21:42:00 Saturday, April 12 2070
The Zo e
Tao-Fighter

While catching up on his commessages, Tao replies casually to Aziz.

TF: "Her name is Mindy, she´s a real bitch, so you might like her."

Maybe having a girlfriend would dampen his agressions a bit, at least it would distract Mindy. I should watch this. he thinks to himself.

TF: "I can get what I need from Auran later." He says to Halo, adding with a smile to the other girl. "If that´s ok with you, partner? We´ll have our hands full with food anyway, Bronze asked for some more munchies and yoghurt, too!"

With that he leans on to Halo´s shoulder for a moment, to take a look into the bag, she´s carrying and snatches out a candy bar. When he rips it open and takes a bit off it, he feels srangely warm inside. Looks like I desperatly needed some suggar. Then he turns to the vandor machines lining the hallways of the small mall, drwing the items BronzeWyrm had requested from them, taking extracare, to choose some soy-free stuffers as well.

Finally, he aquires a throw away backpack and stuffs the KharmaKrackers, BlueberryMunchkins, KrillChips, Krill-Algae-Yoghurt-Drinks and other fooditems into it. Taping a short reply back to the elven Hacker, he walks over to the Latina´s ride and flashing an adventurous grin.

TF: "Take another scenic rout back, chica?"

[21:42:45] C410: Tao-Fighter@BronzeWyrm: <<brb -- TF>>

21:14:30 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Raven

“Hey, Nurse! If you want a ride to the shops, I can bring you there. Need to fetch something myself, anyways, so I could just drop you off there and pick you back up half an hour or so later.”

After dropping Nurse off at her destination, Raven then drives to her own flat to retrieve her material components, which she plans to use at some point later, when she has thoroughly rested.

Once the sun has set, the young shaman calls another spirit to her side, to stay around in case there will be trouble during the night.

God, I'm feeling tired... why is everything so strenuous today?

It's well after eleven when Raven arrives back at the Y. She parks her bike out of sight around the corner and looks for a cozy place to curl up and get some rest finally.

12:59:59 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
JJ

Fabulous.

JJ was sitting on the couch, fidgeting, talking, and trying to play Assassin online. His game wasn't working out too well, most likely due to the fact that he'd been up all night doing nova, smoking deep, and drinking beers. The beers and the deep didn't have much of any affect on him with the nova pumping through his veins, but he didn't care.

Once they had made it back to the HQ last night, the fun had begun. Some of the gang were all tense, guarding the box and all, but JJ hadn't taken it in stride so far.

Just another day in the dumps, he'd thought several times throughout the night. He thinks he might have said that outloud as well a few times. Hell, I think I was singing it around 3 AM.

He'd had a talk with Auran for a bit. Mostly about ways to jack shit without getting caught...one of his favorite pasttimes.

But, for the majority of the time, he was just hanging out with the others that had stayed up all night, playing games, drinking, and shooting the shizite.

21:42:56 Saturday, April 12 2070
The Zo e
Tao-Fighter

This time, Tao-Fighter leans on to Halo and lays his arms around her right from the start. Again resting his chin on her shoulder and closing his eyes, to enjoy the ride and time began to slow to a crawl. With every bump and every turn, he subcontiously intensifies his embrace, moving his face closer to the base of her nack. He can smell her parfume even against the harsh airstream. All worries and fears fade away from his conciousness, he feal at ease with himself, like he had not in a long time.

Whan they arrived at the HQ, he needed a moment to realize they had stoped, and releas her from his grip..

21:05:00
The Wireless Matrix
Electrode

Smiling quietly to himself as he sees some devices connected to the commlinks the gang has aquired, he prepares to set up for returning later to steal them.

First thing to do is to take care of the strain of dealing with that scan

Starting up his medkit, Electrode is a bit surprised to not feel a difference, but he just shrugs it off and decides to continue on anyways.

Slipping his thoughts into the devices, he quickly attempts to manipulate them into accepting him as an authorised user.

21:41:55 Saturday, April 12 2070
Outside The Zo e
Halo

"Nice job Ziz, I'll be your next challenge. Y'know, after all the shit dies down." She raises a brow at the mention of this girl and looks over towards Tao. "Playing matchmaker again? You know that's gonna bite you in the ass someday, right?" She smirks and then shrugs in answer to JJ's question.

"Might as well head back, we've got all this crap to deliver anyway. I don't really wanna be running around the neighborhood with our new weight and all the munchies. Besides the Deepheads are gonna start eating what's left of the furniture if we don't get them SnackyCakes and FizzyDew soon."

At Tao's suggestion, another big shit-eating grin plays on her lips as she nods slowly. "Oh hell yes I'm in for another senic drive. You know, the kind that makes your heart race and then stop all together before kickstarting again?"

She makes her way over to the bike and unstraps her helmet, sliding it on over her hair, she kicks a leg over the bike, and a finger placed on the scanner releases the controls and lets her start it up. "It's now or never Tao, I can take that scenic drive all by myself too y'know." She smirks as he climbs on, snacks and all and he puts his arms around her waist.

The drive back was a heartstopper for sure, weaving in and out of traffic, her joyous laughter getting lost in the wind. She takes the two of them a bit outside the neighborhood, winding the streets behind Awakened Auburn, past the school Nurse and Wyrm were still attending and finally ending up back at the gang's HQ. She's so lost in the thrill of the ride she barely registers Tao's grip on her until they end up back at the Y.

21:59:55 Saturday, April 12 2070
Outside The HQ

She fishtails the bike to a hard controlled stop just outside the Y's loading dock. She slowly pulls into the protected space and comes to a complete stop, closing the heavy steel door behind them. She starts to move to get off the bike but Tao's arms around her waist prevent her from doing so. She tries to play it off with a joke after the uncomfortable run-in they had earlier at the garage. "Psst, Tao we're here already. You're not gonna fall off now, I promise." She laughs softly as he snaps back to reality and fumbles a bit as he lets go.

"Time to feed the animals inside I think."

21:59:55 Saturday, April 12 2070
Outside the HQ
Tao-Fighter

When Halo fires her joking remark at Tao, he blushes slightly but impossible to see without thermographic vision in the twilight in front of the Y. He quickly regains his composure again however and offers a reposte, while his face turns to an euphoric expression again.

TF: "Oh, sorry, that ride was so smoth, I must have fallen asleep."

He straightens his body, against the funy fealing in his guts and enters tha Head Quaters.

[22:01:09] C410: Tao-Fighte@BronzeWyrm: "We´r back, and I have brought some goodies for my favourit elven hacker icon!"

Have to stuff Halo with this other soy-free, so she doesn´t go for the triple! He thinks, as though his food swaping was out of good intention, she might still go off, because of it. Her earlyer remark echoes in his head, as he thinks about his further plans.

22:01:05 Saturday, April 12 2070
The HQ
Halo

"Hail hail the gang's all here. And this time we brought presents!!"

She walks back into the Y just behind Tao and does a quick inventory of who was still around. As she looks about she shrugs out of her jacket, slips her Slivergun into the inside of her coat and then plops herself into an empty sofa and stretches out to watch whatever was on the TRiD in the corner of the room.

She closes her eyes and lets the happy, fluffy sensations of Bliss carry her off for a while. She'd catch up with those she wanted to talk to later, besides most everyone seemed to be gone, or busy for the time being.

21:14:30 Saturday, April 12 2070 through 13:00:00 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Nurse

Nurse accepts the ride, making sure Raven is aware Nurse intends to bring her own bike back to the Y tonight.

Once back at the Awakened Auburn, Nurse'll go through her Dad's supplies to get refills for the med kits as well as the extra supplies she thinks she may need. She'll tell her folks some of the gangers managed to get themselves shot up and that she plans to spend the next few days taking care of them. "Don't worry, I'm not going to be missing my classes, and I'll be home tomorrow night to finish up the class work I was going to be doing during the day." Nurse then heads up stairs and to the kitchen to graba backpack for carrying things as well as some snacks, and some of whatever she can find that seems portable to her, for herself and Wyrm to contribute to whatever may be available at the Y already.

Her parents appeased and her gear collected, Nurse heads for the backalley, detouring to the loading area to fetch her bike. She stashes what she needs to into the bike's storage compartments then heads to the Y, stowing her bike inside the Y before retrieving anything she'd tucked in the bike's storage for not fitting in the backpack again.

Back into the lounge of the Y, Nurse checks to see if anyone needs her attentions right now, and whenever she is done with necessary first aid/medical things, she'll go look for Wyrm to hang out with for a while then find somewhere to get some sleep til needed again, or morning.

Once morning has arrived and Nurse is up she'll check on those she is using her medical skills to help speed their healing then sort herself some sort of breakfast and during down time will work on finishing up her classwork.

22:01:09 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

Upon entering the main room, Tao pops a soberty pill, to be abled to get drunk comfortably, as the first one he had befor the gang meeting may already have faded in effect.

He looks out for Tag, Nurse and BronzeWyrm, the last one assaulting them right at thair arrival, and sends a silent nod to any present gangmembers, droping the foodstuffs on the coffee table.

TF: "See for your self, pal."

His face is locked on her´s, as he speaks, but his eyes, unseen behind his tinted glasses are scaning the rare close up of her upper body. He windes out of and throws his jacked onto the hook besides the door, then snatches some KharmaKrackers and two smokes. Lighting one with the almost empty integrated lighter of the box, tucking the other behind his left ear.

TF: "Got to have some rest, first."

He answers to a request nobody offered. Then he sattles down besides Halo, spreading his arms on the back of the couch. He takes another deep drag from the cigarret and then offers it to his companion. He watches her closely, as she closes her eyes again and takes a soft drag, being allmost asleep, not tired and woren down, but comfortable and deeply relaxed. When the funny feeling starts to rise again, he leans back his head, slowly releasing the smoke and starts to check his news feeds, sigs and blogs again.

22:02:10 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

As the gang arrives they receive a very happy sounding greeting from Wyrm.

As they enter the lounge, colourful holos, loud music and the smell of Deepweed assults their senses. Though still a bit tense, Nurse looks much more relaxed as the two girls share a joint. Wyrm is giggling and has this dreamy look on her face, a half finished beer sitting on the table in front of her. Does that make 5 or 6? - she's lost count. Her black hoody lay discarded on the edge of the couch, giving a rare opportunity for those to see the curves of her upper body under a form-fitting coal-gray sweater.

"Took you personas enough pulses to get back!" she snaps, then breaks out in a fit of giggles. Getting up on slightly unsteady legs, nearly tipping the bowl of pretzels squeezed between the two of them. She walks over to help unburden people with food. "Whatcha get me?" She asks Tao momentarily forgetting about the big bag of half finished Doritos on the table.

22:03:56 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Halo

Halo's eyes slowly open when Wrym comes over looking for food. She takes another drag on the smoke Tao had handed her and nods towards the bag full of goodies.

"Bunch of junk crap is in there." She talks around the cigarette in her mouth. "If you're looking for the harder stuff you're gonna have to find JJ he was the one left holding the bag." She lets out a long stream of blue-grey smoke and leans forward to peer into the bag herself to see if there was anything she could grab out of there.

Settling on a chocolate covered SnackyCake she draws her legs up underneath her on the couch and continues to smoke while her fingers fumble with the "protective" plastic on the sugar bomb. She thinks about the delicious spicy chicken waiting for her in the walk-in, but decides it's too much effort to walk across the room and instead shoves a small hunk of SnackyCake into her mouth, a bit of the "real vanilla" icing sticking to the corner of her mouth. She ashes her cig into a discarded beer bottle and just smiles, tuning out a lot of what was going on in the Y, happily in the middle of her little internal mental joy-ride, continuing to smoke what was left of the cig Tao handed her.

22:06:10 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

After being draged from his reading and listening by BronzeWyrm´s triumphant declaration, Tao blinks a few times, almost blushing as the Drink he brought reminded him of his awkward encounter with Halo. His eyes dart back and forth unseen, between the elven girles eyes and breasts, as she leans forward toward him and he finaly turns a bit pink, as she kisses his cheek.
He ponders for a moment, watching her go, then turns his attention to his naighbor. Halo had just resattled a minute ago, after munching her cake. Slowly sliding downward on the couch, relexing and spreading more and more, the girls head now slightly touches his right upper arm and her arm contacts his torso and thigh full length, she leans against him slightly, but obviously doesn´t care in her drug hazed state or did it on purpose. He feels comfortable, but seeing Tag work at his 'Mind Shield' makes him feel a bit guilty for it.
So he snatches the smoke out of her mouth with the left hand, for a short drag. Befor replaceing it, his eyes lock on to to the icing in the corner of her mouth. He feels compelled to kiss it away, turning slightly pink again on that thought. Then, slowly, cautiously Tao whipes it away with his thumb, his fingers brushing her cheek. The hasitation makes the gesture much more caressing, then he intended. He had planed to casually swipe it away.
Uneasy he shifts forward on the edge of the couch, to cancel the bodycontact and open his first KarmaKracker. He blushes, when she states that she was getting comrortable, too, and fumbles around with the snacks packaging.

TF: "No more hungry, my little angel?"

Tao offers for a distraction, trying to hit a sarcastic tone with the second part, but doesn´t manage to.

22:04:02 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

Wyrm is waaay to happy as she bounces over to the bag and starts to dig through the contents. She holds up the yogourt drink like a trophy to Nurse "Breakfast" she hisses in triumph and grins.

She leans over and gives Tao a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks" then skips off to the walk in with her 'prize' to return a moment later with two more beer. She plops down beside her friend nearly spilling the pretzels again and places one bottle beside her open one, then offering the other to Nurse. When Nurse refuses the bottle, Wyrm places it next to the other unopened bottle; grabbing the open beer and a handfull of Doritos she settles back on the couch and starts munching on chips. "Don't process hardstuff Halo" munch, crunch, "scrambles the brainpan."

22:06:18 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Halo

She hisses slightly as the smoke is removed from her lips momentarily and mutters darkly as Tao moved away from her and she lost her pillow.

"God damnit I was just getting comfortable...." She mumbles, her eyes opening a bit more when he went and mentioned being hungry again. "Yeah, I'm still hungry, like I've got a tapeworm or something. Mmmm didn't China Doll bring me chicken?" She leans forward and tries to get off the couch and head for the walk-in. She laughs as she the couch all but pulls her back down. Like it was the funniest thing in the world to happen to her.

"No really, I want to get my chicken."

22:08:15 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

Wyrm giggles along with Halo. "Tao, tell the couch to stop moving, Halo needs to get up!" and she breaks out into a fit of laughter, she leans against Nurse letting out a big sigh as she finally get control of her giggles. "I needed that" she smiles, combes back her hair with her left hand and finishes off her beer.

22:07:39 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

Finally, TF managed to open the Kracker, breaking it in half, he stuffs the smaller portion into his mouth and draws the small strip of paper out of the biger chunk. Before he can read it, he is interrupted, as the mentioning of ChinaDoll´s chicken makes alarm bells ring in his head. Hastily swalloring, he launches his intervention.

TF: "Don´t you think, it would be cool to save it for lunch, tomorow? You allready had Felix´ sandwitch and we´ve got loads of munchies, We packed the soy-free stuff for a reason."

To prevent any further debate, he stuffs the half KharmaKracker into her mouth and gets up, sliping the prophecy into his pocket. He smirks at the red head´s new outbreak.

TF: "I´ll bring us some beers and anything else, you want, chica."

With that, he strides off to the walk in. Grabing a pair of beers, he also takes the Tripple Happyness Decoy and puts it into the kitchen, out of plain sight, but easy enough to find, that one of the Deep Heads had to eat it this night.

22:08:15 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Nurse

Nurse is still smiling to herself about Wyrm's breakfast prize and breaks out in her own fit of giggles with Halo and Wyrm when the couch refuses to release Halo.
Once Wyrm and Nurse have recovered, Nurse returns to the joint she and Wyrm were sharing and munching on pretzels, occassionally grabbing some chips out of Wyrm's chip bag on the table.

22:07:56 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Halo

She was about to actually agree with saving the chicken for tomorrow, but when she opened her mouth to speak it suddenly was shoved full of KharmaKracker. She tries not to choke at first as Wyrm's giggling is contageous, instead she manages to chew the cookie type thing inbetween fits of giggles. Giving in to the couch's unrelenting grasp she is unaware of Tao's uncomfortableness and takes a moment to look around the HQ as he went walking off somewhere.

"Where are JAX and China Doll?" She keeps looking around... "Hell, where's Tag too? Shouldn't they all be here processing 'party cycles' with us?!"

She eyes an unopened beer on the table but thought Tao had said something about bringing back some more, and they would be cold. So she waited, content with life for the time being, her head half-way through it's little pleasure cruise.

12:59:59 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Auran


Auran snickers as everyone steals their way into her purposefully purchased munchies. As they return to the HQ, she puts some of her personal favorites into one plastic bag and runs into the girl's locker room. She locks them up in her locker, pulling out the ice cream for now. She gets dressed for war again, just in case the proverbial drek does hit the proverbial fan

Auran relaxes on the roof for a bunch of the night as she sips on some soycaff and eats her ice cream and reading the latest Cosmo. She'll talk to friendly faces that sit there, but she mainly likes to see what goes on in "her streets" at this time of night. She puts her glasses on, and zooms in on anything interesting or suspicious.

She goes to hang out with JJ for a bit, asking for almost a "blow by blow" of what happened at the stuffer, as they sit drinking beers, smoking deep, and talking.

She grabs one of the doses of Nova for herself from him and saves it until she is about to pass out from too much beer. At about 4 in the morning, the soycaff is not enough to keep her up anymore and she takes the dose of Nova buzzing herself awake violently. At this hour, she chats with anyone or anything willing to listen as he mouth runs like a motor. After the initial rush fades a bit, she gets extremely antsy and bored. She decides to start cleaning up the mess of the night, grabbing all the bags from various stores and filling them with the trash littering the floor. She puts the empty beer bottles back into the cases they were found. She stacks all the trash by the front door, trying to figure out who to ask to take them out.

Eventually, she just sits back, watches the trid, and chats with any people that are still awake.

22:09:56 Saturday, April 12 2070 up to 12:59:59 Sunday, April 13, 2070
Gang HQ
Halo

There was plenty of drinking and munching of junkfood throughout the night. It wasn't long after they got back to the Y that Halo's buzz wore off and for a while she just kinda got "lost" in the various spaces and places of the building, spending a lot of time alone wading in the kids pool on the main floor just thinking things through. One day closer to another year gone by, it left a lot of unanswered questions in her mind and the water in the pool wasn't giving up any answers. She dried off her legs and deciding it was now or never, she had to break the "news" to the gang, figured it was easiset across the broadcast channel since everyone wasn't at HQ.

<<[00:05:22] C410: Halo@ALL: Check it peeps, word from Treeno earlier tonight is that the 'Star's been poking around the Stuffer and putting out feelers into the 'hood about us. He's keeping his mouth shut so we're chill there. Watch your backs while you're out and about tonight. Don't need any more of us tied up with their bullshit "investigation" when trouble could be coming.>>

She moved upstairs onto the roof a little after midnight, glad to see Auran up there and shared a few laughs over the latest Cosmo and it's retarded advice for women as well as more than a few cigarettes. A bit of time watching their neighborhood go on around them, time looking off into the loglo of Seattle itself. By the time she came back inside her mood was shifting back into the positive.

She shot the shit with a lot of the gang overnight, taking a bit of extra time out when she saw Felix wandering around. She suggested taking a bit of a walk and they just ended up outside and talking for a while. She was still concerned about him, but admitted to him she was impressed at the way he stood his ground in front of Neo.

She grabs a quick hit of sleep wherever she can, choosing to hold on to a line of Nova for tomorrow night when all of this would start to catch up to her and she'd need the rush to stay awake and alert.

By the time morning rolled around she was in the lounge flipping channels on the TRiD with Auran waiting for the rest of the gang to find their way awake and to make plans for the rest of the day and who was going to do what with their boxes. Deciding she could use a bit more air she makes a few trips out back with the trash, it was the least she could do with the way Auran had cleaned up, Nova-aided or not.

22:08:10 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

"Jax and CD went to acquire some new wheels the mechanic persona's been drooling over." Wyrm states between sips of beer.

"Tag is...." she waves her hand around "somewhere, building 'thought shields' as he tags them." The last comment seems to bum her out a bit, remembering having failed to cheer the mage up, but Nurse makes a comment about something else, and the two start giggling again.

--

Wyrm doesn't sleep the night, not an uncommon thing for the girl. Nurse dissappears to find a quite place to sleep sometime around midnight, so Wyrm spends time in and out of doing stuff online.

When Auran, Halo and some others head to the roof, she decides its good time to get some fresh air and follows them. In her beer and weed induced state she stays clear from the edge of the roof, not completely trusting her sense of balance. Of course her view of the city is much different than her friends'. Wyrm sees the electron flow of wireless signals streaking across the sky, some streams of data are brighter than others, indicating VR sessions or high bandwidth data transfers. The night sky is this living mesh of data-streams in which she can sense. In her drunken state, the experience is almost overwhelming, the weed helps calm her mind enough to just let it all flow around her.

She makes a point to stay well away from Neo and those grubby paws of his, it's not easy. She moves to another place, and sometimes leaves the room entirely when he gets too close. In the wee hours of the morning when those left in the gang are sitting joking, talking over the music, playing cards and such; Auran hits a line and goes nearly manic in getting the place tidied up. Wyrm just watches her in a half daze, having trouble following her motions, by now she's had a good half dozen beer or more (she lost count somewhere after midnight) and the alcohol is having a beautiful mind numbing effect. She doesn't get this drunk often, but when she does, the Matrix seems distant to her, faded, the constant buzz in her mind becomes a faint whisper... almost peaceful. She starts doodling funny faces and crude slogans as those few die-hards still awake get absorbed in the early morning Trid-crap... there's rarely anything good on at this hour.
She talks with Auran about anything, everything, and nothing in particular. Conversation for conversation sake really, it's kind of fun just letting the thoughts come to mind and not debate over form or function. She even looses some of her netspeak in the process.

As morning breaks, Wyrm considers getting some sleep, goes off to find Nurse and passes out beside her friend.

22:09:56 Saturday, April 12 2070 up to 12:59:59 Sunday, April 13, 2070
Gang HQ
Aziz

Aziz held off doing a line, despite how much he wanted to. He wasn't really sure how it would mix with the Long Haul still fresh in his system, and he didn't want to dip into his stash quite yet.

He wandered around somewhat aimlessly, talking with the other gang members here and there about nothing really important. He sat around and joked with Felix and JJ, talked about planned tattoos for the future with Halo, in addition to throwing some punches and kicks at her, to see how well she was taking in what he was teaching her about brawling. He asked Tao a couple questions about Mindy, about her personality and whatnot, and he even helped Auran clean a little bit.

As some of the gangers crawled off to sleep, Aziz frowned jealously. Even without the Long Haul, he probably still wouldn't be sleeping much. He spent the night eating junk food and watching trid with Halo, talking about random subjects, and fighting over the remote. As day breaks and the sun begins to rise, Aziz drinks a beer and watches the morning news, wondering if there would be a report on the fight at the Stuffer.

22:08:11 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

As Tao was about to leave the kitchen again, Aziz wanders in and starts a chat about beer, but when TF only replys casually and heads for the door, Aziz quickly changes the topic, asking him questions about Mindy, her character in particular. The elf is taken aback a bit, by his comrades interest, but willingly gives him particulars. Though he knows much about his girlfriends best friend, Rachel telling him even intimate details, to the point of being a bit unnerving, he is not indiscreet. He warns Aziz about the girls manipulative streak, but thinks the proud ganger would have enough resolve to control it, if he cared to hustle with it. He tries not to have his personal differences with Mindy paint a negative picture and offers some of Mindy´s best qualities, as well. Hm, maybe this could work out for the both of them Finally, he even offers to arrange a doubledate and sets off to the lounge again.

22:11:03 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

Back at the couch, he faces Halo´s wreath for being late with the beer, but only after 2by4 mentions, that this had taken a while. He sits back down, besides the girl, but keeping his distance this time, as not to annoy Tag, that he had seen walk around the lobby. He offers her the beer, twisting open his own and lights his second cig at the joint, Nurse stretches into his direction, and shares it with Halo.
As he lifts his beer, the others join in and JJ ceremoniously offers a toast:

JJ: "Just another day in the dumps."

He exchanges a string of twacks over some twaddle with Nurse and, with the alcohol setting in quickly and Halo stuffed and eager to cozy up a bit, gets comfortable beside her again, sinking into quiet observation after only half a beer.

22:49:53 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

Tao-Fighter paces along the road at top speed, waving in and out of traffic. The streetlights are stretched into long worms of light, like stars in hyperspace. He can feel the roaring engine below him, controlling every part of it through his mental link. The airstream smashes the soft rain against his face like birdshot, still he feels comfortable and warm. She is crouched behind him, her arms slung closely around his waist, her cheek caressing his ear. He recognizes her smell, but is unabled to identify it. Doubts start to wash away the happiness from his mind. When he can no longer stand the feeling, he turns his face, trying to look at her out of the corner of his eye. before he catches a glimpse however he notices the bright light approaching fast at the other side of his visual periphery. A headsplitting howling hits his ears. He can almost hear the impeding clash, a mare crackling in his ears yet, in the moment before he opens his eyes..

Nurse wishing everyone a good night had riped him out of his slumber. His head rocks back from Halo´s, where it had rested. He blinks a few times, trying to sort the pictures in his head, the smell still lingering in his nose, despite the heavy stench of Deep.
Neo had risen from his seat in the corner and with a selfsatisfied grin approached the couch,that was now occupied by BronzeWyrm and the prezels alone. Before he can reach her, however, she jumps ship and snuggles in on the twoseater, already a bit cramped with Halo and Tao. He stretches and with a glance at the huge metahuman, lays his arm protectively around the elf´s shoulder.
After some giggling and chitchat, she starts tickling him, out of boredom or some other notion, which leads him to start a counter-attack.
Halo mutters some spanish cursing, and finally gets up, when the rambling doesn´t subceed.

Halo: "My God, if your that needy, get a room!"

She stretches and leaves the lounge with a grumpy expression. With this, the fighting parties seal a ceasfire with a serious handshake.
When -JJ was just repeating his phrase of the evening, again- Neo rises to his feet, chuckling, and leaves the room just behind her.

JJ: "Just another day in the dumps."

By the end of the sentence, Tao-Fighter had already left his body. He follows the troll, taking care he would not capitalize on any girls being alone or dazed, and entering the hallway, materializes for a short stare to make sure, the groaper knew he was watched.

22:51:03 Saturday, April 12 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

When he had made sure, the Troll was only visiting the restroom, he takes a look after Halo, chatting with the various watchers and guard spirits on the way. She was sitting beside the pool, obviously down, even without reading her aura. He refrained from scanning her, knowing that she wouldn´t approve, and watched her for while instead. When the feeling of being a voieur or stalker got the better of him, he makes sure, Neo isn´t causing any trouble, then goes looking for Auran, and as expected, finds her on the roof.
He chats with her about miscellaneous stuff for almost an hour, while she´s surveying the streets. Eventually he even addresses their current relationship, exchanging two or three thoughts, but doesn´t push the topic. Watching her astral form and drifting into nostalgia, he´s glad she never makes any avances, when they could actually be leading somewhere. While he would never engage in any revival by himself, he was bitterly aware, that he could not probably resist her, if she forced it.

When Halo, BronzeWyrm and Cammy show up and the girls start their regular Cosmo discussion, he only listens in for some moments. The topics soon begin to resemble, what news Rachel had 'shared' with him this evening, so he rises to the edge of the roof and gives in to the faint memory of gravity, letting his astral form plumit to the ground.
Before he returns to the lounge, he takes a peak at The Garage and then at Nurse, to make sure everything is alright.

00:19:28 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

JJ: "..nother day in the dumps."

When TF awakens from his trance, everyone in the room, except Tag shoots him a funny look, Aziz and JJ barely abled, not to laugh.

TF: "Good work, you have done there, and nice of you, not to lock me out, too!"

He tries to cheer up his friend, but he only gets a tired look and a halfhearty smile. He gets up, to stretch his limbs and bring some fresh, cool beers for him and his buddies. He attatches his forehead camera to the backroom, where Nurse is sleeping, to take an eye on who´s entering and is content, to find the fake-triple happiness in the kitchen already devoured.
They joke around a bit, but Felix seemingly only goes through the motions of laughing. He makes sure, to state his positive opinion the other mages standoff and the work he had done in the astral, but feels this is not the time, nor place for an in-depth conversation about the boys feelings.
When the girls return from the roof, he is happy to see Halo take Felix out for a talk. He stays inside and listens to JJ´s and Aziz´ detailed re-telling of the fight on Auran´s request.

13:12:44 Sunday, April 13 2070

Slam gets a commcall and spends a couple of minutes in one-sided conversation. When he hangs up, he looks grim. "That was Treeno. Apparently a dozen very mean looking trogs just rolled past his shop. He ran out the back, but he says he saw a couple of them askin' someone somethin' on the street. They're probably lookin' for us."

00:49:15 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

When Halo and Tag come back in, together with Raven, Tao drops his hand and shoves his pool of 'Krill-Poker-Chips' over to BronzeWyrm. On his way to the restroom, he wishes the girls joining Nurse in the backroom a good night. In the mirror, he discovers the goth make-up smeared all over his face and removes it. with a slightly red rubbed face, he crashes on the couch beside BronzeWyrm. Seeing that Tag was already asleep, he decides to do so as well, though he´s not particularly tired, having been up until 6 AM, the last night and sleped untill noon.

TF: "I´m trusting my face to you, so don´t disappoint me!"

He placing his head onto her lap, tries to get a nap as well. He dreamed about the night Sascha died, living through every detail of it, to the point of being abled to count his tears.

03:06:01 Sunday, April 13 2070

JJ singing: "Just another night in the dumps! Just another night in the dumps! ...

Tao-Fighter is awakened shortly, by JJ´s show. He re-positions, to comfort BronzeWyrm, so she could get up whenever she wants, without shoving his whole body away and passes away again, the taste of ginger sneaking into his mouth from beyond consciousness.

04:10:00 Sunday, April 13 2070

Tao is awakened again by Auran´s coke-induced full-auto jibberjabber. Checking his sensors, he listen patiently through the minutes, occasionally throwing in some remark, until the first rush wares down and she starts cleaning up. He helps her without straining himself to much and then has a high-sugar breakfast of cola and munchies with Halo, before taking out the garbage, to catch some fresh air and watch the sunrise over a shared smoke.
Back in again, he settles down and lets his mind drift away in the flow of Trid programms and BronzeWyrm´s own private trideo show. He considers to summon a spirit after sunrise, but thinks it is better for him to rest as long as he can. Even while Aziz and Halo are fighting for the remote across him, he sinks into a light slumber again. Don´t know why she doesn´t subscribe the trid to her dj ... he thinks and begins dreaming about Halo´s parents.

11:22:33 Sunday, April 13 2070

He wakes up without feeling any time had passed, Aziz and Halo are still -or again- fighting over the remote, though less vigorous. He stretches, goes to the bathroom and than shoves in a second breakfast over some conversation.
He leaves the Y only to get his gear from Auran, shower and redress at The Garage. After another comforting and more relaxed session of extended care by Nurse´s soft hands, he feels much better, though his head is aching slightly from that single beer.

13:12:46 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Auran

Auran had been force feeding herself after being up all night on nova. Her stomach grumbled as it tried to regurgitate the food back up, but she manages to keep it down. Her eyes were bloodshot, her hair was frayed, and she looked a bit grimy from the cleaning she just did. She was just sipping her soycaff and eating bread as their leader laid out the news. Great, just fragging great.... they had to come at this time.

Auran looks up at Slam and gives a nod. "Roger."Frag... had to be them troggs, maybe they'll take Neo with them haha... Auran runs to her locker and reloads her two Rugers in her hands with Stic N Shoc ammo, and grabs all the rest of it and puts it into her pockets. She grabs the box of regular ammo, and her spare ruger in it's holster, and runs to the window right above the front door. She continuously peaks outside, focusing her vision magnifying glasses at any large dust trails or sings of large mobs. Ruger's in hand, she waits for the inevitable. Only the lord may help us now....

13:12:46 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
JJ

JJ walks over to a table, picks up his armored jacket, slings it on and zips it up. "Where's that shotgun? Someone that knows how to use it, might want to keep it beeded on that door." He points to the front entrance.

JJ then goes over to the front side of the Y and starts peeping out a window, obviously trying to stay low and remain as invisible as possible to anyone on the outside.

As he peers out, crouched down on one knee, he reaches behind to his back and pulls out the Predetor he acquired last night.

13:12:55 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Felix

Once he had finally turned in, Felix had slept like a log. The emotional and physical challenge of the day had totaly drained him. Grabbing a quiet corner of the Y, and a sleeping bag, sleep had come within seconds. The young mage felt rather content with how he had handled the day. The lounge was warded, he had been able to accomplish some rather powerful feat of mind control, and had apparently gained the respect of a lot of his fellow gangers. His sadness had been totaly obliterated when Halo had spent a good part of the night with him, just talking about everything and nothing. Everything that made him feel bad had completely disappeared.

The first thing he had done, once up and about, had been to summon a new fire elemental. Feeling rather confident after last night's conjuring, he decided to push himself as far as he could go. Using his new found confidence in his own abilities... and the feeling of pure joy from getting Halo's attention, Felix conjured up the strongest Firebeing he could.

When the news came that trouble was already heading their way, Felix froze on the couch he was sitting on. Around him, the occupants of the room broke out into action, gathering their gear as fast as the could and taking "improvised positions".

This is bad...

Bolting on his feat, the wizkid took off after JJ, keeping as close to his friend as he could. Sitting agaisnt a wall, next to JJ, Felix's head fell forward as if he had suddently decided to take a nap.

13:12:46 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Halo

As Slam delivers the news, a chill runs up and down Halo's spine. This can't be good..not at all. She shrugs back on her armored leather jacket, slips the Slivergun at the small of her back and checks the inner pocket for her spare filled clips.

She looked around the room, the faces of her fellow gangmates confirmed her feeling. This was not good, not good at all. She watches as people start to scatter in different directions. She grabs one of the decoy boxes and keeps it with her in case she needs to haul ass out of her as per the plan. Her team could all regroup in Riverside park. Out of their turf by a long shot, but a large enough location to get lost in and buy the group more time.

She heads down to the main level, back towards the loading dock, box in hand. She wanted to be close enough to her bike that she had a fighting chance to make it out should it come to that.

<<[13:18:43] C410: Halo@BronzeWyrm: You and the boys watching the doors and the local feeds for any trouble? You're gonna be our first heads up chica, or if Electrode can get his drones up in the sky....>>

She keeps her eye on the loading dock door, her back against the wall and her ears sharp. She taps her commlink into the security feed of the loading dock door as well. She didn't want to be surprised.

12:30:30 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
BronzeWyrm

Wym finally drags herself to conciousness sometime after noon. She finds she's still dressed in beer and pot smelling clothes and something sour lingers in the back of her mouth. She moans as a dull thud settles in the back of her brain, noticing that Nurse is not in the room. She's a day-cycle persona Wyrm reminds herself.

She drags herself to her feet, and stumbles into the women's change rooms... if she's lucky she still has that spare set of clothes she left in locker 25 last week. To her satisfaction, the dress and sweater are hanging where they should be. She strips off her clothes, dropping them into the napsack in the locker. She grabs her towel and shampoo, then pads off naked into the showers. The warm water revives her as she washes the nights toxins from her skin. She wraps herself in her towel and returns to her locker. She slips on some fresh undies, the black sleveless dress and pulls a cardigan overtop, teases her hair in the mirror and goes to find the rest of the gang.

A drink of water, a bit of pastry and her yougourt drink bring Wyrm back up to feeling herself again. She's drinking her yogourt shake when Slam makes his announcement. Her eyes widen and she nearly spits out her drink in surprise. She quickly brings up Electrode's drone which had been refueled this morning. She nearly coughs up her drink again when the drone brings up over a dozen armored hogs passing the Stuffer Shack. "Drek! 14 heavy bikes down the block!" she looks up from her scanning. "They're built for war." her woried expression slowly turns into one of resolve as she gets an idea. "Meshing full VR, see what interference I can provide." she puts her drink down, closes her eyes and is gone into the electron world.

Her dragon persona streaks across the nodes, she spots her targets, man they're close! She brings up the status of the bikes, searching for a weakness. She stops, she'll need help with this, mustering her courage she calls a friend to assist her.

A small pixie materializes beside Wyrm's draconic form. "Hi" says the little tinkling voice"
Wyrm smiles down at her friend. "I need you to cause as much havoc to those bikes as you can."
The pixie grins mischieviously. "You got it!" and dashes off to her task.

Wyrm will pitch in where she can scanning for signals and exploitable devices. She sends a response to Halo
[13:19:05] C410: BronzeWyrm@Halo: "Working on Interference, 14 bogeys down the block"
[13:19:07] C410: BronzeWyrm "Drone report incoming, transfering data to AR interfaces."

13:15:12 Sunday, April 13 2070
Crash HQ
JAX

***

The previous night was a blur. CD had taken JAX to Cutter's yard to pick up the bike. A sleek, gray affair that wasn't at all the twin of China Doll's. It didn't look like as much of a racer as the Suzuki's or the Yamaha's or even CD's own Ducati. It was somewhere between a cruiser and a racer, tough and sleek with accents in metallic gray.

All sense of time went out of his head as he crouched over the bike, checking out every detail, every inch of the thing, comparing it to readouts and reviews that flashed in his vision. Finally Cutter had said, "All that drool's not good for the paint. You gonna take her for a spin or what?"

JAX sat back on his heels and admired the meaty looking bike. He started to nod, and then to grin like mad, "Yeah. Hell yeah!"

"Don't forget this." Cutter grinned at JAX and tossed a duffel bag at him. It hit him mostly square in the chest and spun him around a little, he put his hand back to catch himself and another up, defensively to catch the bag. He regained his balance and looked up puzzled at the lady standing leaning against the doorframe of her squat at the yard. Light shone from behind her illuminating her hair in a glow around her head. To JAX it looked like a halo. He didn't look closely at her though, he was ripping into the bag. Though China Doll, observant as she was, saw a lascivious look in the shadowed planes of Cutter's face.

JAX unzipped the bag and inside it was a set of matte black motorcycle armor. Pants, and armored pullover shirt, shin guards with buckles and straps and a heavy jacket and helmet to match. JAX was floored. He was going to look so fucking bad ass. Eyes riveted on the armor he said, "But... this wasn't part of the deal."

"You can make it up to me," Cutter purred as she sauntered out of the doorway closer to the young mechanic. "Try it on," she urged.

JAX, his hands full, fell back a step or two, standing up and juggling the bundle, as he looked up from the armor to the woman. Back to the armor. He licked his lips and glanced up and down the length of her body. He had been so bowled over by the bike and imagining himself cruising down the street in the new gear, he hadn't noticed the woman's approach. Nor the look on her face. He knew a trap when he saw one. And what a trap. He swallowed again.

Cutter smiled, teeth gleaming in the dim light, "You can use my bathroom. If you're shy."

CD cleared her throat, and Cutter turned a fierce look at the biker.

JAX breathed in sharply as Cutter's eyes broke away from his to look at China Doll and a deep affection swelled in his chest for her. God, thanks Meri. JAX scooted sideways, stuffing the armor back into the bag, "Yeah, we have to go." He held the bag out to Cutter, "Thanks anyway." She shook her head and shoved the bag back to him. "No, you'll pay me back. One way or another."

He swallowed and sidled up to his bike and threw his leg over the back. Damn, this thing feels great. He glanced back up at Cutter, who stood there with a very strange expression on her face. "Yeah, you bet."

He keyed in the codes Cutter had given him and the bike roared to life under him. It did feel great. Cutter turned on her heel and walked into her squat, "Don't let the door hit ya..." CD and JAX heard a grinding, banging sound in the distance. Cutter's door slammed. JAX linked his bike to CD's and gave her the high-sign to get them the hell out. He leaned down over the bike and they roared towards the entrance to the yard, slipping through the rattling steel jaws just before they clanged shut with a groan.

[22:10:34] <<< 410Crash @CD: I'm SO getting one of the techies to rewire the security on this thing. >>>

He smiled at what he thought was CD's chuckle.

[22:10:40] <<< 410Crash @CD: So, you're the best rider in the gang, you gonna show me some stuff, or what? >>>

***

13:15:12
JAX hit the door of the common room, decked out in his new armor, sans jacket. "Holy mother of fragglesnot! I just saw freaking 30 trolls rolling toward the stuffer." He catches the shotgun as JJ tosses it to him, feeling like a badass as he catches it single-handed, but he peers down at it puzzled.

He tosses it back to JJ, "You'd probably outta give that to someone else, unless you think that me waving it at them threateningly will do the trick."

3:15:13 Sunday, April 13 2070
Crash HQ
JJ

JJ tosses the shotgun back to JAX. "Wave it or whatever. You really might need to use it. You've seen enough of 'em fired to know which end is which."

He gives JAX a long look. "Can you handle the package?" JJ pauses, "I mean, you know, are you going to be driving that new bike of yours?"

13:12:54 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Aziz

Aziz reacts with dismay at the fact that there are fourteen trolls asking about the gang.

"Well thats no good. We outnumber them, sure, but we're mostly humans and elves.", he says. He stands up from the couch.

"We'll have to start fortifying the place. Board up windows and doors. Snipers on the roof, and so forth.", he says, as Tao comes up to him, holding out his AK-97 and a spare clip, which he hands to Aziz.

"Here, you use this.", Tao says. Aziz smiles and begins to say something, when Tao adds in "Theres only ten bullets in each clip, so make it count." Aziz frowns.

"Ten bullets. Great.", he says, pulling back the bolt and chambering a round. Aziz thinks for a moment.

"I'll be right back.", he says. He heads off to the kitchen, and once alone, he turns on his commlink, and sends a call to Boris, his fixer friend, asking if he has any sort of aid he could offer on short notice.

13:15:20 Sunday, April 13 2070
Crash HQ
JAX

JAX caught the shotgun again, in both hands this time. He looks at it dubiously, "Well, I guess if I'm gonna be able to hit anything, it'll be with this."

His stomach was still mildly uneasy from over indulging the night before and it rolled as JJ mentioned that he should 'handle the package.' He bit back a half-dozen quips at JJ's unintentional double entendre.

"I, uh, yeah..." He looked down at the shotgun in his hands, it gleamed in the dim half-light filtering through the windows of the HQ. He thought of the bike sitting in the garage, gleaming in the darkness. He hadn't expected to love riding it so much. It totally changed things now that the bike he drove was his. He totally understood why CD and the others got off on racing. It was a rush. Though, he had a long way to go, and a lot of practicing to do. If he survived today. He finished the thought, with barely a noticable pause, "...yeah, of course I will."

He looked around at the bustle around him, people running to and fro with hammers and nails and sheets of plastic and plywood.

"I'll be right back. Thyn, can you pull your van up to the garage?" JAX looked at the box on the table, he wasn't really sure if it was a decoy or not, he couldn't remember. He had dim recollections of the others laughing their asses off as they made the second decoy strung out and strange in the wee hours of the morning. If he recalled correctly it was more like a time capsule than a decoy, a time capsule that said "Here's a big 'Frag Off' from the 410 Crash." He was pretty sure there was a picture of someone's mooning ass in there. Neo's? He shook his head. I'm glad I don't remember. He grinned and grabbed the box and carried it over to JJ.

"Tag, you're it. Thyn and I are going to run over to the garage and get some stuff. We'll be right back."

13:15:21 Sunday, April 13 2070
Crash HQ
Toy Robot


While everyone else was getting high Toy spent the night standing automaton rigid clutching her assault rifle waiting for impending doom. The news of approaching bikes changes nothing.

Since her team has consistiently failed to materialize Toy bellows: "TEAM! WHAT FUCK YOU DOING!?!?"

Up until 13:13:00 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Tao-Fighter

Noon had been uneventfull. Halo still had not discovered the empty box, that had previously held her special meal. Whoever had eaten the Triple Happiness Decoy, had stuffed the inflated satchel between the wall and tha microwave. He had convinced Nurse to swap thair medkits, for the time being. When she had been done with him, he had talked to Felix for some minutes, looked like the young mage was on top again. He had told him about the hiden Triple Happiness and to give it to Halo when he saw fit.

He was slowly getting agitated, he had yet to decipher this mornings I-Ging oracle. Thunder above the Earth, the sign of enthusiasm. The second line was unstable, turning the hexagram into Dsing, liberation. Now maybe, that was a good omen, but he could not wrap his head around the devination, yet. Seeing Auran slowly slide into her Cokain-crash, didn´t help his brooding mood.

13:13:00 Sunday, April 13 2070

One call and the whole scene jumps into hyperdrive. The first thing he does after grabing his gear, is tuning in on his team-chanel and C410 Tactical, then he hands over his AK to Aziz. When he drafts two of his smoke granades from his belt pocket, he draws out yesterday´s KharmaKracker prophecy with them. 'Always be prepared, to have guests at lunch!' He snorts.

Turning to the redheads, he drops the bundle he had prepaired for Nurse into her lap and carefully places his Warhawk into Wyrm´s.
While Nurse reholsters her Fichetti, tuckes the survivalknife and holster of the Shot-Pistol onto her belt, puts the granade into her pocket and draws TF´s Roomsweeper, Tao talks to her in a soft voice, simutaniously, sending the message through the ´trix for Wyrm ro hear.

TF ([13:15:52] C410: Tao-Fighter@BronzeWyrm&Nurse): "If the dreck really starts flying! Jazz hits almost instantly, but it runs only for one hour maximum, maybe as little as 10 minutes, and you will feel a bit dizzy when it drops out, though. So only take it when we´r really runing hot."

Hanging one of his Jazz-Inhalators, that´s dangling on a chain around Nurse´s neck he gives her a quick kiss on the forhead, than does the same to Bronze.

Then he walks over to Auran. He softly puts his hand on the small of her back, beside the gun, and lock´s eyes with her, for a second. Watch it, partner! There was no need for words, so he simply puts a flashbang and a dose of cram into her hand, and stuffs his Peperpunch into her pocket.
He hates to grab the spotlight, but with his partner downed, he sends a few words of encouragement to his companions, hoping that Slam would elaborate on them. Unsure, what to say, he simply starts talking off the top of his head.

[13:16:41] C410: Tao-Fighter: "Ok, pals, this is going to be tough, but we will make it throug! If they are coming for us in our own hood, they will soon know pain. We have the Home Ground and we have the Numbers, so we will fuck these trolls up! We´ve got our plans, non of us is going to die for those circle A´s. So, let´s kick some big nuts!"

Though he is far from doubtless, he manages to keep an air of confidence, he had never presented befor. Hope this is going to be of any use! With a miscevious grin, he gives Auran a light slap onto her ass and goes on to catch up with his designated ride.

Tao looks at Halo´s Face for a moment, trying to discern the effect of his speech. Then his eyes drop to her lips and his heart starts pumping like mad. He clenches his jaws and takes a deep breath, looking at her eyes again.

13:15:21 Sunday, April 13 2070
Crash HQ
China Doll

Toy Robot bellows: "TEAM! WHAT FUCK YOU DOING!?!?"

China Doll snaps open her eyes to see a pair of glassy brown eyes in a sea of black and white facial hair staring into her face. As Wen Lo the stuffed animatronic Panda, her favorite, goes sailing up into the air from behind the couch where she is concealed by some loose cushions, China Doll flashes through the previous night.

*** Previously ***

[22:10:45] <<< 410Crash @JAX: First thing you are going to do is not stand up Cutter at dinner at the Jade Tiger Lily. >>>
[22:10:50] <<< 410Crash @JAX: The dinner you are going to invite her to tomorrow. >>>
[22:10:55] <<< 410Crash @JAX: You better watch it, Cutter looks like she has a healthy appetite. >>>
[22:10:59] <<< 410Crash @JAX: Now for the lessons! You want to handle curves right, you need to smooth out your rubber. >>>

China Doll raises her hand briefly to indicate a manuever as they pause at an intersection, keeping her front wheel in place, she flips her Razor through a series of alternate direction figure eight smoking rear tire burns. Finishing with the Razor upright and facing JAX, she flips her visor up, and pointing at her rear, says, "See how hot it is all around, and how there is no edge, it's all smooth and rounded? Makes a nice grip when carving through turns."

"Let's start with you spinning in place."

***

I hope no one shoots my panda. What's going on?

<<< 410Crash:
The background is a washed out red, the wire frame map is magnifying the Y, enlarging the scale of the locale so it dwarfs the rest of the map, several clusters of green personal tags blink steadily in the building, while a large set of red icons move across the map.
>>>

"uh oh"

13:13:13 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Auran

Auran, checking her comm for the time, realized this was a horrible sign of bad luck. 13:13:13 4/13 imminent doom from the ides of April! She logs onto the tactical chat, and subscribes her earbuds, microtransciever, and glasses to her comm.
C410: Auran has joined channel C410 - << C410.Auran voice message: Auran locked and loaded. Anyone got some eyes on them yet, tell us what they're packing? >>

She thanks Tao with a polite nod, until he pats her ass. Her face contorts into an icy stare as she threatens to use the pepper punch before putting it away. After thinking a moment, decides to pop the cram right then and there. Frag it, let's make this a weekend to remember.

13:13:18 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Neo

Neo comes alive when he hears about the opposition coming, and directs the gangers into locations that would be optimal to defend the base, using his knowledge of security design. If he can, he'll try to set up kill zones and the like.

13:16:40 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Nurse

Nurse is in the lounge, by Wyrm's body as the elfin red-head is currently in full VR getting ready for the arrival of the trolls.

Nurse has her respirator and her glasses on as she 'guards' over Wyrm's meatbod, glad for having taken the time to get into her armoured clothing when JAX first came to the shops to fetch her. Her goggles are once more worn like a headband so they can be easily slipped on if needed, and TF's medkit is in the backpack Nurse has on now, to keep it out of the way yet handy. The Jazz TF gave her is on a chain dangling from her neck and she has put away her own pistol in favour of TF's roomsweeper, which, if it is possible, she will hook up to the smartlink in her glasses. If the drek gets that bad that she truly is all that stands between Wyrm and troll trouble, there probably isn't going to be any other 410'ers to be worrying about accidentally injuring anyway. Her only response to TF's handing her and Wyrm gear, and his words at taht time, had been a tight-lipped smile of acknowledgement and then to stow her accumulated gear the way she feels it would be best used by her now, in this situation.

Unless anyone tells her otherwise, Nurse is going to stay near Wyrm doing her best to protect the elf, with a preference for the elimination of the threat so that All can be thereby kept safe. She sees people rushing around, but is not on the ganger chan to be hearing TF's speech.

13:14:07 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Raven

Raven had awoken when the Y was getting busy with commotion. She had quickly learned the news about the trolls headed for them most likely, or was it sure already?

Her spirit had left by now, it was already the next morning, or rather the next day. Raven's wounds from her unsuccessful summoning yesterday had not enough time to heal yet, and her magic would be useless to treat them. Nurse had not quite known what to do either, so it was just waiting and resting that could be done. But waiting and resting wasn't exactly what was on the schedule for today.

Hopefully, there was still a little time, before all hell broke lose. Raven needed a shower now, so she headed to the bathroom.

13:15:29 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Raven

When Toy's bellow echoed through the Y, Raven reaches out of the shower and grabs her commlink to send her a message.

<< C410 @ToyRobot: Taking a quick shower. Be there soon. Raven. >>

13:16:54 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Raven

Finshed with her quick bath, Raven grabs one of the clean towels to dry herself. She slips back into her clothes and heads upstairs.

“Guess we can need every help we can get.”

Sitting back down on one of the comfy seats, Raven concentrates to call for the aid of another spirit, hoping that today it would work better than the last time. Still, they would need all the help they can get, so she goes to her limit.

For a moment, it looks like the head of a raven is superimposed over Raven's own pretty face, melting into it, becoming one... then it disappears as suddenly.

The translucent form of the air spirit appears next to her, brought into this world by her summoning. Moments later, it disappears, ready to be called when needed.

“I'm ready!”

13:15:30 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Toy Robot




<< C410 @ToyRobot: Taking a quick shower. Be there soon. Raven. >>


Toy's face contorts into a dramatic Greek mask of anguish. She dosen't say anything but instead makes a low growling noise and has to fight down the urge to put the barrel of her AK in her mouth. She thinks to herself in Indonesian, "What sort of abject MORON hops in the shower when people are coming with GUNS and VEHICLES to KILL them? Thought brings HEAD PAIN! I hope she takes the damn shower, comes out in the middle of the firefight, and PEES all over herself!"

Toy scampers behind some cover and prepare for the onslaught, her confidence in her teammates rather shaken.

13:16:54 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Toy Robot


Toy's face again contorts, this time like someone who has just bitten into a fresh, juicy lemon. In Indonesian, she thinks, "That SHOWER lasted one minute and twenty four seconds! Is she running around wet and naked with soap in her armpits!?"

13:15:30 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Neo

On a whim, Neo uploads a file containing the Imperial March onto the 410's communications network, along with a note of "If you've got a DNI."

He then starts playing it in his commlink, humming along with it as he takes an injection of Cram.

13:16:22 Sunday, April 13 2070
The Garage
JAX

JAX sprinted across the street and, breathless from the dash, negotiated his garage's security. Now he is throwing virtually everything that isn't bolted down or specifically related to fixing bikes and cars into the back of Thyn's van. Chainsaw, gasmasks, spools of monowire. He grabs the small compressor he uses for paint jobs, and some paint, and lugs that over too.

He runs upstairs and grabs some stuff from his crummy little room, listening all the while for the throaty rumble of incoming bikes.

He heads downstairs with all the junk and shoves it into the back of the van, pulling the doors closed behind him, he bangs the cage between the front and back to tell Thyn he's ready to move out.

13:17:59 Sunday, April 13 2070
Gang HQ
Raven

“Hey Toy, relax! They ain't here yet. I'll take one of those windows over there and look out for them.”

Raven then moves to the front, looking for a place from where she can observe the streets in front of the Y, and where she won't be right in the line of fire, when someone comes inside.

She switches her senses to the astral, and peers out of the window, making sure, that she isn't easy to see from outside.