nyc ♔ i hope this isn't my last night

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WHO || Davin, Alice, Matt, Sawyer
WHAT || The Knights trace inexplicable messages being played on the radio
WHERE || NYC
WHEN || April 18th, 2015
HOW || Actionspam

Strange transmissions cutting into radio stations with no recognizable source. Mysterious messages in Shadowkind languages that no one's been able to decipher. And very few leads on where to go with all of this, except for a couple names of some of the random citizens who seem to have received the messages. It's hardly much to go on, but definitely an interesting mystery, that takes the small team into the heart of NYC. They arrange their flight to arrive after sundown, for Davin's sake, and he's pretty openly scornful about being assigned to what's likely a wild goose chase.

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[icouldbe_bess]

Well, let's find out. [ stopping a little ways away from the alley, she holds out her hand for the bunbun from... ] What's your name, anyway?

[incantatio]

[With only a moment of hesitation, she hands the rabbit over for inspection, still eyeing the mouth of the alley like she half expects the big guy to show up covered in blood any moment now.]

Sawyer... [Another pointed look that way.] And on a scale of one to ten, exactly how likely is he to kill that guy back there?

[icouldbe_bess]

Negative three. He said he won't. [ therefore he won't.

she inspects the toy carefully (search 20 total/spot 25 idr which one), careful to disable any traps that she may encounter (disable device 26) or just that annoying demo button it probably has. ] Come on, little monster, what makes you so special?

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[ the thing has a power switch and also a motion sensor to turn it on, and contains a library of stories and songs. she would also find, however, that it has a tiny fiber optic camera inside the thing's eyeball. ]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ once she finds it, she immediately stops peering at it, explaining her findings to matt and sawyer as she turns it over to face the ground. she doesn't seem to care that sawyer's not part of the team. ] Creepy furby has a nanny cam in the eyeball. The thing has a motion sensor, which is what I bet turns the camera on whenever someone walks past it. [ her nose wrinkles. ] Gross. So, weird subliminal messaging to buy the toy, that gets set it up somewhere in your house... and give whoever planned this a handy little view of that house. And when you leave, when it's empty.

[ she sighs heavily. ] When Davin's finished we should check to see if there have been any break ins lately -- and if they happened to have purchased a Bunbun, first.

[byrned]

And I'm guessing that shit isn't advertised on the box, right? I mean you can buy that sort of thing can't you? To keep an eye on the kids. But this is what, bit more creepy, right?

[icouldbe_bess]

Yeah, this is fucking vile. [ while they wait she's just going to gently text her brother to make sure he didn't actually buy this for her nephew. ]

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[ davin slinks up behind them, probably without any of them noticing, speaking up only when he's already standing there, hands in his pockets. ] Did you figure out what's so special about it?

[icouldbe_bess]

[ alice jumps and turns on him like FFS DUDE MANNERS! before grumbling: ] I'm going to get you a bell. [ grumbles over, she twists the bunbun so he can see it. ] There's a camera hidden in it's eye.

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Connected to what?

[icouldbe_bess]

[ she affixes him with a dry look, she's not a techie. ] It didn't say on the box. [ she's not a miracle worker either, okay. ] I'm not sure they can connect to this shit remotely from HQ. Did you get anything from what's-his-face?

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[ he looks chagrined a second, glancing at sawyer, uncertain about saying that much in front of her, but finally says: ] He... said his employer's nephew was dying of cancer, and the toy was supposed to be a birthday present for his last birthday ever.

[icouldbe_bess]

That's what he said in the store. Did he mention who his employer is?

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[ shh it'd been a long time i forgot what i already said, i'm amazing. ] Wouldn't say. Which seemed weird enough.

[icouldbe_bess]

[ her next question wants to be "is he alive??" but she'd told sawyer he would be so she's not going question him in front of her. IT'S A HARD LIFE.

she tsks. ] I was thinking they might be using it to case houses for break ins, but... the fact that he wouldn't change his story sounds creepily cult or mafia like. And no one is gonna steal from the mafia. In New York. That's suicidal.

[ she huffs. ]

[byrned]

Anybody suppose he might have been telling the truth?

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If he was, it sounds like we did the kid a favor.

[icouldbe_bess]

I wanna check the break in angle, you wanna chase down any more info on John Cena back there? See if you can find his boss? And his boss' possibly fictional nephew.

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[Sawyer is just going to stand there and watch this back and forth like she's at a tennis match before finally raising her hand.]

Yeah, hi. Sawyer. [Jerking a thumb at herself.] Hate to break this up while you guys are on a roll and all but... who are you people exactly?

[icouldbe_bess]

[ her lips purse, mildly irritated. new yorkers. ] Karthur Institute.

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[ he glances over at sawyer, looking her over with a frown ] We... handle situations like these.

[incantatio]

You... handle situations like, car radios telling people to go to a Toy Store and buy a Bunny... [Tone dry enough that it's hard to tell if she's being skeptical or just amused.] While she tazes people and you get told not to kill people? [A beat, then an aside to Alice.] Fully in support of the tazing though, just for the record.

[icouldbe_bess]

Yeah, that's pretty much our job. [ sometimes she gets stabbed by flying monkeys, it happens. ]

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You don't really think this sounds like the sort of things the cops are qualified for, do you?

[incantatio]

This is New York. I think there's a lot the cops aren't qualified to handle. [Hudson River, anyone?]

Mind if I tag along? [She nods at the bunny and adds.] The ominous 'you must not fail' kind of has me wanting to go where the rabbit goes.