Life Onboard Serenity: Second Terraformed Planet to the right....
POSTED BY: Choo1701
UPDATED: Friday, October 6, 2006 23:58
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Bumping yet again. I think I deserve a raise for this.
*Pain and Ertia were in the secluded swimming hole doing what folks who go skinny dipping do. Pain splashed Ertia with some water and she splashed him back. The two of them were having fun doing this until Pain heard the sound of something rattling around in some nearby bushes. Ertia splashed Pain one more time before she swam up to him and said to him*
What's the matter babe?
*Pain held a finger to his mouth and replied in a whisper*
I think there's someone or something in those bushes over there.
*Ertia whispered to Pain, not believing him entirely*
What do you mean Pain? Are you sure you're not just trying to scare me?
*The bushes rattled again and this time Ertia heard it. She grabbed Pain's waist and hugged her body closer to his as the rattling continued. Pain said in a commanding tone*
Alright whoever's in those bushes come out and show me some hands!
*After a few minutes of silence the bushes started to rattle again and Pain replied yet again*
This ain't funny! Whoever you are get the ruttin' hell out of those bushes!
*The rattling stopped and Pain swam a little closer, trying to get to the shore where his holstered pistol was when the source of the bush rattling came running out yelling*
FRIZZLEFRAZZLEWHOOPWHOOPSTUPIDGORRAMFREAKERNUTTER!!!
*The sight and sound of 13's little freak of a pet Dani, caught Pain and Ertia off gaurd and nearly scared the crap out of them. Pain muttered something in Chinese and was about to go to shore when Dani ran by Pain's clothes and took his pants, screaming as it ran away*
LIPPYLOOPBAHBOOPSUCKDOGGYPOOFINGERS!!!!
*Pain got onshore, put on his shirt, looked at Ertia and said*
Don't you dare laugh babe.
*Ertia tried to hold the laughter back. Seeing Dani run over to Pain's clothes and steal his pants was very funny. Well at least to her anyways. She couldn't hold it in anymore and started to laugh. Pain muttered something in Chinese, then yelled at Dani as he chased the pants stealing, mutant freak*
COME BACK HERE YOU FREAK OF NATURE SO'S THAT I CAN POP A BULLET IN YOUR BRAINPAN FOR STEALIN' MY RUTTIN' PANTS!!!!!!!!
I wonder if 13 will mind if I kill his stupid little pet.
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WWJD: What Would Jayne Do?
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*Coming back to full awareness was far from pleasant, especially as it allowed the mother-in-law of all hangovers to kick in. Trying to ignore the thrumming sound that made both ears feel like they'd been ruptured, Nico forced his eyes open; and instantly regretted it. The piercing bright sunlight made his eyes instinctivly close again. Cracking his open carefully, he started to identify shapes, but they weren't the smooth lines of his apartment, or even that of any core planet architecture.*
Wha...? *was all he could croak, his voice rasping. As his mental discipline fought to over-ride the hangover, he tried to take stock of where he was and how he might of got there. Searching in his pocket for a hankerchief to wipe the sweat off his brow, he felt a crumpled piece of card and dug it out. Squinting at it, he turned it around a few times, until he determined it was a coaster from some drinking establishment he seemed to recall being told never to enter.*
*The sweat on his forhead went cold, despite the oppressive heat of the day, as things started to fit together. A fuzzy memory of drinking games with his classmates, but from there, nothing. He had no idea how much of his memory was blank, but running a hand across a heavily stubbled face gave him some point of reference.*
*Pushing aside the loose pieces of corragated tin that must have been serving as a bedsheet, he staggered to his feet. Looking around, all he could see was hills and scrub, but his nose detected something that wasn't natural. Following the smell, his wobbly steps brought him to the top of a small rise. From here, he could what was defintely a spaceship. Battered and possibly a decade or two past her use-by date, but a spaceship nonetheless. Since the presence of unfamiliar moons in the sky told him he was nowhere near the core, this seemed to be his best chance to get home, or at least, somewhere closer to home.*
*Approaching the ship, he hawked out a gob of saliva and called out*
Hello, anyone home? *and quietly, to himself* anyone friendly?
OoC: hope my introductory thread isn't too cliched, but the drunked binge is the only story device i can think of that will allow me to catch up on who's who, and what's what without having to read all the previous threads
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"Where did it go again?" asked Zoe as she helped Choo place the couch back into the passenger section, while not trying to smash into anything fragile.
"Over there. Look where, i'm pionting..." Motioned a reading River.
"Does it actually matter, i always thought it didn't look good there." said Simon. Zoe and Choo shot him a look. "Never mind..."
"Hello, anyone home?" came a new voice for the cargo bay.
"de-clawed and all," whispered River.
"Doc, take over from me will ya?" said Zoe as she eased the furniture down and headed out the door.
Simon hesitated and grabbed the other end, yanked at his end, making Choo lose his grip and curse when it landed on his foot. Meanwhile River just laughed her head off...
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Zoe ignored the yelp and walked across the cargo bay to the stranger.
"You alright there stranger? Look a little worse for where?"
OoC: Hello Nico. Always good to have a new face. Theres some info at the top of the thread about the rules, and whats happened before. You'll learn a bit about us all as we go along, and enjoy.
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TRAIN!!!
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*Hearing voices (some melodious and delightful to the ear, some not so much) coming from within the ship, Nico grew slightly hopeful. The bubbling laughter he could hear was pushed into the background as a calm, self-assured voice asked him if he was alright.*
*Keeping his hands free of his grime-stained and rather frayed dark grey pants whose white pinstripes were well and truly concealed by the dirt ground into them, he tried to sound firm, hoping to conceal his desparation.Having made a snap judgement based on the appearance of the ship, he figured that asking for a lift back to the central planets wasn't likely to be too successful. For now, though, he'd be happy just to find out where he was, and if he could get somewhere else, say, somewhere he could access his bank accounts and buy passage home.*
"Hi there. I don't suppose you have room for a passenger, do you?"
*Even as he asked, he wondered how he could pay for his fare, given the near-emptiness of his pockets. After all, this didn't look like the sort of vessel whose crew would accept payment at the end of the voyage.*
*The uncomfortableness he felt in asking for help reminded him of his early schooling days, when the social workers had thought that the best thing for an abandoned child was to send it to a boarding school. Even back then, his strong sense of pride, coupled with the constant taunting of the snobbish rich kids had made asking for help a daunting task. So standing there, with his shortish dark brown hair being blown around by the wind gusts, and his trashed clothes making him look like some sort of hobo, he felt the tears starting to well up behind his blue eyes, but he forced them back as best he could.*
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Glad to have you here Nico. Now if the others would just stop being busy and post something....
*Pain continued to run after Dani, yelling insults and threats at the mutant freak. Ertia got out of the swimming hole, got dressed and then proceeded to head off after Pain and Dani.*
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WWJD: What Would Jayne Do?
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post something like this....
"So brother your running with Kaylee again"
"Yeah"
"She still with what's his face"
"Well after a couple stars and stops yeah"
The converssation would give a listener no hint of what the brothers were doing. Of course one could brobably here the grunts and clash of steel as they swung their swords at each other.
"What do you want the gorram mule for anyway."
"It's mine"
"Well you left it here"
"And" As the battle continued it became incresingly clear who would be taking home the mule. The brothers nickname were extreme misnomers. John was no Doc but rather a skilled fighter. Knives was the opposite. As they parried with each other John grew board and swept his brother off his feet. "Game, Set, and Match" he said reaching down to take the keys out of his brothers pocket.
johnttf
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Don't tell me, its bright YELLOW!! :p And cool, a sword fight.
"Gotta speak with our captain first," Zoe said carmly, keeping some neutrality in her voice, "He went out just know, not sure when he'll be back. But your welcome on board till the Mr...??"
"Nico, names Nico." said Nico about shakenly.
"Our lounge is upstairs," Zoe pionted behind her, "through the back. Straight up and to the right."
As Zoe lead him through they saw Simon bandaging up Choo's foot, with River creeping at the door. Choo gave a smilie, but then winced as Simon continued.
Un noticed by the guest, Zoe hit the controls to auto lock the engine room up, after the Heart of Gold job, it was best left alone...
In the longue, Zoe prepared some coffee and asked: "so whats your story Nico. Everyones got one..."
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Meanwhile.
Knives had prepared some transport to take Kaylee and Mal to the boneyard. There, like a dis organized mess, was a wreck of nearly every spaceship built by man in the verse.
"This why this planet a secret cap'n?" Kaylee asked.
"Yep, according to the locals, the Alliance let the land from orbit." said Mal as they passed a burnt out hulk. "Thats if they survive. Locals then put them here and mainly guard from folk who want to steal, but also sell some of the rarer parts. Nice little business."
Kaylee only nodded, engroused in the sad remains of a spyinx class. "Kaylee, you even listening to me?"
"Sure thing cap'n," she said, clearly not...
signing Mal, grabbed her hand and steered her around the nearest corner.
There, in two rows stood every known type of Firefly ever made, from the mark one's too the mark Fives, all in some state of dis-repair.
"ooo," said the beaming Kaylee, "We do need a new primary buffer panel..."
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Despite its outward appearance, the more Nico saw of the interior of the ship, the more impressed he became. While from the outside it looked somewhat unreliable, from inside it looked to be well cared for, which spoke well of the crew, although he was all too aware that looks can be deceiving. Speaking of looks, the young girl who was creeping at the door as he entered was most intriguing. A lifetime of learning to be unobtrusive meant that his vision tended to pick up people trying to skulk around, a byproduct of a 'classical' education at the school of hard knocks.
As he sat down in the lounge, his muscles informed him of just how much they had gotten used to resting inert on hard, rocky terrain. Leaning back with an extremely grateful sigh of pleasure, he watched Zoe preparing the coffee, having already picked out the best routes of escape, should he find himself having to leave in a hurry. Hopefully that wouldn't be required, but some habits die harder than others, especially when surrounded by strangers.
Skimming over his life story in his mind quickly, he tried to work out what he should include, and what to leave out.
"Well, let's see. I was an abandoned child on one of the central planets, so my name was picked out at random by one of the social workers." For now, he wasn't going to admit to the lack of a surname, having been assigned an alpha-numeric designation to go with the name of Nicodemus.
"As a ward of the state, I spent my childhood in boarding schools and somehow got good enough grades to earn a scholarship to one of the major universities, not the really big name ones, but a large enough one." Not mentioning of course that the scholarship was actually earnt through a mixture of blackmail, bribery and old-fashioned record altering. Indeed, Nico considered his true education to have been that of learning how to work the system to his advantage, rather than it serving the whims of those with money and political connections. He quickly suppressed a grin at the memory of sneaking into one particularly obnoxious bully-boy's home and, well, the details weren't too important, it was more the fact that Nico had perfected the art of blending into the background, so most people din't notice him, and wasn't it amazing what they would say when they thought no-one was there.
"Anyway, I'm almost finished a degree in anthropology, learning about Earth That Was. Last thing I can recall before waking up on this planet was drinking with my classmates. Only clue I have for what happened in the meantime is this coaster." He pulled out the crumpled coaster from his pocket and dropped it on the table. "It seems to be from some drinking establishment in one of the blackout zones. A place called 'Browncoat Bar and Grill'."
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Examining the only clue, Zoe gave a smile "Wrong logo."
"pardon?" asked Nico
"Got the wrong logo. The stars the wrong way up." Zoe said handing it back. "Commen mistake, but still thought a proper Browncoat should know."
"Ah! Know i get it." exclaimed Nico, as it twigged. "Serenity means.."
"Serenity Valley, yes. Me and the captain was their." Zoe said as she handed Nico his coffee. "Its certainlyt an event that stay withs you."
After a brief pause Nico asked, "Where am i anyway?"
Lookinga around Zoe muttered "The furthest corner of no and where..."
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As John explored his old home he met all manner of things first he saw the small shack of a building the first thing he built when he got to this junkland. He saw the small house he lived with his brother in. He saw his office building the warehouse where he lost the love of his life and the small park he built to honor his mother. But also he saw the weopens closet where he loaded on on numerous weopens of death the gym where he trained to be silent and flexible so his victums never saw it coming. but worst of all he saw the samll park built to honor his mother a woman he didn't know if he could face anymore. No time like the present
johnttf
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