A couple of days into the jump between Serbia and Newton, Jac asks Ricardo to convene a meeting of the partners, and other crew members. "Captain, I think we need to discuss Lessa and Rachel's presence aboard the ship, so you might want to exclude Del." Jac says, "Unless you've decided we can trust him with the possibility that we have a wanted woman aboard and are hiding her." "I also want to spend a few minutes going over the frieght and cargo we have and see if we can pool information about Newton and what we can expect when we get there." Later that day, the crew gathers in the common room up in crew country. Ricardo has decided about Del and brought him along, or kept him busy back in Engineering (Bruce's choice). Jac hands out pieces of paper to each person and waits for Ricardo to call the meeting to order. OOC1: http://mypbem.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=13 OOC2: http://mypbem.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=14 Eris AKU GM
On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > A couple of days into the jump between Serbia and Newton, Jac asks > Ricardo to convene a meeting of the partners, and other crew members. > > "Captain, I think we need to discuss Lessa and Rachel's presence > aboard the ship, so you might want to exclude Del." Jac says, > "Unless you've decided we can trust him with the possibility that we > have a wanted woman aboard and are hiding her." Ricardo shakes his head. "He's the damned chief engineer, Jac, odds are he already knows she's aboard, just because of the life support readings. I'll sound him out..." OOC> Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!! I KNEW I forgot something before we left Mark!! We needed to get a Richelieu-ish "get out of jail free" note for Lessa from Mazie before we left.IC> Ricardo catches Del in a quiet moment in the Engineering spaces. "Del, remember you told me about that little girl on your last flight, seemed very un-Hooter like?" "Well, in fact she wasn't. She'd been kidnapped on Mark to use as leverage against her mother who was in possession of some rather incriminating documents. "Well, that whole bit of excitement the other night, ships blasting off unexpectedly, racing across the planet, firefights that no one admits to having..." Ricardo shrugs, "Well that was all decoy for an extraction: to wit, one little girl, to be reunited with her mother, which she was, quite happily." Ricardo sighs, and continues. "And, as events would have it, the mother is, well, sort of kind of wanted at the moment, for a variety of crimes. She was framed, there is proof of it and in the hands of the *right* authorities on Mark, but to the outside world she's still in trouble with the law, because it's all tangled up in some rather nasty on and off-world plotting against the government." "With me so far?" -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > >> A couple of days into the jump between Serbia and Newton, Jac asks >> Ricardo to convene a meeting of the partners, and other crew members. >> >> "Captain, I think we need to discuss Lessa and Rachel's presence >> aboard the ship, so you might want to exclude Del." Jac says, >> "Unless you've decided we can trust him with the possibility that we >> have a wanted woman aboard and are hiding her." > > Ricardo shakes his head. "He's the damned chief engineer, Jac, odds > are he already knows she's aboard, just because of the life support > readings. I'll sound him out..." > > OOC> Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!! I KNEW I forgot something before we left > Mark!! We needed to get a Richelieu-ish "get out of jail free" note > for Lessa from Mazie before we left. > >OOC: I thought about that, but *I* wasn't going to bring it up. :) > IC> > > Ricardo catches Del in a quiet moment in the Engineering spaces. > > "Del, remember you told me about that little girl on your last > flight, seemed very un-Hooter like?" "Yes?" Del says wiping his hands on a rag. He is dressed in slightly stained coveralls and is standing next to a workbench where he has been working on a disassembled gravity module, "I remember." > > "Well, in fact she wasn't. She'd been kidnapped on Mark to use as > leverage against her mother who was in possession of some rather > incriminating documents. "Oh? Ah!" Del's mouth drops open and then snaps shut. > "Well, that whole bit of excitement the other night, ships blasting > off unexpectedly, racing across the planet, firefights that no one > admits to having..." Ricardo shrugs, "Well that was all decoy for an > extraction: to wit, one little girl, to be reunited with her mother, > which she was, quite happily." Del nods, "I wondered..." > Ricardo sighs, and continues. > > "And, as events would have it, the mother is, well, sort of kind of > wanted at the moment, for a variety of crimes. She was framed, there > is proof of it and in the hands of the *right* authorities on Mark, > but to the outside world she's still in trouble with the law, because > it's all tangled up in some rather nasty on and off-world plotting > against the government." > > "With me so far?" "Yeahhh!" Del drawls out putting the rag down and scratching his head with one finger, "Wouldn't be that MNN reporter that everybody was looking for, the one that supposedly blew up the MNN building, would it?" Eris AKU GM
On Mar 6, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > Bruce Johnson wrote: >> On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > > Del nods, "I wondered..." > >> Ricardo sighs, and continues. >> >> "And, as events would have it, the mother is, well, sort of kind of >> wanted at the moment, for a variety of crimes. She was framed, there >> is proof of it and in the hands of the *right* authorities on Mark, >> but to the outside world she's still in trouble with the law, because >> it's all tangled up in some rather nasty on and off-world plotting >> against the government." >> >> "With me so far?" > > "Yeahhh!" Del drawls out putting the rag down and scratching his head > with one finger, "Wouldn't be that MNN reporter that everybody was > looking for, the one that supposedly blew up the MNN building, > would it?" "Well, yes, I believe that's the woman who is wanted. "Slight change of topic... Del...what does the life support control console say about O2/CO2 balance?" OOC> I'm guessing after a day or two the engineer could have a damned good idea of who is onboard based on the official manifest and crew roster, and on system consumption rates. Del *may* get yelled at for not checking this ;-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 6, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > >> Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: >> Del nods, "I wondered..." >> >>> Ricardo sighs, and continues. >>> >>> "And, as events would have it, the mother is, well, sort of kind of >>> wanted at the moment, for a variety of crimes. She was framed, there >>> is proof of it and in the hands of the *right* authorities on Mark, >>> but to the outside world she's still in trouble with the law, because >>> it's all tangled up in some rather nasty on and off-world plotting >>> against the government." >>> >>> "With me so far?" >> "Yeahhh!" Del drawls out putting the rag down and scratching his head >> with one finger, "Wouldn't be that MNN reporter that everybody was >> looking for, the one that supposedly blew up the MNN building, >> would it?" > > "Well, yes, I believe that's the woman who is wanted. > > "Slight change of topic... Del...what does the life support control > console say about O2/CO2 balance?" > > OOC> I'm guessing after a day or two the engineer could have a damned > good idea of who is onboard based on the official manifest and crew > roster, and on system consumption rates. > > Del *may* get yelled at for not checking this ;-) "Huh? What..." he starts at the change of subject then grins and says, "Yeah, okay. What it shows is that there are three or four more...um...creatures aboard than are on the official lists." says Del, "And before you ask, I have seen those monkey like things running around and figured that was where the discrepancy came in, pets, not that you were hiding a woman and child." "Probably should have asked Woof, about it, but I figured *he* knew, figured *you* knew, too." he says. OOC: You don't expect the NPC's to be *too* smart do you? ;) Eris AKU GM
On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > Bruce Johnson wrote: >> On Mar 6, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Eris Reddoch wrote: >> >>> Bruce Johnson wrote: >>>> On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: >>> Del nods, "I wondered..." >>> >>>> Ricardo sighs, and continues. >>>> >>>> "And, as events would have it, the mother is, well, sort of kind of >>>> wanted at the moment, for a variety of crimes. She was framed, >>>> there >>>> is proof of it and in the hands of the *right* authorities on Mark, >>>> but to the outside world she's still in trouble with the law, >>>> because >>>> it's all tangled up in some rather nasty on and off-world plotting >>>> against the government." >>>> >>>> "With me so far?" >>> "Yeahhh!" Del drawls out putting the rag down and scratching his >>> head >>> with one finger, "Wouldn't be that MNN reporter that everybody was >>> looking for, the one that supposedly blew up the MNN building, >>> would it?" >> >> "Well, yes, I believe that's the woman who is wanted. >> >> "Slight change of topic... Del...what does the life support control >> console say about O2/CO2 balance?" >> >> OOC> I'm guessing after a day or two the engineer could have a damned >> good idea of who is onboard based on the official manifest and crew >> roster, and on system consumption rates. >> >> Del *may* get yelled at for not checking this ;-) > > "Huh? What..." he starts at the change of subject then grins and says, > "Yeah, okay. What it shows is that there are three or four > more...um...creatures aboard than are on the official lists." says > Del, > "And before you ask, I have seen those monkey like things running > around > and figured that was where the discrepancy came in, pets, not that you > were hiding a woman and child." > > "Probably should have asked Woof, about it, but I figured *he* knew, > figured *you* knew, too." he says. > > OOC: You don't expect the NPC's to be *too* smart do you? ;) "Good catch. We'll calibrate things so that we know what we're supposed to be using, but Del, from now on, don't EVER assume we know something. No question you could ever ask is stupid, but the ones we don't ask can be deadly. "Talk to Mira when you calibrate things, her garden is going to be changing the LS rates, too. Next time we lift we do a head and breath count on the way to the jump point, and the numbers don't match we find out why before we go anywhere. "I really try to run this ship like a scout recon team, we've got a hierarchy, each of us has our specialties, but if you see something that doesn't make sense, speak up, even if it's not your area. "I want this to be an open ship. We'll do the odd, irregular thing, like harboring fugitives, probably some small package trade, the occasional heroic rescue, which is always good for the rep, but everyone in the crew knows about it. I won't put you in danger without telling you." "We kept you out of the loop, that's changing now. "Yeah, the O2/CO2's off by two of those monkey things, and a woman and a child. Lessa and her daughter, Rachel, looks like they're going to be with us a while. "There's a crew meeting at 0500 in the crew common room. Be there, we're going to talk about what's next, Newton, Montrose and then on to wherever. Be good to have a new brain to pick." He claps Del on the shoulder. "See you then!" -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > >> Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> On Mar 6, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Eris Reddoch wrote: >>> >>>> Bruce Johnson wrote: >>>>> On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: >>>> Del nods, "I wondered..." >>>> >>>>> Ricardo sighs, and continues. >>>>> >>>>> "And, as events would have it, the mother is, well, sort of >>>>> kind of wanted at the moment, for a variety of crimes. She >>>>> was framed, there is proof of it and in the hands of the >>>>> *right* authorities on Mark, but to the outside world she's >>>>> still in trouble with the law, because it's all tangled up in >>>>> some rather nasty on and off-world plotting against the >>>>> government." >>>>> >>>>> "With me so far?" >>>> "Yeahhh!" Del drawls out putting the rag down and scratching >>>> his head with one finger, "Wouldn't be that MNN reporter that >>>> everybody was looking for, the one that supposedly blew up the >>>> MNN building, would it?" >>> "Well, yes, I believe that's the woman who is wanted. >>> >>> "Slight change of topic... Del...what does the life support >>> control console say about O2/CO2 balance?" >>> >>> OOC> I'm guessing after a day or two the engineer could have a >>> damned good idea of who is onboard based on the official manifest >>> and crew roster, and on system consumption rates. >>> >>> Del *may* get yelled at for not checking this ;-) >> "Huh? What..." he starts at the change of subject then grins and >> says, "Yeah, okay. What it shows is that there are three or four >> more...um...creatures aboard than are on the official lists." says >> Del, "And before you ask, I have seen those monkey like things >> running around and figured that was where the discrepancy came in, >> pets, not that you were hiding a woman and child." >> >> "Probably should have asked Woof, about it, but I figured *he* >> knew, figured *you* knew, too." he says. >> >> OOC: You don't expect the NPC's to be *too* smart do you? ;) > > "Good catch. We'll calibrate things so that we know what we're > supposed to be using, but Del, from now on, don't EVER assume we know > something. No question you could ever ask is stupid, but the ones we > don't ask can be deadly. > > "Talk to Mira when you calibrate things, her garden is going to be > changing the LS rates, too. Next time we lift we do a head and breath > count on the way to the jump point, and the numbers don't match we > find out why before we go anywhere. > > "I really try to run this ship like a scout recon team, we've got a > hierarchy, each of us has our specialties, but if you see something > that doesn't make sense, speak up, even if it's not your area. > > "I want this to be an open ship. We'll do the odd, irregular thing, > like harboring fugitives, probably some small package trade, the > occasional heroic rescue, which is always good for the rep, but > everyone in the crew knows about it. I won't put you in danger > without telling you." > > "We kept you out of the loop, that's changing now. "Well, thanks for that." Dell says, but his expression is that maybe he's not too sure he wants to be *in* the loop. It'll probably have to grow on him. ;) > "Yeah, the O2/CO2's off by two of those monkey things, and a woman > and a child. Lessa and her daughter, Rachel, looks like they're going > to be with us a while. > > "There's a crew meeting at 0500 in the crew common room. Be there, > we're going to talk about what's next, Newton, Montrose and then on > to wherever. Be good to have a new brain to pick." > > He claps Del on the shoulder. "See you then!" "Okay, I'll be there." Del says, "That'll give me enough time to finish the retuning on this grav module and get cleaned up a little, "Um, say...how do you stand on the crew, um, fraternizing...if you know what I mean?" Eris AKUS
On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > > "Okay, I'll be there." Del says, "That'll give me enough time to > finish > the retuning on this grav module and get cleaned up a little, "Um, > say...how do you stand on the crew, um, fraternizing...if you know > what > I mean?" Ricardo laughs. "I maintain the vain hope y'all can keep it out of the corridors, out of sight of the passengers. We're not the Navy, offduty, your time's yours. " -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > > >>"Okay, I'll be there." Del says, "That'll give me enough time to >>finish >>the retuning on this grav module and get cleaned up a little, "Um, >>say...how do you stand on the crew, um, fraternizing...if you know >>what >>I mean?" > > > Ricardo laughs. "I maintain the vain hope y'all can keep it out of > the corridors, out of sight of the passengers. We're not the Navy, > offduty, your time's yours. " "Good." Del says then adds, "I don't suppose you know if Lysia is involved with anyone do you?" Eris AKU GM
On Mar 7, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > Bruce Johnson wrote: >> On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: >> >> >>> "Okay, I'll be there." Del says, "That'll give me enough time to >>> finish >>> the retuning on this grav module and get cleaned up a little, "Um, >>> say...how do you stand on the crew, um, fraternizing...if you know >>> what >>> I mean?" >> >> >> Ricardo laughs. "I maintain the vain hope y'all can keep it out of >> the corridors, out of sight of the passengers. We're not the Navy, >> offduty, your time's yours. " > > "Good." Del says then adds, "I don't suppose you know if Lysia is > involved with anyone do you?" Ricardo chuckles, and says "Ah, not to my knowledge. Just remember, she IS the security officer, knows where you sleep and has access to high-powered weapons..." OOC> Let him learn. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 7, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > >> Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: >>> >>> >>>> "Okay, I'll be there." Del says, "That'll give me enough time to >>>> finish >>>> the retuning on this grav module and get cleaned up a little, "Um, >>>> say...how do you stand on the crew, um, fraternizing...if you know >>>> what >>>> I mean?" >>> >>> Ricardo laughs. "I maintain the vain hope y'all can keep it out of >>> the corridors, out of sight of the passengers. We're not the Navy, >>> offduty, your time's yours. " >> "Good." Del says then adds, "I don't suppose you know if Lysia is >> involved with anyone do you?" > > Ricardo chuckles, and says "Ah, not to my knowledge. Just remember, > she IS the security officer, knows where you sleep and has access to > high-powered weapons..." > > OOC> Let him learn. "Yes, but I'm the Chief Engineer and have the ability to 'adjust' the life support settings in her cabin remotely." Dell chuckles and grins, "As long as she doesn't resort to those high-powered weapons, I think it might be a standoff." Eris AKUS
On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > > "Well, thanks for that." Dell says, but his expression is that maybe > he's not too sure he wants to be *in* the loop. It'll probably have to > grow on him. ;) Ricardo chuckles. "Don't worry Del...I want to KEEP the Mae Lee. We'll not get into anything too deep." OOC> Best not tell him that we're buddies with the head of the Black Marble, there's at least three groups of people who want us dead, and we're stuck in the middle of interstellar conspiracies... ;-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote: > > >>"Well, thanks for that." Dell says, but his expression is that maybe >>he's not too sure he wants to be *in* the loop. It'll probably have to >>grow on him. ;) > > > > Ricardo chuckles. "Don't worry Del...I want to KEEP the Mae Lee. > We'll not get into anything too deep." > > OOC> Best not tell him that we're buddies with the head of the Black > Marble, there's at least three groups of people who want us dead, and > we're stuck in the middle of interstellar conspiracies... ;-) OOC: That is probably a very good idea! :) Eris AKUS
