Session Date: 05/09/2024
We all turn to see Juice holding a gun after having shot Charley, with Ogre behind him. Net immediately rushes up and applies pressure to the wound, with Emerick joining him moments after and starting to fumble for his phone to call emergency services.
Juice calls Emerick over to help him, saying he needs assistance, and he announces that Curb Stomping Word Vomit won’t be performing in these conditions. He says if they want to help then he will drop a piece of paper on the floor, then starts to walk away. Omen picks up the paper and sees that there’s someone named Saint on it, with a number, and that they’re a medtech.
Everyone immediately starts arguing about what to do with Garf yelling to get him ready and she’ll get him on the bike and take him to the hospital, and then Net freaking out about him being on the bike. Garf asks if we’re going to wait for a fucking car, and they fight until Emerick speaks up.
Emerick grabs Net’s arm and asks him to make sure that Charley is okay and makes it through this, and net agrees, and then Emerick glances at Seo and then gets up and follows after Juice. Once Emerick makes it to Ogre, Ogre finally stands down and starts to walk out. Charley starts to come to and asks what to do about this, and Net instructs him to keep pressure on the dressing he put together for Charley and asks Seo for help carrying him to the car. Alice and Ri call out that they’ll meet the group for Charley at the hospital, asking for the info to be texted to them.
Omen calls out to Emerick asking if he really wants to follow Juice, and Emerick simply slumps and shrinks as he follows after Juice.
- Omen, Net, Charley, and Seo in the groundcar
- Garf and Cipher on the bike
- Alice and Ri in their own car
They are headed to the medtech that Juice had the paper for.
Emerick follows on Juice’s heels, and Juice is very clearly pissed off. He’s mumbling a lot, not really saying anything, but he seems to make himself angrier and lashes out: “what the fuck does that rocker think he’s doing? he does not need to be acting like this.”
It’s painfully obvious that Juice has never had any exposure to the rocker scene, and he is absolutely not meant to be doing this. Emerick knows for a fact that he’s very ill-equipped to be a band manager and doing this stuff, but he’s pissed because Charley thinks he can drag the band name through the mud and be deplorable so the band will never amount to anything. He’s not saying much otherwise.
We eventually make it to the car and are sitting in the back of the groundcar while Ogre drives. Eventually, Juice looks over and says: “See, the band needs to behave more like you. You’re obedient, you do what you’re told, you don’t give me any shit.” Emerick can’t meet Juice’s gaze.
Juice speaks again: “I need you to do me a favor. Well, do something. They are about to take Charley to a ripperdoc, or whatever the hell he is. Some kind of medtech, he specializes in surgery, he’ll take care of Charley, that’s no issue. What I need is for you to give me as much dirt on this man as possible.” Emerick agrees, and Juice nods a little.
He looks at Emerick one last time and says, “don’t ever think that I’m nothing but a monster like they all think I am. I know you want to make sure this all ends happily. They’re already there at the place they’ll be reaching here in a minute or two.” Ogre pulls the car over and there’s a clinic. He gets out of the car and opens the door for Emerick. Juice speaks again, “get me the information I need, as much of it as possible. I want to know anything and everything about the people you all work with, and that works with my band.” After that, Juice nods at Emerick, and he is dismissed.
As the rest of the group is driving through the city and making their way through the streets, they make it to the address they have on paper. Emerick is already there, taking a hit of his weed. Net is already telling Seo to help him bring Charley in.
The clinic itself is a ghost town tonight. It’s urban derelict chic, basically. Many people walk into the establishment and someone’s clearly shot. Saint encourages everyone inside and gets Charley to a place he can be worked on. Net commands that Saint fix him, and pulls out 500 eddies and shoves it right into Saint’s chest, then starts walking out of the room.
Saint patches Charley up without much difficulty. He gets patched up and is resting after Saint is back. Saint asks what the fuck happened to everyone still inside, and Seo looks at him and explains that the band manager is who shot him. Saint is confused as to why a band manager would do that, then pulls out a notebook from a drawer what’s going on, and mentioning that this is the fifth time this week.
Charley asks for confirmation, and Net confirms, then storms out to go outside. Charley stands up to leave, and finds Cipher not far, Seo in the room, Saint here, and then Garf sitting in the waiting room. Saint helps Charley up to help him walk to the car, and Net takes his jacket back from Cipher, with Net actually zipping the jacket up all the way. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out his cigarette pack and starts to smoke.
Emerick and Net smoke together outside, with Charley stepping outside and pulling out a cigarette to smoke. Garf manages to steal Charley’s cigarette pack and Charley says he’s the one that got fucking shot. Garf and Net say it’s not good for him and he needs to recover. Emerick gravitates towards Seo just naturally.
Saint comes out and invites us all inside to smoke inside of his clinic, and Net explains he is being courteous and Garf and Omen both immediately explain that Net is too hard-headed to agree. Cipher is thousand yard staring at Saint, and Saint also blank stares back. Net pulls out his own kitsune mask and stares at Saint, then eventually takes the mask off and puts it away. Omen asks how Juice knows him, and Saint just had Juice come to him needing help. The good fixers don’t come to him because he can’t work miracles, and Net explains he should market himself as a supplement thing.
Charley heads out and Omen says they can’t just let this go, and Charley explains that he knows, and he knows that things are bad. He knows that this is not a good situation and this will not be the last time it’s bad. He explains that we are the first edgerunners that have lasted long enough that he can actually give a shit about us.
Saint has an expression of “oh shit, oh fuck,” and then he starts to smile in his anxiety response. He heads inside waiting for everyone else to join him.
Alice and Ri takes Charley back to the safehouse, with Seo staying behind for Emerick.
A text message comes through to Emerick from Juice that he’s glad to hear everything’s okay, and he expects us all back as soon as possible. Emerick asks if Saint is also included in that, and Juice responds with “if he’s an asset to us all”.