[Either way! Keiko is in a Jungle. It's night, but it's easy to see, since there's a big fire. There's also a lot of screams and gunfire.] * Keiko wrinkles her nose and looks around, before making her normally blue dress black. It makes her blend in better. She heads towards her quarry, to engage her in mental combat. Probably towards the fire! [Keiko pushes her way through the bushes, towards where the firing is. She sees a soldier firing a machine gun almost frantically. It doesn't do him much good, though, as a bleeding werewolf pounces on him, tearing at his throat. He screams and thrashes uselessly.] [All around, Keiko sees similar scenes. Some ten or so soldiers trying to fight werewolves. They're not winning.] * Keiko frowns as she tries to look for Sofia, and ignore the dream-warfare. There's only one fight she wants. [Keiko spots someone familiar. But it's not Sofia. It's Roseli! She's screaming something into a radio in a language Keiko doesn't understand, which some more troops cover her. Or try to.] [She also looks a few years younger.] * Keiko blinks over at Rose, and then floats over to her to pay attention to this part of the dream. Sofia will show up eventually... maybe. [Sure enough, Keiko deos spot Sofia. She kicks a werewolf to the ground, stomps on its chest, and fires an M9 into it's skull. Somehow, this kills it. Her gaze shifts at Keiko. "You don't belong here."] * Keiko looks back at Sofia as a shield shimmers into place around her. "We have to talk. There's a plague you're going to cause. I need to know who you sold the virus to." [Sofia steps towards Keiko. The carnage around the two slows down. She glances at Keiko. "Is that the baby-killer's plan? Send you into my head to make me tell you?"] * Keiko looks slightly confused. "Baby-killer?" I'm here for my needs. I need to know. [Sofia pauses. Then chuckles. "You don't know?" Then she laughs aloud. "You really don't know! About her!" Sofia gestures at Roseli.] * Keiko shakes her head. "No, I don't." A weak smile. "She doesn't talk about herself." [She laughs again. "Crazy bitch killed her own son. He was what, two years old? She murdered him with a knife and ran. Left evidence everywhere. Let me tell you, the media had a field day with that."] * Keiko blanches and puts both her hands to her own stomach a long moment. She says quietly, "How... how can you be sure?" ["Please. It would have to be one hell of an elaborate setup to be wrong. Her marriage was already a wreck. Her husband admitted they were talking about divorce in the papers. And then Nuria mysteriously vanishes, shows up working for some organization in Berlin?"] * Keiko frowns a bit, then says, cutting to a point, "The papers? The media? Nuria? Who... was she, that anyone cared?" [She rests the M9 on her shoulder. Werewolves ignore her. "You were right about one thing, you really don't know her. She and I were in the same unit in the army, until..." she gestures around her. "Guess you could say we were comrades, but hardly friends."] ["She didn't turn into a werewolf after this attack, so they sent her to some other unit. Didn't hear about her again until the infanticide."] * Keiko nods slowly, still looking a bit unwell. ["Can't say I have much love for her, after she ruined my plan to get rich and shot me in the head twice."] * Keiko nods slowly, then says, quietly, "I've known worse." Beat. "But we're not here for me. I need to know where the virus is." [She grins. "I have to wonder, though, what her husband would do if he knew where she was."] * Keiko frowns and adds, "Maybe I'll find out if you ever tell me who she was. But the virus." ["Oh, right. That." SOfia takes a few steps to the left. "Here's what I want: An official pardon by the Chancellor for any crimes I might have committed in Germany, and safe passage to a country of my choosing. You get me that, I'll tell you what I know."] [Sofia looks at Keiko. "And I don't know what you're talking about. You're standing right next to her."] * Keiko frowns more and says, "You're the only one who's real. Tell me what you know now. I don't get to make deals." ["Then you better get someone who can."] * Keiko shakes her head slightly, then makes a silver scalpel in her hand and jumps forward at Sofia, attempting to cut her. Metaphorically. (Soul/Mind average, I don't think anything modifies that I've got.) (Defending with Soul/Mind average-2. If we're actually doing the mind combat thing.) ( Yeah, I'm just looking up the rules. ) (p71.) (Lemme know if I get to roll or what.) ( Go ahead ) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 13. (Bzzt!) [Sofia tosses aside her M9 and instantly transforms into a werewolf. She snarls. "Bring it on, bitch!" And leaps at Keiko, forcing aside the knife with her hand as her jaws go for Keiko's throat!] 2d8-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-1) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 7. (That's a make on my defense.) [Keiko doesn't get eaten!] * Keiko floats aside, like a breeze, and then brings her scalpel up into her stomach to cut straight through, if she can. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 3. (Make.) [Keiko cuts into Sofia's stomach! She snarls, slashing at Keiko with a paw.] 2d8-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-1) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 8. (Make.) [Keiko doesn't get hit! Again ] * Keiko flips over Sofia's head, floating through the air, her black dress clinging in a completely unrealistic fashion. And then she slashes at her back, a thin, cruel smile starting to come over her face. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 9. (Darn. Bare miss.) [Keiko's knife is deflected by the M9 that Sofia suddenly has in her hands again, though she never picked one up. She unleashes a volley of bullets.] ( She rollin' good, too >.> ) 2d8-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-1) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 8. (Make.) [Keiko bullet dodges!] ( It's actually not SO bad a roll she needs, so... works out. ) (Nod. The issue is that I have 10 mind armor. ^_~) * Keiko actually flips back through the air, twisting around all the bullets. She floats in the air a moment, and then dives straight for her, scalpel out. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. (Bzzt!) [As Keiko dives for Sofia, she hops to one side and reaches for her!] 2d8-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-1) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 9. (Hit.) (I don't know if she can do enough damage to actually _hurt_ Keiko, but hit!) ( Christ, she can't. ) (You see why we always say Mind Shield is insane? ^^;) (One level of mind shield makes anyone who isn't a dedicated mind combatant (Keiko) nothing.) (Anyway.) ( Might as well just ff through this. ) * Keiko gets grabbed, but slips from her grip and slashes. It's going to be a long fight in the jungle. (FF is fine with me!) ( Roll me a.... 2d9 ) 2d9 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d9) and gets a natural 12 for a result of 12. [Keiko breaks through after what seems like forever.] ( Whatcha gonna look for? ) * Keiko finally shatters her defenses, and then morphs the dream into nothingness as she says lowly, "Now. Show me who you sold it to. Show me all of it." Her hair's a bit disheveled, but she isn't even hurt. (Well, I'm going to get the questions I came here for answered. And then I'm going to look up/verify the Rose stuff in her mind, because Keiko's a secretmonger.) (And then I'll make her forget about the actual mind combat, and off I'll go.) (If I can, anyway.) [Keiko gets some images! Sofia borke out of a military laboratory in South America and somehow made her way to Germany, where she was contacted by, of all people, Odette Lycus. She and Odette and some other, non-descrip. guys then went back to South America and attacked the installation, killing a bunch of soldiers and capturing a bunch of goods.] [It was actually Odette who told her to run the auction in order to be inducted into "the Society". Sofia doesn't know who's a member or where they're based, though. Aside from Odette.] [Prior to the auction, however, she was contacted by holophone by a Hispanic American man, who asked for the virus. He promised to pay well, and Odette told her to sell it to him instead of auctioning it.] (Any name info about him? Or am I just gonna have to describe him to people?) ( Just gonna have to describe him. ) (Okay.) [It was a bald man who picked up the viruses, however. When Sofia asked about what he was going to do with them, he wouldn't tell her, but he did warn her not to go near the Pretzel hotel on Saturday night, unless she wanted to die.] [The bald man had a tatoo on the left side of his skull, that looks like a black scorpion.] (That's good info!) [As for Roseli, Keiko does see a newspaper that has Roseli's picture in it, but she can't understand the language it's written in.] (Ha!) (Damn you, Portugese!) (Damn youuuuuu.) (I could try to twink it, but that's too funny.) ((Since technically Telepathy 6 means I could steal the language.)) (That it, then?) ( Yep. ) ( Unless there's something else you wanted to do. ) (Well, I'll make her well disposed to me as well, I suppose, along with forgetting the mind combat. But no, nothing more to get info-wise that I can think of.) ( K)