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[pbangarth]

<<Crizh in the attic, Warrior outside, anybody else nearby! Get in here! Firebomb in the kitchen! The bird in the oven!>>

"Dr. Karkoff, please ensure your family is not in the kitchen. Nastiness may happen there soon. So, blue boy, your job is done, then. Would you like to let us in on why all these people needed to die? Honestly, you don't look like the type to move in their circles. Who hired you?"

Professor opens astrally to perceive truth, and to communicate with Toreador. Professor fills him in on details, and before Toreador hurtles back to his body, asks him if he can probe minds.

[Chrysalis]

Blue boy goes for his suit pocket and seeing how he gun is pointed at his head, he slowly pulls it aside to reveal his cigarette pack. He takes out a cigarette and lights it. "Coffin nail?" He says giggling offering a cigarette from the pack.

[pbangarth]

"Drop the cigarettes and matches and whatever or I shoot you now! Drop it!"

Professor emphasizes the shout with a nudge to the back of blue boy's head with the pistol. if the aggressor fails to comply, Professor will shoot him. if he complies, Professor will continue to interrogate.

"Answer my questions."

<<This guy is all about fire, chummers. By this and his earlier admission, it seems like he is the perpetrator.">>

[Chrysalis]

He holds a cigarette in his hand and a lighter in the other "Tell you what, I get my cigarette and you get all your little questions answered. Deal?" He sighs and drops the lighter, but keeps hold of the cigarette. "I am dying for a smoke. How about you?"

[pbangarth]

"I will not tell you again. No incendiaries, no inflammables, or you die. That includes the thing you are 'dying for' now. Drop it!"

[Chrysalis]

Blue boy drops the cigarette.

[pbangarth]

"Thank you. Now, if you would be so kind, answer my questions. Why have you eliminated the twins? Who contracted you to do so?"

[pbangarth]

<<Where the FRAG is everybody? A fucking bookworm is interrogating a serial killer, innocents need immediate medical attention, and somewhere in here, either the bird or these cigarettes or something is a firebomb waiting to explode! I'm losing my chill here, people.">>

[Mickle5125]

<<I'm here now>> Dick subvocalizes as he slips in through the front door. <<Unfortunately, he timed it as I was at the furthest point of my patrol.>>

Dick immediately grabs blue boy's cigarettes away from him as he sweeps into the room and tosses them out the nearest window. "Eve'nin', doc," he drawls with a faint southern accent. "Don' mind us. Just a lil' pest control, ya know? On the other hand..." He turns from Karkoff to Professor. "Why hasn't anyone moved our friend and his family out of the obvious danger zone yet?" He pulls his gun and aims it calmly at the suspect. "I'll watch the genius, here. You go ahead and get everyone to somewhere safe, alright?"

[ Spoiler ]

forgot to mention: Dick popped a dose of Cram as he was on his way in.

[pbangarth]

When reinforcement arrives(Dick that is), Professor drops the invisibility he has been maintaining on himself. "Thanks. Blue boy here has yet to answer why he has been killing the twins, and who has contracted him to do so. I will go help the family, who actually are in the studio suite now, far from the kitchen and this room."

Professor puts away his pistol and moves to the room where the family is huddled. They are clearly distraught, and some, the husband and the troll, appear to be on the edge of breaking. "Hello. I am the 'house elf' the little girl noticed earlier." He smiles at her. "Please, let me attend to the lady's wounds. The matter is being taken well in hand now. I cannot tell you much, but we have been aware of danger to Dr. Karkoff for a while, as a number of people in his field have been targets for violence lately. We have held him under surveillance for a while now, waiting for just such an occurrence. Your bravery ma'am may have saved the good doctor's life." Looking at the troll, "And yours too. He is lucky to have such a family."

Assuming he is allowed to do so, Professor will apply First Aid to the lady's wounds while the rest of the team deals with the intruder. "You are a very perceptive little girl. Your parents must be very proud of you. If you would like to watch, let me show you how I help your mother."

First Aid: LOG 5 + Skill 1 + medkit 6 = 12 dice ==> 4 hits ==> 2 net hits.

"That bandaging and splint should hold you ma'am till you can get further treatment. The pain reliever will kick in shortly."

After helping the woman, Professor will open up to the astral and Assense the girl. How did she know he was there?

Assensing: INT 4 + Skill 5 + active looking 3 = 12 dice ==> 4 hits

[OOC: There. This should keep Professor busy for a few moments, while the rest of the team gets to do stuff.]

[Chrysalis]

Blue boy gets off the floor brushing off his suit self-consciously and sniffs the air. "Looks like the roast is going to burn. Go on be a champ and take it out, before the big firemen come."

There is certainly the smell of something acrid in the air.

[crizh]

When the door bell goes Cruze slips quietly into the elevator and swiftly exits it onto the 3rd floor when violence erupts.

Rapidly she exits onto the terrace and drops down, first to the Master Bedroom's terrace and then down to ground level. As she enters the building through the Great Room she is already running through recordings she made earlier of the interior of the building.

Sweeping into the kitchen she lifts the fire extinguisher from it's wall bracket ready to use it on the uninvited guest just as the Prof starts to interrogate him.

The would be Assassin's fixation with the lunch menu causes her to pause, check to insure nothing obviously explosive was in the oven, before flipping the master breaker for the kitchen and fill the oven with fire-suppressant for good measure.

She waits in the doorway to the dining room ready to respond to developments with the extinguisher or deadly violence as necessary.

[Chrysalis]

The kitchen is plunged into darkness and the roast has been extinguished with judicious application of the foam extinguisher.

The blue boy smirks. "A bit extreme. No? It was just a roast. Smelled good, but I guess we'll never know now. How about a magic trick instead? Keep the kids entertained."

[pbangarth]

Professor calls in from the front room, "Is that smell still in the air? Dr. Karkoff, could you come up front here for a moment, please?"

[Chrysalis]

Karkoff comes up next to the Professor. "Yes?" her asks.

The punk looks at Cruze as she brnadishes her fie extinguisher "Here's a riddle. How far can a dog run into the woods?"

[pbangarth]

<<@Toreador: You back in flesh yet? The lady here could use some healing. Best if we do it, rather than a hospital, where questions might be asked.">>

Professor pulls Karkoff off to one side in the room, away from the rest of the family, and speaks softly.

"Dr. Karkoff, I am not sure of the exact nature of this aggressor's skills, but a number of twins died in extreme fire. Though I can detect no magical capability in this one, such detection can be fooled, and I thought it best to remove you from the line of sight of one who moments ago threatened your life.

"It is obvious that we were waiting for such an event to occur. Our ... employer ... is interested in preventing further murders such as those of your twins I named earlier. It would greatly help our effort if we knew who wants you all dead and why. I have read some of your works, and see that you all have similar professional focuses. Do you have any information that could help us keep you, and innocent bystanders," Professor nods towards the family, "alive? This would be a good time to be forthcoming."

[SincereAgape]

Upon returning to from the astral world. Toreador receives an incoming text from the Professor.

<<Text to Belloq: Roger. Toreador enroute to the townhouse.>>

Toreador heads out of the safehouse, hops onto his motorcycle. Starts the engines and then is off.

[Should take him 12 minutes to get to Karkoff's dossier.]

[pbangarth]

Professor waits for Dr. Karkoff to answer. Karkoff dithers, hums and haws. He clearly wants to answer, but something is holding him back. The silence seems to drag on forever. Professor Assenses him astrally, in hopes of garnering a clue about his reticence to talk. Is it fear? Shame? Conniving self-interest?

[ Spoiler ]

Assensing (5) + INT (4) + active search (3) + suburban area (0) + crowded( -2) = 10 dice
==> 4 hits

[Chrysalis]

"I have no direct answer why anyone would want to have us killed, especially in the manner they did."

Blue boy looks at the Professor and giggles. "I know, but I am not telling. Nope, not even hot pokers will make me tell."
There is the sound of tires squealing as the car parked outside accelerates from the street towards the housing rows. It goes past Karkoff house and plows into the house two doors down. This is followed by a massive explosion that forces the windows to burst, lights to switch off and car alarms to go off in a four block radius.

In the confusion blue boy is jumping across the table making a mad tackle for Dr. Karkoff.

[pbangarth]

[OOC: Presumably an Initiative roll is in order.]

Professor comes out of the surprise quickly!!

[ Spoiler ]

Initiative Roll 9 dice ==> 7 hits ==> Initiative 16!!

Information is important, but Karkoff's life is more important. Professor fires his ready pistol at the assailant. Both shots.

[ Spoiler ]

Agility ( 8 ) + Pistol (3) + smartlink (2) = 13 dice
First shot 13 dice ==> 7 hits Base DV 5P, AP -1
Second shot 12 dice ==> 3 hits Base DV 5P, AP -1

DAMN! Forgot visibility modifier of -3, So...
First shot 5 hits. Base DV 5P, AP -1
Second shot 2 hits. Base DV 5P, AP-1.

[Chrysalis]

[Everyone roll initiative.]

Blue boy grabs Karkoff and holds him from behind. He holds a steak knife to Karkoff's throat. You can see where the second bullet hit him. He's breathing a bit heavy as the dark stain spreads for a bit before stopping.

"Anybody comes closer and pops gets sliced."

He seems to be having a battle of wills on keeping himself from simply slicing Karkoff's throat.

[pbangarth]

Professor steels himself and prepares to act at a moment's notice.

[ Spoiler ]

Initiative 9 = 9 dice ==> 3 hits : Initiative 12

[SincereAgape]

Toreador's motorcycle pulls into the apartment complex He notices the car that drove through the nearby townhouse. The elf mouths to himself. "Wtf."

Slowly, dismounts his motorcycle and arms himself with his cane, and approaches it. Looking for any possible enemies.

[Initiative]

[ Spoiler ]

[1,5,2,6,5,4,5,1,6]

= 14

[crizh]

The sudden motion of the car outside was clearly visible to the Ultrasound sensors mounted on the roof and it's uncontrolled plunge towards the row of houses set alarm bells ringing in Cruze's head.

Game on!

The fire extinguisher hung improbably in the air as Cruze stepped past it.

It almost seemed to her to be falling in slow motion as she whipped her arm out and, just as the Blue Boy's muscles started to bunch as a prelude to doing something rash, gently touched the probes of her concealed stun baton into the back of his neck.

[ Spoiler ]

She steps into melee range and strikes at Blue boy with one Stun Baton while blocking any retaliation with the other.

She is aiming for a vulnerable nerve cluster to increase damage.

Agility (11) + Clubs (5) + Specialization (2) + Personalized Grip (1) + Reach (1) - Called Shot (4) = 16 Dice = 7 Hits

Base damage is 10S(e)/-half. Secondary effects are Incapacitation for up to 9 rounds or -2 to all action for same period if he succeeds in Body + Willpower (3).

Initiative: 9/3IP: 4 Hits = 13/3IP

[Chrysalis]

Cruze gets the stun baton into the neck of Blue boy it touches off sparks and gives him a really unpleasant jolt, he still continued his lunge as he did. He does not look worse for wear.

"Nice hit girl. Of course a second one like that and my friend here is going to get his throat sliced. Of course I could do it anyways." He's looking toward either the front door or then the kitchen with its blown out windows. Sirens can be heard in the distance.