Clara
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Overseer ICBOTToday at 12:17 AM
((Temporary channel created by @Sam Smiles))

CAPCOMToday at 12:18 AM
CAPCOM sets up a DNI and invites everyone.

Sam SmilesToday at 12:19 AM
Sam is waiting by a street-corner by a coffin motel in the Vory side of Tacoma when Xeno picks them up. The street samurai is currently still sporting vibrant purple and chromatic makeup. Wearing their armored jacket, nearly non-existant jeans, and is drapped in beads, feathers, fishnets, and war paint.

Overseer ICBOTToday at 12:19 AM
[User Sam Smiles connected at 2081-Nov-17-23:19:41, msg: connects to the DNI.]
[User Muse connected at 2081-Nov-17-23:20:35, msg: connected to DNI]
[User Starling connected at 2081-Nov-17-23:21:06, msg: Connects to DNI]

Sam SmilesToday at 12:21 AM
DNI: Where are the nerds?
DNI; Oh, Capcom's here. Nerd, singular?

Overseer ICBOTToday at 12:22 AM
[User Switch connected at 2081-Nov-17-23:22:05, msg: Connection to DNI established.]

StarlingToday at 12:22 AM
DNI: And there's the other nerd.

Sam SmilesToday at 12:22 AM
DNI: ~Hey Switch~ We were just calling you a nerd.

SwitchToday at 12:22 AM
DNI: Right.

CAPCOMToday at 12:23 AM
DNI: Switch, if you're feeling dangerous, I can give you a ride.

Sam SmilesToday at 12:23 AM
DNI: So where we going chummers?

CAPCOMToday at 12:23 AM
DNI: Where's this club at anyways?
DNI: As lonely as it sounds, I don't get out clubbing much. I do most of my drinking at quiet dive bars.

Sam SmilesToday at 12:25 AM
DNI: Ok, so like most of us are in Tacoma, that means we're probably going downtown or Pullayup, anyone got a preference?

MuseToday at 12:26 AM
DNI: downtown is all right if youre all okay showing your mugs there

CAPCOMToday at 12:26 AM
DNI: Err... I just narrowly escaped a police chase downtown yesterday.

MuseToday at 12:27 AM
DNI: my rebreather is at the repair shop so puyallup not so much
DNI: maybe if its just loveland

SwitchToday at 12:29 AM
DNI: I have my ride sorted, should I set my route to downtown?

StarlingToday at 12:29 AM
DNI: Downtown's my choice.

Sam SmilesToday at 12:30 AM
DNI: Ok sounds like Downtown's the place to go... So hmm..  We're all runners, apparently some of us are a little new to the scene. So like... Umbra Station work?

CAPCOMToday at 12:30 AM
DNI: I guess I'll continue to live on the edge a little.
DNI: Downtown it is.

StarlingToday at 12:31 AM
DNI: You can wear a synthskin mask or something, you know.
DNI: And that works for me.

CAPCOMToday at 12:32 AM
DNI: Nah, that'd feel disingenuous.

Sam SmilesToday at 12:32 AM
DNI: Pneumbra Station is -not- living on the edge. It's not like we're taking to Noctis or Powerline, it'll be fine.:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

CAPCOMToday at 12:32 AM
DNI: Not the clubbing, I mean the risk of another police chase, chummer.
DNI: It's all the same to me. If you can vouch for Penumbra I'm down.

MuseToday at 12:35 AM
DNI: what did you do, and can your ride change its viz
DNI: never had any trouble at penumbra, never too soon to start

CAPCOMToday at 12:36 AM
DNI: I suppose I can let someone pick me up.

XenoToday at 12:36 AM
is preceded by the sound of a roaring engine, the sign of a man with too much to prove. Dogs begin barking, windows are closed, indoors families with too little space curse under their breath as small children wake and begin crying. Beaming headlights crest over the sharp curve in the road as The Rocketship, a highly modified slick black and green muscle car blaring neon green lights, appears approaching at speed. It screeches to a precision stop besides Sam Smiles.

The tinted window on the passenger side rolls down to reveal Xeno, an Asian man in his 20s, hair bleached a stark white and flowing upwards, defying gravity itself with an unholy mixture of expensive hair products. He wears a dark grey and red coat with a white fur collar that extends to the shoulders. He looks as though he is wearing a lot of makeup. The smell of cigarette smoke and expensive cologne wafts out of the window as he tilts his sunglasses down in a practiced motion.

"Why the fuck would I pick you up, you stupid bitch?"

Sam SmilesToday at 12:36 AM
DNI: It's like -the- shadowrunner club in the city. It's been around way longer than any of us and it'll be there way after we're gone. Besides on the off chance anyone -does- start shit we'll be rolling deep enough to handle anything that comes up.
*Cackles softly. As they move with wired grace, hopping into the passengers seat. *

"Because the other option is being alone with all those electronic demons constantly skull-fucking you?"

XenoToday at 12:39 AM
"Uhuh." Xeno looks over them with an expression that threatens to turn to disgust at any moment. "You're not carrying any food are you? I don't let people eat in my ride."

CAPCOMToday at 12:39 AM
DNI: Actually, no, I'll just swap the reg. They won't even know it's me.

Sam SmilesToday at 12:41 AM
Flashes Xeno a wicked smile, before popping a cyberfinger  adjusting their lipstick with the contents as they use the camera on their braclet-link to look. Smacking their lips before telling Xeno, "Nope. By the way, we're going to Penumbra incase you were to busy terrorizing the neighborhood to follow the DNI."

XenoToday at 12:43 AM
The interior is certainly not luxury, while the leather seats are comfortable enough it looks as though the car has been customized for performance and extra seating. The typical amenities available in the average rigger vehicle, drinks bars, decoration, back massagers, all absent.

Sam SmilesToday at 12:44 AM
DNI: Whoever gets there first, make sure to get a spot in line. We could go in VIP but they'll think we're there for a meet if we do.

XenoToday at 12:44 AM
"Oh, DNI, right. Tell your friends not to bring any food." As Xeno finishes the sentence he floors it, bringing the car screeching off at speeds typically reserved for racing vehicles. "Put on your seatbelt!"

Overseer ICBOTToday at 12:44 AM
[User Xeno connected at 2081-Nov-17-23:44:40]

XenoToday at 12:44 AM
DNI: AM I PICKING ANYONE ELSE UP SUDDENLY?

Sam SmilesToday at 12:45 AM
((Everyone good to skip ahead to the everyone meeting up outside the club?)

XenoToday at 12:45 AM
((Ye))

CAPCOMToday at 12:46 AM
((Yes))

StarlingToday at 12:47 AM
((Yep.))

MuseToday at 12:47 AM
((Si))

Sam SmilesToday at 12:48 AM
Will stick close to Xeno after they park. Doing there best to sheep-dog the team together as they arrive in scattered groups outside the club. Using the combined influnce of the team to secure a spot nearby the front of the short-line. Waving over anyone who arrives a little late either in meatspace or in AR.
Is excitedly bouncing their foot to the bass coming from the inside of the club, along the short line of various sleeping-tiger and trench-coat clad edge lords that make up the club's cliental.

RecluseToday at 12:51 AM
((Fuck, too real))

MuseToday at 12:54 AM
Muse shuffles around a corner looking high as a kite with makeup and an outfit that one could only think is a good idea when mildly hallucinating. Despite this she is more or less unrecognizeable save the fact that her matrix avatar is in a group call with you.

Sam SmilesToday at 12:56 AM
Waves to Muse friendly,  while probing the perimeter defenses of Xeno's personal space bubble.

CAPCOMToday at 12:57 AM
violently pulls off the street and parks his matte gray GMC Phoenix, and steps out in his long brown coat, his slightly unkempt hair blowing in the breeze. All in all, he looks as if he just stepped out of a retro-noir trid. He briefly wanders around before finding the group.

SwitchToday at 12:57 AM
Switch arrives on his Mirage dressed in his Globetrotter outfit and synthskin mask, with a fresh shave and haircut. He takes a quick moment to identify his AR tags before joining the group. With a quick hand signal, his Mirage departs behind him while he walks up.

CAPCOMToday at 12:58 AM
"Hate to break it to you all, but I left my skinny jeans and hair dye in Denver."

Sam SmilesToday at 12:58 AM
Smiles as Capcom aproaches, the young elf looking him up and down appreciatively. "Omea, it's nill sheen... Your like, way cooler than I expected."

StarlingToday at 12:58 AM
Starling's wearing her usual style of outfit with the high heeled boots, leather pants, an open jacket, and red headphones as she pulls up in her Shin-Hyung. It wouldn't take her too long to reach where everyone else is meeting.

MuseToday at 1:00 AM
"Hoi." Muse smiles distantly and flaps her tongue a bit as she tries to sort out the dryness in her mouth.

SwitchToday at 1:00 AM
"Why don't you get it shipped?" Switch asks flatly as he walks up.
"Hi, I'm Eric."

XenoToday at 1:02 AM
stays behind in the car for a short while after Sam exits, before reappearing, eyes dilated behind his sunglasses, his body language decidedly more animated. He strides along confidently, and removes his sunglasses flashily with each new introduction before returning them to his face.

Sam SmilesToday at 1:02 AM
is a younger elf,decked out in heavy chrome and violet warpaint with the same color-scheme repeated through their jewelry, fishnets, hair, ect. The only visible chrome on the elf is the pair of head-phone like cyberear augmentations replacing their inner ears.

Sam has their jacket undone, showing off their obvious Vory Tattoos, and lythe figure. Outside of the jacket, threadbear black jeans, and obligate choker their only other substantial clothing is a pair of spray-painted ceramic boots that look like they were taken from a set of FBA, done up with pink decals of smiley face.
Does a quick headcount on their fingers.
"That anyone, or anyone got friends coming?"

SwitchToday at 1:04 AM
"Not for me. Eric by the way. You are?"

CAPCOMToday at 1:06 AM
"The getups suit y'all. Especially you Muse, you're basically the manifestation of pregaming."

Sam SmilesToday at 1:07 AM
"Sam The space cadet is Xeno... Obviously. And most of you probably already know Muse. The other razorgirl is Starling..." Sam proceeds to continue with introductions. Doing his best to get the attention of the bouncer once everyone is there.
(Someone want to RP the bouncer?)
(Going once...)

XenoToday at 1:09 AM
((I can do eet))

Sam SmilesToday at 1:10 AM
((Danke))
((I figured Sam as the instigator would be taking point, and thought it best to avoid RPing with myself when we've got the cast available.)

XenoToday at 1:12 AM
The bouncer, a heavyset ork woman with a shaved head and what looks like a nose and jaw that has been broken and dislocated one too many times, looks over the group of shadowrunners as they make their way to the door. Her eyes land on the leader of the pack, the beads, the feathers, the fishnets, the paint. It reminds her of her sister back home.

She hates her sister.
"So," says Xeno back in the group. "Anybody gonna thank me for gracing you all with my presence? I was waiting for someone to speak up but I'm starting to think nobody is going to?"

Sam SmilesToday at 1:15 AM
Gives the bouncer their namesake, seeming oblivious to any immediate disadane.

"Hey~ I talked earlier to your chummer over there. " Sam gestures at one of the other bouncers "Anyways.. Like he probably told you, I'm Sam, Sam Smiles... I come here sometimes, work the hub, I work for Brettinorov..."

SwitchToday at 1:15 AM
"When I have a drink, I'll be happy to. It's not a done job yet," Switch offhandedly mentions to Xeno.

XenoToday at 1:16 AM
The bouncer looks down at Sam. She considers her rich and detailed backstory, full of depth, she has lived a life that few would envy but that she would not trade for anything in the world.

"We're at capacity," she grunts.

CAPCOMToday at 1:16 AM
"You have an aura of magnanimity, Xeno. You're rocking the scene." The sarcasm is purposefully laid on thick.

Sam SmilesToday at 1:16 AM
Recalls they're not alone. "And these are my friends. Oh.. That's Muse, you probably know her. Possibly in the biblical sense.." Sam winks "And like yeah, we're all solid. Also, c'mon. We -just- saw a limo leave, and it looked pretty full to me..."

XenoToday at 1:17 AM
The bouncer cracks the door open and peeks in theatrically before closing it again.

"Looks pretty full to me."
Xeno appears not to pick up on the sarcasm at all and grins smugly. "Good, good, you'll do well here, whoever you are."

Sam SmilesToday at 1:19 AM
SIghs. Murmuring something in russian under their breath. "Right.. Ok, cut the drek. How much to make this easy?"

MuseToday at 1:19 AM
Muse is a white human woman, mid twenties, no obvious ware. Her hair is frizzy and coloured a goldish blonde at the moment. Gold glitter eyeshadow looks like it was smeared on thick to mask an uneven eyeliner job, though the same colour on her lips looks under control. A sleeveless beige crop top with gold trim and a pair of baggy exercise pants of similar but not quite matching colour leave her midriff and shoulders exposed, with beige pumps giving her a bit more height. She stares at each of the runners for a few seconds, eyes half-lidded.

XenoToday at 1:20 AM
An eyebrow arches, it's practiced, it's almost beautiful in how subtle yet effective it is. The eyebrow pierces through you, reaching through the windows of your soul. She has all the power here, and the eyebrow only cements it.

"How much you got?"

RecluseToday at 1:20 AM
(( it occurs to me the two meat space channels are at the same destination atm ))

Sam SmilesToday at 1:20 AM
((They went to Penumbra?))

RecluseToday at 1:20 AM
((yep! just arrived))

MuseToday at 1:21 AM
((move your RP over to this channel then if you like :D))

Sam SmilesToday at 1:21 AM
((Feel free to join. We're in line on the way in ATM.))

RecluseToday at 1:21 AM
((if it's alright with you all, of course. sounds fun))

Winter 冬Today at 1:22 AM
((Stick, meet mud))

SwitchToday at 1:22 AM
At Muse's glance, Switch waves. "Hello there, Bonabelle."

RecluseToday at 1:22 AM
Starling and Muse see a familiar sight approach from behind out of a newly arrived Aston Martin. A tall - even for an elf, she is tall - woman, black-haired and placid-faced in a multi-hundred nuyen shirt, jean and jacket combo gives the group a raised eyebrow "Are we intruding...?"

Sam SmilesToday at 1:23 AM
Gazes back into the abyss, the  frivelous masquerade washing from their face in an instant as Sam hands takes a break from playing the fool and hands the steering wheel over to the borderline cyber-psycho vory thug underneath. "C'mon.. I gave you a way to make it easy.."

MuseToday at 1:24 AM
"If you call me that again, I will break my vow of not doing anything illegal," she replies to Switch, deadpan, expression unchanging