Not sure this is sort of grounds to release, Dr. Stevenson, but definitely one that I will keep my eye on. If you would prefer. Dr. Edwards,
Dr. Henry Edwards:that won't be necessary. I'll handle the situation myself.
Snyder’s Return:Excellent. And as for Dr. Adams meeting with Chairman Chow, there is another one scheduled for next month, which I'm sure you will want me to attend. However, and she places carefully upon your desk, this mirror Manila file folder. The request he is asked of us using our resources is to help track down his daughter Lily. The file I have placed in front of you there is from the psychiatric care plus provider, mending the broken, which details their assessment of of Ms. Lily Chow. It's interesting reading, we should see the least. I'm not sure quite how the chairman and the daughter became a separated physically or emotionally but this is certainly an interesting reads into into their relationship. I have some more work to do. Of course, if you need me, Doctor, you know where I am, and how to reach you. Indeed. Anything further from you today, doctor?
Dr. Henry Edwards:No, I think that will be I'll give Renzo and my regards,
Snyder’s Return:of course. And she turned on her heel, virginal six months and wanders off back down the corridor he returns to what is now officially her office I suppose though it still has Dr. Adams on the anywhere. She goes back to her office.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Dr. Adams with like a red question mark at the end pretty much.
Snyder’s Return:So is there anything you would like to do doctor?
Dr. Henry Edwards:The doctor will do a quick skim of the folder is not particularly interested in whatever daddy issues. Lily Chow has but leveraging the situation is certainly in his interest. Is it safe to say that I have that folder as a story tag?
Unknown:Yes. Yes.
Snyder’s Return:So that's from mending the broken is is the provider, shall we say? Psychological Assessment?
Rafa:Team. mending the broken is the name of the team. Wow.
Dr. Henry Edwards:The business as it were.
Snyder’s Return:Yes. So not the first time it's been mentioned?
Dr. Henry Edwards:No. I have been conspicuously avoiding metagaming that much. I absolutely know the contents of that. So I guess I will attempt to investigate. All
Snyder’s Return:right, please roll. Yeah, so yeah, do me an investigate. Oh, please.
Rafa:We have to throw Chris a curveball and kind of changed entire story just so he gets something new that he doesn't know that
Dr. Henry Edwards:it's just hard when you know the entire setup. The setup to not be like okay, I go from here to here to here to here to here. It's like speed run the thing.
Snyder’s Return:What did you get for your investigation? If
Dr. Henry Edwards:I'm still looking at this? I think I've got Are there any weaknesses who would like me to invoke?
Snyder’s Return:Look, probably in different
Dr. Henry Edwards:in different works. Oh, boy. That is an upgrade. And great success about Papa papa.
Snyder’s Return:So with the power of four. You get to spend the clues from one to one to ask certain questions. I will remind you as part of your character, you have a calyx lab Pandora information for you to sort of scan through to see if, if there's anything you want to build on from there
Dr. Henry Edwards:you're on new are mending the broken.
Snyder’s Return:So you would know through your awareness of a few of the practitioners the mending the broken carry. A team of psychiatrists and psychologists who work work out of the city and have have made a name for themselves as being some of the sort of the best in the business as it were, they have put together a bit of a Power team, as it were of psychiatrists and psychologists who have been working with troubled youth and all manner of of the difficulties that people are faced. They have their own sort of advert on various media platforms, and they have sort of a good standing in certain areas of the medical profession. Occasionally, they're letting give seminars and all that sort of good stuff, they are pretty well known for who they are,
Dr. Henry Edwards:what is what is mending the broken bones, interest in Lily Chow,
Rafa:primarily,
Snyder’s Return:as should we say a bit of a cash cow almost, they want to have altruistic views in mind. And they see Lily as as a way to one help a troubled individual, but also boost their profile even further by helping out a daughter of a grand establishment like Chairman Charles business interests, they can only further widen and deepen their sort of grip into the the niche that they provide, does mending the broken have
Dr. Henry Edwards:an agenda beyond their clearly stated surface
Rafa:goals? Yes, effectively.
Snyder’s Return:They, they want to almost push beyond the sort of the surface level of creating the cures, they seem intent on pushing riffs to a a full realisation, potentially, in ways that they are not going down. unknowingly. I'm trying to find a bit that actually describes
Rafa:seen it, and now I've lost it.
Dr. Henry Edwards:So they're inappropriately excited by the idea of avatars.
Rafa:Yes. Oh, no, that's gonna bite them in the AF
Unknown:we don't know that. Yep. I mean,
Dr. Henry Edwards:Dr. Edwards is involved. So that's a pretty good sign that something's going to bite them in the ass. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Then I mean, based on last session, we know it is entirely possible that it could be Dr. Edwards. But um
Unknown:last question to
Dr. Henry Edwards:side from the connection between really challenged her father is there is there some resource in the hands of mending the broken or some information that Dr. Edwards could exploit in order to further his methods is development and goals
Snyder’s Return:have through various professional engagements, shall we say soirees and all those sort of high class meetings of of medical professionals and scientific scientific professionals have come to know a doctor crystal night reasonably well. And it's through limited and not very excessive probing for someone with your access, that she has wasted, shall we say the use of the municipal Institute for for the criminal, I will put my teeth in, she has misused and misappropriated the use of the municipal Institute for the criminally insane otherwise known as the asylum in the city. You also believe how I know horrendous that through a a weird series of cult of connections she also has something to do with the Aurora glassworks company down here in the industrial industrial district quite what her connection with that is you're unsure of but the the asylum and mending the broken have a unhealthy relationship that if made public would look bad on on Dr. Knight and her colleagues
Dr. Henry Edwards:some interesting information if only Dr Edwards knew some misguided goody two shoes that could be employed as an unknowing catspaw in this situation
Snyder’s Return:thinking of refer
Dr. Henry Edwards:I mean really could go for either member of his crew but
Snyder’s Return:always claimed ownership I heard that his crew
Iona Starling:neither was like you
Rafa:I think he already assessed as as assets for himself so I think it's only fair but this point
Dr. Henry Edwards:that's basically how he describes any relationship he has.
Iona Starling:I want for the record that I don't agree. I want this special
Rafa:well while you
Snyder’s Return:while you are negotiating that information in mind, is really what ruff has been up to
Rafa:shoutout to Raph he's wearing a sombrero and is drinking a margarita Margarita and taqueria we
Unknown:currently
Snyder’s Return:have is so vile, you refer wait the door to the taqueria opens and make sure I get the right description. All this will sound really weird when I describe someone that does exist that doesn't exist. Walking in in a rather sort of smart looking blouse and sort of smart skirt, a comfortable looking shoes well worn and a small sort of bag that appears to have some sort of heft to it. It comes the person you know is as Helen trunk from Costco and she spots you from a mile away with your sombrero. And your margarita. You have similar ages her hair is sort of pulled back into a bun quite tidally because she's sort of effortlessly. f f uck I swear it's not me there's been drinking effortlessly. fall asleep. That's the one she easily slides onto the store next to yours and sort of flags down the bartender and what the server looking for a drink and a bite to eat.
Rafa:Could you just remind me of how I met her or what's our relationship?
Snyder’s Return:Your relationship is more down the do gooders sort of activist side of things or she is not strictly an activist herself. She has gained a name for herself as a gala de de Plata.
Rafa:You are ya
Snyder’s Return:la isla de plata, the Silver Eagle, there we go, you
Rafa:platinum Eagle. Very good.
Snyder’s Return:One of these days I actually take up learning a different language and completely mess that up as well. So she saw her she is more known through reputation to you but this is potentially not the first time you've met. She is depending on how this conversation goes. She is an ally.
Rafa:Potentially I'll keep that in mind.
Snyder’s Return:And she comes and sits down and orders something at eat it just a small bite. So and a drink and everything seems sort of calm everybody's going about their lives around you. Which is sort of a twist slightly and kind of stolen turns to you. So what brings you here?
Rafa:So first of all, you look lovely, love the outfit.
Snyder’s Return:I've just come from work.
Rafa:Well, you look classy. But
Snyder’s Return:anyway enough with the lights. How can I help you?
Rafa:Okay, and I'll put the Sombrero to decide I am looking for someone and I'll take out the red thread and put it on a table in front of her. Maybe you know the person I'm looking for
Snyder’s Return:Yes, I got
Rafa:it and where I can find her.
Snyder’s Return:I know you must be thinking of as she purposely looks, you know, rather softly not not like snapping her neck from side to side in a quick scan, but sort of almost pricking her neck a little bit and looking around double checking where where people are and all the rest of it. Are you sure you seek her?
Rafa:She has challenged me in a way she has infiltrated my system. And I do take that very personal I do know more or less who she is. And the society more or less that she lives in our controls. I guess it's the underworld but I do not know where it is. I don't seek any trouble per se. But I do want to look her in the eyes and have a talk
Snyder’s Return:if you're sure I can give you one lead which may lead to if if you're sure you want it I'm very
Rafa:sure yes. As you wish
Snyder’s Return:you must look for the bowl is the the underground fighting club in the industrial district it's rift only so you do get in but it is rough.
Rafa:This is the ball the ball Yes. I actually didn't know there was such thing sounds fun.
Snyder’s Return:If you want to if you want to find the underground then the underground fighting Club is a good place to stop. She has competitors go there for for sport and yeah gambling. It's quite an event I think you'd like it. But that is your best way to find her.
Rafa:That's very helpful. Thank you very much do you have any name any contact or any fighter that could be directly involved with
Snyder’s Return:a can do even better speak to the the owner at that time he will or he he runs runs the runs the ball as it were and I'm sure he has his ties direct Eddie that I gala La Plata says hi and it'll talk without saying like a threat. It's it's friendly. Friendly. Welcome. That's not an ominous
Iona Starling:ominous in the goddamn slightest. It's all fine, everyone. It's all okay, we can trust her. She's fuckin trustworthy
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Rafa:It's the only lead I've got. Well, if that's going to help me, you have my thanks. And I'll certainly owe you something.
Snyder’s Return:If if you happen to hear anything about to Tizen is operations is Jaggu isn't sicarius there? The irony of the cities down in La Colonia de sandless? You live in
Unknown:Bahia Sure.
Rafa:I'll keep my eyes on yours. Okay. Thank you very much. I'll take a look at the bowl. And Rafa kind of cue stands up. gives her a wink and leaves. He pays obviously, but he leaves
Snyder’s Return:the bill. Yep, probably. She'd be she begrudgingly pays Damn you on a teacher's wage and everyone.
Rafa:As she leaves your heel covered
Snyder’s Return:as she as you leave and then having paid the bill such a gent he leaves and we follow her through through from streets and disappearing off into an alien and to totally steal a reference into a phone booth. We're out of the bag. She pulls a like a luchadores mask effectively, and a change of outfit. And we see that what was sort of concealed almost is the powerful frame of Helen trapasso become a gala platter. As we hear fighting gunshots in the distance as she peels out of this phone booth and disappears off into La Colonia disarm breasts to deal with street gang wars.
Rafa:Get him? Girl? Can you just repeat the name of Theo something something I didn't get to add to Tez to touch. That's. That's good.
Dr. Henry Edwards:You may remember him as the avatar from our previous game.
Snyder’s Return:Yes. Have you
Rafa:to Okay. Yes. Yes, uncle.
Snyder’s Return:He's a cool back. So yes.
Unknown:And wow.
Rafa:Other things. Wow. That guy I do not want to get well. Okay.
Iona Starling:I don't I don't get it. I don't get him. I was with your last game.
Rafa:You were not he's, he's he's a friendly guy is a very cool. Chill. No, no, not at all. Scary.
Unknown:Not at all.
Iona Starling:Not at all. He has never killed anyone. Are you talking about? He's not responsible for a single death
Snyder’s Return:mess with his daughter. It's all good.
Iona Starling:Okay, I can respect that respect.
Rafa:So, the refer
Snyder’s Return:Where are you going now? Or what are you doing now with this new information? Are you doing anything else or shall we shift around?
Rafa:I will. I do want to kind of set a cure Aquarii Heurich weary query query to my to my hacktivists friends for them to investigate to or get some information for some later time. It is not it doesn't it's not a priority, but it's just already cute. I do. I do want to check out the ball but I will. Ken would it be possible for me to go home and get equipment that I probably would have laid around like say a taser.
Snyder’s Return:Well, why don't we since all of you have done something why don't we do a montage? Yeah
Rafa:okay next time with more enthusiasm every time we do
Unknown:Tosh on time
Rafa:montage
Snyder’s Return:pop up I'm gonna turn the page around. So a montage whenever your character has some downtime which is What this is, you can give attention to your logos or extra themes, and explain how you're doing it. You can work the case to everybody how you prepare to do that and gain three clues. Explore your MIT. Explore your mythos, prepare for your next activity or recover from your last activity. So who would like to describe the intentions first?
Rafa:Tell me recover when you to recover? Not only
Iona Starling:do I oh my god, I do, don't I? How many tags do I got that I need to fucking deal with?
Unknown:Um,
Iona Starling:yeah, by the way, I saw a stab wound. can I recover from that? He's
Unknown:gonna recover it wages coagulated shot. Yeah. So this
Dr. Henry Edwards:bleeding heavily this entire time. That's it. I feel like
Iona Starling:maybe she kind of like I like to imagine that she kind of so infected three. I can't do anything about until Veronica's powers come under? Um,
Rafa:story. Something I do want to ask, too, because I still have infected one.
Iona Starling:Yeah, we don't. I don't think it's confirmed whether or not Veronica knows whether she she can pull. Like, I was gonna say something. And I didn't.
Snyder’s Return:Well restrained. Yeah.
Iona Starling:Um, if she can remove her influence from someone yet if she has that control? And if she does, whether she's going to do it at all? Um, she'd probably ask, I would probably ask her if she could. Um, and if she says no, then it's no. But yeah, I'd like to recover from my stab wound. First of all, can I show you? Yeah, I can.
Snyder’s Return:I'm sure your brother who works in a hospital and isn't is a trained doctor could probably help you with that. And
Iona Starling:we're gonna we're gonna get for that. Bye. Bye. Bye. Um, what else is gone? Yeah, hungers gone. Definitely. minus that. Go away. Thank you. Um, hunger is gone. is stabbed gone. or
Snyder’s Return:not is gone. No, stop this girl. Okay, stabbed
Iona Starling:is gone. Okay, go away. Um, I feel a positive reinforcement. I'm gonna keep that. So I'll pull that out of RAS at some point. I'm infected three. If
Dr. Henry Edwards:I think that status is a little too old to be keeping. Remember.
Iona Starling:That was one. All right. Okay. Yeah. All right.
Dr. Henry Edwards:gave her the speech.
Iona Starling:How about infected three, if I want to ask Veronica, if it's all possible to pull her influence from someone? Is that possible for her?
Snyder’s Return:You see Veronica, trying to sort of draw back influence, shall we say? And acted? So I'd say you're effective three, come down to a two and potentially refers could be be removed. By Earth very least it would stay as a one until Yeah.
Dr. Henry Edwards:A good shot of penicillin. You'll be fine.
Iona Starling:Yeah, that always works out. Um, I just realised something about my spying thing. Right. So like the idea was because you know, the Miss covers the massive dragon form ideally, you know, person without mythos can't see her. Right What won't be able to recognise her as something of anything? Correct, but I just like to a agian that if there's some rift on the dock, and they just see a massive fucking dragon standing in an alleyway just all the time, just all the time just staring there. And they just have to go about their regular fucking business
Dr. Henry Edwards:going on top of a house like a really weird house cat.
Iona Starling:Yeah, like, like doing the little loaf thing. You know? They like curl their paws in like loafing there. And just staring at their dick of a boss. Like, for like hours on end. And I got to see how to train you. And I just like the idea of like, some guy like gonna be going through like, what are you doing? And she's like, buying
Unknown:you know? Me just want rails that people Yeah.
Snyder’s Return:But what I will say is the bow you don't know who they are, at this point that there will be wrist at the dock. Oh, no, absolutely
Iona Starling:no I'm not I'm not saying anyone does show up. I'm just saying it'd be really an interaction like that happens.
Snyder’s Return:So, you have been recovering from your last activity given a number of different help giving different health in different areas, should we say sort of covers you, Iona. Rafa or Dr. Edwards, please?
Rafa:Well, for me, it would be pretty simple. I would prepare for my next activity, which is visiting the bowl. And I would like to gain three juice because I don't have any part eggs right now. And basically investigating a little bit how people over dress who are the people running the place, how the betting system works, and just not going in there. Like a green horn not knowing how rules work.
Snyder’s Return:I like the highlighter. I like that.
Rafa:Green. Yeah. Knowing a little bit what he can and what he shouldn't do.
Snyder’s Return:Right. Yeah, you can suss out to the etiquette as it were. So you would effectively there's a line of attendance and a line of competitors that would would go to the bowl. How would you not appear as a green horn that the betting works on? Sort of individual? I was gonna say Thompson's wrong word. Not scalpers. What's the word I'm going for the people that walk around to take bets betters this book. Yeah, bookies why why did that word not spring to mind. There are bookies that come around and work for the house effectively. They all offer odds, to those interested in betting. The the etiquette for getting in just appears to be turn up. And don't be a dick. Basically, this is a club, it's an underground club for fights and socialising. And pretty much no funny business as it were, there are no conflicts between factions or businesses or or rivals, if you want to sort something out, you either take it outside, or you take it into the bowl itself and scrap it. fight it out.
Rafa:That's great. I would maybe keep a couple of my activists, colleagues kind of on standby if I need some help. Last minute information just to kind of give them a text or a call and say Yo, I need this. Okay, yeah, that would be more or less for me.
Snyder’s Return:Alright. And Dr. Edwards, please.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Don't have it. Seems I couldn't just improve. Let's go with work the case. Okay. Dr. Edwards is going to commit a small amount of shifts you
Iona Starling:know, that was the response. You know, that was it.
Dr. Henry Edwards:A small amount of researchers do getting a little background information on his compatriots. It's always good to know what skeletons are in which closets? So I've got three clues. Question for ivory? Yeah. What deep secrets? Is Iona keeping? Or what is a unpleasant secret that I own is keeping.
Iona Starling:I'm not sure. It'd be so much of a secret, but there was a slaughter at her home. Several armed assailants broke into her house, with her brother in there. And it the printed stories says that they seem to have killed each other and self defence of not self so as they seem to have killed each other I'm in over arguing over money or something like that. But in reality it's not known what killed half of them it seemed to have been the work of a beast of some kind, but the police have mostly kept a quiet
Dr. Henry Edwards:so same question for Rafa what is a dark secret and what what is the one thing Rafa least wants anyone to know. We
Rafa:so Rafa has been working in the mist scene for a while he had a crew before, like you maybe would know. And but he did work a good amount of time alone and had his successes had his maybe unpleasantries but there was one case of kidnappings that happened and where he was and he ended up trying to catch the kidnappers and got caught himself more or less. It is not known what really happened but the people involved in the kidnapping or the gang involved kidnapping were also found dead slaughtered and sometimes even in pieces missing large chunks of their bodies. Not only the kidnappers, but only that also the kidnapped piece or kidnap
Dr. Henry Edwards:victims.
Iona Starling:There's your word yes.
Rafa:Many of them also were found either dead in pieces or missing. Rafa also spent a lot of time kind of unconscious, but with light injuries.
Iona Starling:Oh, hi. Looking five. Solidarity baby.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Clue number three. And ivory. You or Adam can answer this one. Depending on how you have arranged the answer what unethical activities is Tobia involved in?
Iona Starling:I mean, my I don't know. I can't say I feel like the version I created would have no dark shit hidden his darkest shit might be his his sister and her more willingness to be a broom if necessary. But I don't know if Adam has created something else.
Snyder’s Return:I have not Tobia is the paragon of good effectively has I won't say he has he is still human. He has flaws but he does not. He's not connected. So far as he is aware to any underhanded or secretive activities or criminal law or industrial or medicinal. He believes very much in the the good of his own abilities and in the good of people is sickly sweet. It almost were his. His goal is to provide care for others sometimes at the detriment of himself.
Iona Starling:So you're not getting any care on him because he has no dirt because
Dr. Henry Edwards:he's amazing. That is gross. Dr. Edwards needs a shower.
Snyder’s Return:That's not to say others above or associated with Tobia but Tobia directly in of his own actions is not involved with anything underhanded is
Dr. Henry Edwards:not ethically compromised as far as he is aware. Correct.
Rafa:What Rafa found out when he looked beyond the myth that he was a good dwarf. Basically, yeah, for the for healing and socket
Dr. Henry Edwards:the healing on sudden spirit.
Iona Starling:Yeah, yeah. Yes. He's a cool guy. I love them
Rafa:now I need a shower
Dr. Henry Edwards:wholesome in here Stop it
Snyder’s Return:to wholesome I've made sure there is one wholesome character the whole the rest of the of the city is falling into a pit of despair. And
Iona Starling:you can thank me for that character. I did that I brought him in,
Snyder’s Return:brought him to life.
Dr. Henry Edwards:You had to counterbalance the sheer amount of edge you were presenting otherwise.
Iona Starling:Exactly. Exact
Dr. Henry Edwards:risk of cutting ourselves on the hard edges of your
Iona Starling:character. Yes, thank you. Someone gets it.
Snyder’s Return:Did it Okay, so everyone, I believe everyone has taken time to do their own particular actions in the montage. So d-ark is stay with us good luck. Stay with us. Sir. He's a trooper. Probably on the killed Craig. So with owner recovering Rafa preparing on the doctor trying to get in under the skin of the assets to whom he is associated with. Refer you're gonna take the others with you to the bone. Are you doing that single handedly?
Rafa:The most I would do is text and invite a owner with. Hey, Ariana, I'm going to check out an underground boxing place. I'm not trying to look for any trouble. But if you have time, I could use some muscle interrogation, interrogation integration. There enough people at a time in place X and Y
Iona Starling:Yeah, I wait before we continue. Can you just say what was on that? That tape again? I want to write it down properly. I missed it. The second one the one not from the doctor.
Rafa:Oh, that was a joke was
Snyder’s Return:that was stolen. Oh, it
Iona Starling:was a joke. I thought you'd like forgot to tell me what was it? No.
Snyder’s Return:I was let's take on the SOAR recordings. Yeah, okay.
Unknown:Um,
Rafa:it's an invitation if you want to
Snyder’s Return:see one I can absolutely facilitate that storyline.
Iona Starling:Genius I don't want to do a storyline where someone gets the mysteries of Jigsaw technically
Snyder’s Return:you just don't know which of the many threads to pull to to move that particular storyline forward. Anyway.
Iona Starling:Yeah, I guess I own a joined up with him then. i And yeah, when when she gets there, she says you know, as your bodyguard, I feel like I'm morally responsible to drag you away from the situation right now.
Rafa:Maybe. Okay, but you only live once. I mean, have you ever been to a boxing match?
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