“Guess it’s up to good ole reliable violence.” Cora jokes.

Lu-lu nods to herself, psyching up. “Alright, lu-lu, you got this. Ok!” She saunters over to one of the boat captains flashing her award-winning sparkling smile, flicking her hair out of her face.

”Hello! My name is Tallulah Opal, knight errant of the order of aster. My team and I are investigating a bombing and through our investigations we have reason to believe crucial evidence to solve the case is on that ship.” She points to the ship out in the distance. “Will you help us get out there so we can get one step closer to solving the murder of multiple innocent civilians?” She puts on her biggest glittering puppy dog eyes, pouting her lip out as cutely as possible.

PERSUASION: 21

"Order of Aster? You guys investigate in the city? Got any proof of membership cause this sounds kinda sketchy.... It will cost you pretty lady," he replies looking rather confused and unsure. 

God DAMMIT Hell..first a bag of *****, now THIS!? 

Cora casually uses one hand to move her right greatcoat flap aside, revealing, slowly, attached her thigh, her sword holster. With a flick of her thumb, she unlocks the safety on the holster, letting the blade slide out almost seductively for just a few inches with her slowly moving thumb. 

"Look, **** face. Ask yourself, is tonight the night you REALLY wanna impede Order business? If you don't let us do our job, I can promise you that what's gonna be.."sketchy"..will be the details of your corpse. Is THAT the kind of heat you want right now?" she cocked her head, hoping to dear ******* god he'd say yes. She waited a few moments for an answer, then added. "How much is the cost now?" she asked sarcastically, as if she wasn't satisfied with the first answer.

Lu-lu’s head snaps to the side as Cora unloads a ten days worth of frustration on this captain, almost impressed at the display, eye glued for just a few moments on Cora’s thigh when it was displayed. Lu-lu will wordlessly show the badge of rank to the captain, muttering “Don’t make her mad. We’ve had a really rough time on this investigation. Here’s my badge.” HELP ACTION.

Intimidate: 11

With help: 22

"The cost after threatening me has gone up. Since you lot seem like adventurers, I am sure you can afford to put money into the pockets of me like me. Lets say for 20gp, 5 each, I can get you over to that ship and forget about all this?"

"I believe that those are acceptable terms."

Vincent click his tongue at the roof of his mouth when the indimiation attempt failed terribly, shaking his head as he gets out his coin pouch to pay the man.

Lu-lu hands over her share, “Thats fair.”

Cora’s face turned so red you’d think she was going to pop a blood vessel. She drew her blades, her failure and anger blinding her common sense and restraint. “Why, you fffffflittle-!! It’s four versus YOU, you ****ed with the wrong people..!”

Unless someone physically holds her back shes gonna gut this guy right here and push his body into the bay.

Drusilla will hold Cora back. "Do you usually murder people when they refuse to grant you free service? Put your blades away and give him the gold, like a functional member of society."

"It's not about THAT, you idiot!!" Cora shrugs you off violently and shoves you away. 

13

Still upset about the situation and someone talking to Lu-lu that way, and certainly in no better mood at being mildly chafed by one of her own teammates, especially one she didn't care for, Cora wanted to grab Drusilla by the collar and gave her a nasty headbutt, but instead, whatever sense the rogue had left in her mind told her to give her one final warning as opposed.

"Don't touch me again."

She sheathed her blades, and dropped the gold on the floor.

Vincent only sighs at the events unfolding before him, rubbing his temple to prevent an oncoming headache. “She wouldn’t have needed to touch you if you could control yourself, Cora. We don’t have all the time in the world to be arguin’. Let’s get on with it, yeah?” Children, I swear.

"Shut up, Vincent." she says back, walking on to the boat. "I get shit done my way, you guys get shit done your way, ok?"

Vincent gives Cora an incredulous look, following behind her. "Did you forget we're on a team? That this ain't the ****in' 'Cora show'? You can't just 'do your own thing' without ropin' us all into it, get it? You do somethin' stupid, we all end up gettin' in trouble because of it. So drop this stupid ass lone wolf bullshit and use your damn brain, or this thing we got goin' here ain't gonna last long." After years of dealing with the rouges kind, both in the Flaming Fist and otherwise, Vincent was truly tired of people who acted the way she did.

"I have a better idea. How about you go **** yourself, too?" Cora turned, sick of the accusations. "I know we're on a team, VINCENT, I know this isn't the 'Cora show', and I don't ALWAYS just "do my own thing". In fact, i've stayed pretty quiet this whole time, or did you get hit upside the head a few times to notice? We've all had ideas, we've all had moments, and we ALL do stupid things, so, I put up with all of you, too. I'm ******* upset, alright!? So back off and stop thinking for a god damn second you know anything about me."

Besides, some "team" we are..when it gets hot, both of you mother ****ers were nothing but unhelpful and not encouraging. Both of you can eat my ass."

Vincent doesn't bother retorting, instead just shaking his head disappointedly and backing off. They had a mission to do and he wasn't going to let someone who was unable to control their anger get in the way of it

"Lu-Lu, make sure that she doesn't murder the captain." Drusilla says before following Vincent's lead and leaving.

Lu-lu’s head is spinning as this drama unfolds, at a loss for words as the others walk off. She turns to the captain, “Give is a moment.” She motions to Cora to follow her over to a side street to talk privately.

”Are you alright? I know it’s been stressful trying to get to the bottom of this, and I’m certain the others are also feeling the stress. Let’s get through this night, ok? I would give you a hug if I didn’t think that that was the LAST thing you wanted right now.” Lu-lu watches Cora intently with eyes full of concern for her friend.