Here's some of the information on the DataChip Matsu Hideki gave you:

The girl's name is "Faru"; at least, that's the name Gifu Sho knows her by. He admits that he doesn't know her last name for certain, but believes he's heard her called "Shesu Faru" in the past. She is of Japanese descent, but Sho believes the the girl was American born. A trideo image, captured by Gifu Sho's own cybereyes, is also included for reference.

Some of Dr. Gifu's other eye-recordings are also available; one details the interior of the House of White Flowers, which is a very traditional tea house and upscale club in Seattle which often features japanese-influenced CalFree surf rock bands.

I'm sure there's plenty of information you're all after, and I know I'll never be able to outline it all off the top of my head. So feel free to ask me questions, and I'll determine whether or not the answers can be found within the Security Report.

-milk.

Hideki knows who we are and will provide 35K

The Yaks don't know who we are yet.

Bump

I think you are slightly overreacting there... as milk ducks wrote... they weren't really being rough, but just firm.

Still not really the best manners, but Hideki obviously thinks of himself to be highly superior (which by his position isn't so far off even, as things are).

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Thanee

Agreed. They were being firm.

I expect he has bigger fish to fry.

He is overreacting. He has a problem with the japanese as it is, and this was an insult firm or otherwise. It's enough to torque him off.

Besides, if he was sending away his muscle and some fella jumps him he'd be out thousands of nuyen. There's that part of it too.

Hmm... I don't really think the bodyguards would escort the two further than to the entrance of the booth (or whatever restricted area he is in). They surely won't throw them out of the club.

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Thanee

If I read it wrong I'll fix it. I thought it was an escort all the way out or at least farther off to send them on their way.

But it seems a bit unnecessary to manhandle them out of a booth no?

Well, NestO certainly thinks so at any rate, but that's his ganger mentality.

Yeah, it's absolutely unnecessary. But I thought it would best illustrate how much of an asshole Matsu Hideki is. And, to be fair, I think "manhandling" might be a bit much. Like I said before, Hideki motioned his guards in, and they firmly (not roughly or rudely) took hold of Rev and Nest0 to help them out of the booth. It wasn't so much a "toss them out on their asses" sort of thing; more like a "now kindly get the fuck out of my presence" sort of thing.

The PCs have ever right to get shitty about it, but it wasn't like, an open threat or anything.

-milk.

Yeah, I was the one that posted being manhandled...might not have been but NestO thought as much, but its okay....he found something his cousin needed lol

So is Nest-O going to take the bet or is Rev going to have to start making Chicken Sounds?


*Cluck*Cluck*Cluck*

He's ignoring his prompts on his PAN at the moment...guess its the chicken dance for you lol

I wanted to do this originally, but I kept forgetting to mention it; everyone, go ahead and give yourselves the Common Sense quality. Just for situations like this, lol.

-milk.

Like what NestO did? sorry its part of his concept.

And I thought we were lead away from the table, so if he's getting pissy its that he's just cranky lol


Sorry about being gone. I had tons of make up hours and a paper to do.

The question is can Nest-O turn down a $250 bet?


Rev is not dawdling.

Did Mr johnson include a down payment? Isn't 10 or 20 percent the usual amount?

It'd be dumb to go back, and...what give the guy a hug? I could just hand it back if you want me to return it that bad, but my point to his guards is if you touch me, your shit gets ghosted.

Has Rev even made her Perception check?


Just rolled mine, and got 2 hits.

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Thanee

I liked that piece of pick-pocketing. Maybe next time you can slip something else too? Maybe that'd be more 'trickster' than 'rat'.

So to clarify you guys are being firmly escorted out of the booth. Not the Juju itself. I'll clarify Sam's post for now.

Yep, the goons only helped them out of the booth, not out of the club itself. I know there was some confusion in that, and I apologize if that's my fault. Seems fine now, though. Also, I'm late mentioning it, but I'm gonna go ahead and award everyone an additional karma point, whether they posted 3 times this week or not.

-milk.

Alright, so the negotiations are over. Lets talk plan:

-- Anybody have any contacts or knowledge skills that apply?
-- Maybe someone with a decent Data Search skill could get us some info on Dr. Gifu?
-- We should probably put some eyes (or better yet, surveillance drones) on this bunraku parlor and start keeping tabs on their comings and goings. Specifically, we need to figure out if the girls are housed on site or if they ever leave.
-- I don't think we should march in an start asking about Gifu and Faru. As I suggested above I think we send someone in as a "customer" and leak some misinformation to see how the Yaks respond.
-- Any other ideas?

Here is a knowledge roll for Hollywood to see if he know anything about this particular Yakuza operation:
INT 3 + Local Crime Syndicates 2 = 2 Hits

The yak don't outsource their muscle do they?

A few of our characters could become new clients. Not just one person, but several. Only one does the 'leaking' if you'll forgive me.

Also, can we do anything to get the inside scoop with Matsu and these people? Know what's really going on?

Not really.



Not quite my area.



Yep, surveillance good.



Yep, that sounds like a good idea. Only problem here is, that the person(s) (and an appropriate Fake SIN) will then be known to the Yaks, which could potentially cause further problems, if the link (between the 'customer' and the 'runner') is made.

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Thanee

My sheet is in my other computer

But I'm fairly sure that I don't have any relevant contacts or knowledge skills. I might have a bit of data search though. I totally have the surveillance drones part covered though

Try this one.

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Thanee

Thanks!

Forgot about the board one.

So yeah, no useful data search/contacts/knowledges for this.

All over the drone surveillance though.

Sure, no problem.

When there is no such OOC place for the character sheets (i.e. they are not open), then I just send it to myself as a PM to have it accessible via the forum.

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Thanee

No contacts either. We can case the place for outside security and devise a way for NestO to break in, as going in the front door really isnt NestO's style (sounds dirty considering we're talking about a bunraku parlor ). Any way we look at it, the best approach is a stealth approach.

I have a lowlife Fixer contact that may have Japanese connections. It's with the corps, though Mitsuhama is tied to the yaks. The thing is the Fixer keeps that secret from Sam lest Sam does something rash.

Sam will ask though, he's the only shadow contact he really has. No data search or anything like that. We don't gots no deckers.

Hollywood has a yakuza contact- a gun dealer with some yak ties, but his loyalty is only 1 so we'd have to be real careful about how we utilize him (i.e.- if we ask the wrong questions it could get back to the yaks). He might be able to give us a "referral" to the bunraku parlor tho.

I think the best, non traceable way is to scope it out and break in.

You wanna break into a yak bunraku parlor?

Every other way exposes alot more of the team. We either need to buff our way in, and possibly get made (identified) or sneak in. Sneaking in gives the added benefit of suprise if I get caught as my rescuers bust in for me. We'll have still not tipped our hand. Its just a suggestion.

Or, a combination of bluffing and sneak in, might offer more exit strategies.

Well, as with every good SR run, we should start with some legwork and find out more about it... that should hopefully help with the planning.

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Thanee

Indeed. Once we move on from that scene, I take it milk has a post that ends that. We can start doing the legwork and asking our contacts.

If we ever manage to do that...

C'mon folks! Time to move!

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Thanee

So, who votes we jump ahead to a bar or other shadowy establishment to plan this job? Hollywood knows a thing or two about the bunraku operation (per a PM milk sent me) that he can share.

Sounds good.

Don't vote... just do it!

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Thanee

Hopefully, milk ducks will resurface eventually (last post here was at the end of october).

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Thanee

I'll second that.

Hey guys. I'm sorry I've been gone for so long, it was never my intention to leave you hanging. I'll be honest; there was a period of pretty much total inactivity in the thread, and I interpreted that as nobody having any fun with the story. I kept checking back in, and there was some random chatter here on the OOC thread, but the IC page didn't move. It slipped off the first page, and didn't come back. Maybe you guys were having fun, and were just busy doing other things, but to me, it felt like maybe my stuff just wasn't any good. As a result, I kinda shied away from the forums a bit.

I honestly felt really bad when I logged in today and saw people asking if or when I'd resurface. I do really apologize for that, I guess I just felt like nobody would care if the story stopped moving entirely, you know what I mean? And look, if this is something you guys still really wanna do, I'll make time for it. I was enjoying writing this story up, I just kinda got burned out when the interest started to fade.

I'll leave it up to you guys where to go from here.

-milk.

I wouldn't read so much into it. This seems to be the natural course of PbP games- there's always a lot of enthusiasm as a game gets started and then things inevitably slow down. This is kinda the usual pace for a PbP game.

It's not that we didn't like your stuff milk, real life just intereferes with SRing. Sucks, I've been mostly out too.

I'm sure we're all still interested.

Yeah, with PbP you really have to expect that sometimes things are not moving fast (and with the upcoming holidays, this will definitely happen more). Sometimes everyone waits for everyone else to make a post... which isn't a good idea.

I would definitely like to continue.

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Thanee

My GMing experience is all F2F, but it is a hard balancing act, between keeping the game moving and giving everyone a chance to shine.

I know that some times, my character will be part of the action and some times other characters will be in the spot light.

The big think, I see is players need to keep checking in.

Just a one liner to let everyone know that you are still there and approve of the direction the other characters are going in, helps keep the game going.

So... what do we do now? I'm certainly up for moving on and continuing.

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Thanee

Hoi!