(D20 Modern) CORELINE: FIREWALLS: EPISODE 1 (IC)

Caelin agrees, "Sounds good, big guy. I'll start gathering heads. We can use that truck for hunting some more of these weenies."

He starts collecting the loot and heads, making two different piles (heads and loot) in the back of the truck.

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So after a short period of time (and much dragging), there is a pile of corpses on the back of the truck and loot on everybody's hands (I mentioned it on my previous post).

The ride to the police station is done through streets that have been recently abandoned (which is somewhat of a good thing, that with the cadavers freely exhibited on the back). It is a sign of the times-that a lot of people in their quest for some place they can call 'safe', are abandoning what they have long gotten used to.

The Seattle Police station that the group arrives to... the thing looks like a tiny fortress. There is a lot of armor on the walls, on the windows, spotlights on the rooftop (and also gunbarrels that are not small in the slightest poking out of the side), and a few patrol cars and officers on the front that are mean-looking enough that you don't wanna know what they field for SWAT missions.
 

From the passenger side, Caelin looks over to Lobo driving in the truck, the pisser in between them, and says, "Well, now what Bounty Hunter Lobo? You have a contact or somebody to meet? I don't think they are going to be too happy with us waltzing in there armed as we are."

The werepanther has since reverted to him humanoid form.

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"Well dey'll assume you have permits for those so no dey won't mind. We just go to da spot where dey have set aside for walkins and bounties and collect. It's simple really." Lobo responds.

After collecting the bounties Lobo inquires with the Police if they have anything in the impound lot that they're going to auction off and if they'll accept the truck as a trade in for it.
 

While waiting for the policeman to return, Caelin suggests, "Actually, we might have need of this truck. Being of a disposable nature, it is useful for opening doorways in walls that were not originally designed to have them. We can always use Vic's limo for the return trip."

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"While I can see how you'd think dat dis 'ere truck would be good fer ya. But see I'ma thinkin' long term here. After we clean out dese Halloweeners den when we go our separate ways den I'll be where I started, with no ride. And who's Vic anyway?" Logan says as they wait.
 

Caelin shrugs and replies, "No problem. Just a suggestion. Vic is the gangster that was sportin' the Tommy gun."

Seeing as he just met the guy, Caelin is not about to suggest future business arrangements until after they have dealt with the Halloweeners.

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The 'Fugitive Retrieval Drop-off' (or so is named) is an office on the rear part of the building, that you had to enter by rolling around the building and to a rear parking lot.

The office is rather plain, with just a few benches for hunters (and hunted) to sit on and a big desk for the registering officer, with walls and ceiling in an ochre color and muzak playing from concealed speakers.

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Said office is also full of cameras, sensors (apparent and not), and also police officers-for escaping from this office might be a fugitive's final chance.

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All of them are armored and armed-even the clerk, who notices the sole surviving Halloweener, and without saying much, pulls out a hefty-looking PDA from a desk drawer and walks up to the ganger.

The PDA has multiple scanners, including eye, thumbprint, and apparently DNA. The thing trills after a short while and the officer nods.

"Okay, then... let's see the rest.", he says, getting out of the office and to the truck. Two officers take the Halloweener from Lobo's and Caelin's hands and drag him out of the room through a pretty well-concealed door. The Halloweener is, of course, screaming.

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Out of the station, the police officer hops to the back of the truck and scans each of the dead gangers, the PDA beeping each time there is a positive match.

"Okay, then... this is a pretty hefty catch.", the cop says afterwards, pressing several buttons on the PDA and pulling out of the bottom what looks like a dark blue credit card with the police's badge printed holographically on the front. "Here's your reward. Credits, useable anywhere you can use a regular card."

(OOC: It is a +5 Wealth Bonus).

As for the truck, the policeman looks it over and says:

"Might wanna keep it. It's better than the other junkers that we have on impound right now. It's gotta have more horsepower than all of them put together."

There is something when he says that that is like a kid that got to play with the coolest toy on the yard, while he himself owns a pretty crappy one.

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A short time later, there is a sound of chains clanging against chains, the 'clack-clack-clack' of feet hitting pavement and ragged breathing.

Soon afterwards, the Chain Demon comes running, the Staff Weapon slung over his shoulder and visibly sweating from every pore not covered by clothes or chains.

Cain stops by the back of the truck and huffs and wheezes for several minutes before saying in a ragged voice:

"Why'd you leave me behind, huh?"
 
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