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Doctor Malsyn wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:47 am Vincent
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Vincent glances at his watch.

Let's see what I think of her first...
Insight: 27
Hell, if I didn't know that was bullshit I would've figured his lie out too.
Renee started walking back the way she came. Her step was hurried and purposeful. She was trying to give off a sense of confidence, but her jerky movements while retrieving her phone gave away her internal struggle. She pulled up her email to read something, a shiver running down her back as the young specter pressed in close to read. Apparently she had received an email asking about the status of a prisoner release. Her signature had been used on a temporary prison release and was inquiring about the conditions of the inmates and when they were to be back.

"How the #$%@ did you get the signatures for this? I know I didn't give it to you." Renee said aloud. "What the hell do I do now? It would probably take me two hours to confirm the forgery, the illegal prisoner release, and the false operation on a normal day. However two of the three #@@es I need to do that are on vacation. The prick probably planned it that way. Figured he could cover everything up before anyone could have noticed." She cursed a few more times to herself.

"And if I cancelled the raid before I got proof and it turns out I am wrong... Jesus. I am going to need a lawyer before today is out."
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jmucchiello wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2020 5:13 am
nowhereman2 wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:34 am Omar leaned forward, clearly interested. "Tell me, can you get into that room the way she can?"
"Well, of course, we acquired out abilities at the same time. So I don't know what you might need either of us for here. We're better at getting in and out of places. Not sitting around watching places. But we don't have time to get into the specifics. We should have this conversation somewhere else. You ever of a Detective Frank Breckenridge? Not sure what department he works for. But I have knowledge that he's interested in taking down your games here."
Omar's affable demeanor changed quite suddenly. His shoulders tensed and he sits up straight. "How exactly do you know Detective Frank Breckenridge?"
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"Believe me, I'm no fan of the detective. He had me kidnapped from jail to send into your base to find out information. I have no intention of getting him that information. I don't even want to know it. But he also plans to raid this location. All I want from you is help getting some kind of tracker out of my system in exchange for when the raid is supposed to happen."
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The girl's spirit followed along behind the woman at Vincent's silently prompting, making note of where it seemed the raid was getting staged to begin.

In the arena, there was a whisper of noise that only one man could hear."Just like you cooked me, right Kreutz?" Yet no matter how much he turned around to find it, there was nothing there.

Vincent himself kept any expression off his face as he stared down the last person besides him at the table. It all came down to this next hand.
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jmucchiello wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 4:25 am "Believe me, I'm no fan of the detective. He had me kidnapped from jail to send into your base to find out information. I have no intention of getting him that information. I don't even want to know it. But he also plans to raid this location. All I want from you is help getting some kind of tracker out of my system in exchange for when the raid is supposed to happen."
Omar sat impassive for a moment. Then he said, "I have a person for this exact thing. Give me a moment." He pulled out a phone, the first you have seen in this casino, and texted someone. A moment passes.

[Secret Check: 15 vs 19]

Omar's phone buzzes, and he looks down for a moment. "My employer is interested in what you have to say, but I am supposed to vet you before you go before him. You said you were in prison. What were you there for?"
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Doctor Malsyn wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 4:34 am Vincent
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The girl's spirit followed along behind the woman at Vincent's silently prompting, making note of where it seemed the raid was getting staged to begin.

In the arena, there was a whisper of noise that only one man could hear."Just like you cooked me, right Kreutz?" Yet no matter how much he turned around to find it, there was nothing there.

Vincent himself kept any expression off his face as he stared down the last person besides him at the table. It all came down to this next hand.
Renee was on the phone. "Do you think it is possible to stall the raid for today without risking it?" Pause. "I might have found a problem that would invalidate our warrant. It might be nothing, but I need to be sure before we go in." Another pause. "Two weeks? We might not have two weeks." She stopped walking forward and began tapping her foot in a frustrated manner. "I am not getting cold feet. I just want these guys dead to rights. I don't want some defense lawyer tearing me apart in the courtroom." A longer pause as she stopped moving. "Fine. I will see what I can do by myself. I will be there before the raid begins. Remember, everything by the book."

Meanwhile Kreutz began to look around for the position of the phantom voice. Massari continued her workout routine, meanwhile Scylla was staring at Kreutz. "What are you looking at?"

"Thou hast seen a ghost? Tsk Tsk Tsk. Tis oft a bad omen afore a battle to see with thine own eyes the faces of those you have slain."

"What the hell do you know about anything!?" Kreutz said, shaken and angry.

"Just that all warriors see the shades of their slain afore they join them on the fields of Hades."

Kreutz shivered.

[Random roll: 8 vs 8; Second roll: 11 vs 11; Third Roll: 12 vs 8 (friggin finally)]

As your hand turns over you find that you and your opponent have the same hand, full house. However you have 8s full of aces, while he has 7s full of jacks. [You win $3000]
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nowhereman2 wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 5:21 am Omar's phone buzzes, and he looks down for a moment. "My employer is interested in what you have to say, but I am supposed to vet you before you go before him. You said you were in prison. What were you there for?"
Breach laughs. "That is a minor problem. Meeting your boss or bosses was my mission. I'd prefer not to know who's in charge so I don't have the information Breckenridge sent me here for. If everything goes sour, I don't want anyone, particularly your boss, thinking I spilled those beans.

"As for jail, theft. I break into vaults and safes for hire. Last job I did happened to include Lana, who slapped a power inhibitor on me and left me to be found in the vault. Did I mention she likes to one up me at inappropriate times sometimes?"
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The man gathers up his winnings without so much as a smile, merely taking it as a quiet fact that he was bound to win eventually. Hell, most of it was actually all his own skill. Now isn't that a testament. Chips in hand, he takes to wandering around the casino floor some more, on the lookout for anything interesting or just to relocate Breach.

Outside the girl stuck by the woman on the chance that anything new and pertinent comes to light. Inside the arena whenever Kreutz looked to be getting just a little too comfortable, a figment would dart out the corner of his eye or strange half-sounds would occur. The Hangman would bide his time by tormenting his prey little by little, until the cameras were finally rolling.
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jmucchiello wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 9:04 am
nowhereman2 wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 5:21 am Omar's phone buzzes, and he looks down for a moment. "My employer is interested in what you have to say, but I am supposed to vet you before you go before him. You said you were in prison. What were you there for?"
Breach laughs. "That is a minor problem. Meeting your boss or bosses was my mission. I'd prefer not to know who's in charge so I don't have the information Breckenridge sent me here for. If everything goes sour, I don't want anyone, particularly your boss, thinking I spilled those beans.

"As for jail, theft. I break into vaults and safes for hire. Last job I did happened to include Lana, who slapped a power inhibitor on me and left me to be found in the vault. Did I mention she likes to one up me at inappropriate times sometimes?"
[Secret roll: 23 vs 28]

"I am well aware of Lana's more difficult personality issues.", Omar began. "She likes to show up here every so often as well. I am more interested in your relationship with the detective. You were kidnapped from prison and sent here to get the name of the boss here? Am I correct?
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Doctor Malsyn wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 9:13 am Vincent
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The man gathers up his winnings without so much as a smile, merely taking it as a quiet fact that he was bound to win eventually. Hell, most of it was actually all his own skill. Now isn't that a testament. Chips in hand, he takes to wandering around the casino floor some more, on the lookout for anything interesting or just to relocate Breach.

Outside the girl stuck by the woman on the chance that anything new and pertinent comes to light. Inside the arena whenever Kreutz looked to be getting just a little too comfortable, a figment would dart out the corner of his eye or strange half-sounds would occur. The Hangman would bide his time by tormenting his prey little by little, until the cameras were finally rolling.
Kreutz continued to become more agitated as whispers of long dead foes began to torment him, whispering the dark things he had done. Telling him about the things that were waiting for him when he passed on from this world.

The guards from a few minutes ago were not particularly secretive about their escorting of Breach below. The warding still prevented you from seeing the inner working of the place. You could still activate the spell you had given her this morning, but it was unclear if making her invisible would be advantageous at this point.

[Secret roll]

As you get up from your table, carefully pocketing your winnings, the door to the front opens behind you, shutting closed behind you. No one is apparently there.

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Insight:10
Knew I'd roll low there.


Vincent frowned, just slightly. Things moving on their own with no apparent source was meant to be his thing, he felt at a loss when not even his third eye was picking up anything usual.
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nowhereman2 wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:53 am "I am well aware of Lana's more difficult personality issues.", Omar began. "She likes to show up here every so often as well. I am more interested in your relationship with the detective. You were kidnapped from prison and sent here to get the name of the boss here? Am I correct?
"Let's be very clear here. I have no relationship with Breckenridge," Breach says. "I met him once. He was waving papers around saying I'd have my sentence reduced if I did this dangerous thing. Fuck him. There was no real choice. Well, except there was. I'm making the other choice right here. I'm telling you trouble is coming. But yeah. Apparently they know all about you guys except for who's the folks at the top. Well screw that. Let them figure that out for themselves."
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Doctor Malsyn wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2020 4:22 am Vincent
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Insight:10
Knew I'd roll low there.


Vincent frowned, just slightly. Things moving on their own with no apparent source was meant to be his thing, he felt at a loss when not even his third eye was picking up anything usual.
While your third eye saw nothing unusual, you do notice that one or two people in the casino area have eyes that are following something. It is not enough to pinpoint what they are looking at, but something about the ability (and your prior experience with a similar issue) suggests that whatever is preventing you from seeing it relies on something in people rather than simply stopping the light given off.
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jmucchiello wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:16 am
nowhereman2 wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:53 am "I am well aware of Lana's more difficult personality issues.", Omar began. "She likes to show up here every so often as well. I am more interested in your relationship with the detective. You were kidnapped from prison and sent here to get the name of the boss here? Am I correct?
"Let's be very clear here. I have no relationship with Breckenridge," Breach says. "I met him once. He was waving papers around saying I'd have my sentence reduced if I did this dangerous thing. Fuck him. There was no real choice. Well, except there was. I'm making the other choice right here. I'm telling you trouble is coming. But yeah. Apparently they know all about you guys except for who's the folks at the top. Well screw that. Let them figure that out for themselves."
[Secret roll: 9 vs 20]

Omar's phone buzzes again and he looks at his text messages. "Well... that's troubling. So you say you are working against Detective Breckenridge? Say I believe you. What are you suggesting you do? First, when specifically will the raid happen? Who were you told about among the higher ups here? In short... tell me what you know. All of it. Leave nothing out. I will know."
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Breach shakes her head. "Let's start with 'say you don't believe me.' If I'm lying, what's my angle? If I'm with the idiot detective, why tell you that I even know him? Why bring him up at all? Why warn you a raid is coming? Oh, if you don't think a raid is coming. Fine, I'll just leave you to be raided. No skin off my nose if you stay here and let yourself be raided.

"But a raid is coming. I've already told you most of the details. Breckenridge gave a big fat ZERO amount of intel about this place except that its address, people gamble here, it will be raided, and asked that I find out who is in charge. I was literally sent on spying mission with absolutely no prep. People robbing convenience stores do more prep.

"Me? I want to get the hell out of here before the raid because I suspect it will be a 'shoot first, sort out who works where in the morgue' kind of raid. But I can't leave while I can be tracked by Breckenridge. So I'm hoping, in exchange for this information, you can help me get rid of a tracker floating among the nanites inside me. The only thing I've left out is the time of the raid. I have to have at least one hole card, you understand.

"Now, there is one other thing I've left out up until now. I'm not the only person here working for Breckenridge. But I'm soloing right now. I will not tie my fate to theirs and vice versa. Just tell everyone to be mum about who's in charge and they will not succeed. Frankly, of the three of them, I don't think two of them care. Those two have signed up to get in your arena. The other one. Well, I'm kinda sorry to doublecross him. But we aren't partners. I never met the guy before two days ago. Massasi and Scalya are the fighters. You probably saw them in the arena on the security feeds. Vincent is a spiritualist. He talks to ghosts but he can't see anything down here on this level. You're blocking him somehow. You mentioned you had some anti-magic stuff earlier.

"But all of four of us were 'hired' by Breckenridge is the same dubious manner. So I doubt any of the other three have any loyalty to Frank either. But I'm not vouching for them. They are responsible for themselves and I'm not responsible for them.

"Remember, I'm telling you not to tell me who is in charge. I don't want to know so that if all this goes tits up and I end up in Breckenridge's custody again, YOU and your boss will know I told him nothing. I've only got two years left on my sentence. It's not worth making enemies of you and your boss or bosses to shorten that sentence."
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