essen ♔ where not a single soul gets through

[superswank]

♬ rainbow factory - glaze

WHO || Sydney B., Andrew, Diana, Felicity, Sebastian [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a hacker friend of Andrew's who has gone off the grid
WHERE || Essen, Germany
WHEN || Jan 10th, shortly before 7pm [forwarddated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

The flight to Essen is very short, only about half an hour, and Sydney makes good time flying them there. Wynn has a car already rented and waiting for them as usual and then it's a short drive to the coordinates Lady Nell sent them.

While the neighborhood in question was once a very nice residential development, it now shows decades of neglect. There is a squat, one-story storefront across from what appears to be a riot control vehicle that appears severely battered.

Comments

Plane Ride

[superswank]

[ use this space for any plane ride conversations. the flight is approximately thirty minutes.

sydney's up in the cockpit piloting the whole time, but you are free to bug her there.]

Sydney and OTA

[badexample]

[Andrew's antsy through take off, and probably isn't exactly the picture of team leading confidence... But he hangs out for about 10-15 minutes in a seat, looking through information on his phone, keeping himself busy.

--

The second half of the trip, he makes his way up to the cock pit, needing to stretch his legs a bit. Knocking his knuckles against the doorway.]

Mind some company?

[superswank]

[ she looks back over her shoulder ] Not at all.

How are you holding up?

[badexample]

Still think it's all sinking in. [He ducks his way in because lol he's giant. Despite the earlier 'stretch his legs' excuse he gave himself, he just slumps his way into the co pilot's chair and looks over at her.]

Wanted to thank you for coming. When Wynn said we could put a team together for this, you were one of the first I thought of.

[superswank]

Then I hope I don't let you down.

How long have you known Alice?

[badexample]

[He just shakes his head a little and laughs. He really doubts she'll let him down. Sure, he only knows a little about what she can do, but Wynn picks some really amazing people and he just has a good feeling about her.]

A few years now. Started talking to her around when I started up with the Knights. [Which was after he was done with school, because he had resisted following in the family footsteps for a bit.]

Sebastian - open

[opprobrium]

[ He was sitting by one of the windows, eyes kind of large as he watched the clouds. He was very much impressed by the plane. Nervousness not showing much at all [Bluff Check; 12] ]

[allmydreams]

[Unlike the social butterfly she usually is at the squiring parties, on the plane, Felicity mostly keeps to herself. It's her way of getting her head in the game, more or less.

That doesn't mean she's ignoring everyone, however. She'll chat if you're feeling chatty. The magazine she's reading is really not that interesting.]

Essen

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[ the street is eerily quiet as they make their way onto it, the only sound they hear coming from a large red truck turning onto the highway several blocks away. it's easy to see not only the wrecked riot vehicle, but the demolished storefront as well. sydney parks the car and looks over at andrew in the passenger seat. ] This is the place? [ it's obvious that it is, but she wants to give him a moment to process. the scene doesn't look good. ]

[badexample]

[Andrew just nods slowly, his gut twisting at the scene laid out in front of them. He opens his laptop and starts working to get a program running to try to track Alice's cell phone (computer use 25).]

Trying to see if I can find her in this mess. Gonna take a minute.

[superswank]

We'll take a closer look. [ she undoes her seatbelt and gets out, going to examine the riot vehicle first. ]

[opprobrium]

Wanna hand?

[ he asks from the back, babies first mission and all. He's trying to get his feeting. At least lacking the attitude for now.]

[superswank]

Sure. Why don't Meade and Braddock take a look at that storefront?

[badexample]

Sounds good. [Andrew says absently as he continues to work.] I'll uh- I'll let you guys know once I've got something. [He looks at them briefly.] Watch yourselves out there.

let the devil wear black ♔ discrete disposal

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[ discrete disposal's facility is a gray concrete building, about ninety meters square by about sixteen meters high. it is surrounded by a concrete parking lot, cracked and devoid of life; even weeds. on the side of the building they pull up to, there are 4 garage doors lined up along the right side of the building's face, and a small office visible through the glass windows and door on the left. the office is lit, and a strained-looking human in her 20s is apparently entirely absorbed in playing some game on her phone.

by now the sun has set, and the evening is silent as syd turns off the vehicle. ]

[badexample]

[Alright. Andrew had the car ride to get his game face back on... which is not that different from his earlier freaked out face, unfortunately.]

Any ideas on how to get past her?

[Time to brainstorm, people.]

[superswank]

Health inspectors? It could grant us visual access to every location in the building and make them work for us.

[opprobrium]

[ Sebastian just rose an eyebrow at that. Not exactly sure he could pass for anything like that. But whatever she wanted them to do he'd do. For now he just stayed quite in his seat.]

[allmydreams]

[Felicity considers for a moment before nodding.]

Yeah, that's good. She seems young enough that she probably wouldn't question it if the credentials were close enough.

[superswank]

Diana - can you replicate IDs magically?

her fighting soul ♔

[superswank]

[ they pull up across the street from the address they discovered on alice, but the sight is not any more promising than the satellite view.

the building sits glumly across from a dilapidated park that is more dirt than trees, looking for all the world like an odd collection of giant boxes. crumbling red brick walls match the rusting metal sheets that cover what once were walls of windows. gang symbols all but obscure the images of horses left over from years long gone.

strangely, all the lights seem to be on, leaking through the metal here and there (spot 15+ will see). looking at the place fills them all with a strange, chilling sense of foreboding that they can't shake without a good will save (15+) ]

[badexample]

[Did anyone expect Andrew to make that will save? Because no one should have. The dice know that his life is just trauma right now (will 12). But he's at least got his game face on while he deals with the overwhelming sense of dread, catching sight of light nearly instantly (spot nat 20).]

Someone's in there. [Or he assumes they are. Abandoned places like they don't just leave the light on for you. This ain't no Motel 6, son.]

[superswank]

Someone's paying to keep this place going too, unless they've got a generator.

[opprobrium]

[ Sebastian was looking at the builing a bit concerned but he was able to shake off the foreboding feeling. [ Willsave 17)] I would think it's more on someone's got the power on.

[badexample]

Wonder if I can get into the electric company's records and find out just who gets the bill. [Time to pull the laptop back out. (computer use 26) THIS IS HOW HE FEELS USEFUL.]