<a class="link link--internal" href="https://bluemoonroleplaying.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=83335&amp;pid=2016239#pid2016239"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff1493"><i>Jin-Lai Park</i></span></a><br/>Midwatch<br/>Location: Boutique Ohh, La La<br/>Tagged:  Serena<br/><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--3"/><br/>Jin was enjoying having someone to shop with and buy something other than a ship's uniform.  What good was having money without a few frilly things? Not to mention a few comfy things to longue about in.  It was really the little luxuries that helped make shipboard life livable .  She  had also picked up some expensive chocolates as gifts for the crew.  Everything went better with chocolate.<br/><br/>She felt silly.  For months she had avoided going planet-side anywhere, as if somehow by doing something that everyone did she would fall into another  disaster.<i> 'News flash, life isn't a series of disasters, Jin, you can live a little.'</i><br/><br/>After she came out dressed in her original chef outfit, she went to pay for the blouses and unmentionables and nighties.   She had intended on putting on her blouse but she had forgotten that she needed to check on a couple of food shipments first to make sure the food was real and not spoiled,  it would be delivered to Annie's cargo hold.   Since it seemed Mateo was nowhere to be seen at the bus stop, she invited Serena to join her if she liked.  Then Jin set off see some good food.<br/><br/><br/><a class="link link--internal" href="https://bluemoonroleplaying.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=83335&amp;pid=2016239#pid2016239"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff1493"><i>Jin-Lai Park</i></span></a><br/>Evening Watch<br/>Location: Chinatown Market Square<br/>Tagged:  Serena ??<br/><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--3"/><br/>Jin Lai remembered the sights and sounds that were so familiar to her, the way her neighborhood had been as a schoolgirl.  Ducks hanging in the windows along with strings of roast pork.  Stalls with roasted vegetables and fishballs, tacos with kimchi, egg rolls, fried prawns.  It was a pan asian experience and overwhelmed her senses.<br/><br/>There  was much excitement as it appears that  lamb was on special and they were expecting a bumper crop of fresh lamb meat within a few months, but she passed on it.  She was checking crates, kohlrabi, fresh. carrots, fresh.  very fresh fish, vacuum packed, already deboned and scaled.  And lots of pork belly and ham, fresh, she would be making curing it on the ship to make bacon and ham, though the pork belly could also be cooked other ways , as could the pork shoulder.  She knew how to get a good bargain especially in  this neighborhood.  She also made sure to pick up extra sugar and baking supplies, her goal was to make the St. Anne smell like cookies and pie , a lot.<br/><br/><br/>She was pleased that this new distributor was giving the ship more than a fair deal, she was sure her family connections had something to do with it but she didnt want to know about it.  They had been upset when she told them of the previous suppliers who had been cheating the St. Anne, she knew they would likely be visited soon.<br/><br/>Since she had so much stuff on her she asked if she could get a ride back to the St. Anne with the food.  She had made a point initially for them to not bother rolling their lorry until she personally saw to the quality of the food, she was not about to be presented with another  shipment of food already shipped and be told it was too late to send it back.  She could be quite a bitch when she needed to be.<br/><br/><br/><a class="link link--internal" href="https://bluemoonroleplaying.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=83335&amp;pid=2016239#pid2016239"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff1493"><i>Jin-Lai Park</i></span></a><br/>Evening Watch.<br/>Location: Annie<br/>Tagged:  Serena ? Elaine?<br/><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--3"/><br/><br/>Jin watched as they stowed the last of the foodstuff.  It was amazing how far food storage had come , how refrigeration wasnt needed as much as it used to be with the  creation of the retro-bacteria that fought off spoilage in food.  Of course refrigeration and deep freeze was easy aboard the ship in space, it was harder to keep stuff warm in the cold of space.<br/><br/>She was just thinking about putting on a blouse and skirt and going into town to see if she could find  someone to buy her a drink, when she got the recall message on her own comms.  She immediately went to the console of the Annie. it was flashing red, she pushed one button and the captains voice was heard there the same as on her comms.  The message was clear enough blaring over the speakers:<br/><br/><blockquote class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch" data-attributes="" data-quote="Iona Knutesdottir" data-source="">
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			"Immediate recall. Say again, immediate recall. Any way you can get back to us. If someone can't make it, mark their last known and move. Don't wait.
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</blockquote><br/>That made it official, they had been recalled.   She wondered if Mateo would make it back in time.  She  waited a few minutes for anyone who showed up, and then went back over the procedures in her head.  Now she was glad the Captain was such a stickler for drilling on ALL safety procedures ,including the automatic recall procedure.  Jin was barely half way to her ship general pilot's license, and had no experience with piloting out of a heavy gravity well like a planet!<br/><br/>She put oon her helmet and strapped into the co-pilot chair and spoke out loud as she punched the buttons.  She remembered that Elaine had done the preflight  earlier.  The engines had already warmed automatically upon receipt of the recall order.  She was glad for that, that cut out some steps.  so now the remaining ones.<br/><br/>Step 1 - the  comms.  Contact spaceport control to inform but not ask permission<br/><br/>"This is the Annie , we are declaring a general emergency and immediate departure for our ship, on orders of the ship's master Iona Knutesdottir"<br/><br/>Step 2 - docking  alarms .  Suddenly lights went on around the annie informing anyone around with a loud horn beeping that the ship would be launching in 30 seconds. At this time the hatches aboard the Annie including the main ramp all closed.<br/><br/><br/>Step 3 - Docking clamps to neutral.  She pushed the button and was glad to hear the whir and scrape and feel the familiar kerthunk of the clamps retracting.<br/><br/>Step 4 - Set throttles to Launch.  She slid them through the gates marked Full, past it to the overdrive "launch" position.  The ship began to rumble with power<br/><br/>Step 5- Push the glowing purple button marked RTB.  Return to Base.  It would automatically program the nav computer and take care of other tasks<br/><br/>Step 6 - Hit the big red button marked "Auto-Pilot"<br/><br/>Step 7 - Pray.    Did this thing auto-dock she hoped?<br/><br/>She clung to her chair as the ship lifted from the ground and soon it was making its way out of the atmosphere to rendezvous with the  St. Anne, and when it got close it matched course and speed making incremental changes and spinning into position to slowly slide into the bay.