I'm cool with it.

Gatac

Yeah, sure.

I'm cool with it all up to selling us to the highest bidder.

Carry on, Punkey.

Should I take it as read that she shook my hand in friendship (and maybe something more), flashing me her trademark wink at the same time? Or did she kick me in the junk and walk off, laughing?

Haha, I skipped some there, didn't I?

The former.

All righty! I think we're ready to head down. Making metal collars is a trivial task for Max and One-Ton. What are people bringing with them, considering that your Earth longarms still look like guns? Stripping them and putting them in luggage/bags/backpacks? Leaving them on the ship? The pistols you can probably conceal as-is.

admiralducksauce wrote:

All righty! I think we're ready to head down. Making metal collars is a trivial task for Max and One-Ton. What are people bringing with them, considering that your Earth longarms still look like guns? Stripping them and putting them in luggage/bags/backpacks? Leaving them on the ship? The pistols you can probably conceal as-is.

We should field-strip the larger weapons (a task Semo could do blindfolded) and conceal our pistols.

BTW: If it hasn't already been given back, Max wants his Colt returned.

Indeed. Strip the long arms, hide them in bags. And of course, Swims would look extra-badass with two or three beam rifles slung across his back, wouldn't he? You know, for backups in case one runs out of ammo.

Also, speaking of Swims, how's his wound doing? Don't want someone tearing that thing open and spilling his guts all over the deck.

He'll be ok. In game terms he's still missing two Wounds, but outside colorful description for a nasty new wound or a called shot it's not going to be a problem.

Punkey wrote:

Indeed. Strip the long arms, hide them in bags. And of course, Swims would look extra-badass with two or three beam rifles slung across his back, wouldn't he? You know, for backups in case one runs out of ammo.

Good idea!

Who's coming along? All of us? Also, what's the story we'll use to justify why Ngawai didn't land straight away with her captives instead of hanging around in orbit like we actually did?

Gotta interrogate the prisoners, obviously. We're being transferred to the control of someone else on planet, a quid pro quo deal with another bounty hunter. Or something.

I think that this is a reasonable degree of paranoia, considering we're putting Ngawai more or less in charge of, well, all of us while we walk through the checkpoint. Just saying this so it doesn't seem like Davis is watching her like a hawk, waiting for her to stab us in the back. There's still trust there, just taking reasonable precautions.

Don't know if there needs to be any pre-meeting-with-resistance-people planning or not. If not, we can move ahead to Gran's Hope I suppose.

Was that in English, sir?

I'm assuming all the stuff said in the car is in English, so no worries.

Team A:
Ngawai
?

Team B:
Max
Arketta
Fourth Claw
Angel (up to Ivan in the end, of course)

Everyone not on Team B goes into Team A. We need manpower at the meeting.

Gatac

Okay, this could turn out badly. Two things we'll need to think about: why are we hanging around here in the alibi, to explain to the officer if he asks? And, second, how do we make contact when we're doing our best to make it look like we've been captured?