21:19 <Crion> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeGh_4qk30I&list=PL9DABA719D5E7E277&index=8 21:20 <Crion> The party on the third floor west of the Walker Avenue apartments continues apace. You've got the dance party in 3A, pizza and questionable media choices in 3B with Chet and company, and chill vibes in 3C. Melanie seems consumed by some kind of conversation or another she's having in 3B -- where's everyone else at, again? 21:21 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart just suggested to Nels that they walk out onto the balcony like they think it's empty. 21:22 <dammitwho> Maggie's making the chillvibes palace fantastic. That's what happens when Maggie Bakehead's at your party. 21:23 <CBN> Tony was being schooled in the finer points of Jax's continued and inexplicable hold on Brittany's psyche in 3B. 21:23 <CBN> Chet is his spirit guide on this journey, such as it is. 21:24 <Crion> Chet has some...well, trenchant insights might be a bit much. But he certainly has a lot to say! 21:27 <CBN> Tony is enchanted by these people, held tight in the tangle of their lives. "Stassi is..." He looks to Chet for guidance. "...evil?...good?" 21:27 <Crion> When Stewart and Nels step out onto the balcony, they immediate see the person they're expecting to see, or someone who looks just like her in the low purple glow coming out of the chill vibes main room: Jina Torres, deep in conversation with a well-dressed, not-too-fratty white kid. They immediately look up, startled, as Stewart and Nels step out. 21:29 <Crion> Chet: "Oh yeah, definitely." It's unclear whether this means 'both.' 21:32 <Crion> Torres looks up sharply at both of them, but quickly looks away and pulls the boy closer to the other side of the balcony. "So have you uh. Been following. The Lakers?" 21:33 <Crion> It seems rather clear the topic of conversation has immediately changed. 21:34 <Crion> But the boy slips right into it. "Lllllakers, baby! Yeah Lebron's been a monster. Even with Space Jam 2 happening. You know they built Jordan a whole separate facility on the set of the original so he could own all the various other NBA guys and get his practice in while filming?" 21:38 <Crion> Jina Torres -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjpUizuCPJo You bring the fire, I'll bring the jewels / And in the evening underneath the roaring sky, we will meet and wait and pray for the monsoon. 21:40 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart's face tightens just a bit. He gives Nels a 'do you want to take this?' look. 21:41 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Oh, shoot, sorry, I thought this was - do you mind if I smoke?" 21:42 <Crion> Jina shakes her head, slightly irritated, but the boy gives a dazzling and says, "Nah, that's all good...do I know you? I feel like I've seen you around campus." 21:43 <Crion> And Jina's irritation spikes a bit. 21:44 <Crion> *dazzling smile 21:45 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart glances here at Jina's mark. 21:46 <trenchfoot> She's got a lighter and a cigarette halfway to her lips by the time he's halfway through, but pauses. "I don't think we've met, no..." Light it, take a drag, think for a second. "Nothing ringing a bell, sorry." 21:47 <Crion> Sami Jordensen -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv9oqihEFnI No reason why, I'm only doing anything I want to do / Because I do it all the time. 21:48 <Crion> That doesn't seem to faze him one bit. "Oh, my mistake then. But we can fix that -- I'm Sami, this is Jina." 21:49 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Nice to meet you! I'm Lena." Another drag to let Stewart introduce himself however he likes. 21:49 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart gives them a belated, slightly awkward nod. "Isaac." 21:49 <Crion> Jina, reluctantly: "Hi." 21:50 <Crion> Sami, immediately after: "So how do you know Laura and Ashanti?" 21:51 <Crion> That's to both Stewart and Nels. 21:53 <Crion> Stewart will recall from his social media research, and Nels from her steel-trap memory, that those are the names of two of the lacrosse upperclasswomen throwing this party. Laura is almost certainly Chet's girlfriend. 21:54 <Crion> Meanwhile, is Maggie smoking out some of these very same lacrosse girls? 21:54 <Crion> 'Weed aunt' is an underutilized but very powerful party role. 21:55 <dammitwho> Naturally. 21:55 <Crion> Chet to Tony: "So I got my own thoughts...but based on what you've seen, what's your tier ranking? And it can't just be who ya wanna fack!" 21:56 <trenchfoot> Is Maggie visible from the balcony? 21:56 <dammitwho> Probably, unless the chillvibes palace goes over multiple rooms. 21:57 <Crion> It does, but she can be hanging out in a doorway or something. The way these apartments work is you have a hub room with a bathroom/kitchen area (the bathroom is its own room, it's not combined), and then four separate bedrooms and the balcony off the hub. 21:59 <trenchfoot> If so, Nels will just point at Maggie, with "Met her at the same time, hit it off. You know how it is." 21:59 <CBN> Tony: "Man. Man." He's giving this one some thought. "Ariana has what my friends would probably say is" quote-y fingers here "'powerful horse girl' energy. But other than that, c'mon. Then probably Stassi, Kristen because I make bad choices, the lazy Tom, Lisa, the forehead-shaving Tom, Scheana, Brittany, then everyone else? And then James last. Why is he that way, is it being English?" 21:59 <CBN> After vomiting that out he crams a slice of pizza in his wordhole. "Yourfsh?" 22:01 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart shrugs. "I'm only here cause of Lena. I go to Towson." 22:01 <Crion> Sami sorts of whistles low at having Maggie pointed out to him and says, "Damn. She holding?" but Jina's eyes narrow further. 22:01 <Crion> That gets a snap reaction from her: "What year?" 22:04 <Crion> Chet: "Okay so I'm thinking...Scheana at the top for me, because, come on, have you seen this girl -- hawt; Lala, she knows what she wants and how to get it so points again; Stassi, cuz she's making power moves with the business; Kristen...well yeah, same as you, maybe a bit too much with the, you know. Then the Toms, Lisa, Brit, and you're right, fuck James." 22:04 <trenchfoot> To Sami: "Pretty much always, yeah." Another drag. 22:08 <CBN> Tony: "Hell yeah dude." Pause. "Be better if it was football season though." 22:10 <Crion> Chet: "Hey, college spring workouts start in like, a month my man." 22:11 <CBN> Tony: "Never got into college---following college football. Who's your team?" 22:13 <Crion> "BC, baby." He nods solemnly. "Still missing the days of Matty Ryan but we're gonna get back to the top!" 22:13 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart sounds a bit sheepish. "I'm graduating next year, hopefully. I guess that makes me a junior?" 22:13 <dammitwho> Maggie is gently patting a poor kid on the back who apparently has never smoked weed before. You don't need to hold it in your lungs, THC is absorbed in less than a second. 22:13 <Crion> Jina: "Huh." 22:13 <Crion> They're lacarosse kids, they should do enough cardio to weather a few rough tokes. 22:14 <Crion> Jina notably is not wearing any Towson gear tonight. 22:15 <Crion> Chet shakes his head. "Shame about what they did to Matty Ice in Atlanta." 22:16 <Crion> One gets the feeling you might not want to pick at Chet's scabbed-over thoughts about Atlanta too deeply. 22:16 <VoxPVoxD> Wearing college gear to a party is a very specific vibe that most people don't want to consciously project. Not messed up in itself. "What about you?" he asks Jina. "How do you know our, ah, benefactors." 22:17 <Crion> Sami's smile turns a bit sly. "That's right, Jina! How do you know Laura and Ashanti?" 22:18 <Crion> Jina, faux-casually: "Oh, I have some friends on the lacross team." 22:19 <Crion> Chet: "Super Bowl's tomorrow, though -- who ya got?" 22:24 <CBN> Tony crams another slice of pizza into his mouth to buy him some time to remember who's playing. "Thf mfhfmfh." Slow chew. Big bite. 22:26 <CBN> Tony: "The 49ers never win when it counts, do they? So the other guys." 22:27 <Crion> "Stevie Young Niners did! But yeah, the last while, especially with you know. Kaep." That guy gets a snort. "Gotta take the Chiefs." 22:28 <Crion> Sami: "Don't we all! So what major are you guys? I know, boring bullshit, but it breaks the ice." 22:31 <VoxPVoxD> 'Isaac': "Business." Everyone he ever met who admitted to going to Towson was a business student. "What about you?" 22:32 <Crion> Sami: "Environmental engineering." 22:32 <Crion> Jina: "Communications technology." 22:32 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Music education for me." Not what people usually come here for, but. Well. 22:33 <Crion> Maggie's weed...is good. So good that some of these girls want to know where she gets it. 22:33 <Crion> Sami: "Oh sick. You play guitar?" 22:34 <trenchfoot> "Yeah, actually. Don't worry, though, I didn't bring mine." That's a thing she's seen people get mad about in her modern pop culture consumption at this point. 22:34 <Crion> Sami: "Dated a girl in the music program for awhile. She said it's like, all guitar or brass instruments for some reason." 22:35 <trenchfoot> Nels: "I mean, those are the best kinds." 22:37 <Crion> Anyway Maggie's got the opportunity to build connections here if she wants to start dealing to college kids. 22:37 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "You should focus on simpler instruments. Percussion, crude flutes. Stuff we'll be able to make after the climate collapse." 22:37 <Crion> Someone probably claims it as territory but, they're probably little dipshits. 22:39 <Crion> Sami and Jina's eyes both narrow at this suggestion, for whatever reason. 22:39 <Crion> They recover quickly. 22:40 <Crion> So quickly only Stewart notices. 22:42 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart looks chagrined. "Dark, yeah, sorry." 22:43 <trenchfoot> Nels, obliviously: "Those are so much more boring. Lutes are pretty old, they can't be that hard to make." 22:43 <Crion> Jina glances at her phone and says, "Oh, one sec," like she has to answer a text. It's very convincing, but Stewart saw the screen. No incoming text. 22:44 <Crion> She steps back so he can't seen the screen anymore. 22:44 <Crion> Sami: "You know, you'd be surprised. No one knows how to professionally tune them anymore! Not like there's a Lute Center out there for strings." 22:45 <Crion> Chet, to Tony: "So whaddaya think of Brady? He's got that commercial coming up tomorrow night -- you think he's gonna retire?" 22:48 <dammitwho> Maggie's been out for a while, but isn't it a bit of a party foul to ask your dealer where they get their drugs? Still, a bit of extra income for the Wherehouse that isn't Stewart's streaming gig couldn't hurt. 22:48 <Crion> You're dealing with rich kids here. 22:48 <Crion> A heady combination of no clue and no consequences. 22:49 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart really wishes he had another beer, and feels a small, secret irritation at having to follow up on this. "So what is Communications Technology. Is it like Youtubes and stuff?" 22:50 <CBN> Tony: "A quarterback's only as good as the rest of the team around him, so I guess it'll come down to if he feels like the team's still there for him or not, you know?" 22:50 <Crion> Jina glances up from her phone. "Oh. Uh. It's what Towson calls the writing program part of the English degree, instead of the literature track." 22:51 <dammitwho> In that case, Maggie makes up a story about a guy she met at a yoga retreat who grows in National Parks out west, and collects contact info for future shady dealings. 22:52 <Crion> Chet shakes his head: "Naw can't say I agree. Brady's BRADY! He ain't a system QB! I think Belicheck wants to move on and while I appreciate what the old man does I--" Chet goes on with Brady apologia in this vein for a minute or two more. "But I see Brady staying in the league. Maybe going to like...I dunno. Tampa Bay." 22:52 <CBN> Tony, staring wide eyed: "Who would ever, in the whole world, want to move to Florida." 22:53 <Crion> "He could go to Carolina, but they got that Cam thing to work out." He shakes his head solemnly. "That guy's bad news. Feel bad for whatever team ends up with him!" 22:55 <Crion> Jina's phone dings. She reads it and immediately pivots to Sami. "Hey, you wanna get out of here?" 22:55 <Crion> Sami: "Oh--yeah, if you want to." 22:55 <CBN> Tony: "Maybe he can go to Florida then. Man if Brady retires, do you think he would do commentary on a network or just be rich at home?" 22:56 <trenchfoot> Nels had opened her mouth to say something about writing - but if they're getting gone: "See you guys around, then?" Her cigarette's almost totally ash at this point, and only some of that was her. What a waste. She'll get another. 22:58 <Crion> Sami: "Yeah, it was nice meeting you two." He briskly follows Jina out. 22:59 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "I'm gonna tail them. Let Maggie and Tony know and I'll text if there's trouble." 23:01 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Will do." 23:01 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart backs out of the cone of light coming from inside and then he's gone. 23:01 <Crion> Jina leaves immediately, but Sami takes his time saying goodbyes...first to the girls that Maggie's talking to...then he butts in and says goodbye to Chet and Laura (who has been sitting next to Chet the entire but engaged in her own conversation with her girlfriends). 23:02 <trenchfoot> Correction: Nels: "I can come with you, actually--?" 23:03 <Crion> Then he ducks into the dance party but only long enough to look around for something he doesn't seem to find, and then he meets Jina in the stairwell. They continue down to the ground floor in silence, and then outside into the night. They don't talk until they're twenty feet from the building at least. 23:03 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart nods. "I'll text them then. Come on. Stick to Jina if you can but they're both suspicious." 23:04 <Crion> Sami: "Who the fuck were they?" 23:04 <Crion> Jina: "I don't know. I've never seen them before." 23:04 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart does. <nels and me are following jina + suspicious dude. outside now> 23:04 <trenchfoot> It's Nels and I, Stewart. 23:04 <Crion> Jina: "How many did you make? I saw three." 23:05 <Crion> Sami: "There were two more in Chet's room. Laura's room. Whatever." 23:07 <Crion> "Creepy willowy girl and some insta model talking football with Chet." 23:07 <Crion> Jina: "How do you know?" 23:08 <Crion> Sami, with obvious irritation: "Because I talked to Brittany and Brittany wants to fuck me again so she was paying attention and didn't ask me questions like why I wanted to know who they came in with." 23:09 <Crion> Jina, checking over her shoulder: "Are they following us?" 23:09 <Crion> Sami, walking backwards casually for a bit, his eyes going right through Stewart and Nels: "I don't see anyone but that doesn't mean no one's there." 23:09 <Crion> Jina: "So are you in?" 23:10 <trenchfoot> That will never not be weird. 23:10 <Crion> Sami: "Well I think that question's been answered for me, now hasn't it?" 23:11 <Crion> Sami: "...Where's--" A white Ford F150 turns hard onto the street, jumps the center line and pulls up alongside the two of them going the other way. 23:12 <VoxPVoxD> Driver? Plates? 23:12 <Crion> Stewart and Nels can recognize one Rhonda Barkeley in the driver's seat, and one Michael Row standing in the bed, toting what appears to be, uh, an AR-15. 23:12 <Crion> There's also another guy sitting shotgun that neither of you recognize. Frumpy, wild-beard, middle-aged man; reserved clothes. 23:13 <Crion> Plates are conspicuously mud-covered. 23:13 <Crion> Probably not an accident. 23:13 <Crion> Jina, to Michael: "Put that shit away!" 23:13 <Crion> Michael, to Jina, ignoring her: "Are you okay?" 23:13 <Crion> Jina: "Yes! Put that shit away!" 23:15 <Crion> While Jina is badgering Michael...Sami's drawn a Glock, and is watching the treeline. When Jina looks back, she's startled. "Where did you--" 23:15 <Crion> Sami: "You think I'm about to do the stuff you want me to do and not carry? Besides, your guy has an AR!" 23:16 <Crion> The man riding shotgun, laconically but forcefully: "Children, please get into the bed of the truck and yell at each other on the road." 23:16 <Crion> Sami: "...Who's preacher man?" 23:16 <Crion> He furrows his brow. "Wait, I know you--" 23:16 <Crion> Rhonda: "Everybody in! We are leaving!!" 23:17 <Crion> If for some reason you'd like to reveal yourself to this collection of heavily armed teens and/or wizards, this is your last chance. 23:17 <trenchfoot> I am pretty sure the answer is no. 23:17 <dammitwho> Is this 'Scooby Doo'? This isn't really what she expected. 23:18 <VoxPVoxD> ...eh. There'll be a next time. 23:21 <Crion> Sami sticks the Glock back in his waistband and accepts Micheal's hand up into the back; Jina leaps up herself, the three in the bed get down, and the truck roars off. 23:22 <Crion> "Father Thorpe" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6SV-5rm2Ig I would stand in line for this. There's always room in life for this. 23:23 <Crion> As soon as Stewart makes a connection, the truck swerves a bit, and the man in the passenger slithers up halfway through the window and almost climbs out onto the roof, staring with shining eyes back down the road. 23:23 <Crion> But the truck doesn't stop. Soon it's around the bend, and gone. 23:24 <trenchfoot> Nels, quietly to Stewart: "What the fuck." 23:25 <trenchfoot> Actaully, does Light-Shy let you know where a friend using it is? If not, she's saying it quietly to where she thinks he is. 23:27 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart's walking out from behind a nearby bush, typing on his phone. <all our missing persons - including a preacher - rolled out armed in a truck with disguised plates. they're hunting for something - clocked tony and melanie as unusual> 23:27 <VoxPVoxD> <also we gotta talk about the world-spanning god machine that one guy is (was?) part of> 23:35 <Crion> Well, it's time to either regroup at the Wherehouse or...party more with some teens/early-twenties? 23:36 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart's strong preference is to go to the Wherehouse, where no one will look sideways at him for getting up for a beer in the middle of a conversation. 23:37 <trenchfoot> Also Nels' preference, because that was a lot to drop on a gal at once. 23:39 <CBN> Tony pulls out his phone and squints at it for a long minute, before realizing the message is cut off across 5 different texts. Then he squints some more until maybe a third of it all clicks. "Ah man, guess I gotta head out." To Chet: "Good talk. You guys do this often?" He gestures vaguely to the room with the road slice he grabbed. It's cold, no one in the world would care. 23:40 <Crion> Chet: "Oh hell yeah man, we're here like. Every weekend. Most weeks. Stop by again, Tone." 23:41 <dammitwho> Maggie will simply slip out at an opportune moment. Let the children relax, things must be very hard for them. It always is. 23:42 <CBN> Tony: "Hell yeah." He exchanges fistbumps and heads out, catching up with Maggie outside. 23:42 <CBN> To Maggie, holding his closed phone and gesturing. "Did you get all this? And, what?" 23:42 <Crion> Party's gonna be winding down in an hour or so anyway. Except for the adderall kids, who will be dancing until morning. 23:42 <VoxPVoxD> A ridiculous waste. Adderall is for gaming until morning. 23:43 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Not sure. Hold still--" She snaps a photo of post-party Tony and sends it to Samaritan. 23:45 <CBN> Tony holds a pose unintentionally-but-reflexively as his picture is taken. "??" 23:45 <trenchfoot> You know, when Nels was a girl, she could've picked up some cocaine from the corner store. 23:45 <trenchfoot> None of this 'adderall' nonsense. 23:45 <dammitwho> "Great. Samaritan wanted to know how your party duds worked out. C'mon, let's regroup with the others." 23:45 <VoxPVoxD> Amphetamine is different from cocaine!! Amphetamine is at worst middle class. 23:46 <Crion> Samaritan: <!!!!!! hotttt> 23:46 <Crion> <lmao wait that's tony> 23:46 <Crion> <DAmn> 23:47 <CBN> Tony: "Nice. I think I made a friend? Maybe? It's so weird with non-hobs." 23:47 <Crion> When you return to the Wherehouse, Steve will be snoozing on a recliner, still wearing an apron and his chef's hat. 23:48 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Samaritan says 'damn' and also that you look 'hot'!" She waggles her eyebrows suggestively at Tony. 23:48 <dammitwho> Worked for Stewart and Lauren! 23:48 <CBN> Tony blushes in a way that looks, honestly, horrifying in his mien. 23:49 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "My man Sami thought you looked good. Then he pulled out a Glock and got into the truck with Mike Row, who had a rifle. Rhonda was driving. And whoever that was in the passenger seat, Father Thorpe, is connected to the stochastic god-machine that's wormed throughout infrastructure everywhere." 23:50 <VoxPVoxD> This is about halfway through his second Wherehouse beer. 23:50 <dammitwho> Maggie squints. "Connected, like... works for it?" 23:50 <CBN> He also immediately disappears into his hovel and snags his hat once they get back to the Wherehouse, and washes down his road slice with a fast cold one. "Man I'm not gonna lie, I'm following maybe a third of that." 23:50 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Maybe. Maybe used to." 23:50 <CBN> Tony: "Is this...is this wizard shit?" 23:50 <trenchfoot> Nels: "What does that mean?" 23:52 <trenchfoot> She can confirm the parts up to the god-machine thing. Because those also need confirming. 23:52 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart explains the job he was doing on the Task Force with Gaunt Rose for the freehold, and how it turned out the kids were escaped government experiments who were being hounded by powerful, magical-mechanical beings that serve a 'God Machine' that followed them across at least the continental US and is embedded in, say, Apex Oil south of Canton. 23:54 <dammitwho> Maggie: "Well, that's kind of an important point. I mean, if that preacher fella *stopped* working for a 'God-Machine', good on him I say." 23:54 <VoxPVoxD> "Their magical essence is very powerful and hard to get, so when Hedge-Busker's Tip fed one it made them think I was one of them." 23:54 <VoxPVoxD> "The question is, what are they hunting?" 23:57 <dammitwho> Maggie: "You got their license plate, right? Can you..." She waves her hands. "...computer it?" 23:58 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Ones who left or ones who didn't? They were happy to leave us behind even though they knew who we were - well, not happy, he sounded pretty mad - but..." 23:58 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "They covered their plates with mud." 23:58 <Crion> Well, you've learned two important things tonight: one, they were recruiting Sami Jordensen for...something...and two, no one seems all that mind-controlled. At least not the way the stories make it sound. 23:58 <trenchfoot> Nels shakes her head. "It was covered in mud. In a 'haha, officer, I've just been offroad for a bit' kinda way." 23:58 <trenchfoot> "Such that people like us couldn't read it." 00:00 <trenchfoot> People like us as in weird stalkers, not... you know. 00:00 <CBN> Tony thinks for a second: "Does anyone have anything of any of theirs?" 00:00 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart shakes his head. 00:01 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Just information." 00:01 <CBN> Tony: "Well, shit. I can still try to track them then, it's just going to take a little out of me. Also if they've got some mystery machine bullshit going on, they might get an idea someone's looking for them." 00:04 <CBN> Tony: "So, who do we want me to get the scent of? I can do the thing I did to Gary when we were trying to find his house, but who seems like the best person to follow?" 00:05 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Thorpe for sure." 00:05 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Presumptuous to go for the demon?" 00:05 <VoxPVoxD> "Jina if not." 00:06 <CBN> Tony: "Sounds good. What's this guy look like, this Father Thorpe?" 00:07 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart describes him. 00:07 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Weird-beard old man. In the kinda clothes you pick up when you're trying to look inconspicuous on purpose." 00:19 <CBN> Tony: "Father Thorpe. Weird-beard old man, conspicuously inconspicuously clothes. Truck, maybe. With people with guns, possibly." He closes his eyes and lowers his head. 00:20 <CBN> He snaps his head back like he just got the world's worst ice cream brain freeze. "FUCK oww. Yeah that's a no from me." 00:20 <VoxPVoxD> "Oh shit - are you alright?" 00:20 <CBN> Tony: "Sorry folks, he's got more 'don't find me' mojo on him than I can get through." 00:21 <CBN> Tony: "I can probably try again on those kids, if anyone's got odds on which one's a better target." 00:21 <Crion> Basically what Tony saw was like...a fast-spinning roulette wheel of a dozen or more people doing mundane things that blended into a slurry and then feedback looped him. 00:23 <CBN> Tony: "Extra-weird don't find me shit too, not the same kind of wizard shit Gary had where it was like trying to find a whale in the whole ocean, this was just, man. Fuckin' machine wizards." 00:23 <trenchfoot> Nels: "Jina for sure." Nels offers up a description. 00:23 <CBN> Tony: "Jina. You saw her earlier. C'mon then." Closes his eyes, rubbing his temples. 00:25 <CBN> Tony tilts his head. "Oh this is new, hm, this could be interesting." 00:26 <Crion> Tony gets a crystal clear vision of Jina as she is at the moment...somewhere in the tunnels under UMBC???...up against a wall getting fucked hard by that too-slick guy who came over to say goodbye to Chet. As the memory begins to fade she throws him on the ground with a "wha--" from him and climbs on top-- 00:26 <Crion> Well, sometimes you get good information, sometimes you intrude on people's private lives. 00:26 <Crion> Sometimes both. 00:26 <CBN> Tony laughs out loud. "AHA uh. Well um." 00:27 <trenchfoot> Nels: "What is it?" 00:27 <CBN> Tony: "So Jina's in the tunnels? There are tunnels under UMBC? With that guy who said goodbye to Chet earlier. They should be there for a little while. One would hope." 00:27 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "It was a sex thing wasn't it." 00:28 <CBN> Tony nods to Stewart, emphatically. "I guess I can see stuff when I use this sometimes, and this time it was a sex thing. Very yes a sex thing." 00:28 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Well... sorry for putting you in that position." 00:28 <Crion> Steve, who has awakened now that his favorite people are back, gives a knowing honk...and goes to get a beer. 00:29 <trenchfoot> Nels: "That doesn't... seem like the kind of activity you need a truck full of guns for? But it's been a bit." 00:30 <VoxPVoxD> How long ago was it that Stewart and Nels saw them leave? 00:30 <Crion> The important information you didn't know from before, but do now: there are apparently tunnels under UMBC. 00:30 <VoxPVoxD> Like how much time has elapsed from them riding out to Jina riding out. 00:30 <Crion> That's the only way Tony can make sense of the location he's getting. 00:31 <CBN> Tony: "I mean, the good news is, we can at least cross both of their locations off the list..." Tony makes a mental note to avoid using this ability past like, 8pm, on most people. 00:32 <VoxPVoxD> Sometimes in the morning too. 00:33 <CBN> And never, ever on anyone in the motley. They're just gonna have to answer their phones. 00:34 <CBN> Tony: "Now the big question...does anyone know how to get into the tunnels under the campus?" 00:37 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "I bet we can figure it out. I'll ask Ravens. But it's just a matter of finding the doors, since the doors are just going to be... locked." 00:40 <trenchfoot> Nels: "No, don't, this is all in return for a favor I asked of them. We'll get it done. Though maybe following this through will make them overlook the fact I had to ask them again for more information." 00:40 <trenchfoot> Though->And 00:40 <CBN> Tony: "Ha, locked doors. Will anyone ever learn." 00:41 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "I don't think anyone in Autumn's gonna look askance for you for asking for more information. We live for the day someone asks us for more information." 00:41 <VoxPVoxD> "But you're right, we can find an in ourselves." 00:42 <VoxPVoxD> "Question is, are they down there, or was she just down there to hook up?" 00:43 <trenchfoot> Nels: "It would not be my first location of choice," she says carefully. 00:44 <CBN> Tony: "It did not look like a romantic place to be." 00:44 <Crion> Romance didn't appear to be what was going on, either. 00:44 <CBN> Tony: "But I have to stress that this did not get in their way." Swig. 00:45 <trenchfoot> Nels: "There's probably something down there, at least?" 00:45 <VoxPVoxD> I mean if Stewart had to choose between a race war catacomb and the kitchen at the Sidereal... it's at worst 50/50. 00:45 <trenchfoot> Look. 00:45 <Crion> People politely didn't! 00:46 <trenchfoot> >:( 00:46 <VoxPVoxD> Stewart: "Couldn't hurt to look." 00:51 <Crion> And the Wherehouse will...next week!