--------- Nina Reynolds PrP --------- Nina's Plot Log has now started. This PrP Involves: Nina Reynolds, Scarecrow, Akito ------------------------------------------- CashPayout: Each PC 10,000 nuyen <> Just the night before Nina had a meeting with Akito in the Tube Cafe about the magical group she is trying to organize. In that meeting it was determined that Akito should be introduced to the other members of the group. This scene begins with Nina emailing Akito-> Location A, 2 hours. Meeting with Stormcloud and Mist if you can make it. Nina Reynolds then email's Scarecrow-> Belle Isle Park, 2 hours. Meeting with potential group member if you can make it. Nina then prepares her gear, which isn't much and heads out to get something to eat. After a meal at a pizza joint, Nina takes a taxi down to Belle Isle Park and arrives approximately 20 minutes early to the meet. Nina pays the taxi cab driver and gets out, moving across the parking lot and then deciding to take a rest on a bench there in the open and enjoy the nice nearly cloudless sky and the cool light of the waxing moon. Having received the e-mail after coming home from his daily workout, Akito read it, and gathered up his own small sampling of gear. Most of it is left locked securely within the trunk of his nondescript Jeep, which he parks along the street in the southern edge of Belle Isle's parking lot. He then moves onto the island itself, hands tucked into the billous pockets of his favored vest, walking along until he runs into Nina. Scarecrow has his comfortwear. ALl the hooded cjakcet and sweats has to offer. He doesn't carry much, hist a pocsec and a knife. Sneakers, jeans and a black bandana to tie his knotty dreads back. He is out the door and on his way through the streets of Detroit. Soon finding himself within the dry conditions as the rains finally stop. Heavy Winds seem to bless him on this day. He loves the air rushing on his face and can't hide the smile as the moves through the rustling trees of the parks trail. Nina Reynolds has been shifting her vision into the astral frequently, looking for the two familiar auras of her associates and its a pleasant smile which comes to her face as she spots one of them moving from a parked jeep towards her. Nina's vision slips back into the mundane world and she stands up from bench, "It is good you could make it.. I feel we are moving along swiftly in our desire." Nina doesn't spot Scarecrow yet, for he seems to have perhaps have gotten to the island before her and is deeper in the island walking the trails right now. Wind moves through the trees on the island, offering a soothing sound of motion and life. The sound of the small waves on the islands edges can be heard from the parking lot, a tugboat horn sounds and a freighter on the wide river blows its loud horn in response. The air here on the island is fresh and clear, rumored magical spells been told to surround this island to purify it from pollution. Anyone looking in the astral plane can verify a large bubble over the island shifting with a silvery sheen. "Hai. I came as soon as I got back from the gym," Akito replies evenly, stopping to stand in front of Nina as he withdraws his hands from the confinement of his vest's pockets. "Where is this other you wished for me to meet? I did not see anyone else as I walked from my car to the park. Could he or she be here already?" Scarecrow hmms as he wanders the trail a bit, going where the wind takes him. He stops as the rustling of the trees grow within a his area. A brief shift astral perception and then a casting, he attempts to take in what life is within his area, just to be aware. His hands fan his fingers out to his sides as he gathers the force of the wind around him. The silver feather at his wrist twirls with a shine as he focuses and extends his senses outward and along the wind. Scarecrow pages: Sorcery 4 + SP 4 + 2 Detection Focus. vs. tn6 (unseen) Scarecrow pages: Drain. Will 6 + 1 Sp + 2 Detection Focus vs. force 4 / 2 - tn2S. Scarecrow rolls 9 dice against a TN 2 for Nina Reynolds: 1 1 2 3 3 3 4 5 9 (7 successes) Scarecrow pages: Cleaning Astral Sig. Sorcery 4 + SP 4 + 2 Detection Focus. vs. tn4 , base time 4 hours. Scarecrow pages: Drain. Will 6 + 1 Sp + 2 Detection Focus vs. force 4L Scarecrow rolls 9 dice against a TN 4 for Nina Reynolds: 1 1 3 3 3 3 4 10 11 (3 successes) <> Scarecrow becomes alerted to the fact that there are three shamans within his radius of knowledge. Two are conversing about 80 meters away in a small clearing. One is in a meditative trance inside a circle summoning an elemental.. and then there are two other signitures at the far reaches at 115 meters from scarecrow back near the parking lot. The familiar aura of Nina Reynolds (Mist).. and another which seems to be a Physical Adept standing before her in conversation. Nina Reynolds offers to Akito, "He should be here soon.. his is an air elementalist and goes by the name of Stormcloud. He's a gentleman and an honorable individual and I've grown to trust him swiftly for he has proven himself to me without any doubt." she motions to the bench, "Shall we wait for him here?" Scarecrow lights up one hundred and twenty metters of astral sense to feel out what things lurk in the woods and the extended area as he looks for one specific person. He finds who is looking for but is curious as to what others he makes out in the area. Thier positions noted as he drops the spell and begins to realign the mana energy to its original state and removing his signature. The wind blows as he enters within Nina and Akito's area. His eyes do, wander off to the third person's direction. Akito nods his assent, and suits actions to words by taking a seat on the bench that Nina just vacated. He places himself at the end, giving her plenty of room, while his hands rest together on his thighs. "Hopefully he will be here soon." He keeps half an eye out, although not having any clue what Scarecrow looks like, he can only guess what to look for. Nina Reynolds rolls 7 dice: 1 1 3 3 5 5 9 Nina Reynolds takes a seat next to Akito on the bench, with a healthy respectful gap between them and inquires, "You said you lived near here eh?" Scarecrow comes into view of Nina and Akito. Nina hears the sound of Scarecrows boot on the gravel pathway to the parking lot and turns and looks. A smile comes to Nina's lips and she stands, "Koma.. Stormcloud has arrived." motioning to the man nearing from the path. "Hai. The Newman. It is not much, but most of the time, it's quiet," Akito replies. He seems about to say more, but saves the comment for a later time, as Scarecrow shows up. The Asian turns to regard the one called 'Stormcloud', and nods towards him. Scarecrow is an ork, that goes by the name of Stormcloud, Scarecrow being another alias to hide behind. He walks in slowly as he takes a good look at Akito for a moment. His hands stuffed into his jacket pockets of his jacket as the blook hooded sweatshirt gahters his bandana tied dreads within the downed hood. He nods to Nina as he moves to arms length at her side and says,"Koma. hey.." He speaks in a dulled out German accent. "Konban wa, Stormcloud," Akito states a bit stiffly and formally, bowing at the waist towards the air elementalist. "I have heard many good things about you from Mist. Perhaps we can learn from each other." He doesn't offer to shake hands, not comfortably with that uniquely American custom. Nina Reynolds steps back as the men greet each other, offering to them after they have met each other with what they want to say upon their first encounter, "Shall we take a nice walk along one of the paths to chat?" and she turns moving towards the path where Scarecrow had emerged from to lead the way in a leasure and slow pace, her hands out of her pockets. Nina bends and picks up an pinecone and moves it from hand to hand as she speaks, "Koma is perfectly accepting of the strictures. He stated that the material link was something he also desired for the safety of the group being able to find him if need be. He seems a nice person as well and lacks those distasteful personality quirks that Worg holds. Namely.. he's easy to talk to and not aggressive in his nature. If you want Koma.. can you tell Stormcloud just a little about yourself so we can start to get a feel about you a little bit?" and she continues strolling up the path, just entering the forested area now, walking by the dim light of the moon. Scarecrow gives a small bow and quickly mentions," Where not alone.." He shifts his finger to a direction and says,"Some sort of summoning within that direction a few ways off. another magical presence in the area. I would question our privacy within this area." He turns back to Koma and asks,"Good to meet you too." He looks over to Nina with some concern as she breaks from the group to enter the forest. Frowning as Scarecrow relays his findings, Akito tenses a little, immediately becoming suspecious of the unknown mages on the island. "I lot of magic is done here, but I think I might agree slightly with Stormcloud." He pauses to gather his thoughts, and then continues. "As Mist pointed out, I am a physcial adept. I specialize in swordplay, stealth, and athletics. I also can prepare items to receive enchantments, and can forge blades. I already have the equipment for a weapon's shop, but I've no place to set it up." Nina Reynolds shifts her vision into the astral plane, moving along slowly as not to stumble, "I will keep watch in the astral for spies.. please.. continue on." Just then: Back deeper on the island in the forested areas a scream, a woman's scream can be heard. Most certainly its the sound of someone in dire need of help and fearing for their life. Scarecrow looks over to Akito after the scream and moves closer to the woods and says,"Now adays you can never tell a scream of help from a scream of passion. Mist, ... which one do you think that was.. last thing I want to see is a hairy butt bobbing out the bushes." He squinrts his eyes ito the astral and looks back to Akito. In the distance a woman screams out, "HELP ME!!." Nina looks to Scarecrow.. um.. crap. Nina's hand darts behind her back as she pulls out her narcoject pistol and she starts racing down the trail as best she can towards the screams. "And me with only a knife. Tsch." Reaching up to the small of his back, Akito pulls out a Cougar blade, holding the pommel so that the long, curved blade rests along his forearm. He moves to follow Nina initially, and then picks up speed, quickly rushing for the sound as fast as his legs can propell him. Akito takes out his Cougar Short Blade from the folds of his clothing. Scarecrow sighs as he lets the armed people lead the way. He for a moment seems to just zone out for a second and close his eyes. He stands still and allows his magic to do the work for him. Clairvoyance seeming to stretch out in the directions of the scream, hoping to see what is there. Scarecrow pages: Sorcery 4 + SP 4 + 2 Detection Focus. vs. tn6 Scarecrow rolls 10 dice against a TN 6 for Nina Reynolds: 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 (0 successes) ------------------ Scarecrow pages: kp 1/1 -1 ------------------ Scarecrow rolls 10 dice against a TN 6 for Nina Reynolds: 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 11 16 (2 successes) Scarecrow pages: Drain. Will 6 + 1 Sp + 2 Detection Focus vs. force 4 /2 - tn2S Scarecrow rolls 9 dice against a TN 2 for Nina Reynolds: 2 2 2 2 4 4 5 8 9 (9 successes) Scarecrow pages: Cleaning Astral Sig. Sorcery 4 + SP 4 + 2 Detection Focus. vs. Force 4 Scarecrow rolls 10 dice against a TN 4 for Nina Reynolds: 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 (5 successes) Scarecrow pages: Drain. Will 6 + 1 Sp + 2 Detection Focus vs. force 4 Scarecrow rolls 9 dice against a TN 4 for Nina Reynolds: 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 10 11 (4 successes) Scarecrow pages: no drain. Nina Reynolds seems to nearly be able to meet Akito's speed, she also is in some way tweaked with enhanced speed, the two racing forward down the trail as Akito manages an instant of more speed, both racing along and ducking and turning on the path as agile beasts only frequented in the world of the awakened and bio-enhanced. The sounds of the woman screaming are pinpointed in direction at an unknown distance.. but they quickly fade to silence. Scarecrow's clairvoyance spell changes his point of view into the area of the screaming and he visually perceives a woman.. a shaman within a summoning circle. The shaman is laying within the circle curled up in pain, most certainly injured badly. A figure bends over the shamans' form and yanks a necklace from her body and then turns and dashes towards the eastern edge towards the shoreline. Scarecrow snaps back into his mind as he quickly speaks,"THe shaman within the circle, a woman was just injured and had a nackalce taken away from her buy a figure who is now racing towads the shoreline, away from out location..." He now starts to head off behind Akito and Nina as he just balls up his fist, regreting not bringing some sort of gun. Nina Reynolds misses Scarecrow's information, her heart beating in her ears, the wind racing past her face and the sound of her and Akito's feet slamming into the path as they race along. Thanks to his enhanced senses, Akito has no trouble at all making his way in the darkness of the park. He doesn't catch enough of Scarecrow's comment to make sense of it, so just keeps running alongside Nina, hoping that she has a clue as to where they need to be going. Nina Reynolds turns and swerves with Akito and then calls out, "Wait!" and she grinds to a halt and starts back two paces and then leads down another path, "Down this path!" Scarecrow damns as he hopes they heard him. He kicks himself for not having a taccom with transducer on him. He looks over his area as he tries to keep up with the two. His feet on the ground as he is not much for stealth at the moment. <> Scarecrow can see Nina ahead about 40 meters skid to a stop and then backtrack and race down a side path. Akito is then seen in the main path as he must have been leading the race before the side trail was taken by the woman. The sound of a large engine speedboat can be heard started on the east side of the island and then it roars loudly. It must be a very big engine watercraft, perhaps even a speed racer type. Gritting his teeth, Akito skids to a stop, planting his feet to regain traction. He's worked up a good sweat by now, as he follows Nina along the side path. He's cursing under her breath, although the waste of breath doesn't seem to do much to slow him down. <> A clearing opens up before Nina and Akito.. within that clearing is a circle of trinkets and bones and feathers and the like.. a summoning circle. Within that circle is a female human of about 30 years of age laying on her side in a ball groaning in pain. <> The quiets down for an instant and then roars loudly again and can be heard moving to full throttle, most certainly someone wants to get away from the island at max speed. Nina Reynolds stumbles to a stop in the clearning, breathing hard to catch her breath and then she moves her vision into the astral world to check the area.. concern for wandering spirits. Scarecrow races to catch up with the two as well as trying to see if the woman is ok. He looks over to Nina halt and go as he just makes his way towards the woman in a snap desicion. He can't do much unarmed as it is but keeps his high stepping full tilts dash on. Meanwhile, Akito uses his own limited senses, empathically looking over the woman within the circle to try and get some sense of what just happened to her. His eyes narrow, and they pulse with bright light for a moment. Akito rolls 3 dice against a TN 4: 1 4 5 (2 successes) From afar, Akito's using empathic sense on her. <> Akito determines through empathic sense that the shaman is in a panic, was surprised by the attack and is frantic for her own safety now. <> Scarecrow-> Please +roll your Biotech. Scarecrow rolls 2 dice: 3 9 Nina Reynolds is searching the astral plane for a while before Scarecrow races into the scene and rushes towards the shaman whom is laying on the ground. Nina sweeps her vision back to the mundane world as she assures the area free of any threats for the moment. Scarecrow stops on a dime as his knee skids on the ground. He looks over the womans wounds with gentle hands and starts to position her to lessen the trauma of her injuries. He Checks her pusle and does applies first aid to her almost immediatley with what ever is handy. <> Scarecrow notes with his knowledge of the human body that the shaman's eyes are dialated and perhaps she has a concussion. She also has a large bump on her head and a mushy eye as if she was punched very hard in the side of the face. <> Scarecrow-> Roll Biotech to apply first aid please. Scarecrow rolls 2 dice: 1 5 <> Scarecrow is able to get the woman comfortable for the most part, though he is unsure if he is able to actually improve her physical state beyond calming her down and having her conserve her energy. Nina Reynolds's narcoject pistol is still in her hand as she paces, hearing the roar of the speed boat racing off towards the south and growing distant. Nina slips her pistol back away from view and moves to kneel down beside Scarecrow to also look to the shaman, unsure what to do. "She was surprised by this attack. Whoever it was, caught her when her attention was focused on her ritual," Akito relates, his eyes fading to their normal luminense. He slips his blade away, and then moves over to offer what aid he can. "I have some skill with medicine. I just wish I had a medkit." The woman (shaman) looks to Scarecrow with her one good eye. At first she flinched and pulled from his touch in panic.. but as he comforts her she grows calm. Nina Reynolds pulls her shoulderbag around in front, "Here.. I've got one in the bottom of my bag.. just a sec." Scarecrow shakes his head as he wishes he could do more. He looks off into the distance of the speed boat and closes his eyes. He places his hands on his knees as he kneels by the injured shaman and extends his sight again into the CLairvoyace in the direction of the speed boat. Hoping to catch, something off the images. Nina Reynolds bends down and starts digging towards the bottom of her medkit. It takes her a while, but she soon pulls out her medkit and hands it over to Akito. Nina looks concerned and worried for the woman, her breath still quick from the sprinting. Scarecrow pages: Sorcery 4 + SP 4 + 2 Detection Focus. vs. tn6 - - Drain. Will 6 + 1 Sp + 2 Detection Focus vs. force 4 /2 - tn2S - - Cleaning Astral Sig. Sorcery 4 + SP 4 + 2 Detection Focus. vs. Force 4 - - Drain. Will 6 + 1 Sp + 2 Detection Focus vs. force 4 Scarecrow rolls 10 dice against a TN 6: 2 2 3 3 3 3 5 7 8 9 (3 successes) Scarecrow rolls 9 dice against a TN 2: 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 10 11 (8 successes) Scarecrow rolls 10 dice against a TN 4: 1 1 1 2 3 3 5 7 10 15 (4 successes) Scarecrow rolls 9 dice against a TN 4: 1 2 2 2 3 4 5 5 8 (4 successes) <> Scarecrow-> please roll perception. Scarecrow rolls 5 dice: 3 5 5 5 13 <> Scarecrows vision races to the edge of his limitations, just barely breaking the edge of the forest and breaking out into the shoreline of the island. On the island is a small fishing boat and standing beside it on the shore is a teenage boy and his girlfriend mostly nude and standing, watching off to the south. To the south a speedboat can be seen in the distance.. The speedboat is low and sleek and very fast.. but the quick thinking of Scarecrow lets him view the name painted on the back before even that is too far away to make out. "Wet Dream". Akito is busy working on the shaman, meanwhile, using the medkit's computer to suppliment his own skills. He brings out a cold back, breaking the capsule within it and placing it over her eye. "Shh... calm down, miss. You are okay now, but you may have a concussion." <> Akito-> Please roll Biotech. Akito rolls 3 dice: 2 2 3 Nina Reynolds rolls 1 dice: 8 <> Akito's efforst are kind in nature.. and well.. they don't do more harm, but they dont' help heal the woman either. Nina Reynolds watches after the shaman and Akito's skill with the biotech kit, he's obviously had more training than she has and she reminds herself that she should ask him to teach her a few things. Nina then looks around the clearning for clues, she has no clue who the assailant could have been. The shaman takes in a few deep breaths and mutters, "My necklace.. necklace.. I must.." Scarecrow snapes back into his mind as his eyes open and says,"The thief, got away in a speed boat. .. Got the name of the boat, not much else." He looks over to the woman,"Seems as if he got away. for now. You should rest..." He looks over to Akito for a moment as a tusky frowm developes. He rises to his feet as he checks the area, for foot prints leading to the shoreline. He takes out his pocsec and activates the digital camera. Akito tries to hush the woman, carefully setting her down on her back with his vest, hastily removed, as a pillow. "She had a necklace stolen," he whispers to Nina and Scarecrow, taking hold of the woman's hands and placing them on her stomach to try and keep her still. "Someone should call an ambulance for her." <> Scarecrow-> Please roll perception. Scarecrow rolls 5 dice: 2 3 3 3 5 <> Scarecrow finds what be footprints.. maybe a picture is a good idea to make sure later. Nina Reynolds nods to Akito and yanks back her sleave, "Of course." ashamed she didn't think of it sooner her fingers move to dial up an ambulence service. The shaman fights to get out her needs, "I must get my power focus back.. please help.. I can't.. you'll have to..... I can send a couple watchers to trail the necklaces link to me.. and enslave the watchers to one of you who can see astrally so they can lead you to them.... please." Scarecrow nods as he looks over to Akito. His eyes trying to determine where this person's footprint might be within the ground. His natural lowlight of the area seeming to help him a bit. He looks over to Nina,"Don't have a cell I can spare at the moment." He places a corperate scrip note next to it and takes a picture of what might be a foot print, the flash giving a split seconds worth of verification that it might be. He looks over the photo within the pocsecna nd then enters the size of the scrip note, calculating the size of the foot print. <> Scarecrow's pocsec figures that if it a footprint, it must have been made by an ork, determined by the size and depth of the imprint in the pine needles. The person must have been quite heavy. Nina Reynolds gets the ambulence service on the wristphone, "Yes.. this is Nina Reynolds," she reveals her true name, "I have witnessed the assult of a woman on Belle Isle Park within the forested area.. she has been beaten on the head and bashed in the face.. can you send an ambulenence please...." Nina spends her next moments explaining things and arranging things on her wristphone, her face illumintated with a soft green glow from the flipup vidscreen on her wrist. Akito steps away from the woman once Nina gets in touch with the emergency services, and then looks to her. "She says that she can send a couple of watchers to follow her necklace. It's a power focus, which would explain why it was stolen. I cannot see astrally. Would one of you be willing to let her enslave a watcher to yourselves?" Nina Reynolds looks up to Akito, "Sure.. either of us could do that." Scarecrow notes the information. His math spu helping him out in a fast and clear calculation as to the most probable identity or the suspect. He notes it and looks over to Nina make a call. He lowers to Akito's side as he says,"Well.." He looks over to the woman's condition at the moment and comments to her in a quiet voice,"That might be risky in your current state. you need to rest. And I have to ask a few questions. One is, are you willing to go to the hospital, just nod your head yes, or shake it no. And second. do you know the person taht took your necklace?.." The shaman woman nods her head yes about going to the hospital but she then speaks, "I did not know the person.. it was a large ork male with only one tusk... it is not a trouble to get the watchers.. I have several waiting in the spirit world for my calling already.. it is a simple task." "Let her do it, Stormcloud. Denying her will only cause her more stress," Akito states, standing upright. He repositions the knife at the small of his back to the top of one of his boots, so that should the authorities arrive, they won't spot it immediately. Scarecrow nods as he says,"Ok. Well, If it can be done then..." He rises and nods to Akito,"I'm fine with having a watcher on me." He eyes the area and steps back as he lets Nina and Akito talk things out. Nina Reynolds collects up the details of her medkit after her phonecall is complete, "They said an ambulence is on the way.. but we should get her to the parking lot if she can move.. if not.. we should send someone to the parking lot to lead the medics back here to her." Nina Reynolds starts packing the medkit back away into the bottom of her shoulderbag. The shaman closes her eyes a moment. In the astral plane two watchers materialize and await their masters commands. The shaman menally orders each watcher to track the power focus link to where the necklace is located. She then spends the minor effort to switch the loyalies of the watchers.. one to Nina, the other to Scarecrow and instrcuts the spirits to report the necklace's location back to their new owners. The watchers zip off along the magical link to the necklace at the speed of thought. The shaman opens her eyes, "One watcher has been linked to you," looking to Scarecrow, "the other is linked to her," motioning to Nina, "They will find it swiftly.. the link is a strong path and they can find it simple enough. They will report back to you so as to lead you to it." She then closes her eyes to rest. Scarecrow hmms as he looks off into the woods and says,"I can wait here. the speed boats anme was Wet Dream. couldn't make out the make of the boat. just the name." He points to the general direction it was heading. Scarecrow corrects himself,"Well. Maybe I'll go then.." He almost smirks as he just makes the wrong choices for that brief moment. He nods to the shaman and says,"Just rest here..." in a reassuring voice The shaman shakes her head and then opens her eyes, "No.. fear not for me.. I will summon a spirit I have in my control and instruct it to meet the EMTs at the parking lot and guide them to me... .you can leave me.. please.. the necklace is very important to me." Nodding to the shamanatic woman, Akito stands back upright, foregoing picking her up. He turns to Nina and Scarecrow. "Shall we retrieve this woman's item, then? Oh, how will we contact you once we've gotten it back?" he thinks to ask, turning towards the shaman woman once more. The shaman informs, "The watchers should have one service left after you succeed... either of you linked to them now can order them to find me by using the same link from the necklace." Scarecrow nods as he says,"Yeah. We should, as I would wish that it would be done for me... if I was ever in a situation like this." He clicks his sight into the astral and then looks around for the watcher. <> The two watchers have vanished from the area.. already having zipped off to find the necklace. <> Scarecrow and Nina can 'feel' their link to the watchers now.. the astral gift of power over the small spirits. Nina Reynolds stands and shoulders her bag and then looks around, "Okay.. well.. we don't have a boat.. it went off to the south though... should we follow in your Jeep koma?" "Hai, that will work. It's not very fast though, I must confess," Akito replies, using some of the items from the summoning to replace his vest as a pillow under the shaman's head. Redonning it, he trots for the parking lot, saving his strength for the moment and keeping the pace slow. Scarecrow feels so naked at the moment, having nothing but a pocsec. He nods and says,"Yeah, that would be our best bet, as time might be of the essense..." Nina Reynolds nods and turns to the Shaman, "We'll get it back for you.. rest." and then she turns and jogs after Akito, herself not knowing about the boat down on the shore by the teenagers. Nina Reynolds rolls 3 dice against a TN 4: 2 4 7 (2 successes) Nina Reynolds rolls 3 dice against a TN 4: 2 5 5 (2 successes) Nina Reynolds says, "Cool.. watchers are succeeding in the trace." Scarecrow follows behind Nina as he mentions,"Seems as if I know of someone that can give us soe help. We still need someone to lead the medics to the shaman. There are two youths by the shoreline. Maybe they can be of assistance?..." His voice carrying to Akito and Nina as he follows. Nina Reynolds glances back, calling to scarecrow as she jogs, "The shaman said she was going to have a spirit of hers materialize in the parking lot and leads the EMT's to her." Nina Reynolds thinks Scarecrow is tired IRL.. forgetting details. :-) Scarecrow ohs as he must have missed that last part about the spirit leading the EMT's. A bit distracted yess as he tally-hos into a situation with nothing but a pocsec. He lets it go, and just tries to keep focused on the matter at hand. Akito slows down as Scarecrow calls out. "How would they be able to help? Unless they had a boat, or saw something..." He keeps jogging for the parking lot, since it seems to be the only viable option at this point." The trio of heros make it out to the main path where they need to take a left to head to the parking lot. Nina Reynolds calls to Akito, "He was saying they should lead the EMT's to the shaman." <> Two shamans step out into the main path, they look curious as to what all the screaming and stuff that has been happening is all about. Akito slows to a halt as the pair of shamans step out onto the path, and he points over his shoulder. "There's an injured shaman back there. Someone assaulted her while she was doing a summoning. Could you keep an eye on her until paramedics arrive?" <> The two shaman's rise to the occasion, "Of course." one of them comments. The other is more quiet and only nods and they both head off in the direction instructed. Akito does a quick empathic sense on both of them. Akito rolls 3 dice against a TN 4: 2 4 4 (2 successes) Akito rolls 3 dice against a TN 4: 1 4 5 (2 successes) <> Akito senses that both of the shamans feel concerned for their safety, untrusting of Nina, Scarecrow and Akito.. but they both seem willing to help if someone is truely in danger/injured. Scarecrow soon lets the thought of detecting enemies go as the shaman race towards the woman. He keeps moving to the jeep. THe wind picking up within the open area as he eyes the sky. Feeling the link of the watcher pulling his astral sense to another direction. Nina Reynolds starts jogging again, following the path towards the parking lot. It isn't long and the trio of heros spill out into view of the parking lot. There are only four cars in the parking lot, one of them being a jeep on the far south side. Akito digs his keys out of his front pocket, and slips them into the lock, reaching inside to the panel to unlock the driver's side door as well. "Come on, we have to hurry." The vehicle's interior is immaculate, but that doesn't help the fact that there's not much room for passengers. It's not a very large vehicle, after all. <> Nina and Scarecrow's watchers materialize in the astral plane near them, sending a tingling feeling through the both of them to alert them that they should astrally connect in order to communicate with their watchers. Scarecrow snapes his attention back into the astral world. The windy blobs and blurs of astral reality flowing around him as he tries to pinpoint the watcher. Nina Reynolds slides to a stop at the jeep and starts around the front and heads for the passengers side.. but thats when she gets a tingling feeling and she considers what it might mean. o 0 (Of course). Nina stops, leans on the side of the Jeep and shifts her vision into the astral plane. Immediately her watcher is seen hovering before her, a little flying squirrel of magical shifting colors as it reveals to her the same thing that Scarecrow's watcher is revealing to him as well-> "The necklace is in the hands of an ork male.. he is standing on a dock by many boats south of here." Akito stops short of getting inside as both Nina and Scarecrow pull up short. He frowns, trying to be as patient as possible while he groupmates commune wit their spirits Nina Reynolds instructs the watcher, "Lead us to the location." and then she moves, mostly by feel to the passengers door and opens the door and climbs in, climbing into the small back bench seat, "My watcher has found the necklace.. I will maintain my vision into the astral realm as we travel.. it will lead us." Scarecrow gives the same instruction to his watcher as he says,"Lead me to the neckalces location." He glances over to Nina as he takes the backseat for himself and shifts a bit to get comfrotable,"Anyone got a spare gun?... smartlink II would be nice." He finds a comfrotable position and just keeps his eyes pinned on his watcher. Nina Reynolds responds from her position in the backseat, "I've only got my narcoject.. I'm sure my shockglove would be way too small for you." "I don't use guns. Too random," Akito replies, firing up the small engine and quickly pulling the Jeep out of its parking spot. "Where are we going?" he asks, driving out of the lot but slowing as he nears the intersection. Scarecrow nods as he says,"I think I would just end up shoking myself to tell the truth. He just gives a snicker as he is just left with the flash of his pocsec to ward off any potential dangerous situations. Nina Reynolds calls out, "South on Riverfront.. I think its going to be the marina.. the watcher said the ork is on a dock.. with lots of boats around." Nina Reynolds keeps view on the watcher in the astral world. As they pass through the silvery sheen encompasing the island the brilliant clear colors muddle a touch and get a bit dingy.. back to the normal city polutions and disruptions of the pure astral realm. The watcher leads the way ahead of the Jeep, slowing down to let the Jeep catch up. Scarecrow hmms as he nods and plans his stratagey for that situation. Wondering if this ork will be alone or meeting another. He relaxes a bit and says,"I'm a rifleman... not accustomed to short ranges so. I like to keep my distance." Akito keeps the jeep just above the speed limit; the last thing he wants to do at this point, is to draw unneeded attention to himself. The traffic's relatively light at this hour, so he's able to pull into the marina while only cutting off a couple of people. <> The marina comes into view in the distances, only a few vehicles on the road at this time of day/night. A small porsche pulls out of the marina up ahead and moves off towards the west, picking up speed. Nina Reynolds speaks to them as they near the marina, "The watcher is hovering over a dock in the marina.. yeah.. its the right place alright.. he's still there I think." <> Scarecrow's watcher though, having been a slightly different instruction is more precise and thus his watcher is chasing after the small Porsche that is leaving the scene. Scarecrow points to red Porshe as he says,"Necklace has changed locations.. its in that Porsche, the Red Porsche.. He points his hand over Akito's shoulder as he makes himself heard. He makes a fist and closes his eyes as he tries to place his sight into the Porsche, hoping he can make out something. Nina Reynolds says, "Who said it was red? :-)" Akito says, "It's ALWAYS red :)" Nina Reynolds says, "heh" <> Scarecrows spell can not reach the porsche.. it is outside his spell area. Akito whips the Jeep out of the turn late, praying under his breath that there isn't a patrol car nearby to see him do that. He tries to follow behind, but should that sports car excelerate any... Nina Reynolds leaves her vision in the astral and looks forward to where Scarecrow's farmiliar aura is pointing and she spots his watcher following the machinery/vehicle. She calls out to those in the jeep, "If this jeep can not keep up with that vehicle we will loose the necklace. Can you drop me off here.. I will try and overpower the ork and take him hostage so we can question him.. see what he knows. It sounds like he was the hired thief or thug.. he may know how to get ahold of whom has the necklace now." Scarecrow stops the spell before he draws too much attention and says,"Damn.. can't make out anything. out of my range. .. " He sighs as he looks over to Nina and then thinks about the ork.. Umm. your going help.. or .." He seems concerend and torn as to what to do. Akito brings the Jeep quickly over to the curb, eyes glued to the Porshe as it starts to pull away. "Make it quick, folks, or we lose the necklace..." Nina Reynolds reaches behind her and flips up the rear door of the jeep and starts to climb out the rear of the vehicle. <> The porsche turns to the right, moving out of sight around a building. Scarecrow jumps out as he hopes the watcher can keep a good track of the necklace. He rushes behind Nina and just ignores the fact that he is barehanded. The stride in his walk seems as if he means to take care of business. The wheels of the Jeep bark as it pulls away, Akito trying desperately to catch up with the sports car. He turns the same corner, and gazes rapidly about, trying to find the car as he digs out his cellphone. Nina Reynolds calls into the jeep as her eyes shift back to the mundane world, "Be safe." she warns Akito and then closes the back flipup door and latches it closed. Nina moves to meet up with Scarecrow on the sidewalk. She stops and looks into the astral, "My watcher is hovering above that marina building.. I think the ork is inside." she shifts her vision back to look at Scarecrow, "Okay Stormcloud.. the marina has its own security.. so whatever we do.. we can't be acting like muggers.. we've got to play it smooth." she starts walking, crossing the street to walk towards the driveway that leads down to the waters edge and the marina, "What's our plan?" <> Akito-> Please roll perception. Akito rolls 3 dice: 3 4 5 <> The Porsche is not far ahead yet.. but its putting more distance between itself and the Jeep Akito is driving... On a side note: the smell of Nina's strawberry shampoo is still lingering in the back seat of the jeep. hee. Nina Reynolds says, "If you want to speed up/chase the porsche.. you can roll your car driving skill to close the distance." Akito rolls 3 dice: 1 2 5 Akito spends a KP. Akito rolls 2 dice: 1 5 <> Akito's skill at the wheel closes some of the distance with the Porsche.. lucky for Akito and the shaman whom had her necklace stollen.. the driver of the porsche doesn't seem to notice he's being followed yet. The porsche stops accelerating and it continues north on this street. Scarecrow takes a calm breath as he says,"You shoot him with the pistol. I mind probe him for the info... Your a good shot right?.. if anything. I could help out with that.."" Nina Reynolds considers the plan, "Sounds good... but if he suspects something I might not be able to tag him if he's jacked for speed and fast... hmm.. I could turn invisible and sneak up on him.. male ork.. one tusk... We can find his boat and wait in it for him to return to it if you want.. I tag him while he can't see it coming.. and then we get him into the boat and you mind probe him?" they've walked about halfway down the marina driveway now.. only 30 more meters to go before they reach the building where a security light illuminates a door . Nina Reynolds thinks . o O (Mind probe? Very nice.. remember not to think bad thoughts about Stormcloud.) Akito blinks away sweat as he continues to tail the Porsche, doing his best to keep track of his current location. Fortunately for him, he's got an uncanny sense of direction, so that part won't be too hard to handle. Scarecrow looks over the area and says,"That sounds perfect... Not much I can do before that. but he doesn't know our faces actually...I just hope he's mundie.." <> The porche slows and then stops at a red light. A green ford pickup truck stops behind it, the only vehicle now between the porsche and the jeep, the light allowing Akito to catch up completely now. The plate of the porsche though is hidden by the pickup truck. Nina Reynolds nod and concentrates as she walks, looking around and then dropping her astral vision after telling the watcher to make itself scarce and return to its world until she calls it back for its last service later. Taking the opportunity to wipe his face with the back of his shirt sleeve, Akito regrips the wheel, feeling a little better about his chances. He glances at the phone for just a second, making sure that the light's not going to change, debating calling Nina. He decides not to do so, instead concentrating on recovering the stolen item. Nina Reynolds says, "Improved Invisibility: Force 3, Sorcery 5, +3sp, +3 Focus= 11 dice tn 4. Drain 4(M)/2 TN2.. Willpower 6, +2sp, +2 Focus= 10 dice TN 2" Nina Reynolds rolls 11 dice against a TN 4: 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 5 5 7 9 (6 successes) Nina Reynolds rolls 10 dice against a TN 2: 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 7 10 (10 successes) Nina Reynolds says, "7 succeses intelligence needed at TN3 to see through invis. NO drain." Scarecrow looks over to Nina,"Might aswell use Mindlink to stay in contact.. I don't have my tranduced taccom with me at the moment. " He looks over as Nina vanishes. and blinks. He can't see her in the physical world and switches to the astral. Nina Reynolds blinks out of mundane view but keeps walking with Scarecrow, "Mindlink sounds good. I'm going to head down to the docks and look for his boat.. what was the name of his boat?" <> The light turns green. Scarecrow rolls 10 dice against a TN 4 for Nina Reynolds: 2 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 14 (6 successes) Scarecrow rolls 9 dice against a TN 2 for Nina Reynolds: 1 1 3 3 3 4 5 7 11 (7 successes) Scarecrow pages: tns for drain was 2D. L drain. <> The Porsche flips on his left blinker at the last instant and then screams off to the left, cutting off oncoming traffic which was going straight. The move puts the porsche off on a big lead again as the pickup truck moves straight through the intersection.. but this leaves Akito waiting for a few cars to pass before he can turn left. Akito grits his teeth, as he keeps his eyes focuses on the porsche. Shit. He taps impatiently on the steering wheel, and once he gets his chance, throws caution to the wind and tries to get what he can out of the little motor. Akito rolls 3 dice: 3 4 4 Scarecrow grits his teeth as he soon manages a mind link with Nina and says . o O(Wet Dream...) He smiles a bit but rubs his head as he just casted way too much. He curses his impulsive nature and says through mental speak . o O (I'll come from the opposite side, maye send him towars your direction if he gets on. But I;ll just be lingering.) Nina Reynolds thinks across the link. o (Okay.. I'm on my way now). and then Nina pads off thorugh the well lit area, completely nothing to see in the mundane world.. only the soft patter of her feet as she jogs past the guard shack and towards the docks. <> Akito doesn't loose the Porsche yet, its still ahead an in view.. but the drivers little test to see if it was being followed perhaps has confirmed a tail as a Jeep screams after it the instant the option is available to it. Scarecrow has the same range on his mindlink spell that he has for most of his tricks. He moves in the opposite direction hoping to flushout this crappy ork into spilling his mental guts. <> The restroom door opens and out steps a large ork male with one tusk. The ork looks pleased with life and happy with the way things are going for him as the door closes behind him. The ork offers the guard in the shack a nod and a wave and then he turns towards the dock. Nina has just made it to the dock, unaware as of yet that the ork is behind her about 20 meters. The ork is about 5 meters in front of Scarecrow, his back to the air elementalist, not thinking him a threat. The guard in the shack goes back to reading his datascreamsheet on his datapad. Akito watches the Porsche, hoping perhaps to find a way to mask his tailing. A vehicle he can put between himself and the sports car, a turn that the adept could make a shortcut around to allow him to catch up, anything... <> If the streets were more busy it would be a simple task.. all that separates teh porsche and the jeep is 200 meters of paved road. The light ahead of the porsche turns yellow and it screams its tires and passes through just before the light turns red. When the Jeep will reach the light.. it will most certainly involve unknown crosstraffic if Akito wants to run the red light to catch up. (Hey, I got him 5 meters from my current locaton. His back to me..) O o . Scarecrow passes to Nina as he thinks . o O (Not going to try anything yet.) His images braodcasted to Nina as he keeps a sly eye on the ork. With a loud, relunctant sigh, Akito slows to a stop. Even given this late hour, it would be just his luck to pull out in front of a tractor trailer. He tries to keep track of the fading stoplighs on the sports car, his hopes dimming as the lights do. Nina Reynolds slows, disoriented by Scarecrow being in her mind again, something which will take her a few times she's sure to get used to without being confusing to her mind. Nina stops and turns, looking back as she spies the large form of the one tusked ork back behind her walking under the security light. She looks beyond to the guard shack and then to scarecrow (Guard in shack) she warns. And then Nina takes out her narcoject pistol and slowly starts to move down the docks, looking for a speedboat named "Wet Dream" checking the back of each boat where they paint their names. Nina Reynolds rolls 3 dice against a TN 5: 4 5 11 (2 successes) <> The guard seems engrossed in his reading.. but something catches his attention and he looks up as Scarecrow nears his post, "Hello sir." he offers. He doesn't recognize Scarecrow though so he inquires, "Can I help you?" <> The Porsche can be seen across the traffic as the light is red. The porsche turns ahead on the next block to the right(north) again just as the light at the Jeep turns green. The porsche is out of view with a full city block now separating Akito and the next stoplight. Nina Reynolds rolls 7 dice against a TN 5: 1 1 1 4 4 10 11 (2 successes) Scarecrow looks over to the guard and takes out a blunt as he says,"I need a light.. must have lost my lighter.. can you help me out..?" His eyes squinted by the light headache, the ganja a good reason to try to help with the pain. It takes Nina a good forty five seconds to locate the right boat and the large ork has made it to the docks, the sound of his feet on the planks making her nervous as she glances back and sees him walking towards her location. Beyond the ork she sees Scaercrow back at the guard shack. o 0 (Oh man..) <> The guard considers for a moment and then nods and pulls out a lighter and hands it over to Scarecrow, "Finally stopped raining.. everyone is out walking now at night." Once the light turns, Akito accelerates smoothly away, muttering mantras under his breath as he makes for the street where the Porsche turned. He turns at it, trying to act casually. All the while, he's sweating bullets. Scarecrow lights his blunt as he says,"Yeah.. I like windy days like this." He gives a small smile to the man's kindness and hands his lighter back. He puffs a few drags from his blunt and offers the guy some. <> After the turn, Akito confirms that the road ahead contains porsche within view. <> The guard shakes his head, "Can't smoke on duty. .thanks though." he accepts his lighter back and pockets it, "You heard? The redwings are thinking about trading Volkosvski away to the Mariners." Scarecrow shakes his head,"Didn't hear. man. Thanks for the info. I have to use the bathroom though... I guess I'll go find a quiet spot. somewhere...." he nods to the Gaurd and starts to head away. Akito pulls the Jeep into an available parking spot. Switching off the lights, he pounds his head a couple of times into the steering wheel, cursing foully. (I got halted by the guard. Seems as if I got snagged on our plan. finding an alternate route...) O o . Scarecrow thinks as he relays this to Nina in aduio briefly. <> The guard offers, "No.. go ahead and use the restroom right there.. its chill." and points to the restroom door on the outside of the client building. Nina Reynolds thinks . o O (okay) Nina Reynolds climbs slowly down into the speedboat and curls up in the back right corner on the floor with her narcoject pistol held in her right hand, cloaked in the magical yarn of invisibiltiy. <> The one tusked ork makes it to his boat on the dock and looks around, he chuckles to himself and mutters, "Easiest thirty G's I've made all summer." and then climbs down into the low speedboat below dock height, his weight shifting the boat a bit as he climbs in. Nina Reynolds rolls 4 dice against a TN 3: 2 3 4 8 (3 successes) <> Ork was 4 successes short of seeing Nina. Nina Reynolds holds her breath and remains silent, hiding. Nina Reynolds thinks . o O (I'm in his boat hiding.. he doesn't see me.. he's moving towards the bow I think now to untie.) Scarecrow stops as he turns back,"Oh. ok. thanks chummer. your a good sort." He gives a tusky smile as he heads towards the bathroom. He makes his way quickly as if he had to go really bad. He looks over the area by the bathroom carefully before entering, seeing if he has a window to sneak his way into the docks, past the guard. <> Scarecrow-> Please roll perception. Scarecrow rolls 5 dice: 1 1 2 9 9 <> Scarecrow spots a window on the dark side of the building which could be used for his intended purpose.. though its rather small and will take some serious effort to get his big ork self through. <> A street professional, female elf steps up to Akito's window and knocks on it, "Hey big boy.. want some fun?" Scarecrow i a tall but lean ork and tries to calculate if he could fit through that window at the side of the building. He moves into the bathroom and gets straight to working on the window, first being to check it out for any alarms. Akito blinks rapidly, and turns to stare at the elf for a moment, before an idea occurs to him. "Iie, no. But, you could earn some really quick cred if you answer me a question. Did you see a red Porsche come this way?" <> There are no alarms on the window and Scarecrow thinks he can manage the exit. <> The prostitute elf nods, "Hell yeah," she chuckles, "Not many of those come by.. especially with a plate like that." she laughs, "My kind of guy," referring to the owner of the porsche. Scarecrow opens up the window and starts to snake ans slide his way out as stealthy as possible. He waits into both feet are on the ground before making his way towards the docks within the cloak of shadows. Akito sighs with relief, and digs out five ten-spots for the woman. "What was the plate, and which way did it go?" he askes, holding the money close enough to the closed window for her to see the scrip. <> The large one tusked ork moves to the front of his boat and unties the moring rope there and coils it and then comes back towards Nina. <> The elf woman offers a grin, "The plate was.. .. let me have the money and I'll tell you which way it went." she teases with some cleavage. Nina Reynolds raies her narcoject pistol slolwy, silently as she aims at the large ork as he moves toward the pilots seat. Nina Reynolds rolls 6 dice against a TN 4: 1 1 2 2 2 3 (0 successes) Nina Reynolds uses KP. 1/1 -1 Nina Reynolds rolls 6 dice against a TN 4: 1 2 2 3 4 5 (2 successes) Nina Reynolds says, "Ork's body 7 TN 7 (stage up from 6D to 7D from 2 successes)." Nina Reynolds rolls 7 dice against a TN 7: 1 1 2 5 7 11 11 (3 successes) Akito shakes his head, peeling a couple of the bills away and tucking them back into his pocket. "Tell me which way the Porsche went, and you get that money back, and perhaps a tip as well." Nina Reynolds squeezes the trigger from her position down on the floor and the silenced air powered pistol shoots out its chemical dart at the back of the large ork. It's a risky business using chemical designed for the average human on a large ork. The shot is accurate and the small dart implants itself into the back of the ork. By the time the ork should be unconcious on the floor he's still standing, though groggy and confused and swatting at his ass where he thinks a bee just stung him. <> Ork at Serious stun. <> The prositute considers and then offers, "He turned left at the next light." <> Stormcloud can see the large one tusked ork. The large ork is standing near the controls of the speedboat and he curses out in pain as if just bashing his finger with a hammer or something. The front of the boat is slowly drifting away from the pier. The two bills are returned, along with another one to go along with it. Akito lowers the window and presses the money into her hand. "Easiest money you've ever earned. Go home and take the night off," he states, as he turns the lights back on and waits for her to move. Once she has, he quickly heads for the next left, and takes it at a leisurely pace, looking for that distinctive plate. <> Akito-> Please roll Perception. Akito rolls 3 dice: 3 5 7 Scarecrow seems to just work his way onto docks as he spots the ork, getting away. He sighs as he starts to move faster on the planks of the dock and wonders, how.. is he going to ... stop this guy. <> Akito spies the porsche as he passes an alley. The distinct red sports car is parked in an alley about 10 meters from the opening of the alley. The brief glimpse shows a man stepping from the car and opening up a door on the left side of the alley. Nina Reynolds gulps as the ork doesn't go down and the next dart chambers into the gun to be fired. Nina's heart beats in her ears and her breath quickens in fear and she takes aim on the orks ass once more. Nina Reynolds rolls 6 dice against a TN 4: 2 2 3 5 7 15 (3 successes) Nina Reynolds rolls 7 dice against a TN 7: 1 2 2 3 4 10 11 (2 successes) <> The single tusked ork grunts, "Damn the frag'n wasps." and reaches for his ass.. both hands now on his ass as he turns he doesn't get far before he falls face first on the floor of the boat and lands with a loud thud and crack of his nose as he lands near Nina's hiding position. o 0 (Ork is down.. repeat.. ork is down.. holy crap that was close.. like tranq'ing a bear). (OK, See the boat, see the Ork.. the boat is drifting from the dock.) O o . Scarecrow switches his perception into the astral to try and spot Nina. Akito finds the nearest spot to park, and pulls in. Paying for an hour's worth of time at the meter, he rummages around in the trunk until he's found his stun baton, and his ski mask. Both are pulled out, and he tucks the AZ-150 as much out of sight as he can manage. Stepping out, he makes for the alley, stopping to peek around the corner. <> Ork took 2 serious stuns. Nina Reynolds is crouched down in the back of the boat. The boat has drifted away from the dock about 2 meters so far. Nina can be seen standing up slowly and nudging the ork softly with her foot. <> In Alley-> The porsche is turned off and locked up. The license is . Their is a door to the left of the vehicle that is closed, a maglock on the wall next to it. Scarecrow moves to where the speed boat was docked. He waits at the edge and doesn't attempt jumping. He eyes Nina and takes a calm breath as she deals with an unconcious ork. (Ok. one part down... call up Koma.. see whats his progress is like on the Porsche) Nina Reynolds nods. o 0 (Okay), she pulls her sleave back and presses in Koma's phone number.. ring.. ring vibrate.. vibrate. Nina Reynolds rolls 7 dice against a TN 5: 1 2 2 2 5 5 7 (3 successes) Akito almost yelps in surprise, as his cell starts to vibrate inside of his vest pocket. He quickly yanks it out, almost turning it off before he sees the number. Sighing, he answers it in a whisper. "Hai? What is going on?" Scarecrow works a way to get on the boat by hoping on a large boat and jumping down into the speed boat. He land and then kneels by the downed ork s he begins to cast his ways. THe orks unconcious stae making his attemp questionable. Nina Reynolds cocks her head to the side as something catches her attention, a small black nylon bag on the passengers seat of the speedboat. As she chats on the phone she moves to the bag and opens it up (Bingo.. a whole crap load of cash in a bag here.. his payoff I think). Nina Reynolds speaks quietly into her wristphone, "We have the thief, he's unconcious and we're going to mindprobe him to see what he knows.. I just found a bag of cash too. How is your luck going?" Scarecrow smiles as he thinks . o O (Nice.. lets take that for out troubles...) He then attemps to dive into the roks mind. His mind liking with the orks as he focuses. Nina Reynolds reaches in a hand and grabs a fist of cash and pulls it out to show Scarecrow, "UCAS script." Akito glances about, to see if anyone is watching him too closely. "I managed to follow it to an alleyway, not too far from the marina. The driver went inside a door, that is maglocked. I cannot get past it." Nina Reynolds says, "OOC note: 30,000 nuyen in cash submitted with plot." Scarecrow pages: Sorcery 4 + SP 4 + 2 Detection Focus. vs. Willpower - - Drain. Will 6 + 1 Sp + 2 Detection Focus vs. force 4 /2 - tn2S - - Cleaning Astral Sig. Sorcery 4 + SP 4 + 2 Detection Focus. vs. Force 4 - - Drain. Will 6 + 1 Sp + 2 Detection Focus vs. force 4 Scarecrow pages: err. drain 2D. +1 for Light Stun, Nina Reynolds listens to her phone and then responds, "Okay... I have an electronics kit at h.. oh wait... Maybe I can use some magic to make Stormcloud look like this thief ork here.. have him come knocking at the door to make them open up?" . Scarecrow drops the mind link as he attempts to Cast a Mind Probe.... "That sounds find to me. Here's how to get to my location..." Akito glances around for street signs, and then offers directions to his present locale. Meanwhile, he keeps an eye out for trouble. Scarecrow rolls 10 dice for Nina Reynolds: 1 2 2 2 3 3 5 5 7 8 Scarecrow rolls 9 dice against a TN 2 for Nina Reynolds: 1 2 2 4 4 5 9 11 13 (8 successes) Scarecrow rolls 10 dice against a TN 4 for Nina Reynolds: 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 (5 successes) Scarecrow rolls 9 dice against a TN 4 for Nina Reynolds: 1 1 1 2 2 4 5 8 9 (4 successes) <> Akito's location is farily safe.. the area of town doesn't look like there is rampent crime. Nina Reynolds speaks into the wristphone, "Okay.. we'll be there as quick as we can.. be safe." she then hangs up her phone. "Hai." Akito hangs up, and waits for the others to arrive, impatient to get this task completed. <> Scarecrow is alerted by his astral link to the watcher that the watcher.. sometime in the recent past has been destroy'd.. it must have been discovered. Scarecrow feels resistance at capturing the thoughts od the sleeping ork. A light breeze over the orks face as minds seem to meld. Scarecrow is fcusin as he tries to place the puzzle of thoughts into comprehensible pictures. Scarecrow speaks to Nina as he focueses,"The watcher.. is gone.. its been destroyed... somehow.." <> Scarecrow is able to pull some images and information from the drowzy sleeping orks mind-> Porsche owner is named .. he was paid 30K to stalk a shaman and plan the theft of her necklace in an isolated location and get the necklace to Slick Al. Slick Al works for a nasty fellow named .. the ork doesn't know much about Mr. Deets. Scarecrow tries to find the images of who he just delt with. "Necklace was given.. to a person named. Slick Al... Slick Al works for Mr. Deets.. He was hired to stalk the woman. and steal the necklace.." Nina Reynolds stuffs the money back away and then stuffs the bag into her own shoulderbag for safe keeping and nods to Scarecrow, "Crap.. that means they have someone magicaly active." Nina Reynolds frowns, "This sucks.. At least Koma.. shit!" she pulls her wristphone into the open and presses redial and she speaks to Scarecrow, "If they found the watcher.. then they know they've been tail'd.. Koma might be in danger." This time, Akito doesn't jump when his cell begins to vibrate. His eyes continue to roam about as he slips it out, glancing at the number. "Hai?" Nina Reynolds speaks quickly into her phone, "They detected the watcher and destroy'd it.. they know they've been followed." Scarecrow finishes hacking into the unconcious orks mind as he rises to his feet. He takes in a deep breath and says,"I think this is getting a bit on the complicated side." He peers around the area and just wonders what the next move is. <> In the alley-> The side door bursts open and a man with a SMG comes into view, heading for the Porsche as two more men exit behind under his protection. all moving for the Porsche. Nina Reynolds glances around, now the boat has drifted a few more meters away, "We need to get to Koma," she states to Scarecrow. "Hai, I know. But he thinks he lost me. I was lucky enough that I found someone that had se- shit." Akito presses himself back against the wall, around the corner from the alley. "They're on the move. Three of them, one armed with a submachine gun. They're too far away for me to attack." Nina Reynolds speaks into the wristphone as Koma's voice is heard by all in the boat, "Be safe and stay at a distance.. we still have my watcher we can use to track them... finding the shaman can be done by tracking down the ambulence service info on my call... just be safe Koma." Scarecrow turns to the conversation and says,"Hmm. I think we need to work things out carefully... He eyes the ork and then moves to steer the boat back towards the dock. Akito replies, "I plan on it." With that, he hangs up, and slips further down the street, looking for a pair of cars to crouch between, or perhaps somewhere else where he can conceal himself. As Scarecrow starts the engine of the speedboat and idles it slowly back to the edge of the dock, Nina moves up to the bow slowly and carefully as she puts her narcoject pistol back away. When the boat gets up close she tosses the rope up over the hook on the dock and starts tying the boat off with care. <> Akito can find a vehicle to hide behind easily. As he does such.. the Porsche squeels out of the alley in reverse, whips around and then peels off heading west in a panic. Scarecrow wonders for a moment as he loks over towards the ork,"You think they are coming back to get him?...." His qutions directed at the ork. He smirks as he saysm"Maybe.." He stops the engine of the boat and moves towards the dock. <> The ork on the floor of the boat rings.. or rather.. a cellphone in his pocket rings. <> The boat is tied back off now and connected to the dock. Nina Reynolds is on the bow of the boat, looking back at the ork on the floor of the boat and the ringing sound coming from the sleeping body. Akito notes the direction that the sports car peels off in, as he hurries back to his Jeep. He slips inside, fires the engine up, and follows it, having a sneaking suspesion as he hits the speed dial to ring up Nina. Scarecrow moves to take the phone out of the pocket and holds it out to Nina. He Asks,"Change yourslef into him.. and speak in his voice..." <> The red porsche screams down the street as if the driver is despart to break the sound barrier. As luck would have it.. just as Nina's phone starts to ring the porsche runs a red light and gets broadsided by a bread delivery truck. The porsche spins at the impact and flips and slides on its side into a parked car and stops... its tires spinning, smoking tires from melted rubber. Scarecrow has seen Nina do this before, though, not liking the suprise as when it was done on him, but now. the perfect time to take care of this. Nina Reynolds nods to Scarecrow but then her phone vibrates, "I have a call coming in on my phone.. could be Koma.. you want me to take my call first or the orks?" Akito quickly pulls into a nearby gas station, parking his jeep by the tire refilling station. He watches the accident warily, as he waits for someone to answer the phone... Nina Reynolds says, "No use driving my RP'ers into unconciousness by making the plot run on a long time. :-)" Scarecrow blinks as the place is just vibrating and beeping with cellphones. He looks over the numbr of the call and then lets it ring for a bit. Take your call. let this one ring." He holds the phone, unanswered Nina Reynolds presses the answer button on her phone and speaks, still invisible the woman on the bow of the boat talks as if a spectral voice in the air, "Koma?" "Hai. The three in the porcshe are out of the picture. Ran a red light, and got broad-sided by a delivery truck. I can't tell if there is any movement, but they won't be getting away. Going to try and retrieve the goods." Akito steps out of the Jeep as he hurries to the car. Nina Reynolds nods at her wristphone, "Okay. but remember rule number one.. be carefule." <> The orks phone keeps ringing. Scarecrow keeps the phone in his hnd and takes note to the number incase he has to do a triagulation operation from the matrix cellular grid. "I will. I am going to keep my phone on," Akito states, clipping it to his belt as he runs over to the overturned vehicle. Trying to pretend like he's looking to help, he draws out his blade from his boot, ready to hack at anyone that might have survived. Nina Reynolds climbs back off the bow of the boat down next to scarecrow and then drops her imp. invisibily spell and suddenly materializes next to Stormcloud, she can be seen talking into her wristphone. She leaves the phoneline open on her wrist and then examines the ork on the floor closer in the poor lighting. She's heard him talk a bit, not much.. but a bit. Nina concentrates on her spell to take on the form of the ork laying on the floor. Scarecrow holds the ringing cellphone out to Nina as she takes shape as the one-tusk ork. His eyes sort of holding an anticipations, hoping the person on the other sider will stay on longer. Nina Reynolds says, "Physical Mask: Force 3 sorcery 5 +2sp +2 foci = 9 dice TN 4. Drain 5D / 2=3 -1 fetish TN 2. Willpower 6 +3sp +3 foci= 12 dice TN 2." Nina Reynolds rolls 9 dice against a TN 4: 1 1 3 3 4 5 5 11 15 (5 successes) Nina Reynolds rolls 12 dice against a TN 2: 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 5 5 7 7 11 (11 successes) Nina Reynolds says, "phew" Nina Reynolds morphs into the one tusked ork, shoulders growing, tusk forming and taking on a certain rough look as she/he snarls at Scarecrow, "Give me da fuck'n phone." she says in a gruff voice and takes the phone from Scarecrow's hand and answer it, lifting it to her ear, "WHAT!?" she says into the phone as if pissed in her deep ork voice. Nina Reynolds covers the mic of the phone and looks to Scarecrow, "I can hear something going on.. but nobody is talking.. I think they dropped the phone." <> Akito doesn't see any movement in the porsche.. as he rounds the vehicle and can see through the broken/spider cracked windows he can see three people inside.. groggy and disoriented and confused people that don't seem "with it". Akito quickly drops down and starts looking for the necklace, patting pockets if he needs to do so. Scarecrow hmms as he ohs and nods. He takes a calm breath and says,"OK.. time to head out of here..." He starts on his way out of the docks as he he walks on the planks. Wondering if he can get past the guard without problem. <> Akito-> Please roll perception. Akito rolls 3 dice: 1 4 5 Nina Reynolds turns off the phone and pockets it for now and then climbs up out of the boat, speaking roughly to Scarecrow, "I'll keep this shape.. tell the guard you and I are going out for a smoke or something... that work?" Scarecrow nods as he says,"Perfect..." He keeps the ork at his side and relights his blunt as he walks. He smiles to himself as he doesn't pass the ganja over to the ork/Nina. <> Akito sees a SMG laying on the ground outside the vehicle.. he also spots a briefcase laying under one of the men's shoulders. The men are slowly regaining their wits.. moaning as they're coming out of confusion. Nina Reynolds moves up from the dock with an old pack slung over her/his shoulder and in moments they are passing the guard shack. Nina/Ork nods to the guard, "Yo.. we're go'n for a smoke.. catch you in a bit." and then she farts and rubs her tusk and moves up the driveway towards the main road with Scarecrow. Akito reaches in as quickly as he can, pulling out the suitcase. The SMG is pushed far enough away to be out of the occupant's reach, but still close enought that, when KE arrives, they'll arrest them for posession of an illegall firearm. <> Akito notices the bread delivery truck has rammed a building once it was out of control. The driver is slumped over the wheel and the horn is blaring, blood is on the window. <> Two cars stop in Akito's general location to gawk at the accident. Scarecrow contains a chuckle as he knows that was a real fart under that well used disguise. He just smiles as he aviods looking at the guard. His expression somewhat calm and mellow as he puffs at the herb. Akito turns to the driver of one of the vehicles, and yells out, "Call Knight Errant! The people in that sports car have big guns! And we need an ambulance. My phone's dead." He hurries over to check out the delivery driver. Nina Reynolds makes it out to the road and drops her illusion once they are out of sight of the guard shack and she sighs as she lifts her wrist up and listens, muttering to Scarecrow, "Koma is yelling at people to call the cops and an ambulence... sounds like he's got a cool head and has things under control." <> The driver of the delivery truck appears to have a concussion and a lasceration of the scalp.. but has a strong pulse. Scarecrow nods as he finishes his blunt. Still wondering what to do about the necklace. His eyes just watch the street as he comments,"I guess when he's done there, he can pick uus up... man. I need a car." Once he's satisfied that the delivery truck driver is not in immediate danger, Akito uses the growing confusion to slip away from the scene, heading back for his Jeep. He pulls his cell up as he sets the briefcase on the hood, and pops it open to check its contents. <> More and more people collect around the accident and Akito slipping away becomes a very simple thing to do. <> In Briefcase-> Wood and Terquoise beeded necklace in black felt bag and a Datachip. "Mission accomplished. I have the item. Also a datachip." Akito can't help but smile, as he closes the case and slips into his Jeep. Firing up the engine, he asks, "Where are you? I'll pick you two up." Nina Reynolds looks to Scarecrow, the sound of her wristphone also alerting him of Koma's news, she responds, "Can you meet me in the parking garage of the downtown mall outside of J.C. Penney's?.. it's only a block from where we're at." Akito replies, "Hai, I will be there shortly." He hangs up, and proceeds at a leisurely pace around the accident, and to the mall, driving just over the limit so that he blends in with the other early-morning drivers on the road. Nina Reynolds only included the datachip as a plothook for our next plot. :-) Scarecrow hears the news and seems a bit pleased. Last second situation taken care of. He leans on the wall and says,"OK. Thats good to know. He lets the winds blow as he legs his knoty dreads loose from the bandana. The gusts of wind blowing with change well within this day. He nods his head a bit and looks to the sky, to give thanx. <> Nina, Scarecrow and Akito all meet up and take a breather. Nina uses her watchers last duty to lead them to the shaman's position and they hand over the necklace to its proper owner. The shaman is not wealthy, and what little money she had she used to pay her ambulence and hospital bill for her two day stay after her mugging. The three though were able to equally split the 30,000 nuyen found on the boat by the thief ork to reward their hard work.