From alliana701@yahoo.com Thu Sep 4 15:06:28 2003 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:09:33 -0700 (PDT) From: April Randall To: cantina@deathstar.org Subject: FoE Role-Play: Mingling With Mern (1/3) Important Role-Play here! Mingling With Mern 1/3 by Aron Sandler and April Randall Mia left the cantina, her face dark and her mood foul. She was going to kill him. She was going to kill Mern Dorf. Except that she'd just promised Lon she wouldn't. Stalking through the corridors, Mia began searching for Mern. She found him outside of his ship, loading it up. Mia approached. "Mern." She still didn't look happy. Looking up from his data pad, he smiled. "Mia. I was meaning to look for you." "You were?" "Yes, I no longer need your help in contacting the Alliance, I have made contact with Master Skywalker and will travel with him to Yavin." "Ah." It sunk in and she looked more closely at him. "You're going to Yavin?" She was visibly caught off guard. "Yes, I don't know if i'll be trained as a Jedi or what." She stood there, looking a little confused. "Okay..." "Yes, once I make the final preparations for launch I will leave for Yavin with Master Skywalker." "And are you planning on taking Rikka with you?" Her voice was even, but slightly accusatory. "Rikka? Of course, she is my responsibility, and one day could be an asset." She looked hard at him. "An asset. You *bought* her." She wasn't happy, but wasn't getting angry...yet. "Yes, I was approached with the offer and I saw potential in her so I purchased her." "What will it take to free her?" "A lot." Her jaw clenched. "How much?" she asked in a low voice. "Well I paid 20,000 for her, I figure that over time she would bring me over 70,000, so 100,000 credits will suffice." One eyebrow raised slightly and her jaw clenched again. She reached for her credstick pouch on her belt. "You're despicable. You're thinking of becoming a Jedi and you were going to own someone." "Whether or not I become a Jedi is up to the council, I am going to Yavin for answers, nothing more, if those answers lead to training so be it. You listen to me, Mia Jesbar, I spent fifteen years as part of a special ops military team with only one purpose: Gather whatever information we need with any means necessary, what I did to people in those years would have you go running back to your ship in terror." "And so that justifies owning someone." "No, I like you, so I am warning you before I act, don't get on my bad side. Owning her is part of business, I make a living any way I can." She stayed calm, but her voice was intense. "You know what, Mern Dorf, you listen to *me.* You disgrace the name of the Jedi just by even mentioning perhaps becoming one in the same breath you say you bought a little girl and plan on keeping her because she may turn out to be an 'asset.' You'll find that if you become a Jedi, you won't be able to make a living 'any way you can.' As for getting on your bad side... Well, that's not my problem, is it." She held out some credit sticks. "Here. Take them." He took the credits and handed her the key to Rikka's collar. "If you get on my bad side it will be your problem, and as for disgracing the Jedi, they above all others understand that some people only know one way of life, and they may attempt to change it, for if I do turn out to be Force sensitive the last thing they want is for me to go to the dark side." She looked at him, and then looked down at the key. "Any special tricks to this? No explosives or anything, right?" "If she goes more than ten clicks away from Port Lansing without you deactivating it with that key the bomb in her collar will destroy the ship she is on." "Wonderful," she said dryly. "I hope you find what you're looking for at Yavin," she said a little slowly. "You are right about the Jedi." "That's reassuring, up until three days ago I was always right, however it seems that over the last three days I was never right." "I kinda know what you mean." "No you don't. No one does." She raised an eyebrow at him. "Fine. I don't," she said a little flippantly. "Thanks for the key, Dorf. Have fun on Yavin." She turned and started to walk away. Realizing that again things turned out other than the way he anticipated, he tried a different approach. "Mia." She stopped, but didn't turn around. "What?" "You're right." "What?" she was confused and turned her head halfway to face him. "I have spent the last seventeen years of my life being ruthless and unforgiving, and when I came here the only thing I could do to earn a living was be a bounty hunter. But with my inability to catch a certain person that I have been going after for quite a while, and with the events of the past few weeks and days I have been trying to change and it is not easy. You're right, take these back." He held out the credit sticks for her. She turned, and her eyes went a little wide and her mouth dropped slightly open. She narrowed her eyes, studying him, completely unbelieving at what he'd just done. "If you want the sticks, take them, I have spent the last decade and a half making people feel miserable, at least this way I can make someone feel good." "I don't need them to feel good," she finally said, still trying to figure him out. "You really have changed..." she surmised. "I'm trying to." "You really want to give it *all* back?" "I don't think I'll be needing it on Yavin, and I have enough money in the back to last a while." "You'll be out 20,000 credits," she insisted. "Tell me, who did you buy her from?" "Ikara." "Don't think I've heard of Ikara." "Neither had I till I bought her, I met her through an acquaintance of mine." "Does she have a last name?" "Probably, but I don't know." Mia reached out for all but 20,000 of the credits. "Although I feel like I'm going against my morals by doing this, you keep 20,000 of it. It's only fair. Especially since you offered it all back to me." "No, take it all, I bought her as an asset it is fitting punishment for her to be a loss." "No, no. You keep 20,000. By redeeming yourself you've balanced the scale. So you keep it." "Don't tempt me, I want to, but if I'm going to change I need to do it completely, if I come out even then it is like it never happened." "Exactly, that's what the redeeming part is for." __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TRANSMISSION FROM: April Randall TO: The FoE Role-Play list Remember: Please send all non-Role-Play to the General Club list foe@deathstar.org If you have any problems or questions, please send them to: cantina-owner@deathstar.org