[Kouryuu]

Sam took a look around to see what the situation is at the moment in this place.

That's not opinion boy. That's a simple question. Commies are coming this way. Will they walk over Three Kings or will the Kings become Three Jesters and dance to the new tune?

I only want the best for The Kings. Don't worry, we can hold our own, as we always had.

Of course you do, but don't tell me you couldn't use some help.

Sam felt that Tony was in need of help in this.
"You say The king have to fear the Vory, who are on their way, right? not to become Lapdogs for them, but you suggest them becoming your lapdogs?"
Sam takes a look at the Gang he is speaking to, then turns his attention to the Representative
"So you suggest you are here to help the Kings? Or are you here to help yourself, increase YOUR influence, takeTHEIR Territory?"
Then he turns on his radar to check them for weapons and cyberware.

While getting the message out to Fractal, but sending a copy to the rest of the team.
@Team >How is the progress on the fake recording, would it be possible to store it in her Com? is it on?

[Sichr]

Omar runs scan for radio signals. Not that people in this parts are trying to keep their comunications low and possibly do not use commlink on the daily basics, well still there is lot of entertainment outside and even in Lagos there are some radio receivers in every block. On fact, Omar is surpised a bit by the fact that there is no loud music on gangs home turf, since he always heards a lot about "ghetto" music and its cultural significance.

Using his commlink and signal range of doberman, that walks next to Sam in the hearth of the street, Omar runs scan to find out if there is such a device:

EW(4)+Scan(5)+VR(2) (11d6.hits(5)=4)

[Sentinemodo]

Calmly and firmly, the elf walks toward the gangers. He knows he is a stranger to all of them, and that his arrival may seem suspicious. He also knows the kind of people gangers are, and what they truly respect, so his controlled body language make it clear for everyone that he belongs to the streets also.

8 (Charisma) + 4 (Ettiquette) + 3 (Glamour) + 3 (Tailored Pheromone) = 18 dice = 5 hits, no glitch
It's possible that either Glamour or Tailores Pheromones to not come in play; he is walking all the way to where they are, and will be nearby, but he started from quite afar: if one of these are taken out, then the result becomes 4 hits, still no glitch; if both are taken out, then it's 3 hits, no glitch

He also expect that Tony will greet him in a friendly manner when he arrives, which shall improve the elf image with the gang. He knew in the calm pace he is walking he will not arrive there immediately, but showing a confidence look now is more importat than rushing things up.

While strolling among the gangers, he sends a message to Tony: "No need to fear Amy, Tony. You are in your turf, this is your gang; also, we got your back."

Tony seemed reassured, and nodded in greetings toward incoming Fractal. His appearance raised many brows, but other than some hushed 'who's this fragger','idono'. They seemed to accept that people of some importance must somehow appear, and this is just one such case. they wait for for anything to be said or done to build an opinion.

Scanning for com-links on the scary lady (Fronts leader) and her bodyguards:
comp(4)+scan(3)+2tm-2sus=7d6.hits(5)=4

Omar runs scan for radio signals. Not that people in this parts are trying to keep their comunications low and possibly do not use commlink on the daily basics, well still there is lot of entertainment outside and even in Lagos there are some radio receivers in every block. On fact, Omar is surpised a bit by the fact that there is no loud music on gangs home turf, since he always heards a lot about "ghetto" music and its cultural significance.

Using his commlink and signal range of doberman, that walks next to Sam in the hearth of the street, Omar runs scan to find out if there is such a device:

EW(4)+Scan(5)+VR(2) (11d6.hits(5)=4)

Both of the gangers backing up Amy have hidden nodes for their peripherals - AR googles and retractable spurs. Strangely there are no hidden nodes on Amy herself.

Among the crowd around you find five or so passive or hidden commlink nodes, some AR googles or gloves, some music players integrated or no into jewerrly, clothes, a portable trid player unit. In the further circle, there is couple dozens of various state peripherals - from drones, cars, bikes,  to fridges, cheap home unit or two,

Even further in range are nodes of local 'businesses' serving virtual sex rooms, hazard nodes serving bordellos, casinos etc.

There is no close music played nearby, must have been turned off, once the fight begun. If you're looking for anything specific, let me know.
The results above is your combined knowledge. As Omar've done signal capture, and Mouse matrix perception. 

 

Then he turns on his radar to check them for weapons and cyberware.

Fairly easy, Sam identifies, that Amy have been quite heavily modifed - sporting wired reflexes, cyber eyes and datajack. She is also having heavy pistol in that holster (but that you could see in plain), they all have pieces of smaller equipment probably 'links. Her gangers, are sporting remingtons 990 and retractable spurs, there also have bunches of metal in the pockets, most probably spare clips.

Among the people around you there is a mixture of knifes, pistols (usually heavy), but also some chains, clubs. There is a lot commlinks and other small pieces of equipments.

[Sentinemodo]

Sam felt that Tony was in need of help in this.
"You say The king have to fear the Vory, who are on their way, right? not to become Lapdogs for them, but you suggest them becoming your lapdogs?"
Sam takes a look at the Gang he is speaking to, then turns his attention to the Representative
"So you suggest you are here to help the Kings? Or are you here to help yourself, increase YOUR influence, takeTHEIR Territory?"

So far Amy ignored your presence. But he turned her eyes, toward, and you could almost see how cold they are. Steel cold. You could almost feel her smartlink unit calculating hit ratios. Who you are, why are you here?

They're with me, so stop bugging them. Tony replied. I wasn't asking you boy. She replied without even watching him.

Fractal watching him predict the incoming Tony's explosion. He can't allow her to ignore him like that, and he's going to tell her that - in his style.

Amy present herself as strong enough to ignore Kings leader. Gang start to accept the facts, that maybe she should be leading instead.
Sam's however raised valid point. Their help wouldn't be free, and once Russian will be gone, who will evict Fronts, by then joining them will be their only option. Regardless of his intentions, he also made a good first impression on them.

further rolls:
Amy:

Sam
base Charisma (4) + Negotiations(3)
modifiers
first impression +2 dices (this roll only)
street reputation ignored, they didn't recognize you yet,
Kings would like to keep their independence +1 dice
total: +3 dice
10 dices   

Amy's 1st 10d6.hits(5)=1
Amy's 2nd 10d6.hits(5)=2
Tony's 1st 4d6.hits(5)=2
Amy's 3rd 10d6.hits(5)=4
Sam's 1st 10d6 -> 4

options:
Join Fronts: 1 + 2 + 4 - 4 -> 3/10
Stay on their own: 2/10

[Netzgeist]

@Sam: "Message is made, the guys are with the file."
@Tony: "Tony, she is just trying to demoralize you; the best way to proceed is surprising her, not playing her game."

Fractal looks directly at Amy's eyes, staring. She is cold, she seems good; but being good is not enough for him, he plays professional. He directs a mocking smile at her.

"Amy Steur, Front's leader, what a happy encounter." His sarcastic expression let's it clear that he does not mind her street rank. "About your questions: accept the facts there are things you don't know, and stop ranting about it. We already checked in with the proper leader of the place."

He gives his back to her, showing no concern to her presence or the one of her "bodyguards", all the while trusting Dalmatian feeds to be aware of any suspicious movements.

Since it's a game of presence amidst gangs to demoralize Amy, I believe the proper roll should be an intimidation one. Not Fractal specialty, but it will need to do until argument moment next round:
8 (Charisma) + 1 (Intimidation) + 3 (Tailored Pheromones) + 1 (Vocal Range Enhancer) = 13 dice pool = 1 hit, no glitch
Spending Edge to reroll dice that didn't hit: 12 dice = 4 hits, no glitch; total = 5 hits, no glitchs

[Sichr]

Id just reminding. When you say: Lets not make this another KofeeKlatch street party or something in this manner, they may realize what our presence means...

[JDA]

I continue to watch thorgh astral sight. Still looking for awakened creatures and holding my invisibility .

[Sentinemodo]

@Sam: "Message is made, the guys are with the file."
@Tony: "Tony, she is just trying to demoralize you; the best way to proceed is surprising her, not playing her game."

Fractal looks directly at Amy's eyes, staring. She is cold, she seems good; but being good is not enough for him, he plays professional. He directs a mocking smile at her.

"Amy Steur, Front's leader, what a happy encounter." His sarcastic expression let's it clear that he does not mind her street rank. "About your questions: accept the facts there are things you don't know, and stop ranting about it. We already checked in with the proper leader of the place."

He gives his back to her, showing no concern to her presence or the one of her "bodyguards", all the while trusting Dalmatian feeds to be aware of any suspicious movements.

Since it's a game of presence amidst gangs to demoralize Amy, I believe the proper roll should be an intimidation one. Not Fractal specialty, but it will need to do until argument moment next round:
8 (Charisma) + 1 (Intimidation) + 3 (Tailored Pheromones) + 1 (Vocal Range Enhancer) = 13 dice pool = 1 hit, no glitch
Spending Edge to reroll dice that didn't hit: 12 dice = 4 hits, no glitch; total = 5 hits, no glitchs

Modifiers:
Pheromones were succesfully dispelled by the natives. ie, pheromones of the two dozen sweating gangs members crowding around. -3 dices
Kings would like to keep their independence +1 dice
total -2 dices

roll [2,1,1,2,3,4,2,4,1,1,2] [5,4] 0 hits, reroll misses [5,4,1,6,3,5,1,4,4,6,2] [3] total 4 hits
intimidation resist Willpower(4) + Intimidation(-1, defaulting) -> 3d6.hits(5)=1

She did back off a step. Guess, you found her weak spot.

Tony went white again, but regained after Fractal's message and responded quietly. You made your point Amy. I want what's the best for the band. We need to talk on our own and we'll let you know when decide.

You brought any more outsiders to nanny you over the gang business? Maybe I should talk with someone who has bigger balls, like that Russian bitch. Someone who could actually lead that gang without planning to death every fucking move. She addressed the greater audience. There is war coming this way. There will be a body behind every fucking trashcan when the commies come. If you won't have someone to lead you it will be your bodies Kings. You can hope to survive only with my help.

All of the gangers were listening to her, so only she herself and Fractal (via the Dalmatian perspective) noticed, that Tony's flinched visibly, when she mentioned that the Kings have no chance without a leader.

Seeing a weakness she pressed on with a direct gaze of her steel cold eyes. Will you lead the Kings? Do you have what it takes?

Fractal forced her to back off, net hits serve as weaking her position.

She pointed out however, that you're outsiders (Fractal to a lesser degree than Sam and Maria, but still) - and you shouldn't be here.
She also point out that Tony still has no idea what to do. Also though that was a blind shot, she hit Tony's weak spot - he intend to leave. And raised doubts, that some of them already questioned themselves.   

further rolls:
Amy's 1st 10d6.hits(5)=1
Amy's 2nd 10d6.hits(5)=2
Tony's 1st 4d6.hits(5)=2
Amy's 3rd 10d6.hits(5)=4
Sam's 1st 10d6 -> 4
Fractal's 1st net 3 hits
Amy's 4th 10d6.hits(5)=4

options:
Join Fronts: 1 + 2 + 4 - 4 -3 + 4 -> 4/10
Stay on their own: 2/10

She regained her position, lost over Fractal entry.

[Sichr]

@Fractal: If there is a war comming they will need guns. Tony, being the associate of ms Kirillov, would be able to get the best Vory can offer. He can hardly oppose this call. Just giving you some more arguments before the last one. pah. Im betraying myself here

[Kouryuu]

" you are quite well informed about what the Vory intend to do here, might you have already sold your gang to them, became their lapdogs?"
Sam tried to play her argument back at her.
" not only my friend Tony has lost a friend, all of the 3 kings lost a family member, and you come here and insult them for not having a leader? You better should ..."
Sam plays to be interrupted by a com. Then turns to Tony. " our connection in the fronts just sent us a file, with contains the order of the hit on johnny. I know it will be hard, but you have to be strong and keep your calm."
Sam turns to fractal, knowing he will be much more suited to deliver the blow to Amy
"Fractal, could you play that recording so every one can hear it."

[JDA]

Ryker is watching for anything in the astral.
PM@ team " they don't appear to have magical support guy, but I'm going to continue to watch."
PM @ team " do you think, we could get an edge if I was to drop the invisibility. Remember I can onl see astrally at the moment"

[Netzgeist]

@Omar: Both Kirillov guns and the KoffeKlatch massacre are arguments that I'm intending to deliver soon, but I want to know Amy's hand first, or at least to made her fold, not bet. Don't worry, I haven't forget about it.

Fractal nods to Sam, thinking quick not to lose the opportunity. He thinks it's a bit too soon, but if his partners advanced the rythm, then he would adjust his dancing.

Even with different methods, he trusted them; and they have also showed trust in him until now.

The elf looks at Amy and shoots his words at her; harsh and yet clear words, as if annoyed and angry by a kid, and lecturing her. Although his eyes and vocal chords are directed to her, his speech is in reality directed to the Three Kings gang.

"Amy, do not ashame yourself with these displaced threats! It's quite obvious by now that you want the Kings to be your meatshield in a gang war you are intending to begin! You moved all the right strings so that everything would be fine for the Kings to rejoin you, but you've been betrayed by your own gang. What a sorry leader you are, girl. Look what one of yours sent us:"

With a mental command, Fractal orders the message to be replayed in loud sound from his own 'link. Amy's own voice and manner of speech raises amidst the scene, erupting from his commlink and into the ears of the gangers:

"Now listen here, that's the way you will do it. You will put as many bullets as you have in Johnny's body, make it appear as a slouchy job from that Russian drunkards. That will teach them that they need us to survive, and they will come back to us."

I rolled 4 hits in the test to mimic her voice, someone would need to beat that in a Perception + Intuition test to tell any difference on the speech.

Even though the lenses of his glasses do not let it show, Fractal cold metallic eyes stay fixed at Amy, judging her.

Ok, since this is all a play onto the 3Kings, I believe a Con test is required:
8 (Charisma) + 4 (Con) + 3 (Glamour) + 1 (Vocal Range Enhancer) = 16 dice = 8 hits, no glitch
8 hits! Dammit, that's good!

[Sichr]

Judging from Amys confident posture, well, Omar know she wasnt prepared for them, but he was suspicious enought. Dalmatian feed gave him very good overlook over the scene and surroundings, so he began to search for possible snipers or attack squad, analyzing the feed from camera and thermographic camera.
When he heards Sams call for Fractal playing the message. he cursed:
Dammit...too soon.
and switched his full focus back to the situation, hopefully his recon was enought.

Consider Omar to have delayed action

[snake_eyes]

Mouse is getting bored, so he'll work on hacking the Amy's back up ganger com links, looking to hack into their communications. If I notice Maria's link go active, I'll hack hers as well. Since I already have Tony's comlink, I will copy the pay data and erase all traces of my presence.

OOC: how do you want to handle this as it sounds like you may be modifying some of the matrix stuff based on the time consumed from the last adventure. Note that Mouse is currently at an Exploit of 18 (hacking 4+exploit spec 2+ Exploit prog 10+tm 2) that's not including the services of a crack sprite R4.

This was the combined knowledge of Omar and Mouse:
Both of the gangers backing up Amy have hidden nodes for their peripherals - AR googles and retractable spurs. Strangely there are no hidden nodes on Amy herself. So I should know they are there, but:
Matrix Percept 11 -2sus=9d6.hits(5)=3

[Sentinemodo]

Seeing a weakness she pressed on with a direct gaze of her steel cold eyes. Will you lead the Kings? Do you have what it takes?

I ... Tony started but was interrupted by Sam and then Fractal

The elf looks at Amy and shoots his words at her; harsh and yet clear words, as if annoyed and angry by a kid, and lecturing her. Although his eyes and vocal chords are directed to her, his speech is in reality directed to the Three Kings gang.

"Amy, do not ashame yourself with these displaced threats! It's quite obvious by now that you want the Kings to be your meatshield in a gang war you are intending to begin! You moved all the right strings so that everything would be fine for the Kings to rejoin you, but you've been betrayed by your own gang. What a sorry leader you are, girl. Look what one of yours sent us:"

With a mental command, Fractal orders the message to be replayed in loud sound from his own 'link. Amy's own voice and manner of speech raises amidst the scene, erupting from his commlink and into the ears of the gangers:

"Now listen here, that's the way you will do it. You will put as many bullets as you have in Johnny's body, make it appear as a slouchy job from that Russian drunkards. That will teach them that they need us to survive, and they will come back to us."

I rolled 4 hits in the test to mimic her voice, someone would need to beat that in a Perception + Intuition test to tell any difference on the speech.

Even though the lenses of his glasses do not let it show, Fractal cold metallic eyes stay fixed at Amy, judging her.

Ok, since this is all a play onto the 3Kings, I believe a Con test is required:
8 (Charisma) + 4 (Con) + 3 (Glamour) + 1 (Vocal Range Enhancer) = 16 dice = 8 hits, no glitch
8 hits! Dammit, that's good!

First, perception roll - you need to fool some two dozen people that seem to know her well
Intuition(4) + Audio Perception(-1, defaulting) - 3 dicepools
modifiers:
noise -2 dice, there is lot of people around, and even with loud volume of the link, it's difficult do spot the finer nuances
actively listening +3, you asked them to listen carefully
multiple people listening +5
total +6
9d6.hits(5)=1 all of them believe it was her voice

Second, your con attempt, I'll count the successful forge as a Ace in the hole (+2 dices) 2d6.hits(5)=1 9th hit
opposed as usual she resists with negotiations roll 10d6.hits(5)=5
net 4 hits.

Amy was taken by surprise. The gang went in turmoil, the pressure from gangers ringing your discussion increased, and space between you suddenly very limited. Curses are shouted from the South. The look on the Maria's face would have been priceless.

She stared at Fractal for a second, then turned to the gang. I came here to offer my help. You were part of my family, and I came to help you like a sister to her bro. Fronts care for Three Kings.

But this ... that was a lie, fake. I am accused of murder by complete strangers. Do you know them? Will anyone vouch for them? she points at Sam and Fractal

What he played .. I'd believe I told that myself ... but I did not and I can only think of one group that is capable of creating such fake and one that have direct interest in opposing our union - LoneStar with that she points, in a direction of Dalmatian. Her cybereyes refocused audibly for an added dramatic effect.

You brought pigs to the gang meeting Tony !!!

More curses followed as people started to zoom through their googles and see the shape on the dark sky.

Fractal forced her to back off even more, net hits serve as weaking her position, actually reducing it to zero. Gang no longer is inclined to join Fronts, the seed of doubt has been plown.

She adapted and changed her front introducing new option - kill the LoneStar pigs.   
Amy:
base Charisma (3) + Negotiations(4)
modifiers:
Kings are on friendly terms with Fronts +1 dice
Amy have a known street reputation +3 dices
King are hostile with LoneStar +1 dice
total: +5 dices
12 dices


further rolls:
Amy's 1st 10d6.hits(5)=1
Amy's 2nd 10d6.hits(5)=2
Tony's 1st 4d6.hits(5)=2
Amy's 3rd 10d6.hits(5)=4
Sam's 1st 10d6 -> 4
Fractal's 1st net 3 hits
Amy's 4th 10d6.hits(5)=4
Fractal's 2nd net 4 hits
Amy's 5th 12 12d6.hits(5)=7

options:
Join Fronts: 4 -4 -> 0/10
Stay on their own: 2/10
Kill the LoneStar pigs: 7/10

I'll add one more index to this meeting, lets call it temperature index. Fractal can sense it via his etiquette skills.
it is currently at 6 out of 10. When this reach ten, someone will pull out a gun and .
additional action you can take is to calm the crowd.

general temperature index 6/10

meawhile

Judging from Amys confident posture, well, Omar know she wasnt prepared for them, but he was suspicious enought. Dalmatian feed gave him very good overlook over the scene and surroundings, so he began to search for possible snipers or attack squad, analyzing the feed from camera and thermographic camera.

Your suspiciousness led you to two cars, two blocks away (150 meters away, on the other side of the group). They are having their engines on or have been just turned off (judging by the temperature). The angle isn't best.

Make visual perception roll. Include partial light modifier and long range. Result will be immediate, before further street actions.

Ryker is watching for anything in the astral.
PM@ team
PM @ team

@Team: I don't think we need to let them know you are there yet Unca Ryker. Let it be a surpise should they try something
Mouse is getting bored, so he'll work on hacking the body guards com links, looking to hack into their communications. If I have time, i'll do the same for Maria and Tony.
OOC: how do you want to handle this as it sounds like you may be modifying some of the matrix stuff based on the time consumed from the last adventure. Note that Mouse is currently at an Exploit of 18 (hacking 4+exploit spec 2+ Exploit prog 10+tm 2) that's not including the services of a crack sprite R4.

Ryker couldn't PM anything, he's there, but since he has no subvocal, and cannot operate his commlink, you couldn't reply to his PM, please edit.
about the hacking. bodyguards, nor Amy have no commlinks to be hacked, there is also no communication between them (Omar would have found that). Maria also has her commlink off. Tony has his link active, and you hacked it already - no rolls necessary, let's consider you have admin rights for that. The only valuable paydata on it is the addressbook containing commcodes for gangmembers, of ThreeKings, and several figures in neighbouring gangs.
From hackable thigns as of now, you could try hacking the Spurs and AR gloves of the bodyguards. If you want to try make a matrix perception roll, entire hacking will also occur before any further street situation changes.