[Chrona]

"Grab whats nearby then let's buzz Turbo. Someone yank my bolt out of that guy, it's reusable."

[Codac]

Calico's eyes zoom in on another ganger and she claims her third life of the day. Seeing the last of their enemies run off she shakes her sleeve open wider and her pistol disappears up it. Running over to over to the dead leader she relieves him of his weapons and ammo. After doing the same to a couple more of the dead men she gets in the van.

Grabbing her black duffel bag Calico sits down in the back and goes to work. She ejects the clip and empties the chamber of each gun then thoroughly goes over them with her Tag Eraser making sure there where no RFID tags in them. She does this while waiting for the entire team to get in and someone to start the conversation on their new controversial job.

[Chrona]

"I'll search "Lady Jade". Might shed some light, you guys just drive the hell out of here."

Cursor dropped into VR.

Will roll when i go home tonight

[Boer_Kommando]

Mata couldn't help but be impressed by the Gilette...lady Razorgirl, but a sobering thought emerged, possibly from so many years of being culturally Japanese and Yakuza. The fact she did anything was more than the filthy Trog had, so obviously his perception of her was skewed from that fact. Mata walks to Stryker "I put one in him for good measure, a bit late I must admit. I am glad you are unhurt Stryker-san." Mata helped with the collections and then entered the van. Watching the woman work he ventured a conversation. "I hope you're smart enough to dump those weapons quickly. Any bodies on those, will get attributed to you if caught with them." Mata knew he could come of condesending at times, but it was solid advice none-the-less.

[JDA]

Wilco suggest driving to another location. As peer the. Occ thread comment. Wilco suggest that we are start ringing up our contacts to see what info. Is out there that we can find. Wilco has no problem driving to his place and parking in the garage. Wilco contacts his bartender contact and orders a couple more cases of beer. Inquires about the gangers and also ask his contact if he knows of anyone that has had negative dealing with a person named lady jade. The other two topic questions are in the OCC thread.

[Chrona]

"Huh?  Camera? I'll look around. You lot look for physical evidence of camera to point me in the right direction, I can't just "know".

Checking for camera nodes: Comp 3 + Analyze 5 + Tech 2 + VR 2 (12d6.hits(5)=3)

[Codac]

Don't worry this Isn't my first job. Wipe them clean of tags, then sell them to or through my dealer, who sells them to a gun runner who then finally sell them to people elsewhere in the world where the bodies on these guns won't matter. Calico Cat responds in a smooth voice not even looking up from the gun she's working on.

"Plus" With a few movements she puts the pistol back together. Then holds it up by the barrel. "If I kept one and got caught anything on these guns wouldn't really matter compared to some other things they would find." She makes eye contact with Mata though her sunglasses stop him from actually being able to see her eyes."That's why we runners shouldn't get caught." After that Calico Cat spins the pistol in her hand and sets it down next to her. She pulls a briefcase out from under the seat where she set it when they picked her up. Calico doesn't open it but she looks at the locks and makes sure nothing's been tampered with, then puts it back under the seat.

She pulls a knife out of her left boot and takes a sharpening stone out of her bag. Then Sitting back Calico Cat takes to sharpening the blade waiting for them to get to wherever the van was heading.

[Kot]

Stryker entered the van immediately after the shoot-out ended. He sat in the corner, motionless while his Astral body tugged at the threads of the Manastreams to erase any sign of his presence. He worked hard, knowing the stunt he managed to pull - he was amazed at it himself - wouldn't be easy to hide. He briefly though of summoning a spirit to help, but that wouldn't be something he'd like to be bothered for.
After the group finished cleaning the thugs of their junk, Stryker worked till the van with his body started to move. That was his cue - he jumped back to his body with lightning speed, and opened his eyes.
"That was almost too easy. Makes me wonder... Those punks wouldn't be able to kill 'Lady Jade'. She'd manage to fend them off at least. I'm curious... " He turns his head to Mata. "Don't worry. I take no debts from teammates. There is no giri here... More like guanxi." He smiled at the rest of the team. "I'm starting to think this was a fortunate chain of events that lead me here. Good to have people I can count on. That's why I hope this job isn't what we think."
At the same time he was sending Cursor a private message. "Can you have one of your invisible friends keeping tabs on the girl? I though of summoning help myself, but that wouldn't be something they can't notice..."

[Sentinemodo]

Wilco's garrage is the actually The Wilco's Garrage". You can see the neon sign from a block away. He is running there a tool shop and with nearby street gangs paid off this actually is a nice living place. Conviniently setup several hundred meters from the main grid lanes allows quite high disappearance chance.

The shop is closed but the remote control open the main entrance and as soon as you drive in a small drone begins cleaning the van.

A moment later delivery boy arrives with two crates of beer, cashed the payment and left you to you devices.
The gate closed again, trid set in the shop corner fired up a news channel - so far nothing about the gunfight near the Rattlesnake, but that is bound to happen soon anyway,

Hoi Wilco, what's up? Got a new delivery of European beers. And believe me they anythign but that soya or synth crap I have to serve. Still They're costly bunch. 200 yen for a dozen of bottles. But decide quickly. The supply is limited, and flows like water. He listened for a while to Wilco's questions, pondered a second and replied. Jade's an independent arms dealer, and she’s got about as sizeable a market share as you can hope to get in this business going it alone. And if you ask if she has any problems with gangs, I might tell you something, but you know, this info has pricetag attached.

Wilco - it will cost you 50 yen to make him tell you.

[JDA]

After that business he inspects the van to make sure it didn't recieve any or atleast not much damage from the fight. comments that Stryker is right the fight was too easy, ewandering if were getting pushed into a direction, just incase we weren't originally totlally committed to the job.
Wilco, thens starts to have a private discussion with himself.( he mutters it loud enough for teammmembers close to hm to hear.  "No prroblems kid napping a wageslave and delivering them to a Johnson, but this is a kid. at what age does it make a difference. Why do I care if we can do the job better and protect the kid umm(target) better than another team. At the end of the day it's a paycheck. no more or no  less. I have paid a price for every rotten job i've ever done. I hope in the end the price for this jon isn't too high."

[JDA]

"I would like a shippment of the Europeans beers and a few quality smokes if you got them." I pay him the 50 nuyen again leaving an extra 20. "Hey man you got any peanuts?" Chummers we have some good stuff coming. He grabs a six pack beteter than the usual anyone care for one.

[Sentinemodo]

Packing now. The smile on his face made his eyes looking almost like nuyen signs.
As fro the gangs, she has a clash with Godz - yes that's the go-ganger that tremble entire Denver - they used to make a pretty profit protecting her incoming shipments. Don't ask me how do I know that. A few weeks ago, she ended their business arrangement and brought in the Zombies to fill the void.

Twenty minutes later a delivery boy rang. and brought another crate of beer bottles and a paper bag full of chips and peanuts and a few cheese crackers.

[Kot]

Stryker looks at Willco for a while, like he wasn't entirely sure what to say. After that while he speaks up, and sounds quite confident...
"It doesn't. Kidnapping is kidnapping. And doing anything to a child is... vile. I've seen a child kidnapped, ransomed and rigged with implanted explosives. I had to cut the girl open and pray that she won't bleed to death, because there was no other way she could be saved..." You hear a surprisingly large amount of anger as the elf talks. He probably noticed that he's getting all emotional, and paused for a while.
"Whatever happens, if Jade just wants to take revenge, or ransom the child to get something from the mother... Well, then I'm going to stop her. Doesn't matter we were hired - some things money can't buy. Without them, you're just a lowlife thug who just has more skills and gets paid more than the average murderous scum. Just look at the whole deal with the Black Cats. Did they loose anything by having principles and honor? We're a team now. We need rules. We need to draw the line, even if we already crossed it. Stepping back wouldn't be a mistake. It would be fixing one... People who count will understand. People who won't don't matter - we wouldn't want to work for them anyway..."

[Chrona]

{Health: 0 / 12P and 0 / 11S damage, No Wound penalty, No Dumpshock penalty, No Sustaining penalty} | {Edge: 1 / 2}
{Defense: 3; Initiative(VR): 8(11); IP's: 1(3)} | {Ballistic Armor: 6; Impact Armor: 6} | {Sustained threads: None R-,} | {Registered Sprites: Paladin 1/2 Tasks "Guard Styker's node."  R3, Machine 4/4 Tasks. R3, Crack 6/6 Tasks. R3 | {Compiled Sprite: None  R-}

"Right.. restaurant first."

Thread Stealth: Thread Stealth (10d6.hits(5)=2) GLITCH, I'll double the fade damage if thats ok?
Stealth 7, 4P Fade: Fade Resist (10d6.hits(5)=2)
2P Overall, Machine sprite sustains it.
Turn 1
IP1: Ask crack sprite to assist exploit for 3 turns.
IP2: Hack on the fly Target 7 : Hacking 3 + Exploit 5 + VR 2 + Assist 3 (13d6.hits(5)=4)
IP3: Hack on the fly Target 7 : Hacking 3 + Exploit 5 + VR 2 + Assist 3 (13d6.hits(5)=3)
Turn 2
IP1: Comp 3 + Analyze 5 + VR 2 + tech 2 (12d6.hits(5)=6)
IP2: Delete footage
IP3:Data Search Access Log: Thread Browse (10d6.hits(5)=5)
Browse 4, 4S fade: fading (10d6.hits(5)=4)
2P overall.
Data Search 3 + Browse 4 + Analytic 2 + VR 2 (11d6.hits(5)=1) I'm looking for traces of myself, in the last 6 seconds so that should be enough, if not Data Search 3 + Browse 4 + Analytic 2 + VR 2 (11d6.hits(5)=6) and bump everything down an IP.
Turn 3
IP1: The access log rules aren't great, it hasn't been 5 turns (unwired p.65) so the logs haven't been updated yet so I've no trace of m login to delete but waiting around 2 more turns makes no sense, can we assume I can cover my tracks by using the action to make sure it doesn't update? Delete Raw Log Data? Ignore next Log out? it says hackers can do it, but not how.
IP2: Log Out then Renew Assist Exploit
IP3: Hack on the fly Target 7 : Hacking 3 + Exploit 5 + VR 2 + Assist 3 (13d6.hits(5)=5)

{Health: 2 / 12P and 0 / 11S damage, No Wound penalty, No Dumpshock penalty, No Sustaining penalty} | {Edge: 1 / 2}
{Defense: 3; Initiative(VR): 8(11); IP's: 1(3)} | {Ballistic Armor: 6; Impact Armor: 6} | {Sustained threads: Stealth R7,} | {Registered Sprites: Paladin 1/2 Tasks "Guard Styker's node."  R3, Machine 3/4 Tasks. Sustaining Stealth 7 R3, Crack 4/6 Tasks. R3 | {Compiled Sprite: None  R-}

Turn 4:
IP1: Hack on the fly Target 7 : Hacking 3 + Exploit 5 + VR 2 + Assist 3 (13d6.hits(5)=4)
IP2: Comp 3 + Anlyze 5 + VR 2 + tech 2 (12d6.hits(5)=0)
IP3: Comp 3 + Anlyze 5 + VR 2 + tech 2 (12d6.hits(5)=7) "Oh THERE it is."
Turn 5:
IP1: Delete footage
IP2: Data Search Access Log: Thread Browse (10d6.hits(5)=2)
Browse 2, 2S Fade: Fading (10d6.hits(5)=3)
2P Overall
Data Search 3 + Browse 2 + Analytic 2 + VR 2 (9d6.hits(5)=4)
IP3:Cover tracks again
Turn 6
IP1: Log out
IP2: Back to meat
Hack took 16 seconds. 4 analyse attempts for you Sent.

"I've done my best."

[Sentinemodo]

Two and a half hours later, Cursor went off the van, looking tired. That's all I was able to find on Lady Jade.

Over the past two years, the Lady’s managed to secure a huge piece of the independent marketplace, and she counts some of Denver’s top tier buyers among her most loyal clients.

She wasn’t always an independent operator. She likes to make it look like she’s green, that’s how she keeps people off guard. But trust me, she’s not.

Her real name is Junko Tetsuya. She cut her teeth working as a fixer for the Yamato-rengo, and walked out with enough of a contact web to secure her power in the Denver region.

The day (Monday) is coming to an end with evening turning night. Three days from now (by the end of Thursday or earlier) you should deliver the girl to fulfill the job.