[Day: Saturday, Feb. 22nd. Time: 9:30 p.m.] [Earlier, Togo and Luana saved the world while the rest of you sat around and did nothing.] (Coo'. *sips a fruity drink*) (I was in the VAN!) [However, their victory was somewhat diminished by the fact that 20 minutes later terrorists set off the virus in a Pretzel branch down in Munich. Or so Lydia told you when you got back. It's a smaller hotel, but still a good 100 people are now infected with the virus.] (...) ( There's a tvTrope for this, but I can't remember the name ) (BS?) ('You got fuxed?') ( It's called "GM causes catastrophy so there's a plot for tonight." ) [But I'm not done yet!] ( Just as soon as I figure out my timeline. ) [No sooner do you get in than Lydia orders a debriefing. That seems like a good enough place to start.] [So, start!] (I can't be debriefed when I didn't do nothing!) ( Also, Luana isn't here. orz. ) (Me neither. o_o) ( It's not really a debriefing, because this isn't over yet. ) (Not really me either. ^^;) * Keiko is just her good old fashioned self, either way, duck in hand, eyes not quite on anyone. * Jamie sits with her hands in her lap, looking forward but not at anything in particular. * Roseli walks in, looking displeased. Well, displeased for her. She doesn't sit down, instead pacing a bit while the others enter. * Heinrick is sitting down, unlike Roseli, but like Roseli, also does not look pleased. Sadly, he does not look much of anything. ( this is the same night? ) ( Yep ) [Lydia's looking at papers. "There were 445 people at the Northern Pretzel hotel, including children. There were also 522 at the central branch and 379 at the southeastern branch, most of the latter college students. The Munich branch had 146 patrons at the time of the attack." She looks up from the papers. "Not exactly a success, but it could have been much worse."] ( That get through? ) (Yes) ( Yes ) * Togo is sitting there, looking about as bad as he did earlier in the night (what with the somewhat healed grenade wounds), plus a new cut on his arm from the last fight. * Roseli is hardly mollified. "What about the ones infected?" she asks as she paces. "Quarantine?" * Heinrick isn't the talkative one for once. In fact, he doesn't respond at all. Roseli's taken over the talky role! The world is coming to an end! [Lydia nods. "Section one has the entire hotel under quarentine. Fortunately, the attack was late enough at night that it hasn't goeen out to the media yet."] * Keiko looks down at her duck a moment, before rubbing her stomach. I thought they only had enough to hit one hotel. Or were we just hoping they wouldn't split their resources? ( Also, I know I logged the last session, so why can't I find it? >.< ) (The last session is up on webspace.) ( AHA! This would be a Shaggy Dog Story. ) [Lydia shakes her head. "They had eight canisters. They could have hit all the hotels and still had room to spare. As it is, there are six more of these canisters out there."] * Heinrick looks at the table, not looking at Togo but obviously responding to him. "I see two possibilities. Although I would not be opposed it someone else has a third opinion." (Togo retrieved a canister, yes?) ( Ya ) * Heinrick looks up. "Has the canister Togo received been analyzed yet?" ( The sub log isn't on the web space, and that's the important one. ) (Ah. Can't help you there.) ["No. And of course, the captive is still unconscious. You need to interrogate him as soon as-" She's interrupted as the holophone rings.] ( WD said she logged it. I hope so, because I can't find it. ) * Heinrick quiets again. Analysis unstated. ( Ah, here it is. Ugly log though. ) [Lydia hits a button, and a middle-aged woman appears. "Blitzkrieg Section 2? Please hold for the Chancellor."] ( As soon as the GM can pull up his description, that is ) If I'd known we were expecting him, I'd have put on my nice shrapnal wounds. * Keiko stays not looking at the screen. She even lowers her head to the table and puts her duck in front of her. Talk to the duck. * Jamie doesn't look at the phone, she just waits. * Roseli stops and eyes, arms still folded. [There we go! In the haziness that is holographic technology, Wolfgang Bauer appears! In case you forgot, he's an older man, but still has a head of thick hair, albeit white. It's combed back. He's wearing a nice suit.] [Lydia speaks first. "Chancellor Bauer. I'm Lydia Sohn, and this is-" but he cuts her off! "I know who you are. What I don't know is whether or not you're on your way to capture the terrorist who attacked the hotel in Munich. Tell me you have something!"] [Lydia nods. "We have a canister containing the virus, and the man who was going to deliver it. We should be able to get something from him after the interrogation."] [He scowls. "I hope that's a lightning fast interrogation. He just called me."] [Lydia blinks. "The terrorist?"] [And Bauer nods. "Starting with his demands already. I despise giving into people like this, Sohn. I want this man found and brought to justice."] [Lydia narrows her eyes. "Chancellor, if you're calling to check on wether or not we're doing our jobs-"] [He shakes his head. "That's not why I'm calling. It's his demands. He wants two of your agents."] * Roseli unwraps a stick of gum and pops it into her mouth. * Jamie is the goggles. * Heinrick raises an eyebrow at that, but that's his only reaction. Let the higher ups do the talking to the higher ups. (Or would that be higher higher ups?) [Lydia glances back at you, then at the chancellor. She raises an eyebrow, and he elaborates. "Specifically, a Heinrick Engels and a Keiko Hanano."] ( Wow, with the list of people that hate me, I coulda sworn it'd be me! ) * Jamie glances at Keiko for a moment. [Lydia glances back again. Then back to the chancellor. "Did he give any indication why?"] * Keiko peeks around the duck just slightly for a moment. * Heinrick coughs at Lydia's glance and glances at Keiko. There's a lot of glancing going on here! (Totally not my fault! I don't know who this is!) (That is so much bullshit. ;P) (I totally don't.) (Brownie's honor.) (Know as in 100%, probably not.) [He shakes his head. "No. He said he wanted them alone at a location in the forest north of the city. If they're not there in an hour, he sids he'll release more gas." He frowns. "And this time, he claims it won't be in an area easily contained like a hotel."] (Have a possible speculation? Don't know.) ["And there's more," he continues. "He says he doesn't want Jamie Peterson to be within two kilometers of the location, or he'll release the virus."] * Jamie looks at the holophone now. * Keiko frowns at that, thinking at Jamie, ~Far enough you can't reach?~ [Lydia frowns. "You're not thinking of going along with this, are you, sir?"] * Jamie nods. ~How does he know my name? I haven't had that name for more than a month.~ [He throws up his hands. "What choice do I have?"] Person has awfully specific knowledge of us. Who'd know full names? * Keiko licks her lips, then, ~Recent... that might help them.~ * Heinrick turns and gives Togo a Look. It definitely earns the capital letter. * Togo is blind, but gets the gist. [Lydia folds her arms. "Sir, even if you comply with his demands, it won't stop there. If you give in, you'll be showing him he can exert control over the government."] * Keiko speaks up and asks, from behind her duck, "Did they say anything else about us?" (DUCK TALKS TO YOU) [Bauer shakes his head. "No. I'm not complying. I'm buying time. Time for you to do your job and find this man."] [Wolfgang glances at Keiko, then Lydia, who nods. "No, he didn't tell me anything more than that."] * Keiko doesn't ask anything else! [The chancellor turns back to Lydia. "If any more of this virus is released, it could devestate the population. I want those agents at the location by the specified time. And I want you to find this man and bring him down, whatever it takes."] [He hangs up!] * Heinrick sighs after the holophone is turned off. "Well. At least that all but confirms my second suspicion." Which is? [Lydia turns around. She doesn't look happy.] We have a leak. You needed confirmation for that? * Keiko sits up and looks to Heinrick, before saying, "Recent, too." Not really. * Keiko looks down to the duck and adds, in a tense voice, "Beyond the stories." * Roseli nods. It was fairly apparent from the hotel attacks. They did not end up hitting any that we were guarding. Or at least those were not their main targets. ( Yeah they did. ) ( They hit Togo's ) * Heinrick stands slowly and looks at Keiko. "The real question is whether they want you or me." (Ah. Alright.) * Keiko doesn't look at Heinrick as she replies quietly, "Couldn't say." ( They had a canister and an underdressed woman with a knife. How much more main can you get? =P ) [Lydia scowls. "Let's not give them the chance to find out. We've got an unconscious man in holding. Interrogate him at once."] (An underdressed woman with a knife? Damn. Missed out.) * Heinrick nods and gestures to Keiko with his head slightly. "Ms. Hanano. If you will." He heads out. * Roseli nods and turns, leaving. Time to kick his ass. I mean, interrogate him. * Togo nods, and heads out. ( There will be more, don't you worry. ) (She may have two knives this time! And less clothes.) * Jamie watches Rose go, not having recieved any orders. * Keiko looks up at Heinrick before standing and following, putting her duck at her stomach and clutching it tight. (ROSE PUNCHES JAMIE) [Spinning MC4 logo! And you walk into the cell, where the man is strapped to the bed. Dr. Pasche is there too! He's setting up equipment to run tests on the guy.] ( Is the guy awake? ) (JAMIE TAKES IT AND IS HURT ;_; and then stubs her toe and heals to full.) ( He's not! ) * Heinrick inspects the situation first. What sort of tests? ( blood, DNA, other profiling stuff. ) I'm assuming we're not going gentle on this guy? ( Pretty standard procedure. ) [Dr. Pasche looks up. "Don't mind me. I'm not squeemish."] * Roseli looks at Togo. "What's gentle? On a time limit." She pulls out her gun and checks its contents. * Heinrick takes out his little needle and gives it a little test squeeze. "Undoubtedly not. It is only a question of method." That your serum? * Heinrick gives a nod to Roseli. "Well, I did not get a chance to use it in the last interrogation. It would be a shame to waste." ( I should note that you actually have less than an hour. Travel time and all. ) Right then. So much for the year. *shakes head* Get that into him, and I'll wake him up. * Roseli nods. "Use it." * Heinrick holds down his arm with his left hand, just in case he tries to jolt it, and injects the truth serum. [He doesn't evade!] * Keiko lets Heinrick do his work, petting her duck slowly as she watches, idly establishing basic wakeful telepathic/empathic contact. * Jamie has gotten over the shock of being called out and is back to waiting. Keiko, if you're in his head, this is not gonna be a pleasant wake-up... *pulls out a teapot with steam coming out of the spout* [Dr. Pasche finishes setting up and injects his own needle, drawing out some blood.] ... A hot teapot. Well now. This is *interesting.* * Keiko grimaces just slightly, before saying, "I can take it. But they're solid cold anyway." ( One wouldn't think that would be pleasant to carry around, either. ) * Togo pours the boiling water on the guy's right leg. ( Gloves ftw. ) (This either makes Togo a badass or incredibly stupid. :D) (Or gloves. Curse you hand protectors!) [He wakes up screaming, all right.] * Heinrick gives a faint smirk as the man wakes up and asks in a "soothing" voice. "How are you feeling?" * Togo scowls, and puts away the teapot. "We have his attention, I believe." * Jamie winces and moves away from the screamer. [He says nothing. Just screams.] * Roseli puts a hand on Jamie's shoulder. * Heinrick nods, as if in response to the question. "That well, eh? I'll wait." ( You sure you wanna wait that long? :O ) (I'm going on the hope that he doesn't scream for a solid hour.) ( Less than an hour! ) ( More like half an hour, really. ) (If he does, his throat would be too ruined to tell us anything anyway.) (Wow. We're incredibly slow walkers.) * Roseli waits for a few minutes, then asks Keiko, "Can you make him stop?" ( I told you, there's travel time involved. ) ( You have to be at the location in an hour, meaning you have to leave before then. ) ( And since it's out of the city, I'ma say it takes a half hour to get there. ) * Keiko moves in front of Jamie, and then when Rose asks she frowns and says, "I can try." She glances to Heinrick. Speak now, hold peace, blah blah blah. (Right. I was under the impression you were saying *be* there in half an hour, not we've got to take off within half an hour.) * Heinrick nods to Keiko. "We don't have time otherwise." [Anyway, he does stop screaming eventually, but he doesn't say anything.] (MC rolls sux.) * Keiko frowns at him and says, in the best commanding voice she can (Backed by a mind control attempt), "Talk. Or... you'll get more tea." (TEA IS HORRIBLE!) 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-4) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 1. (Make by 9.) [Dr. Pasche supplies: "Won't work. He's been genetically modified."] (I'll try anyway!) * Heinrick starts pacing around the man. "Well now. We could at least be courteous here, yes? You tell me your name?" [And sure enough, he doesn't speak.] * Keiko glares at him a moment, then shrugs and says quietly, "Nothing." [Dr. Pasche leans in towards the screen of his machine. "Jesus. Not just modified. His brain's almost been rewritten."] * Heinrick sighs. "That's a shame." He looks at Pasche. "How so?" [He swivels around on his swivil chair. "His neural pathways have been overwrited, and his synapses... Put it simply, he's been reprogrammed. The technology does exist, but it's hard to come by and highly illegal."] * Keiko hugs her stomach and closes her eyes, still silent. Reprogrammed does not tell me much. Would he even recall anything? * Roseli nods at Heinrick's question. ["It's in there, sure. But getting it out is going to be hard. For instance, he's got powerful mental barriers." He looks at Keiko. "Someone didn't want you poking around in there."] But he can talk. * Keiko doesn't even look at Pasche. * Heinrick turns back to the subject. "He just chooses not to. Is that right?" ["Not exactly. He's been... How can I put this? He has strong urges not to talk about certain subjects. Very strong. I wouldn't say it's impossible to get him to talk, but it won't be easy."] * Roseli checks the time. ("He's under control of GM fiat" then.) [9:50. Heinrick and Keiko are supposed to be at the location by 10:40.] ... dammit. Heinrick, hold one of his hands out. * Keiko thinks into Togo's head, ~Earmuffs.~ * Togo looks over at Keiko, and thinks back. ~Earmuffs?~ * Heinrick gives Togo a curious look. "Very well?" He takes the hand and holds it out. He's not going to have an easy time resisting it either. [Dr. Pasche looks through the data some more.] ~Earmuffs. Earplugs. Give.~ ~Ah.~ * Togo pulls out two pairs of large earmuffs, and hands them to Keiko and Jaime. "Turn around." ( I should probably have stepped up the time a little :X ) * Keiko looks at Togo with a strange look, then sighs a little and just puts hers on her duck. * Jamie blinks and accepts them. * Keiko thinks at Jamie, ~You're welcome.~ * Jamie looks at them in her hands for a moment, glances at Rose, and Keiko and then puts them on. ~Ah...~ [Dr. Pasche speaks! "I can reverse engineer his modifications, but it'll take time."] How long? * Togo looks confused for a moment, then turns back to the man, pulling a largish pair of pruning shears out of his coat. He holds them up in front of the man's face. "I'm going to ask you who you work for and where the virus canisters are. Every time you don't answer, you lose a finger. After that, you lose toes. After that... you really want to talk before that." ["Eight... Maybe six hours if we rush. It'll be detrimental to his health, though."] ( Gimme an intimidation check, Togo ) Not enough time. ( Huh, I never got levels of intimidation. How'd that happen? ) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 8. ( What's it against? ) (U SUX) (Hell, even I have intimidation. Not that I EVER GET TO ROLL IT.) (...FFS _I_ have a level of itimidation.) [Hans sighs. "I'm sorry. The process simply can't go any faster than that. The normal process takes even longer, as you know."] (Wow, no intimidation? How about interrogation?) ( I completely forgot it when porting over Togo's charsheet. ) ( Hmm, good question. ) * Roseli nods. "Reverse it after we're done." (Intimidation can be any stat.) (By the book.) (So can interrogation, can't it?) ( I have CP I could use, but it's too late. And if it's a body roll, I make. ) ( I think it's meant to be situational, not pick and choose. ) (Right.) (Yeah, so you pick and choose, Brett. ;P) ( I know. That's why I said IF. =P ) ( For this one, I'm thinking soul. ) ( So no. ) ( And interrogation rolls start when you actually DO the stuff :P ) [He shakes his head at Togo, then looks the other way.] ( I'll fix that oversight after the session. ) ( K ) * Togo takes a deep breath, puts the shears around one of the guy's fingers, and closes it hard. [He screams like you wouldn't believe!] * Heinrick takes a breath. "Now, we don't *have* to do this the hard way. But the difficulty is in that you're not talking." * Roseli walks over to get a better look at the guy, then at the fingers. "There goes one." She turns her attention back to him. * Jamie still winces through the earmuffs. Stop screaming if you don't want to lose another. [He quiets down to a whimper.] * Keiko just doesn't move. Good man. Who sent you? * Heinrick nods to the man and gives him a cold stare. "Good start. Now if you're willing to share who you are working for." ( Outta curiousity, how many points/level are intim/interrogation? ) [Dr. Pasche frowns. "Hey... This man doesn't deserve to be treated like this."] (4 for each.) [He bites his lip to keep from screaming, but doesn't talk.] * Roseli looks at Pasche. "Thousands of people don't need to die. Pick your poison." And then she glares at the man. "Talk. Or you lose another finger." * Heinrick nods to Dr. Pasche. "Terribly so. Our friend Togo is just a little too rapid for me." ["In all likelyhood, he probably wasn't a willing participant in what was done to him."] (Does Pasche have an open First Aid Kit?) ( Rose, gimme an intimidation check! ) [He's getting one open now!] (Intimidation or interrogation? The first:) 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8-2) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 4. (I made by three.) ( I think interrogation at this point. ) (Interrogation:) 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8-4) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 3. (I made by more!) (Hooray)! [He talks! "Don't hurt me!"] Well. Now that we're here? Who do you work for? [Time: 10:00 p.m.] [He shakes his head. "D-don't hurt me."] * Heinrick sighs and lets go of his hand. "We're wasting time. Togo. Ms. Tavares. Inform me of any updates over the headphones. Keiko? We're heading out." * Roseli nods once, then waves for Togo to move to the next finger. She leans closer to the man. "Who do you work for?" * Keiko nods slightly and turns to leave the room, letting the tortures have their party. * Togo nods slowly, and puts the shears around the next finger. [He shakes his head rapidly, his eyes squinted, tears running down his face. "I... I... Please don't hurt me!"] (Bandage his fingers before he bleeds out!) * Togo grits his teeth, and closes the shears. [Dr. Pasche is on it. He also puts the finger on ice.] (Aw, Togo's so cute, gritting his teeth like that.) (You'd think he didn't like it.) [He screams! For a little bit. Then he passes out.] (It makes him so adorable. Pass me the clamps.) (Rose doesn't like it.) ( Keiko and Heinrick, into #MC4more ) (Only because he's not talking.) (Bastards not talking.) ( Togo actually genuinely doesn't like it, actually. ) * Roseli frowns. "Don't have *time* for this," she snaps. [Hans puts the other finger on ice. "If you're finished, I have to get this man into surgery."] * Jamie ,still in earmuffs, looks at Hans. * Togo slams the shears against the far wall, and turns back to the doctor. "Do it." [He nods, picks up the kit, and wheels the bed out of the room.] * Togo stalks out of the room, closing the door behind him. Loud, prolonged cursing in English follows. ( Togo, into #MC4more ) ( Uhhh... Someone do something? >.> ) * Roseli punches the wall out of frustration, then turns to Jamie. She waves for the girl to remove her earmuffs. * Jamie silently takes them off. (What, it's just me and Jamie here. ;P I was trying to figure out what was in the room, if anything, just for visual whatsit.) Sorry about the screaming. * Jamie nods slightly. ( Oh. Just a typical cell. Hans' machine is still there. ) * Roseli turns and stalks over to a speaker, pressing the button to Lydia. "Control, this is Tavares. No information from the prisoner. He's going to surgery." [You can hear Lydia curse on the other line. "We're out of time, then."] Yeah. Orders? ["We've got no choice but to give Heinrick and Keiko up. And thanks to the leak, we can assume that they'll know if Jamie is, in fact, in the area."] No ideas who the leak is? ["No." She pauses. "We have the canister, but I doubt you'll get much from that. You could try talking to Hernandez again, but she probably doesn't have any additional information, either. Our only known lead is that man."] Pasche said he'll reverse engineer the genmods in six to eight hours, so if we can hold out until then... [Lydia responds, "They must want Heinrick and Keiko for a reason. I can't imagine they would harm them."] (Lydia, if you had to spend 10 minutes with Keiko, you'd want to harm her!) (Ten wants to say something here and she's dead. ;_;) If by "harm" you mean "kill", maybe not. Did Heinrick leave behind instructions on how to make the vaccine? ( Good question. Did he? ) (Not as fast as he made it. :D) (But he wouldn't leave explicit instructions, per se, but he would tell another of the available, competent staff.) ( Then... ) ["Yes, he did."] Good. Orders are to wait, then? (As Rose makes the assumption that they're working on more vaccines. ^^) ["You can try to get more information, or you can get some rest. There's no telling when you'll get another chance."] Understood. Will also let Heinrick know about the situation. [She doesn't hang up, because it's a speaker. But she doesn't say anything either.] * Roseli gets off the speaker thing and heads out of the cell, speaking over the comm. "Heinrick, come in." * Jamie follows Rose this time. "Heinrick here. Yes?" Prisoner wouldn't talk. In surgery now. ( Jesse is going to sleep, Togo's going to remind himself that he's not an all-black wearing whiny bastard. =P ) ( Night folks ) "Well the latter part we were here for. But that's...disappointing." Hm. * Togo has quit IRC (Quit: ) Standing orders from control is to give you up. And wait. (I've always wanted to be given up!) ( Blame communism. ) (I do, every day.) * Heinrick has a trace of amusement in his voice. "Well, at least one mystery will be solved." * Roseli keeps wandering the halls. "Glad to deliver. On your way then?" "Yes. Keep me posted though." Will do. Good luck. Might be hours before we get anything. * Roseli turns to Jamie. "Are you tired?" she asks. * Jamie shakes her head. Let me know when you are. * Jamie nods.