I told you. I think she's different. Pause That was different... he wouldn't listen to me. Even longer pause You're jealous and not thinking clearly. I am still yours, my love. Stop worrying. Short pause Stop it! I told you I would. I promise. Pause again, then a sigh Fine. After this is taken care of, then. Happy? Another sigh and then footsteps as Smoke re-enters the room.
I'm ready.

Cat heads out through the garage, since that's where Smoke went inside the first time. No checking out pron this time. Now it's time for biz.

She quickly hacks the taxi once it arrives, taking over it's autopliot and clearing it's history, as well as the dispatch's log. Then they take it for a nice ride back to the warehouses.

Do you still have a few spirits on call for this guy?

While she asks, Cat pulls up the mapped route the limo was supposed to be taking to the Sin Bin to see if it's taking the freeway.

ShadowCat

Smoke nods and goes through the list on her hand.
I have a low force Spirit of Air, a higher force Spirit of Water and a powerful Spirit of Fire. I also have the Spirit of Man you saw earlier.

GM Note:

Once the call is finished, Cat waits a minute, then truns a trace on the contacted commlink, while monitoring Calypso's link.

If he's meeting other runners, pro hit men, that means up front pay, and lots of it. Have to watch for a withdrawl.

He just set up a meet at the Inferno with some hitmen, I assume with us as the target. We'll take him before he gets there.

Checks the route to see if he's taking a freeway.

Avoiding the freeway. It looks like hes tryin to lay low. Instead he take an alternate rought that could take....an hour. Its easy to track though

Start running checks on his route, looking for potential road hazards, like truck routes, overpasses, fuel stations, anythnig it would be very bad for a car to run in to.

Smoke looks Cat up and down curiously.

Have you ever eaten dog before?

Just your luck, theres two gas stations across the street from each other, just 4 blocks up. You notice hes accelerating quite a bit.

Huh? Oh, once, why?

Wait, this is perfect, he's headed for a gas station.


While he's accelerating, activate the program in the autopilot to take over the driving, and continue to accelerate, setting an intercept for the gas station pumps. Activate the Black IC, and have hit jump through his commlink in to his trodes and begin attacking him.
It's only a rating III, but since I have Admin control on his commlink, and already copied everything over, just delete all of his programs and OS so that he has nothing to fight back with. He'll probably have to end up destorying his commlink.

Speed up our taxi as well. The plan being to get to the scene of his soon-to-be crash, and get out about a block away, then send the taxi in.

Through you're com, you can tell he attempted to fight back. But soon just resorts to mashing buttons.
On your AR you see the trackin bug on his vehicle vear off into the gas station.
You get there and see the vehicle sitting idle. Gasoline is spraying everywhere. Calypso is still sitting in the driver seat buckled in. Theres blood coming from all different places of his face. He looks wet, as if hes covered in the gasoline. He sees the taxi coming his way and unbuckles his seat belt. He manages to break the glass, and is halfway out of the car when the second car hits. He appears to be unconcious now about 15 feet from the vehicle. Gas is still spraying everywhere.

Trevor looks at his clothes with a disgusted look on his face. How repulsive! I smell like a yak. Trevor waits impatiently for the bus and then takes his seat as close to the back as possible. He waits for his stop and then goes to his apartment. Showering twice, he goes naked to the roof to enjoy the air. He burns the clothes - both the bloody ones and the ones the bum was wearing. A girl staring out the window from the building next door catches his eye and his naked body hers. He smiles and points to his building and then to hers with a question on his face. She waves him over. Looks like this night won't be a total waste after all.

Trevor heads over to her apartment - with his clothes on this time - and is met by a dark skinned elf. She shows him into the tiny apartment and asks if he is hungry. No thanks, I ate earlier tonight.

What occurred next she will remember for a long time as will Trevor.

Cat smiles happily, seeing a well laid plan, and more importantly vengence, unfold beautifully.
She turns to Smoke , still smiling.
Would you care to do the honors dear?

She watches, waiting for the fire elemental to materialize. She begins recording with her glasses, zooming in on Calypso's unconcious form, especaily his face.

She's already calling a new cab.

Alex -

Smoke smiles and nods. She speaks out loud, allowing Cat to hear her commands.
Spirit of Fire, hear my command. Engulf the figure known as Calypso. She envisions his face to aid the spirit Burn him!

As she watches the figure be consumed, Miko calls the number for "Trevor".

Hello, you have reached Trevor. You know the drill.

Cat hacks the commlink without hesitation, forcing it to answer the call, then looking through the camera, keeping the screen blank for the moment.

The fire spirit, shrieks and shrills as it engulf every inch of Calypso in fire. Peirce seems enthuisiastic, even a bit envious of the fire spirit. Calypso screams and rythes in pain as he rolls around in the fire thats now all around him.

The comm now open, Cat can hear moaning and occasional screams in the background. There is little question about what is happening even with a black screen.

If Cat can see the room from the camera, she laughs a bit. If not...

Hey Trevor! We've got some biz to talk. The girl will keep for a second.

It takes some effort, but Trevor manages to get to the comm. This had better be good news!

Ok Karma awarding time
Add these to your Karma pool. I'll do this again at the end of the run.

Smoke
-staying in charactor-2 karma
-Playing out Peirce arguments-1 karma
-Humor to your posts-1 karma
-Awesome Planning-2
-Killing two hit mages- 2 karma
-Killing Calypso- 4 karma
and getting away with it- Priceless
total so far- 12 karma

ShadowCat
-Staying In charactor- 2 karma
-Hitting on the other female charactor-1 karma
-Awesome Planning-2 Karma
-Posting the info in shadowland-1 karma
-Killing Calypso- 4 karma
-and getting away with it- priceless
Total- 10 karma

Trevor
Staying in charactor- 2 karma
Smart playing- 1 karma
Acting out your "addiction" so well-1 karma
Killing a hit mage-1 karma
Total- 5 karma

Nice job everyone. Your all doing a fantastic job. Keep it up.

It is. You should remember me. It was only a few hours ago when we first met. Take a peak at this.

Visual only, Cat feeds him the still ive shot of CAlypso burning. As it plays, she talks.

The job paid 25K each. We had to do it fast, because he was going to talk to another team to his the three of us. So all [i]you need to do, is join in on a little conference call, and allow me to take 10K of it. You get paid 15K for having fun with your girl. Not bad for an hours work, eh?

Trevor smiles and agrees.
Patch me in sweet heart. He smiles again. He'd be even more good looking, but well....you know.

A playful voice from the room says, Come back here, you!

Trevor responds, Just a moment my sweet.

The voice says, Do you want a beer while I'm up?

No thanks, responds Trevor. Now, back to the business at hand. Shall we make our call?

Cat nods and patches everyone in to a quick conference call to the new Johnson.

Holding her commlink, Smoke turns to Cat with a perplexed expression.
So, was the dog good?

Cat can't helped but be slightly amused by Smoke's delayed reaction.

Wasn't the best thing in the world. Little stringy really. Not too bad though.There's a great korean place on fifth. They should be able to help you out.

Smoke nods and turns back to look at her commlink.

The call patches through.
The man your looking at is a bit older. Balding, Human, male, wearing a suit.
ShadowCat, good to see you. I trust all is going well if your calling me?

My love, what should we do with the money? Should we travel? See the world?
Smoke smiles under her cowl, bored with the conference call already and daydreaming.

Cat patches through the live video feed, as well as the recorder fire, starting with Calypso getting out of the gas covered car.

As you can see, Trevor is on the line as well. That will be 7K to each of these accounts, and 25K to this one.

She feeds him three quickly generated number carribean accounts.

First show me some proof that hes dead, and the money is yours. He smiles as he says this.

Smoke sighs, bored with the conversation.
Spirit of Man, find the charred remains of Calypso. Bring some of his ash to me.
She says it loud enough for the man on the other end of the line to hear.

The spirit of man returns with what looks like the remains of his head.
The man on the other line looks impressed.
Very well.
Keys over the money.
You all did splended. Im very pleased. Would you be available for more work sometime? There could be a place here for each of you, if Im impressed again?

I'm strictly freelance. I go where the money goes.

Work perhaps. But you will contact me through normal channels or not at all. I prefer to stay independent. The turn over rate within your organizationg seems ... a bit high.

She says it while looking at the Calypso'ss burning corpse.

The gall of some men... offering us a position within his "organization" moments after we've killed one of his own. No honor among these barbarians.

Smoke
Well, money goes quite well here miss. Theres always more.

Shadow Cat
Well the offer will stand. We're always looking for compitent people such as yourselves. I will contact you for work later on. All of you.

Well, then.. you have my number.

Cat takes the time "listening " to the Johnson yack, actally beginning to funnel the moeny, transfering Trevor his 15K. She shifts it through a number of banks across the world making hacking a trace a very dangerous proposition.

Work is work. I don't believe we're interested in a commitment. Let us know when you have more.

Cat disconnects, and steps in to her new autocab, holding the door for Smoke.

Goin' my way?

Trevor smiles, rolls over, and grins from ear to ear as the elf comes back in the room.

Smoke nods. Anywhere is better then here. Smoke walks out of the house without looking back, a small silk duffle bag over one shoulder.

Cat climbs in to the cab with Smoke, setting the destiantion for a few blocks away from "Smoke's house." She smiles to Trevor.
I think we'll be in touch. It's good to meet a practical man from time to time. She forwards him her number and disconnects.

Once they're dropped off a few blocks away, Cat sets in a new destination, and wipes the cabs memory, then heads back to "Smokes" porn filled garage.

I think now I really am ready for that bed you mentioned. Retribution apparently really takes it out of me.

Finding a place to crash, Cat first summons a trio of watchers and a scout spirit force 5 to guard her while she sleeps, then crashes.

Assuming she awakes in the morning:
Cat catches a shower first thing, then some soy cafe, and logs in to work via link up with her home comp, and gets a bit of work in. She only needs three hours of sleep, so Smoke should still be asleep for a while.

After a while, she uploads the recording of Calypso's "crash" sans some of the gry details. Just the highlights really. She posts it on Shadowland as an addendum to her last post, intending it as a reminder to other Johnsons. She doesn't "sign" it, so it's up to each person to decide just who did the recording.

It quickly get some responses. Your humored by all the fire and grilled jokes, until one comment catches your eye.

Hey, does anyone else see that guy in the back, or am I just freakin out?
-HandsomeAsh-
2:12 am March 12 2070

Cat looks at what "guy in the back" he's talking about.

Roll perception.+ any other skill or power that increases your chances of noticing things.
-1 for quality of the screen. (not bad qaulity. Just Pixelated. Kind hard to see details.)

Cat starts looking at an online catalog for a new bike, prefering a really fast one, and an option for a gyrostabilizer so that she can have the bike drive it's self if needed.

She also starts looking at writing some code for some Black IC of her own.

What you see on the screen was exactly as HandsomeAsh had said. there was infact something standing behind the flames. But due to the smoke and fire, all you can make out is a silluette of a man.

Cat saves the image, then moves on to more interestng things.

After doing some owk in the early morning , she decides not to over stay her welcome. She writes a qucik text message, leaving it up on the house's AR so that Smoke won't miss it. Knowing that she isn't eactly a technological wonder, she keeps it displayed at the foot of the stairs, where she's sure not to miss it.

Thanks for the spot to crash. I won't over stay my welcome, I an understand needing you're personal space. Give me a call in a couple of days when you have some time to get out. I'll leave my comm number attached to this AR message.

I'll see if I can find the two of us some more work, I think we make a good team. Keep in touch.
~Shadowcat

That finished, she leaves via a taxi, using a few watchers to make sure she isn't followed. Next she hits the ACHE mall, giving her self some time to get lost in a crowd. She ins't 100% sure someone isn't following her, and a busy, multilevel, multi-entrance shopping mall is the easiest place to lose a tail, physical or astral. She keeps her comm in private mode.

While at the mall, she stops in at a Novatech shop, picking up a few pieces of hardware for her 'link, intending to change out some parts so that it isn't recognizable as the same commlink on the matrix. She also runs her scanner over her self, even checking all of her clothing and hair thoroughly for hidden steal tags in one of the bathrooms. Once satisfied, she goes to work on the link. If they found her commlink even after she changed the number, it must be the hardware it's self they were tracking down.

She buys a small tool kit, then finds one of the geek PRG/computer LAN shops to drop in to for a few hours while she changes her parts out, then changes her number again. Once it's finished wiping awa all the old traces, she makes a connection to Shadowland, setting up a user account, making it her message drop box. Nice and anonymous. She then forwards the information to Smoke's house, changing her old number out for the Shadowland box.

After a good four hours at the mall, Cat's finished and decided that it would be a good time to get some work done. She catches the monorail to a downtown station, then catches a cab home. She gets settled at home, putting her gear away, and making her self comfortable. She goes through a few katas to get the stress out, then gets to work on her "real job".

After words, she goes shopping for her new bike.

Late during the night - or early that morning - Trevor wakes up and decides that it is time for him to leave. He uses his mist form to slide out from under the covers and moves out the elf's window and back to his apartment roof. A few quick taps on his comm and he is back into the building. That was most satisfying. What else is there for me to do? Ah, yes. I was going to look up someone who can teach me a clean spell. He thumbs through his comm and looks for a suitable contact. I haven't spoken to Happy in a while...

As is always the case, Happy, does not answer his comm. Hello there Happy. Looking for someone to teach me a clean spell. Also curious what is crawling around now-a-days.

Trevor can't help himself and adds, Say, "hi", to Doc for me.