Has Vinyl come back yet? I think we should chat with her, as one working girl to another, before heading off on another job.

(Of the available jobs, I think we should start with the Forming connections one. Build up rep for the DBs).

I figure we should do No Strings attached or Ghost Dealer, both are very nice in price but seem easier too deal with, ghost dealer would also allow us to prove ourselves to the syndicate and get better spying modules.

Going to put a vote towards the computer retrieval mission, it sounds like a seduction / infiltration job like our last one; and I'm curious to see if we can secretly find out what's on the computer since it sounds like they're more concerned about keeping the data secret than the computer itself.

No strings attached sounds like it could be done easily enough. We could repeat the jetal suit method from before, and use the bio imitation mod plus the hidden privacy trick, in a comfortable public location where people won't be scanning left and right, so they'll assume we're just a big biological. Pretty lucrative, too.

Still want to do Forming Connections, too, though I'd like to be sure everything would be up front, rather than use cruelly manipulating the young guy by pretending we aren't being paid.

Oh! Ask Loviro if he has any errands he'd like done. Even something simple, like getting him something from an equipment store or some nice food?

And inquire with the gambling crew about maybe adjusting the deck they're using. Someone might be on the lookout for Princess Toya's deck. Man, that'd make it hard to hook up with Vasha again, too. Get someone to look her up, check who she is and what she does. Maybe we can pop up to give her a nice surprise some time. And you never know, she might be a useful connection to somewhere.

I guess no strings attached would be a good starting point.

1/2 Unity 2016/06/05(Sun)15:49 No. 728012 ID: dd338c
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While thinking over which job to take, Unity speaks to Loviro.

"You said you didn't have any errands for me?"
>"Correct. I will let you know if there's something important, but I am not in need of it."
"Okay. I'd like to speak to Vinyl when she gets back, too, so could you let her know if she comes back after I leave again?"
>"Certainly - wait, I just remembered! She did leave a number. You can communicate to her now if you wish."
"Thank you!"

Inside of the lobby, Alison asks the gambler team about the deck they're using. Gambler informs Alison that the good money is gotten from legitimate decks that were imported online rather than using freely customizeable decks. This happened when Princess Toya used one of the shufflers to verify her deck. Long story short, Princess Toya's deck is in use.

Vasha is also looked for on the forum. Although she is found, it's a minimalistic profile page and doesn't share anything new.

2/2 Unity 2016/06/05(Sun)15:49 No. 728013 ID: dd338c
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While Loviro goes and gives Unity Vinyl's number, Unity calls up Polatt.

"Hi Polatt!"
>"Hello."
"I'm thinking about your missions, and I wanted to clarify, for the crime boss's son, does he know that we're being paid?"
>".... looks like it's up to you whether or not you let him know."
"Alright, that's good! Can we do it anytime?"
>"Yeah. We'll get things started. The guy's schedule should be free, so I'm gonna say we only need about 10 hours to pick you up and drop you off and all that. Dad Boss says he was gonna get a hotel room, but is willing to change the destination if you've got a better idea. I know I don't, cause I don't know anything specific about this kid."

Before we leave, establish passwords we can use with Loviro to prove to each other we're the real person and not an imposter over a phone call. In case Sevener.

Also, establish a duress code. A word or phrase Loviro can slip into regular conversation to tell us that someone is forcing him to do something / listening to the call / holding his at gunpoint (or whatever furistic science weapn point), without alerting them.

>I know I don't, cause I don't know anything specific about this kid
Could we get a name, please?

Step one should be research. See what Scanner and anyone helping her can dig up on this kid online. Public records, social media accounts, etc. Give us a place to start.

>Vinyl
Check in with her after you the research gets going.

Yeah lets set up some code phrases with Dad for now.

And then wait until we are physically with Polatt/Fern to do the same with him. Our phones is going to be at least somewhat tapped by EIN so better to do that in person.

Lets see if Polatt can get any info on the crime boss kid before we start that one. Like what are his interests and why he has problems with girls. Throwing him headfirst into a hotel sex date might not be the best idea. But if we could get him on a sort of normal date maybe we could get him comfortable enough to make a move on us. Which would do wonders for his self esteem.

While we wait for that we can go do the no strings attached.

Unity 2016/06/05(Sun)16:43 No. 728026 ID: dd338c
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Brief primer on time: This arc will use a simplified version of the last, in which the only practical difference will be that four belenos hours will be equivalent to about 1 real-time hours, so any mentions of 'an hour' in quest will mean, about a quarter-hour/15 minutes. Mentions of minutes and seconds in quest will be treated as abstract times like "a moment" that, for simplicity's sake, will be treated as a real-world minute and second respectively.
Short version is: One hour quest time equals 1/4 hour real time. For an example, Unity being told she has 10 hours of spare time means she only has about 150 minutes.

"Can we get a name?"
>"Yeah. Fargow Palms. Haven't looked it over yet, but here's some media he's got up you can take a look over."

Alison and some others begin searching. He's 20 years old, and is a biological with minor brain implants. He goes to college with pursuit in business and sociology. Apparently, despite being the son of a boss, he's had a tough time in early school from getting picked on. By the middle school years, people started either alienating him or sucking up to him because of his known relations, and although Unity can't find any direct statements from him saying so, she has a feeling that he didn't like how the bulk of his identity is being the son of a crime boss. In the late years he was home schooled, and he does online college programs. Some also think that he may not enjoy his majors, but that he's doing it because that's what his father wants.

He's mostly a shut-in who can strike a conversation over text, but tends to freeze up in more person to person relations. His interests don't seem that varied, and he spends most of his non-study time playing various online games. He seems mostly nice, but somewhat bitter about things.

Meanwhile, Unity speaks with Loviro to set up a code phrase and duress code, which some lobbyists will remember if it comes up.

Alison also texts Vinyl.
"Hi! It's your new roomate."
>"Hi. What's up?"

>>728026
Hmm. It sort of sounds like that means he won't like and/or will actively resent someone hooking up with him simply because of his family connections. (He's a young guy, he might not turn down the sex even so, but it might not make him happy).

Perhaps we should make contact with him through one of these online games he plays, and then arrange for a real world meetup? (Plus fooling around with an online game is something for people who would otherwise be stuck waiting around the lobby to do).

We'll need a new face and name for our nerd gamer-girl, if we go that route.

>"Hi! It's your new roomate."
>>"Hi. What's up?"
Stopped in to say hi to Dad and get some battery. I also think I followed in your footsteps when it comes to having fun and making money. You?

(I kind of wanted to talk shop with her, maybe compare how being a prostitute at the official EIN run brothel compare to being a black market one, maybe even segue into a "lesson" or showing off what we've learned (or seeing if we can earn any money getting her or any other girls to flip which side they're working for), but I'm not sure how well we can do most of that over text. We might arrange a meet-up to talk later?).

>one belenos hour will be equivalent to about 4 real-time hours

I think you mean that the other way around?

So, this guy plays online games, huh? Let's stalk him for a little while to see what he's like before getting in contact with him. Might not show his real personality in games (or show too real a one), but it's a start.

If we do get in touch, I'd say to start off with total anonymity, just be a faceless, sexless voice over the internet. Don't try to flirt or seduce, just be friendly - he probably needs a buddy more than a fuckbuddy - and take time over it, maybe doing other jobs at the same time. Don't hold back on dropping hints that we'd heard tell of him before and that we started observing because we were curious about what sort of person he was. If he pushes, tell him we heard of his dad looking to hire a girl to "give him confidence" and wondered who was so lucky, then commiserate with him because he probably won't be happy about that, guessing by what we know of him. We'd want to try make it clear we have more lucrative jobs on our table, and while we wouldn't mind the money we're not gasping for it. Basically, be up front, but gradually over time, and let it be his decision if he wants to have fun.

Unity 2016/06/05(Sun)18:06 No. 728050 ID: dd338c
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"I just checked in with Dad and to recharge. I also think I followed in your footsteps when it comes to having fun and making money. You?" Alison texts to Vinyl.
>"Just running some errands and trying to find someone."
"Alright. I'd like to speak with you in person later today, if that's alright?"
>"Sure. I'll be back around 60:00 and spending the night."

Conveniently, Fargow seems to provide public knowledge to his active games.

One appears to be a kingdom building game, which is presented as a complex arrow of optimizations. It isn't fast paced gameplay, and just requires player input periodically. It seems like he's been playing regularly for years, and has a large kingdom with a lot of empty space around him where Unity can start her own.

Another is a puzzle game in which dozens of people on a single team solve puzzles to dismantle a structure in order to gain its loot, which is shared by the team based on how effective in the puzzle they were.

There are a couple of other games, but those two seem the most receptive to approach. Unity can either attempt the approach this way, if she doesn't feel like a hotel room sex date is appropriate.

The bonus to this is that a lobby team can get to know this person over the internet instead of needing use of Unity's full body.

If this way is chosen, another persona for playing online may be made.

Let's start up in the kingdom sim and can ask him for friendly advice as his new neighbor.

Also start playing the puzzle game so we can join him at it later once we make friends.

As for identities can we use Princess Toya? She can be our known gamer persona.

This all will take time so can do this mission along side others. So go sign up for public sex while our teams learn games.

>>728058

I think we have to retire Princess Toya. Once those noble bodyguard guys figure out there was something weird about us, they'll be on the lookout for her.

I say start with the puzzle game so we can observe his interactions with others. Then we can slip in next to his kingdom in the other game as a transparent attempt to observe/interact with him more personally.

First game seems the kind of game where time spent is worth more than skill. It might take a while to build up enough of a kingdom to be able to relate to our target as a peer / fellow player and not just a noob.

Second game seems more skill based, especially in skills our group has practiced in the contest. And it's team based, which makes befriending him easier.

>identity
RL name: (which we give to him after befriending him / he asks for it): Tanya
Gametag: EndlessFragment47 (or some other silly random word / number thing).

>As for identities can we use Princess Toya?
No, she's too high profile already. She's got an established persona that may not be what he's into, and is tied to public sex acts and to bounty hunting. (We don't know if anyone connected us to Torres' disappearance, but as a mob boss' son, he might have the resources to find out if he thinks to use them).

She might be useful for other things, but not for making contact with someone withdrawn and unhappy, with unknown preferences. She's too pre-established.

There's also the matter of the rumours we started while catching Baron with Toya, that identity might be a bit to intimidating to use to give someone a confidence boost. Better to use a clean slate for this.

We don't really know what type of person he is, so I'd say it's better to go for the puzzle game for the online approach, since that would encourage cooperation by it's nature.

I wonder if we'll get a bonus for giving him a genuine confidence boost.

Unity 2016/06/05(Sun)19:48 No. 728072 ID: dd338c
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Unity decides on the puzzle game and a new persona named, tentatively, Tanya.

An account is made, the username EndlessFragment47 is generated, and a team of lobbyists begin research on this game while it's played.

Alison speaks to Polatt.

"Hi Polatt!"
>"Hello."
"We've started the mission, but we're going the long route and getting to know him on an online game where he seems more comfortable, and will eventually proposition him for a real life meetup. It'll take awhile, but we're on the job."
>"Oh? Hmm..."
"Is it not a good idea?"
>"The idea is good. Clever. Real out of the box. Problem is, the crime boss is the kind of dad who believes he knows what's best and all, and he's the sort who thinks his son needs the shyness screwed right out of him and isn't gonna be open to those out of the box ideas. Doesn't mean you can't do it. Just means you gotta succeed before he knows anything's goin' on, which means I can't go buy a lotta time for you by sayin' you're doing what you're doing. But... eh, I won't grind the details in you. Keep doin'."
"Okay, thanks!"

The Puzzle team reports that this game lends itself well for Tanya to become excellent at. Although it is a difficult game with an inordinate amount of strategic options and complexity, there is an offline mode that can be played with frame rate uncapped by use of Computer Link. Therefore, a dedicated team of dozens on a single phone are capable of becoming exceptional.

However, Fargow, by the name of Glassfish, does not appear to be that amazing at this game despite having a decent amount of hours logged into it and a fair amount of treasure as a result. The game is supposed to be as easy for biologicals as it is for robots and jetals, too, at least as realistically as possible.

Instead of attempting to get good fast, Tanya simply runs through the tutorial before Glassfish is located and found. Tanya ia allowed on the team as a beginner on one of the easy puzzles. There is a way to view what other teammates are doing, and Glassfish's playstyle is average and mundane from what people can see.

>Problem is, the crime boss is the kind of dad who believes he knows what's best and all, and he's the sort who thinks his son needs the shyness screwed right out of him and isn't gonna be open to those out of the box ideas. Doesn't mean you can't do it. Just means you gotta succeed before he knows anything's goin' on, which means I can't go buy a lotta time for you by sayin' you're doing what you're doing.
Might be able to buy some time if we don't tell him we're on the job yet?

>Fargow, by the name of Glassfish, does not appear to be that amazing at this game despite having a decent amount of hours logged into it and a fair amount of treasure as a result.
>Glassfish's playstyle is average and mundane from what people can see
So he's not an enthusiast, and he's in it for the competition. He's a casual and/or he just does it for fun. Or he's in it for the social aspect, which will make our job easier.

Does mean we don't need to be awesome at the game to befriend him.

Lets be honest our usual play style is rather overpowered and cheat like. Most people do not have thousands of varied puzzle enthusiasts working together on things.

So lets start off like a normal beginner and try to avoid standing out. We are not doing this to show off but to have friendly games so we might be able to make friends and later ask him or get him to ask us out on a date.

Yeah let's not try to be amazing at this. Just try to be about average while focusing more on the social aspects of the game. If he's playing a lot and only doing average himself it's probably about on point with what he's doing. In fact doing a little below average and then approaching him for pointers could be a way to form a connection.

>>728072
Be awesome at the game, and approach him with advice on his game. You can start social interaction like that.

Ultimately I think we should play the long game and use him as a contact even after the "job" is done. He doubtless has connections, so a real friendship gives us real benefits beyond money.

Also we can multitask and do other jobs while befriending/seducing him.

Unity 2016/06/05(Sun)20:54 No. 728090 ID: dd338c
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Polatt claims that the job isn't reserved for the Dead Batteries alone, and so he can't prevent others from taking the job. Nonetheless, since failure is an option and the fact that the time consuming part can be done online, the plan is stuck to.

"Let's start off as a beginner, honestly." Alison says to the team. "We can just have casual, friendly games, and maybe make friends with him that way, and maybe ask him for advice. I think he's doing this more for social interaction. If it doesn't seem to pan out, though, some other people can get good at the game in order to give him advice if it comes to that, but let's call that plan B."

Although Tanya gets called a noob a couple of times, other's seem friendly towards newcomers. Glassfish doesn't speak up yet, though, but Unity can wait a little while.

In the meantime, Unity is free to select another job.

Go public sex up the pervert. See if they would like the trick you tried on Vasha or if they want something different.

>>728094
We know that's detectable... unless we use the Bio Emulator while doing it. CAN we use the Bio Emulator while there's a cavity that large formed inside of Unity?

Okay, while we're courting him online, let's do no strings attached. It's a quick payout, with no real complications to escalate or much risk for us. Then we can buy the hide add-on to complete Recluse's play of having the secret hacked sex module for spy missions, and maybe get something else too, before we start the next one.

>>728090
Goat shoulder rubs!

>>728095
I say we get Chemical Analyzer soon, it'll help with the drug-related lollipop bounty.

>>728094
Wouldn't we need more jetalium so that we can have a bigger body? This all depends on how big and/or wide the client is.

Hmm. I wonder, maybe another tactic with Fargow would be just a straight-up secret benefactor approach. Like, we just message him something like "hey man, you know your dad's put out a job in his circles for girls to "improve your confidence", right? Not just regular hooker money, either. I dunno maybe you don't mind that sort of thing, sounds like he's trying to be nice but I thought it'd be uncool and probably do the opposite of improving your confidence if you maybe got your heart messed with, so, here's me trying to warn you. Watch careful if any hot girls you never met before suddenly start cozying up for no clear reason. Don't tell anyone I told you."

If he responds, we could get a read on whether he is ok with that (in which case we can just go "wow well if you like I could do the job, I have higher pay on my plate but I wouldn't say no, never been with an organic guy before"), or not ok with it, in which case we'll be on the better track because if we just fucked him to "boost his confidence" it wouldn't work long-term, and his dad would eventually realize that and be mad at the Dead Batteries for not really delivering what he paid for. The purpose of the job is to build connections between the two groups, after all, so we have to think in terms of consumer satisfaction rather than just filling the letter of a contract. And it is pretty much true that we're not really interested in the money so much as making more friends.

We could also go stalk a bit in person by using bio imitation plus privacy and wearing different faces and builds, but that'd interfere with taking any other jobs, like with the public but not public lady. She sounds like a pretty take-charge person, so she'll probably call some shots when we meet her. Best not to make too many plans.

Unity 2016/06/07(Tue)17:28 No. 728365 ID: dd338c
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>Can Unity use the Bio Emulator while there's a body person cavity inside herself?
In theory, yes, but that would require custom control over the bio emulator, as the emulator would insist on closing that gap up. More practice is requested before that level of complexity is added.

Unity texts Polatt saying that she will accept No Strings Attached. Further details are given to Unity.

This girl more or less prefers vanilla sex aside from the public sex kink. She does want to feel a danger of being found out, so she requests that Unity not play it safe, or stupidly dumb. Despite wanting a jetal specifically, it's more about the principle of the matter, and otherwise would appreciate a vanilla form.

She has suggested three options for the location: An alleyway, a public bathroom, or a dressing room.

Meanwhile, the Puzzle Team has two conflicting options. They are leaning on either approaching Fargow as a newbie player looking for advice, or being forthright and telling him about his father's plan.

I say a public bathroom is probably best. Stall partitions will provide cover an alley doesn't have, and a little bit of strange noise will be overlooked compared to a dressing room.

I'm still for approaching Fargow as a newb looking for advise. I think it'll be a bigger confidence boost if he doesn't know daddy bought the girl for him.

>She has suggested three options for the location: An alleyway, a public bathroom, or a dressing room.
The dressing room sounds the most fun to me!

>Meanwhile, the Puzzle Team has two conflicting options. They are leaning on either approaching Fargow as a newbie player looking for advice, or being forthright and telling him about his father's plan.
Hiding it from him could come across as a hurtful betrayal if it's found out, but telling him strait up could sour things too, and make him wary of any other attempts to approach.

Well, they both have potential downsides, but giving him a bigger confidence / happiness boost by trying to make this feel like something natural and not contrived / arranged is the bigger upside, so that wins out. Maybe we can tell him the truth after he gets to know us, but for now let's just try to get to know him.

>>728365
Well a Jetal wouldn't go into a bathroom, and dressing rooms are typically monitored in some way to prevent shoplifting. So that leaves the alley.

Approach Fargow for advice.

>>728365
Let's meet her in an alleyway. Do we have enough jetalium? We don't know how tall and/or wide the client is. Since she doesn't want us to play it safe, we don't need to be extra wide or anything like that. Just barely enough to cover her should do it.

I vote for approaching Fargow for advice.

>>728377
She didn't specify she wants to do the enveloping thing, though. She pretty much said vanilla public sex.

Also I'd think the alley the the worst choice, if she's biological. She'd either be gasping in the smog, or through a respirator, which probably has flow rate limitations. Neither of which sounds fun to me. (Unless she's into gimp masks).

If there was a mod to detect and interfere with cameras that we could get, I'd say dressing room. Investigate that. If not, then alley. We could get into a niche and use eyes/ears on the ends of our tails to watch for anyone approaching.

I have half a suspicion that the empire just has cameras everywhere anyway, so it may end up being an equal danger no matter where we go.

For Fargow, I still say be forthright! He'll probably be suspicious of anyone trying to get close to him anyway, with his life. People must have tried getting to his dad through him before. Plus it'd be cruel and counterproductive to earn his trust and then spring it on him.

(Also being forthright with him will put him on guard against others trying to do the same job as us, which will both save him from someone less scrupulous and considerate than we are, and more selfishly, preserve our chance at the money).

With Fargow, I think it would be a good idea to be forthright, maybe not right away though. So I'd say ask for advice for now, but admit true intentions after there's somewhat of a bond / friendship going on. So any honesty would be met with appreciation instead of rejection (Still could go either way though, risky but a good idea I think).

As for the public sex, alleyway. It's a pretty awful place for it, but sex there would be met with less suspicion / curiousity than a stall or changing room. There's the risk of cameras but I think that's going to be hard to avoid regardless.

One possible solution to obvious cameras could be to form multiple tails and cover the lens. Dunno if that would attract more attention to camera operators than just hoping it's ignored though.

Forgot to mention, do we know our client's preferences aside of the public sex thing? That might influence what form we wear while on this job.

>>728457

Well, if the story is that we feel sorry for him and want to warn him, making a little friendship first would fit. Like, the story would be that we learned of the job on offer, decided to see what he was like, then when/if we got to like him we go "hey you know I think you're a pretty cool guy so I'm going to tell you about this thing I think isn't cool for you" and go from there, as described by >>728120 , with us posing as a faceless sexless stranger on the web until the time is right.

Suggestion 2016/06/08(Wed)14:52 No. 728501 ID: d3fdbc
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While we wait, another dress!

We've got the belenosian lab coat chic, mixed with some chinese imperial and a little touch of more organic flair with some vaguely spanish corsage roses, ruffles and ribbons. This one is more for moving among the upper classes, or when you just want to look really, really fancy. Served in shades of black and red, it could easily take on a mafiosa style, though a large variety of colors could be effective. The pants version looks more practical, and so of course looks a little lower class, for an advisor, cortesan or superior servant type. The skirt version is less practical and so therefore makes you look like you have people to take care of practicality for you, suiting a splendid noble lady. A jetal, of course, would hardly be impeded at all by such a thing.

Dress design was mostly inspired by thinking on what it would be like if Unity still somehow discovers her inheritance of nobility through Loviro and his connection to Diamond in this version of events, and somehow goes public with that without causing a major disaster. It could maybe happen, if we're going a more secretive social route this time, and we gave Unity a romantic story to tell the public, of having been a secret lost noble scared for her life who lived among the lower classes while trying to uncover the "mystery" of what happened to her creator and his emperor. It could be one way to help insinuate ourselves into high society, closer to sapphire, and I wanted to draw up a dress suitable to taking such a station.

Oh, remember to give Loviro another hug before you leave!

>>728501
If we do eventually go for a legit claim on diamond nobility as part of our long term approach to Sapphire / upgrade to high class courtesan, we totally need to do that glowing emblem on our back thing we saw other nobles doing, especially now that we have jetalium illumination with the toolbox module. (There's a diamondback snake joke in there, somewhere).

Unity 2016/06/08(Wed)19:20 No. 728551 ID: dd338c
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After some deliberation, Unity lets Polatt know her decision, and Polatt gives an address back, saying the north alley between 80th and AJ. She'll be there as soon as possible.

A hug is delivered to Loviro and goodbyes are said, before a taxi car is summoned. It's not a long trip to the destination outside of some rush hour traffic, but it clears up and the alleyway is seen. It looks like Unity got there first, and there isn't a great deal of foot traffic around.

"Do you know if she has any tastes to form?" Unity asks to Polatt. "I don't know what to look like."
>"Nope. She seems like the sort to leave it open. Just choose something that looks like they could be a biological and wait around."

During the ride, the Puzzle team played some games, and it's decided to approach Fargow while Unity transforms into a safe looking generic male. It occurs to thousands of people at once that everyone spent so much time getting used to being a girl, that Unity never got any guy clothes. She absorbs her normal clothes and makes some generic jetalium clothes, but she still has time to alter her clothes or form if desired.

"Hi! You don't seem bad. I'm just starting out, do you have any pointers?" EndlessFragment47 messages to Glassfish.
>"Uh, I guess? I'm not that great. You could probably get training from the tutorials and guides if you want to be good. I can show you if you want, but I don't know how good at it I'd be."

>left it open
You really think someone hiring a shapeshifter prostitute would at least specify gender.

I guess the androgynous-annonymous shape we have right now is fine. We can always tweak it, if necessary. No name for this face. If she asks the reply is "No strings, remember?"

Go find a good spot to lean against in the alley.

>glassfish talk
Accept his offer, you'd rather play with someone than do tutorials on your lonesome.

Hmm. Are people wearing respirators today? Might be part of the biological pretense.

Uh. Does she have a way to recognize you, or you her? Some sort of pass phrase? Is she looking for a biological-like jetal, or prepared for you to be using the bio imitation mod?

>>728616
Actually, the respirator is a good point. How bad is the air quality out here? Can we safely sex up our client if she's not wearing one? (If she does have to wear the mask, I suppose that's a layer of anonymity for her if we're caught, or just against there even being strings).

>Does she have a way to recognize you, or you her?
We could just start scanning the people who go by. We're looking for a biological female who's going to experiencing some kind of arousal / excitement / anticipation. If we're waiting and watching for it, she's probably stand out from the people who are just passing by.

1/2 Unity 2016/06/09(Thu)14:58 No. 728622 ID: dd338c
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EndlessFragment47 messages back.
"I'd like that. This game is fun, but it seems best if it's done socially."
>"Yeah. Okay, after this run, I've got awhile to play, so we can do a two person party." he responds.

The puzzle team will be busy for awhile.

Unity hangs out just inside of the alleyway, and it's only a few minutes until a biological girl in a skirt walks up to him. As far as any scanners and regular observances are concerned, there's no hidden cameras in the alleyway.

>"Waiting?"
"Yes."
>"Alright. You'll do fine, I think. Don't transform once we start, I like to see jetals acting like biologicals. You have 5 minutes. Take it away."
"I have organic simulation module, if you like."
>"Nah."

2/2 Unity 2016/06/09(Thu)14:58 No. 728623 ID: dd338c
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There isn't much to do but that, so Unity unzips his pants, and lifts one of the girl's legs to get under the skirt, where a tiny thong exists. Unity's erection pushes it out of the way as he carefully pushes forward into her. She bites her lip and squeaks, but isn't too loud.

As he gets to work, though, she still grunts and moans loud enough that it's going to be audible to anyone walking across the sidewalk.

While continuing, Unity hears someone walking across the sidewalk, and is going to come by at any time.

Bookish looking and kind of soft spoken. And limber! (And able to casually toss 300k for a brief bout of sexual satisfaction, so well off, too).

>While continuing, Unity hears someone walking across the sidewalk, and is going to come by at any time.
Keep going, unless she says otherwise. Public sex with the risk of getting caught is what she paid for.

Lean closer, and brace your right hand against the wall, so her face (and horns) is obscured to anyone who does look in the alley and see. (Hopefully if anyone does see, they'll be too embarrassed to interfere). Other hand might go over her mouth to keep her moans quiet.

I'd prepare (but not turn on) a bright flashlight in your tail. If anyone does try to confront us, you can shine it in their eyes to give the client a chance to get away without anyone getting a clear look at her.

>>728624
>A woman with a public location sex fetish would like to copulate with a jetal under the stipulation that no one ever find out she has had sex.

Wrong. We can't afford to be seen.

Perhaps a kiss would muffle her voice enough to not be heard.

Ok, (gently) sweep her down onto the ground to your left, still next to the wall. As I recall, the belenosian empire employs little cleaning robots all over, so the streets are actually pretty much pristine. So she'll be on your back face to face (though you might actually have to get her to look towards the wall for her horns not to be in the way, or get her head to overhang that basement entrance behind you), with you over her, facing away from the street, with that trash can between any onlookers and you. If you put your left arm up to rest your elbow next to her neck/head, and maybe hook your arm up over her horns (use your fingers to play at the base of them a little, maybe?) then all anyone should be able to see from the street if they do notice anything is your back and rear end ploughing a pair of legs and a butt. Keep quiet and probably no-one will know to look in, and you can keep your tail eye peeking up over the lid of the can.

And don't forget to be attentive! She seems to be enjoying the penetration, but your mouth and your right arm will be free to play with her body a bit as well. Get at her neck and collarbone and so on with your lips and get caressing down her side and thigh with your free hand. She likes "jetals acting like biologicals", so let yourself express a bit of hunger. Maybe kiss her on the mouth whenever passersby get super close, to muffle her.

The thing that concerns me is that we didn't ask how good her privacy stuff was. If she's this rich, she might be notorious enough to be easily recognized by scanners regardless of face and voice. Probably too late for this one, but in case it happens again, have the operators try to find out who she is.

>>728625
We can afford be seen. We just can't allow enough of her to seen that the random people screwing in the alley can be connected back to her.

Are those some basement stairs off to your left? If so grab her butt while still fucking her carry her down them a bit so you are both out of sight behind the trashcans.

Also give her some tongue to muffle those moans.

Unity 2016/06/09(Thu)17:34 No. 728644 ID: dd338c
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Unity grabs her butt and carefully continues plowing her as she descends some nearby basement stairs. As whoever it is passes by, they seem to pause for a moment just as Unity silences the girl with a kiss.

More attention is given, too, with occasional neck nibbles, further kisses, and wandering hands traverse the base of her horns, her thighs, and so on while Unity acts like a more hungry biological. With many of the lobbyists as they are, being hungry isn't much of an act. Whoever paused outside of the alleyway moves on.

Another minute passes as the girl huffs out 'keep going' as she approaches a climax.

While some were focused on the stairs and above Unity, enough are paying attention to the fact that the basement stairs led to a wooden door. They confirm that there is someone on the other side of the door, and is about to open it in one second.

Keep them from opening the door! Either grab it or block it, depending on which direction it goes.

Crap does the door open outward or inward?

If outward we could shove our foot in the door and make it a jetalium wedge to hold it closed. Heck if inward we could do the same thing long enough to make someone think the door is jammed.

Or you could quickly book it while holding her. With your jetal strength and her legs around your neck you could keep the sex up while getting her further down the ally and out of sight.

Worst case absorb her while holding the door closed and then leisurely walk away while continuing with internal shenanigans. It might break the act like a organic part that she wanted but hopefully she is to caught up in pleasure to care.

If we let her leg down could we reach the door? If we hold the handle to keep it from turning they'll probably assume it's broken. Considering our close calls this must be quite exciting for her.

If your scanners can tell that's a biological and not a robot or jetal about to open the door, you could just grab it and hold it shut. They won't be able to force a jammed door.

If the door opens outwards, and the stairwell is wide enough, hiding behind the door might be possible.

Or we're probably strong enough to jump right out of the stairwell, which would be a hell of a last thrust to finish her off with.

Go go Jetal powers!

Jam your foot against the bottom of the door and morph so its thoroughly jammed. Or the handle so they cant even turn it.

As long as you just morph that bit of you she is in no condition to notice.

Then you have time to finish or absorb her depending on what the door person does.

>>728648
I don't think our morph is turned high enough to abosrb her and reform around her in a second. We can't afford the battery to run around in 100% liquid terminator mode.

Block the door long enough to absorb her and book it. Make sure she can see and hear everything around her once we get her inside.

If that does not get her voyeurism kink going I don't know what will.

That being said probably whisper to her while blocking the door that we are going to get discovered but you can fix that if she trusts you. So its not a struggling surprise.

I don't think absorbing is on the table. Also we were told "not too smart", so risk-free solutions are a no-go.

>>728644
If it opens outward, maybe consider fucking her against the door, as long as there isn't a camera. All other situations, back into the alley again. If push comes to shove, we can arch over the stairs, then drop back into the stairway after they pass, but that might be risky. ...but hey. Risk is her thing, right?

1/2 Unity 2016/06/09(Thu)20:00 No. 728673 ID: dd338c
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The door is confirmed to swing in the direction of the alleyway, making the solution obvious. It can't be said if the person on the otherside is biological or not, but Unity will just prepare to leap out of sight if they turn out to have super strength. He puts his foot down onto the door as the other person attempts to open it. The strength level implies biological or otherwise controlled, up until the person starts jostling it. The wood bends slightly his efforts as he starts banging on it, but Unity holds the door against the bangs while he bangs the girl.

"Fuckin' bullshit door pile of goddamn wallet sucking maintenance bots..." the person can be heard faintly walking away from the door just in time for the girl to grit her teeth and start shaking through her orgasm.

2/2 Unity 2016/06/09(Thu)20:00 No. 728674 ID: dd338c
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While out of breath, she motions for Unity to let her go. She pats down her skirt, and doesn't seem to make a note about how there was no cum, since no modules are available for it.

She regains her breath quickly.

>"Good job!" she says. "They'll pay you soon, but I'm leaving you a tip for your bank account alone." She hands Unity 30k.

"Polatt!" Alison texts to Polatt. "She says you guys are going to pay me?"
>"Oh, yeah. Since she went through us, she paid us the money, and you get 300k of it."

The two of them leave the alleyway, and she unceremoniously walks the other way, leaving Unity alone.

>"Found her." Scanner says. "On the internet, I mean. She's just a daughter of a pretty big corporation, and is going to inherit it someday and already is in a high management position. It's nothing really out of the ordinary, though, so I think she's just someone who's well off who isn't afraid to spend a whole lot of money to get some kicks in."

>>728674
Alright, no problems then. Time for mods. Get Hide on the hacked sex mod, then I guess we can get chem-analyze and do the Ghost Dealer job.

A job well done then. If she is interested in more she knows where we work.

Well time to find out if there are any more jobs or take one of the other ones.

In the meantime I think tracking down that drug dealer and buying some candy seems like it would be a easy job. Can either pretend to be a biological looking for a fix or a Jetal buying some drugs for a friends party.

That being said it would have some risk. Would have to make sure we were not suspicious to the drug dealer and watch for cops.

>>728675
Seems reasonable, I suppose.

If we do ghost dealer, is Fern fronting us any money to purchase these drugs with? They'd get it right back when they kicked the door in.

...do we still get payed it turns out he isn't dealing in bootlegged goods? (I expect Fern's intel is probably right, but we might as well cover the bases).

>Found her
Okay. Not our business, though. We said no strings, so we let her alone. If she wants more, she can always contact the dbs.

>Found her

Well, we're not going to put that to use ourselves by choice, but it's handy to know things. Maybe one day her corporation will have a problem with us, and we'll have to regretfully put some pressure on. Strictly in defense, of course.

>>728675

I agree with getting hide on the hacked module, and with doing Ghost Dealer, but I don't think we have a long-term need for chemical analysis right now. We should just rent it for the dealer job, rather than buying it outright.

Unity 2016/06/10(Fri)13:49 No. 728741 ID: dd338c
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"Thanks, Scanner, but it's private, so we won't look into it further." says Alison, who then goes and texts Fern. "Hi Fern! I'm interested in taking that ghost dealer job. Would we get any modules in advance?"
>"Yeah. You'll be given Privacy Rank B with a Jetalium Privacy add-on so you can act like a biological, since the drugs in question don't affect robots or jetals too much. We'll also give you Sniffer Rank C to smell out any drugs. Plus, a single track cam Don't lose 'em, cause you can't afford 'em. You've got to record the whole thing to prove he's got the drugs. You don't need any chemical analyzer, cause no dealer's gonna say it's CnJ and give you somethin' else."
"Do we get paid if it turns out he doesn't have any?" Alison responds, while Scanner explains that a single track cam is a camera that can only contain a single video at a time, and is used as a visual proof of something happening since unlike other cameras, single tracks are extremely difficult to alter what they record.
>"You get paid half, why not."

Scurps joins the text message ring.

>"Fern you sounded so sure he had them! Why not pay in full if he doesn't?"
>"Yeah I'm always right, so hell, 250k... oh, what the hell, 300k, but we are gonna look over the camera to make sure you tried your hardest. We don't know much about the dealer except that his street name is Bluestone. I'd say he's the gangleader, but it's more like he's hired some thugs to protect him and run his shit. They're trash to us, but you can't get in a fight with them. He operates on a single block on the outskirts of town, and most people there at least know of him. We'll pick you up to give you the loans."
"Do you have any advice on how to look for him, or what we should look like?"
>"I'm hiring you for this cause I don't know about that shit."

>>728741
Let's do some research. Look up the culture around CnJ usage, and what withdrawal effects it has. We can pretend to be an addict suffering from withdrawal and act really desperate for some.

Ok, research topics: a little basic street knowledge (Maybe ask Scurps and company). Even just the basic stuff, so we don't go walking in going "hello I would like to purchase one drugs please". And like, what's the profile for a user, classwise? Should we look poor and desperate, or higher class and decadent? I assume the former, since the latter would go to the original source instead of resells.

I assume the target deals other drugs, as well. We could act like, say... we're buying up a bunch of stuff for a party, and while we're dealing with that, we act like we're getting a little hesitant and ask if he has "anything stronger" for the "more experienced" crowd. That could cover ignorance on CnJ in particular, if we act like a user for other stuff who's just looking to get into it. Maybe do ourselves up as some spoiled rich kid party girl looking for a new thrill to get into. Or... hmmm, maybe not quite that spoiled? Semi-spoiled. Someone who has spoiled rich friends, or people she wants to become her friends, and wants to show them how "cool" she is by getting them good "stuff". That'd excuse us being more nervous and ignorant and secretive. And it'd let us turn down other drugs we're offered as stuff we're sure "our friends" have already tried.

Though, that depends if it's a "party" type of drug or not.

>>"I'm hiring you for this cause I don't know about that shit."
Fair enough. Research and Scanner team, hit the web. Let's find out what this drug does and what the culture looks like. We can probably pose as a user. (Or maybe a go-between for a user, depending on how upper or lower class this drug is). And see if we can pull up anything on Bluestone, he might show up online, or there might be public arrest records. (Or not. Dystopia with cute puppies news and all).

If we want tips for looking like a druggie, we might want to ask Polatt. He's probably had to deal with enough of them, whether or not the Dead Batteries are currently selling this stuff (or have in the past).

>>728742
Not sure we want to look like we're in withdrawal. That might make them look closer at us (is the twitchy addict gonna make trouble? Did they really manage to scrape together the money if they let it gt this bad?).

Oh, and send Scurps a text (one on one, not as part of the chat with Fern) to thank him for interceding for you, there.

Thanks.~ ;)

Do some research online first but I am thinking we want to look like a young college kid who is nervously buying drugs for his sorority. Cause they made him as part of the initiation ceremonies.

Of course find a college and sorority that would do something like this for our back story.

>>728868
If we did that, we'd probably want some actual guy clothes and not just jetalium morph clothes. They'd likely have someone that could at least detect the difference.
I say to go as a gal, though. We already have clothes for that. (We should eventually get some clothes for guy form, though. ...or something that could serve for either.)

Should we actually buy, make with the 'oh, I didn't know it would be so expensive' excuse, or the '[same as previous]... is there any -other- way I could pay?' excuse?

Unity 2016/06/11(Sat)13:09 No. 728917 ID: dd338c
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Some research is done.

The Drug: CnF (AKA Spark, Suckers, Lollipops) is a drug made that tends to ellicit euphoria. It's moderately addictive and takes a few months of weekly use before resistance begins to apply, but it's relatively safe with a high bar for overdosing and few cases of adverse reactions. The drug's effects generally cause euphoria on the user in which nearly all stimulus is received as pleasureable. Users commonly report that all of their senses are heightened, however, their response to stimuli tend to be diminished, so it makes a poor performance drug. While it's most commonly used as a recreational drug, it has been reported to be used as a painkiller. Although it does not diminish pain, it does make the pain become misinterpreted as favorable in many cases.

Culture: With its favorable risk vs reward, it's well sought after, but the Lollipop Syndicate is known to keep strong tabs on who gets to deal it out in the capital city, so they commonly engage in gang warfare with other crime dealers. Many will not purchase CnF from any dealer that they believe to be non-Lollipops due to the associated danger from sketchier dealers, but those dealers tend to sell far cheaper bootlegs.

Because of its accessability, it's a common drug to see abusers use. As the bar for overdose is high, there have been known cases of absorbing 6,000 milligrams of CnF in a single session to get the same effect that a non-user would get by absorbing 200 milligrams. Due to the cost of CnF, many of these abusers turn to less reputable dealers who sell them far cheaper than the Lollipop Syndicate. Because of the danger of the syndicate, these dealers are often careful about who they sell their product to. Typically they sell other drugs as well as a front.

Withdrawal effects are mental, as the user's priorities get shifted in favor of the drug. Completely cutting off the drug is usually more dangerous than slowly lowering doses, as users will often require a fix before eating food, drinking, or in some cases, being able to sleep. Denying an abuser of their fix when they're going through heavy withdrawals leads to unpredictable behavior usually leaning on the extremes.

Alison texts scurps.
Thanks for interceding ;) Do you have any advice on how to seek out those drugs?
>We beat up independent dealers pretty bad, so they never like to sell to people they don't know. So get cozy with someone who they do know, and get to the dealer through them!

Bluestone is searched for, but apparently he is a jetal known to swap faces every day, so information is scattered.

Officially, he is an online data analyzer who studies who goes to what websites and why. He recently graduated from a low key university in networking sciences that is known to be a party college and is likely where he first entered the drug market. Although he never ran into trouble from the law, he has a low profile reputation in the college for being a dealer.

Unity's primary two options are be an abuser going through withdrawals, or be a sorority girl looking to get drugs for her friends as an initiation ceremony.

Meanwhile, one distracted lobbyists searching the news does find that despite the primary news' saccharine nature, delving deeper does reveal crime. Out of curiosity, he searches the face of the van man from the other night, and finds out that apparently a cop pursued that lead, went to his house, and busted him and a few of his accomplices who are now being processed for jailtime as the law investigates the case.

Go sorority girl. Just cause that might end up with us having to fuck someone to prove ourselves.

Creepy junky blowjobs for crack in a ally would be no fun.

We can stick the camera we need to tape right behind our eye, I hope.

>We beat up independent dealers pretty bad, so they never like to sell to people they don't know. So get cozy with someone who they do know, and get to the dealer through them!
That's not the worst idea. We go as the friend of one of their customers, or we do jetal identity theft and become one of their customers.

Problem is of course, first, we have to find some of their clients.

>Unity's primary two options are be an abuser going through withdrawals, or be a sorority girl looking to get drugs for her friends as an initiation ceremony.
If the dealers are reluctant to sell to people they don't know, the sorority girl is probably scarier to them than the addict. Less reliable, more likely to talk to the wrong people. Downside of the addict though is no one would have seen us before.

We might not want to go all the way to the full withdrawl level. All the way and they'll be worried we might be unpredictable enough to be bad for business.

>>728923
Upside with doing the identify theft is, they're going to be desperate. So we could just go up to them and say, we have money, and can get you CnJs if you tell us about your dealer (Only bringing up the appearance borrowing if they ask, because it's a little creepy even if your a desperate junkie).

Not a super hard drug, then, just overall good and kept by a monopoly.

I think the abuser story is more believable, especially if we play it like we're being secretive but desperate, that the guild themselves are asking too much for us and we've been crawling around chasing rumours of other dealers to get "just a little fix, just to wean off, you know". Though, we might have a harder time playing the part in terms of knowing how to act like a junkie, the symptoms of withdrawal, familiarity with the scene and other dealers and drug zones, et cetera. I guess we do have a tap for the info to show we're familiar with the Guild, though. And it would be relatively easy to make the connection, if we have the aura of desperation to explain things - find someone who's shown the symptoms but isn't a Guild customer, offer to "do anything" if they tell us who their dealer is, do thing and then get introduced, easy.

Huh... I wonder if we could get the Dead Batteries involved in our story, somehow? If we show some connection to them, and they're not yet allied with the Guild, then Bluestone might assume being with one means we're not with the other. And that'd be easier with the junkie route, we can pretend we've been working with them as a stripper/hooker to get our funds, and that it's through them we've tracked the rumours to find him. It would also excuse being a relatively pretty-looking junkie, and we could "demonstrate our job skills" as an additional persuasion/negotiation tactic. We could even shapeshift and wear the face of an actual, already known DB girl, to set ourselves up right proper. Who knows, maybe there's one that fits the profile really well already! I feel like the Guild doesn't run any sex industry stuff themselves, so again it'd make the target feel safer. The Guild seems to favor more high-class operatives, again, so being a gutter whore debasing herself for the drugs won't match up with the profile for their agents he'd imagine. We're still hiding the fact that we're with the DBs from the Guild, so we'd need to be careful, though they likely won't care much if we make out that we just have a few, distant contacts with them.

Sorority covers our ignorance more, though if we did go with that we'd have to show a bit more wealth. We'd have to buy other drugs to fit the profile, and if we showed we had the money to do that then the question is why not go to the Guild directly. I wonder, could we play ignorance to Bluestone's independence? Like, we pretend that we think he is with the Lollipops? Like we're a dumb rich college girl who's used drugs provided by others before but only has a vague, mistaken impression of where they come from and how to get them.

Unity 2016/06/11(Sat)14:46 No. 728940 ID: dd338c
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After some deliberation, a story is made. Unity will play the part of a drug addict who is weaning off of the drugs. While she may appear on edge and somewhat desperate, she won't act like the worst result of drug abuse, and attempt to come across as someone who let themselves get in too deep and are trying to wean themselves off, and has been forced to go through independent dealers due to the prohibitive costs of Syndicate versions.

Scurps picks Unity up, and passes her the modules through the car seat.

"I think your idea is good, Scurps. The problem is is that I still would have to meet one of those clients."
>"Mmhmm, but he operates out of one block intensively, so I bet you could just ask around if you're subtle about it. I've never asked for drugs before, heh, since... well, I basically guard a pharmaceutical and all. Maybe we should get you a face, though. Someone who exists, because nearly any robot, jetal, or biological with a phone camera can do searches on your face, and if you've never been seen before, well, you may have to come up with a good reason why you're not known... we have faces, if you like. They're in the syndicate, but are used as 'clean' faces for stuff like this, so they don't get ties back to us."

Scurps gives a choice between Rayna, a business woman who likes to get stuff done, and Enni, a party girl. Scurps will give details on each if Unity wants to use one of them, but the details are only important to know so that she can match the character.

If Unity is not comfortable using the face of someone who really exists, she can also use the identity of Roxy or some other DB girl. Polatt confirms that he is alright with this, and will give even give information on Roxy to any people asking around to help sell a story. It would, Polatt thinks, help convince the dealer that Unity isn't working for the Syndicate since the Dead Batteries haven't been known to work with the Syndicate on anything.

Unity can also just go in as a nobody.

"Oh, and you should get some good clothes! We can get it delivered where I drop you off. But you should dress in either casual street clothes or maybe something skanky if you want to get people going after you. I can get some disposable clothes for you for the dropoff point and keep your current clothes safe."

How about business woman Rayna who is down on her luck and can no longer afford the good stuff so is weaning herself off drugs?

Can play her off as proud but slightly desperate. Should amuse the dealers and we can always be really "desperate" if you know what I mean.

>>728940
Hang on, does that mean we don't have a good face for an addict?

I kind of like the idea of using Roxy as a face, since if it works, we might have other drug dealers make her offer when she's working at the club. Which would mean our downtime / break time spent doing low-income dancing would also could as intelligence gathering. Intel we might be able to sell / trade to the Lollipop guild when we find someone selling something they shouldn't.

We still need to find someone who can vouch for us so we can get drugs, though.

Going as a DB girl sounds best. I'd like to go as Roxy but she's only appeared recently herself, but, maybe. Check out who else Polatt has on offer. Someone who looks decent, but who's in the lower class, on the harder side of life, someone who fits the profile. Aaand someone who won't blatantly be visible somewhere else while we're active. Give her a bit of money and I'd bet the DBs could convince her to lay low for a while, if her schedule isn't otherwise convenient. We'd need the lollipop girls to lay low, too, and they'll probably be harder/more expensive to convince of that. Tell the 'pops that you have an idea of some girls near where you live who might be good to imitate, who you have connections to and who won't be associated with them at all.

Give Scurps a little affection while you're in him, a little stroke with your hand or something.

Distract Scurps so thoroughly that he is in danger of getting into a car wreck.

1/3 Unity 2016/06/12(Sun)14:51 No. 729188 ID: dd338c
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>Hang on, does that mean we don't have a good face for an addict?
Unity isn't given the impression there's a perfect face on such short notice.

Scurps orders some temporary, simple clothes for Unity, which will use the Roxy name. Even though this handle isn't well established, it can be verified through the DB's strip club. Plus, Alison wants everyone to be on board with the idea, so after a brief discussion between the Dead Batteries and the Syndicate who want to keep relations with one another at arm's length, it's agreed on by both parties that it would be best to use a more disposable name under the worst case scenario.

While putting on clothes, Roxy teases Scurps.

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He nearly blows through a red light, and slams on his breaks hard enough to nearly tear through the asphalt below him. Roxy ends up on the windshield.

>"Ack! Are you okay?! Er..."
"I'm still a jetal! I'm fine. I'm just glad the windshield is strong."
>"Okay. Sorry about that!"
"It's fine!"
>"I'm still sorry!"
"You don't have to be!"
>"Well I am!"
"Okay!"

3/3 Unity 2016/06/12(Sun)14:55 No. 729193 ID: dd338c
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After apologies are given from Scurps and apology-dismissals given from Roxy in return, she's dropped off several blocks away so that no one will see Scurps and think that the Syndicate is making a move.

Roxy gets a few catcalls and stares, but it's otherwise a short trip to the block in question. She puts the camera in her eyeball so that Fern can see what's going on. There appear to only be biologicals and low level robots as far as Alison can see.

>"Alright." Fern messages Roxy. "Your block is up and down the street between the intersection you're at at the next one over, and the two buildings on either side. They're not gonna be any higher than the 10th floor, and no lower than the 8th basement level. That covers a lot of room and a lot of people, but not for a dealer like this. The first two floors are commercial. Strip clubs, parties, bars, clubs, casinos, pimp corners, you name it, you can find it."

Alison notes that Roxy doesn't seem to be looked on as favorably as she was in the strip clubs. The only looks Roxy gets seem to be of distrust, disdain and general suspicion, and Alison wonders if there's something wrong with Roxy since she can't imagine that so many people could possibly look at everyone like that.

Recluse disagrees, and thinks this block may only be a public location on legal documents and that everyone might actually just be jerks to outsiders.

Could be a few things.

1. Something about your appearance is off. (missing a rebreather?)

2. They know the usual crowd and you are not it. So until they know what you are there for you could be dangerous.

3. Possibly Roxy had history with this place?

Regardless check with Scurps and keep your eyes open. People here could just be used to junkies slumming it up and get annoyed by them. That or think you are undercover.

Well, people who go to strip clubs are there specifically because they want to see pretty guys and girls, you know. You won't get as positive a reaction elsewhere, anyway. Also, uh, that expression you've got on at the moment looks a little... smug. Try to avoid smiling, or if you are smiling make it look a bit fake. You're an addict looking for a fix of something you haven't been able to get recently, right? And you're a squishy biological girl in an unfamiliar part of town. Try to look a little on edge. Flick your tail about in agitation a bit, that sort of thing. If I read right, the withdrawal symptoms to a make-everything-feel-good drug would approximate to making everything feel bad, so try to look like you're in a little pain. Just a bit.

They may also think you're a hooker, in which case you might be edging on the claimed territory of the established local hookers.

Let's see... we need to establish your persona. You've just taken a long drive here, and you need something to numb yourself to your symptoms a little. Go into the liquor store and look for something cheap and hard, like just a small bottle of something low-class, bad-tasting but with a kick to it. You can ask the store owner about places to get... other stuff. Legal stuff, of course. I'd bet those girls back there will listen in to you.

I dunno what that guy's doing with his hand under his coat. Fingering a weapon? Jerkin' it on the street? Dunno, but it's unusual enough to excuse you being curious enough to take a longer look at him. Use your social scanner. Use it on the girls, too, as you pass them by to go into the store.

Could be general attitude, your clothes are comparatively nicer than crowd here, and you're looking pretty confident, so you might stick out because of that.

Although, dunno about the other two, but the one on the right seems to be looking a bit lower than your face. Maybe envious?

Can we use the social scanner to get a read on the vibe / mood of the people here?

>Recluse disagrees, and thinks this block may only be a public location on legal documents and that everyone might actually just be jerks to outsiders.
These are people who are using or selling illegal drugs, and are wary of the cops, rival drug syndicates they might be ripping off, and/or people people doing business with those people. It's a lot of people who are down on their luck, and lots of legitimate reasons to be suspicious of others.

Also, I some people who might well be working girls, and Roxy is one too. I'm sure they don't appreciate competition on their turf.

>what do
Tone down the naive / friendly outlook, and try to adopt a more neutral expression, and act like like you belong here (might need to let a non-Alison drive for that).

We need to be on the lookout for a user we can befriend and use as a point of contact with the dealer.

Suggestion 2016/06/12(Sun)16:08 No. 729221 ID: 503552
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Another outfit, by the way. Something closer to the classic streetwalker look, though with a little more touch of well-off than would be suitable, for example, right now.

Holes in the jeans with the fishnet tights might be too dense/complex for speedy update purposes. Would be no issue to reduce the number of holes or other complicated elements.

If Bio-Emulator isn't on already you'd better turn it on now!

Roxy 2016/06/12(Sun)18:46 No. 729260 ID: dd338c
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The scanner is used to process additional details from the few people around the corner.

As far as the cues can be read, the man laying on the sidewalk either has discomfort on his left side, or is fingering a weapon. The other two girls are feeling that their territory is being contested.

Before getting in full view, Roxy adjusts her look a bit to seem a slightly on edge and ragged but otherwise with a neutral expression while confirming her bio emulator is on.

Despite the lobbyists somewhat confused why a liquor store would also sell a great deal of painkillers that aren't supposed to be taken with alcohol, they do confirm that most places like that would sell painkillers. The girls look like they might block Roxy's path into the liquor store, but she slips in without incident and shops around to get something that might hold a CnJ user over for a bit while the clerk watches her like a hawk. Scurps recommends an all purpose pain killer commonly used by withdrawn CnJ users, so Roxy goes with that.

>"That'll be 400. If you're buying this for a friend or are experiencing chronic pain, you're welcome to buy more than one and save yourself a trip later."

Yeah that might be a good idea. Give me a few extra.

So is this the best stuff to deal with chronic pain? Or is there something better I could be using?

Then look like you are reconsidering and blurt out "But not to strong." I got hooked on something strong once and have been trying to wean myself off it for awhile now.

And sigh and look somewhat depressed.

Is the store clerk a biological? That almost looks like a seam for cybernetics around the front of his face, like it's supposed to come off or something.

Probably irrelevant, but discretely scan (Standard scanner) him while paying?

>>729260
Focus social scanner on him so we can manipulate him better.

Say you're hoping you won't need them soon, and you have... other things you need to buy. Then buy them and leave, and when you get a chance pop one in your mouth. We can just... store it.

This guy and his shop look pretty polished, so he's likely not in on the illicit circles around here. I think those girls outside are listening in, though, and might challenge you when you get outside, since I think they are hookers and on the watch for a new business rival. If they get stroppy you can explain to them that you work in a different part of the town (maybe drop the actual name of the club, to establish your identity), and you're only here looking for... someone. Who has something you need. Maybe.

Hopefully, they'll want to help you find what you're looking for so you get out of here and stop making them look less desirable by comparison to you. However, they might also be jerks and get rough with you, so be prepared to react appropriately, like an organic would.

>>729260
Ask if he knows where you can look around here to not need to keep hurting, if he knows what you mean.

(How are things with Alison and Clarence going? Left them hanging a while ago).

Should we ask the shopkeep though? Seems like it would be a pretty blatant attempt, when CnJ dealing semi-screen their customers.

Maybe play to your Roxy persona by being a just little flirty with the store owner. Not seriously, not actually trying to get anything out of him, just a little, briefly. In a hollow way, even, without your heart in it. As if smiling and fluttering your eyelashes at men is something you do just by habit, without thinking, while still overall giving that sense of being in a bad place at the minute. That'll make the girls outside suspect you're in their industry and make them more likely to get in your face about it, which could be our in to the local community as we "slip" hints as to what we're here looking for.

For our backstory, I think we can match up our sudden lack of ability to buy from the syndicate with Roxy's recent employment by the DBs. Let's say Roxy, until recently, worked for a higher-class, private club, and had more money, but lost her job somehow (influential client that pushed too much on her, and she unwisely complained?). So now she works for the DBs, is paid less, and is therefore in trouble with her drug habit?

I'd say to double the order. Even if we don't use it ourselves, perhaps the batteries or the lollipops could make use of them.

I'd suggest taking a dose for appearances immediately after purchase. Maybe a double dose, provided over the counter stuff isn't as strong as something that would need a prescription. This guy might be a way of screening for prospective clients, or might just be used to dealing with junkies.

Perhaps eye the alcohol for a moment before heading out.

Roxy 2016/06/12(Sun)21:41 No. 729328 ID: dd338c
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>How are Alison/Clarence doing?
Alison has been fooling around with Clarence for awhile, and despite not going easy on her, Clarence insists she continues.

Roxy idly flutters her eyelashes and sticks her chest out a bit more than most would consider appropriate, but does it more out of an emulated habit than doing so pointedly.

Although the shop is polished, the scanner reveals that the clerk is a robot capable of defending the shop against would-be burglars. He appears to be immune to any seduction, and although he is designed to be friendly and knowledgeable towards any customers and their questions, his default functions are short and to the point to get customers in and out. He's intended to be a medium between looking intimidating but still approachable, as he keeps a neutral or friendly expression on his face while plate seams are intentionally left visible to make it clear he's robotic. His expression, though a faithful reproduction of normal belenosian faces, tends to be plain and difficult to get any read on.

"Hey, Polatt?" Alison texts him. "Can we say Roxy used to work at a higher class strip club, and that's why I'm down on my luck?"
>"Sure. Isn't a pretty thing to smear your name artificially, but we can fit you in the records of our higher end strip clubs and say we demoted you after you made a few bad calls that we'll leave as vague."
"Okay, thank you!"
>"You're welcome, I think."

"Well..." Roxy replies to the clerk. "I guess one more box would be good." As soon as she says it, the counter opens up, some mechanism whirs, and another box pops up. "Um.... hey, do you know where I can find something to, well, not need to keep hurting? If you know what I mean? But not too strong." She says, drooping her voice near the end.

While speaking, Roxy lays down some cash while opening up the box to pop a few pills right away.

>"This isn't a pharmacy, but I know of someone who may be able to guide you to one." he says with an unsubtle tinge on the word 'pharmacy'. "He'll be willing to help you, so long as you respect that he isn't a charity. He's usually hanging on the streets around here, and I can call him over."

>>729328
Okay.

If you don't want Roxy's name smeared too much, the record could say that she got into trouble with a powerful patron of her old club, like maybe someone who wanted too much from her but the DBs wouldn't have wanted to mess with, so she got bumped down to a lower club to keep her away from encountering them again more than anything. So like, her future is uncertain, maybe the DBs will find somewhere else to raise her up again, maybe not, partly depending on how well she keeps herself together and working well despite being a bit hard done by. And that sort of backstory would present an obvious reason for her to have been taking a drug that makes bad stuff feel good, it'd be a common resort for people who sell services they aren't enjoying so much. If the DBs don't want to let people think they let one of their girls get ill-treated, maybe Roxy ill-advisedly kept it secret from them for the sake of not causing problems and used the drug to help herself endure things.

Heck, it even plays in with her having been almost kidnapped, if any of the truth of that's been spreading around. Perhaps the mysterious abusive client had a hankering to see her again and hired someone to nab her. Well, that might be a stretch, but at the very least, her being an addict to something explains her being willing to take risks for extra money. Or, alternately, she had some stockpiled for weaning herself off but the bit of trauma she had from the kidnapping last night drove her to indulge, and now she has none left.

Anyway, tell the clerk you'd be grateful for that (he's probably not a charity, either. If his info's good you might want to tip him a little), but remember to act a bit nervous. Remember, you're playing someone who knows that the guy she's looking for isn't with the Lollipops, and who knows what they think of resellers and their customers, since she's bought from them before, and has info through her DB contacts.

Oh, hm, speaking of being grateful, if we are going to be using any... specialist haggling techniques, later, I'm wondering something. Is the withdrawal symptom of CnJ just general hurting/soreness? Or is it a direct inversion of the drug's normal effect, that all stimuli produce discomfort or pain, in the same way that when it is in effect everything feels good? Because if the reversal is the withdrawal effect, we need to be sure we react appropriately to any intense sensations. In the case of "in-depth negotiations", in particular, it'll be out of character to be too keen to offer anything that would feel good (and therefore painful, right now) for Roxy. So, I hope some of you guys in there have been practicing using your hands and mouths and rubbing things on things. If you haven't, maybe get a bit of last-minute practice in right now while this "pharmacist" is being fetched.

>>729328
Yeah, that sounds good. You can pay, and you'll talk to this guy if he points us in his direction.

1/2 Roxy 2016/06/13(Mon)14:58 No. 729459 ID: dd338c
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"If we could keep Roxy's name okay by just having another reason for her to be downgraded, that may work too."
>"I'll see what I can do." says Polatt.

>Is the withdrawal symptom of CnJ just general hurting/soreness?
A dim sense of pain is common. Although withdrawals not make additional sensation feel bad as a direct inverse to its effects,

"Okay! I'd be grateful." Roxy says to the clerk. "I can pay extra for the information.
>"ERROR. Information is not for sale and is intended for customer relations only. Do not pay for non-inventory items." He says in a robotic voice that sounds like it's a playback message, before speaking normally again. "Wait outside, he'll be here in just a second."
"Does it have to be outside?"
>"Yes. This is a no soliciting zone, so he is not allowed to advertise pharmacy's here. Even if we are not a pharmacy. You can wait inside until then, if you would like to avoid the smog. We do not have respirator dispensers here."

Unity pays for the goods, eyes the alcohol, and then goes outside when the clerk says he's outside.

2/2 Roxy 2016/06/13(Mon)15:00 No. 729462 ID: dd338c
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Upon going outside, Roxy is met by the largest biological she has ever seen outside of the internet, with several internal cybernetics and other enhancements that seem to be made for combat. Despite the enhancements, he appears like he's trying to hide the fact that he's mildly winded after possibly sprinting here. He makes and maintains direct eye contact, and maintains it like a rowboat with a battleship anchor.

>"Hey, girl! Heard you were looking for something?"

Uh oh, biological? What was our target again, a constantly face changing jetal? Could be pulling the same trick we are, but thinking this could get to be a bad situation easily.

Also looks like his presence is really pissing off that working girl.

>Heard you were looking for something?
Yeah. Know where a gal can score some...

Uh, what's the street name of the drug we're buying? CnJ doesn't flow of the tongue very well, and it sounds too much like it's the formula.

>>729463
Yeah, he's not the target. He's hopefully a go between who will get us there. I'd assume our target wouldn't let people resell their product this close to them?

Well, since we're playing someone who's been following rumours, we don't have much reason to pretend we don't know who we're looking for. So, since he's massive enough to justify you getting a long eyeful, use your scanner on him, flick it on the girl behind him again as well, and reply something like...

"A... kind of specific something, yes. I'd heard someone around here might have it. You, um, don't really fit the kind of person I was picturing from what I heard, but, even if all you could do is help me find my way around, I'd be... very grateful. And I could have just imagined wrong. Is there somewhere not out on the street that we could talk about it?"

>He makes and maintains direct eye contact, and maintains it like a rowboat with a battleship anchor.

He's trying not to let his eyes get sucked into that massive gravity well you have sticking out the front. I like him. He might not be our man but he might work for him, be an associate of him or otherwise be able to help us out just by being familiar with the scene.

The fact that this guy is sweating... the guy at the party we met in the last thread was sweating a lot too, wasn't he? And he was a user of the same stuff. Maybe it's an associated symptom of use. Speaking of bodily fluids, does the bio-imitation mod have any fluid functionality? It would have to have some sub-function to make scents, so it would have some limited chemical synthesis ability. It would probably be pretty restricted, though, just tears and sweat. And one assumes the sex module can handle, uh, lubrication.

>>729466

Spark, Suckers and Lollipops were given as example names for the original drug, though the bootleg might have a different name.

>>729462
Keep the same vague, wishy washy sort of innuendoes. After all, "what if this guy's a cop or something?" is a valid thought for someone trying to get drugs, right?

Also, I wonder if cybernetics have the ability to duplicate some types of jetal modules for biological use.

Maybe very quietly mention to him, he doesn't have to be careful with his eyes, you don't mind.

It's not like we're trying not to get a look at him, after all. He's pretty cute.

1/2 Roxy 2016/06/13(Mon)16:26 No. 729479 ID: dd338c
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Judging by the stinkeye from the girl is directed at Roxy, it's decided on that her problem is that the man is going after Roxy more than the man himself.

>CnJ Name
The term 'CnJ' appears to be short for 'cream n' jelly' which appears to be a wild bastardization of the primary chemical compounds ran through a series of dumbing down to get something pronounceable, if not something that rolls perfectly off the tongue.

There are a few side names for it, though, which allow Roxy to at least show a semblence of subtlety about it while in the middle of the sidewalk with company.

>Does the bio-imitation mod have any fluid functionality?
It does allow for generation of bodily fluids, provided raw materials, either synthetic or in the form of food.

>He's sweating
Lobbyists are pretty sure that's just because he's a little bit out of breath. The drug sniffer is used, and although the air is about as dank as city air gets, which is very, it doesn't detect some directly on this person.

"A... kind of specific something, yes. I'd heard someone around here might have it. You, um, don't really fit the kind of person I was picturing from what I heard - "
>"Ahaha it's fine most people don't really think I look appropriate but I'm still good at what I do! Er, continue, please."
"Right, uh, but, even if all you could do is help me find my way around, I'd be... very grateful. And you don't need to be careful with your eyes, I really don't mind."

Roxy has never seen eyes vibrate like that in the midst of intense confusion and conflicting wishes.

"Is there a place we could go in private where I could score some, uh, sucking?"

2/2 Roxy 2016/06/13(Mon)16:26 No. 729480 ID: dd338c
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>"Heyyy hold on a second!" the prostitute comes up fast but sounding nice. Scanner says the nice is a lie. "You, big guy, wait here just a second, I've gotta talk with this girl about something, it'll take two seconds!" she says, before turning to Roxy. "Just step with me off to the side here." she says, gesturing away. While she isn't directing Roxy into back alley murder-nook, she is pointing around the street corner where the large man can't see.

She thinks you're picking up johns on her corner.

"No thanks, I'm good here."

>"Is there a place we could go in private where I could score some, uh, sucking?"

Dangit you guys. Now she thinks you're a rival horning in or her slice of the street. Probably. We may be misinterpreting the situation. But probably not!

... I wonder how she'd react if you just say "oh, no, don't worry, I'm buying from him."

>>729480
"I'm buying from him, idiot."

>>729480
Deadpan:

"I'm not selling anything, sister. I'm just trying to get high."

>>729488

>>729485
Perfect.

Of course, it might be unfair to assume this girl is a hooker straight away, just because she's hanging out on the street in revealing clothes. She looked big enough in our initial view of her to maybe be this guy's sister or something, so if this guy is a dealer maybe she's like, his lookout or something.

I don't think that's a likely scenario, but it is possible! So I'm still suggesting the "don't worry i'm buying from him" response, but if it looks like there is a misunderstanding then yeah dip around the corner with her. Just barely, though, like leave your rear side just visible past the wall.

1/2 Roxy 2016/06/13(Mon)17:22 No. 729497 ID: dd338c
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"Don't worry, I'm buying from him!"

2/2 Roxy 2016/06/13(Mon)17:22 No. 729498 ID: dd338c
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This seems to take her by surprise, but Roxy takes that moment of confusion to take a couple steps towards the guy. By the time she regains her composure and is about to say anything, the moment is passed and she's let go.

>"Oh, uh, I'm Marchi, by the way." he says as he puts his hand on Roxy's back and directs her to walk with him.
"I'm Roxy."
>"Nice to meet you, so, uh, what's your budget for this?" he asks, before starting to look around like maybe he shouldn't be asking about Roxy's budget in the middle of a street. "That is, uh, the quality of what you're looking for can vary a lot."

>>729498
If your research didn't cover how much would be appropriate for you to score (or even if it did) I suggest immediately texting Polatt and Scurps for input.

If you need to, you can stall by being coy, or probably just taking a deep breath and making your chest grab his attention for a moment.

Our story is we're trying to cut down anyway, right? We can weave that into wanting higher quality stuff, cause we'll be spending our modest budget on stuff less often.

Even if this logic doesn't quite pan out given how the drug works, it does pan out for someone trying to trick themselves into a weaning effort they're not fully committed to that is doomed to failure, and it probably doesn't make much different for our purposes if he buys our claims at face value or thinks we're self-deceiving.

>>729498
Take what you made from the stripping and divide it by 3, that's what we'll offer. Maybe mention you aren't looking for something strong, you're trying to quit.

I'd say our budget doesn't need to be too strongly connected to Roxy's pay. A biological needs rent, food, and other things, and we can make those numbers up. Do we know what sort of quality Bluestone supposedly sells?

Remember to keep up the subtle signs of nervousness and withdrawal symptoms. Though mute the latter a little over time, to match having taken the painkillers.

Tell him best quality isn't really what you're looking for, unfortunately. You used to be able to get the best, but, uh, well, you wouldn't be out here looking if you still could, no offense. You had to take on a lower-paying job recently, see. You thought you would be ok, but some things happened, and... basically, you just want to get enough now to help you endure until you can cope with less. That was your plan before, too, but... well, you're sure you can manage it this time. (let him think you have a good chance of slipping up again and coming back for more). So you actually want a variety, starting strong but getting more gentle, if he can provide that.

Yes, I did phrase all that to possibly also apply to sex services.

Doing some rough calculations of how many hours an actual organic stripper would work a week, plus a couple side jobs, Roxy's income is probably about 600k a week, two-thirds of which would be spent on various essentials for living and working. That makes 200k spare a week, so however long a weaning program would take, a month or two maybe, I don't know, tally that up and call it your budget.

Give an impression that the number you're quoting is a bit of a stretch, so you can set yourself up to have a reason you want to "negotiate" with him, or his boss or whoever will be at the end of this chain if that's how this is going to play out. If that's on the table as a possibility, with you maybe dropping a hint or two towards it so these people have a reason to think with what's between theri legs, they'll be thinking a little less with their heads.

Roxy 2016/06/13(Mon)18:22 No. 729521 ID: dd338c
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Roxy realizes she needs some input for this to not blindly shoot out a number.

"Scurps? How much money would it cost to buy enough to wean off of this drug?"
>"It takes a while if you're already feeling withdrawals. If you're doing it slow and safe, then you might be looking at, ah... hm... a million if you want to have just a little bit less every day. But that's if you want to buy it all at once, it's probably at least 10 grand per day to begin with to keep the withdrawals away but avoid the high. Then a little bit less per day after that. I hope that makes sense. Again, I don't buy!"
"That much?"
>"It takes about a thousand bucks for a regular person to get their high, but a real addict needs 20 times that much!"

>"Wait that's with Syndicate prices, do about a third of that for bootleg prices." he adds.

If the Lollipop Guild is willing to return our cash after they raid the place, or reimburse our costs for the drug (which I assume we're handing over to them when we're done) cost isn't really so important.

It doesn't make sense if we're not trying to buy at least a few days worth. Bootleg prices are 10k for three days... so say 70k for 21 days? That's most of a month. (Or maybe just round up to 100k for a month and a round number).

>a million
>about a third of that for bootleg prices

All right, say you have about a 300k budget. That'll leave a 33,333 (repeating) gap between that and what you'd actually need for a full weaning supply. Given that the guy yesterday offered 50k for a "private session" with Roxy like that was a decent price, then a "private negotiation" could cover that difference, plus maybe a little discount for you being a new customer. Maybe hint that you could possibly pay more but you don't want to because it'd eat into funds for other things.

I'm just assuming that their bucks are roughly equivalent to one cent each. So a million is ten thousand, 25000 an hour stripping is $250, 50000 is $500, and so on. Three thousand sounds right for a large supply of drugs, so go with 30k and sweeten the deal if needed.

Let's go with 30k and say if you like what you get you'll come back again for more.

Actually, I'm thinking, Marchi here is probably a sub-dealer in a mini-organization around this area, and Bluestone is up somewhere above him in the supply chain/heirarchy. To do the job the lollipops want, we need to find some reason that lets us ask to move up the ranks and meet/get the stuff from the (bootleg) source.

Asking for a bulk delivery might do that, since Marchi might not have all that we want in his own stash. We might need to offer more money for them to go through the trouble and expense of dropping it off for us. Some arrangement like, send Marchi to X location with half the stuff, we meet him with half the cash to make the exchange, then do the same a week later elsewhere, something like that. Of course, once we conclude that arrangement, we will pay now to take some to tide us over until said delivery, which will be the proof the lollipops need.

I'm kind of hoping we can spare Marchi the lollipops' wrath and make him our own minion, he seems like he'd be very useful as a little muscle to call on to complement our stealth and subterfuge approach. As a jetal, we should be able to afford an organic cyborg henchman, and he seems nice so far. He might still turn out otherwise, though, of course.

Roxy 2016/06/13(Mon)19:10 No. 729533 ID: dd338c
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"Well, quality isn't what I'm looking for, otherwise I wouldn't be out here."
>"Oh, er, I guess that makes sense, but I'm sure I can get good stuff for you."
"Well... the thing is is that I had to take a lower paying job recently. I used to get the best! Then things happened, and now I just have to endure and cope with less and less. Again. I mean, I did this before, because I had the same plan, but I'm sure I can manage it this time! So I'd like a variety if possible but getting more gentle. If you can provide that."
>"Oh, yes, but I do need to have an idea of what your budget it."
"Oh! Uh, how about 75k?
>"For that much, we'll have a lot of options that I think you'll enjoy."
"You have that much in stock?"
>"Haha, you'll make me have to restock, but that's a good thing."

The conversation enters a lull as he guides Roxy into a building and to a hallway at the side, where he enters an elevator.

>"My place is on the 9th level basement, just to put that out there." he says, before some subtle body languages of his seems to indicate he also thinks that he shouldn't have said that.

Roxy can't detect any ill will from Marchi, but he is nervous while simultaneously being pushy as he seems on edge for Roxy to keep going with him. This also puts some lobbyists on edge, because going down a few basement levels in a place like this is already sketchy, and there's no camera detected in the elevator.

>>"My place is on the 9th level basement, just to put that out there."
>They're not gonna be any higher than the 10th floor, and no lower than the 8th basement level.
Red flag. That's lower than Fern said they should be.

Text consult. Why wouldn't it be lower than that? Is B9 and below secure, or controlled, or expensive, or something?

What do: act nervous, stall. Geeze, really? 9 Basements down?

Yeah talk with Fern and Scurps while acting a bit nervous.

Way down in the basement? Does nine levels down mean something special? This is my first time around here and am a bit nervous.

You seem like a nice guy but a girl has to be careful.

I don't think there's a huge danger. My guess now is, there's some suspicion you're an agent, either of the cops or the lollipops, and Marchi is the muscle sent to fetch you and bring you in somewhere private, to be inspected and interrogated to make sure you're not an agent before actually selling anything to you. Marchi's emotional state is because it's still possible you are an agent and he'll have to deal with you if so, but he's hoping that won't be the case. Because he's attracted to you. I think he's even blushing a little. Give him a smile.

So don't try to pull out now, keep going. This is fitting the "I'd say he's the gangleader, but it's more like he's hired some thugs to protect him and run his shit" profile Fern gave Bluestone. It is lower than the 8th level specification, but Fern may have just meant that's the only areas where you could meet dealers "on the street", as it were. 9 may be just private residences, and the sort of place you'd go to meet someone on their terms.

Thinking ahead, in addition to our Dead Batteries connection, being willing to offer sexual services as a haggling tactic may actually serve to make us more trustworthy. The Lollipops don't seem to have any hand in the sex industries themselves, and their members all seem to tend towards having a certain pride and high opinion of themselves, so both they and the cops would likely be seen as very unlikely to have employees who'd be willing to do things like that, much less offer.

Text Fern and Scurps quickly and ask if one floor off is dangerous.

If its not that bad I would say its worth the risk. As long as they know where you are going.

Roxy 2016/06/13(Mon)20:03 No. 729548 ID: dd338c
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The person who is exiting the elevator seems extremely cautious around Marchi, and practically grinds against the opposite wall to get around him while staying as far as possible.

Alison wants to just go for it because she likes Marchi, but after some caution is requested, she takes control of the phone again to text Scurps.

"Hi Scurps!"
>"Hi again?!"
"Another question!"
>"You can just ask it!"
"Okay!"

"This person says he wants to sell me stuff on the 9th floor. What's sketchy about the 9th floor? I heard it's bad, but I don't know how."
>"Usually the first couple floors are just parking areas or warehouses or things like that. After that, though, you start getting into the foundations of the buildings where maybe there's some subway station or passages and stuff, but in a place like that, there's probably just abandoned businesses or business fronts where a lot of people go when they don't want to be seen and can't afford actual office space. That's why our target isn't below the 8th, because we've got confirmation that after the 8th in either building it's all just rebar, running ground water, cracked concrete, and... you get the idea. If the sea is an ocean of scumbuckets, then if someone's taking you to the 9th floor down, they're what we call a bottomfeeder. The sort of person who wants to hide right under the people hiding from the law! And there's a lot of kinds of bottomfeeders, so I couldn't give you advice about it, but they generally have a lot of shit going on."

>"Oh, and the basement levels are usually bigger than upper levels, so the 9th level is deeper than it might sound to you if you've never been down there."

>>729548
So, this could be dangerous for an unarmed jetal, and we can't just get a mod from the internet. I guess if Roxy gets into trouble and Scurps can't get to us we could entice a jetal to have sex with Roxy then steal their shit.

So let's do this. Double down.

That would explain the nervousness and being able to buy out his stock with just 75k.

This guy is small time and really wants to make a sale.

Can we bust anyone or only a certain someone? If anyone I say try going with this guy.

Hmm. So 9th floor isn't immediately dangerous or super-secure, it's just megaslums. He's ashamed to be down there, and it's not taking us to our target.

I guess we have to hope he's going to have to take us to Bluestone to restock? But I'm not sure why we'd have to go to his place first, unless it's for sex, he actually has that much product in stock himself, ooooor, he's planning on beating ripping us off once we're well and away from anyone else? (Might be the girl was trying to warn us about him, not trying to get rid of us as competition).

I'm not sure this gets us where we want to be.

Maybe ask if he's got enough stuff down there? Or if he restocks anywhere closer?

>Can we bust anyone or only a certain someone?
The contract here to bust Bluestone. We were hoping Marchi would be a point of contact.

Buying this guy out seems like a way to get to his supplier.

Roxy 2016/06/13(Mon)20:51 No. 729561 ID: dd338c
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Roxy goes for it. Although this doesn't appear to be the target, the Syndicate would like to know about it if Marchi did have lollipops, and even if he doesn't himself, it's more than a faint possibility that he has ties to Bluestone.

"And you're sure you have enough down there?"
>"Oh, yes, let's just.." he lets out a nervous laugh. "I'm on the 9th floor, and you can't be that naive, so let's just say you will get a lot of bang for your buck if you come down to my level."

He pauses as he rethinks his statement.

>"You'll get a lot for your budget. It's no place for people like you, but it's really not safe for me to deal up top where anyone can see."
"Okay. I'll go with you."

He seems elated, and ushers Roxy in and hits as far down as the elevator goes. The elevator seems slow, but it still takes a long time to get to the 9th floor. After the first few floors pass, Marchi's breathing evens out as he gets calmer. By the time the 6th floor is ducked under, Marchi audibly exhales just before Roxy's phone loses all reception.

>"So, uh, if you don't mind me asking, what part of town are you from? I don't see many newcomers on this block that don't get shoo'd away before I can get to them, let alone ones that are actually trying to get away from drugs."

>>729561
What part of town? Give him the area near the strip joint Roxy works at.

Also let's start making up more backstory for Roxy that won't conflict what there is already on her.

Give him some basic stuff from Roxys background.

As for why I am in this neighborhood I heard from a friend that this was a good place to check if your wallet was light. It's easy to get over your head when you are making good money and life is going great. I am just glad things went downhill before I was in to far to get out easy.

I was wondering how a big guy like you got so winded. Bet you might have a sob story similar to mine.

Am glad you showed up when you did because those girls were not in the mood for me hanging around.

>"So, uh, if you don't mind me asking, what part of town are you from? I don't see many newcomers on this block that don't get shoo'd away before I can get to them, let alone ones that are actually trying to get away from drugs."
You can be honest, here. Give the name for the district / area the Dead Batteries control / where the strip club is / Loviro's hideout is. You checked maps on your phone earlier, and I'm sure you've seen street signs and stuff while you were up and about.

You went outside your usual area cause you don't want word getting back you switched to the off-label stuff.

Do not be to specific. Just the general area of town that fits Roxy's backstory.

No mentioning addresses or Loviros place.

This is a shady drug dealer so to much info is not needed. Just stuff like oh yeah I grew up on the westside and work near central square.

Maybe mention the area.

An excuse could be wanting to keep friends and employers from finding out, if that comes up.

Judging by the way this guy's reacting, we could probably get a bit of fun if we wanted. We are on a job, though...

Might be worth mentioning that we work in a strip club in such and such area, not naming it or giving it's location, to sorta keep his mind in the gutter and encourage him not to think too hard.

Guessing he's hit the steroids pretty hard to get that huge, would explain why he's getting winded, the rest of him didn't get trained by taking the quick way.

>>729572
We don't have any friends to tell us though, if we mention that they might ask for names, and they're likely to know their regular customers well.

>relaxes as phone reception cuts out

I think this is still fitting with the idea of worrying you're an agent. Now he knows you're not wearing a wire, or if you are it's not working now. Going even lower might protect against more, like EIN detection. In any case, "The sort of person who wants to hide right under the people hiding from the law" sounds exactly like where you'd find a bootleg CnJ operation. The Lollipop are criminals, after all, hiding from the law, and these guys are hiding from them. And they'd need somewhere to set up their drug kitchen.

Anyway, tell him the general area you come from. As I recall, it's basically a red light district, lots of brothels for sure, so act like you're assuming he'll make an assumption and say "but I'm not a prostitute, in case you were making the same assumption that girl did. Well, not... officially, anyway. I'm a dancer, right now I'm at [name of Roxy's club], and, you know, there are, um, side jobs. Which I don't mind doing. Er, most of them. I actually got into CnJ as a work aid, for something that paid a lot. I've, uh, had a bit of a string of problems, lately, you can probably tell."

That'll set up your dancer backstory and your connection to the DBs, and it'll reveal you're the kind of person willing to sell personal favors, so this guy and his friends will have that on their minds. You don't want to get into that too much right now, so lead away by asking about him. "How about you? Most dealers I've seen tend to be more... subtly built, even the rough types. It must take a lot to get so big, and it can't just be to look good."

Add a little smile at that last comment.

I think telling him any specifics would be more suspicious than being vague. I mean, would you tell your drug dealer where you live?

1/2 Roxy 2016/06/14(Tue)20:03 No. 729679 ID: dd338c
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"I'm around the upper side of the 6th district." says Roxy. "I dance at a strip club, there. Uh, there's side jobs, and I got into CnJ some as a, well, work aid. I was paid well enough that it wasn't a big deal, but then I got carried away and then ran into big problems. Which is why I ended up here."
>"This far?!"
"I didn't want to get traced back. But, hey, how about you? You're biological, right? I've never seen a biological so large."
>"Ahahah well it's not that fair, I'm not exactly all natural."
"Most dealers I've dealt with usually look a little more, uh, subtly built, even the rougher ones."
>"Oh. Sorry!"
"No it's fine! It's just had to have taken a lot to get that big, and it can't be just to look good."
>"Oh, no, I'm kind of, well, an independent person, and it's been so hard to get trustworthy help that I've just had to become my own muscle, so to speak. It sure doesn't help people act amenable to me, that's for sure, so it means a lot that you're trusting me this much."

He pats her on the back.

>"Well, anyway, Roxy, you might've gone a long way out of your normal operating area, but I think I'm bold enough to say that for a place to fix your problems, you couldn't have come to a better place."

As he finishes the sentence, the elevator opens up into a dreary, broken down hallway with a stairwell going downwards at the side and a flickering series of lights on the ceiling.

>"Well, uh...that is... it gets better. Let's move on."

2/2 Roxy 2016/06/14(Tue)20:03 No. 729680 ID: dd338c
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Marchi reaches up into the ceiling and grabs a flashlight from there, and leads Roxy down the stairwell. Between the odd noises the building above her makes and the increasingly broken material, it starts feeling more like spelunking through an urban labyrinth than walking through a large building.

>"I'm really sorry to make you walk all this way, I'm - "

A bottle smashes apart against the floor up ahead.

>"Er. No one's supposed to be here." he whispers. "Can I ask you to hide in that maintenance closet, there, while I investigate that?"

Sure why not hide in the closet.

(paranoia check: make sure you can get out of it afterwards)

>>729680
Switch from social scanner to normal, see if you can do some threat assessment.

Also don't hide in the closet, just get out of sight.

>>729680
Hey, this job is becoming a very sketchy thing, and though I understand we're a part of a criminal syndicate so this is to be expected, just as a precaution, I feel that maybe we shouldn't get stuck in what could possibly be a rape-closet

>>729680
Glance back down the elevator.

"I can hang back, but I'd prefer not to block my own way back to the elevator if there is something or someone bad down here."

>>729685
Also, yeah, use the scanner suite.

Take a glance over at the closet, look (more) worried, then whisper back that you think you'd feel safer hiding behind him than being alone down here. Besides, the door looks so rusted up, it'd make noise opening and closing.

Try the scanner, yes, and also try the sniffer, see if it picks up anything odd.

This could still be a convoluted plan of testing you're not an agent, but my suspicion is also swinging back to him being Bluestone and using some bio-imitation and false scanner feedback mod. In which case, the way to test for a bio-imitating jetal is probably the old shapeshifter trick of separating a part of their body from the rest of it. Drawing blood is traditional, but in our case, maybe we could get something else from him. Even if he has a mod to produce something, I'd bet it couldn't reproduce the organic stuff exactly, so it'll be possible to tell. Might have to store it inside ourselves and switch to a chemical analysis mod later to do that, but that's in our reach.

Alternately, he could be all he says he is, and he's actually stolen and reselling drugs from the original reseller. Double bootlegging! His comment about being independent is a bit suspect, since then the question arises, where does he get the stuff? He doesn't look like the type who can make it himself, but maybe that's unfair.

Roxy 2016/06/15(Wed)16:07 No. 729803 ID: dd338c
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Roxy looks over the closet. It appears to be a mundane closet, and even if she weren't a jetal, she could probably break out of it even if its handle got jammed due to it being in such poor condition. Nonetheless, she shakes her head.

"It'll squeak. I'd like to just stay here."
>"Well, okay... but stay by it, and if it sounds like anyone's running this way, hide right away! The important thing is to stay safe." he whispers back, before carefully but swiftly taking steps towards the noise.

The scanner did and does not reveal anything out of the norm since she doesn't have line of sight to what's going on, and the drug sniffer does catch the whiff of some drugs, but not any more than has been usual since stepping inside the building. If anything, there's even less than there was on the street.

After a moment, Roxy hear's a girl yell down past a couple of corners where Marchi went.

>"No, no! Don't look at me! Get away!"
>"How'd you get - er - " He starts whisper shouting, but Roxy's jetal ears can hear it especially with the dead silence to let his voice carry. "Doesn't matter how you got out, you've got to go back in the cell."
>"You're not allowed to keep me here, I'm leaving!"
>"Later! I told you, only one week from now!"
>"No, nooo!"

She keeps yelling, but her voice dies out as it sounds like she got gagged.

Sounds like detox to me.

...look in the maintenance closet. Anything interesting in there?

Drug detox, or have we found another sex slave ring? We might be walking to another trap, but he doesn't know we're a jetal, so it's probably fine.

Remember that we're recording. If there is something bad going on down here, we can use that to mess it up and help the girl.

For now, keep listening, and hang back. Wait for him to return. When he gets back, ask what it was, see what explanation he gives you.

If our jetal ears are what allowed us to listen in, then we shouldn't mention any details about what we heard, a biological might have heard something but no details. Asking him what that was all about afterwards might reveal some info, but might put him on guard if he considers it prying.

This is kinda getting suspicious now, dunno who that girl could be, but worst comes to worst, could we overpower Marchi?

Its probably him detoxing some friends but I sort of hope its a sex slave ring.

Wander up a bit and sneak a peak at whats happening. Just make sure to keep your cover and pretend to be organic even if it is something bad.

Would be easier to sneak out later if we got tied up than let anyone know we are a jetal. Cause the second they see Jetal the big guns and force fields come out. But organics get thrown in crappy cuffs behind wood doors.

Sneak over and try to get a look at whats going on.

But do avoid revealing your jetal nature.

Blindly rush over and see what is going on.

No sneaking, he'll be coming back this way directly.

I agree with the detox theory. It makes sense with his comment that "I don't see many newcomers on this block that don't get shoo'd away before I can get to them, let alone ones that are actually trying to get away from drugs", and it clears up the disconnect between him claiming to be independent and needing to have gotten a supply somewhere. Also, why he was out of breath, since he sprinted over as fast as he could before we found the actual dealers. Plus, this being a place where CnJ is sold cheaply but dangerously, and therefore bought by the most desperate users, this is the place to go to find people to help.

The question is, is he kidnapping people to be detoxed forcefully? I doubt it, since people going missing for weeks would be noticed. But he might be helping people who previously consent to being locked up, in knowledge that when they get into bad withdrawal they'll try to escape.

Or it could be a sex dungeon.

I want to investigate this, but trouble is, if detox is the case then we're off track for our actual mission. You can probably tell him you heard what sounded like a woman's voice, and act scared, but I doubt trying to leave will go well at all. With combat implants in him and no combat mods in us, he can probably restrain us forcefully even if we bring out the jetal force - and even if he couldn't, without mods for it, I'd worry we couldn't control our strength, and do him serious damage that he doesn't deserve.

Investigate this. If this guy turns out to be an enemy of the drug dealers around here, maybe we can just explain everything and get his help. Though, he probably won't approve of us working for other drug dealers. We could claim that we're not really with them, just loaned to them by the DBs. Or something like that. Thoughts for later, we have to find out a bunch of stuff first!

If she was yelling, would non-jetal ears have heard that?

1/2 Roxy 2016/06/15(Wed)17:19 No. 729828 ID: dd338c
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>Could we overpower Marchi?
Roxy isn't sure. His enhancements seem like they're made for being able to fight like a biological, and it seems like it would be an immense cost to strengthen himself like that and still not be able to handle a jetal with an E rank weapon. It's difficult to say, though, since Roxy hasn't been able to detect what his enhancements do, and while it's not likely that he has any jetal module capabilities, it is possible that some robotic parts inside of him are capable of offense and defense.

Although the noise is now too quiet to hear with normal biological ears, it started off loud enough that a biological Roxy would have at least heard a girl's voice in distress.

Roxy takes a quick look inside of the closet. Some sockets in the wall imply that there used to be something here, but now it's just dust and rough wall.

She runs up around a couple of corners. The noise shifts, and it's thought that Marchi can hear her running up.

He turns around, wide eyed, in stunned silence while a girl flails her arms and legs.

2/2 Roxy 2016/06/15(Wed)17:20 No. 729830 ID: dd338c
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>"It's, uh... hahaha this looks pretty bad doesn't it?!" He says in a loud, nerve-induced laugh. Scanners indicate an increased heart rate and a tone like he's about to give up on something but doesn't want to.

>>729830
Tell him he'd better explain what's going on. Warn him you're not as defenseless as you look. (quite possible to have hidden cybernetics)

Did you lure me down here to chain me up in your sex dungeon? Where you already have tons of innocent girls tied up so you can do horrible perverted things to them? Using your illegal cyborg modifications that no normal girl can handle to fuck them until they turn into mindless pleasure addicted slaves?

Pretend to be completely horrified and scared while saying this.

Then see how he reacts. This is totally him detoxing a friend but tease him a little.

Huh, it does look bad. Starting to think he's not really a dealer, either a forced detox vigilante (Any between word for that?), or he's kidnapping people for purposes.

What is it supposed to look like then Marchi?

Break out sobbing and start going on about how that he seemed like such a nice guy and now you are going to end up trapped in his horrible sex dungeon and will never see your family again.

>>729830
"Yeah, can't argue that it looks sketchy.

"I'll give you chance to try and explain yourself, though. Is there a way where this only looks bad, but isn't really bad?"

Obviously turn the social scanner on them. And try and see what we can pick up about the girl's status. (Hurt, afraid, drugged)?

>>Could we overpower Marchi?
>Roxy isn't sure.
If we're willing to give away what we are, just get close to his face, and then morph all over it. Cover his face, his nose, his mouth, cram them full of jetalium. He won't stay conscious long if he can't breath.

"It... does, yes. But, that given, I really don't think I could outrun you. Aaand this isn't a place to run off by myself, either, soooo, maybe it's the double painkillers talking, but how about we pretend this might not be what it looks like, and you try to explain why, and to prove it?"

I like the teasing him idea.

His reactions are far from what some kidnapper would act like so I bet its just helping a friend detox by locking them up and keeping them away from drugs.

Roxy 2016/06/15(Wed)18:04 No. 729840 ID: dd338c
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Roxy forms some biological tears in her eyes.

"You were such a nice guy, and now you're just going to trap me in your horrible sex dungeon?!" Roxy says in a shaky voice as he shines the flashlight on her.
>"Ah - no - tha what - "
"I'm going to be chained up while you use your cyborg modifications that you made so that no normal girl can handle you fucking them and bearing the brunt of your horrible perverted fantasies?!
>"Oh no oh no that's not it at all!" he says, nearly dropping the girl to put up his hands defensively. He's on the verge of panicking, and seems earnest. "There is no sex dungeon! Or even a regular dungeon er - I know I said 'cell' if you heard that but it's nice and padded and really kind of nice considering it's down here! Please don't leave! I need this sale so much and it'll help you out, please trust me. I won't get anywhere close to you if you want so please I've got to have you come with - right, this girl is in detox!"
"No I'm not he's trapping me and abusing me!"
>"Nooooo!"

The girl seems manic, but although lobbyists think this guy is just detoxing the girl, it's hard to glean much from the girl herself. She's acting reasonable for both someone in heavy withdrawals of an unknown drug, and someone who's getting dragged off to an actual dungeon.

2/2 Roxy 2016/06/15(Wed)18:04 No. 729841 ID: dd338c
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>"Uh..." his tone drops. "... how did you follow me through those corners so fast without a flashlight? It's way darker than a biological can see, and your eyes seem organic?"

>>729841
is there a drug that can do this? If so attribute it to that.

I got scared and decided to follow the light your flashlight gave off. It's really dark down here and I did not want to be alone.

>>729841
...why doesn't Bio Emulator warn us about this kind of thing?! If we find out who made this mod we could make some suggestions I'm sure.

Tell him you just followed the wall with your hand. Alternatively, you could make a tiny flashlight in your finger and show him that. Fake hidden cybernetics! Might be more believable. A tiny (but bright) LED below the skin would be small enough not to be noticed by anyone that wasn't making a close inspection of your hand.

>"Uh..." his tone drops. "... how did you follow me through those corners so fast without a flashlight?
Use morph to drop one of your internal cell phones into a hand he can't see (behind your back, or in a pocket).

Hold the phone up and turn on a low-level flashlight app.

"You were kinda focused. I didn't think you'd notice if I kept it down low."

You actually have better than normal organic hearing. You were able to hear him, well enough to be able to follow the sound of his movements. You figured you could pass through anywhere clear enough for him to have passed, so you didn't worry about the floor.

Anyway, he's the one who should be answering questions! Can he prove this girl is just in detox? And does he really have any drugs, or is he some sort of anti-drug vigilante forcing cold turkey on people?

Uh oh. Bluffing our way out of this shouldn't be too hard, I can't recall if Marchi's augments include vision; but we can say the same way he can if his vision's normal, or just it's not that dark or something, maybe Roxy happens to have good eyesight; as for moving quickly you need to be in pretty good shape to work in the strip club for hours.

We could also use this as a opportunity and try and turn him to our side, get him to help us find Bluestone. If he's forcing people into detox, then removing the bootleggers would help towards that, pure stuff is safer than if it's cut with random stuff.

Dunno what would be the better option, we could always try the first and then the second if the bluff fails though.

>>729848
>we can say the same way he can

He's carrying a flashlight.

I'd like to see if we can recruit him to help with Bluestone too, but we have to make sure of him first.

I used my cell phone light.

That and I got nervous and started following you right away. Its scary down here.

>>729846
>>729850
Yeah, these.

>>729849
Ah, I missed that.

Going to support the phone idea instead, it's more solid a bluff. As long as he isn't watching us with a scanner.

>>729854
>>729846

I don't think we can push a phone out fast enough. I also us having a light doesn't explain how we were able to follow him, only that we would have been able to see where we're going. Plus, it's kinda unbelievable that we could have had a light strong enough to help us but that he wasn't able to see any sign of. So, I still say hearing. Or, actually, maybe scent? We could say we have enhanced sense of smell for, like... detecting pheremones, intoxication and emotional state in clients, or something, and it's also good enough to track. More believable for a stripper than sight or hearing. And such an implant would be up in the sinuses and not outwardly visible.

1/3 Roxy 2016/06/15(Wed)18:49 No. 729859 ID: dd338c
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>Why doesn't biological emulator give a signal?
Presumably since it still allows easy overrides for more jetal functions, such as being able to stick a camera in her eye in the first place.

"Um... my phone?" Roxy says immediately, while pushing one of her cell phones up into her pocket as fast as she can.
>"Er... phone? Oh, right!" He finishes.
"And, er, I kind of kept track of where you went to, because I'm scared down here. You didn't go far, either." Roxy manages to pull the phone out of her back pocket where she turns on the screen so that it gives off a dim but easily visible light. "And you were a little loud at first, too."
>"Right hahahaha okay uh I've got to go deal with this girl, I'll be back in just a couple of minutes."
"Can you, um, prove she's in detox?"
>"W-well, I... my place is just at the end of this hall. Wait at the couch there, and I'll be right out! The lights are off, but I'll turn them on once I finish this up so that you don't have to keep using your phone."

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He runs off before Roxy can agree, but she follows him up ahead. She waits in the hall, opting to stand instead of sitting on what looks like a decrepid couch.

She hears a call from deeper inside.

>"I'll be just a minute! I'm just slipping into something more comfortable!"

3/3 Roxy 2016/06/15(Wed)18:50 No. 729861 ID: dd338c
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The light comes on.

>"Uh... hi. Doctor Marchi Vollaros. That's me, I mean. I'm not going to force you into detox, because it's not necessary as long as you follow my directions. And I really am a licenced drug doctor so to speak, but even though I don't have a legal licence anymore for that, and never had one for general practice or therapy or anything like that, I do take pride in all of my work."

>"This isn't a drug! This isn't a drug house at all!" says Guardsman.
>"Well, it kind of is." Scanner retorts.

>>729861
Okay then, that's a relief. How about we get straight to business, doctor?

>>729861
So... I take then you don't want to help me buy from Bluestone, then?

Find out what he thinks of the local dealers, and if he knows them (or if they know him).

Then I think we have to tell him we fibbed about who we are, same as him. (Hold up a hand and make it blorp).

I am trying to meet with the local CNJ dealer, but if I do, it's the first step in shutting him down. I was hoping to find someone who could get me in, but it seems to me you might like to see me succeed.

Also: props for the pharmacist. He didn't redirect you to a dealer, but to covert treatment. That's fantastic.

Express relief, but with a small hint of skepticism. Ask if you can take a look around, just to make doubly sure. You can also angle for some information on the actual dealers by talking about how you heard rumors of bootleg CnJ being sold around here. Try indicate that you're worried about them coming after the both of you now; people who sell that tend to be dangerous, considering the risk they go through and the people they prey on, so you're a bit worried. How long has he been doing this, and how has he kept the dealers from coming down on him? You assume he's basically working against them.

Also, express some doubt about how much he can actually help you. You'd heard just taking smaller doses over time was the best way to get off CnJ, that straight cutting it out was actually more dangerous.

Also... uh, was that girl just in withdrawal enough to do and say anything to escape, or does he actually kidnap people and force detox on them? Because that's... theoretically a good thing but still pretty sketchy. People have, like, friends and family and jobs and such.

Depending on how he treats people, this could be a deadend (Weening off CnJ or a detox substitute drug?), if he does have CnJ we could question him about it.

Trying to think whether revealing our nature will help here or not, it seems like his operation relies on him intercepting addicts before they find a dealer, if news spreads of the guild busting dealers here, that would probably drive away the addicts and mess with his operation. We might have to get him a decent supply of drugs for him to continue operating without a supplier, or make sure the guild removes Bluestone quietly, to get him to help us. Kinda guessing at his motives here.

Keep up your cover for now.

Look slightly relived but still suspicious. Have him tell you his tale and find out how he ended up this way.

Then seduce him for being such a nice guy.

His head is so smol.

Have people start scanning the net for his name and history while chatting with him.

So wait you are not a drug dealer?

Suddenly it all makes sense! When you get the news of a cute girl looking desperate and asking for drugs you run as fast as you can over so you can help them. And then you lure them down here and pull your doctor act to lower there guard before you ravish them in your sex dungeon!

Well you got me I guess. Tie me up and have your horrible way with me.

>>729861
Ask him how he got into this. Charity work didn't pay for those mods.

Might be worth asking Loviro if he knows a Dr. Marchi Vollaros.

>>729871
>scan the net
Can't, no reception down here.

Roxy 2016/06/15(Wed)19:33 No. 729881 ID: dd338c
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"So uh... you don't want to help me buy from Bluestone?"

His face droops.

>"There's been a misunderstanding. And I'm to blame, because I let it occur, but I can't stay out on the streets for long before someone spots me. It's difficult for organics to change faces frequently, after all."
"I'm sorry, but I was looking for CnJ."
>"I know! I know about how it's possible to withdraw from CnJ with decremental dosages, but please understand, I have Lasalomi, Rident, Profus and other drugs that are far more adequate to avoiding CnJ. It's far more effective, far cheaper, and with easy doses every day, you won't have to struggle at all. I know it sounds too good to be true, but the real pharmacies can be just as bad as the drug lords out there, since they can charge more for letting people do it legally. So I have no reason to lie for self gain."
"So, no CnJ?"
>"Better than CnJ, if you really, honestly want to be off of it."
"Uhm... how did you lose your license?"
>"I used to think I could change pharmacy's for the better. In a time of weakness, though, I gave up, and instead of trying to change things long term, I started shaving some drugs off the top and delivered them to people in need. Eventually it came down on me, and I lost everything except for my training, knowledge and experience, which was plenty. So I started dealing with illicit drug trades, since it doesn't seem like legitimate or illegitimate dealers have any bearing on doing any good."
"And that girl, did you force her into detox?"
>"Not at first, she definitely consented and definitely needed it, but the withdrawals are bad. I don't know if she'll thank me when she's clean, but she'll definitely be better for it, I hope."
"How did you last this long? I know you're right under some big drug dealers, so how long have you been doing this?"
>"For years, but in this are only for about 8 months, and this specific spot for only a couple of weeks. That's why I'm so big. I used to be as scrawny as they come, believe me."
"And the implants?"
>"Business costs. Expensive ones. I'd like to do this for free, but I can't restock my goods for free, or survive for three minutes on the street without cybernetics. I know that the primary drug dealer, especially for CnJ, up there, wants me dead. I'm lucky I didn't get shot at up there. Anyway, that's why I asked for your budget, because I do get paid for this."
"Where do you get your drugs from?"
>"I purchase raw materials from other drug dealers, and then create them from scratch right in here."
"So, uh... you're not actually pulling a doctor act to lower my guard before you ravish me in your sex dungeon."
>"A...hah... I really don't have a sex dungeon, no. You're safe with me, and I'd like to be able to prove it. You can take a look around, if it would make you feel more comfortable."

The scanner team is largely out of phone based investigation, since there's still no reception.

>>729881
Let's go look around for a bit. Afterwards, come back and say you haven't been totally honest with him, and you really need to get in touch with Bluestone. If he won't cooperate, try explaining your mission to him and ask for his help.

Tell him in exchange for his help you can fund his activities here.

Well, I guess we could just say we're interested in Bluestone, say he's attractive, put on a slutty act, and offer to show him why we're interested in Bluestone? It might at least get him to stop thinking about how we're suspicious.

We basically have to admit this is a dead end, or try to flip him into working with us, at this point.

>"A...hah... I really don't have a sex dungeon, no. You're safe with me, and I'd like to be able to prove it. You can take a look around, if it would make you feel more comfortable."
Coquettish deadpan: "Aw. Too bad."

>>"Not at first, she definitely consented and definitely needed it, but the withdrawals are bad. I don't know if she'll thank me when she's clean, but she'll definitely be better for it, I hope."
You might want a recording of the next one consenting at the start. Would make it easier to prove to anyone asking questions.

>what say
So... hypothetically. Would you be interested in seeing if Bluestone got shut down, then? (Feel him out, but don't admit who we are).

Dang It at this rate I am never going to get lured into a sex dungeon. And you are so cute to. Definitely the type I would not mind getting tied up and ravished by. You sure you do not want to drag me into a back room first?

That being said you are a real life hero. You deserve something nice for what you are doing. Then go give him a kiss.

So I will come clean with you. I am not really here because I am a addict. I am helping some friends shut down the local dealer and was hoping to find proof that he is selling cnj. Maybe we can help each other?

Listen do you mind horribly pretending that you have a sex dungeon down here? Maybe drag me off kicking and screaming a bit and have your way with me in your office?

Its sort of a personal goal at this point. And you are cute.

Then feel him out. He might be willing to help or he might not like the idea. But he is a nice guy and maybe we can help him.

Take a look around, just to make sure everything lines up with his story. If everything does check out, then ask him if he's sure this place is private, like none of his patients can hear or anything? If yes then ask him how he'd like if they guy who wants him dead wasn't around any more. When he expresses confusion, tell him you're sorry, you were kinda pretending to be something you aren't, too. You are looking for CnJ, but not to use it. You've been hired to get info on the local dealers, information that would lead to them being... dealt with. You really are from where you said, and work where you said, you're just... a bit more than that, too.

But you're kind of glad, because if he's not dealing CnJ himself, he's not in the line of fire! And you like him. Personally, you think people should be able to have drugs if they can handle it, but it's no good to anyone to wreck people's lives when they can't. You'd actually like to help him with his mission! Uh, so long as he stays away from the really big drug syndicates, because that'd just be suicidal. And they don't sell to people poor enough to be really victimized, anyway.

Roxy 2016/06/15(Wed)20:23 No. 729910 ID: dd338c
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Roxy takes a long look around. Everything seems to check out, between the well kept inventory stick, the lab to create various drugs, the smell that is identified by the sniffer that doesn't do any good since Roxy can't look up the names of any of the given drug names, and the cells with a few detoxing people inside.

"So, um... would you mind pretending you have a sex dungeon down here to drag me into, kicking and screaming as you have your way with me?"
>"Alison please!" says the Succubus.

>"Ahah... I don't know if that's a joke or if you're testing me, but I really don't!" says Marchi.
"Well, I've got to be honest, too. I'm not really looking to get off CnJ, because I'm not even on it. I'm actually looking for Bluestone, to, well... I have some friends who'd like him out of the picture." Roxy says, once they've moved away from where any patients could possibly hear.
>"... Are you with the syndicate?"
"Does it matter?"
>"No, I guess not. To be honest... I'm glad someone finally making a move on him. I'd like to see him out of the picture, too. He deals in things that make CnJ seem harmless. I can help with that. Even though I try to work alone, I still have some contacts, and I can figure out where he is and what his password for the day is."

He pauses.

>"... Is it just you? He's very dangerous. I think the Syndicate has held off on stopping him for this long because he's a high powered target for, well, he's not small time, but he's not big time either and sticks to this block."

Again, he pauses while still clearly having more to say.

>"I think he does have a ... dungeon. Is that why you asked me so much? Did you think I was Bluestone? Well... anyways, if you're not hear to buy, I guess I can't be too disappointed even if I need the money, because I'd be glad to sacrifice a good sale to see him out of the picture. So I guess what I'm saying, is if you promise you're confident you can beat him, then I'll give you what you need to see him."

>>729910
If he's a jetal, it'll be no problem.

"Really, all I need to do is get him to sell me some of his CnJ. From him himself, preferably, or in some other way linked directly to him that I can witness. As for his dungeon... well, that's more reason to take him out. If he goes for me, well, I'm not a fighter, but I am more than just a normal biological woman. So long as he doesn't realize that, I'm sure I can endure and escape, and probably get what I need on the way out."

>I think he does have a ... dungeon. Is that why you asked me so much?
*Grin* No, that's was flirting and/or teasing.

It's good information, though. I might be able to get in that way. Or at least make him more suspicious.

>Is it just you? He's very dangerous.
Don't worry, I'm tougher than I look.

I'm not here to fight today, though. All I need to do is confirm his location, and prove he has it before the cavalry moves in.

My job is to get proof he is selling. I just need to buy some from him. After that some big nasty Jetal will show up later and deal with things.

As for the dungeon talk that was me hitting on you. I have a thing for big cute hero types. So if you are interested make sure to grab me quick and have your way with me before we get to distracted with drug dealer talk.

Also if you don't I might just grab you and drag you off instead. Which might not work as well cause I don't think I can move you.

What's his opinion of the lollipop syndicate, as long as we're on the subject?

"Just need direct confirmation to take back, then a move could be made."

I wonder if we could consider referring this guy for recruitment, maybe? I imagine a pricy detox clinic might be profitable for all. Plus, a thin veneer of 'we care' could be built, if they wanted.

Just gathering evidence, I won't be the one doing the heavy lifting.

We could reveal that we're a jetal, might make him more confident that we're capable, might also be better to keep the disguise on though? Bluestone having a dungeon is actually useful, gives us a way to neutralise him if we get found out.

How was the addict / junkie act by the way, did it look convincing?

Let him know we didn't come in to take Bluestone down yourself. You're just a contractor here to obtain evidence that he is indeed selling.

On reflection, I think we have an issue with the possibility that we'll need to be able to pretend to be on a CnJ high, as well as in withdrawal. If we get some from Bluestone, it'd be out of character for us to not scarf down some right then, and if we do get thrown in the dungeon, we might get some forced on us. Perhaps we should ask the doctor to judge our acting and give us tips.

That might involve revealing we're a jetal, but by this point we might need to reveal that for him to have proper confidence in us.

Roxy 2016/06/16(Thu)16:44 No. 730038 ID: dd338c
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"I'm just teasing! And flirting! Flirting seriously. But don't worry, I'm tougher than I look, and I'm not going to take down Bluestone myself, all that I need to do is just get visual confirmation that he's dealing out CnJ. I'd like to help you on your mission, though!"
>"Really? Well, managing to remove Bluestone would be great, but you don't have any obligations to me."
"Say, what's your opinion on the syndicate, anyway?"
>"A collection of bad guys, but even they have limits. I wouldn't like to do business with them, but they're not the last ones I'd deal with if it came to it."
"Okay, thank you. By the way, my flirting is serious, so if you wanted to grab me and have your way before we get to further business, you're welcome to."
>"A-ah, sorry, but, uh, business is important, before pleasure!" He says, with that familiar tinge at the end when he said something he wished he didn't. "Maybe later."
"Okay. How was my druggee act, by the way?"
>"Enough to make me think up the numbers in advance of how long you've been off of it and how much dosage you'd need. So, I think you've got it down. So, uhhm, it's your decision to go do what you've got to do with Bluestone, and I doubt you'd stop whether or not I helped or hindered, so it's the least I can do to help as much as I can. In fact, I overheard today's password last night with my usual bug. T something... oh nevermind, I didn't think to remember it, so I let it gloss over my ears! I'll call for it."

It's a short wait before he comes back.

>"Uh... he's a little tight lipped, actually. I said you were a responsible user, but he says he'd like to at least see you face to face before giving the password."
"Who is he?"
>"His name's Kobbly, he's a biological belenos, although he does have some nifty tools to do more robotic tasks. He mostly keeps to himself, and even though he's kind of loyal to Bluestone, he doesn't like some of the things Bluestone does, so that's why he lets me get information. Well, if you can handle Bluestone, then this guy is harmless! He's up above ground in this building, room 844."

>>730038
Okay, I'll see if I can charm the password out of him, then.

Good luck with that girl.

>>730038
Alright, see you.

Sounds good, though I'm wondering if he'd be suspicious now as to how we convinced Marchi to let us take actual drugs. Maybe we can pretend we had fun with him. Say, it wasn't the guy we saw leaving the elevator earlier, was it? He seemed like he had a specific reason to try avoid Marchi.

... Doctor, you know you're still holding your phone up to your face, right? Don't tell us your forgot to hang up.

Get his number so you can have him as a contact later.

Thank him for the help and give him a kiss before he leaves. Oh and make sure to use your phone to light the way as you head out.

No need to drop our cover just in case.

In case he does happen to still be on the phone there for some reason, perhaps don't say anything that would give away your real purpose, just use vague language, like Marchi just did coming back into you. The guy on the phone might have insisted on hearing your voice or something.

Actually, maybe ask him to escort you back up to the elevator? Just to be sure of not getting in trouble on the way, or being suspicious as an unthreatening-looking person coming out of a dangerous area.

1/2 Roxy 2016/06/16(Thu)18:17 No. 730071 ID: dd338c
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"Uh, you remembered to hang up, right?"
>"...hm - oh yeah! He hung up on me, and there's a waiting tone."
"Okay. Can I get your number?"
>"Oh, yes! Here!"

He writes it down and gives it to Roxy, who then gives him a kiss as she takes it.

>"Oh, wait, I should escort you."

2/2 Roxy 2016/06/16(Thu)18:17 No. 730072 ID: dd338c
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She doesn't waste much time getting escorted to the elevator by Marchi, then leaving him alone to get up to room 844. While travelling, lobbyists investigate Marchi, and his story continues checking out. It turns out that he's got an 8 million personal bounty on his head.

After knocking on the door, someone looks through the door's eyeglass, starts unbolting the door, and opens it up slightly, although some longer locks remain on.

>"You looking for Kobbly?" he says while looking Roxy up and down, then eventually back up again. Scanner manages to pick up that he says his words like he himself is Kobbly, and is just checking out of caution.

>>730072
Yup, he wanted to see me?

Oh man find out who placed the bounty. We might have to edit any camera footage of him out if we want to keep him safe. Cause 8 mil would be a impossible temptation for Fern and the guys.

Make sure to get back in your slightly drug desperate persona before you answer. Then tell him yes and that you were told by a friend he might be able to help you.

Nice... half helmet visor thing? Anyway, yes, you are, and "he" should know that you're coming by.

Remember to get back into your withdrawal druggie persona. He might just give you the password quick and send you on your way, but if he has you linger, maybe see if you can "stealthily" sneak another couple of painkillers into your mouth.

>>730076

I suspect the guy we're trying to take out is the one who's set that bounty, so by the time this is done, it could not be good any more. Also the camera can't be edited. We can stop it and restart it, though. If we're going to do that, we might have to do so soon.

>It turns out that he's got an 8 million personal bounty on his head.
Well, crap.
>Oh man find out who placed the bounty. We might have to edit any camera footage of him out if we want to keep him safe. Cause 8 mil would be a impossible temptation for Fern and the guys.
We can't edit the footage. That's what's so special about the expensive camera they gave us. It's supposed to be used to record tamper-proof evidence.

It can only hold one recording at a time, though. We should be able to erase and restart to protect him.

...assuming we consider helping a person who was nice to us to be worth more than selling him out for 8 mil.

>"You looking for Kobbly?"
"I'm looking for CnJ. I've heard Kobbly can help me get there."

Make some kind of motion towards his artificial eye: "Go ahead and take a picture. It'll last longer."

just had a thought: this guy doesn’t like some things bluestone does, and we found out bluestone might have a sex dungeon. if the dungeon is one of the things Kobbly here doesn’t like, he might look at us and decide we’re too attractive to send over.

Not sure how to resolve that, though.

He's staring at Roxy's breasts. Let's playfully ask if he likes what he sees.

Roxy 2016/06/17(Fri)15:59 No. 730263 ID: dd338c
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>Find out who placed the bounty
According to Scanner, multiple people have set the bounty, but they're all private. Furthermore, the contract shows that if Marchi ends up at the bounty office, they're to hand him to law enforcement. It doesn't appear that he's a high profile criminal that the law enforcement is actively pursuing, but he's still committed enough crimes that if he gets put on their doorstep, they'll put him in jail.
"Yes, but what I'm really looking forward to is CnJ." she speaks quietly. "Do you like what you see, by the way? A picture would last longer." Roxy gestures at his artificial eye, although scanners seem to indicate that his visible eye is artificial, and he's wearing a mask overlay on his biological eye. She tries to sound a little playful about it, but still on edge, going through withdrawals.
>"Girl, I'm filming this. And I just needed to check if you were worth Blue's time, because he's sick of people trying to get goods they can't pay for, but it looks like you'll have some alternate option. Password is jorango. Go down that elevator over there, to to basement 5, down the hall on the left, knock on the door straight ahead and give the password. Now if you're not gonna put on a show, get outta here."

Get moving.

>>730263
"And if I am? What will you do with the film then?"

I think we're wearing two layers, so we can afford to tease taking one off.

"Jorango", huh? The doctor thought it began with a T. Buuut that sort of mistake can be made, and the sound could be pronounced/misheard as like "torango" or similar.

Still. Stick out your tongue and smile and say something like "Why, would you like a show? You did just give me information I needed, I can show a moment of gratitude", taking a grip on your top as if you're ready to flip it up. Take the chance for the delay to use the social scanner on him, if he's given you wrong info he should have a little guilt or something on him. In addition to other feelings.

If he responds positively to the offer, then do give him a flash, maybe squeeze your forearms together for a little extra. Fair's fair!

I dunno, maybe flash him? But get a-moving.

>>730263
>Now if you're not gonna put on a show, get outta here.
Tease him. Put on a bit of a show, then walk away before it gets too good.

"If you wanna see the full show, check out [club name] sometime."

Shake your butt at him while walking away. Then go check out basement 5.

Oh and update Scurps and Fern about what is up. Tell them the first guy was not a dealer but put you on the trail of Bluestone. Let them know where you are headed.

Avoid giving out any info on the doc.

I don't think we'll be able to use Roxy as an identity after this job. She'll be a known member of the Syndicate thanks to this guy's video.

>>730269

Yeah, this is probably the time to restart the recording, that's the end of the preliminary running around setting up the meeting. We wouldn't be able to justify saying that we started it any later than now, I reckon.

>>730273
Good point. Restart the recording, we'll make an excuse to Fern later if we have to.

>>730272
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on if Bluestone will have anyone who cares after he's gone, or if anyone connects Roxy to the later raid.

In any event, inventing a new face for pole dancing is pretty easy, if it comes to that.

Let me be the devil's advocate here and say that 8 million is a lot of money. We could turn him in ourselves... if we had some way of taking him out alone. I don't think we presently do, however. 8 split 6 ways is barely above 1 million and basically not worth it probably. If we were to betray the good doctor we'd have to do it alone.

If we're restarting the recording to wipe his face from it, we'd better make absolutely sure Marchi leaves first and doesn't come back.

Roxy 2016/06/17(Fri)17:45 No. 730280 ID: dd338c
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Roxy restarts the camera, wiping the previous data with Marchi, and starts the new video in front of Klobbs.

>Test social scanner on him
If he's a liar, he's a an excellent one. He doesn't show much in regards to whether or not 'jurango' was a lie or not, but the fact that it doesn't begin with a T like Marchi thought does unnerve some lobbyists.

"Why, would you like a show?" Roxy asks, lifting her tanktop to show her midriff. His heart rate increases and he tenses up with some exhiliration. It still can't be told if his info is wrong, as those social changes were also in line with having a busty girl nearly flash him.

"I can't imagine what you plan on doing with a film like that!"
>"I hope that's sarcasm, 'cause otherwise you're the dumbest slut I've ever seen. Now get out of here unless you want to take things farther, and if you do, I'm not letting you go till evening."

Scurps and Fern are contacted, and Roxy lets them know that the first person wasn't a dealer, but they might have led her along a string to get to Bluestone, so she's checking it out now.

>I don't think we'll be able to use Roxy as an identity after this job.
Scurps says that as long as she doesn't give it away, it may still be possible, as he only needs storm the place immediately if Roxy gets in trouble. Otherwise, they'll just get raided a few hours after selling it to a non-descript girl. Considering that the Syndicate has raided people without proof before, Roxy can maintain deniability.

>"I don't like the discrepancy of him saying a password staying with J." says Recluse.
>"I think's it's okay!" says Alison. "Besides, we have a lot to do!"

She can press him to see if he's lying about the password, or head to the basement with the given password.

May as well double check. "What was that password again?"

Also google Roxy's face to see if there are any red flags that might show up.

Oh I just realized... will the hidden hacked sex mod plan even work? I mean, will they get pulled in by hitting the core automatically, or do they have to choose to?

Yeah do a little subtle probing of the password but do not outright call him on it.

So act like a silly stupid girl and tease him a bit before leaving. Then look confused and ask him wait what was the password again?

Like you are silly enough to forget it.

>is the password right?
Text Marchi, see if "jorango" sounds familiar. He heard the password earlier and forgot it (T-something he said), but he might recognize having seen it when showed to him again.

>Now get out of here unless you want to take things farther, and if you do, I'm not letting you go till evening.
Yeah, we don't have time to sleep with one random drug contact for that long.

>She can press him to see if he's lying about the password, or head to the basement with the given password.
Unless Marchi texts back in the affirmative, let's press him.

I'm betting he gave you the "toss me in the sex dungeon" password, not the "I'm cool sell me drugs" password.

"You suuuuure that's the right password? You're not trying to get me in trouble with Blue, are you? Get me tossed in a naughty dungeon so you can come down and have fun with me later?"

Eh even if he gave us a "Hello I am paying for drugs with sex. Please throw me in the sex dungeon" password we can just let Scurps know and have him accidentally save us during the raid.

Just have to tell Scurps to come after us if we do not call back in 2-4 hours or something.

Yeah, get him to tell you the password again by acting dumb. Make it something like... you wish you could take things further, but you'd really better hurry though, you've still got a bad itch and they'll be looking for you at work this evening, besides. Suggest maybe he'd like to drop by your club some time in the future. Thank him again, then pause, and ask what the password was again, just to be sure. Keeping the scanner on him.

If you get nothing further conclusive, then go head on your way with the given password.

>>730282

We don't NEED to use the hacked sex mod. We just need to either do a proper transaction of CnJ, as planned, or get thrown in the sex dungeon, where a "turn all sensation into pleasure" drug probably gets used and would also prove Bluestone has a non-syndicate source, which is enough. Then we can probably just be a jetal and ooze through something at the right moment to escape. The only danger is if we're outed as being a jetal, and the Rank B privacy mod should have dealt with that, it's higher rank than any scanner anyone in this group should be equipped to deal with.

So if this is the "throw me in the sex dungeon" password, it's not really a problem. We probably wouldn't even need rescuing.

What are you going to do? Call him on the password that you should not know?

"Hey Kobbly I am suspicious that you are giving me a password that would result in me getting thrown in a sex dungeon. Could you please give me the less rapey option?"

Just head on down and leave one of your cell phones in your pocket so they can confiscate it without noticing the rest of them inside you. Even if they do sex dungeon you then you can get proof from the inside.