"I'm up for heading back to Seattle -- sounds like we got business to finish up there." I'll make inquiries to try and find someone who wants to pay us to run something or someone back to Seattle -- assuming Istereth is driving, we won't need to find someone with a vehicle, just someone with a package. I figure Thaddeus would be a good person to ask if he's not planning on making the run himself, and if he doesn't know anything I guess I'll call Big Jim.
Do people want to actually RP the run back to seattle, or just elide it into the forum? I'm good either way, really.
Yeah, finding out who might pay for the ride back 's not a bad idea. I'm cool with doing it either way, depending on whether you've got fun ideas for the ride home or not.
I'm also fine to handwave this, I just felt obliged to make the effort to find a gig. Are other people coming along to Seattle or staying behind? I'm a little unclear over how the timeline stuff with the rich recluse guy is working with this call to Sunny.
I'd like to find out whether or not this guy's collection might happen to contain the penny I'm looking for before I skip town. If looking for someone who wants to pay for the trip back home will buy me some time to work on this before everyone else takes off, then that's what I'm in favor of.
Looks like Emvee's side-quest took about a week, and this call came in about a week after the run, so everything's finishing about the same time. I'm more interested in spending rp time finding out what's up in Seattle than rp'ing the side-adventure of the trip up there, so unless katre has a particularly cool idea he wants to foist on us, I suggest we say "we find a gig that will pay our way to Seattle, but doesn't give us extra cash". Maybe someone can roll the find-a-way-to-get-paid-for-driving-cross-country skill. During the week, Thurgun checks up on the shop, and gets homesick. While on the phone with Elisa, he also asks if Barker ever showed up for that stock-boy job down the street. He also continues shopping for appropriate alchemical radicals for he and Emvee. Also, Thurgun calls it first: "Shotgun!"
Aw, crap, I totally didn't think to pack mine. Will an Ingram 20t do?
After asking around for a bit, Thaddeus calls you back. "Hey, guys, you're looking for anyone who needs stuff run to Seattle, right? I don't know of anyone here, but there's a guy who needs something picked up in Portland and taken to Seattle. You guys can get into Tir Tairngire, right?"
Portland, huh? Haven't been home to Tir Tairngire in quite a while. And with a truck full of weapons, drones, and shady acquaintances with me... not that most of you can't look presentable when need be.... How much trouble can we expect getting in, through, and out, assuming we hide the heavy-duty stuff? If an Elven Etiquette roll is required: [shadowrun] Istereth rolls 4t4: 1 1 5 2 | 1
An' some boxes f'r th'rest of us t' hide in? Don't think we c'n get away with jus' puttin' pointy ears on Thurgun 'n' me.
"Hmm, yeah, will they allow non-elves in? I know they don't like humans especially, but maybe we can get a temporary visa or something for you and Thurgun. I don't know how big a deal it is for them to let humans in, for that matter -- do you think they'd just take a bribe? And if they won't, and we have to sneak in, are they likely to have a magician working at the border crossing? You said it was poorly manned, so maybe not, but I don't know what's standard. And I guess the last question is working out what cargo we should bring in -- is there anything they want especially?" So I guess Istereth needs to give us some elvish insight here: [list] - How hard would it be to get a permit for Thurgun and Emvee in the next week or so? - Are they really really anti-human there? Would we maybe be able to just bribe the guards to let the humans in if we said we were just passing through? - Are they likely to have a magician at this border crossing, or do we otherwise have to worry about magical detection as well as a visual inspection? - What kind of cargo would be reasonable for us to be importing? Something cheap and bulky, I'm thinking, and maybe something smaller and slightly illegal we could pretend to be smuggling in (hence the need to bribe the guards, right) [/list:u:2f55497f17]
Istereth would say:
"Ok, I vote we just risk it, then, and assume they don't have mages. Seems like Istereth and Thurgun should look into getting permits for Thurgun and Emvee, Emvee and Sunny should look into buying some electronics we can use for cover (and, what the hell, we might as well smuggle in a few while we're at it), and Tony and I will find something to use as main cargo, plus more empty boxes to block off the rest of the truck except the bits where we'll be hiding."
So we're still gonna try th'vanishin', right, jus' without th'wards? 'f I make y'disappear, I'll need t' be able t' keep an astral eye on y', an' 'll be pretty worn out f'r th' rest o' th' trip. So's up t'you guys which way y' wanna go on that.
Thurgun uses his business know-how (aka Leadership(Commercial)) to try to get visas for he and Emvee (And Ish? Is this like the permit we had in that first run that was good for X people and 1 vehicle?) Trusting in the inherent good nature of the elves, he turns on the charm without resorting to using bribes: [shadowrun] Thurgun rolls 4t6: 1 6+2 2 4 | 1
On #shadowrun, we realized that getting from our pickup to Seattle might well be a challenge--why is our contact (Benny, as it turns out) not willing to take whatever-it-is to Seattle himself? We check things out, and it turns out that with our Seattle Residents cards, we can make it across the border from Tir into SSC easily just by telling them "We're passing through on our way to Seattle," and then the Seattle border folks will just say, "Hello again; welcome back." Benny is offering 20K for the run, which Istereth pegs as being a bit high, but perhaps not unreasonable, given the difficulties getting into Tir. We can perhaps negotiate for more once we know our cargo, and/or if we figure out why Benny doesn't want to do the run himself.
"Hey, you carry the Astech line? That's awesome. We might be interested in picking some of those up." [shadowrun] Sargent says, "hey, Sunny should probably negotiate some genuine Astech and Aris products" [shadowrun] katre says, "excellent" [shadowrun] Sunny rolls 6t4: 4 5 1 5 6+3 2 | 4