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« Reply #2100 on: <10-17-15/2219:22> »
Where is she?

Based just on cameras I've discovered that it can be very difficult at times to find frames of reference.  Still, many if not most of the angles I can place.  Those places I can fit into my incomplete understanding of the building, I cross off my list.  I focus only on those camera angles that I can't explain.  Monitoring those, I wait for the man currently talking with Yelena-sensei to leave.  My hope is that he will provide me the frame of reference I need as he walks somewhere else.  As he moves, I should be able to connect camera shots until I can reference someplace I can recognise.  Then the whole thing should piece together like a jigsaw puzzle with a picture you recognise.

As I wait for the man to move, and for the files to keep downloading, I also search the security server for schematics of the building, possibly with camera placement.  I have three marks on the damn thing, I should be able to get it to cough up its secrets.

Search the security server for building schematics: 12d6t5: 4 [12d6t5=2, 5, 4, 2, 1, 3, 6, 6, 2, 5, 2, 3]

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« Reply #2101 on: <10-17-15/2237:27> »
@ Yelena  He smiles at you and says. I'll have it brought when they bring you the food and water. And so far your vital signs are  stable. I've made a list of the drugs and alcohol you've taken tonight and have it. I'll transfer to your comm so that you can look it over and see if there's anything new that could have caused this as soon as you give me your number."
Not long after he leaves a waitress comes with food and drink and her dress. She smiles politely, her tusks accenting her smile and says, ""There you go. On the house." she leaves quickly obviously needing to get back to workan never

@ Subaru  The man  never emerges. Damnit! What's taking him so long? She finds the buildings safety plan and fire escape routes. Hmmm, not even club security can keep a fire escape route secret. The powers that be, and more importantly license, would frown on that sort of behavior. And looking through it Subaru finds, a basement! Of course! And wait, now there's a woman with Yelena-sensei, a waitress by the looks of it. She spends several minutes helping Yelena dress. Subaru loses her the minute she leaves the room. She keeps scanning all the feeds searching for her. Surely they can't both just disappear. The club would have no staff if that was the case. And yes! She's coming out of a small door in the back near the kitchen. The way the shadows fall it blends in perfectly to not be see it in this light.
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« Reply #2102 on: <10-18-15/0115:46> »
Yelena smiles at the shaman and gives him her comm code.  "Thank for interest in Yelena.  Can take message club boss?  Say Yelena sorry.  Tell Yelena can pay for damages.  Yelena think remember hit man who help.  Want say sorry."

She is grateful when the waitress comes with the food and her dress.  "Food smell nice.  Yelena thank.  Can please stay minute to help Yelena dress?  Cannot reach fasteners."  Yelena removes the clothes she is in and slips into the cheongsam, which since it was not on her for long, is still in very good condition.  She thanks the waitress for helping her and waits for her to leave before eating a bit of the food.  Taking the shaman's advice, she does not force herself to eat, but swigs through the water.  After eating what she can, Yelena sits on the small bed and rests with her back to the wall.
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« Reply #2103 on: <10-18-15/0232:45> »
So they have Yelena in a locked room in the basement and, but the man talking with her seems pleasant enough and they're bringing her what looks like water and a snack.  She's drugged, but was it by choice or did they drug her to get information from her?  Without audio, I just can't tell.

She's cooperating, though.  Eating, drinking.  Would Yelena-sensei give in to an interrogation like this, even drugged?  Maybe if the drugs cade her think she was with Arc-sensei?  I can't use magic through a camera so I can't tell if they're using illusion.  Not that I know anything about illusions myself.

Wait, isn't Marco-san an illusion master?

Whatever I may think of him, Yelena-sensei trusts him.  And he's part of their team.  Until I know for sure Yelena-sensei is in danger, I shouldn't bug Arc.  Not when she's with her mate.  But Marco-san?

The video records are still downloading and all looks unchanged in the holding cell, so I pull up Marco-san's comm info from the ghost image I have for safekeeping and send him an urgent message.

>>Marco-san, this is Firefly.  Right to the point, I am inside the security camera feed at the Stardust and I can see Yelena in custody in what seems like some kind of holding cell in a basement that isn't supposed to exist according to the building schematics.  I can't get audio.  She's talking with a man who might be a shaman based on his outfit, but I can't assense through a camera.  He may be using illusion to trick her and I wouldn't know.  Yelena looks comfortable sitting on a bed, but she's clearly drugged.  I don't know whether by choice or not.  They're giving her what looks like a light snack and water.  She seems to be talking a lot to the man, so it may be an interrogation...I just can't be sure.  I can't stay connected to the cameras for much longer or I may be in danger.  I can explain that part later.  Advice ASAP re: Yelena would be appreciated. ~FF<<
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« Reply #2104 on: <10-18-15/0242:57> »
Yesterday at arcs.

Marco sighs and say “Because this is the fate that I was born and groomed for. Justice, fast, loud dramatic and public, very public.  They call themselves Biblical Justice, and you can only imagine the things they had in mind with this kind of name.  I am not exactly the kind of man to deliver the judgement of allegedly god to people. I am a person and a sinner and who am I to judge others for their sins? If I am to judge anyone I should start with myself not with complete strangers.

You can imagine that this kind of life philosophy that I am not exactly a good match for Biblical justice. At the age of 18 when the program was over, I was sent here providing I never talk to anyone of my former life or my family again. I was promised safety if I keep my mouth shut. I was certain that BJ are going to kill me, so I made what I could out of life. Live intense and full of emotion, but this kind of life got me to develop my skills and my mojo.

It reached a point that I feel that they allowed me to live to see if the the outside world can cure my apparent impotence and lack of understanding of their teachings. Would they really let me go after spending so many years trying to shape and manipulate me?  Why didn’t they just kill me? I am nothing but a loose end.  I thought about these questions all the time, but as time passed I left them in my life and got accustomed to the blissful life.

But all good dreams end, and recently they asked for a favor. It was nothing big - just a bunch of text messages without anything that is of interest to them. I have done much worse with other people, and the person they asked about is a very good person. Even by their own standards. The book I brought has that information they seek thanks to Firefly.  They sent me this picture: 

I say and show Yelena the picture of Marta and Ginny leaving the hotel. “The right one is me.” I say bluntly. “At first I thought that they are after me because my life is one big abomination in their eyes. If anyone deserves some BJ it is me. However, paranoia aside, that was also the case when I left for Seattle two years ago. I was openly gay and having difficulty controlling my sexuality, they allowed me undisturbed life then, what changed now?

Looking at that picture now, I think that that picture is an admission of talent. If I am correct there are going to be more favors down the road. You see, I can look like everyone, sweet talk my way into places I may not be a good much for public displays of “Justice” but I can be the perfect assassin. The kind that strikes from the dark and infiltrate places. I think that this may be why they are still interested in me. They own me and my day job is a beacon of skill at becoming different people.  “


 I take a deep breath and ask.
“I need your help, murder is almost the greatest of sins... but there must be some special fate reserved for those that abuse the Lord to justify their murder. I waited two years and now time is of the essence, I need to become a shadow, an illusion to vanish from their reach. Only by embracing the shadows there is future for me and some fragments of my soul.”
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« Reply #2105 on: <10-18-15/1101:38> »
FLASHBACK:....

Yelena smokes and listens to Marco.  This was the most he had ever said to her, maybe to anyone, of his past.  When he seems finished she responds, "Marco say much.  Yelena not sure to answer right.  Marco trained to be church assassin but not like kill?  Marco think sent Seattle no reason?  Yelena think Marco naïve.  Church have Marco string.  Now time pull string.  Soon church ask more and more.  Church like Vory.  Control people by fear.  Fear of hell and damnation.  When that not work, church kill.  Marco tell Yelena what is difference.  Yelena wish have Marco mojo skill.  Make very good assassin.  Marco and Yelena pair better than other assassins if work together.  Marco conflicted because believe in God.  If God exists, not just God.  Explain Yelena and others.  Yelena kill much for anger.  Much innocent death.  Men, women even children.  Just God kill Yelena long ago.  Yelena still live.  No just God."

"YYelena help Marco if ask.  Marco willing change life?  Live shadows?  Give fancy place away?"
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« Reply #2106 on: <10-18-15/1342:51> »
Marco sigh, “About BJ I totally agree, they want to push my buttons and use me for their own needs. This is why I want to disappear. But I do not want to disappear just so I can kill people for some other cause. I’ll give up the apartment in time and all the comforts that came with it. I slept most my life on a wooden bed and lived the most modest conditions. This is why I appreciate comforts so much, because I do not take them for granted.

If you had my mojo... I doubt you’d like your job. My package comes with deep emotions toward other people and with endless empathy to the point of being able to share pain and desires. Do you really want to feel the suffering you cause?

About the Lord? I come from a religion that say that the best a man can ever be, the son of god. Died on the cross for sins that were not his own. The world does not behave in a way that you understand. The Lord is not some Vory boss that strikes the sinners. Faith gives you the notion of right and wrong and the ability to choose between them and without it life are random and have no meaning at all. At the base of these notions there is the Lord,and the freedom to make our own choices and our own mistakes.

BJ thinks that they are showing you mercy by killing you.  After all, you made all the wrong choices in life and by ending your life early they save you from your future sins and future consequences.  I think that it is not for us to decide how many opportunities one receives. The fact that you are still alive is a beacon of the free choice that we are given.  The choice to make the wrong decisions in your case. To make it more ironic, you describe the shadows as a guardian angel. You cheated death numerous times, survived things that no one else does. You received supernatural help and you even believe so yourself. Yet you choose not to believe, if you must open that Pandora's box I think that it makes you fascinating.

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« Reply #2107 on: <10-18-15/1427:15> »
FLASHBACK

Yelena shakes her head and puts a hand to her ears, her forehead, and her heart.  "Yelena hear shadow.  Yelena know shadow.  Yelena feel shadow.  Yelena not smart.  Not say right.  Yelena know shadow supernatural.  But shadow not just.  Shadow not evil.  Shadow simply is.  Most people not know real shadow.  Yelena take Marco so shadow place, but Marco need hear shadow on own."  She shrugs and takes another cigar from her case, offering one to Marco.  After lighting up, she says, "Yelena go Europe soon.  Yelena ask Marco if come.  Leave maybe two weeks.  Go finish something started long ago.  Tsina Molovna betray Yelena.  Betray Vory and Vory family.  Long story but Yelena know where Tsina is.  Yelena go finish story.  Tsina die or Yelena die.  Maybe both die.  Yelena die someday and go back to shadow.  Maybe now, after kill betrayer."  She shrugs her shoulders again.  "Something here strange for Yelena.  Yelena meet Arc.  Meet Marco.  Live Barrens.  Yelena want stay.  Want home.  Want........something.  But will be Yelena if stay?  Yelena think no.  So maybe stay Europe when go.  Go places been before.  Try forget Barrens.  Be Yelena.  Marco come Yelena?  Cannot promise love.  Yelena not know what love is.  But Yelena promise show Marco life.  Show shadow.  Show world."
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« Reply #2108 on: <10-18-15/1501:53> »
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"Yelena hear shadow.  Yelena know shadow.  Yelena feel shadow.  Yelena not smart.  Not say right.  Yelena know shadow supernatural.  But shadow not just.  Shadow not evil.  Shadow simply is.  Most people not know real shadow.  Yelena take Marco so shadow place, but Marco need hear shadow on own."

All the angles and all the daemons are like that Yelena, every creation has a reason. Shadow is about survival, about enduring and Agrat is about passion about the will to live. None of them is good or evil, they are facts of life forces of nature if you wish, but I believe that every creation serves its goal, even Shadow. You do not have to agree with me, it is not like I got this truth, my life are filled with doubts and with seeking my way trying to do what I think is right. 

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"Yelena go Europe soon.  Yelena ask Marco if come.  Leave maybe two weeks.  Go finish something started long ago.  Tsina Molovna betray Yelena.  Betray Vory and Vory family.  Long story but Yelena know where is.  Yelena go finish story.  Tsina die or Yelena die.  Maybe both die.  Yelena go someday back to shadow.  Maybe now."

My answer would be yes even if you wanted to take me to Hades and in a way you do. Like you stated yourself, Vory are thugs that manipulate you and control you for their own reasons.But search your heart to forgive Tsina for what happened all these years ago. You were betrayed by her, she was betrayed by her lover. Everybody betrayed everybody and in the place where we are all right there is nothing left...  But if you cannot find that mercy in your heart and if you have to face her after all these years then you must be the same person that was tossed to that frozen river and I will not try to deny your right for retribution. If one of you must die, then it is better her than you.

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"Something here strange for Yelena.  Yelena meet Arc.  Meet Marco.  Live Barrens.  Yelena want stay.  Want home.  Want........something.  But will be Yelena if stay?  Yelena think no.  So maybe stay Europe when go.  Go places been before.  Try forget Barrens.  Be Yelena.  Marco come Yelena?"

You know what they say, you can never be tossed into the same river twice. The river seems the same but all the water have already moved on. The second time you enter the river, it is a different river. We are like rivers, Yelena every day that pass we are changed. Like the river, we look the same but inside  we are different people. I need to hide and Europe is as good place as any. As long as you desire my companionship I’d love to stick with you.


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Present time:
Marco text Arc >> If you need help then you get it. I hope the night turns out well for us.

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Blake chat.


"This is very generous of you, now what do we need to know? I am good with words and still making my first steps in the world of magic. Arc is a mechanic and turns rigger. But she is more than that she has way with people and she is good as an adult to balance us. I am too green and Yelena, she is volatile on her own but one of the best assassins in the shadows. She is also a lot more than that, I wish I had her self confidence bravery and determination. What I fake with social skills she genuinely have.  We might be growing to add a Decker on board, again Arc is sort of our unofficial leader she makes these things happen.

About that lawyer, it is not just buying a suit and a comlink although I appreciate the cash. I need data and a lot of it. I can look like him, but can I BE him? Think about how difficult it was to fool you about Sam. You asked me a question and I had no idea what Sam would answer. I need to know everything about him and everything about his profession to a point where I can make lawyer jokes about cases in his field of expertise. Know exactly how he behaves. If he is handsy with his secretary and I am suddenly a gentleman it raises suspicion. The more you give me the safer I am. Either deliver information, or we'll require funds for someone that can do this kind of legwork for us. I can use my networking to do it but I'll have to pay external people to get this kind of detailed information I need to stay alive.

and we still need to talk about the end game."

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« Reply #2109 on: <10-18-15/1553:22> »
@ Marco. Blake smiles at you and says. "Actually, that was my job. To get every bit of that information. The kind you can't get from the trix or the bios. I've been there two months collectting just that kind of data. You'll have everything you need in an hour."
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« Reply #2110 on: <10-18-15/1632:20> »
Blake flashback
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"When do I need to be ready?"

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« Reply #2111 on: <10-18-15/2107:52> »
FLASHBACK........

Yelena looks at Marco and chuckles.  "Careful what say."  She points to the scrolls on her visible upper arms and softly adds.  "Yelena said oaths.  Yelena believe oaths.  Yelena is Vory, Marco.  Always Vory.  Live and die Vory.  Vory is family and place.  Are criminals, yes.  Thugs, yes.  But Yelena belong.  Never quit."  She shakes her head.  "Marco not understand.  Kill Tsina not revenge.  Is justice.  Is honor.  Tsina did only thing never forgive for.  She betray Vory.  Kill own Vory family.  No, forgiveness not possible."

Yelena looks at Marco through the smoke and falling snow and smiles.  "Marco now philosopher?  Yelena like.  Good analogy.  But Yelena like Yelena.  Not want change.  And need be ready soon.  Yelena tell Nikolai Fyodorovich tomorrow who come with.  Arrangements be made.  Leave maybe two weeks. 
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« Reply #2112 on: <10-18-15/2150:08> »
Marco answerLived and died Vory. In the past, you died Vory at least once.
They used you, just like church use me. Vory is family? is that really so?!"
Marco is very upset when he say these lines.

"You cannot betray family, not ever!, whatever they do to you they remain your family. Flesh of your own. My parents are still my parents even after they gave me up to the church.  Not a day passes without me thinking about them, about what kind of people they are and about my twin sister and what kind of person she grew up to be. Family is family is family, you do not get to leave family, you cannot be kicked out of a family not even if you betray them.

Can you really say that Tsina is your sister? Is she your sister?!  After 28 years of not seeing your sister, you are going to spill her blood. No mercy just justice! You are right, she deserves to die, but so do you. Justice is an ugly word used by monsters to explain their atrocities. If the world was all about justice then we'd all be burning in righteous fire.  Our world is just as much about mercy as it is about justice. Vory is only your family when they need something from you, but they are no longer family when you betray them. Their family is a method of control, nothing more.

A method that still works for you after all these years. So go ahead and kill your sister you are right - it is your justice and you deserve it, but do not give me this family crap. ”


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« Reply #2113 on: <10-19-15/0002:34> »
"Marco wrong.  Vory use talent.  Employ Yelena for skill.  Church abused Marco.  Try make Marco what he not want.  And can betray family.  Most betrayal possible.  Vory family more than flesh family.  More than life.  But Tsina betray family.  Kill many.  No forgiveness."  She nods grimly, without a smile.  "Yes, Yelena deserve die.  But not for betray Vory family.  For kill innocents.  Someday Yelena die for that.  Then add remaining strength to shadow. "  She shrugs and sighs.  "Marco still not understand.  Justice not for Yelena.  Justice for Vory family.  For honor.  Marco not have to come.  Marco not Vory.  But Yelena tell Nikolai Marco, Arc, others are Yelena Vory family.  Bratva is small Vory family.  Yelena say Bratva boss so Nikolai leave alone.  So, still want come Yelena?"
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« Reply #2114 on: <10-19-15/0258:50> »
Marco say "I told you already, I will come with you no matter what. If you want to kill Tsina than do it. These are your life and I know better than to stand between the butcher and the pig. I am not here to understand or to judge you, I will walk your way.

Let’s talk about this family of yours, about this Bratva. The leader, tossed his spouse/girlfriend aside like an old toy once he found a  more exotic woman, you. He was so bad at leading that his little Bratva had a coup against him. Led by the same woman that he tossed away like yesterday's news. Vory is organization, and family is metaphors, the social relations of your family were all fractured and dysfunctional long before Tsina led her coup and they were like that due to bad leadership.

Vory is an ORGANIZATION, not a family and thous that seen it as a family were tossed away like yesterday's news. They were blind to intrigue, to discontent and to the obvious fact that violent criminals are dangerous bed partners. You go in, get your revenge but do not lie to yourself again, it is all about money and power. It always have been. Family, honor - they are just methods to keep the members inline, to keep them loyal to the cause.

I am also sure of one other thing, Nikolai did not just 'find' Tsina after so many years.  If he really spent all these years searching for her his own Bratva would have tossed him aside long ago. Nobody has this kind of patience. If Tsina manage to stay hidden for 28 years she did not just ‘pop out’. More likely is that she was in the way... in the way of big money and power. If Nikolai could he’d do it himself, but he cannot she is too smart or too powerful for him or he grew more careful over the years. So Nikolai find you and tell you the 'willing butcher’ about your mortal enemy and family and honor and it still works after all these years.

There is no honor in murder but there is honor in mercy. No honor in going out of your way to get money, but honor in charity and in helping people in need.  Your way has justice in it Tsina deserves her fate because she wronged you. As for Vory? her only crime was to break what was already a broken and dysfunctional Vory Bratva. Tsina was the leader of the coup,  but a coup cannot happen on its own, it requires many discontent people to begin with.  That leader just bad at leading, so bad that he got himself removed from office and his followers all killed. Illusions and Lack of realism make you weak. Maybe he believed Vory to be family, perhaps this is why he he did not see it coming, perhaps this is why he is dead and Tsina is alive.

We go to Poland and I will help you with everything you need to finish your business. Do know this, Nikolai wants something, something a lot less abstract than revenge or honor. Something that worth a lot of money. This is why he showed up in your doorstep after 28 years.  Let's go kill Tsina I hope it brings you some closure. Killing her will not bring back your dead comrades nor will it make Vory about honor and family. Vory is and always was about power and money.  It will still remain a place of power-play and politics and crime and murder. Honor? Family? These are the methods use to keep a bunch of butchers working together, instead of killing each other. I'd do it the same way if I was to lead a gang."