What a wonder is a gun! What a versatile invention!

[areyoulovinthis]

Who: Swindle and "Magnum". Kino's welcome too.
What: Testing out their shiny new toy.
Where: An abandoned warehouse in Zone 4.

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[not_your_gun]

Ah, now that was more like it. He gazed at the hole in the target fondly, paying little attention to the other two while they discussed the human's health. It did not seem to be life-threatening, and as long as Kino kept working for Swindle and helping him achieve this sort of success, he did not much care what happened to her in the meantime.

"Cometfall's blueprints will be yours. Personally, I'd like to see a few more mechs taking advantage of being harder to trace by the authorities." He briefly ran through a few options on his new weapon, selecting different combinations of intensity, wavelength, and beam spread in order to get the most out of this test run, and took a few more shots.

Perfect.

...or at least acceptable, for now.

"...I've run into a different streak of luck, however." Lowering the weapon, finally, he reached around behind him to a storage compartment, and pulled out...an arm.

It was a fairly intact arm, probably from a Primax Gamma at one point in its history, but certainly re-usable and with the added benefit of having a pair of lasers still attached. He tossed it over to Swindle so that the 'connoisseur' could get a better look.

"Found a source of...parts." He smirked. "A large source."

[areyoulovinthis]

"Well, I know I've got plenty of customers who'd be interested. And if there's enough of us using them, it makes it that much harder for the authorities to sort through all of it." He paused, thinking. "If you've got anything you really want hidden, let me know ahead of time! I can arrange for a few distractions, especially with those blueprints."

He caught the arm easily, without any signs of being bothered by it. Looking offline bodies was something Swindle had gotten quite used to back home, and this particular arm was in better shape than most of the ones he'd dealt with. And those lasers were decent quality, worth quite a bundle.

"Parts, you said? Are they all as nice as this one? Or am I going to have to worth with pieces of scrap metal to get to anything good?" He knew how it was with parts. No consistency in quality, unless you were dealing with a specialist like Lockdown. Now that was a bot who knew his upgrades, and never damaged a single one that he'd sold to Swindle. Good business partner.

[[Sorry so fail--am done moving now.]]

[not_your_gun]

"The offer is appreciated, Swindle. I will most certainly keep that in mind." Having handed over the object in question, his hand returned to his gun, running extra diagnostics checks and re-accustoming himself to the familiar weight.

"...they're varied." He glanced back, honest. "Some are worse. Some are better. I didn't have any interest in digging at the time. A number of them are older pieces, but you seem to be able to get use out of anything..." Megatron smirked.
"...so I'll have my bots bring in parts for you, and you keep a tab on how much they're worth. This way, when I send someone to get equipment...we don't have to deal with any inconvenient credit exchanges."