[20:43] <@BradGM> ++++++++Begin Transmission++++++++
[20:43] <@BradGM> +++ The Hive Knight: In the Heat of the Night Cycle.+++
[20:43] <@BradGM> +++Thought of the Day: Do not Believe the Heretics’ Lies.+++
[20:43] <@BradGM> +++Location: Suspected Beast House Laboratory/Arbites Fortress Central Archives, Tricorn, Hive Sibellus; Scintilla+++
[20:43] <@BradGM> +++1915Hours- Sibellus Time+++
[20:43] <Mira_Atella> Lyra is alive, just fyi.
[20:43] <@BradGM> +++Ezo called Mockingbird, informing them of a Recent Enforcers raid on an illegal fighting pit, filmed by Gravel investigative Reporter of Vox channel 445. The victims’ mortal wounds resembling those suffered seen at Toxic Falls and the presence of gloom haunts so high within the hive only added to the suspicion than the Gloom Thing may have stuck within the Hotel Hellstrom, a rather upscale Hive City location.
[20:43] <+Lyra> ((I thought the ready question was a general one))
[20:43] <@BradGM> . Jon returned to the Arbites Fortress to get a copy of the Protertorate’s report with the acolytes obtained false, but legal, Arbites I.D. from Bradon to investigate on location. Borrowing a well-armed patrol sedan the cell made their way while Jon, investigating further in the Hotel Hellstrom on a hunch, found out that most related dossiers were sealed by orders of the Inquisition, Ordo Xenos; bringing upmost frustration to the Justicar.
[20:43] <@BradGM> Meanwhile, with Grendel and Lyra moving into the murder scene, Mira observed the badly beaten Gravel snooping around the crime scene, trying to look inconspicuous. It took little convincing to get the hack to talk, but Mira slipping out that she was with the Inquisition got the reporter to cooperate forcibly, giving Mira a strange gloom haunt shaped object.
[20:43] <@BradGM> . She left the streets to rendez-vous with the Tech-Priest and Guardswoman, Gravel getting a rifle butt as he tried to pass the security cordon.
[20:44] <@BradGM> . Jon, alone but not without resources, cross-referenced what information was available for his security clearance and concluded that the hidden location was a Beast House Pit, an illegal organisation specialising in bloody pit battles with unwilling fighters, xeno beasts smuggling and heretical medical experiment.
[20:44] <@BradGM> . In the butcher-lab, Grendel observed a inhuman construct of flesh, Ork parts and vat-grown tissue that Jon spoke of, but with the sadden condition of the locale, was unable to learn anything else of it. A preliminary analysis of the item brought by Mira revealed that is was a well-balanced throwing weapon made out of well refined mono-steel.+++
[20:44] <@BradGM> ++++++++End Transmission++++++++
[20:44] <@BradGM> ((well, it was directed at all of you y'know...))
[20:44] * Mira_Atella snaps the razor-sharp item away from Grendel, wrapping it back in the cloth. "No offense."
[20:44] <@BradGM> Those in the lab, roll awanress visual+20
[20:45] <@Grendel> !dhroll 80
[20:45] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 39 Success by 4 degrees!
[20:45] <Mira_Atella> !perc 79
[20:45] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 79
[20:45] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 74 Success by 0 degrees!
[20:46] <+Lyra> !perc 52
[20:46] <+Lyra> !dhroll 52
[20:46] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 42 Success by 1 degree!
[20:48] <@BradGM> You can see taht the Protectorate's Veripexs are working trying ot get fingerprints, fibers or any kind of clues lying around. Grendel, you can see one picking up peices that you know is a small cog-engine, smashed into a hundred peices.
[20:49] * @Grendel nearly hisses in the inhumanity at the debasement of such a machine. He quickly examines the pieces, studying them to see if it can be reconstituted and the data saved.
[20:49] * Mira_Atella makes sure the sharp metal is well covered before putting it in her bag.
[20:49] * +Lyra watchess everyone, as she's not trained in evidence collection
[20:49] <+Lyra> ((evidence destruction, sure))
[20:50] <Mira_Atella> "You said earlier that they had mixed bodies? Finding more out here might not work."
[20:50] <@BradGM> gre3ndle, make common lore tech+30
[20:50] <@BradGM> Grendel, even
[20:50] <@Grendel> @@That disc is another example of the strange technology behind the gloomhaunt. It is simply...an appearance.@@
[20:50] <Mira_Atella> (( I understood it lol ))
[20:50] <@Grendel> !dhroll 103
[20:51] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 83 Success by 2 degrees!
[20:52] <@BradGM> Grendel, you see that most of the cog-enige's vital systems are still present, all but it's machine memory
[20:52] <@BradGM> ((AKA the hard drive))
[20:53] <@Grendel> ((So someone took the data. bastards))
[20:53] <@BradGM> Jon, You have had access to the camera footage that supposedly show the craeture.
[20:54] <@Grendel> @@It appears that whoever did this took the cogitator engine's machine memory.@@
[20:55] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((what do you mean "had"))
[20:55] * @Grendel looks aorund, his optical mechadendrite studying the cogitator (anything like...RAM that might have some data on it))
[20:55] <Mira_Atella> (( have had, like you still have ))
[20:55] <Mira_Atella> (( you already viewed it ))
[20:56] <+Lyra> @@So it would have to be someone who understood what part of the cogitator they needed to secure. That could help narrow things down.@@
[20:56] <+Jonatan_Wake> Jon goes to search for that footage
[20:56] <Mira_Atella> @@ Or they ripped it out @@
[20:56] <+Lyra> @@Would *you* know what part to rip out? I don't.@@
[20:57] <Mira_Atella> @@ Grab a chunk in the general area, pull... @@
[20:57] <@Grendel> @@It is better that you do not.@@
[20:57] <@BradGM> ((Hmm..roll common Lore tech+20 Grendel))
[20:58] <Mira_Atella> @@ I'd never, with you around. I'd hate to see you loose a mechadendrite hand @@
[20:58] <@Grendel> !dhroll 93
[20:58] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 46 Success by 4 degrees!
[21:00] <@BradGM> Jon, you watch the recording. At a distance you see a large mass moving rather skillfully in the air, perhaps a 100-150 meters away. As it move closer to the camera, you can see the image gettting distorted, like some sort of jamming signal was used, making it hard to dissern any details on the creature, but having witnessed it from a few meters, you are certian it is it. As it come almost at point blank form the camera's objective, the whole shot goes full static for about 10 seconds, before it clears, and wihtin 20 seocnds, everything is crystal clear again, as if the jamming signel moved out of range.
[21:01] <@BradGM> Grendel, it may be possible to extract some information fomr it, but it would only be generic information, like file names and the like; nothing as to waht the said files would contain.
[21:02] <@BradGM> Jon, roll logic+30
[21:02] * @Grendel begins to mark the pieces that he'll need to recover the limited data...all data is good, even limited data.
[21:02] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 90
[21:02] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 22 Success by 6 degrees!
[21:03] <@Grendel> @@The Cogitator may provide some information, how useful I do not know. Perhaps the creature was here to prevent any information from being found out?@@
[21:03] <Mira_Atella> "So... are we done? I thought the sewers Bowels took us in stunk, but..."
[21:05] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((I assume this is the beast that's dead on the table, right?))
[21:05] <Mira_Atella> (( it isn't here, just lots of other dead bodies ))
[21:06] <Mira_Atella> (( or I could be wrong, I tend to do that every few years ))
[21:06] <@BradGM> Jon, the Hive city sector is a rather upscale one; you're pretty sure that the creature may have been caught by other cameras in the area apart fomr those of the Hotel Hellstrom..
[21:07] <@BradGM> ((no the beast on the camera is the gloom haunt monster you saw in Toxic Falls;; the dead one is the one written about in the report.))
[21:07] <Mira_Atella> (( k ))
[21:07] * @Grendel looks around, examining the area. "There may be more to discover."
[21:07] <@BradGM> ((Ontario!))
[21:08] * Mira_Atella sighs a bit, "Let's get to it then, the longer we spend here, the less time you have to analyze... stuff."
[21:08] <@BradGM> ((The motto is: yours to discover))
[21:08] <@Grendel> ((heh))
[21:08] <Mira_Atella> "And the smell.. you may be able to turn that off.. I can't."
[21:08] * @Grendel looks at Mira. "Query, what smell?"
[21:08] <+Lyra> "I've smelled worse."
[21:09] * Mira_Atella stares at the two of them, but says nothing else.
[21:09] * +Jonatan_Wake considers that the beast may have been seen else where, and puts out a request to the archives for any video that both have unidentified mutants and strange errors in the video itself
[21:10] <@BradGM> roll inquiry Jon,+10: but as you are using a cog-engine, roll based on your intelligence, not your fellowship
[21:10] * @Grendel waves his fake identification infront of the Verispex as he collects the parts he'll need to get the data.
[21:10] <@BradGM> ((Heh..tech-preist and guardswoman, "what smell of putrid blood are oyu talking about?))
[21:11] <Mira_Atella> (( well, yeah.. the assassin is usally not that close lol ))
[21:11] <@Grendel> ((Brb, need ice cream))
[21:11] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 100
[21:11] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 64 Success by 3 degrees!
[21:11] <Mira_Atella> (( remember, she was originally a ranged assassin heh ))
[21:11] <+Jonatan_Wake> After given the proper rites of search, Jon looks through the cog engine's database
[21:11] <@BradGM> The Veripex is startled by your roughness Grendel H..hey! This is a local matter! Just fill in a request to have my result reports afterwards."
[21:12] <Mira_Atella> (( lol Jon we'll have to teach you the use of /me ))
[21:12] <+Lyra> ((putrid blod, roasted termigaunts....what's the difference?))
[21:14] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((I due use it, I'm just used to these
[21:14] <+Jonatan_Wake> ))
[21:14] * @Grendel flashes the badge again and continues to work.
[21:15] <@BradGM> Jon, the archives' cog-engine begin to work, and lands you a few results: you get to see a few recording of odd glitches fomr a few location in the hive city proper; a few do get your attention: some from the Great Wall, the Vault door seperating Hive city fomr the Underhive, and a few from around Barg's residence. You can also spot a few of the flying creature; but wihtout knowing wherre to look it merely pass as part of the image glitch/static.
[21:15] * +Lyra takes the Verispex aside. "Forgive him, he's not used to dealing with people he doesn't know. This incident is related to something that is...well above being a local matter."
[21:16] <Mira_Atella> (( Trust me, that's the last of things I could pick on someone for. My OCD makes me want everyone to have a space between the first/last letter and the notation... but I reign myself in ;) ))
[21:17] <@BradGM> Roll charm Lyra, +10 thanks to the badge
[21:17] <Mira_Atella> (( I like things to be uniform and pretty... I'm an evil gay nurse! ))
[21:17] <@BradGM> ((especially with me GMing))
[21:17] <Mira_Atella> (( My picking on you? heh ))
[21:18] <+Lyra> !dhroll 42
[21:18] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 54 Failure by 1 degree!
[21:18] <+Lyra> fate
[21:18] <+Lyra> !dhroll 42
[21:18] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 65 Failure by 2 degrees!
[21:18] <+Lyra> sigh
[21:19] <@Grendel> ((next time wear a bodyglove and make an unzipping motion. Its how the assassin gets away with it))
[21:19] <@BradGM> The Veripex flops off your hand Lyra looks at you throught his set of 4 overlapping lenses "This is a local matter period! If you do not have proper autority with your 45-HRB form, then I'm sorry but *I* am responsible for this evidence!"*
[21:19] <Mira_Atella> (( Don't forget the baby powder ))
[21:19] * +Jonatan_Wake tries to contruct a map of the creature's wereabouts using the archive's time stamps and locations of the cameras
[21:20] <@Grendel> "Your responsibility has been superceded."
[21:20] <@BradGM> The Veripex moves back to Grendel and take the cog-engine's parts almost form the tech-preist's hadns, putting them in an evidence carrycase.
[21:20] <+Lyra> (Can I try a lore: Bureaucracy roll to try and out-bullshit him?)
[21:20] <@BradGM> ((yes))
[21:20] <+Lyra> (granted, all my skills stink, but..)
[21:20] <+Lyra> !dhroll 33
[21:20] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 65 Failure by 3 degrees!
[21:20] <+Lyra> fate!
[21:21] <+Lyra> !dhroll 33
[21:21] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 76 Failure by 4 degrees!
[21:21] <+Lyra> sigh
[21:21] <@BradGM> Jon, roll logic again+20 using the archives
[21:21] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 80
[21:21] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 47 Success by 3 degrees!
[21:22] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((ah, I'm in my element))
[21:22] * @Grendel stands tall, the intergrated weaponry targeting the Veripex. "You dare interfere with the actions of a Priest of the Omnissiah?"
[21:23] <@BradGM> Verispex "This is an investigation, not a manufactorium assembly line! and besides, sicne when does the ARbites uses Tech-preist aprt fomr the cyber mastifs hum? Rather fishy if you ask me..."
[21:24] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((fight fight fight))
[21:24] * Mira_Atella glances between the two, waiting for a signal to step in.
[21:25] <+Lyra> "Look. You don't want to make an issue out of this. Because if you do, then you'll have to fight the tech-priest, and then he'll kill you, and then your comrades will pull guns and then I'll have to incinerate them....it's just too much of a hassle."
[21:25] <Mira_Atella> "Don't forget the stabby-stab."
[21:25] <@Grendel> "This is no longer a local matter. YOu have been appraised of our authority and are refusing to comply."
[21:25] <+Lyra> "Right, and the stabbings. You really don't want the stabbings, plays hell with the uniforms."
[21:26] <@BradGM> Jon, you cross-reference the information..while you cannot know form where the monster appeared, the first recored instqnce was about 6 months ago, but it can have been active beforehand in un-watched sectors. As you line up the pattern of the appearence, you can see it moves with a mehtod, almost as if it was on something similar as patrol.
[21:26] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@What in the name of the Warp are you people doing?@@
[21:26] <Mira_Atella> @@ Might be better not to ask @@
[21:26] <+Lyra> @@Trying to avoid a firefight?@@
[21:28] <@BradGM> Vern the enforcer who escorted you to the lab steps in, visibly, not in the mood to get into any kind of fight "Hm..Doc, the Captain said it was ok..maybe you should.talk to him?"
[21:28] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@These are people I have to work with daily. Don't pull any stunts or I'll come down there and arrest you myself@@
[21:28] <Mira_Atella> @@ Get to the entrance of the hotel, that's the best place for you right now @@
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[21:29] <Mira_Atella> (( ... okay? ))
[21:29] <@Grendel> ((Wb))
[21:29] <Mira_Atella> (( that was odd ))
[21:30] <Mira_Atella> (( it was an instant off and on, no time missed ))
[21:30] <@BradGM> The Veripex beigns poking the Protectorate's chest with his finger "The Ca..the Ca..! You grunts are always calling the shots without informing us of anything! now how do you think that makes us feel huh? We bust our asses trying to read the mess you created only to ahve some what'shis' anme martian come in and swoop in the evidence!"
[21:30] <@BradGM> Vern "Ah.well..I.."
[21:30] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((Is Mira talking to Jon?))
[21:31] * @Grendel bristles electronically.
[21:31] <@BradGM> Veripex "I'll make an official complaint to my superiors about this! I want your name Arbites!"
[21:31] <@Grendel> ((heh. Jon is like...half a hive away.))
[21:31] <+Lyra> "Lyra Plath, Veripex."
[21:31] <@BradGM> ((yeah even with his cool ass bike, it'll be an hour or two until he shows up))
[21:32] <@Grendel> ((our Arbitrator is a desk jockey!))
[21:32] <@BradGM> ((Killing Heretic..under a mountain of paperwork))
[21:32] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((A desk jockey who reduced a floor of gangers into red paste))
[21:33] * @Grendel says something in binary as he collects the fragments he'll need.
[21:33] <@BradGM> ((and can make'em crap themselves with just doing his typical catch phrase stunt too!))
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[21:33] <@BradGM> Veripex "Not you grunt, the tech-Preist! This is an outrage!"
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[21:34] <@BradGM> ((binary eh?))
[21:34] <@BradGM> !dh roll 48
[21:34] <@BradGM> !dhroll 48
[21:34] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 62 Failure by 1 degree!
[21:34] <@BradGM> Veripex "Low gothic! do you speak it?"
[21:34] <+Lyra> "Occasionally, when he has to interact with people."
[21:35] <@BradGM> ((speak Whi-I mean Speak flesh!))
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[21:35] <Mira_Atella> (( sorry ))
[21:35] * @Grendel says whatever is on the identification.
[21:35] * Mira_Atella does speak low gothic.
[21:36] <+Lyra> ((this team obviously needs another face. The chance that Lyra might be it disturbs me))
[21:36] <@BradGM> The Veripex stares at you for a moment Grendel beofre getting what evidence he already bagged "You'll hear from my superiors soon enough!" He leaves the lab area in a fist of rage, his numerous bags under the arm
[21:36] <Mira_Atella> (( nah.. Mira has covered most face things heh ))
[21:37] <+Jonatan_Wake> (A fit of rage too)
[21:37] <@BradGM> ((wow, grendel made a friend..who hates him))
[21:37] <@Grendel> ((heh))
[21:37] <@BradGM> ((ah ok, I always tohught if was fist))
[21:37] <@Grendel> ((19 Fellowship. That's the only kind of flesh friends Grendel has))
[21:37] * Mira_Atella starts to lean against a wall, but decides better of it.
[21:38] <@BradGM> ((the one imposed by him by an Inquisitor))
[21:38] <@Grendel> ((the kind that hate him :) ))
[21:38] <@BradGM> Grendel, you gather the broken cog-engine's parts
[21:38] * @Grendel treats them reverently with many blessings in binary.
[21:38] <@BradGM> ((oddly enough Jon seems to be the only one actually making progress in this investigation athte moment))
[21:39] <Mira_Atella> (( hello, someone made a ghast shaped ninja star.. I have that lol ))
[21:39] <+Lyra> ((Guardsman. I don't investigate, I incinerate))
[21:39] <@BradGM> ((but staying at the office, pushing keys on a keyboard and drawing lines on a map))
[21:39] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((Like an actual investiagtor))
[21:40] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((Though I haven't hade the chance to use my interogation skill))
[21:41] <@BradGM> ((well not really, you're not driking cold recaf and eating yesterday's doughnuts))
[21:41] <@BradGM> ((and chain smoking, donT' forget chainsmoking))
[21:41] <@BradGM> ((and wearing last weeks' shirt))
[21:42] <Mira_Atella> (( heh you should see Mira's interrogation technique ))
[21:42] <Mira_Atella> (( Zipper ))
[21:42] <@BradGM> ((more like a gloom haunt shaped ninja star))
[21:42] <Mira_Atella> (( I know, I just forgot the name and ghast is kind of the same thing ))
[21:42] <@BradGM> ((well, jon never interrogated a woman yet, so zipper could work))
[21:42] <Mira_Atella> (( Different zipper ))
[21:43] <@BradGM> ((same thing, diffent place))
[21:43] <Mira_Atella> (( heh ))
[21:43] * @Grendel keeps his auspex going and walks through the crime scene again. @@Do we have a list of the inhabitants of the hotel?@@
[21:43] <@BradGM> ((yes Jon got one))
[21:44] <@BradGM> ((both the staff working who are being held up by the protectorate and the few (quite upscale) guests actually in the hotel at the time of the attack; most were actualyl elsewehre, shopping, eating meeting stuff like that))
[21:44] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@Yes@@
[21:45] * Mira_Atella isn't able to find a piece of cleanly wall to lean on, so stands and waits, shifting from foot to foot.
[21:46] * +Lyra leans uncaringly against a wall
[21:46] * @Grendel continues to go through, looking for any final clues.
[21:47] <@Grendel> @@Try to see if ther ehave been any other similar murders recently, in other jurisdictions that may not have come to our attention.@@
[21:47] <@BradGM> Grendel, you do spot a dead gloom haunt, killed by a few burst of automatic and shotgun fire, the fighitng pit obviously have a few remains of some porr sap forced to fight in there, but nothing out of the ordinary in a palce like this.
[21:48] <@Grendel> @@We seem to have recovered all we can.@@
[21:48] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@I will see to it@@
[21:50] <Mira_Atella> (( oy... getting an IM from your mother with a song from the 90's, that's very dirty, saying it reminds her of you... wtf ))
[21:51] <Mira_Atella> (( why did I teach her how to do this... ))
[21:51] <@Grendel> ((heh))
[21:51] <@BradGM> ((what,s the song?))
[21:51] <@Grendel> ((IM))
[21:51] <Mira_Atella> (( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsEgF1aKCSM this was big when I was like... 10 ))
[21:51] * +Jonatan_Wake looks for any similar string of murders
[21:52] <@BradGM> Jon, roll inquiry +20 INT based agian
[21:52] <Mira_Atella> (( I still remember all of the words.. that's what takes up the majority of my brain, aside from insane medicine names.. song lyrics ))
[21:52] <@BradGM> ((I'll stick with my gansta rap thank you))
[21:52] <@BradGM> (( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ8BN1Hwagg ))
[21:53] <Mira_Atella> (( lol no ))
[21:53] <@BradGM> ((dude, it's deep cover!))
[21:53] <Mira_Atella> (( no ))
[21:53] <@Grendel> @@A pattern has emerged. Perhaps more information will confirm the data.@@
[21:53] <@BradGM> ((..Deep cover 2?))
[21:53] <@BradGM> ((Plus it's Dr. Dre..you're a nurse..so it's work related))
[21:54] <Mira_Atella> (( This is my gangsta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY ))
[21:54] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 110
[21:54] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 73 Success by 3 degrees!
[21:55] <@BradGM> ((..the hell's this? Hampton rap?))
[21:55] <Mira_Atella> (( lol it's Regulators ))
[21:55] <Mira_Atella> (( this was.. like.. 1993 ))
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[21:56] <Mira_Atella> (( they bleep him saying "gat" and "hookers" ))
[21:56] * @Grendel looks to see if Lyra and Mira want to continue to search.
[21:56] <@BradGM> Jon, you found no previous murders where gloom haunts and power fields were invovled. Of course, underhive murders are not registed with the enforcers or the Arbites, nor are they reported nor would they stand out thatm uch; a dead body in the underhive don't last long.
[21:56] <@BradGM> ((yeah weak sauce))
[21:56] * Mira_Atella snaps out of her daze, "Lead on, mech man."
[21:56] <+Lyra> "If you're ready to go, we can avoid getting into any firefights with the investigators."
[21:57] <@BradGM> ((I'll listen to informer instead.))
[21:57] <Mira_Atella> (( nah.. this song is amazing.. anyone that I know knows every word.. it is along the lines of knowing every word to Labyrinth ))
[21:58] <Mira_Atella> (( ROFL he says "you're high like every day" and they bleep high.. oh the times ))
[21:58] <Mira_Atella> (( I feel old lol ))
[21:58] <@BradGM> ((white man singing like a black man form Jamaica))
[21:58] * @Grendel ignores the comment and begins to head out.
[21:58] <Mira_Atella> (( Okay, how about Gin & Juice... Equal terms? ))
[21:58] <@BradGM> ((you mean the drink or a song named that?..becasue you I don't know that much musci..excpet maybe form the 50-60-70 and 1770s))
[21:58] <Mira_Atella> (( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKGJOtRaqMg ))
[21:59] <@Grendel> ((heh))
[21:59] <@BradGM> ((never heard that one..keeping in ind that my mom forbade us form listning/buying anythign with that explisit lyrics sticker..which was everything really back then))
[22:00] <Mira_Atella> (( get to the chorus, you've heard it ))
[22:00] * Mira_Atella follows Grendel.
[22:00] <@BradGM> ((ah I know that one line on the chorus...))
[22:01] <Mira_Atella> (( yeah, everyone does I think ))
[22:01] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@Sorry, Grendel, I was unable to find any similar murders@@
[22:01] <@Grendel> @@Most likely they were not as public as these.@@
[22:01] <@Grendel> @@What information did you find out?" WE should meet back at the quarters?@@
[22:02] <@BradGM> You exit back in the streets, the mob is a bit less numbered, what with the day cycle having let its palce for the night cycle, but being a rather nice sector, the night crowd is taking over the day walkers.
[22:03] * @Grendel studies the crowd, making a note of faces in it.
[22:04] <Mira_Atella> "We need to get back, move to the vehicle."
[22:04] <+Lyra> "Agreed."
[22:04] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@If they happened in the underhive, then it is likely that they wouild not be recorded. As for the information, I have collected what has been requested as well as more involving our target@@
[22:04] * @Grendel heads for the vehicle, moving carefully.
[22:05] <@BradGM> Grendel, they seems to be mostly wildly dressed young people, mostly looking curously with little intrest, wathicng as it was more like another story to tell around the dance floor
[22:05] <@BradGM> Grendel and those wathcing the crowd, make an awarenss roll -20
[22:06] <+Lyra> !dhroll 12
[22:06] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 85 Failure by 7 degrees!
[22:06] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 39
[22:06] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 84 Failure by 4 degrees!
[22:06] <Mira_Atella> (( fate ))
[22:06] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 39
[22:06] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 89 Failure by 5 degrees!
[22:06] <Mira_Atella> (( beeetch ))
[22:07] <@BradGM> You no longer see Gravel in the crowd: he must ahve gone home to lick his wounds.
[22:08] <@Grendel> !dhroll 40
[22:08] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 38 Success by 0 degrees!
[22:08] <@Grendel> ((Sorry, was reading something in last week's log :) ))
[22:10] <@BradGM> Grendel actually spots him in the darkness, holding some small recording device toward you three*
[22:10] <@BradGM> !dhroll 57
[22:10] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 51 Success by 0 degrees!
[22:10] <@BradGM> He sees you saw him and quickly walk away as fast as his limp can allow him
[22:10] <Mira_Atella> (( hehe tell Mira fast ))
[22:11] <@Grendel> @@Gravel seems to be recording us.@@
[22:11] <@Grendel> ((do I recognize the recorder?))
[22:11] * @Grendel points him out with his mechadendrite.
[22:11] * Mira_Atella glances over and looks.
[22:12] * Mira_Atella takes off at a sprint.
[22:12] <Mira_Atella> (( Maybe now I see why you thought buying him could be bad ))
[22:12] <@BradGM> He gets into a crowd! roll agility-30 to move across the hive citizens!
[22:13] <@BradGM> ((he's a reporter, his scoop,s his bread.))
[22:13] <Mira_Atella> (( You know I get some bonuses here... at least for acro ))
[22:14] <Mira_Atella> (( *taptap* ))
[22:14] <@BradGM> ((giomme a sec to check it))
[22:15] <Mira_Atella> (( k ))
[22:15] <@BradGM> ((it's -20 actailly in dense crowd))
[22:16] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 34
[22:16] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 12 Success by 2 degrees!
[22:16] <@BradGM> ((ah ok, it,s in the =I= handbook: you can roll acrobatics instead))
[22:16] <@BradGM> !dhroll 29 limping leg!
[22:16] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 12 Success by 1 degree!
[22:16] <@Grendel> ((Since we don't want lots of dead people, Grendel lets Mira run))
[22:17] <Mira_Atella> (( I succeeded, TAKE IT BITCH ))
[22:17] <@BradGM> Gravel's upbringing in the hive makes ihm a natural to move into the crowd, but mira got an adventage on him; namely, two fully fonctionning legs.
[22:18] <@BradGM> ((too bad, since wihtout that limp he would ahve escaped!))
[22:18] <@BradGM> You catch up to him
[22:18] <Mira_Atella> (( tackle! ))
[22:18] <@BradGM> roll WS
[22:18] * @Grendel moves much more slowly, following in Mira's wake.
[22:19] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 39
[22:19] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 27 Success by 1 degree!
[22:19] <@BradGM> !dhroll 39 dodging
[22:19] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 90 Failure by 5 degrees!
[22:19] <@BradGM> ((ppff!))
[22:20] <Mira_Atella> (( take it bitch, take it! ))
[22:20] <@BradGM> ((hmm))
[22:20] <@BradGM> 1d100 15 chance
[22:20] <+DiceServitor> BradGM, 15 chance: 11
[22:20] <@BradGM> ((oh snap!))
[22:21] <@BradGM> You tackle Gravel, snecing the both of your flying across a local night club's window!
[22:21] <Mira_Atella> (( woohoo I want to dance! ))
[22:22] <@BradGM> (( https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HdlfZ4213zM#t=14s ??))
[22:22] <@BradGM> roll str Mira
[22:22] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 25
[22:22] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 76 Failure by 5 degrees!
[22:22] <Mira_Atella> (( fate ))
[22:22] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 25
[22:22] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 69 Failure by 4 degrees!
[22:23] <Mira_Atella> (( I figured, still had to try ))
[22:23] * @Grendel continues to move along at a much more sedate and ponderous pace.
[22:23] <@BradGM> !dhroll 36
[22:23] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 58 Failure by 2 degrees!
[22:23] * +Lyra follow in Grendel's wake
[22:23] <Mira_Atella> (( lol Grendel and Lyra didn't notice the Olympic sprint? ))
[22:24] <+Lyra> ((I have faith in you))
[22:24] <@BradGM> Gravel break free, sadly, leaving his jacket inot mira's grasp and he lumps into the club
[22:24] <@Grendel> ((Grendel weighs over 200kg. Running through a crowd...yeah))
[22:24] * Mira_Atella scrambles to her feet and takes chase.
[22:24] <+Lyra> ((Lyra is lugging along a Flamer in a case))
[22:24] <@BradGM> roll acro mira
[22:24] <@Grendel> "You may wish to help her."
[22:24] <@BradGM> ((planning a...hot party?))
[22:25] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 64
[22:25] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 84 Failure by 2 degrees!
[22:25] <Mira_Atella> (( last fate ))
[22:25] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 64
[22:25] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 59 Success by 0 degrees!
[22:25] <+Lyra> ((Well, didn't know what we'd find at the scene))
[22:25] <@BradGM> !dhroll 29 runaway!
[22:25] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 54 Failure by 2 degrees!
[22:25] <+Lyra> "Yes, please hold this."
[22:25] * +Lyra hands the flamer case to Grendel as she takes off in pursuit
[22:25] <@BradGM> You're hot in his heels mira, but his natural ease to move into a crowed area is the only thing saving him form your grasp
[22:26] * @Grendel easily carries the flamer as he continues to follow. Once out of the crowd he'll speed up.
[22:26] <@BradGM> Lyra, roll agility-20 or acroabtics
[22:26] <+Lyra> pfft
[22:26] <+Lyra> !dhroll 20
[22:26] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 60 Failure by 4 degrees!
[22:26] <+Lyra> ((yeah, that's the OTHER reason why))
[22:26] <Mira_Atella> (( lol how did my success, his failure, lead to my failure? lol ))
[22:27] <@BradGM> Lyra, you can barely get passed the first mass of Hivers wlaking the streets.
[22:27] <@BradGM> ((oh you got a hit..my bad))
[22:27] <@BradGM> Mira, you catch up to him as he was almost out the back door.
[22:28] <@BradGM> ((Hmm..))
[22:28] * Mira_Atella pulls a dagger while she's leaping for him.
[22:28] <@BradGM> Jon, roll tech-use+20
[22:29] <Mira_Atella> (( I'm picturing Aeon Flux (animation, not movie) for this ))
[22:30] <@BradGM> ((Grapple and treatening mira? roll WS))
[22:31] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 39
[22:31] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 3 Success by 3 degrees!
[22:31] <Mira_Atella> (( HAHAHAHAHA ))
[22:31] <@BradGM> Grendle, you catch up with Lyra, trying to move past a group of Hivers.
[22:31] <@BradGM> !dhroll 39 dodging away!
[22:31] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 58 Failure by 1 degree!
[22:32] <@BradGM> You jump wiht your dagger ready, but the hack quickly mvoe away, pushing the panic bar and going into the alley ouot back.
[22:33] <@BradGM> ((oh wiat he fdailed..))
[22:33] <Mira_Atella> (( yeah... ))
[22:33] * @Grendel continues to move, just as ponderous.
[22:33] * +Lyra tries to keep moving
[22:33] <@BradGM> You jump on the Hack, your dagger resping under his chin, just besides the back exit.
[22:33] <@BradGM> Lyra, roll it again
[22:34] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 80
[22:34] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 35 Success by 4 degrees!
[22:34] <+Lyra> !dhroll 20
[22:34] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 88 Failure by 6 degrees!
[22:35] <@BradGM> Jon, with the rambling coming from the team's vox, you work the console and manage to get a live camera feed of the streets, and see Lyra and Grendle trying to move across the populated streets of the hive.
[22:35] <@BradGM> Lyra, you step in roughly into the crowd, then gets pushed, and then gets ejected into the alley again, right at Grendel's feet.
[22:36] <+Lyra> "I miss the days when I could open my own path with promethium
[22:36] * @Grendel moves, taking the lead, pushing through the crowd heavily.
[22:37] <@BradGM> Agility -10, thanks to your weight Grendel
[22:37] <@Grendel> ((Can I roll strength?))
[22:37] * +Jonatan_Wake tracks the the two
[22:37] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@What's going on?@@
[22:37] <@BradGM> ((ok, but they Hivers mgiht consider this as an agression..and do you need more rich ennemies?))
[22:38] <@Grendel> ((eh. Like Grendel would think of that))
[22:38] <@Grendel> !dhroll 56
[22:38] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 90 Failure by 3 degrees!
[22:38] <@Grendel> ((Fate))
[22:38] <@Grendel> !dhroll 56
[22:38] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 17 Success by 3 degrees!
[22:38] <@BradGM> !dhroll 33
[22:38] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 80 Failure by 4 degrees!
[22:38] <@BradGM> !dhroll 33
[22:38] <@BradGM> !dhroll 33
[22:38] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 98 Failure by 6 degrees!
[22:38] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 27 Success by 0 degrees!
[22:39] <@BradGM> Grendle, you move bluntly into the crowd, pushing the Hivers left and right, not caring that much about politeness or collateral damage.
[22:41] <@Grendel> @@Mira is taking care of a eavesdropper.@@
[22:41] * @Grendel pushes his way through, heading for the club.
[22:41] * Mira_Atella stradles the back of the news man, "Hey there kid.."
[22:42] <@BradGM> Gravel "H-Hey..I bet you want a drink don't ya?"
[22:42] * Mira_Atella leans in close to his face, "I'll remind you of our last agreement.. don't lie to me."
[22:43] <@BradGM> Grendel, you ge tot the bar, the bouncers are aroudn the aplce, wondering what the hell just happened.
[22:43] <@BradGM> Gravel "Ok you don't want a drink, but I sure want one see? Just being polite, is all.."
[22:43] * @Grendel checks to make sure Lyra followed him, before looking for Mira. He flashes his credentials if the bouncers get too close. "Arbites business."
[22:44] * +Lyra is muttering under her breath as she follows Grendel
[22:45] <@BradGM> Grendel, Lyra, roll awanress visual -30. Jon, with those 4 DoS you can try to hack the club's camera to see what's going on with another tech-use+0 test
[22:45] <+Lyra> !dhroll 2
[22:45] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 24 Failure by 2 degrees!
[22:45] <@BradGM> Gravel raises an arm, trying to flag a waitress.
[22:46] <@Grendel> !dhroll 30
[22:46] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 84 Failure by 5 degrees!
[22:46] <@Grendel> ((Bah))
[22:47] <@BradGM> with all those people, laser show, smoke and loud music, you cna't see eihter of them
[22:48] * Mira_Atella leans closer "I was nice to you to begin with, don't screw it up now by making me kill you."
[22:48] <@BradGM> Gravel "Y'know if oyu got print on that thing I gave you, it's only because I picked it up ok? I got nothing to do aobut those bodies.
[22:48] <@BradGM> (9note to slef: never offer mira a drink))
[22:48] <Mira_Atella> (( Do, just not when a knife is involved ))
[22:49] <Mira_Atella> "I know, and really what you told me is appreciated, but... there are things..."
[22:50] * Mira_Atella digs the point of the dagger in to his jugular.
[22:50] * +Lyra turns to Grendel. "You might want to think about putting a tracker on her so we can keep up."
[22:50] <Mira_Atella> "I can completely help you out... so that you don't die. But you'll want to agree with me."
[22:51] * @Grendel considers the possibility of implanting trackers as he looks for hte biggest signs of commotion, figuring Mira will be there. @@Which way did you go in the club?@@
[22:52] <@BradGM> Gravel tries to keep waht little cool he's got left "Agree? Sure, with a knife at my neck, you can aks me to milk a Grox and I'll do it"
[22:52] <Mira_Atella> "I think I might have a Grox nearby... but for now... Just walk with me." Stands up and pulls him, slipping her knife behind his back and near a kidney.
[22:53] <@BradGM> ((going where?))
[22:53] <Mira_Atella> (( the hotel? ))
[22:53] <Mira_Atella> "You could have made this a lot easier if you had told me everything to begin with. But you ran. Who runs? The guilty."
[22:55] <@BradGM> Gravel "Run? Come on, I was just going back home after a final wide shot! Think I can run with that leg? I didn't know it was you until you jumped in my back with that knife of yours. i thought you were some Protectorate goon wanting to beat me again"
[22:56] <@BradGM> You can roll scrutinize
[22:56] * Mira_Atella leans in to whisper as they walk, "Youre lucky. Most people that see me twice are dead. If you keep up the lying, I can't help you."
[22:57] <Mira_Atella> "And really, I do want to help you.. as long as you are useful."
[22:57] <Mira_Atella> "After that.." She pokes the knife in to his back.
[22:58] <Mira_Atella> (( sorry, just saw the roll thing ))
[22:58] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 59
[22:58] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 95 Failure by 3 degrees!
[22:58] * @Grendel glances around again, really considering the tracking devices...there have to be a few places where he could implant them so they wouldn't be lost too easily...
[22:58] <Mira_Atella> (( mofo... ))
[22:58] <@BradGM> ((wait did oyu just told him you'll kill him after hE's done bieng useful?))
[22:59] <Mira_Atella> (( Yep ))
[22:59] <Mira_Atella> (( It was a suggestion that he should always find a way to be useful ))
[22:59] <@BradGM> Mira his story seems to stick form what you saw; it,s not like you was wathcing that much behind him as he walked away and you chased him
[22:59] <@BradGM> ((ah ok..))
[23:00] <Mira_Atella> (( fail or not, she still has the knife to him and she's walking him to the hotel heh ))
[23:00] <@BradGM> You see Grendle and Lyra up front the club, looking in, as you get back to the streets
[23:00] <Mira_Atella> (( I actually have a plan now ;) ))
[23:01] <@BradGM> Gravel "So, I get it either way? some negociation technique you people learn..."
[23:01] * Mira_Atella whispers to him, "No no no.. As long as you can find information, you'll breathe."
[23:01] <@BradGM> Gravel "what kind of infomration?"
[23:01] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((Can I access the cameras in the club?))
[23:01] <@BradGM> ((yes, tech-use+0 jon))
[23:02] <Mira_Atella> "It's not any different than your current job, except that your pay is your life."
[23:02] <Mira_Atella> "Anything we ask. I'm sure you know how much it is appreciated. The things that could come your way in return.. wow."
[23:02] <Mira_Atella> "A lot of not dying, mostly."
[23:02] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 50
[23:02] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 99 Failure by 4 degrees!
[23:03] <+Jonatan_Wake> (Fate)
[23:03] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 60
[23:03] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 99 Failure by 3 degrees!
[23:03] <Mira_Atella> "And I do actually like you. You've been great so far. I'd hate to strew your organs across space."
[23:03] <+Jonatan_Wake> (wow)
[23:03] <@BradGM> ((re-roll that, it was 50, not 60!))
[23:03] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 60
[23:03] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 94 Failure by 3 degrees!
[23:03] <Mira_Atella> (( 50! ))
[23:04] <@BradGM> Gravel's journalistic instincts seems to kick back in "not dying sounds good..but I can go wiht some information too, I keep an ear on the gournd, you keep an eye out, yeah?"
[23:04] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((Wow))
[23:04] <@BradGM> ((no wait hE's got 60 int))
[23:04] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((yeah))
[23:04] <@BradGM> ((but at least hE's not blowing the machine up))
[23:04] <Mira_Atella> "Of course. After today, who else would you want looking out for the best investigator, besides me?" She smiles at him.
[23:05] <@BradGM> Jon, you try a few things, but know better than to wiggle about with the machine-spirit is not without consequences
[23:05] <@BradGM> Gravel "Well, the god-Emperor for one, but I guess that's almost the same thing right?"
[23:06] * Mira_Atella pokes him with the knife again, "Don't set your expectations so high."
[23:06] <@Grendel> ((he! Once..or twice...or maybe three times!))
[23:07] <@BradGM> Gravel "hey hey hey! you know, you should recognise a compliment when you get one y,know?"
[23:08] * Mira_Atella runs a finger from his neck and down his chest, letting up on the knife, "Always, but remember that you're mine."
[23:09] <@BradGM> Gravel "..can I get my jacket back?"
[23:09] <Mira_Atella> (( heh I blame this on the fact that this super sexy madonna song started playing just before I started typing ))
[23:10] <@Grendel> ((lol))
[23:10] <@Grendel> ((do we see Mira leading him out?))
[23:10] * Mira_Atella slides the knife back in to its place, now invisible to others, and gives a brisk shake to the jacket, holding open one arm for him.
[23:10] <@BradGM> ((Hmm..I suppose you saw'em leave by a side alley or something yes))
[23:11] <@BradGM> Gravel nervously slip his arm inside his jacket and put it on
[23:11] * Mira_Atella holds open the other arm. "We're in agreement."
[23:12] <@BradGM> He doens't that happy, what with being on the edge of being killed by the Inquisiton. He reach inside his jacket..
[23:12] <@BradGM> ..and take out a card
[23:12] <@BradGM> Gravel "That might be a bit more faster than getting jabbed in the ribs."
[23:12] * Mira_Atella takes in a deep breath as she starts to walk away, then lets it out as she says, "Remember the last man that lied to me was killed by a monterous gloomhaunt that ate his face and did unspeakable things before he actually died."
[23:13] * @Grendel moves towards Mira and Garvel, watchinghtem.
[23:13] * Mira_Atella doesn't look back at Gravel as she walks to Grendel.
[23:14] <@BradGM> ((taking his business card or not?))
[23:14] <Mira_Atella> (( If nothing, I make her effective heh ))
[23:14] <Mira_Atella> (( yeah ))
[23:14] <@Grendel> "Things are taken care of?"
[23:14] * Mira_Atella flips the card in her fingers. "We're good."
[23:15] * @Grendel nods and starts moving towards the car. "The recording device will not be an issue?"
[23:15] * Mira_Atella pulls down the zipper on her armor just a bit, taking in a deep breath.
[23:15] <@BradGM> ((yeah she..sorta dind't saw that device actaully..))
[23:15] <Mira_Atella> (( yeah.. ))
[23:15] <@BradGM> Gravel walks away as well, possibly getitng a strong drink
[23:15] * Mira_Atella stops and looks oddly at him, "Recording device?"
[23:16] <Mira_Atella> (( winamp wants me to laugh, apparently... now I get the song where Norah Jones says mother fucker ))
[23:18] * @Grendel nods. "I said he was recording us?"
[23:18] <Mira_Atella> "If he was, he won't give it to anyone."
[23:19] <Mira_Atella> "He knows his death follows anything that I don't like."
[23:19] <@Grendel> "Ah."
[23:19] * @Grendel heads towards the car.
[23:19] <@BradGM> You drive back to the Tricorn
[23:19] * Mira_Atella heads to the vehicle as well, flipping the card in her hands a few times.
[23:19] <@BradGM> ((Jon, are you going back to the tricorn as well?))
[23:20] <Mira_Atella> (( and this is what I meant, for later viewing, not now obviously because I don't ever want to disrupt stuff ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-QtkjytoJA ))
[23:20] * +Jonatan_Wake seeing that he got all he wanted, leaves for the tricorn
[23:22] <@BradGM> It takes a couple of hours, but you are back in your quarters. Lazerus is sleeping in his room, Demon is on the couch.
[23:23] <@Grendel> ((Sucks to get old even for Psykers))
[23:23] <Mira_Atella> (( lol ))
[23:24] * @Grendel moves to a workshop and begins to work on the remnants of the cogitator engine.
[23:24] * Mira_Atella kicks back on the sofa, and reads a book of peculiar nature.
[23:25] <@BradGM> Grendel, the cog-enigne is in a sorry state: roll tech-use -10 to fix it: you cna also get help from thsoe who got the skill
[23:26] * @Ribonizer (~hehe@bas5-hull20-3096482718.dsl.bell.ca) Quit (Quit: Chichin ga puipui)
[23:26] * +Jonatan_Wake walks in after everyone else, before looting a table to spread out all the information he's collected
[23:26] * @Grendel pulls out his combi-tool and gets to work, not quite trusting the others to see such internal workings of a divine machine.
[23:26] <@Grendel> !dhroll 83
[23:26] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 92 Failure by 0 degrees!
[23:26] <@Grendel> ((Fate))
[23:26] <@Grendel> !dhroll 83
[23:26] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 64 Success by 1 degree!
[23:28] <@BradGM> It takes you an hour and a half of careful prayers and application of sacred machine oil to get a spark of life fomr the badly damaged machine, which agonised from it's wounds.
[23:29] * Mira_Atella holds a piece down from where she sits, of meat from the other parts of their home, looking for Demon.
[23:30] * @Grendel mutters incantations and prayers, the censer on his mechadendrite wafting smoke over the pieces of the material as he works on them, carefully coaxing it back to functional.
[23:30] <Mira_Atella> (( that was worded so horribly... but I think what I wanted was heard lol ))
[23:31] <@BradGM> ((Demon was on the couch you sat on, so h'e snot that far form you))
[23:31] <Mira_Atella> (( good ))
[23:32] <@BradGM> He munches on the Grox meat you gave him.**
[23:32] <Mira_Atella> (( * flings deli meats in the general direction of the dog* ))
[23:33] * Mira_Atella scratches between Demon's ears.
[23:33] <@BradGM> ((Heh..Jon redies his presentation..Grendel works..the ladies do..stuff, but no cooking))
[23:33] <Mira_Atella> (( lol seems like the best spot to stop ))
[23:33] <+Lyra> ((Lyra's cooking is conducted at several thousand degrees))
[23:34] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((well, now I have to actually do some work))
[23:35] * @Grendel investigates that he's able to recover from the cogitator engine's remains.
[23:35] <@BradGM> ((yeah let's stop it here, getting alte))
[23:35] <@BradGM> +++++++Terminate Transmission+++++++
[20:43] <@BradGM> +++ The Hive Knight: In the Heat of the Night Cycle.+++
[20:43] <@BradGM> +++Thought of the Day: Do not Believe the Heretics’ Lies.+++
[20:43] <@BradGM> +++Location: Suspected Beast House Laboratory/Arbites Fortress Central Archives, Tricorn, Hive Sibellus; Scintilla+++
[20:43] <@BradGM> +++1915Hours- Sibellus Time+++
[20:43] <Mira_Atella> Lyra is alive, just fyi.
[20:43] <@BradGM> +++Ezo called Mockingbird, informing them of a Recent Enforcers raid on an illegal fighting pit, filmed by Gravel investigative Reporter of Vox channel 445. The victims’ mortal wounds resembling those suffered seen at Toxic Falls and the presence of gloom haunts so high within the hive only added to the suspicion than the Gloom Thing may have stuck within the Hotel Hellstrom, a rather upscale Hive City location.
[20:43] <+Lyra> ((I thought the ready question was a general one))
[20:43] <@BradGM> . Jon returned to the Arbites Fortress to get a copy of the Protertorate’s report with the acolytes obtained false, but legal, Arbites I.D. from Bradon to investigate on location. Borrowing a well-armed patrol sedan the cell made their way while Jon, investigating further in the Hotel Hellstrom on a hunch, found out that most related dossiers were sealed by orders of the Inquisition, Ordo Xenos; bringing upmost frustration to the Justicar.
[20:43] <@BradGM> Meanwhile, with Grendel and Lyra moving into the murder scene, Mira observed the badly beaten Gravel snooping around the crime scene, trying to look inconspicuous. It took little convincing to get the hack to talk, but Mira slipping out that she was with the Inquisition got the reporter to cooperate forcibly, giving Mira a strange gloom haunt shaped object.
[20:43] <@BradGM> . She left the streets to rendez-vous with the Tech-Priest and Guardswoman, Gravel getting a rifle butt as he tried to pass the security cordon.
[20:44] <@BradGM> . Jon, alone but not without resources, cross-referenced what information was available for his security clearance and concluded that the hidden location was a Beast House Pit, an illegal organisation specialising in bloody pit battles with unwilling fighters, xeno beasts smuggling and heretical medical experiment.
[20:44] <@BradGM> . In the butcher-lab, Grendel observed a inhuman construct of flesh, Ork parts and vat-grown tissue that Jon spoke of, but with the sadden condition of the locale, was unable to learn anything else of it. A preliminary analysis of the item brought by Mira revealed that is was a well-balanced throwing weapon made out of well refined mono-steel.+++
[20:44] <@BradGM> ++++++++End Transmission++++++++
[20:44] <@BradGM> ((well, it was directed at all of you y'know...))
[20:44] * Mira_Atella snaps the razor-sharp item away from Grendel, wrapping it back in the cloth. "No offense."
[20:44] <@BradGM> Those in the lab, roll awanress visual+20
[20:45] <@Grendel> !dhroll 80
[20:45] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 39 Success by 4 degrees!
[20:45] <Mira_Atella> !perc 79
[20:45] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 79
[20:45] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 74 Success by 0 degrees!
[20:46] <+Lyra> !perc 52
[20:46] <+Lyra> !dhroll 52
[20:46] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 42 Success by 1 degree!
[20:48] <@BradGM> You can see taht the Protectorate's Veripexs are working trying ot get fingerprints, fibers or any kind of clues lying around. Grendel, you can see one picking up peices that you know is a small cog-engine, smashed into a hundred peices.
[20:49] * @Grendel nearly hisses in the inhumanity at the debasement of such a machine. He quickly examines the pieces, studying them to see if it can be reconstituted and the data saved.
[20:49] * Mira_Atella makes sure the sharp metal is well covered before putting it in her bag.
[20:49] * +Lyra watchess everyone, as she's not trained in evidence collection
[20:49] <+Lyra> ((evidence destruction, sure))
[20:50] <Mira_Atella> "You said earlier that they had mixed bodies? Finding more out here might not work."
[20:50] <@BradGM> gre3ndle, make common lore tech+30
[20:50] <@BradGM> Grendel, even
[20:50] <@Grendel> @@That disc is another example of the strange technology behind the gloomhaunt. It is simply...an appearance.@@
[20:50] <Mira_Atella> (( I understood it lol ))
[20:50] <@Grendel> !dhroll 103
[20:51] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 83 Success by 2 degrees!
[20:52] <@BradGM> Grendel, you see that most of the cog-enige's vital systems are still present, all but it's machine memory
[20:52] <@BradGM> ((AKA the hard drive))
[20:53] <@Grendel> ((So someone took the data. bastards))
[20:53] <@BradGM> Jon, You have had access to the camera footage that supposedly show the craeture.
[20:54] <@Grendel> @@It appears that whoever did this took the cogitator engine's machine memory.@@
[20:55] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((what do you mean "had"))
[20:55] * @Grendel looks aorund, his optical mechadendrite studying the cogitator (anything like...RAM that might have some data on it))
[20:55] <Mira_Atella> (( have had, like you still have ))
[20:55] <Mira_Atella> (( you already viewed it ))
[20:56] <+Lyra> @@So it would have to be someone who understood what part of the cogitator they needed to secure. That could help narrow things down.@@
[20:56] <+Jonatan_Wake> Jon goes to search for that footage
[20:56] <Mira_Atella> @@ Or they ripped it out @@
[20:56] <+Lyra> @@Would *you* know what part to rip out? I don't.@@
[20:57] <Mira_Atella> @@ Grab a chunk in the general area, pull... @@
[20:57] <@Grendel> @@It is better that you do not.@@
[20:57] <@BradGM> ((Hmm..roll common Lore tech+20 Grendel))
[20:58] <Mira_Atella> @@ I'd never, with you around. I'd hate to see you loose a mechadendrite hand @@
[20:58] <@Grendel> !dhroll 93
[20:58] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 46 Success by 4 degrees!
[21:00] <@BradGM> Jon, you watch the recording. At a distance you see a large mass moving rather skillfully in the air, perhaps a 100-150 meters away. As it move closer to the camera, you can see the image gettting distorted, like some sort of jamming signal was used, making it hard to dissern any details on the creature, but having witnessed it from a few meters, you are certian it is it. As it come almost at point blank form the camera's objective, the whole shot goes full static for about 10 seconds, before it clears, and wihtin 20 seocnds, everything is crystal clear again, as if the jamming signel moved out of range.
[21:01] <@BradGM> Grendel, it may be possible to extract some information fomr it, but it would only be generic information, like file names and the like; nothing as to waht the said files would contain.
[21:02] <@BradGM> Jon, roll logic+30
[21:02] * @Grendel begins to mark the pieces that he'll need to recover the limited data...all data is good, even limited data.
[21:02] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 90
[21:02] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 22 Success by 6 degrees!
[21:03] <@Grendel> @@The Cogitator may provide some information, how useful I do not know. Perhaps the creature was here to prevent any information from being found out?@@
[21:03] <Mira_Atella> "So... are we done? I thought the sewers Bowels took us in stunk, but..."
[21:05] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((I assume this is the beast that's dead on the table, right?))
[21:05] <Mira_Atella> (( it isn't here, just lots of other dead bodies ))
[21:06] <Mira_Atella> (( or I could be wrong, I tend to do that every few years ))
[21:06] <@BradGM> Jon, the Hive city sector is a rather upscale one; you're pretty sure that the creature may have been caught by other cameras in the area apart fomr those of the Hotel Hellstrom..
[21:07] <@BradGM> ((no the beast on the camera is the gloom haunt monster you saw in Toxic Falls;; the dead one is the one written about in the report.))
[21:07] <Mira_Atella> (( k ))
[21:07] * @Grendel looks around, examining the area. "There may be more to discover."
[21:07] <@BradGM> ((Ontario!))
[21:08] * Mira_Atella sighs a bit, "Let's get to it then, the longer we spend here, the less time you have to analyze... stuff."
[21:08] <@BradGM> ((The motto is: yours to discover))
[21:08] <@Grendel> ((heh))
[21:08] <Mira_Atella> "And the smell.. you may be able to turn that off.. I can't."
[21:08] * @Grendel looks at Mira. "Query, what smell?"
[21:08] <+Lyra> "I've smelled worse."
[21:09] * Mira_Atella stares at the two of them, but says nothing else.
[21:09] * +Jonatan_Wake considers that the beast may have been seen else where, and puts out a request to the archives for any video that both have unidentified mutants and strange errors in the video itself
[21:10] <@BradGM> roll inquiry Jon,+10: but as you are using a cog-engine, roll based on your intelligence, not your fellowship
[21:10] * @Grendel waves his fake identification infront of the Verispex as he collects the parts he'll need to get the data.
[21:10] <@BradGM> ((Heh..tech-preist and guardswoman, "what smell of putrid blood are oyu talking about?))
[21:11] <Mira_Atella> (( well, yeah.. the assassin is usally not that close lol ))
[21:11] <@Grendel> ((Brb, need ice cream))
[21:11] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 100
[21:11] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 64 Success by 3 degrees!
[21:11] <Mira_Atella> (( remember, she was originally a ranged assassin heh ))
[21:11] <+Jonatan_Wake> After given the proper rites of search, Jon looks through the cog engine's database
[21:11] <@BradGM> The Veripex is startled by your roughness Grendel H..hey! This is a local matter! Just fill in a request to have my result reports afterwards."
[21:12] <Mira_Atella> (( lol Jon we'll have to teach you the use of /me ))
[21:12] <+Lyra> ((putrid blod, roasted termigaunts....what's the difference?))
[21:14] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((I due use it, I'm just used to these
[21:14] <+Jonatan_Wake> ))
[21:14] * @Grendel flashes the badge again and continues to work.
[21:15] <@BradGM> Jon, the archives' cog-engine begin to work, and lands you a few results: you get to see a few recording of odd glitches fomr a few location in the hive city proper; a few do get your attention: some from the Great Wall, the Vault door seperating Hive city fomr the Underhive, and a few from around Barg's residence. You can also spot a few of the flying creature; but wihtout knowing wherre to look it merely pass as part of the image glitch/static.
[21:15] * +Lyra takes the Verispex aside. "Forgive him, he's not used to dealing with people he doesn't know. This incident is related to something that is...well above being a local matter."
[21:16] <Mira_Atella> (( Trust me, that's the last of things I could pick on someone for. My OCD makes me want everyone to have a space between the first/last letter and the notation... but I reign myself in ;) ))
[21:17] <@BradGM> Roll charm Lyra, +10 thanks to the badge
[21:17] <Mira_Atella> (( I like things to be uniform and pretty... I'm an evil gay nurse! ))
[21:17] <@BradGM> ((especially with me GMing))
[21:17] <Mira_Atella> (( My picking on you? heh ))
[21:18] <+Lyra> !dhroll 42
[21:18] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 54 Failure by 1 degree!
[21:18] <+Lyra> fate
[21:18] <+Lyra> !dhroll 42
[21:18] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 65 Failure by 2 degrees!
[21:18] <+Lyra> sigh
[21:19] <@Grendel> ((next time wear a bodyglove and make an unzipping motion. Its how the assassin gets away with it))
[21:19] <@BradGM> The Veripex flops off your hand Lyra looks at you throught his set of 4 overlapping lenses "This is a local matter period! If you do not have proper autority with your 45-HRB form, then I'm sorry but *I* am responsible for this evidence!"*
[21:19] <Mira_Atella> (( Don't forget the baby powder ))
[21:19] * +Jonatan_Wake tries to contruct a map of the creature's wereabouts using the archive's time stamps and locations of the cameras
[21:20] <@Grendel> "Your responsibility has been superceded."
[21:20] <@BradGM> The Veripex moves back to Grendel and take the cog-engine's parts almost form the tech-preist's hadns, putting them in an evidence carrycase.
[21:20] <+Lyra> (Can I try a lore: Bureaucracy roll to try and out-bullshit him?)
[21:20] <@BradGM> ((yes))
[21:20] <+Lyra> (granted, all my skills stink, but..)
[21:20] <+Lyra> !dhroll 33
[21:20] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 65 Failure by 3 degrees!
[21:20] <+Lyra> fate!
[21:21] <+Lyra> !dhroll 33
[21:21] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 76 Failure by 4 degrees!
[21:21] <+Lyra> sigh
[21:21] <@BradGM> Jon, roll logic again+20 using the archives
[21:21] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 80
[21:21] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 47 Success by 3 degrees!
[21:22] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((ah, I'm in my element))
[21:22] * @Grendel stands tall, the intergrated weaponry targeting the Veripex. "You dare interfere with the actions of a Priest of the Omnissiah?"
[21:23] <@BradGM> Verispex "This is an investigation, not a manufactorium assembly line! and besides, sicne when does the ARbites uses Tech-preist aprt fomr the cyber mastifs hum? Rather fishy if you ask me..."
[21:24] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((fight fight fight))
[21:24] * Mira_Atella glances between the two, waiting for a signal to step in.
[21:25] <+Lyra> "Look. You don't want to make an issue out of this. Because if you do, then you'll have to fight the tech-priest, and then he'll kill you, and then your comrades will pull guns and then I'll have to incinerate them....it's just too much of a hassle."
[21:25] <Mira_Atella> "Don't forget the stabby-stab."
[21:25] <@Grendel> "This is no longer a local matter. YOu have been appraised of our authority and are refusing to comply."
[21:25] <+Lyra> "Right, and the stabbings. You really don't want the stabbings, plays hell with the uniforms."
[21:26] <@BradGM> Jon, you cross-reference the information..while you cannot know form where the monster appeared, the first recored instqnce was about 6 months ago, but it can have been active beforehand in un-watched sectors. As you line up the pattern of the appearence, you can see it moves with a mehtod, almost as if it was on something similar as patrol.
[21:26] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@What in the name of the Warp are you people doing?@@
[21:26] <Mira_Atella> @@ Might be better not to ask @@
[21:26] <+Lyra> @@Trying to avoid a firefight?@@
[21:28] <@BradGM> Vern the enforcer who escorted you to the lab steps in, visibly, not in the mood to get into any kind of fight "Hm..Doc, the Captain said it was ok..maybe you should.talk to him?"
[21:28] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@These are people I have to work with daily. Don't pull any stunts or I'll come down there and arrest you myself@@
[21:28] <Mira_Atella> @@ Get to the entrance of the hotel, that's the best place for you right now @@
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[21:29] <Mira_Atella> (( ... okay? ))
[21:29] <@Grendel> ((Wb))
[21:29] <Mira_Atella> (( that was odd ))
[21:30] <Mira_Atella> (( it was an instant off and on, no time missed ))
[21:30] <@BradGM> The Veripex beigns poking the Protectorate's chest with his finger "The Ca..the Ca..! You grunts are always calling the shots without informing us of anything! now how do you think that makes us feel huh? We bust our asses trying to read the mess you created only to ahve some what'shis' anme martian come in and swoop in the evidence!"
[21:30] <@BradGM> Vern "Ah.well..I.."
[21:30] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((Is Mira talking to Jon?))
[21:31] * @Grendel bristles electronically.
[21:31] <@BradGM> Veripex "I'll make an official complaint to my superiors about this! I want your name Arbites!"
[21:31] <@Grendel> ((heh. Jon is like...half a hive away.))
[21:31] <+Lyra> "Lyra Plath, Veripex."
[21:31] <@BradGM> ((yeah even with his cool ass bike, it'll be an hour or two until he shows up))
[21:32] <@Grendel> ((our Arbitrator is a desk jockey!))
[21:32] <@BradGM> ((Killing Heretic..under a mountain of paperwork))
[21:32] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((A desk jockey who reduced a floor of gangers into red paste))
[21:33] * @Grendel says something in binary as he collects the fragments he'll need.
[21:33] <@BradGM> ((and can make'em crap themselves with just doing his typical catch phrase stunt too!))
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[21:33] <@BradGM> Veripex "Not you grunt, the tech-Preist! This is an outrage!"
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[21:34] <@BradGM> ((binary eh?))
[21:34] <@BradGM> !dh roll 48
[21:34] <@BradGM> !dhroll 48
[21:34] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 62 Failure by 1 degree!
[21:34] <@BradGM> Veripex "Low gothic! do you speak it?"
[21:34] <+Lyra> "Occasionally, when he has to interact with people."
[21:35] <@BradGM> ((speak Whi-I mean Speak flesh!))
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[21:35] <Mira_Atella> (( sorry ))
[21:35] * @Grendel says whatever is on the identification.
[21:35] * Mira_Atella does speak low gothic.
[21:36] <+Lyra> ((this team obviously needs another face. The chance that Lyra might be it disturbs me))
[21:36] <@BradGM> The Veripex stares at you for a moment Grendel beofre getting what evidence he already bagged "You'll hear from my superiors soon enough!" He leaves the lab area in a fist of rage, his numerous bags under the arm
[21:36] <Mira_Atella> (( nah.. Mira has covered most face things heh ))
[21:37] <+Jonatan_Wake> (A fit of rage too)
[21:37] <@BradGM> ((wow, grendel made a friend..who hates him))
[21:37] <@Grendel> ((heh))
[21:37] <@BradGM> ((ah ok, I always tohught if was fist))
[21:37] <@Grendel> ((19 Fellowship. That's the only kind of flesh friends Grendel has))
[21:37] * Mira_Atella starts to lean against a wall, but decides better of it.
[21:38] <@BradGM> ((the one imposed by him by an Inquisitor))
[21:38] <@Grendel> ((the kind that hate him :) ))
[21:38] <@BradGM> Grendel, you gather the broken cog-engine's parts
[21:38] * @Grendel treats them reverently with many blessings in binary.
[21:38] <@BradGM> ((oddly enough Jon seems to be the only one actually making progress in this investigation athte moment))
[21:39] <Mira_Atella> (( hello, someone made a ghast shaped ninja star.. I have that lol ))
[21:39] <+Lyra> ((Guardsman. I don't investigate, I incinerate))
[21:39] <@BradGM> ((but staying at the office, pushing keys on a keyboard and drawing lines on a map))
[21:39] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((Like an actual investiagtor))
[21:40] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((Though I haven't hade the chance to use my interogation skill))
[21:41] <@BradGM> ((well not really, you're not driking cold recaf and eating yesterday's doughnuts))
[21:41] <@BradGM> ((and chain smoking, donT' forget chainsmoking))
[21:41] <@BradGM> ((and wearing last weeks' shirt))
[21:42] <Mira_Atella> (( heh you should see Mira's interrogation technique ))
[21:42] <Mira_Atella> (( Zipper ))
[21:42] <@BradGM> ((more like a gloom haunt shaped ninja star))
[21:42] <Mira_Atella> (( I know, I just forgot the name and ghast is kind of the same thing ))
[21:42] <@BradGM> ((well, jon never interrogated a woman yet, so zipper could work))
[21:42] <Mira_Atella> (( Different zipper ))
[21:43] <@BradGM> ((same thing, diffent place))
[21:43] <Mira_Atella> (( heh ))
[21:43] * @Grendel keeps his auspex going and walks through the crime scene again. @@Do we have a list of the inhabitants of the hotel?@@
[21:43] <@BradGM> ((yes Jon got one))
[21:44] <@BradGM> ((both the staff working who are being held up by the protectorate and the few (quite upscale) guests actually in the hotel at the time of the attack; most were actualyl elsewehre, shopping, eating meeting stuff like that))
[21:44] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@Yes@@
[21:45] * Mira_Atella isn't able to find a piece of cleanly wall to lean on, so stands and waits, shifting from foot to foot.
[21:46] * +Lyra leans uncaringly against a wall
[21:46] * @Grendel continues to go through, looking for any final clues.
[21:47] <@Grendel> @@Try to see if ther ehave been any other similar murders recently, in other jurisdictions that may not have come to our attention.@@
[21:47] <@BradGM> Grendel, you do spot a dead gloom haunt, killed by a few burst of automatic and shotgun fire, the fighitng pit obviously have a few remains of some porr sap forced to fight in there, but nothing out of the ordinary in a palce like this.
[21:48] <@Grendel> @@We seem to have recovered all we can.@@
[21:48] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@I will see to it@@
[21:50] <Mira_Atella> (( oy... getting an IM from your mother with a song from the 90's, that's very dirty, saying it reminds her of you... wtf ))
[21:51] <Mira_Atella> (( why did I teach her how to do this... ))
[21:51] <@Grendel> ((heh))
[21:51] <@BradGM> ((what,s the song?))
[21:51] <@Grendel> ((IM))
[21:51] <Mira_Atella> (( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsEgF1aKCSM this was big when I was like... 10 ))
[21:51] * +Jonatan_Wake looks for any similar string of murders
[21:52] <@BradGM> Jon, roll inquiry +20 INT based agian
[21:52] <Mira_Atella> (( I still remember all of the words.. that's what takes up the majority of my brain, aside from insane medicine names.. song lyrics ))
[21:52] <@BradGM> ((I'll stick with my gansta rap thank you))
[21:52] <@BradGM> (( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ8BN1Hwagg ))
[21:53] <Mira_Atella> (( lol no ))
[21:53] <@BradGM> ((dude, it's deep cover!))
[21:53] <Mira_Atella> (( no ))
[21:53] <@Grendel> @@A pattern has emerged. Perhaps more information will confirm the data.@@
[21:53] <@BradGM> ((..Deep cover 2?))
[21:53] <@BradGM> ((Plus it's Dr. Dre..you're a nurse..so it's work related))
[21:54] <Mira_Atella> (( This is my gangsta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY ))
[21:54] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 110
[21:54] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 73 Success by 3 degrees!
[21:55] <@BradGM> ((..the hell's this? Hampton rap?))
[21:55] <Mira_Atella> (( lol it's Regulators ))
[21:55] <Mira_Atella> (( this was.. like.. 1993 ))
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[21:56] <Mira_Atella> (( they bleep him saying "gat" and "hookers" ))
[21:56] * @Grendel looks to see if Lyra and Mira want to continue to search.
[21:56] <@BradGM> Jon, you found no previous murders where gloom haunts and power fields were invovled. Of course, underhive murders are not registed with the enforcers or the Arbites, nor are they reported nor would they stand out thatm uch; a dead body in the underhive don't last long.
[21:56] <@BradGM> ((yeah weak sauce))
[21:56] * Mira_Atella snaps out of her daze, "Lead on, mech man."
[21:56] <+Lyra> "If you're ready to go, we can avoid getting into any firefights with the investigators."
[21:57] <@BradGM> ((I'll listen to informer instead.))
[21:57] <Mira_Atella> (( nah.. this song is amazing.. anyone that I know knows every word.. it is along the lines of knowing every word to Labyrinth ))
[21:58] <Mira_Atella> (( ROFL he says "you're high like every day" and they bleep high.. oh the times ))
[21:58] <Mira_Atella> (( I feel old lol ))
[21:58] <@BradGM> ((white man singing like a black man form Jamaica))
[21:58] * @Grendel ignores the comment and begins to head out.
[21:58] <Mira_Atella> (( Okay, how about Gin & Juice... Equal terms? ))
[21:58] <@BradGM> ((you mean the drink or a song named that?..becasue you I don't know that much musci..excpet maybe form the 50-60-70 and 1770s))
[21:58] <Mira_Atella> (( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKGJOtRaqMg ))
[21:59] <@Grendel> ((heh))
[21:59] <@BradGM> ((never heard that one..keeping in ind that my mom forbade us form listning/buying anythign with that explisit lyrics sticker..which was everything really back then))
[22:00] <Mira_Atella> (( get to the chorus, you've heard it ))
[22:00] * Mira_Atella follows Grendel.
[22:00] <@BradGM> ((ah I know that one line on the chorus...))
[22:01] <Mira_Atella> (( yeah, everyone does I think ))
[22:01] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@Sorry, Grendel, I was unable to find any similar murders@@
[22:01] <@Grendel> @@Most likely they were not as public as these.@@
[22:01] <@Grendel> @@What information did you find out?" WE should meet back at the quarters?@@
[22:02] <@BradGM> You exit back in the streets, the mob is a bit less numbered, what with the day cycle having let its palce for the night cycle, but being a rather nice sector, the night crowd is taking over the day walkers.
[22:03] * @Grendel studies the crowd, making a note of faces in it.
[22:04] <Mira_Atella> "We need to get back, move to the vehicle."
[22:04] <+Lyra> "Agreed."
[22:04] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@If they happened in the underhive, then it is likely that they wouild not be recorded. As for the information, I have collected what has been requested as well as more involving our target@@
[22:04] * @Grendel heads for the vehicle, moving carefully.
[22:05] <@BradGM> Grendel, they seems to be mostly wildly dressed young people, mostly looking curously with little intrest, wathicng as it was more like another story to tell around the dance floor
[22:05] <@BradGM> Grendel and those wathcing the crowd, make an awarenss roll -20
[22:06] <+Lyra> !dhroll 12
[22:06] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 85 Failure by 7 degrees!
[22:06] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 39
[22:06] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 84 Failure by 4 degrees!
[22:06] <Mira_Atella> (( fate ))
[22:06] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 39
[22:06] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 89 Failure by 5 degrees!
[22:06] <Mira_Atella> (( beeetch ))
[22:07] <@BradGM> You no longer see Gravel in the crowd: he must ahve gone home to lick his wounds.
[22:08] <@Grendel> !dhroll 40
[22:08] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 38 Success by 0 degrees!
[22:08] <@Grendel> ((Sorry, was reading something in last week's log :) ))
[22:10] <@BradGM> Grendel actually spots him in the darkness, holding some small recording device toward you three*
[22:10] <@BradGM> !dhroll 57
[22:10] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 51 Success by 0 degrees!
[22:10] <@BradGM> He sees you saw him and quickly walk away as fast as his limp can allow him
[22:10] <Mira_Atella> (( hehe tell Mira fast ))
[22:11] <@Grendel> @@Gravel seems to be recording us.@@
[22:11] <@Grendel> ((do I recognize the recorder?))
[22:11] * @Grendel points him out with his mechadendrite.
[22:11] * Mira_Atella glances over and looks.
[22:12] * Mira_Atella takes off at a sprint.
[22:12] <Mira_Atella> (( Maybe now I see why you thought buying him could be bad ))
[22:12] <@BradGM> He gets into a crowd! roll agility-30 to move across the hive citizens!
[22:13] <@BradGM> ((he's a reporter, his scoop,s his bread.))
[22:13] <Mira_Atella> (( You know I get some bonuses here... at least for acro ))
[22:14] <Mira_Atella> (( *taptap* ))
[22:14] <@BradGM> ((giomme a sec to check it))
[22:15] <Mira_Atella> (( k ))
[22:15] <@BradGM> ((it's -20 actailly in dense crowd))
[22:16] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 34
[22:16] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 12 Success by 2 degrees!
[22:16] <@BradGM> ((ah ok, it,s in the =I= handbook: you can roll acrobatics instead))
[22:16] <@BradGM> !dhroll 29 limping leg!
[22:16] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 12 Success by 1 degree!
[22:16] <@Grendel> ((Since we don't want lots of dead people, Grendel lets Mira run))
[22:17] <Mira_Atella> (( I succeeded, TAKE IT BITCH ))
[22:17] <@BradGM> Gravel's upbringing in the hive makes ihm a natural to move into the crowd, but mira got an adventage on him; namely, two fully fonctionning legs.
[22:18] <@BradGM> ((too bad, since wihtout that limp he would ahve escaped!))
[22:18] <@BradGM> You catch up to him
[22:18] <Mira_Atella> (( tackle! ))
[22:18] <@BradGM> roll WS
[22:18] * @Grendel moves much more slowly, following in Mira's wake.
[22:19] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 39
[22:19] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 27 Success by 1 degree!
[22:19] <@BradGM> !dhroll 39 dodging
[22:19] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 90 Failure by 5 degrees!
[22:19] <@BradGM> ((ppff!))
[22:20] <Mira_Atella> (( take it bitch, take it! ))
[22:20] <@BradGM> ((hmm))
[22:20] <@BradGM> 1d100 15 chance
[22:20] <+DiceServitor> BradGM, 15 chance: 11
[22:20] <@BradGM> ((oh snap!))
[22:21] <@BradGM> You tackle Gravel, snecing the both of your flying across a local night club's window!
[22:21] <Mira_Atella> (( woohoo I want to dance! ))
[22:22] <@BradGM> (( https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HdlfZ4213zM#t=14s ??))
[22:22] <@BradGM> roll str Mira
[22:22] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 25
[22:22] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 76 Failure by 5 degrees!
[22:22] <Mira_Atella> (( fate ))
[22:22] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 25
[22:22] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 69 Failure by 4 degrees!
[22:23] <Mira_Atella> (( I figured, still had to try ))
[22:23] * @Grendel continues to move along at a much more sedate and ponderous pace.
[22:23] <@BradGM> !dhroll 36
[22:23] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 58 Failure by 2 degrees!
[22:23] * +Lyra follow in Grendel's wake
[22:23] <Mira_Atella> (( lol Grendel and Lyra didn't notice the Olympic sprint? ))
[22:24] <+Lyra> ((I have faith in you))
[22:24] <@BradGM> Gravel break free, sadly, leaving his jacket inot mira's grasp and he lumps into the club
[22:24] <@Grendel> ((Grendel weighs over 200kg. Running through a crowd...yeah))
[22:24] * Mira_Atella scrambles to her feet and takes chase.
[22:24] <+Lyra> ((Lyra is lugging along a Flamer in a case))
[22:24] <@BradGM> roll acro mira
[22:24] <@Grendel> "You may wish to help her."
[22:24] <@BradGM> ((planning a...hot party?))
[22:25] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 64
[22:25] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 84 Failure by 2 degrees!
[22:25] <Mira_Atella> (( last fate ))
[22:25] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 64
[22:25] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 59 Success by 0 degrees!
[22:25] <+Lyra> ((Well, didn't know what we'd find at the scene))
[22:25] <@BradGM> !dhroll 29 runaway!
[22:25] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 54 Failure by 2 degrees!
[22:25] <+Lyra> "Yes, please hold this."
[22:25] * +Lyra hands the flamer case to Grendel as she takes off in pursuit
[22:25] <@BradGM> You're hot in his heels mira, but his natural ease to move into a crowed area is the only thing saving him form your grasp
[22:26] * @Grendel easily carries the flamer as he continues to follow. Once out of the crowd he'll speed up.
[22:26] <@BradGM> Lyra, roll agility-20 or acroabtics
[22:26] <+Lyra> pfft
[22:26] <+Lyra> !dhroll 20
[22:26] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 60 Failure by 4 degrees!
[22:26] <+Lyra> ((yeah, that's the OTHER reason why))
[22:26] <Mira_Atella> (( lol how did my success, his failure, lead to my failure? lol ))
[22:27] <@BradGM> Lyra, you can barely get passed the first mass of Hivers wlaking the streets.
[22:27] <@BradGM> ((oh you got a hit..my bad))
[22:27] <@BradGM> Mira, you catch up to him as he was almost out the back door.
[22:28] <@BradGM> ((Hmm..))
[22:28] * Mira_Atella pulls a dagger while she's leaping for him.
[22:28] <@BradGM> Jon, roll tech-use+20
[22:29] <Mira_Atella> (( I'm picturing Aeon Flux (animation, not movie) for this ))
[22:30] <@BradGM> ((Grapple and treatening mira? roll WS))
[22:31] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 39
[22:31] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 3 Success by 3 degrees!
[22:31] <Mira_Atella> (( HAHAHAHAHA ))
[22:31] <@BradGM> Grendle, you catch up with Lyra, trying to move past a group of Hivers.
[22:31] <@BradGM> !dhroll 39 dodging away!
[22:31] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 58 Failure by 1 degree!
[22:32] <@BradGM> You jump wiht your dagger ready, but the hack quickly mvoe away, pushing the panic bar and going into the alley ouot back.
[22:33] <@BradGM> ((oh wiat he fdailed..))
[22:33] <Mira_Atella> (( yeah... ))
[22:33] * @Grendel continues to move, just as ponderous.
[22:33] * +Lyra tries to keep moving
[22:33] <@BradGM> You jump on the Hack, your dagger resping under his chin, just besides the back exit.
[22:33] <@BradGM> Lyra, roll it again
[22:34] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 80
[22:34] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 35 Success by 4 degrees!
[22:34] <+Lyra> !dhroll 20
[22:34] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 88 Failure by 6 degrees!
[22:35] <@BradGM> Jon, with the rambling coming from the team's vox, you work the console and manage to get a live camera feed of the streets, and see Lyra and Grendle trying to move across the populated streets of the hive.
[22:35] <@BradGM> Lyra, you step in roughly into the crowd, then gets pushed, and then gets ejected into the alley again, right at Grendel's feet.
[22:36] <+Lyra> "I miss the days when I could open my own path with promethium
[22:36] * @Grendel moves, taking the lead, pushing through the crowd heavily.
[22:37] <@BradGM> Agility -10, thanks to your weight Grendel
[22:37] <@Grendel> ((Can I roll strength?))
[22:37] * +Jonatan_Wake tracks the the two
[22:37] <+Jonatan_Wake> @@What's going on?@@
[22:37] <@BradGM> ((ok, but they Hivers mgiht consider this as an agression..and do you need more rich ennemies?))
[22:38] <@Grendel> ((eh. Like Grendel would think of that))
[22:38] <@Grendel> !dhroll 56
[22:38] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 90 Failure by 3 degrees!
[22:38] <@Grendel> ((Fate))
[22:38] <@Grendel> !dhroll 56
[22:38] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 17 Success by 3 degrees!
[22:38] <@BradGM> !dhroll 33
[22:38] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 80 Failure by 4 degrees!
[22:38] <@BradGM> !dhroll 33
[22:38] <@BradGM> !dhroll 33
[22:38] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 98 Failure by 6 degrees!
[22:38] <+DiceServitor> BradGM: 27 Success by 0 degrees!
[22:39] <@BradGM> Grendle, you move bluntly into the crowd, pushing the Hivers left and right, not caring that much about politeness or collateral damage.
[22:41] <@Grendel> @@Mira is taking care of a eavesdropper.@@
[22:41] * @Grendel pushes his way through, heading for the club.
[22:41] * Mira_Atella stradles the back of the news man, "Hey there kid.."
[22:42] <@BradGM> Gravel "H-Hey..I bet you want a drink don't ya?"
[22:42] * Mira_Atella leans in close to his face, "I'll remind you of our last agreement.. don't lie to me."
[22:43] <@BradGM> Grendel, you ge tot the bar, the bouncers are aroudn the aplce, wondering what the hell just happened.
[22:43] <@BradGM> Gravel "Ok you don't want a drink, but I sure want one see? Just being polite, is all.."
[22:43] * @Grendel checks to make sure Lyra followed him, before looking for Mira. He flashes his credentials if the bouncers get too close. "Arbites business."
[22:44] * +Lyra is muttering under her breath as she follows Grendel
[22:45] <@BradGM> Grendel, Lyra, roll awanress visual -30. Jon, with those 4 DoS you can try to hack the club's camera to see what's going on with another tech-use+0 test
[22:45] <+Lyra> !dhroll 2
[22:45] <+DiceServitor> Lyra: 24 Failure by 2 degrees!
[22:45] <@BradGM> Gravel raises an arm, trying to flag a waitress.
[22:46] <@Grendel> !dhroll 30
[22:46] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 84 Failure by 5 degrees!
[22:46] <@Grendel> ((Bah))
[22:47] <@BradGM> with all those people, laser show, smoke and loud music, you cna't see eihter of them
[22:48] * Mira_Atella leans closer "I was nice to you to begin with, don't screw it up now by making me kill you."
[22:48] <@BradGM> Gravel "Y'know if oyu got print on that thing I gave you, it's only because I picked it up ok? I got nothing to do aobut those bodies.
[22:48] <@BradGM> (9note to slef: never offer mira a drink))
[22:48] <Mira_Atella> (( Do, just not when a knife is involved ))
[22:49] <Mira_Atella> "I know, and really what you told me is appreciated, but... there are things..."
[22:50] * Mira_Atella digs the point of the dagger in to his jugular.
[22:50] * +Lyra turns to Grendel. "You might want to think about putting a tracker on her so we can keep up."
[22:50] <Mira_Atella> "I can completely help you out... so that you don't die. But you'll want to agree with me."
[22:51] * @Grendel considers the possibility of implanting trackers as he looks for hte biggest signs of commotion, figuring Mira will be there. @@Which way did you go in the club?@@
[22:52] <@BradGM> Gravel tries to keep waht little cool he's got left "Agree? Sure, with a knife at my neck, you can aks me to milk a Grox and I'll do it"
[22:52] <Mira_Atella> "I think I might have a Grox nearby... but for now... Just walk with me." Stands up and pulls him, slipping her knife behind his back and near a kidney.
[22:53] <@BradGM> ((going where?))
[22:53] <Mira_Atella> (( the hotel? ))
[22:53] <Mira_Atella> "You could have made this a lot easier if you had told me everything to begin with. But you ran. Who runs? The guilty."
[22:55] <@BradGM> Gravel "Run? Come on, I was just going back home after a final wide shot! Think I can run with that leg? I didn't know it was you until you jumped in my back with that knife of yours. i thought you were some Protectorate goon wanting to beat me again"
[22:56] <@BradGM> You can roll scrutinize
[22:56] * Mira_Atella leans in to whisper as they walk, "Youre lucky. Most people that see me twice are dead. If you keep up the lying, I can't help you."
[22:57] <Mira_Atella> "And really, I do want to help you.. as long as you are useful."
[22:57] <Mira_Atella> "After that.." She pokes the knife in to his back.
[22:58] <Mira_Atella> (( sorry, just saw the roll thing ))
[22:58] <Mira_Atella> !dhroll 59
[22:58] <+DiceServitor> Mira_Atella: 95 Failure by 3 degrees!
[22:58] * @Grendel glances around again, really considering the tracking devices...there have to be a few places where he could implant them so they wouldn't be lost too easily...
[22:58] <Mira_Atella> (( mofo... ))
[22:58] <@BradGM> ((wait did oyu just told him you'll kill him after hE's done bieng useful?))
[22:59] <Mira_Atella> (( Yep ))
[22:59] <Mira_Atella> (( It was a suggestion that he should always find a way to be useful ))
[22:59] <@BradGM> Mira his story seems to stick form what you saw; it,s not like you was wathcing that much behind him as he walked away and you chased him
[22:59] <@BradGM> ((ah ok..))
[23:00] <Mira_Atella> (( fail or not, she still has the knife to him and she's walking him to the hotel heh ))
[23:00] <@BradGM> You see Grendle and Lyra up front the club, looking in, as you get back to the streets
[23:00] <Mira_Atella> (( I actually have a plan now ;) ))
[23:01] <@BradGM> Gravel "So, I get it either way? some negociation technique you people learn..."
[23:01] * Mira_Atella whispers to him, "No no no.. As long as you can find information, you'll breathe."
[23:01] <@BradGM> Gravel "what kind of infomration?"
[23:01] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((Can I access the cameras in the club?))
[23:01] <@BradGM> ((yes, tech-use+0 jon))
[23:02] <Mira_Atella> "It's not any different than your current job, except that your pay is your life."
[23:02] <Mira_Atella> "Anything we ask. I'm sure you know how much it is appreciated. The things that could come your way in return.. wow."
[23:02] <Mira_Atella> "A lot of not dying, mostly."
[23:02] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 50
[23:02] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 99 Failure by 4 degrees!
[23:03] <+Jonatan_Wake> (Fate)
[23:03] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 60
[23:03] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 99 Failure by 3 degrees!
[23:03] <Mira_Atella> "And I do actually like you. You've been great so far. I'd hate to strew your organs across space."
[23:03] <+Jonatan_Wake> (wow)
[23:03] <@BradGM> ((re-roll that, it was 50, not 60!))
[23:03] <+Jonatan_Wake> !dhroll 60
[23:03] <+DiceServitor> Jonatan_Wake: 94 Failure by 3 degrees!
[23:03] <Mira_Atella> (( 50! ))
[23:04] <@BradGM> Gravel's journalistic instincts seems to kick back in "not dying sounds good..but I can go wiht some information too, I keep an ear on the gournd, you keep an eye out, yeah?"
[23:04] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((Wow))
[23:04] <@BradGM> ((no wait hE's got 60 int))
[23:04] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((yeah))
[23:04] <@BradGM> ((but at least hE's not blowing the machine up))
[23:04] <Mira_Atella> "Of course. After today, who else would you want looking out for the best investigator, besides me?" She smiles at him.
[23:05] <@BradGM> Jon, you try a few things, but know better than to wiggle about with the machine-spirit is not without consequences
[23:05] <@BradGM> Gravel "Well, the god-Emperor for one, but I guess that's almost the same thing right?"
[23:06] * Mira_Atella pokes him with the knife again, "Don't set your expectations so high."
[23:06] <@Grendel> ((he! Once..or twice...or maybe three times!))
[23:07] <@BradGM> Gravel "hey hey hey! you know, you should recognise a compliment when you get one y,know?"
[23:08] * Mira_Atella runs a finger from his neck and down his chest, letting up on the knife, "Always, but remember that you're mine."
[23:09] <@BradGM> Gravel "..can I get my jacket back?"
[23:09] <Mira_Atella> (( heh I blame this on the fact that this super sexy madonna song started playing just before I started typing ))
[23:10] <@Grendel> ((lol))
[23:10] <@Grendel> ((do we see Mira leading him out?))
[23:10] * Mira_Atella slides the knife back in to its place, now invisible to others, and gives a brisk shake to the jacket, holding open one arm for him.
[23:10] <@BradGM> ((Hmm..I suppose you saw'em leave by a side alley or something yes))
[23:11] <@BradGM> Gravel nervously slip his arm inside his jacket and put it on
[23:11] * Mira_Atella holds open the other arm. "We're in agreement."
[23:12] <@BradGM> He doens't that happy, what with being on the edge of being killed by the Inquisiton. He reach inside his jacket..
[23:12] <@BradGM> ..and take out a card
[23:12] <@BradGM> Gravel "That might be a bit more faster than getting jabbed in the ribs."
[23:12] * Mira_Atella takes in a deep breath as she starts to walk away, then lets it out as she says, "Remember the last man that lied to me was killed by a monterous gloomhaunt that ate his face and did unspeakable things before he actually died."
[23:13] * @Grendel moves towards Mira and Garvel, watchinghtem.
[23:13] * Mira_Atella doesn't look back at Gravel as she walks to Grendel.
[23:14] <@BradGM> ((taking his business card or not?))
[23:14] <Mira_Atella> (( If nothing, I make her effective heh ))
[23:14] <Mira_Atella> (( yeah ))
[23:14] <@Grendel> "Things are taken care of?"
[23:14] * Mira_Atella flips the card in her fingers. "We're good."
[23:15] * @Grendel nods and starts moving towards the car. "The recording device will not be an issue?"
[23:15] * Mira_Atella pulls down the zipper on her armor just a bit, taking in a deep breath.
[23:15] <@BradGM> ((yeah she..sorta dind't saw that device actaully..))
[23:15] <Mira_Atella> (( yeah.. ))
[23:15] <@BradGM> Gravel walks away as well, possibly getitng a strong drink
[23:15] * Mira_Atella stops and looks oddly at him, "Recording device?"
[23:16] <Mira_Atella> (( winamp wants me to laugh, apparently... now I get the song where Norah Jones says mother fucker ))
[23:18] * @Grendel nods. "I said he was recording us?"
[23:18] <Mira_Atella> "If he was, he won't give it to anyone."
[23:19] <Mira_Atella> "He knows his death follows anything that I don't like."
[23:19] <@Grendel> "Ah."
[23:19] * @Grendel heads towards the car.
[23:19] <@BradGM> You drive back to the Tricorn
[23:19] * Mira_Atella heads to the vehicle as well, flipping the card in her hands a few times.
[23:19] <@BradGM> ((Jon, are you going back to the tricorn as well?))
[23:20] <Mira_Atella> (( and this is what I meant, for later viewing, not now obviously because I don't ever want to disrupt stuff ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-QtkjytoJA ))
[23:20] * +Jonatan_Wake seeing that he got all he wanted, leaves for the tricorn
[23:22] <@BradGM> It takes a couple of hours, but you are back in your quarters. Lazerus is sleeping in his room, Demon is on the couch.
[23:23] <@Grendel> ((Sucks to get old even for Psykers))
[23:23] <Mira_Atella> (( lol ))
[23:24] * @Grendel moves to a workshop and begins to work on the remnants of the cogitator engine.
[23:24] * Mira_Atella kicks back on the sofa, and reads a book of peculiar nature.
[23:25] <@BradGM> Grendel, the cog-enigne is in a sorry state: roll tech-use -10 to fix it: you cna also get help from thsoe who got the skill
[23:26] * @Ribonizer (~hehe@bas5-hull20-3096482718.dsl.bell.ca) Quit (Quit: Chichin ga puipui)
[23:26] * +Jonatan_Wake walks in after everyone else, before looting a table to spread out all the information he's collected
[23:26] * @Grendel pulls out his combi-tool and gets to work, not quite trusting the others to see such internal workings of a divine machine.
[23:26] <@Grendel> !dhroll 83
[23:26] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 92 Failure by 0 degrees!
[23:26] <@Grendel> ((Fate))
[23:26] <@Grendel> !dhroll 83
[23:26] <+DiceServitor> Grendel: 64 Success by 1 degree!
[23:28] <@BradGM> It takes you an hour and a half of careful prayers and application of sacred machine oil to get a spark of life fomr the badly damaged machine, which agonised from it's wounds.
[23:29] * Mira_Atella holds a piece down from where she sits, of meat from the other parts of their home, looking for Demon.
[23:30] * @Grendel mutters incantations and prayers, the censer on his mechadendrite wafting smoke over the pieces of the material as he works on them, carefully coaxing it back to functional.
[23:30] <Mira_Atella> (( that was worded so horribly... but I think what I wanted was heard lol ))
[23:31] <@BradGM> ((Demon was on the couch you sat on, so h'e snot that far form you))
[23:31] <Mira_Atella> (( good ))
[23:32] <@BradGM> He munches on the Grox meat you gave him.**
[23:32] <Mira_Atella> (( * flings deli meats in the general direction of the dog* ))
[23:33] * Mira_Atella scratches between Demon's ears.
[23:33] <@BradGM> ((Heh..Jon redies his presentation..Grendel works..the ladies do..stuff, but no cooking))
[23:33] <Mira_Atella> (( lol seems like the best spot to stop ))
[23:33] <+Lyra> ((Lyra's cooking is conducted at several thousand degrees))
[23:34] <+Jonatan_Wake> ((well, now I have to actually do some work))
[23:35] * @Grendel investigates that he's able to recover from the cogitator engine's remains.
[23:35] <@BradGM> ((yeah let's stop it here, getting alte))
[23:35] <@BradGM> +++++++Terminate Transmission+++++++