[Snow]

Snow lets out a mild chuckle,"it's funny... the final two people that make up this circle jerk..." he glances at Voodoo "...no offense miss..." he continues "...seem to be the two who are closest to Mr. Tween."

[Sichr]

Ya, I like to ask them how this Tween get an idea of my existence, since its a bit mystery for me. Well enought time to shed some light into that before Johnsons party. How about you. You are pretty green or pretty confident walking this streets unpacked...
Steam pulls his coat just enought that the pistol in the holster is visible...
...or maybe you came from some place thats closer to the sun?

[Halancar]

After parking his bike in an out-of-the-way corner of the parking lot, Mist goes looking for the others. But first, he takes the time to hide himself, then walks softly toward the likely group of fellow shadowrunners.


Cast Improved Invisibility (Force 5)
Magic (5) Spellcasting(Illusion) (4+2) Mentor Spirit (2) 13d6.5 -> 6 hits, capped at 5. Safe from technological sensors, living observers need 5 hits on Body+Counterspelling to see through
Drain 3S
Willpower (5) + Charisma (3) 8d6.5 -> 3 hits, drain reduced to 0
Sneaking toward the group
Agility (3) + Infiltration (4) + Mentor Spirit (2) - Maintaining spell (2) 7d6.5->3 hits.


Hearing them mention the name of Tween, Mist cannot resist showing off. Still invisible, he announces:

"Mist the invisible is here for the Tween Party."

[Snow]

Snow looks at Steam and shakes his head in disappointment, "Honestly, I can't remember a time when I actually needed to carry iron during a quick meet and greet. The way I see it is like this, Joe citizen could randomly be walking to his car right now and catch a glimpse of you showing off that hand cannon. And now out of fear and self preservation he's going to run, maybe dial the pigs while fleeing. Now the cops know there's three suspects standing around in a parking lot brandishing weapons, or maybe Joe citizen thinks your holding us up. But that's niether here nor there considering the cops are on their way. Or maybe you geek the poor bastard before he dials, but seeing how its 9:30 now and there's others just like Joe citizen, minus a gunshot wound, they will probably hear the shot or shots, depending on what kind of a cowboy you are, and dial up the local patrol quicker than you can say ahhh drek. And even if you happen to geek the guy quietly before he dials out..." Snow motions to Voodoo with a nod "... I don't know about her, but I sure as hell ain't helping dispose of a fucking body."

Snow acknowledges Mist but keeps an eye on Steam, "Nice to meet you Mist."

[Forged]

-2nd Street Logan Ave, Park and Ride, Second Floor, 9:27pm-
The quiet is broken by the sound of an engine roaring to life, It seems to come from all around for a moment, then you can tell it's from the floor below.The thumping of a strong stereo joins the engine, then the sounds begin to die down as the car leaves the parkade.

-For Steam-
Info on Tween:
Advocate of Kaf-culture, prolific blogger. Does many slice of life pieces on Redmond locals. Commonly uses Facemasher, mostly to conduct interviews. One of his blog posts he talks about coffee and caffeine intake with a "medical professional" who's picture you immediately recognize. Tween has no real name attached to his alias that the agent could find, but it did find traces of a few old pseudonyms. Tween appears to take transit everywhere and does not own a vehicle.

[Sichr]

You know fuck you, Snow. I grew up on this streets and I know exactly whats goin on around here. I dont give a drek if some kind of newcommer starts playing smartass, and Im not going to leave my gun at the bar to walk around clean just because that sucker would feel better for it. So keep you manners Downtown where they belong, every second Joe Average around here is packed. I know the drill, patroling this streets for years. So now lets get the fuck out of the street to some place private, because bunch of clowns gathering here would take an attention much faster than my self-deffense. Or we are still waiting for anyone?

@Conrad Stern, street doc contact:Good evening Conrad. As usualy, it would be nice to meet you in person, well for now it would be enought if you can enlighten me a bit about the reason you gave my commcode to guy called Tween. He seems to be interrested to conduct some bussiness with me, so the best you can do right now is telling me what exactly he asked you for and what exactly did you tell him about me. Please respond to this message ASAP.

[Spectre Zero]

"Yeah the names Voodoo, nice to meet you snow." Voodoo looks steam over real quick and realizes he's about as non threatening as can be.  When Steam joins the little pow-wow she looks to him. "Names Voodoo, nice to meet you as well." She looks Steam over for a moment. When the word circle jerk is mentioned Voodoo laughs. When Steam shows off his gun, Voodoo chuckles. "Honey, I don't leave my bed without a weapon... I just don't need to go flashing it all around."

Mist's invisible talking makes Voodoo jump slightly. "Meet and greet means we should be able to see you, Mist!" When Snow tirades at Steam and makes mention of body removal. "Nope, no moving corpses for me. Especially if I didn't kill them." When Steam's rebuttal is over. "Yeah someplace more private does seem like a good idea."

[Forged]

-For Steam-
Tween, yes a delightful fellow! You mentioned a lack of work last time I patched you up, and he was looking for people of your persuasion. I thought I had sent you a message as well, oh no I WAS, but then this Orc came in with serious burns and more than his share of bullet holes. I'm terribly sorry, was the chap on the level? I'd hate to have sent you into too much trouble. Anyway He mentioned he was looking for people who were of a more cautious bent, I gave him your name and 2 others. No other information, I swear!

[Snow]

Snow laughs out loud, "So what have we learned today kids. Steam's an ex-cop whose patrolled these parts. He's most likely heavy handed and rightly so in this neighborhood. But most of all if he's confronted with a little hostility he's not afraid to tackle it straight on. Now some of you might think it's bad news hanging with an ex-cop, but not me. I like knowing that a guy like Steam has just as much brain as he does brawn. Now normally I'd put I guy like Steam on a leash, but since he's so full of vigor he's more than likely to chew right through it, which by the way is more than fine with me. It will probably save all our asses in the long run." Snow keeps his smile as he turns to Voodoo, "As for you, it's not hard to figure out that you're not just another pretty face. Your probably very bright and driven meaning you can probably give us something on Tween considering your hacking talents. And if for some reason you were unable to get anything really useful you could tell us what he's done to cover his tracks which could tell us something about the kind of person we're dealing with. And as for Mr. Mist... To be completely honest this will be my first time working with a shaman. I've dealt with a couple and learned that they can't cast spells after being decked in the jaw by a fist holding a roll of quarters. But no worries I trust you just enough to get the job done and get paid." Snow pats Steam on the shoulder, "Now Steam since this is obviously your neck of the woods why don't you point us to the finest watering hole this side of Renton once Winter gets here. Like you said, this is not the best place to talk a little shop. And just so you all know the first round is on me." Snow steps away chuckling and makes a short phone call, (into commlink) "yeah, I think everything is going to workout. I should be free in about a week or so. Take care of yourself now. Alright, bye now."

Snow turns to Mist while turning off his commlink completely, "And before I forget my invisible friend, how in the hell do you know this Tween character anyway?"

[Halancar]

Doing his best "mysterious cat" smile, the one he practices in front of his commlink every morning, Mist drops his invisibility spell, showing himself to be young man, rather on the short and scrawny side, dressed in the black pants and jackets and the white shirt of a low-level wageslave. He immediately gives the group an exaggerated stage bow.

"Tween ? Well, he occasionally needs someone to retrieve some item from a private residence while the owner is away. Presumably some friend of his forgot them there and does not want to bother the owner, so Tween arranges for someone resourceful, like myself, to go and retrieve it. I've worked for him a few times. But it will be my first time working as part of a team."

[Wretch]

Winter calls Ty, his fixer: "Ty I need a run down on the following personnel, Street names: Snow, Vodoo, Mist and Tween.  More intel to follow."

Winter observes the meet location from a discrete spot until he feels its safe to approach:

Infiltration:
7d6 → [4,5,1,5,2,4,1]
Perception:
12d6 → [6,6,1,3,3,5,4,4,2,1,3,1]


Winter approaches the group cautiously observing the interactions of the group, and when things get heated he interjects, " We are all professionals here and none of would be here if we didn't have useful skills, behave like professionals.  I am Winter.  Now that we are all here I believe we should take this conversation someplace less accessible to observation and eavesdropping."

[Snow]

Snow pockets his commlink, "It looks like we're all here now. It's nice to finally meet you Winter. So how exactly do you know Tween? You don't have to tell us at this very moment. You can do it on the way over to where ever Steam decides to take us."

[Sichr]

I understand that working with ex-cop would be no problem for another ex-cop. Well, Im deffinitively out from corpses for a while, with little to no traces left. Well, a fair warning...Steam looks down on Snow`s arm on his shoulder
you better think twice bout touching me again, human. You can get badly hurt. As for everyone, we are supposed to work together, and I dont want anyone to blame me that he wasnt warned...if anything goes wrong during this rum, try to avoid touchin me anywhere else than on this armSteam raises his cyber-prothesis
...and at any cost avoid touching my blood. I see that this wont improve our relatinship too much, well old habbits die slow. Now...I know this place close by with nice and secure boxes and some beverage. Id like to listen what your ideas on this Tween guy and his Johnsonis up to.

[Halancar]

"No touching your blood ? That will make healing you an issue, I need to touch you to cast a healing spell, or for that matter to hook up a medkit, and if you need them you'll probably be bleeding. And I doubt hooking the medkit to your metal arm or trying to cast a healing spell on it will do much for you.

Well, I'll do my best, even if my best ends up leaving you to bleed out."

[Sichr]

You know, sometimes even death can be called solution. Well still kicking and not goint to give up easily. Statisticaly only humans should be worried, well things like this, you are never carefull enought...If using medkit, be sure you got good protective gloves.
Responds Steam as they depart the parking lot towards the pub.

I gues the level of the street knowledge would be enought to find fitting place.

Well, so anyone have clue about this job? What kind of work youve been doing for this tween before. And does anyone of us realy know him in person? Seems my name was mentioned by one our mutual friend.