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ammo, scrub that data trail, and need I really say it, don't make deals with dragons.

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We will have to do it. You should do it consensually on both of your times. The Empire will not

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pay for this on board. On fucking board! Anyway, where were we last time we left off?

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Well, last time we left off, you were standing on a sidewalk downtown Renton discussing your

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next moves. You had approached the living quarters, the apartment complex that a Miss

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Kimberly Antonson had left as her last address and you were attempting to track her down.

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The guards at the entrance gate had told you that Kimberly Antonson was no longer a resident

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at the community.

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I think we were about to call her parents.

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You had tried to call her parents already. Turns out that it's something like it's midnight

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right now in Seattle. So there are a couple of hours ahead of you. So it's like three

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in the morning and nobody actually answered the phone.

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Damn. That makes fun to make people up at night anymore.

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I said, questioned whether we should try to or you should try to surreptitiously enter

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the apartment complex. And right about now, Cecile's comment goes off.

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The answers immediately.

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Who's this? Asks a sort of brusque male voice.

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Hi, is this Mr. Antonson?

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Is this Mr. Antonson?

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No. And who are you?

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Is there is there a voice ID? Do I know who's on the other end?

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It's an unknown number.

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Right. Okay. So is it the same number like com code that we did we dialed?

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Not when you were trying to get in touch with Kim's parents.

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Who is this?

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Who are you?

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Waiting for you to tell me who you are. You called me earlier.

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No, who are you? No, who are you?

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Who dat dare who say who dat dare when I say who dat dare?

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Hold on. I this is very weird.

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You can make a memory test real quick.

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Cecile would remember.

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Cecile should remember.

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Too good. Too hips.

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You remember that you actually called somebody this morning.

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Oh, yes, I recall. Hi. Yes. Sorry. Things are a little weird right now.

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I was hoping to establish an anonymous account at your bank.

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And you are a friend of the clan?

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I'm a friend of...

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Procops.

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I'm a friend of the owner of the Samovar.

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Ah, yes. So you have a means of identification?

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Oh, yes, absolutely.

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Very well. For a friend of the clans, we can help you.

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Good. Should we set up a meeting to sort this out fully or what do you need on mine?

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Well, we value the privacy of our patrons.

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However, we will need some form of biometric data from you so that we can assure your identity

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as you make deposits or withdrawals from your account.

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That is okay. As long as you ensure that no one gets access to this, you understand it's

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a matter of safety.

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Absolutely.

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Good.

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We don't personally maintain access to the data, so there is a third party blind cutout.

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So even if our servers were raided, access wouldn't be denied to your account.

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Perfect. Will this end it?

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Yes. And some other form of identification, either a voice print or a retina scan. Some

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people go so far as to provide a DNA sample.

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Perfect. A voice print will be fine for the moment.

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Very well.

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Shall we hand wave setting the bank account up past that point?

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Absolutely. Because at this point, Grace, you are, you realize that there is someone

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approaching in the astral from the direction of the apartment block that you just came

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from or that you were attempting to get in.

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Is someone approaching as in an astrally projecting metahuman or?

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It is definitely an astrally projecting metahuman. And they are very definitely traveling towards

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you at a fairly slow rate.

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Well, if I can see them now and they're clearly approaching my location, they have already

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seen me.

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I can probably raise it to the group. Maybe a little bit anxious as I noticed them. I

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imagine they could probably tell. Grace is a little spike in stress and she looks over

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and immediately says, hey, it's someone's ghost right over there. She just kind of makes

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a little nod in the direction.

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Cecile gives you a weird look when you say ghost.

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She looks back.

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Yeah. So the person has approached fairly close to you. They appear as a human male,

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fairly young, not overly powerful. There's not a giant beacon of magical energy beaming

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out of them. And of all things sort of oddly styled in the astral, they appear to be wearing

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a night-errant security uniform. And this person, he's approached you. They've got

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their hands up. He's got his hands up sort of palm towards you in sort of the universal

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gesture meant to convey that they mean no harm.

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Hi there. She waves a hoof, a forehoof very awkwardly.

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So in the astral, what would he be seeing of you again?

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Well, if I recall correctly, Nightingale is not actually disguised currently. So it's

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just plainly obvious that she is an extraplanar.

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She's just physically disguised because isn't she still in the guise of the dog or is it?

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No, she would have dropped that whenever they got into the car and whenever they pulled

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away from the apartment and they're just kind of standing out. I forget where they were

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exactly. Does anyone remember?

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You're in Renton outside of sort of a fancy sort of hipster style, new hipster style apartment

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building.

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New hipster.

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Well, they're standing somewhere where eyes are unlikely to wander, I'd say, but she's

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not disguised physically or otherwise.

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Okay. So he's standing there. You can tell without even making any kind of perception

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test that he's not hiding his aura anyway. So you're seeing that he's mainly just curious

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and maybe with a background of being tired and a little bit anxious and also a little

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bit bored and he says, you can see me?

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Yeah, I can see you. You can see me? She suddenly points a hoof at herself and looks at herself

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and looks around all dramatically and then she turns back, obvious, playing across her

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and she says, hi, yeah, I can see you. I think.

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And you can talk.

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Yeah, I can talk. They can hear me, by the way. I don't think that either any of them

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can see you though.

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Oh, yeah, that was weird. The shift sergeant asked me to come out and look at you guys

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after you came to the gate and we thought you were, well, we just thought you were a

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pet, but I'm just out here to make sure that you guys aren't thinking of causing any trouble.

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Is the seal still on the phone?

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Yeah, it's sort of happening the same time as you're on the phone.

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Okay, this feels like paying attention.

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Oh, oh, oh, well, no, no, we don't plan to cause any trouble. She's a little bit concerned

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now, obviously, it's a more advanced form of anxiety. It's not an immediate fear, but

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perhaps a little bit of dread.

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He says, you know, your your aura is really weird, not what I was expecting when I saw

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you on the security cameras. And then he sort of blushes in the astral and said, Oh, well,

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that that was sort of rude. Sorry.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, could you? Um, could you not tell anyone about me?

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He looks sort of puzzled. You get the sense that he's probably not the sharpest tool in

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the shed. But he is definitely astral. He's definitely a mage of some minor ability, you

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know, probably just been assigned by night air into this block. But he he looks at you

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says, Sure, yeah. I mean, as long as you're not going to start any trouble. I mean, you

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know,

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I'm sure.

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Yeah, yeah. Thank you. No, no trouble. None at all.

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We're actually kind of friends. Well, we're we're we're on a job to help one of the people

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that lives here. That's the only reason why we're here. We're going to get going soon,

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though. So we'll be out of your hair. And we won't cause any trouble for either one

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of us, me or you.

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Okay, good. Yeah. So but who are you? Who are you helping out? Maybe I know them.

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What was her name? She says looking back to the group of meta humans around her. Who are

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you talking? Yeah. Oh, the person. All of you. You you and you. No, but who were you

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talking to before? Are you are you on a comm link? No, no, no, there's a there's a security

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mage right there. Oh, you don't you don't see anybody where you don't see anybody where

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grace is pointing to do you do? It's like she's talking to the air. I kind of turned

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to the boxer and go, is the horse crazy? No, she she does this. It's magic. I don't percent

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of understand. What was the girl's name? I honestly can't remember. Who is it you're

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talking to? He's a security mage. He said that he might be able to give us some info.

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So what was her name? I think her name's Kimberly and Hudson. The danger is I'm trying to figure

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out if this would be useful to tell my errands that we're looking for this person or not.

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Did he say that it was night here? He only said it's a security mage. The security before

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that was that we walked up to the security guy. He was night errands, right? He was night

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errands. Yes. OK. And that's something Deandre would remember. Yes, for sure. So I think

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Deandre kind of walks up next to the horse and then not looking directly at wherever

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it is. She kind of just like says her name is Kimberly and since she moved out a couple

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months ago, we've been hired by an acquaintance of hers to make sure she's OK. That's about

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it. Can this language translate from physical into astral? No, sound waves and light, they

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do have a they have astral substance, but they do not translate the same way. You would

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need dual natured sound and light like what Nightingale has to engage in conversation

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both on the astral and the physical at the same time. What Deandre just did was like

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slap her jaws in the general direction. Deandre has no idea about any of the astral stuff.

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It's something she's avoided for her entire life. Nightingale, understanding these things,

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would immediately relay what Deandre just said in shorter words, who they're looking

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for by name. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I know, Kimmy. She moved out like six

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months ago. This is the only lead we currently have. We think something bad may have happened.

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Oh, no, no. We don't think anything bad may have happened to her. We just have an acquaintance

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that's a little overly anxious and wanted to check in. That's a reaction. We just want

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it to do a welfare check. We don't suspect anything's going to miss. Oh, yeah. Nothing's

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going to miss. Kimmy's fine. Yeah, I don't see any harm. Well, yeah, she's fine. Is there

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any way we can confirm that? Yeah. I don't know if I can give you any more information

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about that. But she's, he chuckles a little bit. He's like, oh, Kimmy's fine. I talked

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to her a lot, actually. Oh, okay. Well, that's good to hear. I thank you for your help and

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your discretion. You should probably go ahead and get on with the rest of your night and

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we need to keep moving in our work. It was nice meeting you, Mr. Security Guard. Yeah,

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you can call me Jimmy. Jimmy. Jimmy, that's a nice name. Jimmy, I like that. Okay. Well,

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yeah, it was nice meeting you too. Thanks for, yeah, thanks for not making anything

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any trouble. And I got to, like you said, I got to go do my patrol now, but just, you

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know, I wouldn't worry about Kimmy. Just tell her friend that she's fine. Yeah, I got you.

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It drips off. Before he dies, she summons up a small construct of like astral energy

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with her magic just to give him like finger guns and then waves him off. Yeah, he smiles

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and drifts away. All right. Well, that was help, very unhelpful. But apparently she's

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safe. According to Jimmy. According to Jimmy. Well, let me know when Cecile's off the phone.

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Yeah, you're off the phone. You're off the phone about this point. Okay. What was going

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on? You all were very loud. The horse was talking to a ghost. Right. Okay. You, what

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were you talking to? Oh, so it was an Ashley projecting security mage named Jimmy. Yes,

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and he spoke about. Oh, he just like wanted to come check up on us. He asked about what

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we were doing. I told them that we were looking for the girl. He said that she was all right

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and that he talks to her quite a bit, which probably means she ends up she ended up going

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into. Well, it could just be that they they have some personal relationship, but that

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could also mean that she ended up working at a the same like location or like the same

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company as him. I'll put his name down and I'll see if I can find anything when I get

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my rules. Jimmy the ghost. When Grace says what she just said, that sort of thought process,

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it rings a bell with you Cecile about something that had come up in your, your matrix search

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that you did. Do you think something about it is ringing a bell? You want to go back

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and take a quick look at your matrix search? Oh yeah. She's pulling that up on the side

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with her left hand. Yep. So you had sort of done a search parameter, you know, for, for

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Kimberly Antons and you had a picture of her and you see that there's a combination sort

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of out in one of the outer circles of, of outer rings of your search where there's an

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entry for a Kay and Thompson and the combination occurs. Combination occurs with the timeline

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that you're looking at and it's a data entry on a publicity statement from the Knight Aaron

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Academy and rent sort of around the same time where Mr. Johnson said, Kimmy disappeared.

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There's a publicity statement from night that's welcoming in the most recent class of inductees

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and about midway down that list of inductees, you see an entry for a K and Thompson. Hey,

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all right. I think I know where Ms. Antonson is. Yeah. Bring up the van. We're heading

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to night. Aren't we? Academy. Where did I leave the van? I think it's, I think it's

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there right there in the vicinity. Cause you, I think you guys pulled up and you got out

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and you went and talked to the security guards at the gate. I think I was going to go get

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back in and start it. And then totally get it. Get it. The van losers were going shopping.

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Or did you guys take a grid guide? That's a great question. I forgot. I thought you

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left the van behind. We left the van and we took a grid guide here. Yeah. I'm the only

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one with my vehicle and it's my bike. Yeah. So we should call a red guide. It's weird

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to have five of us show up at the night. Aaron Academy looking for someone. I have some experience

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with private security. I'll stay in the van. I'll be at a cafe. Just I'll start a voice

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call. Bye. Enjoy yourself. He's walking off. Mike. Ice, are you, you're not chipped or

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anything, right? You don't have a, a, a sim? No, I don't have a sim. You should probably

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go with Cecile cause we're going to be going to a pretty noisy place. Oh, perfect. I'll

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have conversation company. Fine. This is, yeah, whatever. All right. Let's get out of

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the car. So we have the three of us and there's a horse. Do you have a sin horse? What do

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you think? This horse is not a sinner. No, ma'am. Okay. And I imagine you don't. She

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says this like looking at boxer. Boxer does. I actually do. We got two sinners out of the

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five of us and we're going to be going into a night errand academy. Oh, well we should

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not all go. Yes. Um, I have a friend in night errands that he works in Auburn and is asleep

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at the moment. So that won't help us any. I believe boxers got a nighter contact too.

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Yeah. Vicente Vicente also knows the best boy, but uh, so do you think he could get

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us inside night errand academy at midnight? At midnight? Yes. Okay. And what would we

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have to do for him to get us in at midnight? I think we had the best ask him about that.

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Yeah. I will call him and uh, she, she's getting on the com with Vicente. All right. So you

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get on the common, you, you, it rings once or twice and then you hear Vicente's voice.

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Oh, hello. Hello Vicky boxer. Oh, you got my night off. Uh, that is what's up. We need

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to get into night errands training academy. Uh, this is not one of the more dubious jobs.

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We are doing a wellness check and an individual who has gone dark. A wellness check on an

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individual has gone dark at the police academy. The one in red. No, we need to get into the

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police academy to access their record. Uh, yeah. I don't know a boxer. I mean, I know

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we're chummers and all, but it's sort of a big ask. Um, I mean, you want me to just check?

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You want to give me a name and I can check for you. She looks to the rest of the group.

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But I mean, what, what are we talking about? Does like, are they like, do they get picked

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up by night? No, there's something dubious. I deal with Aries. What the farms manufacturer?

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Oh, Aries. You're confusing me boxer. So we have received a message about, about this

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woman. Yes. She's gone missing. A concerned friend has been unable to make contact with

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her for a bit. It was a strong word for that friend and coworker. He has been unable to

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make contact with her for months and she packed up, disappeared. Her social media has been

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wiped out and she suddenly signed on with night and the details of this from her parents

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social media feeds is suggestive of a certain degree of lack of choice in the matter. Over

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night, errant has lead on precisely where we can go to find her.

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I don't know. Boxer. It sounds sort of strange. He's waking up a little bit. Um, I mean, the

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training academy is just a training academy. Um, I mean, I haven't been there for a while,

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but I could probably, uh, if you had a name, I could probably make it just a couple of

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calls and figure out what's going on. What's her name? Kimberly and Dunson. Her name is

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Kimberly and Dunson. Oh, okay. Uh, and you said she, uh, she joined the academy a couple

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of months ago. So at the last, uh, in the last, uh, group of inductees. All right. Uh,

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is this really a hot boxer? Can I, uh, can I get a good night's sleep on it? Yeah. You

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can get a good night's sleep. Okay. Um, I'm sure it's nothing boxer. I, um, if she's,

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if she's joined the academy, then yeah, she's probably gone dark. They just, they'd make

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all the recruits do that. Uh, you know, it's nothing. You know me better night. Is this

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a job or is this a personal friend? Hmm. It is a job, but yeah, I know how you get. Yeah.

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It's a job for a concerned friend. Well, I have to do something to feel better. Yeah,

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I know. I'm in the same boat. We're just working at it on different angles. Yeah. Get a good

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night's sleep, man. Yeah. You too, boxer. Stop poking around in the middle of the night

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and I'll talk to you tomorrow. What can I say? I'm a night owl. Good night. Good night.

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Let's get back with us tomorrow to give us information. He can gather from the academy.

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All right. So Cecile and ice have left Cecile called a grid guide, right? Speaking of, uh,

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when is her bank account going to be activated? Um, it's probably already active. Good. Good.

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Okay. So, uh, ice. Yeah. You a good hunter? Yeah. So what are we doing here? I am heading

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to a cafe and after that, I'm probably going to go to my bank to acquire some money, get

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some tools you came with. Yeah. I guess I'll be sticking with you. Uh, if those other guys

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are going next near night air and I don't want to necessarily be anywhere near them.

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So how do you know those guys? That's a long story. Um, I was kidnapped and then they kidnapped

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me and now I am working for procop. You were kidnapped and then they kidnapped you and now

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you're working with them. Correct. He just shakes his head. Yeah. Things have changed

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from the shadows since I was running. Uh, those kidnap is a bit harsh. It's more like

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they tried to save me, but did never really, you know, uh, explained that in the process

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of doing it. So we were a bit busy not being shot. You can't hear this. Oh, sorry. Sorry.

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Yeah, they've left. You guys are still, you guys are still standing on a street corner

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discussing your next moves. Cecile walked off. I stood sort of look between the two

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groups and after hearing that you're ahead for night, Aaron, he followed Cecile. So they're

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headed for a cafe. Um, we'll fast forward to the cafe. You guys have gotten in a grid

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guide to Cecile and ice gotten a grid guide and left. Probably tell them that we're not

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going to do this till like, actually we're not even going there. Senties helping us out.

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Deandre will probably try still try to go there tonight. All right. So we'll get back.

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We'll go back to the guys, the three of you standing on the side of the street, trying

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to figure out what you're doing. You've just gotten off the phone call with the senti and

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what's happening now. So we'll wait till tomorrow on certain notice, but until then one of us

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should try to do something else. And by one of us, I mean me. You have a proposal. I would

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like to go to the police academy choir person. Please do not do anything ill-advised. Oh,

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I'm just going to do as if I would do if I was still in Karsir. But if you think it's

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ill-advised to talk one cop to another, maybe I've lost my edge. Yeah. Boxer probably doesn't

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know that you were a cop. You guys have only been, you know, known each other for a couple

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of hours at this point. I kind of always describe Deandre as looking like a cop. So what you're

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saying is that Boxer knows, but, but nightingale probably doesn't. I mean, you could just tell

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a cop by looking at their soul. It's pretty obvious. I actually, I don't know. Did they

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slap the Punisher logo on that too? Anyway. What was going on? I think Deandre is going

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to get on her bike and head to, is going to fiddle around with her comm link, getting,

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getting directions. And then she is going to head to the police academy in Renton. All

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right. The night errant training academy here in Renton is actually not that far from you.

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You're going to be in there in about 10 minutes. It sort of, as you pull up, you know, Renton

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is a fairly nice neighborhood, not as nice as Bellevue, obviously, but it's a fairly

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nice neighborhood. And the night errant academy is, it looks sort of like a modern university

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campus and, you know, lots of clean buildings and nicely manicured lawns and planted areas.

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And there's a, a visitor center. So is that, do you want to pull up right up to the, to

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the visitor center? Yeah, that's what Deandre would do since he's not trying to do anything

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stupid. All right. Yeah. You pull up and, you know, it's got the night errant branding

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and it's nice and clean and doesn't look overly militarized. And as you walk towards the building,

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the door's open and there's a receptionist there in a very neat night errant uniform.

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And she looks up at you and says, good evening. How can I help you?

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I think in night errant, Deandre would give like a polite greeting in Spurthill. And then

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she would continue then in English. I'm a Keon Calve. I wanted to speak to a, someone

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I've been told has been listed here recently. I have a investigation that's going on about

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a old coworker of hers. And I wanted to see if she knew anything about him.

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I see. Well, our cadets are not permitted to speak to the public until their training

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is completed and they are assigned, given an assignment. So if you would like, I can

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leave your name and number and I'll take your name and number and somebody will get back

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to you who may be able to answer your questions. I think Deandre would pause for a second and

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then reply, that's amenable. And then as always, I guess at this point, whatever she was handed

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to write with, or if she was even handed anything to write with, she'd probably start in Spurthill

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and then go to English after she realized that she was speaking in Spurthill. She'd

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give her real name, Keon Calve. She had like a suffix on as in like private investigator

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extraordinaire. And she just put like her comlink number on there, I guess.

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Okay. The lady takes your information and smiles at you and says, well, somebody will

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be with you as soon as we have the information that you're looking for. So did you enter,

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she looks down at the piece of paper, did you, who is it that you're looking for specifically?

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Oh, K. Atkinson, Antonson, not Atkinson. Okay. Well, if this K. Antonson is at the Academy

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and a trainee, probably what will happen is a public relations officer will call you back

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after they have ascertained the existence and location of this person at the Academy

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to confirm. But otherwise I can assure you that once the training is complete, the cadet

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will be enlisted and will be free to communicate with their friends and family outside of the

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Academy. She smiles, not exactly condescendingly, but sort of, you know, she's seen something

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like this before. And she says, you know, it's every now and then we get this with the

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new, with the cadets, friends or family don't quite believe that, you know, they can't communicate

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while they are in training. But, but that's our, that's our regulation. So it's understandable.

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I'm just trying to get my paycheck filled. You know, these private investigative jobs

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don't come often, so you got to pick them up when they can.

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Understood. Well, usually they just come to you people, but I try to pick up the most,

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not what's the word, the cleanest customers I can. But thank you very much for your time.

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Yep. You have a good night. You as well. Cecile, what are you accomplishing at the, the cafe?

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Cecile is mostly just looking over some programs to buy when she heads over and cashes in her

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cred stick. She's probably also talking to ICE. You can, you can cash your cred stick

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right there with your Comlink. Cecile's Comlink does not have a cred stick reader, sadly.

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So ICE, you heard about a job you did a while ago. Oh yeah. Well, we did it a long time

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ago then. You were hunting paranormal critters. I do do that. He looks at you. Really? Yep.

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When I first saw your, your buddy Grace or Nightingale or whatever you call her there,

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I sort of wondered how much she was worth. Got an estimate? Probably quite a bit to be

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honest. Enough to retire. Possibly. I mean, don't you even think about it? She is sentient

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and obviously metaplanar, so. I think she's metaplanar. I had to consider that. To be

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honest, I was, I was kind of hoping she was a figment of my imagination and if I ignored

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her she'd go away. Oh, she's definitely not a figment of your imagination. He sounds pretty

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serious all of a sudden. I don't know what you know about ProCops organization, but they've,

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they had an interesting conversation about her after they left. Really? I can't say I'm

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familiar. Well, that, that little pony's definitely not from around here. I had gathered as much

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looking at her. Yeah, she's not, she's not from around here, but she's still a whole

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lot better than some bug spirit or something. I have to look into that. I hadn't considered

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that she was- Bug spirits or pony spirits? Yeah, pony spirits. You don't want to look

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at the bug spirits. I'll take a cute pony any day. Wow. No, I hadn't considered that

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she was extra planar. I just kind of thought she was, what's the word? Weird. He looks

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at you slightly puzzled and a little bit like, really? Like he's, he says, I mean, I don't

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know, but I've never seen or heard of a paracritter that takes the form of a, of a unicorn. No,

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listen, I was- I wish you'd not be talking one. I was going to school at Evo. I overheard

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a lot of the med students talking. There's all sorts of weird gene tech stuff they're

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doing these days. I have no idea. I wasn't in a position to really question it that much

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in the days following getting levitated out of a moving car by said horse. He, he, he

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chuckles. That's pretty funny. Sounds like you owed the little horse of your life. Well,

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I suppose you could say that. Yeah, those kinds of debts suck. Trust me on that one

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too. Oh, don't tell me you have a blood debt with Prokop. Uh, not with Prokop. No, he

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has maybe a blood debt with me, but yeah, nevermind. That's the eyebrow-rious moment.

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What hour is it? He sits his sweet calf, looks off into this and says, debt's just accumulated.

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That's all. What hour is it, Paul? Uh, you're looking at probably around 1 AM. Oh, Cecile's

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going to bed. She's like, Oh, I forgot the time. I need to go. Farewell. Uh, where are

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you going? To sleep. And where would that be? A hotel. All right. Uh, hmm. That brings

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up an interesting point. Which is? Well, Prokop did say not to let you out of my sight. Well,

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not in a weird way, just because, uh, you are in a little bit of danger. A little bit?

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Is that what he told you? Yeah, it's all relative. From my perspective, it's a little bit. Well,

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then I guess you're covering the fare. Yeah, fair enough. What do you want to find? Just

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a little coffin motel around here. Yeah. Sounds about right. All right. I need to get some

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bloody product. Bloody product. Well, we can do that tomorrow. Um, so you guys go ahead.

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So like basic air products. Oh, that kind of product. You guys find a, uh, a discreet

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coffin motel in the area and, uh, Prokop, Trudy's word does pay for the, uh, the rooms.

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And, uh, then he, uh, the one thing he doesn't have is a comlex. So you can't actually get

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in touch with him. And he just basically sits down outside in the, uh, in the parking lot,

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like he's standing guard or something. The seal goes to sleep and wakes up about 6 AM.

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So Deandre, you've gone off to find someplace to sleep as well. Um, boxer or boxer or grace,

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who's driving? Um, Nightingale would probably assume the role of driving just generally

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speaking. It's her car. All right. Do you have a, uh, do you want to make a navigation

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test? Uh, that would be what, what attribute is navigation covered by? Uh, good question.

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I think it's intuition, but let me check that. Yeah. And add your, you can add your edge

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days to that. Oh, let me go tick on edge. Get an idea of how well you find your way

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out into the wilderness and how successful you are in finding a nice little secure area

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to, to set up camp. I can help her if that's right. That makes sense. Absolutely. I imagine

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she actually has a better grasp on nature than you do. Yeah. But like two blind people

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have to find something if they step around long enough. You know, you're trying to find

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something outside and you left the dry add boxes, got survival skills. No, but I can

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like literally sense the woods around me. It's part of symbiosis. Dang. So navigation

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is intuition. Yes. Thank you. And boxer, you were helping with this? Uh, sure. So yeah,

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I always look for it in Chummer first, which is probably, uh, the best move. All right.

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I'm defaulting. Yeah. I've heard, I've heard that before. Don't scroll down too. Yeah.

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So you head out of Renton and actually my, uh, curious now, now you've made me curious

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about what's east of Seattle. Is that Salish territory? Uh, I believe yes. We would have

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crossed over the border and Salish the territory, um, leaving the, uh, the limits of Seattle.

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At least I think that's how that works. Uh, actually it's a Cascade Crow area that you're

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getting into, which I know nothing about. I don't either. I mean, I know what the, the

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environment there should be like, assuming no like crazy climate change fuckery or magic

394
00:40:52,920 --> 00:41:01,760
stuff. It's a, it's a, uh, a temperate or yeah, temperate rainforest, um, populated

395
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:09,440
mainly by conifer trees. Yeah. So, um, so east of Renton is Cascade Crow territory and,

396
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:15,640
uh, it's in the shape Salish. And, uh, don't know if there's a, there's probably a border

397
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:21,360
you're going to have to cross if you stick to the roads. Um, so you'd probably want to,

398
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:26,320
you'd probably have to make some kind of a test to get through that. Yeah. Yeah. I would

399
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:34,160
be willing to take a good bit of time trying to off road it. Um, hell like, uh, have her

400
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:42,360
have her drive boxer drive while, um, like directing her, taking my head out the window.

401
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:49,400
Um, because, uh, all right, that's operate being able to actually perceive it. Anytime

402
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:55,160
I have an easier time navigating the night because I can distinguish the ground from

403
00:41:55,160 --> 00:42:01,840
the air a lot easier than most people. Well, she's a good driver. So she can, she can do

404
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:07,320
the straight line. You may not have to do just a straight line. You may have to avoid

405
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:14,400
obstacles. Um, honestly, it may be a good idea for me to like, for us to get out for

406
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:20,400
me to get out while you drive the car and like directed along. Um, I'm trying to think

407
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:26,360
of, Oh, I could just use my net cast my net establish it between me and you and we can

408
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:31,560
move until we can get back onto the main road again. All right. So you guys head out. Um,

409
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:36,760
I'm, you don't need to go into too much depth in it. You made your, you made a decent role.

410
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:43,120
So you head out into, uh, you exit the city limits and, uh, you cross into cascade crow

411
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:49,760
territory, um, fairly uneventfully. Um, so once you get out of Seattle proper, obviously

412
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:56,280
you get into more of a wild area and into the foothills of the cascade mountains. So

413
00:42:56,280 --> 00:43:03,360
lots of very tall trees and forests and ravines and the roads, just a two lane road winding

414
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:09,440
up into the mountains. And, uh, after a while you sense or feel or find a, uh, a little

415
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:14,360
cutoff road that heads off into the trees of dirt road. You follow that in and then

416
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:19,040
you get, take the van as much off road as you dare without getting stuck. And you find

417
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:26,080
a nice little clearing, uh, and there is a little pond with a stream. Uh, so you've,

418
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:32,000
you've found a place that you consider to be relatively safe and away from anybody who

419
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,040
would be coming. You wouldn't expect to have anybody coming around looking here. How does

420
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:41,880
that sound? That sounds nice. That really does sound nice. Gosh. It's cold and it's

421
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:48,040
wet and it's dark. Obviously with a boxer, do you have any kind of low light vision or

422
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:56,720
night vision? Uh, let's see. Well, actually wait, I'm looking at the actual eye. She doesn't

423
00:43:56,720 --> 00:44:04,400
have actual eyes. She, yes, she does. Um, you've got a pretty good vision of this too.

424
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:08,400
And you know, you've been, you've done enough time in the field to recognize it. This is

425
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:13,600
a pretty decent spot and grace. You're looking around, obviously the areas teaming with life,

426
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:19,440
um, you know, brickets and other insects and salamanders and frogs and, you know, field

427
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:24,440
mice and all that type of stuff. You don't see anything, you know, larger really than

428
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:31,080
a house cat around and certainly nothing awakened or sentient at the moment. I believe this is

429
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:38,520
about as good as we're going to get. Yep. It is definitely not home, but that is very

430
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:45,080
true. Nightingale, uh, at that point will probably cast light. Um, and they're just

431
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:52,400
kind of like these little like, uh, almost like flits of, uh, of light in vaguely sphere

432
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:59,320
shapes like, um, bubble out from her horn, like bubbles, actual bubbles, except made

433
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:06,440
of light. And they, uh, float about between the two of them. Um, at least one for Boxer

434
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:14,320
and one for herself. And she says, we should probably start a fire just so that you don't

435
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:22,320
end up freezing. Are you actually going to be fine? How cold is that?

436
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:27,800
It's not super cold. It's damp more than, you know, it's sort of a damp cold, but it's

437
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:35,880
not super cold. Perhaps it would be. It's cold. Like people in the South saying, Oh

438
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:41,960
my God, it's freezing. But yeah, it's cold. Like Canadians wearing short sleeves. Oh yeah.

439
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:47,720
She'll be fine. I'll be fine. I've had worse. You know, we sleep in the van. It's a big

440
00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:55,880
van. It says free candy on the side. Oh no. Yes. It doesn't say free candy and it's also

441
00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:03,560
black, not white. Oh, sorry. That's where you have the black fan. The big scary black

442
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:09,440
van. I mean, you can sleep in the car if you're a coward, but I'm going to set up my tent.

443
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:19,000
Coward for not liking bugs. What is in the survival kit? It's, it's non-specific. It's

444
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:25,680
and more, act on the end, just like whatever random survival kit that your GM is willing

445
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:32,280
to give you basically. It specifically says survival gear in a rugged bag includes a knife,

446
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,800
lighter, matches, compass, light wear thermal blanket, several days worth of ration bars,

447
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:43,340
a water purification unit and more. Yeah. So probably like some kind of rope, like two

448
00:46:43,340 --> 00:46:49,480
feet, a pair of cord and a mirror. Never enough rope. There's never enough rope. You get 50

449
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:56,080
more rope. Just when I Google this, it comes up with five E every time. That'll be how

450
00:46:56,080 --> 00:47:01,480
it be. All right. So you guys are all squared away for the night. What's, what's happening

451
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:08,280
next? Well, in the morning, uh, box, you should probably call a Vicente. Does she even get

452
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:14,880
signal out here by sheet? That's a good question. Uh, yes. Yeah. Cecile, when you wake up in

453
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:20,760
the morning, I used to still sitting out there in the parking lot. Uh, Cecile goes through

454
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:27,400
her incomplete daily routine. She's very upset. And then she goes out to check on ice. Dean

455
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:31,840
there, where did you end up crashing for the night? Oh, uh, I just went back to my apartment

456
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:40,840
in, uh, Auburn. Like a civilized person. Yeah. Like a real, like a real elf. I feel like

457
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:45,080
even though Dean there was the last person to go to sleep, she'd probably still be the

458
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:49,920
first person up. Yeah. I think you guys have all been sort of fighting for the, uh, for

459
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:57,360
that distinction. We already went to the last six AM today because she would otherwise won't

460
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:05,760
be get like three hours of sleep. But usually she makes up like four 30. Yeah. Last time

461
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:13,000
you, when you got up last time, ice and pro cop were just going to bed oddly enough. Anyways.

462
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:19,880
So ice you, uh, okay out here. Yep. Nothing unusual happened last night. You don't need

463
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:32,400
to sleep. Not right now. Hmm. Okay then. Um, anyway, let's go. I have to pick up some stuff.

464
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:39,720
Bank. All right. So ice, ice just goes with you. Um, Dean there, you're up to, what are

465
00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:45,120
you up to? Uh, Dean there would probably go and get a soy calf. All right. I think on

466
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:49,480
her way, she'd probably call each of the members of the group and see if they wanted a soy

467
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:56,480
calf or something. Do you guys want a soy calf or anything? Let's just soy calf. Uh,

468
00:48:56,480 --> 00:49:03,520
no I do not. I know I'm just going to drink from the river. Like already gone through

469
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:09,880
her routine where she drinks tea. So she's not in the mood. He has to T she missed the

470
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:16,320
point in time where she would be drinking tea. So she's just like, uh, whatever. In

471
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:22,640
the end, uh, D and Dair gets like two soy calves, one for her and the other also for

472
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:29,920
her. Honestly, the, uh, the job was the thing that brought her into town and, um, that was

473
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:36,880
her main goal and she doesn't really know what to do without money. So yeah, he'd probably

474
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:41,680
be interested in getting the money from the Johnson. The, the rest of it, did we already

475
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:49,400
get paid? No, no, he was, it was not pay upfront. Oh, uh, D and Dair probably did the like six

476
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:55,360
hour check in with him. Um, and it was just like, yeah, we're heavily, we'll get back

477
00:49:55,360 --> 00:50:02,960
to you in another six hours. I'm thinking that like we can tell him we know where she

478
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:09,760
is and get the money from him. Like his request was that we deliver a message and that we

479
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:15,600
get in direct contact with her. Right. That we do that. Not that he needs direct contact

480
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:21,480
with her. Well, he asked you guys to find out what was wrong, you know, why she hadn't

481
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:27,160
been back in touch, you know, make sure she wasn't in danger. And if she, you know, if

482
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:34,380
you found her to get it, to get in touch with her, I think you wanted you to deliver a message.

483
00:50:34,380 --> 00:50:40,480
If you found out that she didn't need any help otherwise, the, uh, the job was to, to

484
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:47,920
rescue her. So, uh, no, the, the job was just to find out if she needed help or not. And

485
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:54,800
if she didn't to, uh, to figure to get the message to her, but if she did, we would renegotiate

486
00:50:54,800 --> 00:51:00,960
for a rescue price. Right. Yeah, that sounds right. So D and Dair probably told her or

487
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:08,080
told the creep that we found her. Um, we know she's fine. Uh, we're trying to get in contact

488
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:13,520
with her now. All right. He, uh, are you calling him or are you text messaging him? I'm texting

489
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:19,720
him. Okay. No. Yeah. I'm texting him. Yeah. Your text goes through and then a couple seconds

490
00:51:19,720 --> 00:51:26,960
later, um, you get a, a wall of text that basically boils down to, you know, him saying,

491
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:32,240
you know, where is she? How can I get in touch with her? Deandre would say that's not a part

492
00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:40,240
of our job. Uh, what was the message you had for her? He, uh, he messages you and says,

493
00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:46,520
um, a message, a message comes back and says, can we meet later tonight? Sure. All right.

494
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:53,400
Let's meet at that same, uh, um, place that we, uh, we did our businesses last time. Uh,

495
00:51:53,400 --> 00:52:00,480
called like greasy, uh, greasy bills, greasy bills. Yeah. That does not sound appealing.

496
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:08,720
Uh, I guess I'd message the group with like media, greasy bills. Uh, we've got a, um,

497
00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:19,000
an update from the mr. J. Uh, I think what's, what would be the, the like shadow runner

498
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:26,520
equivalent of loose lips, sink ships. It's probably like loud dragon. Never deal with

499
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:34,200
the dragon. Never deal with the dragon. I guess. No, you're asking loose, loose lips,

500
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:40,280
sink ships. I feel like, uh, if you can't think of an equivalent shadow runners, we're

501
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:45,480
just say that like, if it's not, if it's not incredibly catchy and intuitive, they would

502
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:51,960
just say like, whatever the fuck. Yeah. I think legitimately D and they would follow

503
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:56,840
up the, uh, her text with loose lips, sink ships. Yeah. Cause D and there's old enough

504
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:07,720
to know that. Yeah. Turner phrase. All right. So, uh, grace in box or hang out in the forest

505
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:15,400
for the day to seal does some shopping. Speaking of, uh, when I run past you, everything I

506
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:23,800
have. So most of it is, uh, the highest availability rating with eight are most of them being four

507
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:28,760
to six. Okay. That's not a problem. No, I would imagine Cecile knows where to get all

508
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:35,080
that stuff. Okay. And then the, I bought an agent with availability nine, not are just

509
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:41,680
nine. All right. Running a past going to get up and go to the bathroom. I'll be right back.

510
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:47,640
Yeah. We'd talked about getting Cecile set up a little bit more, a little bit more effective

511
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:53,240
there. So I think between your contacts and your past life, you know, where to find this

512
00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:58,000
stuff pretty easily. Oh, absolutely. There was probably a bloody class on it. Yeah. There

513
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,920
are, you might've already known where there was like a, a virtual dead drop where, you

514
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:09,240
know, most students went and downloaded half the stuff anyways. And with 150 million left

515
00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:14,800
to see, let's get it out. All right. So we're going to skip ahead to meeting Mr. Johnson.

516
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:21,400
Yes. Nightingale is in doggy mode again. Doggy mode. All right. You guys drive back into

517
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:27,160
town. Everything goes smoothly again. Um, in the light of day, you see that you've, you've

518
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:32,160
driven up into the cascades and as you're headed down to Seattle, you sort of get that panoramic

519
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:38,400
view of, of the city and Puget Sound. And yeah, it's quite beautiful. Mm. You bet it

520
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:44,720
is. You know, in spite of your knowledge of all the meta human drama going on down there

521
00:54:44,720 --> 00:54:50,640
unfolding within those, within that Metroplex from a distance, it, uh, it has its charm.

522
00:54:50,640 --> 00:55:00,760
You know, Boxer, originally, whenever I came here, I, uh, met a humanity, met a humans

523
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:11,000
scared the ever loving out of me. The sheer mass of you. It's like a, it's like an anthill,

524
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:18,720
except the ants are bigger than, uh, let me, let me think of a, an appropriate comparison.

525
00:55:18,720 --> 00:55:24,960
I guess they're, they're, uh, in comparison to you, they're, they're bigger, the more

526
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:30,720
than three times as big and, um, they don't really have a sense of camaraderie like ants

527
00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:38,680
I can see all that to be scary. Like it's, uh, it's, it's almost, it's almost like,

528
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:47,320
uh, the, the ocean. It's just this swirling, swallowing tide of people always constantly

529
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:58,760
and forever. Tide. Your right. It is an ocean of people and you see things differently,

530
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:12,960
literally differently. Yes. So I imagine you must be curious and tired, but things must

531
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:21,360
be better now that you've been here for a while. Ah, it's, it is profound. It, uh, like

532
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:28,600
it's, it's beautiful, honestly, and much the same way that those mountains are beautiful,

533
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:39,280
and how they are also kind of, you know, intimidating. Um, and I think more than anything, there's

534
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:45,800
just so much to learn, so much to experience, so many people to meet, people like you, people

535
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:56,120
like, uh, Cecile and the, the green one. Yeah, that one. Yeah, I guess it's, it's not, it's

536
00:56:56,120 --> 00:57:01,720
not scary anymore. Still very interesting. Interesting. That's it. Yeah. Interesting.

537
00:57:01,720 --> 00:57:12,640
You're intrigued. Also, uh, was I mean to the Johnson? Uh, honestly, most of them, at

538
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:20,120
least the smart ones have learned to expect a certain degree of coarseness from Shadowrun.

539
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:27,920
You did nothing unexpected. He really did smell bad. Yeah. Yeah, he did. And uh, they'll

540
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:34,360
continue driving if a boxer has nothing more to say. Did you think when you came here,

541
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:43,260
you would end up in this sort of situation? Yes, actually. I wasn't expecting to be such

542
00:57:43,260 --> 00:57:51,040
a cog, I guess, if that makes sense. Um, and to have such little information, but I think

543
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:58,240
that's just how this world works. I was expecting adventure. I was expecting to have to bypass

544
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:04,880
local norms. Uh, yeah, bypass local norms and, uh, do things that some people didn't

545
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:11,640
want me to do to further my studies, but also to further the good here. I thought there

546
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:18,920
was some part of me that was deluded into believing that like I could bring harmony

547
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:24,600
to this world whenever I initially, you know, started learning about it whenever I, uh,

548
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:31,760
before I even came to Seattle. Yeah. Harmony. I think that's like the best way to put it,

549
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:39,040
you know? Um, not everyone just gets along. Well, not quite, but preferably if you don't

550
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:45,960
get along, you don't starve people to death or shoot them. That makes sense. But there's

551
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:54,400
just too many metahumans and, uh, they're a little bit too dangerous for that. Yeah.

552
00:58:54,400 --> 00:59:03,400
Yeah. Ventress. You guys are chatting and, uh, both of you make a perception check. Perception.

553
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:13,000
Perception. What is perception governed by? Uh, intuition. And? One. She got three. So

554
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:19,520
Grace, you're, you're sort of deep in thought in this tableau in front of you guys catch

555
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:24,360
you a little bit introspective in your, your purpose here. So you're just sort of following

556
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:29,820
in traffic and watching the city approaching you. Boxer, on the other hand, for some reason

557
00:59:29,820 --> 00:59:35,840
you're feeling, you know, you've got sort of your head on a swivel of it more than you.

558
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:41,760
You see a vehicle, several vehicles behind you that has a familiar logo on it or a familiar

559
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:50,200
emblem on it. It's a, uh, otherwise unremarkable, um, Aries road master, but, uh, there's a

560
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:57,480
symbol on it that you recognize. And it's a, uh, the symbol is sort of a purple, a tombstone

561
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:17,240
shape with a purple background on it and a grim reaper with a scythe and the number 61.

562
01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,920
That's an girl. And she would make a point of stressing the fact that she was using that

563
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:27,400
name. We're about to have a tell. The muscle is a recognition signal. Oh, don't drive differently.

564
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:36,000
You just keep calm and you are going to, we are going to hope that my prudence, she pats

565
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:48,240
her back metal clinks inside is not necessarily. Yeah. Yeah. I hope that too. Just be ready.

566
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:55,720
What did they say? Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I hope it,

567
01:00:55,720 --> 01:01:00,600
I hope it doesn't come to it, but, um, I can, I can work a long rifle if you have another

568
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:08,800
one of those. Yeah. Long rifle, long gun. Yeah. Long gun. That sounds right. I just,

569
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:14,840
she'd probably look over at the, uh, the rear view mirror at that point. Yeah. You see the,

570
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:21,880
you see a large vehicle, a couple of, a couple of cars behind you. Um, it's not doing anything

571
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:31,040
outlandish. I have, I don't assume you would know how to use a sniper. Um, it is a kind

572
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:38,880
of long gun, semi-automatic. Don't break it. It's like second most expensive one. Is that

573
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:46,080
like a hunting rifle? It's the kind used by marksmen in the military, but yes, you might

574
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:52,360
think of it as a sort of advanced hunting rifle. But the sight, I just line up the cross

575
01:01:52,360 --> 01:02:00,440
on the target, right? Yes. I don't imagine that can be non-lethal, can it? I lack non-lethal

576
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:08,480
advance, but hopefully it won't come to that. This, she gives a habitual conspiratorial

577
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:16,880
glance around before calling that there is no one. I will just say I have, I have a history

578
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:23,960
with this group. Yeah. So as you're finishing that sort of conversation, um, race, you see

579
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:30,760
that there, um, is another van of similar size and shape and color and pulling out into

580
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:38,760
the road ahead of you. Shit. Looks like they're, they're moving into place to, uh, to block

581
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:46,560
traffic. Uh, look, nightingale is going to have to be quick. These people, good chance

582
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:53,680
they're here for me, rather than you. If they are here for me, I, I don't want you to stay.

583
01:02:53,680 --> 01:03:01,320
I want you to go understand. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. At that point she

584
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:07,640
rolls down the window, um, and she lets the dog brain take over fully and she doesn't

585
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:13,880
immediately, she doesn't peek out, but she's looking at the roadside. Um, what kind of

586
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:18,400
an environment are they in at this point? You're sort of on a main road, um, heading

587
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:27,400
through what basically would be sort of the outskirts of Seattle, you know, strip malls,

588
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:33,960
um, motels, restaurants, you know, sort of the, uh, you know, the kind of stuff that

589
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:39,520
you find on the outside of cities. Um, it's, and what you're on a main arterial road heading

590
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:49,440
into Seattle. Uh, now that the window is down looking like where they just pulled off from

591
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:58,920
a kid, she's just going to peak. Uh, I don't know. Maybe she now, uh, are there any other

592
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:08,400
humans metahumans like in the tree line that she can make out? No, no, there's no, you're

593
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:14,640
not seeing anybody into in standing in any kind of ambush position. As you're perceiving,

594
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:20,360
you're obviously at your dual natured. So you're perceiving what you're seeing is, uh,

595
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:27,440
you know, mostly just the normal metahuman traffic. Um, and then maybe some alarm and

596
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:33,200
anger in front of you as this fan pulls out and basically just cuts off traffic and people

597
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:39,000
start honking. And, um, yeah, you notice that the van behind you is also sort of pulled

598
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:44,320
crossways to traffic and you guys are now sandwiched between these vans. You know, there's

599
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:48,640
several cars between you that have stopped honking and people are shaking their fist

600
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:53,840
and dog brain in the van is slowed down and stopped as well. And at this point you see,

601
01:04:53,840 --> 01:05:00,800
um, the van that's ahead of you, um, the driver's side door being stained, large sliding door

602
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:09,400
buttons and several get out, exit the vehicle. Um, they're wearing what appeared to be military

603
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:19,480
uniforms and, uh, weapons are not pointed at you, but they have weapons, not really

604
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:27,320
readied or anything. And then, uh, boxer, you recognize your old CEO, um, like I called

605
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:33,960
Nathan McCourt and, uh, he's looking towards you and then, uh, he's having some words

606
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:39,400
with somebody next to him and then he starts walking you through the traffic.

607
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:46,920
If you take a long deep breath and look to the end of the aisle one last time, the rifle

608
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:52,200
is partially disassembled in the back. Uh, if you need to, I'm sure you can figure it

609
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:59,880
out, but I think it should be obvious that it would be best not to fight these people.

610
01:05:59,880 --> 01:06:06,500
I'm going out, follow me. Uh, no, no, you are not going out there. They are going to

611
01:06:06,500 --> 01:06:13,800
kill you. That is plainly obvious. If they don't, if they're not here for me, of course,

612
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:21,960
that's also a possibility. And this, um, Nathan, you know, I used to work for private security.

613
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:31,920
I guess I wasn't expecting them to, I'm going out. Is everything? No. Well, we are going

614
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:39,800
to talk and if they decide that they would rather not, well, I wouldn't. Get out from

615
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:45,840
the driver's seat, she says, and, uh, is suddenly now squirreling, uh, after setting the window

616
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:53,280
to roll up, she's scrolling her way back into the back. Oh, yeah. She, uh, she opened his

617
01:06:53,280 --> 01:07:01,240
door and had a simple mis-agitation. So she were wondering what exactly she's doing. A

618
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:07,400
moment of disbelief, but, uh, she gets out. Uh, she only has her sidearm at her hip, the,

619
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:14,800
uh, handgun and the taser on the other hip. Yeah. So, uh, Major McCord is, is coming towards

620
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:20,480
you and he's, he's keeping his hands sort of easily visible to you. And, uh, as he sees

621
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:27,840
you get out, he sort of smiles. He's, uh, he's been around. Um, you remember him as a, a

622
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:37,320
very, very tough individual, but also very, um, fair and, and honest. Um, and he's thinking

623
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:45,000
back on it. You remember that there are stories of how, how Bravo Company came to be. Um,

624
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:49,320
they definitely have a code of honor and they definitely have, while they're, they're a

625
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:57,160
mercenary company, they've also got a reputation for being a fairly, um, as mercenary companies

626
01:07:57,160 --> 01:08:05,480
go fairly ethical companies. Um, there was a, uh, in, uh, in the early, uh, company was

627
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:11,720
initially led by the guy's father. They were, uh, they had a couple of instances during

628
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:19,720
the, uh, the ghost wars where they, um, avoided participating in some atrocities. Have generally

629
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:25,080
tried to maintain sort of military, ethical kind of way of operating. But in any case,

630
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:30,920
you know your history with them and it's not necessarily, you didn't necessarily leave

631
01:08:30,920 --> 01:08:38,440
them on good terms, right? Uh, they were being acquired after hitting some financial issues.

632
01:08:38,440 --> 01:08:46,840
Yep. And, uh, you also acquired some things from them. Yeah. And you've sort of been hiding

633
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:53,160
ever since, but apparently, um, they found you. And, uh, any case, you're now approaching

634
01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:59,400
within a couple of feet of each other. Major McCord looks you up and down and says, uh,

635
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:04,440
you're looking well, boxer. And you are as well considered. Yeah, it's been a while.

636
01:09:04,440 --> 01:09:09,800
It is. I bet you thought we were, uh, we were done for when you decided to cut your losses.

637
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:15,800
It wasn't just me. No, it wasn't just you. We found a couple of the other guys as well,

638
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:22,040
the ones that got away. Now, the old dip's hand, don't get me wrong. I might not necessarily

639
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:27,560
like the way things went down and I might agree with the choices you made. I get it. I understand.

640
01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:34,360
Um, that being said though, boxer, um, you do owe us. And I assume by the fact that you have not

641
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:43,000
shot me or my companion yet, that my debt is not going to be paid in blood. My blood. No profit

642
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:50,040
in your blood, boxer? No satisfaction to some. Yeah, that's not going to, uh, change what happened

643
01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:57,240
though. So, um, I've got a mission for you. And if you accomplish the mission, then consider

644
01:09:57,240 --> 01:10:00,360
our debt paid in full and you won't ever see Bravo Company again.

645
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:12,360
He holds out his hand and there's a, uh, there's a memory stick on it and it says

646
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:19,160
coordinates are on this as our contact information. Once the job is done and I assume all of the

647
01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:29,080
details on this, everything you need's on the stick and this operation, this is for me exclusively

648
01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:36,680
or for my compatriots as well as myself. He's for us. Boxer. I don't really care how you manage

649
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:42,680
pay off your debts or who's helped you have to enlist to get it done, but we're calling in the

650
01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:48,600
marker on you. You can either get us what we're looking for here and consider the debt paid or

651
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:53,320
keep running. Personally, if I were you, I wouldn't want to get running anymore. I get the feeling I

652
01:10:53,320 --> 01:11:00,040
wouldn't be running very far. Like I said, there's no, there's no benefit to us in, in killing you,

653
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:04,600
boxer. I mean, I don't necessarily have to like the way things went down and I don't like the

654
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:10,040
choices and don't particularly think they were very honorable, but hey, maybe I'll get something

655
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:15,960
out of it after all in the end. Take this job, but I'll have you know that it looked back then

656
01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:21,640
like Bravo wasn't going to be yours or ours anymore. It was going to be another solid

657
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:27,080
corporate monolith that will have had this killing civilians in some fucking field in the middle of

658
01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:34,600
nowhere. So yeah, it almost came to that. It almost came to that boxer. I understand, but you could

659
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:41,960
have at least, uh, follow the chain of command. You were after all soldiers. Nevermind boxer.

660
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:47,960
It's all water under the bridge. This is your ticket out from under. I accept. Good. We probably

661
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:53,320
won't be seeing each other again, boxers. So, uh, make it count. And he turns around,

662
01:11:53,320 --> 01:12:00,760
it's back to his van. Wait, one last thing. He looks over his shoulder. My section, the ones

663
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:08,520
that stayed. What happens? Yeah. Say they went down like two soldiers, unlike others. All right.

664
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:12,760
So some of them made it out one or two of them made it out boxer. That's how we knew you were

665
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:19,640
alive. I'll see you in the hell. Let's just probably, probably probably a couple of minutes

666
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:24,360
later, the vans have disappeared into the traffic and traffic is flowing smoothly and your guys are

667
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:31,560
headed back into Seattle. I didn't go had a symbol of the sniper. And by the time boxer goes to get

668
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:40,840
back in the driver's seat, it is an admittedly precarious way set up to sit on the dash and

669
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:47,480
probably had been sighted in on if not the person boxer had been speaking to one of the men

670
01:12:47,480 --> 01:12:53,000
alongside him. But she, uh, she immediately pulls it back and sets it into the back. Whenever she

671
01:12:53,000 --> 01:13:00,200
steps in, um, rendering it safe by unloading it and, uh, unchambering the round. She is clearly

672
01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:06,360
anxious, like physically very pronounced, at least shaking while she does this. And she doesn't say

673
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:12,280
anything, just letting boxer take control of the car and get it moving again. Talk about this later.

674
01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:31,080
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's go.

675
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:35,400
Okay.

676
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