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(Setting/Closed) 黒神's Hideout
| >A tall, young man walks up to the area when he spots Reiko
"Oh hey Reiko, Kurogami free?"
| >>250087
>Reiko turns to you with a quick motion
"H-Hu- Oh, CN! You arrived right at the right moment, come with me."
>She gestures to the house, and begins heading towards it
"Mika's asleep right now, girl hasn't slept in weeks, so Jo'hou is with her. We also just got news that CRI is trying to get some friends of a friend killed, so that friend asked us to help..."
>The man laughs
"Really complex shit, yo."
>He sounds ultra annoying
| >>250088
"I see... I guess this is why they wanted to meet with me then. Jeez it seems like theres never a dull moment... *sigh*"
| >>250090
>Reiko sits down at the table
"Yeah... speaking of friends... they should get here any second now."
>She waves to the woman, who's still smoking, even inside and the man
"These are my collegues, Goétia Vacuos and Faceless. They're Void Users like me."
>Goétia nods
"That's... not my name, but fine, you stingy Reiko, you!"
>He starts poking Reiko on the cheek and she just sighs
"Shut the fuck up, Faceless."
| >>250097
>Faceless laughs
>He looks like a normal man, but his eyes are off
>Someone's in that skin, wearing it, you can tell
"Turn into people, that's my gig. Goé-tan does some other stuff, but that's confidential information little boy!"
>Reiko sighs
>At this moment, two people enter the building...
>The first is a very recognizable girl wearing a living cloak, Ophelia
>The second is a girl with long white hair and red eyes with a lot of implants and augs
| "Sorry for the wait."
>The woman with white hair says
"Yes, Wait, Wait some more. We make you wait, Apologize like human do."
>The woman notices CN and looks over at Reiko
"He's with us, helped us save the Device."
"... I see."
>Her voice is fully devoid of emotion
"So, Ilya, this is CN. CN, Ilya, she's with the VCR like Iris and Ophelia, a great friend of me and Mika."
>The woman bows a little
| >>250103
"Good to meet you."
>He instinctively bows in return
"This is quite a party, is the situation that dire?"
| >>250121
>Reiko shakes her head
"The VUO people were already here."
>She turns to Ilya
"So, sitrep?"
>Ilya nods and turns to CN
"Two of my friends are being chased by CRI for stealing a certain program from them. A program to access the Thalamus which they had been testing. As one can imagine, something like that is quite the bad thing for a corp to have."
>Reiko nods
"Ilya promised to meet them tomorrow, and she wants us to help against wahtever shadowrunner CRI has."
| >>250122
"Hmm... alright, so we're looking at an extraction job then? Uh... are you sure I'm the kind of guy for the job for this?"
| >>250133
"I'd help, but my hands are tied, as you know."
>Reiko sighs, but as she does, a sudden noise is heard from the nearby door
"Mika, you're too tired right now, g-"
"Uzai."
>Mika strides into the room as Reiko stands back up, Jo'hou, behind Mika, simply sighs
"Mika, I told you to rest!"
"No time."
>Reiko looks furious but Mika ignores her and turns to CN
"Oh... you were here?"
>The robotic voice rings out
| >>250149
>Mika seems extremely pale, and her gaze is haggard, she's also sweating a lot
"Can't sleep much nowadays, guess old age is catching up with me."
>Reiko looks surprised but goes back to glaring
"If you get it, go back to sleep."
"Can't."
>She pushes Reiko aside and walks to Ilya
"So? When? Where and how? I'll go myself, like old times."
>Jo'hou sighs
"Then I'll take the detective's place."
>Mika nods and turns to CN
"Wanna come?"
| >>250171
>Reiko nods along
"You need some rest, Mika, don't be unreasonable."
>Mika scoffs
"Can't."
>She turns back
"I'll go myself. I might not look it, but I did a fair share of shadowrunning back in my day... plus I'm done waiting around. Reiko, please don't stop me."
>Reiko sits back down, she's fuming
"Fine! Do whatever! See if I care!"
>She storms back up and leaves the room
"... Is this fine?"
>Ilya asks
"Don't worry."
>Jo'hou shrugs
| >>250186
>Mika nods
"r6, come here."
>The lilim, which was hidden in the corner of the room, comes out and sighs
"You never change, do you?"
"Shut... up."
>Mika says with a slight chuckle
>Ilya watches r6
"New body, huh? Neat. Still, I'll leave protecting our Sleep deprived idiotic wife to you."
>r6 nods and pulls a crank near her throat, causing her entire body to open and recoil, leaving just enough space for Mika to step inside as if the bot was an armour
| >After getting in, Mika starts to head for the outside
"You guys ready?"
>r6's voice chimes
>Ilya nods
"I'm always ready."
>Goétia is still standing around and begins waving
"Bonne chance."
>She says, in perfect french
>As Mika steps outside, she claps and many robots approach her while carrying various canisters and pieces of armour, along with that seems like a chemical gas grenade launcher and a plethora of non lethal grenades, thermite finishes the set up
>Ophelia grins
"Go,go"
| >>250962
>Ilya pats your back
"I just have a service pistol, plus it's antiquated, you're not alone. Those two are just... out of the ordinary, I would have as much, but CRI took all the guns they gave me when I resigned."
>She pulls out what looks like a Walther Pistol... from the 30's
"Our intellect is the true weapon as a species."
| >If the place had surveillance, they would notice 2 figures walking towards the compound, stopping outside of it. One had a detective look to him, while the other was in soldier fatiuges, who was carrying a gun case, that seem to be... Dripping black ooze? The 2 patiently waited outside, talking between each other.
"Peterson, this is the right place? It looks like a scrap heap."
1/2
| "Tale. I'm telling you, this is it. I had to use a good amount of strings and zenny to find this place so you could time your stupid loose thread."
2/2
| >>251007
>In the compond, a lilim watches through the eyes of the robots acting as a gate the two man
"... So, Intruders? I guess I'll keep watch, make sure they don't get interrupted."
| >>251047
>Tale fells mildly uncomfortable, with all the robot eyes on him, but presists.
"HELLO? Is any one home?"
>Now behind Tale, Peterson feels the eyes stare at him, making him more than uncomfortable.
| >>251054
>No answer comes
>The robot security-guard, r-34 (she hates the name, too) is just staring at the screen
"What kinda kiddy would reveal their secret base by speaking, lol."
| "And what kind of guard would reveal their boss's secret base?"
>Tale looks at a note he had in his pocket, squinting at it.
| >>251083
>The robot jumps up
"Huh? Can they read my mind? That'd be super creepy... still, these guys don't look ready to leave, guess I'll get r-1 on payroll to deal with it."
>She takes out her phone and passes a call
| >>251302
/You could've said that first, I was about to call some power armour Falschen wannabe on your ass/
>A voice is heard from the robots as they move, revealing a door
/Come in, but make it quick, our people are gonna need to move out soon/
| "I didn't know I was at the right place."
>Tale goes through the door, while Peterson stays near the entrance of the compound, not willing to go in.
| >>251346
>Ophelia spots Tale and begins grinning
"Hello, yes, greetings, you have my child no? You do, right, of course you do."
>Mika cocks her eybrow, but disregards the new arrival, instead turning back to Ilya
"So, location?"
>Ilya nods
"The old Neon Hotel, and we better hurry, night is gonna fall soon, and that's our time to go."
>Mika nods
"Remember, no lethal takedowns."
"I know how you work, won't force my ways on you, Origin."
>Mika scoffs
"Old name, Kokoro now."
| >>251351
"We're meeting inside the place right? Last thing we need is surprise sniper fire on us."
| >>251351
>Tale keeps a neutral face, only catching on the location mentioned.
"Hi Ophelia. We recovered one of your weapons alongside with c_i9. Just making sure that we don't have any loose ends."
>Tale holds out a gun case, still oozing black goo.
| >>251353
>Ilya nods
"Then, let us go, me and Ophelia know how to access the underground part of the hotel, which is our entry point, no risk at snipes."
>Mika nods and turns to the group
"Kōun o inorimasu."
>Ilya nods
"Good luck to you, too."
>The two chuckle and exit the compond, towards the Hotel
| >>251356
"My, My, thank you for bringing it back, this child was scared, yes, scared, bleeding, wounded. You are no doctor to us, yes? Do you get it, I doubt you do."
>She takes the case and pulls out the bleeding pistol
"Yes, this one is nice, yes."
>She swallows it in one gulp
"Good, thanks is given, we thank you like human do."
>She smiles
"Reward can come another time, busy around here, very busy, yes, you get it, no? Of course."
| "No need for rewards. I can tell a prep session when I see one. I'll be on my way then."
>Tale struggles to keep a straight face.
| "Let's go then."
>CN nods as he prepares his stungun and follows the group to the hotel
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| >In a little known area of GC, lies an old junkyard, buried under years of urban expension, this place now houses Kurogami's base of operations, the gate itself hidden behind a pile of robots...
>Inside the compond, various robots are going about their daily tasks, but this time, they seem more frantic than usual
>Reiko herself is standing around, surrounded by a girl in a suit smoking a cigar and a man in his forties