Badcat

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Badcat was starting up here!

[Ainsophaur]

Badcat....I think we were still constructing him weren't we? Or had we already come to a conclusion?

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

He was coming to the planet to lay low for some time and avoid the fuzz.

[Ainsophaur]

Lay low? you remember which one, there are three of 16 planets that are nothing but outlaw bandit ran planets, ones a full on pirate settlement, the ESG(Earth System Government) gave a major band of pirates rights to settle on one of the planets to act as mercenaries to keep law if needed. One was a dark planet that stays in sync orbit with one of the gas planets and is always in total eclipse(Pirate planet). One is a desert based planet, and the last is an ice jungle planet.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

I believe it was the pirate planet.

[Ainsophaur]

Aw yes, the planet known as Bliss, you can read up on it briefly in the group info stuff i posted.

BC arrives at the spaceport, the trip was a goddamn long one, these mercs fly some rather shit vessals sometimes. Your wearing everything you own, and living out of your suitcase at the moment. First order of business?

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

BC wants to get him a nice and under-the-radar hostel, hopefully not a fleabag, to stay at.

[Ainsophaur]

As he walks off the platform, and out of the starport, after asking for some literagture of the area, he leaves the starport onto some busy city citys, the air smells foul, sickly sweet, like insect repelent. He is bombarded by three people two of them beggings, one of them ranting. The one that is ranting is screaming about something called the lord of Geeel, and how we should all be at its mercies. After a quarter block they let you be. Vehicles similar to the hoover craft from the first starwars voom by here and there, and the traffic is beginning to thin out. You see bar after bar, gun shops, and a ma'pop corner stores. Finally you come to a building that looks to be modelled in an earth victorian style. Its made of concrete, and has a wide open staircase leading to the double front doors. People are outside on the steps, some are smoking, the other is dealing something called "Rizos". When you get inside theres an incredibly small loby with a very young and a very old woman sitting behind the desk. The young maybe 16 seems yetti as she asks "How we be of service? Do you need a place to stay? Will it be a long stay?" Her face is a bit switchy and she smells of chemicals, like the dealer outside. The old woman sits and continues to watch her program on her holovid projector(HVP), completely ignoring you and the girl.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Badcat turns up his snakish and boyish charm. "Why, a radiant smile would be among the best services I could be provided. A room would be nice too: Preferably one with a view, some privacy and distance from the noise, and space. I can pay in cash, just to make your job that much easier."

[Ainsophaur]

The girl grins her teeth are very much rotting, she speaks and the smell of rotting flesh comes off her breath like a slaughter house. "Wonderful! How long do you plan on staying? Oh and what about company?"

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"No company or other guests expected, but you never know. I plan on staying a week."

[Ainsophaur]

The girl blushs hard and you feel its unnatural. "I..I see....I ment one of ..oh never mind, A week then is it? A deposit is nessiary cash only." She slides you a clipboard with paper work, basically it says by renting this room you are responsible for making sure it stays in the same if not better condition then when you first time you arrived compaired the day of your leaving. A warning asking no guns, or large melee weapons be allowed in the rooms but are to be check at the front loby desk. It is also asked you do not bring in escort services into the buildings but to use the inhouse crew. The cash Deposit is 350 credits. Which you will be given 105 credits back if the room is returned as it should be.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Put it down, wondering how bastardly a hotel can be. Badcat signs, but assigns almost zero importance to doing so. Does Badcat believe he can sneak his Megascythe in (given that it is largely bereft of its special features), or will he have to check it in?

[Ainsophaur]

...did i ever say he had one? did we ever even work out his eq? and more importantly wtf is one, so obviously i didn't let you have one....but answer the questios contary to what im saying now. I'd say he has a switchblade, and maybe a 357 magnum.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

I believe you approved having a limited Megascythe. Mainly just so it has the ability to get better, nothing particularly powerful yet. And Megascythe is Badcat's scythe, a weapon that over time is designed to control and create magic energy, with a compartmentalized theme (i.e. pull some levers and it becomes a spear or the blade switches or more blades appear or a gun or monofilaments come out)... I thought you knew about it, but I guess not. And can he sneak in the knife and magnum?

[Ainsophaur]

It's possible, she is cracked out, maybe a distraction, and if you'd like an extra hint or don't simply don't read this part (It'd help if it involved her.)

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Well, if there's no metal detector or guards, it won't matter, I just walk upstairs and hide them in my pillowcase. These sound small so I probably have them hidden in my boot and pants already.

[Ainsophaur]

Just because I neglected to say there was or wasn't one doesn't mean its not there, because indeed there is one, when your paying the bill you notice a thick purple electrical cord feeding from the tv snaking its way up the ceiling and across it into the doorway, its pretty well concealed.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Hmm. It'll be a pain to have to get through over and over. Even if she's cracked out now, she may not be in the future or someone else may be working. I could always toss it from the hotel room in a pillow, but that'd be suspicious, risky and only solve half the problem. What was the idea/hint "Badcat" thought of?

[Ainsophaur]

A distraction that involved her. Remember your on a merc and pirate planet, people here are incredibly corruptable, and from the way she's acting she seems to like you. Perhaps bribe her....and keep in mind currency is very liberal here. They have a slave trade on this planet.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Badcat says, "Listen, I have... problems with people trying to harm me. Now I'm sure your hotel would love to keep me around as a paying customer, so perhaps I could pay a special fee to keep my weapons in my room? Narat's honor."

[Ainsophaur]

The grandmother shakes her head "and tha girl frowns Im sorry sir, but its the policy of the hotel...." The girl writes something on a sheet of paper ad says "Ill have to ask you to sign these forms and give me your weapons." She puts the forms on the table and writen in sharpy is "Meet me at the safe around the corner and if you make it worth my while ill see what I can do." she hands you a pen. and says "OH too many forms sorry about that!" she takes the top paper off with the writing on and throws it away in the trash.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

I nod. "That's fine." He fills out the relevant forms and then does what the note says. He prepares money, hoping that that's what he needs to get handled.

[Ainsophaur]

You meet her around the corner, shes smiling her prettiest. Looks around frantically, then looks worried"I need you help... theres a man in 22B, he knows where i live, and he threatened to kill my baby if i called the enforcers on him. He's hiring prostitutes, outside ones, and there not coming back down...and there are some odd smells coming from his room, please...Ill let you stay free, and keep the guns if you help me get rid of him."

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"Now, does 'get rid' mean kill or scare the hell away? If the former, I'll need help making sure that the authorities, however lax they are, don't bite my ass, and if the latter, I'll need a hypodermic needle. Either way, I need a bellhop outfit and a food cart, then I need you to call him and tell him there's complimentary room service."

[Ainsophaur]

The girl looks around then says "I don't want to know what you do to him. But if you do kill him. Can you also dispose of the body? If so I got all those things. I can give you free room, board...whatever you want...just please...get rid of him, he keeps calling for more women and soon he'll just ask for me." you hear a ringing phone in the next room.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

"I like to keep things alive if I can. With all of those things, I can make him not only leave but kiss your feet." Badcat looks around for a smoke.