Mass Effect RP: The Aegis Protection Firm - Full

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The Zango

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"Hey Krav, I'll have the usual and a couple of napkins to go with it please" said Ocara cheerily as he sat down at the bar, purposefully ignorant of the chaos and shouting he'd walked in on, as long as he could have a drink to temporarily dull the headache and soak up some of the blood from his cheek with a napkin, everything else could go to hell, that is, unless things degraded to the point where he really had to intervene, but that rarely happened.

"And hey Oleene, looking fantastic as usual"
 

Chicago Ted

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Verahl:

Verahl, Raven, Lux, and Yossar walked through one of the doors attached to the dance floor.

"Listen up!" yelled Lux immediately catching everyone's attention in the room. "All of you get down here so we aren't screaming across the Club."

Verahl and the others waited as the four new recruits approached them. Verahl's eyes caught Santius standing back, but he needed to deal with the recruits first.

"I was told there were five of you here," Verahl said as he looked over each of them. "Where's the fifth gone?"

"The Salarian?" Krav asked from the bar. "Got drunk and left. Trust me, it's better this way."

Verahl looked back at Yossar, who simply shrugged his shoulders at it.

"Fine, for the remaining four of you, let's get down to business," Verahl said as he crossed his arms, continuing to still inspect each of them. "You all know the current climate of Omega. A few months back, thanks to Arch Angel, a power vacuum was created. With the Suns, Pack, and Eclipse out of Omega, there's been a lot left behind, either unclaimed, or in weaker hands. We're going to capitalize on that. We've already carved out two districts as our own, and we'll keep doing this until we've taken as much as we can from this station."

His eyes slowly lost some of their focus as he continued. He had stopped looking over each as intensely as he had previously. He had been examining their every detail, from the colours on their armours, to the scars on their faces.

"The Krogan behind me is Lux. He's on of this company's squad leaders. In a fight, he'll be one of the ones giving orders. If he tells you to do something, we expect it done immediately. In front of him is Raven. He's second in command of the company. Again, follow his word to the letter. Then we have Yossar. Years of military experience has made him and advisor to this company. He provides us with most logistics and tactics in regard to our current situation, as well as gathers most of this company's intelligence. In addition, he's in charge of keeping this entire company combat ready."

Verahl took a slight pause as he looked each one in the eyes once more.

"And I am Verahl. I am in charge of Aegis. I am your boss, your commander, and the one each of you is going to be listening to for your duration here. Each of you will serve Aegis to your fullest potential. Whether that be until you leave on your own, or until your death. I will not lie and say that joining us isn't a risk. But if you haven't realized that already, then you're not even fit to wear the armour and carry the weapons each of you have."

Verahl opened his Omni-Tool as he talked, and started scrolling through it.

"Currently, information is being extracted from prisoners that have just taken. Once that information is known, you will be sent out to act on it. That means, you will likely have less then four hours before you're moving out on your first mission for us. In that time, you will be given a quick introduction to this company's members, as well as a quick tour of the base. After that, the company will be briefed on our next objective, and you will be sent out."

Verahl then closed his Omni-Tool, and looked over each of them for a final time. He was passing his judgement on each of them, as they all stood silent for a moment, waiting for him to conclude.

"Now, while each of you is signed up and supposedly ready to serve in our company, I will offer you this time to clear up any confusions or questions you have. Keep it quick though, as there are still several things that need to be done."
 

Athol

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John smiled Ahh the standard newbie merc greeting, makes one feel wanted. "Ah boss?" he said, looking to Verahl "You wouldnt happen to know of a Volus arms dealer around here named Von Raam would you?"
 

Chicago Ted

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Verahl:

"No," he said as he turned to face John. "Most of our weapons are provided by a Batarian arms dealer."
 

Viking Incognito

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"Nice to see I have a boss with a quad for once." Dregger piped up. "But if this next mission has nothing to do with combat then my time could be better spent training. Just thought I should let you know."

Dregger took a moment to size up these Aegis higher-ups like he did with John before giving a very slight nod seemingly to no-one.

"By the way, Lux. I'm looking forward to fighting along side a Krogan again. It's been a while. I also have some questions about the current combat status."
 

Athol

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"Okay" John replied "because when I find that little gas bag I'm gonna use his ass for target practice." His face grew grim as he kept speaking "About six years ago he set up a deal with the 'Iron Winds', a crew me and a good friend of mine had been working for, for some small arms. When we got to the meet we found a large, well armed group of batarian slavers waiting for us. The little bastard sold us out to make a quick buck. Long story short, my friend died and last I heard Von was operating on Omega, but I haven't been in the area, or had the time to throughly track his ass down." John's voice was as cold as the void when he finished, his armoured fingers grinding into the palms of his hands.

"One last question" he said, taking a deep breath "How's Aegis' relationship with Aria? 'cuz guaranteed she'll know if he's around."
 

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Verahl:

"We're essentially looking at capturing a smuggling ring," Verahl said to Dregger. "We want them alive and detained so they can be...negotiated... With."

Lux stepped forward from the others and paced around Dregger for a moment, sizing the other Krogan up.

Seems strong. Hard armour plating. Decent weapons. Doesn't appear to have any markings though. Some kind of pretty boy? We'll have to see.

He stopped when he had passed from his right side to his left, satisfied. He'd have to wait to see what Dregger was like in a fight before passing any more judgement.

"If you have any questions, I can answer them. The men I lead though have proven their worth. They're strong and dependable," he said, as his gaze left Dregger, and fell onto the rest of them. "We'll have to see if the rest of you fit that same mould."

"One last question, how's Aegis' relationship with Aria? 'cuz guaranteed she'll know if he's around."

The moment John asked, Yossar, Lux, Raven, and Verahl's attention was locked on him. Each was staring at him, as they remembered their last experience with her.

"I'll make this very clear to you," Verahl said, a hostile tone in his voice starting to rise. "If you're going to go to her, you will tell me first. And, after that, if you still decide that you'll be going to Aria to ask her about this, you won't be wearing the armour of this company? That goes for the lot of you as well! There will be no further dealings with her unless directly stated by me and only me. Am I understood?"

Verahl was now glaring directly at John. Batarians were naturally gifted at staring others down. Each of their four eyes drilling into you made it hard to stare back, and made it extremely uncomfortable.

"If you require information like that, find an information dealer. Go to the Shadow Broker if you must, but you will NOT go to Aria."

Rook shifted uneasily as he felt the intensity radiating from Verahl.

"I think you hit a nerve," he whispered before stepping forward a bit and asking a question. "I only have one concern right now boss. I don't want to be sounding rude or anything by this, but if we're going to be heading out in a few hours, I could use a hot meal. Is there anything around here that I can---"

"Dray, the cook. Tell him what you want and he'll make it for you," Verahl said as he turned from John to Rook. "There's also a barracks, training room, and armoury here. If you need a roof, we can provide it."

"Thank you," Rook said as he nodded in understanding. "Now, I know I don't have any other questions. Do you mind if we, you know, get out of here and get ready?"

"We've covered everything," Yossar said as he waved his hand back at the door the four came from. "Down that hall you'll find an open doorway. They'll be a small lobby, and the company secretary. Behind her, stairs and an elevator. Up is the office, down is the common room. Beneath that is training and storage. Bottom level is the prison and med-bay."

"Understood," Rook said as he broke off from the others, and headed into Aegis's base.
 

Viking Incognito

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"What kind of enemy presence is there?" Dregger asked Lux. "And are you having particular trouble in any one area? If so then send me in."
 

Chicago Ted

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Lux:

"Presumably only smugglers, but we can't say for certain yet," Lux said as he moved over to the bar and waited for Krav to fetch some ryncol. "As for trouble, I can't say. We'll see when we get there as to what the situation is and proceed from there."
 

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Verahl:

"Business?" Verahl asked, almost uncertain on how to answer. "Pretty much doubled in size. There's several new recruits now and we're having to break all of them in."

Verahl and Santius were now seated at a table off to the side. He had left the recruits to their own devices, and had gone to Santius after their briefing.

"Didn't expect to have you back so soon. Finish up your business on the Citadel?"
 

lemiel14n3

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Ethan looked at the Doctor for a little while, waiting for a response. Miles, obviously engrossed in whatever was going on on his screen grunted and briefly pulled himself from his screen and dug into a drawer on his desk. "Got these for you while you were away, figured the pain would still be bothering you." He tossed a bottle of pills over to Paladin before returning to whatever he was working on. As Ethan walked out he heard a muffled "Ding! Hell yeah, 96" behind the closed door.

Paladin walked up to mess hall and looked into the fridge, hoping to find something to wash down his pain pills. But it seemed that a shopping run was in order, there was plenty of food, but no drinks. Fuck, it was probably moved over to the bar.

Ethan walked again, into the club and over to the bar. He saw Verahl Lux and Raven addressing the new recruits. He elected not to head over, Verahl would be able to get his point across without his help.

Paladin turned to the bar and called the Batarian over to him. "Hey man, can I get an Arnold Palmer?"
The Batarian turned and blinked, a somewhat surreal thing to see from the four-eyed species. "A what?"
"An Arnold Palmer, it's lemonade and iced tea, you make mixed drinks here, you should have both."
"We have those, I've just never heard of a goddamn Arnold Palmer, gimme a sec, I'll make one." The Batarian pulled two bottles out of a nearby fridge poured the contents together into a glass and handed the result to Paladin. "Enjoy" he said flippantly before grabbing a rag and muttered "Arnold Palmer" along with a few expletives the translator didn't catch washing glasses. Ethan popped two of the pills, and washed them down with a swig of his drink.

Ethan saw that Verahl had finished his little lecture to the new guys. He walked over and extended his hand, "You'll be the new guys then. They call me Paladin, good to meet you."
 

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Lux:

Lux gave a slight growl as he was asked about his clan. It had been years since he had last thought of them. He wasn't pleased to have been reminded by them.

"Clan meaningless," Lux snarled. "Just another word for groups of zealots, bound by blood, fighting hopeless wars that will only hasten their deaths. If you're still obsessed with them, fine, but you will not place me in some worthless rivalry over whose quad you came from."
 

Viking Incognito

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"Good. We share Ideals. If you had said otherwise I would have had to consider that you might want to kill me." Dregger casually explained this as if it weren't important at all.

"I've made some enemies among our kind and I pride myself on my caution. But enough about that. I want to ask you about the others. How skilled do you think all these people are. I think I have an idea but you have actually fought with them o you would know."
 

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"If you require information like that, find an information dealer. Go to the Shadow Broker if you must, but you will NOT go to Aria."

Ohh, there's some bad blood there John thought to himself. Lifting his hand to shoulder level, he looked Verhahl straight in his lower eyes "I ment no offence boss, just figured I'd ask first."

"I think you hit a nerve"

"I'm good at that" John whispered back, before Rook got out of ear shot. Hearing Paladin's greeting John turned and shook his hand "Good to meet you, my names John." Seeing that the offical bit was over, he retreaved his gear and made for Aegis' base. "If nobody minds I'm gonna catch some rack time before all the fun."
 

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Wires staggered into the club. "I BRING A SECURITY MECH AND THREE wait... urrmmm... TWO BOTTLES OF WINE! (hic)" Wires' LOKI mech walked in behind him.

"I AM WIRES' SERVANT. I AM PROGRAMMED WITH EVERY INSULT KNOWN TO EVERY RACE IN THE GALAXY, INCLUDING THE INFERIOR HUMANS." stated the mech in it's robotic female voice.

The LOKI walked up to John while Wires was fiddling with his Omni Tool. "YOUR MOTHER WAS A VORCHA AND YOUR FATHER DESERTED IN THE FIRST CONTACT WAR".

"I have a hangover that could kill a Vorcha... cures anyone?" complained Wires.

"...you still can't go on my ship..."

"Oh yeah, I didn't see Verahl last night..." thought Wires...

"Excuse me gentlemen, I'll leave you in the company of my mech, oh and don't shoot it... it's rigged to explode... yeaaaaah... my bad... I couldn't disable it... have fun!" announced Wires with a cocky grin.

As Wires started going in the direction he assumed was the right way he heard "AND YOUR FATHER SMELT OF ELDERBERRIES". Wires cracked up... always one of his favourites.
 

lemiel14n3

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Paladin saw the cocky idiot "walk" through the club. He had himself facing the new recruits casually talking with them, typical introduction stuff. That is until he head the word "explode".

Ethan simply dropped his glass, letting it crash on the floor and ran over to the Mech. He wanted people safe, but he wasn't about to get that close to an active bomb. He used his biotics to hurl the LOKI out of the club's doors and onto the street outside. There was the sound of a few civilians that weren't interested in drinking running away from the crash of the mech, at least ensuring there wouldn't be many civilian casualties.

The mech crashed onto its back, there was a slight delay as its programming reacted to this new information, and it's motors activated, beginning to lift it up.

Ethan hurried over and brought up his omni tool, before the mech had the opportunity to rise or worse, explode. He keyed in the sequence for overload and watched as sparks flew out of its servos. then gave it a quick delay before zapping it a second time for good measure. Comforted that the mech was disabled, he stormed back into the bar.
 

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Lux:

Lux reacted in time with Paladin, drawing his Shredder, and barreling straight into the Salarian. In his drunken stagger, he was easily bowled over, and pinned to the ground. Lux's boot pressed into the side of Wires's face, as he held his machine gun to the back of his head.

"This is a Shredder," he hissed as he prodded the barrel more against his skull. "It's earned its name. If I see you move, or that Omni-Tool so much as flicker, we'll be finding bits of your skull in every corner of this club for the next three weeks!"
 

lemiel14n3

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Paladin stormed back into the bar, shouting at the top of his lungs "What sort of drunk dipshit brings a live goddamn explosive!" Ethan walked up the the Salarian under Lux, he stripped any visible weapons from the idiot before patting him down to assure himself that there were none he had missed. Then threw them across the bar to make sure that he wouldn't be able to use them.

Paladin drew his phalanx pistol and trained it on the Salarian's head. "Alright jackass, you've got thirty seconds to explain yourself before I shut you down like your mech"