02/10/2014 - Headache Nightclub (3)
Cyrus investigates further about Merlin from the last mission, who appeared to have Tempest in his drug collection. He was a medical student. He isn’t able to find much.
They resolve that Grant will stay at the luxury hotel as part of his role looking into standing for the election.
Dirk and Ace are staying at the TAS accommodation.
Cyrus and Drent will stay on the ship.
The party meet at Grant’s hotel room and discuss what to do. They look through their list of places to visit and resolve that Drent and Cyrus will go to the Dark Melody Club, while Grant, Dirk and Ace will visit the Headache Nightclub.
Dark Melody
Research shows Dark Melody to be a Goth club in lower Telcos. Drent goes dressed in Ablative & Cloth armour clothing and decides to try to hide his Laser Pistol on him.
Cyrus takes a Body Pistol and his Cane. Ablative waist coat and cloth jacket (duster).
The bouncer on the door spots Drent’s laser pistol. They will have to pay 50Cr each to let him in, but confiscates the laser gun until he leaves.
Drent chats to a guy by the toilet and is offered drugs. He convinces this guy to deal T to him for 40 Cr. Drent will go to credit machine while this guy, Dal, gets the T.
Drent asks Cyrus to help. They need to find out where he gets his drugs from. Cyrus suggests playing the long game over time rather than rushing things. Drent buys the drug T and gets Dal’s contact details for future deals. The T is in a micro injector.
Cyrus gets chatting to a group of youngsters about himself and gets a chance to ask them about things. Make friends for future. One of them has tried T.
Headache Nightclub
Grant, Ace & Dirk go to the Headache Nightclub. It is a loud music club.
Ace - Flak jacket. Body Pistol. Knives.
Dirk – Not armed. Dull clothes.
Grant – Not armed. Tries to dress down but just doesn’t have poor man’s clothing.
They arrive and the music is deafening. They quickly get a headache from it. It is a very rough looking place. They stay an hour. They see a guy dealing T and go to speak to him. He has a device that reduces the music sound but makes your voice sound like a robot. They speak to him about larger quantities of T but he looks suspicious, as he doesn’t have that much. The dealer takes Grant’s details for the future and moves on.
Sampling T
They all return home to their various places. That night, Cyrus tries T. He locks himself in the spare room. It makes him very angry after a short period and he breaks out of the room. He manages to control himself and takes sedative drugs. He acts crazy for a while as the two drugs fight each other in his body, then passes out.
The next day, Drent messages his dealer contact for more information. He wants a large quantity of T, say 50 hits, and arranges to meet in a neutral location to collect them. 1000 Cr cost agreed to, after initially saying don’t have enough money.
Grant agrees to go with Drent to the meeting and they set off. Ace follows at discreet distance on his Grav Floater, watching and monitoring.
When they meet the dealer, he has a couple of tough looking companions and wants to know why Drent wants so much T. Grant quickly response that he is holding a party next week at his place and needs his guests to feel good. The dealer is less suspicious and the sale goes ahead.
Origin of Tempest
When he comes round, Cyrus feels the power of the T addiction. He tries to use some of his drugs to off-set the effect, but he craves for T despite his attempts. It is different from any other drug he has tried. He speculates that its origin must be an exotic and rare alien plant. He is forced to keep himself high on weaker drugs in order to avoid taking more T. His strong will also helps.
The crew work together to try to trace movement of Tempest around the sector.
Despite some good investigation it is not clear exactly where the origins of the drug were, but it is definitely on one side of the sector between Dyvers and the edge of the sector, and area in which Endregaad is in the middle of.
What can they do now? After some discuss they decide to hold the party Grant told the drug deal about, so they can invite people over, get them drunk and find more information about the drug trade.