That's a shame. I get it from an administrative angle, but it still sucks. Remington is definitely on the short list of my favorite characters.

It's been great to play with all of you. I hope we can again. See you round the forum.

-Nick

Ted pays his tab and leaves a more generous tip than he usually would (that is to say, more than the dead minimum expected by local custom). As he's doing this, he asks the barkeep for the name of what he was drinking. He enjoyed it enough that if they're going to be back on Amondiage he'll ask for ...

"I imagine it's easy to sleep on a steady diet of substandard rations and hard labor. I'm impressed you made it. Ted tips his glass to the barkeep. "We're here on business. H&C. We're looking for a starship. The Perfect Stranger . We have reason to suspect it may have been "repos...

Ted offers an apologetic shrug and takes another sip of his drink. "In my experience being on the losing side of an armed conflict is a bad position. How'd you make if from POW to pouring drinks? That sounds like it must be at least a bit of a tale." Ted is paying attention to the barman(b...

Sorry I took so long to get something in the pub crawl thread. Real life obligations insisted on eating up my spare time.

Ted takes in the Vargr with slight discomfort. He's used to relying as much on nonverbal social cues as anything else, and reading those cues on a totally different species is harder than he likes. He didn't have Gabe's foresight, and left his uniform coveralls on, but he rolls with it. "Maybe ...

I like to imagine everyone has simply been standing still, throwing looks around the room but unwilling to be the first to move.

So in the history of humankind, no problems have ever occurred when an ex marine and an ex merchanter walk into a bar in a strange port....

Don't think of them as problems, think of them as happy little accidents!

Do we want to start a new thread for the Ted/Gabe pub crawl? Or should I play that out in the day 1 thread?

"Yeah, I got my comms. Try not to have too much fun. And maybe spill someone's coffee for me. These people clearly need a bit less meekness in their life."

Ted casts his eyes around the table. "So who else wants to go drink? Gabe and I are leaving."

"I could always find a use for another drink. I thought Ty was coming too, but now it sounds like he hasn't seen enough of the uniforms for one day and wants some more of them. I doubt he'll need us, but he'll definitely need a drink when he's done. Ty, you want us to wait for you, or can we s...

Ted nods. "Sounds like a plan. Before we disperse, one last question: obviously nobody took this job to get shot. But, given that we've already got two dead crew with laser burns, we should probably talk about worst case scenarios. If we have to go heavy, how are we going to gear up? Who's goin...

Ted responds to Ty, but pitches his response to the whole table. No point stepping on toes if someone else wants to play boss. "I'm happy to take the lead. I'd love to meet the people who don't care for the regime. I think we'll have a lot in common. Anyone else up for it? I'm thinking tonight....

Ted downs a couple quick shots as dinner begins, for medicinal purposes. He's not picky about what it is, he just grabs a bottle. Once the booze starts to work into his bloodstream and thaw the slush he switches to rum-spiked coffee and takes his time with it. He lets everyone else air their ideas, ...

Ted's brain, frozen slush it is, still picks up the tone in Piotr's voice. He starts to snarl something uncharitable about Piotr's heritage before the deep frozen critical thinking parts kick in and he remembers that 1: Piotr is on his team and 2: he's also being offered a meal. Never one to turn do...

Jesus you guys post a lot in the OOC. Did we ever establish what "rating" of game we're going for? I imagine Ted has quite the mouth on him, but I don't want to go off in the main thread before I double checked.

Theodore, Briefing: "So you can anonymously ship corpses nowadays? Damn, wish I knew that back whe- well, let's just say it might have come in handy to know. Who repatriated the bodies? Where'd they come from on planet? What did they tell whoever received them? Seems like those might be valuab...

Merchant 3rd Officer Theodore Kelly 897767 Age 46 7 terms Cr60,000 Skills: Dagger-3, Bribery-1, Jack-o-T-1, Ground Car-1, Mechanical-1, Steward-2, Streetwise-1 Benefits: 8,000/yr Retirement Pay, Dagger, Low Passage, Low Passage, Low Passage I know I'm a bit late to the ball, so just a quick backstor...

Wait, we started?(!) My bad! Two of the classes I teach had exams yesterday, so I haven't been paying much attention to this. I'll get Ether geared up by Monday. Sorry!

I was thinking of the snub pistol. It seems like the kind of high-tech gizmo a rich guy with a shooting hobby would enjoy playing with.