1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Ah 2 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:14,440 All right, so as the door to Dean Petrov's office opens, it's a beautiful wooden door. 3 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,040 In spite of her anxiety, Cecile catches this. 4 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:22,960 It's a beautifully carved, exquisitely carved wooden door, obviously natural. 5 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:29,680 Swing's open to reveal a somewhat austere, minimalist, modern office. 6 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:37,280 There's a huge wooden desk facing the door with its back to the corner. 7 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,440 The walls are glass. 8 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,080 The corner walls are glass with it. 9 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,840 At any other time of year would probably be a beautiful view across the sound, but as 10 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,120 we said, it's raining. 11 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,640 Behind the desk sits Dean Petrov. 12 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:56,800 He's an older human male, short dark hair. 13 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:07,920 A rather hard looking nose and seated, rather casually on the side edge of his desk is a 14 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:13,680 woman of Asian descent, probably Chinese. 15 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,400 She is wearing her hair in a bob as well. 16 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:27,160 And she's impeccably dressed in a fairly high fashion business skirt. 17 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:35,080 And as you enter, she smiles at you and stands up and reaches out or extends her hand towards 18 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:40,080 you and she says, hello, my name is Alice DeVry. 19 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:41,080 I represent. 20 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:42,080 I should have. 21 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,160 Oh, a pleasure to meet you. 22 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,920 And Cecile will take her hand into a slight bow. 23 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:56,000 So you take your hand and Dean Petrov stands up and he says, yes, Mrs. 24 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,840 Cecile. 25 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:08,320 It turns out that we have the opening at another facility and we need somebody with 26 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,680 your particular talents there. 27 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:24,200 DeVry manages this facility and she is going to escort you there and explain the duties 28 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,680 of the new role when you get there. 29 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:32,040 I hope this is not too much of an inconvenience. 30 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:40,560 Unfortunately, you will have to give up some of your role here. 31 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:50,480 However, I assure you that your new duties will be equally as fulfilling and will continue 32 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,200 to count towards your studies. 33 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:54,320 How do it is? 34 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,680 This sounds like a great opportunity for advancement. 35 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,680 Thank you. 36 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,120 Alice smiles at you very charmingly. 37 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:10,480 She's obviously well trained and etiquette and she says, Cecile, I've heard 38 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,280 so much about you. 39 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,960 It would be wonderful to have you join my team. 40 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:23,040 I will explain all of the details as we go. 41 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:27,040 I have a car waiting for us outside. 42 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,840 Do you have anything that you need to gather from the lab? 43 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:30,840 From the lab? 44 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:33,680 No, I have everything here in my bag. 45 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,960 Ah, very practical. 46 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,240 I would have sent somebody to go get it. 47 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,320 Do you have any questions before we leave? 48 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,200 No, I think we'll figure it out on the way, won't we? 49 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,200 Exactly. 50 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,160 I'm so glad you understand. 51 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:55,880 Dean Petrov looks at Dr. Allen and says, Peter, could you just hang on for a moment? 52 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:02,280 The old orc looks at you rather pleadingly and then he shrugs and his shoulders go limp 53 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:05,840 and says, yeah. 54 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:08,800 Alice DeVrye sort of motions. 55 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,880 As these sort of go ahead motion towards the door for you, Cecile. 56 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,960 Cecile moves that direction as gracefully as she can in this moment. 57 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,120 Would you like to make another composure test? 58 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:23,120 Let's. 59 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:24,120 One. 60 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,920 Oh, your ability to keep it together is faltering. 61 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:34,760 Maybe that look that you got from Dr. L sort of put a crack in it or something. 62 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:41,640 Yeah, we're going to cut over to our other runners who have been neglecting. 63 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:48,040 And I am going to say that we're going to reconvene with them at this point where they 64 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:55,720 are gathering in the alley behind the soy bucks across the street from the campus. 65 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,760 Like I said, it's still raining. 66 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,480 It's actually more of a mix of rain and sleet at this point. 67 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:10,600 And even though you are downtown in the richer part of the area, this alley is not necessarily 68 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:11,600 pretty. 69 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,400 There are quite a few dumpsters and trash. 70 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:20,720 So where the various businesses take out their refuse, there aren't any homeless people. 71 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:21,720 There aren't any devil rats. 72 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:26,040 There aren't any ghouls, obviously, because it's downtown. 73 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:32,760 So in that sense, it's probably better than Auburn or Redmond or any of the other places 74 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:37,600 outside of downtown in Bellevue. 75 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,960 Kirsten is standing by the soy buck store. 76 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:42,960 Let's see. 77 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,400 Do we have a handout for Kirsten? 78 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:46,640 Do you write? 79 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:55,760 She's dressed in very, very fashionably for a young student barista. 80 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:00,200 We can never tell with them whether they're going out to a club or for a coffee or what's 81 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,960 going on. 82 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,920 She's waiting for you. 83 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:10,480 As soon as Boxer sees her, you remember now, you remember the whole thing of how you met 84 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,800 her back here. 85 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:21,480 That the creepy corp man had seen him already approaching her as she was fulfilling her 86 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,800 duties at Barista inside the soy bucks. 87 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,960 You could tell that she had brushed him off and he hadn't taken it kindly and he had waited 88 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:30,920 for her in the back alley. 89 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:35,280 You remember now that you had followed him into the back alley. 90 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:40,400 It was obvious to your trained eye that he was going with ill intent and sure enough, 91 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:50,320 when she came out to throw away some trash, he had accosted her and you had been compelled 92 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:58,040 to step in and knock him on his hoop and he had fled after a couple of rather succinct 93 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,600 threats from you. 94 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,120 That's when you had exchanged numbers with Kirsten. 95 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,960 You're pulling in with your bike at this point. 96 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,720 Am I taking it from here? 97 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:09,720 Yeah. 98 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,000 Probably a bit electric so I don't get to describe the roar of the motor. 99 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Oh, well. 100 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,600 She's not obnoxious enough to add that in. 101 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:26,280 Probably it comes standard on most bikes that you would buy that are for racing or combat. 102 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:32,280 It might not necessarily sound like an internal combustion engine unless you wanted to give 103 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:38,520 off that retro vibe but you probably have a more modern sound like the wine of a turbine 104 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:44,720 or something else like that, like a jet engine spooling up. 105 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,220 It is fake. 106 00:08:46,220 --> 00:08:49,680 It is a fake sound but everybody does it. 107 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:51,560 Fair enough. 108 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:59,400 The roar of the motor fades in, grows louder and dies within a quick period to Kirsten. 109 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:06,000 Foxer, of course, hasn't been hearing too much of it, her dutiful worn motorcycle helmet 110 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,920 protecting her ears. 111 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:16,000 She keeps it on as she dismounts, checks herself, her chest to see what it is to check her 112 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:21,360 vest, avoids studiously patting her hip to check her weapons. 113 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaking of which, what gear did you bring with? 114 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:34,920 She has the Yamaha Pulsar and the, okay, the Yamaha Pulsar, the Mercy Elan, which is the 115 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:36,080 holdout pistol. 116 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:42,680 That one is sneakily stuck in a boot and the Browning holster at her hip. 117 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:46,120 Or it's like concealed, is that the concealed holster? 118 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:47,600 No, it isn't. 119 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:53,960 That one's not like, it's not hidden like the other ones but it's not exactly advertised 120 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,120 the others, kept beneath a jacket. 121 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,400 I mean, it's fine. 122 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:03,800 It, you know, most people, a lot of people will be carrying weapons as it is. 123 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,520 It wouldn't be a problem unless you got stopped and asked for a license or something like 124 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:08,520 that. 125 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,240 It does have a license for that one. 126 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:18,280 All right, as soon as you enter the alleyway and get off your bike, the young woman jumps 127 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,720 up from leaning against the wall and rushes towards you. 128 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,000 I'm so glad you came, Boxer. 129 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:31,040 I didn't know what I was going to do, but my friend is in deep trouble. 130 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,280 She looks a little bit hesitant. 131 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:41,360 And then she says, yeah, my friend Cecile, I have a feeling the corp is going to get 132 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:42,520 her today. 133 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:47,440 I heard something that I probably shouldn't have heard and I saw something that I shouldn't 134 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:48,440 have seen. 135 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:49,880 I can't quite explain it to you. 136 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:55,800 I'll explain it to you later, but she pulls up her comm link and she shows you a picture. 137 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,400 And it's a picture of Cecile. 138 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,920 So you said dark hair, right? 139 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:01,920 Dark hair. 140 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:02,920 Chestnut brown. 141 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:03,920 Chestnut brown. 142 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:04,920 Chestnut brown. 143 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:06,920 Shoulder length bob. 144 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:08,440 Shoulder length bob, yeah. 145 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:15,280 Yeah, so Kirsten's obviously taken a picture of Cecile at some point. 146 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:21,040 Looks like she's wearing lab attire and it's in some kind of lab. 147 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:30,360 And she says, Evo's got a couple of corp security people in there and they called it to the 148 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:36,560 Dean's office and I think they mean her no good. 149 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:45,720 And at that point, Grace's van pulls into the alleyway and Grace, you see the person 150 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:54,880 that you know as Boxer or Ollie standing there talking to a young human woman. 151 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,240 This is like in the middle of the day, right? 152 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,480 It's raining, but it's the middle of the day. 153 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,480 People are out in the streets. 154 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,040 How, we're in a back alley, right? 155 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:07,040 You're in a back alley. 156 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,480 It's just the two of them, if we can make that work. 157 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:11,720 She's like 90-10. 158 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:13,320 This is a trap. 159 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,240 10% something weird is just going on and she's getting promoted. 160 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,840 It's a very odd promotion. 161 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:19,840 Very odd people. 162 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,400 Yeah, it's not what you expect from Evo. 163 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:30,440 They tend to be all about the sort of kumbaya kind of situation, but you're not getting 164 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:31,440 that vibe here. 165 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:37,560 Although, to be honest, yeah, you didn't do a judge intentions on Alice. 166 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:38,560 I was gonna. 167 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:39,560 All right. 168 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:41,840 You're too flustered. 169 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,320 Maybe when we get back to Cecile, that's where we'll pick it up. 170 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:55,160 But for the moment, we left off with Grace's van pulling into this rather for downtown, 171 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:59,960 rather dingy and messy alleyway. 172 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:07,000 And she sees the person that she knows as Ollie and Boxer standing, talking to a young 173 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,760 human woman who seems somewhat distraught. 174 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:27,920 And she pulls up in her blue bulldog step fan and pulls it to a stop. 175 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:29,080 The engine is quiet. 176 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:30,680 It's very humble looking. 177 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:36,800 It looks like something a suburban mom would have with the exception of the very, very dark 178 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,600 tinted windows. 179 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:48,880 There is like a vague bit of a movement visible, but it's not immediately apparent what is inside 180 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,800 or how many people are inside. 181 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:57,440 The driver's side just so happens to be facing away from them. 182 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:04,840 And then she opens the door with her magic, falls out on to the wet concrete. 183 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:15,160 She is wearing her cloak and some warm clothes underneath that, her practitioner's cap and 184 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:21,480 some little bootsees to keep the souls of her hooves from freezing. 185 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:31,160 She goes to the side door that leads to the driver's seat but the back seat. 186 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:37,760 And she grabs her saddlebags and some other loose objects that she had just tossed back 187 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,880 in there whenever she'd... 188 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:48,280 So one thing that we didn't do in the beginning, you described what Nightingale was doing, 189 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,280 but you didn't actually describe Nightingale herself. 190 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,160 So I'll do that. 191 00:14:53,160 --> 00:15:00,120 Yeah, give us a description of Nightingale and how she is actually manipulating, for 192 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,320 example, the saddlebags or the doors and things like that. 193 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:05,560 Okay. 194 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:13,360 Whenever she opens the door, she's just using a tug of psychokinetic force on the handle 195 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:19,520 and pulling it in and then budging it with effectively her shoulder, her side to get 196 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:20,520 it open. 197 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,720 And then she pushes it again with a hoof. 198 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:27,360 She falls onto the concrete, kind of half... 199 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:34,840 It's a half fall, half awkwardly gripping onto the seat as she does first her hind legs 200 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,720 hitting the ground and then her four legs. 201 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,880 She goes to the back, the side door, as I've been saying. 202 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,480 Is there another word for that? 203 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:45,480 Passengers side. 204 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,800 Well, the passenger side's on the opposite side of the driver's seat. 205 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:55,120 I mean the back seat, the door for that, the sliding door or the sliding door. 206 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:59,360 She pulls it open, she gathers up her saddlebags and some other things that she thrown back 207 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,320 there, pulls them on. 208 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:11,960 She's using her magic and thus her eyes very studiously to track it as she motions it up 209 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:16,280 around one side underneath her cloak and then the other and then buckles it underneath 210 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,520 her. 211 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:29,040 I imagine it may seem like there's someone gathering up like a scary shadow runner gathering 212 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:33,320 up kit when she's doing this. 213 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,440 Does the magic have any physical manifestation? 214 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,000 Not that they can see. 215 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,200 There is the glow of the magic and also the tinkling sound but then the cacophony of the 216 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:50,000 rain and Seattle sounds, it's not easy to see. 217 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:58,840 Maybe the faintest like glimmers of blue and nearby reflective surfaces away from like 218 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:04,040 on that side of the vehicle, perhaps. 219 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:10,520 She pulls on her saddlebags and she closes it, throws it shut by pulling on the handle 220 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,280 and she promptly steps around. 221 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:22,040 I imagine at first it seems almost like a dog, like a large dog, but a dog in like a 222 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,200 poncho for rain. 223 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,400 But there's no master following after it. 224 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:34,200 It's this small quadrupedal creature in a black coat with some kind of broad brimmed 225 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:41,280 hat which doesn't make sense for a dog and she trots up. 226 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:48,800 I imagine the little clop of hooves against rainy concrete is very distinct from what 227 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:52,480 you would expect from a dog or a person. 228 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,800 Again, she's alone. 229 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:55,800 It's alone. 230 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:03,000 She's not looking at the brim of the cap hiding her face and then whenever she gets up. 231 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,880 Has Grace ever been to downtown Seattle? 232 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,040 Yes, I imagine so. 233 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:16,040 So as you approach Boxer, you see Nightingale approaching. 234 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:22,520 You see the little horse that they've interacted with in a rather surprising manner before approaching 235 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:32,040 and you see that she appears to be fully kitted out and for a moment the incongruity of the 236 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:38,480 scene strikes you and then almost immediately that impression goes away again as you turn 237 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:48,720 and look and Kirsten is looking rather surprised and then she looks at you Boxer with a sort 238 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:54,680 of questioning gaze and you can tell she's thinking, what am I looking at? 239 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:55,680 What is going on here? 240 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,960 I did tell you to expect a magically active competitor. 241 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:03,040 I did not tell you to expect a metahuman. 242 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:09,320 The people we have to work with, they can be unusual. 243 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,360 Not that I can talk anyhow. 244 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:13,640 Do continue. 245 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,120 And she's dressed meticulously. 246 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:18,840 It's unusual for her. 247 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:29,800 She has some sort of fabric pulled over her tail so that it's just homogenous black. 248 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:37,640 She has gloves on, the kind you would expect not of a motorcycle rider, the kind with two 249 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:44,120 fingers, the thumb and the pointer cut out as though they were intended to be used for 250 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:47,320 a rather decidedly different purpose. 251 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:53,800 The helmet's still on, the face shield has been pulled up and those luminous eyes are 252 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:54,800 visible. 253 00:19:54,800 --> 00:20:02,120 It's at that point when Boxer is saying this that nightgale looks up at her, up to her 254 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:10,240 face and I imagine her entire face is visible before her gaze sweeps over forward facing 255 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:15,120 like a predator over to Kirsten. 256 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:17,120 That's her name, right? 257 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:18,120 Kirsten. 258 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:19,120 Kirsten. 259 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:22,280 Yeah, it says Kirsten but it's Kirsten. 260 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:26,000 Okay, Kirsten. 261 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,520 And it's still really confusing what she's looking at. 262 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:36,320 She can obviously now see the spiral horn sticking out of her forehead. 263 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:44,560 The very big fluffy ears which twitch and are swiveled, like they swiveled to the sounds 264 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,840 of the two talking. 265 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,320 Her eyes are huge. 266 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:58,280 They look human but they're huge and very, I don't know, her face, like her snoot, her 267 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:06,920 actual snoot, it looks like God took a normal animal and then like pushed it in the snoot 268 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:12,160 into its face and then kind of like curled it up a little bit so that it wasn't really 269 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:17,960 sticking out so much as like sloping as like a chin. 270 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:24,760 Like there's no chin, there's just a slope that leads up to the nose with a mouth between 271 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:32,080 the where that slope meets the neck and then goes up to the very nose of the snoot. 272 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:33,080 Okay, yeah. 273 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:38,600 Kirsten is looking at you with wide eyes and seems to be just looking back from you to 274 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:44,480 box her and back at you and she's having a little bit of trouble. 275 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,800 Woman, I am a walking talking cat. 276 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,080 Just get on with it. 277 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,080 We probably don't have much time. 278 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,960 She, oh yeah, weight job work. 279 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:57,960 Yeah. 280 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,680 Nightingale speaks. 281 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:01,680 She speaks. 282 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,920 It's coherent. 283 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,720 I do have some questions though. 284 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:13,720 I've never seen a metahuman and she just kind of glocks. 285 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:20,280 The, sorry, I was like, Kirsten makes a composure test and gets five hits. 286 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,960 But on her it's a tolerant individual. 287 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,800 And then you see she's just sort of, she does exactly what Boxer says. 288 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:35,400 She sort of does it, gives herself a quick shake and refocuses on what's actually important 289 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:42,960 and without thinking she reaches out a hand to Grace and says, my name's Kirsten and 290 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:48,960 then she sort of awkwardly pulls her hand back realizing that it's not going to work. 291 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:55,160 Nightingale, she says, I would shake your hand if I could, but I would fall over. 292 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,160 Sorry. 293 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:57,160 Okay. 294 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:02,560 So what I was telling Boxer and she looks at you again and she says, okay, so you can 295 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,440 understand what I'm saying. 296 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,480 What I was telling Boxer is my friend Cecil is in grave danger. 297 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:16,760 I look, she sort of resigns herself to, I'm not just a barista. 298 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:23,240 I have other jobs and part of those jobs leads me to hear things. 299 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:28,840 I know that I found out that. 300 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,720 Nightingale realized something. 301 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:35,960 She put two pieces together in her head and it all started making sense and she just nods 302 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:40,840 very emphatically. 303 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,120 Kirsten goes on, she says, yes. 304 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:52,520 So the company that we work for, that Cecil and I work for Evo, I think Cecil stumbled 305 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:57,080 into something she wasn't supposed to and they're going to make her disappear. 306 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:03,680 They've sent somebody by the name of, she looks at her comlink. 307 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:11,960 Alice DeVry, and from what I know, she's high level Evo secured. 308 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,440 Counter Intel. 309 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:23,920 So Evo are, are you cutting out? 310 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,320 Is this better? 311 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,320 Yes. 312 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:30,760 So Evo are the rich people that pretend to care, right? 313 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:31,760 That's them. 314 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:36,000 Okay, and your friend, what does she do? 315 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000 What did she do? 316 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,000 What does she do? 317 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,440 What's her job? 318 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:50,040 She's an intern like I am and we work in the lab, but Cecil's a lot smarter than I am. 319 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,400 She's got an internship. 320 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,880 She's studying. 321 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:59,320 I don't even understand what she's studying, but she's helped me out a number of times 322 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:10,200 and she's just studying, she's doing magical research for Evo and I just do data entry. 323 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:16,880 I don't, I'm not that smart, but, but she's obviously gotten herself into some trouble. 324 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:27,760 This woman, Alice DeVry, has been sent with a security team to the university and I believe, 325 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:32,120 I expect, obviously they're not going to do anything to Cecil on campus. 326 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:41,320 So they are going to take her somewhere else, wherever, where something can happen that, 327 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,280 you know, I don't know. 328 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:48,640 But I don't, if Alice DeVry, if this DeVry woman is involved, nothing good is going to 329 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:49,640 happen. 330 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,760 But I'm afraid we, we're really short on time. 331 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,840 We need to get over there and. 332 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,280 Okay, I can take you there. 333 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:06,840 I can show you where the lab is and I can, if I have to, I can get you in the door. 334 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:16,800 So, so just so that I understand, we are taking, is she just a magic researcher or is she a 335 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:22,160 magician, you know, she makes a motion with one of her hooves lifted off the ground for 336 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,160 a second mimicking. 337 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,160 Oh, yes. 338 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,040 She's a virtual formulae, poorly. 339 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,480 She's definitely, she's, she's a, she's a mage. 340 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,720 I'm not a mage, she's a mage though. 341 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:39,400 That's why she's got the position in the lab that she does. 342 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:40,400 Okay. 343 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:45,520 Well, you have a vehicle you can take us in. 344 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:46,600 I don't have a vehicle. 345 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,720 It's right across the street. 346 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,360 We just need to go out of the alley around and we'll be on campus. 347 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:52,360 Oh, okay. 348 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:55,640 Um, well, lead, lead the way. 349 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,640 Uh, right, we're going on campus. 350 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:03,160 Um, she looks, she looks at you and she says, I don't know how this is going to work. 351 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:04,160 Okay. 352 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,160 I'm going to disappear. 353 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,880 Um, I will still be with you. 354 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,240 I will not, you will not be able to, to perceive me and you should not perceive me. 355 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,440 Do not worry about it unless you hear me. 356 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:21,440 You fill me like poking at your mind or something trying to get your attention, which it wouldn't 357 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:22,440 even be poking. 358 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,440 I would just be talking to you. 359 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:30,320 Um, but it's you like, again, motions with a hoof at her head, like in your mind, you 360 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:31,320 know, yeah, 361 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,120 Are you going to cast mine at this point? 362 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:40,200 Uh, how does sustaining multiple cells work in this NIN4E? 363 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,480 You just take the modifier for each. 364 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,480 So it's minus. 365 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:49,920 Is it, don't you, can't you sustain one without the modifier or is one already? 366 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,520 That is with a quality up to a certain force rating. 367 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,280 Oh, no, she's never going to cast it. 368 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:04,080 She's she'll, she'll save that for, uh, or if she has to communicate something. 369 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,720 Or Boxer, anything from you? 370 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:14,760 Boxer, Boxer nods along impatiently as though like everything we're going unbearably slowly. 371 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,640 Then she whispers, I know. 372 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:24,280 She speaks directly to Knight, I guess so, Grace to Grace. 373 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,440 I want you to be on the lookout. 374 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,840 I want you to be on the lookout for any of their Astral defenders. 375 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,120 I can almost assure you that they'll have a spirit floating around somewhere. 376 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:40,360 I would not be at all surprised if they had a single wage mage around actually maybe more 377 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:41,360 than one. 378 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:48,480 Either way, what I want for you to do is make sure they don't make us into a problem for 379 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:49,480 the security. 380 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,440 Ideally, they will never know we are here. 381 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,440 Got it? 382 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:54,440 Sure. 383 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:55,440 Good. 384 00:28:55,440 --> 00:29:01,400 And, uh, at that point that Knight and Gale disappears. 385 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,640 Like at first her, her body just goes just like there's a, there's a, there's like a 386 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:11,200 click and her body's invisible, but her eyes are still like translusively visible for just 387 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,160 a moment before they're also gone. 388 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,680 Oh God, that's disorienting. 389 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,120 All right. 390 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:27,720 Kristin lead the way and if you can try and get a fix on Cecil's location, I would prefer 391 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,680 not to be walking in without at least knowing where she is. 392 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:37,000 Kristin pulls out her comm link again and she calls Cecil. 393 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:43,960 And Cecil, as you're walking out of the office with the house to Vry behind you, your, your 394 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,680 comm link goes off again and you see that it's Kirsten calling you again. 395 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:48,840 Like phone call? 396 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:49,840 Yeah. 397 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,200 Like a voice call. 398 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:57,000 Cecil declines the phone call, but texts back. 399 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,160 Where are you and what did you do? 400 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,160 Cause you're in AR, right? 401 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,720 So you're always in AR. 402 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,400 Almost always. 403 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:10,840 Sometimes Cecil has like one of those mindfulness moments where she turns off AR. 404 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:11,840 Sorry. 405 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:17,440 Imagine turning off your AR in the 21st century anyhow. 406 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:18,440 All right. 407 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:19,440 Okay. 408 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:20,440 So you text her back. 409 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:21,920 What do you text her back? 410 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,600 Where are you and what did you do? 411 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:24,600 Oh yeah. 412 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:25,600 Sorry. 413 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:31,480 You immediately get a text back and you guys in the alley, you see your first calling and 414 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,760 then texting back. 415 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,520 She says, I didn't do anything. 416 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:37,960 This is all on you. 417 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,280 I told you to come out to the soy box right away. 418 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,760 How was I supposed to know it was that important? 419 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,640 I told you it was life or death. 420 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:53,760 You said nothing of the sort or if you did you were incomprehensible. 421 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,240 Well it is life or death. 422 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,240 Where are you? 423 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:57,840 I'm with Ms. DeVry. 424 00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,920 She's taking me to a car. 425 00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:06,880 There's a moment's hesitation in the text and then Boxer and Nightingale, Kirsten says, 426 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,040 Kirsten says, she's a direct devry's gutter already. 427 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,640 We're going to have to move quickly. 428 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,360 And then she texts back to Cecile. 429 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:16,760 Don't trust DeVry. 430 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,960 Should we take the van? 431 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:19,960 No. 432 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,360 She says, we're almost there. 433 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:23,360 Okay. 434 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:29,920 I should note that while this is happening Cecile is asking DeVry very pointed questions 435 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,600 like, oh so you said you liked my work. 436 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:39,120 What parts of it did you really enjoy? 437 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:44,560 So she's been, she knows her stuff. 438 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:52,720 She's obviously been briefed extensively and she has, she's able to answer you quite 439 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,760 coherently on what's going on. 440 00:31:55,760 --> 00:32:01,920 What has attracted the corpse's attention about your research and how you've handled 441 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:10,880 it, the fact, you know, your diligence and your magical abilities have not gone unnoticed. 442 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:16,080 Does it sound evoey or does it sound like, you know, standard corpse? 443 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:22,240 It does not sound, no, it definitely does not sound evoey. 444 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,720 That was a Freudian slap. 445 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:27,720 Yeah. 446 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,720 It doesn't sound evoey. 447 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:42,840 She's, she does not sound, she doesn't have that sort of very stilted saccharine evo approach 448 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,040 communication. 449 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:53,000 Would Cecile have had enough interaction with evo to know that they don't do like, hey, 450 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,440 meet the boss type shit? 451 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,440 Yes. 452 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:57,440 Okay. 453 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,080 So Cecile would have known immediately that something was up. 454 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,400 The idea that you're going to meet the boss is rather ludicrous. 455 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:12,040 I mean, the idea, I mean, even meeting the dean was pretty far-fetched and the idea that 456 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:16,720 you're going to get, you're being promoted to a new lab at evoey. 457 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,320 You've just showed up at campus two months ago. 458 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:20,320 Okay. 459 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:25,480 No, I meant more that the fact that evoey only goes to their HR department, like you 460 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:26,480 don't even. 461 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,720 You would never go, yeah, exactly. 462 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:33,560 And that is actually, I think, can and even everything goes through the HR department. 463 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:34,560 Yeah. 464 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:35,560 Okay. 465 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,560 So Cecile knew right away that like something's fucking up. 466 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,000 Yeah, something's definitely. 467 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,000 So, okay, we're worried. 468 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,640 You're heading out, you're texting with Kirsten. 469 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:55,040 And so Kirsten, Boxer and Grace, you guys are hurrying across a rather busy street towards 470 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,800 the campus, beautiful campus. 471 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:03,800 Boxer, you've seen, I'm not sure if Grace has seen the campus before, beautiful campus, 472 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:12,720 beautifully manicured lawns and planted areas, lush trees, statues that all of this, all 473 00:34:12,720 --> 00:34:18,640 of the statue area you can tell is corporate sponsored, the Aries, the Shiawase logo is, 474 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:26,800 you know, all of them, the Big Ten are located on campus and, you know, have their fan. 475 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:38,920 You see that Kirsten is headed towards a larger modern building, white and glass. 476 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:47,280 She's pulled her jacket closer around her and she's looks back at you in at Boxer. 477 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,880 She can't see Grace, obviously, can't see Nightingale. 478 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:55,200 And she's looking at the building, she says, they're in there. 479 00:34:55,200 --> 00:35:01,680 They're going to have a car or a vehicle somewhere here, probably in the parking garage back 480 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,800 there. 481 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:08,360 I don't know, I don't see where the security is, but she looks at Boxer again. 482 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:14,000 I don't know, what do you think, should we attempt to get her away here in the lab or 483 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:19,800 on the way to the parking garage or in the parking garage? 484 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:28,920 If I know anything about how this place is built, says Nightingale, disembodied voice, 485 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:34,080 the garage would probably be a good idea because otherwise we're going to have to go through 486 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:38,520 a lot of people to get to an exit, whereas the garage will go straight out onto a main 487 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:45,200 street or at least the lot of the college now. 488 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,080 Oh, yeah, we can try that. 489 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:52,720 I'm not, I don't know anything about these kinds of situations. 490 00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:55,240 She looks at Boxer again. 491 00:35:55,240 --> 00:36:00,880 You're obviously the most combat proven person here, so she's looking at you for guidance. 492 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,440 Did we lose Valerie? 493 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,440 I think we did. 494 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:09,320 Not now, God, I was saying whole things. 495 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:10,480 Don't you hate that? 496 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,120 I love it when that happened. 497 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:13,120 It is amazing. 498 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:14,120 Anyhow, tracking. 499 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:22,360 At its, Kristen, I need you to get your friend broadcast their location somehow, otherwise 500 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,240 we're not going to be able to find them in this sprawl, Bucking Cross or not. 501 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:31,600 All right, Kristen shoots Cecil a quick text. 502 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,040 Can you broadcast your location on your pan? 503 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,040 Cecil? 504 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,760 Cecil, I mean, say again. 505 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,560 You get a text from Kirsten. 506 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,560 Can you broadcast your location so that we can find you? 507 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,520 Cecil does that immediately. 508 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,520 All right. 509 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:52,880 Kirsten shoots, swipes the location tracker over to Boxer. 510 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:57,960 I should ask, are there guards with Cecil and Dibray? 511 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:05,880 Yeah, so as you exit the office and are walking down the hallway towards the reception desk, 512 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:11,120 you realize that the two security officers that have been flanking the door are following 513 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:12,120 you. 514 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:13,120 Okay. 515 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:24,720 Yeah, so you get into the elevator with Dibray and the two security guards come along too 516 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:31,360 and Dibray gives you a reassuring look and says, it's my security detail. 517 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:37,840 I don't know current threats, but the company insists that I have them with me at all times. 518 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,680 Of course, it's just good sense. 519 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,720 This part of Seattle can get kind of bad. 520 00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:50,560 Yeah, except for their wearing Washington University uniforms, not Evo uniforms. 521 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,680 And she's obviously Evo, so there's that. 522 00:37:54,680 --> 00:38:02,560 All right, so Kirsten swipes over the location tracker to Boxer and Nightingale. 523 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:08,680 And you can see that the ping, the pin is coming from the big glass building right 524 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,960 ahead of you. 525 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:18,600 So there are a couple of entrances from it and walkways, cement walkways, planted areas 526 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,720 around. 527 00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:29,600 And on your AR, you can see that there is a parking garage, a little ways on the other 528 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:30,600 side of the building. 529 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,480 So you'd have to pass the building to get to the parking garage. 530 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:34,480 All right. 531 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,640 We need to double time this one. 532 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:41,360 I want us to get inside of that parking garage and I want us to have ambush positions so 533 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,560 that we can get them once they're inside and relatively isolated. 534 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:52,880 And you, Kirsten, I assume you're not the sort to fight, so I want you to find somewhere 535 00:38:52,880 --> 00:39:00,680 safe nearby us and, well, I don't expect you to do anything. 536 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:06,760 As you're running, so make a, I guess it's a perception check. 537 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,640 Take a quick look at Kirsten. 538 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,120 Just do a perception check. 539 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,280 And the other person? 540 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,680 Yeah, why not? 541 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,520 But perception, is it just really perception? 542 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,280 Wait, I'm just going to press the button. 543 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:19,280 What does this do? 544 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,280 Okay, cool. 545 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:21,280 All right. 546 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:22,280 That's a cool thing. 547 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,680 I can only roll through die. 548 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,000 This is so sad. 549 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,120 This is so sad. 550 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,120 I'm going to cry. 551 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:32,880 Did you remember to change the attribute with perception because it's automatically like 552 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,880 willpower or something? 553 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,040 No, I'm looking at my, what you call it? 554 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,360 Well, there's a button. 555 00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,160 Just press the button. 556 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,560 It's an active skills, P perception. 557 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,560 Oh, I got one hit on that. 558 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,400 Good job. 559 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:54,240 Which talking about that, I think I'd want to start actually perceiving at this point, 560 00:39:54,240 --> 00:40:00,840 which I think gives a minus two after this check, a minus two to all physical perception 561 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:01,840 checks. 562 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:02,920 Okay. 563 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:11,080 So Boxer, on a closer look, as you're telling Kirsten to find a safe place, you're taking 564 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,600 a closer look at her and you're realizing that that stylish jacket that she's wearing 565 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,160 isn't armored and that there is a weapon underneath of it. 566 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,160 All right. 567 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,640 I'm going to interrupt my older, less perceptive self. 568 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,640 What did I say exactly? 569 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:29,360 Find a place out. 570 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,200 You are a bit better equipped than I expected. 571 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,680 You're the one paying. 572 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,560 You don't have to do anything you don't want to. 573 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,440 Sheals my friend. 574 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,920 She's now I'll help her now. 575 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:46,920 And nightingale, you got one hit on two dice. 576 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:54,040 And as you're listening to Boxer start to tell Kirsten to maybe find a safer place, 577 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:59,520 you get the impression, not quite as detailed, but you do get the impression that Kirsten 578 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:06,280 isn't completely defenseless in the situation, even though she looks like she would be. 579 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,960 And then at the remote threat, she continues. 580 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:10,960 All right. 581 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:11,960 Sorry. 582 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,960 Then that's a non-ethical weapon. 583 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,520 Otherwise, well, it took it's complicated. 584 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:25,640 Kirsten grins again and as she flashes open the jacket, you see that she's carrying a 585 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,480 taser. 586 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,280 Nightingale, you're you're perceiving Astrolina. 587 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,280 Yes. 588 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:41,280 You do see a couple of Watcher spirits hovering around the the Evo building. 589 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:47,440 They aren't paying any particular attention to you. 590 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:53,040 They're not nothing's look focused on you at the moment. 591 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,240 Boxer. 592 00:41:55,240 --> 00:42:04,040 There's Watcher's like all around in the air. 593 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,040 I don't think they're paying any mind to us right now. 594 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,920 I just, nothing I can specialist. 595 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:11,920 Tell me what they're doing. 596 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,000 Basically, guarding the Evo building. 597 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,000 Think of them like magic cameras. 598 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,160 I can deal with cameras. 599 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,120 That's why we're getting out of sight. 600 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:23,120 Okay. 601 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:24,120 Yeah. 602 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:25,120 I'll follow. 603 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,120 All right. 604 00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:30,800 So now you guys are hustling right for the parking garage. 605 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,200 Yeah. 606 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:38,400 And okay, so when you get into the parking garage, think of it as your standard parking 607 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:39,600 garage layout. 608 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:49,400 How what are you going to do? 609 00:42:49,400 --> 00:43:04,360 All right, friends, this makeshift team of runners seems to be closing in on the girls 610 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:05,360 to seals location. 611 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,440 Are they going to be able to rescue her? 612 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,560 Does she even need rescue? 613 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,720 Let's find out in the next episode. 614 00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:13,720 Thank you for listening. 615 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:14,720 Hope you enjoyed. 616 00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:19,320 Subscribe or let us know that you enjoyed it or any of your other thoughts. 617 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:20,720 We look forward to hearing from you. 618 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:21,720 Thank you. 619 00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:28,360 The tops company Inc. has sole ownership of the names, logo, artwork, marks, photographs, 620 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:33,600 sounds, audio, video and or any proprietary material used in connection with the game 621 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:34,600 shadow run. 622 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:39,600 The tops company Inc. has granted permission to the hard knocks sorority podcast to use 623 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:45,040 such names, logos, artwork, marks and or any proprietary materials for promotional and 624 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,760 informational purposes on its website, but does not endorse and is not affiliated with 625 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:54,280 the hard knocks sorority podcast in any official capacity whatsoever. 626 00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:59,280 The music for the hard knocks sorority podcast was written and performed by trace mineral. 627 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:04,520 The hard knocks sorority podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons license 4.0, meaning 628 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:11,200 you are welcome to use the material as long as you give us credit.