GR RP "Adventures in GunRunning" ACT 19
POSTED BY: CapnRahn
UPDATED: Thursday, August 19, 2004 18:38
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KAYLEE’s move
JAYNE follows her as she backs away to look at him. Eyes shifting nervously, he is scanning the room even as he lowers the gun slightly and carefully but firmly maneuvers her into a corner. She looks up at him rather fondly, even though he won’t see it. Why the big lug's protectin’ me. Ain’t that some sweet though? she thinks to herself. Wonder what he thinks from?
JAYNE
Not rightly sure. Could be a hijacking, or an attack based off Hera. Or..."
She never finds out … or… what. The internal comm sounds again, a bit hard to hear over the continued chanting of Serenity’s voice.
WASH
Kaylee! You'd better make up a good one as to why my ship is at pink alert! It's supposed to be a RED ALERT! I didn't know we had a red alert... Captain, everything's just fine, no problems at all...
JAYNE settles down a bit and looks down at her. KAYLEE is still grinning up at him. Or it could be Wash messing 'round again. He looks less than pleased with the situation.
KAYLEE pokes him in the chest with a pair of needle-nosed pliers she has in her left hand. I am gonna mess him around in a minute. Lemme outa here so’s I can give him a bit of instruction. We can’t have this alert unless someone has done something under his station and I didn’t. So, unless one o’ our new folks has been messing around where they shouldn’t oughta, then WASH and me are goin’ to have a bit of a chat. D’ya mind?
She tries to push past him. Besides, I think it is about time I turned that noisy thing off, don’t you?
EOM
If Justice is the dish, then I am your waitress
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Wash's Move:
Location - In A Pounding Headache on the Softly PINK lit Bridge
(Wash is still sitting at the helm, autopilot safely on, all sensors showing clear blackness around them...) "Thank the gorram gods that nobody's actually around here to see this... I'd be embarrased all over if some Reavers, or Early, or our old pal Niska saw us like this... Pink alert!" (Wash says to the forward viewports, not noticing Zoe's barly concieled reactin to "Niska".)
(Wash turns to Damon): "Whatcha doing up here? Wanna try out the helm?"
(All the while, Serenity's calm voice keeps repeating:) "Battle Stations".
Decoy, they make me go first.
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Zoe's Move:
Location - Bridge
(Zoe leaps up the ladder from the dorm she shares with Wash, and runs to the bridge... where she hears the name "Niska", and the terror washes over her, and she stiffens... She looks around, and sees... nothing amiss. Ah, wash again, she thinks, and then notices the shiny pink lights... that match Kaylee's dancing dress. She sits down at the gunnery console, and waits to see what Mal will do to Wash...
Decoy, they make me go first.
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ZOE'S MOVE, Supplemental:
LOCATION - BRIDGE
As she sits at the console to await MAL's arrival on the bridge, ZOE gives herself a mental shake and reminds herself that it was all just a dream...
ZOE calmly rises from the gunnery chair - Just ain't comfortable - and positions herself near WASH's right hand, perching against the panels as usual.
ZOE (to WASH): "Think you'll probably wanna be workin' up a good explanation, dear..."
A smile comes unbidden to her lips as she props herself against the console, hand on her left hip, and reaches out for his shoulder with her right.
ZOE (to WASH): "'Sides, I can't wait to see KAYLEE's reaction to this... Might even be more fun than MAL askin' why his bridge is all pink and flashy...
END MOVE.
OOC: Ho-o-o-ney, I'm h-o-o-me! 
~Astriana~
~Long-Winded Goddess of Inter-Board Communication and Diplomacy~
~El Jefe Magnifico's Mistress... of Communications and Harems... 
~
and
~Prodigal Daughter Returned Home 
~
...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.
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Damon's turn:
LOCATION - BRIDGE
Quote:
Originally posted by Decoy:
… Captain, everything's just fine, no problems at all.
Damon steps aside as Merz nearly storms out of the room. He gives Wash a confused frown as he realizes that there really isn't anything wrong. He breathes a quiet sigh of relief and runs a hand through his hair as he leans against a locker.
Quote:
"Thank the gorram gods that nobody's actually around here to see this... I'd be embarrased all over if some Reavers, or Early, or our old pal Niska saw us like this... Pink alert!"
(Wash turns to Damon): "Whatcha doing up here? Wanna try out the helm?"
(All the while, Serenity's calm voice keeps repeating:) "Battle Stations".
Not sure which question to answer first, and getting very tired of hearing the alert, he steps up to the console.
"How about we turn this off first?" Kneeling down, he locates the wire responsible for the pink alert and finds a burned piece of protein lodged in the circuits. He reaches for it but quickly pulls his hand back when it touches the hot food and wires.
"Tt... tzao gao, gorram piece of yu bun duh fei-oo.."
He shakes his hand for a second before grabbing his pocketknife from his pocket. Opening the knife, he uses it to pull out the burned piece of food and carefully scrape away anything left behind. He lets out another sigh as the ship goes quiet. "That's better." He pulls out the hot protein from under the console with the toe of his boot. " Looks like some food got stuck up in there, activated the alarm system."
He stands up next to Wash and looks down at Serenity's helm. His piloting skills are limited but he's managed to get around in simple shuttles when quick get aways were necessary. He doesn't think that now would be the best time to give it a try but he's eager to learn as much as he can.
"She fly anything like a class B shuttle?"
OOC: ok, just made class B up. just a simple shuttle
I'm not broken, in my dream I win...
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Jayne's turn:
LOCATION - ENGINE ROOM
KAYLEE
"So, unless one o’ our new folks has been messing around where they shouldn’t oughta, then WASH and me are goin’ to have a bit of a chat. D’ya mind?
Well, that doesn't settle Jayne down much. Jayne follows Kaylee out of the engine room. His gun is still out, but held inoffensively at his side.
JAYNE
"You need ta be on the bridge to set off that alarm?"
The pink light is really getting to him. Not that the rest of his day wasn't, but that light was just nasty. It reminded him of this one place he went to enjoy himself on Paquin. The girls there acted like they were doing work or something.
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KAYLEE’s move
LOCATION - ENGINE ROOM
JAYNE lets her slide past, and then falls in line behind her as she heads for the Bridge in what might be described as a mighty spirited mosey. He breaks the silence first.
JAYNE You need ta be on the bridge to set off that alarm?
KAYLEE Yeah. It is just wired to the helm console. It don’t run anywhere else in Serenity. It’s also not standard – belonged to a prior owner for who-knows why. Too much trouble to remove it so I broke the connection and left it.
They reach the stairs leading up to the bridge. There are a few people standing around, but nothing that seems either amiss or wrong. She looks up at JAYNE brightly See, it wasn’t anything but a false alarm.
Reaching the top of the stairs she sees DAMON with his hands under the console. Before she can speak, the alarm chops off mid-word as he says, … like some food got stuck up in there, activated the alarm system.
Ching-wah tsao de liou mahng!
KAYLEE is moving faster now, sprinting up to the stairs and onto the Bridge. DAMON stands there looking down at the helm and questioning WASH like there is nothing wrong in this world. Well, he can just dump that notion right now.
KAYLEE
WASH Warren, je shr shuh muh lan dong shi? She reaches across the helm console to his side and runs a finger around the bottom edge nearest the chair. You unwashed, brain-dead excuse for a lunatic. You promised, never, never, ever to bring a plate of food onto this bridge again. She holds up one unmistakably sticky finger. And if you say REX did it …
She whirls on DAMON. And you … She sighs and grins. Thanks for killing that alarm for me, was distracting for sure. I doubt you could’a done any more harm than HE did.
She motions towards WASH. Now, you just leave here for awhile and let me take care of this. I want to see what else might be fixin’ ta go up in smoke.
As WASH moves away from his chair, ZOË close behind, KAYLEE turns once again to DAMON. I think I have been takin’ some of my mad at someone else out on you. Don’t mean you can take liberties on my ship, but still I coulda been more understandin’.
She steps in front of WASH’s seat and goes to climb under the helm controls, as usual when WASH pauses on his way out of the room. Uh, KAYLEE, may I show you something? Without waiting for a reply but as soon as he catches her eye, WASH carefully reaches over and demonstrates that the console can now be accessed from the top. This might make things a bit easier.
As she glares at him, rising to her feet, he flees the bridge, at least as far as just on the other side of the door.
KAYLEE raises the top console access and groans. There is evidence of spillage everywhere. Nothing critical maybe, but it really needs to be cleaned up and soon. More work than she wants to consider, with the grav genny still in disarray.
EOM
Ching-wah tsao de liou mahng = Bastard who is humped by frogs!
Je shr shuh muh lan dong shi = What kind of rotten thing is this?
If Justice is the dish, then I am your waitress
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Jayne's turn:
LOCATION - PASSENGER DORMS
Jayne is somewhat settled by Kaylee's upbeat explanation. He slides his pistol yet again into its holster. Bah. Wash would have his hands full with the rest of the crew right about now, so Jayne decides to bug him about it later.
Jayne tromps back down to the passenger dorms. Ah, Book's door is open.
JAYNE
Jayne walks up and sticks his head in. "Preacher?" Nobody is here. Just a big ol' trunk on the preacher's bed. Wonder what holy smut is like, Jayne thinks half jokingly, half hopefully, and edges into the room, leaning forward and craning his neck to see...
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Book's Move
Location: Running to bridge
Book pulls up short as he hears Wash's voice call out over the comm that all is well. Unconvinced, but less hurried than before, he continues up to the bridge to assess the situation. Arriving just as Kaylee is ordering Wash from the bridge with a disapproving look, Book waits at the top of the short flight of steps outside the bridge door.
EM
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Damon's turn:
LOCATION - BRIDGE
Quote:
Originally posted by MercedesTroy:
Ching-wah tsao de liou mahng!
Tzao gao, here we go again... He steps away from the computer and remains quiet.
Quote:
KAYLEE
WASH Warren, je shr shuh muh lan dong shi? She reaches across the helm console to his side and runs a finger around the bottom edge nearest the chair. You unwashed, brain-dead excuse for a lunatic. You promised, never, never, ever to bring a plate of food onto this bridge again. She holds up one unmistakably sticky finger. And if you say REX did it …
She whirls on DAMON. And you … She sighs and grins. Thanks for killing that alarm for me, was distracting for sure. I doubt you could’a done any more harm than HE did.
Damon's surprised that he's not getting railed on for touching her computer but Kaylee turns back to dismiss Wash before he has a chance to say anything.
Quote:
As WASH moves away from his chair, ZOË close behind, KAYLEE turns once again to DAMON. I think I have been takin’ some of my mad at someone else out on you. Don’t mean you can take liberties on my ship, but still I coulda been more understandin’.
Damon folds his knife closed and puts it back in his pocket. "Like I said, I'm just tryin to help- just been doin whatever Mal says needs doin." He motions to the computer. "Except for turnin that off. Figured that needed doin on my own."
He watches Wash back out of the room and notices Book standing in the doorway. Damon's gaze drops to Book's pocket and darkens at the memory of that disaster.
What you get for being careless...
He turns back to Kaylee who is already working at the console.
"Hey, you need any tools from the engine room 'fore I go down?"
I'm not broken, in my dream I win...
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