OOC:
My characters could get on the ship and come and go as they please within certain extent. My first entree is a master of disguise and deception. My second is Prodigy, the very polite robot with no criminal record and a registered citizen of the Rogue Isles, thank you very much now let me the hell on board.
That, and I'm guessing there IS a security team...but so far, the only ones who have caused trouble is Odette, 
who seems to have a licence to commit arson without consequence, and Shioh which turned out to be a genuine accident.
I would expect the arena cage to have guards out the wazoo posted around the place to lynch anybody who pops a few too many veigns and decides to go on a rampage.
((all of my lovely ladies are techically employed on this lovely ship and all of them belong to an organization whose leader gives considerable financial support to this particular cruiseline...so they pretty much can do as they please and if the staff complains, they send them to their leader who is a very unpleasant person.
and the general climate of the crew is that they are complete and total crackexd out morons that care more about foofy lulu drinks than the safety of the boat.....a true luxury cruiseline indeed))
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Except he didn't go down-he performed a flip mid-air and landed on the ceiling as if it were the floor. And like a deflecting round, he bounced off the ceiling with ninja-like grace-Straight at Silk, with an arm drawn back to deliver a punch right at her face mid-air. And she would find that Grey Masque's strength was monstrous-he had super strength.
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Silk goes intangible and slips through the string swing, sending grey masque flying straight towards a lovely tangle of super strong filament she was just sitting in. She didnt expect him to be immobilized, but she hoped it would be troublesome enough to stall him a bit. On her way down to the arena floor Silk yells down at Danny, kid, get out of here! Its gonna get real hot real fast! Silk performs an elegant layout flip on her way and fires an incendiary arrow towards the tiny web masque is now flying straight towards.
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"Get me a double jack and coke if you would please." David flashed a smile at the waitress. After winning another hand he looked at Odette, "My luck has yet to fail me. It has always protected me." Yeah, maybe it's their way of making up for what happened to me all those years ago.
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Oh, Im sorry
did I stir up something nasty Odette apologizes
We are good listeners you know
Gabriella leans in closer.
While Davids attention is towards Gabriella, Odette attempts to slip a small pill into Davids drink while masking it with an illusion of her listening intently.
((so sorry about the delay Spade, I was a bit distracted by the threads minor loss of structural integrity))
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"Get me a double jack and coke if you would please." David flashed a smile at the waitress. After winning another hand he looked at Odette, "My luck has yet to fail me. It has always protected me." Yeah, maybe it's their way of making up for what happened to me all those years ago.
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Oh, Im sorry
did I stir up something nasty Odette apologizes
We are good listeners you know
Gabriella leans in closer.
While Davids attention is towards Gabriella, Odette attempts to slip a small pill into Davids drink while masking it with an illusion of her listening intently.
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"Just let it go." Hotaka gently placed his fingers upon Acid's shoulder, the reptilian having instinctively let out a minute growl at what he perceived ad David's attempt to ridicule him, "They're only human."
"If he keeps up this kind of behavior, that luck of his'll run out faster than he thinks." Acid exhaled sharply through his nostrils as the towering man fully wrapped an arm around his back to lead him away, "Ph. Good listeners indeed."
And then they wonder why people consider them primitive.
Truth be told, the Khelari didn't really like that thought, but David, Gabriella, and Odette treating him like some animal that wasn't worth even a look had stung. The man's follow-up had just plain hurt, flaunting about most cordial words while he utterly ignored the being who'd just wanted to socialize a little in a most offensive manner.
"I dunno..." he told Hotaka with a sigh, "Sometimes I want the days back where everyone here was just afraid of me."
"You don't mean that." came the clam and collected reply over smiling lips.
"No...I guess I don't. Still, though...it's hurtful. It really is. Hotaka - why do humans behave like this?"
"If you can't answer that, I'm at an even greater loss there." the robed fellow admitted, Acid knowing well he meant this in reference to the archeological digs the reptilian had performed...
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Harry leaned back in his seat and propped his feet up on the table, sipping deeply from his drink.
"Y'know, it may scorch the palate," he said contently to himself. "But I STILL say it's dang tasty."
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Henteko couldn't help but blink twice as the man he'd just spoken to didn't even acknowledge his presence. He quickly spread his fingers and looked at this hands. Nope, he hadn't gone invisible or anything. Were this guy's senses disabled or something? He sure didn't look like he was blind or deaf.
"How rude." he huffed at Harry with a scowl, then sought out another table, mumbling something about stuck-up heroes to himself. Apparently, more and more people were taking after Statesman these days - which to be honest, Henteko found extremely disturbing.
Indeed, these thoughts perturbed him so much that he didn't even start rooting for one or the other person, let alone take due note of the chaos Miranda had caused. Somehow, that just didn't seem as important as it should've been right now. Henteko's thoughts were elsewhere entirely...
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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((Bwa..? Okay, did I really miss Henteko talking to Harry? I read back through but didn't see any mention of his name. Dang you and yer stealth postings, Devious. 
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"So, who's winning?"
Harry jumped a bit at the sudden voice in his ear, nearly dislodging the small fairy from her hideout amongst his dreads.
"Bugg? What're you doin' here?" he said, his eyes looking upward as though he'd be able to see her. "I told you I could handle this date just fine on my own."
"I'm just here to watch the fight, I swear."
Harry didn't buy her innocent tone for a second. He was distracted from giving her a scathing reply when the guy next to him stood up and walked off in a bit of a huff, mumbling about stuck up heroes or something.
"What was that about?" Harry wondered. Had someone else mistaken him for a hero? He'd been listening to Bugg, and with the constant dull roar of voices in the arena, he'd completely missed Henteko talking to him.
Of course, Harry had no idea what the guy's beef was. Shrugging he turned back to the match.
"You can stick around for now," he told Bugg. "But as soon as the fight's over, you're gone."
"Deal," she agreed happily, settling down in Harry's hair to watch.
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Oh, Im sorry
did I stir up something nasty Odette apologizes
We are good listeners you know
Gabriella leans in closer.
While Davids attention is towards Gabriella, Odette attempts to slip a small pill into Davids drink while masking it with an illusion of her listening intently.
((so sorry about the delay Spade, I was a bit distracted by the threads minor loss of structural integrity))
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David grabs his drink before they put the pill in. "That will be a story for another time." David said with a grin. "So whats next ladies. If I keep winning like this they might just try to throw us out."
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((I'ma give Sovs a chance to post before continuing.))
(OOC: Shioh's standing in front of Harry too. Girl in a qipao with an armful of hot dogs ^_^
"So," John said, ascending the steps he had managed to track down due to the excessive use of arrow-signs and doors that were labelled 'stairway,' "I'm guessing, from all the noise up above, we're missing something big."
He jumped over some trash, probably left from a drunk passenger, and continued. "Which could make this MUCH easier, or MUCH harder- Does this mean NOBODY is guarding the cargo because everything is so hectic up above... Or are a BUNCH of people guarding the cargo because of all the ruckus?"
Danny floated in midair where he'd popped out in the cage, his face in his palm and his head shaking from side to side. "Aye, 'cos I couldna have done somethin' this stupid on m'own. Daft bint." he muttered. After a moment, he floated up into one upper corner and watched the match with some interest. Well... 'tis a good seat, i' nothing else...
The way to the door was blocked so he simply leaned back in midair and enjoyed the show... keeping a wary eye on Famine. For someone of his infamy to be undisguised and heavily armed in a place so public... the boy archer was slowly coming to realize that there had to be something more at work here.
((Okay, where is everyone? I'm getting the impression that most of us are in or around the fight cage, or else still in the Casino, but things are moving so fast, it's hard to keep track))
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
OOC:
That you did, CM. That you did. 
As for locations, here's everyone as far as I can tell:
Casino upstairs, sitting at Blackjack table: Odette, Gabriella, David.
Casino upstairs, walking away from Blackjack table: Acid, Hotaka:
Casino downstairs, spectator lounge: Harry, Henteko, Miranda, Orchid, Shioh.
Casino downstairs, arena floor: Famine, Gunner, Grey Masque, Silk, Danny.
Unspecified stairwell: John Ballard, White Masque
Unspecified cargo hold: Jake.
Certain 1st class suite: [CLASSIFIED]
Luau: 'the cat'.
Limbo: Prodigy, 'Mr. Dune', assorted goons., Black Masque.
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"Either way, just forget about them." Hotaka shook acid comradely, "Wasn't there a box you wanted to see?"
"Yes." the toothy smile returned to Acid's face, "As a matter of fact, I do seem to recall there being one. Now?"
"Now." the towering man gave a nod, leading the two out of the casino and toward the paths that led into the lower decks...
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Henteko couldn't help but scratch his head at the mayhem. Kid Aggressive had suddenly grown a brain stem, and that seemed to be only the started to a night of weird.
He shrugged. Might as well stay and see what came of all this...
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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David grabs his drink before they put the pill in. "That will be a story for another time." David said with a grin. "So whats next ladies. If I keep winning like this they might just try to throw us out."
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Odette disopses of the pill by crushing it to dust and signals to gabriella that it was unsuccesful.
Gabriella decides to take control, "David, this is fantastic! i have never seen someone this genuinely lucky. i'll tell you what, i'm a bit sick of all these fancy places...what do you say about going to the jacuzzis on the upper decks?"
Odette smiles wide, "now that...is a fantastic suggestion...of course, we'd have to get changed of course...OH wait, you have super speed right? if we gave you our keys you could just pop over and grab our swimsuits for us...if you don't mind rumaging through our clothes drawers."
Gabriella winces a bit but still smiles through.
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"Waffa dwinthin?"
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"Huh?" Harry answered, not understanding her right away. He worked it out in a second, holding the glass up to look at the drink himself.
"Actually, I forget what it's called now," he said, frowning as the name refused to come to him. "Some kinda punch. Mixed with paint stripper by the feel of it."
He drank a little more.
Jake looked around with some confusion, repeatedly switching between thermal, night, and normal vision modes. Nothing but a few exposed wires and darkness. Needless to say, he was puzzled.
"A porter, maybe?" Stroking his chin in the most cliché'd way possible, Jake contemplated ways that the footsteps could've escaped.
"No, no, traces of energy in the air would leave some sort of heat. Invisibility? But the thermal vision showed... Well, he doesn't have to be warm blooded, does he...? But still, it would create some distortion..."
To put it bluntly, he was befuddled. One thing was certain, something did happen here. The exposed wires and missing door were obvious indicators of that.
I'm wasting my time here. He turned around, and with that same collected stide, stepped out and back into the hallway outside...
"Waitaminnit... Where am I?" In his determination to follow the steps, Jake had actually forgotten to keep track of his footsteps, effectively stranding him in the underbelly of the ship.
"Well, dammit." Cursing, he stomped away, creating more of a ruckus with his feet than he probably should have been.
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Odette disopses of the pill by crushing it to dust and signals to gabriella that it was unsuccesful.
Gabriella decides to take control, "David, this is fantastic! i have never seen someone this genuinely lucky. i'll tell you what, i'm a bit sick of all these fancy places...what do you say about going to the jacuzzis on the upper decks?"
Odette smiles wide, "now that...is a fantastic suggestion...of course, we'd have to get changed of course...OH wait, you have super speed right? if we gave you our keys you could just pop over and grab our swimsuits for us...if you don't mind rumaging through our clothes drawers."
Gabriella winces a bit but still smiles through.
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David thought about it for a second, but the silence was cut by his cell going off. "Ladies, I must take this call. If you would go ahead and get your bathing suits, I will be sure to join you as soon as I take care of business." David walked far out of earshot of the two women. "Yes go ahead." David said into the phone. "Talisman, it's Raiden. Is this a secure channel?" A mysterious voice said from the other line. "Yes, Raiden it is secure."
"Talisman, be advised we did some checking and the organization that owns this ship is a dummy company. We will be following the money trail and see what we can dig up. It might be nothing, but for now be on your toes for anything suspicious Talisman." David sat there for a second and didn't say a word. "Damn it Raiden, even on my vacation I still get sucked back into this [censored]. Anyway look I will stay on my toes, but I have to go, there are two women waiting for me and I swear I am not gonna pass up this chance." David said impatiently into the phone. "Okay Talisman. Stay safe, Raiden out." David closed his phone, and began to walk towards the elevator.
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"So," John said, ascending the steps he had managed to track down due to the excessive use of arrow-signs and doors that were labelled 'stairway,' "I'm guessing, from all the noise up above, we're missing something big."
He jumped over some trash, probably left from a drunk passenger, and continued. "Which could make this MUCH easier, or MUCH harder- Does this mean NOBODY is guarding the cargo because everything is so hectic up above... Or are a BUNCH of people guarding the cargo because of all the ruckus?"
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"I'ma gonna go with door C: There is no box. It's a Nemesis Plot. Which also means there's a possibility of there being a door D: There is a box and there is a Nemesis Plot to make us think the box doesn't exist if we think it doesn't." White Masque said in a serious voice.
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The moment Jake turned around, he officially entered wierdland. The passage leading to the room he had just exited no longer contained a connecting corridor. Instead, there was just a solid wall.
And Odette was there. Or at least someone who looked like her. She was furious, by the look on her face.
"This is a restricted area. Nobody is allowed down here except me and certain select individuals. The cargo here is extremely sensitive. Put what you stole down on the ground and then back away from it so I may kill you."
Jake blinked, although the gesture of surprised was concealed by his eye-wear. What just happened, where was the door, and who was this woman? Feeling that he'd been lured into something, he answered, not appreciating the, in his eyes, unnecessary rage of the woman.
"Firstly, I didn't steal anythng. Yet. That all depends on if I find what I'm looking for and if it's worth the effort. Secondly, the element of surprise is generally a good thing, so telling your opponent that you're going to kill them when you could've feigned benevolence is a pretty stupid move."
At this moment, he pulled out all six of his disks, keeping them at his side and ready for action. Whether or not this lady in particular was powerful didn't matter...
Well, I suppose it does matter, actually... He thought, reassessing the situation.
Even if she's not a threat in and of herself, somebody screwed with the corridor. Somebody who's either able to screw with reality or create illusions, neither of which are too appealing to me.
However, despite the battle-ready thinking already going on in his head, his face was calm, and even what one could call at-ease... Or perhaps cocky? Either way, Odette was sure to not appreciate his demeanor.
And Jake was more right than he knew. The imposter Odette lashed her hand in his direction, and a wave of light poured out-Which pointed to her being an illusionist. A manipulator of light.
And currently, she was manipulating the light to create a wave-form high intensity laser. The torrent of energy rushed forward, spreading out in a cone on its way to Jake. If he wasn't careful where he threw those disks of his, they could very well be fried, the same going for anything they happened to teleport in.
As David headed for the elevators, his super hearing may well have caught the conversation that came from down the hall.
"And you don't know what's in it?" Acid queried incredulously, shaking his head somewhat, the towering man and he waiting for an elevator cabin to arrive, "As in: at all?"
"No." was once more Hotaka's calm retort, "We do not."
"Okay, let me get this straight." the reptilian's had performed a gesture of summation, "You're on a cruise ship. There's a big box. It's got armor. No one knows about it; supposedly. Am I about right there?"
"Yes."
"Okay, I'm just not getting this. Why in the galaxy would you...?" Acid's questioning ceased as he spotted David coming toward the elevators, the reptilian's face growing a tad sour as he crossed his arms. It was clear his attention was now on the club-attired Talisman, "Well, well, if it isn't the guy from the Humans Only Club. Lose your hang-ons already...?"
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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((Can we be more specific about the guns we're using here? I don't know if you're plinking me with a .22 or plugging me with a .45...))
Famine yelled "PLAAAAAN!" In a rather triumphant fashion before jumpjetting at inane speeds to directly in front of Masque, taking pretty much the entire hail of bullets for him in dramatic fashion.
Fortunate about the ballistics armor.
"Now, didn't yer mom ever tell ya? NEVER BRING A SEMI TO A FULL-AUTO FIGHT!" The mercenary cackled at the magical gunman. Famine brought up his twin TMPs and unleashed an absolute hellstorm of lead, stepping deliberately forward as he did so, slowly closing the distance between the two.
((I'd say .45, and apologies in advance, but my gun knowledge isn't as extensive as yours, Sov, I can tell you right now.))
Gunner, having just pulled himself out of the prison, hastily created a rather large impervium shield, ducking down and putting it up, thereby defending himself from the rounds. He guessed that Famine would take the momentary halt in bullets to charge forward, and, whether he was right or not, planned accordingly. Without thinking, Gunner replaced the handgun with an active grenade, tossing it over the shield without much thought. And again. And again. The man was a walking arsenal, ammunition, or the lack thereof, was not an issue.
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Jake, not quite expecting the sudden attack, barely had enough time to jump to his right, narrowly avoiding a signifigant hit and only suffering some singed flesh on his leg. He rolled, his minimal combat training informing him that it would lessen the damage, however, he questioned its effectiveness when his head slammed into a wall. Rubbing his bruised pride, he fired off a rebuttal.
"OK, fine, we could've done this peacefully..." He muttered, throwing his devices to the wall right next to the door, thereby defending it from the immediate threat.
"But if you wanna be a [censored] [If you want a hint, it rhymes with witch and is much meaner.], about it, we can end it the fun way, too."
Before Odette could even think about charging in to get within blasting range, a large, slightly modified, Assault Bot appeared in the door-way, both arm-like appendages outstretched and firing plasma.
"Snarky comment: File Directory, Pop Culture Quote: But how do we know she's a witch?"
"[censored], W0-07. Not witch."
"Two can play your little game, you...[censored]." *It rhymes with swat* imposter Odette snarled as she clapped both hands together.
Her body flickered like a bad television screen before splitting into two perfectly identical copies. Both imposters raised their hands, curled into fists, and fired off several energy bolts composed of concentrated light at Jake and his modified assault bot.
Jake would soon realize *thankfully* that the attacks of the Odette on his right didn't do any damage. They were just colorful light manipulations. Completely harmless. Which meant that she had summoned a Decoy Phantasm. Not much of a threat, but if she had any sort of 'shuffle self' power then the confusion could give her a huge tactical advantage.
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Grey Masque slammed right into the webbing, which tugged at his suit and ripped small sections of it off as he moved to reveal the purple filmy stuff beneath. It didn't slow him down one bit, however, and before the fire could ignite Grey Masque or the webbing, he had already performed another super leap and was bounding off the ceiling once again to try and blow Silk's head off with one insanely powerful punch.
What was strange was that he could still jump at all. Usually, even if a person wasn't slowed down by webbing like the kind Silk used, they wouldn't be able to jump or fly or the like at all for a while. It was like the webbing hadn't affected Grey Masque at all in any way.
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"Okay, I'm just not getting this. Why in the galaxy would you...?" Acid's questioning ceased as he spotted David coming toward the elevators, the reptilian's face growing a tad sour as he crossed his arms. It was clear his attention was now on the incognito Talisman, "Well, well, if it isn't the guy from the Humans Only Club. Lose your hang-ons already...?"
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((OCC: Devious, David is not incognito... he's in clubbing clothes.))
"Have we met?" David asked curiously. "Because honestly I have no idea what you are talking about." He was very much on the alert now. How does this guy know who I am? What the hell is going on around here. Raiden was right, things are not as they seem. "Is there something I can help you with, because if not I shall be on my way. There are things I need to take care of." He said in a hurried voice.
((Ope, didn't know he wears regular clothes on the job, my bad. 
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Acid had set to speak when the man hurriedly conveyed he wanted to be on his way. Now his blood nearly boiled. After copiously ignoring the reptilian's presence at the Blackjack table with Gabriella and Odette, indeed treating his desire to join their game as nothing more than a desire so reviled that he'd kept ostentatiously regarding his person as a non-factor, this guy had the gall, the audacity to pretend he didn't know what Acid spoke of.
No, not pretend. This was worse. The reptilian couldn't believe this human's abhorrent behavior, relinquishing Acid's being to a status so low that he didn't even carry enough worth to be entitled to an apology. Instead, he just carried on the facade.
"You know what?" the reptilian's eyes narrowed, the tip of his tail tapping irritably against the carpet as he growled at David, "Forget it. Scum like you isn't worth my time."
With that, he stepped into the elevator cabin that had just arrived, not wanting to bother another moment with a creature so respectless as this human.
Hotaka, however, felt differently.
"You really are just a tremendous jerk." the towering man huffed quietly at Talisman, "You've no decency at all, have you? All he wanted was to play cards with you and your female company - and you toss him aside like garbage, not even bothering to acknowledge his presence, despite him greeting you with such amiable a manner."
"And now, you dare speak to him as if he lacked even the most basic of cognitive functions." Hotaka went on, his own tone now nearly a growl, "As if he is incapable of remembering your vile behavior. Well, dear Sir, I hope you change your ways with haste, for one day soon you may well encounter one that carries not the great amount of patience and forgiveness of my companion. Good night to you."
With that, the towering man stepped into the elevator as well, sternly pressing a finger against the 'door close' button...
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
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((I'ma go with Police are Useless. Except that I have a Justified Trope up my sleeve. Jake, being a known Arachnos operative, simply had a fake ID. His face isn't well known, since many costumed villains are much more entertaining targets for the media, so a basic change in name would pretty much clear him. As for his devices, well, alone they're all pretty harmless, so, if some five-year-old can bring a DS, I'd wager Jake could bring his seemingly harmless crap on board.
As for Gunner, he's in the underworld, and, ergo, not well known. That, coupled with the fact that he materializes his weapons and doesn't technically have them on his person, clears him to go, as well.
So, that's my excuse, anyway.))