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Post by Xenomarch on Sept 27, 2006 6:18:10 GMT -5
Leaving Jorinda and Hardcastle in Blicks room, I'll head outside. Looking on the street for the nearest Commstation (payphone) and put in a call to JJ.
If I get through to JJ: "This is Melissa's brother Simon. I need to ask a favor. I'm looking for disposable wheels near (give location). I know we're not on the best of terms or any terms for that matter, but I need to impose. I expect to pay for it and even acquire it, but I need help finding it in a short amount of time."
If I don't get JJ: "Please let JJ know that Simon Jon called. I was Melissa's brother."
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Post by Falindraun on Sept 27, 2006 19:18:41 GMT -5
To Jorinda: "Ya know i just remembered that i have a bike with a side car so all 3 of us should be able to fit." After going to where Xeno is, I tell him that i have a solution to our problem in the way of my bike and sidecar.
To both: "Lets get over to my place so i can grab my bike and sidecar out of my garage."
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Post by jblack on Sept 28, 2006 0:35:22 GMT -5
Jorinda looks at John. He only just remembered this? Was the cyberwiring shorting out his brain? Or had he been doing a few BTL's too many?
"Okay, let's head over there." She wanted to get this run over with...and soon. Being in charge wasn't as easy as she thought it would be.
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Post by Xenomarch on Sept 28, 2006 1:12:57 GMT -5
Etiquette + Karma (5) [dice=6][dice=6][dice=6] = 1 success Negotiation (5) chaser[dice=6][dice=6], 2 successes adds 1 for a total of 2 successes so ¥10k?[rand=439797621699464777865993271636680795029573151568918091248086157985]
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Post by Falindraun on Sept 28, 2006 10:57:11 GMT -5
((ooc: ok for what?))
We then hail a cab and take it back to my place and pick up my bike. After i attach the sidecar and start it up. "Is there anything anybody needs before we head over to the 'heat source'?"
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Post by Xenomarch on Sept 29, 2006 8:55:33 GMT -5
As I watch Hardcastle hail a cab and head out I wonder where he's going. I hope Jorinda knows. "JJ, I got your ¥10k. Let me slot it now. Where do I pick up the NP-1?"
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Post by jblack on Sept 29, 2006 14:08:23 GMT -5
The cab ride is quick, and Jorinda didn't even have to hang onto the windows for dear life, so she makes a note to give the cabbie a tip.
Jorinda looks at John as she climbs into the side car. She could think of a few things. Sanity and heavy artillery, for example. What the hell were they thinking when they took this job?
Oh yeah, they weren't...
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Post by Xenomarch on Sept 29, 2006 18:17:12 GMT -5
((Just to be clear, Jorinda and Hardcastle are together on a tricycle and I'm currently acquiring an armored vehicle like I stated. Is this what everyone else is going by?))
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Post by Braddoc on Oct 1, 2006 15:05:34 GMT -5
Xeno: "The car is at Jim's bodyshop garage, 23 Lexington way, in Bellevue. Ask for Oscar, tell him Mary send you." She hungs up without warning after that.
So now you're alone in Redmond, in front of Floppy's motel. Blicks drone is seen flying back, and lands on the roof of the motel, but it actually lands inside on the second floor.
Time is now 2:00 PM.
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Post by jblack on Oct 3, 2006 22:39:00 GMT -5
While they ride do the recon, Jorinda calls Xeno. "Hey, we're going to do some recon." She tells him. "It's still daylight." She offers in hopes of quelling his protests. "And we'll be together, just an ordinary couple out for a stroll in the Barrens." Of course, they weren't exactly ordinary, were they?
"We'll be out of there long before it gets dark." At least, she hoped that they would be. Jorinda looks over at Hardcastle, who is very focused on the road as well as the obstacles. For there would be lots of them on the way to the Barrens, and some of them might even have guns. She hoped though, that it wasn't the case.
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Post by Falindraun on Oct 6, 2006 10:39:10 GMT -5
As John rides with Jorinda down the streets trying not to run anybody over as well as trying to get there in one piece, "any ideas on what that heat source could have been?"
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Post by jblack on Oct 7, 2006 17:32:28 GMT -5
Damn, remind me never to go into the Barrens again. Jorinda thinks as Hardcastle maneuvers the bike around an assortment of potholes, stripped cars, debris and people.
Jorinda thinks a moment. "It was a pretty large heat source." She tells Hardcastle. "Too big to be a group of people. "Could be a factory or a lab or something." And if it were, taking it out would accomplish exactly what Jackson wanted, hitting them where it truly hurt...
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Post by Xenomarch on Oct 8, 2006 21:21:33 GMT -5
After hanging up with JJ, I'll hail a cab and go to Jim's Body Shop in Bellevue. There I'll ask around for Oscar. Oscar: Who wants to know? | Xeno: I was sent here by Mary. | Oscar: Why didn't you say so... Sheesh worrying a guy like that just isn't kosher. Anyway what you want is around back, here are the keys. Next time you talk to Mary you let her know I only owe her 3 more... 3 more you hear. |
I'll take the keys from Oscar and goto the vehicle in question. After checking a couple things (i.e. VIN scratched off, motor looks to be in "good condition, etc) I'll head back to the Hotel to wait for Jorinda and the other guy.
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Post by Braddoc on Oct 21, 2006 23:41:01 GMT -5
Xeno: the car seems fine from what you can tell, it's just the body that's might need some work on it, but the engine purrs like a well-maintained machine.
Jorinda and John The drive in the Barrens was uneventful, for a Barren drive. While it was tricky for John to drive around (those old map don't update themselves), you two managed to get into the middle of a firefight. John took a bullet to the chest, but his cyber-torso took the hit, only his clothings now have a small hole in them, and his metal torso now got a small bump in it. Jorinda being already a bit unsure about going into the Barrens managed to age about 20 years, but lucky for her, her elven blood managed to hide that.
Using Blick's direction you manage to get to the heat source, passing quickly in front of it (not alot of traffic you blend into) was not as useful as it seems. The building seems in good shape, and you managed to see 4 people wearing orange in front of it. The street appears normal, well peaceful is more like it.
John parks his bike 2 corners away, near an old apartment building with half it's facade missing in front of a deserted lot of land. You can hear some machine working inside the near apartment building, but you can't seems to know what kind of machine it is.
time is now 3:55PM.
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Post by jblack on Oct 22, 2006 23:20:41 GMT -5
John took the hit, and Jorinda tried to make herself as small a target as possible. What the hell were we thinking, going to the Barrens on a motorcycle? Once they're in the clear, Jorinda demands that they stop so she can check him over, even though he didn't seem to be injured.
Jorinda points out the heat source to John, and he nods and slows down a bit and parks his bike a little ways from it. Always a good strategy. Parking right in front of it wasn't a good idea.
Jorinda climbs off the bike carefully. The firefight had left her more than a little jumpy, and glad that she'd brought a weapon with her.
Murmuring a few soft words in Sperethiel, Jorinda then turns to John. "Here goes nothing." She tells him. "Let's go check this place out." She lets him lead, hanging close to him as though they were a lot more than friends.
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