Post by Kagi on Jul 15, 2006 11:47:48 GMT -5
*****Recap of Last Session*****
Under the deft social skills of Manzazzuu, Tokucho has let loose a dangerous secret. The team's target Akihana has been secretly seeing the son of a well connected Mafia lieutenant for quiet some time; the mysterious man in all of Akihana's paintings. Frank Bianchi is the man's name.
The team is currently positioned at various locations inside the secure condo complex that Tokucho's family is living at.
The team still has an appointment from 1-4pm this afternoon at the private school Akihana attended. Local time is 11:25 am.
*****End Recap*****
[8:51:07 PM] Tokucho "It was Frank's idea for them to run away. I told Akihana it was just stupid, but she wouldn't listen to me. Fraggin' greasy italian has her completely screwy."
[8:52:11 PM] Manzazzuu "Where did they go?" He asks, raising an eyebrow at her, suspecting she might know.
[8:54:21 PM] Pele "What did you find out, Vince?"
[8:54:29 PM] Tokucho "I don't know...well I mean I did know, but that's the thing....I'll be grounded for like a month if...frag." ::she seems to be considering something in her mind, her eyes dart back and forth and she bites her lower lip::
[8:54:42 PM] Vince Well Pele, I was ansered by-a....asians..."
[8:56:24 PM] Manzazzuu "You will be best off if you tell me -everything- I assure you." He tells her, leaning in to watch her more intently.
[8:56:43 PM] DC "it can only get worse if you don't tell us" she says with a conserned look
[8:57:24 PM] Vince to Pele and Oscar "It might be an inside job, power struggle or something..maybe the bugs already got some low Yakuzas or some asinas who can look nice and hide Akihana well"
[8:59:25 PM] Tokucho "You can't let anyone find out. I helped Akihana and Frank. I did some stuff over the matrix, just erasing their tracks and drek." ::she blushes:: "I hired these guys...I used a fake bank account..." ::tears begin to pool in her eyes::
[8:59:56 PM] Oscar "Thats what it sounds like."
[9:00:34 PM] * DC hands her something to wipe away the tears
[9:00:43 PM] Manzazzuu "If you tell us everything, and help us to find them, I will consider not telling your parents and.. other people." He tells her.
[9:00:46 PM] Doc "Vince what about frank anything about him goin missing?"
[9:00:52 PM] Tokucho ::Tears now running down her cheeks, she wipes them away:: "I didn't know itwould go bad, I swear! I would never hurt Akihana..."
[9:00:59 PM] Vince "I hope Manzazzuu and DC are actually going somewhere with their meeting."
[9:02:04 PM] Tokucho "These guys, they came and they took Akihana out. Stole her right off the school grounds. Like fraggin' ghosts."
[9:03:01 PM] * Vince to Doc "Not that I hear about..yet again he's pretty powerful, his dad's the leader fo the Bianchi family and a close, personnal firedn fo the don..things like that don't get around much."
[9:03:21 PM] Manzazzuu Manny listens and waits for the girl to continue.
[9:03:22 PM] Tokucho "They where supposed to deliver her to a boat at the Seattle docks that would take her and Frank to Cal free state..." ::tears now run freely down her cheeks::
[9:03:38 PM] Doc "May wanna check on it somehow."
[9:04:12 PM] Vince "Yeah, but I can't just walk up to a goomba and ask him about it, he'll frag me over."
[9:04:19 PM] Vince "It might take some time."
[9:04:57 PM] Manzazzuu "Supposed to?" He asks, raising an eyebrow.
[9:05:26 PM] Tokucho "But neither of them arrived, not ever. I don't know where they went."
[9:06:26 PM] Pele "But how much time do we have?"
[9:06:57 PM] Doc "Just thinkin if he got helped from the girl to run and they find out he is gone and connect it to her she and the yaks will be framed for it won't they?"
[9:07:31 PM] Manzazzuu "I want all the information you have on the people you hired, I want to know every one of their tracks you 'erased'." He tells her, frowning.
[9:07:36 PM] Vince to Pele" Can't say..uif bugs are involved, it may be too late."
[9:08:39 PM] Vince To Doc:"Yeah pretty much..Mob War either way but we ne.." Vince freeze for a second "shit I jsut got an idea."
[9:11:05 PM] Vince "Is there's one thing I"m certain both the Mafia and the Yazuka hates, it's Aztlan dreks coming with bugs to take over their mind, soul, and more importantly, their buinesses and fronts."
[9:12:10 PM] Tokucho ::she nods weakly:: "Okay, but it's not much. LTG number?"
[9:13:19 PM] Pele "I would agree."
[9:15:38 PM] Vince "Yeah, but the trick is to get them both sitting a tthe same table and make them sign a cease-fire and alliance against the bugs..which will be-a very hard..because the cops will be intrested, especially our friend, Detective Nervewreck, and we don't know it either group already got bugs in their ranks.."
[9:18:25 PM] Vince "And who would believe us? I mean why go the the Mafia and the Yakuzas for something as serious as a bug hive?"
[9:19:54 PM] Manzazzuu Manny Texts Oscar to warn him that there will be some importan information incoming and then gives the girl his LTG - he is their tech guy, after all, and the girl obviously knows more about this stuff than he does.
[9:20:05 PM] * Vince lights a smoke and looks at Oscar walking around, standing in the pouring rain.
[9:20:52 PM] * Vince turns to Doc and Pele "What the hell is he doing outside standing there like an idiot?"
[9:23:02 PM] Tokucho ::nods:: "Transmitting.....sent."
[9:23:02 PM] Oscar to Vince: "Hey Vince I just found a Stealth RFID tag in the wheel well of your van."
[9:24:11 PM] Vince to Oscar: "What?..That damn Blackie elf..or that clown-face...arghh...can you take it off?"
[9:24:20 PM] * Pele shakes his head
[9:24:49 PM] Oscar to Vince: "I just burned it out. So now its broken."
[9:25:08 PM] Vince "Can't figure out who put it there, or how it got there?
[9:25:42 PM] Oscar to Vince: "I'm going to guess the same person or persons trying to trace your call."
[9:26:47 PM] * Vince calms down "Make sence, I did change the tires off of it 2 weeks ago..'musta happend when we were metting the old man."
[9:27:34 PM] Kagi *The packet of information Tocucho sends contains an LTG number that leads to blog on Seattle's infamous underground matrix site, Shadowland. She indicates that this is the place she contacted the people who where to extract Akihana.
[9:33:58 PM] Vince "Hey I got re-routed to some page for the ultimate ham and cheese sandwich."
[9:34:05 PM] Kagi *In addition it relates various electronic transactions that Akihana and Frank have made including the boat tickets for the trip to the Cal free state
[9:35:43 PM] Kagi *the information also contains some poorly constructed fake ID's for Frank and Akihana
[9:40:44 PM] Manzazzuu "Do you know anything about how they were taken from the school?" He asks her.
[9:41:28 PM] Kagi *The last cred transaction was made at a stuffer shack in the Tacoma Sprawl, 9pm last night.
[9:41:42 PM] * Vince gets a pop-up attack and close the line
[9:41:48 PM] * Tokucho shakes her head no
[9:43:08 PM] Tokucho "I said good-bye to Akihana and went to class. They took her after that."
[9:45:30 PM] * Pele browses the site
[9:46:43 PM] Doc "Wonder if the Frank kid was also takin around noon or if maybe we can see who if anyone got him?"
[9:47:17 PM] Manzazzuu "If you think of anything else that might help us find her, you send the information to the LTG I gave you immediately. Do you understand?"
[9:48:31 PM] Kagi *The site is impressive pele. Most of Seattle's shadowrunners have made use of it at one time or another. Thousands of blogs, ad's, and forums exist. The material ranges all over, but is generally linked to shadow-dealings of some kind or another
[9:48:58 PM] * Pele favorites this wonderful utility
[9:49:26 PM] Vince "Well, the only one who can inform us about this is either the Bianchi's Consigliere or Frank's father. they'll know it not doutb, or we'll be the messengers"
[9:49:30 PM] Tokucho ::She nods and wipes away her tears:: "Please don't tell Eddie or my Mother, I don't know what they would do."
[9:50:36 PM] Doc "You know anyone that knows anyone that can talk to them?"
[9:51:15 PM] Vince "Not really..I can maybe try to arrange a meeting, but it's a long shot..gimme a sec"
[9:51:48 PM] * Oscar goes limp while he reviews the security footage from Akihana's school.
[9:51:51 PM] Manzazzuu "For now, we will keep your indiscretions quiet. I suggest you think very hard about how you might help us find her, however." He says, standing up and glancing at DC, pretty sure they've gotten everything they can out of her.
[9:52:06 PM] * Vince place a call
[9:52:49 PM] * DC stands up,
[9:54:53 PM] DC "you did the right thing."
[9:57:56 PM] * Vince hangs up "Can do nothing from my end Dc, You or Pele know anybody who can fix the meeting?"
[9:58:24 PM] Pele "Not at all. Sorry."
[9:58:25 PM] Tokucho "Please help Akihana." ::she too stands and rushes back upstairs as she begins crying again::
[9:59:00 PM] Vince "Doc? How about you?"
[10:00:10 PM] * Oscar wakes up
[10:00:36 PM] DC "ok, lets do as she asks"
[10:00:50 PM] Manzazzuu Naroko stands with Manny, of course, who waits for the lady of the house to return and show them out - since it would be impolite to just leave.
[10:01:45 PM] Kagi *In moments Tokucho's mother returns with a tray of freshly baked cookies, which she offers to the Runners
[10:02:00 PM] Oscar "Well from what I found out about the footage some pros put a loop into the tape, it went to static for a sec then she was gone."
[10:02:15 PM] * DC takes one and politely nods and thanks the kind lady
[10:02:35 PM] Kagi *Mother "Thank you for coming by. Tokucho is very upset, but she will not say why, is everything okay?"
[10:03:56 PM] DC "she is worred about akihana and everyone questioning her has upset her"
[10:04:12 PM] Manzazzuu "Thank you for your hospitality. I am sorry, I think she is just upset about what happened at her school. With any luck, things will be righted soon, however, and she will feel better." He smiles in a friendly manner at the woman.
[10:05:22 PM] Oscar "The video edtiting was the work of another Technomancer."
[10:06:58 PM] DC "I'm sorry to just run like this but we have another apointment"
[10:07:58 PM] Kagi *Mother ::smiles and bows to the runners:: "My pleasure. I understand, do not let me keep you any longer."
[10:08:06 PM] * Oscar sends a message to manny and dc about what he found out by viewing the camera footage.
[10:08:17 PM] Kagi *Mother ::shows the runners to the door::
[10:08:52 PM] Manzazzuu "You have a lovely home, and daughter. Thank you again for your hospitality." Shoes and boots are put back on, and then Manny heads for the parking lot and the others.
[10:09:17 PM] * DC thanks the woman for her hospitality, bows and starts to put on her shoes
[10:09:25 PM] Doc "I am sorry I can't think of anyway for me to set it up been in school most of my life not that well connected."
[10:10:38 PM] Vince "Hmmm...and I didn't stay in town for long enoguht to know where they can be at..hope the others know something.."
[10:13:08 PM] Kagi *Manzazzuu, Noroko, and DC return to the others
[10:13:43 PM] Pele "What did you find out?"
[10:13:50 PM] Vince "DC, check the recording I send you."
[10:13:51 PM] * DC on the way back to the others DC listens to the recording of Vince's
[10:14:18 PM] Oscar "Hey Manny, DC did you two get my message about what i found out in the tape footage?"
[10:16:04 PM] Manzazzuu "That it was basically useless? Yes." He says, in response to Oscar's question. Then he adresses Pele's. "Not here. Could be people listening."
[10:16:53 PM] Vince @did find a Sthealth RDIF tag on one of my wheels"@
[10:17:30 PM] Oscar "Well it wasnt completely useless. The technomancer that did the editing left his signature, so that next the next time i see it and meet the man then we know who took her."
[10:18:09 PM] Manzazzuu "Did you, Vince?" He asks, looking around. "Anyone check the other vehicles?"
[10:18:46 PM] Vince "Nope"
[10:18:51 PM] Oscar "Actually i found it. im gonna check the rest of the vehicles now."
[10:19:45 PM] Manzazzuu "Good idea. I think they'd appreciate it if we left the grounds soon."
[10:20:24 PM] DC "I agree"
[10:20:31 PM] * Pele heads to his bike and waits for it to be checked.
[10:20:34 PM] Vince "So Dc, got anything?"
[10:22:42 PM] DC "... no actually"
[10:23:03 PM] Vince "Oh..did you listen to it?"
[10:23:18 PM] Oscar "We dont seem to have any more, but ill check again later."
[10:23:19 PM] * DC scribles something down on her comm with a text message then shows it to Vince
[10:24:10 PM] Vince "Intresting...VERY intresting...so Running Bull in the third eh?"
[10:24:42 PM] * DC wrote one man repeated "Seattle fish facory how may I help you" twice then a nother man said "he is scrabling the signal, he knows we are tracing him. Git rid of them!"
[10:25:11 PM] DC "yah pass it around"
[10:25:20 PM] * DC lets go of her comm
[10:25:30 PM] * DC when vince has a grip of it
[10:26:19 PM] Kagi Local time is 11:45 pm
[10:26:55 PM] * Vince checks the comm "Holy fraggin' drek, everything fall into place"
[10:26:55 PM] Oscar to Vince: "Who did you call, when i was scrambling you comm?"
[10:27:05 PM] Vince "Akihana's LTG"
[10:27:51 PM] Pele "Want to get some lunch and share our information? We have some time till the meeting at the school." Pele says as he drives up next to the van
[10:28:13 PM] Vince "I"m for it..and somewhere with a smoking section this time."
[10:29:10 PM] Oscar "Sounds cool to me."
[10:29:23 PM] Manzazzuu "And we don't have time to check up on other leads. Let's find somewhere close to the school to lay low." He moves over to his car, and opens the door for Noroko, and DC, assuming she's coming with him again. "Oscar, find a decent place close to the school."
[10:29:27 PM] * Vince gives DC's comm back to her
[10:29:56 PM] * DC takes her come back politily and gets into manny's car
[10:30:24 PM] Vince @oscar, get some place with a smoking section.@
[10:32:20 PM] Oscar "Well i found some burger places, and that place that you guys were at before i joined the group"
[10:32:57 PM] Manzazzuu "We can't go back there, I guess it's one of the burger places."
[10:33:56 PM] Oscar "Then Stuffer Shack it is. Ill lead the way." ::Oscar gets on his bike and waits for the others to get ready before heading out::
[10:34:06 PM] * Vince starts the van's engine
[10:35:22 PM] Oscar ::once everybody is ready Oscar heads out toward the Stuffer Shack.::
[10:35:50 PM] * Manzazzuu follows in the comet.
[10:36:07 PM] * Pele rides next to Oscar
[10:36:14 PM] * Vince closes the convoy
[10:38:28 PM] Oscar ::once at the Stuffer Shack Oscar parks and turns off his bike and slowly walks inside as he waits for the others::
[10:39:02 PM] * Vince parks the van, and tries his best to re-crated the painting, then he locks the door and walks inside with Doc
[10:39:27 PM] * Pele parks and follows suit
[10:40:08 PM] * Manzazzuu parks as well, and moves with the others into the building. Naroko, as always, is with him.
[10:41:15 PM] * DC waits outside for a second and tries to summon a force 4 spirit
[10:46:32 PM] * DC when no spirit comes to her call she just joins the others inside
[10:47:19 PM] * Manzazzuu finds an out of the way booth to sit in. Assuming it's that kind of place?
[10:49:08 PM] * Pele follows Manzazzuu
[10:50:10 PM] * Vince looks around the place, checking the other customers.
[10:50:46 PM] Kagi *The runners all take a seat at a stuffer shack booth, as usual a chime emits from their commlinks asking them if they would like to subscribe to the menu and place an order.
[10:50:58 PM] * DC hands her comm with the recording on it to manny
[10:51:05 PM] DC "play the recording"
[10:51:33 PM] Manzazzuu "Okay." He says, before listening to the recording.
[10:52:20 PM] * Vince get on his fke ID and subscribe to the 'shack's menu and place his order of grease soyburgers with fries and a generic iced-tea.
[10:54:55 PM] DC "who here has seen 'West side story'?"
[10:55:22 PM] Pele "Not I."
[10:55:41 PM] Vince "No, but I know what's it all about"
[10:57:02 PM] DC "well, we have that kind of problem with frank and hana"
[10:57:35 PM] Vince "You mean Puertoricans with knives? harharhar!"
[10:59:37 PM] Oscar "Just thought I'd let yall know that i got my eye on our vehicles. I meen that literaly, sort of."
[10:59:50 PM] DC "maybe actually... remeber that site that we recieved just a bit ago? well that was to get the love birds away from there 'houses'"
[11:00:24 PM] DC "someone hired some outsiders to give them safe passage to cali"
[11:00:43 PM] Vince "Wait wait..so Frank and Akihana's got a thing?"
[11:00:54 PM] Oscar "Sounds like it."
[11:01:17 PM] DC "yes, it is kind of romantic actually"
[11:01:32 PM] Vince "Hmmm..."
[11:01:43 PM] Vince "This may be cause for trouble."
[11:01:48 PM] * DC sighs
[11:02:13 PM] DC "well they never arrived on the transport to cali
[11:03:19 PM] Vince "Hmmm...so who got to them first?"
[11:03:22 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't think it's because the Tokucho made a bad deal though. I think maybe our package got picked up later." He says, glancing at the others.
[11:05:06 PM] Vince "Ok..by whom?"
[11:05:11 PM] DC "so ether frank was playing everyone, or we have a large list of suspects which have not made themselves known"
[11:05:42 PM] Vince "Is Frank puling the strings, then that Detectice was paied."
[11:06:11 PM] DC "by everyone I ment the two girls"
[11:07:22 PM] Vince "Still make sence that the Cop was paied to get us to either get us away or chasing after nothing."
[11:07:57 PM] DC "one can only hope"
[11:08:10 PM] Pele "Did anyone ever investigate the difference of the astral properties fo the picture?"
[11:08:10 PM] Vince "Still think she might have just ran away with her boyfriend."
[11:08:19 PM] DC "I would hate to have the city actually pay that guy to carry a gun"
[11:08:51 PM] Vince "Same here, but watta-ya gonna go about it?"
[11:09:07 PM] DC "Vince? is there anything you can tell us about frank?"
[11:13:28 PM] Vince "The guy's a Playboy, he's been in more woman's bed than there's hookers in the Red Light District, a real party animal too...Ray the Rock's a lieutenanat of the Don, he runs the families, and he's a personnal friend of the Don too..Frank's quite the dissapointment for his father....He's a spoiled kid, not a care in the world about nuthin'"
[11:15:10 PM] DC looks puzzeled "how old is he supposed to be?"
[11:16:57 PM] Manzazzuu "Then again..." Manny says, scratching his head. "She did say she cheated the runners... and that would make the comment about being better than us make more sense."
[11:17:01 PM] Vince "18, fresh out of his mother's....womb"
[11:18:24 PM] * Vince looks away, at a mother with her young kids
[11:19:29 PM] DC "putting the boy in playboy?"
[11:19:43 PM] Vince "you got it."
[11:22:24 PM] * Vince turns his head back to the group "Wait a sec...the painting's from the Cafe's a building in the Tacome Sprawl..the last credstick transaction was in Tacoma, and the Seattle Fish Factory must be on Tacoma's waterfront...Drek, I"ll bet a 1000 Nuyen they're there right now."
[11:23:35 PM] DC "but why would they answer her phone?"
[11:24:32 PM] Vince "The Fish factory must be a front of somekind...maybe a Yakuza front.."
[11:24:52 PM] * Pele searches the Fish Factory on the net
[11:25:03 PM] Manzazzuu "All the info we have points to there being only 2 of them, I think. We don't have time to get to Tacoma and back before we're supposed to be at the school, though. If we want to check it out immediately, we'd have to split up again."
[11:25:12 PM] Vince "franks' rich, but he's dumb, not learning form the old guard..Akihana's got education, I bet she planned all this."
[11:25:51 PM] Vince "You heard the phone call, someone was pulling those asians' strings."
[11:26:55 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't think so, Vince. I think maybe they were the two that Takacho hired and screwed over. Then when they found out they really hadn't been paid, they 'took the package' for real."
[11:27:35 PM] Vince "And hide in a fish factory."
[11:27:52 PM] Vince "Paied a cop to tell us a crazy story about bugs too?"
[11:28:13 PM] Manzazzuu "Maybe the cop really is just nuts, and believes what he told us."
[11:28:34 PM] Oscar "Maybe it was to throw us off the trail or to scare us off of it."
[11:28:56 PM] Vince "Yeah or got paied too, we don't know where the guy's operates, or who he knows."
[11:29:35 PM] Pele "The plot thickens every way we turn."
[11:29:36 PM] Vince "Besdies, Takacho's is Akihana's best freind; she's loyal to the yaks, if she wanted to leave everything behind, she whould have to dumb her best freind too."
[11:31:31 PM] Kagi *Three Asian men slam open the front door of the stuffer shack pointing heavy pistols just as a large spirit materializes on the other side of the runners. Behind the three asians is a menacing Nissan Doberman security drone with an LMG mounted to it.
[11:31:42 PM] Kagi ****End session****
Under the deft social skills of Manzazzuu, Tokucho has let loose a dangerous secret. The team's target Akihana has been secretly seeing the son of a well connected Mafia lieutenant for quiet some time; the mysterious man in all of Akihana's paintings. Frank Bianchi is the man's name.
The team is currently positioned at various locations inside the secure condo complex that Tokucho's family is living at.
The team still has an appointment from 1-4pm this afternoon at the private school Akihana attended. Local time is 11:25 am.
*****End Recap*****
[8:51:07 PM] Tokucho "It was Frank's idea for them to run away. I told Akihana it was just stupid, but she wouldn't listen to me. Fraggin' greasy italian has her completely screwy."
[8:52:11 PM] Manzazzuu "Where did they go?" He asks, raising an eyebrow at her, suspecting she might know.
[8:54:21 PM] Pele "What did you find out, Vince?"
[8:54:29 PM] Tokucho "I don't know...well I mean I did know, but that's the thing....I'll be grounded for like a month if...frag." ::she seems to be considering something in her mind, her eyes dart back and forth and she bites her lower lip::
[8:54:42 PM] Vince Well Pele, I was ansered by-a....asians..."
[8:56:24 PM] Manzazzuu "You will be best off if you tell me -everything- I assure you." He tells her, leaning in to watch her more intently.
[8:56:43 PM] DC "it can only get worse if you don't tell us" she says with a conserned look
[8:57:24 PM] Vince to Pele and Oscar "It might be an inside job, power struggle or something..maybe the bugs already got some low Yakuzas or some asinas who can look nice and hide Akihana well"
[8:59:25 PM] Tokucho "You can't let anyone find out. I helped Akihana and Frank. I did some stuff over the matrix, just erasing their tracks and drek." ::she blushes:: "I hired these guys...I used a fake bank account..." ::tears begin to pool in her eyes::
[8:59:56 PM] Oscar "Thats what it sounds like."
[9:00:34 PM] * DC hands her something to wipe away the tears
[9:00:43 PM] Manzazzuu "If you tell us everything, and help us to find them, I will consider not telling your parents and.. other people." He tells her.
[9:00:46 PM] Doc "Vince what about frank anything about him goin missing?"
[9:00:52 PM] Tokucho ::Tears now running down her cheeks, she wipes them away:: "I didn't know itwould go bad, I swear! I would never hurt Akihana..."
[9:00:59 PM] Vince "I hope Manzazzuu and DC are actually going somewhere with their meeting."
[9:02:04 PM] Tokucho "These guys, they came and they took Akihana out. Stole her right off the school grounds. Like fraggin' ghosts."
[9:03:01 PM] * Vince to Doc "Not that I hear about..yet again he's pretty powerful, his dad's the leader fo the Bianchi family and a close, personnal firedn fo the don..things like that don't get around much."
[9:03:21 PM] Manzazzuu Manny listens and waits for the girl to continue.
[9:03:22 PM] Tokucho "They where supposed to deliver her to a boat at the Seattle docks that would take her and Frank to Cal free state..." ::tears now run freely down her cheeks::
[9:03:38 PM] Doc "May wanna check on it somehow."
[9:04:12 PM] Vince "Yeah, but I can't just walk up to a goomba and ask him about it, he'll frag me over."
[9:04:19 PM] Vince "It might take some time."
[9:04:57 PM] Manzazzuu "Supposed to?" He asks, raising an eyebrow.
[9:05:26 PM] Tokucho "But neither of them arrived, not ever. I don't know where they went."
[9:06:26 PM] Pele "But how much time do we have?"
[9:06:57 PM] Doc "Just thinkin if he got helped from the girl to run and they find out he is gone and connect it to her she and the yaks will be framed for it won't they?"
[9:07:31 PM] Manzazzuu "I want all the information you have on the people you hired, I want to know every one of their tracks you 'erased'." He tells her, frowning.
[9:07:36 PM] Vince to Pele" Can't say..uif bugs are involved, it may be too late."
[9:08:39 PM] Vince To Doc:"Yeah pretty much..Mob War either way but we ne.." Vince freeze for a second "shit I jsut got an idea."
[9:11:05 PM] Vince "Is there's one thing I"m certain both the Mafia and the Yazuka hates, it's Aztlan dreks coming with bugs to take over their mind, soul, and more importantly, their buinesses and fronts."
[9:12:10 PM] Tokucho ::she nods weakly:: "Okay, but it's not much. LTG number?"
[9:13:19 PM] Pele "I would agree."
[9:15:38 PM] Vince "Yeah, but the trick is to get them both sitting a tthe same table and make them sign a cease-fire and alliance against the bugs..which will be-a very hard..because the cops will be intrested, especially our friend, Detective Nervewreck, and we don't know it either group already got bugs in their ranks.."
[9:18:25 PM] Vince "And who would believe us? I mean why go the the Mafia and the Yakuzas for something as serious as a bug hive?"
[9:19:54 PM] Manzazzuu Manny Texts Oscar to warn him that there will be some importan information incoming and then gives the girl his LTG - he is their tech guy, after all, and the girl obviously knows more about this stuff than he does.
[9:20:05 PM] * Vince lights a smoke and looks at Oscar walking around, standing in the pouring rain.
[9:20:52 PM] * Vince turns to Doc and Pele "What the hell is he doing outside standing there like an idiot?"
[9:23:02 PM] Tokucho ::nods:: "Transmitting.....sent."
[9:23:02 PM] Oscar to Vince: "Hey Vince I just found a Stealth RFID tag in the wheel well of your van."
[9:24:11 PM] Vince to Oscar: "What?..That damn Blackie elf..or that clown-face...arghh...can you take it off?"
[9:24:20 PM] * Pele shakes his head
[9:24:49 PM] Oscar to Vince: "I just burned it out. So now its broken."
[9:25:08 PM] Vince "Can't figure out who put it there, or how it got there?
[9:25:42 PM] Oscar to Vince: "I'm going to guess the same person or persons trying to trace your call."
[9:26:47 PM] * Vince calms down "Make sence, I did change the tires off of it 2 weeks ago..'musta happend when we were metting the old man."
[9:27:34 PM] Kagi *The packet of information Tocucho sends contains an LTG number that leads to blog on Seattle's infamous underground matrix site, Shadowland. She indicates that this is the place she contacted the people who where to extract Akihana.
[9:33:58 PM] Vince "Hey I got re-routed to some page for the ultimate ham and cheese sandwich."
[9:34:05 PM] Kagi *In addition it relates various electronic transactions that Akihana and Frank have made including the boat tickets for the trip to the Cal free state
[9:35:43 PM] Kagi *the information also contains some poorly constructed fake ID's for Frank and Akihana
[9:40:44 PM] Manzazzuu "Do you know anything about how they were taken from the school?" He asks her.
[9:41:28 PM] Kagi *The last cred transaction was made at a stuffer shack in the Tacoma Sprawl, 9pm last night.
[9:41:42 PM] * Vince gets a pop-up attack and close the line
[9:41:48 PM] * Tokucho shakes her head no
[9:43:08 PM] Tokucho "I said good-bye to Akihana and went to class. They took her after that."
[9:45:30 PM] * Pele browses the site
[9:46:43 PM] Doc "Wonder if the Frank kid was also takin around noon or if maybe we can see who if anyone got him?"
[9:47:17 PM] Manzazzuu "If you think of anything else that might help us find her, you send the information to the LTG I gave you immediately. Do you understand?"
[9:48:31 PM] Kagi *The site is impressive pele. Most of Seattle's shadowrunners have made use of it at one time or another. Thousands of blogs, ad's, and forums exist. The material ranges all over, but is generally linked to shadow-dealings of some kind or another
[9:48:58 PM] * Pele favorites this wonderful utility
[9:49:26 PM] Vince "Well, the only one who can inform us about this is either the Bianchi's Consigliere or Frank's father. they'll know it not doutb, or we'll be the messengers"
[9:49:30 PM] Tokucho ::She nods and wipes away her tears:: "Please don't tell Eddie or my Mother, I don't know what they would do."
[9:50:36 PM] Doc "You know anyone that knows anyone that can talk to them?"
[9:51:15 PM] Vince "Not really..I can maybe try to arrange a meeting, but it's a long shot..gimme a sec"
[9:51:48 PM] * Oscar goes limp while he reviews the security footage from Akihana's school.
[9:51:51 PM] Manzazzuu "For now, we will keep your indiscretions quiet. I suggest you think very hard about how you might help us find her, however." He says, standing up and glancing at DC, pretty sure they've gotten everything they can out of her.
[9:52:06 PM] * Vince place a call
[9:52:49 PM] * DC stands up,
[9:54:53 PM] DC "you did the right thing."
[9:57:56 PM] * Vince hangs up "Can do nothing from my end Dc, You or Pele know anybody who can fix the meeting?"
[9:58:24 PM] Pele "Not at all. Sorry."
[9:58:25 PM] Tokucho "Please help Akihana." ::she too stands and rushes back upstairs as she begins crying again::
[9:59:00 PM] Vince "Doc? How about you?"
[10:00:10 PM] * Oscar wakes up
[10:00:36 PM] DC "ok, lets do as she asks"
[10:00:50 PM] Manzazzuu Naroko stands with Manny, of course, who waits for the lady of the house to return and show them out - since it would be impolite to just leave.
[10:01:45 PM] Kagi *In moments Tokucho's mother returns with a tray of freshly baked cookies, which she offers to the Runners
[10:02:00 PM] Oscar "Well from what I found out about the footage some pros put a loop into the tape, it went to static for a sec then she was gone."
[10:02:15 PM] * DC takes one and politely nods and thanks the kind lady
[10:02:35 PM] Kagi *Mother "Thank you for coming by. Tokucho is very upset, but she will not say why, is everything okay?"
[10:03:56 PM] DC "she is worred about akihana and everyone questioning her has upset her"
[10:04:12 PM] Manzazzuu "Thank you for your hospitality. I am sorry, I think she is just upset about what happened at her school. With any luck, things will be righted soon, however, and she will feel better." He smiles in a friendly manner at the woman.
[10:05:22 PM] Oscar "The video edtiting was the work of another Technomancer."
[10:06:58 PM] DC "I'm sorry to just run like this but we have another apointment"
[10:07:58 PM] Kagi *Mother ::smiles and bows to the runners:: "My pleasure. I understand, do not let me keep you any longer."
[10:08:06 PM] * Oscar sends a message to manny and dc about what he found out by viewing the camera footage.
[10:08:17 PM] Kagi *Mother ::shows the runners to the door::
[10:08:52 PM] Manzazzuu "You have a lovely home, and daughter. Thank you again for your hospitality." Shoes and boots are put back on, and then Manny heads for the parking lot and the others.
[10:09:17 PM] * DC thanks the woman for her hospitality, bows and starts to put on her shoes
[10:09:25 PM] Doc "I am sorry I can't think of anyway for me to set it up been in school most of my life not that well connected."
[10:10:38 PM] Vince "Hmmm...and I didn't stay in town for long enoguht to know where they can be at..hope the others know something.."
[10:13:08 PM] Kagi *Manzazzuu, Noroko, and DC return to the others
[10:13:43 PM] Pele "What did you find out?"
[10:13:50 PM] Vince "DC, check the recording I send you."
[10:13:51 PM] * DC on the way back to the others DC listens to the recording of Vince's
[10:14:18 PM] Oscar "Hey Manny, DC did you two get my message about what i found out in the tape footage?"
[10:16:04 PM] Manzazzuu "That it was basically useless? Yes." He says, in response to Oscar's question. Then he adresses Pele's. "Not here. Could be people listening."
[10:16:53 PM] Vince @did find a Sthealth RDIF tag on one of my wheels"@
[10:17:30 PM] Oscar "Well it wasnt completely useless. The technomancer that did the editing left his signature, so that next the next time i see it and meet the man then we know who took her."
[10:18:09 PM] Manzazzuu "Did you, Vince?" He asks, looking around. "Anyone check the other vehicles?"
[10:18:46 PM] Vince "Nope"
[10:18:51 PM] Oscar "Actually i found it. im gonna check the rest of the vehicles now."
[10:19:45 PM] Manzazzuu "Good idea. I think they'd appreciate it if we left the grounds soon."
[10:20:24 PM] DC "I agree"
[10:20:31 PM] * Pele heads to his bike and waits for it to be checked.
[10:20:34 PM] Vince "So Dc, got anything?"
[10:22:42 PM] DC "... no actually"
[10:23:03 PM] Vince "Oh..did you listen to it?"
[10:23:18 PM] Oscar "We dont seem to have any more, but ill check again later."
[10:23:19 PM] * DC scribles something down on her comm with a text message then shows it to Vince
[10:24:10 PM] Vince "Intresting...VERY intresting...so Running Bull in the third eh?"
[10:24:42 PM] * DC wrote one man repeated "Seattle fish facory how may I help you" twice then a nother man said "he is scrabling the signal, he knows we are tracing him. Git rid of them!"
[10:25:11 PM] DC "yah pass it around"
[10:25:20 PM] * DC lets go of her comm
[10:25:30 PM] * DC when vince has a grip of it
[10:26:19 PM] Kagi Local time is 11:45 pm
[10:26:55 PM] * Vince checks the comm "Holy fraggin' drek, everything fall into place"
[10:26:55 PM] Oscar to Vince: "Who did you call, when i was scrambling you comm?"
[10:27:05 PM] Vince "Akihana's LTG"
[10:27:51 PM] Pele "Want to get some lunch and share our information? We have some time till the meeting at the school." Pele says as he drives up next to the van
[10:28:13 PM] Vince "I"m for it..and somewhere with a smoking section this time."
[10:29:10 PM] Oscar "Sounds cool to me."
[10:29:23 PM] Manzazzuu "And we don't have time to check up on other leads. Let's find somewhere close to the school to lay low." He moves over to his car, and opens the door for Noroko, and DC, assuming she's coming with him again. "Oscar, find a decent place close to the school."
[10:29:27 PM] * Vince gives DC's comm back to her
[10:29:56 PM] * DC takes her come back politily and gets into manny's car
[10:30:24 PM] Vince @oscar, get some place with a smoking section.@
[10:32:20 PM] Oscar "Well i found some burger places, and that place that you guys were at before i joined the group"
[10:32:57 PM] Manzazzuu "We can't go back there, I guess it's one of the burger places."
[10:33:56 PM] Oscar "Then Stuffer Shack it is. Ill lead the way." ::Oscar gets on his bike and waits for the others to get ready before heading out::
[10:34:06 PM] * Vince starts the van's engine
[10:35:22 PM] Oscar ::once everybody is ready Oscar heads out toward the Stuffer Shack.::
[10:35:50 PM] * Manzazzuu follows in the comet.
[10:36:07 PM] * Pele rides next to Oscar
[10:36:14 PM] * Vince closes the convoy
[10:38:28 PM] Oscar ::once at the Stuffer Shack Oscar parks and turns off his bike and slowly walks inside as he waits for the others::
[10:39:02 PM] * Vince parks the van, and tries his best to re-crated the painting, then he locks the door and walks inside with Doc
[10:39:27 PM] * Pele parks and follows suit
[10:40:08 PM] * Manzazzuu parks as well, and moves with the others into the building. Naroko, as always, is with him.
[10:41:15 PM] * DC waits outside for a second and tries to summon a force 4 spirit
[10:46:32 PM] * DC when no spirit comes to her call she just joins the others inside
[10:47:19 PM] * Manzazzuu finds an out of the way booth to sit in. Assuming it's that kind of place?
[10:49:08 PM] * Pele follows Manzazzuu
[10:50:10 PM] * Vince looks around the place, checking the other customers.
[10:50:46 PM] Kagi *The runners all take a seat at a stuffer shack booth, as usual a chime emits from their commlinks asking them if they would like to subscribe to the menu and place an order.
[10:50:58 PM] * DC hands her comm with the recording on it to manny
[10:51:05 PM] DC "play the recording"
[10:51:33 PM] Manzazzuu "Okay." He says, before listening to the recording.
[10:52:20 PM] * Vince get on his fke ID and subscribe to the 'shack's menu and place his order of grease soyburgers with fries and a generic iced-tea.
[10:54:55 PM] DC "who here has seen 'West side story'?"
[10:55:22 PM] Pele "Not I."
[10:55:41 PM] Vince "No, but I know what's it all about"
[10:57:02 PM] DC "well, we have that kind of problem with frank and hana"
[10:57:35 PM] Vince "You mean Puertoricans with knives? harharhar!"
[10:59:37 PM] Oscar "Just thought I'd let yall know that i got my eye on our vehicles. I meen that literaly, sort of."
[10:59:50 PM] DC "maybe actually... remeber that site that we recieved just a bit ago? well that was to get the love birds away from there 'houses'"
[11:00:24 PM] DC "someone hired some outsiders to give them safe passage to cali"
[11:00:43 PM] Vince "Wait wait..so Frank and Akihana's got a thing?"
[11:00:54 PM] Oscar "Sounds like it."
[11:01:17 PM] DC "yes, it is kind of romantic actually"
[11:01:32 PM] Vince "Hmmm..."
[11:01:43 PM] Vince "This may be cause for trouble."
[11:01:48 PM] * DC sighs
[11:02:13 PM] DC "well they never arrived on the transport to cali
[11:03:19 PM] Vince "Hmmm...so who got to them first?"
[11:03:22 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't think it's because the Tokucho made a bad deal though. I think maybe our package got picked up later." He says, glancing at the others.
[11:05:06 PM] Vince "Ok..by whom?"
[11:05:11 PM] DC "so ether frank was playing everyone, or we have a large list of suspects which have not made themselves known"
[11:05:42 PM] Vince "Is Frank puling the strings, then that Detectice was paied."
[11:06:11 PM] DC "by everyone I ment the two girls"
[11:07:22 PM] Vince "Still make sence that the Cop was paied to get us to either get us away or chasing after nothing."
[11:07:57 PM] DC "one can only hope"
[11:08:10 PM] Pele "Did anyone ever investigate the difference of the astral properties fo the picture?"
[11:08:10 PM] Vince "Still think she might have just ran away with her boyfriend."
[11:08:19 PM] DC "I would hate to have the city actually pay that guy to carry a gun"
[11:08:51 PM] Vince "Same here, but watta-ya gonna go about it?"
[11:09:07 PM] DC "Vince? is there anything you can tell us about frank?"
[11:13:28 PM] Vince "The guy's a Playboy, he's been in more woman's bed than there's hookers in the Red Light District, a real party animal too...Ray the Rock's a lieutenanat of the Don, he runs the families, and he's a personnal friend of the Don too..Frank's quite the dissapointment for his father....He's a spoiled kid, not a care in the world about nuthin'"
[11:15:10 PM] DC looks puzzeled "how old is he supposed to be?"
[11:16:57 PM] Manzazzuu "Then again..." Manny says, scratching his head. "She did say she cheated the runners... and that would make the comment about being better than us make more sense."
[11:17:01 PM] Vince "18, fresh out of his mother's....womb"
[11:18:24 PM] * Vince looks away, at a mother with her young kids
[11:19:29 PM] DC "putting the boy in playboy?"
[11:19:43 PM] Vince "you got it."
[11:22:24 PM] * Vince turns his head back to the group "Wait a sec...the painting's from the Cafe's a building in the Tacome Sprawl..the last credstick transaction was in Tacoma, and the Seattle Fish Factory must be on Tacoma's waterfront...Drek, I"ll bet a 1000 Nuyen they're there right now."
[11:23:35 PM] DC "but why would they answer her phone?"
[11:24:32 PM] Vince "The Fish factory must be a front of somekind...maybe a Yakuza front.."
[11:24:52 PM] * Pele searches the Fish Factory on the net
[11:25:03 PM] Manzazzuu "All the info we have points to there being only 2 of them, I think. We don't have time to get to Tacoma and back before we're supposed to be at the school, though. If we want to check it out immediately, we'd have to split up again."
[11:25:12 PM] Vince "franks' rich, but he's dumb, not learning form the old guard..Akihana's got education, I bet she planned all this."
[11:25:51 PM] Vince "You heard the phone call, someone was pulling those asians' strings."
[11:26:55 PM] Manzazzuu "I don't think so, Vince. I think maybe they were the two that Takacho hired and screwed over. Then when they found out they really hadn't been paid, they 'took the package' for real."
[11:27:35 PM] Vince "And hide in a fish factory."
[11:27:52 PM] Vince "Paied a cop to tell us a crazy story about bugs too?"
[11:28:13 PM] Manzazzuu "Maybe the cop really is just nuts, and believes what he told us."
[11:28:34 PM] Oscar "Maybe it was to throw us off the trail or to scare us off of it."
[11:28:56 PM] Vince "Yeah or got paied too, we don't know where the guy's operates, or who he knows."
[11:29:35 PM] Pele "The plot thickens every way we turn."
[11:29:36 PM] Vince "Besdies, Takacho's is Akihana's best freind; she's loyal to the yaks, if she wanted to leave everything behind, she whould have to dumb her best freind too."
[11:31:31 PM] Kagi *Three Asian men slam open the front door of the stuffer shack pointing heavy pistols just as a large spirit materializes on the other side of the runners. Behind the three asians is a menacing Nissan Doberman security drone with an LMG mounted to it.
[11:31:42 PM] Kagi ****End session****