[Day: Saturday, February 22nd. Time: 1:00 p.m.] (Second log going up now.) (And up.) [You'd just discovered Luana was posting horrible fanfiction when all of a sudden you were summoned to the security room in the (sub)basement. Seems Sofia Hernandez has just woken up. Lidya is waiting there for you, along with two guards. As you walk in, you can see a monitor with the picture of a cell. Sofia is strapped into a bed within, with a buncha med. equipment nearby.] ( That get through? ) (We couldn't be sure!) (It coulda been the ghost of Ten. And yes.) (SHE DID NOT I HATE YOU ALL AND CONTINUE TO BLAME TEN.) [Session Start] ( Your deviant sexual practices have no meaning to me.) * Luana is telling Togo frantically, "I swear to every god that has ever existed, I didn't do it!" ( Also, someone make Jesse go in character. ) ( Wow, that's a lotta gods. ) *** JesseLman is now known as Togo ( Sorry ) * Keiko has the barest hint of a smile on her lips, but otherwise looks pretty much like normal. She looks at the monitor a long moment. * Togo grins. "I believe you, because even blind I could see how you were squirming when they mentioned the ones featuring you." * Jamie is there and has yet to say or emoting anything because her player is still reading logs. [Lidya glances you over. "I take it the search is going well, then?"] * Luana covers her face, which is a nice shade of red at this point, with her hands and sighs in relief. "Thank you." It goes. We know someone's been using Luana's computer. It's just a matter of figuring out who else had access to it. Or they've been taking a computer into my room to do it. * Keiko puts her duck to her forehead a moment, then just flat tries to change the subject. "Or someone falsified records. We actually know little. Are we able to go in now?" [Lidya (whose name I totally can't spell right) nods. "I see." She turns to the monitor, where some security guys are leading Sofia out of the cell. "Well, as you can see, your priorities have changed. Get to the interrogation room and find out what she knows."] (Lydia? :P) * Roseli nods. Right. I'll bring the pliers; Luana, you bring the carrots. (For future reference, the other name is 'Xuan'. :P) ( Right. ) * Luana lowers her hands from her face, which is slowly turning back to a normal color. "She's a werewolf, sir. Meat would be more appropriate." Yes, but this is a two-tiered interrogation tactic. The pliers are for the traditional method, and the carrots are to confuse the hell out of her as she tries to figure out what we're going to do to her with carrots. * Keiko glances to Luana and Togo a moment, then shakes her head. She then, since she's got no guardian around, heads out of the room to get going downstairs. * Luana says seriously, "She hurt you and Roseli pretty badly. I'm sure I can figure out something I can do with the carrots, sir." ( You're already downstairs. ) * Luana heads to the interrogation room as well. (Okay, not downstairs, just down!) * Roseli goes to the interrogation room. * Jamie follows her guardian. * Togo follows along, still walking fairly gingerly. [You head to the interrogation room. Lydia follows, entering in the room behind the one-way mirror.] ( And you can decide whether you're going in to see Sofia or to observe. ) ( Up to you how you wanna do this. ) * Keiko seems to be heading to the main room, unless someone like a guardian stops her. * Roseli lets her go in. She walks in after her. * Luana heads on in. * Jamie moves to follow her guardian again. * Togo follows along, hands in his pockets. (Everyone in the main room! What a room.) [Everyone goes in at once. Sofia's inside, sitting at the table, with her hands cuffed. She smiles as you enter. "Coem to let me go?"] * Keiko turns to stand against the wall to the left of the door pretty much immediately, petting her duck idly. 'Fraid not. Where's the virus? * Jamie stands behind and to the right of her guardian. * Luana moves to stand next to Keiko. ["I'm not going to tell you."] * Roseli looks to Keiko and nods. [Sofia grins. "It's a powerful virus, you know. Lot of people going to die."] * Keiko glances to Rose, then shakes her head slightly before murmuring, "You know that's not how it worked with Jamie." * Jamie turns her head to look at Keiko. We know. ["I'm just saying."] * Togo clears his throat. "Are you really going to make us get the information from you the hard way? Because you will break, and the only thing stopping me right now is that I've been torture-clean the last 7 months, and I try to go a year every few years like the program recommends." * Jamie looks away from Keiko. * Roseli pulls out her gun and checks which bullets are in. [Sofia chuckles. "Go ahead." She nods at Roseli. "But she can tell you how futile that'll be. They trained us for this sort of thing in the military."] Yeah. She'd break as easily as I would. * Togo tilts his head at Sofia. "Oh, I don't doubt that you'd hold up well. But sooner or later, everyone breaks." ["Yeah. Sooner or later. The question is, do you have the time?"] No. * Roseli walks over and puts the gun to Sofia's head. It's a replay of last time! "Tell us." ["No. You don't." As Roseli does that, she grins wider. "And if you kill me, you'll never learn at all."] ["Face it. You want the info, you're going to have to cooperate with me, cabron."] * Roseli switches to Portuguese: "" And she shoots Sofia in the head a second time, getting blood and other nasty things on herself. (Normal bullets, btw.) * Jamie winces at the noise of the gunshot. Keiko? [Sofia bleeds!] (Is there any more chairs in the room?) ( There's 2! ) * Togo hmms. "Well, at least she knows you're not bluffing now." Should know better, yeah. * Keiko walks over to a chair and takes it, saying "Couldn't have done it without the gun?" as she sits down in it. * Roseli holsters her gun and looks at Keiko. "Faster." *pauses* Well, she will know, once she regenerates enough to form coherent thoughts again. * Keiko sighs a little and rests the duck in her lap before her head falls forward to her chest. She stays like that for a moment or five, sitting up and unconscious. * Togo shrugs. "All else being equal, I prefer not to use force to get information outta people... but sometimes, some folks you just gotta get your hands dirtier than usual. (Move along without me!) Hm. * Roseli pulls out a napkin and wipes some of the blood off. She looks to Jamie. "Sorry about the gunshot." Are you... really in a torture addiction program? Sir? * Jamie blinks at Rose and then heasetantly says. "Okay?" No. Grim Badasses Anonymous. Going on 23 years without dressing in all black or pondering the meaninglessness of existance. * Roseli nods once to Jamie. * Luana says firmly, "Good for you, sir. It doesn't sound like a productive way to live." Part of the program is to avoid activities that lead to Grim Badassness. Going on solo suicide missions, communicating in grunts and sentance fragments, carrying twin pistols, writing bad poetry... ... That really exists? What about good poetry? * Jamie doesn't have anything to say so she looks at Togo. * Togo nods at Roseli. "Chapters in twenty-three countries nowadays." *to Luana* "There's no such thing as good poetry written by people wearing all black." (Hey!) ( It's mostly true. =P ) * Togo shrugs. "They're good people. Helped me out after I lost my eyes and spent two years being a whiny psycho." Did they give you the Badass Bars? Yes. Theory is that it's impossible to see yourself as some grim harbinger of death when you're eating a candy bar. * Togo pulls out a machine gun. "Grim and scary." *pulls out a candy bar; opens and munches* "Significantly less intimidating." If I threaten to start speaking in bad poetry, may I have some, sir? * Togo tosses Luana a Badass bar, and puts away his machine gun. "Take one just in case." * Luana beams at him and starts taking small bites of her chocolate. ( Or if she writes more fanfiction? ) * Togo pauses and offers one to Jaime. "Want? Creamy caramel center fills the open wounds in you soul." * Jamie takes the candybar with a confused look on her face and starts to unwrap it. * Roseli unwraps some gum and pops it into her mouth. She watches Keiko. * Jamie takes a small bite. * Luana exclaims, "Oh, I have one! 'Roses are blood-colored / Violets are too / Oxygen saturation levels / Change blood's color and hue.'" She smiles happily and eats more chocolate. * Jamie gives Luana her confused look now. (That's adorable. Luana, marry me.) ... I'm not sure how to respond to that, so I'm going to just smile and nod and eat my candy bar. *smiles; nods; eats candy bar* They also try to get us to wear lighter colors, but this is about as far as I'm willing to go. I've still got a reputation to uphold, and wearing teal wouldn't help that. ( Togo's wearing his usual brown and dark-green ) * Roseli looks Togo over. "Not bad." Better than black. *pauses* Though one time my girl switched out my shoelaces for rainbow colored ones. Didn't realize until the wizard I was after fell over laughing when he noticed them. * Luana giggles. ( Roseli's plan was to make the session long with nothing happening for you guys. ) (Yup! :D) (Go mold Keiko like a doll.) (We could go back to finding out who wrote the fanfic.) ( You could! ) ( You probably should! Just so there's something to do. ) (I'm not very sure how long this is taking gametime, is all. * Keiko twitches very slightly. But she's still sitting in the chair. I would've been pretty mad, except that him falling over meant that he couldn't shove a lightning bolt up my ass or put up a force field. Fighting a wizard usually ain't that easy. ( It's been several minutes.] ) ( Say.... 15 ) *** Rowyn (rowyn2001@71-215-179-72.eugn.qwest.net) has joined channel #mc4 (Hooray!) (Save the hoorays for once lag is not killing my computer. x.x) (Lag bad!) ( BRB. Bathroom. ) (Well not connection lag. The "I wanna run virus scan even though you don't need it and hog all your resources" lag.) *** Rowyn is now known as Heinrick [Heinrick arrives! At the interrogation room!] [Where he finds Keiko asleep in a chair, and Sofia bleeding from a bullet wound in her head.] * Roseli looks over. "Afternoon." ( Actually, mind if I just FF things? ) * Jamie is nibbling on a half eaten candybar. * Heinrick gives a curt nod to Roseli and only a cursory glance at Sofia. "I see you've been busy." (I don't.) ( back ) [Some two hours pass before Keiko finally wakes up.] * Roseli is sitting there, waiting about as patiently as ever. Others might not be so much. ... and so then I said "That's no golem! That's my friend! ... and a golem." (Correction: Rose is standing.) * Jamie is sitting in the chair instead! * Luana smiles and shakes her head. * Heinrick is waiting patiently. Presumably he's gotten an update on what the situation is by now and what questions have been asked. If not, then now's a good time for him to ask! (The situation is the same as before and the answer is no answers.) 2d8-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8-1) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 9. * Heinrick glances to see if Sofia is conscious at this time. If not, he's going to turn to Roseli. * Keiko has twitched slightly every once and a while in the past two hours, but has otherwise managed just to stay upright in the chair, duck in her lap. She should be in the circus. * Heinrick is going to talk to Roseli anyway. "So how is the subject?" Unconscious. * Roseli looks at Heinrick. "Uncooperative." A bit light-headed. [Sofia has a bullet in her head and is not conscious.] * Heinrick sighs. "I figured as much." He stands slightly and glances at Sofia. "Of course, it is rather difficult to get her to answer questions when she is looking like that." Harder when she isn't. * Heinrick nods. "While I trust your judgment in these matters..." He looks at Sofia for a second. "A were, correct? And Ms. Tavares, you would not be affected if she swiped at you, yes?" No. (Er, yes. ;P) * Heinrick looks more fully at Roseli. "To which question?" (And that works even with the correction!) Won't be affected. * Heinrick nods, then turns to Keiko. "How has your approach been so far?" * Keiko is unconscious! Or she was until about halfway through that sentence, when her head snaps up off her chest and she takes in a quick breath. Don't go near the Pretzel on Saturday night. I...see. * Jamie looks at Keiko. * Heinrick then turns back to Roseli. "I may need you to make an injection." * Togo screams like a little girl and leaps into Luana's arms! ... well, okay, no he doesn't. But he twitches slightly when Keiko's head shoots up suddenly. * Roseli raises an eyebrow. "Where?" * Luana looks oddly at Keiko. "If you say so?" * Keiko puts her hand to her head and groans as she stands from the chair. "The Pretzel hotel." Hispanic-american man bought them. Bald man with a black scorpion took the viruses. Odette and the Society. * Keiko just rattles all that off fairly quickly. As if trying not to forget it. * Heinrick then glances at Keiko. "Or perhaps not." * Roseli turns and presses a button, opening the com to the room behind the mirror. "Get that, Control?" ["Got it. "] [Seconds later, she responds. "Heidi Weber reports that there are three Pretzel Hotels in Berlin."] Any hint about which one, Keiko? ( Is the one near the ocean the Salty Pretzel? ) If we had a name, we could search the hotel records for reservations. ( And yes, I know Berlin is not near the ocean. ) * Keiko then shakes her head and continues, lowly, "The Society didn't buy them... it was the Society that she wanted into. Odette said the auction would get her there..." she then finally trails off and just looks to Rose. "No. The man with the scorpion just said not to go near the Pretzel. Nothing more." * Roseli nods. * Keiko continues staring at Rose even as she continues, "I can describe the men for you." Do it. If your databases have nothing on the scorpion guy, I can hit up my sources. * Heinrick nods. "That would be helpful." ["There may not be time. Today is Saturday."] I have connections I could ask as well, but running it through the database would be first. [Present time is 3:30 p.m.] * Keiko describes people, then. We should prepare surveillance teams at all three if we cannot narrow it further though. [Keiko describes: A Hispanic-American man with greasy black hair, tied into a pony tail, and a bald man with thick eyebrows and a black scorpion tatoo on the left side of his skull. ] [Lydia responds! "Agreed. I'll leave that to you. Gabriel and Zarina are at your disposal."] Distance between the hotels in case we need backup? Jamie, search the databases for men with those descriptions. ["Too far. Ms. Weber reports taht one is in the northern section of the city, one in the central area, and one in the southwest."] * Jamie does just as she's ordered! 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-4) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 3. * Keiko stays staring at Rose for the entire time, hugging her duck to her stomach. At least until Heinrick reminds her that's impolite. * Togo nods. "I'm going to feed the description of the bald guy to some folks I know. Can't be too many guys with that particular tattoo. Be right back." Also cross-reference it with hotel reservations. Though I doubt we'll get that lucky. * Togo pulls out his cell phone and wanders off. ( Mind if I bow out? I gotta be up earlyish tomorrow. ) ( orz. ) ( Ok, guess it's too late to go through the rest of this :( ) (It is getting kind of late to actually finish the whole thing, yeah.) * Jamie looks at Rose. "They, uhm... I can't find them in our database." (Sorry about this. On the plus side, I got 4 1/2 client hours today!) I'm sorry. Not your fault. (Good for you? ;P) (Thanks!) I, ah, do you want me to look anywhere else? ( As long as you're here next week o/~ ) (I will be.) ( Yay. ) (I tried to get through it as fast as I could!) Not sure if there's a better database for this than ours. Could check HESO, but. (I had truth serum as a backup.) * Jamie blinks and waits for Rose to finish. Might get caught, and don't want to make enemies of them yet. * Heinrick smirks slightly and tilts his head down. "Yes. It's wise to know the timing and the opportunities of making one your adversary." * Keiko squeezes her duck, which rests against her stomach, as she finally turns away from Rose and heads towards the door slowly. * Jamie looks down for a moment and then up at Rose. "Okay." ~Do you want me to come with you?~ * Heinrick looks over at Keiko. "Keiko." * Togo pokes his head back in. "I've got a name." ( For the record, I'm getting right to the plot next week, so finish up your planning 'n stuff tonight. ) * Keiko looks up at Heinrick, blinks, then says slowly, "Oh. You are here." (3 guardians, 3 hotels. :D) * Keiko thinks at Luana, ~I--if I can leave.~ ( Convenient, eh? Actually four, though. Gabriel is available, too. ) Maxwell Tenner. American, worked for the Triads in Hong Kong before they got crushed. He's on Interpol's radar. * Heinrick nods slightly. "You were busy when I came in." He then looks up at her. "You did good work." He then glances at Roseli. "If we can get that name on a hotel reservation, we could narrow down the search, but it's not guarenteed." I'm gonna talk to some more people, see if I can get more on what he's been up to recently. Call me if you need me. *wanders off again* ( Aaaaaaaaand I'm out. Night all. ) (Night!) * Keiko looks at him, smiles very weakly, then heads back towards going out the door. ~I'm... my room.~ *** Signoff: Togo (Quit: "So what's he been doing since the Triads got waxed?" "Getting laughed at for the stupid tattoo, mostly.") Jamie, humor Heinrick and do a search for Maxwell Tenner and hotel reserva- Keiko? * Jamie does that. Keiko's going to her room to rest a bit, I think. I'd like to go with her. 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-4) and gets 12, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "The gods giveth, and the gods taketh away. This time, they taketh away." (...) * Heinrick nods. "I have no objections." (Sadness.) (That bodes ... poorly.) * Heinrick then smirks at Roseli. "Oh har har." ( Oh man... ) [Jamie's search for Maxwell Tenner leads her to random porn.] * Roseli eyes Heinrick. "What?" (THERE IS PORN IN MY HEAD!!) *** Signoff: Luana (Read error: Connection reset by peer) ( And about 40 viruses. ) * Heinrick waves it off. "Oh, nothing." (Did you download a virus?) Clearly not. * Jamie shakes her head at her guardian. (Fortunatly Jamie isn't Ten so there isn't much of a chance of her getting infected) (That'd actually be funny. If she got literally sick from downloading a virus.) * Roseli turns her attention back to Jamie. "No luck, then. Too much to hope for." * Jamie nods. Hm. * Keiko manages to escape the room! Score! Hope Togo's leads pan out, then. ( #room if you want. Or not if you don't. ) * Heinrick shrugs. "It was worth a try. So I suppose we split our forces evenly. There are 3 of us, which makes it convenient. The question is what to do with Gabriel and Zarina." We may not have time to follow up on the lead. *** Luana (WD@24.152.198.19.res-cmts.eph.ptd.net) has joined channel #MC4 * Roseli presses a button to contact Lydia again. "Control, can we contact Interpol on a Maxwell Tenner? Sounds like he's the one with the virus." (What the heck, internets.) [Lydia responds. "Sorry, Togo beat you to it."] I know. Was wondering if there was more info we could get directly from them. (Also, am I right in that he's the one with the virus, or is he the one with the tattoo thing? They're different dudes, right?) (There are two dudes with tattoos) ( He picked up the virus, but it was a Hispanic American who made the call. Max is white. ) * Luana leaves with Keiko. (Right.) ( There's two dudes, only 1 with a tatoo ) (Oops, I misread.) We're not picky about the *source* of the information, only the information itself. ["They're sending me a file. Unfortunately for us, it seems Mr. Tenner vanished after his Triad was wiped out."] Fun. ( Whatcha gonna do? ) (Sleep! Er, I don't know.) (Whatever I'm told to!) * Heinrick turns to Roseli. "Do we have any information on what the effects of this virus are?" ( Well, if you want to end here we can. But then next time we're starting right up at the hotel(s). ) * Roseli nods at Heinrick. "Death within twenty-four hours. Contamination through inhalation or contact." ( Don't drink it. ) * Heinrick mmms. "If we can work on getting a sample, I would try to make a vaccine. It would be tricky to create that quickly though...I would need a portable kit." He looks up from his thoughts. "I would suggest putting Zarina and Gabriel with the ones who are the least battle ready. If we could split them and have two three-person teams and a two-person team, that would be ideal until we know which hotel it is being released in." ( Hoary wurdz ) (They're my last words of wisdom.) (Unless someone else says something to talk off of.) Talk to Control about that. Might be able to get some; we confiscated the containers left. (I got nothing I am nothing!) (Bedtime guys, goodnight.) * Heinrick looks at Roseli. "We have some here then? I was not aware." (Night!) (G'night) *** Signoff: Luana (Quit: Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com) * Roseli shrugs. "Don't know, but they analyzed something." ( You guys are still somewhat injured/tired from the auction, by the way. ) Don't know where they put it. ( Some of you, anyhow ) * Heinrick nods. "I shall see if I can make enough for each team in time. Best to be spread out. If I'm not at the hotel in which the virus is being released, it could be tricky..." I'll get to work on that right away. Contact me if you have any further ideas. Will do. * Heinrick heads out. For great vaccinations! (And do I get the sample and what should I roll for that Brett, just to take care of it now?) ( Heinrick does! Annnd... Chemistry roll. Let me know how much you make it by. ) (Chem or Poisons?) ( Chem ) (K) Come on, Jamie. I'll get you some hot chocolate. 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8-5) and gets a natural 4 for a result of -1. * Roseli heads on off to kill time while waiting for the file to come in. (Made by, uh, 12.) (Now that's what I call a roll!) (And Gadgeteer = 8x speed) * Jamie stands up immidiatly. (o/~) (Okay, I'm about done. ^^) [Heinrick spends the rest of the time working of vaccines, and manages to make 4 vials.] ( Vaccines being protection from getting the virus, not a cure for it. ) ( So you get to decide who to innoculate! ) [Otherwise, session End!]