Benny:
“Mr. Nomura,
You don’t know me, but I need your help. I’ve been looking for those with ‘special’ family backgrounds to join me in a task of vital importance – I trust you understand what I mean by that. I realize you have obligations in Los Angeles, but I believe that resolving this matter will take only a few days. If you can see your way to lending a hand, the enclosed plane ticket should cover your travel needs.
I would not ask if I had any other options. Please, Mr. Nomura. For the sake of my people and the lives of literally millions, please come.
- Andrea Morningfeather”
There is no return address, but the envelope carries a Phoenix, Arizona, postmark. In addition to the single folded page of printer paper containing the letter, the envelope has a plane ticket from L.A. to Phoenix for a flight in two days’ time.
Ima:
“Ms. Jensen,
You don’t know me, but I need your help. I’ve been looking for those with ‘special’ family backgrounds to join me in a task of vital importance – I trust you understand what I mean by that. I would like to hire you for a case that is slightly outside your usual purview; I hope to prevent the need for vengeance, but there is also an ancient wrong to be righted. If all goes well, resolving the matter should only take a few days, and I can pay your usual fees. If you can see your way to lending a hand, the enclosed plane ticket should cover your travel needs.
I would not ask if I had any other options. Please, Ms. Jensen. For the sake of my people and the lives of literally millions, please come.
- Andrea Morningfeather”
There is no return address, but the envelope carries a Phoenix, Arizona, postmark. In addition to the single folded page of printer paper containing the letter, the envelope has a plane ticket from San Francisco to Phoenix for a flight in two days’ time.
Trent:
“Mr. Herman,
You don’t know me, but I need your help. I’ve been looking for those with ‘special’ family backgrounds to join me in a task of vital importance – I trust you understand what I mean by that. If my efforts are to succeed, I will need to have the support of someone I can trust to help track down several key pieces of information; if that person also understands the full scope of how the World truly works, so much the better. I realize you have obligations in Berkeley, but I believe that resolving this matter will take only a few days. If you can see your way to lending a hand, the enclosed plane ticket should cover your travel needs.
I would not ask if I had any other options. Please, Mr. Herman. For the sake of my people and the lives of literally millions, please come.
- Andrea Morningfeather”
There is no return address, but the envelope carries a Phoenix, Arizona, postmark. In addition to the single folded page of printer paper containing the letter, the envelope has a plane ticket from Oakland to Phoenix for a flight in two days’ time.
Xochipilli:
“Mr. Tocal,
You don’t know me, but I need your help. I’ve been looking for those with ‘special’ family backgrounds to join me in a task of vital importance – I trust you understand what I mean by that. An ancient obligation, once shouldered by your people and mine together, has fallen by the wayside, and now we face the disastrous consequences of that lapse. I realize you have obligations in Los Angeles, but I believe that resolving this matter will take only a few days. If you can see your way to lending a hand, the enclosed plane ticket should cover your travel needs.
I would not ask if I had any other options. Please, Mr. Tocal. For the sake of my people and the lives of literally millions, please come.
- Andrea Morningfeather”
There is no return address, but the envelope carries a Phoenix, Arizona, postmark. In addition to the single folded page of printer paper containing the letter, the envelope has a plane ticket from L.A. to Phoenix for a flight in two days’ time.
I make plans to finish what projects I can and leave the shop in Lou's hands, my 2nd in charge.
Do I have a way of contacting my father or leaving a message for him?[/ooc]
I'll call up Frank Anderson to see how he and his car is doing. During the small talk I'll ask if he knows Andrea Morningfeather. If he asks, I'm looking for a referral on a possible new job.
After that, I'll do a people search on Andrea Morningfeather in google and a couple of people search sites to get any info on her. (paying the $7-10 per search.)
I'll call up Frank Anderson to see how he and his car is doing. During the small talk I'll ask if he knows Andrea Morningfeather. If he asks, I'm looking for a referral on a possible new job.
After that, I'll do a people search on Andrea Morningfeather in google and a couple of people search sites to get any info on her. (paying the $7-10 per search.)
The Google search comes up with some hits - the usual scattershot fragments of someone's life you get through the 'net. She apparently won some kind of award for volunteer work at a Native American culture center a couple of years ago. She was on the Dean's List at Arizona State in 2005. She submitted an article for an e-newsletter called "Potsherds" last spring - looking over it, Benny guesses it has something to do with cultural conservation work and archaeology, though neither one is really up his alley, so he's not sure. She seems to have been trying to drum up support among the newsletter's readership for the protection of a recently discovered historical site, called "Rainbow Springs;" the rest of it goes over Benny's head.
The people searches come back with a couple different telephone numbers and addresses, all in the Phoenix area; she seems to move a lot. The most recent is in Scottsdale, apparently.
I'll call the Scotsdale phone. If she doesn't answer I'll leave a message letting her know I'll be coming out there. I'll leave my cell number too.
After getting another doctor to cover my absence I'll make the trip to Phoenix. I'll keep my maquahuitl as close as possible as I’m expecting a trap.
Before leaving I'll ask around the Hispanics and Indians coming to my clinic if they have any relations in Phoenix and if they have heard or seen any unnatural going on there.
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Trent will read the letter over again. When he gets to her name again he will go to google her name, with an added search word of Arizona. He wants to find a way to contact her via email just to drop her a line saying: "I'll be there."
Other than that he will clear his personal schedule and make plans to be on the flight.
Ima starts doing her typical background checks on prospective clients.
In addition, due to the atypical nature of this prospective client, shee feels it's prudent to consult the runes.
Once those two tasks are done, she packs and readies for what may be rather interesting business.
Trent will read the letter over again. When he gets to her name again he will go to Google her name, with an added search word of Arizona. He wants to find a way to contact her via email just to drop her a line saying: "I'll be there."
Other than that he will clear his personal schedule and make plans to be on the flight.
I'll call the Scotsdale phone. If she doesn't answer I'll leave a message letting her know I'll be coming out there. I'll leave my cell number too.
After getting another doctor to cover my absence I'll make the trip to Phoenix. I'll keep my maquahuitl as close as possible as I’m expecting a trap.
Before leaving I'll ask around the Hispanics and Indians coming to my clinic if they have any relations in Phoenix and if they have heard or seen any unnatural going on there.
Ima starts doing her typical background checks on prospective clients.
In addition, due to the atypical nature of this prospective client, shee feels it's prudent to consult the runes.
Laguz + mannaz - water-man
Othala + dagaz - inheritance day
Trent will read the letter over again. When he gets to her name again he will go to Google her name, with an added search word of Arizona. He wants to find a way to contact her via email just to drop her a line saying: "I'll be there."
Other than that he will clear his personal schedule and make plans to be on the flight.
Trent will read the letter over again. When he gets to her name again he will go to Google her name, with an added search word of Arizona. He wants to find a way to contact her via email just to drop her a line saying: "I'll be there."
Other than that he will clear his personal schedule and make plans to be on the flight.
** spoiler omitted **
Very well Trent will get ready to hit the airport when it is time then. He will also make arrangements for a rental vehicle, looking for something with 4 wheel drive of the Jeep or Range Rover variety.
** spoiler omitted **
After flying in to Pheonix I'll rent a car and check into a decent hotel whith internet connections and begin checking all city sites on information on Andrea Morningfeather.
First task check Basic information (focus on getting phone and address)
Second task properties in her name or close to it.
Third task look for emploment records with her name.
Roll - plus one automatic.
After flying in to Pheonix I'll rent a car and check into a decent hotel whith internet connections and begin checking all city sites on information on Andrea Morningfeather.
First task check Basic information (focus on getting phone and address)
Second task properties in her name or close to it.
Third task look for emploment records with her name.
Roll - 8d10 plus one automatic.
As though at some signal, four people - three men and one woman, all with black hair and eyes and the bronze-brown skin of Native Americans - stand up all at the same time. Two are at the rear of the plane and two at the front, just behind the cabin; with the same sweeping motion, all four swirl what look like complete wolf furs through the air and around their shoulders. The circular motion continues far past where it should, the pelts seeming to wrap themselves around the four, to merge with them. Fur bursts from their bodies, muzzles full of teeth replace their faces, and vicious claws slide out from fingertips. In the space of a breath, the four have been replaced by hulking animalistic monstrosities, crowding tight into the contained space of the cabin. One reaches out a casual hand (tipped with talons like razors) and slashes open the throat of the plane's sky marshal, still too busy staring in shock to have even drawn his weapon. For the tiniest sliver of a moment, there is silence.
Then the screaming begins.
For the first couple of hours, the drive is so smooth it's practically boring. You reach the California/Arizona state line and cross it with barely an acknowledgement, and as noon approaches you're making great time. You have just started wondering whether you might find someplace to stop and grab some lunch when all hell seems to break loose.
All around you and your truck, the light dims, as though a shadow has suddenly passed in front of the sun. The sky is cloudless, though. With no more warning than that, a massive burst of wind slams into the truck, sending it half into the next lane and swirling up dust enough to keep you from being able to see the oncoming traffic just across the median from you. There is a loud screech just above your head, as something drags itself along the roof of the car, battering it about.
"I seem to have my father's luck today."
to join battle.
Unbuckling her lap belt and springing out of her seat towards the aisle, Ima yells toward the front of the plane, "Seal the cabin!"
Black-fur: 5d10 => (2, 10, 8, 3, 4) = 27, for 3 successes
Grey-fur: 5d10 => (6, 8, 5, 6, 1) = 26, for 1 success
Red-fur: 5d10 => (10, 9, 7, 6, 8) = 40, for 5 successes
White-fur: 5d10 => (8, 2, 2, 2, 5) = 19, for 3 successes
** spoiler omitted **
At the front of the plane, the larger, black-furred wolf-man makes no such spectacle, readying himself as he sees several figures rising from their seats to challenge him.
Ima moves out of her chair into the aisle of the plane and starts heading toward Black-fur at the front of the plane.
As Ima moves forward, she slides naturally into a comfortable defensive combat stance with the subconscious ease and fluid grace of a master martial artist.
"Could someone shut red up."
I'll target the nearest badie and leap over the seats in-between us.
** spoiler omitted **
At the front of the plane, Trent's mad dash up the aisle has brought him face-to-gruesome-face with the black-furred monstrosity that first killed here. Behind the thing, Trent can see a terrified-looking stewardess slamming the pilot's-cabin door shut, leaning against it either to block the entrance or to hold herself up, he's not sure.
The black-furred wolf-man snaps something in a guttural language that Trent does not recognize, and the grey-furred one standing next to him suddenly leaps forward in an animal-like crouch, running across the tops of the airplane seats and knocking aside passengers like so many blades of grass. The thing lands behind Trent in the aisle, and then both wolf-men snap viciously at the Scion with their massive jaws.
At the other end of the plane, Ima's careful approach has brought her within a few steps of Red-fur, who steps up to meet her and slashes at the Scion of Vidar with those same lethal talons.
Behind her, the white-furred wolf-man wait for an opening he can exploit.
Per + Awareness =
Join Battle =
Trent will call out, "Everybody stay down! This is not a drill."
Ima continues to approach with Red-fur.
Once she has closed with the foul beast, her leg snaps up and out in an arc, attempting to land a quick roundhouse.