[Presidentevil133]

It's midnight, and you're bored. As a runner you've seen good times and you've seen bad times, and right now times are looking pretty tough. Good news, nobody is shooting you. Yet. Bad news, it's been weeks since your last job and prospects are looking grim: after a string of public scandals last month, the Corporate Court has stepped in and is forcing everyone to play nice and smile for the cameras. Worst of all, they're actually doing it instead of just pretending!

So, you wait. You clean your guns. You debug your code and read up on the latest exploits. Most importantly though, you stay ready for nights like tonight. Nights when the phone rings and times start looking up again.

"Hey. I've got good news. There's a client of mine assembling a team. Simple snatch job, pay is average, but if you play your cards right he may be interested in repeat business. I'll give you the time and place... If you're feeling up to it."

(OOC: Congratulations Sichr, mdp, deathwishjoe, netzgeist, kouryuu and kontact! Your shadowrun characters must be the envy of [subject hometown here!] and I'm sorry about being a few days late. You can expect further unexpected delays until mid may, when I finish finals week.)

[Sichr]

Message catches Henry studying the data on Emergenyy phenomena and its impact on the sociaty and interpersonal behaviour. This was one of his favourite topics this time, because it was real, right here, and the teoretic field was quite uncertain, even carefull, about the presumptions. This left a lot odf space for his own imagination and analysis.
When the incoming signal alerted him, he pauses his thoughts, concentrates himself a bit and then he picked up the call, strictly polite professional, as allways.
Oh, sure Im interested...Really?...Ok, consider me on my way...Thank you for good news and have a nice day.
Good news....After the long time, it seems like he is getting the chance again to fuel his efforts to clear his name, and maintain his dignity amongst the equals.
Half an hour later he was riding his bike down the streets towards the meeting point, clean, shaved, fresh and ready.

[Kouryuu]

Kouryuu had not yet returned from a trip to gather resources in the wild  to make his own binding materials, when he received a message, he did not know if he would return in time, because out here the public transportation was a pain.

Will try my best, thanks.

he gatherered the remnants of his camp and went for the nearest Bus stop.

let's just hope i make it in time

[Netzgeist]

These have not been good times for Angela. As she got no clue and no job for the last weeks, she stayed most of her time connected, searching for the last traces of her master; no good.  For a month now that she loose his trail, and Flow haven't made itself listened for the same amount of time. Even though she preferred to stay at "home", the lack of change was being hard, and she almost miss the pollution outside.

Then the message caught her while she meditates on Resonance, after studying her holy texts for the hundredth time. A change of pace, after all. She replies with just an "ok", and get ready to meet the unknown.

[Kontact]

Fang Yuan woke up, still a little drunk from the night before, and tried to figure out where he was.  It took him a moment to recognize the dirty white box of a room as his own.  This was a new place.  Many of his favorite things were around though, so that was good.  Something was bothering him though.  There was a buzzing in his mind which distracted him.  He thought about the buzzing, and a comm channel opened.  "Hello?  Yes?  Snatch job?  Yes, thank you.  I will meet you at this place."  The buzzing now gone, Fang Yuan laid back down and wondered whose commlink he might be wearing to receive such a summons.

[deathwishjoe]

Enigma or Jim as he had been called in another life noted one of his agents, still using the out of the box form of a non descript metal sphere, reporting back on one of its regular trips to a VPN he used to allow his contacts to get ahold of him in case they found work.  He brushed aside a bunch of other reports on local corperate expendatures he was perusing on order to read the message the agent had retreived for him.    Enigma sighed, he had a big job in the planning stages curently and in order to keep up with the time table he set forth earlier he was going to need some extra funds.  that last job he did had cost alot of money to pull off right.

He composed a breif message for his agent to send back to the VPN and as a after thought double checked the small networks of proxy servers his agent used before connecting to the VPN to insure they were still working correctly. 

Affirmative,  Message received.   I assume protocol dictates I head to the meet in person as well rather then using a telepresence device?   

He hated going out in public but unfortunatly too much of his work required his physical presence. 

[mdp]

Ernesto looked up from the small desk he was sitting at.  On it lay some bleu prints he was studying.  He reached for the commlink on a far corner of the desk to answer the incomming call.
Hmmm, okay, I can sureley use the cash.  So where is the meet?
He made sure he wrote down the commcode the call originated from. 
After sending the commcode to the mirror man with a request to check if it could be Aztech related he went to the cupboard and started getting his gear ready for the meet.

[Presidentevil133]

You arrive at the meeting place a couple minutes early to get the lay of the land. It's one of those new "business clubs" that have been popping up; full service restaurants also equipped with high speed connections and a wide variety of the latest "productivity" software. They're very popular among office drones and middle manager types, because they combine real food with the opportunity to toil your life away in meaningless servitude. As each of you enters the door, a hostess quickly approaches, greets you, and tells you your gathering is in one of the private conference rooms in just a few minutes. In the meantime, you're welcome to relax at the bar; the Johnson appears to be picking up this tab.

Okay, so it's not exactly Dante's Inferno. And unless you're interested in discussing debt consolidation pie charts (or whatever the fuck it is these people talk about) there's not going to be a lot of good conversation. But hey, free drinks!

What do you do?

[mdp]

Ernesto searches for a place at the bar.  Climbing on a bar chair he barely gets over the counter with his arms.  He sings to the bartender.
and orders a tequila

[Netzgeist]

The girl enters the bar and sits in a lone place. Being among people in real life was never very comfortable to her. After searching through an ARO with the house specialties, she orders a Bloody Mary. Trying to avoid eye contact with the other people in the room (which was not that difficult, since most people in the place where minded their own business), she retracts herself in appreciating and evaluating the bar node sculpting from a user account.

[deathwishjoe]

Before heading over to the meet Enigma sends a command to "little Thunder" his Renraku Stormcloud to head over to the meeting site and watch all of those entering the location. 

He then cross checks that business with the location of any of those on his list to most likely to be bug spirits in disguise with there movement over the last 2 weeks to see if this might be an ambush. 

he then begins to disguise himself using his disguise kit to look like a mid level executive wage slave.

disguise check to look like a wage slave. long black hair pony tail and ghotee. (10d6.hits(5)=5) 

He loads up on some equipment before heading out.  Just in time to get to the meet a few mins early. 
OOC:
Form fitting body armor under suit.
streetline special loaded with stick-n-shock along with an extra clip in the concealable holster
a hit of cram and a hit of jazz in his autoinjector
both comlinks with his hermes Ikon in stealth mode and his metalink loaded with his fake sin
He also puts "Big Thunder" his dragon fly drone into the passanger seat of his car and carries along "mouse" his micro tapper bug in his suite pocket. 

After arriving and getting the update from the waitress he go to the bar and orders a coffee black and then begins striking up a conversation to fit in a bit more. 

Ettiquette test to "fit in" influence skill 1 + Cha 3 + empathy software running off his contacts 6 - 3 paranoia. (7d6.hits(5)=2)

[Kontact]

Fang Yuan showed up at the club dressed not unlike a bike messenger in his jumpsuit.  Those were the clothes he had.  Luckily, they seemed not inappropriate in a place of business.  At least to him.  Businessmen depended on a package deliveryman.  They must be glad to see one, yes?  He saddled up to the bar and sat down.
"One bottle please.  Liquor."

This place seems flashy and empty, like and ornament.  The people in it flashy and empty too.  Businessmen digging their way down into Maya, rooting themselves into their illusions.  Fang Yuan looked at them to see if any of them were aware - enlightened - awakened.  Even in a place such as this, it was possible.
[OOC:Int 5 + 1 assensing +3 enh perception +1 perceptive = 10d6.hits(5) → [3,5,5,4,2,3,1,5,6,3] = (4)  10d6.hits(5) → [4,2,2,5,2,3,6,1,1,2] = (2)]

[Sichr]

Henry parks his monocycle in front of the restaurant, checks his tie and resoulutery enters the doors. HIs face reflects possitive mood, as he quiclky looks around to memorize people in the place
Int(5)+Perc(4)+Att.Coprocessor(3)+VisEnhancement(3) (15d6.hits(5)=3)
When the waiter came to meet him, he broads his smile, looking into her eyes, listens what she tolds him, nodes slightly:
Ok beauty. Ill get one Tequilla Sunrise on the bar. You have nice place here, hope you are enjoying your job

When he tokes his place, enabling him to see the newcommers, he begins the datasearch on the faces catched with his recognition soft. And continues this even when the drink arrives. As usually, he wants to know, with whom he may have the honour of working together, assuming other members of the team are on the place already or they will arrive soon.
As he is here because of work, he doesnt actively seek any conversations, more he is just listening to others and sometimes flirting a bit with the personell. Her commcode and time when the shift ends would be enought, he is currious about bar waitresses and barmaids, they always know a lot about the people, so for the beginning, it should be a nice talk...

[Kouryuu]

Kouryuu was surprised how fast he had gotten there, he was a bit early.

That went better then expected.

When a quite attractive Hostess approaches him and fills in the situation,
Kouryuu's feeble attempts at flirting with the hostess ends as fast as he started them  ,  so he orders a glass of REAL juice and takes place at the bar.
He activates his Sustaining Foci[Reflexes 3; Armour 3]
No one will have more interest in keeping me alive then me myself. And being wanted should make you ready any time, everywhere.

[Sichr]

Seems that asking the waitress:
Say girl, anyone else from theese peoples is here for the same meeting?

Should bring some info...