Sorry to pop up again, can you edit the campaign and mark me inactive so this drops off my active campaigns? Thanks! Hope everyone is having fun!
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I'm sorry, I'm going to have to withdraw. My new project is killing me, and I don't have the time to contribute. :( Best of gaming.
*sigh* Monday : Work
Sorry everyone. Work is kicking my ass. I'll try to get posts up today.
Been busy, sorry all, should get posts up today.
Svetlana sighs. "Maybe he's staying with his friend, and they are under his friend's name, but I didn't hear his friends name." She pouts for a moment. "He had a haircut that was very nice, his hair was..."
Svetlana smiles dreamily, staring past the man's shoulder, as if looking at an imaginary person. "Mmm, he had dreamy eyes, brown, he was about 35 or 40, he was wearing a suit..." She goes on to describe the man decently but not perfectly, to avoid giving anything away. "I think I heard someone call him Mr. Lorik, or Mr. Lavrik, but it was crowded and noisy, so I could have misheard."
Svetlana pinches her cheeks in the bathroom to redden them up, and then approaches one of the hotel employees, someone who works at the front desk, when they step away and she can get them alone. In Russian. "There was a man who was attractive at the expo, and he had the most wonderful eyes. I was hoping you might be able to slip me his room number so I could go see if he was just looking at me to be looking at me, or he was actually interested." She asks, while holding a local monetary note folded in her fingers, worrying it as if it were a nervous habit.
The night before, Svetlana walks the entire hotel floor, including the Employee Only areas, familiarizing herself with the layout, and everywhere she can. If asked by anyone what she's doing there, she shows her EMT credentials and explains she's assigned as the EMT for tomorrow's show, and is making sure she knows the hotels layout backwards and forwards, so she knows where everywhere is, in case she is called on tomorrow, as seconds could mean life or death in an emergency, and getting lost is a lousy reason for someone to die. If pressed why she'd be in an employee only area, her response is employees may have issues as well, and besides, she's been at enough conventions to know people always go in the employee areas when they shouldn't. The next day, she not only sits, but routinely does a round of the floor to make sure she's limber and not stiff, carrying her emergency pack with her. She also keeps an eye out for the target.
Ah, ok, no problem then. But yeah, bloody mary's were one of the few 'western' drinks that got popular in the Communist countries (since it was using exported Russian Vodka). :)
BTW: Are we going to spend the game with the players having to do google searches to prove that something should be widely known during the time period of the game? IE: Bloody Mary drinks (which were created in the 20's and 30's)? Or is the GM going to insist the players have a functional knowledge of what drinks were popular during the 60's in small countries?
Svetlana eyes the bartender. "Are you new to the job? This is drink that has been famous for 40 years or more!" She snaps, then sighs. "Cover the bottom of the shaker with four large dashes salt, two dashes black pepper, two dashes cayenne pepper, add layer of Worcestershire sauce. Add dash of lemon juice and then cracked ice, put in two ounces vodka and two ounces thick tomato juice, shake, strain, and pour." She tells him how to make what should be a common drink, given it was created in the late 20's early 30's and made famous by Hemingway across the globe in the 40's, and has been a staple in bars all over the world since the 1950's.
Svetlana leaves the uniform for tomorrow, and makes sure her credentials are all matching and correct. The fake credentials she hides in her first aid pack in the false bottom. She checks over the EMT case, confirming the drugs she requested are inside, all labeled as things that are expected, but with little colored dots to indicate they aren't what they are labeled as. She spends an hour carefully mixing the drug cocktails, making two different formulations while leaving the enough drugs to make a third and fourth if needed. She wants to get some medical background before injecting him, if possible, to further tailor it to him, if need be. So far, the other two hadn't come up with anything in the way of plans. Hopefully they had, or else it was injection and fake death. When she comes down to the bar, she takes a seat at the bar and orders a bloody mary, wearing a dress that shows off her figure without making her look like a working girl. If hit upon by anyone not her team, she allows herself to be bought a drink, and gives her cover story about being an EMT here for the game conference.
Svetlana flies to Moscow, switches Identities, then takes a plane to Hungary, and a taxi to Budapest, and changes to her EMT persona, keeping her Police persona in reserve for the exit from the country.
Svetlana reads off a cocktail of drugs in specific mixtures. "I need his medical history too, to ensure that won't damage him." For her equipment, she requests : 9mm P-08 German Luger (350)
I've been trying to find the drug, 'cause I used it before playing TS. I'm beginning to suspect it may be a TS/SI entry, because I can't find it in the main book or companion. My character knows drugs better than I do. :) Can she make a medical skill check to fire off a drug list she wants?
"No, I expect them to be mostly black, at least where I live. I expect most of the employees at KFC to be hispanic, at least where I live." She shrugs. "Get over yourself."
"I'm not Japanese...." She trails off, and then nods. "Oh, you mean him and the Nintendo thing. Right. So, can we get those cover identities I mentioned? And the drugs? At least as a backup?"
Maybe you can actually bring one back for them. :) Any word on our fourth yet?
Svetlana shakes her head. "This is not all 'over a toy', it is about getting a brain who is one of the world's foremost authorities on encryption. It is, of course, natural that such brains are interested in logic puzzles, and thus are good at both solving and creating them. The show is simply our best chance of getting him if he wants to defect. My own thought was that such a show would want EMT's nearby, thus an EMT cover. And once we have him, someone with investigatory powers would be useful if anything goes wrong." She turns back to the courier. "Does he have family? If so, will they be with him? I would not want to be there and have this turn into a forced 2 or 5 person extraction without having planned for it."
Svetlana pushes her glasses up her nose. "I think there may be some confusion. This is the Hungarian People's Republic, the games are board games and physically manipulated puzzles, there may be a few computer games, but it's mostly board and physical puzzles."
"With all due respect, a bullet to the brainpan will be much harder to deal with, and much more certainly lethal. The Soviets are not going to let him go if they think he's alive. A 'dead' person, however, they will not guard nor will they miss him for several hours."
"How extensive is our ability to generate covers? I realize this is short notice, so our ability may be compromised. Ideally two covers per operative would be ideal, giving us a way to burn an identity and still continue on. For myself, a cover identity of an Emergency Medical Technician, as well as a Police Official of some type, ideally someone who can travel widely, such as the equivalent of an FBI agent or a Naval Investigations Officer." She taps her chin with one fingernail. "As to extracting him with a head start, if I can get close enough, I can give him an injection with something that would leave him looking dead for up to 10 minutes, although if we don't get the antidote into him by then it won't be just the appearance of being dead. This isn't something that a field agent could safely do, but as a doctor, I believe I have a good chance of keeping him alive."
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Rules said 23, I just went with them. :) How about 27? Still believable, just took a lot of hard work. Split the difference. Yep, got the wrong column on the military service record. Fixing.
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