My name is Martin and my character is a okay Cho.
Unknown:All right. Laughing did
Snyders Return:as the group x out the back and we sort of watch as they come out almost like a top down view they sort of drift out a little bit of laughing and joking you can see them sort of pointing towards the main road and following. Looking to get back onto that and start to make their way out we see almost like a whisper wind or shadow that sort of tails. The mountain joins the the recesses, the dark recesses in the alleyway, a shift and along as they move along the road, heading to a more industrial sort of area, even in this small section of suburbia, there's still a small area of of sort of industrial buildings. And they move past that to me. They they move past this industry or past any of the last of the houses here in suburbia, and you see beyond them or Yuki there's a sort of rusted look in changning Thanks. And given your angle beyond that, you can see what looks like cars, sort of shells of cars piled up on top of each other. There's just a massive of twisted metal beyond a new watch as they move down this team that thanks to sort of a gateway and they all just turn and move into this this sort of forsaken junkyard.
Aoki Cho:Interesting Okay, well, we found a junkyard that first of all, I would maybe text Nina and give her a little heads up that I have found clues about Emily's whereabouts. And that I am right now in this junkyard and I will hope that she's doing fine as I kind of adventure in this plays off metal and rust.
Snyders Return:Nice. Nina your phone goes off. I'm sure Jarvis will be keen to answer it for you but your phone starts going off in your pocket.
Nina de Silva:Well that's a way to break pension. I quickly look just just like to look at just break this type of we have
Snyders Return:who's on the phone?
Nina de Silva:Excuse me. Just get a good look at something in just seconds. I'll destroy you in a minute.
Snyders Return:Brave words lady. Brave word. I respect you. Just a little bit. Yeah.
Nina de Silva:I checked. Well, Erica has sent me I realised a bit more time has passed that I have hasn't dissipated because my phone look back at this time slot. And I'm gonna um you know, it takes about, I would say 90 minutes, but I can make it quicker for a body to completely carbonise and then he starts feeling like a bit hotter than he should be feeling because I'm going to burn him.
Snyders Return:All right. We will go
Aoki Cho:That was not expected.
Nina de Silva:I mean, I'm giving him the chance to just, you know, hand me the control over the the appear. Yes. Okay,
Snyders Return:hit with all you've got,
Nina de Silva:I'm going to be using burn organic material. And I'm going to use, I would say in control him and the ends justify them. I've also won, I can also not use in control, like it depends on how many times you want because I also don't want to just make it to overpower
Snyders Return:you can still roll low no matter how many you could potentially still roll sort of snake eyes and fail or miss.
Aoki Cho:But yes, okay, considering that you're kind of alone right now, I would say that.
Nina de Silva:That's true. That's all for I'm gonna do does his status apply? Like a good friend status? I don't, I wouldn't. I don't know.
Snyders Return:I would say not initially, because you're sort of springing this on him. I'm going to show pies. Um, alright, so you get to choose. So you can take the superior physician so he can't hit you back, you can get them good by giving us a status. So you get to do two of these. You can get more than one of them. He does have buddies with him, you can control the collateral damage if you so wish. Or you could hold their attention or gain the upper hand. So give yourself object
Nina de Silva:I would say I'm going to both get them good. So get done his life good. And also get the screw. Like his crew will also start getting crispy.
Aoki Cho:Just send a cleaner team that you have on backup somewhere on your company until just sort of
Nina de Silva:fine she's really doing a customer she can she she knows her way out of this if anyone would like even think about connecting carbonised bodies to a cu that's just like you know, pretty slim and gorgeous. And also you have Jarvis
Aoki Cho:to cover oil trucks.
Unknown:Yeah, that's that's true. Java's gonna go to jail for me.
Snyders Return:What a guy Oh, nice to know how you treat your workforce. What is it that suppose so, you see his hand starts to blister on his forearms as sort of the the heat within generate within the skin starts to take effect and rippling and blister the outside and he starts swearing and holding something chronic with this burning pain and so does a few of the crew as you sort of spread this effect wider. And as he sort of comes to terms with the realisation that his hands are about to sort of boil from the inside almost. He's like Alright, alright. We got what we want Victor's gonna come and pay us so fuck it Lady of the crane pitch off
Nina de Silva:us okay. I just I quickly text Aoki back Yeah, I'm heading to just give me a second and I will yet get my Chromebook I will still call the police and and to the container and to Stanislav and I'll make sure that you know he's ruined for the rest of his life. The now just yeah, call Jarvis. I think I think we're done here.
Snyders Return:Do me a change the game for the police.
Unknown:Okay.
Nina de Silva:I don't even know what I would do is like change the game for a while like in which
Snyders Return:you were kind of Foley's response. Are you going to get this is you sort of using the example taken out the the players guide with Excalibur. I want to see quite what risks you get from the police.
Nina de Silva:Okay. I would say I'm gonna use alternative rock for that. Do you know who I am? I think I was thinking about local big players. But I this tag is more in the sense that she knows people. It's not a police.
Aoki Cho:You can you can know the chief.
Nina de Silva:I can. I can know the chief of the police. Yeah, I just find that Yeah. Where are his students?
Snyders Return:Miles success
Unknown:it still makes sense. It's a nine.
Snyders Return:So we'll create the story tag of police response. So while you're here, here are the docks that will remain in effect however the response you get down the phone isn't exactly sort of rush all guns blazing. swats gonna turn up in five minutes kind of thing. That like, yeah, yeah. Well, yes, it's great. We'll we'll send a couple of cars around in a bit. Just Just hang tight. And we'll, we'll send someone down that way. You say ps 71. Oh, yeah. Okay. I don't think
Nina de Silva:so. Yeah, just just take. take us home.
Snyders Return:Oh, thank you. What do you do?
Nina de Silva:You do I make my way and swiftly like, okay, yeah, the crane, taking two cranes back and make sure that really like everyone's not gonna do anything against me. Like science labs still, like we're doing our other thing that is not going to shoot me. And I will move to the location that I okay said me.
Snyders Return:So as you get in the car, and Jarvis turns the car around and starts heading away from the dock, you see. Stan is low, Stein is low. Get his guys to pass the crane controls over. about sort of swiftly happens. And you can see him so whimpering away back to a container. And as he hits the container to sort of breast against it, there's almost the sound of voices coming from the inside. And boots it sit with his heel. He's like, and we follow you, as you start heading across town, across the city. I okay. Yeah, I think I owe keep, what are you doing? While you wait for Nina to arrive?
Aoki Cho:I'll think I I'll still try to go follow the group, I just kind of did a quick text and kept on following them, seeing where they might end up.
Snyders Return:So the group have sort of moved further into this junkyard, and some of them have sort of scattered off to different places, some of them have gone to sort of chill out in already sort of broken down cars and stuff like that, but sort of three of them have kept the attention of this, this new member of the group. And you can see them sort of drift through to the back, or at least towards the middle of this junkyard area, the scrap yard. And they seem to seem to be giving this this new person like a like a set of instructions that you can see them sort of starting to stand in, in certain positions, almost forming a small circle between them. And every time they they stop and do something, they then explain what they're doing to the new person, the new guy as it were. And you see them sort of form a circle and put one arm up in the air and then down again and then one arm, the same arm seems to go into the middle of the of the sort of the circle they've created, and then comes back out again. And then the other arm. They're not doing the Macarena or anything like that. It's just what they do. They seem to sort of repeat this a couple of times as though sort of gauging or gaining trust and drilling in a almost muscle memory response. One turns and nods to another and they turn away from the circle and they go out of sight from where you currently are. And they move into between some of the cars or broken down vehicles as they are. Some of them would be hard to tell what they were and they return with an item that you can't quite see from your location and go back into the circle stance.
Aoki Cho:Okay. I want to I think readiness to There. I want to ask him to scout the area and take a look if there are any more people there. And maybe if he finds some other new people are people who who look a little bit different, maybe, just maybe Adam and Emily. Not that I really know how they look like, but maybe he can find a boy and a girl who clearly aren't really fit in to that place right now.
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Snyders Return:All right, as Raiden sort of starts to begin to move. There's a kind of a strange kind of crosswind that seems to deviate and and distracts Braden a little bit for a second and just on on the wind to your ear. You hear you hear a name? Sort of whispers past you from between the scrapyard cars of the name is Fujin for chat kind of referred through. I'm hoping the law is correct.
Aoki Cho:Okay. Just Just can explain again how how I hear it. It's spy I didn't quite catch that.
Snyders Return:It sort of whispers on the wind. But it's okay. It's clear enough for you to hear it. Fujin is Brighton's brother by the looks of it. Oh,
Unknown:that is cool.
Snyders Return:I am gonna verify that before I absolutely lie to you. Fujin and his, including his brother, Rajan was born from his anatomy. After she died. I said, Sorry, I didn't realise that only to escape the underground. Oh, there you go. Yeah, brother.
Aoki Cho:Yeah. Oh, cool.
Snyders Return:So yes, the the name that whistles down the wind through these these rotted cars that rusty cars that distracts right and catches your ear as it's carried off in the wind once again.
Aoki Cho:Okay, I probably have a little cold shiver running down my
Snyders Return:spine. As you sort of regained your senses for want of a better description. You do a Raiden does a a sort of single sweeper and his time with you is is sort of running, running out running low by this point. As he sort of scattered a large area having been with you from the coffee shop onwards, and he spots a few isolated individuals. One is a male who seems to be off to one side, talking on a mobile phone. They don't seem to be any females on their own. There's a boy and girl male and female From the group who would just off to one side but the others are all very much sort of concentrating on what is happening here in this circle and as okay fair enough as read and sort of finishes his sweep and comes back to relay this the there is the sound of a car coming to a controlled and yet somehow abrupt halt several 100 feet or metres behind you as Jarvis allows Nina to exit the vehicle
Nina de Silva:Java is a such an MVP
Unknown:Yes
Snyders Return:Mrs. Mr. Silva
Nina de Silva:oh she froze that look around the same location that your food through at the docks like absolutely not belonging like a to them not wishing to see what she was saying like she has she had dresses not belonging to wash washes. So yeah, she just gives that like deep sigh again. She looks for Okay, I don't know if I can see him is he hidden like
Aoki Cho:I will meet you in front of the of the junkyard as soon as I I see that you're
Unknown:coming.
Nina de Silva:This is all supposed to be well.
Aoki Cho:I have followed this kids from to school and they met in a coffee shop and have at least reference Emily and her school peers I believe that they have something to do with the objection or at least they have somewhat of a clue. There's there's also some other information I gather but I don't know how far they are involved when this were with this and Well I'll tell her about the blood test and global genetics and the free checkups and the unknown irregularities and maybe you can do something with that name. But right now that is none of the matter they are they just recruited some kind of new student and are I believe performing some kind of ritual as we speak so character dreamy
Nina de Silva:what ritual just sounds lovely like a bit yeah, like what it is from students to ritual
Aoki Cho:you know how such a group of teenagers can be with their ideas and ideologies? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Nina de Silva:sure. Sure. Okay. You know, I think I should just see it I think the the way Okay,
Snyders Return:so as you are you just cruising back in Are you attempting to remain concealed from sight?
Aoki Cho:Well, I myself will be still kind of stealthy I don't know if about Nina.
Nina de Silva:I will do what you do. So yeah, I'll be
Aoki Cho:I'll just guide her to just one place that I was kind of looking at and show her the view of more or less what's going on.
Snyders Return:So I will say that you Aoki know where to tread and where to stand but I'd still like a sneak around from Nina given her choice of footwear and general bearing
Nina de Silva:oh no Yeah, yeah. Right I'm gonna say I could use I'm gonna use the tax later food to sleep through the everything like the garbage and whatnot, but I would honestly take a minus from my clothes alone. There's not a tag for that. But I would do it
Snyders Return:because I have been saying I'm dressed flashy and in heels all we could generate a story tag with respect to your attire, your clothing, but we'll just roll with the the sliver, the plus one and see how kind of the gods of role 20 are for you. Now they usually
Aoki Cho:hope that I haven't soaked up everything.
Snyders Return:It's a monster.
Aoki Cho:I love how you you named the park
Snyders Return:x through beautiful Kate so As IoT, you start to move and and lead the way in many your step is less delicately placed, it is not like heavy boot prints. But, you know, you accidentally catch a piece of metal, which knocks another bit and gives a sound out. And that that sound, though not massively sort of loud is it's not some Dolorous tone that rings out. But there's enough just in it, just as one sort of scrap metal rubs against the next and then scuffs against the floor. That the group,
Aoki Cho:at least make it a junk elephant junk garbage.
Snyders Return:It says complicate things not absolutely just ruin the place. So as as one piece of metal, someone knocks against another and then slides on the floor and you get that sort of odd sort of scuffing scraping sound, one of the members in the circle, you notice them sort of tense for a moment about the hand movements, you would sin before a joke, they seem to pause as the sort of group starts then looking left and right and back over their shoulders trying to suss out whether this odd new sound is coming from and you see that the ritual the the strange occurrence that was was happening seems to have been brought to a standstill,
Aoki Cho:which is probably not a bad thing.
Unknown:If you think about it,
Snyders Return:so one of the habits, just I haven't spotted you directly, you certainly disrupted the flow of what was going on. And so you can see them sort of chatting in amongst themselves and they start looking at you know, a couple of them pull out phones and have a look and a few of them seem to be sort of looking at watches and things
Aoki Cho:I will turn to Nina and I'll Sq Miss Would you rather fancy
Unknown:less
Aoki Cho:quiet approach and just talk to them? straightaway. Yeah, I was gonna ask but I suddenly turned British okay.
Snyders Return:Whatever works?
Aoki Cho:Yeah, it's a question.
Nina de Silva:Um, yeah, you see Nina tend to last quite a purge cuz she just came from a rather like, literally, situation in the dock. And then she just relaxes nothing says, talk to them. Um, if we just take quiet a little like, Don't move, don't even breathe. What like for a few seconds, what happened? Like she Nina just like raises a hand like a poem like this, like just top like first tiny second. She just wants to see what happens if nothing as you
Snyders Return:sort of raise your palm and and see what's happening the the group starts to finish their conversation and dissipate and they start drifting, some of them start drifting just back in your general direction back towards them, the entrance to the scrap yard. A few of them seem to just loiter behind and seem to be talking with the this male individual who joined them as the others drift past. And they kind of give you a general direction, a kind of an odd kind of side, I try to suss out what's going on, but they drift on out. And they seem to be almost mimicking each other's actions. It's hard to sort of pick out if it's intentional was someone subconsciously or what but they kind of stride the same kind of move the same that that look out the corner of the eye in the general location is almost like a double exposure. As they sort of seem to do it simultaneously,
Aoki Cho:they are all kids. What's the worst that could happen? We can stop spying on them and just ask what is going on? Maybe it is just fall prank gone wrong
Nina de Silva:here to believe we won't gain anything by saying here. Let's just get it out there just Yeah, let's go.
Aoki Cho:Do you want to go in front or not
Nina de Silva:she never goes in front. I always have like some sort of bodyguard or like anything that can act as a barrier you
Aoki Cho:set the girl who just went to the pier alone and killed almost killed a bunch of people by herself. But yeah, sure.
Unknown:She just doesn't want to do it straight.
Aoki Cho:You're still still still have candling or an adrenalin high from the last encounter. Okay, okay. I get
Unknown:I've had a busy,
Aoki Cho:okay, sure, then we will just kind of walk into there and try try to get their attention, or
Snyders Return:Yeah, three. So as you approach there's sort of three left plus this. So as people have drifted off, there's now two left plus the new member membership status yet to be confirmed. But as you approach to the two you're watching, or the two from the original group, the distributors, this new person, again, both turn almost exactly the same time, it is uncanny how they mirror each other's movements in in this way. And then they sort of break concentration looking at you for a second and go back speaking to this, this other individual, and then you can see them so looking kind of shifty as you approach the three of them.
Aoki Cho:Okay. Then I will tell them, forgive me, young men, I am looking for a girl called Emily. I believe that she might be with you. Can you maybe help me? Do you have any information about her whereabouts
Snyders Return:as you as you go to sort of speak to the two who sort of mimicked each other's actions. They seem to sort of their lips closed, tighter and have a not cooperating three status on each of those two, as they sort of with almost tense their facial muscles to restrict speaking the third individual who's, you know, just welcomed, just been brought along to the scrapyard by the group. He's like, show, what's up? What's up? Really close?
Aoki Cho:Would you maybe care to tell me what is going on here? This doesn't look a very safe place for young men, like yourself to
Snyders Return:be. You know, it's just somebody to come and hang out. They've started a bit of a club with the squatty infection club. You know, it's
Aoki Cho:UK.
Snyders Return:Do you want the infection club? I used to joke infection. I think it's just a joke after, you know, short the blood test and that they were doing i think is just just a name. They came up with just a bit of a laugh.
Nina de Silva:Wait, what does the blood test have to do?
Snyders Return:Well, they were checking to see if he had any infections or anything. So this group started up called the infection club and every so often, you know, people join so right.
Nina de Silva:And what what makes it be a cart What? What do you offer for people to join one to join? Click.
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