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Tucking his helmet underneath his left arm, Lorcan hummed a little bit as the darker haired woman, Fixer Upper, started talking about a job. Sounded like a damned fine job too from what he could tell... but he wasn't here for credits. Credits were nice but he was already being paid a damn fine wage by Stolas and he didn't really need to take a bounty for more.

However, he knew what a fixer was.

"I'm interested but I've got an offer."
he addressed Fixer Upper directly, "When the job is done, I want information rather than credits. You give me that and we're square. You don't feel like answering the type of questions I ask? Toss me the credits and we'll leave it at that."

He did spare the time to give the redhead a small, amused, smirk at the comment about a man like him not being able to handle her ass. It never failed to amuse him that people who were 'so not interested' made such a big deal about their sexual appeal. If you weren't interested, why even bring it up? Honestly, some people just confused having a sexuality for having a personality and it showed.

The pretty boy with the fang-mouth (henceforth marking him as Fang-Mouth for the rest of the mission) made a good point about stashing his armor. Nothing said "Not supposed to be here" like a rifle over a shoulder in whatever place they were going. He nodded to the other man before grinning at Holly.

"Watch over our gear while we're gone, Hols? You're a gem."


Stripping out of his armor just off to one side of the doorway, Lorcan showed no embarrassment as he pulled off the armor to reveal he hadn't bothered with an undershirt. The armor was rather comfortable itself by design and Byblos was a lot more humid than he preferred. He would, however, quickly start getting dressed in the uniform.

He didn't want to risk being too undressed around someone as hyper-sexed as Fire Crotch. For all he knew, she might take it as an invitation.


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The crimson and ash colored helm stared back at Kara as the plan was reviewed. Overwatch was actually perfect for him given he was equipped with his Blackwell Zok-10 for the job. There were no objections from him about that part. He expected them to have a rendevous point of either this location or some other safe house. That was fine. Kotii would break away if need be.

Following the group and joining them while they changed he pulled out his comlink and shared information with the others for them to talk while they were inside. He could appreciate Edin's armament and thought about offering to hold onto it.

"I'll cut my fee in half..." He offered finally with a slight shrug. "...if you all share what you plan to do with your takings'" The visor panned across the others waiting to get their picture taken. The Mandalorian wanted to get an idea of the people he was working with and now the other masked ones were without face coverings. It wasn't completely calculated but it was something the bounty hunter would take advantage of. Even a Mando sometimes learned more when seeing a few extra facial expressions.

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Kara blinked, twice. They said what? The former ranger wanted to wave his fee entirely!? The Mandalorian wanted to half his fee to know what trinkets the others would buy? How much did offworld mercs get paid that they obviously don't need the credits from lowly old Kara? She recovered with a smile, "I'll tell you all you want to know, ranger sir-" if that man was still just a ranger looking to get dirt on the local gangs then, well, Kara couldn't give a Kath hound's ass. If they got paid for this job she was gonna use the ranger's credits to get the kriff offworld anyway. "-and for you," she turned to the Mandalorian whose name she still didn't know, did she? "A woman doesn't usually tell, especially not against a no-name stranger-" hint hint mandokriffer, "-but I for one will use it to get offworld," which was a luxury usually reserved only for people with their own spaceships or those kriffers rich enough to get ripped off at one of those starliner intergalactic transports and not care. She turned her head towards Val with a mischievous smile, "Probably celebrate a bit, too."

While the other pretend-cleaners had to touch up on some make-up or take off a whole lot of unnecessary armor, Holly motioned for Kara to take a seat in front of the camera set-up and give a smile. Kara didn't like her picture taken, but she made an exception today as it only got on that cleaners I.D. card anyway. Needed to sell it. "You actually look good with the right lightning, Kara-" Holly teased as she motioned for the fixer to get out of the chair stat and allow room for the next. "Got your uniform over there."

Feeling no need to seclude herself, Kara stripped to her underwear and put on the cleaner's uniform without much of a fuss. It was a bit wide for her, but the only ones to look good in uniform were soldiers, anyway, so why bother trying to make it a tighter fit.

One everyone save the Mandalorian had gone through the motions of changing into the cleaner's uniform and sitting down to get their picture taken, they were ready to depart. Kara remembered that she had an extra personav that she originally intended for the Edin to use in case the three of them got separated. Instead she gave it to the Mandalorian, "This personav is linked to the ones Val and I got. Should help with overwatch."

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Holly gave Val a non committal sound between a squeak and a groan at her comment. Strike out. Clearly bringing up the woman's other line of work was not a good pick up line. Still, she got her make up and quickly set about covering up some of the more obvious signs of the day, concealer on her neck and under her eyes and a little bit of eyeliner to put the look together. Good enough.

Catching Kara's smile about them celebrating with the money, Val returned it with a grin. "Get the kriff off this shit-hole planet." She replied to the mando, eyeing the armored man. She didn't know much of anything about Mando's other than the fact that they never took the armor off. She wrinkled her nose a bit at the idea. She might not smell like a peach right at this moment but she bet the mando was ripe under all that gear in the hot and humid Byblos weather.

Tying her hair back she stepped in front of the camera.

Flash.

No smile on her face, she didn't like her mug taken. Reminded her too much of when she had been picked up and shipped away in her youth. Uncomfortable process done, she stepped over to where the others were disrobing and donning their disguises. Shrugging out of her blast jacket, she looked down at her shirt with a smirk.

"Why didn't you tell me my shirt was inside out?" She asked Kara with a laugh before stripping the thing off. As bare as the ex-ranger she shot him a glance to make sure he wasn't looking as she fixed her shirt. Her fingers lingered on the fastenings of her gunbelt before taking it off. She didn't really want to be without a weapon if she could help it.

She ended up settling for stashing the pistol in her waistband before stepping into the cleaners coveralls. Pulling them up, she examined the fit, particularly around the waistband area. Satisfied that the pistol stashed there wasn't visible in the slightest with the bagginess, she finished zipping up the uniform before grabbing a cap with the company logo on it and plopping it on her head.

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“I wanna bash some bantha burgers, buy myself the new GameStation 10, Huttball 3k, a vacation to Zeltros where I get so kriffed up I don’t remember anything later and…” He rubbed his chin importantly in thought before glancing over to Kara and Val, “Maybe take you fine ladies out somewhere nice,” He gave a wink and a fanged grin.

The journey to the local Ranger station was largely uneventful. They were dropped off near the service entrance of the building. Edin checked for his newly minted badge and datapad of information. For all intents and purposes, he looked like another young janitor fresh on the job.

The mood around the station was jovial and Rangers were milling about here and there. There was excited chatter around the Byblos victory. Edin kept to himself, making his way over to flash his ID.

The guard at the entrance looked severely hungover, rubbing his bleary eyes as he barely looked at the IDs. Edin strode past him and could spot some of the other cleaners in the distance.

“-Out of control partying. These are supposed to be our police? Kriffing joke.”

“Don’t even get me started, some people down a few blocks lit a speeder on fire. To celebrate. Celebrate!”

“I’ve had to clean up three puddles of kriffing vomit here already.”

“Damn…” Edin muttered under his breath as he glanced at the others, “We might have to actually do some work.”

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Well Fixer Upper was going to play it coy but that was probably to try and hide her lady boner over his disinterest in the credits. But, if asked, he would freely admit to having a Sugar Daddy. Stolas would probably find that funny even if he ever mentioned it to him too so bonus points there.

The cleaner's outfit could go to hell though - he felt like he was some manual laboring knuckle-dragger. He was a highly paid murder specialist and he dressed as such! But it was fine for a short period of time and he had managed to get his picture taken without issue.

Aside from a small debate.

"No Holly, I'm not shaving the beard for one mission."


Seriously.

He hide a knife under the worker's overalls and debated hiding the pistol too before deciding against it, handing it over to Holly to stash. Still caught a snippet of Fang-Mouth talking and he had to resist snorting in amusement; he had genuinely thought that Dude-Bro energy of that caliber only existed in shite daytime holodramas.

Apparently it existed in the wider universe too... Fascinating really.

The actual job... shite he really should have asked more questions. Cus he hadn't been expecting that Ranger outpost until Holly had mentioned some of the details associated with the badge. Of course he didn't SAY anything about it cus that would just highlight the fact that he'd agreed to do a job, for free, that he didn't actually know the details on.

Which would be dumb.

Kark his life.

Lorcan did his best to keep looking down at his datapad, very visibly playing Angry Ewoks, the game of launching Ewoks at Stormtrooper defenses. He was going for the "I'm only here because it beats unemployment" kind of vibe and it helped keep his head down. He didn't think he would meet any Rangers who recognized him but still.

"Don't worry pretty boy, I'm sure they'll be too busy asking for your number to make you do any work."
he 'reassured' the other man even as he idly swiped his badge as though he had done it a million times, "Just refill the hand sanitizer bottles - seen some blue collars take an hour to do that."

There was a delay before the beep that admitted him, long enough of a delay that some people glanced his way before he walked past them.


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Kotii listened to each of their answers. Lorcan wanted information and was the exception. The others seemed to either prioritize getting of planet or use it to 'get kriffed up' as Edin put it. No surprise there. The planet seemed even less desirable the more people wanted to leave. Kotii couldn't blame them either. He had a ship but he doubted it would be a good idea when it wouldn't pass inspection. He gave Kara a nod when she handed him the extra pesonav. The others got a once over from him though he never spoke up. They seemed to be dressed for the part before leaving.

Black Hand would be heading to his overwatch position, or rather above it. Instead of having a two story overlook, the man opted for a going level higher. On the floor below he placed a flashbang grenade on the level below, still not trusting the fixer of the job over his own experience. If anybody tripped the booby trap to get the jump on his 'would be' position below then he would know.

The same setup was repeated on the level above but with a stun grenade before Kotii took up position. When one worked alone, for one's self, extra precautions had to be taken. Moving a table into the middle of the room. The Zok-10 was placed neatly on top of the table pointing towards the window. After some rearranging a chair sat facing the table. Inside the shadow of the 3rd level and at an increase elevated place, Kotii set most of his things aside and was completely out of view. One item sat on top of the fabric of the bag which made sure he wasn't having any unwanted attention either.

His scout HUD zoomed in on the area below, not needing to use the high powered omni-scope, yet. He quietly listened in on some of the chatter the others shared and waited patiently. The black fingered hand tapped the housing of the rifle. The personav provided by the green haired fixer sat on the table directly in front of him within eye view so the helmeted Mandalorian didn't have to move from his spot or so much as turn his visor. "Ready when you are kids."

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Accepting her new fake ID from Holly, Val scrunched her lips as she eyed the picture. She hated pictures. Whatever, it would get them in the door and hopefully off this rock...

Or with a whole lot more mug shots.

Mounting up, Val was mostly quiet during the ride to the station, chewing her lip and fidgeting her hand near where her blaster would normally be. A bit of pre-job jitters, it happened to everyone. Or so she told herself. Everyone else seemed cool as a slushie on a hot and muggy Byblos afternoon, kinda like the one catboy had been slurping on earlier. She really could use one of those right about now as she shifted uncomfortably in the heavy coveralls, sweat gathering in uncomfortable places.

She took a deep breath as they rolled up to the station, putting her game face on.

"Some party." She chatted to the hungover security guard as he scanned her badge, the half second delay covered as she talked. "You boys earned it, kicking those Sith's asses outta here." She beamed to the guard as he gave her a half pained grin, wincing at her voice as he waved her through.

"Wish i'd gotta party that hard instead of havin' to clean it up." She grumbled under her breath as she walked into the station, following the rest of the crew. The place was busy, hungover rangers, scurrying cleaners from multiple companies. They didn't look out of place at all. Grabbing unattended mop and bucket that was leaned against the wall, Val walked with purpose like she had somewhere to be as she pushed to mop bucket with the cleaning implements handle, wheels rattling annoyingly and clicking at each floor seem.

Operations

Val came to a stop in front of the important looking door. She hesitated for about half a second before pushing into the room. Computers lined the room, blinking and beeping. A few bleery clerks looked at her vaguely before seeing the bucket and a mop, turning back to whatever tasks they were halfheartedly hungoverly attempting to accomplish.

Spotting a puddle of what she assumed was dried puke, Val pushed the bucket over to it and slapped the floor with the drenched mop head. There was a wet floor sign attached to the wheeled bucket, and she placed it on the ground in front of a port on the computer that someone had seemingly puked next to. Her eyes scanned the surrounding area for a moment, catching sight of a spot of fabric sticking out from underneath the computer.

A squat and a reach later and she was standing there holding a pair of pink panties that had likely been accidentally kicked underneath the computer console. A smudged pair of handprints on the screen told a story of the night before that left Val holding in a laugh. "Ha, nice." She laughed to herself before looking down at the puddle of puke coloring the scene. "Somebody couldn't hold their liquor." She whispered before tucking the discarded garment away into her back pocket and continuing to mop the floor in front of the computer access.

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Edin followed Val with his bucket and mop, fitting into the role easily enough. They meandered around till Val spotted a room that could get them what they needed. While Val ducked inside, he remained at the doorway and observed. There were various terminals and people manning them, some of them looking up for a moment before returning to their tasks.

After a moment, he decided to change up what he was doing. He turned to look at Lorcan and hoped the other man would pick up the cue. Without warning, Edin kicked over his entire bucket of water, spilling it out into the hallway.

“Aww man! What the kriff, man! I thought I was the new guy around here!” He yelled at Lorcan, waving his mop around angrily.

The commotion drew the attention of the clerks inside the terminal room. Nosy and annoyed about the shouting, several of them rose from their seats and walked over to investigate the drama. They were rubbing their foreheads and grumbling about the noise.

Meanwhile, Kara was given a chance to slink in and make her way to an unmanned terminal. The benefit of someone abruptly leaving their desk meant that their badges and credentials were still plugged into the terminal. She had free reign to access whatever data she needed, though the classified bits would take some slicing.

Edin kept up the act, pointing to the puddle, “I hope you’re planning on cleaning this shit up. As if we don’t have enough to clean up today now you gotta add to the mess!”

Kara’s efforts would get her to the information she sought on classified prison locations. She would then be able to load that data to herself before sending it over an encrypted channel to their employer.

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Oh boy here they went trying to be sneaky... was it just him or were none of them sneaky? Like at all? He was self-aware enough to know he was about as subtle as a Stolas-Flower-Gift but it seemed like the others weren't much better. Thankfully, most people were arseholes who ignored 'the help' and that basically worked in their favor for the moment.

Fang-Mouth kind of looked at him funny before kicking over a bucket of water and yelling at him. Oh... had that weird look been a hint about this? Probably but the game he'd been playing on his datapad was kind of addictive. Still, he made sure to put it away now that they were putting on a performance.

"Oh I see how it is - blaming others for the fact that you don't know which end of the mop is which, huh?"
he shot back, switching to confrontational rather than bored to help make an even bigger scene, "Here's a hint for you; the end you stick on the floor looks like your haircut!"

The people working were very angry at them not for what they were doing or saying but because they were being loud about it. Lorcan grabbed a mop out of a bucket that had been standing off to one side before walking up to Fang-Mouth, setting the mop head-down with a wet plop sound.

"You're lucky I've got a party to get to after this."
he made a show of grinding out, poking Fang-Mouth in the pec with the dry end of the mop once, "You gonna help or you just gonna run your mouth, eh?"

Either way, he would start actually mopping up, though he was doing a rather poor job of it. He knew how to wash a floor from his time before the Rangers, back when he took any and every scrap of work he could get as a lower-street guttershite. The reason why he was doing a poor job was so Fang-Mouth had a reason to extend the argument if Fire-Crotch didn't get her flat arse in gear fast enough.


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<Message send succesfully!>

Kara peeked at her personav which now held the coordinates of the target location and from which, using plugged-in HoloNet dongle, she had just send those same coordinates to the contractor of this job and as if there was someone constantly monitoring the account the reply was nearly instantaneous: <Payment Wired. Job Concluded.>

Well, that was that. The Byblos-native quickly stuffed the personav back into her pocket and rejoined the spot where Lorcan was doing a piss-poor job of mopping the floor. "Karking kriff, dude-" she sighed and shook her head towards the clerks, "Don't worry, we'll be out of your hair in a jiffy." Kara approached Lorcan, took the mop out of his hands and started mopping in a way more effective manner. "You get the trash. I think this was the last room."

She couldn't have made it more clear to the others that the job was done. All that remained was getting out with their ruse still holding up, then divvying up the credits and all of them going their separate ways before whatever the contractor needed that location for was going to go down. Kara got a good look at what exactly the location was for and who was imprisoned there. She would wager on the fact that the airspace on Byblos would get restricted real quick and getting the first starliner offworld wasn't at all a bad idea.


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After a few minutes of mopping, pissing about, and listening to ex-ranger Lorcan and catboy argue, Val was more than happy to bail once Kara confirmed that they were done here. Eyeing the half mopped puke stain, Val gave herself a mental shrug. Good enough for me. She thought to herself as she plopped the mop back into the bucket and squeezed it dry.

"Time for a smoke break." Said out loud as she rolled the mop and bucket past the others and out of the room to ditch it right outside. "Any of you got one I can bum off ya? I'm fresh out." Leaning the mop against the wall, she retraced their steps in her head, remembering an exit they had passed on their way in. Probably a good way out she figured as she started to walk in that direction.

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