Ace leans back sharply as the fog starts to fill the booth, holding his breath lest the smoke prove to be nasty.
As soon as it starts to dissapate & clear enough to see, he exhales slowly out his nose to clear his airways of any residual irritants.
He covers his silence by casually reaching up with his left hand to scratch beneath his nose as if resisting the urge to sneeze, while the right hand subtlely rests beneath the table on his weapon "Just In Case".
When Mister X sends the data across, Ace pulls his Decoy ComLink out to accept the transfer, & immediately sets the Agent to doing a DataSearch for any & all info it can find on the Target named in the file.
He manually scans it for information, grepping the important parts that seem the most pertinent to remember.
A few more taps to set it to transfer the output to his ImageLink, & slips the ComLink back in his pocket.
((Electronics Skill Group, +3(Log) +2(Rating) +1(ComLink): 3, 6, 2, 2, 6, 4.))
He turns his pose into a more casual, "leaning one arm across the back of the couch" sort of Cool, & looks Mister X over to see if he can perceive anything that might prove important.
Just a slow once over as if examining the cut of his clothes, giving a slow & warming smile as he finishes.
((Perception, +3(Int) +3(Rating) +3(CyberSenses): 2, 6, 6, 6, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3.))
If he notices the guy is armed then he'll leave his hand on his gun, the barrel aimed aproximately to put a round into this joker's crotch if he so much as farts wrong.
If no indication is found that he's armed, then Ace will slowly extract his hand to bring it up to rest across the back of the couch, reclining back as if he might stretch his legs across the divide beneath the table & cross his ankles atop the far bench.
(Think "I'm too cool not to look good!" kind of attempt.)
As soon as Mister X mentions the price he's willing to pay for the run, Ace snorts with a smirk & shakes his head as if in amused disbelief.
"No offense Mister X, but I'm worth more than that all by myself. My partner is worth more than that all by himself. Together we're worth a *drek* of a lot more than that.
I'm rather disappointed that you would insult my intelligence in such a fashion. Please, make an offer that doesn't dishonour any of us, and then we can discuss the specifics in greater detail."
((Negotiation, +3(Cha) +2(Rating): 1, 2, 6, 5, 6.))
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