I'm going to ride in on someone's commlink, scanning the area surrounding the group for odd signals (calls to anyone in the meet, etc.).

A bit late, but TW is fine with staying outside this time. You might not have to be Awakened to get in, but I'd imagine near-cyborgs would get the hairy eyeball from everyone here.

Hopefully work is slowing up a bit so I don't have sudden disappearances like that again, sorry.

No worries. I don't think it will be important for you to be on the inside for this meet anyway.

Gardner or Silas going to order anything?

Also, is Gardner going to respond at all to Simon's flirtations?

I has one o' dem multi coloured fing's wiv a cherry anna 'mbrella innit

Not sure you could have ordered anything more likely to get our host to invite you to a private area for some man-lovin', Mach.

"I'll have a roofie and vodka, please. Light on the vodka."

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Well played, Dak.

edit: Shit like this is why table-top games never survive for me. We always end up just making OOC jokes that derail the game hard.

Same here, And for my excuse, When in Rome.... Wear a skirt and swing your weapon about

Largely this is meant to be a fun social situation for all of you. But considering the infrequency of posts, I'm thinking a light back and forth with all involved might be a bit too time consuming. So, I may be taking liberty with your characters some.

Can you guys tell me roughly what your reactions to Simon Andrews are and how you'd like to approach him?

In general, Simon is going to start flirting with anybody that speaks up unless you make it distinctly obvious that you aren't interested...and then maybe he still do it just to mess with you and have some fun. lol

Needle I posted up what you can see wirelessly with rolls. Tell me if you're wanting more specific details about that stuff. If you're wanting to find hidden nodes and such, you'll need to roll me some dice and tell me exactly what you are looking for.

Sorry I haven't posted yet. But it looks like you about got how Gardner would respond... basically just causally brush it off. Not trying to be rude or anything, and not particularly offended, just not interested, particularly while on a job.

As always, keeping an eye out for danger, particularly the magical kind.

Kind of figured that would be your response.

If you're astral perceiving at all, you can spot a few magically active people in the club, but none paying you guys any particular attention. Simon Andrews himself appears to have a strong aura of magic from being a spellcaster, though no spells are active on him.

Just trying to add a little more flavor to the IC posts while I wait to hear how people are wanting to handle this talk with Simon.

The changeling does encourage everybody to try out the headbands they were given, but it seems to be more from curiosity of what they will display than anything else. You can put them on or not. It's up to you.

Oh and if Mr. White or anybody else wants to start getting down to business. Post something up IC.

Hmmm think that about covers it ... Bands + Flavour + Biz .. the Silas method

yeah I know ... I'm stayin' in the van next time

*blink*

*blink*

Jesus, it's a good thing I'm outside.

Now I'm curious to know what you'd be doing if you were inside there. I'm sure with Needle piggy-backing on Silas' commlink, you guys outside can certainly be listening in on the conversation.

Actually, he was told No Thanks. No one cut him off.

Wasn't sure if Needle was broadcasting the conversations over the speakers or party-lining it or something, so I just assumed TW's watching for outside interference and letting White do his thing inside.

As for what he'd be doing, his cyberhand would have probably just squeezed the table so hard a part of it would break off, all while looking at Ascon and calculating the best time and spot to put a bullet or ten in him and leave him for the ghouls. As far as TW's concerned, this little shit's probably gotten him killed, so he'd want to return the favor.

Actually, you said no to his first offer. Then he sent you a higher offer for more specific information. Your only post after that was to tell the group that a dragon is interested in Acson. You never said anything else to Lin Yao.

Pink Unicorn horn ? That is tha Shizznit !

but he definately has a point does ole lizard face, we're in deep doo doo !

we might think we've been polite in our dealings with these major players, where actually we may as well have pissed on their pet toy poodles after drinking a gallon of biological dye !

I'd be willing to hear what Andrews says, but will follow Mr. Whites lead, just in case there's a bluff to be pulled

***EDIT*** three posts at same time 30 minutes after the last ? .. that's quite the coincidence right there

Hehe... Ok. Just wondering. Needle hasn't posted any specifics about what she's been doing while everybody is inside. But if you'd wanted to be in on the conversation, she certainly could have set that up for you.

Meanwhile outside, not much more is going on. Lots of late nigh partiers coming and going. Another vehicle is currently pulling into the parking lot and seems to be driving around looking for a place to park, a black Toyota Gopher Extended Cab.

So, he is bent sideways because some runners turned down his first offer and didn't respond to his second? What is he, like 12 years old?

oh great, psychotic like a pre-teen in a dragons body ? ... this day gets better !

Mr. White has setup a new autoresponder and voicemail.

"Hi and thank you for your call or message! Rest assured, it is very important to me! If you represent a dragon or a corporation, please know that your call or message is extra, Extra, EXTRA important to me! You are receiving this message in order to let you know that I value your correspondence! Please note that this is an automated message. That is not intended to be a slight, or to imply that you do not merit a personal response, which I assure you is forthcoming. It is merely a time-saving measure, designed to reassure you, and to forestall your sending any death squads after myself, my family, my associates, or my pets. If you are considering send a death squad with orders to eliminate me, or cause grievous bodily harm, please consider delaying such action. Remember that if you eliminate me, I'll be unable to assist you with any future matters. Thank you for your time, and your call or message! Have a great day!"

I don't know maybe. Remember, you only have Simon Andrews word about their being a Horizon platoon gunning for you and that Lin Yao is pissed. In case you hadn't noticed, Simon can be a bit over the top.

Or maybe he is being completely straight on all the details and Lin Yao is a psychotic teenage killer working for Lung. Only time will tell.

Mr. White is done with the meeting, and unless something stops him, he is leaving.

Yeah, I know. I'm trying to give everybody time to post their reactions. Haven't heard anything from Gardner, Needle, or Eclipse since this whole meeting started really. Hopefully they will be able to post something up soon.

Guys, I'm sorry but I've been hit with some RL stuff this week that sucks. Slacker, you're going to have to NPC Needle for the time being.

Ok. Thanks for the update Severus. Hope everything is ok with you.

Gardner will be a bit shocked by Andrew's sudden outburst of laughter, and he will basically respond similarly to Mr. White. He doesn't seem to be offering us anything, really. I will add something along the lines of: thanks for the sort of offer to help, we'll call you if we actually need help...

I'll also run by the group real quick, but I'm thinking we should asap contact Moreau to hand over Acson. I'm under the impression that at this point we are siding with money for us and not concerned for Acson himself...

If we want to call Moreau, I will tell him to meet us where we had dinner with Mac and Fiona. Not joking, we have possible pressure, not sure if they can listen in or anything...

Posting from my cell so sorry if this is kind of rough, anything else for others to add or do differently?

How close is that black van to our clown truck, Slacker?

Regardless, TW is turning his reflexes on and setting his mental state to "business".

Oh, it's a couple rows of cars over. So, not all that close. Maybe 50 or 60 meters?

once Needle gives us the heads up, who exactly is in "the next booth" ? can we see from here

The booths have high backs with decorations on top that prevent you from seeing who's in the next booth, just as it had prevented them from seeing you directly during the talk with Simon Andrews.

Guess its time to be the obnoxious drunk ork then and have a look

Post up something IC if you are doing something.

Switching from Drunk obnoxious mode to Drunk FRIEND mode !

Shadowrunners need hugs too !

Shadowrunners tend to shoot people they don't want hugging them....

I'm guessing that Mr. White. Gardner and Parker Acson are ignoring Silas' antics and just making their way to the front door? Is that correct?

White will delay their exit, so as not to leave their compatriot behind.

You just standing there in front of Simon Andrew's booth watching Silas's antics or what?

Hm. I suspect that if our new dwarf friend comes outside with us, that he'll get Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby'd by that vehicle in the parking lot. Still, chatting inside the club isn't a great option.

What part of Seattle is the Alabaster Maiden in?

Well, it's a good thing Mr. White doesn't actually know anything about a truck being outside in the parking lot.

Downtown, ever place you've been tonight has been downtown within about 6 or 7 miles of each other.

That's why I haven't used that knowledge IC.

Thought so, just wanted to make sure. Well, this is gonna suck if when everything goes sideways. The van is between the club and the clownmobile, off to the side, what?

edit: Any markings on that Citymaster?

Yeah. That sounds about right.

No markings at all.

Frag. IC post incoming.

edit: Stop going off half-cocked, CZ. Slacker, perception checks on both the van and the citymaster. I want a closer look before I do anything rash, that's Silas' forte.

Intuition 4 + Perception 3 + Vision Enhancement 3 + Observe in Detail 3 - Black truck: [1,2,3,2,5,5,5,3,3,4,4,1,1] = 3 hits - Citymaster:[3,1,2,5,6,1,2,1,1,5,5,1,5] = 5 hits.