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[Dehoffren]

Wiggling of her seat Fi flashed her eyes up and down the newly introduced Winston “Well its great to put a face to a name.” The entrance of yet more customers distracted momentarily before she continued still shifting uneasily in the bar stool “It’s probably nothing but I got this message from my pal and as she is talking there are numbers being counted out. Now Jo, she's a great girl but not exactly the academic sort and Joe here was saying that it maybe some sort of interference?” Crossing and then re-crossing her legs she handed over her mobile to Winston, agitation etched of her face.

[ July 31, 2008, 5:47 pm ] - Dehoffren rolled 1d10 ± 8 and obtained 11 ( 3 ). Reason : Fi Perception.

Edited by Dehoffren, 31 July 2008 - 05:25 PM.

[Synik]

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Winston takes Fi's mobile and turns it over in his hands. He pulls a chip out of his pocket and clips it into a data plug on his wrist. He looks up to Hayden. "Heeey, Hayden. The man with the plan. Long time no see? Oi, Joe put another one on me tab would yer?" He pushes a bottle of 3juice towards you. "What's up with your friend?" He continues working on the telephone.

Joe puts another bowl of cheesy maize snacks on the bar. "Getting busy in here," he says to no-one in particular and then looks to Ophelia. "You alright?" he asks. "Looks like you've seen a ghost."

Fi's mobie lets out a hiss of static and then Jo-Girl's voice burbles from the speaker. "Hi, Fi. One. One. Two. Six Three. It's Jo. Oh. Six. Four. Four. Nine." Winston flicks his hand in a silence gesture. The mobie goes quiet.

The young blonde woman with Hayden stops muttering and stares at the mobile. "One. One. Two. Six. Three. Six. Four. Four. Nine." she says at exactly the same time as Jo-Girl's panicky voice echoes in the bar. The mobile goes silent. "Nine. Ten. Three. Four. Two. One. Oh. One. Oh. Oh. One," Sally whispers, her eyes and mind clearly elsewhere.

"Where'd you find this one Hayden?" Joe asks his brow furrowing.

Joe and Winston look to Sally and then to Fi's mobile. "Is this some kind of wind-up?" Winston says in a semi-growl. He puts the mobile down carefully in front of Fi. "This is bad juju," he says unhooking the fat red chip from his wrist slot.

Sally looks directly at Tan and in a voice like a mother sings to a baby: "One. Two: They'll get you. Three. Four: You'll shoot no more. Five, six: kill that Trix. Seven, Eight: It's to late. Nine, ten: loop again." She shuts her eyes and goes silent.

[currymaniac]

"She was....a job," Hayden said quietly to the two men, Cass more than likely over hearing him. "However, she got mugged. I went to help her, the idiot that I am. She was fine for a little while, a bit shaken but nothing too serious, and then all of a sudden she lost all memory. A short while after that she started with the numbers. I saw some kind of flash up on the roof of an abandoned building, I think it was a weapon scope or something similar. I came looking for you Winston, I figured you'd know something about her condition, and then, low and behold you just happen to be in this bar. I'm sure you're keeping tabs on me you know......"

[Early Bird]

"Friend" she said quietly in response to Joe's question, her confusion evident. "She's uh my friend, I know her, but why's she counting like that? What's happened to her?" The man with her had said she was 'a job'. What kind of job? Just what line exactly was he in?

Ophelia was about to challenge him when she thought she heard somnething, a high pitched whine? It seemed to be coming from the bag carried by the man sitting next to her at the bar and sounded like it might be something electronic warming up. "What's that you got in there?" she asked the man. Her question sounded more aggressive than it might have been but after the events in the office block earlier paranoia was spiralling out of control. This night was getting weirder by the minute. People not showing up when they were supposed to, her friend suddenly appearing with a strange man when she was supposed to be well away from here and obviously in some kind of trouble. And those numbers. Sally had spoken the same numbers that had issued from that woman's? mobile.

[Dehoffren]

Fi immediately stopped her squirming as Jo-Girl filtered through the air. She had been looking at Winston but as this other girl took up the numbers chant her neck abruptly turned in the direction of the voice, especially when the line of five, six kill the Trix was spoken.
Fi looked urgently at Winston, then Joe and then the Girl “What the f*** is going on here?” her normally bright demeanour lost “What do you mean bad ju-ju? Is Jo- Girl in trouble ? She asked glaring at Winston all thoughts of her full bladder disappearing

[fury]

Cass grinned, [color=#6666CC;]"Half an hour, sure sugar if you can wait that long."[/color] She casually patted the man on the rear. However the jovial exterior fell as she heard the message and the woman repeat the numbers, her insides turned to a core of ice. [color=#6666CC;]"What the.....!"[/color]

[Synik]

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The man with the case ignores Ophelia's question as he chugs back a drink.

"Me? Tabs?" says Winston looking at the girl suspiciously. "I've got tabs, but not that type." The humour quickly fades from his tone. "Now who is this poor unfortunate?" Winston's mocking Miss Helen, the right wing politico who reaches the news once too often with her pleas for 'normality'. "C'mon Hayden. You said this was a job. Do you know who she is?"

Joe chips in "You said you saw a weapon flash. Laser? Suppressed gauss? Sounds exotic... and stinks of upstairs." Joe practically spits the last word out. 'Upstairs'. The place you don't get to see - except via stims. Where the great and the good live... or at least, the great. "Hey, Cassie," he says and a leather bound Necro woman rolls up to the bar. "Thirsty again, hun?"

Winston looks to Fi. "I get these vibes sometimes..."

"After a few cans," Joe interupts.

Winston smiles and ignores the comment. "Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. But this feels wrong somehow. So, yeah: I guess your friend is in trouble. She hit the same trouble as - "

"She's your friend?" Joe and Winston say at the same time as Ophelia drops the bombshell. Oridinarily, this would be somewhat amusing but not today. Not with Sally repeating the numbers. Winston and Joe exchange a look and then face Ophelia. "Your friend right? She a user or stim-head?" he asks the necro lady. "You know anyone who'd want her done in?"

[currymaniac]

"Her name's Sally Herald Winston, and that's all I'm going to stay," Hayden said, not noticing that he had said the wrong word until it was out, "Say even. I don't know if there's a reason someone would want her dead, of course, I'm not so well aquainted as some here," he nodded his head over to Sally supposed friend.

He took a drink and let this 'friend' tell them what she would, there was no need for him to divulge what he knew, not just yet anyway.

[Aras360]

"Weird." Tan muttered to himself, after he had had time to process the woman's declaration. This was mostly for the benefit of those around him so that no one could detect the fact that Tan was slightly on edge. There was something far too familiar about the woman and her story.

"Joe" he said "seriously man I'm not even f****** with you. Where's Scorsby?"

Edited by Aras360, 04 August 2008 - 07:09 AM.

[Dehoffren]

“So what is this...?” Fi fought for the right sarcastic words “Some big happy, number spouting family.” Turning to a look at Ophelia “And your friend seems to be a prophet of doom, kill the Trix indeed. A girl can take offense you know” her annoyance wasn’t really directed at Ophelia but Fi was feeling a little scared and lashing out was her only defence. The outburst having settled her a little she swivelled on the barstool to face Winston again “Come on man, you have to give me little more than [/color]“I get vibes” [color="#FF00FF"]Spill what you know”

Edited by Dehoffren, 04 August 2008 - 11:43 AM.

[Early Bird]

"You the only trix in town now?" Ophelia snapped back at the woman. "Why are you so sure she was talking about you?".

Turning to Joe and Winston, she shrugged helplessly. "User or stim head? Not so far as I know and she'd have to have started pretty recently for me not to know" She didn't see so much of Sally these days though Ophelia reminded herself, How was she to know what the girl was getting into? "As to someone wanting her offed, she's corporation. The trick is finding someone who wouldn't stick a knife in her back if they got the chance".

She went to Sally, placing her hands on her shoulders and speaking to her gently but with an edge of fear in her voice. "Hey Sally? Sal? It's me, it's your friend, you know? Ophelia. Come on hon, talk to me. What's happened to you?" She gave the girl a slight shake and waved a hand in front of her face hoping for any kind of reaction.

Edited by Early Bird, 04 August 2008 - 08:12 PM.

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Winston nods as he thinks. Joe makes himself a cold drink. "How the ***k should I know?" Joe replies to Tan as he breaks the lid off a bottle of 3Juice. "He's in when he's in. Same with Bailey... 'cept he sent Cass here to do his bidding." Joe takes a swig from the bottle. "Cass, Ophelia. Ophelia, Cass." he says flicking a thumb and finger between the two Necros.

"Maybe you should pick your midman more carefully Tan," Winston adds. "Scorsby cares for one thing and one thing alone: himself. Wouldn't surprise me if he's part of this clusterf**k that's brewing."

Joe pauses and then nods in agreement. "S'true, bud. Be careful with Scorsby."

The group watches Ophelia try and communicate with Sally. Her hand passes in front of Sally's face and the young woman doesn't respond. Even the shaking doesn't rouse her. As the air-con packs in, the continual whisper of air stops. "4 2 8 2 7 8 9 1 0 0 1 2 3 5 9," Sally starts to whisper. Joe wacks the power unit under the bar and the air-con starts up again. Sally's eyes flash open: "The syndrome!" she calls to Ophelia and grabs her friend's shoulders as if hanging on to a cliff for life. "Numbers! Of numbers!". The panic - like that of Jo-girl's rises in her voice. "Always counting. We s-s-s-eee.... Six. Five. Eight. The. Solution. Three." She falls silent, her eyes drooping as if she cannot stay awake.

"Like I said," Winston says around his drink. "Bad juju. There's something coming our way and we're in the middle of it. Fate moves in wheels. Each person stepping off and joining another wheel." He puts the bottle down and pinches the top of his nose as if trying to push a thought out. "Sometimes, we ride the same circle."

The bag by Tan's feet starts to make a very loud whine, like a motor spinning impossibly fast.

Edited by Synik, 04 August 2008 - 08:35 PM.

[Dehoffren]

Fi curled her top lip indignantly at the woman “Well excuse me if I take offence when someone starts mouthing off about killing my kind” she mumbled. Jumping off the stool a judder of movement rippled its way up her being that reminded quite forcefully that in the very near future she must visit the little girls/boys room she fixed Winston with a stare “Is that all you have, there’s bad juju coming. What are you going to come out with next “by the pricking of my thumb something wicked this way comes?” the sarcasm in her voice clipped each word “Surely she” waving her finger in the general direction of Sally “Knows something about what’s going on if you aren’t going to spill the beans”

[Early Bird]

"You think so?" Ophelia swung back to face the woman. "Just look at her. Whatever's been done to her she doesn't know what day it is let alone what's going on".

She returned to her attempts to get through to Sally muttering under her breath "If I find out who did this they're gonna live to regret it".

[fury]

Cassies eyes grew wider at the scene that was playing out before her, [color=#6666CC;]"This is so F**ked up!"[/color] she stated to nobody in particular. Stepping across to Orphelia she hands her the cred stick, [color=#6666CC;]"I know this is a bad time but this is yours. "[/color]
She jumps back at the sound of the whining from the bag, [color=#6666CC;]"Ok what the hell you got in there?"[/color] she asked going paler than normal.