Saturday March 1st, 2070; 21:59

Grayson
As Grayson leans in on the cabbie he replies, "Loveland? Fifty nuyen, but you'll have to wait for five minutes... I have a package coming. Have a seat... Chill..." The toothy grin of the old cabbie is either comforting or scary... or both...

Tigger
The trip through the underdark goes quickly as you race back towards the Mall. You've got one more quick delivery, this one from Doze to the private hack Daryl. You should be able to parley this into a ride as well.... as you exit the Mall at a jog you are surprised to see a man already sitting in the car...

Carter, Rex, Whisper & Jake
Rex climbs back into the van to again wait for the arrival of other team members. Whisper continues her astral patrol of the area - for now, all is quiet. Finally, Carter steps approaches the van having been dropped off by the cab about a block away.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 21:59 Loveland, Puyallup District


Jake takes over full control of the drone and trotts ahead slowly.
[Jake@All: Shall we?]

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00; Crime Mall, outside in Daryl's Cab

"Fifty it is." Grayson winces to himself and only to himself. "How long we waiti--" a courier steps up to the cab. 'Greer' gives him a knowing and suspicious look. "If I didn't know better, kid..."

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Saturday March 1st, 2070; 21:59 Loveland, Puyallup District

Jake:
"We do need at leat one of them alive in case they have some useful info. If we could avoid the needles killing the better. So, first we do the hard talk, shoot later if need be. Or in your case slice to chops."

Rex:
Rex gives Jake a very unsettling grin, taking out the axe and playing with its edge while waiting for the full crew to assemble.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 21:59 Loveland, Puyallup District

Carter looks around the neighborhood as he approaches the coordinates. Kidnapper van. Check. Building. Check. Loud music. No check.

[@Jake [Carter] I'm here. Do we have eyes on the target?]

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00; Outside the Crime Mall, in Daryl's Cab, Puyallup District
Grayson & Tigger
Daryl subtly takes the package from Tigger and crossed around to the driver's side as Tigger climbs in beside Greer with a subtle smile. Daryl starts the station wagon, puts it into gear and it lurches forward, chugging off the lot. "Sit back and enjoy the ride, Daryl'll take good care of you's..."
The petrol-hybrid engine billows white smoke out the back. The state of the inside can only be described as one of Jake's nightmares.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00; Loveland, Puyallup District
Whisper, Jake, Rex & Carter
The block is mostly dark as the there are no working lights on this block. A cool breeze gently blows and it is mostly quiet out tonight.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00; Loveland, Puyallup District

"Ermm..enough waitin', lets go.." Rex says and steps out of the van. Seeing the samurai step out, Jake sends the drone after and together they head towards Spencers apartment.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00; Daryl's Cab

Grayson settles back in the seats and watches shadows fall over the cab as they move into the blacked-out neighborhood surrounding the Mall. "So, kid, where're you headed?"

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00; Daryl's Cab

Tigger slides the package from Daze into the cabbie's hand, passing the sweet cram over to the other man with a slight resistance from his subconscious...he wanted it all for himself, but his pay mattered more at the moment. That and he had another job to do, as personified by the other occupant of the petrol guzzling tub.

Tigger turned slightly to Greer and responded as if he didn't know the man, "Loveland, you?"

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:30

Grayson & Tigger: Leaving the Crime Mall lot, in Daryl's Cab, Puyallup District
Daryl rolls out of the parking lot as the pair talk in the back, presumably for his benefit.

Whisper, Jake, Rex & Carter: Loveland, Puyallup District
Rex and the drone slip between apartment buildings through the backyard into the backyard of Spencer's building. Carter slips into the shadows to provide cover from the darkness. The area remains mostly dark, a little light making it through from the few working street lights on the next block over. Ahead there is a small, closed door at the back of the building. Rex also remembers a more formal entrance around the front.

Whisper watches the team from astral space, unseen by those connected to their meat-bodies. Astral space is mostly calm, though there are several marred places on the ground indicative of recent violent deaths still echoing through the colors that flow from all living things and the drab gray that covers most things manufactured.

Jake's senses fully engaged through the drone, he hears each of the troll's foot falls as a boom and each breath as a hurricane for wind. A slight adjustment of the audio sensors help reduce the noise of the troll to a dull roar in the background, but filter upgrades would definitely help. The visual sensors of the drone also scream for upgrades as it moves through the darkness using only visual light inputs. The streaming video from the other drones in place remind him that Spencer's apartment is on the second floor with a window overlooking the front of the building on the northwest corner.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:30

Rex enters the building from the back door. Meanwhile, Jake checks the spy drones on the window and ceiling to see where are the thugs that entered Spencers apartment.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:33: Loveland, Puyallup District
Whisper, Jake, Rex & Carter

Rex finds the back door locked.
Jake glances over at the video streams from the two fly-spies, one on the window and the other on the ceiling outside Spencer's door. The hallway is quiet. One of the thugs is sitting on the couch in the living room. The other is not visible.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:35 Loveland, Puyallup District

[Rex@all: Yo! anyone has a spare lock opener?]

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:35 Loveland, Puyallup District

[@Rex [Carter] I can open it.]

Sliding out of the shadows into the light near the backdoor, Carter reaches under his coat and withdraws a few thin probes with which to pick the lock. He signals for Rex to back off into the shadows while he works.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:39: Loveland, Puyallup District
Whisper, Jake, Rex & Carter

Carter slips to the back door from the shadows lucky enough, or perhaps experienced enough, to have the correct tools in hand. He then begins the task of aligning the lock's tumblers to pick the lock.

@Carter

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:39: Loveland, Puyallup District

Rex moves away, and watches out for anyone approaching while Carter does his thing..


While Carter is busy opening the lock Jake opens a conference call to all the team members and begin spooling the video feed from all three drones as well as an overhead map with team and drone positions determined via GPS.

[@all [Jake]: My plan is simple. I am going to cause the distraction for the guys in the apartment so the rst of you can catch them by surprise. I need you to go to second floor and onm my mark you will rush in and take them down. We need at least one of them alive.]

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:48: Loveland, Puyallup District
Whisper, Jake, Rex & Carter

Carter feels the tumblers one at a time move into position.. click... click.... click.... then he turns the nob and the door quietly slides open revealing a dark hallway beyond....

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:48: Loveland, Puyallup District

[@All [Carter]: I'm in. Do we have any eyes inside to know how many guards or people are between us and the target? Upstairs is quiet, but how many are downstairs. The surprise won't work if we get seen before we even arrive. Also, are all inhabitants to be considered hostile?]

Either these guys are new to the job or have never heard of a debriefing before.

Stepping back from the light around the doorway into the shadows of the deep alley, Carter slides the lockpicks back into their pocket in his jacket. Quietly, he draws his pistol and interfaces with the smartlink to ensure that the clip was full and the safety off.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:49: Loveland, Puyallup District

[@All [Jake]: I was just getting on it.. I am sending one of my flies to inspect the stairs and other places of entry. You have direct feed into it.]
Casting one last glance at the movement inside, Jake detaches the fly from the ceiling and keeping it in the shadows inspects the stairs and alternative approach points for the sentries.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:15: Loveland, Puyallup District

The first of the three streaming video feeds provided by Jake to the team's AR conference call immediately reacts as the Jake switches to the fly-spy drone in the hall. Proceeding down the empty hall of the small apartment building's second floor then down the stairs. Once on the first floor it proceeds down the hall to the now slightly open back door and the team beyond.

The second fly-spy drone remains attached to the front window. Peering into Spencer's apartment, only the one of the two men are visible. He is sitting on the couch, a machine pistol on the coffee table in front of him.

The third drone, the doberman, is waiting off to the side and has Carter and Rex in its field of vision.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:15: Loveland, Puyallup District

[@Whisper [Jake]: Can you astraly project to check where the other thug is?]

[@Carter and Rex [Jake]: Hold on guys, I want Whisper to check where the other thug is within the apartment. Once I have the location I am going to use my drones to create distraction so you can take them by surprise. Of course, if you have suggestions I am open for them..]

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:03; Daryl's Cab

A quarter-hour alert chimes in Grayson's ear. <[GWJaspers] Greer, checking in. Our courier friend has made a reappearance.>

Grayson looks over at Tigger and squints at him briefly. Greer, checking out an unwelcome guest. "Same. Business or pleasure?"

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:04; Daryl's Cab

Tigger looked back over at the man he was sharing the cab with, returning from spacing out while watching the city pass them by. He smiled a little bit, keeping his tiny tusks as concealed as possible. It wasn't like he was ashamed of his ork heritage, it just made it easier if he didn't look like a meta in public, it could get a guy arrested in some parts.

"Business, though it doesn't neccesarily exclude pleasure, ya know."

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:19: Loveland, Puyallup District

[@Jake and Rex [Carter]: Holding for your mark.]

Carter takes a second to set the transparencies of each window. Once the smartlink engaged, the tactical windows would fade to nearly transparent, providing only the lightest overlay for cross-reference. Cycling through the various sensor feeds, he disabled feeds that would be unnecessary once inside the building.

He squeezes the grip of his pistol once, to check the efficacy, fine tuning settings until Jake gives the call.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:15: Loveland, Puyallup District



Whisper tries to find the hidden character via her astral projection.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:19: Loveland, Puyallup District
Whisper

Whisper's astral form glides through walls of the complex. Several families live in other apartments. As she reaches Spencer's, she finds the second thug standing up in from the toilet, currently wrapping up the paperwork for his current task.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:23: Loveland, Puyallup District

[@all [Whisper] ..John Doe #2 is taking a dump.]

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:00:23: Loveland, Puyallup District

[@All [Jake]:Ok, Rex and Carter proceed to the second floor but don't get in until my mark. Once there I am going to send in my flies to make a distraction. Make sure you follow their feedbacks up until that moment. Once I have their attention, take them down. If our friend with intestines problems is still working I'll send in doggie to take care of him.]
Jake sends in his fly back to the second floor ahead of Rex and Carter and doggie (who is left on its own with instructions to follow them.) Once they are there he is going to zoom with the fly inside the building into the room and fly straight into JD#1's face (preferably eyes) to 'blind him'. That is also the time when Rex and Carter should rush in, preceeded by the doberman drone who will ram the second thug (preferably in the belly). Several kilos of fast moving metal would be enough to make anyone dizzy for a second if not send to dreamland.
Jake informs everyone of the plan and gets to work.

((OOC:Any questions about the crazy plan?))

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:05; Daryl's Cab

Grayson nods in agreement and sits quietly for the rest of the trip. The address he specified is a couple minute walk away from Spencer's doss.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:01:00: Loveland, Puyallup District

Jake first fly-spy retains it position on the outside of the living room window of Spencer's apartment while the second flies up to the second floor to take up a position hovering outside the door to the apartment.

The Doberman rolls into the building and down the hall. Once it reaches the stairs, it extends its legs and navigates its way slowly up the stairs. Rex and Carter follow keeping cautious watch while awaiting the drone's ascension.

When it reaches the top of the stairs and turns into the hall, everyone stops as the AR feed from fly-spy #2 grabs their attention. The thugs in the room reacting as if looking through the walls. They scramble, grabbing up their Uzi's and heading for either side of the door into the apartment.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:01:00: Loveland, Puyallup District

Perfect! And now that we've got their attention...
[@All [Jake]: Hold your positions guys. Time for a little surprise. Be ready to react on my mark.]
Jake unloads his Nissan Roto Drone and sends her flying towards Spencers window, weapons locked and loaded.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:01:05: Loveland, Puyallup District

Jake informs everyone of the plan and how they should react and then preps the dobermann for fireing, seting a 3 second delay so he can jump into rotodrone and commence attack from the outside. Puting opacity on the window screens of other drone feeds so he has clearer sight, he tries to stabilyze the drone anc achieve lock on at the same thug dobermann is shooting at (the one closer to the window) using drones sensors before he fires of his guns. Both drones will fire narrow bursts
Once initial shoots are fired, Rex will axe the door and burst in attacking thug near the window while dobermann will ram the other and try to knock him down.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; Loveland, Puyallup District

22:01:06
The roto drone gracefully swings around the apartment to the outside window. The doberman takes up its position just past the door, its gun aimed at the wall and starts its count down. Rex walks up to the door, unslinging his axe and raising it over his shoulder.
22:01:07
The roto drone sensors activate, targeting the first thug as it sets into hover mode.
22:01:08
The thugs in the room react to the movement in the hall, diving away from the door and each squeezing off a wide burst towards the door and the troll beyond. While the troll feels the *thud* of a round from the pair of bursts, the combination of the door, his armor jacket and his tough hide totally negate the effects of the bullets.
22:01:09
The doberman opens fire, but no target exists at that spot in the wall. The roto-drone to which Jake has jumped in suffers no such targeting problems. The bullets spray right across the chest of the thug as he is diving for cover.
His mighty axe leading his body, Rex blasts through the door as if it were made of gingerbread, sending pieces flying all directions.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:01:08: Loveland, Puyallup District

Whisper patiently waits to hear updates on how things are transpiring. She feels there's not much assistance she can give them at this moment, but she continues to watch in astral just to ensure no funny magic business goes on. The idea of interupting and suggesting not killing the thugs goes as quickly as it comes. In her mind, the others would hopefully have enough sense not to do too much damage. If the thugs manage to survive they could probably be questioned. ..Or at least mind probed.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:01:10: Loveland, Puyallup District

With a reflexive action to tighten the grip on his pistol, Carter watches the information being fed into his PAN fade away. All that is left are targets to be pacified and the smartlink responding to each muscle movement he makes. He raises the pistol towards the primary, sighting from his position in the hallway.

A step clears his line of fire. Two sharp hisses. Exhalations of compressed gas being forced through a silencer, supported by a muted muzzle flash. Another step, to place the wall between himself and the targets again.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; Loveland, Puyallup District

22:01:10
The first thug grunts as the two rounds fired by Carter impact with his jacket and as he hits the floor his gun falls from his grip. The doberman moves with the only sounds betraying its existence being a small electric whine. It darts between Rex and the door sill to impact with the second thug.

22:01:11
A troll looming over his with a combat axe in hand, a doberman having just rammed him and now standing by, the muzzle of its armorment staring him down, and the sound of an armed roto-drone now wizzing in the room or at least dangerously near the thug does the only thing he can.

He wets himself and drops his gun causing the strong smell of urine to assault Rex's nose.
Whisper

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:02:30: Daryl's cab, Puyallup District
Tigger & Grayson

You suddenly realize that Daryl is paid by the job and not by the hour as he takes the first corner sideways. As the car accelerates out of that corner like a Mach V class race car you also realize that appearances are definitely deceiving when it comes to his car. As you hold on for dear life the one consultation is that this ride definitely will not take long. Though the trio of gangers in the road ahead might add a little more excitement to an otherwise dull ride.....

Saturday March 1st, 2070; Loveland, Puyallup District 22:01:11

Rex:

Rex bends down and picks the thug off the floor, leaving his feet to dangle in the air as he shakes him violently, axe stil in his other hand, its metal glinting under light coming from the outside.
His muscles budge and his eyes narrow to thin, vicious slits as he roars at the man, showing his tusks.
"Who sent ya?"

Jake:

[@All [Jake]: I have made an error. We have been scanned. They knew our positioning. I am going to scan for other drone signals, in the meantime stand alert for incomings. Whisper, can you zoom around building and check for anything that could be their base of operations.]
Jake puts his other doberman on the standby, just in case..

Saturday March 1st, 2070; Loveland, Puyallup District 22:01:11

Whisper pulls out of astral quickly when she realizes one of them is dying. ..shit. She mutters to herself as she texts the others in the house.

[@All [Whisper]Don't kill them! If your methods of interogation (without the extent of killing them) fail to provide, then let me try. I'm the one with skill in the Art, here.]

Saturday March 1st, 2070; Loveland, Puyallup District 22:01:13

[@All [Carter] We have the one mouth-breather. He'll stay alive until we get what we need, whether he wants to or not.]

Carter moves lightly and quickly through the apartment, checking that no one else was in the flat. His eyes alert for clues to their missing mark.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; Loveland, Puyallup District 22:01:13

Jake will have doberman stand sentry over door, and roto-drone over window as he checks of other drone traffic.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:01:18 Loveland, Puyallup District

The thug recollects a little of his wits, though not completely. "Vlad. Vladamir Borzakovsky."

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:01:30 Loveland, Puyallup District

Carter finds the apartment to be small indicative of one occupied by a bachelor. There are three rooms; A living room that becomes a kitchenette by stepping across the room, a small bedroom and a bathroom with a toliet, sink and shower. Towels lie on the floor of the bathroom with a set of dirty street cloths. The bedroom has been tossed, presumably by the thugs in the main room. The trash is full of single serve nuke-able meals and the refrigerator is nearly bare. When Carter turns his attention to the thug, he avoids eye contact with either Rex or Carter.

Not being a hacker, Jake lacks the skills and tools to intercept wireless traffic. He is able to locate the micro-camera with a slow diligent search of the hallway using the doberman.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:01:40 Loveland, Puyallup District

With a move to stand behind the thug, Carter's voice is low and filled with dark malice. His positioning was designed to unbalance a suspect's perspective. With the large troll in front of him, axe in hand and the second individual behind him, the thug would be forced to choose one interrogator or the other to look at.

"What did Borzakovsky want with Spencer? What were your orders?"

In the thugs peripheral vision, the freelance agent draws a thin bladed knife. Balanced for throwing, the knife was sharp enough to become immensely unpleasurable if the thug did not cooperate.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:01:55 Loveland, Puyallup District

The thug keeps his eyes in the direction of Rex, glancing towards his fallen comrade for a moment before answering. "Vee were told to bring him to Vladamir. I don't know vhy. I don't ask questions." His eyes slowly rise to the trolls as he resigns himself to the situation. His expression is not one of defiance, rather one of acceptance.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:02:01 Loveland, Puyallup District

"Where were you supposed to take Spencer?" Switching to Russian, Carter continues. "Remember friend, the boss may kill you, but I can make you scream for days before you will die."

[@All [Carter] What questions do you have for him? If we are done questioning him verbally, mind rape him and get it over with.]

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:02:03 Loveland, Puyallup District

Jake:

[@Carter[Jake]:The obvious next question:Where do we find Vlad and what kind of protection does he have? Also, they have a small camera in the hallway. I want you to pick it up for me once we are done here.]

Rex:
Rex looks at Carter and winks so that the thug doesn't notice.
"Kin I play with him now, pleeease?"

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:02:03 Loveland, Puyallup District

Whisper keeps up to date on the texts and all that transpires. Mind Rape. That sounds horrible. And disgusting. How wonderful; I make my earning by raping people. A frown forms on her face as she starts to mesh into a more pissy and agitated attitude.

Saturday March 1st, 2070; 22:02:10 Loveland, Puyallup District

The thug listens as the duo make their requests and threats. Not seeing another solution he continue to talk, "Vee ver supposed to call Vlad vhen vee had him. Listen I tell you vhat I know."