>>5767971>Stylish Common Room: Raise base HP to 7>Improved Defenses: Tighten up the safehouse's fortifications, just in case.The ride to the rendezvous point is the second most uncomfortable car trip in Friedrich's life. The mad hatter on the wheel drives them straight into incoming traffic but somehow manages to avoid getting them sent either to a hospital or a jail cell. The bandaged scheißkopf next to him conclusively wins the war for elbow space and glances at Friedrich as if he's about to strangle him with his own intestines. The heat is unbearable. His shoulder is sore. The gas mask makes it hard to breath. The heat is unbearable. The struggle to maintain an impassive expression is harder than usual.
It seems almost like an eternity before the car parks and everyone fans out. Friedrich exits the car with stiff movements and only then does he allow himself to relax. He tears the gas mask off his face and takes a deep breath. Beads of sweat trickle down his forehead. Even the stale, humid, oppressive air of this degenerate city provides some small amount of relief. He breaths out, muttering "Verdammt gewehr..." as he rolls his shoulder. He will feel that in the morning...
Marginally less uncomfortable than he was just a few minutes ago, he looks around, takes a wrinkled pack of cigarettes out of an inner pocket of his vest, taps it a few times and approaches the only sane man he had recently met.
>>5767984With the pack on his left hand, he extends his right for a firm handshake.
"Herr Alamo. It vas a pleasure to vork with a true professional. Vat are you doing with zese... zese..." words fail him and he leaves the sentence unfinished.
He taps the pack once more, more forcefully than before, and takes out one of the cigarettes. Before he puts it to his lips, he offers the pack to the other enforcer. "Smoke? I must varn you, zey are stronger zan vat you can find here in Amerika. Lungentorpedos, ve call zem back in ze vaterland."
Regardless of Alamo's answer, he moves to light his own cigarette and offers the lighter to the other man if he accepted a smoke.
