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Ettin: Oct 2, 2010

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SHENLONG BOOKS OPERATIONS POLICY

To the public, Shenlong Books is a simple library in the Xuhui District, with a "traditional" look and a wide selection of fiction and historical works. With any luck, this is all it will ever be.

Beneath the library is Shanghai 04 Office. Originally it was built in case of a Xanthic bombing, but we've converted and upgraded it into a base of operations for Team [REDACTED]. Exits exist elsewhere in the District for vehicles and powered armour, but Shenlong Books is the main ground entrance. With that in mind, procedures must be followed to ensure that Shenlong Books remains secret.

� All employees must be Office of Occult Intelligence recruits or External Assets in need of a cover job. Anyone else looking for a job should either be turned away or (if qualified) sent with a letter of recommendation to the Shanghai Library.
� All communication with Team [REDACTED] goes through the Library Director.
� Keep the occult works to a minimum - common and legal tomes early. Occult works banned to the public stay downstairs. Do not shelve them upstairs.
� Discourage too many visitors. Try to list at least half of our popular books as missing or checked out on our net directory, regardless of their actual status. This will not seem unusual for a library to most people.
� Keep our digital library outdated and unintuitive. If anyone asks, we focus on paper books to uphold "tradition" and achieve "verisimilitude".
� If you are working in Shenlong Books, park your car outside. Do not use the secret entrances, even if they are closer to your apartment.
� Do not bring powered armour into the library.

Protocol is liable to change depending on the status of [REDACTED]. The Library Director will keep you informed of any changes.

- Agent TURTLE (updated 12/12/18)

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Agent TRIFORCE 13 (File 2619/404-Z)

Agent TRIFORCE 13 reassigned Shanghai 04 Office as of 02/21/2119.
Request for cancellation of transfer: Denied 01/21/2119
Request for cancellation of transfer: Denied 01/22/2119
Request for cancelation of transfer: Denied 01/23/2119

Friday February 10 2119, 6:15PM CST
Location: Shenlong Books, Shanghai
Aspects: Completely Ordinary Contemporary Library; Business In Front, Agency In The Back

The sun is setting when you assemble in Shenlong Books. Night shifts are common these days - nobody has the decency to commit their magical crimes during the day any more - but at least you get your own digs. In the back of this contemporary library, tucked away in a staff-only corridor, is an elevator, and behind a secret panel there is the button that will take you to your cutting-edge sub-basement base.

Once you're there, if you're lucky, you'll get to look at pictures of dead bodies. If not, someone's committing worse crimes.

You don't actually have to be there until 6:30, so maybe now's the time to get a coffee, meet with the others and prepare yourselves.

. . .

Sup guys! Please post your character sheets here for quick reference later. Just the stats, I can read the OOC thread for the fluff. Rolls can be done in #redhandofdoom if you have witnesses OR by rolling Fudge dice in Orokos if you don't want to IRC it up (use the campaign name Privilege Threshold).

It's up to you exactly why you're here! Introduce yourselves, etc.

NyarlathoTech OOC thread: Here!

Ettin fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Apr 22, 2013

# ? Apr 22, 2013 14:31

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 03:40

K Prime: Nov 4, 2009

Zhang San
FP: 3

Zhang San makes tea. That's about the only thing he's happy about being back in Shanghai for- good green tea is so much easier to obtain. He sips it while he contemplates, for the 5th time that day, finding out who assigned him back here and shooting them in the kneecaps repeatedly.

He's the first one there, as always- habits die hard, and assassins who show up late to the party end up in the morgue. He sets up his cup at a table facing the door and reads the latest news on his AR goggles, looking, as usual, like the world's biggest nerd.

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Zhang San (Formerly Yu Zhong)
High Concept: ACTION HACKER
Trouble: I just wanted a desk job!

Backstory: Fight to Live, Live to Fight
Invoke: Struggle to live, bail out if things are going badly
Compel: Take a life in cold blood, take the easy way out

Yomikiri: Zhang San's Everyday Life
Invoke: Deal with changing circumstances, quickly refocus
Compel: Get pulled back into a problem, bottle up internal issues

Volume Three: Crouching Tager, Hidden Zhang San
Invoke: Deal practically with the supernatural
Compel: Shoot first, ask questions while shooting

Aspect: The Ol' Shanghai Spirit
Invoke: Working with people he doesn't trust, scrambling to make the best of a bad situation, remaining calm in a crisis, looking the mythos straight in the eye
Compel: Owing people favors, staying too long on an assignment, taking his foes seriously.

Aspect: Sympathy for the Angels
Invoke: Preserve innocence, protect the innocent, do the hard thing so someone else doesn't have to.
Compel: Do the hard thing because there's no one else, get pulled back into other people's problems, refuse reward for selfless actions out of guilt.

Skills
Triad Assassin 5
Systems 4, Guns 4
Burglary 3, Stealth 3
Alertness 2, Physique 2, Driving 2
Athletics 1, Weapons 1, Will 1, Provoke 1, Deceit 1

Stunts:
I Work Better Under Pressure: +2 to Systems rolls made under duress
Casing, Investigating, Same Thing: Use Burglary to evaluate scenes instead of Investigation
Assassin's Sixth Sense: +2 to Alertness rolls to detect ambushes
Let's Make an Example Out of You: Once per scene spend a fate point to move an inflicted physical consequence 1 step up.
It Was Always Going to End This Way: +2 damage inflicted on lone opponents

# ? Apr 22, 2013 15:24

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Santiago - FP: 1

Santiago entered the room not too long after, unceremoniously dumping the things he'd been carrying in his arms before falling into one of the chairs and making himself comfortable. "Jeeze, sometimes I wish I had an extra pair of hands, I've got too much stuff to carry." He said, once again lamenting the lack of pockets in the power armor piloting suit as he straightened up a laptop, pressed a button to reactivate his wrist mounted computer, took a sip of his cocoa cup, and flipped the trashy novel he'd been reading back open. He'd been steadily reading his way through the bookstore's contents since he'd arrived. Most of it was kind of old, but it was an alright way to kill time anyway. It was one of the current job's nicest perks.

"Evening Zhang," He said genially as he quickly skimmed through several of the chat channels open in the laptop, before pulling up the wrist computer's holographic keyboard to write a snappy reply for the internet argument he'd just recently become involved in. "News got anything interesting tonight or are we just sitting down to play poker for a while?"

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High Concept: Armored Warchild

Invoke: To tap into his heavily internalized military training; To get off the grid and use his status as a deniable asset; To obtain things from the military.
Compel: To have a rival, instructor, or person in his past surface and confront him; To have his youth used against him.

Trouble: Double-Timing Double Agent

Invoke: To gain the trust of NEG or Network officials; To call upon contacts or call in favors to keep his cover; To lie convincingly and without hesitation.
Compel: To force a clash of loyalties; To put him and his companions under suspicion or bring the spotlight to them; To be subject to manipulation as a puppet of unknown organizations

Backstory: Veteran Of The Great Green Raid

Invoke: To push through pain and survive dire situations; To take advantage of familiar war territory.
Compel: To go out of his way to get revenge and distrust members of the Green Fury; To take extreme measures to ensure threats to his own safety are taken care of.

Yomikiri: Play Around, But Play For Keeps

Invoke: To appear harmless and nonthreatening; To get into someone's good graces; To come out on top when the stakes are high.
Compel: To not treat things as seriously as they should; To escalate a situation to prove his superiority.

Volume Three: Working Out The Grand Equation

Invoke: To press the right buttons; To see a pattern obscured by a cloud of misinformation; To intuitively perceive a coming event before it happens.
Compel: To try to find meaning in things that lack it; To follow a hunch to disastrous effects; To be rattled by unaccounted factors.

OVA: Child's Play (Is Serious Business)

Invoke: To act like a child to his benefit; To leave lasting impressions on people and get them expecting certain things from him; To have certain contacts and resources at his disposal (~~Mostly~~ all illegal ones)
Compel: For an impression to be too long-lasting; To kid around too much and too long; To have his business bite him in the rear end.

Omake: Hunter In Someone Else's Hunting Grounds

Invoke: To follow a trail succesfully no matter how cold it might be; To understand fellow hunters' mindsets and how to deal with them; To take down his prey.
Compel: To focus on chasing down a target singlemindedly; To trespass into forbidden territory, literally or figuratively, and get caught in the act; To become someone else's prey.

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Skills
+5: Guns, Chaos Stagehand
+4: Athletics, Deceit
+3: Systems, Rapport
+2: Physique, Will
+1: Empathy, Scholarship

Chaos Stagehand: Uses Investigation as a base. Can act as a complement to other skills when dealing with pattern analysis borne of studying an extensive amount of data, and employ the Command trapping of Presence where appropriate.

Stunts:
Perfect Aim (Guns): When making an attack, take a -2 penalty to defenses and Alertness until the start of your next turn to gain a +1 to the attack roll.
Outrageous Untruths (Deceit): Use Deceit to apply the Overcome/Create Advantage trappings of Provoke, so long as falsehood is heavily involved in your claims.

Powers:
Item of Power: White Light Dragon Armor [-3]
-Supernatural Speed [-4]
-Wings [-1]
-One-Time Discount [+2]

Item of Power: Judgement Spark [-2] (A massive concealed energy weapon, intended for use in desperate situations to take down heavily armored enemies. Its effects are indicated below.)
--Target Acquired. Dispensing Judgement: Make a Guns attack. If it succeeds, add four shifts to the effect.
--D-Engine Depleted: Judgement Spark can normally only be used once per scene. Additional uses require the expenditure of a Fate Point.
--Hard Light: Your Guns attack roll is also treated as a roll to Create an Advantage. The extra shifts from Judgement Spark and the attack's weapon rating are not added when determining whether the action Succeeds with Style.

The Grand Equation [-0] (Cassandra's Tears reskin: Features the following trapping instead. Chaos Prediction: You have an uncanny ability to notice details others have missed and put them together to form a coherent picture of the future, borne of natural intuition sharpened by years of training to recognize patterns. When you make a prediction, which requires a minimum amount of information with which to make a logical connection, you place an aspect on the �world� related to the prediction that remains until it comes true or is otherwise resolved. However, your intuitive leap leaves some factors unaccounted for, giving the GM one free tag or compel against you to use before the prediction is resolved. You can perform more accurate predictions by spending a Fate Point to invoke your related Aspect: if you do so, the GM does not get the free tag or compel.)

Gear:
White Light Dragon Armor, Armor: 3.
White Light Weapon Systems (White Heat), Weapon: 3.
Judgement Spark, Weapon: 4.
D-Cell Sidearm, Weapon: 2.

Stress:

Physical: ( )( )( )
Mental: ( )( )( )

Refresh: 1/8

Transient People fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Apr 22, 2013

# ? Apr 22, 2013 19:19

Stormgale: Feb 27, 2010

Marcus

He always meant to be on time, setting out with plenty of time from his usual reigime but then he always got distracted... today it was a fine old lady who needed help with her groceries... and of course how could he not help a citizen of this fair city, that was his duty, his calling... his reason for being! "Good Evening gentlemen! How are you two on this fine evening, has the city been treating you well" he asked boisterously as he came in, walking behind Santiago and giving him a friendly slap on the back "I see you are continuing to expand your breadth of knowledge through the oldest Artform!" He headed over to brew himself some tea, his own personal supply rather than the stuff they were given, of course anyone was free to sample the glorious flavor at anytime they wished "What goes on at the world at large Mr San?" he inquired over his shoulder.

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High Concept: A Will and Body of steel, A Gentleman beyond reproach!

Trouble: A Modern day Atlas

Background: A Line Lasting Generations
Invoke: My Family once encountered something similar...., Ah the Wilforson estate may be able to help I will give them a call, This line will not end here not now!
Compel: Curse you Baron Rupert why must you haunt my family!, Weight of ages

Yomikiri: Pure Hearted Englishman
Invoke: Heartfelt Pleas and Inspiring people, Knowing how to act in social situations
Compel: Cannot turn away a request for aid, Must avoid improper act or Deed, Old favors and promises coming back to bite him

Volume Three: I have no time for fear
Invoke: You call that a wound?, No matter what madness I see I shall press on
Compel: Leave no man behind, Trying to save those who cannot be saved

OVA 1 (Santiago) : Benevolent Benfactor
Invoke: Convincing people to Help, Finding Resources when for other people
Compel: Addiction to Charity, Can't be Selfish

OVA 2: Expensive Limousine

5 Phsyique
4 Fist, A GENTLEMAN�S DEMEANOR! (probably going to replace Rapport)
3 Will, Athletics
2 Alertness, Empathy, Presence
1 Resources, Provke, Deceit, Performance, Contacts

Stunts:

Collegiate Lineman (OW:156): In combat, you gain a +1 to Physique-based rolls where your size would prove an advantage.

FISTS OF STEEL: Fists are W:2

Step Into the Blow (YS:152): When you use Fists to defend against a close-quarters attack and fail that defense, you may sacrifice your next action to counterattack immediately (with Fists) at +1.

Best Foot Forward (YS:155): People just like you, especially when you're deliberately trying to make a good first impression (page YS:138). You gain a +1 on your roll to make a good first impression, and failing that roll cannot give you a negative temporary aspect or make the situation worse.

Tough Stuff (YS:152): The stuff of blunt trauma - fists, sticks, and stones - pose little trouble for you. Against such things, you have a natural Armor:1 (which stacks with other forms of protection). This does not apply to things like blades, bullets, and burns, but it makes you a beast in a burly brawl.

Teflon Persona (YS:154): It's difficult to make you look bad in social conflicts. Provided that the people present are aware of who you are, you gain Armor:1 against any social attacks.

Refresh 4/10

Stormgale fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Feb 5, 2014

# ? Apr 22, 2013 20:47

K Prime: Nov 4, 2009

Zhang San

"It's Mr. Zhang," San mutters distractedly, as he flips a virtual page with his eyes. "This is China. The names go the other way, for the 10th time."

K Prime fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 22, 2013

# ? Apr 22, 2013 20:49

Stormgale: Feb 27, 2010

Marcus

"My Deepest Apologies Mr Zhang, the Bauhdric line prides itself on correctness in every activity! So how is the world at Large then?"

# ? Apr 22, 2013 21:10

AlanWhats: Mar 3, 2013; A smartly dressed scientist robot: high five bro.

Aidan Frost: FP 2

At this point is when Aidan stepped in. Naturally, the punk was late, and naturally he couldn't care less. Aidan didn't really drive all that often before now, and the traffic didn't help matters. Doesn't matter if the traffic was an old lady jaywalking across the street, still pissed him off. Thankfully said old lady was not harmed in any way, shape, or form, and Aidan managed to get to the library without killing anybody else.

Now he was here, and now he was looking up at the two who were with him that one time in Berlin. Seeing Santiago made a vein in Aidan's forehead bulge. Seeing San just reminded him of the awkward as hell conversations with various eldritch relatives he never wants to see again. Of course there was also that one guy who he helped with that thing, but that's besides the point. Aidan decided to break out the flask a little bit earlier than usual this evening. Nothing like cheap whiskey to forcefully drown embarrassing memories.

After the first round of punching his mind with alcohol, Aidan drags a chair over by a wall and sits down in it. "Frikkin' kid with the frikkin' questions, god drat eight-legged parasite, stupid jaywalking dumbasses, fuckin'..." Aidan mutters, his low voice almost making it unintelligible.

AlanWhats posted:

Aidan Frost, AKA Tohthus-Amum of the Million Favored Ones, the Leering Teeth Behind the Veil

High Concept: Earthbound Eldritch Ashcroft "Consultant"
Invoke when: Identifying and knowing how to handle artifacts and alien tech, dealing with insanity causing situations as though they were normal, benefiting from a high level of clearance
Compel when: Smells like a monster, causing major collateral damage "just to be safe", being forced to contain a situation, owned by the Ashcroft Foundation

Trouble: Bad Blood, Worse Temper
Invoke when: Having street cred as a hard-rear end, having a reputation of being unbalanced, calling in shady contacts, being a loud punk
Compel when: Distrusted, reacting angrily to an insult or sleight, people (or creatures) are out for his head, old followers appear

Backstory: Two Spirits, One Body, Bad Times
Invoke when: Drawing from the memories of his unnaturally long life, revealing his eldritch nature
Compel when: His body freaks out or shuts down, plagued by fractured memories, encountering parts of his old lives

Yomikiri: You've Got a Heart of Gold, Mr. Grinch
Invoke when: Bringing his handler in on something, being held as a valuable asset
Compel when: Being chained to a handler, acting under threat of absolute death, acting oddly nice(r)

Volume Three: "You're Invited to a Mythos Family Reunion"
Invoke when: Getting along (relatively) peacefully with mythos beings, discovering dirty and eldritch old secrets
Compel when: Needing a drink RIGHT NOW, being associated with the Million Favored Ones, being mocked as an upstart, suffering the most awkward and insanity causing "family" dinner ever

OVA: Say "Hastur" AGAIN!
Invoke when: Cracking down on someone for information, busting into where he doesn't belong, generally being scary
Compel when: Tempted to just say "screw it" and smash his way through, deal with inter-agency politics and drama (likely caused by him)

Skills:
+5: Millionth Favored One
+4: Will, Lore
+3: Provoke, Investigation
+2: Athletics, Guns, Deceit
+1: Contacts, Physique, Stealth, Empathy, Burglary

Passion Skill: Millionth Favored One counts as Casting, complements any skills that would apply to being a Mythos creature such as Lore.

Stress Boxes:
Physical: ()()()
Mental: ()()()()
Social: ()()
Consequences: Mild() Medium() Serious()

Powers:
Channeling [-2] (Element: Geometry)
Thaumaturgy [-3] (Specialization: Entropomancy, complexity +1)
Refinement [-1] (Geometry control +1, Entropomancy control +1)
Wizard's Constitution [-0]
The Sight [-1]

Refresh: 1

AlanWhats fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Jun 17, 2013

# ? Apr 22, 2013 22:24

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Santiago - FP: 1

Seeing Aidan made a smile appear on Santiago's face. He was always a riot to talk to, and he suspected today would be no exception. "Isn't it a bit early to be hitting the moonshine?" He asked, the very image of politeness in teenaged form. "What'd happen if you were drunk to do anything but slur worrds and stumble around while in danger? I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to my workbuds."

# ? Apr 22, 2013 22:30

AlanWhats: Mar 3, 2013; A smartly dressed scientist robot: high five bro.

Aidan Frost: FP 2

Aidan gives Santiago a look at the comment about him drinking. It's hard to say what the look was, other than there was a lot of exasperation in it. "Kid," Aidan replied tiredly, "I'd no longer give a poo poo is what would happen. I'm probably gonna want that more, not less. That's if I can even manage to get that drunk." Aidan punctuated that with another tip of his flask. "Frikkin' metabolism."

# ? Apr 22, 2013 22:49

K Prime: Nov 4, 2009

Zhang San
FP:3

Zhang stretches a bit, then finally responds to the others. "Nothing new in Shanghai. Another 5 murders, 3 disappearances, and one explosion. Quiet night, really. Oh, and a family is missing from the arcology again. Probably just lost in there somewhere."

# ? Apr 23, 2013 00:23

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Santiago - FP: 1

"So nothing much to worry about then." Santiago said, yawning and stretching out on his seat. "Anybody seen the docs? I don't think we can get this meeting on the road without our shrinks. It's not really like them to keep people waiting."

# ? Apr 23, 2013 01:21

UnCO3: Feb 11, 2010; Ye gods!; College Slice

Maynard
FP: 5

Maynard's already been awake for eight hours by the time he walks through the front doors - first he was called in to identify prospective suspects in a disappearance, then to help interrogate an amateur magician who killed his partner in an abusive fit, and then to do some text analysis on a bomb threat sent to a police station near the Deng Xiaoping arc. Now he's here, at Shenlong Books, to look at pictures of dead people in the secret basement. More likely, though, the team's just been assigned to one of the more serious, occult problems in this godforsaken city, and instead of finishing up his day looking at pictures of dead people in an office he's going to start his night looking at actual dead people at a crime scene.

He nods wearily at the group when he sees them. "Evening. You got some more of that tea?"

UnCO3 posted:

Agent Maynard Song of the Office of Occult Intelligence Criminal Psychology Unit

High Concept: OOI Field Profiler
Invoke to: produce a profile on someone known or unknown and intuit their probable motives and weaknesses; predict an occultist's next move on the fly
Compel to: make a flawed profile that puts someone in danger or lets the suspect get a step ahead of them

Trouble: Child of Chaos
Invoke to: receive vague, allegorical hints from his visions; be stubborn in the face of authority
Compel to: suffer painful visions at inconvenient times; be impeded by a distrustful bureaucracy

Backstory: My Father was a Dhohanoid
Invoke to: investigate, hunt and kill Dhohanoids; try to understand the motives of anything inhuman; chase after his father to the benefit of the mission
Compel to: have traumatic flashbacks; mistake a Tager for a Dhohanoid and act with extreme prejudice; chase after his father to the detriment of the mission

Yomikiri: Faculty Wars
Invoke to: have a good rapport with contacts in the Diogines Club; �Oh hey, I wrote a paper on this�
Compel to: be targeted by the Disciples of the Cold Ones for his associations with their enemy; back out of an arcane fight

Volume 3: Your Perp is My Informant
Invoke to: get information through the criminal grapevine; use unorthodox, possible illegal methods and make them work
Compel to: get into inter-agency quarrels with mundane policing organisations; make a deal with, if not the devil, then someone pretty unpleasant

OVA: Professional Synergy
Invoke to: apply his professional knowledge to unfamiliar territory; back up Kimber in dealings with occultists
Compel to: get overloaded with work; have... professional differences with Kimber

Omake: No Stranger to Death
Invoke to: handle gore well; keep someone alive (long enough to be questioned, at least); get clues by fiddling with corpses
Compel to: anger or disturb people by being horribly desensitised to gore; have a low-level ally or a person of interest get horribly taken out nearby

Skills
+5: Occult Profiling, Lore
+4: Guns, Will
+3: Alertness, Athletics
+2: Scholarship, Physique
+1: Empathy, Weapons

Stunts
Always Ready (Alertness): Gain +2 to Alertness when rolling against surprise.
Unshakeable (Will): When defending against social or mental attacks with Will, any of your aspects (such as consequences or other temporary or permanent aspects) that get tagged provide only a +1. If the attacker chooses to tag for a re-roll, you may �lock down� one of his dice, leaving him only the other three to re-roll.
Read the Surface (Empathy): Your first attempt to read someone takes less than a minute of interaction, instead of the usual ten. Any subsequent efforts with the same person do not enjoy this benefit.
Fast Reload (Guns): You take no penalty when reloading as a supplemental action; if you're in a race to see who reloads first, or anything else having to do with your speed or ability to reload, gain a +1 on the roll.
Scene of the Crime (Occult Profiling): When combing over a crime scene, you gain +1 to your Occult Profiling roll and arrive at your findings one step faster than usual on the time table.

Stress
Physical: ( )( )( )
Mental: ( )( )( )( )
Social: ( )( )

Refresh: 5/10

UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Apr 23, 2013

# ? Apr 23, 2013 03:25

K Prime: Nov 4, 2009

Zhang San
FP:5

Zhang nods. "Of course. You know I would never only brew enough for myself." He gestures at a steaming teapot. "Fine pu'erh. I do like being able to get the stuff without having to scrounge."

# ? Apr 23, 2013 03:29

UnCO3: Feb 11, 2010; Ye gods!; College Slice

Maynard
FP: 5

"I owe you one. Again."

One of the good things about this team is that you can rely on people for a drink. Spirits, tea, wine, coffee; there's always some around, good quality too. He pours a cup of green tea and slumps into a chair.

"Kimber must be held up somewhere. Normally she gets to places before I do."

# ? Apr 23, 2013 03:42

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Santiago - FP: 1

"If it's because she's busy looking out for another little kid, we're gonna have to start sending people with her to make sure she doesn't get sidetracked. Maybe Aidan could share some of that booze with her? Might help her stay focused if she doesn't notice what kind of place we're at." Santiago mused, before downing half of his cup in one gulp and swearing under his breath. "Freakin' trolls...how hard can population vectors be to understand?"

# ? Apr 23, 2013 03:52

AlanWhats: Mar 3, 2013; A smartly dressed scientist robot: high five bro.

Aidan Frost: FP 2

At this, Aidan lets out a groan of disgust. "Ugh, tell me about it." He grimaces a bit at the idea of sharing his precious liquid amnesiac. "Do I really have to? There ain't enough booze to help as it is." He holds up his flask and gives it a little shake, the foul liquid inside sloshing around inside. "Forget about making it through the day." With a sigh, Aidan kicks his feet up onto the table, boots landing with a thud against the table.

# ? Apr 23, 2013 04:08

Stormgale: Feb 27, 2010

"Marcus

"Come Mr Frost, a Gentleman enjoys a good drink once in a while but only in Moderation!" he pointed out "Perhaps you should join me in my morning Jog, a good bout of physical excercise is good for the soul and the mind" he said with a genuine smile, sitting down and enjoying his own tea having to be careful with the cup considering his glorious physique. "As for our final member I think she will be on time after all I know she takes pride in her work like we all do. Considering what we see why else would we be here?"

Stormgale fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Apr 24, 2013

# ? Apr 23, 2013 07:11

Charlie72: Apr 21, 2010

Kimber "Kim" Embry: FP-5
Kim enter's the room holding two doughnut boxes stacked on top of each other. She is embarrassed that she is late, but hopes her offering will make up for her tardiness.

"Sorry, the bakery was packed" she say's as she sets the boxes down on a table.

"One has chocolate glazed,cinnamon, and powdered; the other one has jellies and bear-claws"

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Kimber "Kim" Embry, LMHC

High Concept: Bleeding Heart OOI Field Counselor

Invoke: preform basic therapy under fire, tell civs it wasn't as bad as it looked when it was worse
Compel: "I'm a psychologist, not a [insert profession here]", Go out of way to make sure someone get's the mental help they need

Trouble: Big Sister Complex

Invoke: Push self to physically protect youths, Act like the cool big sis you never had,
Compel: Be a bit overprotective of younger team members, Ignore own mental state to worry about yours

Backstory: They Look Like Monsters to you?

Invoke: Not as frighted of monsters that are humanoid in nature, willing to listen to the inhuman, knows 5 tell tale signs of a deep one hybrid.
Compel: Would give a humanoid monster chance to attack her before attacking it, "We can't do that, they are still people!", Knowledge and options might get her in trouble if her superiors in the OOI found out.

Yomikiri: Have You Seen This Fish!

Invoke: Pick up details in a case that might relate to her brothers, Knowledge she gained from her personal investigation that might apply to the current situation, Grill someone who might know something about her bro.
Compel: Get distracted from the current case, Go apeshit on anyone who suggest her bro is dead and/or a murderer, go against protocol to find the truth.

Volume Three: The Negotiator

Invoke: "Let's listen to reason", Bad guys have eyes on her and not the strike team, Go to when you need to talk to crazies
Compel: Diplomacy is always and option!, takes the blame when things go wrong, "Surly giving them a couple of bullet proof vest won't make things worse"

OVA: Mythos Magpie

Invoke: Good at concealing things on her person, Knows the value of a good book, "I have the 5th edition of that! The cover is tore off and there are coffee stains on half the pages, but you can still kinda read it!"
Compel: Steal tomes of forgotten lore without OOI knowlege, Has difficulty understanding anything written inside said tomes, Doesn't know how to take care of said tomes (The coffee was hers).

Omake: Cthugha Blues

Invoke: SHSL Fire safety expert, knows where emergency doors are, Can take the heat
Compel: "Oh no, its happening again", has an undesirable reputation among her fellow OOI agents, might be literally cursed (or just very unlucky)

Skills

5 �Shrink�*, Will
4 Empathy, Rapport
3 Scholarship, Presence
2 Contacts, Provoke
1 Physique, Deceit

* Works like Empathy for the purposes of recovering social or mental consequences, as well as knowledge of the human psych and mental disorders. Still need empathy to read people, unless doing days of studying to find there specific mental disorder.

Stunts:
Counselor(shrink): You have some formal education
in professional counseling or psychotherapy.
Your skill can be used to justify another character�s
recovery from moderate or severe social
or mental consequences, provided you have the
time and opportunity to provide them with the
full extent of your services as a counselor

Resilient Self-Image(will): Your sense of self is
strong, enabling you to endure more psychological
punishment than most. You may take two
additional mild mental consequences

Read the Surface(empathy): You can get a sense of
someone quickly when trying to �read� them
. Your first attempt to read someone
takes less than a minute of interaction, instead
of the usual ten. Any subsequent efforts with the
same person do not enjoy this benefit.

Best Foot Forward(Rapport): People just like you, especially
when you�re deliberately trying to make
a good first impression. You gain a +1
on your roll to make a good first impression,
and failing that roll cannot give you a negative
temporary aspect or make the situation worse.

Capable Researcher: Some say you were
born in a library. Any scholarly research you
do is completed two time increments
faster than usual�due in large part to the fact
that you�ve probably read something about it
before.

stress
Physical: ()()()
Mental: ()()()() +3 mild consequence
Social: ()()()()

Refresh 5

Charlie72 fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Apr 24, 2013

# ? Apr 23, 2013 23:11

AlanWhats: Mar 3, 2013; A smartly dressed scientist robot: high five bro.

Aidan Frost: FP 2

Aidan looks at Marcus with a puzzled expression. "...I'm sorry have we not met before?" Aidan responds about the 'gentleman' comment. Then Marcus mentions something about pride in your work and Aidan couldn't help but be an rear end and laugh at that. "Pft HAHAHA, Haha, that's adorable. No."

Then Kim finally decided to show up, and the scent of baked goods rises from the two boxes that were on the table. Aidan sniffed the air, looking over the boxes as though he were analyzing a bomb. There were some good things about being human, and these strange, fat drenched, greasy baked goods were a bit of a guilty pleasure. After opening the boxes a couple times to gaze upon the glorious contents, Aidan finally made his decision. "...dibs on a bear-claw."

AlanWhats fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Apr 24, 2013

# ? Apr 24, 2013 04:43

Ettin: Oct 2, 2010

When you finally assemble and make it to the elevator with your doughnuts, your assistant is waiting!

Zhong Fanghua

Fanghua's job is to be here a lot so you don't have to. To the public she's the Library Director. To you she's one of the OOI's mostly interchangeable administrative assistants, assigned here to handle all the boring stuff and order the interns and such around. The other employees whisper rumours that she's had nanomedical treatments to disguise her real identity, or that she's part robot. She finds none of them amusing. You are pretty sure she runs on coffee and pills.

"Good evening, sirs, ma'am. If you don't mind, we've got a problem..."

Friday February 10 2119, 6:31PM CST
Location: [REDACTED]
Aspects: Welcome To My Underground Lair; O.O.I. Offices; Beyond Cutting Edge Technology

Fanghua leads you out of the elevator and down the hall into the main office. As you enter the window-screens flicker into life and a cloud of holo- and AR windows float in, just in case you weren't already overloaded with information.

Your assistant dismisses the ones that aren't relevant and summons a dossier on one of the windows. You find yourselves looking at a man in his 50s with a surprisingly young face, greying hair, weary eyes and clothes so old-fashioned they should get pension.

"This is Lin Tang-yu. Originally from New Guilin, registered sorcerer, consulted for a few corporations like Unity Inc... We suspected he had triad connections but he was clean every time we checked."

Fanghua moves on and calls up a gallery of maps, photos and footage on the next two windows. Some of it has been skimmed from social networking sites. "At 17:57 Mr Lin fell off a Deng Xiaoping arcology rooftop to his death. He landed in the road here. A police patrol craft passed by the area and spotted a ritual circle on the tower roof here..."

"Both sites were secured by 18:05. So far we've determined that a magical ritual took place but was interrupted around the time of death."

Finally she calls up footage from nearby cameras and people's phones, arranged in a line based on their height. A figure in some very old-fashioned clothes who looks a lot like he's diving plummets down the line as you watch.

"Also, Mr Lin was falling at approximately 20 metres per second per second."

You can assume you guys have your own rooms here with pretty much anything you want that can fit in an underground base, by the way.

# ? Apr 24, 2013 15:17

K Prime: Nov 4, 2009

Zhang San
FP:5

Zhang San frowns. "Wait, 20 meters a second squared? That's more than two times as fast as he should have been. Show one of the videos on a loop- something is screwy here."

# ? Apr 24, 2013 15:39

AlanWhats: Mar 3, 2013; A smartly dressed scientist robot: high five bro.

Aidan Frost: FP 2

Absentmindedly taking bites of the bear-claw in his hand, Aidan stares at the massive amounts of footage of another human being stupid. At the mention of putting the video on loop, Aidan immediately calls a remote to his hand. Hopefully no one was looking at the strange space between the bend as the table and his palm bend to meet. Aidan then lets space snap back into its normal place, and goes about clicking the remote.

At this, the screen with the highest viewpoint rewinds back to a certain point. It then begins to loop for a bit, showing the grisly death over and over again. Then another click sounds and for some reason it rewinds. Then it plays forward again, then it rewinds, then forward, back and forth and back and forth. It's like watching the world's most grimdark game of pong ever between the floor and the top of the screen. Suddenly the speakers turn on to play-god dammit Aidan.

Needless to say, Aidan is grinning like an idiot.

# ? Apr 24, 2013 15:48

Ettin: Oct 2, 2010

Mr Lin

The falling footage loops! There are a few blind spots in the trip and different cameras have different angles, but Mr Lin spends most of the trip moving straight downward, head-first, with his arms by his sides. After a while he starts slowly moving his arms up and begins flailing them around like he's trying to cast a spell or learn how to fly or something. By the end he's just flailing - he throws his arms over his head hoping to protect it or at least shield his eyes just as he reaches the street. Mr Lin does not look happy with his descent.

Aidan plays some music. Fanghua looks like she's going to need more pills.

# ? Apr 24, 2013 15:50

UnCO3: Feb 11, 2010; Ye gods!; College Slice

Maynard
FP: 5

Maynard sips his tea and takes a closer look at the images. The weariness is gone, replaced by focus.

"If he worked with Unity, he may have gotten too close to a criminal operation of theirs and they took him out to keep their secrets - or they could've had a contractor take him out. Do we have his recent correspondance yet? What about recent purchases or financial info? How did he seem the last time the OOI checked up on him? Basically, did he act like he thought he was in danger?"

Then the music cuts in. "God damnit Aidan, turn it off."

He takes another sip to hide the slight grin that's forming on his lips. Well, in a job like this, you take the humour you can get... but now isn't the time. They can save the jokes for after the case.

# ? Apr 24, 2013 15:55

K Prime: Nov 4, 2009

Zhang San
FP:5

Zhang is less concerned over who exactly is at fault and more concerned over how they did it. "It looks like he was probably under complete control for most of the fall- he doesn't start panicking or flailing or trying to slow his fall until nearly the end. Can someone give me a height and time on the point where he first starts moving his arms? It might be a hint on the range of control or power of what we're dealing with."

# ? Apr 24, 2013 16:08

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Santiago - FP: 1

"Before we start trying to find out who did him in and how..." Santiago had to stop for a moment to laugh as Aidan's Hi-Speed Death Cam started to play and give him a thumbs up. "...Right, anyway...what I was gonna say is, it's good that we're trying to find out who our prime suspects should be and what their instrument of murder was, but I think we should look into why this bloke was up at the arcology's roof and what kinda mystical mumbo jumbo he was up to when they killed him. Something tells me it's going to be kind of important, so...what do our experts in magical juju got to say about that?"

# ? Apr 24, 2013 16:44

Charlie72: Apr 21, 2010

Kim FP-5
Kim is unfazed by Aidan's little display. This isn't the first time she's worked with children.

"We should also consider the fact he may have been hallucinating when he jumped" Kim says as she finishes her cinnamon doughnut, "Possibly as an effect or side effect of the ritual on the roof. As Mr. San implied, Mr. Lin was seems to not have been shoved or thrown off. I think the most important information we need is who created the ritual circle and what its intended effect were, as well as any effects that would occur if it was interpreted."

# ? Apr 24, 2013 19:10

UnCO3: Feb 11, 2010; Ye gods!; College Slice

Maynard
FP: 5

While the others talk, Maynard sets down the cup and puts his hands the holo-screen, then starts shifting the images and drawing up new windows. Pretty soon he's got a timeline set up.

code:

Dead: Lin Tang-yu, registered sorcerer

Prior to incident: Lin was a contractor, worked with Unity Inc., Triad connections suspected but unproven.
Possibly drew ritual circle on a Deng Xiaoping rooftop.
-Who drew circle/attempted ritual and why? If Lin, was it planned, on impulse or due to emergency?
-Was the circle prepared beforehand?
*Review Lin's recent economic+social activities, job interactions, OOI surveillance.

??:?? to 17:57: ritual initiated.
-What ritual?
-For what purpose?
*Arcane analysis.

17:57: ritual interrupted and Lin fell from roof under anomalous gravity (20ms^-2).
Eventually attempted and failed to magically(?) slow/stop descent and died on impact.
-Who/what interrupted it?
-Why did he fall? Forced, jumped or accidentally fell?
-Was he under a debilitating or threatening influence?
-What caused gravitational anomaly?
-Why didn't he attempt to stop descent sooner?
-When did the ritual stop relative to his death?
*Cross-check with gravity-altering magic and technology, specifications of building, physiological+arcane autopsy.

17:57 to 18:05: footage of Lin's descent appeared on social media platforms. Police craft spotted ritual circle.
-If Lin was attacked, did perpetrator flee here? Was an indirect means of attack used?
*Interview police, review security footage.

18:05: ritual site and site of death secured.
*Analysis of both locations.

"Is that everything? Anyway, if we can zoom in on that image with the ritual circle then we could shed some light on what exactly happened."

Using Lore and checking out the ritual circle: 4dF+5 3. Based on the images they have, he's trying to answer questions like these: What's it drawn in? Does Maynard recognise the language? What general change was the performer trying to effect, and on what target?

Edit: this is assuming we have a picture of the ritual circle from the police craft up on the screen somewhere. If we don't then I guess we better get to that rooftop.

# ? Apr 24, 2013 20:23

Stormgale: Feb 27, 2010

Marcus

Marcus' face became hard as a rock as he watched the murder be replayed over and over on the screens, while the more apt members of the team were discussing the arcane component of the events he would deal with what he was far more used to. "What contracts was he working on recently" he asked "Assuming None of them are fronts for triad activity this could easily have been a cover up regarding some action he hadn't seen?"

# ? Apr 25, 2013 00:26

K Prime: Nov 4, 2009

Zhang San
FP: 5

Zhang San gets up. "Either way, I think it's time to collect what we have and put boots on the street. First things first- let's hit the scene of the crime."

He grabs his weapon from his office and rigs it in the holster under his coat, then does a full gear check. "Staring at the video can be done any time. If we don't get moving soon the scene is gonna be a mess."

K Prime fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Apr 25, 2013

# ? Apr 25, 2013 00:42

Ettin: Oct 2, 2010

Maynard

There are multiple pictures of the circle, thankfully! Maynard can see it was chalked onto the roof, and a lot of the symbols are in Tsath-Yo; the specific purpose is unknown. Rune recognition software doesn't match it to any known spells either, but it has an 84% match with Contact Those Who Dwell Beyond - a spell used to try and summon up an outsider to extract information. This is likely an advanced, more specific version.

There's a nearby device - a projector hooked up to a laptop left on a crate - that was probably used to help draw it accurately.

Zhong Fanghua

Fanghua pulls up more windows and calculations.

"The fall took approximately six seconds. Mr Lin started trying to move at 3.1 seconds. He was around a hundred metres from the rooftop by then. ...We know he was talking to the Wukong Corp about contract work but we don't know what came of it. He didn't leave any personal data at the scene so we're looking for his current residence in the Arcology."

She moves towards her desk so she can play mission control while Zhang San (and anyone going with him) head out.

Where you head next is up to you! You can make some rolls on the way if you have something in mind.

# ? Apr 25, 2013 06:34

AlanWhats: Mar 3, 2013; A smartly dressed scientist robot: high five bro.

Aidan Frost: FP 2

Aidan stopped grinning as everyone started telling him to cut it out, having had his brief childish amusement for the minute. With a click of the remote, the music stopped. Aidan had no use for the remote any more, having had his fun with it. Therefore, the fate of the remote was to be tossed back to the table.

With another bite of his bear-claw, Aidan headed to his office, waving his hand as he does so. "Yo," he managed to say through a mouthful of bear-claw, "I'm headin' out. Better than hangin' around like an idiot." A few moments and he's in his office. Aidan loaded and holstered his service pistol and magnum revolver. A crumpled pack of cigarettes and a refill of his flask from a cheap whiskey bottle under the table would make sure he got through the tedium of another crime scene. After all, he was all out of bear-claw.

With everything he needed to get through this, Aidan grabbed a leather jacket and walked out into the hall. Whether or not that jacket was his is unknown, though it certainly fits the punk image he has going for him. He put his hands behind his head and stretched. "Alright class, let's go on a field trip to see the Amazing Falling Splat."

# ? Apr 25, 2013 08:38

Stormgale: Feb 27, 2010

Marcus

"Perhaps I should go have a word with the Wukong Corporation, I am sadly not that well equipped for dealing with the scene and might give us some idea what to look for" He stood, taking his things and finishing his drink, making sure to clean the cup before he left "Though to keep things simple I figure a quick Video call should be enough for now, if we need something more indepth I think Mr Zhang your skills may be needed to pierce the veil of darkness they attempt to hide the truth from us!"

Stormgale fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Apr 25, 2013

# ? Apr 25, 2013 10:54

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Santiago - FP: 1

"Roger that. I'll go get dressed and go secure the scene. Meet you guys there." Santiago said, standing up and dusting himself off. "Hey Zhong, think you can keep an eye out for my things while I'm gone? Wouldn't want anything to happen to them."

Transient People fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Apr 26, 2013

# ? Apr 25, 2013 18:31

UnCO3: Feb 11, 2010; Ye gods!; College Slice

Maynard
FP: 5

Maynard scans the timeline onto his uPod, checks his gun and he's ready to go.

"So, we check the point of death and the rooftop, then his residence when we get the address, then look into Wukong and maybe Unity Inc. too if we haven't made sense of this by that point."

# ? Apr 26, 2013 02:55

K Prime: Nov 4, 2009

Zhang San
FP:5

With a nod, San heads off toward the garage. "I'll drive. Since apparently none of you can worth a drat. Which still amazes me."

# ? Apr 26, 2013 02:57

Stormgale: Feb 27, 2010

Marcus
"Why wait, I figure I could call the fine representatives at Wukong on the way, you could all listen in and help analyse anything he gives us, after all Mr Song if anyone could tell if he was lying to me that would be you" he turned to San with a smile "I prefer the brisk pace of jogging, and if Transportation is required fine gentlemen such as yourself are always at

# ? Apr 26, 2013 03:01

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Santiago - FP: 1

"Who needs to drive when you can walk to where you need to be?" Santiago asked, shrugging. "Or fly, if the situation demands that. And speaking of which, if you'll excuse me gents..." As the group arrived at the OOI hangars, he slipped away, riding an elevator to the top floor. Strolling toward the first bay, Tiago grinned. No matter how many times he did it, suiting up for a job never got old.

The White Light was inside, resting in the middle of the room. Approaching it, Santiago grabbed its wrist, squeezed its trigger, and tapped certain specific spots in the armor's frame. With a sound of rushing air, the armor split in half, several parts retracting to make room for its pilot. Once he was in position, he pressed a button on the inside of the powered armor's arm. It snapped close with a click.

"Wake up, baby. Gimme a system's check." Santiago spoke, as thin nanomaterial glasses covered his eyes, providing him perfect vision of the outside world.

"Dragon Armor prototype model 0001 activated. Verifying systems integrity." A melodic woman's voice said.

"Pilot integration systems online." Carefully, Santiago tried to move his hands, then legs. The armor responded perfectly, as usual.

"Communication systems online." The teenaged Warchild nodded. "Great. Keep going." The voice distortion system was already active. The external audio output created a warbling, gruffer sounding echo.

"Data output systems online." Numbers and words flashed in front of his vision. He didn't pay attention to them. He'd seen them a million times already.

"Ancillary D-Engine functions online." The internal power source flared up for a moment, before settling into an almost inaudible hum as the silencer kicked in.

"Neural link systems online." The sting of microneedles on his neck was practically unnoticeable, but its effects were not. Jumping from voice activation to interpreting the electric impulses going through Santiago's brain would speed up his reactions immensely and facilitate communication with the White Light...

"Weapon systems online." ...Like that. Santiago stared at the lascannon protruding from 'his' wrist proudly. "Way too much firepower for such a small package, yes sir. Just like I like it."

"Mobility systems online." The floor in front of the White Light split open, revealing magnetized rail tracks, as did the bay door they led to. Engaging the armor's thrusters, Santiago began moving forward on the rails, first slowly, but then faster and faster as they added to his increasing speed...

...And then the White Light was thrown out the bay, and the main thruster systems kicked in, sending it flying up into the skies. "White Light Armor online. All systems nominal."

"Hell yeah!" Santiago couldn't just keep it to an ear to ear grin. To let some of his elation out, he rolling in mid-air, uploading the coordinates of the crime scene. Moments later, he had a destination.

"Guys? This is Santiago, primed and ready. Heading for the scene now." He broadcasted to his fellow OOI operatives. "See you there. Don't keep me waiting too long. I don't have time to get old like you!" Santiago's laughter was drowned by the flare of the engine as he rocketed through the skies toward today's work.

Transient People fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Apr 26, 2013

# ? Apr 26, 2013 04:26

Ettin: Oct 2, 2010

Maynard

Some more info:

� They're still digging into his correspondence! So far his email is the usual really dull freelance wizard stuff. Did you know freelance stuff can be boring? Well, it is. His call logs are a little more promising, because some of his regular calls are encrypted. They're working on it! The key would be nice.
� Recent purchases are all pretty bland for a wizard - basic ritual components, convenience store food, hookers - but his bank account has had more money coming and going than his purchases and job would justify, according to OOI computers.
� The OOI last checked on him a month ago after he applied for a license to learn arcanotherapy and he seemed more or less fine - he was a little stiff and nervous but not worried for his safety, so when he checked out the agent making the call just assumed he'd been playing a saucy videogame or something.

Marcus

A representative of Wukong explains that they were looking to take Mr. Lin as a part-time ward caster, but they were still running a background check on him.

Needless to say he won't be getting another interview!

Friday February 10 2119, 6:50PM CST
Location: 109th Street, Hongzhuang Subdistrict, Deng Xiaoping Memorial Arcology
Aspects: A Maze of Twisty Passages, All Alike; O.O.I. Crime Scene

A lot of DXMA is actually lower than most of Shanghai - nobody really wanted to look at a giant mess of skyscrapers in the skyline. The roads in are gentle and sloping and natural so you'd hardly notice if it weren't for the massive identical skyscrapers and the ten-story-high mess of neon signs that fills major commercial streets like 109th.

Right now this area has been blocked off with police tape (real and augmented reality) in a two-block radius just in case. Police cars have parked at the edges to make sure the crowd of pedestrians gawking, retweeting and taking sepia-toned snaps doesn't get any funny ideas, but closer to the scene it's all OOI powered armour security and forensics wizards. Clouds are gathering, so some drones are spreading a cover high over the scene in case it Rains.

Mr. Lin's body is lying in the middle of the road, in a pool of blood. Once he smashed into the ground he had the decency to land on his face, but it's still pretty ugly. On the bright side, the road held up pretty well. A few metres closer to the tower and he would have totalled someone's car though.

Well, here you are! ~~Who wants to look at a dead body~~ ~~Time to roll dice and assess poo poo!~~

INVESTIGATION START!

quote:

A Note On Clues

Since this is a murder mystery, I'm gonna be clear on how I do it.

Clues will never be hidden behind dice rolls. If you're in an area where you can get clues, and you have the right skills and say what you're doing, that is it. You don't actually need to roll to get a clue. However, if you do roll to investigate, or place advantages/scene aspects/whatever, I might give you a little extra, or an item, or some other cool thing that isn't needed to advance the plot.

# ? Apr 26, 2013 16:15

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 03:40

Stormgale: Feb 27, 2010

Marcus

"Looks like he was just being hired as a consultant... Might be something there but Obviously let us deal with the present situation" he paused for a moment "I know we are assuming Arcane control but could a simple chemical injection also cause him to not react to the fall till it was too late?" he supposed, looking around and up.

Do we have any camera's on the body as it hit the ground, that might show anyone taking his possessions, the building he was at the top of what kind of building was it, how limited was roof access for example, throwing my Passion to have Marcus ask around about it

# ? Apr 26, 2013 16:23

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