Topic: Flesh & Blood - A Night City Adventure
Subject: In the gardens above.....
Infinity Towers | Night City Integrate | Midcity | UrbanZone - March 8th, Day 2 (Saturday), 5:57 PM PST
Weather Conditions: High City (Thunderstorms, 15mph winds from the NE.) | Midcity (Rain, 10mph winds from the NE.) | Undercity (Fog and Rain, no winds.)
Air Quality Index: High City = 25 | Midcity = 42 | Undercity = 75 (masks required)
Charlie holds his agent up to within a few inches of the receiving agent and commands the device to share his contact info.
“ I want return the favor, okay?” Dipping his head and looking through the thin drizzle of dirty rain water pouring from the brim of his hat, the fixer quickly negotiates the price of entrance down another twenty-five percent. Once the transaction is completed he offers up his future assistance once more.
“I meant it. Need anything in the future, just let me know.”
“Seriously? Maybe I will,” the guard replies as he holds his agent up to receive the data. “You shouldn’t get bothered by anyone, but if you do, you’re a guest of Ms. Holst. She’s practically senile and wouldn’t remember if you were her son.”
“ Thanks.”
Pressing a digital button on his flat screen panel opens the doors for the Native American fixer.
“Remember, choomba, this access will allow you into the building and when you get to the West Beach Garden on the third floor I’ll buzz you through.”
“Good luck, Bakuto.”
TechHair swirling in purple waves, the Asian returns his attention to his agent and Charlie shrugs off the clinging weather to step through the open portal.
A hold holdout of better times, the Infinity Towers is easily one of the higher-end buildings in this area of Night City. The lobby is more of an atrium with floating holographic plantlife overhead and designer-looking couches, chairs, and coffee tables arranged about pillars of smooth black marble with white and green veins. The lighting is more old-world chandelier style than modern display, though the LED energy-saving bulbs are certainly being used sharing a brighter, white light with the occupants. And occupants there are. A few of the people milling about in the lobby glance up as Cred Stick Charlie enters, but no one appears concerned and most, if not all, are confident in their security and feel that anyone let in is of no threat.
Luther removes his headgear and looks about the beauty of the architecture of the building, he smiles to himself as he continues taking in his new environment.
Luther watches the crowd of personas move about and interact with each other and concludes that some of these patrons are possibly hired help or solos working private security for the residents of the tower but they are definitely not part of the tower staff themselves. Many of them Luther could see were carrying various firearms but didn’t wear a name badge or tag like the others inside the Infinity Towers. But then again to Luther.... these were only his observations and assumptions leaving Luther yet another mental note that something else might be going on here, he would need to look this over again soon.
Infinity Towers ownership must be trying to sell a lifestyle because there are actual human servers in uniforms mingling with the residents. The lobby is obviously intended as a social gathering place and as the fixer moseys through the maze of furniture and pillars, he finally catches sight of elevators embedded into the black marble tile walls of the room’s interior and makes his way right over to them. Approaching the lift’s jade plated doors, Luther takes in the Latino woman in a black business suit standing by the control panel wearing a digital name tag displaying her profile from the shoulders up, slowly rotating on a central axis and sharing her name as Sofía Carita, Hostess. Rotund and a bit puggish, the woman politely smiles as he arrives.
“Going up, sir?” she asks with a slight accent.
“ Yes young lady and thank you for your time and service here at the Tower”.
Once again he smiles at the latino woman
To luther, this woman wasn’t in per say “attractive” but one would never know, who she knows... so he decides to chat the woman up a bit to see if she might consider him a interesting catch.
With a nod, Ms. Carita turns and pushes the button that Charlie could have pushed himself. “Are you enjoying your day, sir?”
I am now...Charile smirks ( *Flirting 
It was quickly apparent that this woman was NOT into his attempt to be charming.
Waiting on the elevator affords the pair some small talk. Sofía is very adept at drawing out just enough to keep the conversation flowing while not even scratching the surface of the participant’s private life. By the time the lift’s arrival is announced by a soft female voice saying, “Main Floor,” Cred Stick Charlie doesn’t know a thing about Ms. Carita and she doesn’t know a thing about him, but they haven’t had a moment of silence between them.
Stepping into the elevator, Luther is greeted by an average-looking woman in a similar black pantsuit with another digital name tag presenting her name as Premwadee Chuan. “Good evening, sir,” she chirps in a high voice. “What floor please?”
“ Floor three please...” answered Luther.
“Right away, sir,” Premwadee cheerily declares and calmly presses the large, green three on the touch panel. Unlike Sofía, Premwadee does not engage in conversation. She doesn’t even attempt to and the elevator compartment is filled with the odor of Cred Stick Charlie’s wet clothing and Premwadee’s flowery perfume accompanied by the dulcet sounds of a violinist with piano and electric guitar streaming from the hidden speakers.
Luther didn’t even attempt his charm on this one...
Charlie finds himself on the third floor shortly thereafter. The elevator lobby is similar to the main floor lobby except for one minor detail; a damaged portion of the wall is being repaired by builder-nanos. Glancing at the holographic display of the floorplan, the well-dressed fixer quickly determines where he needs to go and proceeds there in short order. There are few people who pass him in the hall and those who do pay him no mind. They are secure in their little world within the Infinity Tower and most pay no mind to each other so how are they to know if he’s a resident or visitor. Either way, it’s none of their concern and they move on.
West Beach Garden is accessed through a long set of glass doors that Charlie can easily assume is bullet proof. True to his word, Si Jun-Yeong admits the fixer and Cred Stick Charlie’s ears are almost immediately buffeted by the sounds of birds chirping, his skin is kissed by a pleasant warm breeze, and the light overhead bathes him in simulated sunlight. Carefully manicured grass grows on either side of a pink cement path imprinted to look like stone. Park benches are placed every so often and as the fixer looks over the lay of the land, he’s impressed by how many people are actually in the park.
Charlie takes this all in........ the breeze, the artificial sunlight....
“ Man... this is one nice place to relax” he told himself softly as he moved into the gardens.
Beyond the grass are groomed trees with large shade footprints. The winding paths lead up to the treeline and through them towards the street outside of the building. Charlie can even catch glimpses of the mallplex through the trees. Again, he’s practically ignored as he progresses through the trees and emerges on the other side to a stretch of sandy beach and a man-made lagoon. People lounge about in swimwear and children play in the water here, but it isn’t the bikinis and skin that the fixer is interested in and he continues to look ahead, following the beach to the sandy path on the left that leads to the wide boardwalk and the open air of the city beyond.
And what do we have here?...
Luther began to examine the trees a bit more... ** hummmm** he thought more to himself as he moved in closer to inspect it...
Luther takes a closer examination of one of the faux trees and discovers that it might be a twin drone launcher in disguise for building security, perhaps?.
As with most boardwalks, the ground beneath his high-end half-boots is wood. Benches line the wood rail (which sits just inside the Plexglass barrier between the outside world and the inside) and despite the architect program’s best efforts, their surfaces are wet from the rain being blown in. Here, too, people walk the length; some are arm-in-arm, and others are walking real animals or cyberpets, and still, others are leaning against the rail looking out on the city street twenty meters below, oblivious to the rainfall and the large air purification fans that filter out the pollutants from outside.
(OOC: Time is 6:08 PM PST)
Charlie finds a quiet place to sit, an empty wooden bench near the wooden rail so that he can work in peace under the safety of the Infinity Towers. Once he is settled in, he opens his laptop case and now begins getting his realtime feed.
With Charlie centered on Infinity Towers and his drone flying over all three buildings (Wolf Point Plaza, Tranquil Grotto Building and Infinity Towers). Now Luther is able to view all three buildings from a bird’s eye view and he feels at ease after his connection is made. Now charlie goes to work and begins to identify potential targets, look for his teammates and ........
“ Alrighty people.... Let’s find out where everyone is...”
- Action: Charlie tries to reach the others by “breaking squelch” twice. What this does for most radio operators is allow anyone listening to take notice because a message will follow.
- “Charile’s up”. Luther "marked up" on the channel and hoped that one of his team mates would answer to let him know if anything was going on.
With a quick survey, charlie isn’t able to see anyone that he recognises. Charile then glances to his time piece..
6:08 timestamp
Posted on 2018-03-19 at 19:22:55.
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