Snooping around the town (Day 5 Mid Morning)

[Carden Willhol]

"A jet pack? That's adventerous!" He replied with a smirk. "A little too adventerous for me I think, but to each their own right?"

'You're right though, that's just part of what I do and not really the most common part of it. I take a lot more pictures of flora and fauna then I do cheating couples." He paused to try on another hat. "Me too though, it's been alright thus far got some good pictures as i said. Made some alright cash. Hope things work out for you too on the work side, there has to be somethign here for you to do."

[Soleene Stryss]

"Adventurous? It's a way of a life to some Mandalorians as it seems to be their primary mode of transportation. It's a little showy and not always practical, admittedly. But, it would make getting to close combat easier, much easier." She nodded as a note to herself.

"Aw, well," she said with a shrug, trying to be coy about it. "Let's just say I got something lined up. Helping the locals and the community. I take it that you might be working for the local press if you're making good cash? If there's an artistic community here for pictures, I haven't stumbled on it yet."

[Carden Willhol]

"And I take it close combat is what you excel at?" Since she was wanting to get into close combat sooner. Though if he was honest he'd thought her moe the type to shoot someone with a blaster rifle, but then you could never really tell.

"Ah, you don't need a local community to make money off pictures you can do a lot over the holonet." High quality digital images could be sold to collectors across the galaxy and they could print them to whatever size they desired. "I am a bit involved with some of the locals though, everythign helps fill the pockets as it were."

[Soleene Stryss]

"I think I'm decent at it, at least," she chuckled at the question. "Maybe not the absolute best around this city but I wouldn't mind more opportunities to practice and refine. As easy as it is, you just can't go around picking fights, right? There are sure a lot of Imperials that make it tempting."

"I take it that you must be familiar with Mara Kayde around these parts then?" She brought up curious with a tilt of her head.

[Carden Willhol]

She might notice the droids floating above them turn as he pressed a few buttons on his datapad, moments later they were floating around the area inquistively. likely not taking pictures but looking aroudn to see what was up.

"I've heard the name." He replied with a smirk. "Is that who you're doing work with then?"

[Soleene Stryss]

Soleene gave a look around, wondering if she shouldn't have so casually thrown that name around the block. Just a few moments ago, she was suspecting him for being part of the neighbourhood watch, although she didn't think to specify if that would be for the locals or for the Imperials. After a beat, she gave a nod. "Yeah, I suppose I am. I haven't spoken to her that much but she seems like a nice girl at the very least."

[Carden Willhol]

"Yeah, she does seem liek a nice girl, pretty hard working and dedicated too from what i have seen." No one seemed to be around, but you couldn't be too careful when a Mandolorian was talking about working for Mara. That seemed liek the type of information people would want to learn and sell to the imperials or something.

"Not that I know her well either, my friend knows more about her then I do."

[Soleene Stryss]

She gave a few sound nods at that. "From what I heard, she came from a pretty tough place. It wasn't an easy deal for her and decided to dig herself further in which is pretty admirable on her own. That's just the sort of drive that you find in special circumstances. The sort of pressure that would make diamonds, I think."

"Any chance this friend is a green fellow around here?" She asked vaguely.

[Carden Willhol]

"Green? Nto unless he is jealous of something." He said with a shake of his head. "No he's more more tanned and dark haired... Could use a shave too if you ask me." Or to actually commit to a mustache one of the two.

"I take it you're thinking a friend of your own though?"

[Soleene Stryss]

"Yeah, I guess I know someone else. Figures there would be more than one person involved in this. But apparently, this was attempted at Kamda once and didn't do all that well. I just hope we're taking the right steps to do otherwise, although doing all of this 'stuff' is still very much new to me. I've been mostly moving around rubble and scaling walls." She shrugged.

She looked to Carden questioningly. "How about you? Are you experienced in this liberation business?"

[Carden Willhol]

"Not particularly." He replied with a soft chuckle. "I'm more of a take pictures kind of guy myself."

"Sometimes that crosses paths with the liberation stuff, but not often. Well, unless you go hunting for that brand of picture."

[Soleene Stryss]

She nodded soundly. "I guess fighting would go with this liberation business, so it was a matter of time before I crossed paths with them too. There's none of that actually happening yet but that's more in their favour than an unfortunate circumstance. There's still plenty of fighting around here, even if I stay away from that gonk business."

[Carden Willhol]

"Haven't looked into any of the Gonk business myself, not really the kind of place you go for pictures." Gangs in the lower city we're not very photogenic.

"But if a Mandolorian mentioned it I'm guessing they are a real problem."

[Soleene Stryss]

"If you want to look into the story at all. I know there's another Mandalorian around here who's plenty familiar, J-Richo. If you can find him...especially when the Gonks have been getting very personal with people who aren't exactly keen about their business in the first place. From the sounds of it, it almost seems like an entirely different war front...but I haven't heard of a street warfare news correspondent before."

[Carden Willhol]

"Me either." Carden repleid with a chuckle. "So figure i'll pass on that one." This was followed by a shake of his head as the pair of droids settled back over his shoulders. "Unless you think people are dying to hear about the gang war plaquing the lower city?" He finished with a smirk.

Personally CArden thought he'd probably have better luck trying to sell a girls of mandolore calendar.

[Soleene Stryss]

"Hah..." She chuckled a little. "Admittedly, I'm probably curious to hear about the gang war myself. Just because I'm not involved or punching people in the fight doesn't mean I'm a least a little curious about what's going on or even the potential body count. Fear of missing out, kind of? Especially, if it's something potential exciting with action."

[Carden Willhol]

"Well, I suppose if I run across any details I can let you know." He offered after a moment. "The circles I run in usually means someone might know something."

Not that he had many contacts on this world like that. He did have some though.

[Soleene Stryss]

"Well, nothing to get crazy about, just curious about the news. Maybe I could trade something with you, although my ear on the ground isn't as close as I would like." She shrugged as she gave a glance at some of the cloaks on the rack. A nice grey one would go with her armour, potentially. "It seems everyone around here is putting an effort to keep apart from each other, maybe for deniability reasons."

[Carden Willhol]

"Well, I think some of it is we don't know each other to well either." Carden replied with a shrug. "But then that can be kind of a good thing too."

"As you said deniability for one. But also because you can't tell things you don't know. Which can be just as useful in some cases."

[Soleene Stryss]

"That's right, useful for patsy and goons and the like." She said begrudgingly on the matter. "If you're wondering, I guess I found myself in one of these jobs where I was hoping that I would learn more by helping out with the local...folks for an organization, let's call them. Of course, I end up knowing nothing at all. All part of the job, I'm sure. Kind of silly of me to think there would be more."