20:50:03 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
China Doll

Back in focus at the Y, China Doll takes in the discussion. Absently she reaches up over head and stabs down a pair of chopsticks into the container between JAX's legs, fishing out a piece of spicy pork. Leaning her head back she drops it into her mouth, then resettling herself comfortably she scans the room once, before flipping back into VR, all the while chewing with a quiet contented hum.

Why is it warm here? Must be the food.

<<Replay Tactical 20:00 through 20:20 Area Stuffer Shack X 30 Speed>>

A blur of green dots race around the Stuffer Shack wire frame building.

<<Aziz, JJ, Felix, Raven, Neo, Cammy, ToyRobot, Cammy>>

<<Crash410: China Doll\\ Aziz, JJ, Felix, Raven, Neo, Cammy, ToyRobot, Cammy, I need your Commlinks, or full access. I'll try and set up a new set of commcodes. This way at least your data trails from this evening won't match the logs the Star pulled off of the Stuffer Shack. If I have trouble doing it with my software I may need to crack the case, but I'll try codeslinging first.

China Doll\\BronzeWyrm, Electrode, do either of you have the code to help with this? Might be better off if we can work together on spoofing commlinks.>>

Her head bobbing forward again, China Doll, licks the remaining sauce off of her chopstick. "Aziz, JJ, Felix, Raven, Neo, Cammy, ToyRobot, Cammy, I need to work on your commlinks. And JAX if the program doesn't work, I'll need to go to the garage and crack the cases with some of the tools there. And I have some gear stashed there that may be useful." Reaching over her head again, arching back to gain some extension, China Doll probes the box again, expertly feeling around for another piece of pork. Snatching it expertly in her chopsticks she holds it aloft in front of JAX , "Last one, better take it."

A moment later she settles down comfortably again, leaning her head back, "Checking all the matrix feeds."

<<Suddenly in the street, smelling the cool pavement and wet rain, in the distance is the light of the Stuffer shack, and the current consequences of earlier events. After an initial scan of the area, and not noticing anything unusual, China Doll scans the last ten minutes of sensor readings at high speed.>>

Let's check the other feeds.

20:51:35 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ

Her head suddenly bobbing forward, "Hey, could you pick up a couple hits of Bliss for me?"

20:51:30 Saturday, April 12 2070
Inside Gang HQ
Halo

Halo turns her head towards JAX and China Doll when CD asks for bliss. She shoots her a quick message incase she heads back into her virtual headspace.
<<Halo@CD: If we can't score anything new, I got you covered, chica.>>

20:50:10 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

Wyrm thinks on ChinaDoll's request.
[20:50:10] C410: BronzeWyrm "Could try to copy/paste the commcodes from those Ork links, that would give 3. Easy would be to swap codes among the gang. Else we might have to dig through the networks for new ID's and cook up some chips."

20:53:00 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Auran

After a couple minutes more discussion about how we'll insure ourselves, Auran gathers everyone's attentions that's available, and asks Bronze or Electrode to patch her through to everyone else. Once she knows everyone is listening, she begins, "OK, we got a basic outline of how we're keeping this thing. We're keeping the real one and two decoys here in the HQ. If we are found and war is indeed upon us. We will protect these very walls that we've grown to call home." Her voice turns into a slightly Irish accented voice of passion, though she quickly adds in her regular voice, "Try not to shoot out our security sensors or the trid." Her voice goes back into a more serious mode as she states, "If on that day, we're getting smashed by these troggs, then we split. We split as teams, each with a decoy, and try to divide and conquer these fraggers, and hit and run them on our home turf. Here are the teams! Listen up!"
"First group - ChinaDoll, Felix, JJ, Aziz, Jax, Steel, 0day. Get together I want you guys to protect the real deal.
Second Group - Halo, TaoFighter, BronzeWyrm, Nurse, Shade, Cammy, and Me that is, if Nurse is up to this, we could use your help, girl.
Third - Raven, Electrode, Thyn, Toy, Neo, 2by4, Knives, and Slam! You guys got the toughest job. You're the first box out the building, you guys get the job of grabbing the heat, and holding it."
"If we split up those are the groups. Each team splits on our own, and each team must form up their own rendezvous point to meet up with the guys not in the HQ. I want at least three people from each group to be here at all times. So, they can grab their box. Work that out amongst yourselves, and where you'll meet up if worst comes to worst."
"If you hadn't heard, some of us are getting coked up and taking these three days to binge for a reason. Hahahaha! So we're going on a run to get some coke, if you need anything to help you bunker down or whatever, let us know fast."

Auran puts on her smile, and asks, "Everyone got it?"

21:06:21 Saturday, April 12 2070
On the roof of Gang HQ
Felix

Hearing the sounds of footsteps behind him, Felix nervously snapped his head around. Wyrm. His focus had been such that he hadn't even noticed her. Watching her walk toward him, he started to wonder how long she had been standing there, watching him.

As she sat down behind him, Felix felt a mild knot of uneasiness tie itself in his stomach. She smiled at him... and he felt himself blush. Felix, like always, decided to crawl a bit back into his own bubble; moved by his will alone, the hood of his sweater stretched itself back, went up and came to a gentle rest on his head, slightly hiding his profile.

When she handed him a cold beer, he utter a shy and soft "Thanks...". Taking it, the cap of the bottle undid itself, floated off to his side and came to a rest on the edge of the roof. Felix wasn't particularly lazy, but having been able to manipulate things with his mind from a rather young age, he had simply grown acustomed to doing it... without really thinking about it.

Felix just sat next to BronzeWyrm, slowly drinking his beer in silence. althought he spent most of the time gazing over the city under their feet, he would throw little side looks at the girl from time to time... but only when he was sure she wasn't looking.

"You really beefed up your persona this night cycle, think you left an impression." she said.

Once again uncomfortable, mostly because his crude behavior of that moment, Felix rubbed almost painfully the back of his neck.

"Well.....I..... I'm not too sure it was a very wise thing to do.... I was stupid.... I didn't think..."

His shoulders lumped down.

"They probably all think I'm a loser now..." he looked up at Wyrm, avoiding her eyes "thanks for coming up here... It's much more fun than talking to myself..."

20:52:00 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Aziz

Aziz thinks for moment.

"Actually, if this is going to be a three day commitment...", he says, putting the bag of 'coke back into his bag, and produces an autoinjecter of Long Haul. He sticks it against his neck, and presses the button, and Aziz winces slightly as the injector hisses, firing the drugs into his bloodstream. He unsnaps his commlink from around his wrist and tosses it to CD.

As Auran makes her speech, Aziz nods.

"I don't recall making you the leader, but thats a good plan. Where are we keeping the real one?"

20:54:03 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Halo

Halo listened to Auran's plan and nodded. She was glad she'd have Auran on her side if the shit went down, as well as the others.

"Got it. Should be an interesting 3 days." She says, not entirely there in her comment. Mentally she's already visualizing insane twisting and turning routes they could take out of the Y and places they could meet up both in and out of their turf and even Puyallup if they had to split with their decoy out of the Y.

"So girlie, you wanna rally our group, put our heads together and figure out who's staying here when and where our rendezvous spot will be whe...if the shit hits the fan? Plus, I'm putting dibs in to not be tied to the Y for as much of my birthday as possible, I want furlough damnit!" She grins and winks at Auran

Up until 20:54:47 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Rattleheads


After thair stratching, the Rattleheads had repeated Jun´s story two more times, with changing roles. Then Pumpkin had mimiced BronzeWyrm, by holding Peanut in place with it´s lags, while Bean knealed before them, randomly taping Peanut whith it´s hand.

They had been sitting around for a while, looking rather bored, occasionally exchanging a soft rattle, when Auran anounced the plan, the discussion had sattled on, and refined the details.
Bean hat jumped up and demanded his companions attention, nothing had hapened, so he quietly took place again.

20:56:13 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter


As Nurse finishes her extended medical care on TF, she starts to berate him on numerous dos and don´ts, befor he finaly releases him, for the moment.

Tao turns around to her, cautious, not to rip the cable out of her jack. He watches her for a second, as she´s puting away the medkit supplies, absendmindedly. When he´s got her attention for a moment, he gives her a soft hug. Feeling awkward at first, he gets comfortable and relaxed with it after in a heartbeat.

[20:56:19] TF: <<Domo arigato Moe-chan. Think it through, whatever you decide, you´ll have my back! Jun´s right ..>>

He thinks, as he takes in a deep breath, his face in her hair. .. she smell´s good.

He releases her, not knowing, what to do or say, for a moment. Than they disconect and he starts picking up his gear again. His head feels empty.

21:06:31 Saturday, April 12 2070
On the roof of Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

Wyrm sips at her beer. Wow this is pretty high off the ground. Distances weren't really relevant in cyberspace, there's no gravity. She'd never thought about whether she was afraid of heights before or not, she dismissed the thought for now - not a good time to ponder on it.
She gives Felix a smile. "I remember a line in a datafile: 'Courage is knowing when to stand for what you believe in.', I scan that sums up your upload tonight. Stupidity would be not closing your statement when you see the warning message." she finishes off in a teasing tone. "I project the gang's compiling a little more respect on your persona file."
She looks thoughtful, watching the night sky. "Thought before action, but never sacrifice your beliefs." she takes a breath. "A good buddy icon once told me that, even when he stood before Deus, he didn't back down." Her eyes water, bordering on tears, but she blinks them away as she pushing the memory asside, taking a swig of her beer she leans back. "I used to be Otaku you know..." announcing the statement to the night sky, looking out towards the horizon. "I used to be strong... though I've found a different bandwidth, my icon isn't as bright as it was... before the void surrounded me..." She looks at Felix once more. "it's taken me 5 years to recover my code, and it still has bits missing." she shifts her weight leaning towards him beer pointing at his chest, in a low serious voice she fixes him with her eyes "You processed some major code conflicts this cycle, now can you push through the lag, and keep your processors running?"

20:54:18 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
JJ

After listening to Auran lay out the plan, JJ nods and gives her a thumbs up and a wink. He goes back to rolling another joint from his deepweed bag. When finished he puts it in his jacket pocket with the fastly depleting bag.

He stands up and asks, "So, who's going on the nova run, who's pitchin' in, and are we ready to roll?"

He eyes Aziz and then looks at where JAX and China Doll are sitting. "You three want to hash out our part of the plan and fill me in when I get back?"

He grabs his jacket slings it on, pats himself down and exclaims, "Shit! Wait a sec. I need to mod my link." He chuckles, "If I hose it up, I'll just use one of those." He nods to the three commlinks on the coffee table.

"Where's a screwdriver round here?" he asks to no one in particular as he walks out of the lounge and in to the kitchen. The sound of drawers opening and closing can be heard and then another exclamation, "Bingo!"

20:54:25 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Halo

"I'm in! I can front some cash too. I think. Or shit, if no one's against it, why don't we use the cash from the fucking Stuffer?" She walks over to the couch and bends over to grab her jacket, shrugging it on as she heads over to where JJ starts fucking with his commlink.

"I just gotta run across the street to pick up my bike. Who's walking over to "protect" me from the boogieman and the 'Star?" She tosses her head back and laughs richly, her blonde ponytail swaying from side to side down her back as she shakes her head.

"You know 'bro, you break it you buy it." She nods towards the commlink that JJ was just starting to open up.

[colot=cyan]20:54:25 Saturday, April 12 2070[/color]
Gang HQ
Auran

Auran makes sure everyone is cool with it, before looking at all the listeners in their eye, looking for any concerns or laments unvoiced. She figures everything is fine once Halo starts rallying her group together.

"If you couldn't figure my plan out, well, I'm gonna stay on duty as long as I can for these 3 days, well after our little trip downtown or wherever." Auran decides to stand up and strecth after eating her meal, smoking her cigarette, and getting her "work" done. She decides to spark up the blunt she had rolled earlier, but saved for after the discussion.

After hitting the blunt quite a few times, she sits back in her own world, thinking extraneous thoughts that kept popping into her head. Coke run, box. Coke run, box. Coke run.... box.... soycaff we got.... This might be dull.... I'll buy a cosmo with some cool sex quizzes or something!

As JJ asks if the coke run party was ready, Auran stands up. "I was born ready, son!" She poses sexily as she streches her body out, deliberately letting her jacket lift up, and teasingly raise her top off her stomach a bit.

21:07:43 Saturday, April 12 2070
On the roof of Gang HQ
Felix

While BronzeWyrm spoke, Felix simply sat next to her, quietly listening and discreetly looking at her. Since she had joined the gang, he had had rather little interaction with the technomancer. Usually, they just didn't gravitate towards the same circle. Which, now that he thought of it, was a pretty strange thing. In a way, they were very much alike. They were both born with a gift, or a curse, depending on how you looked at it. They were both "freaks of nature", and a minority, not just amongst the 410 Crash, but just in life.

Felix was rather surprised that the young eleven technomancer opened up to him like that, but he took it as a compliment. Maybe Wyrm knew that he wouldn't ever repeat it to anyone.

Slowly, the young mage started to forget his usual uneasiness. Being close to other people, especially girls, always made him even more shy than he usually was. When Wyrm leaned toward him, he felt his whole body tense up, and leaned a bit backward to keep a certain distance. He wasn't afraid of Wyrm... just unsure on how to deal with her... what to say... what to do...

When her green eyes locked on his, Felix simply couldn't look in them, and lowered them to the street below.

With a little nervous laugh, he bit the lower corner of his lips.

"Well... I.... I think my.... processors are fine"

As much as he tried to keep up with the netspeak lingo, Felix sometimes felt a bit lost. He wasn't totaly sure what Wyrm was talking about, but he was pretty sure that answering negatively would have made him look bad. Hopefully, she wouldn't catch that...

20:56:15 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Nurse

Nurse appreciates and accepts TF's offer that she use his medkit instead of hers.

When he begins 'exploring' her face, she patiently waits, since she has been taking his cues so far she sees no reason to stop at this moment.
He plugs in the cable and begins his conversation. The fading quality means Nurse has to really concentrate on what

Tao is saying and her head begins to hurt with the effort.

Once he goes quiet she is silently thankful and uses the opportunity to properly check on his injuries and sort out the best possible treatment to help him heal faster.

For now she does what she can for him with the contents of the medkits, making a note, in the file storage area of her PAN, to herself of additional meds she can obtain from her Dad's clinic to use tomorrow or after school Monday.

Nurse resorts the two medkits, keeping in mind she can get replenishment materials from her Dad's clinic when she gets home again, then smiles softly to Tao while mulling over his words. She is uncertain how to answer him, since
she already knows she is either 'in' or marked already. She has already seen and heard too much for it to be otherwise.

She still doesn't know what to say to him, but she returns the hugs gently and almost looks a bit sad when he removes the cable from her datajack.

Before the two leave this room Nurse voices aloud to TF, "I am going to have to be absent for part of this. I want to get some additional meds for you from my Dad's clinic, and like Wyrm, I've got classes Monday and Tuesday, though I'll be here each evening for a few hours." She gets the feeling TF isn't going to be pleased to be hearing that she intends to return, but neither is she going to stay away any longer than she has to while she is needed here.

21:07:55 Saturday, April 12 2070
On the roof of Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

Ok, don't push him too hard...
Wyrm looks down at her beer. "Sorry. I'm pushing your processors too hard. Seeing a derez on line, and seeing it in the Real is a completely different program set". She takes a sip from her beer. "I was a young sprite the first time I scanned someone going offline." looking up to Felix "It either hardens your code or shatters your icon, I just needed to know you were still online, we'll need you for this." She pauses for a second. "I don't want to lose another friend."
She forced last statement through in straight speak, of all that she's said, this message she wanted to be clear.

She couldn't understand why he mattered so much to her, he was just a boy among the others in the gang, wasn't he? But she always felt some sort of connection with him.. art was about their only common medium, but like her - he wasn't the rough edged street kid like many of the others. He was smart, educated, why he ran with the 410 she didn't know... maybe, like her, he needed a tribe to feel safe.

20:56:36 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter


Putting on his AR gear again, he suddenly feels guilty, because he enjoyed her treating him, so much. I´m in a dedicated relationship. He clenshes his teeth, while he watches Nurse leave, as doubt arises in him, whether he´s hapy with Rachel or just belying them both.

He quickly pushes the thoghts away, composing a text message for Bronze.

[20:56:40] C410: Tao-Fighter@BronzeWyrm: <<Hardware diagnosis compleet. Tina´s processing her status, you want to link up with her. Scans like she´s going to stick, so have her up-dated. Good for us! -- TF>>

Let´s hope it´s not bad for her!. He´s still sure that he doesn´t get that ´l33t right, even though Wyrm sayed nothing to his qarry. Probably because he had never gotten an answer to this question from her.

He opens a private voice chanel to Auran, while hastely stuffing his remaining gear into his pockets. Auran. He sighs.

[20:56:45] C410: Tao-Fighter@Auran: "Still there, partner? I´m ready to roll! I think it might be more wise, to skip Cammy and Toy. First Aid and such, besides, Shade works well with Robot. By the way, did you notice Wyrm? Looks like she´s moving in for the kill."

Had not been sure about this, but it looks like I was right. Standing in the hallway for a moment, while thinking about how to put his T-Shirt back on, pockets full and three bottles in hands. He moves on, the two beers in his right hand, putting the QuezalCola under his right arm. As he enters the room, he is blindfolded, winding his left arm and head into the shirt, but when he hears JJ doing his com in the kitchen, he turns on his heel. Throwing him a beer with late warning and changing the other bottles in his left hand, the right arm follows.

TF: "How long till you´r done with this shit Juice?"

He looks for Halo. The Hamster brings shattering. We shouldn´t use the robbed money. We should retun it. Is this the time to stay quiet? He pushes his jaw forward while he thinks this.

TF: "I don´t know about the money, they are allready paying tribute. Anyway, we should get some of those quicktests from Tag´s alchemist box, as we are buying large quantity."

20:57:22 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
JJ

Bent over in the guts of his comm, JJ mumbles a response to Tao-Fighter, "Just a minute or two more."

20:56:36 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Halo

Halo catches the incoming flying bottle of beer from the corner of her eye as Tao tosses it. Seeing that JJ's hands were full and it would be a waste of a beer if it shattered on the floor, she makes a grab for it. She catches it in one hand but uses the second to secure it.

"Tao, that would have sucked if JJ didn't have me to help him out. A waste of a beer!" She grinned and set the beer on the table for JJ beside the commlink.

"As for the cash, what the hell else are we gonna do with it? Do you have enough cash to pay for all the Nova? I mean you weren't thinking about bringing it back were you?!" She shakes her head. She did have to admit grabbing some testing shit wouldn't be a bad idea, especially if they ended up buying off some new dealer.

20:56:43 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

Smiling at Halo´s remark, he replies.

TF: "Woo, I wasn´t aware, the Power Juicer needed help from 'a girl'."

He chuckles slightly, feigning to parry an attack from her, ready to receive the beer back, in chase her latino blood boiled over.

TF: "Well.. I guess upgraiding our performance would benefit them, too, in turn."

He rationalizes in a sheepish voice, but not really convincing himself.

TF: "So, you´ve got your baby here or are we going to use the time, that JJ wastes?"

20:56:43 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Halo

"Please, JJ here is just about the most in need of help from a girl if you know what I mean." She winked in JJ's direction before she continued. "C'mon slowpoke, you're holding us up!"

"And Tao, I hope by baby you mean my bike and not that I miraculously squeezed out a kid while I wasn't looking. The bike, she's across the street at the garage, I need to grab it before we go, I don't wanna ride bitch to anyone tonight."

She looked over at Auran and smiled slyly. "You ready to tear up the streets, break a few hearts and talk some choob into paying us for taking some of his Nova?"

20:56:44 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Auran


"I was born ready, girl! (almost literally)" Auran straightens out her outfit, "I bet some college party has to be happening where we can find our perfect poozer."

She hits the blunt a lot more, since she rolled it, as it passes to her again. Damn, JJ, I should go steal him a bike! Making me ride passenger on my own bike. Hahahaha, and I'm smoking the reason, well either I quit smoking deep, or we steal him a bike.... one or the other. "You know, while we're out, we could gank a few extra bikes, so we could crash em and shoot em up and ditch or chop 'em later."

20:56:49 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

Halo: "Please, JJ here is just about the most in need of help from a girl if you know what I mean."

Tao´s chuckling turns into restraignt laughter.

TF: "Yea," he taps JJ´s shoulder, "but he can´t spare the money, with the prices of .." real food. He leaves the last part unspoken, as unlike with Auran, he doesn´t know, how far he could go with Halo, yet. He gave Juice a sidelook, while he asked for the bike, to make sure, that he didn´t take it too serious.

TF: "I meant your machine, though as you mention it. You know, there where some stranges sounds from upstairs, last sunday night. But that was probably Thyn hiting the restroom, after those boxes of chocolate cookies. Man 2by4 had a realy shitty day, fixing the plumbing!"

When Auran proposed grabing some cycles, Tao-Fighter´s look droped to the ground. He cursed himself, feeling useless again, because he couldn´t even ride a bike.

20:56:49 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Halo

"We could steal em, or win em for that matter." A devilish glint came to her eyes at the thought of racing tonight. "But the problem is you can't ride two bikes at the same time."

She realizes she still could stand to get cleaned up since she had been slumming it all day. With the group of 4 they were assembling for the run for Nova, it's likely they'd all end up in a bar, at a party or causing some kind of trouble later.

"No matter what, I've gotta go grab my wheels from the Garage, I wouldn't mind grabbing a quick shower while I'm at it if we've got time? Don't need to show up looking like a grease monkey someone dragged out of the gutter. I suppose I'll head over that way and you guys just want me to meet you back here. I swear, I'll be like 15 minutes tops, including the walk over."

She waited for a few seconds for any arguments and then started towards the door, ready to hoof it fast over to the garage. She stopped at the door and looked back over her shoulder, calling out across the group.

"Hey JAX, remind me to hook up with you later, I gotta talk to you about my birthday present!"

With that and a shit-eating grin she slips outside and hauls ass across W. Main to The Garage.

20:56:55 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

When Halo speakes up, Tao unlockes his gaze from the ground again. He thinks for a moment, about redressing for the run, but considers his outfit appropriate for anywhere, they might propably go, to score some dust. Lucky to allready have showered, as the water in the Y seldom runs hot, he looks at Auran with a rediculously exagerated arrogant smile.

TF: "15 minutes, Snowtop. Want to risk a round of pool or three? Low stakes if you want. I´m still wounded, you shoud catch the only oportunity you might ever get, to beat me! Or do you have a better Idea, to kill the time, Sunny."

His eyes unintentionally wander down her body, while he speaks, but his glasses allow nobody, to see, he´s not looking at her face. He feels energy surging his body and mind again and intends to make the most of this night´s partying, before he intends to cut back his activity in vavour of reconvalescense.

When Halo walks off, and mentions her b-day, he tinks. Man I´ll have to get sooo drunk, when this shit is over! Though his brows furrow a bit, with the memory of his last hang-over.

20:57:14 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
JJ

JJ looks up at TF from his commlink and then his eyes go down to the beer that Halo had set down beside him. Opening it, he gives Tao a small salute before chugging down a good bit of it. "Did she just say she was going to change?" JJ smiles real big and laughs.

"And here I am without a shirt and my own dried up blood on me and my jeans." He laughs harder and tries to drink more beer.

After regaining his composure, he points at his commlink, "This should only be a minute more. I just got to put it back together now and make sure it still works."

20:58:35 Saturday, April 12 2070
Jun's Garage
Halo

Once she managed to get across W. Main Street after unleashing a tirade of cursing in Spanish at the asshole who almost took her out with his rusty Jackrabbit, she stands before the garage and was quick to let herself inside and through the security. She makes her way back towards the storage room with all of her shit inside. She releases the lock on the door and steps inside. She needed to get ready to go out with the gang, which meant a quick shower and a change of clothes for sure.

She grabbed what she needed for her shower and slinked down the hall to the bathroom, quickly cranking the shower up nearly as hot as it could go, filling the small room with steam. She piled her hair atop her head and peeled off her clothing before she jumped in, cleaning up as fast as she could trying NOT to get her hair wet. In the middle of the shower she finally reads the waiting message and gets the info on the change of plans. She takes a few more seconds to wash her face and then as quick as she was in, she was out, wrapped in a towel and headed back to her "room" to finish getting ready.

She was rushing to get done to keep the rest of them waiting and wiping the water from her face as she was going down the hall. Coming around the corner heading for her room she basically runs into Tao and almost loses the light grip she had on her towel. Thankfully nothing is flashed save for the slightest glimpse of the tattoo on her upper thigh. Luckily only the towel gets a second bath, this time in yogurt smoothie.

"Whatthefuck!" She yelps out surprised by knocking into Tao as well as slightly embarassed for standing in the hall, dripping wet in only a towel. The slightest blush staining her cheeks.

21:08:47 Saturday, April 12 2070
On the roof of Gang HQ
Felix

Felix smiled at BronzeWyrm, his eyes still fixed on the streets below. Hearing her say that the gang actually needed him made him feel rather happy. Even if it was just Wyrm's opinion, it still warmed his hearth.

The events at the Stuffer Shack would stay burned in his mind for a very long time. Of course, death wasn't something he liked... but it wasn't so much that people had died that troubled him. He accepted the concept of self defense. What he had a hard time with was down right murder. Cold and gratuitous murder.

"Don't worry about me Wyrm. I had rougher... cycles."

Timidly, he looked at her for a brief moment.

"What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger."

Both hands on the edge of the roof, he pushed himself up, leaving his half full beer bottle on the ground. He shivered a bit, hugging his skinny arms close to his body.

"You probably should head back it... I got tons of work to get done before morning swings around... I'm not certain about Raven, but I know Tao is way too worn out to set up...." Felix seemed to be looking for his words, hesitantly "magical interference.."

As he started to motion toward the door, he stopped to look at Wyrm again. Nervously, changing his weigh from one foot to the other, he bit his lower lip a few times before speaking up.

"So...." he cleared his throat "... what are you doing tonight?"

20:57:00 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

Tao looks after Halo and thinks whether he should go with her, to make sure, nothing happens, but he consides, she can watch out for herself and it´s only over the street. Still, pending the special situation, they are in, he links the camerafeeds from the Garage, floating around in the C410 to his field of vision, and whistles up Peanut to dematerialize and follow her, alarming him if she has trouble.
Pumpkin, he sends to search for Tag somwhere in the HQ and tell him, he sayed "Hallo". He considers the 'inside the HQ', to be the top, too, but given the insignificance of the tasks, forgets to clarifie, dooming the little rattler, to fail his task, if Felix does not reenter the building befor his existance expires at aproximately 21:02.
Bean is set with the task, to follow him inconspiciously in the astral, watching for and telling him about any application of magic in his vincinity.

He nods to JJ´s salute, puts the second beer besid the com and takes a zip of his coke. When the other ganger finishes laughing and ends his statement, TF´s regular smile turns into a grin and he says.

TF: "JJ you look perfect, just as you are, don´t want to give a fake impression to anyone we meet, do you?" He chuckles and takes another zip. "If you´r ready, you can set your pool prowes against me, too, would be a good oportunity, to redeam yourself from this miserable defeat against Aziz, I was told of!"

20:53:30 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Raven

Raven nodded as Auran explained the plan. “Alright, guess I can do that, as long as I do not need to draw fire myself, since I'm not really bulletproof. But I should be able to cause some trouble among them,” she adds with a knowing grin.

“So it's three days left? I might start putting those conjuring materials I bought recently to some good use. Having some reinforcements around might be a good idea.”

20:53:00 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

[20:53:00] C410: BronzeWyrm "Ok, I went for some commcode shopping, we 8 new ID's to use. Going up to give Tag one."
[20:53:10] C410: BronzeWyrm "Auran, teams scan right to me, be down in a bit."

21:08:55 Saturday, April 12 2070
On the roof of Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

Wyrm gets up, following Felix and brushes dust off her pants. She holds out her hand. "First I need your link, you comm could have been recorded at the Stuffer node and needs a new ID. After that" she shrugs "who knows, the trid's working, can have a party right here." she grins.

20:57:15 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Auran


"Well, I'm in for some pool, but I think one of you guys may have to walk, if you didn't wanna wait for Halo to bring her bike around. Since, neither of you two have a vehicle. JJ if you want, I can take the ride there, send the bike back here, and you can ride it over to the Fun Zo e, while we wait for Halo. Feel free to stop by your place to grab a shirt." She says this with a wink, getting up and heading out the door.

20:57:24 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

When Auran gets up, Tao casts a short asking look at JJ, then looks after her, as she walks to the door. He clenches his teeth. Time to get some action. Without taking his eyes from the beautyfull elven girl, he says to the other ganger.

TF: "So, let´s roll, huh. If you want to drive, you´ll have to go now, Halo won´t let you on in front. I´ll be ok to wait, can use the time, to have a chat with my great grandfather. We will catch up on you in a quater of an hour. So the both of you can have a practice match, before whitnessing real skill. Think about the stacks, we want to make it interesting."

That said, he leaves the kitchen as well, he snatches another cigarret from the pack on the coffee table and tucks it behind his left ear, than takes the half smoked one from beside the ashtray and lights it with the pack. noding to everyone in turn, still left in the main room, he picks up his jacket. Throwing it over his shoulder, he leaves the building.

The smoke is down to the filter, after a few hard drags, befor he reaches the Main. snipping the amber stump after one of the many careless drivers out for some nightlife, he sends a text message to Halo.

[20:57:57] C410: Tao-Fighter@Halo: <<Plans changed, Cinderella, I´m coming to The Garage. When your transformation is done, we´ll head to the Zo e, the others are already on thair way, just beep me, I´ll be downstairs. You girls can watch me humiliate Juice and enjoy his colorfull accusations of cheating. We can sort out where we are going for the suggar over a game of pool.>> Better not tell her about talking to the dead. He thinks, as religion and magic where both topics that tended to make her feel uncomfortable.

He exploits a gap in traffic, to cross the road and then goes through the procedure to get inside, through the side entrance, looking it up behind him again. He hangs his jacket on the hook, next to the cellar door, but does not go downstais yet.

While looking for his fellow occupant, he takes a last huge gulp from the QuezalCola, he had broght with him, befor puting it into the fridge in the garages office, that doubled as a living room and coffee kitchen. She was nowhere to be seen, so, she would allready be upstairs under the shower, which is confirmed by Peanut, who had just found it´s master. With concentration, he could even pick up the sounds from the bathroom, under normal conditions, he would have been unabled not to hear it.

The thoght of his gangmate taking a shower, just a few meters away, trigered a funny feeling in his guts, but he misinterprets as hunger, half voluntarily. So he searches the fridge´s contents for somethink that wouldn´t remove more from his somach, than it added.

20:57:25 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
JJ

JJ walks out with TF and once outside yells at Auran, "Hey waitup. Subscribe this new access ID to your bike, too!" JJ cackles as he jogs over to Auran.

20:56:43 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

Wyrm takes note of Toa message, but she needs to talk to Felix first, at least to give his new commcode. She sends a message to Nurse indicating she'll be down in a bit.
<TJ, sorry my persona's upstairs tending to Tag, his link needs a new commcode, I downloaded a video feed to your link of the final cycles of the meet. Be down in a bit.>

That done she reaches the top floor and opens the door to the roof.

20:57:27 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Auran

"I'm not gonna leave you, JJ! Don't worry." Auran enables her bike to allow JJ's comm full admin access to it's use. Then, she grabs her helmet off the wall before putting it on, and holding the door open for JJ as they head on out. Just another day on the streets....

21:03:53 Saturday, April 12 2070
The Garage
Tao-Fighter

The search for something striking his fancy in the nearly empty refrigurator is ardenous and seemingly futil. Who in thair right mind would willingly eat these ... To describe the former chinese food adequatly, eluded his vocabulary in any language. With a grimace of disgust, he cautiously places it inside the trash can. Most of the good stuff stored down hear, was quickly consumed by the various gangmembers hanging out in the Garage each day. The rest was mainly old food, some of it better left untoucht, for fear of it´s counter-attack.
When he slows down in his quest, other thoughts started to rise in his mind. He started thinking about whether he was hungry at all, but the alternative explanation for his gut-feeling made him intensifie his search, to push the confusing thoughts aside. Finally, he found something barely edible. Bettern not let her know, that I´m taking the last one of these.

He pulls the beaker of soyfree krill-yoghurt-drink out and starts to shake it, heading down the hall, to the stairs. On his way, he tunes in his earplugs to the latest ambient music that JAX had put up on the garages node, sending his personalized code string, to authorize his newly spoofed com code to access the node.
When he pulls open the lid, some of the viscous content squirts out at his glasses. Grudgingly, he pulls them off his head, cursing the whispered command to his commlink, to redirect incomming message signals to audio.

As he approaches the entrance to the stairs, up and down, he takes a huge gulp of yoghurt, which makes him ignore the slight smell of shower gel, spreading with an even slighter increas of humidity. The music turned loud enough, to drown out his own steps, makes him stay ignorant of the bare feet, tiptoeing down from Jun´s apartment, closing in on the corner, as well.

20:56:55 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Nurse

Back out in the main room, Nurse sees that Wyrm is no longer on the couch, and decides to wander away from the lounge for a quiet place to wait out of the way. She locates a room with some usable fitness equipment and sets it to its lowest setting, doing a few sets to pass the time while she looks at the vid Wyrm sent.

20:58:00 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Aziz

Aziz follows after the others with their plan to go to the Fun Zo e. He swings a leg over his bike.

"Might as well leave JJ here. He'd just get whomped at pool again, anyway!", he says, grinning. He stomps on the kickstarter, and heads to the Fun Zo e.

20:57:31 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
JJ

JJ starts up the dirt bike and laughs a bit as he revs it up a few times for good measure. "I just love this little thing!" he yells over the high-pitched whine of the engine.

He walks the bike out slowly as Auran holds the door open and pauses for her to close up and to get on. "Hang on, we're gonna go a back way. Stay low, ya know?"

JJ gases it and off they go exactly the opposite way to the Fun Zo e.

21:06:11 Saturday, April 12 2070
The Garage
Tao-Fighter

When he turns around the corner, Tao is totally surprised by the wet, nude-esque female, crashing into him. The plastic mug is smashed betweem the two of them, splashing its content all over his shirt and Halo´s towel. As she jump´s back, from the liquid hitting the floor, she almost looses the grip on her last resemblance of clothes, allowing a short glimps at some tatoo on her upper thigh.

Tao-Fighters eyes are fixed on the snake, using it as an anchor as not to whitness anything more delicate. His face was looked on her´s all the time, but the eyes had painfully twisted out of controll.
He stends there, staring, for the blink of an eye, a split second, that drags on into eternety. His mouth open, to deliver some smartass comment, but nothing comes out. His face is pale, leaving the large silly yoghurt beard on his upper lip almost unnoticed. Finally he begins to stutter..

TF: "That´s... You.. I´m ... We..."

When the snakes tail vanishes behind the frotté curtain, he looks into her face again. The slight blush on her latino complexion eludes his perception, but one look at her eyes tells him, and he turnes peach red instantly. Wasn´t aware of that one. The thought reaches his brain together with fresh blood.

TF: "...should clean up..." He offers a weak distraction.

21:06:35 Saturday, April 12 2070
The Garage
Halo

Halo's fingers grip the towel tighter, trying to pull it up and down at the same time. Tao is surprised to find she's uncharistically and suddenly shy, not to mention speachless following the collision. She looks down at the front of her towel and the cool yogurt mixture sinking in.

"Yeah... I'll..." She struggles for the words and finally regains her composure, trying to blow it off like it's a normal occurance for her to run into someone while she's half-naked in a hallway. "I'll just be another minute or something. I'll just meet you down by my bike and we can get out of here, ok?" Without waiting for a reply she slips past him, her shoulder brushing his in the process as she heads to her room. Once inside she expells a long sigh and hurries to get ready, her heart still racing a bit.

She slipped on all the necessary items first, a slinky bit of black lace went on, then her newest pair of clean black jeans are pulled out of a pile and pulled up her long legs, a dressier tank top made from even less material than her usual ones is shimmied into, the little bit of deep purple fabric clinging to every curve of her form. The front is deeply "V" cut and the back, save for skinny strips of fabric at her neck and just above the tattoo at the small of her back, simply doesn't exist. Her feet are slid into black boots that have pointy toes and no heels (she's tall enough already) but come up to just below her knees.

She pulls the ponytail holder from the back of her head and runs a brush through her long blonde hair. A spritz of perfume, little eyeliner, mascara and lipgloss later and she actually looks like a girl for a change. She was all dressed up and ready to go...almost.

She double checks the lock on the door to the room before she crosses the small room to the corner near her "bed" and reaches deep into a pile of stuff, her fingers instantly wrapping around the object of her desire. Pulling the deep purple box from the depths of the clutter, she sits down properly on her bedding and draws her feet up underneath her before she opens the box in her lap. Inside rests various vials and their inhalation systems. She pulls out a pale blue vial, leaving its 4 other twins behind. She closes the box, keeping the vial in her hand and burries the box back deep within it's clutter cave.

She sits back and leans up against the cool concrete wall and closes her eyes. Her fingers manipulate the vial and as she brings her hands up to her lips with a practiced hand she *pops* the vial and inhales deeply, the blue liquid in the vial atomizing once its seal is broken. Her breath catches in her throat for a moment, everything in the room stopping for an instant, the next moment her breath is released in a very contented, very pleasured sigh.

The sharpness of the world had been dulled, somehow made softer and fuzzier. Easier to cope with in the grand scheme of things. Before she forgets, for good measure and the chance they'd be going outside their neighborhood for their goodies, she slips her Viper with the safety on, in the back of her jeans, the handle just visible at the small of her back before she slips her leather jacket onto her shoulders.

21:12:15 Saturday, April 12 2070
The Garage

Now, she was ready to hit the streets for a bit of unwinding. She locks up her room and heads our into the garage after she had gotten Tao's message of the change of plans. Now that she was dressed she made her way back downstairs and headed for the main part of the garage.

She makes it over to where the boys had been looking at her bike. After a cursory once over to make sure everything was in working order, she fires it up and listens to it cycle and purr, revving the engine to hear it kick up. Satisfied she shuts the bike down and waits for Tao to join her.

21:09:37 Saturday, April 12 2070
On the roof of Gang HQ
Felix

Stopping a few steps from the door, Felix unclipped his commlink from his belt. Gently, he threw it across the short distance that separate him from Wyrm.

"Take your time... I don't really use it anyways..."

Giving her something of a sad smile, Felix headed back inside.

20:50:05 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Toy Robot

Toy gets off up the decoy and walks over to China Doll. She tosses over her commlink.

"Man, I no know how work this thing anyway!"

Toy Robot stands expectantly and rigid as she waits for CD to do her thing. Toy casts a few quick glances around her to find her team members she has been assigned to.

21:06:53 Saturday, April 12 2070
The Garage
Tao-Fighter

TF: "Ehr, YESSS!" He states firmly, regaining his own composure, as she cools down. "If it´s ok with you."
He lets his eyes drop from her´s, wanting to burry his gaze into the ground, but when they reach her mouth, he quickly turns his head to the side. This happens all the time, we are cool with it. He tries to convince himself, while staring at the wall.
When she slips away, he feels the urge, to turn and look after her, but resists the compulsion. His legs feel suddenly weak and he is slightly dizzy.

He pulles off his shirt, cautious, not to get dirty himself and gives away to gravity, slowly sinking to his knees. He whipes up the mess with his t-shirt, while blood drips from his nose, leaving small red spots in the greenish white mud. Some of the blood vessals ruptured earlyer this evening had burst open again. He sniffed and swallows blood, the taste of iron flooding his mouth. At least the Nova will set in fast, tonight.

He whipes a bit longer, then necessary, to make sure, Halo has reached her sanctuary, befor he turns around hasitantly. He stares down the hall for a second. His left shoulder is slightly tingeling and feels strangely warm. He clenches his teeth, sucks blood again and gets up. The stream down his throat is rapidly vaining and his nose isn´t running anymore. His legs still a bit shaky, he taps down the stairs into the dark cellar.

21:09:06 Saturday, April 12 2070
The Garage
Tao-Fighter

The basement had an atmosphere like a haunted grave yard by midnight. The gloomy light of the fire escape sign in the stairecase didn´t help it either. On bad days, it fealt like the the Shedim variant, on good days, it only fealt, as if a Ghoul could jump from the shadows any time, though thankfully, it didn´t smell that way.

Tao-Fighter had gotten used to it, over the last half year, and improved the feel of the place much, through proper measures. He had set up his shrine down here roughly 6 months ago. A month ago, when Halo was taken into the fold, he had left the room, he formerly had sleapt in, and now did so in the basement, too. It wouldn´t be called cozzy, by anyone in thair right mind, but TF had less problems, to cope with the spooky mood, than anybody else. Though his dreams had turned from strange, to bizar more often in the last weeks.

At the moment, however, he wasted not a single thought about his ghoulish squat, as his mind was still running through his bump-in with Halo, over and over again, whils he walked by the clothes lines to no small part laden with the girls private body ware.

He put the soked shirt and burst plastic into the washbasin at the end of the hallway and placed his headgear and gloves on the rim.

After washing his face and upper body with some icy water, he grabs his gear and walks through the heavy fire door into his domain and lights the single bulb dangling from the cailing.
He changes his grunchy jeans for some urban camouflage trousers and a relatively new, black Tank. He winding into his pistol holsters, he then choses a faded shirt to cover them, that had long lost it´s buttons and it´s black and white pattern derezed into gray.

Then he slips through the sliding paper wall doors, into his ancestral shrine. Offering a quick prayer to his relatives and victems and lighting some incense in the sand filled brazier. He thinks about telling his sister about his recent encounter, but decides not tobe so indiscreat. After a quick prayer to the holy mother, he leaves his inner sanctuary again.

Picking up his usual gear again, puts his guns in place and some decent, light military boots on. Waiting, he tidies up his place a bit, until he gets Halo´s message and heads upstairs, carefully locking up his room again.

21:13:10 Saturday, April 12 2070
The Garage
Tao-Fighter

Once again, he passes the cloths lines, but ignores them, mostly, getting into the groove for some action again. He joggs up the stairs, but cuts back a good part, when he has to cough slightly, again.
After fishing his jacket from the hook, he walks through the mechanics part of the Garage, meanwhile getting the hiden gun armslide from out of his jackets sleave and attaching it directly to his left lower arm, hidden underneath the shirt.

When he sees Halo, as allways, he is taken aback by her feminin style. While he is used to such trappings with Auran, where they still don´t fail thair effects, when Halo puts them on, it´s like cram without the crash.

He smiles brightly at her, the embaressing situation allmost forgotten, absently rubbing his left shoulder.

TF: "Ready partner?" It pops out of his mouth, without thinking.

21:13:15 Saturday, April 12 2070
The Garage
Halo

When the words come out of Tao's mouth she looks up from her bike and smiles a bright smile in his direction. With her clothes back on came her confidence again and all the girlish nervousness is gone. She was amused however to see his reaction to her "transformation."

"I'm ready when you are. Time to raise a little hell at the Zoe, mind if we take the "scenic" way there? I want to open up the bike and see if JAX took care of her before the shit went down."

There was an edge to her voice, bordering excitement as she moved to the back of the bike to unstrap her helmet. She bent over at the waist, letting her hair almost brush the floor before she twisted it and slipped her helmet over her head in one fluid movement. She kicked one leg over the bike and straddled the seat, firing her up again she looks back over her shoulder and waits for Tao to climb on.

"C'mon slowpoke!" She calls out, her voice muffled from behind the visor.

21:09:45 Saturday, April 12 2070
On the roof of Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

Wyrm shifts her weight and barely manages to catch the commlink in her outstretched hand. She watches Felix head through the door, then follows behind him. Damn, that didn't go well at all she thinks as she follows him about half a flight behind. She'll work on the comm inside, she needs to get her purse and tools.

She gets down into the lounge and Nurse isn't there, a quick scan of her commlink shows she's down in the weight room. She needs to talk to Raven to see who's going to sit their watch tonight before making plans to go out... she doesn't want to let her team down. She's seen many of the others already go out, and she'd like to join them, but not at the expense of sacrificing the task they've been given.
<TJ, just need to task this modding then I'm done. Still anticipating going out? Need to scan who's sitting the node tonight.>

With that she grabs her purse, pulls out her microtronics kit and opens Felix's link.. The SI chip is easy enough to find, she slots it into her chipport to copy the new commcode address. The task only takes a few pulses and is done.
The meticulously removes the System Information chip and slots back into his link, closing the case... now to locate Felix to transfer this back to him, then figure out what we're processessing tonight.
Seeing as she has his commlink, Wyrm uses the general PA system, seeing as she doesn't want to start roaming through the Y and miss Nurse
<"Tag, your link is coded and online, come to the lounge"> her words echo through the building.