rome ♔ watch your worlds fade to black

[behindcloseddoors]

♬ three in the morning - homestuck

WHO || Alanna, Kate, Bo, Rose [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a strange series of fires
WHERE || Rome, Italy
WHEN || Jan 15th, evening, almost 6pm [backdated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

The Knights arrive at the scene of the fire several hours after the fact.  It's clearly gutted the building, located in a commercial district of Rome.  Only one fire truck remains, along with several police cruisers and a van marked 'Arson Investigation Unit' in Italian.  The police team seems hard at work combing over the scene.

A small sign in Italian hangs half-legible over the door.  Though the fire is out, the building still smolders, even as water drips from the blackened timbers and stone.  

Comments

[trebond]

Is that all? [ she steps closer to bo and the son. ] So, you wanted your father's attention, and you turned to magic. How are you doing it?

[behindcloseddoors]

[ wow he looks super confused, ladies ] Magic? What are you talking about? We hired a man to do these jobs - we don't do them ourselves.

[killmypatience]

[Kate's eyebrows climb again, like she's skeptical that he didn't know what his hired man was doing, but she's looking to focus on the important things right now.]

Who's that?

[Odds are the guy he hired is the guy freaking out that the cop ID'd in the video.]

[behindcloseddoors]

His name is Moretti. He had a contract to take care of several targets that were no longer paying up.

[trebond]

And has it occurred to you or your father that scorching the earth where crops don't grow doesn't encourage them to produce anything? [ she's not even sorry about judging your roguery. ]

[behindcloseddoors]

No, but crops don't have a choice in the matter, so they don't learn anything from the experience.

People do.

[littledhampir]

[Rose is just going to stand here and look super confused because what the hell does crops have to do with anything?! This Moretti guy was setting fire to farms?!

Yeah just... Carry on ladies.]

[killmypatience]

[Kate follows well enough but that isn't the important thing.]

Where can we find him? We'd rather inform him of the regime change personally.

[behindcloseddoors]

Regime change? [ he snorts. whammied or not, he's not so easy to convince as mr. store owner since HIS FAMILY RUNS THIS TOWN. ] Moretti's hard to find these days. He seemed on edge a couple weeks ago, and now no one's seen him at all. It's like he's hiding out, but as far as we know, there's nobody on his trail.

He still had a target left to hit, too.

[succubestie]

And who is this target?

[Because that might be a decent lead, if they can get there first.]

[behindcloseddoors]

A chemical plant. Belongs to a company called ChemRight, an American business that has moved in here.

[trebond]

Good news, boys. [ she grabs him by the collar and hauls him up. ] You're coming with us to ChemRight.

[behindcloseddoors]

[ excuuuuuse you. he gets a will save to break out of bo's whammy with that b/c THAT IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN JUST ASKING HIM FOR INFO. and the hot lady stopped touching him. he shoves alanna off him with a 22 str check, unless she beats that. ] We're going nowhere, ladies. And neither will you, if you're smart.

You don't wanna make enemies of my family.

[trebond]

[ 18. she very nearly holds on but he gets free. ]

That was me asking nicely. It doesn't have to continue.

[killmypatience]

[Kate shifts her gun back into shooting range as soon as he wrenches away from Alanna ready to shoot just in case he tries to pull something.]

Personally, I'm really fond of not-so-nicely.

[littledhampir]

[Hello bully tactics, Rose's old friend. (intimidation 25). Rose isn't even going to speak, she's just going to clear her throat and remind him that currently, the Bamf ladies outnumber him.]

[succubestie]

Sorry, boys. I think we have the majority here. You're going.

[Diplomacy 36.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ while bo's attempts at diplomacy are moot after everyone else works to shake the guy up, he at least seems to decide not to argue, though he grits his teeth. ]

Fine. But don't say I didn't warn you.

[trebond]

Personally, I wish you'd warned us less. [ aka talked less in general. whiny af tbh. ]

[killmypatience]

[Kate turns and gestures slightly with her gun.]

Let's go. Time to track down an arsonist.

[behindcloseddoors]

Look, at least let me send Louis to go pick up my little girl. Her mother's gonna be worried sick if I don't show.

[trebond]

You must be joking.

[ alanna looks thoroughly unimpressed. it doesn't even matter if it's true or not, because AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT. ]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ he splays his hands ] She's only six years old. Have a heart.

[succubestie]

You want to know what my heart is telling me? That if she is real? She's better off wherever she is than with you or your thug here.

Now cut the crap and let's go.

[behindcloseddoors]

She's my daughter. [ he looks... actually distraught a bit (diplomacy 29) ] What, you need to see pictures? Hear her on the phone?

This thug here's her uncle. He's sure as shit not gonna let anything happen to her.