@Stryker:
You shift your perception and you look at "Tophat's" aura and it's lit up with the brilliance of those who are awakened with the talent. You don't see any spells or foci on him but you do see a connection to two astral signatures, most likely the watcher spirits Brick mentioned, but you can't tell for sure. You look around and you don't see any watcher spirits around anywhere. His emotional state is rather complicated and you can't really describe it more specifically than he's somewhere dead center between happy and sad. He also feels pain from a wound on his hip.
The girl's aura is completely mundane but she looks absolutely terrified.
@Zach:
After pouring bleach on your blood stains. [OOC: roll perception check for me to see if you got it all cuz that shit went everywhere! Sterilize AOE spell would come in real handy right about now.] Once Stryker gives you the ok, you scan then search Tophat and the girl and find a survival knife and a decent medkit on him [OOC: rating 4]. You also find a series of vials and crow feathers along with a big piece of black chalk. [OOC: somebody roll some magical knowledge skill to see if you know what it is.] There is only a little piece left of his shattered commlink dangling from his belt. He looks to have a set of wireless nanopaste trodes near his temple which aren't reusable. The girl only has a commlink and a pack of condoms on her.
You put her face down on the ground and she let's out a muffled scream through the gag in her mouth as you cut her.
As you come into the main living room of the apartment you're startled at the level of destruction that has rained down on the place. Furniture completely torn up, walls with 5 cm diameter holes in them and chunks of plaster everywhere. You start searching the rooms and the apartment doesn't look very lived in but you do notice a brick of some kind of brown substance lying on the floor next to what once was a coffee table.
The Street Samurai has a belt pack which is full of a few things which would take a little time to inventory, you decide it's best to just grab the pack. There are also the 2 Ingram Smartgun X's still clasped in his hand and an ArmTech MGL-12 grenade launcher slung around his shoulder. Stryker also tells you that he has two cyberarms, wired relflexes and a pair of cyber-eyes.
@Brick:
You take the gag out of Razor Girl's mouth and she's about to scream until you point your Panther up against her head which is only a little bigger than the diameter of the barrell and she begins to speak between sniffles. "Whatever I got in terms of paydata is on my commlink. I'm just a blogger! Listen...i'm sure we can work something out....Brick, listen...my father, he's a very wealthy man! You could have enough money to put your little girl through school. Stryker, hear me out...I know some things that are useful to you! I know your past, I've been researching you guys, I found out a lot of things about you. I even know your real name Stryker....." At that you can see the Tophot fighting hard to supress a full out burst of laughter. She hears the hoarse chuckling and shouts "Raven! I swear to god whatever happens to me you'll never work in this town, or anywhere else for that matter, ever again you double-crossing coward son of a bitch...dad paid you to protect me, not hand me over!!" Before you can tell them to STFU Tophat, or Raven as you now know him responds in a sarcastic mock cry "You're breakin' my heart....". Then he directs what he's saying to you. "Please just shoot the bitch already and be done with it...I have a very irresponsible freed spirit to catch who's probably doing shots down at Norky's at this very moment and he's got my signature all over him. I don't feel comfortable with that."
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