IC: Chasing the Prize, We always get our mark Options

[HMHVV Hunter]

"The money? From where?" Helios asks, confused.

[Tanka]

"Yeah. Where'd it come from so fast, eh? I don't wanna be owin' no loanshark my liver or summin'... I still need that."

[Ecclesiastes]

"Tak recommended him to me. We need to cash, the loan is to me, I'll take responcibility."

[Tanka]

"Well, 's'long as they don't think takin' out of yer group is a good form o' payment... 'Ey, it's yer life, eh?

"So, where's it at? Wired to yer account? Needing to be," Charlie coughs, "picked up on the 'Trix?"

[Bastard]

"I will roll with you, Bishop." JT starts for the door, ready to get the money and continue the mission.

[HeySparky]

Edana zones out, getting some rest in the gray spaces between real sleep and wakefulness. She pauses the boys before they open the door, "We're all agreed. Expedience over expense?"

"I'll call Townsend then, set up contact with the pilot and work out his particulars."

[Ecclesiastes]

Bishop gives JT a nod and moves outside to his Brumby to go pick up the package.

[BishopMcQ]

Bishop/JT:
You pull out of the driveway and head for Tacoma. Experience on the LoneStar force, taught JT that the bakery you are stopping at has always been a Mafia-controlled establishment--these activities just confirm it. With your bag of canollis and a pocket full of cred, you carefully leave the dock area and take the long trek back to the quasi-rural area surrounding Edana's apartment.

Edana:
Making contact with Townsend, you get handed over to his pilot. He gives you an address to begin a fifteen mile hike through the OU, with guide, you are going to get smuggled out bodily through a weak point in the blockade and then your plane will run the border. You can bring whatever cargo you can carry with you on your hike.

[BishopMcQ]

Time passes while you hammer out the final decisions on how you are going to get out of the city. Meanwhile in the Bellevue Lonestar Station, deals are struck. Tiny is released and after a brief telephone conversation arrives at the house.

The team, united again, now only faces the hurdles of a chase, with their quarry 2000 miles away at last report.

[HMHVV Hunter]

Helios grabs whatever snack food he can stuff in his pockets and a large (1 liter) bottle of water before walking out and beginning the hike.

[Ecclesiastes]

Bishop parks the brumby and motions towards the eatery. "Its waiting inside with a dozen canollis. Lets go."

He steps out, waits for JT to join him, then walks inside to pick up the funds.

[HeySparky]

As the troll enters her crowded apartment, Edana grabs Tiny and hauls his face down, drawing a balled fist on his forhead with smelly, blue paint. It tingles.

Her eyes go distant as she assenses the big man's aura.

"All clear." She grimaces. "At least, I think so." Before she lets go of his ear Edana peers pointedly into Tiny's eyes, "You've got some explaining to do, mister." She smiles to soften the rebuke.

"Who's ready to go and who needs to round up gear?"

[HMHVV Hunter]

"I gotta get my stuff," Helios says.

[BishopMcQ]

::Elsewhere::
The hunt had been satisfying. Pushing his black hair out of his face, the hunter sat down and tapped away a message to the collection agency.

Target boxed and wrapped, waiting on postage.

Unwrapping the morning newspaper, he skimmed the headlines while moving thorugh the kitchen with the adopted half-awareness of knowing a place like the back of your hand. He sets the paper down on the counter to pull out a bowl, milk and cereal but keeps reading the article. VITAS OUTBREAK IN SEATTLE, Plague unleashed by anonymous terrorists. Finishing his breakfast with an unsettled feeling in his gut, he lifts up his latest bounty and takes her to the authorities so he can be paid.

Money in his pocket, he is exiting the subway and sees a taxi drive by. An event that happens a thousand times every day, but still he tries to look and see each passenger. This one he recognizes, Lucien Ballefour, wanted in Seattle. Not able to catch up to the taxi, he jots down the number to track its fare. Returning home he does a matrix search within the hunting and shadier boards, scouring the digital realms for information.

>>>>> SEATTLE VITAS OUTBREAK <<<<<
>>>>> 16 December 2063 <<<<<
We believe the man responsible is Lucien Ballefour,

This was the link he needed. Now all he had to do was contact the team, track the cab and for a fair exchange of information he was sure he could pick up on this hunt.

Edana:
A chirping comes from the counter where you set your p-sec down during the ritual. Referencing your e-mail a new message is there, "Drop me a line if you're looking for a lead on the mad doctor, you know the one who ran away to NY."

[toturi]

Grave:

"Gotta get back to get a few things. I need an hour. Where will I rendevous with you?"

Getting back to his place, he sends a message to Colonel Hodges,"Logistic support not necessary at present time. Hoo-yah, sir." Picking up several pieces of apparel more suitable for a civilised setting, he folds each neatly and places them in his backpack. He proceeds to breakdown his G38 into its component parts and places them into the briefcase that the manufacturers provided.

"Going somewhere, sir?"

"Yes, corporal. We have a situation here."

"Give 'em hell, sir. Rangers lead the way!"

"All the way!"

There was an unwanted houseguest in Grave's place. A spectre of a US Ranger. He fell asleep on guard duty after several days of missions when a surprise NAN attack struck the base. The spectre was overcome with guilt and couldn't die in peace. Normally the spectre was hostile to anyone entering the house (which was build over the guardshack where the Ranger died) which was why nobody wanted to live there, but officer bars on the shoulder, ranger tab on the arm, a Medal of Honour and most importantly the brass balls that only a Spec War operator could have was sufficient to convince the belligerent ghost to stand down.

[Johnson]

Tiny looks at Edana. "I thought it would be an easy job. But somehow it felt they where waiting for me. Well you still have my bag with my kit for me." Retreaving his Kit Tiny listens to the debriefing of what has happened during his apsense.

"Ok, so what is the next plan of action?"

[HeySparky]

Edana cocks her head at the big guy, "What job? Weren't you just nosing -- what happenend?" She sees the blinking message light on her P-Sec and forestalls any answer Tiny might have for her with a hand.

"Hey! Check this out. We have a lead on Ballefour in New York!" The cloudy patterns under her skin flow and wheel and energy crackles across her eyes.

She shows the message to the others, linking a call through the others who've gone off to get their gear. "Well, I don't want to go half-cocked and reply to this. What do you guys think? It could be a buddy of Ballefour's or Ballefour himself trying to put us off or see how much we know."

She shrugs, "Though I guess they wouldn't be telling us that he'd made it to New York, especially if they don't know what we know." She shakes her head. Ugh.

"Guess it couldn't hurt to see what they have to say."

She waits for responses and taps a message to Townsend.

>>>>> [Townsend - Thanks for introducing us to your buddy. Start thinking about what sort of dinner you'd like me to cook up for you when I get back. Whatever you want. Think your buddy'd like to come?] <<<<<
--- Sturmdottir [15:20:45/16-DEC2063]

[Kremlin KOA]

"Edana, I am ready to go, hence the bags I threw into your trunk." Gonzales shrugged and looked around This is the part I hate, the adrenaline is high, but we got no way to relieve it...

[Bastard]

"Hey Bish...you mind swinging by my place to pick up Kane and my gear?"

[Johnson]

Tiny looks up at the team. "I am as ready as can be. I am ready to roll when ever you ready."

[Ecclesiastes]

Its takes Bishop a few seconds to realize that JT is talking to him, "Oh, sure, no problem."

He follows JTs directions to his place, then heads over and makes a pit stop at his own apartment to grab his gear.

Several minutes later they are back at Edana's place, ready to go.

[HMHVV Hunter]

"I need a ride back to my place too," Helios says.

[Bastard]

After arriving back at Edena's it looks like almost everyone is ready to go. Kane well rested darts in the door ahead of JT and makes his rounds.

"Okay everyone, lets roll. We can pick up everyone's gear on the way. Do we want to call a Skyvan or Taxi van? Or do you have someone that can pick up your trucks at the drop off point?"

[Ecclesiastes]

"Well, if on the trip back we'll be dropped off at the same point, I can just leave my ride there so we'll have something to take back home."

[HeySparky]

Edana plays mental people tetris with the crew and the two brumbys.

She shakes her head, "Not sure we can get everyone, not with eight folks, a dog and gear for everyone. Let's go find out and Gonzales, can you have a call to the air-taxi ready to go if we can't fit everyone in?"

She taps a message to the New York lead.
>>>>> [Consider the line dropped. What have you got? And what do you want for the info?] <<<<<
--- Sturmdottir [15:45:22/16-DEC2063]