[Mercy Merchant]

Tuesday  12 June 2075  1600 


Tabitha nods a thanks at you and goes off with the 'links.  Phil and Al just yawn and say that it is time for some sleep, heading off to a corner of the room to do just that.  Steve nods to you and takes up a position where she can watch the door.  Your 'link takes the feeds from two drones; one out in the bar and the other just outside the door.

Some time passes and you get a message.  >>Spokane, my friend.  Is Sasha.  Your presents have been opened.  They tell story about the big raid on the Barrens yesterday.  It was all to get that girl, but they managed to hold off the mercenaries sent to do the job.  Lots of men were killed and they had to fall back to regroup and are now waiting for reinforcements.  I know the neighborhood they were attacking.  Is a Vory Bratva, like mine, only smaller..  I can give you letter of introduction if you like?<<

[Stuttrboy]

>>>This is excellent news.  Please arrange a meeting at their earliest convenience.  Did you get anything else?  Who they are working for where we can find the team, anything of that sort?  I'd like to have some intel to share, other than the pathetic amount I have anyway,<<<

>>>Good news everyone. We've found the survivors from Washington Rec and Mercy General.  We are arranging a meet.<<<

[Mercy Merchant]

>>There information is celled.  These men know little beyond their immediate group.  They did say that they were hired through some Balkan mercenary organization that hires out large units to corporations and governments that need dirty work done with their name being attached to it.  They do not know the employer or how many were hired.  We do have the name of their cell leader, who was not captured, and are trying to see what we can find out about him.  Would you like to have a chat with them?<<

Steve raises a hand in a salute after you pass out the news, but you do not get an answer from Phil or Al as they are, presumably, asleep.

[Stuttrboy]

>>>Well i can't think of anything specific to ask them.  I would suggest we don't dispose of them until I've made contact with the other bratvva in case they have some questions.  We shall have to drink together again our wishes are coming true so soon.  Fortune smiles upon us.  Are you going to arrange a meet or do you literally intend to give us a letter?<<<

[Mercy Merchant]

>>You are funny, my friend.  Who the frag writes letters any more.  No, I do this the old way and call Vlad up and see if he will see you.  You want this, yes?<<

[Stuttrboy]

Yes I do.  Please let us know when it can be arranged.

[Mercy Merchant]

Sasha signs off after telling you that he will get back to you.  Tabitha comes out of the room where her father is resting and walks over to you.  She looks tired and a bit haggard.  "Thank you, Spokane, for doing this for me.  I think my father will be alright, but I still shudder at what might have happened.  Do we know anything more about the bastards that shot up my clinic?

[Stuttrboy]

Not really.  They attacked and were repelled by another bratva.  I dont know if they were able to capture any more than we have now.  They are a mercenary group being recruited out of the balkans for groups who wish to remain anonymous.  Other than the attack on the bratva there was nothing we didn't already know.  Seems their targets were the two missing people from washington rec and mercy general, so there's that.

Hey feather the mercs hit a vory brava recently but were repelled.  Don't know if that info will help you find anything else on these guys, but i figured it couldn't hurt to offer it.  Let me know if you get anything else.

[Mercy Merchant]

>>Hey, Spokane.  I was just typing up a message for you.  All that drek from yesterday got us a hit on the guy you asked me about.  I was running facial recog software and got a hit.  He was helping the Vory punks stop the mercs.  Crazy stuff went on there, man, crazy.  The drone feed I got the hit on stopped all of a sudden, like the drone was shut down or someone turned it off, only I was riding it by that time and it wasn't shut off.  I got a piece of some sort of feed going back to.............guess where?<<

[Stuttrboy]

Oh Feather, tell me you found their base of operations.  Where was the feed going?  The suspense is killing me.

[Mercy Merchant]

>>Maybe, maybe not.  The feed stream was going straight off to the KE HQ building.  I was trying to follow it home when it just stopped.  I mean dead.  Stream gone and drone self destructed or was shot down.  I got a headache from that one, Spokane.  But it would seem that someone at KE was getting special information on this guy of yours.  I will go back out after a rest.<<

[Stuttrboy]

That figures.  They pinched me literally 5 minutes after I found that Mercy doctors body.  Found some listening devices.  I thought they might have a mole.  Do you have any recording of that data?

[Mercy Merchant]

>>A partial, and that is encrypted up the wazzu.  I will try it and if it is too tough, I will go to a friend of mine.  My guess is that this is important stuff.  Are you authorizing my work and pay?<<

[Stuttrboy]

I am but please let me know if any significant costs I'm not exactly flush right now but I know people who would pay for this, so I'm sure it can be arranged but I'll need an idea of the price tag if you follow me.  Good work all around Feather.

[Mercy Merchant]

>>Roger, Spokane.  Do you have an upper limit?"<<