QUOTE (IcyCool @ Aug 24 2010, 04:54 PM)

This thread gives new meaning to the term, "Mr. Johnson".
I'm having a vision...
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The team was meeting the Johnson at an estate just outside of the A zones. It was an old one, one of the throwbacks to the early 21st, before everything went to drek and the little guy still had more than two nuyen coins to rub together - hell, before nuyen was even mainstream.
The house was set back into the middle of the property, with a lawn that needed some landscaping and a driveway large enough to accomodate a couple cars, couple trucks that just screamed 'media mogul'. The sun was just touching the horizon, highlighting off-white Colonial-style columns, slate roofing, and the textured stone that was popular in the Southwest back during the housing booms at the Turn.
Two Trolls stared us down as we tried to gain entry, their black shirts, black pants and sunglasses translating into 'security.' Mook, got in their faces close enough to exchange the stink of soykaf and late-afternoon tacos between breaths. Mook always joked that it was the 'halitosis hail', but we didn't take it seriously until the two stepped aside to let them in. We were on the list.
Sooz mentioned that we'd know our Johnson when we saw him. Being enigmatic was one of the little prick's quirks, but he was still a damn fine fixer to get us a posh job like this. Shecky was the first one to make the connection when we were escorted onto the set.
The guy was dressed in nothin' but a red velour bathrobe with a giant 'TJ' embroidered on the breast. I could see an implant tube running alongside his artery, probably heading to his heart. Some kinda pump and resivoir to keep blood flowing to the brain. Pretty well-built for a pinkskin, he was lounging in a chair as three or four chicas fawned over him. Scantily clad as they were, I had to wonder about the temperature control system, but I wasn't too up-to-date on the situation like Shecky.
"Cal, that's The Johnson!" he said. I've never known our hacker to get that kind of idolization of a paycheck. A wiz commlink, maybe, or that high-def sim that just hit the market, but never a Johnson.
"No shit," I retorted. "Let's find out what the job is."
"No no no," he shot back. "I mean he's Quinton '
The Johnson' Bromhammer. The Prince of Porn, the Sultan of Simsense! He's the go-to if you want to break into the business! They say if a girl wants in, he gets in first!"
Our Johnson was a porn star. What the hell had Sooz gotten us into?
"Go on," I said.
"This guy's a legend!" Shecky continued. "Whenever Mook's complaining about a weird feeling in his pants after slotting one of my sims-
("'Ey!" I hear Mook yell) - it's because of his special power!"
"Special power?"
"Yeah! Dude has like two or three dongs! Most brains can't handle it without a little feedback problem. That kind of power makes a guy dizzy, y'know?"
The Johnson turned in his chair and waved us over, shooing away the other 'talent' gathered at his - well, you get the idea. He sized us up and down and nodded.
"Sooz said you'd be able to handle this junk," he said. "Haven't heard much about you guys though."
I bit back a groan, since we were on business.
"Yeah, that's us. We don't crow about our size, we let others do it for us."
Johnson nodded again, leaning forward like this was some big conspiracy. This was the meat of the meet.
"I need you," he said to us, "To protect my package."