The No Takebacks RPG - Episode 2 - "The Passage"

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Episode 1 - Post Unfinished Business can be found by clicking here

Today we're jumping up one episode to "The Passage"

The entire fleet is cranky and hungry from strict food rationing.  Athena has found the algae planet and in order to get there the fleet has to travel through the radiation filled gas cloud.  Tensions are high, plans need to be made, and since it's been crisis after crisis with the fleet and fighter squadron the pilots still haven't been able to figure out where they stand.  Here's a handy episode rundown courtesy of Battlestar Wiki if you need specifics.

But first to catch you up....


Previously on the NT RPG:

We started the story at the end of UB and Lee and Kara remained laying in the boxing ring after everyone had gone.  The knuckledraggers were ordered by Tigh to get the hanger deck back into shape.  Helo came along and saved the day by getting the pilots up and off the deck.

Lee went on his own to the head to shower and clear his mind of all that had transpired at the dance.  Helo had another plan and dropped Starbuck right back into his lap by delivering her over his shoulder to the head.  The crew was sure to start gossiping so Starbuck cleared the room and she and Lee got down to talking about the current state of their relationship.  Lee won’t cheat and tells Kara he wants more, Kara admits leaving him in the field and marrying Anders was a mistake and lets it slip that there is more to her abduction on New Caprica.  Lee pushes and Kara agrees to talk to him about Leoben and what happened during the occupation

Meanwhile, Roslin sits with Adama in Sickbay while he’s getting patched up from his round with the Chief.  Cottle reprimands the old man and orders him off duty for 24 hrs.  The President escorts the Admiral back to his quarters and along the way they run into Col. Tigh who lets the cat out of the bag about Starbuck and Apollo’s night on New Caprica.  Adama is, of course, dumbfounded.  Once in Bill’s quarters Laura tells him that Kara would look to the stars at night and see Pegasus passing and that now she understood that all those months on New Caprica, Kara was missing Lee.

Chief and Cally were trying to sort out the crew chatter about the Dance and find out if the deck gang was doing their jobs or gossiping.  Helo and Athena discuss their friends and hope that none of them get hurt in the mess.  Sleep eludes Karl and he makes his way to the Gym where Starbuck is already going at the punching bag, the two talk and Kara confides in Helo about her situation with Sam and Lee.  He reminds her that she deserves to be happy.

Kat’s avoiding all the drama by heading to the firing range and in walks Sam Anders.  Sam knows he’s eventually going to have to face his wife but refuses to be the one to run after her.  Kat and Sam both shoot off a few rounds and Kat feels bad for the man as she has witnessed what a Starbuck dressing down does to a nugget, she invites him for a drink.

After his conversation about New Caprica with Kara in the ready room, Lee makes a decision that no matter what happens he’s leaving Dee.  He makes his way back to his quarters and begins to pack when Dee walks in.  Kara exhausted from the dance and talking, returns to the head to grab a shower before her lunch date with Apollo.

People all over Galactica know that things have changed and everyone wonders what will happen next…

I know this has been posted 100X but people like to have it at the ready instead of going back to older posts....

The No Takebacks RPG Cast List

Character	Roleplayer
Apollo	taragel
Starbuck	rayruz
Adama	sci_fi_shipper
Roslin	kdbleu
Helo	amaliak
Athena	angelicalangie
Tigh	mserrada
Sam	ninety6tears
Dee	lotus79
Chief	ddt73
Cally	thrace_adama
Kat	jeneviverose
Racetrack	ninjamonkey73
Cottle**	thegreenkitty
Specialist 22	nazkey
Guest Star	stripes13

**I know thegreenkitty   is going to be offline for awhile so if anyone is interested in picking up Cottle let me know! Until we can get someone to play and move him around any use of Cottle has to be in Sickbay.  So if you're character ends up there you can mod him for the purpose of your scene. Baltar also comes into play shortly so anyone interested in playing the crazy mad scientist he's also open for business as well as Head!Six.


The RPG post for "The Passage" will remain active and open until 11:59PM EST Wednesday.  On Thursday's RPG post we will jump another episode to the "Eye of Jupiter" which will run through the end of the week.  Please let me know if your character will be unable to check in any of those days and if so, we'll try and work something out. 

Post, read and have fun!

Comments

Re: GALACTICA CORRIDORS

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

"Uh-huh," Kara nodded slowly, jaw clenched. "And do you have any idea how she died?"

The unspoken accusation was unfair, and she knew it. Kara might not know anything, really, about the woman in front of her, but she knew Kat wasn't a killer. She was fairly certain that Sasha wasn't either. "And answer carefully if you want me to believe a word you say."

Re: GALACTICA CORRIDORS

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

Damn her. Damn her to frakking hell. As if Kara Thrace, golden child of the fleet, had any idea what it had taken, what it had cost her, to get out of the shit life she'd been living until then.

"Violently. She was a corpse when I found her." That face still haunted her dreams some nights. "Might have been suicide. Might have be murder. Either way, given where I found her chances are good she'd gotten herself on the wrong side of someone with a lot more connections than she had." The hunger, the nausea, the exhaustion, the desperation. She feels like she's come full circle, except that it's all hollow now. There's nowhere else to go. "I needed to get out of where I was. I needed a chance. Her dog tags were hanging out on top of her shirt, so I checked her pockets to see what else she had on her. It was enough to give me what I wanted, and she didn't need it anymore."

Re: GALACTICA CORRIDORS

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Kara could see the dark look on Kat's face, and she believed her. She believed this woman had a shit life and was ready to do anything to get out of it, but it didn't seem like the kind of trouble she'd been born into, which pretty much made the whole thing her own damned fault. "Okay... now I know who Louanne Katraine is. Wanna tell me who Sasha is and why the hell she had to steal an identity off a corpse?"

Re: GALACTICA CORRIDORS

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

And there it is. The crux of the issue. The mistake that brought her to this. It was her own damn fault. No one had forced her. She turns to face Kara, blinking back tears, back to a stack of crates.

"I was a drug runner. When they told me I could fly, I..." It doesn't matter. The excuses, the rationalizations. She isn't a victim. She never has been. It was always her own damn fault, just like the Carina and her crew. She licks lips burned by radiation exposure, and changes tracks. Sticks to the facts. "I just moved stuff." The attempt at mitigation falls flat, even in her own ears.

Re: GALACTICA CORRIDORS

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

"You moved stuff?" Kara asked raising an eyebrow. Kara had heard talk about how the cylons invaded. For the most part she didn't care because it didn't change a thing. But drug runners had been one of the things mentioned as a means for cylon invasion. "Stuff? What kind of stuff? Pills? Powders? People? You know they say one of the ways the Cylons got in to our worlds in the first place was people like you sneaking them from planet to planet."

Re: GALACTICA CORRIDORS

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

The accusation from Starbuck, on top of the guilt she's heaping on herself, is too much. It reignites something and wakes her up. She snaps, hissing. "We never moved Cylons!"

Re: GALACTICA CORRIDORS

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

"And how do you know you didn't move any Cylons?" Kara grit out. Angry and hungry, somewhere in the back of her mind she knew she was being unfair. But she needed to be sure, the lies and betrayal was messing with her. She didn't really care to think straight.

Re: GALACTICA CORRIDORS

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

Kat blinks and steps back, sitting down hard on the crate behind her. The tears that have been gathering in her eyes finally fall. It's mitigation and denial and nothing, nothing else. All of it. Her voice is a whisper when she finally answers. "No one knew they looked like us there." Innocence by lack of intention. It's her only defense. It's her only chance to hang onto this one last lie that was supposed to atone for all the rest of them, for every other mistake she'd made in her life up to that point.

Regret and fear spiral tight in her gut, intensifying the nausea that's currently being fueled by her low blood sugar. "Starbuck, please..." she stops and clears her throat. Tries again. "Please, don't tell the Admiral." She sounds like a whiny little brat, but right now she doesn't care. She'll take care of it, make it right. But she doesn't think she could face herself if the Admiral knew what she actually was.

Re: GALACTICA CORRIDORS

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

The voice coming from Kat is nothing she heard before. She sounds like a scared child all alone. Through the disgust a small hint of pity forms. Kara scoffs as she turns away. "I'm not a snitch. But don't be surprised if someone comes looking for a talk. Just make are you get your job done."

Re: GALACTICA CORRIDORS - Completed Scene

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

Minutes slip by while Kat stares at the floor, simply breathing and trying to stop crying. Finally, she scrubs her face dry and stands up. Get your job done. The words echo through her mind as she turns her feet toward the bunk room.