[Sentinemodo]

Sam was so much invigorated by the sudden expression of trust, that he almost missed it. By the third sentence Tony looked at Maria in puzzlement.
By the fifteenth both of them were so lost that it was a pity to even look at them.

Sam stopped when he catched a murmured whisper. Why they want us in that van so much? I don't know Tony. Maybe they're street butchers, slaughtering people and selling organs inside? They don't look like ghouls Tony, except that scary one.

Finally you understood, why Fractal was rejected, and why you are on the best way also.
You approached them with that smooth talk, like when he would be Mr. J. with four faculties in greasy negotiations.
This is simple ganger lieutenant, that has yet to grow to be a gang leader.

Strings attached? what the frag would it mean to him? Connect the dots? what fragging dots? be in his shoes? well he is in his shoes, and he isn't going to lend you them anytime soon.

He took the gun from you, but in his eyes you see that he seriously consider shooting you like a rabid dog, and frag away, before you touch Maria and infect her with your madness. 

Like in all etiquette rolls. This one was also a chance for solution for you to defuse the situation. You wasted your first chance by being FUCKING WHATEVER. You wasted your second chance by continuing to be FUCKING WHATEVER, but with a load of talk added.
Your last chance is to speak openly. straight. SHORT, this or falling back or starting shooting now.

what do you really need from him? what do you want him to do?

[Sichr]

As sensors picked up every sound...
Sam the Street Butcher
Omar laughts to himself, leaning more comfortably against the leather seatings, stretching his legs a bit.
Both targets acquired, Omar almost dreamed about the glass of Dawa and iced coconut slices. Or maybe Sosaties, he was getting a bit hungry...
Omar the Scary Ghoul.
Now this was sound of pure joy, what Mouse just heard from Omars throat...

[Sichr]

Omar has Rover windows opened, listening to his loudly playing favourite american clasics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_FAGSiyiR4&feature=related


He especially loves that part where he signs MORE GUNS instead of NO GUNS

[snake_eyes]

Summoning a Data Sprite R4 (/w Russian Lingasoft):
comp(4)+res(5)+2tm-2sus = 9d6.hits(5)=4
resist(4) = 4d6.hits(5)=1
Fading of 2S: res(5)+will(5)  can be resisted by buying 2 successes

I'm gonna give it a video and vocal recordings of the Vory leader, Maria, Tony, Kev, and Mark. I want to know everything it can find about these individuals start with Maria, then Tony, then Kev, then the Vory leader, then Mark. In the case of the Vory leader and Maria are of Russian descent or a Russian off-shoot, looking in Russian datastores would probably yield the highest probably of success. Report back after finishing with each individual. 
With that, I send the sprite off to do it's task.

As the conversation continues...Mouse has to amend his thought pattern...if you don't prove the statistics right, I guess we will be doing for them.
...
Street butchers??? Chop them up for organs? That's the impression we give? Not surprising considering Unca Omar's behavior of late. Maria must really remind him of that girlfriend that broke his heart so bad, he still hasn't found most of the pieces. Mouse was feeling sorry for poor Unca Omar. That is until that contented chuckle. Now Mouse is a little unsure.

[Sentinemodo]

Pm@team:"Okay boys Iwill be busy momentarialy, bringing in a few watcher spirits as as as summoning one to be ready on command.
PM: @ Omar "your assesning is coming"
Pm to Sam: I'm with you chummer, just hold on.

With that Ryker first does the assession of the DAMsel
 5d6.hits(5) → [6,5,4,5,1] = (3)

Maria is healthy, she is nervous, frustrated there is a hint of saddness. Ryker will recognize her aura if he ever meet her again.
She is mundane, she has no implants and no astral signatures on her.

 Ryker then begins the summoning of two watcher spirits one for the damsel in distress, he informs the watcher that he wants a report of all her doings.
8d6.hits(5) → [1,2,4,2,1,2,5,4] = (1)   drain resist 9d6.hits(5) → [5,5,1,1,5,1,5,6,6] = (6)
the next watcher on Tony
9d6.hits(5) → [2,6,6,1,2,3,5,2,4] = (3) I inform it to report to me anything that a team member does not see going on, mabush or anything of the like.

In the astral plane two wisps that have appeared and started to circle around Tony and Maria.

They have Logic of 1, so their intellectual functions, are closer to a dog level, and they cannot really understnad a term ambush. But they will report anything magical that will affect them

Sent. looks like i rolled one too many dice on that so take away the last dice or a success your call. Drain resist
9d6.hits(5) → [1,1,1,3,3,5,4,1,4] = (1) that is probably a glitch, not sure how that is worked out.
Lastly, I will summon a force 3 spirit of man. I will use my focus for this summoning.

10d6.hits(5) → [2,2,1,2,4,3,4,2,3,3] = (0)
Ryker informs the group thourg a PM That he has decided not too call in the big spirit, just yet. He is very disappointed and stun at that last result. Which brings forth once again the feelings that he may not be good enough for this run. Making sure that the team does not know that.

when you make a summoning, you need to roll for a spirit also.
3d6.hits(5)=1 which means drain of 2, this can be resisted with buying hits, but the summoning was unsucessful as you wrote.

Ryker with that cast Armor on himself force 5   11d6.hits(5) → [6,4,3,4,3,3,3,1,4,6,2] = (2)
drain resist using edge  12d6.hits(5) → [4,5,4,5,4,5,4,5,1,2,1,1] = (4)
That should give me 2 physical damage, but upgrades my armor by 2. Ryker then making sure his armor jacket is adjusted, goes to join Sam.
He is very disappointed in himself on the spirit and the drain and at this point is joining Sam with purpose and also a slightly noticeable chip on his sholder that conveys the message don't mess with me or I'll bring hell fire and grim stone all around us.

drain value is F/2 + 3-> 5
drain resist is 4 so you get 1 damage -> it is physical because of the background count of 1 that reduced your magic attribute to 4.
and it does improve your armor by 2

A glowing field of magickal energy appeared around Ryker.

[Sichr]

Omar steps out of the Rover. Doberman is ready to protect his master (OOC: means delayed action, gun pointed at possible threat - Tony)
Tony. First...don`t point that gun at me or you will be shot.
Second. If you have commlink, turn it on, Id like to show you how the situation on your "Turf" looks like from the other perspective. This may help you understand why we are woried about you going there unprepared.
If Tony activates his link, Omar sends him the feed from Dalmatian.
I believe you recognize that street. I have drone up in the sky monitoring the situation for a while.
You`ve heard that Fronts are about to show on the scene. Do you recognize anyone who don`t belong to your family?
Do you recognize those who wants to join Fronts?
Would they be problem during the meeting or would they accept your statement?
Now, answers.

[Netzgeist]

Fractal enter into the Rover and packs the medkit again. Just then he reminds that his commlink is storing his teammates messages. He order it to begin showing the ones stored, and then to come back to playing they all automatically. It does not mean that he really pays a lot of attention to them... there's quite too much is his head already.

Did he just become what he really avoided being?

Being a Face means doing what the job calls for us to do, even being a cold human behavior reader. So now you accept doing what the job calls you to do? Isn't it what the corpses do? Isn't to avoid this why you became a runner? Did you abandoned your aesthetic ideals?

I'm not that. Her impressions are wrong. Let's see it.

[JDA]

Looks at Sam, hoi chummer I have your back. Then at the others Well guess it's time to go. Then at Tony " Unless you want to answer some questions. That is?"

[JDA]

I share with the group my info. From sensing and the watcher spirits.

[Sentinemodo]

Omar steps out of the Rover. Doberman is ready to protect his master (OOC: means delayed action, gun pointed at possible threat - Tony)
Tony. First...don`t point that gun at me or you will be shot.
Second. If you have commlink, turn it on, Id like to show you how the situation on your "Turf" looks like from the other perspective. This may help you understand why we are woried about you going there unprepared.
If Tony activates his link, Omar sends him the feed from Dalmatian.
I believe you recognize that street. I have drone up in the sky monitoring the situation for a while.
You`ve heard that Fronts are about to show on the scene. Do you recognize anyone who don`t belong to your family?
Do you recognize those who wants to join Fronts?
Would they be problem during the meeting or would they accept your statement?
Now, answers.

Tony watches the scene for a moment. Shows it to Maria. While you were talking the scene evolved into one-on-one brawl between two of the gangers rolling in the street. They continue to grapple as they punch and kick each other. Several other gang members are holding people back so that the fight stays between these two.

No. They are all Kings. Those on the north side. There is Dave among them he always wanted us to join the Fronts. You notice that the north side counts 14 heads against 11 on the south. He gets sad. They won't accept it easily. But they deserve to know. There won't be any shooting if you're asking for it. I don't think so.

[Sichr]

Do you want us to be seen? Or better remain hidden and intercept just in the case of problems?
Ill be waiting in Rover to provide cover. Sam would be able to get somewhere close to be at hand if something goes wrong. Ryker and his mojo...IDN, he can be with you and stay unseen. We are professionals, eveyryone will choose his place on his own. Stay online.
As I understand you, our primary is to protect Maria.
If anything goes wrong, I go in to evac. Ill try to avoid using heavy weapons since you consider them your familly. But I wont let anyone from our team to be in lethal danger. For me, Im ready to go, as soon as Fractal talks with you about the money.
Omar leaves to the van after hearing final answers.

[Sentinemodo]

Yes, Maria is most important. You may go as you please. You may be seen, but do not push around, they wouldn't like it. It would be strange enough that you'll be present.

[Netzgeist]

Hearing his own name took Fractal out of his haze. Amazing how a name carry so much power.

Cocktail effect.

He shook the thought he was having out of his mind, take a quick glance to all the persons there and walks to the couple again. From the moment he steps out the van, he is already evaluating their posture.

On the outside, he is mostly confidence again. Mostly; there's still noise is his head, but he believes in his skills and the job comes first. Job comes first? Just like a John Q. Wageslave, isn't it?

At least it's not a formal meeting, and Tony is no Johnson. There's no need not to show he is annoyed; and all the last minutes are reason enough. It's proper behavior.

"Okay, Tony, we understood all your points and prerrogatives. Now let's talk money. We both want to go there as soon as possible, so let's do this straight. How much you can afford to pay?"

He means serious bussiness, and his tone makes it clear that Tony should now what type of people he is hiring.

[Sentinemodo]

This was a moment for Tony to become a little embarassed.
We got 5 thousands nuyen. I understand that it isn't enough to buy services of all of you, but since I am sure there will be no shooting at all, and this is just to make me feel safer about Maria, I hope this is enough for one or two of you.

I'm affraid that there is no roll possible. You can tell his embarassment is sincere. This is all they got. For a low risk bodyguard job, this is more than enough, but he understand that with the kind of gear/stature you have you could earn much more during a night. He just hope that this isn't your running night (else he suspect you wouldn't be here at all).

So this is kind of take it or leave arrangement.

[Netzgeist]

@Team: Chummers, I trully believe they got no more than that, and also they are neck-deep into a dire situation. We are not here for this job, and the payment we expect is for it to turn our real one easier (be it by turning their leader more friend-like, be it by thinning their herd during this security job). But a grand more to each on the end of the day seems good, also.

Fractal expression in one of pity first, but then a friendly smile paints the elf face. In an encouraging tone he says:

"It seems like your lucky day, Tony. You just got the whole group in a special offer: we told you before, we sympathize with your situation. Se let's start this thing, shall we?"