Side Game: Dystopia

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In the world you are entering, there is a Federation. There is an Enterprise. There is even a Captain Kirk.

But in this world, they are not as you know them.

George Lowther, 27, is the captain of the pirate ship known throughout the galaxy as the Enterprise. Of course, he's not the real George Lowther, and neither was the man before him, a fellow called Chris Pike. They're in the process of trading the identity, so Pike can retire, having made his fortune. The new Lowther, real name James T. Kirk, has hired on a crew, and they're off on their first voyage, affiliated with the Federation of Interstellar Pirates.

So. How's the crew doing? And, of course, who's fucking?

Comments

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Not yet.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

Want me to kick some asses?

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Not yet. I've got the US and Canadian versions of Greyhound fully apprised now, so we'll see what they turn up.

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

Really? Need me to pull out my shotgun and go all Texan on some people?

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

*pats* No thank you, dear.

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

Okay, well let me know. Mom's been trying to get me to learn how to shoot for years.

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

You don't already know? Damn girl, what's wrong with you?

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

I believe that if you can't take care of someone with your own fists then you don't deserve to win a fight.

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

Who said anything about winning a fight? You're from the south, you're supposed to start learning how to shoot as soon as you can hold a gun.

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I'm half-Asian. So I have carefully worked over the years to turn my body into a living weapon.

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

You're also half-M... No, never mind. Too easy.

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

What were you going to say? Half-Mexican? So what? I know how to jump a border a work a taco stand.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

And something about knives maybe?

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

We like to carry them, but we really don't know how to use them. They just look fancy on our belts next to our lassos.

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

Yeah. In Westerns Mexicans usually tend to be a bit trigger-happy. Or drunk, but that didn't tie into the conversation.

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but most westerns actually used Italians and others from around that region. So it's not entirely accurate. In truth, Mexicans are good for:

taco stands
jumping borders
siestas
fiestas
wearing colorful panchos
living in houses made of sediment
being cowboys excuse me, vaqueros

[http://users.livejournal.com/_samalander/]

UM ALSO WORKING AT MCDONALDS.

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

AND STEALING FROM WAL*MART.

[captlebubbles.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but the movies would have me to believe that Mexicans are trigger happy, and that's what I was basing my assumptions on, because we all know that movies and especially Westerns are honest-to-goodness depictions of reality and my be taken as absolute fact at all times.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Well, it is a good skill. In event of zombie apocalypse...

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't I just need a bat or a similarly shaped object?

[theoreticalpixy.livejournal.com]

Machete!

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

Ranged weapons are a good supplement.

[emmypenny.livejournal.com]

I'll keep that in mind. I used to be good with a bow, but it's been a loooong while.

[hsavinien.livejournal.com]

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