The drinking bit would have lasted longer if we had more people but lets get on with it.
Norum, Ryde, and Daniel converge the next afternoon at a small office in Midtown. The office is around six stories tall. Its exterior shows few signs of wear. The other buildings in the area are in good shape as well. 'Gauntlet Capital Group' is emblazoned above the door.
The three of you enter the building and are greeted by a man who introduces himself as Marco Villacrés and escorted up to a clean but rather plain conference room. Villacrés is a man of latino ethnicity, of medium height and medium build. His black hair is combed over and slicked with grease. He has a Balbo mustache and goatee, and is dressed in business casual for the occasion. He seems eager to get things moving.
The interior of the office is also clean, the place looks a bit empty but the employees are obviously in a hurry.
"Thank you all for coming today," Marco starts, speaking quickly and with a touch of Spanish accent, "Sorry to be rushing you, but we're in bit of a hurry here. A rival gang, Los Bastardos, hired some Quo to take down our servers here. Its in the interest of myself and one Mr. Dan Price that they be up and running."
He picks up two small briefcases and puts them on the table.
"We need you to take these to a Quo group-"
Villacrés taps at a tablet on the table for a moment. An address appears on the tablet. It is in Salus District, Bay Bend.
"-Here. These are important to our negotiations with Quo to free up our servers without having to negotiate with Los Bastardos. They cannot be opened by you, the Quo group already has a key file to get them open. One of the briefcases in a dummy. Los Bastardos have been watching this building and likely saw you come in. To my understanding one of you owns an air-bike, yes? I want to send the real case on the air bike, where Los Bastardos shouldn't be able to follow you. Also, we can draw them off with the dummy case before the air-bike leaves,"
He turns the image on the tablet so the group can see it better.
"The Los Bastardos might try to stop the dummy case. They won't hurt you, not here and certainly not in Salus, where the police are actually effective. Once you get to the office in Bay Bend, the Los Bastardos should give you absolutely no trouble,"
Villacrés points to Norum.
"Dan said you're the one to be trusted in this. I don't want the exchange to start until whoever has the real case arrives and you're there too. Don't let Quo try to badger you for anything more than we are giving them. This deal is already agreed upon. We are not giving you the power to negotiate with them. If Quo or Los Bastardos give you trouble, then we'll give you a little extra for all of your troubles but don't go looking for it,"
The man clasps his hand on the table.
"Again, don't go looking for trouble. Quo shouldn't give you any, and Los Bastardo's certainly shouldn't do something extreme unless they want Salus' gang task force all over them. If any of you get pulled over by the cops, be polite and keep a cool head,"
He takes a breath.
"Sorry to throw all of that at you so quickly. Any questions?"
