Just waiting on clarification on the leadership issue. Is it now only Charlie, or still a co-leadership. As for who goes with me that depends on the leadership outcome. Plus if the phone call from Vegas is actually Vegas and not a trap, we may not need to mount a rescue operation. However again how he got away or why he was let go will be a big question and for sure Casino will be the only one to know if it is him or he has been turned.

Brom looking over my character sheet I noticed that you need to reset my CC to 10, add 1 to each grenade type giving me 2 of each  Lastly as we are starting a new adventure am I 100% healhty once again?

Oops one more thing how do we gain exp to up grade our skills? Should we not get a clump of whatever it is to increase or skills like Rifle, Awareness/Notice, Handgun since we survived this job? 

Ok Is Charlie going to be our only leader, or is Casino still leader when in combat and Charlie in negotiations and finding us jobs?

Also Espatier I liked your post, probably the most out of all of your previous ones.   If Charlie can be more like that without as much arrogance, at least around our group, and Casino without so much anger and childishness I think you and I can make this thing work. 

Hey any place there is something for him to kill he is all for it. Count him in.

Tried it a few dif ways, words still came up small in size. Any causes or fixes?

As Casino looked up he was surprised to actually see Charlie looking at him listening, and not punching letters or numbers on his Agent. As the Fixer replied the big Solo sat quietly giving Charlie a chance to speak without Casino screaming at him.

“Actually, we kinda have a lot of unspoken code that us... “Fixer” deal with. You see, If I want to eat as well as I do, I will continue to work for starlight, I’ll take any and everything that she gives me, because I'm hungry. She isn’t stupid thou. She keeps me at bay, she dislikes that I know some... Some of her contacts, because that is our bread and butter. So my work here is actually just getting started. I’m not planning on going anywhere, but what I do need from you is to take a break, your stressed, overworked, let me take the reins for a bit, I will ask for your endorsement, in return, I’ll help you find out IF he is alive and then we can go from that point.

Charlie sat up for a second. “You said “Blood Boss” aka Theresa Davis, the club owner right?”

“Club owner, no, she’s a fixer like you, why do you know her?” Before Casino’s mind could go into high gear on what this could mean, Ghlahn returned into the bar.

"Blossom is in the van, grab your gear and lets go. We'll figure out where we are going once we leave. No more bickering, no more fighting; start acting like professionals. If you aren't there in three minutes we leave without you."

Not waiting for discussion Ghalan turned and left. From the cyborgs words it was clear that together he and Echo must have talked the netrunner into staying with the group. Grabbing his gear, he followed Bloodbank out the door to the van. Whatever the connection between Charlie and Theresa now was not the time to bring it up. Seeing Echo waiting for me he moved to her side.

“Thank you we needed her, and I know you two are not friendly as tribes, but we needed Ghlahn also. I don’t know what the two of you said to her but somehow you kept here to help so I need to keep my fat mouth shut.~ Leaning the big Solo kissed the deadly Nomad deeply. At this point Casino knew that most, if not all of the rest of the group, knew something was happening between them. As they both got once more in the Van, her as driver(ASSUMING) and he again right behind her, he settled into the seat quietly…..

Weird... Ok Talked to Mischief she apologies for not yet posting but should have something up tonight or 2 morrow for sure.

Oh and I loved how you used the Hellhound/plate in your post good job 

Ok Espatier I get the part about a favor for a favor, but how does it effect me and Akagi? Like before, as far as I know, he has no idea who saved him at the hospital. I took the agents for 2 reasons

1) I did not have one as I sold mine to cover a gambling debt and I figured Blossom could hack it and give me a nice upgraded agent. 2) I did want to learn more about the this Thomas Akagi guy, and once I had that info, to sale it afterwards. At the time I took them, Ghlahn had yet to kill Sec-Man's people, so I never thought to try and contact him directly for any type of help as I want to now.

All of that sounds good and I can't wait for upgrades.... However I guess you missed this line "So yeah I just can’t walk away from trying to help him and confirm if he is dead or alive."

Until we find him alive and rescued or we find him dead and some type of payback administered, Casino will take no other jobs.

If that causes my character to leave the game because the rest of the party votes that the risk to themselves to go rescue him is too great, it's all good. 

Another question, you spoke about Giri with Akagi, he does not know who saved him at the hospital, maybe from news reports he has some idea, but at the time of the gunfight he was out cold on seditives. He never saw me and the only ones who did are dead. Some of the hostages might recall me but I'd think that be a long shot right Brom? So how would that work as far as Giri/Favors owed.

Also Brom the CC that were used, will Keeper, Mischief and Nomad get them back at 10 at the start of this next phase. And will that change my 8 back to a full 10?  Reason I ask is I might want to use my 8 +2 before we leave the bar if I'm going to get a new 10.

Still not 100% clear how that all works. 

 Quite to the contrary, he's lying on his back like a puppy and baring his soft, pink underbelly. 

Wow I did not see that coming.............................. Now Espatier will treat me like a puppy with a pee problem. Well just remember the puppy still has an Assault Rifle/Grenade launcher combo, so you better rub me in my favorite spots. 

Ok my new post pretty much changes your post in relation to the aftermath of my first post.  So no power play on my part. Can we continue as co-leaders or would you prefer I step back?

Ok Brom gave me the go ahead and I edited my post as such.

CTP I guess you can rewrite hitting me with that bottle of Grey Goose like you said you might and maybe instead share a drink with him

Again my apologies for a really shitty post

You might want to wait till I post my new post as it will be nothing like what I posted before. I'm just waiting on Brom to approve it. Just a head's up.

Is the bottle upside Casino's head if my post tonight changes things still going to happen? Might help both he and I get our noggins on straight. To everyone I apologize for that shity ass post I really don't know why I thought it would be better for Espatier to go off and play a 1 on 1 game within the main game with Brom. I apologize to you Espatier directly for my action and the langauge in my posts and hope the post I am working on will help get things back on track.

Ok I've talked with CTP and she has given me advice and tips on what I'm doing wrong in the way I'm currently playing Casino. As such my last post can be considered not to have happened though it will not be deleted so the rest of the players and Brom can get a look at it. I will have a different post up sometime tonight or Monday depending on a few things. Please bare with my as I try to correct my massive crap filled post.

“Also we head out from this bar in 45 minutes and go to another place so that if we are being tracked we are not staying in the same place too long I know 45 minutes is pushing it but we need to give Blossom time to work. So get something to eat, a drink to calm the nerves, or a snooze while you can.”……..

His idea put forth Casino waited for responses from the rest of the group. However he did not in any way expect the response the group got from Blossom. Standing she called Charlie arrogant and that he himself needed to be on drugs. Well the big solo could not blame her, as times during this run he was sure he had seemed as such.

However when she pulled the two black agents out of her bag and slide them across to him all he could hear was her last words and watch as the two agents were pushed to right in front of him. Looking up Casino watched in stunned silence as she walked out of the bar, quickly followed by Ghlahn. He did not feel Echo’s caress or really hear her words, as she too followed them only seconds later. Looking back down to the agents he sat paralyzed and unable to move. As Bloodbank moved to the bar and Fixer stood to say his piece.

“Stupid All of us Not a team but a bunch of stupid individuals who proably managed to get each other killed. But I’m not ready to give up and lay down in a coffin, and Bank over there doesn’t deserve a box either. And I don’t want to leave Vegas in one. So you two figure out what leadership means and start praying to whatever sort of god you pray to that either Ghlahn or Echo can patch together the team you were supposed to be leading. And for God’s sake, do your praying quietly for the first time in your life. You need someone to save your precious little asses now."

Casino looked up at Fixer then looked over at Charlie talking in, with help from the noise of the rest of the bar, what sounded as if a whisper.

“I never wanted this, Vegas captured, me leading this group of people, seemingly at odds with you and some of the others, at every turn. I was happy to be the hired gun, the street muscle, the stay in the back and say nothing guy that could be counted on to bring the wrath of god as needed and let Vegas be face-man for the both of us” ~A sigh~ well that's no longer an option huh.”

The solo’s eyes drifted to the doors where three of the group had gone through, including Echo.

“Now thanks to my, up to this point, inability to work with you, a total lack of my leadership skill and an overabundance of anger, we may just have lost our two best hopes for this party to have a chance to rescue him. And except for the idea I just put forth I don’t know if we can, or even if we should try to get him back. Nine out of ten say’s he’s dead and all this is a waste of time. You’ve said it yourself Charlie, we may have move on from here and give up on getting him back and somewhere in the future take revenge, but I can’t do that.”

A pause to catch his breath and drink some water and he continued, his gaze never having left the bar’s front door.

“I first met Vegas when I was nineteen and he and I started edge-running a year after that. When I was twenty-two while Vegas and I were working corp security at Gentonics, I got accused of rape. Corporate ladder climber wanted a quick way to the top so she spread rumors that I had raped her and used the gained attention and sympathy to give her a jump start. Well an investigation was started and a year later I was put away. It was Vegas that found out she was the niece of a standing politician and though there was no evidence, the grandfather had paid off the corp sec involved to get me put away. Took him seven months to get me out. Then just a few years ago big gunfight with Yakuza shooters during a bounty run, I took a round in the head as I lay there dying, Vegas giving up on the bounty, got me to a med center and I lived. Took six months in a bed to recover. So yeah I just can’t walk away from trying to help him and confirm if he is dead or alive."

A slight pause to catch his breath and a slump of his shoulders told a tale in itself of how tired Casino really was. His gaze moved finally back to meet Charlie’s

“Honestly Charlie your time with us is technically over as Starlight sent you to make sure this run got finished. There is nothing stopping you from saying adios because of my unprofessional behavior and walking out that door like Ghlahn and Blossom just did, and maybe Echo. Yet it’s clear you want to help and I thank you, and respect you for that. I have had very little of that for fixers since Theresa Davis threw me to the curb, jealousy on my part the cause. You might know her as Boss Blood in your circles. Well now she hates me and more then likely is another person who wants me dead. I think subconsciously that might be partially to blame for the problems between us. Maybe I’m just too close to this to lead right now without getting everyone killed, it’s clear the rest of them feel this way.”

Looking down once more he fell silent the room around him feeling closed in…….

To Steel riding a horse was still a very curious thing as he could walk faster then the animals themselves. However at the urging of Silver, his friend, well his only real friend if you considered friendship to be a real thing and not an abstract of emotional need for such. However the rest of the group her and he were among had also wanted him on said horse so as to not attract attention to him and the group themselves. Steel still wondered at that and could not help ask himself why a metal construct wearing chain mail was less of an attraction riding a horse then he just walking. Then again he also still could not understand why they referred to him as a he. He was neither a she having no female parts or a he having no male parts and could not have or do what the humanoids called sex. Yet once again the people he and Silver had joined were equally or more so strange in that they insisted he pick a sex so Steel had decided on male. However in truth Steel just saw himself as a walking, talking, though mostly just with Silver, made of metal Warforged fighter.

As they entered the town and found a place for the party to rest Steel was the first through the door beating Silver by a few seconds. In a strange way this had become a game between them that Silver mostly won thanks to her quickness and agility. As they sat down, Steel again as had become normal, with his back to the wall the sound and stories of the town folk began to gain form. However only one caught the warforged attention.

“Goblin raids from the Ridge have been growing more frequently lately”

Created to kill in a war long over, that was what Steel did best and he had to admit he enjoyed it, after all what else was there for him to do? Farming? Mining? Babysitting? A human family had actually asked him to do so once, as he needed no food or sleep to live they thought he be perfect. Ahhh no not for him with the kids nothing more then screaming whelps in all likely hood he just end up killing them because they had become too annoying…. However show him something that needed killing and he was the creature you wanted on your side. Watching the bar for any danger, sword and shield close by and ready as the huminiods gained their nutrients, Steel was quite happy and started to think about Hellhound puppies and plate…..

Thanks for the offer CTP only problem, where would we find you, and why the fuck would you want to join us in a suicide mission. WE are no where close to being as good as the Suicide Squad   However if she walks its bad but if Ghlahn walks then there is no point in thinking we, those that remain, will win. Without him we are just dead meat walking

I'll try to get my post up tommorrow.............

Well I guess thanks to Espatier and I, the games over then?

Nice come back it's good to see someone willing to keep Casino and Charlie from ripping each others throat out 

As they found a bar a table and chairs, Casino sitting with his back to the wall, the waitress came to the table carrying menu’s and a smile.

”Welcome to the Marlin’s Ghost” She says with lilting accent “You want grill menu’s or just drinks? We got breakfast available but nothing fresh. With the Union strike there’s not been a shipment of Fresh in a couple of weeks”

“Nothing for me thanks” He replied. Though hungry he had spent the last of his credits buying the food and drinks for himself and the rest of the group at the motel, and now found himself for the moment broke.

“Ok idea’s anyone?”

As he listened to Echo, Nomad and Bloodbank reply to his question it was clear he was on his own in the planning stage, only Bloodbank had anything useful to add.

”I’ve got a contact with the Hellhounds, a boostergang in the Undercity. They owe me. Reaching out to them could get us intel on where our friend is spending his days, or get us an entourage for when we go to pick him up. It’s a shot in the dark, but at least it’s a shot”

Nodding to him in thanks Casino looked back to the rest of the group. However before Casino could tell the others of the thoughts in his head, Charlie’s arrogance once again pinched a nerve and started to piss the big solo off.

”It’s bad form to harm a fixer like me but… everyone else is fair game, only my role and etiquette saves me from your horror. So if you’re ready to get things started"?

Was he really serious? Did he think he could walk away from this scott free? If so he was dreaming and Casino would make sure with his dying breath he'd wipe Charlie's arrogance off his face. A few slow deep breath’s to calm himself down he finally spoke.

“Well as for your etiquette and form, Charlie, they sure as fuck did not help you negotiate a goddamn thing at the exchange, now did they. Also as for your thinking, that your high and mighty enough, to walk away from this endeavor without a scratch, pretty sure Sec-Man won’t give a shit who you are or what you do, as he puts a bullet through your brain. After all he made it pretty clear he is after all of us as payment for his dead soldiers.”

Casino never being one good at hiding emotions on his face did not try to do so now, the disgust for Charlie clear on for the rest of the group to see. Casino knew he would never come to like the Fixer, but like the old saying went., keep your friends close, your enemies closer and though Charlie was not an enemy, he’d never be Casino’s friend.

“Ok here’s how I see it, the six of us seated here are not going to beat Sec-Man without help or better firepower. Yeah we could get lucky and he is small time security and easy to take out, but a small time guy would not be able to lose seven troopers and still vow pay back. So lets assume he has the numbers and the firepower and though we’d kill a lot of his guys we’d still end up dead if we go at him face to face, so a direct fire fight as we stand right now is out. So my plan is simple… We go to his bosses and get them to call him off and release Vegas. However to do that we’re gonna need the backing of someone or some Corp with more power then the sec company themselves. Right now he is looking for us or news of us and whither Vegas is alive or dead, he’s for sure still coming for us”

Looks over to Charlie once more “All of us….”

“Now I may have a way to secure that more powerful backer. I’m sure by now that you all know that the guy who killed those hostage takers at Night City Regional was me. Well the purpose of that take over was they wanted some old Asian guy dead and after they had killed his two very well dressed body guards their leader for some reason the leader decided he wanted me to pull the trigger on the old guy. Well giving me a gun with even one round was stupid as that helped gain me more guns and helped me get out of the hospital. Well before I hustled out of there I picked up both of the bodyguards phones, which I have since given to Blossom to decrypt and gain access to the contents. I’m hoping if I can find out more about the old man, the leader asked for him by the name Thomas Akagi, then maybe, just maybe, his family being Asian will feel honor bound to me for saving his life. However this all comes down to you Blossom, as Charlie said your our net running bloodhound so its all up to you what info we gain. I think it initially comes down to three things. First, find out who this sec company is. Second, find out whe Sec-man is, name, company postion and anything we can. Third, find out who Thomas Akagi is, and is it worth the risk to gain access to the two black phones. Once we have as much of that as you can get us Blossom, then we go from there.”

A short pause…...

“Also we head out from this bar in 45 minutes and go to another place so that if we are being tracked we are not staying in the same place too long I know 45 minutes is pushing it but we need to give Blossom time to work. So get something to eat, a drink to calm the nerves, or a snooze while you can.”……..

Why Monday? You no trust in me to have my post up tonight? 

I'm currently working on my post so I should have it up by tonight. So if you want to hold off on your post till 2 morrow I'd be thank full.

 Looking forward to it

Actually post that, it could be something that could fit, depending who the gangs are and what area's they control.

Both characters ready to go. Mischief had a question.. If she joins D&D Beyond is there a way for me to transfer the character to her control? I personally don't know enough about the program to do so or at least I don't think I do