nyc ♔ i hope this isn't my last night

[recycling]

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.

Comments

[incantatio]

[Her expression appears caught between amusement and disbelief, Sawyer letting out a low chuckle until she finally nods her understanding.]

Private, yeah got it. It'll keep.

[recycling]

[ davin lapses into silence in the car ride, like some kind of broody brooder, turning the bunbun over and over in his hands like 8| ]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ alice just dicks around on her phone tbh. such a grown up with social skills. /unsure EVEN THOUGH SHE'S ANTI-NEW YORK ON PRINCIPLE ALONE... she still snaps a picture of the empire state building when they pass it. ]

[incantatio]

[Slides in a trash tag because Sawyer probably wouldn't say much in a cab with the whole, secret squirrel business. She's probably just.... thinking about how much it costs to get her car out of the impound when it gets towed.]

[lissatrinall]

[ what's creepy is that lis'sa is ALREADY THERE INSIDE THEIR HOTEL ROOM WHEN THEY WALK IN AND TURN THE LIGHTS ON. creepy because a) wasn't she just in england and b) why didn't she turn the lights on.

she looks at sawyer immediately when they walk in. ] Who's this.

[icouldbe_bess]

[ oh lis'sa you.... you. when alice sees lis'sa, she makes a surprised little bleating gasp, before muttering: ] Why do I always forget teleport scrolls are a thing.

[ ANYWAY! ] Her name is Sawyer, she's been helping us out. Davin invited her. [ neatly throws him under the bus. :) ]

[incantatio]

[Sawyer looks between Alice, Davin and finally the new chick, looking like she wants to say something more substantial but really only manages a;]

What... she said. [Offering a small, tight smile.]

1/2

[recycling]

She offered to help. That's kind of how I got here, isn't it? Who am I to say no?

[lissatrinall]

That's not quite how I heard it. [ but w/e w/e ] Show me the toy.

[incantatio]

Well that and the whole ominous... get the toy or else thing meant I go where it goes. [Trailing off like did I just get everyone here in trouble? Maybe? Oh well. How about those Knicks, huh?]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ alice passes over the bunbun to lis'sa, turning to flash sawyer a brief, reassuring smile, before her attention moves back to lis'sa. ]

It's got an camera in the eye, but that's really all I could figure out. I'm not super tech savvy.

[lissatrinall]

I'll see what I can do. [ she takes it to a table, and pulls a small tool kit out of the bag there, as well as her laptop, setting to work. ]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ well in that case, alice is going to flop on the couch and pull out her phone, googling bunbun to maybe see who owns the company or does the manufacturing or if it's tied to a disney movie. (computer use 14, research 18) ]

[incantatio]

[Meanwhile... Sawyer's just going to stand in the middle of the hotel room like, yeah sure, I belong here... pfft.]

So... Knights. [AKA you told me you'd explain more when we got back here.]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ without looking up from her phone: ] We help people. [ after a second, her eyes flicker up to sawyer and she smiles, half amused, but genuine. ] You can sit down if you want. Want a water? Juice? I have cookies in my bag...

[incantatio]

[It's not Sawyer who brightens at the mention of cookies but somebody else, her bag moving as a head peaks out from beneath a flap like 'ohhh did somebody say cookies?!']

I'm good... He'll take you up on the cookies though.

[lissatrinall]

[ everything that she finds seems pretty innocuous tbh: the company that produces it is called Konkgreen, has no history of ties to any sort of bizarre activity that she can find, and manufactures through a company in japan called Soloelectronics. ]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ hmm. satisfied that it's probably nothing, she chucks her phone on the couch and retrieves a package of famous amos and a juice box from her bag. diabetic life. once the bag is cracked open, she sets it down for the lil' ferret to nose around in.

here goes. ] We're called the Knights of the Silver Dragon and, like I said, we help people. We came to New York specifically because of the weird transmissions that turned out to be about BunBun, in case there was something shady about it.

Which. [ she shrugs, sipping her juice. ] There is.

[incantatio]

[With an edible invitation like that, Oscar slithers out from her bag and scurries down her leg, turning his intelligent gaze on Alice and chirping his thanks before burying his whole head inside the bag.

Sawyer watches him for a moment, a huff of a chuckle passing her lips before she refocuses on Alice.]

Yeah I, experienced one of those weird transmissions on the way into the city. Something jacked my car radio, told me I had 24 hours to get one of those Bun Buns. [Shaking her head.] In Elven if you don't mind.

[icouldbe_bess]

Yeah, they seem to all be in Shadow languages. Elven, Dwarven, whatever.

[ gonna pet the familiar, nbd. silky cat snake friend. ]

[lissatrinall]

Just what I thought. [ lis'sa looks up at the table, frowning at them ] The chip within is sending out scheduled transmissions of the current location of the toy, and can be activated from afar to create audio and video recordings to include in the transmissions.

[icouldbe_bess]

Tiny little bunnicula spy cams? Awesome. To what end though? Skeeving on toddlers? That's gross as hell, but more of a Law & Order: SVU thing.

[incantatio]

Toddlers weren't being told to buy these though. Shadowkind were.

[byrned]

So what, somewhere someone has a big fuck off hard drive full of recordings of babies crying. Shadowkind babies, mind.

[icouldbe_bess]

Is there any way to trace where the transmissions originate?