As you carefully but quickly exit the car, you keep a safe distance and look around carefully. You now notice that while traffic wasn't particularly heavy to begin with, the area you are in is now completely desolate. Around you is the simple, straight road, and to your left and right, blooming apple and pear trees lining the roads. A good distance off, maybe 90 to 100 meters, James spots a slim figure crouched between two trees.
At the same time, Inanna catches something in the corner of her eye. A thick, viscous sludge has begun to flow from the tailpipe of the rental car. A large bubble begins to swell as the foul-smelling... thing begins to gush from the exhaust.
The roiling mass lashes out a tendril of smoke, coiling it around your head. You can feel the taint of it's aura intertwining with yours as your mind begins to drift and wander.
Your probing in the Matrix doesn't turn up much of anything. You know something is wrong, but between all the noise of the jammer and the tension of the situation, you just can't find anything.
Inside the guts of the engine is another story. Your tiny probe quickly reports back with the location of three unusual bullets, lodged deep in the engine. Two are simple enough to remove. The third, however, is lodged tightly between two combustion chambers and may be tricky to remove.
Your surveillance web successfully falls into position, providing a good range of surveillance coverage. If your attackers are stalking you, they have done a good job of remaining unseen. You do, however, take note of a police response quickly moving to the scene of your brief confrontation.
