[eighth circuit]

Kitten

There are a few security guards by the gangways, mainly to keep troublemakers off the ferry, but security is lax enough that you're able to hitch a free ride. Upon disembarkation is Kowloon, the two gangers are met by another car, which you hop onto in a similar manner. The car speeds off into the sprawl, and you hang on tight.

After a short tour of some unsavory neighborhoods, the car pulls up in front of a beat-up block of tenements. The two gangers and their driver escort Fong into one of the buildings.

Yes, you are now in the same place as Grind. However, he is distracted at the moment

Menzo

An elf and a human--rough, stocky, working-class types--are having a verbal altercation. Something about which combat biker is most ruthless, is all you can tell. Things escalate, and they stand up and start shouting at each other. "Hey hey guys!" you yell, to no avail. The human says, "Eat me ya pointy-eared bastard!" and shoves the elf. The elf grabs the human by the collar, but one of the human's buddies grabs a chair and breaks it over the elf's back. You call the bouncer over commlink. The first human grabs the elf, who's now sprawled over a table, and swings at him, but the elf dodges, grabs the human's arm in a joint lock, and flips him onto his back. The elf then grabs the second human, but at this point the bouncer has arrived. He takes the elf in both hands and tosses him across the bar room, where a table nearby your spot at the bar breaks his fall.

As the elf lies before you in a daze, you look and can't believe your eyes. On his muscled shoulder, tattooed in glowing red ink, is a spiral.

Frostmane

You call a great lightning bolt down upon the driver. It zaps him and you see some smoke rise off his skin. He begins convulsing along with his orgasm, which reminds you of some stories you've heard about freaky sex parlors.

The driver tries to pull himself together to get a shot off at you. He does, but it goes wide.

You get one more action, then roll initiative again.

Grind

You peer into the alley whence came the noise. Nothing. Must have been one of them big rats, you think. Then you hear it again. You take a couple steps closer. As your eyes adjust to the darkness, you see a faint image in infrarad, like maybe someone hidden behind a pile of trash. You look closer. You hear a hiss. Suddenly, a crash, as the trash pile collapses. You see several pairs of glowing eyes.

All of this is deep in the alley, maybe about 15 meters away.

[Mirikon]

Kitten gives another progress report to JJ, and tries to follow the gangers and fong into the building. She was getting paid to follow them to wherever they were taking the man, afterall, and if they were sufficiently paranoid, they could always sneak him out a back way. Too much ground to cover on the outside, so following them in was the only way.

[vinnmun]

Grind gets a bit on edge, and slowly walks back and than about faces and heads for the apartment building, looking over his shoulder to make sure the glowing eyes were not following him.

"We might have to deal with that later." He opens the door and would slide on in and head for the door. Once he gets there he would see what kind of lock it had.

[All4BigGuns]

Now somewhat irritated with the driver not going down, Frostmane decides to do something which she rarely does. Clasping the same fetish tightly, she calls more mana than she knows she can normally handle to hurl a Stunbolt at the individual, a very small trickle of blood starting to ooze from her nose.


Overcasting Stunbolt at Force 10 with last remaining Edge: 14d6.hitsopen(5, 6)=6
   DV 10S + plus any net hits, Resisted by Willpower-only (I believe)

Resisting 4P drain: 12d6.hits(5)=3

Well, sitting at 5 stun and 1 physical now...hopefully won't be much more going on this night.

Next Initiative: 6d6.hits(5)=1
    Total: 10

[eighth circuit]

Frostmane

Your veins bulge as you channel a dangerous amount of mana into the physical realm. The driver drops his weapon, clutches at his head in agony, then slumps over, unconscious.

Your move again. The others can't doing anything. Though if you attack them, I might be merciful and give them another chance to resist the orgy spell.

Grind

When you look over at the building, you notice a car has just pulled up, and there is a group of people going in.

Make a perception test to spot Kitten, don't forget the -4 due to chameleon suit

[thecommabandit]

Menzo completely ignores the girl at the bar and walks around, nodding at the bouncer before grabbing the elf by the scruff of his neck and giving him a slap to the face to try to wake him up. "Oi, you. What's with that tattoo you got?" He shifts to the astral again, trying to find something about this new schmuck.

This better not be some bullshit like last time, Phoenix, or I swear to the non-existent gods I'll get ya back for this.

Assensing 3 + Intuition 5 again: 8d6.hits(5)=1

I fluffed it :<

[vinnmun]

Before entering, Grind takes note of the car, and tries to hide himself a bit when it pulls up.

Visual Perception & rolling infiltration to hide. Defaulting on it. (3d6.hits(5)=1, 4d6.hits(5)=1) lol glitched on my hiding test. 1 hit each.

[All4BigGuns]

Keeping an eye on the pair of would-be kidnappers, Frostmane calls back into the cafe, "If someone can come get this barista back in there, that would be much appreciated. Preferably someone who can finish knocking these two out. They won't fight back."  With that, she steps to the side and leans against the wall, watching the pair and waiting for someone to come get the ork back inside.

[Mirikon]

Infiltration. I am sneaky sneaky.
8d6.hits(5)=5

[eighth circuit]

Menzo

You assense that the elf is not hurt too badly--and furthermore, he is awakened!

He comes to and grins. Meanwhile, the bouncer is tossing the other two combatants out of the bar. "They started it!" he yells. "You gonna let me stay? Thanks. Yeah, you like the tattoo? Spirals are pretty neat. They just keep going and going... trippy shit, ya know! Er... I got it when I was seventeen. Name's Frank, I'm from out in California. What can I do ya for?"

Frostmane

You step back and notice that a wide-eyed, slack-jawed crowd of patrons from the cafe has congregated behind you. A meathead in a leather jacket pounds his fist and says, "I got it, ma'am!" He runs out to where the barista and the goons are. As he enters the area of the orgy spell, he shouts "aaaaAAAA" and collapses onto the ground, moaning. The other patrons look around at each other nervously.

I considered warning you about that, but I couldn't resist

Kitten

On your way into the building, you hear a *thud* and some muffled cursing in English.

Grind (and Kitten again)

You attempt to hide, but you bump into one of those reinforced vending machines while trying to get under a shadow. Fortunately, nobody seems to notice or care.

After waiting a few minutes after the people to enter the building, you follow them in. Cheng lives on the 8th floor (which is actually the 7th, since this building has no 4th floor). No elevator to be found, so you climb the six flights of stairs. The building is poorly lit, filthy, and smells of urine, especially in the stairwell. As you come around the corner into the hallway, you see the people who entered the building earlier, standing in front of a door. You wait at the corner and listen.

They bang on the door. "Hey Cheng, quit playing with yourself and get out here!" The door opens, and they go in.

[thecommabandit]

"Yeah, you can stay..." Menzo says. "You're a magician, right? That tattoo o' yours mean anything? Or... d'you know anything about phoenixes?"

Short as hell but that's all I really need/want to do.

[eighth circuit]

Menzo

"Shhh, I don't want any of these jerks to know. Yeah, I do some. But it's mostly focused on my acting. Funny you mention phoenixes! My theater troupe is called The Immortal Birds. Ever seen any magical theater?"

"Hey barkeep, how about a drink!" Yells someone from the bar. You signal that you'll be a minute. The woman you were talking to is watching you with interest.

"We're putting on a late late night show in a little bit. You should come see, if you get off in time! Got a pretty good play lined up. Lots of music and magic." He looks over and sees the woman watching. "Wow, hey she with you? Bring her along, that's a bad bitch." He grins.

[Mirikon]

Kitten slips in the room after the two gangers, her eyes recording everything she sees. This was potentially risky, but well worth it if she got some quality paydata out of it. She climbed up the wall, so that she was now hanging upside down from the ceiling like some sort of spider. While this wasn't an ideal situation, it did allow her to observe with little risk of getting bumped into by accident.

[vinnmun]

Grind gets up stairs, putting the barbed tipped arrow setup in his bow, keeping the bow low for now until he is fully ready to shoot. He felt a presence was around with that group, but could not put a finger on it. "Not liking that there's additional people to be leary of now.", he says to himself kind of.

He creeps down the hall and checking the area out before doing anything else. Seeing what kind of lock system these doors use.

Visual Perception (7d6.hits(5)=2)

[thecommabandit]

"Magical theatre?" he asks. "Yeah sure, why not." Sometimes I forget how much of a magnificent bastard you are, Phoenix. "With me? Naw, not yet. Still gotta seal the deal. Not long left o' my shift, send the details to my commlink, I'll see if we can make it..."

With a friendly pat on the elf's shoulder, Menzo walks back behind the bar and gives the woman a wink before going to serve the yelling patron. Once he's done (and made sure no-one else is going to bother him to work while he's at work) he scoots back along to the girl.

"So, spirit poetry slam one night, how'd you feel about a magic theatre show tonight?" he asks coolly. "Just spoken to yer man Frank over there, says he's been up to some magical acting and invited me to a show. I'll get off me shift in an hour or so, only overtime as a favour to the boss because o' the game, and we could go see what the fuss is about."