nyc ♔ everybody knows the rock leans over the town

[behindcloseddoors]

The Rock - Harry Chapin

WHO ||Deryn, Alice, Sara, Frankie [closed]
WHAT ||The Knights investigate a mysterious transmission...
WHERE || New York
WHEN || Late March 2016
HOW || Actionspam

[A garbled, static-filled transmission, encoded in a Shadow language, has made its way to the Knights attention, seemingly linked to a series of similar transmissions last year.  Equipped with a decoding program by the Dragon's Hoard, the Knights head to a set of railroad tracks that were mentioned, to try to see what this is all about... ]

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[theshadowspeaks]

[ Deryn was following close behind Alice, his hands shoved in his jacket pocket as he looked around quietly. (Dark vision + Spot 20) He'd been mostly quiet since they arrived. ]

[canaria]

[Sara looks around, and, well, her spot check sucks today apparently. (6 total).]

If anyone fits the description of "bad news", I'm smacking them. [With her batons. Which she takes from her belt and starts somewhat idly twirling in her hands (dex 19 total because apparently not all of her rolls suck ass today), just for something else to do.]

[thetokenaussie]

[Yes well, with her spectacular Spot Check of 13, Frankie is clearly more interested in checking over some of the equipment she has in her bag than she is looking around.]

We're in New York... you might be using those a lot.

[behindcloseddoors]

[ it's at that point that their phones start going off, spilling garbled static through the speaker openly ]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ alice's sigh is super put upon as she starts up the decryption program??? (computer use 21) at least the shadow languages were less static-y. ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ "In *scrtch* minutes, a *scrtch* H2 will approach these tracks from the north. You must *krrrrr* the tracks until after the train passes. Do not fail." ]

[thetokenaussie]

[Frankie catches all of that and yet... understands none of it. She will at least look around the platform (Spot 15)]

There's gotta be a schedule around here somewhere? [Assuming this train even is scheduled...]

[icouldbe_bess]

What the fuck is an H2? [ gonna google that shit tbh. (computer use/research 15) ] Please, please don't be a passenger train about to derail.

[theshadowspeaks]

Are we about to get hit by a train...? [ Someone had to ask.]

1/3

[behindcloseddoors]

[ uhhh a tv network??? probably not that. frankie, however, does notice something-- ]

2/3

[mabeljuice]

[- a girl in her late teens/early twenties! walking along side the tracks, easily noticed by the overlarge sweater she's wearing. a boy around the same age is following close behind her, like he intends to yank her away from the tracks at any moment.]

A Hummer? What kind of person even drives a Hummer. They're ugly and they kill the ozone layer and stuff.

3/3

[lowvi]

[The boy has a hat on and a flannel shirt, and he's looking around warily as they walk.]

Mabel, it doesn't matter if they're probably Republicans. We've still gotta stop them from being run over by a train. Or at least find out who the hell is behind all this.

[A beat.]

...though if there's a Trump sticker I may revise that opinion.

[thetokenaussie]

No but... they might? [As Frankie draws everyone's attention to what she's seeing.]

Hey, you two! It's probably not safe to be down there.

[lowvi]

[The boy looks up with a scowl.]

Yeah, well, we... work here! It's a train internship!

[He could probably sound less convincing if he tried. But not very much (bluff 3).]

[thetokenaussie]

[ Ah Hahahahhahaha...

And then Frankie Crit Failed her Sense Motive on that so. She shrugs like, ok cool.]

[mabeljuice]

[taking that cue, Mabel proceeds to embellish on that terrible bluff... with a 10] Yeah... there's been a problem with cars stopping on the tracks. [she hisses.] And you know... Yikes.

[icouldbe_bess]

[ luckily alice is less easily deceived (sense motive 17), lips pursing like this is the last freakin' thing she needs. ] When they said "in New York you can be a new man", they should have added "be a better liar", too.

[lowvi]

[Dipper rolls his eyes.]

Fine. We're not supposed to be here, and that song's gonna be stuck in my head for the next week, thanks. You don't look like cops, so... we're just gonna do what we want.

[mabeljuice]

Fight the man! [she throws a fist up]

[icouldbe_bess]

And yet. [ alice drags a pair of handcuffs out of her jacket pocket because she literally always has at least one pair of handcuffs on her person at all time. her eyebrows arch. (bluff 20 total) her dad's a cop, sara's got batons, close enough. ] You're supposed to stay behind the yellow lines. There's a sign. Which means... trespassing. Tsk, tsk.

[thetokenaussie]

[Frankie is less Bluff more Blunt.] Would you two just get off the tracks before you get yourselves killed. Nobody here wants to be collecting body parts for the next week.

[mabeljuice]

[Mabel steps off the tracks and holds up her hands.] Okay, seriously, don't arrest us. We're just trying to make sure nobody gets dead here. [(diplomacy 27)]

[lowvi]

[Dipper glances at Mabel, then also steps off the tracks, crossing his arms.]

Yeah, didn't you notice your phones or...radios or whatever, going off with some weird message? We're probably the only people who actually know what it said so.... [He looks down the track impatiently, then glances at his watch.] Mabel, we've only got like eight minutes now.

[theshadowspeaks]

[ Deryn was lingering behind the group listening to them talk to the two new people. He was curious but he didn't speak up, just stood twirling a bit of his bangs.]

[icouldbe_bess]

Eight minutes to intercept the H2 coming from the north? [ this is the bland look of a woman who has been mansplained to too many times in her life. ]