Not my "verse. belongs to Josh. I'm just pushingh the plastic dinosaurs around his sand box.

continuation of Interludes (thanks for the patience) Our BDHs have made it to the skyplex (The Message, not War Stories)

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (part 1)

River wished she could see Jayne's face when he opened his Big Damned Present. She knew Jayne had no concept of almost 1,000 squares of platinum (200,000 credits in real cashey money). So she spent a few of hers (Whatever it was, 柑月球 did have a one million square available credit limit) in advance and ordered casino chips, white, red, green, black, and purple with Jayne's picture on each one and captioned "Hero of Canton" as a touchy-feely way to make the numbers on the credit chits seem more real. She didn't realize how popular they would end up being -with both crews- although Monte's crew thought of it more as an inside joke they didn’t entirely get.

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Memories of Tracey met the crew as they saw the huge displays lighting the black around the ‘plex. An entire chapter of their lives together that ended badly, one of the few they ... just plain lost. They connected with Mal's friend Amnon for help securing rooms suitable for moderately successful traders and a safe deposit box for all those credit chits.

Mal spent a bit of Serenity's share renting a conference room for their first evening and provided a meal for them, including strawberries for Kaylee. He also commandeered Jayne's chips so everyone that needed it (Kaylee mostly, he was thinking) would have the visual aid to get a better sense of what they would be doing over the next few days: meeting with "investment advisors" to help them decide what to do with the money. Seems none of them had any real idea.

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Simon Tam

At first he thought it was ridiculous, needing a visual aid to understand 885 squares of platinum, 2 years pay as a brand spanking new trauma surgeon on Osiris. How did he describe it-