"Ugh, shut the fuck up. First, I didn't say he should let them in the gutter, but 'Buy our parents a house, but don't forget who your pack is'. Rescure parents, then rescure others.

And I know that the fight isn't over. That's exactly what I'm saying. What a pathetic pseudo Wolf follower runs from an unfinished fight? If chicken out is what makes you happy, go fuck yourself and buy yourself some drinks in Malibu because you're afraid the streets might swallow you before the couple of years have passed before you grow old and fade away into meaninglessness."

She stands, downing most of her drink in a single long gulp.

"And I never said I would pick the milk runs. I said, I would pick the runs that matter. Out there are things that matter more than whether or not you dip your hairy ork balls in sun cream or whether or not some bitch with bad taste learns to - quote - properly read in her mid-twenties. And a bunch of freakishly mighty mages trying to summon demons from even beyond the astral planes to run amok in what is left of this chinky world is one of those. Yeah, I like Gerhardt, but there's a reason I like him. Unlike Barbie doll, I don't just go for the meanest prick. Schmidt has character, principles and, despite his age, is more of a fighter than you sorry lot put together."

bnc downs the rest of the drink and turns to go.

Slob could still be drawn in by petty insults, and was doing his best to hold back, "Schmitt doesn't hire people to save the world bnc. He hired us, risked the entire team, so that he could get a data stick and get his old job back. Unless besides thinking he's super iketeru, you also think he has the ability to see the future, you know he was just as clueless about that Horror thing bring in the vault. You won't be going to 'fight the good fight'. You'll be going to get more rich, and you should already have all the money you need.

"And I don't know where you think you're going. You don't get to 'chicken out' and just leave this conversation. You don't have a ride, and you can't just hang around outside. This is Redmond, in case you forgot."

Amused Yael gulped another drink... "She is just upset that you are leaving Slob. This run has shaken her to the core, and she grew to depend on you in the course of your common adventures. I'd say she is quite fond of you, but cannot admit it. It would take time to digest the loss and adjust. I'll keep an eye over her if she let me."

"I never said that my next Run will necessarily be Gerhardt's. I said, I'm not going to work for this or that man's personal wealth or power. Also, I believe he's already got back what he wants and surely he, too, will run out of nuyen. This was quite an expensive heist, all included."


"I ... I need to go to the restroom.", bnc answers with a certain pressed difficulty. Without waiting for a response, she snatches the silver patch from the table, turns and rushes to the restroom in a hurry. Nothing in her body language indicates that she indeed needs a toilet. It's got more the air of someone running from something than towards anything. To what Anna said, she doesn't respond directly, but shoots her a short glance that could mean anything and shows a swirl of emotions that's entirely indistinguishable.

"She's probably just going to use Psyche and come back out to be a preachy bitch again. You want to go in there or should I?"

"I know it's the girls bathroom, but I know Redmond, and folks don't really care around here. Well if some humanis shits are hanging about they might care, but I'm used to them."

Yael replied "Just let her be... Win the battle but lose the war. You will not be there to catch her every time she self destruct. She needs to find her inner strength rather than trust you to catch her."

Sounds like you volunteered yourself Is what Slob wanted to say, but he took a breath and thought better of it. That or the fake nutmeg was mellowing him out for once.

"Fine."

He checked him commlink's clock, waiting for Kazuya to arrive.

"Waiting for someone? " She asked, and continued with the drink. The establishment was near empty of customers but some workers began to arrive to prepare the alcohol.

bnc locks herself into the restroom cabin. She doesn't return for a while.

Kazuya took his time to appear, but eventually did.
With the tiniest hint of worry on his face, he stepped towards the team's table gave the others a nodded greeting and looked expectantly at Slobbertooth: "So that's your team then? You want to introduce us?"

"Well you took your sweet time. Hope you didn't run into too much trouble during your leisurely drive in." Slob said shuffled around the others to greet Kazuya with a hug. "Relax, they're all friendlier than me, and friendlier than most of the folks you'll see around here. "Hell, I'm probably the only one packing."(Japanese)

"Everyone this is Kazuya. Our likeness should tell you how we know each other." Slob emphasized their 'similarity' by putting and arm around Kazuya and leaning bringing their heads closer togehter.

Slob sighed and turned back to Kazuya, "It's probably better you don't know too much. If you've seen the news, you'll know where we were. I'll give you the full details when I come back."(Japanese) Slob introduced the team, gesturing to each with an open hand. "The big handsome one is Krestov. The pretty one is Yael, don't let her near your pockets. bnc is in the bathroom. Short skinny hacker bitch. You'd love her." Slob moved Kazuya back towards the door. "There's one other person I'd like you to meet. She's going to be very annoyed your made her wait in the car this long."

Slob made sure his pistol was loaded with gen and then led Kazuya back outside to the team vehicle, and opened the door to reveal a very large, and somewhat annoyed Tibetan Mastiff who quickly shuffled to the bumper's edge to greet Slob. "Heel girl." Standing in the back of the van she easily came up to above Kazuya's shoulders. "This is Zelda. We rescued her a while back. She's big, but she's sweet and loyal. Can you look after her for a few months. "I can't take her with me. It won't be dangerous to have her, but I don't know how she'd handle the suborbital and she isn't exactly inconspicuous. Sorry to drop it on you like this."(Japanese)

He waited for Kazuya and Zelda to say hello to each other, with a small smile on his face.

"We're going to need more than a cleaner. Eight Hundred Thousand."(Japanese)

Kazuya nodded as everyone was introduced and outright bowed his head for Anna.
When he met Zelda, his eyes lit up. "What a magnificent beast. I'll take good care of her." (Japanese)

The sum only made Kazuya raise an eyebrow: "I'll see to it. There are a few investments to make that will ensure that the money lasts."

"Yeah, that amount alone won't last forever. We'll probably need to keep working, but we won't have to do this drek anymore. We might have to buy khaki pants or something otherwise terrible."

"How's are family. Mom, dad?" with a pause, "Hiroko?"

Kazuya shrugged: "Getting old, missing you. Hiroko... she went back to school. Smartest thing she could do."

Tell that to Anna. Slob looked down with hands on his hips. "They aren't going to recognize me."

"I leave in a few hours, and it will be hard to contact me for the next couple of months. Come in and get a quick drink with the team before we go. You might as well meet them, so you know them if they pay a visit in the future.

"Social visit, I've told them to not bring business by."

Yael waved her hand, a bit drunk and over-enthusiastic... It was her 4th-5th... something drink. Including some that were a bit too much for mere humans though she digested them bravely "Hey!... Nice to meet you Kazuya"

bnc returns from the restroom shortly after Kazuya and Slob return to the table. A short glimpse at her pupils tell that she had applied the patch. So does the calm air of her movements when she returns. She seemed to be more relaxed, but also less lively. A reddened nose, eyes and skin around tell that she's been crying. Her walk is slightly unsteady, though this might simply come from being drunk already, hardly half an hour after you entered the bar.

She doesn't walk straight over to the group. Instead she stops at the bar and stands besides a young man. For a split-second she catches his gaze, and if he meets it, she turns to the barman. "Sex", she says to him, but again looks the young man in the eyes, "on the Beach. With a straw. Ah, and without the fruit garnish, just the real thing."
She pauses for a second, then fully turn her attention to the young man. "You have a cig or something?"

Kazuya gave Slobber an imperceptible nod: "I'll take good care of your girl. And when you return, I'm sure mom and dad will be happy to get to know you again."
Slobber's friend and contact recognized the greeting from Anna with a stiff little bow: "Pleased to meet you too." He turned slightly as bnc made her entry.

The young man she had spoken to looked up from his beer and gave her quick look up and down before replying: "Sorry Honey, but I don't go in for prostitutes. Especially not for the coked out, underage ones. Also, your pimp kind of scares me." With a quick glance in Krestov's direction the young man got up and left his half drunken beer behind. The barkeeper used that moment to plopp a tall glass with with a straw and some orange-grey kind of sludge on the bar that smelled faintly of artificial peach and organges.
With a sleazy grin on an entirely too sleazy face and body he said: "Drink's on the house if you don't mind coming into the back room."

"Which one of you is the 'good' one?" she asked grinning widely. Her expression flattened as bnc returned to the room, but sat on the bar, "That girl is the definition of a buzzkill", she thought. She felt bad, it felt like a replay of the story from before... that one had a troll in a shining armor busting heads... Krestov did not look like the ultra-violent type but... "Perhaps bringing them here was a bad idea... I open up to people too quickly, the university changed me. They are not harmless SINNers, but a pack of explosives." she thought as her skin crawled.

bnc takes the half-empty glass of beer and pours it over the leaving dude's back of the head. "If you look for a whore, ask Barbie doll over there, you retarded jerk."

For an instant it looks like the man wants to back hand bnc. With visible effort he rains in his emotions and just shakes his wet mop of hair: "You need help, girl." With a flick of his wrist he produces an ARO in the form of a calling card for Drug Users Anonymous, before turning around to go.
The barkeeper is less than thrilled with the spill but for now contents himself with a dirty look at bnc.

Slob saw Anna was already three sheets to the wind, and that Krestov wasn't going to over to protect bnc from herself. How did I end up as the chaperone. "Anna, that's your last drink. Can't have you falling unconcious before we take our trip. They won't let us drag you aboard. I'll go get bnc."

Slob shuffled out of his chair once again and moved between bnc and the soaked customer before she got a broken jaw. "C'mon, take a seat next to Barbie doll before you start a fight Krestov has to finish."

Yael snorted "Lightweight! You call me Anna but I am the drunk one. I had two glasses of your Trog booze... Whats your excuse...?" She stood up and said Now if only that bitch would stop calling me a whore in public... Perhaps I will not hit her myself." She walked up toward bnc and the man and said a bit too grinning and a bit too loudly, finding it difficult to hide that she inappropriately finds the situation amusing. "I thank you for your restraint, she is something special." Toward bnc she said assertively "it is time for us to go Skinny... I'll think of a special punishment for calling me a whore." She was relieved that the situation did not yet escalate to violence. Capitalizing on their luck she grabbed bnc's hand and walked out of the distillery without even waiting for the girl's consent.

Being a bit of a con artist (in her own eyes) and a thief Yael wondered.. "Perhaps this mess means that we walk out without paying for the drinks. Horny employees are kind of stupid, and it was a good distraction by bnc... Though, I think that Krestov will pay even if they forget all about it. He seems the type."

bnc was just about to hack and rampage the fellow's 'link when more or less the whole group assembled around her.
She sighs ostentatively. "Was I being too subtile when I didn't return to your place? You really are insufferable...
Anyway, thanks for coming, I guess, before you just go off and don't care anymore -" She shoots a glance in Slobbertooth's direction.
"I won't change location just when we arrived. But I would comply to sit down and behave if you insist in meddling in my affairs. Guess I owe you this eve before we split. Me, I's gonna behave, promise."

Yael replied "Meddle in your own affairs bitch... You are too embarrassing to be around."