[Everyone was seperately contacted by the Supernatural Affairs Branch of MI-5 and was given instructions to use London's Underground and get on a subway car at 3:22 pm.] * Zeiram is now known as Drew [Presuming everyone followed instructions...] [The car you got on is fairly crowded and left in a normal manner with a singsong voice. After about a minute there's a blue flash and everyone freezes except for the PCs as the door opens.] Freaky. * Kendrick shrugs. [Session start. Describe yourselves] * Angel looks around nervously. Her closely cropped brown hair flies about her head, and her dark brown eyes dart to every corner of the car in a flash. She jumps several times to look over the heads of nearby passengers, causing her red and black leather jacket to flap loudly. * Kendrick is a clearly British, and fairly average looking. He's 6'2" tall, and has a fairly average build despite the tall height. He's wearing mostly blue, and is looking in the direction of the nearest 'cute girl'. You know what I mean. His hair and eyes are both brown, and if he's surprised, he's doing a fantastic job of showing it. * Jason looks over from the conversation he was having with the lady next to him as that happens. He's seated rather comfortably near the back and dressed in typical biker fare: leather and jeans, also black and red. His hair is short, blond, and slightly spiked, his eyes are covered by dark shades, and he has a silver cross dangling from the left ear. * Les stares at the other passengers. His brown hair shaved almost down to the skin is in sharp contrast to his bright green eyes. Highly visible is a 45 cm diameter bright red scar on the upper right side of his forehead. He is of average height and rather slight build. * Angel starts to shove her way past the frozen people toward the door. She swoons slightly, closing her eyes. She draws out a brown handkerchief and holds it over her mouth and nose. After a quick stop, she continues moving toward the door. * Drew casually looks around. He's also very tall, and his most notable feature is his long, gray hair, pulled back into a ponytail. * Kendrick 's is dressed in a blue long-sleave shirt and dark-blue pants. His hair's short and conservetave as he tears his attention from the lady and walks around, glancing at the people still moving. (waiting on a description of the time of year before clothing, but probably baggy jeans and a t shirt minimum...) [Outside of the door is a rather small tiled station. In the station itself there's an video camera and a set of heavy metal double doors, which is closed at the moment.] * Les follows Angel [Date: July 1st, 2020] * Angel exits the train into the station, approaching the camera. What the FUCK is going on, here?! * Les is dressed in long khaki slacks and a short sleeve shirt. * Les sighs. (excitable isn't she?) * Jason almost idly writes his name and phone number before putting it in the lady's jacket pocket. "Maybe we can get together some other time." He grins at her, then walks out, pulling a cigarette from his jacket as he goes. What's your problem, Red? [The door in the station does have a M-I5 seal.] * Drew stands up and starts to walk towards the door. He has on baggy jeans and a no-frills T shirt on beneath a long, white coat. There's a small mustard stain on it. He seems to be in reasonably good shape. * Les looks around. "Red?" * Kendrick smirks as he notices Jason. He steps out of the car, as he was standing on the train ride and steps to the door of the station. * Angel rudely taps her forehead and pulls her lips tightly, looking angrily at Les. * Les looks questioningly at the MI-5 seal * Les shrugs. "What'd I do?" * Grysar sets mode: +v Drew I want fucking answers, and your huffiness isn't helping my mood! * Angel turns back to the camera. * Jason steps out about now. He glances Angel and Les over, grins to himself, and snaps the fingers on his free hand. A spark appears and small flame stays on his thumb, which he uses to light the cigarette. He looks over at Kendrick. "You with the government?" Sorry. Didn't mean to offend. You MI-5 geeks wanted me here. Where's my warm welcome? * PA voice. "Could everyone please step in front of the door for identifications purposes." * Les steps over to the door. * Kendrick nods and looks over Angel. "You too?" * Drew finally steps off the train and over to the door You know who the fuck I am. Doesn't EVERYONE?! * Les shrugs, then shakes head. "No, should I?" * Drew shrugs * Jason whistles. "Excitable lady, innit she?" He walks over to the door. I don't know any of you As if I wasn't hounded by the papers and low-life fans, now you want me, too? Who are you? Yup. * Kendrick walks over to the door, too. Why would anyone hound you? I'm fucking Angel Crosse. Don't you read the papers? [Once everyone exits it, the subway car doors shut and the car pulls away. Several seconds there after the metal doors open.] * Drew idly picks at a gap between his teeth with one of his long fingernails Uh... sorry, I'm from the states, over here for a Med conference. Don't read UK papers much. [Inside is a rather lush lobby.] * Les walks through the door. * Angel turns on Jason and Kendrick. "Oh, don't you start. Once I get answers, all will be right with the world." (Actually.. hmm) * Kendrick smiles. "Whatever you say, miss." So, what's your name famous lady? I'm Les by the way. Since we're introducing ourselves, my name is Drew And she already said hers * Jason takes a drag of his smoke. "You'd be pretty cute, but the paranoia's a fucking huge turn-off. Sorry, lady." He steps through the door, not bothering to introduce himself. Yay! Ah, right, my mind is elsewhere. Indeed * Kendrick steps into the lush lobby, sitting down and looking at the psychos while he's sitting. "Kendrick." [Cultural Arts or Area knowledge (Whichever is higher) to try to recognize Angel.] * Les barely pulls off a compicated shuffle in mid air. (I already said I didn't know Angel, and I meant it) [Meanwhile a woman in priestly garbs walks out into the lobby.] "Oh, everyone's here on time? Excellent, please come with me." She walks back into a hallway.] * Les puts away the cards, rises and follows. * Drew sighs and walks into the hallway * Jason shrugs to himself and walks after her. * Angel stomps off after the woman. "About time!" * Kendrick gets up and follows the woman, taking step behind Angel. "Someone has a big head. And I don't mean literally." How the hell did you do that freeze thing? You could have fucked up and gotten me, too! Is it dangerous? I would hope these people know their jobs better than that! They like makin' an enterance. Well, it certainly worked! * Woman. "We just deployed this entrance after extensive testing. The frozen people are in no danger and indeed can't be harmed." Frankly, I just want to get this job over with * Angel scoffs over her shoulder. "Kendrick, if I wanted the popularity, don't you think I'd be sugar-sweet? Fuck it. I just want them to go away. I don't fabricate unpleasantries." Why don't you just shut the hell up, Angel. * Kendrick wonders why the hell Angel still has her head on her shoulders. "Shut your bloody pie-hole." Thanks for your input. Did you copy my duds on purpose, or have I just started a trend? [Woman leads you all into a briefing room. On the way there you pass a lab with windows open to the hallway and a scruffy looky male waves. Priest does not return the wave.] Hey! Calm down people! We probably have to work together in the near future. [There's a nice briefing table and five chairs. On the opposite side of the table is a pretty high tech but commercially available viewing screen.] * Angel reaches into her pocket, pulls out a small white bottle, pops the cap, dumps some of the contents into her palm. * Angel caps the bottle, pockets it, and pops the contents into her mouth. * Les wanders into the room and takes the chair nearest the view screen. * Jason rolls his eyes, not that Angel can see. "Dunno who or what the hell you are, lady, so I don't see how I coulda copied your 'duds'. Now do yerself a favor and shut up." I'm sorry. I don't like surprises. Once it's all explained, I'll be okay. * Kendrick takes a seat. "Actually, we'll need to work together on the case we're getting a briefing on right now." Ah. I don't care for surprises either, but sometimes you have to just deal with 'em. * Angel sits and cradles her head in her hands, elbows on the table. Headache? Constantly. Have you seen someone about that? (This is a check to see what Angel just popped) * Jason doesn't bother sitting, choosing to lean against the wall next to he door instead. "Must be from listenin' to herself talk," he mutters. I'll be alright. Just need to wait for the pills to kick in. * Kendrick rolls his eyes. Headache? Pssh. There are some new techniques in the states that are getting some excellent results on a long-term basis. * Jason lets out a puff of smoke. He looks towards Kendrick a bit, but doesn't move. Kendrick, you seem to know more about this than the rest of us. Care to give us more of an idea about what's goin' on? * Woman nods as most of you sit down. "That's what I'm here for. Alright, if everyone's ready I'll start the briefing. Just relax. You'll find out in due time. Heh. That's usually the answer isn't it? He doesn't have a bloody clue, he's sayin'. * Les nods to the woman. "Go ahead please. I'm curious." * Kendrick smirks. "Think what you want to think." * Jason grins and looks at the lady, too. * Angel looks to the guy in the corner. "Hey, have a seat. And your gob could use a good shuttin', as well." "This morning, two bodies showed up in cages in the London Zoo." ::shows a slide:: "Brutally maulled." * Jason snerks. "People've been sayin' that since I could talk. On both counts." He perks as the lady starts talking and walks over to the table for a look. * Kendrick nods, and waits for the woman to continue while examining the slide. * Les looks clinically at the slide. Wow, no clue what happened there. * Angel glances up at the slide, then returns to staring at the table. "The police discovered something odd while examing the video tape, and we immediately took over the investigation." Odd? [On the screen a video comes on of a bunny and a puppy entering a lions cage from the side, just off screen. They're killed in fairly short order] Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my. "Unfortunately.. the video didn't show who put thos two animals in the cages, but.." Pretty predictable results though. * Jason snerks despite himself. He leans against the back of a chair. "So? Why us?" (snerks?) * Kendrick waits for her to explain. [Video clip from what seems like several hours later due to a higher level of ambient light. The dead bunny and puppy morph into two dead men in buisness suits.] (Cross between a snicker and a smirk. Snerk!) Ah... odd indeed. (tks) O-kay, that'd be why. Please tell me you have more help than that... Are the men identifiable? Prominent or unknowns? * Drew perks up a little at the morphing animal/people * Woman nods. "We've had teams research them and going over tape for the park that night." * Kendrick nods, not surprised by the morphing. "Hmmm..." Park? Thought it was a zoo. "The men have no history of supernatural ability, but they do have suspions of mob related activity on their police records." "Zoological park, sorry for any confusion." Ah Mobsters huh? That doesn't sound too good. Maybe it's a new alternative to sleeping with the fishes? Or cement shoes. Well, at least now we're in my territory. * Jason takes another drag of his cigarette. "C'mon, we're in the UK. We're too civilized for cement shoes." And, just so you all know, the mob hasn't used cement shoes or "sleeping with the fishes" in almost ten years. Too obvious. Yea, believe that and you'll be wantin' to sell me some seashore property in Atlantis. * Kendrick chuckles. "Actually.. this particular case we believe was meant to be obvious." Meant to be obvious? Why? Do they want to be caught? * Jason nods at Angel, then looks over to the lady. "What, a don't-mess-with-me sign from the mob to anyone who wants to cross 'em?" Getting back on-topic, we should investigate the crime scene for how this was done. Someone else should look further into these two, see why they were murdered like this. No, I was just making a joke on the anima... ah, forget it [Two faces come up on the screen, one strange looking male with a 5 am shadow. One of a fairly severe looking woman you'd guess of Eastern Russian or Mongolian Ancestry] Ok, who are these fine specimens? "Yes Jason, we believe this wasn't meant to be a high profile killing to intimidate the enemies of a set of Russian mobsters." *Russian* mobsters? Now we're talkin'. "These are our prime suspects. We've been hunting them too little success. I can give you a brief rundown on what we know about them on the way to the scene if you like." Sure, that would be interesting. * Drew nods Sounds good * Kendrick nods and gets up, checking his watch. * Les rises and offers a hand gallantly to Angel. "M'am?" "Although if there's any investigative work you'd like to do here. You're welcome to. We have all the tapes of the zoo that day here." * Angel pulls out her handkerchief again, and blows her nose into it, then replaces it. * Jason extinguishes the stub on the back of his hand and tosses it in the ashtray. "Just show me who to hit." "The cameras didn't catch these two entering the park, but it did see them scoping it out the day before. We do have files on both and they did not enter the country legally." * Angel stands. "Thanks, Red, but I'll take care of it myself." I prefer to work in the field, myself. Are they digitally recorded and stored in the database? * Les shrugs. * Woman nods. We can access them when we need to, then. Yes. * Les cocks his head to the right. "We should probably hit the scene before anything disapates further." If we can get anything now anyway. * Kendrick nods and walks out the building. Yay! Lotsa redundant talk! I'm not worried about losing evidence, but we should keep alert for retaliatory strikes. These guys weren't nobodies. And keeping moving is the best way to keep alive. Hmm... haven't had that trouble before. That's new to me. They aren't looking for officials, and that's what you are here anyways. True enough Angel. But if we look like we're trying to figure out what happened, they'll probably realize we have no clue Speaking of which, can we get back to the station? I'll follow on my bike. [Alright you take a subway back to King's Cross Station and go up to the parking lot. Do your descrip as I brief.] Uh... Can I catch a ride with someone? Yeah, same here? I seem to have left my "ride" back in the 'States. My bike doesn't like passengers. Sure, sure. Just don't touch the red button. * Woman "We know these two largely by reputation, we have little to no information beyond that, although our people are working with the Russian security bureau to learn more." Red button? Is that like the "ejector seat" in Bond? Yes. Oh. Well, we wouldn't want that, then would we? * Les grins "The female suspect apparently kidnapped was raised by one group of Russians, though she switched affiliation a few years ago." Depends. Which seat? Yours. * Jason nods at the lady. Amazingly, he's paying attention. Predictable response * Les listens to the brief. "It's speculated she was chosen for her family line's shamanistic powers, but we don't have details." Any details on the 'shamanistic powers'? Animal forms, maybe? "She apparently mostly stayed by her bosses side and was used to intimidate and humiliate opponents, though again specifics are vague. There was some talk of animals, but beyond guesses from that tape, we don't know anything." Like, oh, puppies and bunnies? Huh... good thought Angel. What was her last name and lineage? ...I can't really see either of those being that intimidating They are when you turn into 'em. Humiliation sure um... right So, basically, we have a werebunny on the loose... "We've never managed to get any details about that from the Mongolian Government. They said the villagers were rather uncooperative." Fucking figures. Anything else? Yea, I can imagine that they would be. * Drew seems to be pondering the physics or logistics of lagomorphs Don't think about it too hard. Changing into an animal, from what I've heard, isn't fun. Sounds painful. "Not on her. As for the man, we believe he was the product of some sort of illegal weapons project." Oh goody. That sounds rather dangerous. Any details there? * Woman nods. "The Russians hushed it up after a massacre several years ago. We think he had been imprisoned in Siberia until about a year ago when he was freed in a jail break." * Les shakes head. "Wonderful." * Jason shifts his weight and checks the time. "We haven't been able to get many details on the massacre, but apparently he's extremely dangerous at close range and uses animal like attacks, although accounts were confused regarding which animals." Undoubtably a polymorph, then. (to Jason) What time is it? I don't have a watch * Angel draws, twirls, and holsters a pistol. "I can't be arsed to get that close. Not a problem. (arsed?) "And that's all we have... So, to the site?" * Kendrick raises an eyebrow. "Keep the weapons holstered until we need them." Wow. We're going to be a fucking caravan. THAT doesn't draw attention. Two bikes and a car? Hardly. The Zoo has been shut for today under a pretense. We can use a back entrance. Better ideas? Kendrick, these are better friends than anyone in here right now. I'll do as I please with them. You have your own ride. You don't have to travel with us * Jason gives a cocky smile, then mounts his own cycle. "I'll see you there." * Kendrick smirks and gets in his car. * Angel kicks the starter and rolls out. * Woman nods. "We do have strict gun laws here you know. We make exceptions for you people but try not to embarrass us." * Kendrick 's car is painted make-it-go-faster red, and is clearly built for speed. It's a custom convertable with a black hood, and a hood that begs to be looked under, improved shocks, and a number of other 'extras'. (Four-door, btw.) * Les climbs in shotgun in the make-it-go-faster red ride. * Drew glances around the car a bit. * Woman grabs a seat in the back of the car, if Kendrick doesn't object. So take off and then I'll fastforward.] * Jason revs the engine of his black and red cycle (quiet, Angel) and rockets off, too, shattering speed limits as he goes. Who needs 'em. * Angel becomes a cherry-red blur. * Kendrick revs his engine, and goes after them at the same speed, if not faster, once everyone's in. (why are we not on a pursuit mission?!) (That was the last one!) * Les sinks into the seat at the Gs build. (Besides, for a proper pursuit mission, we need Saki, too.) (didn't even know when it was running. mope) (mmm... sake) [Both cars pull into the staff entrance of the Zoo. Once there a MI-5 investigator quickly takes you to the lion's den. The priest tags along.] (The car has, btw, a pair of radios in the front and two computers, as well. Mmmm... customization.) * Les looks for the red button. (It's on the Manual Transmission shift-stick.) * Angel rides through the gate to the lions' cage. (Ah, just where it should be!) (And I'd figure the gate would be closed... I'm missing stuff.) [Arrival time, 4:45] * Kendrick screetches his car to a halt as close as he can get without actually hitting anything. He hops out of the car, activates the car-alarm, and closes the hood. "Where's the den?" * Jason does *not* ride his bike to the cage. He's crazy, but not- okay, he *is* that crazy, but he still doesn't do it. * Les wonders how to get out of the car with the alarm engaged. (haha) (I do it after you guys get out. ^^;) (oh, ok! :-) ) [There's way to ride into the Zoo from the staff parking lot. They expect staffers not to pull that kind of stunt.] You know Kendrick, you should make your red button a different color. Red is too cliche for that sort of thing Nah, red's perfect. It says all it needs to. * Kendrick smirks. "I'm not the one who painted it." * Jason lights another cigarette and walks to the den. Yup. * Angel leaves her helmet on as she awaits the rest of the team. When they arrive, she's fiddling with controls on her bike. * Jason raises an eyebrow as he approches and, against his better judgement, asks, "What's wrong?" * Les stands away from Jason, scowling. Nothing. I'm covering my ass while we're in there. [So, Angel's bike is at the cage, as are the rest of you who walked. The lion is out of there for now although the two bodies were left and surrounded signs of investigative activity.] [The bodies are being preserved by small transparent cold tents, which debuted about five years ago.] * Kendrick approaches and looks over the scene, and speaks quietly to Jason (so Angel won't hear). "Paranoid fits her to a T." * Jason twitches slightly as Kendrick approaches, but doesn't seem to care about Les. He nods at him, though, then looks into the cage. * Jason sighs in mock-disappointment. No cats. I want my money back. * Kendrick coyly says as he goes to one of the tents. "You didn't pay anything." A catty twit, yes I want the time I spent gettin' here back. * Inspector rolls his eyes. "Alright.. here's the scene. We kept the body's here as in the past that's been requested. What all 3 minutes, Jason? * Angel hops the barrier and begins taking a look around. * Les walks around the barrier, and looks around also. [Cage description coming up] * Kendrick nods. * Jason lets out a puff of smoke. "Yeah." He removes his shades, revealing unnaturally bright red eyes, and takes a better look around. Nice orbs. Together we could be Xmas * Drew walks over to examine the corpses * Jason looks at Les oddly, but doesn't say a word. * Les smirks * Kendrick looks over the corpses... * Angel avoids the corpses and concentrates on the access areas to the cage, as the investigation has no doubt ruined all signs near the bodies. [The cage has two components. There's a trench with a temporary bridge over it around the 15 m X 5 m outdoor natural area. There's also an indoor section attached that the lion can enter or exit via a door. The bodies are in the outdoor section.] [Those who jumped the barrier took the bridge without any trouble.] * Les cautiously wanders inside alert for lions. * Angel crouches and shuffles her way into the enclosed section. (what do I find from examining the bodies?) * Kendrick stays in the outside section, waiting to know what he should roll to examine the bodies, and then to figure out how it was done. [Angel finds the controls to the the repulsor field switch that's a secondary barrier for the outdoor enclosure. Someone would have had to open the staff door and take the field down to put anything in the cage.] [And Drew finds that the people look like they'd been drug sometime before all the excitement with the maulings.] (Dragged or drugged?) (do I see anything interesting inside?) Well well well These two had been doped up before they got here * Angel shuffles back out and dusts herself off. Not entirely unexpected, Drew. * Les walks back outside. But, I learned something today. Zoos have repulsor fields on these outside enclosures. not at all * Jason doesn't spot anything worthwhile and just leans against the cage, watching the brains do their work. Somebody was on the staff side of the field before our erstwhile businessmen got tossed in. The field had to be turned off. Repulsor fields Angel? Oh, interesting. * Les wanders out the staff entrance to the enclosure looking for cameras outside the door. So, perhaps we should have a chat with some of the staff? Or was this already done? * Inspector. "We've kept the night staff here if you had any questions. I can also quickly summarize what they said." Please do. [Les gimme a sight check, -4 bonus] [Les finds some obvious cameras and one not so obvious one. It would have been possible to sneak up on the cage, but it'd require good timing and knowledge of the layout.] * Les walks back to the group. * Jason finishes off his cigarette, snuffs it out, and tosses it to one side. He looks bored. Yup. There're some cameras out there. It's a good possibility that whoever mucked with the repulsor got caught, but there's a small possibility that they were able to sneak past. We should check those pics. * Inspector "No one noticed anything out of the ordinary until the morning. The man who had rounds that took him by the lion's den said he didn't notice the small bodies, but that the field was up all night. He checked the computer records in the morning, but they didn't say when the field went down, which should have been logged. * Drew walks around the area low to the ground trying to sense stuff. Occasionally takes a large sniff * Drew scratches his head at one point, then continues around * Kendrick hmmms... "Bludgeoned until unconcious... I'm willing to bet they were held durring the ritual." Thought they were drugged? Maybe the drug is part of the change? They needed fresh reagents for it, too. I bet that's what you're thinking the drugs are. Ah, a distict possibility. I hadn't thought of that. Well, it seems there are more capable hands here. I'll go take care of some girl stuff. But they'd need to be imported from Mongolia. I'm not exactly sure on the specifics, as I'm not a shaman myself, but... * Angel wanders off in search of a lavatorial facility. * Drew half-shouts "Maybe, but tranquilizers were definitely used on them" * Woman nods and takes out her cel. "Any specificis Kendrick? There aren't too many places to acquire components in London." Possible. * Jason gives up and walks over to the lady. "You wouldn't know where this mob likes to spend time, wouldja?" * On her way out, Angel calls back, "Nothing like a good set of redundant unconsciousness catalysts." * Woman. "The attackers, no. We have do know a few hang outs of the group that was attacked though." They're separate groups then? This isn't a discipline thing? * Kendrick looks over. * Inspector. "Yeah, we're guessing the this Russian mob group is trying to intimidate, move in on, take over, or some such a local mob." * Les rubs his forehead. * Jason ignores Les and keeps talking to the lady. "Good, 'cause frankly, this is fucking boring. Guess I can grab Miss Paranoia, too. Where?" * Woman holds up a one minute finger as she speaks into her phone. Not sure exactly what they used, honestly. I'd need to analyze it further for that. * Drew walks over to the others Something else has been here some time ago. Damned if I can tell what it is, but it had a fucked up ki Ki? Personal energy. aura Ah. Yeah, what he said It's the thing, according to Japanese and Chinese culture, that makes us live and move like we do. * Woman hangs up. "Alright. Our magic specialist have told me that there's probably only one truly reliable place to acquire Mongolian spell components in London." Huh. Well, that would be a logical next stop. Hurrah, let the goose chase continue Where'd Angel go? Woman "They do prep work themselves and make deliveries, and tend to be protective of their clientel, but here's the address." [She gives the address] To the loo. Hey, we can't bust them if we don't have proper authority to do so. You know that. Yea, do we need warrents or somethin'? * Kendrick walks to his car. "It should already be taken care of. And we only need the warrent to search their local." * Inspector grins. "Fortunately, you can take them in for questioning with one of these." He hands out two permits for suspects meeting the description of the mobsters. * Les takes them and pockets them. "Cool. That'll work." * Jason nods, then wanders off to the women's bathroom. Once there he bangs on the door. * Les follows Kendrick to the car and climbs in shotgun. * Kendrick lowers the hood and hops in. * Angel 's voice booms out from the loo: "Hold on! I'm not done yet. Just call my cell. I'll catch up!" * Inspector "Search warrant would be a bit harder. [Woman] Particularly as these places tend to use spells to protect their client lists and such. It'll be easiest if they give them up 'voluntarily'. And how would I know your god damned cell number! * Angel shouts it out. * Jason walks off to his bike, pulling out his cell and dialing Angel's number. Let's see what kind of message we get. [Woman] I think I'll go work on the search permit. I have a rather terrible reputation at most of these places, given the number of their undead clients I've finished. Whoa. Undead? Great. * Woman grins, it's slightly disturbing. "They're my specialty." * Kendrick chuckles. "That would make sense, wouldn't it?" [And everyone pulls up at the shop, Angel arriving shortly after the rest. Time is now 6 pm] [The shop looks to be mostly a mixed library and small grocery story all specializing in Mongolian food and culture.] * Les climbs out of the car shaking his head to clear it from the drive. So, how do you all want to handle this? Any suggestions, Angel? I can play bad cop. It's my strong suit. * Kendrick gets out of the car. "No kidding." Heh, why doesn't that surprise me? [Anyone who can make an occult check -4 bonus, can tell that it's also advertising itself as a magic shop, and has many appropriate components for such.] * Jason grins nastily. "I don't play cop. * Kendrick snerks. "I am a cop." Really? Damn. Thought you looked familiar. You haven't busted me for anything, have ya? Not in this lifetime. (Well, at least I'm the only one here who decided to get some occult knowledge.) * Les winces and stumbles a little on the way to the door. (actually, I've got 1 level, ken :P) * Jason waits for someone to come up with a plan, and when nobody does, goes with his lack of one. Into the shop! (I have it too, I just didn't factor it in on the roll check) * Kendrick raises an eyebrow and walks into the shop. * Les enters the shop slightly ahead of Jason. (Awww, you don't want to show off your massive bonus, eh?) * Angel walks into the shop right after Jason. [Inside the shop there's a bunch of hanging herb, some old mildly dangerous looking books, and a gum rack. There's a small wizened Mongolian woman behind the counter.] (nah, I just didn't see a response on how to apply specializations since I didn't assign any) * Angel saunters up to the woman. "Excuse me." (Sorry drew) Hm... interesting shop. [Old lady] How can I help you? What'd you expect? Hey Kendrick... Does it have an odor in here? Yes, well, I saw your sign outside. I was looking for some magical components. * Kendrick peers around. "The herbs would give off an odor on their own." [Old lady narrows her eyes for just a moment and then nods] What do you need? * Les shrugs. "Ok, I don't really smell anything." I think you might like to talk in the back room, perhaps. * Jason shakes out a cigarette, pauses, and in a stunning turn of events thinks better of it. Hey, Kendrick! Come over here, wouldja? * Les wanders over to Angel also. * Drew hears the herbs/odor discussion and decides to check too * Kendrick looks at Angel and was already comming. "Yeah, I know." [Old lady nods and calls over a bored looking teen to man the counter. She then starts to walk to the back, through a beed curtain.] * Angel follows, motioning for Kendrick to come with her alone. * Kendrick follows the lady and Angel. * Drew ditto * Jason doesn't go back there. He knows when he's not invited. * Les harumphs and wanders around the shop looking at everything, hoping for a clue... or something. * Kendrick looks back at Drew. "Don't crowd us. We can handle this on our own." * Jason opts for being horribly bored and looking and random crap instead. So, Drew... What do you do, when you're not working with MI-5? How 'bout you Jason? You do anything interesting? I help out at a local clinic Cool, what sort of clinic? medical? yeah. Nothing special Nice. What's your specialty? Just this and that. I don't really have formal medical schooling. Oh, ok. Went through undergrad and picked up a lot from my pop No med. school though? How come? Any specific reason? Money, for the most part. I'm just more of an aid or gohper around there [Teenager starts reading a magazine. Looks pretty bored] Do you like it? It's not glamorous, but I like helping people when I'm able. * Les keeps an eye on the teen with peripheral vision. Yea, it's nice to be able to help out. What about you? You're from across the pond? Yea, over in Baltimore. That's at the top of the Chesapeake in MD. I work for Johns Hopkins. Oh yeah, I've seen that show Homicide occasionally. I like that Munch guy * Jason gives up on staying out of trouble and heads over to the kid. How old is he? Homicide? [Jason hears as he walks up "Shitty.. counter work, was gonna go out for pizza but no... See if I'm here next time they need my bike for a delivery run.] [Like 17] What show is that? * Jason leans against the counter and removes his shades, looking at the kid. "You got a bike?" It was on around the turn of the century. Detective show. I had a buddy that liked to collect older TV shows Huh... didn't see that one. What's that got to do with Johns Hopkins though? * Guy. "Yeah.. a crummy one. I'm lucky to get a third of minimum wage..." Oh, my apologies. It was set in a Baltimore. I think it's the same one Might be but I try to stay away from that part of stuff at the hospital. Sometimes I get mixed up in it, but not my kind of stuff normally What's your field there? 'course when MI-5 asks, it's kinda different. I'm an GP/Internist. (GP = General Practitioner?) (yar) * Drew resumes strolling about the shop windowshopping * Les leans on the wall next to the beaded curtain, hoping to hear something. * Jason nods. "Yeah, I hear ya. Had to work some shitty jobs." He pulls out his wallet and removes fifteen pounds, tossing it onto the kid's magazine. *Guy grins for a moment "Thanks man, who you want me to kill?" You think he's kididng. * Jason grins back. "Nobody yet. You work here long?" [Guy quiets a bit] All my god damned life. I swear I was stocking shelves in diapers. * Jason blinks, then lowers his voice, too. "Literally? What, did the hag raise you?" [Guy snorts] Naw.. she keeps mom and dad until he left mom intimidated and helping run here too, but don't let her hear you calling her that. What, she gonna turn me into a newt? Maybe a toad. * Les snickers after overhearing the Jason's comment. (Jason's last comment even) [Guy shrugs. "No one ever believes me, but you'd be surprised. But she's more the hex type, never scene her transform anyone." * Jason nods. "She go into that back room much?" "All the time, I swear we do half the work around here." "Maning the counter, deliveries to strange people. Hell yesterday she made me run across town to the Queen's Arms with some stinky package and didn't even pay for my gas!" * Jason leans against the counter and hands another five to the kid. "That's tough, man. Wish there was more I could do to help ya. Any idea what the package was for?" * Drew listens to the conversation from where I'm standing Some Russian or Mongolian chick and her freaky boyfriend. The weirdos never tip. Figures. * Jason grins suddenly. "You wouldn't remember where that was, wouldja?" [Guy] Queen's Arms, room... Hey... that's gonna cost extra. ::He then grins a bit wider:: * Jason rolls his eyes. "Greedy kids," he comments, but grins just the same and idly pulls out his wallet, looking through. "Sticking it to the hag isn't good enough for ya?" [Guy] Screw sticking it to her.. I'm saving up so I'll never have to see her again. In that case, you need all the help you can get. * Jason hands him a hundred pound note. Yes, a hundred. "That good enough for ya?" [Guy grins and says.. "Well..." Then he looks twice at Jason. "Sure guv. Room 512. Have a blast."] [He quickly hides the money. "Just don't tell her." * Jason smirks. "Good luck." He stands up straight. "It safe to smoke in here?" * Guy "Damned if I know.. I'm afraid to breathe in here." Bloody... figures. C'mon Jason... Smokin' ain't good for ya anyway. Give it a rest. * Jason looks over at Les. "If I thought I was gonna die from cancer, maybe I'd care." * Les frowns. "Well, maybe you could take the rest of the world into account." * Jason grins. "Nah." Figures. Well would you refrain around me, as a personal favour? * Jason folds his arms and thinks about that. "As a favor... hmm." * Jason looks at Les more fully, silver cross glinting in the light. "And why'd I do you a favor?" 'Cause I asked nicely. Funny, didn't hear no 'please'. * Angel returns from the back room, looking like the Cheshire cat. * Drew turns his head over towards you guys "Geez, give it a rest" * Kendrick returns from the back room behind Angel. King's Arms, 512. Shall we? * Les looks at the new arrivals. "I guess we shall." * Jason considers for a moment, then grabs a business card from the counter and scribbles something on it. He hands it to the kid. "Here, good place to get bike work done cheap." * Kid takes the card and grins. "Thanks man... and be careful. They heard me walking up the hallway, it was kinda creepy." * Angel pulls on her helmet, mounts up, and rides. [FF to fifth floor in front of the elevator?] * Jason glances up at the others. "Americans. One royalty's good as another." He looks to the kid. "Gotcha. Thanks for the tip." He grabs the card back and scribbles his first name on it. "Tell 'em I sent ya," he says with a grin. * Kid nods. "Thanks Jason." * Drew gets in Kendrick's car (tinted windows?) * Kendrick hops up and rides. (Uhhh... Sure!) Good luck. What's yer name again? (Of course tinted windows. Feh.) * Les slides in shotgun again. (just had to make sure) (They do the mirrior-thing in the back-seat, too.) * Drew pulls out a vial from a coat pocket and a syringe. * Angel waits at the King's Arms. Have to see if the outside group got any good info. * Kendrick raises an eyebrow. "So, what are you exactly, Drew?" [Outside of the hotel. You see a fire-escape going up one side of the building. It's about seven stories tall and is surrounded on all sides by four story buildings. Looks rather sketchy but they probably don't ask a lot of question.] * Drew then pulls back a sleeve. Inserts the needle and withdraws 15cc of the fluid, and injects it in his arm (Too bad Angel went to the wrong hotel!) (So when you get there, that's the descrip) * Drew caps the needle and puts them away (Heh... Wrong Royal Angel) (I did already, Drew.) (I asked what you were. :P) (whateva! I'm trying to ff) (*smirk*) * Jason drives up to the hotel with the power of Fast Forward. He comes to a halt and looks for those dopes who spent way too much money for that info. *deadpans* Diabetic Ah. Sure. * Kendrick screetches to a halt outside the hotel. He hops out, and waits for other people to get out too. BTW, remember that thing I mentioned being at the zoo? * Les climbs out and waits with the group. * Jason lights up a cigarette. "Here?" I think it was in that shop around yesterday (bah, Jason. It's pocket change) The ki thing? Really? (I didn't pay for it, but then again, I'm rich because this isn't my first job.) So, you guys get anything useful before we go in? (Still too much money. Besides, the kid was about a hundred times cooler than the hag.) (No shit.) They knew the delivery boy was coming Cameras, mikes, or more likely, good hearing * Jason snaps the fire away from his fingers and says, before he puts the smoke in his mouth, "Yeah. Could hear him when he was on that floor." Or not, they are supernatural. Well, I'll be quiet, then. Who wants to watch out here? They might try to flee by the window. What do you suggest, then? I'm not talented at sneaking, you know. I'm not a waiting kinda guy. * Jason grins. "Or a sneaking one." I will if you want me to, though not sure what I'd do? Then I suggest Kendrick watch out here. Jason, can you stay still and just cover my ass? No, but I can fake it. Just try not to make noise. * Kendrick snickers. "What color? Or maybe plaid..." * Drew as he stepped out of the car... yeah, it's been here recently Damn. Sounds like work. * Jason sighs dramatically. "Fine, I'll try. The things I do for a lady." * Angel smirks sarcastically at Kendrick. "Funny. Let's get to work." Drew, Les, in or out? In I'll stick with Kendrick Angel. I have a feeling I'll want to see the show (can I guess which side is the window to 512?) * Kendrick draws his magnum. "Keep colateral damage to a minimum. And do NOT hurt innocents." * Jason seems about to say something, then looks to Kendrick. "Bloody... what, do you want me to not *breathe* while I'm at it?" Fucking cops. I've dealt with the cops before. I know how it all works. And I'm good. Don't worry. [Angel: For speed purposes, I'll say you can scope it on another floor and find out it's the fire escape side.] * Les shakes his head. "Unfortunately, I'm more likely to hurt myself, rather than innocents." Okay, let's move. Hey, I'm not going in, remember? * Kendrick checks his magnum over, and switches out the normal ammo for HP bullets. * Jason jerks his head towards the door. "After you, lady." (Which is HP?) (Hollow Point.) (ouch) (Oh, right, low penetration but rips people up) (Owwww.) (Yup. Standard issue, actually.) * Les saunters over to the fire escape side and leans against the opposite wall watching the fifth floor windows. (stealth: ms) [FF, there's a crew upstairs and a crew down stairs. Les and Kendrick downstairs Drew Jason and Angel upstairs. Correct?] * Kendrick holsters his gun after re-loading it. (Correct.) (Yes) [And yeah, Angel anticipated it correctly, upstairs crew, roll stealth (moving silently) (Well, he did say he wasn't a sneaky type :) ) (Yeah, can't say I didn't warn you.) [So hallway crew is there. Oh and Kendrick, where outside are you standing? Sorry if you said it elsewhere] [And people are trying to move quietly, but you can hear the occassional creak or shuffle from everyone but Angel] (Um, I'm standing near the fire escape, so I can see if they try to get down that way.) [Room 512 is just around the corner] (I want to be able to see the front door, though.) (I have LoS on all the windows on the fire escape side if possible.) (Yeah, but you have to step a bit away from the building. You can't see in, but you can see about where it is) * Angel draws both pistols, and creeps down the hall, cringing each time one of her blundering companions fumbles. (Check) * Jason follows! As quietly as he can, which isn't very. He doesn't seem to care, though - he *did* warn her. * Angel turns over her shoulder, and signals that they should stand still as she progresses up the hall. * Drew rolls his eyes * Jason shrugs to himself and stays where he is. Whatever, lady. * Drew takes a stationary position, but tries to go into an alert stance? (So, Drew and Jason in sight of the door or not?) (In sight of door, but kinda far.) [Check, keep going. Oh and keep all actions shorrt. No stringing stuff together.] * Angel creeps up to the door, and listens at it. (Gimme a sense of your choice roll angel +6 penalty, HA counts) * Angel, hearing nothing, pulls out a kit from her inside pocket, holstering her guns. [The door is suddenly pulled back and a scaley furry but still humanoid looking man attacks with what looks like I giant scorpion's tail.] [You can also see a woman standing behind the man who mutters something while looking out the door and down the hall way. Body or soul rolls you three. Whichever is higher] * Angel ducks under it. "Go!" [OK, roll for init everyone as I work something out. Outsiders too.] * Angel turns into a hyperactive ferret. [Angel, Jason - Kendrick, Animal, Morpher, Les - Drew] [Angel you cute little ferret] * Angel tries to run between the furry/scorpion guy's legs and jump on the witch. Chitter chitter! (and bite her punk ass) (the shock of seeing this explains my low initiative ^_^) (Rabid ferret to the face. Always dangerous. Butt less so, but hey!) [Attack roll -- unarmed attack (bites)] (Woman "Not the ass! Not the ass! ) (Aww! Angel has skill in biting!) (That's so cute.) (She should meet Usdi.) [Angel misses her.. obviously she just hasn't put in enough time practicing at the gun range for being turned into a ferret.] [Jason and Kendrick, Although Kendrick doesn't know anythings up yet] (Obviously.) (Jason, would you kindly let us know something's up?) (... Maaaybe. ^^) * Jason stares. "Fuck!" He runs directly at the lady and her pet-guy, fire spiraling down his right forearm and into his hand. He snaps the flames back and forward at the witch, hopefully not scorching the ceiling or walls (too much). * Kendrick idly glances up at the window. o/` * Drew starts getting bigger, beefier, and hairier. [Jason makes like an inquistor and flames the witch. There's some scorch marks on the surrounds and she yelps in pain.] [Animal guys turn] ("What else do we burn besides witches?") (More witches!) [Animal guy comments "New friends.. Joy!" drops to all four as his head sprouts a horn and he charges at Jason. Who needs to dodge.] * Jason looks over at the animal and his eyes flare. He doesn't make a move to step away as the horn approaches him... and goes through, as he dissolves into hundreds of swirling bright, fiery motes. (sweet!) (I always wanted to try this attribute. ^_^) [Morpher makes a run for the window and opens it, ending up on the fire escape.] [Kendrick] * Kendrick draws his pistol and aims at the Morpher and smirks, seeing lotsa bright light coming out of the window. He shoots to bring the guy down, but not to kill. (Gal, and roll it) * Morpher gets hit (how much damage Kendrick?) * Animal at this times seems rather off balanced and perplexed as his horn sticks through the door behind where Jason was standing. "Pretty firey death lights." [Drew while Kendrick looks that up] (is Animal in pretty much a straight line from me?) (me to?) [Actually yeah, Les move. Woman's still up but looks really hurt.] (Woman's burning with a bullet in her. Of *course* she's really hurt.) * Drew has finished transforming into what seems to be a typical werewolf... with clothing that fits a little more tightly than before. Drew runs up, bounds off the wall and does a claw attack on Animal, attempting to push it further into the door in the process * Les looks hard at the fire escape... which suddenly glistens as if it were ice. (which it is now!) [Drew rips a nice chunk out of the door, which had just been minding it's own business before you damn metamorphs came along, but he misses the critter.] [Angel] (am I still on the witch?) (Go go ferret power!) (Naw, you're in the room, you missed the witch.) (Witch is out the window, but attackable this turn. Not too far awy) * Angel charges the witch and leaps onto her face, clawing all the way. * Witch slips back as the ferret claws her in the face. As she bats at it with her hands she keeps falling back and slides down the staircase to the fourth floor where she slams into the side of the escape. She looks barely alive, but still conscious. [Jason and Kendrick] * The motes separate, giving Drew some beating- er, breathing room, and sink down towards the floor. They look almost placid for a moment before zipping towards the animal's feet and shooting up, making the effect of a fiery pillar to the ceiling. Pretty fiery death lights is no joke. (The metamorph still moving?) [Animal tries to dodge out of the way or stomp on the flames but it does no good. "Aaahh! Only you can start hotel fires."] (Yeah, barely) (Take another shot, not to kill.) * An extra mote zaps the animal as it says that. Bad jokes must be punished. * Kendrick aims again, shooting for the non-vitals of the 'beast' as it were. [The witch falls unconsious with a rather nasty arm wound.] * Animal shifts again, this time to a winged looking human with strange potchmarked skin. "Power of.. star bird!" He manages to get out the window and it looks like his burn marks are healing. [Les and Drew] (You have LoS now!) (Jah!) (LoS!) (what's the situation outside on the fire escape now, mister GM?) (Fourth floor the witch is down. Fifth floor there's a flying guy in line of site, still in humanoid form) (Witch lady's unconscious on the fourth platform of the fire escape. She's burned, two bullet holes, probably a concussion. ;P) * Drew charges towards the window and jumps out, attempting to tackle Animal against the opposite wall * Les readies himself. (Do we want these things alive?) (No clear orders) (Do I know if the ferret is on the witch?) (I'm trying not to kill them. :P) [Drew manages to keep his bearings and get out to the ice, but the slipperiness is enough that he can't get a hold of the beast.] (Do you even know there's a ferret? ^^;) (Les: Sight check, +4 for that) (I think I saw it attack the witch) (And that the ferret's Angel, more importantly. @_@;) (for the record for Kendrick and Les, the werewolf is wearing Drew's clothes. So naturally you can infer that it ate Drew and is an imposter :-p ) (Lemme load my silver bullets...) [Angel bites at the witch some more.] (*thunderclap*) [Jason and Kendrick!] (Jason: Wrong werewolf. :P ) * Kendrick aims at the new advisary, who is clearly an enemy, and shoots to wound him too. (Uh... The one that Les was going to encase in ice.) * The motes hover and spread in confusion, then seem to realize what's going on and burst through the window, swarming on the Wonder Twin imposter. [The weird potched creatures tries to dodge but seems distracted by the werewolf that ate Drew and subsequently put on his clothes. Tricky werewolf.] * Les grunts. Suddenly the witch moves from the 4th floor fire escape to the space at kendrick's feet. [Jason, gimme a body roll to avoid Drew, assuming you're trying to avoid drew. -4 bonus] (I can't avoid drew.) (Gotcha) [Animal guy yipes as the flames swirl around him and he fails to get out of the way, he collapses for a moment. Drew, who had the misfortune of being right next to the target...] [Catches some damage as well, but not near as much as the animal suffered.] [The seemingly unconcious animal than suddenly springs to life again and growls. He then grabs a hold of Drew. "Wolf meet porcupine! Be friends!" As large spikes fly sprout from all over his body] [Dodge-like roll for Jason and dodge roll for Drew] [About a dozen motes are speared by the spikes, but considering there are hundreds.... Jason's cool.] [A few spines embed themselves in Drew's chest, but the animal's ineffective grapple prevented most of the damage. [Les and Kendrick] (Any baddies in my LoS besides the werewolf?) [Nope] * Kendrick eyes the werewolf, and changes his HP bullets out for silver. "Just in case..." He reassures himself. * Les concentrates on the porcupine * Kendrick also looks down at the thing at his feet. [Witch stays at Kendrick's feet. The Ferret is currently biting at an arm, rather perturbed.] [The animal stays where he is. "Strange magic... I am free of witch! But angry..."] [Drew!] [Then Jason... then caffine for the GM!] * Drew attempts a non-descriptive grapple/pin in the hope it works this time * Drew misses and a few spines fail to penetrate his armour. [Jason] * The motes swirl for a moment, almost seeming to discuss what to do, then burst at the porcupine in smaller chunks. [Animal goes down with a yelp. "Good night, sweet firefly."] [His wounds are still healing as he's down though. [Out off init for the moment] [And remember Drew, you're on a icy fire escape at the moment.] * Kendrick cuffs what's human or has hands on his-end, then calls the proper kind of 'medics' for this group of supernaturals. "So you're a TK, eh?" * The motes float up, then zoom down, straight for Kendrick. They miss, landing on the ground and taking Jason's shape, who wastes absolutely no time in lighting up. [Les nods, "I know a few tricks." He then brings down the still healing animal.] [Angel reverts to human form and looks rather annoyed.] * Drew walks down the fire escape, making sure to hold the railings * Kendrick cuffs the, um, animal too. "Shoulda known you wouldn't be 'normal.'" He looks up at Drew. "That's Drew, right?" (Body roll Drew, -8 bonus) [Animal is cuffed!] Yeah, I think so. * Jason rubs at his forehead, then lets out a puff of smoke. He grins. "That was fun. Need more witches around here." I'd read them their rights, but... Well, you know. They're unconcious. [Drew gets down with style.] [Sense roll of choice, HA counts] * Drew waits until things seem pretty certain to not be needing muscle (that can't hit worth shit) around, then does a repeat performance of shooting up [Drew notices that the animal is about to get up again.] * Drew says in a somewhat snarling voice "He's about to spring up guys" [Back into init. Drew first though as he noticed] [Les and Angel are off talking for a moment and so they go last.] [So Drew. Go!] [You knock him down each time he gets up, and after the third time he stays down.] [So, victorious you deliver the two subdued mobsters to MI-5 headquarters and get your 60,000 pounds for this mission.] [Today's experiment... succeeded.] [End]