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[Rokur]

"Your place sounds good to me," White Fang gives the lady a small look, to show that he has no other intentions in mind before asking, "So, how do I get there."

[Nikoli]

"That usually depends on how well one dances, but tonight let's make it simple; it's at 1919 Lee St. in Lakeview, Apt. 14C. It's a quiet neighborhood, usually."

[Blitz]

:: As the group seems to be preparing to leave, she watches the exchange between White Fang and Lada and as the address is given she pulls up a matrix based virtual map of the city in the corner of her consciousness, plotting the fastest route to the given location avoiding any known hazards. ::

"It should take approximately 35 minutes to arrive at that location. Shall I meet you there in 40 mins from now or will you need extra time?"

[Nikoli]

Pondering for a moment, "No, forty minutes should be just ducky. Though I'll give anyone an hour before I become concerned, should you want to change or freshen up before you arrive."

[Abschalten]

Bodhi crushes out her cigarette, then crosses her arms to poise herself for a recline back in her seat.

"So...who am I riding with?" she asks. "I walked here, and I don't favor the idea of taking a 40-minute drive on foot, especially not with all the crazies out."

[Blitz]

:: Trinity pouts slightly and shakes her head. ::

"Not me, sorry. I drive a Scoot."

[Rokur]

"I've got you covered, madame, if you don't mind riding the back of a growler." After saying this, White Fang chuckles a bit and gives Bohdi a low guttural growl and a big grin.

[Abschalten]

Bodhi looks over at the Wolfman and she growls a little bit herself, but it doesn't have any touches of amusement to it. She looks for a moment as if she's going to say something, then appears to go through an internal dialogue as she takes on an introspective expression. After a moment, she says, "Whatever, so long as I don't have to walk."

[Rokur]

Fang smiles back at the lady noticing her uneasiness after her growls were done. He walks them over to the yamaha Growler parked a couple blocks away. He hands Bodhi the helmet and waits for her to get on before speeding off to the apartment.

[Blitz]

:: Trinity excuses her self and head out to her little moped. Carefully donning on her raincloak, she winds her hair up and settles the helmet over the blue and black waves. ::

:: The drive is uneventful and she's actually gained an extra minute and a half on her estimated travel time. It's always nice when the lights are green your way. ::

[Nikoli]

Leaving with the others, Lada makes her way make to her apartment via her own bike. Allowing her face to return to normal once the helmet is strapped into place. The Aurora rumbles into life as she keys her log to catalog the evening from the club for review later.
Keep it professional Anya. You aren't here to flirt until the job requires it, keep it simple, keep it together.
Absently making her way inside she gives the place a 'company is on the way' once over for stray unmentionables, stockings and chalk outlines. Keying the house drone to start vacuuming, Anya steps into the washroom to remove her nano-paste disguise and change into some house lounging attire.

[Rokur]

Before turning on the bike the elven magician summons up a watcher. He gives it the command to "Make sure noone's following me except this lady." White Fang then speeds off down the road and pulls up to the apartment, giving it a slight nod of approval. As he parks his bike, he summons another watcher on the astral plane. He tells it to guard his bike and to alert him if anyone tampers with it. The other watcher he asks to see if anyone did follow him, and if not, then to just maintain surveillance and to alert him of any hostile looking threats in the area."

As they enter the apartment, the elf sits down and says. "Nice place, happen to have some soykaf?" He sits quietly waiting for everyone else to arrive. When introductions start, "I'm called White Fang. I'm a shaman of the wolf." He keeps eye contact with anyone willing to try to stare him down, but makes no threatening moves.

"Well, I suppose the first order of business is to find the mark. I suppose I could try it the easy way." He then calls up a bound Spirit of man in the astral plane. An elderly tribal dressed man, for those able to see it. He issues it a command to search for the man in the file that was given to us by the cyberzombie. "This man is lost, he must be found! speed is key, so quickly cover that ground!"

[Abschalten]

Bodhi moves into the living room area as well and lights up another cigarette. She looks around for something to use as an ashtray while White Fang (and she changes the entry to White Fang in her commlink) begins messing about with the spirit.

"I think we're going about this wrong," she opines. "He's a..." -- and she hesitates for a moment before continuing -- "...an awakened person. He might have some magical rubbish laying around his place, maybe a focus or a lodge he's got set up in a corner or something. Wagemages take work home with them, right? I say if we're gonna do some tracking, we might as well start there to see if we can't get a bead on him."

She gets so caught up in her monologue that she taps an ash instinctively without having first acquired a suitable depository for it. Rubbing her chin with her gloved left hand, she asks out loud, "Unless anybody else has a different angle of approach...?"

"By the way," she adds, "Call me Bodhi."

[Nikoli]

Mentally noting the names and postures of the first arrivals, "Perhaps we should await everyone's arrival or absence before attmepting too much. And, as I live here I'd really prefer we didn't start the search from here, I'd really prefer not to move until absolutely necessary. I'm Lada, by the way."

[Blitz]

:: Trinity listens quietly, her hands folded in her lap as she watches the jockeying of the other players, all seemingly wanting to take the lead. This doesn't bother her much, as it is an aspect true to her kind as well, but here she didn't have an edge, so she decided to let the dominance be decided without her. Once there is a quiet moment, she'll speak up. ::

"Im Trinity and I'm a 'mancer. If spirits are anything like sprites, and the last mage I met used that analogy, then Lada is correct. It is unwise to send them searching from a place that you don't want to be tracked back to. If he is a mage, it is possible that his skill in hiding an electronic trail is not as adept as leaving a traceable magic trail."

[Rokur]

"Hmmph... well it is a bit late to stop the spirit. But my spirit will find him in about an hour give or take, if necessary I will leave here and go somewhere else before he returns. I had thought that this house would be safe if you had offered it as a base for our op. And honestly, I really don't care if he follows my spirit back to me.... makes my job that much easier. That said, since there is a deadline, perhaps we should come up with a method of transportation for ourselvelves, and do some research on what happened to our man? If he left willingly, this may be all too easy."

[Nikoli]

"Omae, I doubt it'll be that easy. If your spirit can find him that fast, so can theirs. Probably already have, and they know something we don't, which is why they've engaged us to recover him rather than their own boys. Maybe he's being held against his will by someone nastier than they or his handler wants it kept quiet so she doesn't forfeit her quarterly bonus. Once your spirit finds him, I suggest we focus on why they didn't bring him in on their own as we plan how to do so ourselves."
Her breif moment of alpha female over, Lada heads to the kitchenette to start the soykaf, "Who wants what flavor? I'm a little low on the french vanilla mix but the Azzie roast is quite nice."

[Rokur]

"Don't worry, it'll find him. It's my specialty. And any soykaf is fine, whatever's easiest."

[Nikoli]

"Suit yourself," Lada says as she punches the randomize button and pulls out a box of nerps, setting it on the counter for any who want one. "Help your self kids, the soykaf will take a oment to heat up."

[Rokur]

After about 20 minutes of idle time, sipping soycaff, making introductions and watching the others doing the same. Images begin flashing in his mind. Fang begins to vocalize interrupting whoever was speaking at the time. "I got him. He's on a train...." His voice trails off as he seems to be lost in his own world. His eyes seeming to stare at the blankness of nothing, but his mouth continues moving. "on a train.... the red line.... heading downtown... might be hurt... he's covered his arm in rags.... uh oh, he's got his own spirit watching him.... My spirits breaking off, not taking the offensive."

His head seems to snap back to reality and says. "That's the report! We move now, and we can maybe catch him at his stop." Fang stands up and looks a little bit anxious, a small smile on his lips. Let the hunt begin and the prey be fierce! His spirit almost instantly reappears next to him, and Fang thanks her with a nod and a small mental message. "Shall we start this hunt?"

[Abschalten]

Bodhi sighs and takes another drag from her cigarette.

"I'd just gotten settled in. Well, if we're going to make this simple, let's get him while we have a lead."

She peers over at Trinity, making sure she gets that name down in her commlink, along with the woman's rather unusual commcode.

"Matrixy stuff, right? Yeah, I think you and the Wolfman need to see if you can figure out which train it is and where it's going. Maybe we can catch up with him before he gets away or somebody else grabs him."

Standing up from the couch, she walks into the kitchen to get a cup of that previously mentioned soycaf. She takes a sip, and then adds, "But first, I think we may need to steal a car, one with a big trunk just in case. Unless somebody else has another suggestion to remedy our transportation woes."

[Nikoli]

"While we're on the way, can we maybe put the train 'Out of Service', lock it down and have it return to the maintenance yard? Somewhere around here I've got a generic maintenance uniform, I can pose as a repair person and maybe get close to our boy so that when it's time to make the move, he's caught between us. Also, unless you can become smaller than me, I can only take myself on my Aurora."

Listening for a response, Lada thumbs open her closet, checking for her rack for something blue collar.

Too expensive. Too white. Too black. Too green. Ah, coveralls and a hardhat!
"Well I think I found my uniform. I was afraid I'd have to make flats look sexy tonight. Now what do you think of the plan?"

[Rokur]

"Ok so, vehicle, right. And train. Well he was headed down the red line, and he was just passing the Stadium heading downtown. If we can track this train that would be good. I just wanted to get some eyes on him. At least we know he's in Seattle. That said. I'm ready to go now and keep a watch on him, and our undercover woman might get closer to him and maybe put a tracer on him. He's got a spirit with him, so I don't think jumping him in broad daylight will be our best maneuver."

"I've got an idea for a planso please bear with me for a moment."

"See if you can shut down the train, Trinity, and then join Bodhi here in getting us a stolen vehicle. We'll try and get on the scene, and tail him from there. Me and Lada will be alpha, Trinity and Bodhi, you're Beta."

"Trinity, we're gonna need you to pull triple duty. We need you to be active surveillance from the matrix, shut down the train, and help Bodhi hack a car, and then restart the train once alpha's in place, Lada will need to be able to "fix" the vehicle. Your priorities, are first, surveillance, second, the getaway vehicle, and third stopping the train. If you can't stop the train, that's fine, me and Lada will work our way near him our own way. Just keep us posted where he is."

"Bodhi you're setting up the escape. Once me and Lada have the man, we'll need you to have a clear place to rendezvous, and we'll need to get out of there. Magic may be employed to stop our escape since he has spirits guarding him so be prepared for it, and be ready to get us out of a hotspot."

"Lada, you and I are going to try to get close to him. You can work a cover if you want, but if Trin can't get the train shut off, we'll have to do this the old fashioned way. I'm gonna try to run a low profile and not be seen, you can do what you want."

"Me... I'll take the brunt of taking him out if necessary. I can put him to sleep, so he shouldn't get too damaged, and I can help fight off the spirits."

"I don't need gear and Lada is at her home. Trin and Bodhi, if you need some gear, make it fast. We're on the clock people. Does this sound good to everyone?"

[Nikoli]

"Before I know what cover to use, I need to see the man. Live if possible, can you do that for me before we head out? If I'm not his type, I'll have to change tack and go a different route to get close."

[Abschalten]

Bodhi looks over at the woman Trinity and crosses her arms about her chest. She stands up, her posture and mannerisms looking anxious and anticipatory. Bodhi asks the woman, "Can you do that while we're on the road? I think I know some places nearby we could hit for vehicles. If you need to wait, we can do that, but the sooner we get moving, the sooner we can catch this guy before he gets away from us."

After having done this, she looks over at White Fang with a less than friendly expression masquerading as a grin. "Okay, Wolfman, I'll play along with the plan. I'd say I'm more qualified except I specialize in killing spellcasters, not putting them to bed. Since we don't know exactly what we're doing when we get ahold of him, he's all yours. But you won't have serious protection from spirits and spells until we meet back up, so if you fuck up it's all on you."

Bodhi goes quiet again, looking over at Trinity and waiting for her response. Still generally nervous, judging by her expressions, she lights up yet another cigarette.