Niples Will Pay

Who: Keto and the occupants of the Martian pub
Where: Well...Mars
When: After Seymour and Chris crash-landed the royal ship
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<<SNIP>>
Only several metres from the ground now, the gravity pulling on the
ship was too much to change direction, but Chris could still bank. He
twisted the ship onto it's side to narrowly avoid the pub. A side wing
however split a picnic table in half, and spilled Phil's beer.
<<END SNIP>>
Keto ground his teeth together as he wrenched the control of the Blue
Midget he had commandeered off to one side, sending into a brief tail
roll until the Martian atmosphere caught it and flipped it back
upright in the air again. He had been grinding his teeth almost
constantly for the last half hour, and it was not serving to improve
his mood.
Why, he had asked himself over and over again, why had he ever dared
to think that an incompetent buffoon like Niples, HOWEVER well-placed
politically, could possibly steal a spaceship?
Well, okay, so he HAD succeeded in stealing a spaceship. Said
spaceship, however, had then flown halfway out of the system and then
crash-landed on Mars, so in Keto's view the whole 'blackmail Niples to
get control of the royal spaceship' plan was something of a failure.
He had stormed down to the hangers and taken control of the Blue
Midget with the express intention of flying down to Mars, retrieving
the crashed spaceship if at all possible, and then revealing Niples to
the world...pun intended.
As he grew nearer to the crash site, however, odd features started to
make themselves apparent to him. Odd features such as the crowd of
rather irritable-looking people around the crashed ship (and the pub
it had practically crashed into). Odd features such as the various
dead bodies around them.
Keto, for a brief moment, debated ignoring his greed and heading back
to the Dwarf instead. But then his natural personality reasserted itself.
"Land, get ship, obliterate and humiliate Niples for his failure," he
repeated to himself, trying to delicately land the Blue Midget on top
of the pub and succeeding in crushing a small portion of the loft
space. Exiting the Midget, he climbed down the remains of the roof,
hauled open the loft hatch and jumped down...only to come face to face
with Jay aiming a gun between his eyes.
"It's me!" Keto protested quickly. Jay raised an eyebrow.
"I know that," he said, "Why do you think I've got this thing pointed
at you?"
"Charmed," growled Keto, "Now - what's going on here, and where's Niples?"
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OOC: Tag anyone. :)