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Infinity PbP - Sunz of VaudeVille

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  1. Solodice

    Solodice Freshly Squeezed Troll

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    Valentine looked around the room and laughed. "Cat got everyone's tongue or is someone playing a really bad joke sending a bunch of mutes to talk?" She sagged back into her seat and cocked her head to the side. "The way everyone is eye fucking me as well I wonder if you're here to buy instead of talk." The last words were laced with venom.
     
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    "And maybe we want just a good look at the merchandise." Samira answers the girl,
    "You made youself intersting for some people and me and my ....merry band of fuckwits get called to protect such interests. So lets talk about some of your latest business plans."
     
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    Cocky, self-assured, apparently without a care, showing fearless bravery. . .

    All typical symptoms of a career criminal reacting in the usual manners that low level street-punks display when facing unclear odds; surely that Valentine Dolles would not to be underestimated, as was surviving in a harsh and weird Cultural Environment, but being detained by the Local Police and put into a Interrogation Cube with a bunch of wierd strangers should have put a lot of tougher thugs in a less defiant manner. . .

    Instead, "Miss Punkette" reacted as it was scolded by the High School Principal after She was caught doing just a vicious prank; was "True Bravado" or just the typical "Fake Badass Attitude" of a low level guttersnipe. . .??

    Then Father Beretta had an idea, and opened a Secure Encrypted Comm Channel with the Alien Kenn-Tal, typing nonchalantly on the Comlog Holographic Keyboard (and without even feigning noticing the small Street Brat, as if was beneath His notice, while instead His Hypearadvanced Cyberoptics tried to take in every detail). . .

    "Forgive Me if I assume on Yor Racial Attitudes and Personal Techno-Experience, but aren't all Tohaas very expert in Pheromonic Based Intercoomunication. . .??"

    "While I'm sure that We Humans are rather starkly different from Your usual Smell-Based Receptor Signals (and this Valentine Dolles could have been thoroughly further Gene-Modded and this could potential be a "White Noise Issue" for analyzing), I read from Your dossiers that You passed a lot of times with Human Sphere Operatives, and even performed Medical Checks on some of them. . .!!"

    "Are You able perchance to execute some sort of Pheroware Check on this Small-Time-Perp, maybe. . .??"

    "Just be able to gauge Stress Levels and Fear-Induced Amino-Chains in Perspiration and Breath would be invaluable, and further Infos would be wonderful for us all to value precisely whatsoever apport that Street Brat could offer to the Enquiry we are tasked. . ."

    "Maybe to help You better narrow the correct traces, We could try to fish some old Sanitary Records on the local Arachne Sphere; for the correct price I jnow EVERYTHING is on sale on Bakunin, providing One know WHERE to search and WHO to ask. . . . .!!!"
     
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    Solodice Freshly Squeezed Troll

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    Valentine sat up straighter and listened to what Samira had to say.

    "Okay, now it's getting interesting. Not just losers I pegged you for earlier but professional losers that do this for a living." She was still trying to push some buttons. "We can talk about my business plans but first I need something from you." She looks around the room. "As you can see I'm not exactly in the right place or even mind to start talking. If you can get me out we can talk about anything you want." She flashed Samira a smile trying to come off as innocent.
     
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  5. Daemon of Razgriz

    Daemon of Razgriz Ninja sniper

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    The ninja saw his queue. Silently and with his hands still clasped behind his back, he slowly walks around the table, making sure to pass behind Samira so the girl can take him in. He passes by so he stands just behind Valentine yet just out reach, barely out of sight of her peripheral vision so she'd be forced to turn to see him. The entire time, Saito doesn't even stare at her, as if she doesn't exist. Once in position, he gives the faintest of nods Samira's way. A queue so she knows to start applying control in however way she sees fit to.
     
  6. DrunkCorsair

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    Samira looks at Valentine and chuckles.
    "I think you dont understand Miss Dolles. Its less about you, we are here cause its the least time consuming option for us."
    "As you see" Samira makes a short gesture in Kenns direction "we didnt plan to be here. So what could you give to use, that you are worth the hassle?"
     
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    While awaiting for the eventual opportunity of a Pheromonic Analysys by Kenn-Tal then Father Beretta tried to understand the precise subtext meaning of Lady Samira fish-baiting for Valentine Dolles to "line-strangle" Herself with too much exhasperation in Her "Fake Street Badass Babe" attitude. . .

    Decided to search the Arachne for whatsoever image of the Punkette, imagining that any "Bakunite Guttersnipe" would probably have an excessively active Online Presence; if instead the Heartache Ganger would have been conspicuosly absent from Mainstream Infosphere of the Mothership that would have been another glaring supsicious fact in itself. . .

    All the while the Inquisitor typed nonchalantly in the Hologram Keypoard projected by His Comlog Wristband (setting the Geist, whose Avatar was a portly Dominican Abbott dressed as a Medieval Theology Teacher, on "High Security Passive Mode" just in case); tried to project an idea that was acting as an emotionless stenographe, there to just documentate the last moment of Free Existance of the "Goganger Gogirl", without even display the mere droplet of interest. . .
     
  8. Solodice

    Solodice Freshly Squeezed Troll

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    Valentine tracked Saito as he made his way around her. See never looked back at him after that but his presence was being felt.

    Valentine lets out a chuckle when she looks at Kenn but her stoic demeanor takes back over.

    "I'm not sure I follow what you're putting down exactly Mrs. Pretty but I get the concept." Valentine sounds suspicious but she's going along for now. "I'm sure you know about my little gang of assholes called the Heartaches. Well I can get any of them to talk to you about anything. What they've stolen, from whom, and maybe even a why or two because we just don't take things for ourselves. You'd be getting more info than anyone's ever gotten out of me including the mods or the shitheads at BPG."
     
  9. Golem2God

    Golem2God Just a Kooky Kumotail serving others.

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    Upon seeing the gesture that Samira had made Kenn turned his head to look behind him to make sure she was referring to himself. Now he was more self-conscience of his clothing then before.
    It was no surprise that the human female was rude. She did look the part of an inconsiderate person.
    Oh k...maybe the rude human was going to be passive after all? Perhaps but one could never be sure especially on this giant ship.
     
  10. stevenart74

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    Understanding that the Tohaa has considered His suggestion then Father Beretta tried to understand how better help Kenn-Tal execute what the Blackfriar thought was a very simple effort for the Alien Specie (maybe was a sort of "Preliminary Handshake" procedural protocol between two of them previously unknown, as to gauge surface emotions, mood and behaviour; much like Humans would greet in an open, relaxed manner, or being stiffly formalized and rigid in welcoming, as if hiding a dark demeanour under a fake facade). . .

    Perhaps, even if Valentine Dolles Medical Records were unavailable even fishing into "Deep Arachne" ("Dark Arachne" was a totally no-go for the Inquisitor; not even Dedicated Combat Hackers of the Military Orders risked daring that "Bleak Abyss Of Digital Depravation") a typical "Biomedic Surface Analysys" of a Young Woman of Her Age and Social Standing would provide to the Tohaa some form of "Basic Template" of reference useful to gauge Human Pheromonic Emission with understandable Emotions and Mood-Swings. . .

    When Pietro Beretta has left Panoceanian Active Service and plombed into the weird "Paralegal Submondo" of the "Wilderness Of Mirrors Gray Zone" bewteen what was accepted and what was not in the various Hyperpowers of the Human Sphere the decisively "Artificial Alieness" of the Nomad Motherships was a considerable cultural shock for Him. . .

    Only with the help of a Veteran Bakunite Native like Taisa the Interrogator-Priest was able to work efficiently (without blundering unacceptable faux passes) as a Detective and Private Eye in a so weird social environment; but understood all too well that the Exoticness of Vaudeville and Praxis made a formidable "Social Attack Arsenal" in the right circumstances. . .

    Kenn-Taal as one of the first Alien Specimens of a millenary culture, advanced and sophisticated far beyond the topmost of Humanity could be an incredibly useful assett in putting Streetpunks, Criminals, Guttersnipes and Wrongdoers on an easily exploitable defensive when employing Tactical Analysys Systems previously unheard of in the Human Sphere. . .
     
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    "Miss Dolles, do you think that offer is good enough without any proof you can hold up your part of such a deal? Cause if you cant hold up, their will be other consequenzes, longer lasting than anything you may find on this mothership."
     
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    Father Beretta, while not a Field Medic, had some basic Healtcare Knowledge aquired from intra-order shared joint training (especially with the altruistic Hospitaller Knights) and always thought that any Blackfriar Inquisitor too knowledgeable with Surgery and Pharmaceutics had some pretty "Sinister Vibes" (there were some nasty rumors about "Excruciator Specialists" between Dominicans of the "Santo Uffizio Inquisitorio") so usually used a mix of Psychology and Criminal Lore to case a specific subject. . .

    But some of Valentine Dolles biological pattern readings were slightly off for a Young Woman of Her age and social stratum. . .

    Maybe was high on some weird recreational drug that Bakunites gulped down as Soda Cans for Breakfast; maybe had received some basic Genemodding to further evolve into something deviating from normal "Homo Sapiens XX Chromosome" Template; maybe had some Biological or Cybernetic Implant that screwed a little those readings. . .

    Anyway He forwarded the lectural scans about perspiration, eye dilation, blood vessels and other "Interrogation Telltales" not only to Kenn-Tal and Lady Samira, but also to Taisa Grunewald. . .

    The Bakunite Chimera was the best judge if something was off in the Gutternsipe Streetpunk biology, or where only the result of the Interrogator-Priest poorly made sensor readings. . .
     
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    Saito continued standing there.... Menacingly. He could tell he was having an effect on the street hood. Even if she wasn't fully aware of it yet.
     
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    Human and Tohaa physiology are quite different when it comes to pheromones. Humans to Tohaa are just smelly creatures from odors both natural and synthetic.

    Not to say that humanity isn't subsebtable to pheromones. Kenn does know about the I-Kohl products that use synthetic pheromones that can have cognitive or hormonal effects on them. Humans just didn't produce natural pheromones that would be useful to any Tohaa.

    One thing Kenn did notice about humans in stressful environments though is certain responses. Some humans would produce more sweat than normal for the temperature for instance. Some would start to breath heavier.

    That quick and dirty visual examination that Padre conducted helped Kenn narrow it down further. Valentine was good but everyone has a tell somewhere. For her it was words. She would stutter over some or say them in a more hushed tone since Saito had set up shop and Samira had been grilling her. The cool and cocky exterior was starting to erode away.

    For the ex-Odalisque this was child's play especially for someone who rubbed shoulders with high ranking hypercorp Loganto and the likes of Silk Lords and their agents. Samira was going to wrap Valentine around her finger...

    Valentine was used to threats. This didn't scare her. What Samira was doing was casting out a lifeline that Valentine has never had before.

    It took a little more convincing but once Samira embraced a long lost sister connection with Valentine the street punk was coming around. Trust had been established and then Samira dug deeper.

    The team would basically become partners on a first name bases with the Heartaches. Valentine told them about every member, their skills, and where they liked to hangout, boltholes, or people that would give them a place to stay. A gang of street urchins with a penchant for physical theft and quantronic skullduggery was a nice thing to have in your back pocket. [Everyone has gained the Heartaches Gang as a contact.]

    Samira then brought up the name Loren Dixon. Valentine had a visceral reaction pulling on her securcuffs and kicking at the bolted down leg of the table.

    "Fuck that bitch!" She screamed. "Wanna know how I got in here! It was because of that goddamn PanO brat!" She sank into her chair. "If you ever find her... put a round through her cube for me would ya."
     
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    Father Pietro Beretta was extremely impressed by the "Sweet Attack" Social Skills shown by Lady Samira. . .

    Compared to the blunt, crass, obnoxious and overbearing manner of "Commercial Negotiations" of Panoceanian Hypercorp Executives (that butted heads like Ariadnan Arioch Rams or Bison-Bulls of Neoterra), especially when they tried to leverage Monetary Advantages and Capital Bonus versus the various Knights of the Orders, uninterested in their purely secular concerns, the Haqqislamite Dame was incredibly talented and knowledgeable, with an incredibly vast and widespread palette of Etiquette Manners and Streetwise Tricks. . .

    Quickly then the Blackfriar Inquisitor tried to compile a List of the most useful new assetts of those Heartachers Streetpunks, for use and peruse of anyone of the Investigation Group; taking peculiar extra care to explain at his best the differences to Kenn-Taal, by comparing those with the scant, meager knowledges about Tohaa Societies (mainly hearsay in terse smalltalk with the few Kumotail Vanguards that operates in joint efforts on Paradiso Frontlines). . .

    A little surprising was the vehemence against their "Mark Target" by their "New Friend"; while was not automatic that Loren Dixon would be still there with that Guttersnipe Gang, the fact that She burned that bridge meaned that maybe was now in touch with far WORSE Bakunites Lowlives. . .

    The fact that Taisa Grunewald was well known by the Interrogator-Priest made him peculiarly wary of meeting Chimera Gladiators acting as Bouncers, Bodyguards and Thugs for the Submondo of Vaudeville or Praxis. . .
     
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    The street thug's little tirade succeeded in raising an eyebrow from the ninja, it was an impressive little outburst for a woman of her age. But sensing his 'pressence' would no longer be needed, Saito walks back to his previous position behind and to the side of Samira, hands still clasped behind his back. Stony faced, but giving off a much more pleasant vibe now.
     
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    Angry Teenager Young-Adults accusing a co-ager of whatever perceived slight. . .??

    That was a thing that the past careers of Father Pietro Beretta, as a Inquisitive Journalist and a Ordained Priest, had many experiences upon; and when petty crimes let place to something far more serious, then the Law Enforcement Past would have been far more useful to pinpoint for their sake. . .

    "Pray Tell Me, Young Lady! What is that this Lauren Dixon has made to You?? The. . . . .vehemence. . .in Your tone indicate that is something rather dire, maybe also something. . . . .Personal is at stake. . . . . .???"
     
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    Samira puts a hand on Father Pietros forearm to get his attention.
    "Please Padre, dont be that harsh. You see that shw was betrayed from someone she trusted, maybe even a friend. We dont need to rub salt into the wounds."

    Facing back to Valentine with a smile
    "Please tell us everything that happend as good as you can and then we will have a talk with the guard about your situation."
     
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    Taisa watched the events unfold in front with interest. She was amazed at how much information the ex Odalisque was able to get from Valentine. She made sure her Geist recorded everything.

    What truly surprised her was how Dixon apparently has taken over the Heartaches. She whispered to the Black Friar, “Say is it just me or is something off here? Why would a spoiled girl from PanO run away to my home mothership and take over a street gang? Something doesn’t add up.”
     
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    While Edd took care with the info that Father Beretta's scans & information being sent to the Tohaa, Kenn ponders on a few questions that the eruption of emotions from Valentine caused.

    First was did it work? Had he actually affected the Human female or was it a small pot-shot in the face of more devastating mental barrages. It was important for Kenn to know no just so he could show he was pulling his weight but to test how much his pheromone receptors healed.

    Second was worry for Miss Dixon. It seemed as though she was getting herself into more trouble in a place that looked down on people with her background & national birth ties. While Kenn wanted to help the young woman to live a happy life away from the controlling grip of her parents. Who in turn reminded Kenn of his own birth parents who threw him out of their Triad as soon as they found a new adult member to fill his place.
    Now the chances of Dixon getting a somewhat happy ending seemed to be slipping. Where was she...?

    Edd "Sir..." The Geist uttered mentally in Kenn's head.
    Kenn Ta'al "Wha...? What?!" The Tohaa was jolted out of his thoughts.
    Edd "I lipread some of the furry Human-Animal hybrid's whispering to the Padre. She pointed out that Miss Dixon taking over this street gang does not make sense."
    Kenn "She might be doing it out of fear."
    Edd "Sir...?"
    Kenn "Even if she did plan to overtake this Heartbreaker gang, I think it was a more spontaneous course of action. Rather than pre-planned before she came on the ship. She will be digging herself a quick grave at this rate."
    Edd "Sir, that was insightful. Quite different from how you are usually perceived."
    Kenn "Am I?...Maybe I'm healing faster than I realized?"
    Edd "Maybe it is the people you are surrounding yourself with that is having an affect on you. The Padre seems like someone to further interact with. He did give us the data to oversee the building situation. Perhaps sticking close to him for the duration of the mission could prove to be useful for your regrowth."
     
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