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STATE ZERO | Hired Guns

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Bento nods, and takes a few moments before deciding to ask for the forward payment. "How our protocol normally works, is we get a small fraction of our pay as a forward. Let's say...$30?" Jacob questions, hoping the woman wouldn't argue. After his search of the ship and seeing what they had, he decided it wasn't worth it trying to hold up the ship.
 
"All $200 is in the box," she says, glancing up from her workbook and gesturing to the lock box on her desk with her eyes.
 
"I understand that. You mean for me to take it now, before we leave?" Jacob questions, not understanding whether or not she understood this foward payment thing, or if she was just trying to pay him fully upfront. He also decides that, before deciding whether or not they rob the ship, he and his squadmates will see what their reward could be if they did so.
 
"Look dude, here's the money. Take it. If you're not going to do the job, just leave it there and walk out. You're wasting my time. There's two hours until we depart and I need to make sure my numbers are right," she says, clearly agitated.
 
"No ma'am, we'll be taking the job. Have a good voyage," Jacob says to her, before walking out of her shack and back onto the main part of the ship, taking the box of money with him.

At this point, he will tell Yu to go collect the canned meat as well for their payment, and then Squad 1 will investigate what exactly they have on board.
 
Rosaline doesn't bother to respond. Matthew Yu hauls the crate of canned meats to the sedan and drives it out of town to William Hansen's position. He returns within the hour. On the ship, called the SS Camelback, you aren't allowed entry into the cargo hold. There's two armed men guarding it, two of the seven sailors seen previously. They're armed with an assault rifle and an assault shotgun.
 
Jacob, deciding it wasn't worth sacrificing a few of his men for whatever was in the cargo hold, decides to officially give up the plans to heist the ship. The drivers are told to go to Eagle Rock and await picking up the mercenaries on the ship when the contract ends. Until the SS Camelback departs, Jacob and his company simply take up defensive positions on the ship, forming patrol routes and strategizing putting their longest range capable soldiers into higher positions on the ship with more sightlines.
 
After two hours of preparation, Rosaline Davidson boards the ship. She walks up to the bridge. The boat slowly begins to chug away from the dock as a plume of smoke out pours from the ventilation system at the back of the ship. The sailors either rest in their cabins or go around maintaining the ship. You and your mercenaries are posted up in several locations on the ship, peering into the blue.
 
Bento stands in the center of the ship with his rifle shouldered, looking out into the ocean with Matthew by his side. The two of them exchange small talk as they watch the horizon, and Jacob also decides to take notice and see if that RB-M boat had came along with the SS Camelback.
 
Over the radio, Emil Rhynard reports that the two guards that were previously guarding the cargo hold have entered the bridge, leaving the cargo hold unattended. He also reports that the other sailors on board have moved into the bridge without an order that would be known to your crew.
 
Jacob thanks Emil for his report, and tells him to follow up and try to get a look at what is going on in the bridge; even the simple fact of knowing that he is not allowed in due to guards would be useful intel to him. But if that were the case, that means there's way more secrecy on this boat than Jacob thought.
 
Jacob chuckles. "Emil, new order. Get another mercenary with you and watch that door. Make sure I know about it if they come out," Jacob says, before quietly summoning a group of his mercenaries to steal from the cargo with. Whatever they could carry on their persons and not look obvious that they were hiding something. Bento himself searches for anything big, like large sums of money or weapons.
 
Bento cusses and looks around, looking for anything like a camera that might be surveying him, thinking Rosaline might be trying to catch the group red handed.

After, he tries to judge the distance between the bridge and the cargo hold. He inspects the door, trying to decipher whether it's lock can be manipulated.
 
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There aren't any cameras set up to be watching the rest of you and your crew. It's about 4.5 meters from the doors down into the cargo hold and the observation tower that holds the bridge. The lock itself appears to be a standard padlock, with a keyhole on the bottom.
 
Jacob decides it's not worthy of possibly getting caught, and instead decides that if he needs to loot the cargo hold, he'll just bust down the door.

So, instead of doing anything secretive, Jacob will return to his post and wait for the crew meeting to finish up. Once it does, Jacob will go to see Davidson and ask her directly what was going on, claiming that he had the right to know what is happening on this ship considering he and his men are defending it with their lives.
 
When you try to go the bridge, you find the door is still locked. There is no sight of the guards outside of the bridge.
 
Jacob says fuck it and decides to have a look in the cargo hold, if not to steal anything to at least see what's in there.

He leaves Emil to overwatch the door to the bridge, and let him know when the sailors begin to come out.

He calls for anyone who has knowledge of and equipment to pick the padlock, with enough skill to lock it behind them when they're done with it.
 
Ignacio Voelkerding seems like he's up to the task and grabs a bobby pin and a screwdriver. He starts on the padlock and after a few minutes, he manages to get it open. Opening the wooden door, the cargo hold is dark. Only a few minutes after Ignacio tells you that he finishes opening the padlock, Emil Rhynard radios in, "Boss! There were three shots in the bridge! The door is still locked!"
 
During those minutes between when Ignacio finishes picking the door and Emil reports the gunshots in the bridge, Bento will use any flashlights available to his mercenary company to sleuth through the cargo hold and see what's around. He'll search for and steal suppressors, explosives, body armor, weapons; he'll tell his men to do the same.

When told of the gunshots, Jacob tells his men to all head toward the door into the bridge, taking cover and preparing to breach if he deems it necessary. Who the hell was Davidson killing in there?
 
You find some gun crates that more-than-likely have rifles and whatnot inside of them, however, they all have locks on them and would take time to get through. Other than that, there are crates of food, alcohol, water, construction supplies, and clothes. You and the rest of your men rush and surround the exits from the observation tower, which holds the bridge at the top, and wait for some sign to open fire.

After several minutes and no more sounds of gunfire, the doors remain closed.
 
Jacob himself oversees the stealing of some weapon crates, food, water, and booze, before surveilling Ignacio's relock of the cargo hold before instructing him and Adrian Harper to pick a spot on the ship, preferably some kind of building they could stash the stolen goods in, before taking up a guard duty outside of it, not letting anybody in who isn't with the company.

After this, Jacob himself walks up to the bridge door with his rifle in hand and loudly knocks on it.
 
Your outfit can't find any other structures to hide the loot other than the observation tower, which has access to the below-deck departments, so they decide to just leave it in the cargo hold.

You walk up to the door and knock loudly on it. No response.
 
Bento knocks again, even louder this time, accompanied with a shout. "Someone answer this door or I'll shoot it open!" Jacob declared, determined to understand what the hell is going on aboard the Camelback.
 
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