and jabbed Campan with it. Leaving the needle in him, she went back to driving two handed and leveled off their decent. The two miners kissed the ground as they got out of the shuttle. Or maybe they just stumbled out and fell over. The end result was the same. They crawled/stumbled off as fast as they could. Campan stumbled out, saying he’d be back in a couple hours. Ezmerelda looked around the rather tiny and poor looking town. [b]Ezmerelda:[/b] [i]Do they have a bar here?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Course they have a bar. There are two that went out of business since I left.[/i] Campan pointed it out before heading off. Asta and Ezmerelda wandered to the general store to talk to the proprietor. Asking about moonshine, he directed them to the Lar farm. She started making a long list of all the places they needed to go for their shopping list. After a mile or so out of town, Campan arrived at his family farm. It looked more run down than he had last seen it. No crops were planted and a small number of horses were out in the fields grazing. One of the fences was missing a few rails. The farmhouse itself looked weathered, but standing. He entered the house, clunking along through the place. There was lots of clutter about, looking like no one had cleaned in many, many months. He then heard the tell-tale sounds of a shotgun being cocked. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]It’s Campan! Don’t shoot![/i] Heading through doorway into the next room, he saw his mom sitting in a cushioned chair with a shotgun raised at him. She was a tiny, sixty or so old woman of only 4’10” with short grey hair. Her right leg was braced and resting on a stool while the other was resting normally with its foot planted on the floor. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]What happened, ma?[/i] [b]Campan’s Ma:[/b] [i]You’re not looking for money, are ya?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]No, no! I brought some.[/i] She uncocked and lowered the shotgun. [b]Campan’s Ma:[/b] [i]Oh. Good.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]You weren’t gonna shoot me even if I was looking for money, were ya?[/i] There was a short pause before she responded. [b]Campan’s Ma:[/b] [i]No. No. Of course not.[/i] She explained that a horse had kicked her a season back. He pulled out his bag of money and extracted a hundred platinum and handed it to her. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]We ended up on planet, so I was able to stop by. I wish I could be more help, but here.[/i] She commented that she hadn’t seen him in a few years. He said it had been a bad couple of years and explained about his leg. She asked if he had a spare. He said no. He explained that he owed money to a lot of people because of it. She said she owed some herself, since not much was going on with the farm. Since she broke her leg she couldn’t do much around the farm. She said she was supplementing income with booze from a still. With the help of her crutch, she hobbled out to the barn to show Campan the still. He thought the still looked good. She said it was pretty much all she could do lately. She said she just had the horses out to pasture and some of them had gotten stolen. When asked about the shotgun, she explained that people came into the house on occasion to steal as well, since they knew she wasn’t mobile. [b]Campan’s Ma:[/b] [i]It’s rough, but I get by.[/i] Campan said he couldn’t stay long. She asked him if he could tend to Bessy’s grave. The two of them went out to the grave and tended it for a while. Back in town, Asta decided they should wait for Campan to do the shopping, since he knew the area and could get a better deal. So Asta and Ezmerelda headed over to the bar. The bar itself was empty at the moment, a rather small dingy place. When she asked the bartender for beer, he asked her if they had brought her own glasses. She wandered back to the shuttle and got two clean specimen containers. Ezmerelda talked to the bartender for a while about people who might be interested in heading to Regina. Before leaving the farm, Campan bought a jug of moonshine at Asta’s request. When he arrived at the bar, he pulled out a tin cup. [b]Bartender:[/b] [i]Campan![/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Hey George. One beer please.[/i] George inquired if he’d been out to see his Ma yet. Asta asked Campan how his family was. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Same and worse.[/i] She asked if there was anything she could do. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Yeah, probably, but we’ve got other stuff we’re supposed to do.[/i] She said they could take a detour while shopping, since she likely wasn’t going to be needed. After handing Campan the list, he looked down it and noted the people he knew and the ones he didn’t. [b]Asta:[/b] [i]If you drop me off with your Ma, I can see what I can do for her while you go off shopping and don’t have me frightening off potential customers.[/i] After they had finished off their beers, they headed back to the Lar farm. Entering the house, Campan once again heard the shotgun being cocked. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]No Ma. It’s me again! It’s okay. I’ve got a friend. One of thems a doctor.[/i] [b]Campan’s Ma:[/b] [i]Where’d you meet a doctor?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]On the ship. Apparently they conned one, I mean the HIRED one. Mom, this is Asta.[/i] [b]Campan’s Ma:[/b] [i]Howdy.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]This is Asta and this is Ezmerelda. Asta is our doctor and Ezmerelda is our pretty thing.[/i] [b]Campan’s Ma:[/b] [i]Howdy. My name is Trixie.[/i] Asta inspected Trixie’s leg and found out what happened with it. Trixie said that they didn’t have a doctor around to look at it when she broke it, so she just had to make do. Asta found that the leg had set wrong and would have to be rebroke and set. Asta told Campan this and asked him to do the job. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]You want me to break my Ma’s leg?[/i] Asta explained that she’d never walk on the leg again the way it was. Trixie took a couple good swigs of moonshine before they set her up on the kitchen table and tied her down with straps from the barn. When they were good and ready, Campan broke the leg and Asta reset it. Trixie passed out during this. [b]Campan:[/b] (to Asta) [i]you hurt my Ma![/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]No, the damn horse hurt your Ma.[/i] She then set the leg up in a cast and asked Campan who could look in on her. Campan said that George the bartender could, so she made up instructions for him. They then set her back in her chair so she could rest. [b]Asta:[/b][i] Weren’t we supposed to buy something from your Ma?[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Well, right now she’s in a good state to haggle.[/i] Campan told her he had already taken care of the moonshine. Asta said that his mother owed her a favor sometime, since she had been told she should do her services for free. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Did you see the farm?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] [i]Oh, I’m going to go take a look at the horses.[/i] Campan ushered her out and away from the farm. He figured it’d be better if she disturbed the people and not the horses. The three of them then went on a long trek all around town collecting the supplies they needed for a still, among other things. Campan ended up carrying the bulk of the stuff and carting it back to the shuttle, since they didn’t have a mule with them to do so. Ezmerelda got a lot of bug-eyed looks when she told people the price of passage. They got much more receptive responses when Campan pitched in that they could pay partially in food. One of the larger farmer families tried to pay in livestock. They had a long discussion/haggling session with them as the farmer tried to convince them that chickens made good pets. He wasn’t terribly convincing, but he tried his best. Ultimately, Asta vetoed the live chickens as payment, but said that they could take some dead chickens for dinners. Asta was a little shocked at the farmer’s quick agreement to killing his pets. They then haggled out the going rate of chicken and duck dinners. Once they had agreed upon payment, the farmer took the chicken he was holding into a shack. They heard a bawk and a loud thump a minute or two later. When the next chicken slaughtered ran out the shack with it’s head cut off, Asta thought that was very neat and went in to assist/learn. She later came out with a chicken head on her pointer finger like a finger puppet. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]No. No. That is not cool at all! Someday, when I find your decapitated head, I’m not going to stick my hand up it and go [/i] (falsetto voice) [i]’Hey, look at me. I’m Asta.’ [/i] (normal voice) [i]Cause that is not cool.[/i] (pause) [i]I don’t know her.[/i] The farmer asked if they wanted them gutted and plucked. They said yes. Back up on the ship, Mort was really bored, so he decided to play with Maxx. He went into Campan’s room and found a sweater. He then took it out of Campan’s room and unraveled for yarn to play with the cat. At the end of their shopping and passenger searching, they ended up with five passengers. Asta then realized that it might be a good idea to tell Mort that they were going to need more rooms, since there were going to be three passengers without beds. [b]Mort:[/b] (over comm.) [i]We’re going to need some wood, can you pick some up down there?[/i] [b]Asta:[/b] (over comm.) [i]Well, there is a forest here.[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] (over comm.) [i]So there are trees we can steal?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] (over comm.) [i]I don’t think it is stealing if no one owns them.[/i] This made Mort sad. He said they were going to need some feathers for some pillows, so Campan talked to the fowl farmer for some duck down. Once the shuttle was back onboard and unloaded, Mort and Campan went back down to the planet and cut down two trees for wood. They cut them up into manageable pieces and loaded them onto the shuttle. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Oh boy. Can we do this everyday, Uncle Mort?[/i] [b]Mort:[/b] [i]Shut up, I have an axe.[/i] Once they brought them back up to the ship, Mort drank some Mort coffee and stayed up all night making rustic furniture. He set up tarps for walls in the remaining wrecked room and camping cots for furniture. He only made up one down pillow for three people. The next day, Campan went down to pick up the passengers. When he brought them up to the ship, he let them fight it out who got the actual beds and who got the one pillow for the beds. [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Sadly, Mort will never learn of chicken finger puppets. Because Campan will never tell him. Because Mort would like it, and Campan refuses to bring joy into Mort’s life.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Yeah. It’s safer that way.[/i] [b]Liz:[/b] [i]Would Reaver ships be useful for harvesting parts?[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Sure, if you could handle there being irradiated parts around the ship. I’d be okay.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]And this is why I blow up the ship. Cause some days it’s just not worth living. Cause of people like Asta and Mort.[/i] [b][i]Roll Credits[/i][/b] [/QUOTE]
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