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"Don't worry about the money," said the figure in the cloak with a raspy female voice. "I can get it to you. Can you pull it off?"

"Yeah, sure we can," said Harold, speaking for the three of them. He was a big guy, sure enough, but his eyes gave it away. And his two compatriots were fidgeting uncomfortably in their chairs, careful not to establish eye contact for too long with most of the other patrons.

Elaine tapped her metal-clawed fingers on the table. These idiots will have to do. Willingness before talent. If they're lucky they'll live, if not, it's not my problem. I can always find more. Worse comes to worse, I can try again in another town.

"Good enough, then. I can get you started, and I have some ties with a 'legitimate' gang back in SS so I can try to smuggle you some in some actual equipment... if you do well."

"And our friends, you said you could get our friends work, too, right?"

"Sure," she said. "Sure I can. There's new openings all the time in this line of work." She looked up from under the hood of her cloak and they caught a smile of mostly metal teeth on her leathery battle-scarred face.

She stood. "I'll be back in a week to check in on you. If you're still breathing we can talk more of this." And with that she drew her cloak tight and pulled down her goggles, and she was off into the wilds from whence she came.

Once she was gone the three relaxed noticeably. After a pause and an audible sigh of relief, Harold said "We're in."

"Well let's get the hell out of here, then," said Christopher. "That chick gives me the creeps, even worse than the rest of the vets here. Who the hell was that, anyway?"

"That was Elaine '****king' Chester, man, in the flesh. She's been around. Started legit, then took a walk on the wild side. Xena's, Rising, hell even I heard she even was with the Manhunters for a bit..." said Daniel Haas. "She'll rip off your ear and eat it in front of you if you cross her, I hear."

"No I think she saves them, actually," said Harold.

"Depends who you are I guess," said Haas. "Any rate, we don't want to let this chick down, get it guys?"

"Yeah, 'Don't piss off the chick who strangles kittens for fun.' Got it, said Chris, giving an awkward thumbs-up.

"Well...", said Haas, "I guess you get what you wish for. This is the real thing. No more practice and tough talk. Now we get the chance to prove ourselves. We've talked the talk, now we get to walk the walk."

Chris gulped visibly and quickly finished off his drink. "Well, sure. Ok, now let's 'walk the walk' on outta here before we get rolled, eh?"

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Posted Aug 1, 2009, 9:27 am

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Later that day...

"I'm dry!" yelled Chris over the roar of the engine.

"Already???" called back Haas from the Apache's driver's seat. "We've hardly even killed one!"

"I'm dry, too," said Harold. "We softened up the first two but that Hearse is almost over the rise."

"Oh, God, I hope it's not the one with the ATG," said Chris, his heart about to beat out of his chest. There wasn't much armor left to speak of either. "Can't you make this thing go any faster???"

"Not without shredding the tires, and this is the only decent set I could find!"

"Sh*t, where's the ammo?"

"I thought you loaded it!"

"I thought --- HAROLD! It's time to use up those tires!!!"

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"Well, what have we got to work with?"

"Rear guns are dry, front about half. We'd be lucky to kill a Symph. No rear armor." Harold closed the hood. "Engine is still good at least."

"You know we're going to get jumped on the way back. I saw some dreggs in the ruins watch us on the way out."

"Well once we hit that last stretch town isn't far."

"You don't get it, do you guys? You think the gate watch is gonna give a flying frag grenade if we get shot up? Hell, the dreggs outside practically are the town watch. No one's going to help us."

"Hey man, don't you know a guy who said he can scout?"

"Yeah. I'm sure he can scout as well as you shoot. Ok, let's do this."

"Oh, big words for the drivey guy. I'd like to see you do better!"

"Well, really I just hope I get the chance to. Let's roll."

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[ OOC: Newbie crew and new to playing in FL. And, yes, I forgot my reloads. And, yes, the 3 duffuses actually made it back. You won't find Elaine Chester on my roster because she betrayed me and took in with the SS pirates awhile back, "back in the day" when if you lost you might get "eaten by wolves". ]

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Posted Aug 1, 2009, 9:46 am	Last edited Aug 1, 2009, 9:48 am by 4saken