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Thomas
lets meet up at that place. sounds like a decent place...hmmm...i have an idea
tarlane
i give jimmy a call, asking him if he can let the matron know that some special friends are coming in around 1400 today....
tarlane
2pm sounds good. i may be arranging a safer venue for a meet up, so ill send out a shout if it pans out.
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Crusha
"You need quiet, that means the cathode glow is out. Damn hackers in there would know whatever you were saying when you were still thinking it. You already mentioned Olga's, but the Vory can be a bad scene. Peaceable Kingdom isn't much better, Triads have their fingers so far in that they can make it dance, and you piss someone off there, they might decide ork is on the menu. I think your big advantage is that you aren't one of us, the others won't know you on the street so you can probably lie low where you want. I know you're cool with us, just don't go flashing any signs of any of the syndicates around the docks and you should be alright."
ok guys, looks like its madame vory's place. i made a call to a friend and she told me that this place is kind of out there. you need to be on your best behavior, cuz this place is a real hell hole. if you look at a person the wrong way, the person is liable to disembowel you without a second thought. but at the same time, its a perfect venue for our meet up and get gear ready. so its a catch-22....
before i head out, i grab some chow and have a big lunch. once lunch is over with, i drive out to the "house" and arrive about 10 min prior..
ok, im here in the parking lot, where else is everyone?
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Neon, Puts on his lined coat, loads his colt, before sliding it into the arm slide. He rolls up his elcto paper and five data clips into one of the wide dusters pockets.
Crusher is in the lot as he rolls up on his scoot, while not stylish. It was off the grid and it ran. He nods to Crusher as he pulls along side
"First one here it seems. See anything worrisome? And did you get the stuff for your cake?' He says with a grin
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From the outside, Olga's Teahouse doesn't look to be anything special. There is a plain flat sign with a teacup on it, that anyone looking at with AR active can see an icon of a teapot pouring tea into, but otherwise the three story building blends well into the rest of the poor neighborhood around it. The windows are all barred to keep out any sort of thieves, but the heavy wooden doors have keylocks and judas windows.
The blocks surrounding the teahouse are essentially ghettos, housing for poor dock and manufacturing workers. Overall they are tightly packed apartment buildings and a number of coffin motels.
Rick pulls up a few minutes after the others and nods to the others, keeping his eyes on the alert.
Rick
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Neon
Olga's is also known as a Vory front, and Olga herself is something of an arms dealer for the syndicate. She's quick to anger and very protective of her girls, but if you get on her good side she can be a good supplier of weapons.
In your nights research you have managed to dig up some more data on MetaRx. From what you can tell, it looks like Governor Brackhaven actually has a fairly direct hand behind the funding of this company as well as the ownership of the chemical supply company. However any of these funds run through enough different shadow companies that its hard to directly trace it back to him, there are a number of leaps that must be taken to get there.
Even with the full nights study you still are unable to find anything absolutely concrete about what this Isis chemical is supposed to be made for. Lots of people are talking of it, but it almost all seems to be a 'they heard from someone on the street' or 'one of my chums was talking about this new thing' and all seem to agree it promises to be very valuable if mysterious. You do dig up a few theories, but they are very wide ranging, from it being a designer chemical weapon to people claiming that it could be the cure for HMHVV or even goblinization itself. There seems to be a following among conspiracy theorists that the codename ISIS refers to the fact that it is made for mothers during pregnancy, but the arguments devolve from there whether the company's Meta name may help Meta's somehow, or if Brackhaven's involvement may imply the chemical ensures pure human births.
Something that may be of importance to you is that it really does look like most of the big corps are making serious plays to try and buy this company, particularly any that have interest in chemicals or medical research. Several other shadowrunner boards have mention of runners who mention that they were asked to do scouting runs on the company. It doesn't sound like you are the only ones planning to do some sort of hit on the place.
gents...glad to see everyone is alive and well. cake? ohhh, yeah, i got ya. i got the cake in the bag, but ill show it to everyone once we are inside. speaking about inside... WE NEED TO WATCH OURSELVES! this place has a history of taking in the customers and selling whats left over for bioresearch on the genetic level. so have your weapons loose in the holsters but keep it polite and respectful. i dont want to have to nuke this place becuz someone ran his mouth.
other business...does everyone have everything? weapons? ammo? hungry? you can show me once we are inside, but grab all the gear
hmmmm...the troll has a point. i suppose we could leave all our gear out here, for some random to come along and steal it...how bout we leave one person out here to guard the stuff but be on the commlink to participate with the planning of the run. how bout it rick? you wanna watch the gear?
with the gear stored with rick, i lead the group into the house, and approach the... front desk? bar? receptionist?
howdy. my friends and i here were wondering if ya'all happen to have here one of dem pri'vate roooms for us to use and such? i say to the person behind the counter with a thick southern accent...
Thomas walks in and takes a seat. "Morning, everyone. So, hear anything interesting?"
After waiting for the other to show up, or even just splicing com calls Neon lays out what he has found so far.
"Well chummers, seems like the good Governor has his hands in this pie. MetaRx is funded by him heavy, he also owns the chem corp that supplies them. The rabbet hole goes pretty deep into the shadows.
As for ISIS well,a few theories, but they are very wide ranging, from it being a designer chemical weapon to people claiming that it could be the cure for HMHVV or even goblinization itself. There seems to be a following among conspiracy theorists that the codename ISIS refers to the fact that it is made for mothers during pregnancy, but the arguments devolve from there whether the company's Meta name may help Meta's somehow, or if Brackhaven's involvement may imply the chemical ensures pure human births.
And not to leave out the shadows are actively looking at this thing with great interest. We need to watch steps here chummers"
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Walking into the tearoom, you see a large room with long faux-wood tables spread out throughout it. There are a handful of small groups of people settled at various seats them, most with at least one lovely girl in their ranks. A long bar runs along one of the walls, and most of those inside seem to have forgone the buildings namesake for more alcoholic fare.
Before you enter the tearoom proper, you are greeted by a large troll woman standing behind a small podium as if she were the hostess. She wears a long dress that is likely a bit too form fitting for your tastes.
When you ask for the private room, she gives a bit of a grin, raising an eyebrow. "All of you at once? That will be extra."
i send a text to winston hey winston, i think she likes ya. why dont you show her how a metahuman does it. perhaps well get a discount on a room for us...
ahh yes, we are actually looking for...dramatic pause as i pretend to be thinking ...candy! but, if shes not available, im sure you can reccomend a fine female for us to have a... "conversation" with. the only consulation we have is that the room has to have a bed and a table in it...gotta get my kink on, you know what i mean? i finish with throwing a wink at the matron of the house.
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The troll looks back and forth between Crusha and Winston for a moment before narrowing her eyes a bit at the ork, clearly not terribly amused with being teased.
Finally though, she looks back to Winston and leans forward over the podium towards him. "Very well, Big Boy. You just want some quiet time? Any other specifics? Anything you might want after?" The last is said with a rather un-subtle wink.
Winston, you can make an etiquette or negotiation check.
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The troll woman reaches out and catches Winston's wrist, pulling him towards one of the side walls which slides away as she approaches to reveal a set of stairs leading upwards. "Follow me then, hun. I suppose that I can find you a nice quiet room for you and your friends. Though if you want some company, make sure you call down to me later, ok?"
Walking up the stairs leads to a long hallway with rows of doors on either side as if it was a dorm or motel. She approaches one at the far end of the hall and pauses for an instant to send a passkey and cause it to unlock.
Within the room is fairly basic, just a simple bed up against one wall with a long dining table and a handful of chairs placed around it on the other.
She waits for you all to enter and runs a hand over Winston's back. "Enjoy yourselves. I'll be downstairs if you need anything. Anything at all." With that said she turns and heads back towards the stairs.
hmmmmm... hey winston, looks like ya made a friend!! hey guys, how bout we pool our money together and give winston about 10 min with the matroness once we conclude shop talk... i finish with a throaty chuckle.
i go over to the table and sit down at the head of the table, motioning everyone to take a seat. i open a connection to rick on the comlink and get everyone to do the same so that rick isnt left out of the loop while we talk shop. im sure spider can come up with a way to encrypt our talk if it isnt already.
ok guys. first things first. what you bringing to the run tonight?
"I got a Manhunter, a passkey and autopicker if we run into something we don't want blown down, and, of course, magic. Anyway, it looks like we're going to be having some competition on this run. Someone else scoped out the place too."
Neon settles into his seat looking the room over to see how much data is coming in and out, It looks moslty sercure so he watches the others.
'I travel light compared to you. I have my colt, some data chips and something to store them on. " He shrugs 'If it goes to hell I'll shoot, but that isn't my Thang. Any one of you are better gun jocks then me. I'll take care of the computer stuff." He grins a little "You chummers can handle shooting people and blow things up"
hmmmm...sounds ok to me guys. not alot on the heavy fire power, but i think i can provide for that role. plus i can loan out a heavy hitter if need be. i brought along my ares alpha which has a grenade launcher on it.
the suprise for all of you to enjoy. i jury-rigged some impromtu non-lethal explosives. some of them are a weird smoke screen, but the ingredients will gumm up a persons weapon once the stuff gets on it, making it jam and useless. its just a simple can of compressed air with a remote detonator surrounded by some glasses filled with flour, salt, baking soda, and sugar. the flour hangs thick in the air, the salt stings the eyes and any cuts, the sugar will get into the chamber and when the weapon fires, itll carmelize and get super sticky, like superglue in a car engine.
the other one is mixing large amounts of hot sauce with a chemical heater that quickly gets super hot. you can find it in any MRE/hiker rations. when mixed together and stored in a plastic bottle, itll take a lil bit before it blows from the build up of pressure. but when it goes, its like a tear gas bomb.
i came up with this since well have gas masks on and more than likely the guards wont.... wait a minute, thomas, you said someone else was watching the place? who? how many? what they look like?
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Neon, checking through the room, it seems to be pretty well shielded, it looks like it is only the groups signals that you see within.
For that matter, even the direct signal to Rick is somewhat muted and static filled, which tells you that anyone trying to listen in to your transmissions would have to be awfully close.
Yes, Thomas tell us what you know.
"Not that much, actually. A few Ragers attacked a guy who was looking around the warehouse, Lone Star picked them up, guy came up clean, he left. Of course, only two types of people walk around the docks; people who have records, and people who should. Let's face it, we got competition."
"Well chummers we knew the stuff was hot in the shadow, we just need to make sure we get the paydata. You want me to try and run em down, be hard and might lead them to us or you want to move fast before someone else can?"
hmmmmmm.... ok, so we know that someone's is out there checking this place. im guessin they are gonna probably play it safe and wait until someone like us come in, wreck the place, and when we roll out, they fly in fast and hit us hard, trying to grab the data....
hmmmm...i got an idea! how bout we dont try to be quiet about this.
think about this. we sneak in, and as soon as we get the data, we make ALOT of noise! random gun fire, small explosions, large fire. as we do this, whomever the carrier is, he heads out super fast while the rest of us make the diversion. at the same time, we call up lonestar. tell them about these crazy guys making noise and burning a building. give them a description of them if we see them, if not, make it bland, generic. and just as the cops roll up, we take off, making our own path way out of there...
yea? or nay...
dammit...didnt think of that. that sucks! why cant the law be under-funded...grrr.
hmmmm...ok. new idea:
we stick with the original plan of getting in, taking out the guards, cutting a hole into the door, scanning ISIS, i plant some stuff and burn out the clean room, we take off with the info while i blow out the guard shack on the pier and destroy some boats making it look like we escaped by sea.
now the way i see it, if i was going up against us, i would be tracking us through the physical and astral worlds. i would hit us either when we first break in and have us caught between them and the guards, or when we leave with the scan, leaving us to do the hard work and them hoping to catch us with our pants down.
if the first happens, me and thomas unleash hell in form of fire and explosions. if the second happens, we make a new exit in the side of the building.
i know we said we should try to limit the guard casualites; im all for that. but for these guys who may be following us and trying to catch us, lets leave them in bloody pulps.