Fortune ignores the people scavenging the weapons and waits for the next overconfident bravo to step up. "Some big guy gave me this ta give ta yer boss," Fortune says, holding up a bag with the disabled V'Sori pistol and the note about the place to meet to get the weapons.
"I tried ta give it to this jerk, but he was more interested in glad-handing me than being a good boy and delivering the message. So I punched him. Guess he's got a glass jaw. I took a look at the note and I think your boss will thank you for deliverin' it."
She doesn't wait around for an answer but turns and walks away.
The goon is so impressed by you saying that you took the other guy down with a punch that he doesn't say anything, or try to stop you from leaving.
Just to confirm (I checked past posts want want to be sure) : the note says that your group is claiming credit for intercepting the shipment and wants to set up a swap, maybe exchanging the weapons for drugs.
How did you all say they should contact you to respond? Did you give them a cell phone number, a drop point, or what? I'm assuming you didn't give them your address... ;)
Fortune returns to the base, taking care that no one can follow her by ducking into a vacant building, casting invisibility and fly, and then flying back to the base, although she'll still weave around in case someone has the ability to see invisible. Once the duration of the spells expires, she'll finish the journey on her skateboard.
Fortune rolls into the base, gives everyone a thumbs up, and says, "Message delivered. I even got to clean the clock of one of 'em who tried to get fresh."
”Then you faired very well.”, Six says as Fortune comes in. ”The area you were in must not have been too heavily guarded and that means the gang feels untouchable. Now we have their attention. Let’s get ready for that meet up. We might want to vet the area first and make sure we won’t be rudely interrupted.”
We'll ret-con that a suitable abandoned building in a mostly-empty neighborhood was found before the meet.
Let's say you asked to meet in a few hours?
Anyone want to do anything in particular before the meet?
"Perhaps we should look over the meeting scene beforehand to familiarize ourselves with the terrain?"
"Sure thing Angel." Hellion mobes over to show her the address. "It's an old spot we used to use. Didn't want a dock spot cause they'd be able to call the rest of their buddies pretty easy, plus that's their current turf."
The location pin looks to be a multistoried parking garage behind an old Starmart that was abandoned long before the V'sori came by even. It's got a few exits so that people could scramble if things went horribly south with the feds, but was cloistered off from the skyscrapers and apartments that it'd be difficult to spy anything happening.
"We should head over sooner rather than later."
She looks at the wares, "Now it'd be bad business to have all the goods in one spot incase they make to cross us. So we'll store the bulk of em on p4 with one of us watching over.." She catches herself slipping into old ways.
"Scratch that no need to hide the goods we're gonna be fighting em nomatter what, Six you and Fortune should stay low in the back of the van and be ready to come out swinging. Rashomon, Angel, and I can do the 'negotiating'. But we shouldn't show our muscle too early."
"Sound good?"
"If they think we've got the weapons, they may be reluctant to come to fight rather than negotiate. That should work in our favor. I'll stay back and see what spells I can cast to help as things develop."
"Yes, best not to have the goods with us at all. We might as well send them on to Meros as ordered. We can keep the crates, and fill them with scrap iron or what have you. There is no point is risking them falling back into the gang's hands if they manage to outmaneuver us or just get lucky."
"Before the meeting, we should arrange some time to gauge our relative shooting ability. We've been granted the use of one machine-gun, and it would probably make sense tactically to know our various capabilities at various ranges."
Rashomon completes fabricating a tripod mount for the machine gun, and makes sure it is secured into the van. He makes sure it has a quick detach ability, in case someone strong enough to do so needs to pull it off and use it in the handheld configuration.
Six nods at Hellion. ”Just say the word and we’ll be on them.” He pats his armor and weapons. He then looks at Rashomon. ”We may have to bring at least one weapon to show we have the merchandise. They will want to see the stuff before even bothering to talk. If we got nothing, I don’t think they will hesitate to gun us down for simply moving in on their turf.”
"Valid point. We could let them see the machine gun mounted in the van? Its source should be obvious, as well as providing a degree of discouragement as far as an ambush is concerned. But, it would expose the position to a hard-target attack. I have no idea if they have access to rocket launchers, but if they have body armour and machine guns, I wouldn't want to rule it out. To bad we don't have access to a force field user, or an illusionist. I mean, I could probably rig up something that could do that, and Fortune might have a card for that, but neither option seems to last all that long. A force field generator would probably only give us 30 seconds or so of protection, and we'd have no reliable way of knowing when the attack was coming."