CR Cragsand S2E23: Reinforcing the Gates

===Chapter 23: Reinforcing the gates===
====New work orders====
Reeza comes by the shop, returned after being rescued and offers a Mars corp pistol. Sten being very interested purchases it for 30k credits, no questions asked. Morningstar has a package to deliver to Femi. Shiloh comes collecting the completed helmet and gave Sten an extra tip in exchange for not telling anyone.
Torok enjoys his breakfast while hammering out some ingots and Prowler walks in on him speaking of murdering. Juno has grown back both her legs and charges in asking Torok to join her in exploring a mushroom cave and they storm off, going with Willie. Before heading out he gets to work seeing if he can manufacture ammunition fitting the mars guns.
Prowler is working on plans for the armor of Sheilas crab friend and mentions having done a job for Riley at Talaris with weapons promised as future pay. Asking Sten not to tell anyone about it said that if he got a hold of another corporate rifle he would share it with Sten to pick apart and possibly manufacture. Sheila comes and pays up front for the work for armoring her crab friend and seeing as she helped supply valuable metals they agreed on 6.000 credits 
The bar is closed and Sten walks around town looking for Anna. On the way he bumps into a robed figure with a similar cybernetic face as Horizon, looking mighty suspicious they're looking for Horizon or the wolf-looking guy "Gamir" who they find.
A stranger who looks an awful lot like Jimothy walks in wearing bloody robes and mismatched clothing. Sten asks his name and he says "Garth Gun" which is probably a lie but Sten still asks if he's looking to purchase anything. Garth is but he doesn't have any money, so no luck there. He worryingly tells of having escaped from some hospital, painting a picture of madness but regardless, Sten still welcomes him to the other group of misfits who live in Scrap Town.Twitch Clip - Jimothy's long lost brother? Garth Gun Running into Jimothy later Sten brought up the possibility of him having a long lost brother. When mentioned Jimothy he gets visibly upset about it, knowing of Garth he denied any resemblance. What was most peculiar though, was Jimmy mentioning that someone from Sonitii supposedly told him that he had many "clones" made of him in the past. Maybe there is a whole swarm of Jimothies out there?!Twitch Clip - Wait what... Jimothy has clones!?
Henderson reminds that he's expecting help working on the gates and tells that he is getting a bribe in the form of corporate guns from the big orc guy from Mars in exchange for Scrap Town locals to tolerate them and treat them nicer. Seeing corpos enter the scrap yard to speak to McCuldger, Sten decides to observe at a distance in case whatever deal he is making goes south. Another corp looking man wearing black armor comes asking for "his friends" as well as giving a description that matches Femi and Gamir but Sten decides not to give him any answers. When someone speculated that they may be Astral Corp, Sten made himself very clear that that they shouldn't be giving these folk any information at all, being undoubtedly up to no good in town.
====Racing?====
A newcomer named Jeremy asks to borrow some tools to repair a synth he found with Prowler in the salt flats. Appreciating the skill of another craftsman he lends him tools. The synth looks like he is of good quality for having been buried under sand for a long period of time and proceeds to make an elaborate introduction. With a fanfare and pose the synth shows his flashy ID and designation - SP-33D-RCR - Speedracer? The ID clearly says "Property of Atlantis" has music and flashing holograms, guess there are "regular ID:s", then there's "Atlantis ID:s". Sten tells Jeremy that if he intends to keep him he's going to have to find a way to chip off the Atlantis logo and remove his branding. With talks of hosting races he could sure spice things up in town, adding to entertainment other than the bloodsport at the arena.
An expensive looking synth approaches and asks for Mr Prowler and after a chat she runs some sort of pawn shop named "Voxine's odds and ends" in the undercity kept on the down-low, only reachable on radio channel 13 for trade. When asked if she has any corporate weapon parts for sale she answers that its become "harder for them to go missing lately", clearly a pirate and fence of some sort she also claims to have access to GU rifle schematics and corp ammunitions. Claiming no corporate allegiance trading with her could proove quite lucrative.
====Astral Company manhunt====
Interrupted by loud gunfire in the distance Sten moves closer carefully, keeping out of sight. Over as quick as it started rumors spread quickly. Words later spread that The Astral Company mercs were indeed hunted down the beastkin, and with the intent to kill. Spotting Gamir injured outside the gates Juno is called over to help. Growing quite a gathering Ront shouts for people to clear out to avoid bringing attention to them. Running into Hank, Sten tells him of the situation, the doctor seems to be limping a bit after having his procedure, and he mentions fearing it may grow back or something. 
====Upgrades====
Speaking to Jyggal she tells of the new fish-person in town, them supposedly being a cannibal as they eat their own kin. Trying to stay positive Sten reasons that protein is protein and in an emergency if that is all you have, it is all you have and can't blame them for not wasting resources. As long as they doesn't go seeking it out though, thats a whole other hot potato. Wisp and her tiny friend Niko stop into the shop looking for a wolf-man named Fenris and Jyggal, trying to sell guns to them they pass on it for now. Setting sights on Jyggal she starts to squeal in happiness and exclaims - "my owner!" - guess the mystery of who she made that pet arrangement has been solved.
Ordering a drink and a whole bottle at The Stray Dog Sheila zooms by paying or it, something unexpects from the local shaman. Anna is back and offers a fresly baked bun on the house, baked from above with some fruit in the middle. She tells that her shop has been overrun by little critters. More and more show up, one hamster seems to fancy Sean, resting on his head and climbing onto his shoulder. A flying bug-looking one fancies Anna but flies away. 
Cacti Charles returns some shiny scrap from a run. Sten offers him 4.000 credits for them and tells him to consider his payment for the gun settled. Heading to the Row Sten tells him he might tag along to trade but gets interrupted by Toolbox telling that "McCuldger is speaking McCuldger" at the gate. Taking the hint that he's turned into his old ranting and raving self Sten joins him and Gungir in reinforcing town entrance, preparing the container palisades to be able to support a machined gate.
While working on the gate Sheila barges into town, riding on "Crabby", some of the newcomers are frightened at first but Sten and more explains that giant scorpion is friendly and easily recognizable from the tribal markings Sheila painted on his carapace. Moving through town and carefully coming to a rest in front of the smithy, Sheila whispers calming worlds to the beast as Sten brings out his measurement tape and gets to work. Toolbox assists and get some measurements up top. 
Relaxing at the bar the place gets overrun by critters, hamsters, slimes and various bugs. Some have already been adopted by the locals as pets. Taking it easy Willie tells he wont make it for tomorrow and Torok asks if he can work all night in the smithy, working on a personal project. He's making a big tower shield for Polka, after he lost his old one. He also asks if he can call Sten something else than "boss man" which Sten didn't really agree to to begin with. Torok suggests "ginger", not really caring he tells him anything is fine. Exhausted from all the work Sten goes to retire early for the day.Twitch VOD: Callous Row RP S2 E23 Reinforcing the gates YouTube
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