[Nightmare]

>>>>[Orbweaver, I am a fragging woman and believe me, not all of us have to look pretty.  Frag, if I came wandering into some of the drek holes I go to dress all pretty and sexy I'd probably end up having to kill everything walking in there.  Us mercs/assassins with long track records don't have to go for the pretty look, we're more into the blend look and believe me, pretty/sexy doesn't blend well in a battle zone or slipping into a corp zone to slice someone's cardioid artery.

And for those thinking I don't know about the fact that society seems to demand that woman look, at least, presentable, believe me I know.  It's part o the reason I wear either long sleeves or a cosmetic cyberarm on my right arm so drekfaced scuts don't stare.]<<<<

--Nightmare (09:17:12/05-21-2076)

[Taejix]

>>>>>[Barring the one time, I haven't really run into any expectations that I make myself pretty. Probably helps that I tend to stay in the background doing my best to look uninteresting.

On another, tangentially related note, I think I've saved up enough jing to afford my first focus. Apparently you can get Qi foci done as tattoos? That sounds cool and I like the idea of not being able to loose something so expensive, but I'm wondering if having it inked on might not be unwise. Any advice from my fellow adepts (I'm assuming there's a few adepts on here) on the idea? Or just on foci in general?]<<<<<
     -- Ruthless (10:23:32/05-21-2076)

[farothel]

>>>>[ I concur with Nightmare. I don't really care either and if I really have to, I have a Zoé business dress.  It's pretty enough and in most locations I've been in before I came to Seattle they don't care.  In places like Lagos or Chicago you opt for practical wear. ]<<<<

--Kitten (18:06:14/05-21-2076)

[Orbweaver]

>>>>[ Nightmare... I was making a joke. Relax mate. I'm hardly the poster child for pretty (according to some crazy old bat I look like a punk from the 90s?)

I hear you on the cybernetics though. I can't afford the cosmetic stuff, and bright metal ears kinda stick out even more when you've got darker skin. Been thinking of growing out my hair to hide 'em.]<<<<

--Orbweaver (17:10:36/05-21-2076)

[Vendetta Violent]

>>>>>[That's fragged up. I always thought you were a guy, Nightmare. Mind = Blown. Can't fault a girl for using the weapons at her disposal, though. Fashions part of the biz, both the shadowbiz and the music one. Now come on, your reputation as a balls to the wall, blood for nuyen badass is well secured... I bet there is still a girl in there somewhere.]<<<<<
     -- Vendetta Violent (14:22:29/05-21-2076)

[Jesskitten]

>>>>[Hey sorry to distract from the current episode of Fashionista but need a hand chummers. A good friend of mine went on a resonance dive after a free sprite and well from reports from her team, she hasn't come out yet. She seems to be lost in there. Need any help I can get to dive and try and find her and pull her back. Yes there is nuyen involved for those who are less comraderly inclined.]<<<<

--Jesskitten (13:38:14/05-22-2076)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>[ More info needed.  Running time of submersion, full data regarding the free sprite, matrix analysis of your friend (preferably by another technomancer), nuyen offered.  Reply soonest. ]<<<<<
          -- White IC (--:--:--/**-**-**)

>>>>>[ Apologies.  Forgot Bull's rules. ]<<<<<
          -- White IC (02:50:00/05-22-2076)

[SlowDeck]

>>>>>[Speaking of fashion... Local fixer is talking about some kind of powered armor clothing from Zoe being made? Anyone heard anything about this? I normally wouldn't trust the guy because he can't stay off the Zen to save his soul, but his more outlandish claims usually pan out. But this one smells of a politician's toilet.]<<<<<
     -- SlowDeck (Miller Time/05-22-2076)

>>>>>[...
<<BREAK>>
<<RESUME>>
I need to have a chat with a technomancer about not messing with my settings and why she's now banned from the old media archive...]<<<<<
     -- SlowDeck (02:02:44/05-22-2076)

[Jesskitten]

>>>>[ Sorry I dont have much in the way of dets regarding this, my friend hadn't told her team much about the dive before she went. They still aren't the most trusting bunch and only kinda get her abilities. Their decker has been swapping in an out with an agent at a resonance rift she used to dive waiting for her for the last 159 hours, and they are keeping her meat suit going on a drip. They seem to be a little impatient but Im not letting them just pull it on her. The sprite I have no details on only that she said it was 'crazy strong and cool' before she set off. Her details will come with acceptance to help me, desecration an all that. Nuyen for the grubbers will also be negotiated on acceptance. ]<<<<

--Jesskitten (17:06:14/05-22-2076)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>[ Six and a half days is long, but certainly not the longest.  Such lack of information for a searcher - specifically regarding the sprite - requires commesurate compensation, especially as by implication it is innately dangerous - this added onto the difficulty of finding someone inside the Realms, the target for which is unknown.  40,000¥. ]<<<<<
          -- White IC (03:50:00/05-22-2076)

[farothel]

>>>>>[ I'm on good speaking terms with the Zoé manager in LA.  Next time I see her I'll ask about powered armour clothing, as I'd love to have that.
As to the missing technomancer, I'm sorry, but I can't help.  As hacker (or decker in the new-old parlance) I can't get to the resonance realms, so there's little I can do.  You'll need another technomancer, or maybe an AI.  I don't know if they can get to the resonance realms. ]<<<<<
     -- Black Panther(11:14:12/05-22-2076)

[Jesskitten]

>>>>>[ BP. AIs can and Ex will be coming with me, however I need all the help I can get. The realms are even more disjointed than how my mage friends explain the metaplanes. I can pull a decker in with me but it might mindfrag you. Ever been to a UV node? Its like that only stronger. However deckers covering the well might be a good idea so no one frags with us in there. White, PM me, I like to do my deals out of the limelight. ]<<<<<
     -- Jesskitten (19:25:12/05-22-2076)

[Nightmare]

>>>>[Orbweaver, I had to get the cosmetic cyberware for my arm after a run in with Azzies down in the Amazon back in '47 or '48...been so long I can't remember.  Nobody likes looking at what happens to a Night Ones flesh when it encounters white phosphorous.  When that cosmetic cyber came out I went after it right away cause some climates just aren't made for long sleeves.

Double V, yep, been a woman since I was born some 60 plus years ago and proud of it.  However, there really isn't much of a girl left in this body besides the packaging.  Seen to much and fought to hard to be all flowers and happy thoughts anymore.  And dressing up isn't always part of the biz if you have a fixer like I do who knows what your best at.   Weaver-of-Silk never sets me up on assignments where I'll have to worry about fashion or dressing up.  Course it helps that Weaver and I used to run together (frag, I ran with her folks before then even) back in the day.

Not sure what the frag is going on over here during the Desert Wars but something is up.  My two squadmates keep yammering on about weird stuff in the ether or some such drek, course that's what I get for having a spellslinger and a tech talker for squadmates.  All I know is the tech talker keeps saying something about chatter on the airwaves about some major fracas going on between an Ares-sponsered unit and some other groups ten clicks away from our location that sounded odd, whatever that means.  My spellslinger sent a watcher over that way to see what was up but somehow the watcher never came back, he thinks it might've been geeked which is very spooky seeing as he's good with spirits.  Wait...the Desert Wars overseers just came over our comms and ordered all units not involved in the fracas to hold there positions and go to radio silence until further notice.  This is getting fragging weird, anyone watching this on the trid and know what's going on?]<<<<

--Nightmare (09:10:17/05-23-2076)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Hoi chummers. Long time no see. If you're reading this, it means it has been three weeks since I last sent a go/no go signal, activating this dead man's switch. Well, hopefully the 'dead' part isn't true. Either way, the fact that you're reading this means I'm dead, captured, or worse.

I don't know how long it has been since I last made contact with this board, but late 2075 I was hired to take a team and go undercover at a facility in the UCAS sector of Denver. On paper, it is a medical research facility, but the entire facility is hardened against wireless signals, and is completely shut off from the local Matrix, and the wards on the place were substantial enough that the local spirits couldn't get a look. My employer wished to learn the nature of the research going on there, and my reputation with certain elements of Denver's population put me on the short list of people they wished to contact for the job.

So why am I leaving this message behind? I haven't found what the research going on here is, but the rumors I'm hearing from the other corpsec are... disturbing. There's been a high turnover in test subjects, and some people go 'missing' for days at a time, and then show up like nothing was wrong. Sometimes, they don't show up ever again. If it was just that, I'd say that I'm standing in the middle of a hive. What I don't get is why the nanotech guys are here. I got one of the researchers drunk, and she mentioned something about looking for a 'cure' or a 'vaccine', but after that, she was the next to disappear for a few days, and just got back yesterday. I'll try to get more tomorrow.

(msg dated 02-21-2076)]<<<<<

--Iceblade (04:11:23/05-23-2076)

[Booze]

>>>>>[This all sound like a nice fr4ck up. A sprite, research facility and old style fashion war. Like i was looking for some party, I Found one!

@White IC -  Hard on new ¥en right? I understand the difficulty of such adventure, but still. Some Cereals are my own 'back up' when it comes to too long with realms. Fr4ck it, last time I was in trance... didn't want to leave. You know, lets say, there was a party in 'The City'.

@Jesskitten  - If you will have a team, I can support you on that Raid, but only for the same favor. One day.

@Iceblade - No way... The NanoRumors are nasty! Like $hit. No Wireless? Ok, That's the reason for that. So I Can't help You Chummer. Msg dated two days ago? Not too long right? He... e... Icy' could go in, as a 'subject'. Easy way to get into. First time I saw the msg, thought you found the Sloughterhouse UV, sound fun to me. Good luck thou.]<<<<<

--Booze (23:57:13/05-23-2076)