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Pilgrim shoots a glance to Cat.
"I think we can work something out here- none of us need people exploding on the street."
"We're here to retrieve David, since they went missing and we tracked them here. The guards opened up on us when we came in and started exploding when we retaliated with zap rounds- imagine our surprise." "So I'm guessing you're working on this tainted Overdrive?"
Pilgrim holds one hand up, off of his freezer. "After containment was breached and the guards were overwhelmed, my team was called in to contain the situation. Weren't you briefed that we were here?" He shoots a glance to Cat. "I swear, every time they have the indentures run our security clearance something like this goes wrong. I'm guessing they didn't tell you an auxiliary team would be on site?"
Pilgrim looks for any identifying features of the lab equipment, the guards, anything at all to give some kind of clue as to what's going on here.
Wyrm, did you just take the elevator back up?
Pilgrim throws a prisoner hood on the scientist and pings Proxy 21. Pil> Package is in hand with bonus, extracting shortly. Location for delivery?
"Cat- don't touch them. We don't know what they were doing here yet... and given that there was some virology business going on we want to avoid getting more contact than we already have." Pilgrim grabs the scientist by the shirt.
Pilgrim drops his freezer, pulling out his shock baton and swinging at the Ruster.
Cursing in Korean, Pilgrim levels his freezer at the guys detaching the morph container- particularly the scientist.
Pilgrim dives for cover behind the nearest table, using his freezer to disable the closest guard (or the guard flanking him OR one that seems to have a grenade).
Pilgrim checks his weapons for the fortieth time since the incident behind the brothel. Hoping for answers more than anything, he keeps his freezer at the ready and his shard pistol holstered for now. "It sure feels like our AR boss fight is waiting for us down there... I have some Grin and MRDR if any of you want to get crazy- confiscated from a perp, of course."
Pil: Wyrm, you wanna get in here and crack this door open? I think all we have available is brute force right now and it might be air-gapped if you can't open it from out there.
Pilgrim pulls out his utilitool, ready to monkey with another door- but stops.
After cuffing the guard and rendezvousing with Pivo and Aleks again, Pilgrim accompanies cat back on the sneak mission hoping that his damn freezer doesn't short on him again.
Pilgrim attempts to backhand the security morph with his shock baton and take him out before he can make this day any worse.
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY
Pilgrim slips down the wall as quietly as possible behind the jacked morph and smacks him with the shock baton while he's busy looking over the security system.
As Pilgrim takes aim at the guard, an entoptic window pops up in his vision.
Biting his lip to keep from screaming his frustration and chucking the damn thing, he switches to his shock baton. >Pil: This is not my day. I'm gonna have to go in up close pretty soon- can you be on site, P?
>Pil:Whatever you want to do, but do it quick- the guard's putting the place on lockdown. Chameleon coat is on the fritz, I've got to neutralize this guy... From above the security guard Pilgrim readies his freezer and fires.
Pilgrim pulls out his utilitool and starts monkeying with the card reader- not necessarily to open the door, but to get someone on alert to open the door.
Once he's jammed his tool into the security device, he tries to hide someplace close to the door- possibly even on the ceiling with his grip pads.
Warehouse seems empty, I assumed there are T-Ray sensors. I tried hacking into the security console, but I'm locked out... looking to see if there's more to this place or what.
Pilgrim sets Lucky, his muse, to the task of hacking into the security system.
Lucky, do you have any idea what you're doing?
Pilgrim will slip into the private office, if the coast is clear.
Pilgrim decides to play it safe and does a simple visual search for the box in question.
Pilgrim starts looking over the boxes with his T-Ray emitter implant, looking for the one smuggled in on the feed Aleks sent everyone.
"Sure, keep an eye out in front for us and Aleks. We'll try to be quick." Pilgrim tries to find the most likely point of surreptitious entry.
"Let's check it out now, maybe we can slip in there undetected. Let's take a walk around the block, make sure we're not followed and then try to infiltrate the Doll's House." Pilgrim gets up and heads for the door.
Once Cat and Pilgrim are out of the brothel, Pilgrim will walk around the area a little bit and make sure no one's tailing them. Then he'll pick up Pivo from the garbage and scope out means of entry on the Doll's House.
"It's a serious request and we don't make it lightly. But it may be the only way we can find him- and possibly help him, if he's involved in something this serious." Pilgrim leans in.
"How about this person?", Pilgrim says, projecting a security spime image of David's female morph on his ecto as he holds it up.
Pilgrim sighs, muttering in Korean.
"Look, we want to talk to you in private for a minute. David Williams is missing and he bought Drive from you. We believe he may be involved in some dangerous business. But if you want to discuss your side deal in front of all these customers..."
"Sure, we understand that but can we check out the room first? We've had some bad experiences with some of the other places around here and we want to make sure it's got the right mood and that it's private. We don't want the session leaking onto the mesh, our bosses and clients don't need to see that."
Pilgrim approaches Julia, preferably out of earshot of any other patrons. "My friends and I have been very bad, Julia and I think we need to be punished severely. But do you have a private confessional here for the three of us? Maybe we can take a quick look and make sure that it'll have the kind of space we need?"
Drive isn't that pricey- I'd say 15-25 credits might grease the wheels here.
Pilgrim's workaholic lifestyle and lack of close "partnerships" had never bothered him that much before, but seeing the madame and her list of services reminds him just how long it's been. He just can't seem to focus on what he's here for. He clears his throat, his morph's red complexion growing more red around the cheeks.
Ok. Irbis and I will go in, you keep an eye out for the target out here... but you're on your own if that hentai fanatic comes back. Pilgrim walks into the brothel, looking for the target.
Pilgrim sends a message out on the group chat before entering the brothel.
Yes indeed, working those freelance angles. Thanks Linda, I owe you one. He sends a message to the group.
While Cat's running down information and Pivo is being propositioned, Pilgrim hangs back and combs through his contacts. He pulls up the mesh ID for Linda Hsu, an acquaintance in OIA and shoots her a message.
Linda! How's it going- you hungry? I'm down in the souk if you want to grab a bite. Hoping to find a particular Drive dealer, maybe I can pick your brain?
Just a heads-up that I'll be on vacation from this coming Sunday to Thursday- data is a bit expensive on my phone for international service but I can likely check in when I have wifi.
Yup, good to go. Let's keep on rolling.
+1 good job Wyrm "Right. Let's grab our equipment and brace the dealer."
"Alright Ms. Danielson- do any of these names sound familiar?", Pilgrim says, listing off the dealers Aleks had messaged to the group. "Have you seen David with any new people lately? Any weird interactions with him? Do you know if he's been traveling lately?"
Pilgrim shakes his head, keeping his posture straight and "official". "Haven't found him, but we will soon. Now, we'll catch him up a lot faster the more information we know- can you describe his morph? Has he been acting strangely of late? Running with a new crowd? Anything that you think even *might* be useful could make a difference."
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