Sol Damerin
The Grumpiest Merc
Planet: Nar Shaddaa
Location: Some sleazy strip club bar
It has been said many times in the past and will likely be said many times again in the future. Sol hated bodyguard duty. Following around rich assholes while they abused their money and power wasn't fun. Standing around waiting for something to happen wasn't fun. Also, you occasionally got dragged to places you'd really rather not have gone to. For example, a craphole strip club in the least pleasant district of a very unpleasant city. This wasn't the kind of place girls wound up in to pay for university, it was the kind of place you got sold to after you ran up too high of a tab with your spice dealer.
The room was dark because the dim lighting was definitely beneficial to the girls working here. The drinks were monstrously overpriced, for the supposed luxury of being able to drink and be in a strip club at the same time. More pricey places didn't allow that because drunk clients got handsy. Here handsy was encourage though since it often leads to the drunk going off to a back room to pay for some extra service. That was normally frowned upon but here the managers encouraged it and took a cut.
In short, it was the kind of place where you might want to get tested if you just sat down. The only saving grace in all of this was that Sol didn't actually care if his client survived the night. He had been bodyguarding the man, who was the son of a minor lieutenant with one of the various crime syndicates on the planet. The smaller ones that weren't the Hutts. The kid was irritating, overly cocky, and generally thought of himself as a tough guy. A tough guy who had to pay people to hang around him because he was that annoying.
However, he was supposedly in with a major spice supplier by the name of Garza. Garza had a hefty bounty on his head and by willingly putting up with the kid whose name he refused to remember, he'd eventually been invited along to a meeting with Garza. In this strip club. However, the little crap heap had opted to show up early, smoke a few deathstix, drink his weight in alcohol, and amusing get shot down by one of the strippers. Apparently, even these desperate women had some standards.
Location: Some sleazy strip club bar
It has been said many times in the past and will likely be said many times again in the future. Sol hated bodyguard duty. Following around rich assholes while they abused their money and power wasn't fun. Standing around waiting for something to happen wasn't fun. Also, you occasionally got dragged to places you'd really rather not have gone to. For example, a craphole strip club in the least pleasant district of a very unpleasant city. This wasn't the kind of place girls wound up in to pay for university, it was the kind of place you got sold to after you ran up too high of a tab with your spice dealer.
The room was dark because the dim lighting was definitely beneficial to the girls working here. The drinks were monstrously overpriced, for the supposed luxury of being able to drink and be in a strip club at the same time. More pricey places didn't allow that because drunk clients got handsy. Here handsy was encourage though since it often leads to the drunk going off to a back room to pay for some extra service. That was normally frowned upon but here the managers encouraged it and took a cut.
In short, it was the kind of place where you might want to get tested if you just sat down. The only saving grace in all of this was that Sol didn't actually care if his client survived the night. He had been bodyguarding the man, who was the son of a minor lieutenant with one of the various crime syndicates on the planet. The smaller ones that weren't the Hutts. The kid was irritating, overly cocky, and generally thought of himself as a tough guy. A tough guy who had to pay people to hang around him because he was that annoying.
However, he was supposedly in with a major spice supplier by the name of Garza. Garza had a hefty bounty on his head and by willingly putting up with the kid whose name he refused to remember, he'd eventually been invited along to a meeting with Garza. In this strip club. However, the little crap heap had opted to show up early, smoke a few deathstix, drink his weight in alcohol, and amusing get shot down by one of the strippers. Apparently, even these desperate women had some standards.