DrMender

At the sight of the Guard entering the previously closed and shutdown room, while perusing the opened data files at the station he had been using had caused him to curse out silently under his breathe. He frowned in annoyance at the guards notification on a radio that he planned to check out the room, which caused the Doctor to alter the plan on knocking him out and instead planning to silence him permanently by slashing his vocal cords attempting to silently rise up behind him from behind the table to use his ripper claws on his mechanical hand.

At the sight of the research data for the Araska cloning and human genome program involving engrams or AI programs brought a frown to his face, while he muttered, "fucking corpos playing as gods....." as he turned away from the data station looking for a drive or way to copy the data. Hearing Camila's suggestion about sneaking up on a couple of scientists and trying on a disguise to get past them, he chuckled quietly and whispered, "Not a bad plan though but they always seem to travel in groups of three or more...." In an attempt to prevent Camila from having a meltdown and slipping back into the dream world, he would silently curse at the jingling of keys followed by the heavy thud of boots from a guard approaching the door. He frowned pushing Camila out of sight behind a table and attempted to hide out of sight from the guard with the intention of stealing of identification card after knocking him out or killing him.

Mercy scowled at the floating child in the tube and the identical freshly autopsied child on the table. He listened at the door for coast to be clear to continue on to find the flower and get out of the medical labs. He periodically glanced around the empty lab and at the workstation debating about looking for any notes.

At Camilla’s response to the psychosis treatment working for her without any side effects and her seemingly returning back to normal, he sighed at the oversimplified explanation from her but nodded in response. He stated quietly, “Thats about the basics that happened and were at the elevator to the lab with the flower” as he looked around for the hatch or access into the secret lab from the elevator shaft on top of the elevator that they current stood on top of. As he looked around for the hatch, he would wait for the sound of those inside leaving the elevator before attempting to enter the elevator and listening to there conversation for any information that might help.

As the duo had stopped on a ledge and hearing the strain in Camila’s voice, Mercy dug through his med pouch looking for anything that might be helpful. He smiles brightly at a small vial labeled, “Solution P” and glances over at his companion blinking in confusion at the strange detaching noise. Mercy glanced up seeing an elevator rapidly descending in the elevator shaft towards them. He mentally cursed out loud at his luck, “bloody hell!” and quickly grabbed onto Camila’s injecting a dose of the cyber-psychosis treatment into her neck shouting, “Sorry no time to be gentle! Get ready to jump!” Once the elevator had passed by them, he prepared to jump and if needed carry Camila with him onto the top of the elevator to gain access to the secret lab.

He shakes his head at the mention of being primarily saka drones and replies, “honestly don’t know but I do know the corpos use it and I am not sure if it happens naturally from too much chrome or a hacker” as he watches the last drone explode. He gives a small smile and replies in a sad tone, “There are meds to combat the effect but from my experience so far. I don’t know of a cure but I’ve got some contacts that might be able help and I might have something back at the clinic I think…” as he tries to remember if he has anything to help on him or at the clinic.

Mercy curses at the buzzing sound echoing down the shaft from above them as he replies, “I only planned on seeing what they had and burning it or only taking what was needed since its tied to a damn bio-weapon” as he glares up at the saka drones. He scowls taking a quick shot at one of the drones and replies, “Sorry but I’ve seen enough cyber-psychosis victims come in and you displayed all the medical signs for it… plus saka hackers are notorious for using it” before he cackles at the mini-explosion from one of the drones burning up into worthless scrap.

He shook his head at the mention of Kara and states quietly, “Considering we lost one person and should hopefully have this plant… I might agree” as he watches her pull out the grappling hook. He rubs the back of his neck and clicks his teeth soft replying,” yeah based on that statement, I’d say you got hit with a dose of cyber-psychosis from a hacker and depending on how your body handles the three doses at minimum about a half hour to hour.” He grimly nods as he grabs onto Camila watching how she uses the grappling hooking for the descent down the shaft.

Standing before the elevator shaft, connected by the maintenance tunnel, a red light flashed behind them. He cursed quietly to himself hearing Camila’s words asking what happened. He sighed softly and responded, “you took out the saka drone and goons that were after us” as he glances down at her in concern. He motions with his head to the dark elevator shaft, “Not sure how long you can stay with me after the saka techies messed with her chrome but my contact had to dip out but gave us a map to this elevator shaft and the lab we need is at the bottom. They also include a pending route out of here.” He continues by saying, “Fucking BTB is probably gonna screw us over since Arasaka knows about us being in here but that plant can be leverage” as he injects her with one more dose of a pain killer saying, “this is the last of the pain killer I can safely give you with it harming you or having to knock you out….” As he sets her down by the wall to the left of the open elevator shaft.

Hearing the strangled cries and gunfire that traveled from behind him back down the hallway brought a frown to his face as he took one last look down the elevator shaft before racing back over to a lucid Camila. At the growing pool of blood that was growing underneath her, he quickly digs into his med-pack and curses out loudly, “Fuck!” quickly beginning to pack the shoulder wound with gauze to focus on the stomach wound. With practiced ease, he began to suture the wound closed and remove any bullets or fragments. Once finished, he would move onto the other wound quietly muttering out calmly, “Just hold on almost done” as he gave her a mild local pain med to help with any discomfort from his med-kit. After finishing closing up the wounds and applying a local disinfectant, he wrapped the wounds in gauze and bandages. He proceed to gentle pick her up as he carried her over to the elevator shaft muttering quietly, “Got to get down to that lab and then out of here quickly” as he called for the elevator.

Having failed at opening the door marked with contamination and the blazing fire of the drone along with the chrome dome having gotten closure, Mercy gritted his teeth in pain from the drone barreling into his chest. The silent buzzing of his agent going off giving a dull green flash of the message with a map, the good doctor would smile faintly diving past the two seemingly distracted oppositions in his way since he could comeback to save Camilla or recover Kara’s body without help and made a mental note to give Cipher a free tune-up. Silently putting his phone in his pocket, he would take off down the hallway following the pre-mapped instructions to the designated elevator, while quietly making his way to the destination intent on grabbing what he could from the secret lab and fleeing the building.

Mercy frowned at the sound of the Arasaka Drone or the sound of the terminator pirate infected by the cyber psychosis, which told him that his hacker friend might no longer be in the system. He mentally shouted, “Bloody fucking hell!” as he searched through the metal hidden labor corridor with its eerie red-light and watched the shadowy figures inch closer to his location. He gripped the side of his head trying to wrack his brain for a solution before his green eyes sparkled at the sight of a metal door behind him labeled “lab”. He quickly dashed over to the door silently praying for the door to be open as he braced himself to shoulder check the door hoping for a miracle or that his friend might still be in the system to unlock or open the door for him.

Mercy scowled at the sight of his aimed shot at the wriggling mass in the bag was off by a hair having impacted into the wall of the compactor above the decomposing hand that ripped through the bag. At the sudden burst of fire from Camilla's sub machine gun that ripped through the decomposing lump of flesh resembling a human hand with strange flowers budding off the remains. His vibrant green eyes would light up at the sight of the flowers that had been in the file given to them from their fixer client, before he growls out in anger at the flower crumbling away into dust muttering, "Fuck!" At the sudden grinding of the gears from behind the compactor walls and the screeching of the metal walls closing in around them, he would curse out again and shout to Camilla, "We need to get out of here Now!" as he tries climbing one of the garbage ramps to get out of the compactor. Mercy would look on in horror at the dust cloud billowing out from the remains of the spores coming from the decaying mulched remains of the bioweapon that seemed to infect any organic material around it. With the ever-increasing remnants of the infectious spore cloud decomposing everything and the strange remnants of a zombified humanoid crawling mass that would arrive in spitting distance would bring a sudden yelp of surprise after being yanked up into the crawl space above the compactor by Camilla. Hearing the clunking of a metal hatch opening would bring his attention to the sudden appearance of their companion Kara and just as he was going to celebrate with a smile on his face at the escape route, he would growl in frustration as he watched helplessly as their companion was ripped to shreds by a barrage of bullets from the Arasaka drone that was sent to investigate after the close encounter in the air ducts. He would clench his fists tightly causing his leather gloves to creak as the bullet hole riddled body of Kara brought back memories of his first patient that cost him the once loving relationship he had with his sister. Softly growling out to himself, he would mutter, "Fucking Arasaka......" as he added another mental check mark to way he hated the mega-Corp and refused any clients employed by the Corp or job offers to work for the corps. He would sigh noticing that they appeared to have another way out of the compactor into the ducts leading further into the building and calls out to Camilla, "Guess it's just us now...." before asking, "Any wounds from the fall or that thing?"

Mercy softly groaned having crash landed in the heap of facilities medical bio-waste and discard medical equipment, which brought a small sigh of relief finding out that neither himself or Camilla were injured from his incompetency at the possibility of being found out by the Araska Head Guard. Standing up in the dank, dark garbage compactor with the flashing red light warning of the impending cycling of the medical compactor would bring a brief panic to the doctor figuring that his previous experience with medical waste disposal usually involved incineration. He would call out to Camilla exclaiming, "We need to get out of here, this medical disposal machine is going to turn on any second" and as he began to look around for an access hatch or way out, he would stop pointing his shotgun on the wriggling black mass, while terrified at the words that played through his mind from the Araska Agent, "Bio-weapon". He would quickly fire a round at the wriggling black mass with his shotgun as he exclaimed out in anger and horror having immediately recognized the thing from his simple deduction after running through an impromptu medical examination a safe distance away, "What the fuck kind of experiments are they doing with bioweapons!" He calls out to Camilla and Kara incase she could hear him from the safety of the airducts, "Be Careful, Araska has BioTechnica working on Bioweapons for them and there could be more of them!"

At seeing Kara’s reactions to his mouthed words and witnessing her finally notice the conversation, he would glance briefly in wonder about the conversation and grit his teeth at the mention of a bio-weapon. He would snarl softly to himself as he chides himself for having pulled out his phone to check the message from his contact near the conversation allowing him to be possible found out. As he followed Kara down the corridor into the ducts with them taking the first corner, he would see a glowing red light out of the corner of his eye from a slopped duct to his left heading down into the depths of the building underbelly. He would lightly grasp Kara’s leg seeing her glancing out another grate and shake her leg before pointing down the secondary maintenance duct that has the red light coming from it. He would hope mentally that the girls followed him as he attempts to move toward the secondary duct. He would yelp in surprise as the duct slopes down toward the red light. he begins to panic as he seeing the broken duct before him and the gap to the next part of the duct being too far for him to grab onto or jump onto. He would muffle a soft scream as he falls through the gap in the broken metal air duct into the empty darkness below illuminated by the dull red glow.

Mercy followed after Kara fumbling through the metal tunnel of the maintenance duct, while pausing momentarily to check his hand-held agent device causing the dull green screen light to illuminate around him allowing the hacker friend’s message to be seen. At the arrival of the executives conversation coming from the nearest grate openings, Mercy would listen into the muffled conversation for any important details to their mission or the building security before shooting out a message asking for a nearby exit away from the filled meeting room. Spotting Kara’s newly changed illuminated features from her neon hair tech-mod, he would notice her pointing at a new exit to a maintenance room that might lead to the board room. His attention would turn back to the conversation and mimic Camilla’s action of opening the maintenance grate just past the meeting room holding a board meeting, which he would frown at the potential issue of the grate opening being heard could cause holding up his hand for kara to stop mouth out the words, “don’t room filled!”

During the rather silent flight through the city night life, Mercy had reached out to one of his old regular patients called "cipher" via his hand-held agent requesting assistance on hacking into the Biotechnika security system. At the sight of the large Biotechnika neon-building sign, he would send out a final message on the encrypted chat channel provided by Cipher that reads, "Do it now. Landing now. Owe you one!" as he quietly puts his agent back into his pocket after silencing the device. He softly hopped down out of the AV and followed after the two ladies as he states softly, "So the security system should be offline for a couple minutes at least." At the quick work of Kara's security hacking ability, he would hum softly to himself before his thoughts drifted to his older sisters that followed after dad in the CyberTech security field unlike his twin sister that had taken to the criminal life of being a hacker that hated him for some reason. He shakes his head sighing to himself thinking to himself, "Not the time to get lost in thought about my family issues" before he raises an eyebrow at Kara's quick glance back at him from her bent over form in the emergency shaft, while she is inspecting the tunnel. He chuckles softly calling out to her, "If your wanting some fun, you'll have to wait until after the mission to find some fun" as he grins in her direction. He quickly checks his equipment ensuring it was stored securely before crawling into the metal emergency duct, he shives slightly as he recalls an incident during his childhood when living with his uncle in the archeology city and getting trapped in an old underground ruin when he went spelunking for lost tech with old childhood fling - Bianca. He shudders slightly following after Kara muttering softly to himself, "Its a good thing I'm not claustrophobic" trying to reassure himself about the metal death trap.

Mercy would nods his head in understanding about having an understanding on the accepted job and further information about the data pack, which he calmly replied to BTB, "Sounds like the infiltration would be the best option of getting into the R&D department though we might need a hacker or hacker program to get in depending on the security" as he cringes at the mention of the killer AI on the net. He shrugs shoulders responding, "It was a thought since my field of expertise is medical and cyber-enhancements not that fancy-dance techno hacking or net-running" as he chuckles softly after downing the last of his drink, while placing the empty glass on an empty table. At the mention of acquiring their own method of securing the goods and even having the limited information available would cause small frown to cross his face as he thinks out loud, "Well if they are planning to transport the flower than something should be near it or have it already in a transport module?" His attention would be drawn to Kara and Camilla at the sight of them both changing their look via the CyberTech as he replies, "I don't fully expect you to trust me or tell me your life story just anything I need to worry about as a medical professional, since I don't want to accidentally kill you by giving you something that you might react to.... it defeats the purpose of BTB even hiring me." At Kara's question about flying an AV and his ability to stay low-profile would cause a chuckle to escape his lips, "Eh yeah no I can't fly a damn thing and as for staying low-profile..... I ain't as good as you two ladies, but I should be alright." He would continue by saying, "If necessary I can earn my own keep" as he places his light jack helmet over his face and replies to Camilla's comment, "Well then I'll leave combat expertise to you both and let me see if I have any contacts or past clients that might be able to help" as he begins to mull over past clients in his personal database on either acquiring a hacking tool or uniforms to assist with the job from previous favors that he was still owed. As he types away on his data pad contained in his handheld agent, he would follow after Camilla with a chuckle and shakes his head at her comment, while grabs the data pad from BTB with the further details on the mission.

Mercy nodded his head in thanks to BTB about Kara's rude comment should have been avoided and at the mention of the second drink, which he gave a small smile to the barkeep that had slid the drink over to him after his little episode. He wordlessly picked up the newly acquired drink and followed after the trio to the backroom, while making a note of the apologetic smile from Kara deciding to discuss the drug remark at a later date. After descending into the depths of the club through the bleak hallway into the backroom, he would recline in a chair across from BTB and watch the pair of ladies with them before whistling at the advanced CyberTech disabled by the Chameleon and the proposed job. Once Kara had proposed her own input on a plan of questions and the Chameleon's possible attack avenue using a bait n switch tactic involving Millitech, caused a brief flicker of a frown to cross his face at the mention of the dreaded Mega-Corp and a whistle to escape his lips exclaiming, "That is certainly an interesting flower" as he takes a drink from his glass that he brought from the bar. He would continue by asking, "While the thought of setting up on ambush is possible in your scenario, what about the major risk imposed of having team trauma, city police and both organizations being after us from attempting your plan, miss? Its not exactly a quiet plan of attack to accomplish this and more importantly how would we make it look like Millitech is attacking from behind when were coming up from another avenue?" He would continue on stating, "I mean Araska wanting the flower under wraps and delivered quietly would make sense to be little guarded" before asking his own question, "Do we know the route they are taking or where the flower is currently being held at?" His thoughts would be wondering on if any of his contacts might be able to assist with further information or insight into the job, while wondering how he hadn't heard any rumor about this medical wonder flower in the field of medicine from other medics. He would be pulled from his thoughts as he nods in agreement with BTB, "I agree on that notion of being quieter and faster to infiltrate the building and keep the smash n grab as a backup plan" before glancing between the others asking, "Though are either of you specialized or have any skills in CyberTech, electronics or security tech?" At the statement from BTB about the accelerated timeframe and needing to leave now brought a grim feeling to his stomach as he asked, "Is there at least a DataPac or something in the jeep with more information that can be given about the location/assignment? Also where is the drop-off point for the package and do we need it to be specially contained in anything?" At the keys being tossed to Camilla, he would enter in two different timers for 24 hours and 48 hours respectively before turning his attention to his two companions asking, "Do you two have any medical conditions or allergies I need to be aware in case I have to treat you?" and follows by asking, "Or do you happen to have a bio-monitor installed?"

Mercy crinkled his nose at the offending smog being blown back over the bar from BTB's cigar and mirrored his excitement at the classics, while replying, "I'll definitely keep that in mind and might take you up on that offer" before he shrugs both his shoulders replying to the comment about not having to use his skills, "Well as long as I'm paid either way doesn't matter to me this just clears one of debts to Jackie boy." He would glance sideways at the newcomer arriving from a few paces down the bar saddling up to BTB appearing to hit on him and offering him, a supposed shot of liquor. At the same time of his conversation with BTB about the music, he would idly make a mental note about Kara's childish impatience at having to wait of having to wait for the final team member and seemingly attempting to hit him up for Spark due to his association of being a med tech. He growls softly with a snarl of annoyance settling into place stating in a cold tone, "No shit I am a MedTech figured the red cross on my shirt made that clear and what's it to you about the meds I can acquire?" as he downs the last of his shot before harshly slamming the empty drink glass onto the bar counter before asking heatedly, "You a cop or a no-good two-faced rat snitch?". He would continue on stating in a matter-of-fact tone clearly annoyed with Kara's accusations of selling drugs by motioning to BTB and the Chameleon, "Besides I think BTB hear is ready to continue this conversation in private with our party girl either being the entertainment or our final member of the job". Perception Roll: 1d10+7 = 14

Victor aka “Mercy” would blink in surprise at his muttered comment about his partner being overheard by the burly bear sized man in the main hall of the bar echoing the loud thumping music, which he would chuckle at the mention of the dislike for the atmosphere replying with a snarky, “Nah just some bad memories of the place and more of a classics kinda guy” as he takes a drink of his bourbon. At the mention of the difficult job and inquiry about his identity from BTB with the introduction from Kara, he would run his left hand through his teal-green hair replying, “Yeah I’m the guy Jackie boy sent to be your medtech since I specialize in trauma surgery and cybertech” as his attention is fully on BTB’s mention of helping the sick. He would take another sip of drink replying, “Nice to meet you K, the names Victor though most people call me, Mercy” and turns back to BTB saying, “Sure, I’ll take you up on that drink and I told Jackie boy that I’d listen to the job sounds reasonable enough to keep them patched up.”

A slender athletic built figure of roughly 5'3" clad in a light green military fatigue undershirt and dark grey camo pants covered by a dark green armored jacket with a white padded vest displaying a red cross on the front pouch and a red cross on his right shoulder. Using his left fingerless gloved left hand, he would fling the decrepit door to the Forlorn Hope open and glances around the with his green eyes grumbling under his breath, "Why the hell did Jack send me to this shit-hole" as he shakes his head in annoyance at having to leave his clinic. Victor would wordless stride across the packed bar floor through the tables intent on getting a drink, while trying to find his contact's fixer in the bar for the job looking for the big ass burly man that his partner had instructed him to meet. Once at the bar, he would lean over the bar counter and flagging one of the barkeeps down with a wave of his fingerless gloved hand asking for a glass of bourbon. With his drink in hand and a small nod to the barkeep in thanks, he would take a small sip of his liquor and idly sent out a quick message on his matte-black agent to his partner, "Hey, made it to the place..... better be worth leaving the clinic" before he resumes scanning the patrons for this fixer known as "BTB". He would shake his head at the obnoxious neon-pink hair and skin-tight synth-suit clad woman talking with a massive bear of a man, while seemingly ignoring any attempts at flirting from nearby patrons at the other end of the bar. Perception Roll: 1d10 = 5 + 5 = 10

Victor Junior Windsor aka "Mercy" Role MedTech - Medicine Surgery rank 4 LifePath: Character Sheet: Victor Windsor - MedTech Character Sheet

The girls giggled softly at the mention of the sweets tasting delicious and that she would make an effort to stop by to taste them one day. The girls both chirped out happily, "That would be lovely ma'am and we'll try to make sure its a special treat then if we know" as the shift the packages that they were carrying in their hands. At the sudden ringing of the phone and the store owner needing to handle business, the girls would politely nod in understanding and having enjoyed the conversation, they would both wave to her, while stating, "It was nice speaking to you ma'am!" Coco would happily exclaim, "Thank you again for the chocolate" as Millie followed after her statement softly, "It was a pleasure meeting you ma'am!" Once the store clerk had left their sight, both girls would proceed to stop waving and begin to head out of the store chatting soft between themselves about different confectionary treats that could be made with the intention of heading out of the mall back to their lady's manor.

The twins smile at the explanation about the shop and the different items inside the store, which causes them to stare in amazement briefly before Coco exclaims, "That's so cool!" Millie giggles at her sister and replies politely, "It certainly is amazing to be able to do something you love" as she fixes the pieces of chocolate that had been offered her that she took, while she nods at the mention of making chocolates as she clarifies, "Actually my sister makes chocolates or anything related to as a chocolatier ma'am" as she puts an arm around her sister in a small hug and continues, "I decided to follow the craft of a patissier Ma'am" with a small soft smile on her face.