IC New Beginnings DAWN Options

[pbangarth]

Torley hears conversation from down below, and catches the icy tone. "Sammy, you better keep watch in case things get ugly. I'll start the process on our friend's knees."

He takes out Sam's medkit and set it up beside Silence. The kit hums into action and analyzes the damage. Torley adjusts a few parameters, and scans the results. "Alright, let's see how well this works on you. It should help you heal faster. Magic will come shortly." He applies medication and bandaging as advised by the machine.

[ Spoiler ]

INT 5 + medkit 6 = 11 dice: 4 hits

[Necrogigas]

When he re-entered the hotel room, he stared at Torley for a long moment, *What have you done?* He gave the rest of the team pointed looks and placed his finger to his lips. He looked about the room meaningfully attempting to convey that there was a good chance they were being listened to. He rummaged through Snow's things as she was the teammate most likely to bring a white noise generator. If she didn't, then hopefully he'd find one among Jane's possessions. After that he had to find a place with a bit of privacy. He didn't want to discuss this in front of their 'guest.'

[farothel]

As O'Connor came in and signaled for silence, before starting to search in Snow's stuff, Sammy wasn't sure what he was looking for.
"Need anything," she whispered to him, standing close.

If he were to tell what, she will get a white noise generator from her own backpack and turn it on.
"What's going on," she asked.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor murmured thanks to Sammy. He still didn't want to say too much that Silence could hear, "Torley's charming new chummer downstairs has surveillance headware. Don't need him or anyone else knowing the idol's location. The three of us also need to have a team meeting."

[pbangarth]

To Torley, O'Connor's body language was at megaphone level. Words were unnecessary. He suspected that, unfortunately, Silence was getting the message, too. To him, Torley whispered, "We need to be cautious in our discussions. Some of those others I spoke of earlier are hot on the trail."

In a normal voice, "There. That should stabilize things. We'll see what a little magic can do for those knees." "Then we can complete the deal."

[farothel]

"I can try to scan for hidden nodes of extra listening devices," Sammy whispered, "I'm not good at it, but I know the basics. And I have quite good programs on my commlink."

[pbangarth]

While Sammy takes a look at the the wireless scene and the injuries, Torley acts on an idea that just popped into his head. He messages everyone, including Jane.

<<<Torley @ All: We have the thief in our possession. Interested third parties are circling our location. Acquiring location of the idol now. Have deal for same in place, but I have offered freedom to the thief after we get what we want. Need clarification on King's desire for the physical presence/remains of the thief. Would like to keep my end of the bargain if possible. Presence of other interested parties urges quick response, please.>>>

[Crossbow]

Jane responds quickly

>>Not sure who else you are talking to, Clementine and Snow are still in lockup, but the thief himself is a secondary concern, the idol they stole is the thing that will get us the invitation, if you just have the thief but not the item, do whatever you need to to get it. The thief alone is not going to help us, but if you need funds or other resources to negotiate with them, let me know. This invitation is a top priority.<<

[pbangarth]

Torley responds even more quickly. <<< Need clarification whether idol is enough or need thief too.>>>

[Crossbow]

>>You have the thief, can you get the idol without their help?<<

[pbangarth]

Torley, a master of non-verbal communication, is frustrated by the amount of effort it takes to communicate clearly by technological means. Torley is careful to not let any of that frustration show in his body language as he sends another message.

<<<We can get the location of the idol from the thief once we heal him of damage we did to him. Then it will be up to us to get the idol. How long that will take and how difficult it will be is yet to be determined.

I would like to be reminded whether the king demands the thief as well as the idol as payment for the invitation, or whether the idol by itself is enough. There is some confusion on our part regarding that particular piece of information, which piece of information is pertinent to how we proceed in the next few minutes. Please advise.>>>

[Crossbow]

>>The idol is all we need. If you need the thief's help to get the idol and you made a deal to let him go, I guess the king isn't getting the thief from us, I ain't sweatin' it.<<

[pbangarth]

<<Torley @ All: Thanks. That's all I needed to know. Deal for information is transpiring now. Logical to hang on to thief till item acquired.>>

[farothel]

<<And let me know when it will be psychologically best for me to heal him,>> Sammy added, while she kept looking for any bugs that may be planted in their room. She was also running her analyse program on her commlink to see if there was any funny business going on there. While she wasn't a hacker, she had been in the movies and contrary to most movie stars, she had listened to the talk of her agent about matrix security.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor sent a seperate text, <[Recipients: Torley, Starlet: Text Only] We've all been worried about Jane being tight lipped about our exit strategy. Torley, what odds do you place on this being a misdirection so that she can cut down on expenses, and have us executed for aiding and abetting an enemy of the state?>

[pbangarth]

Torley replies to O'Connor. <@O'Connor: I don't trust her fully, but that kind of scam would require her to get out of the country before we can implicate her along with the rest of us. We would likely see her maneuvering to do so. She knows that. I know it's our lives, but I'm betting on her for the moment. She knows how well I can swing a conversation in the right direction should she try something.>

[Crossbow]

Their guest on the bed speaks up, "Not to seem ungrateful, but wasn't there some magical healing supposed to happen?"

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor though Torley was overlooking quiet a bit and making several assumptions in his assessment, but let it drop. He knew if he pressed the matter, Starlet would back up Torley to shut him down. At the moment, with Silence present, they had to pretend to have a united front.

He turned to the thief when he spoke up. He shrugged and waved a hand a Starlet, "We're a bit short handed at the moment. When she's done checking for surveillance, I'm sure she'll fix you right up."

[pbangarth]

Torley adds, "So, at this point Silence, we've rescued you from the King's men, are guarding you from agents of other teams, one of whom is down the hall and will have to be dealt with, by us, and as soon as our teammate finishes her scan, she can lay hands on you to help your knees back to grasshopper goodness.

Now would be a good time to pay for all that with the info we require."

[Crossbow]

"I had thought our deal was for healing and then I would tell you of the idol, but since you have gone part way for me, I guess I can do as well for you. The theft was commissioned by Uzochi Oluleye, a tribal elder living in Agege, as a way to publicly shame Oni Adegoke and the Yoruba. You can easily find out where Oluleye is without me, but I can help you more if your mage can fix my knees completely."

[farothel]

Sammy was checking for any hidden nodes that would indicate listening devices. It was a lot slower than if Snow had done it, as she was a lot better at these things, but she was the best they had at the moment.

"Yeah, yeah," she said to their captive, "give me a minute, will ya."

As soon as she was done with the scan and had either pointed out the listening devices or concluded there were none, she turned to the guy.
"So knees, right," she said, "hang one, one new set coming up."

Concentrating she cast her healing spell, trying to heal as much as possible.

[pbangarth]

While Sammy does her mojo on Silence, Torley does a quick Matrix search on Oluleye and Agege. Nothing deep, just the surface stuff any ten year old could find.

[Crossbow]

No mechanical bugs were found, and natural ones are pointed out to the big lizard and it makes short work of them.

You don't find anything on the limited matrix you didn't already have (which is Lagos Chapter of the Feral Cities book, send me an email by pm if you don't have it).

When he is healed, he does some deep bends and other flexing, clearly happy with the results.

"Okay, here is what I can tell you, Oluleye has the idol in his home compound, with over two dozen heavily armed orks on the grounds. He is going to destroy it, I don't have details of the when or how, but maybe you can find that. I do know that members of his family, like his grandfather, don't want it around their compound, that it will bring bad luck."

[pbangarth]

"That's very helpful, Silence. Even a hint for alternate means to acquire the idol. Thanks. Now all we have to do is get out of here in one piece, including you. It wouldn't do for the other factions to get a hold of the same information through ... other means."

Torley looks to the other two. "So what's the plan?"

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor started pacing about the room as he thought things over, "We need to find out when Oluleye plans to destroy the idol. That way we'll have a timeframe to work in. From there we should find out what we can about this grandpa that doesn't want the idol around. Maybe figure out who his favorite grandkid is, kidnap them, and make the old timer sneak the idol out for us."