Bad things

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<LipstickThespian> The intercom clicks on, and the Sunnybrook secretary comes on.  "Will the following students please report to the helipad.  Maddeline Maddox and Elspath Sullivan.  As soon as possible.  Thank you."
<Nemi> Madeline and.. Elspeth? She-- hm. Wasn't entirely familiar with Elspeth, and emergency calls to the helipad were never good. She climbs out of bed and bumbles her way there, pausing to change into tights and a long over-the-shoulder tee to wear like a minidress. No apparent phone or gun, but she had been experimenting with stashing things in her local dreamscape, and it seemed to be
<Nemi> working pretty well.
<Nemi> Madeline arrives soon after!
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth groans, they even said her name wrong, what the hell, it wasn't ElSPATH, it was Elspeth, much neater sounding thankyouverymuch. She's in class, Algebra 1 to be exact, glad for escape from confusing math concepts, she may be good student but math was never fun. She wears a dark blue dress, going to her knees with black leggings and a black sweater, her hair up in a high ponytail with a black hairband. The Ram
<SavanahHolland> comes in, picking her up, and out she goes! To the helipad!
<LipstickThespian> At the helipad is a woman that Mads knows well, and one Elspeth has never met.  Pomeline Mandate, in her black clubbing dress and her high heels waiting with a phone in her hand.  "Madeline," she says in aknowledgement to the girl and then looks over at Elspath. "And you must be Elspath. Don't worry, we have a chair on the plane."
<LipstickThespian> The plane, a modified Osprey that is sitting on the pad behind her, without markings and with a well maintained interior starts up.  Inside are a few crates, a man in a vest and button down, and a... wheelchair.
<Nemi> "Hey, Pom. What's going on?" Madeline's lip quirks a little. She tries to smile, but she looks tired.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth looks annoyed for a moment before ignoring it, trying to give a soft smile, despite being carried by a huge giant of The Ram that it was, she was rather tiny, being carried bridal style. "I cannot bring him?" she asks, pointing to The Ram.
<LipstickThespian> "Deployment, Mads." Pom answers as she motions to Elspeth. "This is your new partner. Get acquainted real quick because you're a two hour flight from where we're going.  "You can't bring him. Public places."
<Nemi> "Got it. Um. What do we know? Or is that coming on-flight?" Madeline shoots the Ram a worried look at first before nimbly hopping up to swing herself aboard the Osprey.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth puffs her cheeks, she was useless without him, but it didn't matter, it didn't seem like she had much of an option. She moves to look over at the girl to her side, giving a happy wave. "Hallo." she says before following along, The Ram setting Elspeth into the wheelchair on the helicopter.
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<LipstickThespian> "On-flight," Pom answers Mads as she turns and heads up the ramp into the Osprey.  Going over to one of the six seats and sitting down, the one next to her apparant friend.  The crew chief on the ground waited for the two girls to head on before climbing in and closing the ramp.
<Nemi> Madeline's fast to find a seat, strapping herself in. She gives Elspeth a nervous grin. "Hi! I forget if we've met before," She nearly shouts over the rotors. "I'm Madeline!"
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth makes sure the Ram helps her secure the wheelchair in before getting off himself, she couldn't make him leave, he only left if he wasn't used for a bit, so he would stay back until that time comes. Elspeth doesn't really understand wants going on, and all around is bright and cheery. "Ve have noht meet before! I ham Elspeth, yah? Nice to meet you Madeline!" she shouts back so she can hear.
<LipstickThespian> The Osprey lifts up off the helipad and lifts into the air, it's tilt rotors moving and a few engines kicking on as it picked up speed and went North.  Pom pulls on a headset so they can talk over the sound of rotors, and motions for everyone to do the same. The man next to her also does.
<Nemi> Madeline yoinks on her own headseat. She gives the mystery man a critical, curious look.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth pulls hers on two, staring at Pom as she does hers to do the exact same. How exciting! Now, question time! "Vhat ahre ve doing?"
<LipstickThespian> "Details are as follows," Pom says as she pulls out a tablet from one of the crates.  The man sits there with his eyes closed and his arms crossed, his salt and pepper hair quite nice looking.  "Targets are a small detachment of the Pax Romana with a few hired on mercenaries. They currently have control of a location we need, due to some things in the basement we can not let them get
<LipstickThespian> access too."
<Nemi> "Understood. What's the manpower strength we're looking at? Rough power ratings of Pax forces?" Madeline kicks her feets uncomfortably, but at least she can ask the right questions. And it being Pax Romana- and /mercenaries/- almost immediately absolves any uncertainty.
<LipstickThespian> "Five Pax, no clue on the merc strength.  The Pax are mixed, three Class
<LipstickThespian> ones, a two, and one four."
<LipstickThespian> (KITTEN ON THE KEYBOAR)D
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth's eyebrows knit together, what exactly was Pax Romana in the context "Vhat and, or, vho are Pax Romana?"
<LipstickThespian> Pom looks to Eslpeth and then to Mads, nodding at her, she can explain.
<Nemi> Madeline inhales, nods. "What do we know about the Pax members' powersets? And, um. Elspeth? Um, think of Pax Romana as.. Hyperfascists who basically want to elevate anomalies above humanity, they're.. Kind of .." She sighs. "Irredeemable."
<LipstickThespian> "No details," Pom says, "one of them you met before. Prisoner exchange with Pax with some of the kids you picked up. One ended up at the site."
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth takes a deep breath, trying to understand those large words, she was smart, but english was not her first language, or even her second. Nodding after processing this. "Vhere is this location they have control of?"
<LipstickThespian> "It's a uh," Pom says with a pause as she tries to figure out how to say it, "it's a clinic."
<Nemi> "Hum. Good to know.." Madeline fidgets and pauses. Dang. Dang. So much for getting those two girls she slept a better life elsewhere.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth blinks "How large is the clinic? How close vill ve be dropped off?"
<LipstickThespian> "Clinic is one story and the basement, about a dozen rooms." Pom answers, "dropping you off at the small municipal airport and driving you there. Alright?"
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<Nemi> "Sounds good. Um. That kind of resistance, I think I'd like a long-arm and some protective gear."
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth nods "Sounds gud, I vould also like some protective gear, however I doh not know how to use a gun."
<LipstickThespian> "Of course," Pom says as she motions to the crates. "You're going in as patients, so you'll need to wear stuff you can hide."
<Nemi> Madeline looks at Pom a moment, and with a motion reaches to her left palm and .. pulls her Glock out of nowhere. She nods.
<Nemi> There's a sort of strange misting, pearlescent glow as it slides out from whatever pocket reality Madeline stowed it in. "I'm pretty good at smuggling stuff, um. So you know."
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth blinks, then claps, she was pretty sure that was a magic trick. She then moves to wheel over to the crate, if possible, and look through it to see if she can find anything useful.
<LipstickThespian> Pom is, well, impressed.  She smiles and laughs a little.  "Hey, I actually have the perfect thing.  Pasket said you'd like it, something she used to use.  She goes over and opens a crate next to her and digs out a Kriss Vector.  Dual tone, black and brushed chrome.  It's, well, sexy.  Red dot, three point sling, folding stock and angled foregrip.  Attached suppressor. Just, amazing.
<LipstickThespian> Elspath finds a lot of guns and vests, there's one that will fit her and hide under her sweater but still protect her.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth moves to slide that vest on, making sure to adjust everything just right so people won't be able to tell. She also decides to take a gun, something smaller, moving to hide it in inner pocket of her sweater, it's where she kept her keys afterall. Moving to wheel back to where she was.
<Nemi> ".. oh woah. That's.. Slick." And that doesn't look like standard fittings. Madeline will look for one of the 'concealment' vests as she hefts the Vector in-hand. Being freakishly strong for her size, it's just.. Perfect. She'll fumble her vest on and get a feel for the thing, where the safety is, magazine eject, sighting and heft. ".. this does nooot look standard issue, wow."
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<LipstickThespian> Kevlar feels nice, Elspeth.  Really good stuff.  She picks up a nice little side arm, an FN Five-Seven in black carbon with a single stack and a laser sight.  It hides really perfectly.  Pom nods her head, Pasket put a lot of love into that Vector.  As shown by the inscribed 'Viscous Bitch' right above the grip, small but noticeable.  "Pasket spent a little too much money on it," she
<LipstickThespian> says.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth's glad the vest is comfy, getting a feel for it as she looks at Mad's fancy gun. Elspeth realizes she won't be using hers unless a real emergency, seeing as she doesn't know how to use one, but thems the breaks.
<Nemi> ".. oh woah is this /hers/? .. Ohmigod it /is/ hers."
<LipstickThespian> "She doesn't get out much," Pom says with a shrug and a laugh. "Treat it nice okay? Lot of confirmed kills in that thing."
<LipstickThespian> The Osprey shudders for a bit and starts to lower down as it approached a small town.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth moves to look out at the small town as they start to get closer to ground, really just wanting to look over and see how large/small it is from her position.
<Nemi> "Yes ma'am!" Nonetheless, Madeline does that weird trick again. She pushes the Vector, barrel-first, to her left palm. And again that odd pearlescent border as it seems to slide into her hand.. And then there's no sign of any firearms at all.
<LipstickThespian> The town is, well, a couple of thousand and tucked into trees.  Pom watches the gun disappear and she laughs again.  The Osprey lands down in a small airfield outside the town and the ramp goes down, an SUV driving up to it and Pom getting up to lead the two of them out to it.
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<Nemi> Madeline's happy to step on off the aircraft- not that she was scared of heights or anything, but not feeling in control of something's bad for the anxiety. At least if something went wrong in a car she could jump out! She'll climb out, doff the headset since ear protection's not so needed, and follow Pom to the car.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth moves to wheel herself well, down the ramp and into the car after taking off her headphones! She gets a little annoyed with the wheeling, but deals with it, upper body strength, go! Once she's in the car she looks to Pom "How long's the drive?"
<LipstickThespian> Pom looks back at Mads with a smile and slows down.  "Not going to push your exchange student room mate to the car?"  She says with a laugh and then heads to the car.  Once in, the wheelchair loaded and everyone in they take off. "Ten minute drive, you two go in.  You're brining your exchange student friend for a checkup, regular affair. Easy in, easy out.  Get to the basement and secure
<LipstickThespian> the site."
<Nemi> ".. oh I-- crap sorry I wasn't thinking, erh.. Okay! Okay. Sorry, Elspeth! I'm like.. durf."
<Nemi> Madeline reaches up to rub at her eyes and nods. ".. Okay. Ready."
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth lets out a small laugh "Iht is fine, ja? Dohn't vorry about it." she gives a nod to Pom, she's ready to do her job!
<LipstickThespian> "Pick names, and I'll go about getting you in their system." Pom says as she opens a laptop and starts typing.
<Nemi> "Emily Freeman," Mads says, almost automatically. Surprising even herself! She flashes another apologetic look to Elspeth and picks herself up into the back.
<SavanahHolland> "Anika Brahms" just thinking up a random last name and first name she knew well, she was the exchange student afterall, so it still had to be German!
<LipstickThespian> Pom nods her head and goes about typing really quickly.  And after five minutes she hands back a freshly printed driver's license for Mads, and a passport for Elspath.  "Ready?" She says as they pull up to a small white building, the Roman Catholic Church Clinic of Woodsville New Hampshire.
<Nemi> "Keen, thank you!" Madeline flicks her wallet out from somewhere, exchanges licenses- or rather, inserts license, as she doesn't ahve one- and nods to Pom. "Ready." She's already got eyes on the exterior, looking for.. Well, suspicious persons.
<LipstickThespian> No one outside, looks clean as far as she can see. Just the normal small town workday traffic and walking traffic.  Lots of trees between it and the surrounding buildings.  A large old church behind it, past a fence.  "Headsets, or are you good?"
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth moves to take the passport, putting it away near the gun in her inner pocket. "Ready as vell, and I'll take one, just in case, yah?" she laughs a bit.
<Nemi> "Earpieces should be fine, if they have subvocal even better. Wish we had that telepath chick on this.." Mads quirks a lip and half-smiles. Nothing too weird outside, good amounts of cover if needed... Good easy approach.
<LipstickThespian> Pom hands them the two clear earpieces that seem to blend in perfectly  when they were worn.  "Alright," Pom says as they pull up in front. "Have fun girls."
<Nemi> Madeline offers a thumbs up. With the earpiece in place, she's soon out and helping Elspeth and her chair from the vehicle, then pushing her along to the clinic entrance!
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth moves to put in her earpeice, nodding to her. Mads helping her get out and pushing her along, giving the girl a smile "Thank youh."
<LipstickThespian> The entrance has automatic doors, and inside the lobby are about twenty chairs, a small desk in a wall with a woman typing away that looks far too young to be a nurse and, well. Nothing else but a pair of old vending machines that are out of order and a small vigil that hasn't been used in ages.
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<Nemi> The young woman look familiar at all? Still, Mads will start off for the both of them, falling easily into a slightly tweaked East Coast accent and subtly different mannerisms. "Hi! Um, we're here for a checkup. Brahms should be on the list, I think?"
<Nemi> Nobody else around at all?
<Nemi> ~paws~
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<Kadmus> I wish :P
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<SavanahHolland> Elpeth looks around as well, giving the woman at the desk a polite smile "Ja, Anika Brahms, here for a schedualed checkup."
<LipstickThespian> No one Mads has ever seen before.  The woman nods her head and looks down the list, "oh yes Ms. Brahms. Right here. Doctor Kovaks will be seeing you.  It's right through the door to the right and down the hall. Look for Exam Room B. Okay?" She motions to the door and smiles at the two.
<Nemi> "Thank you!" Madeline shall WHEEL Elspeth on down. Meanwhile, looking for.. Stair access. Their objective was to take and sieze the basement, after all.
<LipstickThespian> In the hallway they go into, it goes left and then hits a corner. And right down a hall that ends with a door to a bathroom. Three does in this hallway they can see and a small nurse station off to the side.
<Nemi> And she'll continue wheeling Elspeth down, peeking around the corner to see what's what. Basement access.. Clinics usually have very clear signage.
<SavanahHolland> Stair access! Yes when you have a girl in a wheel chair! Perfect! Elspeth doesn't really know that's what Mads plans, but she does her part, and that is, playing the exchange student being wheeled.
<Nemi> Madeline is also freakishly strong, so she isn't worried.
<LipstickThespian> The corner, and then down that hall are four more doors.  Three on the right and one on the left.  There's signs by the doors but they'd have to walk down the hall to read them. Which would be hard, considering the middle aged middle eastern man slowly mopping the floor in their path.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth looks on the ground that's being mopped up, looking up at Mads to see if she still tries, even if it'd be kinda hard, if Maaads does end up trying, she'll give the man a apologetic smile and say the usual 'excuse us'.
<Nemi> Hm. If Pax has taken over, he's unlikely to be an ordinary janitor. She'll /try/ her perspective trick again, just swiveling her view like a sweeping camera around to check the signs as she sweeps down the corridor. "Um, excuse me sir, we're loooking for exam room B?"
<Nemi> She says, from her meatbody.
<LipstickThespian> The man looks up from where he is and motions down the other way, "that's the other way Ma'am.  End of the hall."  Her perspective trick seems rather difficult here, like there's something making it hard for her and keeping it restricted to near by her.  She can only read two of the doors.  Dr. Kovak, and Reception Desk.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth has no real idea what Mads is doing, just sorta going along with it and staying quiet, continuing to glad up at Mads everyonce and awhile to read her facial expressions.
<Nemi> They must have dampeners, or something. Or maybe one of the Pax operatives has some kind of dampening aura. Or maybe it's just Mads having trouble sleeping and thus accessing the Dream. If it's dampening, it'd probably affect Pax's people too.. "Oh! Okay! Thank you!" She'll wheel around and continue along that way. Madeline is, if nothing else, a very good actress. She tries to talk
<Nemi> via subvocal mic, which is interesting because she has to vibrate her skull to do it. ~cnnt rch drrrm. look frr basemnnt.~
<LipstickThespian> "Ah Ms. Brahms," the two hear as the door from exam room closes behind them. "Running a little late, but it's alright, we're kind of hard to find.  Please, won't you join me in the exam room?" The Doctor, with slick blonde hair and black rim glasses smiles, he looks like he's fresh out of medical school. Or younger.
<Nemi> "Oh! That's fine, okay." Crap. Can't wander off now. Not without going loud. Everyone here looks young, or foreign and grizzled. Can she spy any, say, hints or bulges of concealed weapons or unusual objects? "The nurse up front just said go through the door and we kinda got lost."
<SavanahHolland> Blonde hair, ah how Elspeth loved blonde hair, her cheeks going ever so slightly rosy as she gives him a smile and a wave. They've been found by their doctor, it would be odd if they were like 'lol no' "Yah, vere glad youh ended up finding us." she laughs.
<LipstickThespian> Kovak, as his nametag on his coat suggests, motions the two into the room and follows them in.  No bulges, well one but, well it's not nice to stare at that one Mads.  "Oh she can be quite the ditz sometimes," he says. "Now, Ms. Brahms. I was going over your file and I think it's about time we start thinking about doing some hormone regiments that aren't example loved over seas but I
<LipstickThespian> think will help you."
<Nemi> Madeline just wheels Elspeth into the room as directed and takes a seat on the nearby convenient guest chair. She twiddles her thumbs and peers around, trying to get a measure of the doctor. Too young to really be a med school graduate, like the nurse. Only older person they saw was the janitor. Did /he/ have any odd bulges on his person?
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth bites her bottom lip, now time to actually play the part. "Hormone regiments? Can youh explain more ohn it for me?" she asks, like a good patient she asks questions!
<LipstickThespian> Well Mads, when he turns around the very obvious imprinting of a holstered pistol can be seen as he does the following.  Reaches down to pick Elspeth up out of her chair, he is toned, he has nice arm muscles, and places her on the exam table.  Thinking back to it, it seemed odd that he had a trash cart with him while he was moping, that janitor.  "Yes, yes.  Well you see, the hormone
<LipstickThespian> treatment might help you with your muscles growing weaker and, I think, might help you with those heart irregularities you've been having.  You really should get a service dog you know, to look for those things."
<Nemi> "Um.. Excuse me, doctor, but is it normal for staff to carry, um, firearms on duty? I didn't think it was that dangerous in town here, um." A quick question, the sort that almost always would either get a /too snappy/ response or a fumble. She otherwise looks the part of nervous roomate of an exchange student.
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<SavanahHolland> Elspeth eeps a bit as she's picked up, but otherwise lets him. Blushing a bit more as she's laid down on exam table. Blonde, toned, handsome doctor. How could she not be blushing? "I've been filling ouht the files to apply forh a service dohg, only time vill tell." she could say this in the most honest voice, because well, she was pretty much telling the straight truth.
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<LT> The Doctor glanced back at her and gave a small laugh. "It's alright sweetie, I have a concealed carry permit."  He looks at her for a second longer and then back to Elspeth, like he had noticed something about the girl. "Well I can write you a note if it will help, your medical coverage should cover the expenses." He says to her as he walks over and starts to, well, examine her.  Which
<LT> involves a lot of touching and groping.
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<Nemi> Madeline's eyes flit to his wrists as he does the exam, fidgeting. Any sign of that oh-so-iconic wristlet? - Action continued if wristlet is confirmed.
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<LipstickThespian> And as his hand goes up to check her eyes with a flashlight, the silver band is there.  SQPR emblazoned on it and staring right at her.
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<Nemi> Perfect. Madeline knows several means to disable a human being. Most of them are quite rapid and painful. With 'Kovak' so occupied, she'll quietly make to rise and.. That's an elbow to the kidney into arm drag, one hand up to draw his head back to cut off any sound even as she smashes him forcefully into the floor. Assuming everything goes as planned, anyway, it should leave 'Kovak'
<Nemi> with a concussion, unconsciousness, and give them a little time to work with. Madeline has some ideas of what to do about greater freedom to move around.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth's face is red as he moves to pretty much grope her, trying not to die right there on the table, they're doctors right? They'll bring her back! She eeps a bit, eyes going wide as Mads takes care of him, sigh, why must all goods things, well, men, come to an end?
<LipstickThespian> As his hands start to find the places on Elspeth only a Doctor can go to, well.  When Mads hits him, he does scream, into her hand.  And as he's being brought to the floor there's a bit of a flash of light from one of his hands but it's snuffed out when he is slammed into the floor and. Well that will not be a nice thing to wake up to, definite concussion.
<Nemi> Madeline will wait until he's out for sure- the flash of light leaves her blinking and wincing, but she's got little need to really try to reclaim her vision. She whispers to Elspeth, ".. I'm going to take his shape, should make it easier for us to get around, okay?" And so, she'll.. Well, do just that. She strips him, dons his clothing, wraps him up with zip-ties pulled from her palm
<Nemi> and stashes him in one of the exam room cupboards. And then she'll try to shift /into/ him. "It's the SPQR wristbands. They all wear them."
<SavanahHolland> Does Elspeth take mental pictures of his mostly nude body? Yes, yes she does. She moves to lift herself off the exam table and plops into the wheelchair, yay upper body strength. She was pretty sure they wouldn't have cameras in the exam room, but she does look around just to make certain, never can be too careful.
<LipstickThespian> It takes a while, and taking a lot of things out of a cupboard, but she gets him stashed and is, well. Mads has become Dr. Kovak, the young stunning blond Doctor that almost got to third base with Elspeth. The girl is right, no cameras in the exam room.
<Nemi> 'Kovak' clears his throat. "Let's get you to the basement, shall we?" She'll move to wheel Elspeth out of the room and.. She pauses a moment and ducks back into the room. She'll try to draw the unconscious 'doc' into the Dream, to keep him out of it for just that much longer. And then! And then she rejoins Elspeth. Time to head down that corridor, away from the armed Janitor, looking
<Nemi> for some way down to the basement. Keeping things quiet as possible while getting ahold of the situation. Finding their access point. She knows she'll have to terminate everyone at some point, but.. Well, let's hope she can /neutralize/ instead.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth realizes it's probably bad that she almost asked Mads if she could grope her butt, good thing she didn't, too embarrassed to really. That doctor was just so handsome.. too bad he was one of those shitty dudes. "Sounds like a plan." she says to her with a nod, as she's wheeled she looks around, trying to listen, trying to see if she can hear anyone other than the silence and the sound of the wheelchair's wheels.
<LipstickThespian> The Janitor looks up at Kovak and smiles, giving him a nob. "Try and get me the brown girl's number doc. I think she's legal!"  He laughs a deep laugh and goes back to mopping the floor.  Dr. Kovak's office, Dr. Mitch's office, and Utilitiy with basement access.  Well. There we go.  Elspeth hears a couple voices in Mitch's office, about three different ones.
<Nemi> 'Kovak' chuckles. "Not in front of the patients." And 'he' pushes Elspeth on- just beside the Janitor. 'He' smirks. Madeline was reminded so very much of Keith and Steve and how much they /disgusted/ her. 'Kovak' moves to tap the Janitor on the shoulder and to draw his conscious self to the dream. If it works right, he'll just totter over for a long while. If not, well. She could always
<Nemi> shoot him. Her Glock was silenced. She just wants to avoid it.
<Nemi> If it actually works, she'll let go of Elspeth's chair just long enough to catch the guy and prop him against the wall. Just nodded off, nothing wrong here.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth watches Mads do this, looking a bit peeved at the janitors little comment, as skeevy as she was, he was skeevier! She lets out a soft sigh, trying to listen to the easiest voices she could hear, trying to figure out what's being said.
<LipstickThespian> The Janitor takes a bit of work but eventually he slumps over into a dream, sliding down against the wall and dropping his mop onto the floor.  Gone and out for now it seemed.  There's talk on the other side of the door about a project. Something to do with something or someone named constan- something or other.
<Nemi> Constantine would make sense. She glances to Elspeth- Madelin didn't get the whole conversation. ~what do you think?~ she wonders via subvocal, buzzing into her borrowed skull. ~couldn't hear them- take them out?~
<SavanahHolland> ~Not sure, all I could make ouht is something to do with something or someone named constan or something like that, hard to tell~ she responses, trying to see if she can hear any more. ~Not sure~
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<LipstickThespian> The talking however, seems to be coming to a close.
<Nemi> Madeline pauses outside the door and, with the Janitor asleep after the brief bit of effort.. Tries to bend her gaze inside, hopefully with his dampening ability suppressed. Just to see who's all there. So far perspective weirdness has been her most common use of dream logic. If it looks like they're about to leave, well. She'll quietly draw her 42 and aim for a series of quick headshots.
<Nemi> Just neutralize them as quickly and quietly as possible so they can move on. She would feel bad, and does, but this isn't the time.
<Nemi> If they AREN'T trying to leave.. Some more eavesdropping before doing the same thing.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth stays quiet ~The talking is coming to a close, dey might be leaving~ she informs Mads, doing as much as she can really, moving to have her hand in her sweater, near the gun, just in case Mads ends up needing some help, really just a caution.
<LipstickThespian> It seems, Mads finds, that the Janitor and Kovak weren't the source of the dampening.  She can gaze slightly into the room.  Two men, and one girl.  One in a lab coat, and the other two in scrubs.  The girl looks very, very familiar.  Like she might have once been cowering in a corner before Mads put her to sleep.  The door clicks as it's pulled open and, if Mads continues down her
<LipstickThespian> path, she hits the first one in the head without warning.
<LipstickThespian> Does she finish the other two off as well?
<Nemi> She will certainly try to, yes. Having Kovak stroll in probably isn't too shocking. Having Kovak pull a gun from literally nowhere and tap each in the noggin.. Human reflexes are slow things if whatever's happening comes without warning.
<Nemi> It's so much easier if they're caught unawares.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth grips the wheels of her wheelchair, moving to wheel around over so she can see what Mad's is doing better, biting her bottom lip rather harshly.
<LipstickThespian> The other Doctor is hit and drops, the girl however, the one from the apartment is hit and doesn't drop.  She stumbles back and hits a bookcase behind her and starts to scream.
<Nemi> You know how when you scream in a dream and it just doesn't come out? That's exactly the kind of effect Madeline's trying to force on the girl- the worst, most helpless part of getting caught dream logic. 'Kovak' takes a step forward, says something like, "I tried to spare you." And another shot follows.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth grits her teeth as she watches, but in the end, she doesn't care, they just need to keep going ~Should we just leave them in the room or do something vith them? It vouldn't be good if someone found them.~
<LipstickThespian> The girl doesn't end up getting the scream out, her mouth is open but she makes no sound.  Another round slams into her and she drops down, sliding against the bookcase.  Reaching for something, trying to hold her hands up and stop the fury of what she assumes is her former friend.  The second time in her life a friend has turned on her.
<Nemi> ~They'll get alerted soon enough.~ 'Kovak' turns away, letting her bleed out. Maybe, maybe when the site's secured, she'll have survived. It's a little hope that lets Madeline keep going. ~Can your summons fight? We've still got unknown numbers of mercs to tangle with, um. It'll probably get messy.~ 'He' quietly shuts the door and moves on, pushing Elspeth along to the utlity room and
<Nemi> the stairs down.
<LipstickThespian> The girl, oddly enough, isn't bleeding red. Black, actually.  And the shots have seemed to slow her down and she squirms on the ground as she holds the impact points.
<LipstickThespian> In the utility room, it's just some pipes and a staircase down. No handicap access.
<SavanahHolland> ~Yah, dey can fight, but this is a public place, doh youh think summoning vould be a good idea even nowh? I'll doh it if youh think it'll really help~
<Nemi> Ugh. /Ugh/. Can't have that. If the dampening's down.. Well. The girl's too dangerous to keep up. Shutting down Elspeth would render her helpless. From the staircase down, Madeline will.. Manually pick up the chair and Elspeth in it and start carefully down the stairs. Meanwhile, just bending perspective to ensure the black-blooded girl either passes out, or using that strange
<Nemi> self-location-detachment effect to finish her off. ~Let's see what we're dealing with..~
<LipstickThespian> It does, at least, force her to pass out. Though it's more so from the wounds than the hard touch.  The dampening seems to be getting stronger.
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<SavanahHolland> Elspeth eeps a bit as she's carried ~You're suprisingly strong.. or do you also take the strength of the people youh transform as?~ the guy looked pretty toned, and hot but thats irrelivent now.
<Nemi> More dampening? That's a bother. Mostly because Madeline's shapeshifting could be unstable, at best. And, weirdly, Madeline shall reload the 42-- ejecting the mag one-handed to absorb the spent one into her dreamscape, then extruding a fresh one in. That was bizarre to watch. ~I um, no, I'm.. I worked out a lot.~ That would be a conversation to leave to a less stressful time as they
<Nemi> pick their way downstairs, Madeline expecting the worst.
<LipstickThespian> Downstairs is a straight hallway with three doors. Two on the left and one on the right.  Piping, low lighting, and that's about it. Mads feels herself... becomming herself. Caramel colored and, well, it's going to be hard to use the dreamscape and be shifted.
<Nemi> Aaand Madeline ripples back to herself, then. The distraction effect of being Kovak's nice when they're in public areas, but she feels like this is not the area to drag a patient anyway. She'll set the wheelchair down and murmur to Elspeth, ~Time to get a summon, I think.~ Now? Now, swamped in to the too-large white coat, she's sliding the 42 away and withdrawing that sleek, sleek Kriss
<Nemi> Vector. "Ready on you," she whispers.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth looks at Mads, a little confused ~Are youh alright, vhy did yoh change back? And yah, I'll summon~ she moves to click open her gold heart locket, sliding the tiny razor out and slitting her hand, letting the tears of her own blood drip, drip, drip to the floor. Creating almost strings of gore and blood that form a kneeling figure in front of her, The Ram.
<LipstickThespian> The Ram seems, well, a little slower in his movements but he is still Elspeth's ever present servant.  Just a little slow.
<Nemi> Madeline nods. It was hard to draw on the dreamscape. Now? She had to rely on training, honing, and that strange Maddox talent for warfare. Something her cousin, Artemis, displayed. Something her grandparent, Fox, displayed in spades. Neither of whom she knew at all. She shoulders the Vector and tries to bend perspective again just to peer through the assorted doors and see what's all
<Nemi> present. It's dark, sure, but that's all the better for her.
<SavanahHolland> The Ram stands up, lumbering beast now slower, at least before it was fast so it doesn't seem too bad, they can still use them. She's a little annoyed at the communication between them ~Mads?~ She still has no idea why she changed back and was kinda hoping for some answers. She decides to try to listen, try to hear anything, the sound of footsteps, mummuring of voices, anything.
<LipstickThespian> One door she can see is a laundry room for the bedsheets and scrubs.  The others seem dark and hard to see into.  Harsh really, resisting.  Elspeth hears, well, some footsteps through the door on the left.  And the sound of.. a generator? But there's power in the building?
<Nemi> ~Hi, sorry, there's some.. Fuzziness down here, I can't connect to the dreamscape or anything so.. I'm me right now and just that, um. You feeling anything?" Madeline creeps forward to peek into the laundryroom real fast, just to confirm what her eyes already told her. ~This one's clear, I think, can't see the others at all.~
<SavanahHolland> ~It's fine, and noh, I don't feel anything, but The Ram is slower.~ she pauses, listening and hearing the sounds ~I hear sohme footsetsp through the door on the left, ja? And.. the sound of..~ she pauses, trying to remember the word ~generater?~
<LipstickThespian> Pushing open the door she does see a laundry room, with a few machines running.  Elspeth is certain after a second that it's more than one generator.
<Nemi> ~.. Generator? Okay. Can you get the .. big skull guy to get the door? I'll breach and clear, if he can shield me that'd be /great/, I think those generators are what's dampening my abilities.~ And she'll form up by the door to the generator room to do just that, Vector up at her shoulder in a surprisingly professional fashion already. Soon as it's open.. Adrenalin fueled target
<Nemi> acquisition and takedowns will ensue.
<SavanahHolland> ~No, vait, more than one generator, and ohkay, ja, he can shield youh~ It's not like he'd be killed or anything, he was a devil afterall. She looks at The Ram, following her orders, it heard her without words, moving to open the door just as Mads said when she's ready, and basically being a meat shield. Elspeth rolling back a bit and pulling out her gun in case.
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<LipstickThespian> The door to the room opens and, well it's a good thing the Ram is there before a shotgun blast goes off and the pellets hit the beast. It stands strong in the face of human weapons and walks forward.  Mads follows behind, tucked behind the shield as she finds her target. A man in a grey jumpsuit, actually there's five of them.  And so ensues a gun battle.  Mads firing off selected bursts
<LipstickThespian> and dropping the guns for hire with calculated fury.  Elspeth in the back however, notices the other door down the hall open and someone.  A girl in nurse attire coming out, carrying a pistol in her hand, she looks worried.
<Nemi> And Madeline is a /beast/ in the gunfight. Focused on the targets ahead of her, the shotgun blast ringing in her ears and deafening her to the door behind her cracking open. One burst, two burst, three burst, four burst, five burst. She has a Maddox's reflexes, and a Maddox's accuracy, even with her relative lack of training and veterancy. But she's entirely unaware of the pistol-packing
<Nemi> nurse behind her with her ears so consumed by tinnitus.
<Nemi> She /should/ know better. Check the flanks. But deafness leads to tunnel vision.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth doesn't know what to do, she looks at The Ram, it can't see her but it knows, /don't/ /move/ /an/ /inch/. And it doesn't, protecting Mads. Elspeth sees it, she hears it and wheels around, her gun out and pointed at the Nurse carrying a pistol. She doesn't know what to do, she's just holding it. How the FUCK does one GUN???"
<LipstickThespian> Five dead Columbian guns for fire and a room with a large pit in the middle and three large metal pillars that sound like generators around it.  The nurse looks at Elspath and sees the girl and she raises hers.  She knows exactly how to gun, she's trained.  She lets off a round instinctively and it finds it's home right in Elspath's leg.  Okay, she isn't the best shot.
<Nemi> Gunshot. Rear. It sings through the ringing in Madeline's ear. She swivels. Target. Don't think. Fire. Burst to the torso- one to, recoil would carry the third to the head but for the Kriss recoil-absorption system. Instead, three .45 rounds to the torso. Glance to the magazine, the feel of it, to determine ammunition count. Worry about Elspeth later. Need to find additional hostiles-
<Nemi> the gunfire surely must have been heard upstairs. She gestures to the Ram, to Elspeth, then hustles in her too-large men's clothes- she absorbed her own into the Dreamscape for safekeeping, and left Kovak's behind- to the base of the stairs. Waiting for the 'nurse' up front and any reinforcements. Classic ambush. It all came so naturally to her.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth groans as she feels the bullet go straight into her leg, she may not be able to walk, but dear god could she feel that stinging pain. Trying to ignore it and fumbling with her gun, trying to shoot the nurse. Lol, safety, Elspeth's just lucky Mads noticed and shot her, keeping her gun out as she wheels, ignoring to searing pain in her leg. Following behind Mads, The Ram as well ~Vhere now?~
<LipstickThespian> It was heard upstairs, and the door kicks open and, well there's no targets but there is the sound of a grenade's pin flicking out and then it is thrown, bouncing against the stairwell and dropping onto the floor.  Three rooms to duck into, but well, Elspeth is in a chair and sort of just got shot.  The one nurse at the end of the hall dropped to the ground.
<Nemi> And there's a lot to be said for amazing reflexes. Amongst them is an automatic reaction to, when a grenade is thrown, after accounting for the tiny delays in fuse timer, step in to snag it out of midair and fling it right back. She didn't even think about it. One, two, grenade in the air, she has a moment to fling it back instead of trying to dive the distance to the doorways to either
<Nemi> side and /Madeline why did you do that why is that your reflex/.
<Nemi> How do you even instinctively know the fuse timing on that kind of grenade /what are you even/.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth's first reaction when she sees the grenade, tries to move to wheel back, The Ram doesn't even move at all, she looks back at Mads as she moves towards it, throwing it back as Elspeth holds her breath and continues wheeling back, if that fails she ain't gonna be blown to peices, no siree.
<LipstickThespian> And it goes up, and a shout of "gre-" is cut short as a flashbang goes off upstairs.  And there's some screaming, and the fire alarm got triggered.
<Nemi> Madeline even reaches to cover one ear until the /bang/. Then she follows it right up. A few bursts follow until she's satisfied the hostiles are neutralized, and then she just calmly ejects and absorbs the mag before extruding a new one from her forearm and sliding it into place. Another few moments pass as she bends perspective to check her corners and ensure that there's no further
<Nemi> hostiles. And, with that, it's back downstairs on bare feet and clumsy men's slacks to rejoin the wounded Elspeth. "Are you okay- I don't have a medical kit here let me.." But, alas, doing so much already, she needs a moment before she can really attend to the gunshot wound.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth grits her teeth as she watches Mads go alone, she can't do much, and The Ram was a bit too slow at this point. Looking down at her leg, crimson blood seeping into her back tights. This felt worse than hell, but she'd deal with it "Ve dohn't have time for this, ve need to keep going."
<LipstickThespian> One, two, three. The people in the hallway are all down with a few bursts of fire and the hallway is clear.  She can't tell if anyone else is nearby, the generators are still running downstairs.  Of course, she left Elspeth alone for a while, and no one had checked the room the nurse had gone into and.  Well, Mads sees it as she's talking to the girl, a bright flash of green from the
<LipstickThespian> shadows as it flicks out of the last room and towards the two.  In the air it bursts, and shards of green that feel like harsh burns fly out towards the both of them.  Mainly, at Elspeth's back.
<Nemi> Madeline wonders if this is how Pom and Pasket feel. Concerns at the moment being on 'hostiles neutralized' rather than the lives she just ended. She nods to Elspeth. "You'll bleed to death, I don't want that, okay?" She tries to offers a comforting smile, leaving the Vector to dangle from its sling over her arm, as she does her best to at least-- and then. She notices the green shards.
<Nemi> She hisses, /dives/, nicked by a few stray fragments that tear into her left arm, hip and side. It burns, it hurts, but .. Elspeth's chair should have eaten some of it. New target. Move to the doorway. Peer in, bend perspective just enough to get sight without exposure. Fire. Aim to take down. That's all that matters. Elimination of the hostiles, protection of her friend, and then, then
<Nemi> the mission.
<Nemi> Pom and Pasket may prefer the latter two be swapped around in priority.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth barely supresses the urge to cry out, at least succeeding in that, luckily the back of her chair did eat most of it, but a few shards of course got throw, digging deep into the small girl's back as she wheels around, looking over the gun, what's this? Safety! She unflicks it, hands wavering as she holds it.
<LipstickThespian> Pom always worried about the stats of things.  If things were in order and the number of threats active.  Pasket, well, she was always small picture and just worried about how much pain was around her as she worked.  The burning leaves harsh bruises that are sickly and green.  Mads gets up to the room and her actions are answered by another one of the green shard bombs, still, a quick
<LipstickThespian> dodge and she has dropped another.  The two of them, are, as far as either know. Alone.   Just as Elspeth gets her gun ready.
<Nemi> Bruises are fine. An excruciating way to be taken down, but she doesn't care. "Ram- can you get the Ram to bind her injuries?" She'll hurry into the new room, quickly doublecheck to see what's all in there. If it's clear, and there's nothing weird, it's into the generator room to shut those things /down/. She does not like suppressors. And she's not expecting Elspeth does either.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth shakes her head, The Ram stares at Mads. "H-he doesn't.." she half groans out, moving to follow behind Mads. The Ram may seem like a butler, but it doesn't know everything, maybe how to put a bandaid on someone, but not how to bind injuries.
<LipstickThespian> Nothing in that other room, it was just the two of them in there.  The suppressors are, well, the panels are locked and there's a lot of large wires on the floor running to them. Mads can sure find a way to shut them down, it will just take some force or a lot of time.
<Nemi> She can worry about that later. Now? Now it's time to keep Elspeth from bleeding to death. She'll tear strips from 'Kovak's coat and wrap up Elspeth's gunshot wound. She's no medic. It's what she can do for now. Besides, the tech involved might be of interest. In the meantime, to the headset. ~Pom? It's Maddox. Basement is secured. Some kind of anomaly suppression generators down here.
<Nemi> Eliminated several Pax agents and several mercs. Two more disabled upstairs for pickup.~
<SavanahHolland> There was still a bullet imbeded in her leg, but yeah, that's really just to deal with for later. She bites her bottom lip as she watches Mads do this, The Ram still as slow as ever as it follows the girls, finally getting in the room. Elspeth worried that they don't have time for this, and she wasn't too worried about her own injuries, the shot in her leg and a few of those green things in her back, Mads was no
<SavanahHolland> better. "Are /youh/ ohkay?" she asks Mads seriously.
<LipstickThespian> A voice comes back, Pom's, to answer Mads. "Confirm incap count, is the site completely secure?"
<Nemi> ~Negative-~ Mads winces at the bruises but only pauses a moment. ~Ground floor at least eight neutralized, will sweep and clear. Sullivan's injured, gunshot wound to the leg, doesn't look serious.~ And she flashes a weary smile back to Elspeth. "Can the Ram take you up? I'm heading back up to make sure we're clear." No reply to the 'are /you/ okay query. And up she goes, like that. Just
<Nemi> to pop in and out of each room after wallhacking her vision, first, not immediately in the suppressors' field.
<LipstickThespian> Mads finds that, after it all, they are alone.  Must be two shifts of workers that cycle, as not all the people promised are there.  Sleeping girl is gone, however.
<SavanahHolland> Elspeth seems rather worried, taking a deep breath and nodding. The Ram was slow, but wasn't useless, "Ja." and with that she wheels to the stairs, The Ram moving to pick up both her and her wheelchair and slowly move up the stairs.
<Nemi> Madeline smiles back at Elspeth. She looks very, very tired. ~Site's clear. One neutralized hostile, Pax member involved in the prisoner trade, gone MIA. Did not see my face- I was wearing that of one of her allies. Not all personnel promised were present, would advice cleanup team to pick them up or intercept escapees.~ God. Listen to her. /Listen/ to her. So /clinical/.
<LipstickThespian> "Alright, car's down the street." With that, the radio clicks off and the two of them are alone to clean up and leave.  Just like that, a lot of dead bodies and well, no remorse. No second thoughts. Just cold clinical work.  Somewhere Pom is rubbing it in Pasket's face how good she is at picking people.
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<Nemi> ~Understood. On the way.~ Madeline lets out a sigh as they stride to the lobby. She slides the freshly-reloaded Vector into her palm, again. ".. you should dismiss the Ram. I'll wheel you to the car. Let's.. Let's go home."
<SavanahHolland> The Ram finally gets to the top, letting Elspeth wheel herself, she looks at Mads, biting her lower lip. LOL little problem there "Uhm.. I cannot 'dismiss him'."
<Nemi> ".. oh. Um. Um." Mads has a great idea. She'll grab a stray curtain or something and toss it over the Ram's head. Just a huge dude in a sheet cloak, totally inconspicuous. ".. okay. Let's go." She'll lead the way on back.
<SavanahHolland> The Ram in a old tail-coat that's riddled with bullet holes and a oddly shaped curtain over his head, well, good enough. Elspeth is wheeled by Mads, if she does that of course, getting to the car as soon as she can.
<LipstickThespian> The car is there, and the kids are taken back to the school.  With a little packet of cash and the knowledge that they most likely were participants in the killing or capture of about five anomolous people.  Well, at least they destabilised a smuggling ring of the Pax's design to use a portal system to get ano kids to their main facilities.  That is for Pom to know, and the kids to find
<LipstickThespian> out on the drive home.  Little things.
<LipstickThespian> -scene complete, 1 XP for Mads and Elspeth-
<Nemi> "They were doing /what/?" And Mads feels much, much better about the whole thing.