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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 35 + 3 = 38% [20:55:44] ER roll: <Davin_Valkri> !r 1d10 [20:55:44] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, 3 = 3 Luca finds himself staring blankly at the person he was sharing orientation with. He'd gotten a nasty lesson in underestimating the abilities of the Renegade in apparent teenagers in Zurich, yeah, but still. It's a bit awkward to realize that any shadow wars that were happening between this UGN and this False Hearts were likely being fought with child soldiers. He straightens his tie and clears his throat. "Hello, there," he murmurs, still looking at Eadan. "What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?" Best to hear it straight from the mouth of the babe, then.
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 38% "That's...not exactly what I meant." Luca shrugs and examines her more closely, the Renegade in his mind running through the questions. Irish brogue, obviously, and an intelligence analyst...maybe? It's hard to tell. She must really be new at it. Wait...oh. She's not as young as she looks. "Alright, Cleena, I'm Luca, and if you're an analyst, maybe you can tell me what we're both doing here."
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Sep 8, 2014 06:11
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 38% Ignore all your prior biases, Luca, he tells himself. They'll just get in the way. "So this Solomon's Key...I'm guessing from the name it's some sort of Middle East artifact. Maybe from the original Renegade excavation?" Okay, he thinks, where did that come from?
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Sep 11, 2014 03:03
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 38% "Sounds like an ambush. Maybe a...the one with the time manipulation is Balor, right? Some sort of leak--" Luca snaps his head towards the sound of footsteps, watching the lady approach. The buzzing in his head seems to intensify as he tries to cold read her. Files held loosely in hand, slightly precocious voice--most likely what he originally saw Eadan as? "Uh, after a fashion, I suppose," he says, trying his best to keep his voice level. "Neumann. Nothing else."
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Sep 12, 2014 03:52
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 38% "Uh, wait--" Luca tries to interrupt, but she's off like a shot towards wherever she's going. Probably some research lab, he thinks. Hopefully some poor sucker like me isn't stuck on the slab there...he can't help but notice the files. Wait, Purebreed Mental Structure doesn't refer to him, does it? Deciding that he can always cite some arcane law or another if he's caught, he flips the file open and scans it to memory before entering Ra'id's office. Ra'id...Arabic...leader...but Belcry isn't an Arabic name...maybe the mother was Arabic?
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Sep 14, 2014 04:07
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 38% "Something about the branch chief being a purebreed expressing crossbreed powers due to stress," Luca summarizes for the young woman. "She probably thinks getting him some yoga or aromatherapy will reverse this--and don't open the door dammit you can hear this, can't you, Mr...Belcry?" Was he seriously going to be taking orders from a barely pubescent teenager with black eyes? He swallows and grimaces instinctively--Ra'id reminds him too much of that bastard kid...
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Sep 15, 2014 02:35
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 38% "We've been informed," Luca notes in a businesslike tone right back. Having fifteen years plus on your organizational "senior" feels weird, Renegade or no. "As to this thief--" Assassination didn't sound quite right, theft was something he was much more familiar with, "--time dilation or no, they have to leave some trace of their passing. Physical evidence. Remote electronic analysis." He shrugs. "That's how you'd detect them, anyway. Ideally we'd do our homework and set up something that they must attempt, arrange the inevitable meeting on our own terms. Perhaps we could raise rumors that this Key that they have taken is only part of a whole, and leave a decoy as bait." This was sounding a bit closer to home. Sort of. Time fuckery isn't exactly on the classic thieves' tools list.
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Sep 16, 2014 02:03
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 38% "Finding patterns is what I'm good at," Luca responds with a mild shrug, "as is listening for information. Of course, it'd help if I had a list of these victims..."
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Sep 17, 2014 19:14
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 38% "Ha ha, that's funny. No it isn't." Luca frowns. "Right, back to the archives, then."
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Sep 18, 2014 01:44
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 38->48% "Right, time stops, high speed, artifacts in any way involving the renegade...should be a reasonable parameter set." [18:26:11] Knowledge Roll (Mind) for where to go next... <Davin_Valkri> !r 7xx10 [18:26:12] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, (10, 9 7 6 6 6 6)(5) = 15 [18:27:25] <Davin_Valkri> As for Encroach [18:27:29] <Davin_Valkri> !r 1d10 [18:27:40] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, 10 = 10 "So if this...'impulse' works as I understand it does, then Red Eyes can't be acting alone...someone else must be doing the...time stopping...hum...I need to see these corpses myself. Where are the victims being held...the morgue here, okay. Need to go there." Davin Valkri fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Sep 18, 2014 |
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Sep 18, 2014 02:30
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 38->48% Unfortunately, Luca's Renegade-powered brainpower doesn't extend to his hearing. He's nearly bowled over by the--third? Is she seriously the third?!--hyperactive young woman he's seen all day! "Hey!" he calls out in a stereotype old man voice. Then he sighs and pushes open the morgue door. "Let's just get on with it. I'll find his personal effects, so would see if the mortician left any notes before we do our own analysis?"
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Sep 19, 2014 03:32
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "Good eyes. Now, his effects should be in a locker near the body..." And I will use Ultimate Appraisal, possibly combined with Profiling, to make my own conclusions.
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Sep 19, 2014 04:09
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "Unfortunate, but not unexpected," Luca mutters as he goes through the locker with a stolen pair of plastic gloves. "My, my, drugs and money...maybe our killer has a sense of justice, only executing his tortures on those they think deserve it...cell phone is...busted...but the SIM card seems...well, we can clone it, so let's take that out..." He turns to Cleena. "Well," he begins as he holds up the bag of pills. "I have a theory as to why someone would want to torture a man to death. It might have to do with these. You have refined senses, yes? Have you seen...or smelled...these before?"
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Sep 21, 2014 02:21
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% Okay, that's a lot of drug money here, Luca thinks. Either the drug's freakishly uncommon (likely) or there's a ton of demand for specialist renegade drugs (less likely). Sawao Hasekura..."Captain"...Yakuza? Were they into drug trafficking? He turns and suddenly notices someone dressed as a morgue doctor storm into the room in a huff. "Probably the mortician, or his assistant," he says in a stage whisper to Cleena. "I'm guessing you and your department are confused about the recent rash of killings in this fashion?" Davin Valkri fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Sep 22, 2014 |
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Sep 21, 2014 23:46
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "Ah, more than one method, then?" Luca finds himself cocking his head at the problem. "...is there any possibility that the swift kill is intended as some act of charity? Some sort of twisted variant on a mercy kill? That could suggest either False Hearts sympathy in the assistant, or perhaps a killer with multiple mindsets..."
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Sep 26, 2014 06:39
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "Well, many things could be true." Luca offers. "But only one is. I think my...uh...partner has a lead on our victim, at least. I guess we'll see where the threads take us."
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Sep 27, 2014 02:51
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "Tell him you'll send a contact of yours in your place, for safety reasons," Luca whispers, pointing at himself. "You need some room if a fight breaks out, anyways."
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Sep 27, 2014 16:59
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "I'm a police detective, Cleena," Luca responds with the matter of fact tone of a...police detective. "I've done this since you were still in high school. I've supported undercover missions, I know how to work with mafia types--Tongs, Mafia, Camorra, Vory, Yakuza, it's all the same to me. I have experience, which, if you'll forgive me, I'm not sure you do." He narrows his eyes expectantly. Certainly she couldn't argue with that answer, could she?
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Sep 28, 2014 03:43
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "That's good." Luca was kind of expecting some sort of arguing match or some grand pronouncement that everything he'd done before he became one of these special sorts was worthless. This was a good sign! "Undercover operations work best with two parties anyways. One wired and one standing by in case the wire needs to make a run for it."
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Sep 28, 2014 03:52
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "Why would--" Luca's obvious question is interrupted by his own stomach growling. Guess being a superpowered crazy person meant that you couldn't skip meals after all. "Uh...hah. Alright. I guess there's no point in keeping the corpses for company. You have a place in mind, already, or...?"
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Oct 2, 2014 02:48
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% Fancy place, this, Luca thinks as he absent mindedly dips a braided cruller into his coffee. He whispers quietly to Cleena. "While I appreciate you're cooperation, you aren't the type to just roll over for something like this...is there something going on?" He leans forward a little more. "You know, let's play a game. I want to show I trust you, and I want you to trust me. I'll tell you a secret about myself, and you can do the same. For example, I hate you. And myself. And this UGN. I hate that they've forced me out of my homeland, I hate that I can't do a drat thing with good old detective work when our handler won't tell us anything and probably has two different cases all wrapped up in his lap, I hate this thing that has killed my colleagues and turned me into something...else, I hate it, I hate it!" He's almost raised his voice above the stage whisper, the buzzing in his head growing louder as he vents. "Ahem. Apologies. What about you, Cleena? What do you think of what this Renegade has done to you?"
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Oct 4, 2014 05:24
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "The renegade slaughtered my coworkers, my friends," Luca responds patly. "It did so in the form of a high school kid that made trained police special responders look like...kids playing with toy guns in the sandbox! I should've gone with them...And you must be lucky--all I got from this virus was the ability to see my death coming. Nothing I couldn't do with a smartphone and a criminal dossier. It's a bitch like that."
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Oct 4, 2014 06:02
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "Ha ha, yes, I sense insecurity behind those words." Luca resists the urge to grind his teeth.
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Oct 5, 2014 05:34
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "Well, off the top of my head--" Luca starts, before being interrupted by his phone buzzing. "Huh? Oh goddam--" He pulls out his phone and starts reading. "Son of a bitch! Alright, where's this recent murder? Guess we'll just have to get our snacks to-go..." He flips a button on his phone and starts listening to the police chatter... Let's get moving! Gonna roll Info: Police to find this new murder site. 3xx10+1. [21:11:41] <Davin_Valkri> !r 3xx10+1 [21:11:41] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, (9 7 3)+1 = 10
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Oct 7, 2014 05:11
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% Is this a new scene? Luca's about to barge in and stop the conversation, but seeing Cleena he finds himself...agreeing? Huh? The Neumann in his brain is telling him to let the people on the other side keep talking. He shrugs, nods his agreement, and flips on the record function on his phone.
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Oct 8, 2014 06:41
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% Luca frowns at the mention of "tests", then draws his gun and steps into the room behind Cleena, pointing it left and right. "Suisse Polizei! I mean...UGN...uh...Internal Security! Hands! Let's see hands!"
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Oct 11, 2014 03:41
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "What's the matter? Big old Overed like you lot scared of a little gun?!" Luca sounds a little testy to his partner. "Now, out with it! Who were you talking about?!"
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Oct 11, 2014 04:02
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "Don't...don't talk down to me!" Luca hisses in disgust. "Right, now let's get this figured out. Who are you people and what's your interest in Dragon Breath here? Lady from outside 'Ex Machina's' office or whatever, what the hell were you planning to do to him?" He faces her, lowering his gun's aim to the floor. "And no technobabble or jargon-filled bullshit. I've had enough of it for five lifetimes."
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% Oh, this is fantastic, Luca thinks. Who the hell thinks human vivisection is a good idea?! What kind of idiot seven thirty one--no, no, don't think about that. Calm, calm down...test the waters, weigh the reaction. She's way too bubbly for someone who just had a gun pointed at her face. Ask a question, gauge the response. "And you can't use an MRI machine for this...why, exactly?" Well, it sounded reasonable in his head! Am I allowed to Profile Raffelsia to get a clue as to what her damage is or how to poke her?
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Oct 11, 2014 19:44
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% Talk about your monomaniacal types! Luca wants to roll his eyes and just shoot her already. Instead he just motions to Cleena. "Yeah, uh, what she said." He takes a deep breath and replays her commentary in his head. The heck was she going on about...? Mind roll on Info: UGN for what Rafflesia is "authorized" to do. [12:03:50] <Davin_Valkri> !r 7xx10 [12:03:51] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, (10, 8 7 7 1 1 1)(4) = 14 [12:04:31] <devilmaydry> She totally can during times of emergencies if there is reason to believe the phenomena is temporary and the harm done to others is likely minimal. [12:04:41] <devilmaydry> which is why she can't operate ont he brain [12:04:47] <devilmaydry> because that is always dangerous ...does she really want to abuse her authority like that?
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Oct 11, 2014 20:08
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48% "You've recorded all of this? Good call." Luca whispers quietly to Cleena, then cocks his head towards Raffle Ticket. "Right, as UGN Internal Security, I say 'no tests.' Also, Ms, uh, Mizugichi, give us a call when the patient is in any shape to talk."
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 48+10=58% "Well, you're good at getting my blood pressure up," Luca whispers as they leave, in a not-very-comforting way. "Although she's better at it...nevermind, let's just go to your meeting." ------ Encroach and Impulse, go! [20:14:29] <Davin_Valkri> !r 1d10 [20:14:29] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, 10 = 10 [20:18:15] <Davin_Valkri> !r 7xx10+1 [20:18:15] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, (8 8 4 3 3 2 2)+1 = 9 Luca has spent the entire trip stewing in his juices. He's a police detective, goddammit! He had a badge, he had respect! And now he's got nothing! And it's all thanks to that goddamned kid, and the goddamned Renegade! "How the gently caress do you screw that up?!" he snaps as he comes over. "Jeez, let's see it...the hell happened to your back?"
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 58%+7-65% "Alright, there's your sweater...the heck are these scars--THE gently caress?!" Luca is practically knocked on his rear end by Cleena suddenly pulling loving WINGS out of her loving rear end, and there's some kind of hyper-kinetic super fight going on in the building and it's just like in Zurich and goddammit drat it drat it-- "gently caress!" Okay, Luca, calm down, you've got a gun, and now you've got this Renegade superpower bullshit. Maybe this time you won't get clonked on your rear end by a stupid kid screaming in your face. One can only loving hope. He draws his gun on the run, doing his best to breathe regularly as he moves towards the sound of...jeezus loving aitch, what's going on in the building?! One of the non-aligneds inside definitely attacks one of the UGN agents--confirmed hostile! You know how this goes, Luca...this should be an automatic action, like a refined reflex. Line up the weapon, sight the target, breathe... ...squeeze... *BANG* Moving 14 meters towards the center, and using Mental Command, Combat System, and Concentrate: Neumann for my attack. The final result is 7 dice +2 = 9 dice, 7 crit value, modifier +1. [21:41:16] <Davin_Valkri> !r 9xx7+1 [21:41:17] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, (10 10 10 9, 6 5 5 4 1)(8 7 7, 2)(5 5 1)+1 = 26 Possible damage, with an attack power 9 gun... [21:41:59] <Davin_Valkri> !r 3d10+9 [21:42:00] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, 21+9 = 30
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 65%+7=72% Hostile one is out of sight. Seems to be engaged by a friendly...cyborg? Who is...she's UGN, right? Right, of course she is, she doesn't look like the hostiles. Luca's brain starts shifting up in tempo. Shift target to... Explosions! Alert! Alert! Potential terrorist threat detected! Shift and assess...target is...a raincoat...with a gas mask...a young girl?! Oh gently caress, it's Zurich all over again! Engage, engage, engage! His automatic instinct hijack the part of his brain that says "don't shoot kids" with "I got killed by a kid, idiot!" and opens fire! *BANG BANG BANG* Let's attack Ordnance with my gun! Just like last time... [19:00:54] <Davin_Valkri> !r 9xx7+1 [19:00:55] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, (9 9, 5 4 3 3 2 2 1)(1 1)+1 = 12 [19:01:02] <Davin_Valkri> !r 2d10+9 [19:01:02] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, 14+9 = 23 Cannot confirm hits, cannot confirm hits, where did those rounds land?!
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 72%+7=79% How is it that people can just chat to each other and make vague threats in the middle of a gunfight?! Well, Renegade fight. Whatever! Luca's not about to argue with people who can kill him with a glance and an angry thought. He's going to stand over here and shoot them instead. Blast mook 1 with the same attack! [17:47:47] <Galactic_Bishonen_Davin_Valkri> !r 9xx7+1 [17:47:48] <Krysmbot> Galactic_Bishonen_Davin_Valkri, (7 7, 5 5 4 4 3 2 1)(9 8,)(5 4)+1 = 26 [17:47:58] <Galactic_Bishonen_Davin_Valkri> !r 3d10+9 [17:47:59] <Krysmbot> Galactic_Bishonen_Davin_Valkri, 18+9 = 27
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 79% Is that how it normally works with the overed now? Luca finds his lips curling downward as all but one of the baddies prepare to flee. "Is...this wise, sir?" he asks, not sure whether he can hear him. Then he notices Cleena looking with a flinch at...someone on their side? "Cleena? Something wrong?"
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 79% "Somehow I doubt that, but..." Luca sighs. "...as a sign of trust, I won't press the matter." Had they completely lost control of the situation? I mean, sure, all the good guys were standing, but... "So, what's are next move. Link up with one of the other groups, or get back to the hospital with the crazy researcher and go our own way?"
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 79% "I'm sure you do, sir," Luca responds in a sarcastic tone once reserved for the most incompetent of superiors. He's not sure if Ra'id is incompetent, but he sure is a gasbag. "Oh, and your latest murder victim is still alive. She's in critical but stable condition and Kariya University Hospital. And your head researcher wants to cut her open. Might want to look into that." Davin Valkri fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Nov 4, 2014 |
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 79% "Well, besides everything else in this entire Renegade investigation business, no." Luca sighs. "My schedule's pretty clear."
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Luca Jaeger - HP 29/29 | ER: 79% "Correct...correct...correct...correct..." Luca looks a little sullen as Ra'id lists off the issues. "My problem is that...ever since that kid set me off with...all of this--" he waves his arm to indicate the entire Renegade thing. "--I feel like I've lost all control of my life. I lost everything I had in one bloody day and what I've gotten for it hasn't been enough. Now I'm here. Where everything I used to know is useless and I'm regularly shown up in a field that ought to be my expertise by...children! So you can imagine--" he clenches his fists, and looks at Ra'id again. "--maybe you can imagine what I'm going through here." He takes a deep breath. "So what would I like changed? Well, barring a month's rewind where I shoot that stupid kid instead of trying to help him...I'd like just a little more assistance with the acclimation. And if that kid turns out to be connected to this poo poo, I'd like the first crack at his stupid face."
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