Episode 404: Crucible
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Air Date: 06 July 2010
Present: Kim, Maer, Terri, and Andy
We’ve landed on Highgate and first things first. We buy vests enough for everyone. Joshua does the buying, Rina goes with. She wears hers out the store, much to Joshua’s exasperation. On the way out from the ship, Joshua and Rina encounter a group of people in cowboy hats and Browncoat-y gear at a not-quite tail gate party on the starport tarmac. They’re a group of vets from Shadow to represent their faction’s views in the coming trial. Joshua questions them—strictly out of curiosity—and it comes out that a lot of people are here to ‘represent’.
Kiera is out shopping for a vest too, but she’s at a high-end weapons store and as she’s taking care of her purchases, she notices 5 men in long beards walk in, get five pairs of boots and gear and there’s something about their transactions that piques her curiosity. Like the way the boots are just handed over and parceled out and no one tries them on. They just slap the boots soles to the bottom of their shoes to compare the fit and move on.
She tails them out of the store and under the guise of shopping, she follows them to a laundry where one goes in to retrieve 5 garment bags. They go off in the direction of the spaceport tarmac and she has to turn away before it becomes obvious that she’s tailing them. The last thing she sees them do is buy a personal grooming kit from a stall vendor. Hmmm….boots held for them in a high-end weapons store and handed over without trying them on first, garment bags waiting for them at a laundry and a personal grooming kit for people who obviously haven’t seen a razor in quite a while.
Something’s brewing!
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