[Mercy Merchant]

>>Sam [Yelena}: We are on the way to the airstrip now to pick up the man.  I am not completely sure what Blackbird intends to do to or with him, but some sort of mind probe and drugs is being considered.  I do not know why he wanted to wait this long.  Thank you for looking into the woman.  She is important to my friend.<<

[Qwikfix]

Arc followed the instructions to the letter, sending her drones out when there were no bystanders to witness it.  Keeping it casual and letting them slip out from the jacket of her sleeve, she kept walking as her mind pulled up their individual feeds, sharing them as necessary as she scouted ahead, always keeping her gaze forward so as not to arouse any undue suspicion.  Part of her knew that this was all likely unnecessary, but she kept her mouth shut for the while, as she understood Yelena's worry as well.  As they neared the rendezvous point, she paused, waiting with the men and sharing the feed while Yelena went on ahead.

The mechanic found herself scrutinizing the car, getting an aerial view whilst also zooming in on the ork that was waiting nearby.  It must have been experience, to know the ork lady was likely a contact for them, to discern her from the surrounding masses.  But it seemed like things were going well, prompting Arc to smile and nod at the situation.

<<@Yelena{Arc}: Ready to move on your go ahead.  They betta have the heat on>>

[farothel]

"Weather is warm here for season.  Wonder if is same on ocean."

So it was her contact, or at least one of them.
"It's cold over the ocean.  If you plan a voyage, I'd take a coat," she said, using the second part of the code phrase.  It was then that she spotted the small drone flying around.  Clearly they had sent one member, probably their face, to make contact while the rest of the group was sitting around ready in case it turned violent.  This was clearly a professional group, or at least a paranoid group.  It was quite different from some others she had helped over borders in the past.

"The car is ready," she continued, "I'm just waiting for one more person who has the travel plans for the first leg of the journey."

She quickly accessed her commlink and send a message to Lena.
Made contact with the group.  Do you come here or do we meet up somewhere else?

[Csjarrat]

I'm en-route, the brief was vague, I was under the impression we were ready to go now. What's the team's plan?
Seizing manual control of the vehicle again she tugged the AR  stick and opened the throttle, pulling off the freeway and clattering through the junction almost forgetting she had a trailer hooked up on the back as it skittered about. She backed off a bit and checked the directions, she was about 5-10 mins away..

[ismilealot]

@ Yelena  >>My data shows you closer to the main airport than to Gabriel's private airstrip. And without you already in route you won't have time to get there before he takes off.<<

[Mercy Merchant]

Yelena smiles at the Ork. "Am ready.  Others coming now.  Is heater on in car?"

She also sends a couple of messages.  >>Sam [Yelena]:  Yelena thank for message.  Maybe Blackbird can call and delay priest man.<<  >>Team [Yelena]:  Is car.  Woman knows code.  Come over as if own car and get in.  Blackbird, Sam says priest man is at private airstrip and car is too far.  Blackbird call priest man and delay him?<<

[farothel]

"Of course it is on," Na'Nele said, "it's so frakkin' cold in here."
It was the first thing she had done when stepping into the car, turn the heater to maximum.  Europe was not a bad place to live, especially compared to Lagos, but there at least the temperature allowed you to go outside without ten layers of clothing.

[Qwikfix]

Arc felt a sigh of relief escape her lups at the go ahead, a thought ctossing her mind as she nodded to the two gentlemen to move.  <<Wiz.  You tell them of our little detour, yeah?  They cool with it?>>

It wasn't long before the drones were recalling, alighting onto the short tusked redhead as she came into view of the car.  Her green cyber eyes scanned the scene before her as she walked fairly quickly to the car, hands in pockets.  As she made eye contact with the ork woman, she gave a nod and a grin.  "A'trast vala'a, skraa'cha." she muttered with a wink before popping the door open, throwong in her gear pack and taking a seat...

[ismilealot]

The traffic wasn't bad and the day was bright and sunny giving Arc a good view of the different architecture and culture. And, as she looked around she found that even the use of the ARO' was different than back home.

[farothel]

"I have no idea what you just said," Na'Nele said to the - Orc - Human... Human woman.  Why she had tusks, she didn't know, but from what she could see it wasn't an Orc.
"As soon as everybody is in, we just have to wait for the person who arranged the first part of the trip," she continued, "then we can go."

[gilga]

Marco heads up to the van doing the necessary rituals of suiting suiting - he does not speak and his thoughts are all over the place. Out of it all he feels incompetent and lost - despite the bravado in the bunker - can he really do that? Should he really revert to such methods? Perhaps if he played so dirty then they already won. So many decisions...

He sat in the car as it speed up through the night, knowing very well that his entire life path may change yet again in a few hours - and not even thinking that he will ever set foot in his beloved city again. "Oh Seattle, a city filled with genitals... so many people wanted a piece of me. Darn it... why couldn't I just follow my heart like a normal person. Life is pure shit right now what am I doing in Poland."

If Marco notices that Yelena is texting Sam about meetup he will abort the mission and give up this opportunity - as he does not trust Sam and if the devil has them tracked then god knows what he plans for them.

[Mercy Merchant]

Yelena  stands outside of the car while her companions come up and helps them all get inside.  Once all are in the limo, she turns to the Ork.  "Have name?  Mine is Yelena."  She holds out her silver case to the woman.  "Smoke?  Is strong but good.  How long wait?"

>>Team [Yelena]:  All here but waiting for one more to arrive to help guide us.  Blackbird, can you delay priest?  We still go private airport?<<

[gilga]

Blackbird greets the driver and takes a seat "I afriad that we cannot wait", he said. "We can meet whoever is late at the airport. It is a long road so it does not matter who meets us when."

It is unlikely that Marco would delay to be late to the meetup - I am busy he has all the time and motivations to be there in time - and he would not have agreed to this whole meetup if he thought that we won't be there in time.
Should I RP him buying a bike and speeding into the night to get to the airport on time?

[farothel]

"I'm Na'Nele," she replied, while holding up her hand to indicate she didn't want a smoke, "but I also go by the nickname Hyena.  And we'll have to wait about 5 to 10 minutes."

As the others arrived as well, she checked them out on the astral to know who she was dealing with.  She was quite sure the ones of the group who could do it, would be doing it with her as well.
The first person coming out, the human with the tusks, was clearly mundane and had cyber, including a full arm as far as Hyena could see.  She seemed a bit nervous, but that was normal.
The second person, an elf by the look of it, was clearly awakened and had high magic and no cyber, like most awakened.  He also had a power focus she could easily see and some bound spirits she could see the links to.  This was clearly a mage.  From what she could see he had a passion for something, he seemed very anxious and it had some dark lining to it.  But as she was sure she too had some darkness in her aura from her past, she didn't pay it much attention.  As long as he wasn't a blood mage or insect shaman, she could live with some darkness.  Nobody was perfect.
The last person she couldn't see much from.  He was also awakened, but she couldn't see much beyond that.
They all looked healthy, which was already a good thing.  It was much easier smuggling healthy people around.

When Blackbird told them there was no time, she turned to him.
"Why is there no time," she asked, "As I understood things, we were going by boat to make sure all your equipment can go as well, not by plane and there is more than enough time to get to the harbour".
'That probably explains the anxiousness,' she thought.


I'll do the assensing rolls as the posts have come: so Arc, Blackbird and then Jed.
intuition 4 + assensing 1 + perceptive 1 =6: 3#6d6t5 2 4 1

-Arc: 2 hits
-Blackbird: 4
-Jed: 1

the dark lining to Blackbirds emotions I've put in as he has dark thoughts about to this guy you're going after.
If I made any mistake in my assensing description, please let me know.

[Qwikfix]

The tusked human blinked twice, cracking a little smirk at the reply and  gave a shrug.  "My bad.  Name's Arc."  Her green cybereyes blinked as she took the ork in closer view this time before hopping in, making room for the rest of the team to pile in before the conversations got started.

Looking to the side, she frowned as she shook her head.  "Misnomer.  What is tryna be said ish that it bein' asked to run by a private airstrip a bit from here on the way out.  One of ush got some unfinished biz-biz and all that.."  Her eyes fell on Blackbird as that happened, then to Yelena, conveying that the human clearly didn't feel comfortable talking terms with this matter.  Her shoulders slumped wearily as her bright aura conveyed her uncertainty.

They gonna say no...no reason to help.  Shoulda told them sooner...  Her doubt raced through her mind as she blinked, feeling a morning wave of queasiness hitting her, fighting it down without expressing the discomfort.