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"Yep yep! I'll meet you at the airport!" Kelly says. "I've got a plan if you can't take my stuff." "Oh, but just so you know," Kelly says nonchalantly, "I don't know this guy! He's definitely not connected to me. Or any of my friends. For totesies." . . . Mizuki stamps back out. "You go on ahead," she growls. "I have some things to look into. We'll catch up." . . . Okay! You have a couple more days to talk and so on; assume your characters are on a jet back to Miami or whatever. If you want to research anything go for it but it'll be a couple days before I can give the results of any rolls.
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Storms 2/5 Later, after a harrowing but ultimately tiresome segue of finding said private jet, getting aboard it, and making it take off, Storms allows himself to relax for the first time. He's on the job so he doesn't touch the minibar, instead settling for the professional choice of half a bottle of some kind of expired painkillers he found in the restroom cabinet. "So, yeah, what exactly is the plan once we get there, slim?" He stares at the new guy "I'm gonna make some calls to get a feel for the land before we land, we're going to need another safehouse since I seriously don't want to camp out anywhere near that dial." He winces. "It does occur to me, however, I may have burned most of my recent bridges, that means. Dammit. Means I'm gonna have to call one of the ex girlfriends, see if she's still amenable. Let's see..." Storms scrolls through several windows on his comm. "Meat Hook disappeared into the Coahuila exclusion zone about a month ago, Freight Train is doing a nickel in Raiford, Buckshot just fell off the face of the earth...jeez." He inhales before selecting a profile and hitting the Call AR window and setting it to voice only. A short pause. "Mad Dog! Baby gurrl, how you been? I-" Storms holds the comm away from his ear as the auto-volume turns down a torrent of profanity. "Yes, yes, I know, you did pepper my bumper as I was hauling rear end out of there, but I figured since it was just goose-shot you only wanted to maim me and thus wanted to see me at some point in the future. Well you're in luck! Because as it stands I need a favor and-" Storms is calling some folks to get the situation on anything weird happening in the uh, circles he runs in, and also to secure safety/places to hide from the inevitable catastrophe/bloodletting/reality pooping itself. Rolling Sleaze !r fudge+5 <Krysmbot> ++//+5 = 7 Tagging Florida Man to make that +9 Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Jun 11, 2015 |
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Naomi Ikazuchi - FP: 4 Naomi, in her part, enjoys that she gets to sit in one place with a computer without the worry of cultists or triads or giant character-trait-eating worms about to get her. But not too much. Juliana's right about one thing; anything can happen while you're 30,000 feet off the ground. Maybe she can find break open the data in this laptop, for once.
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TurninTrix posted:Maybe she can find break open the data in this laptop, for once. Naomi learns some things about the Order of the White Snake, such as: • The Dragon Fangs were originally helping the White Snake smuggle occult secrets to Miami on behalf of their former allies: the Shining Eye ninja clan. • When you took the Shining Eye out, the White Snake took over their Miami operations. Their relationship with the Dragon Fangs got closer: the DF sold directly to them, and the White Snake trained them in strange and unusual magics. • Before you owned him, Johnny Shen had used magic the White Snake taught him to supplant his father as leader of the gang. He was trying to revamp them into a more modern gang that also did street racing, it was going to be so cool, you have no idea. • The Dragon Fangs had a creature called Luŕnyǔ hanging out with them, but they were working to relocate it to the White Snake's Miami base. • The Dragon Fangs were in a big hurry to do some weird stuff. They were set on finding some dude called Shinji, they were paying a premium for stolen Hakurei and ExoCute tech, they'd asked the Dragon Fangs to find a hitman who could take out the guy who runs Sunsetter Dojo, and they had it in for the Inferno Collective as well for some reason. The Dragon Fang would have been sure they were gearing up for an imminent gang war if anything they were doing connected to anything else or made any sense. • While the White Snake trained the Dragon Fangs up, they were getting the gang super interested in serpent iconography for some reason. What's with the snakes??? . . . Ronwayne posted:Storms is calling some folks to get the situation on anything weird happening in the uh, circles he runs in, and also to secure safety/places to hide from the inevitable catastrophe/bloodletting/reality pooping itself. Rolling Sleaze Good news: While Storms was gone, some assholes blew up a chunk of Armstrong International Spaceport. Not even one of the good parts. It was the AEI's personal hangar, and they automate most of their security. There weren't even any interesting casualties, except the arsonists who managed to get a small cargo shuttle through airport security and crash it into the hangar. So, that's weird. Anyway, the part that matters is that thanks to that and some Incidents at the Ball, Miami has had an influx of construction workers lately. There are so many people looking for a cheap place to sleep that even the guy who runs the No Sudden Moves bar is renting out rooms now. And guess who just got the only-kind-of-cheap suite?! (It's you!) . . . Kelly meets you at the airport. Since it's a private jet, she's able to rock up in a hoodie and hide her face almost the entire trip. She bombards Juliana with questions about her tech for a while, then huddles up in the corner with a laptop. She types like she was born with a keyboard, fingers blurring over the keys with almost inhuman speed. If you look closely she spends a lot of time typing emoji though. . . .  Spaceport by Hideyoshi! Sunday February 13 2119, 1:00AM PST Location: Armstrong International Spaceport, Miami Aspects: Gateway To the Stars; Exotic Cargo; Strangers From Strange Lands; Spaceport Security Ah, Miami. That's Florida air, all right. That picture's a little bright though. It's not just 1AM, it is cloudy as hell. This is some noir poo poo. Once you're on Miami soil, Kelly gives you the kind of hug you give when you want to thank someone but you haven't had a shower in a while. "Thanks! I'm guessing you're going to sleep and sort this out in the morning? Me too! I just got some—" she gives Shiro the briefest of glances, for some reason "—friends to talk to. About getting my stuff back. And other stuff. It's pretty boring. If you need my help tomorrow let me know!" Kelly swivels like a pro and tries to accelerate towards the airport gates without actually appearing to move any faster. "Okaybye!"
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Storms 2/5 "Okay. We ready to do whatever it is we're going to do next? My car should be ready to meet us."
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Yu "I think you're all probably sick of me," says Yu, "So I will go escort the lady home. Drop me a message if you need me. I'll find you shortly regardless." And with that, Yu stalks off after Kelly.
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Storms 3/5 "Ordinarily I'd be more paranoid about randoms dropping in and out like that but seriously this whole thing has not helped my sociopaths tendencies to assume everyone else is some kinda of practical joke mirage." As his vehicle rolls up, he tosses his bag in the back and slams the door as hard as he can. "Seriously, we're probably going to paint another room red within the next few hours. Some place filled with nameless, vaguely humanoid monsters with no past, personality, or motivation. They exist solely for and at the convenience of real people and nobody mourns them when they die. They are actually elementals from the plane of irrelevance, and when they are slain, their essence returns there to await reincarnation as another faceless mook that nobody gives a poo poo about." He climbs in the driver's side and just sort of collapses. "This introspection thing is loving awful and I can't wait to blow up the part of the universe that keeps making me do it." You know Darkest Dungeon? Storms probably has just maxed out his stress bar. Tagging War Crimes are the Best Crimes to just kinda melt down at this point. Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Jul 31, 2015 |
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Naomi Ikazuchi - FP: 4 While Naomi takes ten steps away with the mercenary for her mental safety, he does make a point. "That man didn't really explain why we were needed back here, did he?" Oh well. She takes a moment to assemble a summary of her recent findings in AR-space, then tosses the file into everyone else's devices. Ando gets a nice piece of glossy paper. "Looks like what happened in Seattle won't stay in Seattle." She shrugs. "It appears that our White Snake friends have taken over the Shining Eye operations in Miami after you destroyed their dojo. Dragon Fangs are making the rounds here too, though I'm not sure how effective they will after what happened to their boss. If we're going to pursue these thugs, that file provides us with a few leads that could help." She sniffs. Can't she didn't miss the local air, such as it is. "You should all be cleared of any Nazi-related crimes, so I'm heading back to HQ. This is going to be an interesting case file to write..."
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Storms 3/5 "Hey, quick question." he makes direct eye contact with Naomi. "How do you know, that, your usefulness to the plot over, you won't just disappear in a puff of plot once you leave line of sight? Cause this story has chewed up at least two two-bit character women thus far. I think this Shu-zoo guy is a weird crypto misogynist." Storms scratches his chin. "Somewhere, off in his basement dimension, sweat dripping off a rapidly receding tentacle-line, this sorry sack of poo poo entity is squealing as he types up the next act; 'She's so cute and smart, it'll be extra tragic when I kill this one off for cheap drama!' " "One way or another, ma'am, you're in this to the end." Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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