Session 36
Jerry was on his way to meet the others, but made a brief stop in a hallway where you find a door you've seen in some kind of vision. When he tries to open it, he finds a workspace with locked cupboards, a bucket and a whiteboard on the wall. On it, there are a lot of names (Rosmerta, the Lavrov boss, Gyrante siblings to name just a few) that are familiar to him, as well as cross connections (like an organigram of sorts..gangs, individual people etc). He steps towards the whiteboard, takes a picture and sends it to the group along with a location pin - "I've found something really weird - does it mean anything to anyone?". The setup reminds him of something he found back on Baragown. When he tries to open the cupboards, only one opens - it's empty but contains some sort of holding implements that could be used to keep weapons in place.
Darian and Nissa meet at Gabriel plaza. It's a square with vending machines (it sells potatoes like Linda and Ariel for example) - columns holding up a kind of roof but also angel statues and the like. Darian is taking a closer look at the potato machine. Nissa recognises that there are quite a few more security people than usual. The potato vending machine is in the place where a liquor machine was before, as Alexis quickly realises when she joins the others. Since the last meeting, Alexis has tried to get a date with chief of security Ren, to gain his trust. He and Gunther seem to be part of some secret network [Gunther was responsible for the disappearance of some scientists earlier on]. Adrian buys a bag of Rylan potatoes in order to convince the team chef to make some fries.
After some salutations, the trio decides to join Jerry. Adrian takes his potatoes with him, to have a weapon - just in case. They try to avoid police control on the way. While it quite busy in the zouk, they soon get into a surprisingly quiet area. There's a tagged window with angels on it across the door where Jerry is hiding. Jerry and Darian find their names on the whiteboard, next to them there are information about their roots and level of radicalization. Nissa tries to open one of the lockers and is successful with opening the one closest to the whiteboard. In it, they find 4 kevlar-enhanced suits - Alexis searches them for transponders or anything along those lines. They are decorated with UN Navy patches, which reminds Darian of another booby-trapped cupboard in another UN Navy hideaway and makes him more careful, when he tries to open another cupboard. It really is wired to secure another metal door which is closely behind the first one. Nissa recognizes that it is connected to the first cupboard. They call homebase to have someone bring some detection gear to make sure nothing blows up. Fnan is of to meet them, but is taking a bit longer because of the new checkpoints. On her way she overhears Lavrov people, that they plan to go into the Luther system. This doesn't seem to be a good idea, since we assume they also have a silver egg that is prone to exploding just there. When Fnan jokingly mentions wanting to shoot the Lavrovs instead of going to the gym (where a bug is still hidden), everyone is taking it up in earnest, as it seems to be a good way to prevent another disaster.
As soon as she leaves, the rest is carefully using the just arrived equipment to check the wire mechanism. The wires are connected to three doors connected to a mechanism that is carefully circumvented by Darian. After opening the door fully, the inner door is in perfect view. Nissa drills a whole into a corner of the door. Using the endoscope the crew finds out that it is full of explosives, which Darian is looking to harvest with Alexis help. With a hairpin and some chewing gum, she is able to dismantle the middle cupboard. Jerry is surprised when suddenly John Gyrante appears and gives a thumbs up before disappearing into the first door that was opened. Jerry follows but sees nothing but darkness. Behind the other doors there are only weapons (anti-tank rocket launcher and assault riffles), which everyone grabs onto, when voices appear outside. The group closes the door to the outside as well as the cupboard doors and put out the lights. When the door opens, its Diana Smith with 3 more bodies as security personnel. "Freeze" says Darian. Diana stops and is frisked by Alexis while the others try to disarm the guy who hasn't stepped back outside. They deny knowing anything about the room, which they test, by opening the middle door. Diana is pretty good at masking her reaction when nothing happens - Jerry however is a keen observer and knows that she must have been at least familiar with the security mechanisms in place. She shares that she is an interim head of security of the new station security contractor and that they came here to check the room since it is similar to the one that was blown up last time - back when the station stopped its rotation. While the others have their attention, Alexis clones Diana's phone and erases all her traces. It is returned reluctantly, when she promises no consequences when the 4 leave the room in exchange. The explosives have to stay in the room however. The order is almost obeyed, even though some KGs might have wandered into the toolbox.
Jerry filmed the room as it was when we left to make sure they don't have any grounds for alleging that C&C has taken anything dangerous from the room. They don't let us take the assault riffle and want to have a closer look at the potato sack. Darian doesn't appreciate that, lets the riffle go, takes the potatoes and runs. Alexis and Nissa follow him, while Jerry and Diana stay behind baffled. "You get used to it" Jerry sighs. "Good luck with your investigation." "I'm not sure this won't affect the relations between Pope Industries and C&C. Tell them." Diana angrily replies.
Alexis, Nissa and Darian still run from her security personnel and try to get across the area to a lift that gets them closer to their ship. They keep them at bay with some balls for bearings they find along the way and astonishing constitution. They cut it close, but can just about reach the lift before Diana's henchmen. On Gabriel's plaza Darian gets more potatoes, joins a group of drunken unicorns and makes his way home (being forced to buy all sorts of liquor from the unicorn stag do on his way), while Nissa ducks through the zouk and Alexis is singing some Caribbean tune to puzzle her surroundings. The Navy bodysuits they are wearing have gone completely unnoticed.
Fnan is calling Jerry to check if the group is still planning to do anything against Lavrov - because they've really packed their things and are ready to make a move towards Luther. Alexis checks the cloned phone and learns, that it is build similar to Rens. She can't get into the deeper layers, but should be able to intercept Diana's communication now. Hopefully she has covered her tracks well enough.
by Nissa