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<blockquote data-quote="Ao the Overkitty" data-source="post: 3162442" data-attributes="member: 9758"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>“Episode 11 –Financial Woes” - Third Session</strong></span></p><p></p><p><em>Synopsis of 10/30/06 session - subtitled <strong>Things Run Smoothly For A Change?</strong></em></p><p></p><p>The crew continued discussing how they were going to poison the water supply.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>As long as Mort knows how, we’re all saved. And you should be worried that Daniel says that.</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel occupied himself for the day by spending it upon the bluffs observing a day of work. Some workers in white outfits and puffy hats showed up around 6am by the rail and entered through the closer side entrance. Two hours later a large group of workers arrived and entered through the main entrance while a small group of cleaners entered through the side entrance. Both groups were checked in in a single file line by guards. Around three in the afternoon another wave of workers arrived while the first group left. Around ten at night a small group of people arrived and entered through the closer side entrance while the second group of workers left. The guards seemed to arrive with both group of workers and the late night cleaners.</p><p></p><p>While Daniel was away for the day, Asta was busy finishing up the diuretic that was to be added to the water supply. </p><p></p><p><strong>Jenny:</strong> <em>Shouldn’t we test that out first?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>I suppose we should.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Jenny:</strong> (grinning) <em>I have the perfect test subject.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>I don’t think I want to know. Here.</em></p><p></p><p>Asta wrote out the proper dosage for one person and gave Jenny a sample of the poison. Jenny walked off smiling and humming a happy tune. Mort noticed how happy Jenny was and decided, whatever it was, he was happy he had never annoyed Jenny.</p><p></p><p>About midday Take began to feel a bit incontinent. He spent a good amount of the rest of the day making frequent, long trips to the Head.</p><p></p><p>Jenny wandered by the infirmary and let Asta know the drug seemed to be working.</p><p></p><p>Daniel got back to the ship late.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Sir, it’s eleven fifty two. It’s dinner time.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Yup. I’m late.</em></p><p></p><p>Mort, Campan, and Asta discussed what Daniel learned while Daniel ate. Daniel felt they should poison the water supply the day before, since they weren’t receiving any cook uniforms from Mascovich. Mort didn’t like this, since he felt they would change things the next day due to low worker counts. Daniel felt they wouldn’t get the benefit of poisoning the food because the cafeteria would make the food before the water was poisoned. Jenny wandered through the common area.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jenny:</strong><em> It’s fairly fast acting.</em></p><p></p><p>Mort took note of this. Jenny continued on and banged on the door to the communal toilet.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jenny:</strong> <em>How you doing in there, captain?</em></p><p></p><p>Mort talked about acquiring a cook’s uniform and inserting them into the cooking staff. Daniel felt this plan was doomed to failure, since it suffered from a large probability of ‘let me double check that.’ He felt it was better to sneak everyone in with the masses of office workers and forget about the cook part.</p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> <em>So send someone who can talk.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Send someone believable.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (slams down his beer) <em>Alright, I’ll do it!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>No. You missed the part about believable.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Oh. Then I won’t.</em></p><p></p><p>Later on in the conversation Jenny asked Asta if she had made an antidote for the poison. Asta answered no in a very roundabout way.</p><p></p><p><strong>Jenny:</strong> <em>So how long does it take to run it’s course? Well, we’re kind of checking that now, I guess.</em></p><p></p><p>Asta let her know somewhere between a couple hours to a day.</p><p></p><p>Jenny wasn’t worried.</p><p></p><p>They then discussed for a long time about how to go about obtaining a chef’s uniform and ID badge. It got horribly complicated with trying to make the bad plan work. Eventually they went to bed.</p><p></p><p>The next day Mort and Campan walked back to town to watch the rail for chefs. When one got off the train with the other workers at four, they shadowed him. When the guy walked into the Dead Dog Saloon, Mort turned to Campan.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Campan, go in and chat him up.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Aye Aye, Mortain!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Oh, and you’re a browncoat.</em></p><p></p><p>Mort tried to hand Campan his browncoat, but Campan refused, saying he didn’t need it.</p><p></p><p>Campan took a few steps towards the door and then turned around.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Umm, can I have a few dollars?</em></p><p></p><p>Mort sighed and then pick pocketed a miner for company credits.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mort:</strong> <em>Here. It’s like money, I think.</em></p><p></p><p>Campan took the credits and wandered into the bar. Looking around, he didn’t see the guy with the white uniform on. It took him a little bit to figure out the guy had gone into the kitchen. Campan went up to the bar and ordered a beer and asked to see a menu. He found out the food was just protein.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>What the <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=":)" /> do you need a chef for that for? Which I do not say out loud.</em></p><p></p><p>Campan ordered a sandwich. He was mildly annoyed when one of the female waitresses picked up the order and brought him out his sandwich with no appearance of the chef.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Mmmmm. Delicious. I wish to send my compliments to the chef, if I may.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Bartender:</strong> (yelling towards the kitchen) <em>Hey Henry. He likes your food.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (yelling towards the kitchen) <em>Yes. Thank you Henry.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Henry:</strong> (yelling from the kitchen) <em>Thanks.</em></p><p></p><p>Campan drank until he ran out of credits, leaving Mort to stand outside for a couple hours.</p><p></p><p>Three hours later he finished off his last beer and headed outside to ‘case the joint.’ He met up with a grumpy Mort.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>I wasn’t prepared for him to be working. And it was hard to get to him. So I gave up and drank beer.</em></p><p></p><p>This statement left Mort on the verge of tears. Or homicidal mania. We’re just not sure which. Finally Campan radioed Daniel for help. Daniel told him to just go talk to the chef and try and find out how to get hired so they’d have a place to start.</p><p></p><p>Campan walked around the back of the saloon and knocked on the back door. There was some confusion for a bit because the GM initially thought Campan had walked into the saloon, through the bar to the kitchen door and knocked. Because this would be a perfectly reasonable thing to do for Campan. Once this was straightened out the group had to wait for Ryan to stop crying.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>That’s it. Everyone gets rubber balls. We’re going to bounce them a few times and then call it a night.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>And we’ll have gotten more done.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Yes!</em></p><p></p><p>The door to the kitchen opened to reveal a guy in a white uniform.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (himself near tears) <em>You’re obviously the chef. Because of the white uniform. I wished to complement you on your food. I haven’t had such good protein cubes in many years. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>Henry:</strong> <em>Would you like the recipe?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Yes. Yes I would. Is it free?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Henry:</strong> <em>Yes.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Oh. You’re such a nice man. I want to be someone like you… someday. How would I go about being a chef like you?</em></p><p></p><p>Campan managed to get out of him what company he worked for and where to apply.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>How is that corporately structured?</em></p><p></p><p>He found out Henry’s immediate boss was Martin Yan.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> (mumbles) <em>Must kill GM.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Good to know. I’ll be sure to do such things tomorrow. I appreciate you giving me this recipe.</em></p><p></p><p>*<em>Everyone but Ryan is laughing hysterically by this point.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>It’s working, shut up!</em></p><p></p><p>After Henry shut the door Campan wandered back to Mort.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>I got the recipe!</em></p><p></p><p>Mort cocked his shotgun.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Oh. And the name of the supervisor. Yan. Martin Yan. So we should hunt this man down and kill him. And take his stuff.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Liz:</strong> <em>No, not kill him.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>You’re not there! We can kill him many times. Slowly if we want.</em></p><p></p><p>Mort and Campan walked back to the ship and looked up where Yan lived. They found out he was two towns down the rail line away from the depository. They took the rail over and wandered into the bar there. With some quick information gathering they found out where Yan lived. Mort stole a company credit from a waitress and tipped the bartender.</p><p></p><p>Finding Yan’s house wasn’t hard. Since it was now late in the evening they wandered around the house looking in windows. They found a little girls room, a kitchen, and the main bedroom. They radioed back to Asta for chloroforming equipment for the residents. Campan actually thought to ask about the proper dosage for a child. Asta drop shipped them some at the edge of town using the shuttle. The two of them burst in sneakily, knocked the family out with their drugs, tied them all up to the beds and stole the chef’s uniform and ID badge. They then searched around for other stuff to steal. They found the family was actually pretty poor.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>I’m half tempted to steal something from their neighbors to give to them.</em></p><p></p><p>About this time Daniel and Take headed out to meet Mascovich. As they arrived at the meeting point they found Mascovich already waiting for them. Mascovich handed over six ID badges and six office worker uniforms.</p><p></p><p><strong>Mascovich:</strong> <em>You want deal with money through you or through Logan?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong><em>I’d say through Logan unless you want to take some less mobile goods off our hands.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mascovich:</strong> (slightly confused) <em>Less mobile goods?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong><em>Food stuffs.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mascovich:</strong> <em>Oh. I thought you talking about concrete blocks or something…</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel and Mascovich then discussed how Mascovich would acquire the payment. They initially agreed that Mascovich would follow them back. Mascovich made a comment that he’d need another mule anyway. This confused Daniel.</p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>The GM is smiling. I’m confused. Things have gone horribly wrong.</em></p><p></p><p>They changed their plan so that Daniel stayed with Mascovich while Take went back to the Orasca, loaded up the shuttle with the food, and flew back to the meeting point.</p><p></p><p>Mort then headed out and set up the tracks between the Depository and the Alliance base to breakdown at a specific time the next day.</p><p></p><p>After everyone was well rested and the ship was moved to the canyons near the depository they were ready.</p><p></p><p>They still had problems figuring out how they were going to escape the Depository afterwards.</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>How do we walk out the door with a duffle bag full of money?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Mort & Campan:</strong> <em>Casually.</em></p><p></p><p>Many things were discussed. Campan even offered to steal some horses for the crew. No consensus was reached.</p><p></p><p>Pictures of the crewmembers were substituted for the photos on the ID badges. Mort’s badge said Joe Johnson, Campan’s said Campan, Daniel’s said Johnny Paesan, and Asta’s said Donna Joe.</p><p></p><p>Ezmerelda was the first to go in, since she was taking the place of the chef they had tied up. She took the rail in with the other chefs, getting strange looks but no one talked to her. She followed them over to the side entrance when they arrived at the depository and was the last in the line to get checked in by the guard. Procedure being procedure, it didn’t matter if the guard believed her story that the head chef was sick and she was filling in or not. They had received no word of this and had to check with the main office. Ezmerelda stood there as the group shouted out suggestions to Arianne on how to drama point herself out of the bind.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>Drama points: how to solve bad plans.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>Yup.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Gabe:</strong> <em>We could have done better than that plan.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Paul:</strong> <em>We didn’t. Moving along.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Arianne:</strong> <em>Drama point: he hits his head and forgets everything.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Alex:</strong> <em>Eh, what the <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=":)" />. I don’t care.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Oh no. This is sounding very familiar.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Dan:</strong> <em>Yeah, but I think he has the guts to kill everyone.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Ryan:</strong> <em>Mine wasn’t that kind of game!</em></p><p></p><p>Ezmerelda played dumb and sneakily nudged him into a greasy spill she created with a pouch Mort gave her, forcing him to fall into the Cortex terminal and knocking himself out. Trying not to look up at the camera getting this all on recording, she hurried inside and rejoined the cooks. They continued to look at her funny, but didn’t question her presence. After all, the guard let her in. She went about poisoning the food and mixing up breakfast and lunch. Several janitors did ask her who she was, though.</p><p></p><p>A few hours later the rest of the crew blended in with the morning shift of workers and got in line. Mort looked funny in an office uniform. He looked even stranger with a clean-shaven face and combed hair.</p><p></p><p><strong>Asta:</strong> (to Campan) <em>You did wash, right?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>I was told not to wash. We are the unwashed masses.</em></p><p></p><p>All five made it through the checkpoint just fine, since they were gunless workers. Their faces were nicely recorded by the photo capture, but they were expecting that. Each were careful to note that the guards were armed with batons. The crew split off into groups. Campan and Mort went off to get to the water supply for the building. Daniel and Take wandered around casing the joint and looking for where vault was. Asta headed for the bathrooms.</p><p></p><p>Campan and Mort found a basement access door and found it was locked. Mort swiped a keycard from a janitor and the two wandered down into the poorly lit basement. They wandered around the basement looking in rooms and knocking out old men until they found the water purification center. Mort and Campan found maintenance supplies and some metal pipes for weapons along the way. Once Mort had shut down the purification system and emptied the poison into the water they waited.</p><p></p><p>Daniel and Take kept an eye on the security guards. He found five of them were stationed outside the large dummy vault. The rest were patrolling the building or in the security office.</p><p></p><p>Asta mostly camped out in stalls and moved from bathroom to bathroom to avoid suspicion. She figured that when people started using the bathrooms much more frequently and sounding sick the plan was working.</p><p></p><p>After a while Mort showed Campan out of the basement and headed for the power supply.</p><p></p><p>For lunch, Ezmerelda served people poisoned meat. Campan wandered into the cafeteria and nodded to Ezmerelda. He was able to resist the temptation of the evil jello. After he finished going through the lunch line he ditched his tray and left.</p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> (with complete lack of emotion) <em>I don’t feel well. Ow, my tummy.</em></p><p></p><p>He then wandered around the building looking for Asta, Daniel, or Take. As people were starting to get sick he ran into Daniel and Take near the security office.</p><p></p><p>Back in the lunch line, Ezmerelda gave a security guard an extra helping of poisoned food. He just thought she was hitting on him.</p><p></p><p>With people thinning out, the trio headed up to the Office of the head of Accounts Receivable to obtain a key to the vault. Seeing the office was unoccupied, Take stealthily picked the lock on the door. They then filed in and shut the door, searching around.</p><p></p><p>Back in the cafeteria, one of the other cooks told Ezmerelda that they needed to close down the lunch line since people were getting sick from something. She told him that was a good idea and said she had seen Henry stir something into the mixture earlier.</p><p></p><p>Once they had found the security code Daniel slipped a trophy under his coat to use as a weapon. Take didn’t see the point in taking a weapon himself, but Daniel insisted. Take picked up a paperweight on the way out and headed for the security office.</p><p></p><p>As expected, there were fewer guards around the large vault and fewer guards in the security office. Daniel stumbled into the security office looking very sick and complained of a stomach pains. He put on a very good performance so the two guards actually got up to get out of the way of the vomit they thought was coming. Campan wandered in behind Daniel and attacked a guard with his lead pipe. A couple blows to the head later from the pipe and the trophy and the two guards were knocked out on the floor. Daniel then induced vomiting on himself and puked on the guards. He then pulled out his bottle of non-poisoned water and cleaned his mouth. Daniel told Take to stay in the security office and yank the discs while he and Campan headed for the vault their money was in. Take picked up one of the guard’s sonic guns and looked over the computer. He sounded very confident that he knew how to wipe the security footage. Daniel radioed Asta and told her to head for the security office.</p><p></p><p>Asta wandered into the cafeteria and found Ezmerelda. She grabbed Ezmerelda and dragged her out into the building. A chef tried to stop them but Ezmerelda made some excuse about feeling really sick and needing the bathroom. She completely ignored the chef trying to director her to the closest bathroom. The two began heading towards security.</p><p></p><p>Campan and Daniel discretely moved into the office on the second floor the vault was connected to. </p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Campan, close the door and hit anyone on the head that isn’t us.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Campan:</strong> <em>Aye Aye.</em></p><p></p><p>Daniel entered the code into a keypad on the underside of the desk. They watched as a section of the floor opened up beneath them to reveal a ladder down to the first floor of the building where this vault resided. Daniel was very confused when he heard sounds coming from inside the vault. He quickly realized that someone was having a Nooner inside the vault.</p><p></p><p>*<em>Ryan proceeds to make several obscene sex sounds.</em>*</p><p></p><p><strong>Daniel:</strong> <em>Alright. I guess we have to do this the hard way.</em> </p><p></p><p>Daniel then pulled the trophy out of his jacket and thunked it in his hand.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*<em><strong>Fade to Black</strong></em>*</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ao the Overkitty, post: 3162442, member: 9758"] [size=5][b]“Episode 11 –Financial Woes” - Third Session[/b][/size] [i]Synopsis of 10/30/06 session - subtitled [b]Things Run Smoothly For A Change?[/b][/i] The crew continued discussing how they were going to poison the water supply. [b]Gabe:[/b] [I]As long as Mort knows how, we’re all saved. And you should be worried that Daniel says that.[/I] Daniel occupied himself for the day by spending it upon the bluffs observing a day of work. Some workers in white outfits and puffy hats showed up around 6am by the rail and entered through the closer side entrance. Two hours later a large group of workers arrived and entered through the main entrance while a small group of cleaners entered through the side entrance. Both groups were checked in in a single file line by guards. Around three in the afternoon another wave of workers arrived while the first group left. Around ten at night a small group of people arrived and entered through the closer side entrance while the second group of workers left. The guards seemed to arrive with both group of workers and the late night cleaners. While Daniel was away for the day, Asta was busy finishing up the diuretic that was to be added to the water supply. [b]Jenny:[/b] [I]Shouldn’t we test that out first?[/I] [b]Asta:[/b] [I]I suppose we should.[/I] [b]Jenny:[/b] (grinning) [I]I have the perfect test subject.[/I] [b]Asta:[/b] [I]I don’t think I want to know. Here.[/I] Asta wrote out the proper dosage for one person and gave Jenny a sample of the poison. Jenny walked off smiling and humming a happy tune. Mort noticed how happy Jenny was and decided, whatever it was, he was happy he had never annoyed Jenny. About midday Take began to feel a bit incontinent. He spent a good amount of the rest of the day making frequent, long trips to the Head. Jenny wandered by the infirmary and let Asta know the drug seemed to be working. Daniel got back to the ship late. [b]Campan:[/b] [I]Sir, it’s eleven fifty two. It’s dinner time.[/I] [b]Daniel:[/b] [I]Yup. I’m late.[/I] Mort, Campan, and Asta discussed what Daniel learned while Daniel ate. Daniel felt they should poison the water supply the day before, since they weren’t receiving any cook uniforms from Mascovich. Mort didn’t like this, since he felt they would change things the next day due to low worker counts. Daniel felt they wouldn’t get the benefit of poisoning the food because the cafeteria would make the food before the water was poisoned. Jenny wandered through the common area. [b]Jenny:[/b][I] It’s fairly fast acting.[/I] Mort took note of this. Jenny continued on and banged on the door to the communal toilet. [b]Jenny:[/b] [I]How you doing in there, captain?[/I] Mort talked about acquiring a cook’s uniform and inserting them into the cooking staff. Daniel felt this plan was doomed to failure, since it suffered from a large probability of ‘let me double check that.’ He felt it was better to sneak everyone in with the masses of office workers and forget about the cook part. [b]Asta:[/b] [I]So send someone who can talk.[/I] [b]Mort:[/b] [I]Send someone believable.[/I] [b]Campan:[/b] (slams down his beer) [I]Alright, I’ll do it![/I] [b]Mort:[/b] [I]No. You missed the part about believable.[/I] [b]Campan:[/b] [I]Oh. Then I won’t.[/I] Later on in the conversation Jenny asked Asta if she had made an antidote for the poison. Asta answered no in a very roundabout way. [b]Jenny:[/b] [I]So how long does it take to run it’s course? Well, we’re kind of checking that now, I guess.[/I] Asta let her know somewhere between a couple hours to a day. Jenny wasn’t worried. They then discussed for a long time about how to go about obtaining a chef’s uniform and ID badge. It got horribly complicated with trying to make the bad plan work. Eventually they went to bed. The next day Mort and Campan walked back to town to watch the rail for chefs. When one got off the train with the other workers at four, they shadowed him. When the guy walked into the Dead Dog Saloon, Mort turned to Campan. [b]Mort:[/b] [I]Campan, go in and chat him up.[/I] [b]Campan:[/b] [I]Aye Aye, Mortain![/I] [b]Mort:[/b] [I]Oh, and you’re a browncoat.[/I] Mort tried to hand Campan his browncoat, but Campan refused, saying he didn’t need it. Campan took a few steps towards the door and then turned around. [b]Campan:[/b] [I]Umm, can I have a few dollars?[/I] Mort sighed and then pick pocketed a miner for company credits. [b]Mort:[/b] [I]Here. It’s like money, I think.[/I] Campan took the credits and wandered into the bar. Looking around, he didn’t see the guy with the white uniform on. It took him a little bit to figure out the guy had gone into the kitchen. Campan went up to the bar and ordered a beer and asked to see a menu. He found out the food was just protein. [b]Ryan:[/b] [I]What the :):):):) do you need a chef for that for? Which I do not say out loud.[/I] Campan ordered a sandwich. He was mildly annoyed when one of the female waitresses picked up the order and brought him out his sandwich with no appearance of the chef. [b]Campan:[/b] [I]Mmmmm. Delicious. I wish to send my compliments to the chef, if I may.[/I] [b]Bartender:[/b] (yelling towards the kitchen) [I]Hey Henry. He likes your food.[/I] [b]Campan:[/b] (yelling towards the kitchen) [I]Yes. Thank you Henry.[/I] [b]Henry:[/b] (yelling from the kitchen) [I]Thanks.[/I] Campan drank until he ran out of credits, leaving Mort to stand outside for a couple hours. Three hours later he finished off his last beer and headed outside to ‘case the joint.’ He met up with a grumpy Mort. [b]Campan:[/b] [I]I wasn’t prepared for him to be working. And it was hard to get to him. So I gave up and drank beer.[/I] This statement left Mort on the verge of tears. Or homicidal mania. We’re just not sure which. Finally Campan radioed Daniel for help. Daniel told him to just go talk to the chef and try and find out how to get hired so they’d have a place to start. Campan walked around the back of the saloon and knocked on the back door. There was some confusion for a bit because the GM initially thought Campan had walked into the saloon, through the bar to the kitchen door and knocked. Because this would be a perfectly reasonable thing to do for Campan. Once this was straightened out the group had to wait for Ryan to stop crying. [b]Ryan:[/b] [I]That’s it. Everyone gets rubber balls. We’re going to bounce them a few times and then call it a night.[/I] [b]Gabe:[/b] [I]And we’ll have gotten more done.[/I] [b]Ryan:[/b] [I]Yes![/I] The door to the kitchen opened to reveal a guy in a white uniform. [b]Campan:[/b] (himself near tears) [I]You’re obviously the chef. Because of the white uniform. I wished to complement you on your food. I haven’t had such good protein cubes in many years. [/I] [b]Henry:[/b] [I]Would you like the recipe?[/I] [b]Campan:[/b] [I]Yes. Yes I would. Is it free?[/I] [b]Henry:[/b] [I]Yes.[/I] [b]Campan:[/b] [I]Oh. You’re such a nice man. I want to be someone like you… someday. How would I go about being a chef like you?[/I] Campan managed to get out of him what company he worked for and where to apply. [b]Campan:[/b] [I]How is that corporately structured?[/I] He found out Henry’s immediate boss was Martin Yan. [b]Ryan:[/b] (mumbles) [I]Must kill GM.[/I] [b]Campan:[/b] [I]Good to know. I’ll be sure to do such things tomorrow. I appreciate you giving me this recipe.[/I] *[I]Everyone but Ryan is laughing hysterically by this point.[/I] [b]Ryan:[/b] [I]It’s working, shut up![/I] After Henry shut the door Campan wandered back to Mort. [b]Campan:[/b] [I]I got the recipe![/I] Mort cocked his shotgun. [b]Campan:[/b] [I]Oh. And the name of the supervisor. Yan. Martin Yan. So we should hunt this man down and kill him. And take his stuff.[/I] [b]Liz:[/b] [I]No, not kill him.[/I] [b]Ryan:[/b] [I]You’re not there! We can kill him many times. Slowly if we want.[/i] Mort and Campan walked back to the ship and looked up where Yan lived. They found out he was two towns down the rail line away from the depository. They took the rail over and wandered into the bar there. With some quick information gathering they found out where Yan lived. Mort stole a company credit from a waitress and tipped the bartender. Finding Yan’s house wasn’t hard. Since it was now late in the evening they wandered around the house looking in windows. They found a little girls room, a kitchen, and the main bedroom. They radioed back to Asta for chloroforming equipment for the residents. Campan actually thought to ask about the proper dosage for a child. Asta drop shipped them some at the edge of town using the shuttle. The two of them burst in sneakily, knocked the family out with their drugs, tied them all up to the beds and stole the chef’s uniform and ID badge. They then searched around for other stuff to steal. They found the family was actually pretty poor. [b]Campan:[/b] [i]I’m half tempted to steal something from their neighbors to give to them.[/i] About this time Daniel and Take headed out to meet Mascovich. As they arrived at the meeting point they found Mascovich already waiting for them. Mascovich handed over six ID badges and six office worker uniforms. [b]Mascovich:[/b] [i]You want deal with money through you or through Logan?[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b][i]I’d say through Logan unless you want to take some less mobile goods off our hands.[/i] [b]Mascovich:[/b] (slightly confused) [i]Less mobile goods?[/i] [b]Daniel:[/b][i]Food stuffs.[/i] [b]Mascovich:[/b] [i]Oh. I thought you talking about concrete blocks or something…[/i] Daniel and Mascovich then discussed how Mascovich would acquire the payment. They initially agreed that Mascovich would follow them back. Mascovich made a comment that he’d need another mule anyway. This confused Daniel. [b]Paul:[/b] [i]The GM is smiling. I’m confused. Things have gone horribly wrong.[/i] They changed their plan so that Daniel stayed with Mascovich while Take went back to the Orasca, loaded up the shuttle with the food, and flew back to the meeting point. Mort then headed out and set up the tracks between the Depository and the Alliance base to breakdown at a specific time the next day. After everyone was well rested and the ship was moved to the canyons near the depository they were ready. They still had problems figuring out how they were going to escape the Depository afterwards. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]How do we walk out the door with a duffle bag full of money?[/i] [b]Mort & Campan:[/b] [i]Casually.[/i] Many things were discussed. Campan even offered to steal some horses for the crew. No consensus was reached. Pictures of the crewmembers were substituted for the photos on the ID badges. Mort’s badge said Joe Johnson, Campan’s said Campan, Daniel’s said Johnny Paesan, and Asta’s said Donna Joe. Ezmerelda was the first to go in, since she was taking the place of the chef they had tied up. She took the rail in with the other chefs, getting strange looks but no one talked to her. She followed them over to the side entrance when they arrived at the depository and was the last in the line to get checked in by the guard. Procedure being procedure, it didn’t matter if the guard believed her story that the head chef was sick and she was filling in or not. They had received no word of this and had to check with the main office. Ezmerelda stood there as the group shouted out suggestions to Arianne on how to drama point herself out of the bind. [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]Drama points: how to solve bad plans.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]Yup.[/i] [b]Gabe:[/b] [i]We could have done better than that plan.[/i] [b]Paul:[/b] [i]We didn’t. Moving along.[/i] [b]Arianne:[/b] [i]Drama point: he hits his head and forgets everything.[/i] [b]Alex:[/b] [i]Eh, what the :):):):). I don’t care.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Oh no. This is sounding very familiar.[/i] [b]Dan:[/b] [i]Yeah, but I think he has the guts to kill everyone.[/i] [b]Ryan:[/b] [i]Mine wasn’t that kind of game![/i] Ezmerelda played dumb and sneakily nudged him into a greasy spill she created with a pouch Mort gave her, forcing him to fall into the Cortex terminal and knocking himself out. Trying not to look up at the camera getting this all on recording, she hurried inside and rejoined the cooks. They continued to look at her funny, but didn’t question her presence. After all, the guard let her in. She went about poisoning the food and mixing up breakfast and lunch. Several janitors did ask her who she was, though. A few hours later the rest of the crew blended in with the morning shift of workers and got in line. Mort looked funny in an office uniform. He looked even stranger with a clean-shaven face and combed hair. [b]Asta:[/b] (to Campan) [i]You did wash, right?[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]I was told not to wash. We are the unwashed masses.[/i] All five made it through the checkpoint just fine, since they were gunless workers. Their faces were nicely recorded by the photo capture, but they were expecting that. Each were careful to note that the guards were armed with batons. The crew split off into groups. Campan and Mort went off to get to the water supply for the building. Daniel and Take wandered around casing the joint and looking for where vault was. Asta headed for the bathrooms. Campan and Mort found a basement access door and found it was locked. Mort swiped a keycard from a janitor and the two wandered down into the poorly lit basement. They wandered around the basement looking in rooms and knocking out old men until they found the water purification center. Mort and Campan found maintenance supplies and some metal pipes for weapons along the way. Once Mort had shut down the purification system and emptied the poison into the water they waited. Daniel and Take kept an eye on the security guards. He found five of them were stationed outside the large dummy vault. The rest were patrolling the building or in the security office. Asta mostly camped out in stalls and moved from bathroom to bathroom to avoid suspicion. She figured that when people started using the bathrooms much more frequently and sounding sick the plan was working. After a while Mort showed Campan out of the basement and headed for the power supply. For lunch, Ezmerelda served people poisoned meat. Campan wandered into the cafeteria and nodded to Ezmerelda. He was able to resist the temptation of the evil jello. After he finished going through the lunch line he ditched his tray and left. [b]Campan:[/b] (with complete lack of emotion) [i]I don’t feel well. Ow, my tummy.[/i] He then wandered around the building looking for Asta, Daniel, or Take. As people were starting to get sick he ran into Daniel and Take near the security office. Back in the lunch line, Ezmerelda gave a security guard an extra helping of poisoned food. He just thought she was hitting on him. With people thinning out, the trio headed up to the Office of the head of Accounts Receivable to obtain a key to the vault. Seeing the office was unoccupied, Take stealthily picked the lock on the door. They then filed in and shut the door, searching around. Back in the cafeteria, one of the other cooks told Ezmerelda that they needed to close down the lunch line since people were getting sick from something. She told him that was a good idea and said she had seen Henry stir something into the mixture earlier. Once they had found the security code Daniel slipped a trophy under his coat to use as a weapon. Take didn’t see the point in taking a weapon himself, but Daniel insisted. Take picked up a paperweight on the way out and headed for the security office. As expected, there were fewer guards around the large vault and fewer guards in the security office. Daniel stumbled into the security office looking very sick and complained of a stomach pains. He put on a very good performance so the two guards actually got up to get out of the way of the vomit they thought was coming. Campan wandered in behind Daniel and attacked a guard with his lead pipe. A couple blows to the head later from the pipe and the trophy and the two guards were knocked out on the floor. Daniel then induced vomiting on himself and puked on the guards. He then pulled out his bottle of non-poisoned water and cleaned his mouth. Daniel told Take to stay in the security office and yank the discs while he and Campan headed for the vault their money was in. Take picked up one of the guard’s sonic guns and looked over the computer. He sounded very confident that he knew how to wipe the security footage. Daniel radioed Asta and told her to head for the security office. Asta wandered into the cafeteria and found Ezmerelda. She grabbed Ezmerelda and dragged her out into the building. A chef tried to stop them but Ezmerelda made some excuse about feeling really sick and needing the bathroom. She completely ignored the chef trying to director her to the closest bathroom. The two began heading towards security. Campan and Daniel discretely moved into the office on the second floor the vault was connected to. [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Campan, close the door and hit anyone on the head that isn’t us.[/i] [b]Campan:[/b] [i]Aye Aye.[/i] Daniel entered the code into a keypad on the underside of the desk. They watched as a section of the floor opened up beneath them to reveal a ladder down to the first floor of the building where this vault resided. Daniel was very confused when he heard sounds coming from inside the vault. He quickly realized that someone was having a Nooner inside the vault. *[i]Ryan proceeds to make several obscene sex sounds.[/i]* [b]Daniel:[/b] [i]Alright. I guess we have to do this the hard way.[/i] Daniel then pulled the trophy out of his jacket and thunked it in his hand. *[i][b]Fade to Black[/b][/i]* [/QUOTE]
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