16:02:43 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Mitchell Canyon Park, Mt. Diablo, Clayton

'We need Visa's for Ute and/or Denver? I was thinking we could simply drive up there, pls check.'

16:02:56 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Contra Costa County library
Kliko's request is unusual. Most countries require identity documents. Unless there's a travel treaty, most also require a travel visa.

She replies, I'm sure we will need entry documentation into the Denver sector where the local contact will meet us. I'll look into crossing the Ute first.

She hits a local Ute Nations tourist mirror site and looks around for travel visa forms from Cal Free.

16:03:07 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Mitchell Canyon Park, Mt. Diablo, Clayton

Felix responds over the radio. "Yes, we need a visitor visa to go through. It's a single page form, and if we drive through Vegas on the way we'll be just another tourist. You people ever take a vacation?"

16:04:19 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Contra Costa County library

Jamie finds forms for Ute Nation right where she expects them. She wanders around the site looking for references to Denver Free Trade Zone. She finds a list of regulations surrounding taxable transfer of goods from the Free Trade Zone and several forms for declaration of manifests used by transfer trucks. Hmmmm, looks like it's harder to get into UTE from the Denver Free Trade Zone than it is from Cal Free. That's wierd. Maybe we can handle that with the J in Denver.

Triggering the deck radio, she reports, We're going to need visas to get into Ute in the first place. That's easy. However, it's going to be harder getting back into Ute if we go over into the Denver Free Trade Zone or any other sector for that matter. We need to stay in the Ute sector until the Denver Johnson coughs up visas out of the Denver Free Trade zone and back into Ute.

16:02:55 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Mitchell Canyon Park, Mt. Diablo, Clayton

"The contact is to pay you upon arrival at the meet," he pauses and slows down. Radek speaks a bit softer now, "Do you need me to front you some money? I will have the Johnson pay me once you arrive at the meet."

16:03:01 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Mitchell Canyon Park, Mt. Diablo, Clayton

"That won't be necessary sir, as long as you cover for the Johnson in case he defaults.... I'd hate to travel all the way to Denver and end up empty-handed."

'Copy that Juliet, make it so. In case of doubt we'll setup a cache outside the Free Trade Zone or use disposables.'

16:03:10 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Mitchell Canyon Park, Mt. Diablo, Clayton

"A bad Johnson, makes a bad fixer. Of course you're covered."

16:04:22 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Mitchell Canyon Park, Mt. Diablo, Clayton

Nodding back in acknowledgement, Ludi confirmed his own gut feeling. 'Easy money alright.'

"Sir, we have a deal. Tell your client we can meet him in four days from now. We got some arrangements to make first.... Word is you need all kinds of visa's and paperwork done to travel in that part of the woods... I don't think we can cut through the red tape for this one sir.... We'll move nice and easy, nobody but you and your client will know we're in town." Looking him into the eyes Radek could barely make out a change of color in the corner of Kliko's cybereyes where the last bits of Jamie's information scrolled down the orks image link.

16:04:22 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Contra Costa County library

Ludi was content with simply strolling along next to the two men. Sure, she was technically the team's frontwoman when it came to dealing with people, but this wasn't a regular meet. Radek wasn't offering a job, he was just passing along an offer. As far as she was concerned there was no information to be had, and no negotiations to be made. This was, in a nutshell, just a walk in the park.

The young woman had never been to Denver, and until a few minutes ago, hadn't ever planned on going there. For all intent and purposes, she'd barely been out of the CFS ever since she'd gotten off the boat. She had no clue what to expect, and that made her uneasy. Already, in the back of her mind, she was making a list of all the calls she had to make.

She felt Kliko's eyes on her, and turned slightly to look at him. Even if they were both now equipement with transducers, neither felt it necessary to use them. Ludi simply gave him a nod. The fact Kliko had apparently looked for her approval did come a bit as a surprise. She had made little effort to hide the fact she was still angry with him, and yet, he was including her in the decision making process.

As Kliko concluded the deal, Ludmila stopped in the tracks to light a cigarette. Four days wasn't a whole lot of time to gather the original intel. There was just no way in hell she'd be able to finish unpacking and moving in. She had people to meet, palms to grease and information to get.

16:03:02 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Contra Costa county library

Jamie has a snit in the Matrix. What am I, the fraggin' secretary? I'm not filling out those damn forms. ok...wait...calm down.

Jamie grabs the visa application file and caches it in her storage memory. When the meet is done, I'll just send a text message with it attached. They can all fill it out for their current IDs. I'll crack a travel agency and file the forms from there.

She heads over to the Ute tourist Matrix site and starts looking for a reasonable vacation spot.

16:05:06 Thursday, , 30 March 2062 - Mitchell Canyon Park, Mt. Diablo, Clayton

Some might call Kliko old-fashioned, but a handshake deal is a handshake deal, Fixer or J, it mattered little to the grizzled veteran. People seemed just so much more prone to stick to their end of a bargain once you touched them. Through his drones sensor network Corsair could see the party seperate amicably at the parks parking lot.

'Alright, lets wrap it up here and rally at an adress I'll send you in a few moments. Lets get this operation rollin. We got some nuyen to collect people.'

16:08:21 TEXT MESSAGE SENT [KLIKO>>>JAMIE, FELIX, CORSAIR, BUBBA, LUDMILLA] >>>: "680 Garcia Avenue, Pittsburg."

16:05:10 Thursday, , 30 March 2062 - Mitchell Canyon Park, Mt. Diablo, Clayton

Upon receiving Kliko's message and text, Corsair commands his Condor to decend toward his location, a bit aways from the park for pick out.

'Might be a little late since I'm waiting for the "Eye" to come back. Someone just record the conversation, and I'll just watch it if I'm late."

16:05:15 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Mitchell Canyon Park, Mt. Diablo, Clayton

Radek accepts Kliko's handshake with what appears gratitude and respect. The handshake is firm, but not overpowering. The grip is broken, and Radek offers his hand to Ludi. The gesture seems more than show, and in all aspects seem genuine.

"Contact me if you have any troubles." Radek smiles and leaves the two to discuss details. The black sedan picks him up, and returns south down Mitchell Canyon Road.

16:10:05 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Mitchell Canyon Park Parking Lot, Mt. Diablo, Clayton

Felix shudders as his spirit returns to his body after Radek leaves the park. He slowly works the kinks out of his neck from popping back and forth to the astral to provide overwatch and his meat body to check the radio and messages. 'There has to be a better fragging way for this to work. Perhaps if I just tossed a watcher or small spirit up to get me if something approaches on the astral, but even that would be a kludge.'

With a grin Felix starts up his Volkswagon as he glances at the mapsoft to locate the address from Kilko. 'Time to start planning the hunt, even if we don't yet know that which we hunt.'


16:32:27 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh

Backing his car into a slot, Felix climbs out and stretches before leaning on his car to await the rest of the crew.

16:38:02 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh

Standing in front of a mobile old-fashioned chalkboard, Kliko starts the prepping session. "Ok, we have about an hour to do this right or my wife will do some serious physical harm to a puppy. Lets get things started... This is what we know:"

Jotting down some bullet points on the chalkboard, "J needs a politcal independent crew, He's looking for security... which means nobody is going to tell their spouses we got a job in Denver aye, and reliability... tells you something about our rep... He finds that more important than costs... People, I think we find ourselves in a decent negotation position here.... and finally, but not least, the job weighs heavily on him..." Turning around to face the crew. "So, what does this limited intel tells us about the job at hand, any ideas?"

- Political independent
- Security +
- Reliability +
- Costs not important
- High impact job on J

"We gonna gets some monies!" Bubba blurts out. Bubba seamed to be fixated on the chalk board his head and eyes moving with ever scribble Kliko writes. Truth was Bubba missed the companionship of his team/friends... being back together, even with some new found friends, lead Bubba to behave like an obedient puppy.

16:08:25 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Contra Costa county library
The meet is done. Jamie kicks back at the library cyberstation. Jamie gets Kliko's text. She pulls up the BART route planner. Looks like Pittsburg is about 10 minutes out. She dumps a local street map into her headware memory, being sure not to include the actual address she's destined for. Ah, I need purge some of this junk. She swaps terminals and packs her deck away, then heads out of the library. While she waits, she stops by a street vender and gets a cup of soykaf.

16:21:49 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Clayton BART stop
The bus is early. Yay. Jamie catches the bus and settles in for the ride.

16:32:11 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - Pittsburg BART stop
Disembarking, Jamie calls up the map she downloaded. She hoofs it over to the address Kliko sent.

16:35:26 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh
Jamie follows everyone inside. Kliko sets up to go over the job.

16:38:05 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh
Jamie adds, "High cost probably means high risk. To accomplish that equipment will probably be needed. We will need a reliable supplier in Ute Nation."

16:38:10 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh

"My feel on the situation," Felix adds "is that the J wants something sensitive done to one of the main political groups there, hence the non political requirement. That would also indicate why the J wants out of town talent who can keep their mouths shut. The only question to me is the J and his money. Will we receive payment in cred or in thousands of nuyen worth of bullets fired our direction. You've worked through Radek before though and seem to trust him, as much as you trust anyone in our line of work."

"What it is that the J will want us to do, no fragging clue on that. I think the high price isn't so much due to high risk to us, as his need for silence and out of town talent. Anything big happen out in Denver lately?"

16:38:11 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh
Jamie responds, "I didn't get far on my investigation of Denver. I didn't want to dig too deep while the meet was still happening. That sort of cursory investigation can be done by any one of us. I'm going to need to be working on getting a way into the Ute Nation."

16:39:30 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh

"You're damn right you are Bubba. Thus far we have:"

INTEL
- Political independent
- Security +
- Reliability +
- Costs not important -> High risk?
- High impact job on J

"I'm with Felix on the risk issue. Apparantly it is some sort of politically motivated J. I wouldn't worry to much about payment though. We've worked through middlemen before, have em pay some expenses up front and put the rest in something called an escrow account with your fixer, or Radek in this case. Radek appears keen enough on keeping his rep intact. Jamie, you can use the cyberterminal right next to my desk if you want to look stuff up on Denver. Sure its outdated, but it should work just fine for basic matrix access... I don't want you to do any decking from here though. I like this neigbourhood just fine and don't have any intentions of moving."

"Now I was thinking this could be some sort of wetwork, or even worse wetwork within the J's own outfit. Anyone got issues with that? I think we should definately bring along our B&E kits." Filling up half the green chalkboard Kliko moves over to the right and jots down:

NEED
- Local contact / last-minute equipment supplier
- travel visa / disposable fake SIN's
- B&E gear
- ?

16:39:30 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh

Corsair arrives as Kliko says, ""You're damn right you are Bubba. Thus far we have...". He nods curtly, and walks through the warehouse like facility, looking at spareparts, etc. Once Kliko finishes, Corsair seeks to answer his question, "I have no qualms with wetwork, if the pay is right. My guess is that the 10k (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) is part of the travel expenses to take the meet. Since we will have to leave equipment behind, rent rooms, etc...that's our prepayment. Based on the money their throwing around, it looks like they need an immediate solution to a pressing problem. I think you're spot on though, about why they are seeking out of town help. It might not be intra-organizational, but the J does not want to be connected to whatever is going down at all. We should attempt to be somewhat sensitive to this need, as we will most likely be rewarded for secrecy."

16:39:37 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh

Disgruntled, Jamie pleads, "Kliko, any computer savvy person could do the research on Denver. I'll do it if I have to, but I think someone else can handle that. I'm going to need to hack travel agency site to give us a reason to be there and to hide our real reasons for travelling."

Corsair comes in echoing Kliko's comments about wetwork. Jamie worries, "Do you expect to accept the job if it's a wetwork assignment?"

16:39:43 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh

"To be frank my computer skills don't really extend beyond 'Modern Warfare 2060' and my mPhone's search function. But if you think you're above all that, I'll find somebody else to do the matrix diggin. Chances are I got to cough up some nuyen to get it though, and I'd hate to take a cut out of your pay Jamie."

"Depends on the target and nuyen involved. I ain't gonna frag a great dragon the way they did Dunky in DC. That kind of heat is just way out of my League if you know what I mean. Chances are and we don't like it, we got to do the J right there and then... I don't have any problems with that either. Our first priority is to get out alive ourselves."

16:39:46 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh

Jamie sighs, "Fine, but I'll do Denver legwork...last. You all need to fill out the Ute visa forms and send them to me. I'll text them out to you. once I get reconnected."

Looking around to everyone, Jamie asks, "Since I expect we'll want to take some heave weaponry through, anyone have a problem posing as bounty hunters?"

16:39:47 Thursday, 30 March 2062 - 680 Garcia Ave, Pittsburgh

"Jamie, it's cool. I'm proficient in the matrix, just not great a decking. If you want a break, I'll do the research and see what I come up with," Corsair says, moving to the terminal. "I'm sure we can allocate your skills to something a bit more important the whipping through news articles and reading wiki entries."

*See OOC thread for roll*