electric_muppet
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Against spirits: her fists and blades were best; they were ready to hand so she relaxed and dialed up some classic British comedy to drag her enquiring mind away from the whispering spirt voices, with their empty promises and hollow threats. As goons, pythons and Vic and Bob regaled her with strange esoteric humour, she tried to explain to her employer who look at her as though she truly was stark raving mad.
“sorry, why would he insure the English channel against fire? I’m lost” -
“muggle? How would I know? I’m an adept. Wouldn’t know the astral if it walked up and stole my wallet” Alex look closer at the black secretion cthe stuff washes out of your hair? Right? ”
She leaned back into her chair.” how we going about this pick up if there is this storm? “ -
Alex fired up every piece of electronics she had.
“it’s going to take some time to get used to this place. I’m going to be closer to mundane for a while”
Wolf acknowledged this by being violently ill all over her shoes.
“your on your own with this one” he admitted and winked out of existence. -
“sound a bit like the drugs they use for cyber ancy, to keep you in touch with your humanity” As she nonchalantly scanned the passing world Big bird nodded “we need to trace that supply route to understand” she shifted in her seat “help us work out where they are syphoning off their cut” she leant back “that’s going to be a big can of worms to open. Many many bad people ”
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“if these guys are off the reservation, then they are fare game for bounty hunters. even if blood magic is tolerated. Even if the authorities don’t want a scene its still creates background noise for use to hide in and might even force a mistake.” Alex held her hands out offering that” If you cannot get right to the centre I would suggest tracking the line of supply. If the shadows are that small here then we have a good chance of turning up their line of supply ” she paused” tell me more about these drugs they have to take” she mused
Having such a large supply of food, how did they stop them going feral. Every vampires worst nightmare, folklore across the board was that a little piece of your humanity and sentience remained, trapped and screaming, once you went feral. She remembered the haunted look in EBs eyes when she had asked her “if I turn, promise you’ll find me and end it? Promise! Lexie I need you to promise” the intensity had been off putting to say the least. -
“if these guys are as powerful as you say, any person you send in there is dead, basic detection spell will uncover them in minutes, hours if your lucky. Detect enemy or detect thought and they are done. That means your infiltration plan is a write off from the get go. You don’t stick your head in the bear cave to shoot the bear. ” Alex paused scanning the stony countryside pass them “if you can definitely confirm they are using blood magic, we can unleash the dog on them. Blood mage bring 25k a head. I can let a few colleagues know IF” she emphasised “if we can confirm blood magic, the mayhem that will cause will allow us to get close or flush him into the open”
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“I’ll get the food first then I’ll strap my stuff on, won’t take long”
Few minutes later she was back with a bag full. Ben pull the truck back on to the highway as BB strapped her equipment on. Ben began to feel a little bit more confident as he watched her systematically arm herself. ‘Quietly competent’ Jerk had told him. Finished with her arsenal, se reached into the bag a pulled out a pair or cheap sunglasses in the shape of stars and put them on
“they look ridiculous” he commented
“that’s the idea” she replied “maskravoka, if folk think I’m a bubble head and a wannabe they start looking for in the wrong place for the threat”
“oh, I see”
She tapped up her planner in her comm “right! so why don’t you start telling about our mark. Did you say he was a vampire? Is he mist form or hard to hurt?” -
Wolf howled in delight
“blood mage? Not an issue. We’ll have to see what we can do shan’t we?” she said in a dreadfully flat tone
She tried not to but she could not help it. The howl started deep in her throat. Ben had to sit while the posed and polished woman made this bone chilling noise.
” dreadfully sorry happens when I get a hunt, mutt won’t stop it” she arranged herself carefully “we’ll get this little job sorted then we’ll work out two killings” -
“no, like I said I have issues with personal contact” she shrugged “they lean in and I’m back there. I have the skills to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Being beaten to a pulp is not most guys idea of great first date”
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“it wasn’t the awakening that messed me up” her face went agate hard, her eyes like a stalking cat “it was being attacked by a blood mage. My awakening was as a result of that”
Her face changed, the smile returned “and Wolf gives me the strength to sterilize the world of them, so happy days” -
BB smiled at that. “if I say it will give away my secret identity” she laughed “I’m awakened, I’m an adept, I’m a wolf.”
Ben nodded with a poker face “your best friend is a vampire, how did you…?”
“Well it turns out that I am the first person to publish a hypothesis that references and considers all the major and mist of the minority papers on blood magic, my friend is a contributer on Shadowland so she tracked me down when she was writing a piece. Turns out we have a lot in common from both our before and after lives” she laughed “she even buys a coffee when we go out, even though she can’t drink it”
“why is that funny?”
“she can’t drink it, she’ll be sick, vomit it up in minutes, but it’s kind of a uniform item for girly chats”
She sighed “I awakened at college , I was going to be an architect but you know things change. Same for her she was going to go to college but she got infected and had to go underground” -
BB smiled as she scanned over her shoulder. “my best friend is a vampire so there’s no problem there. No, My prey is blood magic.” she looked down at her comm link. “I majored in magical threats at university, thus stuff just pays the bills “
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BB got this queezy feeling from being ‘locked’ in an astral box.
“don’t worry” said wolf from behind, Alex nearly jumped out of her skin “sorry Did I startle you? Anyway, Don worry I can still get in here”
“OK”
BB started scanning the streets “so the evil spirits, they have a name. Are they shedem or some such?” -
BB stashed her illegal gear in the hole provided.
“what they like with big knives here?”
She finished sorting her gear methodically and quickly.
“Ok ready till we can change” she shot a smile “you need to know I’m employed because I move first and don’t lose. She paused, to think her explanation through without her million pound education getting in the way.
” I really don’t like people touching me, and I have to skills to make sure it doesn’t happen, is that an issue?”
Ben noted the matter of fact tone of voice and the flat level eyes of someone who had seen it, prevailed and not been overwhelmed by it.
Ben similarly pause” how do you mean stop”
“people who try to force the issue die, those two last night? Are lucky they aren’t dogmeat” -
BB threw her bag in the foot well and slid into the seat.
“pleased to meet cha, I’m sure” she pulled the door shut (instinctively scanning the street).
“I wasn’t sure of the culture here so I dressed light and packed heavy. I assumed I could suit up when we are clear of civilisation. Hope that’s OK?”
She eased the holster hidden in her top open
“so what’s the drill for to night?”
She messaged herself in Newyork so if she did buy-the-farm Father Petre would know what happened
“So” she smiled and warmly flashed her eyes “tell me?” -
BB deliberately stopped herself from launching off. She roughed out her plan.
“Ok, I’m not in contractor friendly accommodation so I’ll give you a pick up point in a bit”
She dropped the message and dialed up Badman
“who’s go me stuff?”
“you want? You want it?”
“gimme”
He paused “OK you’ll need to go to the beach front” he ermmmmed and arrred “there’s this surf shop with a shark on the window find a bench”
Fifteen minutes later she was haggling for her own equipment In two fancy shopping bags. Deal done she headed back to the hotel. As she passed a shop she saw a battered old canvas backpack.
She made a good attempt at checking for cameras and such in her room when she got back. then she laid her kit for the night out and checked it. Comm, trodes, sub vocal, contacts, glasses, respirator, sports shirt, snap blades, holo bracelet, ppe,sword, pistol, smg, memory knife, sword. Knucks And her little rucksack. She hid the weapons in her artists tube.
She wandered around to look for a pick up she could get to she found the spot where the staff from the hotel caught their lifts.
Message sent she ate, drank and slept.
The alarm woke her, she readied herself pulling on her combat trousers and boots, checked her water and headed to the pick up, with her bag and tube. To anyone watching she looked like an art student waiting for her boy to finish work -
BB Paused, ‘if its too good to be true it is’ hmmmm
Wolf looked her “might be a hunt”
“but”
“I know but this place has to have some” he locked his chops “thats why you came”
She texted back “whats the dress code for the party?” -
BB thought a moment “Missy Mahem and Pullthrough will speak for me”
She messaged both of them just to let them know someone be contact. Then she replied to Jerk
“I think these two people will make the noises you need to hear” -
BBhad not been lying when she said she was going to do the tourist thing. Tel aviv has hundreds of deco and modernist /bauhaus buildings. And so for a while she wandered around taking photographs of the real gems. Wolf was no where to be seen which worried her. The early start necessitated an early lunch, so while she watched the world go buy over the rim of her second coffee her comm trolled and an arrow showing a local pay as you go number flashed up.
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It buys her time, If someone does smash the door down, will have sweep the main space first then rooms off the space. If it’s a team then they will need time to stack at the door. If is a mob they make a mess of opening it and she can start the hurt on her terms.