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<blockquote data-quote="writernextdoor" data-source="post: 5862308" data-attributes="member: 6689303"><p>The MurdER in the ER</p><p></p><p>((GM Notes are in double parentheses))</p><p>[Mechanical notes are in braces]</p><p></p><p>((Here now is the harrowing tale of Dr Karen Elmont, presented in full detail.))</p><p></p><p>It started with an email. It came at 2:59, about thirteen minutes after Karen Elmont, the third surgeon of the ER at Sisters of Mercy hospital, had climbed into bed. Twelve minutes of somewhat dark and blissful sleep had gone by, and then the email notification sound chirped up:</p><p></p><p>"Bwang!" </p><p></p><p>She rose, and leaned over the keyboard. She didn't bother with the robe. The email was short and direct.</p><p></p><p>"I'm watching you right now. Did you enjoy the shower?"</p><p></p><p>Karen chose this apartment because of the windows. Two long windows in all her favorite rooms (bedroom, kitchen/dining area, living room) But there are no windows in the bathroom. She liked that. She didn't even have a skylight. </p><p></p><p>She deleted the email, thinking it a prank or really crafty spam, and went back to bed. </p><p></p><p>She slept through three more "Bwang!" announcements but read them over coffee when she woke up at 11. </p><p></p><p>"Karen, this isn't a joke."</p><p>"You need to buy milk."</p><p>The third email was indecipherable gibberish, some strange font that her laptop couldn't make sense of, like maybe Japanese and Chinese had dirty sex with Russian and cuneiform. </p><p></p><p>But what bothered her was that she did need to buy milk. The empty container was in her trash, and you can't see into the fridge or the trash from the window. </p><p></p><p>She figured it was a lucky guess. Lots of people probably need milk all the time. Hit the delete key a few times, and head off to work.</p><p></p><p>The Sisters of Mercy Hospital is a CRAZY place. It sits just past the freeway, and serves both a wealthy suburb and two impoverished parts of the city. The ER is as much a traffic accident-turned-gunfight-cum-bar brawl as the incidents it cleans up. And Karen is at home in the blood and bodies and screaming and needles.</p><p></p><p>Rare is the time she gets a chance to sit at her little desk and have a coffee. But she got a moment today, and went through the roster of potential problems.</p><p></p><p>In the morgue, five new bodies came in, something about a "battle" at an Embassy downtown. </p><p></p><p>In the ER, a schoolbus herd of kids had come in for stitches and bandages when the bus stopped short to avoid a collision in a car chase.</p><p></p><p>And the abortion picketing had started up again, now that the weather was getting warm. </p><p></p><p>Fun.</p><p></p><p>Her phone rang, and she answered it. Through the tremendous static, all she could make out was "milk". Okay, that was weird. She slammed the phone and decided to walk the halls.</p><p></p><p>She turned the corner out of her office and ran into a doctor, a really good-looking doctor. [Nick, with a 3 point Disguise and 2 point Cover spend] They chatted, and he said he was new, and a little turned around, and could she point him in the direction of the administration offices, he had paperwork to sign or something. She gave him directions, and watched him walk away. </p><p></p><p>Her walk continued, and she helped an old couple into the elevator [Mace and Desdemona with 2 point Disguise and 1 point Cover spends, tag-teamed] ((Getting them as two old, slightly crotchety characters was hilarious and I hope they use the cover again)).</p><p></p><p>She came back to her office, and found a stack of paperwork waiting for her. Seems like the mailguy [Rossini with a 1 point Cover spend] dumped two whole shifts of paperwork on her desk. So, she started filling things out. </p><p></p><p>Name. Birthdate. Medical license number. All the usual bland forms for insurance. </p><p></p><p>So why did one form ask if she had gotten any unusual emails or phone calls in the last two days? </p><p></p><p>And why did one form ask her to confirm the number of windows her apartment had?</p><p></p><p>((This was a rather sharp collaboration between Rossini and Desdemona, with MikeSmith advising)) [That's a 2 point Forgery spend, a 2 point Vampirology spend, and a 1 point Traffic Analysis spend, all tag-teamed]</p><p></p><p>The cute doctor came back to her office door, how did he find her, and offered her a cup of coffee. [1 point Flirting spend, then 1 point Shrink spend] They talked for at least thirty minutes. And no one seemed to care. It was nice to have the downtime at work. Especially with downtime where a guy actually was into her. </p><p></p><p>((It was at this point that one of the players actually statted up Karen Elmont as a possible PC for later)).</p><p></p><p>During the chat, she looked down the hallway and saw...that old couple from the elevator...were they picking a lock? No, couldn't be. That was an old doctor's office, now it was storage.</p><p></p><p>[1 point Infiltration spend, although Mace wanted to argue that Desdemona's nagging should have been a Stability spend]</p><p></p><p>The cute doctor offered to help her carry the forms down to the admin office, and she was ready to take off the rest of the day and play doctor with him back at the apartment.</p><p></p><p>They walked and talked, and they passed the morgue. They took the long way, but it seemed like that cute doctor knew this route pretty well....</p><p></p><p>When the guy came up off the morgue slab, she spilled the paperwork all over the floor. And the cute doctor started talking to himself.</p><p></p><p>"Mace. Get down here. Where's Rossini?" </p><p></p><p>And then he ran into the morgue and fought, yes FOUGHT dead guy. </p><p></p><p>[2 point Hand-to-Hand spend]</p><p></p><p>She felt dizzy and nauseous and really confused and wanted to sit down. Good thing that old couple was somehow right behind her, with water and a wheelchair to collapse into. Then they, like the cute doctor, ran into the morgue to fight the corpse.</p><p></p><p>At least the old lady closed the door. But Karen still heard the spurt of blood wash up against the back of the door. She shuddered, and then the mail guy came back to wheel her "to safety". </p><p></p><p>Ten minutes later, Karen is sitting in her office telling another doctor she's never seen before (Agent Carter Byers) how crazy and strange the whole day was. He laughed at her jokes, he smiled and he really listened [4 point shrink spend].</p><p></p><p>Then in came the cute doctor, the mail guy, the old couple and....the church chaplain (MikeSmith, who's been toying with finding Faith again). She didn't know what to make of it. </p><p></p><p>---PAUSE HERE---</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="writernextdoor, post: 5862308, member: 6689303"] The MurdER in the ER ((GM Notes are in double parentheses)) [Mechanical notes are in braces] ((Here now is the harrowing tale of Dr Karen Elmont, presented in full detail.)) It started with an email. It came at 2:59, about thirteen minutes after Karen Elmont, the third surgeon of the ER at Sisters of Mercy hospital, had climbed into bed. Twelve minutes of somewhat dark and blissful sleep had gone by, and then the email notification sound chirped up: "Bwang!" She rose, and leaned over the keyboard. She didn't bother with the robe. The email was short and direct. "I'm watching you right now. Did you enjoy the shower?" Karen chose this apartment because of the windows. Two long windows in all her favorite rooms (bedroom, kitchen/dining area, living room) But there are no windows in the bathroom. She liked that. She didn't even have a skylight. She deleted the email, thinking it a prank or really crafty spam, and went back to bed. She slept through three more "Bwang!" announcements but read them over coffee when she woke up at 11. "Karen, this isn't a joke." "You need to buy milk." The third email was indecipherable gibberish, some strange font that her laptop couldn't make sense of, like maybe Japanese and Chinese had dirty sex with Russian and cuneiform. But what bothered her was that she did need to buy milk. The empty container was in her trash, and you can't see into the fridge or the trash from the window. She figured it was a lucky guess. Lots of people probably need milk all the time. Hit the delete key a few times, and head off to work. The Sisters of Mercy Hospital is a CRAZY place. It sits just past the freeway, and serves both a wealthy suburb and two impoverished parts of the city. The ER is as much a traffic accident-turned-gunfight-cum-bar brawl as the incidents it cleans up. And Karen is at home in the blood and bodies and screaming and needles. Rare is the time she gets a chance to sit at her little desk and have a coffee. But she got a moment today, and went through the roster of potential problems. In the morgue, five new bodies came in, something about a "battle" at an Embassy downtown. In the ER, a schoolbus herd of kids had come in for stitches and bandages when the bus stopped short to avoid a collision in a car chase. And the abortion picketing had started up again, now that the weather was getting warm. Fun. Her phone rang, and she answered it. Through the tremendous static, all she could make out was "milk". Okay, that was weird. She slammed the phone and decided to walk the halls. She turned the corner out of her office and ran into a doctor, a really good-looking doctor. [Nick, with a 3 point Disguise and 2 point Cover spend] They chatted, and he said he was new, and a little turned around, and could she point him in the direction of the administration offices, he had paperwork to sign or something. She gave him directions, and watched him walk away. Her walk continued, and she helped an old couple into the elevator [Mace and Desdemona with 2 point Disguise and 1 point Cover spends, tag-teamed] ((Getting them as two old, slightly crotchety characters was hilarious and I hope they use the cover again)). She came back to her office, and found a stack of paperwork waiting for her. Seems like the mailguy [Rossini with a 1 point Cover spend] dumped two whole shifts of paperwork on her desk. So, she started filling things out. Name. Birthdate. Medical license number. All the usual bland forms for insurance. So why did one form ask if she had gotten any unusual emails or phone calls in the last two days? And why did one form ask her to confirm the number of windows her apartment had? ((This was a rather sharp collaboration between Rossini and Desdemona, with MikeSmith advising)) [That's a 2 point Forgery spend, a 2 point Vampirology spend, and a 1 point Traffic Analysis spend, all tag-teamed] The cute doctor came back to her office door, how did he find her, and offered her a cup of coffee. [1 point Flirting spend, then 1 point Shrink spend] They talked for at least thirty minutes. And no one seemed to care. It was nice to have the downtime at work. Especially with downtime where a guy actually was into her. ((It was at this point that one of the players actually statted up Karen Elmont as a possible PC for later)). During the chat, she looked down the hallway and saw...that old couple from the elevator...were they picking a lock? No, couldn't be. That was an old doctor's office, now it was storage. [1 point Infiltration spend, although Mace wanted to argue that Desdemona's nagging should have been a Stability spend] The cute doctor offered to help her carry the forms down to the admin office, and she was ready to take off the rest of the day and play doctor with him back at the apartment. They walked and talked, and they passed the morgue. They took the long way, but it seemed like that cute doctor knew this route pretty well.... When the guy came up off the morgue slab, she spilled the paperwork all over the floor. And the cute doctor started talking to himself. "Mace. Get down here. Where's Rossini?" And then he ran into the morgue and fought, yes FOUGHT dead guy. [2 point Hand-to-Hand spend] She felt dizzy and nauseous and really confused and wanted to sit down. Good thing that old couple was somehow right behind her, with water and a wheelchair to collapse into. Then they, like the cute doctor, ran into the morgue to fight the corpse. At least the old lady closed the door. But Karen still heard the spurt of blood wash up against the back of the door. She shuddered, and then the mail guy came back to wheel her "to safety". Ten minutes later, Karen is sitting in her office telling another doctor she's never seen before (Agent Carter Byers) how crazy and strange the whole day was. He laughed at her jokes, he smiled and he really listened [4 point shrink spend]. Then in came the cute doctor, the mail guy, the old couple and....the church chaplain (MikeSmith, who's been toying with finding Faith again). She didn't know what to make of it. ---PAUSE HERE--- [/QUOTE]
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