<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/EDYKVZj.jpg)</div>Stella was already waiting in the Dungeon when the others arrived one by one. She was both surprised and relieved to find out the rest of the group was all young girls, some of them not much older than her; she had been mentally prepared for a few scary orcs and trolls giving her the mean eye and cold shoulder. Of course, these girls looked well tough and scary enough too, but maybe Stella fit in with this girl power group… a little bit, anyway.<br/><br/>The real implication of why Mr. Stone would specifically choose to put together a group of attractive girls was completely lost on her.<br/><br/>Sitting on the couch, wearing a very tight-fitting, elegant blue dress, with perfect posture and legs crossed in an almost demure manner, the beautiful young elf looked very much like one of Mr. Stone’s eye candy girls. If any of the others recognized her as a regular performer in Stone’s nightclub, they might be all the more drawn to that conclusion. If so, it would be quite the surprise for them, as Stone prompted Stella to explain her role in this operation.<br/><br/>“Stella Sapphire, lovelies. But,<em>please</em>, just Stella for you girls!”, she introduced herself in a voice that sounded remarkably soft, melodic and pleasant – the result of her voice amplified by both her adept powers and bioware installed by Stone. “Mr. Stone has arranged for me to perform in this… well, let’s call it what it is, it's a dive. A dive which these go-go-gos frequent. While you get to have<em>fun</em>at the hotel, I’m to be your decoy in the other end.”<br/><br/>Stella was doing her best to appear calm, cool and collected in the situation; and while it was true that she was holding herself together quite well (Etiquette: 9 hits) (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=151477), making sure with her Kinesics power to keep a calm, gentle smile on her lips at all times, inside her stomach was making somersaults. Stella had admired shadowrunners for a long time and she loved to party and share drinks with them, but never in her wildest dreams had she imagined she would be working together with them. As a shadowrunner herself. Was she a shadowrunner now? That was such a crazy thought!<br/><br/>But… it was just another gig, Stella told herself. She wouldn’t be actually involved in anything dangerous. Just playing a gig; sure, in a rather shady neighbourhood for a crowd that was more than a little bit shady too, but hey, The Cavern was quite shady as well – how much worse could it be?<br/><br/>Yeah. She could do this, no problem. The other girls were the ones doing the dangerous part, posing as prostitutes (<em>ewww</em>) and stealing a heavily guarded briefcase!<br/><br/>It was going to be such a wicked adventure.<br/><br/>“Oh, girls! Don’t worry! I’ll do my part for<em>sure</em>. Trust me - when I get on that stage, they won't be able to take their eyes off me!” Stella gave the others a little wink. She was trying hard - so hard - to appear as a confident shadowrunner. Sure, she was probably overacting a little; sure, she was just acting how she<em>thought</em>real runners acted; and sure, she was definitely out of her league, and probably couldn’t hide the fact that behind her appearance was an educated rich girl.<br/><br/>But boy, was she trying hard.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">I rolled one Etiquette roll for fun, just to try and remember how the system works in the first place ^^;, and to see for myself how nervous Stella <em>appears </em>in this situation. The way I interpret it is, she's doing a good job of acting calm, but if anyone is particularly observant it should still be pretty obvious she's just winging it and well over her head.<br/><br/>My money roll earlier resulted in 16 x 500 = 8000 nuyen (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=151449); I'm sure Stella can be convinced to buy drugs for the team if others are more strapped for cash than the rich kid.</div></div>