Unfortunate Circumstances

[Jen]

It had not been more than a few hours ago that Jennifer had played that damned game of Sabacc. And in reality, what had she expected? Just walk out of their with everything the poor man owned? She should have done her research really, not just be that impulsive, a foolish idea...​

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First mistake definitely appeared the moment she walked into the night club with the usual smirk on her face. I mean, even the most skilled people recognizer would not have expected that, that man, that Quarren covered in hood and mask, emitting a stence of garbage, would have been the owner of the place, well, not owner in the literal sense, but the owner sure paid him "protection money" or whatever they called it these days.. Perhaps everyone would have noticed, perhaps everyone, but Jennifer. One thing was certain, she shouldn't have cheated in that game.​

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She sighed, sitting in cover from the night in the downed spaceship she owned which were also used as her workshop. Perhaps she was making a fuss out of nothing, but a bounty was a bounty, no matter the size.. It was more about the concept of things than the credits behind it... Meh... A bounty of 500 credits was put on her deliverance to the leader of the Downtown Blasters, which funnily enough was, after research, the "protection group" of the place she had cheated in.​

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To cut it short she had been stupid enough to tease the Quarren, to much amusement of his friends, into a game of Sabacc and win.. Perhaps.. A few too many times. Needless to say, after the last round and the payment had been made he spotted the damn manipulator, a device which sends small frequency bursts to the cards, changing their values mid turn.​

They became angry, he furious and soon enough she was chased out of there. She would happily have paid back the few credits she had won, but thinking back it probably wouldn't have been an option if she wanted to make it out without a bruised eye...​

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A shame Cindo was out delivering an order, she would perhaps even have been proud of Jennifer, "The first bounty on your head!" She would probably have joked, perhaps lighting up her depressed mood a tiny bit. Hmm.. Well, she wasn't here. And hearing the rain clash against the old ship from the darkness outside, the water clanging against metal certainly did not help the mood.​

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She tugged the warm blanket around her as she stared towards the news broadcaster screen, being unable to sleep. She... Felt uneasy, as if the event had shocked her.. Hmm... Whatever it was it couldn't be good, yea.. Should would wait for Cindo to come back before going to bed.​

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"Yea.." She mumbled under her breath as she stared towards the monitor of the broadcaster placed in the other end of the room, the only thing lighting up the otherwise dark lounge.​

Uneasy indeed...​

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[Ragnar Ordo]

[member="Jen"]

The mercenary had been hired to hunt down the female, not really to kill her but to capture her ,and bring her into a group called the down town blasters. It was definitely odd, what could a sixteen year old do that could karkin piss off a rich misfit ? Usually Ragnar never pursued a low paying job like this , but he felt like something worth while would come out of this job. Ragnar had heard rumors about where this little girl was , apparently she lived in a broken down ship. The mandalorian was in his own customized beskaram completely red. This huge mountain of muscle was a tank, he walked slowly toward the ship. Jen could easily spot the huge zabrack, he was heavily built and menacing. Ragnar Ordo had a repeater blaster to which he held walking toward the ship, Ragnar activated his x-ray vision on his hud. He knew where she was but waited for her to react while standing in the rain.

 

[Jen]

Jennifer was still seated inside the large ship as the mercenary approached it, unknowngly to Jennifer herself until he had halted. It was hard to make out, but through the rain and the clanging of water against metal she swore that heavy steps against congrete had stopped just outside, a noise she had not noticed until it was gone. She wasn't certain at all. Perhaps Cindo was home already?
Quietly she stood up, drunkenly tired as she made her way towards the lounge wall, pressing the switch to light up the room. An action which could have been spotted from the outside, the few windows here and there getting filled with dim light.
And still with the blanket around her, Jennifer made her way towards the storage hold, toggled a toggle by the wall and slowly walking down the decending ramp, a buzz noise heard as it decended and light shining out from it as it steadily opened. And looking out into the rain she spotted a shape, being unable to make it out, she called out into the rain, almost hopeful, only a subtle tremble heard in her voice:
"Cindo? You're home already?" Her voice ringed towards the shape, with a slightly melodious accent.

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[Ragnar Ordo]

[member="Jen"]
Soon after the house was lit up with lights, he could see her slowly walking down the ship to the ramp leading outside. Ragnar smiled, from the looks of it she looked dead tired, this was confirmed when the teenager spoke "Cindo? You're home already?" . Ragnar Ordo heard trembling in the voice ,and an accent. There were two awkward moments of silence as he studied the subject. The zabrack then said gruffly " you have a price for alive. If im not mistaken, now come quietly and you wont get hurt." The mandalorian paused waiting to see if this would be a goose chase. He hated chasing his bounty he was muscular, and strong but very slow. Suddenly, before ethier party could react five mercenaries stepped up and stated, aiming blaster's at ragnar. " You there, step aside! this is our bounty " . Ragnar could tell the leader was trembling at the site of being next to him, ragnar laughed " I was here first coward ,come back to me when you don't hide behind others"

 

[Jen]

Hearing the gruff voice breaking the spine shivering silence Jennifer almost immediately staggered backwards, dropping the blanket onto the ramp. Her golden eyes wide in fear as the inner conflict began, should she run? Hide? Millions of thoughts went through her head as she stood there, tense as if she was about to run off any minute now. Such a huge guy for such a little bounty? Something was off, or so she at least thought, but all of these odd thoughts were silenced as she saw five other mercenaries step up close to the "giant".

"You there, step aside! This is our bounty!" Jennifer heard one of the newly arrived hunters say with a trembling voice, see however she did not, shaking she started to stumble up the ramp her breath fast and her hands frantically reaching towards the mechanic table inside the storage hold which had been modified to a workshop. She knew her vibroknife would be in there somewhere. And pulling out cases of screwdrivers, weilders and screws she finally found the box, the vibroknife lying on it.

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[Ragnar Ordo]

[member="Jen"]
Things got worse the hunters became more stubborn and demanded ragnar get out of the way. There rifles pointed at him in a long row the mandalorian had no fear what so ever. The meekly smaller leader said " Im not going to ask again" . Ragnar could not believe the stupidity of this group do they honestly think they could kill him? The ordo then spat back at them " Im not going to ask again ethier." . Immediately blaster fire roared at the mandalorian , ragnar was wearing heavy beskar armor, beskar is virtually indestructible with very few weaknesses. The blaster bolts did not effect the tank at all , Ragnar then picked up the leader by the neck and aggressively choked the being to his death, once a loud snap was heard he tossed the dead foe to the side five feet away ! Ragnar then shot the closest man in the chest with his repeater . Ragnar ran inside after realizing were the girl went, unfortunately he was shot where his one weakness was in the armor, the lower back joint. The shot had hit the warrior , but he was strong enough to survive unlike most, he quickly then closed the ramp while the three remaining gunmen fired at the ship. While gunfire was blazing he had lost sight of his target and carefully moved closer to the cargo area.

 

[Jen]

Flinching upon hearing the blasters getting fired, Jennifer immediately turned towards the ramp, backing all the way towards the closet wall to her in the storage hold. With the Vibroknife in her hand, extended towards the ramp where she could hear, and perhaps even feel the weight of the man being added as he walked into the storage hold. Her hand where visibly shaken and her before drowsy look now replaced by an expression of panic.

Finally spotting Ragnar she started to breath faster in angst. And an almost whistling pitch sound, low however, heard from her ryn nose as she continued to breath rapidly.

"M-.. Ma-Make them stop!" The terrified Jennifer almost screamed at the man with a trembling voice with the pathetic knfie still raised towards him and upon hearing every blaster bolt impact landing upon the ship, a visible flinch was seen from Jennifer which right now found herself unable to do anything constructive.

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[Ragnar Ordo]

[member="Jen"]

After seeing the poor girl tremble from fear the giant knelt down to her putting his hand on her shoulder. " Im not here to hurt you, I took this bounty because I saw a young sweet girl in need of help" He paused for a moment when he heard them come inside. " I will make these karking bastards stop, stay here!" . Immediately the mercenary rose with his heavy blaster , ragnar shot two of the mercenaries in the first second of the gun fight . Next the last mercenary leaped at the zabrack. This was a horrible move, immediately ragnar punched the karking punk before he could ever reach him.
The punch was full of so much brute strength , the man fell backward into a wall of the ship with blood splattered almost everywhere in the vicinity. Ragnar hoped the female would not be scared of him ,the brute was just trying to help as he explained earlier. Ragnar then walked back and stated " I am going to knock you out and take you somewhere safe then you can tell me your story." . The zabrack sprayed a sedative to make the female drowsy. from there he took them to his apartment carrying her on his shoulder. When he released her ,and he put jen on his bed, he would wait till she woke up.

(OCC: I hope your ok with what I did tell me if you want me to change anything)

 

[Jen]

"Im not here to hurt you, I took this bounty because I saw a young sweet girl in need of help." Jennifer breath once again sharply through her nose, the weak whistling noise heard from it once more, Ragnar had perhaps not noticied, maybe he had, but just ignored it, but as he approached her she had gripped tightly around the Vibroknife, her knuckles turning white as she resisted the, not urge, but instinct to dagger the man as close to the neck as possible. The hum of the knife was unable to be heard from the noise of the blaster fire, she stayed silent as he suddenly left again, a brow raised in pure confusion and weak and shocked scream immediately following as a heavy bump from a soft thing, probably a body, hit the side of the ship outside.

" I am going to knock you out and take you somewhere safe then you can tell me your story." As Ragnar returned Jennifer started to panic yet again, waving her hands infront of him in a sign to halt. "No- No, no, no, no...! I-. I'll stay here. I'm perfectly fine right h-.. Here..!" Her words probably died out, but the only other thing Jennifer remembered after that was an attempt to stab the man in the shoulder with the knife, it horribly failing and the knife falling out of her hand instead. The chemical from the spray had entered her already drowsy mind, making her fall asleep in a matter of seconds.

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Jennifer kept her eyes closed for a while after she woke up, it had just been a nightmare, a terrible one at that.. She raised her right hand and placed it by her forehead which were covered in cold sweat. She sighed deeply, slowly removing the hand to turn on the light in the room, it usually was just above her pillow. But today it was just air. She took a stuttering breath, perhaps, too afraid to open her eyes.

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[Ragnar Ordo]

[member="Jen"]
It had been eight standard hours since she was knocked out,Jen had been wide asleep. If here eyes where to open she would see Ragnar had his armor off, Jen could see this big, bulky, muscular zabrack with genetically changed eyes that were orange. The big warrior was polishing his heavy armor waiting for his unexpected friend to wake up. He had remembered how scared, and confused she was earlier, during that time he had repaired the teens broken vibro knife. Earlier when she struck his armor it was a failure. The beskar material was extremely superior to her knife. With her force combined with the weak material behind it the jab rarely did anything at all but surprise the brute. None the less he could understand the action and, luckily for her did not hold it against jen. Her vibro knife was repaired through the basics he was taught about armor/ weapon smithing. Every mandalorian knew it therefore it was not a big deal, Ragnar could hear the mechanic breathing. " Talk to me, your life is indanger , and im the only one who can help you . I need you to tell me your name, and what happened, with as much detail as possible. You can trust me otherwise you would have woken up with the crime lord you pissed off." His voice was demanding, aggressive, but it also sounded as if the mandalorian had some soft side to this girl. As if he had been in the same situation long ago. The room around him was lit up , with extremely red lights , bright enough to almost distract anyone if they were not focused. Behind him was a window showing Corasaunts same old traffic . The former gladiator waited for an awnser.

 

[Jen]

"Talk to me, your life is indanger, and im the only one who can help you. I need you to tell me your name, and what happened, with as much detail as possible. You can trust me otherwise you would have woken up with the crime lord you pissed off." Jennifer sighed deeply yet again, somewhat surrendering raising her arm once more, putting it back on the forehead, trying to make sure that Ragnar wouldn't be able to see that she at the same time peaked open her eyes, scanning the room to the best of her abillities from the lying down position in the bed, at least trying to find the door.

As no further talking was made after the command from Ragnar she took the chance of what seemed as a risk, still terrified she raised herself into a sitting position and went as far away from Ragnar as she could without leaving the bed, which obviously at the time wouldn't be the best move: "It was.. Only a game of Sabacc... He's just pissed. The whole thing will be forgotten in a week.. Anyhow, What do you want from me? I can't overpay the bounty if- if that is what you're trying to achieve." Jennifer said trying to seem as relaxed as possible, her eyes fixed on the huge zabrack infront of her.

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[Ragnar Ordo]

[member="Jen"]

Ragnar was alarmed when Jen moved as far away as possible, when the mechanic stayed on the bed. He continued to act normal , unfortunately ragnar knew what the teenager did not realize. Crime lords do not care how horrific they lose , it is a pride thing that would not go away. The zabrack stated this to the teen " Unfortunately, what you do not realize is once a bounty is placed on your head. It never goes away, which means the more you hide the more hurt that punk's pride will be. I will take you to him , im sorry but I always collect" The mandalorian then grabbed Jen by the arm and cuffed her. From there he attempted to escort the much smaller being to the crime lords base which was not stationed that far away fro his apartment. The giant had a lot more to lose, then the girl but suddenly ragnar felt guilty. He knew what happened to most woman who could not pay their debts, slavery. Something Ragnar once was, the brute wondered if he could actually complete the job. Before he escorted his unfortunate victim he had put on his heavy armor. Once this happened the struggle continued, the two were moving closer to the dirty villainous base.

( OCC: I hope this is not to much power playing for you, and IC wise im not going to let you die, don't worry )

 

[Jen]

((You're pushing the edge, but it's fine considering that in these kind of situations Jennifer doesn't really have any oppertunities to do anything and it would only hinder rp process. Just don't do it if you could see that there's possibility for her to do something.))​

" Unfortunately, what you do not realize is once a bounty is placed on your head. It never goes away, which means the more you hide the more hurt that punk's pride will be. I will take you to him , im sorry but I always collect" The giant man had said, approaching her just afterwards, cuffing her without even putting much effort into it. Jennifer yelling at him as she was grabbed:

"AH! C'MON MAN! ... Show some gentleman-ness or kindness for that matter, just something...!" All the way there Jennifer would be heard trying to talk him out of it, pleading or trying to appear innocent, even starting sobbing at the last part of the walk. There wasn't much to do, she had realized that, the sobbing was real. She had given up, for now at least.

They were close now, she was sure of it.​

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[Ragnar Ordo]

[member="Jen"]

The two of them had walked up to the crime lord, regardless of the begging. Ragnar then stated " I have the bounty just as asked" . Immediately after the thug had said satisfied " I never thought such a mandalorian like you would ever take such a low bounty in only two days! I will transfer the five hundred credits to your account, now be off. " . The tough zabrack then asked" How much does this girl owe you?" it seemed the mercenary was going nowhere. The crime lord had then laughed " Ha! Why would a big fella like you care?" . The giant then grew angry " I'll pay it if the girl goes free." , everyone had heard the most unexpected words come out of the warrior. Ragnar wondered how the crime lord would react.

 

[Jen]

"I'll pay it if the girl goes free." Jennifer became still as this was said, of course she hadn't continued yelling as soon as they entered the crimelords place, but at times she attempted to push Ragnar, not doing much. But now, she was still, her mind racing as she tried to find reasons for the words of the giant. She could only wait for the crimelords reply.

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[Ragnar Ordo]

" Hahahahahaha , no she will be my slave till I am unsatisfied with her, and theres nothing you can do to change my mind!" . The little criminal had obviously made his mind, if only someone had placed a bounty on his head. Then the muscular , weapon for hire would save his innocent friend something Ragnar had never had before, she had been scared but had never been angry with him. Whether she realized it or not this red hulk would become her guardian, but first he had to come up with an excuse to kill the bastard. If only he had a price on his head, declared by someone. The muscular, bulky, zabrack, stood there wondering what to say, but it seemed everyone was uncomfortable in the room as the silent beast was about to unleash something no one would like.

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[Jen]

Jennifer continued to look around at the many people in the dark and barely lit up room, really fitting for a tiny crime lord now she thought about it, rather comical to some extend or another, she sighed, turning her gaze to look towards the man who had been talking.

"I owe you little money. I will pay it with a slight interest ontop of it. How'bout that. Huh?" She was nervous, such was certain, but it was hard to hear in her voice as she attempted to stay as masked as possible.

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