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[RogueSpear]

'Team One' Dorm,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:03 hours,

Jack nodded his head a couple of times, thinking. "Respectable amount. But noo...hope's ne'er a good thing to wager on. 'S an opinion, no a fact. Nae numbers to et." He craned his head and scratched his beard. "But ten grand is a number. Near buy me twa tonne of reloads for me AC10." Mad Jack grinned again. "Ach, even if y'are fibbin' t'me about how much yer bettin', ah'm thinkin' et's mair ye gave her, no less, and despite whit the wee trollop sez, ah think I'll bet yer ain way too." DeMarkus was now looking very confused. "Listen, ah'll be straight wi'ye, as the sign on the door says, we're a' team one. Means sooner or later oor fortunes will fly or fa' taegether." He shrugged. "So the faster we git talkin', drinkin' an' used tae et, the faster we can get that bit o' trust goin' that means we can work taegether. Me...ah've no done that in a very long time. No really. But..." He shifted his weight uneasily. These grand gestures always did come better when ah wiz still Hans James. About a dozen drinks in. When ah wiz about to get in trouble..."If there's a time an' a place fer it, it's probably here and soon." He nodded the resolution to himself. "So ah'm t'bet on ye, if'n ye don't mind. Might as well start flyin' or fallin' now." He cut of his diatribe and looked away from the counter in the middle of the kitchenette his eyes had been boring holes in and looked back at the other mechwarrior for his reaction.
Why dae ah even want tae trust this b*gg*r?

Edited by RogueSpear, 23 July 2012 - 08:46 PM.

[Thom Frankfurt]

'Team One' Dorm,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:03 hours,


DeMarkus looked on in confusion as the big bearded mechwarrior rambled on in his funky accent. At times he cocked his head to the side as if that would help him decipher the words falling out of his mouth. He mentioned something about autocannon ammo, some trollop, and what he gathered was something about the sign on the door. The Capella felt like he was watching a foreign movie in another language and was barely able to follow.

Suddenly the man paused and fidgetted like he was searching for a specific word to continue his speech. He contined on then after finishing looked away, and then back at him, but now he looked him in the eye. Almost like he expected D to add his two cents. DeMarkus took a deep breath.

"Hey man.. Do you's speak Russian or's Cantonese? Your's accent's 'bout as thick as mine." He paused then continued in his rough English. "Okay's man, I'ms not gonna p!ss down yer back an atell you's it's raining. I's gave Kay more dan ten thousand's, I's gave her's just a little less dan fourty's. Da odds against me's pretty's long, and der even longer now's after that fender bender out on da grounds." He smiled unexpectantly at the confused look on Jack's face. He desided to elaberate. "One-Eye, ah da Commando, is beat's up an abused. But der's fight in em yet. And dat right arm's it works. I's been walken around da grounds for's a week acting like it's immobile. It look's like I's got some air time were I's stompin around with it's dangling dead at da side."

Markus took a bite out of the kinja and got a blissful look on his torn up face.

"An, I'ms agreeing wit you's we's need ta get to know one another's. Well, dat's if dat was what you's were a'sayin." He paused leaning back against the kitchenette counter. "But, we's need to get da other guys too." He pointed the half eaten fruit in the direction of Bertie and Vulpes' rooms. "We's all hang together's or we's ahang seperately." He checked his antique Micky Mouse watch. "I's stills got some time's before heading out's to da Dump, let's chat." He paused as the big man seemed to relax before his eyes. "So's.... you's have any military experience?"

Edited by Thom Frankfurt, 24 July 2012 - 07:18 PM.

[RogueSpear]

'Team One' Dorm,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 7:07 Hours,

"Ha! Ye've an accent on ye as well right enough. Ah'll try tae speak clearer." He cleared his throat, and consciously tried to scrub the worst of Mad Jack's accent from his voice. It felt strange. "Forty thousand is a lot of money. Ah like it. Might see if ah can match it." He grinned. "Good trick with the arm." He tapped his head with the glass. "Ye use yer brain and ye're not afraid to lie to the other guy. Reckon ah might like ye already." He paused. He didn't really want to get into his military history. Ever. 20 years as a pirate raider was definitely not something to flaunt about. Still, ah have to say something - this lad's smart enough to see a dodge a mile off.
"Ah signed on wi' the LCAF back in 3006. Ended up freelancing though. An' now ah'm here. Lot of years, but no many tales worth the recounting." He shrugged and nodded down at the second dorm. "Ye're right about hanging wi' the other two, but is it no a bit early to wake them? 'Sides, if we get to know each other a bit, we can both work on talking to the others rather havin' some sort of verbal methican stand off. Methican? Mexican? Meffican? Ah forgettit. Ye ken wh- sorry, know what ah mean."

EDIT: Minor rewording.

Edited by RogueSpear, 24 July 2012 - 07:47 PM.

[Thom Frankfurt]

'Team One' Dorm,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 7:09 Hours,

DeMarkus nodded apprecitvily as the strange man strained himself and began to talk clearer. He then took a sip on nanjari juice and began to speak slowly, drawling out his words hoping to thin out the thick accent.

"Yeah. You's should have seen da girl at da Ceres Metals place. She looked at me like I's wasa murdering da Engilsh language." He chuckled as the sudden thought that Jack and him should both try talking to Von Bremen to see if his head would explode.

"I's been, err.. sorry's, I was in da CCAF since I's was 15, all da way up to '28." He rubbed his ruined shoulder through his jumpsuit's worn fabric and tried to banish the memory of punching out through his Cataphract's shattered canopy.

"So's Kaylee said dat you's have a Jager an a Champion, why's you riding around in the Urbie?"

[Jeremy Hunter]

Rainbow Stables
The Grey Room
Solaris City, Solaris VII
April 19th

Izzy blushed slightly, clutching her locket.
"Hello. I'm Isabella. I wish to join the Stables. I have my own 'Mech, too."
She paused, then fell silent. Talking had never been her strong point. It had been Sora's.
"I have experience as a mercenary around smaller conflict zones." She put forth, then looked away.
Where was Sora when she needed her?


((on a phone, so...sorry for the meager post))

[RogueSpear]

'Team One' Dorm,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:11 Hours

Jack nodded approvingly at the Capellan. He must be, to have fought in the CCAF at 15. Entire Confederation o' lunatics. He shrugged at DeMarkus' question. "Jaeger's been out of action fer near ten years. Got it well shot up, never had the money to put it back together until now. Been slowly repairing it with whatever cash ah've had ah didn't need fer living or keeping the Urbie working ever since. Champion ah've only had a week or so - got involved in a fight in a less than legal arena." He grinned. "Seemed the 'Baska Brothers' didn't take kindly to a bunch of light pilots for...well ah dunno what the others did, but ah bulled mah way into the fight without paying. Ah'd ordered a new gyro for Eisenheiß, the Jaeger, but they hadn't produced it. Anyway, showed up to a free for all with a bunch of lights, they pulled out the Champion to take us all out. Didn't go their way. Ah dropped the lot, bar two, wha just ejected." He shrugged again. "Took the lot as salvage and sold the lights - made enough money to pay off mah hospital bills, repair the Taysider, that's mah Urbie, repair Eisenhei, and have some left over. Not actually sure if ah can be bothered to fix the Champion, truth be telt. Ah could buy a fresh Centurion for the same money, and it'd be more useful. Would let me do medium matches." He cocked his head at the other man. "So if you left the CCAF at 28, what age are ye now? Ye always piloted...eh what did ye call it, Old One Eye?" He chuckled. "Appropriate name that, it does look like it is."

[Thom Frankfurt]

'Team One' Dorm,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:13 Hours

DeMarkus leaned back as Jack recited his tale about the busted Jager and the Urbie known as the Taysider. He considered the Lyran's thoughts on selling off the Champion for a Centurion, and desided that he would have done it. The Champion was ten tons heavier than the medieum mech and armed and armored just about the same, but was notoriously known for running hot. He then wondered why the man known as 'Mad Jack' didn't go through with it, or sold off all three mechs for something nasty and feared, like a Marauder. He was about to ask this when Jack turned the tables on him and began asking him questions.

"What age's am I's? Oh, I'm's fourty one's. I's set foot upon dis rock on my's birthday, last month." He paused chuckling about what Jack said about One-Eye. "Yeah a fitting name for's him's, but it was Slater dat named him dat. I'm's a buying da Commando off of him." He shook his head saddly as he answered the other part of the question. "Nah, I's used to pilot a Cataphract, I's lost it defending Tikonov." He shrugs. "Too many Davies..."

[RogueSpear]

'Team One' Dorm,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:14 Hours,

"Tikonov?" Jack raised his eyebrows in surprise. "Hard fighting." Obviously a lot of a hard*ss than he looks. "How'd ye get out of that wan?"

[Thom Frankfurt]

'Team One' Dorm,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:14 Hours,


"Wasn't easy." He smirked thinking about every dirty trick he used against the Davion invaders. "I's dragged out's da fight as long as I's could. I's accomplished my's goal which was holding da Davies off long enoughs for da Colonel...err... Ridzik to escape. After dat I's fought as long as I's could, but dey boxed me in a buisness district... knowing I's could go on no longer I's charged dem, crashing into's a Rifleman. I self destructed my 'Phract by disabling da containment fields's on da engine and punched out... Dat's where I's got dis."

He undid his jumpsuit to the waist to peel it back to show Jack the crisscrossed roadmap of scar tissue that made up his shoulder muscles.

"Da canopy wasa warped from a missile hit an didn't blow off when I's punched out." He rubbed his shoulder for a bit before putting the jumpsuit back on.

"I's don't remember's much after dat. A squad's of infantry found me's in a store, bleeding out. I's remember hearing da words; 'We didn't find him.' as one of dem shoved da muzzle of an assault rifle into my's face. I's blacked out den." He frowned at the memory.

"When I's awoke in a hospital, I's den found out dat a Davion chaplain found de squad about to open's fire and stopped dem. Dey fixed up my ouchies an put me in a's prisoner camp. When Ridzik defected I's got alet go. I's was den serving with da Tikonov Free Republic and da Colonel as aid de camp up till his assassination. I's den headed here.. I's couldn't go home." He shrugged as he finished.

Edited by Thom Frankfurt, 26 July 2012 - 02:57 PM.

[RogueSpear]

'Team One' Dorms,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th 07:15,

Jack sat back against the counter for a while. He'd have thought it was a heap of bull if it wasn't for the political and personal baggage. "Ye've had a pretty harsh life." He nodded slowly to himself, half in thought. "Ah can respect and understand that. Yours a bit mair noble than mine. Which is why ah don't get why ye're here. This was a step up fer me - why would a guy most would consider something akin tae a hero become a gladiator?"

[Thom Frankfurt]

'Team One' Dorms,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th 07:15,

"Wife an son." DeMarkus offered to the bearded mechwarrior. "I's now know's dat it was a's mistake hanging out wit da Colonel after's he's went rogue, an abandoned da Confederation. But it seemed like's a good idea at da time..." He gets a serious look on his face as he trys thinking about that whole situation. "I's guess it was da Colonel's ability to move people, his charima, dat kept me's around." He gets a sad face as he thinks about home, a three roomed housing unit carved into the bedrock of the iceball known as Warlock. "I's bet der is a Maskinrovka hit squad just awaiting for me's to go home. Misha and Thom are safer with me's here." The frown deeped.

[RogueSpear]

'Team One' Dorms,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th 07:17,

Jack didn't really have anything to say to that one, but it certainly put his own life in perspective. This guy had had the whole universe against him, not just screwed it up himself and blamed everyone else.
Ach, frag off. He growled angrily at himself and glared at the table. A few seconds passed as he swore in an inner monologue before he remembered about the Capellan.
"Sorry, just...reminded me of some other stuff. Doesn't matter." He squinted at DeMarkus. "You hold off at Tikonov with a Commando?"

[Sparks Murphey]

'Team One' Dorms,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th 07:18

“My Daddy has a mech too,” Heather piped up from across the room, “It’s big and red and blue and yellow. Though now its just red. He used to fight snakes, but then he had to go fight the Pellans. They killed my mom. Then we went from world to world killing bad guys. My Dad’s mech used to go ‘BOOM! Ka-thunk!’ but now it goes ‘Bzaaaaaap’ and shoots lightning, which is good too.”

<Edit: Heather's not that bad at grammar.>

Edited by Sparks Murphey, 26 July 2012 - 06:34 PM.

[RogueSpear]

'Team One' Dorms,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:19,

Jack and DeMarkus fell silent as the girl reemerged from the bathroom. Jack exchanged looked with the skinny Capellan. "Yer Da' dragged you round the 'Sphere hunting Capellans?" He whistled loudly. "He's near as big a maniac as..." He swiftly decided not to name the pirate he was thinking of. "The bint who's running this place." Trying to think of what to say to the girl, he chose to stick with what he knew, then tiptoe into what he didn't. "D'ye mean he had an auh-toe-can-on? And now he has a P-P-C? Emmm..." He glanced at DeMarkus again. "Uhh...what are you and your Dad's names? Ah'm Jack, this is DeMarkus." He looked up at DeMarkus again. Don't just stand there, ah don't bloody know what tae say!

[Thom Frankfurt]

'Team One' Dorms,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:19,


"Little gurl, are's you's ahungry? Der's some fruit and toast here... plus some nangari," He looked at Jack with a hint of confusion on his face. "Orange juice, right? Orange juice."

Daddy used to fight snakes, then fought pellans.... great a FedRat and his daughter.

DeMarkus glanced over his shoulder and noticed the yellowing bruise on the side of Heather's head.

Looks like the Madman is abusive as well... I hope he's dumb enough to do that in front of me, I'll throw him out the window and see how big of a grease spot he makes...

DeMarkus suddenly stopped pouring Heather a glass of OJ. He couldn't believe he just thought about throwing someone out the window. Where did that thought come from?

Edited by Thom Frankfurt, 26 July 2012 - 07:17 PM.

[Sparks Murphey]

'Team One' Dorms,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:20

Heather nodded as she helped herself to the toast. “Yep, a peepeecee. My name is Heather. My Daddy’s name is Albert. We came here because Daddy thinks the bad guys are trying to find us.”

She looked at DeMarkus a little distrustfully. “What’s a bint?”

<Edit: Heather's not that terrible at clock times, either>

Edited by Sparks Murphey, 26 July 2012 - 06:58 PM.

[Thom Frankfurt]

((Let's do the Time-Warp again!!!))
http://youtu.be/V0SqS2QJdj8
Rainbow Stables
'The Grey Room'
International Zone
Solaris City, Solaris VII
April 19th, 16:01 Hours
“...Ummm. Thank you and Goodbye,” Jack finished. He immediately limped off stage to the right, avoiding the questions of the reporters.

Von Bremen stood there dumbfounded and looked at the small quecards that Erin had prepared for Jack's speech he then looked up to where she stood leaning against a doorframe swirling a glass of wine in her hand. The smirk she casted his way as she turned about to retreat to her gloomy office told him all he needed to know, she deliberately wrote that fancy to confuse the beared mechwarrior and make him look like a fool on vid. With the film crews packing up their gear and press still shouting questions at the back of the burly man as he limped off Randolph rubbed his temples in frustration wondering what 'Mad Jack' would do in retailiation to the slight on holovid.

As the press and filmcrews filed out, under the watchful gaze of stable security, Von Bremen became aware of a couple of people lingering about. It was Bertie Walker standing there with a tall lithe woman. He immediately decided to go over and see what the two were about.

“Bertie. I was under the impression Heather was somewhat younger,” he said with a smirk.

“She is. This young lady was hoping to join up, and I figured you might be able to help with that,” he glanced at the still swinging door Jack had just departed through, “Unless, of course, you have other fires you need to put out.” Bertie added.

"Thankfully everything is quiet at the moment," He looked over the duo's shoulder at the door Jack retreated though as it closed. "but for how much longer, I cannot say. I am Randolph Von Bremen, PR rep and head of recruitment here at Rainbow Stables." He extended his well manicured hand to the young lady before him. "It is a pleasure to meet you...Ms?"

Edited by Thom Frankfurt, 26 July 2012 - 07:29 PM.

[Thom Frankfurt]

'Team One' Dorms,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:20

“What’s a bint?” Heather asked and he shrugged as he handed her a glass of juice.

"No's idea, Sweetie." He leaned in close and whispered conspiritorly in Heather's ear. "I's have a's hard time understanding anything's Jack says."

He looked at her strangely like he just noticed the bruise on the left side of her face.

"Yowch. How did you's get dat?" He grimaced for her.

Edited by Thom Frankfurt, 26 July 2012 - 07:31 PM.

[RogueSpear]

'Team One' Dorms,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th, 07:20,

"Ah heard that." Jack grumbled. 'Cos that damn lisp makes understandin' ye a treat oan the ears, ****. Jack shook his head slightly and grimaced, tilting his head and looking at the ceiling. "Emmmm...a bint is a beautiful woman. Technically." Jack suddenly noticed the huge orange-yellow bruise on the girl's face. "What happened to you? Ye look like ye were hit by a car - and ah'd know." He hunkered down to get a better look as the girl turned slightly away to hide it. " 'Mon Heather, let Ol' Jack have a look, ah'm mad but I'm no a complete ba-mean. Bad mean. Please?" He wiggled his fingers at her gently as he held his arm out to her. We protect the young and the weak Hans. Jack blinked the voice away, but he kept his arm outstretched and made sure not to let his irritation at the notions of nobility he had thought long buried show on his face. "Cherry on top?"

[Sparks Murphey]

'Team One' Dorms,
Rainbow Stables,
International Zone,
Solaris City, Solaris VII,
April 20th 07:20

Heather reluctantly approached the ex-pirate.

“I fell. Daddy was painting his mech. It was okay, I guess. But then there wasa big stomper, BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!” She mimed walking with big, heavy footsteps, “with rockets on this arm, and a cannon on this one. And it had a big dragon painted on it. Only the dragon was kinda hard to see, because it had been shot at, and all smoke and burnt was on it, and I tried to lean closer to see and...I fell.”