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RaIn's apartment
| The main focus of the room however was a large computer setup with plenty of wires coming from it, it's screen glowing dimly with RaIn occasionally glancing up at it and sometimes clicking a few things. A picture of what appeared to be his significant other sat on the very right edge of the desk. It had some writing on it. the other two rooms were his bedroom where most of his books were kept, and of course his storage room across from it.
| The storage room had blueprints on the walls, a large table and rolling chair at the far middle of the room, tools lining three separate cabinets that were against the walls, a few very small machines were strewn about, safety equipment was right at the door, but the center piece of the room was a beautiful modified suit of Valkyrie armor. One RaIn had fully rebuilt with his girlfriend's help. The walls throughout the house were a very dark blue, almost black.
| The blinds were closed usually in his bedroom and storage room, but were always open in the main room so he could look down at the street. Which he was doing occasionally, waiting for someone known as Falschen. He wiped his glasses off again and fixed his steely gray hair. He was good at waiting at least.
| >A sound can be heard on the main street, as a truck drives and parks in front of the building
>After a few moments, A person comes out of the truck, wearing a large red coat and some kind of hood
>The person head straight for the building and comes up to the door of RaIn's appartement before knocking
"Hey, Falschen here, I came as fast as I could"
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| >RaIn flipped a page in one of the books and set the helmet down on top of it once he'd heard the knock.
"Alright, gimme a sec."
>He stands up and stretches a bit before unlocking his door. Three distinct sounds are heard as he unlocks the door, one for each lock.
>RaIn opens the door and looks at the oddly dressed... person... before him. RaIn felt out of place compared to Falschen. He didn't have a red jacket or a hood. Just an open button shirt and a *Kira* Miki tee underneath.
| >RaIn adjusts his glasses and sniffs. Despite being almost always holed up in his apartment, he looked very presentable. But Falschen had some get up going. Whatever.
"Aight, come on in, bring the armor to the middle of the room here, next to the table with the helmet on it. I'll give it a look over."
>Hopefully he had the know how to fix this thing up. And hopefully it wasn't just stolen straight from some Valkyrie. Not that it really mattered.
| >>126770
>Falschen comes in through the door, some kind of heavy box in hand and puts it in the middle of the room, before turning to RaIn offering a gloved hand
"The names Falschen, nice to meet you fella."
>A dismodulated voice comes from Falschen, a mask with three bright glowing red streaks on it's surface.
"Sorry I aint showing my face, I kinda dont want to be tracked by anything and have my familly Slaughtered of something like that"
| >>126799
>RaIn looks down at the gloved hand, then at the odd mask paired with it. Looked like some kind of a cyborg facade. Unless it wasn't a facade. He nonetheless gave it a quick shake before eagerly going to the box.
"So what can you tell me about this thing? Any model info I ought to know? Or am I just clicking a few things into place and soldering some stuff?"
>The... man's? Cautiousness put RaIn on edge sort of. No one is this careful unless they do some shady work.
| >>126826
>Falschen moves towards the box and opens it up, allowing you to glance upon what seems to be the inner electronics of the suit and some metal plaques, You can recognize Valkyrie tech, though it seems a bit old.
"This here is what's causing most of the issues, the inner workings and electronics system, I didnt bring the outer work because the damn thing weighs a ton"
>Falschen gestures broadly at the insides of the box and laughs a bit
| "I can guess the problem is from the power supply somehow, but the rest's a damn mystery to someone like me"
>The masked Falschen laughs a bit and takes out the pieces from the box, putting them in clear view
| >>126840
>RaIn peers into the box. Some parts were typical and recognizable, others however were still somewhat familiar but a little modified. This was doable.
"Alright. I can fix this up for sure. Won't take too terribly long either. Could you take it out of the box, so I don't fuck up handling it."
>RaIn turned on the lumination in his modded fingers, and he clicked open his toolbox that was on the table. He still wasn't sure about Falschen. But he'd have to get over it.
| >>126843
"Well. I'll just fix things up until it all runs smoothly I guess. What's the main issue? Is it just not running as well as it should? Is the display dim?"
>RaIn looked over and moved the parts around looking for anything potentially screwed up on the surface. He pulled a few wires and rewired them, messed with some screws. Simple stuff.
| >>126844
"Aye Aye, Thanks for doing this mate"
>Falschen takes the pieces delicately and brings them out of the box, before taking out what seems to be the power supply of the suit, it looks like an old model but its recognizable
>The cables and electronics are arranged to make easy acces to any part of the whole device.
"There you go, I'll let you work, now"
>Falschen looks at you and bows a bit
"If you would"
| >>126846
>raising his head, Falschen approaches
"I think the problem is getting all the power to the right parts, see the set itself seems to work but its as if the power isnt spread equally amongst everything it needs to do"
>The Masked Falschen points to what seems to be some kind of motors of sort
"This here allows me to move some of the outer shell per say but the right side gets no power whilst the left side goes too fast and almost ripped off my arm once"
| >>126856
"Uneven power distribution? Not too uncommon actually."
>RaIn pops open the power unit to look at it's inner workings, it was actually very familiar to him. Suprisingly.
"Yeah, just from regular use. Newer models have a fail safe so it won't sever an arm when this happens, but seeing as this is the older and frankly better model I'm positive I can fix it... What exactly do you use this for anyway?"
>RaIn continued working on the inner workings of the power supply.
| >>127566
>Falschen looks at RaIn working, seemingly interested
"Oh I don't really use this thing in day to day operations, It's heavy after-all, I mostly use the Suit when I'm going against big crime organization or notorious dangerous individuals."
>Falschen laughs a bit
"Though with those Pheonix mercs in town I really wanted it fixed. But yeah, last time I actually used it was during the riots a little while back"
| >A knock could be heard on RaIn's...back window?
| >>127830
>RaIn stops immediately. Who the hell would be knocking on a second story window. How would they be? He looked out of the corner of his eye at Falschen. What if Falschen had given out his address or something... Rain stands up slowly and puts a hand on the gun he kept strapped to his hip. A Valkyrie standard pistol.
"Gimme a sec."
>He says as he walks into the other room. He grips the pistol and flings the curtains open, poised to shoot. But he wasn't expecting who he saw.
| >More like, what he saw.
>A blue mist that was shaped somewhat in a bubble floated outside the window.
>However, a hand stuck itself out the bubble for just one second, knocked, and went back in. If one looked carefully, they would see a masculine body materialize with the hand for just a moment, before it dematerialized into the mist bubble again. It was somewhat familiar looking to RaIn.
| >>128571
"What in the fuck..."
>RaIn squints and raises an eyebrow out of sheer confusion. Some mist cloud had hands. And an interest in him. Lovely. He cracked the window slightly and kept his hand on his gun.
"Uh... Hello there? Can I help you?"
>He was more confused than startled now. Still pretty startled though.
| >Falschen, noticing the commotion approaches slowly, one hand inside their coat
"You okay there fella, something happened?"
>Confusion could be heard in falschen's modulated voice whilst approaching RaIn, looking towards the window
| >>128966
>RaIn looks over at Falschen awkwardly.
"Uh... There's some weird bubble thing with a person in it. And it's knocking on my window. I'm pretty damn confused to say the least."
>RaIn looks back out at the bubble, still on edge about the whole thing.
| >>129272
>Falschen looks suspiciously at the window, trying to discern any details outside
"Maybe you should open it up? I'll look out"
>Falschen pulls out what appears to be a vintage Modified handgun from the inside of the coat and points it towards the ground, looking at RaIn for confirmation.
"What do you say fella? Let's see what this "ghost" has got for us"
>Falschen laughs
| >>129280
>RaIn looks at Falschen's gun with a blank expression. They were packing heat, and not light at that.
"Yeah... I guess. Nothing to lose really."
>RaIn Slowly slides the window open and backs up, bringing his gun up to level with the bubble. He wasn't going to fire, unless he really had to.
| >The bubble floated into the apartment, and materialized into a person.
>The indistinguishable long brown hair couldn't have been anybody else. RaIn knew who this was.
>It was Nietzen!
"Hey buddy, sorry for the ghost home invasion. Used that old Phoenix Corps tech, even though I still don't really understand it all that well. Long time no see, eh?"
>He gave a cockeyed grin and a reached out for a handshake to RaIn, and then Falschen.
"Nice to meet you. My name is Nietzen."
| >>129410
>Falschen puts the pistol back into the coat before grabbing nietzen's hand.
"Looks like you ain't no ghost, name's Falschen, glad to meet ya.
>Falschen looks at RaIn
"Friend of yours?"
| >>129413
"Friend of mine? Went through hell with this man a while back. Thought he'd off and died or something. Shit man."
>RaIn closes the window and the blinds, and drapes his shirts over the gun holster as they were before.
"I still have that crazy fucking interdimensional cloaking whatever the fuck around here. I was gonna slot it in that creation."
>He points to the gorgeous custom made Valkyrie suit.
"But that'll be a later thing. I gotta fix a power supply for now."
| >>129446
>Falschen nods, seemingly interested, but doesnt ask any question, going back to the living room and sitting down on the couch
"seems like you dealt with some troublesome things before mate"
>Falschen looks at RaIn, and then Nietzen and laughs a bit
"Mind explaining what brings ya here Mister Ghost?, for both of our sakes? I may be able to help after-all"
>Falschen says, having returned to a serious tone
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| >Nietzen shook Falschen's hand, speaking to him.
"Well, I actually came to chat to RaIn. No offense. At the time being, I don't really think I need help with anything, I just wanted to update him on my research and my status."
>He then turned to RaIn.
"So, remember how I said I needed training before I could keep trying to probe the Phoenix Corps for their deepest secrets? Well, I found somebody who can train me. He's currently a forced GCPD lapdog, but I expect that won't last."
| >>131678
>RaIn raised an eyebrow then walked back out to the living room to continue his work.
"You could've messaged me or something if that's what you wanted to say. Falschen and I were about to start shooting like wild."
>He grabbed a few different tools and continued working.
"But regardless. Good to see you've survived all the recent shit."
>RaIn holds a respiratory mask over his mouth with one hand and solders a small piece of wire with the other.
| >>132591
>Falschen laughs a bit, nervously
"I never was a very calm person, aye, so that stunt kinda scared me"
>Falschen looks at Nietzen
"Intresting tech you had there, too" >Falschen murmurs before looking at RaIn working again
| >>132591 "Well, actually, if you don't already hate my guts for getting you fired from the Phoenix Corps, I wanted to present some of my findings to you and go over them - in private, personally."
>Nietzen looked over to Falschen.
"You said you wanted to help. Wanna get involved in a conspiracy that will likely have Phoenix Corps out for your head? They already took out one of my friends. I don't want you to get involved without knowing the consequences. If you wanna sit out..."
| >>133501
>Falschen looks at Nietzen, the three stripes on the mask glowing brighter. The person behind the mask laughing a bit before standing up.
"So that's the kinda thing you're dealing with?"
>Falschen's laughter grows a bit stronger and they stare RaIn and Nietzen down
"If you'd like my help, i'm glad to provide it, It's been a while since I haven't been shot at, and I'm rearing to get back in action"
"Plus, if my DrakenKlagen can help, then that's more than I can ask for"
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| >>133525
>Nietzen smiles.
"Well, then welcome to the crew I suppose. I can use all the help I can get in this."
>Nietzen pulled up a webpage using a cybernetic projector augment, and expanded it using the remote in his hand.
>A familiar image of a blue-haired girl in Valkyrie armor, and a red-haired Cat Boomer in dresswear with very large curls was displayed.
"Tell me, Falschen. Have you heard of the names 'Sei Asagiri' and 'Stella Hoshii'?"
| >Falschen scratches the back of their head
"What does an old Whiteknight and a cat boomer have to do with all this though? Did they dissapear or something"
| Nietzen spoke:
"Well, actually no. Sei Asagiri is the commander of the Phoenix Corps, while Stella Hoshii is second-in-command. They have a government contract and are funded by a company called Norn Incorporated, a shady tech company that basically came out of nowhere with a bunch of money to waste. However, I have reason to believe that these two are not who they say they are, and that they lead secret lives as contract killers under the aliases 'Cobalt Lily' and 'Crimson Rose'."
| >>136626
>Falschen looks up
"That's an awful lot on their plate ain't it, so, what are you and your associates doing then? You wanna hunt em' down or something?"
>Falschen asks
| >>136664
"Not necessarily. More specifically, this is only a working theory at the moment. It is not proven, by any means. However, I had a dear friend of mine who was assassinated because he started looking into this conspiracy, and what's more, Phoenix Corps has almost killed me one already now, along with RaIn here and our other shadowrunning acquaintance. Frankly, I am just a civvie with some good tech skills, which is why I've found somebody to train me in combat and gunplay."
| "Believe me, if I didn't think there really was something to this, I wouldn't still be chasing after it. However, they killed my friend and they've tried to kill me once already now. These guys are up to something and I'm involved in it now whether I like it or not. If there wasn't something to it, why would the Phoenix Corps even have gone after me in the first place? Wasn't like I ever got caught doing anything illegal, they just started trying to kill me. Not capture, kill."
| "As well, I've done some more research and frankly I am interested in this 'Norn Incorporated' company as well. They seem to be run by a royal family type business, known as the Wisteria, or more specifically, the Wisteria Widows. 3 women, all sisters, who all have been widowed and had children with said widows, of which seem to be only female. Coincedentally, recently the Phoenix Corps seems to have stopped taking male soldier applicants...only female, for some reason."
| "An extremely wealthy family of all women who have no traceable reason why they actually have income or money? Both Norn Incorporated and the Wisteria Royal Family just up and showed up with a large bank account and a cause, they literally came from nowhere. There's something fishy going on, even more so than other corps. At least other corps are shady for a reason, Veriatech does biochemical work, CrayCo does interstellar housing, but Norn doesn't do anything, far as I can tell."
| >>136933
>Falschen nods and scrathes their chin a little, this was indeed really shady
"That does sound incredibly shady, but also really interesting. It must be something terribly important if Pheonix corp is going so far as trying to kill anyone who looks into it for the sake of privacy. So you got any theory of what that is, or a plan to figure it out?
>Falschen looks at Nietzen, the voice behind the mask speaking in a questioning tone.
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| On a busy street corner in downtown GC was an apartment building. One that was relatively decent looking for being downtown. On the second floor was RaIn's apartment. A quaint three room and a bath place that costed a decent amount in rent. But RaIn was more than able to cover it.
There was a couch and a several book cases, some books not being in them and strewn open on the nearby coffee table. RaIn occasionally glanced at them while he was working on a Valkyrie helmet.