Poor man's folly
Who: Just Ray and a few credit men oh and Holly
Where: the Blue Dwarf
When: When everyone is away on shore leave
OOC:
I apologize for being quiet. It is Just that Ray can't join in on the fun on earth or fly anything on the Blue Dwarf. Because of the terms of his contract with JMC.
end OOC
Ray sat quietly. He had been sitting playing himself at chess for several hours now and the fact that he didn't know how to play chess did help some. He would make a move and the computer would inform him that that move was not allowed and he would have to move the piece again and again till it worked. If he had any thing else to do he would have been ready to kill the computer but he didn't see why. The computer wasn't holly but just a little thing designed to make sure that the people playing chess didn't cheat. In other words a talking chess board. Ray was sitting in a darkened corner of a lounge like thing somewhere one the ship. He wasn't particularly sure but it was better than sitting in his quarters or for that mater most anywhere on the ship. About than was when it happened. In the grand scheme of things it wasn't much but it was quite a bit to Ray. He had gotten up to refill his coffee mug and gone over to the dispenser. When he said "Coffee, Black" the dispenser didn't do anything for a half of a second and than examined the costumer.
"Your credit has been revoked. Enjoy your meal." The dispenser said with glee (I was going to say relish their but that could have been...misconstrued.)
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY CREDIT HAS BEEN REVOKED! I DON'T HAVE ANY CREDIT TO REVOKE!" Said Ray thinking of the hundreds of ways he knew to break the dispenser "I said coffee, black." Ray's voice at this time had gotten dangerously quiet.
"Your credit has been revoked. Enjoy your meal." The dispenser said again.
Quite suddenly Holly interrupted the conversation not wanting the dispenser to have its little parts strewn across the wall. "Uh..you are Mr. Durron A Mr. Ray Durron right?"
"Yess" said Ray managing to get the extra 's' in it and turning to Holly's console.
"than if I were you I would head down to the shuttle bay." Said Holly quietly before making that console look like an aquarium quickly. Ray suddenly got the sinking feeling that informs people that bad things are about to/have happened and those things are beyond their control. Ray than made his way to the Shuttle bay.
---Shuttle bay---
Ray looked around. It was like any other shuttlebay and it looked just the same as it had before. When he had been working on his spacebike in the corner. But now something was missing. Ray knew instantly but the viewing public took three seconds to figure out what Ray was so upset about. The bike was gone. The tools, the fuel, everything to do with the bike. Even the little oil stain on the floor that had occurred when a major oil tube developed a little leak. From somewhere in the room Holly was talking. The nearest consoles looked just like the walls since Holly had figured out that if their was a face anywhere near Ray would rip its ears than pull its face off. It wouldn't have mattered if the face was on a computer console Ray was in one of those moods where he was either in a blind rage or crying his eyes out. Or at least he should have been. When Ray understood the fact that the bike was gone he simply turned and left.
"Mr. Durron Someone is waiting to speak with you in your quarters." Said Holly worriedly. Ray nodded and headed for his quarters. ---Ray's quarters---
Ray had walked in silence to his quarters cradling his empty coffee mug and when he arrived in his quarters he found them completely empty. And the door would not open for him. Fortunately the door opened when he hit the chime. That was when he found out how barren his quarters were. The only movable bit of furniture in it was a chair. In fact Ray had never seen the chair before. However it was what was sitting in the chair that explained everything. It was one of the three Credit men who were in the room. One roughly pulled Ray into the room the second closed the door and stood in front of it and the third didn't do anything. Well, he did breathe and stuff like that but he simply sat in the strange chair and looked at Ray. The First credit man took Ray's leather Jacket, the Handgun he had kept in it, they also took the sunglasses of his face, and tried to pry the coffee mug from Ray's hands. Ray let them take the jacket and the gun but he didn't let go of the mug. The third Credit man signaled the second who promptly assisted the first in removing the mug. Ray gave up the mug. At that point the first Credit man stood up and walked around Ray. He than began speaking.
"Your possessions loaned from JMC have been repossessed by several small companies. You may consider yourself paid off to the following companies. IM Electricity, TransitMore, AcmyFreeFuel, CheepHomeFurnichings..." The list went on in fact it was basically everyone he owed money to except JMC and Space Corps. "Also to assist those companies your quarter aboard the JMC Vessel Blue Dwarf are being Rented out in a Timeshare fashion to several of the lower crewmembers. You will not receive any of the money gained by this procedure. Have a nice day." The Third Credit man continued before throwing a towel over Ray's head and booting him out the door of his own quarters...well not his anymore. Ray's head hit the hard deck plating, the towel and his head went sperate ways and Ray stayed their for a second looking at the deckplating. Finally he stood up, loosened his belt, fortunately they let him keep that, he than picked up the towel folded it neatly and hung it on his belt. He than headed back down to the shuttle bay.
---Shuttle Bay---
Ray looked around the personless shuttle bay at all of the damaged SartBugs and Blue Midgets. He picked a tool box off the shelf and went to work on the nearest one. He didn't have anything else to do. He figured that when the coffee wore off he would curl up in one of the Blue Midgets and go to sleep...sleep what was that. He hadn't done that in years. He would have to do it now.