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Deva
Fake ID check 8 dices: 6, 5, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 1= 4 successes
Boat License check 8 dices: 6, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2 = 3 successes
fistandantilus4.0
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The system beeps as it accepts the ID's , then an ARROW appears on the AR, showing oyu to take the ship in to a line to be inspected.

Thankfully, the thermographic scan doesn't show any sign of the "cargo"
Deva
Now let's just hope that there won't be any dogs. Although you don't need one to smell that guy down there.. jesus, have they filled him (or her) with beans or something? I hope Tito has good AC in his car or the road trip will be a hell.
Rayo relaxes and goes outside the boat to sit and wait for the inspection. Other guns he hides well, but he leaves Ceska in his under arm holster. License works for it and CAS part of the Mississippi it's more of oblication to keep gun in a boat. UCAS is another thing.
fistandantilus4.0
It takes a good half an hour to get through the que for inspection. A small raft with four men aboard rids up along side the ship. They tie off and climb aboard.

The man with the most stripes on his arm walks up, looking hot and a bit annoyed in the full body dark blue uniform. Summer is no time to be a soldier.

Afternoon sir, howdayado, let' see what we've got here. ...

He pauses for a moment as the AR pops up with your ID, and boat registry.

Let's see.... headed up the river to Davenport today? Any passengers aboard, cargo, animals, or cadavers?

Apparently since he said it in the board, momotonous way someone says a thing they've said something a thousand times before, he means it.

Roll Con check along w/ your reply
Deva
Charisma 3 + Influence SG 2 + Edge 5 = 10 dices : 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1 = 2 successes (and almost a glitch eek.gif)

Good afternoon, Senőr.
From experience Rayo knows that most of the people think that you have to speak spanish if you have spanish name. So speaking perfect english would only make more questions than a good fake of spanish accent. Luckily the illegal immigrant transporting hasn't been the biggest issue for a long time for the UCAS. At least all of them came from through Florida peninsula.
Cadavers? No, no, no.. I all alone, just me. Forgive me, bona Senor, for the smell. Yesterday Rayo had to deliver carne, meat, to finca de la alligators. How stupid that is, feed good carne to alligators? This calor, heat Senőr, and carne.. ooh, cuál oler! And I can not get rid of this smell!
Rayo keeps eye on the other officers while he keeps talking to the big shot. He turns around slowly and shows one his real cargo rooms.
See Senőr, nothing here. Senőr, you look thirsty. There's water in my cockpit. Please, let me get some for you. Ice cold.
Rayo looks as humble as he possible can.
God damnit, you piece of brick..

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fistandantilus4.0
Vs Con = 3 successes

The inspecting soldier looks Rayo up and down for a moment, then looks over the boat. He looks suspicious.

Riiight... sir we are gong to have to inspect your boat. Standard procedure. Please stand over there on the aft side sir, one of my men will attend you. This will just take a moment.

Roll second Con-Fast talk(to de-escalate) and a second test Vs your Fake ID


Deva
For Con test: Charisma 3 + Influence SG 2 + Edge 5 = 10 dices : 6, 5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, (Rule of 6) 5 = 5 Successess
Fake ID check 8(?) dices: 6, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 2 = 2 Successes


Oh.. damn..
Si, Senőr. But my boat is empty I swear. Rayo takes a step away to his cockpit and turns to a younger officer. He opens up his jacket and shows the gun in his under arm holster. I have only this, but my permits are just fine. Rayo sends to him/her via AR his fake ID and gun license.
fistandantilus4.0
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Alright alright, don't go waving that thing around.

He waves to the other men on the boat and calls out Come on, this guy;s got nothin'. Let's move or we'll be here all day.

One of them hollers back We're already gonna be here all day.

The soldiers mostly grumble as they climb back in to their raft.

Haveagooddaysir...

The lead soldier mumbles out the last bit and climbs in to the raft, looking annoyed. The AR keys up the order for you to proceed across the border.
Deva
Si, Senőr. Muchas gracias. Have a good day.
Rayo wipes a bit of sweat from his forehead and takes a seat on a box while checking his pockets for cigarettes.
Oh.. my.. freaking.. seagul. That was tense. I really need a drink right now. Just one drink. Only one.
Unfortunately all of Rayo's bad day bottles very empty and he decided to make a quick stop in a place called New Madrid. New Madrid is everything but the place it was named after, being small town with couple of hundread people, no glory, not even many speaking spanish. Rayo heads to small port, ties his boat and pays a random kid 20 bucks to look for his boat while he's gone.
I really should bring Luigi here one time. At least then this place would've one fighting bull.
Rayo chuckles a bit to himself, as he makes a quick stop searching for a bottle of whiskey, scotch, vodka or anything with alcohol.
fistandantilus4.0
The Liquor store isn't hard to find, being a prime attraction in any two bit podunk town. Of course, the same punks are out front of this one as well. The clothes change by region, but the look the give is always the same. These ones are listening to Dystopian Dreams turned up loud enough to hear it inside te building, and a few blocks away quite clearly.

The mostly ork and human gangers, six in number, are apparently a bit more bored, and a bit more gutsy than the last group, because they move forward off the wall at Rayo's approach.

Hoi der halfer. Ain't you a bit away from MunchinkinTown? Dis ain't no place for halfer drek heads.

The leader is a big ork, wearing leathers and spikes. No chains though. Apparently they're not in vogue around here. The others move in to form a half circle around Rayo.
Deva
Rayo looks around and gives a long sigh.
Yeah, you're right, big guy. Me mum and paps are waiting in their little cave for me to come back. So if you genteleman would please step a side and let me go through..
Rayo speaks with a pretty loud voice, as he normally does with much bigger persons than he is. Some kind of Napoleon syndrom. At the same time he checks his automatic pistol in AR and scratches his nose with his cyberarm, clearly indicating that, yes, I do have a bloody metal arm and it will swing at the height of your privates. This mostly is enough for smart gangers.. but these guys were either dum, drunk or high. Maybe all of that.
Too bad.. all my gel rounds are at the boat. Well, sometimes you have to do things hard way. Man, I really should have brought Luigi with me. Maybe I should get a bodyguard.. not until I can spare my nuyen.gif to something else than paying back loans. Hey, did that guy say something?
Err.. no?
fistandantilus4.0
Intimidation test +2 for being armed, -2 for superior numbers
Deva
Charisma 3 - 1 dice for defaulting = 2 dices : 5, 5 = 2 successes (come on, give the daddy new shoes.. and YES! smokin.gif)
fistandantilus4.0
Apparently the gangers are smart enough to be able to count. Even if the large hand gun only gets a couple of rounds off before they take Rayo, that still leaves one or two of them lying in a pool of blood. No one volunteers to "take one for the team". They step aside, leting Rayo pass.
Deva
Gracias, senőrs Rayo yells and takes a bit longer strides rest of the way back to his boat. He really is eager to yell something back to the gloomy eyes watching him go, but that might be enough to annoy them to attack him. When he reaches the boat, he slaps the kid waiting next to the boat and gives him extra 10 dollar bill.
Remember, kiddo, don't let your paps to see it. He will only buy booze with it.. and don't spend them all at once!!
Rayo unties the boat, starts the engine, waves to couple of kids on pier - and also to couple of gloomy gangers - and heads for his next stop, St. Louis.
After taking a drink - or two, maybe three or four little ones, but not more than half the bottle - Rayo decides to take a peek on his passenger. Again, he carefully approaches the hatch with gun in his hand and opens the hatch while holding his breath.
Oh good gods..
He checks his packages vitals, gives him a new tranq patch and adds more stuff for IV. For a moment, with that much alcohol in his blood, he thinks of unwrapping the poor thing and let it breath fresh air. But somehow he still remembers the words in his mind "The package has to arrive intact or the deal is no good" and the floating head of Rob appears in his mind. Rayo sighs and takes a seat next to the hatch.
Man.. why am I doing this. This job is totally crap. Crap, crap, crap. If I keep doing this, one day I might be the one in place of this guy. But do I really have a choice..
fistandantilus4.0
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The cruise up to ST. Louise is easy going from there. Non-stop all the way up to the docks. Somewhere in that city is a piece of drek car jacker who'd got some wheels with your name on them. Then it's just a short 600 mile drive and a drop off of some poor soul to some other unsavory criminal types, and the cash is in hand.
Deva
Rayo makes a second call to Tito.
Tito. I'll be in St. Louis around in two hours. Let me know the place where I will find you, car and the place for parking my boat. I suppose there won't be anybody else than you.
fistandantilus4.0
The response comes quickly

find a boat dock. Parking garage at Winchester, top level. Blue Americar, ork driver. Pay him the cred.Will be waiting in 2.5 hours. Welcome to St. Louis.
Deva
What? Tito, we agreed that You find the boat place. I already sent you 500 nuyen.gif for that!! What do you think, I call for a taxi and carry my stuff there? No change in hell! If your not going find the boat place then the deal is off and I'm going to find another car.
This is strange. What the hell he was thinking by changing the plan. And ork driver in Americar. Americar!? That's sedan! No wait, maybe he gives me my real car... but why in the blue hell can't they bring it to docks. Rayo boy, now there's something strange in here. Don't panic yet, let's first try the old trick.
Sorry Tito, my bad. My blood preasure is pretty high now, my doc said about taking pills and stuff. So, whose idea this was? Rose's? No, don't tell me this was Flash'es idea.
fistandantilus4.0
Listen omae, if you need, I can get you a berth or boat hosue or whatever. Just a bunch of drek came up. But I need you to meet the car at the garage. Take a cab. I'll even give you back the 500. Deal?
Deva
Rayo thinks a moment and takes a sip from his water bottle.
You really need to give me a freaking good reason why I have to get to your place for the car. Or I'm out of here. I really don't like last minute changes in plans, got it mate?
fistandantilus4.0
I got some people looking for my people. I need to keep them some where safe. Anywhere around your job ain't that. There are people looking for you.
Deva
Well, I don't want to risk your peoples safety then. So I find another way to get to north. You can keep the cred I sent. Thanks anyway, Tito.
Rayo cuts the call and gives a long sigh.
Damn. This might be a big mistake. Or a very good plan. All I can do is wait and see.
Rayo looks at the his navigation chip and makes the adjustments to sail past St.Louis and up to Davenport.
Okey.. so from Davenport Interstate 88 to west, 39 to north and 43 to west. Maybe a rest at somewhere on the road. Sounds good, just need to find a boat park and rental car. How bad can that be?
fistandantilus4.0
Heading out of St. Louis' harbor, Rayo can't help but feel more anxiety. heading out of a situation that could potentially be dangerour, into something totally unknown and unplanned for. Either one's a gamble. Questions is, did he pick a winner this time? What might Rob do if he picked wrong, and ends up losing? Benny's debt could be nothing compared to the cost of blowing this job.

The choice made, he heads up river. Not too long to Davenport.
Deva
Drek, whole my life now is a gamble. Been since the Beauty of New Orleans sank. That totally changed my life, but somehow the change hasn't been bad. I hope Lady Fortune won't turn his back on me 'cos of this.
As Davenport starts getting closer Rayo begins to make calls. First priority is to find a car rental place, nearer the river the better. The second was the secured pier for his boat, where you could also drive a car. Both of them could be really piece of cake or horrible pain in the ass. Most likely he has to move the package from boat to car at late night, for as few eyes as possible.
fistandantilus4.0
Thankfully the car rental is easy to set up. Now a days, once they have a set price and ID verification, the car will drive to you automatically. The boat house rental is a bit more of a hassle, but can be moved a long with a bit more cred.

Roll check for Fake ID
Deva
Fake ID check 8 dices: 6, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1 = 3 successes
fistandantilus4.0
The scan cheks out, and soon enough, Rayo is able to get a boat berth for $50 a day, and a rental car for his trip. The car can be sent on autopilot to his pick up spot of choice.
Deva
Rayo sends the car to wait couple of blocks away from the docks. He waits until it's midnight and then slides his boat to the berth. He plans to first check the nearby place for unwanted guests, then get the car as close to boat as possible, check it inside and its maintenance status and then start moving the package and rest of his stuff to car.
fistandantilus4.0
Roll Perception Test w/ modifiers
Actively looking +3
Darkness -3 w/ Thermographic vision
Light fog/mist -3
+ Any enhancements
Deva
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Visual Perception Test: Intuition 4 + Perception 1 + Actively looking 3 + Visual Enchantments in cybereyes 3 - Darkness with Thermo vision 3 - Really heavy fog/mist with Thermo Vision 3 = 5 dices: 5, 2, 2, 1, 1 = 1 success
Rayo looks around with his FN HAR tight against his chest, ready for use with regular ammo inside.
fistandantilus4.0
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Looking around, Rayo sees nothing out of the ordinary. A few dock hands walking the area, nothing really out of ... wait.

Rayo spots the heat signature of a car idling in the parking lot. Nothing unusual there, except that it's a very expensive sedan to be sitting at the docks late at night idling. Could be something, could be nothing.
Deva
Oh crap. Oh crap, crap, crap.
Rayo heads back to boat and makes a full scanner test on the car. Sadly the car is just a bit too far for his MAD Scanner to show anything but his own wares. Rayo takes a sip from the water bottle and massages his temples.
Think Rayo, think.. need to make sure that nobody sees me moving the package. Although if they know I'm here they might just follow me to Milwaukee, maybe ambushing on the way. Maybe I should have gone to St. Louis. Wait a minute. Know I know..
Rayo starts his plan. He calls the car to drive at the pier, as close to the boat as possible. Then he check the whole car. If they know he's here, they may have already bugged the car. Then he start moving the other equipment to the car, in his two black bags. Before moving The package, he finds a good place to fire a smoke round with the grenade launcher. Not in front of the other car nor his own, somewhere between looking more like heavier fog or gas leak. He fires the round behind his car and after that makes a mad dash back to boat and drags the the package to the car, making a lot of curses of the heaviness.
fistandantilus4.0
There are a few sounds of confusion as the smoke round starts spewing all over the place. A few of the people start moving towards the smoke.

Perception test, same modifiers, except -3 for added smoke instead of -2 for mist

Body + Strenght test to drag the "body"
Deva
Visual Perception Test: Intuition 4 + Perception 1 + Actively looking 3 + Visual Enchantments in cybereyes 3 - Darkness with Thermo vision 3 - Smoke with Thermo Vision 3 = 5 dices : 6, 5, 3, 3, 1 = 2 successes
Draging test: Body 5 + Strenght 5 = 10 dices : 6, 6, 6, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1 = 3 successes


Oh drek. Why did I pay this car with this Fake ID, should've used some other. And the pier place too.. Damn, Rayo, that's not pro stuff at all!
Rayo pulls the package as hard as he can towards the car.
fistandantilus4.0
As he drags the body, making suprisingly good ground, Rayo spots a man jogging towards teh car, looking around. he's an ork ,wearing slightly upscale street clothes. The armored jacket and heavy pistol in hand are a dread give aaway that he isn't some innocent bystandard.
Deva
Rayo tries to drag the package behind the car before the ork is too close. When he's close enough, Rayo takes a leap towards his FN HAR, tries to find where he put his explosive ammos, watching the ork and taking cover as much as possible.
Ork.. Americar. Ork in blue Americar. Was that car there Americar? Is that the same ork Tito wanted me to meet before? Damn it, curse him to hell! Curse you drekhead to hell!
Rayo nearly kicks the package, but calms his mind, trying to direct his aggression towards incoming ork.
fistandantilus4.0
Roll infiltration vs his perception. You have +5 because of the conditions, -3 for your burden.
Deva
Agility 5 + Infiltration 1 + Conditions 5 - Burden 3 = 8 dices : 6, 6, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 1 = 2 successes
Rayo waits for the last second to hit the wired reflexes. Just to make him stop trembling so much while looking over stuff.
fistandantilus4.0
The man moves by the car, glancing in your direction but apparently not spotting you in the car's shadow, and keeps moving towards the boat.

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Deva
Rayo takes another look over to car, just making sure if there's somebody else coming than the ork.
I could try to make a run for it. But then they would have my boat. Giving the body away is much cheaper now than the boat. Oh drek, drek, drek..
Rayo goes around the car, keeping the assault rifle ready against his soldier, looking through the sight, moving like he had been taught in Marine corps. Ready to shoot, first to right shoulder, if the ork makes any sudden moves. Rayo tries to move as silently as possible, taking short but quick steps, now concentrating only to the ork in front of him. Wired reflexes on, smartgun activated.
Please don't turn around drekhead, I don't want to kill you.
The ork is clearly interested in the boat more than listening to him closing in. Rayo takes a final quick look over his shoulder to see if there's anybody near the car. Then he kneels to his right knee, just 5 meters away from the ork, takes a deap breath and shouts clearly, but as silently as possible not to make too much attention.
Stop right there! Don't turn around unless you want to a new breathing hole to your back! Drop your gun! Now!
fistandantilus4.0
Intimidation check +5
Deva
Intimidation check: Charisma 3 - Defaulting 1 + Situation 5 = 7 dices : 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 2, 1 = 2 successes
fistandantilus4.0
He considers for a moment, then yells back OK! I'm puttin the gun down! DON'T . SHOOT!

He puts his hands in the air and drops the gun.
Deva
Thank gods..
Another quick look over his shoulder if anybody else is closing.
Kick the gun further away from you! Then get on your knees! Keep those hands where I see them!
Rayo waits a bit, getting a bit of wipes from the power of authority. Then he gets up, and closes a bit, keeping the gun aimed to the ork.
Now. Who the hell are you monkeycrap? I won't ask twice.
fistandantilus4.0
Perception test - audio -2 modifier
Deva
Audio Perception Test: Intuition 4 + Perception 1 - Modifier 2 = 3 dices : 5, 4, 3 = 1 success
fistandantilus4.0
As Rayo faces the man, he hears foot steps, ver yclose, and the click of a gun cocking.

[ Spoiler ]
Deva
Reaction 5 dices : 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 = 1 success
What the..
fistandantilus4.0
*BANG BANG*

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Rayo loks over his shoulder just as he sees a human and an elf open fire on him.

Roll two more reaction checks.
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