La Belle Dame sans Merci was not the only one looking for information that night. Oddly enough only a few blocks from where she was shacking down a drug dealer and a new buyer, Voth was doing something very similar. Atop a roof, the large lizard man dangled a man and a woman over the ledge, any outside watchers would surely believe the lizard man was the villain.
"Where is it?!" Voth roared with animal ferocity, his sharp jagged lizard teeth gleamed with moonlight and saliva. Voth was putting on a show, people thought he was a monster, so he had to look like one.
He loosen his grip a little on the woman's collar.
"I want a name and an address." He hissed.
The man cursed at Voth, "You idiot, this fall won't kill us." The drug addict smiled a cocky smile, his mouth full of yellow unbrushed teeth. His breath reeked of booze and stale take out. The woman wept but said nothing.
"Kill? No. Not kill. See I like my meals... tenderized." Voth opened his mouth wide and his red tongue slowly slithered out of his mouth, moving like a live snake, the tongue began to coil around the woman's throat.
"You're a monster!" The woman wheezed as his tongue tightened. Voth only laughed and dropped the man, purposly letting him fall on bags of trash to break his fall. The man roared with pain as he broke his ankle but he was alive. The woman tried to cough but she couldn't breath. Voth loosened his tongue and let it slither back into his mouth.
"Speak now, or I drop you and then devour you piece by piece, and I promise, you'll watch me nibble off every finger, every toe, and you live long enoguh to know what its like to have someone chew on your liver." Voth roared once more, and the woman broke down. She cried, but amongst her blather she gave him the information he wanted. Pleased with the information he set the woman down on the roof.
Voth turned to leave but hesitated,
"Drop the loser, go to rehab, I don't want to have to dangle you over a roof again.""Go to hell." was all the woman could say as she fell to her knees and sobbed quietly.
Voth took off at a full run, leaping across building tops, there was nothing he could do for them now but he hope her terrified them enough to go straight. It was doubtful however. When the young mutant arrived, he knew he had found the right place. He could smell the chemicals in the air, they were faint, but they were there. Voth took a guess that they were using some sort of air filter to mask the scent from the general public, but that was only a guess.
He peered around the streets, no gang activity, and no obvious muscle to keep out rift raft, but there was some interesting people on the street. A crazy cat lady who did not smell like cat urine, rare. A homeless man who still smelt of soap, rarer. A seven foot tall man who looked like he could crack a bear in half, and... a super model?
Odd. Very odd. Perhaps these were the muscle keeping guard over the street entrance. Voth didn't want to find out. (Stealth check at bottom) He quietly leapt to the roof of the building and began to search the roof for any entrance into the building, or traps. (Search/Notice Checks)
