Spud

The Lucidae

Maybe the nth was Val's idea ;P who knows, Val could have suggested it and Noah arranged for it, or maybe Val genuinely had no idea unti lafter they were on their way to the deal ... ITS UP TO YOU!!!!!!!

I wonder how Viva will react once she finds out Loire is attracted to Noah (pretty sure she'll find out the worst moment/way possible!!!!)

Something has to stop them from going straight to Paradiso though ... hmmm maybe they get hailed, or another pursuer that puts them off course so they have to land somehwere else to refuel before trying to get back to paradiso

The Lucidae

Noah said valko knows but he could be bluffing ;)

The Lucidae

"No," She said evenly, ignoring his attempt to dismiss or rile her, "I just don't think you realize the severity of the situation you have so blithely put us in."

"I know damn well what I'm doing and Val knew as well. We're skint Vee and if you want to keep this ship in the air you need money. We aren't making jack shit doing small smuggling jobs so I got us a job with good fucking pay." he replied. They were still being pursued, maybe not right now, but someone would hunt down that cargo as long as they had it it was only a matter of time before someone began chasing them again.

Then she punched him in the throat. He coughed, he coughed a whole fucking bunch trying to catch his breath, swearing between hacking up his lungs.
"Fucking hell Vee." he swore in a ragged voice.

He managed to get back onto his feet, his hand rubbing his still very sore throat though he'd finally stopped coughing.
"You want to blame someone for this mess? Look at your twin, he's the one who made this deal go south. If he'd kept his mouth shut like I warned him those dealers wouldn't have been so trigger happy and we wouldn't be knee deep in shit right now. THis was supposed to be an easy transaction." Noah replied hoarsely, he'd need to put some ice on his throat to ease the throbbing.

Loire finally caught up with Vee, he'd stopped in the med bay to run a quick toc-screen on Valko to ensure he hadn't been poisoned by the nth at any point, luckily the results were clear, nth was so strong, it was an easy drug to find in the system, not so easy to get rid of once you got hooked though.
"You want to check yourself Viva, because you're messing with the wrong guy. Get us out to Paradiso asap, we'll make the drop off there." Noah threatened, taking his leave and skulking out to the hall.

Loire looked to Viva and then to the door where Noah had made his exit. At least they were going to off load the cargo soon ... Paradiso wasn't the nicest of places, but Loire wondered if he could leave when they got there.
"Your brothers clean." he said softly, worried that he'd be next to face Viva's fists.
"The nth I mean ... I ran a quick toc-screen to be sure ... he's not been contaminated."
He looked around nervously, the monitors and screens bleeping here and there, displaying statuses of different components of the ship. Loire didn't know much at all, he never really got an opportunity to hang around in a cockpit, although he'd travelled across space, he'd been a passenger on commercial cruiser type vessels, not a small carrier with an intimately sized crew.

"I should go stay in the med bay." he said, clearing his throat softly and leaving to return to the med bay, the one place he was sure he'd be fine, out of the way and out of trouble.

Noah was in the hell just outside the med bay, looking through the small window at Valko.
"You can go in you know ..." Loire said, opening the door to let Noah in. Noah stepped in silently.
"You know you're stuck here right? Knowing all that you know. I assume Viva was stupid enough to bring you with her to the cargo hold. I warned her to keep out of it." Noah said, his voice still hoarse.
"She packs quite the punch I see. I'll get you something for the pain." Loire said calmly, routing around for a pain-med shot.
"You're dodging the question doctor." Noah replied.
"I was hoping you'd drop me off at Paradiso, with your sordid cargo." Loire gave Noah a shot of pain relief to help his voice.
"So you can run straight to the feds? Not a chance."
"What if I told you I wouldn't turn you in, if you just let me walk, we'd both go our separate ways."
"You think I'm dumb enough to trust you doctor? After kidnapping you? I'm sure there'd be a hefty reward for turning us in, I got a lot to lose and you got a lot to gain."
Loire sighed, he'd run from his own demons for a long time, as much as he hated to admit it, he wasn't entirely squeaky clean either,although he certainly hadn't done nth dealings.
"What if I told you that I done some things on Noveria that I shouldn't have and that I was trying to escape? If I warn the feds, they'll investigate my involvement, I'm implicated in all this just as much as you are even though I haven't touched the cargo."
Noah looked at Loire, properly, deeply, prying into his eyes with an investigating gaze.
"You trying to tell me you aren't some squeaky clean Citadel-trained doctor? You're running some shady organ farming ring or something?" Noah pried.
"I'm not about to tell you all my business, I'm just telling you this. I'm tied up in this as much as you are. Let me go at Paradiso and we can both walk away unscathed."
Noah smirked, it surprised him... hell it frightened Loire a little. What was he thinking.
"I was beginning to doubt my suspicions about you doctor." Noah said eerily calm.
"What suspicions?" Loire asked.
"You're not just surprisingly calm in the face of danger, you're attracted to it"

Loire's lips formed a thin line and he looked away. He wasn't prepared for Noah to try and suss him out, psychoanalyse him.
"I think you're in over your head Noah, just dump your cargo and let me go."
"What if I made it worth your while? You know how much nth is worth, I could give you a cut." Noah bartered.

--cliffhanger!!!--

The Lucidae

Lol I can't help it lol,when I read anew reply and I have the time to spare I can't /not/ reply lol Im like a compulsive rp-er hahaha

Yeah, Noah wants to keep the doctor quarantined so to speak, doc is a captive, not a part of the crew, so Noah just wants him in the med bay and thats it. It's likely he suspected Viva would want to stay with doc + Val for a hwile, he didn't anticipate that she'd take him on a tour so soon, once they were far enough away he'd have gone down to pack the cargo away safely but ... well its too late for that plan anyway!!!! They did have a bit of an emergency with Val though so there was nothing they could do!

He's screwed now though, Viva won't be on his side for the rest of the RP i'll bet (unless he gets himself into big trouble and Val can convince Vee to make up with him later on). He will likely manipulate Viva using Val, and he'll get to the doctor too because he needs to control things.

All-Star Marvel: Audax Mundus Novus - Season 1 (Completed)

So @spud did you want to work on that fight now or when?

@DrewVonAwesome

Oh just saw thisnow, if you're still on then YES!!!

ALL OF THE YES!

The Lucidae

Loire was stunned, a haul this huge ... he'd heard of the Alliance seizing large hauls of Nth, but this had to be the biggest batch to move in one haul. No wonder Noah had been so jumpy about getting off Noveria as quick as possible. They couldn't leave this cargo sitting on their ship for long, they needed to get it to a dealer and fast.

Viva ran off before Loire could stop her and tell her to calm down ... he wasn't sure why he was motivated to do that, and he was certain it wouldn't have made a bit of difference. If this was only half the haul, Loire couldn't even begin to manage just how much trouble they were in, but he could see why someone was willing to kill over it. This amount of Nth wasn't something to be laughed at. By the size of the ship, and its crew, Loire would never have guessed they'd pull of a heist this large. They had the perfect cover, why would such a tiny ship haul such an expensive cargo, the Lucidae was light-weight and manoeuvrable, but she wasn't a heavy ship built to carry cargo which could buy and sell a planet. Something this valuable should have been in a heavily armoured ship, not something like the Lucidae, they had perfect cover, but it was still a massive risk, especially since someone was already after them Loire assumed.

Back in the cockpit, Noah didn't even bother turn to face Viva when he heard her come in, he was monitoring every control panel on the dash. Viva was likely suspicious why he was so cautious about double and triple checking to make sure they weren't followed ... now she knew why.

"Here to chastise me?" he replied flippantly, not that anything she'd say would make a difference. She wasn't meant to know what the cargo was, he'd told her not to ask questions and that he'd handle it, the less he knew the better, if she'd gone digging around the cargo hold it was her own fault if she uncovered soemthing she didn't like. She knew they weren't carrying anything legal, so to Noah, it didn't matter what the cargo was, they'd get in trouble if they got caught, Nth, firearms, they were all the same, this one was just a lot more valuable than usual.
Once he figured out Loire knew about their cargo, he'd have to chastise Viva himself, he was a hostage and now the doctor had dangerous information on them and it was Viva's fault for giving him an unrestricted tour of the ship. If he'd known, he'd have told Viva to show the doc his room, and allow him to only go to the deck when someone was at the helm, and the med bay, all other areas, ESPECIALLY THE CARGO HOLD, would have been off limits.

((sorry this is a bit incoherent in bits Im like ... multi-tasking but its like triple-tasking x'D))

The Lucidae

Don't apologise at all, that reply was frickin epic! Like eriously its perfect!

God ... Noah is so fucked now ... she is SOOOO pissed

All-Star Marvel: Audax Mundus Novus - Season 1 (Completed)

<Snipped quote by Spud>

Don't let Cosmo see that cat.

@Sep

MY KITTEHHHH!!!!

All-Star Marvel: Audax Mundus Novus - Season 1 (Completed)

Iron Man: Hold on I'll hook up to my company's satellites and see if I can pick up where they took him.

Thor: I thought you said your satellites didn't do that sort of thing.

Iron Man: Well you didn't say please.

@DrewVonAwesome

Hehehe, Thor needs to learn some manners x'D but hey, if it works ... it works ... too bad Loki's gonna show up anyway without satellite fun (well theres more than one way to skin a cat I guess ... not that I'd encourage people to skin cats OMG DON'T LOOK AT MY CAT LIKE THAT /I love her/)

All-Star Marvel: Audax Mundus Novus - Season 1 (Completed)

Thor's gaze shifted from Tony to his assistant when James aimed a pistol at her, she didn't flinch, didn't even flex her hammer-arm because she didn't fear the gun (not that that was a particularly good idea), James failed to intimidate her, plus she didn't want a fight.
"Not a wise move mortal." she said evenly to James, Tony intervened, urging the strange gun-man to lower his weapon and his assistant seemed to comply.

She was rather surprised that Tony addressed her by name, well ... sort of, no one knew who Tarene was, but Thor, Odinson, he was a legend, and now she had assumed his name and title. She was Thor, and Tony was aware she was a threat. This was going surprisingly well so far, given the situation at least.
"You have heard of me." she observed. "Then I need not warn you of the power of Thor."

“Listen normally I have an appointment schedule I like going on for these kinds of visits. You could AND SHOULD consider just filling in your details when you want to see me. I mean I do busy things and am a busy man."

She couldn't quite figure Stark out ... he was smart enough to not draw a weapon, yet he was dancing around the topic with words, and she wasn't very patient, fitting in a meeting according to Tony's schedule certainly wasn't going to happen.
"And I am a busy Goddess, so we shall conduct this with haste." she glanced at James, pistol still lowered, and took an easy stride a little closer to Stark, not enough to be inherently threatening, but certainly enough to show that she did not feel at all intimidated by Stark or his crew. Clearly, she wasn't going to do things on Stark's terms, the schedule was out, dealing with things quickly was in ... Until Stark got the suit, she was in a position of power... for now.

"You have satellites do you not? I seek a man, a dangerous fugitive, Midgard is in grave danger."
She offered Stark a sincere look, pleading him to trust her and just use his damn tech to get her the answers she needed. Tony appeared brave, but she'd thrown herself into the heart of battles and great wars, his resolve was admirable, but she knew he was masking a deep-down fear. That was good, he was aware she could kill him without breaking a sweat, not that she intended to. "I do not wish to fight you, nor your allies." she glanced at James and also at Pepper who was hiding under a desk.
"Let us do this the easy way. Tell me where Loki is hiding and no harm shall befall you, you have my word." Unfortunately for Thor, her "word" didn't carry much weight here in New York, it would take far more than her "word" to earn anyones trust here.

She held out a slightly blurred, but still legible photo of Loki. Luckily Dwight managed to uncover a few candids from the fight earlier that week, not that she needed it, Stark had met Loki face to face the evening prior. It was almost ironic, Stark didn't need a photo to find Loki, he already saw that face in person.

Of course, Tony had a good hand in this game of chance, if he could play his cards right long enough. Although Thor could easily kill him, killing Stark would scupper her plans. She couldn't use a satellite, she couldn't even begin to figure out how one worked much less how to use it to find a single man. She needed Stark alive, he could certainly use that to his advantage, but at the same time, if he took too long, if he upset the vengeful Goddess, she'd kill him easily in an instant and find other means of locating Loki. They were both dancing on a knifes edge.