RP: Badger's Betrayal" or "Adventures in GunRunning" ACT 5
POSTED BY: CapnRahn
UPDATED: Thursday, January 22, 2004 13:39
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River goes to help Kaylee, and passes by Rowan. She says to Rowan:
Nine ball.
She then says to Kaylee:
Simon is asleep. It was his time.
She picks up some stuff, and heads off to the engine room.
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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!
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Book's Move
Location: Bridge
Book waits for an answer from Zoe, but silence tells him volumes. He waits and listens, eventually going to the storage locker, removing another radio and tossing it to Wash.
"Keep an ear out for more Alliance troop transmissions Wash, things went quiet real quick. Keep Zoe and the Cap'n apprised. I'm going down to check things out."
Book leaves the bridge and goes down by way of the aft stairs. He stops by his room and pockets his ID card, then moves to the door of the common room. He stops as he see's Kaylee and Inara on the end of the lowered cargo bay door talking to a slight woman whom Book thinks he recognizes. Looking beyond them, Book breathes easy as Mal and Zoe, heads together discussing, come into sight around a far corner. Book turns and goes back to his room to think.
Book to himself
"That went a little too easy."
Em
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Thorne's move.
Thorne sits at a table in the bar, doing serious damage to a plate of filly fillet, haricort vert, and fried yucca. He runs through a mental list of what he'll need to take with him on Serenity:
[Let's see. The Barrett M-210 for long range work. A shotgun's good...doesn't overpenetrate in a ship. Couple of spare handguns. Ammo, including the specials. Level IV back & brest. And rope...If you don't have it you're sure to need it. The usual spices. Wonder if anyone on that tub can cook? Probably not. Now what did the kid say? Tequila, yeah! Toss in a couple cases of limes, at least. Marguritas away! Hah! (pause) I'll need one or two after we clear the Valley. Pray to God this is the last time I ever have to go back there.]
EOM
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Zoe's Move:
After the short brawl, ZOE heads out the back with MAL toward the ship. As they walk, she keeps watch and a hand on her rifle. At one point, she thinks she hears a body fall. She looks around, sees nothing, but takes her alertness up to battle-ready.
MAL says: "I think I got the best of that good old boy back there! Ha! Ha! We're going to make money hand over fist on this caper, eh Zoe?"
He winks, and she looks at him like he's a bit out of his mind.
"Cap'n, we get word that not only is the place crawlin' with Feds, but they've IDed us, and there's no one out the back waitin' to haul us in? That getaway didn't seem just a little too easy to you?"
Sees BOOK poke his head out and then disappear back into the ship. Notices KAYLEE driving the mule up the ramp with INARA and another woman following on foot.
"Looks like there'll be more to tell on this end, too."
End Move.
~A~
...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.
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Book's Move
Location: Book's Room then the Common Area
Book stows away the radio and small gun he was carrying, again takes his Bible in hand and returns from his room into the common area with a shepherdly presence.
Noticing that none of the others have yet come back to the common area, Book furrows his brow, sits down in one of the many cushioned chairs and begins to pretend to read.
In his mind he wonders how Zoe and Mal could have escaped the Alliance? ...indeed what happened to the Alliance? and where is their back-up now?
Book looks up to the infirmary and another question arises in his mind ...what did Simon glean from Niska?
EM
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Rowan’s Move:
Location: Outside Serenity
ROWAN (to herself): "I think it’s been ten years since I smiled, let alone genuinely laughed. Did it ever simply flow out like that? Maybe once – one day, like a flash in the pan. Lord, it all happened so fast. Did the cause destroy it all?
Rowan can’t help it – there is just no other way to respond to such sparkle except with a smile.
ROWAN: "Well, can't very well refuse such a shiny invitation, now can I?"
Glancing at the companion, the two share a look of mutual agreement before the companion gestures again toward Serenity’s cargo hold. Lifting the duffle back to her shoulder, Rowan looks upward at Serenity’s profile before turning her focus to the boarding ramp. She’s halfway up the ramp before she feels someone approaching from behind. Looking over her right shoulder, she sees two individuals on their way toward the ship like they’re on a mission from the Almighty. The woman is striking, with the kind of dark beauty that would have launched ships in the ancient history of Earth-that was. The fella beside her, matching her stride for stride, carries himself like a man who knows his own mind and isn’t afraid to go for what he wants.
Both of them are wearing brown coats. Hers is lighter, more khaki, but his is obviously an officer’s coat direct from the Independent uniform series from the early, more prosperous years of the war. So not on any mission other than likely outrunning some trouble with the local Alliance. Rolling her eyes upward, she sends a nasty look toward the Almighty.
ROWAN (to The Great Whoever): I’m shipping out on a vessel crewed by Independents. Frankly? Could have done without the ironical omniscient sense of humor -- thanks!
EOM
OOC: Keep forgetting to end my move! 
I draw, therefore I am
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..WASH's MOVE
Wash goes to follow Book but he forgets that he put the gun down when Book gave him the radio. So he goes back to get his gun, and then he drops his radio. When he picks it back up, he hears on his radio..
Voice1: (sounds out of breath) "..reporting in. Got Reynolds. He didn't put up much of a fight."
Voice2: (garbled) "That's a neg-- *static* Reynolds *static* --my sites. They're at--"
*static*
Voice3: (deep scratchy voice. sounds like a commander of some sort) "Sargeant get off the line."
Voice1: "But Sir he's right here. We got Reynolds!"
Voice3: "That's not Reynolds you idiot! You're in the wrong bar!"
Voice2: *static* "Looks like Thorne. *static* --with Thorne."
Voice3: "You positive corporal?"
Voice2: *static* "--hundred percent affirm sir."
Voice3: "ABORT! Clear channel!" *static*
Voice2: "Aborting capture mission." *static* "Operation" *static* "Is a go."
Wash looks at his radio in disbelief. Then quickly moves out of bridge down hallway looking for Book, who's already moved on.
"Book! Hey, wait up! Did you hear this?"
..END MOVE
OOC: Assume when Wash catches up with Book that Wash relays what he heard to Book. If Book had his radio on, Book did NOT hear the same thing Wash heard. For more clarification please ask me questions in the OOC thread.
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"Hang on, travelers..."
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Kaylee's Move
Location: Taking supplies & parts down to the engine room.
"Thanks for the help, River! Never can find a man ta help out when ya need one. Hey, did you call Rowan "Nine Ball"? Do you know her?"
Continues on to engine room with River.
End Move
BoomerGoodheart
"I love my Captain."
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Book's Move
Location: Common Area outside the Infirmary
Book, still pretending to be engrossed in his reading, looks up with concern as Wash runs up to him, radio in hand and a look of crazed uncertainty on his face.
Wash paces in front of Book, the radio almost flying out of his gesturing hands. Book stands and tries to calm Wash, taking the radio from him and setting it on the table. As Wash relays the incoming transmission to Book, (who had left his radio in his room,) Book goes quickly to the aft stairway.
Book to Wash
"We need to get this info to the captain. It sounds like Alliance troops may have captured our contact, Thorne."
voice dropping low as he continues up the stairs.
"Things are starting to make some sense."
raising his voice again
"Was there any more to the transmission?"
EM
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Thorne: move
Thorne looks on as three guys in civvies jump some tourist wearing a brown jacket and haul him out the door. None of his business. He finishes his Key Lime pie and goes upstairs to his room to pack. As he throws weapons, clothes, and a wire whisk into a duffel bag, he trys to figure how to decoy some of the Feds away from Dock 4, now that Mal has screwed up Plan A. Thorne has to live here after this deal goes down, and folk offing a bunch of Feds makes things a mite uncomfortable.
EOM
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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