[CanRay]

>>>>>[I take a multi-day job and this place turns into a Spam Discothèque?  Or whatever that word Mr. Money uses for places that have bad music.

Damn glad to be able to be online again, bored as hell in my, well, Uncle's old safehouse.  Mine because I inherited it I guess.  I swear, complete screwball on this job.  From the Johnson to the guy he hired to be in charge, teh rest of the crew was OK, but had some really bad habits.  The Mr. J didn't help much throwing every bad 'Trid stereotype at us.  You know, the magician doesn't know tech, the muscle is stupid and should just keep quiet, the military guy knows how to lead, the dwarf rigger is cranky and annoying...  Oh, that last was right.  The military guy, however, almost gets us killed on a simple gear pick-up run.  What should have been drop the money, pick up the gear turned into a damned shoot-out with the KE chasing us!  And he laughed all the time about keeping the money and gear.  Burned a damned good contact of mine, and we lost a Rotodrone into the Sound!

The rest of the crew was ready to leave, but the job was pretty much planned and ready.  Needed some work, but I knew what to do to fix the plan.  So, I pulled the ol' Predator on Mr. Buzzcut and told the Johnson (Who was staying with us during planning) that "Amateur hour was over", demanded this guy get locked up, and the rest of the team paid double for the job due to the way we've been treated and for putting that moron in charge in the first place.  I have no idea why I did it, but the rest of the runners backed me up.  Johnson had no choice but to fish or cut and run.  He wouldn't be able to get another team in time, and if we're not paid, our "don't blab about the deal" contract didn't kick in.  And feeling like we did, you'd bet every runner on the west coast would know about this guy.

We did it, went fine.  Won't say what it was, part of the contract.  But he still tried to screw us.  We all saw it coming.  He had a team ready to take us out, then a team ready to take THAT team out.  I had some cousins convince them they took the wrong contract, and he was the one staring down rifle sights as we showed up.  We blew up his pretty car and told him to have a nice walk home from the middle of the Barrens.  (I won't say which one.).

Don't care if he lived or died on his way out.  Mr. High-and-tight should be out of the time-released lock-up my Uncle and Grandfather used to use all the time for folks like him.  Me, I figure this cred is dirtier than hell and has traces on the serial numbers galore.  It may be double pay, but I'm going to lose a fair bit cleaning it.  Luckily, I know a good launderer.

Strange thing, the magician apparently had worked with my Uncle before, and said I did the streetname proud.  Made me feel good, even if I was scared as hell being in charge.]<<<<<
      --  Murphy (02:00:00/01-25-74)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Anyone who isn't scared as hell their first time leading an op isn't ready to lead an op. If you're a new leader and aren't worried about getting yourself and your team killed, or burned, then you don't need to be leading, no matter how talented you are. Good work, Murphy. Glad to see you're getting the hang of things.

I remember the first time a Johnson tried to screw me. My team managed to get out of the trap alive, mostly. We stripped the bodies of the runners that were sent to kill us, and our hacker redistributed the contents of their bank accounts to the rest of us. In addition to the pay and the gear, we found out when the team was going to meet Mr. J to collect. We showed up instead, and in addition to getting the money owed us, I may have slept with his wife and eighteen year old daughter. At the same time. In his bed. And took a recording of it with my simrig. Which our hacker forced his commlink to play in a loop whenever it was turned on.

To be fair, though, the idea with the recording wasn't mine, but the razorgirl's. Damn creative mind for revenge, that one. Picked up a few tips from her.]<<<<<

--Iceblade (03:21:00/01-25-74)

[Smiley]

>>>>>[You shouldn't have been so soft with that Johnson and that ass clown ex-GI. If it were me, the GI would have had his eyes plucked out and acid poured in his eye sockets. Mister J would have had his jawbone yanked and jammed down his throat. That's what happens when someone screws up this bad under my watch or double-cross me. People then learn that some things are bad for their health.]<<<<<
     -- Smiley (03:24:42/01-25-74)

[CanRay]

>>>>>[Revenge tips or bedroom tips, Iceblade?  *Emote:  Gut Laugh*

And the best news of all, got my chart and I get out of the tank today, hooray!!!]<<<<<
      --  Money Johnson (02:25:56/01-25-74)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Money, the answer to that would be "Yes." Girl had more chrome than flesh, it seemed, and she was a damn sadistic little piece of work, but she was something else in the sack. Never would have guessed that someone who enjoyed cutting people open that much would like getting tied up in barbed wire. Like I said, crazy girl, but a lot of fun. Unfortunately, the crazy got the better of her, and she lost an argument with a Panther XXL.]<<<<<

--Iceblade (03:48:24/01-25-74)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>[ All of you, too violent, too cruel, too ... memorable.  Take all their money and gear, hit them with laés, ride with them on a bus until they wake.  The Johnson will panic and scramble, thinking he failed to get the run done.  The offensive runners will forget you ever existed.  And if they don't ...
          Then they are unarmed, and you can deal with them more permanently.
          Leave no traces, in scene or mind, whether that is security guard or double-crossing Johnson.  What they do not know can kill them -- and what they do not know is you. ]<<<<<
          -- Hawatari (03:52:12/01-25-2074)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Laes only has a limited time frame where it erases the memories, Hawatari. If the run began outside that time, then Laes won't have the desired effect. And sometimes, a memorable answer to a doublecross can prevent such things from happening again.]<<<<<

--Iceblade (04:04:04/01-25-74)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>>[ I know precisely how long laés works, Iceblade -- well enough to gauge quite well enough how much is required to counteract their body mass.  I am aware of all these things that you say -- and having a sudden and shocking gap in one's memory is memorable in and of itself.
          You have your style; I have mine.  I will not say that yours is bad, only that mine is ... less base. ]<<<<<
          -- Hawatari (04:21:20/01-25-2074)

[CanRay]

>>>>>[So what do you do in your offtime then, Hawatari?  Can't be on edge all the time, more to life than the Shadows.

Now, where the hell are those techs to get me out of this damned thing?  Pity, I almost go through this one strap.]<<<<<
      --  Money Johnson (10:48:34/01-25-74)

[Keita]

>>>>>[ Don't expect to just get up and walk out of there, Money. I think you'll find you need a bit of exercise to get those muscles toned again. Well...what muscles you still have. I'd check up on you...but sadly I'm off to meet Mirikon. He said something about orbitals and amazing views...]<<<<<
      --  Money Johnson (12:00:34/01-25-74)

[CanRay]

>>>>>[Yeah yeah yeah, house rest and physical therapy, been through it before.  Last time I was in a tank it was for six months.  Not fun.]<<<<<
      --  Money Johnson (11:07:50/01-25-74)

[Mirikon]

>>>>>[Just be glad it was such a short stay. I've never had the whole stay in a tank treatment, myself. Though there was the time I lost most of my leg, and was stuck in a chair for what seemed like eternity waiting for them to clone me a new one. The most frustrating part was not being able to do my normal training routine.

Anyways, I'm out of Seattle for a while. Xerena and I are on a bit of a trip. I'll check in when I can, but anything I post is likely to be text only. For reasons that may or may not be obvious.]<<<<<

--Iceblade (12:46:23/01-25-74)

[All4BigGuns]

>>>>>[Glad to hear you're getting out, Money. Let me know if you need someone to help you get those muscles back into shape.]<<<<<
      --  Predator (12:59:06/01-25-2074)

[Wolfboy]

>>>>>[Thanks Madre, I would rather send two seperate teams on these missions, but its looking more and more like its going to be a run and gun job.

Hades Money, why don't you come down here and enjoy some sun, the temps are unseasonably high so everything is comfortable shorts weather.

Murphy, good work on handling the op. Honestly I've only had three missions go that far south, one  was camp hope back in '55 where i almost lost my entire team to the bleedin bugs. The second was an Azzie double cross which is one of the reasons i wont work for the buggers again. Of course that Johnson and his other team didnt survive the encounter. The last one was a mafia refund meet that they decided they didnt trust us to keep our mouths shut and had planned on double crossing us to begin with. The star got to have those goons, and we looted their "Investment" house to pick the bones clean.]<<<<<
-- Wolfgar (14:10:46/01-25-74)

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

>>>>[ Johnson-san, it is because I use laés that I do not need to be on edge constantly.  In fact, for certain freelance contracts, my fixers know -- and tell those who would hire me -- that even to meet me will require their memory to be altered.  Combine this with a hacker of my acquaintance and many Johnsons known me only by my reputation and name, not by my face.  This has led to individuals attempting to take advantage of my reputation, but I have people who listen for that sort of thing, and hasten to inform me of such.  Those ... tend to discover the deepest levels of my discretion.
          As for what I do when I am not 'at work', well -- I am currently trying to raise what for want of a better word is a grown-up child.  Things can sometimes be exceedingly difficult to explain to her, but ... she is learning. ]<<<<<
          -- Hawatari (15:08:15/01-25-2074)