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Re: After Chaos
Reply #870 - Apr 23rd, 2016, 2:05am
 
"Yeah, lets go and scout some information." Fernando says.
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Reply #871 - Apr 23rd, 2016, 11:22am
 
Hondo let Valentine know what was going on, and after a quick comment from her about being left home with the children while the men took a night off, she gave him a kiss.  With the Hondo and Fernando walked to the casino/bar that was i the truck stop, which was one of 2 night tie hangout in town.
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Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out
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Reply #872 - Apr 23rd, 2016, 11:25am
 
"Fernando." Jeanette does not know where he is getting some of these ideas. "From everything I'm seeing and hearing they are serving Mother Earth, not themselves. And from what I learned last night, they can change. I'm using this as an example: they altered their own history so they could forge an alliance with Arendelle.
 
"Import from Israel, if I'm not mistaken that means something is made in Israel. Those words do not indicate how something got shipped."
 
"Jeanette is right." Moro speaks up. "Our ships can efficiently transport cargo from one part of the world to the other and they are being employed for that purpose."
 
Jeanette refers to the table and chairs Valentine had set up. "Moro, sit."
 
Moro and Jeanette sit at the peace table.
 
Jeanette is focusing on baby steps at the moment. "Earlier you said you wanted Doc Blue's Family Medical Kit for the entire party; the Chinook medical kit and additional supplies for select members of the party. You allowed the Chinook kit and supplies to be used for the entire party after Hondo initiated this environment of sharing resources. What about you hippies? You are apart of this caravan, why not share what you have with the rest of us?"
 
"I like the idea of this party being apart of this traveling city."
 
"There you go that's the spirit. No pun intended."
 
"Where's the point of us selecting supplies and kits you brought with you to use for the after-mission job and then supply you with everything you need you could have gotten in 2010?"
 
"Is that why I'm here? You need someone from 2010 to work as a nurse at home for mutants?"
 
"No. We need you for another reason. Since you are here anyhow, why not take care of the medical needs of mutant children?"
 
"How long do you think two medical kits and several boxes of gloves will last?"
 
"We are making new medical products."
 
"What you have listed will stretch what I have only so far. Eventually all I will have are what you make or can get from other sources in this wilderness."
 
Note: I need to go. I will continue the peace talks later.
 
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Reply #873 - Apr 23rd, 2016, 9:43pm
 
Moro draws a simple illustration of the problem. "Before the happening, fast food items and grocery bags were commonly found along every busy road. Fishing poles and other junk were in lakes, rivers and creeks. People would throw away televisions and appliances and replace them with new ones. Now people keep and fix what was once throne away."
 
"I once used a ten-year-old 450 MHz Pentium II. It still worked. I got a newer one because the game I was playing then did not work well on the slow system." Jeanette nods. "I know what you're talking about. Otherwise perfectly working televisions, radios and stereos were given or thrown away because the volume control needed to be replaced. Everything was disposable. I know exactly what you're talking about. You are taking things to the opposite extreme. I would say in some areas disposable medical equipment was taken a bit too far such as disposable blood pressure cuffs; for the most part the medical field is not the problem. Disposable medical equipment is needed for the safety and wellness of humans.
 
"Once again, I agree with you about the problem. I like your idea of making new parts for old equipment instead of making new equipment. You are taking things to such an extreme you are risking the safety and the wellness of humans, even the ones you have chosen."
 
"How do you feel about letting Mother Nature do her job?" Moro asks.
 
"I've heard that argument before." Jeanette answers. "Keep the gene pool strong. There are things we need to do. Some times we need to intervene. If we let diseases spread, we're not helping the gene pool. If we use surgical procedures even as recent as the early twentieth century, we're doing harm. I would even stay away from mid twentieth century procedures. If an able-bodied person is in an accident, we are to do everything we can to get that person able-bodied again. I would say we need to let Mother Nature do her job and Mother Nature needs to let us do our job.
 
"I don't believe what Fernando said is true. You don't believe it's all about you. All you did was swung too far to one side. You need to center.
 
"Fernando goes on about building colonies on other planets. Why? Your ancestors came here thousands of years ago. From what I'm hearing, you are not the only people who came to this planet. There has to be a reason. In human history people left their homes to get away from something."
 
"You don't sound excited about what Fernando talks about." Moro points out.
 
"This thing about being one with God? No. Lucifer tried to be like God and look what happened. If that's the utopian society Fernando keeps talking about, I don't want to be a part of it. I'd rather work on the problems with this world including getting the medical field back up to code."
 
After a moment of nothing, Jeanette continues. "Why are we here? I already know apart of that answer."
 
"I should answer that question when Fernando and Hondo get back."
 
"Fair enough."
 
"Let me say this," Moro continues, "you are here for two important reasons and none of those reasons include working at a home for mutants."
 
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Reply #874 - Apr 23rd, 2016, 10:49pm
 
Being early before the 'dinner crowd' walks in, Fernando looks about the casino and bar. He walks to the bar.
 
Fernando takes his cigarette lighter from his pocket, telling the bartender, "I'll take a shot of your strongest stuff."
 
The bartender looks at him as if he was stupid, almost to the point of ignoring his request.
 
"Are you deaf or something?" Fernando tell the bartender.
 
"I do not like you or your friend there." The bartender tells him as a couple of bouncers walk up to them.
 
"Why." Fernando demands for an answer.
 
"You're too clean - like those government types who come and go enforcing their law." The bartender tells him.
 
At that moment one of the bouncers puts his hand on Fernando's shoulders, "Boy, you'rrrreeee......" Fernando grabs the thumb and pins to the bouncer's forearm, making him cry, "AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!! THAT HURTS! LET ME GO!!!"
 
Fernando continues with twisting the bouncer's arm and pins his face to the bar. Both he other Bouncer and Hondo looks at Fernando and what he did in awe but Hondo takes out his fire arm and puts it up against the other bouncer's chin.
 
"I said I want a drink and you are going to tell me all about these government types so I can go after them. And so what I'm clean. That's my business and part of my job. If anyone from the corp is abusing their power, I want to know about it. Now call off your dogs and I'll call off mine." Fernando tells him.
 
The bartender nods at the bouncer held by Hondo who nods back. Hondo slowly lets him go and watches him walk away. Fernando slowly lifts the bouncer off the bar and untwists his arm but still has his thumb pinned against his forearm. He points to the bouncer's face, "Touch me ever again, and I'm ripping your balls off and stuffing them down your throat. Got that?!!"
 
The bouncer nervously nods.
 
"Good." Fernando tells him, and with a shove, he lets the bouncer go who staggers a few step away. He turns to the bartender, "About these government types that come in to enforce the law. Tell me about them. While you're at it, where's my drink?"
 
The bartender puts down a couple of shot glasses and fills them with a bottle of his finest liquor, "They wear jackets and hats like your friend, but in black like yours, with fancy badges in their wallet and picture identification that is not on paper but in plastic. They are clean, too clean to have been on the road for any amount of time. They do not drink or eat, just demand payment of taxes, ask questions and order us around. And they refer to each other as numbers, not by name."
 
"Men in Black..." Fernando tells Hondo.
 
"That's not good." Hondo replies.
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Reply #875 - Apr 24th, 2016, 10:32am
 
Hondo laid his revolver on the bar and downed one of the poured drinks.  
 
Hondo: Men in Black . . .Damn it all. We just can't cut a break.  Hippie shape changin' aliens, mutants thieves,  farmers,  grumpy bartenders, an' now the Men in Black.
 
Fernando: We've dealt with them before.
 
Hondo: Yeah, but then they had to stay in the damned shadows to be above the law. Here they can do so in broad daylight.
 
Hondo shook his head for a moment, picked up his revolver, and holstered it.
 
Hondo least I'll get to shoot at somethin' been wantin' to shoot somethin' all day.
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Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out
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Reply #876 - Apr 24th, 2016, 1:10pm
 
"I would not mind turning a couple of MiBs into Swiss Cheese, that is not what we are here for. In the least we know they are around." Fernando says before signaling the bartender to refill the shot glasses. "MiBs are not supposed to collect taxes - that is outside of their 'program.' They showed off any firearms?'
 
"As in guns and long arms? No." The bartender answers, "They did have walking sticks cattle prods, but unlike a cattle prod, they did not had to touch you with it to shock you, just point it at you and you were electrified."
 
"That has not changed..." Fernando says. The he asks, "What about their ride?"
 
"A Black American Classic 4-door Sedan my father used to talk about - a 1990s Vickie or something(?), almost new, and made no noise when they drove away. It also had a strange green light glowing under it." The bartender answers.
 
"They have a schedule as to when they come in? Do they visit other towns?" Fernando asks.
 
"No schedule, they come and go as they please. And from what I hear on other towns, the same with them. They say they come when it is necessary..." The bartender answers.
 
"I see..." Fernando says.
 
The bartender writes a number on a slip of paper and hands it to Fernando. Fernando looks at it and hands it to Hondo who looks at it before placing it into his pocket. It says, "19.5." He then asks, "How you paying for this?"
 
Fernando puts a $10 sliver coin on the bar, to which the bartender nods, takes the coin and refills the shot glasses one more time. He then asks, "Anything else before we go and come back?"
 
"Unless you know how to fix wireless. I would say no." The bartender answers.
 
"What's wrong with it?" Fernando asks.
 
"I used to have a lot of power to get out. Now I got a lot of feedback and the wireless gets hot." The bartender explains.
 
"Sounds like a high SWR." Hondo points out.
 
"Yeah, I thought so too." Fernando throws in, adding, "When did this started to happen?"
 
"Right after those G-Men left the last time they were here a couple of days ago. What you called them, 'Men in Black?'"  The Bartender replies.
 
"Yeah. Show me where's your Wireless Cable." Fernando says.
 
The bartender has them follow him to the back of the building where the wireless cable comes out to the antenna on the roof. Both Hondo and Fernando point to the cable at a suspicious spot.
 
"Look at that." Hondo says.
 
"Oldest trick in the book, I swear." Fernando adds as he takes out his knife and jams it between a staple and the cable, slowly pulling the staple out.
 
"Hey! That holds the cable in place!" The Bartender complains.
 
"Not this one. Look" Fernando points out, "These old ones hold the cable to the wall by going around it. This one - see it goes through the cable and not around it, shorting it out. Your wireless should work now but you should get it looked at by the radio doc. Just in case."
 
"Lets check it out." The bartender says as they walk back inside, telling them, "Wait for me at the bar."
 
Fernando and Hondo walk back to the bar as the bartender walks into an office. In a couple of minutes the bartender walks back out, and puts the silver coin back on the bar.
 
"The drinks are on the house." The bartender says.
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Reply #877 - Apr 24th, 2016, 2:26pm
 
Hondo: Now, that is right neighborly of ya. See, not all clean folks are ass-holes.
 
Bartender: I believe you are right, and I hope the drinks are an apology and thanks enough. You just can't be too careful these days.
 
Hondo: I reckon ya can't. Well, Here's mud in your eye.
 
Hondo downed his drink and set the glass back on the bar.
 
Hondo: So other than your G-men, any good rumors or gossip goin' round?
 
Bartender: Heard some stranger rescued an injun from a dakota fort and put down the ass-hat that was ruling them. Good riddens, I say. He was a cruel man, I have heard told. But the strangers who did that better be wary.
 
Hondo: Why's that?
 
Bartender: The G-men helped set him up to rule those forts. They won't take kindly to this at all. I heard tell over the wireless that the people of those forts have really rallied. They won't let anyone rule them so easily again. The injuns would be in trouble too if it wasn't for their guardians.
 
Hondo: The spirit guardians.
 
Bartender: Yup.
 
Hondo: What's your take on these spirits?
 
Bartender: I try to stay out of that mess. Some seem to truly try to help, there are some that are truly evil too, then there are some that act like they are trying to help but I'm not sure there isn't another agenda there.
 
Hondo: How about the Texas Spirits?
 
Bartender: Which ones? Texas is a big place.
 
Hondo: Didn't know there was more than one group there.
 
Bartender: There is a main group down there. I am not sure about them. they fit into that third group I was talking about.  But all the same the intentions of the group isn't always the intentions of the individuals. Some see them as gods and maybe some of them think they are but other than having a few extra powers and higher tech equipment than either of us will ever have, as they don't share, they aren't a lot different from us. They make mistakes, live, love, laugh, and learn. Problem is they think they are so far evolved that "stooping" to our level is beneath them.  That's how I see it anyway.
 
Hondo: Interesting. Anything else news worthy that has happened recently or is on the wind to happen?
 
The Bartender had obviously loosened up by now and was getting into full swing gossip mode.
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Well the cowboy, like the red man, you had to leave your land
You can't raise your stock and plant your crop in the gumbo and the sand
Greed disguised as progress has put us to the test
They won't be glad until we're gone from our home out in the west
It's sad to see those good old days replaced with greed and doubt
Soon we'll leave the country, the campfire has gone out
Bid 'em all adieu, you can't turn the world about
The cowboy left the country, the campfire has gone out
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Reply #878 - Apr 24th, 2016, 4:45pm
 
Jeanette starts to get up.
 
"Wait." Moro says.
 
Jeanette sits back down.
 
"I'll say this again when Fernando and Hondo are back. You are here for two reasons. You and Fernando are to rescue Gabrielle. She will have her blood on her. She will have a fever that will go away before morning and she will be sore and weak for the next day or two. This is normal for when the wings break the skin. Get her cleaned up, fed and dressed. Taking care of her physical needs is not the reason you and Fernando are here. Gabrielle was kicked out of her home because of her black wings. That's what you and Fernando need to fix. We can kill two birds with one stone by bringing mutants, who don't fit in anywhere else, to Texas."
 
"What's the other reason Fernando and I are here?" Jeanette asks.
 
"That's the reason Fernando is here. You and Fernando are free to go home at any time you want. That's the promise we made to you. We hope Fernando decides to stay to the end of the mission."
 
"I know you need Gabrielle to lead a social revolution. What's that about?" Jeanette asks.
 
"In Texas all mutants are allowed in. Even in a mutant friendly place, mutants with black-feathered wings are shunned. Somebody needs to take the Bible and smack some sense into people."
 
"I don't think you need Gabrielle for that." Jeanette comments. "That sounds like something Fernando would do."
 
Moro continues. "As for the second reason you're here, we can discuss it when Fernando and Hondo are back. That reason involves you remaining here either by staying in 2066 or accepting our offer of immortality and going back to 2010. Once again, working at the orphanage is not that reason. As long as you are here anyhow, kill two birds with one stone."
 
"Yesterday morning, Chihiro and Elsa said I'm currently in the orphanage. They thought I'm the person they know. That suggests I have not aged a day in fifty-six years. I believe we can deduce that I accepted your offer of immortality and returned to 2010. There is, however, a problem. The city state of Charlton forged an alliance with Arendelle because my decision to return to 2010 created a problem that only Elsa can fix."
 
"There is one other person we know about who could fix the problem."
 
"Is this other person royalty or have cryokinesis?" Jeanette asks.
 
"No." Moro answers. "We can discuss why Elsa is here when we discuss the second reason you are here."
 
"I know why you need Chihiro. What I don't understand is, why is she on this mission?"
 
"We believe Chihiro being on this mission would better help her with her purpose than sitting in an orphanage."
 
"Did I hear right? In 1995 Chihiro was helping Baron Humbert find Louise?" Jeanette asks.
 
"She started in 1994. In a manner of speaking, yes."
 
"There's an old Vulcan proverb: 'Only Nixon could go to China.'"
 
"What do you mean by that?" Moro asks.
 
"I just find it strange that only Chihiro can find Louise."
 
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Reply #879 - Apr 24th, 2016, 9:48pm
 
"None of this is making any sense." Jeanette says. "Elsa is here to fix a problem created because I decided to return to 2010. We can't discuss the second reason I'm here and can't we discuss why Elsa is here or how she is to fix a problem created by my decision to return until Fernando and Hondo are back. None of these are related."
 
"You decided to accept our offer of immortality because of Elsa." Moro answers. "That is why we established the city state of Charlton before the arrival of Columbus, occupied it and defended it for hundreds of years. That is why the city state of Charlton forged an alliance with Arendelle. That is why we defended Arendelle for hundreds of years. That is why Arendelle is one of the nations that exists to this day and that is why Elsa is here on this mission."
 
"All that to persuade me to accept your offer of immortality?" Jeanette inquires.
 
"Yes."
 
"Holy . . . this is heavy."
 
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