They call me E.T.
[ONLINE]
But In here, I'm Della Mason
I've Roamed these streets for 35
Years
Here's My Card
I Swing To The straight side
I specialize in Getting things from point A to point B. Considering the cargo she is usually carrying this can be a bit more difficult than one would think. Quick reflexes, quicker judgement, and a good memory give her the edge that she needs to stay ahead.
I work for anyone that needs to secretly and securely transport something. In the past she worked a stint for Militech, hooking up their mercenaries with whatever they needed to keep themselves going. Mostly it ended up being drugs, lots of performance ones, but her cash crop was is the recreational area. Now in the city she does runs mainly between source and dealer, but she has smuggled many other things things across boarders.
My cold steel [1] a CZ-75 9mm handgun, it is extremely rare that this makes an appearance as she tends to prefer making tactical retreats
[2] if she is on a run she usually carries some serious military grade smoke grenades, along with one or two tear gas canisters for if she needs to disappear and simply running isn't going to cut it.
[3] a very worn swiss army knife (why mess with the classics)
[4] a hoverboard, this is actually a very special piece of tech that Della had to break a lot of rules to get. Nowadays most of the actual mercs and soldiers favor the Ztech model 13 bike if they are looking for something fast, quiet, and secure. The hoverboards were nice until the mercs started getting heavier upgrades and they realized that having a bit of bulletproof glass between their face and the business end of their targets gun was a nice feature only offered on the bike. This board has the black and green decal that is standard issue for most messengers these days. This inside has some serious upgrades though. The lower end compressors have been replaced with ones that take her from zero to 100 in under five seconds, of course to go with that she has had to improve the hold on the board so the thing just doesn't slip right out from under her feet. Although with that she does have to be careful, at full speed if she makes a sudden stop she will be lucky if only loose both her arms. With 40 feet vertical lift, two powerful electromagnets on the underside, and the ability to remote control the board makes sneaking through the city much easier than if she was to do it on foot.
Here's how it goes Della's story is like most of the sob stories you find. Her parents weren't perfect, they were there, but not perfect. Times were tough and when food became harder and harder to put on the table the young girl of 14 decided to lend a hand. She knew other kids, ants they called them, that ran small deals for people so she had a friend of a friend hook her up with someone. Her first run went well and with the money she earned she was able to put two days worth of food on the table. Fortunately or unfortunately she took to the whole thing. After a lot of practice she could navigate New York blindfolded and memorize any route she learned after only a minute or two. A bit of luck saw her doing bigger and bigger deals until she was smuggling all sorts of goods; drugs, cybernetics, guns, special ammunition, on more than one occasion she even smuggled people around. A good reputation got her a job with Militech for a while but after five years of working that gig she switched back to the cities.
The general size of her runs have gone down at this point but she is making a lot more deliveries than she has in the passed few years.
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While New York doesn't hold quite the excitement militarized zones she can't say that she isn't enjoying it.[/BCOLOR] She has gotten to connect with some old smuggler buddies of hers, well as connected as they can be, just about every smuggler, when on duty, wears a black safety suit (one that pretty much every hoverboard rider wears to give some protection against falls), gloves, and a dark unmarked helmet, with street clothes thrown over the top if they wish. The only way to distinguish one rider from another is to; forcibly stop them and take their mask, or to link into their channel and learn some call signs. Most riders know each other but only from their boards and their call signs, knowing someone's face in this town could cost you your job and your life.
Unfortunately Della has found herself bending some of her own rules after a little boy named Peter got tossed into her life. As odd as it is she owes the boy her life and she is determined to help him until that dept is paid.
Additives some peace and quiet would be a
godsend for Della at this point.
They call me E.T.
[ONLINE]
But In here, I'm Peter Mason (of the Procora)
I've Roamed these streets for 12
Years
Here's My Card
I Swing To The straight side
I specialize in Peter knows strange chuck when he sees it. Raised a nomad he has a certain...talent for looking into the weird and unusual things that seem to pop up from time to time. At the moment Della has been trying to keep him busy, so aside from school work he has been learning to garden and after a rocky start he can now stand on a hoverboard for more than five minutes without falling off. Perhaps what is most helpful is his ability to listen for and recognize patterns, this might not seem like much but if you can see the patterns in all of the chatter of the city then you can start to work out patterns.
I work for Della in some ways. Peter's main "job" right now is school but he has sold some bits of information on all things that go bump in the night and some vegetables when the garden has a generous crop. If neither of those things are enough he monitors the more shady chatter that is out there.
My cold steel [1] a subcompact Glock 30. It is a smaller gun so it is easier for Peter to wield. He very rarely has this on his person, Della has simply told him where it is in the house and he knows how to load and fire it, but it is for emergencies only.
[2] when he was younger he caught a bit of shrapnel in his left eye during a fire fight. His family had enough to have it replaced, but it is not the best model. Cosmetically the color is not the same and the iris looks like a camera shutter if you look closely. Mechanically it is nothing to fancy, sometimes it even has problems coming into exact focus with Peter's other eye but it works. The only special feature is one that Della gifted him, an infrared filter so that he can see in low light. The only problem is that since it only is in one eye his depth perception can get a little wonky.
Here's how it goes Peter comes from a nomad family. His life was the road and he didn't mind it all that much. Imitating the caravans of old a family may have a single truck or more and it is rare just to see a group of one or two traveling. Most often you will see packs of six or more moving together, sometimes spending weeks or months in one spot other times they will not stop moving for a week straight. The problem with moving from place to place is that the territory that you pass is not always friendly.
On a return trip to New York Peter's family settled down for the night about ten miles outside of the city itself. The area itself was a neutral zone of sorts, lots of open stalls and different nomad families scattered about. It wasn't long passed midnight when the first shots were fired and everything went to hell. It was hard to say exactly what happened, a lot of different stories still circulate from that day all that is sure is that whatever sparked the argument quickly got out of hand. A fire fight broke out and in all of the chaos Peter became rapidly seperated from his family. Fires sprang up as fuel tanks burst and ignited from campfires, and as bodies began to pile up the boy ran for cover. An old concrete, service tunnel, half exposed from erosion, offered shelter, but Peter didn't realize that the black thing sticking out of a sizable hole in the side was actually a foot until he hand already clambered inside. Turns out the foot belonged to a very unlucky smuggler named Della. She had been making a run, a small delivery, when the fire fight had broken out and after trying to make a quick get away she had ended up with half of her helmet shattered, a bullet in her hip, and a dislocated shoulder.
So the two found each other and as the fight went on Peter tended to Della, bandaging her up and helping her set her shoulder back into place. Neither can really say why he helped, maybe he really just didn't want to share the shelter with a dead girl. When the dust settled and the both decided it was safe to wander out the clans had dispersed and Peter's family was nowhere to be found. Fast forward a year and Peter is still staying with Della, she has promised to help him find out where his family is and if any other kin can be located. So far Della has got nothing, Peter has told her that he is supposed to have some family in the city, at the very least a grandfather by the name of Glyph, but she has only found dead ends and rumors. As a precaution against any hostile nomads that might recognize his family name and still hold a grudge Peter is borrowing Della's surname for the moment, parading as a cousin that has come to stay for a while.
Additives For all of Della's sour moods Peter has become very good at getting her to bend her house rules.