A Brave New World: Revisited[IC]

[Sakuro]

Grail
HP: 3
Cnd: Healthy


"The ideas are good, but they'd be difficult to implement. Believe me, Lyle, Mina, and I visited their HQ in New York. They check everyone, and everything. Even people who are supposed to be there. I'm serious, Akira keeps track of who goes to the bathroom and when."

At the kitchen Avory pulled out a bag of popatoes and offered them up to Twist. A smile flashed over his lips briefly exposing white teeth.

"Start pealing. We can talk while we work."

He ten set about taking some other ingrediants out of the fridge: white onion, green onion, green bell pepper.

"Lets think about that keycard idea. We'd need to snag one from someone . If that person reports it missing or was attacked, they're void the card. They're systems are really hard to hack, so inserting our own ID isn't likely. Lyle has tried in the past."

While he spoke Avory began to clean and then cut the vegetables he had collected.

"But say we managed to get the ID and keep a person from reporting in. Trying to impersonate them would be hard. We're all wanted fugitives. Our faces are seared into the minds of every Akira grunt and their employees."

"I think we're going to end up having to do something less espionage, and more commando style. But we should wait to hear if Jane has any insights to share before doing too much planning."

[mrdent12]

Mina finally gets a message back from Jane. When she opens it, it is a video of Jane in her workshop munching on some tacos. She looks concerned, but more worn out than anything. "We suspected the prison was already built. Why else would they choose such a random location? We were never able to devote the man power to prove it until now. If you can get in their and get us some hard evidence, we might be able to disseminate it through the undergrounds legitimate front. It is looking grim though. Every day Akira gets stronger and stronger.

I don't know who they are generating the nullification field, but I know they don't know the source of the powers. The info would have flagged one of my sleeper programs in their systems I planted before I left. There has been rumors of some paragons who can nullify others powers, but I haven't run into any. It wouldn't be unheard of them to harness and amplify the power of such a paragon. before I left, there was word of a new project that could mimic other paragons powers. If you get any other info let me know. Every little bit helps. I wish I could help more, but we are swamped with people entering the underground."

[mrdent12]

Lyles research turns up not unexpected results. The water on Mina's wetsuit contains trace amounts of a so far unknown chemical that looks to be perfectly safe to humans, but not so much for aquatic life. Similarly, the search of Michael Carmichael turns up quite a few entries, but one springs to immediate interest. It is too clean. There is no debt, parking tickets, or records of any kind that date back farther than 5 years. Unfortunately their is no picture associated with the records either.

[Chad Spider]

Zombie
HP: 3
CND: Fine

Mina finally gets a message back from Jane. When she opens it, it is a video of Jane in her workshop munching on some tacos. She looks concerned, but more worn out than anything. "We suspected the prison was already built. Why else would they choose such a random location? We were never able to devote the man power to prove it until now. If you can get in their and get us some hard evidence, we might be able to disseminate it through the undergrounds legitimate front. It is looking grim though. Every day Akira gets stronger and stronger.

I don't know who they are generating the nullification field, but I know they don't know the source of the powers. The info would have flagged one of my sleeper programs in their systems I planted before I left. There has been rumors of some paragons who can nullify others powers, but I haven't run into any. It wouldn't be unheard of them to harness and amplify the power of such a paragon. before I left, there was word of a new project that could mimic other paragons powers. If you get any other info let me know. Every little bit helps. I wish I could help more, but we are swamped with people entering the underground."

"Let us know if you hear about any other prisoners being moved in," Mina said. Then she closed the connection and went back out to the conference room to share what she knew with anyone who was still there.

"Nothing very helpful," she said when she was done. "I don't have any other ideas, unless you want to flood the prison."

[Sakuro]

Grail
HP: 3
Cnd: Healthy


If Twist didn't peal the potatoes, then Avowry did. He washed them, cut them, and then tossed them into a skillet with the rest of the onions and bell pepper. After frying them up he poured out the cooked food into a large bowl, grabbed some plates and forks, then carried it all back to the conference in time to meet up with Mina as she was letting everyone know how her talk with Jane went.

The plates, food, and eating utensil were set on the conference table. Avory served himself up a healthy portion of the food and settled into a seat. While Mina talked Avory ate with only the only sound coming from him being the clink of his fork hitting the plate, then the chewing of food. He mused quietly for a while, thinking about some of Twist's earlier comments. How would a norm level the playing field?

"Maybe we can pump some knock out gas into the prison. I'm not sure how we would get feed it into the prison though, but we'd need to introduce it into more than one location so it spread quickly enough to hit them before they can react effectively."

"Or, if we could pin down this Warden Carmichael, we could possibly go after him when he's out of the prison. Might be able to provide us with more information we could use to form a better plan."

[poodle]

Twist
HP 2
Twist is happy to do something as normal as making a meal, at least then he can be useful. Grail still came across like a social worker or scout leader but Twist was starting to think he wasn't a complete douche.

I have a CRAAAAAZZZyyyy suggestion. Is there any way we could persuade a norm to help us, you know the old-fashioned ways, bribery, blackmail some other form of coercion. Wait up, wait up before someone gets their boxers in a bunch. I don't want to actually hurt anyone, but the world thinks we are dangerous terrorists. Why don't we use that to our advantage? I was talking to the chef about thinking like a norm. So how do we do it all without powers. Firstly, we find someone we can bend to our purpose. I got a bad feeling about carmichael but he would be the obvious choice so that makes me think we should avoid him. He will also be the most closely watched. I used to do history in school before... well anyway the KGB knew all about the manhattan project. They didn't need to bribe scientists, they bribed truckdrivers and janitors and cooks.

[Sakuro]

Grail
HP: 3
Cnd: Healthy


"That isn't a crazy idea at all. We actually talked about it earlier, and I support it. Though not through any means more questionable than blackmail. However, cultivating assets can take weeks, and it could be months before they start bringing in useful information. I don't think we want to wait that long before doing something about this prison."

This would likely be justified by taking Contacts and Connections (which you already have), then doing a bit of narrative between-mission work.

Avory stabbed at some potatoes and onion while looking at Earl in a thoughtful fashion. The food was pushed into his mouth, pulled off the fork and ground up in a slow manner. He didn't seem to want to let go of the idea entirely, because it poked at what they needed: information. After swallowing down the potatoes, and clearing his mouth of stray food particles he spoke on.

"You have a reporter friend, right? Do you think this person might be able to suggest someone we could approach that would be useful now?"

[poodle]

[b]Twist[/]
HP 2
"yeaH sure, if it looks like a big story then she probably would love to help. How much do you thin we can tell her? I'll ask around and see if any of my cronies can find out anything."

Twist goes and makes a few discreet inquiries.
1d20+8=26, gather information

[mrdent12]

There have been a few hushed rumors of a secret prison ran by Akira, but all information is kept close to the people who work there due to no one with real knowledge of the place ever living long enough to say anything about it. All that is assumed is that all personnel live and work their. Those that know something, but don't live on sight are high enough to know not to say anything.

[Chad Spider]

Zombie
HP: 3
CND: Fine

"I don't think there's anyone we can get in touch with," Mina said gloomily. "Akira is like its own little country, and the rest of the world can't or won't do anything to keep them under control. If we want to do anything about this prison soon--and I mean within months--all we can really do is get together as many weapons as we can and go inside ourselves to see what we can find."

She paused for a second and then added, "We'll probably all die. If that's a problem."

[poodle]

Twist
HP 2
"Can we get in by the vent you found?"

[Sakuro]

Grail
HP: 3
Cnd: Healthy


Avory set his fork down and scooped some food onto a plate. This he pushed over to Mina, as if getting some food in her stomach might help improve the woman's mood.

"We aren't going to die, and we aren't going to bum rush the place."

He paused a beat to eat a little more and swallow it down before going on.

"Now, given what Jane told you, there is a drugged Paragon putting up this null field. If we can locate the Paragon, or the drugs, we can really do something. Question is, how do we find them?"

[mrdent12]

Mina gets a beep on her communication line with Jane. When she activates the comm, it is a prerecorded message from Jane. "I am sorry I could tell you this in a live communication. The underground is keeping me so busy these days. I just managed to hack into some of the low level personal records of Akira. It seems a shipment of supplies is being dropped off to the area by submarine. It's scheduled to arrive in two days from Norfolk Virginia. Some of the items are quite large. You might be able to sneak into the prison that way without detection. Oh, I also got confirmation that there is a large wind farm 3 miles away from the prison. By all indications, it is the power source of the prison. If you can take that out, you might be able to take out the power amplifier they might be using to amplify any paragons they might have with nullification powers."

[Chad Spider]

Zombie
HP: 3
CND: Fine

"It's much bigger than a vent," Mina said to Twist while Grail was loading up a plate, "But we should be able to get in there. Until my power is nullified, I should be able to wrench it open. It would probably be more discreet to go in through the top entrance, though..."

"Now, given what Jane told you, there is a drugged Paragon putting up this null field. If we can locate the Paragon, or the drugs, we can really do something. Question is, how do we find them?"

"That's easy," Mina answered. She ate some of the food Grail pushed over to her and then went on, "We go inside and look for them. Of course, that brings us back to probably all dying, but one thing at a time..."

When her comm beeped, she took it out of her pocket and activated it, holding it out so everyone at the table could listen.

"Hm. That's two more options. If we destroy the prison's power source, we'll be at full strength... but they'll know we're coming. If we sneak in through the submarine entrance, they won't be ready for us, but we'll be as weak as any other person."

[Sakuro]

Grail
HP: 3
Cnd: Healthy


While Mina talk, and then played the recorded message from Jane he blinked. They apperantly didn't do that thorough of an investigation and recon. Still, they had Akira breathing down their neck the entire time. So he mentally filed that away as a note for the future. Lifting his own plate of food Avory raked the last of the potatoes into his mouth and quickly chewed it down so he could do back to planning with the other.

"I don't like the idea of going in without our powers. We had a hard enough time taking on those heavily armored Akira guys with our powers, and we're looking at five teams, plus the base defenses."

"If we can take out the power source Jane mentioned, Earl could port us to a security station where Lyle can then take try to get control of the shocker tiles and turrets. That way instead of hindering us, they're working for us."