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.

Repo-Rama!

So here we sit on Caloran waiting for the next round of drinks at this sleazy TAS bar. We are meeting our rep from the bank. We just completed our first repo job and I know I'm feelin pretty good right now. Who am I you ask? Well some know me by my birth name, Eris Howard Norris, but for all concerned I'm Astrid Douglas, Repo Babe. I know the title is a bit lame, but hey a girl in my line of work is never gonna be called princess. Well not in a nice way..riiight? I am pure blood Vilani, so I sorta stand out around here. Before I hooked up with this crew I worked as a TAS Journalist. I was born into one of those family's, you know a lot of money and a relative with political power sorta folks.  I wanted nothing more than to be out in the world and on my own. So I started working with the Travellers aide society doing field reporting and some how I found myself trained in combat journalism. To look at me you would think "She doesn't belong here." but oddly enough I fit right in. Boss likes to use me as eye candy, the deadly kind, when the mission calls for that sort of thing, which seems to be more often than not.  I personally consider the ability to slip into something tiny and slutty and conceal two body pistols, and a knife, an art.
    I guess you should meet the crew. We have one pervy old fleet admiral named Chewy Zulu, My buddy Gavin Spriggs who is a free trader (of the best shrooms and nugs in town), Dr.Barrett Romanov our crazy Doctor, The noob and ex-Marine Lt. Col. Stormie who is our muscle, and Grunion our fast talkin Scout. You will learn a lot more about them soon enough, back to the story.
   So the rep finally shows up and hands us two contracts to look over. Being a pro-active thinker, I said we would take them both and the crew agreed. The first contract is a big one, as in 26.3 million big ones. This Liner has gone missing with it's crew and some passengers. She is the AdAstra and she was last seen in Imperial space which sucks for us cause three of us are wanted for murder over there, we didn't do it, I swear!. So this ship takes 6 people to run it and we have just enough crew to pull it off. Once we have it BAM! we make 26.3 million. Sweeeet! The second contact is for a Seeker. It was last seen on Tremous Dex, we will only make 2.4 million for this one so we jump on it first. 5,000 Cr  for mid passage later and I kick back and get mah study on. We will be landing at a B class space port on a law level one planet, should be fun.