[SeriousOne338]

The air is thick with moisture as the group’s convoy of vehicles drives the back streets toward downtown. Soon the sky opens up and the Seattle weather begins thick rain starts hammering down and the wind picks up. The storm begins, as you pull up in front of the club, local Wifi signals are glitchy like something is going wrong. Tachikoma’s sensor systems experience problems he remembers this problem from a time before, something that the metahumans called gremlins.
   The clubs front has a line but using Marak’s VIP ID badge they group passes through into the interior. The inside is light intermediary and unlike a normal night this club has a bad going, without speakers. A sign on the wall says “Gremlin Night” in glow in the dark paint, the bar is lit by candles and lanterns. Using the side stairway the group heads to the second story. Here almost all electronics die, the tables here are not packed one two have people sitting at them. One a group of giggling club girls trading drinks, the other has a single person sitting at it reading a paper back book by the light of a lantern.
   As the group approaches the man looks up, he wearing a button up shirt, jeans, a duster and cowboy boots with spurs. Also you notice a gun belt holstering a six shooter and a wand?  “What do you want?”

[Marak1972]

Marak leans against the walk lettin one of the faces handle this. He observes the room and keeps a look out for trouble
8d6.hits(5) → [2,1,6,2,3,2,2,6] = (2)

[Crossbow]

Smiley moves with the merchandise, having left the gold and the locks, to the table.  A wink to the ladies before putting his back to them and concealing their business.

"Alestor, I am Smiley.  I appriciate you taking the time to see us.  We have an item we need some background on, including possible uses for it and, if you can, a ballpark fence value should we be interested in parting with it. We are pressed for time, so know this, at present this item is promised to another, we are looking to you for information, for which you will be compensated, but not as a potential buyer."

Once he believes that he has made himself clear he will stand and present the open box to the investigator, still subtly blocking the view of the other table.

 

[Marak1972]

Marak will move to block the view of the table but continue to watch the rest of the bar

[Netzgeist]

As Smiley has taken the front lead as the primary face on this situation, Rybka decides to act as support. By the time being, she just stays there looking pretty, all the while observing Alestor behavior and reading his body language.

[SeriousOne338]

Alestor closes the soft back book, it's just an old penny novel, looks up. "So your the ones she said needed someone with the occult knowledge, is this the item you want to know about? whats it doing, that you can't look it up on that net thingy?" Alestor asks as he reaches for the box, "Humpf, thats a nice piece of self warding work on the case. Can I open it or is the case just what you  want to know about?"

[Marak1972]

Marak becomes a coiled spring on hearing the conversation ready for things to go sideways

[Crossbow]

"We did our due dilligence with our net resources, but, as I am sure you are aware, such matters are not always helpful in this arena."

 

[SeriousOne338]

"So what info do you need? so far its a self warding box." Alestor says. He keeps looking at the box



((OOC: he asked if it was the box you wanted to know about, as it is closed. So are you going to show him the book?))

[Crossbow]

(OOC: Okay I tried to make this clear by PM but I guess there is some disconnect between what I am writing and what you are hearing.  THE BOX IS NOT CLOSED  When I was confident that Alestor understood the parameters of the meet, I presented the open box and stood up to block the other table's view of the contents.   I will now continue on IC as if I hadn't done that yet.)

In response to Alestor's question Smiley grins and lifts the lid,  "As long as we are clear, I present to you 'The Blood'. "

 

[Marak1972]

Marak tenses a little while thinking ' The other shoe should be falling momentarliy mon" 

[Marak1972]

Another bout of writers block??

[SeriousOne338]

'Humm the Blood, never heard if it well never thought I'd heard of it. " he picks up the book and shivers a bit. "Bad Ju Ju here, let me see ' He reaches into an inner pocket of his Duster and pulls out a pair of reading glasses. You notice he did not read the novel with glasses so it seams a bit odd. After reading a page he puts the book down and slides it back across the table "If I was you I'd burn that. Nothing good will come from that book, so what do you need to know?"

[Crossbow]

"I am not sure if burning is an option.  We need to know what could be done with it, because we were hired to aquire it.  Thing is, we already know we were underpaid, but getting an understanding of this would let us know what we are into."  Smiley puts the book back in the box and closes it, then settles into his seat.

"I mean if the guy is looking to off himself in a creative way, or get back at a squeeze for giving him a rash, that is one thing.  But some us ain't down with being the Kool-Aid delivery man for Jonestown or bringing UBro pamphlets to the last game the Bulls ever played at home, so ka?"

 

[SeriousOne338]

'Ok short end, bad ju ju. Semi longer end, were talking zombies, spirits and other weird crap that well mother nature ain't ganna like. personally I'd burn it wash your hands and get lost, or plan B burn it and shoot the guy that wants this kind of book. This thing got some great leads to power, I personally don't want to know. "