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The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« on: September 14, 2015, 11:22:15 pm »
"Fuck fuck fuuuuck, you've gotta be fucking kidding me!" Jewel smacked the side of her smart phone, as though that would make the dumb thing work again. But nope. Nothing. The screen was a chaotic mess of pixels and color, and so what if it was several versions behind the latest upgrade? It was working fine earlier!

Cursing all the more, she took it apart, popped the battery, and put it back together. But then it wouldn't turn on at all, period. No chaotic colors. Just a black screen.

"Seriously?! What the fuck, C-Mobile!" She fiddled with it some more, made a few final, futile attempts at trouble-shooting, and was finally forced to call it quits. She stuffed it back in her jeans pocket.

She was fucking screwed.

Like, more screwed than before.

Here she was, out in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but her old motorcycle (running low on fuel, now) and a backpack full of clothes, water, and a little food. That was it. Oh, and a failure of a phone that had her GPS and everything on it, and now decided to just die when she needed it most. There was supposed to be a settlement out here somewhere, but without her GPS...

Well, shit. She didn't know how to get somewhere by following the sun or whatever! Which way was north?!

And which way was back to Tynova?

Jewel looked back over her shoulder and wiped sweat from her brow, though she was sweating all over. The heat was intense out here, with no shade or vegetation, and her clothes were sticking to her in all the wrong places. All she saw behind her was more red earth. Tynova could be back straight that way--or maybe it was more to the side. Fuck if she knew now! There were no landmarks out here to orient herself, and the ones that were around were just...rocks and more rocks.

She really hadn't planned this out. But she'd also had no time. Her neighbor had reported her. Her fucking neighbor! The chick she'd loaned books and movies to! She'd barely made it out of her flat when the cops rolled up and there was no way she was going with them, no way she was going to become one of those selfless saviors--AKA one of those mages with the shit drilled into their brains. She couldn't exactly go back now.

That didn't mean she wanted to die out here in the desert, though.

"Okay. Don't panic," she told herself, and took a deep breath. "If there's a settlement, you're gonna see it, right? If I just...keep going, I mean, it'll stand out, right? I'll see something on the horizon."

Right?

Yet she froze, struggling with fear. The fear of the unknown ahead of her, the possibility she might find nothing and die out there, and the fear of the known: the knowledge that if she went back, she might not ever get this chance again, and her future, her life, would be sealed.

And all the while the sun beat down on her, leeching away her skin's water.
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2015, 11:45:10 pm »
"No. Yes. Yep, clear as day..."

Jesse leaned against the Lindy-Lou's landing gear, tipping his hat up and adjusting the goggles he wore to keep Edanith's red dust out of his face. He held a standard satellite communicator to his ear, and his eyes stared off at the worksite ahead of him. There was a crashed Aedolan shuttle just about twenty meters from his ship, and from his spot in the shade, he could see Highway, Turnpike, and Boulevard, his beloved robots, milling around it.

It wasn't military or anything. In fact, Jesse was on contract for the recovery of it's flight recorder, and currently talking to his employer.

"Yep, I found it just fine. Looks like it's in good enough condition. Yep, should have the flight recorder in my hands in a few."

He put the transmitter on his shoulder and pinned it down with his head, and he fiddled with the communications array sitting just a few feet in front of him.

"Reportin' in a few. Signing out for now."

He put the transmitter in his pocket, and walked over to the shuttle. Highway, the largest robot of the three, finally managed to pry open the shuttle's emergency doors, and immediately, a loud alarm sounded off three times. The action seemed to trigger something in the ship's fried systems, because the emergency landing flares went shooting up into the sky. Jesse paid it no mind (Because who was going to see that, they were out in the middle of the desert!), and he peered into the shuttle. Immediately, he saw the two dessicated corpses inside, and grimaced.

"Damn... Well boys, you know the drill. I'm going in."

He made suer his toolbelt was all nice and fastened, and he climbed into the upturned shuttle.

Boulevard scanned the horizon, and then all three robots took up idling positions around the shuttle, using standard lookout procedures.

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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2015, 12:12:59 am »
Jewel was seriously considering turning back around--if she just kept a low profile, she'd be okay, at least long enough to snag a new phone and fuel up--when a loud, blaring sound rang out across the desert. Better yet, flares shot up into the sky, practically pointing the way like some deity had heard her thoughts and decided to have pity. If she was the sort to believe the gods actually took a personal interest in her sad life, that is.

Whatever it was, she was taking it.

Even as she swung back onto her bike and got the engine roaring, the rare, cautious part of her mind screamed a warning: it could be folks out looking for her. Or it could be outlaws. Or shit, she could be heading straight into some military operation! Hah, wouldn't that be rich? But if she headed back, that might be as good as surrendering, anyway, and she'd take her chances with criminals. She had a gun--not that she'd ever actually fired one before--and...well...

#YOLO?

Before she knew it, she was speeding off over the desert, leaving a trail of dust in her wake. It wasn't a long drive, but a small hill had hid what lay on the other side.

A wreck of some sort.

And another ship, a Not Wrecked ship.

A Not Wrecked ship that was not Edani, from the looks of it. It didn't look like anything she recognized. There were robots, too. No sign of a person, from what she could see, but someone had to pilot that thing.

Sooo either criminal or friendly. She'd take her chances. If she could get off this dusty planet, that'd be even better! And shit, it wasn't like anyone even had to know she was there, if she was sneaky enough. She could just catch a ride and get off at wherever civilized place they stopped at, no harm done.

Still not much of a plan, but it was something!

Dismounting her bike and hefting her backpack, she moved quickly. There was no telling what those robots were doing, or if they'd report her, so she gave the trashed shuttle a wide berth as she climbed down the hill--and looped back around to head for the other craft.
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2015, 12:29:52 am »
[In case you didn't see it when you looked through Jesse's profile, his three robots all have pictures linked to their names. Just lettin' you know!]

Jesse peered around the wrecked shuttle. He might've been on the job, but it didn't keep his curiosity from rearing it's ugly head. The shuttle was by no means shabby. If he had to wager, his client was probably some rich jerk-off looking into some kind of corporate accident. The tattered suits and matching briefcases of the shuttle's two occupants certainly made it seem that way.

Getting an idea, he quickly pulled up his contract, eyes flipping through it. He smiled.

Sucker'd forgotten to put a scavenging restriction! On the contract, there was no mention of leaving company property untouched. All it called for was one recovered flight computer, fully intact or otherwise.

He pushed the button on his transmitter, and a holographic image of Boulevard appeared. Outside, Boulevard straightened up slightly. It projected an image of Jesse in front of it, and remained still.

"Boulevard, get me the hover-dolly and a few empty crates. If we're gonna go fishing around for a flight computer, we might as well pick up a few extras while we're here."

Boulevard walked off towards the Lindy-Lou, and the cargo bay ramp opened up to allow the robot entry. Fortunately for Jewel, Turnpike's sensors were too small to pick her up at the distance she was approaching, and Highway, the largest of the three robots, just happened to be scanning in the opposite direction when she made her approach.

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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2015, 12:49:06 am »
Oh man, the timing couldn't have been better.

Just when Jewel had been starting to wonder just how the hell she was going to get on the ship, the weird mannish bot opened up the cargo hold. Perfect! Now she just had to hope that guy she'd glimpsed a projection of wasn't actually in there.

And, you know, not get caught by the robot. Or the other ones.

Jewel crept closer, and waited anxiously for the robot to vanish inside the hold as she shot nervous looks toward the other bots. But they either didn't notice her or couldn't, because nothing happened, no screaming alarms, and she counted a few more heartbeats before she tiptoed up the ramp and into the hold.

This was crazy. This was insane. She knew that, and knew she had no idea of what she was getting into, or what could happen if she was caught.

And yet somehow that only made it all the more exciting as she wedged herself behind a crate and crouched down low, arms around her knees as she watched out through the space between crates. She'd complained before about her life being monotonous so...

Well, here she was. A real mage deserter out on the run, boarding strange ships to who knew where! And as she sat there, her breathing and heartbeat all she could hear, it began to really sink in that this was happening, she was doing this--

And pretty soon, there was going to be no turning back.
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2015, 01:10:16 am »
The cargo hold was a unique place, to say the very least. As far as cargo holds went, it wasn't anything massive by any stretch of the imagination. Boxes full of valuable looking scrap, spare parts, and odds and ends littered the place in an organized mess.

From her little hidey-hole, she'd be able to see Boulevard as it activated the hover dolly and loaded a few empty crates onto it, and head on its way.

Jesse, meanwhile, had finished cutting open the shuttle's control panel, and had fished out the flight computer when Boulevard arrived with the crates. Putting the flight computer in his backpack. He opened each crate with a light touch on the side, and he pretty much loaded it with anything he could find that seemed remotely valuable. This included both of the occupant's briefcases, the suitcases in the luggage compartment, the wallets from both of the corpses inside, and any valuables and personal effects he could find.

He didn't open anything up just yet, he was saving all of that for the trip back up into space.

Jewel was alone in the cargo hold for five minutes, tops, before heavy, scary sounding footsteps sounded off on the ramp. Slowly, Highway's massive, plodding frame came into view, nearly eight feet tall, Jesse pushing the hover-dolly beside him.

The single camera-shaped eye that made up Highway's head scanned around, until finally, it stopped.

Pointing dead at her.

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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2015, 01:27:13 am »
It was hot in the hold. Probably because of the air outside pouring on in? Jewel sure hoped that was all it was. She hoped this hold had AC, because otherwise she was going to get baked--in the least fun way possible.

She shifted her legs a little as soon as the robot left with a dolly, stretching when they got cramped and wiping her sweaty face on her shirt. Maybe she should consider sneaking further onto the ship? 'Cause like...gods, what if the bots hung out in the hold? Then what? She'd be screwed. And this ship was pretty big! There had to be other good places to hide, right? But before she could consider that, those scary, thundering footsteps made her tuck her legs back against her chest and curl up, quiet and still, as she watched that huge robot some stomping along with a human companion. The captain? Huh. He didn't look like a murderous thug--

Oh fuck me!

The robot was looking at her.

It was staring right at her.

Maybe it doesn't see you... Jewel thought as her heart lunged into her throat. She held her breath and went very, very still, like a deer blinded by headlights. But it was pointing right at her and it was huge, and her eyes traced the lines of its form--and landed on that pincer-like hand of its.

Sweat dripped off the tip of her nose and her heart thundered in her chest, her muscles so tense they were trembling.

She did not want to find out what that pincer-claw-hand-thing did.

You don't see me, nothing here to look at, carry on! Please and thank you!
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2015, 01:39:14 am »
In all honesty, the pincer claw wasn't even a pincer claw at all! Highway was a loader-bot, so as a consequence, one of it's hands was designed so that it could clamp down on hooks or be threaded into cargo pallets. Although, while it wasn't a weapon, that certainly didn't mean that it wasn't capable of squeezing people's guts out of their asses.

"Discrepancy detected."

Jesse stopped in place, and looked over to Highway, a puzzled expression on his face.

"Discrepancy? What do you mean discrepancy? Stop starin' at cockroaches and get over here, Highway."

The robot didn't move, still staring at Jewel. It turned to fully face her, single eye unblinking.

"Negative status on isopodal arthropods. Discrepancy is humanoid."

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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2015, 01:52:08 am »
Shiiiiit! Seriously? You metal hunk of ASS!

Cover officially blown, Jewel stayed frozen for a second longer, mind racing to process just how fucked she was, before she just decided, fuck it. It was probably either show herself or get dragged out, and she'd much rather avoid that! Maybe she could just...play this off as no big deal? Ha ha?

Releasing the breath she'd been holding, she scrambled to her feet and popped up, leaning both hands on the crate in front of her and flashing her most charming grin. "Uh, yeah, hi guys! Discrepancy here! Don't mind me, just, er...chillin'. With the boxes. And whatnot. S'up?"

Cue awkward wave and please don't shoot me smile.
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2015, 02:06:14 am »
Jewel's smile might've been of the please don't shoot me variety, but it didn't stop Jesse from whipping out his weapon and pointing it straight at her. It was a sidearm, that much could be seen, but as to what it actually was, well.

It looked like some kind of sawed-off shotgun, except much fancier, like as if it was a scatter-laser rather than a solid shot weapon. Immediately, Highway's programming switched gears, and its hand shot forwards to give her a lovely little knockout tap with its proper hand.

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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2015, 02:12:30 am »
"Whoa, fuck!" Jewel jerked backwards at the sight of that weapon, her shoulders slamming against the wall behind her and hands thrown up in an I surrender! gesture. Okay! Scratch that! These were the criminal-y sorts and she had so misjudged the situation oh shit oh shit oh shit she'd fucked up!

"Hey, man, calm down! I'm not--!"

She didn't get much farther than that. Because that was when the robot's hand shot out and slammed into her head. Her words cut off, her eyes rolled back, and she fell over into the crates.
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2015, 02:34:21 am »
Jesse was about to start asking questions, but before he could get to it, Highway corrected the situation for him. As Jewel collapsed out of view among the crates, Jesse couldn't help but wince. In all the excitement, he'd forgotten to tell Highway to stand down. It seemed he had a pretty decent handle on the situation!

He holstered his weapon and slid over the crates, landing on his feet and kneeling down next to Jewel. She just looked like some random lady, hanging out in his cargo hold! Not one to leave a problem uninvestigated, he slipped her backpack off of her shoulders, and took a peek inside. Clothes, food, water... a sidearm. Then, he took a cursory look through her pockets. The smartphone was the tipoff for him, really.

"A goddamn city girl," he muttered to himself, and zipped her backpack back up, leaving the gun in there and everything.

"Highway, do we still have those temporary bunks set up?"

"Affirmative. Boulevard has not corrected that room."

Nodding, Jesse put an arm around Jewel and hefted her up.

"I'm gonna get to the bottom of this."

-------------------

When Jewel woke up, she'd find herself lying on a cot, still in the clothing she arrived in. There was a blanket folded up on the floor next to her, and the room (about twice the size of your average walk-in closet) contained an old couch that had definitely seen some better days and a small table with two chairs.

Her backpack was nowhere to be seen, but she still had the contents of her pockets. To help alleviate whatever dent Highway left behind on her head, she also had a cooling patch stuck right where the robot's metal fit had impacted her. The light above the door was green, indicating that it was unlocked.

From the room beyond, there were audible footsteps, and occasionally the sound of tools.

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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2015, 02:55:45 am »
It was the pounding in her head that ultimately woke Jewel.

With a quiet groan, she shifted where she lay and pressed a hand to her head, gingerly feeling the tender spot--which was covered by a cooling patch. Eh? For a moment she just lay there, a little nervous about what she'd see when she opened her eyes. Like, obviously she wasn't dead, and obviously she'd been treated for...whatever the hell had happened after he'd pointed that gun at her, and obviously she was laying down in a bed of some sort, but...

Was she going to open her eyes and find herself chained up in some locked room with dull instruments on a blood-stained table and a robot sentry guarding her? She swallowed, took a deep breath, cracked her eyes open--

And found she was in a pretty damned innocuous room.

Couch. Table and chairs. Simple cot, minus chains. No bone saws or bloodstains or pliers.

And muffled, the sound of footsteps and other things. Tools? Maybe the next room was the torture room.

Now you're just being ridiculous. They wouldn't patch her up and make her (relatively) comfortable just to fuck her up! Probably.

Sitting up gingerly and adjusting the cooling back, she looked around the room more carefully. She could feel her smartphone in her pocket, but her backpack was gone--and her stomach twisted at the realization, a sick sinking feeling deep in her gut. He'd probably gone through her stuff, as any smart person would, which meant he knew about the gun.  The gun she'd never fired, but he didn't need to know that.

Okay. Yeah. This was all bad. Bad, terrible idea! Her bike probably had enough juice to get her back to Tynova, and this was clearly the universe giving her some Big Signs--something she wasn't normally too big a believer in, but man, it had literally punched her in the head! Like, upgrade her phone! Lay low and plan a little more! Don't sneak on board shady ships! Her bad! The guy probably thought she was still asleep, and there was a lot of noise going on, so maybe if it was unlocked she could just sneak out and leave.

Rising shakily to her feet, for she felt a little dizzy, she tiptoed to the door. There was a green light above it, and green meant go, generally, so...

She bit her lip, and opened it slowly and quietly as she could.
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2015, 03:33:00 am »
The next room over, was, in fact, not a torture room. There were no strung up corpses, no insane robots with needle arms, and there certainly wasn't a murderous criminal in their either. Instead, she happened across an area that looked very much like a mechanic's workshop blended in with a ship's common area. There was a circular table in the center, and a few seats built into the wall here and there, but apart from all that, there were also wall-cabinets filled with parts, tool racks, and labeled containers lying about.

Most importantly, though, was the fact that Jesse was there. His engineering suit, gun holster (with gun), and toolbelt all hung by a door behind him. He was seated at the table, working over some kind of cylindrical container with a power drill.

Also standing by the table was Boulevard, who's head turned to look at Jewel, followed by Jesse's. When he saw her, he sighed, and but his tools down. He leaned back in his chair, and crossed his arms.

"Just who the hell are you, and why in the hell'd you try to sneak aboard my ship?"

He had his theories, of course, that she was a city girl on the run, but that was yet to be seen.

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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2015, 03:48:52 am »
Dammit. Caught red-handed. Again.

Jewel took a step back and grimaced at her own cowardice--but he had a weird robot with him and a gun behind him and he'd aimed that at her and she'd been robot-punched so...she was a tad skittish. For good reason.

"Well, howdy-fucking-do to you, too," she said before she could help it, covering up nerves with snark as usual. She winced, regretting it--the guy did have a gun!--and gave a quick look around the room as though gauging escape routes. Yeah. She couldn't make sense of the layout. It was her first time even on a ship! With another uncomfortable look his way, she licked her chapped lips and leaned against the door frame, arms folded and one hand still rubbing her head.

"Uh, I mean...hi. Look, I think we got off on the wrong foot. I wasn't trying to be shady, I just need a ride out of this dust bowl. I was totally gonna introduce myself! I just wanted to scope it out before I did. Make sure there weren't like bodies in those crates."
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2015, 03:59:47 am »
"We definitely did," Jesse said, not appreciating her snark one bit. The obvious lie about wanting to scope the place out before she introduced herself didn't sit well with him either. He liked to beleive that he was well within his right to point his gun at her! For all he knew, she could've been a criminal or something!

"Listen, don't try and make it sound like you weren't stowing away, because I know you were trying to stow away," he said and leaned forwards. Boulevard picked up the cylinder and the power drill, and resumed Jesse's work while Jesse talked.

"That being said, I'm sorry for not calling off my robot before he, well..."

Jesse tapped the side of his head.

"That."
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2015, 09:00:23 am »
Caught red-handed yet again. Okay, but that lie had been pretty lame. Plan B, then! As though she'd even had a Plan A...

Jewel leaned her head against the door frame and frowned at the guy, hand cushioned between her head and the hard surface. "Better than getting shot," she said. "I thought you might actually shoot me for a second there. Doesn't mean it ain't sore as fuck. Um, so, look..."

She met his eyes then and chewed at some dead skin on her lip. Of all the things she'd forgotten, she couldn't believe she'd forgotten lip balm! "You're not gonna like...report me, are you?"
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2015, 09:35:27 am »
"I almost did shoot you," Daersen said, and crossed his arms.

"There's dangerous folks out here. If I pegged you as the wrong sort, we wouldn't be having this conversation," Daersen said, a grim tone to his voice.

he leaned back in his seat, and Boulevard paused in its work. It hit the cylinder on the table a few times, before it resumed drilling. Jesse smiled at that, before he looked at Jewel.

"Listen, you seem like a nice enough girl, so I'm not gonna turn you in. But..."

He stood up.

"if you want a ride, I need to know why you're on the run."


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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2015, 09:48:53 am »
Jewel jumped at the sound of the banging before she realized it was just the robot smacking the cylinder on the table. Relaxing again, as much as she could considering the situation and tension thrumming through her, her frown deepened at the guy's words.

Yeah, no way. She wasn't going to out herself and have him turning her in. But she also couldn't exactly lie, since he'd caught her in her others. No, the best lies were often those with an element of truth to them, so after a pause she let her eyes drop.

"I'm just trying to get away from this abusive fuck, okay?" she said, and hoped he'd let it drop there. Most people didn't press very hard when the matter seemed personal and traumatic like that, so hopefully he was of the same ilk.  Looking back up at him again, she shifted off the wall and met his eyes again.

"I don't care where you're going. As long as it's Not Here, I'm cool with that. And I can do stuff! Like, whatever you want me to do around here to earn my keep. I don't expect to just mooch off your food and shit for free." Except she totally had, back when she'd been hoping not to be found!

"Just nothing weird or creepy. I'm talking like...cleaning or cooking whatever," she added with a wrinkle of her nose.
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Re: The crown Jewel of poor planning [DaGlobster!]
« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2015, 01:05:08 pm »
An abusive boyfriend? Jesse raised an eyebrow, but he didn't question her story. It seemed real sketchy, and he found himself doubting it pretty much right out of the gate. Leaving an abusive relationship was usually premeditated. There was no way she could've known he was here previously, and a few other factors pretty much pointed to complete and utter bullshit.

But he stayed quiet.

"Well, I run a professional scavenging business, so you're guaranteed Not Here. One hundred percent. If you're willing to help me keep tidy, act as impromptu assistant, and cook a meal every once in a while, you're welcome to stay on as long as you like."

Jesse offered her a kind smile.

"Now that we got that out of the way.... Howdy! I'm Jessup Rhodes, and welcome to the offices of Rhodes Scavenging SP. You can call me Jesse."

 

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