Life Onboard Serenity: Into The Black

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BIGWOLF18

Monday, June 30, 2008 3:39 PM

Life Onboard Serenity is a text based RPG, anyone can play anyone can join.

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No killing of other author’s characters or of canon characters. In that vein, try to keep canon characters acting like themselves.

Please try to post with consideration for fellow authors and with some consistency to current story lines.

Sub-plots are great and we welcome them, but please try to make them fit into the current stories as much as possible.

Oh, and please keep things as close to PG as possible. If you have a more adult scene you'd like posted, post it as a spoiler.

NEW CHARACTERS WELCOME! but try to keep it realistic.
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Story so far: its been 7 months since the horrific events of "serenity" the word is out on miranda and the alliance has been having a hard time keeping a reign on things. because of this the crew of the serenity have got more compotition than they usually would, as defiance is becoming more and more popular.
although they lost some crew, some dead others leaving due to "personal reasons", they found some shiny new crewmembers happy to take their place.
river is currently acting as pilot with mal helping on that front, and her brain is back to normal (well normal-ish). simon and kaylee are trying something new call a relationaship
and zoes having trouble with the loss of her husband, jaynes just as grotesque and jayne-y as usual, so lets go Into The Black...

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Shaman.
98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.
"of course i've gone mad with power, ya ever tried going mad without power? its no fun, nobody listens to you!" The Simpsons Movie

JOHNTHETHEATREFREAK

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 3:21 AM

As John tinkered with the ship, he came to a realization he hated. The ship felt abnormal, still. 7 months later and things had only gotten worse. Zoe mourned, unconsolable. Their was no more fire in her eyes, she felt empty all the time. Kaylee had all but abandoned John, spending all her time with Simon. Mal was cold always no warmth in his voice not even when he let his guard down. And even with River in the pilot's chair, the bridge was empty.

River had become the one thing that had kept him from just leaving. After Miranda, she came back to who she was. John knew all too well what that was like. They had bonded. He spent hours just sitting in the bridge discussing everythig from quantum theory to Fruity Oaty Bars. She was the only person who felt...better after Miranda. He missed playing cards and laughing at jokes. He missed the captain showing he cared and Zoe shooting the bad guys. He missed awkrard flirting and smiles. He missed Serenity.

johnttf

DRPAIN

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 4:58 AM

Pain's Bunk

Tobacco smoke hung in the air like a thick haze, as Pain sat at his table and field stripped his latest acquisition. She was a thing of beauty and worth the costs incurred. Bullpup configuration, ejection port out near the right side of the barrel which sent spent shell cases away from the shooter, a computerized scope with laser rangefinder and zoom capability, and most importantly of all, a 40mm grenade launcher. It was well worth the cost of his AK-47 along with a couple of pistols and a case of ammo.

"Gorram, baobei, you're quite a beauty." Pain said to the assault rifle in a loving tone. "Gonna have to get some range time with you one of these days, to get the feel for you."

He sat there looking at all her parts laid out in an orderly fashion, with eyes of a lover. It was a look that he had reserved for the women that he loved. Both Fly and Ertia were gone now. Out in the 'Verse living new lives somewhere. He was happy for them, happy that they moved on with their lived, but there were times where he wished it was still the old days and he was with them.

Slowly Pain put the gun back together and sighed. Single life was starting to get annoying at the moment. He needed to to get away from those thoughts and decided he'd distract himself by lifting a few sets of weights in the cargo bay. Locking the gun in his weapons locker, Pain climbed out of his bunk and headed down the stairs to the cargo bay and towards the battered and well used weight bench.

OOC: Here's a pic of Pain's new toy.

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WWJD: What Would Jayne Do?

BIGWOLF18

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 3:04 PM

LOCATION CLASSIFIED

*Wolf watched as the last of the shooters fell to the ground, his gun clattering on the hot stone steps. without a glance at the bodys of his fallen enemys he policed their weaponry and ammo. he didn't care about the men, they were just another kill in a long line of kills, but ammunition could cause Wolf to cross the hairline between winning and losing, life and death, getting payed and going hungry.
he made his way back to the extraction point, waiting for him there was a small craft, barely large enough for two people. he climbed into the hatch and closed it behind him, after selecting his course and switching on the auto-pilot, he finnaly sat down.
it had been 7 months of doing jobs for the Independance, taking out important alliance targets, bombing installations and one instance involving a nuke, a chicken, some blu-tac and an alliance shipyard. after miranda the alliance had lost its grip, and up came the Browncoats, some looking for revenge, some new blood, all hating the alliance.
Wolf checked the weapons he had taken from the alliance soldiers, 3 desert eagles, a sonic rifle, a box of fragmentation grenades. nothing worth very much, but THIS was a rare gem, this was what he was here to get, a prototype plasma rifle. it was large enough that it wouldn't fit in a pistol holster but too small for a back sling, he stroked the smooth chamber that fired plasma in excess of 3000 degrees.
Wolf hooked it to the specialy made strap on his belt, and took the controls of the ship.
he set co-ordinates for the Independance base-moon and hit full burn. this would make some Browncoat scientists very happy.*

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Shaman.
98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.
"of course i've gone mad with power, ya ever tried going mad without power? its no fun, nobody listens to you!" The Simpsons Movie

ISAHIAH

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 9:35 PM

OOC:This is Mobbex... I made a new alt to avoid contaminating this thread with my VFF avatar and sig.

Isahiah awoke with a start, hacking and retching as the noxious fumes exuding from the punctured halomethane tank invaded his airways. His head felt as though it was a couple of size to small for his cerebrum, and a good deal heftier than usual. He let out a short groan as he stumbled to his feet.

"How long was I out?" he thought. The engine room was plunged in semi-obscurity, only seldom lit by the flashing red-lights that bespoke of the rare precariousness of his situation. He could feel blood seeping out of his ears at a steady pace, and was acutely aware of the sizably deep open wound that gashed his forehead and tempe. He had no notion of who or what had injured him, nor could he seem to recollect any of the last day's events. He glanced around the room in search of potential clues, hoping that he would stumble across something that might trigger some shrouded memory, but was brutally brought back to the present as a the floor began to quake under his feet.

"Time to go..." He turned toward the doorway and dashed out of the room, pinning his hope on the chance that the rest of the crew had left at least one escape module behind when they had deserted the ship. He made his way down to the pod bay, and was shocked to discover that not a single of the dozen or so escape pods had been used.

"What in the jiu you happened here?" Once again, he was drawn away from his inquiry by another, this time more violent set of quakes issuing from the decks above. He put off his questions, hopped into the nearest module and sealed the door shut.

"Someone has to pay for this," he thought as he strapped himself in. He grabbed the handle that commanded the release of the docking clamps and yanked it back, feeling an uneasy tingle in his entrails as the compact module began to drift on it's own. He then activated the runaway thrusters and was instantly compressed against his seat by the sheer force of the acceleration. He could feel his features contort under the stress as his of vision progressively faded to black, and was right on the verge of blacking out again when the agonizing pressure finally relented. He unfastened his harness and glanced out the porthole just in time to see the ship disintegrate in the wake of a gigantic fusion explosion.

"Sabotaged... someone betrayed us."

DRPAIN

Friday, July 4, 2008 4:28 AM

Le BUMP!

Serenity's Cargo Bay

"Gorrammit, Pain, stop hoggin' the weight bench!" shouted Jayne, as he strode on into the cargo bay.

Pain had just finished another set of twenty 300 pound reps and set the weights back down on the bench. Rising up he grabbed his towel, wiped his forehead off, gave a short chuckle and said, "Aw hell, Jayne, if'n I knew you wanted to lift a few I woulda put on the baby weights."

"Ha ha, Pain. You're a ruttin' comedian." snapped Jayne. Lookin' at the weights on the bar, Jayne asked, "Whatchya pressin'? 300? That's pansy liftin'. Hell I'd lay money that pansy ass doc could lift more'n that."

Pain got off the bench, crossed his muscle bound arms across his barrel chest, and said, "Oh really now?" He raised an eyebrow and asked the other mercenary, "You wanna have a lil' competition then?"

"We gonna wager some cashy money?" asked Jayne, his interest piquing at the sound of a weight lifting contest.

"Sure why not. I could always use more of your money." quipped Pain. Taking some money out of his pocket, he counted a few bills and said raising an eyebrow, "How's 300 sound?"

The gears in Jayne's greedy little brain spun like a newly assembled engine as he thought about what he could do with that kind of cash. Finally he said, "You're on, Pain. Slap another hundred on that bad boy and lets see who can bench the most before pussyin' out."

Pain put his cash back into his pocket, shrugged and said, "Fine by me." He walked over to the weights and slapped fifty pounds on each end. Turning to Jayne, Pain said with a smile, "You first."

Jayne grinned and said as he positioned himself on the weight bench, "Easiest cashy money I ever made."

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WWJD: What Would Jayne Do?

BIGWOLF18

Friday, July 4, 2008 12:33 PM

Beylix
*Wolf approached the moon of beylix, the independants base-of-operations, he set the grid co-ordinates and calculated the approach vector, while working out an entry gradient Wolf began to think about his previous mission. It wasn’t good to think too much after an assignment like that, 12 men shot dead by his hand, a thousand more lost in the detonation of three packages of C-12 plastic explosive and the resultant explosion of the hydrogen power cells.
Thinking too hard after a mission like that could allow doubt, and doubt was a luxury Wolf couldn’t afford. He had to get the job done and get out, keep his mind on the job and get on with the next mission. But for some reason this job had got to him, he had killed before, and in much larger quantitiys than that, he had stolen before so no problems there. But what it was Wolf never did find out because at that moment, he got contacts, dozens of them. He reduced his propulsion to below stealth level, and widened the range of his sensors.
There was a battle in orbit, about 36 large alliance destroyers were bombarding the small fleet and 4 orbital cannons that made up the Browncoats defences.
As the Independent fleet readied to fire, Wolf shot to action and was speeding towards the alliance flagship before the 2nd salvo was fired.*

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Shaman.
98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.
"of course i've gone mad with power, ya ever tried going mad without power? its no fun, nobody listens to you!" The Simpsons Movie

JOHNTHETHEATREFREAK

Friday, July 4, 2008 4:04 PM

"Kaylee why is my ship not flying reight by now," Mal said struttin into the engine room.

"She ain't in here captain," John replied from somewhere underneath the engine.

"Well where is she?"

"Giving Simon a very passionate hug. The ship can't be fixed till I get some new parts, which won't happen until we get some coin, going back to the argument yesterday, we need work."

"We work"

"Yeah for scraps, we need real work. We need work that pays. Captian I know we went through some hard times but we need to get back into it. It could be easy with the alliance focusing on the new Browncoat Revolution. We can't just keep floatin around waiting for something to hit us."

"Fine, I send out a wave, but most of our people are dead."

"Then it's time to make some new friends.

johnttf

SCATHAC

Saturday, July 5, 2008 3:47 AM

Somewhere on Paquin, inside the compound of Master Nguyen Lam:

The room is dim, though a warm fire burns in the hearth, and lends a little light. A haze of incense and herb smoke lies on the air.
"Little daughter." An old man lies in a narrow bed. His eyes are rheumy and dull, and his pale skin drips sweat.
"Yes Sifu," Scathac returns to the side of the bed, changes the herb infused compress on his brow. He has been ill for so long, and she fears for him, but she keeps her face smooth. At first, there was medicine and medical aid, but in the last months, he had refused them.
"Child. It is enough. It is time." He takes her hand. "Daughter. You must take my ashes back to Sihnon. They must rest with the ancestors. Find a ship. Take me home." Scathac looks at the man who found her as a child, and raised her, taught her, loved her. He has other children, other students, but she is the child of his heart, so much like him.
"Of course Sifu. It will be so." Scathac takes his hand.
"I know, my daughter." The eyes close. After I while, the struggled breathing slows, slows, stops.
Scathac stands, crosses the room, opens the door. In the courtyard, all of the students and family wait, sitting in rows, chanting prayers to the Buddha. Master Ngia, Master Lam's oldest son, is waiting near the door. She nodds, and closes her eyes, weeping. Ngia, her brother, rises, turns to the little community. His eyes close in sorrow. There is silence in the courtyard for just a moment, and finally, wailing.
Scathac bypasses the courtyard, wiping the tears from her eyes, and mentally prepares the wave she must send.

BIGWOLF18

Saturday, July 5, 2008 3:01 PM

alliance flagship WASHINGTON, in orbit around beylix

*Wolf leaped out of the gloomy interior of his light-attack stealth craft and was blinded by the sudden light of the open shipbay. he raised his shotgun and fired, BOOM BOOM BOOM all three barrels of his custom weapon spewed their deadly contents and a group of mechanics fell to the ground twitching, their orange boiler-suits spattered with crimson.
the noise alerted several security guards.*

Guard1 "We have contacts, call to SEQCOM and se..."

*the mans voice was cut shot as a round of super-heated plasma slapped into his back, boiling through flesh, meat and bone. his fellow guards ran for cover, seeing the horrific end that could await them.
Wolf simply laughed, and then unleashed hell*

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Shaman.
98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.
"of course i've gone mad with power, ya ever tried going mad without power? its no fun, nobody listens to you!" The Simpsons Movie

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