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  1. 01[20:18] <SpaceThor> Night falls, and that means it's about time for work, same as always. Hou Luo's underground is a place on the borderlands in more ways than one. It lies on the edge of Kowloon City and Yau Tsim Mong. It's on the edges of territory between the Wo Shing Wo triads and the 21 Xia triads, and it always feels like you're on the edge of the abyss. Or maybe it's just the rain from the beginning of Monsoon Season getting you in a bad mood.
  2. 01[20:20] <SpaceThor> Still, you've got plenty of time to get dressed and show up to work before anyone expects you.
  3. 01[20:22] <SpaceThor> The apartment smells like dust a lot of the time, probably because cleaning takes a lot of effort and partly because you're pretty sure the window unit was made in a dust factory. You've got a few rooms to yourself, kitchen and dining room combined, bedroom, bathroom, and some cheap mass produced furniture.
  4. 06[20:24] * Alejandra groans, swatting at her alarm, despite the fact that it's entirely in her head. She picks herself up off the bed, having gotten a quick nap in before work, and stumbles her way through a shower, and then dressing herself in tight jeans and a tight, low-cut shirt, shrugging on a jacket to deal with the lingering cold, and lighting up a cigarette as she locks up the place and makes her way to work.
  5. 01[20:25] <SpaceThor> Luckily the neighborhood has been quieter than lately usual. The Wo Shing Wo have never really been more than drug and BTL peddlers, and their rivals for the area, the 21 Xia, are rumored to be fighting the Vory in South Kowloon City.
  6. 01[20:26] <SpaceThor> There are a lot of people moving in this part of town. Yau Tsim Mong and Kowloon City notorious for their overcrowding. You recognize types as you go. Prostitute. Dealer. Junkie. Salaryman. Over and over again on your way to work.
  7. 06[20:29] * Alejandra generally keeps to herself, shoulders perhaps hunched in a little bit, not out of fear but just because it's how she walks outside. Occasionally, if she spots a good looking girl, she eyes them - or more specifically threads a little program to hijack a nearby camera to give her a good look while she continues on.
  8. 01[20:30] <SpaceThor> Hijacked camera booty shots. How you survive the two block walk to your job. Yue's in the back when you enter. She's a pretty girl from Inner Mongolia, apparently, who ended up here after a series of refugee crises. She's also very insistent about the fact that she's straight. "Alejandra, right on time." She smiles.
  9. [20:31] <Alejandra> "Yue, my love, I'd never be late when you're around, you know that." She sticks her tongue out playfully. "How's the crowd tonight?"
  10. 01[20:33] <SpaceThor> "Okay so far, we got a few in booths chatting after work. By the way, Mr. Douglas said he wanted to talk to both of us when you got in. Should I let him know?"
  11. 06[20:34] * Alejandra makes a face. "Do I want to know what he wants? Yeah, let's get this done before my shift starts."
  12. 01[20:36] <SpaceThor> Yue, of course, is as captivating as ever. She's fairly short, only about 5'2" tall, with black hair and brown eyes, and the bar standard uniform holds in all the right places. She nods. "I'll send him a ping then."
  13. 01[20:37] <SpaceThor> She hits an AR menu a few times, and then the door opens up. "Ladies, come on in and let the barbacks handle the bar for a few minutes." He's a huge caucasian man, with the proportions of the average ork, despite his human metatype. He also has an unhealthy fondness for hawaiian shirts.
  14. [20:37] <Alejandra> "Thanks. You know how well this piece of crap works." She gestures to her Emperor.
  15. 06[20:39] * Alejandra pushes Yue in first, perhaps letting her hand wander just to the edge of propriety, giving Yue a playful smirk before more firmly pushing her in and following in after.
  16. 01[20:39] <SpaceThor> Yue raises an eyebrow at you, moving her arm to accentuate the tazer in a shoulder holster.
  17. 01[20:40] <SpaceThor> Mr. Douglas sits down behind his desk, as cluttered as it is with curios, mementos, and other assorted crap. "So ladies, how long have you been working here?"
  18. 06[20:42] * Alejandra taps her lower lip thoughtfully. "Three years, more or less?"
  19. 01[20:43] <SpaceThor> "Just under three years, since you offered me a job as an apology after a bartender proposed to me after I ordered a whiskey."
  20. 01[20:44] <SpaceThor> Mr. Douglas strokes his goatee thoughtfully. "Has it been that long? Fuck, I've really lost track of time. Well, whatever! You ladies have been here long enough and helped me out enough with my OTHER job that it's time you two broke into the big time!"
  21. [20:44] <Alejandra> "The big time, sir?"
  22. 02[20:45] * @IterationDrive (hotstuff@a.list.of.my.fetishes.can.be.found.by.googling.everything) Quit (Quit: )
  23. 01[20:45] <SpaceThor> "Your own Fixer career! Your own team of Shadowrunners! Also I may or may not have a sweet deal on a new property to open as a bar that I want to put you two in charge of."
  24. 01[20:47] <SpaceThor> Yue shakes her head. "If you wanted us to manage another branch you could have just said so."
  25. 06[20:47] * Alejandra raises an eyebrow. "A new branch? That sounds pretty sweet, boss."
  26. 01[20:48] <SpaceThor> "Yep! But while I handle the purchasing and renovating and all of that boring busywork, you two need to start working on your own teams. I know you've helped out the one I've got a few times, so you know the basics, but you've never recruited before."
  27. 06[20:49] * Alejandra nods.
  28. 01[20:49] <SpaceThor> "And how do you recruit a shadowrunner team?"
  29. 01[20:49] <SpaceThor> Mr. Douglas just shrugs. "Fuck if I know, the ones I got fell into my lap. Just, uh, keep your eyes and ears open, alright? I'll help out if I see or hear something too."
  30. 06[20:50] * Alejandra laughs. "Appreciate it, sir. I'll keep aware, like always."
  31. 01[20:50] <SpaceThor> "Anyway, get back out there before those idiot barbacks burn the house down."
  32. [20:52] <Alejandra> "Yes sir." She mock-salutes and makes her way out.
  33. 01[20:53] <SpaceThor> Yue just shakes her head. "Yes sir." She goes out, making sure to go behind you this time.
  34. 06[20:54] * Alejandra offers her a betrayed look and then puts a little extra sashay into her walk for a few steps before she gives up the ghost. "Well, wasn't expecting that."
  35. 01[20:57] <SpaceThor> "Me neither. I wonder why he's really doing this. If all he was waiting for was the right real estate deal he'd have done this way sooner."
  36. 06[20:58] * Alejandra shrugs. "I'm just gonna close my eyes and hope that for once something that seems too good to be true actually isn't."
  37. 01[21:00] <SpaceThor> "Not a bad idea. Anyway, ready to get started with the night?"
  38. [21:00] <Alejandra> "Always."
  39. 01[21:03] <SpaceThor> Soon you're back behind the bar, ready for the night's work.
  40. 06[21:05] * Alejandra hums to herself, cleaning a few last glasses. She glances back and forth to make sure nobody's watching and that the camera isn't on her, before she threads a program into the system controlling the music and sets up a playlist.
  41. 01[21:05] <SpaceThor> The system is nothing before your technological prowess, and you can do more or less whatever you want.
  42. 01[21:06] <SpaceThor> "So what do you think you'll look for in a team?" Yue asks, while she's looking over the bottles behind her half of the bar.
  43. [21:07] <Alejandra> "Not too sure honestly. I think I'll try for coverage, make sure they're not too hyperspecialized, and then look for ones that know how to press the line but not cross it when the chips are down."
  44. 01[21:09] <SpaceThor> "Mm. I'm not really sure, but I guess I'd mostly just want them to not be terrible people. I mean, nobody in the business is a saint, but I don't think I could manage someone like Bowie." Bowie's the leader of the group that Mr. Douglas fixes for. He's the "face" as the lingo goes, but you know he's more than a little ruthless when it comes to covering his tracks.
  45. 06[21:10] * Alejandra nods. "Yeah, I agree with you there."
  46. 01[21:11] <SpaceThor> The system has the playlist uploaded. All that's necessary now is to press the button.
  47. 06[21:14] * Alejandra sends the command, and gets some eurobeat pumping.
  48. 01[21:15] <SpaceThor> Yue shakes her head. "You got the playlist again?"
  49. [21:17] <Alejandra> "Early bird gets the worm, mi amor."
  50. 01[21:17] <SpaceThor> She laughs. Goddamn she's so hot when she laughs. "Works for me. I'm not great with music anyway."
  51. 06[21:19] * Alejandra stares for a moment, and then shakes her head. "Your taste is fine. The customers don't so rowdy when your list is on. My music attracts the petrol-head idiots like me."
  52. [21:20] <Alejandra> don't get so rowdy*
  53. 01[21:24] <SpaceThor> "I think that's just because they can't figure out to process what sounds like k-pop with throat singing."
  54. 06[21:25] * Alejandra chuckles. "Possible. I like it, if it counts for anything."
  55. 01[21:27] <SpaceThor> She smiles. "I'm not sure how much of it is 'you like me', but it does.
  56. 01[21:27] <SpaceThor> "
  57. 06[21:29] * Alejandra shrugs and nods. "I do and I'm not going to apologize for it."
  58. [21:30] <Alejandra> "But I'll respect your boundaries, you know I will."
  59. 01[21:32] <SpaceThor> "Though speaking of petrol-head idiots..." She lets it hang as the door opens. A different one of the boss's runners comes in. Rash, a blonde-mohawked, caucasian dwarf who acts as the team's rigger and secondary fighter. He's normally pretty chill, but he looks kind of annoyed tonight. "Hey ladies. Can someone get me a beer? Bowie's called an "emergency meeting" on my night off while I was at a goddamn brothel."
  60. 01[21:32] <SpaceThor> "Put it on his tab too, he owes me that much."
  61. 06[21:33] * Alejandra chuckles. "Gladly." She cracks a beer and slides it across the counter to him in a practiced motion.
  62. 01[21:35] <SpaceThor> He catches it and takes a big drink. "Thanks, I really needed that. Dammit, don't know when I'm gonna be free to go back too."
  63. 01[21:36] <SpaceThor> Yue kind of checks out. This kind of conversation isn't really her thing.
  64. [21:38] <Alejandra> "Well, hopefully soon. Although I wonder what this emergency meeting shit is about. Whenever Bowie calls something an emergency, you know shit's going down."
  65. 01[21:39] <SpaceThor> "Yeah. Not that I'm gonna suck you into this, don't want him to think you might be a 'loose end.' Dammit, that girl has the best cans. I know they're fake, but they're real to me dammit."
  66. 06[21:40] * Alejandra sighs. "Tell you what, I'll see if I can't slip her a little message from you. Maybe try to get you on her good side."
  67. 01[21:42] <SpaceThor> "Oh I'm not worried about that. I paid in advance so I just left her what I didn't use as a bonus."
  68. [21:43] <Alejandra> "Okay then."
  69. 01[21:44] <SpaceThor> He finishes his beer. "Can I get another one? I guess I'll go ahead and move into the soundproof booth too."
  70. 06[21:44] * Alejandra cracks another one and slides it on over. "Keep your head down, yeah? And if things go south," she puts on her most innocent face, "can I have your car?"
  71. 01[21:45] <SpaceThor> "You can have it if you get to it before the bank does."
  72. 01[21:46] <SpaceThor> He takes it and hops off the stool. "Take it easy. Tell Bowie and the others I got the usual spot already."
  73. 06[21:51] * Alejandra nods. "Will do."
  74. 01[21:51] <SpaceThor> Yue shakes her head as he leaves. "I don't really get how people could do that. Prostitutes and all that."
  75. 06[22:05] * Alejandra looks over at her. "Monogamous type, or just not into the sex industry?"
  76. 01[22:07] <SpaceThor> She shakes her head. "Most people that work as prostitutes are refugees trying to get by. I don't know how I'd be able to even think about sex if I was thinking about how this girl was just a starving refugee doing what she has to to put food on the table."
  77. [22:09] <Alejandra> "Most of them don't really think about it like that, I guess." She shrugs. "They're there to get their rocks off."
  78. 01[22:09] <SpaceThor> "Yeah, I just don't get that mindset at all."
  79. 01[22:10] <SpaceThor> The door opens and in come Pike and Cable the group's street sam and hacker, respectively. Seems Bowie's gonna be late to his own emergency meeting.
  80. [22:11] <Alejandra> "What was that old thing? Affluenza? I think it's something along those lines, in microscale." She nods to Pike and Cable, and jerks her head. "Rash is already in the usual place. Want a drink before you head in?"
  81. 01[22:13] <SpaceThor> Pike nods. "Sure, gimme a vodka tonic." Pike's a human, chinese origin. She prefers a spear and shield in a fight, but can use just about any melee weapon. She's scarred as hell but cute in her own way, black hair and black eyes.
  82. 01[22:15] <SpaceThor> Cable shakes her head. "I'm good, thanks though." She's a caucasian ork, russian descent based on accent. She's got flawless skin somehow, and her blue eyes are always a treat.
  83. [22:16] <Alejandra> "Anything for you, cutie." She winks playfully and fixes a vodka tonic real quick, placing it down on the counter.
  84. 01[22:17] <SpaceThor> She takes it and nods in appreciation. "Thanks babe. C'mon, let's go wait for the boss man."
  85. 01[22:17] <SpaceThor> She almost drags Cable into the booth.
  86. 01[22:18] <SpaceThor> After they're gone, Yue speaks up while wiping down her part of the bar. "See, I wouldn't mind workers like them. They seem like good people, even though I know Pike's killed at least a few people."
  87. 06[22:19] * Alejandra shrugs. "I never thought too much about. It's...kind of normal for me really."
  88. 01[22:20] <SpaceThor> "Oh? Part of your mysterious past?"
  89. 06[22:20] * Alejandra snorts. "Not really mysterious. I just don't like talking about it much."
  90. 01[22:21] <SpaceThor> "Fair enough, I'm not here to pry."
  91. [22:23] <Alejandra> "Maybe you should." She whispers softly, but then shakes her head and paints on a smile. "Wonder when the head honcho is going to show?"
  92. 01[22:25] <SpaceThor> Finally, Bowie comes in. "They're in the booth already right?" He's a chinese human, short black haid and clean shaven. He'd probably be handsome if he didn't have a glare that makes mothers take their children across the street.
  93. [22:25] <Alejandra> "Yeah. Drink?"
  94. 01[22:26] <SpaceThor> "No." He walks quickly to the booth and closes the door behind him.
  95. [22:27] <Alejandra> "Well. Apparently it's a legit emergency meeting then."
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