The good doctor sort of holds up his hand and
Iona Starling:looks at the
Dr. Henry Edwards:bloody sticking mess running between his fingers. Just sneers and disdain not at the person he has just crushed to death but the mess he's going to have to clean up or have cleaned up because there are people for that. All right is slowly shrinks down to his regular self on Audible cracking and crunching great, easy to hear to anyone outside of Dr. Adams office. And at this point is wearing the tattered remnants of his clothes, which were torn all along his right side when he explosively grew out of them. So his right pant leg has shredded off at the knee and his entire right coat sleeve and shirt sleeve are in shreds. He straightens his tie turns and walks out the door into the rest of the department. As
Snyder’s Return:you sign to leave, two things happen there. The button underneath Dr. Adams's desk we follow the cabling we follow the wire the signal as it traces down through helix labs main headquarters facility down past the parking lot were hired and the rest of the team sort of have their vehicles and their equipment down below into the sewers. And we see a red light just flickering, pulsing Zoom, zoom. And between the shadows created as this light emanates and dims, a large, hulking form similar almost in size to yourself. Dr. Edwards when you have transformed starts to move through sort of the sewer water you can hear it sloshing around their legs. As this large form moves into clarity they're there. Their face momentarily lit stitch torn, mismatched, and there's a low grumble that just kind of seems to vibrate the sewer tunnel around them. Following back up to where you are. round the corner. There is a ding ding as the elevator opens and out steps. A well turned out sort of smartly dressed black lady were carrying a an oversized suitcase for when somewhere between a suitcase and a briefcase. It's a strangely sized box and she wheels round into the into the corridor where you are
Iona Starling:stuck to add Adams available.
Dr. Henry Edwards:I believe Dr. Adams will be indisposed indefinitely and he deserve clenches is bloody fest. I see.
Snyder’s Return:Or you may not have have shown me much around. I'm one of Dr. Adams. Scouts. I am Latoya. May I deal with Dr. Adams for you Dr. Edwards.
Dr. Henry Edwards:That would be
Iona Starling:delightful.
Dr. Henry Edwards:It's so nice to see someone in the apartment making themselves useful instead of inconvenient.
Snyder’s Return:Oh, of course doctor. I pride myself on my utility in all situations for helix and Tao for your good self if you so wish.
Dr. Henry Edwards:That won't be necessary a commitment to company and department is all I ask. There is one other thing you could do for me. It is my understanding that one of Dr. Adams scouts as you put it has been in communication with a publication recently hmm, huh. There's many details of our of the department's very much private and confidential projects have been leaked. If you could find out who this person is, and pass this information along to be that would be excellent.
Snyder’s Return:Of course, Dr. Edwards, I will take great pride in bringing you this information and I will serve it up on a silver platter. If you excellent. If you wouldn't mind I would like to attend to to the indisposed. Dr. Adams. If if I may.
Iona Starling:Please do.
Snyder’s Return:And she begins. Yeah, she begins to motion past you with this sort of suitcase briefcase, heading back towards where you have just come from? What are you doing?
Dr. Henry Edwards:Dr. Edwards is going to go find the next person down the chain. The next most competent person down the chain and start looking for his next deputy department chief.
Snyder’s Return:All right, as you and your bloody fist and your torn clothing, move through helix labs and start your quest for employment. We follow Latoya into Dr. Adams his office, seeing that the soil crushed midriff pays no mind. We see as she moves in and kneels down and you hear the clicking of the case. And she opens and looking over her shoulder sat on one side is a carefully housed Bonesaw for want of a better description. And just next to it. Allowing for a little bit of space
Iona Starling:is the head
Snyder’s Return:of a Mexican male. We see just as the scene fades out. Latoya takes the blade to Dr. Adams is neck and begins ritualised soaring and removal. While that is happening, and Dr. Adams is going through LinkedIn or however he finds replacements in helix, Dr.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Edwards, Dr. Adams will be on LinkedIn anytime soon.
Snyder’s Return:You say that? However? Yes, so as we leave Latoya doing her,
Dr. Henry Edwards:her work,
Snyder’s Return:we leave Dr. Webb wants to go and source some appropriate HR personnel. Then we catch up with with Rafa and
Iona Starling:Iona.
Snyder’s Return:You can see the group having sort of moved past the Chang residence move to this industrial area. There's a couple of auto shops and sort of glazes and a few other smaller businesses sort of tucked in a few of these places a locksmith and then a few other bits and pieces. But they appear to be sort of heading past those towards a like a junkyard the fence seems sort of deteriorated but still in one piece. You can see cars stacked high vans, trucks, the crane and the the sort of the large magnet appear to be stationary at this point in time is the group sort of just twist and sliding into this junkyard area. Oh how chunkier
Iona Starling:it is might as well do it we're not gonna be
Rafa:when if I recall correctly you do have some combat expertise or knowledge, right?
Iona Starling:Eye an eye on a gives him a smile. So it's a pretty feral looking smile yeah, you could say that. Well,
Rafa:the fun thing about junkyards is
Iona Starling:you don't have to
Dr. Henry Edwards:look out for breaking stuff they already are mostly broken
Iona Starling:Well, yay for less collateral damage
Rafa:that well, Jed, let's not get ahead of ourselves. I do try like to try to talk to persons or to people. But
Iona Starling:you are the one who asked whether or not I powers I can attack people.
Rafa:Well, I just have to know what
Dr. Henry Edwards:I can if I can
Rafa:count on you. Well, considering you already hold your own against our good friend highs was a bit of a redundant question, but I don't know sometimes.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Well, you know,
Iona Starling:I'm here to protect you. You do know that nothing will happen to you while I'm here.
Rafa:That's that's that's nice. Thank you. I hear he'll he'll do like a very wide grin. To you.
Dr. Henry Edwards:That's that's that's so nice.
Iona Starling:Yeah, yeah. Don't don't get don't get smug about it. I we're about to beat up some kids out. I don't want to be smug about that.
Rafa:We're not going to beat up we're not going into beat up anybody. We're just
Iona Starling:I am 85% Sure we're about to beat up some kids.
Rafa:No, we're not that's that's the wrong mindset. You have to go in thinking we are going to save the girl
Iona Starling:yeah, I beating up the kids.
Rafa:Yeah, maybe probably. Yeah, okay, let's let's just get in there.
Snyder’s Return:As you sort of begin to move around, you'll notice that Victor and two or three of us have sort of stepped further in but a tall ish sort of you put them in at the top of the the jock Track and Field kind of physique. And, and as such shorter more slighter young lady seem to have sort of taken a almost a century position a couple of 100 feet into the junkyard so you're not like tripping over them as soon as you step in but they definitely seem to be sort of looking back and surveying everything that's going on and you can see Victor the rest of the group and and this other female that joined them at the beans coffee shop. Moving further into the junkyard, they seem to be continuing on their conversation
Iona Starling:is still walking
Snyder’s Return:Victor and the girl and one, two others are still moving. Two of the five have stopped short and are sort of acting trying to act casual, but it's quite obvious to especially to you owner with your skill set. Should we say your your employment, that they are acting like guards or centuries or some sort of barrier to beyond where you're trying to get to, or anyone will be trying to get to
Dr. Henry Edwards:Okay.
Iona Starling:So we can ask, do
Rafa:you want to sneak past them? I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I'm actually astonished.
Iona Starling:Well, you know I'm I'm ready for a fight. I'm not going to try news to get one if we if we fight them that's going to be heard. And those guys are going to take
Rafa:Yes and also if you consider that they may be all connected and the guy or Victor probably will know that we are already here so
Iona Starling:we got we got to try. Okay
Rafa:let's shouldn't take too much time for sneaking past them. But is there maybe
Iona Starling:a corner
Rafa:near? Or is it
Snyder’s Return:with the with the way the cars are stacked up? you potentially could be able to manoeuvre depending on, you know, who is is sort of leading, shall we say? Probably the leading question, who is sort of leading the this sort of attempt to move beyond this initial barrier to access. You notice the two closest to you seem to have their sleeves covering their arms and their hair kind of flopped down in front of their eyes. So they want to see and they're able to move and manoeuvre but they just appear like two random teams kind of hanging out in a junkyard. It's weird, but it's happening. Right.
Iona Starling:Okay. Do you have anything that could help us sneak past? Do you have anything that could sneak past them? I'm
Rafa:not really I can't. It's not really elaborate right here. I would say well,
Iona Starling:you can fly right? into a dragon first. It's not exactly stealthy.
Rafa:Oh, we are we are far away enough. I guess.
Iona Starling:How far away are we from? Like,
Snyder’s Return:I mean, given the size of your dragon form, I think half the city would potentially know you've turned transformed. But again, you're not you're not right on top of them. They're they're sort of set a couple of 100 Couple 100 feet, couple of 100 yards, what's bigger yards 100 yards in and kind of just there watching monitoring, while you to sort of sussing out what's going on. And while you're, while you're sort of looking at these two and sussing everything else out, just, you know, beyond them, you can see the victor this, this young lady and the two others, they've started to sort of form almost a circle, there's sort of, they've sort of stopped in a position it's, it's hard to tell if it's predetermined or not. But as we sort of shift over to their side, looking back, so we're sort of looking back towards the the entrance to the junkyard Why were you two we're having this conversation, deliberation just to one side, out of sight, I hope.
Dr. Henry Edwards:You can see
Snyder’s Return:Victor take the young girls hands and then the other two, put their hands. One set goes on top and the other set goes underneath. Victor withdraws his hand. And he he says to Alison, the girl This has joined them. I won't be a moment and this won't hurt. And you she'll be part of the infection club. Oh, no.
Iona Starling:Can we hear this? Ah.
Rafa:Oh. Realistically, probably not. Not
Snyder’s Return:if you can it's extremely muffled but you send them come together and you sin Victor sort of step away but the the other three remain in this fixed position.
Rafa:I think we should hurry up well, yeah,
Iona Starling:I'm going to destroy them. You get the good okay. Forget, forget right now figuring out what's going on. We can risk girl getting infected as well. You know, I'm going to surprise them. And you get the girl. Okay. Okay.
Rafa:Yeah, sure. For sure. You're gonna you're going to fly in.
Iona Starling:I am going to fly in right now. Are you ready?
Rafa:Okay yes I guess Yeah 123 Go
Iona Starling:do it just right right there and then it turns into she turns into a dragon form and lets out the loudest possible roar she can let out
Snyder’s Return:as you roll and the whole place stops you see LF Allison sort of head turn towards you and then there's a there's a moment of like what the hell was that? Because obviously a Dragon Roar kind of get lost in into I'm not gonna say to car backfiring there's big cliche but it could just be a siren or something going off somewhere else in the city
Iona Starling:the other sort of
Snyder’s Return:definitely the two closest to you seem to respond so while that's happening and you're going through the transformation rough Did you say you were running
Rafa:Yeah, yeah, I said like 123 Go and I just start sprinting but if i i would think that there is we're in a street right in front are going straight into the junkyard and I would be kind of on the sidewalk near the cars trying to have a little bit of some barriers in front of me that I can I wouldn't be seen
Dr. Henry Edwards:immediately
Snyder’s Return:but they've kind of been watching the entrance so you you moving on scene is a bit of especially with this rod has just come off you know they've transfixed onto the the entrance so as you begin to move in, they begin to move rapidly in your direction the pair of them start running towards you looking to sort of pin you down the cover the grounding especially the track and field guy like powers over so I'd like you to go toe to toe as they attempt to sort of move and lunge to to pin you down
Iona Starling:on out provide help for that
Snyder’s Return:that's how how you're going to help
Iona Starling:us you probably sees them running towards her she's probably going to leave in their way and lash out at them for so
Dr. Henry Edwards:sure row row
Snyder’s Return:was how many help points have you got for Rafa
Iona Starling:I got three I'm gonna I'm gonna roll with I won't give you one we'll give you one
Snyder’s Return:oh you're so generous that good enough
Dr. Henry Edwards:story tag me action
Rafa:and I will use disorienting trance so that they would maybe they'll they'll kind of lose track of me in the sense that hey, maybe he there wasn't anyone there running in our direction anyway. And I will you should I use strength now.
Iona Starling:And
Rafa:I will use yeah that that's good enough. I'll use one help tagger now one disorienting trends
Dr. Henry Edwards:okay
Rafa:you can go toe to toe right
Dr. Henry Edwards:yes boop
Snyder’s Return:So, you got an eight mile success with the power too. So you get to choose one you can achieve mastery achieve your goal I getting something I want you can get them good by inflicting a status on them or you can block dodge or counter their best attempt
Rafa:Okay, so they are coming at you. Yeah, can I give them both the same status or just one of them? Just one of them? Just one of them. Okay.
Iona Starling:I will give
Rafa:them one of them status
Dr. Henry Edwards:than status status
Rafa:Iona you are going to fly kind of over them and right into the junkyard. All right.
Iona Starling:Yeah. I mean, right for that girl. Okay.
Rafa:Then I will give one I will give two tier of just oriented to our guys Have too one of them so he doesn't really know what's going on or he kind of lost lost track and was well the screen from one side and the my trends from the other side he kind of just will be a bit confused and dazed.
Snyder’s Return:Alright, so yeah, as only you saw move in a rough you are able to sort of sidestep and disorientate one that sort of a heavier jock gets disorientated by you and actually sort of slams into one of these broken down junk cars, junk vehicles living giving her an audible cry however, the second one with him, she is sort of more nimble of foot. They seem to be sort of working on the same wavelength strangely enough, and she is able to sort of slide over the top of this broken car this junk car and is able to sort of slap you I need you to do a face Jane face danger against infected one. Okay,
Rafa:I will use unbreakable buddy
Unknown:body
Rafa:can I use
Unknown:Merlin boom Yeah, oh, I'll just
Rafa:get one power. face danger
Snyder’s Return:face danger against the infected one.
Rafa:Oh, should I miss
Snyder’s Return:you do with a mess as the first the jock hits the car, sort of a heavy impact. Muscular frame into into metal. There's sort of in that same sweeping motion. She sort of lifts and slides her legs to the side and is able to sort of skim across the bonnet in a very movie style, sort of a cop movie style across the top of the bonnet of this wrecked car and sort of comes down with a slap but as it sort of launches onto your skin you feel it's almost like a series of hypodermic needles or like a nettle sting or something like that is just kind of catches you, Iona just out the corner of your eye, there's a draconic eye, there's a brief flash of a dark patch that seeps into rough skin. So you have infected one
Dr. Henry Edwards:riff infected one.
Snyder’s Return:Owners you keep moving you can see Victor appearing from behind the cars that he'd sort of stepped into it seems to be holding some sort of some sort of blade of some shape or form or description
Iona Starling:is he putting it towards me what ways he's directing it
Snyder’s Return:he's taking it back towards Alison and the other two still stood almost now locked in this sort of strange hand formation and positioning
Iona Starling:she AIONA grabs a car or anything a large piece of scrap metal and tries to heave it right in front of his way not not not him just just to block his way
Snyder’s Return:I'd like you to to change the game
Dr. Henry Edwards:please
Rafa:I would like to help you with I don't know how.
Iona Starling:That's three power this is a success.
Snyder’s Return:Ice Okay, so you can create a story tag. You can burn a power tag or a storyteller you can give or reduce the status. You can scale up an effect if you want to grab more cars inexplicably and just build a wall potentially prolonging the effect hide the effect or something else you want to suggest that we agree on.
Iona Starling:I think I'd like to create No, I think the best thing would be to create a story tag No, wait. I want to snap.
Snyder’s Return:My story tank could be sort of a wrecked car if that's what you're going to throw.
Iona Starling:I know that that's that yeah that's kind of something I can pull on at any point because we're covered in junk so it's not something I'd want to waste I think I'd like to
Dr. Henry Edwards:sell so you kind of mechanically you need to use juice to do that
Iona Starling:right to create Yeah, okay, okay so then yeah, I guess I try to create the story tech right car right whatever Yeah, um then I guess I'd like to give like to I'd like to give since my since all focused on him. I think I'd like to give the status I give the status shocked, too. Because that should be here Yeah.
Snyder’s Return:Right. He gave me that too sure. So as you move in and and you grab this stroke and you say you gotta throw it
Iona Starling:yeah I'm just throwing it right in front of the block is way
Snyder’s Return:unlikely to take the risk or take yeah take a vote risk
Iona Starling:so I mean, I still use it if I'm going to check something we do the ones I use if things get messy All right. Give it to me
Snyder’s Return:things do indeed get messy with Victor beings slightly shocked seemingly shocked you notice the others appear to be shocked and in that moment, Alison in in a moment of panic now seeing a car being lifted by what she can only perceive to be potentially the crane has moved without her noticing. And these these other kids and everything else that happened happening, she pulls back from from this sort of hand instance, Victor stops one side, the hands the other to sort of make a space. The car you have just launched impacts the ground between Victor achieving what you wanted to achieve blocking his path. And Alison, the girl that they had. She had willingly gone with them to the junkyard she is caught by the undercarriage of the car and is spun and forced to the ground quite severely
Iona Starling:injured. Oh shit I killed the kid
Snyder’s Return:I didn't say that.
Iona Starling:I builder
Rafa:she she's she's probably not dead yet. I'm
Iona Starling:being dramatic just
Rafa:have the moment you voluntarily want to get a status status to like
Dr. Henry Edwards:also shocked or
Snyder’s Return:it's happened I
Dr. Henry Edwards:shook it the one
Iona Starling:I killed her
Snyder’s Return:as as Alison's heavily injured body lays on the floor having been hit by a flying car from a dragon victron and the other
Iona Starling:next time next time yeah.
Snyder’s Return:Next time gadget next Anyway, moving on. So as this car sort of impacts and has spun poor Allison further into the junkyard with with potentially with some injuries. Victor and the others sort of turn to look at her turn to look at your group. You'll notice Rafa that the girl also turns her head. The jockey is very, very much disorientated and in a world of his own, sort of at this point in
Iona Starling:time. And they they
Snyder’s Return:begin to withdraw,
Dr. Henry Edwards:they begin to move away
Iona Starling:Oh, okay.
Rafa:Also the girl that that hit slash stung me.
Snyder’s Return:Yep. This seems to be a like a passive response from from each of them. Their faces kind of shifted in such a way all in a slightly different given the sort of facial structures but all in a sort of understanding motion as they begin to back up and start running in separate directions in the junkyard. The disorientated one next to you Rafa kind of drags themselves up to their feet. You can see his shoulders probably been put out of knocked out of his socket, but it sort of drags himself up and begins to move away from you. Oh, well,
Rafa:good. I want I'll let them go and I'll run in the direction of the girl and Iona and yeah, see see how she's doing or not?
Snyder’s Return:As you cover the ground and approach Alison's twisted I don't want to say body because that sounds too permanent, but her form that is that is on on the ground, clearly. Bleeding profusely. We will rejoin Dr. Edwards. Doctor, how is your search for a new representative going?
Rafa:Could I could I just say that my first reaction would be than to call the doctor, but that's okay.