[HydroRaven]

"First kill? I was 17 and I remember it like it was yesterday. Some chimpira thought it would be a good idea to pull a blade on me when I showed him the door." Clementine looks in the distance, as if to remember something. Her stare, however, doesn't show any emotion. "The first one is the only one I remember so vividly." She turns over to O'Connor and asks him "What about you?"

[Necrogigas]

A nostalgic smile spreads across O'Connor's face, "I was barely twelve, like I said I had to kill a few people while livin' on the streets. The first one happened about two weeks, I think, after I ran away from home. I came across the nest, or whatever you wanna call it, of this homeless dude that I thought was passed out drunk.  I hadn't eaten in like two or three days, so I started going through his shit. Well he woke up and wasn't very happy to find me jackin' his stuff. He grabbed me by the throat an' made to choke me to death. Luckily for me, I stole my mom's switchblade 'fore I ran off. So a few quick thrusts between the guy's ribs, and I now owned some dirty clothes, a half eaten sandwich and a quarter full bottle of whiskey. Red, what's the crime you're most proud of committing?"

[farothel]

Sammy went a bit to the side where she wouldn't be disturbed, before calling the others.
"Guys, we have  a problem here," she said, "our contact person wanted 50K nuyen and would have us dropped in Puyallup somewhere.  We told him no, but now we're a bit without a ride.  Any ideas on your side?"

[RHat]

"Can't say as I'm proud of any of it - I had my reasons, and I can't think of anything I'd have done differently if I had to do it all over again, but pride is not something I feel about the crimes themselves."  At that moment, Sammy's call came in.  "Aw, hell.  Couldn't have at least kept things open for later, just in case?"

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor groaned, "Why is it so damn hard to get the hell outta this shitty little podunk? Hey Sammy, how bad did this meet go down? You need me to come up there and take this guy out?"

[HydroRaven]

"50,000 nuyen?" asked Clementine. "Is he making a detour via Berlin? For that price, we can just get some new IDs and walk accross the border."

[RHat]

"High quality ID's would take some time to get ahold of, yes?  And I can't see them being appreciably cheaper, especially not when you factor getting a vehicle or two that could be registered to those SINS - I think we'd have a hard time getting this thing over the border."

[HydroRaven]

"We don't need multiple vehicles, just one. I can make shuttle runs for everyone" answers Clementine. "Can't you hack into something and register this one under the new ID name? Or we could just say our good friend lent us his Jeep to go into town. If they do try and contact Blackeagle, he'll corroborate the whole thing."

[RHat]

"Clearing a vehicle is a little bit more complicated than just that - you have to actually forge the proper registration, clear any and all tgs in the vehicle tied to the old registration...  Hell, I'm not honestly certain if this thing would still be considered street legal in Seattle.  And shuttle runs would expose us to more scrutiny than I'd consider wise - we want to blend in, not give them any cause to examine things further."

[Necrogigas]

"I say we take our chances with running the border into one of the Barrens. It's the quickest and cheapest way back home. Though we'll need at least two vehicles that're a helluva lot faster than this clunker."

[RHat]

"Easy for you to say - you've already got a record; that's way too risky.  Plus, beyond just speed, we'd need armour, modifications for better handling..."

[Necrogigas]

"You're overthinkin' it, we just need to nab some off road vehicles, cut across the backroads, an' slip in through one of the Barrens. But what the frag's your plan for gettin' home then?"

[RHat]

"I don't know yet - need more details.  If we can somehow cut this fixer out of things, we might be able to work something out with the pilot directly.  Failing that, top flight fake IDs in a couple vehicles could work.  I mean, I can deal with getting one vehicle going in some pretty adverse circumstances, or two if I have some time to prepare, but..."  Fionn shook his head for a moment.

"I can't believe they just turned it down without fucking talking to us."  His tone was sharp.

[farothel]

"Actually he just walked away very pissed," Sammy said, "but I'm not going to pay 50K to get dropped in the Barrens.  For that kind of money you can hire a private plane that drops you at the VIP terminal of the main airport.  Anyways, Matt knows the pilot, so I guess our best solution is to go talk to him directly and see what we can obtain there."

[RHat]

Fionn ran the numbers in his head before responding.  "Your share would be 6250 if it was an even split.  It's an expensive ticket, but given that it gets us around customs on what I assume is a reliable route there's some value there."