Meddlers, Monsters and Madmen - 08 - The Search Begins - City of Mist TTRPG

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Iona and her brother Tovia try to ascertain information about a patient, and Rafa follows leads to a Highschool.

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Rafa: 0:00

Hey, this is Rafa and welcome to MEDLARS monsters

Snyders Return: 0:03

magnet. Later this hour we'll let you know how a cat stuck up a tree caused havoc in the independence district. But first because over the Pete pigskin Taylor on the sports desk.

LoserMLW: 1:03

Hey everybody some big stories on the sports desk day as we move into preseason his teams begin their warm ups to the regular fixtures. The biggest news is ballroom based as the acquisition of the Titans was completed by Chow industries incorporated this morning. What this means for coaching staff and roster is yet to be fully revealed. What fans will notice on their first attendance is a name change to fair wins arena, which may cause strong feelings of fans tied to the original name. Another big talking point is Mendez arm. haven't shown great talent last season. Scouts reports from training have shown some fluctuations in their performance. No doubt coach burgmeier will be hoping the limelight hasn't blinded them and they don't drop the ball this crucial season until next time, go tightens

Iona Starling: 1:54

sometimes feels like it's impossible to relax in the city in the slightest. Lucky that Toby Roscoe were far enough away from the explosion done in the doctor. Maybe if I really want to stretch it that far. Probably not. He was alive. At least fortunately. Well, maybe. Fortunately, that day. It suggested that might not be the best thing in the world. I thought he knew something more than he was lying on but this is really starting to take the cake. The fire out is loud but it was suspicious enough but those men they were professionals for the risk. The inseam blind to what we could do when they knew exactly what they were doing. That was a targeted sweet that was that wasn't trying to lock the place down or check see if anyone's heard that was they were wiping away or they're all trying to hide something because labs knew we were right about suspicious. Rafa, it was good of him to try and grab that evidence from the computers before they could wipe it away. But he pushed himself too far. I could feel it. What he did with the building, it was too much. Now he might be a target. Do you like failing to protect focus upon that. So they're definitely doing something that was a lab they were testing. People like that man walking out of the fire. Maybe it has something to do with the people like us. or Africa or something. I got some pieces of paper. We try to grab us. That was the thing that really pissed me off. She didn't ask nicely he tried to grab us. Who knows knock us out? Or isn't us. It doesn't matter. He was being hostile them and it doesn't matter what texts Rafa sent me about him being a good guy. I know about one when I see him and I don't think I can trust that doctor in the slightest. I'm going to have to see if I can protect people from him and make sure no one else ends up in another maybe convenient explosion

Snyders Return: 4:09

only you spend time with your brother Toby or at the hospital. He was here along with the other doctors and surgeons on call and others were dealing with injuries and unfortunately some fatalities from the explosion in the blue collar part the city from where you have been previously engaged with activity in activities with the Rafa Rafa and Dr. Woods your discourse has come to some sort of Concord between the pair of you and understanding with your refer attempts to keep owner in the loop. So we pick up as the the sort of the new day begins. Each of you have had time to rest and think on the last day or so, what has been happening? News reports about the fire are just that coming over the TV coming on on the radio is small fire put out by local fire service in the downtown area, some fatalities. And then it moves on to the sport in the weather. There's very little time given to to explore that narrative that each of you have a little bit more insight within. So are you all together? Have you all gathered from where have you gathered?

Rafa: 5:46

As far as the question? Yeah, as far as I remember, I left the doctor's house. And I was on my way to the school, which I wanted to investigate. The other possibility was to see Dr. Drake's house. But Hyde was already on the way there. So I chose to go to the other lights. And then kind of what I I texted Ayana, telling her also that she had the choice of either maybe meeting me after school, or if she wanted to go with Mr. Hyde, that she could go to Dr. Drake's place.

Iona Starling: 6:41

He didn't give me the address of Dr. Drake's place, by the way.

LoserMLW: 6:44

Yeah, then I would have to send it afterwards

Kelly - TTT: 6:51

wasn't a specific discussion of an address so

Snyders Return: 6:56

but an address would be known and located. It will be on company files should we say for so we can follow yourself refer heading towards the school we can follow either Iona or Dr. Woods, depending on who would like to spotlight first.

Iona Starling: 7:16

I would like to probably especially upset that the doctor now has the stuff they found. But also, she might consider him a second secondary threat to the more immediate threat of the Black Plague could walk around. Oh, so she's probably probably going to meet up with Bravo. And in the meantime, and the head there. But first thing first, I think she would like to do like, because he described here that if you see anyone with pitch black eyes are behaving strangely do not engage. Right? So I think she's actually going to try and do a quick flight around the city to see if she can spot anyone like that. Just Just take notice of their appearance and their location where they might be. And

Rafa: 8:04

you want to try to find something someone from the sky is flying.

Iona Starling: 8:09

I guess. Yeah, but also not really just walking around trying to find that that's the main goal. It doesn't matter so much the transportation as it is trying to find one of these people, just so she can gauge the threat of them, I guess.

Snyders Return: 8:24

So walking, walking around and sort of moving around parts of the city, no one sort of resembles that appearance, you you know, various areas of activity. And some areas of the city have more interesting and unruly characters, but no one sort of matches this initial description, the only the only thing you really remember. And it was almost a blink and you'll miss it moment was was back in the hospital when your brother was there was someone brought in with sort of black, almost track marks going up their arms moving through the various districts and suburbs. It takes you a long time to sort of scan every forearm check every eye people sort of going about their day moving their heads, from your obvious sort of view as you try and work people out and suss suss out their appearance. At this point in time, the only sort of half decent lead you have is the individual back in your brother's the hospital where your brother works?

Iona Starling: 9:41

Yeah, I guess I'll probably send a text to Brathwaite swingler She's going back to hospital she takes baby one of those victims or they're in the hospital right now. See if she can communicate with them. Talk with them anything, right?

Snyders Return: 9:57

All right. So as you Move back through the city head back to the hospital where your brother works. The initial panic and and almost disorientation of having multiple victims and casualties from this, the explosion and the fire just just the other, the other night has calmed down and everything seems to be returning back to some sort of normality as you sort of start to move through the wards you see a couple of familiar nurses and and even your brother ways to curiously unsure as to quite what you're doing. And he comes over and and sort of gives you a quizzical look as he approaches you.

Iona Starling: 10:52

I'm in the so. Okay, so broth has sent me this text. Um, he explained to me that yesterday, a man named Dr. Grey just here in the text. Just

Rafa: 11:13

Just say something.

Iona Starling: 11:15

Oh, so Dr. Dre some Dr. Dre key he was the one who caused the explosion yesterday. So the so Dr. Edward says apparently there's someone like us running around the abilities of the the Black Plague He's He's not a guy texter

Rafa: 11:44

Call me anytime just so you know.

Iona Starling: 11:48

And he said, though, that there's people here with with with black eyes or or they might be behaving weirdly and I was just remembering the person with like the tracks on their arms. And I was wondering if there was someone here

Snyders Return: 12:07

I only see towns very seriously. I mean, there were there were people here there and everywhere here, you saw what it was like I can I try to think who else was down there was there was Nathan and there was there was a doctor cure, right? I can ask, asked not to cure and maybe maybe they know where this this person with these track marks got you have to understand only as you saw there were there was many people with severe burns and sort of impact injuries and, you know, throw in the medical terminology out out to one side, things impaled in them like glass and things. So

Iona Starling: 12:57

I know I know. It's not really bad. I'm just

Snyders Return: 13:04

I mean, let me let me put up a page for Dr. Currie maybe more we were dealing with some of the other cases he may be aware of someone that had those distinguishing sort of injuries of afflictions I guess. We hear a moment iron are just gone. I just go and page Dr. Koh, right? Wait Why is it

Iona Starling: 13:32

you're you're doing okay. Right. You're not just just take care of yourself particularly don't push yourself.

Snyders Return: 13:41

I think you know, I've I've tried to do it do a lot. I tried to do what I can. And we've got some some really skilled, medically trained personnel here at the hospital. We were blessed with some of the best talents in the city. Maybe you want to get a day off? We can I don't know. Don't go and catch a music club or a bar or something just to just say my mind off it a little bit. Yeah.

Iona Starling: 14:10

I like that a lot.

Snyders Return: 14:14

All right, icon, icon page, Dr. Kilroy and you see him sort of sweep off down away from you just not far just down to like a nurse's station. They exchange pleasantries and he sort of reaches over grabs the phone taps, a couple of buttons. And then you hear over the tannoy system the announcement system for Dr. Kilroy to come to the the ward where you two currently are and he comes back over and says it is hoping we're gonna find some information. I mean, if this is what you said is I know we might need to put the the whole hotel on lockdown I

Iona Starling: 15:01

know what we were thinking about your clubs I don't know what it is, but I found these letters. And there was there was no examination table. I was it was not swear it's like something horrible. I mean, if this, Dr. Drake was experimenting with the abilities of a rift, I mean, God knows what else they could be doing.

Snyders Return: 15:33

Until we have more information, maybe we should keep the rift side of things just out of the shot with the others. Some people, you know, they don't understand. We don't want to cause confusion, especially here where things can be misconstrued easily. Everybody's an expert in a doctor when they have five minutes into aspirin. Yeah, so. Okay. Dr. keuro will be here in in just a minute. He's He's, he's pretty prompt. I know. He's a busy guy. He runs the place, but he's been pretty good last couple of days.

Iona Starling: 16:13

Um, I'm glad you're working. Yeah, I'm just something's going on. And please, if this is a plague thing going around, you're, you're a doctor and I don't know if your abilities protect you and protect the people. So just please be careful. This is this is something more that this is something bigger

Snyders Return: 16:50

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Snyders Return: 18:53

Okay, okay. And as the two of you sort of have this moment, and you can see your brother, Toby is sort of in he sort of looks at his hands, sort of clenches them into a gentle balls them up effectively rather than clenches them into a fist, sort of flexing his fingers just in front of him and between you. You hear a confidence that footsteps, trainers, but sort of moving briskly, swiftly but confidently down the corridor towards you. And as you look up, you see a tool sort of fairly broad blond haired, blue eyed, square jawed doctor, beautiful sort of clean, white lab coat stethoscope around their neck. He approaches the pair of you but turns to your brother first. You paid me doctor and Toby sort of collecting himself says yes, toy mat mate, you know my sister owner. She's got some concerns. I just thought I'd better bring out to you first. And Dr. Kilroy turns to you and looks down to you to these almost clear blue eyes looks down at you and smiles and says what is it what is it we can we can do for you here at the hospital?

Iona Starling: 20:34

Looks over him quickly. He's like, Yeah, I'm looking for a guy who came here he would have heard I would have looked like trademarks on his arm. I'm thinking he might have something to do with all of this going on

Snyders Return: 20:52

YouTube, come with me go and check the the admissions and and and the the records taken from the the night of the explosion see if we can narrow this down right away. All right. And as you move down the corridor, the three of you sort of led by the the tool broad blond hair blue eyed, square jawed Dr. Marty Kilroy. We shift away from you. And we join ever so briefly in a car somewhere else in the city, driving through traffic, jaw clenched blond hair, blue eyes, square jaw gripping the steering wheel growling to themselves at the traffic the recognisable face of hide as he weaves between the traffic in search of Dr. Drake's residents What are Dr Edwards and refer doing at this point in time

Rafa: 21:55

I refer will be on his way to the to high school to City High

Snyders Return: 22:02

Alright, simple enough for you to find its high school at the end of the day your your prowess with any map services and internet directories would easily pull up and address how are you getting the interest

Rafa: 22:24

probably by with the subway or walking there if if it's close enough yet now just just public transportation pretty chill. thinking a little bit about what his last conversation with the doctor was about is very not anxious.

Snyders Return: 22:51

Not anxious. It's all right. So as you sit in weave and Bob on the subway and thinking to yourself, the subway sort of pulls up to Angel heights push further out towards the suburbs and it sort of comes to a stop and throws you out of your sort of mental e compressing decompiling of various bits of information and you're able to sort of flow with the crowd up through the metro station up into the main sort of outskirts of the city you can from where you are getting clear the metro station you can look back across to see the high rise is the sort of the skyscrapers of Fortune row and and sort of the main downtown area where sort of the main hustle and the bustle is here though, you're a bit further out it's all a little bit quieter things are going about their daily lives. And you know from where you are, it would not take you too long to get through to the city higher as you approach the school grounds it's sort of new looking build it's it's more angle. It's not like an old prep or or grammar school or anything like that. This is very much a modern facility built here in Angel heights to be the new sort of standout Education Centre City High. Very few sort of pupils in and out the ground but the car park is full of cars. Both elder students and staff sort of parking and you know the the sound of wind through a couple of trees on the grounds sort of just whistle was around but they're in front of you up some steps leads into the city Hi.

Rafa: 24:56

Okay. Is it what time Have a school? Is it in the sense of, is it break time? And are students walking around? Or is it class time and everybody is supposed to be inside,

Snyders Return: 25:16

what you can see sort of getting here on close to the school grounds, it appears to be sort of class time that is the audit straggler outside of their classroom and outs out in the sort of the school grounds, but they are ones and twos rather than, you know, an entire class kicked out for a breakaway lunchtime. So very much in a educational time period rather than a recreational.

Rafa: 25:49

Okay, what I would be looking out for the entire time would obviously be someone with the described conditions. So, either black eyes or in general some kind of black stain, and also someone who would be behaving in a strange manner. So if he would be alone, or if he would be in a corner, someone by himself, I would be looking out for people like that.

Snyders Return: 26:33

Scanning the grounds as you as you move around, and more there are people who are out of classes a few dressed in, in sort of track gear, so Todd tracksuits, there's a few who are more dressed in more sort of Goth, Emo kind of dark clothing. And there's a few who were just wearing sort of tops and trousers and sort of a smart casual school attire. That doesn't seem to be a set uniform, or if there is a set uniform. Nobody you've seen so far appears to be wearing it other than that, everyone else that you can see bar chart groundskeeper out on one of the school fields appears to be inside

Rafa: 27:29

okay. And what am i How am I going to do this? I know from the information that was given me that the global genetics company did the blood blood sampling test at the school or okay, I do I do not. Okay, that's a lead and we'll have to go into the into the school anyway. This kind of reminds me of the theatre game I played with Aoki that I kind of asked the same things just kind of thinking of okay, I will kind of go in and try to convince people that I'm investigating the explosion case or and want to know if some students is from the general area that was okay, I'm going into the into the school kind of walking in and I will take a little look around not necessarily stopping at the entrance or some welcome desk if I am not stopped.

Snyders Return: 28:49

Do me I'd say it's probably a sneak around. Since you are trying to move past people we're sort of obvious perceptions.

Rafa: 28:59

Will there will there be people like an entrance or

Snyders Return: 29:04

so she would go in the long corridor along main corridor lockers sort of washrooms bathrooms off one side of the corridor classrooms down the other a reception area is about halfway down. So there are you can sort of see the shadows moving in and around your own shadow sort of as you enter the building sort of cast down onto the floor ahead of you as the light shifts from natural sunlight behind you into the sort of fluorescent lights of a school. So you are aware there are people in classrooms you are aware there are people at the reception desk.

Rafa: 29:49

Okay. I will listening around and I will just go a bit through the Judas school kind of peeking if There are maybe windows on the doors in the school, I will kind of just peek and see how the classes aren't doing. Maybe take a look at labs if there are some rooms that are empty. But yeah, I'll sneak around a little bit. Alright. I will use my part tag rearranged layout just for kind of sake of yeah, having shortcuts. And if I see that there's people coming, I can just take a left. And I will obviously use and no locked doors on it, too.

Snyders Return: 30:46

If you're trying to be quiet, you can potentially also use Leave No Trace, as well.

Rafa: 30:51

Oh, yeah, sure. I'll use that. And that will be three power. And a sneak around. That is fine ish.

Snyders Return: 31:03

It is financial. So I get to power three. So I get to choose one of the following someone on important notice you. But that's just made them important. Right? You're perceived by only by a secondary sense. Someone picks up a scent. I don't know, do you have you showered this morning, Christine was getting a message but it can't be heard or you leave something important behind or are or be discovered. I will. So as you begin to move through the corridors. By checking the rooms sort of scanning through scanning the labs, a student almost oblivious to you intent. At first sort of comes out of a classroom, grabs their phone, sort of looks to scan down the corridor to see if there's any teachers around, catches a glimpse of you goes back to their phone and begins to wander off in the direction of the toilets.

Rafa: 32:03

Okay, if I could add a way when I'm walking down the corridor, and I'm using my powers it is more or less a second nature that the aura from the monitor kind of is appears around me so it wouldn't be it wouldn't be strange or wouldn't be rare. If someone who may have a bit of fun. Have a connection with the with the mist could kind of feel like a big presence walking around if I'm not careful.

Snyders Return: 33:26

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