Ok our main mission is to steal or destroy the blackmail.

But that does not get us the sweet bonus of knocking them all out and selling there stuff. So you need to search for a in to seduce Rike and Rans. Am thinking that with 3 bodies you can get Laner and Bolonn in a three way with one body while your other two bodies seduce Rike and Rans individually. Or a four way and Rans alone if your other body is stuck with Sevener for awhile.

Rike seems to have a sex drive so a bit of careful flirting and learning about him should work.

But Rans seems to be the stoic guarded type. We need more info about him so we can lure him into sin.

Plus we need to get them wanting more so they are willing to try our hacked module. Maybe can organize a orgy and with Laner talking it up the others will want to try it.

So I would send a division over to check on the other blackmail targets just in case there is a lead there. And keep your main body here to learn more about the boys.

First thing we need is for Fern's new friend to squirt us the info we paid for so our brain trust can start digesting / mining it.

>corrupt cops
You're working on cultivating a source / contact inside the police department with your Roxy persona, but it's unlikely you'll be far enough along to get information from her for a few hours, at least.

>deals in weaponry
Any connection to those jerks we ran into back on our first job together? Wouldn't mind getting dirt on them, though I don't want to show up on their radar unprepared either.

>who work
Laner and Bolann we have the most rapport to work with. They're kind of opposite ends of things, too.

How do I do this?

How do I do this?

Unity 2016/10/17(Mon)22:47 No. 753550 ID: bfb318
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>Any connection to those jerks we ran into back on our first job together?
It appears not, although Fern doesn't know a great deal about the operation.

Since travel time is low, Division 2 will be sent to lightly scope out the main harbor where the illegal arms takes place to see if anything stands out, and can be called back at any time.

The Core continues to the club.

The first division, Roxy, is expected to be available in around 5 hours, but that is an estimate and based on the idea that Alison will be building rapport with Sevener.

"Thank you, Fern. Can we get more information on Rans? He's one of the ones I'd like to influence most, but he might be the toughest."
>"The guy's a genuine mystery. We'd have to shove some conspicuous specialty scanner modules down his eyes to get anything. We'll send over what your backstory with the I-Block is, anyway. There's not much to it, though, you were just the secret playjetal of Enthia Luana. Look her up if you want, but the jist is once fashion designer by day, smuggling monster by night, now prison suit model 24/7."

Coral goes up the landing stairs, where she is immediately waved down by both Bolann already on the dance floor, and Laner, who is on the bar. The club, having just opened, appear vacant almost to the point of unrecognizability. Coral is in the middle of both of them, and they must see each other. That fact just appears to get them to flag down Coral harder.

At least look like you're struggling to decide who to pick by looking back and forth to both of them with an expression of confusion on your face.

Talk to Laner First, dancing less interesting when the floor is nearly empty.

Right, remind me, what's the division count? We can make three, right? Roxy is off with Sevener, so we should have the ability to make another. We could split between them, as they may expect.

Or we could use this to start sowing jealousy. I'm not sure if we've built up the desire to have us to themselves enough, yet, though. Plus if we don't make a division for this now and then make one later, it will cause extra trouble with the guy we don't pick now.

We want to sow jealousy just to make them less effective as a group overall, so they stop listening to each other's advice, don't talk things over with each other, generally become more incompetent. Actually getting them to split up would be a long shot, and it might not get what we want. My game plan for best outcome would be to somehow arrange all four of them into a simultaneous orgy and knock them all out at once, then the place can be raided and we can take their stuff no problem. Though, you might want to run that plan past Fern since there's a chance they've arranged the blackmail material to go out if they get taken out, somehow.

Next most optimal plan, I think, would be to persuade them to take us into their little inner circle, perhaps by doing a job or two for them, and then when we're hanging out with them fabricate an alarm from the Lollipops, like two of their big guys hanging around suspiciously near the club, that gets these guys to get the blackmail ready to use but not actually use it - then we'd hopefully get the chance to see where it's kept.

Third, more simple plan is to just get them to want us on their team full time, go "oh but i heard you guys had trouble with the lollipops i'm scared" and they show us the blackmail to make us feel safe. Kind of an obvious ploy, though, we'd have to either earn their trust in some way or make ourselves out to be such a dumb slut they'd never expect us to be an agent the lollipops would use. Plus, to cover the specific lollipop connection, we might want to know what other groups these four might have trouble with, so we could act afraid of them too (Maybe they have dirt on other people as well, which we could hand over to the Lollipops as a bonus?). This plan and the second plan could be combined, a manufactured scare followed by asking about trouble with the lollipops and saying we're scared.

Above all, though, we can't risk the blackmail material getting out. Any plan to take them out has to take out all four of them at the same time. Anything less than that and it's not worth the risk.

Anyway, right now I say form a division to split between these two.

>>753570
We've already made our 3rd clone to scope out the main harbor.

>Since travel time is low, Division 2 will be sent to lightly scope out the main harbor where the illegal arms takes place to see if anything stands out, and can be called back at any time.

And since Roxy is with Sevener, that leaves only Coral here at the club. So we gotta choose one or the other, not both!

>>753571

Ah, right.

Well, then, since we're between the two, what could be done is shoot a wink at one and raise a finger, like we're saying "one minute" or asking them to keep quiet for some mischief reason, then go to the other. We'd have to follow that up somehow, though. We might be able to convince Bolann we don't want to dance until there's more people to impress, for example. Or we could tell Laner that we want to finish the bet with Bolann and that another of her will join him later.

Or we could try convince Laner to come out on the dance floor with us and Bolann. That might be amusing. Give Bolann the "one minute" gesture, tell Laner we want to finish our bet with him but the dance floor looks lonely and why doesn't he come out?

Then we'd be able to go to the dance floor but leave Laner with a sense of us still wanting to spend time with him. Especially effective if we're a little vaguely flirty when asking him to come out and dance with us.

Be flirtatious and send a teasing look to whichever way you don't go. And in fact stall a little, make them wait for your decision. If they're going to complete for your attention, the least we can do is play to that.

Hmmm. Hopefully they are competing and this isn't some coordinated effort to get at the new girl.

For the moment, I think we should try Laner. Drop into his booth, send a regretful / longful glance Bolann's way. (Activate a light on your hip as / right before you turn- turn signal).

We probably want the social scanner on.

Tease them. Look at them both questioningly and see who works harder to lure you over.

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The social scanner is currently ON.

Coral draws the moment out to give the impression that she's pondering who to go to, despite having already chosen Laner.

A light on her right hip goes on like a turn signal and her head turns left to give Bolann the one-minute gesture with a look of piercing interest added on. She goes to the bar, and Bolann doesn't do a good job of hiding his disappointment, yet keeps dancing by himself anyway.

>"'ey, Coral." says Laner. "You were looking for a place to call your own, weren't you?"

A couple of drinks slide across the bar, with exactly enough momentum to stop in front of each Laner. He takes one, and slides it the rest of the way to Coral while sliding himself closer, too.

"That's right. And I've already got glued here, since I still have a bet with Bolann over there. I may have a division join him later, but the dance floor is looking lonely, so what if you joined us in dancing?"
>"What, the bet to out-dance him? He'd club for a thousand years straight if we let him get away with it. No one but him dances while the sun's up. You've got the initiative to do more than just dance the night away, don't you?"

>He'd club for a thousand years straight if we let him get away with it.
Hmmm. So it's a long term bet then, if it'll take that long to finish.

>You've got the initiative to do more than just dance the night away, don't you?
I enjoy a good dance, but yes, that's true.

Why, did you have something in mind?

Take a sip of your drink.

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"I enjoy a good dance, but that's true. Why, did you have something in mind?"
>"Work for me. You'll mostly work the floor and be a waitress to start with, but do a good job, and there's plenty of room up. You'll be on my call at any hours, but you'll get more time off, on average, than not."

The drink is recognized as a relatively expensive jetal recreational drink, at about 1200 dollars per glass. Aside from the cost, the pleasant feeling it causes, and the high amount of battery power it restores upon digestion, it doesn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary.

hold out for a bit more I am sure that their is are better positions available.

>the high amount of battery power it restores upon digestion
High in terms of actually battery recovery, or just high compared to digesting normal fluids?

>be a waitress to start with, but do a good job, and there's plenty of room up. You'll be on my call at any hours
MMmmmmmm, why do I get the impression being on call for things is the real job, and the waitressing is just an excuse to have me around. After all, it's not like serving drinks and taking orders requires much... initiative. Don't like calling your toys toys?

And what are you thinking I'm worth?

We're being a bit of a tease here. Jumping at his first offer is too easy- we make him work a little to reel us in.

Work for just you? Or would it be working for the club and working "under" you.

So do you each manage part of the clubs business?

While I don't mind being "on call" all the time I would like a idea of how you guys run things first.

It looks like he wants to lure you over to be his girl alone. Might want to work on getting to know the others so we can leverage there interest to get a sweeter deal.

Need to get the best deal for employment because the harder we bargain the more realistic our cover is. Settling for the first offer would make us seem desperate or a spy. Plus our cover is not a poor working girl so can afford to be picky.

The question of how hard he expects you to work for him has to come up, unfortunately. Is he hiring one waitress or three? (Because we can't do Three while we're doing Sevener, badum-tish).

If we get a good offer we could reroute number two, but me three is a little tied up. Maybe literally, if things go well. You've got a tight wound friend you've been working to unwind.

(I would assume Succubus is taking point here, as she was working Laner before. Bandit's probably a good idea to have along in the division snooping into the illegal trade. ...Smuggler doesn't actually know anything about smuggling, unfortunately).

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>High in terms of actually battery recovery, or just high compared to digesting normal fluids?
It might be about 2% battery recovery over 1 hour of digestion. It isn't much compared to being plugged in, but it is more than what Coral uses.

"Work for just you?"
>"Just me. It's a mess if you had multiple bosses, even if Bolonn, Rans and Rike are still your superiors."
"So each of you manage a different part of the business?"
>"Yeah. Rans with security, me with internal staffing, Rike with external affairs, and Bolonn with how the club's ran, like advertising, design, so on."
"I'd like to see how things are ran, first, before I get on call at all times. It doesn't take much initiative to just be a waiter, and are you expecting three waiters?"
>"In time. I'm highly curious what those other divisions are up to."
"And, why do I get the impression you want me on call for things, and waitering is just to have me around? Or do you not like calling your toys, toys?"
>"Ha, you got it, but waitering would be useful anyway. Trust me, I'd love to have you be my toy, if you wanted it like that."
"Thanks, but let me think on the job, alright? I don't even know what you think I'm worth."

Laner swirls his glass around, making a show of being in thought.

>"4k an hour, per Coral, plus tips which is where the real money is at. You know, we obviously like you. Rike may have his misgivings, but even he can't deny you'd be useful. Rans has been with us a while, and made a lot of sacrifices and demonstrations of loyalty. You? You showed up last night. You still have a couple divisions off doing 'business' that isn't our business. If you want to get in good with us, you have to show us you mean good. Even if they're broken up, I-Block still has croneys out there. What boss were you under? We can help, but if you help us do some damage to them and burn your bridges, we'll see what you're capable of, and feel a lot better about you. And after a while, we'll either want to know what your divisions are doing, or have them back here with us."

The social scanner is reporting that Laner is paying much more attention to how Coral responds, rather than what she responds with.

>"Risky but possible. The boss we talked with, Enthia, seemed like the sort to throw their croneys under the bus." Fern says. "Can't say for sure if the situation is the same."

>4k an hour
My sense of how much our time is worth may be broken by the ridiculous cheating rates we make money, but that seems too low for Coral. Roxy is a low class stripper (turning tricks isn't even required) and she makes 18k, as a biological. For the upper class whore / personal toy Coral is selling herself as, that seems kinda low.

Granted, it might be scaled such that it's a high amount for a waitress. Or Laner might have cut the going rate in three since he knows we're not putting in 100%, yet.

Not sure how we estimate how much we'd be expecting to make in tips. I suppose if we've seen what the drinks menu is in here we might be able to figure out how much money they're tossing around. Or one of the AIs might have been paying attention to guest behavior last time we were here.

tl;dr- being in character means Coral has to respond to if that's a good offer or not!

>help us do some damage to them and burn your bridges
>What boss were you under?
I worked under Enthia, pun intended. At least before he got himself put away.

I was always more the building bridges type than burning. Nor much for the lighting of plasma fires. We talked the other night about how I felt about connections. You're asking me to tug on a few until they snap for you? I suppose that makes for a demonstration of loyalty, but what are you expecting me to pull back for you?

I understand espionage usually pays better than waitressing, though. If you're asking me to help you clean the out while they're down, I expect a cut. (It's a fair deal in principle- Coral can't safely use insider information against I-block without protection, and they couldn't act at all without the information. The sticky bit is if the information Fern bought actually has what we'd need to make a play that would work).

>other divisions
We're kinda limited by not wanting them to know for sure how good we are with all three. We faked a little difficulty keeping all going at once last time (light async, like we had to work at concentration) but if we're too honest about what's keeping #3 busy, we blow that away.

For now, I think we can say you were showing off last night. An interview is a good time for that. You don't need more than one of you to talk terms. ...although you could probably think of a few ways to distract him.

say that you will have to think on it, lets make them think you are actually making a decision rather then being put upto this by a third party. Check on the docks in the mean time.

Right now my divisions are off on pleasure missions not business. While I don't mind bringing in all three for projects and having fun with you guy I do enjoy my privacy and regularly use them to live life and catch up with friends.

So feel free to let me know if you need them on standby but I do use them for my private life to much to let you know where they are constantly. But if you ask nicely I probably will tell you.

As for the Waitress job 4k a hour sounds a bit low. What sort of tips are we looking at?

My old bosses in i-block I would rather not throw under the bus without very good reason or profit. They might have fallen apart but they were good to me and I would rather not cause them further problems. Yes Enthia did have a tendency to do the same to her underlings but I would rather not take after her. Getting a rep for backstabbing old friends or business associates is a horrible idea in my line of work.

>do some damage to them and burn your bridges
Balk at this. If they want your loyalty, shouldn't you show that you're capable of staying loyal? Plus, that'd be like kicking a dog while it's down. I-Block lost everything.

Also we really should give absolutely no indication of what Roxy is doing. They have corrupt cops on their side apparently which means if they catch wind of Roxy's true nature somehow they could use it as blackmail.

>>753683
That's not a bad point. It's kind of a tricky line to walk- making it look like we're not disloyal, but at the same time, not making it look like Coral's too loyal to her old employers. Then we end up looking like a plant for the wrong people.

(Although I-Block being down helps- they don't have the same motive the Lollipops do to interfere, and they don't have spare resources to mess around).

>>753675
Well, I mean, it's apparently a tipped job where most of the pay is coming from the tips? So that might be expected.

.. But you're right in that it would help to know what the drinks menu looks like if nothing else.

>>753675
You sound like you have a better idea than me so

Show interest, like you do need the money and you'd enjoy the fun, but also a little trepidation. Maybe mention how hanging with the tough crowd was fun, and you did help out sometimes with more than just fun, but you'd always avoided messing with the really big boys - in any of the bad ways, at least - and that's part of why you're still walking free. That and making sure you always had some sort of solid shelter to duck under if you needed to, and you've cashed in a good few shelter chips recently as it is.

Tell Laner you know he's smart, so you might as well cut to the sharp questions: how well can they look after you if someone gets singed by your burning bridges? And whose naughty lists are you going to get put on by officially joining up with them?

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From what people are seeing, 4k is already a high class waiter for base wages, but as Laner implied, most of the money is gained from tips in an environment where tips occur. Coral, nonetheless, is worth far more.

The drink menu implies an audience that is relatively well off, with a more minor selection of highly priced items on board.

"I worked under Enthia, pun intended. At least before he got himself put away. Right now, the rest of my divisions are on pleasure, not business."
>"Only heard about Enthia. Now if only I could see your divisions getting their pleasure."
"Also, 4k seems rather low, and I hope I don't have to tell you that. You also want a display of loyalty, by showing that I will hurt my colleagues as soon as everything goes under? I-Block lost nearly everything, and whatever wealth is floating around is as good as lost or stolen into other gangs. I'm more about building bridges."
>"If you have another way to prove some loyalty, I'd love to hear it. We can negotiate wages."

Rike shows up.

>"You are trying to pocket the new girl." says Rike.
>"What of it? It's in my department."
>"But we all get a say, because we're in a team. Don't try to undercut us."

Laner manages to make a blank expression glare at Rike.
>"Really. You have to have this conversation out loud?"
>"You've been dismissing the phone discussions. And she can know I'm suspicious of her."
>"Oh, please, you just want her to yourself!"
>"I want her away from here, doing other jobs if she works for us, not listening in to every conversation up on the second floor. I want negotiations. Eye candy. Because none of you want to look cute and easy any more than I do, and the other gangs are starting to clench their cooperation at the sight of our attitude. I want her going to other gangs and smoothing everything out and, as she put it, building bridges, not being your personal plaything."
"What sort of negotiations? That sounds more suitable, and hanging out with a tough crowd can be fun, but I always did avoid messing with the really big boys - the bad ones, that is - and that's why I'm still walking free. Whose naughty lists am I ending up on, by officially joining up with either of you?"
>"With me," Rike says, "you won't be officially on our payroll. We can drop you and you can drop us, and no one can burn the other."
>"Or me." says Laner. "Here, you'll just be a regular employee. If things get rough, you're still safe in the club where we can protect you. You won't be making any enemies anyway, being a regular employee. If you like the tough crowd, then there's plenty of tough crowd we serve at the tables."

>Check on docks
There's nothing new to report, but it's difficult to get close when most of it is a large, employees only section under tight security.

>>753691
Well if they all get a say, what do the others say?

Social scanner give any indication this public disagreement in front of the new hire is staged? The problem with dealing with jetals and robots is they have pretty good poker faces (though not as good as our effective CAI) and could be saying one thing publicly and another thing privately on their phones, same as us.

I mean, the obvious play would be to try and play them off against each other, but they might be testing to see if we're trustworthy (and trying to break them up is less than) or to see if we really buy into the peacekeeping / bridge building idea when presented with a broken one.

>what say
I'll take the suspicion as a compliment, thank you, Rikeepoo. Incompetent or worthless people aren't worth wasting suspicion on.

You don't trust me to hang around, but you do trust me to cut deals with the other gangs? Isn't me messing up your politics a bigger risk for you?

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If it's staged, it's well rehearsed, as the social scanner can't pick up anything obvious.

"I'll take the suspicion as a compliment, thank you, Rikeepoo. Incompetent or worthless people aren't worth wasting suspicion on. But if I can't hang around, is it such a good idea to have me cutting deals and potentially messing up your politics?"
>"That's why they start simple and aren't crucial. You won't even be working under our name. And never call me 'Rikeepoo.' You'll be fed information, and you just stick to it."
"If you all get a say, what do the others say?"
>"Sometimes..." Laner says, "We just can't seem to find an agreement. As long as our decisions don't interfere with the other, then we try to let the disagreements go."
>"So what's it going to be, girl?" says Rike. "Waitering, or negotiations? Negotiations pays more, gets more priveleges, and the only way Laner can match the price is if he pays out of his own pocket."
>"You won't be as safe out there, Coral." says Laner.

There's always someone dumb or desperate enough to think maybe the waitress has seen or heard something useful. Besides, you can't keep all of yourself in the club all the time. You have some personal life. Family commitments. Your creator's still around, and that's all you'll say about it, since you make sure they never even get close to near your business or pleasure, and you intend to keep it that way. Anyway, you have friends. You're a sociable person. You spend time with other sociable people, and a subset of your social skills are what they're aiming to hire you for, so that shouldn't be a surprise.

As for negotiations work... being sent to smooth things over means you'll be sent to meet people who need smoothing over, and that means people who aren't happy and are inclined to vent their frustrations. You've dealt with unhappy frustrated people, and you can fix those problems, but it can be a risky business, and being on the end of the ten-foot pole makes it feel riskier. Being kept at a distance at first, that's fine, fair's fair, but you've got eyes and ears and you know from observation that people who get kept at arm's length tend to be the easiest to drop in the dirt. You'd want to get some little token of security in your hands eventually.

>>753694
>gets more priveleges
Huh? Like what?

>>753695
Good points there, though I think we should leave out the "creator" line. I expect a lot of jetals aren't hobby projects or prototypes build by experts- a lot of them are likely manufactured. Don't want to let on how special we are.

>>753696
Also a good point to ask.

Ultimately we need the job that gets us the most trust the quickest, since we're on a deadline. Waitress with sex perks is right in our comfort zone and we could probably do it, but negotiations probably nets more trust. Problem is even that seems like it would take a few meetings over days to get the access we want, and it is putting us at risk (and not just danger- of revealing too much of our hand / real competence in making it work).

Might be able to stage something with the Dead Batteries to make us look good, if we cut them in when we get the payout here. Can't use the Lollipops, since that would make them suspicious, and we can't have them thinking we're a guild agent.

>"You won't be as safe out there, Coral." says Laner.
Swap your lights to little warning signs for a moment. ⚠

That's sweet, but I do have some idea how to take care of myself, even if I'd rather be having fun.

Perk up, nonchalantly and then mischievously: "Oh hey, if I stall long enough, is Bolann gonna come up and make me a third offer as a dancer?"

>>753694
"Whatever you say, Rikee-wikee!"

"What? You only said not to call you 'Rikeepoo'. You didn't say I couldn't call you something else."

How about both? I do some outside work and help around at the club with one of my other bodies here and there?

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"Whatever you say, Rikee-wikee. That's sweet, but I can deal with some amount of danger. What kind of privileges are we talking about, Rike?"
>"Trust. And better negotiations, meaning cuts yield more money, and the more competence you show, the more you may be able to influence the negotiations rather than just being the pretty face." says Rike. "Essentially, you'll move from a trial employee to more and more of a team member, a partner, and if you do exceptionally, then an equal."
"On another note, I do have a personal life, so I still can't be in the club all the time. I'm sociable. I can deal with negotiations, but I will want a token of security in my hands before long, rather than being kept at arms length forever."
>"That's the idea. You won't be on call all the time with me. We can set up free time."
"I can have divisions here sometimes, so I can do other jobs."

Laner and Rike share a look. Neither one appears receptive to the idea of Coral splitting up.

Coral smiles and changes the subject.

"If I stall long enough, is Bolann going to come up and make me a third offer as a dancer?"

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>"You know it." says Bolann, who shows up as if waiting to be mentioned. He practically pulls Coral off her chair. "It might not pay the best, but I'll treat you well on the dance floor, and if you want to be sociable and meet all kinds of people, the dance floor is where it's at and where you can call your second home."
"Which I'm not wholly against if you stick there." says Rike.

Social scanner is picking up that Rike is mildly hoping that Coral picks his negotiation jobs, while Laner will be aggressively disappointed if Coral shuns his waiter job. Bolann appears to be most willing to back Coral's decision no matter what it is, and while he would enjoy Coral, he is not fully expecting her to occupy the dance floor.

Okay, conflict of interest. Laner is our best in so far- he's sort of in charge, and we built the best rapport with him so far. We've got him on a moral / philosophical level, and he's attracted to us. Bolann might like us more, but we can't leverage that the way we want (and if Laner's right he's gonna be a jerk as soon as he gets what he wants anyways). Rike is never really gonna trust us the same way.

On the other hand, the negotiations seems the more mission advantageous job. So what further the mission better- the social positioning, or the employment positioning? Or can we split the difference or ameliorate Laner at all?

>what say
I'm not letting you win out bet uncontested, but I think Laner was right before. Dancing all my time away isn't how I'll play it. Thanks, though.

I don't suppose splitting my time is an option? You guys can't have made so many enemies you need me out there making nice with them all the time, can you?

If they won't let us split their time, make a show of thinking, and then regretfully inform Laner you think he was right. You're gonna have to show initiative. Go with Rike's idea.

To try and ameliorate things, as the meeting breaks up, lean over to whisper / talk quietly to Laner before he leaves (give him a view of the girls in the process) "Thanks for being concerned about my safety, that's sweet. I'll show you my appreciation, later."

>>753706
So we'll already be causing some friction between them if we don't choose Laner.

Oh! I just realized something! The Coral that's at the harbor is in disguise, right? It'll look suspicious if a Coral is spotted there looking into the Blackmailer's business!

>>753706
>aggressively disappointed
That's actually good. We can play off the group friction Laner seems to be demonstrating.

Let's take the negotiation job.

Ideas for division 2 to look into:

Either we want want info fellow blackmail victims have on the blackmailers (which isn't likely to be better than what they syndicate already has, or you can did up on the inside) or we want to use them against the blackmailers.

One potential play I can think of is riling them up, encouraging them to turn on the blackmailers. Making the gun runners think they can't be trusted, or that they have a way to take the blackmail back, etc.

Basically, one way to find out where something hidden is is to point a threat at it, so the owner has to move it. Obviously, we need to wait until the blackmailers trust Unity enough to take her with the when they grab what's in the safe and run, but it's a way to get what we want out in the open. Probably faster than becoming a full equal partner trusted with the blackmail ourself.

Then we'd celebrate our escape with an orgy, knock them all out, and steal all their stuff and the goods.

So D2 needs to find a way to get into the gun runners. We need people to approach, who we can talk to when we stir things up. Not sure what persona or angle to use here, though it requires a new face at a minimum.

Well I do like the idea of hanging out with Laner and having fun around the club but I would like to at least try a outside job once.

If it gets too scary I can always change direction and stay safe in the club.

I don't suppose Ran's has any input on this conversation?

To start with with we should get them to play aginst each other by deciding who to work with via an orgy in which they try to please you and you go with the best.
Pick Rike to get yourself set up as a bigger part of their organisation and set a division up to work with him for 3 days to build trust.
Then we need to set the gun runners up to threaten and scare them into moving the data which we will steal and take off with.

Tell Rike that if he's making this offer, he must have at least one such job in mind already, right? You were hoping to live a quiet party life for a while, but you feel like you'd be an idiot to pass up something that could maybe fund you some mass, you're squeezin' for three divisions as is. How about he spin you the story for one job, and the pay, and you'll give it a go to see how you feel about it and how well it turns out?

Besides, no offense, but it'd give you time to feel around and ask some questions about their operation yourself. Sounds like it's pretty extensive.

"Sorry, Laner and Bolann, but I really Rike the sound of Like's offer, so I'm choosing him. .....oops! I mean, I really like the sound of Rike's idea!"

>>753725
>The Coral that's at the harbor is in disguise, right? It'll look suspicious if a Coral is spotted there looking into the Blackmailer's business!
I should hope she's in disguise!

1/3 Coral 2016/10/18(Tue)19:39 No. 753762 ID: bfb318
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"Splitting my time isn't an option? I can't imagine you've made so many enemies that you need me out there making nice with them all of the time?"
>"Not for at least a few jobs. We're going to have you wear a single track cam and do some jobs. If you do well, then splitting your time between here and there is doable." says Rike.
".... okay. I'm sorry, Laner, but you were right, I need to show initiative. I'll do negotiation. Rike, I assume you already have a job in mind?"
>"Yes. Not much to begin with, but pays better than waitering already."

Laner grunts.

"And sorry, Bolann, but Laner was also right about me not wanting to spent all my time on the dance floor."
>Oh well, it's not going anywhere. I guess I won't claim victory on the bet, since you're working for us now." Bolann says.
"I appreciate it, Laner. I'll show it, too, later tonight when I can. I don't suppose Rans has anything to say about this?"
>"He's busy, now." says Rike. "Come see me upstairs."

2/3 Coral 2016/10/18(Tue)19:39 No. 753763 ID: bfb318
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Division two, in diguise, has found a building of various services where many of the gun runners go to spend their off time. The division 2 team will start conversing with some of the gun runners that the Lollipop Syndicate has some data on, and start gaining some connections there.

The eventual intention will be to get the gun runners to try and threaten the blackmail, and force the blackmailers to move the data, in which Coral will hopefully be trusted enough to participate in the move.

3/3 Coral 2016/10/18(Tue)19:41 No. 753764 ID: bfb318
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Coral meets with Rike upstairs.

>"I'll get to it. A building inspector is due in three days. The building is safe and all, but the landlords here want things ridiculously clean and optimal. I just want more time before I need to hire people to spitclean an already well oiled machine. Here's the inspector's address and phone number. He's just got off work, and will be home. See if you can delay it. It'll pay 100,000 dollars, plus 5,000 per day."

>>753764
Should be easy, we can just offer Coral's body as an incentive for the inspector to delay. Only question is how to approach them.

Ask about the inspector's general disposition.

Well time to fuck him so hard he cant walk for days. Or something similar.

Try to find out more about this guy so we can find a way to approach him. See what he likes and what would convince him to spend a few days playing with us rather than do his job.

Of course finding a way to delay him without spending all of the several days with him would be ideal.

>>753764
Is he a biological or a jetal? Knowing which one he is ahead of time will help determine how we approach him.

>>753764
Right. Get Scanner's understudy looking this person up on our phone. What can we find out about them, quick? (Important would be if they've taken bribes before). We don't have long to plan an approach, and intel would help a lot.

Sounds like they're trying to collect blackmail on the inspector.

>>753787
Hmm... well, maybe, but delaying a job for a few days seems like it won't be much blackmail material. Unless we're supposed to seduce him and he's married or otherwise forbidden from sexual relations...

>>753789
Traditionally, blackmail is an incremental process. Only staggeringly lucky amateurs stumble into damning secrets on day one. Screwing up the schedule for inspections might be a firable offense, or at least grounds for some sort of disciplinary action, avoidance of which then provides the leverage to motivate some marginally greater transgression.

What I mean is, we could point this out. Proving that we know the business's core principles well enough to recognize what we're actually being paid to do might speed up the initiation.

>>753817
SHOULD we know they're blackmailers though? Letting that slip might reveal we know more than we should.

>>753818
A sufficiently clever and criminal-minded person might be able to deduce it just from the description of that assignment. It's in character, too. Trying to understand and anticipate what your bosses really want is very much "showing initiative."

I think jumping to blackmail is being too smart for our own good. We haven't even scoped out our target yet- that's one of several ways we could try and influence the inspector.

We might also have to be less effective than usual- morphing to the perfect personality and appearance to play this guy is risky. Revealing ourself as too good an actor raises suspicions we might be playing them. So whatever play we make here has to be limited to seeming in character for Coral.

Coral 2016/10/19(Wed)09:56 No. 753864 ID: bfb318
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Coral's scanning team looks into the inspector.

He appears to be a 26 year old biological. He is married to another biological, with no kids. His inspecting job is, on paper, just to make sure that health and safety codes are being matched. He has a reputation for being highly knowledgeable about laws and loopholes, and inspecting buildings with far more scrutiny than others.

On further inspection, the scanning team notices that many criminals were busted for contraband at varying times after this particular inspector looked at their buildings.

He does not have a visible history of taking bribes, but there is more shadowed parts of his job than is typical for an inspector of his type. Furthermore, it does seem as though he has flexibility of when he is supposed to inspect certain buildings, and tends to schedule them far earlier than any true deadlines.

His online activity is minimal, and he tends to keep to himself. He appears most comfortable around other biologicals.

Okay, depending on how his relationship with his wife is, offering sexual favors could be the best or the worst idea. (Maybe they're up for threesomes)?

What can we find on the wife online? She might have more of a footprint. What's she do? Is she likely to be home now? If we have to make a pitch with her around that changes our options a lot.

We can fake biological easy, although we'd to morph away Coral's obvious jetal bits.

If he usually does his inspections early, and he's due in three days, I'm suprised we haven't seen him already.

Not sure exactly what we should offer him- we'll have to rely on the social scanner and people skills to get a read on him. Before that we need to pick an approach to even get to him, but we can start moving in his direction now at least.

Ok we need to spy on him and his wife a bit. Check there internet history and see if either of them has a secret fetish we could work with. Fern might be able to help with that if Scanner can not.

We don't have to seduce either of them but would be the most fun.

You know if he's inspected someplace the Dead Batteries or the Lollipop Guild own before and they paid him off before, that would pretty much tell us what he wants. We could pass cheating insider knowledge off as good instincts.

Right, I'm guessing he's not really a building inspector but a drugs investigator. Maybe an undercover cop, maybe an agent for some corporation that has a stake in busting people. In any case, he's not just a regular building inspector. We haven't been trusted with the real goings-on.

Not sure what to do about him. If we wanted to be nice, we could give him a tip-off about some OTHER drug people he can bust up. Make it so there are other 'buildings' that more urgently need his inspection? Might be tricky. Do the Lollipops know this guy, if he's been chasing down 'contraband'?

Not-nice option is the ol' honey trap. Tempt him into something he can be blackmailed for, or at least something that LOOKS like something he can be blackmailed for.

Or you know we could arrange for him to have an "accident" that puts him out of commission for a couple of days, can't get too wrapped up in only espionage always. He must have some sort of protection from just being beaten up by some hired goons or a drone slipping poison in his tea, but we should keep an open mind.

>>754061
The biggest problem with taking that kind of option is it goes deliberately against what we've had Coral tell Laner her personal philosophy and modes of operation are. Especially after we just made a point of passing up Laner's first option to screw people over on principle.

>>754068

Yeah. It wasn't likely in the first place, I just wanted to make a point that we should keep an eye out for more solutions than just what we've been building for. You never know!

I wonder: if this guy has been busting people for 'contraband', and that's drugs, does that mean the four guys we're trying to deal with are in the drug scene as well? Fern made it seem like it was only the blackmail they were mad about, so maybe the Lollipops don't know. Really though, once they had a shield against the 'pops already, why wouldn't they edge into their business turf too?

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)14:33 No. 754337 ID: bfb318
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While Coral excuses herself from Rike and begins travelling to the inspector's house, she contacts Polatt to ask about this inspector.

>"Him? Would love to help, but we've only heard stories. He inspected one of our buildings, sure, but it was clean as white, so we didn't go paying him off or anything. Apparently he burns money sent to him, shoos off any girls sent to his door, and throws material good "presents" right in the dumpster. Makes a show of all of it."
"What about his wife?"
>"Apparently finds the whole thing amusing. You ask my opinion, and I'd say I'm surprised they haven't been hurt yet. They must have good house security, since every threat they've had turned out to be empty. Don't know anything more than that past rumor and hearsay."
"Okay. Thanks, Polatt."
>"Anytime."

Fern is contacted as well.

>"That guy." Fern says, before a long pause. "Yeah. We got inspected once with a 1 day notice and no damn way to move that much contraband out of the building safely. Had to deal with it and prevent an inspection."
"How did you get him to not inspect it?"
>"We had an "accident" and the building blew up, thus changing the inspectors to the fire department. The inspector you want to delay, Thelli, is a goddamn stone."
"Can we get his search history?"
>"Not so easy, girl. He's on a secure internet line, and his house is one big glorified panic room. Pretty sure he's got himself some identity changes in the past. Wouldn't shut my mind down if it turns out he isn't a 26 year old biological at all. Only a few things we've hammered down, like him being about as independent of an inspector as a parasite that needs a host to live, and that he's got a medical history. Don't know what it is, just that he has one. I'm not a big expert on your field, but I'm gonna take the moment to remind your new and naive derriere that it isn't illegal to knock on some guy's door to have a chat."

>>754337
Looks like we'll have to start with that, then. Just talk to him, earnestly ask him to delay the inspection. Give him the same excuse Rike gave you- it's just to please the landlord by getting top marks.

With his medical history it might be possible to just do a regular favor for him, instead of trying to seduce or bribe him.

We could catch him, take 'comprising' video and blackmail him with his wife.

>>754343
Polatt just said that the inspector "shoos off any girls sent to his door", so blackmailing him like that isn't going to work.

And if we did get a video to show his wife, she's been with him long enough to know that he's not cheating on her and will alert her that someone's trying to use her to get to him.

>I'm gonna take the moment to remind your new and naive derriere that it isn't illegal to knock on some guy's door to have a chat.
>basically turns down all attempts at bribery
Sounds like Rike is deliberately setting me up for failure, then. Or he's testing me.

I'd agree with Fern, here. If he's not bribe-able, and resorting to force goes against the character we've already built as Coral and breaks the absurdly wonderful pacifist run we've got going in a liquid metal boss fight game, our best option is just to be friendly and ask to talk to him, and for his to push back his inspection. Pure Alison route.

A certain degree of honesty might even help. That this is effectively a job interview and we're trying to get in. If we think he could be trusted to keep him mouth shut in the short term, we could even let him on a deeper layer of truth- that we're trying to bring them down and this is how we get it.

Alternatively, we could go with intimidation / threats (an application of our social focus we haven't really tried) but if this guy is as stubborn as our intel says, he'd probably just move his inspection earlier as a result.

I'd say look-wise, stay as Coral, but turn the lights off, and dress less scandalously. Club wear / high class streetwalker isn't appropriate for a friendly chat at home, and looking like we're going to try and seduce him will just get us tossed out.

If our scanners can pick up on the medical issue we might be able to offer help.

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)15:32 No. 754367 ID: bfb318
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Coral decides to go with the straightforward approach. After a 10 to 15 minutes travel period, she ends up at the front door. Her outfit stays similar, but her coat covers more of her torso, and her top's boob window closes. She ends up looking more eccentric than either casual normal or street walker wear.

She knocks on the investigator's door, belonging to a just on the outskirts of town where the buildings have gradually scaled down to only 2 or 3 stories. Coral notes that the crime in this part of town is almost nil, and patrol bots, cameras, or both, can be seen at almost any time.

He opens the door within a few seconds. Coral's scanner does say he is biological, but nothing else as far as skin level is concerned. Coral maintains eye contact, but he looks her up and down, once per direction, in such a mechanical procedure that Coral gets why Fern has his suspicions about his biological state.

He stares without a word.

Social scanner and Alison channeling on max, even if she's busy seducing Sevener.

"Hello! I'm Coral, are you mister Thelli?"
*offer hand to shake*
*If he does take it, be nonplussed and continue*
"May I come in? I'd like to talk with you, if I could."

"And since I've heard you've had bad experiences in the past, I'd just like to day I'm not here to bribe you, threaten you, or otherwise insult you or your professionalism. Honest, I'd just like to talk."

".....could you please not stare? It feels like you're undressing me with your eyes."

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)15:54 No. 754380 ID: bfb318
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"Hello! I'm Coral, are you mister Thelli?"
>"Yeah."

Coral puts her hand out to shake his. He doesn't take it, so Coral pulls hers back.

"May I come in? I'd like to talk with you, if I could. I'm aware you've had bad experiences about this, but I'm not here to bribe you, threaten you, or otherwise insult you or your professionalism. Honest, I'd just like to talk."
>"Judging by me hearing your voice, nothing's stopping you." he says, staying in the door frame with no indication of letting Coral in."
"If I can, could you maybe not stare so hard? It feels like you're undressing me with your eyes?"
>"Undressing your mask? Didn't know you had one."

The social scanner pings with a discovery.

Tone Detected: Snark

"Well, look. Coral's not my real name. But then, you're not really a health and safety inspector, so we're both liars. I want to help you do your job and it'd be dangerous for me to do it out on the street. Can I please come in?"

Pause to see if he lets you in, then:

"Some guys you're due to inspect have hired me to delay you from inspecting them. What they don't know is that I'm just trying to earn their trust so I can retrieve some blackmail material they have on someone else. I figure, if you help me retrieve the info I want, I'll also be able to pick up more info that you want. Or perform whatever other service you need so long as I can walk away with my employer's secrets safe. You delay what would probably be a moderately effective bust a few days, you get a really effective bust and maybe a lot more after that. Sound like a good deal?"

Do you disprove of masks, mister Thelli? In an age where everyone can choose their appearances, it's hard not to wear one.

I wanted to talk to you about an upcoming inspection date. I was hoping to ask you to move it up. There's nothing illegal or untoward in such a request, so long as the inspection still occurs within the range required. Obviously such a request suggests we're not as prepared for an inspection as we'd like at the moment, but I figured you might appreciate the honesty. If nothing else, I've given you a different story to tell than usual, and kept more dignity than those who have made their appeals in the past.

>>754380
Damn. Compliment him on his observation skills. Counter by saying you suspect he is wearing a mask as well. Normal belenosians should not be able to see through you. ...or does he have a high ranking scanner in his security system? You've heard it's top notch.

Anyway, get to the point. Tell him as far as you know your employers have no illegal drugs or anything for him to catch as part of his inspection, they just want a little more time to make everything perfect as to impress the landlord. You're open to suggestions as to how you two can come to an agreement.

He is avoiding looking down really hard. Get Scanner looking at medical records if she can while we chat.

So I was wondering if you could help me out? I have this new job at a local club and I asked my boss what I could do to get off on a good start and he joked that if I could get there inspection delayed a day or two he would give me a bonus.

Am sort of new at this but figured why not just ask? Maybe there is something I can do for you.

Play up the eager to please new girl persona and see how he reacts. Just be nice to him and learn what you can.

Wait, wait wait. Stone faced professionalism, mostly silent, snark. This guy is basically Polo.

The way to keep him engaged is to play to the weird sense of humor.

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)16:31 No. 754392 ID: bfb318
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Medical records are being searched for, but they're hidden under digital lock and key.

"I suspect you're wearing a mask, too."
>"Is this some philosophical 'we're all wearing masks' talk?"
"Oh, no, but in this age, it's hard not to wear one. Anyway, I have a new job at a local club and want to get off on a good start, and he mentioned that you're very scrutinizing, and they want to make sure their building is in top notch shape for your inspection."
>"Which club?"
"The Flashing Aura."
>"Right. Go on."
"I thought there'd be no harm in asking if you could bump it back a few days just so they can clean all the pipes, oil all the bolts, and - "
>"Move all the drugs."

....

>"Go on. Here, fine, come on in." he says, backing up into his house. "Since you're showing up so close to when my wife comes home, figure the neighbors won't talk so much."

The scanner pings on the house when Coral enters. The whole residence does seem like a giant robot in the shape of a house, but all the modules are hidden past her scanner capabilities. She does detect 6 cameras within line of sight on the entry way.

>"Want something to drink or eat? Dinner is soon, and you can tell me all about these non-drug related issues your club is having, and why I should delay the inspection."

Coral is tempted to make the big move of simply telling him she's aiming to harm the club owners, but there isn't any going back if she makes that choice.

>>754392
Making the big move would only be a bad idea if this guy is a honeypot, but we know he's legit because Fern has personal experience with him. Lead up to it, though. Act like you're trying to make sure he's legit. Maybe even wait until his wife arrives (ask about his wife).

Ask him if he has reason to believe the Flashing Aura has drugs. Could they have something worse than that?

Hold off on revealing your true intentions for the moment. Cant put that genie back in the lamp once its out.

I don't know about drugs honestly. Have been there a few days and have not seen anything other than the usual minor stuff. But am not really looking for that sort of thing to be honest.

Me being here wont bother your wife will it? I don't want to cause any problems on that front. (watch for how he reacts. Plus its true)

>at least 6 Cameras
So... anything we tell him is being recorded. Meaning we not only have to trust him to keep mum, we have to trust his information security to keep anyone else from getting access to those recordings and blowing up our con.

Worst case that could lead to us blowing the job, the blackmailers getting away, the blackmailers releasing the blackmail, or the feds raiding the place and getting ahold of the blackmail.

>Want something to drink or eat?
Point out there's something kind of amusing about the clubber getting to judge the inspector on the quality of his food and drink.

>you can tell me all about these non-drug related issues your club is having, and why I should delay the inspection.
Well, it's not necessarily a club issue. It's kind of a me-issue. I'm trying to get my employers to trust me in a short period of time, which means doing something like, talking the impossible unbribeable inspector into holding off a few days.

And well, it's club. I'm sure there are drugs somewhere changing hands, but I'm pretty sure the club owners aren't really invested in it. The club's just a front, really. They make their real money blackmailing people.

And I'm a bounty hunter looking to get close enough to take their dirty secrets away from them.

So why am I asking you to put off your inspection? Because it'll help me stopping people from doing something wrong, which is what I think you're all about. If you didn't believe in something, you wouldn't do your job as well as you do. And after that, the club is almost certainly going to end up under new management and need a new inspection when it reopens, anyways.

I'd say continue being polite and such, leave the big reveals and such if we make no progress.

I don't think lying to him would be much help, he's got lots of cameras and probably a few good scanners. Can social scanners get a read on us, or does our pseudo-CAI nature deflect them?

This guy is set up like a serious professional, I doubt any persuasion technique that your regular mobster could bring to bear by hiring goons or girls or dropping money at his feet is going to work on him. He kinda seems like he might be angling to ask you for something, since he's being inviting rather than shutting you out, but he might just be aiming to trick you into saying incriminating things.

So, I'd say go for the reveal. Act like you're some sort of private detective or something yourself and that you want to work with him so you can both accomplish your goals. Appeal to the very professionalism that would otherwise get in the way.

It'd have been better if you'd been able to avoid saying exactly what bar you're with yet, since now if we tell him we're after blackmail evidence he'll know there's some sort of sensitive info to retrieve from the place, and he's probably going to suspect our employers for that task are also criminals. I dunno, maybe we can imply our employer is a noble or something, make him less willing to pry. Loviro was a noble, do we have some special homemade noble jetal tag we could flash or something?

>Can social scanners get a read on us, or does our pseudo-CAI nature deflect them?
Jetals are already harder to read being artificial, and we're basically the world's best liar since we can assign different AIs to control specific things, and we can choose from our pool of 3-4 thousand (or ~1 thousand, since we're split between the three divisions) to use the people who are the best actors and/or who have the best poker faces and/or actually feel some of the stuff we're saying.

>>754397
>do we have some special homemade noble jetal tag we could flash or something?
There were noble jetals last time who wore their emperor's emblem by making some of their jetalium glow. We could do that to make a diamond if we wanted, but it wouldn't prove anything, and it seems too early for that reveal. Also, depending on this guy's politics, and which emperor (if any) he favors / hates, that might be a bad topic to get into.

It occurs to me that if we introduced him and Anya to each other, they'd be trading stories on who made a bigger drug bust or something like that. Maybe we could get them together on a later mission?

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)17:05 No. 754405 ID: bfb318
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>It occurs to me that if we introduced him and Anya to each other, they'd be trading stories on who made a bigger drug bust or something like that. Maybe we could get them together on a later mission?
This idea can be looked into after tonight, once it's seen how both events regarding Sevener and the investigator play out.

>Can social scanners get a read on us, or does our pseudo-CAI nature deflect them?
A social scanner can still get a read on Unity/Coral, but it is trickier while multiple people are controlling a single body, and nearly impossible to someone who has not conversed with Unity before.

Coral will start heading in the direction of the reveal that she isn't on the club's side, but not reveal it immediately.

"It's kind of amusing for the clubber to judge the inspector on the quality of his food and drink."
>"It's all cooked and bought by robots. You'd be judging them."
"Oh. Well, back to the point, I don't know about drugs, honestly. I've been there a few days and haven't seen anything other than minor little things."
>"Minor little things?"
"It's a nightclub, there's going to be drugs changing hands somewhere! I'm not looking for it, anyways. Do you have reason to suspect they had drugs that are worth an inspection?"
>"Not until you showed up asking for a delay."
"And it seemed like it was supposed to be impossible, but I am trying to get them to trust me quick. Me being here won't bother your wife, will it? I don't want to cause any problems there."
>"I wouldn't have let you in if it would. Or will it? Are you planning on giving me something to push the schedule back, or are you just asking nicely?"

He says this as he puts dinner plates out for three. As he had implied, machinery in the kitchen is doing much of the work.

I don't even know if I have anything you would want. Its not like I am rolling in money or anything. And am not the sort to try and tempt a married guy into sin unless his wife is along for the fun.

I asked a friend and he said you were supposed to be unbribable so I figured being friendly and asking might work.

>>754405
Tell him you'd like to give him something but you don't know what he'd want.

>Are you planning on giving me something to push the schedule back, or are you just asking nicely?
Asking nicely. From what I know of your reputation, and what little read I've got on you, offering you anything would just offend you. Heck, if you named a price yourself, right now, I'd probably assume it was a trick or a joke.

And you know, with all the people doing illegal things trying to get you off their backs one way or another, I figured no one ever just tried asking. Not in their mindset, or not something they could swallow.

*Shrug* I could help you set the table, if you want. The robots have most the rest covered, I think.

If he has this much spy stuff set up, he's probably going to give you food laced with tracking nanobots.

He might be angling on an assumption that you don't know he's actually more than he presents himself to be. Like, he think you think he's a normal inspector, still? Probably about time to dispel that notion. And doing that will lead in to the greater reveal.

>"Not until you showed up asking for a delay."
"Hey, look at me. Why do you think they sent me? They just looked at me and said, 'Let's send the inspector a girl to fuck.' Woo. Lucky me. I'm just glad I can just tell them their plan worked, even though it didn't and I came in here with my plan of literally just asking nicely and not offering sex."

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)17:39 No. 754423 ID: bfb318
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"I'd like to if I could, but I don't know if I have anything you'd want. I'm not rolling in money, and I wouldn't want to tempt a married guy into sin behind his wife's back, even if my bosses got one look at me and thought to send the investigator a girl to screw. Plus, I've heard you're unbribable, so I'd think you were tricking me into trying to bribe you if you named a price right now. So all I have is a polite ask. Plus, I wondered if anyone's tried just that. Asking. I could help you set the table, though!"
>"That's a host job. Sit and let me take your coat."

Thelli directs Coral to a chair to sit down in, and simultaneously takes off her coat. It's done with a well practiced level of pressure that is just short of trying to force Coral into a chair and take off her coat, yet creates a sense of requiring force to stop him from doing it.

"If you're just asking and you keep it that way, then you're welcome to stay through dinner. The answer will still be no."

>If he has this much spy stuff set up, he's probably going to give you food laced with tracking nanobots.
If this is the case, Coral believes she can fry any nanobots in the food before they have a chance to spread.

"May I ask what your wife does?"
>"She works with the police."
"You do, too?"
>"I'm an independent investigator."

You give him a little inquisitive look, and he gives one back to you.

>"Do you have reason to believe otherwise?"
"I think you're more than that."
>"Okay. The food is almost ready. Make yourself comfortable. If you're not already."

>>754423
Hey, ask how he's able to afford all this.

If he doesn't give a very good explanation, then I think I figured out what's up with this guy: he's an Operator. In that case, maybe you can tell him you'd like to join up.

>"If you're just asking and you keep it that way, then you're welcome to stay through dinner. The answer will still be no."
Well thank you, I suppose. I'm in no rush to run home and disappoint my would-be boss. Or to appoint him, since I half expect he wanted to see me fail at this.

Wordplay > actually using a word correctly.

Can social scanner tell if he's telling the truth? He 100% believes there's nothing you can say that will make the answer "yes"?

>wife works with the cops
That makes telling him the truth about the blackmail harder, since she might be obligated to report that, and we don't really want to drag the cops into this mess. That risks scaring off the blackmailers, forcing them to release the blackmail, or the cops getting their hands on the blackmail.

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)18:13 No. 754448 ID: bfb318
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"How are you able to afford all this?"
>"Two people with good jobs, and no kids. Add in decent money management, and you can afford all kinds of luxuries without being a criminal."
"Well, thank you, I'm in no rush to run home and disappoint my would-be boss. Or to appoint him, since I half expect he wanted to see me fail at this."

>Can social scanner tell if he's telling the truth? He 100% believes there's nothing you can say that will make the answer "yes"?
He said it with a blankness not typical of biologicals. It was not said with absolute conviction, but there is no apparent desire for Coral to press the matter farther either.

What the scanner does pick up is curiosity about why Coral's boss would want her to fail. For whatever reason, he doesn't feel that it's worth asking, despite the curiosity.

I guess sending the new girl off on a impossible mission might be hazing or something? Then he can laugh and tease me about it. That or say if I can't even seduce one inspector what good am I.

Oh well. So what got you into this line of work? And this whole situation in general? (while waving at the air)

Working as a private inspector is that how you met your wife?

It's possible that his wife is a hugely powerful robot jetal cyborg or something, and he's stalling you until she gets back because she has the means to hold you for questioning/arrest and he doesn't. I mean, if she is a cop, she must at least have some means of restraining jetals, right?

In which case you should probably either convince him he wants you willingly working with him (and the "I'm out to betray my bosses" reveal comes to mind first), or leave. And leaving will cause all sorts of mess.

>>754448
There's multiple bosses at the club. One doesn't really trust me. Sending me on an impossible task would sort of make sense, in that light. Proves him right, puts me in a weaker position, office politics, you know? Or maybe not, your don't have to deal with much an office being in the field.

(If we need a further hook / go onto full reveal)
...of course he's kinda right. I don't exactly have their best interests at heart.

>>754448
You could tell him your new boss probably thinks you're a spy, and you were sent here to convince him to help you turn on your boss or something.

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)18:32 No. 754456 ID: bfb318
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>Wife could be a powerful robot jetal cyborg
If that's the case, then Coral's data about her being a biological is wrong. She is also only someone who works in office and lab spaces, and does not fight the criminals on a direct basis.

"Maybe it's hazing." Coral answers the unasked question. "Then he can laugh and tease me. Or say if I can't seduce one inspector, then what good am I? I don't think he trusts me at all, really. Maybe he has a good reason, too. So what got you into this line of work? And this whole situation?" Coral says, gesturing to the whole house.
>"Not much of a story. I'd prefer to hear about how you work with your - "

A voice on what appears to be a house wide speaker system comes on.

"INCOMING WIFE."

>".... I plan on changing the wording on that." says Thelli, just before the front door opens.
>"Hun, there's a fluffy coat on the rack! Did you let another criminal into the house?!" she calls.
>"Yes, probably."
>"Delays, forgiveness, repeals?"
>"The former, as usual."
>"We must find a way to make it legal to do spontaneous inspections with no warning."
>"Until then, we'll just have occasional guests."

She walks into the dining area.

>"Oh, she's adorable! Miss, you weren't thinking of bedding my husband, were you?"
"No, ma'am, I wasn't planning to."
>"Is that true, dearest?"
>"At least not without your blessing." Thelli says.
>"Oh, so she didn't kick the prospect off the table, hm?"

>>754456
Ma'am, are you trying to seduce me?

Not saying that I don't make a good living having sex with a wide variety of people but am not going to try and intentionally ruin a marriage.

Unless of course you both want to have some fun. Would be fine with that.

"well I am not in the business of ruining marriages so I had to wait for the other partner before even putting it on the table."

Incoming Wife is adorable. Also, per UnSe naming conventions, this is now her name.

>"Oh, so she didn't kick it off the table, hm?"
I kicked sexual quid pro quo off the table because I didn't think it would work. That doesn't mean I'm opposed to ending up in someone's bed anyways, if that's what you're into. I'm already being whined and dined; you're halfway home. (In your home).

I'm wondering if we should do a cute light thing in her direction (a star or a heart on Coral's cheek for a moment?). Our incomplete intel said he was down on jetals, but she seems like she'd respond to the cute aspect of it. And if they're gonna seduce it, we might as well let them know what they're getting in bed with. I'm not sure we're hiding that we're a jetal from thier sensor suite, and I don't know if we have biomod on anyways.

Well, she seems nice. It's hardly a logical reaction, but I'd feel better about the "i'm actually looking to betray my bosses" reveal, now. Even if they were going to go for the sex exchange I think we might end up with more advantages in the long run, that way, so long as we can keep the Lollipop's material secure.

I say make the reveal, offer to work together. Then, when you have an arrangement, offer to have fun with them both anyway.

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)19:13 No. 754480 ID: bfb318
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"It's not as though I don't have sex with others, but I don't want to come between a marriage."
>"Oh, dear, not just a criminal with a conscience, but a jetal who likes to get dirty? You really pulled a new one in tonight, hun. Dear," she says, speaking to Coral, "Are you sure you didn't proposition him, and was just so subtle about it that it flew under his radar?"
"No, I really didn't think it would work to begin with. It doesn't mean I'm opposed to ending up in a bed, if that's what you're into. I'm already being wined and dined; you're halfway home." says Coral, who lights up a star to Incoming Wife's direction, where Thelli can't see.
>"In my home."
"Yes."
>"Oh, sheesh, I can't tease you about failing to seduce him when you didn't even try.
"Ma'am, are you trying to seduce me?"
>"Hm? Are you insinuating I'm seducing another girl, who can transform into a guy, in front of my own husband?" Her tone and face darkens, but the social scanner senses that it's likely she is acting and is not offended.

"Hmmm dear you seem a bit stressed are you sure you have enough milk in your diet"

>>754480
Oh no, please don't be offended... is there any way I could make it up to you? Any way at all?

>>754480
Oh no, no, I would never insinuate that. I was amusing this was a package deal!

Or alternatively: (being a literalist)
Of course not. I'm pretty sure I came right our and said that, no insinuations at all!

Either way, grin.

She outed as a jetal, I see no problem with using the lights occasionally as emotes or emphasis where appropriate. Can't do the whole flashy everywhere thing without club music or some kind of beat to go with it, though.

Yes?

I can turn into all sorts of sexy things actually. Just depends on how perverted your imagination can get.

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)20:30 No. 754517 ID: bfb318
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"Oh, no please don't be offended, I wouldn't insinuate that! I assumed this was a package deal. I can transform into all sorts of sexy things, it just depends on imagination. You seem stressed, is there any way I could make it up to you? Any way at all?"
>"Yes! Stay for dinner. We biologicals like it when people focus on a dinner they're given. Even if jetals can process fast, being on your cell phone, or cell phones, is rude. I'm going to slip into something more comfortable, so please turn off your cell phone or any communication devices, and be virtually silent for dinner, okay?"

Ooookaaaay!

Might as well.

Sure! (we are totally going to end up in there sex dungeon)

Being out of communication for a bit is a big red flag but nothing ventured nothing gained right? Send one last text to Fern saying "Woo Sex dungeon time again maybe" before going offline.

We don't have to communicate to record, correct?

Well I hope Gambler and the moneymaking team and there phone are with one of the other divisions, or else they're about to be inconvenienced.

If we agree to that, we actually have to come off the phone, since this house is bugged with enough sensors to notice. (We can't turn off our divisions, but then again we're sharing battery and modules with them, but not direct communication. And we haven't run into anything that can track the division link, yet).

>what say
Either we take that at face value (she doesn't want us multitasking in bed, not unreasonable), we take it a little past face value (they don't want us recording this, even if they are), or it's a trick / trap. I feel the last one is unlikely, though. And if it is a trap, we'd largely be dependent on social skills to navigate it anyways, not calling for help.

Warn / text the other divisions you're going radio dark and agree.

Pretend to pout. "Aw, but you get all of your electronic toys going."

I have a feeling this is going to turn into a sexy game where they try to make us not be silent.

Give our friends (and the other branches) some warning that we're going dark for awhile. Probably ought to tell them to come for us if we're not heard from for a day.
Otherwise, enjoy dinner. At least if we get nothing else out of it, we get dinner for free.

1/2 Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)21:32 No. 754533 ID: bfb318
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"Aw, but you get all your electronic toys going."
>"Not on the dinner table!"

Coral uses her live line with Fern to make one last message.

"I'm going to be out of contact for a bit, and I might end up in a sex dungeon maybe again!"
>"Yeah okay have fun you dumbass princess." he says before hanging up himself.

>"Off your phone?" Thelli asks.
"Yep."
>"Alright. Computer, enact process 59, please."
>"CONFIRMED. PHONE LINES HAVE BEEN CUT."
>"Just to be certain. And yes, the wording could be improved there too."

She gets no reception, and it is similar to the cage match Princess Toya was in against BoT. She can, and does record until she wishes to turn it back off. Thankfully, Gambler and the rest of the online team are with the harbor division. The divisions themselves become slightly hampered, but not in any appreciable way so long as the other divisions don't involve themselves in something that needs near instant reaction times.

Incoming Wife, contrary to her current name, seems to take a while to come back. The house is well soundproofed, so it's unknown where she is or what she's doing as far as Coral can tell.

2/2 Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)21:33 No. 754534 ID: bfb318
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Eventually, she comes.

>"Okay, the food's gotten cold enough, let's eat up." she sits.

....

>"Oh, you haven't ran off yet? How new. You know we're not imprisoning you, right? That would be against the law." she says. "Then again, if you are a criminal, I guess that would change, hmm?"

Ask what happens to criminals in her house.

Also possibly compliment her dress. (although she did say be virtually silent for dinner so might want to just smile and wink at her.)

Waggle your eyebrows at her and wink then silently and slowly enjoy the food like she mentioned earlier.

But feel free to ogle her while doing so.

Until instructed otherwise, communicate with Incoming Wife exclusively by spelling out messages in lights, preferably on sideboob.

Once she gives you permission to speak aloud, tease her about staring, and shift your outfit to give a better view.

>>754534
Tempting to tell them you're not really imprisoned with divisions active outside, but that would probably make them feel like you're breaking privacy. Which you are anyway with the recording. So let's just shut up about that.

Interesting that she'd bring that up, I don't think Unity has broken any laws serious enough to garner police attention. We COULD say that, or ham it up and say you've been a very bad girl and need to be punished. I don't suppose you could get her name?

Another thing occurs to me: we can use the free division to maintain phone contact with Fern if he wants.

So.....when you're given permission to speak out loud, you should ask if her husband is ok with all of this flirting she's doing to you? And maybe we can get him in on the flirting? Or better yet, after dinner, ask if we can get a threesome going with both of them?

The game was to be silent, so don't talk. We're limited to body language and light-emotes until dinner ends, or she says different.

>>754544
A wink and a smile seem the right response.

If we want to add light emotes too, maybe briefly flash chains or an image of handcuffs? Or prison jumpsuit stripes (or actually, we have real clothes, not jetalium ones. So that won't work).

>I don't think Unity has broken any laws serious enough to garner police attention.
Technically just not being EIN connected is illegal, but at least in the harvest they seem willing to tolerate that, to an extent.

We're guilty several times over of prostitution without a license, but we've seen cops using the dead batteries unregistered brothel, so that's hardly enforced at all.

We're probably breaking some kind of racketeering laws just being on the books with the gangs we signed in on. We've also had illegal drugs / controlled substances pass through our possession.

Lots and lots of impersonation and misrepresentation, but it's not like we did any real identity theft.

The biggest thing legally would probably be Roxy's testimony. Since we pretended to be an organic, deceived the court, etc. We perjured ourself; and that would probably be more than enough for the people we put away to get a retrial or get out.

...still probably all way less serious than the first or second illegal jetal assault and module / jetalium theft Unity 1.0 committed.

>>754534
Wow, we are getting REALLY lewd really fast. Might want to tone the "thinking with our dicks" down a little bit, guys. We don't even know why she seems so flirty while her husband remains so stoic. I do highly suspect an interrogation section, especially after making the open remark that we haven't run off yet (Possibly code to her husband that we're dumber than we look for not seeing how dangerous a situation we're in)

Then again this is an NSFW quest and the odds of the sex NOT happening are very small, so maybe it's appropriate in this instance.

Coral 2016/10/21(Fri)22:44 No. 754575 ID: bfb318
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Coral has real clothes - at least, modified ones to be more modest, but real all the same - so she can't form lights on that. She can still glue herself to the clothes and tug them in various directions. This technique is used to reveal more sideboob, where the message 'nice dress' shine.

On Coral's ear, the questions 'may I have your name?' and 'what happens to criminals in her house?' occur, with flashing icons of handcuffs, chains and prison stripes go below the latter question. On her cheek, the question of if her husband is alright with this is posed.

A wink and a smile is given by Coral regardless, before she slowly eats the food.

>"I don't know if I want to share my name with a criminal, which I think you are - not because I have any proof, but if you were really on the up and up, you wouldn't need to come to my husband for an extension." she says, before tapping every single icon Coral had on her ear for what happens to criminals in her house. "And my husband is perfectly alright with this, of course."
Does he want to join in? Coral writes, replacing the 'nice dress' text.
>"If he feels like it, he can."
>"Even if I did, I won't delay an investigation." says Thelli, who appears focused on his food. The social scanner says he is noticeably interested in his wife's activities, but it's an amused interest and less of a sexual one.
>"So until then, let's leave him to his dinner, and... oh, what the heck, my name..." says the wife, before hooking one of her fingers into Coral's lower earring and lifting it up. She takes her own claw, and scrapes 'Naylia' onto Coral's cheek."

>I don't know if I want to share my name with a criminal
We know her home address, her husband, her face, and she was wearing an ID-badge when she came home. If we were trying to snoop at all, we'd already know her name.

No need to point this out, though. It's a little rude.

>"Even if I did, I won't delay an investigation."
That's the issue, though. We can get laid here pretty easy, but we haven't figured out how to connect the dots on the mission.

Maybe we can schedule a repeat performance or a date at the same time as the inspection, forcing him to reschedule. Or maybe she'll lean on him? Or maybe we can win a sexual bet. Or I guess we could always opt to tell them the truth about the blackmail after the sex.

>what do
I think it's time to let Incoming Wife lead you away from the table. Remember, she only said you had to be quiet during diner.

...I wonder how the blackmailers are gonna respond if we come back with the answer "No, he's not moving the inspection, but I got to fuck his wife."

>>754569
Maybe her husband likes to watch?

Also, the light message talking seems like a good idea. Allows us to tease back as much as we're teased. either that or morphing bump and valley messages.

Hopefully they don't have one of those jetal jammers amongst their toys. I suppose it wouldn't be the first time we've been in one, but these two aren't jetals, so the same tricks wouldn't work. If they do, maybe work the voluntary angle a bit to dissuade?

A nice compliment on the outfit is in order, I'd say either through light message words or an ideograph of approval.

Write this message: "So, if we did take this to the bedroom, is your husband going to join in or does he just like to watch?"

Maybe you should tell her you're not really a criminal. You just tend to associate with shady characters.

Highlight the scratches with a polychromatic glowing blush effect. Maybe add some comment about 'using my face like a cheap touch-screen tablet.'

>>754585
>haven't figured out how to connect the dots on the mission.

Here's a messy but maybe workable option:

1) sex
2) bring in a second division
3) trap the happy couple with that bodysuit trick used on Vasha at the card tournament
4) put the house on lockdown when you leave
5) arrange discreet transit out to the edge of some Black Zone, pursuant to one of those salvage missions

All those privacy measures on the house might prevent anyone from even noticing that the two of them are missing. If the inspector remains intransigent, point out that the alternative to cooperating at this point is to walk back to civilization, naked and bereft, hoping that EIN doesn't classify them as unidentified intruders and authorize lethal force.

We haven't actually given her our name, so thank her and write your name is Coral, adding "not my real one, of course". Then "think I have something you'll want, still", followed by "after. should repay hospitality, first" with a flirty look.

I think we should take them to the bone zone and then do the "I'll nark if you help me get what I want" deal. We'll have a little evidence on them then, not much but enough to make them a little less willing to just totally take advantage, and a satisfying bedroom encounter should build good will as well.

Coral 2016/10/22(Sat)15:42 No. 754712 ID: bfb318
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As the wife writes her name, Coral lights up where she gets written on, and continues writing wherever appropriate.

Using me face like a cheap touch-screen tablet? My name is Coral, by the way.
>"At least it's honest work for you." Naylia says, before eating another bit of food. Even if it ends up in the bedroom, she does appear hungry.
I'm not really a criminal. I just tend to associate with shady characters.
>"So an accomplice? Oh, maybe unwitting up to now, but we know about your bosses, we know they're criminals. So if you help them, after we told you they're no good, you'll be bad."

>>754712
Are they bad enough to be worth the effort to take down? You are well aware the police focus on big offenders and let minor criminals fight amongst themeslves.

Tell them you don't want to associate with anyone bad enough to get police attention. Is that the case here?

This writing on the ear is perfect for not getting recorded by there home audio cameras.

"I don't want to be a bad girl! Well cept in the bedroom that is" Then wink at her.

"How nice it would be if I was already working to to take them down. Why if that were true I could hand over any credit to any nice police ladies I knew if they were willing to lend a hand making me look good so I could gain there trust."

Oh, I like leaving her name lit up. A signature, or a mark of ownership. That's a fun game.

>So if you help them, after we told you they're no good, you'll be bad.
So... what if I were to do the opposite of helping them, then?

Could also make a teasing remark that trusting unsubstantiated allegations and accusations against people isn't good, either.

Play along and see if they start talking about having you infiltrate the gang before revealing that you are already doing that.

Lets see where they are coming from before revealing our hand. Might be able to play dumb and get in good with the law if we do this right. We get paid by the guild for the job and the Blackmailers while getting a good rep with the authorities for our later conversion to lawfulness.

Still need to seduce them though.

Coral 2016/10/22(Sat)16:18 No. 754731 ID: bfb318
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I don't want to be a bad girl, not outside of a bedroom!

Coral winks as she writes 'bedroom'.

What if I did the opposite of helping them?
>"Then maybe my husband would join in, since he doesn't do criminals." says Naylia, who scoots her chair to be right up against Coral's. "But we couldn't just trust you so quickly, oh no, you might not just screw cops literally, but figuratively too?"
>"Hasn't been any literal screwing yet." the husband mutters between chews.
>"But there will be, unless this jetal girl thinks I'm just fooling around. I just don't know how serious she thinks we are. Or what she's willing to do to backstab her bosses."

>>754731
Let's go for it. Tell her you're open to negotiations, if she wants to get serious.

You're pretty sure they're serious. (As is our social scanner module).

>Or what she's willing to do to backstab her bosses.
Well, I'm already out here trying to sweet talk the impossible unbribeable inspector to try and buy myself undeserved trust, so what do you think?

...Did you have something in mind?

Well I honestly don't know to much about them other than they are new to the scene and apparently have some blackmail that keeps them safe. I just wanted a nice easy job with some tough guys to help keep me safe.

If they are really bad people then I would not mind helping you. If I could do so without anyone finding out it would be nice.

>>754731
>Or what she's willing to do to backstab her bosses.
"Oh goodness I could nev-" *giggle out loud* "Sorry, I couldn't finish writing that and keep a straight face."

Honestly I came here figuring that they wanted the inspection moved back so they could clean up any health violations in the kitchen and make sure any clients had not left any drugs in the back rooms.

But I am getting the feeling that they are hiding much more from your reaction.

As for backstabbing them I just started so all I know about them is there names and modules really. This is my first job. But if you had any ideas that were not to dangerous I would be open to helping you.

Oh and I was hoping you would show me how serious you were. Am hoping you are not fooling around.

Write: "Better question: what won't I do?"

Then in smaller writing go: "for real though my actual goals and the trade I want to make with you are kinda complicated to explain and not sexy themselves. after?"

Coral 2016/10/22(Sat)17:59 No. 754757 ID: bfb318
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I don't know them well at all. I think you two are serious, and I'm hoping I'm right about that. You're giving me the impression they're worth hunting after like big time criminals, in which case I wouldn't be against it if you had something in mind. Maybe a better question is what won't I do?

Incoming Wife swings her left leg over Coral and ends up on her lap.

>"We don't often negotiate like this with criminals, but..."
>"Not often isn't never." the husband finishes.
I'm open for negotiations, if you want to keep being serious.
>"Then let's negotiate, but you have to be one hundred percent truthful. I think you're more than just a little horny jetal who wants to impress their bosses. Something brought you to them in particular, because if you just needed some protecting wing over your head, there's way better choices than those idiots. Tell me everything about them and why you're with them, then we can see about what we can exchange, and what you can do for us."

just being a part of the lollipop syndicate shouldn't be enough to get arrested so writing lollipop on your head should be enough to get the point accross.

>>754757
Starting to smell like a trap.

Get your free division to pull up her face on a phone. Can we verify we're talking to the right person? If so, then let's start feeding her bits and pieces until she's satisfied.

First, tell her you know the Flashing Aura has blackmail material on another criminal group, and you're trying to ensure the blackmail stops.
As she requests further details, give them to her, but do not sell your real friends up the creek.

If she's in your lap, is diner over? Because I don't think either of us is eating anymore. Might be free to talk. (Although, non-audio and text the cameras can't catch well does defeat the recordings nicely).

...also if this is gonna be a sexy interrogation, this is a more than fair way to trade information.

>one hundred percent truthful
That's a loooong story, and they probably wouldn't believe all of it. I think we're better off to interpret that as "not lying" to them rather than "tell them absolutely everything."

>Tell me everything about them and why you're with them, then we can see about what we can exchange, and what you can do for us.
I know they're not making their money running a bunch of drugs though their club, because I know their real income stream. It's a front for a blackmailing operation. They have a stash of dirty secrets, and a list of clients slash victims who are paying out to keep those secrets secret.

And me? I'm looking to shut them down.

If that's not enough, or we need to go further, you can admit there's a bounty you're after. Someone in particular wants something back. (And no, you won't say who. Outing someone as a victim of blackmail is almost as bad as dumping their secrets out in the open in the first place).

>>754759
We're in a Faraday cage, no signals in or out.

Quick paranoia check, what does our standard / not social scanner tell us at the moment?

I'd rather not namedrop the syndicate, maybe be vague and say it's easier to get criminals to fight criminals, but that opens up follow-up questions so idk. What we can do for them is give them their module lists (Although they might already have those if they're looking into them.), our observations so far, and maybe mention our way of knocking out jetals?

Do not mention the syndicate at all or any big secrets about your special status or nobility. Can tell the truth without letting that stuff out. Specially do not mention Sevener or Roxy or anything.

Well I have been working doing odd jobs as a unregistered jetal and realized its not the best life. I want to go legal but want to make sure I have friends and money to stay safe once I do. So have been saving up money and making connections with new friends so I can eventually go legit before I get caught up in something bad and get a record.

So I heard from a friend that there was a bounty on these guys for a rather large sum so I figured I would join up and see what the lay of the land was like. Maybe I could find a way to claim it or maybe I would just make some money off them for a bit before giving up.

They send me off on this errand but I really didn't like the idea of trying to seduce a married guy so I just knocked on the door and figured I would chat for a bit. Maybe see if he was as incorruptible as I had heard and might be able to help out.

But honestly it has turned out much better than I thought. Start fondling her butt as you say this.

Also your hands should probably be on her thighs or her butt at this point.

And we might want to pop an erection under her.

>>754758
Let's not give that piece of information away just yet. Fern wouldn't want people knowing he's being blackmailed.

>>754762
>Faraday cage
Not true. The divisions are still doing things, we just can't control them with instant reaction time.

Do not out the Lolipop's. We like them to much to back stab them.

Start rubbing her butt a bit and maybe get a bulge in your skirt going for her to rub on.

Well I have been trying to do legal jobs that are open to a jetal like me. I make people happy and offer my "sexy services" for people who like there privacy. But I want to go legal soon and need money and connections before I will risk it.

So I heard through the grapevine that a bunch of people have some bounties on these guys under the table. If I could help take them down a ton of people would be happy with me and it would help set me up with the funds to register.

>>754765
"We" can't control the other divisions at all. Our lobby is split in three; AIs from different divisions need to rely on the phones to communicate. Which are blocked. So we're on our own and the other two are operating independently.

How the core connects to the other divisions and beams energy from the battery and module data across long distances and in circumstances where RF transmissions are jammed, we don't know. (It's worth noting our divisions were fine even when we were so far underground as to block other transmissions). Especially interesting is this link between divisions isn't high powered enough to light up sensors and be used to track us.

Honestly, it's possible divisions for us work differently than they do for "real" jetals, since that would be 1 consciousness splitting concentration across multiple bodies (and would require continuous communication) not a group of AIs splitting up into smaller groups.

>Incoming Wife swings her left leg over Coral and ends up on her lap.
"Did the robots make you too? Because this is starting to look like 'dessert'. ;)" Include the winking face in the writing.

>>754758
Holy shit, don't tell her that!

I can't help but wonder if this could be some long, convoluted test by the bar crew to check out Coral's loyalty, but with Fern corroborating the guy's identity, our accessing public info about him rather than stuff that was provided, and the simple fact that if the bar crew had resources like this we'd have seen a lot more from them before, I think we're relatively safe from that scenario.

So, let's be honest. We won't be able to tell her 100% of the facts, but if she's at all reasonable she'll understand why. So start off with: "I assume I can talk now that dinner's over?"

Then: "It's not what I'd call my main job, but right now, I'm basically working as a private investigator. The people I've been calling my employers are blackmailers, in addition to whatever else they are. My real employer hired me to make a retrieval. I think you're an understanding woman, and "tell me everything about them and why you're with them" doesn't necessarily include the "everything" on the second part, so I hope you'll forgive me if I tell you that saying anything further about my real employer would defeat the entire purpose of everything I'm doing right now? I'll happily tell you everything about my fake employers, though, and as time goes on I'll have much more to tell you. This delaying job is supposed to be me earning trust and proving that I can handle negotiation work. Which means if I'm successful, I'll be sent on more negotiation work, and it was heavily implied to me that the people I would be sent to talk to would be... dangerous sorts. I could let you in on a lot of valuable intel from those negotiations, and I could provide you with any other incriminating evidence I find while doing my own investigation. All I want is for you to help me help you, and to be able to walk away at the end, safe from retribution and with my real employer safe."

Coral 2016/10/22(Sat)18:56 No. 754770 ID: bfb318
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The other divisions are still functional, but all communication with them has been lost. This is thought to be because of the change in how Unity, as a jetal, works, rather than how all other jetals are known to work. Normal jetals control their cores directly, and in this case, would be able to control either Roxy or Division 2 as per normal, and they could look up the wife's face.

Unity, with her lobby mechanic, instead controls divisions by having lobbyists take direct control of the divisions. Having a lobbyist driver appears to override any otherwise possible attempt to control a division directly through the core. In this instance, Coral can sense what Roxy and Division 2 are doing, but can only communicate with them through mundane means such as cell phones.

This goes in reverse, and some wonder if the house's blockage was supposed to prevent use of divisions, but the lobby mechanics are overriding it. Division 2 notes what Coral is up to, and begins doing research on the wife's face on their own accord, thankfully. It's realized that while they only suffer a miniscule amount of lag as a result of this, it does add a layer of de-syncing that would make one jetal core have an even more difficult time controlling a division by itself.

>If she's in your lap, is diner over?
The husband answers 'no' by sticking a forkful of food into the wife's mouth.

>Quick paranoia check, what does our standard / not social scanner tell us at the moment?
The cameras have a view of this room, and if the rest of the house's high tech appearance is any indication, the cameras may have enough definition to see the text written on Coral's body. Furthermore, the house clearly as an AI and there are signs there is a high power signature in the house, and so performing any hostile action against the couple here may be met with resistance.

Coral's hands wander down to Naylia's butt, to which Naylia idly tugs and plays with Coral's earrings.
Are you what the robot's made for dessert? ;) Coral writes, winky face included.
>"No, that's what you are, jetal dear. Now, business?"
Mhm. I know they have a blackmailing operation going on, and maybe other things too. A list of clients, or victims, are paying out to keep those secrets secrets. I'm looking to shut them down.
>"You being bwackmailed?" the wife asks with her mouth full.
No, I'm in it for the bounty.
>"A hidden one, hm? So you do have more criminal connections past those clubbers."
"I'll happily tell you everything about my fake employers, and as time goes on, I'll have more to say." Coral also writes down their module list.
>"Hmm, good information, but I don't like you distracting me from your real employers."
"Then I want to tempt you instead with where this delay mission is going. If I get their trust from delaying the undelayable, they'll send me on other lucrative negotiation trips, and that may lead to all kinds of juicy information I'm sure the cops would like to know about. I could give you that, at the price of being able to walk away with this free from retribution and with my real employer safe."
>"Your real employers sound like someone I'd like to bust, but unlike my husband, I know how to compromise and choose my battles. You're talking my language, girl, but you're also too far ahead. For these guys... how much is the bounty? You help us take them out, and we'll pay the bounty ourselves instead. Sound good?"

"I'd be tempted, but the person paying the bounty knows a lot more about me than my secondary employers do. If I let their secrets slip, it's not only me in trouble but people I care about, as well. I wasn't threatenend into the job, but, there's a reason they trust me not to just walk away with the blackmail material myself, you understand?"

Keep teasing / playing with her as we chat.

>>754770
>offer to pay out the bounty themselves
If you can actually afford to play bounty benefactor, out of pocket, without resorting to anything illegal yourself, I'm going to have to revisit asking how the heck you two can afford all this.

I have to decline, though. That pesky conscience you called me on before. I don't want to betray someone I wasn't planning to from the start. Or who I don't think it would be right for me to betray.

Besides, if they were willing to spent the bounty sending me after the blackmailers, I'm sure they would be plenty willing to spend the bounty on someone else to come after me if I cut and ran with the blackmail.

>>754770
If they take out the Flashing Aura, they'll get their hands on the blackmail info and probably take down the Syndicate too (or cause them enough trouble to get us in hot water). Which means if we let these guys take down Flashing Aura without us being involved...

Okay, time for a clarification- your real employer being safe would mean that the blackmail material is destroyed. They can't have it.

Also say the bounty is 2 million plus whatever modules are recovered during the job. (yes that's an extra million)

>>754775
I'd prefer not to lie about the bounty price to them. In fact, I'd prefer not to even tell them the bounty price at all, since that tells the how serious a secret it is, and narrows the list of suspects who could afford that. A big bounty is tantamount to admitting we're working for a criminal organization and there's information in play they don't want out. If we put too juicy a prize before the cops, I'm not sure we can trust them to work with us rather than bringing down a bunch of official firepower to seize it.

You might be able to sweeten things more by saying that, even after this particular job is done, you won't necessarily be moving out of contact with these sorts of circles. You wouldn't be able to tell them everything that comes your way, but... well, the way things are going, you're hoping you and them will find yourselves wanting to keep in touch in the future, and you'd certainly put your part in to any such relationship.

>>754776
Well, we could say it's LESS than a million, in that case. Say, 200k.

Coral 2016/10/22(Sat)20:08 No. 754801 ID: bfb318
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If you can afford to play bounty benefactor out of pocket without resorting to anything illegal, I just have to go revisit asking how you two could afford this.
>"Hmmm... husband, I think we should make it clear. You aren't going to play with us, are you?"
>"I am not."
>"And why is that? Do we not turn you on?"
>"I feel physical attraction, but what is stronger is the repelant force of criminals. Hence, I am not 'turned on' in the correct manner."
>"What does turn you on right?"
>"Pure justice."
>"That's why I love you, dear, even if your idea of 'pure' is... arguable, sometimes. But otherwise absolutely immoveable to the point where you'll only make love to your wife when it's physically unhealthy to practice abstinence, just because I fight dirty with crime. Which is why I'm willing to use you up in every way I can, uh - ah, what was your name again?"
Coral! I can't let the blackmail go, the person paying the bounty will put a bounty on me, too. I have to decline your offer, but I won't be leaving my circles any time soon, and would like to keep in touch with you. I'd be certain to put my part in to any such relationship.
>"Hm... you really do have your tongue tied by them too, huh? Fine. I think I can work with that. Are you ready to come upstairs to hear the real deal?" she says, after pulling Coral's face down to her chest.

>>754796
Sure thing, Naylia.

Yes?

I'm curious, in the husbands eyes, what makes a criminal a criminal? (Depending on what he says, we might be able to mitigate somewhat in his eyes).

Depending on what he respects (the laws, or an absolute moral code) he might swap to instant rock hard for us if we revealed the whole "gunning for Sapphire" thing. Not that we could we ever reveal that on tape.

>Are you ready to come upstairs to hear the real deal?
More than. Answer with a grin and lighting up.

Coral 2016/10/22(Sat)20:30 No. 754810 ID: bfb318
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In your husbands eyes, what makes a criminal?
>"Oh, no, please don't get him started on that sort of thing, he'll never finish. It's more or less someone who does something the police would care about after the deed is done - so not, say, breaking a speed limit slightly. But he has his own take on morality about it."
Okay. Then bring me upstairs, Naylia. Coral writes it with brighter text.

Within a minute, the husband is left downstairs, Coral is nearly pushed down onto a bed, and Naylia is sitting on her lap.

>"Let's keep up the business while we're on a roll. How about my husband gets hit with a 'clerical misunderstanding' that makes his appointment rescheduled for, let's say, 18 days from now. You just have to report success, and they can confirm the appointment's changed on the record - don't mind the gloves, dear. Then you can go off on your other 'negotiations' right away, and if you come back with that juicy information, you'll have some bargaining chips for us to bust those criminals and 'miss' some blackmail. Namely, when the re-scheduled appointment is bumped back to how it was before, and those criminals are caught with their pants down. Does that sound agreeable? Oh, and I would love it if you wore a one track cam for all your business with the clubbers."

I have no problem recording my conversations with the blackmailers but you might need a different type of camera because I have other obligations that I have to take care of that require description from prying eyes.

Dinners over, we can talk.

Some flaws with that plan. It's going to take a few days to work this job to the end, and I'm not recording my entire life for you, which makes the track cam inconvenient, unless you're giving me multiples.

And the whole point about getting in and getting them to trust me is so I can get access to their material without spooking them into releasing it, or tripping security measures that might release it. A full on police raid might well do that. And I don't know if there's anyone they're blackmailing on the force, yet. If they think one of their clients is coming after them they have every reason to release, or if there's a cop who wants their secrets protected, they might warn the blackmailers you're coming.

...also, I'm noticeably dependent on the police overlooking the blackmail and leaving it for me, and not say, grabbing it, apologizing profusely, and leaving me dependent on your protection after my client gets mad. And I miss out on modules.

If I get them to trust me, I can give you the evidence you need to put these guys away, and I can even leave them for you cored and helpless. But first pass at the blackmail stash is mission critical and non-negotiable.

>Oh, and I would love it if you wore a one track cam for all your business with the clubbers.
You're more likely going to end up getting a porno instead of anything incriminating, which'll make it not worth watching. Unless, you personally want a porno to watch?

>>754820
The tl;dr version of this: we're asking for her help, not for her to take over our operation for us.

Figure out what the gloves are for before she starts fondling you with them. Scan them maybe?

Thinking its a jetal sex device of some sort maybe.

Also ask if she prefers a specific shape or size or gender. And dick size and such.

Coral 2016/10/22(Sat)22:38 No. 754859 ID: bfb318
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The scanners reveal the gloves to be made of a material that reacts somewhat roughly to jetalium, but isn't of any real harm either.

"I can speak now that dinner's done, right?"
>"Love, when I said 'virtually' silent I meant in the virtual sense, meaning no phones or cyberspace or anything like that. I just found it amusing you wrote everything down, that was cute so I let it go."
"Oh. Well... your plan has a few issues. For one thing, I'm not going to be with my fake employers all the time, so I don't want a track cam recording when I'm off the job. Secondly, even if you give me multiple, you're probably just going to get a lot of porn scenes."
>"Is that a problem?"
"Not if you don't think it is!"
>"That's fine. I don't need track cams showing what you don't want to show, I just want them to show that what you're saying is true, so I'll give you a handful, okay?"
"Okay!"

She unsnaps Coral's collar, and starts pushing one gloved finger down her neck. It feels like sandpaper, except that instead of scraping Coral's surface, it just seems to dishevel and scramble it for a second before it goes back to its set shape.

"Hnn..."
>"You like it? It's something to make sure you feel the touch in ways jetals don't typically. Oh, the safe word is undersea cargo, but I'll be very disappointed if a jetal needs to say it."
"Do you want a specific shape, size or gender?"
>"I like variety. What I mean is, you don't need to go nuts, but it'd be boring if I just had one specific favorite and only indulged that. Be who you want to be."
"Okay, but back on business, I'm willing to give you a lot of good info for your help, but I don't want you taking it over. First pass on the blackmail is critical for me and not negotiable, since otherwise I'd be dependent on the police not backstabbing me, which the police don't seem to mind doing to criminals. Plus, they're likely to release the blackmail at a moment's notice, like, say, in a police raid."
>"You want our help? Okay, let's say you have police insiders. What would you have us do to help?"

Bring up the basic plan we had for luring in another set of criminals to spook the gang and have them move there blackmail and get you in on it once you were trusted. Then you could get the blackmail away safetly and with the police on there trail it would give you a excuse to shack up with them wherever they hid. Then once you got what you wanted you could turn the gang and the rest of the info over to them. See what she thinks of the idea (but don't completely trust her. Even if she is sincere her higher ups might change the deal later).

Avoid letting her or anyone know about our ability to use sex to knock jetals out. Need to keep that under wraps as long as possible.

As for the current bedroom stuff grow a big dick under her and leave it straining against her butt. Let her set the pace to start and see what she does with you. For now just grow the parts and start fondling and teasing her thighs and butt with your hands.

Hmm would love to try encasing her and having the husband fuck her while she was inside of us thus fucking us both at the same time but he did not seem horribly interested. Still bring up the idea. Maybe she can think of a idea involving that sort of thing that would get his justice boner rock hard. Like maybe some sort of justice in our turning the tables on his wife?

As for what she can help with I guess would be to provide the same thing as the gun runners would have. A more permanent way of scaring and keeping the guys hiding with there blackmail supply while we work at luring them into complacency and a 5 way where we can knock them all out at once. (but don't mention we can do that)

Ideally we would leave the police with a pile of evidence and 4 empty cores confused about what happened. And us never having directly interacted with the main police force.

Well, bumping up the inspection date is a good first move.

You plan for getting close to the blackmail without investing the costly length of time it would take to be trusted as an equal partner is to get close enough to be taken with them if they're forced to move their blackmail. Which means bringing in an external threat at just the right moment. Once they're away from the club and from what precautions they prepared, taking them out and grabbing the stuff is easy.

The tricky bits are getting the right degree of trust, and calibrating the threat right that they move but don't panic. The trust, it would be hard for the cops to provide too much help in the jobs you're doing without being suspicious, but they might be able to pressure some of the people we'd be negotiating with to make it easier. Controlling and containing the scare and arresting everyone involved? They could certainly do that.

Ask if there is any trick we could use to lure her husband into this. I mean it's bound to be great with just her but you have never been with a couple before and if there was a way to get him all riled up about justice somehow?

Start playing with her body while you ask this.

"The delay is a start. There might be a few more instances where I'd ask the cops to hold off a little, temporarily, to make sure I get what I need. Only if I can promise bigger returns later, of course. Most of the requests I'd make would be for information, though. I get sent to negotiate with gang A, I'm going to quietly ask around for info on members of gang A, and I'd like you to be one of the contacts who can fill me in, just as I'll be filling you in. I might think of other uses for a little touch of police resource, too, depending on the situation. I have some moments of creativity."

I don't think we're going to reel her husband in any time soon, unless we somehow arrange for it to be "physically unhealthy to practice abstinence".

Though, you know... there is a certain jetal cop we know. She hasn't developed her interests quite yet, if I have the timeline straight, but there might be a hookup opportunity there. Roxy could hear from one of her "friends" about a cop couple who have an interest in meeting a just jetal who doesn't look down on sex, and pass it on. We wouldn't get to enjoy it ourselves, but it would be another little distraction for Sevener.

Honestly considering how fast Unity is gaining power, delaying the inspection isn't gonna get us anywhere. We'll be out of this layer of the sim long before it hits. The inspection, if it's going to be used for anything, would have to be EARLIER, even. Three days is probably enough time to gain Operator status and move up.

What would be better is getting their assistance luring the blackmailers into moving the info out into the open so that it can be intercepted.

Coral 2016/10/23(Sun)14:55 No. 754933 ID: bfb318
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>Honestly considering how fast Unity is gaining power, delaying the inspection isn't gonna get us anywhere.
Unity does hope that she will be beyond this mission before the investigation ever takes place, but showing it's delayed does have immediate benefits with trust and a little cash from Rike, even if the delay itself won't have an impact on anything.

"I did have one idea. It involves setting a fire under my fake bosses' feet. Not enough to make them panic, but to get them to move the contraband. If I can get where the contraband is going, then I can have it get intercepted in some way, but I need to build up enough trust at least so that if it's convenient to bring me, then they'll bring me. On another topic, is there some method to get your husband in here? Like perhaps, some sort of justice in our turning the tables on his wife?"
>"Oh dear, no, it took me years before he even looked at me with any lust, dear. With my push, you may not need so long, but let's leave him out of this tonight, especially while I speak of delaying his appointment behind his back. With him, the saying 'it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission' has never been truer. Showing him you're on the side of - " she snrks, "justice even if your body is on the side of crime is a good way. Now, how do you want to set a fire? The metaphorical one."
"After I build enough trust with them, perhaps some of their other blackmailees may be made to threaten to make a move on the blackmail. Then the cops may show themselves to be hot on the trail, and my false bosses would shack up."
>"Mm... how do you plan on getting the blackmailers to do that? Blackmail the blackmailers?"
"I'm hoping my future negotiations will give me ideas."
>"Mm, the skeleton of your plan is healthy enough, I think, but it needs some meat. Too many ifs, too little information."
"I know. That's why I'd like you as a contact so that when I meet certain gangs, I can use you as a contact to fill me in with police information about them."
>"In return for one track cams with your own information, I'd be happy to give you information in return."

Grow dick? y/n

>Grow dick?
of course, she just said something about needing meat :P

yes

>>754933
Incoming Wife has an incoming (and in-cumming) dick on the way.

Y

She did make a comment about you being able to turn into a guy earlier, and apparently she does sleep with her husband occasionally, so I'm guessing she's into masculine things.

I'm wondering if we should change fully, actually. We could test the waters of her preferences by making a joke, when she reacts to the change down below, that we considered turning fully into a guy but our clothes wouldn't fit. If she'd prefer a total dude under her then her response to that might clue us in.

We should be thinking what our story is going to be, as to how we secured this delay. By this point, I think the idea of us "charming" him into it is going to be fragile, if anyone talks to someone who's actually met him. Hmm... given the situation at hand, a story about him getting a "present" for his wife comes to mind, but that's more wishful thinking. Ask her what she thinks.

They did want us to burn bridges, too. Perhaps we can say we persuaded him in exchange for tips about our "last boss" and their operation. Hints about which prisoners would be better to interrogate about X investigation, that sort of thing. Wouldn't only explain the delay persuasion, but let us go "oh man I am sure gonna be in trouble I'm depending on you to protect me from, aren't I trustworthy".

>>754937
*facepalm*

Coral 2016/10/23(Sun)16:00 No. 754945 ID: bfb318
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Despite wearing pants for this visit, Coral's new bulge presses in between Naylia's butt.

The wife doesn't make any vocal reaction past a tiny huff, but she immediately starts grinding down.

"Start undoing everything down there. If you have low morphability, that just means you have to do it slowly." says Naylia.
"Okay. I might have changed into a guy, but then I'd stretch my clothes out."
"There won't be clothes in a moment." she says, pulling down Coral's collar with one hand and pulling the bottom of her shirt out from her pant's waistline. Naylia's hands feel Coral's nearly bare torso up, causing the surface of the jetalium to shake and wobble some more under the glove's clutch. She squeezes at Coral hard enough to sink in and cause noticeable shuddering, but the gloves could be shoved back out if needed.

"Now, we do have a little research on those fake bosses of yours, but I'll share the goods when you have other goods. For now, just keep an eye for negotiation deals with a few gangs we think they might have dealings with. We know more about those gangs, so if you get the choice, choose those gangs since there'll be more to start off with." Naylia says before listing off the names of various gangs.

Start snaking some little tentacle hands up her butt and slowly pulling her clothes off while morphing out of yours as well.

I think the negotiating part here is basically over unless you want to do it through little gasps.

After undressing ourselves, we'll have to undress her, too.

Might be time to bring the light back in, too. Maybe, highlight where she's touched (or squeezed?) you, and let it slowly fade.

I wonder, what happens if we brush the core against those gloves?

Goodness, she's built from the bottom isn't she. I guess that would be the body part an office cop gets the most use of. Anyway, she seems to like the newest addition, she's starting to perspire a little.

Tell her if she wants you to be a guy, she can just say the word. Most husbands seem to react better to their wives having fun with other women, though, and she seems to be appreciating the girls, in any case. Anyway, follow her directions to take your own clothes off. While you do, curl your tail around to stroke along her back. As time goes on, we can push more mass into the tail and turn it into something that can do more. Maybe split it up to do several things.

As for business, pay attention to her list. Maybe mention that "smoothing over" was mentioned as part of these negotiations, so it's most likely you'll be sent to rivals or people otherwise upset by the Auras, maybe other blackmail targets.

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Coral starts lighting up in the most recent places where she's touched, but she starts directing more attention on Wife. Little tentacles start wiggling into and throughout her corset while her tail brushes her backside, and many of the tentacles form appendages that start taking the corset off. Meanwhile, Coral's zipper is undone.

"I can change into -"
"Still whatever you're comfy. Don't ask me what to change into, I'll tell you if I want something!" Naylia says. "But your fine control is exceptional. Maybe I should ask you to use your divisions on me? Oop, maybe my husband didn't make it clear that we've fully scanned your module loadout. Even your hacked sex module."

>I wonder, what happens if we brush the core against those gloves?
It seems to be a direct response to jetalium; it is unlikely to have a reaction to the core. If there is, then unless it's fully known, it is agreed upon not to blindly test it.

Amongst the wife's list of gangs, both the Dead Batteries and the Lollipop Syndicate are mentioned.

The cell phone jammer is put offline, and all divisions confirm everything is working correctly.

A delayed message comes in.

Baron of Threes is asking for Princess Toya to see him for dinner, at any place of her choosing. Purely for pleasure purposes, he claims.

>>755003
Change into whoever's driving at the time.

Tell her your divisions are working at the moment and can't come. If she goes "what, even with the jammer" go "Yep, I have a way around it. A secret way."

Also sure let's have dinner with the poor guy we got fired. We'll have time to get there after this fun with the lady cop is over, right?

>>755003
"Was I supposed to expect anything else, or did you think I didn't hear about your security?"

Might as well start using that fine control and stripping her. I'm tempted to tease her for a while, with a husband as abstinent as hers I bet she's pent-up.

>scanned our modules
...wait, we have a privacy B equipped. That means these guys have a scanner A built into their house. There is no fucking way they should be able to afford that, or that it should be legal for them to have it, without noble connections. And mister lawful husband wouldn't brook illegal tech built into his home.

>what do
Note to self: stop asking partners what they want, it never seems to work. For some reason people seem to expect the shape shifter to have preferences instead of being flexible. :p

Time to get to work fucking her into a quivering puddle.

>Amongst the wife's list of gangs, both the Dead Batteries and the Lollipop Syndicate are mentioned.
Well, we won't be screwing them over (the DBs have no reason to be negotiating with the blackmailers, and the blackmailers have already come to terms with the lollipop guild), but it would be suspcious if we took her info on other gangs, but not those two.

I suppose Polatt and Fern might appreciate knowing some of what the cops have on them.

>Baron of Threes is asking for Princess Toya to see him for dinner, at any place of her choosing. Purely for pleasure purposes, he claims.
Okay, I don't trust his bosses as far as I can throw them. First ground rule: there's no way in hell we're sending our core into that meeting. Too good a chance it's a trap using overwhelming force, or jetal tech we don't know about. That means we're limited to using the phone right now, or we'd send the division with the gun runners as Toya to the meeting.

Also, if Bo3's bosses are reaching out to us, I think the smart play is to be hard to get. Force them to come crawling back to us, demand respect. It's the language they seem to speak, and we aren't crawling to serve them.

I wrote this rough rejection speech way back after they nearly botched negotiations the first time with us. It's classier (and carries more impact) to deliver the slap to their face in person, but it it's safe to send the message digitally. http://pastebin.com/5VQbY50c

>>755007
Don't give away advantages for bragging. We're better off just fucking her unintelligible right now without needing a division than letting on they're out and busy.

If we have to say anything, we can tell her we're saving the divisions for next time, as something to look forward too.

She clearly wants to control everything. No reason to let her think anything different. You want aces up your sleeve, these people seem VERY unpredictable.

Not sure if it's a good idea to let her know you already have divisions running around, though if she's has done a full scan I'm surprised she didn't realize that already, based on how little jetalium this body has.

Tell her this is only your first meeting, you can't lay all your cards on the table for her right away. Next time, perhaps, she can have two of you. And the next time after that, maybe three. You have to keep her interest, after all.

Ok don't pull in a division because they should not be working right now with the jammer and that would reveal a secret we do not want revealed. So tell her that we need to save some tricks for our next encounter. Also tease her a little about your "hacked" sex module and how if she wants that experience you can approximate the effects with other tricks but she probably wont be walking out of the bedroom anytime soon.

Also we know they have noble connections/parents/something due to the scanner A built into there very expensive house that they somehow pay for on low level cop money. So thinking parents are connected. (or someone is on the take/not as into justice as claimed)

Since she has not shown any preferences the gloves are off. She is a sex starved housewife who does not get enough from her cute husband so we need to fuck her long and hard so she wants us back for more but cant walk for days.

So up the level of your tentacles rubbing on her so she gets worked into a frenzy. Maybe leave her top on so you can use it to help your little grabby tentacles tease her but get the crotch on her outfit open so you can start teasing her with your dick. But don't start fucking her until she is so worked up she is begging for it.

As for Baron send him a text (make sure we are vague due to possible house scanning and such) that we can meet him for a late dinner. (But keep our core away from him.)

Don't brag or give out secrets by using divisions or showing off anything that other jetals would find impossible. (mostly the division in a jammer)

From the scanning and hints they might not be rich nobles themselves but are either crooked (unlikely) or one of them has noble parents/backers.

So save divisions for the next time we meet when we can pull them out and not have people find out we can do the impossible.

As for our cute wife at dinner she initially gave off the impression she wanted to be the dominant one in bed. But now she is giving entirely different signals.

So take charge and fuck her silly. But do it slowly and teasingly until she shows her true nature. She does not get much fun so draw this out and give her the ride of her life. If she wanted to be in charge of this she would have given us more direction.

Give her a devious grin and say, "Ok, you asked for it." And then let her have it.

I'm still wary of the Baron's bosses, and we are busy, in any case, dealing with a bunch of people who know we have divisions and will be expecting to have some idea where they are.

Send him a message back saying that you have a lot of work at the moment and don't know when you'll be free. If he has a regular schedule for the next while, though, perhaps you would be able to surprise him some time?

"Well, as fun as that might be, work before pleasure. These times that the two cross are pretty great. Hopefully I can keep from being too questionable at other places during play time."

Proceed with the lewdness~

>>755003
Huh... What would normally happen to a divided jetal that was put into a jammer? Would they just lose all the jetalium in the divisions? Would they reactivate when the jamming went down?

This should effect our response.

>>755291
If we need an excuse to not divide, we can just say we're low on jetalium here. Which I'm pretty sure it's true.

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Princess Toya responds to BoT. "Are your bosses coming?"
>"No! No, no, I don't even speak to my bosses directly anymore ever since you, uh, well they don't think I made the best use of their experiments. This is just pleasure, there's no business at all, we're not trying to reach out to you, I just want to, you know, have some fun. A, uh, proper date this time. In fact, you can call all the shots. When, where, we we're doing, everything!"

>What would normally happen to a divided jetal that was put into a jammer? Would they just lose all the jetalium in the divisions?
The jammer does not completely shut down the link between the core and the divisions; it only makes the divisions even more difficult to control. Hence, jetalium is not lost directly due to whatever jammer is used here.

"I'm kind of low on jetalium, sorry!" Coral tells the wife.
>"Oh, is that so? Well, okay." Naylia sounds suspicious that there's more to it, but otherwise seems satisfied with the answer and doesn't press it any farther.

Coral's zipper is wide open, leaving a dick to spring out. Some of the grabby tentacles grab at the lower portion of Naylia's outfit and yank it to the side so that her bared slit is pushed down directly onto Coral.

"Mmnh..." Naylia moans. Lobby consensus is that while she started off looking to dominate, recent signs have been pointing into the direction for Coral to take charge.

The signs point in reverse again as Naylia begins grinding down on the cock's fat underside. She reaches up, grabs Coral's larger horns, and pins her head back onto the pillow.

"Do what you want to do, but I'm going to either ride you or get ridden tonight one way or the other." she says.

I don't think its signs of wanting to dominate or not. She just really really needs this and if we don't fuck her silly she is going to fuck us silly.

This is a nice sexually active lady who can't get it regularly from her husband. So having a cute willing Jetal who has the modules and the experience is really making her really horny and desperate.

So take charge and fuck her into the ground until she can't walk straight.

>BoT
Did we have the social scanner on? It's not as good over the phone, but could we tell if he was lying?

It's a coin toss if he's really reaching out on his own, or if his bosses are trying to lure us in again. If we see him, we definitely send a lower-than-usual mass division in case of a trap (if there is a trap we act perfectly calm and act like we were expecting it, and walked right into it to talk to them- since that's what we did). On the one hand, I don't really want to waste a bunch of panels on a date with him, on the other, we were kind of a dick to him before and he's reaching out. And it would be fun to go all dommy on his, which we passed before for card stealth. And it's a route to get close to the RnD guys, even if he really is in the doghouse now and acting on his own.

Agree, I guess.

>"Mmnh..." Naylia moans. Lobby consensus is that while she started off looking to dominate, recent signs have been pointing into the direction for Coral to take charge.
>"Do what you want to do, but I'm going to either ride you or get ridden tonight one way or the other." she says.
Power play, go back and forth with it. Don't be completely passive, but don't take away all her control, either. Make it like a struggle. Make her work to stay on top- give her the option for some control and she'll fight to keep it.

Next date (assuming there is one) we can bring divisions and completely overwhelm her.

Like I said, let's tease her for a while, she's pent up and into this sort of thing apparently. It'll be fun.

>>755895
Agreed. Start off taking charge and denying her the satisfaction.

The lady came home from a probably stressful day today, and we've come offering profit but more stress to come. We should offer her the chance to relax, something that lets us take the weight.

Tell her: Why not both? You're sorry about the no proper division - having a ton of mass would make people warier than you'd like - but you can achieve a lot of the same effect, if she's willing to close her eyes. If she agrees, you can start shifting your mass into the tendrils you already have on her to thicken them up, moving one to cover over her eyes. Then you can basically engulf her, not completely but enough to recreate, through her sense of touch, what she'd be able to enjoy with a division helping. You'll basically shift into a big goo/tentacle pile going at her, but with some half-formed parts remaining and using the right pressures and textures to let her imagine two copies of you sandwiching her, simultaneously riding and ridden.

And the sensation of some other extra lovers contributing with what spare spots of her they can reach, why not.

"A little of A, a little of B..."
I'm slightly curious how things would unfold if one of the divisions showed up at the door. Though, I guess we have too much on our plate right now for too much fun.

Anyway, let's give the lady what she wants, so very very badly.

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>It's not as good over the phone, but could we tell if BoT was lying?
The social scanner didn't think he was, but it was too difficult to tell over the phone for certain.

Princess Toya agrees, but will set up the details later.

Coral starts to take charge, but the power behind her movements are limited such that Naylia can still take charge if she fights for it. She takes to it well, and keeps Coral pinned down for the most part as she rides on Coral's cock with increasingly desperate slams.

The tentacles around Naylia increase in size. The more the wife moves, the more the tentacles grope, fondle and tease her as though there were multiple partners going at her.

It's a slow but steady trip up to Naylia's own climax, where she stops moving on top of Coral aside from her writhing shudders.

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She continues after that, but it isn't long before Coral starts overtaking her. Naylia's body outright tells the social scanner that she wants more, and that's what Coral gives her. Over time, the corset is pulled off to uncover Naylia's body.

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Gradually, Coral lessens her intensity more and more, until Naylia gives the last orgasm she can before the release causes more pain than pleasure. At that point, Coral's gropes turn into more of a full body massage before retracting completely, leaving Naylia naked on top of the bed. Although she isn't asleep, her relaxing in the afterglow looks nearly identical to slumber.

Well snuggle up with her until she does go to sleep and then head on downstairs I guess.

Relax with her a little bit. It would be rude to just run off.

Eventually, we have to leave, report mission success (to the blackmailers, and Fern. The later of whom we should tell about the cop's A-rank scanner- they have connections we weren't aware of), and spend the remainder of the night making nice with the blackmailers if we can (working on Laner, or just banging one of them).

After that will be time for our divisions to regroup and decide what we're doing for the next day, I think. Unless Roxy and Sevener are still going at it.

Snuggle, kiss her if called for, and then get along with business.

Hang around for a bit, be friendly.

We should probably make sure of the story we're going to tell when we get back. Something somewhat close to the truth is generally easiest: we'll tell them that it was the wife we ended up persuading, and that we used a combination of fun and letting go of some info to persuade them to push back the inspection. It's just that the info we'll say we gave was about some of our past contacts (doubles as the "burning bridges" they wanted).

We could also claim that part of the deal was that we would go back a few times to entertain them again. That would help cover any additional face-to-face meetings we might have to make.

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Coral, after thinking about it a moment, comes to the conclusion that simply pulling back, morphing into her clothes, and leaving would be considered rude. Instead, she snuggles with Naylia for about 15 minutes, to which Naylia adjusts herself to fit neatly against Coral.


>"I should get up." says Naylia. "Lots to do, and we've had our fun. Or at least I have."
"We have."
>"Good. Give me 5 minutes, then you'll see the appointment pushed back."

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Coral says goodbye to Naylia, then the inspector on her way out and calls for a cab. Once the appointment is confirmed, she begins reporting in.

"Hello, Rikey! I've got the appointment pushed back."

There's a pause.

>"How?"
"It's the wife we ended up persuading. or maybe it was more we were a present for his wife? It was a combination of fun and info, unfortunately I did have to give them some information on I-Block despite what I told you, and I'll have to make a few more entertainment visits to make it worth their while."
>"You made it sound too easy. But the appointment is much later, so whatever happened, worked. I'm transferring 190k to your account. Your second job has a couple choices. In town, there's a biological man who loosens up after some drinks and around girls. We know he's up to no good. We want you to take a single track cam and have him spill some incriminating info, be it on his business or some other scandal. The other job takes place a couple hours, give or take, out of town, where crime is high. There's a motorcycle gang that likes highway and street robbery. Same deal here; you wear a single track cam, and get video evidence of them committing a crime. We'll only give you more info on each if you accept the job, because either one is sensitive info we don't want people knowing about."

Fern is also called.
"Hello Fern!"
>"Sugartooth."
"They were able to scan me, meaning they have an A rank scanner."
>"Well aren't you just drawn in over your head at every turn. Least these guys weren't A-Rank assholes, huh?"
"Yes."
>"Well when you make your deals with 'em, make sure you've got one foot hanging back out of their door, because anything noble related just loves putting people in their pocket with no way out."

>because anything noble related just loves putting people in their pocket with no way out.
The irony Fern is unaware of is that applies to you too, miss renegade diamond noble. He doesn't realize how deep he's already in bed with one.

But I guess we know why no one got rid of them if he's that persistent. They're well connected with someone.

You can also tell Fern you were careful. She was pretty much willing to take over the whole operation if you let her. You didn't want to be that much under her control.

>mission pick
Oh didn't realize we'd be doing more for them tonight. I guess we have time. Looks like they have us actually collecting blackmail for them, this time.

If the other division is done with scouting the weapons ring for means to manipulate them, I say we group up, borrow a vehicle-morph module from the syndicate, and then go infiltrate a motorcycle gang using our own division as a perfect bike. Massive bonus to control and maneuverability. Heck, with the jetalium illumination trick, we can even do tron lights, to a certain extent.

Can we copy track cam recordings, or do we need two going- if we want one for blackmail and one for the cops?

>>756162
Rather not borrow too heavily from the syndicate, who knows when they'll actually need it. Scurps seems like their main getaway.

Voting for the biological man.

>>756163
I agree. We're already borrowing 4 or 5 different things from the Syndicate, asking for anything else without returning something probably isn't going to be allowed.

I'm also voting for the biological.

Well if we're against borrowing things: price check on a vehicle morph module? That one's not one we've looking up before / in the wiki.

Oh man I sort of want to do the motorcycle one. We don't have to be someone with there own bike we can just be a girl who loves thrills.

So we go hit on some bikers and get them worked up and competing to impress the sexy biker groupie chick.

Then we get film of them doing illegal things as they ride around with us (and probably lots of fucking) and job is done.

Coming out of nowhere on our own motorcycle might be suspicious but would be a option depending on what info we get once we accept the job.

It would be easy to join up with the gang for a day or so if we show up as a slutty girl who wants to bang some dangerous bikers for thrills. Are always plenty of girls looking for fun in that crowd. Fuck a few guys enjoy a few races and be very obvious about getting off on the dangerous stuff so they want to show off and take us along when they are doing something criminal.

So voting motorcycle stuff. Seducing a random guy in a bar seems boring.

Going to vote for the motorbike one, while I don't like tying up one of out divisions for so long, we could use them to pressure the club when it comes to trying to force them to move the blackmail (and us in tow). Also, it sounds hella fun.

I don't have an actual preference between the motorcycle and the biological, content-wise, but if we do the motorcycle then I'd rather not borrow a morph. Maybe just turn up without a bike and have to share or earn one.

Motorcycles, because motorcycles. Remember, you'll be taking two track cams, since cop lady wants to be in on all this as well, and it's probably a good idea to be quick assuring her that we're ready to live up to our half of the bargain.

Hmm. Fern and the gang talked about going out racing once, didn't they? They might be connected into the scene.

I vote in favour of engaging in street racing

Ok, since everyone is going with motorcycles, let's just hope that we can get some driving lessons if we're going to bring a cycle with us. Or if we're going as the cycle, then hopefully the vehicle mod we get has driving lessons and we have enough jetalium to form a cycle. If we can't pull all 3 of ourselves together because 1 or 2 of them are busy, then we're gonna have to go without a cycle, get more jetalium to form a cycle, or we're gonna have to buy a cycle.

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"I'll choose the motorcycle infiltration." says Coral.
>"Alright." Rike says. Another pause occurs, but this time it's followed by an informational glob.

The gang is called the Acid Bikers, with a membership of about 1,900. There are only a small handful of jetals with full membership. About 15% of the members are robots, with the remaining being primarily augmented biologicals. There are very few natural biologicals.

On paper, they're a legal gathering, but it's well known that they commit illegal activity. Normally, they would be an easy target for an officer to bag, but there are some towns across the planet that are lawless crime havens. It's expected that no law abiding citizen would live there, and so the empire allowed crime to fight crime in these zones. As long as taxes are paid and public officials are respected, gangs here are often able to commit 'regular' crimes without reprisal.

Rike explains that Coral can't just catch them committing a crime; she has to catch them committing a crime that harms a civilian outside of the crime haven zone. In other words, the sort of thing that a pro-active cop would hunt them down for.

It's also preferred to get a high ranking member involved in the crime, which can be identified by a solid stripe put over their normal insignia, much like the leftmost belenosian on the picture Rike sent Coral.

Fern is also asked for input, including prices of motorcycles.

>"Had a scuffle with those guys like 20 years ago when they wanted to get a slice of capital land. All we know about them now is they're a big fish in a little pond, but we don't pay much attention to them. Crime havens like that are like deep see feeders fighting each other for the scraps of shit the higher up fish leave behind. That said, if you want to talk about biggest piles of shit collected, Acid Bikers got the biggest hoards."
>"This is still a mission for us." says Scurps. "We should supply you with a bike module if you want, and driving training modules."
>"Yeah yeah, or just a regular bike if you want to pull your biological trick. We can probably get a good one for you if you want. Or a bad one if you want. A 100k bike will be considered pretty decent. 300k is top of the line. But don't just go grabbing a fresh new one out of the shop. If you get a new cheap one you'll look like you're just a newbie poking their head in the biker scene. If you get a brand new shop bought one that's top of the line material you're going to look like a huge newbie that's just asking to get robbed."

>"Then again." Fern continues. "Maybe you want to come off that way. We've got custom bikes with used parts though if you want to look remotely experienced."

Eh, we've done enough being taken advantage of, plus I'm pretty sure Anya or whoever would be suspicious if we tried to repeat our earlier trick. Let's go for a customized mid-range bike.

I am thinking we should look somewhat experienced. Be a biker girl who is looking for some fun and some thrills.

So lower to mid range bike with customization. We want to look like we have been doing this for awhile and having a well worked on bike with mods and obvious repairs will sell that.

Plus a cute girl who is into bikes and works on her own stuff should attract some attention. Personality wise we have to be tough but flirty. And we probably need at least a basic weapon. Even if we rent it and drop it after this having nothing would be a big red flag with this crowd. Would call into question how we survived this long in the biking scene.

And the gang is to jetal and cyborg heavy to risk faking a biological I think.

Maybe go for a trump card- get the morph module for this, but then have your division pretend to be a normal bike while we have our other division pretend to be a biological. Gives us a lot more options if we need them, lets us fake more skill driving than we have, and the bike-module could even be the one to record the evidence, if the baddie thinks he's alone with the bikes or something.

As for the appearance, I'd say fake a mid range bike.

We need a wardrobe change, at least. Cute little helmet, and a jumpsuit or something. Maybe a different face for this too.

I don't think we want to record everything- we just need to get the incriminating evidence, we don't need to necessarily let the blackmailers see how good an actress we are and get them wondering how much of "Coral" might have been fake. Remember that we need to do a dual recording- one track cam for Incoming Wife, one for the Blackmailers.

The immediate idea that comes to mind is to be the poor helpless civilian that gets victimized, but the evidence taken from that perspective proooobably won't be taken so seriously.

If these guys are big fish in a small pond they probably don't have any high-class modules. The fact that they have few jetals suggests to me that the jetals they do have are less powerful ones, who would just get by on the fact that they are jetals at all rather than being upper class. Which would mean D and C rank stuff for them. I'd suspect that anyone with some real power on them wouldn't be satisfied out there.

By "augmented biologicals", though, I assume they mean cyborgs, which I doubt the biological imitation mod can imitate. I suppose we could pretend to be some sort of biologically augmented organic, heightened reflexes and better strength and accelerated healing and such and such. How common are those? Rare? All we'd need to do is let ourselves be faster and more agile than a normal biological. We could be the ever-sexy escaped experiment, disgruntled ex-guinea pig (maybe add some detrimental flaw to our suite of "augmentations"? Nothing that would get in the way. Probably hormonal imbalance leading to enhanced libido, since we're in a pornverse), or just a girl who's parents were able to get extra gene therapy on their kid.

We'll need a spot of training to be able to seem like we're experienced with bikes, in any case.

>>756545
>be the bike and the rider

Yes!! Yes 100%. One division the bike and the other biological. The augmented biological idea could work with that too.

>>756540
>Or a bad one if you want.
"Do you mean 'bad' as in 'badass' or 'bad' as in 'not good'?"

>bike module
Do we even have enough jetalium to use that?

>What do?
I say our personality should be a mix of our own personality and Anya's personality. We'll be flirty, but we also won't stand for any shit someone gives us.

As for our looks, we should look like a tough biker girl. Maybe we can be like Anya and have a permanent grumpy look, but unlike her, we'll actually smile when we have fun.

Say, anyone notice that the two missions Rike gave us to choose from are both infiltration/espionage missions, not really the "negotiations" he originally specified and that the inspector job fit with? They're negotiations in a euphamistic acquiring blackmail sense, but it isn't quite what was implied to be the job we were sold originally. Maybe we should pass comment on that? But still being willing, of course.

I wonder if he's checking to see if we take too naturally to this kind of work. Maybe we should try not to be too confident/clever at it. So, not too complicated a plan, and we should definitely avoid anything like what we're already doing. I still think being both bike and rider is good, sort of a slightly silly idea while still being likely to work, but it's something to keep in mind as we go through this.

>>756541
Actually, there's a pretty clever way to play off our earlier trick: claim to be a loyal agent of Bluestone who escaped the Lollipop Syndicate's raid by dumb luck, looking to hire the bikers for retaliation on the baseline biological girl who testified against him. Bikers do some minimal-collateral-damage kidnapping against somebody who seems like inconsequential street scum, Unity reabsorbs the division and makes it look like a cannibal murder sort of thing. Boom, the bikers are now accessories to a heinous crime perpetrated against someone the police have recently demonstrated willingness to protect.

Bonus points with the blackmailers in that you're effectively throwing Bluestone even further under the bus, by making it look like his people are deliberately escalating a conflict with law enforcement.

Also, sets up prime opportunities to mess with Sevener's head when the girl who taught her to love shows up again mysteriously unharmed. "But I saw you die!" "What, on TV? C'mon, you know how easy video is to fake. That's how we met."

>>756603
Nice try, but no, not gonna work. We have to catch one of the biker gang's high ranking members doing something on the track cam and Unity can't change into one of them to do it because the camera's going to be behind her eyes, so the crime can't be done from her point of view.

>>756610
Knowingly serving as a mercenary army for a drug dealer is probably a crime. Kidnapping is definitely a crime. Conspiracy to commit murder (and torture, and destruction of evidence, and corpse desecration if the empire cares about that at all, and probably some other stuff), intimidating prospective future witnesses into silence, accessory-after-the-fact to whatever Bluestone's eventually convicted of...

Thing is, the way "conspiracy" laws work IRL, the actual crime being conspired upon doesn't even strictly need to occur. http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=532

>>756613
Our legal system isn't spacemagic belenos legal system and we need a crime they actually give a shit about. They ignore a lot of illegal shit if the gangs keep stuff stable.

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It is thought by both Unity, Fern, and Rike that it's unlikely that the robots and few jetals of the Acid Bikers have much loadout beyond D and C ranked modules, although the leaders may have saved up enough for a B rank or two.

While the Syndicate is willing to loan Coral another weapon; Fern recommends buying at least another C rank weapon or two.

>Claim to be an agent of Bluestone and hire the bikers to retaliate against Roxy
The idea sounds good if it can be pulled off, but there are many concerns about the logistics of managing to get a high ranking official to do it. It's doubtful that anything short of an authentic, high ranking biker clearly kidnapping or harming Roxy outside of a crime haven will satisfy Rike.

>What is an augmented biological?
This includes cyborgs, or just biologicals with minor implants. It also includes optimization and strengthening of existing biological body parts, such as steroids, focus-enhancing drugs, and so forth. Typically some level of optimization is common and even expected for biologicals, and completely natural biologicals are typically either poor or making a point.

Coral also equips two track cams. The track cam for Rike will be put on standby until needed to be turned on. The track cam for Naylia and the Inspector will be on throughout the whole time.

Unity also does a brief amount of research on track cams. Apparently, the track cam quality of video and audio is of an extremely high definition, to the extent that a track cam validating algorithm can, provided close proximity, detect the form of a belenosian down to the probable arrangement of hair folicles and the width of the fur.

Likewise, materials for robot bodies are grinded down to effectively create bar codes to the robot, and jetal cores create unique patterns of fur or flat material down to the micrometer level. As a result, while taking single track cam footage, it's good to point it within a few feet of a potential target in order to visibly identify them, since the overall form of a belenosian is so easily changed.

There is nothing on the internet that explicitly says so, but it's a safe bet that any jetal modules that can replicate a biological to a perfect level are of rank A.

The harbor division will rejoin Coral, and after a lobby swapping, will take the form of the mid-range bike's frame that requires a suitably low amount of jetalium to function. Fern will lend some mid-range, customized parts that can be installed in the division instead of being a generic, pre-built module bike. A training module is flown in from the Syndicate, and it will be used for a couple of hours during the trip to the crime haven, which is known as Bankside.

"It's more than just negotiation, huh?"
>"Think of it like negotiating them into a crime you're witness to. Oh. I thought it would go without saying, but maybe it doesn't. Don't show up as 'Coral.' Try to come up with a new persona."

Coral acts as though the concept of changing is new, and Rike patiently guides her through some tips. Eventually, a basic potential face and jetalium clothes are formed, but changes and additions are recommended.

The clothes can also be flown in during the trip over to act as real clothing, if she wishes to approach the biking crowd as a biological. Either way, she'll need a new name.

>>756622
When the biker gang kidnaps Roxy, that's a crime. Presumably one of the higher-ranking members will be involved in the decisionmaking process over whether or not to take the job, so if we negotiate the deal in person, that would provide any required evidence.

Anya, who is a cop, will care about crimes against Roxy. Furthermore, we happen to know that Sevener's strategy for the overall Belenos sim involves using escalation of conflicts with criminals to justify requisitioning an upgraded arsenal, so she'll probably jump at the chance to set all this weird sex corruption stuff aside, get her head back on straight in the violent part of the game. If it requires heroic measures from somebody on the inside to get the police force to follow up, she'll take care of that for us. Time and energy she spends prosecuting the bikers, let alone angsting about romance, is time and energy she's not spending on thwarting our real allies.

More broadly, kidnapping Roxy so soon after her testimony looks like an attack on the police force's ability to protect witnesses, and like an overgrown gang reaching outside the designated zone, as if trying to see what they can get away with. If the law didn't come down hard on that kind of opportunism, there wouldn't be any law left.

>>756625
Wow, that looks almost like Anya's Belenosian form. Which is good because now we actually look like a tough biker girl.

>it's unlikely that the robots and few jetals of the Acid Bikers have much loadout beyond C and B ranked modules, although the leaders may have saved up enough for a B rank or two.

That's a little strangely phrased, did you mean C and D, then leaders maybe B?

>>756626

I don't know, remember that timeline wise, Roxy has... is she still with Anya? She might not even be done with all that, yet. Anyway, if Roxy gets kidnapped now, it'll make the protection she was saying she could get for herself look ridiculously weak. Remember, she's not under police protection now. She insisted on using her own connections to get safety. So if that went south, then we'd have a hard time convincing Sevener to let Roxy go off without protection arranged by the police, or just Anya's own personal attention. It would draw more attention and scrutiny to Roxy than we'd like. Also, from what we just got informed, the use of a track cam to record Roxy's kidnapping might reveal that Roxy isn't really organic.

Hmm. We do have the Syndicate connections. With the bike-and-rider thing, we could do a pretty traditional sting. Buy some drugs, sell them some drugs, record the sale. Just make sure that they're not, like, syndicate-only drugs, just stuff that Coral could theoretically have bought on her own. For double security, maybe make it some sort of drug that makes the user more likely to do illegal things, and follow them around a bit after that. Join the party, and subtly guide the party to illegality.

As for clothes, dress up, sure. Leather jacket and pants and such. To be cheeky, maybe a t-shirt with the words "Mistake not the rider for the steed".

As for a name, how about "Vajra"? It means "diamond". Because, well, if we want to build up to being a secret hidden lost diamond noble rising up, I feel a terrible temptation to start leaving diamond-related clues all over the events of our ascent to power. I know it's dumb but it'd be fun. It's unlikely belenosians would know that meaning, anyway.

Oh, you should wear a collar. Like black leather, with a buckle. And get some piercings in around the place.

Don't use Roxy at all. Keep your scams separated.

>I thought it would go without saying, but maybe it doesn't. Don't show up as 'Coral.' Try to come up with a new persona.
>Coral acts as though the concept of changing is new, and Rike patiently guides her through some tips.
If he actually believes this is a new idea to us and he wasn't just playing along with us playing along, this is a good thing. We don't want the people we're infiltrating to see how good we are at infiltration and suddenly getting ideas.

>Roxy has... is she still with Anya?
Yeah. There's still around 4 hours left of their 'date'. I don't think the naked time has even started yet.

>use Roxy
We've already got two divisions in on this, we don't need a third. Granted, one of us could morph into Roxy, but if we give a recording of Roxy being harassed by bikers to the cops at the exact same time Roxy is also in the company of a cop, that is going to come back and bite us in the ass. And possibly cost us our persona close to Sevener before we use her for anything beyond sex.

>biker look
I was kinda thinking something more built for speed. More lithe, more of a streamlined outfit for racing than the tough-guy jacket. More out for thrills and fun that someone looking to start something or prove something.

>Fern recommends buying at least another C rank weapon or two.
I really want to keep this a pacifist run as much as possible (just because the shear absurdity of doing so in a liquid metal death bot game is fun, and it's such a contrast to last time. And if our biological disguise has to whip out jetal weapons, we've already screwed up significantly). I suppose we can swap our beam sword D for a C. It's less than twice the cost, and they have utility applications as cutting tools.

We might also want to pick up thrusters C, to give our bike more maneuverability / speed / the ability to show off if we need it.