It's night

Discussion in 'The Spam Zone' started by Jiku Neon, Nov 22, 2012.

  1. Nate_River Hollow Bastion Committee

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    Fancy booze, then a shag while eating fancy spread on a fancy cracker, fancy lobster something or other and fancy pastry off of her soon to be uncovered body.
     
  2. Janime6 the truest queen of them all

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    Fancy booze seems all right. Maybe a fancy shag as well, hmm, yes.​
     
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    She looks at you for a moment. Then she sets down the tray in front of you and says that she doesn't want a tip and have a nice night. What is with these girls you've been running into lately? You suppose they're all spies and agents, but come on. That was clever and suave and wonderful and unprofessional and... okay, point taken. You follow her with your eyes and she talks about you with the other guy. He tells her to suck it up and get back out there. She tells him that's big talk for someone who isn't actually doing his job correctly. Technically, you don't know they said that, but you know they said that.

    You decide not to bother with them anymore. They're definitely not after you or anything with you. They're normal espionage agents. Oh well. Moving along. What do you do next?
     
  4. Janime6 the truest queen of them all

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    Look for other things or people of interest.​
     
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    Enjoy the fancy food. Fancy food is good. And probably look for people worth lots of money. They tend to attract other interesting types.
     
  6. Jiku Neon Kingdom Keeper

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    This is more of a personal thing, but you're interested in getting a little more info on this whole thing, you'll find "Safety First" when you're satisfied with the situation here. It's uncharacteristic for you to be so curious, but there's a lot to be curious about here. Thorsen is one of the richest men on the planet and he's gathering assassins from what you've read in the first two folders he's given you. Not just normal ones either, the best in the field and crazy to boot. Not only is he doing this, he's hired you and them for a two year contract with the implication that he'll kill whoever decides to refuse written into the situation. That's pretty strange. Then there's the communication mans and secretive nature of the whole operation. This isn't something he wants to be hidden for a while, this is something that never happened as far as Thorsen wants the world to be concerned. You have no details on anything really. All you know is that you're going to be pretty damned wealthy at the end of this if you make it that far. Yeah, it isn't guaranteed money. It never is. As a hostage negotiator, you learned not to be too attached to your own life. It's a bargaining chip and if you can't use it you'll lose it anyway. But that's only what you've learned from actually doing this job.

    The more important thing is the people who you've been put near so far. First, meganeko and Eff Bee. They're opposing the grand scheme. Weird thing about that? They've heard of it in spite of Thorsen's measures. They've heard of you despite your own lack of intel on the situation. They're a part of a network, no, you're also a part of that now. They use ARigato to communicate so it's possible that they're related to the inventors. But that's not necessarily true. It's problematic. They're more mysterious than Thorsen and more likely to end you on the spot with a sleeper you can't see.

    Then there's the Americans. They're in the same places as you at the same time. Is it Thorsen related? Is it something else? Either way, it's national security and it coincides with parties like this one and your arrival. Even if they don't know you like Eff Bee, they're going to be in the way the whole time unless you find a way to get ahead of them.

    That's interesting. You see Whittington talking to someone you recognize from a long time ago. A real long time ago. His name is Remiel Wesson. He's the richest man in the world that has no money, people say. By that they mean, his net worth is astronomical but he doesn't himself have any cash because it's all tied up in holdings or held by his companies or proxies. He does this to avoid being taxed that one extra time some people say. Others say that he just doesn't like money being so close. You personally think he just likes to break the system. He understands the rules and found a way to make it look like a joke. A man who can't afford a cup of coffee at Sundollar's can make a nation rise and fall at his whim. That's what you think he was after. But the reason why you know him is because he was the one who got you into hostage negotiating. When you were in college some bullies decided to mess with him. You talked them into tossing their own frat bro into the lake instead. Given that you had no actual relation to the incident on paper and they were less than intelligent folk, you didn't have to face manslaughter charges. You also saved your roommate so you called it a win.

    You are curious as to how the two of these guys met though. You were sure Whittington was a small fish, too. You should...

    [] Check your inventory.
    [] Read the conversation to the best of your abilities from here.
    [] Get into the conversation.

    This is open ended, if you choose to get into the conversation you need to say part of what you would say or give it a direction. This is an important decision so I won't progress until I see 10 vote posts or I finish the recap post.
     
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    Check what you have on you then get into the conversation. Ask him how he's been, what he's up to, etc. If they soften up, ask how they met, perhaps.​
     
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    Inventory. Small talk. Weather ****. Work ****. General ****** ****. Do that psychoanalysis thing where you cross your arms. If either of them crosses their arms too, you're in.
     
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    It's been 40k words and almost as many months. You know what that means Time for a motherfucking recap post. But this shit is so deep I can't fit it all in one post so here's part one for y'all who were confused as to what was going on.

    Snowflake.

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    The night started with Snowflake ditching her old shotgun in order to cut weight and decides to follow after a certain grumpy German bomb tech, who she thinks might be after her only contact with her next employer. She quickly loses him in her attempt at stealth whilst over-encumbered by her equipment load. So she does the natural thing and calls the target and gives him an evac order. After a short conversation she hangs up on him midsentence and heads over to a condemned building to scout out the location of the Sour Kraut.

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    When she arrives, the elevator is broken and she has to climb a good number of stairs in order to just make it to the top. It turns out that it's more than worth it, however, when she meets the man she's looking to stop at the roof level. She has a pleasant conversation with him at gunpoint and eventually convinces the star pupil of the Hitler's Youth to back down for now. Instead of just leaving him to go off and backstab she keeps an anti-tank rifle trained on him until he's out of range to enure he keeps his word. He, luckily, does.

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    Snowflake spends a few minutes looking at her phone and discovers an augmented reality application that reveals a briefcase with a video in it. The video is cryptic at best and shows herself and several other assassins and assault specialists doing their highly secretive jobs. Not exactly a pleasant thing to find, but still too little to go on even with the little, “I told you so.” message at the end. But now Snowflake knows that Remiel Wesson isn't all he says he is for certain.

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    Then she decides to take off and leave town for the time being. But first she has a few things to clear up. Firstly, there's getting all of her armaments sent over to the UK for the job. It was a simple matter coercing an old acquaintance with a debt of gratitude to do it. After a slightly awkward dressing scene, the two part ways for the last time.


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    Finally, Snowflake ends up spending what's left of the night in a Japanese themed internet cafe and makes a flight in the morning.

    Shotty

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    The day before in the magical land of England, the story moves over to the tale of Charlotte 'Shotty' Brink, the busty, short sniper. She was approached three days earlier by a man calling himself Lucas Easton. She turned down the job he was offering because he seemed decidedly untrustworthy. However, over the three days following, she found more information on the situation and found that she was replaced by her rival(one sided), a psychobitch from the States. It was due to this that Shotty began her hunt for Snowflake. Her plane to America is leaving later today.

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    After some distractions from two packages and a Tiny Dancer, Shotty gets down to business and ends her ridiculous quote unquote diet. She thinks some wicked thoughts about her rival and dresses herself for success and decides that nuns are nonthreatening. When she's dressed sufficiently modestly, the busty criminal thinks even more wicked thoughts about her rival and leaves to check a gun and board a plane.

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    In a capricious fit of fickle behavior she drops the gun and just heads straight over to the airport, where she meets her best friend in all the world. He tells her both that her rival is already on her way over the ocean and that she's probably on somebody's hitlist for turning down the job. Serious events are occurring. Wheels are turning. Irons are in the fire. After hitting him a few times, the busty, short sniper decides to ignore her plane and try to get back in on the job when her rival disembarks in the morrow.

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    Shotty busies herself with preparations for getting back in the loop and stumbles across her old 'friend' Lamarcus' shop and searches around for him a bit. When she finds him across the street on a roof, pretending not to be home, she gets a little miffed. After some threats and some barely restrained jealousy, Shotty manages to get her first real lead back onto the job. Only problem is that it was on Lamarcus' phone and it was deleted. So Shotty follows Lamarcus to see if they can retrieve the text message.

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    The friend turns out to be a douche named Travis. After some fighting and some flirting Charlotte and Travis come to an agreement.

    Safety First

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    Safety First is vacationing in Vietnam to get some rest and relaxation in his natural environment, a Cold War era minefield. After he has a near miss with a souvenir he dug up from the nearest one he finds himself in another jam of sorts due in part to his refusal to wear proper pants while he's being attacked by a disgruntled local cartel strong man. This jam is solved with some quick thinking, a hammer and a jammed AK-47, no pun intended. With his leg playing casualty in this scenario he destroys the evidence that he faked his attacker's suicide in a fire.

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    The altercation left his leg shot through and in need of more than a field medic's level of treatment. So Safety First lives up to his namesake and heads to the hospital to get properly patched up on his way to Bristol, where his next job is. The job was handed to him in a briefcase by a man named George Shaw a few days previously. This is a pretty serious looking gig, too. So serious, in fact, that Safety First decides to show up on time. Even if it means riding a train, a thing that he will always avoid due to his bad luck with them.

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    The train ride starts out pretty quiet so he decides to take a nap on his neighbor's shoulder. It's not long before he's awoken, though. The familiar sound of gunfire and the familiar scent of fire and metal. Nothing quite so good for waking up a guy. After some deliberation he decides to check out his wakeup call. Several cars are empty, but he finally stumbles upon a Russian soldier who promptly tries to kill him. Luckily, brother death was on his side that time and let him have that one.

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    With the Russian woman subdued and disarmed Safety First continued on to see an American agent confronting the other Russian soldier. The American is pretty hot, the Russian is starkly less so. As such, it's not exactly a shame to see him go, especially not after the mean things he said to our hero. The American blonde haired goddess of murder turns her attention to the subdued Russian and her captor, which is in many ways less than ideal.

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    It's not until she leaves her partner to handle the two of them that they are able to make a temporary truce and escape into the jungle. At first the two go their own paths. Safety First using his knowledge of throwing people off his scent and the Russian using the fortitude of a glacier to press forward in a straight line no matter what. The two eventually have another chance meeting and decide to work together to escape their possible pursuers.

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    For a day and night and another day they travel with each other. Facing rivers, tigers and the ever present danger of being caught up with. But in the end they work together and make their way through to the nearest town. Luckily enough, this town is a safe place and will get them back to square one at least. It's not much, but Miss Spetznaz is cute while she's sleeping.



    Part two, later this week. Thanks y'all.