Welcome to Gaia! ::

One of the first things Joe noticed was a sense that Samantha's smile might be a bit... forced. It became Big Joe's job to be observant in working for Frank D'Amico, Dere might be a lot on de girl's mind..."Thanks Samantha. No that's it..... and thank you." Joe maintained eye contact with the girl -- seeing a hard working girl that may have had one too many bad customers this night.

Big Joe nodded, letting Samantha go. Then the Consigliere sipped his drink and hummed approval, "Dis is pretty good. I'll have to remember to get dis more often."

// moving along with things.... //


ENTER from Gotham

Vandal needn't look far for the "spy" he was momentarily interested in. Emily was now seated on a rooftop a fair distance away from the Lounge. Her stealth suit would guarantee her invisibility from the Lounge's outer security cameras. Now the fun part would be to decide if she wanted to control one of her spy bots from this far away, or try to get closer to the room to read the files that Vandal had left on the floor.

If she did that, she risked the security cameras picking up her movement and alerting Cobblepot. She didn't feel like getting shot at on top of a stitched up back. She would need to be at the window of the room outside Natalia's hidden room. There she risked getting seen by Vandal or Natailia if they were out of the room by now.

Best to go with one of her spy bots. It would take longer, but she had less of a risk of getting caught herself. The bot would break apart if it were caught, and the computer chip would fry itself. Making it virtually untraceable. Plus... she knew where the cameras were in the top floor, and the path she needed the bot to go to avoid being caught.

So, she made herself comfortable on the rooftop. Leaning against the brick wall of the stairwell that led to the roof. The only one she thought could possibly find her here was the... "batman" she heard so much about. He hadn't been seen for weeks though.

She moved one of the bottom bricks from the wall. It was loose, and slid out easily. Revealing the fake brick to the right of it. That brick was hollowed out, and contained a small digital tablet, and one control stick. She pulled both of them out, then turned and placed the tablet on her lap. She turned it on, then plugged the control into the tablet. Once it was on, she pressed a few buttons on the touch screen. Selecting the hidden bot she wanted to operate.

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Inside the Lounge, there was a very faint "whirring" sound from within the secured hallway. A pot containing a large plant, sitting in the corner of the hallway. The back of the pot facing the wall had a small broken piece, that was soon pushed out. A small mechanical "spider bot" walked out. Dirt falling off of it as it walked out and placed the broken piece of clay back into place. There, the small silver machine climbed up the side of the pot and hid itself inside of the flower. Barely pearing out of the pot to gauge it's surroundings and calculate the best course to the room it was commanded to go to.

Sammantha pause for a moment in consideration. She glanced back at the bar where most of the girls who weren't waiting on someone were supposed to huddle around. Unless they were asked by a guest to join them.

"...I have been walking back and forth all day." she said finally as she looked back at Joe. "I'd appreciate it. It's been a long day.." she said, smiling lightly at them.

Sammantha bit her bottom lip slightly and looked back at the bar. Satisfied that no one was going to say anything, she smiled and quickly took a seat at the table with the men. It only took a second or two after that for her to get her feet out of her high heels. A relieved sigh following soon after.

"I've never had jetlag." she admitted. "Never been out of Gotham my whole life."

Sammantha sighed lightly. "Not with my bills I won't be flying anywhere. If I do, it will be when I'm too old to work here and forced to retire from this place." she said, rubbing her feet on the floor. " I'm sure it looks like we make a lot of money here... but it's not as much as you might think. There's a lot that goes into this building." she said.

Sam smirked slightly as Joe spoke. At least he realized that offering to take her away on a nice vacation was something that happened quite a bit around here. And he was nice enough not to try and push the matter or anything.

Her smile fell slightly though as he continued to speak. "I'm sorry to hear that." she replied gently. Gotham though... loosing a friend or an entire family wasn't exactly an unheard of tragedy. "I'm assuming that's one of the reasons you need to see mister Cobblepot as quickly as possible?"