[farothel]

"It's just that the footage of our run is on there," Sammy said, "they might draw wrong conclusions."
She didn't keep much other stuff on her commlink.  A couple of years of seeing what happened with other actors and actresses when nude pictures and sex tapes became public knowledge had made her very careful to: 1) not having them made and 2) never keep personal stuff where it could be stolen.  So her commlink was fairly free except for the footage of the last run which she was still working on.  As soon as that was done, it would be transferred to a memory chip and deleted from the commlink.

[Mercy Merchant]

Snow nods.  "Let me go retrieve that one.  Be right back."  She looks around and asks the others, "Anyone else have stuff on their 'link that they do not want the techs to see?"  She leaves the room and returns to the tech room where she explains that she needs some of the 'links back.  She picks up the ones she needs and gives Tommy and Crenshaw a smile before returning to the storage room.  "Here you go.  They can work on the others until you get yours wiped."

[Crossbow]

When everyone is satisfied that their selfies weren't going to get posted on the net, they head downtown to find Diablo Verdes

Diablo Verde is a very large, green-skinned ork. He used to be a professional wrestler down in Baja and Tiajuana until he had a bad accident and blew out both knees—not because of his wrestling, but because he was dating the wrong person’s daughter. He headed to Los Angeles and got into the food business, relying on his minor fame in wrestling to boost sales.

His roach coach is lime green converted bus with his masked face on one side and an order window replacing the belt buckle of his full wrestling regailia.

[HydroRaven]

Clem hung back as she knew this was beyond her area of expertise. She would just let Torley do his magic while she tried not to get in his way, waiting close to him but not too far as to not hear the conversation.

[Thvor]

Sam greeted the ork with a grin and, in Spanish, ordered a breakfast burrito. While he waited, he commented, "By the way, a guy I used to hang with recommended you on his Pito feed. I've been trying to track him down, reconnect with old friends, pay him a surprise visit, you know? But he hasn't posted his location. You'd think it'd be easy to find a guy with goat legs, wouldn't you?" His general posture was that of someone who feels like he's run out of options, but is hopeful that a last-ditch effort will be rewarded.

Sam's got a DP of 7 for Spanish, just in case a roll needs to be made. (For clarification, everything he says here is in Spanish. Just re-read it and felt I wasn't clear on that.)

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor stood off to the side of Clem with a sour look on his face. He highly doubted that the slop slinger would yield anything useful, but it was the only lead they had. He just hoped Torley would get this over with quickly.

[Crossbow]

"You speak the tongue well for a gringo, but i don't think Bacchus has any friends anymore.  His last few were here this morning looking for him, I might have overheard where they were headed while I was making their order, but business has been real slow today so I have had other things to worry about."  Not the smoothest bribe request you have ever heard, but he's big and green, what, are going to critique him?

[farothel]

Sammy had been following the conversation a bit further and now she also stepped up to the counter.
"Para mi lo mismo, por favor," she said to the guy, before turning to Sam, "¿ha encontrado a su amigo, mi amor?"


Sorry for the spanish, but I thought I'd show off my Spanish classes I've been taking.  It's
1: for me the the same, please
2: have you found your friend, my love.
She will pretend to be Sam's girlfriend who's helping him.  If I need to roll something, please let me know.

[Crossbow]

(Not about to try and put this in Spanish)

"Tell you what, you and your friends have a seat at the picnic table over there, I bring you a nice meal and maybe while I am working my memory gets jogged a bit, okay?"  He taps a few buttons and a little display holo pops up saying 150 nuyen.

[Mercy Merchant]

Snow is standing off to the side, near a small table.  She does not understand the language being spoken and resolves that she needs to get a Linguasoft for it if she is going to be here long.  It seems that just about everyone down here knows some Spanish.  She spends the time trying to isolate the code the guys had said had infected her 'link.  The defensive software that she running on it should at least have tripped an alarm of some kind, but she had had no warning.  Just a system failure and another instance where she had failed to protect her team. 

It looks like Sam and Sammy are placing an order for food, but the amount that pops up as being owed is far more than she would have thought.  She focuses on the body language of the three and it dawns on her that a bribe is being offered.  The guy at the truck window may be able to help after all.

[Thvor]

Sam's smile never missed a beat. Continuing in Spanish, he replied, "Gracias, amigo. It truly can be hard to think of other things when business is slow, and it never hurts to help others out." With barely a glance at the holo, he accepted the charge, then, with his arm around Sammy's shoulder, lead her over to the indicated table.

[Crossbow]

Diablo grins as you accept the charge, then looks at his device.  "Hey chulo, I get my stuff from local growers, at least, that is what packages say on the distributor's website, and I ain't had no body get hurt except that stupid puta that thought she could handle the Diablo Volcano, how was I supposed to know she had an ulcer?"

At your understandable confusion over the change in attitude, the ork shows you his device.  It shows the receipt for the order, but at the bottom in the "How was your service today?" box there are two messages there:

Street vendor food poisoning is up 4% for the calendar year, with record-shattering 8 deaths attributed to food borne pathogens

Buy local, grow local!  PCC farmers grow enough food to support the community, but only make up a quarter of the market share of LA food consumption.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor was actually surprised the guy was going to be a viable lead. If they were one step closer to Bacchus, they were probably one step closer to a fight. Though they'd already eaten lunch, it'd be a good idea to do a little carbo-loading while he had the chance. Dodging bullets was a high energy activity after all. After Torley finished his business with the ork, O'Connor put in an order for a large portion of carne asada fries and a chicken burrito, whole grain wrap and extra rice. Since the commlinks were acting up, he paid with a credstick.

[Crossbow]

The big ork refuses your money, "I was going to feed all of you, the two chicas too, making my special enchiladas, but first you must explain this la estupidez"

[Thvor]

Sam was confused, though more by the ork's reaction than by the message. Those sorts of things just happened, didn't they? He didn't even pay attention to them most of the time any more. But the ork was clearly upset, so he did what he could to calm the situation down. "Si, amigo. You clearly care about your services; anyone looking at this"--he gestured to the ork's vehicle--"could tell that. But I can tell that this system error is upsetting you, which is only natural." Thinking quickly, he bought a side of guacamole and allowed the vendor to take an extra 50 nuyen for it.