* Keiko walks! Possibly with Heinrick! Her duck's still totally got the earmuffs. [You head out of the interrogation room. On the way, you run into Heidi Weber. "Uh, hello. I was just coming to look for you."] * Heinrick almost bumps into Heidi and then glances at her. "Oh?" He stops walking for a brief second. [She nods, holding out her hand. There's a pair of wristwatches in them. "Tracking devices."] * Keiko looks at them with distaste. ["There's also... Dr. Siebert wants to shoot a tracking isotope into you directly."] * Keiko draws in on herself a little at that, but Heinrick's in charge! * Heinrick looks at her for a moment then responds steadily. "Into me." ["We expect them to find the watches," Heidi explains. "They'll no doubt be looking for them. They're decoys. The real tracker would be the isotope."] [Dr. Hans Pasche passes by, wheeling the bed with the defingered guy in it. Heidi blanches.] * Togo has joined #MC4more * Keiko isn't changing her physical posture, and doesn't look over at Mr. Fingers. ( Am I going with? ) ( You can if you want to! But they're in the hall. ) (No, but we're stopped out in the hallway talking to Heidi.) ( And since you went that way... ) * Heinrick is looking expectantly at Heidi. Since she hasn't directed them to anywhere to do anything or anything. * Togo is still cursing as he comes up behind you folks, but gradually winds down and deflates. "Am I coming as backup?" He did say to come alone. Also, Togo...easy methods first. * Keiko floats her watch over to herself and it wraps itself around her arm, at the edge of her dress' sleeve. * Heinrick takes the watch as he says so, because his player can't read. [You get: Watch] (Heidi should probably lead to Seibert, at least for HEinrick.) ( We could FF! ) ( Soon as I know what Togo's doing. ) [In the meantime, Heidi leads you to the medical hall.] * Heinrick goes to get injected. [In the medical hall is Dr. Albrand Siebert, all set with a needle. Karin is there, too, her hands heavily bandaged. She doesn't wave, for obvious reasons, but she does say, "I heard about what's happening. Is there anything I can do?"] * Keiko is also there! She's idly petting her duck, but going nowhere near that needle. * Togo shakes his head. "I feel like fucking shit doing it, especially to that guy, but if it's gonna be done, you don't fuck around." Not unless you can suddenly appear with more information? Or have someone who can escape all detection whatsoever. ( Oh yeah, since Hans passed you, he's also there, with the guy. He's in the other room though, so he can't hear you, but you can see him through a glass window.] ) ... god I need a fucking pint. [Dr. Siebert nods. "I agree, you should do whatever it takes." He turns to Heinrick. "Hold out your arm."] * Keiko comments in a flat tone, "I hear you can buy alcohol with money." * Heinrick holds it out. You'd think he'd been injected with other stuff before or something. * Togo tilts his head at Keiko, then shrugs and slumps back against the wall. "Tracking device or something?" [Dr. Siebert injects Heinrick! He then turns to Keiko.] [Meanwhile Karin says, "I can fly, you know. Maybe I can follow you from the air?"] [Heidi shakes her head. "It's a heavily forrested area. That's why we can't track them on sattelite. You wouldn't be able to see them, especially not at night."] * Heinrick looks at Dr. Siebert. "Is it truly necessary for both of us?" [Dr. Siebert nods. "What if you get seperated?"] * Keiko sucks in a slow breath, idly doing a surface mental telepathy on Siebert. * Keiko sighs a little and holds the duck tight with her right arm, while sticking out her left for the stupid drug. * Heinrick glances at Keiko, then shrugs slightly to Siebert. "Kids these days. Can't tell them *what* to do...." * Keiko 's sleeves are all the way down, though, so. [Siebert injects Keiko. "The isotope will last about three days before breaking down. It should give us plenty of time to find you."] * Keiko pulls her arms back in to hug the duck, before handing Togo back his earmuffs. "They were only for Jamie anyway," she murmurs. ( And we can FF when you're ready. ) * Togo takes them back. "Not in my head they weren't." ( FF away ) ( Or not, as Roseli starts communicating over speaker. ) (Should I FF considering...yeah.) (Well, we can at least get moving!) ( Yep ) * Heinrick nods and starts out, then switches on his communicator. "Heinrick here. Yes?" * Keiko smiles weakly at him, then thinks, ~None of us are... innocent, Togo. But it is nice you tried.~ * Keiko then follows Heinrick away! * Togo shrugs. "Hat don't stay white on it's own." * Togo heads off to get in some quality self-loathing until he's needed! * Heinrick responds! "Well the latter part we were here for. But that's...disappointing." * Togo has quit IRC (Quit: ) * Heinrick looks faintly amused as he replies. "Well. At least one mystery will be solved." * Heinrick finishes off with, "Yes. Keep me posted though." * Heinrick then looks at Keiko as he walks. "So you truthfully have no idea of what this is about?" ( Can FF when you're ready ) (FF is fine, though player is getting tired.) * Keiko looks over at him a moment, then says quietly, but flatly, "I... really wish I did," as she pets her duck. ( I wanna do a bit more so the other guys have something to do next time. ) (Heh.) * Heinrick nods. "As do I." He smirks slightly. "It could be for either of us, really..." * Keiko replies to Heinrick with, "And I don't know who'd want you, so... how can I know?" and THEN zoop! [Soooooo. Zoop! Time: 10:40 p.m.] [You took out a car and made your way to the location, clearing in a hilly, forested area. It's not long before you see a pair of headlights heading towards you.] * Heinrick has his hands in his pockets and is staring right at the headlights. It's a wonder he doesn't go totally blind. (We're out of the car, then?) ( You can be! ) (I'm talking at H.) (I am! You can be if you want!) (You're the stupid guardian!) (No. I'm the smart guardian.) (Who's getting railroadedish, but still!) * Keiko is still in the car, then. Drivers side, because it's mnre fun to be in the drivers' side. ( You can still run! ) (Believe it or not, Heinrick's not *that* heartless. Anymore at least!) (Just be ready to slide across the hood of the car!) (I'll hit the horn playing Dixie, and we can go.) [The vehicle, a van, pulls up, and the side door opens, revealing three guys. They're all carrying semi-auto rifles. And they're wearing tinfoil hats. One of them speaks. "Out of the car, hands where I can see 'em."] (Freaking hats.) * Keiko frowns and steps out of the car slowly, letting her TK pull the keys out and shove them under a floor mat. Her hands go up, but one's got a duck in it! * Heinrick raises an eyebrow and then comments. "Fashion, apparently, is not your strong suit.." [One of them steps out and approaches. "Better that than to have our minds read." As he nears, you get a better look at his profile. It's Maxwell Tenner. He pulls two pairs of handcuffs from his jacket and tosses them at Heinrick. "Cuff yourselves."] * Keiko replies, "I can't cuff myself, or else I won't be able to hold my duck." * Heinrick raises an eyebrow, glances at Keiko for a moment as if they're crazy, but takes a pair of cuffs, looking them over for a second. ["You'll have to deal."] * Heinrick gives a look at the goons for a moment. "Everything by the book it seems." He appears cooperative enough. * Keiko doesn't have a pair of handcuffs, and she's definitely not handcuffing herself. She moves her hands out in front of her so that they could be handcuffed, but she keeps her duck in hand either way. * Heinrick cuffs himself, then glances at Keiko. "Well. Apparently one of you will have to come over here for that now..." [Max rolls his eyes, and goes over there. "Try anything, and you die."] * Keiko says flatly as she stands there, "What am I gonna do, blow you all up?" [He cuffs Keiko, then gestures towards the van.] * Keiko is now very awkwardly holding her duck, twisting her arms in the handcuffs so that she is holding it up at her chest, arms folded against her. She glances to Heinrick a moment, then walks slowly towards the van. * Heinrick walks towards the van too. At the same rate of speed. I have to say, I *am* amused at all the trouble you went through just for the two of us. [They wait for you to get in. Max doesn't respond to Heinrick.] * Heinrick gets in the van! Back of the van, presumably. (Who _is_ Maxwell Tenner. It's not in the charlist.) * Keiko gets in, back or side, although she does it carefully. ( A named grunt. ) ( So he's presumably stronger than the regular grunts. ) (Checku.) [Max nods, and one of the guys slips a funky looking metal headband on Keiko. It's kinda tight.] (Actually, uh...) * Keiko sees it, eyes widening, and when the guy gets close, her shield springs into place... involuntarily or not, entire body tense, shaking a little for a moment. * Heinrick has quit IRC (Ping timeout) [He frowns, and looks at Max, who gestures with his gun. "Lower your shield."] ( Blragh ) * Keiko says quietly, "I'm not... I already can't move, and you have your hats on." She lowers her eyes towards the floor and says with a little fear, "Please." ["No. Lower it."] * Keiko bites her lip a long moment, still seeming very nervous, and then suddenly her shield falls and she immediately falls forward unconscious. * Heinrick has joined #mc4more [The guy puts the headband on Keiko anyhow.] * Heinrick shakes his head. "I suppose you're happy for picking on a little girl now?" * Keiko shakes from her bent-over position on the floor a split-second after the headband is on, but stays like that anyway. ["That's not picking on her."] * Heinrick doesn't give a response. If there's one thing he can't stand, it's people who can't understand irony. [Max walks over to the van, snatches the duck, and rips it open. He grins. "That's picking on her."] * Keiko looks up at the duck being snatched away, and her eyes widen for one moment before seeing it ripped. She cries out loudly, "Kioshi!" She tries to stumble to her feet, jump at him, body-slam him weakly. Whatever. "Kioshi! You bastard! I--that was--" [He nods. "Yeah. It was." And he gets in. They start to drive off.] (... he doesn't respond to her physical attack in any way?) ( Whoops. ) [ One of the other guys restrains Keiko as she tries to get up.] [THEN he says that, then he gets in and they start to drive off.] * Keiko keeps trying to get up anyway, and after a few more moments of trying, she collapses again, the shaking she was doing before having turned into quiet sobs. [As they're driving, one of the guys reaches over and grabs at Keiko's and Heinrick's watches.] * Heinrick looks at the men casually. Pulling his arm away slightly as the guy reaches for the watch. [The other one opens a box and prepares a syringe. First guy scowls, and Max says, "Don't make this any harder, Dr. Engels. Do what you're told, and nobody gets hurt."] * Keiko doesn't react to the watch being pulled away except for murmuring weakly, "Don't touch me... Don't touch me..." [He does, though! Taking the watch with him.] * Heinrick smirks slightly. "I was just curious. Apparently you really *aren't* foolish enough to threaten with guns inside a moving vehicle. Pity." * Heinrick allows the watch to be taken now. [He takes the watch and mutters something to the driver. The driver takes both watches and chucks them out the window.] * Keiko draws in on herself more after her watch is taken, still sobbing, murmuring, now in Japanese. [Then the other guy brings forth the syringe. Max says, "One more thing and we can all have a nice, quiet ride til we get there."] ( Anyone going to resist? ) (Only the one guy with the syringe?) ( Yep. ) (I'm sorta down, and again, long sleeves, not helpful if you're going for the arm.) ( He pulls it up :P ) Is that really necessary? [He sighs. "Yes, Mr. Engels. We wouldn't want your teammates to track us through the isotope in your bodies, would we?"] * Heinrick smiles. "Just what I was curious about." He kicks at the syringe as the guy gets close. * Keiko doesn't help them in any way, pulling away from their touches as best she can. ( Gimme an attack roll! ) (Zatsa make. By lots.) [Heinrick kicks the syringe out of his hand. And instantly, Max moves in, grabbing at Heinrick to restrain him. "That wasn't smart, Dr. Engels."] ( Defense roll at.... ) ( Damn, is this a bonus or a penalty? ) (Uh, grapple?) * Heinrick chuckles. "That is a matter of opinion." ( It's a penalty. +4 ) ( Yah ) (Penalty?) (For grapple?) (Yeah, hands free penalty.) (Ah.) (You got 0, he's got 2, so you're at a 4 penalty.) ( I think we're going to need init rolls. ) (Dicey never lets me have nice things.) (I'm fast!) (Fast at doing NOTHING.) (You're also useless right now!) [Max, Keiko, Heinrick, rest] [Max makes to grapple Heinrick. "People will die, Mr. Engels. If we don't get you to the boss, he WILL release the virus. Make no mistake about that."] ( Grabs defense! SS doesn't apply til you can break the chain. ) (Missed then.) [He grabs Heinrick. "Rather not sedate you if I can help it." He nods to the guy who had the syringe.]] [Keiko!] * Heinrick gets grabbed, but chuckles at Max. "Oh, I *am* sorry. The only instructions were to come alone. It said nothing about coming peacefully." Changing the rules midgame is poor form. ["That's life."] * Keiko sees Heinrick and Max start to struggle and whips her head around, trying to throw the headband off her head, and since she's just handcuffed, not behind her back, she reaches up and tries to push the band off. [As Keiko does that, one of the guys draws a pistol, pointing it at her. The other guy also draws a pistol, pointing it at Heinrick.] (Does she succeed?) ( Gimme a body roll, -2 bonus ) (YAY.) (I WIN) (Wait. Wait.) (Keiko WINS Body?) (The world's coming to an end!) (We bought off the defect!) (I can make the roll!) (Still!) (No. You have a miniscule CHANCE of making the roll.) (Rather than no chance.) [She does! Max scowls. "Fine. We'll do this the hard way." He lets go of Heinrick, throwing a palm strike at Keiko's jaw.]] (Max gets a second attack before Heinrick's move?) ( Whoops. ) ( Sorry, Heinrick's turn. ) * Heinrick tries to yank his arms away from Max and grapple *him*. Handcuffs make for wonderous chokeholds. ( Roll for it ) (What rolls?) ( Unarmed (grabs) at.... Uh. ) ( -4 for SS, +2 for handcuffs. ) ( So -2 total ) (Boo dice.) (Remember H has 2 levels of SS now) (So either you're giving him half a bonus, or he should have -8) ( Hmm, that's true. ) (Roll again? Or subtract 4 from that roll?) ( I dunno. There's nothing in the rules for stuff like this. ) ( Just roll again ) (THAT'S a make.) [Heinrick grabs at Max! But Max deftly moves out of the way. "Hundreds of people, Dr. Engels. You're condemning hundreds of people, including your wife."] (He doesn't have a wife!) [Now he goes at Keiko.] (He's asexual!) * Heinrick hisses in Max's ear. "My wife is already *dead*. What are you talking about?" (Raw def roll?) [Meanwhile, the driver pulls over and gets out, presumably heading aroudn the side.] (Well, unarmed (strikes)) ( Yep! ) (That is not a defense.) [Keiko is struck in the jaw. Max growls. "Dead, yes. But still in one piece. Lets see you revive her after we smash her face with a sledgehammer."] [Oop, Keiko's turn] * Keiko gets smashed in the face! She lets out a cry of pain, but then a second later her shield springs up in place and she looks at Max angrily, as she tries to lift the stupid tin-foil hat off his head with TK. Not holding it on when you're punching, are you! ( That'd be unarmed (grabs) I guess ) (Ah, damn.) * Heinrick laughs. Starting out normal but turning a little maniacally. "You *are* a fool. You hold the threat of people hostage with a virus and you come up with *that*?" (Not quite good enough.) [Heinrick's turn!] * Keiko continues glaring as she says, in fast, angry Japanese, [He responds. ""] * Heinrick grabs for Max again. If he succeeds, he's going to slam him up against the side of the van. ( Roll for it ) (Already did.) ( Ah. ) [Annoyingly, Max evades.] ( He does have high unarmed skeelze though ) * Heinrick gives Max a stern look. "" (... how many of the guys with hats on are within a meter, and how heavy are those hats?) ( All of them, and they're tinfoil :P ) (Okay, next round, it's a mass raise!) [One of the guys pulls out a strange, yet familiar looking gun, and fires at Keiko.] (... oh, hell no.) (What's the dodge to roll?) ( Ranged defense. ) (Nope. Not as my second defense this round.) ( Gimme a body roll ) (Also no.) [There's a puff of green smoke, then Keiko loses consciousness.] * Keiko is still glaring at Max... right until she gets smoked, and then there's a moment of panic and she falls over AGAIN. That's been happening a lot today. [Max grabs her by the hair. "And her, Dr. Engels? Would you like me to smash her face, too?"] ( He's holding. ) * Heinrick looks at the floor of the van and gives Max a bit of a cold stare. "Well now. At least you are improving with your threats." ( He going to do anything? ) (So, how many other people are getting nailed by the smoke? *chuckle*) ( None, it's a very tiny puff that fits in a bullet. ) (Not in this case.) (Wow. That's one heck of a gun.) ( It's a gun of the future. ) (It runs on Nonsensium!) [Max nods at the goons as he picks up the headband, putting it on Keiko's head. He also loops her hands over her feet and behind her back.] [The second goon grabs another syringe, and starts filling it up.] * Heinrick settles back. "Although, it was a vague threat. We both know you were after her in the first place anyway." * Heinrick looks at Max. "Or was the leak not clever enough?" ["My orders are to bring you both in alive."] [The guy moves to poke Heinrick.] [He does poke Heinrick, assuming Heinrick doesn't do anything to stop him. Then refills it and gets Keiko, too.] * Keiko is sorta unconscious, so that's easy. ( But what of Heinrick? ) * Heinrick isn't resisting this time. Defense monkey bastards. ( It's just the one guy, really, the others have the same stats as the goons from the auction house. ) (Yes, but if we don't bring down the one guy, we might as well not bother. :P) [Heinrick is poked! Max sighs. "I hope for your sake that the boss is in a forgiving mood."] * Heinrick smiles wearily. "You had best hope, for your sake, that I am." Then conks out. ( It's not a tranquilizer :P ) (Damn!) (It's an anti-radiation-tag.) ( Yah. ) * Heinrick doesn't conk out then. [Anyhow, they drive for a while, at some point switching cars. Until after about ... Uh, I dunno. Let's check mapquest ( Mapquest says I need to know German to use the Germany program x.x ) ( Here we go! ) (Google maps works better.) ( Yes, yes it does. ) ( Gimme navigation rolls. ) (Make by 3.) (Heinrick wins.) ( Highway spec. ) (We're both doing it on raw mind.) (We're just that smart.) (Yep.) [Eventually you get out of the forest and onto the highway. During the trip, you swap cars at some point, hopefully without incident 'cause it's late.] [Over two hours later, you arrive at a city, which you both realize is Hamburg.] [They park the van in an old parking garage next to a burnt-out building, and gesture for you to get out.] * Keiko is leaning against something to support herself in being upright, but she still looks a bit on the miserable side. Okay, a lot on the miserable side. Except for her lips. Which are a flat emotionless line. * Heinrick doesn't appear necessarily that pleased either but gets up. He appears semi-exhausted. [They lead you into the building, and down a set of stairs. It leads you to a corridor lined with doors. It looks like the original doors are long since gone, but they've been replaced with newer, shinier doors.]] * Keiko bites her lip hard as she gets walked down. [They lead you to yet more stairs that go further down, and you find yourselves in a very large maze of rooms and corridors. There are light fixtures that no longer work, but lightbulbs are juryrigged throughout the place.] [After quite a bit of walking, you finally get to a large room with a lot of people in it.] * Keiko tries to keep track of the walk. Well, maybe it'll help them escape. One day. [The first person to notice is a tall, hispanic man with greasy black hair tied into a ponytail. He grins as you enter, spreading his arms. "Well, Dr. Engels. I hear you've caused my men quite some difficulty."] [He speaks with an identifyable American accent. He also turns to a man standing next to him. "Is that the girl?"] * Heinrick looks at the man. "Did I? I thought they needed some exercise is all." [And that guy nods. "That's her. Thank you for your assistance." His accent is notably Russian.] [He smiles. "Not at all, friend. None of this would have been possible without your cooperation."] * Keiko looks confused for a split-second, with the hispanic man, starting to say, "Sophia's..." but the other guy doesn't confuse her at all, and all the color drains from her face. [The Russian nods. "I'll be going now."] [He (and two guys behind him) walks up to Keiko and, consistant with tonight's theme, produces a syringe gun and puts it to Keiko's neck. She can try to dodge if she likes, but the other two guys move to hold her still.] * Keiko tries to back away from all of the Russians, saying desperately, now in Russian, [""] * Heinrick frowns, but doesn't make a move forward. Yet. * Keiko looks down, glances to Heinrick, and then continues in a weaker voice, [The goons look to the Russian in charge, who nods. He starts walking off, and the two guys flank Keiko from behind, gesturing for her to follow.] * Keiko looks over at Heinrick again for a long moment, before she shuffles slowly off after them. [Keiko is marched off camera. The Hispanic guy watches, then turns to Heinrick. "A touching reunion, don't you think, Dr. Engels? But let's not worry about that. Come, let me show you why I was so very eager to meet you." He motions in quite the opposite way Keiko was led.] ( Must finnnnish ) * Heinrick looks at the Hispanic guy curiously. "I supposed that we were captured for different purpose. But not this different. Very well." He follows Hispanic guy. [He stops in front of a woman in a red corset and miniskirt, and an older looking man in a nice suit, with a receeding hairline. "Maxine and Maxamillion. Fancy that, getting three people named Max to work for me."] [The woman more or less ignores you, the man bows, speaking with an English accent. "Charmed."] * Heinrick smiles slightly. "Ah, I see. You wished to see me to perform an overly glorified role call." [The Hispanic man chuckles. "Nah. I just find it amusing. I never get tired of it." He heads out of the room and down a corridor. "This place we're in used to belong to a mega-corporation with access to technology years beyond what's out there. Your country's paltry genetic modification programs are childs toys compared to what they were doing."] [He pauses. "Well, I suppose it's not YOUR country, per se."] * Heinrick tilts his head to look at the Hispanic man. "I suppose you are coming to the point soon?" ["Well, fourty years ago, they ran into some..... let's call it financial trouble. Then twenty years ago...." He sighs. But just for a second, then he stops in front of a large room. "Ah, here we are."] * Heinrick looks at the room. Might as well be accommodating. [He opens the door. Inside is a laboratory with all sorts of equipment you'd expect to find in one. There's three people in the room.] [One is an Asian woman in her mid-thirties, wearing a lab coat and half-moon spectacles. The other is an Asian man, in his seventies, who seems somewhat familiar to Heinrick. He's also wearing a lab coat.] [And the third is a man inside a cryo-capsule. Through the window, Heinrick can see he's in his mid-thirties, and Hispanic-American. There's a large machine inserted in his chest. Plus he's naked. Male fanservice?] (But I'm the only one here to enjoy it!) * Heinrick doesn't seem to mind male nudity. He is a doctor after all. [The guy leading Heinrick steps in. "Allow me to introduce Dr.s Haruko Minsha and Akira Shibamura. You'll be working with them on the project."] * Heinrick chuckles. "And here I was expecting something original." ["Why do you think I sought you ought? Judging from what Mr. Ferrio told me, I believe you could actually do it. I want you to finish your research, Dr. Engels. I want you to bring back my father, Ricardo Valmont."] [Session End]