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Message: <blockquote data-quote="johndaw16" data-source="post: 3388637" data-attributes="member: 12033">RikoWhile Grandbanks is grabbing some stuff for the trip we talk about how to get up into the Corr. Daniel is pretty keen on his bike, and I certainly don't blame him, but there's no way all three of us are going to fit on there. I turn to Daniel and ask Maybe you could take your bike up there and meet us? Grandbanks and I could hitch a few rides up there or take a boat. I've always hitchhiked myself, but that tends to be easier when you're a girl by yourself. Just have to make sure you're not getting a ride from a total freak. How are we going to split up this cash anyway? Do we even want to bring the flake with us? Would you rather I use the guns in the case than yours Daniel?---GrandbanksI don't care either way 'bout the flake, really, but if you don't need it in the Corr, might as well leave it at your place. Dicey enough skippin borders without that much illegal sh-t. I'm goin from one little room to another, throwin stuff in an old canvas backpack. The cash, now... if you're still wantin mostly the flake instead, Riko, how bout you take enough for your gizmos and me an Daniel split the rest in half?After splittin sh-t, Hey guys, how bout you go on out? I'll be right there. Gotta take carea somethin real quick. For John:Spoiler: [sblock]I go back up on the roof with a couplea packs of bills and duct tape and a plastic grocery bag. Shrink wrappin looks pretty waterproof, but can't be too careful. I lay the stacks next to each other in the bag, wrap duct tape around the square, and tape it to the bottom inside of the tanks, under the layer of muck the filters don't get. Gotta have somethin left of this if we get held up in the Corr, an anybody gonna think to look under catfish sh-t for cash is gonna find it anywhere. OOC: If you don't want to allow this, just let me know and I'll change/delete it. I won't hid the money there if it would be visible to the casual eye peering into the tanks.[/sblock]---DanielYeah, sure thing Grandbanks. As Riko and I head outside, I reply to her comment about my bike. Sure, it seems like a pain in the ass to hitch rides to the Corr when I'm used to taking my bike places, but honestly, it don't make sense to put that kind of miles on it on a trip like this if I'm honest with myself. I can't afford to have the damn thing crap out on me when I need it for a run. Plus... I don't want to get too far from that briefcase, even with all that money now in my own bag. Damn. Seems to me like our best bet is to head to the docks and get a ride on a boat. Fewer people to have to bargain with for a ride. Fewer people got to get near that money.---RikoI nudge Daniel jokingly as we walk out, You're not getting nervous or something are you? I usually stick to the roads, but it'll be easier to get one of the boat guys to do it. Just wave a few bills at them. ---GrandbanksMakes sense to me.---DanielWell, let's head down to the docks then, if you're ready Grandbanks.---The Stilts is home to an amazing number of small craft that ply the waters of the Bay*. Most of the craft are either fishing trawlers or more commonly scavengers and tug boats. The docks are quiet by now, the early morning fishers have all unloaded their catches and the scavengers won't cast off until dusk at the earliest. You three spend a short while scanning the boats and captains that line the dock and settle on what looks to be a lean sleek scavenger. After a few inquiries the captain, a dark skinned African with a thick European accent by the name of Amadeus, agrees to cast off early to give your party passage up the Bay. For the a hundred he's promised to take you all and hold his tongue. For Grandbanks...Spoiler: [sblock]As you guys are haggling with Amadeus over the price of passage you notice a vaguely familiar face watching you from a distance. It's a woman you remember from earlier in the day at Eddie's, she came in for an early lunch shortly after Daniel and Riko had left. She's about 20 yards down the dock, shes leaning on a light post smoking a cigarette taking casual glances your way. You turn back to the haggling quickly hoping she believes she's still unnoticed.[/sblock]With a bargain struck Amadeus spreads his arms and welcomes you aboard. He points to a stick thin boy sitting in the bow, legs dangling over the water. That be Tull, he's me help. He's mute so don't pay him no mind.---RikoI decide to let the two boys work out most of the details with this Captain. It's not like they could mess it up considering how much money we have to bribe him with, and Daniel is used to this sort of haggling anyway from the sounds of it. Once we're welcomed onboard I take a seat near the back. You would think that living in the Stilts would get you tired of the water pretty quick, but that never happened to me, and I end up staring out at the water with my backpack on my lap while the boat prepares to set off.---GrandbanksOnce we figure who we oughtta get to take us, I palm an ugly-ass crumpled hundred to Daniel, sayin, One a them new ones would look outta place, quiet like, out the side of my mouth.I'm lettin Daniel do his stuff with Amadeus, but then I interrupt, Scuse me, Captian, I need just a sec with my friend here.Pull him over by Riko, There's this woman down the dock was in Eddie's this mornin. Don't remember her bein there when we was talkin about anything, but maybe I should go talk to her, you know? All casual like I'm hittin on her snoopin ass, an see if I can figure out what she's up to or let her know we're just goin shoppin in the Corr since Riko here's finally saved up enough for a new toy, right Riko? Nothin suspicious in that.---RikoI raise my eyebrow curiously and glance down the docks towards this woman. I don't really recognize seeing her offhand. Are you sure we want to bring any attention to ourselves? It's probably just a coincidence that she's here now. I slide through a few possibilities in my head. We left the actual briefcase back at Grandbank's, and it seems unlikely that the actual money had some sort of homing gizmo. Considering we just decided on the fly to take a boat she would have to had followed us the whole way here. Possible I suppose. I'd rather just get moving. I mean if she's spying on us she already knows we're taking this boat and there's not much we can do about it. Unless you want to go "pop a cap in her ass" or something, I say with a grin winking at Daniel.---GrandbanksNaw. She keeps lookin at us an tryin not to get caught doin it.</blockquote>

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