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<span style="color:#800000">''' ''(Episode to come. Stay tuned!--Maer)'' '''</span>
 
<span style="color:#800000">''' ''(Episode to come. Stay tuned!--Maer)'' '''</span>
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''Present: Maer, Terri, Bobby, Jay, Tony'' <br>
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''Air Date: 05 Oct 2009'' <br><br><br>
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'''Monday, 29 Apr 2520'''<br>
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'''The Lodge, St. Albans'''<br>
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'''Red Sun (Zhu Que) system'''<br>
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'''16:17 hrs, local time'''<br><br>
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It takes us some time but we make it to The Lodge.
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It takes us the balance of the day to make the lodge.  While the rest of us wash up and Nika takes a nap. Arden talks to the Doctor and gets the lowdown on the operation that might save Lem, followed by ongoing treatments.  It will cost five thousand. We don’t have the money, but the Doc tells us that Cole Islington had intended to arrive with a substantial sum of money to bankroll further research.  Since we left our baggage and our guns on the train, we promise to go back and find the funds—stored on a chip and possibly small and hidden on Cole’s person—so Doc Lawrence can continue his work.  And Rina can get her gun back.  For now, it’s enough to get some hot drinks down our gullets and sleep.  Nika crashes for thirteen hours.  Rina takes advantage of the Lodge’s past history as a luxury resort to find a deep bathtub, fill it with hot water and pull it in after her.  Christian shows up later and scrubs her back. 
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The next morning, Rick, Nika, Christian and Rina hop back into the cat engine and go back to the avalanche site to get our stuff back, find the miners have already beat us to it.  We talk ourselves into not getting run off and when the miners retrieve the Qupie Dolls, we get access to the bodies and our baggage.  We search Cole’s remains and Christian finds the chip in the man’s belt buckle.  Christian swaps belts when the mining crew aren’t looking, we grab our legitimate stuff and allow the miners to take the bodies of Cole and the old woman away.  We find evidence that the bodies have been munched on in our absence—squick!—and Rick finds evidence of animal tracks on the site.  Tiger.  Probably the Siberian breed, given the cold environment, and the largest tiger breed there is. 
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Wonderful. 
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We follow the miners back to the mines to reclaim our weapons.  We get them—much to Rina’s relief—and we return to The Lodge.  Hinked that Corone Mining might come and raid the Lodge now that they know we’ve Prioned people up here—something we couldn’t avoid revealing to the Mine Boss—Rina takes first watch while Christian takes second and makes breakfast for everyone.  During breakfast Christian encounters a patient doing a crossword puzzle, who mumbles something about a conspiracy to deprive us of ‘gas’, the hydro fuel all ships run on.  This patient is coherent but he has this otherworldly “a beautiful mind” vibe coming off him, and despite careful questioning by Christian, he isn’t able to give us more than a few tantalizing statements.
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We do the tiger hunt after breakfast and the operation on Lem that day.  After 10 days for Lem to recuperate, we thank the Doc and leave for the spaceport, thence to lift off and head for Aesir (so Jake can visit his family) and to drop off our cargo at Brisingamen.
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'''Saturday, 11 May 2520'''<br>
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'''Kuiper II Class, ''Summer’s Gift'' '''<br>
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'''En Route to Brisingamen'''<br>
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'''10:05 hrs, ship’s time'''<br>
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It will take 83 hours and 183 fuel hours to get to Brisingamen, about 3.5 days. 
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The hours stretch on as our destination approaches.  We find out via Cortex news that several of the Alliance city Class space cruisers fuel systems went afoul, taking the ships offline. The ships affected were the ''IAV Dortmunder'', ''IAV Trafalgar'', and the ''IAV Magellan''.  Is this what one of the Doc’s patients meant, with his theory that ‘they’ were coming to steal the ‘gas’, the hydro fuel ships run on?  There is no knowing and there is nothing we can do about it while still in transit. At least no one is actively gunning for us and for the first time in some while we enjoy a reprieve from the rough and tumble.
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Lem revives two days en route and he’s up and around, looking at things and talking. And when he talks, it’s in a most self-aware manner, almost adult.  Especially when Lem realizes something is not entirely right with how his mind works, especially when he forgets something he feels he should remember.  It’s a mite odd, but after seeing him in the walking-dead state for so long, we’re glad that some improvement has been made on his condition, no matter how creepifying it gets on occasion.  On the 2nd day, Lem starts hanging out in the engine room to listen to the engines.  Rina lets him stay, but keeps an eye on him and takes the time to explain how stuff in there works, lets him hold her tools.  It’s a big improvement from the cut-off little boy we’d brought aboard and we’re hopeful that the treatment will work.
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Revision as of 06:05, 26 October 2009

(Episode to come. Stay tuned!--Maer) Present: Maer, Terri, Bobby, Jay, Tony
Air Date: 05 Oct 2009


Monday, 29 Apr 2520
The Lodge, St. Albans
Red Sun (Zhu Que) system
16:17 hrs, local time


It takes us some time but we make it to The Lodge.

It takes us the balance of the day to make the lodge. While the rest of us wash up and Nika takes a nap. Arden talks to the Doctor and gets the lowdown on the operation that might save Lem, followed by ongoing treatments. It will cost five thousand. We don’t have the money, but the Doc tells us that Cole Islington had intended to arrive with a substantial sum of money to bankroll further research. Since we left our baggage and our guns on the train, we promise to go back and find the funds—stored on a chip and possibly small and hidden on Cole’s person—so Doc Lawrence can continue his work. And Rina can get her gun back. For now, it’s enough to get some hot drinks down our gullets and sleep. Nika crashes for thirteen hours. Rina takes advantage of the Lodge’s past history as a luxury resort to find a deep bathtub, fill it with hot water and pull it in after her. Christian shows up later and scrubs her back.

The next morning, Rick, Nika, Christian and Rina hop back into the cat engine and go back to the avalanche site to get our stuff back, find the miners have already beat us to it. We talk ourselves into not getting run off and when the miners retrieve the Qupie Dolls, we get access to the bodies and our baggage. We search Cole’s remains and Christian finds the chip in the man’s belt buckle. Christian swaps belts when the mining crew aren’t looking, we grab our legitimate stuff and allow the miners to take the bodies of Cole and the old woman away. We find evidence that the bodies have been munched on in our absence—squick!—and Rick finds evidence of animal tracks on the site. Tiger. Probably the Siberian breed, given the cold environment, and the largest tiger breed there is.

Wonderful.

We follow the miners back to the mines to reclaim our weapons. We get them—much to Rina’s relief—and we return to The Lodge. Hinked that Corone Mining might come and raid the Lodge now that they know we’ve Prioned people up here—something we couldn’t avoid revealing to the Mine Boss—Rina takes first watch while Christian takes second and makes breakfast for everyone. During breakfast Christian encounters a patient doing a crossword puzzle, who mumbles something about a conspiracy to deprive us of ‘gas’, the hydro fuel all ships run on. This patient is coherent but he has this otherworldly “a beautiful mind” vibe coming off him, and despite careful questioning by Christian, he isn’t able to give us more than a few tantalizing statements.

We do the tiger hunt after breakfast and the operation on Lem that day. After 10 days for Lem to recuperate, we thank the Doc and leave for the spaceport, thence to lift off and head for Aesir (so Jake can visit his family) and to drop off our cargo at Brisingamen.


Saturday, 11 May 2520
Kuiper II Class, Summer’s Gift
En Route to Brisingamen
10:05 hrs, ship’s time

It will take 83 hours and 183 fuel hours to get to Brisingamen, about 3.5 days.

The hours stretch on as our destination approaches. We find out via Cortex news that several of the Alliance city Class space cruisers fuel systems went afoul, taking the ships offline. The ships affected were the IAV Dortmunder, IAV Trafalgar, and the IAV Magellan. Is this what one of the Doc’s patients meant, with his theory that ‘they’ were coming to steal the ‘gas’, the hydro fuel ships run on? There is no knowing and there is nothing we can do about it while still in transit. At least no one is actively gunning for us and for the first time in some while we enjoy a reprieve from the rough and tumble.

Lem revives two days en route and he’s up and around, looking at things and talking. And when he talks, it’s in a most self-aware manner, almost adult. Especially when Lem realizes something is not entirely right with how his mind works, especially when he forgets something he feels he should remember. It’s a mite odd, but after seeing him in the walking-dead state for so long, we’re glad that some improvement has been made on his condition, no matter how creepifying it gets on occasion. On the 2nd day, Lem starts hanging out in the engine room to listen to the engines. Rina lets him stay, but keeps an eye on him and takes the time to explain how stuff in there works, lets him hold her tools. It’s a big improvement from the cut-off little boy we’d brought aboard and we’re hopeful that the treatment will work.





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