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BREAK OUT (05) Part (03)

Saturday, July 16, 2011

The crew discovers the dirty secret of the terraforming operation. Mal has a plan. Will things go smooth?

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BREAK OUT (05)

Part (03)

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The crew discovers the dirty secret of the terraforming operation. Mal has a plan. Will things go smooth?

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It was raining hard when Mal brought Serenity in over the spreading boughs of a giant monkeypod tree and past a stand of candlenut trees for a somewhat rough landing at 泥球 Ní Qiú Field. Like 尘球 Chén Qíu, 泥球 Ní Qiú served as the staging area for the terraforming operation on a nearby moon. The terraforming operation was still in the early stages, and 泥球 Ní Qiú Field served almost entirely as an import center, with very little being produced on the world for export. Mal checked in with the tower for the weather report. There seemed to be only two kinds of weather in the forecast: raining, and about to rain.

The receiving agent for the cargo of grav modifiers maintained an office in the middle of town, and Mal, Jayne, and Neumann took advantage of a brief lull in the downpour to pay him a visit. They squelched along the muddy track that separated the shabby rows of single-story wooden buildings. The agent’s office was elevated out of the mud

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Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:33
Oh awesome. Everything from Ip's reaction, Mal's first plan, and then his second "plan."
Saturday, 16 July 2011 04:00
Mal's plans never work.
Saturday, 16 July 2011 14:28
Uh oh, Mal has the worst luck. And I have a horrible sinking feeling that Ip may have called the Sheriff on account of him believing Mal was a slaver. Hope I'm wrong. Ali D :~)
"You can't take the sky from me!"
Saturday, 16 July 2011 15:37
Well, the Sheriff would be protecting the slavers. But perhaps Ip wouldn't have picked up on that subtlety. In any case, it didn't seem like they were coming looking for anyone in particular.
Monday, 18 July 2011 13:55
Oh, thank you, thank you, love having my work called "awesome"--that's just so...awesome.

And you all have such creative ideas. Will Ip report Mal to the Sheriff? Is the Sheriff protecting the slavers? How's this scenario?--
Ip (to sheriff): There's this ship captain, Malcolm Reynolds, he's planning to turn slaver. He's about to--
Sheriff: Malcolm Reynolds, eh? (to deputy) Is he on our list?
Deputy: Nope. He hasn't paid up.
Sheriff: (to Ip) He hasn't paid the appropriate--er "fees". We don't tolerate any unauthorized slaving here. Thanks for reporting him, son. (to deputy) Organize the posse!
Ip: (to self) Now what have I done?

;-)
Okay, never mind. Read the next section and find out what really happened.

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