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1936 - Pulp Heroes

DrZombie said:
"Sure." John says with a grin. "Your place or mine?"

"That trip to Congo. They don't call it 'the heart of darkness' for nothing. The things I saw there." he shudders.
"The great war, for me, wasn't too bad. I was usually up in the air, high above the stink of the trenches. Still, I saw my fair share of horror and misery. But Congo. Now there's a hellhole."

Elizabeth shivered, her few experiences there, well it made her trips to the Amazon jungle look like a walk through Central park in comparison. "No argument there. I think it's actually worse than the Amazon, if you can believe it and that place...." she looked for a moment, haunted.
 

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kirinke said:
Elizabeth shivered, her few experiences there, well it made her trips to the Amazon jungle look like a walk through Central park in comparison. "No argument there. I think it's actually worse than the Amazon, if you can believe it and that place...." she looked for a moment, haunted.


Mickey sat in the corner. He'd been to most of these places with Elizabeth, but not all. However if they had any lingering effect on him, they didn't show. Perhaps he was brave to the point of foolishness. Or that he lacked fear or common sense. Maybe he was just plain stupid. Others thoiught it was too many fists, spears, clubs and pipes to the head. In any case, Mickey sat there drinking his whiskey, the decanter next to his chair, calmly waiting to follow Elizabeth to here next assignment where ever it may be, and face what ever came to threaten her.
 

(I guess it's two days from now)

IC
Elizabeth goes to the armory, packing up what she'll need in a duffel bag of sorts. She selects a spare handgun with the appropriate ammunition (as much as she can get her hands on,), a couple of long knives, one of which was silver, all of the silver bullets she can find, cleaning supplies for the weapons, a hefty baseball bat and set of brass knuckles. She also swipes the holy water, packing it as carefully as she packed the rest of the gear, each to it's own compartment in the bag. Sometimes it paid to be prepared, especially for eventualities.

She came back, hefting the duffle bag on one shoulder and placed it next to her traveling trunk, which contained god knows what else. When she set the bag down, she looked at her dad.

"Dad, we're out of incendiaries, I couldn't find any in the armory. I um took the silver bullets, one of the silver knives and the holy water." she added and looked at the others sheepishly.

"Hay, I'll share," she said.

Today, she was dressed simply, in a stark contrast to the evening wear you first saw her in.
 
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OOC:500 xp for everyone for the sheer coolness of the game so far. Now then. I want everyone to update their sheets to include everything you are carrying with you. Preferably even the clothes. The spare gun elizabeth got is another walther with a box of 50 bullets.
Industrygothica. Add to Eddie's sheet the journal as Phaere handed it to Eddie.
 
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Two days later you meet up at the Nightshade Tower. A tall building built in the usual art deco style of early 30's. Mr Nightshade hands you all tickets to Queen Mary and also gives you same kind lapel-pins that Elizabeth and Mickey has. "Now I'm not implying that you would be my employees from now on, but your well-being is my consern now. These pins identify you as associates of the Guardians and gets you access to our safehouses and armories. Elizabeth will inform you later on how to find those in any city." He says as he walks you back to the taxis. A few moments later you arrive to the seaport and walk up to the Queen Mary. It is a recently comissioned luxury liner that travels between USA, France and Britain twice a week.

The whole trip takes about four days. Somehow mr Nightshade managed to get you cabins that are next to eachother. Elizabeth has a single cabin, as does Lotka. The others will have to share two double-cabins.

The thug was supposed to meet the Hand on the second night of the journey in the Observation Bar. It is on the upper decks and shows a nice view of nightsky.

On the second night you go to the bar. You pick a table and survey the room. There is ten other people on this late hour.
-A young couple of obviously wealthy families sit in one table, intensively staring at eachother and holding hands.
-At the counter there is a big man brooding over a drink, looking lost to his thoughts.
-At the other end of the counter is another man. He is dressed casually and Jack notices that he tries a bit too hard to look unnoticeable. He has a drink infront of him and looks like he would be drinking but in reality he just moves the glass to his lips from time to time, not even taking sips. He is surveing the room and eyeing the young couple with contemptous look. He also seems to keep an eye out on a man sitting at one table.
-This man is dressed in a strange poison-green/black pinstripe-suit, he is quite short and bald with a snake-motif tattoo in his head. A young girl with red hair is snuggled in his arms and he keeps whispering something in her ears.
-At another table there is an italian looking fellow who looks quite nervous, he has drank at least three whiskey-shots in the short time you have been here.
-In the corner, almost hidden by shadows is a woman dressed in bright red evening gown. Her spot seems to be perfect for seeing the whole bar in one glance and would have been your first choice of sitting had it been free.
-The last two persons present are the bartender and a man with press-card in his hat, talking together.

[sblock=OOC]Jumping ahead a bit :heh: . I couldn't find much info about the layout of Queen Mary or specifics about the bar so I'm taking quite a bit of artistic freedom here. Now I know this post must seem a bit confusing with at least four suspicius looking characters in the bar but that's the fun of it. You have no idea who is the Hand or wether he has even arrived yet :D . Please, feel free to plan on what to do :D .[/sblock]
 
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"Who would imagine we will end up traveling with this luxuries? The last time I travel over sea, was in a fish filled boat, with Chinese immigrants. This is completly different!" Lotka says quite happy. He takes a drink of his vodka, and looks at the other people in the room. "Hm... All this persons look suspicious to me" he says in a lower voice "Even the woman sitting on the corner, though she does not fit the 'thug' description"
 

"Poisonous snakes often come in pleasing colours good Doctor, your instincts do you credit, don't dismiss them out of hand," Elizabeth said quietly as she surveys the scene, casually sipping a whiskey and soda, light on the whiskey.

The woman in red catches her attention, this could be as Lotka suspects the thug. The others could be her body-guards; she is in too prominant a position, too wary of her surroundings. She nods to Mickey and glances at the woman. She'd make the first move and see if anything bites.

"John, wanna see if we can get next to the red lady? I think if we start talking about our exploits in africa and then move to diamonds, it might clue her in." she then looked at the other patrons looked thoughtful. "Let's start dropping broad hints gentlemen and see what pops out," she says quietly, so that only her companions can hear.
 



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