RP: "Adventures in Gunrunning" - Act 14
POSTED BY: FrauDirektor
UPDATED: Saturday, April 24, 2004 00:52
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GREEN ROOM (REAL-TIME):
Chat and storyline work
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CURRENT GREEN ROOM (OOC) THREAD:
More in-depth conversations about character
development/storylines
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STARRING:
Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds - Geezer (fireflygeezer@cox.net)
Zoë Warren - Astriana (htempe@hotmail.com, MSN, AIM: MissAstriana, Yahoo!: MissAstriana, ICQ: 9592266)
Wash Warren - RavenWhyteWing (ravenwhytewing@yahoo.com)
Jayne Cobb - SerenitysSon (killianf@bellsouth.net)
Kaywinnit Lee 'Kaylee' Frye - BoomerGoodHeart (boomergoodheart@hotmail.com, MSN, AIM)
Simon Tam - CapnRahn (CapnRahn@aol.com, MSN, AIM)
River Tam - TeelaBrown (AIM: Teela Sera)
Inara Serra - Ciara (elenahope@yahoo.com; AIM)
Shepherd Book - ManiacNumberOne (magicbishop@comcast.net)
GUEST STARRING:
Adelai Niska - temporarily played by CapnRahn
Brink 'Slight' Helsing - RavenWhyteWing (ravenwhytewing@yahoo.com)
Damon - Squee (dm_squee@earthlink.net; AIM: Squee755)
Mercedes 'Merz' Troy - Mercedes Troy
Roosevelt 'Rosie' Thorne - Geezer (fireflygeezer@cox.net)
Rowan - Channain (channain@yahoo.com; AIM)
DIRECTORIAL STAFF:
GameMaster - Geezer (fireflygeezer@cox.net)
Co-Director - FrauDirektor (htempe@hotmail.com, MSN, AIM: MissAstriana, Yahoo!: MissAstriana, ICQ: 9592266)
Co-Director - Channain (channain@yahoo.com; AIM)
Minion - DirektorsSmeagol (CapnRahn@aol.com, MSN, AIM)
PRODUCER:
Haken
GENERAL POST GUIDELINES
None have been established yet. Each player has a unique style for posting a move that is consistent within itself. You'll catch on! 
ACRONYM DEFINITIONS & TERMS
EOM = End of Move
OOC = Out Of Character
POV = Point Of View
RESOURCES
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Last but not least, the Gunrunners would like to extend a big THANK YOU to Joss Whedon for creating a whole new 'verse for us to play in, and to Haken for giving us a bright, shiny new sandbox theater!
Joss
Gunrunners
HakenGunrunners
Frau Direktor 
Haff fun stormink zee castle... 
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Und here iz vhere everyvun iz hidink:
[end accent]
Mal: On the bridge, probably contemplatin' the Black.
Zoe/Wash: In their bunk, beginning to stir.
Kaylee: In the galley, munchin' on a muffin.
Jayne: Presumably in his bunk.
Inara: In her shuttle, presumably sleeping.
Book/Mercedes: In Book's room, discussing nudity and other protocol.
River: Wandering the ship.
Simon/Slight: On the Gyrfalcon, Heaven knows where. Simon doesn't seem to be himself.
Thorne: In his room, preparing for his evening with Inara.
Damon: In the cargo bay, looking through boxes and reopening his wounds, if he's not careful.
Rowan: Heading up the catwalk on her way to Inara's shuttle, smirking at Damon's rebelliousness.
Niska: Hera's Outback, plotting trouble.
[restore accent]
Und iff I missed anyvun, please let me know.
Haff fun stormink zee castle...
Frau Direktor
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Jayne's Lament:
Well folks, as I'm sure you done seen, I ain't been able to git out of my bunk fer several weeks. I'm rightly afeared that it's gonna' be a few more weeks 'afore I git the time ta' come on out on a regular like basis. Iff'in ya' see me sleepwalkin' feel free ta' guide my actions until ya' kin git me back inta my bunk...
OOC: Sorry folks work is still eating my life, Im now the programing person for Dreamcon as well as Beta testing City of Heros sooo very little time for anything. No official news yet but looks like we may get Kaylee and Zoe as guests for the con! Miss you all and hope your doing well.
The Hero of Canton, the man they call... Meeeeee!
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Wash's move (finally!):
Wash slowly stirs. He doesn't even have to open his eyes to realize that he's in bed with the woman he loves. With a sniff, he can smell the coffee wafting down through the atmo feed. It's probably a good time to get up. Wash leans over and kisses Zoe's forehead. She shifts, and smiles in her sleep. Wash is quiet as he can be, dressing, but of course, she still wakes up.
"Good morning, bao bei," he says softly, smiling with his pants still somewhere around his ankles.
EOM
You see I cannot be forsaken/Because I'm not the only one.
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Book's Move
LOCATION - BOOK'S ROOM
"I would say, first thing is for you to relax." Book relaxes the look he must have been giving her inadvertantly, and soothes his emotions back to stillness.
"Second, you may call me Shephed or Book, and the title is a religious one. I'm not a superior," Book lowers his voice conspiratorally and puts a soft quirky grin on his face. "I actually don't like them much. I'd like to think one day everyone will consider themselves as equals."
Book pauses in his attempts to make Mercedes comfortable and he turns and sits down on his bunk, suddenly exhausted. He wonders what kind of a place she must have grown up in... to believe what she does. She's apparently been taken advantage of without her knowledge.
"You have good instincts. I think you've started on the right road to understanding how to get along with this crew and in new situations in life. You've got to trust someone sometime, like you're trusting me now, and just hope that the person you trust won't lead you astray."
Book stands back up and goes to his cracked mirror, not looking up at it, but instead down at his Bible sitting on the counter below. He picks it up and leafs through a few pages, then turns back to Mercedes. "I will not lead you astray."
"As for the clothing optional statement.... Book says with a somewhat worried look as he scratches at the back of his neck. "... maybe you better tell me a little more."
EM
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LOCATION - INARA'S SHUTTLE
short post to let Rowan in--will post more later
As Inara is putting the final touches on her apparel for her evening with Thorne, suddenly there comes a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at her chamber door.
Assuming a visitor, and nothing more, "Qing jin"* she calls to the door.
(with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe)
*Qing jin--come in, enter
Just a humble supplicant in service to all things Joss
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Damon's turn:
LOCATION- SPARE SHUTTLE
Damon pulls his bag out from under his bed and rifels through its meager contents, pulling out his three shirts, underwear and stray socks. Just as he wonders where his second pair of pants are, he remembers that they had fallen victim to the doctors scissors yesterday.
Looks like I'll be doing some shopping at NH.
After grabbing his razor and putting his bag back under his bed, he steps out onto the catwalk and heads for the infirmery.
I'm not broken, in my dream I win...
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MERZ move
LOCATION – BOOKS ROOM
Quote:
I will not lead you astray.
why do i believe him? it is not the first time i have trusted, but why do i believe him?
Book has sat down and then risen again. his posture and his very smell speak of tension and concern. In an effort to make him more at ease, MERZ drops into a seated position on the floor, as much at ease as she can manage.
After a short pause, MERZ answers him, her voice a monotone, her face stone. “All right Shepherd. Home was a barracks with 24 other TROYS. Everything we did, we did together. Clothing was what was needed, called for at any given time for training or comfort only. Time spent among others than us was mission time and had different parameters and strictures. We only know what we are taught and we are taught only what we need to know.
I spent time outside of the shelter of the TROYS. I . . . made different . . friends and learned new things. I learned the difference between nude and naked from one who believed that to be unclothed by choice was among other things, a matter of trust. His companions/crew understood his beliefs and those who would share them. I learned this from him along with other, different lessons. I was beginning to learn more from all of these comrades when they were taken from me.”
Pause
“I did not know enough people to realize all places are not the same.”
Pause
“They told us of religion. We are taught it is a set of lies told by those who would control to those whom they would control, full of contradictions and false comfort. We do not need such things.”
Pause
“I want to learn to fit in while I search for my lost ones. I am afraid that making friends or new companions may endanger them, should I be sought after. TROYS do not leave the group.”
Pause
“I think I may be learning to understand fear. I already know sorrow. And what I had of faith is already shattered.”
EOM
If Justice is the dish, then I am your waitress
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INTERLUDE 3 Part I
LOCATION - OMICRON PERSII VIII, OROBOROS
0520 AMT {Alliance Mean Time} As ...
In mid leg sweep, CORVAIR TROY is nearly caught off guard by the apparent buzzing in his left ear. Flipping out of range of his opponent, a motorized stick-man, he lands off of the sensor mat.
Closing his eyes, he concentrates on the scrambled wave that was being relayed to his internal cochlea transducer. After a moment of extracting the message from the code, he smiles tightly and heads for the landing bay.
EOI
"Observe Analyze & Respond"
Motto of the A.P.E.s
Alliance Protean Engineers
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Book's Move
LOCATION - BOOK'S ROOM
Seeing Rowan sit on the floor, Book stops his random movements and internally berates himself. She just stood there and spoke, and I go and wander about the room. I didn't even offer her a seat. I wonder if she would have taken it.
Book listens to Rowan and remains silent until she reaches religion. He opens his mouth to speak, but the look on her face is one he's seen before and he closes it again.
Book can feel his heart breaking as he listens to this girl tell him of her loss of belief, and her search for freedom. She was meant to come here. Sent here for me to help he thinks. Book closes his eyes for a what he supposes are only a few moments, his hands tightly clutching his Bible, and silently asks for the strength to help Mercedes. He opens them again to see Mercedes watching him intently, and realizes that more time has passed in silence than he thought.
A warm smile on his face, Book releases his grip on his Bible. "Fortunately for you, faith can be mended." Book stops and waits for the inspiration he just asked for. He decides to try to address the issue of the people who had told her about religion. "The measure of anyone is in what they do, not what they say. Those people who told you that religion was meant to control you... did they try to control you?"
Book pauses to see the effect of his words. Is she afraid to speak to me more fully? he thinks. "There's no need for you to fear endangering me." Book sets the Bible back down on the counter top. "Tell me, what does TROY stand for?"
EM
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