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:Get the brain into the can, and we can probably all get on that elevator and get out of here. No need to complicate with the drones.:

She'll do her best to make sure it happens, anyway. Echo has the zealot distracted at the very least, and she and Dylan can add to it with little effort.

Smiling as she listened and then nodded.

"Okay deal"

with that she let the bartender know to put your drinks on her tab

sipping on her drink she relaxed in her seat and turned and looked around.

"This place does know how to throw a party"

she chuckled as she saw all kinds of things going on tonight

enjoying the evening

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Her specialty is really kind of a floater position, so babysitting duty? Keeping you upright while you and Perry both do your specialties? Totally within the scope of duties.

She also hasn't fired on the zealot lady yet. Partly to not draw attention, and partly because she feels that same hesitation.

"Would it do any good to ask Echo to stand down?"

...she puffed out a pouty lip...

But you give good drink.

...she winks at you...then looking at what you have and they eyes to ryan as he takes her drink order....

So what did you give up the service professions?

..turning to Victoria Laurent...

Hey! sometimes we have to hermit for a while. I know I've certainly been guilty of that. When you feel like you have to be on in a crowd. It's usually best just to give yourself those breaks.

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It's a hard backward lean that has him avoiding the first throw of the blade. He doesn't recognize it as a test, just an attempt to kill him.

What end? What was he doing this for? To clear his bounties. His beloved was mortally wounded in Richter's pursuit of them. Echo wanted his normal life back. That was his pursuit.

He watches as his bullets...do nothing. Worse than nothing. They're just absorbed.

"Jesus Christo..."

That...shouldn't happen. At a bare minimum, they should bounce off of your armor. You're bending some serious physics in front of his optics right now and it's making him worried.

IRIDIA was right...

His love is in the dead world. A dying world. A world of dust and bone. It was all he knew. It was all he would defend at any cost.

He comes all the way around, 360 degrees before he takes another run at you...guns held up and...

The Flamberge starts its return...

 

1-2: Echo completely avoids the boomeranging blade.
3-4: Echo gets clipped by it and has to regroup. Lose a turn.
5-6: The blade...does some damage. Bad damage.

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Your request has him thinking, and then a quick shrug. He starts to craft a tactical map, but breaks off and replies in text as someone is not deterred by the blinding but IS deterred by the harsh bark of his own Nue .45 pistol. A warning shot, but it gets the point across that someone is serious about holding this position.

.: Ashigaru Flight available, but the crazy lady is between you and the hole they'd be coming in by. Ground drone available, but sending it up will severely weaken my ability to hold against a concerted push. Do you need ground drone support or is she distracted enough to try and send drones through? :.

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She's staying between you and the group in the corner, never taking her eyes off of you.

If the situation were less dire, she might be developing a huge girl crush.

She has answers she wants to spit back at you, but right now her job is to protect those behind her and not draw any extra attention to them and what they're doing.

So she just gives Dylan a tight-lipped smile when he takes up a defensive position near her and keeps silent, for now.

Smiling she nodded

"I get it, and you're usually right. I don't supposed you'd let me buy your drinks tonight would you?"

wanting to always do nice things for you but knowing how you are about such things but she thought she would ask.

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IRIDIA, still with her injured leg, was doing her absolute best not to weigh you down — she wasn't precisely sure what your specialty was but she was fairly certain it wasn't babysitting duty.

"I'll be okay, I-I think, as long as I'm not trying to pierce her firewall. There's some kind of…" She shook her head, juggling with her autodoc and biomon to both manage the pain of her wound and make sure she wasn't re-tearing the temporary fix that Eir Ascle patched her with.

Well, she wasn't sure if they were gonna shoot the golden woman but Echo Fenix made that decision and IRIDIA pulled her own weapon, pulling the charging handle and lifting the muzzle toward the melee, but…

…she wasn't sure. Something felt wrong about it, and she hesitated rather than pulled the trigger.

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With Echo Fenix circling around behind you, his options are limited. He came here to fight borgs. Even his Glock has AP rounds. Rounds that could easily wind up turning valuable parts of Haven's favorite Aldecaldo from Mexico into Swiss Cheese. And if he misses you altogether, it's also bad for Echo. The kid has heart, but right now, it's cut into Dylan's options.

So he's taking a more defensive posture near Victoria Forsythe.

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((Gah, first bit to you))

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Yeah, there can't be any justice beyond death. And death isn't justice. Though he isn't sure he believes the info they're getting is justice either.

Depends on who is buying it, doesn't it?

NPC Overseer -

Well, he wasn't wrong when he told IRIDIA he wasn't going to be all here once he plugged in - this is a mess.

Eyes go somewhere in the middle-distance as his ocular implants go to work, sifting through data, tune through the static.

Eir Ascle -

::I've got access.::

And he's showing you what he's seeing through the shared data-space - system readings, what's offline, as he works on rapidly identifying priorities.

First things first, ::Redirecting blood to his brain. Everything is accessible, but the physical damage to his systems is extensive. It's like operating in a snowstorm in here.:: Or what he imagines a snowstorm is like.

okkksss you stay cool..enjoy cheerios....nighit night..sleep well

"I'm more than just a pretty face."
Scarred as it may be, she gave a light chuckle.

"I've got brains too. I know how protective your boys are. It's what they're paid for. Gotta keep that fiery red headed princess in line."

She winked at you and thanked Ryan for the beer. Lifting the glass for a sip.

*sipping the drink, and then moving onto the coffee. *

Well couch thinks it cherious time stay cool huh night byy🙋🙋😀

just say tornaado warning somewhere up there..