[ Welcome to RNYC, May 17, 2091. This is the apartment of Katrina Hunter-aka-Katherine Parker. Right now it's occupied by its owner and one other individual, the stoic mercenary Yue Rohay. The two have come to a sort of tense understanding, for now, that they can work together in the face of impending doom! ] [ Somewhat problematically, the two of them happen to be across the city from the other half of this little group. What will they make of that situation? Let us find out! ] (I will say up front the big to-do will be at Box City, so we won't be split too long) * Katherine and Yue were just on their way out, you see! Kat is in her good old grey and white wolfish suit, helmet off, with holsters on and and satchel. * Yue is in her trenchcoat. She's remarkably more normal than someone in a suit now. "What's the game plan?" is idly questioned, without looking at her, as they walk. * Katherine gestures out into the hall. "We go after the kittens." * Yue goes. That's clear enough for her - no need for further questioning. * Katherine closes the door after them and locks it, before dropping the key back in her satchel and stalking after Yue. Down, out, away! (SUDDENLY KITTENS EVERYWHERE, WITH NINJA-TO!) * Katherine , once they're out on the street, directs Yue towards Box City. "Any other useful information about what's coming at us?" * Yue shakes her head slowly. "Double blind for me as much as you." [ Back outside, it continues to be a relatively nice day. The crowds are thinning out some now that lunch breaks and coffee breaks are over, but there's still a few people. The path to the Prototyping Sector -- i.e. roads and sidewalks -- extends before you. ] * Yue now rushing to... BOX CITY? * Katherine walks along like it doesn't matter that she's in suit. Because that's the best way to act when you're in suit. "Always glad to hear good news," she says with a thin smirk on her lips. * Yue mutters, "It doesn't matter. The results won't change." * Katherine glances over to her. "Hey, I already got one femme d'fate on the team. Don't need two." * Yue arcs a brow as she queries, "You?" * Katherine chuckles dourly. "Like to think I've got some control in my life." (Argh where did I put Yue's sheet.) * Yue pauses for a moment as she says, "Yeah. Me too." * Katherine nods and says, idly, "Kinda how it works with people in our line of work. Either it's all on the edge of your gun... or you give it all up to fate." * Yue 's features scrunch up a bit, just for a moment, before she remarks, "I'll bet on my gun any day. I always know what it's got in store." (Now is the time for you to roll... Soul! Over in main chan. BUT you can add Heightened Awareness to the roll if you have it.) (Um... it's 2d6?) (Yeah.) (Whoa hold on.) (You don't subtract your soul stat, haha. ^_^) (... oh.) (Well, you can, but then she has to beat 0.) (2d6-2, then. Which is fail by 1.) (In 2e you're trying to get under your score on 2d6.) (Not even close.) * Yue frowns a little more as she reaches her hand inside of her coat as they walk. Rifle arming, you see. * Katherine glances to Yue's prepping, but doesn't jump her at the prospect. "See somethin'?" * Yue takes a second cursory look around, as if someone paranoid, but then says, "Not yet. Wouldn't be surprised if I should've, though." * Katherine nods and keeps walking, at least until things get sparser. "Much as I love the cops in this city, they overreact a little. Maybe it's just me." (I mean, there was that one time a bunch of guys with automatic weapons tried to kill us in a park...) * Yue adjusts a dial on her piece inside, and then says, "Maybe." (Once they get closer and the people thin out, Kat will be glad to jog as fast as Yue can!) (She will jog your brains out.) [ Welcome to the Prototyping Sector outskirts! Boxy buildings and water runoff channels. Oh, and yes, a pair of bodies over there against a building. Well, I say 'bodies' but only one is recognizable as an actual person. The other is a skeleton surrounded by a blast zone of char. ] * Katherine looks to the bodies, one of which hopefully does not look like Roch or X. She would be very put out. * Yue stops to stare at the odd aspect of the otherwise ordinary (as ordinary as a place like hobo central could be, anyway), and looks as well. "This a regular occurence here?" [ The actual body is just some guy... a scuzzy type, probably a drug pusher or worse. The skeleton is... a skeleton. ] * Katherine shrugs and then ignores it. "Happens." She heads towards the main part of Box City. "It's not really a bad part of town... just empty. Don't need anyone to run these places." * Katherine is into what Yue might consider a jog, slipping on her helmet as she goes. * Yue moves along. It's not like she hasn't seen blood before. She jogs! [ You're moving a lot faster now! And now you notice... this was either a systematic and very nasty cleansing of the criminal element in the PT Sector or something is very wrong. It's not like there's a PILE OF CORPSES but the shot, the bleeding, the badly burned, or the outright incincerated are increasing. ] * Katherine grimaces and says, through suit speakers, "Someone's not really discriminating. Anyone you know?" * Yue wrinkles her nose, and glances about again when Kat speaks. "Let's just hope your friends are still alive." * Katherine pulls out her larger gun. "If they got this close, they're with Zak. He's got a habit of not dying." "Good." [ Box City is in the distance, now. From this angle, if you strain, you can see figures that Kat would recognize as everyone, and Yue would see as the pair that were with Kat earlier. With his back turned to you, however, is a shortish man in a black suit... ] (Into the other chan :) (Also, Zak!)