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« Reply #90 on: <02-18-12/0702:31> »
Rafa dropped down to the ground and walked towards the rest of his team with a grin on his face. "So yeah, while you guys were playing with these trolo here", he prodded one of the unconcious bodies with his cyberfeet, "I took care of three more that were trying to get to the armors and still had time to take down one of them on your side of the fence."
He raised his hands, palms open, in a defensive gesture. "No, no. Don't thank me. Con gusto, de nada. Just thought that I'd let you  know that at least someone here is doing what we're paid for and that next time something like this happens, you señoras better be putting on gasmasks. Some CS or Punch would have finished all this mierda before it even begun and since I seem to be the one handling defense here, I won't hesitate one second to use it... for your own protection, of course."
He flashed a grin and winked at the two mages of the group. "Don't look like you expertos really mind friendly fire very much anyway, right?"

Should I remind you, honey, that you told us you've got all covered at that side? Did you expect that after sach an announcement we will be dashing after you to be at your side comforting you? And if something bad had happened to our star, there wouldn't be any job for us anyway. And if I didn't ask, we wouldn't have any of the benefits we have! And by the way - I took down one of the intruders and finished the other one at this side of the scene! So don't you dare to blame me for ANYTHING!!! Freya said in a very irritated voice.
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« Reply #91 on: <02-18-12/0724:06> »
"Blame you? Chica, don't get your panties in a bunch, you's got me all wrong. I had a lotta fun, just thought I'd give you a heads up on how it's gonna be next time we're in a fight. Don't ya worry, I'll have your back, just try to not get in the way... and I wasn't kidin' 'bout the mask." Rafa sounded calm, friendly even. He actually might not have meant to be insulting.

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« Reply #92 on: <02-18-12/1258:20> »
"People, please," Panther said, "There's no need to fight among us.  Rafa, that mob did surprise us, and we've gotten a bigger contract out of it.  But on the other hand, good that you were on a high spot.  So, I think that party is a very good idea.  That way we can get to know each other better, our strenghts and weaknesses, so we don't have the same problem next time.  What do you guys think.  I can arrange something for tonight if you want, after we've brought the armours back."
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« Reply #93 on: <02-18-12/1339:22> »
Yes. You can go. But I'm afraid I cannot let you out through the door. You see, this is my home, and I have a reputation to protect. I'll have my spirit take you wherever you want. Here's some clothes, but your stuff remains - spoils of war and a little insurance, a few pieces of your hair. If you try anything,,,,well, let's just say you should run a search on "Ritual Sorcery". Now tell Matriarch where you want to go and begone, I have other matters to attend to. And be grateful, instead of hateful - you have your life, you are free while others are dead or in jail. You've got a second chance, don't waste it on revenge!

Nego roll just for some more weight (7d6.hits(5)=2)


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« Reply #94 on: <02-19-12/0756:19> »
Yes. You can go. But I'm afraid I cannot let you out through the door. You see, this is my home, and I have a reputation to protect. I'll have my spirit take you wherever you want. Here's some clothes, but your stuff remains - spoils of war and a little insurance, a few pieces of your hair. If you try anything,,,,well, let's just say you should run a search on "Ritual Sorcery". Now tell Matriarch where you want to go and begone, I have other matters to attend to. And be grateful, instead of hateful - you have your life, you are free while others are dead or in jail. You've got a second chance, don't waste it on revenge!

Nego roll just for some more weight (7d6.hits(5)=2)
Redfoot dressed and after pocketing his Com plucked a few of his nose heirs and put them on the table, you can see that there is no gratitude in his actions more hatred, hatred for a destroyed option to get back in biz, for the striping and the threats made, "So will this do?" without really waiting for a answer he turned and started walking towards the door, ignoring Eddies request to be transported by his sprit.
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« Reply #95 on: <02-20-12/0436:31> »
"Idiot" - Eddy fires without pulling the trigger, through a mental command. The suppressed machine pistol "puff"-s and the little shocking bullet is in the air.

I don't know if he's surprised (he's walking to the door, shouldn't be hard to shoot, the pistol was aimed to him, and he can't even see any indication that I'm gonna shoot). Roll:
11 pool + point blank (13d6.hits(5)=6)

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« Reply #96 on: <02-20-12/0546:43> »
On her way home Freya had a sudden idea she must call Phil. One thing - she'll tell him about her coming to LA and the second, probably much more important - she'll ask him about her new employers. He could know something useful. There was something wrong with this job and she wanted to calm herself down. The moment she got home, she called Phil: Hi Phil! Guess what? I'm coming to LA in a couple of days. If you're not too much in business, we might meet there... I'd love that a lot, it's been a while since our last meeting in person. By the way, have you heard of such elves as Fermin and Slade? Maybe there is something I should know about them...
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« Reply #97 on: <02-21-12/0936:02> »
"Idiot" - Eddy fires without pulling the trigger, through a mental command. The suppressed machine pistol "puff"-s and the little shocking bullet is in the air.

I don't know if he's surprised (he's walking to the door, shouldn't be hard to shoot, the pistol was aimed to him, and he can't even see any indication that I'm gonna shoot). Roll:
11 pool + point blank (13d6.hits(5)=6)

Redfoot(3) is as fast as Eddy but his aim is not to confront the mage but to get out of the room as fast as he can.
You can move as fast as you like, but, when there are bullets to dodge, a turned back can mean a lot of pain for you, this Redfoot learned the hard way when Eddies bullet hit him in the back.
and it did a lot of damage
After receiving the shock of the SnS round Redfoot fell to the ground, the white carpet started to get a red undertone as the blood from Redfoots Ears and nose mixed with the white of the woven fabric. Redfoot could have been bleeding from elsewhere as well but you were not too keen to take a look.
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« Reply #98 on: <02-21-12/1435:02> »
On her way home Freya had a sudden idea she must call Phil. One thing - she'll tell him about her coming to LA and the second, probably much more important - she'll ask him about her new employers. He could know something useful. There was something wrong with this job and she wanted to calm herself down. The moment she got home, she called Phil: Hi Phil! Guess what? I'm coming to LA in a couple of days. If you're not too much in business, we might meet there... I'd love that a lot, it's been a while since our last meeting in person. By the way, have you heard of such elves as Fermin and Slade? Maybe there is something I should know about them...

Phil Sounded exited, but you could hear that her assistant was not sharing his exitment of this sudden call, throughout the conversation he reminded Phil that he has no time for trivialities of this sort.
>Great news, Hon., Real good. Would defiantly be delighted to enjoy your companionship there, but i am afraid i am working on our Broadway at the moment. But as soon as I am finished here i will be taking the next Orbital Plane home, so if you are more then a few days in LA we could defiantly Meat up.
A quick search relieved that Fermin is working in one of our Subsidiaries "Charisma associates", good man, never ever got a warning or something like that, at the moment his responsibilities are to take care of Pandora, sure you heard of her right? This Slade fellow is not known to me, the only I could find in Horizon files are that Big Ben Howard if paying him for props, seems legit, but if you like I could dig deeper.
Hope to see you soon Hon. and defiantly enjoy your time in LA.<


Well, I'd appreciate if you could dig a bit deeper on Slade. There is something about him I don' t really like and you know my 6th sense works pretty well, so I just want to feel safe... as much as it' s possible... And I suppose I'll be in LA for quite a while, so I hope to meet you soon! Very soon! Freya used all her voice charms.
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« Reply #99 on: <02-21-12/1451:07> »
On her way home Freya had a sudden idea she must call Phil. One thing - she'll tell him about her coming to LA and the second, probably much more important - she'll ask him about her new employers. He could know something useful. There was something wrong with this job and she wanted to calm herself down. The moment she got home, she called Phil: Hi Phil! Guess what? I'm coming to LA in a couple of days. If you're not too much in business, we might meet there... I'd love that a lot, it's been a while since our last meeting in person. By the way, have you heard of such elves as Fermin and Slade? Maybe there is something I should know about them...

Phil Sounded exited, but you could hear that her assistant was not sharing his exitment of this sudden call, throughout the conversation he reminded Phil that he has no time for trivialities of this sort.
>Great news, Hon., Real good. Would defiantly be delighted to enjoy your companionship there, but i am afraid i am working on our Broadway at the moment. But as soon as I am finished here i will be taking the next Orbital Plane home, so if you are more then a few days in LA we could defiantly Meat up.
A quick search relieved that Fermin is working in one of our Subsidiaries "Charisma associates", good man, never ever got a warning or something like that, at the moment his responsibilities are to take care of Pandora, sure you heard of her right? This Slade fellow is not known to me, the only I could find in Horizon files are that Big Ben Howard if paying him for props, seems legit, but if you like I could dig deeper.
Hope to see you soon Hon. and defiantly enjoy your time in LA.<


Well, I'd appreciate if you could dig a bit deeper on Slade. There is something about him I don' t really like and you know my 6th sense works pretty well, so I just want to feel safe... as much as it' s possible... And I suppose I'll be in LA for quite a while, so I hope to meet you soon! Very soon! Freya used all her voice charms.
>Sure thing, Hon., will call you tomorrow with what i know. And I defiantly want to reserve a dinner with you in LA. All the best in your endevers in LA, i know that you will be safe, but just do not make to big waves i want to meet a friend not a criminal, if you understand what i mean.  ;)< Even without the need to see him, Freya knows that she has this man in her pocket.
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« Reply #100 on: <02-22-12/0150:36> »
The day after the filming, she got up early despite it having been late with the party the evening before.  First she went to an electronics store to buy a small faraday cage.  As soon as was going to put on those commlinks she had taken, they would start broadcasting and she couldn't have that, therefore the faraday cage.  At home she went into the room she used for her electronics work, put the first commlink in the faraday cage and connected it with her own via a fiberoptic cable in her datajack.  She made herself comfortable, put the commlink on and slipped into VR.  Quickly she loaded her programs, necessary to hack into the commlink.

First she saw a bar, but she loaded her own reality filter and the scene changed.  A black panther in the jungle, that's what she was, not an alcoholic.  She sniffed the air and turned to the left.  Slowly she moved on, periodically sniffing to see if her prey was still there.  She also smelled other things, like predators.  She would have to avoid them if she was to kill her prey and more importantly, keep it.  Seeing a bush full of thorns in her way, she quickly climbed a tree and tried to go that way.  She continued to move on and dropped out of the tree after the bush.  Now she had find her prey again, so she continued on.  In this part of the wood there were a lot of those thorn bushes, so it took her some time but in the end she managed to find a hole she could use to get to the river and the prey that was there.

When she had managed to get through the thorn bushes, she started sniffing the air again.  There were prey animals near the river, that became immediately clear.  Now she just had to find the correct one.  But first things first, she thought as she sprayed a couple of trees.  That would indicate to other panthers that this was her territory and they should keep out.  Next she moved towards the river where a number of deer and other smaller animals were drinking.  She stayed low and stopped in a small bush where she was hidden from view.  She was also downwind from the other animals, so she could smell them while they couldn't smell her.  She looked at all of the animals in turn and quickly found the one she needed.  Sneaking closer and closer, she suddenly started running.  The prey scattered but she stayed with the one she had picked and jumped on its back.  Because of the weight the deer was thrown on the ground and she closed her jaws around its neck, suffocating it.

Coming out of her VR trance, she looked at the clock.  7 hours had passed and while it was a lot, Panther beleived in being thorough.  First order of business was to go to the bathroom, get something to eat and then she looked at the files she had found.  Not much, just some programs and something that looked like safe house codes.  Nothing important right now.  She copied the files to her own commlink and would look into it on the flight to LA.  The other one didn't yield anything useful.  But they were still good commlinks, so she scrubbed it of everything related to it's previous owners and re-installed some software.  With an admin account she could do whatever she wanted.


I've probed for access and simply bought the hits to see how long it would take, plus some extra to look around and read stuff.
With an admin account I can set-up a regular new admin account and user accounts, so playing around shouldn't be an issue.


Next she she tried to contact JJ.  She used a number she had set-up for business when she was still with the group and not his personal number.
"Good afternoon, Antares inport-export, how may I help you," she heard his voice.
"Good morning, JJ," she said, "Panther here."
"What are you using this number for," he asked, surprised.
"Because I'm calling for business," she said, "and also I wanted to see if those numbers were still used."
"Well, I'm normally in Seattle day after tomorrow," he said, "maybe we can talk then."
"Sure, no problem," Panther said, "meet me in The Lunch Garden downtown at lunchtime."
"OK, JJ out."

After she had called JJ she decided to have some sleep, but first she quickly checked the news on the matrix.  No report on the mob attack in the needle but she wasn't suprised.  Both the studio, knight errant and the Needle itself probably wanted to keep it quiet.  Going to some other, non-official sites, she did found something, but widely exagerated.  She decided to let it for now and maybe post something later.  As she started to get tired after an extra hour on the matrix, she logged off and went to bed.  She made a mental note to check the prices on sleep regulators.  She had thought about getting one before, but for various reasons, mostly a lack of money, it had always been postponed.  Maybe now she could get one when they came back from LA.
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« Reply #101 on: <02-23-12/1521:13> »
Idiot, freakin' idiot. Almost naked, kidnapped, with an armed magician and a spirit in the same room...who plays hero with those odds? And after I promised him freedom and transportation??? An idiot, that's who! - Eddy was furious. - Thank you for your service, Matriarch, you can go now. - with a royal spirit that powerful, one must guard his tongue. - Trigram! Come to me at once! - once the fire spirit appears, he sighs, considering it one more time, but there isn't an other way - I want you to take this man up above the clouds and hold him close to you, until there is nothing more than ash. Then scatter that into the wind! I'll summon a spirit to conceal you, just for safety. Understood? Reduce all of him to ash!


Summoning Man Spirit, F5 (13d6.hits(5)=4)
Summoning Man Spirit, F5 resist (5d6.hits(5)=2)
Buying hits on fade.


He waits until it's done, then let's Trigram back and orders the Marquis to guard the room until he comes back, no one except Eddy is allowed in. He places the "do not disturb" sign and locks the door, just in case. Then he goes down, buys a very strong bleach, puts it in a bag and comes up again. He cleans up the various fluids, then he bleaches the part where the blood was. It's not a big area, just a few drops - he didn't use live ammo, just stun, and it's designed to not harm people. Frankly, he didn't understood the bleeding at all, unless the guy had some kind of internal injuries, but then it would have showed earlier.

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« Reply #102 on: <02-28-12/0749:18> »
Three days for preparing to go to LA should be enough, Freya thought.  Yesterday evening was the party, where some partners didn’t come. And that’s a pity as it wasn’t meant for celebrating something but to get to know group mates a bit better. It’s much easier to work with persons you know and have some clues what to expect from them… And we'll have to work together for a while. Well, whatever…
 
On the first day Freya did some house stuff – a bit of house cleaning, a bit of gardening, which made her feel much better.  She removed a few weeds from her herb garden, which actually already was perfect, and turned on the automatic watering system. Now she’s gonna be away from home for a while, so this was an absolute must-have. Otherwise her home-grown thyme, basil, rosemary, lavender, mint and all the other odorous and precious herbs would be ruined. Her home has to be perfect otherwise she won’t feel well enough to do her job. Actually, why Phil isn’t calling me back? she started to worry a bit as the evening was coming. Could there be something wrong with those guys or is he just too occupied?

The next day Freya went shopping. If we’re going to LA, one must have some decent clothes. And some other stuff as well.  For example, that silly gas mask – you never know what those crazymen will throw out next time…  It really could be a gas or something like that! Freya already had understood that there will be no mercy for group partners… Just have to be extremely cautious, she thought.  Otherwise this day was absolutely perfect. Such an adventure, one could really tell his grandchildren, if there will be some one day…

The day before departure Freya packed her belongings – weapons, ammo, armor, clothes and whatever else could be needed. She was very satisfied with her new Zoe suit with all the improvements she had bought as well… Especially the color change. That’s so cool! She put it on, stood in front of the mirror and tried out different colors of the suit – ruby red, bright red, dark blue, green, maroon, bright pink, baby pink, yellow, orange, lime green, beige… and so on for some half an hour or more until she just couldn’t remember any more colors. Awesome!!! What was that I wanted to do?
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« Reply #103 on: <02-29-12/1857:00> »
Note From Pandora:

ComeCode number

Call me, i have a preposition for you.


Upon the call:

"Good to hear from you. I was thinking on hiring you for a small job, seeing you in action proved to me that you are quite capable to take care of the security part and Your looks are comparable to mine. So i could use you as a shadow as well.
ohh, where are my manners, i haven't said what i actually want from you.
I would love to use the free day i have here in Seattle to do some small shopping in the Aurora village, maybe Centre house, you get the drift, right? About the pay, i am not really sure, i can either let you in on the shopping or 100$ pre hour, does it sound reasonable? "


Upon the call:
Hey!
I'm flattered! A small shopping tour sounds very good to me! Aurora house and Centre house both are really good - you can find some perfect bargains there! Beautiful stuff can never be too much :)
One more thing - would you mind if we asked Panther to join us? Two elves seems to be a better option than only one and Panther has a very noticeable looks which could do some extra good for you to keep unnoticed. And three females doing shopping always seems more natural - you know all the prejudices about girls stuff. As to payment - sound perfect to me! Especially the part about some discounts :)


Pandora was supprised "Panther? you mean the elf Who took in the crowd feel while you were fighting? you sure about it, she did seem a bit weird that time?"
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Freya "It just looked like that - she did a great part of the job in matrix. And weirdness was not her fault, she's absolutely normal, if don't take into account her love to virtual world :D Actually she's a funny company."


Pandora repeated to get it into her head. "Ohh she is that matrix kind of person, a Hacker? Cool, then she can help me in choosing a new comlink and accesories and programs for it.  :) You can take her to this address or should i get you from somewhere, will send the Limo to get you."


Freya: "Great! Maybe you can pick us up at may place? Rosegarden Cottage (address...) See you later then! :) "


The DarkBlue NightSky limousine was a sight this small-town had not yet seen or long forgotten, at least many eyes were pointed toward it when it parked at the Rose Garden Cottage. When you approach the driver gets out and opens he door for you, inside you can see Pandora looking at you. "Come get in, cant wait to get there."She makes space in the door to let you get in and the driver shuts the door, as you are about to adjust to the new surroundings she gives the driver a comand "To the Aurora village!"
She takes a glass from the small table, and drinks, what looks like vine, then understanding that you have nothing she opens the right side mini-bar: "Please take what you want. we still have 30 min drive ahead of us!"

Panther looked at the bar, taking out a bottle.
"You even have a Celair of '63," she said, "One of the better years from that domain I must say.  Anybody wants some?"

A glass of wine would be perfect right now, Freya smiled. She felt quite contented with herself. Seems that she had left the right impression on Pandora and that was important. Such a contact in showbiz is worth a million, she thought to herself and looked around the limo. And the fact that such a limo have been seen near her home was really something. Perfect! Now that nasty nosy Hermione (neighbor of Freya) will have a lot to think about, Freya kept on thinking. Well, girls, what's the plan? she asked Pandora with a charming smile and sipped the wine. Electronic devices, clothes, household stuff? By now Freya just didn't want to think how this adventure might turn out, surely it won't be just a peace of cake. Nothing connected with Pandora was simple... That was clear to her by now. Enjoy while you can, she thought to herself.

"Cloths and Electronics that sounds good." Pandora answered "Since the attack my COM is glitching and i think some one was hacking it, so, as I am said, Panther is good with this kind of stuff, I am counting on her help in upgrading mine. And then we could hit the cloth shops."
She looked at you
"I have been acting a Shadowrunner a lot, but you are the real thing! How is it? what's your thought on the movie so far?"

"If everything is going well, it's a lot of boredom interspaced with a couple of minutes of sheer terror," Panther said, "A but like flying a plane actually."
She opened the bottle, poured a glass and then held the bottle to the others to wordlessly ask if they wanted some.

Well, I'm not that long in the shadow business, but by now I can say for sure, it's always full of surprises - good and bad, it depends. You have to be ready for anything, if you are determined to survive and later on do some shopping... Still, it's quite an adventure. Suppose it depends on how long have you been there and what kind of assignments have you had. How do you feel about shadowrunning? Suppose you have some point of view as you have played the a lot... Freya asked Pandora.

"It's not easy," Panther said, "and unlike the trids, most of the time you try to limit the amount of shooting and explosions.  All corps use shadowrunners and they all know how it works.  If you just taken the blueprints of a prototype, they know you don't have them anymore and you probably don't know who was your employer, so they are not going to expend a lot of resources to try to get you.  If however you killed everybody you encountered and blew up the lab, they will continue to hunt you until you until the end.  So the main thing you have to do is to make sure they don't know you have been there and to keep the body count low.  At least if you don't do wetwork, as there the idea is just to kill someone.  But that's not really my thing."

Nether it's mine. So can't tell you more about that. I prefer to keep persons alive, surely with some certain exceptions :D Talking sometimes is much more powerful. Especially if it's accompanied by a gun Freya chuckled.

"I never Blieved that the So called Shadow culture is only about the rescuing of baby seals or keeping relics out of blood mage hands. I know that the real deal is a bit more subtile, like in any part of the world there are the good ones and the ones who would kill their own grandmother for a few nuyen. My uncul used to do some Shadowruning and he was a proud man, never oversteped his boundries never really killed anyone.
Happy to hear you are the same, he was, kinda, my hero."
There is a Smile on her Face
the conversation goes into small talk and you arrive at the Shopping district in a breeze of time Panther even gets a permission to film a small Q&A session with her for her help in Making sure that the next time Pandora's Com would be even more secure then now.
Pandora shows her pass to the Sec. Personal and you are allowed in, he does not even ask you for your SIN. The shopping itself is Fun, and nothing out of the ordinary happens, Panther has time to check Pandora's COM, While Freya can Convince that she looks more like Pandora then Pandora herself, just to get them away from the group.
You can feel that in the later part of the evening you are sure that the whole purpose of this evening was to feel normal, a thing Stars normally cant do, just to have fun with friends or someone that are just like them. You feel sorry for her at least in some respects.
As the day come to a close Pandora invites you for Dinner at one of the more exclusive Restaurants and you are free to take whatever you want, as the meal is served you hear a commotion starting outside, there are a few Sec personal holding what seems a group of reporters from entering the establishment. You see that Pandora does not want to be here any longer but she sees no way out, you feel like you could help her.

Freya, feeling that things might get complicated, quickly asks Panther - Hey, can you have a look in the building plans for some extra exits from this place? There should be some... And I'll have to figure out something else... Probably that could be me becoming you, Pandora, for a while, not forever; just to give you enough time to get out of here.

"Shouldn't be too hard," panther said, "all restaurants have a backdoor."
She opened an AR window in her vision and started looking.  If the limo driver could get around the back, they could move away very quickly.
This Restaurant was no exception there was a back door, trough the kitchen, but to get there you would have to get past a MagLocked door - break it, hack it or ask someone to open it for you. and there is still the main door of course.
"Backdoor seems locked," Panther said, "so either I try to hack it, we go through the front door or we do something else, like trip the fire alert."

Well, let's do this way then, Freya said, as there is no time for hacking and we don't want to make a loud mess out of this, we'll leave through the front door, so we should call the limo to be there just on time. I'll head out first and will let them take pictures of me and answer some questions - well, act like I were Pandora and were flattered about their being here. While I'll be doing all this star-thing, both of you have to get to the limo - be careful not to be noticed by reporters, just pretend to be some ordinary customers. But I think they won't have time to look around. Pandora, don't worry, they won't have anything on you - I still have my elf ears and you are a human - everybody knows that. I'll just give you enough time to get to the car. Then Freya closed her eyes and when a few moments later she opened them, she looked exactly like Pandora, except the fact she was a bit taller and had her own ears :) Shall we start the show, girls?

Freya's plan worked like a charm, her skin, hair and eye colour changed  in matter of seconds and her face took the shape of Pandora's, If you had only seen a photo not the real thing you would most likely need some time to discover that this is not it.
While Freya was playing around with the reporters as Pandora's look alike, Panther and Pandora who excellently used her scarf and shades to hide her face was already half way to the car.

Freya felt like a real star for a moment. This is the real thing, this is what I've been dreaming of, she thought to herself, while posing to the reporters and giving some small answers to questions. Then she took a quick glance to see if Pandora has gotten to the car. She saw they were half way there, so she had a few moments more to play before throwing her hair back, so that everyone could see her ears, which would reveal the truth she's not Pandora but just one of her lookalikes. So, some moments later Freya with a charming gesture threw her hair back and confidently moved to the limo which was waiting near the front door of restaurant with one of back doors half opened. Freya took the last quick look at reporters and slipped into the car, closing door behind her, to say hello to her co-stars of the day.
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best and expect nothing!
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Freya gets her voice message:
"Sorry the delay, but i have a lot to do here, so i will make it short.
Fermin - nothing really new, you can trust him, as long as he does not sees you as danger to his stars he will be on your side.
Slade - the thing i was unable to get on the fly is his Shadow-activities for Horizon. Seems he has been on many runs for us  before he retired, now our only connection is trough the props he is providing Big Ben. I would say he is safe as well, but in this I can not be certain. that's all I could get without getting the Crop security alerted.
Hope to see you in LA, but no promises, hun."


Last possibilities to add change or edit things from the last 3 days, if not still at least say you are still here in the OOC.

Welcome to Los Angeles, home of sun, sand, and more surf than you can shake a stick at—if you don’t mind the pollution. You arrive at El Toro Airport at 10 a.m. and are greeted by a troll with slicked-back hair, a thin leather jacket, a dark green T-shirt, and chrome shades. The troll introduces himself as Desperado. “Well, well. Looks like you’ve got amigos in high places. They’ve put you up in the posh Hotel Alternate. Yes that’s the name; it’s not an alternative to a hotel.”

He escorts you to the luggage area, where you retrieve your stuff. “Follow me,” he says. “Slade’s stuff is being unloaded out here.” He leaves through a side exit to where the drones are unloading the cargo. A monstrous SUV, all tricked out, is parked back there. Desperado pays an attendant and then opens the back of the SUV.
The drones move to pick up the cargo from the ground and put it into the SUV. “I’ll take Slade’s toys over to the studio, while you guys check in at the hotel,” Desperado says. “I’d offer a ride, but Slade’s got a lot of shit to move.”

He tosses you a set of keys. “I didn’t think you’d want to sit in a jackrabbit they budgeted for you, so the blue Rover is yours while you’re here.” He looks at his link, just as you get a message from him on yours. “So it looks like this Fermin guy got you some invites to P2.0. You’d best be installing that, given the crowd you’ll be hanging out with. Just don’t get too comfortable with it, unless you get a following like me. You’ll probably only get fifteen minutes of fame before losing your subscription. No worries though, it’s not for everyone. Now, I’m not the tour guide around here. Slade just paid me to get you in the right direction and to move his stuff to Studio City, but if you forgot to pack something you need, give me a call.”

He then gets into his SUV and drives off.
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you get - Desperado L1/C3 conntact
Do you install the P2.0? it could make your life easier here.  ;)

As you arrive in the Hotel. Your room is at least a step above the coffin motels you’re used to hiding out in, though the décor is questionable. The rooms are heavily themed, from the “Stormy Sea” of room 21 to the “Forested Canopy” of room 25. At least you can turn off the AR channel of the Stormy Sea to keep from getting seasick. Each room also includes a small balcony, a bathroom, and a multipurpose kitchenette/living room/office alcove.

As you look out from the balcony, your view of Los Angeles gives the illusion of a complete recovery. From the Alternate, you can see concentric walls out to the west where, block-by-block, downtown has been partially reclaimed from the sea. Beyond that are corporate islands where recovery took place quickly lest
salvaging pirates get to the area first. Downtown is heavily covered in AR, containing both adverts and the images of buildings in pristine condition. Some of them appear the way they used to look at the turn of the century, while incomplete buildings show their future appearance. Flocks of drones can be seen buzzing around
downtown, looking for whatever they believe to be newsworthy enough to gain viewers.

Unique to California is the P2.0-driven competition of those who can afford the subscription to create a proliferation of independent reality shows to grab subscribers. It’s also the first place you can watch a million channels of reality shows and still find nothing on.
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best and expect nothing!
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