Noventa - A Star Wars Story

Kaneesa spits on his hand and offers it. "That's a deal."

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After searching, Kaneesa sighs. "I think we have to go up and talk to the big shots. Maybe Vida's..."

[quote="Kaneesa Gee"]"So, you are Mizz Sailee I take it." Kaneesa offers a small bow. "I'm afraid that there is a great deal I donna know."

Kaneesa looks over Clem and Hin. "We ain't exactly bounty hunters Mizz Sailee, though we know how to handle ourselves in a pinch. That said...13 Kay? That's a pretty good incentive. We see all types here, and if there is a crook hangin' about, P-town is a likely place he's spent a bit of time. It's not a bad place to start looking. I have a lot of favors owed to me. so if you want to see if he's made any ripples I can suss them out.

"I guess my questions are this: what is the job, exactly, and why does the employer want him? I am hoping that it's a live capture..." Kaneesa's expression darkens. "I have rules about violence in this place, and I am not about to start dropping people dead because they pissed off an outsider. The only reason I am considering this is because outside attention is bad for all of P-town."[/quote]
"You don't get all the answers in this line of work," Sailee shrugged. "Not asking too many questions is part of the pay. However, yes, we are bringing him back alive. My best guess is the employers some sort of organized crime. The man she wants brought back was one of her agents. He abandoned a job, stole something from the employer, and vanished. We're recovering the man, alive.

"As for the thirteen, this will be an even split between everyone on the team; right now, that's the four of us. If you have to grease some palms, that can come out of the pot before splitting. If we have to bring more people into the job later, they get a share. Clementine and I can probably carry the heavy fighting if this guy doesn't have too many friends, but an extra hand with a blaster can help. If anyone has medical bills after, that comes out of the pot before we split. Sound fair?"

Searching around from who they could find, the word on the street was that no one knew anyone that could be of much help to Kaneesa and his crew on this matter. However, some people suggested that maybe talking with the folks over in the ICS, Inner Core Security, offices up in Upper Providencetown might keep track of the whereabouts of a mercenary of some renown coming through on the planet. They weren't really sure if that's something that would help though. Few others scoffed, even laughed, about how if the person who put the bounty was the guys former employer he must have really done something to screw up the arrangement to get a bounty placed on himself. Quite the burned bridge that one.

Clementine isn't the hottest fusion torch in the toolbox, but he has been around criminals so long that he can't have helped but absorbed something of use when searching through the galactic underworld.

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[quote]"Nothing immediate...but I think I know know where too look..."[/quote]

"Yeah boss! What about..."

So, that name...

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"Nothing immediate...but I think I know know where too look"

"So, you are Mizz Sailee I take it." Kaneesa offers a small bow. "I'm afraid that there is a great deal I donna know."

Kaneesa looks over Clem and Hin. "We ain't exactly bounty hunters Mizz Sailee, though we know how to handle ourselves in a pinch. That said...13 Kay? That's a pretty good incentive. We see all types here, and if there is a crook hangin' about, P-town is a likely place he's spent a bit of time. It's not a bad place to start looking. I have a lot of favors owed to me. so if you want to see if he's made any ripples I can suss them out.

"I guess my questions are this: what is the job, exactly, and why does the employer want him? I am hoping that it's a live capture..." Kaneesa's expression darkens. "I have rules about violence in this place, and I am not about to start dropping people dead because they pissed off an outsider. The only reason I am considering this is because outside attention is bad for all of P-town."

Clementine clanked over to Kaneesa, somewhat laboriously positioning himself so that he was behind the sitting Gungan and facing Sailee. He put his giant right claw out as if he was about to scoop Kaneesa up sideways, and then extended his grasper arm from the bottom of it to put it around Kaneesa's shoulders buddy-buddy style. "Kaneesa Gee is your Gungan. Kaneesa can track Maguire. Ah I mean ah he can track for Maguire. He can def-eye-night-ly do that thing you said you needed to do. He knows people who know people. And droids who know people. And people who know droooiiids..." Clementine trailed off, the last word elongating and then dissolving in to static as he lost the thread a little.

Coming back to himself, he reached out with his other claw to draw in Hin'biki. The Twi'lek had lept a nervous distance, and could easily have avoided being brought in to the one-under-each-arm-sideways-shoulder-hug presentation that Clementine had apparently been aiming for. Whether he came or not, Clementine continued "Hin'biki is good sapients, too. Mean as a gundark. Very re-lie-ah-bul. The or-gan-icks love him."

He was being far, far more physically companionable and verbally effusive than his norm. Depending on how you were reading his monotone, it was somewhere between a youngling trying to impress a new friend with how cool the people he hangs out with are, a gangster angling to get his crew a gig, or some combination of the two.

Hin shifted uncomfortably. Strangers made him nervous, and he was clearly on edge, looking to Kaneesa for any sort of guidance. Knowing the gungan he'd ask very few questions and just accept whatever the job was. Hin was far less gung-ho about the whole situation, furtive eyes scanning the small gathering.

Well that was uncharacteristically clear, concise, and naturally expressed.

"Just that we have to go back to her for the full briefing once we have a team proper, and the main thing we need is people who can track the mark down."

"I told them we Maguire will pay 13,000 for Corrax back alive," said Clementine, still bobbing up and down a little. The bobbing slows further, and his voice drops an octave. "Did I ah forget something?"

[i]Close enough.[/i]

"Kaneesa. Hin. Howdy," she offered them each a nod. "I take it Clementine here's told you 'bout the job?" she jerked a thumb at the droid, not that anyone could miss him.

Clementine started flexing and unflexing his knee joints, moving his considerable bulk up and down -- a sign of excitement, usually happy. "Hello Sailee. It is good to see you. These are my friends." With a sweep of each arm in turn, he introduces them. "This is Kaneesa Gee. He is the guy I talked about. This is Hin. He works with us." He brings his arms in again. "Guys, this is Sailee. She is with the hunter's club."

It took her a while to find her way; she hadn't been to this town before, but she eventually found her way to the bar. Not the worst name for a bar she's seen, but this was definitely trying.

She made her way in, and immediately recognized the load lifter. "Hey, big guy. These your friends?"

[quote="Kaneesa Gee"]Kaneesa blinks, and then smiles. "Well, you know me Clem, I do love to talk! What's the job...and what does it pay?"[/quote]

Clementine, who had started to contract his widespread arms cringingly at Kaneesa's initial skepticism, visibly relaxed, letting them fall to their resting position at his sides. "Maguire said one of her guys, Claxxon, had skipped out in the middle of a job. She is very mad about it. She was offering thirteen thousand credits. Maguire said she would give more details when we had the whole crew."

[quote]Kaneesa nods and looks over to Clem, keeping an eye at old Soss in the corner. "When is your new friend getting in?"[/quote]

"I told her to come en-ee time," he said. "Although... he looked around the clearly mostly empty bar as if to expect she had appeared suddenly. I thought we would see her by now. May-be I should comm her?"

Hin set down the bottles and case, better join the conversation. "I-I....can hold my own."

He reached to the metal flourishes that ran along either side of his pants. He pulled on two along his thigh to produce well concealed stiletto blades. Their fine points marred ever so slightly with tiny serrations. The blades were barely out before they returned to their sheaths, not particularly wanting to draw attention to them.

"Then take a break from the restocking and come on over." Kaneesa looks over the Twi'lek. "Are you any good in a fight? No shame if you're not...sweet waters, I'm not much of a help myself. I know you have plenty skills kid."

Kaneesa nods and looks over to Clem, keeping an eye at old Soss in the corner. "When is your new friend getting in?"

"Always," Hin retorted quickly, not stopping in his restocking.

Kaneesa blinks a little at the "presentation", trying to hide his surprise. Clementine had shown a lot of initiative in the past, such as his "not-entirely-legitimate" loading zone policing, but this was the first time that Clem had come in with a job offer. And it wasn't a standard "let's lift a truck" kind of job either.

"Clem, we're not bounty hunters!" Kaneesa begins plaintively. "And did you forget that we have the other assignment already? And this is pretty shallow, he could be anywhere on Noventa, if he's even here at all! We would have to search-" Kaneesa pauses, gears starting to turn in his head. "All...over...the planet. With a registered bounty hunter...to explain why we're there."

Kaneesa blinks, and then smiles. "Well, you know me Clem, I do love to talk! What's the job...and what does it pay?"

Kaneesa notices Hin working at the bar and motions. "Hey Hin, do you want a bit of extra cred?"

Hin came back from the private rooms with a rag and bucket. As the twi'lek passed, one could see that the soapy water was tinged green, and it became all the more apparent when he poured it out into one of the nearby drains behind the bar. He performed the task without one word, rinsed the bucket, and disappeared into the back. Some quiet rustling could be heard through the door and Hin appeared again carrying a case of some of their cheap stores. He then began to restock the rail, pulling empty bottles and replacing them with fresh.

"Ha. Ha. A treat. Good one, boss." This -- a harsh blatting over his vocoder speaker -- was Clementine's normal way of expressing actual amusement, not sarcasm.

He stands there another moment, but instead of going back to distributing kegs, he stands another moment longer, framing a slightly more complex thought than his usual. "Speaking of treats," he says, "I have found a job. You know that big fancy ship that landed in the plains." It's not a rhetorical question, Clementine is just asserting his boss knows something that he knows, which is usually pretty safe to assume. "They were on the comm asking for bounty hunters and mer-sen-air-eez. I thought I could get paid for clobbering someone, so I went.

"There was someone named Lena, and someone named Maguire, and someone named Sailee, and someone named Kai, and another lady, and a lot of guards. Oh, wait, I said that wrong." He paused, sorting it out in his head. It sometimes took a while, but couldn't be helped.

Eventually, he nodded to himself (a full-body bob), and continued. "Maguire was the lady with the other lady and the lots of guards. She was very fancy and used big words. It was her ship. She was offering the job." Another nod. "Lena and Kai were part of a bigger crew, they said. They didn't like the job so they left." Another nod. "Sailee was a licensed hunter. She was nice. She and Maguire liked each other. She took the job." Another nod. "But she's not good at the part where you talk to people. So I said I knew a guy." He spread his loading arms wide, taking in most of the room, but Kaneesa was at the center of the wide arc. "You're the guy!"

He held the pose, clearly very happy with his presentation. He has not actually said what the job is.