( OPEN ) FIGHTING CRIME BY MOONLIGHT

[transmit]

WHO: Every Outsider interested!
WHAT: Catch-all log for cleaning up (or making more of a mess of) Neo Tokyo's crime scene! Refer to the OOC post here for details. Neo Tokyo's current social and political climate can be found under the World / Setting section here.
WHERE: Neo Tokyo, Japan.
WHEN: Nov 2024 & onward.
WARNINGS: Violence, drug use, threats and coercion … whatever else that happens where crime and criminal activity are involved. Please mark for other CWs if necessary!


From the month of November and onward, Outsiders can find recruitment posters around the base for a specialised subsection of an anonymous Neo Tokyo security agency! Feel free to assume that's where most of the directives come from.

Current quests relating to this player plot can be found under < STREET FIGHTER > and < RISE AND THRIVE > on the QUEST BOARD.

People are free to use this log or their own for open and closed starters. However, if you'd like to contribute to the quest chain or setting changes, please remember to eventually submit your links and a summary under the associated quests! Otherwise, go wild!

Comments

[zauneyete]

[ Silco already knew where they are as soon as he stepped in. There was a politician, and a few of their attendants hovering nearby, clearly ready to jump in at a moment's notice whenever the politician seemed to need something from them. Like now, it seemed that he was indicating the bar, and shaking his glass.

Hm. That is what he would call an opportunity, as the Intern started to make their way over, not hurrying, but certainly weaving through the bar quickly. ]

Oh, why don't you give me your best?

[ His eyes moved in the direction of the intern as he spoke, and then back to Yato. ]

[intertwinedfates]

[It's good that they already had a bead on their targets before things got overly crowded and rowdy. Yato doesn't have all the details Silco has, but he's a fast enough learner so that when the man eyes the intern, he offers a slight nod of his head and starts preparing a new glass for him.]

Right-o, my good man~ One of our finest wines coming up!

[Putting action to word, he snatches up one of the more expensive bottles of booze, popping the cork with practiced ease as the intern sidles up to the bar to place his order for his boss. A bourbon on the rocks.

Sliding silco's drink over to him, Yato then starts on the intern's request while the man waits, chatting him up a bit with idle banter.]

[zauneyete]

[ Silco doesn't move, not yet, although he does lean over, and offer his own chatter with the intern, popping in with bits of commentary, as if he's just a... "friendly" man at the bar, enjoying his wine. Although he only sniffs it, and doesn't opt to drink it. Maybe he's just going to be the type to nurse it over the evening. ]

From what I have heard, these excursions out of the city have been rather dangerous, although perhaps not as much as in recent years. I hope yours ended with little fuss?

[ His smile is faint, and fighting to stay alive, while the intern drones on and on about how nice the boss has been to the whole crew, paying for their trip, etc etc.

He's fighting for his life through the banality, but at least he's a distraction while Yato prepares the drink. ]

[intertwinedfates]

[Thankfully for Silco, Yato doesn't dwaddle when it comes to preparing the intern's drink either. His own smile is a touch forced as well, clearly put upon for the benefit of the man gabbing away at the pair of them. The woes of being a host, eh?

Sliding the chatty man his drink, he nods away in apparent agreement with what's being said. Sometimes you just have to play along for a while, until they run out of steam.]

There you are, sir - cocktail of your choosing, ready and waiting.

[Thankfully that seems to distract the fellow enough that he switches gears, murmuring instead to himself rather than either one of them, and thus freeing up Yato to tend to other matters of importance.

He eyes Silco and offers a light shrug and an eyeroll; part of him wishes they could slip the guy a little something to make him drowsy, but that would probably be a bit to conspicuous.]

[zauneyete]

[ Probably too conspicuous, but that's fine. Silco can work with this. The man is murmuring to himself instead of Silco, but he forced a half-congenial smile on his face — it's painfully fake, but he covers it with a sip of his drink, before he leaned in close, trying to catch his attention. ]

You know, I heard there was a group that caught out without a proper escort. Can you believe it?

[ His mouth in an o, he tipped his glance toward Yato, and then back to the man, as if the story was salacious enough that they would both be interested. ]

I heard there was nobody left when they were attacked. I suppose there are some businesses that run their margins so thin they cut corners where they can. Can you believe it?

[ He's mostly making it up, but there's enough truth to the story that the man's going to catch at least one deadly attack on a quick search. One he'd orchestrated earlier, in fact. ]

[intertwinedfates]

[As long as Silco can manage, then all is well in Yato's book. Between the two of them, they're managing just fine - even if half of them are a bit conspicuous and the other half fake; between the two of them they seem genuine enough, especially to someone getting plastered.]

Oh~? Really? That's a tragedy waiting to happen...!

[Leaning in, he tilts his head to one side curiously while the man hunches over too to hear the news.]

Unbelievable, I tell you...! The things people will do to try saving a few bucks when lives are on the line. Mmm mmm mmm!

[He shakes his head disapprovingly at the shame of it all, wondering if there's any truth to the tale; he wouldn't put it past Silco to make sure there was, just from the man's attitude over the network.]

[zauneyete]

[ Oh, you know he would

He tutted, and shook his head. ]

Quite so. Why, when I ran an organization, I made sure each and every person had the best care they could get where I'm from. Protection, too. At no lack of personal cost to the operation as a whole.

[ He sipped at his wine, leaning toward the guy. ]

Can you imagine? How has yours fared?

[ He started hemming, and hawing over his drink, before he mumbled into it that they ordered a security company, and that there would just be men with guns. ]

My! I heard there were some going out with far better. I do hope what they hired will be enough.

[intertwinedfates]

[How much of that is truth? He can't help but wonder. He could easily see Silco sitting in the head honcho chair of some devious organization, but that's just courtesy of the man's intimidating presence and overall... darker look. Which might be a terrible thing to do, judging someone like that, but hey.]

Yeah, good bosses gotta take care of their workers, otherwise you've got no business to speak of!

[He nods enthusiastically, glancing between the two men.]

Just that, huh? Doesn't sound like too good a security detail. I'd double check your insurance policy, my friend.

[He nods again confidently, like he's got any clue what the hell he's talking about when in fact he's totally bullshitting his way through the conversation.]

[zauneyete]

Insurance, certainly, but you probably need protection yourself as well. You know how these things get in the moment.

[ Mouth in an 'o', he's tipping his head to look at Yato, and then back to the guy. ] Really, the question I would be asking is why is it so important to go out there, hm?

[ Now his eyes are focused on the man. It's intense, of course, because the man does nothing but intense. ] Putting your lives in danger, and for what? His own prominence? Or is there another reason?

[ He starts hemming and hawing again, tripping over his words. Something about a 'good deal'. Silco's gaze remains intense, but unchanging. He's not driving in yet at that. ]