Fortune Hunter's Black Market (Open Rp)

[Perxy]

Fortune Hunter's Market

There exists a scarlet Frost who decided that the Lotus' view of the typical Tenno's lifestyle was not for him. Instead, he found himself more fascinated with exploring for ancient rarities and artifacts which would be worth hundreds of thousands of credits individually on the public market had the CORPUS Board let him sell his collection there.

Meet Perxy, the Fortune Hunter.
With the help of Eclipse, a Shade sentinel who has saved Perxy's rear end on far too many occasions to keep track of, and two Infested (An Ancient Disruptor and a Leaper) who both managed to remain relatively docile and intelligent after the infestation process, Perxy set up a business in which people can either hire him as a mercenary/supplier to acquire certain items for them or people can come visit his dojo to make a purchase from his collection of possibly illegal rarities instead.

Here at his dojo, one will be able to take a tour and see the vast collection of artifacts, relics, mods, and items Perxy managed to successfully hunt down during his exploration runs. Should one be interested in making a purchase, one may speak with any of the four to arrange a deal.

People of all sorts come to this dojo to check out the inventory and see what they could get that the standard Corpus markets do not sell. Do not be surprised at the sight of high ranking officials. They know what they're here for and so should you.

"Anything a person could want, I'm the guy they send to get it.
Rare and invaluable wine from centuries ago? Easy.
Prebuilt and heavily modified weapons from a ruined alien race? Got em.
Buttons that might erase all life in the system when pressed? Got that too.
A date and love hotel night with a certain infamous Grineer Captain? I got you covered, Yuikami.
Whatever you guys want, I can get it."

Enjoy your shopping experience~

Character Speech reference:
"Perxy"
-< Eclipse >-
//Ancient Disruptor//
\\Leaper\\


PS: We now have peanut butter thanks to Eclipse's efforts at recreating the Old Earth peanut.

Edited March 22, 2014 by Perxy

[Aka_Miso]

Can you get me a girlfriend and if so how much

[SnaleKing]

Can you get me a girlfriend and if so how much

 

((Thus began the age-old trade of human trafficking.

 

Though in all seriousness, this seems really cool))

[Perxy]

((Thus began the age-old trade of human trafficking.

 

Though in all seriousness, this seems really cool))

 

((Come and get your weapons of galactic destruction here for a cheap price of only 250 platinum; life insurance not included))

 

Can you get me a girlfriend and if so how much

"Depends on who you want, lad."

[Sumika1204]

A message is sent in, asking, "Can you get a hydrodynamic spatula with port and starboard attachments and turbo drive?"

[Perxy]

A message is sent in, asking, "Can you get a hydrodynamic spatula with port and starboard attachments and turbo drive?"

Taking a look at the message, Eclipse went over to Perxy and let him take a read.

Perxy stood there for about a couple of minutes rereading the message over and over again.

"The hell is a hydrodynamic spatula?"

The fortune hunter did acquire many relics over the years, but he did not bother to learn the names of each item he collected.

Eclipse does that for him.

-< Perxy, the inventory shows that there was such an item here. However, it was sold to a Corpus not too long ago. >-

"Is there not another one?"

-< Unlikely. It is an old Earth relic. >-

Looks like the fortune hunter will somehow have to 'repossess' a previously sold item. Leaving the two infested to look over the market, Perxy and Eclipse left to go find that a former customer of theirs and reacquire the spatula. It did not take too long as it seems the Corpus who bought it was unable to use it and had planned to return to the market to complain.

Perxy traded the Corpus something else in the meantime to appease the man and returned to the dojo with the spatula in hand.

Eclipse sent back a message to the client stating the item was in stock and available for purchase.

"But seriously though. What the hellion is a hydrodynamic spatula?"

Edited March 20, 2014 by Perxy

[Drakeardian]

A message is sent in, asking, "Can you get a hydrodynamic spatula with port and starboard attachments and turbo drive?"

((Hang on a tick!))

[Sumika1204]

Taking a look at the message, Eclipse went over to Perxy and let him take a read.

Perxy stood there for about a couple of minutes rereading the message over and over again.

"The hell is a hydrodynamic spatula?"

The fortune hunter did acquire many relics over the years, but he did not bother to learn the names of each item he collected.

Eclipse does that for him.

-< Perxy, the inventory shows that there was such an item here. However, it was sold to a Corpus not too long ago. >-

"Is there not another one?"

-< Unlikely. It is an old Earth relic. >-

Looks like the fortune hunter will somehow have to 'repossess' a previously sold item. Leaving the two infested to look over the market, Perxy and Eclipse left to go find that a former customer of theirs and reacquire the spatula. It did not take too long as it seems the Corpus who bought it was unable to use it and had planned to return to the market for a refund.

Perxy traded the Corpus something else in the meantime to appease the man and returned to the dojo with the spatula in hand.

Eclipse sent back a message to the client stating the item was in stock.

 

A return message read, "Excellent. How much for it?"

 

((Hang on a tick!))

 

((Did someone get the reference?))

Edited March 20, 2014 by Sumika1204

[JJKDrake]

A return message read, "Excellent. How much for it?"

 

 

 

((Did someone get the reference?))

 

((Yeah the episode of SpongeBob where he's trying to get hired at the Krusty Krab))

[Perxy]

A return message read, "Excellent. How much for it?"

 

 

((Did someone get the reference?))

"I wouldn't know why you'd want this of all things, but alright. Starting price is 350k credits. If you have to ask, most of the price is due to that turbo drive."

-< Commence Haggling. >-

[Sumika1204]

"I wouldn't know why you'd want this of all things, but alright. Starting price is 350k credits. If you have to ask, most of the price is due to that turbo drive."

-< Commence Haggling. >-

 

"Credits are no object when it comes to such a rarity. I will send someone with the payment to retrieve for me.", came another message and before long, a Corpus Crewman holding a briefcase walked in. He placed opened up the briefcase to reveal the credit chits inside which made up the required amount. "I am here to collect that spatula and I have the payment here."

[Perxy]

"Credits are no object when it comes to such a rarity. I will send someone with the payment to retrieve for me.", came another message and before long, a Corpus Crewman holding a briefcase walked in. He placed opened up the briefcase to reveal the credit chits inside which made up the required amount. "I am here to collect that spatula and I have the payment here."

"Whatever you say."

Perxy hands over the whatchamacallit spatula to the Corpus acting as the client's proxy while Eclipse checks over the credits again.

"Ah, and don't point that thing at people when prepping the turbo drive. Safety reasons."

It seems as though Perxy may have messed around with the spatula at an earlier time only to cause a bit of an accident. He made no hint that it was he who did it, though, and finished up the deal.

"Enjoy."

(( Is the client going to make Krabby Patties or something?))

[Sumika1204]

"Whatever you say."

Perxy hands over the whatchamacallit spatula to the Corpus acting as the client's proxy while Eclipse checks over the credits again.

"Ah, and don't point that thing at people when prepping the turbo drive. Safety reasons."

It seems as though Perxy may have messed around with the spatula at an earlier time only to cause a bit of an accident. He made no hint that it was he who did it, though, and finished up the deal.

"Enjoy."

(( Is the client going to make Krabby Patties or something?))

 

The Crewman nodded and left with the spatula.

 

((The client is going to keep it in a display case and brag about having an ancient artefact in his possession.))

[Perxy]

Business on the slow side, Perxy left to travel around again, this time taking along the Ancient Disruptor whose name shall temporarily be Cthulhu and leaving the sentinel and Leaper to look over the shop.

[Wrath_Of_Chrysalis]

A message from an unknown sender arrives. "Well...I see you have a sort of Black market going on. I can make a deal with you. If you get any surviving Gyroog eggs, I want them. My friend is already working to fix what doomed us, you will bring us back, Perxy."

The message cuts off.

[Perxy]

A message from an unknown sender arrives. "Well...I see you have a sort of Black market going on. I can make a deal with you. If you get any surviving Gyroog eggs, I want them. My friend is already working to fix what doomed us, you will bring us back, Perxy."

The message cuts off.

Having received the message while Perxy was away, Eclipse decided that it would be best to wait at the dojo until he returns seeing as how having only one infested overseeing the sales and tours can lead to a bit of trouble rather than going after him.

-< On second thought, his fighter is has a deep space communication device installed. I can send the message via that. >-

And so the sentinel sent the message to Perxy's ship, returning to help the Leaper afterwards.

[E.M.P-DeathLegacy]

A message from the Black Frost Prime, EMP is sent in: "can you get me a laser katana with a dragon drawn on it made of bedrock with a chain wraped around it"

[Perxy]

A message from the Black Frost Prime, EMP is sent in: "can you get me a laser katana with a dragon drawn on it made of bedrock with a chain wraped around it"

Eclipse processed the message and sent one back to the sender asking for specifications regarding the requested item.

Creating the item is a simple task for a sentinel with many Earth years of experience on forging, but when given an order without enough details on what specs are wanted, it gets a tad difficult.

[Perxy]

A message from an unknown sender arrives. "Well...I see you have a sort of Black market going on. I can make a deal with you. If you get any surviving Gyroog eggs, I want them. My friend is already working to fix what doomed us, you will bring us back, Perxy."

The message cuts off.

After several earth cycles spent hunting down Gyroog eggs and narrowly avoided certain death with a surviving mother Gyroog while recovering the requested items, Perxy and the Ancient return to their black market in one piece though the same cannot be said for his fighter which had been heavily damaged from an ambush by a few ambitious hunters who also had their eyes set on the eggs, leaving Perxy and his current crew unable to leave the dojo until the fighter is repaired.

"Which, of course, is going to take a while. I knew there would be others waiting for someone to do the hard part of the job so that they can just snatch away the prize, but damn there was a lot more than I expected. Shield generator needs a new fuse, reactor needs to be replaced, the hull has been breached and torn just about everywhere, left engine is shot, and don't even get me started on the weapons... Oh man, this is going to cost me a bit."

-< But did you die? >-

"Oh shut up, you."

He gave Eclipse the cluster of eggs for confirmation that what was retrieved was indeed the genuine article. Eclipse scanned the eggs several times over and concluded that the eggs were not simply well crafted knock offs of the originals.

The sentinel made a call to the client stating that the requested items have been retrieved and were ready for pick up at the dojo.

Perhaps the payment for the job would help with most of the repair costs.

Edited March 22, 2014 by Perxy

[Wrath_Of_Chrysalis]

After several earth cycles spent hunting down Gyroog eggs and narrowly avoided certain death with a surviving mother Gyroog while recovering the requested items, Perxy and the Ancient return to their black market in one piece though the same cannot be said for his fighter which had been heavily damaged from an ambush by a few ambitious hunters who also had their eyes set on the eggs, leaving Perxy and his current crew unable to leave the dojo until the fighter is repaired.

"Which, of course, is going to take a while. I knew there would be others waiting for someone to do the hard part of the job so that they can just snatch away the prize, but damn there was a lot more than I expected. Shield generator needs a new fuse, reactor needs to be replaced, the hull has been breached and torn just about everywhere, left engine is shot, and don't even get me started on the weapons... Oh man, this is going to cost me a bit."

-< But did you die? >-

"Oh shut up, you."

He gave Eclipse the cluster of eggs for confirmation that what was retrieved was indeed the genuine article. Eclipse scanned the eggs several times over and concluded that the eggs were not simply well crafted knock offs of the originals.

The sentinel made a call to the client stating that the requested items have been retrieved and were ready for pick up at the dojo.

Perhaps the payment for the job would help with most of the repair costs.

"Bloody hell...you actually found a mother!? I have no words to say about that. But you got the eggs...

In the end, YOU gave the Gyroog a second chance. Most survivors went feral after a couple millennium, so do not use her as a base. Perxy...I will pay almost anything for the eggs. 

Commander Jrogar of the Gyroog Council, signing out. I shall see thee in a few hours."

[Perxy]

"Bloody hell...you actually found a mother!? I have no words to say about that. But you got the eggs...

In the end, YOU gave the Gyroog a second chance. Most survivors went feral after a couple millennium, so do not use her as a base. Perxy...I will pay almost anything for the eggs.

Commander Jrogar of the Gyroog Council, signing out. I shall see thee in a few hours."

-< Should we set a price equal to the cost of the mission request? >-

"Hmm... What do the three of you think?"

// Our arses were a hair's width away from getting capped just getting to the nest and getting out. //

-< Your fighter was ambushed by a large contingent of other hunters along with a mix of bandits and returned heavily damaged. >-

\\ The four of us are going to be stuck here unable to go out on more missions and explorations unless our preferred method of transportation is repaired meaning that we'd be losing quite a bit of potential profit. \\

"Right then. Price decided."

Considering that the client seemed to be willing to foot whatever bill the Fortune Hunters gave him, Perxy decided to charge the price of the mission which was based on the difficulty and the value of the eggs along with the cost of repairing and refitting his fighter; all of which amounted to 148,616 Platinum bits, most of which is for the repairs alone as the fighter was a personally designed, one-of-a-kind ship whose design was based on a powerful space fighter developed long ago; it would not be easy task to repair such a vessel as extensive knowledge regarding both the original base and the current build was necessary along with the proper tools.

"I normally would not like to charge a client for more than simply the mission request and the item ordered even if they were willing to pay just about whatever price I could want, but my fighter, one of this black market's main sources of income as a multipurpose method of transportation, has been crippled which leaves me and my crew in a bit of a pickle, especially when we get more requests from other clients that would require travelling throughout the system. I'd like to fix that problem as quickly as possible and therefore hope you understand the rather hefty price. Of course, I would not expect you to pay it all off at once unless you wished to."

// I would've charged fifty thousand more.//

"Pay no mind to him. He's just venting since the first mission I brought him on after while nearly resulted in the loss of his precious facial features."

Edited March 22, 2014 by Perxy

[Drakeardian]

A video message would come in, The message reviles a dark violet Loki Tenno, with lights flickering about him, the background would hear a grineer groaning and trying to shout but it's muffled for some reason

 

"I do know this is a VERY awkward time bu" The Loki struggles a bit and finally says "Oh why so serious?" And the Loki does some sort of motion and a crack is heard before silence rings out "That's better"

 

"See I was busy doing some stuff when..." He shows a broken Fang Dagger "THIS HAPPENS!" Shouts the Loki "How am I expected to give smiles to the good ladies and gentleman of the Galaxy when I don't have a dagger to support it! Please I beg of you! Send me a nice, shiny pair of daggers that's good enough to cut...um..." The Loki looks behind him and does a few pointing motions with his hands "342 Grineer troops down including the captain?" says the Loki as he lets off a mad laugh.

 

The Video ends there.

Edited March 22, 2014 by Drakeardian

[Perxy]

A video message would come in, The message reviles a dark violet Loki Tenno, with lights flickering about him, the background would hear a grineer groaning and trying to shout but it's muffled for some reason

 

"I do know this is a VERY awkward time bu" The Loki struggles a bit and finally says "Oh why so serious?" And the Loki does some sort of motion and a crack is heard before silence rings out "That's better"

 

"See I was busy doing some stuff when..." He shows a broken Fang Dagger "THIS HAPPENS!" Shouts the Loki "How am I expected to give smiles to the good ladies and gentleman of the Galaxy when I don't have a dagger to support it! Please I beg of you! Send me a nice, shiny pair of daggers that's good enough to cut...um..." The Loki looks behind him and does a few pointing motions with his hands "342 Grineer troops down including the captain?" says the Loki as he lets off a mad laugh.

 

The Video ends there.

Upon watching the video message, Perxy went on over to the weapons locker in the lower levels of the dojo and fumbled around the CQB portion of the arsenal. He picked out a set of Fang Prime and moved them to a work table to polish and shine the blades. He took his time to do so in order to make sure that not even a tiny smidgen of the two daggers was unable to give a clean reflection of him as he examined them every now and then.

Satisfied with the shine and quality of the daggers, Perxy made a call to the origin of the video message.

Of course, the chances of the client picking up from there is unlikely, but it wouldn't hurt to try.

"Fortune Hunter here. Your Fang Primes are ready for pick up unless you want me to add a little more 'oomph' to them."

[Drakeardian]

Upon watching the video message, Perxy went on over to the weapons locker in the lower levels of the dojo and fumbled around the CQB portion of the arsenal. He picked out a set of Fang Prime and moved them to a work table to polish and shine the blades. He took his time to do so in order to make sure that not even a tiny smidgen of the two daggers was unable to give a clean reflection of him as he examined them every now and then.

Satisfied with the shine and quality of the daggers, Perxy made a call to the origin of the video message.

Of course, the chances of the client picking up from there is unlikely, but it wouldn't hurt to try.

"Fortune Hunter here. Your Fang Primes are ready for pick up unless you want me to add a little more 'oomph' to them."

The Loki didn't show but in his place was a Red Rhino "Who the hell is this?! How'd you get my comm signal?!" shouted the Rhino with some degree of anger

[Perxy]

The Loki didn't show but in his place was a Red Rhino "Who the hell is this?! How'd you get my comm signal?!" shouted the Rhino with some degree of anger

"Fortune Hunter Perxy here. You don't sound like the client from earlier nor look like him. It seems he used your comm signal since I was attempting to return the client's call and reached you instead of the client himself."

Perxy placed the Fang Prime daggers in a small containment unit the client came by to pick it up but remained a bit baffled that the origin of the video message was from the comm signal of a red Rhino when the client was somewhat clearly a purple Loki. 

"It's one thing for an client to order something, but how exactly am I going to get his package to him if I have little clue as to where he is and am unable to contact him?"

Even worse is that if he did manage to make contact with the Loki, Perxy was unable to leave the dojo as his fighter is still undergoing repairs.

Already this situation did not sit well with the fortune hunter. If only he could get someone with an excellent set of engineering skills and knowledge on ship-building to come and speed up the repairs; several of Corpus techs who built his fighter from before had been killed in engagements around the system and the others were likely unable to leave their positions. 

"If only I had been more careful on that last mission..."

Perxy let out a sigh and continued to oversee the repairs on the fighter, leaving his sentinel the job of figuring out how to contact the client.