"Tell you what," Junior counters after a moment's thought (and finishing his drink). "You and Dale team up for this one. Y'know. Just in case Dale needs a distraction."  He almost smiles. "I can run something a bit more on point. Get eyes on and stuff."<br/><br/>"What, leave the kid all alone, by herself, with a laptop and internet access and no, uhm, adult supervision? She might go looking for bikini pics of our client," Dale pretends to clutch a pearl necklace and half-swoon.  "Sure, we can do that. If you're willing, Skye?"<br/><br/>Anya, who has put her earbuds back in, is innocent of all but artistic appreciation of the young Mare's shapely bottom.<br/><br/>+ + +<br/><br/>Dale's idea consists of dressing down a bit and visiting the Phantasmagoria Lodge to askia lot of questions...which also includes buying a tee shirt in your size and another one for Anya. There's some sort of gamer-geek joke going on, since the two shirts are apparently part of a matched set or something. (What the fuck is a Social Justice Magical Girl, anyway?)  And then, hoo boy, xe picks up a couple of starter decks and asks questions while you get to hang around like xer big bad butch bodyguard.<br/><br/>So by the time she's done, you have at least some idea of how the game works and why this Bear is someone that Sarah Wyatt wants to take a powerdrill to, metaphorically speaking.  You also get to talk to Kenny for a bit, and the guy's love for his fandom and his hobby are kind of infectious. You think he even tries to flirt with Dale a little, which xe handles pretty well.<br/><br/>By the time you get back to your apartment, both of you have gotten a string of texts from Anya.  You aren't quite sure what a...<em>fia stultulo</em>is, but there's no mistaking those little frowny faces and thunderbolts. So it is no surprise that Dale invites xerself along to see what's going on, and xe of course alerts Junior who shows up with a couple of pizzas around the time you get there.<br/><br/>"I hope you two did better than I did," is how he greets you, but holds any further comment until you are safely in the apartment where Anya's quiet muttering dies away.  She looks up, sees you, tries to smile, sees the others, nods, and then goes back to tapping away with one hand while reaching for the remote with her other.<br/><br/>About the time Junior and Dale get paper plates and stuff for the pizza laid out, your Bunny is casting whatever the fuck it is she's found to that shiny new TV of ours and has flopped back on the couch, arms crossed under her boobs, one foot tapping impatiently while she waits for you and the rest of the team to get settled.<br/><br/>Show and tell starts with a single photo: there's the Bear, big smarmy grin on his smack-it-with-a-shovel pretty-boy poseur face, standing in a group with none other than Montelius "Five Card Monty" Bannerjee.<br/><br/>"Fiaj stultuloj!"<br/><br/>Yeah, Anya doesn't like him.  Her fingers dance on the keyboard and more news items pop up. (You also notice that she's going this in 'ghost' mode, and apparently hijiacking someone's VPN as well for better security. Smart little Bunny!)  Alexei Volshebnik is definitely in IT, and the company he works for is one that has a lot of dealings with a certain douchenozzle poker player's circle of bros.<br/><br/>"That's Jensen Albright," Junior grumbles around a mouthful of sausage and pepperoni, sounding unhappy.<br/><br/>"You know him?"<br/><br/>"I know someone who does. Sili Valley rich kid. Rumor has it he's got this thing about outlaw cyberpunk dark-web bullshit going on nowadays."<br/><br/>"On top of Ol' Monty's bankrollers." Dale takes a deep breath.  "This is going to be interesting."<br/>