[Chrona]

Shaking his head, "No no, it's not that slot, not to worry you but we can't find him at all... yet."
He got up from his chair and placed a Holoprojector.
"All right, it's this guy," the projector shows the face of a young asian man, probably Japanese, with very harsh pointed features and shoulder length hair.

"I know where he's staying in Seattle, it's high end, but not why he's back, you'll be getting an item back from him. I'm offering 42k"

[Xzylvador]

Silk talked more to herself than to Creepy Joe. "Not Ragley? What a pity... So the item can't be retrieved when we find him..? Meaning we'll have to get to him at this 'high end' location and after that go we can after the item... And we need to get to him because...lots of potential reasons. And the item will of course be more heavily guarded once they find out we're looking for it. " She stopped thinking aloud and sighed deeply, focusing her attention back to the man sitting in front of her.
"You know, it really is a lot easier settling on a fair price when you actually know what the job is. But my father always told me to aim for the stars, so how does 56k sound? One fourth paid in advance."

[Larzarus]

@team: Let's hope, this guy isn't Yakuza. Getting in a Yak's safe house in a high end place could be ... expensive. And, there is still Ragley sneaking around. Wouldn't be too healthy to have two big fishes as enemy at the same time, da?

[Kouryuu]

"You know, it really is a lot easier settling on a fair price when you actually know what the job is. But my father always told me to aim for the stars, so how does 56k sound? One fourth paid in advance."

Andromeda just managed not to whistle when Silk said those last words, but it was nice someone fighting with words, rather then Guns and knives. Andromeda thought to herself that she should start doing something as well, but she was not as well mannered as Silk, or as well, well, CRAZY as LJ to help with the Negotiation, and she would only make the Bad cop, Worse Cop duo fall apart, but she could do something on the Matrix.
T@Space >Setting my agent to search this man on the 'trix, just so we do not wast resources on the same job on the same time.<
then she transferred the image from her eyes to the Agent and added it to the search parameter she saw in her AR vision as the Agent turned into a bee swarm and one bee after the other left the swarm in search of the valuable information, until from the swarm only a twig had been left over, under the twig Andromeda could see the progress of the search. Must, once more, thank Space for this marvel.
Then She turned back to the other's looking if she had missed something, but to her surprise CJ was still thinking about what Silk had just said, might he be shocked by the insulance or really thinking how high he could go? Andromeda had no clue what so ever..

[farothel]

Kitten kept silent.  She had done contract negotiations before, but that was with the Marauders, were the colonel did the talking and she was only there to ask or answer questions about magic.  And so it would be here.  There were people much better in negotiating then she was and as soon as an agreement was reached she could ask her questions.  And she hadn't been long enough in Seattle to have even a remote shot at recognising the guy in the picture.

[Kontact]

don't know why he's back...  The words sent a gap-toothed smile creeping across Jun's face.  That was a loaded statement.

<<@Silk:  Money is a universal motivating force.  I trust mercenaries to act in their own self interest, and no further.>>

[Chrona]

"I'm willing to go up to 49,000 nuyen. That's more than enough. I'll give you -

Roll negotiation to determine how much in advance

"-25% up front. Deal?"

[Xzylvador]

1.750Y in advance. Guess that's enough to buy me an umbrella against this lousy weather.
Silk nodded slightly. She wasn't completely satisfied, but if agreeing now smoothed out some of the creases the others had created in her employer's mood, it was probably worth it the few extra nuyen she might have been able to squeeze out. "Sounds agreeable to me, though I don't presume to speak for everyone. Should we find anything else of potential interest or value, I don't suppose it's any problem we acquire it for ourselves? So who is he and what's he got that you need retrieved?"

[Chrona]

"His name is Jinjou Aki, a notorious gambling addict. He won it big a few years ago in Atlantic City."

Space roll memory

"He used the money to try the beta test of our new 'ware rental service, he dished out for a deltahand, a year ago. 6 months ago he stopped sending us payments. We want the hand back." He glances at Hank.

"He's booked into the Elysium Hotal in the Central District for a week, after that he's probably in the wind."

[Xzylvador]

Silk smirked. What kind of idiot would try skipping out on a debt with organleggers?
"Don't mean to sound like a broken record... But is he in any way connected to Ragley? I mean, it's kind of suspicious, no? The previous guy with a serious debt to your organization is suddenly "found" right across the street of your clinic and lays an ambush for whoever you'd send to collect and now a week later, after 6 months in hiding, another guy with a large outstanding debt suddenly arrives right on your doorstep?"

A scene from a movie she saw decades ago popped into her mind. She'd seen it in movie history as an example of a well set up deux-ex-machina. What was it called? Repo Men. A futuristic movie about people sent after other people who couldn't pay the mortgage on their synthetic organs and had to collect the organs back. Amazing how close to the truth they'd been.

[Chrona]

"Hopefully it's coincidence, he was on his way to Seattle before Ragley turned up but watch your backs. Aki isn't the big plan type though, he's just good at falling into the cracks."

[Larzarus]

Memory: 4 hits

[Chrona]

Memory: 4 hits

You recall the name being thrown around a lot back in Atlantic City, he won it big in a legal casino up there then started living lavishly, he placed a couple bets at the restaurant but never won.

[Larzarus]

"Money sounds nice to me," Space says will he stroks his beard and moving his other hand, to create of folder for Jinjou Aki. Hmm, where did I heared this name before... "I assume, since he signed a contract with you, you have some more data about him and this deltahand."

@Andromeda: Can you make a new data search for this guy, with his name, specially for news 6 month ago? I will look for some data about the hotel.

You recall the name being thrown around a lot back in Atlantic City, he won it big in a legal casino up there then started living lavishly, he placed a couple bets at the restaurant but never won.

@team: Team, there might be the possibility that Mr. Aki also borrowed money from the Vory. I think, I remember his name from back in Atlantic City.

Space also tries to remember some more info about the local Vory in Seattle, Vory in Seattle: 2 hits, but didn't remember very much. Afterall, he left Atlantic City and the restaurant a few years ago, and Seattle is on the other side of this continent.

[farothel]

"I also have a question," Kitten said, "Normally magically active people don't go for cyber, but it's known to happen.  So do you know if this guy is awakened?"