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- "Cash on the Barrelhead"
- Darian Date: AF10, Virgo Day 04, 18:40 Hours+
- Summary: Bear wakes up from a long, hard caffeine crash. His secretary, Rachel, informs him that he's got several messages. One of them is from Professor Mulder, who commissions Bear to find Trance Lovecraft, an errant Experia metacelebrity. Apparently, she was out besmirching her good (and very profitable) name by associating with Barsoomian terrorists or some such. Mulder is paying a cut (from his anonymous client) an undisclosed fee for her (and her morph's) safe return. Meanwhile, Finch is busy still patching herself up when Monday wakes up bloody and broken. Without much memory left, he agrees to pay Finch the funds that she and Tess are owed. Bones collects Tess' fees for her, as Tess has left her body in the healing pod to be repaired while her ego shoots off on an emergency gatecrashing mission with a rental morph. After breakfast, Bear shows up at the Ambelina Estate looking for Monday, as it seems he wants to collect two bounties in one night's work. Finch and Bear agree to help each other with their missions. Not wanting to make smalltalk with Monday any more than necessary, Bear cuts off his head so that they can make the rendezvous at the White Door in Victoria Terminus. During this encounter, Melati Street enters the compound and it put into guest quarters. Bear and Finch speed off in their ferrari toward the train station, but are cut off by six speederbike-driving members of the Clowns Gang after Monday's bounty. With some excellent piloting, Finch manages to fly the car through several office buildings and fruit vendors unscathed while Bear splatters several gang members on the street with his assault rifle. Unfortunately, near the end of the engagement, a critical driving error results in the ferrari pancaking against a maglev train, destroying it. Bear and Finch manage to jump the train and ride it the rest of the way to the station, where they are assaulted by Grinder in full shock armor (also looking for the bounty). After dodging several missiles and energy beams, Bear and Finch manage to take out Grinder and shoot up Victoria Terminus (again). Reaching the White Door, they turn in Monday's head to Merriweather for the bounty. Afterward, the two take a cab west toward the Fringe to see about finding Trance Lovecraft. Starting off with a rathskeller, The Reality Dysfunction, the two manage to charm some members of the Pills Gang and get in a fight with the transgenic Yeti bartender, killing him. They manage to find Trance in another room talking to Buy Dotcom (of questionable nationality). Trance was trying to escape her life in Experia and find her daughter. By coincidence, the pair deduce that Trance's missing daughter is Melati Street, whom agree to give back to her in exchange for her giving herself up to them. They do, and they manage to collect the bounty from Merriweather.
- Group Awards: 13 Rez Points, +2 CivicNet Rep, +2 Fame Rep
- Individual: -2 Circle-A Rep (Finch & Bear), +2 Guang Xi Rep (Finch & Bear)
- "Cinnamon Rolls & Slaughter"
- Darian Date: AF10, Virgo Day 04, 08:32 Hours+
- Summary: After waking up in a coffin motel and finding no gatecrashing jobs available, Tess reconnects with Finch and, after a brief conversation about Current Events, they agree to meet at Snow Crash for breakfast. While there, they meet Anya, a waitress on rocketblades, and Dross and Dr. Panties, two of Monday Bluehaven's cybertechnology lab partners working with him on a digital consciousness project. Monday failed to show up for their meeting there the previous night, and they remain waiting for him. After checking, Monday, a nephew of Experia, has a 500kC bounty on his head, dead or alive, from an anonymous source. The girls agree to take the bounty and begin checking into Monday's haunts. They check out his EU apartment and find evidence that the Night Cartel may be interested in him, he has outstanding winnings to collect at The Greasel Pit from his bookie Grinder, and that he was supposed to meet his girlfriend, Sim Synthia, at Pandora Market in order to bid on the Dream Shell auction. Tess' mesh searches reveal that Monday is always occupied at Victoria Terminus between 19:30 and 21:00 every night, and is usually followed by a group of Section 9 ghosts led by a woman in white named Merriweather. Eventually, Tess and Finch get to Victoria Terminus, where they find Monday being hunted by several bikers also after the bounty. Monday broadcasts a call for help, namely 200kC to get him out of there alive, and the girls accept. They fight and disable four of twelve bikers before stealing one of their bikes in order to escape the Terminus before Public Security secures the place. The girls narrowly make it out, but not before Monday and Finch are shot, knocking both unconscious. Tess takes them all back to Finch's compound, where she begins patching them up.
