IC: Chasing the Prize, We always get our mark Options

[toturi]

Grave:

"So where did he go? If he didn't take the suborbital, did he take the train? If so, perhaps it would be good if we split into 2 teams again. One Hammer team to make sure he didn't get off halfway and a Anvil team to go on ahead and track him down at his supposed destination."

"Might I suggest the Anvil team be consisted of the more subtle people in our group? He might be expecting pursuit, but we do not want him advance warning and to give us the slip again."

[Johnson]

Tiny:

Finally everyone arrives at the Bling, a big smile of releif come from the trolls face to see the team arrive. Grabbing a cup of coffee and some toast, Tiny sits with the rest.

Waiting to hear what everyone has to say then, puttingforward his thoughts.

"Well if he is using cash that will be easy to track. But he may have used that to pay the Viral release. Some body sitting pritty. We can also look in to the camera at the station and see what leads we can get from the last couple of day of footage. Maybe there are tell tail signs, they didn't do a clean job.
Yea before I forget there should be serial numbers of the issued bearer bond or credstick. Lets see if we can get this infomation and trace the usage that will be a good lead, if we get the infomation. Even if he paid the peon bearer bond and kept the cash for himself."

Sounding a bit shocked as to where this came from. Tiny continues with his last few words.

"How did he pay for the Sub orbital trip, cash or by bond?

[HeySparky]

Edana soaks in all the new information her fingers tap away on the tiny keyboard of her PS - brows furrowing she blinks in time with the cursor on the little screen. Her gut twists... "Oh..."

Herne bristles, jaw clenching.

The roiling clouds under the girl's skin twist and swirl and her eyes glow with crackling arcs. Can't see. Calm down. She takes a few deep breaths.

"Guys, what if Ballefour didn't make his suborbital flight, but his work did?" She scrolls up through her notes. Where is it... where. Ah.

She finds the part from Graves' Colonel and reads, "...'with the proper incubation equipment and a low atmosphere burst he could blanket most of Continental Europe and Asia.'..." She looks up, pained and scared. "Colonel Hodge went on to say it would take time to put that together... what if that flight to Zurich was booby-trapped? This may be even worse than we think."

"I think this guy's out of our league... shouldn't we call the FEDs?" She looks uncertain, chewing her lower lip and looking deliberately at the screen of her Pocket Secretary.

[HMHVV Hunter]

"No. We were hired to bring this guy down, and we can do it," Helios says. "I'm not going to let the Feds take our satisfaction away."

[HeySparky]

"Satisfaction? You're worried about satisfaction? What if those vials labeled Vaccine 3.7," Edana's flickering eyes burrow into the Hunter, "are distributed to legitimate companies to as innoculations against HMHVV? Will you still be worried about satisfaction?"

She shakes her head, "I'm not saying we shouldn't track him down - I'm saying we shouldn't be alone in tracking him down. I don't care about credit or money or satisfaction. I want this man to go down. By any means neccessary."

[HMHVV Hunter]

"I'm well aware of what will happen if those viruses get distributed," Helios shoots back. "I've made it my mission to take these scum down, and I'm going to do it, including those humans that create the Infected through engineering for their own greed or whatever screwed up reasons."

"Besides, I'm outside the system," Helios says in conversational whisper. "The Feds would jump down my throat if they knew where I was. Stupid bastards still clinging to the notion that ghouls and vampires deserve legal protection..."

[Bastard]

Taking in all the information, trying to get a full understanding of the whole thing, JT quietly observes the group while drinking his coffee. After he has had a chance to soak everything in, he takes his turn.

"You know, we still have his computer that we swiped from his house. You know of any 'trustworthy' deckers?," JT uses finger quotes to emphasize the trustworthiness of deckers. In his experience, deckers have been deviant thieves that he's put away. Not to judge someone before knowing them though, he looks to the team for help. Maybe they're all not punks.

"I like Grave's idea, but where do we find that next lead? Maybe said decker can get a copy of the video surveillance of Central Station, and of the Suborbital boarding. Either that or we can try waltzing in there and getting it ourselves. I dont think that one will work."

[Tanka]

"As long as it ain't breaking into the Tir Matrix, I think Debian could do it. He's the one that got us our info on this slot. Depending on what he's looking at, though, he may need somewhere fresh to hide."

[Ecclesiastes]

Bishop looks over at Helios. "Look man, I don't care what issues you have with the Law, but this drek is bigger than us. Got me? We have a duty to let the authorities in on some of the data we've got. Now. One of you has got to have a friend in either the government or the Star, so why don't we drop our data on them so they can have that plane looked at, at the very least. Guys, this isn't about getting the bad guy, this is about saving hundreds, if not thousands of lives."

Bishop shakes his head in Helios' direction with a 'shame on you' look in his eye.

[HMHVV Hunter]

"Don't give me that look, old man," Helios says, very irritated.

"Fine, you want to drop an anonymous tip on them, be my guest. But do you really think they're gonna do the right thing? Knowing the Feds, they'll probably hire him on for their own black ops."

[Ecclesiastes]

"Who you callin' Old Man? You're no better than the 'scum' you have a death wish for if you aren't willing to step up and do whats right. So you'd rather risk the lives of an untold number of people because you don't want to risk the info falling into the wrong hands? Its a risk we have to take!" Bishop looks away in disgust and turns to JT, "Where did you get this psycho?"

He shakes his head, "Look. If nothing else, we've got to drop an anonymous call to the airline company and let them know that flight may be contaminated. What was the flight number again?"

[HMHVV Hunter]

Helios lets out a low growl at the comparison to vampires.

Naive fool, he thinks. One day he'll learn the government is just as evil as the corps. Hope he doesn't flame out trying to get his puny brain around it.

[HeySparky]

::At Bling Bling's::

"Listen..." Edana stands and holds out her hands, "We're not getting anywhere fighting about this. The sub-orbital has probably landed already - but we should let folks know anyway."

She sits, elbows on the table and puts her head in her hands. She looks up, "Graves - can you talk to your Colonel? Colonel Hodge? Calling him right now would probably be good. And Charlie, can you phone up Debian and ask him to see if Ballefour - or Luke Baiour - was on the travel manifests for the train he was supposed to be on? It would be good if Debian could be looking into that while we work out what our next move is."

"We should also let any of Ballefour Pharmaceutical's associates know that the vaccine BP was working on just might be a strain of HMHVV... if they think it's legit and start selling it to the public..." her voice trails off, eyes wide. She ends by shaking her head. "I don't know how we can find that sort of thing out... maybe Tamanous?"

[toturi]

Grave keeps his peace, he(OOC, I use italics when I want to differentiate the present Grave and the preAmnesia one) had seen worse bickering in his time.

"Affirmative, Edana. Are you guys alright with this? You want me to do it right now? Cool it down some, Helios. The government's got more than enough such drek already. Trust me, I used to know."

[Kremlin KOA]

"Edana that the vaccine is Genetically Modified HMHVV is already confirmed, and given the quality o the source, certain. Whether it still has its original HMHVV effects, well thee is only one way to test that."

[HeySparky]

Edana nods, "Point taken, Gonzales." She downs her mug and stands to get another, looking around at the others and taking any of their mugs along to refill and sits back down.

"Alright. First thing we need to know is: Was Ballefour on the train?" She puts her coffee down in front of her and shakes her hands. Ouch.

Watch out, that's hot.

Edana's mouth twists and she shoots a withering glare over her shoulder at Herne. Got anything helpful to offer?

Well, actually...

Herne clears his throat, ignoring Edana's glare. He speaks, his voice rough and gravelly and heavily accented... though strangely, his accent isn't a rolling Irish brogue like Edana's. It's something else all together.

"I could try to track Ballefour down. Astrally. I think I've got scent of him enough. Could go along the train route and try to sniff him out. Travel's fast in the Astral, don't you know?"

[toturi]

"Exactly how did they know that the train station was contaminated? Did someone fall ill or the virus set off an alarm? I would have thought it would be difficult to detect specific biologicals in the atmosphere."

[Kremlin KOA]

"Okay so we have train and plane covered, a bomb scare at the arrival airport will allow the plane to be searched. Now if he used another means, that leaves finding his financial backers, we can be pretty sure that they didn't expect this, and even if this was their intent they won't want publicity on them. We can grill them for info that way."

[HMHVV Hunter]

"Gonzales, you got a printout of your doc friend's results on that 'vaccine' and VITAS virus? Maybe some material proof would convince these backers faster than just our word."

[Kremlin KOA]

"That should not be an issue, I'll go pick such up when we leave here? btw if this takes more than another four days I will have to bow out for a day or so at that point." Gonzales says as he drops a hypo into his arm.

[Bastard]

"Herne, you are a genious. I would buy you a drink...," the ex Star officer's voice trails off. He turns to Charlie, "Before we head off would you like to pick up, or have Debian pick up that computer? Or is there a place where we could meet and I could bring it to him?"

"I could also make a few calls to Lone Star. I hate to let them in on the hunt...but I would hate to see thousands die, because of our greed or insecurities."

[HeySparky]

Herne grumbles on, "I just need one small thing. A link. Something of him." The spirit's nose crumples in distaste at the idea and his eyes flare.

He uncrosses his arms and looks down at Edana. "Who wants to make a trip back to the house? Or did one of you collect ... matter... that might suit my purposes. Perhaps the keyboard of the computer."

[Tanka]

Charlie nodded to JT.

"Aye, I can give him a call and tell 'im 'e's got some more work comin' in. I already owe 'im three breakfasts, why not make it more?

"Er... Can I borrow somebody's phone? 'Nother thing I never bothered gettin', one o' dem cellular phones."

[Kremlin KOA]

"If none of you got anything, I'll do the house run, it isn't excessively far from my friend's." Gonzales looks very alert, and quite grim.

[HMHVV Hunter]

"I'll go with you," Helios says to Gonzales.