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]

[ 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.

[icouldbe_bess]

[ alice looks at davin like ITS UR CALL, MISSION LEADER. she does know when to defer to the boss, even if she doesn't do it often. ]

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Are you going to be handy to keep around?

[incantatio]

[An eyebrow slowly arches, Sawyer showing with action rather than words as she sets her eyes on a nearby trash can. Extending a hand towards an empty soda cup, she whispers something and with ease, raises the cup from the ground and deposits it in the trash before turning her focus back on Davin. (Casts Mage Hand)]

Handy enough for you? [The smallest hint of a grin playing across her lips.]

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Not bad. [ he actually almost - ALMOST - smiles ] If only we had some way to trace this thing, where it's sending this info back to.

[icouldbe_bess]

I'm not in the Hoard, that's not my area of expertise. [ lmao she doesn't even really know anyone in the dragon's hoard so she can't even call for back up. ]

[incantatio]

[Her eyes narrow at the reference to Hoard, confusion wrinkling the corners for her eyes before she can refocus on the subject at hand.]

Not mine either. [Unless there is a spell that can do that but I sure couldn't find one.]

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So we call HQ. I mean, what else are we gonna do? Round them all up from around New York? If they are ticking time bombs somehow, or even just spy devices, our best bet's gotta be in finding a way to block the signal. I can't do that with my fists.

[icouldbe_bess]

It'd be funny to watch you try though. [ which she says shoving the bunbun at him so she can pull out her phone and do just that. ring ring ring. idk if the dragon's hoard has a direct number, if so she would call that, otherwise she's just gonna call wynn. poor wynn. never a moment of peace. ]

[lissatrinall]

[ oh they have a direct line alright :') ]

Hello?

[icouldbe_bess]

[ SCREAMS

jk, she doesn't. but she hates making phone calls and it's super noticeable the way her demeanor changes from the firm take charge attitude she has with davin and just melts into a kid with anxiety they can't hide.

WHICH I AM SURE GOES OVER GREAT WITH LIS'SA, of all people. ]

Um, hi. [ she turns and strides away from the group so she doesn't have to be viscerally uncomfortable right in front of them. ] This is uh, Alice, Sir Lincoln, whatever. Um, we're in New York, looking into the situation with the weird radio transmissions? If you, uh, know about that? Anyway we found the thing the transmissions were asking for and there's this sort of spy device in it? It's a stuffed rabbit like a Furby, BunBun, and it's got a little video camera in the eye. Would you be able to remotely stop the transmission... somehow? Or lead us to where it's coming from so we can stop it ourselves, I guess?

[ she thinks that's all the pertinent info the hoard might need right off the bat. ]

[lissatrinall]

[ there's a long (irritated) silence on the other end. ] I don't know what you're talking about. [ said s-so flatly. ]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ GOD ALICE, PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER. she gives herself a brief, albeit silent, peptalk and starts over, now with added backbone. ]

We're in New York on a mission. It was to find and translate a series of transmissions coming through radios in some kind of subliminal messaging, the translation which led us to the BunBun, a hot children's toy that I discovered has a, uh, fiber optic camera in the eye. None of us know how to trace the signal back to whomever is watching through the camera.

[ she only said uh once, gold star for alice lincoln. ]

[lissatrinall]

I may be able to do that. Send me the name of your hotel and I'll meet you there.

[icouldbe_bess]

Okay. [ does that, she puts the phone on speaker so she can text lis'sa the name and address of their lodgings. if they don't have a hotel yet, she freakin' picks one. ] Got it?

[incantatio]

[As Alice speaks to whoever is on the other line, something flashes in her eyes, recognition, curiosity, (Wis 19) and as the conversation continues, she turns to look at Davin, voice low.]

Who did you say you guys were with again?

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[ as lis'sa confirms by repeating it back, davin glances over at sawyer, hesitating for only a moment. ] We didn't.

We're... Knights.

[icouldbe_bess]

[ after assuring lis'sa, perhaps for naught, that they'll make sure they have all information available for her, alice hangs up and turns back to the group, making a face. ]

Enthusiasm, hon, you really should work on the enthusiasm on that one.

[incantatio]

[Rather than laugh or appear even remotely surprised by this revelation, the cock of her head marks her as more intrigued than anything else.]

Knights. Like a, secret organisation kind of deal?

[icouldbe_bess]

Emphasis on the secret part, yes. How about we talk about it back at the hotel over tiny minibar snacks? [ she glances at davin, ] Lis'sa'll meet us there.

[ and she's just gonna step over to the edge of the sidewalk and whistle for a cab, holding her other hand out like SOMEONE PULL OVER! idk if there is a check for that, but if so, she has a 19 whistle. it's one of those obnoxious basketball game whistles, tbh.

she probably attracted some stray dogs. ]