(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/9f/Morrison.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Mason Morrison, Former Miner</span></span><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body">Miner D8<br/></div></div><br/><br/><br/>I narrowed my eyes at the brunette with the big eyes and bigger mouth.  Couldn't tell if she was bluffing or not about having the jobs.  Clay hadn't mentioned it to me in our waves.  But apparently Clay wanted this to be discussed with the crew.<br/><br/>"Good.  If you're in demand, then maybe that'll mean you can handle more than a milk run."<br/><br/>Clay smiled when I said that.  Michel just hiccuped as she looked in her hair for more cards while Li Mei rested on her arm.<br/><br/>"I can't talk about it here.  Tomorrow.  Noon.  Your ship.  Gonna need some privacy and your heads on straight before you hear what I got to say."<br/><br/>I paid the tab, tipped my hat at the table, and made on my merry.<br/><br/><div align="center">***</div><br/>The following day, I was in the kitchen of Clay's ship, standing in front of his crew.<br/><br/>"Figured I'd wait until you actually delivered the medical supplies before I offered you the second, bigger job.  But your... negotiator there... she drives a hard bargain, so here's the deal, now instead of later.<br/><br/>"You would be exchanging my big crates of medical supplies for small crates of raw materials, namely ore containing gold and platinum that came from the mine.  The second job would entail you stealing a bigger shipment of ore.  Much bigger.  It would fill your ship, and in the end your crew as a whole would get 2,000,000 credits, about half of the value of the shipment.  Split 10 ways, maybe you could start thinking about retirement and going to live in peace somewhere, or you could buy your own ship to sail the 'verse, or build up a new clinic out on the rim, or start your own guild house along the border.  Me and mine, we the rest.<br/><br/>"Make no mistake.  This is a very dangerous job.  It's going to be difficult, but it ain't impossible.  Even if we pull off this heist, some of us might still die.  Not necessarily quickly, neither.  Let's just say, there are some folk out there that you don't want to be taken alive by.  And I ain't talking Reavers.<br/><br/>"If you're in, stick around.  If not, I'm going to have to ask you to excuse yourselves.  So... what do you say?"<br/><br/><br/><br/>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/4/42/Clay.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Clay, Captain of <em>Thundercracker</em></span></span><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body">Attributes:<br/>Mental D8<br/>Physical D8<br/>Social D8<br/><br/>Skills (Specialties):<br/>Fight D10 (Unarmed)<br/>Fix D6<br/>Fly D6<br/>Focus D6<br/>Influence D12 (Leadership)<br/>Move D8<br/>Notice D8<br/>Shoot D10 (Pistols)<br/>Treat D6<br/>Trick D8<br/> <br/>Distinctions:<br/>Ship's Captain D8<br/>Things Don't Go Smooth D8<br/>Veteran of the Unification War D8<br/><br/>Signature Assets:<br/><em>Thundercracker</em>, <em>Firefly</em>-class transport D8<br/></div></div><br/><br/>"I'm in.  Me and my ship and whatever crew wants in.  I ain't forcing any of you, my crew, to come along, but you do understand I may have to leave you behind here."<br/><br/><br/>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e7/Michal.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Michal, First Mate</span></span><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body">Attributes:<br/>Mental D6<br/>Physical D10<br/>Social D8<br/><br/>Skills (Specialties):<br/>Fight D12<br/>Focus D6<br/>Influence D6 (Intimidation)<br/>Labor D10<br/>Move D6 (Dodge)<br/>Shoot D8<br/>Sneak D8<br/>Survive D8<br/>Throw D10<br/>Trick D6 (Sleight of Hand)<br/><br/>Distinctions:<br/>Mercenary D8<br/>Crude D8<br/>Ship's First Mate D8<br/><br/>Signature Assets:<br/><em>Veronica</em> and <em>Victoria</em>, paired handguns D6<br/><em>Judith Jane</em>, assault rifle D6<br/><br/></div></div><br/><br/><br/>"I'm in.  Pull off a heist?  Ten percent of two million?  Get my own ship?  Sign me up."<br/><br/>