Ah
All right, so as the door to Dean Petrov's office opens, it's a beautiful wooden door.
In spite of her anxiety, Cecile catches this.
It's a beautifully carved, exquisitely carved wooden door, obviously natural.
Swing's open to reveal a somewhat austere, minimalist, modern office.
There's a huge wooden desk facing the door with its back to the corner.
The walls are glass.
The corner walls are glass with it.
At any other time of year would probably be a beautiful view across the sound, but as
we said, it's raining.
Behind the desk sits Dean Petrov.
He's an older human male, short dark hair.
A rather hard looking nose and seated, rather casually on the side edge of his desk is a
woman of Asian descent, probably Chinese.
She is wearing her hair in a bob as well.
And she's impeccably dressed in a fairly high fashion business skirt.
And as you enter, she smiles at you and stands up and reaches out or extends her hand towards
you and she says, hello, my name is Alice DeVry.
I represent.
I should have.
Oh, a pleasure to meet you.
And Cecile will take her hand into a slight bow.
So you take your hand and Dean Petrov stands up and he says, yes, Mrs.
Cecile.
It turns out that we have the opening at another facility and we need somebody with
your particular talents there.
DeVry manages this facility and she is going to escort you there and explain the duties
of the new role when you get there.
I hope this is not too much of an inconvenience.
Unfortunately, you will have to give up some of your role here.
However, I assure you that your new duties will be equally as fulfilling and will continue
to count towards your studies.
How do it is?
This sounds like a great opportunity for advancement.
Thank you.
Alice smiles at you very charmingly.
She's obviously well trained and etiquette and she says, Cecile, I've heard
so much about you.
It would be wonderful to have you join my team.
I will explain all of the details as we go.
I have a car waiting for us outside.
Do you have anything that you need to gather from the lab?
From the lab?
No, I have everything here in my bag.
Ah, very practical.
I would have sent somebody to go get it.
Do you have any questions before we leave?
No, I think we'll figure it out on the way, won't we?
Exactly.
I'm so glad you understand.
Dean Petrov looks at Dr. Allen and says, Peter, could you just hang on for a moment?
The old orc looks at you rather pleadingly and then he shrugs and his shoulders go limp
and says, yeah.
Alice DeVrye sort of motions.
As these sort of go ahead motion towards the door for you, Cecile.
Cecile moves that direction as gracefully as she can in this moment.
Would you like to make another composure test?
Let's.
One.
Oh, your ability to keep it together is faltering.
Maybe that look that you got from Dr. L sort of put a crack in it or something.
Yeah, we're going to cut over to our other runners who have been neglecting.
And I am going to say that we're going to reconvene with them at this point where they
are gathering in the alley behind the soy bucks across the street from the campus.
Like I said, it's still raining.
It's actually more of a mix of rain and sleet at this point.
And even though you are downtown in the richer part of the area, this alley is not necessarily
pretty.
There are quite a few dumpsters and trash.
So where the various businesses take out their refuse, there aren't any homeless people.
There aren't any devil rats.
There aren't any ghouls, obviously, because it's downtown.
So in that sense, it's probably better than Auburn or Redmond or any of the other places
outside of downtown in Bellevue.
Kirsten is standing by the soy buck store.
Let's see.
Do we have a handout for Kirsten?
Do you write?
She's dressed in very, very fashionably for a young student barista.
We can never tell with them whether they're going out to a club or for a coffee or what's
going on.
She's waiting for you.
As soon as Boxer sees her, you remember now, you remember the whole thing of how you met
her back here.
That the creepy corp man had seen him already approaching her as she was fulfilling her
duties at Barista inside the soy bucks.
You could tell that she had brushed him off and he hadn't taken it kindly and he had waited
for her in the back alley.
You remember now that you had followed him into the back alley.
It was obvious to your trained eye that he was going with ill intent and sure enough,
when she came out to throw away some trash, he had accosted her and you had been compelled
to step in and knock him on his hoop and he had fled after a couple of rather succinct
threats from you.
That's when you had exchanged numbers with Kirsten.
You're pulling in with your bike at this point.
Am I taking it from here?
Yeah.
Probably a bit electric so I don't get to describe the roar of the motor.
Oh, well.
She's not obnoxious enough to add that in.
Probably it comes standard on most bikes that you would buy that are for racing or combat.
It might not necessarily sound like an internal combustion engine unless you wanted to give
off that retro vibe but you probably have a more modern sound like the wine of a turbine
or something else like that, like a jet engine spooling up.
It is fake.
It is a fake sound but everybody does it.
Fair enough.
The roar of the motor fades in, grows louder and dies within a quick period to Kirsten.
Foxer, of course, hasn't been hearing too much of it, her dutiful worn motorcycle helmet
protecting her ears.
She keeps it on as she dismounts, checks herself, her chest to see what it is to check her
vest, avoids studiously patting her hip to check her weapons.
Speaking of which, what gear did you bring with?
She has the Yamaha Pulsar and the, okay, the Yamaha Pulsar, the Mercy Elan, which is the
holdout pistol.
That one is sneakily stuck in a boot and the Browning holster at her hip.
Or it's like concealed, is that the concealed holster?
No, it isn't.
That one's not like, it's not hidden like the other ones but it's not exactly advertised
the others, kept beneath a jacket.
I mean, it's fine.
It, you know, most people, a lot of people will be carrying weapons as it is.
It wouldn't be a problem unless you got stopped and asked for a license or something like
that.
It does have a license for that one.
All right, as soon as you enter the alleyway and get off your bike, the young woman jumps
up from leaning against the wall and rushes towards you.
I'm so glad you came, Boxer.
I didn't know what I was going to do, but my friend is in deep trouble.
She looks a little bit hesitant.
And then she says, yeah, my friend Cecile, I have a feeling the corp is going to get
her today.
I heard something that I probably shouldn't have heard and I saw something that I shouldn't
have seen.
I can't quite explain it to you.
I'll explain it to you later, but she pulls up her comm link and she shows you a picture.
And it's a picture of Cecile.
So you said dark hair, right?
Dark hair.
Chestnut brown.
Shoulder length bob.
Shoulder length bob, yeah.
Yeah, so Kirsten's obviously taken a picture of Cecile at some point.
Looks like she's wearing lab attire and it's in some kind of lab.
And she says, Evo's got a couple of corp security people in there and they called it to the
Dean's office and I think they mean her no good.
And at that point, Grace's van pulls into the alleyway and Grace, you see the person
that you know as Boxer or Ollie standing there talking to a young human woman.
This is like in the middle of the day, right?
It's raining, but it's the middle of the day.
People are out in the streets.
How, we're in a back alley, right?
You're in a back alley.
It's just the two of them, if we can make that work.
She's like 90-10.
This is a trap.
10% something weird is just going on and she's getting promoted.
It's a very odd promotion.
Very odd people.
Yeah, it's not what you expect from Evo.
They tend to be all about the sort of kumbaya kind of situation, but you're not getting
that vibe here.
Although, to be honest, yeah, you didn't do a judge intentions on Alice.
I was gonna.
All right.
You're too flustered.
Maybe when we get back to Cecile, that's where we'll pick it up.
But for the moment, we left off with Grace's van pulling into this rather for downtown,
rather dingy and messy alleyway.
And she sees the person that she knows as Ollie and Boxer standing, talking to a young
human woman who seems somewhat distraught.
And she pulls up in her blue bulldog step fan and pulls it to a stop.
The engine is quiet.
It's very humble looking.
It looks like something a suburban mom would have with the exception of the very, very dark
tinted windows.
There is like a vague bit of a movement visible, but it's not immediately apparent what is inside
or how many people are inside.
The driver's side just so happens to be facing away from them.
And then she opens the door with her magic, falls out on to the wet concrete.
She is wearing her cloak and some warm clothes underneath that, her practitioner's cap and
some little bootsees to keep the souls of her hooves from freezing.
She goes to the side door that leads to the driver's seat but the back seat.
And she grabs her saddlebags and some other loose objects that she had just tossed back
in there whenever she'd...
So one thing that we didn't do in the beginning, you described what Nightingale was doing,
but you didn't actually describe Nightingale herself.
So I'll do that.
Yeah, give us a description of Nightingale and how she is actually manipulating, for
example, the saddlebags or the doors and things like that.
Okay.
Whenever she opens the door, she's just using a tug of psychokinetic force on the handle
and pulling it in and then budging it with effectively her shoulder, her side to get
it open.
And then she pushes it again with a hoof.
She falls onto the concrete, kind of half...
It's a half fall, half awkwardly gripping onto the seat as she does first her hind legs
hitting the ground and then her four legs.
She goes to the back, the side door, as I've been saying.
Is there another word for that?
Passengers side.
Well, the passenger side's on the opposite side of the driver's seat.
I mean the back seat, the door for that, the sliding door or the sliding door.
She pulls it open, she gathers up her saddlebags and some other things that she thrown back
there, pulls them on.
She's using her magic and thus her eyes very studiously to track it as she motions it up
around one side underneath her cloak and then the other and then buckles it underneath
her.
I imagine it may seem like there's someone gathering up like a scary shadow runner gathering
up kit when she's doing this.
Does the magic have any physical manifestation?
Not that they can see.
There is the glow of the magic and also the tinkling sound but then the cacophony of the
rain and Seattle sounds, it's not easy to see.
Maybe the faintest like glimmers of blue and nearby reflective surfaces away from like
on that side of the vehicle, perhaps.
She pulls on her saddlebags and she closes it, throws it shut by pulling on the handle
and she promptly steps around.
I imagine at first it seems almost like a dog, like a large dog, but a dog in like a
poncho for rain.
But there's no master following after it.
It's this small quadrupedal creature in a black coat with some kind of broad brimmed
hat which doesn't make sense for a dog and she trots up.
I imagine the little clop of hooves against rainy concrete is very distinct from what
you would expect from a dog or a person.
Again, she's alone.
It's alone.
She's not looking at the brim of the cap hiding her face and then whenever she gets up.
Has Grace ever been to downtown Seattle?
Yes, I imagine so.
So as you approach Boxer, you see Nightingale approaching.
You see the little horse that they've interacted with in a rather surprising manner before approaching
and you see that she appears to be fully kitted out and for a moment the incongruity of the
scene strikes you and then almost immediately that impression goes away again as you turn
and look and Kirsten is looking rather surprised and then she looks at you Boxer with a sort
of questioning gaze and you can tell she's thinking, what am I looking at?
What is going on here?
I did tell you to expect a magically active competitor.
I did not tell you to expect a metahuman.
The people we have to work with, they can be unusual.
Not that I can talk anyhow.
Do continue.
And she's dressed meticulously.
It's unusual for her.
She has some sort of fabric pulled over her tail so that it's just homogenous black.
She has gloves on, the kind you would expect not of a motorcycle rider, the kind with two
fingers, the thumb and the pointer cut out as though they were intended to be used for
a rather decidedly different purpose.
The helmet's still on, the face shield has been pulled up and those luminous eyes are
visible.
It's at that point when Boxer is saying this that nightgale looks up at her, up to her
face and I imagine her entire face is visible before her gaze sweeps over forward facing
like a predator over to Kirsten.
That's her name, right?
Kirsten.
Yeah, it says Kirsten but it's Kirsten.
Okay, Kirsten.
And it's still really confusing what she's looking at.
She can obviously now see the spiral horn sticking out of her forehead.
The very big fluffy ears which twitch and are swiveled, like they swiveled to the sounds
of the two talking.
Her eyes are huge.
They look human but they're huge and very, I don't know, her face, like her snoot, her
actual snoot, it looks like God took a normal animal and then like pushed it in the snoot
into its face and then kind of like curled it up a little bit so that it wasn't really
sticking out so much as like sloping as like a chin.
Like there's no chin, there's just a slope that leads up to the nose with a mouth between
the where that slope meets the neck and then goes up to the very nose of the snoot.
Okay, yeah.
Kirsten is looking at you with wide eyes and seems to be just looking back from you to
box her and back at you and she's having a little bit of trouble.
Woman, I am a walking talking cat.
Just get on with it.
We probably don't have much time.
She, oh yeah, weight job work.
Yeah.
Nightingale speaks.
She speaks.
It's coherent.
I do have some questions though.
I've never seen a metahuman and she just kind of glocks.
The, sorry, I was like, Kirsten makes a composure test and gets five hits.
But on her it's a tolerant individual.
And then you see she's just sort of, she does exactly what Boxer says.
She sort of does it, gives herself a quick shake and refocuses on what's actually important
and without thinking she reaches out a hand to Grace and says, my name's Kirsten and
then she sort of awkwardly pulls her hand back realizing that it's not going to work.
Nightingale, she says, I would shake your hand if I could, but I would fall over.
Sorry.
Okay.
So what I was telling Boxer and she looks at you again and she says, okay, so you can
understand what I'm saying.
What I was telling Boxer is my friend Cecil is in grave danger.
I look, she sort of resigns herself to, I'm not just a barista.
I have other jobs and part of those jobs leads me to hear things.
I know that I found out that.
Nightingale realized something.
She put two pieces together in her head and it all started making sense and she just nods
very emphatically.
Kirsten goes on, she says, yes.
So the company that we work for, that Cecil and I work for Evo, I think Cecil stumbled
into something she wasn't supposed to and they're going to make her disappear.
They've sent somebody by the name of, she looks at her comlink.
Alice DeVry, and from what I know, she's high level Evo secured.
Counter Intel.
So Evo are, are you cutting out?
Is this better?
Yes.
So Evo are the rich people that pretend to care, right?
That's them.
Okay, and your friend, what does she do?
What did she do?
What does she do?
What's her job?
She's an intern like I am and we work in the lab, but Cecil's a lot smarter than I am.
She's got an internship.
She's studying.
I don't even understand what she's studying, but she's helped me out a number of times
and she's just studying, she's doing magical research for Evo and I just do data entry.
I don't, I'm not that smart, but, but she's obviously gotten herself into some trouble.
This woman, Alice DeVry, has been sent with a security team to the university and I believe,
I expect, obviously they're not going to do anything to Cecil on campus.
So they are going to take her somewhere else, wherever, where something can happen that,
you know, I don't know.
But I don't, if Alice DeVry, if this DeVry woman is involved, nothing good is going to
happen.
But I'm afraid we, we're really short on time.
We need to get over there and.
Okay, I can take you there.
I can show you where the lab is and I can, if I have to, I can get you in the door.
So, so just so that I understand, we are taking, is she just a magic researcher or is she a
magician, you know, she makes a motion with one of her hooves lifted off the ground for
a second mimicking.
Oh, yes.
She's a virtual formulae, poorly.
She's definitely, she's, she's a, she's a mage.
I'm not a mage, she's a mage though.
That's why she's got the position in the lab that she does.
Okay.
Well, you have a vehicle you can take us in.
I don't have a vehicle.
It's right across the street.
We just need to go out of the alley around and we'll be on campus.
Oh, okay.
Um, well, lead, lead the way.
Uh, right, we're going on campus.
Um, she looks, she looks at you and she says, I don't know how this is going to work.
Okay.
I'm going to disappear.
Um, I will still be with you.
I will not, you will not be able to, to perceive me and you should not perceive me.
Do not worry about it unless you hear me.
You fill me like poking at your mind or something trying to get your attention, which it wouldn't
even be poking.
I would just be talking to you.
Um, but it's you like, again, motions with a hoof at her head, like in your mind, you
know, yeah,
Are you going to cast mine at this point?
Uh, how does sustaining multiple cells work in this NIN4E?
You just take the modifier for each.
So it's minus.
Is it, don't you, can't you sustain one without the modifier or is one already?
That is with a quality up to a certain force rating.
Oh, no, she's never going to cast it.
She's she'll, she'll save that for, uh, or if she has to communicate something.
Or Boxer, anything from you?
Boxer, Boxer nods along impatiently as though like everything we're going unbearably slowly.
Then she whispers, I know.
She speaks directly to Knight, I guess so, Grace to Grace.
I want you to be on the lookout.
I want you to be on the lookout for any of their Astral defenders.
I can almost assure you that they'll have a spirit floating around somewhere.
I would not be at all surprised if they had a single wage mage around actually maybe more
than one.
Either way, what I want for you to do is make sure they don't make us into a problem for
the security.
Ideally, they will never know we are here.
Got it?
Sure.
Good.
And, uh, at that point that Knight and Gale disappears.
Like at first her, her body just goes just like there's a, there's a, there's like a
click and her body's invisible, but her eyes are still like translusively visible for just
a moment before they're also gone.
Oh God, that's disorienting.
All right.
Kristin lead the way and if you can try and get a fix on Cecil's location, I would prefer
not to be walking in without at least knowing where she is.
Kristin pulls out her comm link again and she calls Cecil.
And Cecil, as you're walking out of the office with the house to Vry behind you, your, your
comm link goes off again and you see that it's Kirsten calling you again.
Like phone call?
Yeah.
Like a voice call.
Cecil declines the phone call, but texts back.
Where are you and what did you do?
Cause you're in AR, right?
So you're always in AR.
Almost always.
Sometimes Cecil has like one of those mindfulness moments where she turns off AR.
Sorry.
Imagine turning off your AR in the 21st century anyhow.
All right.
Okay.
So you text her back.
What do you text her back?
Where are you and what did you do?
Oh yeah.
Sorry.
You immediately get a text back and you guys in the alley, you see your first calling and
then texting back.
She says, I didn't do anything.
This is all on you.
I told you to come out to the soy box right away.
How was I supposed to know it was that important?
I told you it was life or death.
You said nothing of the sort or if you did you were incomprehensible.
Well it is life or death.
Where are you?
I'm with Ms. DeVry.
She's taking me to a car.
There's a moment's hesitation in the text and then Boxer and Nightingale, Kirsten says,
Kirsten says, she's a direct devry's gutter already.
We're going to have to move quickly.
And then she texts back to Cecile.
Don't trust DeVry.
Should we take the van?
No.
She says, we're almost there.
Okay.
I should note that while this is happening Cecile is asking DeVry very pointed questions
like, oh so you said you liked my work.
What parts of it did you really enjoy?
So she's been, she knows her stuff.
She's obviously been briefed extensively and she has, she's able to answer you quite
coherently on what's going on.
What has attracted the corpse's attention about your research and how you've handled
it, the fact, you know, your diligence and your magical abilities have not gone unnoticed.
Does it sound evoey or does it sound like, you know, standard corpse?
It does not sound, no, it definitely does not sound evoey.
That was a Freudian slap.
Yeah.
It doesn't sound evoey.
She's, she does not sound, she doesn't have that sort of very stilted saccharine evo approach
communication.
Would Cecile have had enough interaction with evo to know that they don't do like, hey,
meet the boss type shit?
Yes.
Okay.
So Cecile would have known immediately that something was up.
The idea that you're going to meet the boss is rather ludicrous.
I mean, the idea, I mean, even meeting the dean was pretty far-fetched and the idea that
you're going to get, you're being promoted to a new lab at evoey.
You've just showed up at campus two months ago.
Okay.
No, I meant more that the fact that evoey only goes to their HR department, like you
don't even.
You would never go, yeah, exactly.
And that is actually, I think, can and even everything goes through the HR department.
Yeah.
Okay.
So Cecile knew right away that like something's fucking up.
Yeah, something's definitely.
So, okay, we're worried.
You're heading out, you're texting with Kirsten.
And so Kirsten, Boxer and Grace, you guys are hurrying across a rather busy street towards
the campus, beautiful campus.
Boxer, you've seen, I'm not sure if Grace has seen the campus before, beautiful campus,
beautifully manicured lawns and planted areas, lush trees, statues that all of this, all
of the statue area you can tell is corporate sponsored, the Aries, the Shiawase logo is,
you know, all of them, the Big Ten are located on campus and, you know, have their fan.
You see that Kirsten is headed towards a larger modern building, white and glass.
She's pulled her jacket closer around her and she's looks back at you in at Boxer.
She can't see Grace, obviously, can't see Nightingale.
And she's looking at the building, she says, they're in there.
They're going to have a car or a vehicle somewhere here, probably in the parking garage back
there.
I don't know, I don't see where the security is, but she looks at Boxer again.
I don't know, what do you think, should we attempt to get her away here in the lab or
on the way to the parking garage or in the parking garage?
If I know anything about how this place is built, says Nightingale, disembodied voice,
the garage would probably be a good idea because otherwise we're going to have to go through
a lot of people to get to an exit, whereas the garage will go straight out onto a main
street or at least the lot of the college now.
Oh, yeah, we can try that.
I'm not, I don't know anything about these kinds of situations.
She looks at Boxer again.
You're obviously the most combat proven person here, so she's looking at you for guidance.
Did we lose Valerie?
I think we did.
Not now, God, I was saying whole things.
Don't you hate that?
I love it when that happened.
It is amazing.
Anyhow, tracking.
At its, Kristen, I need you to get your friend broadcast their location somehow, otherwise
we're not going to be able to find them in this sprawl, Bucking Cross or not.
All right, Kristen shoots Cecil a quick text.
Can you broadcast your location on your pan?
Cecil?
Cecil, I mean, say again.
You get a text from Kirsten.
Can you broadcast your location so that we can find you?
Cecil does that immediately.
All right.
Kirsten shoots, swipes the location tracker over to Boxer.
I should ask, are there guards with Cecil and Dibray?
Yeah, so as you exit the office and are walking down the hallway towards the reception desk,
you realize that the two security officers that have been flanking the door are following
you.
Okay.
Yeah, so you get into the elevator with Dibray and the two security guards come along too
and Dibray gives you a reassuring look and says, it's my security detail.
I don't know current threats, but the company insists that I have them with me at all times.
Of course, it's just good sense.
This part of Seattle can get kind of bad.
Yeah, except for their wearing Washington University uniforms, not Evo uniforms.
And she's obviously Evo, so there's that.
All right, so Kirsten swipes over the location tracker to Boxer and Nightingale.
And you can see that the ping, the pin is coming from the big glass building right
ahead of you.
So there are a couple of entrances from it and walkways, cement walkways, planted areas
around.
And on your AR, you can see that there is a parking garage, a little ways on the other
side of the building.
So you'd have to pass the building to get to the parking garage.
All right.
We need to double time this one.
I want us to get inside of that parking garage and I want us to have ambush positions so
that we can get them once they're inside and relatively isolated.
And you, Kirsten, I assume you're not the sort to fight, so I want you to find somewhere
safe nearby us and, well, I don't expect you to do anything.
As you're running, so make a, I guess it's a perception check.
Take a quick look at Kirsten.
Just do a perception check.
And the other person?
Yeah, why not?
But perception, is it just really perception?
Wait, I'm just going to press the button.
What does this do?
Okay, cool.
All right.
That's a cool thing.
I can only roll through die.
This is so sad.
I'm going to cry.
Did you remember to change the attribute with perception because it's automatically like
willpower or something?
No, I'm looking at my, what you call it?
Well, there's a button.
Just press the button.
It's an active skills, P perception.
Oh, I got one hit on that.
Good job.
Which talking about that, I think I'd want to start actually perceiving at this point,
which I think gives a minus two after this check, a minus two to all physical perception
checks.
Okay.
So Boxer, on a closer look, as you're telling Kirsten to find a safe place, you're taking
a closer look at her and you're realizing that that stylish jacket that she's wearing
isn't armored and that there is a weapon underneath of it.
All right.
I'm going to interrupt my older, less perceptive self.
What did I say exactly?
Find a place out.
You are a bit better equipped than I expected.
You're the one paying.
You don't have to do anything you don't want to.
Sheals my friend.
She's now I'll help her now.
And nightingale, you got one hit on two dice.
And as you're listening to Boxer start to tell Kirsten to maybe find a safer place,
you get the impression, not quite as detailed, but you do get the impression that Kirsten
isn't completely defenseless in the situation, even though she looks like she would be.
And then at the remote threat, she continues.
All right.
Sorry.
Then that's a non-ethical weapon.
Otherwise, well, it took it's complicated.
Kirsten grins again and as she flashes open the jacket, you see that she's carrying a
taser.
Nightingale, you're you're perceiving Astrolina.
Yes.
You do see a couple of Watcher spirits hovering around the the Evo building.
They aren't paying any particular attention to you.
They're not nothing's look focused on you at the moment.
Boxer.
There's Watcher's like all around in the air.
I don't think they're paying any mind to us right now.
I just, nothing I can specialist.
Tell me what they're doing.
Basically, guarding the Evo building.
Think of them like magic cameras.
I can deal with cameras.
That's why we're getting out of sight.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'll follow.
All right.
So now you guys are hustling right for the parking garage.
Yeah.
And okay, so when you get into the parking garage, think of it as your standard parking
garage layout.
How what are you going to do?
All right, friends, this makeshift team of runners seems to be closing in on the girls
to seals location.
Are they going to be able to rescue her?
Does she even need rescue?
Let's find out in the next episode.
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