IC: Post or Die, Lifelines, and deadlines Options

[Red-ROM]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:35 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Throgg looked to Zo,"They're talking 10k, you want to get on the horn here? It's my man Ferret. He's cool."
Rusty waited a second as the team seemed to talking to themselves, then spoke up again in response to Professor,"The whole city was put on a temporary closed matrix system for security. It's still intact. A lot of hardwired stuff. Use the public directory and call "the Morning Bistro". Do you guys really need to take me along on this? I'm an old man, and I'm gonna be honest, I don't like my chances in there."
Meanwhile, Jovan's spirits returned, reporting nothing more than rats and bugs.

[Warlordtheft]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:35 PM, Loose Cannon, Touristville, Redmond

10KY---Hell that would put me up in nicer digs. That and get Throgg a few hits of novacoke.

Zo chuckles. "He if he's cool with the crush, then I'm cool with the deal. Patch me in to this ferret."

[Saint Sithney]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:35 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

<<@Ferret and Acme: What was that? One of you needs courage and the other a brain? I'll see what I can whip up when I get back to my Em City lab. Really I'm just jealous because it's taken me a whole lifetime to become as callous, nihilistic, and violent as Trogs are at birth. It sort of diminishes the scope of my accomplishment.>>

"Yeah, Rusty. If you've got no experience in the matter, we aren't going to try and make you go. Ghouls and mercs creeping around like they are, we'll leave you a little protection and head on out from here on foot. That sound amenable?"

[Red-ROM]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:35 PM, Loose Cannon, Touristville, Redmond

<<Throgg@Ferret: His names Zo,hang on, I'm putting him on>>

[Warlordtheft]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:35 PM, Loose Cannon, Touristville, Redmond


<<Zo@Ferret:Hey Ferret, Throgg is tellin me you need some muscle and some one observant enough to avoid da bullets flyin in your direction. I do both. Since you good with the Crush, I'll take the job for the 10k offered and a location where I can meet up with you.>>

[Notsoevildm]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:35 PM, Loose Cannon, Touristville, Redmond

"Hey Rusty, are you cool with me giving out this location to our new muscle? He's Crush, but this is outta their territory so I don't think you'll have any trouble from them."

<<Ferret@Zo: Me and Throgg go back aways, so I'll take his word that you are up to the job. You got a speciality, guns, blades, whatever? Johnson wants some info and might want a word in person. She's pretty icy and she'll be handling payment. We're at {location}. Oh yeah, if you got a respirator or other chem gear, might be an idea to bring them along.>>

<<@Mrs J: The gentleman's name is Zo. He is a member of the Crimson Crush, so will be of the ork or troll metatype. I will forward specifics of his skills and any specialities once I receive them. Do you wish to speak with him directly?>>

[Red-ROM]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:35 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Rusty Got the generator running, and a few flood lights blinked to life. He nodded to Oswald,"Hey I appreciate that. You guys can hang out as long as you need, If you see something useful, I'll sell it cheap" He smiled, and made his way to the office door and pulled out an old fashion key to open a lock on it. He heard Ferret's question as he played with the lock,"That's fine. None of the big gangs bother with this area. Not enough cred in it. Building ain't worth livin in for most, so there's not a lot of customers out here for 'em. Besides, I might not be stayin here much longer myself in light of current events"

<<Mrs. J@Ferret: No need, I'll look into the guy and let you know if any flags go up.>>

[Warlordtheft]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:35 PM, Loose Cannon, Touristville, Redmond

<<Zo@Ferret:I'll be there in the next hour or so. That is Stiletto territory? I may have to avoid any gangs in the area followin me.....As to my abilities, yeah I'm damn good with a gun, but then again you might missed the fun when we tangled with the 162's last year. I spotted them fraggin ghouls before da ambush, and we eliminated the vermin.
Shoulda of known better dan to mess with the crush on our turf.

Respirator, you kidding me? You don't live in Seattle with out one...acid rain an all. >>

Throgg--be backsoon--tell Arsenioto get Gore....drek...<looks at Throgg in the thro's of Ork ganger passion>..nevermind I'll tell Arsenio the next I meet em.

Zo grabs his helmet and heads out the door. Outside he gets on his bike and heads towards glow city and Rusty's safe house through routes that avoid him getting shot at.

[pbangarth]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:35 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

"Yeah, we can take it from here, Rusty. In fact, it could be helpful to have an open safehouse here while we go deeper into Big Daddy's lair. A place to retreat to if shit hits the fan."

Professor looks around. In another place, another time, this could have been a condo development.

[Saint Sithney]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:36 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

<<@team: So, I hope this new bullet-catcher drives faster than Ferret. Otherwise, the Viper's going to wake up before he gets here. We still haven't decided what's doing with that guy. If you want to run this gig by committee that is.>>

Oswald had moved to the rear of the Rover to take a look at Thirty, whose condition hadn't improved any, besides the superficial wound. The toxin appeared to be something beyond the scope of medical science. "Feh! Ghost juice. I sure as hell can't scrub it out.."

[Sephiroth]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:36 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

<<@Oswald: Did you find any maps or geographical information regarding the Cross reclamation area to which we are heading? Those will be helpful for me very soon. As for the Viper, do you have any tech that can broadcast a signal strong enough and encrypted enough to attract the rest of the Vipers, and preferably only the Vipers, to that location?>>

Jovan directed one of his watchers to the astrally perceiving Professor to act as his mouthpiece. Are you ready to begin? The others can double check the exits and make sure this place is secure in the meantime, if we do wish to use this as a temporary haven.

[pbangarth]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:36 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Professor replies to the watcher spirit,"I understand a new team member might be showing up soon. I think we should wait for him and then get in gear."

Others in the room look askance for a moment, wondering who he is talking to. (Unlike Professor, who would wonder to whom the person was talking.)

[Saint Sithney]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:36 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

<<@Jovan: Maps, yeah. The terrain hasn't changed since the disaster, so your basic mapsoft has all the streets and buildings as they were. I'll pin all the updated info I found to the relevant locations if you want to read up a little. Don't know that it'll help that much.>>

[Red-ROM]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:55 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Zo's Harley flies through the rubble they call streets in the Barrens. The directions are leading him into uncharted territory. The population is thinning out. The buildings look commercial and barely standing if not already fallen down. He pulls up to the location and his headlight throws an eerie glow on a horrific scene. Three dead bodies. one looks to have been dragged about fifteen feet before being dropped with another. The streets seem empty now. Zo catches the eye of an older man peeking out of the rubble at him from across the street. The neighbors were concerned, but probably more for their own safety than anything else.

[pbangarth]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:55 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Professor checks out front at the sound of a motor shutting down. "Hey, Ferret. This your man?"

[Notsoevildm]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:56 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

<<Ferret@Zo: Is that you outside the front door? Give a friendly wave so the locals don't take a pop at you.>>

"Well he's an ork on a bike, so looks like it. If he gives a friendly wave right about now, then he's our boy. So let's not shoot him before we get to know him, okay?"

[pbangarth]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:56 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

"Heh. Why break with tradition now?" Professor looks for the wave.

[Sephiroth]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:56 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

While the two dwarfs work out the details of meeting the new arrival, Jovan continues to scrutinize and analyze the maps and information supplied by Oswald. He searches for anything that would be important to be aware of going into the area - particularly dangerous ambush points, open roads that are usable as entry and escape routes, anywhere to keep an unconscious body restrained and safe from prowling predators, etc.

[Warlordtheft]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:57 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond



<@Ferret>"Hey ferret, I'm here. what ever the frag here is. Shit, this makes my doss look like some dandelion eater's idea of a vacation."

Noticing the fact that the orc has various gang markings on his trench coat you seem sure it is Zo. He unpacks
an assault rifle from the satchel on the back of his bike. Grabbing the rifle at the stock, he waves it a manner that would suggest a salute or greeting before resting it on his shoulders, finger on the trigger. He heads in through the front door.
Looking around at the group he stops at Acme--- Two dwarves, an elf, and human enter a bar in the barrens, wait wasn't that on some horizon reality show last week? and smirks.

So um like do you guys have a plan or what?

[Acme]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:57 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Acme smirked. THere was a few instincts in him from a long time ago that railed against the gang markings, but he remembered that he wasn't in the First Nations anymore. Oh sure, he had the patch on his jacket... somewhere, but that was out of respect for the friends he made.

"Well, we could gang up on the new guy and use him as bait for the ghouls to clear out while we get our job done," he said with a laugh, stretching.

[Warlordtheft]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:57 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Looking down at acme. "nah, ya keebs seem to be da fav's of ghouls---sweet meat or some such drek....or so I've heard."

[Acme]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:57 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Acme just smirked at the ganger, cracking his knuckles a bit. "We'll see how sweet it is later," he replied. "Right now we've got to get a package that's now cost three runners to get. Hope Mrs. J doesn't mind choking on her blood money."

[Notsoevildm]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:58 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Ferret rolls his eyes at the posturing.

"Guys, same team, neh. We've got enough people gunning for us without you two picking on each other."

He wanders over to Zo and holds out a hand, performing a passable Crush handshake.

"I'm Ferret. Guess I'm our decker. Acme here, is our mage along with Jovan, who's hiding out in Oswald's Rover. Don't ask! He likes his privacy. Oswald's the grumpy old guy over there. No that's Rusty, He's our guide. The other old guy. He's our rigger. The Prof is...well the Prof."

[pbangarth]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:58 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Professor walks over and shakes hands with the new guy. "Glad to see some physicality come into our group. Welcome. I'm Professor. Data analysis, idea guy, astral awareness. We were just waiting for you to show up to get on our way to our target destination.

"If you would care to ride with us in one of our enclosed vehicles, that would be good. You can secure your bike in here. Or you can bring your hog along for the fun. Either way, we can fill you in as we go.

"Rusty, any chance you can drum up some help to deal with Amber in a civilized way before more ghouls come for her? I can toss in some cred for the work." He makes 200 nuyen available in AR.

[Warlordtheft]

Friday, Sept. 11, 2071, 9:59 PM, Rusty's Safe House, Redmond

Looking at Professor, and the odd way Prof took his hand, and showed ferret the proper gang shake, Zo felt compelled to speak up.

This is not the first free lance job I've had done, and I just had some questions. 10k aint worth nothing if you're dead. So run me by the plan or are we just winging it? If not what da ya know about the facility and its security? With da ol'man rigger over there, the mages and such I don't think a flyby from a discreet distance would be out of the question. Matrix be useless from what I guess, cause da place has been abadoned since before the crash 2.0 and more than likely 1.0 before dat.

My bike is comming with. No use not havin additional mobility-it is built for riding in the barrens. Finally where do you want me to be? In front, behind, comming from the flanks, as a distraction or body guard?

I am assumin, some one like you Prof, could put your data analysis skills--dats corps speak for good at figuing things out right?--to good use and come up with a good one that doesn't get anyone killed. Includind Mr dandelioneater over dere. Finally before we dispose of the excess bodies, do they have anything useful?--An, rusty ya should probably dump them on some kindling and torch them. I don't want them gettin up an moving. It happens, I've seen it on da trids.