1936 - Pulp Heroes

[Voda Vosa]

"Misterr Nightshade, I am doctor Lotka Kirdov, I think we are in some sort of... trouble. This mere night a comrade of mine has been murdered at cold blood. And it seems a powerful worldwide organization is after all this. I appreciate your hospitality, but will rather be pleased with information first. It is not pleasant to be uninformed of such things." the scientist says, in a calmed tone,with marked russian accent.

 

[Fenris]

He nods at Mickey, acknowledging his number one man

Mickey nods in reply and takes his familiar seat is a large leather armchair in the corner.

 

[Mirth]

He ... then turns his attention to Jack. "Well well, Major Castle, or is it colonel already? How's the knee?" ... He walks over to a cabinet in one corner. "Brandy anyone?"

"Lieutenant Colonel, actually," Jack says flatly. "Knee's better, as I'm sure you already know. Your beard's new, covers the chin quite well."

After he offers drinks, Jack replies somewhat hastily, "We're not here to socialize, Ph ... uh, Mr. Nightshade. We've got the death of Dr. Alexei Ivanov to investigate and this flunkie over here knows more than he's saying."

Jack hesitates for a moment, and then steps closer, with a serious look on his face, "It's about Allan, Phaere. He didn't die in vain, and neither did his son Harry. This is big -- Alexei found the Diamond of Sheba."

[sblock=OOC]I'm cribbing from the wiki on Allan Quatermain and ad libbing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Quatermain[/sblock]

 

[kirinke]

Elizabeth nodded, confirming Jack's assessment. "It gets worse dad. The Doompriests are involved," she said, handing the diary and the letter they had retrieved.

"There's some arcane diagrams there, but I can't make sense of them," she added.

 

[Blackrat]

It seems as nothing can shake this mans calmness as he listens to your hurried explanations. Mr. Nightshade pours a few glasses of brandy and from the looks of the bottle you could guess those mouthfulls are worth more than you could earn in a year. He speaks at the same time. "I do understand that you are in a hurry, but let me assure you that in this room you can relax a bit." He hands a glass to John and walks over to Lotka. "As my daughter could tell you, in this room such trivial things as time become meaningless. So calm yourself good doctor and sit down for a while so we can get to business." He says as he places his hand on Lotka's shoulder in a friendly manner and hands him a drink. He walks over to get glasses for Jack and Eddie too. "Now people like good mr. Castle here refer to my kind with words such as wizards or mages, but personally I like to use a term protector of reality." He says with a smile when he hands the two drinks and pours glasses for himself and Mickey. "It seems it has become apparent I can't keep this secret from you since the things we will need to discuss will reveal that my powers come from other sources than money too." He sits to a large chair and gestures Lotka to take a chair too. "Let me see that pin you told me you found." He says to Elizabeth and turns his attention to Lotka. "Dr. Kirdov. You said this Ivanov was a friend of yours. Could you tell me everything that happened when you found him?"

 

[kirinke]

Elizabeth hands her father Dr. Ivanov's pin, handling it as carefully as a family heirloom. "He was one of us," she looked at her father, expression grim. "Those were the same cultists Mickey and I encountered in Marakesh, you remember? The ones who were trying to buy the Hovitos idol off that Frenchman Belloq?"

 

[Voda Vosa]

Lotka seat down, and explained all the story to mr nightshade, and after the story, he drank all the glass of brandy. He looked at the glass, eyebrows up.
"You americans need to learn to drink real alcohol." he states, missing the hard taste of his country drinks.

OOC: Sorry about the spelling, I cought a cold, and my brain is quite sttuned.

 

[Blackrat]

OOC: Darnit. I had written a long post again when my computer did "Something" and I lost the text. I'll rewrite it when I'm less angry about my computer. Sorry for delay.

EDIT: Now let's see if this goes as I'd like:

Mr. Nightshade listens intensily at Lotka reciting the evening's occurances and inspects the pin at the same time. He smiles at Lotka's remark about the drink. "I apologisize for the lack of Vodka doctor. I'll see if I can get some by the time we meet again." He looks again at the pin. "Yes, it does indeed seem that dr Ivanov was a member of my brotherhood's organization. To be exact he was working for my colleague in Paris. I must inform Jean-Luc about the passing of his friend. But first things first. It seems you all were connected to dr. Ivanov in some way. Quite a coincidence, but then again, I have learned that the universe seems to work in very unpredictable ways. My dear wife would propably use a word like fate to describe this." Phaere flips through the journal as he speaks. "These diagrams seem familiar but I would need to decipher this code before I could tell more. But I have heard of this dr Murray. She is supposed to be an expert of ancient mythologies. For some reason unknown to me though, my colleague in London hasn't invited her to our organization. But James certainly has his reasons." He nods at the thug. "If this gentleman here was supposed to meet the Hand onboard Queen Mary, the murderer of dr. Ivanov might be there as well. Now it's still a couple of days before the ship leaves, so I could get you all tickets. I would suggest you go and see what you can find out on the ship and since it's already bound for England, you could go meet this Murray and see if she can shed light on this journal." He hands the journal and the letter to Eddie. "Now mr Wallace. I know this seems like a big story to you, and I'm not going to try and forbid you to write about this. But I would suggest you use discretion when writing about my involment. I'd prefer you to refer to me rather as an Anonymous Source than by my name." He looks at all of you. "Now was there anything else you'd like to know?"

 

[kirinke]

Elizabeth grins at her father as he gently insists they go off to London. "You know, everytime I do come to visit you, you're sending me off someplace, although missing the corporate dinners is always a plus," she said, the rest can tell it's an old joke between them.

Elizabeth looks at Eddie, almost sadly. "If some of the other things I've dealt with are any clue Eddie, I suggest writing about this after we get through with this um journey. Reality is a whole lot more scarier than the public wants to know, especially when you step out from under the light of day."

And you have no doubt that there is alot more that she isn't saying and what she doesn't say sounds.... Ominous, as if she has encountered those darker bits and it wasn't composed of purely human evil.

 

[Voda Vosa]

Kirdov shakes his head and says something in a low voice
[sblock=Russian]"Dear Lotka... why you always end up in the middle of something dangerous..."[/sblock]