I'm puzzled about what to do next. I stated what Faith would do if we think the place is largely devoid of staff, which is take out the guard and search the interior.
Also I'm going to be unable to post on Monday and maybe Tuesday.
Y'all can certainly initiate combat should you desire. FWIW, you see no sign of either obvious or concealed weapons on the man outside.
Faith engages the comms and softly suggests, "Maybe one of us can approach and initiate a conversation with cover from the rest. I'm willing, if no one else wants to."
I will not generally be able to post on Tuesday or Thursday of this week. To be frank, I'll probably need a day to think about the situation and what Faith's response will be. She is not inclined to deliver a child into the hands of such people, however, so the decision is whether to indicate that up front or pretend to be willing to make the trade to give us time to plan a response.
I doubt anyone is willing to make that trade, lol.
To this guy? No. There's no profit in it for us. Also 'use her as a vessel' sounds pretty bad.
But telling the corp about pre-identified psionic individuals who might be valuable for some kind of experimentation or recruitment? Stringer might be down for that. If he knows someone he trusts to reward him (family, maybe?) he might give them the info this guy wants.
Salvo is a man of action, and He puts down monsters for a living. As far as he is concerned this guy qualifies as one.
What we'll want to suss out, however, is whether he is ready to try to kill us where we are in that restaurant. It does not appear he has back-up, assuming we observed the usual staff leave, but there could be muscle in reserve. He does not sound worried that we'll refuse his offer and attempt to kill him where he stands, so he likely has a plan for that eventuality. Maybe he and Jao Carlo are more Bada$$ than they appear.
If anyone has any questions or actions they want to do before things get shooty. You should post now. Salvo's next post will kick things off. They are probably powerful, mechanically or mysticly boosted likely. Hope suprise first strike gives us an edge.
I will probably post Sunday morning.
Considering the imminent violence, I went ahead and setup a new map page!
Faith was considering faking like she agreed to his plan to learn what he would suggest, and maybe try to wheedle some information about the organization responsible. Not likely to give us much, but it might put them on the back foot when shooting starts.
Faith has heard enough. Fire when ready.
Lead us off, Salvo!
He did, it's you and Hibo next. Sorry, I was trying a new thing I saw for combats where individual inits might matter, it might have been a confusing shift, lol.
Sorry, been fighting a cold that won't go away, will post tonight or tomorrow, stay healthy out there everyone!
Unless magic items from Urban Arcana are available through our new employer, Faith is okay with equipment. If such items are available, is there any indication of what types of magic might help against Fritz and his gang? Do they summon demons or devils, control undead, etc.?
They do not have any unusual FX/magic/psionic gear available. That might change down the line, but forget I said that ;)
There really isn't a lot of hard information about the sort of magic the cult uses, best to expect anything.
I got off-track with the holidays on that timeline. I'll try and get it up sometime this coming week just to make sure everyone is on the same page, but it's a busy time of year for me...
Hope everyone's having a great holiday season!