IC: Extradition Options

[Divine Virus]

Gore's hoity toity eatery, 7:30 11/6/70

Sebastian is just saving all his search data to his commlink when Al enters his cybereye's field of vision. He waits for it to finish then drops out of full emersion and suddenly feels all the aches in his body from not moving for some 6 hours.
"Hi Al!", Sebastian says as he streches out his body. "Good to see you again. I found some stuff on the sword, and had a bunch of great ideas. Did you get my message by the way?"

[Cogar]

Gore's hoity toity eatery, 7:31 11/6/70
Morning lads good to see your both well, Sebastion you look a bit worse for wear have you been up all night ???

*Gore sits down waiting for a waiter to come along*

So did you find any information about the sword???

[Kiedo]

Sebastian

>> Refrence found: Keyword "Unfound"
>> Source: O Lost, Thomas Wolfe
>> Location: Prologue: Anabasis
>> Excerpt: "...a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face: from the prision of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prision of this earth."
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>> Excerpt: "Remembering speachlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?"
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>> Refrence Found: Keyword "Unfound"
>> Source: The Stand, Stephen King
>> Location: Chapter 64
>> Excerpt: "The bricks of language. A stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Words. Worlds. Magic. Life and immortality. power."
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>> Refrence Found: Keyword "Unfound"
>> Source: The Dark Tower, Stephen King
>> Location: BLue Heaven, p.173
>> Excerpt: "...creatures without breath pent behind an unfound door. And now Walter judged it was too late to set them free."
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>> Entry Found: Keyword "Unfound"
>> Source: Dunkelzahn Institute for Magic Research
>> Location: Mysterious Magical Artifacts
>> Excerpt: "Commonly called the sword of power, has a strange inscription running down the blade, written in a language that is long dead, translated using a key recovered recently in 2064. The inscription runs like a mirror image down each side of the blade, but with the archaic symbols that comprise the language, it reads differnt on each side. On one side it reads 'Let the lost be found' and the other 'And the found be unfound' the current location of the artifact is unknown, if you have any information about the item, please contact DIMR at 555-542-9874-7"
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>> Refining Search Parameters
>> "Sword" changed to "Sword of Power"
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>> No Results
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>> Broadening Search Parameters
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>> 1,365,478,019 entries found
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>> No encrypted results found
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>> Search Function Terminated
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>> Incoming Message
>> Sender: Unknown
>>
>> --Begin Message Code--
>> You looking for unfound pleasure? Visit our matrix location, we'll introduce you to your wildest fantasy, and our sims are very hot.
>> --End Message Code--
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>>Attachment Found
>>Opening Attachment
>> --begin message--
>> Keep your nose our of trouble kid, we wouldn't want anything bad to happen...
>> --End Message--

[Divine Virus]

Gore's hoity toity eatery, 7:31 11/6/70

"I did!" Sebastian says, beaming with pride. "I'll transfere the whole file, but I flagged the part that I think is actually relavent."

[ Spoiler ]

>> Entry Found: Keyword "Unfound"
>> Source: Dunkelzahn Institute for Magic Research
>> Location: Mysterious Magical Artifacts
>> Excerpt: "Commonly called the sword of power, has a strange inscription running down the blade, written in a language that is long dead, translated using a key recovered recently in 2064. The inscription runs like a mirror image down each side of the blade, but with the archaic symbols that comprise the language, it reads differnt on each side. On one side it reads 'Let the lost be found' and the other 'And the found be unfound' the current location of the artifact is unknown, if you have any information about the item, please contact DIMR at 555-542-9874-7"

After the file transfere is complete Sebastian adds "I think I'm going to suggest to Avenger that the two of us do some 'investigating' and see what else this DIMR knows. I don't think he likes me very much, so it will be a good to work together, and forget whatever he has agienst me." When Sebastian said "investiagating," quotation marks flashed in Gore's AR display.

[adamu]

Gore's Hoity Toity Cafe AKA The Sombre 0730 11/6/70

Al spots Sebastian and joins him. They are both wearing exactly what they wore last night. Al looks more like drek - in a smoky bar he almost fits, but in the light of day there is nothing to romanticize his loose, jaundiced skin and shockingly emaciated frame, which the leather jacket only accentuates by virtue of its bagginess.

"Hi yerself, kid." Last night, Sebastian had guessed that maybe Al spoke so loudly because of the music in the bar, but he's barking his sentences just as raucously now, on the sidewalk in front of this upscale cafe. "'Course I gotcher message - din'n'tcha git my reply? And congrats on the sword info, but it's all the same ta me if ya save it fer the Gorester - and speak of the devil..."

Greetings are exchanged and food ordered. Then, as Gore immerses himself in Sebastian's upload, Al scoots in closer to the young adventurer.

"Awright, kid - I do think I know someone that kin help you with them there," he pauses and spits, narrowly missing some elf waiter's shoes, "gel rounds, but maybe you'll listen ta ol' Al before ya go rushin' off an' doin' somethin' 'at might scar yer persuhnal identity fer life.
"I'm jist gon' come right out wit' it son - gel rounds is fer pussies. There, it's said. Ya gotta understand, muh boy, guns is ta be respected, and ya go pollutin' 'em with alla these new-fangled gadgets and gim gaws an' you done lost yer manhood, jist like that. Gone.
"You gon' shoot sumbody, ya best shoot 'em so they don't get up, 'cuz they shore as hell ain't gon' be in a very fergivin' mood when they do. Like it says in the Good Book - half measures is fer fools an' worse'n fools.
"So there's yer advisin' from yer good buddy Al. You jist mull 'er over a bit now."

[GingerKid]

Outside the Lonely Hearts 01:00

Patch hangs up with Stubbs. Uhg, I'm not going to the docs at this time of the night. I probably got enough ammo at home anyway.

Patch zooms off to Colonel Bubbies. While there he picks up a number of things on his mental list. GPS, check. Flashlight, check. Light sticks, check. Magnesium torches, check. Survival Kit /w thermal blanket, check. Duct tape, check. 50m rope, check. Micro Flares w/ launcher, check. This should do.

Patch goes up to check out and ignores the odd stare he gets from the ckeckout lady. I wonder if that look was for the chrome or the fact that I'm paying in hard currency. Ah well, who cares anyhow.

The PPR 02:00
After a long day Patch flops down on his cot in back for some much needed sleep.

The PPR 06:00
The alarm wakes him out of a deep sleep. It can't be time already...It is. Patch writes the usual note for Morey, when this type of job comes up, and places in the same spot on Morey's desk as usual. Here's hoping I can make it back to tear up that note.

Gore's hoity toity eatery, 7:33 11/6/70
"Good morning gentlemen."

[adamu]

"Good mornin' to you!" It sounds like a bulldozer trying to yodel. "Siddown, brother. Now lissen, my social graces ain't always whut they oughtta be, so yer gon' fergive me here, but I am fairly certain I never got yer name."

[Cogar]

Gore's hoity toity eatery, 7:33 11/6/70

Sebastion if i phone the DIMR would you be able to make sure they cant trace my call?? I want to see what they know about this sword you reckon you could do it ???


gore raises an eyebrow while still perusing the file sebastion has sent him

[Cogar]

Gore's hoity toity eatery, 7:33 11/6/70
*Gores eyebrows boh raise in surprise

How did you miss this ???

do you still have this message??? it was on the end of the file you sent me?

[ Spoiler ]

>>Attachment Found
>>Opening Attachment
>> --begin message--
>> Keep your nose our of trouble kid, we wouldn't want anything bad to happen...
>> --End Message--[\SPOILER]


check the message at the end of the file

[Divine Virus]

Gore's hoity toity eatery, 7:33 11/6/70
"err... I just sorta did... I'll see if I have a message...." Sebastian says, blushing. "And, um.. Al.. I was just thinking that if we were suppose to catch this lady alive we would want gell rounds, so not to kill her, or injure her to badly."

[adamu]

"Shore, kid, I unnerstand, an' I reckon yer heart's inna right place. I'd jist hate ta see ya suffer unner the wrong influences, if'n ya take muh meanin'.
"I think there's a coupla points ya may be overlookin' here. First, yer fergittin' one key point about our precious target - an' that's that she is a member o' the fairer sex. Now, don' git me wrong, they got their uses, but I wun'n't 'spect 'er ta be too much of a headache. We'll jist knock 'er a good'un upside her pritty head an' haul 'er home ta Jack
"Now, on ta other hand, there IS some folk that will be in a posishun ta cause us no small measure o' discomfort an' tears, and son, the list goes on an' on.
"First off, ya gotcher military on both sides. They's all gon' assume we on ta other side, an' in no case gon' take kindly ta our presence. An' we most 'specially ain't gon' be establishin' no good relations with them there elf militants, an' they are the scariest o' the two.
"After the pair o' regular militaries, ya gotcher reg'lar folks residin' locally - they all'll likely be shootin' first an' askin' questions later. Make no mistake, there's still people livin' in that war zone, an' they'll be some tough cookies.
"Then ya gotcher basic garden variety paracritters - that's some real rough terrain, most o' which never much seen by menfolk - never know what that dad-blasted comet mighta sprung up.
"An' toppin' off the list - an' most dangerous of all - 'cuz they may be actively gunnin' fer us, is all the other yahoos 'at are after them there artifacts. I mean, the li'l missy's jailbreak din'n't exackly go unnoticed, now, did it? If these doohickey's is as valuable as everyone says, we gonna have wacky cults, the Dunkelzahn Institoot, an' the blamed corp she stole the things from all after this book an' sword. Alla these interests are shore ta have their own teams in play, either in-house or, like us, outsourced. Not to mention any freelancers 'at tipped ta the whole thing an' are jist in it fer themselves.
"So listen, my young friend, that there is a mighty long listin' o' folks we is real likely ta lock horns with, none'a whom is gon' ta be followin' no rules - they gon' play fer keeps. Time ta broaden yer thinkin' 'bout whut we're up against, and prepare yerself accordinly."
Al turns his attention to a waiter several tables away. "Yo, garcon! Yeah, I'm talkin' ta you - gimme a Grolsch....Whaddaya mean ya ain't got no Grolsch, it's the king o' beers, ya pansy!"

[Divine Virus]

"Umm... I don't understand somthing.... why does her being a her make a difference, as far as capturing goes? I mean, I was thinking we would want to get us some Super squirts, and knock out gasses, and flash grenades, and stuff like that for the target, but I do know what you mean about the other people... and thats what I am really good with, I mean, I understand how to deal with that, and I got lots of not-gel amunition for that, cause I do know what I am doing," Sebastian seems to be getting increasingly tounge tied, and blushing some more, "But, Umm.. I don't know alot of things that most people know so I could easly be mistaken about all that... its just with 9 people killed, lonestar... and um... oh geez, I hope this place doesn't have microphones... and the sword and book I think I don't understand how its going to be easy..."

[adamu]

"Whoooa, slow down there, Nelly. Take a deep breath. Here, have a drink o' water. There ya go. Shore are an excitable type, ain'tcha? Well ya got my apologies - I shore warn't aimin' ta upsetcha.
"But I don' mind sayin' I feel a lot better now, since ya say ya got them other bases covered. I'll tell ya, ya worry me some - like ya say yerself, there's a few things yer a mite slow on - an' I was concerned you were overfocusin' on the ALIVE element o' this li'l shindig, when there's more'n a good chance we're gon' meet some folks 'at don't merit such cunsiderayshuns. An' frankly, I was countin' on you, along with that Avenger feller, ta do a lot o' the heavy liftin' in such matters.
"So hell - ta each his own, I always say, ta each his own. We'll get them gel rounds fer ya jist as soon as this here powwow is cuncluded, an' I daresay we got some other shoppin' ta do, too, after what I been readin' 'bout this Scott Valley place.
"As fer the missy bein' a missy, well, keep in mind those nine yokes she wasted was cops, which is one giant step down from dungbeetles in my book. Don' impress me none a'tall.
"Anyhows, why'n't we jist talk about somethin' else till Avenger gits here. It's almost eight, an' somethin' about that guy tells me he ain't the type ta be late."

[Divine Virus]

Sebastian looks deeply releived and smiles. "Sounds good. Why don't I check the details of that strange message I got, the one that Gore pointed out. It will only take a second while we wait for Avenger..."

[Cogar]

Gore Looks away from his glasses for a momet

Well gentlemen looking at it from a purely magical point of view im concerned, firstly if legend of this book and sword hold true, we will need much more then Gel rounds

heres my take, theoretically she could already know about us and this particular endevour, legend has it that this book may be able to tell the future, and as i have mentioned before the sword if she is wielding it and knows how to use it makes her unstoppable.

If and when we engage her, we need to find out what kind of power she is wielding before we dive in letting off gel rounds, remember if she can get a line of sight to you she can cast doesnt matter how hurt she is. i have Certain ways, physically of blocking her vision but that will not last long. we need to blind her asap, that will negate some if not all of her magical ability.

Are there any questions? from a magical point of view you want answered???

[Divine Virus]

"Well, thats really why I think it would be best to get some knockout gass, find when she is sleeping, and flood her with it. I think it is best if we never ACTUALLY started fighting, but see if we can knock her out before that. Of course, if she can see the future... that'll make things tricker." Sebastian says, thinking carefully. "Oh, and yes, I can insure that your call isn't being traced. I'm good at that kind of thing..."

[Cogar]

Ah! excellent! If you could then, make this next call untraceable it would be much appreciated

Gore readies a number on his commlink the number for the DIMR and waits for sebastion to ready himself, when he gets the nod he dials


"AH! Good morning, good morning! My name is alex higgins i work for a small magical research facility in the UK, i wish to talk to someone who deals with magical artifacts......"


"Ah yes! hello, im calling on behalf of thebastion magical research facility, we are in posistion at this moment in time of getting a hands on a artifact of significant magical power, i was researching on the matrix and came across your node stating that if we can return said artifact to you to contact you, obviously we are a magical research facility like your own and would like to make a few notes on the item before signing it over to yourselves, however, is there a finders fee for returning items to the DIMR?"

[Kiedo]

"AH! Good morning, good morning! My name is alex higgins i work for a small magical research facility in the UK, i wish to talk to someone who deals with magical artifacts......"

"Just a moment sir," the line clicks, rings and is answered by a gruff sounding man.

"Ah yes! hello, im calling on behalf of thebastion magical research facility, we are in posistion at this moment in time of getting a hands on a artifact of significant magical power, i was researching on the matrix and came across your node stating that if we can return said artifact to you to contact you, obviously we are a magical research facility like your own and would like to make a few notes on the item before signing it over to yourselves, however, is there a finders fee for returning items to the DIMR?"

"Hehe, and what would you be lookin' for," the man says seeming to humor you rather than show genuine interest.

[Cogar]

"Well, were currently VERY close to aquiring the Sword. of. power., and as for the finders fee, what are you willing to give, old boy, Were both men of education and both know what the sword can do in legend So what do you say??"


Gore stands up from the table slowly stretching slightly.

[Kiedo]

"Oh, why didn't you say so, you're going to find the sword of power huh," he says in that belittling voice that children get when they tell thier parents about the monster under the bed.

"What research firm did you say you were with again?"

[Divine Virus]

Before Gore makes the call Sebastian lays down a strong spoof network of false trails, then tell Gore to plug into a nearby payphone, where he does even more spoofing. He them sets up a quick program in the commlink, a red light that will come on in the top righthand side of the display. if it comes on, it means to pull the coords immediatly!

[adamu]

The Sombre Cafe 0745 11/6/70

With Gore and Sebastian busy with their call, Al smiles and shrugs at Patch, then clears some space in the middle of the table, unceremoniously plunking the centerpiece of fresh-cut flowers on the ground beside his chair. His brown leather jacket is so old it seems as though it might dissolve into dust if he touched it, but of course it doesn't as he reaches into its ill-fitting folds and produces a roll of hard copy. He lays a bunch of maps out on their table, using salt shakers and ashtrays to hold the corners down. Then he concentrates on his real bacon and eggs as he waits for Avenger.

[Cogar]

I sir, dont like your condesending mannor i work for a magical research facility in the UK. Im currently tracking a target that has the item as well as a book know as The K'tala. You DO know what the K'tala is? dont you ??

Gore returns the condesending tone of the person on the other end.

[Divine Virus]

Sebastian winces. he doesn't like the way this conversation is going...

[adamu]

Al chuckles hoarsely. He loves the way this conversation is going.