July 1.0, 2080
[X] [Lycoris] Kagoshima Fragrance
[X] [Revolver] Take it for yourself.
[X] [Revolver] Take it for yourself.
"You stole away a lass in the dead of night?! Have you no shame?!"
You nearly dropped the screwdriver you were using to help pry out the bullets from your shot artificial arm and cursed. "It's not like that!" You snapped at Mitsu and waved the tool about. "I just decided that she probably would appreciate waking up in a nice bed instead a pool of her own blood in the middle of a park."
Your partner apparently didn't hear you and clutched at her chest. "Alas, a dark secret exposed, a hidden vice unearthed!" She sorrowfully cried, making you raise an eyebrow. A quick glance at her face confirmed your suspicions. "To imagine that I share an abode with one with such ghastly tastes-"
"Seriously, cut it out," You insisted with a deadpan tone, not liking the way she pretended to pout. But both your and her eyes flicked to the stairs at the sound of somebody approaching. A blink, and a private message was flashed over the Lycoris network. If not for me, for her. You know the drill.
Naturally. She texted back before leaning back in her chair in a seemingly natural motion. This meant that when Erika caught sight of the two women at the table waiting for her, there wasn't any suspicion when she cleared her throat and approached. "Taking a respite?" Mitsu asked, a note of subtly false curiosity helping to color her voice.
"Sort of, but not really. Just a moment to freshen up." She hesitated for a moment, then looked to you idly cutting together some wires in your arm. "You sure you don't need a RipperDoc, Boss? I can always call up mine, and you know they do good work."
"It's not so major a case for now," You flatly told and made a show of how all your fingers could still flex individually. "I'll stop by one of those walk-in clinics to get a few more whacks in, but it was just some small caliber rounds. Hardly anything that I need to get a professional to have a look at."
The Vendetta shrugged. "Whatever you say, Boss." She then glanced in the direction of the closed room where the slumbering Lycoris First was. Your eyes didn't quite narrow, but Mitsu's hand drifted ever so slightly away from its resting position and towards the hilt of her blade. After a moment, Erika looked between the two Lycoris and visibly shrugged. "Everybody's got their closets, and I'm not prying into yours. Not unless you pay me to, then it's strictly a business then."
"Good." Your voice came out as a definite statement, one that brokered no further continuation of this subject. To her credit, your employee seemingly agreed and looked ready to move onto the next topic at hand. "Now then, I've heard Mitsu's side, but what's your take on our potential media contact?"
Erika nodded and began to talk about said media contact, a somewhat rising star director by the name of Otake Rie. She had recently cracked it big in directing some recent direct to home hits, and so was posed to finally break it big in the entertainment industry with her first box office film soon. But with such success comes some danger, and apparently something that had occurred that pushed the worried director into looking at additional security options for her team during their stay in Kagoshima. That had been all that was shared then- anything further, she had to take it to the Fixer offering their services.
You took that in stride and gave a pleased nod. "Sounds like something we could do if for the right price and favor. Maybe she'll hook you up with a nice mafioso role?" You lightly joked and Erika giggled.
"Only if I can also somehow advertise for the cafe at the same time!" There was a call from below and Erika's eyes widened. "Oh, I should get back to work. Mitsu, you too, the customers that like your style are downstairs!"
"Oho, I shall be present shortly!" Erika left first and then your partner rose out of her chair with a grin. "Duty calls!"
"This time, please don't hyperfocus on the potential Edgerunner as your only conversation partner for the night," You dryly mentioned, that having rather exasperatedly being the only thing Mitsu remembered in detail about the entire outing. Apparently, her obsession with period dramas rather limited her grasp of cultural media. The former Lycoris Third blushed, then vanished in a blur with her cyberware, likely heading downstairs to get back to work. You were tempted to don your uniform and join her, but there was a more pressing matter to address first.
Once you were sure that nobody was going to come upstairs, you put away all the power tools for fixing up your arm and walked to the closed room. The door gently slid open and you gingerly stepped inside to find there still was no change. The Lycoris First was still passed out on the bed, bandages thoroughly wrapped down her injured leg. She still hadn't woken up despite the successful treatment, but there was seemingly a good reason.
She was exhausted. There were heavy bags under her eyelids and her cyberware biomon had been reporting an insane uptime of three days without adequate rest. A quick check of her bag revealed that she was shockingly almost out of bullets, and it made you wonder if the assault on her had merely been the latest in many. You could only imagine how many bodies she had already left in her wake in the city.
But now, she had to rest and catch up on all her lost rest. You didn't have a good estimate of when she'd finally wake, though it was likely to be sometime this week. You hummed and wondered if perhaps you should spend your time at her bedside, watching one of Director Otake's movies while waiting for her to break from slumber. Then again, it felt like a waste to stay indoors on the first days of summer.
Utilities: 150 eb
Food: 1000 eb
Transportation: 100 eb
Rent: 800 eb
License: 500 eb
Payroll: 650 eb
Total Costs: 3200 eb
-3200 eb (14500 -3200 = 11,300 eb)
(2/6) Poker Life (Rank 3 Body Language)
(0/4) Hard Knock Life (Yours!) (Rank 2 Streetwise)
(0/2) Second Mayan Sun (Rank 1 Leadership)
(0/2) Congressional Session Transcript (2007) (Rank 1 Interrogate)
Choose up to four (4) actions you'll carry out through the week
Kagoshima Fragrance (Kaori)
-[ ] [Kagoshima Fragrance] Repair the Van: You've managed to pull apart a good amount of the damage and salvage what you can from the frame. Now it's just a question of if you're willing to pay out the money needed for the replacement parts that you need to finally get the thing at least mobile. (Estimated Cost: 3,500eb)
-[ ] [Kagoshima Fragrance] Manage the Cafe: Devote some time into properly working with your employees to make some extra money after breaking even, which adds to your bank account.
-[ ] [Kagoshima Fragrance] Firing Range: You've got private gun range in the soundproof basement of your shophouse. Put some time there and try to hone your skill with firearms.
--[ ] Pistols
--[ ] Assault
Kagoshima Fixer
-[ ] [Kagoshima Fixer] Gather Information: Go out and listen to the streets, see if there's any big event about in the city that you could muscle in and make an independent gig out of.
-[ ] [Kagoshima Fixer] Offer Consultation: Reach out to one of the many factions in Kagoshima and idly offer your neutral services. See if any of them have free gigs that they are willing to hand over to you to manage, with a cut to them but the freedom of execution to you.
--[ ] Write-in a faction.
-[ ] [Kagoshima Fixer] Media Rumors: So it seemed like the media industry had blacklisted your fellow Lycoris. You weren't going to let that stand. Start putting out feelers and try to find a way to break into the industry as need be.
--[ ] Director Otake: Invite the industry's rising star over to Kagoshima Fragrance and have a chat in your basement about what she needs. With any luck, the favor you'll earn will be the way into the media industry you need.
-[ ] [Kagoshima Fixer] Lycoris Sighting: Out of all things, a Lycoris First had been sighted shopping at your business. Thing was, this wasn't Kyoto, so what was she doing here? You're eager to look for your possible sister in arms and connect with her.
--[ ] Bedside Watch. Have somebody keep an eye on the resting girl and alert you the moment she's awake.
--[ ] Lycoris Fixer Anzai Yuuki
--[ ] Lycoris Samurai Ryouji Mitsu
--[ ] Vendetta Runner Futai Erika
--[ ] Lycoris Samurai Ryouji Mitsu
--[ ] Vendetta Runner Futai Erika
Flower Cultivation
-[ ] [Flower Cultivation] Ocha Plantation: A tea plantation that supplies your cafe with seasonal flowers in bulk, one of your shop's main products. Take a visit to see if you can buy some new flower seeds from them.
-[ ] [Flower Cultivation] Sow Seeds: You've got your hands on some seeds that you want to begin growing! Take some time to till the soil, plant the gardens, and watch new life being to sprout.
--[ ] Nightshade
--[ ] Japanese Rambling Rose
[ ] [Flower Cultivation] Tend to Gardens: Devote a part of your week entirely to making sure you tend to the gardens as diligently as possible, plucking out weeds and making sure each sprout gets just the right amount of water and conditions to grow splendidly.
Red Spider Lily: 1/4 (Tending Bonus: +10)
Blend Cultivation
-[ ] [Blend Cultivation] Buy Stock: You need to purchase new coffee varieties from International Standard to keep a unique taste going for your flower cafe. Go visit your corporate contact and buy some. (Current Stock: 1)
-[ ] [Blend Cultivation] Mix Blend: You'll need to spend some time experimenting, testing, and tasting to make a new coffee blend that will drive up customer interest for a while. The novelty will fade soon after a while, so make it count.
None
-[ ] [Blend Cultivation] Call Fuji: Your corporate contact at International Standard apparently sees something of definite value in you, and has given you a personal number off the books. Dial him up to make the dive into the cutthroat world of big business.
Shinohara Securities
-[ ] [Shinohara Securities] Visit the Office: You've made a contact in the form of Security Chief Azumi, the leader of an elite corporate police task force. Pay her a visit to chat and see what opportunities she can offer you.
-[ ] [Shinohara Securities] Part-Time Patrol: As Shinohara Securities was perpetually shorthanded, they didn't have enough security patrols going around to keep the neighborhood safe. They've offered to pay you a fair sum to do so in their place. It'd be like a Lycoris patrol, but this time, you get paid!
Secondborn Ronin
-[ ] [Secondborn Ronin] Visit the Pauper: The Pauper is the Fixer of the Secondborn Ronin and is a bridge between the corporate world and streets. Go to the public library to chat with them about what opportunities they can offer you.
The Vendetta
-[ ] [The Vendetta] Schedule a Ripper: La Peste is a mysterious but talented RipperDoc who has offered their expertise if you wish to see them for a health checkup or discrete cyberware surgery. See if they have an opening in their schedule to meet them.
Lycoris Graduate
-[ ] [Lycoris Graduate] Call a Lycoris: There's times where you miss the organization, as unbelievable as that might sound given their grim task. You certainly don't hold it against any of the other Lycoris and want to have a chat with them to see how they're doing.
--[ ] The Commander
--[ ] Misaki Arisu
--[ ] Nakaiji Momiji
Living Life
-[ ] [Living Life] Browse the Library: The public library in your neighborhood has a wide selection of information datashards covering a variety of topics. You can read them to your heart's content in the facility, or you could pay a fee to make a copy and take it home to study.
-[ ] [Living Life] Find a Black Market: As so many things are restricted from sale or possession in Japan, you can only find these prohibited items at a black market somewhere. They're surprisingly common enough if you know where to look, though having some caution about the quality of their myriad of wares is a smart idea.
-[ ] [Living Life] Go Clubbing: Risk the nightlife of the city and visit one of the many neon hangouts around the city to experience something new, maybe even meet some new folks or have magical encounters.
-[ ] [Living Life] The Way: Mitsu's offered to take some time out of her week to help train you in the sword and by extension, other melee weapons. You even had a great dojo to practice in, so it was time to spar to your heart's content.
Miscellaneous
-[ ] [Miscellaneous] Scrap the Van: It's not worth your time or effort to patch it up. Rip it apart and find a seller for the parts.
Available Bouquets
--[ ] Red Spider Lily: The Lycoris flower, the undeniable flower closest to symbolizing who you are before, now, and forever more. Its presence is enough to invigorate you like never before, and you find yourself giving it your very best. Action Effect: Yuuki gains one (1) rerolls for this action. This is doubled if Excellent quality.
---[ ] Normal: 0 (Value: 1,000eb)
---[ ] Good: 0 (Value: 1,500eb)
---[ ] Excellent: 0 (Value: 2,000eb)
---[ ] Normal: 0 (Value: 1,000eb)
---[ ] Good: 0 (Value: 1,500eb)
---[ ] Excellent: 0 (Value: 2,000eb)
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- You've survived your first three months since graduation! That's honestly a nice little landmark there, your first summer in Kagoshima.- If you ask Erika to be the bedside watch, then you'll have to eventually fill her in on Lycoris. It could be handy for bringing her into more Lycoris-related stuff, but at the same time, could you trust the Vendetta then?
Six hour moratorium to come up with weekly plan