A Phrik Ton (Closed)

[Noah Corek]

[member="Ven'Rain Sekairo"]
Noah chuckled a bit when Ven explained this to him, it did sound like something she would do. After a few more minutes of walking, the finally arrived at a small cave. Noah pulled out a small GPS and checked it, it seemed this was right place. Walking into the cave, Noah pulled a flare from his utility belt and ignited it throwing it into the middle of the cavern. The flare revealed a pretty large cavern, filled to the brim with what looked like veins of Phrik ore. "Oh yeah, this is going to be good."

 

[Antoir Setrrin]

"Oi. I does. Let's get started then," Ven said with a wide grin. After cracking her knuckles she grabbed her pickaxe and stepped forward. Raising it up she slammed it into the rock. Eeeeek! The material was already started to crack. "You set up the lasers, I'll work by hand. Gotta use these muscles for something, am I right?" Once more the merc swung the tool. If she kept up her pace, she'd probably be able to get a good sized chunk out in a few minutes. Which meant that in a few hours... they might have more phrik than they knew what to do with.

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[Noah Corek]

[member="Ven'Rain Sekairo"]
Noah nodded silently and began to get to work, setting up the lasers. While Ven was cracking away with her pickaxe, Noah was cutting out large chunks of hanging on the walls and then once the rocks were on the ground, Noah would use handheld mining lasers and then a pickaxe to separate the valueable phrik ore from the rocks.

 

[Antoir Setrrin]

Breaking apart the rock wasn't to hard. A few strong swings and good chunks would fall down. The real challenge was separating the Phrik from the other boring minerals. Ven wasn't exactly the best at that, so she started a pile for Corek to help her sort through later. Eventually she'd get around to it. For now she just kept whacking away. All the while she sang an old mining song. Her voice seemed to fill the cave. Good thing she was a good singer. Not the best, but far from bad.

"I will dance upon the moon in a graveyard full of man.
I'll paint my lips all black and blue and wear them white diamonds.
I'll curtsy to the only friend that I have ever had,
And blow a kiss to the milkyway in hopes that he ain't mad.
I'll drive a bus to Venus where I'll meet them small blue man.
And all my secrets I will tell to every one of them."

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[Noah Corek]

[member="Ven'Rain Sekairo"]
Noah swung his pickaxe down, causing a loud ringing to be heard throughout the cave. It didn't drown out Ven's singing though. Noah decided to add his own voice to the song. Well not the song she was singing but a song he had learned while he was a soldier in the Republic. Sorting some more of the rocks, Noah started to sing.
"When I go home, my buddies they will say:
how'd ya earn your livin, how'd ya earn you pay
I'll reply in a very loud tone:
Earned my livin behinds the lines."

 

[Antoir Setrrin]

"Nice voice, Corek. Didn't know the old soldier could sing as well as shoot!" Ven said with another laugh. Then her axe came down, and another piece was removed from the wall. It looked to be mostly Phrik. Sweet. A grin graced the woman's features as she added it to her rather large pile. Afterwards she got right back to singing and swinging.

"The mining men of Wales are hardy, strong and bold,
And they tunnel in the earth and make it yield its coal,
But in the town of Aberfan, it's dearer now than gold,
For one generation for profit has been sold,"

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[Noah Corek]

[member="Ven'Rain Sekairo"]
Noah laughed when Ven called him and 'old soldier'. "Last time I checked Ven, we are the same age!" Noah told her as he finished cutting a slab of rock with a mining laser and picked up the pickaxe. Chipping away, Noah heard Ven begin to sing again and he was not going to be outdone by the giantess.
"When I go to hell, the Devils gonna ask:
How'd ya earn your livin, How'd ya earn your pay
I will reply after I clock him in the jaw:
Earned by livin my livin looking through a scope."

 

[Antoir Setrrin]

"Technically this body is only a year and a half old. So... You know. But I guess we are both kind of old. I'm still younger though!" Ven joked, not sure if Corek would hear her over his singing. Not that it really mattered. Seeing as her arms were just a little tired, the merc picked up a laser and decided to use it for a few minutes. Just long enough for her limbs to recover a bit. Meanwhile she continued to sing.

"How many died in Aberfan?
When the slag heap came tumbling down?
How many children will never grow old?
And how many lives purchase how many tons of coal?"

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[Noah Corek]

[member="Ven'Rain Sekairo"]
Noah rolled his eyes and looked back to Ven. "You know that technically means Ventasia is a pedophile right?" Noah asked, letting a deep laugh at the same time and began to sort through the massive pile that Ven had built up, throwing the usable ore to the right and the unusable to the left. Once this was done, Noah went back to work on the slab he had been working on.
"We drink to our youth, for the days come and gone.
For the Age of Darkness is now nearly done.
We'll drive out the plague and restore what we own.
With our blood and our steel we take back our home."

 

[Antoir Setrrin]

Oh... Ven hadn't thought about it that way. Pausing her singing she coughed awkwardly. "Speak of this to no one." With that she picked her pickaxe back up and resumed working. They were making quick work of this part of the mine. Eventually they'd send some others here to clear it out. For now they were just getting what they needed. "Man, we shoulda brought some mining droids with us. Would've made this a bit easier..." She grumbled as another rock fell down. A quick strike in the middle split it in half. One side went to the right, one went to the left.

"The children were pretty, the children were fine,
The children went to school in the shadow of the mine,
But with the coal tip up above, they were running out of time,
And they were buried alive by the Ministry of Mines."

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[Noah Corek]

[member="Ven'Rain Sekairo"]
Noah let out a booming laugh as Ven told him not to tell anyone. "Oh don't worry. I'll make sure to tell Ventasia next time we see each other." Noah informed her as he finally finished off chipping away at the slab. Stepping back, Noah observed the two piles him and Ven had made, they were about the same size and from the looks of it, they seemed to be at least 150 kilos each. "Hey Ven? You think we have enough phrik?"

 

[Antoir Setrrin]

"And I'll make sure it's the last time you see her..." Ven grumbled, striking at the rock with renewed vigor. Before she even considered replying to her commander she added a few more stones to her pile. "I don't know. I don't know how much 'enough' is. Probably though. Looks like a lot." She shrugged, putting her pickaxe away for a moment. After looking over their work she nodded. "Yeah. Looks good."

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[Noah Corek]

[member="Ven'Rain Sekairo"]
Noah surveyed the entirety of their load, making sure to double and triple check it before he began loading it onto the sled. Noah did this for a minute or two and finally all the Phrik ore was stacked onto the sled. Pressing a few buttons, the scale that was installed on the sled and once the weight was shown, Noah whistled. "Wow, 227.5 kilos of Phrik. That roughly equals out to be... 1,365,000 credits. Minus whatever much we use for weapons and armor."

 

[Antoir Setrrin]

"That's.... that's a lot. We'll have to send a crew back here to get the rest some time. Somehow I doubt we even scratched the surface of this place." Nodding the merc put her tools away and prepared to take the sled back up to the ship. Overall it had been a productive day. They'd probably be able to get a few fancy toys from this whole thing... plus some nice, wondrous credits.

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[Noah Corek]

[member="Ven'Rain Sekairo"]
"I have a feeling that your right about that." Noah informed her as they walked out of the cave and began to march back towards the ship. Noah leading the way by using his datapads GPS. After a few minutes, they got back to the ship and Noah typed the code in and the ramp lowered and motioned for Ven to take the sled into the hold.

 

[Antoir Setrrin]

For once in the whole day, Ven was started to feel cold. This was a freezing cold region after all. So it was with a shiver that she followed Corek. Luckily the ship wasn't to far (why would they have landed far away anyway? They had gotten as close as they could) from the mine's location. Less than half an hour passed before the cargo hold opened up. With a grin the merc ran up the ramp, pulling their precious phrik with her. Once she was inside she practically flung her helmet off and kissed the ground.

Just... slightly less dramatic then it felt like.
[member="Noah Corek"]