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(Setting) Derelict Warehouse [Together in UNITY]
| >A bike with a huge box behind the driver drives up to the gate. It stops, and the driver turns around, opening the box.
>From inside the box a black cloud of nanobots flies out, taking a shape of a humanoid figure a couple feet away. It takes the cloud couple minutes to stabilize itself in this shape.
"Tʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ, Jᴀᴍɪᴇ. I ᴄᴏᴍᴘʀᴇʜᴇɴᴅ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ɪs ꜰʟᴇᴇᴛɪɴɢ."
"Don't sweat it. I'll leave you be now."
"Gᴏᴏᴅʙʏᴇ."
>Bike drives away, leaving human shape alone in front of the gate.
| >>187776
>The gate still stands there, visibly untouched for what seems like years, you are the first one here, it seems
| >>187780
>Shape stood there for another whole minute, then started walking towards the terminal.
>Or, at least, tried to start walking towards the terminal, as it soon stumbled and lost its shape. After floating in the air for a little bit, it just levitated towards the terminal, before taking human shape again, already in front of it. It appeared to be investigating the terminal.
| >>187781
>It seems like an ancient terminal, complete with a CRT screen and an analogue keyboard. The screen reads: 'Unity.Corp: A better future, now' It seems to awit a password imput
| >>187784
>Not without some trouble, as it's 'fingers' kept losing shape, humanoid cloud entered '1256a' on the keyboard.
| >>187790
>The screen reads: 'Welcome home.'
>The gate opens with a loud thud, leading inside the compond.
>The inside is fairly ordinary, a few buildings here and there, it looks like an old military base, complete with a Radio array near the back, whether or not the signal can reach down here is questionable, however.
>There is no one else here yet
| >>187792
>As 'Welcome home' appeared on the screen, cloud reconfigured itself into a floating 'Thank you'.
>It proceeds to levitate inside the compound, only returning itself a humanoid shape once stopping in the middle.
| >A loud truck pulls over close to the warehouse, before coming to a grinding halt.
>A large figure wearing a mantle and a mask with three glowing stripes equipped with a large Zweihander comes out along with a plume of smoke
"Seems like I got the place right"
>The large figure approaches and punches the password unto the terminal.
| >>187804
"Loud and obnoxious, I'll fit like a goddamn glove"
>Falschen chuckles before entering the warehouse and approaching the figure.
| >a small orb shaped flying drone appears.
| >>187809
>Falschen waves to the drone before walking closer to the figure made of nanobots
"Hey there fella, you here for Kurogami?"
| From afar, sits a dude, with his sniper deployed, curious as to what is happening. Around him are a few butts of cigarettes.
| >>187810
>the drone displays a message.
Hello, yes that is correct, they asked for a stealth specialist right?
| >>187810
>Cloud reconfigured itself... Into the same human shape it was in before — best take on 'turned around' it could manage without having front or back.
"Gᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴠᴇɴɪɴɢ. Iꜰ ʏᴏᴜʀ ǫᴜᴇsᴛɪᴏɴ ɪs ʀᴇɢᴀʀᴅɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴘᴇɴ ᴊᴏʙ ᴏꜰꜰᴇʀ ᴘᴏsᴛᴇᴅ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴘᴇɴ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ, ᴛʜᴇɴ ᴀɴsᴡᴇʀ ɪs ʏᴇs. Yᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ᴄᴏʀʀᴇᴄᴛ ɪɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀssᴜᴍᴘᴛɪᴏɴ."
>It appears to have a problem synthesing certain sounds.
| >>187814
>The face hidden beneath the mask cocks an eyebrow. Not that you can see it
"Well happy to meetcha'"
>>187813
>Falschen shrugs as he turns to the drone
"Just a classical shadowrunner turned vigilente, I prefer to go in loud, but I do have experience with stealth"
| >>187824
>Falschen looks at the drone
"Hmm? S'that so? Well we'll be counting on you I guess"
>He shrugs, you can hear the grinding of gears as he does
| >With a loud noise, the door to the compound snaps open
>A robot comes in, yawning as if she hadn't slept in weeks
>Fluffy brown hair that looks carefully groomed, wearing a school uniform marked with the letters 'r6' on her chest.
>She looks around
"Ah, looks you guys got here first, sorry about that, I was eating somewhere when Kurogami called."
>She doesn't look sorry
| >>188182
"You could say that, I'll explain in due time... for now, lets just not stand around, it's really drab outside."
>The bot yawns again
"Fuck, I am way too tired for this, whatever..."
>She begins heading towards the main building
| >Falschen shrugs and follows along
| >The bot enters the building, which is in a surprisingly decent state, the insides show no signs of the wear present on the outside reaches of the hideout. It looks like a regular house, with a kitchen attached to a large dining area.
>The bot, r6, sits down at the table, and invites the others to do the same
"So, are all you guys here? I won't want to repeat myself. And before you ask, Kurogami is listening and watching through my eyes, so consider that moving forward."
| >Falschen looks around
"Not sure if this is all of us, wouldnt Kurogami know better anyway?"
>He points to himself
"I only came on a whim, mostly to check things out in Midnight"
| >>188199
>the drone displays a massage.
Ok hold on one sec.
>a orange light flashes next to the drone.
>where the light was, a man now stands.
Hello
>he says
| >>188204
"That's one nifty trick."
>The bot looks down for a second
"Hm, she says we might wanna wait for... what's his name again? Like that one tower back in... Whatever, mister harem man."
>She yawns
"Fuck, mind if I take a quick nap? Get yourself some pizza or soemthing, whatever, there's some preserved stuff in the fridge."
>She stretches before laying her head on the table
| >The bot sighs
"Ah, fuck, yeah whatever..."
>She sits back up
"Kurogami wants me to get on with it, then I can nap, so let me get all you guys up to speed then..."
>She clears her throat
"This might take a while, so keep the questions for afterwards."
| >Falschen just sighs and shakes his head
| "Well, so, as Kurogami mentioned in her post, some folks have made camp in the Midnight District. They are armed, violent and other smart adjectives to say mean and bad. Those guys are with a group called UNITY corp, a branch of another corporation called AUCR, but whatever. So, according to Kurogami, these guys are looking for something in town, problem is, we got no clue what it is, or why. If she asked for stealthy runners, it's because she wants to gather intel first."
| "Problem is, these guys are quite... well, hard to infiltrate, seeing as they guard their base like crazy."
>The bot sighs
"So, we have a few options, Kurogami personally wants to try and find what they're looking for first by tracking another agent who might know what it is... A weirdo called Ophelia. Problem is, she's a little crazy, and might not take too kindly to us meddling in her business."
| "But the most important detail... is that two Great Ones are involved in this, maybe three if The Voice finds a party to rally behind."
>The bot looks around
"For you guys who are unaware, Great Ones are super AIs, and I mean, outside the realm of mortal comprehension. They like to pick sides in quarrels and this time is sucha quarrel."
>She sighs
"We can't go against them, which is why Kurogami wants us to make this quick, and stealthy."
| "However, we might have to go loud if UNITY gets word of our meddling, but let's try not to do that."
>The bot takes out a sheet of paper, on it is a list of 'possible objectives'
"Our end goal is to get UNITY out of the city, them being here will only bring troubles."
>She points to the sheet
"If we manage to do any one of these things, we can consider ourselves to have won."
| >The sheet has three objectives written on it
>Destroy the ATLAS SYSTEM used as the mainframe inside the UNITY HQ
>Find and destroy whatever it is UNITY is looking for
>Stop all Great One interference on UNITY's side
| >The bot sighs deeply, clearly tired
"Any questions, ladies and gentlemen?"
| >>188264
Hmmm..do we know where Ophelia is?
If not i can send a swarm to look for her.
>the man asks
| >Falschen just looks at the sheet
"Hmmm, well I agree we gotta do somethinf, but thats quite the tall order, I was just told to investigate the midnight district"
>He turns his head to the robot
"Just to make sure those UNITY pricks are filthy criminals right?"
| >>188271
"Frankly, I'd advise against it, she'll take any form of tailing as an attack... and we don't want to piss her off, to be clear, we really don't want to piss off her boss, the Great One called Iris."
>The bot puts a hand to her chin
"It's never so easy... huh..."
| >>188272
"If you consider shooting people on sight as a crime, then yeah. That and the fact that they develop weapons of mass destruction all the time..."
| >The sniper still sits at his spot, looking on to the building, Shotgun mic trained on the conversation
"Echo-1, POIs are interested in the bio-gun gal. How proceed? Over."
/Echo-3, I've told you, Designation for her is Golf-Oscar. Only intercept when there is imminent danger to G-O. Out./
| >>188282
"Huh? Well, depends, if we get in her way, she'll be mad, which is why we want to avoid that. If possible, co-operation would be the best choice... unfortunatly, we can't just call her down to speak."
>The bot shrugs
"We gotta be real careful around her and Ophelia, lest we antagonize the both of them."
| >>188275
>Falschen's mask lights up
"Then i'm happy to lend my blade, but know that I'm not hired work, if you fuck me over, or if I realize its too tall an order I'll bail out. But if they really are evil you wont have to worry about that, I work for the people of GC, and thay means taking care of criminals and megacorps"
>He extends his hand
"Happy to help"
| >>188296
"Hee, so you saw him too? Don't mind."
>The bot waves dismisively
>>188293
"Kurogami is pleased to hear that, and don't worry, I doubt they have the people's interests at heart."
| "Tssk."
>The sniper clicks in frustration.
"Echo-All, we might have a Charlie-Charlie on our hands. Over"
/Copy. Support is ready. Out./
>The sniper begins packing his rifle and mic.
| >>188304
"Cowards cant even come down here and meet my mettle, they aren't worth my time"
>Falschen spits out before sitting down, making the chair he sat on creak in protest
| >>188304
>>188304
Hey sniper fellow i know you can hear us.
Are you gonna bring trouble?
If so look behind you...hehehe...
| >r6 seems to be thinking
"Well, now let's get to the good part. Rewards."
>r6 pulls out a briefcase
"While we may lack the ressources that ICHIKA can ass pull, our Kurogami nonetheless is willing to pay some good cash."
>She looks as if she just remembered something
"Talking about ICHIKA, one of his agents, Steven, is also looking into this deal, but we'd rather not mess with him, or he mess with us, try keeping quiet."
| "We are on nobody's side."
>The Sniper says.
"Charlie-Charlie."
>All of a sudden, all cameras in the 4 block radius are blinded by infrared lights, be it on people's clothes, or planted in strategic places, it blinds all, as the Sniper jumps down in to the alley behind the roof they where on, disappearing in to the blind.
"It was nice seeing you again, Falschen."
| >>188331
>Falschen looks on and a smirk forms underneath the mask
"Bastard... They got me good, as expected from Mister Anomeat's squad..."
>Falschen mumbles before turning to R6
"I dont need any pay, just keep on the good side and take care all I'm fighting are bad guys"
| >>188341
"What a stalwart sense of justice. But to be frank, we don't have much in the money department, honestly, Kurogami would much rather pay with info, and other means, yeah."
>The robot smirks
"Well then, if there are no more questions, I'll be on my way, consider this our offer, you do any of the three things on that sheet, and the reward is yours, leave it or take it, you do as you like. If you can't be bothered to chase UNITY, don't, it's as you wish."
| >r6 stands back up
>>188348
"If that's the case, break a leg. We will be awaiting updates..."
>As she heads for the door, she turns around
"Ah, and be careful, try to keep an eye out for any info published by all the people involved here, be it UNITY, Steven or Kurogami, the situation is very likely to evolve quick, and if you don't keep track, you'll get lost."
>r6 waves and heads outside
| >Falschen just scratches his head
"Hmm, sure I'll try my darnest, any means we can use offered by Kurogami or do we have to go at this all on our own?"
>He asks
| >>188372
>r6 stops in her tracks
"My cool exit... ruined, whatever... I don't care."
>She turns to face Falschen
"You're on your own, Kurogami is busy trying to stunt UNITY's expansion, that and searching for a certain item that can't be ignored. Sorry about that, but it's all on you."
| >>188377
>Falschen snorts and picks himself up, revealing a largely busted up chair under him, he was doing an invisible chair during the whole time...
"Sure, thats fair, but dont expect anything too great, I aint no miracle worker"
| >>188383
"So long as you get something, anything, it's good."
>She gives a thumbs up
"Now, my awesome exit..."
>She leaves, her back turned to you, without pause, for someone so sleepy, she sure has a spring in her step now
| >A slit opens from Falschen's mask revealing a glowing blue eye
"I heard Kurogami had something to do with the geekboy who destroyed KS and put me out of a job, is that correct"
>The eye narrows
"And be mindful who you lie to, if you intend to"
| >>188403
>r6 shrugs
"Heard the two were acquainted, but I don't know much more than that. Plus, if you're looking for the real KS-slayers, it'd probably go to that Alpha-team and ICHIKA.
>r6 turns back
"I think we're done, then, see you around."
>This time, she sprints to the gate, not giving any time for anyone to ruin her exit
| >the man and the drone are engulfed in an orange light.
>then they are gone, as if they were never there.
| >Falschen's eye loses its glow
"Good, I really oughta thank him for that, I wont miss cutting people's arms."
>He grabs his greatsword, and looks back at the engravings, a city of obelisks going above the clouds
"Yeah, finally done with that whole ordeal, the little miss will be happy"
>He makes for the exit while whistling an old war song
| "Aɴᴅ ʜᴇʀᴇ I ʜᴏᴘᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴇɴᴄᴇ sᴏᴍᴇ sʜᴀᴅᴏᴡʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ ᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴡᴏʀᴋ. Oʜ ᴡᴇʟʟ."
>Nanobot cloud, that kept silent through most of the meeting, borrowed into the ground and disappeared.
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| >A small, abandonned warehouse, left to rust and deteriorate with time, once used as a base of operation by Kurogami, this place now only serves as a reminder to changing times, and a meeting spot for the illusive former resident of Burrow.
>The place is cleverly hidden, once again left in the shadows of abandonned buildings, and a tall gate locked by a terminal looms eerily in the darkness of the small road leading there...