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.

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[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?

[lissatrinall]

I'm working on it. But I should be able to uncover the source, yes.

Sir Byrne might be onto something. It's not a pleasant thought, but it could allow them to catalog the locations of various Shadowkind children. I can't imagine there are any good motivations behind such an act.

[icouldbe_bess]

[ AGGRESSIVELY PETS SAWYER'S FAMILIAR BC THIS IS ALL SUPER GROSS. ]

I'm gettin' some real Final Solution vibes from this and it's not okay.

[incantatio]

[And Oscar's just going to rub his face all over Alice's hand and make adorable little happy noises like 'can I keep her mom'.]

I hate that none of this surprises me...

[icouldbe_bess]

Because we live in a world full of ignorant dickheads who think that someone being different is cause enough to consider them less.

[ alice makes a face, but refrains from breaking into an angry rant about shadowkind racism. it's really close, but oscar's adorableness is keeping her from going on a full on boston diatribe. he's such a good. ]

[incantatio]

[Sawyer was clearly not expecting that passionate response but it does bring a slow, grin of approval to her face. She likes you already, Alice good thing she's squired to you then.]

Pretty much. [Tone tainted with the bitterness of somebody who has experienced that a little too much.]

[lissatrinall]

I think this is bigger than what Wynn first suspected. Something's blocking my attempts to break through to the signal-- [ abruptly her entire screen is blanked, replaced by a single image - a black pentacle on a field of red, laced through with what look like veins. lis'sa lifts her hands off the keyboard instantly, as if afraid of being harmed, which is maybe wise because a few moments later, the keyboard begins sparking, and then the screen goes dead. ]

[byrned]

Well that's nice and fucking sinister, isn't it?

[icouldbe_bess]

[ alice is quick to pull a pen out of her bag and scribble the design down on the leg of her jeans because she's 23 and doesn't carry paper around with her. (craft: visual 19) ]

That sort of looked like a booby trap... spell. [ her eyes flicker between sawyer and davin like I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MAGIC???? now, runes, runes she can babble about. but magic on a whole??? she doesn't have any ranks in spellcraft ok. ]

[incantatio]

[Never fear, she with too many ranks in Spellcraft is here. (Spellcraft 32) as she looks at the symbol Alice is drawing on her leg.]

[lissatrinall]

[ that's enough for sawyer to actually realize that the symbol itself isn't a rune at all. whatever it was meant to convey had nothing to do with the magic that just fried the laptop. ] Someone has a technomage on staff, certainly.