Fixer looked at the others in the group.  This stuff was their gig.  “Ok, so we can see with the spy.  And we need to watch all exists.  We have the walkie talkies split up at each exit, I assume.  Does everyone here know what she looks like?  We all saw the video …” Here he looked at Charlie.  “Charlie, you see the vid?  You know her?  There is no reason she should know us or know we are here.  I know I’m not the master planner, but I gotta think going in with the whole gang will be pretty noticeable and might make her run just to be safe.  I suspect I’m here as backup so point me where I can be of use.  Team work folks.  It isn’t just Jace’s life that depends on it now.” 

Charile replies to the techie called " fixer "

" Yes the drone will give you all an advatange hopefully and your radio will ensure that you have a way to talk to each other".

"Did I see the vid, yes, I sure did. But no I don't know her at all. On the other hand.............. lets hope that no one has tipped her off or that other wrecking crew find her and whack us before we can get this job done". 

--------------------

its completely black for me at least right now

As the group makes its way to the next stop. Chariles readies himself for an encounter with this other group that is trying to get the boy before his group. 

Weaving in and out of traffic with the areodyne’s fans screaming under the pressure. 

Charlie taps away as he is driving and does a search under that name looking for photos like:NCDL ( Night City Driver’s license, library card, high school photos? ), “Hey bloss... can you find me some photos of this gal Rya Mendez?. I got face recognition running right now and I want to have the drone ready... best 50 credits spent this week.

• Library search roll

“Maybe drive around the block?” Echo leans forward and puts a hand on Charlie’s shoulder to catch his attention. “That way we can get a look at the area and find ourselves a place to park this rig that’s a little less conspicuous.”

(OOC: I’m going to assume that there’s no objections to this suggestion.)

Chariles agrees if a group were to be waiting for this might be the place were the others might be waiting on hide. 

So before they drive around the block, Chariles will park where he can and throw up his Skymaster Delta cross XLT and set it for an opposite path so that the two will meet in the middle and pass each other till they both complete a circle. Charlie pulls to the side of the street, places the aerodyne in neutral and lets it hovers for a bit before exiting the vehicle and opening up the trunk in the front of the vehicle and throws up the Delta sky mater into the air and hs it climb to a safe altitude. Charlie then returns back the driver seat.  

“Blossom, transfering view of gimbal camera access to you, rolling tape, feed it to those that can watch as I will start our initial circle before starting in our recce (recon). I’m going to start cataloging face and people in the area now. 

Charlie uses his NuCube and selects the following:

Splice: Activates

Audio (earplugs), Places earplugs into his ears, taps the side of his face and ears, Check

Amps: 

Anti dazzle, Check

Amped Vision +2 (Visual searches), Check...nice, yup, Double check

Lowlite (near total darkness ), .... Wait for the vision to clear up,  Check.

Telescopic ( 20x magnification ), Check

Amped Audio ( tones in subsonic and supersonic ranges ).....Wait for the audio filters to kick in and clear up

Link: activated

Radio link, check

“Hill View is probs the name they gave whatever the construct is that Rya Mendez lives in. End of Row likely means the furthest back portion of the alley.” Information delivered, Fixer feels Blossom stiffen a little in his lap. 

“So, this area’s got some booster activity. The Dead Dogs,” she quiets as she accesses more information through her internal cyberware. “Local gang… not much in the news, just some minor arrests for drug trafficking…”

“Great, like things couldn't get better.... “ 

Charlie taps at his keys again. “Bloss can you find anymore info on “dead dogs” like mugshots for me so either one of us can feed that into the drone, so we can “tag” faces / bodies to know gang members, please”. 

“ Map shows me a diner...... Grandma Dee’s Diner, I”m thinking that I set my perch up at the diner, even this POS wouldn’t look out of place”. “Anyone wanna walk from this point?” Charlie looks to the sniper. “ You want to egress and extract here or in the hot zone, the choice is yours, unless your not afraid to be seen with us in the vehicle as we cruise around the block....”. 

Conduct the recon with aerodyne. 

• +2 to notice rolls, please

Charlie takes notes of places to maybe visit if need be:

Urbanside Transportation with a large, tagged sliding garage door

• Looks for car parts later


• West Baptists Soup Kitchen - for local intel

“A bunch of private networks… none of them strong,” Blossom has dropped back into her internal view of the Web. “Nothing strong. Lots of dark space.”

“Bloss, where is the best connection for you here?. I'm thinking the diner for me”

Can we get a rough map of the street and biulding shapes?

No map yet....

Driver: Luther ( Charile ) will not let anyone else drive this vehicle. Period!

Shotgun (PS1): Casino or Echo

DS2: Casino, or Echo

PS2: Bloodbank

DS3: Ghlahn

PS3: Fixer (Blossom on his lap)  <--- you sly devil you!

@Tan - that's alright I can spot things in a post becuase I have a passion to play this game, it was my go to game back in 80s. I usually take certain skills in this game for that reason. Most characters that are chipped would use or pick vehicles that have no controls at all. 

For those of you that might have read a military series called " Hammer's Slammers " the tank and most of the vehicles in the story were air rafts

Contris: Open to all characters in thread ( please feel free to edit before friday)

Tag: Brom Sal

Goals:

• Dealing with solos and Neo-corps


• File yet another report to Starlight with a sitrep ( mission update )


• Pull this group together as a team (Before getting killed, preferred )

Pending: see below

studying: Chinese Language

Study Chinese culture

Look into his option of identity printers later

Contacting: Tomas`

Trigger: Police contact ( Stress )

Vices: 

Sex

Drugs

Goals:

1. To keep alive and recover the kid before the second team kills all of us


2. Contact Tomas and start the network

Charlie attempt to follow the directions after tapping away at the keys for a bit and passing the information to blossom so that everyone on the team would get the dissimulated message. 

Receiving the card with the new address and or whereabouts of Rya, Charlie looks at the information and draws his agent from his inside jacket pocket. Tapping the digital keys on his device, the fixer seeks to find more information he can pass along about this little nugget. He sends Blossom the address along with a note that this potentially pertains directly to Jace’s location and turns to follow the prickly nomad out of the building. He can’t wait to return to his borrowed air jeep, finish this gig, and unload it back to its owners. 

Charile’s plan was once again two fold...... 

Priority one was to get the kid. Everything else wasn’t important.

Chariles’ group couldn’t take the chance of messing up even more, the other team  was still closing so it was crunch time and they all needed to get into the already cramped Air jeep, to bad these solos didn’t “kick in” when they had the chance and choose to foolishly waste time ridding that damn bus instead of going in the deal and getting a larger vehicle for them all, Charile’s thoughts raced away as they made their way back down the apartments.

** Outside the apartments, near the air raft

Casino starts with 

 “And you Charlie, you start doing your part finding this kid fast or no more Mister Nice Guy from me. You got stuck as the leader by Starlight, then f**king start leading. We need the kid and we need him fast so we can go after Vegas.” A deep couple of breaths to calm himself and he looks at everyone else. “So where to next?”

Charile address the comments from Casino. 

“ whoa partner, hold on, I need to do what?. No, No , No... you seem to be messing things up just fine as you are. Mr nice guy. I’m not the one that took everyone else and put them on public transportation and wasted hours. We could have been here HOURS ago Mr Ego, so save that crap for the headhunters that hot on our tails”. 

Charile holds up the card to the group as casnio slipped into the seat just before charile started to say something

As Casino took the drivers seat without being asked, or even caring if he the others would like it, or not, he kept seeing Echo’s face as he had said his piece. God she was only 18, just out of puberty, but she had stirred something in him, something thanks to that motified look Casino knew was not going to go away any time soon. Damn it you big idiot now is not the time for feelings or trouble among them all. If they were gonna get the kid back they needed to work together.

Charile begins to open his mouth but stops then once again smiles that infectious smile of his and says --- 

“Unless you can connect with a “chip” or your rated as a driver at level 3 with an airraft endorsement with your nucube, your in the wrong seat, Solo”. 

Charlie took his free hand and produced the airraft keys from his coat and twirled it around before placing them back in this pocket. Then he took his occupied hand with the card and placed the card away as well. 

Only the “Nomad” people like Echo here can drive like that because they were born behind a wheel”. Charlie continued his comments after the solo slipped into the driver’s seat. “ Besides... you didn’t want to kick in when you had the chance, when I was horse trading my soul for transportation... FOR the GROUP. 

Charlie looks over the group. “ None of you did and now look at this mess we as a group are all in. I should make most of you walk but I need you more than ever as much as you need me. I know what my skill set is and I have a good idea whatever one else’s skill sets are from Starlight’s notes sent to me. So if we are all going to save this kid WE as a group must work together and put aside any transgression towards each other. If so then please join me in the airraft, if not.... Take the bus because this ride isn’t free. 

Like in life, Choombas everything costs and I've already yet created another debt to just simply borrow this craft. So by taking a ride from me means that you plan on working with me, I didn’t say for me because we are all under starlight’s contract, I’m just the point man for now. Those that are interested in doing a rescue operation after this.. If we live. I will say that we can vote as a group, does that sound democratic for everyone?. 

** waits for new comments 

** waits to see what people are doing, Either agreeing and jumping in the Air raft or not riding with the new so called “leader”  

(( this is an assumption)) 

"We go to that address and confront Rya."  

Charile nodded in agreement at his comment

"Yeah, we do that.  Get moving." Fixer agreed and to prove his point moved to the car. But then he had to deal with Blossom's little game of enie, meanie . . . 

** Charlie's thoughts flew back to

"Docs?"  Fluke chuckles and peers about the room distractedly as his companion pops her gum. "Dude, you ain't working with a neocorp here. You borrow the jeep and if you **** us, we skin you and use yer hide as a tent. Now, here are the keys--ya, keys. Old school, but effective."

Dangling the keys over the table, Fluke looks lazily across the table and presents a crooked grin.

IF the seat is relinquish from casino. Charlie will say “Thank you and I really can use your help if you are willing to work with me”

 ....

Charlie slid into the air raft seat while the other began to pick spots with the leftovers. 

“ Blossom -- Did you get any other information on the address that is sent to you?. I plan to  place the airraft a block away, Deploy my drone, let the Cee take time to find a good shooting position and run live feed to anyone that has devices. I plan to stream info from the drone to you as I want the Cee to take an over watch position and let the rest wait till intel is up. 

Charile also address the coms issue and chimes in about using the radio and giving more support to Ghalan and keeping him in the loop as a second story man

** note to DM if everyone starts to work together, I would like to make sure they get bonuses from the (Live feed) drone for actions, and targeting now. Since everyone is working together as a team. 

 * take 5 minutes for the +1

forgot to add the +1 for taking 5

X00032:8.Y00001:12.Z00054:5, Rya Mendez’s Listed Address | Night City Integrate | Midcity | UrbanZone - March 9th, Day 3 (Sunday), 8:10 AM PST

Charlie was handed a card with the new address and or whereabouts of Rya. He looked at the address and began to tap the keys on his phone to find more information and pass this little nugget. He sent  blossom what information that he had as he in turn went back to retieve his borowed air raft that he couldn't wait to unload back to its owners. 

Making his way back to the airraft he scanned ahead as he stillworried about the other team and wondered how closer they were to him. 

After getting into the airraft Charlies consentarated more on info gathering about the address that he was given and to find anything about this place

( Roll streetdeal or Libray search needed?" 

Charlie moves out fo the way for the others to do thier things and lets the solos take a stab at it as he will wait for the entry and the dust to settle. 

" Okay.... so  you got a few people in with you and I'm bothring the neibors... Your choice" speaks as Charlie moves away from the door and watches the solo take over. It would have been better with a egress specialist but things were going to get sloppy at the door anyhow....

Charile simply just watched and wait for the door to  get the beat down as he moved far away from the door.

Contris: Open

Tag: Brom Sal

Goals:

• Dealing with solos and Neo-corps


• find the kid and not get killed


• Make contact with Rya

Pending: see below

studying: Chinese Language

Study Chinese culture

Look into his option of identity printers later

Contacting: Tomas`

Trigger: Police contact ( Stress )

Vices: semi active

Sex

Drugs

Goals:

1. To keep alive and recover the kid before the second team kills all of us


2. Contact Tomas and start the network


3. Contact Rya


4. not in order......

Fast talk & persuasion of 19

“ Rya?.... Is that you?”

waits.....

“ I’m Mr body....as in Nobody, so let me set this straight. All comms have been compromised, I’m playing clean up man for god know who and why things are messed up I don’t know, Questions are above my pay grade so don’t ask Choomba. So either you or Rya open this door up now or you can take the heat because this kitchen is now on fire, you feel me, Player.  

If you want to call someone and let them know where the kids is at, please go right ahead so that I can leave this place and read about it in the screamsheet later, so... please do so.

Charile attempts to whisper in passive threats and confidence but what is a con man after all?.

Human perception 19

“ I’m here to move the kid, so that makes me the clean up as well as the bag man today.

Charile smiles a toothy grin that then the reefers would smile back at him for. And leans into the door

“ Clean, Fix, transport... as long as the creds are good, I’m .....

**Charlie would have done the  unthinkable if he was younger and stick one of his 100 credit shoes in the doorway but no dice here with a closed door.

*Charile Sighs aloud

“ ChOOmba, Are you really going to leave me out here in the hallway, don’t make me mess these Faux gator cut wing tips because I have no shame in taking it out of your cut, ¿Entiendes? (understand?/Spanish)”

Charlie begins to feel out the voice and attempts to cast doubt in hoping to prevent anyone on the other side of the door to check with others by telling them its all compromised.

Human perception 19

“ Look....I’m just one man.... You got the kid, lets get everyone to a safehouse, the quicker the better before the heat gets hotter”.

Charile places his hands on the metal frame of the door as if he was holding it up as he leaned into the door, then Charile looks down the hall pass casino and the others, acting as if they don’t exist, then turning his head back to the door.

“ Look man....”

*Charile then stand straighter and holds up his false credit stick so that if someone is watching they should be able to see the darker color of it.

“ I just want to do my job and get you, rya, the baby boy and anyone else out of here, pronto. You feel me? How many am I transporting today?. Look it don’t matter... just open up and let me in”

Contris: Open

Tag: Brom Sal

Goals:

• Dealing with solos and Neo-corps


• File yet another report to Starlight with a sitrep ( mission update )


• contact Rya Mendez

Pending: see below

studying: Chinese Language

Study Chinese culture

Look into his option of identity printers later

Contacting: Tomas`

Trigger: Police contact ( Stress )

Vices:

Sex

Drugs

Goals:

1. To keep alive and recover the kid before the second team kills all of us


2. Contact Tomas and start the network

Charlie will continue to sit this one out, as a fixer he knew his role in running the shadows. With the air raft parked across the street charlie just made sure if that other team showed up that he had more than one avenue to egress from.

Once again he pulled out his phone and tapped away at the keys as the other make their way into the area that had been recently investigated.

Rya Mendez..... I hope that boy is in that space so we could wrap this job up before this team gets placed out of action permanently, Charile thought to himself.

Charile continued to watch the streets for another group to show up.... It was a matter of time, lack of trust and this type of ad hoc structure didn’t help them any. Time will tell.....

I'll try to get a post up very soon!

pm sent

Contris: Open

Tag: Brom Sal, Ghalan

Goals:

• Dealing with solos and Neo-corps


• File yet another report to Starlight with a sitrep ( mission update )


• Make contact with Homeless person in tent

Pending: see below

studying: Chinese Language

Study Chinese culture

Look into his option of identity printers later

Contacting: Tomas`

Trigger: Police contact ( Stress )

Vices:

Sex

Drugs

Goals:

1. To keep alive and recover the kid before the second team kills all of us


2. Contact Tomas and start the network

Charlie attempt to make contact with a homeless woman and cuts a deal so that someone will make the recce for him. Hopefully also will let the reefers know that an edgerunner wishes to communicate with them.

if Rya Mendez is even at the apartment. Charlie can also attempt to get information from the homeless concerning the Reef’s social position on the building and what the Edgers may run into.

Charile’s plan was really two fold......

In a watery world of the reef, what better than to get ... more teeth?.

Chariles’ group couldn’t take the chance of messing up even more, the other team  was closing in and these reefers would be chariles’s ticket to slow them down if not set them back for a bit.

The metalhead offer to assit Charlie and he accepted with a nod while procceding to find someone that would....

Strolling amongst the makeshift tents, deteriorating biodegradable plastic shipping blocks, shopping carts, and whatever other pieces of trash that can be jury-rigged together to form a shelter, the time of day is both a blessing and a curse. Most of the street rats are asleep, completely in the grips of their preferred drug, or drunk off their asses and not likely to recover for hours. At the same time, the two Edgerunners aren’t being accosted and pressed for “donations.”

Finally, Luther stops, his gaze piercing the predawn gloom. Near a dumpster sits a well-constructed tent made of old military grade canvas. No trash exists within two meters of it and the space that the other homeless are giving the abode shows a certain level of respect. Furthermore, there’s a light on inside, small and dim but visible through the centimeter wide crack between the flaps and Luther has seen the light be blotted out on a couple of occasions indicating that the occupant is awake.

“ Evening Choombata, I  hope that I’m not disturbing you in your tent while others are in the sandman’s playbox”. Charile annouces himself from a distance “ If you have the time to parley perhaps this night might end up benniting two praties instead of one,  interested Choomba”

Charile waits for a reply or some monvement

I was asked to oversee this group by starlight, to keep you guys grounded and informed, you are now being  informed.

Like you said nothing personal.....

Your current assessment for this situation is flawed, If you enter that place without my help, you risk being attacked by either a whaleboy /girl or maybe a shark wo/man with a torpedo spear. My suggestion is to wait until I can make contact and get us inside.

Unless anyone else here can speak “ The philosophies of Aqua Genesis, with their emphasis on self-evolution and racial Destiny” then please by all means take the lead

PM sent with a hold on my post till I get some answer and  character descriptions if need be.

should I edit the sheet or you for the CP?

*Waiting

PM sent... after reply I'll post

Contris: Closed

Tag: Brom Sal

Goals:

• Bribing officer Burns


• Get back on the airway to the group

Pending: see below

studying: Chinese Language

Study Chinese culture

Look into his option of identity printers later

Contacting: Tomas`

Trigger: Police contact ( Stress )

Vices: 

Sex

Drugs

Goals:

1. To keep alive and recover the kid before the second team kills all of us


2. Contact Tomas and start the network

Cred Stick Charlie knows this is a blatant lie. He checked the lights before leaving the fueling station. Officer Burns steps towards the jeep again and extends his hand to take the fake ID, retrieving a pen-sized device from his ballistics vest at the same time. That device, Luther knows, places a digital mark on the ID which, in turn, authorizes the Police Department’s bank to request a draft against the offender’s bank account. If the ID holder refuses to authorize the draft (which they can do as soon as the mark is made), the police are notified and the offender can be picked up on a warrant.

" Damn it, Appoligies Officer" Luther dropped the ID inside the vehicle and asked if he could retrivive it... slowly. 

* assuming that Officer burns will be stern in a final warring, Luther will use the time to pick up the I.D. and switch it with a credit stick so that he could make a bribe as well as a smile to this officer burns. 

Thanks!

posted Brom if you can please give me a quick reply so I can see if I get shot, arrested or lose the vehicle.... becuase that is the upside, *L

In the side view mirror, Cred Stick Charlie witnesses the officer—fully armored in riot gear—approaching on the building-side.

“License and registration, please.”

Handing over his I.D., Luther complies with the officer’s request.

“Registration?” Officer Burns addresses the missing information.

Reaching over to the glove compartment, the well-dressed fixer drops the door open and leans over to peer inside.

“Careful, Mr. Hastiin,” Burns steps back, his hand resting on the grip of his service weapon. “Move slow so we don’t have any misunderstandings.”

The compartment is filled with worthless crumpled papers that are ages old showing service that has been performed by service stations with dates that are more than ten years old. There are a few pens, a single rusted crescent wrench, a couple of ratty elastic hair bands, and a Twinkie still in its package, but there’s no registration.

"Ahhh....Officer. It's missing... the registration is missing from the glovebox, Sir" .

Luther aka Mr Hastiin wasn't very please and even more concerened that if this vehicle gets impounded what was Luther going to do?. Everyone has a price on thier heads if the child isn't found and it would only be a matter of time before all of them would be dead.

"Officer tell me what may options are Sir, All that I want to do is get home safely after a long night". " I just left the fueling station a way back and I'm just rambling, Appoligies".

Human-Perception-Check

Luther Washington - Fixer: To Perceive: 17

Contris: Closed

Tag: Brom Sal

Goals:

Get back on the airway to the group

Pending: nothing

studying: Chinese Language

Study Chinese culture

Look into his option of identity printers later

the Long Mile Fueling Station | SanFran Integrate | Midcity | UrbanZone - March 9th, Day 3 (Sunday), 5:07 AM PST --- Weather Conditions: High City (heavy rain, 20mph winds from the N.) | Midcity (light rain, 10mph winds from the N.) | Undercity (fog and drizzle, no winds.)

Air Quality Index: High City = 15 | Midcity = 36 | Undercity = 86 (masks required - Red warning)

Spotting a descent position beneath a streetlamp and in front of a semicircular building face with four stories of glass facing the street, Luther pulls over and stops the vehicle, allowing the winds of the hover turbines the settle and the jeep to slowly lower to street level.

Luther sighs. “Fine... but I find this unnecessary as I'm trying to home. Thank you, Dispatch."

<= Very well, sir. =>

Behind him, the patrol car swings its nose out towards the street for an easier departure, blues and reds still flashing, reflecting both off of the wet street and the windows of the buildings around them.

Luther rechecks his I.D. and keeps his hands on the dash so that they can be seen as well as the I.D. and waits for the officer to speak to him. Choosing to dial Hui Yin, just in case something goes south.

<= Hello? Mr. Charlie? Is that you? Why are you calling me so early? This is not cool. =>

Luther explains that he is getting pulled over and wants her on the line to listen in.

<= You call me at five in the morning because you want me to listen in? I was on a beach with Pan Feng and you ruined it, Mr. Charlie. =>

Mr Charlie apologises then hangs up and comments to himself that good help is hard to find in a bind...

In the side view mirror, Cred Stick Charlie witnesses the officer—fully armored in riot gear—approaching on the building-side.

“License and registration, please.”

Luther complies with the officer and gives I.D. and waits....

(OOC: March 9th, Day 3 - Sunday, Time is 5:08 AM PST)

Contris: Closed

Tag: Brom Sal

Goals:

Go recover time from the traffic stop

Pending:

studying: Chinese Language

Study Chinese culture

Look into his option of identity printers later

Non Felon Traffic stop in progress

<= I can assure you, sir, that a patrol sergeant isn’t necessary. But if you’d really like one present, I can see how long it will take for a sergeant to get to your location. =>

Spotting a descent position beneath a streetlamp and in front of a semicircular building face with four stories of glass facing the street, Luther pulls over and stops the vehicle, allowing the winds of the hover turbines the settle and the jeep to slowly lower to street level.

Luther sighs

" Fine..... but I find this unnessasary as I'm trying to home, Thank you dispatch"

<= Very well, sir. =>

Behind him, the patrol car swings its nose out towards the street for an easier departure, blues and reds still flashing, reflecting both off of the wet street and the windows of the buildings around them.

Luther rechecks his I.D. and keeps his hand on the dash so that they can be seen as well as the I.D. and awats for the officer to speak to him. 

Luther chooses to dial  Hui Yin, just in case something goes south. Luther explains that he is getting pulled over and want her on the line to listen in. 

(OOC: March 9th, Day 3 - Sunday, Time is 5:07 AM PST)