<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/a0/Leotard_and_Lace_profile.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Antimony</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243890.msg12052526#msg12052526)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Context</strong></td><td>Little Shanghai Noodle Shop</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging</strong></td><td>The Team</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Fate Points</strong></td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Moderate Consequence (4)  </strong></td><td>---</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Major Consequence (6)</strong></td><td>---</td></tr></tbody></table><hr/><br/><em>"Whooo are you then?"</em><br/><br/>"Your new friend from out of town,"  Antimony responded playfully, sure that that would be enough to clue the uplift in on who she was when combined with the conversation going on over the mesh.  And when the octomorph commented on the rest of the party being late...  "True, but they do all have things of their own to do first, before coming over here.  I suppose it really can't be helped."<br/><br/>Fortunately, it would not be too long before the rest of the team started trickling in, one by one, and taking a seat down at the table.  First was another pleasure pod, set to a female body-type, and then a fury.  The individual known as Drop was still handling overwatch from a more central position that would allow for more lines of sight and coverage from attacks, but was still able to at least keep optics and audio on the table, thanks to the tacnet.  And the last member of the team to arrive was a man in a worker pod, who mildly annoyed Antimony by announcing his codename aloud, along with the fact that he was telling them things over the mesh that he didn't want other people to overhear.  That was the sort of thing that was more likely to draw attention to them than to actually keep anything secret, and it was also completely unnecessary, since he could have stated it over the mesh rather than out loud as he had.<br/><br/>Still, she set those feelings aside from the moment and focused on the information that the Puppeteer had to relay to the rest of them, and once he was finished, she gave her own opinion of what was going on.<br/><br/><hr/><strong>Antimony:</strong>The Red Shanghai Dragons are neither the seller, nor a potential buyer for the art piece that we're after.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>It's most likely that they were hired by Experia, with the use of some creative accounting put into play to avoid leaving a paper trail to the hypercorp itself.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>Experia likely doesn't either know or care about the art piece either. They want footage for their XP show, and sending a group of amateur criminals in guns blazing to a high security meeting between some of the big boys in the underworld will get them exactly the sort of footage they want: Blood, guts, and a one-sided slaughter.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>Essentially, they're setting up the Red Shanghai Dragons to take a fall so that they can film it all for fun and profit.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>The Night Cartel is likely either the supplier, or knows the supplier's identity and wants to buy the art piece.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>That's why the Extropian was brought in. They want a cut-throat negotiator in their corner when it's time to start talking prices.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>If we can get an in with the Night Cartel, we can get some answers.<br/><hr/><br/>Anyone who had been watching Antimony's visual feed over the tacnet while she was laying out her take on the information that they had gathered would see that she was multitasking as she did so.  In addition to talking with the team, she was composing an e-mail, and both the person she was sending it to and its contents were likely to be a bit alarming...<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>To:</strong> xXdeadXxXofXxXnightXx@cartel.g-rep.mesh<br/><strong>From:</strong> MyLittleHackerCannotBeThisCute@freelance.g-rep.mesh<br/><strong>Subject:</strong> A warning for the Big Meeting<br/><hr/>Hello, Zhang.  Long time no see, yes?  I know it must seem a bit suspicious, me contacting you out of the blue like this, but I came across some information lately that I think might be worth your time.  Word on the street is, the Night Cartel's brought in some Extropian from off-world for a big deal that's going down.  I did a little digging around, and as you'll see from the attached files, it looks like some Triad wannabes called the Red Shanghai Dragons are gearing up to hit somewhere down in the souks, and Experia is coincidentally offering a decent sum of money to anybody who can get eyes on some old, abandoned souks within the next few hours, as well.<br/><br/>If I'm wrong, then the location won't mean anything to you and I'm sorry for wasting your time, but if I'm right then you can probably earn a little rep for yourself by bringing this info to whoever's responsible for the meeting that I assume will be going down out there.  Either way, is it possible that we could meet up some time soon, perhaps even today?  I'm absolutely desperate for work at the moment, and I'm sure you remember the fun we had the last time you got to give me an 'audition' for a job. ^.~</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That e-mail was sent off without even a warning to the rest of the team, and the first that they would likely find out about it would be a few minutes later, when a reply was sent listing a time and a place.<br/><br/><hr/><strong>Antimony:</strong>If you will all excuse me, I need to go and meet with a man from the Night Cartel now.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>I'll stay on the tacnet if I can, but on the off chance that my wireless access gets cut off, I'm transferring administrative privileges for it over to Forklift.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>Once I'm out, I should have all the information we need on who's selling the art piece and where it's located.<br/><hr/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Self-Compel and Invoke</div><div class="spoiler_body">As discussed in the OOC thread, Antimony is self-compelling her Impulsive Femme Fatale aspect to get a fate point by going ahead with her plan without alerting the rest of the party first, then immediately spending that fate point to invoke Freelance Psychic Cyber-Criminal for effect, in order to get a face-to-face meeting with someone in the Night Cartel who knows what they're up to.</div></div>