*Action* - "Find the Recipe" or "A recipe for Disaster"

Who: General Napoleon Bogarde
Where: New Français
When: After the Blue Dwarf away team left the planet
 
On the topmost floor of the French Government HQ, The
General finished barricading all the doors into his office. Well, it used to be
the Prime Minister's office, but it looked like he was the Prime Minister now,
not that there was anyone human left to govern.
 
All that were left were chickens.
 
The General looked at his computer screen, he logged in and
tried to send a nudge over MSN to Captain Jed Calvert from the Blue Dwarf to
ask what was taking so long. Bogarde had promised Jed a fortune if he managed
to find the cure for his people.
 
The computer turned off after a few seconds, several weeks
ago the entire planet had been plunged into a power blackout when a Welsh
suicide bomber had hit their oil pipeline. It was now clear than even the
reserve power had been used. General Bogarde still blamed the Blue Dwarf for
that, but now they were his only chance.
 
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Who: Captain Calvert
Where: Blue Dwarf, Medi-bay
When: Short time after
 
Jed Calvert was a slack Captain. Sure, he loved to order
people around (especially better when he was waggling a gun in someone's face),
but he was only really motivated by money.
 
…or food. Or sex with cheap dirty hookers.
 
Nope it was true that Calvert wasn't a classy man, or one
with many morals. But it definitely was the thought of the fortune he'd been
promised that made him very motivated in this certain occasion.
 
Jed strolled into the medi-bay with his self-confident
swagger. He glared at the perculiar Pink tree until it felt extremely
uncomfortable and ran off, then tried the same with Dr Keto. Keto was a hard
man to intimidate however, but an easy man to irritate.
"What?" Snapped Keto.
 
"Howdy Doc, I've got a job for ya."
He threw Keto a large book. It was the one Kevn and Peter
had found in a crate on their smuggling mission.
 
Keto took a glance at the book.
"This book has the cure for the chicken virus!" Keto
exclaimed.
"You betcha!" Jed grinned. "And I want you to start brewing
some up so we can cure those wretched Frenchmen on the planet that have all
turned to chickens. And do it sharpish, I've already lost money with Seymour
turning into a bloody Chicken and not being able to ship `em off to those
bullwacking thugs like I'd hoped, so if we can get the cure it'd be worth a
fortune!"
 
Keto flicked through the book. "I can't do it."
 
"Eh? Say again sonny? You talking insubordination?" Jed
said, reaching for his pistol.
 
"No, no. I mean I can't do it because we don't have the
ingredients."
"Oh. Dang."
"Look here, it says we need this long list of bizarre rare
ingredients."
"But Doc, you've been through the mill, I'm sure you can
throw something together by hook or crook? What about all those goddarn'
ointments you have?"
"Nothing as specific as these. We'll need to send out away
teams especially to collect these. I mean look at these ingredients; the spit
of the slit-eyed mountain cat from New Tibet… crushed root of a irritated
rubber bonsai tree from New Tokyo… blended Siberian hamster… spore of New
Australian Mush-a-roo… the list goes on. This is more like a witches potion
than a serious list of ingredients."
 
Calvert rubbed his rough stubble. "Dang and double dang.
This means more time before we get paid." He said quietly. Then he stood up.
"Okay Doc, put together the full list of ingredients and I'll send out several
away teams to find each item."
 
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Who: Jed Calvert and Senior staff
Where: Blue Dwarf's meeting room
When: Short time later 

 
Jed had explained the situation to everyone. "Well partners…
You're all gonna go on good ol' fashioned treasure hunts. Oh… expect without
the treasure." He thought for a moment. "But if you by any chance do find any
treasure, bring it back to me, alright?"
The Captain then pointed at Phil Febuggure, Jay Chrysler,
Amber Keats, and Jack Febuggure.
"Alright, you four padres take a team each, go in separate
shuttles and find the ingredients for the cure, I'll get the Doc to give you a
list of what each of ya'll are looking for.
 
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A short while later…..
 
Who: Jay's Team
 
Jay piloted the Phoenix out of the hanger bay door and flew
off into outer space. He looked back at the rest of his team. Amongst them were
Efof, Johnny B Goode, Katrina Salter, Jesse Carter, Kevn, Joe Craggins and
Vanessa Chrysler.
 
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Who: Amber's Team
 
Amber flew her Hymenoptera-designed ship the Vespidae.
Instead of the Hymenoptera smell-controlled ships they had encountered before,
Amber's ship was controlled by voice. Although it still had the smell
receptors.
"Oi, Callum get out of the cockpit, your BO is knocking the
sensors out!"
Callum whinged about the hold being too cramped and went
back to sit with Dr Keto, Peter Marwood, and Mel Stratum.
 
It was tight in Amber's small ship and everyone was being
thrown around by Amber's driving. Peter Marwood found himself uncomfortably
sinking into the squishy, fleshy walls and hoped the flight would be over soon.
 
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Who: Jack's Team
 
Jack Febuggure proudly held his map up upside down as he
boldly navigated Matt Lister into open space.
Jack's team consisted of himself, Eric Lustbader, Trisees,
Matt Lister, Alandra Alkiera, John Smith, and Alicia Bevair.
 
They set out in one of the Starbugs (unfortunately still
painted up in French colours) and headed in the direction of the New Japanese
Empire.
 
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Phil Febuggure's Team
 
Phil Febuggure held back Mini Phil as his Blue Midget took
off. "No, you CAN'T pilot the ship, Kara is doing a great job. Plus you're feet
don't reach the pedals."
On Phil's team were Kara McGellen, Chris Harris, Mk8,
Chrizla Mundi, and Mini-Phil.
They set off in their own direction in a slightly rusting
Blue Midget with a wonky leg.
 
 
< OOC – Right this might get complicated from now on
because we're splitting up! If you don't like the groups you've been put in,
then tough! I've tried to keep people together that normally write together,
but unfortunately that's very hard. If I've missed you out then I do apologise!
You can either join one of the groups or make up a random ingredient and head
off on your own to collect it. If you desperately want to head off on your own
and you're already in a group, then try talking to your team leader and see if
you can sort something out, maybe the teams could split into more teams, but
then that WOULD get complicated! And I've done this to hopefully get people to
work together more, and hopefully get some creative juices flowing! >