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[IC] The elephant in Seattle

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« Reply #105 on: <02-20-14/0627:07> »
Puppeteer touched one of the carved bone talismans on his coat and smiled. "I have my own fetishes, all that i need anyway. The foci are a completely different category. I surely would have use for those, had i the necessary energies to bond any. Although i seriously doubt our employer would let me keep even one, considering the foci are worth more than 100.000 apiece."
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« Reply #106 on: <02-21-14/1037:50> »
Jade sits, letting her thoughts dwell on the firepower upstairs and the assorted bits of information she had. Hopefully, someone in this group had gleaned some different information.

"Alright guys, lets go find a meeting spot and get the hell away from here while we discuss a few things."

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Was there anywhere within a few blocks here that looked like a Matrix Café, Coffee shop, Club, or anything else where we could be public and still have cover of noise from the surroundings?


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« Reply #107 on: <02-21-14/1440:38> »
@Crazy:You saw a cofee shop a few blocks away in a shopping center.

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« Reply #108 on: <02-21-14/1442:45> »
Agreed
Wheels closes down the browser session and heads for the door.
You got somewhere in mind?
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« Reply #109 on: <02-21-14/1446:10> »
"Can always use a good cup of soycaf; and there just happens to be one around the corner at the mall..."

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« Reply #110 on: <02-25-14/0626:16> »
Wheels nods, gesturing to the doorway.
Keeping his kit on him, he heads back to the car and hops in.
Where to then?
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« Reply #111 on: <02-26-14/0626:18> »
Puppeteer gladly followed the others to a different place to discuss some things. His mistrust towards their employer increased somewhat in the last ten minutes, and he was satisfied that he wasn’t the only one to feel it. And the coffee would be welcome if they needed to plan.

When they arrived at the mall and everyone had their drinks, he jumped in medias res, in a quiet voice. ”I don’t like that place the Johnson gave us as a safehouse. It stinks of too much secrets, and the tools placed there would be enough to equip a team at least with twice as much people as ours. And the astral shows something very disturbing there, something I’ve never seen or heard of before. Under different circumstances I’d gladly examine it in length but as things stand now, I’d rather not.” He looked in the eyes of the others briefly, his disturbing red eyes showing nothing but serious intent. ”So, what is your take on this all?”
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« Reply #112 on: <02-26-14/0635:16> »
My take is that this is a suicide mission. That kind of hardware against that kind of target means we're either not meant to survive, or not meant to succeed.
I say we bolt for the border.

Wheels takes a big swig of the soycaf and rests back into the chair.
I mean, I've been wracking my brain, trying to think of ways to pick this guy up, but I can't see that hitting his motorcade is a good plan. Multiple heavily cybered outriders don't make for an easy target, and you can sure as hell bet that his transporter will be armoured and armed if the outriders are that kitted up.
The best bet is the residence, but we've still got to get through security and back out again with an unwilling target. Seattle will be sending their best boys-in-blue out too the second the alarm is raised.
I'm open to ideas guys, talk.

Wheels is clearly unhappy. His gestures indicate a deep frustration, or maybe it was fear?
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« Reply #113 on: <02-26-14/1140:30> »
Ahh...java....

"Yeah, this job looks like a suicide mission. There are way too many expensive toys back there for us to be getting through this. However, we can look into trying to find a way to do this. As Wheels mentioned, we may not have the ability to take a non-willing target out of his home; but how about a way to make him willing?

Jade is casually keeping an eye out while we sit at the coffee table for anyone paying us attention. Primarily a tail, but anyone at this point merits attention.

Perception (Visual) +3 for actively looking = 15d6. 6 successes.



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« Reply #114 on: <02-26-14/1312:59> »
@crazy Ivan:You see a few people lingering around who are watching everyone but you notice they aren't watching you specifically.

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« Reply #115 on: <02-26-14/1426:47> »
make him willing.. huh. what you got in mind?
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« Reply #116 on: <02-27-14/1009:13> »
Puppeteer's face was distorted by a somewhat sinister smile. ”Actually, I can ask a servant of the Great King to possess our target when we are there. That has two advantages and one disadvantage. On the plus side, we won’t have to carry him around and if we get into the thick of it, maybe his own security will hesitate to attack if they believe the person they intend to protect is willing to participate in the fight against them. On the minus, I can only summon one servant at a time, so on other fronts, I will be able to help less.
“Of course, this solution assumes that none of his astral security is there to banish the servant from this world, otherwise we might suddenly find ourselves in the worst possible scenario. To prepare for this case, I might be able to request this aid earlier today, but it takes me a few hours to do so and I need to procure some incense and a few other items as focal points for the ritual. Depending on the strength of the servant, I may well be out for half a day.”
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« Reply #117 on: <02-27-14/1026:15> »
Wheels scratched his beard as he contemplated that.
Wow, I had absolutely no idea spirits could even do that. You think it'll work?
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« Reply #118 on: <02-27-14/1252:48> »
That is not good news to hear. So be prepared for voodoo hoodoo to take over bodies now...I really need to start regularly reading into magic theory...

"Ok, let's assume that plan might work, and it can just go south from there. How close do you have to be in order to get this to work? And long can you get him to be cooperative? There's a lot of potential firepower we can bring to bear if need be. So we only really have to get him to a drop point and he will enter our custody."

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« Reply #119 on: <02-27-14/1256:00> »
As an added note, Jade turns off her wireless function from her commlink, then using a notepad-esque program, she types in quickly "We are likely not alone; we are likely being tailed already." and sets her commlink in the middle of the little table they are sitting at.
She resumes the conversation as normal;

"And after that, what then?"