IC: Denver Missions Team 2 Options

[Zyerne]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:26 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, The Horse Trot Ranch]

"Wolf's plan meet Black Cats 7:30 South Platte Park"

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Outside Marcel's]

"This is Mafia?" Wolf asked once they'd pulled up outside, having been mostly ignoring Kim on the way over and making a mental note to buy some earbuds to tune her out with.

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Outside Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

"Maybe this particular guy just likes to get his strange on for dinner. That's a lot better than if this place was crawling with his business partners. Do we have a picture of the guy we're interested in?"

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Outside Marcel's]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

Popping back from VR, Riot shook his head, stretched his shoulders and replied, "No name or pic of this mafioso character. Anyway, I'm going in, if anyone wants to come, feel free." With that, Riot commands the side door to open and stepped outside and walked into Marcel's.

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Outside Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin shrugged, "I'll come check it out with ya." He then exited the van, with Riot.

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Outside Marcel's]

As Riot and Kreskin enter the place, you see what they meant in the online reviews. The girl at the hostess stand is a real fox, right down to the ears and the tail. She takes you over to a four-top table and gives you your menus. The other staff is equally garish, some with lots of ink, others with obvious cyber, and still others with piercings that make you wince a little when you see them.

"Anything I can get you fellas right away?" she asks politely.

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Outside Marcel's]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

"Thanks sweetheart you can, but we're not here for the food. A friend of mine asked me to get some of these for him," Riot said, pulling out one of the mint cigarette butts. "My friend said I could get them here. Could you make this possible?"

[ Spoiler ]

Ettiquette Roll: 2 Cha + 1 Skill + 2 First Impression + 2 EPRs = 7 dice
7d6.hits(5) → [2,6,2,3,5,5,3] = (3)
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2853147/

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Outside Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin smiled at their foxy hostess, as though their request was the most normal thing in the world. In fact, his guess was that the staff here were used to getting much stranger requests than that.

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]

"Huh," she says at last. "We don't sell cigarettes, but... I'll be right back. Oh, and your server will be right with you."

She heads into the back room, and you wait for a minute or three. A server comes to the table with glasses of water and departs. The hostess emerges and goes back to her post at the front of the restaurant, and shortly a broad shouldered, chicano dwarf comes out from the back room and heads towards your table. He's wearing a tight tanktop that shows you his arms are covered with sleeve tattoos that go all the way up to his neck and further. As he approaches, you see glints of chrome being thrown from his throat. As he arrives, you see he has a line of skin posts piercing him from his adam's apple on down to the collar of his shirt, and further down if the bumps are any indication.

"Alright, chummers. Rikki tells me you're interested in some quality smoke?"

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Outside Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin gives a short laugh. "Me? I never touch the stuff - well, not never - but you know..." A sharp look from Riot cut him off, and Kreskin decided to let him say his bit. He looked past the dwarf and checks out one of the waitresses whose backside wasn't nearly as mutilated or mutated as some of the others.

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

"Hello. We're here to buy some smokes for Mr. Belenkiy. He's pretty busy, been smoking them like crazy. Needs to resupply. But he wanted us to tell you "Hey!" and to see how things were going. He said you'd be a chromed out dwarf...but he didn't mention your name. You good chummers with Mr. B?"

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin leans forward, curious to hear how the dwarf would respond.

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]

The dwarf's face goes from that of the friendly salesman to closed and dark.

"I'm not sure what your game is, ladies, but deal me out."

He begins to stand up from the table.

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

Surprised, Riot but trying not to let it show, "Ummm...where are we supposed to get this mint tabacco for Mr. B? Maybe the hostess directed us to the wrong guy? But you look exactly like he described and at the location that he said.....I'm honestly confused. We'll sorry for wasting your time." Looking to Kreskin, "Man, he's gonna be pissed." And the stood up as well, trying to tower over the dwarf just a bit.

[ Spoiler ]

Con roll: 7d6, just like the ettiquette roll
7d6.hits(5) → [5,3,3,4,1,3,6] = (2)
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2853890/

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]

He stops and turns back to face you. "Look, man, you may know Belenkiy, but you ain't here on his business. So blow!"

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:46pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

"Didn't even get a chance to order my beer at this one," Kreskin muttered, standing to leave as well, waving slightly at the waitress who seemed to notice him staring at her, earlier. He waited for a moment to see how the dwarf would react to Riot's desperate attempt to salvage the ruse. When he did, Kreskin raised an eyebrow. Even if this lead didn't go anywhere, it seems the dwarf did actually know B, and also that he was confused and not quite sure

"Tipped your hand a tad early," he added to Riot as he put his jacket back on, not seeming to care if the dwarf overheard him. "Now he's folding, before we've even anted up." He produced a credstick, twirled it across his fingers, then back again, then set the thing down on the table, with one finger holding it in place, while he eyed the dwarf to see if the credstick held any interest for him. "Tell ya what. Hear us out, and we'll put our cards on the table...." Kreskin suspected that, at this point, the dwarf was curious what was going on, and might be tempted to find out. He wasn't sure they should tell him, necessarily, but they needed to keep him interested, or he would walk away - and potentially tip off someone the team wouldn't want tipped off. He looked down at the credstick, "... and if you can help us out, or even forget we ever talked to you, we can make it worth your while."

[ Spoiler ]

Try using negotiations (since we already tried con and etiquette) to talk/bribe the dwarf into talking to us:
10d6.hits(5) = 4 hits

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:48pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]

He doesn't walk away, but he doesn't sit back down, either. Arms crossed across his chest, he regards you coolly. "You've got one minute to convince me not to have you geeked."

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

Deciding to lay all the chips on the table, Riot takes a leap of faith, "I'll assume, by your wariness and concern, that you're at least an acquaintance of Belenkiy. What you don't know is that just vanished less than 8 hours ago and we're trying to track him down. We think he might be in danger. If you are a friend of his, we could certainly use some help. And as my friend said, we can make the effort worth your while."

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]

He walks back over and sits down. "Alright, you've got an extension. Five minutes. Break it down for me."

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:45pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

"Alright. Thanks for your time...sir. We believe he was kidnapped this morning by a group of female Amerind 'runners known as the Black Cats. We believe they are holding him still. We have footage of them and what we believe is their calling card, either an obsidan knife or a feather wrapped in a leather pouch. He's being held at ransom. We're unsure of the motives surrounding the kidnapping, but we also don't really care. We just want to retrieve him, safe and sound. Where you come in is helping us place where the Black Cats might be. Since you have more intelligence in this sector, my hope was that maybe one of your people has seen one of the Black Cats within the past couple hours. If so, it might narrow down their possible locations of the safehouse were they are holding him. Think you can manage making a couple calls for us?"

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:48pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin looked to Riot, as though to suggest he jump in now, but Riot continued on. Kreskin didn't feel entirely comfortable letting his fate rest in Riot's hands, just now. The guy was a decent talker, but was likely to say too much - he already dropped the B-bomb a bit too early for Kreskin's taste. However, as the conversation went on, Riot seemed to catch the dwarf's attention again, confirm that they're at least acquaintances, and break down the situation pretty well (although Kreskin would have kept a few key details to himself, just a bit longer). He relaxed a little, and decided to let Riot finish out this meet, since it was his lead, and everything, and he seemed to be doing fine.

If he was going to earn his paycheck, though, Kreskin decided he was going to have to insist on doing the talking at one of these meets. Maybe with the Cats.

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:48pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]

"Jesu Christo" he mutters under his breath. "Give me a minute." He gets up and goes through the back door from which he came. The wait seems interminable, as you sit, unsure of what'll come of the situation. Your attention no longer focused, you notice a few bruiser types have come into the room and are situated in the corners, their attention on you, but not moving or otherwise hostile.

After a few minutes, he returns. "One of my guys seen one of these Black Cats. Lena Walks-with-ghosts she goes by. Saw her up at Adams City Park, and those chicas don't tend to get too far apart, y'dig. You'll be looking for a safehouse somewhere near there - I only know of one, a place called DIY storage and lodging."

He inclines his head at the thugs in the corners and they move out of the room. "You guys know that Belenkiy's chipped, right? Broadcast ar-fid. I dunno the freq, but you might be able to use that to at least verify a body."

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:49 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

Upon hearing the dwarf verify Black Cats were currently at a safe house and then giving the location of the safehouse, Riot was extremely relieved. No they weren't out of the woods yet, but they had a location. And now that the Black Cats would be split up at 7:30 for their meeting with us, Riot knew that a swift strike then would improve their chances tremendously. "Wow! You came through for us mister... For your troubles, what can we do for you?"

[J. Packer]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:49 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]

He waves away the credstick. "You just see that he gets back home in one piece, and we'll call it good."

[klinktastic]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:49 pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Riot: PAN = passive | Fake SiN = Jim Smith

"Sounds good," Riot said, pausing to shake the dwarf's hand. "Let's get back to van. I'm going to jump on the commlink right away. You relate the update."

Riot walks briskly out of Marcel's and heads to the van, commanding the doors to open for both Kreskin and Riot. Jumping in the back, he whips out the commlink, jumps into VR and starts the probe again.

[ Spoiler ]

Exploit with Edge, probing in VR...same 14d6 DP as last time -Probably started the hack at 5:50 PM
http://www.catchyourhare.com/diceroller/
pword - Armor

Roll: 5,3,1,3,5,1,6,1,1,1,2,6,6,3,5 = 6 successes
Reroll three 6s: 6,3,5 = 2 successes
Reroll one 6: 5 = 1 success

=total of 9 successes

[BlackHat]

[Saturday April 9th, 2072 | 5:49pm | Denver, Sioux Sector, Marcel's]
Kreskin | PAN = passive | Fake SIN = Cody Demasi

Kreskin nods at the dwarf as he and Riot take their leave, surreptitiously palming his credstick as he did so, since the dwarf wasn't interested.

Back in the van, Kreskin turns to the rest of the team. "You guys aren't gonna believe this." He looks to Riot to give the rundown, but sees he has already left his meat behind. "Well, Riot sang like a canary, but we got a tip on a safehouse the bee-sees might be using. Total drek-shot, but I don't think we have to worry about the mob. Now I guess he's gonna try to break into B's commlink... which I think is a terrible idea, but... every time I advise against something, he does it anyway, and it works out." He shrugged. "So, how do you guys wanna kill the next hour or so? We could swing by the safehouse and do a little recon...."