Hondo's Cabin - After Chaos

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Re: After Chaos
Reply #950 - Apr 29^th, 2016, 8:57pm

"Any information with the caravan? We intend to leave with it when it hits the road tomorrow." Fernando asks.

"Nothing out of the usual I can't say. They usually travel in a straight and no one bothers them. Though there's been some stories I keep hearing people disapearin'. Some say it the work of slave runners in the area."

"Slave Runners?" Fernando asks.

"They snatch you and force you to work. They turn the women into sex slaves. I hear they are working in a fort city in the area but which one no one knows. They all deny they are in cahoots with the slave runners." The bartender says.

"I see." Fernando says.

"As long as you are running with the caravan, you should be safe." The bartender says, "Nobody bothers the caravan."

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Jeanette Experianced Posts: 1154	Re: After Chaos Reply #951 - Apr 29^th, 2016, 10:08pm The Spirit in the rafters, guarding Jeanette, hears the two posted outside cawing followed by a vulture squawking. Section deleted because of continuity error. Jeanette Isabelle
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Reply #952 - Apr 30^th, 2016, 8:29am

The crow in the rafters flies to the window and makes a ruckus.

Holding the shotgun in the downward position in one hand and her bottle of root in the other, Jeanette gets up from the bar and approaches the crow. "What is it?"

The crow turns around to face Jeanette and while still on the floor, it spreads its wings. "Caw."

Jeanette does not know their language; she's been with them long enough to know something's happening. "Fernando, Hondo, something's wrong."

One of the crows that "left" gets into a covert position. The other goes to inform Moro.

"Elsa, Chihiro, Danielle, follow me." Moro knocks to let Valentine know she's there. "One of my fellow Spirits has warned me that there's trouble at the bar. Could you please watch over Elsa as Danielle and I provide assistance?"

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Reply #953 - Apr 30^th, 2016, 11:34am

"Hondo! Fernando! Is there a problem at the bar?" Val's concerned voice pops up on their tiny Yeasu radios.

It is not that Hondo nor Fernando is oblivious to what maybe going on, they can sense something is odd but remain to pretend to be unaware of it to give a sense that nothing is going on to those around them but they are in a mode of heightened alert. Hondo and Fernando nod at each other and Hondo answers the radio call.

"We're fine, Hon'." Hondo tells her, "What's goin' on?"

Val answers, "Moro is in a panic here and has gathered the others to go to the bar 'cause she thinks somethin' about to happen at the bar."

Fernando takes his radio, "Go get her, find her and give her the radio."

Val answer, "I got Moro and the others here with me."

"Good. Now - Moro and everyone there who can hear me better listen up because I am not going to repeat myself." Fernando says to his radio, "Go back to the campers and wait for us to return. Do not - I repeat - DO NOT come to the bar! We have the situation under control, and you Moro are not to bring Elsa into a situation where she might get hurt. You all are to protect the campsite and each other, not us! Especially you Moro - you are to protect Elsa. If I see anyone of you here, somebody is going to get hurt or worst. Do I make myself clear?!!"

After a long period of silence, Val answer, "We got it."

"Good, now if you are on your way here, go back to camp." Fernando tells them before putting away his radio.

"You got that feeling that somethin's not right either, Jefe?" Hondo asks.

"And? I am not going to let my fear of what could happen interfere with my ability to deal with it. You know how the program goes. Get Jeanette back here. I do not care what a bag of flesh and feathers having a tizzy attack get in my way of getting information when I - we are aware of the situation. We dealt with worst than what anyone can throw at us here." Fernando tells him.

Hondo nods before he walks to Jeanette at the window, "Fernando says for you to get to the bar. You're liable to get hurt here at the window where somebody could pick you off as a target."

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Reply #954 - Apr 30^th, 2016, 12:09pm

Jeanette didn't like what he told her but she never did. He leads her over to the bar only after he told her he'd check it out. Once to the bar he talks to Fernando.

Hondo: Here, watch her. I told her I'd check it out.

Fernando: No. you should wait. Once we know more we can move on it in a smarter fashion.

Hondo: Well, my words my word an' most folks don't consider me to be smart. Might as well oblige them.

Fernando wanted to protest but there is no changing Hondo's mind at times. And someone had to watch Jeanette as though there was the lice infected defender in the room Fernando didn't trust them to guard a shit pile.

Hondo cinched up his holster and loosened his gun in it before going towards the door. about a 30 seconds ahead of him a young drunk man staggered out into the night.

(will post more later got to go for a bit though)

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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 #955 - Apr 30^th, 2016, 3:09pm

Hondo stepped outside and saw nothing. He stood there for a moment letting his eyes adjust to the dark. once he was satisfied he could see as well as he would be able to he looked around the outside of the bar. He saw no one. So he went back inside and sat back down.

Hondo: I don't know, Jefe. Not a soul in sight. them spirits are really gonna start pissin' me off.

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A short ways away Lying Weasel lay behind a rock keeping the bar in sight as the other three drug the unconscious drunk to the box truck they used to haul their prisoners in. Once he was locked up and gagged so he couldn't yell out they returned to the bar.

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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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Jeanette

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Reply #956 - Apr 30^th, 2016, 4:21pm

The crow inside the bar flies back to the rafters.

"That's odd." Jeanette comments. "I've never known them to sound a false alarm."

Not happy with how this turning out, the two crows outside have no choice but to return to their post. They are to protect Jeanette, not get into a fight with another Spirit over a drunk.

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Reply #958 - Apr 30^th, 2016, 10:16pm

The bar tender did not know the crow was there until it made a ruckus.

Jeanette confirmed she's from "the city of Spirits" as the bartender calls it and she commented on the crow sounding an alarm as if this is not new to her.

"Red," the bar tender asks, "have the Spirits guarded you all your life?"

"Crows have been watching over me my entire life if that's what you mean and at times called my attention to something." Jeanette answers. "Why do you ask?"

"I've only heard a story, that's all." The bar tender answers.

"Oh?" Jeanette asks. "What have you heard?"

"There's a woman so important to the Spirits that they built a city for her. You know how legends are. By the time you hear it, only a part may be true."

Jeanette recalls what Hikaru said last night. It seems the Texas Spirits established the city state of Charlton so they could forge an alliance with Arendelle. What the bar tender described does not fit Elsa and Jeanette does not see how she can be that important. "What do you know about this woman?"

"She's some sort of guide to the Spirits."

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Reply #959 - Apr 30^th, 2016, 10:24pm

"Bar Keep, is there a back entrance I can use for a second. I need to talk to my friend in private." Fernando asks.

The bartender points to a lone rear door with no tables or chairs around it, putting a set of keys on the bard for Fernando to pick up.

"Thanks." Fernando says, "Come Hondo... Jeanette - anything happens, hide behind the bar and do not look out the windows! You're going to get your head shot off if you do!"

Together they walk to the door, opening it, stepping out of it and closing it behind them.

"Yeah Jefe?" Hondo asks.

"Just listen..." Fernando points out there.

In the darkness, ignoring the noise from the bar, other noses come in, and eyes adjust to the darkness, exposing a few things that should not be there, including a Box Truck that should not be there either. Fernando signals to Hondo to take a couple of steps with him out into the open, taking in what his senses are seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling. Hondo follows suit, including taking out his firearm from its holster...

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