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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kwargrow" data-source="post: 7822936" data-attributes="member: 6855382">Weekly post: +2xpHunting Pretty BilakThe Runners find the Big Bowla bowling alley in the ground floor of a skyscraper and decide to recon the place before Pretty Bilak arrives.  Investigating the place in VR, Hawkeye finds that the only cameras are outside, and Syd Vicious decides to stay on the street and keep watch.  Hawkeye’s fears that two giants together would arouse suspicion is thankfully unnecessary as the clientele of this place is mostly giants and orcs playing together in leagues.  The place is well-lit and maintained, and everyone seems to have a genuine good time bowling.  Trollick and Hawkeye sit at the bar and have a couple of drinks while they wait for their quarry.Tipped off by Syd before he arrives, Trollick and Hawkeye see Pretty Bilak enter and go to the league counter.  Keeping a watch on him, they see him speak hastily with frustration at the clerk who shrugs and waves him off with contempt.Despondent, Pretty Bilak goes over to the bar, sits only two seats away from the Runners without noticing them, and orders a beer before putting his chin in his palm and elbow on the bar.Trollick and Hawkeye share a glance, then decide to strike up a conversation with Bilak.  He seems suspicious and frightened at first, but he is quickly convinced by the Runners that this is a coincidental meeting, and that they were just looking for a place to have an evening out.“My team didn’t show up so I can’t play league tonight.  Want to throw a three-way game?” Bilak offers and the Runners accept.For the next couple of hours, the Runners share a few pitchers of beer with Bilak over a few games.  Bilak is a fair bowler, but the Runners are able to make it competitive while still letting him win to get his spirits up.  Subtly the Runners turn the conversation to gang life and the beer buzzed Pretty Bilak opens up about his dissatisfaction with the Hudu Krew.“It used to be about a bunch of tough-as-steel gangers out having some nasty fun on the Helton streets.  Now it’s more like a business, and management gets more ruthless with every job.  Our new leader, Gibraltar, joined with the Krew after her old gang, the Slik-Niks, were wiped out by HPD.  She’s ultra-nasty.  Our old leader, Nice Guy Larry, tried to keep her in line, but he disappeared.  We all know she killed him, but no one knows how or where.”He gives the Runners a hard look and suddenly Pretty Bilak doesn’t seem so silly anymore. “That’s why you’re here, isn’t it?  You want to know about Gibraltar.  Well you can have at her.  Nice Guy Larry wasn’t nice at all, but at least he never made us get desk jobs at city hall.  Gibraltar almost never leaves the Axelrad Lounge, and when she does leave she doesn’t tell anyone where she’s going or what she does.  If you want to go after here there, don’t go in the front door.  She’s got pop out turrets in the ceiling, and electric tasers in the floor.  The backdoor is a no go too, locked up tight with a dead bolt that doesn’t connect to VR.  Your best bet will be to sneak in through the skyscraper.  I know she has a secret access to her apartment on the second floor over the lounge.  Sometimes she orders gang members to go up there with her for some really rough sex.  If you can get into her apartment you can ambush her there.”If there are any other questions for Pretty Bilak, ask them.State Intentions</blockquote>

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