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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6490143" data-attributes="member: 4936">Death Otter lolled back in her chair as the chatter went on, staring at the ceiling as if counting the acoustic tiles. And she was...but MOSTLY she was listening, and processing. Contrary to the stereotype, and her own persona, you didn't get to be a world-class hacker by not knowing how people worked. Most REAL hacks depended on human error to REALLY pull off...either on the part of the programmers and developers, or on the part of the end users.It was still a bit of a handicap for Otter. She had a pretty good academic understanding of people, but they tended to annoy her too much to actually want to spend time with them. Maybe she'd just been hanging around the wrong crowd.Regardless, she had to snicker to herself. 'Flexible' and 'mobile.' 'Discretion' and 'timeliness.' You didn't need a degree in psychology to hear the subtext. She was looking for a team that could go places they weren't strictly speaking supposed to go, and do things that were not, strictly speaking, legal. Expendable, yes...but what that meant was 'deniable.' They were a gang of convicts. If it went south, they'd just say that they were acting on their own...and back to jail. Timeliness was interesting. They were in a rush. Something was going down -now-. Hence the van and the safehouse. Did they have the ignition in the van running? Death Otter thought they might. Also, hence the hardball. In poker, you played the hardest on the weakest hand, because nine-tenths the game was psychological. What was it about these dolls that had them all riled up, she wondered. Also...'nefarious.' Who said 'nefarious' anymore? There was no way Otter was walking away from this, but it'd be fun to see her squirm."Lawyer's right. Papers on the table or no deal. Not signing away a year to be expendable unless I know what the black and white is." She looked down from the ceiling at their prospective patron and grinned. "Still faster to let us read through it than it would be to pick your B team out though. I'm a fast reader. Keep the van's engine running."</blockquote>

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