The skies are dark and the four players head into town looking for a place to rest up for the next day. Walking down the main street in the middle of the city noticing a split between the North side and the South side, they find a small tavern at the end of the main road. They enter the building and are greeted by the tavern keeper.
"Why hello there. Looking for a room?" He asks the group.
"Uh yeah let's go with two rooms," Jimmie tells the keeper.
"Sure thing, thirty banknotes are due for your stay. The room will be yours for five days max," the keeper informs them.
"Got it, thanks," Jimmie slides money to the keeper.
The keep then takes the money and slides two keys over the counter to Jimmie. The rooms they got were room three and room four, the group walks up the stairs to the rooms.
"Girls, here is your room, room three," he hands the key to Ashley.
"Wait, us three in this room and you by yourself?" Minx asks.
"Well, yeah. I don't want to be around girls while I'm planning for this mission."
Zora looks in the room and sees only two beds.
"But-but the rooms only have t-two beds, Jimmie," Zora tells him.
"Oh, well you guys can figure out who sleeping in my room. No funny business, though."
The three females look at each other, each determined that they would be the one to sleep in Jimmie's room. Ashley has already slept next to him, the thought of other girls being with him disturbs her.
"Well, I'm gonna go find the Red Sun Gang's headquarters. I will be going alone, so you guys get settled in," Jimmie tells the girls.
Jimmie turns and heads down the stairs and exits the building. The females start eyeballing each other then all together rush to Jimmie's room door slamming into the door, they open the door and fall onto the ground. All of them quickly rushing back on their feet and tossing and tackling each other.
"He's mine. I'm sleeping with him, " Minx exclaims.
"Hell no, I was with him the whole time!" Ashley retorts.
"You aren't going to get him," Minx snaps back at her before getting pulled by Zora and pushed into the ground.
"Agh, Zora I thought you were with me!" Minx yells at Zora.
"I'm so-sorry, but I want him!" Zora tries to yell.
"He likes me!" Ashley shouts out as she grabs Zora and throws her down and rushes to Jimmie's bed, just to get tripped by Minx.
"Haha, you want to believe that, but he has more interest in me!" Minx confidently tells her. Minx jumps back up and jumps over the two girls to try to reach the bed. As she lands on her feet, she feels hands grab her ankles and pull making her fall and the two other women climbing up her body to pass her.
"I ne-need this!" Zora says, pushing off her friends face and pushing Ashley to the side.
"Oh no, you don't," Ashley grabs Zora and tosses her aside and gets up to make a break for the bed only to be tackled by Minx.
"Thought you were slick, but he's mine." Minx tells Ashley pinning her down.
Zora gets up to see the other two struggling and see the bed free for the taking and sprints to the bed jumping on it. Ashley and Minx look up to see Zora on the bed.
"Ohhh come ooooon!!" They both scream out.
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In the alleyways of the city Jimmie moves around the city asking around for the Red Sun Gang. Upon going down the darkest alley Jimmie is stopped by two men wearing masks.
"Hey guy! What you looking for?" One of the men asks Jimmie.
"I'm looking for the Red Sun Gang," Jimmie calmly answers with his hands up showing no weapon.
"Why you lookin' for them?" The man asks.
"Got a job to assist them in, that's as much I'm going to tell you."
"Assist them? You look like you came to hunt them," the man adds.
"No no, I am here to assist them."
"Why? With what?" The man asks, grabbing his knife and his buddy behind him grabs his hand on his revolver.
"I can't tell you."
Silence is shared for a brief moment. The man nods and both him and his buddy relax.
"If what you say is true, they are South; headquarters is in an alley way on the farthest point near the wall," the man explains.
Jimmie offers his hand to the stranger; the stranger shakes his hand and nods.
"robore et constantia, my friend," the man whispers to Jimmie.
Jimmie nods back not knowing what the phrase meant but understanding it was a friendly gesture. Jimmie turns around and leaves the alley way and heads South in the city, making his way through quiet alleys and empty streets. He reaches the Southern wall and follows the directions he was given to find a dim light alleyway with a doorway the end of the alley down a half step staircase and a single muscular guard outside with tattoos representing the Red Sun Gang. Jimmie notices the door has a sliding window, so he approaches and gets arms length away from the man.
"What's your business back here?" The guards ask.
"I need to talk to your boss. My boss sent me to help the Red Suns." Jimmie replies.
"Who's your boss organization?" The man asks.
"The Desolate Order."
The man remains silent and looks into Jimmie's eyes. He kicks the door three times and the window opens.
"Boss has a visitor," The guard announces.
The door opens and a skinny man reveals himself and signals Jimmie to follow him. He leads Jimmie to the boss's setup table passing by a bunch of the gang members and seeing the various training they do. Slamming each other and a small caliber shooting range, propaganda against the Black Ash Gang, and mementos of Black Ash members they have killed. The man opens the door to the boss's set up.
"Here you are. Be rather careful, boss isn't fond of smart mouthed visitors," the skinny man explains then scurries away.
Jimmie enters the room carefully to see a table with a map of the city and a map of the underground sewers of the city. Props displaying both the Red Suns and the Black Ash. He sees an iconic Jury .50 pistol on the table but then adverts his eyes to the spinning chair turning towards him. A female. She is skinny with cross earrings, a red crop top with a faded black sun on it, shorts with black stockings underneath covering her legs; one black skater shoe on her left foot and a black combat boot on her right foot. She has a lollipop in her mouth and her brunette hair covers her eyes. She pulls the lollipop out of her mouth and addresses Jimmie.
"'Sup," she says to him, "go on, have a seat if you'd like," she offers. Jimmie looks back at the pistol, the barrel facing the chair. He scoots over and sits down nervously.
"What you need?" She asks.
"Joshua sent me. He said I could help disrupt the Black Ash Gang for you to make shipments easier," he responds.
"Yeah."
The room remains silent for a few seconds.
"Who are you?" She asks Jimmie.
"I'm Jimmie. A mercenary Joshua hired. I have a partner with me but she's resting up, we also have two extras but aren't getting paid," he replies.
"Oh okay, so I'll be working with four of you... okay, I can make that work. Sure, sure. Anyway, name's Veronica Bliss, leader of the Red Sun Gang."
"Pleased to meet you," Jimmie says.
"Alright, here's the folder with the plan," she throws down a folder in front of him. Jimmie picks it up and starts flipping through it to see pictures and descriptions of the Black Ash's head quarters and an ambush forward base they built up.
"So I need you and your team to basically fuck shit up for me. Kill these assholes that keep ambushing my guys. They are hurting business and it really frustrates me, so just West pass Blackpool the gang set up a little post for ambushes and raid our shit there. Kill them and send them a love note from me, as in, blow that bitch up," she commands him.
"I also need you to take out a high-ranking officer in their headquarters. It'll be hard to do since it's in the city and mercenaries like you work for either them or us, so you may have to fight people of your kind. However, I'm aware of the combat ban in the major cities. I was informed that the guy you need to kill is going to be leaving the city to head up North for business, hit him then. Got it?" She adds on to her orders.
"Yeah, I think we can do all that," Jimmie verifies with her.
"Good, about time I get someone with some sense. Do this and I'll pay you and your team, along side your pay from my friend in Pristine," she tells him.
She holds her hand out and Jimmie shakes it before she pulls it back.
"Alright, get the fuck out."
"Yes ma'am," Jimmie gets up and heads for the door, just before leaving he hears her.
"Don't you fail me. You fail me, never show your face here again," she warns him.
Jimmie heads back to the tavern in the dark. The streets are fairly empty but players and NPCs are still about. As he enters the tavern, he hears the girls still arguing in his room.
"Oh boy, here we go," he whispers to himself before walking up the stairs.
He enters the room to see Zora on his bed fighting Ashley and Minx off. Their heads whip toward him as he enters and in surprise, they stop. Minx loses her balance and falls over on the ground making a big thump, she shoots back up and stands tall next to Ashley.
"Who won?" He asks.
"M-me," Zora softly replies pointing to herself.
"Alright, get off my bed. That one there is yours," he points to the other bed. The other girls sigh and head out the door, "tomorrow I'll tell you all that's going on," he tells them.
"Alright," they all respond.
Ashley and Minx go to their room, Jimmie locks the room and slowly jumps into bed and pulls the covers over him swiftly passing out. Zora gets out of her bed and stands over him, staring at him amazed that she won the room to be close to Jimmie. She pokes him to see if he would wake up. No response. She pulls off his covers and slowly climbs in next to him hugging him and falling asleep smiling.