RP: "Badger's Betrayal" or "Adventures in Gunrunning" - Act 4

POSTED BY: Astriana
UPDATED: Sunday, January 18, 2004 02:45
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ASTRIANA

Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:12 AM

LAST TIME ON FIREFLY:

GREEN ROOM: http://www.fireflyfans.net/fireflychat.asp

TEASER:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=3135

Mal set up a deal with Badger to pick up some goods in Serenity Valley on Hara. While en route, Mal got a wave from Niska, who has apparently taken up with one Jubal Early. Neither Niska nor Early had anything immediate to say, so Mal told them to wave him when they felt like talking.

Wash, having not slept for three days for fear of River killing him in his sleep, has begun having sleep-deprived hallucinations and has taken the ship off course. Serenity is now rapidly headed toward the edge of explored space.

Zoe has been attempting to get Wash to wake up completely from the drug-induced, waking nightmare that is driving him, while Shepherd Book goes looking for Simon, hoping the good doctor can give Wash something to either bring him out of his nightmare or put him more fully to sleep.

While Inara points out the ship's current path will take them into Reaver territory, Jayne and Zoe try to convince Mal of the insanity of heading to Serenity Valley for a pickup...

ACT 1:
http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=3197

The crew was thrown into chaos over the mad dash into the edge of Reaver space and the resultant disabling of Serenity. Simon was knocked unconscious, Jayne armed himself in preparation for a Reaver attack, and Wash passed out from exhaustion after finding evidence the the ship had been sabotaged, probably by Jubal Early.

River took over care for Simon, Mal and Book took steps to revive Wash, and Zoe and Kaylee began repairs to the engine. Inara, thinking things under control, began dressing in her shuttle only to find that things were about to get much worse.

With the ship in disabled and in chaos, Niska and Early attacked. Mal, Zoe, and Jayne took out Niska's lackeys, but not before Early snuck up to Inara's shuttle and managed to get Inara stripped, bound, and gagged.

Niska avoided shooting and capture, then headed for the unconscious Simon in the infirmary. He found a scalpel and tried to hold Simon hostage for Mal to put down arms, but Wash managed to get the drop on Niska, pinning him and exacting revenge for his treatment at Niska's hands in War Stories before Niska passed out. Between them, Wash and Simon subdued Niska as Mal and Zoe entered the infirmary, leaving Jayne to deal with the bodies of the dead goons.

Book took Early by surprise, letting Inara get to safety in the cargo bay. Early and Book fought, Early finally knocking Book unconscious and stealing Inara's shuttle. As her shuttle disappeared, Inara freed herself and found Jayne's workout towel to wrap around her nakedness.

Kaylee got the ship limping, then came down from the engine room in the all-clear and found Mal exacting a little revenge of his own on Niska (in the form of taking off Niska's ear). There was no one on the bridge to see the proximity alert echoed in the sensors of Inara's shuttle. Book and Early made an agreement to work together to survive what's coming.

Reavers...

ACT 2:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=3208

As the Reavers locked their docking clamps onto Serenity, Book and Early worked together to draw them away. Early left Inara's shuttle and attacked the Reavers from Niska's ship, while Book used Inara's shuttle to ram the docking clamps, making them release Serenity and being knocked unconscious by the impact. Early brought him back to Niska's ship, where Book awoke, escaped, and returned to Serenity's infirmary for some rest and doctoring.

During the exchange between Early and the Reaver's ship, Zoe manuevered Serenity away from the battle, but close enough for Book to get back aboard.

Inara managed to borrow a shirt from Mal and pants from Zoe, completing her ensemble until her shuttle could be returned to the ship. She and Zoe got Wash into bed, where he dreamed strange dreams.

Niska escaped from his bond

HUMBLE

Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:21 AM

OOC:CASTING CALL!!! Exciting RP opportunity!!!Looking for character to play "Thorne". Our contact on Hara. Can be either male or female. Should be on the shady side. Also, possibly a passenger, maybe bartering with Mal for transit to outer colony world of New Hikido. Passenger can be either male or female. Some character ideas might be Asian passenger that is either a gambler, jack of all trades, cook, or musician, etc.(P.S.:Well done on the synopsis Astriana, my hat's off to you! Thanx to Haken for providing this most excellent site for RPing as well!)

ZACHSMIND

Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:55 AM

OOC: Wow, Astriana! Awesome work! Thanks!

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"Hang on, travelers..."

SERENITYSSON

Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:45 AM

Great job on the synopsis as well as the new RP forum folks!

Jayne's Turn:

Jayne, uncharacteristically concerned for someone other than himself, heads over to Inara after Mal leaves. Jayne quietly whispers...

"Look Inara, I ain't exactly the brains of this here opperation but, I can tell somethin's ruttin' wrong with ya'."

"I ain't about ta' sit here twiddlin' my gorram thumbs waitin' fer somethin' bad ta' happen to ya'. Now, ya' gonna' tell me what's goin' on here or am I gonna have ta' git the Doc?"

Also... I can kill you with my brain...

CAPNRAHN

Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:46 AM

Previously in the Infirmary

BOOK
"There seems to be a time for all things, Doctor."

Book hands the container to Simon, who opens it. Book sees Simon's eye's widen slightly in recognition.

SIMON
"I ..."

BOOK
"I don't think you've got anything like this in your arsenal of drugs. We need some answers from this man."

Book's eyes lose a little of their shine, and he lowers his head to stare at the Bible in his limp hands.

SIMON
sighs heavly
"I agree, but where would a Shepard ..."

during this exchange, NISKA bites down hard onto his fake tooth, used only as a last resort, and becomes comotose... as if he were dead

Book looks up startled as he hears Niska's head go limp onto the chair. Book rushes forward to Niska, but Simon is closer and reaches him first.

BOOK
deeply ironic
"Wasn't that convenient?"

As Simon looks into Niska's glazing eyes and slips his stethoscope onto his ears, Book grabs Niska's wrist and feels for a pulse.

BOOK
"Nothing."

Simon finds no sinus rhythm through his stethoscope, frowns and looks over to his monitors ... after a few tense seconds, he barks an uncharactistic laugh

SIMON
"Not to worry Shepard. I have seen this type of reaction before."

Simon opens drawers and gathers equipment.

"The Captain and Zoe's old platoon-mate used the same drug, Bicadin. Too bad for Niska - that I have a good memory. I'll still need your contribution to make a stimulant in order to wake him much faster than in two weeks."

Looks at Book in askance

SIMON
Trying to not be ill at ease at farbicating a 'white lie'

"I believe ... this 'item' -indicating Books bottle- was part of the, ahem ... haul at Ariel. Was it not?"

EOM

OOC
I thought I would condense the Infirmary 'shots' to help in this new GREAT playground! Just to help 'Book', 'Niska' and 'Simon' keep track.

I did a bit of add-editing, hope it worked, if not I'll eliminate it.

"Remember, there is only ONE absolute - There ARE NO absolutes!!!"

CIARA

Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:48 PM

Inara's turn

Jayne:
"I ain't about ta' sit here twiddlin' my gorram thumbs waitin' fer somethin' bad ta' happen to ya'. Now, ya' gonna' tell me what's goin' on here or am I gonna have ta' git the Doc?"

Inara looks away, refusing to meet Jayne's intense blue eyes. I...I'm fine, Jayne. Your concern is sweet. I'm just still a little shaken up. There is something I need, but I'm confident I can procure it on Hara.

she knows where to get the drugs...she has a contact on most every planet they've visited...surely she can make it that long...if the crew found out, Mal would never let her stay, she'd be a liability- she'd never be able to take clients again...all her hard work, hiding her illness all these years...a bribe here, a shy turn of the head..no one needs to know...do they?

The convulsions come on suddenly. Her blood has thinned, the clotting factors from her last dose finally spent. Her brain isn't recieving enough oxygenated blood, and the world goes blank....no one wants a sick Companion....

The last thing she sees is Jayne's concerned eyes. He reaches to catch her as she stiffens, her eyes glazed. Her long neck arched, her head thrown back, the convulsion breaks over her in waves. All she can manage is choked cry as every muscle in her body betrays her.

no one wants sick Companion....
End Inara's turn
ooc--yeah, I'm apparently a drama queen--I've never done fanfic or RP or anything...so I guess I'm overdoing it a bit--sorry!!

Just a humble supplicant in service to all things Joss

TEELABROWN

Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:25 PM

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River keeps walking. She stops in front of a hidden hatch.

They come for me.

She continues walking
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Tash- I'll be quiet. (I assume you know what I mean)

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Keep flyin', and remember, THEY can't take the sky from US!

CAPNRAHN

Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:56 PM

OOC
OK, I got ALL of the other threads asa text in a MSPub file ... 302 pages ... let me repeat for clairity ...

THREE HUNDRED AND TWO PAGES

Is anybody else working on this?

Now, I plan to format it more in a script style (OOCs and all!) and see what we got. If it looks good as a script, I would suggest we put it in as FanFic when we complete it.

Heh, meebe TPTB may see it and take a likin' ta it! .... riiiight

"Remember, there is only ONE absolute - There ARE NO absolutes!!!"

ASTRIANA

Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:07 PM

Yep, I've been working on it since the weekend. I'm putting it together in MS Word, pulling out all the OOC stuff, and making it a little more uniform-looking between moves.

Just got started on the formattin' part of it, but right now, in Times New Roman, 10 pt., I have 68 pages.

Seems like we were thinkin' along the same lines, Capn!

~A~

...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

CAPNRAHN

Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:25 PM

OOC
Great Minds and all that!!!

You doin' it as script, or novel? Which are you best at?

I am gonna keep in the OOC stuff, just code it differant.

I will be interesting to see each of our editing skills put to the test.

If ya need anything, just gimme a yell at capnrahn@aol.com

"Remember, there is only ONE absolute - There ARE NO absolutes!!!"

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