[gilga]

@Athos Faith tells you "Careful what you wish for, if I let them find work for themselves you might not like what they do for living, we are smugglers and criminals delivering weapons to fancy offices under the city and removing them after use in agreed drop points, no question asked. This is how we made living before that monstrosity started swarming the sewers. These are no wage-slaves they are warriors and scavengers...

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos looks at Faith is surprise and laughs.  "My kind of people.  I have nothing against that sort of work.  We can set up and work from here.  It will make a good way to earn a living."

[Jack_Spade]

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@Kynos
Some OOC things:
1. For Maxwell sleeping in the car with a suit only gave a roll for each 4 hours - sleeping in a garbage with a full armor (rather than suit armor) would not allow Kynos to recover stun every hour. It should be worse conditions than in the car. That is I'll get him up but he'll be 1 stun away from blacking out again. -
(is that reasonable for you? I try to keep consistent and well you know how this game is with rules and stuff I want to define 'rest' as at home in bed sleeping in regular clothes).
 
About Knowledge check I assumed you can find a safe place to crush where you won't get eaten or easily found by the Yak,but some things could still happen Some homeless dude finding the unconscious warrior and steals some stuff to sell it ? Stuff like that.

No. No stealing. I depend on my equipment and you already took away my weapon dealer connection so I can't replace it. If you start with that, Kynos won't be able to participate.

Also I thought the knowledge check would allow me to find a place where I can crash and refresh. You may give me a dice pool penalty on that if you absolutely must, but Kynos has the Quick Healer ability.
Bluntly said: Kynos won't start to wander the streets until he is up for it.
If you want to stretch the intervals be aware, that that will just take him out of the game for another day.

Also I am explicitly asking for a bicycle not a motorbike, just a simple mountainbike or something similar. Not everything must be motorized. If need be I'd even buy one from a shady cellar shop.

If they are chained up, I have a micro welder ready

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[gilga]

[spoiler]

No stealing take it easy, and okay on finding a bicycle in the street and about your contact once you resolve the deal with the military base you'll get him again at higher loyalty.
 
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[Shaman_Yuri]

"I want to kill him so much..." I hear Strawberry say.

Those words surprise me considering how much of a pacifist this woman has shown herself to be.  Then again, the havoc above is evidence to just how much disruption this one man apparently has caused.

"What does M say about him?"  I really am curious since the spirit does seem to be the more practical of the two.

[gilga]

@Strawberry says "M would have killed him instantly by allowing him to burn in the Joke along with his fireball simple clean and victim-less, but i couldn't allow anyone to have this fate, not again."

[Jack_Spade]

Kynos found one: A turn of the previous century model - with a sturdy steel frame and new tires - secured safely with two sets of heavy bike chains.
Those lasted exactly six seconds against Kynos' micro welder. Now with wheels under him, Kynos began to pedal towards the stronghold.
While he exerted himself he had time to think. 'It really looks like a zombie-apocalypse now. Really fitting that I'm on a velocipede now - the most efficient way to traverse larger distances without needing to worry about noise or refueling. Only downside is I look probably ridiculous...'

[Shaman_Yuri]

"This has happened before?" I ask, holding Strawberry close since I can tell this is a tough topic for her.

[gilga]

@Athos many things happens right infront of your eyes, the earth raised to supply you with a cave, considerably better than that old warehouse. The Joke itself is also transformed to some improvised earth house that grows from the ground, frankly it needed renovation and Strawberry have decided not to stay dead. After the unusual construction the massive earthwalls are being transformed into brick like exterior to give them a more mundane feeling. Roofers arrives with wood, nylons and plastics to create good roof above your shelter.

  You meet M outside of the renovated warehouse and she said " It is crude but it should last the winter if you treat it right making it permanent is a matter, of choice you can go and speak to Nagisa but we cannot send her out of the compound it is not safe for her outside. The Mafia might attempt to kill her again. "

Later you get a message from Deep Blue >> I am skipping town - do you want to hang out before that? I can take you flying.

@Minnie Strawberry tells you "It happened again and again, over the generations and I also experience the pain of generations to come. This is the drawback in my magic - as I initiate and venture deeper into it I lose touch with this world and my mind becomes more fragmented around the history. I have been studying magic my entire life, I can sense the sufferings of my bloodline to ancient times. It is difficult to explain but I just know that someone related to me have died in a fire.

Most of my bloodline have died violent deaths and living here for so many years every time this happens here it floods back new emotions and new feelings new revelations and the desire of revenge, I tried to protect myself to make this place a safe heaven so that I could keep my mind in agriculture and magic and the things that I love. It seems that no matter what I do I cannot prevent the outside world from getting into my domain, but that is beside the point I need your help and I need it urgently Gi needs to arrive to the airport and he need to arrive there before nightfall because there is a vampire after him.

If the opposition attacked us now - and he was obviously the target of this assault it is our time to make a move. I'll give you dream of passion she choice to stay here and you can call Athos if you like and this security guy called Edge that I got good references on. I need Gi removed from here, you would not believe the Pandora's box his death is going to open. "

[Shaman_Yuri]

I listen intently to the story Strawberry tells.  I have so many questions, but I sense now isn't the time.  All I can do it hold her close as she speaks and really absorb what she's saying.  In any case, I need all the time I can get to ensure Gi makes it to the airport before sundown.  It's late December, the shortest days of the year.  It'll be twilight in maybe five hours.  Not much time at all to prepare and execute an operations given the circumstances.

"It sounds like he needs to be in the air over the Pacific by dusk.  If his death is this big, just being behind airport security might not be enough.  When can he be taking off for Japan as close to nightfall as possible but in the air before twilight and giving some cushion for potential delays?"  I think a moment.  "And while we're at it, we'd need to be stealthy.  If anyone knows we're taking him to fly out and want him to meet Grail, all they'd have to do would be to create a scene and the airport closes.  No planes take off before dark and they get their way by default.  This will be very tricky."

[gilga]

@Edge It has been a long flight but you are finally landed in Seattle, it is 10 am and you have a meeting for a job something that paid well enough to fly across the globe to do. Few nights ago you were in Tokyo wondering how your career have taken you so far and then an opportunity to fly in an MCT affiliated Jet no passport control no nothing -  closer to home. Apparently it is an agent extraction, who knows you got paid for the way in 10k nuyen just for securing a cooperate suit- Rafael Green - the vice president of Microfocus - some company that makes nanite technologies that was rushed one way to Seattle.

Your plane has not yet landed when you are offered a side gig - by a spirit no less a beautiful elf manifest to you and introduces herself as Melissa, M in short. She gives you GPS coordinates and a promise of 25k if you can escort some hot agent safely to the airport.

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos reads the text from Jet Blue and sends a response.  >>Hey, nice to hear from you.  Still wish that you did not feel you have to leave.  I am restructuring the Family here and could use you as a partner.  People might be looking for you, but that can be fixed.  But if you are positive I will not be in your way.  When do you want to meet and where.  I am tied up at the moment, but can free later.  Get back to me.<<

After sending the message, Athos tasks Faith with assigning living space to her people and tells her, "You are in charge here, so get your people situated.  It may take a day or two, but we want to start looking into reestablishing your contacts and getting back in business.  If you are used to moving through the underground we will need to figure out how to do that with the zombies down there.  I am going off to talk to some people here, but will be back to check in later.  Any questions for me?"

[gilga]

@Minnie Strawberry said "It will not be easy, but this is the window of opportunity the vampire is powerful but in the day he uses runners like everybody else. We caught two of his runners and the third one is escaping now trying to find a hole to crawl into.

The mage tried to kill Gi and then myself - he is right here in front of you.
The rigger that was only subdued because of Athos your friend - he gave us head up of your location and following the drone you took out we uncovered the rigger alone and unprotected. Dream of Passion took care of him along with another spirit. There is only the tank, Kynos - that proved very difficult to subdo in such a short notice. He is on the run tough and he'll quickly discover that all our drones are in the sky until you make it for the airport.

Nagisa will be your eyes in the matrix and I'll send you a close friend that decided to stay with us longer than anticipated, Dream of Passion to give you some astral over watch. Heads up that Dream of Passion was hurt in the struggle with Kynos so do not expect much direct confrontation from her. She can however posses your clothes to protect you and do all sort of things fire spirits do - ask her yourself if you like, I instructed her to keep an eye for you.  I am sending you another runner named Edge - I cannot trust anyone in town after my own runners were working both sides - but Edge have just landed in the city - it is unlikely that he was hired by the other side. "

[All4BigGuns]

@Edge It has been a long flight but you are finally landed in Seattle, it is 10 am and you have a meeting for a job something that paid well enough to fly across the globe to do. Few nights ago you were in Tokyo wondering how your career have taken you so far and then an opportunity to fly in an MCT affiliated Jet no passport control no nothing -  closer to home. Apparently it is an agent extraction, who knows you got paid for the way in 10k nuyen just for securing a cooperate suit- Rafael Green - the vice president of Microfocus - some company that makes nanite technologies that was rushed one way to Seattle.

Your plane has not yet landed when you are offered a side gig - by a spirit no less a beautiful elf manifest to you and introduces herself as Melissa, M in short. She gives you GPS coordinates and a promise of 25k if you can escort some hot agent safely to the airport.

Looking to the spirit, not in the least surprised by the sudden appearance given his brother's profession as a shaman, Edge says quietly, "I have a meet I need to get to, but once that's done I can see about getting this person to the airport."

[gilga]

@Athos
Deep Blue tell you >> Your words are beautiful but tragic as you do not know the half of it. I am taking a risk dating you got it?  meet me where we met for the first time - I will have a nice surprise for you.


Faith nods - "We'll be alright" she says you have more important things to do, thanks for doing us a solid.

@Edge - The spirit said "Funny or not I am aware of your schedule, call this number when you are done with the meeting, and she types you a comlink number. For a spirit she seems very technologically savvy.

Mr. Green asks you "Who are you talking to son? You yourself have suggested flying wifi dark for security reasons."