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EverGuard4 (8:33:32 PM): ooh
EverGuard4 (8:33:37 PM): the chat has a name...
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EverGuard4 (8:33:41 PM): *senses danger* =)
Thematrian1 (8:33:45 PM): does it? I can't see it...
Umbrafer (8:33:52 PM): "Danger, danger! High voltage!"
Thematrian1 (8:33:54 PM): <----full of hate
Thematrian1 (8:33:57 PM): dammit
Thematrian1 (8:34:03 PM): even that joke doesn't work under iChat
EverGuard4 (8:34:03 PM): (Bugging Around)(
Umbrafer (8:34:13 PM): Heh, iChat isn't bad at all�Ķ providing it's videoconferencing you're wanting, not a text chat.
Thematrian1 (8:34:29 PM): fair enough, I've never tried that
Thematrian1 (8:34:38 PM): so: once we have Blake/Matt, the party can get started
Dragcrell (8:35:05 PM): *walks out of a shadow* hehehehehehe
Umbrafer (8:35:08 PM): I'm going to put this before the party: should I kick my Intelligence up to 8?
EverGuard4 (8:35:30 PM): (No-- for reasons discussed at our last gathering)
Dragcrell (8:35:43 PM): lol
Thematrian1 (8:35:47 PM): I like how Blake is the party moron, with a mere Int of six.
Thematrian1 (8:36:02 PM): with, ok, maybe not Rock. But you know.
Thematrian1 (8:36:06 PM): (What reasons were those?)
Dragcrell (8:36:55 PM): well lest Blake dont' run the risk of getting gunned down by Star for the hell of it ;3
Thematrian1 (8:37:15 PM): not yet, at least. There's lots of gaming ahead.
Thematrian1 (8:37:39 PM): oh, I know what we can do
Thematrian1 (8:38:08 PM): Your employer wanted to discuss Life at the Base with Rock.
Thematrian1 (8:38:22 PM): ::jumps back in time a bit::
Thematrian1 (8:39:14 PM): Eric turns his attention to Rock. "You were a prisoner there?"
EverGuard4 (8:39:31 PM): "Prisoner?"
EverGuard4 (8:39:35 PM): "I suppose."
Thematrian1 (8:40:43 PM): "Tell me about it. What was it like to live there?"
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EverGuard4 (8:41:29 PM): "I had but a brief stay."
EverGuard4 (8:42:09 PM): "The Bokor initially brought me food, but eventually let me wander sections of the lower level."
Thematrian1 (8:42:26 PM): "How many people lived there, would you say?"
EverGuard4 (8:43:53 PM): "I encountered five individuals."
Thematrian1 (8:44:12 PM): He turns to Blake. "You met and defeated more than that?"
MilesMk1 (8:46:06 PM): "Including the non-spellcasters? Yes."
Thematrian1 (8:46:41 PM): He turns back to Rock. "How were you captured?"
MilesMk1 (8:46:47 PM): "I would estimate the number of the grunts at about 20 all told."
Thematrian1 (8:46:56 PM): (this falls after Blake finishes)
EverGuard4 (8:47:31 PM): "I do not remember."
EverGuard4 (8:47:49 PM): "I do not know if I was 'captured.'"
Thematrian1 (8:48:01 PM): "What did he do to you, while you were there?"
EverGuard4 (8:48:17 PM): "He spoke a little."
Thematrian1 (8:48:30 PM): "What about?"
EverGuard4 (8:48:54 PM): "Something about a church and a plan."
Thematrian1 (8:49:17 PM): "What was his plan?"
Thematrian1 (8:49:24 PM): Eric is clearly getting excited.
EverGuard4 (8:51:57 PM): "He claimed to possess the ability to empower souls."
Thematrian1 (8:52:33 PM): This is not the answer Eric expected.
Thematrian1 (8:53:22 PM): He glances sideways at Blake. "Is he well?" Clearly he means Rock.
MilesMk1 (8:56:00 PM): *glances at Rock and shrugs slightly* "He clearly has significant gaps in his memory, and tends to be cryptic sometime, but over time, I found him quite rational, yes."
Thematrian1 (8:56:56 PM): "So he was a mage, some kind of spell-slinger?"
EverGuard4 (8:57:52 PM): (he=me?)
EverGuard4 (8:58:08 PM): (he=Bokor?)
Thematrian1 (8:58:27 PM): (he=the guy who claimed to possess the ability to empower souls)
EverGuard4 (8:58:52 PM): "I think so." (assuming Eric directed the question @ Rock and not @ Blake)
Thematrian1 (8:59:43 PM): (Yes, he did)
Thematrian1 (9:00:18 PM): (Did you guys give Eric Rock's name?)
MilesMk1 (9:00:25 PM): "He definitely seemed to have at least one spirit of some sort under his direct control, and able to command it remotely."
MilesMk1 (9:00:31 PM): (I believe so, yes.)
Thematrian1 (9:02:02 PM): "Well Rock, I'm afraid that I can't offer you the protection of the UCAS military."
EverGuard4 (9:02:32 PM): *No reaction*
Thematrian1 (9:02:37 PM): "But you've all done a very great service."
Thematrian1 (9:02:47 PM): (He leaves as before, unless intercepted)
Umbrafer (9:02:56 PM): *Null interception*
MilesMk1 (9:03:05 PM): (Uh... did Rock ask for the protection of UCAS military, or did that come from nowhere?)
MilesMk1 (9:03:13 PM): (Since Blake was there even if I wasn't...)
Thematrian1 (9:03:21 PM): (totally out of the blue)
Thematrian1 (9:05:30 PM): And that's that. You're off to see the Trickster?
Dragcrell (9:06:03 PM): (rigth and with that)
Dragcrell (9:06:45 PM): (we picking up where we left off last night or from this new point?)
Dragcrell (9:06:59 PM): (errr last week >_>)
Umbrafer (9:07:04 PM): Yep
Thematrian1 (9:07:06 PM): (from where we left off last night, just confirming that no one had anything new to do that changed because of what just happened)
Dragcrell (9:07:18 PM): (ok)
Dragcrell (9:07:43 PM): *gets in the van and looks around*
MilesMk1 (9:07:49 PM): (Where did we leave off, by the way? Were we talking to Trickster somewhere?)
MilesMk1 (9:07:58 PM): (Oh, right. In the van.)
MilesMk1 (9:08:15 PM): (BTW, is it snowing tonight? Are to goats acting up? :))
MilesMk1 (9:08:21 PM): (the goats)
Dragcrell (9:08:37 PM): (ya we was just pileing back in affer picking me up at the meeting...........Smart ass and no)
Dragcrell (9:09:47 PM): *finds a spot to sit down* Ok how much do you need me to repeat or should I just start from the beging again?
Umbrafer (9:10:11 PM): "Take it from the top. If we've got a destination, might want to give that first."
Dragcrell (9:10:51 PM): *cheaks pockes fro the personal comp and cred stick to see if he rembered to get em or not*
Thematrian1 (9:11:06 PM): Sadly, no, they're back at your place.
Dragcrell (9:11:07 PM): (and no I can't rember if I did or not >_>)
Thematrian1 (9:11:25 PM): (There was some gnashing of teeth over this very fact last week ;-))
Dragcrell (9:11:49 PM): "best head to my place first need to get the stuff I found."
MilesMk1 (9:11:53 PM): (Actuall, last week you said you got someone else's pocket comp and credstick...)
MilesMk1 (9:12:14 PM): (But you then left them back at your house?)
Dragcrell (9:12:17 PM): (ya thats right for got the bag with the stuff in it)
MilesMk1 (9:12:56 PM): "So, how many of these people were there, following you?"
Dragcrell (9:12:56 PM): (hehehe been playing with my own fun as you guys played hehehe ^_^)
Dragcrell (9:13:57 PM): "just a spirt but farly shoure it was from one of the US guys that I ran in to?" *gives the address to his place*
Umbrafer (9:15:46 PM): What's the neighborhood like?
Thematrian1 (9:16:14 PM): lousy
MilesMk1 (9:16:47 PM): (US guys? You mean, UB?)
Dragcrell (9:16:57 PM): "Any way few days ago found a abanded house with two mana warps in it."
Umbrafer (9:16:59 PM): (United Stick Insects)
Dragcrell (9:17:15 PM): (ya)
Dragcrell (9:18:05 PM): "at first thout maby they was killed but I couldn't find any blood so I dug around some more and found some intersting stuff."
MilesMk1 (9:18:24 PM): "You thought the people in the house were killed?"
MilesMk1 (9:18:37 PM): "How did you find the house, by accident, or through a friend? I forget."
Dragcrell (9:19:11 PM): *thinks* "Accident and mana warps are usaly made by acts of vilence muders and the like."
Umbrafer (9:19:55 PM): (OOC: even Auschwitz only caused three or four points of Background Count, so I shudder if there was enough murder there to cause a mana warp)
EverGuard4 (9:20:36 PM): (ooc: plenty of rules are fucked)
Thematrian1 (9:21:04 PM): (Trickster chose this description :-D)
EverGuard4 (9:21:06 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 3 5 4 6 2 5 3 3 1
Dragcrell (9:21:07 PM): (scratche head hell I'm just glade I can rember this much >_> considering was 3 weeks sence I gamed that part)
MilesMk1 (9:21:22 PM): "So, you found these two mana warps by accident, and kept on searching around the place?"
Umbrafer (9:21:44 PM): *Drives to the general vicinity of the place. We're all equipped, right?#
Umbrafer (9:21:46 PM): **
MilesMk1 (9:22:58 PM): (I have my gun and stun gloves, and there should be my backup AK-97 in the van.)
Dragcrell (9:23:09 PM): "well ya wanted to see what I could find. Well found some food in the micewave, a cred stick, the persaal comp thainyl and about 3 days of missed mesages on the phone."
MilesMk1 (9:23:19 PM): (Although that has only 3 points of recoil comp, it's the *cough* discreet one.)
Thematrian1 (9:23:32 PM): (The discreet AK-97. Ok)
Thematrian1 (9:23:43 PM): (A discrete AK-97, I could believe)
Dragcrell (9:24:11 PM): (lol not asking I dont think I wish to know)
Umbrafer (9:24:21 PM): (A non-discrete AK-97 would just be weird)
MilesMk1 (9:24:33 PM): (As opposed to the AK-98 with 6 points of recoil comp and a grenade launcher. Overall Concealability of roughly -10, I think.)
Thematrian1 (9:24:36 PM): (A discrete AK-97 could be easily divided into many pieces; that is to say, easy breakdown and construction)
Thematrian1 (9:25:00 PM): (anyway)
Thematrian1 (9:25:15 PM): You arrive in Trickster Town. It's not a nice town.
Dragcrell (9:25:38 PM): "Well I been messing around with the persanal comp and found out she was seeing a guy from the UB that was pestering her to join them."
Umbrafer (9:25:52 PM): (I was thinking an AK-97 that blurred into other AK-97s as opposed to an AK-97 that was an identifiably separate AK-97)
Thematrian1 (9:26:16 PM): (That's probably truer to the meaning of the term. And I can't visualize it at all)
Thematrian1 (9:27:01 PM): Trickster: fetching the goods?
Dragcrell (9:27:24 PM): *gets out and gets the bag with the spar gear, comp, and cread stick*
MilesMk1 (9:27:27 PM): "Alex, can we get a scan of the area in case there's someone here who's not a spirit?"
MilesMk1 (9:27:47 PM): *Goes along with Trickster.*
Umbrafer (9:28:09 PM): *Scanning*
Umbrafer (9:28:11 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 5 6 6 5 5
Dragcrell (9:28:17 PM): (>_> just take care how meny holes you put in stuff lol dont need a building falling down ;3)
Umbrafer (9:28:22 PM): Umbrafer rolled 2 6-sided dice: 4 4
MilesMk1 (9:28:41 PM): (I only have a heavy pistol with me...)
Thematrian1 (9:29:09 PM): Got some people lying down in that tenament over there. Got some people walking away down the street 500 meters away. Got no one in Trickster's apartment.
Thematrian1 (9:29:17 PM): Anything else you wanted, oh Sensor-y one?
Dragcrell (9:29:30 PM): (ya but considering what one can cram in a van :P)
Umbrafer (9:30:18 PM): That'll probably be it.
Thematrian1 (9:30:22 PM): (oh, general notice: iChat isn't warning me when I get IMs. So if I don't respond to yours, just poke me in the back of the head or something)
Umbrafer (9:30:23 PM): I relay that info.
MilesMk1 (9:30:46 PM): *keeps scanning the area for anything unusual*
Dragcrell (9:31:22 PM): *looks about on the astral to see if anythaings up as I get the stuff and back*
Thematrian1 (9:31:55 PM): roll it
Dragcrell (9:32:11 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 4 1 1 2 5 6 5
Umbrafer (9:32:13 PM): (Reminds me, did we ever resolve what each person got from the run?)
Umbrafer (9:32:17 PM): (Cred-wise?)
Dragcrell (9:32:38 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
MilesMk1 (9:32:57 PM): (50k total)
Dragcrell (9:33:06 PM): (well I see I still suck on the rolling >_>)
Thematrian1 (9:33:07 PM): (50k each, that's right)
Thematrian1 (9:33:18 PM): Nope Trickster, nothing follows you.
MilesMk1 (9:33:39 PM): (17k up front, 33k at completion)
Thematrian1 (9:34:23 PM): (Sooth)
Thematrian1 (9:34:38 PM): So, Trickster comes back bearing gifts in the form of a phone and a pocket secretary.
Dragcrell (9:35:09 PM): (and the cred stick ;3 snaged it as well rember)
Thematrian1 (9:35:47 PM): And a cred stick, indeed
MilesMk1 (9:36:12 PM): "So ever since you came across this, spirits have been following you?"
Dragcrell (9:37:25 PM): "No only after I made a visit to the UB palace the guy with the wasp thaing tolk a intrest in me some thing abut how I was all ready in tune with nater or some mytstica shit like that>"
EverGuard4 (9:38:21 PM): I'll brb
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MilesMk1 (9:39:03 PM): "So... After you found this crap, you actually went looking for these UB assholes? Out of curiosity?"
Dragcrell (9:39:55 PM): *scratches left ear* "Ya wanted to see what was up there a odd grounp tell the truth
MilesMk1 (9:40:52 PM): (OOC: Do we know anything about bug spirits? Have there been previous hives put down? Are they known to be a Bad Thing already, just not on the scale they'll become in, oh... a day or two?)
Thematrian1 (9:40:59 PM): (Nope)
Thematrian1 (9:41:11 PM): (It's 2:15 August 22, for your edification)
Umbrafer (9:41:17 PM): (Nope, they're pretty much a gummint secret)
Dragcrell (9:41:32 PM): "Meet with 3 others befor the wasp guy all three had very calm aruas but one the leader of the joint had someing else under it but not shouer what it was."
MilesMk1 (9:41:43 PM): (So it's just a different sort of spirit as far as I'm concerned. And the fact it's bonded to someone is just weird mystical shit I don't get. Got it.)
Dragcrell (9:41:57 PM): (hehehehe)
Thematrian1 (9:41:59 PM): (Sure looks that way. Just one of those weeks)
Umbrafer (9:42:08 PM): (Thanks to Witch Hazel's Guide to the Awakening, I understand a bit of it now!)
Umbrafer (9:42:25 PM): (That and Moonsong Starchild's Guide to the Goode Craft)
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Dragcrell (9:43:32 PM): "Well heres the comp thaing she uses some sort of coding useing the abrivations so stuff last entry was 3 days from when I found it."
MilesMk1 (9:43:44 PM): "All right... So they're a weird bunch of hippie cultists, and they seem to be paying you too much attention. How can we help? You need mo..."
MilesMk1 (9:43:56 PM): "Coding, eh?"
MilesMk1 (9:44:16 PM): (Shojo is not with us anymmore, correct?)
Thematrian1 (9:44:28 PM): (Nope. You dropped her off...uh...elsewhere. Totally)
Thematrian1 (9:44:38 PM): (Probably she's checking in on Martha)
Umbrafer (9:44:39 PM): (Totally.)
Dragcrell (9:44:52 PM): "Ya worked some of it out could be more about stuff she was looking in to the UB as well how far she when't I don't know."
MilesMk1 (9:45:46 PM): "What did you work out?"
MilesMk1 (9:46:03 PM): *starts looking over the computer, pretending he knows what he's doing.*
MilesMk1 (9:46:23 PM): (Can I default to Computers from Electronics at +2, BTW?)
Umbrafer (9:46:26 PM): "Want me to take a look at that?"
Thematrian1 (9:46:29 PM): (Not for this)
Thematrian1 (9:46:41 PM): (Default to Int is fine, though)
Dragcrell (9:46:56 PM): "not much just some of the notes for the food diliverys and stuff about the guys she's been seeing and the UB sites she was looking in to."
Umbrafer (9:47:02 PM): (Pst: someone with actual Computers skill is in the van ;) )
Dragcrell (9:47:18 PM): (lol)
Thematrian1 (9:47:19 PM): (Or that, sure. Spoilsport)
MilesMk1 (9:47:21 PM): *finally finds the "on" switch* "Uh. Sure." (hey, I thought you were driving)
Umbrafer (9:47:43 PM): (Rigger, remember? Even if the van weren't a drone, that probably wouldn't be much of an obstacle)
MilesMk1 (9:48:00 PM): (And I *do* have the Computers skill. I just sort of have it the way Alex has a Str score. :p)
Umbrafer (9:48:08 PM): ( :D )
Umbrafer (9:48:22 PM): Examinating.
MilesMk1 (9:48:22 PM): *hands over the computer*
Umbrafer (9:48:24 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 4 4 6 2 5
Umbrafer (9:48:27 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
MilesMk1 (9:48:37 PM): (just as an experiment...)
MilesMk1 (9:48:40 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 5 5 1 4 4
Dragcrell (9:48:41 PM): "been another disaperence not shour if its coneted or not coun't find out anythaing on the guy."
MilesMk1 (9:48:55 PM): (Nah, this time my incompetence doesn't seem to be helping.)
MilesMk1 (9:49:17 PM): "How did you find out about this disappearance? Was this in your neighbourhood?"
Dragcrell (9:49:50 PM): "Read it in the paper somthign about how they have yet to find him or his body."
MilesMk1 (9:50:18 PM): "Ah. Was it in the same area? If not, maybe it's not even connected..."
Dragcrell (9:51:02 PM): *shruges* "No idea tryed to find out more on him but then I'm not realy good with the tech stuff."
Thematrian1 (9:51:24 PM): Ok Alex. You'll be working on the system for a while; it takes you a bit to figure out her abbreviations but you're making progress.
Umbrafer (9:52:13 PM): I'm fine with that. I take over from the drone/autopilot whenever necessary, but otherwise just focus on the compute.
Umbrafer (9:52:14 PM): *r
Thematrian1 (9:52:23 PM): Where are you driving _to_?
Umbrafer (9:52:39 PM): The general vicinity of Trickster Town, IIRC
Umbrafer (9:52:49 PM): Wait, we were already there
Thematrian1 (9:52:52 PM): yeah
Umbrafer (9:53:00 PM): Ok, then we're just cruising the area right now
Dragcrell (9:53:08 PM): "And after the UB visit I figured I needed some help to wprk this out something is not right."
Umbrafer (9:53:10 PM): Alex isn't feeling too good about staying still after the past few days.
Thematrian1 (9:53:17 PM): He got the stuff, he got the money, you cruise. K. Some hungry looking prostitutes eye the van, but you're otherwise left alone.
MilesMk1 (9:54:56 PM): "Well... I guess we can see what we can do. Maybe there's even someone willing to pay for info on this sort of weird magical shit..."
Umbrafer (9:56:12 PM): "It'll probably be relaxation for us now."
Thematrian1 (9:56:14 PM): 2:44. Alex, you think you've got the picture. The lady (named Eileen) stored dozens of pieces of information on this machine every day, up until four days ago. Right then, nothing.
Thematrian1 (9:56:18 PM): It's mostly very mundane: "take L. Dr.O", "reschedule groceries", stuff like that. There's also a private diary. No password protection or anything, just sitting out there.
Dragcrell (9:56:58 PM): *nods* "Well I know I've never see anythaing like the wasp guy befor."
Umbrafer (9:57:25 PM): Anything interesting in the diary?
Thematrian1 (9:57:32 PM): Are you going to invade this poor, defenseless woman's privacy?
Thematrian1 (9:57:34 PM): ah
Thematrian1 (9:57:35 PM): ok then
Thematrian1 (9:57:41 PM): (;))
Dragcrell (9:58:00 PM): (lol hell I all but ran sacked her place)
Thematrian1 (9:58:22 PM): There are repeated references to a guy she's sortakinda romantically involved with. He's a UB fellow, and wants her to get in tune, she's unsure and has inner conflict. She writes about it at length.
Thematrian1 (9:58:38 PM): There's a lot about her daughter Laurie, too.
Umbrafer (9:59:38 PM): Does she name names?
MilesMk1 (9:59:42 PM): Aw.
Umbrafer (9:59:48 PM): Specifically, her last name or his name?
MilesMk1 (10:00:05 PM): There had to be a kid, didn't it? You bastard. :)
MilesMk1 (10:00:17 PM): (didn't there)
Dragcrell (10:00:39 PM): (but of corse no fun other wise)
Thematrian1 (10:00:45 PM): on the guy? Yeah, his name is Mark, no last name specified. Usually he's just 'M'. Her last name is Hastings, according to those invoices.
Umbrafer (10:01:21 PM): Going to look for Missing Persons Reports for either Eileen hastings or Laurie Hastings.
Thematrian1 (10:01:45 PM): let's see it
Umbrafer (10:02:17 PM): Computers?
Umbrafer (10:02:18 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 6 5 3 3 2
Umbrafer (10:02:21 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
Thematrian1 (10:03:12 PM): ok, you have to go digging a bit.
Thematrian1 (10:03:19 PM): Actions, reactions while Alex searches?
Thematrian1 (10:03:23 PM): (You have on the order of minutes)
Umbrafer (10:03:33 PM): The monitors are showing outside views.
Thematrian1 (10:03:45 PM): k. No more hungry prostitutes.
Dragcrell (10:04:11 PM): *just sits and watches the monitors*
MilesMk1 (10:04:13 PM): *chats with Trickster about how business has been while we were out of touch* (that is, asks Trickster, not talks about our work, especially not the last one)
MilesMk1 (10:04:45 PM): *turns on the radio (if he can) and tunes in to a news station*
Umbrafer (10:05:21 PM): Does this thing even have a radio?
Umbrafer (10:05:31 PM): I mean, it does have a two-way
Thematrian1 (10:05:35 PM): (Not of the listening-to-the kind, IIRC)
Umbrafer (10:05:55 PM): I'll pipe out a stream from some newsnet.
Umbrafer (10:06:01 PM): That shouldn't sap much bandwidth.
Thematrian1 (10:06:53 PM): bzzt. waoorr. "A local man was found murdered in his home today, says Knight Errant executive Jeffery Palmers. In a statement issued this afternoon, Knight Errant denied..."
Thematrian1 (10:07:44 PM): 2:57. Alex concludes that there aren't any missing persons reports.
Umbrafer (10:09:15 PM): "No reports on the woman. You sure she went missing?:
Umbrafer (10:09:17 PM): *"
MilesMk1 (10:10:36 PM): "Do we have any information on where she works? She might not have any next of kin here, but her employer ought to have noticed."
Umbrafer (10:11:08 PM): "She had a daughter, but she could have gone missing too." Any information in the computer?
Dragcrell (10:11:12 PM): "Well there was a message from her boss about her being fired."
MilesMk1 (10:11:46 PM): "Ah."
Dragcrell (10:12:35 PM): *holds up the phone* "As well as sevral other calls a few from ppl that sounded worryed about not being able to get hold of her."
MilesMk1 (10:13:03 PM): "But anyone who called that phone won't know any more about where she is now than we do..."
MilesMk1 (10:13:56 PM): "I think we exhausted avenues of investigation that don't involve talking to people. Like the boyfriend, maybe?"
Dragcrell (10:13:57 PM): "you can replay them I'm shoure you might find something I missed and theres the cred stick have yet to mess with it tho."
MilesMk1 (10:14:13 PM): "That is, if we want to get involved in this."
MilesMk1 (10:14:25 PM): *takes the phone and listens to the messages*
Thematrian1 (10:16:30 PM): There are two categories. Category one is from the boss, who left three messages of the forms "Eileen, where are you?!", "Get in here!", and "You're fired."
Thematrian1 (10:16:46 PM): Category two is some guy filling up the phone's memory with increasingly-inarticulate pleas for her to come back to him, or at least return his calls.
Umbrafer (10:17:15 PM): Do either of them have numbers attached?
Thematrian1 (10:17:19 PM): The time is 3:08
Thematrian1 (10:17:21 PM): no
Umbrafer (10:17:34 PM): Bugger all. Any hint where Eileen worked?
MilesMk1 (10:17:44 PM): Does he ever give his name? Can we identify him as the would-be boyfriend?
Thematrian1 (10:17:48 PM): cat 2 (whose name is Jeff by the way) mentions that she knows the number.
MilesMk1 (10:18:25 PM): Ah. So this is not the UB guy... That was someone starting with an M, yes?
Thematrian1 (10:18:26 PM): With the name as a key, you can spot a few diary entries related to him. She didn't seem to think much of him one way or the other.
Thematrian1 (10:18:42 PM): Yeah, UB guy was named Mark
MilesMk1 (10:19:30 PM): Does the diary have his number?
MilesMk1 (10:20:05 PM): (Either Jeff's or Mark's, come to think of it)
Thematrian1 (10:20:26 PM): Yes to both. It takes a little digging, but no skill.
Thematrian1 (10:20:29 PM): 3:15
MilesMk1 (10:20:59 PM): "What do you think, should we try calling Jeff?"
Umbrafer (10:21:26 PM): "yes."
MilesMk1 (10:21:27 PM): "Or trying to find out where she works, and calling there?"
MilesMk1 (10:21:55 PM): "All right."
MilesMk1 (10:22:04 PM): "You want to do it, or should I?"
Umbrafer (10:22:21 PM): "Up to you. What's our ostensible reason for calling?"
MilesMk1 (10:23:35 PM): "Say we're related, trying to find her? I hate phones, if I could talk to him in person, this'd be so much easier..."
MilesMk1 (10:23:48 PM): "Perhaps you should call."
Umbrafer (10:24:16 PM): "Sure." Does the diary give any hint what Jeff does for a living?
Thematrian1 (10:25:21 PM): No. 3:21
Umbrafer (10:26:02 PM): *Ring ring* (Routed through Transducer, Mr. World voice)
MilesMk1 (10:27:08 PM): (You keep listing the time like there was a countdown to something...)
Thematrian1 (10:27:10 PM): *ring ring, ring ring, ring ring* "Hiiii. You've reached Jeffery Sokolzky. Leave a message!" BEEP
Thematrian1 (10:27:16 PM): (That's crazy talk)
Umbrafer (10:27:26 PM): *Takes down that last name, hangs up, dials again*
Thematrian1 (10:27:41 PM): same #?
Umbrafer (10:27:47 PM): Yep
Dragcrell (10:27:49 PM): (glade it wasn't only me that noted that >_>)
Thematrian1 (10:28:24 PM): *ring ring, ring ring, ring ring* "Hiiii. You've reached Jeffery Sokolzky. Leave a message!" BEEP
Umbrafer (10:28:53 PM): *Click* "No go, he's out. Got his last name, though."
Umbrafer (10:30:29 PM): "Where from here?"
Thematrian1 (10:30:34 PM): My apologies, there was one more call on the phone.
Umbrafer (10:30:43 PM): Fire away
Thematrian1 (10:32:17 PM): "Hey, this is Cassie, I just wanted to know if you needed me to look after Laurie again tomorrow night, well, gimmieacall at #!"
Umbrafer (10:32:41 PM): Is there a datestamp on that number?
Umbrafer (10:33:26 PM): "Hey Trickster, were there any signs of violence or a struggle when you ransacked the woman's apartment?"
MilesMk1 (10:33:42 PM): (Holy shit. I just looked at a SR timeline and realized what exactly it is that makes the bugs spread out into the city. I thought for some reason it would be later... Heh.)
Umbrafer (10:34:02 PM): (?)
Dragcrell (10:34:16 PM): "Not that I seen looked as if the girl was in her room and the mother in the kichen at the time of what ever happend
Thematrian1 (10:34:37 PM): The call was made the night before last.
Umbrafer (10:35:01 PM): Calling Cassie's number.
Umbrafer (10:35:16 PM): Routed through transducer, Mr. World voice.
Umbrafer (10:35:41 PM): Anything interesting on the news?
Thematrian1 (10:36:20 PM): not really
Thematrian1 (10:36:36 PM): ring ring ring. A young male voice: "H'lo?"
Umbrafer (10:37:01 PM): "Yes, hello. May I speak to Cassie, please?"
Umbrafer (10:38:33 PM): Er, rather, ##
Thematrian1 (10:38:44 PM): "She's...ah...who's this?"
Umbrafer (10:39:47 PM): "A friend of a friend, calling out of concern for Eileen Hastings"
Thematrian1 (10:40:32 PM): "Oh. Well, she's out."
Umbrafer (10:41:24 PM): "I see. Could you please have her call Eileen's cell phone when she gets back? I believe she wanted to speak with her."
Thematrian1 (10:42:07 PM): "Uh, sure." He sounds puzzled. "I'll tell her."
Umbrafer (10:42:28 PM): "Thank you." *Click*
Umbrafer (10:42:46 PM): "Right, we might get a call from Cassie on that phone, so be ready for it."
Umbrafer (10:44:09 PM): "Maybe we should check out the apartment"
MilesMk1 (10:44:53 PM): "All right. Maybe something changed there. You up for it, Trickster?"
Dragcrell (10:45:18 PM): "Ya whats the worst that could happen?" *gives em the address*
Thematrian1 (10:45:55 PM): Ok. It's a bit of a drive, especially in Chicago during the day. At least the area is pretty nice
Umbrafer (10:46:00 PM): "We could all die horribly. And then be brought back as zombie mages."
Dragcrell (10:46:03 PM): (ok why dos that sound like a famis last words line >_>.........<_<)
Umbrafer (10:46:07 PM): Any news?
Dragcrell (10:46:47 PM): "Zombie mages???" *confused look*
Thematrian1 (10:47:10 PM): bzzt. whooor. 3:57
Umbrafer (10:47:14 PM): (Keeping the newsfeed active)
Thematrian1 (10:47:19 PM): Blake's cell phone rings
Umbrafer (10:47:21 PM): Bzzt whoor?
Thematrian1 (10:47:29 PM): (The radio noise ;-))
Umbrafer (10:47:32 PM): *whoor?
Umbrafer (10:47:41 PM): So the newscasts are down?
Thematrian1 (10:47:58 PM): the newscasts are up.
Thematrian1 (10:48:00 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
MilesMk1 (10:48:12 PM): *answers*
MilesMk1 (10:48:15 PM): "Yeah?"
Thematrian1 (10:48:28 PM): "Holy drek boss check out the trid channel 108"
MilesMk1 (10:48:39 PM): "Ok, hold on..."
MilesMk1 (10:48:58 PM): #Alex, can we pipe in trid channel 108 into this thing?#
Thematrian1 (10:49:00 PM): Meanwhile, your newscast is still looking baffled, and conspicuously changing topic.
MilesMk1 (10:49:21 PM): "Trying to right now... Why, what's up?"
Umbrafer (10:49:32 PM): *Does so, displaying it on the monitor*
Thematrian1 (10:50:44 PM): the newscast lady: "...denying this, claiming that the attacks are the work of 'wiz gangers'"
Thematrian1 (10:51:27 PM): Behind her: the biggest mosquito you've ever seen, certainly bigger than Blake, is flying around a parked car.
Umbrafer (10:51:51 PM): "Holy fuck!"
Thematrian1 (10:51:57 PM): the newscast lady: "Knight Errant advises citizens to remain in their homes while the perpetrators are apprehended."
EverGuard4 (10:51:59 PM): "Why do you search out the wasp seen by Trickster?"
Umbrafer (10:52:07 PM): Driving test to turn around and book back towards apartment.
Umbrafer (10:52:12 PM): Umbrafer rolled 12 6-sided dice: 3 2 6 4 4 5 6 3 4 4 1 1
Umbrafer (10:52:19 PM): Or rather, more familiar ground
Umbrafer (10:52:23 PM): Umbrafer rolled 2 6-sided dice: 1 2
Thematrian1 (10:52:27 PM): Behind her: a second mosquito joins the first. Mosquitos are really god-damn disgusting at that size.
MilesMk1 (10:53:06 PM): *into phone* "Oh, that's just fucking great. Are they saying this is widespread?"
Dragcrell (10:53:18 PM): *turns to the voice then back to the moitor a look of cuosity on his face*
Umbrafer (10:53:24 PM): Not travelling at overly cop-attracting velocities, mind you, but definitely booking.
MilesMk1 (10:53:27 PM): *to Rock*
MilesMk1 (10:54:00 PM): "Because we've worked with Trickster in the past, and thought this'd just be a favor for a friend..."
Thematrian1 (10:54:03 PM): There's a pause on Jerome's end of the line. "Guy I know says there's a beetle in his back yard. I say, so what. He says, it's six fraggin feet long."
Umbrafer (10:54:50 PM): Magical Background: do I know of any sorts of mass hallucinations that have occurred in the past, or any other similar effect outside Australia? (yes, I am making a test to get information unrelated to what's actually going on)
Umbrafer (10:54:52 PM): Umbrafer rolled 2 6-sided dice: 1 1
Umbrafer (10:54:56 PM): Yow!.
Dragcrell (10:55:10 PM): *trys to get a look out side the van both mudane and astral*
Thematrian1 (10:55:23 PM): Ouch. You remember hearing about such a thing. In fact, it involved giant mosquitos, beetles, wasps &c
MilesMk1 (10:55:34 PM): "Have you seen any of them yourself?"
Umbrafer (10:55:52 PM): What else do I remember about it?
Thematrian1 (10:55:56 PM): newslady: "There are no injuries reported, but the gang should be considered dangerous."
Thematrian1 (10:56:05 PM): Trickster: roll perception
Thematrian1 (10:56:16 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 3 3 4 4 4
Dragcrell (10:56:19 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 3 3 2 5 1 5 2
MilesMk1 (10:56:27 PM): "And did you ever hear about any "wiz gangs"?"
Thematrian1 (10:56:53 PM): (That's common slang. Magic-heavy gangs, often with a penchant for prank-pulling)
Umbrafer (10:57:11 PM): Any action from the giant mosquitos behind the anchor?
Thematrian1 (10:57:52 PM): The scene behind the newslady shifts. Now the focus is on a scruffy, dark-haired guy. different area, you think. He's speaking, but the sound is off.
Umbrafer (10:58:17 PM): INT to try to read his lips.
Umbrafer (10:58:20 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 3 5 6 4 3 5 6 4
Thematrian1 (10:58:22 PM): Well Alex, you don't remember how the effect was produced exactly. The illusions weren't dangerous, you remember that much
Umbrafer (10:58:28 PM): Umbrafer rolled 2 6-sided dice: 1 6
Umbrafer (10:58:38 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
Umbrafer (10:59:08 PM): "I did hear about this one time that something like this happened before. Wasn't dangerous then. Maybe this is just a repeat."
Thematrian1 (10:59:22 PM): scruffy guy: "DOOM...wish protection...shelter all...warned!"
Umbrafer (10:59:38 PM): *Relays*
Thematrian1 (11:00:40 PM): (anybody else who wanted to try can make the same roll)
MilesMk1 (11:00:47 PM): *into cellphone* "Shit... Thanks for letting me know. I'm out on the streets right now, I'll give you a call if I see anything interesting - do the same ok?"
MilesMk1 (11:01:09 PM): (Default to INT okay?)
Thematrian1 (11:01:13 PM): (Yep)
MilesMk1 (11:01:19 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 6 3 2 5 4
MilesMk1 (11:01:22 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 2 6-sided dice: 1 5
Thematrian1 (11:01:29 PM): "Right."
Dragcrell (11:02:06 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 3 1 1 6 6 2 6
Thematrian1 (11:02:17 PM): Blake: same info as Alex, though you get "wish...we will shelter..."
Dragcrell (11:02:24 PM): Dragcrell rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 1 1
Dragcrell (11:02:29 PM): ROFL
Thematrian1 (11:02:39 PM): Trickster doesn't get anything that neither Alex nor Blake got
Umbrafer (11:02:45 PM): Calling Shojo to see if she's ok.
EverGuard4 (11:03:00 PM): (to girl) "Do not discount the creatures."
Umbrafer (11:03:15 PM): *Looks up* "Huh?"
Thematrian1 (11:03:38 PM): She answers. Seems she'd been chatting with Martha.
Umbrafer (11:03:54 PM): "Hey hon, everything ok there?"
Thematrian1 (11:04:05 PM): "Yeah...why?"
Umbrafer (11:04:47 PM): "The trid stations and Eagle Security are reporting giant insects all over the place. No reports of attacks yet, so it may be harmless, but I'd stay low. You with Martha?"
Thematrian1 (11:05:01 PM): "Yes. Let me look..."
Thematrian1 (11:05:39 PM): "There's some chatter on Shadowland. No one knows what to think..."
Dragcrell (11:05:56 PM): *looks to the other person in the van studing them* "whos that?"
Thematrian1 (11:06:24 PM): newslady: "More on this, as it develops. In other news..."
Umbrafer (11:06:45 PM): "Does anyone there have any theories?"
MilesMk1 (11:06:51 PM): "What do you know about the 'creatures', Rock?"
Dragcrell (11:08:09 PM): "I would need to see one but they look like big ass bugs on the tv hard to say." *looks at Rock* "and were did you get.....Rock from?"
EverGuard4 (11:08:44 PM): "They're real."
Umbrafer (11:10:05 PM): Anything outside the van as we cruise along?
Thematrian1 (11:10:25 PM): Fewer people on the streets than usual. Maybe more cars. You were heading back to...where exactly?
MilesMk1 (11:11:12 PM): "It's a long story, Trickster... He can tell you if he wants to."
MilesMk1 (11:11:40 PM): "They're real? But do you know what they are? Are they magical?"
Umbrafer (11:11:42 PM): The general vicinity of my apartment and Sigrun's shop. Not actually going there yet, though.
Thematrian1 (11:12:13 PM): Ok. You don't see any giant bugs.
Dragcrell (11:12:13 PM): "Is he always so quiet?" *looks at Rock realy closely expsay on the astral
EverGuard4 (11:12:37 PM): "I do not know much about them."
Dragcrell (11:13:16 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 3 6 1 3 2 6 2
Dragcrell (11:13:27 PM): Dragcrell rolled 2 6-sided dice: 6 6
Dragcrell (11:13:38 PM): Dragcrell rolled 2 6-sided dice: 2 6
Dragcrell (11:13:47 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
MilesMk1 (11:14:59 PM): "Yes, he is. English isn't his first language."
Umbrafer (11:15:31 PM): "Nor German, nor Navajo�Ķ"
MilesMk1 (11:15:53 PM): (And he doesn't seem to use contractions. He's a cyborg! The only magic-using cyborg in existence!)
MilesMk1 (11:16:11 PM): *tries to call up Ed*
Umbrafer (11:16:53 PM): *After finishing talking with Shojo, calls up Sigrun*
Thematrian1 (11:16:55 PM): ring ring, ring ring, ring ring. "Blake? Good, I was about to call you."
Thematrian1 (11:17:10 PM): *ring ring, ring ring, ring ring* Some guy picks up. "Sigrun's"
Dragcrell (11:18:06 PM): "ummm hes interesting his auras mmmmm more vibrant then with others more colorful and alive as well but calm as well fasinating guy you found."
Umbrafer (11:18:17 PM): "Hey. Is Sigrun there?"
Thematrian1 (11:18:28 PM): Ed: "Have you seen it?"
MilesMk1 (11:18:50 PM): "The bugs? Yeah."
Thematrian1 (11:19:20 PM): Ed: "I don't think it's wiz-gangs. Don't know what it is..."
Thematrian1 (11:19:34 PM): some guy: "She's out. She called a few minutes ago, she's coming home."
Umbrafer (11:20:22 PM): "Tell her Alex called. Everything calm at the shop?"
Thematrian1 (11:21:05 PM): "Yeah, everything's fine." There's a pause. "Listen, I'll tell her you called."
Dragcrell (11:21:06 PM): *looks to the monitors see if any mores on the bugs* "you dont' think this and the UB are linked do ya? I mean it was a wasp in the guys aura and it was a dame big one was glarning at me for 10 or so min."
Umbrafer (11:22:08 PM): "Thanks.
Umbrafer (11:22:12 PM): " *Click*
MilesMk1 (11:22:41 PM): "Yeah... There seems to be too much going on to be some ganger punks. That, and a friend says they're real."
Umbrafer (11:23:29 PM): *Takes a look through her pocket secretary*
Umbrafer (11:23:31 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 1 5 1 2 1 4 5 3
Umbrafer (11:23:47 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 3 5 2 3 6 2 4 2
Umbrafer (11:23:50 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Thematrian1 (11:24:07 PM): Ed: "A source we can trust, eh? Well, I'm going to go to ground for a bit, here, just to wait and see. You know you're welcome to come."
Umbrafer (11:24:25 PM): "Oh yeah, there was that other guy�Ķ" *dials in Zbyhnev's number*
Dragcrell (11:25:23 PM): *turns to Blake* "Any way you think you could find one of the bugs I want to see one the tech mess up the full picuer."
MilesMk1 (11:26:07 PM): "Your place is definitely more secure than mine... But there's some people I wouldn't want to leave behind if I did decide to hole up, so it's a question with how much of a crowd you'd want to put up with."
Thematrian1 (11:26:30 PM): "Mm. I can manage three at best. But if you've got a group of friends, you're probably okay."
MilesMk1 (11:26:51 PM): *mutes phone for a moment* "I dunno, Trickster... Maybe see if Alex can drive to one of the places the networks are broadcasting from?"
Thematrian1 (11:26:56 PM): Zbyhnev answers: "Hello?"
Umbrafer (11:27:18 PM): "Hey, Zbynhev. It's Alex, remember me?"
Dragcrell (11:27:26 PM): *nods then moves to the front of the van*
MilesMk1 (11:27:41 PM): "Yeah, I think I'm fine... That goes both ways, if this mess goes on and you need something, call me."
Thematrian1 (11:28:08 PM): "Well, whatever it is I can spend a week cut off. I'll be fine. But thanks."
Dragcrell (11:28:11 PM): *keeps a eye out for a bug as well*
Thematrian1 (11:28:48 PM): "Of course, of course. What do you need?"
Umbrafer (11:28:58 PM): "I assume you've heard the news?"
Thematrian1 (11:29:39 PM): "A few things. Lots of customers in the last half-hour..."
Umbrafer (11:31:15 PM): "If not, check //UCAS/CEN/CHI/27A1C4. Something's going down, and I don't know how big. I may need to make some purchases from you; other than that, just wanted to give you the heads-up and let you know that if anything goes down�Ķ
Umbrafer (11:31:17 PM): "
Umbrafer (11:31:29 PM): "�Ķnear you, you can give me a shout."
MilesMk1 (11:31:46 PM): "All right - I'll call you if I find out anything concrete about this thing."
Thematrian1 (11:31:51 PM): "Well, if you want anything you'd better hurry. As I said, there've been lots of orders lately."
Thematrian1 (11:31:59 PM): "Likewise."
MilesMk1 (11:32:21 PM): "Talk to you later, then."
Umbrafer (11:32:32 PM): "Got it. Got any spare MMG ammo, thermite, ATGMs, or woody-peter grenades lying around?"
Umbrafer (11:33:24 PM): "Minigrenades on that last one, though we'd take full-sized if it's all you have."
Thematrian1 (11:33:52 PM): "Yes, no, no, and yes, though only full-sized."
Dragcrell (11:34:15 PM): *keeps looking out the windows for any bugs lol*
MilesMk1 (11:34:55 PM): #I've got two Great Dragon missiles and a launcher, actually. Are you out, or just looking for more?#
Umbrafer (11:35:20 PM): #Just stocking up. I've still got nearly a dozen.#
Umbrafer (11:35:40 PM): "Got it. We'll try to swing by for some shopping when we can. What's the rate on the W-Ps?"
MilesMk1 (11:35:42 PM): *calls up Samantha* (Shaman Level 2 contact)
Thematrian1 (11:36:44 PM): (The rate is triple standard. I have not the book though)
Thematrian1 (11:36:52 PM): "Heya?"
Thematrian1 (11:36:59 PM): (That one was Samantha)
Umbrafer (11:37:04 PM): (Nor I, for that one. Someone else?)
Dragcrell (11:37:14 PM): (wich book?)
Umbrafer (11:37:23 PM): (Cannon Companion, IIRC)
Dragcrell (11:37:39 PM): (ahve it brb its in my room)
Umbrafer (11:37:42 PM): (Full-sized white phosphorous.) "Standard or aero?"
Thematrian1 (11:37:58 PM): "standard"
MilesMk1 (11:38:21 PM): (Normal rate is 120 yen, SI of 3.)
MilesMk1 (11:38:45 PM): (So, I guess these'll be 1080 nuyen per grenade? Damn.)
Umbrafer (11:38:47 PM): So 1080 each. Ow.
MilesMk1 (11:38:52 PM): "Hey, Sam. Blake here."
Thematrian1 (11:39:38 PM): "Oh, good. You've heard?"
Umbrafer (11:39:43 PM): "We'll keep that in mind. Thanks, and take care."
MilesMk1 (11:39:58 PM): "If you mean the damn bugs, yeah."
Thematrian1 (11:40:07 PM): Z-man: "Of course. Watch yourself."
Dragcrell (11:40:10 PM): (ya 120�� 6/5 days SI 3)
MilesMk1 (11:40:22 PM): "I was wondering what the word was about that in the spirit world..."
MilesMk1 (11:40:59 PM): "Are you ok where you are? I've yet to see any with my own eyes."
Thematrian1 (11:41:15 PM): Samantha: "Guy I know is looking for one now. He's a groggy, but he knows enough to tell if it's wiz-gang work."
MilesMk1 (11:41:24 PM): (Groggy?)
MilesMk1 (11:41:32 PM): (Mundane?)
Thematrian1 (11:41:46 PM): (Aspected Mage. Not fully Awakened)
Thematrian1 (11:42:01 PM): (it's pretty common mage-slang; I expect you've heard it before)
MilesMk1 (11:42:28 PM): "Ah. Yeah, most people I talk to are saying this is not gang work."
MilesMk1 (11:42:56 PM): "Could you give me a call if you find anything out about it?"
Thematrian1 (11:43:16 PM): "You and the rest of the world. But yes, you get a call. Do the same, all right?"
MilesMk1 (11:44:14 PM): "Will do. We need to get together when this blows over, haven't in ages. I'll be in touch."
Dragcrell (11:44:18 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 3 6 1 2 4 2 3
Dragcrell (11:44:25 PM): /roll-dice 1
EverGuard4 (11:44:33 PM): *poke Seiler* (IM)
Dragcrell (11:44:39 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
Dragcrell (11:44:49 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
Thematrian1 (11:46:25 PM): ok, you're in the general area of Sigrun's/Alex's
Thematrian1 (11:46:30 PM): where now?
Dragcrell (11:47:10 PM): "SHIT!!! Alex we have a watcher on our tail."
Umbrafer (11:47:15 PM): Are any of the newscast locations identifiably nearby?
Umbrafer (11:47:30 PM): Also, gonna�Ķ "What?"
Dragcrell (11:48:35 PM): "We'er being followed by a eyeball. I dont' think we better stop any place for long."
Umbrafer (11:48:55 PM): "Can I stop long enough to top off the tank?"{
EverGuard4 (11:49:01 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 1 3 3 1 6 2 5 5 2
Thematrian1 (11:49:08 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 2 6 4 4 1 6 4 5 2 4 4 2 6 5 5
Dragcrell (11:49:23 PM): "Think so but we better keep a eye out for trubble."
Umbrafer (11:49:46 PM): Going to stop and top off the few liters of diesel I've used.
Umbrafer (11:50:12 PM): (Ah, having a 66-gallon tank.)
Dragcrell (11:50:57 PM): *snaps head back and fixes look on Rock* "What just the hell are you?"
EverGuard4 (11:51:17 PM): *Spanish Spanish Spanish Spanish* (to something unseen)
Umbrafer (11:52:21 PM): *Fuel fuel fuel*
Dragcrell (11:52:24 PM): *turns back to the unseen object* "You guys have a tail to tell me when this over"
Thematrian1 (11:52:36 PM): You're fuelled
Thematrian1 (11:52:40 PM): er
Thematrian1 (11:52:45 PM): fueled
EverGuard4 (11:52:49 PM): *Spanish Spanish Spanish*
MilesMk1 (11:52:54 PM): "Rock? What are you talking to?"
Umbrafer (11:53:17 PM): #What's going on back there?#
Dragcrell (11:53:25 PM): "ummm our tail and no don't ask me how."
MilesMk1 (11:54:41 PM): #Trickster is giving Rock weird looks and claiming the person Rock is jabbering at in Spanish is the spirit tailing us? At least that's what I think this is about...#
MilesMk1 (11:55:37 PM): (We have one half of the team with transducers and speed-of-thought comms. We have another half of the team that requires translation. From Spanish and Trickster, respectively... :p)
Dragcrell (11:56:08 PM): (lol)
Umbrafer (11:56:45 PM): #Right. I'm jumping into the van and not leaving until things back there make sense.#
Thematrian1 (11:57:03 PM): (You have to eat sometime)
MilesMk1 (11:57:18 PM): #Probably a good idea. I'll make sure you stay hydrated.#
MilesMk1 (11:57:28 PM): (Hah. Beat to me to it.)
Thematrian1 (11:57:31 PM): Okay, where to?
Umbrafer (11:57:37 PM): (They probably have to leave sometime, too ;) )
Dragcrell (11:57:54 PM): "ok I have no idea what your buddy said or did but is scanning the area but ether way its not intested in us." *turns to Rock* "what did you do and what are you?"
Umbrafer (11:58:01 PM): #Thanks. Anyplace anyone wants usto go?#
MilesMk1 (11:58:18 PM): "Rock? What just happened with the watcher spirit?"
MilesMk1 (11:58:51 PM): "Well, it doesn't seem like the best time to go shake down Eileen's boyfriend, does it?"
EverGuard4 (11:59:00 PM): "I asked it to watch for me."
MilesMk1 (11:59:12 PM): "And it agreed?"
EverGuard4 (11:59:27 PM): "Yes."
MilesMk1 (11:59:40 PM): "Did you call it here, or did someone else send it after us?"
Umbrafer (11:59:57 PM): #Probably not.#
EverGuard4 (12:00:01 AM): "Someone called the "stern master" sent it."
Dragcrell (12:00:41 AM): *gets a worryed look on his face* who was it sent to watch?"
MilesMk1 (12:01:17 AM): "Was it sent specifically after us? One of us, perhaps?"
EverGuard4 (12:02:50 AM): "I'll ask."
EverGuard4 (12:02:55 AM): *Spanish Spanish*
EverGuard4 (12:04:34 AM): "The watcher's master asked it to follow the fox-man." *gestures @ Trickster*
Umbrafer (12:04:41 AM): #One of us should probably learn Spanish at some point.#
Dragcrell (12:05:12 AM): "Ssssssssssshit!!"
MilesMk1 (12:05:17 AM): #Yeah. I was thinking of getting a skillwire rig put in... In fact, I was going to rest a day or two, and see my surgeon...#
MilesMk1 (12:06:03 AM): "Is the spirit now doing your bidding, or will it sill go back to its former master? If not, can it tell us where to find this master?"
Umbrafer (12:06:07 AM): #That may be delayed a few days. In fact, you may want to consider doing it out-of-town, just in case.#
MilesMk1 (12:06:18 AM): #My thinking exactly.#
EverGuard4 (12:06:56 AM): "I will ask."
EverGuard4 (12:08:14 AM): "Do you want me to ask the spirit to lead us to its master?"
Dragcrell (12:08:32 AM): "Oh this is not good." *sits huddled in a out of the way cornoer keeping a eye on the spirt.
Umbrafer (12:08:34 AM): #How much thermite do we have left?#
MilesMk1 (12:10:36 AM): #We had five... One each for Mr. Teeth and Mr. Scars... Then I economized and did a three-for-one deal at the end... Two units.#
MilesMk1 (12:11:21 AM): "You know what they say... Curiosity killed the dinasours."
Umbrafer (12:11:37 AM): #We're efficient. Well, we'll have to see if we can get more somewhere.#
MilesMk1 (12:11:39 AM): And dinosaurs too.
EverGuard4 (12:12:07 AM): "Dinosaurs?"
EverGuard4 (12:12:21 AM): "Does that mean 'Yes'?"
MilesMk1 (12:12:37 AM): "Oh... No, I was talking to Trickster."
Dragcrell (12:12:39 AM): *Grumbles* " ya and mom worrned me not to come to the city." *scratches ear* "Rock dose it know why its mater wants it to follow me?"
MilesMk1 (12:13:06 AM): "I think we might want to go to the spirit's master, but would want to know what the spirit will tell the master about us, first."
MilesMk1 (12:13:33 AM): "It's important that we know whether the spirit is still planning to report on us."
EverGuard4 (12:13:46 AM): "The watcher knows not the reason motivating pursuit."
EverGuard4 (12:14:20 AM): "The spirit's former master is male."
EverGuard4 (12:14:47 AM): "It will stay with me until another asks it to follow him or her."
Umbrafer (12:15:39 AM): Anything going on outside the van?
MilesMk1 (12:15:42 AM): "I see. So you can get it to stay by you, lead us to its master, and not warn him that we're coming?"
EverGuard4 (12:18:17 AM): (sec)
EverGuard4 (12:19:34 AM): "I believe so."
Thematrian1 (12:19:55 AM): And there we shall end the game for tonight.
MilesMk1 (12:19:59 AM): OK.
MilesMk1 (12:20:01 AM): Karma?
Umbrafer (12:20:21 AM): Er?
MilesMk1 (12:20:32 AM): Feeble attempt at humor.
Thematrian1 (12:20:43 AM): ah.
EverGuard4 (12:20:44 AM): Chameleon?
Dragcrell (12:20:47 AM): hehehe ^_^
Thematrian1 (12:20:49 AM): yes
EverGuard4 (12:20:53 AM): (even feebler attempt)
MilesMk1 (12:21:04 AM): Or an attempt to gauge how sleep-deprived the GM is. Take your pick. :p
Dragcrell (12:21:16 AM): lol
Thematrian1 (12:21:24 AM): (oh Lord God, I haven't slept since Sunday afternoon. No joke. ' night, everyone)
MilesMk1 (12:21:31 AM): Goodnight.
Dragcrell (12:21:37 AM): nIGHT
Umbrafer (12:21:42 AM): (Yikes)
Umbrafer (12:21:44 AM): Sleep well.
MilesMk1 (12:22:01 AM): Sleep. Well, preferably, but just sleeping would probably be good to.
Dragcrell (12:22:12 AM): hehehe
Thematrian1 (12:22:19 AM): hah
MilesMk1 (12:22:31 AM): Ok... See some of you Thursday, everyone else Tuesday?
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MilesMk1 (12:22:56 AM): *wave*
Umbrafer (12:23:00 AM): Indeed.
Dragcrell (12:23:01 AM): well this is most intresting isn't it
Umbrafer (12:23:31 AM): Indeed
MilesMk1 (12:23:51 AM): Yeah. We're about to actually go attack insect spirits.
MilesMk1 (12:23:56 AM): Maybe.
Dragcrell (12:24:00 AM): >_>.......<_< maby going to the UB senter wasnt' such a bright idea affer all lol
MilesMk1 (12:24:01 AM): That
MilesMk1 (12:24:04 AM): That
MilesMk1 (12:24:09 AM): God damn...
MilesMk1 (12:24:28 AM): I hit Enter instead of ' twice in a row...
Dragcrell (12:24:43 AM): *comforts Miles* there here
MilesMk1 (12:24:54 AM): That's sort of an unusual way to approach Bug City, I think, actually going after the bugs...
Umbrafer (12:25:03 AM): Indeed.
MilesMk1 (12:25:07 AM): Instead of hiding and/or running.
Umbrafer (12:25:11 AM): Then again, head-on has always been our style.
Umbrafer (12:25:20 AM): We caught the Bokor by surprise, maybe we'll get lucky again.
MilesMk1 (12:25:21 AM): True. And it's worked so far.
MilesMk1 (12:25:28 AM): They look surprised, and then they die.
MilesMk1 (12:25:46 AM): And now, really good night... See you guys.
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Dragcrell (12:25:59 AM): later Miles
Dragcrell (12:26:05 AM): bah to slow
Umbrafer (12:26:18 AM): So we need to get our hands on some thermite.
Umbrafer (12:26:27 AM): Awakened-hunting tool extraordinaire.
Dragcrell (12:26:49 AM): thermite hell I'll go for a nuke or lots and lots of RADE indusrial strangth
Umbrafer (12:27:29 AM): The nuke gets tried in October.
Umbrafer (12:27:32 AM): It doesn't work so well.
Thematrian1 (12:27:37 AM): or september
Dragcrell (12:27:38 AM): ooo wait the small tack nuke they use in the one nest of the noval I have didn't work out to well >_>
Thematrian1 (12:27:46 AM): Bug City actually cites both dates
Thematrian1 (12:28:07 AM): I've decided which one should be authoritative though.
Dragcrell (12:28:24 AM): hehehe well ether way it didn't work out to well ;3
Umbrafer (12:28:30 AM): It's not impossible that both are accurate�Ķ
Umbrafer (12:29:31 AM): But yeah, we need a Sundowner and some insecticide stat.
Umbrafer (12:29:37 AM): And the environmental consequences be damned.
Dragcrell (12:30:12 AM): heheheehe I'm for that considering Tricks going to have ONE hell of a trip on this one X_o
Umbrafer (12:30:48 AM): I'm hoping Sigrun will jump on-board, that'll give us access to a number of vehicles. It will also mean we're going to have to get her entire organization out safely, probably, which would be tough.
Umbrafer (12:31:08 AM): Also, Alex has a policeman that needs to die at some point, but she can hopefully take care of that incidentally.
Dragcrell (12:31:33 AM): lol dame you realy want to do that cop in don't ya
Umbrafer (12:31:50 AM): What can I say? Alex doesn't like it when people try to pull undercover work on her.
Dragcrell (12:32:37 AM): *snickers* well I'll be off have fun and see ya next week
Thematrian1 (12:32:41 AM): ok, have fun
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Umbrafer (12:33:43 AM): I'm going to go ahead and post the log.
Thematrian1 (12:33:47 AM): hah, thanks
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