[Inside The Happy Rebel in Tir, a small group is chatting when the Bar Operator, Beverly 'Lightswift' Puller, walks in]
Dagget: hello
Nutmeg: smiles at Ms. Puller
Lightswift: Just give me a second to change
Nulion: smiles
Nulion: Been a long time since I've seen her.
Nutmeg: I just met her for the first time.
Dagget: CoT earlier this year
Nutmeg: She gave me coffee on the house.
Nutmeg: sips her coffee
Nulion: Awful good person, though nobody knows her like Rawenna does. *smile*
Rawenna: grins
Dagget: I'm a little worried about her going thru 'reform' though
Rawenna: Oh I am sure some know her better then I do.
Nulion: I haven't met them, then *smile*
Rawenna: Ysabelle, Raijou, Sime and Fali are all ofplanet
Rawenna: Hello beverly
Lightswift: Alrighty...now, what can I get everyone to drink?
Rawenna: smiles
Nulion: Hey there Bev! *smile* Very long time, no see
Lightswift: smiles still catching her breath
Dagget: Haven't seen you since you came to the CoT a few months ago
Nutmeg: still has her coffee
Nulion: No drink for me, I'm good. *smile*
Lightswift: yes.....yes, sorry about that. Been quite busy
Lightswift: smiles
Dagget: as Simon owns a controlling interest, I believe
Lightswift: Nulion, Dagget...how did you enjoy the Omni hospitality? I heard the announcement when I was inside myself
Dagget: we didn't spend long there
Nulion: chuckles softly
Nulion: It...wasn't very comfortable, if that's what you mean.
Dagget: and we were a bit surprised that you agreed to take over this place
Lightswift: chuckles
Lightswift: Simon asked me to work here actually
Dagget: One wonders at his motives for asking you, seeing as he seems to dislike you
Nutmeg: smiles
Lightswift: To keep his eye on me. what else?
Lightswift: snickers
Nulion: chuckles
Nutmeg: Think it will work?
Lightswift: Heh
Dagget: he could plant incriminating evidence in here to get you in trouble
Lightswift: Depends what he is lookin for
Lightswift: Yeah I thought of that....so I took some of the budget he game me and installed my own security system
Lightswift: so I'll have records of everything that goes on
Lightswift: grins
Nulion: smiles
Nutmeg: raises an eyebrow
Dagget: at least there aren't any Omni here...The Cup is nice but Omnis seem to be always getting in
Nulion: The Cup serves all types, last I remember *smile* I remember the faction-neutral party there some time ago.
Lightswift: Do they? I havn't noticed any
Dagget: they come to West Athens to brawl, and hide in the cup when too many clanners are looking for them
Dagget: we started having Sunday Socials there but just this last weekend moved them to here
Nutmeg: Someone should give Coco a Clan Application and a gun.
Dagget: snickers
Rawenna: grins
Lightswift: Oh The cup, I thought you meant here
Lightswift: Yeah The Cup has its issues
Lightswift: nods
Dagget: but it is also busier overall that I have seen
Lightswift: Busier than here for sure.
Dagget: twice the staff
Nulion: Being next to a grid terminal will do that for business.
Lightswift: I'm hoping I can change that
Nutmeg: I bet you can.
Dagget: have you talked to the local officials about getting the grid terminal outside set for incoming people?
Nulion: That'd help business greatly.
Rawenna: Well, reopening the gridpoint outside and slap some paint on the walls would do wonders
Lightswift: The local officials would be Silverstone...I try to talk to him as little as possible
Dagget: and he seems to perfer this to be a ghost town...less work for his men
Lightswift: Yet he wants me to try and liven the place up
Nulion: We're equipping the guards with alien weaponry...not paintbrushes *grins, just kidding*
Dagget: Ah, I see Markonen is about
Lightswift: squints slighty
Lightswift: Why do I know that name.....
Dagget: Sergeant Markonen
Dagget: former Omni-Pol
Nutmeg: We were about to talk about him, Beverly. Do you mind if I call you Beverly?
Lightswift: Sergeant?
Lightswift: I don't mind Meg
Lightswift: Former Omni-Pol...
Dagget: he got fed up with the Omnis and turned clan recently
Nutmeg: nods
Nulion: We've all been through a lot with him lately.
Dagget: and had a horrible run in with Tempus Coma
Dagget: he's still recovering
Lightswift: eyes widen slightly then return to normal
Nutmeg: You've heard of the Tempus Coma?
Rawenna: Something the matter Bev?
Lightswift: Heard of them? Sliced me up several months ago
Nulion: 's eyes widen a bit
Nutmeg: winces
Rawenna: Ah yes, they attacked the Cup, didn't they?
Lightswift: nods
Dagget: they kidnapped a little girl from Tir
Rawenna: I remeber that.
Nulion: I hadn't heard about that, Rawenna.
Dagget: Markonen rescued her
Lightswift: What the hell is a little girl doing in Tir? Simon breeding?
Dagget: long story
Nutmeg: She was Ophaned. And aparently a victim of Omni-med, too.
Lightswift: Hmmm
Dagget: she was apparently born a shade but Omni-Med experimented on her to appear to be an advie
Dagget: and her 'parents' dumped her here
Lightswift: Nice parents
Dagget: she has gone back to her native form now and Markonen has adopted her
Nutmeg: Beverly, I don't think that her parents had much choice.
Nutmeg: And the Tempus Coma really wanted her badly, too.
Dagget: they appear to have been placed as cover for her
Lightswift: Hmm....I wonder why
Dagget: the Tempus Coma queen seems to be the girls real mother
Nutmeg: nods
Dagget: as we said, a complicated story
Lightswift: Sounds like
Lightswift: chuckles
Lightswift: Always an adventure with you guys isn't it
Dagget: I believe James is headed this way
Nutmeg: chuckles
Nulion: This month? Yes *smile*
Lightswift: James...Markonen?
Dagget: yes
Lightswift: nods slowly
Nutmeg: nods
Lightswift: I see
Nutmeg: You know him?
Dagget: he is still familiarizing himself with the city
Lightswift: ..hmm? No, I don't believe so
Dagget: some very nasty Omnis tried to kill him when he turned
Dagget: Dr Evans
Dagget: also, we learned that Midia was being held in custody by the Omnis
Lightswift: Yeah I know. She was shipped off world though
Lightswift: Same day they tried to send me to reform
Dagget: we are concerned that one of their factions is using her technology to produce the 'virus' that Ross is now reported to be afflicted with
Nulion: We'd heard about that. Got us all pretty worried..
Nutmeg: I heard about that, Beverly. You avoided reform?
Dagget: what happened? We heard you went to reform
Lightswift: Nothing to worry about. Just a simple misunderstanding. Like Silverstone, they thought I was someone I wasn't
Lightswift: smiles
Dagget: here he is I believe
Lightswift: Oh just your usual beverly, running a courier job through Omni territory and getting picked up because Ross was shot....
Rawenna: I am rather worried what could happend if Midia is working with the corporation...
Nulion: smiles over at Markonen
Dagget: Hello James
Lightswift: She was being held in a cell. Doubtfull she was working with them
[Markonen enters]
Rawenna: smiles
Rawenna: Hello James
Lightswift: looks up at Markonen
Markonen: Hello Rawenna, Dagget.
Nutmeg: smiles happily
Dagget: have you two ever met before?
Markonen: Maam.
Nulion: smiles
Lightswift: James Markonen.....or so they tell me.....correct?
Rawenna: Beverly, you have met the woman, if she thinks she has something to gain from it, she will work with them. Remeber Dr Forrest?
Markonen: You have the advantage of me maam.
Lightswift: grins
Lightswift: The way I like it
Markonen: You are..?
Markonen: smiles
Lightswift: Beverly Puller. Host of this fine bar
Lightswift: What is your poison.....sergeant?
Markonen: A pleasure maam.
Dagget: she also runs The Cup in West Athens
Markonen: I do not drink maam.
Lightswift: 's smile turns slightly up to the side
Markonen: I have learned it does not agree with me.
Nulion: chuckles, remembering the -last- time Markonen had a drink
Lightswift: You don't drink liquids?
Lightswift: We have other stuff than just booze you know
Dagget: grins
Markonen: If you have water, that would be perfect.
Markonen: smiles
Lightswift: nods
Nutmeg: sips her coffee
Lightswift: Sure thing
Nulion: So...have things been going well for you since yesterday, James?
Lightswift: There you are
Markonen: My thanks.
Lightswift: My friends here tell me you are former Omni-Pol
Markonen: Yes. It has gone well. ...
Markonen: Yes. I was.
Markonen: smiles
Nulion: smiles warmly
Lightswift: Worked for Ivan the terrible huh?
Markonen: Not directly... But yes.
Lightswift: smiles and types into her comlink
Markonen: I felt it would be better to leave Omni while I could. Especially after the execution of a man.
Nulion: sighs softly, thinking back to that...
Dagget: we were just discussion Midia and whether she has anything to do with the virus Ross seems to now have
Dagget: Beverly says she was shipped off planet
Lightswift: Well, while I was there I was under the impression she was a prisnor just like the rest of us
Lightswift: Didn't seem to be helping them much...Bitched a lot though
Rawenna: That sounds like her alright.
Nulion: chuckles
Dagget: I would think that the omnis would look for a way to leverage her expertise
Markonen: How so?
Rawenna: I am surprised that the ICC lets the corporation keep her locked up though..
Dagget: she knows bio technology beyond what they now have, I believe
Markonen: ICC knows what Omni allows them to.
Markonen: chuckles
Dagget: well, someone needs to keep her locked up, but I still worry as long as she is alive
Nulion: Markonen's right...I don't think knowledge of her being there was supposed to leave that building.
Dagget: well, we now know
Markonen: If half of what I have heard of this woman is correct she should have been permakilled.
Rawenna: Well considering the woman is, or atleast was an executive of the ICC , i think they would keep better track of he wearabouts.
Nulion: Ah, hello Hyperion *smile*
Hyperion5182: Hey
Lightswift: I think Midia was just a victim of her own ego
Lightswift: Hello Hyperion
Rawenna: Victim?
Hyperion5182: Bev
Nutmeg: Bah.. No victim would ever be quite that cruel.
Rawenna: Have you forgotten what she did? To you and to so many others?
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