Salted Wounds [IC], a Deep Black Sea game Options

[Jack_Spade]

"Always..."
Splitterbruch turned out to be a perfectly decent companion, with just the right balance of aggression, passion and attention.

The next morning began late for most of the team. Breakfast turned out to be an amazing selection of cold cuts, real butter, freshly baked bread, confiture as well as eggs and lots of hot soycaf.

[Gilga]

Anna wakes up a bit early and sneaks out of Splitterbruch's apartment leaving him her card in case he stays around. She showers and returns to sleep, only to arrive at breakfast late morning. She packs her plate and eyes the seating area looking for a familiar face.

[SquirrelDude]

Christoph got up relatively early. He wasn't eager to start his routine, but it was the time that he was least likely to run into onlookers. He threw on a stringer and his sweatpants before Sharkboy headed down to the gym by the Sauna with a towel to do a few miles on whatever machine was available.

When breakfast was called, Sharkboy made his way back through the wardrobe and directly towards the food with sweat still dripping off his purple hair. Covering his plate with cold cuts and eggs with a couple pieces of bread and butter, he passed on the coffee and took a couple bottles of water along with his plate quietly back to his room.

[Volker]

When bnc stumbles into the breakfast room, she looks both drained and regenerated. The complete shutdown and a good night's sleep under the influence of Zen somewhat restored her. Still, the night left traces. Her head aches and her belly cramps (she hasn't eaten in ages), there are dark rings under her eyes and she walks somewhat awkwardly. Still, there's a smile on her face as she takes a soycaf, a bit of muesli (if they have any) and even a slice of bread, butter and fat-reduced ham and joins Anna in her breakfast.
She raises an eyebrow and asks in a dry tone: "Whom did you get laid? I can see it in that stupid grin you only wear after having had a good dick or two."

[Luckace]

Showing up in casual clothing at the breakfast room, Wraith looks a bit different than the day before:
He had finally had an opportunity to shower off the blonde dye he used to disguise his hair with at the BMW-museum, and his real hair turned out to be mouse-brown and as "status quo" as it gets. Without his armor jacket or lined coat, he looked pretty small and appeared to be quite slender.

Despite the night of rest, his eyes look tired and he moves slowly as if some part of him was latently aching - comparable to people with migraine, perhaps. He doesn't seem to be inconvenienced by that, though, and is apparently in a good mood.
He greets the team with a "Morning, fellas.", and slowly and a bit stiffly walks to the soycaf machine. He's obviously hungry, and apart from three soycafs he also devours a large pile of fried eggs and several bread rolls.

[Volker]

bnc grins, when she sees Wraith, and shakes her head.
"What a freakshow we are. Give us a day off, and all that's left of us is two cripples that can barely walk, a boy who runs about in a superhero costume and a slitch.", bnc mutters under her breath.

[Thanee]

"Did any of you actually sleep tonight?"

Nova joined the breakfast fairly late, coming fresh out of the shower. She had been up early and outside for some training rounds, light running and some exercises. Her blonde hair was only half-dry, but unlike most of her team-mates she looked like she actually got some good rest during the night. For once not wearing trés chic business attire or combat gear, she was dressed in washed-out jeans, sneakers, and a black long-sleeve t-shirt with black gloves covering her hands. Apart from those she simply looked perfectly normal, and even then, AR gloves were not such an unusual sight.

She fetched herself a cup of coffee and a small plate of food for breakfast, not a whole lot, but then again, her body had considerably fewer muscles to feed.

[Gilga]

Anna responds with a silly smile "Wraith of course... You know that I am attracted to mages. A difficult name to scream tough. Mine is much easier."

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con: 10d6t5 3

Anna responds to Nova "I slept like a baby", and she did. She enjoys breakfast, but don't overdo it as she plans to go to the gym after breakfast.

[SquirrelDude]

Christoph took his breakfast in his room, figuring this would be one of his last times in a while that he'd get to be out from under the mask. He sent the team a quick text, realizing he should have said something before dipping into the room again.

@team>> I'm going to finish breakfast, take a quick shower so I don't stink up the place, and then we should talk about what we do from here.<<

[Luckace]

It takes Wraith a moment to jump onto the train, and for a second he just stares surprisedly at Anna with his mouth full of fried eggs.
He then shrugs guiltily as if found-out and murmurs "Coulb'v simply gagged you...", before changing subjects.
" So... Any news from the Christkind when we get our presents? Or... Santa, I guess.", and he points his fork unsurely at Nova and Anna.
"Looking forward to not being the only biker in the gang."

@team:
<<Aye. Let's see if they have a secluded room or so where we can talk freely.>>

[Jack_Spade]

It turned out that each of their rooms was large enough to house their impromptu strategy meeting.

[Volker]

bnc's eyes grow wide. She opens her mouth as if to say something, but then just sets to smiling and lazily joins the conversation.
After the breakfast, she excuses herself and takes a shower.

<@team<my rooms a mess maybe some1 kept it tidy?>>

[Gilga]

Anna enjoys breakfast and is in a good mood. After breakfast, she passes by the reception and asks "Do you have some gym, or a treadmill and some weights?"

She texts back >> we can meet at my room, no problem. Just give me a few minutes to tidy up.

Afterward, she'll arrive at the room and stash her personal belongings, pick up the dirty clothes she left on the floor when she showered and re-set the bed. She'll need about five minutes to get the room to a vanilla state.

[Volker]

Freshly showered, bnc stretches and bends a bit, then puts on some comfortable jogging clothes (with which she doesn't intent to jog at all). She looks into the mirror and sees a wreck. Sighing, she shortly considers putting on some make-up, but then dismisses the idea, and walks over to Anna's room.
She looks around, then her eyes dart to the big bed in the middle of the room.

"Is this where...?"

[Gilga]

Anna replies "Do I look like a noob? We did it in his room so that I can leave when I want to.

[Luckace]

Wraith takes his time to finish his third cup of hot soycaf, then returns to his own room for a few moments. He arrives at Anna's room shortly after bnc.

[SquirrelDude]

Christoph promised quick shower, but it takes a little while as he prepares himself to get back under the mask for a while. He cleaned his mask again, combed his hair, and went out to get into his suit before realizing it was still downstairs being cleaned. He settled for another tank top with some athletic shorts and a blue windbreaker jacket before knocking on the door to Anna's room.

[Gilga]

Anna arranges the smal couch and chair around the bed, and then seats on the bed. "So, what are we talking about?" she asks.

[SquirrelDude]

Sharkboy had asked for this conversation, so he started off.

"So we think we know where BeanSi is, but we don't know where she is. We think we've eliminated the Crusaders, but we still have another group chasing her. The wizard that hired Auto-shotty and Magic-Axe is unaccounted for. It's probably safe to assume that once we start looking we're going be watched.

"The last two times we tracked down a lead, we got into some unpleasant fights from people who were already watching those locations. They're probably going to be there this time too, especially if we make waves and let people know were prowling around there. How do we try and find our target without alerting everyone that we know where she is?"

[Gilga]

Anna looks at bnc and asks "Shouldn't Kynos be somewhere in Germany? Perhaps we can hire him to do some recon."
She thinks to herself or "Splinterbruch, providing he is not too hot to get out of this place. Otherwise, he is certainly hot enough for me though... what a night."

[Thanee]

Nova was still dressed in her casual attire, same as during the breakfast.

"Didn't Abdecker mention the carnival? But I guess that won't happen until it gets closer to the date of the hit. The main question is, can we find her before that date? If she is in Salzburg already, what will she be doing there in terms of preparations? She likely has all the equipment she needs, since Abdecker provided her with some items before she left. According to what he said, she is not going in there silently. An assortment of weapons and a few kilos of plastic explosives. So, she is likely just waiting for the day to arrive. She might be monitoring the place in the Steingasse, though. Maybe that way we could get her attention somehow?"

[Gilga]

"We may have enough of an impression of her to search for her with a spirit. She may be not very far from the location she intends to attack. I am uncertain how other factions should know where and when to look for her, but perhaps they would. This is a very specific hint form a person she trusts. I think that the most risk to her right now is we expose her simply by going there. We pissed off many people and are likely to draw attention.

[SquirrelDude]

Sharkboy brought his hands up to his face, making his best hand steeple to appear thoughtful. "The spirit idea is on the right track, but we don't exactly have time to search the city block by block. It would help if we knew some places she might go or was at least familiar with."

Sharkboy looked over at bnc, "If you have some ideas, maybe you and Wraith can start there. You have the best chance of getting a word in before your sister sees more mercs and fights or flights. Nova and I are pretty easy to identify, so maybe we go kick up some trouble elsewhere to keep eyes off of you."

[Thanee]

Nova did not quite agree with that. "You surely have something distinctive about you, especially with that mask. I can be fairly inconspicuous, however, if needed. I mean, sure, if someone uses a cyberware or MAD scanner, or that special magic gaze, but apart from that, I don't think my appearance would raise any eyebrows in a normal place."

To underline her remark, she swirled around in her "girl next door" casual look ending her little pirouette with a nice flourish, which seemed rather effortless on her part, thanks to some pretty extensive training in dance.

[SquirrelDude]

Sharkboy's mask hid what his eyes were tracking during that pirouette. "I was assuming that whatever outfit you decided on, a big gun would be the accessory to bring it all together."