[Necrogigas]

"That happens if someone forces the door open, I let her in. He also likes to capture thieves alive to question them, see if they were sent or if they're just that dumb to try it."

[HydroRaven]

"You lost me at the part where you said I owe your guy something" says Clem, trying to wake herself up.

[Necrogigas]

"You owe him a hundred bucks, the cost plus a bit extra, for the gas trap you set off."

[HydroRaven]

"Right..." said Clem, visibly dismissing it. "Tell you what: once we do get paid for this job, I'll buy that gun off of him like I intended to and we'll call it even."

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor scowled at Clem, '"Right...?'" He drew the Ruger and leveled it at Clem, "You don't realize how big a mistake you made, and how this is gonna go done. Let me fill you in, once the job is done you're gonna go to Darrell, one way or the other. You're gonna give him the money you owe 'im, with a whole nine yards asian apology, with the groveling for forgiveness and all that drek. I liked you, but you tried to fuck over my best friend and the guy that was gonna help us. So, understand that if you stray away from this plan, I will put several bullets in your face. The next words outta your god damn mouth had better be, 'Yes, I understand.'"

[HydroRaven]

Clem smiled and answered "And just like that Con, you're back down to one friend. A friend that would rather send you in the street naked to do a job than give you a gun on credit. We'll do the work and see how things play out. Worst case scenario, you can pay your friend from the bet you lost earlier."

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor sneared at Clem, "I said I liked you, never said we were friends. And he was gonna give me a lot of guns on credit, then you fucked that up, kinda like how you fucked me over on the mountain side with those dog things. If thing played out slightly different, you'd've gotten us all killed up there. Really seems like I should just kill you before your incompetence gets us all killed. You got thirty seconds to convince me otherwise."

[HydroRaven]

"I don't need to convince you of anything. YOU need to convince the rest of the team why we should keep you on board. And if you kill me, you'll have a hard time knowing who you owe money to for your trip back to Seattle. They know who you are though, and will come and find you when you don't make your payments" answered Clem, wiping her wound from earlier.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor raised an eyebrow, "That's your play for life, 'the big bad knee breakers are gonna come after me?' I'm a knee breaker, you dumb slot. I know how they think and how they operate, I'll meet 'em head on. Twenty seconds."

[farothel]

"Will you guys both shut up or I'll stunbolt you both," Sammy said, "Clem, you will have to make up for what you did, that's for sure, but Patty, stop being a psychopath or we'll throw you out."

[Thvor]

Sam decided to try to defuse the situation. Wrinkling his nose at the ork, he said, "You know, we shouldn't be competing with each other to see who stinks worst in this group. But even if we were, don't you think that's cheating? As for you, Patty," he turned to the nut, "you need to take a break. Judging from your lack of color, I'd say you're probably in more need of a hospital than the starlet over there. We'll make sure your friend is happy once we get the chance--but you're no good to anyone in your present state. Not even yourself. Your friend was eager enough to get rid of Clem when he had her; I don't think he'd be happy if you dropped her corpse on his doormat, even if you found a nice, pretty pink bow to put on. Heck, from what we just saw--I bet he'd bill you for the clean-up as well. So there's really no point in your bluster right now."

Turning back to Sammy, he continued, "Hey, Sammy--you still got enough mojo in you for one of those magic showers? I think Clem might appreciate it. Especially if you can do something about Patty's friend's...artwork." I hope she hasn't seen her reflection, he thought to himself. She might go more balistic than Mr. Triggerhappy.

[RHat]

For fuck's sake, Patty, is your solution to everything to threaten to shoot the people who can actually help you?  Fionn sighed, exasperated.

"Look, this is getting us nowhere.  We've still gotta get our gear back, figure out how we landed in this mess, find our way out of it, and pay Clem's people back.  Gonna be harder now that we don't have those guns, but we still wouldn't have had any armour and this beater isn't exactly up for an assault run.  Simple fact is, we need us a plan, so let's start with assets:  What do we have, what can we get, and who do we know?"

[Crossbow]

Icarus speaks up "We have what we have, and the way things are going we are going to keep ending up worse off every time we try to improve the situation.  No offense to any of you, but this is not my scene.  Can we please go to this warehouse the wizzers found and see if it has our stuff?  The clock is ticking and I don't need ANY leg-breakers in my life."  Heron, who had been napping before the confrontation and was now sitting next to Icarus, nods his agreement.

[RHat]

"Certain risk that people don't agree we should have our stuff back, though.  You know, violently disagree...  Of course, it wouldn't hurt to know what we'd be dealing with there.  You guys see much by way of people in there?"  The question was directed at the mages.

[Crossbow]

Heron replies, "No one, the building wasn't occupied yesterday."


A little reminder from way back on page 22, your welcome.

.  Rapid reconnaissance of the findings show that the focus searched for to be in a shielded, but otherwise undefended location on the southern end of Puget Sound, in an unoccupied building north of the Tacoma docks.

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