IC: Reclaiming the Void Options

[Saytr]

brock looks to the crowd after agrees with ollis low tone after looking at the mass of what used to be a ganger. "agreed" putting his hammer back to his side brock bends over to pick up the roomsweeper and starts to distance himself from brock and siren. great first impression of me is going to be a psycho
brock thinks to himself as he starts to head in a opposite direction with Ollie.

[Redjack]

As Papa and Siren move away from the scene, Papa pulls up his edit program, modifies Brock's features and updates his P2.0 with the gory scene and first hand footage from the TeamNet video. I might as well boost my rating. He also begins looking for some place for him and Siren to clean up.

[Thanee]

"Alright. Guess we will continue this meeting at another time and in a less volatile environment."

Still looking around for potential hostilities, Siren is happy to move away from the spotlight for once.

"I guess when things have calmed down a bit, we can continue with the shopping tour. I believe, there were a few more things on your list."

[BishopMcQ]

Hahn Free Market

The distress seems to be very localized as Papa and Siren move away. A few dozen meters away and the merchants are hawking wares, passing gossip about a psycho trog coming off a drug binge and the ganger who tried to cut his teeth to have them knocked to the mud.

Near the cooling corpse, several men are moving down the path with chains and their arms outspread. The stiff line of metal shoves people out of the way and most move quickly to be somewhere else. As Brock puts the dripping hammer over his shoulder and takes the Streetsweeper, the Enforcers arrive.

A wild eyed human seems to be leading them, her clothing embroidered and marked with a smattering of random occult symbols. She holds a curved knife in one hand.

"Tisk tisk chap, that one was a slot-head, but we can't have killing. It's bad for business. You've got two options, pay your fine and leave or pay your fine and buy something from these folks here for their troubles." She motions with her knife at the merchants immediately surrounding Brock and Olethros.

"And you scar-face, I lost a solid handful of tablets on account of you throwing that match. Don't give me any of that nonsense about trauma--I know when a soul has taken thirty silver to fall down. Since you're his friend, fine's double. 200 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) "

[Buddha72]

Olethros looks at the woman speaking and feels the void of memory press against him. While he was able to repair the damage to this vessel, he was unable to restore the memories from before he claimed this body. There was a time when he could have simply wiped this woman from existence with something less than a thought. Now he had to swim through this muck of an existence. He smiles as best as he can while slowly turning to Brock.

"We all do what we have to. Sorry this settled on you. Are you going to pay?"

[Thanee]

A bit further away, Siren takes note, that there is no battle erupting at least.

She stops for a moment, turning to Papa. "Wait!"

Then she begins to sing in a soft voice. The troll has heard that song before. She often uses it to collect her mind, when she is working her magic.

A short moment later, she says: "Better, much better!"

The stains of blood and other defilement from the incident are gone.

"Looks like things there are calming down already..."

[Saytr]

Brock looks around to see what wares are available in response to the knife totting slitch. As much as he dispised gangs a dead man cannot do many things. " 200 and we can continue on my way without any more harasment" he lets it hang in the air a moment, "sounds steep but to keep collateral damage down its a deal" Brock looks at Ollie he approaches the female to pay his fine and continue on his way. 200 nuyen....not too bad a price for personal justice. He thought to himself I wonder what it would have been without a well known face next to me.

[BishopMcQ]

Brock and Olethros

The transfer of cred goes through, and the wild-eyed woman gives Brock an appraising look. "Yes, yes. No more problems--remember buy something or leave."

She moves on through the crowd, leaving the Enforcers to verify the last of it.

Siren and Papa

Many of the people step away from you as tendrils of mana weave through the air. Several of them shiver for a second as if a chill crawled down their spine.

[Saytr]

Not leaving chance to decide his fate Brock looks at Ollie"think its time we leave chummer. People around here will not be giving me the deal of a life time anytime soon and my creds are hard earned. If you want i will head back to the house if you want to go with papa and the siren gal" Brock starts to examine the roomsweeper .he recently acquired.
@team[Brock]"well the local enforcers let it go with a fine. I think it would be best to for us all if i wasnt here anymore so i will head back into town, just let me know when you guys are done and i will meet yu all back at the house

[Buddha72]

"It's probably for the best at the moment - let me check in with Papa real quick."

Olethros resumes his previous text based conversation.

<< Now back to the potential shopping - was there a chance I could get spotted for the cost or should we find some way to generate funds? >>

[Redjack]

<<@Ollie [Papa] Funds are pretty limited. Let me do this: I'll cut back some of my shopping list today, we'll head back to the house, take an inventory and sell off the magical stuff at the safe house. Then we'll make a plan to get everyone's matrix gear up to stuff. Sound good?>>

Now that everyone is together, Papa sends a TeamNet subscription and a request for administrative access to all the team members. I should invest in a TacNet... Yea. Struggling to afford comlinks and I'm dreaming about a TacNet.

<<@Team [Papa] Ok, let me gather a few more things then we'll head back to the safehouse.>>

[Buddha72]

<< Sounds good. >>
"Ok everyone is heading back to the house where we met. Let's make our way back. The plan is to sell a few things and then get gear since money is a little tight for most folks."

Olethros begins to wind his way through market, making sure to keep Brock in sight. He sees the request from Papa and quickly approves the access.

[Saytr]

Brock was relieved to hear that papa and siren had not run into any trouble. "Null sheen." Was brocks only response although on his way out of the free market he did keep a eye out for a sutable sling for the room sweeper. He liked the idea of having a one shot and release weapon.

[BishopMcQ]

All

Hours pass as the last bit of shopping is wrapped up, ferries are taken back across the bay, and traffic in the City of Angels drags slowly forward. Olethros and Brock arrive back at the safe house first, their shopping and errands taking far less time than Papa's. By the time the four of you have convened back at the house, the sun has nearly set.

A slender, stunning elf with the barest green hue to her skin is sitting on the porch wearing cut-off shorts and a loose tanktop. She is sipping a glass of lemonade and watches the strangers with a wary eye. Despite a lack of bruises, the woman strikes you as a victim of abuse--flinching back when a hand is extended to shake, and cringing as voices are raised even slightly. She introduces herself to the newcomers as Etienne.

[Saytr]

Brock walked up to the house with his hammer in his left hand hanging down ready to bring to bear in case she was in fact a enemy instead of a ally"hello there" walking cautiously seeing as she has recently been beat he didnt want to be seen as too agressive and to keep to a safe distance if she didnt check out. <@team[brock]"we have a visitor at the house anyone know about a new arrival">

[Buddha72]

Olethros looks over Etienne with a neutral expression and seeing her so wary and skittish stays a comfortable distance from her.

"Hello. Can we help you?"

He quickly looks at the elf and attaches an image of her to a message to Papa.

<< You all know her? Also how do you want to get a replacement for Uetz? Ask around or does our employer have someone? >>

[Redjack]

Papa pulls the van into the driveway, happy to see that Etienne is back. As Ollie and Brock quickly exit the van, he realizes that he has not yet subscribed them as users to the home security node. He does that as he quickly follows the team out of the van.

<<@Team [Papa] Stand down. She lives here... And put that damn hammer away.>>

The front door opens and the vacu-drone moves to the door. Over its speaker, Papa speaks, softly having observed her initial reactions. "Etienne. This is Papa and these are new teammates. I am in route, but Uetz and the others are on an extended trip."

He then reaches out to Harvey: How do I contact our employers?

[Saytr]

brock hides the hammer in response to Papa tone and the state of the female elf he didnt want to tramatize her any more then she already looked. "nice to meet you ma' am" brock tries to hide the hammer and room sweeper from sight. he didnt know the story if she was a girlfriend or what not so he didnt want to scare her anymore then she already looked.

<@Papa[brock]"i didnt know who she was sorry.>

[Thanee]

Siren arrives in a sleek, black SUV, dressed in an equally sleek, tight-fitting leather dress. Her hair is ash-blonde now, but otherwise she looks mostly the same. She greets the others and the fragile-looking elf girl with a friendly smile and a soft voice.

"Hey guys, hello Etain. Nice to meet you."

[Buddha72]

Olethros nods a hello to Siren whose appearance drives home the gore still spattered on his back across his jumpsuit. He tries to keep his back from Etienne's vision as he opens a mass text between the people subscribed to the team.

<< So I know I keep throwing out questions but is there somewhere I can wash my clothes? I'm a little hesitant to go down to the Quickwash with what I have on my back. Also this woman presents a unique opportunity for me and for us. The people I am connected to are difficult to reach but extremely useful at times. She is potentially a conduit for three entities I know. As I said before deep and dark is something I know so I would like to ask them for help. She will NOT be harmed but the experience for the rest of you can be unnerving depending on which of the three answer. I would normally not ask but while on the metaplanes with Uetz I received a message that suggests we are seeking something stolen from deeper and darker places and I would like to see what it was and if it does relate to our work. May I? >>

[Thanee]

Is that really one of those dryads? Siren wonders, when a message pops up in her display and pulls her out of her thoughts.

She takes a few steps back, to have a better look at Olethros's back and to be a bit farther away from Etain. Soft singing can be heard from her.

< [Siren] Dunno what you mean. Looks all fine to me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) >

Those that observed her more closely might have noticed the subtle changes in her features or the tingling sensation as the mana was being collected on the astral and then moved towards Olethros's clothes.

[Redjack]

Papa leads Siren to the safehouse, parking the van in the driveway.
<<@Team [Papa] Etienne has been through more than you can know recently so I'm going to be more than a little protective. Her emotional state is fragile and while I want to know more about the prize, there are lines not to be crossed. You need to explain "unnerving".>>

He exits the van, one duffel bag over his shoulder, the other in the van.

[Saytr]

Brock takes off his gear and removes his bloody shirt revealing his form fitting body armor in the porch light. Brock felt like the free markets stress evaporate from his body almost like taking off a cover of hate as he stretches and wipes the access blood from his body with the removed t-shirt. "hey everyone about the market that ganger belonged to the same group that killed my family, i tried to control myself in that instance but i could not hold my rage once i recognized the gangers emblem. In the future i will try to keep my cool and stay out of those area that might have the same type of crowd." watching as Papa carefully tended to Etienne he knew they were either close friends or lovers either one he had respect for and removed himself from ear shot to not involve himself in thier conversation, once the door to the house opened up he went back to his room to put his gear away and got ready for a quick shower. he could imagine the steam from the shower would be very welcome feeling indeed.

[BishopMcQ]

Papa

A cloud of purple lines overcomes your vision.  It settles into a view of your living room, playing back the last few minutes of D'zan's time in the house. The hand mirror glows steadily where it is left on the table. Seconds later the vision passes.

If you lose the mirror, you must Call him. Those secrets will cost more.

All

Etienne pales at the sight of the bloody hammer and Brock's blood caked arms. She calms down somewhat when Papa starts talking. When Siren shows up, Etienne storms off to a room and slams the door. You can hear muttering of "another magic slinging slut" and "probably rape my brain" as she walks and the sound of crying from the room.

As she departs, Olethros recognizes her as the woman from his vision that fell victim to Locket's attention.

[Thanee]

"Wow! Guess she really doesn't like awakened people," Siren says once the first shock moment has vanished.

"I can reassure you, though, that there will be no harm coming from my end. I have restraints."

With that, the young woman shoots a sideways glance at Brock.

"And you could probably use some grooming, too," she says, before repeating the same spell once more.