You can talk to her from a very good damn distance without risking your life. You've got that option so either take it or hide for the rest of your life until the inevitable happens anyway. It really shouldn't matter to me at this point. My job is halfway done anyway.
You should at least talk to Laz about this. While he can still talk and while you still have time.
"Test the sharpness of your sword against another. And when that is not enough, unsheathe your cunning as the hidden dagger that ends the fight."
I paid you 85.000.000 Credits to help me, and all you did so far was telling me the same thing you did before I hired you. Did you find Rebecca? Did you talk to her? Do you have any idea whether she is sane?
I do not mean to sound disrespectful, but the price-performance ratio seems a bit off here. Find her, talk to her, convince me that she is not insane enough to still try and murder me. I am not going to send her a message only to have her trace it. I found a good hiding spot, and I can not risk revealing it to her. I have no idea where else to go. Apart from, maybe Pittsburgh...
Talk to her. If you really think she is reasonable, good, fine. If not, maybe shoot all of her equipment off and stare her into her her eyes as you take a shot at the cockpit window of her fighter, and then drop a nuclear mine in front of her. Maybe she will understand how it feels. For all the money I paid, only to have you talk me out of going with my initial plan, that would be the least you can do.
In order for me to actually be done with this entire mess I'll also need you to cooperate. But you won't. Because being a scared cat is all you're good for. I'm doing my part to help with this, but you don't even have the slightest will to do yours.
You want me to convince you that she is not insane, but you won't even consider what I told you. You have a chance to ask her why did she nearly kill you. Nah, instead of doing that you now want me to torture the ever living sh*t out of her. Laz's girlfriend - and by the way, you still didn't tell me if you tried to talk with him also. Kid's pretty much in denial about his condition. Which isn't great.
You want to be stupid, fine - but take me for a fool. I won't continue to help someone that clearly doesn't want to be helped.
Are we clear?
"Test the sharpness of your sword against another. And when that is not enough, unsheathe your cunning as the hidden dagger that ends the fight."
I am sick and tired of everyone telling me to reach out to the person that wants me dead. Drop it, enjoy the money you got. I am done with everything. You are right, I am good for nothing. I am nothing but scared. It is fine if she threatens and tortures and murders me.
At least nobody is going to revive me, just to suffer even more.
If everyone is telling you the same thing, then maybe there is a really good f*cking reason why. Surely it's not us who are insane and you're the only person with a clear mind. Right? Or maybe I just have to drop the sarcasm here and make it clear that it's really that simple to end this mess.
Get off your high horse. Open up a channel. Talk to her. Or I can bring her to you. You choose.
And trust me, I'm really good and finding people when I want to.
"Test the sharpness of your sword against another. And when that is not enough, unsheathe your cunning as the hidden dagger that ends the fight."
Begging is what you're going to do when I find you and your hooker friend. We'll have a date in four, even. You and her. Me and my revolver.
Check my conversation with Rebecca. Then check your mail and see if she sent you anything. I'm starting to think you really deserved that trashing. For being a prick. And for lying to me.
You've got some explaining to do.
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[09.08.2023 07:20:41] A/)-Lazurith: Hello.
[09.08.2023 07:20:45] Caliban: Hey.
[09.08.2023 07:21:27] Rebecca.Harper: Hm.
[09.08.2023 07:21:49] Caliban: I'm guessing you know why I'm here, Laz.
[09.08.2023 07:22:04] Caliban: ...well, especially now that she's here, too.
[09.08.2023 07:22:34] A/)-Lazurith: I haven't come up with a decision on that just yet. I--
[09.08.2023 07:22:39] A/)-Lazurith: I'd like to get some things in order first.
[09.08.2023 07:23:41] Caliban: Talked with the kid yet?
[09.08.2023 07:23:59] A/)-Lazurith: No.
[09.08.2023 07:24:02] A/)-Lazurith: I don't know where he is.
[09.08.2023 07:24:38] Caliban: Great. Why would people my make job easier? Nah, that's impossible.
[09.08.2023 07:24:57] Rebecca.Harper: You're being compensated well enough.
[09.08.2023 07:25:10] Rebecca.Harper: Especially considering the fact you haven't fired a shot yet.
[09.08.2023 07:25:49] Caliban: To kill you over a dispute with little to no context or provide parental counselling?
[09.08.2023 07:26:58] Rebecca.Harper: Life is cheap, and parental counselling cost's less than the hundred million credit region, or so I'd imagine.
[09.08.2023 07:27:17] Caliban: Why'd you really do it, anyway?
[09.08.2023 07:27:53] Rebecca.Harper: Because almost drifting into the void tends to have an effect on ones emotions.
[09.08.2023 07:28:16] Caliban: And that warranted trashing the prick?
[09.08.2023 07:28:39] Rebecca.Harper: And I needed to ask something, but the arsehole wins more credits than I made ever since I got off of Leeds and he suddenly-
[09.08.2023 07:29:04] Rebecca.Harper: -doesn't have time to stop screwing around with hookers for five damn minutes to help a mate with something quick and simple.
[09.08.2023 07:29:28] Rebecca.Harper: Well, considering those two were responsible for that.
[09.08.2023 07:29:39] Rebecca.Harper: You can see where the anger comes from.
[09.08.2023 07:30:18] Caliban: You were going to kill him. That wasn't just a "next time don't be a dick" kind of move.
[09.08.2023 07:30:26] Rebecca.Harper: If I wanted him dead.
[09.08.2023 07:30:32] Rebecca.Harper: He wouldn't have left Baffin.
[09.08.2023 07:30:35] Caliban: There wasn't going to be a next time if that mine wouldn't have be dragged off somewhere else.
[09.08.2023 07:30:47] Rebecca.Harper: They had bots left.
[09.08.2023 07:30:52] Rebecca.Harper: They even used them.
[09.08.2023 07:31:07] Rebecca.Harper: Or they could have just hit the throttle and moved.
[09.08.2023 07:31:46] Caliban: That's one way to spare yourself the blame.
[09.08.2023 07:31:58] Rebecca.Harper: I blame myself for overreacting.
[09.08.2023 07:32:06] Rebecca.Harper: But don't let the narrative get twisted.
[09.08.2023 07:32:13] Rebecca.Harper: If I was going to kill him?
[09.08.2023 07:32:35] Rebecca.Harper: I wouldn't have bothered knocking piece's off the hookers ship trying to get them to snap out of and give me five minutes.
[09.08.2023 07:32:56] Caliban: What did you want to ask him?
[09.08.2023 07:33:17] Rebecca.Harper: About the station I was heading to when I picked them up on scope.
[09.08.2023 07:33:30] Rebecca.Harper: And the why for that is personal.
[09.08.2023 07:33:42] Rebecca.Harper: So if Levan wants to know, he can ask himself.
[09.08.2023 07:33:52] Caliban: Doesn't want to.
[09.08.2023 07:33:57] Rebecca.Harper: Better yet, I already offered to explain when I apologized.
[09.08.2023 07:34:21] Caliban: I tried to get him to talk to you. He's too scared to even consider opening up a channel.
[09.08.2023 07:34:31] Rebecca.Harper: There is already one open.
[09.08.2023 07:34:40] Rebecca.Harper: Probably an unread message on it as well.
[09.08.2023 07:34:45] Caliban: Huh.
[09.08.2023 07:35:02] Rebecca.Harper: He can choose to read the message, or continue hiding wherever he is.
[09.08.2023 07:35:18] Caliban: So there really was more to this story than he was letting on. Funny how narratives change to fit the end goal.
[09.08.2023 07:35:22] Rebecca.Harper: I don't intend to go to the effort of hunting him down just to say it.
[09.08.2023 07:35:39] Rebecca.Harper: Already have enough hunting to do as is.
[09.08.2023 07:36:04] A/)-Lazurith: Who do you have to hunt?
[09.08.2023 07:36:22] Rebecca.Harper: Oswald Carter.
[09.08.2023 07:37:03] A/)-Lazurith: Ah. Hm.
[09.08.2023 07:37:37] Rebecca.Harper: Bit of a tale there, but to be frank, the only thing I regret is the escalation.
[09.08.2023 07:37:53] Rebecca.Harper: Would probably have been done with Levan either way.
[09.08.2023 07:39:26] Caliban: I'd dare say that Levan reminds me of -- well, me. But then I remember. There were no hookers and complete disregard towards--
[09.08.2023 07:39:35] Caliban: -- friends back then. Not on my end, anyway.
[09.08.2023 07:39:44] Rebecca.Harper: I won't even ask.
[09.08.2023 07:40:15] Rebecca.Harper: But yeah, Levan can do whatever he wants with whatever he has left of that bounty.
[09.08.2023 07:40:33] Caliban: Most of that cash went to me, I'm guessing.
[09.08.2023 07:40:39] Rebecca.Harper: Blow it all on hookers who'll ditch him when the creds run out, put as high a damn price on-
[09.08.2023 07:40:44] Rebecca.Harper: He paid in advance?
[09.08.2023 07:40:54] Caliban: [He'd smile under the sealed helmet.]
[09.08.2023 07:40:59] Rebecca.Harper: Fucking amateur.
[09.08.2023 07:41:22] Caliban: I knew this entire adventure would go down the hill and I'd risk not getting paid at all.
[09.08.2023 07:41:29] A/)-Lazurith: Cut him some slack, he hasn't been in space for that long.
[09.08.2023 07:41:42] A/)-Lazurith: He hasn't seen /life/ for that long.
[09.08.2023 07:41:55] Rebecca.Harper: He's only four years younger than me or you.
[09.08.2023 07:41:58] Caliban: From what I'm hearing so far? He shouldn't have left Pittsburgh at all for at least another five years.
[09.08.2023 07:42:26] A/)-Lazurith: No. He's been through hell down there, and I think he deserves to begin again.
[09.08.2023 07:43:18] A/)-Lazurith: Ha--hang on. I've got a message.
"Test the sharpness of your sword against another. And when that is not enough, unsheathe your cunning as the hidden dagger that ends the fight."
Where did I lie to you? Nothing she says makes sense. There were no bots left. The engine was not working anymore. There was a coolant leak, she did shoot off pretty much every bit of equipment on the damn ship. Yoshiko and I had to abandon it and move to my gunboat and use the tractor beam to tow the ship to that station in Baffin.
I did not lie to you. She is the liar!
Honestly, fuck off! Hell, you and her are right. I should not have paid you in advance. You are just as horrible as people paint you. Of course she wants me dead! Literally nothing in the world warrants for what she did. She shot us over and over again, I even heard her saying that she was surprised that the last shot she fired did not blow us up. Then she said "Ah, to hell with it" and dropped the mine!
Have you considered that she IS insane!? She even admitted it herself, she snapped completely. Do you really think she had any sense or control over her actions? How does she want to know if that fighter was still working?
But I am the liar here.
You two are really a perfect match. Both of you twist the story, both of you dishonest fucks! I put my entire last hope into you, I asked you to help me vanish, instead you want me to pay you for just talking to her, and then you call me a liar after threatening me to track me down?
Right, right. So I'll ask you nicely. Send me the logs of your fallout with her. Give me proofs of what happened and that your side of the story is the real one. Can you do that?
"Test the sharpness of your sword against another. And when that is not enough, unsheathe your cunning as the hidden dagger that ends the fight."
I was not even on my own ship. And I have no idea if Yoshiko's ship got the logs after getting cracked open...
I could... try and look if the Kay recorded anything useful, apart from...
Rebecca did send me a message. She asked me to hear her out. I did not respond, I did not want her to track me down.
Yoshiko and someone else told me that she tried to talk to us before she opened fire. She knew we were fucking busy, in the most literal sense, if you really need to know. I do not think that is a detail you really needed to know about. But apparently everyone finds it super interesting when I am intimate with someone, especially when they are getting paid for it. If that makes me a prick, cool.
Apparently, according to Yoshiko and that other person, she tried to space-walk her way onto the Kay while I was gone. According to them, Rebecca got engine-washed when she got too close to our ships. According to Yoshiko, it was an accident on her part. Does not explain why Rebecca was space walking so close to us, why she was trying to get to the Kay and why the fucking hell she needed ME to answer her dumb questions. As if I am the one to know anything. Does that make any sense to you? It does not to me. I do not walk up to a couple doing it in their car and then try to blow them up the moment they do not answer me. I do not try to break into their car for whatever reason.
Hell, if I had known about that when I hired you, I would have told you. But Yoshiko and the other person told me about that little detail afterwards. That does not make me a liar. That means I genuinely had no idea. Not that it changes anything. She was trying to kill us, she was out of control, and she lied to you about the condition of the ship. There was no way we could have done anything about the mine. No repair bots, no engine. Nothing justifies what she did. Nothing can make up for that.
Just accept it. Your way to solve this failed. You should just have helped me to vanish. You would have earned your money in a legit way.
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