Seeking the seeker final

  So we head to the first corporate compound we see with Gavin at the wheel and request permission to land. They send over the coordinates and tell us to land on the pad. They ask us to come out unarmed, "As if!" I say and tuck my body pistols away. They appear to vanish into my outfit which is very form fitting. Two officers come up to us and eleven people come out with small arms. They ask us to sit and we do, cause we really don't have a death wish I swear. They tell us they hate scrubs and we explain that we are not in the mining business. We ask them about local ship traders, trying to get the low down on our dear
dead Horton's ship.
     They don't have any thing new to tell us so we ask about the blue stuff. The guards ask where we got it and we told them the truth, "The ship man." Chewy says getting very irritated, "Look we are not scrubs, we just want to find out what this blue shit is and if there is a ship trader in town." They refuse to say anything more about either subject. "Let my Navigator go get it." as he waves towards me. The room is seething with hostility as I slowly get up and slide near the door. They Jump up as if lil ole me is a threat! When one guard gets cocky and puts his hand on his gun, Gavin stands up and takes aim at the nearest officer. I skirt around two guards and haul ass to the ship and bring out half the vials of the blue stuff. I don't want to show all our cards just yet. The captain and two of the guards walk up and Chewy states our mission and asks about the broker again. They ignore him and tell us the blue stuff is a drug called chromolium. Some sort of super speed, not my style but what ever floats boat. We realize these choads having nothing for us and we take our leave. We board the new ship, now and forever to be know as the clunker, and head to the next corporate compound.

  We are directed to a landing pad and I get a serious case of deja vu. We decide to make this quick and give the patrol our mission and ask them about Horton's ship and again get know where, same thing at the next compound. The best info we get is to check out the fuel stops. So we head out to the gas giant, this takes 9 days but at least we can check the fuel logs. We spend the time getting the clunker in order and Stormie gets better and better. She is still pretty bruised but up and chatting. Gavin finds the clunker has 3 major problems but he is able to fix them. Chewy reprograms the rest of the ships computer and we are loaded with food and supplies. As we near the gas giant Gavin brings us in quietly. I could give you the grand tour of the clunker but I dunno if we are gonna keep it or not. Its got a few staterooms and is dusty and musty smelling, the storerooms are fully stocked and we find some useful tools and equipment.

   We go right into orbit and begin to refuel and scan. We find there are four ships refueling here. The first is finished fueling and is not broadcasting, the second is just starting to fuel up, the third is in a tight polar orbit and appears to be tumbling. It's a seeker! We all get a bit excited as we move closer to the spinning ship. Hoping to see Nutronium Strike on the side we drop into a lower orbit. It takes 2 days to get near it. It is tumbling and Doc points out the ship appears to be in a deteriorating orbit. Chewy wants to dock to the ship and check it out but it is turning to fast. So we maneuver ourselves about 2 lengths away which is as close as we can get and we suit up. Chewy and I get on our vacc suits and get ready to board the ship. Somehow Stormie pulls a crazy move and misses her chance to attach, but she tries again and attaches us to the ship, rotation be damned. We find Horton dead in his vacc suit, we say a few words and space him. The ship nets us a nice commission and a trip...Tremes Dex here we come.



*Not sure how to re-order the blog so I re-posted the end to the first adventure. Thanks!

Liner recall 2

    Chewy had hit the turret Grun had taken cover behind, he took some damage as he was blown off . The ship starts to maneuver evasively, I fire and can't tell if I hit or not, they fire on me and they hit our turret. Doc hits the other turret and Gavin goes live and says "surrender".  "Fuck you!" they say and Doc hits them again and sees someone get sucked out. Grun coms them and says "Stop the fuckin ship you morons, Red is gonna be so pissed when he sees how you fucked this up." They respond saying "Alright. alright." and they kill the drives. Grun repairs his vacc suit as best he can and is maintaining. So Stormie leads the way and tries to board the ship. Chewy tells them over the com "Open the fucking hatch". Grun says "Quit monkeying around." and chewy persists that they need to open the hatch. The crew gets smart and the hatch bursts open and Grun rips Chewy a new one for endangering us all. On the ship Stormie approaches the next hatch and it opens and the guy fires on her. "Holy Motha!" she shouts and hits him with 3 rounds from her gauss gun and kills him, as he keels over a cloud forms from the atmosphere venting from the holes in his vacc suit. He had fired at her at same time and hit her with a laser carbine and she takes damage. She radios in with the kill and chewy orders Gavin to go over to the ship and help, so Gavin shoots out a guy line with his sticky cannon and misses, he aims and fires again and hits the ship and is able to board. Gav looks around and sees the corpse, then heads to the bridge with Stormie leading the way. They make it to the bridge and finds it abandoned. Gav starts the ship and hits all stop. Chewy docks the seeker and comes aboard with Doc. They stumble across the corpse and Doc rushes to the bridge and fixes Stormie up. I get back into what I think is com range for grun. I hit orbit and wait for him to join me and board the ship. I hear *SMASH* and the "FUCK!" as Grun hits the ship hard but makes it on board. Back at the seeker Gavin finds an severely injured man and they count 2 dead, so three of the org. 4 are out of the picture.

   Grunion gets in the ship and pops a pep pill and I turn the ship back to the others. We dock and head on to the captured ship. Grun rushes to the bridge and heads to Doc. Doc notices he is talking faster than a crack whore with a fresh wad of cash and shakes his head. He patches him up and we start getting things ready to go. We have taken the new ship! It has jump 5 it is a 300 ton explore class long range scout. it is armored, it has a duration of 330 hours with out refueling. Sadly it has 0 agility, its not a fighter, but it is a full survey ship. One missile turret is still intact with 30 high explosive missiles on board. The ship can be operated by a staff of 2 and should be worth 100+ million. The ship has a closed air raft intact, slow but trusty, has a large holo display and a hud display. You can control this shit from any panel! It carries 28 tons of cargo so Chewy should be happy. We find out the ship is owned by a merc group that has been hired to survey this rock. So we head back and complete the survey. They had been surveying several areas in the plains. Grun notices they were doing densometer scans, he analyzes the scans for more info but can't really grasp what they are looking for. He remembers them saying "we have 4 weeks to get this hollowed out ... " now to figure out what that freakin means. So some stuff we find broken so we have some repairs to do. Chewy brings us back to orbit the rock. Grunion begins to survey the rest of the rock and 6 hrs later the com pops to life. Uh oh...."Magellan this is base come in..." Gavin goes to answer it and he shots a beam back in response that we are making progress, we are almost done and we want to finish. They say "Neg, return to base boss wants to talk to you. " We check the nav logs and see that we have 36 hrs between us and base. Doc give the captive a shot and he wakes up. We begin to pump him for info and Grun asks him " You a family man?? A merc ??" the guy says "Fuck you!" and Chewy says wrong answer and starts to hit the guy but the group stops him, I say "hell we should have spaced him before!" "Whoa" he says, "keep those two away from me", referring to me and Chewy. Then he spills the little bit of info that he knows. The ship is owned by a merc co, about 2k employees. Grunion starts to fast talk him and pump him for info. and begs for his life.  We get as much info about the merc co and the crew. So we put the crewman, turns out his name is James kroner, in his cold sleep pod and we hide the ship and download all the ships logs and video. Sadly we don't gain much information. Two miles of tunnels and a cargo bay. Turns out these blokes are not to smart so why are they here? We rig up a com trick to act out a transmission that says we are having problems and then cuts off as if we lost com completely. In the cargo bay we find probes, vacc suits, small arms, couple of shot guns. 30 days worth of rations for 5 people, 5 planetary range coms, a prefab pressure bubble big enough for 10 men. Then we find a hostile environment kit, a life saver. 5 psysheild helmets, 5 hand coms, 3 helmet recorders and 2 field med kits. Did I mention I love loot?

Liner recall

So we are running around Tremes Dex getting ready to go and getting our supplies and shit replaced. I turn to Stormie and say "I love shopping!" as we head into what looks like a general store. Chewy calls in letting us know Grunion showed up today with a load of cargo to dump. We are glad to have him back. He might be our best bet for a cover up once we hit imperial space. Grunion is squeky clean and so is Stormie, just need to figure out how to get in and out of Imperial space before someone realizes who we are. I head over to the gun counter and pick up an set of twin auto pistols, very elegant, engraved with tribal swirls and leaves and worth every one of the 800cr each I happily paid. I picked up a light weight holster set which added that little extra bit of bad ass and sexy to the mix. Of course as I smoldered at myself in the mirror I couldn't help but giggle at the whole affair. We all splurge on sticky guns, the duct tape of weapons, only cost 1500cr each...ouch! I got some jugs of the solvent and Doc and Stormie grabbed some as well. Next we grabbed oxy-tabs, you can use 6 of them a day and they last an hour each, pretty sweet. We wrap it up and head to the meeting with out local bank rep.

   So we meet up with Jimbo Motopet, what was his momma thinking? He knows that we are heading to Frenzie and he says he has a side job for us. He needs for someone to meet an end. The guy is named Red Chunnle and he is a minor crime lord with a base on a non aligned world. Stormie asks "whats it worth?", Gavin says "it better be a lot!". The report says Red was last seen on the world of Rangent in the Villas sub-sector, one jump away from here. He still lives there in a small cabin. Jimbo offers us 100k each, plus fuel costs, sadly he has no more info for us. The planet he is on is law lvl 1 and in not in imperial space which is a bonus for us, but the money just isn't high enough. Sensing our hesitation he ups the offer to 200k each and we put our heads together. I stand up and demand 300k each and he goes for it. Yay me!

  So we get the ships loaded and grab the documents from ole Jimbo. Grunion grabs a new fuel bladder and heads out. Gavin jumps our seeker and we spend 2 days and 9 hrs in jump. Then we jump again for a week so I get my streetwise training and we land at this frontier planet with a nasty atmosphere. killer smog wee! lets wear reperratiors. Planet is just a water world with one tiny island, maybe 100 miles x 100 miles and there are supposed to be 5 million people here somewhere between the island and the bonded boating islands floating around. So we need a plan, cause being from a high gravity world I feel like I could beat the snot out of everyone lol, a day here is 45 hrs so yeah that is gonna be peachy. Doc and Gavin notice 3 ships refuling on the outar gas giant. One is refueling on the 2nd gas giant in and one is on the 6th orbit moving in system. Suddenly Grunions ships power plant fails. We join up and head over to his ship. I find that there is a hair line crack in the zuchai crystal casing and I fix it with my sticky gun. Course now I have to make sure to fix it every time we jump so I move my things to Grun's ship for now. At least we have a cover story for being here in case they ask.

    So we head in system and it takes like 7 days and 4 hours. I notice grunion being weird, he seems to be thinking hard and keeps looking out the side window at another ship. As we enter the asteroid belt the ship disappears and it seems rather odd.  Grun lets the fellas in the seeker know he has better sensors and he makes an attempt to run them, so I start the scan and I check out the densitometer and I see a 300 ton object sitting on the surface of a large rock. "Bingo.Here it is." So we lock into orbit around the rock and grun gets his grav belt on and prepairs to check out the ship. The seeker joins us and Gavin thinks he picks up a screech burst, being tight beamed into the main world. He records it and finds out it is in the kkree langauge and none of us speak it. *sigh*  So Grunion hits the surface. After passing over the ship once, to high over it to see anything, he lands 6 miles away. Hopefully if anyone is alive down there they haven't noticed us in orbit. Grun and I maintain raidio silence and we keep our communication to a min with the other ship. Grun travels quickly and gets within 500 yards of the ship and scans all com channels and as he tunes in the ship he hears them mention Red. Grunion records the conversation, "...he won't like *static*... only have 15 weeks to compleate the mission *static*.... finish survaying the rock and get back". He can hear 4 distinct voices inside, and there is no activity outside. Back on the ship I can only hope all is going well since we are not able to communicate. Grun assumes he can get closer to the ship to bug it. He gets up there and bugs the ship in a few places.Grunion hears then say "fuck there is someone outside!". Grun sees them see him and about shits his pants. Doc sees their power levels spike as their maneuver drives and guns power up. Grun pushes off and takes cover. Gavin tunes in to the the ships comm channel and hears them go on alert. The seeker heads in towards the ship, I am tracking Grunion and Doc notices him disappear, Chewy fires and... "PLEASE DONT SHOOT ME!!" blares across the com.

Seeking the Seeker: Part 4

 So Doc attends Stormie's wounds, damn that girl's been hit hard, and Gavin flanks the door waiting for more trouble. I hit the pockets on the guy who assaulted Troy and take his ID and empty his pockets. Chewy loots the rifle boy and finds no ID,and a few guns and ammo, turns out my guy had an auto pistol, body pistol and 400cr in his pants which I pocket of course. Gavin spots a passenger type van out front so I hit the guy with the Gauss gun and his pocket yields us a Monolith Co. Mining ID for one Omar Kreegan, 1,100crs,and a pulse. After a good look at his condition and taking his overall unfriendly attitude in account I went ahead and slit his throat and moved on. Gavin alerts us that the passenger van is moving closer to the bar and heads to the back door, this has my full attention cause Gavin has a good sense of survival.

   Chewy grabs the guy taking us to Horton and we all file out the backdoor. I carry Stormie's limp body out, yeah I know your all like "you did whaaa?", and Headed out the door. Coming from a heavy G planet I am like all strong and shit. So Chewy takes point, as all captains should, and peeks around the corner ...and gets shot. "Crap!" He returns fire and hits, Gavin seeing where the shots are being fired from jumps out and shoots. The guy goes down and Chewy goes out slowly but the street is empty and everything seems all clear. I follow Gavin and Chewy about a block down the ally way. For the most part our new friend sticks by my side in the middle of the group till we hit the docking bay, he heads into number 8 and we board his ship. We place Stormie in cold sleep so she can heal a bit longer and Doc tries to fix up Chewy but only makes it worse at first, I think the Doc is a bit shook up. He needs some Doctoring himself and as Gavin and I help get the ship underway Chewy returns the healing feeling and helps Doc get back to 100%.

    The flight takes us about a day and a half and is pretty uneventful till we thaw out our Stormiesicle and Doc finds a bullet next to her heart. It is touch and go but he pulls her through and she is already looking better. So we finally land and this ass hat in his tattered vacc suit takes us to a grave site. He must think he is funny, but I am not laughing. He claims this is where Horton is buried, well crap that does us no good at all. He says the guys with Monolith Mining ambushed Horton and killed him for poaching the company's ore. "Kill Him" chewy says and I take aim and fire as the guy focuses on Chewy. I imagine the look of horror on his face as those two little words registered, he tries to jump to the side and fire his own weapon but I am too fast for him. He is dead before he hits the ground,still always the good girl scout I check for a pulse and find none. I frisk him and find a body pistol, some tech stuff and no ID.  Nothing more to do here so we head back to the dead guys ship, which I guess belongs to us now.

   Gavin reaches the door first and finds it won't open, so we drag the body over and discover the palm reader wont read a corpse's hand. Bummer. Lucky for us Stormie is still inside and out of cold sleep. Chewy shoots her a com message to let us in. Once we are inside Gavin and Chewy head over to the command computer and we take off in our new seeker, gotta love some low law level planets! So now we have a ship, Gavin made sure to change to locks and now we have to figure out what to do next. We begin to check out our new ship and find a hidden compartment in the cargo hold. "Sweet!" I say. Inside we find a box, doc lifts it out and opens the lid. Inside we find 12 vials of blue glowing liquid. "Interesting, What is it?" I ask. It's 30K per person says Chewy as he scans a cred stick that had fallen from the box. "Woot! I love me some loot". No one seems to know what the vials contain so we store is away and get back to the business at hand.

Seeking the Seeker: part 3

So Stormie and Doc stay behind as we all split, they notice they have become the focal point of the whole room. Stormie flashes her Gauss gun and takes note of the glances exchanged between several guys around the room, one with a Gauss gun of his own, another with a large rifle. Doc texts Chewy and tells him the shit feels like it is slowly spinning into the fan back at the bar. A guy walks up to the table and asks to sit down, Doc is pretty sure the high dollar outfit and his low social standing have made him a target, Stormie sensing trouble moves closer to the Doc's table. The man sits down and asks Doc how much money he has, and if he would like to live.
  *BUUUZZZZZ* *BUUUZZZZ* Chewy grabs his com and alerts everyone to Doc's situation back at the bar. "Crap!" I take off running and oh so graceful land on my ass in the dust, kicking off the offending high heels and forgetting all lady like behavior I head back to the bar with guns drawn. Chewy is hot on my heels and slinging curses that I am not sure I want to know the meaning of. Back at the bar Doc panics and starts muttering under his breath as he drawn his energy blade, it sparks to life pulsing with an amber fire. Everyone takes a step back and Doc swings for the extortionist first, hitting him, the jerk hits back and does a little damage and the guy with the rifle fires one near Doc's head. Stormie aims for the other Gauss gunner and blasts a three round burst and hits the guy. We are only half way back to the bar. People on the streets start bailing for shops and bars as they see the three of us running down the street with guns drawn like maniacs, myself in a very sheer slutty dress, barefoot and armed leading the charge.
  Stormie gets ready to fire off another round as the Gunner gets his revenge and hits her for 13 health points. While she is distracted the rifle guy get a hit on her for 11 health points, it isn't looking good in the bar. I am the first one in the door, Chewy and Gavin are somewhere behind me, I fire twice at the guy holding the Gauss gun and he hits the ground. Next Stormie aims for the rifleman and she hits him but he is still up. Stormie gets hit again for 13 health points and is half way down. Doc is having a time of it with the extortionist and apparent ring leader, he hits him good but the guy is still up and fighting.
   I  move across the room as the fight goes down around Stormie and Doc. I take aim and fire at the rifleman, I hit him once but he is still up. My second shot goes wide, and misses. Gavin hits the door and comes in shooting, his shots ring wildly across the room. Chewy runs in behind him shooting both his SMG and pistol at the rifleman, sadly Chewy misses and hits a by stander. Doc is still fighting the extortionist and as he slashes him with his blade he notices the guy is wearing very shiny under armour. While all this is going on the rifleman hits Stormie again and she is all the way down and I fear dead at this point which pisses me right off.  Doc gets hit but is still swinging and I go off on rifle boy, both my shots hit hard and he drops to the ground in a bloody heap. Doc gets the advantage over the extortionist and slashes the guys gun hand right off his arm, and the room smells like rust, gun powder, smoldering flesh and death. I would say the whole party vibe is long gone at this point. With the enemy subdued or well dead... we check for survivors and Chewy rushes to the bystander he shot. He appears to be alive at least, so I head over to the guy who was messing with Doc and empty his pockets, Doc heads over to attend to Stormie's wounds.

Seeking the Seeker: part 2

   After I toss back the rest of my drink I decide it is time to start working the room. I make my way to the dance floor and do my best hooker-booty-look-at-me dance but really get no where. These guys are pretty  low on the evolutionary scale so I don't know why I still hold them to such high expectations as my own. Next thing I know four huge apes walk in the door, two flank the door and two others make a path through the crowded club. The front door of the club opens and a very distinguished and well dressed gentleman struts his way in. As he makes his way to the back of the club I make eye contact with Chewy and the gang and we all prepared to re-group.The VIP leaves us with his goons and Chewy asks the bartender if he can share any info on who the guy is. Course all he can tell us is that the guy is a local business owner and a man of influence. Chewy thinks about it a minuet and I move a bit closer to the guards by the back door. 15-20mins later Chewy gets it in his head that we need to talk to the guy in the back. So he approaches the guards and tries to bride them with 100cr for a meeting. They are not real open to this idea and Chewy almost get us shot..again. Finally the VIP comes out with a large payroll box and takes his thugs and leaves. Things seem to relax and go back to normal, well normal for these freaks. So all we know is the guy we are lookin for sold his rock to the assayers office. So Chewy and I head out to check the Assayer office and the starport for Horton or his ship. We stroll into the front door and ask the clerk for info on ole Horton. The guy gives us a wary look and sighs deeply while rolling his eyes, I am tempted to shoot him but Chewy beats me to it and slips the guy 100 cr. Clerky tells us that Horton had cashed in 15 tons about 8 weeks ago and that the rock he had could only be found in one spot near one of the corprate compounds. Chewy slips him another 400 cr and asks if he has seen the ship cause really it is the ship we are after, ole Horton could be spaced for all we know. We get a com call from Doc, he went to check the local clinic for medical records on our guy but comes up empty handed. Gavin stays low and makes some reward flyers offering these locals 10,000cr for info. I am sure that will get us a nibble. Next we stop by the Corprate offices and find out that they know our guy but have not seen our man or our ship since the last time the escorted him off thier land. This was about four months ago which didn't help us at all. So we ask him to spread the word about the reward for the location of Horton and the Nutronium Strike his Seeker.
   Doc wanders about making friends and gets the low down on where the free miners and seekers hang. So we head out to this redneck bar. We walk up to the counter and find out nada from the bartender cept Horton has a tab that needs to be paid. So we offer 1000 in mineral to anyone who has any info. Seems like we are spending an awful lot on this little ship. We get a hit right away from a guy rockin a full vacc suit that looks like he put it through a blender before rolling around in the mud in it. He had a fantastic smell that was a cross between the great unwashed and pure raw sewage. Good news is he knows where our guy is, so he makes a deal with Chewy that includes the 7 day trip to get there and 1,000 cr up front with 6,000cr more to follow on finding our man. So we order drinks and make our plans for this trip and Chewy has us leave in pairs. He and I make our way out the door and down the street. As we exit this big guy bumps into Gavin, this seems to happen to Gavin a lot, I blame his magnetic personality. Gavin pats down all his pockets and finds nothing missing. Chewy and I hit the bank and get the reward money together compleatly unaware that things are about to get crazy back at the bar.

Seeking the Seeker: part1

   Three long weeks in a ratty transporter. I did a little drinkin, a little smokin and used the time to study up on my streetwise skills. See being streetwise where I grew up meant knowing the fastest way to the mall, or where the best party spots are. So the guy we are lookin for is Horton Merriweather, age 56, Ok credit, seems a legit guy on paper really. Besides the fact he was in the Scout Service we really don't have anything else on the guy.
   This planet we are on is pretty wild, only around 20,000 people here and with such a low law level things could get interesting quick. We unload and enter Termous Dex's starport to head down to the town. This place is like some crazy miners wet dream, lots of bars and general supply houses ready to suck up every penny they can. Everyone is armed, including myself. I carry two body pistols at all times cause a girl never knows what will happen next around Chewy. We hit a nasty smelling little dive and start asking for info. We wanted to know if there was a rotation in the schedule of the miners, we got lucky and found out our guy was considered a scab, and was last seen on the 8th orbit six or seven weeks ago. Chewy slips our helpful new miner friends a 100cr each and they are quick to tell us more. Looks like there are three corporate facilities up there, all very private and oddly enough no one knows, or will admit to knowing, what they are actually mining. We really came up with nothing else so we spent two days in jump and headed to the 8th orbit. There is no law level here and it looks like a nightmare version of blade runner meets deep space 9, oh yeah it's guns out time. Of course Chewy decides it would be a good idea to go as a pimp and a hooker so we fit in *sigh*. So I squeeze into something slutty and put on some heels. Pray that I make it off the ship in these things cause I am not very graceful. I manage to conceal my pistols, don't ask where just know I can get to them quicker than you think, and Doc gets the pimp job cause he is the best dresser and he has the highest streetwise skill. We split up and head into this big bar on the main drag. Doc and I head for a booth in the back and start playing our roles.
   This place is filled with ruff looking guys and really nasty looking hookers. Chewy, Gavin and Stormie head to the bar and order drinks. About the time the bartender set the drinks down this hairy mammal looking thing had shoved past Chewy and the gang. They pat them selves down and oddly enough they don't find anything missing. I take the opportunity to pat myself down as well while trying to look extra sexy and get some nice cheers from a table near by. I take my role playing very seriously *wink* My first victim is the waiter, he makes the mistake of coming too close and I latched on to his arm. In my best imitation of a dirty girl I whisper in his ear that I need his help finding a date and then a slide back across the seat, smiling my best you know you want me smile at him, and sip my drink.