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  2. [2016-02-13 19:43:15] <Antioch|GaMe> Khandhas returns to Cleveland via helicopter, landing in front of Fairview Hospital.
  3. [2016-02-13 19:43:52] <Antioch|GaMe> There's a lot of fanfare and cheering with your return, a crowd gathered - hell, a red carpet leading into the building, but you get the feeling it's more for the King's benefit than yours.
  4. [2016-02-13 19:45:20] <Antioch|GaMe> Nonetheless, there's a sense of accomplishment that eluded you during the fight with the Endbringer itself, when Blake shakes your hand, not asking too many questions, gratitude in his expression.
  5. [2016-02-13 19:45:35] <Antioch|GaMe> He spent the ride back silently, using his armor's diagnostic to examine just what had happened to his body... and yours.
  6. [2016-02-13 19:46:02] <Antioch|GaMe> He did check for you - your liver is still in the same bad shape it was. ||
  7. [2016-02-13 19:47:35] <Firlz|Khandhas> Probably for the best, all considered. It might be a few years away from killing me from bad habits, but it's MY bad liver, dammit.
  8. [2016-02-13 19:48:24] ⇐ Thalia quit (secret@net-ehma5b.or.comcast.net): Connection closed
  9. [2016-02-13 19:49:13] <Firlz|Khandhas> Speaking of property... I should probably make it a point to check in and see if anyone found Forgemaster's armor. With a chance to investigate whatever damage happened to it when it became real again he might find something useful for making better stuff in the future.
  10. [2016-02-13 19:50:17] <Firlz|Khandhas> If nothing else it'd be neat for the Tinker to have it as a Trophy to it surviving through an endbringer fight. There can't be THAT many tinkers who can say their tech has been within a few hundred feet of the beast without the user dying in the process.
  11. [2016-02-13 19:50:24] <Firlz|Khandhas> Though it WAS a rather close thing.||
  12. [2016-02-13 19:52:31] <Antioch|GaMe> You did send in the request to the Cleveland Protectorate capes doing search and rescue, but nothing seems to have come of it.
  13. [2016-02-13 19:53:00] <Antioch|GaMe> You did shuck the armor along the path that the beast took, so it's not unlikely that it's destroyed or reduced to slag. ||
  14. [2016-02-13 19:55:10] <Firlz|Khandhas> Bit of a shame, that. Though considering it saved at least ONE other cape from getting electrified for sure, it did what it was supposed to. It's hard to know if the later bolts actually got redirected from anything or not, it wasn't like there were clearly other capes nearby for the monster to target instead.
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  16. [2016-02-13 19:57:31] <Firlz|Khandhas> Well, even so I should probably make it a point to visit him in the near future to see if anything I noticed might be useful for him, maybe see about designing a mk II in the event I decide a future endbringer fight is a place for me to go.
  17. [2016-02-13 19:58:16] <Firlz|Khandhas> Considering how little I want a particular contract Voided, I'm expecting I will be making at least a token showing until Blake decides to stop showing up to the things.
  18. [2016-02-13 19:58:44] <Firlz|Khandhas> On that note maybe it's time to reconsider what he mentioned before I left.
  19. [2016-02-13 20:00:38] <Firlz|Khandhas> Before the fight itself, threats in that league didn't really seem "real". There was no pressing need to make sure I was as tuned up as humanly possible, even if I did try to pull out all the stops I could manage on pretty short notice.
  20. [2016-02-13 20:02:07] <Firlz|Khandhas> I still can't say the idea of a "team" appeals to me, but maybe it doesn't need to be something so formal. Find a handful of peers whose judgment I can trust to point me at the right targets, and then figure out how best to make those targets pay as dearly as possible for whatever their objectives are.
  21. [2016-02-13 20:04:08] <Firlz|Khandhas> Maybe chat with the director, see what kind of leeway I can get as an independent gun to go after the more problematic cases in town. Use them as a sort of "weapons test" or proof of concept for ways to deal with other, bigger threats when they inevitably come down the pipeline.
  22. [2016-02-13 20:05:12] <Firlz|Khandhas> Well, first I should probably talk with Blake about it regardless. If he's got some time to spare when we get inside I'll see if I can't spitball off him. If he isn't I can always hit up Jiangjun and see if he's got any bright ideas.||
  23. [2016-02-13 20:05:58] <Antioch|GaMe> Jiangjun's been kind of off the grid for the past few weeks.
  24. [2016-02-13 20:06:27] <Antioch|GaMe> Last time you had an actual sit-down lunch with him was... around twelve or so days ago?
  25. [2016-02-13 20:08:42] * Bel|aboot is now known as Bel
  26. [2016-02-13 20:09:03] <Antioch|GaMe> Either way, you're still kind of mentally razzled from the shitstorm and your /extremely/ close brush with death.
  27. [2016-02-13 20:09:47] <Antioch|GaMe> Not, oddly enough, a situation where you want to hit the sauce. You've been having some time, thinking really hard, and you need a clear head to chase down these strings.
  28. [2016-02-13 20:09:58] <Antioch|GaMe> Maybe have someone to bounce shit off the wall with. ||
  29. [2016-02-13 20:10:51] <Firlz|Khandhas> ((so did we actually make it inside the hospital yet?))
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  31. [2016-02-13 20:13:21] <Antioch|GaMe> You're inside the hospital, awkwardly following the King around. He's got a long list of things to do - and he took a short catnap on the flight over.
  32. [2016-02-13 20:14:31] <Antioch|GaMe> "Go home, Khandhas. You've more than earned a break," he says. Not brushing you off, per se, but not having anything on his mind to say to you. ||
  33. [2016-02-13 20:16:09] <Firlz|Khandhas> So he says, but it hardly FEELS that way. Still doing something less active might be just what's needed.
  34. [2016-02-13 20:16:40] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Let me guess, Doctor's orders?" I try and put some humor into the statement.||
  35. [2016-02-13 20:17:08] * Bel is now known as Bel|Dags
  36. [2016-02-13 20:17:36] <Antioch|GaMe> He gives you a warm smile. "You could call it that. Get in touch with me once I get the backlog of stuff I missed cleared. We'll have drinks." ||
  37. [2016-02-13 20:21:44] <Firlz|Khandhas> I can't help but actually laugh at that one "That actually sounds nice. Though, keep me in the loop if you find any trouble. The wicked never sleep, so taking too long off is just asking for problems."
  38. [2016-02-13 20:24:10] <Firlz|Khandhas> I make my way out and decide Blake is right, at least in part. I don't need to do anything particularly active, if I were a well-adjusted person this would be the time I might meet with friends, or visit the family.
  39. [2016-02-13 20:28:05] <Firlz|Khandhas> A whole team of basket-case that I am I commit myself to seeing if JJ is up for some eats. If nothing else I'm sure he'll love laughing at how close to getting myself killed I managed. After that, take the day more or less off to just browse the internet for news or even go to bed EARLY tonight. If I turn out the lights and actually sit still mayb
  40. [2016-02-13 20:28:05] <Firlz|Khandhas> e I can manage to go more than one night in a week where I wasn't drinking myself to sleep.
  41. [2016-02-13 20:28:16] <Firlz|Khandhas> ||
  42. [2016-02-13 20:30:25] <Antioch|GaMe> You call up Jiangjun to see if he's down to hang, but it goes straight to voicemail. Hmm.
  43. [2016-02-13 20:30:38] <Antioch|GaMe> Before you can put your phone in your pocket, HPIA gives you a ring. ||
  44. [2016-02-13 20:31:16] <Firlz|Khandhas> Lets see if I can manage to get it right on the first try "Dags?"||
  45. [2016-02-13 20:31:22] <Antioch|GaMe> >>Bel|Dags
  46. [2016-02-13 20:32:03] <Bel|Dags> "Hey, this is- yeah, Dags. I'm, uh, talking to Khandhas, right?" ||
  47. [2016-02-13 20:33:10] <Firlz|Khandhas> "I'd say the one and only, but well, you know. How can I help?"||
  48. [2016-02-13 20:36:41] <Bel|Dags> "Well, I'm about to head out and talk to the Borgata about renegotiating a... deal we have, and I don't want to go alone, but Haddon is out, Kus is, y'know, and Maia's on her lunch break. You have an hour or two to get some Italian with mobsters?" ||
  49. [2016-02-13 20:43:35] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Is Pizzicato even up and at 'em yet? Actually, sure let me head over and we can discuss the actual gameplan."
  50. [2016-02-13 20:44:42] <Firlz|Khandhas> I continue "Unlike someone who can just burn things to cinders or cut people up with nonsense wires, I need to actually prepare for fights if I want to win. It'll be that much more prudent if I've gotta protect you if shit goes down, since my normal escape plans don't work so well for others."||
  51. [2016-02-13 20:47:18] <Bel|Dags> "Yeah, about that..."
  52. [2016-02-13 20:48:01] <Bel|Dags> I look out over the steering wheel as traffic starts to move again, holding the phone with my shoulder to flash a middle finger at someone flying through the red.
  53. [2016-02-13 20:48:46] <Bel|Dags> "Where can I pick you up? I made a reservation for noon which is in... twenty minutes." ||
  54. [2016-02-13 20:49:49] <Firlz|Khandhas> ((did my gear make it out with me? Or did it all get thrown away due to radiation along with my... Corpse?))
  55. [2016-02-13 20:50:21] <Antioch|GaMe> Your basic armor is OK, since you left it off as a trade for Forgemaster's armor.
  56. [2016-02-13 20:57:50] <Firlz|Khandhas> ((and I don't have time to grab nades or crossbows. Great))
  57. [2016-02-13 21:00:23] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Shit well, I'm currently by the hospital. I can mosey a BIT, where's the best place for me to head for said pickup" I'm not going to let him walk into that lion's den ALONE. He couldn't have had his appointment an HOUR from now?||
  58. [2016-02-13 21:04:12] <Bel|Dags> "Awesome. Great. If you walk south, I'll meet you on the road in five."
  59. [2016-02-13 21:05:35] <Bel|Dags> I hang up and slide the phone into my pocket, quelling the urge to reach into my coat to grab the half-empty flask. Borgata meant business, even and maybe especially after the Don's death and that Player One fiasco, and I never relished having to put the screws to them.
  60. [2016-02-13 21:05:43] <Bel|Dags> On the other hand...
  61. [2016-02-13 21:06:33] <Bel|Dags> The memory of Burn Notice stubbing his cigarette out on my hand swims into view and I smile, making my way through downtown traffic towards the hospital. ||
  62. [2016-02-13 21:09:46] <Firlz|Khandhas> I make my way south. Resigned that I'm liable to get myself into a fistfight with a meatgrinder.... Without the benefit of insanely durable fists of any kind.
  63. [2016-02-13 21:12:04] <Firlz|Khandhas> Lets just hope that Pizzicato has actually made it back, hopefully being the one to get him to safety will have some pull for getting us out of there with nothing but words.
  64. [2016-02-13 21:13:31] <Firlz|Khandhas> It's better than nothing... If not by MUCH.||
  65. [2016-02-13 21:25:46] <Bel|Dags> After a few minutes of driving, I pull over next to the walking detective and beep the horn a few times.
  66. [2016-02-13 21:26:19] <Bel|Dags> Cracking the window, I yell, "Get in, if we peel out we'll make it in time to get appetizers!" ||
  67. [2016-02-13 21:30:59] <Firlz|Khandhas> Well at least there should be food? I hop in the car and ask "So, any chance I can get a rundown of what your objectives are?"
  68. [2016-02-13 21:31:01] <Firlz|Khandhas> ||
  69. [2016-02-13 21:31:36] <Bel|Dags> As soon as the door's closed, I whip the car around, ignoring the screeching and honking horns.
  70. [2016-02-13 21:32:30] <Bel|Dags> "One," I say, lifting fingers from the steering wheel to enumerate, "Don't die. That's a given."
  71. [2016-02-13 21:34:46] <Bel|Dags> "Two, a while back, we- 'we' being the HPIA- got strong-armed into an information-for-protection racket. At the time, we didn't have the leverage to say no, so we've been pursuing 'malicious compliance', Maia calls it, but now, with the Borgata off balance and some choice tidbits I've picked up, I think we can set things right again."
  72. [2016-02-13 21:35:32] <Bel|Dags> "Three, I want to tweak Burn Notice's fat fuckin' nose once or twice. I've got some ideas, but I'll play that one by ear."
  73. [2016-02-13 21:36:25] <Bel|Dags> "And four, I want to get some of that shrimp paella. Never had better, and I've had some good paella." ||
  74. [2016-02-13 21:37:47] * Nonagon is now known as Nonagon|Sleep
  75. [2016-02-13 21:38:17] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Putting three and four aside, what do you wager the chances of BOTH one and two happening without a fight? You DO know my power basically makes me little better than a group of thugs if this is anything less than civil, right? Thugs with the most fragile jaws you've ever seen, too."||
  76. [2016-02-13 21:41:14] <Bel|Dags> "'s all I need, really, some bodies to throw between me and the goons while I skedaddle for the door. Haddon's perfect for it, but he's perfect for a lotta things, so I pick up the slack. Maia's got better things to do, and unless I feel like hiding behind his chair-"
  77. [2016-02-13 21:41:17] <Bel|Dags> I pause to throw up a gang sign at a man loitering on a particular corner, Danny "Two-Chains", then continue.
  78. [2016-02-13 21:43:18] <Bel|Dags> "Unless I feel like hiding behind his chair, Kus is right out. So you're my menacing meat shield. Always fun to wander around flanked by muscle, anyhow." I punch his shoulder playfully. ||
  79. [2016-02-13 21:43:47] <Firlz|Khandhas> Well, if nothing else this should be interesting.
  80. [2016-02-13 21:49:50] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Well if we're going to do this then I guess I should put my cards on the table. I SAW The Don's corpse in person... It. It wasn't pretty. And to be perfectly honest, given HOW he died... It's arguably part my fault, accidental friendly fire in the wake of a tinkertech attempt to stop Behemoth, but I was the one who pulled the trigger on the thing.
  81. [2016-02-13 21:49:50] <Firlz|Khandhas> " I pause for a moment to let that sink in. "On the other hand, I was the guy who pulled Pizzi out of the rubble after. Maybe the borgata would just see that as my job during the fight, or maybe they see it as a favor. If it's the latter... That is a VALUABLE card if I end up needing to use it to get us out of there."
  82. [2016-02-13 21:50:35] * Teruzi|GM is now known as Teruzi
  83. [2016-02-13 21:51:00] <Firlz|Khandhas> I think for a moment realizing that his plan is to throw ME in the way to get out "before we head in, I'm going to want to do a quick power test, it'll be using it in a way I've never really thought to try before so I'd rather know if it works before we head in. Shouldn't take more than a few seconds unless you think there's going to be a throwdow
  84. [2016-02-13 21:51:01] <Firlz|Khandhas> n inside two minutes."||
  85. [2016-02-13 21:52:58] → Cxaxakluth joined (uid126610@brockwell.irccloud.com)
  86. [2016-02-13 21:54:43] <Bel|Dags> I nod along. "Yeah, maybe keep that first bit to yourself? And you can drop that card if you think we need it, but let me take point 'til things go to shit."
  87. [2016-02-13 21:55:49] <Bel|Dags> I pull over in a nearby space and step out of the car, motioning to an adjacent alley. "Do what you gotta do, but I want two copies ready to walk in with me in two minutes." I walk around the car and feed the meter. ||
  88. [2016-02-13 21:58:00] <Firlz|Khandhas> I look down the sidewalk, trying to spot a step about fifty fee away and focus on it for a second. Then I turn my head the other way and close my eyes. I try and visualize creating one of the clones over by the step fifty feet away as I use my power. Once I have the image in my mind I try and DO just that- create one clone over there, while the res
  89. [2016-02-13 21:58:00] <Firlz|Khandhas> t spawn around me as normal.||
  90. [2016-02-13 22:08:04] <Antioch|GaMe> ...
  91. [2016-02-13 22:09:15] <Antioch|GaMe> It doesn't work. The clones appear around you in the same formation that they always do, loosely scattered about where your original body was. ||
  92. [2016-02-13 22:13:20] <Firlz|Khandhas> Well, it was worth a shot. Three selves line up to follow Dags inside while the remaining two split up to take more circuitous routes. Three thugs to get in the way, one to try and 'hide' as a safe self, and one to get ready to run like hell in the worst-case.||
  93. [2016-02-13 22:14:22] <Bel|Dags> I glance idly at the scattered mass of clones. "I'd love to take three, but I only made a reservation for two. Hard enough to get that expanded without having to try to get a decent table with five seats on it."
  94. [2016-02-13 22:16:01] <Bel|Dags> I rearrange the clones until I have one at each shoulder, straighten my jacket, and snatch my flask out of the coat.
  95. [2016-02-13 22:16:55] <Bel|Dags> "We're off!" I pronounce, making my way down the walk and swigging the rest of the flask dramatically. ||
  96. [2016-02-13 22:17:01] * Prothean is now known as Proth|Ezreal
  97. [2016-02-13 22:18:34] <Firlz|Khandhas> It occurs to us that perhaps Dags thinks we will be eating while we're there. That is probably a bad idea, since multiple selves eating means there will be a mess SOMEWHERE when the rest pop.
  98. [2016-02-13 22:19:40] <Firlz|Khandhas> Well whatever, an extra self on the outside is that much more of a safeguard in case things go wrong, having one self actively patrolling outside to make sure nothing happens is just as well.||
  99. [2016-02-13 22:24:11] * Antioch|GaMe → Antioch|GM
  100. [2016-02-13 22:25:38] <Antioch|GM> ((Walking into Vino's?))
  101. [2016-02-13 22:25:54] <Bel|Dags> ((indeed))
  102. [2016-02-13 22:28:55] <Antioch|GM> There's a table already set for you, for two, with Burn Notice already seated, a man standing behind him.
  103. [2016-02-13 22:29:20] <Antioch|GM> "Oh, Dags. 'bout time."
  104. [2016-02-13 22:29:29] <Antioch|GM> "You wanted to talk business?"
  105. [2016-02-13 22:29:41] <Antioch|GM> "Your goons can stand."
  106. [2016-02-13 22:30:05] ⇐ Nepene quit (IceChat9@net-m0c4oi.redstation.co.uk): Ping timeout: 181 seconds
  107. [2016-02-13 22:30:30] <Antioch|GM> The table is partitioned off from the rest of the restaurant, on the second floor overlooking the regular patrons, giving you some privacy.
  108. [2016-02-13 22:31:07] <Antioch|GM> There's antipasto, cheeses, bread on the table, which is unnecessarily candlelit.
  109. [2016-02-13 22:31:51] <Antioch|GM> It doesn't look like Burn Notice recognizes Khandhas, given his non-unique costume and nondescript, slightly variable clone form. ||
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  111. [2016-02-13 22:33:45] <Bel|Dags> "Oh, Burn Notice, you shouldn't have! I didn't know you cared." I shed my coat, hanging it on the back of the chair, and take a seat. "I half expected to have to wait to be recognized by a mid-tier goon visiting his honey again. How's Vincent doing, he still with the family?" ||
  112. [2016-02-13 22:35:28] <Antioch|GM> ((He died. Over a month ago. In the Auswahlen attack. That was Burn Notice's uncle. You know all these things. You may want to change that statement.))
  113. [2016-02-13 22:35:45] <Bel|Dags> ((That I would.))
  114. [2016-02-13 22:35:56] <Bel|Dags> ((REDACT))
  115. [2016-02-13 22:37:49] <Bel|Dags> "Oh, Burn Notice, you shouldn't have! I didn't know you cared." I shed my coat, hanging it on the back of the chair, and take a seat. "I half expected to have to wait to be recognized again. You have someone scrutinizing the guest lists, or do I have a picture in the employee training manuals?" ||
  116. [2016-02-13 22:39:49] <Antioch|GM> "The former," he says.
  117. [2016-02-13 22:40:44] <Antioch|GM> "Whatever it is you want," he says, sounding weary, "make it snappy. I gotta fly out in about three and a half hours." ||
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  119. [2016-02-13 22:48:31] <Bel|Dags> "Hey now, that doesn't seem like a 'snappy' sort of time schedule." I grab a hunk of bread and take a bite. "Excefft of courff, if ouo afe a-" I take a second to swallow, "of course, unless you have some work to get done before then. Strategic decisions to make off a couple crates of photographs, maybe?" ||
  120. [2016-02-13 22:49:35] <Antioch|GM> "Let's skip the twisty talk and just get to the point," he mutters, exasperated.
  121. [2016-02-13 22:49:43] <Antioch|GM> "I have a funeral to attend." ||
  122. [2016-02-13 22:50:37] <Bel|Dags> "Nobody ever wants the twisty talk," I mutter, before leaning in.
  123. [2016-02-13 22:52:08] <Bel|Dags> "Listen, for the last few months, the HPIA and the Borgata have had a deal, right? Information for protection. Except that's the most privileged fuckin' deal in this city, so we made it fair by just feeding you our entire unfiltered stream of data."
  124. [2016-02-13 22:54:50] <Bel|Dags> "I have zero idea how you've been dealing with that, but my guess is 'not well', or at least, 'not efficiently', so I'm gonna propose a new deal. We keep the protection. You don't get backstage access; instead, you can pay discount rates on front-row access, you dig? First to the trough, nice, shiny, and typed up on a single piece of paper.
  125. [2016-02-13 22:55:54] <Bel|Dags> "We can do a monthly fee or we can do a case-by-case alert, whatever floats your boat, yeah?" ||
  126. [2016-02-13 22:57:10] <Antioch|GM> "So, instead of full access to your documentation, you just give us the cliffs notes?"
  127. [2016-02-13 22:57:21] <Antioch|GM> He sighs, taking a sip of water.
  128. [2016-02-13 22:57:33] <Antioch|GM> "Why does this cost more, exactly?" ||
  129. [2016-02-13 23:01:33] <Bel|Dags> "Why does gas cost more than dinosaur shits?" I take a sip of water. "Those shipping crates of photos and scrawled testimonies? Somebody's gotta dig through 'em, get the good stuff out, and put it on that pretty piece of paper. You'd be paying us to do that, instead of Johnny 'Tight Lips' and Jimmy The Squealer out back." ||
  130. [2016-02-13 23:02:59] <Antioch|GM> "Can you at least make up less shitty gangster names?"
  131. [2016-02-13 23:04:14] <Antioch|GM> "Whatever. We'll try it your way for a month. Reports every week. Summary of whatever comes in, and a carbon copy of everything you send to the PRT."
  132. [2016-02-13 23:04:51] <Antioch|GM> "I figure we can send you guys another hand in the office. You could use the help, and we could use the assurance that you aren't cooking the books."
  133. [2016-02-13 23:05:12] <Antioch|GM> His tone and demeanor seem to imply that he's not about to take any shit. ||
  134. [2016-02-13 23:07:57] * soulpelt| is now known as soulpelt|sleep
  135. [2016-02-13 23:12:37] <Bel|Dags> "See, now that's some tricky business you're stepping in. You get a man on the inside, then Blackjack wants one and then Witchhunt gets uppity, Dead Man's Hand throws a shit fit, PRT cracks down on business..." I gesture placatingly.
  136. [2016-02-13 23:14:40] <Bel|Dags> "Listen, that office is as close as this city gets to a neutral zone, capische? There are some damn confidential things that need to happen to keep that rent paid, and some thug hanging out in the front room don't make that easy.
  137. [2016-02-13 23:16:38] <Bel|Dags> "Tell you what, let's run it my way for a few weeks, pro bono, my treat, we keep it an easy deal like we got it now except you don't have to do diddly squat. In a couple weeks, you like it, we can talk cash, and you got problems, you come down and we'll talk." ||
  138. [2016-02-13 23:20:22] <Antioch|GM> "I don't think you'll have any issue with the guy I have in mind."
  139. [2016-02-13 23:21:39] <Antioch|GM> "Not much of a... heh, thug, and with some pretty tenuous connections to us." ||
  140. [2016-02-13 23:31:08] <Bel|Dags> I lean back and turn to one of the Khandhas copies at my shoulders. "Can you believe this guy?"
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  143. [2016-02-13 23:32:38] <Bel|Dags> Turning back, I say, "Clearly you're feeling stressed out, I get it, it's been a tough few weeks for all of us, we can commiserate over a bottle of something when you're back if you want, but I'm trying to do this thing as a favor for you, yeah? You're paying Joey Camaro to look at pictures of license plates instead of roughing up bagel shop owners, all I'm
  144. [2016-02-13 23:32:38] <Bel|Dags> saying is we'll do his job for you so he can get back to selling weed to teens."
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  146. [2016-02-13 23:33:51] <Bel|Dags> "Flip side of that, of course, is I get to walk out of here with no new deal if I want. Some punk getting nailed to my office door? I'm not sure I want to deal with that, office is crowded enough as it is." ||
  147. [2016-02-13 23:35:50] <Antioch|GM> "You'll have our guy there, or the old deal stands."
  148. [2016-02-13 23:36:03] <Antioch|GM> "A trial period, like you said."
  149. [2016-02-13 23:36:27] <Antioch|GM> "Maybe you'll even get along."
  150. [2016-02-13 23:36:48] <Antioch|GM> He eats an olive. ||
  151. [2016-02-13 23:37:54] <Bel|Dags> I sigh, swirling the water and wishing it was scotch.
  152. [2016-02-13 23:42:29] <Bel|Dags> "Alright then. Two week trial. He doesn't leave the main office, he gets in when the office opens and leaves when it closes. And he doesn't follow us out of the office, no way in hell you get to make me take a goon on a stakeout.
  153. [2016-02-13 23:42:45] <Bel|Dags> I grin. "And I get a free shot at him." ||
  154. [2016-02-13 23:46:24] * Pink|GM is now known as Pink
  155. [2016-02-13 23:49:03] <Antioch|GM> "Works," he says, spitting out the pit. "You'll see him on Monday."
  156. [2016-02-13 23:49:10] <Antioch|GM> ((It's Friday, today.))
  157. [2016-02-13 23:49:13] <Antioch|GM> ||
  158. [2016-02-13 23:59:25] <Bel|Dags> "Hmph." I lean back in my seat. "So that settles that." I poke my crust of bread absentmindedly, then grin. "You said you had a flight to catch? Some of us are still on lunch break, any chance we could grab a few orders of that shrimp paella? To go, I know it makes your guys nervous to have us hanging around." I motion to the Two Stooges at his shoulders,
  159. [2016-02-13 23:59:25] <Bel|Dags> doing their best to look like shaven gorillas. ||
  160. [2016-02-14 00:00:49] <Antioch|GM> "There are waiters for that," he says, getting up and pushing his chair in. It's clear he doesn't have any desire to continue talking, or being in your presence. ||
  161. [2016-02-14 00:05:02] <Bel|Dags> "Then send one over on your way out, why don't ya. Good flight, interesting life, and all that." I maintain eye contact as long as I can, easygoing grin still stretched across my face. Not many people get to needle one of the top 10 most dangerous public capes in the city on the regular. Just one of those unwritten job perks.
  162. [2016-02-14 00:05:06] <Bel|Dags> ||
  163. [2016-02-14 00:16:39] <Antioch|GM> One of the waiters stops by, shortly after.
  164. [2016-02-14 00:16:46] <Antioch|GM> "Shrimp paella, was it?" ||
  165. [2016-02-14 00:18:24] <Bel|Dags> "Yessir, two orders, to go if you can manage it. Places to be and all." ||
  166. [2016-02-14 00:23:37] <Firlz|Khandhas> At that clone-left can't help but snort. Given the reciprocation of Burn Notice's earlier mention about being in a hurry.||
  167. [2016-02-14 00:27:17] <Antioch|GM> He nods. Several awkward minutes pass, as you sit at the table, waiting for your food to arrive. ||
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  169. [2016-02-14 00:28:02] <Bel|Dags> I wave for Khandhas to pull up a chair and make himself comfortable. No point having him loom now that there's no one to loom over. ||
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  171. [2016-02-14 00:30:44] <Firlz|Khandhas> One of the clones sits to join him. "One and Three seem decidedly finished. Four is on the way. Did you actually get where you needed with two?"||
  172. [2016-02-14 00:37:57] <Bel|Dags> "Eh. Don't settle down on One yet. I got close enough on Two and Three that he might want to prove a point." I continue looking like a cat in the cream. God, that look of disgust. I'll be treasuring that for a while. ||
  173. [2016-02-14 00:40:18] <Firlz|Khandhas> Fair enough. "Think Pizza-Cutter is gonna end up top dog? Or are we looking at a full family feud over daddy's estate?"||
  174. [2016-02-14 00:45:20] <Antioch|GM> The waiter returns, two take-out boxes of paella for you - and the bill. It's face-down on top of one of the boxes. ||
  175. [2016-02-14 00:47:24] <Bel|Dags> I lean over to pick it up. "Had to mess with him, couldn't get it comped, even..." I grumble, reading how much I owe. ||
  176. [2016-02-14 00:49:29] <Antioch|GM> Huh. Zero dollars and zero cents. Scrawled below the total, where the tip should be, in messy handwriting and blue pen, it reads, "You mess with me, I mess with you. No harm, no foul. We'll be in touch." ||
  177. [2016-02-14 00:51:09] <Bel|Dags> "That sassy sonuvabitch." I chuckle and grab up the boxes, putting on my coat. "Alright, let's get outta here before they figure out some way to screw us over." ||
  178. [2016-02-14 00:51:44] <Bel|Dags> -||
  179. [2016-02-14 00:52:23] <Antioch|GM> ((Feel free to continue to chat, set up groundwork for future goals / sessions, and call the session when you feel comfortable doing so - It's getting late for me, and I've got to get some rest.))
  180. [2016-02-14 00:52:25] <Bel|Dags> I leave a few bills on the table for the busboy, then toss a piece of bread in a box before leaving. ||
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  182. [2016-02-14 00:53:32] <Firlz|Khandhas> ||Pause||
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  220. [2016-02-14 16:05:04] <Firlz|Khandhas> ||unpause||
  221. [2016-02-14 16:05:08] <Firlz|Khandhas> ...
  222. [2016-02-14 16:06:12] <Firlz|Khandhas> The two selves in the restaurant flank Dags like they were when entering. The self in 'hiding' leaves position to join the other two selves outside in sweeping the perimeter and ensuring nobody is following and nothing else of note is occurring.||
  223. [2016-02-14 16:08:22] <Bel|Dags> ...
  224. [2016-02-14 16:10:59] <Bel|Dags> I make my way back to the car, idly guessing at passersby's intentions and backstories, but remaining silent until we're seated and driving away. ||
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  226. [2016-02-14 16:13:44] <Firlz|Khandhas> When we approach the car one of the two selves flanking Dags breaks off while the remaining one joins him in the car. The remaining selves look for an out of the way place to pop themselves. Returning the self in the car to my own body.
  227. [2016-02-14 16:14:45] <Firlz|Khandhas> Once inside the car I ask "So, think the goon they're sticking in the office will be a cape? I can't say I'm all that familiar with Borgata's entire lineup. Especially if they are grabbing someone from the main headquarters to fill in the ranks."||
  228. [2016-02-14 16:19:34] <Bel|Dags> "I'd bet money on it, but nobody'd bet against me. 'S probably gonna be Guzhang, he's an audio kinetic, steals sound and can replay it later. Not the worst thing, just gonna have to do more lunch business."
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  230. [2016-02-14 16:23:22] <Bel|Dags> I turn back towards the office. "Figure I don't need to tell you to keep all this close to the vest?" ||
  231. [2016-02-14 16:25:18] <Firlz|Khandhas> Smiling "Sorry, I'm just a bunch of goons, keep WHAT close to the vest?"||
  232. [2016-02-14 16:27:08] <Bel|Dags> "Good man. Want to head back to the office, eat this lunch, unwind a bit? I know you've been... busy." ||
  233. [2016-02-14 16:27:47] * soulpelt|fud is now known as soulpelt|
  234. [2016-02-14 16:31:35] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Not sure if this was the best afternoon of my life, or the worst. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise acute radiation poisoning is the WORST."||
  235. [2016-02-14 16:33:30] <Bel|Dags> "I'll do my best not to prove you wrong. You good now?" ||
  236. [2016-02-14 16:35:49] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Yeah, I probably owe a favor or two for it but there won't be any long-term consequences. In case you haven't managed to get the exact news, Good King made it back, I actually flew back with him. Wink was kicking last I saw him, though one of the escape-pod tinker's ships got smacked hard by behemoth. Don't know if he was on that one yet, though I
  237. [2016-02-14 16:35:50] <Firlz|Khandhas> doubt it."||
  238. [2016-02-14 16:36:36] <Bel|Dags> I make a mental note. "Always good to get info straight from the source."
  239. [2016-02-14 16:39:42] <Bel|Dags> I pull up in front of the office, engine idling. "So, what'dya say? I've got some Glenfiddich saved up for a special occasion, now's a good a time as any..." ||
  240. [2016-02-14 16:41:25] <Firlz|Khandhas> That is too tempting to pass up. "Deal, maybe you can fill me on on anything exciting that happened while we were gone? Haven't even had a chance to read the news yet." and honestly he's as good a guy as any to bring the next thing up with "Also I've got some ideas percolating if you're up for being a sounding board."||
  241. [2016-02-14 16:42:39] <Bel|Dags> "Sure thing." I kill the engine and step out. "We can talk in the office, everyone should still be out for now." ||
  242. [2016-02-14 16:43:17] <Firlz|Khandhas> I join him, offering to carry the food while he grabs the booze and get us set up.||
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  247. [2016-02-14 16:50:52] <Bel|Dags> I give a little wave to Maia, already back with her carry out bag, on he way to my office, then close the door.
  248. [2016-02-14 16:53:23] <Bel|Dags> "What ideas you got bouncing around upstairs?" I ask, grabbing the bottle down off the top shelf and passing a glass across the desk. ||
  249. [2016-02-14 16:56:05] <Firlz|Khandhas> "The Good King mentioned something when I met up with him before the fight. He thinks my powers are wasted working alone. While it isn't like I disagree... I also feel like it isn't as if there is any faction I would want to sign up with in this town."
  250. [2016-02-14 16:57:21] <Bel|Dags> "I'm hurt, but go on." I fill my glass and pass the scotch. ||
  251. [2016-02-14 16:58:32] <Firlz|Khandhas> I smile and take a sip "Hey, I work here for a reason. I DO like you guys. But it isn't like you have a chance to really put the screws to people when it's needed in a more direct manner."
  252. [2016-02-14 16:59:41] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Multiple bodies in perfect coordination, assuming I have enough time between engagements, and a safe location to start from an essentially endless swarm to throw at someone."
  253. [2016-02-14 17:00:39] <Firlz|Khandhas> "potentially limitless equipment and ammunition... At least if I get past some weirdness up front."
  254. [2016-02-14 17:00:50] <Bel|Dags> "Well, wouldn't we get that capability with you on board?"
  255. [2016-02-14 17:01:23] <Bel|Dags> I take a sip. "Only reason we don't do offense is we don't have any. Wouldn't mind tweaking a few noses just to show we could." ||
  256. [2016-02-14 17:01:25] <Firlz|Khandhas> "You guy would WANT that? Kind of ruins the whole 'neutral zone' vibe you've got going on. And I have to say it's NICE to know there a neutral faction"
  257. [2016-02-14 17:01:52] <Firlz|Khandhas> (redact my last thing I thought I saw ||)
  258. [2016-02-14 17:02:04] <Bel|Dags> (No no, it's good)
  259. [2016-02-14 17:02:38] <Firlz|Khandhas> "I can't imagine actually getting involved directly in the mess of this city is a good idea."
  260. [2016-02-14 17:02:41] <Firlz|Khandhas> I continue
  261. [2016-02-14 17:03:15] <Firlz|Khandhas> "You have the advantage right now that the white-hats don't have any reason to actually try and push you to their side, since you're essentially rogues and do good work at it."
  262. [2016-02-14 17:03:29] <Bel|Dags> "Neutral's no good if you can't stop the baddies from hitting you. You saw today, they don't care if we're not happy, worst comes to worst they can just march down here and shoot up the place.
  263. [2016-02-14 17:03:51] <Bel|Dags> "I'm good with a gun, but enough guns and we all go down."
  264. [2016-02-14 17:03:55] <Bel|Dags> ||
  265. [2016-02-14 17:05:41] <Firlz|Khandhas> I sip again. chewing a bit while I think. This stuff really IS good. That's just not fair, why does one of the big badguy factions get to have such good food?
  266. [2016-02-14 17:07:47] <Firlz|Khandhas> "But isn't the veneer the only thing keeping the PRT from basically strongarming you over to their side? So long as you're ostensibly 'neutral' they look like assholes for coming after you for selling info to villains. But if you get active in the game... That subtle PR protection might go away..." I'm probably rambling slightly but it's also a goo
  267. [2016-02-14 17:07:47] <Firlz|Khandhas> d segue.
  268. [2016-02-14 17:09:25] <Firlz|Khandhas> "So considering my need for a 'team' apparently, how do you feel about something a bit more attenuated. Maybe not so much assassin-for-hire, but if there happens to be someone pushing the boundaries too far I don't have a problem making them hurt for it. Its why I went after witchhunt."
  269. [2016-02-14 17:10:06] <Firlz|Khandhas> I can't help but crinkle my nose at the aftermath of that one, what were the chances of a freaking dust explosion anyway? unlikely in my book.
  270. [2016-02-14 17:10:10] <Bel|Dags> I smile. "'S what I was gonna propose anyways. You're not wrong about that plausible deniability."
  271. [2016-02-14 17:10:51] <Bel|Dags> I dig into the paella. "Balance a business on a needle, y'get burned sometimes." ||
  272. [2016-02-14 17:13:27] <Firlz|Khandhas> I nod in agreement "Part of the reason I've been as hesitant as I have been, trying to pick my battles. But, well, it's pretty hard to figure out which ones to hit when everything's so chaotic. Even moreso for those of us who haven't been in this town forever."||
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  274. [2016-02-14 17:18:10] <Bel|Dags> ...
  275. [2016-02-14 17:19:15] <Bel|Dags> "Then seems like a partnership made in heaven to me." I offer a hand to shake.
  276. [2016-02-14 17:19:38] <Bel|Dags> "Long as we balance it out, should be a solid deal." ||
  277. [2016-02-14 17:21:55] <Firlz|Khandhas> I take his hand "Then we'll just have to keep things in balance. I suppose."
  278. [2016-02-14 17:25:05] <Firlz|Khandhas> it occurs to me that maybe the bossmen should be here if we're actually going to strike this arrangement "I should probably make it a point to chat with Haddon and Kusakabe if I'm going to be doing this though. Even with plausible deniability... There's no reason some random thinker can't figure out the game, and since they might be caught in the b
  279. [2016-02-14 17:25:05] <Firlz|Khandhas> acklash they should have some input. Is Kusakabe up and about yet? I know he's been in the hospital, but I felt it wasn't really my place to pry, so i've been avoiding paying attention to anything remotely related to him."||
  280. [2016-02-14 17:27:11] <Bel|Dags> I play with my glass. "He's... doing better. But since he's out on his own, we're trying to keep him out of the firing line."
  281. [2016-02-14 17:28:07] <Bel|Dags> "Far as Haddon's concerned, you're welcome to hang out and wait for him, but I have zero idea when he'll be back. Could be until Monday. I'll talk to him about it when I pass on the score.
  282. [2016-02-14 17:30:02] <Bel|Dags> "I feel like I should mention this, if we're gonna do this, I'm gonna need you to clear those hits with us first. Whether or not we told you to, enough people get the idea that we're the ones making buildings going up in smoke, and we'll be there like that." I snap my fingers. ||
  283. [2016-02-14 17:34:49] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Shouldn't be too much of a problem. If I'm going in to the hilt on someone I'd want to know they deserved it first anyway. And with my power it's much easier to plan for the big jobs than it is to hold back." Behemoth showed that just fine. even with the problems that happened, figuring out a way to drop a bomb at his feet with disposable bodies w
  284. [2016-02-14 17:34:49] <Firlz|Khandhas> as far easier than trying to 'capture' witchhunt without killing them.
  285. [2016-02-14 17:36:14] <Firlz|Khandhas> "On a similar note, I think it might be a good idea if I approach the more white-hat factions to offer them a means of projecting force in discrete cases. If I'm seen as a hired gun for more than one group, it's harder for them to pin anything on you guys right?"||
  286. [2016-02-14 17:36:28] <Firlz|Khandhas> -||
  287. [2016-02-14 17:36:56] <Firlz|Khandhas> I continue "And if they happen to want a target hit that mister Dags personally feels deserves it... Well that's just coincidence, right?"||
  288. [2016-02-14 17:41:31] <Bel|Dags> "Who'd you approach? The People? The Watch? I get the draw of more cash, but I'll pay you extra to keep this exclusive, if that's what you're after. There's no way they have a big enough picture of what's happening to order a decent hit." ||
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  290. [2016-02-14 17:44:23] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Well if The Good King has anyone causing him trouble, I'd certainly be happy to take those problems off his hands. But I was really thinking more the PRT or PD. Their job is much easier if everyone at the scene is already hurting for them to bring in right? I mean fuck it wouldn't be THAT hard to find myself in an 'aggressive disagreement'" at tha
  291. [2016-02-14 17:44:23] <Firlz|Khandhas> t I make deliberate air quotes "with drug dealers on the street. And if PD happens to get a call about a disturbance and pick the guys up then they're just doing their jobs right?"||
  292. [2016-02-14 17:47:44] <Bel|Dags> "Something tells me that Director Mendez would as soon put you in a cell as hire you as a hitman. If you want to do it on your own, fine, but maybe don't tell the cops you're doing it?" ||
  293. [2016-02-14 17:51:05] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Bah, she sounds like a massive spoilsport. Plus, how am I supposed to hand over any capes I happen to capture during a hit over if she won't even cooperate. She's not one of those do-goody people who thinks she can keep this town from falling to shit without getting in the mud is she?"||
  294. [2016-02-14 17:53:43] <Bel|Dags> "'s more like she won't pay you. You give'er a call, she'll have a truck out there to pick up whoever you dropped, sure as pigshit." ||
  295. [2016-02-14 17:56:26] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Friendly relations is more important than payment from them. If she's willing to play ball on just pointing the gun at targets, and is willing to let me hand criminals over to her without taking me in as well, that's enough for me. I mean, realistically, when hunting baddies it shouldn't be THAT hard to nab stash-cash and whatnot when money is an
  296. [2016-02-14 17:56:26] <Firlz|Khandhas> issue."||
  297. [2016-02-14 17:58:09] <Bel|Dags> "Listen, whatever you've got going now? Keep doing it. It's workin' well enough as is, I figure." ||
  298. [2016-02-14 18:05:13] <Firlz|Khandhas> I can't help but shake my head slightly "What i've been doing up until now kept me from helping during the Auswahlen fight. Kept me from taking down 14K. My current methods work fine for helping ME, but if I want to start actually putting hurt on the real bad fuckers I need to step up my game."
  299. [2016-02-14 18:05:14] <Firlz|Khandhas> ...
  300. [2016-02-14 18:08:50] <Firlz|Khandhas> I think back to the behemoth fight, and to the two auswahlen capes in huangtian territory. "I managed to save some mover because I could afford to wear a damn lightning-rod designed by Forgemaster to the fight. I managed to help alexandria prevent behemoth from making it to the hospital because I could afford to lose a clone as a suicide bomber at
  301. [2016-02-14 18:08:51] <Firlz|Khandhas> his feet." I look Dags in the eyes "If it's just about tweaking a nose hear or there, sure, what I was doing might work. But if I'm going to do MORE than that I need to find other people with tools I can use more effectively than anyone else."
  302. [2016-02-14 18:09:08] <Firlz|Khandhas> ||
  303. [2016-02-14 18:15:33] <Bel|Dags> "Yeah, yeah, make my job harder why don'tcha." I wave my glass. "You do what you think you need t'do."
  304. [2016-02-14 18:16:36] <Bel|Dags> I think back on what Brigid had said in her outburst, about how I could do good but don't.
  305. [2016-02-14 18:16:46] <Bel|Dags> Maybe Khandhas can be my force for good.
  306. [2016-02-14 18:16:51] <Bel|Dags> I take another drink. ||
  307. [2016-02-14 18:21:17] <Firlz|Khandhas> I shrug a bit and continue eating before remembering "I'm likely gonna have a chat with The Good King soon. Don't tell me if it's better to keep it on the down-low, obviously, but is Kusa there? If he is it shouldn't be much trouble for me to keep him company while I'm taking care of whatever other business I'm there on. You guys are obviously busy
  308. [2016-02-14 18:21:17] <Firlz|Khandhas> enough so it's no skin off my nose to keep an eye on him when I'm in the area."||
  309. [2016-02-14 18:30:18] <Bel|Dags> "Yeah, he's there. I wouldn't mind the extra eyes on him, if it's no trouble." ||
  310. [2016-02-14 18:34:16] <Firlz|Khandhas> "Well, extra eyes is part of my schtick. So I certainly wouldn't call it trouble. Heck, if he enjoys plotting and planning another perspective on how to approach a target could always be helpful."||
  311. [2016-02-14 18:38:52] * Dalenacio is now known as Dal|ZzZ
  312. [2016-02-14 18:40:31] <Firlz|Khandhas> -||
  313. [2016-02-14 18:42:00] <Firlz|Khandhas> Without much else to talk about I finish eating and thank Dags for the meal. After that I head home and take the rest of the day off. I can start making some calls tomorrow and get a game plan together. No more sitting on the backfoot if I can avoid it. No more sitting on the sidelines. Time to actually make some changes in this town.||||
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