[RHat]

So it seems.  May need to arrange money through Clem's contact...

[HydroRaven]

I highly doubt the job is paying enough to cover a 100,000 trip to Seattle, let alone have something left for us to pay rent with. This guy might need some physical persuasion, or we try our luck ourselves.

[RHat]

We'd need 25k to pay the fixer - or some kind of leverage, though I doubt we want to take the time to arrange that.

[HydroRaven]

If Clem and O'Connor were there we could squeeze him for a better deal and probably get an SMG in the process

[Thvor]

Well, I got a PM from the GM last night, saying:

You did an excellent job talking down the price.  50 grand was as low as you could have gotten it considering all the factors involved.  Might be a little more than you would want to pay, but that is the price for working through unknown contacts.

(And considering 11 hits versus 1, one would expect that Sam would have gotten the best deal possible.) So I don't think having the muscle "lean" on Greasy is going to get us any further.

That said, it's looking like we've got a decision to make: Do we try to come up with the 50K, try to find a different way to Tacoma, or write our previous lives off as a loss and set up shop out here in hicksville? 

[farothel]

Or do we use the money that Clem (it was Clem, right?  ) managed to get as a loan to buy fuel and drive to Seattle ourselves instead of using other people.  As soon as we get a bit away from this village, the police stuff should lessen as well.

[RHat]

Problem with that is getting over the border - the smuggler option doesn't have that problem.

[HydroRaven]

It is half of what greasy first said, but it's still 50,000 which comes down to just under 10 large per head. Clem doesn't have that kind of money and she'd rather take her chances with border patrol than give in to Greasy and possibly lose all profits to the job.

[Necrogigas]

$50K for a short smuggler run seems steep. It'd probably be more cost effective for us to use not even half of that to fuel the vehicle and bribe border security to get back into town.

[RHat]

Actually running the boder would mean getting ahold of at least one vehicle more capable than the beater, and we'd probably want to get some modifications done for it - would end up pretty pricey, I think.

[HydroRaven]

OR, for the money, we could all get some well made fake IDs and just go through. Not necessarily at the same time.

[RHat]

Which would also mean vehicles, and I'm less than confident about getting Sammy through on a fake ID.

[Crossbow]

As you guys are coming to realize 50 G is not as steep as you think, considering your situation.  Vehicles, IDs, bribes, weapons, secrecy, all that could easily add up to more than that, IF you are successful AND can get your contacts to play ball. 

[Necrogigas]

We could also sneak into the trailer of a big rig headed into Seattle. Fionn finds the truck, Icarus gets everyone on board, Heron and Sammy keep the team concealed, and O'Connor and Clem handle any problems that come up.

[RHat]

Might also need to hack scanners at the border, and any astral security could pick up the conealment.

Sneaking across the border would be theoretically possible, but quite difficult, and quite risky.  The pseudo-legit route and the smuggler route are safer, but more expensive by far - the smuggler route is probably the safest.